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Dec. 31, 2020 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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2020 Year in Review | The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #36

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	Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 31st of December 2020.
	I had to think about that.
	I'm joined by Carl by Streamlink again, so if you want to say hi Carl, we'll get right into our year in review, or this year in stupid, if you're an old subscriber, I guess.
	Yeah, well, hello.
	And yeah, I can't wait to be back in the office.
	It's weird working from home now.
	I'm used to working in the office.
	My son keeps interrupting me, so I would rather be back in the office.
	So I get less interruptions.
	Yeah, let's go.
	So the first thing here is obviously the coronavirus kicking off in January, sort of late January, but, you know, I've been around since 2019.
	And the lockdown measures in Hubei province with Wuhan.
	Do you want to talk about this?
	Sure.
	One thing I found really interesting is the BBC's coverage of this was actually accurate.
	And it did actually kind of presage everything that happened.
	Like, as they say, lockdown measures are increasing across Hubei province to try and control the spread of a new virus that has left 18 people dead.
	Wuhan, Hubei's capital of 11 million people, has no trains or planes in and out.
	At least five other provincial cities are seeing clampdowns on transport.
	There are more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus, which is spread abroad with Singapore and Vietnam, at least the latest affected.
	All the fatalities bar one have been in Hubei province.
	most of the 17 victims there are elderly and suffered from other chronic diseases including Parkinson's and diabetes.
	18th victim and elderly patient was announced in Beijing.
	Health authorities are reported to have made wearing masks mandatory in the city.
	They're advising people to avoid crowds and public gatherings although the World Health Organization at the time had not declared an international emergency although they'd call it a national emergency in China.
	It's very interesting to me how this is just I mean, this was all correct.
	It's elderly people, and it shows us what the case was.
	It's elderly people who are at risk of this.
	It wasn't actually very dangerous then.
	It's not very dangerous now, and yet we still follow China's model of solving these problems, which is lockdowns.
	Everything locked down.
	Apart from we didn't prevent people from coming in and out, which I suppose is something we'll get to in a bit.
	But yeah, it's...
	I just find it really strange.
	Really strange that we decided, oh, China's model for controlling this is what we're going to use.
	And it didn't work.
	Yeah, I don't think there was much debate, and I can't recall there even being much debate now about whether or not lockdowns really work properly.
	There's been no...
	You know, here's a bunch of studies showing it.
	It's just we assume they work based on the fact that China did it and then this mad panic that everyone started doing it.
	Like, every country just followed the same model.
	Yeah, I get the feeling that nobody really knew what to do.
	Yeah, but no one did.
	No one even really knew how bad the virus was.
	And now we do.
	Yeah, there was a lot of...
	There was a surprising amount of fear-mongering in the BBC article.
	they didn't feed one anonymous resident of Wuhan and they'd said let me get out they said that they were trying to protect their children I'm trying to find it.
	We don't want to take our two-year-old son outside.
	He's sleeping now.
	We're trying to protect him as much as possible.
	Hand-washing, airing the apartment, avoiding contact with people.
	I mean, if you don't know anything about the virus, that doesn't sound like an irrational thing to do or anything like that.
	It's just, in retrospect, the children are the least affected by this.
	So it's interesting to see how this played out, really, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	But the thing I find interesting is that at the beginning of 2020, Trump entered 2020 doing really well.
	And so you probably can lay a lot of the problems at the feet of the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it.
	Like, Trump had a roaring economy and he was doing generally pretty well in the polls.
	And he was laying out the plans for his Middle Eastern peace plan that ended up normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, I think it was.
	There may have been others that I've forgotten there, but Trump...
	Seems to have been doing a great job at this point.
	And he got Nobel Peace Prize nominations from multiple people.
	And I was going through researching this to remind myself what had happened.
	And what was really interesting is the number of lefty articles I found, essentially talking down the Nobel Peace Prizes now, well, you know, anyone can be nominated, you see.
	Any academic or anyone can nominate someone, so these nominations are no big deal, etc.
	Well, you know, Obama got one, so...
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	If Obama can get one, then they clearly are no big deal.
	But it's obviously the big deal that he's able to get these peace agreements.
	I mean, this is one of the things that even Biden's team have admitted that they're rather jealous of, is in the foreign policy side of government.
	Everyone's been blindsided by the way Trump deals with things.
	Not going into North Korea with either more sanctions or relieving sanctions, but instead going for a friendly approach, for example.
	I love it or hate it.
	It's the idea of different ways of looking at the problems, and it seems to have worked within the Middle East especially.
	I guess we would see if it works in the North Korean sphere, but there's the reason he's getting all these peace deals shortly.
	Yeah.
	I mean, Trump is going to be offering them generous financial packages, probably.
	You know, there'll be various breaks and trade and all these other bits of aid that they want.
	But at the end of the day, he is getting the job done.
	And it's better than Obama's one.
	I hated Obama's deal with Iran, where it's like, essentially, we're going to pay you and take you at your word you're not going to develop nukes.
	And...
	I don't think they've been following it.
	Israel keeps killing Iranian nuclear...
	Well, we suspect Israel keeps killing Iranian nuclear scientists, presumably because they're trying to enrich uranium or something like that.
	So, I mean, but Trump seems to have been getting results.
	Trump seems to have actually been getting results.
	I mean, that deal kind of reminds me of that English king who was being invaded by the Vikings.
	and his solution to it was yeah I'll pay you to go away and they were like okay fine and they just came back next year asked for more money and he couldn't pay them so they killed him even more of them came back because word got out that the English king was giving away lots of money for no good reason Yeah, it doesn't work.
	You've got to be able to have something to hold back and be able to renege on.
	And...
	Obama didn't.
	But yeah, so anyway, Trump comes into 2020 looking golden, actually.
	He's doing really well.
	The economy's at its peak.
	And then China effectively unleashed this virus.
	Not saying it was done deliberately or anything like that, but...
	Malpractice.
	We have the documents, the journalists who have risked themselves to get out.
	People were warning about it, doctors were warning about it, and the Chinese government didn't respond in any proportionate manner to try and stop it.
	In fact, in some cases we saw the Chinese government persecuted doctors for speaking about this and raising hysteria, things like this.
	But it did look scary.
	The footage that was coming out of China did look quite intimidating.
	Who knows whether this was intentional or not.
	But was there anything else for January you wanted to go over?
	No, I don't think so.
	There wasn't really that much for January.
	But February, this dovetails with your point about COVID pretty well, because we get the first patient in the UK who is confirmed to have the coronavirus.
	Yes.
	So I think this is a student in York University?
	Yep.
	You want to talk about this?
	I think this is one of yours.
	Sure, sure.
	Yeah, this is the BBC again report.
	This was a pair of two people who were related who had come down with it and this was the first sort of case and everyone...
	I remember at the time just...
	Everyone was like, okay, well, what do we do?
	You know, this was, again, there was a definitive fog of war when it came to the coronavirus stuff, but all of the information was actually there right from the beginning.
	But yeah, this was the coronavirus spreading everywhere, obviously.
	Trump was impeached, and it really was embarrassing when Nancy Pelosi was like, he's impeached forever!
	Okay.
	And then he was acquitted.
	He was impeached in January, I believe it was, and he was acquitted in February.
	So he wasn't impeached forever.
	And what I found interesting as well is at this point, the Atlantic was floating the idea of Trump cheating in November.
	I found this article, I found this absolutely fascinating, this one from the Atlantic.
	Perhaps the most troubling form of cheating is the most diffuse, therefore the hardest to grasp.
	Trump's re-election campaign, abetted by right-wing media and companies like Facebook, that have absolved themselves of any democratic responsibility, is waging a disinformation war modeled on the efforts of dictators on an unprecedented in its scale.
	That's hysterical.
	That's amazing.
	I mean, bolstered by right-wing media, he's the right-wing candidate who cares.
	And that's just Fox News.
	Yeah, that's only Fox News.
	There is no one else there.
	But bolstered by Facebook...
	Right.
	So, if I wanted to be charitable, because I understand the argument of people trying to do this, which is that Facebook isn't deleting misinformation that comes from right-wing sources, you know, like Trump's campaign ads.
	The fact that they're not deleting him is enough for them to be on his side.
	Yes.
	That is pro-Trump activism.
	Which is obviously absurd.
	Yeah, but this article from The Atlantic, the reason I chose it is because it kind of summarises the hysterical view that the left-wing establishment had at the time.
	Listen to this.
	The cumulative effect of Trump's efforts, all of the stains on his shirt, is to disorient the media and the electorate.
	Democrats, meanwhile, are fighting about how aggressive to get on climate change or whether debt-free college should be means-tested, bless their hearts.
	These are worthy questions, but not the questions of the moment.
	How should they fight against a president who has no moral or legal compass and will use the full might of the executive branch to win?
	We didn't do any of those things.
	Like, Donald Trump just seems to have gone through the usual electoral process.
	And if we're talking about people with no moral or legal compass, and, you know, when you put yourself in this kind of war footing and say this is as bad as it is, and Donald Trump's a fascist, he's going to use the executive branch to win this election, blah, blah, then, I mean, why wouldn't you cheat?
	Not saying that anyone did cheat, obviously, YouTube.
	Just question, why wouldn't you?
	I mean, there's a point there, no moral or legal compass.
	What would that person be like?
	How would you describe a person like that?
	It's the kind of person who just ebbs and flows with the wind, surely.
	The political wind goes one way and they just go with it.
	It's even worse, actually.
	It's someone who you might call an amoralist.
	So someone...
	There's a platonic dialogue called Protagoras, I think it is, where Socrates is arguing why people should be concerned with an ethical life.
	And there's one actor in there called Callicles who just rejects it and says, well, no, look, I don't have to be ethical at all.
	I just have to be the strongest.
	And therefore, anything I do is justified on dint of my strength.
	And therefore...
	You know, all of the eloquent ethical arguments in the world won't change a thing if I just physically take it.
	And this is something that Plato doesn't feel that he addressed well even.
	I think it's one of the things that he goes on to address in the Republic.
	But the point is, you know, if you think you're dealing with someone who has no moral and legal compass, you're dealing with a Callicles, with someone who is not an ethical person.
	And that's how they've been talking to themselves about Donald Trump.
	But I don't think it's true.
	I don't think Trump is willing to go beyond the bounds of law, to be honest.
	He doesn't seem to have really done anything.
	No, but I was more thinking about his political positions.
	I mean, I don't know the guy, you know, through and through or anything, but the only thing I can think of that he seems to have shifted on is surely healthcare.
	Like, you look at his old book when he used to be with that third-party candidate, I can't remember the name right now, but, you know, promoting universal healthcare or saying universal healthcare would be preferential, and now he's actively against it, or at least he's campaigning it.
	But on everything else, he seems to take a stance on a thing and then sticks with it.
	I don't see him ebbing and flowing on a fundamental issue.
	Sure, maybe a piece of policy here and there or something like that.
	Someone can tag me on Twitter and say, what about this?
