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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for Tuesday, the 12th of January 2021.
	Before we start today, I just want to let anyone know if you've got any tips for us that you'd like to follow up on and have our team investigate.
	Email tips at lotuseaters.com, not contact at lotuseaters.com, please.
	Contact is for general contacts, not the tips, because the tips go straight to the writing team.
	Um, also, we've got loads of extra content on lotuses.com that we aren't covering because, frankly, we just don't have the time of the day.
	And I will probably have the new book club on John Locke's Second Treaties of Government up in a day or two.
	So you can check that out by becoming a premium member.
	I think it's going to be totally worth your time, especially given the questions that are being raised by the current state of political affairs.
	Let's talk about Impeachment 2, the impeachinging.
	Electric Boogaloo, huh?
	I'm not sure it's safe to use that term now.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	It's verboten, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's verboten, yeah.
	I mean, it was a meme because it came out of a movie.
	Goodbye, guys.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, what are you going to do?
	But anyway, so...
	The Democrats are rushing impeachment forward, and despite the calls to not have the impeachment by people like Lindsey Graham and various other Senate Republicans who are like, look, this is a tinderbox, it's going to explode.
	Please, I'm begging you, stop being maniacs who make your position look even more weak than it does by acting in this way.
	Instead, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them are rushing it through.
	Nancy Pelosi said, the President's threat to America is urgent and so too will our action.
	It's not really de-radicalising people, is it?
	It's not de-escalation.
	I mean, we saw her yesterday, how deranged she is.
	Yeah.
	So, I imagine she's only just going to keep going.
	Yeah.
	And I'm not trying to suggest that Trump is cool and calm in the White House like a cucumber or something.
	Just for anyone who may think that we're just being uncharitable and just nakedly partisan.
	No.
	Trump's team is obviously in chaos.
	Chad Wolf resigned.
	There have been a slew of resignations.
	There's A mob that's coming for the MAGA crowd and Trump.
	It's not looking good on either side.
	But anyway, so the impeachment article invokes the 14th Amendment, which is a post-Civil War era addition to the Constitution, which prohibits anyone who engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding future office.
	Lawmakers also cited specific language from Mr.
	Trump's speech on Wednesday, riling up the crowd, quoting him saying, if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
	Well, that's rather uncharitable, given how they say that they fight like hell all the time.
	They're constantly, the AOC, the squad, all of them are constantly saying, we're fighting for this, we're fighting for that.
	This is completely standard rhetoric in US politics, and because it means campaigning.
	It doesn't mean open civil war, it doesn't mean picking up the rifles and the muskets and marching in lines so we'll die.
	What it means is just campaigning to persuade and change minds.
	That's obviously the way that Trump is using it, but we'll get to a clip in a minute.
	The New York Times, of course, corralled a bunch of anti-Trump Republicans together.
	So you get Tom Reid, a New York Republican.
	We must look to alternatives that could allow Congress to bar Mr.
	Trump from holding federal office in future.
	It just seems very much like, honestly, it's starting to look kind of like the Phantom Menace.
	I'm not even going to lie.
	It looks like there's some sort of coup going on.
	There's just general agreement that Trump will just be sidelined because they can do it and they've got the access to the levers of power, so what can they do?
	Why should they stop, you know?
	Yeah, why should they stop?
	Exactly.
	What's the point?
	Trump is being charged with inciting violence against the government of the United States when he sowed false claims about election fraud and encouraged his supporters at a rally at the White House to take extraordinary measures to stop the counting of electoral votes underway at the Capitol.
	He didn't do that.
	In all of this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institution of government, the articles of impeachment read.
	He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transfer of power, and imperiled a co-equal branch of government.
	He thereby betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
	What manifest injury?
	What are they talking about?
	But anyway, the GOP blocked Pelosi's demand for some sort of expedited passage of the bill.
	So it's just going to go at normal speed.
	So the speed it's going, it's actually going to conclude after Trump has left office.
	So they'll have impeached someone who isn't the president for something that really is not really true, I don't think.
	I just don't think he was calling for violence.
	But let's play the clip.
	This is the explicit language that he's using.
	I can't hear it, John.
	Can you hear it?
