The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 hey guys sorry about that don't know what happened we had a power cut all of a sudden

00:00:06.900 it's the deep state trying to take us down like alex jones yeah now we know how he feels we're

00:00:12.280 basically being besieged by the fit no we're not um it was just a power cut that was worst

00:00:16.800 possible timing so we'll just start again hello welcome to the podcast the low seaters for the

00:00:20.900 4th of june uh 2022 no 2024 our time is just when you get to our age leo time just has this weird

00:00:29.060 elastic quality yeah am i wrong yeah and it goes too fast yeah way too fast anyway i'm joined by

00:00:34.480 josh and leo and uh we're going to talk about media bias yeah so i'm going to cover media bias i was

00:00:39.920 just going to talk about the media bias with regards to the stabbing in germany but then there's also

00:00:44.960 the tommy protest and also faraj fact checking in the guardian which was hilarious but yeah i'll kick

00:00:50.180 off with the tommy robinson protest because it was described in the socialist worker uh which i admit

00:00:54.340 is a bit of a biased publication you know this isn't i've sort of cherry-picked this but they're

00:00:59.560 like they're calling it a nazi rally and uh yeah because the nazis were really big on union jacks

00:01:05.320 but this is really funny because they've got a picture of what is basically the winston churchill

00:01:08.480 fan club yeah yeah and there are also a lot of israel flags yeah at the march as well and you know

00:01:13.160 as if i remember correctly you know hitler wasn't the biggest fan of the jewish people uh my friend

00:01:18.920 andy was on the march he's gay and he's an ethnic minority andy no he's a journalist and he said he

00:01:24.360 was very welcome and uh it was a great atmosphere on the march you know this is a socialist worker 1.00

00:01:30.780 it's not a real paper it's just far-left propaganda for socialists who are stupid and if they weren't 1.00

00:01:34.800 stupid they wouldn't be socialists so let's see how real papers covered it we've got we've got the 1.00

00:01:41.220 telegraph here which is ostensibly uh conservative newspaper um and i saw this i saw this headline 1.00

00:01:48.200 it said tommy robinson supporters shout out hate chant at far right london demo so i thought i've

00:01:54.180 got to i've got to see what this is if you know the telegraph are so outraged you know what the hate

00:01:58.060 chant was it's people singing ala ala who the f is ala like to the tune of living next door to alice

00:02:05.100 the old smoky song so it's just a it's just a fun it's a funny it's an irreverent thing it's

00:02:10.660 very british humor to to you know chant something like that we do the same thing with other religions

00:02:15.820 we've got the book of mormon making fun of mormonism we've got life of brian making fun of christianity

00:02:21.280 we've got songs about the pope and all that kind of stuff so they never get described as hate

00:02:25.620 chants they just get described as uh you know um uh sort of progressive and modern and part of being in

00:02:30.920 a modern democracy but for some reason oh my god you do how is it even hateful though like it's

00:02:37.060 surely at worst it's a statement of ignorance yeah i was i was about to say that yeah that

00:02:42.040 there's not really anything hateful about saying oh we don't know who ala is yeah yeah yeah there's

00:02:47.880 no there's nothing hateful about it at all and it's revealing that this is now being classed as a

00:02:52.020 potential hate crime because it reveals just blatantly reveals that hate crime laws are blasphemy

00:02:58.500 laws yeah and they're protecting islam from being mocked uh so and even the telegraph which is you know

00:03:04.380 as i say supposedly a conservative newspaper is pushing this idea and if we look at the excuses

00:03:10.420 made for the other side because we have we have seen on the pro-palestine marches we've seen some

00:03:15.300 horrific uh chance for for the destruction of israel for worldwide intifada yeah worldwide intifada 0.96

00:03:22.640 uh the murder of jews global jihad the met police if we move on to the next tab we can see this is

00:03:28.400 how the met police responded to concerns that the hisbut tarir which is like an islamist group

00:03:36.900 they were chanting for jihad but i love this first line this is so good the word jihad has a number of

00:03:43.960 meanings so oh oh we're going to equivocate on that are we yeah of all the things you know it's that

00:03:50.160 we're equivocating on oh i like the uh the irony of this situation that that tommy protest was to

00:03:56.180 protest two-tier policing yeah yeah and here we go yeah and here we are yeah no you know your your

00:04:02.860 criticism of islam hate preaching them calling for jihad is something we need to enjoy the nuance

00:04:08.780 there's a specific context to jihad yeah it's a very contextual thing well people say it can be an

00:04:14.120 inner struggle like you know i don't think these men were shouting at some sort of you know it's a

00:04:19.380 path to self-improvement and stuff yeah that wasn't yeah are they going to the gym and they're

00:04:24.120 saying alahu akbar and hitting a treadmill i just want to get through this yoga session no

00:04:28.680 in islam there is actually a distinction here though the the the lesser jihad is a violent war

00:04:34.440 and the greater jihad is apparently the struggle the internal struggle yeah but the thing is i don't

00:04:39.680 think anyone's arguing the internal struggle against israel yeah sorry contextually it's just

00:04:44.000 obviously not the case yeah no absolutely and uh also calling for jihad or holy war is genuinely

00:04:50.780 sectarian and racist uh because you're calling for the death or conversion of infidels um so yeah i 0.63

00:04:57.680 mean it's ridiculous to say it's it's okay depending on context this is you know obvious 0.88

00:05:01.880 two-tier policing as you say and instead apparently the racism at the march at the weekend came from the

00:05:10.240 other side so if we move on to the next tab um i haven't verified this but um this this twitter

00:05:17.360 account um that monitors left-wing activity um records a police tweet that says um that says that

00:05:28.620 uh a stand-up to racism supporter was arrested for racially aggravated public disorder so

00:05:36.200 i mean that's that's interesting they've they've actually had to arrest somebody from the other side

00:05:41.420 for racially aggravated disorder i don't know if they're chanting anti-semitic stuff or what 0.89

00:05:46.620 and the and the people chanting nazi scum off the streets so the counter protesters the supposed 0.92

00:05:51.120 good guys who are against tommy robinson and against nationalism and all that sort of stuff 0.99

00:05:55.820 they were chanting nazi scum off the streets and that's an actual hate chant because you're 0.73

00:05:59.820 dehumanizing people who obviously aren't actual nazis i don't know much about tommy robinson all i 0.98

00:06:04.200 really know is like everybody on facebook was really angry at him because he stood outside a court

00:06:08.660 and there were where a trial for a grooming gang was going on inside and everybody's oh my god this

00:06:13.780 man he's standing outside a court and you know he could disrupt the trial nobody seemed to be upset

00:06:18.160 about what actually happened the cause of the trial and stuff for some reason tommy robinson standing on

00:06:23.980 a pavement was the the focus for everything i never really understood that um but the the march

00:06:29.200 clearly wasn't nazis um but dehumanizing them as nazis is encouraging violence uh against them

00:06:36.580 they might call it stochastic terrorism stochastic terrorism to use the terminology of the left

00:06:41.220 and we've also seen the stabbing in germany um there's a police officer who got stabbed in manheim

00:06:47.440 in germany there were some assumptions uh made about him tackling a bystander instead of the

00:06:53.940 the attacker but apparently look at that headline apparently yes that is just yeah apparently it

00:06:59.740 wasn't it wasn't because he'd been on diversity training and you know didn't want to look racist by

00:07:04.200 attacking um an islamic extremist it was because the bystander punched somebody who's tackling

00:07:09.460 the attacker yeah and then so it's just a big sort of chaotic mess and stuff there's also a video

00:07:16.300 showing uh female police officers running away but the headlines if you look if you look at the

00:07:21.260 headlines uh you would get completely the wrong impression so police officer dies after attack at

00:07:27.120 anti-islam rally in germany the the natural inference from this is that someone attending the

00:07:32.780 anti-islam rally attacked a police officer yeah absolutely absolutely and it's it's been reported like

00:07:38.440 that repeatedly stabbed so one of the anti-islam people turned up with a knife and stabbed the

00:07:42.200 police officer for reasons unknown yeah yeah and on sky news as well unbelievable it's right across

00:07:47.280 right across europe and all the media uh they're reporting it as uh you know police officers stabbed

00:07:52.740 during attack at far-right rally and it wasn't even a far-right rally it's like the guy's resisting

00:07:58.780 political islam he's resisting islamism which is you know in iran you've got all the the women in the 0.76

00:08:05.060 streets um protesting after the death of massa amini the woman who's killed uh for for not wearing a

00:08:10.840 hijab so they're you know what are they far right because they're protesting against islamism in iran 0.73

00:08:17.160 it's you know it's ridiculous the same people that would call this far right are the same people that

00:08:23.100 would say oh it's so brave oh it's stunning and brave these people are heroes in iran yeah and

00:08:28.460 they're not applying their principles evenly are they god bless community notes though

00:08:31.920 yeah yeah headline is misleading yes it absolutely is and the stabbing kind of demonstrates that

00:08:38.580 you know anyone rejecting islamic extremism might have a point yeah there are there are some downsides

00:08:44.200 to islamic extremism um and this this guy we move on to the next tab the the guy wasn't it wasn't a

00:08:50.360 far-right guy stabbing the police officer it was suleiman attai who's an afghan islamist who killed the

00:08:56.220 police officer in manheim and he lived in the country illegally for at least eight years

00:09:00.140 uh so according to his asylum file he came to germany in march 2013 and applied for asylum

00:09:05.280 his claim was rejected in 2014 and he's been living illegally in germany ever since then and

00:09:10.740 after nine years of living in the country he received a residence permit from german authorities

00:09:15.560 apparently after he fathered a child with a german citizen and he grew a full beard and developed an

00:09:20.740 identity around radical amish not radical uh islam and on a youtube channel he had a youtube channel

00:09:27.240 uh he featured the taliban flag in his profile photo and uploaded videos of uh the terror preacher

00:09:32.380 amad zar islamiyar if you're like this why did you leave afghanistan yeah it's to bring the afghan

00:09:40.980 societal structure to the rest of the world but i mean surely he'd be thrilled that the taliban have 1.00

00:09:47.200 taken over afghanistan because that's exactly the kind of order they're going to implement in that 1.00

00:09:50.940 country yeah why would you like oh no this is brilliant i'm going to live there yeah yeah

00:09:54.260 and apparently afghanistan used to be buddhist oh yeah yeah yeah centuries ago yeah yeah and then

00:10:00.220 it was uh it was colonized and you know taken over and pushed out lebanon being christian yeah

00:10:05.700 africa being christian iran being zoroastrian yeah yeah yeah pakistan was buddhist yeah yeah it's not 0.68

00:10:13.880 giant statues of buddha in pakistan it's nuts but if anybody's in a world like that it's israel that's 0.69

00:10:18.560 the colonizer of course we've got to remember that and we've had various other attacks on european