	But when it comes to immigration, when it comes to America, when it comes to fundamental rights, he seems pretty solid.
	Whereas I look at Joe Biden, I think that's more of a person that just seems to flop with the wind.
	I mean, you can't be in politics for 50 years without just going with things as they go.
	I mean, especially with the Black Lives Matter and the radical left in the last election.
	Like, Antifa is just an idea, man.
	I mean, seriously.
	I mean, I mean, that's what we're dealing with.
	What's interesting is if you go back with Joe Biden, I mean, Joe Biden used to be what I guess they would call a racist, and he was against gay marriage.
	Kamala Harris called him one, didn't she?
	Oh, absolutely, yeah.
	Absolutely.
	He got called all sorts of things in the run-up to the Democratic National Committee's elections.
	So, like, it's mad, to be honest, that Joe Biden just seems to be the avatar of corruption of the swamp.
	He really does.
	Just like Hillary, there's this gang of them.
	But Trump was very clearly outside of it.
	And it's interesting how the media establishment portrays that as being without no moral or legal compass.
	As if everything that Biden has done has been completely above board and nothing illegal.
	It's fine for your drug addict son to take millions of dollars from foreign governments, presumably keeping 10% for the big guy, whoever that might be.
	Patriarch Biden.
	It's interesting how we're being sold such an obvious fantasy.
	Yeah.
	There's two more things I wanted to mention for, I think this is February, isn't it?
	Yeah, February.
	So the first one here was the David Starkey interview that you did.
	Me and John came with you.
	It was absolutely great.
	I wonder, what do you think David Starkey's up to at the moment?
	I wonder what he makes up the lockdown.
	I haven't really seen much out of him, but...
	I don't know, after he got cancelled.
	But I'll send him an email.
	Try and find out.
	But yeah, if you haven't seen the Starkey interview, thoroughly recommend it, in case anyone missed it.
	Because he is brilliant.
	Yeah, he's absolutely charming in person as well.
	There's no difference.
	Anyway, and the other thing I wanted to mention was the launch of Hearts of Oak, which we helped organise and still work with them.
	Peter McAvenna, I think, is running the show now.
	I think I'm actually doing an interview on their YouTube channel tonight, aren't I? You are!
	At 8pm, if I'm getting that right?
	I believe so, yes.
	On Hearts of Oak, you'll be doing one about the year that was 2020.
	So, just wanted to mention that.
	But let's move on.
	I think we're moving on to March now.
	So, we move on to the New York article.
	Yeah, March was where the media was starting to get really panicky, actually, because things have been going quite badly for the media for a while, which is surprising given how much content they put out about Trump and how much bread he puts into their mouths.
	But this was an interesting one by The New Yorker because they were discussing the sort of meta-ecosphere of the media.
	How will the media survive?
	And the concern is, well, they're going to have to start paywalling content.
	Incidentally, something similar to what we do at LotusEaters.com if you want to go and check out our latest book club or some of the premium podcasts we've got.
	But, yeah, they were complaining that what this is going to do is allow misinformation to run rampant.
	Okay, yeah, I mean, if you paywall a lot of your misinformation, though, New Yorker and New York Times or Street Journal, then it'll be a lot less rampant.
	Just saying, how is that Russia conspiracy theory?
	You fucking liars.
	Yeah, so they were complaining about how things are going to go.
	And the BBC had quite an interesting flex on this one.
	They were like, well, why don't you just force people to pay for it like we're going to do?
	And instead of cutting 450 jobs like they were planning to do...
	If we can go to the next article, the BBC were like, actually, we're going to suspend the cutting of those jobs so the taxpayers can be forced by law to keep paying us money.
	And we will continue to use all of our resources to fearmonger about this virus that, again, at the time, I guess we didn't know quite how bad it was, but it didn't seem to be that bad, if I recall correctly.
	But it gave nice cover for taking programs like Politics Live and Victoria Derbyshire off the air, as they say, quote, to prioritize coronavirus coverage.
	Oh, oh, good excuse.
	Well, that's actually not quite true, because the director general of the BBC did actually go before Parliament and explain, you know, they were asking, where do you need to cut stuff?
	You need to cut some things.
	And they asked him about Victoria Derbyshire and his response, I'll send it to you afterwards, was that the problem with the show was not the pathetically low viewership or anything like that.
	It was that the audience was overwhelmingly white and male.
	Really?
	Yeah, so he said a program that costs, what was it, about three million or whatever figure it was, with an audience that's predominantly white and male was a show we should rethink, was his wording.
	I did not see that.
	I'll send you the link, but it's absolutely nuts.
	I was under the impression that it was because of her low ratings.
	No, apparently her ratings have been low for ages and they just didn't care because it's the BBC. They don't have to care if there's no audience.
	They get paid either way.
	Exactly.
	This is why the BBC ended up having this great flex on the rest of the media.
	But yeah, at this point the COVID coverage was non-stop, wall to wall, and everything was terrible.
	Trump ended up, it was this month or next month, Trump was banning flights in from places like China and being called a racist.
	For doing so, Nancy Pelosi was out in Chinatown.
	That was probably in February, actually, hugging people.
	But yeah, so anyway, the point is, everything's going mad in the media.
	So the BBC decided to put a little article up saying, well, look, what you can do about your mental health during the time of coronavirus, and these are just two of the quick points they put up, Limit the amount of time you spend reading or watching these things, which aren't making you feel better.
	Perhaps decide on a specific time to check in with the news.
	There's a lot of misinformation swirling around.
	Stay informed by sticking to trusted sources of information such as government and NHS websites.
	What's the BBC said there?
	Don't trust the media.
	There's a lot of misinformation.
	Go to the government and the NHS for the media.
	The media can't be trusted as a fact-checking exercise now.
	And try to avoid it anyway because it's going to make you mad.
	It's like, well, you could stop, couldn't you?
	You could stop fear-mongering and propagandising people to the point where they're getting mental health conditions just from reading the news every day.
	I mean, it's always nice to get an admission, at least.
	Yeah, I guess it is.
	I guess it is.
	It's like the fact they just come out and say, yeah, the media is the problem.
	And we've been saying this for years.
	The media is the problem.
	You know, it's absolutely the problem.
	The way that they go about what they're doing.
	Um...
	I mean, I don't think we've got it in here, but some of the responses from the BBC to the specific, you know, victims of coronavirus was hilarious.
	So the funniest one, which Douglas Murray's mentioned, was the BBC article from a lady who was worried that she would be buried in the wrong gender.
	Yes.
	Like, really?
	Okay.
	You're not worried about being buried.
	That's not good enough.
	The wrong gender part is the important bit.
	Well I mean, how old was this person?
	I don't think they were particularly old, but it's not necessarily a commentary on the virus itself.
	It's just a commentary of the BBC's priorities.
	They wrote this.
	They did a video thing on it, and then published it, thinking anyone would be interested.
	And thankfully, the backlash from the public was, go away.
	I'm not wasting time with this right now.
	I've got other things to worry about.
	Yes.
	That was one of the few silver linings to coronavirus, though, wasn't it?
	But for a while, identity politics had to take a back seat and people had real concerns that they actually really had to deal with.
	You know, they didn't have all this nonsense to deal with.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, so Boris tested positive in March.
	And he looked like he went through something as well.
	It looked quite rough.
	I recall watching the videos and he seemed pretty under the weather.
	And as my wife has now had the coronavirus, I can tell you that it is a bad flu.
	Yeah, he's 56.
	I've just Googled as well.
	So I think he's in the higher risk zone or at least getting there.
	But he seems to have come through.
	From it, the World Health Organization confirmed that it was indeed a pandemic.
	Tedros finally had to bow to international pressure in his defense of China.
	Because what is that, like two months after it exploded in China?
	Yep.
	Now there's a problem?
	Okay.
	Yep.
	And at the same sort of time, they're all saying, well, you don't need to worry about masks, don't worry about social distancing, things like this, and then they'd end up just flip-flopping their complete opposite position on things.
	Fauci is still doing this, where he's just essentially following the media narrative, and just whatever the media are saying, he'll come out and reinforce.
	They're not taking any positive steps forward themselves.
	Excuse me.
	At all.
	Very frustrating.
	But Trump puts in more travel restrictions, which includes at this point, he'd already dealt with China and Britain and Ireland had been.
	Yeah, so I think this was a European travel ban, which included the UK and Ireland, they're saying, because at the time it was still in the EU. Yeah.
	I think we're still banned.
	I checked the government website about this.
	We're banned because of this new wave.
	Oh, goddammit.
	But at the time, 26 other countries had been banned as well.
	So, you know, this is where it was all starting to ramp up the sort of Western reaction.
	But there were a few other things that you wanted to go through for March, weren't there?
	Yeah, so the grooming gang petition I wanted to mention, this is when we launched that as well.
	Well, Johnny launched it.
	His name was on there before it got scrubbed by the government.
	Unirotic racism.
	So I wanted to mention that because we'll get to the...
	I think this is something I want to map through the year, so just mentioning it now.
	But also the live event we did in the Polish Club, which seems like a lifetime ago at this point.
	Especially considering we had, what, like a few hundred people in there or something like that?
	Yeah, looking back, I didn't even realise that we'd done a live event in 2020.
	Feels like...
	Yeah.
	But this is back before any of the lockdown or any of that stuff, so...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I just wanted to mention, we'll do them again at some point.
	I think...
	No, it wasn't this one.
	It was the one before we did the year-end review as well.
	So this is sort of the online version, I guess.
	But then we have...
	Then we have...
	Yeah, the hate facts one is this one, which is good fun.
	Anyway, and then we have the quarantine stream you did, I wanted to mention, because that's when everyone started getting locked down, and then everyone got stuck indoors for a few months, and...
	Yeah, and then we move into April where, honestly, on a personal level, I actually didn't mind the lockdown because it was quite sunny, the weather was nice, and I'd have to take the kids out for walks and stuff.
	So it was actually quite pleasant, to be honest, existing at this time.
	But yeah, this was when we were fully in the lockdown, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	I also want to mention the song here, so the China swing you commissioned, because it was sort of like peak lockdown times.
	People started making songs about the actual virus, which is weird to look back on, but nothing wrong there.
	But also, Keir Starmer got elected.
	So Jeremy Corbyn out, Starmer in.
	And I wanted to play a video because I didn't want us to just talk throughout the whole thing because we need a break to drink.
	And so I made this video for one of your videos in which it's just the compilation of his amazing cabinet.
	The amazing people, which are probably going to be the next government if the Conservatives continue at the rate that they are at the moment.
	Like, I think the Labour Party now is beating them in the polls consistently.
	Only by a few points, but they keep it up.
	These are the people who are going to be running the country.
	So if you want to play this, I'm going to take a drink.
	I will lead this great party.
	We haven't seen a police one.
	I've been here, and I've been here for a little while now.
	Jacob Reif-Mong has been absolutely clear that he does not endorse the AfD.
	It's a dangerous thing, surely, to accuse him of being close to Nazi ideology.
	These are elected Conservative MPs.
	I don't care how elected they were.