	No.
	Looks like the sound's off for some reason.
	Okay, well, while John fixes that, a CBS reporter...
	Because this is one of the things we mentioned previously and why I'm not so critical of him personally.
	Critical of the people who stormed the place, obviously.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	But the man himself...
	Critical of the police allowing them in.
	Yeah, there's, you know, things to be said.
	But I'm not so critical of the man himself because he explicitly said, you know, be peaceful.
	And then when they did it, he said, don't do that, be peaceful.
	And then when they were in there, he said, go home.
	Go home.
	Like, you know, compare and contrast this to the concentration camps from AOC. Yeah.
	Now, I'm not saying AOC is to blame for the...
	So she came out, just for people who don't know, and said that the ICE facilities were essentially concentration camps.
	She didn't even say essentially.
	She just said they were concentration camps, and we need to do something about it.
	And a guy went out, firebombed one, was shot to death because he was trying to burn a building with people down.
	And he was armed as well.
	He had a gun.
	He had a rifle.
	So the cops came out, saw him firebombing the building with a rifle and went, right, that's a terrorist.
	Because it really looks like a terrorist.
	Yeah.
	And some guys from Rebel News went into the Congress and questioned her.
	There was a long walk.
	You know, do you condemn what happened to you?
	She said nothing.
	And the thing is, she is not to blame for that attack directly.
	It's not her fault.
	Unless, of course, we take the standards of incitement that they're using.
	Yeah, if we take Democrat standards, she's obviously not.
	But the thing is, like, okay, she's responsible for bringing up the rhetoric, she's responsible for putting the spotlight on it, but I'm not going to say she should be charged with, you know, conspiracy.
	No, no.
	But she refused to condemn it.
	She didn't even condemn it.
	Whereas Trump's rhetoric throughout is, you know, something's bad, but don't do anything violent.
	And then when people did something violent, he was like, don't do that, go home.
	What more could he have done?
	Yeah.
	What do you expect him to do?
	Anyway, let's hear it.
	Okay.
	Possibly.
	And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you.
	We're going to walk down.
	We're going to walk down.
	Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol.
	And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
	And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
	Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.
	You have to show strength and you have to be strong.
	We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated.
	Lawfully slated.
	I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building.
	To peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity.
	Okay.
	Peacefully and patriotically make your way to the Capitol.
	Yeah.
	And make your voices heard.
	Okay.
	That's not a man calling for a coup.
	No, and that's not an incitement to violence.
	And that's way more restrained than the Democrats themselves have been, but we'll get to that in a bit, right?
	But there's my point.
	If that's now the standard, if you're saying do this peacefully is enough to say you're inciting violence, they're in massive trouble.
	Well, there's no further political dialogue to be had from the MAGA perspective.
	What they're doing is saying that any advocacy from the perspective of MAGA is a form of terrorism.
	But again, we're getting ahead of ourselves, right?
	Sorry, I don't know what's going on with my throat today.
	So this is a CBS reporter called Catherine Herridge.
	And she tweeted out that the timeline suggests that because of Trump's delay or whatever, certain elements of the protests were already trying to get into the Capitol before Trump had even finished speaking.
	So before Trump had even finished saying, don't do anything dangerous or violent...
	So that clip, I think, was from the middle of the speech.
	Yeah, yeah, roughly about the middle of the speech.
	There were, apparently, people already trying to push their way in.
	So I don't know who those people were, and why were they doing it.
	But pipe bombs may have been an effort to pull first responders from the capital, further weakening security, who knows?
	But, I mean, I don't know what the source or the consequence of the pipe bombs were.
	I saw the reporting, but what does it mean?
	You know, how does it connect?
	Who's been held responsible for these?
	Just random pipe bombs are around, okay?
	Yeah, I don't know what to say.
	I don't know what to say.
	It's under investigation.
	Yeah, I guess it must be.
	I'll talk about it when it's stopped.
	And...
	Sorry, John just added a note.
	But, right, yeah, so Trump has authorised an emergency declaration to deploy the National Guard to DC to prevent further violence.
	As John has just typed, the mayor requested this, the DC mayor requested this, under COVID measures.