00:10:24.340 critics of radical islam there's pym fortine who was killed theo van gogh also killed but you know

00:10:29.120 apparently it's the far right who are the problem and the media treatment of the stabbings is

00:10:33.680 interesting across europe the media blurred the face of the attacker if we look at the next tab

00:10:38.540 we've got a screenshot of uh i think it's in um it's in oh yeah is that danish or something

00:10:45.680 uh wherever it is they blurred the face of the attacker they said that because they you know they

00:10:50.000 wanted it to they didn't want it to be exploited or anything like that um but recently videos of

00:10:55.740 young people singing auslander rouse which is german for foreigners out to the beat of this club song

00:11:01.740 l'amour toujours by gigi d'agostino uh it's prompted a frenzy of media outrage um top politicians

00:11:10.880 have condemned the young people and called for the maximum sentence maximum sentence for what

00:11:14.860 what's the crime i love that they're reflexively like something i don't like maximum sentence so

00:11:21.660 i'm afraid that's not illegal well the maximum sentence i think was two to five years and there

00:11:26.780 was a case for singing house and there was a case in germany where um a muslim raped a 15 year old girl 0.74

00:11:33.100 and they got a suspended they didn't even get a prison sentence for it yeah and in cases like that

00:11:37.940 sometimes they argue in court that um look at uh it's cultural uh oh well that's what happened there

00:11:46.240 was someone saying oh it's it's the refugees way of expressing discontent or something something along

00:11:53.120 those lines it's unbelievable i can't remember exactly what it was and anyone who doesn't like

00:11:57.580 that is far right that's where that's where we're at that's absolutely mental um and so the young

00:12:03.060 people's faces who are singing this song outlander rouse they weren't blurred despite you know not

00:12:07.760 really committing a crime like stabbing someone to death they were identified fired from their jobs

00:12:13.240 and subject to grueling character assassinations on on social media what i love about this though

00:12:17.760 this isn't them just expressing themselves you know that's the thing you know oh well you know when

00:12:21.660 he's raping a kid or whatever that's him just expressing as well it's just the culture 0.99

00:12:24.960 yeah but this this they they should know better oh this is organized yeah nazi yeah yeah goose 0.99

00:12:30.720 stepping down the street singing a song at a party i've seen the video they're just having fun

00:12:34.800 and criminalize someone like that you've got to think are we really good people here well yeah

00:12:39.220 yeah and i really i really can't understand why you know the the right is on the rise across europe

00:12:43.600 and you know the the authorities are treating people like that if it helps there are a few times in

00:12:48.080 history when the german authorities are the good people uh this is not one of those times

00:12:54.320 yeah and we're seeing young people in particular support uh right-wing parties across europe i think

00:12:59.080 uh the marine le pen's party in france its biggest uh chunk of support comes from young people which

00:13:04.780 is you know the opposite of what you traditionally expect it's the same with afd in germany as well

00:13:09.200 yeah it's interesting um so moving on to my final final media bias thing this is a fact check in the

00:13:16.900 guardian uh so this is one of the funniest fact checks i've seen it's been shared by the usual

00:13:21.880 dodgily funded far-left groups who say it proves faraj's claims are 100 false but if you read the

00:13:28.040 article it actually pretty much admits that faraj's claims are correct even though it says

00:13:32.380 they're all false it's a chap called peter walker um right he's famous uh for being a goonie beard man

00:13:39.040 on twitter who posts these things where he has to say uh well effectively you're true but i also think

00:13:44.560 you're a nazi yeah yeah so you're not true it's not correct yeah oh thanks peter whenever i see a 0.76

00:13:49.440 fact check in the media it's always like you know so there'll be somebody will claim like you know

00:13:53.280 oh a dozen guys in blue t-shirts uh massacred civilians or whatever and it'll be oh this is false

00:13:59.320 uh the t-shirts were actually aquamarine and they had a button uh collar yeah yeah shirts so this is

00:14:05.780 completely false i mean you know how i know that faraj's claims are obviously correct here it's because

00:14:09.660 they don't say they're not how do faraj's claims on immigration and economy and crime hold up

00:14:15.960 he's made some eye-catching claims okay but were they wrong well let's um i think there's a bit more

00:14:21.620 dignity in the people who hacked people's phones than being a fact check it's quite the insult yeah

00:14:27.180 yeah that is the insult uh so yeah let's look at the some of the claims so faraj claimed uh 2.4

00:14:33.040 million people settled in the uk over the last two years true um this is yeah they say essentially no

00:14:38.920 this is false it's not essentially false official statistics showed that 1.2 million people arrived

00:14:43.180 in the uk in the year ending december 2023 uh which projected over two years makes 2.4 million so

00:14:49.920 yeah but it was it was the same number last year yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's true but he says peter

00:14:56.500 walker says uh it's incorrect to say that they've settled many will have arrived many will have arrived

00:15:02.120 on temporary visas for example students and workers on contracts all right oh that's not it's so

00:15:06.960 different they're here they're just gonna be here for five years you see right okay yeah yeah they're

00:15:11.980 just here like i mean a lot of people stay on you know after their visas yeah expire or you know

00:15:17.600 extend their their visas or get residency or whatever but yeah no these uh because you know it's a

00:15:22.420 different box in the form it means even though these people are here you can't say that they're

00:15:26.500 actually here uh they're just a hologram so yeah it's ridiculous and um the the next claim by

00:15:32.240 faraj uh we need to build a new house every two minutes to accommodate legal migrants uh so peter

00:15:38.240 says it's not entirely clear what the statistic relates to i think it relates to the houses and

00:15:42.720 how people need to live in them and also when people come to the country they don't bring a

00:15:47.580 house with them yeah you know what i mean yeah you can bring a brick semi-detached on on your rubber

00:15:52.000 dinghy it tends to weigh the dinghy down a bit and make the crossing less less successful i just love

00:15:56.840 the assumption that migrants don't need to live in houses like people yeah like what are you talking 1.00

00:16:00.520 about they can just live on the streets i think the guardian would be more likely to say british

00:16:03.760 people don't need to live in houses absolutely so uh so he breaks down the mass he says the rate of

00:16:09.700 building a new house every two minutes would be slightly more than 260 000 homes a year equating

00:16:14.680 to about 2.6 people per house based on current net migration which is slightly higher than the average

00:16:20.300 uk household occupancy so yeah if anything it's an undercount yeah so he's understating it okay thanks

00:16:25.100 every minute oh it's way worse than nigel farage is making out so uh so he says it's not quite as 0.89

00:16:33.460 misleading as the 2.4 million claim although it doesn't take into account that the uk's housing

00:16:37.120 crisis is a question of distribution as well as supply with an estimated 700 000 homes empty at any

00:16:42.220 one time and of course the solution amazing the solution to the guardian is just like is to end the

00:16:47.140 concept of private property and just bring in communism and you know if there's an empty house anywhere you

00:16:51.340 know because somebody's waiting to could somebody's renovating it waiting to sell it uh or whatever it

00:16:56.980 is or converting it into hmos or whatever the the solution is for the state to seize it and put

00:17:02.220 exactly the important thing here there are not 700 000 derelict homes yeah at any time yeah nobody has a

00:17:08.100 claim on and they're just left to rot no no no no these are people who move house and sell their old

00:17:13.280 one and buy a new one yeah for a period of time a window of time like six months or whatever yeah that

00:17:17.200 house is empty yeah that doesn't mean we can just steal it between like that person moving in this

00:17:23.600 person moving in that's ridiculous and of course you know the markets are always slightly inefficient

00:17:30.280 there'll be things waiting on the market for for longer you know that's sometimes you go to

00:17:35.120 saying sainsbury's and you know they've got too many avocados and sometimes they don't have enough

00:17:39.120 this is just how markets sometimes work the solution is never communism um the next the next claim

00:17:45.180 uh farage told the audience um that uh local election candidates yelled ala akbar he didn't

00:17:52.720 actually say that in the the like i watched the whole thing live oh yeah and he actually stumbled

00:17:57.720 and said aloha akbar so a bunch of hawaiian yeah hawaiian extremists um fact check false in your face

00:18:06.220 nigel farage there were no hawaiians there at all yeah policeman was hit with a pineapple

00:18:12.580 at a far right rally um so yeah that's that's hilarious and that you know he says uh this is

00:18:19.420 false man i've seen a video i've seen a video but what's his name mention it there one of the

00:18:23.320 candidates in leeds no no this is a proper snopes fact check no it was the green candidate in leeds 0.85

00:18:28.600 and not bradford i'll have you know duh gotcha nigel farage so it's ridiculous and also uh also 0.90

00:18:38.440 they point out that ala akbar is commonly used by muslims as a celebratory term jihad has got 0.92

00:18:44.260 nuance yeah yeah i've seen a lot of people celebrating some pretty nasty things using that

00:18:49.200 so it's weird isn't it yeah um also farage claimed that the uk uh the uk is doing better than

00:18:55.560 economically than eu members um so then peter um the uk's quarter-on-quarter gdp growth was

00:19:03.380 0.6 percent for the first three months of 2024 compared with 0.3 percent for the eurozone

00:19:07.760 so we're doing the uk's economy is doing better than the eu like then he says oh but you've

00:19:13.740 selectively if you could if you compare you know a different periods and stuff yeah but it like he's

00:19:19.320 comparing this period he's comparing the most recent like period obviously so yeah that's that's

00:19:25.320 absolute bollocks like farage was was right and uh then the next one can you shoplift 200 pounds of

00:19:30.980 goods without being prosecuted um farage said the crime was so bad now that people generally don't

00:19:36.680 even bother to report it i've reported crime nothing happens yeah your crime number and it's 0.94

00:19:41.420 like i don't want a crime number i want you to come around do the fingerprint bullshit i see in 0.96

00:19:45.340 colombo and then find them track them down and beat them to up with these big nightsticks they 0.98

00:19:50.620 admitted a few years ago that 95 percent of burglars just go uninvestigated yeah yeah it's just like okay

00:19:55.040 and car crime is yeah it's just basically not illegal then yeah that's the case and shoplifting

00:20:00.400 has essentially been decriminalized in a lot of places some of us in in the office have actually

00:20:05.300 had to stop shoplifters because no one does anything i thought you were saying we've had to

00:20:08.900 stop shoplifting yeah yeah carl's told us not to um i don't want you to know but no um yeah there

00:20:17.380 was there was a guy who had a bunch of tracksuit bottoms under his arm right to feed his kids

00:20:22.040 yeah he may well have been a channel migrant actually he kind of looked like one but um i 1.00

00:20:27.480 hit him with my umbrella which is the most english way to yeah way to stop a shoplifter it didn't work

00:20:34.320 though he carried on he's not on my watch ruffian and i think waitrose now have in some stores they've

00:20:39.840 got their own private police force who are who have 100 conviction rate because they you know they go

