The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 925. For today, Wednesday

00:00:13.220 the 29th of May 2024. I'm your host Connor, joined by Harry and Beau, and we'll be discussing

00:00:18.140 the boomers being bribed at the next election versus the foreigners that the Labour Party

00:00:22.560 want to buy off, the influencers ruining Japan, and the Dems freaking out over Biden.

00:00:26.940 We have a couple of announcements. The first is, of course, Islander is on sale now. Rory

00:00:31.340 has pulled an absolute blinder and put together his passion project for you guys. Some fantastic

00:00:35.340 essays in there from founder Carl Benjamin, academic agent, plenty of interesting people

00:00:40.360 and some artwork. Look forward to that. And issue two, issue one is on sale now. It is

00:00:44.140 a limited print run, so if you want your physical copy with all of the hard work that Rory has

00:00:47.580 put in, go out and buy it on our merch shop, along with all of our brand new merch with

00:00:52.160 the Islander logo and the like. I particularly love the retro game one. Rory handrew that

00:00:56.160 himself. Unbelievably impressive. Great lad.

00:00:59.060 Yeah, it's fantastic.

00:00:59.680 And speaking of other things coming up, at three o'clock today, nothing else has really

00:01:03.500 gone on in the news, has it? Not like there's a national scandal currently going on about

00:01:06.160 this. Turns out, I had a chat with Liz Truss, and you can find out how about she thinks

00:01:10.080 that hope not hate are evil, we should deport a bunch of Palestinians who wreak terrorism

00:01:14.380 on Britain's shores, and how the OBR basically strong-armed her into increasing migration ahead

00:01:21.040 of the Conservative Party conference, or they'd conduct a kind of coup, which they then successfully

00:01:24.420 pulled off anyway. Did a bunch of exclusives with us, so thank you very much to Liz for

00:01:29.200 taking a chance on a non-SW1 approved outlet and actually having a chat with us. I think,

00:01:34.920 you know, we have spiritual disagreements, but be polite down in the comments, because

00:01:38.400 she at least took a gamble on us.

00:01:40.300 Right, without further ado, so we've reached the point of democracy where you're just openly

00:01:44.400 bribing votes. I mean, I know that's been going on for a while.

00:01:47.360 Only just?

00:01:47.920 Yeah, quite. I mean, they're not just hiding it now. You know, that's a new development.

00:01:51.340 Well, the Conservatives have basically said, you know that zero seats meme that we were

00:01:55.120 looking at? Well, people have thought, are we really making this an actual policy for

00:01:59.940 ourselves? Ooh, that doesn't really seem to keep the people we want in power, so why don't

00:02:05.180 we just double down on the over-65 demographic, which were the only ones that are still voting

00:02:09.000 for us anyway, by just paying them until the heat death of the universe to vote for us?

00:02:14.080 Now, you don't know what I'm referring to. This is now the quadruple lock on pensions and

00:02:18.360 the policy of national service, and I'll get into those shortly. But for those in America

00:02:23.380 who understand the entitlement system but don't understand the British system, we exist

00:02:26.740 kind of in gerontocracy as well, right? Where we've got an aging population since the baby

00:02:31.400 boom, we've got a really expensive healthcare system which dwarfs all other state expenditure,

00:02:36.120 we've got a pension bill that cannot be paid, and so we constantly import low-wage foreign

00:02:40.160 workers to try to keep the GDP up, to pay for those existing entitlements.

00:02:43.520 Well, that's the reason given. That's the reason that persuades politicians who otherwise

00:02:48.600 might think that migration could be tweaked in the national interest. It's then sold to

00:02:53.320 them as being in the national interest because boomers vote for them, they want the pensions

00:02:56.900 paid, therefore import all the men-acts. Well, it's a good job that that CPS report

00:03:01.820 can then just disprove all of that, because they are overwhelmingly a drain on society and

00:03:06.700 their finances. Quite. They've come to that conclusion far too little too late, and now are looking

00:03:10.600 to lose lots of seats. So to stem some of their losses, they've decided to pull these policies

00:03:15.260 off. But I think this might be the epicentre of what prompted Rishi Sunak to realise this,

00:03:20.240 and that is that Rishi Sunak went on loose women recently. Now, I did a lengthy tweet breaking

00:03:25.000 this down, but the core of this is this clip of his exchange with Janet Street Porter, who,

00:03:29.860 I mean, at this stage... Wait, he actually went on... He actually went on loose women.

00:03:35.680 Yes. For those in the US, again... His actual constituency. Old women.

00:03:40.680 Even then he's losing them pretty badly. Loose women is the UK's equivalent to The View,

00:03:45.700 where a bunch of ill-informed liberal women sit around and shriek about politics without knowing

00:03:50.140 anything about it. And so he was genuinely asked by Janet Street Porter in this clip, just why do you

00:03:54.620 hate pensioners in an absolutely throbbing brain take of depth and nuance here?

00:04:00.980 I want to ask you a very simple question. I think you're a decent man. I do think you work

00:04:04.960 really hard. Hats off to you for that. I think your heart's in the right place. But why do you

00:04:09.520 hate pensioners? Why do you hate pensioners? That is the only conclusion that I can come to

00:04:17.280 as a result of the spring budget. So you lowered national insurance by four pence. Big deal.

00:04:23.080 Pensioners don't pay NI. Then you froze the tax threshold. So yes, you gave us more pensions.

00:04:30.780 Yes, you increased the pension. But that leaves a gap of only £1,000 before, if you get a basic

00:04:39.380 average pension, to the threshold of paying tax. Now, so many pensioners are living in poverty. I think

00:04:46.920 about 2 million. I think the most poverty-stricken pensioners are living in private rental accommodation.

00:04:54.540 One in three in private rental accommodation are below the poverty line. So there's an argument that

00:05:00.480 the pensioners have come out worse under the Tories or worse under you, your supervision.

00:05:08.760 And I would say as a pensioner that what I see is a lot of pensioners who'd like to take extra jobs

00:05:15.640 to make ends meet, to buy little treats, to go out once a month, to put some petrol in the car.

00:05:21.620 But if they earn any money, more than £1,000 a year, they're going to be paying tax.

00:05:26.560 So I just thought I'd pause that there. Sorry for the excruciating waffle of entitlement. And I do

00:05:31.580 want to say, you know, hashtag not all boomers. Both my sets of grandparents are still alive. They've

00:05:34.940 worked until their retirement. They've saved responsibly, etc. But it does fall a bit on

00:05:39.060 deaf ears as a Zoomer who has had his purchasing power confiscated from him, 89% by the extra demand

00:05:45.500 imported here through mass migration, when 80% of boomers are homeowners, 80% pensioners are homeowners,

00:05:51.560 and many of those in other accommodation are on subsidised social housing that they got

00:05:55.600 at a cheaper rate. So like, sorry, I don't think the government hates pensioners. I think

00:06:00.180 they do a hell of a lot to prop them up. Kind of annoying.

00:06:04.200 In all sorts of ways, our modern world in the West, our economy, has been completely designed

00:06:10.440 around making sure pensioners have loads of money. There's a great set of documentaries

00:06:18.120 showing that throughout the 70s and 1980s, loads of industry in the West, in America and

00:06:24.140 Britain, was destroyed or dismantled or privatised in all sorts of ways. And the biggest gainer

00:06:31.280 out of all of that, in a couple of different senses, were these giant pension funds that

00:06:36.380 didn't care if whole industries were annihilated as long as their fund, pension fund, just like

00:06:41.740 any other financial fund, all they care about is making sure that it keeps going up.

00:06:46.060 And so the industry, the manufacturing industry of Britain and America can die as long as their

00:06:52.160 pension fund keeps going up.

00:06:54.080 This is what BlackRock, many state pension funds as well, particularly the one in California,

00:06:57.420 for example. This is where the ESG behemoth grew out of. So a lot of this is at full.

00:07:02.480 Could you give the name of those documentaries? They sound very interesting.

00:07:05.340 Yeah. What was it called? Masters of... I can't remember. I'll find out, but I will put it

00:07:10.280 in the link underneath this and I'll tell you later. I can't remember. It's called Masters of

00:07:13.800 Finance or something like that, but that's not right. Anyway.

00:07:16.220 Thank you. So I think the Conservative policy announcement that they teased out here through

00:07:22.020 an article in The Sun was actually birthed from that Loose Women interview because then

00:07:26.240 they announced the triple lock plus or the quadruple lock. And this means that now pensioners

00:07:32.000 are not subject to the income tax threshold of about 12 grand if they start earning money

00:07:36.440 above the state pension. So for those who don't understand, there's a very brief BBC article,

00:07:41.020 and I hate to cite the BBC, but they give a good summary.

00:07:43.100 I just want to say, you can always tell that it's election season when all of a sudden

00:07:46.680 the Conservatives' messaging begins to look like this.

00:07:50.820 So I did get a leaflet through my door the other day and I am in a very English area of

00:07:56.420 London's Bexley and Bromley and the leaflet photos were not very diverse. I think Rishi Sunak

00:08:02.060 was the most diverse man on there.

00:08:03.780 So interesting.

00:08:04.660 Yep. Just, you know, we're told diversity built Britain, but clearly doesn't win you

00:08:08.140 elections apparently. So this spending commitment over five years is going to be 2.4 billion

00:08:13.520 where they're plucking that off. No idea, but there you go. I suppose, you know, there's

00:08:17.600 trust doing a minor tax cut, crash the entire economy, but pledging to pay 2.4 billion over

00:08:22.120 five years more on pensions. Tickety boo. All right. So for those who don't understand

00:08:26.640 triple lock, because you might live in the US, for example, the triple lock means that your

00:08:31.460 pension is, it rises with the average wage, um, with inflation or by 2.5%. So it's meant

00:08:39.540 to keep it so that inflation does not undercut the amount of money that the pensioners take

00:08:43.720 out of their pensions. But that means that if inflation has risen, the pensioners, the

00:08:49.780 bill for pensions grows, but the tax base shrinks because people are making less money.

00:08:54.760 They're able to purchase less. There's less money circulating and things will cost more because

00:08:59.000 the pensioners will be able to buy it at that rate. But your average working person won't

00:09:02.480 because they won't get a pay rise in line with inflation. The kind of inflation caused

00:09:06.100 by Rishi Sunak to print for furlough when they locked us all down for multiple years.

00:09:09.960 So again, screwing the working and aspirational young for buying boomer votes. And the boomers

00:09:14.860 themselves are hemorrhaging away from the Tories, as we'll see in a moment.

00:09:17.700 So the BBC do a, do a brief economic breakdown. This year, the link to earnings under the triple

00:09:22.580 lock, that's 2024, meant an increase of 8.5 from the 8th of April, making it worth

00:09:26.640 £221.20 a week for the full state pension, or £169.50 for the full old basic pension,

00:09:35.840 those who reach pension age before April 2016. That's a top, a 10% rise in 2022. So within about

00:09:43.120 two years, they've had nearly a 20% rise. Most people haven't got that for their pay rise. So

00:09:48.180 again, more is being done for pensioners than people who don't have their own homes and already

00:09:52.540 in the like. And I know the argument's going to be, well, I paid in. Well, you paid in at a lower

00:09:55.740 rate and you're currently taking out. So it's an inverse demographic and economic pyramid. And

00:09:59.620 it's just not sustainable, I'm afraid. So this has led Telegraph columnist Sam Ashworth-Haynes

00:10:04.820 to a massive tweet, and it did very well. But he's essentially summarising it as the boomers

00:10:10.440 hold a stranglehold over all of politics. And this is just naked bribery by the Conservative

00:10:14.540 Party. After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative Party believes the way to repay

00:10:18.480 Britain's young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes,

00:10:22.660 and use their hard-earned income to fund a quadruple log for pensioners. The one common

00:10:26.780 thread through British policy of the last 14 years has been destroying the future of the

00:10:30.220 young to pay for the consumption of the old. Investment projects have been scrapped. Immigration

00:10:34.140 has run at unprecedented levels to staff care homes and hospitals on the cheap. By the way,

00:10:38.200 in 2022, of the 70,000 care worker visas issued, only 11,000 jobs were filled. So where do they

00:10:42.660 all disappear to? Lord knows. Housebuilding has been slowed to a crawl, see immigration, and ensuring

00:10:48.360 in the process that the property assets of retirees continue to appreciate in value. The idea that

00:10:52.540 Britain owes anything to its young people is dead in the water. The Conservatives are more or less

00:10:55.880 explicitly rebranding as the pensioners' party, but Labour won't be far behind the party that's

00:10:59.760 making the most of its commitment to the triple lock just yesterday. So there's no real end in

00:11:05.020 sight for aspirational young people looking to get their foot on the housing ladder and start a

00:11:08.260 family and actually continue the country. Well, yeah, there's no incentive for young people who

00:11:12.700 have the opportunity to stay in this country. I know you mentioned earlier when we were talking

00:11:17.460 that was it reform pledged to have 500,000 in? This will be in here in a moment. Oh, well, I won't

00:11:23.660 spoil it in that case, but of the 500,000 that go out each year, of the demographics of Brits, I would

00:11:30.780 assume that they're younger. It's disproportionately some retirees, yes, going on to Spain, but increasingly

00:11:37.880 it's been young enterprising people that are going to Australia shortly after becoming junior doctors

00:11:42.760 because it pays more there, or to America to work in the non-profit sector where they're getting

00:11:47.320 the average salary is about 20 grand higher than its UK counterpart. So if not for cultural ties,

00:11:53.540 which are being actively destroyed by a Conservative Party that says British values are tolerance and

00:11:59.380 pluralism and diversity, why would you stay here if your pocket is being increasingly robbed to pay for

00:12:04.740 the hotel bills of people who just turned up here yesterday, or pensioners who have already got more

00:12:09.820 assets than you? Yeah, and wages are so stagnant that you even see high power, high value jobs being

00:12:16.440 paid peanuts in comparison to what they should be worth. Not that I'm a big fan of the finance sector

00:12:21.080 or anything, but I've even seen some job listings pop up that have shown that if you want to be

00:12:26.140 basically head of a finance firm or head of some big department in a finance firm, they're saying

00:12:31.540 things like starting salary 40 to 50k. Well, it's because you now no longer have the requirement to

00:12:36.740 advertise only in Britain. You can advertise to the entire world. So you're competing with

00:12:40.420 a workforce pool that has diminished purchasing power compared to you. Sorry, the pound goes further

00:12:48.300 in their countries and they can work remotely. So you have diminished bargaining power when you're

00:12:52.360 going for a job. Another thing is the very concept of a state pension is socialism anyway.

