The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1542

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to podcast of the lotus eaters on this day of disaster in america um episode

00:00:11.720 1542 it's wednesday the 4th of november 2026 the of our lord that is i'm joined by harry and

00:00:19.260 stelios hello hello chaps oh and we're gonna be talking all about it it's bad very bad um

00:00:25.520 and predictable and obvious aoc stock has gone well up so uh yeah we'll get into all of that

00:00:32.400 um well and the first of them is we're going to hear about about what actually happened

00:00:38.160 i think we have a round table oh and we have and we have a round table yes we have a round

00:00:43.760 table that i specifically noted i must chill and then immediately forgot that was your idea

00:00:48.880 in the first my idea and i've been planning and writing but i'm old so i forgot and also

00:00:54.720 before we start we have two screens one screen shows us i think it's going to be tough for harry

00:00:59.920 to present his segment afterwards no i just can i can stare directly into your eyes on the screen

00:01:05.360 i can dart in your eyes there your eyes here i quite like looking at myself that was i like that

00:01:12.720 watching yourself performing live yes can you can do it that's why his bedroom is covered in mirrors

00:01:17.920 right so yesterday's midterms elections were a disaster for the republican party now let me

00:01:27.860 say a few things in perspective in the last 60 years only two incumbent administrations have

00:01:35.160 scored wins bill clinton in 1998 and george w bush in 2002 so losing the midterm elections for

00:01:46.020 the incumbent administrations is sort of a of a tradition and there is also the mid-term

00:01:52.500 factor where it's sort of like punishing the incumbent administration for not that was me

00:02:00.840 for not fulfilling all of its promises or at least some of them and numerically speaking

00:02:08.280 yesterday's defeat wasn't the worst defeat as far as the republicans are concerned the worst defeat

00:02:15.200 in the last 60 years was the post-Watergate midterms.

00:02:21.840 But structurally speaking, it was a complete disaster

00:02:26.140 because they lost control of Congress.

00:02:29.900 They lost control of both chambers of Congress,

00:02:32.560 both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

00:02:35.740 Now, let me just give you some brief numbers,

00:02:40.400 and then we're going to talk about some of the big winners

00:02:44.640 and some of the big losers and also what's next or what now so as far as the house of representatives

00:02:53.000 is concerned before the midterms the 2026 midterms two days ago the republicans had about 218 seats

00:03:03.660 and the Democrats had about 214 seats.

00:03:07.980 The majority is 218,

00:03:11.560 and the Democrats now have at least 228.

00:03:16.940 They may gain more,

00:03:18.880 but it looks like they're going to have a majority within,

00:03:23.440 they are going to have a majority in the House of Representatives.

00:03:27.600 When it comes to the Senate,

00:03:29.760 that was also a big loss.

00:03:31.960 the republicans had 53 senators plus the vote of jd vance that would make them essentially 54

00:03:39.940 out of the 101 votes if there's a tie the vp gets to have a vote trump is going to get impeached so

00:03:47.020 many times now they have 44 maybe they're going to take it to to 46 but they went from 53 to 46 so

00:03:58.080 this looks like it's going to be a minus seven senators seats of senators and the democrats

00:04:05.320 were in what were they think 46 now they're now they're 54 right and when it comes to governors

00:04:15.780 we had 36 governorships on the ballot yesterday 18 republican 18 democrats

00:04:23.040 a bit prior to the to yesterday's midterms we had 24 democrats and 26 republicans now it looks like

00:04:34.020 we're going to have 28 democrats and 22 republicans so it's more like the republicans lost four

00:04:42.220 governorships that the democrats won right so looks like hakeem jeffress is going to be

00:04:49.240 come the Speaker of the House, and AP says there's going to be the first black Speaker

00:04:54.640 of the House. And as Dan, you mentioned about a minute ago, lots of people are talking about

00:05:01.200 imminent impeachments. Right. We have here this article by The Telegraph is talking about

00:05:08.260 Trump being crushed in midterms. Democrats' control of Congress will put them in a position

00:05:13.260 to launch investigations into the president and his family. And they're saying here that

00:05:19.020 the u.s president is facing impeachment proceedings and a wave of investigation into everything from

00:05:26.260 the administration's business dealings to the purges inside the pentagon and here they have

00:05:32.900 this graph with some of the huge losses of the republicans or just going to say change in senate

00:05:41.660 votes share between 2020 and 2026 in maine minus 3.4 percent in iowa minus 4.4 percent ohio minus

00:05:53.900 seven percent kansas minus 7.2 percent south carolina minus 7.7 percent north carolina minus

00:06:03.580 9.6 percent and texas minus 10.3 percent texas was a complete disaster for for the republicans

00:06:12.940 that's quite a shift it is quite a shift because it is a traditionally uh red state and now they

00:06:20.060 was it was i think i i think we can say that that is in the past for some decades right so i'm going

00:06:27.980 going to show you some of the winners and some of the losers. Adam Hamilton has won the U.S. Senate

00:06:33.680 election in Kansas, and he becomes the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas

00:06:40.600 since 1932. 94 years. This is shocking, to be honest. Democrat Troy Jackson has unseated Republican

00:06:54.280 senator susan collins in maine another major loss for republicans in the u.s senate

00:07:00.080 vivek ramaswamy lost his campaign for the governorship of a higher that's a shame isn't it

00:07:07.820 oh yeah um in georgia we have democrat keisha lance bottoms make hit making history as the

00:07:17.340 first black woman ever elected governor abdul el-sayed won in michigan against mike rogers 0.99

00:07:25.900 must have found a little box for him to stand on behind that podium

00:07:30.980 well um yeah that was a victory he is going to become the first muslim senator in the u.s

00:07:39.040 and people are concerned about his ties with the his potential or alleged ties with the muslim

00:07:46.040 brotherhood we have several tweets of his family that was very supportive of the muslim brotherhood

00:07:51.740 in the past but we'll see what's going to happen now in texas uh they won basically every race

00:07:59.980 the governorship the senate race and the and also the house of the representatives one thing to say

00:08:06.940 is that ted cruz is a senator in texas he uh he wasn't at this time yeah he wasn't on this time

00:08:14.180 He won in 2024. Next time he's going to be on the ballot is going to be 2030.

00:08:19.160 But those who were on the ballot, they lost.

00:08:22.160 And here we have Democrat Gina Hinojosa getting 52.9 percent. 0.98

00:08:30.260 Let's say 53. Greg Abbott, who is the incumbent governor of Texas, won 45.5 percent.

00:08:39.580 So along with all of the other reasons that we're going to be discussing moving forward in this podcast as well, people I would imagine would be saying that Texas is a result of demographic change, which it certainly is.

00:08:53.820 But also could this also be a downstream effect of from a few years ago when everybody was having a good laugh and having some fun about the fact that California was facing an exodus where a lot of the people were moving from the cities of California to Texas, for instance.

00:09:09.260 could this be a result of them all getting their vote in that state now so according to ken paxton

00:09:15.280 who last he got 43.2 percent roughly somewhere there who um who really played into this rhetoric

00:09:23.340 and he posted the picture on x with many indians cheering on uh on a texas field and says this

00:09:30.600 isn't texas anymore uh according to him and his followers this is the major reason um from another

00:09:37.980 perspective people say that texas has been a traditionally speaking a very white um state

00:09:45.980 and in the 70s it had close to 90 percent white population and it still elected jimmy carter

00:09:51.860 so that that i don't i don't know to what way what's the degree or what's the percentage of

00:09:58.840 truth each narrative has but several people do are concerned with demographic change well my

00:10:04.980 my consideration as well was that a lot of white liberals would have been moving from

00:10:08.500 california to texas and influencing the voting patterns there now as well it could be the case

00:10:13.000 but i've also heard which is uh something we need to bear in uh bear in mind there are several

00:10:18.240 people from new york who are leaving new york because of mamdani and because of left-wing

00:10:24.080 policies and they're going to texas so that's also something that's a game of numbers right

00:10:31.860 But we have here Gina Hinojoso saying essentially framing her victory as an anti-billionaire 0.98

00:10:37.820 victory of the people of Texas.

00:10:41.640 I don't know how anti-billionaire Texans are.

00:10:45.180 I have a Texan friend who isn't particularly anti-billionaire.

00:10:49.400 That's not how he thinks, but that's completely anecdotal.

00:10:53.200 James Tellarico, he won 55.1% against Ken Paxton, who we were talking about a few moments

00:11:02.820 ago, who got 43%.

00:11:04.440 And I want to say that this raises another issue when it comes to the demographics and

00:11:10.400 the rhetoric about demographics, because when it came to, for instance, the campaign of

00:11:18.120 Mike Rogers, several people were saying, well, he's focusing too much on Abdul El-Sayed

00:11:23.060 and his campaign is a campaign of fear. 0.79

00:11:25.240 He needs to have a positive vision, such as I will deport Abdul El-Sayed. 0.99

00:11:31.280 The issue with that is that from a realistic perspective, I don't know how feasible this 0.95

00:11:36.260 is because the people who would want Abdul El-Sayed deported would presumably already

00:11:42.240 vote for Mike Rogers because they would not want Abdul El-Sayed to become senator

00:11:48.300 apart from not wanting him being in the country so from that perspective from an electoral

00:11:55.100 perspective it seems to me that yeah Mike Rogers was would do well to try and appeal to more people

00:12:02.500 than that but it looks like yeah James Talarica won here Ron DeSantis is having sort of a comeback

00:12:12.020 because he is now criticizing he's taking advantage of this now yes and he's saying

00:12:17.380 with a loss of governor's races in texas a high in georgia there will be one only state

00:12:22.380 of the top 10 most populous states with a republican governor florida in florida kept

00:12:28.800 his its republican uh let's say stronghold status right um here trump had a um

00:12:37.160 an appearance on fox news that i personally think is a bit problematic what he said

00:12:47.160 doesn't particularly scream responsibility to me let's hear what he said

00:12:53.020 let's play this is it playing it will play at some point we're refreshing this

00:13:01.540 i'm just going to click it congratulations to the democrats they did a good job

00:13:06.980 They've been looking for this one for 11 years, and they finally got it.

00:13:11.640 But I don't view it as a hit on me.

00:13:14.240 I think we've had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency.

00:13:19.840 So he takes basically zero responsibility.

00:13:22.220 That's just wrong.

00:13:23.140 He said that he did everything great.

