The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1144

00:00:00.120 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Wednesday, the 16th of April, 2025.

00:00:06.160 I'm Jonathan Harry and Lewis Prattpool.

00:00:07.860 Hello.

00:00:08.280 Hello.

00:00:08.580 Join us again to tell us about the Austin Metcalfe Carmelo Anthony case, which I know something about.

00:00:15.680 I've been trying to avoid because it's just thoroughly depressing. Thanks, Harry. No, I'm joking.

00:00:20.400 Tony Blair's push for digital ID because the Dark Lord is never far away.

00:00:24.060 And I wanted to talk about the sort of ineffable vibe shift that everyone thinks they've got their finger on, because it seems that vibes are shifting all over the place, frankly.

00:00:32.960 And it's a bit, well, not confusing, but frustrating.

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00:01:06.160 And without further ado, let's get into it.

00:01:10.700 Yes, so we covered a little bit of this story last week when Rorek Nationalist was on the podcast, and he was discussing some of the government agency operations that were going on behind the scenes that led to, that we assume, led to this man, the father of the victim, Austin Metcalf, who was recently murdered at the beginning of the month, going out and giving a public statement speaking about how this has nothing to do with race.

00:01:37.200 He doesn't want people online hijacking this story to make it about race, and also stating that he'd already forgiven the man who killed his son, or the boy who killed his son.

00:01:47.460 Now, I watched the full interview, barring the small clips that have been posted around online, and I do think that I and other people have been a little bit unfair to this man.

00:01:57.740 And he does seem like he's trying to be genuinely Christian in his response to this.

00:02:02.620 He says explicitly at the beginning that he's in shock with this whole ordeal, and he's trying to hold himself up as the rock for the rest of his family in what is obviously an absolutely awful time.

00:02:16.120 His son died, and his son was murdered, and then died in the arms of his twin brother.

00:02:21.020 So, absolutely horrible story. I can't imagine how I would react in a situation like this if I was the father.

00:02:27.640 So, his reaction is somewhat understandable, being in complete shock, trying to hold the family down.

00:02:33.920 The statement to do with, don't make it about race, I've forgiven him, I would assume has something to do with the government agency that we spoke about last Friday.

00:02:42.400 So, if you want more information on that, watch Rourke Nationalists' segment that he did for us last week.

00:02:48.140 But, I wanted to go over this again so that we could get the actual details of the case down for clarity's sake.

00:02:54.800 Because this is a very controversial case, it will carry on, it is quite revealing in the reactions that have been going on.

00:03:01.180 And there are some centrists and some on the centre-right who have tried to make a case for this being self-defence on the part of Carmelo Anthony, who's the alleged murderer in this situation.

00:03:13.120 I do not think so. I think it's pretty open and shut.

00:03:16.960 There is simultaneously a lot to talk about with this case, and not much.

00:03:20.820 Because when you follow the chain of cause and effect and the events, it's incredibly simple what has happened.

00:03:25.840 If we hear it straight from the horse's mouth, we have here Hunter Metcalfe, the brother of Austin, his twin brother,

00:03:34.320 describing what actually happened at the day when his brother was murdered.

00:03:38.980 Let's hear what he had to say about this.

00:03:40.400 What happened, if you don't mind what happened?

00:03:43.680 There was this kid, before I knew his name now, this kid was sitting under our tent at track.

00:03:52.320 We asked him to move. He started getting aggressive and talking, reckless.

00:03:56.820 And my brother stepped in and said, you need to move.

00:03:59.900 And he's like, make me move. Austin grabbed his backpack.

00:04:02.800 This kid, I tried to whip around as fast as I could, but I didn't see the stab.

00:04:08.860 But then I looked at my brother and I'm not going to talk about the rest.

00:04:13.280 But that's just what I saw.

00:04:15.820 Yeah, pretty horrible chain of events right there.

00:04:20.360 Completely pointless. Happened in a split second.

00:04:22.560 He was murdered.

00:04:22.980 Yeah, he was murdered. And what he is saying here also seems to corroborate with a lot of the reports

00:04:28.900 which have been taken from the arrest warrant affidavit and the witness reports from the scene.

00:04:37.280 So according to that, according to the arrest warrant, Anthony, a centennial student,

00:04:42.120 was waiting out on a weather delay under a tent designated for Frisco Memorial High School students

00:04:47.460 where Metcalfe attended school when Metcalfe told him to move.

00:04:50.840 Now, initially, there was a narrative going around trying to say that they had a history with one another

00:04:56.120 and that Metcalfe was some kind of bully and this was retaliation for bullying or he was just pushed too far.

00:05:02.700 They'd never met one another. That has been confirmed.

00:05:05.260 They were going to two completely different schools.

00:05:07.360 One was going to Frisco Centennial.

00:05:09.180 Metcalfe was going to Frisco Memorial.

00:05:11.340 Two different high schools never met one another.

00:05:13.600 So there was no prior history between these two kids.

00:05:17.920 Complete strangers.

00:05:18.820 And this ended up happening anyway.

00:05:20.800 Anthony allegedly reached inside his bag and said,

00:05:24.540 Touch me and see what happens.

00:05:26.880 Metcalfe then touched him, to which Anthony replied, 0.70

00:05:29.440 Punch me and see what happens.

00:05:31.420 According to the report, Metcalfe grabbed Anthony and again told him to move 0.75

00:05:35.140 when Anthony pulled out a knife, stabbed Metcalfe once in the chest and ran away.

00:05:40.060 Anthony later told responding officers that he was defending himself,

00:05:43.460 explaining he put his hands on me.

00:05:45.520 I told him not to, while crying hysterically, according to the affidavit.

00:05:49.680 The affidavit said that Anthony also asked if Metcalfe was going to be okay.

00:05:53.340 It's not included in this article, but he also asked the police.

00:05:56.200 Basically, the first thing that he asked the police was,

00:05:58.220 Will this count as self-defense?

00:06:01.040 So this is confirmed by the affidavit, as they say.

00:06:06.600 You can see the full arrest report, which has been posted by Sarah Fields on Twitter.

00:06:13.160 I've read through the whole thing.

00:06:14.560 It corroborates with everything that Hunter Metcalfe said

00:06:17.360 and everything that's being reported by outlets like the ones that I was quoting right there.

00:06:21.840 So a horrible situation, and as far as I'm concerned,

00:06:24.940 what it sounds like is that this teenager, Carmelo Anthony,

00:06:28.920 for some reason had a knife on him at a school sporting event,

00:06:32.680 an inter-school sporting event,

00:06:34.280 and decided to try to provoke a situation in which he could stab somebody

00:06:39.440 and try and get away with it as self-defense.

00:06:42.380 Now that is my opinion.

00:06:44.820 It's based on the reports that I've read,

00:06:46.840 and it's based on the arrest warrant and the witness reports held in it,

00:06:49.980 but that's what I believe has gone on here.

00:06:52.720 He brought a knife to a school event,

00:06:55.000 provoked a situation,

00:06:56.460 stabbed somebody,

00:06:57.440 and thought he could get away with it by saying that this was self-defense.

00:07:01.520 The events have progressed since then,

00:07:05.540 so here's a report from the time.

00:07:07.340 These kinds of tents right here are the ones that they're talking about.

00:07:10.480 These are the ones that,

00:07:11.440 I don't know if we have similar things in the UK,

00:07:13.300 but in the US they have these tents at the sporting events.

00:07:16.500 I don't remember seeing one, to be honest.

00:07:18.420 But here we go.

00:07:19.080 Anthony, who told Frisco police he stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalfe

00:07:23.300 at a track meet in self-defense after an altercation,

00:07:26.440 sat in a jail jumpsuit and shackles,

00:07:28.600 while prosecutors challenged how the father could not afford the 10% needed for a million-dollar bond,

00:07:34.080 with an online donation fund that's up to $400,000 and growing.

00:07:38.740 With access to over $400,000,

00:07:40.660 why haven't you bonded him out yet, asked the prosecutor.

00:07:43.240 We don't have access to that money, replied the father.

00:07:46.720 It's hard for everybody to be level-headed at a time like this,

00:07:49.600 so that's where we come in.

00:07:51.780 It's our job to be level-headed, to be fact-based,

00:07:55.080 and to follow the truth wherever it leads.

00:07:57.260 And prosecutors revealed today that Carmelo Anthony was involved in an assault-type altercation

00:08:06.260 at his school on February 4th that was handled internally by the school district.

00:08:10.860 Other than that, he has an unblemished record,

00:08:13.980 which is probably one of the reasons why the judge agreed to lower his bond.

00:08:17.940 Well, that sounds like a reasonable judgment from the judge, doesn't it?

00:08:23.260 Well, other than this one case where he was violent towards another student in his school

00:08:30.180 two months ago, he's got an unblemished record, so we'll reduce...

00:08:34.000 Other than the blemishes.

00:08:35.220 Yeah, so other than the blemishes and the fact that he's just killed someone,

00:08:38.380 he's basically a straight-A perfect student,

00:08:40.680 so we'll lower his bond from $1 million,

00:08:43.640 which you only have to pay 10% of, which is $100,000,

00:08:46.940 and they already had more than enough to pay for it,

00:08:51.080 to $250,000, which means $25,000 instead.

00:08:56.220 So much cheaper for the bond right there.

00:08:58.560 So he was being held in jail, he's now out.

00:09:02.080 Why would the father not have access to the money raised for the hymn?

00:09:05.920 Good question. We don't know.

00:09:08.240 Okay, I suppose that is a good question.

00:09:10.380 Good question. There's no answer. It's just a good question.

00:09:13.440 Here's the judge that reduced the bond.

00:09:16.040 He was a good boy, didn't do nothing.

00:09:17.960 I will say no more on that.

00:09:21.260 Here's some of the statements made by Carmelo Anthony's lawyer,

00:09:25.240 and this is the really important question that they're going to have to answer

00:09:28.540 if they're going to make any kind of self-defense case relating to this,

00:09:31.620 which is, why did he have a knife in school in the first place?

00:09:35.200 The big question that a lot of people have is,

00:09:37.960 why was this young man armed on school property?

00:09:41.740 That's an understandable question, but it's not something that, frankly,

00:09:46.360 we're prepared to even go into.

00:09:48.620 This is something that I know the police and the prosecution want to get it right

00:09:54.540 and want to have a full and fair investigation, and so do we.

00:09:57.800 So it would be irresponsible for me or them at this point to start saying,

00:10:03.060 this is what happened, this is why anything.

00:10:06.140 So I understand that's a big question.

00:10:08.760 It's going to be a big question, and it's something that we will find out,

00:10:13.800 and we ask that the public, as hard as it is, withhold judgment

00:10:20.180 and let both of these families have justice,

00:10:23.680 that let both of these young men, you know, the Metcalf family

00:10:28.560 and the memory of who they've lost, but also Carmelo,

00:10:32.860 have a fair and full justice process.

00:10:36.960 Floundering.

00:10:37.680 Why is he acting as if there is an equal amount of victimhood on both sides here?

00:10:42.500 Well, because he's the defense lawyer, so he's got to represent his clients

00:10:46.560 and he's got to present this to the public in a way that means that

00:10:50.040 he's going to get a fair trial.

00:10:51.680 I didn't really mean to phrase it that way, but I just hate the fact

00:10:55.520 that he's trying to imply that...

00:10:57.420 Because, I mean, he...

00:10:59.160 That there is some kind of justice for Carmelo Anthony

00:11:01.620 that doesn't end up with him in prison.

00:11:03.400 Yeah, that he's the victim of this circumstance is the implication here,

00:11:07.140 and I really despise this.

00:11:08.400 Again, I think this is why it's such an open and shut case,

00:11:11.220 which is I don't know what kind of argument the defense are going to be able

00:11:14.580 to pull out of their rear end to be able to explain why it is that

00:11:17.260 he brought a knife to school and managed to provoke an altercation

00:11:20.780 with a student that he'd never met before from a completely different school.

00:11:24.360 There is...

00:11:25.280 There's no getting around that.

00:11:26.920 That's open and shut.

00:11:27.920 He sounds like he was looking for an excuse.

00:11:30.720 Yeah, he said, touch me and see what happens. 1.00

00:11:33.480 I brought a knife, I'm just going to pull it out and stab you in the chest 1.00

00:11:35.660 and then run off. 1.00

00:11:36.220 He goes under the wrong tent.

00:11:38.520 No, maybe that's just a nothing situation,

00:11:41.920 but they ask him to leave, and then he starts on them

00:11:45.540 and then escalates the situation, and he knew the entire time.

00:11:49.180 If you weren't looking for trouble, why didn't you just go,

00:11:50.920 oh, I'm in the wrong tent, sorry?

00:11:52.400 Yeah.

00:11:53.160 Come on.

00:11:53.560 But we have the reports now from this.

00:11:57.460 Minister Dominique Alexander.

00:12:00.380 Carmelo is safe at home.

00:12:02.240 Now, this is after, obviously, he was walked out of the jail

00:12:04.800 and the news reporters were following along behind him,

00:12:08.060 asking questions, very reasonable questions like,

00:12:10.240 why did you have a knife on you?

00:12:11.760 How are you going to explain that self-defense?

00:12:13.640 He refused to say anything.

00:12:15.380 Something that we always notice about these kinds of killers

00:12:17.960 is the dead eyes.

00:12:20.000 They always share the same expression.

00:12:22.440 when you see them in photographs,

00:12:25.140 and this statement was,

00:12:26.780 this moment is a reminder that a community united

00:12:29.160 can never be divided.

00:12:31.000 Interesting the kinds of figures that they unite around.

00:12:33.920 The journey ahead is long,

00:12:35.460 but today we celebrate a victory for justice,

00:12:38.260 for family, and for the power of people coming together

00:12:40.900 to protect our youth.

00:12:43.340 Nobody came around to protect Anthony Metcalf,

00:12:45.940 well, Austin Metcalf.

00:12:47.400 Nobody except his brother stuck around to protect him.

00:12:50.780 And there was, if the, I hate to do it,

00:12:52.660 but if the shoe was on the other foot,

00:12:54.020 there wouldn't be the same community coming around Austin Metcalf

00:12:57.340 if the roles have been reversed here.

00:12:59.940 It's interesting how it's always that a particular community

00:13:02.880 rallies around murderers.

00:13:05.240 So, do you know anything about this?

00:13:07.400 Oh, yeah.

00:13:08.240 Oh, okay.

00:13:08.840 I'll let you.

00:13:09.620 Don't worry.

00:13:10.040 I decided to do a little bit of looking into this Dominique Alexander guy,

00:13:14.680 and he has got quite the background on him.

00:13:17.900 Obviously, you can tell just straight away,

00:13:19.840 Minister of Justice, Political, Civil, and Human Rights,

00:13:21.940 activist, president, and founder of the Next Gen Action hashtag,

00:13:25.480 Black Lives Matter.

00:13:26.300 So, you can tell straight away-

00:13:27.500 He's got skeletons in his closet. 0.99

00:13:28.720 That this guy is a race grifter of the highest order. 0.89

00:13:32.060 But then I saw other people underneath remarking on his background,

00:13:36.360 and decided to do a little digging of myself.

00:13:38.080 And, man, this guy's history goes back quite far.

00:13:42.420 So, first of all, in 2021,

00:13:44.380 he had a family violence charge dismissed against him.

00:13:49.020 So, you would assume-

00:13:49.600 Justice.

00:13:49.920 Yeah.

00:13:50.240 You would assume that he didn't do nothing.

00:13:52.280 He didn't do nothing, obviously.

00:13:54.260 But according to the report,

00:13:55.700 he was arrested in 2019,

00:13:58.300 when connection to two family violence assault charges in April 2019.

00:14:03.900 He was charged with one felony and one misdemeanor

00:14:05.920 after he was accused of shoving and attempting

00:14:07.440 to strangle his former partner.

00:14:09.800 And according to the Dallas Morning News,

00:14:11.600 his former partner signed an affidavit saying

00:14:13.400 she would not testify or participate in the case,

00:14:16.000 adding she felt betrayed by the way

00:14:17.300 the Dallas Police Department handled it.

00:14:19.720 Which does not mean that he did not do it,

00:14:21.440 it just means that their case fell apart

00:14:22.960 when she said she wouldn't testify.

00:14:25.180 And as an activist in Dallas,

00:14:26.920 31-year-old Alexander speaks on behalf of families

00:14:29.680 of victims of violence,

00:14:30.900 and has been a leader of protests in the city.

00:14:32.660 Alexander organized protests denouncing the shooting

00:14:35.580 of Botham Jean by Amber Geiger,

00:14:38.720 and he participated in protests in Dallas

00:14:40.880 over police brutality in summer 2020.

00:14:43.260 So he's obviously got a background to him,

00:14:45.360 he's organized a lot of protests.

00:14:47.200 What else has he done?

00:14:48.160 Well, he's been arrested on felony theft charges

00:14:50.720 back in 2017,

00:14:52.260 where they say in here,

00:14:53.440 the deputies arrested Next Generation Action Network.

00:14:57.020 Wait, let me just double check that name,

00:14:58.580 because I want to just double check something.

00:15:00.280 So now he's Next Generation Action,

00:15:02.660 let's just double check that.

00:15:04.200 Next Generation Action Network.

00:15:06.760 I just want to make sure that the name's always...

00:15:08.920 Yeah, Next Generation Action Network,

00:15:10.580 because he's known to shift the names

00:15:12.880 of his organization every so often,

00:15:15.260 as soon as people start to ask him

00:15:16.720 for his tax returns.

00:15:17.660 That's how you know he's honest.

00:15:18.760 Oh, yeah.

00:15:19.580 But he was arrested at his home in North Dallas

00:15:22.780 on theft charges,

00:15:23.840 stemming from a 2016 dispute from a lawyer.

00:15:26.140 Police took Alexander to a county jail,

00:15:28.640 where he was booked and released

00:15:29.280 in $1,500 bail.

00:15:31.940 Alexander is best known for organizing

00:15:33.440 the July 7th, 2016,

00:15:35.400 police brutality protest,

00:15:37.060 where a gunman opened fire

00:15:38.660 on law enforcement personnel.

00:15:40.500 He told the Dallas Observer

00:15:41.660 that he was being charged in that case

00:15:43.220 because of his notoriety

00:15:44.480 on Dallas's protest scene.

00:15:46.220 So that ended up getting

00:15:47.280 five police officers shot.

00:15:48.980 Oh, that's that one?

00:15:50.380 Someone killed.

00:15:51.400 Yeah.

00:15:51.640 Oh, I remember this.

00:15:52.760 This guy organized that protest.

00:15:54.100 That's not that I would judge him

00:15:55.540 for the actions of a crazed gunman

00:15:57.780 at a protest he advised.

00:15:58.560 Yeah, the gunman apparently

00:16:00.300 had watched a lot of the Young Turks.

00:16:02.460 And so a lot of people were saying,

00:16:04.460 well, Cenk, this is your guy.

00:16:05.400 But I think that's a really unfair thing to do.

00:16:08.380 Just, you know,

00:16:09.660 Cenk isn't arguing for that.

00:16:11.100 Let's see what else he's been up to

00:16:12.680 in his time on the public scene.

00:16:14.220 So according to court records,

00:16:16.240 Next Generation Action Network leader,

00:16:17.860 Dominique Alexander,

00:16:19.120 pleaded guilty in a felony theft case

00:16:20.960 and was given two days credit

00:16:22.620 for time already served.

00:16:24.300 He faced up to 20 years in prison

00:16:26.000 for the theft charge.

00:16:26.920 So one thing you'll notice with this guy

00:16:28.180 is he keeps getting arrested for crimes

00:16:30.440 and then basically given

00:16:32.240 no time in prison for it.

00:16:34.720 According to a Facebook post

00:16:36.120 made by the 32-year-old,

00:16:37.800 he claimed he was innocent

00:16:38.800 and pleaded guilty to charges

00:16:40.640 to avoid going to court

00:16:41.980 because he would not have faced

00:16:43.280 a fair trial.

00:16:44.760 Isn't that convenient?

00:16:46.400 After four years of this

00:16:47.540 hanging over my head,

00:16:48.400 I decided to avoid a jury trial

00:16:50.300 in Trump County

00:16:51.100 that wouldn't have given me

00:16:52.600 a fair shot at all.

00:16:54.220 The Dallas Observer revealed

00:16:55.400 that Alexander was charged

00:16:56.320 with theft of property

00:16:57.120 between two and a half grand

00:16:58.360 and 30 grand.

00:16:59.540 According to an August indictment,

00:17:01.700 the theft stemmed from

00:17:02.660 a credit card processing company deal

00:17:04.520 that went bad.

