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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Tuesday, the 8th of December 2020.
	It's just me today.
	It's not because I couldn't have asked anyone, but I had so much to go through on the US election that I wanted to cover that, to be honest with you, I thought it was going to take the entire hour or so.
	So, it'll just be me and you, and we'll be having a nice conversation about these things.
	But, before I do that, I have to do some shilling.
	Today, we have published a wonderful op-ed by Mr.
	James Dellingpole on loadseaters.com.
	It's part of the premium content, so you'll have to go over and sign up for the low, low price of £5 a month if you want to come and read it, but we've got many, many more from many other people.
	We're going to have the premium chat with Andy Ngo, the sort of more personal account of his life behind the scenes that we'll have up there as well, as well as, of course, our book club.
	Today we should have the Common Sense one going up and we will be recording the Dictators one later on this afternoon.
	We would have done it yesterday but Andy was here so I didn't want to spend the time doing it then.
	But anyway, enough chilling.
	Go to lotusseeds.com, sign up, support us and get some awesome extra content.
	Delingpole's The Gandalf Test is actually a really interesting way of phrasing it.
	I really actually like the framing here, very sort of old English.
	Anyway, let's go on to what's going on, because you may have seen that Sidney Powell has been rebuffed in her attempts to get the Kraken recognised.
	So the first one, and the texture, the sort of tone of the way that these rebuttals have been done by the judges is very, very interesting.
	And really looks partisan to me.
	And you can see what I mean from the two examples.
	So the first example, we have the Georgia judge who has dismissed the Kraken lawsuit.
	So as reported by CNBC, a federal judge on Monday quickly dismissed the lawsuit filed by Conservative attorney Sidney Powell that sought to overturn the election loss.
	The dismissal and their rejection earlier on Monday in a similar case by Powell in Michigan are serious blows to their campaign.
	The ruling by the judge, Timothy Batten, Sr., came less than 19 minutes into a hearing in Atlanta Federal Court where Powell claimed that Trump was the victim of massive ballot fraud through Georgia's use of Dominion voting machines.
	Georgia being a red state right up until 2019 when they got Dominion counting machines is certainly something of concern.
	But Batten said this...
	The relief that the plaintiffs seek this court cannot grant.
	They ask the court to order the Secretary of State to decertify the election results if such a mechanism even exists, and I find that it does not.
	So his objection here is procedural.
	He can't do what is being claimed of him.
	And as CNBC put, Batten did not rule on the merits of Powell's claim, which were made on behalf of the slate of would-be Trump electors in the Electoral College.
	So this isn't a commentary on what has happened.
	This is the judge saying, well, look, I think this is actually above my pay grade.
	And I get the feeling that this is probably a kind of common ethos among many of the sort of lower-level judges.
	Because the amounts...
	If one of them turns around and says, you know what, that's a good point, we're throwing this election out...
	We have to remember that the judges are merely human, and the amount of stress that they're going to come under is going to be phenomenal.
	The entire eye of the world will suddenly be focused Sauron's eye of the media.
	All these Lord of the Rings metaphors today.
	The Sauron's eye of the media will be focused entirely on just some local judge, and they're going to get loads of death threats, they're going to get a huge amount of scrutiny, they're going to get undermined by all of the press, who will suddenly find themselves with a journalistic duty to do all of the investigative journalism that they actually refuse to do when it comes to the allegations that Sidney Powell is bringing forward.
	Suddenly they'll find all the time and effort to do that.
	So I actually really don't blame them.
	And then you get the kind of...
	Virtue signalling style dismissal, which honestly just makes me cringe reading it, and I'm kind of embarrassed.
	So in Michigan, specifically for the city of Detroit, a judge dismissed this attempt, and dismissed Powell's lawsuit there.
	And this just came across to me like it was desperate for attention.
	As the independent report, judges for the city of Detroit said the lawsuit contained, quote, And dismissed claims that vote machines have been tampered with among other conspiracy theories.
	Few lawsuits breathe more lies than this one, said the 45-page court document, which was shared online.
	The allegations are little more than fevered rantings of conspiracy theorists built on the work of other conspiracy theorists.
	You're not even trying, are you?
	This is just you looking for that Twitter gotcha and hoping that all of them are going to be impressed with your virtue signaling.
	That's not addressing the merits of the case.
	Again, just like the other one.
	At least the other one was like, look, this isn't my job.
	I'm not going to address this.
	You need to go somewhere else.
	This is more power than I feel that I have.
	This one is not even...
	Not even admitting to any of that.
	This is just saying, no, no, I'm going to deny your claims on the basis that I'm just going to call it a conspiracy theory.
	It's like, sorry, there appears to be quite a lot of evidence, quite a lot of testimony from credentialed people, people who would know about this, people who have worked in this area.
	I can't remember the doctor's name, but the one who worked in Washington, For 40 years, studying this sort of stuff that we covered on a podcast a few days ago, or last week probably, would be among the primary people that I would want to have in a court presenting their evidence.
	But instead, this judge is saying, no, this is lies and warped logic and conspiracy theory.
	A judge for the city of Detroit.
	I don't want to start pointing fingers, but I can't say I'm overly surprised.
	But as the independents say, judges went on to eviscerate the former Trump campaign attorney and her allegations, saying that some complaints had already been dismissed in Michigan's courts and others had not been considered by the president's team because they were off the wall.
	There are lots of reasons not to package things all together in one thing.
	I'm not going to go off on one.
	If any of the conspiracy theories contained in the case had merit, they would have been brought in those cases or by the Trump campaign legal team.
	Even the Trump campaign lawsuits have avoided off-the-wall claims including this lawsuit.
	Well...
	That's just saying, I don't believe it.
	That's just saying, I'm not even going to entertain it.
	I mean, you could bring it to the court, you could go through all of the evidence, and you could forensically pick it apart, or fail to, as the case may be, and we'd see how things were then, wouldn't we?
	But instead, if you're not going to even entertain it and just call it conspiracy theories, well...
	Then I'm going to be suspicious of that person.
	At least the other judge seemed honest about things.
	But the thing is, there seems to be more and more evidence coming out.
	Now, the first bit that I wanted to talk about is the video evidence of the Georgia Ballot Counting Center video footage.
	This has been going viral all over the internet, and this...
	Can we watch the video quickly before we cover it?
	Okay, so I think what we can do now is fast forward to about 11.
	Is it?
	Wait a sec, John, it's really fast.
	They're walking off.
	The ladies in yellow are still there.
	Right, okay.
	Yes, keep your eyes on the lady in purple, and the two in yellow, and the woman in the blue apron with blonde braids, because those are the people who stay behind.
	Okay, so what you're going to see happen at about 11 o'clock is, once everyone is gone, because it's clear, they're going to pull ballots out from underneath a table.
	Watch this table.
	So actually this will take a few minutes, but we did not know when we first watched this, okay, is it normal to store suitcases of ballots under a table, under a tablecloth?
	Is that how they run the place?
	Maybe this is what they've been doing all day.
