The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1330

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1330 for the 12th of January

00:00:07.320 2026. I'm your host, Luka, joined today by Stelios. Hello everyone. Firas. You're very used to this

00:00:14.620 Monday group, aren't you? The great triumvirate of baseness. Anyway, today we're going to be

00:00:21.160 talking, ladies and gentlemen, all about the chaos in Iran. We're then going to be discussing

00:00:25.820 the chaos in Britain and how we may be looking at regime change if things continue in this way.

00:00:34.000 And then we're going to be discussing how all of your children are terrorists now. And before you

00:00:38.980 put the two together, no, we're not suggesting your children will be the ones implementing that

00:00:43.460 regime change. At least not yet. Anyway. A chaos in the gaming industry or something. Yeah, deep chaos,

00:00:52.200 deep state-sanctioned chaos. Anyway. Right. So, obviously, Islander magazine is now on sale.

00:00:58.840 Many great issues in it. Great essays. Interview with Rupert Lowe. Great articles by Carl, Morgoth,

00:01:05.620 AA. Great writers. It's on the website. £15. £14.99 even. I'll knock you a penny off.

00:01:12.720 And of course, I'm feeling kind. And you can go and buy the fifth issue. All right. Stelios.

00:01:18.480 Right. So, Iran is currently experiencing a significant wave of protests across the country

00:01:24.940 that started from late December. Reports claim that it was around December 28. It started as a

00:01:33.160 protest in Tehran. And it has spilled over the entire country. And we have here a map that this is

00:01:41.080 from January the 7th. This is five days ago. And they are showing you how the protests are

00:01:48.660 spreading around Iran. And that was, again, I'm saying that was five days ago. So,

00:01:56.840 it looks like things are escalating. Although the regime is saying that right now it has a situation

00:02:02.660 under control. But we are going to talk a lot about what is happening here. Before we do so,

00:02:08.320 Luca has a message for you. I swear I was here just a second ago. Ladies and gentlemen,

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00:02:21.300 is talking all about the themes of heroism and power. So, there are many wonderful articles in

00:02:27.080 there by great returning writers such as Will Tanner, Carl Benjamin, Morgoth. Great, great writers.

00:02:34.600 I've written a piece all about Aragorn. Because what more fitting character could you think of

00:02:39.680 from the Lord of the Rings to embody the virtues of heroism and power? So, it's on the website now.

00:02:45.380 Do go and get it. As you can see, it's a very high quality piece of work. Rory has really excelled

00:02:50.720 himself. So, I hope you enjoy the magazine. Thank you. Right. So, this is not the first wave of

00:02:57.300 protests in Iran. This is actually, we have had several protests in Iran before. The last one that

00:03:05.220 was really big was four years ago in 2022. And it looks like right now we also have a very significant

00:03:12.080 wave of protests. Some people say that it is, that they are even larger. Right. And here we have the

00:03:18.720 timeline by CNN. They're saying that the Iranian regime's grasp on power appears more tenuous than

00:03:25.440 ever. Scroll up a bit. They're saying that the IRGC is condemning US support for protests. Also,

00:03:33.660 they are condemning Israel. And we are going to talk about that quite a bit. Here they say that the

00:03:39.120 death toll in Iran climbs to at least 544, according to a US-based activist group. And we have reports that

00:03:47.320 say that it could be well into the low thousands, two to three thousands right now, as we speak, 12 of

00:03:55.540 January. And this is 1pm UK time. I'm sure that by the time this comes out on YouTube, we will have

00:04:02.800 more developments. But we are speaking with what is happening right now in mind. Right. So, let's move

00:04:11.260 forward. They're saying that the time says that the death toll in Iran may already be in the

00:04:16.180 thousands. And there are fears that the growing number of protesters killed by the Iranian security

00:04:22.980 forces will rise even more. And one thing to say is that there is a rich background into these protests.

00:04:30.440 It's economic, geopolitical, and also political in this case. It seems to have started in Tehran's

00:04:38.480 Grand Bazaar, December 28. And that was initially a protest by shopkeepers and merchants frustrated by the

00:04:46.320 rising inflation. According to reports, there is 70% inflation in food products alone, food prices alone. There is

00:04:56.320 generally speaking, very high inflation in Iran. I think the general level of inflation is around 50%. And there is also the

00:05:05.840 push by the state to increase the military spending around 150%. So there is a sort of dissatisfaction with

00:05:15.520 that alone. But it isn't just that alone. It seems to have escalated even more. There are people calling now for

00:05:23.300 political change, for change in regime or change in government, change in the form of the state. And there is also the

00:05:33.020 geopolitical tension and the geopolitical discourse happening regarding this. So Trump is saying that

00:05:40.300 right now they are examining strong, very strong options. He, one thing to bear in mind is that Trump

00:05:47.240 is someone who, for whom his word has to count, and his word has to count on the global scale.

00:05:53.900 So at some point, when there was a blackout, an internet shutdown of around 99% of access to the

00:06:02.860 internet in Iran, everyone understood that this is in order to do a violent crackdown against the

00:06:09.180 anti-regime Iranian protesters. And Trump said that if the regime carries on killing people, he will have

00:06:16.860 to respond. Now, this is something that he will have to live up to, simply realpolitik. Because if he

00:06:25.100 doesn't, his word will count less.

00:06:27.580 And you're seeing that now with the way that he's handled Russia and Ukraine, the fact that he said so

00:06:33.900 many times over and over, oh, I'm going to make peace, I'm going to bring them to the table. It's diluting the

00:06:39.580 strength of his word. And so if he falls down that path with Iran as well.

00:06:42.860 But there's also the other thing to remember. Trump is primarily a negotiator, the way I understand

00:06:50.620 of him. So he will not say things out loud outside in public that are going to harm his negotiating

00:06:58.700 tactics. So we should take everything he says with a pinch of salt. So he says that they are examining

00:07:05.820 very strong options, he's getting hourly reports, and he's going to see what he's going to do.

00:07:11.900 Here we have the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying that essentially the America

00:07:19.820 should leave the region. And he says that Israel also is the problem in their region. I'll just

00:07:29.580 translate the chant, Allah Akbar, and Khamenei is the leader. The crowd is shouting this. And also,

00:07:35.420 they're going to chant death to America, death to England, and death to those who oppose the rule of

00:07:41.980 the jurisprudent. They say death to America, death to England. And also they're going to say death to

00:07:48.300 hypocrites and infidels, and death to Israel. And they're also saying that he is also going to describe

00:07:54.380 Israel as the source of the absolute corruption, war and discord in that region. So that is his view.

00:08:02.860 When they say death to the hypocrites and the infidels, they are referring to the domestic opposition.

00:08:11.660 As he was saying, when they were saying death to those who oppose wilayat al-faqih, their system of

00:08:19.020 government. So this is essentially authorizing a lot more violence against the protesters than we've

00:08:24.460 already seen.

00:08:25.660 Right. So here, Lindsey Graham is playing the bad cup. To be honest, Trump did play the bad cup to a

00:08:33.740 degree. Lindsey Graham also goes again, the US should bomb Iran tonight. And he calls again for

00:08:40.700 massive intervention of the kind that I don't think Trump will undertake.

00:08:44.780 Has Lindsey Graham ever not called for mass intervention?

00:08:47.580 No, maybe that is his shtick. I think that this is where he comes from. But honestly, I don't think

00:08:54.140 that people are trying to equate Trump's position with Lindsey Graham's position. I don't think that

00:08:59.500 the two are the same, the same way that this applied to Venezuela. Trump, I think, is much more of a

00:09:05.900 Jacksonian advocate of precision strikes, minimum damage for maximum geopolitical gain, whereas the

00:09:14.300 neocon school or at least the school of Lindsey Graham and the one that was involved in the Iraq war

00:09:20.140 and the design for it was sort of minimum gains with maximum damage incurred.

00:09:25.580 Well, it's it's a complete it's a very good comparison.

00:09:28.380 Well, I'm glad to see that Lindsey Graham's worldview has evolved so much since those few decades.

00:09:34.060 Right. So here we have from open source Intel. I want to say also that I want to thank my friends

00:09:39.740 Warren and Jacob about comments and giving me context in this case. Here we have this

00:09:46.380 this Ayatollah Mohsen Araki saying, if Grand Ayatollah Khamenei is targeted, the highest Shiite

00:09:54.300 authorities will declare a global jihad against the US and Israel. I want to say one thing here is just

00:10:00.140 this seems to me very, in a way, careful diplomatic language because they're personalizing it.

00:10:06.300 Obviously, you will have the more hardcore people who are saying if the regime is targeted, we are going

00:10:11.580 to we are going to respond. But this seems to be a bit more personalized. And it could be the case

00:10:18.060 that there are trying to make a deal behind the behind closed doors, say, right, maybe some people

00:10:23.500 from the regime will leave, others will come in and and that's it. And we are going to personalize it.

00:10:30.780 But that that that's something that should be taken with a pinch of salt.

00:10:34.300 So I've done a couple of podcasts with Kivork Al-Masyan and with Peter Quinones going over

00:10:40.780 what's happening in Iran and trying to sort of explain how it relates to Venezuela. The Americans

00:10:47.660 are using a different regime change template, which is to preserve the state, unlike what was done in

00:10:54.780 Iraq and Libya, but to change the top leadership so that the behavior and the policies change without

00:11:01.980 necessitating a full change in personnel. So you replace Maduro, you keep his second in command,

00:11:07.980 you keep his generals, his defense minister, etc. But now they're going to sell oil to the Americans

00:11:12.700 and do business with the Americans and compensate the companies that were expropriated, etc., etc.

00:11:18.540 And I think with Khamenei being 85, the American objective here is something similar. And it's about

00:11:25.580 giving the existing leadership of Iran a choice. Either you die with Khamenei and all of your options

00:11:33.100 in terms of retaliating to that are terrible, and we can discuss that. Or you get rid of Khamenei and you

00:11:39.900 make a separate deal with the Americans so that you don't have to sell all of your oil to the Chinese

00:11:44.940 at a big discount. And you don't have to be starved for investment, you get Western investment. And the

00:11:51.820 benefit to the United States is that Iran remains functioning as a state, as opposed to collapsing

00:11:57.340 and creating chaos, and that it's cleaved off of China. And then if you can make also peace with

00:12:03.900 Ukraine, between Russia and Ukraine, you've sort of put some distance between the Chinese and their

00:12:09.980 key allies, the Iranians and the Russians, so that China is the one that is sort of subject to a new

00:12:16.860 containment strategy. That seems to be the the American idea. And you have people like Lindsey

00:12:22.300 Graham, whose role is to be rabid dogs, threatening and menacing and so on. But the objective isn't

00:12:31.980 about destroying Iran, it's about changing the behavior of Iran. And that might require getting

00:12:38.780 rid of Khamenei. Yeah, let's look and let's see whether the the person that could substitute the

00:12:46.700 current leader of Iran could be the exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. He was interviewed on Fox News

00:12:54.220 by Sean Hannity five days ago. And he says that I've trained all my life to serve my nation. I'm more than

00:13:00.140 ever ready to step into Iran. I will be there with my compatriots to lead the ultimate battle. He has made a

00:13:05.660 series of, I think, really good declarations statements. Right here we have Rudy Giuliani, who now

00:13:12.620 goes against him, against the exiled Crown Prince, says that the son of the brutal deposed

00:13:20.380 Shah of Iran is a fraud. He, unlike me and many others, has never risked his life to help the cause

00:13:25.580 of Iranian freedom. And he, Giuliani, I mean, is being accused for working and collaborating with the

00:13:33.180 M-E-K, that is a sort of a group. A Marxist-Islamist cult. A Islamo-Marxist group.

00:13:40.140 That had, or its antecedents, had participated in the Islamic Revolution. And they were among the

00:13:46.540 leftists that got wiped out. And now they exist as a sort of insane group, really, fully in control of

00:13:55.980 their members in their everyday lives and in everything that they do. I think they're in Albania

00:14:01.260 now because they got kicked out of Iraq. And, like, when you think about the leftist-Islamist

00:14:07.500 alliance, that's exactly them. And they're crazy. They're going to ally with them again.

00:14:16.060 I don't know what they want. I don't... Because last time they did so, I don't think that

00:14:20.700 it was particularly good for the communists. Yeah, they exist as a useful cat's paw to sort

00:14:25.580 of attack Iran, to do some intelligence work. But they are lunatics, fundamentally.

00:14:31.580 Right. And here we have yet another call from the exiled crown prince, who is addressing the,

00:14:38.940 his Iranian compatriots. And he's saying, basically, that, let us, he says, I'll pause it because he's...

00:14:50.540 He says that the freedom of Iran is near and says the blood spilled on the ground of Iran's

00:14:54.940 immortal children guides us towards victory. But not alone. Global assistance will arrive soon as well.

00:15:01.420 And he calls the people to wait for his next messages. And he expresses confidence that they

00:15:06.780 are going to soon reclaim Iran from the Islamic Republic and hold celebrations of freedom and victory.

00:15:13.180 So the more important part is his calls to target state institutions, including the media and the

00:15:18.940 security apparatus that's run by the state. So he's basically advocating for a lot more violence and

00:15:25.340 escalation because he knows that the existing regime will respond to this with lethal force.

00:15:31.660 So, so what, what is the, is this the criticism that he tries to get things to become worse

00:15:38.860 in order to provoke? It's not a criticism, it's just a fact.

00:15:40.940 Okay. So, right. I mean, to be honest, if I were him, I would ask for people to stay protesting.

00:15:47.020 I mean, in his, this is the sensible thing to do in his position.

00:15:50.540 Maybe peacefully, without trying to sort of bring about attacks on media and, and on the security

00:15:58.060 services. But that's not what he's doing. So people in Iran are seen as burning regime flags.

00:16:06.940 They are shouting, some of them are shouting, long live the Shah. Others are burning a mosque here.

00:16:13.580 I think this is the Al Rasul mosque in Tehran, but people should double check that. At this point,

00:16:19.180 everyone should double check everything we're saying because access to information here is,

00:16:24.060 is a bit difficult here. They're saying that they are burning government buildings in, in Shiraz.

00:16:33.100 And also they're, some of them are burning banks linked to the regime. Right. And we also have

00:16:42.380 the question of whether a particular revolution is likely to succeed right now.

00:16:48.540 And there are all sorts of views here. We have here a thread by Karim Sajidpour, which is,

00:16:54.460 I found particularly interesting. And he says basically that there are five conditions needed

00:16:58.780 for a revolution to work. So it's fiscal crisis, divided elites, a diverse opposition,

00:17:04.700 a convincing narrative of resistance, and a favorable international environment. And he says that

00:17:10.060 right now all five are present. It remains to be seen, but it looks like the economy in Iran isn't good.