00:17:05.940 The punishment for the offense

00:17:06.940 officially includes a fine

00:17:08.340 and six months to two years

00:17:10.400 in prison.

00:17:10.900 However, penalties were enhanced

00:17:12.060 because Alexander had been

00:17:13.400 previously convicted,

00:17:15.020 another one,

00:17:15.800 of felony forgery charges

00:17:18.300 in January 2013

00:17:19.920 in Dallas County.

00:17:20.980 He was also arrested

00:17:22.520 and charged with felony injury

00:17:24.960 of a child in 2009.

00:17:27.640 This is the one I saw.

00:17:28.560 Apparently he gave a child

00:17:29.300 brain damage or something.

00:17:30.580 It doesn't go into any more detail

00:17:32.220 on what happened to the child.

00:17:33.540 I saw people posting other things

00:17:35.180 about this guy.

00:17:35.760 Apparently the kid had detached

00:17:36.960 retinas and brain damage.

00:17:37.820 Jesus Christ.

00:17:38.720 Well, for that,

00:17:39.680 for that,

00:17:40.140 he received probation.

00:17:43.020 Jesus Christ.

00:17:43.800 According to the Dallas Observer,

00:17:45.100 he violated the probation

00:17:46.660 several times.

00:17:48.040 What a surprise.

00:17:48.900 But nothing ever happened.

00:17:50.340 When eventually he-

00:17:51.080 Ignore all those blemishes

00:17:52.820 on his record.

00:17:53.440 He's got a clear record.

00:17:54.340 Yeah.

00:17:54.580 When eventually he was

00:17:56.040 convicted of a number of things

00:17:58.160 that was supposed to get him

00:17:59.000 two years in prison

00:17:59.820 because he'd already spent

00:18:00.800 two years on probation,

00:18:02.040 that was counted as time served,

00:18:04.220 even though he violated

00:18:05.080 his probation numerous times.

00:18:06.380 I'm giving this guy

00:18:06.740 such an easy ride.

00:18:08.420 That's a good question.

00:18:09.400 Perhaps it's judges like this one

00:18:11.360 who decided to lower the bail

00:18:12.660 for Carmelo Anthony.

00:18:14.000 Hey, what were you going

00:18:14.760 to say, Lewis?

00:18:15.620 I'm just,

00:18:16.440 I don't actually know

00:18:17.560 what to say,

00:18:18.440 if I'm totally honest.

00:18:19.480 It's just, yeah.

00:18:20.520 It's funny that this guy

00:18:22.140 ends up in this case

00:18:24.000 and designates himself

00:18:25.120 as a spokesperson

00:18:26.360 for the defense

00:18:28.140 and decides to start

00:18:29.400 trying to help

00:18:29.980 with the legal case

00:18:31.000 as well.

00:18:32.500 Yeah, birds of a feather,

00:18:33.900 but if you ask me,

00:18:34.740 this is not the kind of guy

00:18:35.680 I'd want backing me up.

00:18:37.520 Doesn't exactly make you

00:18:38.780 look particularly innocent.

00:18:40.340 Honestly, right,

00:18:41.100 I'm kind of thinking

00:18:42.660 there might be a kind of

00:18:43.560 ethnic interest network

00:18:45.180 that's operating in this area.

00:18:47.780 I have to agree.

00:18:48.840 I have to agree.

00:18:49.520 That's kind of what it looks like.

00:18:50.580 Also, there are allegations

00:18:51.560 of corruption

00:18:52.440 within his foundation.

00:18:54.480 There are states...

00:18:54.780 What a shock!

00:18:55.280 Yeah, I know.

00:18:56.200 I can't believe that!

00:18:57.360 Numerous statements

00:18:58.200 from this woman,

00:18:59.480 Sarah Fields,

00:19:00.320 saying that he has

00:19:01.780 done this thing

00:19:02.640 quite a few times

00:19:03.540 where he will continually,

00:19:05.860 subtly change

00:19:06.780 the name of the organization

00:19:08.200 whenever they start

00:19:09.280 having to file

00:19:10.040 with the IRS.

00:19:11.620 They've only filed twice

00:19:12.760 with the particular foundation

00:19:13.820 that they're using now.

00:19:15.020 When they get the status revoked,

00:19:16.740 a new one is started,

00:19:17.800 so it seems to be

00:19:18.420 allegations of tax fraud.

00:19:19.920 Basically,

00:19:20.380 Black Saul Goodman. 0.58

00:19:23.140 Nowhere near as charismatic 0.85

00:19:24.500 or intelligent.

00:19:25.320 Well, yeah, okay, fine.

00:19:26.520 Charming.

00:19:27.920 I mean,

00:19:28.640 the sleaziness is there.

00:19:30.140 Yeah.

00:19:30.300 The sleaziness is there,

00:19:31.540 but also Saul Goodman,

00:19:33.060 if I'm re-watching

00:19:34.020 at the moment,

00:19:34.720 never beats a child.

00:19:36.160 That's true.

00:19:36.880 He does support a man 0.96

00:19:37.900 who poisons children, 0.92

00:19:39.100 but, you know,

00:19:39.680 that's one degree of separation.

00:19:41.200 He personally doesn't

00:19:42.420 render a child

00:19:43.520 unconscious with brain damage.

00:19:44.920 Yes.

00:19:45.860 But Carmelo Anthony's

00:19:47.200 newly hired attorney,

00:19:48.400 Kim T. Cole,

00:19:49.760 also,

00:19:50.740 is Dominique's attorney

00:19:52.360 as well.

00:19:53.020 In a recent press conference,

00:19:54.520 he spoke as Carmelo's advocate,

00:19:56.320 stating that the bond

00:19:57.160 was too damn high.

00:19:58.840 Can I not have someone else

00:19:59.840 as my advocate?

00:20:01.500 Like, this guy,

00:20:02.480 do I have to have this guy?

00:20:03.780 Well, I mean,

00:20:05.120 I don't know,

00:20:05.940 because he seems to have done

00:20:07.400 a lot of shady stuff

00:20:08.440 in the past,

00:20:09.080 been convicted for it,

00:20:10.100 and still got off

00:20:10.840 with basically no prison time.

00:20:12.160 So maybe you do want

00:20:12.920 this guy in your corner.

00:20:13.820 This thing,

00:20:14.300 you remember the Jussie Smollett stuff,

00:20:16.240 right,

00:20:16.520 and how, like,

00:20:16.960 nothing really came of that

00:20:17.960 for Jussie Smollett,

00:20:18.720 even though he should have

00:20:19.380 gone to jail

00:20:19.860 and stuff like that.

00:20:20.920 This kind of ethnic 0.94

00:20:22.040 advocacy network

00:20:23.100 that is embedded

00:20:24.120 in the legal system

00:20:25.280 and has this kind of

00:20:26.540 close circle

00:20:27.260 where, like,

00:20:28.080 Kamala Harris is related

00:20:29.560 to it and stuff like this.

00:20:30.820 This is what it feels like.

00:20:32.380 I've got, you know,

00:20:32.880 I don't know

00:20:33.280 that that's the case,

00:20:33.800 but, like...

00:20:34.780 It's definitely a network

00:20:36.060 of people

00:20:36.640 who all share

00:20:37.440 the same interests

00:20:38.360 looking out

00:20:38.900 for each other's backs.

00:20:40.000 I suspect they might

00:20:41.600 be personally involved.

00:20:42.780 I mean, like I said,

00:20:43.200 I can't prove anything,

00:20:44.360 but this is what

00:20:45.200 it smells like to me.

00:20:46.300 But he's already started

00:20:47.840 lying about the case

00:20:49.600 and trying to distort

00:20:50.640 the details of it,

00:20:51.600 so he said

00:20:52.500 that Carmelo Anthony

00:20:53.860 said to Austin Metcalfe,

00:20:55.480 don't put your hands on me,

00:20:57.760 when we all know

00:20:58.760 from the police report

00:20:59.760 what actually happened

00:21:00.660 was he said,

00:21:01.240 put your hands on me

00:21:04.020 and see what happens.

00:21:05.400 Two very different statements

00:21:06.820 with two very different meanings

00:21:08.700 to them,

00:21:09.640 because what he actually said

00:21:10.880 was an invitation

00:21:11.560 to start trouble.

00:21:12.840 He said,

00:21:13.500 come try me,

00:21:14.580 is essentially what he said.

00:21:16.360 Let's see him talk,

00:21:17.840 and see what a charming

00:21:18.800 speaker he is.

00:21:21.100 Carmelo Anthony,

00:21:21.980 from the beginning,

00:21:23.180 has continued to display

00:21:24.680 his self-deflints claim,

00:21:27.020 and I believe that

00:21:29.360 in America,

00:21:30.400 I always tell this,

00:21:31.340 and I'm just going to speak

00:21:32.320 truth to power

00:21:33.060 in this situation,

00:21:34.440 it is crazy that America

00:21:36.020 tells us

00:21:36.880 to accept the self-deflints claim

00:21:39.260 of George Zimmerman,

00:21:42.220 Cal Rittenhouse,

00:21:43.680 and so many other people,

00:21:45.980 but when the shoe

00:21:46.800 is on the other foot,

00:21:49.180 that claim is absurd,

00:21:51.200 and I just got to call

00:21:53.860 a spade a spade.

00:21:54.740 No matter what

00:21:55.520 my personal views

00:21:57.100 of a case may be,

00:21:59.460 it is quite contradicting

00:22:01.140 for America to come back

00:22:03.460 and say,

00:22:04.320 oh,

00:22:05.040 Cal Rittenhouse can have it,

00:22:07.880 George Zimmerman can have it,

00:22:10.160 all of these individuals

00:22:11.720 that don't look like

00:22:12.880 the color of my skin

00:22:14.120 can't have it.

00:22:16.160 In the state of Texas,

00:22:17.860 we live in the state

00:22:19.520 to walk around

00:22:21.700 with the primalists.

00:22:22.840 Yeah,

00:22:23.080 I think that's about enough

00:22:25.700 of that.

00:22:26.240 Yeah,

00:22:26.620 I can't.

00:22:27.280 Eye-rolling,

00:22:28.140 sighing.

00:22:28.820 I mean,

00:22:29.100 he's clearly a race grifter,

00:22:30.900 he sounds actually 1.00

00:22:32.040 mentally handicapped. 0.77

00:22:34.000 I don't know

00:22:34.720 if I'd want him speaking

00:22:35.820 on my deflints,

00:22:37.400 but,

00:22:37.760 but this is the kind

00:22:40.340 of narrative

00:22:40.780 that they're trying

00:22:41.460 to push that,

00:22:42.320 well,

00:22:42.500 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:22:43.200 got self-defense,

00:22:44.160 George Zimmerman

00:22:44.780 got self-defense,

00:22:45.820 it's only because

00:22:46.580 of the color of his skin

00:22:47.720 that he's not getting

00:22:48.460 the same fair treatment,

00:22:49.200 even though the circumstances

00:22:50.380 are completely different.

00:22:51.660 We had footage of

00:22:52.440 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:22:53.080 that showed him

00:22:53.560 clearly defending himself.

00:22:54.800 The actual reports

00:22:55.840 of what happened

00:22:56.580 with George Zimmerman

00:22:57.320 show that he

00:22:57.900 was clearly defending himself.

00:22:59.500 Also,

00:23:00.200 the loads of wounds

00:23:01.220 that he was covered in

00:23:02.560 because he was assaulted

00:23:04.020 before he shot,

00:23:05.640 I forget the name

00:23:06.440 of the one that he shot,

00:23:07.600 but either way,

00:23:08.640 all of-

00:23:09.100 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:23:09.700 or George Zimmerman.

00:23:11.960 All of these cases

00:23:13.720 end up being the same

00:23:15.040 and now they're trying

00:23:15.660 to flip the script

00:23:16.760 and trying to make it,

00:23:18.100 again,

00:23:18.940 a race grifter narrative.

00:23:20.780 Also,

00:23:21.180 some more background

00:23:21.900 information on him.

00:23:24.140 So-

00:23:24.400 Hang on,

00:23:24.740 Martin,

00:23:25.180 just-

00:23:25.400 Yeah,

00:23:26.640 yeah,

00:23:26.720 thank you.

00:23:27.220 I'd forgotten as well.

00:23:28.160 So,

00:23:28.400 this was interesting.

00:23:29.720 So,

00:23:30.000 he was detained

00:23:30.760 back in 2020

00:23:32.280 by the looks of it

00:23:33.680 at a county jail

00:23:34.840 and then all of a sudden

00:23:35.840 a load of his supporters

00:23:37.100 started to march

00:23:38.200 at the county jail

00:23:39.300 and start protesting

00:23:40.300 and such,

00:23:41.220 as you would expect. 1.00

00:23:42.320 Criminal race grifters. 0.98

00:23:43.300 If you associate 0.99

00:23:43.900 with a criminal race grifter, 0.97

00:23:45.020 I'm going to assume 1.00

00:23:45.760 you are a criminal race grifter. 1.00

00:23:47.200 Yeah. 1.00

00:23:47.660 Speaking of associations

00:23:48.780 with criminal race grifters,

00:23:50.340 here's Kim T. Cole,

00:23:52.480 who's his attorney,

00:23:53.920 hanging out with

00:23:54.620 that annoying

00:23:55.280 senator or congresswoman,

00:23:58.360 Jasmine Crockett,

00:23:59.340 that you see the clips of.

00:24:00.520 Just like Jussie Smollett

00:24:01.800 and Kamala Harris.

00:24:04.080 I swear to God,

00:24:05.540 these are kind of

00:24:06.000 like ethnic interest networks

00:24:07.200 that go from

00:24:08.360 the activist

00:24:09.140 to the legal system

00:24:10.860 to the political system.

00:24:12.700 So,

00:24:13.040 what we're finding is

00:24:13.840 that this woman

00:24:14.840 who is elected

00:24:16.780 in the United States government

00:24:18.620 who has many,

00:24:20.580 many clips of her

00:24:21.440 going all sassy

00:24:22.780 against her

00:24:24.120 Republican opponents

00:24:25.400 for being racist

00:24:27.200 and other such accusations

00:24:29.480 is directly associated

00:24:31.500 or at least has photographs

00:24:32.680 with these people.

00:24:34.080 which is very,

00:24:34.720 very interesting

00:24:35.160 when you talk about

00:24:35.880 the ethnic interest networks

00:24:37.580 that are being set up.

00:24:38.700 Speaking of which,

00:24:39.600 his defense attorneys

00:24:40.420 are going to be joined

00:24:41.160 by Carmelo's two best friends,

00:24:43.200 Dindu and Nothing. 1.00

00:24:45.160 And that is

00:24:46.080 the entire community,

00:24:47.700 or at least a large community,

00:24:49.580 all ganging around him

00:24:51.040 to defend him

00:24:51.840 and try to continue

00:24:53.340 this argument

00:24:54.060 of self-defense.

00:24:55.740 Like this one,

00:24:56.600 this post by Mike Baggs,

00:24:58.540 that's got 13,000 likes,

00:25:01.600 2.2 million views,

00:25:03.380 trying to quote penal code

00:25:05.660 from Texas

00:25:06.380 saying that,

00:25:07.660 oh,

00:25:07.700 he had the right

00:25:08.280 to use force

00:25:09.020 to protect himself

00:25:09.720 when he reasonably believed

00:25:11.320 it was necessary

00:25:12.000 to prevent imminent harm.

00:25:13.620 There is such a thing

00:25:14.520 as reasonable force

00:25:15.960 in a case like this.

00:25:17.700 Proportionality.

00:25:18.100 Proportionality.

00:25:18.280 He brought a knife.

00:25:19.460 There's the mitigating circumstances

00:25:20.860 of the fact

00:25:21.280 that he seemed to provoke

00:25:22.120 the incident

00:25:22.660 in the first place.

00:25:23.960 Hang on,

00:25:24.420 go back up a sec.

00:25:25.460 Yep.

00:25:25.640 So he says it there.

00:25:28.220 He was within his rights

00:25:29.320 to feel that a knife

00:25:30.020 might be necessary means

00:25:31.140 of self-defense.

00:25:32.880 He brought the knife.

00:25:33.940 To protect himself

00:25:34.580 from the use of

00:25:35.320 deadly force of serious harm.

00:25:36.820 There was just no reason

00:25:37.680 to think.

00:25:38.440 Yeah,

00:25:38.600 there was just no reason

00:25:39.440 to think

00:25:39.860 that there was

00:25:40.700 the threat

00:25:41.420 of deadly force

00:25:42.020 of serious harm.

00:25:43.480 Yeah.

00:25:44.180 But they're going

00:25:44.920 to make this argument anyway

00:25:46.200 when you start to point out

00:25:47.280 all of the holes in it.

00:25:48.200 They don't care.

00:25:48.880 They will continue

00:25:49.540 to regroup and rally

00:25:50.840 around this case

00:25:52.020 because they have seen

00:25:52.820 that one of their own

00:25:53.740 is in trouble

00:25:54.700 and they do not care

00:25:56.180 about any of the circumstances.

00:25:57.720 A large group

00:25:58.340 of these people

00:25:58.940 do not care

00:25:59.820 about any of the circumstances.

00:26:01.100 They just see

00:26:01.540 one of my own

00:26:02.940 is being arrested.

00:26:04.580 I must protect him.

00:26:05.820 I have to get him off

00:26:06.760 because he didn't

00:26:07.860 do nothing wrong

00:26:08.680 and if he did,

00:26:10.160 Whitey deserved it 1.00

00:26:11.020 because Davey raises it.

00:26:12.140 It's not just that.

00:26:12.540 He's a payday.

00:26:13.900 They raise money

00:26:14.580 on the back of this.

00:26:15.740 Well, also,

00:26:16.280 this one was

00:26:16.820 particularly interesting

00:26:17.900 because immediately

00:26:18.660 underneath he shares

00:26:19.800 this picture

00:26:20.920 of a knife saying

00:26:21.660 honestly right now

00:26:22.660 is a perfect time

00:26:23.400 to get one of these.

00:26:24.360 I mean, if you ask me,

00:26:25.100 that looks like

00:26:25.620 incitement to violence.

00:26:27.720 Personally,

00:26:28.380 that's what I take

00:26:29.280 from this.

00:26:29.880 Absolutely tasteless

00:26:30.760 at best.

00:26:31.620 Yes.

00:26:32.140 And he also leaves

00:26:33.700 a link further down,

00:26:35.400 a link to the

00:26:36.380 Help Carmelo

00:26:37.540 official fund.

00:26:38.900 Let's see what

00:26:39.240 it's up to now.

00:26:40.900 $442,000

00:26:42.460 where they state

00:26:44.100 that by they say

00:26:45.140 they've had to change

00:26:46.340 the description

00:26:47.420 since yesterday.

00:26:48.500 So yesterday,

00:26:49.720 yesterday,

00:26:50.160 it said,

00:26:51.260 this is the official

00:26:51.900 support fund

00:26:52.460 for Carmelo

00:26:53.000 and his family

00:26:53.440 during this

00:26:53.820 challenging and

00:26:54.360 difficult time.

00:26:54.880 The narrative

00:26:55.160 being spread

00:26:55.620 is false,

00:26:56.060 unjust and harmful.

00:26:56.780 As a family of faith,

00:26:57.540 we're deeply grateful

00:26:58.800 for all of your support

00:26:59.620 during this trying period.

00:27:01.000 Your prayers and assistance

00:27:01.760 mean more to us

00:27:02.500 now than ever.

00:27:03.760 And now they are

00:27:04.580 trying to change it

00:27:06.000 again to specify

00:27:06.980 this is not the bail fund.

00:27:09.160 This is not the bail fund.

00:27:10.580 This is to help us

00:27:11.620 with the legal defense

00:27:12.640 and everything else.

00:27:13.480 You can also see here

00:27:14.880 all of the comments

00:27:16.080 left by the recent donations.

00:27:18.740 So black excellence,

00:27:20.660 100 US dollars,

00:27:21.780 nothing,

00:27:22.100 just donating again. 1.00

00:27:23.340 The more these hateful whites 1.00

00:27:24.780 show their insecurities 1.00

00:27:25.880 and fragilities

00:27:26.640 of losing dominance,

00:27:28.160 sending love,

00:27:28.820 light and justice

00:27:29.320 to King Carmelo,

00:27:31.300 speaking full exoneration

00:27:32.480 over your eyes.

00:27:32.920 So when they see a case

00:27:33.880 of someone clearly

00:27:34.720 provoking a situation

00:27:35.840 where they get to stab 1.00

00:27:36.920 and murder a white kid, 1.00

00:27:39.540 when you arrest them 1.00

00:27:40.580 and try and bring them

00:27:41.360 to justice over it,

00:27:42.440 they say that this is

00:27:43.820 injustice.

