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	Music We're live!
	Okay.
	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 1st of January 2021.
	First podcast of the year.
	We're just closing the curtains in case you can hear that.
	Carl, you there?
	No, the computer's bottlenecking because we're having to stream you at the same time as trying to stream out and whatnot.
	So it's an issue.
	But anyway, welcome to the show.
	We're going to be talking about...
	What are you talking about as well?
	What's going on?
	I'm quite pleased to see.
	Who's Josh Hawley?
	Yes, Senator Josh Hawley.
	He first came on my radar because of the Facebook and Twitter Senate hearings.
	And while Ted Cruz stole the show because he's a bigger name, Josh Hawley had a very incisive line of questioning for them.
	And I was very impressed.
	And I'm quite impressed at what he's doing now.
	So I definitely wanted to cover it.
	Okay, well that's good.
	We're also going to be talking about the absurdity of the Black Lives Matter movement in relation especially to the New Year's fireworks that went on in London.
	So Sadiq Khan organised that we'd have a nice Black Lives Matter fist and a bunch of other nonsense, and it's patently absurd the way they're trying to claim to be the oppressed movement of 2020.
	And then there's also some really quite worrying stuff coming out of what's going on with COVID in Britain.
	There's a lady who tried to film in a hospital just to show that it was empty, got arrested for doing so.
	But we'll get into it in a minute.
	So you want to start with Josh Hawley, and then we'll take it from there.
	Have I lost him?
	Hello?
	...for doing so, but I can't hear Carl.
	Audio, the audience can't hear Carl.
	Sorry, I muted myself by accident.
	Oh, you absolute boomer!
	Yeah, well, I had to cough, but I didn't want to cough into the microphone.
	I thought I'd unmuted it.
	But anyway, so Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri, has been standing up in exactly the right kind of way, the kind of way that I'm genuinely quite impressed with.
	Because in our kind of dissident area of the internet, he has been addressing the issues that I'm personally concerned about.
	And so I think probably other people who are listening to us are also concerned about.
	And so recently on the...
	December 30, he posted this to Twitter.
	Millions of voters concerned about election integrity deserve to be heard.
	I will object on January 6 on their behalf.
	And he puts out a statement saying how he's going to object to the Electoral College certification process.
	He says, I cannot vote to certify the Electoral College results on January 6th without raising the fact that in some states,
	particularly Pennsylvania, they fail to follow their own state election laws.
	I cannot vote certify without pointing out the unprecedented effort of megacorporations, including Facebook and Twitter, to interfere in this election in support of Joe Biden.
	At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of vote fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections, but Congress has so far failed to act.
	For these reasons, I will follow the same practice Democratic members of Congress have in years past and object during the certification process on January 6th to raise these critical issues.
	Now, you can imagine just how many blue checkmarks there were in the replies to this.
	Screeching bloody murder, saying, how dare you, how dare you, how dare you?
	I mean, there's one here from a guy called Zach Hundy.
	You are a traitor to the republic.
	And a disgrace to the Senate.
	Donald Trump lost fair and square.
	If you had any shame, you would resign.
	Well, surely that applies to every Democratic senator who objected in 2016 then, right?
	If we're going to be consistent about these things.
	But, um...
	It's just constant, constant in the replies to that.
	But the one that really stood out here was, for some reason, Walmart decided to jump in and say, go ahead, get your two-hour debate, hashtag SawLoser.
	Okay, Walmart.
	This was a surprisingly good opportunity for Hawley to strike back by saying, Thanks, Walmart, for your insulting condescension.
	Now that you've insulted 75 million Americans, will you at least apologize for using slave labor?
	And in another tweet he said, Or maybe you'd like to apologize for the pathetic wages you pay your workers as you drive mom-and-pop stores out of business.
	Smoked.
	Love it.
	Walmart were forced to backtrack and apologize, saying, The tweet published earlier was mistakenly posted by a member of our social media team.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes.
	Mistakenly published.
	Your tweet was published by someone who spends all their time on Twitter and is clearly in a particular kind of political bubble.
	We deleted the post and have no intention of commenting on the subject of certifying the Electoral College.
	We apologize to Senator Hawley for this error and any confusion about our position.
	No.
	Good move, Walmart.
	Obviously, Donald Trump is in full support of this.
	He retweeted a Breitbart article covering it, and obviously he's got his full backing, which is not surprising.
	And this is a clip that Hawley put out on Twitter of him on, I think it was Fox News, just explaining exactly his position.
	I think we may as well let the man have it out.
	Well, first of all, I don't recall hearing the Democrats make any such outrageous claims when they were the ones who were objecting during the Electoral College certification in 2004 and 2016.
	Democrats have done this for years in order to raise concerns about election integrity.
	74 million Americans have concerns about election integrity.
	We're supposed to just sit down and shut up?
	I mean, somebody has to stand up here.
	You've got 74 million Americans who feel disenfranchised, who feel like their vote doesn't matter, and this is the one opportunity that I have as a United States Senator.
	This process right here, my one opportunity to stand up and say something, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
	Well, fair enough.
	I'm going to stand up and say something.
	Okay.
	Yeah, but that's good, because the problem so far is that the skeptics, the Trump supporters, have not had their day in court.
	They've not had a fair hearing.
	This was denied by the Supreme Court from Texas on standing grounds, not on the merits.
	None of the other lawsuits have been addressed on the merits and have had the evidence taken through the courts and been examined.
	And there are real concerns here.
	I mean, this is just...
	We'll get to the real concerns in a minute, actually.
	Let's get first to CNN denying everything.
	Now, Hawley is obviously doing nothing unconstitutional here.
	I'm no constitutional expert, but according to CNN, this is not wrong.
	He's completely entitled to do this.
	And they say this.
	According to federal law, if at least one senator and one House member submit written objections to the state's electoral college votes, then the House and Senate must retire to their separate chambers for two hours of debate.
	Each chamber then votes on whether to count the state's votes.
	The 1887 law that dictates this process, the Electoral Count Act, is confusing and convoluted, but the bottom line is that the Congress must count the state's electoral college votes unless both the House and Senate vote to reject them.
	Now, that's very unlikely to happen, as they point out.
	Hawley's objection, which will join a planned objection from Alabama Representative Mo Brooks in the House, has zero chance of succeeding.
	The Democrats who control the House will surely not get along, and it is likely that a number of Senate Republicans such as Mitt Romney will also reject this blatant attempt at overturning the will of the voters.
	What is more concerning is that the delusional Republican gambit is happening at all.
	There has been zero evidence of meaningful voter fraud or a compromised presidential election.
	Election officials from both parties have said that the 2020 election was one of the most secure ever.
	Hawley opined on Twitter that millions of voters are concerned about election integrity, but it's only because Donald Trump and his followers keep making baseless assertions.
	Just saying there was voter fraud does not make it real.
	I will go into just the most recent examples.
	We've been through plenty of examples on this podcast of how there is clearly evidence that there have been discrepancies and various other procedural anomalies that...
	Really do cast the security and integrity of the election into doubt.
	And to this point, no one has been able to really bring this to the mat and get the other side to address the concerns that are being raised here.
	As CNN are doing, well, this is baseless, there's nothing here, go away.
	It's very much in the same way that Joe Biden just dismisses any allegations about his son, Hunter.
	Just, I'm not going to engage with it, and therefore you can never pin me to the mat and get me to admit to anything.
	And it's difficult, I think, for the people involved in the system, because the implication is that there is, in fact, in the words of Joe Biden, the largest and most inclusive vote fraud organization in the history of the United States operating in the political sphere, if...
	These anomalies turn out to have some kind of reason behind them.
	And this is a scary thing.
	There's a hell of a lot on the line here.
	There are some really, really large names who are going to be in a lot of trouble were all of this to come out.
	And so I can see why for a lot of Republicans who are like, well, it doesn't matter to me.
	I'm just going to get elected next year anyway.
	I'll go back to the Senate for however many, however long they go for.
	And, you know, I'll just carry on my career as a politician with no particular damage done to me personally, even if I am being complicit potentially with a cabal that have effectively stolen the Republic.
	It's scary to stand up to that.
	And it's easier to just go, well, no, everything seems fine on the surface, nothing to see here, and I'll just move on.
	But the thing is, there are so many examples of how...
	Just unacceptable things have happened that must be investigated.
	They demand investigation.
	This was tweeted out by Rasmussen the day before Hawley had put his statement out on this.
	And this is just wild.
	So this is Pennsylvania state senators.
	I'm going to give you the names.
	State Representative Frank Ryan, as well as Russ Diamond, Dave Zimmerman, Barb Glaim, Stephanie Borowitz.
	There's a whole list of them, right?
	And what they've tweeted out here Is this little report for immediate release that was on the 28th that just shows a comparison of the official county results to the total number of voters who voted on November 3rd, 2020, as recorded by the Department of State,
	shows that 6,962,607 total ballots were reported as being cast, whereas the DOS slash Shore records indicate that only 6,760,230 total voters actually voted.
	So, the difference of 202,377 more votes, cast of voters voting, together with the 31,587 over and under votes in the presidential race, adds up to alarming discrepancy of 170,000 odd votes, which is more than twice the reported statewide difference between the two major candidates for the presidency of the United States.
	So...
	These votes have to be accounted for.
	How is it that there are 170,000 more votes than there could be, than there are voters, and this being enough to tip the scales from Trump to Biden?
	This is...
	What these state senators are saying.
	This is what they're saying.
	These are the numbers that they have.
	And so for CNN to turn around and say, well, these are unsubstantiated, it's baseless, there's nothing here.
	It's like, well, sorry, how do you explain it?
	But of course they don't.
	They just ignore it and move on and hope that by controlling the narrative that they can just force the process along.
	And if nobody objects, which a lot of them are keeping their heads down about this, I'm absolutely sure, then...
	Nothing bad happens and everything carries on as normal.
	But this is just unacceptable.
	And then there's the other thing that came out recently, which is an expert witness claims that he had hacked into one of the Dominion voting systems that was used in the Georgia runoff election system.
	So the reason this is important, we won't play the clip because it goes on for a while, but the reason this is important is that the Dominion voting systems are not supposed to be connected to the Internet.
	So you shouldn't be able to hack into them.
	And yet this guy's like, well, look, he did it live.