	But it's clearly about fear of riots and insurrection in the Capitol on the inauguration of Joe Biden.
	Yeah.
	So I think it's for the next two weeks.
	Protests were banned because of the risk of COVID was the wording.
	It's like, yeah, who's buying that?
	Yeah, but it's obviously not.
	And Trump has authorised it anyway.
	So for a man who is under suspicion of conducting a coup, fortifying the capital to prevent a coup is a strange manoeuvre.
	Unless, of course, all of these National Guards are Trump loyalists.
	And these are the men who are going to be storming the Capitol on the inauguration of Joe Biden.
	Obviously, I don't think that's the case.
	And I don't see any reason to think that's the case.
	Trump isn't personally directing these National Guard.
	He just authorized it because he had to.
	I don't know if you saw, they are doing background checks on every member of the National Guard.
	Yeah, and I guess background check their Facebook and be like, oh, do they support Trump or not?
	And only get the ones who don't support Trump.
	I don't know.
	But unless, like I said, Trump's putting in nothing but loyalists who are about to take over the Capitol, I don't think this is indicative of a coup at all.
	In fact, this seems to be what you do if you want to guard against the coup.
	So Trump seems to be guarding against his own supporters by doing this.
	So accusing Trump of conducting a coup just seems to have no merit.
	Like Caesar wasn't sending Pompey legions.
	No.
	No, no.
	He wasn't guaranteeing the sanctity of Rome from his own legions, right?
	That's just not what happens.
	But anyway, so let's take a look at some of the people arrested, because one of the pictures that's been going around a lot is a chap like this.
	When you scroll down a little bit, you can see...
	Just to the picture, please, John.
	Just the picture.
	You can see that there are some guys who are dressed in kind of, you know, military fatigues, combat vests, and have Ziploc ties.
	And so these people seem to be under increased, of course, suspicion of wanting to conduct nefarious activities, which, fair.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Looks like he is.
	Why have you brought Ziplocs if you're just here to protest?
	Maybe this guy isn't just here to protest.
	This was a one Mr.
	Eric Gavlik Munchell, 30, who has taken into custody in Nashville on one count of unlawfully entering a restricted building and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on capital grounds.
	He was carrying the plastic restraints, an item in a holster on his right hip, a cell phone mounted on his chest, with a camera facing forward, presumably to record the events of the day.
	Munchell was there with his mother, and he says he wanted to show that we're willing to rise up, band together, and fight if necessary, and compared himself and his mother to the founding fathers.
	So Guy had gone down there with his old dear.
	Weird.
	I mean, if you're actually planning a coup or an insurrection, do you take your mum?
	I don't think she'd be much use.
	Not being rude, Mum.
	Well, I mean, yeah, I don't want to make allegations.
	Maybe the mother's the mastermind of the coup.
	Who knows?
	Mum's for coups.
	Yeah, there was another chap there called Larry Rendell Brock, who was arrested in Texas on the same charges as he was one of the people.
	He was clad in a green helmet tactical vest with patches, black and camo jacket and beige pants, holding a white flex cuff, which was used by law enforcement to restrain...
	Detained subjects.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Suspicious.
	Presumably these people were looking to commit some kind of unlawful activity.
	I noticed they didn't go guns, though, which is what I would expect from people who actually expected to conduct a coup.
	I don't know how you expect to restrain congressmen and senators if you don't have guns.
	Because they did have guns, and they shot someone.
	So...
	Anyway, the Q shaman was arrested, and he is now on, apparently, a hunger strike because they won't feed him organic food.
	I just don't know what to tell you.
	This guy seems quite mad, to be honest.
	He seems to believe all the QAnon wacko stuff.
	There are people accusing him of being a white supremacist because he's got, like, Nordic tattoos.
	But I have to side with the Nordic history professionals here and say, look, these are not just white supremacist tattoos.
	These actually have, like, you know, esoteric and spiritual connotations that New Ages use and stuff like that.
	And after listening to a few of this guy's interviews, he sounds a lot more like an esoteric New Age than he does a white supremacist.
	But I might be wrong.
	He may well be a white supremacist.
	I'm not judging.
	I'm not saying that I know either way.