00:27:45.120 This is oppression.

00:27:47.020 This is us being

00:27:48.040 fragile,

00:27:48.820 insecure of losing

00:27:50.140 our dominance.

00:27:52.280 Not being murdered.

00:27:53.680 I don't want my kids

00:27:54.220 murdered.

00:27:54.760 Anonymous giver, 0.89

00:27:55.780 praying for you

00:27:56.440 at this time.

00:27:57.040 May God provide

00:27:57.740 all the strength

00:27:58.360 that you need.

00:27:58.900 No weapon formed

00:27:59.640 against you shall pass.

00:28:01.580 People leaving Bible quotes.

00:28:03.580 God please shower

00:28:04.540 this young man

00:28:05.260 and his family

00:28:05.900 with blessings and favor. 1.00

00:28:07.100 He's a murderer. 1.00

00:28:08.340 He's a murderer. 1.00

00:28:09.520 I'm donating it again 0.99

00:28:10.840 after seeing the need

00:28:11.800 for additional protection

00:28:13.040 and expenses.

00:28:14.380 These crackers

00:28:15.160 need to understand

00:28:16.200 that we are not

00:28:17.120 our ancestors

00:28:17.940 and they will reap

00:28:19.280 what they sow.

00:28:19.820 So it's the same narrative.

00:28:22.240 You were made as slaves

00:28:23.380 so this is payback.

00:28:24.640 This is revenge.

00:28:26.780 Fantastic.

00:28:27.960 Towards housing

00:28:29.120 and security.

00:28:30.200 You've got other ones

00:28:30.960 as well.

00:28:31.360 So first of all,

00:28:32.360 interestingly enough,

00:28:33.040 I double checked this.

00:28:34.440 This judge,

00:28:35.420 Angela Tucker,

00:28:36.180 she's Republican.

00:28:37.560 Oh, is she?

00:28:38.180 She's Republican.

00:28:39.420 And then you get comments

00:28:40.320 like this from Rahim

00:28:41.420 saying,

00:28:42.160 everyone around me

00:28:43.080 is surprised

00:28:43.420 that I support this fund

00:28:44.200 because I'm a black conservative

00:28:45.220 but look at what word

00:28:46.400 came first. 0.85

00:28:47.100 Black. 0.93

00:28:47.800 I'm black first.

00:28:49.080 Thanks Rahim.

00:28:49.820 That's a fantastic example

00:28:51.700 of tribalism.

00:28:53.320 Unthinking tribalism

00:28:55.000 right there.

00:28:55.940 Although like you say,

00:28:56.740 there's also a payday in it

00:28:58.420 and if you're going to talk

00:28:59.460 about a payday,

00:29:00.160 let's talk about

00:29:00.740 the Anthony family

00:29:01.980 getting their $400,000

00:29:04.060 legal defense fund

00:29:05.200 more than enough

00:29:05.860 to pay the 10%

00:29:06.880 $100,000 bail

00:29:08.500 to get him out of jail

00:29:10.940 but no,

00:29:11.560 they needed that reduced

00:29:12.360 even more

00:29:13.080 because what they're

00:29:14.120 actually going to do,

00:29:15.660 they're going to say

00:29:16.140 the prosecutor's

00:29:16.960 asked his father

00:29:17.700 Andrew Anthony

00:29:19.000 why he couldn't use

00:29:20.100 the more than $415,000

00:29:21.800 in donated funds

00:29:22.800 for his son's defense

00:29:23.560 to pay the original

00:29:24.340 million dollar bond.

00:29:25.640 Just 10% of that amount

00:29:26.900 had to be paid.

00:29:28.080 Andrew Anthony said

00:29:28.840 instead the fund

00:29:29.440 was to be used

00:29:30.020 for his legal defense

00:29:30.900 but he also disclosed

00:29:32.120 that the cash

00:29:32.520 would be used for security

00:29:33.520 and to help the family

00:29:34.840 move homes

00:29:36.360 after the threats

00:29:37.540 they've allegedly faced

00:29:38.900 since the killing

00:29:39.440 because supposedly

00:29:40.060 they're going to buy

00:29:40.560 doxed.

00:29:41.540 The revelation comes

00:29:42.300 after a spokesperson

00:29:42.920 said the family

00:29:43.560 can't leave their home

00:29:44.640 after the address

00:29:45.620 was leaked online

00:29:46.620 leading to graphic

00:29:47.720 and racist threats

00:29:48.800 but also again

00:29:49.660 you have to wonder

00:29:50.320 why they need

00:29:51.300 all of this financial

00:29:52.100 help in the first place

00:29:53.100 given that they

00:29:53.820 were already living

00:29:54.640 in a $900,000

00:29:56.540 gated community home.

00:29:59.840 Jesus.

00:30:00.560 They already had

00:30:01.360 plenty of money

00:30:02.440 $3,500 per month

00:30:05.360 was the rent for this.

00:30:06.640 Yeah.

00:30:07.040 Look at that mansion.

00:30:07.880 Look at that.

00:30:08.720 They live in a

00:30:09.300 McMansion already.

00:30:09.580 Jesus Christ.

00:30:11.600 And now they're

00:30:12.080 getting another

00:30:12.520 McMansion with the money

00:30:13.700 that people keep

00:30:14.880 sending to them.

00:30:16.380 I just...

00:30:17.020 So it really does

00:30:17.820 just seem like

00:30:18.480 to me what's happened

00:30:19.500 is their son

00:30:20.840 for no reason

00:30:22.160 provoked a situation

00:30:23.620 murdered a white kid

00:30:25.260 and now the family 0.73

00:30:26.280 through massive support

00:30:27.520 from black race 0.99

00:30:30.100 grifters online 0.99

00:30:31.080 is being funded

00:30:32.580 to get a huge

00:30:33.680 payday from it.

00:30:34.520 Yeah, it kind of

00:30:36.320 looks that way.

00:30:38.220 Can you live

00:30:39.080 in a civilization

00:30:39.760 where this is acceptable?

00:30:41.660 No.

00:30:42.500 Can you live around

00:30:43.600 people that think

00:30:44.540 that this kind of

00:30:45.140 behavior is not only

00:30:46.260 acceptable but

00:30:47.060 justifiable?

00:30:48.400 No.

00:30:49.360 They will literally

00:30:50.360 fund and reward

00:30:52.380 this behavior.

00:30:53.760 We'd better put a pin

00:30:54.620 in that.

00:30:55.060 Yeah, I...

00:30:55.860 Because I feel

00:30:56.960 where you're going.

00:30:57.700 No, no, that was

00:30:58.540 where I was going to end

00:30:59.460 because I don't think

00:31:00.260 there's anything else

00:31:00.920 to say on that.

00:31:01.600 I understand, man,

00:31:02.860 because this is an

00:31:03.500 infuriating thing

00:31:04.700 to cover.

00:31:05.620 Matt says,

00:31:06.240 Carl, would Cenk

00:31:06.900 give you the same

00:31:07.880 benefit of the doubt

00:31:08.500 if a Lotus Eater's

00:31:09.240 viewer did something

00:31:09.720 terrible?

00:31:10.440 Well, all of our

00:31:11.040 viewers are made

00:31:11.980 of sunshine and

00:31:12.720 rainbows and do

00:31:13.480 nothing but good

00:31:14.180 things and charity.

00:31:15.380 So such a thing

00:31:16.100 could never happen.

00:31:16.800 But no, he wouldn't,

00:31:17.400 of course.

00:31:18.100 But that's why

00:31:18.680 we're better than him.

00:31:19.920 I don't know.

00:31:20.480 I think Cenk seems

00:31:21.960 like he can actually

00:31:22.820 be rational.

00:31:23.540 I don't think he's

00:31:24.300 that bad.

00:31:24.860 Yeah.

00:31:25.200 It doesn't matter.

00:31:26.240 I mean, Vorsch definitely

00:31:26.800 would never give you

00:31:27.480 the benefit of the doubt.

00:31:28.240 Destiny would never.

00:31:29.280 Yeah, obviously.

00:31:29.940 But the point being...

00:31:32.860 And I don't use him

00:31:35.480 as a metric of anything.

00:31:36.600 I think it would be

00:31:37.260 the wrong thing to do.

00:31:38.480 And a drunk changeling 1.00

00:31:39.340 says, you don't want

00:31:39.880 a criminal lawyer.

00:31:40.640 You want a criminal

00:31:41.340 lawyer.

00:31:42.440 Well, that's what he's

00:31:43.320 got.

00:31:43.860 Anyway, let's move on.

00:31:46.200 Cool.

00:31:46.600 Well, I don't think

00:31:47.260 I could top the,

00:31:49.340 well, the depression

00:31:51.120 from that segment.

00:31:53.020 But we are delving

00:31:54.060 more and more into that.

00:31:57.220 Tony Blair is back.

00:31:58.680 Oh, God.

00:31:59.460 I'm sorry.

00:32:00.440 Once again.

00:32:01.160 I'm sorry to say

00:32:01.300 he never actually...

00:32:02.040 He never left.

00:32:03.560 Exactly.

00:32:04.200 The meme is true.

00:32:05.560 Fresh from the pits of hell,

00:32:07.600 a whiff of sulfur appears.

00:32:09.380 Indeed.

00:32:10.500 This was posted yesterday

00:32:12.500 by the Tony Blair Institute.

00:32:15.580 He seems to crop up

00:32:17.120 every time a crisis,

00:32:19.240 quote unquote,

00:32:20.280 occurs,

00:32:21.840 and is now pushing

00:32:23.500 once again for digital IDs.

00:32:25.580 This is nothing new.

00:32:26.700 Do you want to watch this?

00:32:27.400 If we could,

00:32:28.660 I'm sorry to put everyone...

00:32:29.320 We cannot continue

00:32:30.060 with business as usual

00:32:31.180 and change is inevitable.

00:32:33.520 This is where technology

00:32:34.600 like digital ID

00:32:35.740 becomes critical.

00:32:38.060 My institute's own analysis

00:32:39.540 shows that introducing

00:32:41.080 this in the UK

00:32:42.260 would save at least

00:32:43.980 two billion a year

00:32:45.640 and likely more

00:32:46.920 by reducing losses

00:32:48.240 to fraud,

00:32:48.940 improving tax collection,

00:32:50.320 and better targeting

00:32:51.420 of state support.

00:32:53.860 Indeed.

00:32:54.560 It looks like skeletal.

00:32:55.540 And Tony Blair's own institute

00:32:57.900 would never produce studies

00:32:59.280 supporting the thing

00:33:00.220 that he already wants, right?

00:33:02.420 By the way,

00:33:03.100 the Lotus Eaters Institute

00:33:04.660 has realized

00:33:06.420 actually lowering immigration

00:33:07.580 would be very good

00:33:08.400 on all sorts of things.

00:33:09.740 The Lotus Eaters Institute

00:33:10.720 also said

00:33:11.440 that if you subscribe

00:33:12.380 to Lotus Eaters,

00:33:13.560 you'll actually be saving money

00:33:14.860 in the long run.

00:33:15.320 It's scientifically proven.

00:33:17.000 Indeed.

00:33:18.180 Do you mind if I borrow the...

00:33:19.560 Oh, no, go ahead.

00:33:20.120 Is that all right?

00:33:20.920 Thank you very much.

00:33:22.220 Just quickly.

00:33:23.880 Sorry,

00:33:24.280 borrow the what?

00:33:25.280 The house count.

00:33:27.080 I couldn't think

00:33:27.640 for a second then.

00:33:28.600 But obviously,

00:33:29.380 we've all been following

00:33:30.260 Blair for quite a long time

00:33:32.240 and trying to make sense,

00:33:34.800 really,

00:33:35.100 of what he's up to.

00:33:36.400 And he seems to crop up

00:33:37.700 every single time,

00:33:38.620 like we've mentioned,

00:33:39.580 every time a particular crisis

00:33:42.220 or something has happened.

00:33:43.560 And he's trying to use this

00:33:45.040 as a justification

00:33:45.960 for things such as

00:33:47.440 digital identification,

00:33:49.320 setting up an infrastructure

00:33:50.920 for other things

00:33:52.680 such as facial recognition,

00:33:54.060 which is becoming

00:33:55.180 not, well,

00:33:57.400 transitioning from a conspiracy

00:33:59.060 quote theory

00:34:00.040 to reality now.

00:34:02.020 Well, you already see it

00:34:03.280 in supermarkets.

00:34:04.140 I went into an Asda

00:34:05.180 recently

00:34:06.320 where I looked up

00:34:07.520 and they have the security screen

00:34:09.000 that you can see yourself in

00:34:10.060 and the first thing that happened

00:34:11.040 was a big green box

00:34:12.520 highlighted my face.

00:34:14.240 So I can only assume

00:34:15.800 that that was some kind of

00:34:17.040 facial recognition scanning

00:34:18.340 going on.

00:34:19.340 And in terms of what...

00:34:20.140 I had to do it

00:34:20.380 going onto the plane

00:34:21.220 coming back from America.

00:34:22.220 And in terms of what

00:34:23.880 Tony Blair is after,

00:34:24.740 I think it's pretty clear

00:34:25.520 that what he's after

00:34:26.200 is a technocratic state.

00:34:27.520 Indeed.

00:34:28.240 China-style facial recognition

00:34:29.860 network,

00:34:30.860 so you're never not monitored.

00:34:32.500 Exactly.

00:34:33.600 Tony Blair said in this article,

00:34:35.380 well, it says,

00:34:36.460 bring in digital IDs

00:34:37.720 to get tough on populism.

00:34:39.880 The former Labour prime minister

00:34:41.600 who backs identity technology systems

00:34:44.820 and facial recognition

00:34:46.060 believes the public

00:34:47.500 will gladly sacrifice privacy

00:34:49.820 for efficiency.

00:34:52.080 Probably right.

00:34:52.680 I was going to say,

00:34:53.260 for a significant enough portion

00:34:54.700 of the population,

00:34:55.500 he is right.

00:34:56.500 Probably right.

00:34:57.320 It says, quote,

00:34:58.060 what the populists do

00:34:59.320 is they take a real grievance

00:35:01.100 and they exploit it,

00:35:02.380 but they very often

00:35:03.460 don't want to have a solution

00:35:05.000 because solutions

00:35:05.920 are much tougher

00:35:07.200 than talking about problems,

00:35:08.860 Blair says.

00:35:09.860 Shots fired at Farage right there.

00:35:12.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:35:13.020 Farage is like,

00:35:13.720 well, I'm not going to do

00:35:14.300 mass deportations.

00:35:15.380 He's going to talk about

00:35:16.440 illegal immigration forever.

00:35:17.980 He says,

00:35:18.220 the grievance would be

00:35:19.100 on immigration,

00:35:20.340 that the thing is out of control.

00:35:22.260 The grievance would be on crime,

00:35:23.920 that we're not doing enough on it.

00:35:25.620 So you say,

00:35:26.500 okay, here's what you do.

00:35:28.300 And then you have

00:35:28.860 a big political fight.

00:35:30.720 The populist is forced to choose.

00:35:32.960 You've got to create an agenda

00:35:34.560 that the other side

00:35:35.940 has to respond to.

00:35:37.700 Yes, this has been

00:35:38.380 the complete failing

00:35:39.760 of Nigel Farage, actually.

00:35:41.120 I agree.

00:35:41.760 Totally agree.

00:35:42.540 Tony Blair is literally

00:35:43.340 calling him out here,

00:35:44.180 exactly as you say.

00:35:44.860 Well, Tony Blair is laying out,

00:35:47.180 he's not even being subtle about it.

00:35:48.520 It's like, okay,

00:35:49.320 you want to be an effective

00:35:50.280 political operator.

00:35:51.560 Here's what you do.

00:35:52.840 And so many people

00:35:54.180 on the populist right,

00:35:55.640 just because it's coming

00:35:56.360 from Tony Blair,

00:35:57.100 will stick their fingers

00:35:57.800 in their ears and say,

00:35:58.740 la, la, la, la,

00:35:59.320 I can't hear you.

00:36:00.280 Instead of actually taking,

00:36:01.380 what is effective advice?

00:36:03.040 He's a modern day Saul Alinsky.

00:36:04.360 He knows what he's doing.

00:36:06.520 It seems the goalpost with this

00:36:08.560 seems to move quite a lot.

00:36:10.160 I think we all remember

00:36:10.980 this particular speech

00:36:12.260 when he was at

00:36:12.800 the World Economic Forum

00:36:13.900 talking about

00:36:15.080 a digital infrastructure.

00:36:16.680 If we just play that

00:36:17.520 just briefly.

00:36:19.900 You need to know

00:36:20.900 who's been vaccinated

00:36:21.840 and who hasn't been.

00:36:23.180 Some of the vaccines

00:36:24.060 that will come on down the line

00:36:25.540 will be multiple,

00:36:26.700 there'll be multiple shots.

00:36:28.380 So you've got to have,

00:36:30.280 for reasons to do

00:36:31.120 with the healthcare

00:36:31.560 more generally,

00:36:32.200 but certainly for a pandemic

00:36:34.300 or for vaccines,

00:36:37.060 you've got to have

00:36:37.740 a proper digital infrastructure.

00:36:39.420 And many countries

00:36:40.220 don't have that.

00:36:40.840 In fact,

00:36:41.020 most countries

00:36:41.600 don't have that.

00:36:43.700 So,

00:36:44.420 it's very clear.

00:36:46.320 He's very,

00:36:46.940 very keen on it

00:36:47.740 and has been

00:36:48.960 for a long time.

00:36:49.940 It's been a bugbear

00:36:50.460 of his for decades now.

00:36:51.960 He's wanted

00:36:52.520 to push this through.

00:36:54.280 Coincidentally,

00:36:55.480 recently,

00:36:57.120 a friend of mine

00:36:57.820 posted this

00:36:58.840 and you were mentioning

00:36:59.780 air travel as well.

00:37:01.400 EFRAT done

00:37:01.900 a really great thread

00:37:03.040 on the recent news

00:37:05.020 that there'll be

00:37:05.520 no boarding passes,

00:37:06.740 no privacy,

00:37:07.640 and it'll be

00:37:08.000 the new face of travel.

00:37:09.300 Big changes are coming

00:37:10.500 to global air travel.

00:37:12.200 The UN's aviation body

00:37:13.620 plans to eliminate

00:37:14.440 boarding passes,

00:37:15.440 check-ins,

00:37:16.060 and even physical passports,

00:37:17.660 replacing them

00:37:18.280 with facial recognition

00:37:19.440 and digital credentials.

00:37:21.180 There is a part of me

00:37:23.600 that hates travelling

00:37:25.500 because of the check-ins,

00:37:27.780 boarding passes,

00:37:29.000 and all of the hassle of that.

00:37:30.700 Facial recognition

00:37:31.500 is going to win over

00:37:32.520 the normies

00:37:32.920 by just being convenient.

00:37:34.320 It will.

00:37:34.640 I know.

00:37:35.460 Unfortunately.

00:37:35.660 It's genuinely going to do it.

00:37:36.560 It's scary as well,

00:37:38.480 you know,

00:37:38.880 to put it mildly.

00:37:40.300 And you can see it.

00:37:42.740 With the infrastructure,

00:37:44.220 it doesn't just start

00:37:45.220 with convenience.

00:37:46.100 It then expands

00:37:47.440 and expands.

00:37:48.140 And this happens

00:37:48.700 with a lot of legislation.

00:37:49.620 It's like building a tank,

00:37:52.640 right?

00:37:52.940 You take Parliament

00:37:53.940 as a state,

00:37:54.640 as like a tank.

00:37:55.820 You're putting all these

00:37:56.620 weapons and stuff

00:37:57.540 onto it

00:37:58.020 to use as self-defence.

00:37:59.780 And then it just aims

00:38:01.020 at its own citizens.

00:38:03.300 So,

00:38:04.160 I already see,

00:38:05.900 I mean,

00:38:06.180 we can already see it,

00:38:07.220 that this can be

00:38:08.040 completely abused

00:38:09.340 in the long term.

00:38:11.780 No, no,

00:38:12.260 it can.

00:38:12.860 Will.

00:38:13.620 Will be completely abused.

00:38:15.080 I mean,

00:38:15.640 imagine how quickly

00:38:17.000 Keir Starmer

00:38:18.060 is going to find

00:38:18.800 those people

00:38:19.280 who posted

00:38:19.860 something that he

00:38:21.620 doesn't like on Facebook.

00:38:23.160 Yeah.