	So was the far right in Germany.
	They're often elected.
	The only way forward is a final say.
	People's vote.
	Am I tough enough?
	Am I tough enough?
	Hell yes, I'm tough enough.
	You would go back to Europe, try and get a better deal, have a referendum where Remain is an option.
	Would you then be campaigning against your own deal?
	Personally, I will campaign to Remain.
	I will negotiate the best of my ability, a deal that will look after jobs and the economy, but the best way to look after jobs and the economy is for us to Remain.
	Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?
	Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths for the good of diversity.
	She liked and fucking shared it.
	It's comrades.
	Comrades, I'm a failure.
	Comrades.
	Comrades.
	Comrades!
	Yeah, I just wanted a little break.
	The Labour are so embarrassing.
	Like, they're so useless.
	But that's the opposition, and they're going to be in government in three years at this rate.
	I know.
	David Lammy, and...
	I mean, I love the super-Nazis thing.
	They're like Nazis, but worse.
	What?
	No, I think the wording was, he said, Jacob Rees-Mogg, of all people, is close to Nazi ideology, or is engaging in Nazi ideology.
	And then the guy was like, how can you say that?
	He's like, nah, it's worse than that.
	I was like...
	I will go further.
	It's like, well, what?
	I don't know what you're thinking of.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, the Labour Party is generally embarrassing.
	And like you say, they're beating the Conservatives or running neck and neck with them in the polls, which is deeply embarrassing.
	If I were the Conservative Party, I'd be like, what the hell are we doing wrong?
	But anyway, the same sort of time Trump started promoting hydroxychloroquine, what the hell happened to hydroxychloroquine?
	Just fell off the map, didn't it?
	Yeah.
	Like, I see, what is it, Sebastian Gorker apparently has been taking it this whole time.
	Oh, yeah.
	But, uh...
	It seems fine.
	Just to make sure with YouTube's terms of service, we're not endorsing it or saying that it's good or anything else, but...
	Yeah, we're actually not sure what happened to it.
	Yeah, we're asking what?
	Yeah, because there were doctors who came out, you know, groups of physicians who would come out and say, well, look, hydroxychloroquine we think will have some sort of positive effect here.
	And YouTube removed the video of them saying that.
	And it was weird that that had to be suppressed.
	Yeah, I mean, Facebook and Twitter all did the same thing at the same time, which again, pure coincidence, I'm sure.
	Like, no collusion here, folks.
	Well, going back to the previous article, you can see the Atlantic said that companies like Facebook have absolved themselves of any democratic responsibility.
	That's the attack, you know, that's the poke.
	How dare you, Facebook, not censor these things?
	It's how they keep each other in line.
	There's also Trump holding the WHO's funding in response to all the communist simping they were doing.
	Yes, yes, and he's right to do so as well.
	I mean, he fully withdrew from the WHO eventually, didn't he?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Well, I think it withdrew the funding, and I think that pretty much takes you out of it.
	But I think at the time, the US was the major donor, and now the major donor is China.
	So there's an argument about whether or not he did the right thing, because then you're sort of giving up on the organization.
	But if the organization's already more of an ally of your enemy than, you know, you, this is sort of what the US did with Ethiopia and whatnot, where they're just like, right, meh, more of an ally with the Soviets anyway, I'm going to switch sides and support the other guy now.
	Well, I just looked it up.
	So Trump defunds their contributions in April, but in July he fully withdraws.
	And there are loads of, you know, like the Lancet.
	It's like, the US withdrawal from the WHO is unlawful.
	It threatens the US global security.
	It's like, oh yeah, calm down.
	Calm down.
	Someone's not getting what they want there, are they?
	But in addition to this, again, this is all like coronavirus related, which became very political very quickly.
	Trump halted immigration and everyone screeched about that.
	But I mean, at the end of the day, Borders open, pubs closed.
	Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
	No.
	Trump did the right thing there.
	Like, I don't know why the British government didn't do it.
	We just seem to say, well, it wouldn't do that much, therefore we're not going to do it.
	But if you're willing to destroy the entire country's economy over this...
	Why are you allowing new people to come in and bring the virus?
	Yeah, I mean, I think we'll have to get the latest figures after the end of the year, they'll get released.
	But in the last three quarters or whatever it was, first three quarters, it's been the highest level of immigration in recent history for the UK, in the middle of a pandemic.
	Why would people want to move here in the middle of a pandemic?
	I just don't understand it.
	But the thing is, we actually get more data on this, at least from Britain's perspective, because In a few months' time as we go down the list.
	So Trump halting immigration is definitely something that needed to be done, and we'll get to why that is in a bit.
	But one of the things I found really interesting that caused the kind of cultural surprise in April was Joe Rogan saying he'd rather vote for Trump than Biden That was one of the bits I particularly enjoyed.
	Because it's not like Joe Rogan is a natural Trump voter or something.
	And back then, Joe Biden looked like a very weak candidate, people have to remember.
	We didn't know that Joe Biden was actually the most popular man in US political history.
	So Joe Rogan looked fairly sensible.
	At this point.
	I love his quote there.
	The Democrats have made us all morons by running Joe Biden.
	I mean, this was the response from everyone at the time.
	It was like, really?
	This guy?
	Like...
	Okay, that's what you're going to run?
	Fine.
	Which is why it's also so surprising that he's the most popular man in US history for presidential runs.
	Yeah, nothing shady happened.
	How dare you even suggest it?
	Going into May, Trump begins rattling the saber with China, threatening to go into a trade war.
	Then it was George Floyd died in May, didn't he?
	Yeah, I think I have the month right.
	It was early May.
	May have to double-check.
	But the riots then came out of this.
	Yeah, May 25th.
	The riots of peace, which were completely peaceful, mostly peaceful.
	Nothing going on here.
	And I think this is also a great moment for people to wake up, at least in the media, the fact that they were so dishonest about these events and the subsequent explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement just being some kind of peaceful civil rights organization.
	Yeah.
	And the imagery from this was mad as well.
	Because, I mean, everyone had been in lockdown for months, and then suddenly you're getting pictures of, like, giant buildings that are just blazing infernos.
	And, you know, gangs and hordes of roving looters and rioters stealing and smashing and making making a mockery of civilization, costing something like half a billion dollars in damages across 40 odd cities, something like that.
	And when Trump tweets about it, this is where I think Twitter and Facebook really started showing their teeth when it came to censorship, because Trump had said something along the lines of, look, you know, if you do this, then I'm going to send in the National Guard and someone's going to get shot.
	I can't remember the exact text.
	So the wording was when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
	That was it.
	I think it is?
	And I think this was actually the first time Twitter at least had censored a tweet from Donald.
	They'd always taken a hands-off approach of saying it's not our place because it's news.
	But then they twisted on this and said, well, if it's only aimed at the domestic market, meaning the representatives' own people, then we have the right to censor it, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
	Like, why if he tweets about Iran, it's fine.
	But if he tweets something about violence in the US, that's wrong.
	But of course, the absurdity is that it's not glorifying violence.
	It's making the point that if looting starts, then you're going to have to send in the National Guard to sort things out.
	And if people don't stop breaking the law, burning down buildings, assaulting random people, well, you're going to get shot.
	It's the United States.
	People own guns.
	And more importantly, Donald Trump was totally against the idea of looting.
	He was not endorsing or glory.
	He wasn't begging people to go out and start looting so they could get shot.
	Radical position.
	Sorry?
	It's the radical position.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Not in favour of looting, guys.
	The radical position that needs censorship is that maybe you shouldn't be looting small businesses and just people's homes and burning these things down.
	I mean, dozens of people died.
	Like, over 30 people died because of the George Floyd protests.
	I don't even want to call them protests.
	They're riots.
	How many cities had to burn down?
	You also mentioned the imagery, which is amazing, because we made a few memes out of this and then some merch, which is just the fact that this was all taking place in Democrat strongholds.
	None of this was really happening in Republican deep red areas.
	It was happening in deep blue cities.
	It's that point of, right, so the city council are all Democrats, the mayor's a Democrat, the police chief or whatever's black and is a Democrat, the representatives of Congress are a Democrat, the representatives of the Senate are a Democrat, you guys always vote Democrat, and yet you have these problems in your cities, which are then burning down in response.
	It's like, right, okay, so if there's a structural problem here, who would be to blame?
	Who's been the one in charge of making the structures for these things?
	Yeah, Trump's the problem.
	This is Trump's America, don't you know?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Which is just patently absurd.
	So we made some good stuff which was just like images of the, you know, things being destroyed, the National Guard having to be called in to bring order to these Democrat-run areas.
	With just the words, elect more Democrats.
	Because, I mean, that's what you're voting for if you live in those places.
	Like, more of the same.
	And not just that as well.
	Like, this is the thing with the lockdowns now.
	It's like, and the way that the stimulus bill is being battered around in the US political system.
	It's the Democrats shutting down Democrat areas, making Democrat voters suffer, and then pointing the finger at Trump and saying, he's the problem.
	He won't give you money.
	It's like...
	No.
	Why don't you just stop locking things down?
	Stop ruining all of these businesses.
	I've seen so many videos now of small business owners who are just like, no, I don't care.
	Don't care.
	I'm just going to open.
	Matt Christensen did a fantastic one the other day where the cop was just like, well, I'm just doing my job.
	And the guy said, well, I'm just trying to do my job.
	You know?
	Any excuse you give for doing whatever you're going to do to me is something I could give for my customers and my employees doing what they're doing to run their businesses.
	But, yeah, the whole thing is just atrocious.
	It's just atrocious.
	And, like, with this, right, with the George Floyd thing, like, The Guardian wrote this article, Facebook declines to take action against Trump's statements.
	But, like...
	Again, Facebook surprisingly on the side of free speech when it came to this.
	But anyway, yeah.
	So then we get the coronavirus furlough in the UK and Rishi Sunak just mortgages our future as obviously they want to do.
	I mean, what did we go from?
	I think it was like 80% debt to GDP ratio or something like that.
	And now we're well over 100.
	It's like, great.
	Wonderful.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the Conservatives, like they haven't got the debt down, but they got the deficit down.
	So the amount we were going into debt was going down after years of austerity that Jeremy Corbyn and all of the lefties were complaining about.
	And now they get the complete opposite.
	It's just like, well, here we go.
	Here's just money.
	Just have some money.
	Free money.
	Have a few stacks of money.
	That's how the economy works, you see.
	Just produce as much money as you want and then everything is fine.
	Yeah, but this was for all the businesses that were shut down by the states.
	The British state shut them down and it was compensation for that.
	So I can see the legal rationale there.
	But you mentioned some of the problem with shutting down businesses.
	I saw a podcast by Joe Rogan a couple of days ago.
	It's actually quite interesting.
	There was a guy who spent $60,000 to set up his restaurant to be outdoor dining because the point was, okay, indoor dining is bad because COVID is worse in an indoor environment.
	Fine, I'll set up outdoor dining so people can sit apart.
	And they still shut it down.
	And he was like, right, what's wrong?