00:12:59.840 It actively just disrupts the family.

00:13:01.380 Yeah, just make enough money so you're not in penury when you stop working.

00:13:05.120 Or not be taxed enough so you can save for it.

00:13:06.800 Or that, yeah. And or that, yeah.

00:13:09.280 You go to lots of other places in the world and they would scoff at the idea of a state

00:13:14.000 pension. You go to sort of Cambodia or something. They're like, yeah, no, there's no state pension.

00:13:19.040 India, where we're bringing in lots of people, 250,000 last year to prop up the system that

00:13:23.060 can pay the state pensions. They just look after their elderly.

00:13:25.760 The other thing we keep doing and other countries like France and I think also America, but certainly

00:13:29.880 here in France, they keep putting up the age when you're allowed to get any of your state

00:13:34.300 pension. They keep putting out this now like, what is it, 67 or something? Something like

00:13:38.700 that. It was a lot younger, even when I was a kid. And I suspect that even by the time

00:13:45.920 I am in my mid to late 60s, let alone you guys, they would have abolished the state pension

00:13:50.920 entirely. They would just say, no, there's no money. The state has no money to do that

00:13:54.100 anymore, I'm afraid.

00:13:55.200 There's a moment from a Times column recently that said we need assisted dying because we

00:14:00.020 can't pay the pensions. And that's going to be the plan. I mean, Labour are going to bring

00:14:02.700 that in as the next government, presumed next government.

00:14:04.220 There is.

00:14:06.020 I've read reports that it's being trialled potentially in Jersey Island on the channel.

00:14:10.640 And there was an Economist front page article recently over the past few weeks that was

00:14:19.380 talking about the necessity of bringing in assisted dying maid style programs to the UK.

00:14:25.300 So obviously what is happening, as far as I can tell, is we finally reached the state of

00:14:29.480 NHS worship where we're moving on to human sacrifice? Because that's what it will end

00:14:33.880 up being. In Canada, it's the same thing, where due to the fact that the state's health

00:14:38.420 care system is unable to look after certain people, they basically get pressured into killing

00:14:43.300 themselves. And so I can't imagine it will be any different, if not probably worse here,

00:14:47.580 because of how absolutely shoddy the NHS has become.

00:14:51.540 So the Conservatives aren't promoting assisted dying. And so the combination of bribing boomers

00:14:56.860 and not actively killing them has persuaded the platonic ideal of the boomer to endorse

00:15:03.360 voting Conservative.

00:15:05.220 Maybe.

00:15:05.800 Peter Hitchens.

00:15:07.240 Peter Hitchens is now saying, after two decades of destroy the Tory party, for which he said,

00:15:12.460 I was a Trotskyist for not reading his 2003 column when I was five on the matter. He has now said,

00:15:18.840 you should vote against Starmer, which means keeping the Conservatives in, which means rewarding

00:15:22.100 their bad behaviour.

00:15:23.380 What's he still doing here? Is he still in the country?

00:15:26.620 Oh, is he not then for flee fleeing?

00:15:28.140 Oh yeah, he gets to stay. It's just the young people that should leave. That's right. I remember

00:15:31.460 now.

00:15:31.780 Yes. Yes. Right. Yeah.

00:15:33.500 So again, screwing over the young for the security of the old. I really don't necessarily appreciate

00:15:38.440 this. Now, speaking of which, screwing over the young, there was another policy they announced

00:15:42.080 a couple of days before the pension one. National Service. Rishi Sunak has done a massive thread

00:15:47.400 saying that every single 18-year-old will get compulsory national service and they'll receive a choice

00:15:51.960 on what to do. You can either be conscripted, presumably, to go off and fight and die in

00:15:55.780 some foreign war in either Ukraine or Israel eventually, because they've made such a mess

00:15:59.400 of national security. For example, allowing Tony Blair to swan around the foreign office,

00:16:03.920 advising the Tory government. That was confirmed by Liz Truss, even after he made a complete mess

00:16:07.840 of Iraq. Questionable.

00:16:09.600 Or you can go around picking up litter and delivering prescriptions and white pensioners'

00:16:14.420 bums in the care homes. This is how they're going to depreciate the care visas, right?

00:16:18.960 So they're going to increase the amount of money spent on health and social care and pensions,

00:16:23.100 but then rather than keep importing low-wage care workers who two out of three of them are

00:16:27.820 admitting to perpetrating abuse against their patients, they're thinking we're going to conscript

00:16:30.860 18-year-olds to do it for about a year instead and wipe loads of bums.

00:16:33.900 Also, this is coming from the party whose former leader, Boris Johnson, actively tried to scupper

00:16:40.720 peace talks that could have gone on between Russia and Ukraine to make sure that he could

00:16:45.040 prolong the conflict out of some potential sense of, I don't know, Churchillian stiff upper lip so

00:16:51.720 that he can try and make himself out to be the hero that he valorizes Churchill as being. So the party

00:16:57.180 that brought you the extended Ukraine-Russia conflict, which is absolutely destroying the young

00:17:03.100 demographics of Ukraine and led to the point where they're actively having to press gang into the

00:17:08.480 military over there, now wants to potentially get you and your children in for national service

00:17:15.180 so that they can what? Why do this? Why do this unless there is something coming?

00:17:22.700 After Macron has been making a lot of noise recently about escalating the conflict to troops

00:17:28.760 on the ground in Ukraine from outside of Ukraine.

00:17:32.500 Well, I think this is a twofold thing. One, this is overwhelmingly supported by boomers.

00:17:37.680 So they did a poll, actually, of the people who are actually going to be involved in this.

00:17:42.720 So that's the 18-year-olds versus the over-65s. And there's net minus three support among 18-year-olds

00:17:48.360 and over-65s plus 26. And also, this is quite interesting, so plus 30 among the Conservatives,

00:17:55.120 minus seven among Labour, obviously the youth vote, plus 38 among Reform UK.

00:18:00.960 So that's why they've announced this policy, to try and hemorrhage votes away from the over-65

00:18:04.980 demographic that are floating towards Reform UK over the immigration issue.

00:18:08.620 They're basically trying to throw some red meat to the base to stop stemming their losses.

00:18:11.440 But also, I think they know they're going to lose anyway, lose a majority at least.

00:18:15.120 And so they're trying to normalise the idea of conscription for when they know,

00:18:19.260 essentially, they're going to try and have to pull a fast one on a generation of kids who

00:18:23.680 have not only seen a bunch of foreign policy bungles in Afghanistan and Iraq, but, I mean,

00:18:28.500 we were taught history around the same time. The only thing we seem to have learned was

00:18:32.300 the slave trade and civil rights, but also World War I and World War II.

00:18:35.060 If you're told repeatedly about the horrors of trench warfare, why would I want to go and fight for

00:18:39.460 a country which I've been actively dispossessed from, a government which hates me as a stupid

00:18:43.240 white male that don't want me in the army, after seeing how much the horrors of nationalism

00:18:48.140 and warfare have apparently done on the global stage for the last how many hundred years?

00:18:51.900 They're going to have to have a real uphill battle, like press ganging Gen Z into this.

00:18:55.860 A few things. You mentioned Boris, so just to briefly say on that, I think he's, I really

00:18:59.580 hate the man. There's a couple of things, a couple of true crimes he did. Obviously, the

00:19:03.920 lockdowns, completely unprecedented in all history to put a whole nation under house arrest

00:19:08.840 on the strength of a lie on the strength of, well, YouTube won't really allow us to go

00:19:13.600 much further than that. And also, yeah, they're scuppering that peace deal. Quite literally

00:19:19.100 directly got the blood on his hands of untold numbers of Ukrainian men for that. Absolutely

00:19:23.740 despicable, truly in the realm of a crime, in my opinion. But as for national service,

00:19:28.600 in and of itself, I think it's a really good idea. Decades ago, maybe, in the 1950s, in

00:19:38.880 the 60s or the 70s even. Yeah, it's like the argument that it makes, it sort of brings a

00:19:45.140 young person up, teaches them some skills like map reading, or just how to iron their clothes

00:19:49.820 properly and how to take orders and all that sort of thing. Yeah, fine. Not now, not in this

00:19:55.700 whole thing. Yeah, expecting young people who have been absolutely dispossessed and robbed

00:20:00.760 and obviously a figure of hatred for their own governments. Then you've got to go and

00:20:04.560 give up your time for them. No, of course not. And the other thing, like I say, back in the

00:20:08.900 day, national service was actually like some sort of proto-army, territorial army type training.

00:20:15.000 But no, you're not going to get actually training doing compass reading and orienteering and how

00:20:19.620 to rig up a mortar and fire a machine gun. No, you're going to go wipe some bums. Yeah.

00:20:23.460 So it's not... Because on his initial TikTok that he put out about it, because Rishi started

00:20:29.460 a TikTok account specifically for it, which was bizarre, he made sure to specify, well,

00:20:35.220 you can do, you know, a year of military service or one weekend a month doing wiping people's

00:20:42.460 bums. Indentured servitude for the boomer gerontocracy, which we've then stuffed into

00:20:46.060 care homes where they're currently being abused. But you'll do it wearing camouflage trousers

00:20:49.500 and a beret, so it's national service. But I would also suggest to the Tories that I

00:20:55.580 don't know what a good idea it would be to force a load of angry, dispossessed, probably

00:21:02.000 white boys to learn... Well, I don't know what a good idea that is.

00:21:07.320 This is the thing. It's probably not going to be the Indigenous English. And this is the

00:21:10.620 point, actually, that... Hold on one second. Because the demographic skew of Gen Z is larger

00:21:16.980 minority, particularly in the UK. James Cleverley was actually saying, this is the reason we

00:21:22.620 need it. He said, it's really great that we can put loads of people of multiple ethnicities

00:21:26.740 and faiths and nationalities into our national service to foster national cohesion. But as

00:21:31.180 my friend Mary Harrington said, you can't go around actively dismantling the purpose of

00:21:34.280 the nation state by opening our borders to foreign invaders across the channel, having

00:21:38.460 mass immigration run at record levels, and letting active criminals out of prison because

00:21:43.920 the jails are so full, and then say to the law-abiding young people who have been denigrated

00:21:48.340 on the basis of their national origin, that you then have to act as an indentured servant

00:21:52.540 to the state. You can't conscript and compel cohesion while also undermining all of the cohesiveness

00:21:58.440 and cultural homogeneity that is being done at the moment.

00:22:00.760 And so also part of this is another attempt at social engineering. Well, we found out that

00:22:06.100 actually we've looked at the ONS data and the ONS ethnicity map, and we found out despite

00:22:10.900 our attempts to force you to get along with people who hate you, that you still live apart

00:22:15.760 from one another. And so instead we will take another step to force you to co-exist with

00:22:21.340 people who despise you, have a much longer cultural and historical memory than you do,

00:22:27.460 remember all of the conflicts that your people have been in, have been brought up from a very

00:22:31.480 young age to internalize those conflicts and hate you. And we're going to put guns in their

00:22:36.820 hands and guns in your hands in a very small, confined area and hope that nothing goes wrong

00:22:42.980 and hope that you all get along together. Is that a good idea? Is that a good idea?

00:22:47.180 I also pointed out this on Twitter when I put out the question and I, this is, I'm still curious,

00:22:52.820 how would they practically enforce this? Because the threat has been, I've seen some reporting

00:22:57.120 on, was that they're floating the idea that if you refuse to do it, if you're a young person,

00:23:01.200 you'll go to prison.