00:38:23.500 Like, my God.

00:38:25.140 But there's obviously

00:38:26.260 plenty of evidence.

00:38:27.200 The UK government website,

00:38:28.480 if you really want

00:38:29.100 to bore yourself with,

00:38:30.560 has all the frameworks,

00:38:33.300 has everything

00:38:34.240 that you need to know.

00:38:35.200 You don't even need

00:38:36.020 to pull it off

00:38:36.600 of random sites

00:38:38.120 of Google.

00:38:38.720 It's all there.

00:38:40.300 Enabling the use

00:38:41.120 of digital identities

00:38:42.040 in the UK.

00:38:43.940 Secure connected places.

00:38:45.540 This is another thing

00:38:46.300 it ties into.

00:38:47.700 Secure connected places,

00:38:49.280 otherwise known

00:38:49.760 as smart cities.

00:38:53.840 Yes.

00:38:55.040 Unfortunately,

00:38:55.920 the infrastructure

00:38:57.600 is actually already here

00:38:59.700 and we are paying for it.

00:39:01.560 Things such as

00:39:02.340 the behavioral insights.

00:39:06.560 Sorry, forgive me.

00:39:08.320 Yeah, the nudge units.

00:39:09.660 The behavioral insight teams,

00:39:10.940 such as the nudge units

00:39:12.220 that push narratives

00:39:13.700 using various technologies

00:39:15.620 and, of course,

00:39:16.640 using mass media control.

00:39:19.500 But here's another thing.

00:39:22.220 As you know,

00:39:23.180 I've been doing

00:39:23.640 some freedom of information

00:39:25.120 requests on lots

00:39:25.920 of different subjects

00:39:27.120 and one of them I found

00:39:28.680 and I had a reply to

00:39:29.600 and I didn't know

00:39:30.040 what to do with it.

00:39:31.720 I put in an FOI request

00:39:34.040 into AI infrastructure

00:39:35.840 and how much

00:39:36.780 are we paying

00:39:37.900 or the state is paying

00:39:39.020 to bring in things

00:39:41.120 such as flexible microchips

00:39:43.440 to be used

00:39:44.400 for these frameworks.

00:39:46.640 And last month,

00:39:47.600 I actually received

00:39:48.320 a response

00:39:49.080 and 60 million pounds

00:39:52.300 of public money

00:39:53.300 went to a thing

00:39:54.620 called Pragmatic Semiconductor

00:39:56.720 who makes flexible microchips

00:39:59.440 used in radio frequency

00:40:01.200 identification

00:40:02.240 or RFID,

00:40:04.140 smart ID cards

00:40:05.320 and track and trace systems.

00:40:08.800 The DSIT is funding

00:40:10.540 AI infrastructure,

00:40:11.860 security frameworks

00:40:12.840 and AI assurance programs

00:40:14.640 and these enable

00:40:17.620 digital ID enforcement,

00:40:19.400 biometric surveillance,

00:40:20.740 smart city monitoring

00:40:21.800 and centralized behavioral tracking.

00:40:25.400 And to me,

00:40:26.180 like I've mentioned

00:40:26.840 at the bottom,

00:40:27.640 it just looks like

00:40:28.440 a foundation

00:40:29.220 of a social control grid.

00:40:32.560 I mean,

00:40:32.860 it is.

00:40:33.840 Yeah.

00:40:34.880 Yeah.

00:40:35.600 I mean,

00:40:35.780 that's the reason

00:40:36.320 that they're doing it.

00:40:37.320 If they didn't give them

00:40:38.600 extra control over society,

00:40:39.980 what would be the point of it?

00:40:40.980 Exactly.

00:40:41.980 And I looked up

00:40:42.840 about Pragmatic Semiconductor

00:40:44.840 and sorry for using

00:40:45.700 wiki as a source,

00:40:47.200 but you know,

00:40:47.920 it gives the old,

00:40:49.520 it gives the download

00:40:50.740 a bit easier for this.

00:40:52.720 It's a UK-based

00:40:53.840 flexible microchip maker

00:40:55.660 with its headquarters

00:40:56.560 located in Cambridge.

00:40:57.680 It recently received

00:41:00.080 £128 million in total

00:41:02.520 and it's the largest ever

00:41:05.660 financing for

00:41:06.740 European chip company

00:41:08.280 and it was founded in 2010.

00:41:11.880 So it's been going on

00:41:13.260 for quite a while

00:41:13.960 and it's an ultra low cost

00:41:16.320 flexible integrated

00:41:17.860 circuits technology.

00:41:20.760 They're thinner than a human hair,

00:41:23.300 can be bent

00:41:24.240 and are able to be embedded

00:41:25.960 inside objects

00:41:27.180 like product packaging

00:41:28.640 and they are then assessed

00:41:30.880 through radio interference technology

00:41:32.900 and I didn't quite know

00:41:34.080 what that was.

00:41:35.040 I'd never heard of it before.

00:41:36.520 The RFID.

00:41:37.940 Yeah, I'd never really

00:41:39.100 looked into it as much.

00:41:40.680 These are the chips

00:41:41.560 in your passports and stuff, right?

00:41:43.400 Yeah, I believe so, yeah.

00:41:45.060 And whilst I was looking

00:41:46.520 through that,

00:41:47.280 there were some things

00:41:48.040 that I was reading

00:41:48.900 that I thought

00:41:49.820 was a little bit scary.

00:41:52.460 It says RFID uses

00:41:53.960 electromagnetic fields

00:41:55.140 to automatically identify

00:41:56.640 and track tags

00:41:58.040 attached to objects.

00:42:00.220 An RFID system

00:42:02.000 consists of a tiny radio transponder

00:42:04.360 called a tag,

00:42:05.680 a radio receiver

00:42:06.760 and a transmitter.

00:42:08.220 When triggered

00:42:08.880 by an electromagnetic

00:42:09.960 interrogation pulse

00:42:11.460 from a nearby RFID reader device,

00:42:14.920 the tag transmits

00:42:15.980 digital data,

00:42:17.400 usually an identifying

00:42:18.900 inventory number,

00:42:20.580 back to a reader.

00:42:22.940 A primary RFID security concern

00:42:26.060 is the illicit tracking

00:42:27.620 of RFID tags.

00:42:29.900 Tags which are

00:42:30.780 world-readable

00:42:32.500 pose a risk

00:42:33.700 to both personal location privacy

00:42:36.420 and corporate

00:42:37.700 slash military security.

00:42:39.960 So they're all already

00:42:41.340 talking about how

00:42:42.560 it's a bit dodgy.

00:42:45.580 Yeah.

00:42:45.900 It's going to be used

00:42:46.520 to track you

00:42:47.020 across the world,

00:42:47.760 potentially.

00:42:48.460 Essentially.

00:42:48.860 The readers can potentially

00:42:51.040 use RFID information

00:42:52.600 to identify or track packages,

00:42:54.360 persons, carriers

00:42:55.300 or the contents of a package.

00:42:57.480 Several prototype systems

00:42:58.900 are being developed

00:42:59.700 to combat

00:43:00.560 unauthorized reading

00:43:02.220 including RFID signal

00:43:04.820 interruption

00:43:05.460 as well as the possibility

00:43:06.920 of legislation

00:43:08.020 and 700 scientific papers

00:43:09.800 have been published

00:43:10.440 on this matter

00:43:11.220 since 2002.

00:43:13.780 So there's plenty,

00:43:15.900 well, you've got plenty

00:43:17.080 of reading out there

00:43:18.180 to look into

00:43:19.560 what's being done

00:43:20.540 but I thought it was interesting

00:43:22.260 to bring up

00:43:22.860 the 60 million funding.

00:43:25.700 Some of that was exempt,

00:43:27.660 I must say,

00:43:28.520 from that

00:43:28.940 Freedom of Information request

00:43:30.780 because we might,

00:43:32.760 well, because we're

00:43:33.780 competing with

00:43:34.960 the likes of China,

00:43:36.140 the EU,

00:43:36.840 and America,

00:43:38.100 they didn't release

00:43:39.600 some of the information

00:43:41.520 because it was

00:43:42.740 commercial interests.

00:43:44.860 So there's some

00:43:45.520 conflict there.

00:43:48.180 But yeah,

00:43:49.600 essentially,

00:43:50.300 digital ID

00:43:50.920 is basically

00:43:52.220 already here

00:43:53.240 and unfortunately

00:43:54.480 we are all funding it.

00:43:56.880 So one thing

00:43:57.720 I find interesting

00:43:58.400 about this

00:43:58.720 is the fact

00:43:59.760 that they're so flexible

00:44:01.080 when they put in anything.

00:44:02.800 Essentially,

00:44:03.480 what this is going to be

00:44:04.200 an attempt to do

00:44:05.100 is to identify everything.

00:44:08.160 Yes.

00:44:08.460 So literally everything,

00:44:10.500 every object

00:44:11.260 will be tracked.

00:44:12.540 The point being

00:44:13.540 a massive data harvesting

00:44:14.920 operation.

00:44:16.640 So whatever the central power

00:44:17.920 that is, you know,

00:44:18.720 operating all of this is,

00:44:20.520 we'll basically be able

00:44:21.380 to create a kind of

00:44:22.480 3D map

00:44:24.100 of everything in the world

00:44:26.320 is the purpose of it.

00:44:28.100 Which is,

00:44:28.700 I mean,

00:44:29.120 you've got to admire

00:44:29.940 the scope of what

00:44:31.400 they're asking for.

00:44:32.000 Pretty sure that's the end

00:44:32.600 of the Dark Knight,

00:44:33.400 isn't it?

00:44:34.100 I don't know,

00:44:34.460 I haven't seen it.

00:44:35.660 Oh, fair play.

00:44:36.900 Oh, well,

00:44:37.300 they use phones.

00:44:39.140 I'm not a comic guy.

00:44:40.120 They hack into loads

00:44:41.960 of basically everybody

00:44:43.020 in the city's phones

00:44:44.000 to create a 3D digital

00:44:45.980 real-time map

00:44:47.240 of the city

00:44:48.000 by sending out

00:44:48.680 radio frequencies.

00:44:50.080 And that's basically

00:44:50.780 what they're going to be able

00:44:51.500 to do with all of this.

00:44:52.160 Yes.

00:44:52.480 And even in the film,

00:44:53.860 the guy who sets it up

00:44:55.220 turns to Batman

00:44:56.380 and he's like,

00:44:56.800 this is way too much power

00:44:57.940 for one man.

00:44:58.740 You can't do this

00:44:59.340 because they use it

00:44:59.940 to track down the villains.

00:45:02.600 And he's like,

00:45:02.960 the second that we're done

00:45:04.400 with this,

00:45:04.900 I'm switching this off.

00:45:05.800 You're never using this again.

00:45:06.800 And this is exactly

00:45:07.940 the justification,

00:45:09.000 like you say.

00:45:09.480 It's going to be,

00:45:09.860 well, you know,

00:45:10.360 you've got to worry about crime

00:45:11.460 and immigrants

00:45:12.460 and this,

00:45:13.480 you know,

00:45:13.720 we'll bring it all in

00:45:14.340 and then suddenly

00:45:14.840 the government

00:45:15.220 literally has

00:45:16.020 a virtual

00:45:17.460 but accurate map

00:45:18.860 of everything

00:45:19.460 in the country.

00:45:20.060 And this is why

00:45:21.120 a lot of people

00:45:21.840 are theorizing

00:45:22.660 that it's the reason

00:45:24.180 why politicians

00:45:25.820 are allowing stuff

00:45:27.220 like this to happen

00:45:28.180 to usher in something else. 0.99

00:45:30.580 I hate you just so much. 0.68

00:45:32.080 I know. 0.91

00:45:32.740 And I was reading

00:45:33.540 some of the comments

00:45:34.160 after posting

00:45:35.020 the infrastructure

00:45:37.240 and the 60 million funding.

00:45:39.020 Yeah.

00:45:39.780 And people were just there

00:45:41.520 like,

00:45:42.220 what do we do?

00:45:43.640 What can be done?

00:45:44.520 We can't.

00:45:45.380 There's nothing.

00:45:46.100 It's already here.

00:45:46.920 And I'm sorry to say it.

00:45:50.020 I don't know.

00:45:50.880 I don't really have

00:45:51.940 a solution for opting out

00:45:53.240 of that sort of thing

00:45:53.860 unless you want to go off grid.

00:45:55.380 But I mean,

00:45:57.560 how long are they

00:45:58.080 going to let that happen?

00:45:58.760 Yeah, exactly.

00:46:00.400 Homeschooling's gone.

00:46:01.180 What does that even look like?

00:46:02.400 Yeah.

00:46:03.260 In England.

00:46:03.920 Well, you move to the middle

00:46:05.500 of a tiny woodland

00:46:06.520 and then live like a savage

00:46:08.200 and then the government

00:46:08.960 knocks it down

00:46:09.700 for new builds.

00:46:10.960 It's 10 years ago.

00:46:11.920 You can only have

00:46:12.420 nine chickens as well

00:46:13.620 before they rest you for that.

00:46:14.200 It's literally going to end up

00:46:15.060 being the end of Brave New World

00:46:16.200 where John the Savage

00:46:16.900 runs off into the woods

00:46:19.100 in England somewhere

00:46:20.100 and he's used

00:46:21.400 as a kind of carnival spectacle

00:46:23.460 where, you know,

00:46:24.720 the people from the civilization

00:46:26.040 come and look at the savage man

00:46:27.420 living in nature

00:46:28.720 until he eventually

00:46:29.640 just hangs himself.

00:46:31.040 He doesn't want to be 0.96

00:46:31.520 a spectacle for these people.

00:46:32.840 Well, that's fun.

00:46:34.120 Yeah.

00:46:34.820 So, I know,

00:46:36.380 unfortunately,

00:46:37.400 yeah,

00:46:37.800 after finding out

00:46:38.560 that we're,

00:46:39.160 well, it's not a surprise really

00:46:40.580 that we're already funding

00:46:41.620 the infrastructure

00:46:42.400 and it's out of our pocket,

00:46:44.000 not anything else.

00:46:44.860 It's mental.

00:46:47.180 Yeah.

00:46:47.560 So,

00:46:48.040 Rumble Rants,

00:46:48.840 Dog Breath of Third,

00:46:49.880 while I appreciate

00:46:50.680 We're not reading that one.

00:46:51.440 No, I was going to say,

00:46:52.180 while I appreciate

00:46:52.980 that you sent the $2 in,

00:46:54.420 thank you very much.

00:46:55.220 We definitely can't read that one,

00:46:57.300 but thank you for your support anyway.

00:46:59.180 And Hewitt says,

00:47:00.200 the Dark Knight thing

00:47:00.900 can already be done with 5G.

00:47:02.420 Yeah, that's true,

00:47:03.140 but at least with my phone

00:47:04.220 I can turn it off

00:47:05.040 or I can put it down.

00:47:06.200 I can move away from it.

00:47:07.520 Like, if it's

00:47:08.200 every single item of clothing

00:47:09.820 that you have

00:47:10.400 has one of these,

00:47:11.560 you know,

00:47:12.220 every object.

00:47:13.100 So, even if you personally

00:47:14.940 can, like, walk off,

00:47:16.380 okay, but they still have

00:47:17.120 a map of everything

00:47:18.120 in my house.

00:47:18.760 Like,

00:47:19.860 oh, God, I hear.

00:47:21.380 It's genuinely

00:47:22.280 a cyberpunk dystopia

00:47:23.520 that we're creating.

00:47:25.060 Anyway,

00:47:25.500 so I thought we would

00:47:26.860 talk about

00:47:27.420 the vibe shift

00:47:28.620 because I hear the word

00:47:29.720 vibe shift,

00:47:31.200 well, two words,

00:47:32.020 I suppose,

00:47:32.680 being used a lot

00:47:34.220 and

00:47:34.700 it's never in a

00:47:36.540 consistent way

00:47:37.260 and I thought it was just

00:47:38.300 an interesting thing

00:47:39.240 to talk about

00:47:39.700 because it is true

00:47:40.580 that we are in

00:47:41.440 some sort of

00:47:42.220 transformative position

00:47:43.440 at this point.

00:47:44.580 Things are changing

00:47:45.460 but the world is full

00:47:46.460 of moving pieces

00:47:47.440 and it's hard to see

00:47:49.080 exactly where things end up.

00:47:51.900 I mean,

00:47:52.080 you've got, like,

00:47:52.900 this just post

00:47:54.460 that I found on the internet,

00:47:55.640 no views or anything,

00:47:56.440 but this kind of

00:47:58.060 summarizes it,

00:47:58.600 like,

00:47:59.120 Easter 2024,

00:48:00.500 join the White House

00:48:01.140 as we celebrate

00:48:01.860 Transgender Day of Visibility. 0.93

00:48:03.540 Easter 2025,

00:48:05.080 the White House honors

00:48:05.820 the death of Jesus Christ

00:48:07.000 for the forgiveness of sins.

00:48:08.160 For anyone who is in the UK,

00:48:10.840 you can look at the

00:48:11.760 number 10 Downing Street

00:48:13.660 Twitter page

00:48:14.480 and find,

00:48:15.560 you know,

00:48:16.300 Indian,

00:48:16.920 Muslim,

00:48:17.880 Jewish,

00:48:19.260 Jain,

00:48:21.780 Buddhist, 0.82

00:48:23.160 but no Christian celebrations

00:48:24.660 on there.

00:48:25.420 So,

00:48:26.000 you can see how the division

00:48:27.340 has been drawn between

00:48:28.320 the multi-culti

00:48:29.920 and the native,

00:48:31.480 I suppose.

00:48:31.960 And in America,

00:48:32.920 the native has at least

00:48:33.940 won out on this.

00:48:35.620 So,

00:48:36.100 yeah,

00:48:36.360 that is a vibe shift

00:48:37.860 and that is true,

00:48:39.680 but this isn't like,

00:48:41.780 people are treating

00:48:42.620 these like tidal forces

00:48:43.780 and in a way

00:48:44.580 they kind of are,

00:48:46.120 but it's not

00:48:47.080 one way

00:48:48.160 or permanent

00:48:49.740 or anything like that.

00:48:51.660 And this,

00:48:52.580 I mean,

00:48:52.920 you know,

00:48:53.220 this is a good example.

00:48:55.920 And also,

00:48:56.760 there's a kind of

00:48:57.600 time delay

00:48:58.340 on all of these things.

00:48:59.460 For example,

00:49:00.380 a bunch of video games

00:49:01.560 recently

00:49:02.000 put out

00:49:03.080 video games

00:49:04.280 that are woke,

00:49:05.040 video game producers

00:49:05.920 put out video games

00:49:06.560 that are woke.

00:49:06.980 And they tanked

00:49:08.560 because the vibe

00:49:10.220 was not

00:49:10.760 we want woke video games.

00:49:11.980 In fact,

00:49:12.120 the vibe was

00:49:12.800 we don't want woke video games.

00:49:14.200 But they were like,

00:49:14.720 yeah,

00:49:14.840 but this took us

00:49:15.340 five years to make.

00:49:16.340 So five years ago,

00:49:17.880 you're all for woke.

00:49:18.780 What's happened there?

00:49:19.960 And it's like,

00:49:20.700 yeah,

00:49:20.780 well,

00:49:20.920 the vibe changed.

00:49:22.120 And fair.

00:49:23.120 Okay.

00:49:24.380 Is vibe shift

00:49:25.400 not just another term

00:49:26.780 for woke being put away?

00:49:29.340 That's a form of vibe shift.

00:49:31.780 The vibe shift is...

00:49:33.080 And if it's coming from SNL.

00:49:34.480 Well,

00:49:34.720 that's about as establishment

00:49:36.920 as you can get.

00:49:38.220 Absolutely.

00:49:40.420 That's the description

00:49:41.540 of the vibe shift.

00:49:42.940 So you could have a vibe shift

00:49:44.800 back in,

00:49:45.820 you know,

00:49:46.140 the 10th century,

00:49:47.520 which was against,

00:49:48.540 away from Anglo-Saxonism 0.73

00:49:50.300 and towards Normanism

00:49:51.520 in England.

00:49:52.780 That's,

00:49:53.300 you know,

00:49:53.360 the Anglo-Saxons

00:49:54.160 being put away.

00:49:55.880 The 10th century 0.83

00:49:57.480 or 11th century

00:49:58.880 commentators may have said.

00:50:00.840 So the vibe shift

00:50:03.120 is just the general

00:50:04.480 change in feeling

00:50:05.240 and the sort of

00:50:05.920 moral atmosphere

00:50:06.860 of what is appropriate

00:50:07.780 and what is not appropriate.