00:13:25.900 But even if he did great things, I don't know to what extent he has communicated them

00:13:31.820 in such a way that he would at least control one of the chambers in congress because remember

00:13:38.900 that pessimists were saying that republicans were some pessimists i've heard we're saying that

00:13:45.860 it is going to be bad for the republicans they are going to lose the house of representatives

00:13:50.720 but probably be able to keep the senate that lost both and i can't see how trump doesn't have a share

00:13:58.180 of responsibility for the result well here's another thing i saw another clip of him possibly

00:14:02.500 from this same appearance on fox news um saying that you know oh well i managed to get greenland

00:14:09.340 and greenland is 11 times the size of of texas therefore i'm still net positive for all of this

00:14:17.680 which is americans in it i mean maybe focus on america yes which is a ridiculous cope and similarly

00:14:22.440 what you're saying there the way that people are going to have gone out and voted for this would

00:14:28.860 you say the likelihood is that the people of michigan were voting for abdul el saeed because

00:14:34.720 they just really really loved abdul el saeed versus his opponent or given how much this whole

00:14:42.280 midterm was boosted this was being done as a referendum really on donald trump's second term

00:14:48.240 I think I'm inclined to think that it's a combination of things, but it's definitely a referendum on Trump.

00:14:55.440 Definitely. I think people who deny this are not particularly sincere.

00:14:59.920 Have you got that, because you've been going through people who've been elected, have you got that one in Alabama?

00:15:05.020 No.

00:15:05.780 I might feel moved to mention it. So in Alabama, to the state legislator, a lady called Alison Montgomery won. 1.00

00:15:15.920 Alison Monty. 1.00

00:15:17.000 the first lady the first uh person of rainbow to be elected so bravo new firsts right so

00:15:26.040 let's move on he said here essentially that he is going to use the power of the veto because the

00:15:32.640 question was what are you going to do against the democrats who are going to control congress who

00:15:39.040 are going to move against you and they're going to raise obstacles to your policies he says that

00:15:45.380 it's the power of the vetoes it's one of the strongest powers that the president has

00:15:49.540 well it is a strong power but i don't know to what extent um he is going to be able to veto

00:15:56.820 his way out of everything that's that raises several questions right uh here he's only got

00:16:03.140 another two years for that veto in the first place yes i i will talk a bit about responsibility and i

00:16:08.180 will talk a bit about the iran war and about uh people talking about the iran war now we have here

00:16:14.020 if you type ben shapiro midterms you will see ben shapiro and mark levin saying essentially that

00:16:21.260 the iran war wouldn't have had any impact on the midterms personally i disagree with it and i think

00:16:27.520 that this is in line with trump's not taking responsibility about the result personally i

00:16:33.460 think that it did have an effect um not in the exact same way that uh several commentators are

00:16:40.640 suggesting i i my diagnosis is perhaps is a bit different than others but i think that it has

00:16:47.740 definitely impacted i would say that is fair even if the first thing on people's minds isn't

00:16:54.160 necessarily god i hate trump for starting the iran war right now it might be something that's

00:17:00.620 downstream from that they wake up and they say i've got a long car journey right now oh god i'm

00:17:06.220 going to have to fuel up and gas in america has got so expensive and you're still cheap compared

00:17:10.320 to us but but comparative to where you were a year or two ago you're going god gas is so expensive

00:17:15.560 now i can't believe that this has happened under trump when he said he would bring the gas prices

00:17:19.880 down so even though they're not explicitly thinking of iran that's downstream of iran yes

00:17:25.880 and uh let me just say this because i have a um positive antipathy for the mueller regime right

00:17:32.940 so it's it's not close to heart and i know many people from the mega camp who are saying this and

00:17:41.000 they don't care they don't care about the war in such a term in such a way they don't say this is

00:17:47.240 sort of a crime against humanity or something but there are several parameters we have to factor in

00:17:53.480 here what trump has sort of violated one of the prime rules of realpolitik if you're going to do

00:18:00.940 something that is going to be unpopular and will have negative effects on people, such as

00:18:08.780 very high gas prices, do it very quickly and effectively so people change the chapter and

00:18:18.220 start focusing on something else. It's not exactly clear what he's doing. It's not exactly clear what

00:18:25.320 his objectives have been about this occasionally he's sorry i i think it is because he thought the

00:18:32.220 war was going to be over in 12 days well let me let me just uh develop my line of thinking so

00:18:38.240 when it comes to the negotiation table and what happens behind closed doors and between war

00:18:47.560 leaders and leaders of various regimes especially regimes where at war not knowing what the other

00:18:55.020 person has in mind is a is a huge plus it's a huge strength but if this is a pro for this happens for

00:19:04.220 a prolonged period of time that catches up with the next election and it is combined with perceived

00:19:11.820 negative outcomes such as very high oil prices in combination also with a badly handled economy

00:19:19.020 we're going to get there in a bit it is going to be disastrous for the elections and this

00:19:23.660 has happened here also also let's not forget about the um well frankly very visible corruption

00:19:30.720 that a lot of the administration has engaged in which again you can say the democrats are just as

00:19:36.500 if not more corrupt but at the same time still there is visible corruption if you don't show

00:19:41.420 it off the administration such as for instance uh trump's son-in-law jared kushner being given

00:19:47.040 a sort of unofficial volunteer diplomatic envoy permission to the Middle East after the Iran war

00:19:56.260 has started when he himself is now involved in these negotiations when he himself has like

00:20:02.680 venture capital hedge funds like his affinity partners who have lots of interests in the

00:20:08.520 Middle East which frankly just looks like a handout from Trump to his son-in-law to be able

00:20:12.880 to go and negotiate for a favorable situation for his own firm to profit off of. You have the

00:20:19.360 tariffs being reversed by the Supreme Court and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, I

00:20:24.720 believe, who just happens to have two sons in charge of big capital firms who made a bet that

00:20:30.820 the tariffs were going to be reversed, who are then profiting off of it massively. There's all

00:20:37.040 of this visible stuff that makes people chafe. Yeah, this is definitely the case. And

00:20:42.840 And let's also bear in mind that when it comes to what Trump did about the Iran war, it's

00:20:53.400 not exactly clear what his objectives are.

00:20:55.740 I'll repeat this, what his objectives are, because on the one hand, he said with Operation

00:21:00.440 Midnight Hammer, he destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities.

00:21:04.600 Then for some reason, he's using the same rhetoric that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon

00:21:10.580 again.

00:21:11.060 he is he is consistent on this he is using this since 1979 but on the other

00:21:19.460 hand people can trust the plan until they stop trusting the plan if there is

00:21:25.940 a prolonged period of lack of clarity which is combined with negative effects

00:21:30.460 for people they'll stop trusting the plan right we have here Ron DeSantis

00:21:36.200 saying essentially some of the Republicans are saying oh well the gas

00:21:39.440 don't worry it's no big deal or they're trying to blame biden but this is dishonest gas is higher

00:21:45.040 it hurts people working class people and it's higher because of the iran conflict right so

00:21:51.760 i want to say here there are several graphs online talking about to what extent the iran war

00:21:58.240 is a factor here this is one that several people are citing from uh and they're saying thinking

00:22:05.200 about your vote for congress how important to you was the war in iran and it says it ends here with

00:22:11.600 thinking about your vote for congress how important to you was the war in iran and it says for

00:22:16.640 republicans it was 35 percent that said i want to uh to caution and urge people to take that with a

00:22:24.160 pinch of salt because there are all sorts of graphs they can see right now and the same

00:22:29.200 The same poll here that says 35% of Republicans cited the war in Iran as a crucial or a major

00:22:38.660 factor also says that 74% of Republicans said that it was not a factor at all.

00:22:46.260 So I want to tell people to be very cautious with respect to the graphs that they're looking.

00:22:51.600 Here we have another graph that people are citing from Statista and it says essentially

00:22:55.820 that the Iran war started in March 2026 but the voting intention was dropping since about

00:23:09.780 a year or more than a year before that and that it didn't have such a massive effect.

00:23:16.000 Nevertheless I think it did have an effect and its effect was when it comes to fewer

00:23:21.800 people when it comes directly those who were consistently anti-war as such and

00:23:31.080 it's impacting people indirectly it's impacting the economy and people cite the economy so

00:23:37.160 even though several republicans might say it's not a factor directly if they say that the economy is

00:23:44.520 a factor then it becomes an indirect factor also some of the most public and i know dan's got it

00:23:50.280 in his um in his segment some of the most publicly notorious statements from republicans in the past

00:23:56.980 year regarding the economy following the iran war when people have said everything's way too

00:24:02.660 expensive now has been to basically spit on these people's concerns there is there has been very

00:24:10.100 high profile people within the republican party and i do include trump himself in this

00:24:15.080 massively alienating the base and the coalition that brought him to power in 2024. He immediately

00:24:22.080 alienated all of the libertarians who switched over to him. He has alienated a lot of the

00:24:27.080 moderates. He has alienated even people who were diehard Republicans through things like

00:24:33.980 the corruption and the Iran war. The thing is that when it comes to this, he is someone who is

00:24:39.720 rewarding loyalty and he rewarded people who sort of bought the dip let's say in every economic

00:24:47.100 downfall of the markets and then i mean he's certainly alienated the youth vote that came

00:24:52.020 out for him in 2024 when he's made it very clear that actually you know i kind of love the boomers

00:24:57.900 having massively inflated home prices and i'm not looking to bring those down anytime soon so all of 0.98

00:25:03.760 those zoomers and younger people who may have flipped to him in 2024 because they thought well 0.99

00:25:08.260 he'll make the economy better my gas prices are going to be cheaper and who knows i might actually 1.00

00:25:12.780 be able to afford a house under this administration they they feel completely alienated you're giving

00:25:17.220 me a great pass and thank you because here we have from the associated press a voter poll and

00:25:21.860 there are several other polls suggesting this the number one issue was the economy 39 said that the

00:25:29.180 number one issue for them was the economy 32 cited the state of democracy 14 cited immigration

00:25:36.680 so um it wasn't as important to most voters as people online may suggest or yeah but the economy

00:25:46.380 is downstream of that well that's not exactly how they they view it uh health care eight percent

00:25:52.200 foreign policy four percent crime three percent the cited major issue and when it comes to the

00:25:58.280 economy i'll just show you here when it comes to maine that was a flipped seat republican senator

00:26:05.920 Susan Collins was reelected in 2020. She narrowly won women voters. Exit polls show that they're 1.00

00:26:12.840 backing Democrat Troy Jackson this Tuesday. While Collins officially distances herself from

00:26:18.980 President Trump, women voters and most Maine voters overall said she was too supportive of him

00:26:25.520 And his tariffs are very unpopular in Maine.

