The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 29th of July 2024

00:00:13.880 and I am joined by Stelios. Hello and today we're going to be talking about the Patriotic

00:00:20.440 Rally in London largely organized by Tommy Robinson and then Stelios is walking us through

00:00:25.580 the tales of debauchery in France. I mean where do you start but mainly the Olympics I think.

00:00:31.640 I have my suit for this. It's Sam's favorite. Yes this is Stelios's suit of mischief. Yeah for

00:00:38.800 cringey segments. And talking of cringe I'm also going to be covering the Islamist island that 1.00

00:00:45.560 may well be in the works. So it's also worth mentioning before I get on to my segment

00:00:52.440 that we're going to be doing Rumble Rants as per usual. So we'll read them out at the end of

00:00:58.400 our segments if they're relevant to that segment and also of course we'll you know write regular

00:01:03.260 website comments for us and we shall read some of those as well. Video comments all that other stuff

00:01:07.900 you know. You know the drill. You've watched this before probably and I suppose I may as well get

00:01:12.960 into it. So on Saturday there was quite a historic moment and that was one of the largest gatherings

00:01:21.680 of Patriots I think that has ever happened in London and this is the scene here in Trafalgar Square.

00:01:30.220 I can get the mouse to work. Here we are. Here are some pictures of it. These were aerial photographs

00:01:34.640 that I think the police took because they were flying over in a helicopter you know policing it

00:01:39.460 believe it or not. I think there are about a thousand police there but relatively speaking

00:01:44.020 it was pretty uneventful and you can see it was massive. All of Trafalgar Square was filled

00:01:51.700 all of the streets around. I think it actually filled up past this point if you can see where

00:01:55.900 my mouse is here and all the way up here as well. This was sort of earlier on. It was very big.

00:02:03.320 It's tens of thousands of people.

00:02:04.560 It was at least 50,000 and some were saying even 70 or 100,000 people were there which for you know

00:02:12.460 a rally which was pretty short notice in London on a Saturday.

00:02:18.360 It's impressive.

00:02:19.120 It's quite impressive yes and it was twice as big as the last rally held in London and there

00:02:25.960 were some speakers that you might recognize. One of them is Karl and Karl's added his whole speech

00:02:33.060 while he's got it on Twitter here. I'm not going to play the whole thing because it's about 10

00:02:36.980 minutes long but he's getting introduced by Tommy there. Karl's speech very good. Obviously went down

00:02:42.960 very well as to be expected right and there was a very good photo that I saw of Karl there. So

00:02:49.600 there's a photo of him on screen with all of the flags around. Isn't that isn't that great?

00:02:55.140 Yeah I think he liked it as well because he made it his profile picture.

00:03:00.000 So he did yeah. Well he said what an amazing photo so well done for taking that.

00:03:05.380 But yes the general theme of it was patriotism. They had a whole load of speakers.

00:03:09.860 Lawrence Fox was there. There he is sharing a picture of himself. The Voice of Wales.

00:03:15.020 Obviously regular guests on Lotus Eaters were there as well. Had a good chat with them behind

00:03:20.840 the scenes and there are also many other speakers that I won't name just for the sake of time but

00:03:25.880 all the information is out there. There was a former soldier that I listened to. There are plenty

00:03:30.900 of members of the Christian church there. There are plenty of musicians. You can see some on stage

00:03:36.360 there already. And yeah some other people there. Who are these two people? We were there causing

00:03:44.440 mischief defacing Nelson's Column. No we're just sat there behind the scenes in the shade because it

00:03:49.900 was a really hot day which I think probably helped with people turning up. It's nice that you see the

00:03:54.640 monuments without any graffitis on them. Yes there's no there wasn't any litter or graffiti. The bottle was

00:04:00.660 there. That bottle was someone belonging to someone else and the one next to Bo was his. So we didn't

00:04:06.760 even leave any rubbish. You know we're not we're better than that obviously. And yeah we were just sat

00:04:12.000 there because that's pretty normal to sit there. It's not disrespectful or anything. But we got a good

00:04:17.900 view and yes here's David Averton taking the picture of us. He sort of burst out from behind the scenes

00:04:23.660 and started pointing at us out of nowhere. It was like something from a film. And yes while I was up

00:04:30.520 there I took a video that gives you a better idea of the scope later on in the rally. There's probably

00:04:37.720 going to be a bit of noise here. Oh yeah some of the music playing. I'm just going to mute that for the

00:04:42.160 sake of it. But yeah you can see that it stretches right back. Very dense as well. Packed full of people.

00:04:49.040 Very great atmosphere. I couldn't move through it. At one point I had to get to the toilets over there

00:04:53.740 and it took me like 25 minutes to get get to the toilets because there are people like you're Josh

00:04:58.180 from Lotus Eaters aren't you? But yeah it was a really lovely atmosphere. Everyone was very friendly.

00:05:03.220 You know people would move out of the way of each other. People were chatting to one another and saying

00:05:07.380 oh where have you come from and things like that. And it was all very pleasant and wholesome. And you know

00:05:11.640 it's nice to see our capital city with a bunch of you know union flags and St. George's flags. There

00:05:19.360 were some foreign flags there which seemed a bit strange to me for a British patriotic thing.

00:05:25.880 There was a Ukrainian flag and an Israeli flag which I think was a bit weird. I don't know why

00:05:31.500 you're taking those to a British patriotic thing and I don't really approve of that.

00:05:35.780 I saw a tweet by David Atherton saying that he spotted a number of foreign flags and I must say

00:05:42.260 the way I see it it's not necessarily bad because there is an understanding at the moment especially

00:05:49.200 in Europe that you can love your nation without disrespecting other nations. So if people were

00:05:56.600 there with different with foreign flags but agreeing with the premise and the principle of the rally

00:06:04.160 I don't particularly think that that's bad. I think that that that's good.

00:06:08.580 Yeah well I think it is the concern is slightly more about the the causes behind them. You know

00:06:14.360 if you turned up Stelios. Yes yes yes. You turned up Stelios with a Greek flag I'd be like that's fine.

00:06:18.540 You know Stelios you know he likes Britain. He likes to talk about British politics. He's you know on

00:06:23.720 side but you know he is Greek. It makes sense that you care about Greece. I wouldn't be as confused about

00:06:29.000 that but it's more that what they represent as political issues and I don't see that Britain's

00:06:33.480 involvement in those things being important really. Okay. It's basically none of our business

00:06:37.980 is my sort of position on it. So because of this and of course being announced early there was a

00:06:45.500 counter-protest organized I believe by Stand Up to Racism which they say fascists are not welcome

00:06:52.060 in London or anywhere. Join the mass mobilization to isolate fascist fraudsters like Tommy Robinson.

00:06:57.440 So you know they're against fascism but they want to drive people out. Hmm. But yes there we go. They've got a picture of Tommy when he got pepper sprayed I think. And they're trying to present all of these British patriots here as fascists which is obviously not true.

00:07:17.940 Now obviously not true. I mean for a start the flags were British flags. They didn't have you know the lightning bolt of the British fascist movement. They didn't have any of those flags in fact. And it wasn't like there were people going around telling people to take the flags down or whatever. They just weren't any. I didn't see any at all.

00:07:37.940 Also if we mention some history. Last time I checked England was at war with fascist Italy in World War II. So by being patriotic about England and Britain one is is definitely not a fascist.

00:07:56.940 I mean there were soldiers there as well talking about World War II. And you know it got cheers. Yes.

00:08:03.620 You know it's still a very popular thing right. In fact the left is more fascist. It's much more fascist than others.

00:08:10.940 It's funny that isn't it. Yeah. But the speakers at their event were much more inclined to call everyone there a fascist than your average person.

00:08:20.200 And it was sort of an alliance of foreigners, unionists and socialists. Yeah. So you know it's like the Mos Eisley collection of people, private scum and villainy. 1.00

00:08:32.480 So here we are. Here's their march. And I think that this will be the gist of it. They were very far away so they didn't really come into contact with the people in Trafalgar Square. 0.99

00:08:43.260 I don't think it was as big, nearly as big as the patriotic one. So through their sort of frame, if Tommy Robinson stands for racism, then racism is winning quite significantly against stand up to racism.

00:08:58.280 Obviously that's not what it's about. These people are people with nothing better to do. They just want a virtue signal.

00:09:04.100 Notice how the only national flag there is a Palestinian one. Yes.

00:09:08.400 Hmm. It's almost like they're not pro-British. It's almost like, you know, they're people in Britain that don't actually like the country they live in. It's strange.

00:09:20.340 But here we are. Narendra Kaur, who has appeared on this podcast for some reason.

00:09:30.780 Here she is saying, do you have as much diversity as the anti-racism day march?

00:09:37.140 And here she pans around. There's one Indian guy. But then you see every kind of middle-class socialist possible from now on. 0.94

00:09:45.420 Yeah, it's not that diverse.

00:09:46.880 Look at them all. Every variant of socialist you could imagine. Some trade unionists, some sort of long-haired, you know, music listeners, some weird scarf wearers.

00:09:58.920 There's a guy holding a Palestinian flag.

00:10:01.120 And we always know how diversity has worked within the left.

00:10:04.280 Yes, well, it's never caused any infighting whatsoever.

00:10:08.280 It is actually their strength.

00:10:11.000 Yeah, since when? It's never been their strength.

00:10:15.380 So, also, a usual suspect turned up. Jeremy Corbyn. There he is. Just in case there wasn't enough socialism at the event.

00:10:25.340 The man himself turned up. I mean, when your opponents are a bunch of unwashed socialists and people flying Palestinian flags looking like a member of Hamas,

00:10:36.740 you've got to feel like, well, the PR win is on our side, right?

00:10:44.120 It's just, you can't get more wrong than Corbyn.

00:10:46.340 Of course, yeah.

00:10:48.780 I don't know. Please challenge me. I think it's challenge impossible.

00:10:52.540 I don't think there are many Jeremy Corbyn fans in our audience, to be honest.

00:10:55.860 Yeah, but there are other people. It just seems to me that he's consistently wrong on basically everything.

00:11:01.820 Yes, correct. Like, he wanted to get rid of nuclear weapons. He's just like, they don't work.

00:11:06.800 It's like, well, do you know what happened in the Cold War?

00:11:09.540 Yeah, we didn't go to war. Do you know why?

00:11:12.940 Yeah.

00:11:13.140 Mutually assured destruction.

00:11:14.360 But apparently, according to him, Clement Attlee must have been far right for wanting to have the nuclear program in England. 0.99

00:11:22.240 He's a madman, yes.

00:11:23.760 But one of the surprising things about this is the reporting on it, actually. 0.97

00:11:29.240 So, not the stand-up to racism stuff, and there was some underhanded stuff,

00:11:33.840 but the media's reporting on it, as it was going on, was surprisingly neutral.

00:11:38.000 Like, more so than it ever has been.

00:11:40.860 There's still some funny things where, you know, there were one or two arrests,

00:11:44.340 and there were, like, violence and destruction at this rally,

00:11:47.480 where everyone was just sort of standing around.

00:11:49.480 But listen to this LBC.

00:11:53.100 I'm not sure if he's a presenter or a contributor.

00:11:55.320 I don't watch or listen to LBC.

00:11:57.320 But he's called Ali Miraj, and he was there, and he actually says something that surprised me.

00:12:05.360 Okay, let's have a listen to what he has to say.

00:12:06.980 It's a little bit long, but it's worth it, because this is such a tone shift in the media.

00:12:12.240 The place was absolutely rammed.

00:12:15.280 And I mean rammed.

00:12:16.640 The place was packed.

00:12:18.180 It was a very sunny day, as you know, yesterday.

00:12:20.480 Atmosphere that I saw, I didn't see any bad behavior at all.

00:12:24.100 What I saw was an almost family-like atmosphere, very welcoming, very warm, flags everywhere.

00:12:32.820 Not only flags of St. George and the Union Jack, but also Israeli flags, Ukrainian flags as well.

00:12:40.900 And the thing that struck me about this was this was not a gathering, as far as I could see, of football hooligans.

00:12:49.620 There were lots of women. 1.00

00:12:51.000 There were lots of families.

00:12:52.540 There were peoples of different colors there.

00:12:55.060 And everyone was watching a video that apparently Tommy Robinson should have not been broadcasting.

00:13:00.660 But there were various other bands playing and conversations going on and speeches being given.

00:13:06.780 But the overall atmosphere was one of people feeling that they wanted to come together to actually try and, in their views, save their country.

00:13:18.060 And to quote Tommy Robinson, he called on his supporters to come to London yesterday because, and I quote,

00:13:25.480 We want our country back.

00:13:28.500 Now, that sentiment, that sentiment that Tommy Robinson or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which is his real name,

00:13:36.420 that sentiment which he promulgates and espouses is not one that he does so alone.

00:13:45.200 We've had Lee Anderson, we've had many other people talking about and alluding to similar things.

00:13:50.980 Now, I'm going to get condemned for this conversation.

00:13:54.220 But frankly, it's too important not to have because we need to have this conversation in a very measured, sensible, calm manner.

00:14:02.920 In my view, to understand why there is a sentiment where people on a family almost day out will go to Trafalgar Square

00:14:10.640 to go and feel that their country is being taken away from them and wanting to unite the kingdom

00:14:16.000 and to simply dismiss them all as far-right, lunatic, racist football hooligans is actually not helpful. 0.86

00:14:22.280 And it's completely inaccurate. 0.91

00:14:24.880 So what do you think of that, Stelios?

00:14:28.120 Well, it seems to me that it is basically common sense.

00:14:32.040 Just wanting your country back after a period of deterioration of its standard of living

00:14:38.860 and also cultural decline with respect to some things is obviously true.

00:14:45.380 The very fact that we are having this conversation and this statement is surprising in 2024 in LBC

00:14:53.520 says actually that the rally has something to it.