00:17:17.900 Also the geopolitical landscape and the chessboard right now seems to be favorable towards

00:17:24.460 something like change in Iran. So think about it.

00:17:27.340 How extensive that will be? I don't know, but it looks at the moment that things are moving forward

00:17:32.700 in a way that they weren't in previous protests.

00:17:35.180 I have a question because obviously, I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to

00:17:39.420 Iranian politics. But what you were saying, Firas, about obviously, you know, taking Iran away from

00:17:47.740 China. What counter measures should we expect from China

00:17:51.820 in order to prop up the regime whilst all of this is going on?

00:17:54.780 There's been talk about them helping Iran with a lot more air defense systems.

00:18:00.540 But I haven't seen that proven that they've actually delivered those or that the Iranians

00:18:06.940 are able to operate these because you need a lot of training on these kinds of new systems. It's not

00:18:12.380 like that simple. Sure.

00:18:14.140 They could pay more money into Iran to alleviate the energy crisis,

00:18:20.540 but the Chinese are so commercially focused on getting oil as cheaply as possible

00:18:26.540 and they tend not to throw out a lot of money unless it's used to extract natural resources,

00:18:32.940 unless they know that they're getting paid back in natural resources.

00:18:35.900 So that would go against their policy. And when things are at this level, it's hard to see what

00:18:42.780 you can do. They could inject a few billion dollars to sort of try to bring the real back down because

00:18:48.380 the main issue is the value of the currency and the inflation, exactly as you pointed out.

00:18:52.460 But they don't have a lot of good options. The other reality is that the promise of the

00:18:56.620 Islamic revolution was that they would end up becoming a major threat to Israel

00:19:01.660 and eventually defeat Israel and therefore restore Muslim honor and dignity in their view.

00:19:07.820 This has completely failed. With the loss of Syria and the defeat of Hezbollah,

00:19:12.060 this has completely failed. And now it's the Sunni Turks who are the much bigger challenge. And so

00:19:19.980 with the failure of the pan-Islamic ideology of the Islamic revolution, now they need to turn

00:19:25.660 nationalistic. And you can't turn nationalistic under the banner of an Islamic revolution. So

00:19:33.180 something needs to give. So I've heard by several people who have Iranian ancestries that they view

00:19:41.740 themselves as a nation first and they're saying that Iran is different to Iraq. It has a history that

00:19:49.340 goes back centuries, not centuries, millennia. And it's not that they just ended up there

00:19:56.060 in the map because some people in the West that just carved the border that way.

00:20:00.460 Right. So they're saying that it's multi-ethnic but also national.

00:20:06.620 Yes. And they're saying that it could be the case that there is a very fertile ground

00:20:11.740 for a sort of national narrative there that is, as you said, anti-Islamist. Because I suspect that

00:20:20.940 the Islamist regime is saying religion first, then nation.

00:20:25.900 Yes. Whereas there is the inverse from the... And this goes back to the days of Ahmadinejad at least.

00:20:33.820 So in the days of Ahmadinejad, there was conflict in 2008 within Iran over whether or not it should be

00:20:40.380 more nationalistic or more Islamic. So this is an old thing that they've had. And there are members

00:20:46.220 of the IRGC who just want to be nationalistic, but they are operating under the Islamic revolution

00:20:52.940 banner.

00:20:53.580 Yep. Which places some constraints on what they're doing.

00:20:57.740 Right. So let us now talk about discourse because it seems to me that this is where we

00:21:05.020 have to say lots of things because in the West, Western media were particularly silent when it

00:21:14.780 comes to these protests for at least a week, if not nine, 10 days. Because right now, if you search

00:21:22.060 the BBC, The Guardian and other news outlets that belong to the legacy media category, you will see that

00:21:30.060 most of the articles that they are releasing, they are being released in the last few days.

00:21:35.500 For many days, there was silence and the mainstream media wasn't the only part that was silent.

00:21:42.300 There were many other people who were silent, like lots of Democrat politicians, progressive

00:21:47.420 politicians and leftists around the West, human rights groups, feminist groups. Where were all the

00:21:53.740 feminists? And this is what, for instance, John K. Rowling is saying here. If you claim to support

00:22:00.220 human rights, yet can bring yourself to show solidarity with women fighting for the liberty

00:22:05.340 in Iran, you've revealed yourself. You don't give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalized,

00:22:10.060 so long as it's being done by the enemies of your enemies. And here we have Adnan Hussein,

00:22:15.340 who responds to John K. Rowling, forgive us for being reluctant to join a crowd that commits,

00:22:21.100 cheers on, supports genocide, as it now itches for regime change in the same region. Something

00:22:27.740 tells us it's not human rights or freedom that motivates their sudden moral awakening. That said,

00:22:32.780 though, I don't think that John K. Rowling ever... J.K. Rowling. Sorry. Yes. You just transed J.K.

00:22:38.220 Rowling. That's freaking epic. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations. I don't think anybody else

00:22:42.460 could have done this. No one would have had the cojones. That's a reveal that I never saw coming.

00:22:47.580 John K. Right. Okay. Right. Okay. So this is by Adnan Hussein. Also Bushra Shaikh comes and says

00:22:56.700 basically that this is all a Mossad CIA Western imperialism op. This is her view on the on the

00:23:04.700 matter. And I think that there are there is a sort of element of discourse that is crazily anti-Jewish

00:23:11.420 that tries to say all of that is a Jewish PSYOP and the Iranians would never want by themselves

00:23:17.900 anything other than what they have now. Personally, I don't find that there is undoubtedly obviously

00:23:23.180 Zionist agitation going on to bring down the regime in Iran, but that only works if there is something

00:23:29.500 to agitate against that can actually animate the people who are already there. And so those problems

00:23:34.460 exist by by the Iranian regime. Well, I mean, I mean, there are there is definitely there is

00:23:42.540 definitely an element of Jewish people wanting to to back some people in Iran and want to have a

00:23:49.580 favorable relationship with Iran. Personally, I don't find that weird. Yeah, exactly. It's just

00:23:54.300 how geopolitics works. Here we have BBC News saying Iran leader says protesters are vandals trying to please

00:24:01.020 Trump. This sounds a bit like Rory Stewart in some respects when he was saying that Dominic Cummings in

00:24:08.860 the UAE was was a petulant child trying to appease Trump people on the on X when he said that top

00:24:17.420 officials from the United Arab Emirates were saying that they don't want their children and citizens of

00:24:23.420 their country to go to the UK because they to study because they think that they're going to risk

00:24:27.740 radicalization. It ended up that Rory Stewart was wrong. Right. So not so that often. Yes.

00:24:36.380 Right. So here we have several images of women smoking, burning images of the Iranian supreme leader.

00:24:45.260 They are they are pretty smoking, aren't they? I don't know. I don't know if some of them are AI or not,

00:24:50.300 but I can definitely get the idea that there are women in Iran who do not like the current regime.

00:24:56.220 And this has been this has been proven before. I don't know if particular pictures of there, but I mean, it's

00:25:02.940 yeah, interesting right here. We have Columbia University protesting against the

00:25:10.700 mistreatment of Iranians who are protesting against the regime. It looks packed.

00:25:17.100 Yeah, it's quite cramped. It's quite empty. And that raises questions. Why aren't

00:25:23.740 why aren't students revolting there? Why aren't they protesting? You're expecting reason from demons.

00:25:31.580 Why aren't they protesting? Because, you know, you have all these departments in Western academia that

00:25:37.740 are trying to do Eastern studies, Middle Eastern studies. They're trying to show how woke and how

00:25:44.620 awakened they are with respect to sort of injustices everywhere around the world. But I don't see them

00:25:52.460 there. I know it's just I don't know why I don't see Greta Thunberg talking about it. I also don't see

00:26:00.380 Mark Ruffalo, Pedro Pascal, Bella Hadid, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O'Donnell and Javier Bardem talking about it.

00:26:07.340 Just why? Why aren't they? Aren't they talking about it? I thought they cared about human rights,

00:26:13.580 and I thought that they were in favor of a universalistic approach, because that's what

00:26:17.900 they said. It doesn't matter if people without such rhetoric are saying that right now, no,

00:26:23.580 you should speak of Iranian anti-regime protesters being mistreated and being murdered in some cases by

00:26:31.820 the government. These people have raised the flag of universal human rights,

00:26:39.420 and they seem particularly silent here. And again, I have to object to what you're saying.

00:26:48.060 On two premises. First, there isn't really much comparison between 50,000, 60,000 killed in Gaza

00:26:57.580 and shooting protesters at home when we don't have full information. These are slightly two

00:27:02.620 different things. The second, there is no reason to want the opinions of any of those people on

00:27:09.500 anything. They should be silent on more issues. They should be more often silent on pretty much

00:27:14.220 every single issue in the world. Third, we've seen that these people are far left, suicidal,

00:27:24.380 self-loathing lunatics. So they're not going to behave with any consistency.

00:27:29.500 Right. So you're sort of beating a dead horse there. These people shouldn't have opinions about

00:27:35.100 politics. I mean, that's part of commentary. Yeah. Welcome to the world of commentary. Fair enough.

00:27:39.100 Right. But I do want to respond to your first two points. I mean, there are similarities and

00:27:44.380 there are differences. Okay. Even if we granted the number, as you said, of 50,

00:27:49.100 50, 60 K in Gaza spread across two years. Yeah. Or that's one thing. We are talking also about

00:27:56.860 two to three K in 10 days. So if that continues, it could be the case. But also remember that when

00:28:04.380 someone has universalistic rhetoric, they need to show up everywhere, respective of time and place.

00:28:12.140 Yes. So that's one thing. And also, I never cared about what Javier Bardem said, but sadly,

00:28:17.820 lots of people do care. And I think that it's important to reiterate every time that they show

00:28:26.540 how hypocritical they are and remind as many people as possible, because sadly, people tend to forget.

00:28:32.140 Right. So here we had John, sorry, JK Rowling. Before that was bluff. Here we have Fuentes playing

00:28:39.740 the rabid anti-Jewish card. He says the chaos in Iran is totally astroturfed by Israel and the US

00:28:47.500 for regime change. This was always the end game after over a decade of industrial sabotage,

00:28:52.780 sanctions, political subversion and espionage. Why do you think Iran wanted nuclear weapons to

00:28:57.740 prevent this exact scenario? Well, honestly, I think that when it comes to commentary,

00:29:05.260 I just lost every any kind of trust to people like Carlson Fuentes. And I mean, I never trusted

00:29:11.660 Fuentes and Candace Owens, because it seems to me that the card they're playing, the heavily isolationist

00:29:19.020 card, the radical isolationist card, is just a divide and conquer. It's just soft power propaganda

00:29:26.380 against the West in order for them to say, well, look, look what happened when you cared about

00:29:31.820 anyone in the world. Bad things happened. Look at what happened when you cared about Poland,

00:29:36.620 when you cared about Europe, when you cared about Iraq, when you cared about Ukraine.

00:29:40.780 This is the kind of rhetoric. And they have used it almost invariably,

00:29:45.180 with one exception against Trump's also even in Venezuela right now.

00:29:49.740 Yeah. I thought Tucker and Fuentes were supportive of Venezuela.

00:29:55.100 Fuentes was definitely in support.

00:29:56.700 I think Tucker was against.

00:29:58.700 One thing, Tucker was, I think, was initially against, then he appeared in the oil,

00:30:08.220 backstage of the oil thing. And Fuentes understood that that was going to be a disaster for him,

00:30:14.380 if he counter-signaled Trump on that bit. And he changed and he drew the distinction between

00:30:19.260 the isolationists and the third world isolationists and the America first. And in some platforms,

00:30:25.820 more than half of his audience downvoted.

00:30:28.780 At least we can agree that Candace Owens is nuts.

00:30:30.940 So we can definitely agree on that. Let's make peace on that. That's sufficient ground for peace.

00:30:37.660 Anyway, and I want to say that the sort of support for the Iranian regime in the West has existed in

00:30:47.580 the left before. We should never forget this. But also the mainstream media.

00:30:51.660 Yes.

00:30:52.220 We had people like Foucault being very, being a cheerleader for Khomeini. And also there was this

00:31:00.460 New York Times article's Trust in Khomeini, where they were presenting him as a sort of

00:31:07.340 great figure, vision and stuff. But at the end of the day, all this is just rabid anti-Westernism,

00:31:13.340 especially when it comes from a Western audience. All this is just ecophobia.

00:31:18.060 Right. So, I mean, I really hope for the best for Iranians and let's see what's going to happen.

00:31:25.020 All right. Thank you.

00:31:25.580 I'll just read this rumble rant. We've got one from a drunk changeling who says,

00:31:29.340 Lindsay has realized that the less money that's spent on protracted occupation,

00:31:33.260 the more money there is to bomb kids' value for money.

00:31:38.460 Nice guy. Nice guy. Why haven't you bought Islander yet?

00:31:43.260 Anyway, buy in one you still can because there's a very good chance that Keir Starmer is going to

00:31:48.780 ban X and might then ban all kinds of other people on the back of that.

00:31:54.140 So let's talk a little bit about Keir Starmer getting very angry, which I think is a bit of a

00:32:00.540 first for him at X because the X AI has been used to produce images that I wouldn't approve of, frankly.

00:32:11.980 But there have been horrific things that have been done in Britain that don't get Keir Starmer emotional.

00:32:19.500 So let's see him get emotional for once, if only for novelty.

00:32:24.620 It's graceful. It's disgusting. And it's not to be tolerated. X has got to get a grip of this.

00:32:32.380 And Ofcom have full support to take action in relation to this. This is wrong. It's unlawful.

00:32:42.300 We're not going to tolerate it. I've asked for all options to be on the table. It's disgusting.

00:32:47.260 And X need to get their act together. And we will take action on this because it's simple.

00:32:52.780 So it's good to see that the guy actually is capable of some level of human emotion.

00:32:59.100 Yeah, I wish he could use it for the...

00:33:01.660 AI is improving.

00:33:04.060 Amazing what they can do with robots these days.

00:33:06.060 I wish he could be that passionate about the rape gangs.

00:33:08.140 Yes. Well, exactly. Exactly. And there's an ongoing campaign to get X banned. You see here

00:33:18.300 Jess Asato, someone I've never heard of, complaining about being portrayed in a bikini.

00:33:23.660 Obviously, Bovril is going to comment. Bovril will be Bovril.

00:33:31.420 Yeah. But it's worth remembering that this is a woman who voted against an investigation into the rape gangs.

00:33:37.900 Yeah. And now she's complaining about AI images. On my list of priorities, which comes first? Genuine mass rape or bad AI?

00:33:51.740 I think it's a simple answer, but apparently it isn't for the Labour Party.

00:33:59.260 Brendan Cox is coming out swinging, saying that X has nothing to do with free speech, which is a bit funny.

