The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1504

00:00:00.360 Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters. Today is Friday the 11th of September

00:00:07.800 2026 and I'm pleased to be joined by brother Nick and brother Harry. Hello there, 25 years

00:00:14.320 since 9-11 today. Nick, can you tell hello to the audience? Hello. You're the first one who had to

00:00:17.740 mention it. Yeah, I was wondering if Stelios was born. None of you were born, that's why it's

00:00:22.500 No, it's different for me.

00:00:24.580 No, actually, I was born Nick.

00:00:26.540 You were just born Nick.

00:00:27.080 I'm older than you think. 1.00

00:00:28.260 Tiny Greek child.

00:00:29.680 I'm older than you think.

00:00:30.800 I wasn't that tiny.

00:00:31.780 I was 11.

00:00:32.660 Okay.

00:00:33.380 I'm a 1990 person.

00:00:35.040 I was five.

00:00:36.600 No, I remember.

00:00:37.160 Yeah, so today is 25 years since the 9-11 terrorist attack.

00:00:43.400 And it was obviously a horrific crime.

00:00:48.320 And yeah, I do remember actually.

00:00:49.940 I remember watching it, and I remember people telling me in classroom that day,

00:00:56.880 it's Palestinians, it's Palestinians.

00:00:59.980 Obviously, that's 12-year-olds talking. 1.00

00:01:02.640 It changed everything in my generation, and I've written an article about it,

00:01:05.700 which I won't promote here on nickdixon.net.

00:01:07.620 I won't mention it, free article, but it changed everything for my generation.

00:01:12.220 That's all I'm saying.

00:01:12.920 That's a Trump trick.

00:01:13.820 I learned that from Trump.

00:01:15.000 I'm not going to say it.

00:01:17.200 It's also a Kanye West trick as well.

00:01:19.940 i'm not gonna say who the doctor was right okay so nick dixon's website you were also born then

00:01:27.740 weren't you it's five he just said so nick you're completely you fact check false yes i was

00:01:33.780 exaggerating just complete fake news you know complete fake news what is i don't remember

00:01:38.980 what i was doing on 9 11 i was probably watching cartoons and then was confused as to why my

00:01:44.400 parents switched off the cartoons i was on a rubbish holiday when we was in a remote place

00:01:48.300 We didn't find out until the next day.

00:01:49.840 So it was really weird.

00:01:50.480 So we were sort of in blissful ignorance.

00:01:52.200 But anyway.

00:01:52.640 Today is going to be a bit light, I think.

00:01:56.560 Harry has a interesting segment,

00:02:00.520 which is about Trump's election bribes.

00:02:03.800 Nick is going to talk to us about a lovely statue,

00:02:07.000 actually a disgusting statue,

00:02:09.020 in Trafalgar Square.

00:02:10.600 And I'm going to tell you how basically communists in shape 0.91

00:02:15.420 are secret fascist spies.

00:02:18.300 is going to have to answer the allegations is that about that video that much in shape

00:02:25.540 he's in good shape okay i i think you are going to talk to us about to show at the rnc over the

00:02:31.860 past two uh two days for some oh wait sorry sorry the the dallas conference over the past few days

00:02:36.800 they made sure to show off what great shape hassan piker is in for some reason i don't know why they

00:02:43.760 would do such a thing but should we start with the first segment yeah sure well first we should

00:02:49.060 also say that after this we've got a lads hour on 2000s nostalgia given that it is um a day for

00:02:56.180 remembrance uh we decided that we're going to do some remembering back to the early 2000s

00:03:01.160 you're probably going to see that meme of george w bush going like hmm and we're hopefully going

00:03:07.640 to start listening to some Linkin Park, and then we can all...

00:03:12.640 Can't say that, but yeah.

00:03:15.640 And then rest in peace, Chester.

00:03:19.640 There you go.

00:03:20.640 So tune in for that.

00:03:21.640 That's going to be good.

00:03:22.640 That seems built for me, really.

00:03:23.640 2000s nostalgia.

00:03:24.640 That'll be perfect.

00:03:25.640 Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:26.640 Oh, we're also going to explain to Samson what an emo slash alt scene girl is.

00:03:31.640 Because he just doesn't understand.

00:03:33.640 Anyway, yeah, get my segment up, Samson, please.

00:03:37.640 all right then so um the midterms are a big thing that's about to happen in november it's starting

00:03:45.260 to ramp up in the campaigning for them and uh observing from across the ocean as a as a poor

00:03:52.300 englishman it's been amusing to note how not just the republicans uh but the democrats as well

00:03:59.220 are engaging in what i can only describe as africanized politics where it's just a game of

00:04:04.800 how can we be corrupt and bribe the electorate to get them to vote for us?

00:04:09.940 You could also say it's South American politics.

00:04:12.360 Third world style politics where the Democrats like to bribe by saying 0.98

00:04:17.440 we're going to open the floodgates so that all of your abuelas and cousins can come 1.00

00:04:21.200 and work in the same construction sites as you.

00:04:24.320 Whereas Donald Trump, fair play to him, is a lot more honest than that

00:04:27.600 and hasn't said we're going to expand welfare.

00:04:30.600 He hasn't said we're going to do tax cuts for you.

00:04:33.880 that was part of his program but still uh he said i'm just gonna give you money i'm gonna give you

00:04:40.900 five grand if you vote for the republicans in the midterm elections simple as he wants not even

00:04:49.340 tactics where he's like you know nudge nudge wink wink this whole thing is i will give you money

00:04:54.340 i mean mafia would say give me money to be fair to him uh that's inflation so let's just take a

00:05:00.380 look at the context let's just take a look at the context of what's going on here so for the race for

00:05:04.400 contact for congress this is the new york poll tracker of uh like over 600 polls you can see

00:05:11.260 all of them what is it with the my uh the mice not working in here properly since we moved into

00:05:15.780 this new studio they are really really slow and laggy uh is this gonna work is this gonna work

00:05:22.660 nope um this is working yes if i can have that one please thank you very much yes that's a lot

00:05:29.360 better and is this going to work now there we go the screens are flashing down here as well uh yeah

00:05:34.920 but basically most of the polls are showing that it's going to be a democrat win uh yougov is

00:05:41.360 showing the greatest disparity where it would be end up with a um like 49 dem 38 rep republican

00:05:48.520 but most of them are showing that it's going to be quite narrow it's going to be quite a narrow

00:05:53.020 majority for the democrats according to current polls there's still just under two months until

00:05:57.960 then so we might see some changes before then if all of the electorate decide that they want

00:06:02.860 five thousand dollars for instance that might have something to do with it the senate as well

00:06:06.880 the forecasts are showing that it's probably going to be a slim democrat majority and i'm saying slim

00:06:12.900 because both parties are looking a little bit unpopular at the moment donald trump's second

00:06:17.920 term hasn't been what most of the people who formed his new coalition in 2024 were hoping for

00:06:23.200 but also the democrats are increasingly being represented by absolutely insane people from the

00:06:29.360 dsa the clown wing of the democratic party who also outside of people who have active ethnic 0.96

00:06:36.580 interests in voting against white people it's not very appealing to people you know like a white 0.70

00:06:42.120 moderate might be convinced to vote for a gavin newsom he's probably not going to vote as easily

00:06:47.880 for a francesca hong although she did lose her primary yeah and there is something really

00:06:52.500 interesting happening now in the U.S. with the Democrats is that they have started saying that

00:06:58.380 they need the moderate candidates and they have started disavowing the radicals. Some of them

00:07:03.860 disavow DSA, many of them disavow Hassan Piker, which sort of falsifies the idea that the left

00:07:10.980 never disavows leftists. Absolutely. The screens down here have gone off. Is there a reason for

00:07:16.760 that? There we go. Thank you. By the way, just on that extreme thing, I mean,

00:07:21.060 AOC's official account just today

00:07:23.460 has tweeted this year there have been 10 reported

00:07:25.640 hangings of black people in the US

00:07:27.160 you look into it for a second it's all suicides 0.98

00:07:29.760 one homicide where a black person

00:07:31.620 is suspected as the main suspect 0.63

00:07:33.820 so you go

00:07:34.360 well they love to just misrepresent and lie don't they

00:07:37.040 it's such a dangerous lie to just throw out there

00:07:38.860 this idea of woke one

00:07:40.620 I really like Thomas Sowell's

00:07:43.620 view on AOC he says

00:07:44.980 99% of what she says is non-factual

00:07:48.000 has nothing to do with

00:07:49.140 verification is just emotional and the one percent that she's gonna mention that is

00:07:54.080 capable of empirical uh check it's gonna be false yeah right so 99 percent false and one

00:08:02.200 percent false in a different way nonsense yeah i thought thomas soul had a very different quote

00:08:07.020 about aoc and other socialists that you're not supposed to listen to or is that am i misremembering

00:08:12.520 that's another quote it goes up on social media about cannons yeah about the cannons anyway uh so

00:08:18.060 what happened at the GOP was that there

00:08:20.100 was the rally in Dallas Texas over

00:08:22.140 the past two days Wednesday and Thursday

00:08:24.140 they give some context

00:08:26.220 here his Trump's

00:08:28.040 approval has sagged below 40%

00:08:30.300 and Republicans are fearful of losing

00:08:32.280 control of both the House and the Senate

00:08:34.080 it's still flashing Samson this is really

00:08:36.220 annoying but I'm trying to go through the information that I've

00:08:38.240 collected here

00:08:38.800 yeah but maybe this is Skynet's attack

00:08:42.080 yeah clearly maybe

00:08:44.120 Al Qaeda are targeting us with this one

00:08:48.060 just riff it riff the stats yeah just just make it make it all up aoc does

00:08:55.720 yeah well well it was it was interesting as well that aoc herself decided to try and walk back

00:09:01.100 uh woke one in totality as well with that whole like oh woke one was so crazy and by the way

00:09:08.240 black people are getting lynch it's like whoa that woke two seems a bit crazy well also there's

00:09:13.400 another way of looking at it now that i'm close with the power i don't want to abolish the police 0.70

00:09:17.920 i don't want to defend the police i want to use it for my purposes yeah right

00:09:23.340 yes uh right yeah so it carries on saying uh the republicans are hoping it will energize the base

00:09:31.600 but it doesn't seem to have maybe done as much as they were hoping for they point out that uh

00:09:37.280 vance was using this as his pitch not just for these midterms but also for 2028 he is currently

00:09:43.940 the air apparent but there's some uncertainty over whether he's going to end up being uh the

00:09:50.260 guy in 2028 whether he has that kind of mass appeal yeah he made for a great meme in the

00:09:54.760 beginning of 2025 uh but vance himself is not the fat face meme is the unfortunate thing i don't

00:10:02.080 think he can campaign using and also his connections aren't particularly um appealing to many people

00:10:09.160 that's one of the major things it doesn't have the same level of charisma that trump had yes i

00:10:13.700 I know that's fair, no one ever has.

00:10:15.960 Yes.

00:10:16.840 I mean, like, I speak to myself.

00:10:18.460 No one's been as funny.

00:10:19.620 I mean, all had that level of Trump charisma.

00:10:21.780 Yes, but at some point, they will stop saying we need the second Trump.

00:10:26.140 They'll start saying we need another one.

00:10:27.980 And I think, for instance, at the moment, maybe I'm mistaken,

00:10:30.400 but at the moment, Rubio seems to be doing a good job,

00:10:33.560 especially in Latin America.

00:10:35.960 So this is definitely a boost in his image.

00:10:38.580 Vance kind of keeps throwing out the same line as well.