00:50:09.480 And as you pointed out there,

00:50:12.080 Harry,

00:50:12.680 Saturday Night Live

00:50:13.760 put out a video.

00:50:15.220 I'm not going to play it

00:50:15.860 just because I don't want

00:50:16.340 to get copyright struck.

00:50:17.680 But in it,

00:50:18.440 a gay couple come along

00:50:19.880 and they have a baby.

00:50:20.880 And all of the straight couples... 0.89

00:50:22.140 Oh, the surrogacy thing.

00:50:23.320 Yeah, so all of the straight couples 0.99

00:50:24.640 are like,

00:50:24.940 where did you get the baby?

00:50:26.620 How did you produce a baby?

00:50:28.800 Wow.

00:50:29.940 Yeah.

00:50:30.580 Yeah.

00:50:31.220 And so,

00:50:32.360 as Helen Joyce here points out,

00:50:33.940 well,

00:50:34.100 the vibe shift is real.

00:50:35.740 And yes,

00:50:37.500 but it's also,

00:50:38.700 like,

00:50:39.320 it's also moving

00:50:40.420 in several different directions

00:50:41.580 because there's no one

00:50:43.960 direction in which it can move.

00:50:47.600 So yeah,

00:50:48.140 the gay dad sketch, 0.78

00:50:49.680 everyone pointed out, 0.93

00:50:51.140 oh my God,

00:50:51.740 you know,

00:50:51.940 how did this get made?

00:50:54.760 This suggests that the,

00:50:56.700 the libs are kind of

00:50:57.900 walking all of this back.

00:50:58.980 And I saw this on LBC today.

00:51:01.760 Tom Swarbeck was laughing

00:51:03.960 at some guy who said that,

00:51:06.080 like, you know,

00:51:07.040 I can't remember what he was calling

00:51:08.080 white supremacy, 0.79

00:51:09.120 but he was calling some nonsense 0.95

00:51:10.340 white supremacy.

00:51:11.380 And Tom was like,

00:51:11.800 oh yeah,

00:51:12.180 here we go.

00:51:12.540 It's like,

00:51:13.020 dude,

00:51:13.180 you've courted this

00:51:13.940 for the last 10 years.

00:51:15.040 What are you talking about?

00:51:16.240 You know,

00:51:16.460 you believe this stuff

00:51:17.520 or at least you did

00:51:18.300 until five minutes ago.

00:51:19.920 Because like I said,

00:51:20.700 the vibe has shifted.

00:51:21.320 So another vibe shift

00:51:23.300 coming up to the UK

00:51:24.440 is that actually

00:51:26.400 more young people

00:51:27.400 are going to church.

00:51:28.960 Of adults surveyed,

00:51:30.280 12% reported

00:51:31.140 that they attended a church

00:51:32.060 of any denomination

00:51:32.820 at least once a month

00:51:33.640 in the last year,

00:51:35.120 compared with,

00:51:35.560 compared with only 8%

00:51:36.920 in 2018,

00:51:38.180 not including weddings,

00:51:39.200 baptisms,

00:51:39.760 christian,

00:51:40.300 christianings,

00:51:40.760 and funerals.

00:51:41.260 So not for any one

00:51:42.560 particular event,

00:51:43.380 but just because they felt

00:51:44.140 like going to church.

00:51:45.580 And so this would suggest

00:51:47.540 a growth from 3.7 million

00:51:49.740 in 2018 to 5.8 million

00:51:51.540 in 2024,

00:51:53.320 a 56% increase.

00:51:54.980 And it is owed largely

00:51:56.680 to younger generations.

00:51:57.920 The Zoomers 1.00

00:52:01.160 are now the second

00:52:02.180 most likely age group

00:52:04.000 to attend church,

00:52:04.780 of course,

00:52:05.140 the other being Boomers.

00:52:07.320 And that's very interesting.

00:52:09.000 So things are changing

00:52:10.120 and it is a vibe shift.

00:52:12.180 And you can see this

00:52:13.180 in some quite stark places.

00:52:18.960 Anything about that

00:52:19.820 that raises eyebrows?

00:52:20.680 I never would have

00:52:25.660 expected somebody

00:52:26.300 to post that.

00:52:27.120 Is that a lightning bolt

00:52:28.780 behind?

00:52:29.540 Okay.

00:52:30.280 Who is posting it?

00:52:33.800 You put a retired 0.95

00:52:34.720 RN and business owner

00:52:38.180 speaker.

00:52:39.180 She's a woman

00:52:40.640 who got famous

00:52:41.400 for accusing Bill Clinton

00:52:42.660 of molesting her.

00:52:44.160 Oh.

00:52:45.260 She has 1.7 million followers

00:52:47.260 and is part of like

00:52:48.140 BoomerCon

00:52:48.860 American

00:52:49.940 media, right?

00:52:51.580 What?

00:52:52.500 And so she has posted...

00:52:53.600 And then she's posting...

00:52:54.760 It's...

00:52:55.560 Yeah.

00:52:57.080 I've...

00:52:57.400 Is that the...

00:52:57.900 That's...

00:52:58.360 Wasn't the lightning bolt?

00:52:59.440 Wasn't that Mosley? 0.98

00:53:00.180 That's the fascist. 0.50

00:53:00.580 I was going to say

00:53:01.240 that was Mosley, wasn't it?

00:53:02.540 Yeah.

00:53:03.320 White Lives Matter 0.90

00:53:04.080 with the fascist symbol.

00:53:05.280 That is 0.82

00:53:06.520 white nationalism.

00:53:08.400 Yeah.

00:53:08.740 Quite blatantly.

00:53:10.320 And that has

00:53:11.020 102,000 likes

00:53:12.540 and 19,000 retweets.

00:53:14.920 Well, again,

00:53:15.400 referring back to the

00:53:16.380 first segment

00:53:17.580 of today's podcast,

00:53:18.780 I think people can see

00:53:19.880 the way in which

00:53:20.720 other communities

00:53:21.560 rally around their own

00:53:22.900 and this has become

00:53:24.880 more and more clear

00:53:26.180 as social media

00:53:27.280 has allowed these incidents

00:53:28.240 to be broadcast

00:53:28.880 and especially more

00:53:30.340 and more clear

00:53:30.880 as body cam footage

00:53:32.380 from police incidents

00:53:33.480 has been broadcast

00:53:34.620 online as well.

00:53:35.660 So people are getting

00:53:36.800 the feeling that

00:53:37.680 maybe it's time

00:53:38.960 that we rally

00:53:39.660 around our own as well

00:53:40.820 and I think that's

00:53:41.400 what's motivating

00:53:42.320 this shift,

00:53:43.040 especially when it's

00:53:43.640 such a tragic

00:53:44.640 and pointless incident.

00:53:45.760 Well, as Tom London

00:53:47.460 or Tim London here,

00:53:48.680 sorry,

00:53:49.480 he represents

00:53:50.660 the kind of

00:53:51.300 previous paradigm,

00:53:52.480 doesn't he?

00:53:53.080 I fully understand

00:53:53.960 this place.

00:53:54.320 We need to play their games

00:53:55.060 however it should read

00:53:55.800 All Lives Matter.

00:53:56.820 That's the commitment

00:53:58.560 to not playing

00:53:59.660 their game.

00:54:00.580 That's the commitment

00:54:01.280 to playing the

00:54:02.020 colourblind,

00:54:02.560 liberal,

00:54:03.320 fresh prince paradigm

00:54:04.600 and, well,

00:54:06.260 it seems that a lot

00:54:07.020 of people,

00:54:07.500 102,000 likes

00:54:09.000 on 1.5 million views

00:54:11.560 so that's a very

00:54:12.220 high proportion.

00:54:13.320 And we're absolutely

00:54:14.220 sure she manages

00:54:15.360 her own account

00:54:16.320 and this wasn't

00:54:17.040 some Zoomer

00:54:17.820 trying to get

00:54:18.280 himself fired.

00:54:19.220 I don't know, man.

00:54:20.480 I mean, it's a popular

00:54:21.500 post.

00:54:22.040 Yeah, I don't know

00:54:22.660 whether she managed

00:54:23.400 her account but,

00:54:24.060 like, the point is

00:54:25.340 it's under her name

00:54:26.180 so you've got to

00:54:26.900 suggest that you've

00:54:27.540 got to have it

00:54:28.720 that she's the

00:54:29.600 ultimate author of it

00:54:31.320 whether she agrees,

00:54:32.180 you know,

00:54:32.360 if she doesn't agree

00:54:32.940 with it,

00:54:33.460 she should take it

00:54:33.980 down and render

00:54:34.660 an apology or something.

00:54:36.040 But I'm not trying

00:54:37.240 to say she has to

00:54:37.960 or anything like that.

00:54:38.600 I'm just saying

00:54:39.080 this is...

00:54:40.400 It's not the sort

00:54:40.560 of thing that you'd

00:54:41.160 expected to see

00:54:42.020 even last year.

00:54:42.880 Exactly.

00:54:43.600 Right.

00:54:44.120 So, this is a...

00:54:45.980 We do appear to be

00:54:47.500 going into a very

00:54:48.440 different place now.

00:54:50.620 But one of the...

00:54:51.380 One of the things

00:54:52.580 about going to this

00:54:53.280 different place

00:54:53.860 is this, right?

00:54:55.940 So, this is a teacher

00:54:57.180 who is reprimanding

00:54:58.340 her students for

00:54:59.220 bullying a kid

00:54:59.880 with a MAGA hat.

00:55:01.060 The kid with a MAGA hat

00:55:01.840 is crying, right?

00:55:03.700 I'm gonna...

00:55:04.560 Do you know how I feel

00:55:05.740 with y'all still?

00:55:06.900 I love that...

00:55:07.560 Oh, I'm just...

00:55:08.860 I'm just...

00:55:09.560 Do y'all hear me?

00:55:11.900 No.

00:55:12.780 Now back to the top quiz!

00:55:14.780 Put your hat back on!

00:55:16.600 What?

00:55:18.140 She spends the entire

00:55:19.480 minute berating

00:55:20.660 the lib students

00:55:22.340 for bullying this kid

00:55:23.320 with the MAGA hat.

00:55:24.700 He's there just

00:55:25.460 on his desk crying

00:55:26.440 and it's like,

00:55:27.860 right, so now MAGA

00:55:28.960 is the crying 0.99

00:55:30.240 wimp who gets 0.99

00:55:32.260 defended by the 1.00

00:55:33.140 angry black teacher 0.96

00:55:34.260 who tells him... 0.97

00:55:35.120 Are we sure that

00:55:35.580 wasn't some kind

00:55:36.300 of sketch

00:55:37.220 or something?

00:55:37.840 Because it comes

00:55:38.640 across like one.

00:55:40.340 Especially with it

00:55:41.160 ending with her

00:55:41.920 saying,

00:55:42.220 put your hat back on!

00:55:43.780 Yeah, I'm not joking.

00:55:44.640 It's not a shift.

00:55:45.840 It's not a sketch.

00:55:47.620 And so,

00:55:48.160 that is...

00:55:48.900 That is very weird

00:55:50.860 and I can...

00:55:52.260 I think there is

00:55:53.540 a distinct

00:55:54.580 vibe shift

00:55:55.280 to the right.

00:55:56.660 A lot of...

00:55:57.560 Seems to be a lot

00:55:58.180 of just evidence

00:55:58.880 for it.

00:55:59.440 And, again,

00:56:01.060 like you said,

00:56:01.480 even a year ago,

00:56:02.240 none of this

00:56:02.660 sort of stuff

00:56:03.060 would have been

00:56:03.640 present anywhere.

00:56:05.920 And I think

00:56:06.460 Twitter has had

00:56:07.180 a lot to do

00:56:07.640 with this.

00:56:07.980 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:09.720 As much as I

00:56:10.460 appreciate Elon Musk

00:56:11.500 allowing the right

00:56:13.060 to express itself

00:56:14.120 on Twitter,

00:56:15.040 I think there is

00:56:15.660 a kind of

00:56:16.180 grimy side

00:56:17.420 to the right

00:56:17.840 that maybe he

00:56:18.480 could have just

00:56:18.880 cleaned up a little bit.

00:56:20.420 But anyway.

00:56:21.820 So, then you've

00:56:23.060 got people saying,

00:56:23.900 well, look,

00:56:24.320 I actually think

00:56:25.140 that the...

00:56:26.280 this is going

00:56:27.580 too far

00:56:28.180 and too fast.

00:56:29.440 Because the

00:56:30.740 great vibe shift

00:56:33.040 towards right-wing

00:56:33.580 politics is actually

00:56:34.320 fading,

00:56:35.280 at least on the

00:56:36.000 outer fringes of it,

00:56:37.980 not due to the left

00:56:38.900 but due to the right

00:56:39.460 itself.

00:56:40.240 This is clearly 1.00

00:56:40.780 stupid, 1.00

00:56:41.380 off-putting and 1.00

00:56:41.860 incoherent to normal

00:56:42.580 people,

00:56:43.040 just for vibes

00:56:43.720 and edgelordism,

00:56:44.580 which can be fun

00:56:45.240 but isn't serious

00:56:45.980 and is unstable

00:56:46.780 for politics.

00:56:47.700 And so,

00:56:48.080 this is then

00:56:49.420 a response,

00:56:51.140 like a lot of

00:56:51.840 these things are

00:56:52.320 a response,

00:56:53.240 to various

00:56:54.620 silly things

00:56:55.640 that people 0.66

00:56:56.380 in positions of

00:56:57.420 power on the

00:56:58.040 right have been

00:56:58.640 saying.

00:56:59.440 which of course

00:57:00.080 turn off

00:57:00.740 a lot of

00:57:00.980 normies.

00:57:01.440 The apex

00:57:03.060 point of this

00:57:04.120 is Trump

00:57:04.600 suggesting he's

00:57:05.480 going to annex

00:57:05.900 Canada.

00:57:07.140 Not very

00:57:07.980 diplomatic

00:57:08.460 and not very

00:57:09.320 wise.

00:57:10.240 But you've

00:57:10.440 got here

00:57:10.980 Nick Fuentes,

00:57:12.820 acolyte running

00:57:13.380 for governor

00:57:13.800 of California

00:57:14.480 on a platform

00:57:15.460 of deporting

00:57:16.200 all male

00:57:17.080 undocumented

00:57:17.660 immigrants,

00:57:18.260 which I agree

00:57:18.760 with,

00:57:19.420 and then giving

00:57:19.800 all the females 0.98

00:57:20.420 one year to

00:57:20.940 marry a Californian

00:57:21.900 incel to avoid

00:57:22.700 deportation.

00:57:24.040 Deportation,

00:57:24.520 even.

00:57:26.500 And is that,

00:57:27.100 it just feels

00:57:28.600 like a

00:57:28.940 feminist policy.

00:57:30.760 I mean,

00:57:31.260 that is a

00:57:32.220 feminist,

00:57:32.520 but the point

00:57:33.900 is it's the

00:57:34.900 entire thing,

00:57:35.680 right?

00:57:35.900 It's like

00:57:36.520 right-wing

00:57:37.500 politics is

00:57:38.060 not being

00:57:38.480 treated as

00:57:39.980 cocktail party

00:57:40.900 politics now.

00:57:41.780 It's being

00:57:42.300 treated as

00:57:43.300 lowbrow and

00:57:45.160 it's not

00:57:45.700 treated,

00:57:46.260 it's being

00:57:46.420 projected as

00:57:47.340 lowbrow and

00:57:48.340 unappealing,

00:57:49.860 and it's

00:57:50.520 having effects.

00:57:51.520 Like the

00:57:51.840 tariffs,

00:57:52.520 for example,

00:57:53.820 should have

00:57:54.380 been done

00:57:54.880 very surgically

00:57:55.700 and gradually

00:57:56.460 as well.

00:57:57.360 You know,

00:57:57.560 if Trump

00:57:58.000 has said,

00:57:58.320 look,

00:57:58.400 I'm not going

00:57:58.700 to do too

00:57:58.960 much,

00:57:59.160 I'm just

00:57:59.360 going to

00:57:59.480 put a

00:57:59.700 10%

00:58:00.020 tariff on

00:58:00.460 China,

00:58:01.140 and then

00:58:01.280 20%

00:58:01.720 next year,

00:58:02.400 or next

00:58:03.000 month,

00:58:03.460 then 30%,

00:58:04.180 then by the

00:58:04.800 end of the

00:58:05.040 year,

00:58:05.240 it's 60%.

00:58:06.240 Like,

00:58:06.580 if you're a

00:58:06.920 businessman,

00:58:07.260 you're like,

00:58:07.520 look,

00:58:07.660 I think he's

00:58:08.100 going to keep

00:58:08.460 doing this,

00:58:08.800 I'm just

00:58:08.960 going to get

00:58:09.200 out of

00:58:09.400 China,

00:58:09.660 right?

00:58:09.840 And so,

00:58:10.140 if your

00:58:10.680 point was

00:58:11.060 to immiserate

00:58:11.860 China,

00:58:12.920 it would be

00:58:13.240 more sensible

00:58:13.680 to do it

00:58:14.060 in a slower

00:58:14.720 and more

00:58:15.140 controlled way,

00:58:16.140 but instead,

00:58:17.060 the Trump

00:58:17.300 administration

00:58:17.700 went in

00:58:18.120 with bulls

00:58:18.620 in a China

00:58:19.080 shop,

00:58:19.800 and just

00:58:20.100 started

00:58:20.260 smashing

00:58:20.580 stuff.

00:58:21.300 Well,

00:58:21.460 I agree

00:58:22.060 on the

00:58:22.300 tariff

00:58:22.620 stuff.

00:58:23.580 But with

00:58:24.420 this,

00:58:25.180 I mean,

00:58:26.120 let me just

00:58:26.560 see here,

00:58:28.720 like,

00:58:28.900 who the

00:58:29.380 hell is 0.99

00:58:29.780 this

00:58:30.180 Kyle

00:58:31.080 Langford

00:58:31.660 guy?

00:58:32.140 It's just

00:58:32.340 the guy

00:58:32.500 running

00:58:32.760 the government

00:58:33.680 of California.

00:58:33.980 Who's this

00:58:34.300 woman 0.99

00:58:34.580 interviewing him?

00:58:35.280 They're just

00:58:35.880 nobodies,

00:58:36.340 right?

00:58:36.560 Yeah,

00:58:36.740 because,

00:58:37.280 who cares

00:58:39.300 about this

00:58:39.920 guy and

00:58:40.400 some joke

00:58:41.060 platform

00:58:41.700 that he's

00:58:42.080 running on

00:58:42.520 that's never

00:58:42.920 going to get

00:58:43.320 any more

00:58:43.720 than,

00:58:44.040 like,

00:58:44.320 100 votes

00:58:45.060 anyway?

00:58:45.680 2.1 million

00:58:46.340 people and

00:58:46.780 9,000 people

00:58:47.480 have liked

00:58:47.840 it,

00:58:48.100 right?

00:58:48.260 So it's not

00:58:49.120 that he

00:58:50.020 himself is

00:58:50.640 important.

00:58:51.100 I don't

00:58:51.780 think it's

00:58:53.100 of interest

00:58:54.020 to the

00:58:54.640 right to

00:58:55.200 be highlighting

00:58:56.020 this sort

00:58:56.400 of stuff

00:58:56.680 themselves.

00:58:57.220 When you

00:58:57.820 see that

00:58:58.340 the left

00:58:58.780 for the

00:58:59.080 past five

00:58:59.680 years,

00:59:00.140 it's not

00:59:00.520 like every

00:59:01.040 time some

00:59:01.620 Antifa 1.00

00:59:02.180 scumbag 1.00

00:59:03.020 came out 1.00

00:59:03.520 and did

00:59:03.860 or said

00:59:04.240 something

00:59:04.560 terrible,

00:59:05.340 the whole

00:59:05.760 of the

00:59:06.040 mainstream

00:59:06.520 or online

00:59:07.260 left came

00:59:07.900 out and

00:59:09.920 ignored it

00:59:10.140 because it's

00:59:10.540 obviously

00:59:10.920 just some

00:59:11.460 fringe weirdo.

00:59:12.500 That's kind

00:59:12.920 of part of

00:59:13.240 the reason

00:59:13.520 they lost,

00:59:14.240 right?

00:59:14.600 I think it

00:59:16.060 is.

00:59:16.640 I would say

00:59:17.740 it's because

00:59:18.120 of their

00:59:18.600 absolutely

00:59:19.140 abysmal

00:59:19.660 governance

00:59:20.060 and Biden's

00:59:20.960 effect on

00:59:21.340 the economy.