00:34:06.620 The president was banned from it. The president of the United States.

00:34:09.980 There's actually a pretty good list here of who was banned, which I will get to in a moment.

00:34:15.820 A hell of a lot of people were banned. And apparently the British government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X over some indecent images that have been produced by Grok.

00:34:31.180 Now, the Canadians have since backtracked and said, we have nothing to do with this.

00:34:35.180 The Australians seem to be doubling down and they have their own draconian laws intended to impose some kind of digital ID on on everyone.

00:34:45.820 And Britain seems to be following suit with this stuff.

00:34:49.980 And Starmer is trying to find some kind of coalition of the willing, apparently he's calling it the coalition of decency.

00:34:59.340 What do you think? Do decent people tend to have good relations with Ukrainian rent boys?

00:35:07.260 Depends if they are decent rent boys.

00:35:09.020 Depends if they are decent.

00:35:11.740 Wonderful. Wonderful.

00:35:14.940 So he's trying to build this coalition of the indecent and Ofcom has obeyed, obviously.

00:35:22.060 And now they are officially investigating X because Grok generated inappropriate images.

00:35:29.100 I have to stress, I am against these images.

00:35:31.820 And I think Grok should have some same thoughts.

00:35:35.420 We should say this.

00:35:36.300 But I think they're lying.

00:35:38.060 I don't think that's actually...

00:35:38.940 No, they've been waiting for an excuse to get rid of X for ages.

00:35:42.060 You know, I was saying the other day, they will just love nothing more than to put us all on the big blue sky reservation.

00:35:47.340 Exactly, exactly, exactly.

00:35:49.260 And they are clearly doing this with the objective of trying to just silence everybody in the country.

00:35:59.500 And this is happening at a pretty insane time because these guys are really thinking of some pretty wild stuff.

00:36:08.780 First, Britain wants to deploy troops to Ukraine alongside France.

00:36:14.300 They're saying they could muster maybe 7,500 troops or something like that.

00:36:19.340 Now, mind you...

00:36:20.140 Sorry, 7,000 troops.

00:36:22.780 Mind you, Trump says that this is what gets lost in a week.

00:36:27.340 Yeah.

00:36:27.740 So I simply don't understand the idea behind this.

00:36:31.420 You have a global empire.

00:36:34.860 I think that we are at the point where lots of leaders in the EU are just trying to make statements in order to indicate resolve, just to say we are not going to tolerate this without necessarily falling.

00:36:48.380 I don't know how convincing they are.

00:36:49.900 Exactly.

00:36:50.220 They are.

00:36:51.660 And just to add to the stupidity, Britain is also talking about plans to deploy troops to Greenland to protect it from the United States.

00:37:01.820 So the leadership of Britain seems to believe that it can fight a two-front war against Russia and the United States.

00:37:12.380 Which is something that we couldn't even do back in 1776 against the colonies.

00:37:18.940 It just sounds so terribly insane.

00:37:23.740 I mean, I did a video segment a few months back on whether Britain can fight.

00:37:28.700 Oh, just one month ago.

00:37:31.260 And the answer is no, not really.

00:37:33.900 But they are genuinely discussing this kind of thing and completely poisoning their relationship with the United States.

00:37:41.020 Because obviously the Americans are trying to get some kind of peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

00:37:47.420 And Britain is saying, no, no, no, we're going to have a NATO presence there to make sure that the Russians say no to the peace proposal.

00:37:55.300 And obviously the Americans are serious about acquiring Greenland, let's say buying it.

00:38:01.560 And the Brits are saying no.

00:38:03.520 And this is happening at a time when the fighting capability of Britain is non-existent on the aircraft carrier front, on the nuclear submarine front, and on the general armed forces front.

00:38:17.700 So there is this level of delusion that is going into this.

00:38:21.440 And they don't seem to understand that the politics of signaling, which is exactly what they're doing, as you pointed out, Stelios, can have real-life consequences.

00:38:29.760 Yeah, but I have a question here.

00:38:31.880 Because, you know, I haven't formed an opinion on this.

00:38:34.500 Right.

00:38:34.640 I'm trying to think about it.

00:38:35.880 Because it seems to me that, on the one hand, Trump can get and has got from the EU several concessions, especially when it comes to the tariffs.

00:38:45.920 Everyone saw that, you know, Ursula von der Leyen with Trump being completely, let's say, being legless, in a sense.

00:38:53.200 Being, just having nowhere to stand on.

00:38:55.920 She gave him everything he wanted.

00:38:57.240 On the other hand, I think that from a European perspective, I understand European leaders, whether I agree with them or not, on particular issues, or even the general direction.

00:39:08.780 I totally get why they don't want Europe to be, in a sense, the U.S.'s bitch.

00:39:15.080 But it is.

00:39:16.260 In some respects, yes.

00:39:17.680 In some respects, no.

00:39:18.760 But the point is...

00:39:20.140 When something like the Nord Stream pipeline gets blown up and German industry is forced to collapse, and the collapse of German industry brings down the European economy with it, and people are bragging because Britain has a high GDP growth rate compared to the G7, which is 1%.

00:39:36.240 This sends a message to Europeans.

00:39:37.860 That means that the whole system is fundamentally broken.

00:39:40.800 Yeah, but that also sends...

00:39:42.020 And you don't fix the system by signaling your opposition to your allies, your enemies, and your people at the same time.

00:39:49.660 I think there are two things here, and I'm worried of derailing your segment.

00:39:53.480 Sure.

00:39:53.640 Two things in a thing is that the Nord Stream pipeline affair shows to Europeans that they are, in a way, they are alone.

00:40:02.900 Yes.

00:40:03.140 So, yeah, they have to act as if they are alone, in some sense.

00:40:07.380 And if they think that opposition, in some respects, and defense against Russia is in Europe's interests, and they do seem to be saying this, because if you focus on the rhetoric they use when it comes to the Poland and Belarus border, that's where they become far right in their own standards.

00:40:24.260 Yes.

00:40:24.540 So, I think that we could say that some of them, it's not necessarily that all of them are acting against Europe's interests in that very thing.

00:40:36.060 It doesn't mean that they have to be yes-men to Trump.

00:40:38.700 It deserves a longer discussion on why I disagree.

00:40:40.580 And in many cases, I like Trump.

00:40:43.580 But it doesn't mean that European leaders have to become yes-men to Trump.

00:40:46.660 Fair enough.

00:40:47.340 Fair enough.

00:40:47.880 I don't want to derail your segment, sorry.

00:40:50.780 But anyway, Keir Starmer is trying to ban X not only while going on lunatic foreign adventures, which he has absolutely no hope of winning.

00:40:59.900 He's also at his lowest approval rating in history, and in the history of British Prime Ministers.

00:41:07.240 Could it get lower?

00:41:08.060 He's still got time.

00:41:08.760 We're dealing with negative net 46.

00:41:12.480 So, yes, there is probably, you know, we could get to net 100% negative, I'm sure.

00:41:18.860 If anyone can do it.

00:41:20.580 We trust you, Keir.

00:41:21.560 We trust you.

00:41:25.080 But the government is also losing control of the streets.

00:41:28.380 Yes.

00:41:28.480 Because not only were there the summer riots and the flag campaign and the promise of more of the same because of the uncontrolled immigration and the uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration.

00:41:42.160 Now the Sikh are going to fight the Pakistanis because of Pakistani rape crimes.

00:41:49.600 So the diversity bit seems to be falling apart.

00:41:53.040 And tragically, this is the only language that the state understands, which is sort of people showing up in force and protesting.

00:42:01.360 When they're white, they get arrested.

00:42:03.280 When they're Sikhs, I'm pretty sure community relations will improve.

00:42:08.120 And to counter this, he's not just thinking about banning X.

00:42:15.580 The government seems to have ordered Ofcom to look at breaking up the ability to encrypt messages so that people can't secretly communicate with each other without the government knowing about it.

00:42:30.500 So that means that messages will be scanned before they're encrypted and sent.

00:42:38.100 So they're this terrified of the possibility of mass unrest.

00:42:41.900 I'm just really thinking about my meme group chats right now.

00:42:45.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:42:47.400 And you could sort of see why they're angry.

00:42:50.120 I mean, there is this app that basically helps you find people getting ratioed.

00:42:57.540 And every time the Labour Party opened their mouths, they get ratioed.

00:43:02.240 And it's genuinely funny because you could sort of go to their account and you can practically find not a single tweet where they haven't been ratioed.

00:43:13.460 And it's really the same for Hugh Starmer himself.

00:43:17.440 Every time he says something, I mean, look at this.

00:43:20.220 He got 6,000 likes for something and Rupert Law got 48,000.

00:43:26.540 King.

00:43:27.540 Absolute king.

00:43:28.580 Well, also as well, you know, the thing is that X just allows for a conversation about the state of Britain and what they've done to it that is just so far beyond what they want to reckon with.

00:43:39.460 Exactly.

00:43:40.340 They want everybody to be on Blue Sky and Reddit.

00:43:42.180 But if they think in any way that by, you know, getting rid of X in the United Kingdom, that all of a sudden those feelings that gave rise to the conversation are going to go away.

00:43:53.800 Exactly.

00:43:54.320 Well, you know, they're very naive.

00:43:56.180 Extremely naive.

00:43:57.600 I mean, look at this.

00:43:58.640 Every single thing he says, he either gets a community note or he gets a ratio or usually both.

00:44:06.280 He told his cabinet ministers to ignore the polls.

00:44:09.760 Look, this is one of them where he didn't get ratioed.

00:44:13.940 You know, he's just sort of bloviating.

00:44:16.200 It's completely substance free.

00:44:17.860 But the rest of it, you know.

00:44:20.000 I think the one time where he wasn't ratioed was when he did the Island of Strangers speech.

00:44:24.580 Yes.

00:44:25.460 Weirdly enough.

00:44:26.020 The one thing he backtracked on.

00:44:27.520 Weirdly enough.

00:44:28.940 Look at this.

00:44:29.660 His Christmas message.

00:44:31.080 16K versus 6K.

00:44:34.560 The guy is getting killed.

00:44:36.460 And I think this matters to him more than the safety of women and children because we've seen how he actually behaves in relation to the safety of women and children.

00:44:47.040 And we've seen how the Labour Party behaves.

00:44:49.600 They're also getting killed here.

00:44:50.940 Although this one, they didn't get killed.

00:44:53.600 This one is when Nadim Zahawi was calling out Nigel Farage.

00:44:56.380 So, you know, that's a different story.

00:44:58.500 I'm sure there will be a daily video about that.

00:45:00.880 But pretty much everything else, they're just getting murdered.

00:45:04.280 And so they're trying to ban X.

00:45:06.060 And in one week, Keir Starmer turned out to be the most ratioed guy on X.

00:45:13.860 Is it considered to just stop tweeting?

00:45:17.400 I feel bad for the poor interns and idiots who sort of have to sit around and tweet on his behalf.

00:45:25.460 I really feel bad about them.

00:45:29.160 And then they say that it's nothing to do with free speech and X is not about free speech.

00:45:32.960 Here is a clip collated by D.C. Draynor on the number of accounts that were suspended.

00:45:38.580 Just look at this.

00:45:42.780 Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Milo, Laura Loomer.

00:45:48.080 I don't know who that guy is.

00:45:49.560 Marjorie Green.

00:45:50.780 Roger Stone.

00:45:52.940 Steve Bannon.

00:45:54.220 Steve Bannon.

00:45:55.080 General Flynn.

00:45:56.340 Mike Lindell.

00:45:57.200 Just everybody was banned.

00:46:00.040 And then they claim that this isn't about free speech.

00:46:02.960 Now, the thing is that the Americans have had it.

00:46:06.780 And it really looks like they've had it.

00:46:09.220 And they're using X to signal their support for a color revolution in Britain.

00:46:14.120 And I'm not exaggerating.

00:46:17.000 We have the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers.

00:46:21.600 And she calls out Starmer for blocking a ban on cousin marriages.

00:46:27.560 Because in the national security strategy, the Americans said that Europe was losing its civilization and losing its entire history and collapsing because of immigration, which obviously pissed off the Europeans no end.

00:46:39.780 And here we're seeing her saying, look, if you're allowing cousin marriages, you're letting your civilization fall apart.

00:46:47.140 But it's remarkable in a way that, you know, J.D. Vance can go to Europe, give a speech, make a German cry.

00:46:53.240 And, you know, there's been all sorts of interventions from Washington on this front, on the question of European identity, on the questions of its very existential state of survival that it's put itself in.

00:47:05.300 They don't care.

00:47:05.720 And despite this, there's been no pivoting.

00:47:08.500 There's not even been really, as far as I can see, any shrewd or clever tactics on the part of these European elites to at least try and pretend that they're going along with the American strategy.

00:47:20.800 It's just one ham-fisted crackdown after the other.

00:47:23.700 Yes.

00:47:24.520 It's just one ham-fisted crackdown over the other.

00:47:26.800 And they don't seem to know what the hell that they're doing.

00:47:31.180 And here we see this undersecretary, Ms. Rogers, going on about things like how women get killed in these honor marriages that happen between cousins.

00:47:43.040 In these honor killings in communities that marry a lot of their cousins.

00:47:48.040 And Ofcom, you know, is talking about banning more websites and maybe going after Wikipedia.

00:47:58.360 And then she calls them out again.

00:48:01.360 When they're threatening to ban X, they're talking about protecting women and girls.

00:48:05.520 But when they're talking about rape victims, they call them white trash.

00:48:10.560 They call them white trash.

00:48:12.560 How's that?

00:48:13.680 How's that for protecting women and girls?

00:48:16.440 White trash.

00:48:18.040 J.D. Vance gets in on the act and points out that the Emiratis are actually banning their youth from studying in British universities because of the risk of radicalization, which doesn't get banned, which doesn't get policed.

00:48:34.400 Like, they don't go after these crazy mosques who are going on about who should be beheaded and who should be stoned and the proper way of stoning people and all of that stuff.

00:48:42.720 They don't go after them.

00:48:43.500 No emergency parliamentary session over this.

00:48:46.520 Exactly.

00:48:48.180 But that gets no action.

00:48:53.060 And again, they don't want to ban Blue Sky.

00:48:57.120 No.

00:48:58.060 And on Blue Sky, you see open calls for murder.

00:49:01.020 And the same in Australia.

00:49:02.700 Blue Sky was the one exception to the social media ban for under-16s.

00:49:07.460 Yes.

00:49:08.540 But it allows calls for murder for its political opponents.

00:49:12.720 So this isn't about free speech.

00:49:14.740 This isn't about protecting girls.

00:49:16.000 What is this about?

00:49:16.980 This is about control.

00:49:18.820 This is about a ridiculously paranoid regime.

00:49:22.100 I love the account that she's quote-tweeting.

00:49:24.260 Yeah.