00:26:30.620 And let me show you here.

00:26:32.580 65% who voted for the Democrat senator, they cited the cost of living as the crucial factor for their vote.

00:26:44.820 Bear in mind that Susan Collins was the incumbent senator.

00:26:49.320 So it's not like she was someone who didn't convince.

00:26:51.660 She had the position, and she lost it.

00:26:56.300 That's a huge loss there. 1.00

00:26:59.040 She just had a third of the vote. 0.98

00:27:00.980 It's more than double the thing.

00:27:03.660 So we have 45 polls showing that voters hate, that's from we pay the tariffs, 45 polls showing that voters hate tariffs ahead of 2026 midterms.

00:27:15.060 There is a dissatisfaction with the tariffs.

00:27:18.920 i know even people from the mega camp who are very supportive of trump and they say

00:27:24.360 there are die-hard trump supporters they they say uh no the trumps aren't help the the tariffs

00:27:30.360 aren't helping particularly speaking and the i want to say that the rhetoric that frequently

00:27:37.800 has accompanied some of trump's very close associates isn't the rhetoric that you win

00:27:43.400 elections with right this is benny johnson uh during the liberation day tariffs he was saying

00:27:49.320 losing money means nothing digital ones and zeros in the end you won't miss any of it losing your

00:27:55.400 country costs you everything you will get that back your kids will be slave to foreign uh powers

00:28:01.240 who hate us uh without america first policies we become slaves fight i don't think in an abstract

00:28:09.720 sense yes talking about your country not becoming enslaved is a good thing and it carries some

00:28:17.080 weight and some psychological and emotional force and pull but you can't afford to say that the

00:28:23.660 economy is completely a secondary issue well the problem with all of this is is that one i mean

00:28:29.320 without america first policies we become slaves well maybe you could have slid that what if you

00:28:34.060 were pursuing the tariffs at the same time as also, you know, actually pursuing those

00:28:39.500 America first policies in the way to the extent that Trump had promised initially. Also saying

00:28:44.240 in the end, you don't take the money with you. That's fantastic to say. I'm still alive

00:28:47.900 right now, so it doesn't change my situation. Thanks very much for that. That's no help

00:28:51.420 at all. I'm not dead yet, actually, so money does matter while I'm alive. It's completely

00:28:58.060 dismissive. The other thing as well is it's kind of a fundamental misunderstanding of

00:29:03.080 the fact that the american economy the reason everything is so cheap in america is partially

00:29:09.780 because of the fact that america has been the great enforcer of globalized free markets since

00:29:17.580 in the post-war period and has used that to benefit itself through the import of cheap products

00:29:24.580 and so all putting the tariffs up and especially in such an uncalculated and cack-handed way as

00:29:31.820 they did was it just made everything more expensive for consumers massive corporations

00:29:37.100 could absorb the cost but who it really hit from when i've looked into it are the small businesses

00:29:41.780 who import things and remember the hype during the liberation tariffs and one thing i want to

00:29:47.260 say there is that um when it comes to trumpian economics um obviously there are pros and cons

00:29:52.900 obviously he has scored some wins and has also suffered some losses but when it comes to when

00:29:59.620 When it comes to the way that he has communicated his politics, one of the doctrines that accompany

00:30:08.940 his economics is economic nationalism.

00:30:12.460 The economic nationalists, for instance, of, sorry, I forget the name, I forgot the name,

00:30:18.800 who, he was a key Trump ally, and then he, and then Trump turned his back on him.

00:30:25.100 Bannon?

00:30:26.100 Yeah, Bannon.

00:30:27.100 Yes, sorry.

00:30:28.100 you know i mean i'm overloaded with information the thing is historically as well it's kind of

00:30:32.560 a misreading of the 19th century where the 19th century had built up its um productive base yes

00:30:38.100 through the use of tariffs but also um through subsidizing business yes subsidizing productive

00:30:44.680 business within the country yes and trump should have if you ask me obviously that's my perspective

00:30:50.820 he should have communicated how these policies policies of the let's say the free market are

00:30:57.700 creating wealth instead of playing along to this policy that sounded well at the time but doesn't

00:31:05.480 work well in practice in theory it was awesome yes we are not going to be slaves anymore in

00:31:12.220 practice it doesn't seem to be working and also many people who supported him there are not

00:31:20.020 supporting him now obviously there are different perspectives about this but before we go to the

00:31:26.560 last segment i want to end with with this thing uh with a final comment now there is going to be

00:31:32.980 a question about what is going to happen now i think we're looking ahead two years of uh democrats

00:31:40.520 trying to raise obstacles to everything i would say that's a safe bet trump uh does just for the

00:31:48.120 for the love of the game whether they agree with it or not they're gonna raise obstacles to him

00:31:53.700 Trump is

00:31:55.560 I don't know to what extent

00:31:58.140 Trump will be able to

00:31:59.660 fight back in Congress

00:32:02.540 I don't

00:32:04.360 think that it's necessarily the end

00:32:06.560 of the Republicans

00:32:07.620 let me just say that perhaps

00:32:09.500 one of the worst losses in midterms

00:32:12.280 was in 2010

00:32:13.960 Barack Obama

00:32:14.980 he lost more than 60 seats

00:32:17.800 in the House of Representatives

00:32:19.900 and he also lost

00:32:21.800 six senators but he didn't lost control of the senate but just losing you know losing badly

00:32:29.320 numerically speaking doesn't mean necessarily the end for the next day but now there is going to be

00:32:36.920 a period of introversion in the sort of right-wing camp and the republican camp and we have people

00:32:44.760 like matt i think essentially we're going to have two narratives we're going to have a we're going

00:32:50.360 to take trump uh i think essentially trumpism and the whole mega phenomenon and mega ecosphere

00:32:57.880 which has focused much more on loyalty to the leader than principles that the leader wants to

00:33:03.960 show himself being accountable to the whole mega brand was designed on there is no trump 2.0

00:33:11.640 because trump is somehow unique right so in a way several people are announcing the death of

00:33:20.820 of the of mega in the trumpian sense that was always going to come to an end the question is

00:33:28.900 what the next day is going to bring so i think essentially what we're going to see is we are

00:33:33.300 going to have several people who are going to go to the further to the right of trump and they're

00:33:39.680 gonna go really well online especially on X we there but I think that they're

00:33:46.160 represent off on the ground they aren't going to represent a strong majority

00:33:51.320 they're gonna represent the five six percent that voted for the candidates of

00:33:56.600 that let's say approach that was enough to make several let's say several races

00:34:06.560 to the to that was enough to make several republicans lose races because you know a five

00:34:13.420 six percent is really strong and it has power when it comes to specific races if he's tell

00:34:20.320 five six percent don't vote and they they listen to you that's that's something that uh has an

00:34:27.160 effect that said you know my my position is it's the economy first um and but i think my bet and

00:34:35.700 we're going to see this one two three years down the line my bet is that on the ground

00:34:40.720 republicans are going to go back to a more traditional um republican party that's why

00:34:47.540 they're going to now uh to um raise people like rubio and desantis that's what i think

00:34:53.620 this we'll find out yeah okay uh are we going to do any comments or yeah we got to

00:35:01.920 Ochikdor says, I think Trump just comes out and goes, okay, AI, I hear you.

00:35:08.860 Open borders now.

00:35:10.460 And Ochikdor says, some say Trump was a small pressure valve.

00:35:13.960 I think this shows he was not enough and the US is still steam ahead with progressive pressure.

00:35:21.120 So I'm going to call it like I see it. 0.78

00:35:22.660 As far as I'm concerned, this is about Israel and the generational divide. 0.90

00:35:26.300 That's what I think it is. 0.72

00:35:27.260 I think stuff like the economy is downstream of this.

00:35:30.260 um the stuff about tariffs it's all downstream of this this is this is what it is it's it's those

00:35:35.940 two issues and if the gop doesn't solve it they're not going to get anywhere in 2028 they they need

00:35:41.600 to tackle these two key fault lines now i'm not saying there wasn't other issues involved in this

00:35:47.580 absolute sort of midterm drubbing for i mean for a start he he had a historical mandate and he wasted

00:35:53.280 it so he he he basically won everything he got handed you know the keys to power on a silver

00:35:59.720 a platter and he didn't do anything he refused to legislate okay he he could have gone in and

00:36:05.060 done a bit of negotiation with congress which would have been basically on his side and he

00:36:09.020 could have done a lot but he hates having to do any of that so he just did it all with executive

00:36:13.680 mandates which means it's all ephemeral that means it could be overturned with the stroke of

00:36:17.820 the pen next time um and it will be and yeah and it will be um a completely unconstructive um

00:36:24.740 efforts of congress i mean there's a little bit of uh tax cuts a little bit of ice funding

00:36:28.160 a little bit of crypto legislation that was it um immigration i i mentioned that briefly as well

00:36:34.040 before i return to my main theme he min maxed that he minimized the results while maximizing

00:36:40.660 the pushback um completely ineffective done done in this sort of crash heavy-handed way

00:36:46.960 um and then and then and then backed off because he'd maximize the backlash to it so tim waltz

00:36:52.180 says i can't deport anybody okay all right stop it then yeah yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna

00:36:57.120 been max it you do it the other way around maximum results of minimum pushback but no no he couldn't

00:37:01.480 do that um he completely ignored the a lot the employers of um illegal immigrants you know said

00:37:08.020 he was never going to go after them you know you could have made a systematic change that would

00:37:11.840 reduce the pull factor and you know encouraged a lot of them well i can't get a job i'm going to

00:37:16.500 go away didn't do any of that he deported six percent of the illegal population six percent

00:37:22.880 i mean after biden letting god knows how many 10 20 million by just having an open southern border

00:37:29.140 he didn't do any of that um there's the corruption which will be too long to go into but it's kind of

00:37:33.880 a bit naked and obvious i mean there was the whole epstein betrayal there was all of that um and and

00:37:39.640 and that was a kind of an accountability test the epstein stuff because he put together a coalition

00:37:44.980 of people who wanted to see that addressed and then they got into power and they discovered that

00:37:48.400 actually the the people that the system relies on weren't going to let it happen have you considered

00:37:53.020 though dan that actually it's our fault yep no i haven't considered that uh because because james

