The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1545

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eats, for Monday the 9th of November, 2026.

00:00:05.880 I'm joined by Luca and Ferris, and today we're going to be talking about the Russell Brand Trial,

00:00:10.780 the elections in New Zealand, and how Bukele's Imperium is fixing everything. 0.98

00:00:17.360 I mean, I'm quite enjoying the Bukele stuff, to be honest. 1.00

00:00:19.920 It's beautiful.

00:00:21.020 It's nice to know that someone's winning out there.

00:00:23.600 I expect a new Central American Empire center around El Salvador. 1.00

00:00:27.500 Come on, Bukele, get on it. 1.00

00:00:28.720 Yeah, I mean, this is what I'm promoting.

00:00:31.900 What I find really interesting, though, is the lack of pushback that he's getting.

00:00:35.000 No one can.

00:00:35.640 Normally, it's like, you can't invade a sovereign country.

00:00:37.440 That's Haiti.

00:00:38.240 But anyway, we'll talk about that a little bit later.

00:00:41.620 For now, let's talk about Russell Brand.

00:00:43.820 Russell Brand's trial is currently ongoing, as in right now.

00:00:46.820 They're currently in a recess.

00:00:48.380 We're going to get the actual sentencing at 2 o'clock today.

00:00:52.980 So this is being recorded before the sentencing happens,

00:00:55.640 But I suspect they're going to throw the bookie wook at him, as Bo coined on his breakfast show this morning that I was watching.

00:01:03.260 And I particularly enjoyed because, and I just want to be very clear, I hated Russell Brand long before it was cool, right?

00:01:10.400 Because I'm old enough to remember the 2000s where he was bloody everywhere and utterly insufferable.

00:01:17.140 Utterly insufferable.

00:01:18.260 That was my first impression of him growing up as well.

00:01:20.680 God, he was just so annoying all the time, everywhere.

00:01:26.120 And because he was a lefty lovey, they were all like,

00:01:28.960 we love Russell Brand, and he just talked constantly on TV all the time.

00:01:34.040 And I despised him, absolutely despised him.

00:01:36.080 Well, I remember the first time that I sort of became aware of him

00:01:38.640 was when he was trying to flog that book that he'd written, Revolution,

00:01:42.240 talking about how important it was to fight against the system

00:01:44.920 and not to vote for the main parties.

00:01:47.360 And then somehow...

00:01:48.860 He ended up endorsing Labour, yeah.

00:01:50.060 The intellectual might of Ed Miliband brought him back round.

00:01:54.360 Yeah, I mean, so that's quite late on his, well, not quite late, I suppose,

00:01:59.480 but that's after his sort of shock jock persona.

00:02:04.460 That's when he starts becoming quite politicised.

00:02:07.580 Unfortunately, I happen to know quite a lot about Russell Brand

00:02:11.080 because he was such a fixture of 2000s culture.

00:02:14.120 And if you lived in Britain and you were a normal person,

00:02:17.360 well, you knew Russell Brand was.

00:02:20.060 Anyway, before we go on, at three o'clock, Ferris has his conversation with Aaron McIntyre about after the midterms.

00:02:26.040 So you're going to be picking apart what went wrong and Trump's response to this cataclysmic failure on his part, which has all been bad, very bad.

00:02:38.060 So go and sign up to the website, £5 a month, and go and watch that.

00:02:40.840 I'm really looking forward to this one.

00:02:42.120 And Auron is one of the most incisive commentators on the right, in my opinion.

00:02:46.080 So it's definitely going to be worth your time.

00:02:49.560 For some reason, that's not clicking across, Samson.

00:02:52.240 Right, there we go.

00:02:53.260 Right, so Russell Brand, as I said, he was absolutely everywhere, right?

00:02:56.320 And you can see it just through his Wikipedia bio.

00:02:59.880 He's a stand-up comedian.

00:03:01.940 He's presenting from an MTV video journalist, whatever that is.

00:03:08.220 Involved with Big Brother, blah, blah, blah.

00:03:10.520 It goes on and on and on.

00:03:11.560 he was an actor and he'd been being an actor before his presenter he'd been on the radio

00:03:16.160 constantly over and over and so he was just bloody everywhere oh he'd also written for the guardian

00:03:22.000 obviously he'd written for the guardian and he'd done you know political activism towards the sort

00:03:28.500 of uh end of the 2000s beginning of the 2010s um it's a natural career path for entertainers

00:03:35.700 it really is he was completely um honestly he he probably set the sort of pattern for 2000

00:03:44.560 sorry can i pause you there for a second i'm reading there that brand was selected by the

00:03:49.640 dalai lama yeah to host the buddhist leaders 2012 youth event yeah i mean i always thought

00:03:57.340 the dalai lama was a joke well i just didn't know how bad of a joke the whole thing you've

00:04:03.100 gotta understand right they all loved him right they all loved him they they thought he was

00:04:08.840 brilliant because as uh barbara ellen here in the guardian wrote 20 years ago he survived an

00:04:15.500 unhappy childhood heroin and crack habit a public tongue lashing from bob geldoff and being sacked

00:04:20.280 from mtv for dressing as bin laden the the day after 9 11 by the way he turned up to his end his

00:04:26.620 job as an mtv presenter dressed as bin laden and they fired him unsurprisingly okay i mean okay

00:04:32.760 that would have been funny in 2010 and 2011 it would not have been funny on september 12 2001

00:04:38.320 exactly it's just like jesus russell so he's always had this um provocative nature where

00:04:44.800 he likes pushing boundaries and unsurprisingly that's come back to bite him in the rear

00:04:49.220 um anyway yeah so apparently he had sex addiction uh and all these things but that's what makes the

00:04:55.100 stand-up and star of big brothers big mouth so compelling so he used to he used to host a very

00:05:00.480 popular um sort of commentary uh show about the show big brother so it's called big brother's 0.98

00:05:07.740 big mouth and russell brand would sit there and talk about this stupid tv show that i hated but 0.54

00:05:13.920 there were tv shows about big brother yes the big brother was like uh well you know we're on the 0.99

00:05:20.000 house and there's cameras on them all the time sort of first reality tv thing and then he would

00:05:23.540 narrate and talk about it afterwards right now just to be clear you might think well why did

00:05:27.440 you watch it well i didn't want to watch it but this is in the era before mobile phones before

00:05:32.440 youtube when you just had sky and terrestrial tv and so whatever was on the tv in the living room

00:05:38.040 you had to watch and so i watched more of big brother than i'm i'm happy with and i've seen

00:05:44.300 more of russell brand on tv that i'm bloody happy with i think you've recovered well i i hope so but

00:05:49.180 i said i hated him because i found him completely insufferable and they loved him they loved him

00:05:56.860 they wrote all of these peons about him all the time and you'll notice it's women that love him

00:06:04.220 right now this is important for the narrative of what is happening here i am afraid to tell you

00:06:10.220 there is a specifically gendered aspect to all of this and i'm not gonna lie i hated him because i 0.94

00:06:17.820 was a man yeah and because he was an insufferable metrosexual libtard who he was very punchable 0.98

00:06:25.260 What I remember about him the most was that he was insanely punchable. 1.00

00:06:29.300 He was the kind of person that if you were inclined to have serious conversations and he were to butt into them, you would want to just beat him. 0.69

00:06:37.060 Yeah, and there are loads of examples of him, like, you know, with Peter Hitchens or, you know, various other, like, right-wings where he's just being an obnoxious prat.

00:06:46.020 But what he also has, or had at the time, is the power to make women feel like they were the center of the world.

00:06:54.940 And this is a very powerful thing.

00:06:57.260 So, and I think it's important to remember that his power over women is something he leveraged a lot.

00:07:03.340 And it was part of why he was famous, frankly, that he would make women feel like they were, like I said, the center of the world.

00:07:12.620 Presumably most of Big Brother's audience would be women?

00:07:15.360 I imagine so, yeah. 1.00

00:07:16.940 That would sort of make sense.

00:07:19.040 Yeah.

00:07:19.600 And so he had this remarkable power over women.

00:07:23.020 And as I said, he was very charming.

00:07:25.300 And I don't doubt that was the case.

00:07:26.640 And so he always had women throwing themselves at him. 0.99

00:07:30.120 This is why he's like, oh, I'm a sex addict, blah, blah, blah. 0.81

00:07:32.120 Because there's a certain kind of woman who finds him very alluring 0.58

00:07:35.520 because they want to be the sort of center of grace.

00:07:39.120 They want to be the person in the spotlight of Russell Brand's charm.

00:07:43.280 And I'm not passing judgment or anything like that.

00:07:45.560 You know, it's fair enough.

00:07:47.060 You know, there's certain kinds of men who like certain kinds of women.

00:07:49.660 It's fine. 0.99

00:07:50.200 Weirdly enough, Muhammad had that ability. 1.00

00:07:51.840 Yeah, really?

00:07:53.020 side note yeah that's interesting um russell brann muhammad what do they have in common well

00:07:58.760 this is why later on they were like well he's he's developed a kind of cult around himself

00:08:03.280 right and probably true but anyway so he tried to be apolitical for a while but that didn't work

00:08:10.480 and as you said in 2015 he ended up endorsing ed milliband for the labor party and so the king of

00:08:20.440 bad takes and that is a terrible take russell brand has endorsed labor and the tories should

00:08:27.220 be worried says owen jones now owen jones did come out on twitter and say look you know i didn't know

00:08:33.580 that he'd done all these things it's like well everybody know yeah well didn't you know because

00:08:41.540 everyone knew i mean russell brand there are a billion clips you can find of him going too far

00:08:47.180 I saw one, for example, on Twitter yesterday of him saying to Vanessa Feltz, can I have your daughter? Can I have you and your daughter? And Vanessa Feltz is just like, no, no, you can't. And he's being like, you know, it was part of the charm to be the person who transgressed boundaries, to overstep the boundaries, and then be, ha ha ha, aren't I just joking, blah blah blah afterwards, right?

00:09:07.700 And that was part of the way that he charmed people. I mean, hence him turning up as bin Laden after 2001, right? After September 11th. So it's one of those things where they knew that he was definitely really far out on the edge of what was acceptable. And that's what made him appealing to them, right? 0.98

00:09:29.100 that's why that you know that's what what they understood him to be but it was always safely

00:09:35.980 ensconced within the left-wing bubble of politics i mean as owen jones says brand has been on a very

00:09:42.860 public political journey previously indicating support for voting for scottish independence

00:09:47.180 and syriza the communists in greece he has been supportive of the greens and calls on the people

00:09:51.880 of brighton pavilion to return caroline lucas to parliament so yep so he's safe they know

00:09:57.660 all of this stuff about him is i mean again he was doing it on tv right he was constantly pushing

00:10:04.580 the boundaries on tv what was he like off tv like you know if that was what he was prepared to do on

00:10:09.700 tv in front of the entire world everyone assumed that he was going to be awful off screen right

00:10:16.860 uh he then went on to back jeremy corbyn because of course he did the comedian turned political

00:10:23.280 activist endorses the left-wing front

00:10:25.120 runner and mocks warnings

00:10:27.180 the party would face annihilation under him. Well, I mean

00:10:29.160 the loss of Theresa May. Another thing

00:10:31.280 that is also interesting is in

00:10:33.180 2015... We've got more votes than

00:10:34.460 your Starmer. She did. 0.97

00:10:37.060 He did, yeah. Let's not forget that.

00:10:39.600 Now, this is an interesting thing.

00:10:41.320 It was reported recently,

00:10:43.280 but in 2015, I'm sorry, 2014,

00:10:45.740 a massage therapist called

00:10:47.060 Sylvie Berkey accused Russell Brand 0.60

00:10:49.100 of assaulting her. The police took

00:10:51.000 no further action, but Brand and

00:10:53.080 his then girlfriend sued her and got an injunction on her and here is the copy of the injunction

00:10:58.640 the reason i'm using tax policy searches because they happen to have a copy of the injunction

00:11:02.400 that gags her from being able to talk about it so he got a gag order on this woman uh with his

00:11:10.980 then girlfriend jemima goldsmith so she had reported the allegations to thames valley police

00:11:15.420 in 2014 the investigation was closed with brand having no case to answer and in 2015 2015 a high

00:11:23.360 court judge called mr justice j granted an injunction restricting what burkey could

00:11:28.000 communicate about brand and goldsmith the order reportedly prohibited her from discussing the

00:11:33.320 allegations with anyone other than lawyers or medical professionals and from suggesting he

00:11:37.980 had either he had the either one sorry had committed a crime and she was also ordered to

00:11:42.740 contribute £50,000 towards legal costs

00:11:45.240 with bankruptcy proceedings

00:11:47.980 authorised if she failed to pay.