00:59:21.900 That's

00:59:22.100 absolutely

00:59:22.440 part of it.

00:59:24.020 But we

00:59:24.260 were very

00:59:25.020 easily able

00:59:26.560 to tie

00:59:27.320 the extremities

00:59:28.400 of the left

00:59:28.880 to moderate

00:59:30.240 centrist

00:59:30.680 left-wingers

00:59:31.160 because they

00:59:31.620 failed

00:59:32.020 constantly to

00:59:32.860 denounce

00:59:33.340 craziness

00:59:34.420 in their

00:59:34.900 own party

00:59:35.500 and their

00:59:36.040 own platform.

00:59:36.880 Most of

00:59:37.680 those stories

00:59:38.820 really didn't

00:59:39.320 last more

00:59:39.760 than a

00:59:40.320 week or

00:59:40.840 two anyway

00:59:41.360 except for

00:59:42.420 the George

00:59:43.300 Floyd riots.

00:59:44.460 I think there

00:59:45.080 have been quite

00:59:45.520 a few over

00:59:45.940 the years.

00:59:46.760 But the

00:59:47.040 point being

00:59:48.280 is, and I'm

00:59:48.880 not saying the

00:59:49.380 right has to

00:59:49.800 do anything

00:59:50.400 or anything

00:59:50.740 like that,

00:59:51.080 I'm just

00:59:51.300 saying I

00:59:51.960 think that a

00:59:52.480 major problem

00:59:52.980 with the

00:59:53.180 left is it

00:59:53.780 looked crazier

00:59:54.640 than it

00:59:55.020 actually was,

00:59:56.660 especially for

00:59:57.820 people like

00:59:58.500 Obama and

00:59:59.300 things like

00:59:59.660 that, right?

01:00:00.600 They get

01:00:02.400 tarred with

01:00:03.020 the extremist

01:00:03.680 association because

01:00:04.400 he never does

01:00:05.080 anything about

01:00:05.540 the extremists

01:00:06.140 and the left

01:00:07.020 completely courts

01:00:07.740 their own

01:00:08.020 extremists.

01:00:08.520 And I'm

01:00:09.420 not saying

01:00:09.800 that we

01:00:10.100 should or

01:00:10.600 shouldn't do

01:00:11.000 anything,

01:00:11.760 but the

01:00:12.340 right-wing

01:00:13.160 media was

01:00:13.640 able to

01:00:14.500 amplify these

01:00:16.100 things beyond

01:00:16.760 what their

01:00:17.760 actual impact

01:00:18.420 is, and

01:00:19.040 that's what

01:00:19.400 left-wing media

01:00:19.960 is doing with

01:00:20.560 things like

01:00:21.180 this.

01:00:22.000 I just don't

01:00:22.700 think it's

01:00:23.000 productive for

01:00:23.660 the right to

01:00:24.680 go broadcasting

01:00:25.420 this and

01:00:25.800 pearl clutching

01:00:26.500 over some

01:00:27.220 joke that some

01:00:28.020 random nobody

01:00:28.800 said.

01:00:29.280 I'm not saying

01:00:29.780 that we should.

01:00:30.480 I'm saying we

01:00:31.120 should just be

01:00:31.500 aware of what

01:00:32.080 is happening

01:00:32.600 outside of our

01:00:33.600 usual sphere of

01:00:34.780 vision, right?

01:00:35.300 And this is

01:00:36.640 the sort of

01:00:37.020 thing that's

01:00:37.320 happening, and

01:00:37.720 this is just

01:00:38.120 an example, but

01:00:39.520 like I say, you

01:00:40.280 get other ones

01:00:40.960 and so you get

01:00:42.740 a bunch of

01:00:44.380 elites who

01:00:45.060 kind of threw

01:00:45.520 their hat in

01:00:46.260 with the

01:00:46.700 Magosphere.

01:00:47.400 Oh no, Nathan

01:00:48.800 Kofnus, oh no. 1.00

01:00:49.900 Yeah, I'm not

01:00:50.900 saying that these

01:00:52.220 are people that I

01:00:53.100 necessarily care

01:00:53.780 about, but what

01:00:54.980 I was...

01:00:55.160 He's one of the

01:00:55.460 HBD centrists,

01:00:56.820 isn't he?

01:00:57.340 Yes, he's very

01:00:58.820 much one of those.

01:00:59.400 Along with

01:00:59.720 everybody's favourite

01:01:00.520 Richard Hanania.

01:01:02.040 We will get to...

01:01:03.320 Oh no, you've

01:01:03.920 not got Hanania

01:01:04.800 in there, do you?

01:01:05.400 I personally don't

01:01:06.240 have him in there

01:01:06.800 because I have him

01:01:08.180 blocked, because I

01:01:09.020 don't see why

01:01:09.500 anyone would hear

01:01:10.220 from him.

01:01:10.860 But the point

01:01:12.820 being is that

01:01:13.780 they're trying to

01:01:14.500 lead a vibe shift

01:01:15.380 away from the

01:01:16.160 right, and they

01:01:17.500 do have arguments

01:01:18.740 that can be

01:01:19.420 persuasive to

01:01:20.100 people who are

01:01:20.620 not already

01:01:21.780 invested.

01:01:22.840 And so, I

01:01:23.760 mean, he makes

01:01:24.560 a point here at

01:01:25.640 the end saying,

01:01:26.640 if I'd known that

01:01:27.440 MAGA would become

01:01:28.120 a poverty cult

01:01:29.020 obsessed with

01:01:29.600 bringing Chinese

01:01:30.260 sweatshops to the

01:01:30.880 US, I would have

01:01:31.900 supported DEI

01:01:32.820 Kamala.

01:01:34.320 So, all of the

01:01:35.540 bad things that

01:01:36.140 the left would

01:01:36.680 have done

01:01:37.180 don't matter.

01:01:38.640 However, as far

01:01:39.500 as I'm aware,

01:01:40.000 no one anticipated

01:01:40.940 Trump would declare

01:01:41.660 war on every other

01:01:42.480 country on Earth

01:01:43.060 and tank the economy

01:01:43.940 for no reason.

01:01:44.880 The problem isn't

01:01:45.440 Trump, it's that

01:01:46.120 the American so-called

01:01:46.920 right has become a 1.00

01:01:47.680 coalition of stupid 1.00

01:01:48.360 people from across 1.00

01:01:49.080 the political spectrum.

01:01:50.280 It's not just that

01:01:50.960 either, it's that

01:01:52.020 the American right,

01:01:52.880 and just the right

01:01:53.580 more broadly with

01:01:54.180 its victories, has

01:01:55.260 been less restrained

01:01:57.320 than it ought to

01:01:57.960 have been.

01:01:58.700 It ought to have

01:01:59.980 come in and said,

01:02:01.960 right, now we are in

01:02:02.680 charge, we're going

01:02:03.360 to fix problems.

01:02:04.800 Instead, there's

01:02:05.440 been a lot of

01:02:05.960 fury and noise

01:02:07.160 about how we're

01:02:09.260 going to dunk

01:02:09.880 on people, and

01:02:11.200 okay, that's fun,

01:02:13.120 but it also has

01:02:14.040 consequences.

01:02:14.960 And one of the

01:02:15.400 consequences is it

01:02:16.540 turns off those

01:02:17.140 people who were

01:02:18.240 sort of fair-weather

01:02:19.080 coalition members,

01:02:20.220 and you might think,

01:02:20.820 well, why do we need

01:02:21.380 them?

01:02:21.620 It's like, well, you

01:02:22.060 needed them to win.

01:02:23.340 And if you expect

01:02:24.760 this movement to

01:02:26.160 have a legacy, you'll

01:02:28.160 need them to be able

01:02:28.940 to be the ones

01:02:29.900 writing the legacy.

01:02:31.320 I will say, as

01:02:32.320 much as, there are

01:02:33.000 parts of this

01:02:33.580 analysis, actually,

01:02:34.540 reading through it

01:02:35.300 that I don't disagree

01:02:37.120 with.

01:02:37.600 However, I will say,

01:02:38.400 I really dislike this

01:02:39.660 whole intellectual

01:02:42.500 peacocking that people

01:02:43.960 like Kofnus do, where 1.00

01:02:45.020 they constantly like to

01:02:45.940 try to signal that

01:02:46.860 I'm high IQ, I'm high

01:02:48.480 IQ, I'm high IQ,

01:02:49.560 because you know that

01:02:50.560 the people who are the

01:02:51.660 smartest in the room

01:02:52.480 are the ones that

01:02:52.980 constantly have to

01:02:53.660 reaffirm to you and

01:02:54.740 themselves that they

01:02:55.820 have the highest IQ

01:02:56.780 in the room.

01:02:57.340 I don't necessarily

01:02:58.840 disagree that parts

01:03:00.480 of MAGA has become

01:03:01.480 a coalition of 1.00

01:03:02.480 stupid people. 1.00

01:03:03.380 No offence to the 1.00

01:03:04.620 MAGA people watching

01:03:05.800 this right now.

01:03:07.100 I'm saying there are

01:03:07.600 parts of the

01:03:09.200 coalition.

01:03:10.020 But here where he

01:03:10.560 starts to say...

01:03:11.100 Just a quick thing,

01:03:11.640 I've got Cat Turd

01:03:12.760 blocked as well.

01:03:13.680 I've got Richard

01:03:14.180 Hanania and Cat 0.59

01:03:15.080 Turd blocked.

01:03:15.840 They're both net

01:03:16.600 deficits to the MAGA

01:03:17.460 movement, you know?

01:03:18.500 But here, at the

01:03:19.320 lowest IQ levels, the

01:03:20.600 left and right converge

01:03:21.620 on fascism.

01:03:22.220 What you're revealing

01:03:23.600 to me there, Nathan,

01:03:24.600 is that you are just 1.00

01:03:25.700 a boilerplate shitlib 0.99

01:03:27.120 who's read some 0.97

01:03:27.920 biology and likes to

01:03:30.680 read into IQ literature

01:03:31.940 so that you can make

01:03:32.820 yourself feel smart

01:03:34.200 because MAGA, sorry,

01:03:36.360 is about the furthest

01:03:37.560 thing from fascism

01:03:39.040 apart from personality

01:03:41.280 cult.

01:03:42.340 Apart from...

01:03:43.460 If you want to call it 0.72

01:03:44.720 the gayest, most liberal, 1.00

01:03:46.940 fascist personality cult 1.00

01:03:48.640 that history has ever

01:03:50.180 seen, maybe then,

01:03:52.300 but it's not fascism.

01:03:53.420 I mean, come on,

01:03:54.380 you are revealing your

01:03:55.500 own blind spots and 1.00

01:03:56.800 stupidity by making a 1.00

01:03:58.200 statement like that, 1.00

01:03:59.080 by trying to imply that

01:03:59.980 MAGA is fascist.

01:04:02.000 But one thing that he's 0.88

01:04:03.260 pointing out, and he

01:04:04.360 points out at the end,

01:04:04.980 is that MAGA won without

01:04:07.900 being culturally mature,

01:04:10.340 right?

01:04:10.940 And so this kind of

01:04:12.040 cultural effervescence we 0.99

01:04:13.560 see coming out of MAGA,

01:04:14.600 which is doing damage to

01:04:17.240 America's soft power, if

01:04:19.140 nothing else, and it's

01:04:21.180 cultural influence and

01:04:22.420 relevance, is it is

01:04:25.080 definitely a critique

01:04:27.040 worth hearing, even if

01:04:28.320 it's from someone you

01:04:28.860 don't like.

01:04:29.460 I mean, I absolutely

01:04:30.140 agree that the way

01:04:33.340 that the administration

01:04:34.080 has been dealing

01:04:35.920 rhetorically with its

01:04:36.880 own allies, particularly

01:04:38.000 those in Europe, the

01:04:39.520 past few months, has

01:04:40.700 been openly antagonistic.

01:04:42.580 They're treating us like

01:04:43.460 enemies, and you can say

01:04:44.740 what you want about the

01:04:45.680 actual governments of

01:04:46.940 Europe.

01:04:47.460 I have plenty of

01:04:48.760 problems with them.

01:04:49.200 Treat the governments of

01:04:49.840 Europe like enemies?

01:04:50.420 Sure, I consider them

01:04:51.660 enemies, but the people

01:04:52.520 themselves...

01:04:52.900 But even then, if you

01:04:54.640 can recognize that the

01:04:55.560 governance of Europe is

01:04:56.660 not great right now, you

01:04:58.000 do still, as part of a

01:05:00.040 Western coalition, need to

01:05:02.500 treat them responsibly if

01:05:04.500 you want to be able to

01:05:05.360 make any reasonable

01:05:06.020 change with them.

01:05:06.760 If you put them on the

01:05:07.460 back foot straight away

01:05:08.380 and treat them like

01:05:09.020 enemies, you're going to

01:05:10.060 do a very poor job of

01:05:11.160 convincing them around

01:05:12.180 to your side.

01:05:13.100 I mean, they literally

01:05:14.440 did all of this back to

01:05:15.560 front, right?

01:05:16.120 Like, if you want to go on

01:05:18.140 a full-scale tariff war,

01:05:19.880 against China, I'm 0.98

01:05:22.160 completely for it.

01:05:23.740 Don't attack all of your

01:05:24.800 allies first, and they'll

01:05:27.160 be like, right, guys, we're

01:05:27.980 going to get around and

01:05:28.580 have a trade war with

01:05:29.880 China.

01:05:30.340 They don't want to have a 0.82

01:05:31.360 trade war with China now.

01:05:32.820 They want to have a trade

01:05:33.560 war with America, and 0.75

01:05:34.840 they're looking at China as

01:05:36.220 being the place of

01:05:37.120 stability.

01:05:37.960 So you did this exactly the

01:05:39.140 wrong way.

01:05:39.440 You should have been like,

01:05:40.000 right, guys, we're in

01:05:41.080 charge.

01:05:41.400 We love Europe.

01:05:41.960 We love you guys.

01:05:42.620 We're going to have a

01:05:43.000 trade war with China.

01:05:43.880 We're going to win it.

01:05:44.820 Make everyone commit to

01:05:46.040 you and not China while 0.90

01:05:47.640 they're in your good books

01:05:49.120 and while you're in their

01:05:49.840 good books. 1.00

01:05:50.480 You've got to kill them 1.00

01:05:51.060 with kindness. 1.00

01:05:51.720 Exactly.

01:05:52.540 You know, butter them up,

01:05:53.480 bring them over, and then

01:05:55.140 engage the trade war.

01:05:56.800 And then after they're

01:05:58.020 committed, they're like,

01:05:58.620 yep, no, we're definitely

01:05:59.400 working with America and not 0.96

01:06:00.840 China.

01:06:01.180 Then be like, right, now you

01:06:02.280 all have to change.

01:06:03.020 I want those hate speech

01:06:04.260 laws repealed.

01:06:04.800 I want this.

01:06:05.340 I want that.

01:06:05.820 Because they're already

01:06:06.460 committed and they've got

01:06:07.060 nowhere else to go.

01:06:08.080 They've just declared China

01:06:08.920 an end, but instead MAGA did

01:06:09.980 this the other way around.

01:06:11.400 And so now it's put itself

01:06:12.420 in a position of profound

01:06:13.220 weakness and Trump had to

01:06:14.300 back down from his trade

01:06:16.800 war on China, which it 1.00

01:06:18.180 didn't have to be this way.

01:06:19.120 I think the tariffs against

01:06:20.320 China are still in place, 0.98

01:06:21.700 or have they been...

01:06:22.300 Well, Trump's asked China

01:06:23.680 for negotiations.

01:06:24.800 China also did ask Trump

01:06:27.240 to lift tariffs on certain

01:06:28.880 other products as well.

01:06:30.020 So it's not that China are

01:06:31.440 just in some unassailable

01:06:32.480 position.

01:06:33.380 It's just who can play

01:06:34.880 chicken the most securely,

01:06:36.880 right?

01:06:37.180 Who's bravest?

01:06:38.160 With regards to the

01:06:39.080 cultural shift, do you guys

01:06:41.820 see it downstreaming towards

01:06:43.460 Europe at all?

01:06:44.940 Because I know with X and

01:06:46.620 everything being opened up

01:06:48.300 and we're seeing a lot of

01:06:49.440 this stuff on our

01:06:50.380 timelines now, like you've

01:06:52.160 been pointing out, do you

01:06:54.040 see in the foreseeable

01:06:55.600 future that that might

01:06:56.740 actually transition to

01:06:57.960 over here?

01:06:58.720 I think it's just undamaged

01:07:00.340 here, to be honest.

01:07:01.580 I think MAGA's sort of

01:07:03.800 explosive power has just

01:07:05.600 made it more difficult to

01:07:06.500 be right-wing in Europe

01:07:07.440 and Canada.

01:07:08.220 Well, on the ground for me,

01:07:09.960 being younger than both

01:07:12.000 of you, I will say...

01:07:15.220 That was a deal.

01:07:15.820 How old are you?

01:07:16.880 I'm 31.

01:07:17.660 Oh, really?

01:07:18.080 He's an old man. 0.95

01:07:19.960 My granddad.

01:07:20.880 Sorry, go on.

01:07:22.300 My whippersnapper.

01:07:23.560 I personally see the Gen 0.97

01:07:26.000 Z split by gender the 0.97

01:07:27.980 same way that you see

01:07:28.720 reported...

01:07:29.320 Connor has done a lot of

01:07:30.280 work reporting on this,

01:07:31.820 where all of my male

01:07:33.960 friends are far more

01:07:37.080 right-wing than all of the

01:07:38.300 women. 0.81

01:07:38.840 Even my male friends who

01:07:41.060 come from leftist

01:07:42.660 family backgrounds have

01:07:44.880 all shifted to the right

01:07:46.960 because it's become

01:07:47.860 impossible not to see the

01:07:48.960 problems that we're

01:07:49.680 facing, and they accept

01:07:51.160 all of that.

01:07:51.900 A lot of the women are 1.00

01:07:53.200 still remaining committed

01:07:55.740 leftists, and some of

01:07:56.980 them are going further to

01:07:58.380 the left in response to

01:08:00.340 MAGA and what they see as

01:08:02.200 the rise of fascism,

01:08:04.000 et cetera, et cetera,

01:08:04.600 which they've had drummed

01:08:06.280 into their heads.

01:08:06.820 I've seen that exactly

01:08:08.180 the same with my

01:08:09.120 friendship groups and

01:08:10.340 old friendship groups

01:08:11.280 that I used to hang

01:08:12.240 around with.

01:08:13.440 And I think it's because

01:08:14.520 the establishment and the

01:08:15.700 Westminster class, the

01:08:16.900 bubble, have all adopted

01:08:18.380 progressivism.

01:08:19.940 And then when you have

01:08:20.560 the outsider bubble say,

01:08:22.060 actually, I don't like

01:08:22.860 that, it's seen as like a

01:08:24.460 threat almost.

01:08:26.180 So it's purposely pushing

01:08:27.860 people to a more Paul

01:08:29.760 Embry-style politics,

01:08:32.040 where it's like blue

01:08:33.220 labor almost.

01:08:34.260 The problem, though, is

01:08:37.120 that if Trump has to

01:08:39.340 climb down from the

01:08:40.220 trade war and essentially

01:08:41.420 scared all the hoes all 1.00

01:08:43.320 around the world that the

01:08:44.960 global economy is going to

01:08:46.640 collapse, that weakens our

01:08:48.580 argument.

01:08:49.060 So if we say, look, we

01:08:49.860 would like to go into a

01:08:50.920 more patriotic direction,

01:08:52.380 they'll just run to the

01:08:53.780 end of this line and say,

01:08:54.800 right, you want to crash

01:08:55.620 the economy, you want to

01:08:56.300 do this, which, of course,

01:08:57.240 is not what I would like.

01:08:58.900 But it hasn't helped.

01:09:00.000 Do you think, though, the

01:09:01.160 rhetoric in Europe is

01:09:02.580 slightly different to

01:09:04.300 America and, let's say,

01:09:05.440 North America, well,

01:09:06.560 Canada, sorry, is what I 0.54

01:09:07.700 mean.

01:09:08.200 Do you find that the

01:09:09.000 rhetoric involving with

01:09:10.820 topics such as

01:09:11.800 immigration and, you know,

01:09:13.800 the idea of, obviously,

01:09:15.480 re-migration or, you

01:09:16.960 know, talking about

01:09:18.160 replacement migration has

01:09:19.480 shifted a lot more in

01:09:20.500 Europe than it has in

01:09:21.420 America, despite this

01:09:23.160 vibe shift?