00:20:45.420 after them so the police don't want i used to be a criminal intelligence analyst and to be honest

00:20:48.700 we did kind of tell shops like don't don't come because now everything's like available it's like

00:20:54.180 it's not like the old days where you had to go up the counter and like ask somebody you know to walk

00:20:57.300 around a shelf and like grab it off the of the thing or whatever so they're kind of generating crime

00:21:02.280 because it's all there and you can just grab it and stuff it in a pram or whatever so i can understand

00:21:06.440 why the police do it but it's wrong to say that um you know that shoplifting is not essentially now

00:21:12.820 decriminalized and if it's less than 200 pounds you know a lot of police forces say

00:21:16.600 genuinely do say like don't bother hassling us with it um and the sorry for inconvenience you

00:21:23.440 mr police officer i didn't realize it wasn't your job and the final one is uh faraj said that keir

00:21:30.600 starmer fought very very hard for those that arrive in the back of lorries to get benefits once they get

00:21:35.080 here says this is misleading i bet it's not misleading at all so it's an apparent reference to a 2003 legal

00:21:40.280 case in which starmer then a leading barrister represented five asylum seekers denied financial

00:21:45.020 support and won the case right so he did do that yeah and however this was not a generalized case

00:21:49.840 for us for all asylum seekers and nor was it about benefits in the usual sense of the word it was about

00:21:53.580 a group of people denied the very basic support including accommodation still given to asylum

00:21:57.640 seekers they don't get very basic support they get pretty nice yeah yeah support you know i mean

00:22:01.200 if anybody tries to put them in basic accommodation all the left is cry about it and have protests and

00:22:06.080 stuff it's ridiculous and they got put in an raf barracks which is good enough for our armed forces 1.00

00:22:11.160 and they burn it down yeah yeah and everybody complains like this is only good enough for

00:22:15.600 british people so so starmer did do exactly what faraj accused him of starmer starmer did it and also

00:22:21.520 you know the guardians say well this isn't a generalized case for all asylum seekers but legal cases set

00:22:27.340 precedent and did he say that it was a generalized case no he didn't say it was a generalized case

00:22:31.800 uh he said you know asylum seekers um like like literally um faraj is correct in what he said but

00:22:39.280 also in the sort of generalized sense he's correct as well because uh starmer although it's a case that

00:22:45.080 set precedent so whatever happened to starmer's asylum seekers then sets the rules for dealing with future

00:22:50.160 asylum seekers because the government knows that if they don't they'll be taken to court and look

00:22:54.180 what happened here and that'll be you know the same thing same thing will happen he also had a choice

00:22:58.680 to represent them or not i mean it's similar to sadiq khan isn't it yeah where he went out of his

00:23:04.000 way to represent some pretty horrendous people yeah yeah and obviously everybody's you know entitled to

00:23:09.060 representation in court but it is interesting when people you know just specifically you know deal

00:23:14.060 with the guantanamo bay terrorists and those people all the people who deal with like uh

00:23:20.000 represent terrorists or asylum seekers or whatever all seem to end up in the labor party and they're 0.64

00:23:26.640 going to be making the rules for the next five years they also end up very rich yeah i don't know

00:23:30.720 how that happens weird isn't money anyway so let's uh let's move on because i think that what

00:23:38.840 the previous segment has shown is the winds of change are actually blowing for once now this is a

00:23:44.040 remarkable thing because british politics is usually insanely stultified and for decades nothing ever

00:23:50.340 happens and so actually there's sort of a sweet scent in the air something is actually happening

00:23:56.180 um and i guess we'll begin with our interview with liz truss so conor tomlinson decided uh to invite

00:24:02.860 liz truss on for an interview and she came and this is a fascinating interview because she basically

00:24:08.100 describes the westminster political system as being totally captured by tony blair the labor party set up

00:24:14.760 the system so that the government isn't really in control of certain things and she essentially 1.00

00:24:20.280 described her removal as a banker's coup because the governor of bank of england can't be removed by the

00:24:25.780 prime minister because it's been made independent by tony blair uh and this uh this means that the

00:24:31.180 prime minister actually has a lot less power than you would than you would think and so the prime

00:24:36.540 minister is not essentially not sovereign in the parliament and so parliament is not actually the the

00:24:42.340 seat of power in this country that's concerning that's something you think the average man and

00:24:47.640 woman in britain would want to know since they're voters and they're voting for these people 0.98

00:24:51.040 who are actually underneath uh sort of quango industrial complex well he who holds the purse 0.82

00:24:56.860 strings holds the real power really exactly so you'd think the bank of england should be held

00:25:01.280 accountable to parliament and not the other way around but no tony blair has reversed the dynamic

00:25:06.460 and this is what liz truss uh explains to conor i mean i'm not going to play you can go watch it in

00:25:10.840 your own time it's a very good interview and sign up and support us etc etc uh and then for some

00:25:16.180 reason you think okay that's interesting because i mean maybe people on all sides of politics would

00:25:21.880 like hang on a second why would i bother getting elected if the quango industrial complex is the 1.00

00:25:26.260 thing that's in charge but for some reason out of nowhere jess phillips came screaming in no don't

00:25:32.220 attack the bankers this is all about me i was like what so i had to put out she she puts a statement

00:25:39.980 talking about me it's like jess what have i got to do with this this trust isn't being interviewed

00:25:45.960 by connor talking about the quango industrial complex keeping control of this country and how 0.99

00:25:51.100 the prime minister isn't really the person in the cockpit of power and you're like you know i just

00:25:54.900 really hate carl benjamin it's like okay oh this is because of that joke yes yes eight years ago

00:26:02.020 carl benjamin insulted me yeah i may have done so what's it got to do with now in the year of our lord

00:26:09.180 2024 so does it justify calling you an extreme far-right commentator i mean i'd say you're

00:26:15.900 conservative i mean i don't i think there are people who are way more extreme than i am you know

00:26:19.660 what i mean yeah i'm not saying i'm not a conservative or anything yeah i definitely am

00:26:24.040 but like maybe that's whenever whenever they give you these sort of um labels though i always view it

00:26:30.340 as a reflection of the person themselves yeah it's like okay if i'm i'm pretty normal and centrist i think

00:26:35.560 in a lot of my opinions yeah and if that's extreme far right maybe she's just really far to the left 1.00

00:26:39.520 yeah yeah so she's just looking through a telescope and good god look how far away he is didn't she

00:26:43.680 admit to being a socialist oh yeah she's she's proud of it as well yeah yeah she's a socialist

00:26:48.620 notice how just there's no labor branding on this apart from a very small rosette next to her

00:26:53.900 it doesn't say jess phillips you know for birmingham yard or anything it's just jess phillips jess phillips

00:26:59.200 like yes you are good at making this all about you jess but actually our interview with liz trust

00:27:05.360 wasn't about you uh you didn't come up in it and it had nothing to do with you uh and so she has

00:27:11.600 been banging on about this for nearly a week now non-stop she has gone on and on and on it's probably

00:27:17.440 about a dozen tweets or so of her complaining that the conservative party allowed their conservative

00:27:23.660 ex-prime minister to talk to conservatives it's like okay socialist why would you think it's your

00:27:31.680 business to get involved with who conservatives speak to other conservative media why is that your

00:27:37.500 problem i guess it is quite unusual for you know conservatives to be involved in the conservative

00:27:41.780 party to be conservative yeah genuinely is the case yeah yeah and and so jess is what you can't

00:27:48.380 have a conservative mp and former prime minister talking to other conservatives they have to talk

00:27:53.940 to the guardian uh and this is what she's been doing she's been trying to get liz trust deselected 0.99

00:27:59.440 because she told the british public what they need to know to some other conservatives well that's what

00:28:05.880 it's all about isn't it it's not actually about us yes it's not actually about us although it starts

00:28:11.200 becoming about us when she says stuff like i have abused her sorry jess we've never met i told a joke

00:28:18.240 about you eight years ago and you're the one who keeps bringing it up i don't think that actually

00:28:23.780 meets the threshold for any kind of abuse she made the same amount of fuss over uh you know jokes by 1.00

00:28:30.800 by people on the left frankie boyle maybe or uh joe brand or anyone that was the uh throwing acid in

00:28:37.080 farage's face wasn't it that's surely far worse and that because it's plausible it's a plausible i mean

00:28:42.720 things things like that happen we see attacks on politicians on the right after they've been

00:28:46.340 demonized by socialists and after they've been demonized in the in the media i mean you think

00:28:50.640 that the claim of abuse would have a standard of evidence right so there would be some kind of

00:28:55.980 objective uh proof that you could show so perhaps i would have a criminal record or something maybe

00:29:00.800 i'd have been arrested maybe there'd be a mugshot of me or something like that but i don't have a

00:29:04.460 criminal record i've never been arrested and i've never been charged with it i've never seen the

00:29:08.300 inside of a courtroom so i don't know exactly what standard she would be using in fact it seems

00:29:13.340 that she is being hysterical uh but anyway lots of slightly defamatory well yeah yeah so anyway we uh

00:29:21.140 we we got the usual round of media monstering um oh no we're evil and far right and liz trust has

00:29:28.840 been radicalized like we didn't radicalize liz trust her time in office radicalized because she's 1.00

00:29:33.980 like all right i can't do anything because the banks are going to take me out i like the idea that

00:29:37.360 she's an avid listener so if you are watching liz hello yeah good job keep going um you know and it

00:29:42.900 kept going everywhere now sky news as you can see kay burley here while liz trust appeared on the

00:29:48.460 podcast founded by carl benjamin she should be deselected but then she had to retract that 0.69

00:29:53.640 because there was a bunch of falsehoods in her tweet which i appreciate you know um because she 1.00

00:29:59.760 made it sound like i i i've made the statement about jess phillips on that podcast right it wasn't me

00:30:05.820 it wasn't on that podcast it was eight years ago there's got nothing to do with jess phillips

00:30:09.820 don't know why you're talking about her uh don't know why she has to try and insert herself 0.83

00:30:13.300 uh and so kay burley had to retract that because that was probably libelous and defamatory it's 1.00

00:30:18.660 amazing really i knew that the mainstream media was rubbish but it's like a really terrible game

00:30:23.440 of chinese whispers and they're probably going to say that's offensive now for some reason yeah um but

00:30:28.180 yeah that they can't even copy each other's homework can they but the reason i say all of this

00:30:34.960 is because the response to this has been interesting so liz trust has not asked us to

00:30:41.420 take the podcast down yeah he has not made a statement disavowing us or anything like that

00:30:45.920 rishi sennac was asked about it and he sort of pivoted and pericaded on it she's asking jeremy hunt

00:30:51.760 here and jeremy hunt doesn't even disavow us of all the people yeah yeah like you would think okay

00:30:56.760 why do you why don't you just throw us under the bus guys yeah well i think it would cost you nothing 0.65