00:10:41.400 It's the same line that he's been using in a certain way since the assassination of Charlie

00:10:45.980 Kirk, which we've now reached the one year anniversary of, where he says, do not throw

00:10:51.280 the baby out with the bathwater. He says, you know, like, we want to do this for the American

00:10:55.220 family. We want to, we want to walk back some of the stuff, or at least I'm not going to mention

00:11:01.360 anything about Iran. Please don't abandon us. It's the same sort of line that he's been towing

00:11:06.860 for a year now where he's like oh don't worry guys we're definitely going to do something after

00:11:11.740 charlie kirk don't throw the baby out with the bathwater be patient with us and then nothing

00:11:17.360 happens and then the next thing comes along and vance comes out doing damage control going

00:11:21.060 be patient with us and then nothing ends up happening and now he's coming out and saying

00:11:26.260 you know like i know this term hasn't been exactly what everybody was hoping it would be

00:11:30.240 but please vote for us anyway just because i'm begging you please do it's still much i mean it's

00:11:35.140 still better than i mean people might not like this but it's still better than the absolute evil

00:11:39.540 that's going to be unleashed i mean i know they're by the democrats they're relying on that they're

00:11:43.460 always relying on that you know it's better than the alternative but it probably still is

00:11:46.260 i'm not saying that people should vote for the democrats i mean the dsa making inroads into the 0.90

00:11:52.540 party does mean that they are getting more and more insane they already were insane and trump

00:11:58.040 too sent people a bit mad hasn't i mean i was a massive tucker fan but then he's like when tucker's

00:12:02.640 talking about algebra is gone i'm like guys trump trump too has said everyone mad i just said some

00:12:08.720 things yeah a certain harry a certain rug scholar uh posted on his substat the other day saying that

00:12:14.860 the online right is an iq shredder and when i look at what's been happening to talker i can i can

00:12:20.020 believe it but harry as far as vance is concerned he is sort of in a very tough spot because trump

00:12:27.040 is uh is completely all over the place as far as his rhetoric is concerned and his actions and

00:12:33.840 advances the person advances essentially the person who has to answer what trump is doing

00:12:40.160 and even not even trump knows what he's doing well yeah i saw some videos from 2015 when he

00:12:45.320 began campaigning and then some through 2016 of trump going up and giving his speeches the sorts

00:12:50.420 of things that he was talking about the clarity of his speaking was like night and day it's like

00:12:56.040 listening to a completely different person both in terms of the overarching like aim of what he

00:13:01.920 was talking about achieving within america and just the way that he presented it i was like where

00:13:07.080 did this guy go i think when people listen to trump now and they try to um make sense of what

00:13:15.700 he's saying which can be very confused they're trying to project 2016 trump through time onto

00:13:21.500 what we have today which is a very very different animal i mean he's very old and he's been through

00:13:27.100 so much in that time two terms practically getting shot at you know it's all happened

00:13:33.040 so yeah he's a completely different guy but yeah 2016 trump was a powerhouse you're like

00:13:37.180 how is this guy so much got so much energy he was still about 70 but now he's like 80 so it's

00:13:41.820 a different level is he 80 uh he must be 80 by this point a1 one of the weirder things that they

00:13:47.200 did at this rally, though, was they decided, you know, they decided to, they did the typical

00:13:52.880 political thing, we're going to attack our enemies, and one of the things that they did,

00:13:57.040 they focused on a lot of the online leftist types, including Hassan Piker, where they point out,

00:14:03.420 and I saw the picture to confirm this, speaker after speaker assailed Hassan Piker, the leftist

00:14:08.400 online streamer, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, and they

00:14:15.060 showed some images including mr piker's naked torso broadcasting on the jumbotron over the

00:14:22.020 stadium so they took one of hassan piker's twitter thirst posts and this is ironic considering what

00:14:28.260 we're going to be talking about in the third segment where fitness equals fascism of hassan

00:14:32.540 piker going look how muscly and strong i am and they broadcast it for the entire rally to see and 0.63

00:14:38.920 i assume buat that's the gayest thing i've ever heard why is it for some reason that new york 0.73

00:14:47.140 gay clubs soho london canal street manchester night and none of them are at any nowhere near 0.81

00:14:53.060 of a fraction as gay as a meeting of right-wing men i don't understand it's about appreciating 0.78

00:14:59.480 the the aesthetic about appreciating the aesthetic yeah as a greek man i i would expect to hear as

00:15:06.400 You have to cultivate good aesthetics.

00:15:10.640 That's really the one time our border has worked,

00:15:12.660 isn't it? 1.00

00:15:13.040 Keeping out Hassan Paika. 0.94

00:15:14.380 I mean, that was incredible border control.

00:15:17.080 Yes, thank you very much, Labour.

00:15:18.800 Yeah, I mean, that's the one.

00:15:19.780 I wouldn't have banned Schenk and all those ones. 0.99

00:15:21.540 I thought that was stupid, 0.99

00:15:22.300 but obviously all the ones on the right was insane. 0.99

00:15:24.420 Hassan Paika, clearly not doughy enough

00:15:26.160 for all of the Tory boys.

00:15:28.040 Right.

00:15:28.560 You'd think they'd want him in there.

00:15:29.980 Not their type.

00:15:31.100 Not their type.

00:15:32.280 But there's other strange things

00:15:34.860 that came from the rally 0.95

00:15:35.760 where Trump made the convention swear a pledge of allegiance to vote Republican or go to hell.

00:15:41.860 This feels a little bit more like the old Trump energy where he was just being fun and riffing.

00:15:46.980 But the pledge that he made them give was quite amusing.

00:15:49.520 I pledged to the greatest president in the history of the United States

00:15:53.200 that loves us so much he can't even breathe that I will go out with my family, my friends.

00:15:58.680 I'll do it anyway. I don't care if I'm registered or not.

00:16:02.000 I'm going to try and cheat like hell like they do.

00:16:04.760 and apparently the crowd started chanting cheat like hell the veil that's cringe man the veil 0.99

00:16:12.320 is being pulled from american politics to reveal the whole democratic thing that was bullshit the 0.99

00:16:19.660 whole time this is just we're gonna cheat i'm gonna bribe you and then when i'm in power i'm

00:16:24.680 gonna do whatever i want and it applies to me and it applies to my opponent we're gonna be more

00:16:30.120 cheating for you guys they're going to be cheating to screw you over but let's just drop the whole

00:16:35.200 act yeah and you try and put the opponent in prison if you win so yes but but to be honest he

00:16:41.360 was saying that but he didn't do it especially with hillary clinton when he said lock her up

00:16:45.600 yeah yeah yeah the dems actually tried to put trump in jail is a big difference and that's

00:16:50.260 an issue with his mistake yeah no he next time the republicans will have learned they'll start

00:16:55.120 putting people in jail which is what we said last time true yes i think the biggest deviation in

00:17:01.160 politics they literally killed charlie kirk they're gonna do something about it and then

00:17:05.560 no you're right and that's where this one came from uh his offer for the five thousand dollars

00:17:11.060 let's just watch this what because we've done so well and because our country is making so much

00:17:18.820 money that only I can make this promise to you. And here is my promise. If the Republicans win

00:17:27.500 the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our

00:17:33.260 economic, tremendous economic success, like in history, we've never had anything like what's

00:17:40.600 happening. But because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend

00:17:48.680 to every adult citizen

00:17:50.440 in the United States of America

00:17:52.400 for $5,000.

00:17:58.800 That's it.

00:18:00.020 That's it.

00:18:00.640 That's the promise.

00:18:01.420 I'll just give you five grand

00:18:02.680 if you get us back into the House and the Senate.

00:18:05.100 It's similar to a policy the Joker would use.

00:18:11.580 You know, there's been some criticism of this,

00:18:14.340 people saying that this is a bribe.

00:18:16.780 i mean clearly it sounded like it didn't it to the untrained ear to the untrained to those who

00:18:22.040 aren't as like as familiar with washington jargon as i am it may have sounded like a

00:18:27.700 no the thing is who is guardian to speak now can guardian say this oh the guardian no not really

00:18:37.580 they have the nerve to say this because sorry leftists are all about gibbs oh no that that's

00:18:44.500 only i can make this one it was like the point that i'll be coming to don't worry just that

00:18:49.220 part reminded me of a late not late night tv advert in the 90s you know he said like only i

00:18:53.900 can make this promise i'm gonna give you five thousand there was something so like it was

00:18:58.220 trump in his comfort zone really wasn't it a sort of salesman it doesn't show a party that's

00:19:03.740 particularly confident in itself at the moment does it sounds a little bit desperate vote for

00:19:09.620 and you know i'm not going to be able to promise you economic prosperity i'm not going to promise

00:19:14.580 you no new wars but i am going to give you five grand yeah though they are when he said the

00:19:20.100 economy's doing so well they are so much richer than us maybe there is something in that although

00:19:23.440 when trump says the economy's doing well he always says that and will always say that so you've got

00:19:27.240 no idea no matter what but this isn't just the guardian saying that this is actually just like

00:19:32.640 other politicians within america calling it bribery um and other people within uh u.s politics

00:19:38.900 and even the republican party have said uh for instance chip roy u.s representative from texas

00:19:44.660 said well i would like to know how they plan to pay for this uh on the back of the envelope

00:19:49.240 calculations it's well over one trillion dollars in expenses i think a lot i'm no expert yeah

00:19:55.540 one trillion dollars does sound a little bit like a lot and then the democrats have tried to take

00:20:00.720 the opportunity to attack him over this which is ironic given that their entire political program

00:20:05.880 is we will bribe brown people to vote for us uh they've said uh gavin newsom said um well the

00:20:14.700 most interesting thing though actually about the democrats was if you actually read between the

00:20:18.260 lines of what they're saying here it's not that they're criticizing him for bribery it's they're

00:20:22.660 criticizing him well he's already tried to bribe you a bunch of times and he never went through

00:20:26.840 with it right the point the point is at least we'll actually give you the money if we promise

00:20:31.720 it for you uh gavin newsom saying after making you sicker and poorer with his war donald trump

00:20:36.820 now wants to buy your vote with five thousand dollars in tax player funded blood money the

00:20:41.280 most corrupt man to occupy the oval office dnc pointed to trump's record on similar pledges

00:20:46.960 from five thousand dollar stimulus checks as a result of the work of the so-called department

00:20:50.280 of government efficient efficiency doge to two thousand dollar stimulus checks from revenue

00:20:55.020 from tariffs saying the donald trump and the republicans are once again offering empty promises

00:21:01.040 to americans like you know we'd have been fine with this but he's not even going to give you

00:21:05.140 the dollars guys come on what i find hilarious with several leftist msm when they are talking

00:21:11.960 against trump's economic policies they suddenly remember economics now right now the leftist

00:21:19.220 the guardian of all outlets says well if he gives them 1.2 trillion dollars this is going to be

00:21:27.820 added to the existing national debt and that's a bad thing now but when burnham does it it's a good

00:21:33.280 thing right exactly here they're like we don't need defense we just need endless welfare yeah

00:21:37.920 you're right it just makes sense it just makes too much sense and uh the independent have reported

00:21:44.100 on an interview which donald trump gave immediately following his promise where he was asked how are

00:21:50.200 you going to pay for all of that to which he gave a um an interesting answer it's going to be

00:21:54.760 monopoly money yeah during the interview the president was asked why he was promising to

00:21:58.680 send the checks after the midterms if the money was available now great great question actually

00:22:03.440 he says because the democrats can't do it because with them it's negative growth with us it's so

00:22:09.660 positive to be honest no sorry sorry i have to interject here oh yeah because uh the democrats

00:22:16.680 would come and say well we are gonna vote for you get the 5k and vote for democrat

00:22:21.660 i mean yeah i mean yeah they are going to be able to turn it around and say well we'll actually give

00:22:27.540 you the five grand yeah and then he carried on saying so we're taking in 21 trillion dollars

00:22:33.960 no country has ever taken in anywhere near that it's four or five times higher than the next one

00:22:39.540 all because of that beautiful word you and i love more than most others tariffs i think during the