	He just hacks into it live.
	He's like, right, okay, now I'm in.
	So it's like, okay, that's another massive concern.
	Is it not?
	And so I'm really impressed with Hawley for actually just coming out and so boldly.
	Saying, no, these are problems.
	There are, you know, 74 million Americans who voted for Trump who deserve answers for this.
	And you can already see the sort of range of people who are against him when it comes to this.
	This is an intimidating thing that he's stepping up to do.
	And I think it takes genuine courage.
	And there are legitimate things that need to be answered.
	It might be that there is a completely valid reason why there are 170,000 more votes in Pennsylvania than voters.
	There might be a totally valid reason.
	But until there's some sort of investigation and the evidence is all brought up in a court or in some sort of congressional hearing, then how are we going to know?
	You know, how are we going to know?
	And so I think this is actually quite interesting, and I hope that a lot of the Republicans follow Hawley's example and support him.
	Not that I think that it's going to necessarily change the outcome.
	Obviously, as CNN pointed out, there aren't enough people who are going to dismiss Pennsylvania, for instance, their electoral, the electors.
	But, I mean, come on, man.
	Come on, it's just crystal clear that there's something going on here.
	I mean, the weirdest thing is not having the day in court, surely.
	Yeah.
	Like, why would you not want it?
	Like, this is the weird thing I get with him hacking into Dominion right there, even though they're not meant to be connected to the internet.
	But as, you know, John Oliver, definitely a Democrat, showed, yes, yes they are.
	Like, do you even ask the guys who say they're not connected?
	They're like, yeah, but they're connected to a laptop, so it's fine.
	It's like, yeah, but the laptop is connected to the internet, so it's just, you know, don't waste our time.
	Exactly.
	To say that, like CNN, there is no evidence and therefore there's nothing here, shut up.
	Okay, that's one thing.
	Like, obviously, as we pointed out, there's evidence but there's no proof.
	But that's the point.
	If you don't get the day in court to show everything you've got and then go through everything, well, when do you get the conclusion from a court of law?
	How am I supposed to prove it?
	Yeah.
	That's what the day in court is for.
	I don't know what the Republicans are going to do.
	Is this guy saying he's not going to vote for it, or he's going to try and block it?
	He's not going to certify the elector, and so there will be a debate.
	And then the House and the Senate are going to vote on whether to dismiss whichever states they're refusing to certify.
	Presumably Pennsylvania, considering that this...
	I mean, he mentions Pennsylvania in his tweets, so I presume that he's going to be specifically targeting that one.
	But again, I don't think that's going to happen, like CNN have pointed out.
	I mean, that's correct.
	But at least we'll get to hear the evidence.
	We'll get to have it out.
	But I don't know whether it will work or anything.
	I'm kind of pessimistic at this point.
	And I don't know whether Pence can do anything.
	I'm not an expert on any of these things.
	But, I mean, I hope that's the case.
	And this was just the thing I wanted to add on the end of this one.
	Trump just happens to be America's most admired man as well.
	This is really weird considering how Joe Biden's clearly more popular.
	Judging by these votes, Trump came top of a list of most admired people in 2020 according to a Gallup poll.
	So it's not even like it's a Rasmussen poll that favors Trump.
	The survey last year, he was tied with Obama.
	And Obama had been at the top of this for the previous 12 years.
	But now 18% said Trump and 10% listed Michelle Obama and then Kamala Harris coming in second with 6%.
	Third, sorry, with 6%.
	It's like, hmm, weird.
	But the point is Trump has a lot of grassroots support.
	I think that Trump...
	Probably did legitimately increase his share by the 5 million votes that he got.
	And I guess YouTube will compel me to say that Joe Biden just happens to be way more popular.
	12 million more votes popular than Obama.
	So weird that he's not on the most admired man list, really, isn't it?
	If he's so goddamn popular with the American public, why isn't he on there at all?
	Who knows?
	Anyway.
	They don't list what place Joe Biden is, but they do give us a percentage here, saying it's 6%.
	And then Dr.
	Anthony Fauci next at 3%.
	So, okay.
	Like most popular man in US electoral history for the president, and it's 6%.
	But Trump is three times more admired than him by the public polling men.
	You know, Trump is three times more popular than Biden.
	It just doesn't mysteriously translate into votes.
	Weird.
	So weird.
	Yeah, none of the campaigning transfers into votes.
	None of the polling seems to transfer into votes.
	It's just, well, on election day, people swung quite largely.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	And we're not even going to be allowed to question it.
	I mean, that's the bit that gets for me.
	I'm perfectly happy to accept, okay, Joe Biden got more votes because, I don't know, maybe Donald Trump irritated too many people with the way he governed and the way he conducts himself.
	Fine.
	Okay.
	If that's the truth, fine.
	But why not have the day in court?
	That's what irks me the most.
	Yes.
	And this is the thing, isn't it?
	If you were Joe Biden and you...
	You had genuinely run the best campaign that you thought you could run, and you genuinely had gone out there, sincerely hand on heart and put forward your policies, and then sat back and crossed your fingers and gone, right, let's hope the American public believe me and buy into my racial justice programs and my neoliberal internationalist view of the world.
	And the results rolled in, and then half of the electorate are like, well, you stole that.
	And you were like, no, I didn't.
	You would want your day in court to clear your name.
	Surely.
	You'd be like, look, I can prove that I didn't cheat because here's these records, here's this, there's an explanation for that, there's an explanation for that.
	Let's get all of this out so you can turn around and say, okay, fair enough, Joe, you were just the better man.
	That ain't going to happen, is it?
	No, seemingly not.
	Because nobody thinks Joe Biden is the better man.
	Nobody.
	Well, only 6% of people, in fact.
	We know exactly how many people, in fact.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, it's not a very good segue, but I did want to then go on to the cringe in chief that is Sadiq Khan with his New Year's celebrations.
	So this is a tradition that's going back about 20 years now, where the Greater London Authority wants to put on a big fireworks show and celebrate the New Year's.
	Okay.
	I'm skeptical about spending money on cultural issues, but fine.
	Whatever.
	Okay.
	So the BBC recorded this and put it up on their Twitter account with watching the 2021 fireworks.
	And some people were upset about this year's.
	And if you can look at the next one, you can see Sadiq Khan's tweet, which London stands together against racism tonight and always hashtag Black Lives Matter at George the Poet.
	And you might be thinking, okay, whatever, he's going to tweet something stupid to a video of the fireworks.
	Yeah, it's not just a tweet.
	We're going to play the fireworks now for the audience, and you can see why people might be a little bit weirded out by this celebration.
	The future holds unexposed danger, but no stress.
	Humankind is no stranger to progress.
	And as we've proven, when we collaborate, progress follows fast.
	This is one voice with one message.
	Black Lives Matter.
	It's too cringe.
	I can't hear any sound because we're going through Discord, so if there's sound on it, I've got to describe it for people listening anyway.
	But there's a quote from George the Poet, and then a big fist made out of drones all put together, and then the fist disperses into five different fists to be like, you know, we're rising up.
	And then the voiceover from, I guess, someone from the BBC or played over the speakers is Black Lives Matter.
	So, of course, the...
	You know, stunning and brave.
	Stunning and brave, Sadiq Khan.
	You're really, really, really pulling yourself up there.
	But probably one of the cringiest things I've ever seen.
	And there's a few problems with this.
	It wasn't just the Black Lives Matter thing.
	There were people upset about some of the other stuff that was displayed.
	So there was an abundance of use of EU colours, which might seem a bit conspiracy theorist, but he's done it before, and I'll mention that in a minute.
	The drones also represented themselves into the NHS symbol with a big love heart to celebrate the NHS. Okay, maybe you could be happy, you know, any other year this would be political, but this year with the coronavirus, maybe we should celebrate them.
	Which has made it expressly political.
	Yeah, but I would say that's actually done the opposite.
	It's very much made it a political issue.
	Then you get BLM, and then it turns into a turtle with an image of the world as it's back, with a quote from David Attenborough about how we can make the next year the best year for the planet and all the rest of it.
	So, yeah, touching on a bunch of issues which are political, whether you like them or not.
	Maybe you're supportive of what was shown, maybe you're not supportive.
	But the point is, there's a divide there.
	And this is not what this celebration is meant to be about.
	I mean, just to nail this down, this is expressly political, deliberately partisan.
	Black Lives Matter being a neo-Marxist movement founded by Marxists that is trying to create an issue of race conflict that actually doesn't exist here or didn't prior exist here and is not justified through the data that we have that police are being excessively violent to black people.
	That just doesn't hold up.
	Actually, the data goes the other way and suggests that police are excessively violent to white people in the UK. So, anyway, sorry, I just wanted to stress this.
	No, you're absolutely right.
	It's a movement without legitimacy in the United Kingdom.
	But of course, not to speak of anything in the United States, but the reason it's so cringe, especially in Britain, is because it's a narrative from the United States of the history and the statistics of the United States being brought into Britain without any attempt at translation.
	Like, all of the slogans are the same, all the talking points are the same, even though, obviously, no one's checked to see if any of the statistics or actions back it up.
	And the most embarrassing thing about it is, like, oh, but George Floyd...
	Who the hell's George Floyd?
	He's some guy who died 10,000 miles away in America.
	Like, what do you even expect our representatives to do about that scenario?
	There's nothing to do with us.
	There was a solution from the Labour Party here, the left-wing party, who proposed that we should put the United States on the same ban list that we put countries like Belarus, meaning that we wouldn't sell them riot gear to combat riots.
	Because...
	Can we do the same for Cuba?
	I think Cuba's on the list as well.
	I think Russia, China, you know, countries that murder their protesters en masse on a regular basis.
	But George Floyd wasn't a protester?
	No, this was in response to the protests, well, protests, the mostly peaceful protests.
	They weren't protests, they were riots.
	I'm sorry, I don't think the United States has actually done anything wrong here.
	The whole thing with George Floyd, it's assumed that Derek Chauvin did something racist, but if you watch the body cam footage, George Floyd sat in the police car saying, can you lie me down, I can't breathe.
	Before the guy, for some reason, puts his knee on his back.
	And I agree, that's a terrible thing to do.
	There's no need for that.
	But there's no evidence that this was a racist attack or a racially motivated thing.