00:31:00.520 we're hitting that point that douglas murray was talking about where the the sort of there's more

00:31:04.940 harm comes to you from from disavowing you yeah um so more people because i think a lot of people

00:31:11.760 you know platforms like this have got more of a following uh now and you know with what i'd

00:31:17.080 describe as sort of regular people i mean i don't think any of us are extremists like i'm just like

00:31:23.300 a 90s leftist yeah who sort of stayed in the same place and the world went absolutely bonkers

00:31:28.440 communist trying to transition kids critical race theory social justice all this nonsense and so

00:31:35.640 you know while it's gone mad i've just sort of stayed the same no i completely agree i mean you

00:31:40.700 know i just consider myself to be a conservative it's crazy um but anyway so lots of uh lots of

00:31:47.080 people came to our defense i mean one of the people and this was again another fascinating one um

00:31:52.680 kemi badenock that wasn't in defense of us but didn't engage with their narrative so she was 0.94

00:31:59.880 being grilled on bbc4 because again like okay what is this really such a big issue and kemi badenock

00:32:06.920 just told them look i think you're being trivial and unserious it's like wow okay yeah that's kind of a

00:32:12.840 worse put down in a way it's just like you're wasting my time exactly i agree uh you know again the

00:32:18.380 conversation we had with liz trust was nothing to do with jess phillips uh and this is clearly an

00:32:23.280 obvious partisan attack and then we just had lots of people who were very uh kind to us come out i

00:32:28.600 mean narinda kawa you know narinda right oh yeah very left wing first thing she did and she she did 1.00

00:32:33.840 this really quickly because in jess phillips uh letter she was making a lot not just complaining

00:32:39.680 about the jokes she was suggesting that i may in some way have been like dangerous to women or

00:32:44.140 something and narinda just came out and said no he was a wonderful gentleman couldn't have felt

00:32:47.840 safer good guy and it's like thanks narinda you didn't have to do that and she took a lot of

00:32:51.820 flack for this but she's you know stood on the point that's good about it's good to see people

00:32:55.680 sticking by principles yeah it is graham lyndon who like five years ago was calling me a nazi

00:33:01.300 but sarga mccann was gracious and polite when we met and certainly understood the gender debate

00:33:06.340 gender debate better than jess phillips ever did and uh just you know obviously dank came out and just 0.99

00:33:11.940 like stupid joke tweet she's still got a hate boda for it uh constantine kissing 0.98

00:33:16.420 and loads of others uh emma webb like just like look you guys are just being really unreasonable 0.97

00:33:23.180 because i have not said anything about jess phillips for years because why would i want to

00:33:27.220 yeah yeah you know this was an unprovoked attack because they saw us interviewing someone they

00:33:31.860 don't want us to interview yeah well too bad and it's on the website go and watch it it's a really

00:33:35.800 good interview and it's very revealing about westminster and uh what's interesting though is

00:33:40.680 that things are getting pushed in the other way so i put up a video saying look i'm you know it's a

00:33:44.680 cruel thing to get monstered by the media and politicians and graham lyndon replies going

00:33:47.800 well i'm ashamed i once fell for the chicanery think of what you know about someone who has a 0.97

00:33:51.540 bad smell about them and ask yourself what exactly did this person do wrong often you'll find the

00:33:55.440 answer is f all or they should in fact be commended for arriving first on the scene of a scandal like

00:34:00.640 rotherham who's that about that's about tommy oh right because he was the first you know in 2011

00:34:08.800 going on about and that's how that's how far the dialogue is shifting yeah so even someone like

00:34:13.860 graham lyndon who like you know like five years ago yeah it was like no they're all nazis and i

00:34:17.900 hate them all is now like well actually what did he actually do wrong actually he he was blowing the

00:34:23.300 whistle before the the the atmosphere was ready for it that was really the issue and he's he's

00:34:29.360 completely right about this and this is utterly commendable in my opinion yeah uh and so anyway uh

00:34:34.440 other people uh like lee harris a gb news contributor here uh was like well hang on a second okay he

00:34:39.660 told an inappropriate joke eight years ago but it's not like the rest of you haven't let's talk

00:34:43.560 about frankie boyle shall we i'm sure jimmy carl's got a few you know we're really hanging people for

00:34:48.900 telling inappropriate jokes now um good point uh and so then let's move on to the that was all just

00:34:55.420 from wednesday onwards last week this is all really recently uh and so then let's talk about the big event

00:34:59.580 on saturday which i went to and i was speaking at and as you can see uh on the stage here i'll uh

00:35:06.580 i need to turn the sound off but you can see the size of the crowd it just goes right the way back

00:35:11.860 to the buildings that's probably 25 to 30 000 people in parliament utterly packed out on every

00:35:17.780 side massive crowd it was like okay this is amazing lots of people are bothered by all this a big

00:35:23.620 big event is happening i mean there was uh when it was going on live uh as you can see down there you

00:35:28.960 know this is like 800 000 people had tuned in you know this is massive yeah i watched a little bit

00:35:35.540 because i wasn't able to go and i added up the numbers of multiple streams and it was well over

00:35:41.060 a million undoubtedly and yeah that's on top of the people who actually attended as well exactly and

00:35:46.540 that yeah look that's just on tommy's own one live stream so the idea that this sort of media

00:35:53.020 narrative is impervious or is even taking hold in people's minds these days seems to be very very

00:36:00.600 it's wearing thin yeah wearing very very thin this is the first election that isn't going to be sort

00:36:05.920 of steered by yeah mainstream media yeah you know everybody's getting their news from uh from from

00:36:12.080 the internet yeah and weirdly enough it's starting it's starting to actually bleed into the news so you

00:36:16.520 covered this one earlier and yeah this was obviously this was one of the first ones that they published and

00:36:21.000 it was you know okay a very left wing very left wing frame but then you get the sky news one it's

00:36:26.840 actually quite fair tommy robinson thousands gather for far right demonstration in central london okay

00:36:31.680 that's i mean far right from your perspective fair enough but that's not inaccurate tommy far

00:36:37.260 right activist tommy robinson organized a demonstration in central london to call out a

00:36:40.700 two-tiered policing system and demand the resignation of met police commissioner mark rally yeah that's true

00:36:45.060 that's what the purpose of it was because we have a two-tiered police system and the met commissioner

00:36:49.360 should be should resign because we shouldn't be operating a two-tier police system that's actually 0.96

00:36:53.480 really fair yeah and so there were other ones i mean yeah obviously the independent is a gay

00:36:58.260 publication apparently called their flag um and it's now an anti-muslim chant okay fair enough

00:37:03.960 whatever but um yeah so like the the media was doing what the media does but there was very little

00:37:12.460 strength behind it there was no teeth in the bite yeah yeah you know no one was like oh no look what

00:37:17.260 they've written about us everyone knew what they were gonna write yeah and everyone just kind of

00:37:20.080 laughed it off it's the boy who cried wolf exactly especially as nothing bad happened that's the

00:37:26.080 thing like absolutely nothing bad happened my art uh was there till late in the day obviously a big

00:37:32.860 group of police officers mobilizing at trafalgar square asked if they were dealing with the people

00:37:36.380 from british rally earlier police confirmed it was real madrid fans and then said to be honest we

00:37:40.520 were told to expect trouble the rally but didn't get any uh no everyone acted absolutely impeccably

00:37:46.420 at the rally and it was just it was a real festival sort of atmosphere it was really good fun i saw a

00:37:51.700 picture of the the green outside of parliament well it is parliament square isn't it it is

00:37:55.740 parliament am i pre-saging what you've got here no no no no but i i didn't get that actually but it

00:38:00.060 was clean wasn't it it was left clean it was like the japanese it really was and it is it's shocking

00:38:07.240 because it's like okay you know i expect high standards but i can understand if people have thrown

00:38:11.720 the rubbish away well it wasn't a climate protest it's almost like there were people who are

00:38:15.640 integral to civilization there you know that wherever they go it's actually left nice people

00:38:20.000 put the trolley back but you can tell that it went really well because look at these were the

00:38:25.380 counter protesters look at their sour faces look at how miserable they look oh god they're having a 0.99

00:38:32.020 really good day and then they don't care that we're calling them nazis so that sucks for you stand 0.98

00:38:37.100 up for racism uh anyway so uh there was a pro-palestine march as you said and it got violent uh apparently 0.88

00:38:43.800 very very intense uh atmosphere there and they ended up uh getting arrested and there were nine

00:38:51.340 people arrested from this pro-palestine march yeah and they were fighting with the cops i won't play

00:38:55.860 the video because it's interesting to see the cops like finally actually you know i guess i'm surprised

00:39:01.260 if tommy's rally was about two-tier policing it would have been a bad time to want to start like

00:39:05.380 swinging bats around and cracking heads did you see the um the met police's uh statement they released on

00:39:11.340 it because it's directly criticizing them and they were really um biased in how they presented it i

00:39:17.240 didn't actually it's just like there are known football hooligans and stuff like that it's like

00:39:21.540 they're just trying to portray it as something it wasn't because it is insulting them yeah i mean

00:39:26.860 there were so many women there you know like it like you know just just normal british english women 1.00

00:39:32.300 who are just like yeah i really don't like the way the country's going you know and yeah the result

00:39:36.680 it's like oh we're worried about this rally it's like well you they ended up having to peel police

00:39:41.440 away from it to go and deal with the palestinian protest so just saying you know if you need to

00:39:46.640 pay attention the future and so one thing that people noticed especially a lot of gb news commentators

00:39:51.420 were like hang on a second this didn't go as we thought it would and these people don't seem to be

00:39:57.140 the sort of people that we've been told they are i mean you had uh leilani downing here who was like

00:40:02.040 well look at this this if this is far right i want to be far right beautiful peaceful no mask faces

00:40:06.420 everything you know people just having a very good time and it's like okay yeah that's totally

00:40:11.680 reasonable frankly i think that's exactly a correct representation of what happened and then you had

00:40:16.320 alex phillips come out and say well i've seen my for myself the terrifying scenes of the far right

00:40:21.180 football hooligans uh and obviously she's being sarcastic because they were just normal people

00:40:25.640 they were just normal people just chilling and they were singing sweet caroline right you know and so

00:40:32.220 that's why they're waving their arms won't play that's probably a hate crime yeah exactly exactly it's

00:40:36.340 just people just and you can see just like the regular look there are women and kids at the 0.99

00:40:41.280 front there just women like uh like about half the crowd's bloody women yeah and the people 1.00

00:40:46.600 defending it is women yeah here's another one michelle giabry is like oh well beware the far 1.00

00:40:51.860 right hooligans who are just hanging out just looks like the football's been on doesn't it not even

00:40:57.700 like well there'd be more men at the football you know if it's like the world cup women come out 1.00