00:23:01.900 So James Daly, a minister, was asked about this and he said, we're not sure yet whether

00:23:05.880 or not a young person or even the parents who shield the young people from it would go

00:23:09.140 to prison. So they've even hashed out the idea, they just rushed it out.

00:23:11.540 All right. So there's no guarantee that they can enforce it anyway. But if they did decide,

00:23:15.980 okay, you don't want to do it, you go to prison. Right. Okay. Prisons are full. We're releasing

00:23:20.740 people early. So prisons are full. I've seen the videos of the Metropolitan Police struggling

00:23:26.480 tiny five foot women against tiny five foot one skinny black boys struggling to arrest

00:23:33.640 them. So your police are completely incompetent. People don't want to do it and would rather

00:23:38.820 go to prison than die for NATO anyway. And also when it comes to the enormous fifth column

00:23:45.420 that's been imported into the country, the government has shown time and time and time again that

00:23:51.520 they are unwilling to enforce laws on them the same way they do to us. So they would just say

00:23:56.640 no in unison and the government would go, well, okay, we don't want to be racist.

00:24:00.360 Yeah.

00:24:00.700 Couple of things. One is never, ever going to happen because the toys are going to be out.

00:24:04.100 It was only a dog whistle to try and get some reform voters back for a start. It's not,

00:24:09.420 they're not, they've got no intention of doing it because they know they won't be in government

00:24:11.820 in six weeks time. And Labour said they just won't do it. So don't need to worry anyone out

00:24:16.140 there is actually young and think they might have to do national service. You won't,

00:24:18.920 don't worry about it. It's a complete joke. But secondly, another part of the idea that

00:24:23.620 makes it ludicrous is that, yeah, we've got this fifth column, first or second generation

00:24:27.720 immigrants that don't have our values, don't care about our history or our armed forces or

00:24:32.980 anything. The idea that you spend a weekend or two on Salisbury Plain with the Fusiliers

00:24:37.000 or something and suddenly you're as English as English could be. It's like, of course not.

00:24:43.600 Of course not Rishi and James.

00:24:45.540 Contact with our institution and our soil will make even the most ardent jihadi in a

00:24:49.340 taboo. Like, no thank you. So I'm just going to blitz through this so I don't run over time

00:24:53.120 for your two gentlemen's coverage. Part of the reason for this is that, of course, Labour

00:24:57.240 leads the Conservatives among every cohort. But among the over 65s, the margin is only 7%

00:25:05.280 because loads of them are breaking for reform. So 55 to 64 and 65 are going for reform at about

00:25:12.460 14 to 15%. So that's a sizable chunk that if they got them back, they would beat Labour in

00:25:17.280 those cohorts. And Sunak has had an internal memo saying that basically reform constitute an

00:25:22.660 existential threat to the Tories. So he's trying to counter-signal them. This is why you've seen a

00:25:26.960 lot of messaging from the Tory party Twitter account that says, vote reform, get Labour.

00:25:31.140 They're desperate to say that it's a wasted vote. And I do think it's actually a wasted vote for many

00:25:34.920 reasons. I mean, I know Nigel Farage wants to debate Rishi Sunak on immigration, which he probably

00:25:39.540 won't accept because Nigel Farage is now not running as an MP, which I think was a silly

00:25:43.320 decision. But also, if you go to this, I mean, Richard Tice, this is possibly the worst messaging

00:25:50.500 for an immigration restrictionist candidate I've ever heard. So the idea that he's going to be

00:25:54.520 an anti-immigration candidate is kind of absurd. I'll just quickly play this because I had to clip

00:25:58.220 it for myself.

00:25:58.940 We still have businesses who need these people. We still have public services need these people

00:26:02.760 because we haven't trained up so many people of our young. We're not going to instantly train up

00:26:07.460 enough doctors or enough engineers or enough house builders, are we?

00:26:11.420 Which is why, absolutely, which is why our policy is actually smart immigration. About half a million

00:26:16.560 people leave the UK every year. So you can welcome the same number, half a million people, highly

00:26:21.560 skilled, highly qualified. You can have an exemption specifically for essential health care.

00:26:26.420 Of course, you can do all that.

00:26:27.320 Well, then you're going to end up with a million people a year.

00:26:30.680 Quite. Yeah, I've heard that story before. Don't worry. We'll just make sure that everybody

00:26:35.120 comes through is going to be highly qualified.

00:26:37.960 Also, half a million people a year as an immigration restrictionist candidate. So a net

00:26:44.380 outflow of British people, a net inflow of people from nondescript regions. Yeah, exactly.

00:26:50.320 The anywheres of the world. So you're still eradicating British culture just at a slightly

00:26:54.640 slower rate than the Tory government that you're calling con-socialist. But that's not an immigration

00:26:58.720 restrictionist position. You need a cap so you have a net outflow of people that do not

00:27:03.040 have the sentiments of the country and are just here for mercantile economic reasons.

00:27:06.680 But nobody seems to be standing for that. And so this is why I've titled the segment

00:27:10.180 Boomers v. Migrants, because it seems that Richard Tice, even if he were to influence policy,

00:27:15.600 is buttressing the Labour vote because Labour aren't bribing the pensioners.

00:27:18.940 Labour have decided to go for another clientele class instead. Foreigners.

00:27:22.820 Now, remember when Keir Starmer said that I will give the vote to EU citizens? He said that

00:27:27.980 in his election campaign to be Labour leader, he has not included that in his manifesto pledges.

00:27:35.240 So people were presuming that he's gotten rid of it. I somehow doubt it. I think it will still

00:27:38.820 be passed anyway. Instead, to tilt the electoral calculus in his favour, he's saying, no, we're

00:27:44.460 going to let 16 year olds vote in the first year of government. So all of those people that are

00:27:48.500 being promised, hey, you'll be conscripted at 18. Keir Starmer's going, no, instead you can vote

00:27:51.900 age 16 for a Labour government forever that will stop you being conscripted, even though we're

00:27:56.040 probably going to get into a ground war with Ukraine. Instead, they're making up the numbers

00:27:59.520 by appeasing hostile, as you said, foreign fifth columnists. For example, Angela Rayner going to

00:28:06.000 her local Muslim constituents, and I won't play the video here, you can watch it in your own time,

00:28:09.540 the audio is a bit spotty, begging local Muslim constituents, all of them men not looking at her,

00:28:14.240 by the way, that she will recognise the state of Palestine as a nation state immediately after

00:28:19.000 Labour win the election, and that she'll comply with the ICCC report that says that Netanyahu needs

00:28:24.560 to be arrested, and that she will spend British taxpayer money on rebuilding Gaza.

00:28:29.320 Well, obviously, impossible, right? And I think this account that you've got here,

00:28:36.720 it sums it up quite nicely, literally begs for her political career. I think there was the recent

00:28:43.020 announcement that there's been some murmurs about Muslims in the UK trying to form their own

00:28:47.840 specifically ethnic, specifically ethno-religious Muslim party. Labour knows that that is going to

00:28:54.340 cut in to a heavy subsection of their base, because they have been the Muslim party for years now.

00:29:02.260 So this is literally Labour doing anything possible to beg for those people not to abandon them.

00:29:09.460 And old Angela's only got, I say old, I think she's younger than me. Grandmother younger than me.

00:29:15.040 I think her majority is only like five, four, five, six thousand. It's not that big.

00:29:19.380 Her and Lisa Nannies are very slim. It's on a knife edge.

00:29:21.560 Right. So she, it's not that much. She'll probably win a seat. I would have thought if I had to put a

00:29:26.120 ten on it. But it's not that much of a stretch to say she's sort of quite begging for a political

00:29:31.900 career. It probably will be close. The majority will probably be smaller after this election.

00:29:37.000 But one quick thing to say about Tyson reform and the immigration thing. It has been their policy

00:29:41.620 for a long time of net zero migration. Obviously, that's a take on net zero emissions, isn't it?

00:29:46.840 But that was one of the first times I, even I, who was a candidate, disgraced candidate for them,

00:29:52.740 because of my far right fantasies.

00:29:55.940 Of deporting the 1.2 million people since 1997 who have been documented being here illegally.

00:30:01.560 Yeah.

00:30:01.940 So reform party policy.

00:30:02.840 Yeah. Well, even I wasn't really aware of exactly the details of what was meant by net

00:30:08.580 zero migration. I assumed, I had in my mind, it was really like gross zero migration. Let's just

00:30:15.860 make migration zero in absolute terms, at least for a while. Let's do that. It turns out that's

00:30:21.680 not what Tyson ever had.

00:30:22.020 Or hence why you're not in the party anymore.

00:30:23.680 Right. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Because even that, it doesn't go far enough for me.

00:30:26.680 That's higher than most Blair years. It's mad. That's absolutely mad.

00:30:30.720 Right. Yeah. So again, it's just another indication from Tyson reform that it's super

00:30:35.860 weak sauce. It's really weak sauce. Not really what was billed.

00:30:41.160 So reform aren't the future. The Conservatives aren't the future because they're going to lose and also

00:30:46.480 their voting block is dying off about 2% a year just because of age. Angela Rayner doesn't seem

00:30:51.100 to be the future because she's currently going cap in hand to a group of Muslims saying,

00:30:56.120 please don't vote me out because I'm a woman and Gaza. So who is the...

00:30:59.620 You know how much you guys like women.

00:31:01.820 Well, yeah. So there is a female politician. It's the future of the Labour Party. It's Naz Shah

00:31:05.820 delivering her election announcement in Urdu. Oh, yeah. Sitting MP, shadow community secretary,

00:31:11.800 if I remember correctly, appointed that. I can't remember if it was before or after,

00:31:15.520 but she retained that position when she had retweeted an Owen Jones parody account that says

00:31:20.540 that the girls of Romford and Rochdale should shut their mouths for the sake of diversity.

00:31:25.320 She sued Leave.eu because Leave.eu says she was a grooming gangs apologist. So I'm, of course,

00:31:29.680 not alleging that. But very strange to say that those girls should not have their voices heard,

00:31:34.620 or at least agree with the accountant said that. So she's delivering her election announcements

00:31:39.540 in a foreign language. And if you want an image that sums up the future of UK politics,

00:31:44.060 here's a perfect one. I mean, this was an independent Muslim candidate for the West

00:31:49.360 Midlands mayoral election in May. Ahmed Yakoub, a giant billboard saying,

00:31:54.420 lend Gaza your vote to the backdrop of a completely desolated British building.

00:31:59.220 Yakoub is back, boy.

00:32:00.640 Change. Change is coming.

00:32:04.580 So if you want an image of the future of British politics, imagine a boomer's slipper or a freshly

00:32:11.800 washed Afghan foot in Hyde Park fountain stamping on the face of a young patriotic person forever.

00:32:16.780 You're not going to be represented.

00:32:19.280 I always imagined his head was supposed to be a lot bigger, wasn't it?

00:32:22.540 All right. Moving on to something hopefully a little bit more lighthearted. Let's talk about

00:32:29.760 Japan's influencer infestation. They have a problem right now, which is YouTubers going over there and

00:32:37.080 some native Japanese YouTubers as well, acting like prats in public and disturbing the public peace

00:32:44.840 for views and hate clicks. I'll talk about this more in a moment. First, Islander magazine still on

00:32:50.640 sale. You can get yourself a copy on the website and the links that will be below this video.

00:32:55.160 It's still in pre-order stage, so you'll be able to get your copy at the end of June. That's what we're

00:33:00.700 aiming for. And it will be a limited print run. So get them now because they'll only be around for a very,

00:33:06.120 very limited amount of time.

00:33:07.980 There's a couple of pieces in there by that Bodade fella. Very, very good pieces. Spot on. The takes are just...

00:33:14.340 Many people are saying. Yeah. Many people say he's terrific. He's the best.

00:33:19.760 You'll never read articles like it. Anyway, so I was inspired to do this because PewDiePie,

00:33:27.020 who I don't really watch anymore because essentially since he moved to Japan,

00:33:31.560 as far as I'm concerned, and he said it himself in various ways that he doesn't really post very

00:33:36.800 much anymore. He's basically retired.

00:33:39.120 Well, he's got kids now.

00:33:39.760 He's got a kid. He's married. He's living in Japan, somewhere peaceful where he doesn't have

00:33:44.800 to put up with all of the rubbish that he probably had to put up with in Brighton. I'm sure he wouldn't

00:33:49.000 say so himself, but he said in this video specifically that Japan is a place where people

00:33:54.500 go to escape others' bad behavior. Clearly what he was doing. So I kind of feel like I'm intruding

00:34:02.400 on his personal life now if I watch videos that he uploads because a lot of them are vlogs.

00:34:07.200 But this one was particularly interesting because it got a bit of traction because he was calling

00:34:11.260 out the big problem with Japan at the moment, being that foreign YouTubers are coming over

00:34:17.540 and making dicks of themselves in public, screaming, shouting, hollering, pulling pranks, in one case

00:34:25.240 trying to essentially rob the public transport system by trying to get from one end of the country

00:34:31.200 to another without paying for public transport the whole time. And he brands it an infestation

00:34:36.920 because these people know that Japan, and you've been there so you can confirm this,

00:34:41.980 is known as a place where everybody is polite and respectful. There is a strong sense of public

00:34:48.980 behavioral standards and a culture of kind of reserved politeness. Would you say that that

00:34:55.300 was your answer?