00:22:46.080 like what he's i think that might have been him misspeaking because they've taken in i think

00:22:50.320 210 billion dollars from the tariff so far um which is significantly less than 21 trillion so

00:22:58.300 i'm just gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say that was a slip of the tongue

00:23:01.900 right there but yeah that's not the amount of money then they're not making enough through

00:23:05.980 the tariffs to actually be able to offset the cost that this would get this would bring and

00:23:11.120 it mentions as well in this article fair play and here's where i'll get to the next part that during

00:23:16.020 the pandemic the democrats also campaigned on proposals for a two thousand dollar stimulus

00:23:20.640 check which was another form of bribe yeah that's cheap though it's not fine that's that's that's

00:23:26.020 cheap but they'll go through with it right donald trump's promised plenty of sticky checks in the

00:23:30.700 past and the only ones that he actually went through with i think were the veterans checks

00:23:33.900 fair play to him and also the original stimulus checks from the pandemic which was an initial

00:23:40.340 one of what was it one thousand two hundred dollars and then he had a later one after the

00:23:44.900 cares act of six hundred dollars so he gave you almost two thousand dollars which if i remember

00:23:49.980 correctly was mainly used by ghetto americans to buy new trainers so it kept the economy going

00:23:56.920 though that was that stimulus but all of this to point out the republicans are not the only ones

00:24:02.920 doing this in fact i would argue that the dems kind of have made bribing the electorate why are

00:24:08.540 we logged in why is nick there i was wondering i was not going to mention it it's very strange

00:24:14.740 what are you doing check out nick's sub stack um but uh in fact the dems have made bribing the

00:24:22.060 voters their kind of main go-to campaign tactic for a very long time and including these most

00:24:29.380 recent um elections as well four days before arizona's 2026 primary a non-profit led by the

00:24:36.960 former executive director of Navajo

00:24:39.020 County Democrats, whose resume also includes

00:24:41.160 Hillary Clinton's campaign, invited

00:24:43.100 native voters to a ballot

00:24:44.980 party with food and said attendees

00:24:47.140 would be filling out our mail-in

00:24:49.000 primary ballots together. So this isn't

00:24:51.240 exactly just giving them money straight

00:24:53.040 away, but it is giving you free

00:24:55.040 food and inviting you to something where it's

00:24:57.080 all under the umbrella, really, of the Democrats

00:24:59.100 without saying as much explicitly. It's benevolence.

00:25:01.660 Yeah, it's just kindness.

00:25:03.160 Are you a decent human being,

00:25:05.100 to tell you it's what do you want these people to go hungry yes vote democrat in florida an

00:25:09.940 instagram account operated by a recent democratic state house candidate advertised free fish dinners

00:25:15.140 for people who brought a new voter to register in georgia non-profit funded for voter registration

00:25:20.300 and turnout work said it would give out 25 gift cards to people who brought an adult to register

00:25:26.280 nationally a non-profit funded by the dark money organization behind the largest pro kamala harris

00:25:31.480 super PAC is running 2026 giveaways offering $400 gas cards $500 grocery cards and a concert

00:25:38.120 package worth approximately $4,900 while collecting personal information they say is matched against

00:25:43.900 voter files so those are more small scale ones of more local campaigns doing it but then you also

00:25:50.420 just have going back years obvious attempts of the democrats to bribe people including

00:25:59.040 California Governor Gavin Newsom's gas rebates of $1,050 for families earning less than $150,000

00:26:06.560 annually. Because any sort of benefit like this, any sort of kickback like this back to the voters

00:26:12.260 when you are also part of a political party system, yeah, you can say that you're helping

00:26:18.040 them, but you are also priming them to vote for you in the next election, especially when this

00:26:22.640 was in 2022 when this was coming up to the 2022 midterms as well. Governor Tim Wolf in Pennsylvania

00:26:30.500 proposed $2,000 stimulus checks for households earning less than $80,000. Wolf also proposed

00:26:37.300 small business grants of up to $50,000 in which firms owned by women in minorities as well as

00:26:42.240 rural companies would get priorities. I'm glad to know that women in minorities are on the same

00:26:47.220 level as rural companies. That's some real DEI there. It's no surprise that nearly all of the 0.98

00:26:53.060 proposals were signed or proposed just ahead of the midterms back in 2022. You also had Chuck

00:26:58.180 Schumer in 2020 announced that he had a plan to raise the scheduled $600 stimulus checks

00:27:05.080 to $2,000. Do you remember that one? Emphasizing that no Democrats will object, will Senate

00:27:10.480 republicans and that was uh that was after um donald trump after the 2020 election had already

00:27:16.820 happened uh new york-based immigration advocacy groups were now also at the time calling for

00:27:22.200 three billion dollars in stimulus for the undocumented and 800 million dollars to provide

00:27:27.500 them with monthly unemployment checks of 1 200 now that was for illegal immigrants in new york

00:27:35.040 while Governor Kathy Hochul had not weighed in that year's state budget includes subsidized

00:27:41.620 medical care for undocumented seniors and mothers with newborns. I can only imagine that this has

00:27:45.960 all increased and expanded in New York City under Zoran Mamdani. Ordinarily such measures would not

00:27:52.680 qualify as bribing voters as foreigners do not vote however New York had at the time passed a

00:27:58.220 law earlier on that year granting non-citizens suffrage which was struck down by the New York

00:28:04.640 state supreme court but i mean come on come on really really and then there's just zoran mamdani

00:28:13.480 himself where he wanted to do the racial equity redistribution which is just saying all of the 0.86

00:28:19.980 brown people in new york and there's plenty of them nowadays just vote for me and i will take 0.98

00:28:24.660 all of the nasty evil white people's money and give it to you what about the government owned 0.98

00:28:31.120 and run grocery stores he wants to implement yeah so all i'm saying is that both of these parties do 0.97

00:28:38.920 this uh donald trump if anything is kind of just being the most honest about it i've seen any of

00:28:43.740 them do where he's just like just i'll just give you i will i'm not going to say anything about

00:28:48.280 equity nothing about this is to do with racial justice or social justice or anything i will

00:28:53.740 just give you money yeah going back which is commendable really yeah what you said going back

00:28:59.360 what you said earlier i think it's time to just basically wrap democracy up at that point isn't

00:29:02.520 it really when democracy is just i'm paying for your vote but just to get rid of the whole voting

00:29:07.120 thing and just cut out the middleman cut out the nonsense really it's just it's just there at this

00:29:13.660 point to prevent out and out tribal warfare between different groups and that's the that's

00:29:19.040 the sad fact of it but i'll go through some of the rumble rants for that now it's got some very

00:29:23.160 generous people today thank you very much based ape they used to show pokemon on channel three

00:29:28.040 after school i remember turning it on and there was only news all five channels were showing the

00:29:32.000 same image i vividly remember watching the second plane hit live oh wow sigil stone democracy cannot

00:29:38.900 exist as a permanent form of government it can only exist until the voters discover they can

00:29:42.540 vote themselves large s out of the public treasury alexander fraser tyler that's very true and that's

00:29:49.220 clearly what we're experiencing right now one tall and that's in england as well one tall order as a

00:29:54.640 three-time trump voter can i ask what is even the point of returning the gop to power in the

00:29:58.780 midterms if they aren't going to do anything with the power anyway well the the the most obvious

00:30:04.460 and strongest argument is to keep the democrats out from doing even worse to you so that's that's

00:30:11.760 the uh most obvious one oswego mumbus i've heard the left openly expressing vengeance if they rest

00:30:17.700 the power away from the right in the face of that even doing nothing is preferable random name

00:30:22.260 sending five dollars are you well are you ill today you've never maybe he's gonna write one

00:30:29.720 comment now and it's instead of five comments with one maybe he's really desperately desperate

00:30:35.880 for me to read a fed post he's like maybe this will do it maybe this will be the one that's a

00:30:39.560 random fed post yeah reps will republically reluctantly demographically replace americans

00:30:44.400 and gleefully bomb brown people for israel dems will gleefully replace americans but reluctantly

00:30:50.140 bomb brown people choose wisely that's actually not a bad dichotomy there one tall order us aid

00:30:57.640 cuts seem to be hitting i live in a dc suburb and a few sundays ago i woke up to democrat candidate 0.54

00:31:03.820 flyers and a five dollar bill under my front porch mat just slipping your little fiver there

00:31:09.180 and pat j read the us has engaged in this bribery style politics since the days of andrew jackson

00:31:14.140 in the 19th century they were called the hard cider campaigns because booze was a common form

00:31:19.420 of bribery back then yeah and england's had rotten boroughs going back a long time as well it's not

00:31:25.500 unusual it's just it's just fun that this time he's just like no pretensions take my money

00:31:31.400 what happened with a statue is it yours it is yeah we're here to talk about statues are you

00:31:39.920 responsible for the statue being there wait this isn't a photoshop um this is real i saw this in

00:31:45.680 shoot i thought it was ai i thought it was ai as well sadly no it's very very real and it's very

00:31:51.500 very ugly and it's awful in many ways but let's get into it so yes this is the horrendous new 0.80

00:31:56.420 statue on the plinth the fourth plinth so-called at trafalgar square it's called every woman 1.00

00:32:01.660 because of course it's not every woman really but but will be fairly soon it's just fat black women 0.95

00:32:06.680 um which isn't every woman actually well you don't know where the demographics are going i mean so 0.93

00:32:12.240 that's let's have a look at the bbc's taking it oh hang on um demographics aren't even going that

00:32:17.600 way they're going more south asian um okay the link's not there let me um let me

00:32:23.400 um will this work yeah let's go with this so maybe later so i like the way the camera's right

00:32:34.760 am i so i won't complain about this is lady in blue by new york artist shabalala self perhaps

00:32:41.320 which pays homage to a young

00:32:43.400 metropolitan woman. It's the 16th artwork

00:32:45.400 to feature on the planet since 1998. 1.00

00:32:47.580 It just replaced the trans 0.99

00:32:49.380 faces which we'll maybe get onto. 0.89

00:32:52.140 Imagine being called

00:32:53.200 Self. Yeah.

00:32:55.100 Mrs. Self.

00:32:57.900 Well actually this

00:32:58.760 is a very sort of narcissistic piece so maybe

00:33:01.320 it's appropriate. So she said she set out to

00:33:03.380 put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a

00:33:05.320 site more usually associated with statues of

00:33:07.260 monarchs and military commanders. 0.99

00:33:09.180 My work Lady in Blue will bring to Tafalga Square a woman

00:33:11.220 that many can relate to she's not an idol to venerate or historic figurehead to commemorate

00:33:15.760 almost like she shouldn't be what's the point of having her there to valga square yeah you sort of

00:33:20.240 wonder um why is she there indeed um it really is the egalitarian spirit which i've discussed before

00:33:26.440 of sort of i'm just as good as you c.s lewis discusses it in screw tape proposes a toast it's

00:33:31.740 all about we can't have anyone better than anyone else this person's just as good as nelson

00:33:35.560 right just because just because she's there she's a woman there's no one to venerate as good at no

00:33:41.560 one to commemorate exactly she's a woman walking forward into our collective future with ambition

00:33:45.340 and purpose she's a londoner who represents the city's spirit she's on her way to the dole office

00:33:50.080 to collect her welfare i said she's a perfect metaphor for dei to get a statue as a white man

00:33:55.020 you have to die historically and heroically in a historic battle if you tick the right boxes you

00:33:59.180 don't need any achievements you just have to look like you might complain to hr is that fair the very

00:34:03.580 fact that she's an ordinary woman it's like oh nelson dies in battle you know it's like who are 0.96

00:34:08.280 you sorry woman it's like i'm just a fat black woman pay me give me where's my statue yeah um

00:34:17.360 and so isn't that the spirit of london now yeah yeah yeah i find it funny that you would normally 1.00

00:34:24.900 expect the woman who made this statue herself to be as fat or if not fatter than it but she's

00:34:30.260 actually significantly slimmer than it by the looks of it it's interesting isn't it it's all

00:34:33.920 about confidence and purpose basically it's an entitled i don't want to sound too online but it's

00:34:37.460 a pushy entitled foid it's on the statue because it's all if you look at what she said in the

00:34:42.720 article when she said um you know it's about um a woman walking into our collective future with

00:34:47.940 ambition and purpose and then here again we hear this language so this is the mayor's press office

00:34:52.200 it says first it says london's fourth plinth is one of the most exciting public art commissions

00:34:56.140 in the world. No, it's not. Today, we welcome Lely in Blue, a symbol of confidence and purpose

00:35:00.800 and an excellent addition to Fahalga Square. See, this confidence and purpose stuff, what is that

00:35:04.520 about? My take on it was this. One reason it's so bad, apart from the aesthetics and the thinly

00:35:08.920 veiled ideological hectoring, is this nonsense about confidence and purpose. Art is not a self-help

00:35:13.500 pep talk, but because the ideology has to relentlessly promote certain groups and tear down

00:35:17.240 others, its depiction of so-called minorities can only come in the form of this embarrassing

00:35:21.000 dribble about empowerment. Sorry to read my own tweet, but I knew I'd say it better there.