00:49:24.520 I mean, what a crossover.

00:49:27.060 Sorry, Carrie.

00:49:28.020 Yes.

00:49:28.860 Yes.

00:49:29.640 Fair.

00:49:30.460 Fair.

00:49:30.980 Fair point.

00:49:31.540 Look at this.

00:49:36.740 They're banning platforms left and right all over Europe.

00:49:39.920 And that's the coalition of the willing that he's trying to build.

00:49:43.360 But it seems that these guys don't actually know what they're doing.

00:49:48.680 Firstly, Elon Musk has a role here.

00:49:52.900 He is Trump's hunting hound, essentially.

00:49:56.140 His role is to go and target these kinds of officials that are cracking down on free speech,

00:50:05.500 that are cracking down on dissent, that are trying to keep Europe and the United Kingdom

00:50:13.380 beholden to the extreme far left, of which Keir Starmer is the leader, of which Keir Starmer

00:50:19.940 is the leader in this country.

00:50:22.460 And what they're trying to do is, what Musk is trying to do is to trigger these people

00:50:29.520 so that they overreact.

00:50:31.360 And then Trump comes crashing down on them with tariffs and with sanctions and so on.

00:50:37.380 And we've already seen the Americans impose sanctions on European officials for their role

00:50:44.100 in policing speech.

00:50:45.020 And so what they're trying to do is instigate a major crisis between themselves and the

00:50:51.620 United States.

00:50:52.380 But we know from the trade negotiations and from everything to do with defense that they

00:50:57.940 can't win this crisis.

00:51:00.140 They're just betting on maybe Trump losing in 2026 so that he loses momentum or ultimately

00:51:06.300 losing in 2028 and getting a Democrat in power.

00:51:09.880 But even if that happens, by the time that happens, they're not going to be in office in

00:51:13.880 the United Kingdom because Farage will have come in.

00:51:16.100 So either way, they're on borrowed time, it seems.

00:51:19.260 Well, their bet when it comes to the elections here is that the combination of the Boris Wave

00:51:23.540 voters, a lot of them from the Commonwealth who can vote and whose opinions are not reflected

00:51:28.760 in the polling.

00:51:29.480 And that's a big problem.

00:51:30.600 Yeah.

00:51:30.980 Yeah.

00:51:32.120 And the under 18s who can now vote, the 16 to 18 year olds who are indoctrinated by the

00:51:38.040 school system.

00:51:38.760 Well, it seems like they're going to go green, unless, of course, it's tactical voting.

00:51:42.580 And in tactical voting, they end up building some kind of coalition and keep on importing

00:51:48.000 voters until they make it permanent.

00:51:50.120 So this is what they're betting on.

00:51:52.260 And they're betting that Trump doesn't escalate this further.

00:51:56.220 But it's also worth remembering that in various countries that have done this kind of insane

00:52:02.180 policy, it's sort of dramatically backfired.

00:52:05.660 The protests that happened in Bangladesh were over hiring policies by the state.

00:52:12.200 In Algeria, it was the president announcing that he's running again, which everybody thought

00:52:18.000 would trigger nothing because he'd been governing for 12 years.

00:52:20.820 And even though he was in a vegetative state, it wouldn't change anything.

00:52:24.580 But that actually kicked things off.

00:52:28.120 In Nepal, it was basically a ban on social media.

00:52:33.380 In Lebanon, the 2019 unrest was because the stupid government thought that they could tax

00:52:38.220 WhatsApp, which they didn't have the technical ability to do to begin with.

00:52:43.120 But it triggered a massive wave of unrest that sort of toppled the government.

00:52:46.280 And so these guys don't seem to realize that this kind of policy can backfire and that there

00:52:53.720 is an international geopolitical climate that is dead set against them in the same way that

00:52:58.620 we talk about the geopolitical climate around Iran being dead set against them.

00:53:02.780 They don't understand that the public seems to have had enough.

00:53:06.580 And the summer protests over the migrant hotels were one key indicator there.

00:53:12.780 And they seem to think that they could just get away with anything.

00:53:16.280 So, yeah, they want to ban X, but it could backfire quite spectacularly.

00:53:22.480 And Musk's role is to trigger this.

00:53:25.300 He's one of the country's top defense contractors.

00:53:28.840 The protests in Iran wouldn't exist without Starlink feeding information.

00:53:32.700 And the Ukrainian army couldn't fight if it didn't have Starlink for its communications.

00:53:38.440 So the idea that you can cross this man and get away with it...

00:53:43.800 Because he's made himself so indispensable.

00:53:45.640 For the defense establishment.

00:53:47.120 Yeah.

00:53:47.940 At a time when the U.S. has really had enough...

00:53:51.160 Like, you guys are playing with fire here and the public have had it with you.

00:53:56.000 And they seem to have zero awareness of all of this.

00:54:00.260 Zero.

00:54:02.460 Anyway, I'll leave it there.

00:54:04.220 Well, zero awareness that they're willing to share with the public.

00:54:07.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:08.160 I mean, just...

00:54:09.640 I think there's a list here of the countries that have banned X.

00:54:13.820 Iran, China, Russia, Burma, Venezuela, North Korea, and Turkmenistan.

00:54:19.300 And the UK and Australia are looking to join that list.

00:54:22.800 Yeah.

00:54:23.020 It's funny as well, isn't it, as well?

00:54:24.480 Because if you...

00:54:25.680 Whenever they talk about the ECHR, they're like,

00:54:27.740 oh, do you want to be like Russia?

00:54:28.840 Do you want to be like Belarus?

00:54:30.060 Do you want to be like the people on this bad list?

00:54:33.500 Well, when it comes to this,

00:54:34.900 obviously those sorts of things don't matter quite as much.

00:54:37.540 Yeah.

00:54:38.900 Anyway, let me have a look at the comments here.

00:54:42.920 That's a random name.

00:54:44.060 Based on what's happened with Maduro and the bans on certain Eurocrats,

00:54:48.480 I welcome this belligerence from Starmer if it leads to regime change in Europe.

00:54:53.480 Yeah, I can see where you're coming from, buddy.

00:54:56.760 Not just a string.

00:54:58.620 Dubious AI services are banned.

00:55:00.380 And X region blocks AI services, et cetera, from the UK.

00:55:04.180 Fixed.

00:55:05.160 Not doing this proves incompetency.

00:55:06.900 I have no idea what's going on here.

00:55:08.800 Oh, PH UK.

00:55:10.720 You can't trust a Greek on Iran.

00:55:12.800 You're being called out, Stelios.

00:55:14.540 Sorry.

00:55:15.160 Because he's trying to remake Alexander's empire again.

00:55:19.220 Yeah.

00:55:19.800 Yeah.

00:55:20.780 I mean, I don't blame Persians.

00:55:22.900 He did.

00:55:23.420 Exactly.

00:55:24.140 After he conquered them,

00:55:25.380 which is exactly how you should like people.

00:55:26.760 Yeah.

00:55:27.840 All right.

00:55:28.180 If we could go over to my segment, Samson.

00:55:32.320 Thank you very much.

00:55:34.420 All right then, ladies and gentlemen.

00:55:36.340 So, obviously, as you know, to lead on from what you were just saying, Firas,

00:55:40.720 the current government knows that it is deeply, deeply unpopular,

00:55:46.360 which is why every year there's an ever more encroaching surveillance state.

00:55:52.600 And it's why Prevent, the unit of the Home Office that specializes in counterterrorism,

00:55:59.440 seems to keep finding an ever more expansive list of potential candidates who could one day become terrorists.

00:56:08.200 Now, you start with really, really trivial things like this from back a few years ago,

00:56:13.540 where I talked about there was a list that came out about some of the types of TV shows and books

00:56:19.280 that prevent thought were problematic and could be, you know, sort of low-key signals for white supremacists.

00:56:29.040 These such things included Yes Minister, you know, that show that your dad used to watch back in the 80s,

00:56:36.200 and The Thick of It, a show that was literally made during the Blair era.

00:56:42.080 And so it's remarkable, really, thinking about the fact that all of these standard British television shows

00:56:49.500 that have just started becoming cult classics were actually enabling terrorism all this time.

00:56:55.860 All this time.

00:56:56.720 Who would have guessed?

00:56:57.760 Obviously, The Lord of the Rings was another one that they came after in C.S. Lewis as well.

00:57:05.140 And on that note, obviously, one of the reasons why they hate The Lord of the Rings so much

00:57:10.780 is because it speaks to eternal virtues in the human character, such as heroism and the contemplation of power,

00:57:20.120 the responsibilities come with it, and where abuses of it can lead us down a dark path.

00:57:26.600 And if you're interested in such themes as heroism and power, we now have Islander Issue 5,

00:57:33.900 where we talk about these themes explicitly in great detail.

00:57:38.480 There are many, many wonderful articles in it by some fantastic writers,

00:57:43.520 such as Carl Benjamin, Will Tanner, academic agent, Morgoth.

00:57:47.740 I've written a piece all about Aragorn, so, yeah, there's plenty of reading material in there

00:57:54.180 that Prevent would not like.

00:57:56.320 So do go and give it a read for £14.99.

00:57:59.980 It's very, very good.

00:58:01.000 Another thing to say, though, as well, is that beyond, like, you know, sort of them saying,

00:58:07.100 oh, well, this TV programme's a bit problematic, or this particular show or book is problematic,

00:58:13.680 obviously, it goes much deeper than this.

00:58:15.660 Now, Connor did a fantastic job back in 2024, talking about how Prevent works with Raikou and the Home Office

00:58:23.500 and all of these other government agencies, not just to control the flow of information that you have,

00:58:31.460 but also how you react to the compounding problems that the state constantly sets against you

00:58:39.700 in one of the worst examples of it, in terms of how Raikou and Prevent actually have the temerity

00:58:47.520 to tell you how you may appropriately grieve after, you know, a terror attack, right?

00:58:54.800 That's, like, the actual level of power that they've taken onto themselves.

00:58:59.640 Absolutely monstrous.

00:59:01.860 And what's more as well, I just wanted to say that I have some more work here,

00:59:07.240 all about Rudyard Kipling, who is also on the terror list,

00:59:11.060 so if you want to go and watch a great chronicles about one of Prevent's mortal enemies,

00:59:17.860 even though he's been dead for quite a while, shows the power of his writing, ladies and gentlemen,

00:59:22.760 you can go and watch that.

00:59:24.300 So where is all of this going?

00:59:26.220 Well, like I say, they control how you react to terror attacks,

00:59:30.440 they control how you react to the sort of information that you take in,

00:59:35.380 which comes down to one of the things that you were saying, Feras,

00:59:38.060 about why they're trying to ban X with such fervour,

00:59:43.080 and now they've finally, you know, the rag, squeezing out the rag of terrorists

00:59:48.880 until they've finally arrived at your children,

00:59:52.600 because Prevent, in combination with the whole city council

00:59:58.920 and the East Riding of Yorkshire, have created a video game for your children

01:00:04.980 between the ages of 11 and 18 to play at school under the guidance of their teacher.

01:00:13.040 And basically, by playing this video game,

01:00:16.300 you can gain counselling and help if you think for a second,

01:00:22.580 and if you dare to contemplate for a second that actually,

01:00:26.580 maybe this multiculturalism thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.

01:00:30.640 My grandfather always talks about how safe it was in Britain only 50, 60 years ago.

01:00:36.440 Why is everything like this?

01:00:38.060 Why is it every time I go out my door,

01:00:40.320 I just look upon the third world who I never asked to be here?

01:00:43.980 And all of these sorts of things.

01:00:45.640 And so it's kind of, again, like where they think they get the licence

01:00:50.980 to do this sort of thing, I will never know.

01:00:54.400 But let's talk about it a bit more, shall we?

01:00:57.040 So characters can face extremism referrals

01:01:00.360 if they choose to engage with groups that spread, quote,

01:01:04.680 harmful ideological messages,

01:01:07.120 or join protests against the erosion of British values.

01:01:11.520 Even researching online immigration statistics is portrayed negatively.

01:01:20.980 Now, one of the things I just want to say about this as well

01:01:23.520 is that the whole term of British values

01:01:27.580 is very much within a pocket of actually the state's language, right?

01:01:31.420 That is the language of the Blair Wright establishment.

01:01:34.260 That is language that they are comfortable with when discussing identity.

01:01:38.900 So how it is that they should want to diminish

01:01:44.680 the interest of a young man or woman

01:01:47.860 who cares about the erosion of such British values,

01:01:51.180 I will never know.

01:01:52.400 Why would they be penalised for that?

01:01:54.200 When Kemi Benenoch says that she doesn't feel Nigerian,

01:01:57.240 that she is in fact Yoruba,

01:01:59.060 and all of the other Nigerians are her ethnic enemies,

01:02:02.360 should we be referring Kemi Benenoch to Brevent?

01:02:05.080 Because she's radicalised against the Igbo?

01:02:07.260 Maybe the Nigerian wing of Prevent.

01:02:10.420 Yeah, is there one?

01:02:12.320 Yes, it's probably...

01:02:13.820 I'm sure the BBC probably has a brand name.

01:02:16.600 There's probably a BBC Pigeon article about the Nigerian Prevent.

01:02:21.060 I suspect so.

01:02:23.000 I feel like I'm not even in the real world sometimes.

01:02:27.640 Yeah, well, that's what this segment is about,

01:02:30.280 to really just make you guess at reality.

01:02:32.660 The game was developed with government backing,

01:02:34.940 and so, yes, your taxpaying money did go into making this game,

01:02:40.020 ladies and gentlemen,

01:02:41.220 backing by councils in East Yorkshire

01:02:43.720 over growing concerns about immigration

01:02:46.060 and tensions about migrant accommodation in their communities.

01:02:51.380 It goes on to point out as well

01:02:53.280 that you can basically play between two characters,

01:02:57.640 a man and a woman,

01:02:58.640 but in both scenarios,

01:03:01.400 depending on what you pick,

01:03:02.860 the pronouns are always they

01:03:04.340 in this video game.

01:03:06.740 That's just hard-baked into...

01:03:09.420 I have to stop you

01:03:10.660 because even the beginning of it is insane.

01:03:15.360 Young players...

01:03:17.120 Hold on.

01:03:18.660 That is it.

01:03:20.720 A white teenager...

01:03:21.760 to avoid being reported for extreme right-wing ideologies.

01:03:25.540 The purpose of the game...

01:03:26.860 Yes.

01:03:27.620 ...is to navigate the police state...

01:03:29.680 Yes.

01:03:30.100 ...so that you're not reported for extreme right-wing ideology.

01:03:33.420 But what's more as well...

01:03:34.400 And they don't think this might backfire.

01:03:36.000 But also what's more as well...

01:03:37.180 If you lose, you get referred.

01:03:38.340 But obviously what it is...