	Maybe this is what they're doing under all the tables.
	So we went back and watched the videos of a team of us.
	We don't see that.
	What we see is typically, you're going to find ballots, you know, back in this corner, We're coming in through a door and then they get moved and circulated throughout the room.
	It can get a little confusing because they have these black containers of ballots.
	They have the U.S. Postal Service containers.
	But what we're trying to do when we determine that ballots being pulled out from underneath this table is, you know, what was the chain of custody?
	Where did it come from?
	Who put them there?
	When did they put them there?
	We only reviewed this at about 1 in the morning last night for a couple of hours.
	We're going to need about 14 hours to watch it carefully because we fast forwarded through it several times and could not find that particular frame, but here's what we can tell you for sure.
	At about 8 o'clock in the morning, we're going to roll this back and show it to you.
	There you go.
	So now they're going to start pulling these ballots out from under this table.
	This table, the black one, was placed there by the lady with the blonde braids at about 822 a.m.
	in the morning.
	So she put that table there.
	So the same person who's staying behind now, the same person who cleared the place out under the pretest that we're going to stop counting, is the person who put the table there at 822 in the morning.
	Yeah, I saw four suitcases come out from underneath the table.
	Yeah, upper right hand, you see the gentleman in red?
	So he just pulled one out.
	So what are these ballots doing there, separate from all the other ballots?
	And why are they only counting them when the place is cleared out with no witnesses?
	Is the question.
	So, these machines can process about 3,000 ballots an hour.
	You have multiple machines there, and they're there for two hours.
	So you do the math.
	How many ballots went through those machines in those two hours when there was no one there to supervise, to be present, consistent with your statute and rules to supervise the tabulation?
	We believe that could easily be and probably and certainly beyond the margin of victory in this race.
	Right, so this, if you couldn't quite understand the woman talking at the particularly high rate, she's saying that after the poll watchers had left and after the ballots had apparently been counted, as say the group four or so had stayed behind, and then from under a table that appears to be covered with a cloth or something, they pulled out boxes of ballots and continued counting with no witnesses.
	I can't verify that that's true or not, obviously, because I have no access to it.
	But, sorry, I've misarranged these, John.
	There's a claim that this is being rebuffed by a PBS report that this is normal processing.
	Sorry, it's the next one after this.
	Yeah, this one.
	So they say that state and county officials, including investigators for the Secretary of State's office, said that the video clip making the rounds shows the normal tabulation process.
	No monitors were told to leave, but Republican monitors and members of the media left when some election employees called cutters wrapped up for the night.
	Georgia Law spells out the rules for partisan poll watchers, allowing them to be present and monitor aspects of the election process, but having monitors there is not required, and in fact, Democrats did not have monitors present at that time.
	So that's actually concerning, in my opinion.
	If all of the poll watchers have gone, I mean, okay, the law doesn't say they have to be there, but, I mean, like the woman was saying in the very high-speed video, what's the guarantee of...
	What was the phrase she used?
	I can't remember how she framed it.
	The guarantee of the process to know how the ballots have been handled and how secure that is.
	I mean, where did these come from?
	Why are there no poll watchers there?
	Why is that okay?
	Why was this done after the poll watchers had left?
	It raises questions.
	But as for the so-called suitcases full of ballots allegedly removed under the table, it was empty, says the state's investigator.
	That wasn't a bin that had ballots under the table, says Francis Watson.
	It was an empty bin, and the ballots from it were actually put out on the table when the media was still there.
	And then it was placed back into the box when the media was still there, placed next to the table.
	Well, I guess if he says so, that must be the case.
	Furthermore, election officials say that there was nothing abnormal about the tabulation of ballots shown in the video.
	What the video shows is that they have pulled out plastic bins from underneath the desk.
	It was normal processing that occurred there, as Gabe Sterling from the state explained this morning.
	Sterling, the state's voting system implementation manager, said that the investigators for the state watched the full surveillance video from Election Day, and those bins of ballots were already there in a canter for early in the day while both monitors and the media were there.
	Well, again, I mean, it's his word against the word of people watching the video footage.
	I don't know whether that's the case.
	But if we can go to the video of the alleged USB handoff and watch this one, again, it just really looks suspicious.
	And I believe this one was Detroit, but let's watch it.
	it.
	So you can see that she's kind of, she looks like she's kind of hiding it in her hand, just holding it by the, by the chair.
	Acting a little weird.
	He stretches and then it appears to be out of her hand.
	Looks really suspect.
	Just looks suspicious.
	Don't know what to tell you.
	In the wake of this footage, though, Rudy Giuliani has filed a new lawsuit in Georgia, saying that the footage, he says the ballots from the Georgia one had been hidden under the table until GOP poll watchers are no longer present.
	And so this is another case for another lawsuit.
	We'll see how that pans out.
	I imagine that the judge will just say, well, this is a conspiracy theory.
	Get out!
	But what happens when you have people who just come out and say, like the Indian woman at the Michigan hearing, I think it was the other day, where she was saying, well, I committed the fraud.
	What do you have then?
	Do you just tell them, no, you didn't?
	Like, I don't know what to tell you.
	You know, it strikes me as being strange, especially when another person has come out and said, hi, I committed fraud.
	Like, there's this chap here who claims to have driven thousands of ballots across state lines.
	This is Jesse Morgan, a truck driver, and he told his story at a press conference.
	He said the estimate is that somewhere between 144,000 ballots and 288,000 ballots, estimated from the number of boxes of ballots that he took, were taken across state lines.
	He said, I drive a tractor-trailer for a U.S. Postal Service as a subcontractor.
	I drive a route from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bethpage, New York, Pennsylvania, and back to Lancaster.
	On October 21st, I arrived for my usual route for Bethpage.
	An expediter made three references to ballots that were to be loaded into my trailer, saying, hey, you have ballots today.
	He recalled receiving 24 boxes full of ballots stacked on top of each other.
	He saw that envelopes had handwritten return addresses.
	They were complete ballots.
	I didn't think much of it at the time, he says.
	When he arrived in Harrisburg, he was not allowed to offload the mail.
	I was made to wait for roughly six hours from 9.15am to nearly 3pm.
	All of this was weird, Morgan said.
	After waiting six hours, he went inside to see the expediter.
	I was told to wait for the transportation supervisor, an official Morgan had never dealt with.
	He's a top guy.
	He's the kind of guy who would speak to my boss.
	The supervisor told me to drive to Lancaster without being unloaded in Harrisburg.
	I knew the ballots were loaded for Harrisburg.
	I also recalled asking for his ticket, the slip that shows he arrived, and a late slip to prove he had been delayed.
	the supervisor refused to give him the slip.
	I then drove to Lancaster, unhooked my trailer in its normal place, then drove my truck to where I always park it.
	The next day, it just got weirder.
	As I arrived at Lancaster, that my trailer was gone, not there anymore.
	Since I started driving the Bethpage route, I've always had the trailer 10R 1440.
