00:00:00.320Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1,256.
00:00:05.620I'm your host Harry, joined today by Carl and Friday regular and brand ambassador for GB News, Nick Dixon.
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00:00:30.760But first, before we start talking about anything political, we've got new merch on the website that has been beautifully designed,
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00:01:19.760So Trump has decided that he's going to ban Antifa, which is good and fine and it's been a long time coming and I'm going to take you back through a sort of trip down memory lane just to see how we got to this point because actually what's a bit strange about this is that the fear of Antifa has kind of cooled off in the last couple of years.
00:01:38.460You'll notice that they haven't really been doing all that much.
00:01:42.420Like when was the last time you actually saw them like doing a black block or something like this, right?
00:01:47.300It's actually been a few years, right?
00:01:54.480Everything that came before was a little bit esoteric for me.
00:01:57.280But that's when they hit their mainstream heights.
00:01:59.700During the George Floyd riots is when they really sort of became ultra famous.
00:02:04.740But yeah, anyway, so before we begin, go get an island of it, obviously.
00:02:09.040But right, so you can see that they first came to prominence back in 2017 and I've just taken this Vice article as emblematic because as you can see, California anti-fascists want racists and the Trump administration to be afraid.
00:02:23.080So basically, they were always a violent, radical, bourgeois fringe of the left that was not of the left, but these are the hard left in America.
00:02:35.200But the thing is, they were always quite unimpressive people like this typical anti-far member.
00:02:52.100And making sure that they couldn't be, you know, tracked down because they would often go and beat up people like the infamous bite clock guy.
00:03:00.280But it just makes it all the funnier that, like, earlier this year when we covered that South Park episode, what were they making fun of Ice for?
00:03:16.620But, yeah, as you can see, they've got little signs, kill Nazis.
00:03:19.940So, essentially, this was the radicalised fringe of the Democrats who had decided and had been really radicalised on university campuses to think that the violence that they would engage in would be justified and that, essentially, it would be kind of like superhero violence, as in they would punch Nazis and nothing bad would ever happen to them.
00:23:11.360And I should have got some more videos up because there are loads of them where, like, you know, CNN or Vice News or whoever go to some Antifa cell.
00:23:19.440And they talk to all the people involved.
00:23:21.580And so they spend time, you know, with all of these people.
00:23:23.760And it's like, right, so this is an organization because these people are organized.
00:23:27.420And that's why you can sit down with them all and have a chat with them.
00:23:30.080So there is organization there, even if it's not as formal as, say, you know, something that's registered as an institution.
00:23:35.840Yeah, and Oran was pointing out this is how they work.
00:23:38.400So you can't pin them down to one place and they can claim they don't really exist.
00:23:41.920But they all sort of autonomously, one can shut down, there's still loads of others.
00:25:17.340So, Trump has announced them as a designated...
00:25:21.140That he's going to designate them as a terrorist organization.
00:25:23.960I'm going to read his Truth Social post.
00:25:25.620I am pleased to inform our many USA patriots that I'm designating Antifa capitals a sick, dangerous, radical-left disaster as a major terrorist organization.
00:25:46.620The German government funds Antifa in Germany.
00:25:48.580In accordance with the highest legal standards and practices, thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:25:54.280Now, it's actually not clear what the legal impact of this is going to be, because in America, as they point out, federal laws allow them to label international groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
00:26:05.380But actually, there's no established precedent for domestic terror organizations.
00:27:36.420Alexander AOC, I think, was pretend crying offence with the media because she wanted to make the left think the right had concentration camps.
00:30:17.140And also for protecting children from things that will harm them, pedophiles, those that peddle suicide, which has had a terrible consequence for individual, particularly teenagers.
00:31:07.960I mean, he can just stand there and lie.
00:31:09.760So we have an estimated, according to reports earlier this year, based on analysis of custody data, police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other online platforms.
00:31:19.220This equates to 12,000 arrests each year.
00:31:22.420But Starmer can just stand there and just lie.
00:40:42.840But I thought I'd just bring up the difference between the oath and the affirmation.
00:40:45.860So the one that Starmer took was this one.
00:40:48.640I do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm that I'll be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty, King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law.
00:41:04.020Whereas based Ange said, I swear by almighty God that I'll be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty, King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law.
01:11:53.760But there is something more insidious behind all of this, right?
01:11:57.920Because, you know, it's all fun and games.
01:12:00.860But like you said, you looked into the actual people who are in this holding company that seem to be some of the potential financial power behind this whole party.
01:12:10.580And one of them isn't just some random leftist activist.
01:12:16.060He actually has quite a bit of background to him.
01:12:21.200And that's this Mr. Andrew Joseph Feinstein, who is a South African, who moved here and is one of the directors of the company.
01:12:29.860And it doesn't take far to go into his Wikipedia page, where you can see that he is an insane radical.
01:12:38.800Now, whatever you want to say about South Africa prior to Nelson Mandela and everything...
01:12:43.920We can all agree it's going great now.
01:12:45.340We can all agree it's going great now because he was elected in South Africa's first democratic elections following the abolition of apartheid as a member of the ANC, an explicitly anti-white party that ran South Africa into the ground and was led by terrorists.
01:13:05.240Because that's what Nelson Mandela was.
01:17:33.700Unless, of course, you're in the UK or EU, where you get content unavailable.
01:17:37.940Reading between the lines, it seems as though somebody sent them a legal letter saying, hey, you can't provide these services in the UK and EU.
01:17:44.600Probably something to do with data privacy.
01:17:59.700Because loads of websites, if they can leave comments or anything like that, the online safety bill basically destroys their website in many cases.
01:18:06.880But, yeah, it's easy to get a copy of the King James Bible.
01:20:25.420My cat brought in a rat that he had in his mouth that was as big as him, that was still alive, that he ran up to my parents' bedroom and then dropped it off in there and ran out.