01:03:40.280 Yeah.

01:03:40.740 But what it is as well is

01:03:42.040 because when you look at the age range

01:03:43.740 that this game is targeted towards,

01:03:46.800 obviously if you've got an 11-year-old kid

01:03:49.360 who really, for all intents and purposes,

01:03:52.120 should not really have any political thoughts

01:03:54.260 at the age of 11,

01:03:55.800 I think you're entitled to a childhood.

01:03:57.980 And sure, you might talk about it

01:03:59.760 around the family dinner table or anything,

01:04:01.520 but I think that I'm a strong believer

01:04:03.780 that children should be able to have that childhood.

01:04:06.240 What they're doing is basically

01:04:08.880 setting up scare tactics.

01:04:12.560 Sorry, I apologize,

01:04:14.460 but I have to interrupt you again.

01:04:16.660 I worked with a bunch of people in Egypt for a while

01:04:20.480 and I had to go there a lot

01:04:22.240 and interview people all the time.

01:04:24.760 The worst thing about being there

01:04:26.700 was the sense that everybody

01:04:29.200 was psychologically broken in,

01:04:31.560 that everybody was psychologically tamed

01:04:33.880 and did not dare say anything

01:04:37.700 for fear that it might upset me

01:04:40.540 or upset any form of authority.

01:04:44.000 What these guys are doing

01:04:45.560 is setting up a video game

01:04:47.440 to create that psychological brokenness

01:04:52.100 in 11 to 18-year-olds.

01:04:54.520 Yes.

01:04:55.760 This is evil.

01:04:57.420 I heard about this game

01:04:58.920 and I assumed that it was evil,

01:05:00.820 but I didn't imagine that it was that evil.

01:05:02.640 It's very, yeah, it's completely evil.

01:05:06.400 It goes on to make a point as well

01:05:08.360 that the Pathways game was designed

01:05:10.520 for use in schools, specifically.

01:05:13.400 It is designed for educational purposes.

01:05:15.820 Home schooling, here we come.

01:05:16.940 Yeah, to combat, as you say,

01:05:18.520 the extreme right-wing narratives

01:05:19.880 and it goes on to just point out

01:05:21.980 the fact that around the whole area

01:05:24.180 and the East Riding of Yorkshire,

01:05:26.220 it won't surprise you to hear

01:05:27.900 people that, just like everywhere else

01:05:31.100 in England as it happened,

01:05:32.720 are getting quite sick to the back teeth

01:05:34.980 with demographic replacement

01:05:36.320 and the degradation of their culture

01:05:39.420 and their way of life.

01:05:41.060 And so the establishment

01:05:43.300 are looking at the radicalisation

01:05:46.800 of the younger generations.

01:05:48.960 And I have to say as well,

01:05:50.040 there was always a part of me

01:05:51.580 some years back

01:05:53.060 that wondered which way

01:05:54.460 the younger generations were going to go.

01:05:56.920 Because on the one hand,

01:05:58.200 you know, I've been born right

01:05:59.440 at the end of 96.

01:06:00.740 I've only ever known

01:06:01.980 the Blair Wright Project, right?

01:06:03.620 I've only ever really known

01:06:05.120 diverse Britain.

01:06:06.880 And so there comes a point

01:06:08.140 where you think,

01:06:08.800 okay, but sure,

01:06:10.580 I get it for the older people

01:06:11.820 because they've seen the change.

01:06:13.540 They've actually seen this

01:06:14.560 forced upon them.

01:06:15.440 But if you've never known the change,

01:06:17.300 if all you've ever known is this,

01:06:20.040 does that actually diminish

01:06:22.120 that sense of rebellion in you

01:06:25.320 and that sense of reactionary spirit?

01:06:28.480 That's why they made Anne Boleyn black, right?

01:06:30.500 Right.

01:06:30.900 That's why they insert

01:06:32.080 these diverse characters

01:06:33.520 in historic context.

01:06:35.400 So that you think

01:06:35.920 it has always been this way

01:06:37.080 and actually there never was

01:06:38.180 a revolution to begin with.

01:06:40.300 And so they're targeting

01:06:42.240 your young children

01:06:44.040 because ultimately,

01:06:45.820 if they dare have any sort of concern

01:06:48.420 about immigration

01:06:49.340 or about crime

01:06:51.220 or about cultural barriers

01:06:53.540 or just any of the things

01:06:55.040 that we constantly talk about on here,

01:06:57.700 Prevent have got their eye on them, right?

01:06:59.660 They've got their eye on them,

01:07:00.980 which is really, really dark.

01:07:03.020 And so I thought

01:07:04.580 to round off this Monday segment,

01:07:07.520 we might play this game.

01:07:09.380 Oh, please.

01:07:10.400 So let's have a crack at it, shall we?

01:07:13.000 It shouldn't take too long.

01:07:14.220 I played it once this morning.

01:07:15.660 I won't tell you whether or not

01:07:17.240 I made the extremism list.

01:07:19.600 I'll leave that to myself.

01:07:20.640 But let's talk through it, shall we?

01:07:23.020 So press start.

01:07:24.520 I'll just skip through

01:07:25.280 all of the instructions.

01:07:26.920 We know how to play video games here,

01:07:28.740 don't we?

01:07:29.600 It doesn't matter.

01:07:30.440 You're a they,

01:07:31.140 whichever one you pick,

01:07:32.180 but we'll go for the guy

01:07:33.120 and we'll make a start.

01:07:35.460 So Charlie was enjoying

01:07:37.760 an online game with friends.

01:07:40.180 Charlie had not started

01:07:41.560 long attending a new school

01:07:43.620 in East Riding

01:07:44.460 and they were so relieved.

01:07:45.700 He was so...

01:07:46.600 You're going to get this a lot.

01:07:48.220 He was so relieved

01:07:49.040 to have made new friends

01:07:50.500 at the school left recently.

01:07:52.920 Charlie has started browsing

01:07:54.080 new games and websites

01:07:55.600 that some of the new friends use.

01:07:58.280 Ooh.

01:07:59.460 Sometimes, though,

01:08:00.480 the people on these websites

01:08:01.920 say things that seem off,

01:08:04.200 even, Stelios,

01:08:05.520 slightly concerning.

01:08:07.160 No, we wouldn't want

01:08:07.800 to be slightly concerned.

01:08:08.940 Someone on this website

01:08:10.560 has encouraged Charlie

01:08:12.400 to download a video

01:08:13.840 and you know what?

01:08:15.140 It's breakfast with Beau.

01:08:16.660 That's what they've done.

01:08:18.640 Tried to get him

01:08:19.380 to download Beau's breakfast show.

01:08:20.800 But Charlie is unsure.

01:08:22.160 Go on, Charlie.

01:08:22.900 Take that.

01:08:23.380 It's instinct.

01:08:24.220 If you feel you shouldn't do it,

01:08:26.040 you probably shouldn't do it.

01:08:27.620 Yeah.

01:08:28.120 Go on, Charlie.

01:08:28.840 Take the plunge.

01:08:29.780 So, how should Charlie react?

01:08:31.820 Should he tell a trusted adult?

01:08:34.120 Should he talk to a stranger online

01:08:35.880 to find out more about the video

01:08:37.180 or should we just download it?

01:08:39.540 What do you think?

01:08:41.300 Go on.

01:08:41.740 I mean, I just, I don't.

01:08:42.720 This is interact.

01:08:43.420 This is a, you know.

01:08:44.680 I choose option D

01:08:45.900 with none of the above.

01:08:47.720 All right.

01:08:48.340 Well, the closest.

01:08:49.040 Just don't click.

01:08:49.840 Don't click on it

01:08:50.500 because there could be

01:08:51.560 bad people out there

01:08:52.840 trying to fish you

01:08:54.740 and especially young children

01:08:56.180 don't know exactly

01:08:57.180 how they be fished.

01:08:59.400 Closest we can get to D

01:09:00.480 is C, I'm afraid, Stelios.

01:09:01.920 So, let's download the video.

01:09:03.860 Charlie, we wanted to continue.

01:09:04.980 You extremist, you.

01:09:05.640 You got me.

01:09:10.080 Download the video.

01:09:11.220 Download it.

01:09:11.800 Share it with different people online.

01:09:13.460 Oh, and you can see this meter here.

01:09:15.560 Yep.

01:09:15.780 This is a terror meter.

01:09:17.240 This is, this is basically

01:09:19.940 how close you are

01:09:21.260 to being radicalized

01:09:22.980 versus how close you are

01:09:24.580 to being, you know,

01:09:25.520 like Starmer's, yeah.

01:09:28.280 Starmer's perfect test subject.

01:09:30.920 So, deep down,

01:09:32.360 Charlie wasn't sure

01:09:33.380 if this was the right thing to do.

01:09:34.900 As some of the ideas

01:09:36.400 in the video

01:09:36.960 were extreme and violent.

01:09:39.580 And it's important to remember

01:09:41.160 downloading or streaming

01:09:42.440 certain content

01:09:43.360 can lead to a terror offensive,

01:09:45.880 terror offense conviction.

01:09:47.640 This is the other reason

01:09:48.520 why I wanted to play the game.

01:09:49.620 When you look at the actual language

01:09:51.260 in the life of addiction.

01:09:52.640 given to, like, 11-year-olds,

01:09:55.440 12-year-olds,

01:09:56.180 this is the sort of thing

01:09:57.160 that they're being scared with

01:09:58.860 and confronted with.

01:10:00.300 You were going to say something,

01:10:01.600 Firas, I think.

01:10:03.460 Right.

01:10:03.820 Just to encourage you.

01:10:04.500 Let me be devil's advocate for me.

01:10:06.980 Just for, you know,

01:10:07.700 for...

01:10:08.080 Okay.

01:10:08.580 ...for conversation's sake.

01:10:09.640 I think that the internet

01:10:12.320 can be an extremely scary place,

01:10:14.700 especially for children.

01:10:17.020 And perhaps one of the ways

01:10:18.540 to make them find out,

01:10:20.920 not in the FAFO sense,

01:10:23.200 but it is to scare them.

01:10:25.200 That doesn't mean

01:10:26.040 that the particular way

01:10:27.200 and the particular message

01:10:28.320 they're using is bad.

01:10:29.700 But you do want to convey

01:10:31.880 a sense of urgency

01:10:33.200 and a sense of danger

01:10:34.880 to children

01:10:35.480 in the...

01:10:37.720 on the internet.

01:10:39.440 Well, obviously,

01:10:40.100 I agree with you.

01:10:40.860 You want to raise children

01:10:42.200 to use the internet responsibly.

01:10:44.780 But, of course,

01:10:45.420 the point with this particular game

01:10:47.020 is there's nowhere in there

01:10:48.120 where it says something like,

01:10:49.620 oh, Charlie downloaded a video

01:10:51.400 and it convinced him

01:10:52.440 to change himself

01:10:53.360 into becoming a woman.

01:10:54.760 You know,

01:10:55.120 or anything like that.

01:10:56.720 You know,

01:10:57.040 like, oh, you know,

01:10:57.800 Amelia...

01:10:58.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:10:58.540 Amelia decided to cut her tits off.

01:11:00.580 Yeah, but that's the point.

01:11:01.640 That's the point.

01:11:02.320 It's...

01:11:02.960 What I'm trying to make

01:11:04.040 is that you have to tell children

01:11:06.420 that there are going to be

01:11:07.720 people out there

01:11:08.560 who will try to tell them

01:11:09.980 to chop their parts off.

01:11:12.640 Yes.

01:11:13.340 So it's not that...

01:11:14.640 It's not that them being scared

01:11:16.740 that is the issue

01:11:17.740 as far as I'm concerned.

01:11:18.900 It's what they're telling them

01:11:20.760 that is...

01:11:21.780 That constitutes...

01:11:22.500 Yeah, to be scared about.

01:11:23.480 Be scared about.

01:11:23.980 It's not the values

01:11:24.740 that they're trying to shape.

01:11:25.820 And the point is,

01:11:26.600 well,

01:11:27.220 they're telling them

01:11:28.140 and to...

01:11:29.520 But it's worse than that

01:11:30.780 because they're...

01:11:31.380 You're ultra-libertarian here.

01:11:32.520 They're actively telling them

01:11:33.840 not to be concerned

01:11:35.820 about something

01:11:36.660 that they are confronted with

01:11:38.800 day in, day out.

01:11:40.240 Yep.

01:11:40.520 And will have to live with

01:11:42.640 in perpetuity

01:11:44.180 if this government

01:11:45.500 gets its way,

01:11:46.840 which, you know,

01:11:47.680 God willing, it won't.

01:11:48.960 This is a particular highlight

01:11:50.340 for me where it says,

01:11:51.020 Charlie takes a seat in class

01:11:52.640 and waits to get his grade.

01:11:55.980 To his disappointment,

01:11:57.280 Charlie doesn't do as well

01:11:58.320 as he was expecting.

01:11:59.560 He got 60 out of 100 for his work

01:12:01.840 and he needed 75 to pass.

01:12:04.080 To make matters worse,

01:12:05.560 somebody else got 80 out of 100

01:12:08.920 and the teacher said

01:12:10.240 that this person

01:12:11.040 has received a job offer.

01:12:12.860 Even before that,

01:12:13.940 this was for a hospitality class.

01:12:15.760 Instead of saying,

01:12:17.100 become an engineer,

01:12:18.220 become something useful in life.

01:12:19.460 Yeah.

01:12:20.340 It's about, you know,

01:12:21.620 go become a waiter.

01:12:22.760 Okay.

01:12:23.300 Charlie has applied

01:12:24.060 to dozens of jobs,

01:12:25.660 but he hasn't had any luck yet.

01:12:27.460 They're children.

01:12:28.260 Wait, wait, wait.

01:12:29.100 Somebody else in the class

01:12:30.540 tells Charlie

01:12:31.420 that this is proof

01:12:32.560 that immigrants

01:12:33.160 are coming to the UK

01:12:34.380 and taking our jobs.

01:12:36.340 Wow.

01:12:36.940 Wow.

01:12:37.560 Supply and demand.

01:12:38.660 Smart girl.

01:12:39.640 How should Charlie react?

01:12:40.940 Well, I think we have to

01:12:41.940 agree and comment

01:12:42.960 and explore the idea

01:12:43.980 further personally.

01:12:45.640 Charlie approaches

01:12:46.200 a classmate angrily.

01:12:47.940 He agrees with the ideas

01:12:49.100 and begins shouting

01:12:50.060 about them in class.

01:12:52.000 The teacher

01:12:52.960 let Charlie know

01:12:53.980 that the school

01:12:54.620 has a zero tolerance

01:12:55.940 on hate speech.

01:12:57.620 The teacher was concerned

01:12:59.140 about Charlie's outburst

01:13:01.040 and tried to get

01:13:01.940 to the bottom of it.