	What am I doing wrong?
	And they took the city to court, and the city was arguing that, oh, we've got loads of evidence that outdoor dining's still got tons of risk.
	And when they got to court, they had to admit they had zero studies on it.
	I was like, right, okay, so why are we doing this?
	Yeah, why are you doing it?
	And it just seems to be a way of hurting people at this point.
	This has gone way beyond the science and reason of the thing.
	I mean, recently I saw Fauci was arguing that even children need to be vaccinated.
	And it's like, why?
	The people who are vulnerable to it are the elderly.
	Vaccinate them, and then everyone can get on with their lives.
	If this is about actually protecting people from a virus.
	But if it's not about that, then it makes a lot more sense to start shutting down and arbitrarily tyrannizing small business owners and things like that, doesn't it?
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's move on to June, because I wanted to mention this, which is that Antifa finally got at least something they had coming, which you covered in the stream on, which was that they were designated a terrorist organization for international means.
	I think it was by the US, or the Trump administration, not by the US administration, because no one else was willing to do this.
	Yeah, yet another good thing that Trump did.
	Yeah, I mean, he was unable to do it for domestic antifa, but he was able to do it for foreign antifa.
	So I think the ruling was that if you were a high-profile member of this organization, you're probably involved in terrorism, therefore we're not going to allow you into the US. Perfectly reasonable thing to do.
	I mean, when you look at some of the antifa cells in France or Germany, I mean, bomb factories, you know.
	Yeah.
	Right, okay.
	Do you really want them in?
	Or is it just an idea, bro?
	Is it just a group of people who dislike racism?
	No, of course it's not.
	They're just anti-fascists.
	Yeah, which is why they've got to bomb this school.
	Yeah, okay.
	Radicalize the moderates.
	No, I mean, Jesse Smollett.
	Let's take Jesse Smollett.
	That is that example.
	It was just like, oh man, I got hit by a hate crime by these maggoth chuds.
	Oh yeah, I love it.
	Just these two MAGA chuds walking around Chicago at like 3am.
	They just happen to spot him going to a subway for a salad and they're like, this is MAGA country in their Nigerian accents.
	And then they put a new surroundings neck they just happen to be carrying.
	You get one with the hat, I think.
	I think it's a free gift, the campaign throw in.
	But yeah, no, just something I wanted to mention because it's great.
	And I'm going to be really disappointed when Biden gets rid of this because it's the wrong thing to do.
	And anyone with a brain can see that at this point.
	It's not a movement of peace.
	These people are socialist terrorists.
	And that needs to be remembered.
	Going back to the coronavirus, because it just dominates this year, doesn't it?
	Beijing was back in lockdown by the 17th of June, as we were discussing coming out of it, which is interesting.
	But the one I want to talk about in relation to the other one, saying, well, the borders are open.
	Well, the coronavirus, according to the BBC on the 10th of June, came to the UK on at least 1,300 separate locations.
	So we are locked in our homes.
	Nothing's open.
	We're not allowed to go out.
	And we're like, ooh, should we ease the lockdown?
	Ooh, ooh, don't know.
	Have to think about it.
	And the borders are open and literally over 1,000 people with coronavirus.
	Different times are bringing new variants or new infections of the coronavirus into the country.
	And it's insane.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I mean, I was discussing this with my parents.
	We went over to Germany, I think, I don't think it was in June, I think it was earlier, to give this speech in Parliament, or it might have been later, I'm not sure.
	But, October, sorry.
	And, to be honest, looking back at it, I remember looking around the airport and thinking, really?
	How is this, like, there are so many people here.
	I expected it to be dead, you know, like everywhere else in the country, where you walk down the street and it's just dead.
	I mean, who is even travelling?
	Yeah.
	We're all locked in our houses.
	Who's traveling?
	But that's the thing.
	We were perfectly allowed to do it legally.
	And even at the time, looking back at it, I just think, well, why?
	Why were we allowed to go?
	I mean, we're healthcare workers.
	Is this worth the risk?
	If you're seriously saying that this is as bad as it is, well, why not shut down flights that are unnecessary?
	I mean, that is a way of getting the virus in and out of the country.
	I mean, again, if this was genuinely about saving lives, then again, Donald Trump shuts down travel.
	We don't.
	Why not?
	I haven't got an answer.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It defies logic.
	But like I said, at the same time we're discussing whether we can lift the lockdown.
	It was starting to ease across the UK. I recall the charts.
	In fact, everything was going very much down and it seemed that it was over.
	So then we moved into July.
	Do you want to do your one first?
	Oh yeah, I just wanted to mention Jack Conte with your little stream about him that's not about the money.
	So this was, Patreon had banned you a while back for saying words on a stream that wasn't yours that I'm not allowed to repeat because reasons.
	And Jack claimed ownership of everyone's online activity and would ban people for online activity they didn't even do on Patreon.
	And then he banned, I think it was, I forgot the name, the comedian, Owen Benjamin, I think it is.
	And his fans sued Patreon, and eventually, I believe, they won against Patreon's attempt to put an injunction against them, and they then went on to sue him.
	So, I just wanted to mention it's been a great year for censorship, the fact that if you keep doing these things, you will get what you deserve eventually.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah.
	But, yeah, so we came out of the lockdown just as instantly there was a rise in cases around the world.
	In fact, Fauci describes this as very disturbing.
	In Brazil, in the United States, they were just giving tens of thousands of cases, but this wasn't translating to piles of bodies in the streets, like, again, we were promised.
	Not that I want that to happen, obviously, but the point is, as usual, the models were totally inaccurate.
	And I don't want to pour scorn or anything, but how is Neil Ferguson still employed by the government after all of this?
	You know, like these models that he didn't even stick to.
	He broke the lockdown that he recommended.
	Neil Ferguson in the UK was the chief advisor who had apparently done multiple models to predict virus outbreaks in the past and had been wrong on all of those too.
	And he was wrong about this one and he's still with the government.
	So, right.
	If you ran a stockbrokering firm and you had models to try and predict how much money you'd make from investing here and there, and you were wrong as bad as him, you'd be penniless by now.
	All of your customers would have left.
	In which case, why is he still there?
	Why is he still employed by the government?
	I don't know.
	And again, there's one thing being wrong, but at least if you're following these things in good faith, then it's not a big deal.
	But the fact that he broke the lockdown he himself recommended...
	Was he the one who was getting cuckolded?
	Yeah, he was having an affair with a married woman or something.
	And this is what he got caught on.
	But it was this sort of time in July when China decided to try and rewrite...
	The facts about the coronavirus narrative.
	And unbelievably, Carrie Gracie, one of the grifter, feminist grifters, who ended up taking loads of money off of British license fee payers at the BBC, wrote something.
	She was a China correspondent for the BBC. And she actually wrote something quite good for The Guardian about how China was trying to rewrite the COVID-19 narrative to suit its own purposes.
	And this was where Beijing started sort of claiming, well, actually, where was it they said it had come from?
	They come from America, they come from Brazil or something.
	They had a bunch of different places they claimed.
	The US military was spreading it, in fact, or started it.
	Yeah.
	Things like this.
	A million different claims about it come from basically anywhere except the Chinese state or the Chinese Communist Party.
	Yes.
	After they had been persecuting people who'd just been speaking about it and warning each other about it and things like this.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, and again, this shift in the narratives, in just narratives, because there are dominant narratives that predominate over the media landscape, and these are things that we follow on a daily basis.
	And so this is where you can see China, and as we found from our discussion with China Uncensored, the Chinese government is very concerned about narratives, and they're very good at controlling them.
	And so I always find that interesting when we get to see the same sort of things that's happening.
	So good on Cary Gracie for documenting that China is pivoting on a dime here and remodeling their narrative to try and create a different impression of the world.
	Well, you got the same from The Atlantic as well.
	A chap called David Graham at The Atlantic.
	Trump's effort to provoke violence is working.
	Trump's effort to provoke violence, really.
	Trump must have been the one who wrote the book In Defense of Looting and promoted that.
	Trump must have been the one who was like, yeah, actually, go and do as much burning and looting as you can in Minneapolis.
	George Floyd needs to be avenged.
	That's what Trump was saying.
	But again, this is just shameless.
	Absolutely shameless.
	After the media has spent all of this time promoting the idea of violence and rebellion, doing as much cover as they can for Antifa, suddenly it's Trump doing the provoking.
	I can't stand it.
	Alright, so he's referencing here.
	The fact that Trump had ordered that federal officers need to be sent from the Department of Homeland Security to Portland to defect a federal building, a federal courthouse, because people were trying to burn it down.
	And just for some context, that building is a skyscraper.
	You know, it's $100 million at least, probably.
	And if that had fallen down, you know, if they'd set fire to that and broken that building, it might have taken another one with it, would have probably killed everyone inside, would have probably killed most of the protesters that fell down.
	Yeah.
	Is that what you're advocating, that we need to not do anything?
	Well, you might think, okay, well, why does he have to send federal officers?
	Well, the Democrat-run state, not just Wheeler, because Wheeler's just the mayor, so he's not got that much...
	Oh, yeah, yeah, and the governor.
	The governor in charge of Oregon's police department...
	Just refused to send state officers.
	He was just like, no, I'm not going to send them because these are protests about police brutality, therefore this will inflame tensions.
	What?
	If these people are burning down a courthouse, this is going to cause massive damage and probably a lot of deaths.
	If there's anywhere to send cops, that would be it.
	And this flat out refusal was obviously political.
	And, you know, they wanted something to go wrong so they could blame it on Trump.
	So Trump was forced to send Department of Homeland Security officers.
	And some of those officers had to come as far as the US-Mexico border because they just ran out of bodies.
	They needed more guys.
	And for doing that, for protecting federal property, he's being blamed for provoking violence.
	And it's not like Trump had started with the heavy-handed approach either.
	I mean, this was after the Minneapolis riots.
	This was after the George Floyd riots.
	And this was because these went on for...
	It was over 100 days straight in Portland that this went on for.
	So, like, the idea that it's Trump-provoking violence, it just reminded me so much of, you know, oh, China saying, oh, well, yes, the U.S. Army is responsible for the coronavirus.
	It's like...
	Just shut up with your lies.
	These are just such bold lies that you honestly can't believe they come out with them.
	There we are.
	But anyway, let's move on to August because I'm being told about time as well.
	Oh god, yeah, yeah, we are.
	So in August I just wanted to talk about nonce flicks.
	Just never forget-y.
	Nonce flicks.
	So this was, they put up, what was it, Cuties?
	Which was just CP. Unadulterated.
	I'm not going to call it anything else.
	It's disgusting.
	Netflix found itself in a position where it's like, well look, not all of our content is paedophilic.
	Yeah, and you made the point here, this is coming from the most leftist company on the planet, and it was that leftism that let them get through the gate, that they were like, oh this is okay, it's a form of art, and it's like, no it's not.
	Oh, it's actually an expression of this.
	Sure it is.
	Why are you taking such gratuitous pleasure in it, though?
	That's the question.