00:14:58.460 It has a lot of things going for it.

00:15:00.280 But this thing just shouldn't be an issue.

00:15:02.700 No, of course not.

00:15:04.660 It's good that he's saying it.

00:15:06.520 It's good that he's saying it.

00:15:07.600 I was quite surprised when I watched this because he was basically saying,

00:15:10.600 well, clearly there's something to this and maybe people should hear them out.

00:15:15.080 Which, from LBC in the past, they've not exactly been particularly hospitable to this side of politics.

00:15:21.860 Or to us.

00:15:22.540 Or to us, yeah.

00:15:23.400 And so it's a bit of a sea change that their editorial stance has changed this much

00:15:30.920 that they're saying, well, maybe there is a point actually to what they're talking about

00:15:34.200 and maybe people should listen to them.

00:15:36.380 Some more cautious people might say it's containment,

00:15:40.440 but also we can't necessarily jump to conclusions

00:15:43.980 because it could also be on the path to actual legitimate change as well.

00:15:48.960 You don't know yet, do you?

00:15:50.100 It's one of those things where if you always assume that it's some method of losing,

00:15:55.260 it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, won't it?

00:15:57.740 Yes.

00:15:58.140 And what is really important to say is that we're not talking about a small group

00:16:04.260 or a small faction somewhere with some ideas.

00:16:07.060 We're talking about tens of thousands of people who were in London this Saturday

00:16:12.160 and also hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who were watching live.

00:16:16.300 Yeah, there are plenty of people watching online as well.

00:16:19.040 And of course, there are plenty of people who would have been there

00:16:22.640 but weren't able to, I know plenty of them.

00:16:25.340 And so it represents a much greater portion of the population.

00:16:29.980 One interesting thing as well is one of the speakers,

00:16:32.200 I can't remember who it was, it might have been Tommy himself,

00:16:34.520 asked who here voted reform.

00:16:36.980 And most people put their hands up.

00:16:39.060 So if there's a large degree of overlap between reform voters

00:16:43.100 and people who attended the rally,

00:16:44.360 then it could be, you know, what, four million people, if not more,

00:16:49.340 which is enough of a population to have some sort of significant political movement out of, isn't it?

00:16:55.360 Exactly, yeah.

00:16:56.160 So it does speak of some sort of larger resistance to it.

00:16:59.700 And we've got the fact that this is happening at the start of a Labour government

00:17:03.100 could mean that there is a lot of momentum to carry things forward

00:17:06.620 into the future, potentially, that we'll see some meaningful changes.

00:17:11.360 The kinds of policies that we at Lotus Eaters,

00:17:14.160 although we don't always agree on everything,

00:17:16.020 it's the kind of direction we want to see things going, right?

00:17:18.620 Yes, but I will hesitate a prediction and tell me if I'm wrong,

00:17:24.600 but there are some people who are saying that Labour was going to be a bit more careful and cautious.

00:17:31.000 I think they're going to double down.

00:17:33.180 I think that there's already some evidence of that,

00:17:35.240 as we'll see later on down the line.

00:17:37.820 So some other reporting here.

00:17:40.760 Oh no, Narendra again said,

00:17:42.900 absolute BS, I was there, it was far from welcoming and warm.

00:17:46.020 I was petrified as a woman walking through. 1.00

00:17:49.140 The other march, however, was really a safe space for all,

00:17:52.440 which sounds really lame because she's just saying,

00:17:55.680 I was petrified as a woman.

00:17:57.420 So there's no actual evidence to suggest that she was unsafe or anything.

00:18:01.880 It was in her own head.

00:18:04.080 Question, has she written similar things about other protests, other rallies?

00:18:10.880 I don't know.

00:18:11.440 I don't necessarily, I try to avoid reading that sort of thing.

00:18:14.360 But I imagine it's all politically motivated.

00:18:17.620 Yeah, but that would be very telling because we are talking about some other rallies

00:18:21.380 that are vocally in favour of regimes that are not particularly friendly to women.

00:18:28.600 So I would really like to see what she would have to say about that.

00:18:32.940 I'd like to see her in the marches, which are Islamic in nature,

00:18:36.780 when mysteriously they turn out all to be men.

00:18:39.480 I wonder how that happens.

00:18:40.520 I wonder how welcome she'd be there.

00:18:43.780 So here's Sky News.

00:18:45.260 Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters have gathered in protest in central London.

00:18:49.260 That's quite neutral, isn't it?

00:18:51.420 That's almost, dare I say, objective reporting.

00:18:55.060 Except it changes a little bit.

00:18:58.580 If you click on the article, so this is what you see on Twitter.

00:19:02.920 So you click on the article, two men arrested for alleged attack on anti-racism activists

00:19:07.140 at Tommy Robinson rally.

00:19:09.300 I mean, we don't know the details of this, but presumably it was two people in at least

00:19:15.040 50,000.

00:19:16.760 So even if, you know, that's still a very, very small proportion.

00:19:22.400 We don't know the details of it yet.

00:19:23.820 We don't know whether Sky News is reporting on it correctly.

00:19:25.920 It could have been that someone was aggravating them and attacked them.

00:19:29.100 The information is just not out yet.

00:19:31.380 However, it's interesting that media outlets like Sky have cherry picked these isolated

00:19:36.720 incidents and tried to smear it as this violent thing when actually all of the videos, all

00:19:42.060 the people that were there said it was peaceful.

00:19:43.860 It was a family thing.

00:19:45.180 People were being very friendly to each other.

00:19:46.740 I know.

00:19:47.220 I was there.

00:19:48.280 It was like that.

00:19:50.380 Also a rally happened and no monument was desecrated.

00:19:53.680 Mm-hmm.

00:19:53.900 I didn't see much litter left behind.

00:19:56.640 People were tidy.

00:19:58.460 People were nice and orderly and polite.

00:20:02.060 I don't know.

00:20:03.020 That's the way to be.

00:20:04.180 Yeah.

00:20:04.400 People were dancing and singing to music.

00:20:06.520 I mean, my goodness, it was terrifying.

00:20:08.880 So there's also this one here.

00:20:10.320 Thousands joined Tommy Robinson March in London.

00:20:12.100 This is the BBC.

00:20:14.520 This is no small thing, is it?

00:20:17.120 It's neutral.

00:20:18.120 It's almost objective.

00:20:20.000 Perhaps some of the texts, which I don't have the time to go through, might be a bit

00:20:23.740 more.

00:20:24.220 I mean, they mentioned the stand-up.

00:20:25.660 They say he's far right, right there.

00:20:27.640 And they also say, claim the event was the biggest patriotic rally the UK had ever seen.

00:20:32.940 And then they mentioned stand-up to racism pretty quickly.

00:20:35.660 And Jeremy Corbyn.

00:20:36.880 Okay.

00:20:37.640 Can we scroll down and see towards the end of the article whether they're describing the

00:20:42.560 rally in different ways?

00:20:45.500 Okay.

00:20:45.820 They name drop his real name there.

00:20:51.160 Yeah.

00:20:51.340 But if we go a bit up, because usually they describe someone as far right on top of the

00:20:56.740 article, and then when it goes down, they drop the term.

00:21:00.920 They normally do.

00:21:01.860 Yeah.

00:21:02.820 Well, we'll see later.

00:21:05.360 Promoting patriotism.

00:21:07.020 There we go.

00:21:08.300 Yeah.

00:21:08.860 It's almost like there's some sort of formula Stelios that we've noticed, isn't it?

00:21:12.200 Strange that.

00:21:12.820 A pattern.

00:21:13.360 So here's another one.

00:21:15.940 Crowds gather in central London for Tommy Robinson protest and countermarch.

00:21:20.020 Pretty reasonable.

00:21:21.640 And then the Telegraph has a sort of thing here.

00:21:24.960 This is the film that we'll be talking about in a second.

00:21:28.880 But the Telegraph wasn't particularly biased.

00:21:32.060 It's sort of painting him almost as a political prisoner.

00:21:34.560 They even did a key moments thing.

00:21:36.720 So they covered it in pretty good detail here.

00:21:40.680 They're talking a lot about policing here, like before and after.

00:21:45.280 So they did still focus on that aspect of it, even though it was unironically mostly peaceful.

00:21:51.080 I mean that in the actual sense this time, rather than the CNN sense.

00:21:56.120 And obviously, GB News would be pretty favorable.

00:21:59.160 And it's just saying, yes, there were lots of police.

00:22:01.300 And they framed it as to separate the Jeremy Corbyn-backed counter-protest.

00:22:05.240 That was why there were lots of police.

00:22:07.420 So well done, GB News, for actually explaining why there was a large police presence there.

00:22:12.260 And most of them were sat in their cars all day doing nothing, hanging around, having coffees and chilling out.

00:22:17.560 So they had a pretty quiet day.

00:22:20.740 Of course, Socialist newspaper says, it's time to say no to hatred and division.

00:22:27.800 Corbyn's rallying cry as 15,000 Robinson supporters descend on London Street.

00:22:32.580 Come on.

00:22:33.400 And now I know Socialists are not good with numbers.

00:22:36.100 All right.

00:22:36.820 But 15,000.

00:22:38.580 But are they good at anything?

00:22:40.080 No.

00:22:40.580 They are good at one thing.

00:22:41.960 They're good at dieting people because there's no food left when a Socialist takes over for people to overeat.

00:22:47.560 Yeah, but that is unintentional.

00:22:49.180 It's an unintentional consequence.

00:22:50.800 But one thing they really know is hatred and division.

00:22:54.040 That's exactly what it is.

00:22:55.840 That's exactly what they're doing.

00:22:57.800 And what people are doing is much more important than what they are saying they're doing.

00:23:01.280 It's funny that they're also downplaying the number, like 15,000.

00:23:05.520 Really?

00:23:06.540 Yeah.

00:23:06.720 Really?

00:23:07.520 It was more than that.

00:23:08.820 Anyone can see that.

00:23:10.140 There were some people who were sending stuff to the police and they were saying, it's so boring.

00:23:15.200 It's so boring now, especially for the previous rally.

00:23:18.180 That it's so boring.

00:23:19.740 Nothing's going on.

00:23:20.920 And then they went out making tweets about how horrible it was.

00:23:25.060 Come on. 0.94

00:23:26.380 It is silly, isn't it?

00:23:27.260 So, one of the things that happened was Tommy screened his documentary called Silence.

00:23:33.460 And this is about how the courts persecute people for their political beliefs and how they're not unbiased as they're framed to be.

00:23:41.180 Which I think is a very uncontroversial thing in this day and age.

00:23:44.280 I think we've seen plenty and plenty of examples of this happening in politics.

00:23:48.320 And he was actually, I think he was forced to not play it because it was libelous.

00:23:55.360 That's what people have been saying anyway.

00:23:57.320 And so he was prevented by a court order not to show it.

00:24:00.200 But he showed it anyway at the rally.

00:24:03.100 And this resulted in this.

00:24:06.040 This is an admin post.

00:24:07.500 This isn't from him himself, one of his team.

00:24:09.760 Been 24 hours of showing this film, exposing the corruption of the judiciary.

00:24:13.500 Tommy, this evening is being charged with terror offenses.

00:24:17.040 And this is true.

00:24:18.120 This has been reported by lots of other outlets as well.

00:24:22.080 And there's also a release of an audio clip, which is quite long and I'm not going to play it.

00:24:28.620 But he's basically explaining to his ex-wife what's going on, what he talked about.

00:24:32.500 But I can give you a sort of summary just to save your time.

00:24:35.060 But we do have it linked in the reading list down below on the website.

00:24:39.240 So if you're watching on another platform, you can click the link through to our website.

00:24:43.280 Find the podcast page.

00:24:44.760 And beneath the videos will be our reading lists for all the links we've included, which we always put up, by the way.

00:24:51.440 But basically he says he was interviewed for six hours after being picked up on the Terrorism Act.

00:24:57.980 And then they got access to his phone.

00:25:01.260 So he got all of his information.

00:25:02.540 And he has ongoing court cases with the state at the minute.

00:25:05.780 So there are sort of conflict of interest things going on there.

00:25:08.780 So that's, you know, his plans for his legal defense going on, supposedly.

00:25:12.940 But according to him, he was asked about the event itself, you know, and the size of it and his intentions and things like that.

00:25:22.940 Now, this one's interesting.

00:25:24.360 I'm going to have to read the name of what they brought up in its original French because it gets flagged on lots of streaming platforms.

00:25:30.520 And we don't want to be taken off those, unfortunately.

00:25:32.960 But they asked him, according to Tommy Robinson, at least, if you believe his account, whether he thinks he could stop.

00:25:41.200 And I'm going to say it in its original French as it was created.

00:25:44.420 Le grand replacements.

00:25:46.020 I accidentally spat a little bit there as well.

00:25:47.960 Just to add to the French impression there.

00:25:52.160 So first of all, it says a lot that I can't say it's original.

00:25:55.720 Well, I can't say it's English equivalent on social media platforms.

00:26:00.500 Even saying it gets you in trouble.

00:26:02.140 I think we actually got a conduct strike for mentioning it on YouTube before.

00:26:08.620 That's just how hot they are on it.

00:26:10.160 I wonder why that is.

00:26:12.700 And it's also called a far-right conspiracy theory, which, you know, if you need to only read a graph of projected population change, look at censuses, the data vindicates that this is the way things are going.

00:26:27.340 Yeah, so, no, I just want to say, because I've also presented something on this.

00:26:33.280 The theory is one thing.

00:26:35.900 Facts are the other.

00:26:36.860 So there are theories.

00:26:38.640 There are many theories about the issue.

00:26:41.220 Facts speak for themselves.

00:26:42.980 We can talk about populations, about birth rates, how they are developing.

00:26:48.760 And that's beyond doubt.