01:13:03.340 And obviously,

01:13:04.240 we've been put in isolation

01:13:05.880 for our troubles.

01:13:08.820 Okay.

01:13:10.140 Chilling in the room now.

01:13:11.520 I mean, is this what

01:13:12.240 making of a mass shooter

01:13:13.460 or what is this about?

01:13:14.760 Well, he's now seeing

01:13:16.220 more videos online.

01:13:17.420 And essentially,

01:13:18.520 what you get to is

01:13:19.240 this is unbelievable.

01:13:20.460 Charlie watches a video

01:13:21.560 and learns from the video

01:13:22.740 that Muslim men

01:13:23.820 are stealing the places

01:13:25.420 of British war veterans

01:13:27.100 in emergency accommodation.

01:13:29.200 Now, why on earth

01:13:30.580 would Charlie think that?

01:13:32.720 What a crazy crackhead

01:13:34.340 you are, Charlie.

01:13:35.520 It's not just that.

01:13:36.540 It's that the very language

01:13:37.700 they're using

01:13:38.220 is trying to bait you.

01:13:39.880 Because from their perspective,

01:13:41.960 they would say that

01:13:42.880 this doesn't constitute stealing.

01:13:44.720 And they would say,

01:13:46.060 Charlie watches the video

01:13:47.020 and learns from the video

01:13:48.020 that Muslim men

01:13:48.720 are taking places

01:13:49.840 of British war veterans

01:13:51.220 in emergency accommodation.

01:13:52.980 Whereas,

01:13:54.300 they are sort of trying

01:13:55.520 to lure you into this.

01:13:58.140 Yeah.

01:13:59.060 Yeah, absolutely.

01:14:00.060 So they're trying

01:14:00.900 to identify the threats

01:14:02.040 at a very early age

01:14:03.020 that they could police them.

01:14:04.020 It's like, let's throw you

01:14:04.960 some traps

01:14:06.040 so you fall into them.

01:14:07.780 And we refer to you

01:14:09.340 as a extremist.

01:14:11.020 Well, in this video,

01:14:12.460 they explain that the government

01:14:14.220 is betraying

01:14:15.200 white British people

01:14:16.320 and we need to take back

01:14:17.980 control of our country.

01:14:19.360 So, obviously,

01:14:20.340 this shows as well,

01:14:21.340 complete...

01:14:22.320 It's not that Labour

01:14:24.140 and those in charge

01:14:25.660 and the establishment

01:14:26.420 don't understand

01:14:28.080 our concerns

01:14:29.040 or haven't heard us by now.

01:14:30.700 We've been shouting it

01:14:31.580 long enough.

01:14:32.380 They understand perfectly

01:14:33.860 what we think

01:14:34.760 and why we think it.

01:14:36.100 They just don't want that.

01:14:37.680 They have a different

01:14:38.640 future in mind

01:14:39.560 and it is one built

01:14:41.140 on your immiseration

01:14:42.820 and the immiseration

01:14:44.940 of your children.

01:14:46.340 How should Charlie react?

01:14:47.740 Well, we should engage

01:14:48.520 with it directly, of course.

01:14:49.920 No need to be a coward

01:14:51.040 about all of this.

01:14:52.760 Immediately it begins,

01:14:53.540 type in comments.

01:14:54.780 I'll just keep going through it.

01:14:56.700 Some concerns about

01:14:58.240 replacement as well.

01:15:00.260 The word replacement

01:15:01.040 is used in one of them.

01:15:03.220 Basically,

01:15:03.800 and it goes on

01:15:04.440 to make a point as well.

01:15:05.600 I will stop playing

01:15:06.460 the game now

01:15:06.940 and just carry

01:15:07.700 and talk about it.

01:15:08.540 It wasn't that fun.

01:15:09.800 But all this to say as well

01:15:11.140 that this particular segment,

01:15:12.480 you can see

01:15:13.200 how the game is structured,

01:15:15.280 that it takes you

01:15:16.260 through different aspects

01:15:18.560 of a child's life.

01:15:20.320 So you have

01:15:20.880 how things go at school,

01:15:22.520 how things go

01:15:23.360 at the family dinner table,

01:15:24.780 and it basically is...

01:15:26.020 Wait, is the family dinner

01:15:27.020 two women and the boy?

01:15:29.200 Where's the father?

01:15:29.940 Where's the final boss?

01:15:31.000 We need to see it.

01:15:31.840 No, where's the father?

01:15:32.540 I don't know.

01:15:34.060 Should we keep scrolling through

01:15:35.020 and see if we can find a father?

01:15:37.180 Charlie's very concerned

01:15:38.140 about English rights,

01:15:39.380 which makes sense to me.

01:15:40.780 Again, we'll join

01:15:41.500 this secret group,

01:15:42.720 which is honestly

01:15:43.660 probably just like

01:15:44.600 a sharp posting

01:15:45.880 Facebook page,

01:15:46.880 if anything,

01:15:47.480 because they're great.

01:15:49.400 Amelia.

01:15:50.240 Amelia's our last.

01:15:51.220 She's very based

01:15:51.860 in this game,

01:15:52.500 to be honest with you.

01:15:53.340 She cares very greatly

01:15:55.080 about the things

01:15:55.740 that we're concerned about.

01:15:56.940 No, there doesn't seem

01:15:58.060 to be any farther,

01:15:59.580 but one of the points

01:16:00.480 that I was going to just say

01:16:01.860 was it takes you through

01:16:03.560 all these different aspects

01:16:05.680 of a young person's life

01:16:07.980 and basically says,

01:16:08.840 look, if you are concerned

01:16:10.960 about these sorts of things,

01:16:12.940 this will create enormous tension

01:16:15.040 in your life, right?

01:16:16.300 It is showing you

01:16:17.240 that if you go down this path

01:16:19.520 of caring about these things,

01:16:21.780 of voicing concerns

01:16:22.800 about these things,

01:16:24.040 your life is going to be harder

01:16:25.860 and you're going to meet

01:16:26.700 with a lot more resistance.

01:16:28.640 And don't get me wrong.

01:16:29.900 She's trying to break you.

01:16:30.480 They're right about that.

01:16:31.740 Yeah.

01:16:32.260 But it's only because

01:16:33.280 it's structured,

01:16:34.640 the system is structured

01:16:35.520 in such a way.

01:16:36.260 It's only because they're evil.

01:16:37.100 Yes.

01:16:37.660 That they're trying to break you.

01:16:38.740 That's the long and short of it.

01:16:40.020 Yeah.

01:16:40.800 So Charlie's mum

01:16:41.720 was not pleased

01:16:42.460 and grew suspicious

01:16:43.320 of all the new activity

01:16:44.960 her child's...

01:16:46.720 His mother is going to report

01:16:47.440 him to prevent, is she?

01:16:48.400 Yeah.

01:16:48.720 And so essentially

01:16:50.200 what happens

01:16:50.860 when it comes to

01:16:52.360 the sixth one

01:16:53.660 is based on that

01:16:55.360 terror meter,

01:16:56.700 you get reported

01:16:57.900 to prevent.

01:16:58.980 You end up having

01:16:59.660 an intervention from prevent

01:17:00.920 and then there's this

01:17:02.180 wonderful, very pretty visual

01:17:04.160 just sort of showing

01:17:05.460 how prevent are the good guys

01:17:06.920 and how you don't need

01:17:08.700 to be worried about them.

01:17:09.780 They're here to get you

01:17:11.000 back on the right path

01:17:12.320 again.

01:17:13.740 So it is honestly...

01:17:15.040 I don't think the Stasi

01:17:15.960 were this banal

01:17:17.040 or that evil.

01:17:18.120 No.

01:17:19.680 I mean, it's levels of evil

01:17:21.080 that I wouldn't even be able

01:17:22.380 to think of creating.

01:17:24.100 I think they're going

01:17:25.940 to recreate the worst

01:17:27.440 that the Stasi did

01:17:28.300 including the torture.

01:17:29.800 It's absolutely terrible.

01:17:31.180 So don't play this game

01:17:32.620 ladies and gentlemen.

01:17:33.560 Play Mount and Blade

01:17:34.680 or Witcher 3 instead.

01:17:37.560 They're far superior.

01:17:41.040 All right.

01:17:41.620 Hook has a...

01:17:42.200 Opa Hook has a comment

01:17:46.240 that we can't say

01:17:47.380 but he's calling us amateurs

01:17:49.600 because Charlie should be

01:17:52.400 wearing Hugo Boss.

01:17:54.660 Well, you know,

01:17:55.800 they didn't really have

01:17:56.500 the budget for so many

01:17:57.680 detailed character designs

01:17:59.200 of Punk.

01:17:59.880 I don't know what to tell you.

01:18:01.600 Okay.

01:18:02.080 I'll just go through...

01:18:03.160 Oh, it's quite a lot of them.

01:18:05.300 Yeah.

01:18:05.440 I've read these ones.

01:18:08.340 Okay.

01:18:10.220 Just from your segment,

01:18:11.600 Coalition of the...

01:18:12.300 Fair enough.

01:18:12.760 Good one.

01:18:16.180 Anedinism.

01:18:17.360 Aned...

01:18:17.720 No, no.

01:18:18.160 And hedonism.

01:18:18.760 Thank you.

01:18:19.560 I'm embarrassing myself there.

01:18:21.580 Blocking fake photos

01:18:22.780 of swimsuits,

01:18:23.760 obviously from your segment,

01:18:25.380 is an open door

01:18:26.180 to blocking anything

01:18:27.080 they want to do that.

01:18:28.780 You might as well

01:18:29.560 prohibit beaches

01:18:31.120 and enforce modesty

01:18:32.240 swimsuits.

01:18:33.260 I'm tired of

01:18:33.840 pure otanical

01:18:34.780 pro-censorship.

01:18:35.880 Well, to be honest with you,

01:18:37.100 as far as I'm concerned,

01:18:39.180 I do think that...

01:18:41.480 I mean,

01:18:41.780 let's just acknowledge

01:18:43.100 one thing as well,

01:18:44.340 which is that

01:18:45.080 despite the one-hat

01:18:46.480 side of

01:18:47.360 X condemning

01:18:49.320 all of this

01:18:50.040 that went on with X

01:18:51.180 and the swimsuits

01:18:52.180 and everything,

01:18:53.020 there was the entire

01:18:54.080 other side of women

01:18:55.180 who were actively

01:18:56.260 begging for it,

01:18:57.060 for their engagement

01:18:57.800 and because they're

01:18:59.140 whores.

01:18:59.960 But the point is

01:19:01.000 that...

01:19:01.360 I'm on the

01:19:04.500 drone strike

01:19:05.200 only fans camp

01:19:06.140 and liberal

01:19:07.820 in other ways.

01:19:08.700 So let's move on

01:19:09.340 from that.

01:19:10.320 Well, the other thing

01:19:11.420 just to say is

01:19:12.220 as well

01:19:12.620 that this was

01:19:13.340 an easy goal

01:19:14.420 that Iran

01:19:15.420 allowed to be

01:19:16.540 opened up.

01:19:17.320 Having said that,

01:19:18.440 Labour were dumb

01:19:19.080 enough to take the bait

01:19:20.020 and as you were saying,

01:19:20.980 they've bitten off

01:19:21.660 far more than

01:19:22.180 they can chew.

01:19:23.840 So it would be

01:19:25.060 quite strange,

01:19:26.060 wouldn't it,

01:19:26.540 when the history

01:19:27.740 of the 21st century

01:19:28.960 is written

01:19:29.700 and we find

01:19:30.720 that the Starmer

01:19:31.320 government collapsed

01:19:32.340 because they wanted

01:19:34.260 women in swimwear

01:19:36.000 and swimwear

01:19:37.520 taken off

01:19:38.100 of a social media

01:19:40.300 website.

01:19:40.700 While being supportive

01:19:41.680 of OnlyFans.

01:19:43.100 Right.

01:19:43.980 All the contradictions.

01:19:45.100 Yeah.

01:19:46.080 Ofang says,

01:19:46.940 let's all play a game.

01:19:48.540 Whoever gets

01:19:49.100 most referrals

01:19:50.440 to prevent wins,

01:19:51.600 there are bonus points

01:19:52.480 if Starmer sends

01:19:53.300 his Stasi

01:19:53.780 to knock down

01:19:54.420 your front door

01:19:55.120 while you're playing it.

01:19:56.640 Well,

01:19:56.900 he'd be playing it

01:19:57.500 at school,

01:19:58.140 so it's back

01:19:59.300 to school

01:19:59.600 for all of us.

01:20:00.500 That's a random name,

01:20:01.340 says,

01:20:01.640 as a game developer,

01:20:03.040 this woke shite

01:20:04.560 is why I left

01:20:05.560 the industry

01:20:06.040 to go full indie.

01:20:07.440 My game would

01:20:08.120 probably land me

01:20:08.960 in jail in the UK.

01:20:10.220 It's about

01:20:10.620 geopolitics in space.

01:20:12.420 Well,

01:20:12.580 I'll tell you what,

01:20:13.060 random name,

01:20:13.560 that sounds like

01:20:14.020 a damn good game.

01:20:14.920 I hope to play it

01:20:15.500 one day.

01:20:15.900 We're going to do

01:20:16.040 a lad's hour on it.

01:20:17.000 Yeah.

01:20:18.280 He also says,

01:20:19.400 if this game

01:20:19.960 was any good,

01:20:20.700 it would end

01:20:21.140 with Charlie.

01:20:23.940 Yes.

01:20:25.060 And also,

01:20:26.040 Cranky Texan

01:20:26.740 for $10,

01:20:27.380 thank you,

01:20:27.800 says,

01:20:28.360 remember that

01:20:29.020 Winston loses

01:20:29.900 at the end

01:20:30.680 of 1984.

01:20:32.320 Orwell was telling

01:20:33.140 you that you

01:20:33.680 can't beat

01:20:34.240 the Fabians

01:20:34.880 once they

01:20:35.360 control what

01:20:35.920 the truth is.

01:20:36.840 They're going

01:20:37.540 for it.

01:20:38.540 True.

01:20:39.880 All right.

01:20:41.000 Stelius.

01:20:41.740 Oh.

01:20:41.880 So I want us

01:20:43.160 to go to

01:20:43.900 the comment,

01:20:46.200 the...

01:20:46.980 Video comments.

01:20:47.900 Yeah.

01:20:48.220 Let's go to video

01:20:48.840 comments.

01:20:49.260 That's some funny...

01:20:50.320 The concept of

01:20:55.260 hyperreality

01:20:55.980 has really helped

01:20:57.140 me understand

01:20:57.900 cognitive dissonance

01:20:59.100 of people

01:20:59.580 in our imperiled

01:21:00.540 countries.