	Because I agree, you could tell a story of a hyper-conservative society or an Islamic society where a girl breaks away from this and explores decadent French society.
	Yeah, you could do that, but you don't have to make it so graphic.
	And I didn't even watch it.
	I only saw clips of it, and I was just like, just no.
	I saw significant amounts from the quips and some of the stuff.
	I mean, the way it was shot was just bad as well.
	There's a child twerking and the camera's panning around like it's a music video.
	If you wanted to make a film and show that this is bad, because that was the argument, that this was showing as bad through art, you wouldn't do the shots like that.
	You'd make them long, you'd make them focus on no camera cuts, you'd just show it, and then it would be evidently cringe.
	I mean, that's what you do when you make a horror movie or such.
	Not only that, you'd probably have it so that, okay, you've got the child twerking, but surely the focus would be on the reaction of the person who's horrified or whatever, right?
	The audience, right?
	You don't actually need to linger on that child's rear end.
	That's all I'm saying.
	It's just weirdly gratuitous.
	Nonse flicks, never forget.
	That's something that happened in 2020.
	Let's move on to the DNC with Biden's successful victory.
	Yes, and the funny thing about Biden's successful victory here is he was really low in approval.
	He was cut out.
	Sorry, you there?
	Sorry, yeah, you cut out for a second there.
	Right.
	Yeah, Biden didn't exactly storm it.
	He had lots of competition, and he did have a significant edge over the rest, of course, which is why he won.
	But Biden's turnout was low.
	He wasn't like a popular candidate.
	He wasn't like Obama.
	We didn't have Obama's luster and shine and enthusiasm.
	Grassroots enthusiasm.
	Which is really weird then when it came to the actual election.
	And it turned out that he was way more popular than, for some reason, the Democratic Party had any idea about, in fact.
	Because remember, at the time, everyone was like, God, he's a terrible candidate.
	God, what are we doing?
	We're going to get creamed by Trump.
	And nobody's going to vote for Joe Biden.
	But I guess Joe Biden was like, listen, lads...
	Most inclusive voter fraud organization.
	You just have to remember.
	But yeah, so Biden wins.
	I mean, just listen to what he says in his acceptance speech.
	He says, I'll be an ally of the light, not the darkness.
	Oh, fucking bravo.
	So deep.
	It's time for us, we the people, to come together and make no mistake, united we can and we'll overcome this season of darkness in America.
	It's like, do you think you're in Lord of the Rings, Joe?
	We'll choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, and fairness over privilege.
	It drives me mad.
	Yeah, it's just such box-standard progressivism where it's like, I'm for the good, not for the bad.
	Okay.
	Insightful.
	Great.
	Yes, exactly.
	This is meaningless, empty rhetoric.
	It's hallmark card rhetoric.
	It doesn't actually speak to any particular things about the people and their lives.
	Here's a very broad and indefinable set of values.
	I mean, Trump could say exactly these things and say that he's going against Joe Biden, who then represents all the bad things.
	But...
	But it's this fringe that seems to permeate all progressive movements.
	Like, take Hope Not Hate or any of these LGBT pride parades, where it's just like, love always wins, or like, you know, hate will lose.
	Jesus Christ, man.
	How surface level do you have to be?
	I mean, that's literally what Netflix could have used as defensive cuties.
	What, love will win?
	Yeah.
	No, I don't want to think about that.
	Let's move on.
	Exactly, it's disgusting.
	They don't think about it.
	Anyway, Bernie decrying Trump's attack on mail-in voting.
	Yes, yeah.
	So the reason I pulled up Bernie going, oh, well, you know, how dare Trump attack mail-in voting is because mail-in voting seems to have been on Bernie's mind for quite a while.
	And Bernie had a fairly prescient point where he was like, well, look, you know, like there could be a lot of mail-in voting and a lot of Republicans could say that there was a lot of fraud from mail-in voting.
	And that could cause the legitimacy of the win to be in doubt.
	And he said this before the election.
	I was like, wow, it's almost like you knew something, Bernie, you know, Not that I think that he himself, if there was any kind of malfeasance, I don't think Bernie himself was involved in it.
	He's too much of an outsider.
	But I suppose when you've been in politics for as long as he has, you probably end up learning about a few things on the ground, through the grapevine, about things that you can't really talk about, I suppose.
	But yeah, anyway, I found that interesting.
	Bernie Sanders' view is now haram on YouTube, I guess.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The death toll for COVID was also revised down in the UK at that point, so 5,000 fewer deaths.
	At the time, I think there was something like 30,000.
	Let me see if I can get it.
	Yes, 30, oh no, it's 40,000 that was revised down to 35,000.
	So it was an admission that our testing was not something we could entirely rely on.
	And still to this day, the NHS has this bizarre way of determining COVID deaths.
	It's any death within 28 days of a positive test, which...
	It does not prove that anyone died of COVID, that the people being tested and treated as COVID deaths died from the COVID. We just don't know.
	But the worst part about it is that consistently the public seems to have been polling in favor of lockdowns, and it's really insufferable.
	Even now, YouGov will release polls going, yeah, about 70% of the country is thrilled with the idea of another lockdown.
	I'm just sitting here thinking, wow, that's a lot of people in this country who are employed by the NHS. Like, how is that possible?
	But back in August, apparently nine out of ten Britons would have accepted local lockdowns if no COVID cure was found.
	But now we have our vaccinations, so we don't need to worry about that, do we?
	So the Telegraph article?
	Yes, yes.
	Yeah, none out of ten Britons would accept local lockdowns if no COVID cure was found.
	So there's zero COVID strategy, which no one's going for, because it's not really possible without destroying the country even further.
	It's mad.
	It's insane.
	And the thing is, who the hell are these people?
	I want to know.
	I want to meet one.
	I want to meet some of the regular people who are just like, yeah, yeah, well, lockdowns are fine.
	COVID's the most important thing.
	Is it, though?
	Is it the most important thing?
	Are you sure you're going to be saying that when food is lacking, when you're hungry?
	Will you still be concerned about the coronavirus then?
	Anyway, I don't want to put blackpilled in doom monger.
	Let's move on to September.
	Yes.
	Well, this actually isn't a great month, but there's light at the end of that tunnel, which is the months of disappointment from the Conservatives, which ended up leading, as you pointed out, to the patriotic cultural revolution.
	So Nigel Farage getting back in the works, David Curtin getting back out there being good, and Lawrence Fox leading his own party and setting up, which I hope they all get together and have a chat at some point.
	But this is because of the conservative's failure of the last few months in response to things like Black Lives Matter and the protests and whatnot, that they either said nothing or there was no condemnation of anything bad.
	They couldn't bring themselves to talk properly about the issue.
	And it was embarrassing to watch.
	Oh, it's insufferable.
	Like, the reluctance for the Conservatives to get involved in cultural issues has been really to their detriment.
	And I think that's one of the reasons that Labour polls so well.
	Because at the end of the day, like, the Conservatives need to invalidate the moral attack that's being levelled against them by people like Keir Starmer.
	And the thing is, like, Jeremy Corbyn...
	He can give the kind of right moral bluster, but it's not necessarily persuasive.
	But Keir Starmer is so tepid that Boris could just come out with a...
	I mean, when Keir Starmer was accosted on LBC by the woman who was like, look, the people of Israel have the right to self-determination.
	Why don't I have that right as a British woman?
	And Keir Starmer's just like, well, of course we all have that right.
	So he instantly concedes the point.
	because Keir Starmer is not a psychotic like Jeremy Corbyn-esque radical and so these are arguments that Boris can win with Keir you know if Boris is in the in the parliament going well Keir Starmer leads this unpatriotic Labour Party that sides with criminals and hooligans and hucksters and all the people anti-British around the world you can see this in their previous leadership blah
	Keir Starmer would kind of be forced to backtrack and turn around to the radical leftists, like he's incidentally doing, and start giving them a good shooing.
	But Boris could have been doing this from day one, and this was a guaranteed victory for him.
	There's no way Keir would have stood up for them.
	Well, that's the shame.
	He still kind of hasn't.
	I mean, the people leaving the charge from the Conservatives to win back Conservative voters, who are obviously leaving them on this basis, or at least to some degree this basis, has been from people like Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch.
	I'm getting the name wrong again, but...
	It's just how it is in my head now.
	It's the ministers.
	Boris himself seems to just say nothing or avoids the topic, which is...
	Yeah, until when it came to last night at the proms, and everyone and their mother, this giant battle had been raging across social media, and then finally, after the Patriots had won and been like, no, we will have last night at the proms, Boris comes out and goes...
	Yeah, maybe we should have Last Night at the Proms, guys.
	Yeah, maybe British culture is something the Conservatives should defend.
	Yeah.
	Glad you got there, at least.
	You would think so.
	You would think so.
	But anyway, you want to talk about transmissions going back up for September?
	Yes, yes.
	This is how we ended up getting back into the November lockdown.
	Because the curve was flattened, and the lockdown was eased, and the curve started going back up again.
	And this is the sort of fear-mongering again in the media.
	Oh, everything's going to be bad.
	On the Trump front, they were whining that he wouldn't commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
	Again, all of these things aged well, in my opinion.
	And Trump, of course, started filling up the courts.
	God, we are going on a bit long, aren't we?
	Trump has managed to fill loads of courts, not just the Supreme Court, with Republican judges, or at least Trump picks.
	For all the good that did him when it came to contesting the election results.
	Yeah, they all just recused themselves.
	It was like, okay.
	Yes.
	Weird.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's September.
	Just to get on to October, so Black History Month.
	So there was always going to be some good stuff out of this.
	And in response to Black History Month, Samespree's, which is a big supermarket in the UK, probably, I don't know, someone like Walmart.
	I don't know what American equivalent would be.
	But their celebration of Black History Month included segregated spaces for their black-only staff.
	Which is a weird way to celebrate Black History, but okay.
	And this, of course, wasn't just the private sector.
	If we go to the next one, the state was also engaging in a lot of nonsense around about this time.
	As we documented, a lot of people sent us leaks from the Ministry of Defence, or, you know, we got stuff on the MS5 website and all sorts of things.
	There was a lot of other private leaks, so thank you to everyone who sent them in.
	We made a few of them into the articles on notizydis.com.
	But the extent of this was really quite blackpilling at the time.
	So the fact that $110,000 for a Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the Ministry of Defence, Jesus, money well spent.
	That's just the director.
	I mean, never mind the whole department, how much that costs.
	This got worse, of course, with the parliamentary diversity and inclusion department that we all have to pay for.
	Regardless of whether you're voting Conservative or Labour, that still gets funded because it's just part of how the Parliament works now.
	Tweeting out support for Black Lives Matter and for the George Floyd riots and all this sort of thing.
	It's unbearable that this was going on.
	And the Conservatives still said nothing in October.
	There was...
	Barely a peep about this being a problem.
	When was it that the Conservatives had to do the diversity training, where only 40 of them objected?
	I think this was the same time as well, in which Ben Bradley, to his credit, said no, and 39 others.