	What happened on October 21st was a series of unusual events that cannot be a coincidence.
	I know I saw ballots with return addresses filled out, thousands of them, thousands, loaded onto my trailer in New York, headed for Pennsylvania.
	As things became weirder, I got to thinking and wondered why I was driving complete ballots from New York to Pennsylvania.
	I didn't know why, so I decided to speak up.
	And someone from the Amistad project who are looking into this independently said that this matches up perfectly on how you would expect fraudulent ballots to be inserted into the system.
	So, I mean, is this guy just some liar?
	Just this truck driver who just has a regular route, who's been told he had ballots?
	He didn't really have ballots?
	He didn't really have a trailer attached to him?
	He didn't really lose that trailer and just hasn't seen it since?
	What are we saying?
	Are we saying that he's just a liar?
	Why would he be doing that?
	Is he being paid?
	Like, we have to explain why this guy has come out and said, Hi, I committed Vosa fraud.
	Again, these appear to be regular people who are just doing a regular job, who have realized that, actually, this is weird.
	This is not the normal process.
	What's going on?
	But then we come to Dominion vote-flipping allegations.
	Now, I, again, haven't been able to confirm any of these things, but I just wanted to tell you about these things just so you are informed that, at the very least, the allegations are here.
	So, as far as I'm aware, the initial claim has come from Rob Hurst, who's an accountant in Ware County, Georgia.
	And he supports Donald Trump.
	And he tweeted out that using sequestered Dominion equipment, Ware County ran an equal number of Trump and Biden votes through the tabulator, and the tabulator reported a 26% lead for Biden.
	37 Trump votes were used in the equal sample that had been switched from Trump to Biden.
	In actual algorithmic terms, this means that a vote for Trump counted as 87% as a vote, And of a vote, and a vote for Biden counted as 113% of a vote.
	So this is the weighting that they're talking about.
	And this was reported on by a local Georgia paper under the title, Trump legal team witnessed alleged that where county audit results revealed Dominion machines flipped ballots from Trump to Biden.
	The chat was called, I think it was George, is it George Favorino?
	Favoritino?
	Favoritio?
	I don't know that.
	There are lots of weird surnames in America that I can't pronounce.
	But Favorito, sorry, obtained an email from Ware County Election Supervisor Carlos Nelson confirming that the audit had discovered 37 votes that had been incorrectly assigned to Biden instead of Trump.
	In an interview, he explained that the information didn't indicate that the machine had necessarily flipped votes, just that a mistake occurred.
	And they found this out by doing a hand recount.
	We didn't find out that they flipped the votes.
	We didn't have to obtain the machine to figure that out.
	The hand recount said that they'd flipped the votes.
	So, I mean, I can't confirm or deny this, but I think this is an important allegation that, again, is not being widely reported on.
	Moving on, a judge in Antrim County in Michigan...
	Has ordered election officials to preserve the election records and not turn on the Dominion systems, presumably just in case there's some kind of software that instructs it to do something.
	This is reported by the Daily Wire.
	A Michigan judge has ordered Antrim County election officials to preserve all the election materials and refrain from operating any of the county's Dominion voting machines ahead of what will be a forensic audit by the Trump campaign.
	Kevin Eisenheimer issued the order on Friday and after a county resident challenged the elections based on a mishap that awarded Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden thousands of illegitimate votes.
	This happened a couple of weeks ago now, I think.
	But this is an interesting follow-up from that.
	And so this is something that's good news for the Trump campaign.
	As reported by NTD in the next one, the Trump team is going to be able to examine the Michigan voting machines.
	The judge has allowed a forensic audit.
	The same judge has allowed a forensic audit of 22 Dominion machines in Antrim County.
	And Jenna Ellis told Fox News that they're going to examine the machines for about eight hours on Sunday.
	So they'll get the results in about two days.
	So that should be essentially today or tomorrow that we should have these results.
	So I'd be very, very interested in seeing what happens with the Dominion voting machines in Michigan.
	This seems very important.
	And as reported on lotuseaters.com, which is why you should go to our website, Josh has a report up there about Dominion having received apparently $400 million from people with ties to China.
	So, as he reports, Who acquired Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.
	The payment was made by UBS Securities LLC, who are a subsidiary company of the Swiss investment bank UBS. Now, as you can see, we've already got layers upon layers of things.
	I can't remember the name.
	I can't remember who it was that alleged that these sort of shell company games are being played in order to obfuscate the trail of where money goes and where it ends up.
	But someone made that allegation the other day, and I think this is...
	Essentially a kind of proof of what they're suggesting, because it seems that that's the case.
	Despite UBS Securities being a New York-based company, three of the four board members are Chinese, and one of them has worked for the Chinese Communist Party's central bank, the entirely government-owned Bank of China.
	UBS is also the first foreign bank to be provided with fully licensed security ventures in China, an otherwise heavily regulated financial market.
	The facilitator of this deal was Wang Qishan, the former mayor of Beijing, who is viewed as the most financially competent Communist Party official.
	UBS is one of a collection of Western banks which has previously been known to act as a middleman in setting up companies and trusts on behalf of officials of the Chinese Communist Party.
	It is generally believed that this is done to conceal the original owner's wealth.
	The SEC filing shows that Dominion Voting Systems received two payments, $400 million this October and $200 million in 2014, another election year, both from the New York-based subsidiary.
	And recently, on December the 6th, in fact, 12 of the 15 board of directors of UBS have resigned, which is strange.
	Interesting timing, isn't it?
	So, there is, again, more evidence that would suggest, including people who are admitting fault in this regard, that not all is as above board as it would look.
	And this, I think, is, again, just more evidence on the pile that something fishy happened.
	I can't prove anything.
	I can't categorically state this happened or that happened.
	But if I was to be asked, what are my thoughts on it?
	What are my inclinations?
	What do I suspect?
	Yeah, I don't think it looks good for the Democrats.
	And if I were a Democrat, if I was on the side of the people who are being accused, and I notice there is zero allegations that the Trump campaign cheated.
	Zero.
	Like, I have yet to see one allegation against the Republicans that they're responsible for any kind of cheating or fraud or anything like that.
	But if I was a Democrat and I was, you know, if I was a good faith person, acting, you know, I voted or was a part of the Democratic Party or voted for the party, or I was one of the politicians that's running and has been elected, I would want an investigation to clear my name at this point.
	It is too many people who are just outright thinking this has been stolen, and the legitimacy of the election, just on the sheer scale of the number of people who find it to be illegitimate or believe it's illegitimate, Demands an investigation into what's happened.
	If everything came back, and it's like, no, actually, there's a reasonable reason for all of this, all of these things.
	I know it all looked bad, but we went through it with a fine-tooth comb.
	Both Republicans and Democrats and the judges all certified it.
	Everything came along.
	Yeah, fine.
	Fair enough.
	Fair enough.
	Joe Biden just happened to be the most popular presidential candidate in all of history, as unlikely as that seemed.
	But if that's what the evidence had shown after a thorough investigation that both sides would have surely supported, Then that's fine.