01:21:01.400 Though not to be

01:21:02.240 confused with liars,

01:21:03.580 it does explain

01:21:04.660 people who are

01:21:05.380 stuck in a storybook.

01:21:06.600 Most important,

01:21:08.300 it finally gave me

01:21:09.380 a reason why

01:21:10.040 accelerationism will

01:21:11.360 never work,

01:21:12.300 because people will

01:21:13.140 die for the

01:21:14.060 hyperreality.

01:21:14.820 I think that's a

01:21:18.260 fair observation.

01:21:20.660 Next one.

01:21:23.140 I came across this

01:21:24.120 headline and a

01:21:24.660 thought occurred to

01:21:25.120 me.

01:21:25.480 Europe has been

01:21:25.940 trying to establish

01:21:26.560 itself as a rival

01:21:27.380 bloc to the USA

01:21:27.960 since at least the

01:21:28.660 1990s.

01:21:29.400 They show a good

01:21:29.800 amount of disrespect

01:21:30.400 to the USA and

01:21:31.080 most don't pay their

01:21:31.720 NATO contributions.

01:21:32.900 How does the USA

01:21:33.520 ensure appropriate

01:21:34.260 defence of a

01:21:34.780 strategically important

01:21:35.580 territory that

01:21:36.100 belongs to an ally?

01:21:37.100 Asking Denmark to

01:21:37.900 invest more in

01:21:38.380 defence to be

01:21:38.780 firmly rebuked,

01:21:39.480 citing sovereignty

01:21:40.060 over the territory,

01:21:40.920 but provoking them?

01:21:42.020 We're going to put

01:21:42.600 boots on the ground

01:21:43.360 in Greenland.

01:21:44.340 No!

01:21:44.540 I might be wrong,

01:21:46.480 but allies sending

01:21:47.100 troops to defend

01:21:47.720 their own territory

01:21:48.320 seems like it's in

01:21:48.980 the USA's interest,

01:21:49.800 and maybe that's

01:21:50.320 the plan all along.

01:21:52.920 I mean, they

01:21:53.960 already have military

01:21:55.200 bases in Denmark,

01:21:56.300 don't they?

01:21:57.160 It's a long,

01:21:58.480 complicated story

01:21:59.120 with Greenland.

01:21:59.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:22:01.000 The short version

01:22:01.940 is Trump is right

01:22:02.620 about this.

01:22:06.140 Well, if you can't

01:22:06.840 get to work today

01:22:07.680 because of a snow

01:22:08.420 like I am,

01:22:10.340 go out and clear it

01:22:11.380 then.

01:22:12.680 Don't waste your

01:22:13.240 time on computer

01:22:13.960 games.

01:22:14.540 I'm watching

01:22:14.980 podcasts, eh?

01:22:17.600 You can listen

01:22:18.460 to the podcast

01:22:19.160 while cleaning

01:22:19.760 the snow.

01:22:20.900 Just wanted to

01:22:21.400 say.

01:22:22.120 I want more snow

01:22:22.960 before the winter

01:22:23.780 ends.

01:22:25.480 So do you know

01:22:26.480 who the last

01:22:27.380 white girl

01:22:28.360 to get

01:22:29.220 unalived

01:22:30.280 by law enforcement

01:22:31.360 in Minneapolis

01:22:32.160 was before

01:22:33.500 Renee Good?

01:22:34.760 No,

01:22:35.740 you don't.

01:22:37.100 And I bet

01:22:37.760 you don't know

01:22:38.500 that the person

01:22:39.160 who did it

01:22:39.840 was the first

01:22:40.920 Somali police

01:22:41.880 officer

01:22:42.320 in the entire

01:22:43.460 United States

01:22:44.300 and that they

01:22:44.980 were convicted

01:22:45.540 of murder

01:22:46.180 and it was

01:22:47.300 later overturned

01:22:48.180 by the Minnesota

01:22:48.680 Supreme Court

01:22:49.440 and only served

01:22:50.320 a couple years.

01:22:51.880 Bet you didn't

01:22:52.260 know that,

01:22:52.680 did you?

01:22:52.960 What's interesting

01:22:55.220 information.

01:22:56.820 Hmm.

01:22:59.620 Maduro getting

01:23:00.440 kidnapped?

01:23:01.400 George Floyd 2.0

01:23:02.780 lesbian edition?

01:23:04.060 2026 is turning

01:23:05.240 out to be quite

01:23:05.960 a year

01:23:06.360 and we're not

01:23:07.220 even two weeks

01:23:07.960 in.

01:23:08.580 While this year

01:23:09.320 I'm working on

01:23:10.140 overhauling the

01:23:10.800 mech to make it

01:23:11.400 safe for the

01:23:11.880 public to pilot.

01:23:12.980 It's bittersweet

01:23:13.700 to see some of

01:23:14.380 these old parts

01:23:15.060 go.

01:23:15.680 Some of them

01:23:16.200 are nearly a

01:23:16.820 decade old.

01:23:17.940 Thinking about

01:23:18.520 how much things

01:23:19.380 have changed

01:23:19.860 since then,

01:23:20.940 it makes one

01:23:21.500 both anxious

01:23:22.180 and excited

01:23:22.940 for the future.

01:23:23.920 Who knows

01:23:24.360 what wonderful

01:23:24.960 things are in

01:23:25.720 store this year

01:23:26.480 and I plan to

01:23:27.780 make some of

01:23:28.280 them.

01:23:30.160 Nice.

01:23:30.920 And we'll keep

01:23:31.440 watching as you do.

01:23:32.320 Have a good day.

01:23:32.660 I'm liking the

01:23:33.660 start of this.

01:23:35.020 This looks promising.

01:23:37.180 Keep us updated.

01:23:39.740 What was it

01:23:40.520 you wanted to

01:23:41.160 One of the

01:23:42.060 honorary mentions

01:23:43.440 there,

01:23:44.640 Diogenes Nuts

01:23:45.720 says,

01:23:46.420 I for one

01:23:47.020 think John K.

01:23:48.140 Rowling is

01:23:49.400 stunning and

01:23:50.040 brave to

01:23:50.460 transition in

01:23:51.500 their quest to

01:23:52.200 destroy trans

01:23:53.100 ideology from

01:23:54.420 the inside out

01:23:55.300 and Stelios is

01:23:56.060 a brave,

01:23:56.740 intrepid

01:23:57.180 journalist for

01:23:57.980 being first

01:23:59.840 to report on

01:24:00.580 this development.

01:24:01.580 I thought

01:24:02.960 for some

01:24:04.520 reason I

01:24:05.020 thought it

01:24:05.240 was Joanne

01:24:06.020 or you

01:24:07.860 know,

01:24:08.060 I think

01:24:08.540 it was

01:24:08.800 something.

01:24:09.640 Yeah.

01:24:10.300 Isn't it

01:24:10.560 Joanne?

01:24:11.080 Yeah.

01:24:11.360 What did I

01:24:11.880 say?

01:24:12.160 Well,

01:24:12.260 you were

01:24:12.460 saying

01:24:12.660 John.

01:24:13.760 Okay.

01:24:15.760 Slightly

01:24:16.240 different

01:24:16.580 Stelios.

01:24:17.760 Bridget

01:24:18.220 Macron was

01:24:18.920 so last

01:24:19.640 year.

01:24:20.000 We're going

01:24:20.240 to talk

01:24:20.500 about

01:24:20.700 John

01:24:21.100 Rowling

01:24:21.620 this year.

01:24:22.160 Michael

01:24:24.680 says this

01:24:25.900 is what

01:24:26.180 makes the

01:24:26.640 subscription

01:24:27.160 to Lotus

01:24:27.680 Eaters

01:24:28.040 worthwhile.

01:24:28.740 The analysis

01:24:29.240 of Stelios

01:24:29.860 and Firas

01:24:30.320 here in

01:24:31.340 the US

01:24:31.720 I get to

01:24:32.380 hear the

01:24:32.780 constant

01:24:33.240 anti-Trump

01:24:34.020 drum beat

01:24:34.660 but with

01:24:35.140 Firas and

01:24:35.660 Stelios I

01:24:36.260 get a very

01:24:36.700 clinical

01:24:37.080 evaluation

01:24:37.720 of what

01:24:38.680 is actually

01:24:39.140 going on

01:24:39.700 with an

01:24:40.020 actual view

01:24:40.720 of how

01:24:41.120 the world

01:24:41.480 works in

01:24:42.020 reality

01:24:42.520 over the

01:24:43.400 media

01:24:43.760 Hollywood

01:24:44.180 fantasy.

01:24:44.880 Very kind.

01:24:45.400 Thank you.

01:24:45.780 Very kind.

01:24:46.240 And Michael

01:24:46.780 sends us

01:24:47.320 really good

01:24:47.840 messages very

01:24:49.140 frequently.

01:24:49.860 Right.

01:24:50.540 Okay.

01:24:50.880 So chaos

01:24:51.700 in Iran

01:24:52.240 comments.

01:24:53.160 Arizona

01:24:53.480 Desert Rat

01:24:54.120 says I'm

01:24:54.560 just not

01:24:55.160 really keen

01:24:55.780 on the

01:24:56.100 US getting

01:24:56.640 involved in

01:24:57.340 another 20

01:24:57.900 year with

01:24:58.320 no difference.

01:24:59.880 Fair enough.

01:25:00.980 Fair enough.

01:25:01.560 But one

01:25:02.300 thing to say

01:25:02.860 is just first

01:25:03.460 of all I

01:25:03.800 don't know

01:25:04.100 what is

01:25:04.460 going to

01:25:04.720 happen but

01:25:05.200 I think

01:25:05.700 one thing

01:25:07.180 is that

01:25:07.840 Trump doesn't

01:25:09.520 want to have

01:25:10.320 something of

01:25:11.060 the sort.

01:25:11.500 He doesn't

01:25:11.900 want to start

01:25:12.380 a 20 year

01:25:13.020 war that

01:25:13.600 will lead

01:25:14.340 to no

01:25:15.740 place.

01:25:16.840 And one

01:25:17.440 thing though

01:25:17.840 that as a

01:25:18.700 leader there's

01:25:19.540 a limit to

01:25:20.120 how much

01:25:20.720 anti-war he

01:25:21.540 can sound

01:25:22.180 in the

01:25:22.900 global stage

01:25:23.660 because we

01:25:24.340 know the

01:25:24.700 you know

01:25:25.040 if you want

01:25:25.720 to prepare

01:25:26.100 for peace.

01:25:26.320 You don't

01:25:26.520 scare them

01:25:26.960 it doesn't

01:25:27.280 work.

01:25:27.680 Yeah if

01:25:27.960 you want

01:25:28.320 to have

01:25:28.680 peace

01:25:28.960 prepare

01:25:29.260 yourself

01:25:29.600 for war

01:25:30.000 and you

01:25:30.660 need to

01:25:31.180 actually

01:25:31.760 communicate

01:25:32.380 that you're

01:25:32.900 not a

01:25:33.240 Jimmy Carter.

01:25:34.140 Yeah.

01:25:34.720 Last time

01:25:35.580 Jimmy Carter

01:25:36.280 communicated

01:25:37.080 that he

01:25:37.520 was weak

01:25:38.000 there was

01:25:39.240 the Iranian

01:25:39.640 revolution.

01:25:40.920 Right.

01:25:41.140 So I think

01:25:41.660 Trump is

01:25:42.060 doing well

01:25:42.540 in doing

01:25:43.340 that.

01:25:44.140 Right.

01:25:44.420 So Dudley

01:25:45.800 douchebag.

01:25:47.840 Yeah.

01:25:48.400 Yeah.

01:25:49.540 I cannot

01:25:50.580 help but

01:25:51.320 speculate that

01:25:52.060 the lack

01:25:52.420 of public

01:25:52.900 support for

01:25:53.760 the Iranian

01:25:54.340 people is

01:25:55.500 the lack

01:25:55.840 of a

01:25:56.140 coordinated

01:25:56.680 color

01:25:57.060 revolution and

01:25:57.900 other

01:25:58.220 interferences

01:25:58.900 by NGOs.

01:26:01.040 Yep.

01:26:02.480 Different

01:26:03.040 story but

01:26:03.600 okay.

01:26:04.440 Okay you

01:26:04.860 want to

01:26:05.440 not really

01:26:06.720 I think

01:26:07.180 with Starlink

01:26:07.960 being operated

01:26:08.780 there and

01:26:09.580 one of the

01:26:09.940 people that

01:26:10.320 you were

01:26:10.560 quoting

01:26:10.840 Neo Beg

01:26:11.540 she was

01:26:12.460 saying that

01:26:13.060 she was

01:26:13.900 hearing from

01:26:14.500 Mossad that

01:26:15.140 Mossad was

01:26:15.780 on the ground

01:26:16.260 in Iran.

01:26:17.280 There is

01:26:17.760 some support

01:26:18.300 for it but

01:26:19.360 the media

01:26:19.880 is just so

01:26:21.180 anti-Trump

01:26:21.880 that they

01:26:22.340 are completely

01:26:23.320 useless at

01:26:24.600 this stage.

01:26:25.960 Hey Baron

01:26:26.440 von Warhawk

01:26:27.140 says the

01:26:27.600 promise of

01:26:28.120 liberating

01:26:28.640 Persian

01:26:29.120 hotties will

01:26:29.860 probably get

01:26:30.500 far more

01:26:30.980 young men

01:26:31.500 in uniform

01:26:32.040 than the

01:26:32.940 threat of

01:26:33.440 WMDs

01:26:34.400 ever did.

01:26:36.900 Okay.

01:26:38.040 And Sean

01:26:39.380 Gaffney

01:26:39.760 says on

01:26:40.440 Iran

01:26:40.760 I feel

01:26:41.180 for people

01:26:41.740 and wish

01:26:42.640 them well.

01:26:43.240 I really

01:26:43.520 do not

01:26:43.860 want the

01:26:44.560 West to

01:26:45.000 get involved.

01:26:45.640 I just

01:26:45.920 want what

01:26:46.360 is best

01:26:46.740 for my

01:26:47.140 people,

01:26:47.680 my nation.

01:26:49.820 And

01:26:50.020 yep.

01:26:50.980 And the

01:26:51.740 Cambrian

01:26:52.100 Kulak

01:26:52.540 says hi

01:26:53.080 for us.

01:26:53.620 Appreciate

01:26:53.900 your initial

01:26:54.520 thoughts on

01:26:55.040 what this

01:26:55.420 Iran business

01:26:56.060 means for

01:26:56.660 Turkey.

01:26:58.120 I can

01:26:59.300 imagine

01:26:59.760 there'd be

01:27:00.200 mixed views.

01:27:00.960 Good that

01:27:01.300 Turkey's enemy

01:27:01.920 Iran is

01:27:02.440 changing.