00:11:50.240 She appealed, but the injunction was upheld.

00:11:52.580 Wow.

00:11:53.320 Now, that's remarkable protection from the system.

00:11:57.020 Incredible.

00:11:58.860 Remarkable.

00:11:59.680 Yes.

00:12:00.220 But of course, he's there endorsing

00:12:02.000 Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn at this time.

00:12:04.040 This is 2015.

00:12:05.740 2014, this was.

00:12:06.960 Okay, this is 2014.

00:12:08.120 Oh, the date on that document.

00:12:09.260 Yeah, the injunction was finalised in 2015, yeah.

00:12:11.460 Okay, okay.

00:12:12.120 And then two years later, we were going to get Believe All Women and we were going to get all of that stuff about Weinstein and so on and so forth.

00:12:22.360 So the time of the great transition, shall we say, in Western politics.

00:12:29.220 Okay.

00:12:29.460 Yeah.

00:12:30.000 So this was still when the left had sort of cultural capital and they understood Brandt to be one of their icons.

00:12:36.920 Yes, there are going to be some, you know, casualties along the way,

00:12:40.420 but we can just shut them up.

00:12:42.560 And so that was that, as far as anyone knew.

00:12:46.760 And by 2017, they were still saying, well, hang on a second,

00:12:50.660 Russell Brand's still our guy, but he's back and questioning everything.

00:12:54.380 Questioning everything.

00:12:55.280 And they've got a great paragraph in here, right?

00:12:57.860 That is just so, I mean, talk about glazing him, right?

00:13:01.180 In October 2013, Brand used a Newsnight interview

00:13:04.020 to call for a socialist egalitarian system.

00:13:06.200 based on the massive redistribution of wealth, heavy taxation of corporations,

00:13:09.920 and massive responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment.

00:13:13.500 He sounds like he thinks he's the first person to ever come up with that idea.

00:13:17.820 Yeah, yeah, as if, oh, I've had an idea, guys.

00:13:21.780 It struck a chord with the public who at the time could only tell the difference

00:13:24.900 between the three major political parties by looking at what colour tie their leader had on.

00:13:29.020 Brown threw himself into activism, writing a book called Revolution,

00:13:32.220 launching his YouTube channel The Trues,

00:13:34.000 and getting involved in the successful campaign

00:13:36.120 Save New Era Housing Estate in Hackney.

00:13:37.960 Ooh, very, very good.

00:13:39.920 And so, yeah, he does have a very successful YouTube channel.

00:13:43.040 I mean, look at these thumbnails.

00:13:45.360 It's all the same thumbnail.

00:13:48.000 Russell Brand looking shocked at things.

00:13:49.860 That's incredible.

00:13:50.840 Yeah, I know, I know.

00:13:53.060 Is that one of him wearing a pink hat?

00:13:55.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:13:56.140 I wonder.

00:13:56.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:58.100 Anyway, so, okay, all well and good.

00:14:02.380 He's a communist.

00:14:04.000 living in a communist world that's being protected

00:14:05.800 by the communist system, the socialist system

00:14:08.000 that we live under. And

00:14:09.720 then he started

00:14:10.960 being like, guys, I'm not

00:14:13.780 entirely sure about all of this.

00:14:16.600 Yes.

00:14:17.300 In 2021,

00:14:19.320 in 2020, he started

00:14:21.920 having some second thoughts about COVID,

00:14:24.640 lockdowns,

00:14:26.060 COVID vaccines, the

00:14:27.720 World Economic Forum, the Great

00:14:29.860 Reset. And he starts

00:14:31.860 finding himself kind of peeling

00:14:33.680 away from the left now and finally pushing at some doors that are actually firmly closed

00:14:38.420 for once yes that's exactly right actually why is this door closed says russell brand and he starts

00:14:44.360 uh hammering on it and this is where the left will oh well hang on a second yes well hang on a second

00:14:51.240 we've got enough we've got an authorized authoritative official narrative on these

00:14:56.940 things you're not allowed to question this and this is where they started going well hang on a

00:15:02.560 How did Russell Brand go from a stand-up stardom to peddling YouTube conspiracy theories?

00:15:10.120 And so suddenly the demonization begins.

00:15:14.540 He was objecting to the whole Russia-Ukraine war.

00:15:20.360 Yep.

00:15:20.740 He was objecting to COVID, to the World Economic Forum.

00:15:24.520 Yep.

00:15:25.220 Yeah.

00:15:26.400 They frequently, sorry, they're usually framed in some sort of contrarian take

00:15:30.800 or calling out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media.

00:15:33.460 Russell, did you forget who made you?

00:15:36.640 Did you forget where you come from?

00:15:39.180 Did you forget the sort of, I don't know how to describe it,

00:15:44.540 the kind of culture you were ensconced in

00:15:46.420 that was protecting you from the consequences of your actions, right?

00:15:50.740 But as you can see, you know, well, they've got alarmist titles,

00:15:53.620 World War III, so this is why they want Russia war.

00:15:55.560 so they do run the world i've been warned not to talk about this and all this sort of thing it's 0.59

00:15:59.620 like yeah yeah i bet he was warned not to talk about all this frankly i bet someone did say

00:16:04.540 um and with his beard and long hair loose fitting wide neck shirts it's hard to shake the sense

00:16:10.520 there's something cultish about brand's whole presentation well that's not noticed yeah yeah

00:16:14.880 yeah exactly you finally noticed right and in 2023 even bug-eyed communist george mombio

00:16:21.580 was just like i once admired russell brand did you did you what did you admire i'm really curious

00:16:29.100 i'd love to know what you admired because everyone knew i mean like uh leo curse and

00:16:33.340 constantine kissin just came out and were like yeah yeah it's an open secret in the comedy world

00:16:37.080 that he was an insane repost you know like someone who was bonkers and it callum tweeted

00:16:43.600 out you know back in the day we were like oh all right should we invite russell brand on the

00:16:46.840 podcast it might be funny because he's talking about all this covid stuff right and you know

00:16:50.620 we knew he was like a gross character and we didn't like him but like it was just like okay 0.93

00:16:53.920 well you know it's a guest right and it was leo was like don't he's he's terrible he's a rapist

00:16:59.400 frankly uh is what leo's opinion was and uh so yeah thank you leo for saving us from that

00:17:04.480 but uh but this grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading in 2014 the guardian asked

00:17:11.720 me to nominate my hero of the year to some people's surprise i chose russell brand

00:17:17.380 why would russell brown be george mombia's hero of the year i love the way he energized young

00:17:24.580 people have been alienated from politics i claimed perhaps hyperbolically he was the best thing that

00:17:30.060 happened to the left in years i bet you did i bet you did anyway i i can scarcely believe it's the

00:17:37.660 same man today i've watched 50 of his recent videos with a growing incredulity he appears

00:17:42.880 to a switch from challenging injustice to conjuring phantoms so yeah he's become a conspiracy theorist

00:17:48.220 and he's uh taking himself off of the left-wing plantation oh no but but also as well to suggest

00:17:53.480 that oh because there was no injustice in the way that the world in the covid the way that yeah the

00:17:59.600 who managed um the covid era and all of the other things that he's talking about this you know and

00:18:04.900 all these um internationalist quangos that have decided they're just gonna all of the people's

00:18:09.760 people that lost their jobs because they didn't want to take this vaccine yeah like there's no

00:18:14.040 injustice in any of that according george monbiot anyway so another thing that happened in september

00:18:20.000 2023 and like i said you notice the the the timeline right so you know in 2022 they're like

00:18:27.520 hang on he's become a conspiracy theorist oh we used to love him because he was supremely

00:18:32.140 influential as far as we were concerned even though i don't know how influential really he

00:18:36.140 actually is. So they were like, well, we can always play our trump card to get rid of this

00:18:43.380 person and teach everyone else a lesson. So they did. You probably didn't see Russell Brand in

00:18:51.080 plain sight. Why were so many flags, red flags, ignored for so long? Great question. This program

00:18:59.800 was a collaboration between Dispatches and the Sunday Times. They both mounted a joint

00:19:04.980 investigation into russell brand's history now it's all been insanely public yes you don't need

00:19:10.720 to like i know because i had to be i had it inflicted on me when i was younger so that must

00:19:17.180 have been a really easy investigation it must have been one of those things that were like well

00:19:20.300 if russell brand is ever a problem for the left we can destroy him very easily yeah it's like yes

00:19:26.600 you can because you ignored the red flags on purpose because you thought he was your guy

00:19:31.240 and you thought he was advancing your cause.

00:19:33.580 And now that he's not, you're just going to deal with him, right?

00:19:36.640 It's incredible how the left operates purely on power and for animal extinction.

00:19:43.480 Completely Machiavellian.

00:19:44.640 Zero principles, zero values.

00:19:46.840 They will accept anyone and weaponize anything,

00:19:50.700 and they will ignore anything.

00:19:53.260 So in this documentary, we've got five stars, of course, in The Guardian,

00:19:57.560 we we hear that russell brand has a history of abusive interactions with women guys

00:20:03.380 oh does he we're hearing this for the first time yeah yeah that must have been news to you

00:20:08.840 one woman alleges he rapes her another says he seriously sexually assaulted her at the end of

00:20:14.260 a relationship a third claims physical abuse and sexual assault what a shock anyway so then he gets

00:20:20.600 convicted right 5th of november 2026 now this is a very interesting thing right um whereas in in

00:20:28.860 here somewhere it's it mentions this documentary um i've got the exact tone the women did not

00:20:35.800 report the offenses to police at the time this is not unusual the broadcast of a television program

00:20:41.340 about about brand in september 2023 prompted them independently for their own reasons to come

00:20:47.760 forward this was obviously the purpose of the documentary yes this is the purpose this sort of

00:20:53.960 trump's new york conviction over that without yeah yeah yeah um i don't know whereabouts in it

00:21:02.120 is actually says that but anyway i found it in there earlier when i was preparing this so uh

00:21:06.700 um anyway right so uh and having heard the evidence the jury convicted brand of one count

00:21:12.820 of rape and three counts of sexual assault so um so what are the actual convictions right so you've

00:21:17.540 got um one person said that she met brandon 2009 after one of his gigs said that she and her friends

00:21:23.160 had been selected to come for drinks afterwards uh she'd engaged in a sexual encounter with him

00:21:27.560 and another woman in her dressing in his dressing room and then he asked her to come to his home and

00:21:32.800 she had agreed they had consensual sex and then he had um i don't know how much i want to be able to 0.99

00:21:38.720 say uh but he he had anal sex with her um afterwards which she didn't consent to so that's the rape 0.98

00:21:46.180 he's been convicted of right um and there are other women uh who says like he was at a party 0.99

00:21:51.520 in a bar in london um he grabbed her breasts pulled in pulled her into the toilet and forced 0.98

00:21:57.120 her to give him oral sex and a woman was working at a radio station in london brand pushed her up 0.99

00:22:03.920 against the wall and started kissing her groping her grabbing her breasts so hard to cause pain 0.99

00:22:07.280 so that was another sexual assault he was convicted of and then the final woman was working on a

00:22:12.220 project for channel four uh with russell brand when the incident occurred uh brand had become

00:22:17.620 increasingly irritated as the day wore on as associates told her he would only continue she

00:22:21.720 gave him a massage she initially thought it was a joke but agreed to do so to get the job done

00:22:25.660 and then he had thrust his head into a groin area and that was another instance of sexual assault

00:22:30.400 now i believe all of these things absolutely happened right no doubt whatsoever

00:22:35.200 that you knew it was a he was a snake when you took him in you you you protected him and

00:22:43.460 facilitated him and this was this was your guy and just to be clear the evidence is is pretty

00:22:49.060 like it's just testimonies it's it's not particularly i mean beyond reasonable doubt

00:22:56.420 is a high standard yeah yeah i mean like i said i believe it but it it's actually just testimony

00:23:03.040 from complainants there's no cctv there's no like you know dna or anything like that because it's

00:23:10.040 believed on the appraisal of his past character exactly and to be honest with me that's why i

00:23:15.140 believe it yeah um but that seems like a fairly low bar and a fairly low standard to me i'm no

00:23:21.060 expert in this thing but you know it's uh it's difficult to see how to prove something like

00:23:27.120 that from 15 years ago without physical evidence yeah without either an eyewitness i don't know if

00:23:33.840 that was there without dna without cctv without diary entry maybe a sort of written record i mean

00:23:43.960 there are text messages that he'd sent to these people but he never gives an explicit admission

00:23:48.980 of rape um he uh has there are police testimony where he's given two different stories so his

00:23:56.860 recollection isn't consistent so it's relevant to his credibility and things like this um but

00:24:02.340 there's there's no like right smoking gun on any of this because this could be characterized from

00:24:09.280 his point of view as women changing their tune after the fact now i'm not saying that's the case

00:24:15.220 i actually believe that he probably did do exactly these things as these women are alleging right

00:24:19.400 um anyway so the the reaction has been interesting but like i said we won't get the actual results

00:24:26.840 until the actual conviction, until two o'clock,

00:24:31.200 I think they're going to throw the book at me.