	But when one side doesn't want any kind of investigation at all, and they're being accused of all of these things, and there are a bunch of witnesses, and there are a bunch of anomalies, and a bunch of really suspicious things that have happened, I wasn't born yesterday, you know?
	And this was the ethos that Rudy Giuliani was putting forward initially in his filing, saying, look, this is a corrupt Democrat machine in these deep blue areas that has been operating like this for years, and on the ground, I bet the people, you know, the sort of nose-to-the-ground sort of people, like Rudy Giuliani is, they know it.
	They think they can prove this.
	But...
	In a court, you know, when it comes to defining, you know, clear-cut evidence and things like this, a lot of this stuff is more difficult to prove because you need to be able to get access to stuff.
	And if the judges won't even let you bring the case and just call you conspiracy theories for raising it, well, again, it doesn't look good, does it?
	But don't worry, John, I know we're only 25 past, but we've got a lot to get through.
	John's saying, don't hurry, we've got time.
	It's like, I've got a lot to go through here.
	And I want to talk to you guys with the chats and stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	Ah, damn, I should have got that.
	Yeah, I'll show you a gift that we were given a minute ago as well.
	So, there does appear to be an increase in evidence that has been presented.
	It does appear that the low-level judges are not wanting this to be their case.
	But an Arizona Supreme Court...
	Sorry, Arizona's Supreme Court...
	has agreed to one of Trump's electoral challenges.
	The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday, as reported by the Washington Times, I think this is, agreed on Monday to hear an election challenge brought by the state's Republican Party chair, Kelly Ward, concerning male embarrassment in Maricopa County.
	A lower court judge dismissed their case on Friday, but she took the challenge to the state's highest court and has said that the small sample of ballots and envelopes she was able to inspect shows some irregularities.
	The estimate from this, I believe, was that it would be enough to be able to swing the election because they'd taken a sample of the ballots and found that actually there was something like 3% that had gone to Biden that should have gone to Trump.
	Again, the errors only go one way.
	It's only towards Biden.
	It's never towards Trump.
	And the margin of difference between Biden and Trump in Arizona was 0.3%.
	So a sample that shows 3% irregularities, if that were to be representative of the whole, and there's no particular reason to think that it wouldn't be, That would actually swing the vote in Arizona.
	So it is very good to see that that's actually going to go forward.
	And that was only agreed yesterday.
	So as these things come out, I will definitely be keeping on top of this.
	Because honestly, I'm not very optimistic.
	And I know that a lot of people are quite optimistic.
	And it's not that I don't think Trump could win or shouldn't win or something like that.
	It's just I don't know how...
	I think that this is fairly unfounded territory.
	And if there is a wide scale...
	Sorry, how did Biden...
	The largest and most inclusive voter fraud organization in the United States, in the history of the United States, if, as Joe Biden said, that he had created this and all of these irregularities and all of these whistleblowers coming out and saying, look, I was told to commit fraud...
	You know, I drove all these ballots across and this is really weird, you know.
	And if all this turns out to be true, then essentially Trump will have grabbed hold of the swamps and will be pulling the entire thing.
	And the number of people who would be invested in making sure that doesn't happen, I don't know how powerful that would be.
	And I don't know what the consequence could be.
	Anyway, moving on to Nevada...
	An appeal has been filed after the case of Law v.
	Whitmer was filed earlier and rejected.
	But an appeal has been filed there, so we'll see what happens.
	The campaign, as reported by...
	I don't know, actually.
	Who reported this?
	Can you scroll up a little bit?
	I just want to make sure...
	CBS, is it?
	Right.
	Right, okay.
	So, this was reported by them and alleged that there were large swathes of illegal voting in a machine in Clark County that scanned mail-in ballot signatures that had low setting for verifications.
	Judge James T. Russell ruled against the Republicans, however, writing an order released Friday, said they did not prove under any standard of proof their sweeping allegations.
	I mean, I'm genuinely curious at what standard of proof that they would have required.
	It would be nice to know what bar is supposed to be reached.
	Rather than just saying, well this doesn't reach my standard of proof.
	It's like, well what is the standard of proof that you're looking for?
	The contestants failed to meet their burden to provide credible and relevant evidence to substantiate any grounds set forth set in law to contest the election.
	So I'm glad that they get to appeal it.
	I guess we'll see what happens.
	So, the media has not been taking all of this very well.
	They've acted as if this is all categoric.
	The election was over when they called it.
	There's nothing more to say.
	Everything that the Trump campaign is doing is conspiracy theory.
	It's all fraudulent.
	Every one of these witnesses is a liar, I suppose.
	All of these anomalies can be ignored, I guess?
	I don't really know.
	But one of the funny things about this is the Washington Post is taking this particularly hard.
	So they wanted to know, did the Republicans think that the election was stolen?
	I mean, how dare you?
	How dare you not agree with us, sir?
	We have said, we have called it, we've called them conspiracy theorists, you should believe us.
	Well, that's a good question.
	So they got a team of 25 journalists to email all of the Republicans in the House and Senate, 249 of them.
	Only 27 of them acknowledged that Joe Biden had won.
	Most of them didn't reply, and two Republicans replied back saying, no, Trump won.
	And so they're furious about this, and this is what they say.
	The results demonstrate the fear that most Republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party.
	Well, that might be what it demonstrates.
	It also might demonstrate just how much concern there is surrounding this election, and the reaction from the establishment, from the democratic establishment, the media, and various politicians, serves to kind of highlight the, hang on, Why are you so eager here?
	But Trump probably didn't help his case here by tweeting out, I'm surprised there are so many.
	We have just begun to fight.
	Please send me a list of the rhinos, the Republicans in name only.
	That actually kind of reinforces what the Washington Post is saying about, you know, that demonstrates the fear of the Republicans having the outgoing president.
	So I guess we'll see.
	But finally, Ted Cruz.
	And the more Ted Cruz does, the more I like Ted Cruz.
	Initially, I thought that he was going to be a kind of greasy corporate Republican, because I didn't really know much about him a few years back.
	But the more he's done, especially with his position on Silicon Valley and the way that he's interrogated the social media giants and genuinely held their feet to the fire, although very little action has actually been taken, at least Ted Cruz is saying the right things.
	And I know a lot of people can say, yeah, well, there's a difference between saying something in action.
	It's like, sure.
	But there are lots of people who won't even say the right things.
	Same with Josh Hawley as well.
	Did an excellent, excellent job holding their feet to the fire.
	So at least the case is being built when it comes to Silicon Valley.
	But anyway, Ted Cruz said that if this he tweeted out, if the Supreme Court grants a certification, the Pennsylvania case, I've told the petitioners I will stand ready to present the oral argument.
	Because of the importance of the legal issues presented, I publicly urge the Supreme Court of the United States to hear the case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly, congressional candidate Sean Parnell, and state representative candidate Wanda Logan, challenging the constitutionality of the POTUS election results in Pennsylvania.