	And he did have a ridiculous dose of fentanyl in his system.
	So the only evidence of racism is that the officer was white and the victim was black.
	But that's not evidence of racism.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	he put some kind of white pill or substance in his mouth and they believe that's fentanyl and he overdosed.
	So it may be that he didn't actually die of asphyxiation, which is to be proven in court.
	But yes, that's what's going on there.
	But the other point, I don't know if I'm going to get flack for saying this, but it's the truth whether you like it or not.
	I was really critical of the idea of using chokeholds.
	So using a guy to hold down his neck.
	I thought, how can the Americans do this?
	It seems disgusting.
	And I assumed the British police didn't do it, so I looked into it.
	And no, we do.
	But it's only for extreme circumstances.
	So if you have a suspect who's actively trying to resist, is probably a threat to you as soon as they get up, then you're allowed to use it.
	And in the context of America, I can imagine the reason it's widespread is because of the prevalence of gun ownership.
	I mean, if a suspect gets up and gets a gun, you're dead.
	So, I don't want to be...
	Like, yeah, okay, the chokeholds are generally not preferable, but they are going to be part of policing.
	So, anyway, I wanted to mention that.
	So, the other part of this celebration that made absolutely no sense was the fact that Old Lang's Eye wasn't even sung.
	It wasn't one of the tracks that was played.
	In which case...
	Huh.
	Like, that's the whole point of the celebration.
	Old Langsai, New Year, you know, that's the theme.
	But you didn't do that.
	You instead did something political.
	Yeah.
	Telling.
	So he also tags in that tweet a guy called George the Poet.
	And I decided to look up George the Poet because I don't know anything about the guy.
	I'm sure he's nice.
	But why was he tagged out of interest?
	So the quote at the start, the sort of rhyming stuff, was from George the Poet.
	And I assume Sadiq Khan knows the guy.
	And he's got 434 followers on Twitter and describes his podcast as the multi-award winning podcast of such and such.
	Have you heard George's podcast?
	Sorry, George the Poet?
	Yes.
	I'm looking at it.
	It says 71,000.
	Not on his Twitter account that I got it off.
	But anyway, on his Instagram, he's got 90,000 followers and whatnot.
	So, yeah, okay.
	Fairly reasonable guy, you know, in size, but not massive.
	I also looked up the Daily Mail, quite rude about him.
	They said he was famous for turning down an OBE last year due to the, quote, pure evil of the British Empire.
	So, yes, weird.
	Yes, that's how I learned about this chap.
	Yeah.
	But the narrative, obviously, here is one of oppression or one of, you know, fighting the power, that kind of thing.
	But I just checked out his Instagram, and the first thing I noticed was this image, if you can get up, image 00.
	Just him working with YouTube.
	He's got a partnership with YouTube for Black History Month.
	I'm like, okay.
	Fighting the power.
	That's...
	Pretty privileged of you.
	I can't even get an explanation from YouTube as to why our video about Antifa is locked to 18+.
	But you've got enough contacts to get a partnership with them.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	Fine.
	Why are we trying to give OBEs to people who fundamentally hate Britain, though?
	Why would we reward someone who's literally like, no, you're an evil empire and I hate everything about you?
	Why would we do that?
	Do you tell me?
	I mean, why hasn't Nigel Farage got a knighthood or an award or something?
	It's because it's not about what you've done for the country.
	It seems to be...
	And what has this guy done for the country?
	So I checked out his podcast, which is on the BBC, so I assume it's either funded by the BBC, if you can get it up.
	The podcast, I watched one episode.
	Maybe he's good.
	Maybe he's doing stuff that you love, and sure, you enjoy it.
	But I watched this one, and it was mostly a tirade against Ronald Reagan, which, you know, of course it was.
	Timely.
	The point is, should the BBC be funding this?
	Should they be going out of their way to create this sort of thing?
	Well, probably not.
	Probably this is expressly political or is a thing that's not what the license payers want to pay for.
	I mean, I don't know how many views it's got, but I can't imagine that many in comparison to what the BBC is meant to be doing, what people at least agree on with the BBC, which is reporting news.
	And the point here is that this guy, okay, if you're able to get a podcast funded or at least in partnership with the BBC, you've got a partnership with YouTube, you're getting retweeted by the Mayor of London, pretty privileged position, I would say.
	Like, you seem to be in the halls of power and influence and in the structures of Britain.
	So the Data Mail also wrote an article talking about...
	Sorry, no, that's later.
	So this is the Guardian just talking about the celebration.
	So this isn't the first time Sadiq Khan's done this.
	So two years ago, he also lit up a bunch of lights to be the colour of the EU flag with the countdown because Brexit was still going on.
	He's a massive Remainer.
	So he again hijacked the event to make it political.
	Whereas for the last 20 years beforehand, it had been about raising money for a natural disaster sometimes or, you know, Thank you.
	Things that weren't inherently bipartisan.
	The biggest outrage was when Boris Johnson made people pay to go and see it, which, I mean, seems reasonable.
	Why should everyone in London have to pay for something that not everyone enjoys?
	You know, if you want to see the fireworks, pay for the fireworks.
	Again, another expressly partisan message.
	Lighting up the London eye in the blue and yellow colours of the EU flag after the majority of the country has voted to leave the EU? Just, you know, talk about hashtag sore loser.
	Where's Walmart now?
	Come on.
	Yeah, the other thing he decided to do was say that London was open in his opening statement, which was then translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish just after midnight, which I guess is, you know, people are inferring, and I think correctly, that that's also a hint at the fact that London should remain tied with the EU or will have some partnership with the EU because it is a highly remaining state.
	Yeah, well, he himself is.
	And he's the mayor.
	He's a proud European, after all.
	And the inappropriate thing is, obviously, it's taxpayer-funded.
	Even with people paying, it still costs £2.3 million from the authority.
	So that's £2.3 million of London taxpayers' money to pay for propaganda.
	Well, they voted for him.
	They deserve what they get.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	So the Daily Mail issued some criticism about all this, the most recent one with the BLM stuff, and their criticism seems largely on point that you shouldn't be doing this.
	You apparently worked behind the scenes with the BBC and the Met Police to keep it a secret, and then it would be a big surprise for the day.
	And that tells me that you probably knew you shouldn't be doing it.
	I mean, if you got this much criticism just for the EU stuff, you knew you shouldn't be doing this.
	But his response to the criticism is very telling.
	So he decided to retweet the article with anyone else think it was pretty good?
	Thinking face.
	It's like, okay.
	Okay, so 65,000 people on Twitter thought it was good, Sadiq.
	Is that a win?
	Is that you winning there, Sadiq?
	I mean, now we're out of the European Union.
	Majority of Britain doesn't agree with you.
	And not only that, there's a huge pushback towards Black Lives Matter and wokeism anyway.
	I mean, like, this is happening in football.
	Football stadiums all across the country, isn't it?
	Where they're complaining and objecting and booing for footballers who are taking a knee for Black Lives Matter and things like this.
	You deliberately chose something incredibly divisive and you don't care that they are bothered by this.
	Yeah, I mean, look at the wording there.
	Anyone else think it was pretty good?
	I mean, he's just looking, is this entertainment value?
	That's not the complaint.
	That's not addressing the criticism at all.
	The criticism is you're being highly partisan with taxpayers' money, and you shouldn't be doing that.
	Yes.
	But no, it's just instantly good.
	And it's this point of it's just activists going into spaces like these fireworks whenever expressly political, and just making them expressly political, because that's all that socialists do.
	They just weasel their way in, in the same way with Gamergate.
	But the Black Lives Matter movement, I wanted to reflect on the fact that they've done this so much this year that I think it's actually massively backfired, and that's good.
	But yeah, also just here, three rush to hospital minutes into New Year's after London stabbings.
	Of all the things for the London mayor to be concerned with, nah, he's concerned with propagandising the people of London rather than dealing with the issues.
	And I think it's worth noting that Sadiq Khan directly contributes to the increased number of stabbings in London, after Boris was the mayor, in fact.
	Because Boris had Stop and Search, which, as with Rudy Giuliani in New York, reduced the number of stabbings and murders on the streets of London.
	And Sadiq Khan expressly came in in 2015.
	He was campaigning and I remember it very, very clearly because he was saying things like, stop and search is racist.
	We're going to put an end to stop and search.
	And the crime rate and the stabbings just started skyrocketing again and now he's had to bring it back.
	So you are in part responsible for this, Sadiq.
	Yep.
	But I wanted to get more into this because it's the fact that this poor oppressed movement of BLM, oh my god, I mean, how are they going to get anywhere, all the backing they've got?
	But it's the propagandizing as well, which is, I think, a net positive for our side of it, the non-Marxist, because it seems to not work.
	So if you can get the Polygon article up.
	So this is just Call of Duty Warzone.
	I was at my brother's playing this a while back, back when BLM blew up.
	And if you can scroll down, eventually there's a black screen I just want to show.
	Like, when you log into the game, that one.
	Like, you're loading the game.
	They have this screen up saying Black Lives Matter and then a message of support and all the rest of it.
	And there's no way of turning it off.
	There's no way of getting around it.
	You just have to stare at that while you're waiting for it to load.
	Which...
	Why?
	Why do you have to do this?
	And it's obviously because it's people within the company wanting to push a political agenda.
	And they're forcing it into a space where it's not meant to be political.
	You can have a million arguments about Call of Duty being partisan for this, that, and the other, but this was the problem with Gamergate, trying to push through politics, feminism at the time, but now similar with Black Lives Matter.
	But it's not just limited to the online sphere or the gamersphere or anything like that.
	We'll get nonce flicks up.
	I'm never calling them Netflix again.
	They are definitely nonce flicks for the rest of time for what they did with Cuties.
	But they had a similar thing where you had a Black Lives Matter section set up for Black Lives Matter films, which seems weirdly segregationist, but okay.
	Okay, Netflix, if that's how you want to do things.
	I mean, look at the titles of these.
	Like, Dear White People, When They See Us.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	You know, like, I don't know, man.
	It's so foreign.
	Yeah, I mean, it's all American as well.
	That's the uniquely difficult part for people in other parts of the world.
	Like, American politics are not universal.
	They are specific to America.