00:37:59.740 lindsey has been spooking out saying that actually it's the commentary at pointing all of this out

00:38:04.460 has been the problem yeah well he can sod off carney because he's wrong it's just it's just

00:38:09.060 it's just completely wrong um also right while i'm going for my little list um no use of power

00:38:14.860 okay uh there was no going hard on antifa or or lefty enemies you you had the opportunity after

00:38:21.220 charlie kirk to come down on them like an absolute sodding ton of bricks you could have gone scorched

00:38:27.540 earth on the left after charlie kirk didn't do any of it i mean the left could do that the left

00:38:32.920 could do that to us they did it after um they they did it after their january 6 coup i mean they went

00:38:39.480 scorched earth we didn't do any of that um doge wasn't backed up and and basically he squandered

00:38:45.500 a generational opportunity everything on a silver plate didn't do bloody anything with it so that's

00:38:50.720 why they ended up in depositions as well some of the young staffers at doge didn't they yep yep

00:38:54.760 all of that all of that so i'm agreeing with um matt walsh here um yeah the only thing republicans 0.72

00:39:00.520 can do with power is bide their time until they can relinquish it i mean what a what a bloody

00:39:05.620 waste what an absolute bloody waste um i'll play a few seconds of uh of joel as well because i

00:39:12.440 think he makes the point where he was addressing your thing about you know is it the commentary 0.68

00:39:15.640 you gotta pick a lane right either all these america first voices are insignificant as you

00:39:22.580 have told us for months when we pleaded when we begged please pull out of the war in iran

00:39:28.880 please release the epstein files please don't ruin the economy please build a wall please give

00:39:34.960 us mass deportations. Please stop blundering a historic coalition from 2024 that won not only

00:39:42.720 the electoral, but the popular vote in a landslide. Please stop snatching defeat out of the jaws of

00:39:50.500 victory. We begged you. And you said that we were ridiculous. You said that we didn't matter. You

00:39:55.920 said that nobody really cared, that MAGA was still at the top of its game, that none of this was

00:40:01.040 going to sway an election that we were just fine that's what you said yeah my good joel as well 0.92

00:40:07.280 and and now he's a lame duck he's the lamest of lame ducks he can't pass any laws he can't get

00:40:12.840 money he's going to get impeached god knows how many times he can't appoint uh appoint judges or 0.70

00:40:18.220 officials um he can't do foreign trade deals you know he's going to be in the in the white house

00:40:24.160 doing his normal thing which is signing a few executive orders which as we've already covered

00:40:28.020 are completely ephemeral and going to bugger off and what what are the left going to do with their

00:40:32.260 power uh there we go lawyer up so the left when they have power they actually use it they actually

00:40:41.180 sodding use it when the right wins power they don't use it like i said they could have gone

00:40:46.380 scorched earth on antifa and the left more broadly after charlie didn't do a bloody thing but anyway

00:40:51.220 uh i wanted to return to my theme of of israel because i think that is the core thing you you

00:40:56.360 can see um how uh i mean i can't i can't read most of these out uh not on youtube but you you can see

00:41:03.140 how um uh truth social is is is not particularly happy on this uh i mean i'll quickly return to

00:41:11.040 that clip that you mentioned in your segment i mean let's just hear what they had to say about

00:41:14.420 it when we look at the fox survey iran is a four percent issue with the american people

00:41:23.300 So whatever happens in the midterms, it doesn't appear that Ron's going to drive anything one way or another.

00:41:29.520 What's your take on this?

00:41:31.200 I think that's exactly right.

00:41:33.100 Excuse me. Sorry, that's wrong, because 4% is a massive four midterms.

00:41:39.100 When you have candidates that are close to 50-50, 4% can mean 48-52.

00:41:45.960 So even if he was right with the stat, it's still really poor.

00:41:49.640 So, as we mentioned in the previous segment, it may be directly a 4% issue,

00:41:55.080 but indirectly it's a more massive issue because it harms the economy.

00:41:58.700 The economy is all down.

00:41:59.520 The economy is the number one issue.

00:42:01.140 So, indirectly it is an issue.

00:42:02.600 So, let's check in on Ben Shapiro checking in.

00:42:06.700 So, yeah, he's got this funny little gif of, oh, he's coming back to find the house on fire. 0.99

00:42:11.180 I mean, bitch, please, you were the one who set it on fire. 0.99

00:42:14.540 Sod off, Ben. 0.99

00:42:15.160 now again a stat that you mentioned i know that mark levin and ben shapiro are going to be trotting

00:42:23.280 out numbers like these they're going to be saying well actually amongst amongst um you know

00:42:27.120 republican voters who voted only 35 of them i think is important 70 74 here we go say it was

00:42:34.260 you know not a factor in their vote the key thing there right the key thing there is voters who

00:42:40.220 voted now this has long been used as an online iq test i mean for those of you don't know these

00:42:49.680 are planes who made it back during the war which ones actually landed the ones that were shot there

00:42:54.520 so they thought at first that they've got a strength from those bits no these are the planes

00:42:58.820 that landed if you're telling me that if you think that this isn't a key issue because of

00:43:04.700 the republicans that voted it was seen as a lesser issue yeah that's your problem

00:43:10.220 Bloody left, so many people didn't turn out.

00:43:13.600 I mean, if you take the not a factor, 74% say that...

00:43:18.040 Of the ones who voted.

00:43:18.780 Yeah, which means that 26% think that it is a factor, not four.

00:43:24.100 Yep, well, yeah, that as well.

00:43:26.240 And then we get to, you know, Laura Loomer, 1.00

00:43:28.820 who's also been trying to set the House on fire. 0.71

00:43:31.720 You know, her take is that, well, President Trump should... 0.94

00:43:35.660 Just nuke Iran. 0.99

00:43:36.720 Yeah, should just go through it with Iran. 1.00

00:43:38.740 Just do it. 0.99

00:43:39.240 there's nothing left to lose yes the reason the reason there is nothing left to lose is because

00:43:45.840 he listened to people like you laura and so you've only got two more years to drop all the nukes on

00:43:52.500 iran quick jump yep yep and because because you've got nothing left to lose because you've already

00:43:57.640 listened to us this far so blow up the strait of hormuz while you're at it as well why not yeah

00:44:03.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, just why not?

00:44:05.980 I mean, just a point an Israeli general to the supreme commander of US forces 0.66

00:44:11.220 and just be done with it. I mean, why not? 0.82

00:44:13.880 And there's nothing left to lose at this point

00:44:15.520 because you've followed all of my advice so far. Brilliant.

00:44:18.540 While you're at it, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, just take them out as well.

00:44:22.880 Yeah, why not?

00:44:23.580 Just for laughs. Just go for it.

00:44:25.360 What a love of the game.

00:44:26.140 Just nuke everything. Samson option with American nukes. 1.00

00:44:29.860 I mean, why not? Go for it. 0.99

00:44:30.880 um yeah so so that's the first point all this stuff about the economy it's it's all downstream

00:44:37.180 with this so take for example i saw um ted cruz on was it fox news saying that he's really concerned

00:44:44.000 that when the results are analyzed he's going to find that texan farmers stayed home and it's like

00:44:50.800 oh no why did that yeah why did that happen yeah that's because nine out of ten u.s farmers are

00:44:55.680 losing money now nine at 90 of us farmers are losing money why is that two core issues two

00:45:03.820 two key costs have gone up fertilizer product of the russian war um which which trump promised he

00:45:09.780 was going to end within whatever it was a day or something like that uh that's pushing up

00:45:14.220 fertilizer costs the bigger one is going to be uh petrochemical petrochemical feedstocks a direct

00:45:20.260 product of the iran war that that was that that's why oil isn't at 200 a barrel it's because of

00:45:26.680 demand destruction that occurred in petrochemical feedstocks direct push cost onto farmers that's

00:45:32.720 why 90 of losing that's why they're not voting for you ted because you haven't given them a

00:45:36.640 bloody reason to do it it's it's so much of this is is downstream of and i've got another chart

00:45:41.960 actually i probably should have moved into this section um on petrol prices as well right the

00:45:46.700 second i mean texan farmers as well one of the one of the sad reasons um uh might also be that

00:45:53.280 they can no longer hire pedro who just hopped over the border to pick tomatoes for them the

00:45:58.480 the solution being uh that you could just um subsidize some of those farms to get tomato

00:46:04.600 picking robots if that's going to help if that's going to help them out and that would also actually

00:46:09.100 be a direct benefit to these people to get them out voting indeed yeah sorry let me just clear

00:46:14.240 something because some guy in the chat is saying oh is is oil two hundred dollars a barrel no

00:46:18.320 no that's what i'm saying the reason the oil isn't two hundred dollars a barrel is because

00:46:23.240 of demand destruction the price is actually is actually stayed much closer to 100 the reason

00:46:28.040 it's not gone high is because demand destruction so loads of um the the lower margin stuff in the

00:46:34.120 petrochemical chain has simply not been done and uh petrochemical based um food stocks uh feed

00:46:41.340 stocks for for for for livestock is the first thing that goes because it's the low margin bit

00:46:47.440 of the oil production chain so so so that's the point i was making there um right i want to come

00:46:52.640 to my um second issue here right so um we've got to talk about the the demographics i mean

00:47:00.120 the the republicans are being held up by um a string at the moment and that string is white

00:47:04.540 people um there we go that's the results white men is plus 23 republican my white women is is

00:47:12.200 plus um 13 republican everything else is democrat everything and the amount of effort that trump

00:47:18.720 put into winning those other sections in in in his last election uh i mean going up on stage

00:47:26.280 describing himself as the first black president and all that kind of stuff which is an interesting

00:47:30.660 take but okay fine so so even my question of whether white californian liberals may have

00:47:36.320 swung it a little bit in texas doesn't hold up it really is just in a place like texas so um what

00:47:42.160 was his name paxton can protect yes ken paxton can put out a tweet saying like doesn't feel like

00:47:48.140 texas anymore a lot a lot of this was also done under under republicans right now but that is

00:47:55.980 that is white people in general all ages as this guy's pointing out 37 percent of 18 to 29 year

00:48:05.240 olds said this was their first mid-time elections and and dems vote them uh won them by 57 percent

00:48:11.040 and he's quote tweeting himself pointing out the democrats won young white men by 17 points

00:48:16.360 right this is the so young white men this is the group that the last democrat president basically