00:24:32.540 I think they're going to be like, okay, no,

00:24:34.160 you had a kind of sexual power over women in your youth

00:24:37.280 that you exploited, and we allowed you to exploit,

00:24:40.320 and now we've decided we're not going to allow you to exploit it,

00:24:43.340 and now all of these things have come roaring back,

00:24:46.440 and we're going to smack you with,

00:24:47.620 it could be up to something like 15 years in prison that he gets.

00:24:52.120 I don't know.

00:24:52.860 I mean, I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it, of course,

00:24:54.640 But I think the system that protected him for such a long time from these things is going to absolutely smash him because he dared go outside of its boundaries. 0.98

00:25:04.560 Anyway, like I said, one thing that's very interesting about the live reporting, right, is it's all women reporting on it? 0.93

00:25:11.480 Really? 0.57

00:25:12.140 Yeah.

00:25:12.820 And this is the thing, right? 1.00

00:25:15.040 All of these reports are written by women. 1.00

00:25:17.240 Normally, they've got the women on the, there we go, it shows you that it's all women reporting on this.

00:25:22.820 and isn't that isn't that interesting isn't that isn't that weird and this is why i said like this 1.00

00:25:28.000 has got a kind of gendered revenge to it because i think a lot of these women

00:25:32.840 felt invested in russell brand in a kind of parasocial way and he took advantage of that

00:25:42.320 by having sex with a lot of them making them feel important for an evening and i'm not saying these

00:25:48.480 particular women but just the but i think there's a kind of sense of this could have been me right

00:25:55.740 and so there's i think there's definitely a kind of gendered aspect to this set this whole thing

00:26:01.860 and then you've got you know people like lisa nandy being like well this is bad be a wake-up

00:26:05.800 call to protect women in media it's like well i mean you know i want to hear from the government

00:26:10.720 about protecting women in media yeah gangs are going on but it's it's your left-wing culture

00:26:16.300 that produced him made him a star and the women told women that he was attractive and charming

00:26:23.140 and debonair and and so they threw themselves at him and he abused his influence and power there

00:26:28.460 and you're like well i mean this needs to be a wake-up call to protect women in media it's like

00:26:32.300 from you from your culture you are that culture yeah from the labor party's culture that they all

00:26:39.560 loved like sorry don't know what to tell you it is their culture of libertinism yes promiscuity

00:26:46.120 uh feminism which was very strong in the 2000s which was incredibly strong yeah very very strong

00:26:52.460 um so yeah you got no one to blame but yourselves for this i don't want you to you know come and

00:26:57.940 talk to the right about any of this because we don't have russell brands i mean the closest you

00:27:03.220 can find is um andrew tate and who likes andrew tate on the right like seriously like you know

00:27:09.920 anyway the the the narrative is being portrayed oh well 2000s lad culture helped russell brand

00:27:18.040 hide in place no no russell brand was not a lad from 2000s lad culture which is why he didn't

00:27:25.220 hang out with lads which is why he didn't hang out with lads he was a metrosexual liberal

00:27:30.120 cosmopolitan liberal who wore eyeliner like and you know weird like dress and look at his like

00:27:36.960 you know big fluffy hair you know and this this is nothing to do as as the huddersfield preservation

00:27:44.760 site says 2000s lag culture is in fact not wearing high heel boots skinny jeans jewelry eyeliner and 0.64

00:27:50.640 airspray while trying to start a global love revolution based on having skim red gnome chomsky 0.52

00:27:55.540 yeah weirdly enough this is purely of the left this isn't lads culture yes this is this is this 0.72

00:28:01.800 is why you did it to yourselves but of course and what's really funny about this is that they've all

00:28:06.680 left holding the bag on this because of course andy burnham's now been like oh no i was praising

00:28:13.880 him back in 2014 when we all loved him so much and he's like well uh it's not always the case

00:28:20.340 that people know everything about other people in public life it's like yeah but everyone knew

00:28:23.940 about russell brandt you just didn't care because his star was rising and it was at his apex and

00:28:30.180 you didn't think he was going to turn into a conspiracy theorist did you that was around the

00:28:34.260 time that keith vaz was operating as well quite possibly quite possibly um and that was particularly

00:28:40.620 nasty and he was fully protected by the left yep they they always protect their guys until their

00:28:47.100 guys step off the plantation and that's what has happened here and that is the devil's bargain that

00:28:51.580 they have you can do whatever you want we'll protect you but don't say taboo things don't

00:28:57.160 ever question the narrative yes that's what it comes down to and so ultimately i think that's

00:29:01.960 why Russell Brand is actually going to jail, because they wouldn't have made these documentaries,

00:29:07.900 wouldn't have provoked people. It's a signal from the left to say, oh no, now's the time.

00:29:12.760 If you want to come and make your allegations, now's the time, because suddenly you won't get

00:29:17.260 an injunction against you silencing you and have to pay 50 grand legal fees or anything. No, now

00:29:22.060 you're going to get the full grace of the left-wing establishment helping you to destroy this man.

00:29:26.320 So, anyway, hate to be the bearer of bad news there, but, you know, like I said, I've always hated Russell Brand.

00:29:33.740 I'm not sad at all.

00:29:34.780 This is the comeuppance he gets.

00:29:37.020 It's a life lesson.

00:29:38.120 Take note.

00:29:40.380 Zeno says, another thing to note right before the doc dropped is he was finally baptized and began the road to repentance.

00:29:45.340 Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention his Christian conversion.

00:29:48.640 Well, I hope it was sincere.

00:29:49.960 I hope it is sincere, and I hope it helps him in this next phase.

00:29:52.900 Yeah, but, okay.

00:29:54.400 this is one of those things 1.00

00:29:56.460 that Christians are going to have to learn to understand

00:29:59.160 so a lot of people aren't sincere

00:30:01.000 that's true

00:30:04.080 and Russell Brand

00:30:05.360 this is the kind of thing that might make you more sincere

00:30:08.400 a long stint in jail

00:30:10.200 and you don't think

00:30:12.660 you don't think any of it is sincere

00:30:14.240 not for him

00:30:15.380 I didn't follow that arc

00:30:18.840 well I did

00:30:20.520 I didn't even look into it

00:30:22.400 i was always i just found him so thoroughly annoying that i could yeah but the the the bit

00:30:27.960 where he's on piers morgan like flipping through the pages of bible desperately looking for some

00:30:32.260 passage dude it oh yes not sincere um base tape says they didn't even need to take him to little

00:30:39.560 saint james he was broadcasting all his compromat proudly on tv brand's greatest contribution to

00:30:44.340 the world is justin trudeau getting russell sloppy i didn't know about that oh oh dear you know what's

00:30:49.800 funny is nick fuentes occupies a similar position to brandon as nick has a lot of female fans

00:30:53.600 throwing themselves at him but he's an all-out incel so the women are safe from him yeah that's

00:30:59.180 probably true yeah it's probably true anyway let's uh let's move on all right uh folks so last weekend

00:31:05.260 uh new zealand had a general election and this has come to something of a deadlock really now

00:31:12.340 i've done a few segments in the past talking about new zealand particularly uh as you'd imagine

00:31:17.680 focusing on the current demographic problems that they're having, because a lot of the old,

00:31:23.500 you know, Anglo-Saxon heritage of the British Empire is disappearing now as people are coming

00:31:29.180 from India and China and other parts of it. And when you obviously change the demographics,

00:31:35.740 you also change the voting habits of those people. Now, a lot of this is, of course,

00:31:41.460 not entirely ethnic driven. This is also generational as well. And I think it is more

00:31:46.880 actually the aspect of generationalism that we're seeing here so as we can see there is no clear

00:31:53.200 winner in the new zealand election with both major parties now preparing for coalition talks

00:31:58.320 so you can see the national party there which is basically the center-right tory types yeah on just

00:32:04.400 under um 30 of the vote and on about 42 seats which is six fewer than they had last time and

00:32:11.920 And you can see that the Labour Party gained about the same.

00:32:15.160 In fact, of the actual percentage turnout, they actually received 0.2% more.

00:32:21.460 But there is a very, as me as a foreigner looking in at New Zealand's political system,

00:32:27.880 it's a little bit strange.

00:32:29.620 It's a mixed member proportional system.

00:32:32.280 So essentially, every time the general election comes around, you get two votes.

00:32:36.460 You get one for your local candidate that you want to select,

00:32:39.140 and you get another vote for a broader party that you want to get to and this basically means that

00:32:46.020 there can be an overhang as it's termed where sometimes you will have more local candidates

00:32:52.700 represented than what proportionally the party actually gained around the rest of the country

00:32:58.600 and so what you find is that actually it is not always the case that the new zealand parliament

00:33:05.520 has 120 seats it can change based on different elections due to this model and so what we find

00:33:13.760 here is that in this particular general election what is required in order to build to get the

00:33:19.780 majority is 66 seats it's going to be 131 member parliament and so you need 66 seats naturally this

00:33:29.460 necessitates a coalition and up until this general election that's exactly what was in place a

00:33:34.740 coalition between national act which is um more libertarian leaning as i understand it and then

00:33:41.860 you have down there new zealand first as well which is headed by winston peters so just to be

00:33:47.500 clear i don't know anything about new zealand politics i was like right okay better find out

00:33:51.400 what the act party is and i expected it to be some lefty bollocks right right um no it's a classical

00:33:57.000 liberal libertarian party okay fair enough and then new zealand first is the right-wing populist

00:34:03.360 party which great okay um so that does actually give them a right-wing majority in new zealand

00:34:09.180 they will have a majority of 67 yes so by one they have basically edged it however that is not the

00:34:16.640 end of the story right once more because of how new zealand's political system works and this is

00:34:23.540 not actually the final vote uh there are going to be about 400 000 um special votes

00:34:32.060 oh really they are called really uh many of which come from overseas uh this is tradition uh and in

00:34:39.660 fact as well one thing that is interesting is that even though that is 400 000 more votes that

00:34:45.100 are going to be counted up to the tally over the next few weeks that is actually significantly down

00:34:50.860 uh compared to previous years where i think in 2023 it was like 600 000 special votes so it's

00:34:58.040 not have some grand blowout um of an overseas vote one thing just i think one thing to remember

00:35:05.900 is that new zealand's only got like five and a half million people in it yes so 400 000 is

00:35:10.260 really significant yeah it's got like 3.8 million eligible voters something like that so yeah

00:35:15.880 absolutely but also as well because of the way this system works for the past three general

00:35:21.660 elections now this has constantly taken about two seats away from the national party it tends to

00:35:29.240 be a left wing and so all of a sudden that just shy majority of 67 all of a sudden will turn into