01:27:03.360 Albeit

01:27:03.760 maybe not

01:27:04.660 for the

01:27:04.960 better from

01:27:05.520 their

01:27:05.700 perspective.

01:27:06.360 So if

01:27:06.960 you have

01:27:07.260 some answers

01:27:08.120 to

01:27:08.600 if

01:27:08.880 Iran

01:27:09.400 ends up

01:27:10.900 in

01:27:11.220 alliance

01:27:11.640 with

01:27:11.820 Israel

01:27:12.240 to

01:27:12.520 check

01:27:12.840 Turkey

01:27:13.320 that

01:27:14.460 would

01:27:14.620 be

01:27:14.760 pretty

01:27:14.980 bad

01:27:15.220 for

01:27:15.360 the

01:27:15.480 Turks

01:27:15.720 and

01:27:16.860 that

01:27:17.120 might

01:27:17.520 be

01:27:17.760 where

01:27:18.020 a

01:27:18.160 nationalist

01:27:18.500 Iran

01:27:18.860 ends up

01:27:19.280 going

01:27:19.600 especially

01:27:20.620 if

01:27:21.000 the Shah

01:27:21.380 is

01:27:21.920 involved

01:27:22.340 in

01:27:22.500 any

01:27:22.700 way

01:27:22.980 because

01:27:23.800 he's

01:27:24.260 quite

01:27:24.540 pro

01:27:24.800 Israel

01:27:25.160 so

01:27:26.380 we'll

01:27:27.240 see.

01:27:28.160 And one

01:27:28.660 last comment

01:27:29.200 before we

01:27:29.680 go to

01:27:30.060 for us

01:27:30.540 because this

01:27:31.660 is good

01:27:32.080 Sardonic

01:27:33.600 Wrath

01:27:34.260 says

01:27:34.820 John K

01:27:35.420 Rowling

01:27:36.020 not the

01:27:36.600 hero we

01:27:37.040 asked for

01:27:37.540 but the

01:27:37.900 hero we

01:27:38.400 deserve.

01:27:41.280 Ah yes

01:27:42.140 on

01:27:44.460 Starmer

01:27:44.900 wants to

01:27:45.260 ban

01:27:45.440 X

01:27:45.840 Jimbo

01:27:47.120 says

01:27:47.580 if they

01:27:47.920 ban X

01:27:48.560 we are

01:27:49.180 the biggest

01:27:49.520 suckers

01:27:49.860 in history

01:27:50.340 look at

01:27:51.340 Starmer

01:27:51.680 hitting a

01:27:52.100 punching bag

01:27:52.560 we were

01:27:52.860 just

01:27:53.140 talking

01:27:53.460 about

01:27:53.700 this

01:27:55.200 morning

01:27:55.900 and

01:27:56.720 comparing

01:27:57.320 this

01:27:57.880 sort

01:27:58.140 of

01:27:58.300 emasculated

01:27:59.320 Starmer

01:27:59.840 to the

01:28:00.380 emasculated

01:28:01.280 Zach

01:28:01.680 Polanski

01:28:02.280 him running

01:28:03.460 like he has

01:28:04.040 no

01:28:04.360 coordination

01:28:05.640 and Starmer

01:28:06.420 punching a

01:28:06.940 bag like he

01:28:07.440 has the

01:28:08.320 upper body

01:28:08.840 strength of

01:28:09.380 JK Rowling

01:28:10.000 it's

01:28:10.740 disgusting

01:28:11.200 although I

01:28:12.560 think JK

01:28:13.000 Rowling might

01:28:13.500 be actually

01:28:14.300 stronger than

01:28:14.820 Starmer

01:28:15.160 would be

01:28:15.540 hilarious

01:28:15.840 to see

01:28:16.220 Cumbrian

01:28:17.500 Kulak

01:28:17.900 creepers

01:28:18.380 gonna creep

01:28:18.940 the stuff

01:28:19.360 on X

01:28:19.660 has been

01:28:19.960 grim

01:28:20.300 that being

01:28:21.100 said

01:28:21.500 the BBC

01:28:21.960 has rightly

01:28:22.600 earned a

01:28:23.000 reputation

01:28:23.400 for being

01:28:24.400 full of

01:28:24.740 nonsense

01:28:25.080 yes

01:28:25.500 yes

01:28:26.360 Sophie

01:28:27.900 Liv

01:28:28.220 they just

01:28:28.700 dislike

01:28:29.880 the

01:28:30.120 slut

01:28:30.360 detector

01:28:30.940 Sophie

01:28:31.740 I'm

01:28:31.960 not

01:28:32.140 just

01:28:32.380 gotta read

01:28:32.760 the rest

01:28:33.060 of it

01:28:33.340 thanks for

01:28:35.520 that though

01:28:35.960 Grant

01:28:37.680 says

01:28:38.080 once in a

01:28:38.540 blue moon

01:28:39.000 Canada

01:28:39.440 does something

01:28:40.100 say no

01:28:40.720 they're just

01:28:41.120 terrified of

01:28:41.800 Trump putting

01:28:42.260 more tariffs

01:28:42.760 on them

01:28:43.140 they didn't

01:28:44.080 they didn't

01:28:45.000 do something

01:28:45.440 saying they

01:28:45.900 just cowered

01:28:46.460 in fear

01:28:46.860 Hector

01:28:48.740 Rex

01:28:49.060 says

01:28:49.540 I had

01:28:50.300 the

01:28:50.440 distinct

01:28:51.020 displeasure

01:28:53.060 of seeing

01:28:53.500 the

01:28:53.700 Ofcom ladies

01:28:54.320 in bikinis

01:28:54.940 my eyes

01:28:56.960 are burning

01:28:57.440 Kevin Fox

01:28:59.340 the government

01:29:00.080 excuse for

01:29:00.720 getting Ofcom

01:29:01.360 to clamp

01:29:01.780 down on X

01:29:02.260 is to

01:29:02.520 protect

01:29:02.800 women and

01:29:03.200 children

01:29:03.460 over the

01:29:03.960 deep fakes

01:29:04.440 and AI

01:29:04.760 generated

01:29:05.380 CSE images

01:29:06.720 and yet

01:29:07.160 nothing about

01:29:07.660 the groomers

01:29:08.120 app of

01:29:08.440 choice

01:29:08.720 Snapchat

01:29:09.200 yep

01:29:09.920 which both

01:29:11.100 the police

01:29:11.600 and the

01:29:12.120 NSPCC

01:29:12.740 have shown

01:29:13.440 are responsible

01:29:13.980 for 50%

01:29:15.140 of grooming

01:29:15.460 activity

01:29:15.900 not to

01:29:16.620 mention

01:29:16.860 that there

01:29:17.280 is all

01:29:17.820 kinds of

01:29:18.400 CP

01:29:18.700 on

01:29:19.780 Instagram

01:29:20.700 and Facebook

01:29:21.560 and a bunch

01:29:22.140 of others

01:29:22.680 and not to

01:29:24.460 mention that

01:29:24.840 there are

01:29:25.160 real rapes

01:29:25.900 happening

01:29:26.220 which they

01:29:26.600 don't seem

01:29:26.900 to care

01:29:27.200 about

01:29:27.500 so the

01:29:28.640 digital

01:29:28.900 stuff is

01:29:29.400 awful

01:29:29.860 but in

01:29:31.020 the list

01:29:31.300 of the

01:29:31.560 priorities

01:29:32.240 the physical

01:29:32.800 world

01:29:33.220 comes before

01:29:33.800 the digital

01:29:34.240 world

01:29:34.620 maybe I'm

01:29:35.360 just stupid

01:29:35.840 or

01:29:36.000 I'm

01:29:36.580 constantly

01:29:37.040 importing

01:29:37.560 people

01:29:37.980 from

01:29:38.480 various

01:29:39.040 countries

01:29:39.600 per capita

01:29:40.620 more likely

01:29:42.320 yep

01:29:42.920 yep

01:29:43.000 yep

01:29:43.320 yep

01:29:43.560 Keir Starmer

01:29:45.440 needs his

01:29:46.180 dark lord

01:29:46.900 and master

01:29:47.320 Tony Blair

01:29:47.900 yeah

01:29:48.620 maybe

01:29:49.120 please no

01:29:50.180 thank you

01:29:50.780 no please

01:29:51.280 no

01:29:51.520 from my

01:29:52.540 segment

01:29:52.840 Maria Manzi

01:29:53.820 says

01:29:54.360 got my new

01:29:55.160 Islander

01:29:55.740 delivered

01:29:56.040 Saturday

01:29:56.520 so when

01:29:57.640 can I

01:29:57.960 expect my

01:29:58.520 free

01:29:59.000 referral

01:29:59.560 to

01:29:59.840 prevent

01:30:00.380 right now

01:30:01.640 Maria

01:30:01.940 I'm sorry

01:30:02.160 we didn't

01:30:02.580 attach it

01:30:03.340 in the

01:30:04.500 thing

01:30:04.780 when we

01:30:05.140 posted it

01:30:05.760 it was

01:30:06.120 a mishap

01:30:06.740 I'll talk

01:30:07.740 to the

01:30:08.000 producers

01:30:08.360 and make

01:30:08.840 sure that

01:30:09.180 this is

01:30:09.400 corrected

01:30:09.740 I

01:30:09.920 apologize

01:30:10.440 Justin B

01:30:11.540 says

01:30:12.100 I really

01:30:12.560 liked that

01:30:13.200 hope not

01:30:13.640 hate list

01:30:14.180 I already

01:30:15.060 had several

01:30:15.660 things from

01:30:16.200 it like

01:30:16.660 the Lord

01:30:16.980 of the Rings

01:30:17.300 and Yes

01:30:17.720 Minister

01:30:18.100 so I went

01:30:19.080 and bought

01:30:19.920 most of the

01:30:20.520 rest

01:30:20.860 there were

01:30:21.340 some good

01:30:21.720 recommendations

01:30:22.460 in there

01:30:23.040 they really

01:30:23.480 were

01:30:23.720 exactly how

01:30:23.900 you should

01:30:24.120 treat them

01:30:24.460 yeah

01:30:24.600 so if

01:30:25.140 you like

01:30:25.940 cool things

01:30:27.320 about Britain

01:30:28.040 you know

01:30:28.380 world famous

01:30:30.080 things

01:30:30.420 yeah

01:30:31.120 that we've

01:30:32.040 created

01:30:32.460 then you're

01:30:33.800 a terrorist

01:30:34.360 Thane

01:30:35.680 Scotty of

01:30:36.160 Swindon

01:30:36.500 says

01:30:36.860 there's a

01:30:37.260 YouTube

01:30:37.540 video discussing

01:30:38.380 this game

01:30:38.940 and apparently

01:30:39.500 it's awful

01:30:40.280 from a video

01:30:41.640 game standpoint

01:30:42.420 too

01:30:42.860 and there's

01:30:43.660 been no

01:30:44.460 hard

01:30:45.100 with there

01:30:46.200 being no

01:30:46.600 hard win

01:30:47.100 or lose

01:30:47.500 conditions

01:30:48.040 it's as much

01:30:49.520 a Chinese

01:30:50.040 knockoff

01:30:50.620 as it is

01:30:51.200 a terrible

01:30:51.580 propaganda

01:30:52.140 well I'll tell

01:30:52.860 you what

01:30:53.160 to be honest

01:30:53.580 with you

01:30:54.000 maybe if

01:30:55.200 prevented

01:30:56.020 got a few

01:30:57.200 people

01:30:57.640 from their

01:30:58.600 you know

01:30:59.000 their bogus

01:30:59.940 list

01:31:00.400 to work

01:31:01.380 on making

01:31:01.880 the game

01:31:02.420 that they've

01:31:02.780 had a more

01:31:03.220 high quality

01:31:03.800 product

01:31:04.200 because I

01:31:05.380 imagine there's

01:31:05.820 a lot of

01:31:06.120 gamers on that

01:31:06.820 list

01:31:07.140 and people

01:31:08.060 who know

01:31:09.120 how to do

01:31:09.440 game code

01:31:10.060 George Hap

01:31:10.880 says

01:31:11.160 Yes Minister

01:31:12.100 is speaking

01:31:12.700 too much

01:31:13.200 truth

01:31:13.560 to not be

01:31:14.060 flagged

01:31:14.400 as extremist

01:31:15.040 content

01:31:15.520 it's a must

01:31:16.320 watch for

01:31:16.760 every man

01:31:17.300 who wants

01:31:17.880 to be

01:31:18.120 politically

01:31:18.520 aware

01:31:18.740 yeah it's

01:31:19.400 one of the

01:31:19.860 most genius

01:31:20.840 British comedies

01:31:22.200 that ever

01:31:22.660 existed

01:31:23.100 and what's

01:31:23.780 more as well

01:31:24.320 yeah and no

01:31:25.420 wonder they

01:31:25.920 don't like it

01:31:26.640 because it

01:31:27.080 shows that

01:31:27.660 the civil

01:31:28.460 servants

01:31:29.100 and the

01:31:30.040 civil service

01:31:30.680 just exists

01:31:31.320 as a

01:31:31.680 permanent

01:31:32.060 state

01:31:32.740 that pursues

01:31:34.260 aims and

01:31:35.000 agendas

01:31:35.500 that are

01:31:35.960 totally

01:31:36.400 different

01:31:36.920 from let

01:31:37.940 alone the

01:31:38.400 policy

01:31:38.800 pledges and

01:31:39.420 campaign

01:31:39.880 promises

01:31:40.340 of governments

01:31:41.680 that there's

01:31:42.040 a permanent

01:31:42.420 state there

01:31:43.140 and that they

01:31:43.720 work to

01:31:44.420 undermine

01:31:45.520 you know

01:31:46.080 the sort

01:31:46.700 of theater

01:31:47.340 of democracy

01:31:48.060 anyway we've

01:31:49.320 run over

01:31:49.720 ladies and

01:31:50.200 gentlemen so

01:31:50.980 I hope you've

01:31:51.880 enjoyed the

01:31:52.400 podcast today

01:31:53.120 thank you both

01:31:53.880 for joining

01:31:54.300 me

01:31:54.560 thank you

01:31:55.120 thank you

01:31:55.840 is Real

01:31:56.720 Politique

01:31:57.320 at three

01:31:57.800 for us

01:31:58.220 yes there is

01:31:58.740 a episode

01:31:59.720 with Kvork

01:32:00.480 Al-Masyan

01:32:01.060 talking about

01:32:01.900 Syria and

01:32:02.560 what's been

01:32:02.880 going on in

01:32:03.340 Syria so

01:32:04.340 please check

01:32:04.860 it out

01:32:05.140 yeah tune

01:32:05.640 in for that

01:32:06.160 by Islander

01:32:07.240 of course and

01:32:08.280 enjoy the rest

01:32:09.000 of your day

01:32:09.420 take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 12, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1330

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