	But if you can get the first image up in the images, I noticed, because I was watching football a lot, because my family like football, And I noticed that on Sky News, you can actually see a little Black Lives Matter logo at the top there, next to the school, which just, you know, is randomly coming up, and it's like, okay, that's creepy.
	Like, that doesn't feel right at all.
	But it gets worse.
	There's the next one.
	Whenever you get near the goalposts, you can see how they change the seats to have messages.
	You know, near the goalposts, both sides, Black Lives Matter.
	Just visit Rwanda.
	Someone's paid for that.
	But the Black Lives Matter thing, I think, is free, done by the clubs and whatnot.
	And this is what I mean by the propagandizing.
	It's getting into people who don't want to be in political spaces are being forced into political spaces.
	And it's having the opposite effect I think these people want.
	I just wanted to mention here, in case you're wondering why Sky Sports is doing this, of all places, it's because they're owned by Comcast.
	And if you can get Comcast up.
	Comcast, same company, make MSNBC. Very woke.
	They also put out a message of support for Black Lives Matter at the time.
	They actually went further.
	They did some messed up stuff.
	So there was a lobbyist working for them, and because he was critical, they fired him just for that.
	So if you can get the next one.
	So the quote here is, he accused Black Lives Matter of being hostile to families, capitalism, cops, unborn life, and gender.
	All true.
	All true.
	Every single allegation there is true.
	And Black Lives Matter even had it on their website that the nuclear family was the problem, that capitalism is the problem, of course police, and naturally because they're an intersectional commie movement, they're concerned about gender and abortion as well.
	Yeah, so it's not even an accusation, you know?
	They would tell you that.
	No, this is just what they come out and say.
	This was on their website.
	Yeah.
	But the next thing they also did was provide $100 million for, as they quoted, a plan to support social justice and equality.
	I'm just reminded of all the people laughing back in the day, like, the social justice warriors and social justice movement.
	It's not getting anywhere, is it?
	I wish I had $100 million.
	I wish I had the kind of connections that George the Poet has.
	I wish I was being given an OBE to my services for the British Empire.
	That you could turn down.
	No, no, I'm ignored.
	This is terrible.
	Nigel Farage can't even get a bloody knighthood.
	So I also just decided to Google images, on Google Images, a list of companies that support Black Lives Matter, and this was one of them that came up.
	And you can see some of the companies there, McDonald's, Google, Netflix, Disney, Amazon.
	I mean, I haven't had the time to add it all up, but I bet this is probably at least, like, what, 10%, 20%, 30% of the U.S. economy?
	It's a ridiculous amount.
	And that's obviously not all of them.
	I mean, we're talking about literally Google, the largest company on Earth.
	Yeah, Apple is probably second.
	Is Apple second?
	Yeah.
	No, I think YouTube's second.
	Apple's certainly a close third, I think.
	YouTube's up there as well.
	Disney, Amazon, Cisco.
	These are huge companies.
	Intel.
	This is mad.
	It's mad the amount of support they have.
	And they're claiming to be the oppressed, marginalized minorities.
	Yeah, obviously absurd.
	And there's just this meme that went around at the time.
	I wanted to show as well.
	If you can get the next one, John.
	Oh my god, I'm so oppressed with Black Lives Matter symbols everywhere, posted by literally everyone in every corporation.
	Because this is the truth.
	You don't have to keep that up.
	It's just to get across the message.
	How can you be this well-connected, like George the Poet?
	How can you have this much backing, this much money, this much support from...
	Everyone and their mother to the point where they're propagandising their own people in football or games or TV. Every industry you can think of.
	Excessively just to support you.
	And still think of yourselves as the oppressed movement of 2020.
	Or the movement that was really fighting the power and is now one of victories.
	No.
	You are the most astroturf fake movement I can think of.
	Can you think of one that's more supported by every company on Earth?
	No.
	Black Lives Matter is probably the most supported movement.
	And the thing is, I posted this on Parler the other day.
	I should have got this up.
	But if you go to the Google Trends and search for Black Lives Matter, you can see it spike.
	Just before US presidential elections.
	In 2016, it's literally the month before.
	In 2020, it's literally the month before.
	There's a huge spike to it.
	And then it just disappears.
	Totally flatlines.
	And this is what the Black Lives Matter activists should take away.
	They don't care about you at all.
	They think of you as useful idiots.
	You are something to be used and then discarded.
	That's how they view you.
	It's just the way it is and it's the way it's always going to be.
	But it's so obviously pathetic as well.
	Like, we already know by 2024 this is probably going to pop back up and it'll be made a big deal again out of, you know, something.
	Doesn't matter if it was racist or not, it will just be made the new thing for 2024's election and how it'll be a big evidence of racial injustice.
	Yeah.
	In 2016, this movement was killed by the fact that one of their supporters went out and murdered, I think it was eight cops in Dallas, which just went out, I think it was a pan-African nationalist, but he was also a Black Lives Matter supporter, massive into the movement, and then just went out and killed people on the basis that cops are pigs.
	Okay.
	I mean, if that wasn't a red flag for you, there's probably a problem with this movement.
	I don't know what would be.
	But it died after that.
	And then it came back, obviously, for the next election because suddenly it's needed again.
	And this time around, what?
	What is it?
	20, 30 people have died in those riots?
	Something like that.
	But it's dispersed, so no one seems to care.
	Or at least none of the media wants to talk about it.
	And I just...
	I can't stand how people seem to think that this is some kind of oppressed movement or is some kind of, you know, we're really rising up, guys.
	It's like, you're already at the top.
	If you're pushing an open door, you're at the top.
	I don't know what to say.
	Yeah, I mean, where do you want to go from here?
	Like, who is left to capture with your movement?
	If you've got Google, Amazon, Apple, you know, and all of these other, all of the cultural institutions, you've got mayors and politicians, you've got, and this is international, it's not even just in one country.
	Black Lives Matter, how much money did Black Lives Matter raise?
	Isn't it like a billion or something?
	Almost certainly at this point.
	I mean, you're given this much money left, right, and center.
	I mean, you know, where's Google's, you know, people like to say that the Tea Party movement, for example, was an AstroTurf movement set up by billionaires to try and get low taxes for the rich.
	It's like, okay, where was this much support?
	The Tea Party never got this much support.
	No.
	The Tea Party was grassroots as well.
	So that's the thing.
	The BBC suggests that billions, they don't give us a figure, but they say billions.
	Multiple billion.
	Back in July.
	I'm trying to just...
	See someone on the chat saying 10 billion.
	So, since 25th of May, roughly 5 billion in pledges and commitments were made to racial equity organizations, according to data compiled by Candid, which tracks and analyzes global philanthropy.
	So, unbelievable amounts of money.
	Yeah.
	So, don't let these idiots fall you.
	And Sadiq Khan's example at New Year's just being the worst, but...
	Yeah.
	I can't stand it.
	So, I just want to...
	I don't want to talk about it.
	But we'll get on to the last thing here, which is the...
	I'm not sure what to call it, but it's definitely a ramping up.
	I know what to call it.
	There's a narrative that's trying to be promoted by the Conservative government that just doesn't seem to match up with reality.
	And that narrative is we have to lock down to control the coronavirus, which we've no proof that lockdowns do control the coronavirus.
	But not only that, let's assume they do suppress transmission.
	And that's a fairly reasonable inference, I would say.
	The reason we originally did this is to save the Holy NHS. Now, I'm as much of a devotee of the NHS as anyone else.
	I have, of course, used it.
	Therefore, I say my five prayers, my salaam to it five times a day.
	Your second-born son will be sacrificed in the next...
	Yeah, absolutely, as every British person does.
	And so I'm concerned with the health of the NHS. But the thing is, I've had to use our local hospital recently because of the birth of my son.
	And the nurses there were like, everything's fine.
	It wasn't overcrowded.
	In fact, it seemed kind of empty.
	And this has been reflected in the NHS's own data, which we went through recently on another podcast.
	But it turns out that we're actually under capacity, like under average usage at the moment.
	And coming into December, it's been going up slightly, so we're still just under the average, by one or two percentage points.
	And this is not being accurately reported by our own government for some reason.
	They're acting as if the NHS is on the brink of sudden collapse, Which is just not true.
	In fact, they have in fact decommissioned 10,000 hospital beds from this time last year.
	So before the coronavirus, we had 128,000 hospital beds in the UK, or in England, sorry, England and Wales.
	And now we have 118,000.
	And we're still below average capacity being used.
	So why is this narrative being pushed when the data is a public and we go to the hospitals?
	We can see the hospitals.
	We know they're not full.
	But sorry, I'll let you carry on from that point because this is where we are.
	Yeah.
	And this is one of the problems that doctor they had on Joe Rogan when this first started kicking off.
	He was great at explaining this in actual real terms.
	And one of the points he made out was that when you are...
	He was dealing with some outbreak, I think, in some African country of contagious disease.
	And he was saying we were dead honest with the people in the area because we knew then they would trust us.
	We said to them, you know, 50% of these people here are going to die.
	There was no ifs or buts about it.
	This many people are going to get infected, this many will die.
	And because they were honest, they earned trust for the rest of the pandemic and they were able to deal with it.
	And that's the problem with the way the government seems to be handling this, is that lying to people doesn't help.
	Doesn't help in the slightest.
	And so this lady, who I know nothing about, I'm just going to make what the media assumption will be and say that she's a complete crackpot who believes that all of it's fake and all the rest of it, you know, conspiracy theorist.
	I'll just make that assumption.
	i don't actually know the lady but we're just we're just going to roll with that she went to a hospital in gloucestershire and decided to film it so she's just filming the the the we're not going to play the video because it's it's it's too long um but the she films the the car park and then she goes into the hospital and it's completely unedited just her walking through the hospital and another video unedited of her walking through the hospital filming around the corridors are empty totally empty Wards are empty.
	The reception area is completely empty.
	There's just like a handful of people walking by or a couple of people sitting down someplace, but in a hospital of quite substantial size.
	And, of course, the inference will be that she's saying people are over-exaggerating or such.
	And so the response to this was she got arrested.
	For filming it.
	So this is a video where the police come to her house.
	She's in her dressing gown.
	And they arrest her for a public order offence.
	For posting this video.
	Okay, for posting that the hospital is empty, that's a crime.
	Right.