00:26:50.700 In fact, you would say many of the central governments and central government agencies, both in England and in the European Union, they're taking that as a fact.

00:27:02.320 And they're saying that because the birth rates aren't sustaining a particular number of the population that the GDP requires, well, we need to open the borders.

00:27:14.460 Which is a fallacious argument anyway, isn't it?

00:27:16.520 Absolutely.

00:27:16.840 And the final thing they asked Tommy about, which I thought was kind of amusing, actually, was they asked him about Israel and they talked about, well, surely Palestine has a right to exist and things like that.

00:27:28.520 But yes, make of that what you will.

00:27:32.960 Ezra Levant here was talking about why Tommy might have been detained under the Terrorism Act.

00:27:38.640 And he points out Schedule 7 of that law, which we can have a look at, actually.

00:27:43.060 So there's a good summary here from counterterrorismpolice.uk and it explains it.

00:27:50.160 And I'm going to read a little bit.

00:27:51.180 It says, under Schedule 7, a police officer with the mandated accreditation does not need prior authority or suspicion to stop question search or, if necessary, detain someone.

00:28:00.920 However, they may only stop and question a person for the purposes of allowing a determination of whether that person appears to be someone who is or who has been concerned in the commission, preparation, instigation of acts of terrorism.

00:28:14.160 Which I don't think necessarily fits here, does it?

00:28:17.120 Under Schedule 7, an individual has a legal duty to answer questions or provide any information requested for the purposes of the examination.

00:28:24.520 So there's an important point to make here.

00:28:27.380 No matter what you think of Tommy Robinson, this is a concerning use of the Terrorism Act in an inappropriate way.

00:28:34.560 And because it's got written into it that you're legally obligated under threat of legal punishment to answer the questions,

00:28:42.060 that is sort of making a mockery of prior legal precedent of, you know, your right to remain silent, of innocent until proven guilty.

00:28:51.760 There are lots of precedents here that are being overlooked.

00:28:55.340 And if you wanted to read the actual thing itself, I have linked this down below in the same place that you'll find the other stuff as well.

00:29:01.500 This is the full act as written by law.

00:29:03.760 If you wanted to read it, there might be some details there that are beyond me because I'm not a legal professional.

00:29:09.480 I'm a psychologist.

00:29:10.520 So it's a little bit beyond me.

00:29:13.320 I have to add something here because the rally, as far as my view of it is concerned, is a rally about patriotism.

00:29:21.100 And patriotism is directly linked to the idea of what is going on here because you want and we want a society where there is rule of law.

00:29:35.040 We don't want arbitrariness.

00:29:37.060 We don't want despotism such as of the kind that is flourishing in the Orient.

00:29:42.840 We don't want that.

00:29:43.440 Here, apparently.

00:29:44.500 Yeah.

00:29:44.800 We want the rule of law.

00:29:45.940 But the problem is that laws do not apply themselves.

00:29:49.700 Laws are interpreted by people and they're applied in particular cases.

00:29:56.040 And selectively as well in that certain people can, we see this a lot in the United States, particularly in lower courts rather than the Supreme Court.

00:30:06.220 People will twist the word of the law to mean...

00:30:08.700 Anything they want.

00:30:10.520 Exactly.

00:30:10.900 That is why we cannot rest assured just with having principles in the abstract just by saying we have the rule of law, full stop, nominally speaking.

00:30:22.660 We need to have a culture that promotes the ideology and the ideas that make the rule of law something important, an ideal to cherish.

00:30:33.220 And that is precisely what the left is doing by destroying the idea that patriotism is a civic ideal, which it is.

00:30:41.660 And it is a civic ideal because it is precisely the idea of being a member of a culture, which you praise, you try to find what is good in it and feel gratitude for it.

00:30:53.820 And because you do so, you think you're a part of something bigger.

00:30:57.260 And you are going to show the eternal vigilance that, as classical liberals were saying, and classical republicans will keep tyrants at bay.

00:31:06.940 Patriotism is specifically that.

00:31:09.280 It has specifically to do with promoting a culture.

00:31:14.200 And it is very telling when the people who are trying to prosecute someone who is hosting a rally on patriotism are doing it in the name of rule of law.

00:31:25.880 Well, yes, it's a complete inversion of what it should mean, isn't it?

00:31:30.240 But no, very well said.

00:31:32.580 So it's worth mentioning as well that it's not even entirely clear which police were involved.

00:31:38.360 I think my best guess would be that it were because Tommy was picked up in Folkestone, which is where you get the channel tunnel to the continent.

00:31:48.120 Maybe it was the border police there.

00:31:50.360 They do have plenty of police there.

00:31:51.920 I actually went on a road trip through Europe not too long ago.

00:31:55.900 So I went through all of those.

00:31:57.920 And I know that there is a large police presence there.

00:31:59.840 So it is entirely possible that he got picked up there where he was arrested.

00:32:02.980 And it wasn't an external police operation from that.

00:32:06.700 And they had something flagged up on their system, perhaps.

00:32:09.480 I don't know.

00:32:10.700 But the Met police who were involved in the actual rally said that they had no involvement and were actually unaware of this going on at all.

00:32:16.460 And there's Carl here saying that actually the Met did pretty well regarding the policing and I can find no fault in the way they've handled all of it.

00:32:25.900 Which I think is fair.

00:32:26.940 I agree with Carl on that one.

00:32:28.420 I was there as well.

00:32:29.240 I was with Carl for a lot of it and I saw the same things.

00:32:33.040 And I think that that's a perfectly reasonable presentation of it to give them credit, you know.

00:32:38.360 I'm pretty harsh on the Met police, but I know that they're not always terrible.

00:32:44.520 Even bad people can always be, you know.

00:32:47.780 Broken clocks can show time correctly twice a day.

00:32:50.720 There we go.

00:32:51.320 Exactly.

00:32:51.900 That was the phrase I was looking for.

00:32:53.540 So there have been some reactions to the arrest, particularly from people like Elon Musk.

00:32:58.040 So I believe it was End Wokeness tweeted this out.

00:33:01.420 And then Elon Musk said, what did he do that was considered terrorism?

00:33:05.160 And then they replied, he screened this documentary and Elon Musk says, that's it.

00:33:12.360 So even Elon is paying attention to this at the minute.

00:33:15.860 So it's kind of interesting that this has now got a global significance.

00:33:21.720 And here we've got one of Reform's five MPs.

00:33:27.740 This is Rupert Lowe, who's the MP for Great Yarmouth.

00:33:31.460 Says, is this action proportionate and in line with how the streets of London have recently been policed?

00:33:36.320 More details are urgently required.

00:33:38.540 All must be treated fairly and equally by the law.

00:33:41.000 So it sounds like there are members of parliament actually bothered by what's going on here and these anti-terror laws.

00:33:46.560 Which you would think that considering the overlap between people who support Tommy and Reform voters is pretty much a circle.

00:33:56.600 There's a certain amount of incentive for him to do that.

00:33:59.360 And I heard at some point, maybe this has changed now, that Rupert Lowe was the first Reform MP who even mentioned the rally.

00:34:08.020 I think he may well have been.

00:34:10.320 Farage hasn't said anything, I know that much.

00:34:13.020 So there was a protest outside of Downing Street, which I think was organised by Lawrence Fox.

00:34:22.300 This was there for quite some time, demanding he be released.

00:34:26.180 You see Free Tommy there.

00:34:27.680 I imagine those banners get used quite a lot these days.

00:34:30.740 And finally, it's worth mentioning, eventually he was released on bail.

00:34:37.000 But I think he's still facing some more legal charges eventually.

00:34:42.360 He's just free to walk the streets for now.

00:34:45.620 But yes, that's pretty much what happened.

00:34:48.160 There he is on the day of the rally.

00:34:50.080 They're talking all about it.

00:34:51.460 But what do you make of all of this in sum now, Stelios?

00:34:55.360 Now I've been through the whole story.

00:34:57.640 I think that basically caring for your country, caring for sustaining an idea of social cohesion structured around national identity has been unfairly demonised.

00:35:13.660 Anything can backfire.

00:35:16.080 But just presenting that caring for your own country is demonic, is absolutely atrocious and atrociously wrong.

00:35:25.440 So that's what I make of it.

00:35:27.640 So yes, obviously there's lots of concerning things going on here.

00:35:30.620 And whatever you make of Tommy Robinson, what you can certainly acknowledge here is that there are lots of concerning lines being crossed by people who are opposed to him that I think no reasonable, decent person should have to tolerate.

00:35:43.200 And I think that if a president gets set where people like him can get persecuted in that way, it's only going to get worse.

00:35:51.640 And eventually it'll even get to the point where perhaps normal people will be persecuted in these sorts of ways.

00:35:56.680 And even if you disagree with some of the details of what he says, I think it's still important to push back against the people who are persecuting him, because otherwise the alternative is they come for us next.

00:36:08.800 And I've got some rumble chats to quickly read.

00:36:11.620 I don't know whether it cut off at the end.

00:36:13.860 So I'm going to repeat what I said as well, because I went on that segment for quite some time.

00:36:17.960 I think it's fair to leave a bit more time for some of the website comments as well, so we don't miss any of you out.

00:36:23.740 But the rumble chats from top to bottom are, that's a random name.

00:36:27.700 Also, moments like these are mask off for people like Tyson Farage.

00:36:31.540 Korea politicians are containment at best and subversive at worst.

00:36:35.640 Be wary of Farage and don't trust reform.

00:36:37.900 Containment 101.

00:36:39.260 I've always been cautious about them, to be honest.

00:36:41.400 I said on election night before they even got any MPs, I'm a bit lukewarm on them.

00:36:45.960 By the way, Samson, I can hear myself through the speakers in the table.

00:36:51.000 That's all right.

00:36:53.280 So that's a random name again.

00:36:54.780 Samson says, this shows that no law or institution is immune to corruption because the rock comes from people, not laws or institutions.

00:37:02.700 Therefore, we must keep all evildoers from any levels of power.

00:37:06.360 Hear, hear.

00:37:06.920 You can never really go wrong doing that.

00:37:09.320 Keep people who mean you harm away from positions where they can do it.

00:37:13.580 That always works.

00:37:16.020 Believe it or not.

00:37:17.060 You don't need to hear that from me.

00:37:18.180 That is just common sense.

00:37:20.180 Josie Angel says, nice to see the English start to rally.

00:37:22.860 It builds confidence and connections.

00:37:24.160 The Tea Party came before Trump.

00:37:26.220 That's true.

00:37:27.320 Lots of people of the right, particularly some of the dissident right, are very critical of that rally.

00:37:32.580 And they're just like, oh, it's going to be containment central or it's all a bit too multiculti.

00:37:36.660 And although I agree with the last part, I'm not a big fan of this multiculturalism nonsense. 1.00

00:37:41.520 It's subverting things a bit.

00:37:43.080 But we can push things in the same direction.

00:37:46.300 And then once the paradigm is in our favor, we can then squabble about the details.

00:37:51.380 But until the point where the grooming gangs are gone, all of these horrible problems that we talk about day in, day out have been sorted out.

00:38:01.340 Then we can work out the details.

00:38:04.180 Until that point, I'm not too fussed.

00:38:06.880 Because at the minute, if we're in fighting, we're not going to do anything.

00:38:10.020 In purity spirals, you could say destroyed the left.

00:38:13.020 So there's no reason why we should be emulating that.

00:38:18.480 I mean, we're more practically oriented people in the right.

00:38:22.040 Yes, I think.

00:38:22.820 Let's remain so.

00:38:24.020 I think it's all about pushing in the direction.

00:38:26.120 We should be dragging the Overton window to our direction and away from the left.

00:38:31.460 And then we can argue about which direction things are going, right?

00:38:34.480 You need to be viewing it in directions.

00:38:37.240 You want to shift things in your way and get rid of the people to the left of it, right?

00:38:43.740 Okay, Axis the Eternal says,

00:38:44.980 If there were 50,000 who went, imagine how many people also went but just decided against it.

00:38:49.600 I wanted to go, but the risks are being seen by the wrong Bobby or losing.

00:38:53.460 My firearms license is too high.

00:38:55.980 I think that lots of these things, you don't really need to worry.

00:38:59.620 They're so large that no one's going to really give you trouble.

00:39:02.400 You might get a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and you might get caught by a violent lefty.

00:39:08.280 But that wasn't really going on too much, to be honest.

00:39:10.900 Certainly not at the main Trafalgar Square rally because there was such a large security and police presence.

00:39:16.020 One final one.

00:39:17.460 Bold Eagle, 1787.

00:39:19.020 Oh, the law was just passed to combat terrorists is now being used against the native populace.

00:39:23.080 Who could have seen this happening?

00:39:24.480 I'm glad you said that comment.

00:39:25.940 That restores a bit of faith in humanity because I've said this for a long time,

00:39:30.740 that people pass laws and enforce them on different people.

00:39:34.760 If it gives the state power over people, it doesn't necessarily matter who they're enforcing them or what the intention is.

00:39:43.400 Eventually, they'll be used by someone who wants to use them against you.

00:39:46.400 Josie Angel says, it just came in.

00:39:48.680 Exactly, Josh.

00:39:49.320 One crab in a bucket can get free, but put a second one in and they'll pull each other down. 1.00

00:39:54.060 We can't be crabs in a bucket.

00:39:55.580 US is an example.

00:39:57.080 Thank you for agreeing.

00:39:57.960 That's very nice of you.

00:39:58.960 Right.

00:39:59.220 Stelios, sorry.

00:39:59.860 I've gone on for such a long time here.

00:40:01.520 Okay, prepare.

00:40:03.320 Now we're going.

00:40:05.040 As we speak, France is hosting the Olympic Games.

00:40:09.140 And whenever the Olympic Games are being hosted, there are opening ceremonies.