00:41:01.560 well yeah but um israel flag yeah yeah yeah oh yeah in the distance yeah and i think that's

00:41:09.080 another flag of wales there that black and yellow one i'm not very familiar with it though um but

00:41:13.560 anyway yeah so michelle did a really good uh segment on some gb news just been like okay they're just

00:41:18.640 not telling the truth about these guys you know it's like yep welcome to the world in which we

00:41:23.140 inhabit this is what they're like uh and uh and yeah and so just a quick thing of course farage

00:41:28.420 standing in clacton the energy is different this time like you can feel like okay no all of the old

00:41:35.100 incantations that used to keep people in their place yeah are falling away the frame yeah and

00:41:41.020 clacton's a very ukipi sort of constituency as well so farage probably will get it because i think it's

00:41:47.000 being done on the back of this poll that showed reform at 37 so finally thank god we're going to see

00:41:53.220 nigel farage in parliament yeah right that's superb for the foot like he you know he's actually going

00:41:59.460 to from the right this way uh break the two-party paradigm yeah because george galloway has managed

00:42:05.720 to do it by just weaponizing gaza yeah in rotherham or rochdale or wherever it was uh but farage is

00:42:11.100 actually going to be able to do it from the right from the patriot side which is superb and so yeah just

00:42:16.340 things are changing it's becoming apparent that the blairite paradigm and media dominance with it

00:42:22.600 are coming to an end this is superb news for those people who just want some common sense politics in

00:42:27.780 the country yeah it's been a lot of work to get here isn't it yeah although a lot of because because

00:42:31.780 the way our voting system our political system works we're still gonna have a massive it looks like

00:42:36.680 a massive labor majority and but i think that could actually you know if anything um precipitate more

00:42:43.980 of a change and especially in people's thinking because it's going to be as much as you know

00:42:49.220 starmer's tried to tried to tidy up the party and purge it of the far left pranks and everything and

00:42:53.920 all the you know all the he's tried to put a lid on the gender ideology stuff all that progressive

00:42:59.060 nonsense is going to come in they're going to be a big surge of power they could possibly oppose starmer

00:43:03.600 even in you know putting somebody far left i am actually spoke to someone selling the socialist

00:43:09.500 worker on the streets oh yeah um and i asked him about um the labor party and he was saying oh

00:43:15.240 they're not going to last they're not even going to survive the the five years really yeah it's just

00:43:19.720 like he's saying that there's no chance you know they're too reliant on capitalism he said

00:43:24.740 the problem is that starmer's a 100 died in the war blairite yeah just be more blairism until the end of

00:43:32.280 time and that's the thing that i think people are really getting tired yeah yeah is this this you know

00:43:36.500 the the 2000s consensus no it's run out now yeah we need something new um but we'll leave that

00:43:41.820 okay some good news sorry one is not good news but um but thankfully it's far away it is well at

00:43:51.340 least for us yeah for once okay not tied up in cables now

00:43:55.960 got all the links loaded lovely so there was an election in mexico recently and um there was lots

00:44:05.620 of violence and obviously violence in mexico is like rain in british summertime it's nothing really

00:44:11.160 of note it's expected at this point but it was a particularly violent one i just wanted to have a

00:44:16.160 little look at it because i find it interesting there are lots of lessons to be learnt about the

00:44:21.300 effect of a breakdown in civil society and the effect it has on politics and also when criminal

00:44:26.440 gangs reign supreme which we're increasingly seeing in the west a lot of the time so this is going to be 0.81

00:44:31.080 a pro bukele segment then unintentionally yes but yes believe it or not if you crack down on criminal

00:44:37.760 gangs and cartels your country gets safer and things get better and how many assassinations will

00:44:43.140 there be in the in the next el salvadorian uh hopefully a big fat zero yeah but um here are the results and

00:44:51.080 i'm gonna sort of explain that this was there was a presidency race this is also for the the senate and

00:44:57.100 the chamber of deputies but um there were 20 700 federal and local positions being elected so it's

00:45:04.060 a big election right and uh i'm going to explain some of the parties just the main ones really so

00:45:09.180 they're all communists aren't they not all of them but some of them are very left-wing not all of them

00:45:15.100 oh good so morena um the top one here that did fairly well they're sort of described by the

00:45:23.060 mainstream media is center left therefore they're probably socialist and they've been the ruling

00:45:27.640 party since 2018 and they're also the party with the largest amount of membership as well um and there

00:45:35.380 was a coalition a sort of uh right and right center coalition between pan there um which stands for the

00:45:43.820 national action party and which is conservative supposedly and pri or the institutional revolutionary

00:45:51.240 party which is the party of the mexican revolution all right and they held power between 1929 to 2000

00:45:58.540 right um obviously not democratically and together they can't even get half the seats of the commies

00:46:04.700 yes and there are some interesting questions about um how this has come to be right so first of all um

00:46:13.620 here is los angeles on the day of uh mexican mexico's general election and you might notice

00:46:20.680 a very long line and you're just like hang on a minute surely it's not going all the way to

00:46:25.240 mexico yeah for mexicans this doesn't go all the way across the border all the way to mexico

00:46:30.940 the this is the first election i think in mexico um if i read it correctly where citizens living

00:46:37.440 abroad could vote and uh right as you can see a lot of them in los angeles decided yes and also

00:46:44.880 uh chicago as well that's interesting because uh the smp and in the referendum the scots who don't

00:46:52.780 live in scotland weren't allowed to vote even if we live in england like i live in i live in england

00:46:58.520 it's the same country but we weren't allowed to vote in the referendum even though we're the ones

00:47:02.240 who've left scotland and know what the rest of the uk is like and are probably a bit less xenophobic

00:47:06.920 and anti-english because uh that's what they don't want you voting yeah yeah yeah they knew that you

00:47:11.540 would you would vote against it yeah yeah like my granddad was scottish well he's not alive anymore

00:47:17.180 but he still was and uh i asked him why he left scotland and he's just like well england's like

00:47:22.560 scotland except everything's better yeah yeah yeah that's exactly what he said like a step on the way

00:47:28.140 to australia or america i asked i asked about this the sn the smp still wildly anti-english he was

00:47:34.700 just like well obviously yeah it's just that thing they got it's the pillar of their politics yeah we

00:47:38.760 hate the english yeah thanks scott nationalism wait until they find out we're not that bad

00:47:42.520 so um there was also this there have been lots of attacks on voting stations and this was obviously

00:47:49.840 done by the cartels uh i don't think we need to look for a culprit it's pretty obvious in mexico

00:47:55.640 if something bad happens the cartels yeah has something to do with it and this raised lots of

00:48:01.120 questions because of course they're targeting specific um voting stations um perhaps with election data

00:48:08.360 um but they're just trying to influence the election to their favor right that's what they're

00:48:13.980 doing it seems pretty um uncontroversial are they targeting conservatives the conservative

00:48:21.060 coalition here then well we'll be getting on to that oh sorry there um there is a long list that

00:48:26.160 we're going to go through um and not just being indiscriminate it seems like it oh really yeah

00:48:31.620 they just hate democracy well maybe maybe i mean maybe they do like people who pay them i think is

00:48:36.480 the way it works right but here is another article um mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be

00:48:43.340 playing a wider role in sunday's election than before and they seemed to take a much stronger

00:48:49.300 line all of the cartels in trying to target the democratic process which obviously is a legitimate

00:48:56.240 problem because violent gangs using violence to influence democracy is not a good thing i know

00:49:02.980 extremist over here the idea that this is in any way controversial to say is mad i'm making sure

00:49:10.320 to outline it very clearly because i know there are certain censors on certain platforms like youtube

00:49:16.100 um that will tell me off for saying these sorts of things well no we're against the interference

00:49:20.820 yeah we are yeah we don't think people should be murdered when they're trying to vote

00:49:25.160 and speaking of murders right opinion here we go um just before the actual uh election day i think

00:49:33.480 it was 37 i've also seen 38 um banded around but 37 is the one i could confirm 37 candidates

00:49:41.900 yeah that's not even just were assassinated yeah that's not yeah correct because i mean you think

00:49:46.560 okay well you know tens of thousands of people going to the polls okay right enough cartels kill

00:49:51.060 some people these are assassinations of candidates yes and uh that beats out the 2021 midterms by one

00:49:58.860 assassination so that was 36 candidates assassinated but this that was a previous record so they broke

00:50:05.760 their record uh well done cartels you've been very evil this year um and is there any sort of is

00:50:11.400 there a coordinated reason are they all uh being killed because they're part of a you know a block

00:50:16.240 that wants to that wants to clamp down in the cartels or something well it's not clearly targeting

00:50:20.580 a specific political party so what i'm imagining they're doing is they don't really care about the

00:50:25.760 actual politics side of it what they want is people who are in their pocket who are going to

00:50:30.460 treat them favorably right it doesn't really matter what party they're in if you threaten their family

00:50:35.680 if they're corrupt and want money yeah you can have any political ideology that's a sort of human

00:50:41.160 condition yeah and so in many ways if they target people indiscriminately it's actually harder to find

00:50:49.120 out what they want as well because they're not aligning themselves with a specific political party

00:50:54.440 and therefore you can't say that's the party of the cartel and vote them out so they seem to know

00:50:59.560 what they're doing and it has been argued um here on al jazeera of all places um that the election results

00:51:06.880 are a victory for organized crime because yeah um it's this left-wing party that has succeeded the

00:51:15.900 one that's been in power since 2018 and if you'll definitely be hard on crime yes and the fact that

00:51:21.980 they've been in power for so long seems to indicate that certain forces in mexico are pretty content

00:51:26.920 to operate under their authority and um here we have a list of all of the people who have been

00:51:35.680 assassinated and um i'm not gonna obviously the political party yeah there there are people from

00:51:41.980 morena and pan yeah and pri as well so these are the main three parties and in fact um this goes

00:51:48.800 through chronologically yeah there's quite a few morena ones so yeah yeah so things like armed

00:51:54.460 assailants kidnapped and killed um former mayor and member of citizens movement ambushed and shot

00:52:00.100 after dropping off his son near a school i presume uh had previously been kidnapped while his sister was

00:52:07.980 mayor um killed while walking near his residence at nine in the morning and driving down a highway

00:52:14.740 fatally shot and you've got every kind of assassination here so the risk of running for office in mexico

00:52:21.080 like fatally shot in a gym uh there um i mean this really does just validate everything

00:52:28.400 becadie did you know like the the liberal media was just whining how can you just arrest all of these

00:52:33.900 scaring members it's like because otherwise you'll end up in a condition like this this one was

00:52:38.620 surprising to me a trans woman and activist who was candidate um for regidora um she was shot by

00:52:45.280 armed assailants while working at a clothing store so it has been confirmed that the cartels are

00:52:50.240 transphobic so maybe the us is actually going to do something about them now yeah there's another 0.90