	And this, of course, set up a lot of alarm bells, because, you know, this can't be true, obviously.
	The police wouldn't do anything that stupid.
	Yeah, they did.
	And Josh wrote a really good article on Lotus Eaters, which you guys can check out yourselves on the website.
	I think it's one of the newest posted things.
	And the police confirmed this.
	The local newspapers also wrote about it, getting statements.
	And I wanted to go through this, because it's mad.
	So, the lady in question, they got a quote from her where she's talking about the hospitals being so empty.
	She's saying, Okay.
	It's a perfectly fair thing to be concerned about.
	Hospital in our area seems to be empty.
	We know people have been staying home because of fear of catching it, cancelling treatments, hospitals cancelling treatments, people dying as a result.
	perfectly reasonable thing to be concerned about the hospital made a statement in response to her being arrested um in support of the arrest that this was somehow a good thing so she the hospital statement says contrary to what you may have seen through secret filming on facebook our hospitals are and remain extremely busy
	we are currently caring for more than 200 patients with covid including many who require treatment in our critical care departments and a further 500 plus non-covid patients we need to care for and give our expertise Peace.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Get into those numbers in a minute.
	They also say at the bottom there, filming patients who are waiting in A&E without their consent is both intrusive and upsetting at maintaining patient confidentiality and is key to our hospitals being a safe space for you to receive the care that you need.
	Okay.
	It's interesting.
	I just did a quick Google.
	They said they had, what, 200 COVID patients?
	I've got the bed number in a minute, if that's what you're about to say.
	Yeah, that's what we're going to say.
	Okay, fine.
	I won't jump the gun.
	Yeah, so that last bit I actually agree with.
	And that will be the reasonable argument that what she was doing was wrong.
	Which is that, well, you're filming people in a hospital, there's patient confidentiality, you're also not meant to do this without consent.
	Did she film anyone there?
	She captured a few people wandering about here and there, but it's not trying to film them, it's just capturing them by mistake.
	You can watch the video yourselves, which is linked in the lotuscetus.com article, which we'll put in the description.
	Because you can watch it and it's just...
	It's empty.
	It looks like something out of 28 Days Later or something.
	It's a ghost town.
	Or like the hospital's run out of equipment and they're not using it anymore.
	It's like it's been decommissioned.
	It looks like it's been decommissioned.
	Yeah, so that'll be the defence which is, well, you're not allowed to film yet.
	And I might actually agree with that.
	But the problem here is obviously the response.
	Was arresting someone for doing this, the right response.
	And an ITV journo actually tweeted out in defence of the lady, I would just say, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, that showing us how busy you are might instantly dispel any myths which are circulating.
	Except, the problem is that the myths are coming from the authorities themselves when they say, we're very busy actually.
	But that's the thing.
	Why would you release a statement?
	Why wouldn't you just take a picture of like a COVID ward or something or just a lot of nurses working and be like, hey, look, no, this is not representative.
	That would actually convince people.
	But they can't because the wards aren't overflowing.
	And when someone goes in and films and goes, where the hell's all the patients?
	They have to appeal to the myth that they're creating, which is, oh, actually, we're tremendously overburdened.
	But why do they have to perpetuate that myth?
	Why can't they just say, well, actually, we're doing okay at the moment.
	Please social distance, because we don't want the numbers to suddenly spike and for us to be overburdened.
	Be responsible, but actually, at the moment, we're fine.
	Why can't they say that?
	It's for the national image.
	That's the thing.
	It's not about what the truth is.
	It's about the national image, and that's what really matters to them.
	But, of course, this is not what builds confidence.
	So a cursory Google search of just how many beds does Gloucestershire Royal Hospital have, I got a statistic that said 683 beds in the hospital.
	Yep, that's what I found.
	They had 200 patients with COVID. 683 beds.
	They also said they had 500 non-COVID patients who need our care and expertise.
	That doesn't tell me if they need a bed.
	That doesn't tell me if they're just visiting.
	I can't do anything with that number.
	But let's just assume they only had 200 COVID patients, therefore, what, a third capacity, thereabouts?
	Well, just take a picture of it.
	That would be the way to counter this.
	You don't have to arrest the person for showing the video evidence of the rest of the hospital being empty.
	Just show us the bit that's busy.
	If anything, it seems to be the wrong thing to do to arrest someone for merely showing people what's happening.
	It feels very Soviet Union to me.
	Absolutely.
	We have a couple of more statements in relation to this.
	The police issued a statement explaining their position on it.
	So they said the woman has been bailed to return to the police, so she's out on bail for the 21st of January, with conditions that she cannot enter any NHS premises or the ground of any such premises, unless in case of an emergency or to attend a prearranged unless in case of an emergency or to attend a prearranged NHS Why?
	What?
	What did she do wrong?
	But the fact that they're very specific...
	Okay, maybe it's in relation to the crime.
	You can make that argument.
	What crime?
	Well, the crime would be filming without consent and all the rest of it.
	But the point is that...
	Okay, she can't go back and film any more NHS hospitals from the inside or outside because she'd be on their grounds not being overflowing.
	And that would dispel the official narrative.
	Weird.
	Weird, isn't it?
	This isn't the only example either.
	Richard Tice from the Brexit Party actually brought up Matt Hancock.
	He released a video yesterday where he had gone to London's Nightingale Hospital...
	Because Matt Hancock had repeatedly said that actually, you know, the Nightingale Hospital is on standby.
	Everyone's ready.
	It's all good.
	And Richard Tice went there and went around and spoke to people there.
	And it's been totally decommissioned.
	Like, there's nothing in it.
	There's no equipment in it.
	The information is wrong.
	Matt Hancock is telling people lies.
	Like, I can get a quote here.
	There's no equipment, no beds, no partitions, no ventilators.
	All of it's gone.
	It's not a hospital.
	It's a warehouse.
	Yeah, it's a warehouse.
	It's an empty warehouse.
	And he says, we've had it confirmed by the NHS media team that the equipment has all been distributed to other hospitals.
	Why is Matt Hancock saying, oh, well, you know, the COVID crisis is so bad, we've got this hospital on standby?
	No, it's not.
	No, you don't.
	You know, Gloucester, why are you telling everyone that, oh, actually, we're all about to die of COVID and everything's about to collapse?
	No, it's not.
	The official government statistics don't reveal that.
	It shows the opposite.
	When we go to the goddamn hospitals, we see the opposite.
	Why are you lying to us?
	Why are they doing this?
	Well, the obvious reason they would give as a defense of lying, which, amazing place to be, is that if you tell the people that we are not actually anywhere near our capacity, we're at, you know, X percentage.
	88%?
	Yeah.
	We don't even need a number, we just say X, because why not?
	But it's 88%.
	We know the number.
	And on a normal year, it's about 90%.
	I want to finish my point.
	Which is that if you tell them that, they'll think there's extra capacity, therefore I can go out and get sick and it's not really a problem.
	And therefore we need to not tell them this, we need to tell them it's the maximum percentage so that they don't go out and get sick.
	That's one argument.
	But the obvious trade-off for doing that strategy is a massive drop in public trust, because we can see the hospitals.
	Someone can go in there and film it.
	But that's such a small trade-off.
	Like, public trust in the government and the NHS. Sure, they are important things.
	But the other trade-off is people who genuinely need to go to a hospital, staying home, and not getting the treatment that they require.
	Have there not already been a spike in cancer deaths because of a lack of treatment?
	And if it hasn't already happened, it definitely will happen.
	These hospitals are needed for things that are not COVID. It's insane.
	But the reason I mentioned public trust and not that part was because if you're arguing, we need to lie to people, therefore they won't go out and get sick.
	But if you kill public trust, they're not going to take any advice from you.
	Because why would they?
	You've been lying to them.
	So it means your entire further strategy for managing the pandemic is dead.
	And that's one of the things I see a lot of people complaining about, or at least the BBC is pushing at the moment.
	One doctor complaining that the problem is not such and such or the new strain.
	It's that people aren't taking it seriously enough.
	Well, if you want to make that argument, one of these problems is surely lying to people.
	Because how is this meant to help you manage this crisis if that's what you want to do?
	But this, again, implies far too much good faith.
	I'm the charitable guy.
	You don't arrest a woman for filming a hospital.
	because she's revealing your lies.
	And that's what it is.
	That's what it is.
	Don't give me this, oh, patient confidentiality.
	Oh, there weren't any bloody patients there.
	We know because we watched the video, like two people.
	You know, let's go and ask them whether they're okay with it.
	You know, why is Matt Hancock lying?
	Why are we being lied to by the goddamn government?
	So as the ITV guy correctly pointed out, you just put an image countering her footage.
	You don't have to arrest someone.
	The arresting someone is the problem.
	But there's a message here from the Conservative MP for Stroud talking about this incident in Parliament, which is also revealing.
	So, she says, Liar.
	You bloody liar.
	You absolute liar.
	You know you're not overburdened.
	You know that their time is not so precious that they can't come out and do this, otherwise they wouldn't.
	You know, if they were literally just like neck deep or arms deep in COVID patients and someone was like, someone filmed this empty hospital, they'd be like, I don't care.
	You know, I've got things to do.
	I'm fixing stuff.
	But no, instead, they've got the bureaucrats out and now they're putting down the full force of the law in order to maintain a narrative that everyone knows isn't true.
	God, I hate this.
	But look at that wording there.
	Defending themselves against films on social media.
	Defending themselves against video evidence.
	That we're wrongly claiming the hospital is empty.
	Oh yes, wrongly claiming that the hospital is empty as we film this empty hospital.
	But then just tweet out a picture of the hospital not being empty.
	That's not hard.
	But they can't.
	Because if you go there and start recording the hospital in any capacity, it looks empty!
	Oh, man.
	But yeah, that's where the UK's at.
	If you counter the official narrative in person, you will be arrested.
	And it's the point of because you are effectively showing the evidence.
	I mean, I guess the reason they don't go after Richard Tice, of course, is because he's a politician.
	And that's the luxury you get for being that kind of thing.
	But, I mean, if you happen to have any videos of anything like this, you can email them to tips at lotuseaters.com.
	And I guess we'd better shill.
	If you'd like to support the work we're doing, you can, of course, go to lotuseaters.com and become a member and get access to all of our premium content.