00:40:14.880 And sometimes things can go very wrong.

00:40:17.680 Now, one thing to say is that the Olympic spirit is the exact opposite from the woke spirit.

00:40:24.320 It is a spirit of fair competition, self-improvement, dedication, discipline, and human excellence.

00:40:31.960 Everything the woke hates, the Olympic Games stand for.

00:40:36.880 So we will see that basically the woke leftists took this and tried to subvert it as much as possible.

00:40:47.380 And basically they gave us so cringy a ceremony that you need eye bleach. 0.91

00:40:54.940 I really, by the way, lots of people were talking about how subversive and how cringy and weird the ceremony was.

00:41:02.760 And it is all those things.

00:41:04.480 But I also kind of enjoyed it in a weird sort of sick way, in a sort of schadenfreude way of it was the French doing it. 1.00

00:41:12.160 And if the international community, as it's called, views the French as weird and strange, I feel like I'm willing to take that as an Englishman as a win. 0.99

00:41:22.280 Well, Josh, I don't know why you would feel happy with showing cringy stuff.

00:41:26.640 Who would ever want to do a cringy segment?

00:41:28.960 No one would ever do that at Lotus Eaters, especially no Greek people in this business. 1.00

00:41:35.720 Exactly.

00:41:36.240 So let's look at the French President Emmanuel Macron's tweet.

00:41:41.020 What a week.

00:41:41.560 What games.

00:41:43.060 This is France.

00:41:44.480 And you see here, we have some wonderful pictures.

00:41:48.300 We have someone who is dressed like Dionysus.

00:41:52.540 And apparently they thought that Dionysus is an avatar of Vishnu.

00:41:58.600 Also, he looks very Smurf-like. 0.96

00:42:01.840 Yes.

00:42:02.880 He's like this.

00:42:04.080 I don't remember Papa Smurf looking quite like that.

00:42:07.360 Also, we see some people who are very dedicated into achieving the Olympic physique.

00:42:13.800 She looks like one of the Olympic rings.

00:42:15.520 That is correct.

00:42:16.360 Yes.

00:42:16.840 She is taking a very short stand for the body positivity movement, followed by a very long sit.

00:42:23.720 Yes.

00:42:25.520 So, what was there I wanted to show you here?

00:42:30.260 Anyway, people, yes.

00:42:32.440 That's what people have, are constantly replying and I missed what I wanted to show you.

00:42:38.140 Now, here is the response to Macron.

00:42:41.060 Says, message to the world.

00:42:42.440 This is not France. 0.68

00:42:44.380 And we see here a, someone who looks like a Viking in a bondage dress. 0.93

00:42:51.580 Who was engaging in a lascivious dance, looking at the camera with a lustful gaze.

00:43:01.300 It's a gentleman in what can only be regarded as women's clothing, I think is fair to say. 1.00

00:43:07.800 You never know these days, Josh.

00:43:10.140 We also have the head of Mary Antoinette singing.

00:43:12.440 That is cringe, but also a bit much.

00:43:17.480 A bit insensitive, isn't it?

00:43:18.900 Yeah.

00:43:19.480 I mean.

00:43:19.720 Just to remind everyone that you cut off the heads of the ruling family at the time.

00:43:24.720 That's the way to make people feel welcome, isn't it?

00:43:26.840 Just like, welcome to France. 0.99

00:43:28.820 Anyway, we cut off people's heads here. 0.98

00:43:31.640 It's just weird. 0.97

00:43:32.900 It is.

00:43:33.280 Especially when she looks like that. 0.99

00:43:34.980 She looks like a weird pantomime villain in hell, holding her own head. 1.00

00:43:40.620 And even though, you know, as far as I'm aware, she didn't have much involvement in French policy at the time of beheading. 0.95

00:43:48.760 She's supposed to have been the callous person who said about the people, let them eat cake. 1.00

00:43:53.500 But that's not even true either.

00:43:55.140 Well, maybe.

00:43:55.860 The misattribution.

00:43:56.800 One of the many myths about the French Revolution.

00:43:58.980 But the issue here is that it seems like they're celebrating it.

00:44:03.180 They're not even saying, putting the argument that, okay, it was necessary evil.

00:44:07.880 That seems to be celebrating it.

00:44:10.620 So here we have a picture rich in symbolism.

00:44:18.760 And we cannot show you videos because a lot of videos are being taken down for copyrights issues because it was atrocious.

00:44:28.260 It was an atrocious event.

00:44:29.580 And people were protesting against it and they're taking things down.

00:44:34.040 So, not to steal your thunder here.

00:44:36.500 I don't know if you're going to get onto the parallels of this sort of composition, this image, right?

00:44:44.500 Yeah.

00:44:44.680 It looks very similar to another one.

00:44:46.800 To the Last Supper.

00:44:48.040 Yes.

00:44:48.580 Yeah.

00:44:48.920 We will talk about it.

00:44:50.100 Okay.

00:44:50.300 I won't steal your thunder.

00:44:50.920 In a bit.

00:44:51.260 You anticipated my point. 0.99

00:44:52.380 But I want to say that you don't see it here, but there was a lot of testicle flashing. 0.99

00:44:58.760 What? 0.99

00:44:59.480 Yes.

00:44:59.800 A lot of these people, they were showing their private parts.

00:45:06.080 What?

00:45:06.360 In the ceremony itself?

00:45:07.420 In the ceremony.

00:45:07.820 I didn't watch it because I have better things to do, like count grass and watch paint dry.

00:45:12.920 It's in the ceremony.

00:45:14.680 And it was about inclusivity because you want to include ball flashes.

00:45:18.840 And obviously there are some blue balls. 0.95

00:45:20.960 To be fair, there's a lot of female nudity out there. 1.00

00:45:23.440 There's not enough male nudity, is there, Stelios?

00:45:28.220 Okay.

00:45:28.840 We want an equality of nudity.

00:45:30.200 What? 0.94

00:45:30.300 We have here Lady Jesus, Barbara Butch, the queer lesbian at the center of the Olympics last 1.00

00:45:38.380 supper controversy, has claimed that her aim is to unite the people.

00:45:44.680 Imagine Barbara Butch, unite the kingdom, giving a speech. 1.00

00:45:49.540 Does she want to lift up the people? 1.00

00:45:50.860 Because the people won't be able to lift up her. 0.66

00:45:55.720 The goal was to gather humans and share love through music.

00:46:00.120 Yeah.

00:46:00.300 And obviously the Olympic Games were precisely the event you want to hijack to do.

00:46:06.040 Looking at her waistline, she's not into sharing.

00:46:08.380 It's all about the Olympian physique, as we said.

00:46:13.300 You know, the spirit of dedication and discipline into achieving that Olympian physique.

00:46:19.920 Well, she's got the perfect physique. 1.00

00:46:21.960 She's perfectly imitated.

00:46:23.580 Is it the shot put where you have the little ball that they throw?

00:46:27.100 She's got that down perfectly.

00:46:29.140 Now, we had the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.

00:46:32.080 We can't show you video precisely for the reason I told you before.

00:46:37.500 It was a bit weird.

00:46:39.220 In this scene, we see the four horsemen of the apocalypse, including the white rider who represents the Antichrist and leads all nations in his wake. 0.58

00:46:48.240 In Revelation chapter six, these horsemen are released to bring destruction, death, anguish, and suffering to humanity.

00:46:55.720 What a great advert for France. 0.98

00:46:57.160 It would have only been made better if he led an army of rats like a weird French pied piper. 1.00

00:47:02.620 Now, you see what unite the people may mean. 0.98

00:47:07.420 They're going to create a rat king. 0.62

00:47:09.980 I don't know.

00:47:10.800 The Ratatouille king or something.

00:47:13.700 And they say, this reflects the will of men to hand over global power to the beast.

00:47:18.280 That's according to the account over there.

00:47:21.480 Some of the ceremonies lately have some cringe.

00:47:24.780 And I will say this, but 2012 here in London was a bit cringe at some point with Voldemort and the NHS.

00:47:34.560 Yeah, the NHS worship part.

00:47:36.920 I had my head in my hands.

00:47:38.700 Yeah, that was a bit weird.

00:47:40.400 For goodness sake.

00:47:41.020 So, David Tander says, can't help feeling shame about what is happening to Europe.

00:47:47.020 We can do our best to resist this cultural collapse, but a lot of harm is being done.

00:47:51.900 Don't forget that innocent children are seeing their lives destroyed because of the movement.

00:47:58.640 Which we can't even read out on the internet because of censorship.

00:48:02.360 So, everyone hated it.

00:48:04.940 Everyone hated it.

00:48:07.020 And I have to say that there were some links that weren't there.

00:48:15.180 Link number seven.

00:48:17.220 If we could have this, please.

00:48:19.080 It's the one mocking The Last Supper, isn't it?

00:48:22.140 Yes.

00:48:23.640 I think you...

00:48:25.900 That was the David Funder one previously.

00:48:28.740 No, that was a video.

00:48:31.680 It's okay.

00:48:32.880 We'll go back to The Last Supper.

00:48:34.580 We'll go back to The Last Supper.

00:48:36.320 Wait, wait, wait.

00:48:37.280 Okay.

00:48:37.580 So, we are talking about this, about Jill Biden.

00:48:40.480 So, Jill Biden loved it.

00:48:42.380 She called the Olympic opening ceremony spectacular.

00:48:45.920 She said, it was spectacular.

00:48:48.440 Every step of the way, I was thinking to myself, oh my God, oh my God, how are we going to top this?

00:48:56.960 This seems...

00:48:58.360 Is that a threat?

00:49:00.180 Anything I'm going to top is myself.

00:49:03.020 Not actually, by the way.

00:49:05.020 That was a joke.

00:49:06.600 Okay.

00:49:06.960 So, let's see the reaction of a French family here.

00:49:15.720 I've seen this already.

00:49:16.840 It's great.

00:49:17.880 It's Philippe Catherine.

00:49:19.880 It's Philippe Catherine.

00:49:20.620 You see here, the French family is basically thinking that this is ultra cringe.

00:49:32.840 Most French-looking person I've ever seen as well.

00:49:36.560 They're just left speechless.

00:49:38.400 It's just like you spoke only in English to a French waiter.

00:49:40.980 That's the closest I've ever seen that look before.

00:49:48.460 This is why I enjoyed it.

00:49:50.020 No, no, no, no, no.

00:49:55.000 She can't stand it.

00:49:56.640 Yeah, also, I enjoy this as well.

00:49:58.500 I find this hilarious.

00:50:00.540 I find this hilarious, the reaction.

00:50:03.540 This makes me wish I watched it.

00:50:08.360 That's what happens when I'm at planes and I hear children screaming.

00:50:13.200 I don't like it.

00:50:13.940 But if I see other people as being very, very annoyed at it, very frustrated,

00:50:19.400 I get instantly, I don't know, happy and funny, ultra funny.

00:50:24.800 You're very similar to me in that you enjoy other people's suffering.

00:50:28.180 Yes.

00:50:28.600 I think basically what we could do is we could have a, we could find another post where it

00:50:35.380 has the Last Supper Recreation and we could show this.

00:50:39.260 Yes.

00:50:39.920 But in the meantime.

00:50:40.840 Last Supper Olympic Games.

00:50:42.200 Well, I will find it.

00:50:43.260 Yeah.

00:50:43.640 Okay.

00:50:44.600 Because that.

00:50:46.320 Yeah.

00:50:47.120 If we scroll down a bit.

00:50:49.380 There we go.

00:50:49.960 That's close enough, isn't it?

00:50:51.760 We will find it.

00:50:52.840 There is another one that is basically showing the parallels to the Last Supper.

00:50:57.100 So, yeah, that one.

00:50:58.560 Thank you.

00:50:58.780 Thank you, Samson.

00:51:00.880 Yeah.

00:51:01.520 So, apparently, there is a debate about how much symbolism was involved here.

00:51:08.220 I think it's obvious.

00:51:10.700 But also, the fact that the Last Supper and then Jesus is paralleled by a great big fat

00:51:17.340 woman, isn't that suggesting that somehow Christianity has become greedy in some way? 0.95

00:51:22.960 There's a lot of symbolism here that is very anti-Christian.

00:51:25.880 I mean, the fact that it's a bunch of stunning and brave real women surrounding them as well.

00:51:34.140 But you see also, especially in religion and also in ancient philosophy, there was this

00:51:38.880 idea of not being overrun by the bodily urges and it was a continence, was a virtue.

00:51:45.680 Exactly.

00:51:46.200 Yes.

00:51:46.880 So, Jill Biden loved it and French people reacted against it.

00:51:51.460 Now, Aaron Bastani is having a take that I think is hilariously wrong.

00:51:56.780 He says, can you imagine meeting these people offline?

00:52:00.300 He has laughing emojis.

00:52:01.920 It's just a really bad opening ceremony.

00:52:05.040 Chill out.

00:52:05.660 No, it's not a really bad opening ceremony.

00:52:07.700 And I will say this because I'm very much frustrated about how a lot of leftists are portraying

00:52:15.100 things because what happens is when they find something from the right, that is that they

00:52:20.600 find remotely weird or bad, they're projecting a pattern on it.

00:52:25.740 And not only they're projecting a pattern on it, they're projecting that thing upon the

00:52:31.360 entire right wing.

00:52:32.540 That's very true.

00:52:33.640 And also upon the entire population of non-leftists.

00:52:36.740 They're saying that this is just very deep.

00:52:39.160 You don't see the white man's gaze, things like that.

00:52:42.140 Well, the interesting thing is that a lot of right wingers that criticized the opening

00:52:45.400 ceremony, they didn't, well, maybe some of the low quality ones that the slot merchants

00:52:50.040 would say, oh, this is the left.

00:52:53.000 This is what happens when they control the institutions.