01:09:25.540 The Americans are still 0.99

01:09:26.360 very fixated on legal and

01:09:27.960 illegal immigration,

01:09:29.780 whereas in Europe, I

01:09:31.100 think people are just

01:09:31.740 immigration.

01:09:32.800 Yeah.

01:09:33.900 Yeah, I think on the

01:09:34.920 continent, you can see

01:09:35.820 even the social

01:09:36.400 democratic countries of

01:09:37.920 Scandinavia, that they

01:09:39.720 want them out.

01:09:41.660 Germany is really 0.98

01:09:43.060 struggling to prevent the

01:09:44.540 AFD rising because they

01:09:46.140 want them out.

01:09:47.260 In France, they've been

01:09:48.560 subject, the same as

01:09:49.860 Germany, subject to so 0.94

01:09:50.780 many terror attacks that

01:09:52.200 there is a sizable base of

01:09:54.380 people who want them out.

01:09:56.120 And the continent, if it

01:09:57.760 weren't for the fact that

01:09:58.980 there's been the post-war

01:10:00.320 firewall against right-wing

01:10:02.000 parties, which is still

01:10:03.360 trying to keep itself

01:10:04.520 together, if there were

01:10:06.080 real right-wing parties

01:10:07.820 allowed into Germany or

01:10:09.780 France into the positions

01:10:11.020 of power, I think we

01:10:12.500 would see that the

01:10:13.700 feeling on the continent

01:10:14.720 is pretty extreme.

01:10:19.320 It would be a lot more

01:10:19.800 hardcore than it is now.

01:10:21.020 Yes.

01:10:21.480 But the reason I bring

01:10:22.880 this up is because

01:10:23.420 Michelle Goldberg at the

01:10:24.980 New York Times wrote this

01:10:26.200 article, the vibe shifts

01:10:28.580 against the right.

01:10:29.740 And I think this is

01:10:30.580 something to be sensitive

01:10:32.460 towards because, remember,

01:10:34.600 the left, up until about

01:10:36.360 six months, well, two or

01:10:37.320 three months ago, had

01:10:38.360 completely collapsed, right?

01:10:39.560 The moral legitimacy of the

01:10:40.760 left had collapsed.

01:10:41.940 But what the Trump

01:10:43.600 administration's sort of

01:10:44.740 mishandling of the first

01:10:45.840 couple of months of their

01:10:46.920 own premiership does is

01:10:49.220 give the left time to 0.75

01:10:51.140 recover and time to find

01:10:52.940 their footing, find to lay

01:10:55.100 legitimate criticisms on

01:10:56.980 them, which isn't actually

01:10:58.500 helping anyone and is

01:10:59.620 actually just helping the

01:11:00.740 left.

01:11:01.200 I think it's important to

01:11:02.200 point out as well that the

01:11:03.360 mishandling that you're

01:11:04.280 talking about has mainly

01:11:05.160 been on the geopolitical

01:11:06.460 stage.

01:11:06.960 It's been very, very recent

01:11:08.660 stuff as well.

01:11:09.360 I mean, there's lots about

01:11:11.040 the Trump administration that

01:11:12.000 I praise.

01:11:12.500 I love Stephen Miller.

01:11:13.420 I love Tom Homan.

01:11:14.840 I love the, no, we're just

01:11:16.280 going to catapult every

01:11:17.680 illegal over the border.

01:11:19.700 Southern border crossings

01:11:20.640 being reduced to such a

01:11:21.940 ridiculous extent as we 0.66

01:11:23.000 looked at last week is only

01:11:24.260 a positive thing.

01:11:25.220 Yeah.

01:11:25.380 And there are a bunch of

01:11:26.260 other things that the

01:11:27.360 Trump administration plans

01:11:28.520 to do as well.

01:11:29.300 But for some reason, coming

01:11:30.700 in with such an aggressive

01:11:31.800 diplomatic posture, I think

01:11:33.100 has really hurt them and

01:11:34.480 it's hurt us too.

01:11:35.700 So it's, it's not been

01:11:37.320 great, I have to say.

01:11:38.680 And one thing that it's

01:11:41.180 important to be sensitive

01:11:42.540 to is the kind of consensus

01:11:46.680 politics of the left and as

01:11:49.740 you were saying, Harry

01:11:50.360 women, which is feeling the 1.00

01:11:53.320 vibes.

01:11:54.180 What are people feeling?

01:11:55.360 And you've got people like

01:11:56.400 Alex Kastucha.

01:11:58.620 I can't pronounce that

01:11:59.560 properly, but I've been on

01:12:01.320 her podcast.

01:12:01.940 It was apparently a right

01:12:02.600 wing podcast, but she's 0.98

01:12:03.440 decided actually, I do want

01:12:04.760 the left to trans my kids.

01:12:07.000 She's decided that, quote,

01:12:09.500 the vibe is shifting yet

01:12:10.500 again.

01:12:11.120 The cumulative IQ of the

01:12:12.360 right is looking worse than

01:12:13.300 the market.

01:12:14.480 Yeah.

01:12:14.900 It seems to be the tariffs

01:12:15.900 that pushed her over the 0.54

01:12:16.760 edge back into

01:12:18.180 transitioning kids.

01:12:19.900 I would imagine that

01:12:21.080 people like her.

01:12:22.200 Yeah, yeah.

01:12:22.520 I'm just joking.

01:12:23.380 The swings, I would

01:12:24.140 imagine, the swing voter

01:12:25.540 types, I imagine they're

01:12:26.680 just going back to a kind

01:12:27.680 of milk toast.

01:12:28.700 She's not a swing voter. 0.90

01:12:31.720 She's become disillusioned

01:12:33.200 with the right wing movement

01:12:34.020 because to her, what, and

01:12:36.120 the sort of the Curtis

01:12:37.240 Yarvin sort of wing of the

01:12:38.420 right is being right wing is

01:12:41.080 a kind of status signal to

01:12:43.660 say, I'm not just a plebeian 1.00

01:12:45.240 shit lib leftist. 0.99

01:12:46.580 And actually, I'm cool, I'm 0.99

01:12:48.420 edgy, I'm part of something

01:12:49.600 really avant-garde and, you

01:12:52.060 know, cutting edge.

01:12:53.600 And what the MAGA movement

01:12:54.840 has...

01:12:55.200 Now it's mainstream, it's

01:12:55.780 boring.

01:12:57.020 And not just that, but what

01:12:58.420 the MAGA movement has done

01:12:59.420 is because the MAGA movement

01:13:01.280 is so plebeian in its

01:13:03.220 fundamental constitution, it

01:13:05.720 looks that way.

01:13:06.840 It's very belligerent, it's

01:13:08.180 very cat-turned, right?

01:13:10.040 And they're like, oh, wait,

01:13:11.360 you know, these sorts of

01:13:12.980 people are now culturally

01:13:15.520 dominant, but they're cringe 0.97

01:13:17.700 and low IQ and embarrassing 0.98

01:13:19.800 to be around, and so I

01:13:21.440 actually don't want to be

01:13:23.000 associated with them, so I'm

01:13:24.260 not going to be right wing

01:13:25.040 anymore, or I'm going to

01:13:26.380 leave the right, or I'm

01:13:27.180 going to do whatever,

01:13:29.120 right?

01:13:29.240 And there are lots of

01:13:30.020 people who feel this way,

01:13:30.820 and that is a real issue

01:13:32.680 because there are a lot of

01:13:33.260 people who are concerned

01:13:34.700 about this kind of

01:13:35.300 consensus mechanism, as

01:13:36.580 feminine as it is, rather

01:13:38.440 than with what is right and

01:13:39.940 wrong, and this has

01:13:42.140 alienated a bunch of tech

01:13:44.580 bros that supported 0.97

01:13:45.660 Trump, it's alienating

01:13:46.820 sort of the cool kids

01:13:48.200 club that supported MAGA,

01:13:50.560 it does alienate a lot of

01:13:52.720 people, and these are

01:13:54.620 people that you could keep

01:13:55.700 on side with just a bit

01:13:56.720 more finesse in the

01:13:57.920 messaging and the actions,

01:13:59.500 because fundamentally, if

01:14:01.040 MAGA had come in and not 1.00

01:14:03.120 been hyper-aggressive and

01:14:04.960 just said, right, okay,

01:14:05.980 thanks for electing us,

01:14:07.180 we're going to fix the

01:14:07.940 country like we said we

01:14:08.740 would, and then just

01:14:09.800 start deporting millions, 0.98

01:14:11.200 changing a bunch of the

01:14:12.140 laws so kids can't be 0.98

01:14:13.040 trans, do whatever things

01:14:14.160 are, without making a big

01:14:15.880 song and dance about it,

01:14:16.700 the win would have gone

01:14:18.040 on their side and the

01:14:18.900 loss would have gone on

01:14:19.520 the other side, but as

01:14:20.480 it stands now, because of

01:14:21.680 the kind of belligerence of

01:14:23.140 the right, the left is

01:14:24.640 clawing back.

01:14:26.140 I do think to connect it

01:14:27.260 as well, I'm sure you

01:14:29.240 lads agree with this as

01:14:30.300 well, the consistent slop

01:14:32.580 posting as well on the

01:14:34.500 right has definitely

01:14:35.420 contributed towards this

01:14:37.840 gigantic shift.

01:14:38.940 100%.

01:14:39.660 Elon posting slop.

01:14:41.060 Yeah, I'm so bored of it.

01:14:42.280 Don't post this stuff, you

01:14:43.740 know, like, you know,

01:14:45.660 it's for money, it's for

01:14:46.760 monetary gains, it's not

01:14:47.880 for anything substantial

01:14:48.980 anymore, and that's what

01:14:50.240 I, that's, I, I get a bit

01:14:52.460 disillusioned with it,

01:14:53.500 especially like scrolling

01:14:54.340 through my feed, and you

01:14:56.440 know, there are things that

01:14:57.160 pop up that I just didn't

01:14:58.560 want, and I know, I get

01:14:59.960 that, you know, you've, you

01:15:00.960 look for other content and

01:15:02.720 it broadens it, but when

01:15:04.360 it's just like, oh, this

01:15:06.520 person said this at a

01:15:08.640 whatever, how awful, right,

01:15:10.680 and then loads of emojis,

01:15:11.900 what, I don't know, I

01:15:12.800 don't really know.

01:15:13.280 I mean, one, one of the

01:15:14.220 things that we've been

01:15:15.420 trying to do at Lotus

01:15:16.220 Seaters is up our game,

01:15:18.120 right, is to be, yeah, I

01:15:19.580 mean, this is why we dress

01:15:20.300 nicely, you know, and get

01:15:21.240 good guests on.

01:15:23.280 The, the problem, and I

01:15:24.380 think a lot of people have

01:15:25.400 with Twitter at the

01:15:25.940 moment, is that it is just

01:15:28.120 lowest common denominator

01:15:29.520 content churning mill,

01:15:31.120 right?

01:15:31.300 Twitter used to be a kind

01:15:33.540 of aristocratic cloud that

01:15:35.900 was kept clean of this kind

01:15:38.060 of stuff.

01:15:38.840 Now, it had lots of other

01:15:39.880 detriments, but Elon kind

01:15:42.800 of reducing it to lowest

01:15:43.740 common denominator, I mean,

01:15:44.500 I like, I like the fact you

01:15:45.420 can get paid to post on

01:15:46.120 Twitter, but there should be

01:15:47.840 some kind of barrier to

01:15:49.440 entry just to prevent

01:15:51.060 Indian scammers from 1.00

01:15:52.800 forming cabals on there

01:15:54.400 and just, you know, taking

01:15:55.460 hundreds of thousands of

01:15:56.640 dollars out of the

01:15:57.260 advertising revenue,

01:15:58.020 right?

01:15:58.380 Like, there shouldn't be

01:16:00.620 loads of Nazi stuff all 0.90

01:16:02.500 over Twitter.

01:16:03.100 That's very low class.

01:16:04.640 That's very low brow.

01:16:05.600 You know, the constant

01:16:06.280 anti-Semitism, the

01:16:07.660 constant, like, just

01:16:09.100 gross posting that you

01:16:11.800 see on there.

01:16:12.260 It's like, this didn't

01:16:13.360 happen before.

01:16:14.320 Like, I'm not saying

01:16:15.580 censor people because of

01:16:16.480 political opinions.

01:16:17.580 Let people write an essay

01:16:18.680 on why you should be a

01:16:19.580 Nazi or whatever, right?

01:16:20.500 I don't, I don't care.

01:16:21.420 That's fine.

01:16:22.560 It's the, it's the, the

01:16:24.300 tenor of the discourse

01:16:25.980 that is the issue.

01:16:26.760 There's no standards.

01:16:27.720 Yeah, exactly.

01:16:28.220 Well, there's no standards

01:16:29.380 anymore.

01:16:29.760 It's all monetary.

01:16:31.240 It's all driven by that.

01:16:32.740 Yeah.

01:16:32.920 And it's, it's driven by

01:16:34.020 just vulgarism.

01:16:35.540 And I think that is to

01:16:37.100 Twitter's detriment, but

01:16:38.740 it's also because Twitter

01:16:40.140 is viewed as a right-wing

01:16:41.020 platform now, which would

01:16:42.160 be good if it was still

01:16:43.660 kind of classy and

01:16:44.480 sophisticated, but because

01:16:45.960 it's not, it's putting off

01:16:47.720 a lot of the cool kids who

01:16:48.860 go to the New York Times

01:16:50.260 and then you see how the

01:16:51.320 narratives get filtered and

01:16:52.560 things end up like things

01:16:54.280 that weren't true become

01:16:55.680 true.

01:16:56.080 This is a kind of

01:16:57.120 journalistic alchemy that

01:16:58.380 they're doing and the

01:16:59.780 only way to prevent this

01:17:00.660 is to kind of heighten up

01:17:02.160 the ship a bit.

01:17:03.400 And so that's the, that's

01:17:05.380 my thoughts on the vibe

01:17:06.320 shift.

01:17:07.920 Uh, JM Denton says

01:17:09.100 alienating the tech bros was

01:17:10.260 inevitable.

01:17:10.800 They are the infinity H1B 1.00

01:17:12.280 crowd.

01:17:12.800 I would never have

01:17:13.660 principled, uh, MAGA

01:17:15.120 commitments.

01:17:16.000 Yeah.

01:17:16.160 The thing is it doesn't

01:17:16.900 really matter about that

01:17:18.220 as long as you make them

01:17:19.240 feel that they're part of a

01:17:20.160 cool club.

01:17:22.020 Well, yeah, you've got to

01:17:23.080 appeal to the coastal elites

01:17:25.140 biases.

01:17:26.100 You do.

01:17:26.820 Um, Matt says regarding

01:17:28.380 dealing with trade issues,

01:17:29.360 Trump tried to handle this

01:17:30.400 in the way he can't

01:17:30.840 describe in the first

01:17:31.440 term.

01:17:32.160 Allies said they were not

01:17:33.360 changing anything about

01:17:34.100 the trade tariffs

01:17:34.700 barracks to US goods.

01:17:35.740 Yeah, but that's why you

01:17:36.400 should have, uh,

01:17:37.300 incrementally, uh, raised

01:17:38.740 them on China, I think.

01:17:40.020 But I'm no expert, so

01:17:40.860 don't listen to me.

01:17:42.040 Uh, that's a random name

01:17:42.920 says, uh, the solution to

01:17:44.540 this gender divide is 1.00

01:17:45.680 fairly simple.

01:17:46.600 Restructure society in a

01:17:47.540 way that recognizes that

01:17:48.420 voting is not a right but a

01:17:49.380 privilege.

01:17:50.040 One vote per land-only

01:17:51.260 household.

01:17:51.760 Thoughts?

01:17:52.380 It's never going to

01:17:52.840 happen.

01:17:53.560 Uh, I like the idea, though.

01:17:55.320 Uh, I hope the vibe

01:17:56.180 shift is a principal

01:17:57.360 slas and not just a 0.98

01:17:58.380 trendy thing to do at the

01:17:59.140 moment.

01:17:59.420 Well, a lot of it is about

01:18:00.360 trends, frankly.

01:18:01.900 Yeah, human nature.

01:18:03.440 Yeah.

01:18:04.120 Love trends.

01:18:05.040 Yeah.

01:18:05.620 Habsification says, the 1.00

01:18:06.660 world of the anime

01:18:07.740 psychopaths is becoming 0.91

01:18:08.760 more real.

01:18:09.580 Harry, if you haven't

01:18:10.120 watched it, it's really

01:18:10.700 good and pertinent.

01:18:11.600 You've watched it?

01:18:12.180 I haven't watched it.

01:18:13.260 I looked it up.

01:18:13.900 It looks interesting, so

01:18:14.960 I will maybe give it a

01:18:16.500 try at some point.

01:18:17.680 No promises.

01:18:19.040 And that is not true,

01:18:20.380 drunk changeling.

01:18:21.720 My love pillow has

01:18:22.380 nothing to do with it.

01:18:23.480 Let's go to the video

01:18:24.320 comments.

01:18:24.580 They're still out there

01:18:25.540 somewhere in the wild.

01:18:28.060 So glad I made this.

01:18:31.120 Carl, I'm just watching

01:18:32.500 your Owning the Libs

01:18:33.660 video, and you've got a

01:18:36.480 good heart, man.

01:18:37.240 I see where you're

01:18:37.840 coming from, but there's

01:18:39.620 no two-sides with this.

01:18:43.020 When one side wants to

01:18:44.460 destroy the other, you 0.98

01:18:46.560 can't give them an inch.

01:18:48.620 You've been giving them

01:18:50.540 inches for years.

01:18:52.000 They've been taking

01:18:52.720 miles.

01:18:53.600 It's time to start

01:18:55.040 taking miles back, man.

01:18:56.500 Oh, I'm totally in favor of

01:18:59.740 taking everything that they

01:19:00.920 have.

01:19:01.860 The question is, once you've

01:19:03.740 taken everything that they

01:19:04.460 have, what do you do with

01:19:05.140 them then?

01:19:05.740 And essentially, what you

01:19:06.540 need to do is give them a

01:19:07.220 little playpen, right?

01:19:08.720 So, MAGA should, again,

01:19:11.100 weird about Curtis Yarvin

01:19:13.040 praise this segment.

01:19:15.900 Curtis Yarvin did a speech

01:19:17.120 in Miami a while ago that I

01:19:18.280 was present at.

01:19:19.600 And it was a really good

01:19:20.080 point.

01:19:20.260 He said, look, you need a

01:19:20.840 plan to own the Libs, because

01:19:21.980 what are you going to do with

01:19:22.780 them when you win?

01:19:23.780 And nobody had a plan,

01:19:25.200 obviously.

01:19:25.640 But basically, they need a

01:19:26.700 kind of little playpen or

01:19:28.540 plantation or something to,

01:19:29.820 you know, to sit on and be

01:19:31.200 like, right, so we're going

01:19:31.780 to save the climate, guys,

01:19:33.360 blah, blah, blah, while the

01:19:34.580 real business of governance

01:19:35.560 gets done by the right and

01:19:36.800 actually fixing things.

01:19:38.420 So, it's not that you don't,

01:19:41.220 you know, you don't win.

01:19:43.740 Obviously, you have to win.

01:19:45.040 But what do you do with them

01:19:46.080 after you've won?

01:19:46.880 And if the answer is, we

01:19:48.140 don't know, well, then they're

01:19:49.940 going to do what they want,

01:19:51.500 right?

01:19:51.740 They're not going to be doing

01:19:52.320 what you want them to do.

01:19:53.400 They're going to be doing

01:19:53.800 what they want to do.

01:19:54.980 And so, they will begin

01:19:56.500 clawing their way back in.

01:19:58.280 And that's not good.

01:19:59.840 So, a plan does need to be

01:20:01.880 had, I'm afraid.

01:20:03.440 Create the Matrix.

01:20:04.860 Hook them into the Matrix.

01:20:05.820 Yeah, yeah.

01:20:06.260 Because that's literally

01:20:07.240 what they want.

01:20:08.020 Honestly.

01:20:08.720 Hook them into the 24-7

01:20:09.680 non-stop goon machine.

01:20:10.780 Have a plan.

01:20:11.680 And that's all they want.

01:20:13.220 And the thing is, I bet if

01:20:14.280 Trump had come out and gone,

01:20:15.100 right, I'm going to create

01:20:15.700 these goon machines in San

01:20:17.620 Francisco.

01:20:18.000 You're in aid eye contact.

01:20:19.600 We know it's true.

01:20:20.720 The thing is, if Trump had come

01:20:21.980 out and gone, no, we're going

01:20:22.520 to create a giant goon matrix

01:20:23.900 for San Francisco, right?