	But the rest of them, 300-odd, no problem here.
	Let's go for it.
	I love diversity and inclusion.
	I love being brainwashed by far leftists.
	Yeah, I'm okay with a bunch of Marxists sitting me down and calling me a racist, say the Conservatives.
	Weird flex.
	Yeah, and then Trump got the coup.
	Yeah, the Trump narrative and coup narrative that we've been mapping through the year converge and coincide in Trump getting the coup.
	And to be honest with you, I found Trump getting the coup a rather endearing moment.
	Trump was clearly putting on a sort of brave face about it and trying to show people that he wasn't going to be cowed by it.
	And I actually rather liked that about It's not handled in the sort of...
	He handled it in the right way, you know, morally in the right way.
	But what the hell happened to whatever Regeneron is?
	Like, what happened to that?
	In the same way as hydroxychloroquine, all that disappeared.
	What about Regeneron?
	No, I don't know.
	It's just gone.
	Google it.
	What did happen to Regeneron?
	I bet it's probably just super expensive or something like that.
	Maybe it's just not practical to use it on a mass basis, but it seemed to work.
	I mean, Trump said it seemed to work on him, so...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But like, oh, actually, they've released initial data on their thing 21 hours ago, in fact, according to Yahoo Finance.
	Okay.
	But yeah, but like, you know, if they had something then, why is it that it was just Trump that got it?
	Who knows?
	But obviously this cancelled the debates leading up to the election, towards the end, and so Biden ended up giving his town halls that CNN was like, oh, these are the most popular ever.
	It's like, well, I mean...
	If you discount the tens of millions of people who are watching on social media, and if you look at the difference, Trump was doing his rallies and getting like 150,000 people watching live, and Biden was getting about 4,000 people.
	So in fact, we have more people watching now than Joe Biden was getting on his official live streams of his town halls.
	So yes, just most popular candidate ever.
	I mean, I remember running some post-it note calculations from the data that was released.
	I think even including Fox News, like mainstream media, views for debates and whatnot, were down like 15% or 20%, whereas social media was up dramatically.
	So, and with the obvious implication that most mainstream media sources are center-left to quite starkly left or far-left, in my view, with CNN, with some of the stuff they do, especially their coverage of Antifa.
	And then social media overwhelmingly decentralized.
	You know, the right wing gets more views there, as we saw with, well, what was it?
	Map it or whatever?
	Yeah, the YouTube transparency tool.
	Yeah, it was a great little tool.
	Let me find it quickly.
	So like for 2020, the right got more views.
	Transparency Tube or something.
	Yeah.
	You can Google that when you get through there.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Sorry, it's called Transparency Tube.
	So you can get the big maps of what's going on.
	I mean, they...
	The partisan right, as the way they frame it, is 250 million views, or 250 million subscribers, I think it is.
	The partisan left was 295 million, but the partisan left includes CNN, NBC News, Jimmy Fallon, Vice, things like that.
	Yeah, to call them, you know, the media itself, essentially, partisan left, is very interesting.
	But yeah, so this obviously brings us to the election in 2020, which, I mean, it's fairly recent, so I guess we don't have to go too much into what happened.
	Obviously, everything was going great.
	Streams that aged poorly on the screen there.
	But the thing is, you wouldn't have known it because everything was going really, really, really well for Trump right up until like the 3am ballot counting pause and then massive weird injection of votes that were almost overwhelmingly completely for Biden.
	Because that's how fair elections work.
	Sometimes 93% or whatever it was in some of those counties.
	It's just really weird.
	I mean, Rasmussen tweeted out the other day a complaint from a state legislature, the state legislature in Pennsylvania, where they were saying, look, actually we've got more votes than we have voters here.
	They've got like 6.9 million votes and 6.7 million voters.
	But there's just nothing to worry about We're not allowed to suggest or even probably insinuate that there's anything to be concerned about.
	It's perfectly normal to have 200,000 more ballots than you have from actual voters.
	Totally normal.
	Everything was fine.
	Joe Biden legitimately won.
	He is legitimately the most popular presidential candidate in all of American political history.
	Anyway, let's move on then before we get in trouble.
	We just didn't know.
	We also launched the Lotus Edus in November, if you remember.
	We did.
	So I just wanted to put that in because, yeah, that's why we're here.
	Thank you to all of you good people who have not only subscribed and signed up and are supporting us on there and hopefully enjoying the content we're making.
	And sorry about the kind of chaotic way it all came together as well.
	But it feels like a long time ago now, since everything's up working smoothly.
	I can let that go.
	Anyway, let's go on to December and then we can wrap it up.
	So the big story of December for me was that China admitting they owned Joe Biden, which is just hilarious, but great to know as well.
	That guy coming out, check out this episode if you haven't.
	Yi Dongsheng.
	Yeah, just saying, look, we buy everyone in Washington, we give them one stack or two, and the problem with Trump is he didn't accept our money, whereas now things will be better because we got Joe Biden.
	It's like, okay, good to have another admittance, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Anyway, but also the grooming gang report was released, and this is something we covered.
	Well, John had started the petition, but everyone who signed it, thank you.
	I think we got, what was it, 130, something like that?
	140,000 signatures by the end of it?
	We would not have got the response, at least, and the debate without people signing it.
	And I don't think there would have been enough pressure for them to actually release it if people hadn't signed that, because they were initially saying, we're just not going to.
	It's not in the public interest.
	We're not going to show you anything.
	Okay.
	At least they've actually released something.
	Now, the report did turn out to be a bit of a dud, because they'd objected to any statistics, there was nothing in there, but they did give us some insights into how they were conducting it and how they were making their conclusions, which allowed us to see what some of the problems were.
	And...
	I still can't get over the fact that they say, you know, the text in there was, our data's bad, blah blah blah blah, but then, of the offenders, the majority are white, and then the media took that as, haha, far right disproved, there's no problem here whatsoever, there's no disproportionality, and it's like...
	Right, majority white.
	In a majority white country of, what, 80% or whatever it is?
	Like, okay.
	But if there's even a disproportionality in, you know, gender pay of, like, 2% or something, the media flips out.
	Like, how can women be underpaid by 5%?
	We got Peter McElvenna from Hearts of Oak.
	Who had gone through this in detail to come on and explain to us exactly how they had extracted the headline, the grooming gangs are mostly white people.
	And it was because they were working from data that was only about 30% complete.
	And they had extrapolated from this.
	And from that data, about the 30% of available data, about 30% of that had been white men.
	And then 28% of that had been Asian Pakistani.
	And so this is how the Guardian's like, see, it's mostly white men.
	So not only do we not know about 60% of the data or so, but of the data we do have, like, someone like 2% of the population is Pakistani or Muslim men.
	And that 2% accounted for 28% in the data that we have.
	This is all in the premium podcast, in fact, that we did with...
	With Hearts of Oak that you might want to go and watch.
	You might want to go and subscribe and go and watch because we go through all of the data in detail.
	This is just a quick recap from my memory, but it's obviously designed to try and just sweep this under the rug and get rid of it.
	Yeah, which is a shame, but at least we know.
	At least we can see, and this is more evidence of what they're doing, which is great.
	I also wanted to mention Liz Truss.
	This was the final thing.
	I don't know how much people want to say this is a redeeming moment, but for me it's at least redeeming on the fact that they did come out and say...
	Hang on a sec.
	All this kowtowing we did in the previous months is not only bad for us in the polls, but it's just wrong.
	Like, Listrust giving a pretty good speech where she was pointing out that the focus on gender and race endlessly is just a tool of the left.
	Like, this is just a way of browbeating people about racism and sexism and blah blah blah blah blah, and we've heard it all a million times.
	And she made the point, look, if we're going to focus on anything about inequalities, it should be in the way you're treated, and therefore we should focus on the fact that a poor person who lives in poverty does not have the same opportunities as someone in the richest families in the UK. If you're going to focus on anything, surely that's far more important.
	There are tangible material inequalities that we could actually point to if you're going to start going down that road.
	But if you go down that road, then you're going to find yourself supporting working class white men more than anyone else.
	And that's probably not going to get past, is it?
	Yeah, we didn't have time to include it, but there's a very recent speech by Ben Bradley in the Parliament where he's just pointing out, okay, well, if you care about these issues, fine, fine.
	Then let's just look at who's underperforming in British schools.
	And the worst performing groups were white boys and white girls who were on free school meals.
	And the most overprivileged group were black women who were not on free school meals.
	Okay, that's the data.
	That's the data, as Ben Bradley says.
	I guess the data is now racist.
	We don't need to use that anymore.
	Yeah, but it's not just him.
	We also have Priti Patel coming out and chewing out Black Lives Matter, as you covered.
	Or at least chewing out the activists.
	So it's good to see the Conservatives starting to do the things that they should have been doing from the beginning in response to this movement, but that's the caveat.
	It is quite nice to see, and I personally find it quite redeeming, but as to how much it is redeeming is obviously dependent.
	I mean, the fact that it took them like eight months to be able to resist this is...
	Embarrassing, you know?
	Yeah, embarrassing, yeah.
	Like...
	But I guess better late than never.
	That's essentially where we go to.
	And I guess the final thing is Brexit being over then.
	Yeah, get out the crabs.
	Brexit is gone by the looks of it.
	Oh, thank God.
	Which is, you know, relieving.
	And we talked about it.
	You can go read the articles about it.
	We don't have time to go into whether or not the deal is fantastic on every little thing.
	But that seems to be it.
	They voted for it.
	It is now passed.
	It is what it is.
	Finally.
	The chat says we didn't talk about Hong Kong.
	It doesn't feel like it's been four years.
	Sorry about that.
	I went through and we just took things from what I could find.
	But yeah, Hong Kong also happened.
	The uprising and then the crushing by the Chinese state.
	Yeah.
	Which...
	Not really much we can do about it in Britain, but we do at least give the Hong Kongers the BNO passports or whatever it is.
	If we're going to take immigrants from anywhere, I'd rather take immigrants from a highly developed country like Hong Kong.
	You'd expect at least a large population of Anglophiles from there, rather than some of the countries we take mass immigration from of people you'd expect to hate us.
	At least it's vaguely sympathetic.
	Yeah.
	We have super chats.
	So overall then, how do you feel the year went?
	Not great.
	I mean, there are a few good things in there, but it's mostly disappointments, you know?
	Yeah.
	I mean, coronavirus being the biggest one, obviously.
	The destruction of our own economy.
	Yeah.
	Wonderful.
	Yeah, I mean, like, on a personal level, things seem to have gone okay.
	You know, we've set up the load seaters, everything seems to be going well.
	We've had, you know, thousands of sign-ups, so thank you.
	So we've got jobs.
	If we get, well, if and when we get deplatformed from whatever Silicon Valley platforms we're on, we still have a means of existing.
	Yeah.
	You know, I have a new son this year, which is great.
	So overall, like on a personal level, I can't really complain.
	Everything, you know, I've been working very hard.
	I've been, you know, sticking to my diet and all that sort of stuff.
	So everything's been going great.