00:35:24.700 because you know it's like it has to be all oh I'm so confident and amazing it's like you couldn't

00:35:29.080 just depict let's say a black woman you know being how they actually are as humans it's all

00:35:33.740 they have to be amazing and perfect and confident and all this it's like what's I got to do with

00:35:38.080 art though why is that a public artwork this thing about confidence and uh it's just this weird it's

00:35:44.400 kind of patronizing as well it's this weird this is what this woke stuff's all about it's it's

00:35:48.720 i sound like the mike graham show but you know confidence and what's what was the phrase

00:35:55.040 confidence and purpose what's that got to do with public it's really just about putting ugly stuff

00:35:59.200 up in public that they know that white people aren't gonna like really that's what this is

00:36:03.760 this does not conform to european beauty standards this does not conform to european artistic 0.76

00:36:09.760 standards the body proportions are all like all over the place she's got like you say she's got

00:36:15.680 the confidence strut of a woman about to complain to your manager um her hair is in a non-european 0.99

00:36:21.760 style she is like pitch black not even brown it's just ugly take up space take up space i deserve

00:36:29.120 to take up space next to nelson the very idea is that it's not a remarkable person because they 0.63

00:36:34.880 said it there in in the exhibition that this isn't a woman to commemorate or venerate right yet for

00:36:42.160 for some reason it is about saying confidence and purpose so it's about saying that someone who

00:36:45.780 doesn't deserve it should be empowered promoted and empowered or something like that i have the 0.99

00:36:50.500 idea that the people behind this are really stupid we'll get on to them and you'll prove 0.98

00:36:54.760 right yeah well some spoiler alert somebody down the line who approved this was intelligent and 0.99

00:37:00.220 they did it for a reason we'll come on to that actually the weird thing as well just on top of

00:37:04.000 all the other insight is that she's actually america hello my name is shabalala self i'm here

00:37:08.640 today in Trafalgar Square and behind me is Lady in Blue, my commission for the

00:37:13.400 fourth plan. I've been working on this sculpture for about three years. It was

00:37:16.740 produced at Factum in Madrid and I think of her, Lady in Blue, as being an every

00:37:22.140 woman. She's a quotidian figure, she's a young metropolitan woman, and I feel like

00:37:26.800 all individuals that see her, if they allow themselves to, can identify with

00:37:31.120 her. For me, this work is very symbolic of optimism. She's moving forward, she's

00:37:37.600 not static and she's moving forward with confidence and joy and i'm hoping that when audiences see

00:37:44.120 this artwork that they could feel that same confidence to move forward with optimism and

00:37:49.860 with the collective in mind there's some right okay so she reminds me mind leftist she reminds

00:37:55.480 me basically of uh those models who suddenly are asked about world peace and oh yeah this will

00:38:01.320 she has to say something completely ridiculous but only sounding as if she's saying something

00:38:06.060 moving forward with confidence and joy and the collective is that is that okay can we go now 0.92

00:38:10.700 yeah it's like you just said a load of words they didn't mean anything just a word salad

00:38:14.780 unbelievable and why yeah can we not find an english if we even if we're doing the dei is

00:38:19.180 it not english dei people it's trafalgar square should it really be an american i don't know

00:38:23.900 question about that nothing else in america but you know so i was thinking in in uh national terms

00:38:30.780 but DI doesn't

00:38:33.020 and that must be it

00:38:34.380 she's oppressed Nick

00:38:35.840 she is oppressed

00:38:37.300 are you suggesting that borders are real Nick

00:38:39.480 all because we have

00:38:41.300 are you making fun of her oppression

00:38:44.940 silence is violence Nick

00:38:47.000 I just think like 1.00

00:38:48.120 I like America but can we get an English person

00:38:50.160 anyway you asked who commissioned it

00:38:52.000 who's behind it it's Justine Simons

00:38:54.560 OBE London's

00:38:56.140 151,000 per year deputy mayor

00:38:58.180 for culture and creative industries

00:39:00.520 And she established the fourth pin as the UK's biggest public sculpture prize

00:39:04.840 and is co-chair of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.

00:39:09.200 And Charlotte Gill's gone into expenses.

00:39:11.600 Apparently, her total travel expenses in 23, 24 were $4,600. 0.82

00:39:17.880 So anyway, Charlotte's gone into it. 0.96

00:39:19.380 And she is the one that also commissioned the mad trans thing, 0.95

00:39:24.220 which was 700 trans faces. 1.00

00:39:27.380 Sorry, I just saw the salary.

00:39:28.880 well the previous thing

00:39:30.600 the previous commission on the fourth plinth

00:39:32.500 was the cast of the faces of 700 trans people

00:39:35.320 it was this thing

00:39:36.480 it has some weird pretentious name

00:39:38.060 I can't remember

00:39:38.620 I can't even tell from a distance though

00:39:43.000 it looks like bubble wrap

00:39:45.460 yeah

00:39:46.020 it's not as great an artwork as the new one

00:39:49.060 I think that's what you're saying

00:39:50.280 I honestly prefer the new one is what I'm saying

00:39:52.860 so maybe we're on the way up actually

00:39:54.680 it's getting better

00:39:55.400 let's just move

00:39:58.000 oh yeah

00:39:58.480 did you see that the previous person

00:40:00.140 has a salary of 151k

00:40:02.180 I did I read it out

00:40:02.760 but you were pissing around

00:40:03.480 with the mouse

00:40:03.980 when I did that

00:40:04.560 so you didn't hear me

00:40:05.560 got a bit of a chip on your shoulder

00:40:07.540 today Nick

00:40:08.400 is everything alright

00:40:09.200 I just demand like

00:40:09.940 the minimum of professionalism

00:40:11.120 wake up on the wrong side

00:40:11.980 of the bed did you

00:40:12.900 no I'm always like that

00:40:14.680 so Rupert's take

00:40:16.680 was quite moderate

00:40:17.280 I'm tempted to run

00:40:18.200 Restore Britain's entire

00:40:19.180 London Mayor campaign

00:40:20.120 on tearing this filth down

00:40:21.440 nice

00:40:22.360 goes 20,000 likes

00:40:23.800 quite popular

00:40:24.480 by the way

00:40:25.580 hate to be a normie

00:40:26.620 my policy

00:40:27.580 you know normally i don't go for this splitting the vote thing like i don't worry about that kind

00:40:31.020 of rhetoric but when it comes to london mayor i've lived in london almost 20 years believe it or not

00:40:34.360 i'm like can we get this guy out please so i'm just like less james cleverly fine layla the

00:40:39.960 madwoman whatever just like can we just pick one and just vote for them to get khan out but it looks

00:40:45.220 like that's not going to happen because we have so many candidates i would actually what kind of

00:40:48.500 majority does uh what kind of margin does khan normally win by i would expect it's quite significant

00:40:53.920 Yeah, he just has it locked up until you're forever.

00:40:56.840 But Sean Bailey got reasonably close.

00:40:59.640 Much closer than anyone thought.

00:41:00.800 If Bailey could do that, in theory, James Cleverley,

00:41:03.220 you know, he's quite personable, he's quite well-known,

00:41:05.740 he could do it, but then you can have Leila spitting it,

00:41:08.260 maybe Restore will spit it, I don't know. 1.00

00:41:09.940 I just want to get Khan out at all costs. 0.98

00:41:11.680 Speaking of Khan, isn't this very much in the same ballpark

00:41:14.780 as, well, we're talking about London Mayor, as this?

00:41:17.700 Oh, yeah.

00:41:18.080 Fabric, St. Paul's Cathedral, name a more iconic duo,

00:41:21.060 this disgusting thing of sticking a nightclub in st paul's luke has already talked about it but i

00:41:25.600 just wanted to add it as context for this this plinth now you've got this it's all in the same

00:41:31.060 ballpark notting hill very much is in the same ballpark as well as the kind of rhetoric notting

00:41:36.120 hill carnival overwhelmingly the positive despite 169 arrests was the sky mostly fiery

00:41:41.300 most of them weren't weren't arrested yeah yeah that's a win yeah stabby but mostly peaceful so

00:41:47.960 it's it's sort of low-level dei slop type thinking combined with fake uh upbeat rhetoric she the

00:41:55.320 woman is confident and striding into the future notting hill is overwhelmingly positive fabric

00:41:59.640 and saint paul's is an iconic duo it's just like that combo whereas of course reality was man dies

00:42:04.680 after entering canal near notting hill carnival is a 560 arrested over a weekend but anyway i

00:42:09.160 totally agree with what you're saying it went way up oh yeah as the day went on i completely feel

00:42:13.880 what you're saying about London

00:42:15.300 because it seems to me that if he wins,

00:42:17.960 the next statue is going to be twerking.

00:42:20.340 Right.

00:42:20.760 They'll make it a moving statue.

00:42:23.680 The ideology is absolutely everywhere. 0.67

00:42:25.660 Inane, soul-sapping, relentless.

00:42:26.940 This is what I'm saying.

00:42:27.640 It's the Arde-ification of everything.

00:42:29.620 So Transport for London stuck up

00:42:30.860 a banal Jason Arde quote on the board.

00:42:34.240 And you're just like,

00:42:34.760 I would take a thread and needle

00:42:36.260 and interweave love into our society.

00:42:38.560 Thank you, Jason, with love from Moorgate Station.

00:42:42.500 Does that really need to be up at Moorgate Station?

00:42:45.100 And you're just like, it's everywhere.

00:42:47.640 The quote of a seven-year-old asked to come up with an inspirational quote

00:42:50.540 in primary school.

00:42:51.680 It sounds a bit like the artist trying to justify her banal piece.

00:42:55.180 Like, oh, it's collective striding into...

00:42:57.820 It's nonsense.

00:42:59.900 So I've just said, this is all I need, this quote now,

00:43:04.120 and I just reuse it.

00:43:05.340 I've just reused it for this.

00:43:07.080 You can just use it for anything.

00:43:08.480 The ideology is everywhere, inane, soul-slapped and relentless.

00:43:10.400 I just keep reusing that quote now

00:43:12.180 because it's the same thing

00:43:13.320 this is the Arde quote

00:43:14.660 this is the fabric at the St. Paul's

00:43:17.340 it's Notting Hill

00:43:18.180 it's just the same bollocks everywhere

00:43:19.740 are you allowed to say bollocks?

00:43:21.120 I won't say it

00:43:21.900 it's demoralising

00:43:23.180 yes it's demoralising

00:43:24.420 it's banal 0.94

00:43:25.140 yes it's anti-white and anti-British as well 1.00

00:43:27.960 it's ugly 1.00

00:43:28.820 and you're meant to feel bad I think

00:43:31.680 and this one was

00:43:32.520 do you know what it kind of feels like?