	Petitioner's legal team has asked me whether I'd be willing to argue the case for the Supreme Court if the court grants satoriari, which is a legal term that I don't understand because I'm not a lawyer.
	Just remember that.
	And there are some genuine concerns that I think, like some procedural and, you know, legalistic procedural concerns that can genuinely be hammered on.
	Because there are some, I can't remember, there are so many different ones that I'm definitely going to mix them up.
	But there were definitely cases, and I guess that Pennsylvania was one of these cases, where just the procedure on how to have the elections was not followed.
	You know, where various people were not allowed to count what's the ballots being counted, or, you know, any other kind of procedural upsets that I'd have to go back and find specific examples of.
	That we have covered on the podcast in previous days.
	And I mean, that seems like a very strong case to make.
	So, I mean, you've got the Detroit judge saying, well, why isn't the Trump campaign packaging all this together?
	I'm no legal expert, but I've been involved in a lawsuit or two in my time.
	And one of the things that's become obvious is you go for your strongest and most streamlined case in order not to have it thrown out on something that is extraneous.
	And so aiming directly at obvious and demonstrable procedural violations, in the case of Detroit, literally the poll watch is being forced to stay out and the windows being boarded up so they can't see in.
	I mean, that's cut and dried, isn't it?
	There's video evidence of it.
	There's 20-odd witnesses, either the Republican poll watchers, saying that that's the case.
	This is crystal clear.
	So it's good that Ted Cruz has decided to step up and do the job.
	He's apparently done this nine times before the Supreme Court, so he's not a newbie at this.
	He has some experience.
	I don't know how successful he's been, to be honest, so I should have checked that.
	But yeah, so it looks like this is all coming to a head.
	It looks like this is going to the Supreme Court, and this is where the last stand will be held.
	But hey, before we go on to the Super Chats, I wanted to show you a present that we got given today.
	I forgot to get it on the desk.
	This is by a lovely chap called Paul, who I met just before the podcast.
	I'll explain in a second.
	As you can see, Paul served in the Dutch Navy.
	He's a Dutchman.
	Served in the Dutch Navy.
	And through an administrative error, he was given a ceremonial sword.
	Which you can see there.
	And the sword itself is blunt, very blunt, because it is ceremonial.
	It's got some nice patterning on.
	And Paul himself works in the UAE as a meteorologist.
	And in the UAE, they wouldn't let him bring the sword with him.
	And he couldn't leave it behind for reasons.
	And so he decided to donate it to us.
	It's very heavy.
	It's very, very heavy.
	But it looks gorgeous, doesn't it?
	It's some cavalry sabre I suppose.
	Unfortunately, yeah, it will not be possible to use it.
	So when Antifa finally come for us, unfortunately, we'll still be disarmed.
	But seriously, Paul, thank you so much for this.
	This is such a lovely gift.
	I'm so glad that you thought of us, you know, because I love receiving gifts.
	And giving a person a weapon is a very honorable gift.
	I went to the British Museum last year, I think it was.
	And was it the British Museum?
	No, it was the...
	The Royal Armoury or something.
	Wherever they keep all of the old suits of armour where you can see like Henry VIII's armour with the giant crotch piece.
	My wife and I went there with the kids and we saw a bunch of the weapons that had been given to the Queen and the royal family from other dignitaries around the world.
	And the reason you give a weapon is because a weapon essentially is the mark of sovereignty.
	You give someone a weapon so they can defend themselves.
	And that's the best thing, the best present you can give.
	Like when Steven Crowder gave Tim Pool a machine gun of some sort, a rifle of some sort, sorry.
	Sorry, Americans.
	This is a very meaningful gift for a man to give another man.
	And so even though it's not a proper weapon, I do appreciate it.
	It's a very nice thing.
	And it's a beautiful thing to have.
	It's honestly just a gorgeous thing that will end up hanging on the wall.
	At some point.
	Because, again, it's very beautiful.
	But thank you again, Paul.
	Anyone else who wants to give us weapons, feel free.
	Anyway, so whereabouts am I looking here?
	Short Fat Otaku.
	Good morning, Sargon.
	I brought a new couch finally, so I'm shipping you my old one.
	I expect you to use it on your podcast.
	It's comfy.
	I expect it to be burned by customs.
	Like, sorry, this is not safe.
	It's a health hazard.
	But well done for buying a new couch, and everyone should subscribe to Short Fat Otaku.
	Dragzoon says, just like old times, eh?
	$50.
	Bloody hell, man.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Once again, I'm carrying the entire team.
	Andrew Knapp says, five bucks for the chipmunks.
	Honestly, the hearings would have been way better if everyone spoke at 1.5 times speed.
	Man, I can't stand 1.5 times speed.
	Maybe I'm just old and all of you twitchy kids are fine with it, but it drives me nuts.
	The Engaged View says, Yeah, the kind of calcification of institutions is a genuine problem.
	I mean, there's an argument to be made, in my opinion, that this was the entire reason for the Protestant Reformation.
	The fact that the Catholic Church, it was a vast...
	It's an unbelievably wealthy institution that had evolved into its own dogmatic thing, separate to what was displayed by Christ in the Bible, which is why you had so many different, in many ways, revolutionary movements In Christianity, that came out of Christianity.
	You've got the Albigensians, the Cathars, who called themselves the real Christians, the good Christians.
	And then you had, I mean, Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
	Was it 96 Theses?
	I can never remember.
	But the purpose of that is scripture alone.
	Because the Catholic Church has got loads of dogma that is just not represented in the Bible.
	And it all comes from the sort of long tradition because it's a 2,000-year-old church.
	But, yeah, no, I think that's actually a really great point.
	The Teabag Who Laughs.
	Hey, man.
	Hey, Carl.
	Keep up the great work.
	I recently uploaded a video covering the trial of the killing of Emily Jones.
	Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
	I guess I'll have to check it out.
	But, yeah, go check out The Teabag Who Laughs.
	Not a Band Account says, Have you tried forsaking your humanity and hope?
	You know what I have?
	I've desperately tried.
	But at the end of the day, I had to unsubscribe from Chris Reagan.
	Libertarian...
	Oh, shots fired.
	Shots fired.
	It's easy to be cynical and to go, well, you know, nothing matters to me, but there are things that matter to me.
	I've got children.
	I want them to have a future.
	I can't just check out and be sarcastic until I die of kumarism.
	Libertum Arbitrarium says, nothing actually, but thank you for the donation.
	I'll be engaged for you again.
	Thank you, man.
	Time to wage war on the media establishment by challenging TV stations FCC license renewals and also the local level renewal of cable systems operating franchises.
	Hit them where they live.
	This is certainly things that the citizenry can do.
	I don't know whether I'm allowed to advise anything like that.
	But you certainly can, or you can support alternative media, such as going to lidsies.com and becoming a premium member.
	We've got loads of great content up there now, actually.
	I'm really, really pleased with how it's going.
	And I put up a...
	It wasn't premium, but I put up a think piece the other day called Fully Automated Luxury Serfdom.
