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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Christmas Pre-Record | This Year In Stupid: 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

lotuseaters.com

Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Christmas Pre-Record | This Year In Stupid: 2024 by lotuseaters.com

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0:00.0

24 has had some good moments, it's had some bad moments.

0:05.0

But I think one of the most consistent things about 2024, as with all of the years in clown world,

0:12.0

is it's been a very, very stupid year. And to get the best look into how stupid our clown world is.

0:21.3

We need look no further than mainstream media headlines.

0:26.7

Yes, mainstream media headlines are the perfect encapsulation into a single line of everything wrong with the world as it exists right now.

0:37.4

And I wanted to just get a collection of

0:39.8

them so we could kind of go through a worst headlines of the year, little segment, this time

0:47.2

at the end of 2024, as we look back on all of the ridiculous things that have happened. Now,

0:52.7

this is not going in any particular

0:54.3

order, but except for one, which is this first one, because I think that in finding this one and

1:01.9

choosing it as the start and the kind of inspiration for this, I think I just found the worst

1:07.3

straight away. Because we all remember this right after the Rachel Reeves new budget

1:12.0

was announced and we had the farmers about to go on their protests. We had this amazing

1:18.5

Guardian article from Will Hutton saying, Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance

1:25.4

tax will bring new life to rural Britain.

1:28.3

This is just classic communist grievance mongering.

1:30.3

I went over this article actually and contrasted it to statements made by the Soviet

1:34.3

Politburo and secret police during the Holdermour and the confiscation of land from Ukrainian Kulax,

1:40.3

and it sounded indistinct. I mean, lots of the justification here saying that it's going to bring

1:44.7

new life to the countryside. Actually, free marketeers, don't you want to break up the non-meritorious

1:50.6

inherited land grift? No. No, neither do I, because that actually means that you inculcate

1:56.1

the right way of cultivating the land across generations. But he was saying, oh, it's a,

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