00:52:54.820 one directly below really yeah trans woman who's shot by armed assailants writing oh well there 0.92

00:52:59.240 there we go it seems like the biden administration is actually going to target the drug cartels now

00:53:03.620 yeah because trump was talking about actually sending the army and to deal with the cartels is

00:53:08.260 it not validated like it's not it's not a good idea but the problem is how many candidates have to

00:53:13.460 be assassinated before they're like okay we have to do something about this some of the cartels have

00:53:17.240 like special forces grade equipment i've seen um was it cjng or nj something like that um they are

00:53:25.560 kitted out with you know silenced machine guns and they have the full works all the kit um sort of

00:53:32.980 armored apcs um they've got it all they've got mounted machine guns it looks like an army yeah

00:53:39.700 in fact they look better equipped than the mexican army to be honest probably are that's probably why

00:53:43.320 the mexican army hasn't dealt with them and it really puts scottish drug dealers to shame 1.00

00:53:46.900 they're tundling around some gray estate with a ice cream van 0.98

00:53:50.740 got a shotgun and an ice cream van getting all these dirty 10 pound dorks 0.97

00:53:56.100 i think at worst you could uh hope for a knife in scotland perhaps yeah my dad tells me right 0.95

00:54:03.100 yeah yeah yeah so the list carries on here yeah and it does seem to be people from every party so

00:54:10.600 it does just seem to be trying to get yeah you're right dirt on people there's no clear trend here

00:54:15.460 um yeah it seems to be an attack on the very concept of governance in mexico doesn't it

00:54:20.320 exactly well the cartels want to be the sort of um de facto rulers don't they obviously they want

00:54:26.460 the the the government the formal government to be the public face i don't know much about them but

00:54:32.120 they seem to just be essentially warlords it it does work that way you know they have a territory

00:54:37.600 you have trade you upset the trade you know and you have consequences yeah and it's very

00:54:43.760 hierarchical basically all gets funneled to one person or a couple of people so it is that sort

00:54:49.280 of model yeah so i wanted to have a look at what all of this bloodshed was uh in favor of and what

00:54:56.340 it was in favor of was um the cartels clearly are really devout feminists because what it resulted in 1.00

00:55:02.860 is the first female president of mexico right and um she was um what's her name again um i can't

00:55:11.200 remember it that's not good is it um but she was claudia steinbaum bulgarian uh descended from

00:55:20.080 bulgarian jews who fled the holocaust i believe really i went to mexico yeah yeah yeah it's even

00:55:25.220 even worse isn't it going to mexico you're even less safe but um she was the head of government at

00:55:31.780 mexico city um which is normally what um mexican presidents have done prior to becoming a president

00:55:38.540 so that's pretty standard stuff seems like she was a favorite and also she took over

00:55:43.420 from the incumbent president who um wasn't allowed to run again because of uh constitutional laws they

00:55:49.080 can run are both those pictures her that looks like a sort of before and after it's uh no it's 0.94

00:55:55.000 opposition ah right so it's going to be a woman either the before or the after 1.00

00:56:00.660 but um yes she has a phd in energy engineering so you'd think okay well she might be a raging lefty 1.00

00:56:09.520 but at least she'd be competent on energy policy but no uh she won a noble peace prize co-authoring 1.00

00:56:16.180 a report on how to mitigate climate change so i think she's uh planted her flag there a little bit

00:56:23.380 and was that i take it the solution to climate change was lots of communism it was yeah um it always

00:56:29.040 it was also be funded by the cartels um if i end up dead tomorrow by the way uh you know what

00:56:34.140 happened communism and cocaine the solution to climate change

00:56:37.680 she also um identifies as a feminist and supports lgbt rights so uh yes sure the cartels really care 0.72

00:56:47.720 about that and um of course as leo pointed out she is jewish which is interesting because it might

00:56:53.460 change mexico's position on israel because of course um previously mexico joined the icj's

00:57:01.560 genocide case which was launched by south africa um and the incumbent um president refused to define

00:57:09.600 israel's actions as genocide but he supported south africa in pursuing the the claim which is a little

00:57:14.780 bit confusing um because it's got in the word um in the title but they they seem to be very much

00:57:22.000 aligning with palestine yeah and she's not really said anything about that and because mexico is one

00:57:28.460 of the major backers of this prosecution it might actually change the way things are going in in that

00:57:34.440 realm if she chooses to change the approach and be fair mexico seems to have more pressing problems

00:57:40.340 it does yeah i don't really know why the whole country yeah like releasing statements on gaza

00:57:45.640 but um people in mexico seem to care quite a lot about it for some reason right because they set fire

00:57:55.140 to israel's embassy um a few days ago at the end of may there it is just a flaming mess um one piece

00:58:04.100 but like why does why do people in mexico care about palestine i don't know i don't know why people

00:58:10.420 care about it here well i don't anywhere in europe really but um it's also worth mentioning as well

00:58:17.400 that there have been accusations of corruption and i'm not alleging this i'm not alleging that um this

00:58:24.260 is other people alleging it um but though there's a province in mexico i think it's on the border with

00:58:31.400 guatemala called uh chiapas or something like that it's in the name there yeah and 515 candidates

00:58:40.060 dropped out of the race and there were five attacks in four days against the candidates

00:58:44.560 so very dangerous area and then i spotted this in this article here um so it's talking about the

00:58:52.840 electoral violence and then it mentions the now president going in this province and it says

00:58:58.160 even claudia scheinbaum the presidential front runner this was written before she was um before she won

00:59:04.440 was not spared by confrontation in the state when her convoy was stopped at a checkpoint

00:59:08.440 in a municipality that i can't pronounce in april by men who delivered a strong message

00:59:14.960 remember these mountains the poor people when you're in power which is very different than

00:59:20.660 shooting her in the head yeah it's kind of saying remember your loyalties one if if you were inclined

00:59:26.940 to believe that she was in the pocket of the cartels and uh it's not just uh you know random people 0.98

00:59:33.700 speculating uh vicente fox who is a former president of mexico um decided to jam his caps lock

00:59:42.840 in writing about this and um he's basically arguing and uh this is what this says here um that she is

00:59:52.760 starting a dictatorship by electoral fraud since she would never win a landslide victory above all

00:59:58.400 other elections and uh it's interesting this is a former president obviously he's ideologically

01:00:04.220 opposed to her but it's interesting that he's so forcefully putting it forward i don't know too much

01:00:10.840 about what he believes i don't know whether he's right but but 37 people were killed trying to stand

01:00:17.600 for office yes and one would imagine that just by the fact that so many people have been pressured

01:00:24.880 either to step down or been killed that the people who do get into office are more likely i'm not saying

01:00:32.120 they are definitely but they're more likely to be in the pocket of the cartels and i it's interesting

01:00:38.500 to me that politics functions in this way because my main point is that when civil society breaks down

01:00:44.820 and gangs start to you know govern how politics operates this is what we're going to get we're going

01:00:53.140 to get yeah potentially rigged elections and lots of murders and pressure certainly not i mean you

01:00:59.080 yeah exactly you couldn't describe this as a free and fair secure election could you no christ

01:01:04.660 and one candidate dying would make it throw it into doubt yeah 37 new record that's mad but i think

01:01:13.420 that in western countries we're going to see things increasingly become more like this obviously

01:01:18.760 we've got criminal gangs and although it's not necessarily the same sort of business model as

01:01:23.520 the cartel in the western world it's more along ethnic lines there are sort of ethnic gangs we're

01:01:28.900 gonna see sectarian like people are already voting you know people are voting you see the the billboards

01:01:33.480 in birmingham like vote for me i'll sort out gaza it's like well birmingham's in gaza now and i know

01:01:38.300 i know gaza is like a terrible place with terrible infrastructure but it's nowhere near as bad as

01:01:43.140 birmingham and it was the mayor of birmingham as well it's not even an mp you know i can't he's not

01:01:47.300 gonna become prime minister one day yeah he's the mayor of birmingham what are you gonna do for gaza

01:01:50.760 yeah interestingly uh russia has a huge influence over uh over south africa so it pretty much controls

01:01:57.340 the anc through this manganese mine oh really i think more than half of the anc's funding

01:02:02.420 uh comes via via russia via this manganese mine so um so yeah and russia's obviously trying to you

01:02:09.160 know sow division and discord uh and and pick countries against the west so i think that's why

01:02:16.660 they they pushed uh south africa to do the the court yeah well um the russians have been trying to get

01:02:22.920 influence in africa for a very long time they were you know they had the wagner group in north africa for

01:02:27.760 a little while yeah trying to undermine the whole sahel is pretty much russian controlled now yeah

01:02:32.960 well they pushed out the french didn't they in jere because they were doing anti-terror activities

01:02:38.000 which you think the russians would be in favor of because they get targeted by terrorists as well

01:02:42.300 about that it's about influence it is about influence yeah um and so i think that that's all

01:02:47.680 tied in together but i don't think that there's necessarily any foreign influence here i think it's

01:02:52.460 domestic yeah i think that it's the cartels shaping things and um yeah this is sort of a cautionary

01:02:59.220 tale that if you don't deal with these problems if you allow civil society to break down then you're

01:03:04.920 going to have lots of assassinations you're going to have a sort of uh uh banana republic one might say

01:03:11.200 don't don't let gangs run riot in your in your country yeah they've got to be stamped out and also

01:03:17.800 with climate change uh coca plants are going to be growing in devon so nice so it's going to go

01:03:23.340 back home then we're going to make some money cartel devon cartels god i know they're going to

01:03:28.220 shoot you all right i'm in the landscape on that note let's go to the video comments

01:03:32.160 i'm struggling to find a full video and i don't especially want to see it so i'm going off the

01:03:38.340 info that i've seen and heard in relation to what was said in yesterday's podcast about the joan

01:03:42.200 policeman who was stabbed he acted professionally and rationally all things considered he learned there

01:03:46.100 was a serious altercation saw one guy punching another guy that was pinning a third guy down

01:03:49.540 and immediately rushed in to separate them in police training that's what you're taught to do

01:03:53.120 hesitation is trained out of you if german police training is anything like english police training

01:03:57.380 his death was not because he made a bad call but because the german politicians and his colleagues

01:04:01.120 failed him as a former police constable myself all i can say is i hope he's in a better place

01:04:04.920 yeah with that it's probably not that it was political correctness it's probably that he didn't

01:04:11.260 realize who was stabbing who yeah yeah and unfortunately the diversity was on the other

01:04:15.960 side yeah yeah well the full video shows that it was a very quick thing he like sprints in doesn't

01:04:21.560 he and like yeah slaloms around some people so it's difficult to tell what's going on particularly

01:04:26.120 when uh you know it's quite a quiet event there weren't many people it seemed like they were setting