01:20:26.420 For New Yorkers.

01:20:27.680 You'll be able to live forever

01:20:28.920 in constant ecstasy and bliss.

01:20:31.120 And 90% of leftists go for it.

01:20:33.460 Well, there we go.

01:20:34.040 Libs owned.

01:20:35.280 The problem of the people 0.98

01:20:36.120 who want to kill you. 0.99

01:20:36.580 And then we can use them 0.99

01:20:37.540 as batteries.

01:20:38.620 So, it's also clean for the

01:20:40.200 environment.

01:20:40.680 Exactly.

01:20:41.460 That would have been fine.

01:20:42.660 That would have been a plan.

01:20:43.980 But as it is at the moment,

01:20:45.080 there has been no plans.

01:20:46.240 And the technocrats like Blair

01:20:48.020 get one over it as well.

01:20:48.580 Oh, they'd love it.

01:20:49.520 Yeah.

01:20:49.860 They'd love it.

01:20:50.600 I think I've just solved

01:20:52.020 all of our problems.

01:20:53.380 Soylent goon.

01:20:54.260 We put the Libs into the goon matrix

01:20:58.020 and use them like the computers

01:21:01.160 did in the film.

01:21:02.380 Let's go to the next one.

01:21:04.280 Have you been to Ilfracombe?

01:21:05.700 I have.

01:21:06.560 The place is laced 0.96

01:21:08.000 with prostitution. 0.96

01:21:10.740 Well, it isn't.

01:21:11.960 But talking with my mother

01:21:13.020 this weekend,

01:21:13.700 she mentioned how fresh

01:21:14.720 housing developments in Devon

01:21:15.960 are heavily invested by cities

01:21:17.240 from elsewhere in the country.

01:21:18.660 She mentioned Birmingham

01:21:19.820 and Liverpool.

01:21:21.320 The trouble is,

01:21:22.020 as Ilfracombe found out

01:21:23.140 some years ago,

01:21:24.100 when the developments are completed

01:21:25.320 and the fresh influx takes place,

01:21:27.040 crime and drugs become rampant

01:21:29.360 and the local police struggle

01:21:30.680 to get control.

01:21:32.060 No kidding.

01:21:35.240 William Shatner was my hero,

01:21:36.660 actually,

01:21:36.980 when I was a teenager.

01:21:38.540 I used to love him.

01:21:39.620 I thought he was awesome.

01:21:40.100 He's still quite base to me.

01:21:41.140 Yeah, he's quite base.

01:21:42.240 Is there another one?

01:21:42.940 I'm still shocked he's alive.

01:21:44.200 Yeah, I know.

01:21:44.740 So am I.

01:21:45.560 Fair play to the guy.

01:21:48.260 Furious Dan says,

01:21:49.260 I recall that Kyle Rittenhouse

01:21:50.300 wasn't even allowed

01:21:50.900 to crowdfund his defence

01:21:52.040 despite all exculpatory

01:21:53.360 video evidence being available

01:21:54.580 within 24 hours of the event.

01:21:56.020 Yeah, that's an interesting thing,

01:21:57.440 isn't it?

01:21:57.640 You've got all this crowdfund

01:21:58.500 that's taken down.

01:21:59.800 It was such an obvious case

01:22:01.220 of self-defence

01:22:01.980 the day after even Destiny

01:22:03.760 was defending him.

01:22:04.940 Yeah.

01:22:05.960 That's how you know

01:22:06.800 it's a bad case for the libs.

01:22:08.540 Destiny Vor's debate on it.

01:22:10.260 So funny.

01:22:11.400 Yeah.

01:22:12.260 But Destiny,

01:22:13.140 he's just like,

01:22:13.520 I can't even shoot someone

01:22:14.500 who's coming at me with a gun.

01:22:15.920 And Vor's like,

01:22:16.300 no.

01:22:17.620 What?

01:22:18.420 Have you asked the mob?

01:22:20.880 Yeah.

01:22:21.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:22:22.160 That was his actual argument

01:22:24.260 as well.

01:22:24.720 I mean, if the mob's coming after you

01:22:26.200 they must want to get you

01:22:27.040 for a reason

01:22:27.620 so you should just let them.

01:22:28.740 That's so good.

01:22:29.620 Oh my god, Vor.

01:22:31.400 Yeah.

01:22:31.880 What happened to that guy?

01:22:33.440 Is he still out there?

01:22:34.340 Yeah, I think he's still out there.

01:22:35.600 Oh, that's a shame.

01:22:36.340 Baron from Warhawk says,

01:22:37.380 I never want to hear the term

01:22:38.240 white privilege ever again.

01:22:39.640 Yep.

01:22:40.260 Yep.

01:22:41.520 Someone online says,

01:22:42.480 in the father's defence

01:22:43.300 the stabbing itself

01:22:44.040 was probably not racially motivated.

01:22:45.700 Well, you don't know.

01:22:47.240 That's the thing.

01:22:48.080 To be fair,

01:22:48.640 I think there's an argument

01:22:49.380 to be made that,

01:22:50.000 yeah, he probably was just

01:22:50.860 trying to provoke a fight

01:22:51.860 with anybody.

01:22:53.180 But the response...

01:22:55.340 And that's, he does say,

01:22:56.380 the racist part

01:22:57.400 is the insane reaction

01:22:58.140 from the community.

01:22:59.280 Deciding the death 0.95

01:22:59.920 of the white kid is okay 0.99

01:23:00.940 because it's a recompense

01:23:02.020 for injustice

01:23:02.520 like OJ Simpson.

01:23:03.620 Yeah, it's terrible.

01:23:04.320 Yeah, that was the same thing

01:23:05.240 that got OJ Simpson off. 0.95

01:23:06.460 And at that point,

01:23:07.080 you have to say,

01:23:07.640 okay, well,

01:23:08.040 if this is revenge,

01:23:09.920 if this is us being paid back

01:23:12.620 for what we did

01:23:13.380 to your ancestors,

01:23:14.500 or at least the American whites

01:23:15.620 for what they did

01:23:16.240 to your ancestors,

01:23:16.940 when is the debt repaid?

01:23:19.460 Yeah.

01:23:19.700 How many times

01:23:20.260 does it have to happen

01:23:21.040 until you say,

01:23:21.660 okay, we're even now?

01:23:22.620 Yeah.

01:23:22.860 Or is it just a blank check?

01:23:24.260 Give us a number

01:23:25.640 so we can tally up

01:23:26.680 the crime statistics.

01:23:28.700 Incorrigable Frog says, 0.93

01:23:29.740 if only we judge these people

01:23:30.800 by the content

01:23:31.320 of their character

01:23:31.860 rather than the color

01:23:32.560 of their skin.

01:23:33.680 If only.

01:23:34.400 Jimbo says,

01:23:35.520 remember,

01:23:36.320 the American guy

01:23:36.880 got stabbed to death

01:23:37.500 in front of his girlfriend

01:23:38.120 because she was woke

01:23:39.820 and far-type

01:23:40.400 and refused to cooperate

01:23:41.140 with the police.

01:23:41.980 That's how much

01:23:42.500 a white man's life

01:23:43.260 was worth.

01:23:43.940 Yeah, I do remember that.

01:23:45.040 Just walking,

01:23:45.660 there's a camera of it

01:23:47.460 and like some guy

01:23:48.660 clips him or something

01:23:49.440 and he turns around 0.99

01:23:50.020 and stabs him 0.95

01:23:50.640 and then she's... 0.99

01:23:51.760 There was a few cases

01:23:52.540 like that,

01:23:53.000 one after the other

01:23:53.780 that people were putting

01:23:54.540 into little picture compilations. 0.98

01:23:56.520 Leftists getting stabbed

01:23:57.440 by diversity

01:23:58.100 in left-wing areas

01:23:59.160 that they supported it.

01:24:00.480 It's like, well...

01:24:01.340 You get what you ask for.

01:24:03.820 You get what you vote for,

01:24:04.520 yeah, exactly.

01:24:06.920 Fuzzy Toaster says,

01:24:08.100 an honest legal system

01:24:08.920 would simply look at the facts

01:24:10.100 and render judgment,

01:24:10.900 but nope,

01:24:11.560 you can guarantee

01:24:12.200 we're going to see

01:24:12.760 some indirect jury intimidation.

01:24:15.100 Yes.

01:24:15.660 Well, I mean,

01:24:16.100 Dominique Alexander

01:24:16.840 already has seemed

01:24:17.660 to have had people

01:24:18.540 coming outside

01:24:19.240 of the county jails

01:24:20.260 that he's been held in

01:24:21.240 protesting,

01:24:22.660 definitely not intimidating anybody,

01:24:24.620 so it's not like

01:24:25.520 he's got priors on this.

01:24:26.780 Well, exactly.

01:24:27.460 And the sort of

01:24:29.160 ethnic interest loop

01:24:30.660 through the system

01:24:32.240 is going to make sure

01:24:33.520 that this kid,

01:24:35.400 this murderer,

01:24:36.260 doesn't face justice,

01:24:38.220 frankly.

01:24:39.160 Henry says,

01:24:40.000 who knew that slapping 0.88

01:24:40.800 someone on the wrist

01:24:41.360 constantly for multiple crimes

01:24:42.620 leads to repeated re-offending?

01:24:44.180 Imagine my shock.

01:24:45.240 Yeah, and it's the same

01:24:46.280 with Carmelo Anthony himself

01:24:47.520 where they're like,

01:24:47.860 oh, he's got an unblemished record

01:24:48.980 except for this one incident

01:24:50.620 two months ago

01:24:51.520 that was swept under the rug

01:24:53.440 by the school.

01:24:54.300 Yeah.

01:24:55.680 Darajani says,

01:24:56.720 oh boy,

01:24:57.120 you mean the same technology

01:24:58.100 that took two years

01:24:58.920 to learn how many fingers

01:25:00.000 humans have

01:25:00.720 who need me to constantly

01:25:02.000 identify pictures of bicycles

01:25:03.260 to log into my email

01:25:04.180 is going to monitor

01:25:05.260 police and citizens.

01:25:07.260 Monitor and police citizens.

01:25:08.420 I'm sure this will function

01:25:09.680 precisely as intended

01:25:10.640 with no errors.

01:25:11.560 Unrelated, however,

01:25:12.320 I'm thinking of putting

01:25:12.860 pictures of bicycles

01:25:13.640 on face masks.

01:25:15.640 Yeah, and that's another thing.

01:25:16.900 It's like,

01:25:17.260 there are going to be times

01:25:18.140 where the system just says no.

01:25:20.140 It's going to be,

01:25:20.520 what was that?

01:25:21.000 What was the show

01:25:21.700 that had system says no?

01:25:23.380 Oh, was that Little Britain?

01:25:24.400 That was.

01:25:24.720 Computer says no.

01:25:25.120 That's right.

01:25:25.460 Computer says no.

01:25:26.280 Yeah.

01:25:26.760 There are going to be times

01:25:27.400 where it's just computer says no 0.92

01:25:28.440 and then some just retard 0.97

01:25:29.840 who's just going to be like, 0.98

01:25:30.760 well, the computer says.

01:25:31.660 And you're just going to be like,

01:25:32.360 okay, but that's not true.

01:25:33.220 But the computer says it is,

01:25:34.100 so now jail.

01:25:34.620 Or whatever it is.

01:25:36.100 Five months in prison.

01:25:37.660 Yeah, just.

01:25:40.180 I hate the future so much.

01:25:42.080 Well, yeah, it's just,

01:25:43.060 it's the removing

01:25:44.100 of all human element

01:25:45.580 from everything.

01:25:46.820 Like Tony Blair's ideas

01:25:48.180 for what's going to happen

01:25:49.060 with these super GPs

01:25:50.740 that will be looking after

01:25:51.940 250,000 patients at a time

01:25:54.600 and it'll all be conducted

01:25:55.640 with GP chatbots.

01:25:57.740 Yeah.

01:25:58.340 What?

01:25:59.480 How is that going to help?

01:26:01.200 How is that not just going

01:26:02.340 to be a disaster?

01:26:02.980 We've all dealt with chatbots

01:26:04.520 when you're going onto a website

01:26:06.320 where you've ordered something

01:26:07.580 and it's not arrived yet.

01:26:09.240 So you go onto the little chatbot

01:26:10.820 and say,

01:26:11.340 where's my order?

01:26:12.200 Which order is that?

01:26:12.960 You put it in.

01:26:13.680 Oh, we can't find that order for you.

01:26:15.580 Yeah.

01:26:16.320 The system is hardly foolproof.

01:26:18.400 Yeah.

01:26:20.120 Henry says,

01:26:20.900 I was curious to see

01:26:21.560 whether the Data Protection Act

01:26:22.540 or GDPR

01:26:23.460 would help protect

01:26:24.280 against some of the digital ID

01:26:25.340 tracking approaches,

01:26:26.620 but conveniently,

01:26:27.380 the Data Protection Act

01:26:28.120 has exemptions

01:26:28.860 for national security,

01:26:29.860 crime and taxation

01:26:30.780 only grouped together

01:26:31.720 and health.

01:26:32.800 Those exemptions

01:26:33.440 hit every point

01:26:34.360 Blair has suggested

01:26:35.300 using this for.

01:26:36.600 I suspect it was probably

01:26:37.740 Blair who set up

01:26:38.800 the Data Protection Act,

01:26:39.980 which is probably why

01:26:40.960 he had a particular carve out

01:26:42.320 for the thing

01:26:42.800 he wanted to put in.

01:26:45.060 Data Protection Act.

01:26:47.260 It's going to be like

01:26:47.860 2001 or something.

01:26:48.960 UK.

01:26:51.120 A lot of references

01:26:51.800 to 2018.

01:26:53.380 There was the Data Protection Act

01:26:54.560 2018.

01:26:55.540 You carry on.

01:26:56.340 You carry on.

01:26:57.280 Thomas says,

01:26:57.880 today,

01:26:58.340 digital ID

01:26:58.800 to protect you from terrorism.

01:26:59.940 Tomorrow, 0.99

01:27:00.360 did you sort your rubbish properly? 0.96

01:27:02.560 Oh, wait,

01:27:03.040 replaces the Data Protection Act

01:27:04.300 1998, yeah.

01:27:05.540 There we go.

01:27:06.300 The year after.

01:27:07.820 There we go.

01:27:08.780 Brilliant.

01:27:09.620 Yeah, it's...

01:27:10.500 Introduced by Matt Hancock,

01:27:12.480 but that was the 2018 one.

01:27:13.920 Thanks, Matt.

01:27:14.700 Yeah, thanks.

01:27:15.900 The Unbreakable Litany says,

01:27:17.240 Darth Blair will never leave.

01:27:18.840 Tony Palpatine does many works,

01:27:20.600 a lot of them the shadows

01:27:21.460 of our politics.

01:27:22.700 Totally true.

01:27:24.200 DLV says,

01:27:24.960 one of the chances

01:27:25.680 that the UK state

01:27:26.540 allows for immigrants

01:27:27.500 and crime,

01:27:28.560 for immigration and crime

01:27:29.680 to increase in order

01:27:30.960 to have a mandate

01:27:31.960 to introduce

01:27:32.860 more surveillance measures.

01:27:34.420 Well,

01:27:34.700 it's going to be an inevitable thing.

01:27:36.900 Tony Blair has been pitching it

01:27:38.140 as the right-wing thing to do,

01:27:39.620 bringing digital ID

01:27:40.360 to track the illegals.

01:27:42.620 Amazing.

01:27:43.340 Don't fool for it.

01:27:45.440 Omar says, 0.86

01:27:46.240 I think the right needs time

01:27:47.460 to find equilibrium,

01:27:48.620 as we'd previously had

01:27:50.060 only the most reasonable

01:27:50.880 and intelligent

01:27:51.420 able-to-survive

01:27:52.140 left-wing purges

01:27:52.860 and struggle sessions.

01:27:54.060 This is a great point

01:27:54.740 that I wanted to make,

01:27:55.440 but I didn't have time.

01:27:56.620 Since the Overton window

01:27:57.460 opened back up

01:27:58.120 against a right-wing thought,

01:27:58.920 a lot more varied personalities

01:28:00.420 that have previously been suppressed

01:28:01.620 aren't in the discussion.

01:28:03.140 There's a lot of springback

01:28:04.520 from people

01:28:04.980 who finally found an outlet

01:28:06.020 for their frustrations

01:28:06.880 and likely won't die down

01:28:08.820 until they let it get out.

01:28:10.060 And that's absolutely true.

01:28:11.360 There was definitely

01:28:12.120 a kind of eugenic effect

01:28:13.560 on the right

01:28:14.340 while it was locked out of,

01:28:16.620 or at least,

01:28:17.360 you know,

01:28:18.120 persecuted

01:28:18.660 by the left-wing powers that be.

01:28:21.840 I've made this point before.

01:28:23.540 Yeah.

01:28:24.000 People weren't happy

01:28:24.920 at the time

01:28:25.420 when I said that Elon

01:28:26.300 has opened it up

01:28:27.860 to make Twitter worse.

01:28:31.440 Not in terms of

01:28:33.260 persecution of right-wing voices,

01:28:35.040 just that opening it up

01:28:36.120 to such an extent...

01:28:37.100 The quality of discourse.

01:28:38.100 Yeah,

01:28:38.340 has really lowered the quality.

01:28:40.280 Yeah.

01:28:40.780 And it is...

01:28:42.740 And it's incentivized the slot.

01:28:44.860 Yes.

01:28:45.100 Yes.

01:28:46.340 It's very frustrating

01:28:47.480 because it would be nice

01:28:48.600 to have a high-quality place

01:28:50.320 to do this.

01:28:50.700 There are also just

01:28:51.360 lots of problems

01:28:52.540 that I find

01:28:53.400 where I'll mute

01:28:54.620 a particular name

01:28:55.520 still pops up.

01:28:56.880 Say,

01:28:57.360 I'm not interested

01:28:58.000 in these ads,

01:28:58.860 they'll still pop up.

01:29:00.120 Not interested in this account,

01:29:01.580 they'll still pop up.

01:29:02.480 There are lots of glitches

01:29:03.960 where no matter how much...

01:29:05.880 Okay,

01:29:06.080 I'm not interested

01:29:06.760 in this type of content,

01:29:07.940 get it off my feed.

01:29:09.040 It'll still find a way

01:29:10.020 to get back on there.

01:29:11.440 It's very strange.

01:29:13.140 I've done that as well,

01:29:13.960 and finally,

01:29:17.140 we'll go for Chase.

01:29:18.260 Carl,

01:29:18.520 your point about

01:29:18.900 the Trump administration

01:29:19.620 making it difficult

01:29:20.220 to be conservative

01:29:20.840 is spot on.

01:29:21.720 I've been a Trump enjoyer

01:29:22.620 since 2016,

01:29:23.440 same as you,

01:29:24.120 and even in Canada,

01:29:24.960 it was beginning to look

01:29:25.720 like a much more

01:29:26.320 reasonable position

01:29:26.960 we were winning

01:29:27.540 since the tariffs

01:29:28.640 and annexation threats

01:29:29.680 a Canadian being MAGA 0.94

01:29:31.400 is such an oxymoronic position

01:29:33.260 that you simply can't explain it

01:29:34.580 without a 15-minute

01:29:35.340 nuanced conversation

01:29:36.160 that isn't realistic

01:29:37.200 in everyday small talk.

01:29:38.780 It's left us high in try 0.96

01:29:39.880 and it truly sucks bigly. 0.90

01:29:42.460 Yeah, 0.99

01:29:42.600 it's made being a shitlib 0.99

01:29:44.000 the patriotic position 0.98

01:29:45.240 in Europe and Canada,

01:29:46.520 which is not good,

01:29:47.800 actually.

01:29:48.520 You know,

01:29:48.680 that should be for the patriots, 0.98

01:29:50.020 not the shitlibs. 0.92

01:29:51.340 But anyway,

01:29:52.420 we are out of time on that,

01:29:53.980 so thank you very much

01:29:55.220 for joining us, folks.

01:29:56.000 Lewis,

01:29:56.220 thanks for joining us.

01:29:57.020 Thank you.

01:29:57.480 If people want more from you,

01:29:58.360 where can they find you?

01:29:59.060 They can find me on

01:29:59.760 xlewis__brackpool,

01:30:01.720 Instagram as well,

01:30:03.100 occasionally post on there,

01:30:04.400 and YouTube,

01:30:05.200 just my name.

01:30:06.580 Thanks for joining us, folks.

01:30:07.420 We'll see you tomorrow.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 16, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1144

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