00:48:24.680 made illegal it's basically illegal under under biden to be a young white man in america and and

00:48:31.180 they flooded to trump he won them by 28 points in 2024 and now they've swung seven they're you

00:48:37.860 know they're they democrats won them by 17 points this time that is if if republicans can't win 0.92

00:48:45.140 young white men what the hell is going on what a bloody do you not remember um the the cucks for

00:48:52.800 Kamala there's a link missing but don't worry about it because I was just I think I think it's 0.97

00:48:57.400 the the YouTube one next there we go yeah right so I mean do you remember this cucks cucks for

00:49:02.160 Kamala I'm a 56 year old gun-owning white guy Kamala Harris thinks I'll vote for her she's right

00:49:08.920 right anyway anyway there's a whole bunch of cucks that just lined up on this but do you remember

00:49:14.460 what it was like being being a young white well I don't remember what I do remember what it was

00:49:18.220 like being a young white man I don't remember what it was like being a young white man under

00:49:21.020 biden because i was probably already old by then but but the point is right you've been old for a

00:49:25.260 long while haven't you yes um it depends how you define old uh but anyway the for those of you who

00:49:31.280 were young white men under biden it was not a pleasant experience right not a pleasant experience

00:49:37.440 basically illegal and uh and and this time around uh trump managed to lose them over these two core

00:49:44.380 issues which is the generational divide and the israel thing i mean i'm mainly talking about the

00:49:47.740 generational divide here we go the shift amongst young white men was massive in absolute terms

00:49:52.340 the gop advantage with white men was cut in half dropping from 28 points in 2022 to just 14 points

00:49:58.920 in 2026 a 14 point and yeah and amongst young uh white men they went from backing trump by nine

00:50:05.860 points in 24 to backing democrats by 11 points at absolute uh bloody disaster i've got i've got

00:50:12.660 more detail on this chart um which is really small so i've got no chance of reading it luckily i did

00:50:19.300 read it before we we began this segment um and it gives you the sort of breakdown so these are all

00:50:25.540 groups that swung to trump previously 18 to 29 has taken quite yes yeah you you've spotted the

00:50:34.900 the first big takeaway so of the groups that went to trump that's the the left hand side the right

00:50:40.260 hand side is what happened this time and the and the far right hand side is where it all nets out

00:50:46.260 to and as you can see the the most strident thing by far here is young people young young people

00:50:52.860 have just abandoned the gop because because the generational settlement hasn't been tackled it

00:50:59.600 hasn't been it hasn't been addressed so they're just flooding over to us now this is actually

00:51:06.440 this is actually a white pill right this is a white pillar because let's say that texas um went

00:51:14.780 blue because of demographics right that means that there is nothing that you can do about it

00:51:20.540 that means it's lost forever it's done if it's yeah if it's because um basically white young

00:51:27.400 young white men in fact you know young whites in general were abandoned and mistreated and they

00:51:32.820 left that means they can come back so that means that texas isn't lost yet but you need to fix the

00:51:39.420 generational divide you need to give these people a reason to come back to you because otherwise if

00:51:44.100 you keep losing these places until the demographics means that it is a permanent lock they're gone

00:51:49.480 forever i mean that depends on what they're voting for as well because a lot of people will

00:51:54.280 characterize the dems as the kill all white people party which to a certain extent has a lot of truth

00:51:59.180 to it um a lot of those young people who have gone over to the democrats uh in this most recent 0.99

00:52:04.500 midterms uh they might they're not thinking i am going to vote for the kill all white people party 0.80

00:52:09.180 i'm going they're thinking i'm gonna vote for the fix my grocery bill party that's that's what 0.89

00:52:14.680 they're thinking i don't even think that's the strongest element i think it's i mean you got the 0.99

00:52:18.680 the the blue-haired idiot kids right and and they turned out and vote it's that the it's the it's 0.99

00:52:24.700 the younger people who had voted gop stayed home because they didn't have a reason to come out 1.00

00:52:28.500 so i mean yes there will be an element of switching but i think the the crossover that

00:52:33.620 you're seeing is mainly because trump did not give young white men uh young white people in

00:52:39.160 general a reason to show up and that's the biggest factor but the white pill is if you offer for the

00:52:44.980 next president in 28 if you offer them something it's not done yet the demographic issue hasn't

00:52:51.260 taken over yet um and the other thing i'll just quickly mention from this is is latinos snap back

00:52:56.620 really hard um as well as a whole bunch of other um racial groups that trump spent an awful lot of

00:53:03.040 time uh pandering to didn't work this was a democratic party is that is their natural home

00:53:09.280 so a lot of time spent pandering to them is frankly wasted time yeah your time would be

00:53:15.800 much better spent um turning out the vote of people who are inclined to support you that

00:53:21.500 that's where your effort needs to go but it doesn't oh also jewish voters voted two-thirds

00:53:26.400 democrat for what i've seen so far this election so all of that stuff for israel

00:53:30.680 um if if that was a big factor in their decision making well that didn't work either

00:53:34.980 um this is a fascinating little graph so um basically trump's approval tracked onto gas prices

00:53:41.160 this this is the stuff about the economy it's downstream of the iran war right

00:53:51.500 um and and and then and then we get people like you know crenshaw who cannot who cannot grasp 0.97

00:53:57.740 this generational point you know he just tells them i'm hearing about this dumb 20 burrito 0.97

00:54:03.180 debate just thought i'd make uh the losers on social media angry before going to bed stop 0.99

00:54:08.140 whining and get a job right okay vote winning attitude to take then oh you've got complaints 0.99

00:54:14.620 about how the country is going right now ah stop whining yeah screw you i'm very tempted to poke 0.97

00:54:20.220 him in the other eye when he says the community note points out here of course when it's democrats 0.99

00:54:24.460 in charge he he understands all of the problems yeah um uh we got we got this republican um

00:54:33.340 yeah going on about uh let's play it of course i want our benefit programs to be there for people

00:54:39.100 who need them but if you're a 29 year old guy sitting in your mom's basement playing video

00:54:43.100 games you shouldn't be mooching off the federal government i think most iowans are working really

00:54:47.340 really hard i will continue right there you go that that's the problem with the um the the us 0.98

00:54:52.220 fiscal deficit that's right you're not nearly black enough to let us for us to let you mooch 0.84

00:54:56.860 off of us yeah i mean she didn't go after the inner city populations did she no no it was it 0.97

00:55:01.660 was it was young white men in there you know playing video games because they can't get a

00:55:05.420 they can't get a bloody job oh dear why oh they can't get a job isn't that sad um oh in other news

00:55:11.420 um women accounted for 98 of jobs right so there's that so so maybe these the maybe these

00:55:19.500 men maybe these young men who uh you know are playing the video games is because they because

00:55:24.940 you know they're just sat there trying to play their video game and all they can hear is the

00:55:27.820 door knocking because they've got five or six employers just wrapping on the door saying please

00:55:32.700 i want to give you a job but for some reason they don't do it maybe that's it maybe it's something

00:55:36.700 like that so you know 98 percent of jobs went to uh women um and what's this other factor oh yeah

00:55:43.020 yeah there's that as well um corporate america when they're hiring people who are they hiring

00:55:49.580 oh look uh 94 people of color right okay so so yep there we go that's fascinating um

00:55:59.020 so yeah got to tie these these are the two issues is it is it is it maga as in israel first or is

00:56:09.200 america first and fix the generational divide you do those two things it's not over you can still

00:56:15.620 win because the the people that you need will turn out and vote you can win i mean this highlights

00:56:21.740 you know this ties both of them together so favorable views of the israeli government um by

00:56:27.680 age um over 50 it's 68% favorable under 34 it's only 28% favorable you know that that that that

00:56:38.220 is that is tying all of this together and and i would say to to right-wing u.s boomers

00:56:45.120 i mean first of all caveat if you're watching this i'm not talking about you what i'm talking

00:56:50.760 about is the boomers who wake up in the morning they took they turn fox news on and they just

00:56:54.760 let it play all day and that and that is that is the only info dump they get into their brain

00:56:59.520 but if if you are a u.s boomer who's not watching this when you should be um who do you think is

00:57:06.180 going to pay for all the socialism that's coming this is this is asset ownership in the in the u.s

00:57:12.400 um half of it is boomers massively overrepresented they are the most overrepresented

00:57:21.120 generationally wise in history it's not just because they're old they were they were over

00:57:29.400 represented at every stage in their life 20s 30s I mean all the entire way through so you know you

00:57:36.640 can either give up a little bit to make the settlement fairer for young people or you can

00:57:42.260 lose it all in socialism take your choice go go with the other because there's two different

00:57:47.620 economy is playing out in the us at the moment there's the asset-based economy and they're

00:57:52.040 getting appreciation and then there's the wage earners people are trying to buy houses and stuff

00:57:57.680 like that and and what this election has done right what this election has done is it is massively 0.97

00:58:03.120 empowered the dsa the lunatic left because that they have just seen that they can put up any damn 0.92

00:58:10.300 candidate and they're going to win anywhere so aoc's stock just just went right up and and there's 0.99

00:58:18.240 there's no reason for them to hold back on the most lunatic candidates going forward and yeah

00:58:24.240 i'm i'm i'm critical because honestly the last the last couple of years watching trump at work

00:58:30.840 has felt like this

00:58:33.420 there we go hammering away oh no don't do that that's a bad idea

00:58:43.480 that's what the whole thing feels like and look

00:58:50.360 over here in the uk you know we're you know the a lot of people are now are going over to a store

00:58:58.380 and we had to face a lot of betrayal in order to get to the point where we were going to do that

00:59:04.440 right and in the in the u.s it is a bit different you don't have a you're not blessed with an

00:59:10.620 electoral system that really rewards a third party but the dsa has shown you what you need

00:59:16.440 to do and what you need to do is you need to coup well in their case they couped the democrat party

00:59:21.320 and they're winning and they're going to win everything now because they've just been in

00:59:24.020 power you need you need to coo the republican out you need to clear out these two issues

00:59:28.100 because otherwise don't even bother fielding a candidate in 28 just just don't bother just get

00:59:33.460 it sorted fix these two issues all right all right got plenty of uh rants through for that one yes

00:59:39.940 everyone for your super chats as ever um i mean you can read through them i can try

00:59:45.000 like me too no no i can do i can squint uh fictitious so young men thought they'd stick

00:59:51.160 it to trump by voting for a party it would definitely push him to the back of the line