	At the moment, we've got a load of really great book club premium podcasts that are up there.
	And the next one I'm going to be doing, as people always ask, is Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
	I feel this would be a good bit of stoicism.
	It would be good for the soul.
	And so that should be out probably about a week or two, something like that.
	But we've got a bunch of other good ones already up there.
	And various other premium podcasts and various other premium content that we can't put on YouTube and elsewhere.
	Because we're getting trouble, basically, at this point.
	So if you'd like to support us, go to lotuses.com and become a member now!
	There's my shill.
	There's your shill.
	Okay, let's get through the Super Chats because I don't want to be here until 40 past or whatever we were yesterday.
	Sorry, I'm having trouble with this EF piece.
	Zerg1337 from yesterday.
	We didn't finish that one off.
	That's quite cute.
	I'm very glad for you and true.
	He's not in today.
	It's a public holiday.
	You did some weekend podcasts with him, didn't you?
	Yes, they should be up tomorrow and the day after.
	So you can get your Hugo Ration, you filthy animal.
	MrArbiter103, too busy to watch the stream today, so have this donation.
	Happy New Year, keep up the great work, and listen out for the 2021 boss music.
	Yeah, I don't know how 2021 is actually going to be, but I'm not hopeful.
	Siltiware.
	Campaign now for 2024 voter ID and free speech.
	I don't know why the Republicans don't demand it.
	It seems perfectly reasonable.
	Son of the Wolf.
	Boomer.
	We're assuming that's for muting yourself.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, possible pilot deviation.
	Fortunately, you have an audience who loves when you boomers boom.
	The chat goes absolutely wild.
	Never change chaps.
	Happy New Year and Merry Brexit.
	Yeah, I mean, on the plus side, today wasn't my fault.
	I wasn't the one in control of things.
	But, yeah, no, Merry Dexmas, everyone.
	It's nice that we're actually out, and that we're out on reasonably good terms that I'm actually kind of satisfied with.
	So, you know, not perfect, but I'm actually quite happy.
	Mute stream.
	I am genuinely happy that hashtag Team Hugo is getting traction.
	Sad to see me and Iron Gamer will have to meet on the battlefield, though.
	My glove is thrown.
	I don't know who Iron Gamer is, but I guess we now have Simp Wars.
	Presumably a Josh Simp.
	Yeah.
	James Shapiro.
	Skillshare are offering free reading lessons, Callum.
	I'm just going to write that down.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, go on.
	Evan Meschenik.
	Happy New Year.
	I have nothing of value to say.
	I just enjoy hearing Brits try to pronounce the Polish-American names.
	Ah, I don't...
	Carl failed.
	Carl failed.
	How will you do?
	Okay, so now I know it's Polish, so I could probably make a little bit.
	So it's Evan.
	That's easy.
	Mishnik?
	Mishnik?
	Tell me how I did.
	Lady Grace 2.
	Will you do a podcast about rationality?
	I want assisted suicide, but I am seen as irrational for my age.
	Yet if you say I want to live, it's rational.
	I don't know.
	Do you want something to think about?
	Yeah.
	I've never actually thought deeply about assisted suicide, but probably should.
	I mean, I am actually in favour of it.
	If the person appears to be of sound mind, then...
	And, you know, they've got an incurable disease.
	If so, surely you can do what you want with it.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	Fundamentally, you could go for the libertarian sort of perspective.
	It's my property, so I'll do what I like with it.
	But even then, if you don't want to go for that, if you want to go for a kind of more humane view of it, you can say, well, if a person is just suffering, and it's like, right, you're going to live for another year, but every day is going to be agony...
	We can't do anything about it, and you're not allowed to get any relief or assistance in the form of choosing the time of your own death.
	Then that seems cruel to me.
	If I was in that position, I'd be like, look, I just want to choose a day and then I'll do it.
	And, you know, and then you've at least got some agency over it, haven't you?
	Yeah.
	Speaking of which, I actually quite liked your point from your stream yesterday with Hearts A Vogue that capitalism is sort of a bit of a nonsense word.
	Like, I don't know why we use it as pro-capitalist.
	Like, surely it's just the argument that personal property exists, which is a better way to frame it.
	But fleshed out another time.
	Neurosystic.
	I don't always agree with your politics.
	I'm one of those crazy libertarians.
	But your show has been a voice of hope for me this year.
	Happy New Year would be more, but I haven't been stimulated yet.
	Okay.
	Thank you very much for listening, man.
	I love crazy libertarians.
	Burley D. Just a quick thing on libertarianism.
	Libertarianism, I guess, is kind of the...
	I understand.
	I completely understand the dream of libertarianism.
	I completely understand it.
	But the thing is, are you ever going to be able to get housewives to vote for it?
	And I don't think you are, and so I don't think it's plausible.
	That's my main objection.
	So Burley D for 666, which is spooky.
	Three-act structure.
	Act 1, 2020, Age of Isolation.
	Act 2, 2021, Political Upheaval.
	Act 3, To Be Continued, The New Normal.
	Does sound like a good series, but I wouldn't want to live it.
	It sounds like Klaus Schwab's Great Reset.
	Yeah.
	Lord Svalzino.
	Hi lads, welcome to 2021.
	Have some Australian pesos.
	The government literally cancelled my Christmas three days before.
	Same here.
	They did it to a lot of people.
	I haven't seen my family since Xmas 2019.
	FFS. Not gonna say the words.
	Australia is in dire shape.
	Yeah, it certainly looks like it is, from what we're getting out of your media.
	We're not in much better shape over here.
	Apparently if you film a hospital, you get bloody arrested.
	And we get our Christmases cancelled as well.
	And the government just lies to us about the state of things, even though we have access to all of the data that they use.
	So it's just like, okay...
	At least we don't need a work permit yet, I guess.
	Woohoo.
	That's probably because you don't have a job.
	Roughneck, MP173.
	Walmart is notorious for their plantation economics.
	Rich Arkansas hillbillies have forgotten their roots.
	Hashtag boycott Walmart.
	I think I understand what that means.
	So it's like you send in Walmart, put the price down, bankrupt everyone, and then you own the place, and then everyone's going to come work there.
	Well, as Josh Hawley was saying with Walmart, you could portray it as a kind of predatory capitalism, and I can already hear the libertarians screaming at me, so we'll move on.
	Laughing Cat, why haven't I heard many people just come right now and say that the reason the courts won't hear Trump's case is because they are afraid of the riots?
	They are.
	I think it wasn't in Texas.
	Where they were having the debate that someone claimed they could hear the judges debating on and yelling about riots and people in the streets and stuff like that.
	Unsubstantiated, obviously, but I can totally believe it.
	Yeah, I'm not sure about trusting it, but I can imagine that would have been a part of the conversation.
	Where was I? Jonathan P. Genocide Amendment.
	Okay, this is going to be good.
	To go before H. To go before the House of Commons.
	Campaign for Yugos say this is so they can prove genocide in court without getting vetoed by CCP. Yeah, so this is, I assume, in relation to the trade.
	So we passed an amendment saying you can't get a trade deal unless you, you know, if there's a genocide going on in the country, which was obviously aimed at China.
	It's named at no one else.
	Thunderstorm.
	All political parties in charge support slavery.
	It's their system.
	It's the reason I'm a nationalist.
	YouTube famous companies that use slavery.
	Okay.
	Bottled...
	No, not saying that.
	Goddamn, guys.
	Unrelated, but I'm engaged.
	Have fun streaming, everyone.
	Thank you very much.
	Can't say your name.
	Congratulations.
	Aaron Farris.
	It was shown that Dominion machines were connected to the internet when the Georgia recount crashed because they used a local server and Dominion said, you were supposed to use our central server.
	Yeah, funny.
	Well, there we go.
	Apparently they can be hacked in real time, and still there's nothing that CNN has to say about it.
	Put the machines in the sea.
	Get rid of them.
	The Earl of Longford.
	Can't stay.
	Can't stay.
	Going for a walk with my mates.
	Will Redpill.
	Good man.
	Stop using Irish words.
	I can't read that.
	It's Irish words for we eat lotus pills, or we eat lotus, I guess.
	John's going to translate it.
	I can't read it.
	Charles Eccles.
	Go look at PT Comedy Instagram for cringiest and most melodramatic Brexit monologue ever.
	A letter to his 18-month-old daughter about the terror of Brexit.
	Yeah, that does sound like cringe.
	I want to check that out.
	I like cringe.
	Comedy, Insta.
	This rings bells.
	I think I might have seen this.
	Paul Taylor.
	I'm assuming it's Paul Taylor.
	But yeah, I'll check that afterwards.
	Oh yeah, the translation is I love you, we eat lotus, we eat lotus.
	And I can't speak Irish, so it's not one of the languages I've ever focused on.
	Where were we?
	Gavin Dreath.
	What is your opinion on laws forcing companies to keep a contract register of customers and using contact tracking apps for customers to check in?
	We have that in the UK. He's Australian.
	I would imagine you guys have it too.
	You have to do track and trace.
	We have to keep a record of who's coming in and out of a restaurant.
	Sucks.
	Yeah.
	Although, again, like many restaurants just kind of just go, meh.
	Yeah, which is...
	Civil disobedience is the way forward, I think.
	All the cell phone stores, like none of the giant corporations are quite reasonable, whereas the giant corporations are the worst.
	Chernoslav, for 10 US dollars.
	Didn't say anything, but thanks, man.
	Lord Svalcino, apparently 800 old people in Victoria in Australia died, therefore we need to end democracy.
	Welp.
	Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
	Aaron Ferris.
	Aren't riots mostly peaceful by nature?
	I suppose so, technically.
	Can you really prove that most people are violent in other riots?
	No.
	I think that actually is true.
	It only takes 3% of the crowd to engage in violence before the whole thing's gone wrong.
	But that doesn't mean you can't describe them as violent riots or violent protests, because that is correct of what happened.
	Possible pilot deviation.
	You blame the US for BLM, but what units these groups in different countries is not race but underlying Marxism, which is definitely European.
	Fair point.
	That's true.
	You've got us there.
	Mute stream.
	BLM is Mao and Adolf in concert.
	May they rot.
	Eric Edward.
	How to get an OBE is not what you did for England.
	It's who you know.
	Definitely by the looks of it.