00:35:37.420 65 and they won't have the numbers they're gonna have to get the maori on board

00:35:41.680 remember watangi yeah yeah absolutely um yeah and you can see exactly how that works uh with

00:35:49.300 mass deportations is a real thing yeah but it makes sense yeah oh we'll get sorry yeah oh yeah

00:35:55.740 no absolutely that's quite true um but the other part of it and actually if you just go back here

00:36:01.240 as well you'll see that basically uh between the two traditional main parties the labor party and

00:36:07.920 the national party together they're on about 58 of the overall vote counted now if you just go back

00:36:15.060 to the beginning of this decade with the very, very successful storming victory of Jacinda Ardern

00:36:22.640 and all of the good she ended up doing for New Zealand. But you can see here, the percentage

00:36:27.720 points for the Labour Party then was 50% of all the votes cast. And for the National Party,

00:36:34.220 it was 25%. So within that, within the space of six years, we can see that 75% of the New Zealand,

00:36:44.000 the kiwi electorate were voting for the two main parties yeah right and now we can see that's

00:36:50.640 starting to fall very very quickly and this is part of what i was saying about the generational

00:36:55.600 divide now that does of course so we come to this reuters article where they say well voters desert

00:37:02.560 new zealand's main parties echoing global shift away from the political establishment

00:37:07.920 to join yes as the political establishment screwed up a few things by any chance

00:37:13.280 yeah i don't even know screwed up is the right word betrayed is the right word and the people

00:37:19.920 starting to notice yeah um essentially so the reuters article says prime minister christopher

00:37:25.440 luxon is on course to hang on to power as the head of a coalition government with a razor-thin

00:37:30.560 majority following saturday's election but his national party could lose control of key government

00:37:35.920 ministries to right-wing coalition partners. Because, as it goes on to say, Luxem will have

00:37:43.800 to govern without key national party moderates who lost their seats, including finance minister

00:37:50.320 Nicola Willis and transport minister Chris Bishop, one of the main policy architects. And so they've

00:37:56.440 lost a lot of their key figures from this, and they will have to be filled by members of the

00:38:02.020 coalition the hope obviously from my point of view is of course that they get filled by people from

00:38:07.740 new zealand first yeah but we will have to see what the negotiating power is and there is also

00:38:13.360 um the opportunity party that is going to break that's a centrist party yes yes uh headed by a

00:38:20.680 woman of uh european and chinese heritage um and yes is appealing to center ground uh but it goes

00:38:29.260 on to say uh in their place he's likely to have to elevate key members within his coalition partners

00:38:35.760 who have been angling for more conservative economic and social policy positions new zealand

00:38:41.720 first wants stricter controls on net immigration and has said it is quote imperative uh it takes

00:38:47.780 control of the country's migration uh immigration ministry in any new government what what isn't

00:38:53.520 No, New Zealand's something like 56% European at this point.

00:38:56.700 Yes. 0.86

00:38:57.100 It's British.

00:38:57.600 And a lot of it is concentrated on the South Island.

00:39:00.960 It's the North that is changing much more dramatically very quickly.

00:39:04.560 Yeah.

00:39:04.880 But yes, it is changing, yeah, very rapidly indeed.

00:39:08.460 And part of the problem is that there doesn't seem to be,

00:39:11.580 though I think within the realms of New Zealand's political system,

00:39:16.520 New Zealand First are undoubtedly the best choice.

00:39:20.100 Sounds like it.

00:39:20.740 It's not campaigning to expel many of those who have been brought in, who are essentially Modi's satellite voters, et cetera, et cetera, as all of the West is under siege from.

00:39:32.560 As Modi himself said.

00:39:34.020 Yes.

00:39:35.200 It goes on to say, meanwhile, David Seymour, leader of the Libertarian Act Party, said on Monday that national holding the finance ministry is no longer tenable.

00:39:44.700 Act wants to lower the government debt.

00:39:47.260 Great idea.

00:39:48.320 with steep cuts to public spending with act in new zealand first growing their voter share

00:39:53.560 they're going to be dragging them further towards the right said political commentator gareth hughes

00:39:59.300 um and so as we go to this well done new zealand basically good job um but as we go through we

00:40:07.060 begin to look at okay so what were the problems that the actual kiwi voters were immigration cost

00:40:13.700 of living, lack of jobs. Cost of living is absolutely the chief of those. I wish I could

00:40:19.740 say that immigration is one of the chiefs. Just to be clear, I don't know anything about

00:40:23.580 New Zealand politics. Well, it should be immigration. I don't follow it at all, but it's a fairly 0.73

00:40:28.740 predictable problem that the West is suffering from. Absolutely. So as we go to this one

00:40:33.260 here, you can see, well, what are the most important issues facing Kiwis? Inflation,

00:40:37.160 cost of living, 64%. Unemployment. How is immigration only on 8% when you're 46%,

00:40:43.420 44 foreign this is what i was yes it is very very different and totally different to the way that

00:40:50.540 immigration policy is driving right-wing politics across the rest of the anglosphere and continental

00:40:56.700 europe for that matter uh but yeah as you can see it's really been the cost of living election

00:41:03.020 that's what all the parties have been tailoring their rhetoric around and based all claiming that

00:41:07.820 that they're going to be able to fix it.

00:41:10.540 Obviously petrol and fuel prices have skyrocketed

00:41:13.820 as a result of complications with Iran.

00:41:17.060 The economy is struggling enormously as well.

00:41:20.360 And one of the things as well that can't be pressed on enough

00:41:24.920 is the fact that New Zealand still lives in the shadow

00:41:28.820 of the draconian COVID laws that it was placed under

00:41:33.660 and how much restriction that put

00:41:35.680 and jam the economy to a halt.

00:41:37.840 What's interesting is, after the economy,

00:41:41.180 basically all of those problems are immigration problems. 0.95

00:41:44.160 Unemployment, cost of housing, poverty, crime.

00:41:46.820 So it's health care and hospitals.

00:41:48.440 Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, true.

00:41:49.740 But, like, that block there, they are all problems that are exacerbated.

00:41:53.120 These are all euphemisms.

00:41:54.440 All euphemistic problems, yeah.

00:41:56.660 True.

00:41:57.600 And then, so we get to this other part of the Ipsos polling,

00:42:00.200 which is rating of government performance over the six months.

00:42:03.640 Now, you can see this actually goes right back to 2018 over here and 2026 over here.

00:42:11.640 Frustratingly, it was at the highest when the lockdown tyranny was being imposed.

00:42:16.780 That was when Kiwis felt the most trusting of the government.

00:42:21.340 But this is when the thing is, right, you've got to understand from the normie perspective,

00:42:25.260 it seems that there is a plague that is hitting the world.

00:42:29.420 And the government's like, right, we will do something about this.

00:42:31.900 We'll have to do it.

00:42:32.560 you know unfortunate and so from the normie perspective you can see them being like well

00:42:36.160 i mean what are the choices you know what are the options i guess this is what we have to do right

00:42:41.340 so a lot of supporters of lockdowns today will deny that they were supporters of lockdown it's

00:42:47.400 also true oh absolutely there is this thing in in retrospect and i'm not sure piers morgan and

00:42:53.880 andrew neal are our primary examples of this yes andrew neal was like why shouldn't we take rights

00:42:59.320 away from vaccine refusenix like that's a headline that's not going to lead well Andrew yeah so no

00:43:06.640 I'm not uniquely um sort of focusing on the Kiwis here to say you were unique in the lockdown

00:43:12.300 hysteria but it was very strong and she was very very popular in New Zealand at the time but as we

00:43:19.260 can see it did lead to the stagnation of the economy which the National Party I mean sorry

00:43:23.720 just a quick thing you can see how this drops off remarkably quickly right yes so okay the beginning

00:43:28.080 in 2020 yeah the government's doing something but by 2021 you know she's lost like a third of the

00:43:35.020 approval rating there and then of course you have the change in leadership so it's like okay you

00:43:40.240 know yeah we got a big boost from that but then people realized oh no actually this is just tyranny

00:43:44.620 absolutely uh and so we get to the cost of living and it is um genuinely severe um blimberg do a

00:43:53.220 point here to talk about many of the other things that have been being inflated as a result of it

00:43:58.100 and they're just talking about the fact that well uh bread costs 64 percent more than it did three

00:44:03.380 years ago butter 57 uh ground beef uh costs 35 percent more milk is up by 30 obviously fuel costs

00:44:12.340 have soared uh and also as a result um of many of the problems that new zealand is facing uh they're

00:44:19.060 having record numbers of departures of their own actual citizens um some uh i believe it was like

00:44:26.100 70 000 people uh kiwis left most of them for australia but obviously to just what they see

00:44:33.220 is greener pastures about the world a lot of our guys are going to australia yeah yeah it's so many 0.99

00:44:38.740 which is uh strange because you see the news in australia and it doesn't seem like a land of milk

00:44:44.420 and honey either but the point is that the perception of it is that it's still doing better

00:44:49.720 than New Zealand to the Kiwis who are actually living there and with all of this though of course

00:44:56.000 you have the fact that New Zealand's unemployment rate has climbed to 5.6% which is the highest in

00:45:02.080 11 years and 17% of that is the youth so they have terrible unemployment rates amongst the youth

00:45:09.300 and with the youth thinking well there's just no future for me here because everything's expensive

00:45:15.020 I've not been able to get jobs since I've left university I'm just going to go to Australia

00:45:20.180 or further afield and invariably what you find is that once they do go to Australia they do

00:45:25.380 shockingly become net taxpayers and actually do very well and it's like okay but that's money

00:45:31.100 that's not going into the economy of New Zealand then isn't it and so there's this colossal brain

00:45:36.840 drain just going about through

00:45:38.760 New Zealand and what's going to

00:45:40.760 happen? Well, we're losing

00:45:42.660 all of our young people because of the

00:45:44.780 economic and material conditions

00:45:46.500 that we've, our policy

00:45:48.460 has led to

00:45:49.860 but fortunately we have Mr

00:45:52.720 Modi standing over there who's telling us

00:45:54.760 he's going to fix our labour shortages

00:45:56.420 and so it ends up

00:45:58.620 in this doom loop. What was the unemployment

00:46:00.700 again? Like 5% or something? 5.6

00:46:02.840 overall, yeah. I wonder what

00:46:04.760 their welfare numbers looked like

00:46:07.800 i wonder what their welfare numbers look like yeah that's always five percent is low unemployment

00:46:14.200 relatively speaking by global standards um but the way that unemployment is counted is deeply

00:46:20.760 dishonest because it assumes you're only counted as unemployed if you're looking for a job whereas

00:46:26.920 if you're just sitting there on welfare doing nothing you don't count as unemployed which skews

00:46:32.040 the numbers horrifically yes and so you go to but then you get to the fact that most voters doubt

00:46:39.000 the cost of living will improve even if their party wins so the entire faith in have one magic

00:46:46.200 way of massively reducing housing costs and used car costs yeah and opening up more hospital spaces

00:46:53.480 and cutting welfare spending yeah it's uh it's the fix everything but it makes every i i it's a

00:47:00.760 secret i won't tell you what it is but you might have guessed what i'm talking about you'll catch

00:47:05.720 on yes i'm sure you will um but as it goes through this to say well uh new vote compass findings

00:47:11.560 show that only 35 percent of respondents believe rising costs are likely to ease if the party or

00:47:17.520 parties they want most in power form the next government this is from both sides of the aisle

00:47:22.640 yes the only anomaly in this are those who vote for the green party because they're insane and

00:47:29.020 they actually think that the green party policies would work and if they're anything like our green

00:47:34.180 party but remember the iq of any country is on a bell curve right unfortunately the people at the

00:47:38.860 bottom end of the bell curve still have voting rights yes and uh and they they have great faith

00:47:44.560 that um you know just more socialism would fix everything um as it always does that's how zach

00:47:50.860 polanski's at nine percent in the balls yeah um but the point is that no one is happy and also

00:47:56.380 no one has any confidence in the political system whatsoever if we go to um uh helen clark

00:48:03.160 foundation here former prime minister of uh labor prime minister of new zealand and just um and has

00:48:09.560 also had several positions uh at the united nations as well so someone who is fully within

00:48:15.380 the system and wants that system to work in order to stay in power let me guess social cohesion has

00:48:21.860 gone down as immigration has gone up you're not going to believe this really did i happen to be

00:48:28.120 bang on the money um only two out of five new zealanders trust the government to do the right

00:48:34.100 thing trust in the courts has fallen from 57 uh percent to 45 in a single year the biggest drop

00:48:41.780 in the survey uh nearly two in three uh under 30s say they feel isolated at least sometimes

00:48:49.040 And nationally, the share who feel isolated often has risen from 1% in 2010 to 14% in 2025.

