The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1257
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1 hour and 30 minutes
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181.06664
Summary
The Lotus Eaters are joined by Nate Anferas to discuss the tragic loss of Charlie Kirk, the reaction to the memorial service, the decision to recognise Palestine, and the British Defence League becoming the party in charge of the country.
Transcript
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday, the 22nd of September, 2025.
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I know it's a Monday, but it's going to be a very good show today because a lot of very interesting things have happened.
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I'm joined by Nate Anferas, and today we're going to be talking about the grandiose Charlie Kirk Memorial and some of the reactions to it.
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How we have decided to recognize Palestine, which I'm sure is going to be a very level-headed thing that people are going to respond to.
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And some good news that the British Defence League is actually in control of the country under Nate.
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And we are calling the shots, actually. I don't know whether you've noticed, but the dialectic is being cranked in the right's favor,
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and we're getting what we want from basically everyone, which is wonderful, and I like to see it.
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So before we get started, this will be the very last week that Islander 4 is on sale for,
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so get it while you can at shop.loses.com, because otherwise you're going to have to go to eBay because we are not reprinting them.
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We will have some that we might put on sale, live events from our own personal stocks of it,
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but it's going to be a pain to get afterwards. You're going to have to pay hundreds of pounds on eBay,
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So, anyway, right, let's begin with Charlie Kirk's memorial service, but we have the wrong thing up there, Samson,
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So, obviously, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it's been 12 days now,
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and it was 11 days on the day of the memorial yesterday,
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All of my American friends, I don't want to say radicalized, that's not the right word,
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They're still exactly the kind of Republicans that they were before.
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They're still, you know, pro-America and all this sort of thing.
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But the willingness to concede is the thing that has changed.
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I've seen them become a lot more entrenched in their position to say,
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you know what, no, I am right, you are wrong, and I'm not even going to entertain
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what your argument is against my position at this point.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a deep sort of retrenchment in the right, and a unity in the right,
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The closest, I think, that we got to it was the initial campaign of Donald Trump, actually,
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where he was battering his way through all of the old Republicans, the rhinos,
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and casting them into the pit of Hades, which was great.
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But, yeah, so there's a huge, huge amount of really positive energy
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which surrounds this memorial for Charlie Kirk.
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As you see, this is people, tens of thousands of people.
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And tens of thousands of people were just standing since 4 a.m.,
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because otherwise you weren't going to get into the stadium.
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And I just want to, I mean, this is just, like, obviously you had
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millions of people watching it online, you know.
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Like, when I tuned into it, there was something like 600,000 people
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watching live on just the YouTube stream, and then it's being streamed everywhere else.
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It was being broadcast in France late at night, and people were watching it there.
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And so it's, you know, like, you know, it's just all over the place.
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And so you've got, you know, a huge unifying experience
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for the American right going on, which is really interesting.
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Because I don't think anyone expected this to be as...
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they weren't sort of projecting themselves into the future.
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Everyone was very concerned with the here and now,
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But this has really just drawn everyone together,
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And there were people who were critics of Charlie Kirk from the right,
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I mean, lots of people were critical of him from the right.
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No one cares about the doctrinal differences they had
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What matters is, he was one of ours, and they murdered him.
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He was the debate guy who wanted to talk to you,
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So, forgive us if we don't care about your opinions.
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is the attitude of many right-wingers in America at the moment.
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I don't know about any of the conspiracy theories
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and I'm not inclined towards conspiracy theories,
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so I'm just going to go with the official narrative
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they have to make sure their roofs are covered,
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it's not the only leftist shooter in recent days.
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and called each other on all sorts of mean names.
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the sort of the vanity of the small differences,
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that the blood of martyrs is the seat of the church.
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because I'm going to go through those in a minute,
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because very rarely have I heard a take that wrong.
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to say this was a very reasonable precaution to take.
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the reality of political discourse in America at this point.
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for giving their speeches from behind bulletproof glass.
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So, let's go through some takes that people gave,
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He was killed because his words made a difference.
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It was quite an emotional-sounding piece there,
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but I think Elon really did hammer it correctly there.
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Like, he was killed because his words were making a difference.
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he wouldn't have been such a hate figure for the left,
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and they would have just ignored him or laughed at him.
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People tried to attempt murder and things like that.