00:59:54.180 off the cliff or good idea incredible thank you i don't think it's so much that i think they stayed

00:59:58.260 home and therefore the only young people left were the little commies also from from a lot of

01:00:04.480 people's perspective i'm sure that they're thinking no matter which party they're voting

01:00:07.620 for they're getting screwed anyway yes uh bald eagle says data centers and high property taxes

01:00:12.860 were another major issue in texas abbott caused both issues and then buried his head in the ground

01:00:16.900 i mean that's where all the u.s growth is coming from so yeah but by shutting that off the u.s is

01:00:23.220 pretty much guaranteed a recession at this point uh that's a random name says that sounds like a

01:00:27.420 dictatorship based ape says we don't need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the

01:00:31.360 problems and agree what's in the best interest of the people and then just do it uh they should be 0.84

01:00:35.180 made to do it by somebody wise yes if only we could have somebody wise that's that's an anakin

01:00:39.560 quote by the way i had noticed yes uh speaking of which we have got a round table after this on

01:00:44.820 Anakin Skywalker

01:00:46.660 he sent that one twice as well by the way

01:00:49.600 so I've skipped past it for you

01:00:50.680 afternoon, Brother Stelios, Harry

01:00:53.780 and the tubber

01:00:54.900 time to stop

01:00:57.880 wars and maybe bring back empires

01:01:00.060 I haven't got around to Stelios' new

01:01:01.740 philosophy video but I will by the end

01:01:03.740 of the week, so that's good

01:01:05.400 Bald Eagle says you know there are going to be five

01:01:07.840 Republican Senators and that will help remove

01:01:09.620 Trump and Vance from office

01:01:11.300 and he also says there's little chance of

01:01:13.760 republican president now that the texas demographic replacement has come to

01:01:16.960 bloom no it hasn't no not yet not yet it's it's because young white men didn't

01:01:21.580 have a reason to vote it's still rec Texas is still recoverable all right

01:01:27.960 then so on to mine everybody does everybody remember the vibe shift do

01:01:37.720 you remember when was what year was that around 2024 in fact right were you there

01:01:42.980 when the vibes shifted well i've seen numerous vibe shifts over the years but exactly well how

01:01:49.120 are the vibes feeling now folks i could make an argument they're doing exactly what's intended

01:01:55.580 yes what are your vibes feeling you know what i think vibes without substance or nothing yes and

01:02:03.020 that's what i'm going to be addressing that the the vibe shift ephemeral as it may or may not have

01:02:08.860 been at the time has shifted back the vibes are dead the idea of vibes based politics in the first

01:02:16.540 place is somewhat ridiculous and especially when it's coming almost entirely from social media

01:02:22.440 platforms what the vibe shift actually reflects and what it has become is just how ensconced

01:02:29.400 people are in their own little echo chambers online and how their social circles now exist

01:02:35.000 to use either bots or trends and mobs to gaslight themselves and others into thinking that something

01:02:43.320 that is a purely online phenomenon or just being boosted by very online people is going to reflect

01:02:51.660 a real life shift. We need to get out of this kind of mentality and I think people are starting

01:02:58.100 to get out of this mentality because frankly things are just ridiculous now. So this is back

01:03:03.080 in 2024 at the time of the vibe shift and these were the ideas and sentiments that were being

01:03:07.740 shared people arguing against voting voting for kamala harris by saying in 2026 hello there uh

01:03:14.800 gas is now 787 per gallon not quite that bad rent is four grand per month groceries insurance and

01:03:20.580 utilities are up over 60 percent there are gangs of illegals taking over your city blocks and

01:03:24.560 inflation is 16 percent to which people pretty close well not quite so bad but not that much

01:03:32.040 better than we were expecting uh such as this fellow who responded at the time and this is the

01:03:36.740 kind of vibes that were going around uh the year is 2026 you voted for trump gas is 287 per gallon

01:03:43.060 quite a lot more expensive than that rent is 1500 per month varies from place to place but typically

01:03:48.780 quite expensive groceries insurance and utilities are 40 less no millions of illegals have been

01:03:55.320 deported depends depends on who you're asking for the figures from but quite a lot of illegals have

01:04:01.880 been deported i mean beginning millions beginning with the two just just inflation is less than two

01:04:09.060 percent i don't know the exact inflation figures right now what are they i would say i would say

01:04:13.180 that's disputable disputable disputable this was a response back in 2024 these were the predictions

01:04:18.040 everybody was getting very very excited because a lot of the information that was coming out of

01:04:23.340 social media circles was this was going to be the second golden age this was all pushed by

01:04:28.480 people posting edits and memes and all reinforcing one another and the problem is with twitter

01:04:35.200 twitter used to be a place where interesting conversations did happen it used to be a place

01:04:41.740 where there were discussions on both sides antagonizing one another but i've seen it

01:04:47.500 commented recently that twitter used to be a place where you did see some form of inter-elite

01:04:52.000 coordination right and then elon musk took over monetized the whole thing and turned it into the

01:04:58.780 world's greatest slop factory at which point most of those important elites kind of disengaged from

01:05:07.420 it and due to the monetization and the incentives that come from that it now is just people gas

01:05:13.700 lighting themselves for monetizing there is something in what you're saying there used to

01:05:17.220 be much more back and forward conversations a lot of people went over to blue sky everybody's just

01:05:23.180 sort of like segmented themselves and closed off from one another to the point where now people

01:05:28.080 don't even realize when they're in a bubble uh let's remember this all-time clangor from back

01:05:34.440 in the day to remind ourselves how the democrats at the time who were facing an impossible challenge

01:05:40.300 they'd had four years of biden which was a disaster and they had kamala harris possibly

01:05:44.960 one of the least likable democratic candidates in american history they decided that they were

01:05:51.000 going to try and use the vibes as well to boost their own numbers and convince themselves that

01:05:56.580 they were in for an electoral landslide come the 2024 elections this was one of the biggest ones

01:06:02.620 and you can see 67 million views 300 000 likes from charlie xcx saying kamala is brat i can't 0.85

01:06:14.000 remember what bratt stands for i mean i assume it's brown retarded i can't remember i good guess 0.75

01:06:19.520 i believe that bratt was the name of an album by charlie xcx and i feel uh some form of some 0.80

01:06:27.700 pang of shame for even knowing that in the first place and so charlie xcx seemingly endowed kamala

01:06:34.940 with her approval which everybody as you can see from the reply here midas this just won her the

01:06:42.500 election everybody at the time could see how ridiculous this whole thing looked right now

01:06:50.180 how ridiculous it sounded everybody made fun of it and guess what she lost she lost by a landslide 1.00

01:06:54.260 so we can look back retrospectively and say look at you absolute bozos what a pair of morons to 1.00

01:07:01.600 even think that this would shift the dial but then you look back at this and go like 1.00

01:07:05.320 i mean yeah trump won but how are these predictions looking uh well you can see that

01:07:11.120 this guy has been questioned since then uh gonna check up on you for an update on this prediction

01:07:16.260 from back in the day well it wasn't me didn't say it i was being impersonated at the time i'm

01:07:22.940 reporting it to x uh obviously a joke just in case i saw you furrow your brow in confusion dan

01:07:28.580 people just don't want to be associated with the frankly quite embarrassing predictions that

01:07:34.480 everybody was making at the time because they were going along with the vibes which are now well

01:07:39.240 truly dead and buried. People suspected at the time that the shift was going to come through

01:07:44.820 TikTok trends. Mary Harrington in 2024, who I don't dislike. Mary, this isn't an insult to you.

01:07:51.900 This was just what everybody, including us, were thinking at the time that the vibes were just

01:07:56.000 there. And this is just a mindset we all need to get out of. In January, I predicted 2024 would be

01:08:01.720 the year of Zuma race politics. The radical right is winning on TikTok. If we just have enough edits

01:08:08.240 and viral trends on tiktok and on x then we're going to win and it's going to be a golden age

01:08:14.240 and we're going to get some ideology forum what were you going pardon an ideology forum it's how

01:08:20.780 people just build audiences yeah and what were you going to say dan i i think i see where you're

01:08:25.360 going with this and i think i'm going to disagree all right that's fair you're free to do i'll see

01:08:30.220 how your argument builds out but i might be putting the counter case you're free to be wrong

01:08:34.560 uh that's absolutely fine we accept that on this podcast it's okay uh this was kind of the

01:08:39.700 culmination of it an early gen an early 2025 article from new york in uh in january of that

01:08:46.360 year uh called the cruel kids table and everybody should probably remember this image from the time

01:08:52.360 because if you were online at the time it was getting shared around everywhere among the young

01:08:56.040 confident and casually cruel trumpers who after conquering washington have their sights set

01:09:01.980 on america and this image was being shared everywhere to show that young people love

01:09:07.120 republicans now young people uh they're really radical now they want the absolutely most right

01:09:13.260 wing administration ever they didn't get it if what you were saying about the demographics of

01:09:19.200 the vote shift in the last segment are to be believed these people now either shifted to

01:09:24.860 democrats or just were so disappointed that they chose not to show up i think i think these people

01:09:29.880 didn't show up but i mean just looking at that picture you can imagine how a spiteful little

01:09:34.380 mutant with blue hair who hates her daddy is is incredibly intimidated by that image and that

01:09:39.860 we underestimate how important that thinking is to left-wing minds they just see that and they

01:09:45.880 just know i i can't compete i can't fit in i'm afraid of this we need to destroy this yes but

01:09:51.040 at the same time it turns out that celebrating an image of look at all of these cool people in

01:09:56.660 washington or new york or wherever is it wherever it was uh doesn't translate to actually actual

01:10:02.540 policy gains this is stelios's point about uh vibes based without substance this was just

01:10:08.020 everybody going like look we're cool we're young now we've won this is going to be the golden age

01:10:13.200 forever uh i want to add something here because in retrospect i think i mean it doesn't take that

01:10:20.120 much insight or something but anyway trump was anti-discourse and is anti-discourse

01:10:25.620 i think there would be no trump had there not been obama obama took all the grievance narratives

01:10:32.280 from the universities and made them mainstream and people want someone who like trump who

01:10:37.680 essentially was going to tell all these people shut up oh no and yeah he he didn't he isn't he

01:10:44.640 He wasn't a communicator like, and he isn't a communicator like Reagan was, for instance.

01:10:50.580 People look up to whoever is president.

01:10:52.740 The president is setting the tone for culture as well.