00:34:55.820 And high trust, right?

00:34:56.840 Yeah, high trust.

00:34:57.980 They're essentially the English of Asia before obvious recent population compositions have

00:35:03.920 changed how the English behave in public transport. Japan are very polite, very welcoming, but

00:35:09.020 they expect you to abide by their standards of public decency, for example, not making

00:35:13.320 a noise nor a mess on the train, not inconveniencing other people. They have similar escalator etiquette

00:35:20.240 as we used to in Britain. If you want to walk up, you go on the left-hand side. If you want

00:35:25.840 to queue, you go on the right-hand side. So they have a sense of propriety and a sense of

00:35:29.820 proper procedure. And I really appreciated being there. It's very safe, very low crime,

00:35:34.600 very clean, very quiet. If it weren't so alien to me, it would certainly be one of the places

00:35:41.700 I would look at where I haven't be forced to flee the UK. And so I couldn't imagine going

00:35:47.100 there and not treating it with anything but respect and reverence because if I wanted to

00:35:51.180 go there because I appreciated what they had, why would I want to ruin it for myself and others?

00:35:55.260 Well, clearly, you're not desperate for clicks. You're not fishing for clicks. You're not a

00:36:01.060 scumbag with no morals and no respect for other cultures fishing for easy hate clicks.

00:36:06.640 Thanks, Harry.

00:36:07.140 Because that's what... You're welcome. You're welcome. Take that as a compliment. Low bar as

00:36:11.180 it is...

00:36:11.600 The bar is in hell.

00:36:12.720 You're not pond scum.

00:36:14.780 No, I'm not Logan Paul.

00:36:15.800 Yeah. Well, we'll speak about him in a moment because he's mentioned in this and I wanted to

00:36:19.860 highlight that he's probably, as far as I can tell, in this timeline where a lot of this

00:36:25.000 started. But so there's a few things that PewDiePie highlights in this video. One, the Japanese

00:36:30.540 police or military, I forget exactly which one, did a drill at the beginning of last year in March

00:36:36.340 where they simulated YouTubers trying to break into a base to live stream. So the actual authorities

00:36:43.400 in Japan are treating this very seriously because people are trying to pull extreme pranks. They want

00:36:49.080 to make sure that if they go way too far that they're prepared for it. They have branded streamers

00:36:53.720 terrorists because of the activities they've been taking part in. And also, because of YouTubers

00:37:00.020 and tourists going to particular places, they're actively making Japan worse because there's a

00:37:06.440 particular convenience shop called the Lawson's that has a very famous view of Mount Fuji behind it.

00:37:13.260 And too many people go there as tourists and YouTubers to get footage of it, take photos of it,

00:37:18.900 that they block the road. So what Japan has decided to do is say, all right, you don't get it. You don't

00:37:25.000 get the view anymore. And they have put up a big white barrier blocking the view of Mount Fuji.

00:37:29.860 So a beautiful natural view that's quite famous has been ruined because a load of tourists and

00:37:37.120 YouTubers have ruined it for everybody else. That's what happens when you encourage, and YouTube

00:37:43.720 certainly does encourage, this kind of poor behavior, because this is a trend that's been going on

00:37:48.480 for a long time. And I will be mentioning some of them. So it was in this video, it's been reported

00:37:55.340 on in here. So it says in here, Schellberg, PewDiePie's name, pointed out an anti-terrorism exercise that

00:38:02.080 Japan's police and self-defense force orchestrated a year ago where they simulated an incident using the

00:38:06.520 scenario of troublemaking YouTubers attempting to intrude on an SDF camp. Footage taken of an exercise

00:38:12.920 shows actors holding up selfie sticks and spraying officers with fake spray paint in faux pranks

00:38:20.360 while law enforcement attempts to push them back. On top of that, and here's another example of how

00:38:24.620 they're ruining Japan just by their presence and bad behavior, Japan also restricted access for

00:38:29.900 foreigners from certain streets in Kyoto's historic Gion district, famous for its performing geisha and

00:38:35.200 maiko, to curb antisocial behavior from visitors. I saw that when I was there. Really? Yes. So the geisha

00:38:40.620 will walk through the back alleys. And a lot of the reason they get harassed is either for selfies

00:38:47.000 with people walking up to them and incurring on their personal space, or because of the reputation

00:38:51.960 that some of the geishas have had as concubines. And so they get untoward propositions from foreigners

00:38:57.820 thinking they're prostitutes. I didn't know that second part, but I do have an example later on of what

00:39:03.060 you're talking about. The first bit where people are basically trying to harass them into selfies,

00:39:07.360 take footage of them. And you watch, you watch it happen and you think, don't do that. That's

00:39:13.520 terrible behavior. Do you see yourself doing this? Would you be happy if somebody was doing this to

00:39:18.700 you? It's absolutely appalling behavior. I don't know who raised these people. If they were raised

00:39:24.120 by anybody at all, who knows, maybe absent fathers. I do know about the Paul brothers that their father

00:39:29.160 is not, not to my taste from when I've seen some old videos where they were all collaborating

00:39:34.100 together. But to go on to the Paul brothers, Logan Paul is quite famous for his exploits

00:39:40.240 in Japan. You may remember at the beginning of 2018, there was a particular video that came out

00:39:45.620 where he was in Japan and he went into a notorious forest, which is notorious for people going there

00:39:50.700 to, what's the term that YouTube will allow me to say? End their lives? Would that be okay?

00:39:57.920 Yeah. People go there to end their lives. It's obviously a harrowing place to visit. And he went

00:40:03.100 there and discovered such an incident and decided to film it, film his reaction, and then went through

00:40:10.460 the whole process of having the video edited and decided, yep. Yeah. I'll put this out. This isn't

00:40:16.380 horribly disrespectful to the person who did that and to anybody who may have known this person.

00:40:23.040 And nowadays, nowadays, Logan Paul on his podcast can have a laugh.

00:40:29.420 I've been to Japan, so the day that I do go to Japan, I think I'm going to try to run the marathon.

00:40:32.260 I've never been there either. Have you?

00:40:35.560 What?

00:40:38.780 Oh, it's just a funny in-joke now. It's just a funny joke. Logan Paul filmed someone's dead body in a

00:40:44.600 really disrespectful way, put it out and then made the worst apology ever. But it's okay because he

00:40:49.760 works for WWE now. He's got his drinks, Sprint. Yeah, he does. Sadly, he's quite good, but I don't

00:40:55.840 forgive him. But you can make a joke about it, Logan, but it's terrible. It's terrible what you

00:41:02.120 did and you shouldn't have been forgiven for it. And even in this video, which I found looking all

00:41:06.040 of this up, the editor who edited the video, who should have also known better, his life was

00:41:13.140 basically ruined by it. After the video came out, he lost friendships. He lost relationships.

00:41:17.940 His girlfriend broke up with him. Lots of bad stuff happened to him. And he's talking

00:41:23.140 to Logan on this, explaining it all. Logan's just sat there in silence. And then he basically

00:41:27.660 says, I made a documentary trashing you, but then didn't release it. But I go back to it

00:41:31.820 every so often as an emotional catharsis. But it's all in the past now. The guy ruined your

00:41:39.040 life. Because of this guy's awful judgment and poor behavior, he ruined your life. And you're

00:41:46.440 just like, oh, well, you know, it's in the past now. Okay. All right. But one thing that

00:41:51.120 people may not remember about Logan's exploits in Japan is that before the whole forest incident,

00:41:59.820 he was putting out these vlogs where he behaved appallingly. And here's just a few clips of the

00:42:06.920 vlogs that he was putting out there. And once again, this seems to have been what's led to

00:42:11.780 people going there and encouraging this bad behavior because it gets hate clicks. And

00:42:16.540 I hate to broadcast it, but this is just a reminder of what was going on.

00:42:20.560 I just got to be careful to not like disrespect the culture because Logan in Japan is all about

00:42:24.580 the respect. So I got to take my trotch levels and bring them down.

00:42:28.040 how far can we take this?

00:42:33.800 What happened? What did he do?

00:42:46.800 Oh, it's the film. Oh, it's the vlog. How it is in Japan. They're all about the respect.

00:42:53.040 I'm now realizing why they tried to arrest me last year. It's just, it's the same shit.

00:42:57.800 Oh, don't worry about me. I'm just a vlogger. Let's get in content.

00:43:01.040 Respect.

00:43:09.040 Follow me on Instagram at LoganPaul.

00:43:10.040 LoganPaul.com slash shop.

00:43:13.040 Gotta be careful to not like disrespect the culture.

00:43:17.040 The Game Boy Color. This part's pretty annoying.

00:43:25.040 Excuse me, sir. The game seems to be malfunctioning. Mucho broken, though.

00:43:34.040 I think that's about enough. And he goes on to do things like throw poker balls at people,

00:43:37.040 throw fish at people. But I mean, you could tell from the reactions of the people around him.

00:43:42.040 That's not on. That's just...

00:43:45.040 I'm actually pro-frontline conscription for him.

00:43:48.040 Yeah, for him. And that's not the kind of behavior that you would want.

00:43:52.040 And like you say, in a high-trust, respectful culture, you know that you don't do that.

00:43:59.040 You only behave like that because you know it's bad behavior.

00:44:02.040 You're actively exploiting the goodwill of the people for whom you're meant to be a respectful house guest.

00:44:07.040 Yeah, it's not good content.

00:44:09.040 You're making Japan worse.

00:44:11.040 And I say this because Japan is a culture that I do respect.

00:44:14.040 It's far-flung in East Asia and whatnot.

00:44:17.040 But they do seem to have some cultural similarities between us Brits.

00:44:20.040 And I respect the fact that they've been able to maintain,

00:44:23.040 even in the expansive technological society that they live in,

00:44:27.040 a firm grasp of their own indigenous culture.

00:44:31.040 And I respect that.

00:44:32.040 And I respect their cultural output as well.

00:44:34.040 So to see somebody just go out there and spit in their faces disgusts me.

00:44:39.040 Not that I'm making any excuses for Logan Paul.

00:44:42.040 He's just young and dumb and callow and self-absorbed and desperate.

00:44:47.040 Well, I didn't do that.

00:44:48.040 No, nor did I.

00:44:49.040 I'm not making an excuse for him.

00:44:51.040 I'm saying that's what it is.

00:44:53.040 Oh, yeah.

00:44:54.040 Maybe when he's older, in his 50s or whatever, he'll look back on that and cringe.

00:44:59.040 I don't know.

00:45:00.040 I think he might already do, but again, it seems to be just like,

00:45:04.040 oh, you could just make a little joke about it now.

00:45:06.040 It was obviously terrible and I shouldn't have done it,

00:45:08.040 but now it's just a laugh.

00:45:09.040 Oh, who cares?

00:45:10.040 Yeah.

00:45:11.040 Why go to Japan and do it?

00:45:13.040 Do that in America if you want to do that.

00:45:14.040 No, because if you went to certain neighborhoods in America and did that,

00:45:17.040 you'd be shot.

00:45:18.040 Well, yeah, and also because you know that in America

00:45:21.040 you're not really stepping all over and spitting all over the standards

00:45:27.040 and the culture in the same way that you are in a place like Japan.

00:45:30.040 And since then, there seems to have been a massive influx of people going over

00:45:35.040 and behaving like that.

00:45:36.040 The most famous one from last year is probably this guy,

00:45:39.040 the Johnny Somali guy, who is abysmal, awful, and behaved, again, terribly.

00:45:47.040 Let's see what he said.

00:45:48.040 The live streamer filmed himself approaching random locals on a train

00:45:52.040 and saying Hiroshima Nagasaki repeatedly.

00:45:55.040 At one point, Johnny announced to the train,

00:45:57.040 Hiroshima Nagasaki, we destroy it because you ends don't know how to behave.

00:46:02.040 A Korean American man approached him and said,

00:46:05.040 you're being obnoxious.

00:46:06.040 Why don't you leave these people alone?

00:46:08.040 Undeterred, Johnny Somali continued saying to this guy,

00:46:13.040 we'll do it again, Hiroshima Nagasaki, you understand.

00:46:16.040 So if this guy is wondering, you know,

00:46:18.040 like why it is that the Japanese police and authorities might be branding streamers

00:46:22.040 and YouTubers like himself as being terrorists,

00:46:25.040 it might be because you're going on a train and essentially saying,

00:46:27.040 let's bomb the train.

00:46:29.040 Well, not just, you're announcing your intent,

00:46:32.040 not that you have the power to do so,

00:46:33.040 but to commit genocide against the Japanese.

00:46:35.040 I think they might be a little like perturbed.

00:46:38.040 Yeah. He also was, would harass people in the streets.

00:46:41.040 And I won't play this clip because YouTube will flag it.