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because it's very much the left's modus operandi to censor,
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to this is the sort of testing mechanism is the
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all right uh from the website zest king says i agree with first that there's no contradiction
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between forgiving your enemy and doing what justice demands as for trump hating his enemies
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he is the head of state and the embodiment of the american government is due to to ensure
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just punishment is enacted on the killer and all those involved sure that's all true exactly but
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that's not what trump was thinking that's not what trump was thinking trump was thinking in a very
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personal honestly trump has a pagan morality trump is thinking like achilles in the iliad uh he's
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thinking no i just have to crush that guy and he deserves it uh which again is why i quite like
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trump uh base tape says as christian i'll forgive those who ask for forgiveness i'm still waiting to
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hear the request well this is the thing about the left generally they're so unrepentant
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yeah you know i'm i'm i'm a soft touch if someone were to come and sincerely crying in my hand i was
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like okay yeah fair enough you know let it go but these people are not like that they hate you and
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they still want you dead they're just annoyed that they're on the back foot now uh and so yeah i'm
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i'm personally not in a forgiving mood um man of kent says just like any martyr by striking him down
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they've made him more powerful than they could ever imagine and the thing is that's so obviously true
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like charlie kirk was like he was obviously very popular but like he wasn't the unifying figure
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that he is now now there's no reason for anyone to speak against him whereas while he was alive and
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actually you know giving his opinions on things lots of people lots of people on the right spoke
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against him um but that time is over uh wells crusader says for the first time in 30 years since i was a
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young boy and went to church and had the best time in honor of charlie kirk god bless god
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um chance says the right has to cool down with violent rhetoric us i forgive you uh this is the
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difference between us and them yes but we're we're at the point now we just don't need to prove that
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we're the better people right yeah there's a there's why would we have to prove to who villains oh look
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satan has turned up and like prove you're not a bad person to me it's like at a certain point why
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would i do that at a certain point you have to establish that you are the correct one yeah and the
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discourse just ends at that point exactly right you you literally want to mutilate children you
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literally want to dispossess me of my country they've lost every aspect of the argument yes and
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the ones who are doubling down there is not going to be a reconciliation with them until they genuinely
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repent and even then they should never be allowed anywhere near power for like 40 50 years yeah they'd
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have to start tweeting some really racist things for me to forgive them um furious dan says i wonder if mr
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star will recognize a british state uh or more controversially an english state lol um omar says
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the muslims think think it's ethical to engage into kia to bring about islamic rule and jews
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think erecting string around entire cities to fool god is an acceptable bending of the rules yeah i
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don't understand the middle east at all man it's mad like genuinely mad and you know i'm not even trying
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to be prejudicial i'm just like okay it is yeah when when you understand it you sort of change your
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mind about a lot of things yeah yeah kevin says prosperity will help yep with more prosperity
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they can buy better weapons which is literally what they did with all the aid money and it's like
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the palestinian authority when it was paying people who killed israelis was using mainly european and
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american funds yes just to be clear about that i can't i i really have a personal distaste for like
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palestinian men as well right because i can't help but notice they're mostly fat i'm not even joking
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they're like oh look at look at my starving child it's like you're fat yeah how are you fat
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how are you fat it's because you're eating all food you're fat sorry it just annoys me that is how
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calories work so i know right and so you know the visual aesthetic here it's like yeah no that checks
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out it's difficult one is thin one's fat go through the videos and they're like yeah look at my starving
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child says this fat guy and i'm like if my children were starving i would lose a lot of weight you know
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what i mean like i would lose a lot of weight if my children were starving and those guys they're
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not uh ewan says can't understand why can't the left understand that non-westerners don't have a
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family life like we do um well yeah everywhere's different and for some reason they don't have any
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conception of that tim says good morning gentlemen just woken up here it's time for breakfast and i'll
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watch the show quick question for us on israel any chance you can ask natasha house dorf to come on
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real politic uh you can have a great discussion about the situation in the middle east i'll reach
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out i don't know who she is frankly neither do i all right i'm sure she's good if she's been
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recognized recommended by one of our exactly yes um jimbo says all be forgiven if faraj designates
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the home office as a terrorist organization at least the muslim network i mean it probably contains a
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few terrorist organizations yeah so that'd be so funny man that's the sort of thing trump would do
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trump would do uh sophie says you know the thing about faraj is that he is narcissistic attention
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seeking posers who yearns for the love of the masses uh but uh he is a narcissistic attention
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seeking poser who's salivating for that big restoring with march to praise his name to get that
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love by changing the narrative you can absolutely manipulate this man to suit your agenda yeah that's
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exactly the point that's true yeah just wants to be loved in many in the same way as trump in many
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ways um if only he was a little more strong a bit more of a spine like nigel should literally be out
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there every day being like i'm gonna put gunboats in the channel the boat's the fact that he managed