00:43:34.360 no I see what visual style it is now

00:43:37.320 it's the corpo flat people

00:43:39.720 I've got that

00:43:40.340 it's the corpo flat people in memphis yeah made 3d yes exactly and i just wanted to bring up this

00:43:47.300 strange telegraph article as well because the telegraph it's just the telegraph the telegraph

00:43:50.900 is now owned by german woke people weirdly and this was quite a strange piece he only gave it

00:43:56.820 two stars and whether that looks weird is it it said two stars before so no maybe it's black and

00:44:02.020 white so yeah he gave it two stars he didn't like it but he was weirdly positive about bits of it

00:44:07.460 one bit was quite depressing is that the artist apparently said, artists were using the word

00:44:11.060 loosely, that it ought to move people in a relatively uniform way. Isn't that just like

00:44:15.540 the art we have now in the whole culture? I'd like to sort of affect people in a uniform way though,

00:44:19.780 and he said this depressively. He says this is a logic of children's books or snappy slogans

00:44:25.780 to dumber claim, and that is completely correct. The weird, and there was other ones like this,

00:44:29.140 it's all a series, the weird claim he made was, most unexpectedly she, meaning the statue, blends

00:44:35.220 in with her newfound mates meaning like nelson and george on trafalgar squares three other plinth

00:44:40.180 stand two 19th century generals and george fourth the men the men offer figures of heroism simple

00:44:45.460 and bland and clear self's lady is meant to counter them um and to be ordinary but raised in

00:44:53.380 the air and scaled up she accidentally becomes just as heroic and dull as them the fourth plinth

00:44:57.220 should mess up trafalgar square lady in blue is right at home i mean that's complete nonsense

00:45:01.060 I'm sorry, why should the fourth plinth muss up Trafalgar Square?

00:45:04.400 Why do we want to uglify it?

00:45:06.120 I know.

00:45:06.900 We just want to be subversive for the sake of it.

00:45:10.200 Right, that's weird.

00:45:11.620 And take space.

00:45:12.800 That's weird.

00:45:13.420 And then the fact, the idea that she fits in with Nelson

00:45:15.440 or, you know, these other heroes, she doesn't, so that's nonsense.

00:45:18.660 This whole thing is just, like, animated by such an antisocial attitude

00:45:23.300 at the base of it, which is, I want to ruin your day.

00:45:26.320 Why? Because it's my impulse.

00:45:27.940 Right.

00:45:28.200 an art perhaps in some context is supposed to be free thinking and exploratory and perhaps edgy or

00:45:35.620 whatever but not really a statue in Trafalgar Square you know I mean it's not particularly

00:45:39.420 where you want that um yeah I like I like Mr Bungle I wouldn't want to go see them play the

00:45:45.020 Royal Albert Hall right right right yeah it's public art it's a little bit different and this

00:45:50.860 apparently I was looking at a different article on the Telegraph and they said oh I noticed they've

00:45:54.060 turned off comments on the Plinth article. So they seem to turn off comments here. Well, maybe

00:45:59.240 they're back on, I don't know. But when I checked, they turned them off, which wasn't a surprise

00:46:02.160 really, because people hate that stuff. This was a good post about it. The uglification of the world

00:46:06.760 is something that grinds my gears every single day. Buildings, paintings, fashion, public arts,

00:46:11.220 cars, home exteriors, children's books, high streets, even McDonald's is at it. Seemingly

00:46:15.180 everything has to be made uglier, blander, and more soulless. We used to create things that

00:46:18.940 inspired wonder and imagination. Going to Florence last year made me realize just how important and

00:46:23.800 soul enriching it is to see beautiful stuff when you're walking around now we live in a world

00:46:27.820 flooded with corporate memphis art as you said the hideous brightly colored illustrations with

00:46:32.440 faceless people absurdly long limbs and bodies shaped like abstract blobs the visual equivalent

00:46:36.600 of a corporate hr department saying we're fun it makes me so depressed but i think this is the

00:46:41.440 point of it indeed there's a good post there from adrian if you don't know what corporate memphis is

00:46:45.840 it's basically this you've seen it everywhere yeah it's this thing and why would you get this

00:46:50.740 you get this because we're in the globalized world where to foreground of course you can always hate

00:46:55.600 white people that's always a caveat but basically to foreground any type of person over any other

00:46:59.540 would be some sort of violence so you're not allowed to assert it so people have to just

00:47:03.360 become sort of uh you know what homogeneous blobs or amorphous blobs land nothing this is this is at

00:47:10.420 heart ultimately the driving artistic spirit behind this was to make it inoffensive yeah

00:47:19.700 inoffensive and consumable and childish and though really it is offensive to us but it's

00:47:25.180 offensive to the people that they like to offend or don't care about offending but not to anyone

00:47:29.740 else yeah it's it's just depressing isn't it um what was this one oh yeah i just uh picked some

00:47:37.400 of the best just random selection of tweets how it's going down on x modern sculpture consisting

00:47:42.120 mostly of unnamed black women walking sitting or looking annoyed is going to create a very

00:47:45.740 confused archaeological narrative in a few thousand years i mean that's true isn't it why why why is 0.97

00:47:50.900 that is this going to be the equivalent of that tiny little statue of the fat black woman they

00:47:55.180 find and they go see these were beauty standards for thousands of years they're going to find this 0.51

00:47:59.940 and go i guess this was the ideal female form back then no no it wasn't this was the peak of

00:48:06.040 their art we're like no it was michael angelo's david no no it was this um yeah depressing come

00:48:12.660 friendly asteroid of doom come quickly yeah unless the asteroid wipes it all away and then that won't

00:48:16.740 happen so that's the positive possible outcome there's always nuclear war as well yes there's

00:48:21.300 always never forget that um the statue of horatio nelson looking down at this from his column

00:48:26.300 exactly i'll have a bacon double cheese burger chicken wings and two more season that's just 0.61

00:48:32.260 silly i don't know why that's in there ridiculous i mean this again as well why is that oh my god

00:48:37.620 yeah um tom and jerry is just a selection of how it's going down on x just purely for comic effect 0.95

00:48:44.360 i think that's most of it you get the idea it's woke gone mad go it's that's basically

00:48:50.020 so that's basically the level of my saying that's a very tedious and have gone absolutely

00:48:54.640 absolute nonsense very tedious and tiresome i know very tiresome i mean inane and soulless i'm tired

00:49:02.840 Mr... doesn't matter who 0.83

00:49:04.980 Okay, so that is 0.71

00:49:06.800 I will read it

00:49:08.980 The light is making it

00:49:10.260 Mr. Nelson

00:49:11.780 Mr. Fraser Nelson

00:49:14.280 Fraser Nelson says this isn't happening

00:49:16.680 and if it is, it's good

00:49:18.080 Stats of these statues have actually gone

00:49:19.920 Instances of ugly statues in Trafalgar Square are actually down

00:49:22.480 So I can't read this because of the light

00:49:26.500 but I'm going to try

00:49:27.180 If anyone's wondering why I'm doing that

00:49:28.380 the new light is making it almost impossible

00:49:29.920 So where did mine start?

00:49:31.960 Oh, here we go

00:49:32.600 you're scrolling the wrong way

00:49:34.980 I know

00:49:35.360 I can't see

00:49:37.040 move the mouse left

00:49:37.920 move the mouse left

00:49:38.780 there you go

00:49:39.620 so

00:49:42.860 she

00:49:44.580 someone's written

00:49:45.820 I'm trying to think

00:49:48.560 where mine starts

00:49:49.280 oh here we go

00:49:49.800 so here

00:49:50.660 how do you say that

00:49:52.480 Okidore

00:49:52.920 Okidore

00:49:53.520 no I did

00:49:53.940 Okidore

00:49:54.580 following the black woman's statue

00:49:56.760 in NYC

00:49:57.720 indeed

00:49:58.300 can I read this one

00:50:00.680 from Sigil Stone

00:50:01.460 I doubt

00:50:02.200 i mean can i read any of this to read this i have to basically do it okay so basically fed posts

00:50:07.800 it's basically a fed but i mean reading that i don't want that clipped but it's basically a sort

00:50:12.480 of pigeon english um demotic uh well we'll just say we were statues and she we were statues and

00:50:20.180 she she and someone else endless less pep so has said um she fire alarm chirps in background i can't

00:50:27.780 read that um pocket door says four years read it four years to make height of di screen's gone off

00:50:35.120 so save me some fed posts back again sigil stone i do not like this latest banksy work it is a bit

00:50:39.860 banksy isn't it um oswego mumba says interesting choice of skin color on the statue i imagine it

00:50:46.060 will contrast the pigeon poop quite nicely that's true that's a positive um it'll become

00:50:50.640 impressionistic after a long enough time fictitious said you know di people designed and built that

00:50:55.900 statue normal people don't walk moving left foot to left to left arm interesting looks like it's

00:51:01.100 doing the walk in the song by genesis i can't talk a classic this one sounds sarcastic but

00:51:07.480 margarita afternoon thanks for the great show you are intelligent and interesting

00:51:11.700 the chat is pretty good too i like that you're intelligent and interesting that's good yeah

00:51:15.380 yes thanks margarita afternoon it was either yesterday or wednesday we got one saying

00:51:20.340 watchable uh watchable panel huzzah partridge type thanks good can confirm this is right okay

00:51:29.200 so let's go to the third segment i have news for you if you're a communist and you're in shape

00:51:35.320 the revolution is about to eat you it's hungry it has a habit of eating its own and they have 0.97

00:51:41.880 singled you out you aren't a communist anymore you're a fascist spy so perhaps it's time to

00:51:48.360 reevaluate your life's choices right soviet propaganda has traditionally depicted capitalists 0.98

00:51:55.740 as fat also as pigs but generally speaking as being men of plenty of kilograms you see here

00:52:04.500 um i think that's a that's british hat an american hat and a french hat these three guys here are 0.99

00:52:12.480 really fat and they are dividing the spoils of the very malnourished masses it's the the fat cats 0.73

00:52:21.120 of capitalist imperialism it's the early version of the cookie meme yes so traditionally speaking 0.87

00:52:26.760 capitalists have been represented by soviet propaganda as being out of shape and communists

00:52:33.980 have been depicted as being of good shape the chads as being in shape yeah so for instance you

00:52:40.800 you have muscular workers you know really powerful fists they chattified the notoriously

00:52:46.780 incel looking vladimir lenin yes fortunately it's because they're doing hard manual labor

00:52:51.560 all day is why they're looking yeah and and all but also they eat plenty of protein

00:52:56.840 which they cannot afford because surplus value but somehow for propaganda of a soviet nature

00:53:05.160 they could afford there they could be like right and i have a small income um that i'll put aside

00:53:13.360 for my macros i need so okay they were very very attendant on the mac yeah and that's actually why

00:53:20.760 most of them were poor according to some leftists right now i'm not joining this propaganda but

00:53:26.420 you'll see where i'm getting at right they were they didn't have the level of the standard of

00:53:32.520 living that they could have under socialism because most of the money that they were getting

00:53:37.780 they were spending on protein on protein powder exactly as well here we have again these uh

00:53:44.760 muscular dudes who are depicted as chadish and also we have dolph lundgren being portraying here

00:53:52.140 the communist weightlifter you see his hands about to burst to be fair around this era they 0.81

00:53:59.400 were just injecting ungodly amounts of steroids in all of their athletes uh yeah they did and 0.59

00:54:06.920 there has been an interesting debate about the incorporation of fitness in politics and several

00:54:15.040 sides are fighting to claim fitness personally this makes zero sense to me fitness is just about

00:54:21.840 being fit and healthy but this is where perhaps i'm losing something and some people are saying