00:48:59.420 And again, I'm sure the lockdowns did wonders for that statistic.

00:49:04.760 And then to go on to just dwell on a point that you were bringing up earlier, Firas, as well.

00:49:10.860 Who says immigration is too high?

00:49:12.920 Not who you might expect.

00:49:14.360 It's a Pacifica resident, so the native Pacific Islanders.

00:49:18.400 44% are more likely than New Zealand Europeans and 38% to say immigration is too high.

00:49:25.960 Asian respondents less likely at 22%. 0.98

00:49:28.900 You know, that is who I expected, actually. 1.00

00:49:30.960 Yes. 1.00

00:49:31.700 If you're used to Indian overcrowding, I mean, yeah. 1.00

00:49:36.740 But there's just no reason why the Pacific Islanders would want any, oh yeah, import a billion Indians. 1.00

00:49:42.660 Why? 1.00

00:49:44.360 It was bad enough when the whites came, but at least they gave us welfare. 1.00

00:49:47.780 It's the same with, like, the Native Americans, the Aboriginals, just like... 1.00

00:49:51.980 Yes, and especially with many... 0.94

00:49:53.980 Like Australia Now.

00:49:55.380 There's that video of the Aboriginal woman, she's like,

00:49:57.740 no, white Australia Now, you know, like, it's so funny. 0.62

00:50:01.760 But with the Maori mainly being the voting constituencies being based,

00:50:06.780 the voting blocs, I should say, being situated on the North Island predominantly,

00:50:11.400 that's also the island that's receiving the most of the immigration and so they're feeling it if we

00:50:17.000 say uh that the new zealand europeans aren't feeling as responsive to it well we have to

00:50:23.360 remember that there are going to be lots of those kind of um impartial people on the south island

00:50:29.660 who have simply not experienced the change in the same way that auckland and wellington will have

00:50:35.640 done on the north uh but you just look at all the statistics across the board here and you're like

00:50:40.400 Yeah, this is a political system that is just losing legitimacy year on year because people aren't buying into it.

00:50:49.200 I mean, the fact that, from what I can discern, with the 400,000 special votes that are going to come in towards the end of this month,

00:51:00.180 it's just over half of the population that have actually engaged in the election.

00:51:06.500 Can we talk about some of these other things here?

00:51:08.360 Oh, go for it.

00:51:09.000 Who supports a strong leader who bypasses Parliament? 0.98

00:51:11.640 38% of under-30s.

00:51:16.080 38% of young people are like, yeah, dictator would probably fix it.

00:51:20.040 And then someday, for no reason at all...

00:51:22.260 Just that is mad.

00:51:24.380 But then at the bottom, who feels safest walking alone on that? 1.00

00:51:27.120 Only 45% of women. 1.00

00:51:28.540 Then why'd you keep voting Labour?

00:51:30.460 Why'd you keep voting...

00:51:31.780 Anyway.

00:51:33.060 Right, but also as well...

00:51:34.320 That's remarkable.

00:51:35.620 But isn't that remarkable as well?

00:51:37.040 because New Zealand historically has been one of the safest countries on earth.

00:51:41.820 And so, all of a sudden, why do you feel so unsafe at night?

00:51:46.760 It's a real head-scratcher.

00:51:48.880 And I just wanted to show this as a contrast as well,

00:51:52.280 where you can see the top 10 issues of New Zealand versus Australia.

00:51:55.960 And exactly as you say, down here you've got immigration on 8%

00:51:59.280 as a priority for the Kiwi voter,

00:52:02.080 whereas it's at 25% for the Australian voter.

00:52:05.960 Even then, it's only 25%.

00:52:07.800 That's incredible.

00:52:09.460 Right. 0.60

00:52:09.940 But you've seen that with 25%,

00:52:12.280 having that as a priority concern,

00:52:15.220 this is one of the things that has led

00:52:17.360 to the explosion of Pauline Hanson

00:52:20.180 and the One Nation Party in Australia

00:52:23.080 because it's something that more people

00:52:24.800 are willing to vote for another party

00:52:26.800 because that one single issue

00:52:29.440 matters to them more than any other.

00:52:32.360 With this...

00:52:33.120 Apart from the cost of living.

00:52:34.440 Right.

00:52:34.720 and people are obviously detaching all of these things from one another

00:52:39.880 and treating them as separate issues and not something intangible.

00:52:43.940 Sorry, you know, all tangled together.

00:52:47.460 And so we come back to, as I say, the last aspect of it,

00:52:51.320 which is these special votes.

00:52:52.680 Now, if it comes to pass that we see here,

00:52:58.920 so you can see in the previous elections, 2023, 2020, and 2017,

00:53:03.900 in all three cases this has knocked the national party down significantly that the voters and so

00:53:11.540 as i say all of a sudden that 67 just shy overall majority will be taken away and we could find

00:53:19.940 ourselves in a completely hung parliament with no coalitions where nothing can get achieved

00:53:25.500 especially because you'll just have the maori party with their five get the anti-immigration

00:53:30.220 maoris on board can we just get the can we just get the military coup already can we just go for

00:53:37.920 the military coup i mean it will so it will be very interesting to see what happens but i will

00:53:45.380 just come back to uh the original point which is that even if this is infuriating for the people

00:53:53.000 of new zealand because the parties are probably not going to compromise and many of the issues

00:53:58.520 that they want fixing are not going to be fixed.

00:54:02.220 One thing is the direction of travel

00:54:05.220 does seem to be towards the growing of the smaller parties

00:54:09.300 who are getting, as you can see,

00:54:11.360 New Zealand first gained four extra seats

00:54:13.740 off the back of this election.

00:54:15.700 And you would imagine with it in a reasonable system,

00:54:20.400 with that should come more influence as well,

00:54:23.400 especially with the National Party

00:54:25.540 losing key members of of the party in in their key positions so it will be interesting to see

00:54:33.460 what happens i will most likely come back in three weeks and give an overall verdict after we see

00:54:38.620 what the final lay of the land is but uh yeah very curious stuff uh for kiwi democracy although

00:54:45.960 like say i don't think anything's going to get solved anytime soon wow yeah sigil stone says

00:54:52.640 if Lord of the Rings wasn't filmed in New Zealand,

00:54:54.860 would we ever talk about it or even know it existed?

00:54:57.080 Well, not that often.

00:54:59.280 No, and I imagine that's probably how the Kiwis would prefer it as well,

00:55:02.620 to be honest.

00:55:04.460 Yeah, let's move on.

00:55:06.280 So, let's talk about Salvador and Haiti

00:55:09.880 and the possibility of a fix-everything button.

00:55:13.020 Oh, okay.

00:55:14.520 Apparently, you can just do some things.

00:55:16.920 Yeah.

00:55:17.540 Now, as far as the media is concerned,

00:55:19.460 doing things involves mass violations of human rights here is the guardian explaining how

00:55:25.960 el salvador arresting people with facial tattoos that identify them as member of criminal gang i

00:55:33.180 am a member of the murder death kill gang please don't arrest me yeah exactly and it's tattooed on

00:55:38.400 their faces it's not like you know they kill people strip searching them to find tattoos on

00:55:43.320 their but they kill people who get these tattoos who are not part of the gang yes you know it's like

00:55:47.620 and to join the gang you have to kill someone yes so it's just like look man this is a confession

00:55:52.580 on their faces anyway um so guardian says that this is a drick draconian policy and naib bukele

00:56:02.020 might have committed crimes against of humanity against humanity because he locked up under two

00:56:06.900 percent of the population wouldn't that require the murder death kill gangs to be human in the

00:56:11.300 the first place that's sorry no that's an important question my god some of the worst 0.99

00:56:16.440 things i've ever read have come out of the gangs of el salvador like just you know women like trying 1.00

00:56:22.900 to do their shopping where gang members are kicking heads around in the street and stuff like

00:56:26.580 this it's just like this is unbelievable yep so yeah no i've got no no particular sympathy for

00:56:31.760 them it's remarkable as well isn't it because one of the chief um left-wing narratives about

00:56:36.720 central america and south america is that one of the reasons it's uh still unstable is because

00:56:42.240 america is constantly interfering in its democracies a constantly destabil regime change

00:56:48.100 and constantly but oddly enough like absolutely fine to for it to be complete destabilization 0.54

00:56:54.920 and slaughter so long as it's their own native gangs i love this line uh the state must protect

00:57:01.800 citizens from organized crime, but with the law and with respect for human rights, said

00:57:07.720 Santiago Cantón, co-author of the report and general secretary of the International

00:57:12.360 Commission of Jurists.

00:57:13.820 But Bicali has a response to this.

00:57:15.400 What about the human rights of the victims of the gangs?

00:57:18.320 And Bicali's guilt here is that he had the temerity to care about the human rights and

00:57:27.820 potential of innocent taxpaying citizens.

00:57:30.480 Exactly.

00:57:30.680 That's exactly the thing. Our government doesn't. They say, yeah, every woman who comes across the small boats has been raped by the people who have broken into the country. We need to give them anti-rape pamphlets. Please don't rape anyone. That is a confession.

00:57:42.820 And you raise your subsidised house.

00:57:44.360 Yeah, that is a confession that they know these people have a much higher propensity to rape someone, but the human rights of the women who will be their victims in the future just do not exist.

00:57:54.120 Exactly. 0.98

00:57:54.440 And that's Bukele's great sin 1.00

00:57:56.000 He was like, no, I think they do 0.94

00:57:57.280 And I want to protect those people

00:57:58.720 From the criminals

00:58:00.280 And the Guardian has to say this

00:58:03.500 In the second paragraph

00:58:04.340 Bukele turned El Salvador 0.91

00:58:05.940 From one of Latin America's 1.00

00:58:07.220 Most violent countries

00:58:08.300 Into one of its least violent

00:58:10.100 It's not even 1.00

00:58:12.720 It's not even Latin America's

00:58:14.680 Least violent

00:58:15.440 It's just one of the least violent

00:58:17.480 Now it's one of the safest countries

00:58:18.660 In the world

00:58:19.060 I love this

00:58:19.680 But at the cost of human rights

00:58:21.520 And the rule of law

00:58:22.340 Oh, boo-hoo

00:58:23.680 crimey a river well if human rights and and the rule of law got el salvador to that point then

00:58:29.040 what good were they exactly exactly anyhow and you see amnesty international saying that el salvador

00:58:37.800 bukele engulfs the country in a human rights crisis this is just liberal mysticism this is

00:58:43.320 liberal mysticism it's only human rights yeah yeah but okay what's happening well the criminals 0.70

00:58:47.500 have been locked up and everyone can now walk the streets safely all right so there isn't a crisis

00:58:51.040 then the crisis is entirely abstract liberal mythology there's no actual crisis there was a

00:58:57.100 crisis was solved yeah and now the liberals are like minds because it is literally a crisis of

00:59:06.080 faith that they're having it is i mean the liberal the liberals are literally like oh my god that's

00:59:09.720 me being affected what about my job as a human rights lawyer what about all the all the people

00:59:14.660 that i would write peons into and like you know puff piece about saying oh he he was an evil gang

00:59:20.160 member but look at the way he grew up it's society that made him bad so all of that goes away yes

00:59:25.480 also self-interested i hate it so much sorry yes i will let you carry on uh and you see these

00:59:31.360 jurists and you see el jazeera human rights crisis in el salvador is deepening

00:59:37.460 look at that picture look at that picture that's if that's what a human rights crisis looks like

00:59:42.440 superb criminals bare-chested sat on the floor with people making sure they can't kill anyone

00:59:49.500 If it makes the human rights lois feel any better, it's not the death penalty.