01:04:31.360 up more than anything but then yeah let's go to the next one

01:04:35.520 carl benjamin has saved us

01:04:46.800 it's just not fair

01:04:53.120 really inferiority complex batman how low is my self-esteem that i'm the sidekick in my own fantasy

01:04:58.920 it could be worse robin you could be alfred the butler 0.99

01:05:02.260 damn you sir why do i even bother 1.00

01:05:05.880 man how did he do that ai i don't know if we need more of those crazy that's amazing 1.00

01:05:12.900 that was let's get the next one that was the real connor

01:05:16.660 hmm

01:05:31.940 how awful that was from the protest yeah that's the thing that's supposed to be a far-right nazi

01:05:54.800 rally it's like that's more diverse than like the guardian staff lineup you know what i mean

01:06:00.040 this is mental everyone's just having fun yeah well like give us a break uh should we go to the next

01:06:04.920 one since you mentioned covert yesterday i figure a little rundown would be appropriate the most

01:06:11.340 common vaccine is for the spike protein which is these little pom-poms here the virus uses to latch

01:06:17.220 onto the host cell and inject the genetic information necessary to reproduce it doesn't

01:06:22.340 actually teach your body to recognize covid only its hands which are the most rapidly mutating part

01:06:28.160 of the virus but also the easiest to snip off and work with built-in planned obsolescence

01:06:33.440 very true interesting and let's go to the last one so the tax man has come knocking and decided i owe 0.55

01:06:42.220 him some money also because some idiot can't tell the difference between gross pay and net pay 0.85

01:06:46.120 my tax liability for the last two months has been 70 percent i am not a happy boy unfortunately this 0.52

01:06:53.400 means until i'm able to recover from this i'm gonna have to say goodbye for a little while don't worry

01:06:58.460 i'm not going anywhere i'll be back in a few months that is of course unless they arrest me for arson i'll

01:07:03.240 see you another side boy man that's a lot to you mate yeah i honestly every time i hear anything about

01:07:09.680 taxes makes me more and more like ancap yeah i'm arriving at that point i'm just gonna just gonna say

01:07:15.520 the word tax to yeah 100 times a day until you get to my i despise taxes i'm wondering if uh because

01:07:23.660 also like people talk about austerity we've never had austerity yeah god i'd love it oh the tories

01:07:28.140 they've cut all these but then you're reading the papers that like some yeah like a non-binary 0.98

01:07:34.160 genderqueer play has been given like you know 600 grand or whatever 72 percent of somalians in britain are

01:07:40.360 on social housing yeah yeah we're trying we need to apparently we need to bring people in to

01:07:45.520 sustain this ponzi scheme we're bringing them in at the top yeah we're bringing them in where they

01:07:49.300 need to be sustained yeah yeah yeah we're literally their dependents and we're like yeah come and live

01:07:53.660 in britain it's like why are we doing this yeah but the success of malay because he's like everybody's

01:07:57.560 like it's gonna be terrible he's gonna oh yeah it's gonna collapse and stuff and instead oh it turns

01:08:01.800 out that you know if you uh if you greatly sort of liberalize the economy and and don't have you

01:08:07.520 know all this basically bought reduce government spending yeah yeah people's lives get better this

01:08:13.440 was the mistake that trust trust made it's not like tax cuts that are vital as much as like cutting

01:08:19.260 public sector spending because also all those people are i worked in the public sector i worked

01:08:23.960 in public set and management consultancy uh you know going around public sector places as well at

01:08:28.680 the skills funding agency and places like that trying to you know improve the efficiency and like the

01:08:33.040 amount of people just sitting about doing absolutely nothing it's uh it's scary i mean i was one of them

01:08:38.340 for a while it was a great gig but you know those people could be repurposed in the proper economy

01:08:44.820 where they're contributing to society yeah yeah they wouldn't know austerity until i took charge of the

01:08:51.200 government there'd be no welfare there'd be about five people in government yeah it'd be lovely there'd be

01:08:55.540 no taxes yeah no arts council absolutely not i tell you there are just so many things um there's

01:09:01.980 there's a there's a twitter account but i can't remember the name of it now but basically it's

01:09:05.900 just going through and pulling out all of the government funded studies that are happening

01:09:09.320 and like uh you know like 900 000 pound to find out uh you know whether the water is making people

01:09:15.760 two-spirit and queer or something like that it's just like what is going on it's a conservative

01:09:19.320 government you would think yeah how to decolonialize using porcelain exactly and it's just like

01:09:24.240 god i just hate the way this country is run sometimes yeah uh so we've got some super chats

01:09:29.160 baldy yule says uh good to see leo back at it leo you should run for parliament you don't actually 0.99

01:09:34.060 have a reason to be funny in there since you're a comedian the rest is just so pathetic you can only

01:09:38.120 laugh at them i did run for parliament but for four years ago i think it was i ran against

01:09:42.280 humza yusuf in his seat so obviously it's a safe seat for the smp yeah um i didn't get very many

01:09:47.100 votes but i didn't i didn't really want to first pass the post system

01:09:51.880 charles says uh all right lads just a quick comment say thanks guys for fighting the good

01:09:56.560 fight and thank you for setting up lotuses as well thank you uh matt says great to see leo again

01:10:00.180 enjoyed listening to his rants on youtube on the way on the car on the way home and to and from work

01:10:04.780 um george says congrats on the speech during the time event kyle got one of the biggest cheers of

01:10:08.800 the day and that's saying something yeah it was great it was really nice um it was great meeting you

01:10:13.080 and dan there when a chap asked for your autographs i figured i want to sell copies of the islander

01:10:16.380 some people might like that um and we should think about doing that um and uh thanks again mike

01:10:21.140 uh so uh thomas says uh to reiterate what i stated yesterday you think you hate the corporate press

01:10:26.520 enough but you don't totally true uh lord narevar says how hilarious is it that media is getting an

01:10:32.780 absolute drubbing though like it's so egregious this time they're getting universally panned by basically

01:10:37.460 everyone in at least in response to the germany thing the replies on the skies news news tweet was

01:10:43.420 something to behold yeah to be honest with you it's because of uh twitter frankly it's because

01:10:49.120 elon has just made like no no it's a free speech platform now so it's like great we're going after

01:10:53.760 you you know you think your replies are safe community notes yeah such a great thing yeah i saw a a survey

01:10:59.940 the other day that was done apparently people trust community notes more than the reporting itself yeah

01:11:03.360 that was bipartisan as well wasn't it yeah yeah uh we should have done a segment on it so i'll probably do

01:11:08.020 a segment at some point god bless community notes yeah uh because it's just so good so it's such a

01:11:13.340 good idea uh henry says i can't remember if it was germany or austria but there's definitely a

01:11:17.280 criminal case around the time of new york new year's eve mass assaults uh that was in cologne

01:11:21.020 right yeah oh no that was no sorry this is a different one where a migrant sexually assaulted

01:11:25.100 a child at a swimming pool and then the defense of the trial claimed that it was a sexual emergency

01:11:28.820 there's no such thing as sexual emergencies yeah omar says uh the fact checkers are accidentally

01:11:36.420 doing if only you knew how bad things really were and that's a good thing

01:11:39.360 tom cat says the myth jihad simply means struggle refers to the peaceful striving it's sin rather than

01:11:47.900 the holy war spread in islam the truth in arabic jihad means struggle in islam means holy war 0.99

01:11:52.620 again it does technically have it does technically have the two connotations but you they're usually

01:11:59.740 distinguished and of course if you're attacking someone definitionally that would make it the lesser

01:12:04.700 jihad which is the armed struggle so you know it's just you know don't need to be that nuanced about

01:12:10.880 it um uh samson says why is the solution always stalinism with the guardian yeah that's a good

01:12:19.280 question uh bald eagle again uh with the super chat says keep up the good work carl thank you it's

01:12:24.100 taken some time but the englishmen are waking up to the insanity that's occurring unlike here in the

01:12:27.480 states where the muppets think we can vote our way out well to be honest with you we have to vote

01:12:30.540 our way out we are we are going to vote our way out the problem is that when people say you can't

01:12:35.060 you can't vote yourself out with the current paradigm correct you know when every party is a blairite

01:12:39.980 party that's correct but if we can get a party that's not a blairite party then actually that's how we

01:12:44.700 do it yeah at the moment politics seems to be like pro wrestling yeah it's like whoever you vote for

01:12:50.980 it's all coordinated and vince mcmahon is the real person pulling the strings they i mean one of the

01:12:56.660 things in the litz trust interview is she says that tony blair was advising her in her time at the

01:13:01.280 foreign office so why would the conservatives want to hear from tony blair yeah unless they were a

01:13:05.420 blairite party which of course cameron was blah blah the tony blair institute operates in what 50

01:13:10.120 countries if they were at the conservative party conference last year yeah well that's that says

01:13:14.640 it all doesn't it that says it all yeah exactly if if i had a party the tony blair institute would

01:13:19.100 not be welcome there weirdly enough you know i'd probably arrest him um neil says uh farage and

01:13:26.520 tommy need to get together well that would be interesting wouldn't it um fane scotty says uh

01:13:32.300 i don't know why jess has to try and insert herself you said you wouldn't carl and she took that as an

01:13:36.000 insult and now she's not taking no for an answer i didn't say that that's what he said

01:13:41.560 kevin says how are all these human rights lawyers who leap for the defense of illegal immigrants and

01:13:47.800 the like have been uncannily quiet in the sam millier case uh well that's because he's not an

01:13:52.540 illegal immigrant and i read somewhere he's not going to be allowed to see his children yeah

01:13:57.640 which just his wife posted that on that seems to be a like cruel and unusual punishment yes it's evil 0.94

01:14:05.500 absolutely evil it's disgusting apparently they're not even allowed to discuss their children when she 1.00

01:14:10.620 visits him as well so what the hell is going on that's that's really weird and that's yeah like 0.95

01:14:17.040 absolutely mental all for some stickers yeah you know i don't care how racist they damn well were

01:14:22.740 they're a bunch of stickers man yeah they weren't that controversial from what i remember i mean they

01:14:27.320 in the court case they admitted that they were factually accurate because that one of them was

01:14:31.260 something like our britons will be a minority in their own homeland in by 2067 yeah yeah yeah if

01:14:36.280 trends continue that's going to happen yeah some of them were you know anti-semitic and stuff but um

01:14:42.720 but you know even so i think it's you know it's still it's a thought crime he's being you know this

01:14:48.140 is a real and it's sort of making a showcase of him to say to anybody else like if you have these

01:14:52.720 opinions or express these opinions then we can like the nastiest this is something that would happen

01:14:59.280 under under putin like denying somebody you know to see or even discuss their children but i can

01:15:04.000 imagine it's like god that's a bit rough yeah that's what he did with navalny's mum wasn't it yeah

01:15:09.500 yeah yeah yeah genuinely is like russian dictator levels things uh bald eagle bald eagle again with