00:46:44.040 But one of these guys that he harasses in the street,

00:46:47.040 who appear to be foreigners themselves to Japan,

00:46:49.040 they look like they might be European or American.

00:46:52.040 They end up just knocking him out and his friend that he's with.

00:46:56.040 In the background, you can hear all of the Japanese people around them,

00:46:59.040 giving a little round of applause.

00:47:02.040 And then he also decided to play pornography audio on a train again.

00:47:09.040 Let's not play that one as well.

00:47:11.040 Yeah. I'm not going to play the audio for that one.

00:47:13.040 But he's just walking around with the speaker.

00:47:16.040 He should be in prison and never let out.

00:47:18.040 Well, the thing was that he did get in a lot of trouble

00:47:20.040 and he did get arrested because he took it a bit too far.

00:47:23.040 Not that he hadn't already taken it far.

00:47:25.040 Because he decided to trespass on a hotel construction site.

00:47:29.040 And he got arrested as a result of that.

00:47:32.040 And people thought that he got deported.

00:47:34.040 And I'm sorry to break it to everybody that he was not actually deported.

00:47:38.040 He was taken to court where the prosecutors were after a fine of 200,000 yen,

00:47:44.040 which translates to about $1,400.

00:47:47.040 And in January, he was fined for that amount.

00:47:50.040 But the trespassing charges against him were dropped.

00:47:52.040 And he seemed to leave the country immediately after.

00:47:55.040 Now, PewDiePie...

00:47:56.040 He looks so obnoxious.

00:47:58.040 Just at a glance.

00:47:59.040 He is.

00:48:00.040 He hasn't seen any of these clips or whatever.

00:48:02.040 But he just looks like a douchebag.

00:48:05.040 Not to encourage any particular kind of behavior of how you should behave towards people like him.

00:48:09.040 But perhaps in one circumstance, I might have been applauding somebody that I've just mentioned, shall we say.

00:48:15.040 But PewDiePie called him out, said that he was obnoxious, said that he was another prime example of why the Japanese are branding these people terrorists.

00:48:26.040 Because it's awful behavior that you want to stamp this out immediately.

00:48:31.040 And he decided that I'm going to try and sue him.

00:48:34.040 I'm going to try and sue him because...

00:48:37.040 Let's see.

00:48:38.040 Wait, sorry.

00:48:39.040 This Johnny Somali wants to sue PewDiePie.

00:48:41.040 Yes.

00:48:42.040 Oh, the other way around.

00:48:43.040 Yes.

00:48:44.040 Good luck.

00:48:45.040 Just good luck.

00:48:46.040 Isn't PewDiePie insanely rich?

00:48:47.040 Yeah, he's the most subscribed to individual YouTuber in history.

00:48:51.040 Seems so.

00:48:52.040 I've never really watched...

00:48:53.040 I've watched a few minutes of PewDiePie a few years back, but I never found him or watched him particularly.

00:48:57.040 But I knew he was one of the biggest of all time.

00:48:59.040 So surely he's absolutely rolling in cash.

00:49:02.040 There's zero grounds for defamation there.

00:49:05.040 Yeah.

00:49:06.040 But he's saying, don't be a criminal, you criminal.

00:49:10.040 Yeah.

00:49:11.040 But of course, Johnny Somali, who goes under the handle Rabbi Somali and has a star of

00:49:16.040 David next to him.

00:49:17.040 So I don't know if he's actually like Ethiopian Jewish or something.

00:49:21.040 Very strange.

00:49:22.040 Has now decided to pull out the old faithful.

00:49:26.040 The old faithful by just calling him a racist by saying that, oh, well, he called me a terrorist.

00:49:32.040 That might have some racial undertones to it and throwing out the classic one of calling him an anti-Semite because PewDiePie made some spicy jokes.

00:49:40.040 You said you were going to bomb people.

00:49:44.040 What?

00:49:45.040 I don't know.

00:49:46.040 I don't know.

00:49:47.040 I don't know.

00:49:48.040 So this is this guy.

00:49:49.040 And also immediately after, it would be especially funny if it turns out that he's some kind of Ethiopian Jew type.

00:49:55.040 Unless, of course, it might just be a joke that he's got all of that.

00:49:58.040 Because immediately after he went to Israel and got arrested there because he started harassing the Israeli police and he got beat up there as well.

00:50:07.040 Oh, harassing a female police officer.

00:50:09.040 Oh, right.

00:50:10.040 OK, that's wonderful.

00:50:11.040 Yeah, that's a genius idea to do, isn't it?

00:50:13.040 But once again, the bad behavior is being encouraged by the fact that they're doing it on purpose so they can get hate clicks.

00:50:19.040 So if there's one thing you can take away from the segment is don't watch this and don't give these people attention.

00:50:24.040 I know I'm technically doing that, but sometimes you need to let people know so they can avoid it.

00:50:29.040 Not all publicity is bad publicity is good publicity.

00:50:33.040 Sometimes bad publicity is just bad publicity.

00:50:36.040 And hopefully your entire career is destroyed and you have to work flipping burgers for the rest of your life because you're a scumbag.

00:50:44.040 Plus, there's this thing, isn't there, of how to act, how to behave.

00:50:47.040 I said this yesterday on the podcast.

00:50:49.040 You can act in sort of a small minded, childish, petty, mean, stupid way like this guy.

00:50:57.040 Just a douchebag.

00:50:59.040 Of course, you don't have to.

00:51:01.040 You can actually try and be normal.

00:51:04.040 Just try and be productive.

00:51:06.040 Maybe even try and be virtuous.

00:51:07.040 Right.

00:51:08.040 Old fashioned as it may be to say these days.

00:51:11.040 Grateful for the host nation to show you a beautiful culture and keep you safe.

00:51:15.040 Yeah.

00:51:16.040 It does mean he's made it clear to the whole world that his inner core, his inner being, who he is, is something gross and mean.

00:51:26.040 But some of the other examples is that here's basically an example of what you were talking about with the geisha, where somebody caught this on video.

00:51:37.040 Look at this.

00:51:39.040 What are you doing?

00:51:40.040 You can't do that.

00:51:41.040 Yeah.

00:51:42.040 What are you doing?

00:51:43.040 Nice.

00:51:44.040 What are you doing?

00:51:45.040 A rude and obnoxious sorus.

00:51:46.040 A rude and obnoxious sorus.

00:51:47.040 A rude and obnoxious sorus.

00:51:48.040 Someone with an abundance of grace versus someone with obviously no, no physical grace or actual grace in any sense.

00:51:58.040 No whatsoever.

00:51:59.040 A little troll versus something beautiful.

00:52:02.040 Just leave these people alone.

00:52:04.040 She's getting on about her day.

00:52:06.040 She's not there for your amusement or entertainment.

00:52:09.040 Don't do this.

00:52:10.040 This is terrible, rude behavior.

00:52:12.040 And wherever she is from, wherever anybody else who behaves like this is from, you are giving the rest of us a bad name.

00:52:20.040 Because with all of this bad behavior going on, I wouldn't be terribly shocked or I wouldn't be disappointed if Japan just went, no, no, we're going back to close borders like we did for 200 years.

00:52:33.040 We'll just, no, we don't want any of you here because you just make it worse.

00:52:36.040 The wonderful thing that I experienced is that if you were polite and deferential and attempted to learn a couple of shorthand phrases, you know, they're quite accommodating to the gaijin.

00:52:46.040 They like it if you are engrossed in their culture.

00:52:50.040 And so, you know, I'd be kind of, because I plan to go back out there this year because it's so wonderful.

00:52:54.040 I would be sad if because of dysgenic little weirdos like that woman behaving as she did, I was treated with a degree of unwanted suspicion.

00:53:05.040 I wouldn't blame them though.

00:53:07.040 I wouldn't blame them.

00:53:08.040 Even if it is targeted against you.

00:53:09.040 It's just such a shame.

00:53:10.040 You know, well, given you bad experiences, I understand.

00:53:13.040 And there's there's even more people going to restaurants and being there was one thing where YouTube was going into sushi restaurants and licking the sushi as it was going along on the conveyor belt.

00:53:26.040 These people, whoever they are, yeah, they're trying to travel across Japan for free, as I mentioned earlier.

00:53:33.040 One of them, not one of the people in this image, but one of the people trying to do this because this is a few YouTubers trying this challenge, which is just breaking the law, committing crime all at the same time.

00:53:46.040 One of them managed to get himself arrested because he got on a bus.

00:53:51.040 And when he was getting off the bus, he refused to pay 18 yen, which must be what?

00:53:55.040 Like that's like 10 P nothing.

00:53:57.040 And got arrested for it because the bus driver sensibly said, well, if you're going to break the law over something so incredibly petty, well, I'm going to get you arrested then.

00:54:08.040 Because in a high trust society, the whole point of the high trust is that you understand that punishments come if you don't behave how you're expected to.

00:54:18.040 That's how these things historically have been reinforced.

00:54:22.040 And I think that some of these people are forgetting that like you experienced, yeah, they're really nice and they're really polite, but also they don't want to put up with your rubbish.

00:54:31.040 They don't want to put up with your nonsense.

00:54:33.040 Never have to.

00:54:34.040 As they shouldn't.

00:54:35.040 And it's happening in other places as well now.

00:54:37.040 So this guy is one of the people who got knocked out alongside Johnny Somali.

00:54:43.040 And he decided to go to Thailand and disrespect some of the locals.

00:54:47.040 Oh, that's a bad idea.

00:54:50.040 He knocks over some bit of some rubbish, like a rubbish bin as he's walking through the streets and starts trying to harass the locals.

00:54:58.040 Like he squares up for a second and he goes, F you ends.

00:55:01.040 I'll F you up if you try and come near me.

00:55:04.040 And as he's walking around, he hears them all go or start to harass him back.

00:55:08.040 And he turns around and there's like a little group of them.

00:55:10.040 This is all caught on camera.

00:55:11.040 And he immediately backs down.

00:55:13.040 He immediately backs down because it turns out he's a coward.

00:55:16.040 Well, as all of these people in Thailand, you can be sent to prison for criticizing the king.

00:55:20.040 And you can be sent to prison if you're reading someone else's criticism of the king in the news broadcast.

00:55:25.040 So I wouldn't go about thinking that the anarcho tyranny of American law is in effect in Thailand, my friend.

00:55:32.040 Bad idea.

00:55:33.040 So if there's one thing you can take away from this segment, it's that if you are a YouTuber who wants to get hate clicks by going to a foreign country and disrespecting the locals and acting like a public nuisance or even a menace, don't.

00:55:47.040 And if you get the chance, don't watch any of this stuff.

00:55:51.040 It just encourages them.

00:55:53.040 Leave them alone to live their tiny, pathetic lives and let them fail and become burger flippers or completely destitute if possible.

00:56:03.040 Yeah.

00:56:04.040 I wouldn't blame the Japanese if they go back to having, you know, like 20 Dutch people and that's it.

00:56:10.040 We're allowing one in, one out.

00:56:11.040 The Dutch they behave themselves.

00:56:13.040 One in, one out, maximum 20 Dutch.

00:56:15.040 That's your lot.

00:56:16.040 I think there was a Welshman at one point as well, yeah.

00:56:19.040 Back in the day he became a samurai.

00:56:21.040 We'll let in a Welshman and a few Dutch and that's about it.

00:56:25.040 Yeah.

00:56:26.040 I wouldn't blame them.

00:56:27.040 Can you scroll down on this document for me?

00:56:29.040 Do you want the mouse?

00:56:30.040 Yeah.

00:56:31.040 Okay.

00:56:32.040 I'm currently wrestling with the wires.

00:56:33.040 Bear with everyone.

00:56:34.040 Go on then.

00:56:35.040 I'll take it.

00:56:36.040 Where's the thing?

00:56:37.040 Okay.

00:56:38.040 All right.

00:56:39.040 So the first link.

00:56:40.040 Do you want me to?

00:56:41.040 Oh yeah.

00:56:42.040 Okay.

00:56:43.040 Go on then if you can do that.

00:56:44.040 Okay.

00:56:45.040 So I thought I would just talk a little bit about Biden.

00:56:48.040 Just talk a little bit about the American politics because it's more interesting than our politics

00:56:53.040 at the moment.

00:56:54.040 Everyone knows what's going on with us.

00:56:56.040 Trump is going to become the government.

00:56:57.040 Tories are going to collapse and it will be much more of the same uniparty.

00:57:00.040 Whereas in America, well, an actual change is on the cards.

00:57:04.040 Maybe Trump will get back in.

00:57:06.040 We'll see.

00:57:07.040 But at the moment, it seems, in the last couple of days at least, in the news cycle,

00:57:12.040 the thing to talk about is that Democrats are losing confidence in old Joe, sleepy Joe.

00:57:21.040 The, quote, freak out is all over the place.

00:57:25.040 It's from an unnamed source, but close in the White House.

00:57:29.040 It's all sorts of people.