	But like watching the world is just terrible.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's get into these superchats, because I don't know how many...
	We might have to do it a bit short.
	I don't know how long we can do this, but we'll do our best.
	So, Wolfsbane.
	Speaking of Russian women, did you see the video from the BBC where they tried to roast the guy for preferring Russian women instead of British women?
	I did.
	That's a guru artist who basically just said, British women, compared to internationally, are fatter and expect more, whereas Russian women are the most beautiful.
	And it's like, okay.
	It's...
	I could certainly say when we went to Russia there were a hell of a lot more beautiful women there and it's just evident of a few hours of walking around.
	So, Den Terrell.
	Carl, what happened with your son on Christmas Day?
	Did Father Christmas's letter about being a good boy for the next three days work?
	Happy New Year.
	No, it didn't.
	He still went and stole some chocolates and was back chatting my wife when they were out at the shops.
	So Father Christmas has still not come.
	And he doesn't really seem to be very bothered about it, which is concerning me, to be honest.
	I'm like, right, okay.
	That was like a nuclear option.
	And he was just like, well, there we go.
	He seems to have taken it very much in his stride.
	I don't know what to do now.
	Doesn't respect authority.
	Anyway, MuteStream.
	Happy New Year.
	Smooches for Hugo.
	Hugs for the rest.
	May we get Hugo body pillow.
	Lesbian Vicky simps.
	And may Callum get his glasses next year.
	With some emojis.
	Thank you, MuteStream.
	Looking forward to you being with us for the next year as well.
	Endlessly simping for Hugo, I imagine.
	Not doing much else.
	Wrapped a bunch of numbers.
	I want to share more of the wonderful articles from the website, but the links don't generate previews on social media sites, and that would attract potential readers.
	Are there any plans of fixing this?
	I believe there are.
	Yes.
	Sorry, it's not working at the moment, but it will be at some point.
	Yeah, this is just one of those things that kind of wasn't mission critical, so got put to the back burner, but it's in process.
	Woot40.
	If the UK government believe that people need 80% of the income on furlough, why do you think sick pay is only £95 during self-isolation?
	I don't know.
	It's an interesting question.
	Possible pilot deviation.
	Carl, I can't believe you're allowing Callum to sit in your chair.
	I expect him to be black and blue when you get back and put him in his place.
	No, he's hosting it while I'm confined at home, but I'll be back on Monday.
	This isn't exclusively Carl's chair, it's the host and the guest chair.
	Yes.
	At least that's how it's defined.
	The engaged few.
	Here's some money because even more than a week later, comparing unconscious bias tests to witch dunking is still funny.
	Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
	I enjoyed it too.
	Happy New Year.
	Thank you very much.
	Churzel28.
	Decolonise your son.
	Knights are superior to ninja.
	Is your son named Dothra Ninja?
	No.
	He's named Dothra Alexander, isn't he?
	I mean, he is right.
	Knights are superior to Ninja.
	Yep.
	Paul Harrison.
	Happy New Year from New Zealand.
	Yes, 2am currently.
	Well, thank you for staying up.
	I hope...
	I love your...
	I'm sorry.
	I love the work you guys do, so here's my support.
	Well, thank you, man.
	Thank you.
	It's good to get support from New Zealand as well.
	I like the connections we have.
	Harion...
	I can't...
	That's difficult.
	It's like Gaelic or something.
	I can't read it.
	Sorry.
	Harion Glaven, right?
	Glaven.
	Yeah.
	Here's a New Year's bonus and hope you all enjoy the New Year lockdown.
	Also, we need more Vicky simps.
	Well, I guess Harry is one of them.
	Vof, Vof.
	Happy New Year, gents.
	Making my contribution towards John's new computer.
	Hope it helps.
	Thank you very much.
	We'll go to the computer.
	Nightmarish Visions.
	With how the new Tier 4 lockdown has been rolled out throughout the entire thing just seems like a way of boiling the frog.
	People would have been far angrier if we had just jumped straight into Tier 4 at the start of December.
	Yeah, it does feel like a boiling frog, doesn't it?
	Well, yeah, there's a parliamentary point there as well, which is that Boris did it later because then Parliament couldn't get a vote on it.
	So there's more evidence for that.
	Bear Cup for 70...
	Sorry, 80 Australian dollars.
	Jesus, man.
	But thanks.
	Happy New Year, everyone.
	Congratulations on the fruits of your hard work, Carl.
	I've enjoyed your character arc from lefty kuma to based and red-pilled boomer.
	All that's left is to complete it, is to convert.
	Get on the CS Lewis already.
	Winky face.
	I've no intention of becoming religious.
	Have you read CS Lewis?
	No.
	Possible pilot deviation.
	The making of video on the website was fun to watch.
	The round table at the end was interesting.
	Nice to see a little...
	Sorry, nice to see the little people's faces.
	Well, thanks, man.
	John worked very hard on that.
	Person of the Year Svatnik.
	Happy New Year from Australia.
	2020 was the...
	Sorry, 2020 was a blast.
	I wonder what 2021 has in store for us.
	Yeah, God knows.
	I see Boris is saying we'll be free by April, but he also said that by Christmas.
	Yeah.
	It was, what was it, three weeks to flatten the curve?
	Yeah, it's been a long three weeks.
	Yeah, it's been a very long three weeks.
	William Crooks.
	Been following you for a few years, Mr.
	Benjamin.
	Best of luck to you and your colleagues in the new year.
	Thanks, man.
	Thank you.
	Andreas E. It was...
	It's a Greek word.
	I can't read that.
	Put it in Google Translate, John.
	I'll say it in a minute.
	Okay.
	Thucydides.
	It was Thucydides.
	There we go.
	What are you, a Greco-boo?
	Yes.
	Mighty Balzac.
	December 31st, I lost my house to the Aussie bushfires, remember them?
	Then came 2020, it's been a bit of a haul.
	Well, I'm sorry to hear that, man.
	Goddamn.
	The...
	Byron Maidgen?
	Sorry.
	Hello from the future.
	It's 2021 here in Australia and I just wanted to say it's beautiful life.
	It's wonderful.
	Well, that's good.
	There's a lot of Australians today.
	Yeah, there is.
	Good to have you guys.
	Yeah, well, I'm glad everything's going better in Australia now.
	Easy E. 2020 is the year the media was able to gaslight people so hard they were convinced that Trump was the Antichrist.
	Just to make Biden a viable choice.
	It's mad, isn't it?
	Biden, the least candidate with the least traction, ends up with 81 million.
	In fact, let me get the actual official results.
	I'll read another one.
	Some oil guy.
	Carl, worth remembering that the events of Mad Max are set in 2021.
	Personally, I can't wait.
	Yeah, that's pretty cool.
	So Biden got 81,283,485 votes to Trump's paltry 74,223,744 if we are to believe what we are told.
	Yeah.
	I mean, to talk about the media gaslighting as well, like the faux excitement about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
	You remember the BBC response, which was just like, she's a woman and she has brown skin.
	Then they literally had a graphic of box ticking.
	Like, woman, I think it was BAME or person of colour or whatever they used.
	It was just cringe.
	Like, not even the media could get themselves hyped up for it.
	Yeah.
	Eric Edward for £100.
	Jesus Christ, thanks man.
	All hail Sargon for Callum's eye test and glasses fund and show us the Hugo for the last time this year.
	We will be doing a weekend podcast after we film this, so I guess you'll get yourself your Hugo ration.
	Next year though, It'll be technically next year, because it's 31st.
	Alexander Cross.
	The irony is the thing we need at the moment is the thing we are frightened...
	Sorry, it's the thing we are fighting against.
	Because a good old media purge would do the trick quite right.
	Yeah, but what do you mean by perch?
	No violence, please.
	Just turn it off.
	Convince your family to just stop watching it.
	Follow the BBC's advice.
	Don't read it.
	I convinced my parents to just stop watching mainstream media and to get on YouTube.
	Their revealed preference is they prefer it.
	They're more on YouTube than they are on TV. I hate women.
	Morgan was a vixen.
	Ugly to her core.
	And Guinevere, who extolled virtue, fell in love with Lancelot.
	I have and will continue to hate women.
	That's a quote from Sir Agavain?
	I don't know how to say it.
	Based.
	Just one of the guys in the Arthurian legend hating women.
	Well, there are much less politically correct views on the world in the Arthurian romances.
	Kind of sounds like a...
	I don't know, I'm not going to make that joke.
	Get a platform for it.
	Anyway, Andrew Bishop for 50 Australian dollars.
	Thanks, man.
	I have no idea what Australian dollars even are.
	I don't even know how much it is.
	But...
	I think they're about £25, £30, something like that.
	Yeah, I think they're doing alright these days.
	Because everything in dollars just sounds weird to a British person.
	Wanted to write a complaint about how bad the MSM has been, but would rather say how great it has been to find such people as yourself, than how much I have learnt and improved my views listening to people like you.
	Thanks, man.
	Thank you.
	E-Lin, with a little emoji that says cool.
	Thanks, man.
	The Holtenor?
	The Holtenor.
	Okay, we're going to go with that.
	Hey Sargon, wanted to send some dollars and a thanks your way to your shoutout for my parlour at the creator of monsters.
	All one word.
	You tripled my followers from 30 to 114.
	It meant a lot.
	God bless.
	Happy New Year.
	Well, thank you.
	I'm glad that people started noticing.
	Stephen Heavily, glad to see the back of the crappy year.
	Greetings from a friendly lefty.
	Great to have you here, I guess.
	Benzine, happy new year.
	Happy new year, man.
	NFcaps, the...
	What is that?
	Same in English?
	I can't see it.
	American Association of The American Medical Association now officially supports...
	Hydrocoracin.
	Hydrocoracin.
	That's the really bad spelling.
	Yeah, sorry, difficult spelling.
	A lot of letters missing.
	Maybe he's phone posting.
	DK. Worst thing is, US avoided a trade war with China, and now Australia is in one with China.
	Yay, 2021.
	Yes.
	HadesXY.
	2020 puts the ring of...
	I am willing to only be able to tell the truth and be shunned as a liar, then only tell lies and be believed as all true.
	Happy New Year's and Aeon.
	I'm assuming that's another Greek word.
	Look, you can't read the Russian letters, Carl.
	I can't read the Russian, but I at least know what the Ring of Gyges is.
	Daniel Kendrick for 100 US dollars.
	Jesus Christ.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, man.
	Hi, gentlemen.
	Happy New Year from Nashville.
	That's where The Daily Wire is now, so...
	I have listened to nearly...
	But that's where the explosion was the other day, isn't it?
	I think you're okay.
	Yeah, I hope you're not downtown, I guess.
	I have listened nearly every day since you began streaming.
	I really appreciate your coverage, analysis, intellect, and wit.
	You'll have more than earned my support.
	Keep up the great work.
	Thank you.
	Thanks, man.
	And I hope Nashville's alright.
	The engaged few.
	The American Medical Association quietly told doctors here that they can prescribe hydroxychloroquine for COVID. How many might have been saved if they had not said Trump equals killer?