00:54:27.900 that they need to infiltrate fitness right there has been a communist or at least within quotation

00:54:35.020 marks communist because they could be fascist spies attempt to say that the ussr's culture

00:54:40.900 of physical fitness was really strong essentially and it's a pity if the left loses fitness i

00:54:48.920 wouldn't be surprised if it was to be honest i mean if you're going for a massively industrialized

00:54:54.060 economy you want people to be able to do the manual labor you're expecting of them right

00:54:58.300 right so here we have a article from 2023 Mateusz Naglik challenges the right-wing narrative that

00:55:07.800 communists are either obese or malnourished and that fascists conservatives and so on are the ones

00:55:14.040 in shape I'll read a bit here and then I'll speak to you about the people who are going to take

00:55:20.340 issue with this article and try to say that well this is the last rampant of the bourgeoisie

00:55:26.600 it's a communist skin suit but in fact they may be fascist spies in 2017 brunel university released

00:55:34.500 the findings of a unique study regarding the political views of regular gym goers the basic

00:55:40.860 conclusions drawn from this is that there does appear to exist a correlation between those who

00:55:45.760 went to the gym regularly and right-wing beliefs first physical physically fit men were generally

00:55:53.000 more financially stable than those who are not secondly and more importantly for this article

00:55:58.160 the men who were in shape irregardless of wealth were also more likely to hold right-wing beliefs

00:56:04.200 including the rejection of redistribution of wealth there is something inherently

00:56:10.000 right-wing about fitness i think and uh they think that it's also left-wing but okay let's

00:56:19.940 let's move on this research was later used by fox owned vice news under the headline 0.82

00:56:25.180 open quote marks jim bros more likely to be right-wing assholes science confirms close close

00:56:32.200 quotes and the guardian published an article in his opinion section entitled do you boast about 0.87

00:56:38.260 your fitness watch out you'll unavoidably become right wing watch out what about gains no pain no

00:56:46.140 gain the gains aren't handed to you harry by the government you have to sweat i mean they could

00:56:54.100 you have to toil state state mandated peptides have you considered that well no it's state

00:57:01.400 mandated ozempek for the fatties and for the skinny fats you get uh 500 milligrams of test

00:57:08.440 every morning yes but then you die of a massive heart attack that exactly but also it messes up

00:57:14.520 with your bones and you need strong bones to be a proletariat worker and a revolution well that's

00:57:19.900 why we get you on two separate courses the first course is ozempek and then once you're brittle

00:57:24.120 once you're tiny once you're weak we start to build you back up we are rebuilding you as the

00:57:29.580 ideal communist man okay and here is where they sort of make sense because they do say the problems

00:57:35.980 that we are faced with today in terms of physical well-being are truly great but solving

00:57:40.900 these will not only benefit society as a whole by boosting health but will also improve opposition

00:57:46.440 as a force that is seen as a champion of well-being and they say here's something that i totally agree

00:57:51.780 with basically you don't exist to make uh fast food corporations um rich that's not the purpose

00:57:59.220 of existence which i totally get but no i have games i have games is the purpose exactly i have

00:58:05.480 bad news for you uh comrades you have been ousted as fascist spies there has been a socialism

00:58:13.000 conference in chicago make my escape using my superior running skills well wait whoa wait a

00:58:21.120 minute harry you haven't been posing as a communist that's true in favor of fitness why would this

00:58:26.380 alarm you now i haven't done very well if that was what you're trying to do why would this alarm

00:58:29.520 you now i thought i was the office leftist by whose standards rory yeah but me and rory are

00:58:36.960 very close anyway let's wrap it up thank you the entire time you know you know where the current

00:58:43.740 state of socialist discourse is at um you're gonna say something about missing the point 0.74

00:58:50.060 notoriously i'm i'm a dysgenic retard please no bully yes i saw the video where they literally 0.73

00:58:55.920 said it's good to be this genic i was like oh they're just saying it now yeah you are anticipating 0.68

00:59:00.680 some of the stuff i'm going to show you in the segment there was a conference in chicago

00:59:05.860 september 4th to the 7th and i'm going to show you some of the titles freedom is a constant

00:59:11.680 struggle palestine internationalism abolitionism against tech oligarchy worker resistance of the

00:59:19.600 world's was powerful industry health fascism body politics and the anti-state state right

00:59:27.320 this is where we are going to focus because you know what health fascism is terror group in the

00:59:33.180 mid-1970s am i misremembering that correct me if i'm wrong angela y davis the black actor

00:59:39.320 activist i'm pretty sure if she wasn't part of a black terror group she at the very least

00:59:44.060 was like excusing black terror attacks why would they pick her for a socialist conference if she 0.98

00:59:50.100 wasn't shady well i mean that's that's a good point i don't want to close it with the black 0.95

00:59:55.280 we are going to focus on two speakers one is Beatrice Adler Bolton who is a disabled and

01:00:01.180 chronically ill agitator and independent researcher she is the co-author of health

01:00:06.460 communism a surplus manifesto by verso publishing and a co-host of the death panel podcast

01:00:13.860 and she gave several speeches here yes um rather morbid that's through in the name of our new show

01:00:19.980 okay so look at this health fascism body politics and the anti-state state as governments retreat

01:00:27.000 from care this doesn't exactly sound like andy burnham by the way that's a good piece i've read

01:00:32.620 that and health increasingly becomes a signifier of discipline rather than provision fitness

01:00:40.500 disability fatness illness blackness impairment and body capacity are mobilized into measures of

01:00:46.920 moral worth and political belonging sorry i'm not a bit insulting fatness illness blackness i was 0.61

01:00:52.320 gonna say they're just equating blackness with fatness unironically this is exactly what she's

01:01:00.220 gonna say ronnie coleman's gonna be furious unironically unironically this is precisely

01:01:06.580 what she's going to imply in a bit so maybe it's the shown l harrison here hanging out with is the

01:01:12.580 co-host and they're talking about the deployment of glp1 drugs that are fascistic and they exist

01:01:19.760 in a world that wants to that is allegedly fixated on genociding fat people and you know uh harry

01:01:26.980 the losing weight one thing the one thing that capitalists want is for fat people to stop 0.72

01:01:35.380 existing it's like also if you're in the fast food industry you don't want people to be fat

01:01:42.380 mcdonald's just is desperate to make less money yeah they want to make you healthier right let's

01:01:48.460 listen to what uh dashon l harrison has to say about body fascism and if you want to um have

01:01:57.720 eye bleach close to you please don't the political deployment of gop ones is fascistic not because

01:02:05.780 individuals take them but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by

01:02:10.460 a world fixated on genociding fat people this is a structural critique that asks what happens when

01:02:16.640 the conditions produced by capitalism by public health by the state apparatus and by anti-black

01:02:22.360 desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no room for divergence and 0.63

01:02:28.580 punishes any body that does. Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or

01:02:35.280 addiction, GOP-1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

01:02:41.880 But to understand why the deployment of GOP-1s is fascistic requires turning to

01:02:45.800 Frantz Fanon's account of black flesh 0.76

01:02:47.620 under colonial surveillance. 1.00

01:02:50.940 Listen to your stupid 1.00

01:02:52.020 melt. If you lose some weight, 1.00

01:02:53.840 you aren't going to be genocided, right?

01:02:56.040 Yeah.

01:02:56.340 By the way, look at the performative mask wearing.

01:03:00.660 See how they're all wearing masks still.

01:03:02.020 The only people still wearing masks.

01:03:02.820 What are you doing showing us this?

01:03:04.020 No, because this is how he wants

01:03:05.960 the revolution to be.

01:03:07.100 It's like, don't lose weight

01:03:10.760 because to lose weight

01:03:12.040 is to...

01:03:14.180 isn't that the statue yeah that's the statue but this is how the revolution has to be this is what

01:03:20.380 they worship what they're saying is screw fitness yeah and they want and the masks are part of it

01:03:24.380 the only people still wearing masks are mentally ill people and certain agents which isn't basically 0.54

01:03:28.620 because of sars they still wear masks this is a revolution now fitness is the last rampant of 0.58

01:03:37.460 the bourgeoisie ironically we saw the statue in the last one um this is actually the sort of idol 0.99

01:03:42.900 that the regime wants you to worship a fat sassy twerking black woman but these don't have masks 0.91

01:03:49.000 but also they're still enabled this is this is how this is how you protest against the alleged 0.98

01:03:54.440 genocide of of fat people this is the new revolution now now you know there are people

01:04:01.400 wanting to lose weight what why are you laughing stop putting grotesque imagery in front of me 0.61

01:04:07.600 i was worried my segment was a little bit of slop but now we just removed this is not slop

01:04:12.360 okay this is not slop right so what i want to say is that people who want to lose weight

01:04:18.000 and actually want to do something about it are being denounced by these people as fascists

01:04:23.720 and also fat genocidists or people want fat people to be genocided and i think that this

01:04:30.500 is absolutely abhorrent right let's move forward to socialism 2026 health fascism now we're going 0.76

01:04:37.860 to talk about beatrice adler bolton when i see uh three names put together i i'm something makes

01:04:45.220 me suspicious yeah it's either going to be a posh person who's woke or weirdly a footballer yeah

01:04:51.180 that's how you get these footballers now with these names harry have you zoned down with the

01:04:54.840 twerking uh i went to my happy place you went to somewhere yeah it's a little polar bear like

01:04:59.760 fight club i can play those videos again if you want no i'm all right what's her name beatrice

01:05:06.180 adler so that sounds like a fancy wasp name it is but if you look past the appearances

01:05:12.960 you will see how she ousted the fascist spies because harry make america healthy again

01:05:22.980 is fascist let's see why health fascism now health fascism doesn't just refer to like bad

01:05:34.020 or harsh health policies right it's a descriptive term for a political logic that pervades the

01:05:41.920 current state of things and shapes the way that the u.s is being governed right now

01:05:46.400 The idea is that health, fitness, productivity, and bodily normalcy are measures of moral worth and political belonging.

01:05:55.820 Things like fatness, illness, disability, racialized difference, perceived dependency, or perceived degeneracy are interpreted as evidence of social rot in need of excising.

01:06:08.460 The Make America Healthy Again project makes this quite explicit, but it didn't invent these dynamics by any means.

01:06:16.400 Maha draws on this much older eugenic, anti-black, anti-fat, ableist, racist, productivist traditions that have long organized the abandonment of certain populations and the flourishing of others.