00:52:54.680 Whereas a more specific angle would be the people who were responsible for organizing

00:52:59.140 the Olympic Games were a bit strange.

00:53:02.080 Yeah.

00:53:02.580 I think there are plenty of people who are left wingers that probably didn't think it was

00:53:06.960 that good either.

00:53:07.600 Right.

00:53:07.780 As Bastani himself says, right?

00:53:09.940 Yes.

00:53:10.100 And people from the left, they have a mantra, for my enemies, a pattern, for my friends,

00:53:17.360 an isolated incident.

00:53:18.800 That is how they react any time there is something bad coming from the left.

00:53:24.120 So it is absolutely intentional.

00:53:27.360 It is ultra ideological.

00:53:29.780 And anything that happens that has a woke side and aspect into it isn't just a weird thing.

00:53:37.720 It's absolutely intentional.

00:53:40.500 And we will say this, that this is the man who was entrusted with the opening ceremony,

00:53:47.760 to direct the opening ceremony.

00:53:49.720 This is queer artist Thomas Jolly, director of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony.

00:53:56.240 Can you pronounce it in a French way, Josh?

00:53:59.560 What, Thomas Jolly?

00:54:00.360 Yeah.

00:54:01.740 Because I don't know.

00:54:02.800 I don't speak French.

00:54:03.720 You do.

00:54:04.060 Just saying his name made an object move on its own in the room.

00:54:08.080 I'm not sure if the camera picked that up or the sound, but that's what I reacted to.

00:54:11.640 I don't want to say it again in case a demon possesses us or something.

00:54:16.260 Okay.

00:54:16.560 The artistic director said he wanted everyone to feel represented.

00:54:20.380 Apparently even people with red eyes.

00:54:21.920 So, there was considerable debate whether that was intentional and whether that was specifically

00:54:30.080 intended to mock the Last Supper.

00:54:33.920 And Thomas Jolly said, that wasn't my inspiration.

00:54:37.600 The scene portrayed Dionysus, god of wine and festivities at a big pagan festival linked to

00:54:43.100 the gods of Olympus.

00:54:44.040 Well, the bondage-dressed Viking disagrees.

00:54:52.400 And if we translate the post, we will see here, the Last Supper is not my inspiration,

00:54:58.420 assures Thomas Jolly.

00:55:00.080 Thomas Jolly.

00:55:01.440 There you go. 0.81

00:55:02.320 The blonde-bearded transvestite said that it was indeed the Last Supper on BF Merde WC. 0.99

00:55:09.720 I think that's a word for Freddy in French.

00:55:14.400 It is, yeah.

00:55:15.380 That's French for Freddy.

00:55:17.200 Okay.

00:55:18.460 Yes.

00:55:19.000 So, if we go here and talk a bit about Dionysus, because they said that this was a bit about

00:55:24.960 Dionysus.

00:55:26.340 The Olympic Games had nothing to do with Dionysus.

00:55:28.860 The Dionysian spirit is a spirit of excess, occasionally a spirit of debauchery.

00:55:34.440 It's the exact opposite from the Olympic Games.

00:55:37.940 So, if you want to celebrate the Olympic Games, you don't celebrate Dionysus.

00:55:43.060 Also, one thing is that, speaking as a Greek, I love my ancient Greek heritage, but there

00:55:48.740 were some customs in ancient Greece.

00:55:51.360 They are a bit overblown.

00:55:53.100 The degree in which people are saying that they occurred in ancient Greece is vastly overblown.

00:56:00.140 But the fact that they were customs, and some people did it, doesn't mean that they have

00:56:05.040 to be celebrated.

00:56:05.700 Some of them were absolutely atrocious.

00:56:09.040 So, the idea of everyone should be celebrated and everyone should be represented is obviously

00:56:15.800 too abstract to make sense for any sensible person.

00:56:19.480 These are not ideals.

00:56:22.360 So, they issued an apology.

00:56:25.420 And it was the worst apology ever.

00:56:27.180 They said that their intention wasn't supposed to mock.

00:56:29.600 Now, if it was about Dionysus, who by any account wasn't any avatar of the Hindu god of balance,

00:56:39.300 Vishnu, who had only blue avatars, like Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita and stuff, this is just

00:56:46.280 weird.

00:56:47.340 That's a salad.

00:56:48.940 Okay?

00:56:49.080 Why are you apologizing?

00:56:51.380 You did nothing wrong if that was about Dionysus.

00:56:54.100 Why are you apologizing?

00:56:55.800 So, they issued an apology.

00:56:57.740 And that was the worst apology ever because the important thing is how people act, what

00:57:02.940 people do, not what people are saying.

00:57:04.420 And it says here, the International Committee, Olympic Committee, IOC, is attempting to have

00:57:10.640 every video showing the truth about last night's opening ceremony removed through copyright

00:57:15.120 strikes from social media.

00:57:17.340 Post them anyway. 0.93

00:57:18.240 Apparently, it gave them some blue balls. 0.89

00:57:20.120 Well, I think that actually there have been lots of things with copyright more generally.

00:57:27.340 It's not the opening ceremony because the BBC has struggled to get copyright to show some

00:57:32.200 of the things that it wants to on its channel.

00:57:36.200 And it's just more about exclusivity rights and it's sort of legalistic inviting rather

00:57:41.160 than it being some sort of political cover-up, I think.

00:57:43.500 I think that although I can see why they might want to do so, I think that that angle probably

00:57:49.760 doesn't have much weight to it.

00:57:51.420 But I think that this shows a fundamental immaturity that comes with people who are basically

00:57:56.420 flying the inclusivity banner because they were given, they were trusted with hosting

00:58:03.860 the ceremony and staging the ceremony, and they didn't make it a ceremony about the Olympic

00:58:09.220 Games and the Olympic spirit.

00:58:10.920 They make it about themselves.

00:58:12.520 They made it about themselves.

00:58:14.480 I think that's sad to say.

00:58:16.220 Yeah.

00:58:16.520 So that's why people don't like this idea of inclusivity because they don't like people

00:58:21.740 who are making it all about themselves.

00:58:24.620 So, no, I don't want to associate with people who do this and whatever group they're part

00:58:31.420 of.

00:58:31.620 I just don't want to associate with divas who are telling me that unless you agree with 0.85

00:58:36.520 everything I say, I don't want to hang out with you and you're a bad person.

00:58:40.440 You don't want to hang out with those people, Stelios.

00:58:42.580 My goodness.

00:58:43.660 That's so extreme.

00:58:44.460 Why would I?

00:58:45.160 But I would want to watch videos of people watching them.

00:58:50.120 You know how we did.

00:58:51.000 Your full arc to a React video creator is soon to be realized now.

00:58:57.300 And I mean, 20 years ago, this was from Athens, from the Athenian ceremony.

00:59:04.060 And you see how things change in 20 years.

00:59:07.360 We had this.

00:59:08.840 I'll just...

00:59:10.540 This is very different.

00:59:12.540 You don't see any kind of debauchery or something.

00:59:15.860 This is celebrating history.

00:59:17.600 It celebrates cultural heritage.

00:59:19.340 It doesn't celebrate debauchery.

00:59:21.380 It's really quite impressive, actually.

00:59:22.800 I don't remember watching this, but, you know, the ancient Greek statue style, it makes perfect

00:59:28.960 sense.

00:59:29.660 And of course, you know...

00:59:31.000 Yeah, they didn't make it about them.

00:59:32.400 They made it about the heritage and the culture that created the Olympic Games in 776 BC.

00:59:40.540 In fact, they're more modestly dressed than the actual statues they're representing.

00:59:44.360 Yeah.

00:59:44.560 And you don't see anything hanging from their shorts.

00:59:47.280 No, you don't.

00:59:47.920 And we saw it multiple times in the French thing.

00:59:50.440 Also, you have here people from Beijing.

00:59:53.400 It's, you know, it's a different...

00:59:55.100 Live footage from your average Beijing factory here.

00:59:58.040 Yes.

01:00:01.500 Yeah, but it's an impressive celebration of an event that has nothing to do with debauchery.

01:00:10.640 It has everything else to do with debauchery.

01:00:13.000 Anything but to do with debauchery.

01:00:16.160 And the last thing to say is that I think it's absolutely intentional, absolutely intentional,

01:00:22.080 because the spirit of the Olympic Games is the exact opposite from the spirit of DEI.

01:00:28.820 There is zero equity in the Olympic Games.

01:00:30.820 There is zero crying over opportunities.

01:00:33.340 There is zero crying over differences in natural gifts and how they affect people.

01:00:40.100 There is zero crying about how people are, let's say, engaging in the disciplined effort to train for this.

01:00:49.840 Everyone knows we're competing at that time.

01:00:53.040 It's fair competition.

01:00:54.640 The winner takes the gold medal.

01:00:56.760 The second gets the silver.

01:00:58.400 The third gets the bronze medal.

01:01:00.220 And that's it.

01:01:02.460 No steroids should be allowed. 0.86

01:01:04.420 Yes.

01:01:04.920 But that's it.

01:01:06.240 And that is precisely what wokeness hates. 1.00

01:01:08.780 And I will say this because people were saying it mocks Christianity.

01:01:12.260 It mocks Christianity, but it also mocks ancient Greece and the spirit of nobility.

01:01:19.460 And that was casting two birds with one stone for the woke people.

01:01:24.020 That was the symbolism behind it.

01:01:25.760 And I will end with this.

01:01:28.020 They hanged the Olympic flag upside down.

01:01:34.260 Very submissive.

01:01:35.220 Now, again, is that a coincidence?

01:01:37.160 No, that's not a coincidence.

01:01:38.780 Usually, you do this in camps that have been taken over by the enemy.

01:01:43.040 So, again, these are too many things for that to be a coincidence.

01:01:47.400 There are too many incidents.

01:01:49.160 That's absolutely deliberate.

01:01:51.360 It's a projection of cultural might from the woke side.

01:01:54.660 Here, here.

01:01:58.820 Right.

01:01:59.400 You've got some comments if you want to read them.

01:02:01.680 Okay.

01:02:01.980 That's a random name.

01:02:04.540 This Thomas Jolie fella looks downright demonic.

01:02:08.500 He dressed like such.

01:02:09.760 His eyes were... 0.55

01:02:10.720 The more these degenerates, pollutes society, the more I understand why our ancestors would

01:02:15.500 basically... 0.51

01:02:18.660 Encourage them to self-immolate.

01:02:20.520 Yeah.

01:02:20.980 Some non-spontaneous combustion.

01:02:24.120 Mm-hmm.

01:02:24.660 And I say this as an atheist.

01:02:26.880 Bold Eagle 1787.

01:02:28.920 At this point, if Trump wins the election, I'm all for a 100,000% tariff on all products

01:02:36.360 from the EU and an active blockade to prevent the filth from leaving continental Europe.

01:02:41.300 Oi! 0.98

01:02:41.520 The woke side started from the US.

01:02:45.320 Come on.

01:02:45.960 Stelios, you know, Greece is still in the EU.

01:02:49.680 He may be over in the UK, but he does still care about Greece and, you know, a blockade

01:02:53.900 of Greece.

01:02:54.500 That's a random name.

01:02:56.080 This is what happens when you allow Saruman of many colors to take charge of the opening 1.00

01:03:00.680 ceremony of the Gondor Olympics.

01:03:02.480 The king must return so the orcs can be expelled back to Mordor.

01:03:06.980 Yes, and this is why they hate the Lord of the Rings and they say it's extremist because

01:03:12.940 it shows basically grimmer, warm tongue and the vastly bad influence he had on King Theoden.

01:03:21.160 Yeah.

01:03:21.480 He would have been granting the orcs citizenship and allowing them to ride in the Rohirrim, wouldn't 1.00

01:03:27.240 he?

01:03:27.420 He was preventing him from unleashing his inner Chad.

01:03:31.760 Okay, Sean487, heard Carl and Bunch talk of J.D. Vance unpopular with suburban women.

01:03:41.140 You guys are clueless.

01:03:43.040 They were not going to vote for Trump in any measure.

01:03:46.560 Suburban women, 92% Biden. 0.75

01:03:49.660 Well, I think that what Carl was trying to say there to sort of defend him without him being

01:03:56.220 here and potentially put words in his mouth, so sorry if I get it wrong, was that ideally

01:04:01.400 Trump would pick someone who polled with demographics that were not his strong suit and what he's

01:04:07.960 done instead is basically get someone who is very popular with the base because he's basically

01:04:13.860 mini Trump.

01:04:15.240 Yeah.

01:04:15.600 And that was the point I think Carl was making.

01:04:19.220 Right.

01:04:20.040 I'm aware that we are quite over time.

01:04:22.620 However, I have a relatively quick segment.

01:04:24.720 It's also another fun one.

01:04:26.240 So Stelios' jacket is still appropriate here.

01:04:28.420 I'm going to drink some water because I've got a very dry throat.

01:04:32.380 Sorry.

01:04:32.940 I hope you didn't hear that.

01:04:35.100 Don't worry.

01:04:35.600 It's going to be a good one.

01:04:38.820 This is the island of Torsa.

01:04:41.880 It's called Thor's Island in Old Norse.

01:04:44.780 That's where it gets its name.

01:04:46.500 It's on the west coast of Scotland.

01:04:47.960 And it has, can you guess the number of inhabitants on it, Stelios?

01:04:53.580 Zero.

01:04:54.460 Yes.

01:04:55.080 Got it in one.

01:04:56.060 It's only Thor.

01:04:56.980 It's only for gods there.

01:04:59.820 Yes.

01:05:00.960 It's God's country, but not the one you think.

01:05:03.600 So here we are, zooming out of Scotland.

01:05:05.940 So it's pretty remote.

01:05:07.620 You look, say, in the summer of Europe.

01:05:11.180 It's right on the edge of Europe.