	That I've had some really, really good responses to.
	And yes, I did write it myself, for anyone querying.
	This happened a while ago, right?
	So about three or four years ago, I decided that I was just going to write a bunch of scripts for videos called Liberal Ideas.
	And I wrote a bunch of scripts, and all of the leftists who don't like me refused to believe that I'd written them.
	Because in my videos and in, you know, things like this, I mean, I'm not as lyrical as I could be because I'm having a normal conversation with you guys and trying to tell you about stuff that's happening rather than, you know, writing an expertly crafted piece that took five hours to write or something like this.
	And so whenever I write something, I always get people saying, did you write this?
	Yes, I wrote it.
	God damn it, of course I... I read books all the time.
	I'm constantly reading books.
	I'm constantly learning things.
	I may as well put it to use every now and again by writing something.
	Mute stream.
	Carl, did you eat Hugo?
	Team Hugo will riot.
	It's the same sim.
	My God.
	You've got to ban these Hugo sims.
	I don't care that they're sending us money.
	No, Hugo's working on another project at the moment.
	There's some more work at the moment.
	And like I said, I just had so much of the election stuff to go through that I wanted to get it all done because we haven't been able to do an update on it for a while because of other things.
	President-elect G. Bang Deng says...
	I didn't learn Latin.
	So, Cetrium Sensio Sinas Esse Delendam.
	Something about China must be destroyed.
	I assume that means the Chinese Communist Party must be destroyed, actually.
	Can you whack that into Google Translate?
	Oh, it just says, but I think China must be destroyed.
	Yeah, see?
	Not bad.
	But it's really the Chinese Communist Party that's the problem.
	I mean, people forget that under China, under the Chinese Communist Party, there is actually a deep and rich culture that has a long tradition and lots of wisdom.
	It's just that they've currently been occupied by a foreign ideology.
	And I don't know why the Chinese are okay with that.
	I think it's gross.
	Adam, with $100, my God, thanks.
	Thank you for all these very generous donations, by the way.
	I really appreciate it.
	Because it's been, you know...
	Worry.
	Starting up a new business and then having to fail to be able to make income for a month is a scary thing.
	So thank you, by the way.
	I feel like the Biden campaign should have had all the cheating go Trump's way.
	Trump would win by a ridiculous margin and then the Biden campaign could cry foul.
	He would have all of the court's media on his side and find all the fraud and get the election overturned for Biden.
	That would have been some real 4-D chess.
	And if the Democrats didn't attract the most mediocre and dull of the population, then that would be the case.
	But unfortunately, I don't think they would be capable of that kind of thinking.
	And so, unsurprisingly, they just cheated to a ridiculous degree to Biden.
	And honestly, Biden's up to 81 million votes now.
	Who believes that?
	Who believes that Joe Biden is the most popular?
	He's more popular than Obama by 12 million votes.
	I don't believe it.
	Don't believe it.
	Shakespeare Silver says, Powell's demands can't work with the evidence given.
	Robert Barnes makes a good point that it is better to focus on the audits, hand recounts and signatures.
	Yeah, I mean, yes.
	The problem with Powell's claims and demands is not that they're not true.
	I don't know whether they're true or not, but I have my suspicions.
	But the problem is they are large.
	And sweeping and are going to be very difficult to prove in a short period of time.
	Like an investigation into the stuff that Powell is talking about, and I do think there is a lot of evidence that points in that direction, but that kind of investigation is going to take years.
	It's just going to take years.
	Whereas, exactly as you say, it's much better to focus on the procedural stuff, the practical, on-the-ground stuff that is, in many cases, cut and dried because of the election rules and constitutional rules on the local level that they have.
	It's all actually really easy to demonstrate.
	Like the Detroit one where they're just keeping up the poll watchers.
	Unreal.
	That is unreal.
	And it's like, well, you can't prove that we cheated.
	And it's like, I don't need to prove you cheated.
	I don't need to prove anything.
	If you're going to, by force, as Scott Adams pointed out, and we did a video about this on the other Lotuses channel, you should check that out.
	As Scott Adams pointed out, you know, if you're going to do that, I don't have to trust you.
	There is good faith involved that everyone is going to be transparent.
	And if one side is not going to be transparent, they are not entitled to good faith.
	So I don't need to prove anything now.
	The thing is illegitimate on your behavior alone.
	It's a great point.
	Dev again.
	Canada hand counts all ballots and stores them permanently.
	Proof of citizenship is required to vote.
	No machines at all.
	Why can't America do this?
	Exactly.
	Return to pottery shards.
	Just like the Canadians.
	And I totally agree.
	Mail-in ballots?
	Nope.
	Sorry.
	If you can't get there, then you don't get to turn up.
	Or if there would have to be some major extenuating circumstances for this to be the case.
	To have something...
	What was it?
	44% of all the ballots cast be mail-in ballots?
	No.
	That...
	Way open to fraud.
	And exactly, the rest of the world, or the rest of the democratic world at the very least, Hankouts balance and stores them.
	We want to be able to prove that the elections were legitimate.
	And if you don't want that, then I'm going to suspect you of cheating.
	Naturally.
	Jesus Fried Christ is rebutting Short Fat Ataku.
	This is great.
	People are paying us to debate.
	Except for the 2017 CPC election where Dominion was used and the vote was rigged against Barnier, who won by a lot but lost by a little.
	Ooh, I haven't looked into any of these elections.
	I love Barnier.
	He's really libertarian.
	Like, really, like...
	Heinleinian, he seems, actually.
	I've only watched a few interviews with him, but I really, really like the things I've seen from him.
	Dev shoots back with, that's an internal party election, not the national.
	Oh, that's okay then, is it, Dev?
	That's okay, if they cheat in the internal parties but not in the nationals, that's fine.
	It's just like Bernie getting screwed in 2016.
	Philip Aboudi says, will IMDb get cancelled for deadnaming?
	Juno's IMDb page says that Elliot Page and then As Ellen Page...
	Good question.
	Although that does raise significant questions about, like, the rewriting of history.
	It's incredibly Orwellian that suddenly, oh, you know, we've always been at war with East Asia, and therefore we have to go back and manually change the history books to reflect that we've always been at war with East Asia.
	It's like, well, you know, I'm sorry.
	Like, during Juno, or whatever film it was, I've never watched the film with Ellen Page, and I don't think...
	Elliot Page, sorry.
	But at the time, it was Ellen Page.
	At the time, she hadn't...
	We can assume that she hadn't discovered or he hadn't discovered that he was trans.
	And so is it not still valid that at that time this was a woman?
	And so why would we retroactively change that?
	With recent Pentagon purges, loyalist replacements, if all else fails, you think Trump might invoke martial law.
	The question of, is Trump going to cross the Rubicon and become Caesar?
	I don't know.
	And I don't want to make any predictions.
	But if I had to be forced into saying something on it, my gut instinct is no.
	I don't think that Trump is actually...
	I think he actually wants the American Republic to function as suggested.