01:10:55.620 So if the president isn't engaging in discourse, he sets the tone for a non-discursive...

01:11:02.860 And as a result of that, a lot of the...

01:11:06.420 And that's why I think, that's why right-wing Twitter is very much run by, for lack of a better word,

01:11:14.640 the mega ecosphere that's why for instance whenever you see people commenting europe from

01:11:20.880 the us you frequently have the imposition of mega categories on every country yes certainly they

01:11:28.480 have different uh they have different uh you know systems the the takes have certainly devolved yes

01:11:35.120 and in the past few years it came back to 2024 because that was when you know there was the

01:11:41.440 pre-election period where trump was going to uh compete with biden no with harris in the election

01:11:48.560 so again it set the trend yeah but at the same time it just goes to show if if you're setting

01:11:53.780 the if you set the table for the party if you set everybody up for a good time when everybody gets

01:11:58.840 there you don't then put on the funeral dirge you you actually you say i'm gonna throw a massive

01:12:05.180 feel-good party you follow through on the feel-good party you don't you don't just have

01:12:10.660 everybody invited there and you go all right um vasectomies through this room uh you can you can

01:12:16.960 all take opium well maybe people would enjoy that and you can all sit down and listen to all you're

01:12:21.440 saying if you if you promise to build the wall actually build it don't kiss it instead if you

01:12:25.840 want the vibes to continue to be good then do the things that you promised that made the vibes good

01:12:29.880 in the first place what a shocker but instead what you end up finding is that because of people

01:12:35.700 being unable to accept the downfall of the kind of Trumpism and people sequestering themselves

01:12:45.720 away on social media in these little circles where they convince themselves that the trends

01:12:49.860 that they come up with that last a fortnight and then vanish forever are going to change

01:12:53.920 the minds of the average voter. You end up with things like this, the US Department of

01:12:59.480 Education account posting, there's magic in learning with Malfoy attached to it. For

01:13:05.420 all of you who were blissfully unaware of what malfoid was malfoid was a right-wing attempt at

01:13:11.140 fan fiction um where they gender swapped draco malfoy and then convinced themselves all of them

01:13:18.880 that this was some kind of grand cultural victory on the broader stage outside of select circles

01:13:26.080 and social media it was bizarre do they call uh the character malfoid that is what they like a bad

01:13:33.240 void yeah yes um similarly that we'll be discussing it later and i encourage people to take um

01:13:40.680 interesting discussions on uh on pop culture and what it may reflect about the times and such uh

01:13:46.760 don't convince yourself that it is going to somehow swing an election when again the u.s

01:13:52.280 department of education posts anakin on maine because a bunch of right-wingers on twitter have

01:13:57.240 have been talking about how they're literally anakin skywalker so i think i could we've got

01:14:03.140 enough time for me to interject with an alternate theory of course because i because i i think i

01:14:07.280 see where you're going with this what you're saying with is that is that vibes don't give

01:14:12.320 you hard power that that's essentially where you're going with this well also that just frankly

01:14:16.020 the conversation and behavior of a lot of the people celebrating this is just completely

01:14:21.160 degenerated from years ago you could have hard power and do nothing with it well yeah that as

01:14:28.280 well but no okay the point i'm driving at is i think what's happening and it goes back to my

01:14:34.860 segment about the generational divide is that the is that the younger generations are looking at

01:14:40.220 politics for a fundamentally new lens and all of this stuff that you're talking about contributes

01:14:46.400 to that new lens is an expression of people seeing politics in a fundamentally different way

01:14:51.500 which means their assumptions about the world are fundamentally different and this whole ecosphere

01:14:57.900 is all contributing that to that set of top-down assumptions now if your assumptions about the

01:15:03.040 world are your starting point politics is downstream of that if your assumptions change

01:15:10.000 then the way that you do politics is automatically readjusted as a result of your worldview down

01:15:15.640 change okay so what i'm saying is there is actually enormous value in changing the lens through which

01:15:20.920 whole generations look at politics and yes that doesn't mean you win the next election

01:15:25.900 because what you actually get is what i was talking about which is the generational divide

01:15:30.240 which is in order to secure the votes you need to appeal to this world lens

01:15:34.600 what you're actually doing is appealing to that world lens but inevitably the gop is going to

01:15:41.680 figure out that if they want to win they need to swap to this lens they need a different set

01:15:46.060 of candidates they need a different set of institutions and it's and it won't be and it's

01:15:49.200 not it's not one election it's it's not like you post an Anakin meme and then you've won the

01:15:54.340 midterms it's it's you post an Anakin meme and everybody else posts an Anakin meme and everybody

01:15:59.700 else is is cooperating in this in this lens shift about how you view the world right and then you

01:16:06.760 win the party as a result so this long-term shift will be achieved through based anakin edits

01:16:12.360 well it's a little bit more than that but i i wouldn't want to say any individual posting of

01:16:18.100 an anakin meme is is an absolute it's just how it got people's hopes up for one the contrast is

01:16:24.160 quite amazing in that people were posting all of this you had elon musk posting this particular

01:16:29.220 meme as well and then people pointing out that like 2016 liberals we are gryffindor and the

01:16:35.260 jedi order the conservatives are slytherin and darth vader and the conservatives at the time 0.50

01:16:39.420 were saying what what the hell are you doing and now the conservatives are going we are slytherin

01:16:44.000 and darth vader we are faced um you had people like this the anakin edits might turn the tides 0.57

01:16:50.560 of the midterms not these midterms but are you serious it seems with your cringe because this

01:16:56.980 is my point what's the alternative the if if the if the young right wanted to win these midterms

01:17:03.860 all they would have to do blue is believe everything that boomer cons believe but but

01:17:09.380 that's that is not winning for them i'm not i'm not saying it has to be a binary between are you 0.57

01:17:14.140 a jedi or are you a sith it's the this is just another ridiculous online trend that a load of

01:17:22.120 people got themselves massively hyped up about that wasn't going to make a difference in the

01:17:26.260 way that they thought it would correct me if i'm wrong but one of the things i take from what you

01:17:30.360 sake which i i agree with is that um you could you to govern well you need more than just people 0.97

01:17:38.180 who are good at posting and shit posting shocker yeah shocker yeah you need people to do the boring 0.92

01:17:45.200 work that you know is policy drafting and also exercising u.s department of education posted 0.99

01:17:51.760 anakin's oh my god guys the vibes have shifted it's so real that's that's that's kind of like

01:17:57.940 it's a little bit reddit yeah that's my thinking on it similarly like this this guy might as well

01:18:04.340 be like directly paid by elon to gaslight people to staying on the platform i like this guy this

01:18:09.900 isn't a meme it never was we've saved anakin and possibly star wars itself this is a monumental

01:18:15.940 zeitgeist victory your posting matters never stop i agree yeah because you are changing the

01:18:25.080 fundamental set of assumptions of which a whole series of generations approach the world let alone

01:18:30.840 politics i mean fair play i like this guy's suggestion you should read this tweet to your

01:18:35.520 parents or one of your neighbors and ask for their thoughts on it yeah you should go and ask a boomer

01:18:39.780 con yeah yeah yeah i mean it'd be an interesting interesting thing the problem though with also

01:18:44.660 appealing to vibes-based politics is that i have in this segment i i have found the vibes-based

01:18:54.580 voter would you like to see her is it me no no it's not right it's not you would you like to see 0.99

01:19:00.500 the vibes based voter because i think she's going to blow your mind right okay okay uh this woman 0.99

01:19:06.460 michigan republican voter says that she was going to vote for mike rogers until hayley stevens 1.00

01:19:12.920 endorsed him you use the black church to try and convince me that rogers is the right one

01:19:18.200 oh no no let's hear it from the horse's mouth and i was black i was going to vote 0.92

01:19:23.900 Then a few months later, about a month later, I said, I'm going to vote for Rogers. 0.99

01:19:30.600 And then when Hallie Stevens did what she did.

01:19:35.180 That was wild over the weekend.

01:19:36.700 Yeah, I said, I'm back with Abdul. 0.99

01:19:41.020 So you think that Hallie... 0.80

01:19:43.440 I didn't understand how what she said.

01:19:45.600 eventually eventually she's basically saying that she felt like a black church was trying to

01:19:52.160 manipulate her into voting republican therefore i'm gonna vote for the other guy therefore i'm

01:19:57.840 gonna vote for the other guy pure vibes this this is the median vibes voter right this this is the

01:20:06.340 people that we all have to appeal to on one level or another and even if you try to appeal to them

01:20:12.360 they might just take it the wrong way and go oh hell no oh hell no i'll go vote for the other guy 0.97

01:20:20.080 now and um at some point you know have we tried any anakin memes on maybe maybe damn younglings 0.79

01:20:28.180 were asking for it and if that doesn't work break out the malfoy i mean just you know smash smash

01:20:34.820 glass in case of emergency malfoy what's this extra i think we've just okay this page doesn't

01:20:39.420 exist i think that was my dan crenshaw one was it samson i was also going to refer back to the

01:20:44.740 dan crenshaw one which was the response to a lot of these um uh the response outside of the vibes 0.96

01:20:50.820 and people people gaslighting you um to people's actual concerns was f you yes screw you uh and

01:20:59.060 it's interesting that this is all happening uh once which is as keith woods points out you've

01:21:04.960 got the midterms wipeout you've got orban losing in um hungary in hungary yeah uh bolsonaro

01:21:11.560 bolsonaro now obviously there's contention as to the uh the what happened what happened with that

01:21:18.720 but bolsonaro lost labor and now leading reform 10 points in the polling gert wilders has lost a

01:21:24.980 third of his vote share in the netherlands all at once it seems that popular certain like

01:21:32.140 vibes-minded populist parties across the west and elsewhere seem to be losing a lot of momentum

01:21:40.800 all at once because fundamentally the real world results of what they were promising have not

01:21:49.200 materialized and the holdovers in the like the holdover supporters are now a very online

01:21:57.700 phenomenon which does not actually translate into real world results frequently see people engaging

01:22:03.940 in this kind of you know vibe babes commenting where there's something immaterial there's

01:22:08.480 something doesn't exist and they want to create hype surrounding it to make it into a thing 0.51

01:22:13.460 yes and my my warning for a lot of people is that you shouldn't allow yourself i'm sure many of you

01:22:22.660 don't uh but just as a warning you shouldn't allow yourself to be gaslit into thinking that

01:22:28.740 the sky's turned green when it's still blue you shouldn't be gaslit into thinking up is now down