01:06:32.380 also a bit of a sorry a bit of a sleight of hand because eugenics was a leftist project

01:06:37.080 people like margaret sanger and so on but she's trying to kind of

01:06:40.880 claim it was a fascist thing was more of a lefty thing but productivist is a new one on me as well

01:06:46.200 i mean don't you know they're wanting to be a productive member of society's right wing

01:06:50.500 and don't you know they're wanting wanting to be rewarded for the fruits of your labor and

01:06:56.600 your productivity is essentially what keeps um the socialists away from power also i'd say that

01:07:02.800 eugenics was actually back in the day like more of a bipartisan thing you look at francis galton

01:07:07.780 charles darwin these people were not like leftists no there was definitely both we had government

01:07:14.360 departments for eugenics because i think at the turn of the 20th century everybody was in the

01:07:20.180 agreement that well we want a healthy population especially following the industrial revolution

01:07:25.380 and everything that came from that it's like well we've got more people than ever we should

01:07:28.860 probably have some government program of making sure that everybody's healthy yeah i also think

01:07:33.180 the left or at least the sort of managerial center left they're going to end up back at

01:07:37.600 eugenics because they assisted dying has a slightly eugenic vibe to me slightly different 0.85

01:07:41.400 obviously designer babies are surely coming i i feel like they're sort of heading towards it

01:07:46.160 anyway but anyway right so what i wanted to tell you before is that especially what she did and

01:07:52.480 what she says i find this nerve-wracking and infuriating because it's precisely what you said

01:07:57.780 before in your segment about your statue it's all about having an ideology and making everything

01:08:03.940 about that ideology it's go in there and make it about fascism get in there and make it about

01:08:09.760 revolution and there are some things that are just simple facts of life like calories in calories

01:08:16.740 out is a simple fact of life you don't have to politicize it you don't have to say that people

01:08:23.180 who are telling me that calories in calories out health is good for you they are fascists who want 0.98

01:08:30.160 to genocide you it's it's it's moronic yeah that's why i remember a comedian who before woke really 0.99

01:08:37.460 kicked in was making jokes about being funny but then woke kicked in and she suddenly made her 0.98

01:08:44.120 whole identity to be fat and this culminated with having a go at cancer research online saying that

01:08:49.620 they were fat phobic it's when you embrace there's got two choices you can be like oh it's not ideal

01:08:54.100 i can make light of it it's not the end of the world i'm still a person and all that and i'm

01:08:58.320 you know yeah no one said you aren't right but then you know one said no one wants you to that's

01:09:03.000 different from saying it's a great thing and you know there's body positivity because no one does

01:09:07.620 this about other problems no one's you know no one says oh it's great to be an alcoholic but for

01:09:12.960 some reason being fat and having even though it is but do you know about metabolic equity because

01:09:18.540 now you know now the health standards need to be different harry yeah to fight fascism and to bring

01:09:26.260 forth the revolution um metabolic yeah you know metabolic equity is uh is the way forward i think

01:09:33.040 it says cry harder mega toxic i think this is a joke this is the future a joke account but um

01:09:39.680 Yeah, I mean, all I hear when I hear this sort of stuff,

01:09:42.460 and I've actually heard somebody like Hassan Piker

01:09:45.280 complain about this as well,

01:09:47.060 which is saying that, listen, guys,

01:09:48.540 if it does ever actually come to fighting,

01:09:50.740 if you're going through all of this metabolic equity nonsense,

01:09:53.840 then it just means that you're going to die immediately.

01:09:57.820 But...

01:09:58.340 You're going to try and run up a set of stairs

01:10:00.760 away from the fascists, 0.95

01:10:02.940 you'll run out of breath, have an asthma attack and die.

01:10:05.880 I think, though, we need to keep an open mind

01:10:08.240 and listen to the arguments of the other side

01:10:11.040 because they may have some worth.

01:10:15.000 And Harry, I want you to pay attention

01:10:16.960 particularly towards the end of this video.

01:10:20.360 Right.

01:10:21.840 Right, let's look at another part of this speech.

01:10:25.240 The fantasy of being fitter than the fascists.

01:10:28.940 It's not just that it's cringe or strategically bad.

01:10:33.940 Though it is.

01:10:35.700 She's not even fat. 1.00

01:10:36.940 i think it's also politically revealing but she's the mess is a measure of relative disposability

01:10:44.280 under capitalism our task is not to become less disposable to become more useful to the ruling

01:10:51.680 order what we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms have you

01:10:58.880 considered that health is actually good for you and you you should try to be healthy not for the

01:11:04.920 revolution or for fighting fascism but because it's a good thing just to sincerely address the

01:11:10.940 kind of argument that she's presenting there i um completely disagree with the culture that 0.96

01:11:16.480 we're living under the culture that we're living under wants you to be a fat consuming slob with 0.90

01:11:23.540 no autonomy no desires and no discipline or drive of your own because that makes you a better 0.60

01:11:29.080 consumer so i i completely disagree what she is basically saying is we all need to head down to

01:11:34.620 heart attack shack and make that guy rich yeah if you want to if you want to sincerely steal man

01:11:40.520 it the idea that we're cogs for some sort of ruling order that we don't totally approve of

01:11:44.620 and isn't best for our humanity is obviously true i mean that's hard to disagree with at this point

01:11:49.260 you know we could we could all be going away and fishing or whatever and in the countryside and

01:11:53.960 have a much and feel a lot better so certainly there's that inherent critique is true but then

01:11:59.100 their conclusion of therefore be as dysgenic as possible to own the fascists is where we diverge

01:12:05.020 somewhat yeah i think that's not going to improve your quality of life if you can't take more than

01:12:09.740 five steps without having to take a break right and as you say it's an asymmetry there if your

01:12:14.300 right wing chad is super jacked and owns a large stash of weapons in texas or whatever

01:12:19.340 it's going to be a fairly quick war it does also i absolutely despise this rhetoric that capitalism

01:12:25.580 wants you this capitalism wants that for you it's like no people in fast food chains want you to be

01:12:33.040 uh want you to buy fast food people who want to sell you lettuce want you to buy regularly lettuce

01:12:39.400 right there's just not everyone has the same incentive towards you that's true on balance

01:12:45.080 you probably say it goes the other way most people in most food companies are leaning towards

01:12:49.420 wanting you fat rather than the lettuce also yeah i have a friend who's a doctor he's my best man

01:12:54.340 at the wedding and he's a doctor and he was at the at the emergency and he the the um the fire

01:13:00.980 brigade brought a very fat person close to 250 kilos wrapped in a carpet they had to wrap him

01:13:07.260 up and break the door to get him out and what happened he had fainted and he was about to die

01:13:12.740 and the and the local souvlaki shop he was buying eight nine times a day said well it's his time he

01:13:19.140 hasn't he hasn't called and they phoned the police the police phoned the fire brigade and now he's

01:13:23.900 alive because of that suvlaki owner so his eating problem saved him in a way yeah because the fact 1.00

01:13:29.660 he wasn't there he's like hang on he's not shoving food down his face he must be incapacitated he's

01:13:34.020 dying and it was correct scheduled 11s for the day where is he and now the restaurant guy says 0.99

01:13:40.020 shit he was ordering nine times a day day now he's forced to order once yeah i'm losing maybe 0.98

01:13:46.820 two or three times two or three but here's the good part wrap it back around to be about suflaki 0.96

01:13:52.320 somehow it's all about souvlaki man get in there and make it about souvlaki right but here we've

01:13:58.340 left the good part for the end let's enjoy the point is not to beat the fascists at their own

01:14:07.260 game it is not to lay a better claim on their own territory by being fitter more eugenic in fact

01:14:16.100 the more dysgenic the better i think that's amazing revolution is not a contest between

01:14:23.460 optimized and properly prepared bodies that idea is fascist in and of itself and erases

01:14:30.940 the history of left struggles around the world cool i mean that is making ed dutton's work way

01:14:37.560 too easy she's like the point is to be more dysgenic he's like this is what i've been saying

01:14:41.780 but nick the revolution is not an optimized struggle between this genic bodies let me make

01:14:47.280 a note yes write it down ten times i love that just it's going to help with memorizing it isn't

01:14:53.400 that incredible because people have been claiming you know somebody's like right when people have

01:14:56.040 been claiming oh the left are dysgenic and they were selecting for the wrong things and they're

01:15:00.020 just saying it's good to be dysgenic way to way to own it sister but she gives several uh examples

01:15:05.940 like Che Guevara, Mao, Lenin, Trotsky, Ho Chi Minh.

01:15:10.700 For some reason, she doesn't mention Stalin.

01:15:12.480 I think Stalin had an issue with his head.

01:15:14.920 I think Stalin wasn't one of Stalin's legs shorter than the other.

01:15:19.140 That's very frequent, to be honest.

01:15:20.460 What's the link between these?

01:15:21.720 I think he had an issue with his hand because of domestic abuse.

01:15:27.340 He couldn't lift his right hand.

01:15:28.680 I think he was disabled to a certain degree,

01:15:31.420 obviously not to the point that it stopped him or anything.

01:15:33.480 Mao had horrific dental hygiene.

01:15:34.840 i'm not sure that's a disability it wasn't shei gabara kind of a chad like what's the i don't

01:15:39.160 no no no no no dr bolt batteries adler bolton has the response to you ahmed yassin who was an

01:15:48.040 important revolutionary palestinian leader and one of the founders and early leaders

01:15:52.840 of hamas was paralyzed at 16 he was quadriplegic show me a leader in the palestinian resistance who

01:16:01.960 does not encounter debility at one point in their life che guevara had debilitating asthma

01:16:10.520 he carried really heavy duty inhalers with him into battle into combat in the jungle because

01:16:16.280 the humidity made his asthma worse cabral too same thing rosa luxembourg had hip dysplasia

01:16:23.720 mao had als fanon had terminal myeloid leukemia and he wrote some of his best work

01:16:32.640 under the knowledge that that diagnosis was hanging over his head

01:16:36.040 anyway so i'm not gonna play more you can get the idea

01:16:40.640 disease what is her issue not good what's the issue the issue is don't be more healthy

01:16:46.500 so what she's talking about there is people who fought to like do great things in overcoming

01:16:52.200 their uh their difficulties she's just saying embrace them yeah it's very weird she's like

01:16:57.740 pro-disease i'm not pro-terminolus i don't know asthma presumably when you have issues and i mean

01:17:03.600 we kind of many people have sort of something in one way or another it's it's very common

01:17:09.580 but when when you have issues you try to be healthier because you have these issues you

01:17:15.200 don't say oh health is fascism it's relative disposability under capitalism it's just trying

01:17:21.600 to make me as an optimized body in order to to keep the proletariat down just all this nonsense 0.87

01:17:26.820 just what on earth are you on about imagine going on a first date with this one it just suddenly 0.80

01:17:32.440 no you know what i can imagine with the shay gavara story i can imagine going to a last date

01:17:38.660 with this woman the first and last one would would closely overlap i feel like here we have the death

01:17:44.480 panel if you want to check more about them uh we have the death panel net here because they are

01:17:49.700 having a podcast and if you think that uh their points should be taken more seriously and my

01:17:56.340 assessment of the situation and my friends assessments of the situation is a bit harsh or

01:18:03.140 not particularly good or accurate here's where you can check them out death panel politics culture

01:18:12.340 and public policy from the left medicare for all now so i mean isn't medicare supposed to make you

01:18:18.580 healthier i don't know just solidarity forever stay alive another week on the death on the death

01:18:28.320 panel here is where you can check the uh the speech if you can check the website here you can

01:18:34.940 find the you can find it for some reason now they don't check and now they are protesting that we

01:18:42.660 misunderstood them and said of course working out is good you're responding to an argument nobody

01:18:48.000 has made following a right-wing former dysgenic she literally said yeah also um it is cringe and

01:18:56.300 strategically bad to try to be the fascists on their own game allegedly saying that health and

01:19:02.640 exercise and fitness is fascism which is something that i mean there was a time article uh from what

01:19:09.380 2023 saying like something like the hidden history of of uh fascism and health and like physical

01:19:15.780 fitness or some something like that this is not the first time these comparisons have been made

01:19:20.880 but i do think that there is a sort of of um oppression olympic for my argument is the fact

01:19:28.480 that big publications like time would come out with those articles collating being in shape with

01:19:35.380 being a fascist i.e bad in the eyes of our current culture that i would say they actually don't want

01:19:41.320 you fit they don't want you to do that because that's bad because that's what the evil nasty 0.95

01:19:46.300 nazis do yeah so the thing is that i think that there is an oppression olympics at the moment 0.52

01:19:54.580 within the left you remember also the canadian conference where they had the oppression cards

01:19:59.180 and everyone saying hey i'm more oppressed than you therefore i need to go get ahead in line

01:20:04.880 and speak first and that means that essentially these people here bad news for them health is

01:20:13.880 fascist fitness is fascist it's right wing so if you're trying to say that you're a communist and

01:20:21.560 also are into fitness most probably the left will want to castigate you and say that you are

01:20:29.080 essentially a fascist spy you will be decried as the last rampant of the bourgeoisie and this is

01:20:36.080 something that often happens in the left let's be honest because it's so ideological and so extremist

01:20:41.960 they they literally say that calories in calories out is all about relative disposability under

01:20:48.360 capitalism and the optimized body in the struggle against uh in the revolution just come on but i

01:20:56.040 will say this because i love leftist conferences they give us great footage so i want to say that

01:21:04.940 nothing matches yet the linkers conference and the vibes there which i think they're just

01:21:11.160 immaculate just immaculate i'll just play this and you know and enjoy look at this what look at

01:21:20.280 The, no, the, the... 0.99

01:21:26.940 It's a very feminine hairline. 1.00

01:21:41.060 It's like, syndrome with red hair. 1.00

01:21:45.340 There is something.