00:59:53.640 Yeah, which is why he was a moderate.

00:59:57.200 Yeah, I know.

00:59:59.820 But then things escalated in Haiti.

01:00:03.020 Another place where there's just an abundance of human rights. 0.98

01:00:06.280 I'm going to discuss the blowing human rights of Haiti that are sort of flooding other parts of the world. 1.00

01:00:15.300 Pretty much every piece of territory. 1.00

01:00:17.260 Bringing human rights to all the places that they go, yeah.

01:00:20.320 What about the human rights of ducks and cows and what's it called, cats and dogs?

01:00:24.800 Yeah.

01:00:25.660 Let's not discuss those.

01:00:26.520 Anyway, in October, a bunch of Haitian gangsters ambushed a convoy that included a vehicle carrying four Salvadoran technicians who were there as part of the United Nations force.

01:00:41.620 Right, okay.

01:00:42.000 and they took them hostage and then they tried to send and then Bukele said I'm going to go

01:00:49.300 ballistic if you don't hand them back and they handed back the bodies of four other people

01:00:55.740 completely unrelated to the four Salvadorans who were kidnapped. Let me explain human rights to you

01:01:03.460 and so and so bukele has decided to explain human rights to the asian gangsters i love how the one 1.00

01:01:12.760 person they tried to to gamble against was the one guy who does what he actually says he's going 0.84

01:01:17.720 to yeah he's like the one world leader is like no when i say something's happening exactly and so

01:01:23.640 he sent two thousand three thousand salvadoran soldiers into haiti now mind you this is a country

01:01:30.320 of 12 million people so this is pretty much nothing but it's also a stateless country 0.85

01:01:36.260 that's just run by literally cannibal gangsters yeah so just to give you an idea of what haiti

01:01:44.600 looks like uh in one night and i believe this was march no this was august uh armed gangs just

01:01:51.900 attack a neighborhood near the capital and they kill 50 people and kidnapped another 50 it's

01:01:58.260 horrible like just that's that's kind of what they do it's human rights that's what they do so this

01:02:03.420 is the existing human rights regime in haiti uh oxfam in 2018 was involved along with the united

01:02:09.620 nations i think in a huge scandal where its staff were just using haitians as prostitutes yeah uh

01:02:16.920 using money provided clinton's clinton foundation laura silsby i think it is it's currently in jail

01:02:22.260 for trafficking children out of Haiti.

01:02:23.880 Yes.

01:02:24.180 Weird.

01:02:24.920 Yes.

01:02:26.180 It's a bit of a nightmare society.

01:02:28.620 Yeah.

01:02:29.160 This is one of the gangsters.

01:02:30.960 He is preparing for war.

01:02:33.300 And let's see his preparations just for a second.

01:02:39.880 You can see him pointing a gun out of a staircase

01:02:43.280 in front of a cameraman

01:02:44.260 for reasons that I don't fully understand.

01:02:46.500 Yeah.

01:02:46.620 He's got decent trigger discipline,

01:02:48.520 better than, you know,

01:02:49.580 His finger is not on the trigger

01:02:52.240 Which is nice

01:02:52.880 He's aiming the gun at some concrete 0.99

01:02:56.300 Which seems stupid 0.99

01:02:57.300 I kind of feel that any half disciplined 1.00

01:03:00.180 Military force will smash the crap out of these gangs 0.93

01:03:02.460 And if your military consists of people 0.97

01:03:04.560 Who have just smashed

01:03:06.080 The most violent gangs on earth

01:03:08.540 Yes

01:03:08.960 That's another great point

01:03:12.380 It's not that you don't have experience

01:03:13.700 Taking out criminal gangs

01:03:15.600 They know exactly how they operate

01:03:17.320 And so here he is blessing the gangs by pouring rum on their weapons.

01:03:22.740 That's very holy.

01:03:25.240 Oh, that's barbecue.

01:03:26.760 That's barbecue.

01:03:27.920 That's barbecue. 0.93

01:03:30.480 The cannibal warlord. 0.55

01:03:32.720 Yes, literally. 0.97

01:03:34.420 Standing around with his men.

01:03:35.940 Pretty modern guns, to be fair.

01:03:37.680 Nice guns.

01:03:38.980 They're not that bad.

01:03:41.280 And Drukpa here quotes an American medical student in Haiti,

01:03:45.680 explaining her shock at realizing that the concept

01:03:50.300 of sorting things numerically or alphabetically

01:03:53.420 doesn't exist in Haiti.

01:03:55.580 Yes.

01:03:56.420 And that if you go into a government office

01:03:58.360 and ask for a document,

01:04:00.120 a very friendly, very helpful government employee

01:04:02.920 will look through every piece of paper in his office

01:04:06.260 and then conclude that that document doesn't exist.

01:04:10.320 Because just the concept of order doesn't exist.

01:04:14.100 And so you might get things like people demanding medication

01:04:18.400 because I saw Luca get medication and I want the same thing.

01:04:22.240 And if I don't get the same number of pills,

01:04:24.420 that means that I've been slighted somehow.

01:04:28.500 That's how medication works.

01:04:29.860 Yes.

01:04:30.720 So Haiti is a bit of a magical land in this sense.

01:04:33.740 And you could see the difference between it

01:04:37.080 and the Dominican Republic next door from space. 0.88

01:04:40.960 Oh, yeah.

01:04:41.640 They've got a huge border wall, don't they?

01:04:42.960 Exactly. 1.00

01:04:43.420 They will not allow the Haitians. 1.00

01:04:44.900 And they denaturalize all the Haitians and just kick them out because Haiti is mad. 0.97

01:04:50.760 But at least, on the other hand, they've not embodied, you know, white supremacist Western ideas about mathematics. 0.97

01:04:58.160 Well, quite. Yes. Yes.

01:05:00.100 Cuisine is exquisite, I hear.

01:05:03.300 If you are a fan of mud cakes and dirt cakes, yes, apparently.

01:05:08.480 There's one billionaire in Haiti,

01:05:11.400 just randomly something that I found while looking from Richard Hanania here,

01:05:15.940 and he's involved in arms trafficking.

01:05:19.060 Now we know how they got the nice guns.

01:05:20.560 Yes, he's an interesting character.

01:05:23.260 Now, what happened after Bukele sent additional reinforcements,

01:05:27.580 this time outside of the United Nations?

01:05:31.100 Yeah, so, okay, just before we go on,

01:05:33.380 this should be a dramatic event, right?

01:05:37.520 As in, oh, a country is invading another sovereign country

01:05:41.060 to seize control and take back their captured people.

01:05:45.860 But nobody cares.

01:05:47.120 No.

01:05:47.700 Nobody cares at all.

01:05:49.240 The concept of Haiti as a sovereign state

01:05:53.260 is just too laughable to continue with the pretense.

01:05:58.020 It's an anarchist wilderness.

01:05:59.820 Exactly.

01:06:00.640 Exactly.

01:06:01.980 Which is descended into warlordism.

01:06:04.120 What a shock.

01:06:04.840 Exactly.

01:06:05.180 There is no point in pretending that Haiti is capable of sovereignty to begin with, or that it should be a sovereign state, or that it will be a sovereign state in the future, or that it is capable of anything of that sort.

01:06:18.500 And so you see here the Salvadoran military deploying a pretty small number, all things considered, but they aren't meeting any serious resistance, and it seems that the public is celebrating.

01:06:35.180 wouldn't you well i mean yeah oh jesus someone's someone's here to kill general barbecue the

01:06:41.900 cannibal warlord yeah it's been terrorizing us for the last decade or so yep god who are they 0.51

01:06:47.580 i don't care who they are exactly i just don't care and you see just random people applauding

01:06:53.240 when you see salvadoran soldiers because this is literally like the the american tanks going

01:07:00.140 through france after nazi occupations then more or less it's probably way worse actually i

01:07:05.140 doubt the nazi occupation of france was nearly as bad as barbecues occupation of haiti no the

01:07:09.640 there was a sense of order there was a sense of order jesus christ uh chaos is the greatest

01:07:17.140 injustice and so you see people throughout haiti just welcoming the salvadoran troops

01:07:22.900 and will actually be greeted as liberators exactly exactly and this led to a reaction

01:07:31.140 from the gangs oh yeah oh yeah because one of the gangsters tried to run away to the bahamas

01:07:37.100 which would suggest to me that he must have some bank accounts there yeah which would suggest to

01:07:43.180 me that there are mediators who are helping him set up bank accounts in the bahamas yeah which

01:07:48.460 isn't something that i'm going to look into too closely i saw i saw a bunch of people on twitter

01:07:53.360 being like well you know they may have broken the el salvadoran gangs wait till they meet the

01:07:57.460 Haitian gangs, it's like any military can take out a gang. 0.67

01:08:02.280 Yeah. 0.97

01:08:02.640 It's a gang.

01:08:03.260 Exactly.

01:08:04.400 And so you see that this is one of the leaders being taken out, being arrested.

01:08:10.760 Another of the leaders literally sent a letter to the UN Secretary General asking for talks.

01:08:20.020 And then the UN issues a statement saying, look, we did receive the letter,

01:08:24.200 but it doesn't mean we recognize this individual or support him.

01:08:27.460 But we must have human rights respected.

01:08:30.760 And I'm thinking, the UN has been deployed to Haiti forever.

01:08:34.500 Yeah.

01:08:35.100 And they've catastrophically failed at everything.

01:08:37.800 How are the gangs more alive than ever?

01:08:39.800 Exactly.

01:08:40.480 It's the human rights.

01:08:42.560 But apparently this gangster called Wilson Joseph, known as Lanmo Saint-Jean.

01:08:49.060 Okay. 0.98

01:08:50.040 He leads the 400 Mauozo gang.

01:08:54.400 He said that the technicians are dead. 1.00

01:08:55.980 Well, that's, I'm sure, going to be something that Bekele will look very fondly upon.

01:09:00.320 Yes, yes. 0.90

01:09:03.500 And he's complaining that people are being killed in drone strikes in Haiti,

01:09:09.360 including civilians, allegedly.

01:09:10.980 Oh, yeah.

01:09:11.980 We don't approve of killing civilians, but, I mean,

01:09:14.940 there's going to be some casualties in war.

01:09:17.960 But also...

01:09:18.540 There are casualties in Haiti every day at the hands of the gangs.

01:09:22.020 The gangs are like, oh, no, there's civilian casualties.

01:09:24.800 What?

01:09:25.980 You literally live on murdering and kidnapping civilians 0.99

01:09:29.380 and extorting them. 1.00

01:09:31.360 Ridiculous. 0.99

01:09:32.140 So there is this absurdity, as usual. 0.99

01:09:36.080 Another gang leader got killed.

01:09:39.160 Promises made, promises kept.

01:09:40.440 Promises made, promises kept.

01:09:42.340 And this is undoubtedly good news.

01:09:46.080 Well, yeah.

01:09:46.760 I mean, you know, there is one less gang leader,

01:09:51.040 says the prime minister of Haiti.

01:09:52.160 I don't know why they still have the prime minister.

01:09:53.760 I'm sure Bukele will solve this at some point.

01:09:57.120 But anyway, but anyway, he got killed on a drone strike.

01:10:01.940 And apparently Eric Prince is helping.

01:10:06.260 Who's Eric Prince?

01:10:07.120 Eric Prince is the founder of Blackwater.

01:10:10.020 Oh.

01:10:10.500 Blackwater.

01:10:11.480 And they renamed to Z. 0.64

01:10:12.720 They renamed to Z.

01:10:15.200 And then they renamed now to Vulcan.

01:10:17.980 Oh, okay.

01:10:19.040 With naming this.

01:10:20.680 Yeah.

01:10:21.160 and he's now he's involved in sponsoring a lot of mercenaries and a lot of places

01:10:27.120 and just as a side note apparently he's really angry with ben shapiro

01:10:31.580 okay that's weird he seems to have developed a particular disdain for ben shapiro i mean who

01:10:40.260 hasn't yes but the guy who literally organizes mercenaries for a living taking this stance

01:10:50.280 might have some significance,

01:10:51.900 which we'll discuss with Oren McIntyre

01:10:54.260 at three after this show.