01:22:34.480 by people who are trying to create a perception of consensus uh through social media when it's

01:22:41.680 not actually happening what you should do uh is you should um if you are in power if you are a

01:22:48.140 political party. As Keith points out, one of the only exceptions currently is the AFD, is you should

01:22:55.820 be sensible in the way that you are managing your policies, in the way that you are presenting

01:23:00.820 yourselves. Don't just go along with the trends because they are trends on social media, because

01:23:05.140 some intern runs up to you and goes, they're posting Malfoy, we need to get the Department

01:23:09.200 of Education to post this now, and then we're going to win, and going to get people back on

01:23:13.380 our sides if you make promises you have to follow through with them and i think to a certain extent

01:23:18.400 part of the republican party establishment has also allowed themselves to be pulled along

01:23:23.200 by these by these vibes and by these party agents who again are meant to create perception rather

01:23:30.280 than present reality as it actually is people need hard truths you're not going to find it in a lot

01:23:35.600 of these circles anymore and there is also the echo chamber effect right frequently there are

01:23:41.600 people who are actually left out of the political system and they get fixated on some topics and

01:23:47.580 they are important but the other bit is that frequently you lose realism in these circles

01:23:53.100 and realism when it comes to practice politics requires comparative judgment it isn't a sort of

01:23:59.820 you know black or white thing absolutely still though check out the roundtable about anakin

01:24:06.380 after this uh after this podcast uh because i still enjoy the discussion that goes on around

01:24:11.480 the actual analysis of the prequels yes as as a form of a counterintuitive media analysis i'm a

01:24:17.420 big fan of that anyway uh marked ashamed says texas was flipped the marxist rimland strategy

01:24:24.020 is complete rimland now that sounds like a good saturday i will say as somebody who's posted

01:24:28.440 about five or six anakin memes myself i did take your segment a bit personal i wasn't i wasn't

01:24:32.600 trying to target it at you all right um can i also point out in the live chat colby who's one

01:24:38.640 of our staff members says and he monitors the the the podcast for us he monitors the situation

01:24:44.060 and does our quiz he says i need the podcast to end so i can pee so can we be we need to be mindful

01:24:49.940 of that well i'm just going hapsification looks like the american christian rock bands all style

01:24:54.940 no substance um i'm trying to think of a good christian rock band the power wolf count i like

01:25:01.680 power wolf and ashamed as well says honestly the republicans deserve the canadian island camps the

01:25:07.360 dsa will send them to uh harsh but fair and with that uh oh let's do a video then

01:25:18.000 hey hello teachers i'm here today in wigan and this in front of me is wigan roman bathhouse

01:25:25.040 i never even knew the romans were in wigan well they definitely were and they decided

01:25:31.040 to call it cockium i'm also engaging in a local delicacy the wig and kebab so for you

01:25:39.440 southerners out there that is a bath this is a barn that's delicious very wholesome thank you

01:25:51.520 so i've been going over harry potter lore recently for reasons and i found an interesting fact that

01:25:57.920 J.K. Rowling was actually a big fan

01:26:00.360 of C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength

01:26:03.260 and the trilogy associated with it.

01:26:06.020 Probably she based a lot of the secondary antagonists

01:26:09.320 and the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Magic 0.97

01:26:12.340 off of the bad guys from That Hideous Strength

01:26:14.960 and kind of used their personalities

01:26:16.580 to kind of inform how these people would be.

01:26:19.180 Which figures, because I was always explaining

01:26:21.160 That Hideous Strength as basically being

01:26:23.320 an entire institution of umbrages.

01:26:27.920 Could have slipped a Malfoy into that.

01:26:32.840 Right.

01:26:33.720 Let's do a couple of comments.

01:26:37.740 Do you want some comments for yours?

01:26:38.640 Yeah.

01:26:39.120 So, Canis Familiaris says,

01:26:43.980 How hard can it be to just not start massive wars?

01:26:47.500 It really is a remarkable fumble.

01:26:50.220 Ian Wright says,

01:26:51.060 Trump getting impeached would arguably benefit the Republicans more than the Democrats,

01:26:55.980 since J.D. would be president.

01:26:57.920 Lancelot says Trump was never supposed to be a wartime president, he's a businessman.

01:27:02.920 He was supposed to focus on domestic issues and clean America up.

01:27:06.420 That was his entire selling point.

01:27:08.740 No new wars make America great again.

01:27:11.160 So when he says this business in Iran was his choice, I don't buy it for a second, but

01:27:15.740 either way, he has tanked the dream.

01:27:20.720 And let me just find another one.

01:27:24.660 George Habs says, from what I saw, nearly half of the votes were mail-in ballots.

01:27:29.220 This should have been dealt with long ago, but Republicans do like to lose.

01:27:33.760 They're addicted to it.

01:27:36.200 Yes.

01:27:37.600 Long time news, he says. 0.59

01:27:39.500 I've said before that if Trump loses, it's the own fault for prioritizing Israel, boomers and AI. 1.00

01:27:44.920 I agree with most of that. 0.99

01:27:46.420 I quite like AI, actually.

01:27:48.960 And that's where all the growth is coming from in the U.S. economy.

01:27:51.540 So if the data centers get stopped, US will have, if not a recession, growth will just be killed.

01:27:58.920 So, you know, there is that to bear in mind.

01:28:01.640 And it will unlock, actually, I won't go into it now.

01:28:03.620 I'll do a brokonomics on it.

01:28:05.420 But AI is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.

01:28:09.840 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:28:10.660 In the future of the country, the job market, the solution would have literally been roll tanks over companies

01:28:14.580 and start hiring young people to invest in the future. 0.79

01:28:16.980 Well, I mean, all the DEI stuff.

01:28:18.580 I mean, there was some token efforts to put it back, but not nearly enough.

01:28:22.860 What else do people say?

01:28:27.460 AZ is making the point that most companies are hesitant to hire Gen Z because of their poor work ethic. 1.00

01:28:33.720 We've got some Gen Zers here. 1.00

01:28:35.120 They're not so bad. 0.99

01:28:35.860 You're not actually technically Gen Z, are you? 0.86

01:28:37.540 I'm zillennial. 0.58

01:28:39.140 Right.

01:28:39.580 Because I'm kind of in between.

01:28:41.480 I don't.

01:28:42.100 Yeah.

01:28:42.900 We've got Luca, and he works quite hard.

01:28:45.060 Luca's the same age as me.

01:28:46.980 He's not a...

01:28:47.920 He's a Zillennial as well. 1.00

01:28:49.880 All the Zoomers are like the back-end staff. 1.00

01:28:52.320 What, those ones in the... 1.00

01:28:53.600 Yeah, and Rory.

01:28:55.520 The ones who are difficult to work with. 1.00

01:28:58.700 But also, I just want to tell people that there aren't just Boomers and Zoomers. 0.99

01:29:03.640 Yeah. 0.95

01:29:03.840 Right? 0.99

01:29:04.280 It's ridiculous rhetoric. 1.00

01:29:06.700 Coming from a Millennial. 0.99

01:29:07.460 No, no, no. 1.00

01:29:08.180 Ignore the Gen X's. 0.99

01:29:09.200 It's not enough of the Millennials. 1.00

01:29:11.520 It's as far as I'm... 1.00

01:29:12.640 It's Boomers and Zoomers. 0.99

01:29:13.520 That's all it is. 0.93

01:29:14.280 also to a certain extent from people that i know uh gen z the this famous poor work ethic they

01:29:20.700 supposedly have is that they're kind of just less willing to be wage slaves than previous generations

01:29:29.320 where they just don't want to give up their entire life for pennies in an economy that will

01:29:35.360 increasingly penalize them for working in the first place so so we have to be careful because 1.00

01:29:40.560 they might be listening but what do we think about the zoomers that we have got i think 0.99

01:29:44.180 they're good people really some of them sure right a certain percentage okay fine at least two or three

01:29:52.240 of them all right okay fine so yeah so you know so there are there are some good zoomers we will

01:29:57.420 make that case um and any comments from on your bit oh yes of course uh henry ashman as an england

01:30:03.800 football fan the it's coming home to our crap pipeline is one i'm well versed in vibes are

01:30:09.840 only a dodgy penalty or inexplicable new chapter in the thousand year old middle east forever war 0.92

01:30:14.800 away from destruction the vibe in 2024 was excited and hopeful now it's anti-boomer and anti-israel

01:30:21.740 for seemingly blocking the future that was promised for their own benefit uh geordie

01:30:26.680 swordsman uh no fun allowed morale raising is cringe in this house we only doom post

01:30:32.480 with our serious hats on when when did i ever say that there's no fun allowed all that's what

01:30:39.160 you were implying the whole way through you you were like naughty you for anakin posting and

01:30:43.240 malfoid posting no no no no no i want to see more anakin more malfoid i want to see all of it no i

01:30:48.880 am i am saying that you can have a lot of fun uh but that saying i am literally anakin and this is

01:30:54.780 how we win the midterms right now is incredibly cringe and the exact sort of thing that we were

01:31:00.480 complaining about liberals doing 10 years ago and have been complaining when it's it's the sonic

01:31:06.280 says trans rights thing i'm sorry what have you never seen those memes where it's like this

01:31:12.120 fictional character agrees with my political views no well this fictional character agrees

01:31:17.720 with my views and you're just sort of like you can have this conversation sure just don't

01:31:22.600 don't convince yourself you're doing anything right apart from changing the lens which whole

01:31:29.060 generation sees their entire worldview which politics is downstream this week this week

01:31:33.700 Then next week we'll come along 0.96

01:31:35.360 and then we win everything, possibly.

01:31:38.520 Right, excellent.

01:31:39.220 Well, thank you very much for turning up

01:31:41.000 and watching this midterm special.

01:31:43.720 Don't go, in fact, no, you can go somewhere

01:31:46.280 as long as it's like to the loo

01:31:48.060 and get a snack or stuff,

01:31:49.220 but otherwise don't turn off chat,

01:31:51.140 don't do it, just leave the computer on

01:31:53.580 and watch the Zoomer and,

01:31:57.100 that's not the title I put on it.

01:31:58.800 I put, I can't remember what I put now

01:32:01.740 because I did it this morning,

01:32:02.620 but it was something about something about i don't i'm gonna have to look it doesn't matter

01:32:08.180 anyway it's about star wars and memes so stay here and watch it in half an hour not goodbye but

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 04, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1542

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