01:21:46.220 just i think nothing meets the aesthetics of of uh and the vibes of of the linkers conference yet

01:21:55.180 so will be the internet way of describing this germany having a normal one yeah no so so those

01:22:01.180 of you in socialism 2026 talking about fitness being fascist you really need to to compete

01:22:08.980 against this you really need to compete against them because no don't compete because then if

01:22:14.200 you compete you might get healthy um i don't know how in this particular competition this would

01:22:21.460 involve becoming healthy activity exercise movement of any kind might burn calories okay 0.90

01:22:28.680 so that was it so if you say you're a communist but you are in shape most probably you're a fascist

01:22:35.940 spy right even even brain functions thinking stop that all together as well okay so we have some of 0.88

01:22:45.240 the comments and let me see what is let me separate the wheat from chaff aka thank you

01:22:51.520 also known as fed posts from og posts that's a random name okay my radar is

01:22:58.740 flipping if a socialist woman says that you can be healthy at any size

01:23:04.900 tell her she's beautiful like lizzo oh this is like uh yeah okay yeah didn't lizzo lose weight 1.00

01:23:14.820 um did lizzo get i think she did i know a load of body positivity fat girls immediately got on 0.90

01:23:21.420 her chin is it was available her chin is is very big now megan trainer was the one she's talking 1.00

01:23:27.540 in milan they really hated for it she did that song that was literally like i'm fat and the guys

01:23:34.480 love it and the second that she could just lose weight like that she did it expression of will

01:23:39.320 on the point of alcoholism it actually protected under the equality act implicitly if the alcoholism

01:23:45.640 leads to a chronic mental or physical condition do not become an alcoholic yes let's scroll down

01:23:53.080 if you have to at least make it functional uh that's a random name says samson please stop

01:23:58.300 um also harry can you please tell samson to stop

01:24:03.160 no no no no no this is anti-samson propaganda and i won't have it no i can i won't have it

01:24:09.960 samson stop spamming black women twerking gifs at the chat that's cruel samson has you can hear 0.61

01:24:17.080 discretion samson has the power to do this and we allow samson to get away with whatever we want 0.96

01:24:24.580 even scaring off our audience there's no constitutional checks and balances against

01:24:28.180 posting women twerking that's because you love gifs of black women twerking

01:24:33.440 right okay i i you know there's something funny about it it's just let's be honest i love the

01:24:41.960 the funniest one is the is the one where there was a massive party and there were

01:24:47.360 tens of of women on the rooftop and they were twerking on the rooftop and did the roof collapse

01:24:54.100 not yet no no that would be even fun i needed to be the point right okay let's go to the videos

01:25:00.980 honey honey pretty great segment and some that i've noticed with a lot of products

01:25:12.440 notice anything about this label yeah cranberry juice drink because it's not cranberry juice

01:25:19.720 worst offender probably cream take a look at this one the packaging is significantly different from

01:25:28.100 when I first noticed it.

01:25:30.100 But what should the ingredients of cream be?

01:25:34.080 Milk, right?

01:25:36.400 Nah.

01:25:39.300 Oh yeah, always, always, always check the ingredients.

01:25:42.520 Do not buy little packaged butter

01:25:46.120 where it's not going to be actual butter.

01:25:49.120 Get yourself the little blocks of hard butter

01:25:51.480 and check the ingredients to make sure

01:25:53.520 that if you're getting salted butter,

01:25:54.720 it's butter and salt, and if it's unsalted,

01:25:56.820 it's just butter and milk and also let's not forget that this happens because the revolution

01:26:01.220 is not a struggle between optimized bodies let's play the next one now it's time for a brief walk

01:26:14.020 yes here we are in the shire

01:26:16.260 just thought we'd give you a short white pill moment for us wandering in the neighborhood

01:26:31.020 thanks michael i really i really love these videos when they're

01:26:39.240 wholesome and stuff and that's a beautiful dog you've not spoken up for a while any comments

01:26:43.920 no i'm just because we're so much we've got three minutes and so much to get through so i don't

01:26:48.120 want to add to the chaos we'll we'll get there then i'm like i've got lads out to do and you

01:26:53.700 know everything's new here we have another video sam i'm thinking ahead at the battle of vienna in

01:27:00.180 1683 during the final stages of the battle the turks fled their camps and left behind beans that

01:27:04.220 they called kaffir beans which became coffee a drink used by the muslims to give them energy

01:27:07.680 for their battles in addition during a major siege of vienna a baker noticed a noise coming

01:27:11.400 from under the walls and realized that the Turks were planting explosive powder to blow

01:27:14.780 up the walls surrounding the city.

01:27:16.160 The baker discovered this and informed the guards about the explosives using water ripples

01:27:19.020 to locate where the powder lay underneath the walls.

01:27:20.780 Following this, he decided to bake a pastry in the shape of the Muslim crescent, which

01:27:23.440 was called a croissant. 0.95

01:27:24.440 So next time you have a coffee and a croissant, you can celebrate the victory at the Battle

01:27:26.760 of Vienna, September 11th, 1683.

01:27:30.280 That's a wonderful battle.

01:27:31.560 And you know, I think also Tolkien said that he was influenced by the charge of the winged

01:27:39.500 hussars to write the scene

01:27:41.480 where they're attacking the orcs.

01:27:43.740 Battle of Pelennor fields or Helm's Deep?

01:27:45.720 No, no, for fields of Pelennor.

01:27:47.240 You know, where they're attacking the orcs. It kind of makes

01:27:49.600 sense. Yeah, nice.

01:27:51.800 So here you are.

01:27:53.780 Hi Oscar, and here you are

01:27:55.580 Spooderman. So I 1.00

01:27:57.540 have some good news, everyone.

01:28:00.040 So you know how those 1.00

01:28:01.480 truck drivers, Indian truck drivers 0.97

01:28:03.580 are having those accidents? 1.00

01:28:05.860 Well, guess what? There's some

01:28:07.560 great news all those guys are getting arrested like crazy like a quarter million of them already

01:28:14.280 i mentioned in mexico they had like a parkade the truckers had a parkade because they wanted

01:28:19.480 to stop that and guess what they got stomped down so fast cool did he say a quarter million

01:28:28.040 had been arrested i don't know if i believe that number but fair play

01:28:32.280 so recently

01:28:35.380 Ferris did a video about how

01:28:38.020 Israeli settlers 0.56

01:28:39.860 would go and try and deliberately

01:28:41.820 graze their livestock on the 1.00

01:28:43.840 lands of like Palestinians who 1.00

01:28:45.660 land they wanted and basically did 1.00

01:28:47.860 it as an intimidation strategy

01:28:49.540 as well as a way of kind of making the area

01:28:51.960 unlivable for them and I can't

01:28:54.060 help but notice that this is basically the policy 1.00

01:28:56.100 of third world countries with their young

01:28:57.980 men populations they basically send 1.00

01:29:00.000 them over to graze in western countries 0.99

01:29:01.860 and basically soak up resources over there

01:29:04.460 rather than taking up resources in the homeland.

01:29:06.680 And basically it's a win-win for them.

01:29:10.280 Yeah, also, like, most of them are people

01:29:13.160 who would be criminals in their home countries anyway,

01:29:15.180 so they're like, great, we get to get rid of our criminal problem.

01:29:19.060 Okay, do we have another one?

01:29:21.840 Okay, yeah, Sophie Liv.

01:29:24.160 You heard about the honesty box.

01:29:25.700 How about an honesty flower field out here?

01:29:29.800 Right next to the road.

01:29:31.860 I just need to pick the flowers that I want, then pay up here with the books, and give 1.00

01:29:40.140 the flowers to my nan. 1.00

01:29:42.420 Oh, nice.

01:29:45.940 Really nice.

01:29:46.940 Thanks, Sophie.

01:29:47.940 Yeah, some of those-

01:29:48.940 Is there another one?

01:29:49.940 Great.

01:29:50.940 Okay, there is.

01:29:51.940 I saw an article from the Telegraph appear on my Facebook feed, and it struck me as so

01:29:54.100 generic and out of touch that an AI could come up with it, and so I tested that theory

01:29:57.380 and asked Grock, imagine you're writing them as shitlib, low information, insufferable,

01:30:00.980 middle-class girlboss article explaining condescendingly why HR is important. With this 0.58

01:30:04.880 context, write an appropriately smug and stuffy headline, and subsequently to generate an image

01:30:08.560 of the author. The result, after some tampering and MS Paint, was this. Except, there's one small

01:30:13.080 problem. The first image I showed you was the AI product, and the second one was the real article

01:30:17.040 I found. Here's the thing, though. Aside from picking up on my shaky editing skills, you probably

01:30:21.420 couldn't tell the difference on the face of it, could you? No, I can actually pick out the AI image,

01:30:26.480 but i'm quite good at that yeah it was that the last video yeah it's still a good point okay yeah

01:30:31.840 it's annoying right so we don't have much time but i always no no no no we have to we have to

01:30:39.120 say some of the of the comments because they are our people and we love you i'll go i'll go through

01:30:45.920 two dreadnought logan nothing happening antifa cells are being removed one by one h1b's being

01:30:52.000 shredded uh what are you looking at i've not seen any of the reports going on regarding that so

01:30:58.100 perhaps i'm wrong uh michael trebalbus at this point every time trump speaks now i cringe a

01:31:02.940 little bit more yeah to me he doesn't have the source he doesn't have the spice and magic that

01:31:07.120 he had back in 2016 he's a lot older now he's got he's been through a lot but it is a shame

01:31:12.120 yeah i'll do too then um sophie we just his drawings we just saw actually i just love that

01:31:16.320 next week i can officially say i've been seriously trying to learn how to draw probably

01:31:19.420 two years ago i've now been drawing seriously for two years and my stuff is nicer looking than these

01:31:24.220 people getting paid millions feels pretty good to be honest and i'm definitely aiming at getting

01:31:28.240 even better than this next year yeah that's great and that's true and it's great that you're doing

01:31:32.020 that drawing um i'm i have no talent in drawing i'm more at writing but i'm always very impressed

01:31:35.620 can i read paul says the fourth plinth should stay empty kept in reserve for the next generation to

01:31:40.320 inspire the next generation okay michael dribelby says it's all about fitness fitness

01:31:45.260 s entire cheeseburger in my mouth jimbo g says i would take a thread a needle and interweave fat

01:31:53.840 shaming into a society derek power says the right is getting fit so we can dismantle that lady in 0.67

01:32:00.200 blue statue george hap says across countries commies all look the same those pictures could

01:32:06.380 have been from the labor party conferences callum used to torture himself with um nobody forced

01:32:14.100 callum to do that he just did it himself lancelot says this is peak stellius making us cringe until

01:32:19.200 we implode and sneeder chuck says stellius is a menace such a whimsically mischievous man i'm not

01:32:25.380 i'm not mischievous man you're impish not at all very impish not at all not at all i'm always very

01:32:32.320 serious right thank you very much thanks brother nick thanks brother harry i hope you enjoyed this

01:32:39.840 See you at 3 p.m. for Lad's Hour.

01:32:42.560 Those of you who don't come for Lad's Hour,

01:32:44.880 see you at Monday 1 p.m.

01:32:47.000 Goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 11, 2026

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