	And I'm not saying that he might not have the constitutional right to invoke martial law.
	He might well have.
	I don't know.
	But I... I don't feel like Trump would do that, but he might.
	I mean, I'm not going to rule it out.
	But like I said, I just don't feel like he's going to.
	DevilKing1994 says, Carl, where did you buy that chair?
	Post a link, mate.
	No!
	When we start selling them, though, we'll get a merch store and we'll sell these fancy chairs.
	I'll let you know.
	These are our special chairs.
	Yeah, there's always the risk that this is the opposite of when all of the leftists are saying Boris Johnson called Muslim women letterboxes.
	You know, you say they think that this is making people not want to vote for Boris, but there are loads of people like, oh, right, I'm voting for the letterbox guy.
	It's an advert.
	And George Orwell's like, well, if you do all of this, this will be a tremendous tyranny.
	And a bunch of people are like, oh, that's a great idea.
	So, you know, be careful.
	Delta Sly says, if you feel cheated, I encourage you to commit fraud in 2024 and in response simply say you are testing the security of our election.
	Hashtag votes in the abyss.
	Obviously, do not commit fraud.
	But people who do commit fraud should definitely be found and punished for their crimes.
	Captain Meta says, Can I be a Carl simp?
	No.
	I'm the only person who's not allowed to have simps.
	My wife says so.
	EZE says, Hugo simps, be warned.
	Carl will not tolerate your nonsense, and he is now armed.
	Exactly.
	Watch yourself.
	God, this is really heavy.
	Again, you wouldn't use this as a weapon.
	It'd just be too slow.
	People forget that a sword is only a couple of pounds, but that feels like at least a kilogram.
	A couple of kilograms.
	MeanderingMangoMan says, I find it incongruous that someone who failed A-level biology could create a clone as striking as Callum.
	I don't think I failed.
	I think I got an E. Which technically is a pass.
	But I had absolutely no interest in A-level biology.
	It was really interesting.
	I'm always baffled that we make young people make such life-defining choices when they're in school because I had no idea what I wanted to do.
	And Like, just do biology and physics.
	I hate biology and physics.
	It's so boring.
	But I know how, I can remember how water is extracted from the bloodstream and turned into urine.
	That's useful.
	Hasn't come up yet, but one day that'll be useful, I'm sure.
	Jeru says, Tom Scott has a good video why voting machines suck.
	I think there are lots of reasons why voting machines suck.
	And I think the primary one is they introduce an element of risk that, as Dev pointed out earlier, just is not present when you are counting the pottery shards.
	So we should return to pottery shards.
	Go back to basics.
	Again, if you're a Democrat, you should agree with this, because at the end of the day, you must be disgraced by the pall that has been cast over your party with all of these allegations.
	You must be terribly embarrassed.
	I would be.
	I'd be begging them to have the recounts, begging them to do the audits, begging them to clear my name, my party's name.
	But we know why that's not happening, don't we?
	Jones in Mann says, don't you understand the only reason Obama scored 69 million votes in 08 is because Biden was on the ticket.
	They were only putting up with Obama.
	Well, yeah, that's the thing, you know, like Obama could have been well over 80 million if he had been the vice presidential candidate himself.
	If Joe Biden had been the presidential candidate in 2008, imagine how big the victory would have been.
	Cedric Purcell says, Hey Carl, congrats on your son.
	Thank you so much.
	I'm a magician and all my gigs were cancelled by the Coof.
	Check out my YouTube channel, Cedric Purcell.
	I have my Uncle Tom Bucks.
	Go check out Cedric Purcell.
	C-E-D-R-I-C-P-U-R-C-E-L-L. LateNerd sends us a quid.
	Thank you very much.
	StratosRadioBlues says, subscribe to your website.
	Thank you, by the way.
	If COVID had occurred in the 90s, would the globe have had the same reaction today?
	No way.
	I mean, there were.
	There were, like...
	There's swine flu, avian flu, and various other ones that I can't recall off the top of my head, that all happened.
	And, you know, we heard the same kind of, ooh, it's going to be really bad, but then it just wasn't as bad.
	And so, you know, it's...
	One of those things, I think this is a giant overreaction, and everyone's committed to such an extreme degree, but it just goes to show you the creeping authoritarianism and statism that has been infecting the Western world.
	I can't imagine anyone even suggesting that the government have the power to lock down society in the 90s.
	This strikes me as unreal, and that's why I hate it now.
	Wow, this is interesting.
	Artemis Fowl, breaking news.
	The state of Texas just filed a lawsuit against the swing states requiring their legislatures to pick the electors.
	I'll have to look into that.
	LateNerd again with a pound.
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	Put a comment.
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	Henry W says, Gulag Trial Update 2.
	Sorry, Gulag Trial Update.
	Two hours of being grilled about my political views and being gaslit later got it blamed on mental health and thus not escalated.
	Well, I guess there's a lucky escape.
	But this was you being in trouble for social media posts at work, right?
	I'm sure that this came up the other day, didn't it?
	But at least it didn't escalate.
	All that is, though, is like you're laying under a swinging blade and that's lucky.
	That time it didn't cut me.
	Let's hope when it comes back around it doesn't cut you that time.
	We shouldn't have to live like this.
	Yes, it is.
	By the way, go follow us on all the other social media platforms.
	It's entirely possible that YouTube is not a safe platform, and that various other ones, the alternative media platforms, I think, need support.
	BitChute's grown huge.
	I don't know about how Ruckus is doing, but I see Rumble promoted by a lot of the sort of mainstream Republicans these days as well.
	At the end of the day, if no direct action is going to be taken against Silicon Valley for the censorship that they've been doing, then the alternative is to build our alternatives, build the cathedral, which again is what we're trying to do.
	Erebus1 says, Oy vey!
	Arizona got decertified.
	This sets precedent and SCOTUS is taking a case today as well.
	Well, I look forward to covering all of this tomorrow.
	These developments that happened while I was preparing all of this stuff.
	But that's very exciting.
	Arizona got decertified.
	That's very interesting.
	Enigmatic says, you've got yourself a British pattern 1822 infantry officer sword.
	Oh, that's good.
	Thank you for letting me know, because I'm not an expert on these things.
	But there is writing on it that's Dutch.
	So, let me see if I can find it here.
	Yes, so I can't read it, obviously.
	Oh, actually, it says at the bottom, Germany, 1883.
	It was created by a company that was founded in 1883.
	That's interesting.
	The pattern is just the model, the sort of, the make of it.
	But that's very interesting.
	It'd be nice to get a sort of, you know, real one, to see, because it'd be a lot lighter than that one.
	But it's a beautiful thing.
	Absolutely beautiful thing.
	Probus Skill says, Is Hugo an Eastern spy?
	Low-key squat test on him live stream.
	Sus.
	Yeah, honestly, I feel I may have hired a lot of Russian spies, so I might have to work out a way of checking.
	The thing is, the way unions and things are now, I probably can't even fire him for being a spy.
	Are you maintaining your stance on the 2021 census?