01:11:00.140 But anyhow, Eric Prince is organizing mercenaries there.

01:11:04.260 It seems that he is the source of the drone capability

01:11:08.900 that is being used and of the surveillance.

01:11:11.600 Odds are there's a bunch of U.S. Special Forces guys

01:11:14.720 now working as contractors with him, 0.70

01:11:17.800 leading a bunch of Haitian militias

01:11:20.300 with the Salvadorian military

01:11:22.240 providing a shock troop capability

01:11:24.260 on top of that.

01:11:26.280 So they would be dividing it into 0.54

01:11:27.920 the Haitians themselves 0.71

01:11:30.300 are going to be in a holding pattern,

01:11:31.800 whereas Prince's guys 0.99

01:11:33.620 and the Salvadorians 0.94

01:11:35.100 will be the shock troop element

01:11:36.900 going after the gangs properly 1.00

01:11:38.260 and just killing their leaders. 1.00

01:11:40.660 Just decisive engagements 1.00

01:11:41.820 that shatters the gangs,

01:11:43.200 internal coordination,

01:11:44.220 whatever that looks like.

01:11:45.080 Exactly.

01:11:45.660 So the Haitians can actually 0.99

01:11:46.960 gain control of their own country again exactly wow what a great idea which as someone who cares 0.98

01:11:51.900 about human rights what would you not want them to do how could you oppose this well what about 0.88

01:11:56.900 the human rights of the cannibal warlords well which is literally going to be the argument isn't 0.59

01:12:01.760 it well uh so the miami herald last year was saying that the previous intervention in heishi

01:12:11.540 was a bad idea because it might violate the human rights of the gangsters. 0.98

01:12:18.060 Just to say, I'm pro-violating the human rights of gangsters.

01:12:23.120 And now the economist, that beacon of common sense,

01:12:30.100 the establishment's favorite economic rag,

01:12:33.940 What? 1.00

01:12:35.020 is going on about how Bukele might end up killing a lot of civilians

01:12:40.220 and that's a bad thing. 1.00

01:12:41.540 Killing civilians is the specialty of the Haitian gangsters. 0.98

01:12:45.740 How dare you infringe on their copyright? 1.00

01:12:48.720 I sincerely doubt that someone as religiously driven as Bukele 1.00

01:12:54.260 will just go around just massacring all... 1.00

01:12:57.780 Why would he want to? 0.63

01:12:59.520 He would have no reason to.

01:13:01.080 But the other thing as well is that you can just tell the panic

01:13:03.480 from everyone here that, oh my God,

01:13:05.460 if Bukele just goes in here and fixes this country

01:13:08.700 that we've spent infinite foreign aid on and infinite resources, 0.88

01:13:12.820 then it's just going to show that we are redundant

01:13:15.040 and are not the answer to any of the world's problems.

01:13:18.520 Samson, can you find us that tweet from Conan O'Brien

01:13:22.360 saying how beautiful it is after Trump said that it was a shithole? 0.75

01:13:27.040 So what about this, though? 0.94

01:13:28.260 This is bizarre.

01:13:29.480 So you have a scorched...

01:13:30.700 This is nonsense, right?

01:13:32.040 So you engage in a scorched-earth policy

01:13:34.020 if you're fighting a guerrilla force 0.64

01:13:36.480 that has support from the native population yes that's the only reason you would engage yes in 0.86

01:13:41.820 a scorched earth policy yes you you can't bring them to battle you can't drive them out of the 0.99

01:13:46.920 communities so you have to drive the community instead yes in order to get them but that's

01:13:52.560 that's beautiful yes yeah yeah incredible well done just amazing amazing but anyway going back

01:14:00.380 to wherever was it uh that one right yeah yeah what's what's the reason like the gangs are 0.87

01:14:07.140 terrorizing the haitians the haitians are clearly thrilled that someone's here to stop them from 0.51

01:14:13.040 being terrorized there would be no need to do this it it makes zero sense to go scorched earth no 0.97

01:14:19.640 it this isn't the fight that's being fought at all it is the gangs that are in control of this

01:14:26.140 isn't like in palestine literally cannibalizing them yeah this isn't like hamas in palestine

01:14:30.760 it's not like the ukrainians in ukraine or something well they they they have no qualms

01:14:35.040 about the israelis going scorched earth in gaza well of course that's but the point is i don't

01:14:40.060 know i haven't seen what the economist has been saying but i doubt that yeah there doesn't seem

01:14:44.020 to be a moral unity between the haitians and the gangs no that's all i'm saying so there's

01:14:48.500 absolutely no reason to think this is going to be a necessary strategy well the economist has

01:14:54.220 been very very upset carl i'm sorry and they've been repeated sorry this is happening to them

01:14:59.180 the same message uh why is haiti ostensibly a war zone

01:15:07.080 i don't what i don't understand he should remember that haiti is ostensibly a war zone

01:15:15.120 yeah therefore he is going to war with the gangs yeah where is the problem well the problem is

01:15:22.600 he'll probably impose order and he'll probably have food medical supplies and the Haitians will 0.87

01:15:27.920 be like hmm well I could throw my lot in with barbecue the cannibal Haitian gang leader or I 0.93

01:15:33.000 could get fed clothed and housed with the El Salvadorans and you know what what's the how 0.99

01:15:40.420 are you going to report on that like I'm starting to think this is just a click factory I'm just

01:15:46.440 waiting for you know the economist journalist to be going around in the aftermath just like 0.98

01:15:50.480 talking to random Haitians being like but didn't you feel you had it better under the war wars 0.91

01:15:55.040 it's it's completely maddening it's insane it's just it's incomprehensible and um I just want to 0.95

01:16:06.220 point out that um Harry did a long podcast or a good piece on uh one of Trump's Christmas presents

01:16:15.320 from last year where he decided to pardon the former president of honduras oh yeah who was

01:16:22.920 deeply involved in smuggling drugs and had been convicted of it in the united states

01:16:29.000 he was close to the obama administration close to the first trump administration under biden he gets

01:16:34.920 convicted of him and his brother-in-law and the chief of police and everybody in his government

01:16:40.360 actually working with the murderous drug dealers of Honduras and I just want to point out that 0.53

01:16:47.800 Honduras happens to sit right next door to El Salvador. So if I was a politician deeply involved

01:16:56.680 with the gangs, say operating out of Nicaragua or Guatemala or Honduras and Bukele actually 0.75

01:17:04.760 succeeds in haiti i could see a business model here where you take territory recruit haitian

01:17:11.400 mercenaries partner with eric prince and then next thing you know we have a central american empire

01:17:19.000 centered around el salvador whose policy is kill invaders hang criminals wouldn't it be nice to

01:17:25.000 have an eastern port for el salvador don't you think wouldn't that be nice maybe yeah i mean

01:17:30.760 if they had that maybe they could build a second canal there are things in nicaragua these days

01:17:36.280 um i believe there is an insane communist in charge really interesting who uh i'm sure it's

01:17:43.320 about human rights i like how we're playing nobody complains about his human rights don't

01:17:47.000 worry about we're playing a map game now yeah i'm just saying i'm just saying that if this succeeds

01:17:53.880 the future prospects of the Great Caribbean Empire of El Salvador

01:17:59.740 could look pretty positive, and I would be fully on board.

01:18:05.840 All joking aside, well done to the Salvadorans. 0.99

01:18:08.140 Yes.

01:18:08.420 This is just incredible.

01:18:09.660 Masterclass. 1.00

01:18:10.280 I hope they amend the constitution and end term limits for Bukele. 1.00

01:18:13.540 Seriously. 1.00

01:18:14.400 He should just stay there until he's 70.

01:18:17.020 Yeah, I mean, his approval rating is well above, like, 80%, isn't it?

01:18:19.540 Yes.

01:18:20.120 But then why wouldn't you?

01:18:21.180 Why wouldn't you approve?

01:18:21.800 Exactly.

01:18:22.120 But it's just got to show that decline is a choice, man.

01:18:24.480 It's all a choice.

01:18:25.420 None of this is necessary.

01:18:27.940 And, I mean, this is one of the sort of great comebacks.

01:18:30.380 Yes.

01:18:30.800 And it's just good.

01:18:32.900 It's just good.

01:18:33.440 He's doing good things.

01:18:34.480 Great.

01:18:35.360 I'm in favor of doing good things.

01:18:37.420 It could be crazy.

01:18:38.500 When you do what people vote you in to do, and you actually do them, they vote for you again.

01:18:44.100 Yeah, that's another thing they see, though, with Bicali, is he just keeps winning elections.

01:18:49.140 Yes.

01:18:49.380 It's like, sorry. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Bekele has got the vote again.

01:18:55.220 Exactly.

01:18:55.600 Oh, that's what dictators get.

01:18:57.200 What's that? 80% of El Salvador's population don't care about human rights.

01:19:02.500 They don't want to get their heads chopped off. Oh, they hate human rights so much. 0.50

01:19:05.800 Let's go to the video comments. 0.71

01:19:09.080 That's such a good news story, though. I love it.

01:19:10.760 I love it. It's nice to have some wins.

01:19:19.380 notice eaters this is a stray cat that lives outside of my house i was a friend of her mother's

01:19:29.120 unfortunately i think her mother passed away well the problem is i'm technically allergic to cats

01:19:34.740 so if i ever let them inside my home i'd die but it is still nice to have someone that's happy to

01:19:40.960 see you when you come home from work he seems like a very friendly fellow he does anyway

01:19:48.220 Fain Scossie says,

01:19:49.240 Why is it that whenever these investigations happen,

01:19:51.300 an individual is convicted for years' old offences?

01:19:53.580 Again, in the case of Russell Brand, it's 15 years, some of these.

01:19:57.840 There's never conviction of the people who permitted it.

01:20:00.800 Yeah, exactly.

01:20:01.960 Sure, the power structures keep them safe,

01:20:03.420 but why doesn't the public make demands? 0.86

01:20:06.060 Well, it's because they're very good at dangling them in front of them.

01:20:10.820 If you watch the testimony in the trial, you read the testimony. 0.99

01:20:14.860 Russell Brand, evil, makes women afraid.

01:20:16.940 suddenly it's all focused on brand himself like there's no no no question of the facilitators

01:20:22.400 around him i mean the people who selected the girls to go and have drinks with them

01:20:27.240 yeah they yeah this wasn't the first time they knew the the attitude would have been right russell

01:20:33.780 brand is going to this bar if any attractive women come up just let them up and uh you know

01:20:38.000 they can have their fun with him um okay well michael says the problem i have with this it

01:20:44.740 It feels very convenient.

01:20:46.200 It's easy to accuse someone when a false allegation doesn't cost anything.

01:20:48.940 Well, it's not even that it doesn't cost anything.

01:20:50.840 It's that they've had their identities protected in perpetuity.

01:20:54.520 So we'll never find out.

01:20:55.840 Really?

01:20:56.260 Yes.

01:20:56.860 I don't know whether even he has been given the right to see his accuser,

01:21:00.640 but, I mean, he probably knows who they are anyway, right?

01:21:02.820 That's crazy.

01:21:04.000 Yeah, I know.

01:21:04.480 It's weird.

01:21:05.780 He was drugged up and drunk for all of that period, so who knows?

01:21:11.040 Again, I think he did do it,

01:21:12.620 and I think he deserves whatever justice is available.

01:21:16.160 But it is also clearly very political.

01:21:19.260 Very, very political.

01:21:21.040 It's transparent.

01:21:22.860 Scotty says,

01:21:23.600 Russell Brand is so much not a lad

01:21:27.120 that if he'd hung around with lads at the time,

01:21:29.200 things they would have called him

01:21:30.180 would see those lads arrested today. 0.97

01:21:32.320 Yeah, he was not part of the land world.

01:21:33.480 Yeah, I can't imagine him doing well

01:21:35.240 outside the local Weatherspoons in Scunthorpe.

01:21:37.900 No, probably not.

01:21:39.200 No.

01:21:40.460 The lightsaber permit registry says,

01:21:42.620 there isn't a single comedian named Russell

01:21:44.420 who isn't a slimeball in one way or another.

01:21:46.560 Probably.