00:57:30.040 Apparently, if you believe this unnamed source, lots and lots of people, maybe even the majority

00:57:35.040 of them at the top of the Democratic establishment, have sort of suddenly realized Joe Biden is not a great electoral giant.

00:57:46.040 He's not a great vote winner.

00:57:48.040 And his clear cognitive decline is sort of the least of it.

00:57:52.040 It's just, again, the numbers, just when polling comes out, it's that low.

00:57:57.040 It seems like maybe there's panicking, but it's a bit too late because he is already the nominee.

00:58:03.040 So...

00:58:04.040 Well, it's not technically too late.

00:58:07.040 Well, if there's some sort of...

00:58:09.040 Well, if the law says you've actually got dementia now and you...

00:58:12.040 Well, they can still invoke the 25th Amendment.

00:58:15.040 Yeah.

00:58:16.040 Then Kamala could technically say, I'm not running.

00:58:20.040 And then the Democratic convention hasn't happened yet because...

00:58:23.040 Okay, sorry, that's true.

00:58:24.040 That's right.

00:58:25.040 They've screwed up convention rules, actually, because he was meant to have been announced

00:58:28.040 a candidate for Ohio, but they changed the convention location.

00:58:31.040 So he's technically not on the ballot paper in Ohio now, which is...

00:58:33.040 But the Democrat operatives are so stupid.

00:58:35.040 So it's still possible they could sub in Michelle Obama and Newsom at the 11th hour.

00:58:39.040 Right.

00:58:40.040 It's just increasingly unlikely.

00:58:41.040 Yeah, it doesn't look likely, does it?

00:58:43.040 I mean, because also the other thing you talk about Kamala there, Kamala, Kamala, whatever,

00:58:47.040 whatever that woman's name is, she's part of the problem.

00:58:52.040 Part of the biggest problems are obviously his cognitive decline or the fact he's actually

00:58:57.040 suffering from some sort of dementia or something, whatever it is.

00:59:01.040 But also, yeah, her massive unpopularity, just the economy, the economy's stupid.

00:59:08.040 And what are the other things?

00:59:10.040 Biden's record with his children, with his slow drip of news stories that show that he's

00:59:15.040 not a man of high and unimpeachable character, considering how he treated Ashley and Hunter.

00:59:20.040 Yeah, the huge immigration problem on the southern border.

00:59:24.040 The Afghanistan thing, I think a lot of Americans, or the numbers do show a lot of Americans,

00:59:29.040 even all sorts of Democrats, were completely humiliated by the Afghanistan thing.

00:59:34.040 The way that was handled.

00:59:36.040 There's other contenders in Democrats, like RFK Jr.

00:59:42.040 It just doesn't help.

00:59:44.040 RFK Jr. just doesn't help Biden, basically.

00:59:47.040 Well, the Israeli issue dividing the base between the establishment Democrats,

00:59:53.040 the intelligence services, and the boomer Dems who are pro-Israel versus the younger,

00:59:57.040 more ethnically diverse, less invested in the post-Second World War and Cold War narrative

01:00:03.040 Dems who are all in for Palestine.

01:00:05.040 Well, I'm wondering, can either of you two answer this question?

01:00:09.040 Can you think of a single thing that has been good optics for Joe Biden throughout his entire presidency?

01:00:16.040 Because I'm struggling to come up with any...

01:00:18.040 Because even right now, if you're talking about the divide on the Israel-Palestine issue

01:00:22.040 within the Democratic voter base, Biden has been saying for a while that there are particular red lines

01:00:27.040 that he won't let Israel cross, he won't give any more support.

01:00:31.040 And then they've, you know, did that bombing of Rafa the other day that he said

01:00:36.040 before that was going to be the red line and has taken no action on top of it.

01:00:40.040 I believe American servicemen have also been predictably fired upon on their beachhead

01:00:46.040 humanitarian pier just off the coast.

01:00:49.040 Oh yeah, the technicality that means that they don't have to have boots on the ground.

01:00:53.040 Yes, as I said on Tim's show, it's like, you know in Pirates of the Caribbean 3

01:00:56.040 when they're all facing off on that stretch of beach and because Davy Jones can't walk on dry land,

01:01:00.040 he just stands in a bucket and he's technically okay.

01:01:02.040 That's what the American servicemen are currently doing in Gaza right now.

01:01:05.040 But has Joe Biden had a single positive news story to his name?

01:01:10.040 Well, the Democrats will...

01:01:12.040 The Blue Anons will defend the indefensible, so it almost doesn't matter.

01:01:15.040 But in terms of the swing voters, I make you right

01:01:18.040 in that I don't think there's any issue that can convince them

01:01:20.040 unless they have Trump derangement syndrome.

01:01:22.040 One of the biggest things is just the economy, Bidenomics.

01:01:26.040 Just a huge inflation, just making everyone poorer in real terms.

01:01:31.040 But Paul Brugman has a few graphs that say the economy is doing great, so...

01:01:35.040 Yeah.

01:01:36.040 Janet the felon Yellen says there's nothing to worry about.

01:01:40.040 Yellen says it's fine, don't worry, so...

01:01:44.040 Inhabited by the ghosts of the Donald for a minute there.

01:01:46.040 Was that a nickname?

01:01:47.040 Illusive.

01:01:48.040 I like the fact that he draws out her body shape.

01:01:53.040 So, it's just weird...

01:01:57.040 Well, not weird, because we know the way the media works a bit

01:02:00.040 is that they quite often sit on stories

01:02:02.040 or sit on a particular take for a while until it's the right news cycle

01:02:05.040 or until it's the right moment to release it.

01:02:07.040 But in the last day or two, the news cycle has been

01:02:09.040 that they're suddenly worried about it,

01:02:12.040 as if they've suddenly realised that, oh, Biden isn't actually massively popular.

01:02:17.040 And the numbers, the polls, don't look like he'll beat Trump in November.

01:02:21.040 And now they're worried.

01:02:23.040 Well, the time to worry was a few months back when they were...

01:02:26.040 Well, more like a year ago now, whether he was going to run again.

01:02:30.040 They should have sorted it out then, whether they were going to go with Newsom

01:02:32.040 or whoever, somebody else.

01:02:35.040 Then was the time to really freak out and worry and make plays and...

01:02:40.040 It's a bit late now, as you say.

01:02:42.040 Maybe not technically, absolutely too late, but it is a bit.

01:02:45.040 And the idea that, oh, maybe we can just say he's got cognitive issues

01:02:48.040 and it will be Kamala.

01:02:51.040 Well, she's more unpopular than him, if anything.

01:02:54.040 The American electorate don't really like her, broadly speaking.

01:02:57.040 Neither did the Democrat officers.

01:02:58.040 Yeah, well, yeah, they never wanted her, did they?

01:02:59.040 They never wanted her.

01:03:00.040 The rumour is behind the scenes is that they're trying to bribe her

01:03:02.040 with a Supreme Court appointment in the future to stop her from becoming president.

01:03:06.040 No, no, no, that's worse.

01:03:07.040 Is she a lawyer then?

01:03:08.040 Yeah, she's Attorney General of California.

01:03:10.040 Of course she was, of course she was.

01:03:11.040 Yeah, that's how she locks up all of those innocent men and kept them on death row.

01:03:13.040 Right, that's actually worse though, because at least, and I say this,

01:03:18.040 this is like two bad options.

01:03:20.040 Do you want the chair or the noose?

01:03:22.040 Copium.

01:03:23.040 Right.

01:03:24.040 If she were to become president, she could have, what, eight years tops.

01:03:28.040 If you're a Supreme Court judge, for life, you're untouchable.

01:03:32.040 It's forever, ever.

01:03:33.040 Yeah.

01:03:34.040 And if anything, you're in a better position to influence policy in America

01:03:40.040 than you are as the president unless you just do what Obama did

01:03:43.040 and sign endless executive orders.

01:03:45.040 Or Biden.

01:03:46.040 Yeah, or Biden.

01:03:47.040 Biden's got a record number.

01:03:48.040 So, so that's two awful options and they shouldn't do that.

01:03:53.040 Don't put Kamala Harris on the Supreme Court for the love of God.

01:03:56.040 Please don't do that.

01:03:57.040 Please don't do that.

01:03:58.040 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

01:04:00.040 In a way, a Supreme Court judge is more powerful than any president, in a sense.

01:04:04.040 I mean, it's the Supreme Court that gets to really interpret what the Constitution

01:04:08.040 and the Bill of Rights is, what it says.

01:04:11.040 The president is merely a decider.

01:04:13.040 I say merely, they're the head of the executive, I mean, the government.

01:04:16.040 But nonetheless, at least five judges, Supreme Court judges,

01:04:21.040 obviously they can get anything passed if five agree on something.

01:04:24.040 They're more powerful than a president.

01:04:26.040 It was the Warren Supreme Court in the 1950s that completely upended basically the entire way

01:04:32.040 that Southern states in America operated.

01:04:34.040 Well, after the ruling for gay marriage, one of the most absurd bits of legislation,

01:04:40.040 I think it was Justice Anthony Kennedy, wrote into law the reason that we can redefine the definition

01:04:45.040 of marriage is because the Constitution gives to people the right to redefine their hopes,

01:04:51.040 their dreams, their definition of truth and the universe.

01:04:55.040 It's like fantastic romantic poetry there.

01:04:57.040 You complete blowhard.

01:04:58.040 It has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution.

01:05:00.040 But that gets cemented into law.

01:05:02.040 Yeah, no, the Supreme Court is a fantastically powerful thing.

01:05:05.040 I mean, back in the 19th century, they rule that slavery is legal.

01:05:09.040 Decades later, rule that it's definitely illegal.

01:05:12.040 You know, they rule that segregation is fine.

01:05:14.040 And then decades later, they rule it's not fine.

01:05:16.040 And then they get to, they've got the power in all sorts of ways rests with them.

01:05:22.040 Again, they get to interpret really what the Constitution means on the Bill of Rights.

01:05:27.040 And the Bill of Rights.

01:05:28.040 And just to put a full stop on that point is that the, in the 70s, Roe v. Wade, fine.

01:05:35.040 And then the other year, Roe v. Wade, not fine.

01:05:38.040 And in the judgments that were given by the Supreme Court judges, you basically had...

01:05:42.040 Clarence Thomas?

01:05:44.040 Clarence Thomas and some of the other conservative judges saying,

01:05:48.040 yeah, this whole argument they put forward was nonsense to begin with.

01:05:51.040 There's no secret interpretive right to privacy in the 14th Amendment,

01:05:56.040 which is basically saying the loud part, the quiet part out loud,

01:05:59.040 which is the Supreme Courts can magic up rights out of thin air if they feel like it.

01:06:05.040 The Supreme Court is not bound by precedent.

01:06:08.040 That's the key thing.

01:06:09.040 We don't care what we said before.

01:06:11.040 I mean, we don't care what we said before.

01:06:14.040 We think this now.

01:06:16.040 And, of course, it only takes five of them to agree to make, to push something through.

01:06:21.040 So those five people are more powerful than any given president, in a sense.

01:06:26.040 But anyway, I wasn't really talking too much about the Supreme Court.

01:06:28.040 Let's just hope Kamala doesn't end up, Kamala, doesn't end up on the court.

01:06:33.040 Let's just hope that.

01:06:34.040 So the Independent there saying that Democrats are freaking out.

01:06:37.040 The next one, Vox.

01:06:39.040 It's funny that it's even lefty type things.

01:06:42.040 The theory why Biden's struggling with young, sorry, go back.

01:06:48.040 Or why Biden's struggling with young and non-white voters.

01:06:51.040 Just a general collapse in his popularity, really, is what that is.

01:06:55.040 They're sort of prepared to admit it.

01:06:57.040 And that the Democrat faithful are worried about it.

01:07:00.040 If you go to the next one.

01:07:02.040 Pardon me.

01:07:04.040 Should have bought a glass of water.

01:07:06.040 Politico, again, going with that same thing that people behind the scenes are freaking out.

01:07:10.040 Because, you know, even people like maybe Bill Maher or, I don't know, Bill Maher's not too bad, is he?

01:07:17.040 No, he is.

01:07:18.040 He absolutely is.

01:07:19.040 Okay, all right, I take that back.

01:07:20.040 Yeah.

01:07:21.040 What I mean is he's not sort of, at least he'll go on something like Loose Women and, not Loose Women, what do they call it?

01:07:26.040 The View.

01:07:27.040 The View.

01:07:28.040 He'll go on The View and push back against them.

01:07:29.040 There are worse people than Bill Maher, but yeah, lots of his takes are absolutely mental and insane.

01:07:32.040 But even someone like Bill Maher, I did mention him as an example of a lefty, but he'll openly say, look, Biden's, it's a joke.

01:07:39.040 Like, you know, come on.

01:07:40.040 You can't deny it anymore.

01:07:41.040 Even further than someone like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart did.

01:07:44.040 Right.

01:07:45.040 Someone like Jon Stewart.

01:07:46.040 Right.

01:07:47.040 Yeah.

01:07:48.040 We'll even, we'll say, look, come on.