	Ashley Whitley says, yes, it's going to be brutal.
	I think eyes will be raised on the 2021 census.
	I can't wait for it to happen.
	And if the Conservatives back out of doing it, then you know it's even worse.
	And they have spoken about this.
	They've said, well, we're not sure if we're going to do one.
	Really?
	We've done a census every 10 years for like, I don't know, 100 years or something, and now we're just not going to do one.
	It's like, really?
	If the Conservatives back out, it's because it's worse than we thought.
	Which is why we don't have the grooming gang report at the moment, by the way.
	Obviously the results are worse than we thought.
	White Hot Peppers, hey dude, says, I had a dream last night that you got a job at my workplace and destroyed my commie co-workers.
	Best dream ever.
	Off to work now I go.
	Ew.
	Well, I'm sorry that you have to work with communists.
	You've got to sharpen those arguments.
	You've got to sharpen them.
	Like, I'm going to have to sharpen this sword.
	Mr.
	Flan says, you need different colour thumbnails to differentiate between clips and standalone videos.
	Well, all of the videos on this channel are clips from the podcast.
	And the podcast has a different thumbnail.
	So, in fact, the one exception to that is a weekend podcast that we've been doing, but I've put in the title, Weekend Podcast.
	So you know it's not one that you've watched already, and they'll have different thumbnails to the regular podcasts.
	That'll be alright, wouldn't it?
	I think that's alright.
	I think that's alright.
	If not, let me know.
	Ferd Tergeson says, Simp Money.
	Thank you, I'll pass that on to To Josh or Hugo, whichever you're simping for.
	Arch Gerbil says, How do you know that the US is sliding down the bog hole?
	The Dems make South Africa's EFF look sane and the picture of tolerance.
	They're not that bad.
	I mean, they are bad, but they're not that bad.
	Those are the guys that rioted over the hair advert.
	Yeah, the economic freedom fighters in South Africa are insane radical race warriors who seem to be openly pro-genocide.
	Even though, I mean, they'll say, well, we're not calling for a genocide yet.
	It's like, right, okay, I'm concerned about the yet on that.
	NightmarishVision says, what are your thoughts on lynching the riggers?
	Well, I'm against lynching in all of its forms.
	Memes aside, though, what are your thoughts on Usla's coverage of the election rigging?
	I think he's been doing a great job.
	I think he's made a clip channel now, because, honestly, I don't have time to watch a seven-hour stream.
	But hopefully he'll be able to put out some clips of interesting and useful information that he has found.
	Update.
	Texas is suing under the equal protections violations that those states violated the constitutions and laws, and their judges ignored the Constitution's Texas files since it respects its Constitution.
	Yeah, that was exactly what I was talking about.
	The equal protection clauses, where the Republicans and Democrats are supposed to have equal access to be able to watch the ballots being counted, and Clearly they didn't.
	Again, crystal clear.
	Rock solid.
	How could this be refused?
	So I would be very interested in seeing where this goes.
	Red Fox Moon.
	Oh, a Josh Simp.
	We recognize you now, you Josh Simps.
	Yeah, we see you.
	Lotus Eater's IRC network should definitely be part of the new cathedral.
	I can announce it and hope someone does it, but I don't know what that means, so I'm going to move on.
	Captain Metaphor says my name is Captain Metaphor, not Captain Meta.
	Well, sorry, lots of people put numbers in their names just out of convenience because someone else had taken the name, and Captain Meta might be a name and a name of itself, so I didn't know.
	But now I know.
	Michelle Obama.
	Oh, it's nice to see the First Lady sending us Australian dollars.
	It's incredible to see people accept the lockdowns.
	It seems we're in the stage of normalization for this tyranny.
	Yuri was right.
	Yes, he was.
	He was 100% right.
	And it is normal now.
	It's really...
	Although, I have to say, I went for a meal with Andy last night and...
	The restaurant that we were at were very relaxed on the lockdowns and the restrictions and stuff like that.
	Because the people involved, and I'm not going to get anyone in trouble, but they were just like, come on.
	It's all gone too far.
	GodofGravy says, Glad to see we have the book club, but can we have a movie club as a continuation of the Starship Troops and Demolition Man series?
	I'd absolutely love to nominate either X-Men or Equilibrium for this treatment.
	Yes, I just don't have...
	Because with that sort of thing, what you want really is a kind of well-scripted, well-edited video.
	And...
	If we get enough premium subscribers, then I will be able to hire a dedicated video editor, which will make everyone's lives a lot more easy.
	Because at the moment, John the producer and Callum are doing all of the editing between them.
	But the thing is, they've got a bunch of other duties and responsibilities as well.
	So they just work...
	You know, they go home and then they continue editing.
	And I'm eternally grateful.
	But it's unfair for me to put that workload on them.
	But until we've grown large enough that I can actually get a dedicated editor, then...
	We'll have to carry on as we are.
	And so with these sort of videos, we want to be high quality, and they'll be on the Load Seats channel, that's the second channel we have.
	I will be doing things like this.
	And like I keep saying, I want to do the sort of meaning of Moana, because it's a really important film, actually, and I'm surprised that it's gone so under the radar.
	But at the moment, we just don't have the resources.
	But when we do, I certainly will, because I love doing those pop culture ones.
	There are a lot of communists who do these pop culture breakdowns, and they always come to the wrong conclusions about everything, obviously, because they're communists.
	And yeah, my proudest work is the Starship Troopers Demolition Man ones, and I would like to be able to continue doing those.
	Yeah, that's doubtless true, but this is very heavy as well.
	I've wielded swords before.
	This is heavier than a sword should be, because it's just a ceremonial one.
	Gregor Chopin says, Sad I missed the chance to annoy you with the mauled couch last stream, but good luck and keep up the good work.
	Also, congrats on the new child.
	Thank you very much.
	Pirate Skeleton says, I have a cinnamon sword from my service in the Coast Guard.
	Despite being dull, you'll find the steel very good and the pointed bit quite stabby.
	Well, remember that, just in case Antifa come in and break down the door.
	Binary Surfer says, Hey man, shameless plug for Plebeian Media, Don.
	He's at the Stop the Steal March in DC on the 12th.
	Get him for the fourth weekend podcast.
	Supposed to be big.
	Well, we'll see what happens, man.
	We'll see what happens.
	But yeah, go check out Plebeian Media.
	Don's a reliable foot soldier in the culture war against the communists, frankly.
	And RedFoxMoon, very last one.
	I may be a Josh Simp, but you're still Daddy Carl.
	Oh, thank you.
	So have some more non-SIMP dollars.
	Sorry, non-SIMP dollars.
	But right, thank you everyone for joining us.
	I hope this was okay.
	It was just me talking for an hour or so.
	But like I said, I had a lot to get through and we'll have Callum back tomorrow or Josh or Hugo.
	Whoever's being SIMPed for, we'll have him back tomorrow.
	But thank you again for joining us.
	And remember, you can go to LotusEats.com if you'd like more content.

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