01:15:16.160 the super chat says the cartels aren't trying to affect the election to go in their favor

01:15:19.200 they're pushing the election in favor of what the liberal world order wants uh the cartels are armed

01:15:23.880 and funded by the u.s i don't know it seems that they're looking to just delegitimize the question

01:15:28.800 of government in uh mexico but i mean i'm not an expert i don't know i think the cartels are kind of

01:15:34.020 defined by by not embodying higher ideals i don't think they're going to be serving a world

01:15:39.360 order it's about serving themselves that's you know guys we need globalists yeah yeah the shadow

01:15:45.640 ban for two dollars says one possible reason there's so many trans women in mexican politics 1.00

01:15:48.880 is the congress needs to be about 50 50 men or women uh maybe but i completely forgot about that

01:15:53.660 there was like a spate of men identifying as women to get on the ballot yeah really yeah it's like

01:15:59.520 somebody told me that um the reason there's so many transgender people in computer gaming and the you

01:16:05.040 know making the games is because the software developers you know to hit their diversity

01:16:09.020 quotas they realize it's easier to get men and make them transition than to find women who can code 0.71

01:16:14.220 that's not true i don't know if that's true i'm sure that's not true uh the red note says uh for

01:16:20.160 five dollar super chat poor colin nobody's taking him seriously and he's become something of a

01:16:23.700 boogeyman uh and bald eagle for another super chat says i make my prior statement off the obama

01:16:28.820 administration losing weapons they were supposed to get tracked and the fbi seems unable to do anything

01:16:32.820 despite getting more power and funding for decades yeah they they have been funneling weapons to

01:16:36.320 them apparently which well who haven't the americans been funneling weapons to it's pretty much everyone

01:16:41.440 right yeah um andrew says uh idly it seems that the two trans women were the only non-male

01:16:48.160 identifying candidates who were assassinated i would like uh like a i wish we'd done a breakdown or a

01:16:55.660 graph or something see the percent you know percentage for each party but the uri didn't look like there

01:17:01.280 was any kind of trend there at all no it was arbitrary violence yeah yeah i imagine it was

01:17:06.800 just people that wouldn't budge and wouldn't step down and therefore they had to be killed and i 0.69

01:17:11.000 imagine that that would be disproportionately men there's another another good point made here 0.51

01:17:16.280 actually um why uh what you know who else has military special forces grade equipment the u.s military

01:17:23.500 how how i don't know well that's the thing no they left it all in afghanistan didn't they sure but

01:17:28.480 like you know how do the cartels end up with all these amazing pieces of equipment well i mean

01:17:32.420 we have russia's recognized the taliban now i think as a government so they're going to be getting

01:17:36.820 the um all that military grade equipment that was left behind so the taxpayer the u.s taxpayer is going to

01:17:43.680 be paying for the weapons on both sides again yeah well they don't even know how to did you see the

01:17:49.400 video in afghanistan of the them trying to fly the apache helicopter going like all over the place

01:17:55.800 it's just like they're useless to them kevin says uh someone was tweeting an image of men at the

01:18:02.240 rally on sunday standing shoulder shoulder peeing in a hedge okay not good but at least they weren't

01:18:06.520 barbecuing someone's pet cat i mean that happened in italy yeah i know i know this is mad and the

01:18:13.080 thing is the the police had closed all the pubs so on one hand that's a good thing uh but on another

01:18:17.840 hand that means that where the hell else can people go to pee yeah yeah you know tommy actually got

01:18:21.580 like four portaloos but that was a grand and a half or something there's only four of them

01:18:24.660 with 30 000 people yeah or toilets for 30 000 yeah i know what you can do well i don't think

01:18:28.540 people expected quite that many people to turn up right yeah because that's actually a massive crowd

01:18:32.260 yeah um uh but anyway uh charlie says uh taking morale uh moral or economic lessons from the leftist

01:18:41.060 is akin to dieting uh taking dieting advice from lizzo i'm good about it in the short term but it's

01:18:45.620 true in the long term well i mean undoubtedly undoubtedly also another thing annoys me like the media

01:18:51.560 always say they call people in the right populists as if like number one is if as if like appealing to

01:18:57.460 what people want is a bad thing or anti-democratic in some way also there's the people on the left

01:19:01.900 who are populist like malay says you know listen this is going to be tough and you're not going to

01:19:05.600 enjoy it but it's what has to be done and people so it's not a it's not a nice thing to hear it's the

01:19:10.540 people on the left are like oh no you can we're going to look after you we're going to keep you safe

01:19:14.560 we're going to give you all this free money and free stuff and i'm going to put my armor on your

01:19:17.480 shoulders yeah we'll just borrow it and then the country will go bankrupt in five years that's that's

01:19:21.500 a real dangerous populist stance well it's weird that they're turning populist into a slur it's

01:19:27.080 almost like that they've realized that far right hard right extreme right all of those have been

01:19:32.040 used none of them are really sticking yeah so they're just like oh let's give populist to go

01:19:36.020 shall we here's an interesting comment by fane scotty i saw a video on youtube bbc or telegraph or

01:19:41.360 something like that uh stating that mexico had elected their first female president there was no

01:19:45.500 mention of the bloody nature of the election that's interesting isn't it like 37 candidates

01:19:52.000 murdered yeah and like the people don't need to know about that it's almost to be expected though

01:19:57.680 like lots of people are a bit jaded you know you still have to of course yeah even if it was just

01:20:02.620 like a sort of only 37 people were killed in this election you know i even whatever it is you know

01:20:08.460 but uh mad uh kevin says uh yep the cartels have all related equipment unfortunately judging by a recent

01:20:14.660 tweet the navy seals have all the gear and no idea because they have now embraced diversity and

01:20:18.480 equity and lgbtq blah blah blah blah uh good point um there's a question in the chat from ramshackle

01:20:24.540 otto why the super chat's prioritized over the site comments i'm reading all the comments

01:20:28.160 but in fact i think we've run out of comments so uh what we'll do then um i'm just scanning through

01:20:34.300 to see if there are any other comments i like that comment from somebody about clacton saying um

01:20:38.960 i can't find it now but basically saying that uh people have moved from like clacton is full of

01:20:45.200 cockneys people pushed out their historic homeland of london by successive government's love of diversity 0.94

01:20:49.720 so you know it means garage is going to win yeah that's interesting because like yeah if like the

01:20:54.220 dagenham river basin was recognized by unesco as a world heritage site and cockneys were recognized as

01:20:59.640 like a you know authentic indigenous people who need to be have their culture preserved like you know why

01:21:04.900 look why why isn't that is it just because they're european like because they're british they're white

01:21:09.560 yeah that's exactly it i mean cockneys go back to the norman conquest they were the first mentioned

01:21:14.300 in the 12th century or something yeah it's like it's genuinely ancient ethnic like subgroup yeah the

01:21:20.460 english uh and now they don't exist in london yeah i wish they had stopped moving down to devon and

01:21:24.980 cornwall what did they move to in there oh loads of them yeah it's you know london is like a slur well

01:21:30.660 they're kind of refugees so you've got to give them a break yeah but then they buy up really 1.00

01:21:34.260 expensive houses and then try and change everything to become like london gonna have a

01:21:39.880 pret in a nice quaint village like california cockneys aren't like exactly yeah the sort of people who

01:21:45.400 shop at pret aren't they huh surely they don't sort of you know buy things from pret cockneys are

01:21:51.760 posh oh yeah apparently more of an analogy everyone's posh when you're from the west country

01:21:56.200 yeah yeah unbelievable house prices in devon don't give me that uh arizona desert rat says i'm 0.92

01:22:02.260 discontented with the economy does that mean i get sucker punch a random person in the street

01:22:05.800 uh no for legal reasons no and also also moral ones charlie says uh i honestly think we need to

01:22:15.440 accelerate and promote the media bias this is just wearing down demoralized news just pure

01:22:20.120 accelerationism yeah and there's a part of me that hopes they just get worse under starmer yeah i hope

01:22:24.840 they become full like regime shill me yeah yeah and it's entirely possible they will yeah because

01:22:29.820 they're just very again pro blair right and so you know they'll be like oh starmer's our guy and

01:22:35.300 so they'll just tell the most incredible lies yeah jeremy corbyn wedged a jewish child i don't know

01:22:40.580 yeah yeah probably yeah let's make it up at some point there'll be like uh um like a millie

01:22:45.360 dowler moment for wokeism so you know phone hacking had gone on for years and everybody knew about it

01:22:50.140 nobody really bothered but then it was the millie dowler case that made everybody go like wait a minute

01:22:53.500 this is totally wrong and it like you know destroyed newspapers and you know brought down careers and

01:22:58.080 stuff so something like that is going to happen because of wokeism i don't know what it's going

01:23:01.900 to going to be like maybe some you know celebrities child is going to regret their transition but you

01:23:06.940 know something is going to happen because man all the celebrities like you look at the thing charlie's

01:23:11.320 the ron all that like my like all the all the weird number of trans kids yeah and it's like man how 1.00

01:23:16.140 can all three kids be trans and it's also like they're all like nicked from africa as well

01:23:20.020 you're starving in sierra leone you know you're like a child soldier or something the helicopter lands and

01:23:26.640 charlie's the ron gets out and you're like oh yes charlie's the ron and then like six months 0.99

01:23:30.680 later she's cutting your dick off yeah there's one conditions you're for your dinner tonight 1.00

01:23:34.540 chop it off yeah yeah i'd rather stay in sierra leone thanks yeah yeah i'd rather i'd take my 1.00

01:23:40.320 chances of the general buck naked um anyway on that note thank you for joining us folks uh i hope you

01:23:46.760 have a great evening afternoon and we'll say lads hour uh is it there's normally live though oh yeah

01:23:52.600 that's right yeah so thanks for spawning that we're going to be pre-recording lads hour this

01:23:56.420 week because we have something to do on friday basically that means we can't record it live

01:24:00.940 uh broadcast it live then so anyway thanks for joining us folks have a great evening we'll see

01:24:04.740 you tomorrow bye

01:24:05.640 that was my smartest moment was it not really but it's all right it's not a big deal

01:24:15.140 i'm not used to it all right i'm used to it being live oh yeah we can't do the comments can we

01:24:29.220 oh well don't make my coffee on the show i know i don't want one anyway get one after

01:24:36.900 so you're going to be one of those british people they're going to be like red like a lobster 0.99

01:24:46.660 stoned out of your mind maybe not stoned but i will be pissed 0.60

01:24:51.720 let's do any fun reason to go to answer them

01:24:56.240 don't they have those psychedelic truffles

01:25:02.280 yeah but mind the canals it's like the worst place it's just like we're going to make a

01:25:09.100 place where drugs are legal we're going to make it really dangerous to actually do drugs

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #929

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