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to deliver brexit yeah which wouldn't have happened without him shows a degree of strength
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but he is so infused with liberal ideas that purging himself of that madness is a long and
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difficult personal journey for him yeah and he's really afraid of the media he's afraid of the media
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because if the if he gets on their wrong side before his victory they can in fact sideline him
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permanently but he should be sidelining the media these these days he's too big he should be
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sidelining the media media is not needed in this day and age it's just not he's too old for that no
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no no but you just to be he'll have young advisors this is the point yes yes you're right about the
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media for smaller politicians but nigel frosh has a 99.5 percent name recognition yes he's more
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famous than keir starmer he doesn't doesn't need him yeah exactly he he's grown beyond it and he
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doesn't understand yeah he i don't know what happened to his courage yeah well david armes probably
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martin says good luck to the uk police fight even finding all these illegals perhaps if they ask the
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imams very nicely they might be allowed into the islamic communities to remove their own doubt it
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we don't have ice well promising to make ice with bdo yeah yeah yeah all right the bdo all i'm saying
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we've got the manpower whenever you need it all right but that's the point right he could be he could
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be making quite bombastic promises like you could make tom homan a citizen and sort of bring him back
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bring him bring back to tom homan your chief advisor yeah so you know what do you need to do
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just get rid of him yeah you know just get him out any means necessary just do it and but he could
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be promising yeah we're going to have the formation of the bdl who's going to go into these communities
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deport the illegals cut off all the money gunboats in the channel borders sealed for 30 years or
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something right like no one's coming in or out deal with it you know like you could have that
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like just these bombastic ridiculous sounding things but all the media would go nigel farage
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is going to deport everyone down to the fifth generation and everyone would be like nigel
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farage is going to deport everyone down to the fifth generation everyone loves it great yeah
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exactly yeah he the the message would get out and everyone would love it to what would happen to
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imagine what would happen to house prices yeah i know right just take five minutes to think about
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two minutes two seconds yeah think about what happens to nhs waiting lists what happens to home
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home prices what happens to public safety yeah what happens to crime data what happens to
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and 60 different things you can think of in five minutes that would actually improve migrant
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communities would hear this mill up right okay they're they're done with i'm going yeah exactly
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i've had enough they would self-expel exactly they've had enough of us they're going to cut off the
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money it's just gonna be really difficult i'm just gonna go home and millions would just willingly
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leave if nigel just came out and was just a bit more hard line but uh anyway ed milliband harnessing
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enoch spinning grave says great name um things are so bad that some romanians i know good ones
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find it easier just to fly back than to be treated in the nhs here the french people i know do the
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same thing yeah they go to no doubt no doubt the germans i know go to germany yeah man of kent says
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the changing attitude in reform is a clear sign that one restore is working and two the protests are
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working also so keep going exactly we have got to create the environment in which they live
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and essentially make it unpalatable as you were saying for them to be anything less than hard
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line on immigration and the british public really has had enough as well i mean it's just
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you know decades and decades of surveys and voting for manifestos that like oh yeah we're gonna
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get it done to ten thousands but no no no no we're not asking for that anymore people want millions
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gone yeah exactly millions of them have to go we don't want thousands coming in a reduction's good
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enough it has to be millions going anyway uh chronicle says uh he said he won't revoke british
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citizenship and by 2029 all of those he's referring to uh tackling will be protected isn't there a
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contradiction there did he say he wouldn't revoke british citizenship well he said you have to
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reapply for you can definitely remain retro yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly you can make him say
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anything that he didn't commit to we're we're still here we're not going anywhere and in a year's
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time we're going to just change the system uh change the the discourse so it'll seem ridiculous
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for nigel fras to be like oh yeah no we wouldn't do that no he will we're gonna make him do it i
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think it was um it wasn't starky it was someone else making the argument that the citizenship law
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of 1982 could be mildly amended to clarify what it means to be able to revoke citizenship in the
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national interest and if that were correctly amended then the ability to revoke citizenship would
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be huge and i speak as someone who would be at risk fine yeah but you're a net taxpayer like i
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have it for most years last year wasn't great but you know what but the point is you're not like
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taking loads of money out of the system right so that's and that's the easiest way i don't live on
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benefits i don't live on anybody's handouts i don't live on charity but i'm a proud man please
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god don't put me in that position sure but you know this is the easiest thing to do you just be like
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okay well who's paying but who's paying taxes they can stay if you've never you know you've never
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been a net contributor to the system you're gone that is what richard ty said reform will scrap
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indefinitely to remain scheme retrospectively you have to reapply so unless i'm misunderstanding
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oh i mean he could be more clear couldn't he but the point is hold them to it and force them into
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this position yeah but we are out of time nate where can people find more from you uh mistake reviews
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on twitter and youtube as well as the state of politics which is a channel i run with both
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thanks for joining us folks we'll see you tomorrow thank you