	Dave Mueller.
	It's not that difficult with Biden.
	Biden won because he's not Trump.
	Biden voters cannot tell you his policies other than masks.
	That's true as well.
	That's one of the things where I'm like, even what I said earlier, you never say Biden won because of this policy or because this group likes him.
	It's always because maybe Trump annoyed too many people.
	It's never because Biden's a good guy.
	NopeNopeman.
	Happy New Year, lads.
	Doomer question.
	Is it inevitable for us to be subjugated by a growing crony establishment?
	Big tech, surveillance state, and social credit systems.
	Is Liberty doomed to fail?
	You want to answer this?
	I've got to take a drink.
	Probably.
	So optimistic!
	Well, I'm not very optimistic, I've got to be honest.
	Like...
	It's not good news, is it?
	There are very rarely good news that we get to talk about.
	Yeah, I mean, even with the good stuff on critical theory that the Conservatives have been doing, they've been terrible on civil liberties.
	Yeah.
	Guitar operator.
	Ex-custody officer.
	If we could choke people out instead of wrestle them, it would have been safer for all parties involved.
	Choke holds are preferable.
	You're British, so I assume that's in prison, which, yeah, this is one of the things I was wrong about.
	I thought the chokeholds should be abolished, but no, they are necessary at times.
	It's just a shame that they are, but that's life.
	John's son.
	Happy New Year, Lotus Eaters.
	US leftist BS has thrived here in Germany.
	The channel...
	That's pretty much the origin of it, though, as we just covered, isn't it?
	Yeah, the channel Tagenschau released a series about microaggressions and other BS. God, yeah, that sounds like cringe.
	Especially from Germans.
	I don't know, when I see Germans talking about, you know, RASISMUS, it sounds wrong.
	Hugh James.
	Happy New Year, Carl et al.
	Tested positive today for the China virus, so I'll be a good boy and stay at home for 10 days.
	Highlights of today, no doubt.
	Yeah, sorry to hear that, man.
	I hope they love you well.
	But, you know, being responsible.
	Why am I at home now?
	Can I say that well?
	I'm going to avoid it just in case.
	Yeah, just in case.
	Men only used to kneel to gods, tyrants, and wives.
	Well, the last part's still true.
	God's son.
	Sorry, John's son.
	By the way, Taganschau is our state TV. It's taxpayer-funded.
	They used to be good, professional, unbiased, neutral, but all changed when 2020 began.
	I hear this a lot about the BBC as well, but when I speak to a lot of people who are political, they actually seem to say that, no, it was always kind of biased, but it wasn't too bad, and now it's just openly.
	The BBC has got noticeably worse.
	And it's not just in 2020 either.
	In the past four or five years, it's got noticeably worse.
	That definitely seems absolutely true, but the thing I'm saying is compared to 1970 or something, right?
	Well, I mean, we didn't have alternative media back then, so who's to say?
	Yeah, but when I asked the elderly people at UKIP who know more than me, they seem to say, no, it used to just be bad, but it's gotten way worse.
	Wokeism has made it way, way worse.
	Arsenal came out massively in support of BLM, which is ironic considering how many black teenagers they've poached from France and French Africa.
	Yeah, that is funny.
	There's one football club, I can't remember the name, but it's on Paul Joseph Watson's website where he wrote an article where they're telling their fans if you boot a game, you'll have to undergo re-education before you're allowed to book another ticket.
	That's what we are.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	That's right, yeah.
	Persecute your own customers.
	Guys, you've got to undergo re-education before you super-chat us.
	Do you understand that?
	Before you super-chat us, you have to fill out these forms, go through this course, and then will you be allowed to send us money.
	And don't even think about signing up on the website if you haven't filled out this form of ideological conformity to what we believe, okay?
	That's how this works.
	Yeah, I don't care if someone socialist wants to give us a super chat.
	No!
	Why would I care?
	Sure, okay, I'll talk to them.
	Yeah, I would love to talk to more socialists, to be honest.
	Yeah, but you can't do that in leftist world, can you?
	You can't talk to anyone else.
	Which is why probably they're saying that you have to go re-education.
	A fuzzy creature, is it time to openly advocate for Sir Farage?
	Yeah, I mean, people are already doing it.
	Lord Farage, frankly.
	Yeah, we spoke to Richard Brain.
	He gave an interview on Three Counties Radio the other day.
	Lord Farage would actually be better because then he'd have some input and his knowledge on Brexit would be useful rather than just having another title.
	Maybe we can start a petition.
	Xerox, can we start now to put together a campaign identifying these movements as fomenting the very thing they claim to be against?
	I assume racism.
	There are people across the demographics that might well want to be included.
	Yeah, I mean, that's essentially what the anti-woke people are.
	It's just that campaign, surely.
	Yeah, the anti-woke movement is surprisingly inclusive and diverse.
	Yeah.
	Which is why if they're all Nazis, something's gone terribly wrong.
	R-Dub.
	I'm an engineer at Intel, and I am seriously disgusted with my work going towards supporting terrorists.
	I would be too.
	The company has changed dramatically over the last few years.
	So much intersectionalism now.
	Yeah, I mean, we got messages from people who work in, like, weapons manufacturing, and they're making the weapons that bomb people abroad, and their CEO is lecturing them on BLM and white privilege.
	It's just like, really?
	Of all the people?
	Rainbow flag-covered bombs.
	Yeah, literally, though.
	That's what's actually happening in the world.
	Again, if you have anything from your workplace that you'd like us to feature on LotusSeaters.com, you can email it to us at tips at LotusSeaters.com.
	Sorry if we don't get through it all.
	It's just timing.
	But we will try and read everything we get.
	Square Inch.
	Call it what it is.
	Neo-Marxist black supremacy.
	Based.
	I mean, that's true.
	That's an accurate description.
	Accurate description.
	I think that might be your lights.
	Yeah, I think it's my lights.
	I'm actually a bit under the weather today because we got a takeaway yesterday, and it had me on the toilet all night, so I actually feel rough today.
	So if I'm glowing, it's clearly some trickery.
	Well, I know when you have a bad day, surely your skin gets whiter, so maybe that's why you're glowing more.
	Anyway, Xerox.
	And can we cut any real social justice speakers off at the pass and have them explain why collective justice is more moral than individual justice?
	Yes.
	Great point.
	That's why I like the channel.
	I've got a trap laid for the next time I have someone recommend Social Justice to me, but I'm not going to reveal it.
	It's why I like the YouTuber Actual Justice Warrior, because his title is making the point that there's justice, and then there's social justice, which is not justice, which is why it's different.
	Mark Zed.
	Yesterday I shared with you my thoughts on the problem of OnlyFans.
	I didn't have time to be very detailed.
	Is there a way for me to contact you so I may express my thoughts more fully?
	Yeah, contact.lotusedears.com and I'll get Vicky to forward it to me and I'll give it a read.
	Daniella Dantas?
	Sorry.
	Don't have said that one.
	Yeah, the cops have been terrible throughout this whole thing.
	I don't think they're going to get better.
	They're going to get worse.
	hospital in my town where some of my relatives work has been closed.
	Only Covid visits allowed.
	210 employees at home with pay.
	Why would you close the hospital in the middle of a pandemic?
	Why the hell do we even have hospitals, if that's the case?
	Why do we have a national health service, you know?
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's the thing.
	For all the criticism we may have of the American handling of stopping the spread, like, they haven't seemed to have gone over capacity at all for the number of beds.
	So, you know, there are endless criticism of the US system, but the private system doesn't seem to make it so you can't deal with pandemics.
	Yeah.
	Or at least deal with the people who are ill.
	Menno Walters.
	Greetings from the Netherlands.
	Have you guys seen videos of Japan and South Korea?
	No lockdown and no rise in infections.
	Seems like lockdowns are useless.
	Just eat healthy and be hygienic.
	Happy New Year.
	I have seen some of those videos.
	I'm not an expert on COVID or not strong opinionated on it, so I don't want to speak too much about that, but I don't know their systems, how they deal with it is what I'm trying to get at.
	I don't either.
	Nightmarish visions.
	By using their definitions, I can categorically say the black lives...
	Nope, not saying that.
	That's...
	Kenyan, Jamaican, Ugandan, etc.
	lives are the ones that matter.
	Hmm.
	I'm not going to say the thing.
	I'll get in trouble if I say it.
	Sorry.
	No trouble.
	Let's move on.
	Lock D. What is your stance on the Second Amendment and the right for all free men to hold their leadership accountable when forced into extremities?
	Extremism or something like that.
	The right to hold your government accountable is the very notion upon which our liberal democracies are predicated.
	The idea that governments are instituted among men, by men, for the purpose of good governance, rather than being handed down from on high.
	So if we don't have the right to hold our governments to account, then we are back to Hobbes' absolute monarchism, really.
	Yeah.
	Right to bear arms, we're both in sport.
	I think this whole office is probably in sport.
	Rational Redneck.
	On the subject of COVID-19, I would like to point everyone to a CDC study that outlines the health risks of going to prison after having Bill Clinton on your frequent fire program.
	Happy 2021.
	Is that real?
	There's no way that's real.
	CDC flights Bill Clinton.
	I'll check it, but there's no way it's real.
	It's just a good meme.
	Bionic Dibble Do you think there will be prosecutions of those making ridiculous COVID decisions once all of this is over?
	Keep up your good work, lads.
	Well, there weren't after we found out about the grooming gang scandal, so I imagine no.
	Way worse things have happened than this, and those people weren't held to account.
	No.
	Who's in prison for that?
	You know, from the government?
	No.
	Not a banned account.
	Sargon.
	Patients dying from failing to get treatment is a benefit to the government, not a failure.
	When the sick and elderly die, it frees resources.
	That's true.
	This is definitely true.
	We know because of the Yes Minister, where they were speaking of taxing, smoking, or outlawing it.
	It's like, no, you have to tax it, not outlaw it, because those guys pay for the NHS. And when they die early, they don't claim state pensions.
	Therefore, it's good.
	That's how the government thinks.
	This is why bureaucratic thinking is dangerous, because it leads you into moral absurdities.
	Yep.
	Sorry, just loading up the superchats.
	Where were we?
	Stephen Thompson.
	I've heard of a movement afoot in Britain to get a written constitution, a large labour.