	Yeah, well, that's a good question.
	Wanton 110.
	Is it wrong to murder the Ethics Committee?
	Is it wrong to replace the Ethics Committee with obedient clones?
	I shall leave such questions to be answered by the trusted Ethics Committee.
	Not sure I understand that one, but maybe you do.
	Don't worry.
	Let's keep going, because we're running out of time.
	Edward Richen.
	Hi, Carl and Callum.
	I just want to say thank you, and I've been watching videos for five years now, and you've really kept me going through 2020.
	Also, the cabal prevails.
	You should stream with Uzalu sometime.
	Yes.
	The Engaged Few.
	Yeah, Biden, the human speed bump, is the most electrifying and popular candidate in US presidential history.
	That sounds plausible.
	Yes, it does YouTube.
	Of course it does.
	Eric Edward.
	Did Winston Churchill say something along the lines of the fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists?
	I don't think he did.
	I think that's maybe...
	Is it?
	I'm not sure it's actually a quote from him, but I might be wrong.
	But it's definitely true that the anti-fascists are just fascists by another name.
	They're just socialist terrorists.
	Graham B. 2020 was...
	2020 was when everyone realised people like me, truck driver, are key workers who keep us alive.
	Apparently we're now back to being scum.
	It was nice while it lasted.
	Definitely true.
	It was nice to see who was essential and who's not, wasn't it?
	I hate that.
	Every person's job is essential to them, so...
	Yeah, but it's nice to see how much of the media were just non-essential.
	Yeah, you're not.
	It's a luxury to do things like this.
	Tooth and Sticks.
	A co-worker was discussing MSN, alleged election fraud, OAN, and Newsmax over a private messenger group, and Facebook unsent them automatically.
	Yeah, that's something Twitter does as well.
	If you send them a link they don't like, they will unsend it.
	It won't be sent.
	Marcus Horne.
	I am a gorilla.
	I'm sure you are, mate.
	Marcus 10.
	As the virus spreads, the flights kept landing at Heathrow, sheer madness.
	A historian in 2040.
	Totally true.
	I mean, that's what they'll write, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Sniper Dave, if he's not doing anything, I... Can you move the mouse a little bit, John?
	If he's not doing anything, I know a website I'd like to see publish David Starkey's videos.
	Yeah, I mean, could we...
	I mean, if David Starkey wants to make some stuff, definitely put them up.
	Can you email him?
	Yep.
	Graham B, oh yeah, and the road transport industry.
	There hasn't been a single outbreak of TikTok.
	Yeah!
	There's not many truckers dancing in TikTok videos, are there?
	Scotty PP.
	What do you think?
	I'm related to Carrie Gracie.
	That side of the fam is all Lib Dem, but she spent most of her career in China and is well aware of the crimes of the CCP.
	Former husband grew up in and around the Great Leap Forward.
	Yeah, I mean, even socialists who go to China figure out...
	I'll have a CCP video later in the PM.
	Yeah, we have a video on with China Uncensored going up later, talking about the CCP, 3pm.
	But yeah, I mean, they even talk about there was some Albanian socialists who think that the CCP had done nothing wrong.
	And then they turned up in China within like a day, they realized it was horrible.
	even to Lib Dems can realise this the engaged few 700 plus girls auditioned for cuties which means that somewhere there were 700 plus test videos of those girls twerking let that sink in and be horrified true I mean, after you've gone through 600 girls, do you start to wonder why you're doing this movie?
	Lacquers.
	Hi guys, long time watcher here from Newcastle.
	I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate what you're doing and you guys have helped me form my political opinions which are staunch in opposition to my dad who is a socialist.
	Great, great.
	Maybe you can change his mind one day.
	Yeah, I mean...
	Get some books on the Great Relief Forward and then show him that.
	Like, what's not socialist about this?
	Come on, point out the part where they're not being socialists.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	Hope you all at the office are having a great new year.
	The creation of the Lotus Eaters is one of the few good things of this year.
	Also, thank you, Carl, for keeping me sane when all seemed so mad.
	Thank you.
	Xerax.
	For all the talk of our founding fathers here in the US, few have conviction to move as they did.
	Founding fathers are little more than art pieces to gape at.
	Yeah, it is a shame how people don't have the same conviction that they did, which is embarrassing.
	Dan Christmas.
	Shekels for the team to be educated on VTubers.
	Yeah, I got a message from ShortFatOtaco yesterday explaining to me about VTubers and what is simp.
	I know shrimp, so I've been well educated.
	And HoloLive by V. Thanks for all the content, lads.
	Hope 2021 treats us all better.
	Yeah, I caught myself up on VTubers.
	Don't worry.
	Weird industry, though.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	Reminded of a quote from George Smiley.
	We are fighting for the survival of a reasonable man.
	Oddly fitting, despite John Lee Carey being a Europhile.
	I don't know the name.
	Sorry.
	Mark Zed.
	Marx was wrong.
	OnlyFans isn't a consequence of capitalism.
	It is a consequence of the left devaluing sex and deconstructing human relationships.
	I don't know if I agree with that.
	Would you agree with that?
	I don't think we have time to get into it.
	Sorry, yeah.
	My laptop's dying.
	It's run out of battery.
	Where were we?
	Please don't send any more.
	We don't have time.
	MuteStream.
	The Lotus Eaters was the best part of 2020.
	I cannot thank you enough for introducing me to the superb and wonderful world of Hugo.
	Jesus, stop.
	Hashtag Team Hugo Forever Hardheart.
	Andrew Bishop.
	The year on a scale of 1 to 10 was a 2.
	2021 so far is off to a good start, but under two hours in.
	He's Australian, so...
	The Earl of Longford.
	I know Ulster is a small part of the Union in the Kingdom, but gets erased from media.
	Why is this?
	Um, I don't know.
	We just don't have much going on there, I guess, in relation to power.
	Worked in Cumbria in education for kids.
	Don't know why it's UK. I'm not sure I get that one.
	Earl of Longford raised a stoic raised a stoic a cad of Carl.
	He needs YouTube name.
	Not sure I get that one, but No, me neither.
	Gregor Chopin.
	More German shekels for the flower...
	Oh, I guess he did it to someone he was educating.
	Right, right.
	Gregor Schopen.
	Sorry, my voice is getting dry.
	More German shekels for the flower consumers.
	May the power of Moldenkok?
	Moldenkok?
	I don't know.
	Protect you from Klaus Schwab, Kohl, and...
	Fores...
	I assume that's German for Happy New Year.
	Happy New Year and thank you for all your work.
	Nathan Brake.
	I was supposed to be studying in Japan this year, but COVID ruined that.
	Hopefully this year I can, barring people who don't continue to be crazy.
	I hope you can tell.
	I imagine you did like the jet scheme or something, which I've heard are great.
	President-elect Zhao Biden.
	One virus to rule them all, and by the lockdown bind them.
	True.
	The Earl of Longford.
	C.S. Lewis equals Narnia.
	Essays are really accessible.
	Vits.
	Andreas E. It's the Greek word again.
	Tharsimachus?
	How do you say it?
	Thrasimachus.
	Thrasimachus.
	I can't see it, so...
	Yeah, I'm not learning Greek.
	Make me.
	Carl Baggett.
	Let's go our Aussie army.
	It's good to have the Aussies here.
	It's ANZAC time.
	Adam for 50 US dollars.
	Jesus Christ, guys.
	Big, big, big donation today.
	When I misbehaved, my grandpa would threaten to hit me with a cattle prod.
	Okay.
	If I kept misbehaving, he'd stick his thumb through his fingers and poke me in the ribs and shout.
	It's a lot funnier and charming that I'm making it to sound.
	Yeah, I bet it was.
	Stupid name.
	That is his name.
	I'm not making fun of him.
	It's midnight on New Year's.
	Of course, all us Aussies are awake.
	It's drinking time.
	That explains it.
	No Nate K. Hey Sargon, been with you since Gamergate.
	What a ride that's been.
	I'm about to graduate college.
	Anyway, Happy New Year and please plug my brand...
	Sorry, please plug my band, August Company.
	We've got a whole album recorded.
	Need buzz.
	August Company.
	Check them out.
	Not above shilling people who pay superchats.
	Henry Ashman.
	Don't forget the bloody clapping for the NHS. Yeah.
	Didn't have time for things, but embarrassing.
	Yeah, I forgot about that.
	Oh, God.
	And the TikTok videos.
	Oh, God.
	We should just do a video next year that's like the embarrassing NHS and just, you know, a compilation of it.
	But they're still doing it.
	They're still like, oh, the NHS, it's overburdened, it's overburdened, and yet it doesn't seem to be.
	No.
	My lying eyes keep telling me that these TikTok videos keep getting made.
	It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was at the NHS for the birth of my son.
	It was empty.
	Just fucking empty.
	Yeah, I think you told us you were wondering about whether or not you'd be allowed in for the birth because of COVID rules, and the staff were just like, don't care.
	Yeah.
	They were just like, doesn't matter.
	Is that okay?
	Well, good.
	First ever Super Chat.
	Keep up the good work.
	Paid in part with the money from Google Gives for answering surveys.
	Yes, that's Google Opinion Awards, which you add to surveys and you get paid a few pence per survey.
	And I use it to buy TV shows, which is good.
	Stuart McLean.
	17.5 million more votes than Obama.
	Trump aside, Crime Bill Joe blew the saviour out of the water.
	Yeah, I suppose he did.
	Donatello Slapfello.
	Great name.
	Thanks for the morning news.
	You guys are doing great.
	I appreciate it in the early morning out here in Northern California.
	Jesus Christ, you're up early.
	It's like 5am or something.
	Easy E. I can't help but think all of this chaos can be traced back to when that kid falling into Harambe's enclosure...
	That is going to be the nexus for all history books for the next ten years, isn't it?
	I don't know.
	I kind of feel it really began with Coney, to be honest.
	But anyway, yeah.
	What's Coney doing these days?
	Probably still haven't got him.
	I have no idea.
	Eating children's hearts or whatever the hell he got up to.
	Alright, we're almost done.
	Spencer Patterson.
	This year has been good in some ways.
	I wrote my second novel and started my YouTube series.
	That's good to hear.
	Keep up the good work.
	You're an inspiration, all of you.
	Thanks, man.
	Good to hear you making stuff.
	Lapse of apathy.
	2020 was revenge for Harambe's murder.
	Yes, it was.
	Sorry, I've got to drink, otherwise my throat's going to go.
	Eastern European.
	You're not even saying anything.
	Happy New Year.
	Please, keep up the good work.
	Thanks, man.
	Chase Thomas.
	Hey, Sargon, I'm praying for all friends across the pond from Alabama.
	Team Britain forever.
	F the EU. Thanks, man.
	That's the end of the Super Chat, so we will end it there.
	My laptop is dead, so I'm going to go charge that.
	Go get it.
	Thank you everyone for joining us.
	Thanks for joining us, guys.
	Will we be on tomorrow?
	I'm not sure.

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