01:07:49.040 And Jon Stewart's far worse.

01:07:51.040 Well, I mean, they're both bad as each other, but Bill Maher is less obvious with it, I would say.

01:07:56.040 So in the Politico article, we're told that these insiders, the unnamed source, it says that anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives.

01:08:09.040 And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV and in print and what they'll text their friends has only grown, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden's prospects.

01:08:19.040 Again, the polls just look bad.

01:08:23.040 Nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose range from immigration and high inflation to the president's age, the unpopularity of the vice president and the presence of third party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

01:08:36.040 You know, just to name but a few issues with Sleepy Joe.

01:08:41.040 Another quote here from a Democrat.

01:08:44.040 I think it was a congressman.

01:08:46.040 Is it Dan Kildee?

01:08:48.040 I think he's a congressman.

01:08:49.040 Definitely a Democrat.

01:08:50.040 He said, we have to run a campaign where honestly, we drive home the message that Donald Trump takes us back to the 19th century.

01:09:00.040 Biden takes us further into the 21st century.

01:09:03.040 So it seems like the Democrat establishment are going for the angle of much the same as they did the first time.

01:09:10.040 Just orange man bad.

01:09:11.040 Just just revel in your Trump derangement syndrome, regardless of how divorced it is from reality.

01:09:17.040 Just go from it will take us back.

01:09:19.040 He wants to be an emperor.

01:09:20.040 He wants to be king.

01:09:21.040 Whatever nonsense you want, whatever words you want to say.

01:09:23.040 We're just going to go with that.

01:09:25.040 He's going to destroy the country, destroy democracy as we know it.

01:09:29.040 I wish he was everything they said.

01:09:31.040 I was going to say, look, I don't I don't have contempt for the for the groups that they're talking about, nor do I have an issue with President Trump because he's hilarious.

01:09:39.040 But this is getting increasingly absurd when he's hosting the Lob Cabin Republicans, draking himself in the LGBT flag, is friends with Caitlyn Jenner and has given historic amounts of money to black colleges.

01:09:51.040 I mean, again, that's not something I think, yes, that's not something that I think makes him and his campaign positive or legitimate.

01:09:58.040 That's not the grounds on which I would support him.

01:10:00.040 But it just completely dismantles all of their smears.

01:10:03.040 Yeah.

01:10:04.040 Yeah.

01:10:05.040 Also, also, you said all this the first time round.

01:10:09.040 Right.

01:10:10.040 And none of that happened.

01:10:11.040 Yeah.

01:10:12.040 So, like, fool me once.

01:10:13.040 Not that I was fooled at the time, but fool me again, then that's not going to happen.

01:10:19.040 You sound almost exactly like George W. Bush.

01:10:22.040 Yeah.

01:10:23.040 Yeah.

01:10:24.040 I'm going to say that was completely intentional.

01:10:26.040 But if people are going to fall for this again, then they absolutely deserve whatever ruination Biden is going to bring into the country.

01:10:33.040 Fool me once.

01:10:35.040 We won't get fooled again.

01:10:37.040 Yeah.

01:10:38.040 Yeah.

01:10:39.040 No, it's stupid.

01:10:40.040 Yeah.

01:10:41.040 It really is stupid that, again, the angle that they're trying to attack him is just exactly the same as last time.

01:10:47.040 And he revealed himself to work perfectly within the rules to a fault even.

01:10:54.040 He didn't go hard enough to try and drain the swamp, did he, the first time?

01:10:57.040 Yeah, he didn't drain the swamp.

01:10:58.040 All right.

01:10:59.040 He didn't call in the National Guard against the 2020 riots, for example.

01:11:01.040 Right.

01:11:02.040 Biden did call in the National Guard before his inauguration even, didn't he?

01:11:06.040 Remember that?

01:11:07.040 They lined the streets of DC whilst Trump was still actually the president, anyway.

01:11:12.040 So there was a clip in the last day or so, because Trump's going through one of his many trials, isn't he?

01:11:18.040 One of the many trumped up, pun intended, trials.

01:11:21.040 This is the Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen lawsuit.

01:11:24.040 But there's a whole slew of them coming, aren't there?

01:11:27.040 There'll be another, at least another one, if not two, before the election.

01:11:31.040 And Bobby De Niro turned up on cue, obviously a paid shield.

01:11:36.040 Can we play this clip?

01:11:37.040 It's only like a minute.

01:11:38.040 Yeah.

01:11:39.040 Can we do that?

01:11:40.040 Where's the mouse?

01:11:42.040 There's the mouse.

01:11:43.040 We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot.

01:11:50.040 A two-bit playboy lying his way into the tabloids.

01:11:53.040 But around the country, people who didn't know him, as we did, started to support him.

01:12:00.040 They bought into his bullshit.

01:12:02.040 That's why I needed to be involved and wanted to be involved in the new Biden-Harris ad.

01:12:09.040 Because it shows the violence of Trump and reminds us that he'll use violence against anyone who stands in the way of his megalomania and greed.

01:12:19.040 But it's a coward's violence.

01:12:21.040 Do you think Trump ever threw a punch himself?

01:12:24.040 Or took one?

01:12:26.040 This guy who ran and hid in the White House bunker when there were protesters outside?

01:12:30.040 No way.

01:12:32.040 He doesn't get blood on his hands.

01:12:35.040 No, he doesn't.

01:12:36.040 He directs the mob to do his dirty work for him.

01:12:38.040 When Trump ran in 2016, it was like a joke.

01:12:42.040 This buffoon running for president.

01:12:45.040 No, never could happen.

01:12:47.040 We'd forgotten the lessons of history that showed us other clowns who weren't taken seriously until they became vicious dictators.

01:12:55.040 Trump, we have a second chance.

01:12:59.040 And no one is laughing now.

01:13:02.040 This is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all.

01:13:08.040 We don't want to wake up after the election saying, what, again?

01:13:12.040 My God, what the hell have we done?

01:13:16.040 We can't have that happen again.

01:13:19.040 So for a start, De Niro's 80 years old.

01:13:22.040 It's time just to stay at home now, Bobby.

01:13:25.040 He does know that he's not an actual gangster.

01:13:28.040 Right, yeah, he's talking about...

01:13:31.040 I know you're old now, Robert, and maybe you're getting things mixed up, but you weren't actually an Italian gangster at any point.

01:13:38.040 Well, he was a famous actor who seems now incapable of just learning lines before a press conference.

01:13:43.040 Yeah, he's reading off the script he's been given.

01:13:45.040 Also, it's completely disingenuous and disgusting to say that Trump hid in a bunker from protesters because those so-called protesters had already killed people and firebombed the church that he then went and stood outside holding up a Bible on 529.

01:13:58.040 He was literally evacuated for security reasons because they were worried that they were going to try and breach the White House barricade.

01:14:03.040 So, no.

01:14:04.040 Well, Biden really did hide in a basement for most of the last thing.

01:14:07.040 The entire campaign.

01:14:08.040 Yeah, De Niro talking about throwing a punch or taking a punch.

01:14:11.040 Yeah, Robert, you're not Jake LaMotta.

01:14:13.040 Yeah.

01:14:14.040 You're not actually Jake LaMotta.

01:14:15.040 It's not reasonable, yeah.

01:14:16.040 Like, you're not hard in any way.

01:14:19.040 You're an 80-year-old, washed-up douchebag.

01:14:24.040 But it's funny, though, because the backlash from this...

01:14:26.040 At the time, there were people sort of outside the court just, like, heckling him and stuff.

01:14:30.040 And I think the Trump...

01:14:31.040 Some of the Trump kids...

01:14:33.040 Trump's got more than one son, hasn't he?

01:14:35.040 Some of the...

01:14:36.040 Maybe it was actually Donald Jr., I don't know.

01:14:37.040 They did a counter press conference or something saying, don't listen to Robert De Niro.

01:14:42.040 Who listens to celebrities and film stars anymore?

01:14:45.040 I mean, even 10, 15, 20 years ago, it was a real thing, right?

01:14:49.040 If an A-lister endorsed a politician, a lot of people would...

01:14:54.040 There's some weight to that, right?

01:14:56.040 But not anymore.

01:14:57.040 I think we know by now that people who play pretend for a living and get a ridiculous amount of money for, again, being outsized theater kids.

01:15:08.040 No offense, Connor.

01:15:10.040 Fair.

01:15:11.040 Why do you think I'm not in theater anymore?

01:15:13.040 They all suck.

01:15:14.040 They aren't always experts when it comes to political discourse or analysis.

01:15:18.040 Did you see The Rock?

01:15:19.040 They were asked, oh, you said you might run for president in the future, but in 2020, you endorsed Joe Biden.

01:15:24.040 Do you feel like doing that again?

01:15:25.040 He said, well, I felt it was something that I was compelled to do at the time.

01:15:28.040 Will I be doing that again?

01:15:29.040 No.

01:15:30.040 No, I won't.

01:15:31.040 Because even he realizes there's a massive egg on his face.

01:15:34.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:15:35.040 I mean, De Niro always had, from day one, a pretty acute case of Trump derangement syndrome, didn't he?

01:15:40.040 There was that video.

01:15:41.040 He always was anti-Trump.

01:15:42.040 I think because he's a New York guy and a lot of New Yorkers, left-leaning New Yorkers, have had an animus against Trump since the 80s or earlier.

01:15:50.040 Or earlier.

01:15:51.040 Right, yeah.

01:15:52.040 Trump's been an annoying rich kid to them for decades and decades and decades, long before he was seriously involved in politics.

01:15:59.040 Yeah, he wasn't a real tough guy like us theatre kids.

01:16:01.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:03.040 I'll get you.

01:16:05.040 That's going to be clips out of context.

01:16:08.040 If we play this clip, it's just a little bit more of the same thing, but even more absurd.

01:16:13.040 Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth.

01:16:19.040 Nonsense.

01:16:20.040 I don't mean to scare you.

01:16:21.040 No, no, wait.

01:16:22.040 Maybe I do mean to scare you.

01:16:24.040 Poorly delivered.

01:16:25.040 If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye.

01:16:29.040 Oh, shut up.

01:16:30.040 That we all take for granted.

01:16:31.040 And elections, forget about it.

01:16:33.040 That's over.

01:16:34.040 Forget about it.

01:16:35.040 If he gets in, I can tell you right now.

01:16:39.040 He will never leave.

01:16:41.040 He will never leave.

01:16:44.040 You know that.

01:16:45.040 Yes.

01:16:46.040 He will never leave.

01:16:48.040 What does that mean?

01:16:50.040 Dramatic slow view.

01:16:51.040 Is that the country we want to live in?

01:16:52.040 Do we want him running this country and saying, I'm not leaving.

01:16:56.040 I'm dictator for life.

01:16:59.040 And that's why I've joined the Biden-Harris campaign.

01:17:02.040 Because the only way to preserve our freedom...

01:17:05.040 That's enough.

01:17:06.040 That was another clip of a guy confronting him, shouting, you're a mook.

01:17:11.040 Yeah.

01:17:12.040 You're a mook.

01:17:13.040 M-O-O-K.

01:17:14.040 This guy's gonna whack all elections.

01:17:16.040 What's a mook?

01:17:18.040 I don't know, but De Niro's a mook.

01:17:20.040 Yeah.

01:17:21.040 That's all I know.

01:17:22.040 De Niro walked up and said that the capital police officer lied under oath as well.

01:17:24.040 And he completely stumped.

01:17:25.040 He's like, they lied under oath?

01:17:26.040 He was like, they didn't put this in my script.

01:17:28.040 I wasn't prepared for this.

01:17:29.040 I've not had my...

01:17:31.040 My dementia meds this morning.

01:17:33.040 Neither have I.

01:17:35.040 De Niro's just a mutt.

01:17:37.040 Just a washed up mutt.

01:17:39.040 That's all he is.

01:17:40.040 And so I can't believe anyone would...

01:17:42.040 Like, it's just...

01:17:43.040 It's embarrassing.

01:17:45.040 It's embarrassing for him.

01:17:46.040 And yeah, it's good that he got pushed back sort of in real time outside.

01:17:51.040 And he's so clearly sort of reading a script as well that has been written for him.

01:17:56.040 I can only imagine.

01:17:57.040 I doubt he wrote those words himself.

01:17:59.040 He's like, he will never leave.

01:18:01.040 Why are you...

01:18:02.040 What a palpable lie.

01:18:04.040 What nonsense.

01:18:05.040 He did last time.

01:18:06.040 Yeah, like he did last time.

01:18:07.040 He did last time.

01:18:08.040 Yeah.

01:18:09.040 It's like we remember more than three years ago, four years ago, Bobby.

01:18:12.040 Like, what'd you...

01:18:14.040 Are you alright?

01:18:15.040 What's...

01:18:17.040 80.

01:18:18.040 It's 80.

01:18:19.040 Right, anyway.

01:18:20.040 Anyway.

01:18:21.040 So, looking at the actual polling.

01:18:23.040 Because all of this smacks a bit, doesn't it?

01:18:24.040 Of desperation, to be perfectly honest.