01:05:12.640 I think it's fair to say, other than Iceland.

01:05:14.200 But, you know, they're kind of their own thing.

01:05:16.200 So you get the gist.

01:05:17.580 And let's have a little picture of an aerial view.

01:05:19.960 There's the island.

01:05:21.120 It does look beautiful, doesn't it?

01:05:22.320 It looks lovely.

01:05:23.300 It looks majestic.

01:05:24.660 And it's precisely the place I'd want to go there because there's no one there.

01:05:28.940 And I want some silence.

01:05:30.180 Notice the only building in the middle there, that little place.

01:05:33.400 I would love to live there.

01:05:34.400 This is like my ideal place.

01:05:36.440 If I had the money to buy this, I would.

01:05:40.160 Almost certainly.

01:05:41.080 Now I'm just having images inside that this is a lovely distillery where you have some good smoked scotch.

01:05:48.320 I would like to have a little deck chair, prop it up on the beach with a fishing rod, have a bottle of scotch next to me, just put my feet up, maybe a pipe.

01:05:57.220 And just catch some, you know, mackerel and salmon and enjoy it and watch the day go by.

01:06:02.940 Oh, that would be lovely.

01:06:04.960 And, you know, here is the island.

01:06:07.600 I'm going to showcase it a little bit more.

01:06:10.820 This is a video.

01:06:12.100 It was a promotional video for trips to this island.

01:06:17.500 And you were previously able to stay on the farmhouse.

01:06:22.960 We'll be looking at some more details of it.

01:06:24.660 But there's the, yeah, there's no one on it.

01:06:26.920 Yeah, we get that idea.

01:06:28.200 There's the one building on the entire thing.

01:06:31.020 Obviously, very few trees, pretty rough terrain.

01:06:33.680 You're right next to the sea.

01:06:35.560 It's harsh but beautiful.

01:06:37.860 You can almost train like to be a Jedi there. 0.80

01:06:40.800 You could, yeah.

01:06:41.620 It's a good place for religious meditation, isn't it?

01:06:44.640 It is, yeah.

01:06:45.160 You could say that.

01:06:45.820 It's a good place to sit and contemplate, perhaps in a more Buddhist vein where you're, you know, you're exploring within rather than without, right?

01:06:54.780 Reject the worldly affairs.

01:06:56.280 Be in the world but not of the world.

01:06:58.200 Exactly.

01:06:58.900 That's perfect for it.

01:07:00.020 I mean, you've got dolphins, you've got otters, you've got a beautiful landscape.

01:07:03.580 Look at that, there's an eagle.

01:07:04.580 It's lovely, right?

01:07:07.620 You get the gist of it.

01:07:08.920 Nice island, lovely place.

01:07:11.100 Perfect for self-discovery.

01:07:12.780 It is, yeah.

01:07:13.740 If you love wildlife, if you love nature, if you love being in harmony with, you know, rural Scotland, it's the perfect place for you.

01:07:21.200 And it's good news because it's for sale, actually.

01:07:24.480 Here it is on Savile's website.

01:07:27.720 Offers over 1.5 million.

01:07:29.360 It's 270.80 acres or 109, almost 110.

01:07:37.080 I think that's hectares.

01:07:38.100 I don't know.

01:07:38.520 I don't tend to deal in large plots of land because I don't even have any property.

01:07:44.000 But here it is in Oban, Argyle.

01:07:46.620 It's even got a postcode.

01:07:48.340 So I'm going to read some details about it.

01:07:50.160 So successful holiday Latin farm business, over 2.5 miles of coastline and foreshore, permanent grazing and woodland if you want to bring over some cattle, superb sailing, fishing and water sports, a modest three-bedroom period farmhouse with stunning views, attractive traditional stone farm building with development potential, sheltered anchorage and mooring.

01:08:13.580 Because, of course, you want to take your boat out if you've got, you know, 1.5 million island and an abundance and variety of wildlife and habitats, which, you know, for someone with a keen eye for the natural world, someone that appreciates it, that would be lovely.

01:08:28.020 The only problem, really, is that the person interested in buying it isn't interested in any of those things.

01:08:36.520 Because, actually, he wants to turn it into an Islamic state.

01:08:40.900 I mean, it's a Scottish isle.

01:08:44.440 I know, yeah.

01:08:45.880 So, this guy here is called Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib.

01:08:52.380 And he's from Kuwait.

01:08:54.440 And do you know, Stelios, he's lived in England for 20 years.

01:08:57.680 Do you know how he came here?

01:09:00.060 No.

01:09:01.180 He claimed asylum.

01:09:02.700 Okay.

01:09:02.960 So, he is an asylum seeker.

01:09:05.480 And now, he's been here for 20 years.

01:09:08.340 He wants to create, basically, a secessionist Islamic state on a Scottish island in Western Scotland.

01:09:16.980 Yeah, a bit left to field, isn't it?

01:09:19.500 Well, this is, of course, a good continuation of the increasing Islamization of Britain and the sort of ghettoization. 1.00

01:09:25.460 We saw the Leeds riots where the police were driven out of a largely Muslim community.

01:09:29.860 You know, they're rejecting the authority of the native British because they're getting in larger and larger numbers in the UK. 1.00

01:09:38.460 Their population is one of the largest growing ones out of any demographic or religion.

01:09:43.120 So, the Times reports, he was jailed in his home country in 2003 for inciting sectarianism after attacking key figures of Sunni Islam.

01:09:54.340 Now, I don't know why we granted asylum to someone who was encouraging sectarianism in an Islamic country. 0.93

01:10:02.860 And they also report, his Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked in 2010 after he described Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad, as an enemy of God.

01:10:12.100 And I thought this was a bit strange because I'm no Quranic scholar.

01:10:15.560 I was just like, why would he say that?

01:10:16.680 Obviously, she's the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. 0.89

01:10:20.080 You'd think that she would be venerated, right?

01:10:22.480 And then I looked into why.

01:10:23.740 So, at the Battle of Camel, yes, that's what it's really called, Camel, as in humps, lives in the desert.

01:10:32.020 In 656 AD, Aisha led an army against Ali, the fourth caliph and cousin of the son-in-law of Muhammad, who Shia Muslims regard as the rightful successor to Muhammad.

01:10:43.500 And so, by her opposing him, it's seen as an act of rebellion against the divine appointment of Ali as the sort of continuation of Muhammad's will, right?

01:10:56.340 I mean, it's so complicated because in any tradition, you have people who are trying to reinterpret it and just...

01:11:03.580 Yeah, but the point is, people can't keep up.

01:11:08.180 No, I don't know about this stuff.

01:11:10.040 But that's supposedly my best guess at why he said that sort of thing.

01:11:15.100 It just sparked my interest.

01:11:16.860 I'm going to throw in some tidbits of history.

01:11:19.760 Plus, I thought the Battle of Camel when talking about Islam is funny. 1.00

01:11:23.480 So, he also runs a TV channel from a converted church, ironically.

01:11:27.940 I know, it's kind of awful and I'm smiling about it because it's so poetically unjust.

01:11:34.560 It's almost comical.

01:11:36.180 But I'm genuinely annoyed by it.

01:11:38.300 He's in Buckinghamshire and his TV channel is called Fadak TV.

01:11:43.680 So, Ofcom, the regulator that regulates TV channels, have criticised his channel saying it causes sectarian violence.

01:11:51.380 Interesting how an Islamist can set up his own TV channel. 1.00

01:11:55.280 And Ofcom's just like, oh, well, we're going to give you some strong words.

01:11:59.140 But, you know, GB News, on the other hand, are we're going to fine you lots of money and basically persecute you.

01:12:04.940 So, his supporters are called the Mardi Servants Union.

01:12:08.880 And so far, they've raised 3.5 million to take over this island.

01:12:13.060 And what his plans are, are as follows.

01:12:15.100 He plans to build a school, a hospital, a mosque.

01:12:18.600 And he wants people on the island to practice Sharia law.

01:12:23.900 It didn't seem such a big island.

01:12:26.080 I know, yeah.

01:12:26.640 I don't know how you're going to basically recreate your own parallel civilisation on what amounts to a small island.

01:12:32.080 Also, food.

01:12:33.440 It doesn't look like the best place for agriculture.

01:12:37.640 You could probably have grazing animals at best, but they kind of need the whole island.

01:12:42.840 So, you can't have all those buildings.

01:12:44.640 Otherwise, the grazing animals aren't really going to be able to support the population you have for schools and hospitals and a mosque. 0.99

01:12:51.280 And they also need a square for the Queers for Palestine protests.

01:12:56.060 Don't worry, Stelios.

01:12:57.120 There'll be plenty of rooftops.

01:12:58.440 So, he says he wants Muslims from all over the world to be given a visa in order for them to live in their new homeland.

01:13:08.040 And this is a direct quote here.

01:13:09.700 If you want to live free under the banner of the imam in a special homeland where you feel everything in it reminds you of the awaited Mahdi, 0.55

01:13:16.740 which is the future messianic figure in it.

01:13:20.220 That's from Bune.

01:13:23.400 That's the Lisan al-Qaib, isn't it? 0.99

01:13:26.640 Everything is the Shia homeland.

01:13:28.640 Support this project.

01:13:31.480 So, basically, he's been rallying his supporters to give him lots of money to create his own parallel society.

01:13:37.240 And do you want to see what else he's been up to?

01:13:40.100 So, he's been giving his supporters military-style training.

01:13:44.820 What for?

01:13:45.300 I don't know.

01:13:45.840 I don't think there are many Viking incursions into Western Scotland anymore.

01:13:50.280 So, I'm not sure what he's going to have to defend his property from.

01:13:53.220 I think it might be a bit more aggressive.

01:13:55.640 Also, funny enough, he's marching them here in a mosque car park, by the way. 0.88

01:14:00.720 It's from the wildlife.

01:14:02.200 From the wildlife.

01:14:03.540 All those otters and scaring them.

01:14:05.280 But, yeah, they're LARPing in military uniforms, some of them overweight, some of them old.

01:14:10.440 And they're walking around a mosque car park to train.

01:14:12.660 So, I've actually got some live footage here from some of his other training here.

01:14:18.800 No, it's actually from the film Four Lions.

01:14:21.740 But this is what I anticipate will be what happens in his military training on this island, right?

01:14:30.820 Because, of course, it's basically going to be them.

01:14:32.740 No trees, just some sheep.

01:14:34.780 And it's going to look something like this, I think.

01:14:37.680 How can you recreate battle conditions?

01:14:42.360 So, there we go.

01:14:43.340 We've got a prediction of what it will look like.

01:14:45.380 Here it is.

01:14:48.140 There we go.

01:14:49.440 It's great to be able to see the future, isn't it?

01:14:52.100 But, yes.

01:14:52.760 Sorry, you were going to say something.

01:14:53.980 No, no, no.

01:14:54.460 And I wanted to make the point that Western Scotland might not be the best place.

01:15:00.320 Because, if you look at the Muslim population of the world, you're not exactly spoiled for choice, are you?

01:15:07.240 I mean, look at this.

01:15:08.600 I'm just going to open a new tab here.

01:15:11.240 So, we can zoom in a bit.

01:15:13.860 I can't really scroll across.

01:15:14.900 But, you get the gist.

01:15:15.900 There's lots of territory here that the locals probably wouldn't object to having the Islamic way of life.

01:15:23.480 Because they are Islamic. 0.88

01:15:25.600 Yeah.

01:15:26.180 Why does he want it in Western Scotland?

01:15:28.340 Is it possibly because, even amongst Muslims, his sect of Islam is so unattractive that he only can find sanctuary in the UK. 1.00

01:15:38.780 Because we're such a pushover that even Islamic countries won't have this sort of thing going on in their country. 1.00

01:15:44.720 Even though he's more culturally similar.

01:15:46.460 That's the issue that Western governments are right now closing their eyes to.

01:15:50.680 Is that there is a lot of infighting in people from these countries and this world.

01:15:57.700 So, if any person who says that I originate from a country that has a particular conflict.

01:16:05.180 And there's infighting, claims, asylum seeking.

01:16:07.800 That means basically that the West is hosting people from this world.

01:16:15.540 And that's it.

01:16:17.460 But I don't think that...

01:16:19.360 When I'm thinking about the duties of a state.

01:16:24.440 And the duties and responsibilities of people who are governed by the state.

01:16:30.400 I just don't think that cultural self-implosion is the only thing that is...

01:16:38.440 Cultural self-implosion is bad.

01:16:40.820 It's absolutely bad.

01:16:42.020 The duty of a state is to its own people and no one else.

01:16:45.740 Yes.

01:16:45.980 In fact, quite often other people's interests are antithetical to those of your citizenry.

01:16:53.140 So, considering them is actually at the expense of the native population.

01:16:57.700 Which is going on in many of the Western countries today.

01:17:01.000 Exactly.

01:17:01.360 And I have to point out that a lot of the intellectual, let's say multiculturalists, were saying that for multiculturalism to work, you do need a particular framework of law that everyone respects.

01:17:16.000 So, if there is sectarianism where people have their pockets, geographical areas, where people have their own laws, that means that you don't have a country anymore.

01:17:25.840 No, of course not.

01:17:26.620 And also, this reminds me of, there was an account, I can't remember which European country it was, but the Japanese, one of the first sort of envoys to Europe, that were going around Europe, some of the European countries, to sort of explore our way of life.

01:17:40.280 And I think it was either, I think it might be Portugal, but it could have also been the Netherlands, where they asked, well, we really like your castles.

01:17:48.220 Could we buy one of your castles?

01:17:49.820 And they're like, yeah, of course.

01:17:50.880 And then they said, well, if we were to buy one of these castles, is there any law preventing us from garrisoning it with our own men?

01:17:58.680 And we were like, no, no, no, it's your property, you can do with it as you wish.