	Yeah, it would be.
	Perhaps what is needed is simply a Bill of Rights pick and choose from the US model created as needed.
	I'm in favour of it.
	We did have a Bill of Rights, which is incidentally where the US model came from.
	The problem is there's just no understanding of this in the general public and so no one demands it.
	And so the government can just do as they please.
	Enemy within your heart.
	Drug companies will make a lot of money from the vaccine.
	I bet they sure will.
	I'm not even against that, though.
	I don't mind.
	They solved the problem.
	They should get paid.
	Mr.
	Wonderful.
	Only one city in Oz has had lockdowns and strong-arm tactics.
	The rest of the entire continent don't even wear masks or have been affected.
	Yeah, that's probably because of the density, though.
	It's Victoria, that area down there where everyone lives.
	But that's the representation we're going to get of what's going on there.
	But it's good to know it's not the whole place, I guess.
	Paul Wilkinson.
	Surely the government are lying to us in order to crash the economy and introduced a globalist Great Reset.
	Probably.
	Probably a better question for you.
	I do think that there are elements within the Conservative government who support the Great Reset, like Matt Hancock, and I think they probably do think it's something that's inevitably going to happen, and I don't think they're against it.
	Sorry, just drinking.
	Heather Thornton.
	BLM donations here in the US were over $10 billion and funneled through ActBlue.
	That's correct.
	I don't know about the number, but they were definitely going through ActBlue, which is a Democrat Party fundraising mechanism.
	Yeah, $10 billion is not, I think, an outlandish claim, though, considering what we're dealing with.
	No, no, I don't think so.
	The BBC said $5 billion, but that was just from what they had.
	I wouldn't be surprised if it was way higher, to be honest.
	I'm pretty sure Google's a trillion-dollar company.
	If they wanted to donate a billion, it wouldn't even be that much sweat off their back.
	Marcuseo Rendono.
	Weird name, sorry.
	There are laws in place where the government are legally allowed to use propaganda on the public for whatever reason they see fit.
	Have been in place for years.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?
	Gerhent.
	How do average British rationalise they have freedom of speech, but they are not allowed to utter remarks of disdain to a religion of peace publicly or be jailed?
	We do not have freedom of speech.
	We do not have rights at all in the UK. Yeah, we don't even rationalise it.
	We just try to get on with our lives.
	Yeah, that's how we do it.
	That's an American there, so I imagine...
	Yeah.
	You have the assumption that we're as free as you.
	We're not.
	You're something special in the United States.
	The freedoms you guys have are not universal in the slightest.
	In fact, you're the last place that has them.
	You're the last place that has them.
	Don't ever let them infringe on your rights.
	Dagon, in my own country of Panama, there are mile-long lines at hospitals.
	To pretend that the NHS is at the level of my little banana republic is absurd.
	Yeah, I mean, I've seen the footage coming out of Peru, where they're just running out of oxygen tanks.
	They're running out of the ability to treat anyone.
	And that's what's being portrayed as going on, but it's not.
	and I think being truthful would be better Molanius look into our education system being basically controlled by ESF I don't know what that is even with Brexit still calling the shots, benefits system too, openly talking about social justice, I don't know who ESF are, let me just No, I don't.
	We'll have to look into it.
	ESF. Well, it's definitely not English-speaking squeeze calls.
	But we'll have to look that up afterwards.
	Henry Anderson.
	My parents have made a big deal about how I'm just as intelligent as any other person, even though I have autism.
	But later, when I revealed that I was considering voting for Trump, they quickly flipped their positions.
	Okay?
	Weird.
	I don't think we have any plans for any pillows, do we?
	No plans yet, but we will set up a merch store at some point.
	Yeah, just won't be pornographic, I hope.
	Mute stream.
	Aussie Callum simps get to fly on the chopper first.
	Yeah, I'm looking forward to the simp wars.
	Yeah, me too.
	Neurosystic for $10.
	I lied.
	I did get stimulated.
	I'm also a libertarian housewife, thanks to 2020.
	Seriously, love you guys.
	Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
	We found the libertarian housewife.
	I was wrong.
	Okay.
	1991 Shadowheart.
	Notice me, senpai.
	I went to my re-education classes at uwu.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	Re-education classes for what?
	I assume for the Lotus Eaters, but we're not doing that.
	Never doing that.
	Hugh Hattrick, loving the Lotus Eaters podcast.
	It's such a breath of fresh air.
	Thank you very much.
	I wrote a book of anti-woke funny bedtime stories that feature the great saga of a cad, Fat Trevor and his bus on Amazon.
	So Fat Trevor and his bus is on Amazon.
	You can check that out.
	It's a free shill.
	Well, not free.
	You're going to buy one for your son, are you?
	Book Club.
	Oh yeah, I found it.
	You got it?
	Alright.
	Yeah, it's four and a half out of five stars rated.
	Get one.
	Anyway, Meadstream.
	Am I actually?
	So you don't think I should get re-educated?
	Neat.
	No, no re-education for the simps.
	You can simp through your own things.
	It's your mind.
	The Jedster.
	Great team you've built up here.
	Also, Kick V. Can't Kick V is not here.
	The Podoski.
	I tried telling my wife that going to the strip club helps my anxiety.
	And I got slapped.
	I can't believe she didn't buy it.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	How could she possibly see through my clever ruse?
	I don't know, man.
	Maybe you're going to start charging $450.
	Guys, can you stop sending soup chats, please?
	I know it's a strange thing to us, but we do have to finish up.
	Yeah, there's only a couple more.
	Oh god, okay.
	The Podski.
	I tried telling my wife...
	Oh no, I read that one.
	Lord Svalzino, Carl Callum and the rest, happy to be with you and Gold Tier for 2021.
	Thanks man.
	Thank you very much.
	Eric Edwards.
	We will be doing another Zoom call when I'm back in the office.
	Yeah.
	We now have the ability to put out messages or posts on the website to specific tiers.
	So you'll get like a link to the Zoom call when we're going to do that.
	But we'll let you know before when we're going to organize it.
	Sargon has the poops.
	Also forgot to send the last two times.
	Hashtag Team Hugo.
	Okay.
	Kigi Boy.
	Been watching since 2013 when I was in high school.
	I'm now 23 and have a nice job in a trade.
	Thanks to people like you and Jordan Peterson.
	Lotus Ethers in Ohio when?
	Great to hear.
	Um, Ohio?
	You haven't been to Ohio yet?
	I have not been to Ohio, actually.
	I've been to quite a few places in America, but not Ohio.
	If we find a reason, we'd love to come out.
	If we're allowed to leave the country.
	Yeah, when government permits.
	The number three.
	Hey Carl, long time follower.
	I just brought a condo for me and my disabled mum at 37.
	That's great to hear.
	In Philadelphia, moved from New York.
	Next Step Keto.
	Thank you for my integration.
	Good man.
	It works.
	You know, it really works.
	Did I not say Pennsylvania?
	No, you said Philadelphia.
	Oh, sorry.
	I thought I said Pennsylvania.
	Apparently I said Philadelphia.
	Will Carter.
	80 degrees Fahrenheit here in sunny Florida, chaps.
	Warm wishes for a new year from your cousins across the pond.
	May it bring you all good fortune and health.
	It's snowing here this morning.
	Yeah.
	Horrible driving in.
	Person of the Year Svatnik, I've been waiting all my life for a white privilege.
	I'm afraid I'm going to die of old age before I get the privilege.
	I deserve it as a white man.
	You are going to die of old age before you get it.
	"Opresasatun" "Governmental methods for handling a population are similar to commands level officers handling of military formations.
	It's learned psychopathy where people are treated as numbers by necessity or nothing would get done." I can see that, but that doesn't mean it doesn't do terrible things.
	Yeah.
	Gareth Green.
	I don't know if you remember me.
	I super chatted about my forthcoming year shoveling goat manure three years ago.
	Probably one for you.
	That turned longer, but the ordeal is finally over and I just bought a couple of houses in the mountain states and escaped California.
	And that's for 50 US dollars.
	Jeez.
	Wow.
	That goat shoveling clearly paid off.
	Yeah, if you're out of California, I mean, good for you.
	Good for you.
	Rational Redneck.
	Simp War Now.
	Team Sargon for the win.
	Nathan Brake.
	First to say the new year.
	My state gets a nice blanket of snow.
	Perhaps this is a sign.
	But I don't know what I'll sign off.
	Not a band account.
	Who is sexier?
	British Sargon or Romanian V? You guys can do some mud wrestling and figure that one out.
	Easy E. It's 2021, lads.
	Place your bets for how long until America's first woman president takes office through nepotism instead of a proper election?
	Well, this is one of the things.
	Trump needs to identify as a woman before he leaves.
	Just needs the dirt.
	Yes.
	Literally say that.
	Make a big song and dance about it.
	Claim to be the first woman president.
	Thank you.
	I'll take the accolades now.
	I'm the best woman president.
	I see Zuby trying to pressure him into it.
	Great idea.
	Great idea.
	Morlanius.
	The European Social Fund.
	As the ESF. So the European Social Fund.
	Education.
	Which, you know, sounds bad.
	It has the word European in, so I'm sus.
	Ian Mack.
	Fave curry lads.
	Chicken tikka, probably.
	There is a right answer.
	Chicken tikka madras.
	Okay.
	Morgan...
	That's a French word.
	Lamouru?
	Lamour?
	Sorry.
	Oh, Jesus.
	Yeah, it's 100 quid.
	Alright, I'll have another go.
	Morgan...
	I'm going to say Morgan Lamour, because I think the last bit's meant to be silent, because French is weird.
	Thank you guys for all you do.
	Been subscribed since 2013.
	Carl helped me after I came out of an abusive household at 16.
	Where his breakdown of simple facts helped when woke articles were saying I should shut up about my experience because it silenced whamming.
	Thank you.
	I'm glad to hear you.
	Thank you.
	I guess that's what we'll end it on because we've got other stuff to do.
	Sorry, lads.
	Has been an hour and 40 minutes.
	So, thank you for tuning in.
	We will have the weekend podcast for tomorrow and the day after.
	There was a problem with the China Uncensored stuff, but we'll get that up as soon as possible.
	Redone.
	And we should be back Monday.
	So, 1pm Monday.

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