01:18:26.040 I didn't realise how much time I'd used up there.

01:18:29.040 So, just quickly to show the numbers.

01:18:31.040 Yeah, just click through a few of these links.

01:18:34.040 Just showing the disapproval rate of 60%.

01:18:36.040 That's really, really high.

01:18:37.040 Anything over 50.

01:18:39.040 Anything between 40 and 50 is pretty high.

01:18:41.040 Pretty bad.

01:18:42.040 59, that's real bad.

01:18:43.040 On that one, 39% says just lower than...

01:18:50.040 That's just, that's not approval or disapproval.

01:18:52.040 That's just what people are likely to vote for and stuff.

01:18:54.040 So, yeah, just Trump just keeps pulling ahead in the polls.

01:19:01.040 Just the more they sort of seem to fairly nakedly attack him through law for political reasons, the more people like Trump or are prepared at least to vote for him or abandon Biden.

01:19:15.040 The most likely part of a Biden victory has been speculated at the moment, and this is not falling afoul of YouTube's guidelines, is that there have been large voter registration efforts in swing states recently.

01:19:27.040 I know it's Texas and Missouri, I believe, are two prominent ones.

01:19:32.040 And the Texas, I think it was the AG, they said, we're not sure where all of these are coming from because we haven't cleaned up our voter rolls and lots of dead people have been taken off the rolls, obviously, so they can't vote.

01:19:42.040 There's about 200,000 people that are added in April, and people are speculating, are these America's brand new neighbours who have wandered across the southern border being given a social security number and then are able to vote in a federal election?

01:19:52.040 Because there was a recent ruling that allowed them to, that said it was against the Civil Rights Act if they couldn't vote in federal elections, at least.

01:19:59.040 So there could be many new arrivals who obviously are being promised amnesty by the Biden administration thinking, I'll vote Biden.

01:20:05.040 It's bad. It's real bad. It's horrible what they're trying to do.

01:20:10.040 And the argument that it's Trump that's trying to destroy a democracy or that he's ruining politics or the way politics is done, it's that classic, classic thing of you accuse your enemy of the thing you're doing.

01:20:24.040 I mean, we know this now. This isn't new. This isn't a hot take from me.

01:20:28.040 But this just seems like the biggest, most egregious example of that, where they're actively sort of destroying by using the law and the Justice Department to go after Trump to ruin him in all sorts of ways.

01:20:41.040 And then accusing him of weaponizing the political system or the justice system.

01:20:48.040 It's just really bad. And one last thing to say about the polling is there's a difference between your approval rating and disapproval rating, if that makes sense.

01:20:57.040 And so Biden's disapproval rating was like down in the higher 30s, which is really, really low.

01:21:06.040 That is really, really low. I mean, even I think George Bush Jr., I don't think went that low with the whole Iraq war stuff.

01:21:13.040 So, yeah, most people, it seems or definitely most people, the majority of people in America aren't happy with Sleepy Joe.

01:21:21.040 So once again, let's just say fingers crossed for the Donald.

01:21:26.040 You mentioned you had a couple of criticisms of him there earlier.

01:21:29.040 Yeah, I'm not. I've said it before. I'll say again.

01:21:31.040 I don't think he's like this god emperor, this answer to all the problems.

01:21:35.040 But a thousand times him over Biden. Absolutely. A thousand times.

01:21:40.040 And if he does try to drain the swamp a bit harder this time, I've got everything crossed for him.

01:21:46.040 Yeah, I don't love him. He is in his own way a bit of an embarrassment. Right.

01:21:53.040 But I mean, he's not a polished statesman, should we say.

01:21:57.040 He is very entertaining.

01:21:59.040 Yeah, he's very, very entertaining. It's genuinely funny.

01:22:02.040 And last time he didn't embroil them in loads of foreign wars.

01:22:07.040 Brilliant. That's brilliant.

01:22:09.040 And if he can drain the swamp, if he can do even two or three of the list of 10 things he said on Tucker a few months back,

01:22:16.040 saying, yeah, draining the swamp in all sorts of ways.

01:22:19.040 If he can do even some of that, that's going to be brilliant.

01:22:23.040 So I'm rooting for him.

01:22:26.040 OK, so that's it. Maybe move on to the video comments.

01:22:30.040 Video comments, please.

01:22:31.040 Hello, Lotus Eaters and various smarty pantses.

01:22:36.040 I think you will like my new series on the secrets of the Gaza conflict.

01:22:41.040 That's what I'm calling it.

01:22:42.040 It's on Rumble because they're the only platform that would host it, except maybe bit shoot.

01:22:46.040 I haven't checked.

01:22:47.040 It's on my imagination channel.

01:22:49.040 That's like imagination without the first eye.

01:22:51.040 Part three is up.

01:22:52.040 It's about how Israeli PR is badly backfiring.

01:22:54.040 And I really think you guys will like it.

01:22:57.040 Interesting.

01:22:58.040 OK, look at that if you're so inclined.

01:23:01.040 On to the next one.

01:23:03.040 The segment, the anti-white white man finding out yesterday reminds me of the book in Richard Pryor movie Brewster's Millions.

01:23:12.040 It is about a man who has to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days in order to inherit 100 million.

01:23:18.040 Being forced to have too much of what one desires, not only forces one to confront the reality of what one desires, but also teaches the virtues of moderation.

01:23:30.040 Brewster's Millions is entertaining.

01:23:33.040 I think he stands to win 300 million in Brewster's Millions.

01:23:37.040 I've not watched it.

01:23:38.040 I haven't seen it in about 10 years.

01:23:40.040 It's proper 80s.

01:23:41.040 It's great though.

01:23:42.040 I love Brewster's Millions.

01:23:43.040 It's a great movie.

01:23:44.040 Doing some sweet reverse curls there.

01:23:45.040 I mean, they're working the forearms.

01:23:47.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:48.040 Getting a forearm pump.

01:23:49.040 Brewster's Millions is basically the UK election where none of the above would win if it ran.

01:23:52.040 Ooh.

01:23:53.040 Yeah, probably would.

01:23:54.040 Might be worth an examination actually at some point.

01:23:56.040 Yeah.

01:23:57.040 Short video.

01:23:58.040 Anyway, on to the next one, I suppose.

01:24:00.040 Afternoon, Lotus Eaters.

01:24:01.040 A couple of three must watch videos, I'd say.

01:24:04.040 Yep.

01:24:05.040 First one being, yes, the Constitution is dead with Wade from The Wade Show.

01:24:10.040 Yep.

01:24:11.040 And then second one being, they control billions of people with Michael Knowles and Dr. Epstein.

01:24:19.040 And then the third one being fifth generational warfare.

01:24:21.040 This one's probably going to be the least known, in my opinion, and probably the most necessary to watch.

01:24:28.040 Oh.

01:24:29.040 All right.

01:24:30.040 If anyone does clip this for Twitter, you should watch Wade Stotts' channel.

01:24:32.040 He was a very entertaining producer for Louder With The Crowd before he struck out on his own.

01:24:35.040 And he's a very compelling dissident voice who understands how power works.

01:24:39.040 Basically, he just runs through the De Maestra principles and things that Oral McIntyre talks about in his Constitution video.

01:24:45.040 So definitely recommend it.

01:24:46.040 On to the next one.

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01:25:23.040 Is that real?

01:25:24.040 I assume so.

01:25:26.040 Have a look at the website, I suppose, people, if you're interested.

01:25:29.040 Bathory Bathory was a real person, a serial killer.

01:25:32.040 Yeah, she didn't quite bathe in blood as was advertised.

01:25:36.040 Some of the things are outlandish.

01:25:38.040 Probably exaggerated.

01:25:39.040 She was certainly a sexual degenerate.

01:25:41.040 And a serial killer, I think.

01:25:42.040 Yeah.

01:25:43.040 Oh, look, that's cool.

01:25:44.040 Yep, last one.

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01:26:14.040 This was not an actual ad read by the Trump administration.

01:26:17.040 But that is a great use of AI.

01:26:20.040 There you go.

01:26:21.040 Yeah, that's cool.

01:26:22.040 That's great.

01:26:23.040 I like that.

01:26:24.040 We should get Daisy to tweet that or something.

01:26:26.040 Can we use it?

01:26:27.040 Yeah, if you tweet us without the text over the top, then I would, as long as we have

01:26:33.040 a stipulation saying this isn't actually Donald Trump, because of course that's how

01:26:36.040 ridiculous things are these days, because people can't discern for themselves, would

01:26:39.040 be entertaining, I suppose.

01:26:40.040 I suppose.

01:26:41.040 Harry, do you fancy doing that?

01:26:43.040 Doing what?

01:26:44.040 The top popular comments, because you've got them up, please.

01:26:46.040 Oh, yeah.

01:26:47.040 There's a few rumble comments.

01:26:48.040 So those are the ones that I'll read first.

01:26:50.040 Bald Eagle 1787 for $2 says, UK sends a ton of diversity hires over to Ukraine to fight.

01:26:56.040 Russian air superiority, artillery superiority, and armored superiority just rolls along.

01:27:01.040 Russia don't care who fights them.

01:27:03.040 Arty kills equals L-Y.

01:27:05.040 I don't know what L-Y means there.

01:27:08.040 But yeah, Ukraine conflict, as much as the media says it's going great for Ukraine, Ukraine's

01:27:14.040 about to push the Russians back, has been going terribly for years now.

01:27:17.040 Yeah.

01:27:18.040 I mean, they're basically having to kidnap people in the streets of Odessa and other

01:27:23.040 cities, so they kidnap young men, and they're looking at reducing the legal age of conscription

01:27:29.040 there.

01:27:30.040 You don't do that if you're winning.

01:27:32.040 You don't do that if you will.

01:27:33.040 The war there has degenerated into an artillery war, and every war since about the 1860s

01:27:39.040 has degenerated into artillery exchanges, extended, prolonged artillery exchanges.

01:27:44.040 You don't want to be on the side that manufactures far less artillery shells.

01:27:48.040 You just don't want to do it.

01:27:49.040 It's as simple as that.

01:27:50.040 It's like air superiority.

01:27:52.040 If you don't have air superiority, you're going to have a tough time.

01:27:55.040 They probably don't go and try and fight for the side that hasn't got air superiority or

01:28:00.040 is winning the manufacturing war in artillery pieces and ammo.

01:28:04.040 Probably not a good idea.

01:28:06.040 Can you imagine dying in Ukraine because Rishi Sunak wanted to implement a policy that would

01:28:12.040 win over boomers?

01:28:13.040 No.

01:28:14.040 No.

01:28:15.040 While the drones coming for you are like, screw you Boris.

01:28:18.040 Yeah, thanks for this Boris.

01:28:20.040 I hope they make a statue out of you.

01:28:22.040 Threadnought for $20 says the 4th of July in America is celebrated as a day America became

01:28:28.040 independent from the English.

01:28:30.040 Bitchy C-flaps wants it to be the day England celebrates becoming independent from the English.

01:28:37.040 Yeah, it does seem like there's some weird

01:28:39.100 symbology going on

01:28:40.680 with the 4th of July election.

01:28:42.720 Well, the American election's also on the anniversary

01:28:44.900 of the gunpowder plot, so we've inverted.

01:28:46.540 Okay, we've inverted, yeah.

01:28:48.620 And the last one, the last two,

01:28:50.520 Threadnought again for another $5, thank you very much.

01:28:53.180 Quoting Bill Maher here,

01:28:54.540 not actually quoting Bill Maher, but maybe

01:28:56.540 this is his internal monologue.

01:28:58.120 Come on, guys, let's tone it down on the noncing,

01:29:00.260 at least until after the election, then there's nothing

01:29:02.260 they can legally do to stop us.

01:29:04.740 For legal reasons, that's a joke.

01:29:06.140 That's a joke, that's a joke.

01:29:07.920 Definitely wasn't addressing

01:29:09.020 John Podesta.

01:29:11.240 No.

01:29:11.940 Torgo the White, where would Bill Maher

01:29:14.380 and John Podesta meet each other?

01:29:16.060 They've got no connections.

01:29:17.160 Anyway, Torgo the White, $2.

01:29:19.760 Robert De Niro stars in Old Man Yells at Clouds 2,

01:29:23.000 Electric Boogaloo.

01:29:24.620 Hopefully his last film role.

01:29:27.280 Quite.

01:29:27.700 We run out of time for today, do we think?

01:29:30.020 I think we're about to hit the line.

01:29:31.680 That's unfortunate, but at 3 o'clock

01:29:33.900 I will be introducing my interview

01:29:35.980 with Liz Truss.

01:29:37.260 If you haven't subscribed to the website already,

01:29:39.200 then please do so beforehand

01:29:40.500 and you'll be able to watch it live.

01:29:43.520 I will get back to the political

01:29:45.020 and Twitter S-storm currently going on,

01:29:47.620 but thank you very much for co-hosting, gentlemen.

01:29:49.780 We'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

01:29:51.500 Until then, take care and goodbye.

01:29:53.040 Bye-bye.

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