01:18:02.700 And the Japanese were absolutely shocked at this.

01:18:05.800 They were like, hang on a minute, so we can buy a castle, a military structure in your country, move in our soldiers, and occupy a plot of land in your country, and you're perfectly happy to sell us it?

01:18:20.880 They were absolutely dumbfounded by this.

01:18:24.260 And I think that that is quite the parallel to this sort of situation.

01:18:28.340 The fact that it's even possible that a guy can do this in our country, and launch something that is antithetical to Britain, which is, you know, Sharia law, an Islamic island. 0.99

01:18:41.200 And, you know, this is the worst remake of Jurassic Park I've ever heard of, because, you know, rather than it being cool dinosaurs trying to get you, it's going to be Muslims, which is kind of anticlimactic, really. 1.00

01:18:54.840 We've seen it before.

01:18:55.740 But what it also reminds me of is this. 0.90

01:18:59.300 I covered this a long time ago, and it was the Black Hammer Commune, and their plan, their weirdo, their sort of gay black nationalist communists, I think it's fair to say, led by Ghazi Kodso, who calls himself Black Hitler, or at least is referred to as Black Hitler. 0.96

01:19:14.900 They were known for greeting each other and going, uh-huru, in a really camp voice.

01:19:21.860 However, they planned to buy some land in the Colorado mountains and build a commune up there, these little homes.

01:19:32.180 And I talked about it all the way back in May of 2021, and they were going to say they were going to practice agriculture and be self-sustaining.

01:19:39.200 But the thing is, they were so high up in the Colorado mountains that nothing would have grown.

01:19:43.700 And their ideas were so ridiculous, and it showed that they were so out of touch with the local area, that they thought that they could do this, that it was hilarious to me. 0.93

01:19:55.080 The same goes for the Islamists. 0.98

01:19:56.600 They think that they can build a parallel society on a small Scottish island.

01:19:59.800 That is delusion to the point of laughability, really.

01:20:04.100 I mean, especially about the communists, because it's just always, it's a pattern.

01:20:10.160 They just think that it's all a matter of intention.

01:20:12.620 They don't do their due diligence.

01:20:16.080 I think we've got some communists in the walls at the minute.

01:20:19.420 Yeah.

01:20:19.600 So, I mean, a commune going wrong is basically hardly news.

01:20:24.280 No.

01:20:24.900 And also, the leader, Garzi Kodso, was arrested after a dead body was found in his home.

01:20:30.260 So, it didn't go too well.

01:20:32.560 Turns out, if you're a weirdo that wants to move away from society and, you know, create your parallel society in an inhospitable area that's not inhabited for a reason,

01:20:42.640 bad things happen.

01:20:44.120 Who would it attract?

01:20:45.560 You know, just living somewhere where there are no doors, no locks, no nothing.

01:20:49.920 So, the funny thing is, as well, Black Hammer even has an ADL page.

01:20:53.920 BHO.

01:20:54.740 Even though, obviously communist, right?

01:20:56.800 And they still say, they're far right.

01:21:02.620 They promote far right ideas.

01:21:05.820 I mean, I'm sorry.

01:21:07.280 It means nothing now.

01:21:08.380 They wanted to start a commune.

01:21:10.560 They were anti-capitalist explicitly.

01:21:14.020 And look at their logo.

01:21:15.720 It's a hammer and a cog and it's red.

01:21:18.120 Is that the BHO organization?

01:21:20.820 What?

01:21:21.460 BHO.

01:21:22.520 Black Hammer.

01:21:23.120 Yeah.

01:21:23.640 Oh, yeah.

01:21:24.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:21:24.580 That's the same one.

01:21:25.520 BHO.

01:21:26.720 But thankfully, thanks to the based owner of the island, they refused to sell to the person, no matter how much money he raised,

01:21:36.800 because they were worried about what they were going to use the island for.

01:21:40.080 So, thankfully, the only check in place was the fact that the Scottish owner was just like, 0.97

01:21:46.160 no, I'm not selling it to this guy.

01:21:48.060 It doesn't matter how much you pay me.

01:21:49.840 I'm not passing on the island to you, which I wholeheartedly commend.

01:21:54.600 I mean, I imagine he'd probably do it if they were English as well.

01:21:56.780 But still, he might have even thought he was English if he's, you know, an S&P voter.

01:22:01.880 But sorry, I'm insulting you.

01:22:03.080 I don't know anything about you.

01:22:04.480 But credit to you for this, because I think that that is actually a responsible thing.

01:22:08.720 And it is a failure of the British state to prevent Islamists from purchasing autonomous zones, basically, 0.90

01:22:15.260 with raised money to create their own Islamic homeland within our country, within our nation.

01:22:20.460 You know, a brilliant place, a beautiful place.

01:22:23.400 And yes, I'm sort of glad it's been prevented.

01:22:27.800 But also, it's worrying that it got this far in the first place.

01:22:35.040 Okay.

01:22:36.840 So, we have a lot of comments here.

01:22:40.840 In fact, I'm going to have to scroll down.

01:22:42.840 Okay.

01:22:44.200 Hirasan Shippan says,

01:22:46.140 Sell him the island.

01:22:47.020 Let him declare a sovereign state.

01:22:48.520 Then invade it and take it in war. 0.84

01:22:52.940 Then keep him as a war prisoner. 0.74

01:22:54.820 Easy peasy.

01:22:55.440 That is probably what would happen, to be fair.

01:22:59.680 Bald Eagle 1787.

01:23:01.000 Guys, the problem of the barbarians is solving itself. 1.00

01:23:06.780 Give them an island.

01:23:07.920 Set an armed perimeter around it.

01:23:09.860 Relocate all the barbarians to there. 1.00

01:23:11.920 And then contained.

01:23:13.660 It's like that anthrax island, isn't it, in Scotland, where they just put a bunch of anthrax on the island.

01:23:19.140 Just left it there to rot.

01:23:20.580 Same thing, really.

01:23:21.440 That's a random name, says Ofcom, turns a blind eye to Grimmer Wormtongue, turning the Shire to S.

01:23:28.480 Meanwhile, Tommy the Hobbit gets arrested for terrorizing the child-eating orcs infesting his Shire.

01:23:34.400 Hard times ahead, lads.

01:23:36.340 I like that comment.

01:23:37.420 I like the Lord of the Rings analogies.

01:23:39.100 Please keep those coming.

01:23:40.940 Not just a string, says Labour, seem to have immediately dropped the ball on internal security.

01:23:45.780 See Southport stabbing.

01:23:47.120 Now we have a fifth column separatist.

01:23:48.880 Do we have to choose between securatory incompetence and labour?

01:23:52.520 You don't have to actually pick either of those.

01:23:56.220 OPHUK.

01:23:56.800 I'm not reading your name, of course. 0.97

01:23:58.360 Europe was better without Muslims. 1.00

01:23:59.720 Changed my mind.

01:24:01.800 I don't want to change your mind.

01:24:03.100 I agree.

01:24:04.540 Bold Eagle, 1787.

01:24:06.000 The US is dealing with the Japanese buying Hawaii out from under them. 1.00

01:24:09.480 Businesses are buying land on the island, raising rent to force the locals out and allowing the Japanese to move in for cheap. 1.00

01:24:14.760 Yeah, you should have dropped another nuke, America. 0.97

01:24:19.240 That's a joke, by the way.

01:24:20.580 Please don't do that.

01:24:21.880 I like Japan.

01:24:24.160 However, they did sink my grandfather's ship in World War II.

01:24:27.220 So, nukewarm.

01:24:29.780 The Germans did that to my grandfather, but it's okay. 1.00

01:24:33.340 We've got to turn the other cheek, Stelios.

01:24:34.920 That is apparently the way these days.

01:24:36.540 No. 0.96

01:24:37.500 No, I'm being silly, of course. 0.99

01:24:38.920 Hell no. 0.98

01:24:39.420 I'm being tongue-in-cheek, if anything.

01:24:41.320 That's a random name.

01:24:42.180 Says, just drop all these undesirables. 1.00

01:24:43.680 Muslims, commies, LGB. 1.00

01:24:47.220 Rude word. 0.95

01:24:48.380 On a deserted island and make money from filming the battle royale that will ensue.

01:24:52.960 I have suggested this many times.

01:24:54.660 Alas, no party wants to take on this policy proposal.

01:24:58.680 It's a crying shame.

01:25:00.340 Right, onto the website comments.

01:25:01.700 And don't worry.

01:25:02.600 Can we have like an extra 10 minutes or so, Samson?

01:25:05.560 Yeah, just do video comments first.

01:25:07.100 Oh, two video comments first.

01:25:08.300 Okay.

01:25:09.420 I joked with my friend, since we've had the last two weekends have some quite significant

01:25:17.620 historical events happen, I wonder what historical events will happen this weekend.

01:25:23.220 And then I found out about the Olympics happening.

01:25:26.000 I knew something would happen.

01:25:27.900 And a lot has happened, and I'm sure you guys have talked about it.

01:25:30.800 But for me, the most interesting thing was the blackout where the only thing with a light

01:25:35.840 on was a single lone Christian church in the background.

01:25:38.840 And how poetic.

01:25:43.260 Astute as ever.

01:25:44.720 Something did happen as well.

01:25:45.960 Thanks, California refugee.

01:25:47.120 So, to be serious for a moment, I think the question should be thrown up to the gentleman.

01:25:54.520 How do you view the fact that when you look at the American electorate, one of the biggest

01:26:01.300 problems we're going to run into is there's always going to be that group of people that

01:26:06.360 is going to vote based on a checkbox.

01:26:11.300 As in, as long as you fulfill this criteria, this criteria, this criteria, it's no longer

01:26:18.340 about the content of your character.

01:26:20.460 It's the content of your underwear.

01:26:23.760 So, and getting back to my usual theme of not taking anything too seriously, keep in mind 0.99

01:26:29.120 that Kamala's famous book, the secret to my success is my ability to suck seed. 0.84

01:26:34.720 So, I think the best thing to say about that is that the sort of push towards having self 0.77

01:26:48.960 confidence, you know, in your principles, having a sort of a muscular approach to politics

01:26:55.540 of, yeah, we're the best, you know, we don't care about these demographic categories, we

01:26:59.960 don't check boxes, we're better because we say we are, because we know we are, because

01:27:04.160 everyone can see we are.

01:27:05.760 We need that sort of confidence.

01:27:06.980 That's how you beat those people because if they're there like a weird nerdy bureaucrat

01:27:10.740 ticking boxes about their candidates and saying my candidate's the best because they're 0.99

01:27:15.300 black and they're a woman and they're Muslim and they're lesbian and they're disabled 0.93

01:27:18.480 and all of those things, no one's, no one really cares about that.

01:27:23.260 People care about their life getting better.

01:27:27.160 It's much easier to say, well, your life gets better if you're not, you know, your life

01:27:32.900 gets better if you're not in a discriminated category, right?

01:27:36.340 Your life is better if you work hard, you get just desserts.

01:27:40.720 It's always an issue of numbers.

01:27:42.560 I mean, let's hope we do things to keep those numbers down.

01:27:47.320 I think that it's certainly doable and I think people just need confidence in their own

01:27:52.260 ability and righteousness to prevail. 0.92

01:27:58.720 What you're looking at are linden trees, the pride of our town that the mayor fucked by 0.99

01:28:05.200 keeping their roots open for two winters while he was repaving with these ugly ass tiles. 0.99

01:28:13.960 So cheers, councils. 0.99

01:28:15.480 Do work.

01:28:16.280 Good luck with your taxes.

01:28:21.240 Yeah, I think that that style of tree next to stones doesn't work because they have them

01:28:25.920 in Swindon and the ground in like the central Swindon now looks like the ground of, you know,

01:28:33.060 the Somme or something like that with the brickwork.

01:28:35.480 It's all over the place.

01:28:36.420 There are great big trenches and pools of water when it rains.

01:28:39.140 And also thanks, Ruther Day, for sending this because we haven't seen some of, I haven't

01:28:44.360 seen some of your comments in a while.

01:28:46.000 So happy to see you.

01:28:47.600 Whilst not common, certain phrases are typical of a people who will do anything to survive

01:28:53.840 when brutalized by a communist regime with surprising longevity.

01:28:58.060 Accordingly, if you can cheat, then cheat is a phrase in China.

01:29:02.160 They say it as neng pian jiu pian.

01:29:05.100 It couples nicely with the phrase chabu duo, which is similar to are good enough, said dismissively

01:29:10.780 to emphasize that least effort is the order of the day.

01:29:15.580 I mean, mostly, I think Alex is raising a really good point here because most of moralizing

01:29:22.560 assumes normal conditions, whereas being a prisoner of war and warfare is entirely different.

01:29:30.600 Yes.

01:29:31.200 Also, I think the tyranny of the Chinese state has done a number on the culture of China 0.94

01:29:37.840 to the point where Chinese culture in the modern day is virtually demonic. 1.00

01:29:44.260 They're like, to make a reference that the boss man will like, it's like all the forces

01:29:49.700 of chaos have got their champions in China.

01:29:53.720 Chaos space marines coming out.

01:29:56.660 We need some space marines, that's for sure. 0.75

01:29:59.520 Let's have a look at this next one.

01:30:00.580 Touching me, touching me, touching you.

01:30:09.080 Take down the line of black gold, your times never seem so. 0.77

01:30:17.080 Shulker, shulker, shulker.

01:30:20.600 I will find the world to be made in the world. 0.98

01:30:28.560 Look at all those terrible racists, Stelios, singing songs together and flying flags and

01:30:35.200 having a good time.

01:30:36.220 It's nice to see this because tens of thousands of people don't go out to a rally just like

01:30:41.540 that.

01:30:42.200 No, they don't.

01:30:43.520 It even got me to go to London.