01:21:47.000 I'm not sure it's connected to the name, though.

01:21:49.160 Mermidon says, to quote Blackadder...

01:21:50.340 I think he's talking about the Indian guy

01:21:51.700 called Russell something?

01:21:52.880 Russell Peters?

01:21:54.100 Peters?

01:21:54.940 Yes.

01:21:55.300 Russell Howard.

01:21:56.720 Well, the thing is,

01:21:57.880 it's the culture of the time.

01:22:00.880 The culture of the 2000s was just very gross.

01:22:04.180 To quote Blackadder,

01:22:04.980 Russell Brown looks like the creature

01:22:06.100 from the Black Latrine,

01:22:07.620 and only his celebrity status 0.52

01:22:09.960 It has saved him from being a left-wing lovey.

01:22:12.380 Saved him being a left-wing lovey, him at the time.

01:22:14.720 The social media has torn away the veil to expose these people.

01:22:17.160 It's not even that.

01:22:18.080 It's that he changed.

01:22:19.580 He changed and they lifted their protection.

01:22:21.400 Yeah.

01:22:21.520 That's it.

01:22:22.120 It's literally that.

01:22:23.280 I want to look into this Justice J who issued this because the name rings a bell.

01:22:27.160 Really?

01:22:27.600 I've seen a bunch of rulings by Justice J that I recognize in 90s.

01:22:32.160 Interesting. 1.00

01:22:33.560 Henry says, I can't get over the it-was-lad culture angle. 1.00

01:22:37.200 Most lads I can think of near would call him a bundle of sticks 1.00

01:22:40.140 or a nonce and probably deck him.

01:22:42.040 Yeah, exactly.

01:22:42.620 Lefty effeminate men.

01:22:44.060 There's absolutely nothing to do with lad culture.

01:22:48.100 I don't even appreciate lad culture in the 2000s.

01:22:50.740 I think it was shallow and a deliberate way of kind of neutralizing masculinity

01:22:56.680 and making it domestic and non-threatening.

01:23:00.180 It was men behaving badly, sort of like,

01:23:02.400 go on the lads at the weekend,

01:23:04.400 and then we work our boring office day jobs

01:23:06.940 and then we just go out on the piss

01:23:08.740 and it's like, yeah, okay, they're turning 1.00

01:23:10.900 you into losers, man. 1.00

01:23:12.380 They're completely domesticating you. 1.00

01:23:14.920 I hated lad culture. 1.00

01:23:17.500 And I hated it at the 0.95

01:23:18.820 time as well, by the way. Anyway,

01:23:20.860 so, growing up, it says

01:23:22.740 that's a random name. I only saw

01:23:24.560 Russell Brand in one movie when I was 12 years old. He immediately

01:23:26.860 struck me as some sort of perverse pseudo-hippie guru.

01:23:29.860 Yeah, it's the

01:23:30.780 timing is the thing that's interesting

01:23:32.760 there. Nathan says

01:23:34.820 did anyone see a clip of Russell Brown's

01:23:36.740 abrupt on-stage outburst with

01:23:38.880 Richard Herring's Leicester Square

01:23:40.680 Theatre podcast in 2013? It's a wild admission.

01:23:42.920 No, I have not. Oh, have a look.

01:23:46.660 Cowboy

01:23:47.100 Redbeard says Russell Brown was always a whiny, 1.00

01:23:49.020 drug-addled degenerate. 0.96

01:23:50.820 He never addressed any points made by people he argued against.

01:23:52.940 He just complained. Or he called them racist

01:23:54.840 or homophobic or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:23:56.860 His late conversion to Christianity came across

01:23:58.740 an act. Yes, and 1.00

01:24:00.740 this is, I'm telling you, there are

01:24:02.640 yeah i remember that uh episodes where he was on question time wasn't he with nigel farage as

01:24:08.160 well back in the day calling him a racist yeah calling nigel a racist yep so if he says i was

01:24:14.540 watching a zach butterfield video this morning where he was complaining about australia going

01:24:18.360 to the dogs there's only 10 million 10 10 000 millionaires moving to australia instead of the

01:24:24.640 usual 40 000 i was thinking of you guys imagine being able to complain about a net migration of

01:24:28.760 millionaires uh well we are complaining about it we lose 10 000 a year so you know what are you 0.55

01:24:34.560 going to do uh henry says i see 30 of young kiwis have reached attack of the clones level anakin

01:24:39.780 position yeah well 38 that's genuinely that's good news yes the memes are doing something

01:24:45.580 again just they're being radicalized by reality yeah they are

01:24:49.880 yeah baron von warhawk says uh one of the most interesting things about el salvador

01:24:55.540 is that it proves the great man of history theory yes yeah but the thing is the problem that the

01:24:59.860 left has the great man of history theory and the marxists as well is that it's so concretely true

01:25:06.140 right over and over and over and the funniest example for this is me for me is lenin lenin

01:25:12.360 obviously a doctrinaire avowed marxist i've just finished reading an audiobook of it um listened

01:25:17.220 to an audiobook of him um and lenin himself is deified by the communists at the end of it he's

01:25:23.500 literally placed in a what do you call it in a transparent coffin where they

01:25:29.200 transparent coffin thank you so much yeah where they preserve him and then

01:25:32.140 they put him on display so people can come pay their respects like he's a

01:25:34.540 saint exactly he's a communist saint exactly but Lenin himself despised the

01:25:39.040 great man of history theory it's like my brother I have something you are that

01:25:45.100 man good man of history great meaning yeah efficacious able to accomplish

01:25:51.940 things affecting the general course of world events exactly which is why during world war one

01:25:57.280 when the german government put him on the plane sorry put him on the train and sent him to russia

01:26:01.860 they didn't just say oh well it'll it'll manage without him yeah exactly that he needed to be

01:26:07.640 there personally exactly for it to work exactly that's exactly why not just some other random

01:26:12.200 communist oh it'll just happen oh no it has to be lenin yeah we knew it had to be lenin and so

01:26:17.600 the great man theory is just

01:26:19.980 the most vindicated theory 0.99

01:26:21.680 and 20th century libtards 1.00

01:26:23.720 despise it, it's so great 1.00

01:26:25.600 but it's so obviously true, over and over

01:26:27.960 and over

01:26:28.320 so anyway, all it takes is one man with a plan

01:26:32.000 and the will to carry it out

01:26:34.540 that turns the murder capital

01:26:35.900 of the world into a peaceful place

01:26:37.160 that's why they hate him so much, because he shows how terrible

01:26:39.780 our leaders truly are

01:26:40.800 it's not even that right, it shows how

01:26:43.780 mediocre our leaders are

01:26:45.580 It shows how profoundly unimpressive the people that democracy is creating in this country.

01:26:52.320 You know, Lisa Nandy, sorry.

01:26:56.180 On any question.

01:26:57.660 Yeah, why would I ever want Lisa Nandy? 0.99

01:26:58.980 I wouldn't want to talk to her about the weather.

01:27:01.220 I mean, maybe about like, you know, maybe.

01:27:03.980 I'm sure she's a lovely person.

01:27:05.300 I'm sure she's perfectly nice.

01:27:06.400 You bump into the supermarket.

01:27:07.560 Oh, how are the kids?

01:27:08.860 You know, yeah, how's the garden coming?

01:27:10.280 Blah, blah, blah.

01:27:10.760 I don't want to talk to her about matters of state.

01:27:13.620 Like, you know, this is the point.

01:27:15.240 Like, you know, Bicali might actually have something interesting to add to, you know, Bicali probably thinks about the Roman Empire every now and again.

01:27:22.220 I doubt Lisa Nandi does.

01:27:23.360 You know what I mean?

01:27:24.140 So it's just, it shows how profoundly mediocre and unsuited to politics our leaders are.

01:27:31.040 Lancelot says, Australia is about five years behind Britain.

01:27:33.800 If you want 64 grand in your pocket at the end of the year, you need to earn 100 grand.

01:27:37.920 The rich and successful are fleeing the country.

01:27:39.640 Where are they going?

01:27:40.940 Because our rich and successful are fleeing to Australia.

01:27:43.680 Where are your recent successful fleeing to?

01:27:46.120 Monaco or something.

01:27:47.240 Yeah, it's down to me.

01:27:48.180 Singapore, maybe.

01:27:48.800 Singapore.

01:27:49.280 One Nation has seen where you guys are at

01:27:50.620 and they're trying to apply the brakes,

01:27:51.720 which is like, seriously, good luck.

01:27:53.180 I genuinely mean it.

01:27:54.060 Genuinely good talk.

01:27:54.840 I really hope you guys can fix all of these things

01:27:57.160 because, I mean, we're going to.

01:27:59.380 It's just going to be difficult.

01:28:00.860 Tom says,

01:28:01.520 New Zealand also attempted a medical apartheid. 1.00

01:28:03.980 The opportunistic Maori realised that they too 0.96

01:28:05.700 could use the tools of anti-colonialism 0.99

01:28:07.240 and anti-racism to get benefits

01:28:08.620 and voted in the idea of Maori doctors for Maori patients.

01:28:11.680 It didn't work because there are no Maori daughters.

01:28:14.480 From what I understand, they're pretty much split 50-50 1.00

01:28:17.540 between normal decent ones who want a country and opportunists.

01:28:20.480 Yeah, but okay, you know that there are opportunists,

01:28:24.440 so take advantage of the opportunists. 1.00

01:28:26.760 Hey, are you sick of the Indian immigration Maori community? 1.00

01:28:29.860 Do you know what the Indians are doing? 1.00

01:28:32.220 They're taking your benefits. 1.00

01:28:34.100 You know who's going to protect your benefits?

01:28:36.100 We are.

01:28:36.860 It's much cheaper if we signed a historic treaty.

01:28:39.560 than not than the alternative yeah like the maoris the indians the canadian tribes

01:28:44.700 it's cheap to appease these people and get them in a guaranteed block yep and it's an unassailable

01:28:51.120 block as far as the left is concerned much better than yeah and it's exactly the same promise you

01:28:57.740 yeah and it's exactly the same obviously in australia where the left wing kiwis are they

01:29:02.540 have this paternalistic view of looking after these indigenous peoples it's like okay but you 0.95

01:29:07.440 think the chinese when they've outpopulated you are going to care about this 200 year old treaty 1.00

01:29:12.780 and this is what the sort of down under right need to understand no you've got to be the 0.95

01:29:16.020 paternalistic protectors of these communities against the immigrants who are not going to

01:29:20.220 protect them white australia now i love that i love that it's so funny because she's got such a

01:29:25.920 voice and it's just this ancient aboriginal woman i'm not enough of this 0.99

01:29:30.100 they're with these foreigners 1.00

01:29:32.480 I only want white people 1.00

01:29:33.880 it's so funny 1.00

01:29:35.740 I'm going to find that video, it's so good 0.83

01:29:37.980 Paddy says, in the UK we have NIMBYs 1.00

01:29:40.280 not in my backyard, in New Zealand they have 1.00

01:29:42.420 NOMSies, not on my 0.98

01:29:44.380 southern island, interesting 1.00

01:29:45.860 here in Canada

01:29:48.160 we're dealing with poverty by giving them free health care

01:29:50.620 you're not actually

01:29:52.120 something like 95% of

01:29:54.000 MAID recipients are white

01:29:55.840 I've looked into this

01:29:57.760 Um, uh, Lars says,

01:30:01.240 After World War II, the SS was declared a criminal organization.

01:30:04.340 SS soldiers had their blood type tattooed on their arm.

01:30:07.120 These tattoos were accepted as evidence that the soldier had served in the SS.

01:30:11.100 Interesting.

01:30:13.160 Uh, and Tom says, 1.00

01:30:14.260 Is that Haitian geezer using a bar? 1.00

01:30:16.300 They're not 20 years behind, but 80. 1.00

01:30:18.300 Uh, yes, well, anyway, on that bombshell,

01:30:21.280 thank you for joining us, folks.

01:30:22.180 Come back in half an hour,

01:30:23.660 where for us we'll be talking live to Aaron McIntyre.

01:30:26.220 and we'll see you then.

01:30:56.220 Thank you.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 09, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1545

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