01:30:45.580 That's quite an achievement.

01:30:48.440 Right.

01:30:49.160 Any more?

01:30:49.920 We got some...

01:30:51.580 Some comments.

01:30:53.000 More Rumble ones through.

01:30:53.840 And then we've got plenty of time to do website comments as well.

01:30:58.700 Reform should campaign on giving us back our guns. 0.73

01:31:00.880 If Labour and the Tories insist on turning us into Afghanistan, I want to be able to shoot 0.99

01:31:04.400 back at the terrorists.

01:31:05.940 I do think that self-defense laws need to be reintroduced because if you import the third

01:31:10.440 world and when seconds matter, the police are minutes away. 0.87

01:31:14.560 I want to be able to shoot the person trying to kill me. 1.00

01:31:17.700 This is my right. 0.99

01:31:19.120 But it used to be a right and it was taken away from me and I think that it's perfectly

01:31:23.740 reasonable that self-defense is a part of a country's culture.

01:31:28.540 I mean, it has to be.

01:31:30.420 It has to be.

01:31:31.240 I mean, every culture has some laws about self-defense.

01:31:35.760 Almost.

01:31:36.160 At the current moment in time, we have sort of state-enforced cuckoldry in terms of defending

01:31:42.080 ourselves.

01:31:42.820 That's a random name for the final Rumble chat.

01:31:44.580 My candidate is the best because he has a sword that killed Sauron and has a hot elf

01:31:49.460 wife.

01:31:50.280 What does your candidate have?

01:31:53.220 I enjoyed that.

01:31:54.760 So we got some general comments.

01:31:57.440 Alex Ergel says, the dream team of Stelios and Josh, the two Lotus Eaters who really keep

01:32:01.080 the quality up.

01:32:02.060 Thanks, Alex.

01:32:02.740 Really nice.

01:32:03.320 That's beautiful.

01:32:04.280 Talking of quality, you've always got good quality video comments.

01:32:06.880 There we go.

01:32:07.360 Right back at you.

01:32:08.720 Lady Dragonhawk says, dear Stelios, please show us your Mr. Freeze impression.

01:32:12.360 Thank you, a fan.

01:32:13.360 Okay.

01:32:14.380 Tonight's forecast, a freeze is coming.

01:32:18.180 The funny thing is, at the minute, it's like 27 degrees Celsius outside.

01:32:22.580 It's really hot.

01:32:24.260 It's funny because Samson is in the other room and it's incredibly hot in the other room

01:32:29.460 and he came here before and I asked him, can you be cold, Samson?

01:32:34.740 You remember the Mr. Freeze quotes.

01:32:37.260 If revenge is a dish best I've called, then it's time to feast.

01:32:42.360 Yeah, this is the tyranny that Karl has set up, that the presenters get a nice cool studio

01:32:48.080 and Samson is being cooked in the booth over there.

01:32:51.420 Stay cool.

01:32:52.140 You were still right, Samson, in there?

01:32:53.540 We can't hear you.

01:32:57.260 We can't hear you.

01:32:58.140 He's mute.

01:32:59.540 He's melting.

01:33:00.460 The microphone has frozen.

01:33:05.140 Okay.

01:33:05.820 George Happ.

01:33:06.580 Karl's speech was great, but I'm afraid his message to Farage will fall on deaf ears.

01:33:13.120 Nigel will never associate with the football lads or Karl, who he has denounced.

01:33:17.360 It is, he either pledges his allegiance or his political career dies.

01:33:22.300 That is, it's as simple as that for Farage.

01:33:24.940 Because people aren't going to wait around for him.

01:33:26.700 He's let people down enough that their patience is wearing pretty thin with him.

01:33:31.480 Rue the day.

01:33:32.640 Ah, the contemplation, the contemplation continues.

01:33:36.920 Thank you.

01:33:38.200 Garlic Goblin.

01:33:39.080 You can't get more wrong than Corbyn.

01:33:41.820 Stelios.

01:33:42.640 When is this being put on a t-shirt and sold in the Lotus Merge shop?

01:33:46.820 That's a good idea.

01:33:48.540 It needs you in like a toga looking very noble, like an ancient Greek scholar. 0.91

01:33:53.500 And then it's just you with a sandal on Corbyn's head.

01:33:57.440 Yeah.

01:33:58.400 After a whole life devoted on reflection, you know, my verdict of wisdom is... 0.99

01:34:03.500 I'm going to crush your head. 0.98

01:34:04.740 Yeah, it cannot get more wrong than Corbyn. 0.99

01:34:07.520 TMK out of context.

01:34:09.740 My Islander arrived this morning.

01:34:11.460 A much needed ray of positivity for the upcoming week of a S show at work.

01:34:17.160 Well, I hope it all goes all right and enjoy the read, I suppose.

01:34:20.680 So for the Patriot Rally, Biggie Bigfoot says,

01:34:23.020 My wife was in London that day and she said she noticed the flags in the gathering.

01:34:26.740 I told her it was a peaceful rally in celebration of British culture and identity with speakers and gospel music.

01:34:31.380 She said, Oh, that's actually really nice to see.

01:34:33.220 But I don't know if you know, but I heard there was this other thing going on with that far right Tommy Robinson, probably trying to ruin it.

01:34:41.760 I had to smile, bless her.

01:34:43.800 Well, I commend you for, you know, entertaining it.

01:34:50.560 Yes, patience is still a virtue, at least in a marriage.

01:34:55.700 Hector Rex says, Really like Carl calling out Farage and saying, We are your constituents and we will not be ignored.

01:35:01.520 Yes, that was one of the best notes of the whole thing, I think.

01:35:04.820 Lord Nerevar says, Bravo to Tommy.

01:35:07.700 Carl and everyone who organized the Patriot Rally, while I was once again confined to the grey wasteland that is Birmingham.

01:35:13.160 Sorry to hear that.

01:35:13.840 Just know that I was cheering you on all the way.

01:35:16.800 That's very nice of you.

01:35:17.700 Thank you.

01:35:19.300 XY and it's, they've spelt out Z, but I'm going to call it Z because I'm English.

01:35:26.000 This would be one public gathering I'd gladly take my kids to.

01:35:29.200 Glad to hear it went well for you.

01:35:30.960 Well, thank you.

01:35:32.600 Kevin Fox says, I was petrified as a woman.

01:35:35.360 No, Narinda, you're petrified as a race baiter. 1.00

01:35:38.720 Good reframing there, Kevin.

01:35:40.080 One more, Justin B.

01:35:44.540 Don't remind us of Narinda's appearance on the Lotus Seat as my ears still bleed from the memory of her voice when I see her.

01:35:52.580 Also, I saw that name, someone with my name there.

01:35:58.080 I'm not going to read it though, but seeing some, I'm going to read your comment at least.

01:36:01.940 Seeing something like the Patriot Rally really puts a smile on my face.

01:36:04.820 It shows that we are not few.

01:36:06.620 We are not alone.

01:36:07.440 We can act when called upon.

01:36:09.360 We just need to keep up the momentum.

01:36:11.220 Hear, hear.

01:36:12.160 Right, Stelios.

01:36:13.300 Okay.

01:36:13.880 Thane Scotty of Swindon.

01:36:15.220 The modern left will point to the ancient Greeks being somewhat flexible with their sexuality to justify being absolutely degenerate in their behavior today.

01:36:23.260 But there are two important things they forget.

01:36:25.480 Number one, the ancient Greeks would have considered them barbarians and would enslave them in a second and probably beat the degeneracy out of them. 0.77

01:36:33.320 I mean, where Macron said, this is France, we'd have King Leonidas saying, this is Sparta.

01:36:40.540 No one kicking him into a hole.

01:36:42.640 And number two, the ancient Greeks diddled little kids are the modern LGBTQ plus activist communities. 0.98

01:36:48.880 Absolutely certain they wish to outdo the ancient Greeks in terms of subverting social norms. 1.00

01:36:54.340 I have to say to this, that it's vastly over, the degree in which this happened is vastly overblown.

01:37:00.260 But it did happen to him.

01:37:01.300 I spoke to you about this because when I read Plato's Symposium, there's like one dude talking about it. 0.85

01:37:06.720 And a lot of other people are disagreeing and saying, you're kind of a weirdo. 0.68

01:37:09.620 Yeah.

01:37:10.080 What are you doing at my banquet?

01:37:11.160 Platonic love is non-erotic, but you do get some characters in platonic, in platonic dialogues who are a bit homoerotic because they go out, the dialogue takes place out of nowhere. 0.81

01:37:23.960 You know, the dialogue takes place in a gymnasium where people are exercising naked, you know, random.

01:37:30.180 Is it just a coincidence?

01:37:32.540 They're all chatting and that you've got all these gym bros talking philosophy and then you've got this sort of guy in the corner in the bushes.

01:37:40.120 Oiling themselves.

01:37:44.000 Nice.

01:37:44.680 Okay.

01:37:44.920 Baron von Warhawk.

01:37:45.980 It's telling that once you give these people any platform or attention, then they will do the most degenerate nonsense possible.

01:37:52.060 They simply can't help themselves when it comes to the possibility of flashing the world with their rainbow paint covered ball.

01:38:00.180 Kevin Fox, calm down, Stelios. 0.64

01:38:02.420 It could have been worse.

01:38:03.580 They could have got Sam Smith to play the Smurf.

01:38:09.200 French, Sam Smith.

01:38:11.700 Horrifying.

01:38:13.180 Chad Koala, as much as I'd like to attribute the Olympic opening ceremony to the French being, well, French, I think we'd see similar insanity from any Western European or English speaking country these days. 0.99

01:38:26.900 In which case, buckle up for 2028 because I wouldn't count on the LA ceremony to be gashing with class and sophistication.

01:38:34.360 I think Chad Koala is right because this is not about, this is just about Virtue Signal.

01:38:39.560 Is it being held in LA in 2028?

01:38:42.020 Because if they do, I'm going to look forward to the procession.

01:38:45.220 It is, Samson says.

01:38:46.400 They're going to have a ceremony where there's going to be lots of homeless people taking dumps all at the same time.

01:38:50.960 Imagine having, the same way in the London opening ceremony, you had the people with the NHS trolleys and stuff.

01:39:00.020 If you had the fentanyl.

01:39:01.900 Yeah, there's a giant needle descends from the heavens.

01:39:04.480 Yes, you know, it's just, no one's moving.

01:39:06.720 Everyone's just there sitting like a zombie.

01:39:08.900 They're all like that.

01:39:10.120 There's actually no chairs in the stadium because everyone's on their face on fentanyl.

01:39:13.900 It's all handed out in little bags on the entrance.

01:39:16.240 Andrew Narragh, honestly, Stelius, calling the opening ceremony cringe is an understatement.

01:39:22.540 I like understatements because I like making people think it's blasphemous.

01:39:28.760 It reveals in its deformed, perverted ideals, spitting all that is normal and good.

01:39:34.440 Absolutely.

01:39:35.760 Captain Charlie the Beagle, hello.

01:39:38.220 Haven't seen you in a while.

01:39:40.060 Hey, guys, regarding the French Olympics, I personally am not surprised by this at all.

01:39:44.400 After all, isn't the idea of the opening ceremony supposed to be about showcasing the rich cultural heritage of a nation?

01:39:52.580 There was a lot of degeneracy to get through in French history, I suppose.

01:39:55.700 That's mean, yeah.

01:39:56.740 Okay.

01:39:57.300 Shall I go on to my comments?

01:39:58.640 Yes, of course.

01:39:59.480 Lord Nerevar says, hear this Muslim guy out.

01:40:01.780 We move all the Islamists onto one island in Scotland, hold a referendum to grant independence, 1.00

01:40:06.280 then sever all diplomatic ties.

01:40:08.300 The religion of peace gets its place and we get our island back.

01:40:12.780 Yeah, that probably would work.

01:40:14.160 Eloise says, Ron Swanson would approve of the island and Josh's desire to sit with Scotch in peace.

01:40:20.360 Please make it happen.

01:40:21.180 It was also my desire.

01:40:22.700 Yes.

01:40:23.800 It's all right.

01:40:24.140 You can come and visit Stelios.

01:40:25.440 You're welcome.

01:40:27.060 I had some Lagavulin 16.

01:40:29.200 Oh, that would be, yeah.

01:40:31.040 Lovely whiskey, isn't it?

01:40:32.040 Yeah.

01:40:32.320 Lovely and smoky.

01:40:34.080 Fane Scotty of Swindon says, I think we should create a refuge on this Scottish island.

01:40:37.240 It'd be great.

01:40:38.140 I've been assured that everything bad I've ever heard about communism is Western propaganda.

01:40:41.920 So I think we should model this refuge after Nazino Island.

01:40:46.260 It can clearly hold 6,700 people.

01:40:50.060 So we should send them there to help our comrades seek refuge from the evil Western Imperial project. 0.93

01:40:54.580 How about it, lads?

01:40:55.440 I thought the first sentence was something Chomsky wrote.

01:40:59.420 No, no, no.

01:41:00.580 Yeah.

01:41:01.360 And finally, Kevin Fox says, what's the first thing you notice about Torsa?

01:41:04.480 Very few trees.

01:41:05.640 Tells you a lot about the weather.

01:41:07.180 I lived in the Hebrides for a few years and all the trees leaned east. 0.86

01:41:10.020 The Muslims will hate the place. 1.00

01:41:11.840 Yeah. 1.00

01:41:12.100 I mean, it's damp and miserable. 0.86

01:41:14.000 So it's perfect for the kind of ethos of their religion, which is also pretty miserable.

01:41:18.980 And I think on that note, we should probably end, shouldn't we? 0.86

01:41:22.120 Yep.

01:41:22.360 Well, we're back again tomorrow.

01:41:25.700 Hope you enjoyed it.

01:41:27.420 Bye.

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