	He just really seems like a wacko who thinks that, you know, the big banks are taking over and all this sort of stuff.
	But yeah, so you get the media response to this.
	Now, the New York Times published this piece.
	The bogusness of anti-impeachment Republicans.
	Suddenly they're like unity and feared divisiveness.
	Where was that spirit when the election results were being counted?
	There were legal challenges going on, and so these are something you should have also got on board with if you feel that your guy had done nothing wrong.
	Surely the legal challenges would have shown that your guy did nothing wrong.
	But he says at the end, this does not mean we must cast out the 74 million Americans who voted for the president, but it must mean we repudiate the lies, cruelty, and cult of personality on which Trump built his movement.
	Man, that's an amazing projection, isn't it?
	Lies, cruelty, and cult of personality.
	Incredible.
	And the thing about the Trump cult of personality, right?
	And I'm not going to say he doesn't have one.
	He of course does.
	Every public figure ends up accruing some kind of cult of personality.
	But the thing about Trump is it's predicated on the idea that Trump is actually a fallible human.
	It's really funny.
	Whenever you watch any of the boomers who are talking about the protests, they're like, yeah, but doesn't Trump do all these bad things?
	Yeah, he's not perfect.
	Well, it's not even that.
	They'll sort of giggle and say, yeah.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	Some of them like it because it's provocative and it's, you know, naughty.
	But it's a very strange cult of personality that doesn't actually have glorious shining veneration for the leader and just accepts that he makes mistakes and says stupid things occasionally.
	Not even that.
	It seems like part of the cult of personality is he's a bit of a bumbling fool.
	Yes.
	Like he's our bumbling fool kind of thing.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	But anyway, it means Republicans will have to acknowledge the truth that Joe Biden won in a free and fair election.
	Yes, comrade.
	I believe Joe Biden got 81 million votes freely and fairly.
	and I have to say that because of YouTube.
	And apologize to their voters in the country who've helped stoke the madness that struck the Capitol.
	The alternative is false unity that leaves the wound of last Wednesday to fester until the infection gets worse than it already is.
	I don't think this is going to heal anytime soon.
	Like, I think this is going to get a lot worse.
	And I just think that, like, the ramming through of the impeachment and desperately trying to do everything they can to hurt Trump and the MAGA movement is going to blow up in their faces.
	And this...
	Again, I actually think the Americans are heading towards a Civil War scenario at this point.
	But anyway, the New York Post, an author for the New York Post, A1, Kelly Jane Torrance, a member of the New York Post editorial board, published this in MSNBC. And she argues the case.
	She says he did not call for a coup, nor did he tell his supporters to invade the home of the legislative branch, which he didn't.
	Meanwhile, Democrats have never even censured those in their party who encouraged lawlessness last year.
	Vice President-elect Kamala Harris urged people to donate to post-bail for those arrested for protests and riots in Minneapolis, for example.
	Mobs should not be emboldened no matter their politics.
	Impeachment isn't meant to be virtue signaling, but it's how the Democrats are treating it.
	They're not trying to restrain Trump during his remaining days in office.
	They're trying to ensure he never serves in office again.
	But that's not up to them.
	That's up to the American people.
	Democrats and many Republicans have made it clear they want Trump to disappear from public life forever.
	However, they don't need to abuse the Constitution to do it.
	Let Trump leave in ignominy, which will happen on January 20th, even if the Democrats do nothing.
	The country will move forward under a new president who then won't have to start his term under the shadow of his predecessor.
	I think she's completely right.
	I agree with almost every word.
	Yeah, that's a totally fair analysis.
	And I have been arguing this whole time, the Democrats, by taking these sort of belligerent actions against their political opponents, not only reveal the weakness of their own position and their own apparent insecurity, But it reveals a malevolence that underlies the project of what they're trying to achieve that I just don't think is reconcilable with a civil society.
	Like, this is not going to end here, as much as I hate to say that.
	You know, I'd love to say, okay, well, it's all over, back to life as normal, but I don't think that's going to be the case.
	And I think that her point that, look, the Democrats really need to shut up and wind their necks in on the inciting violence thing, definitely needs to.
	I mean, this trended on Twitter the other day.
	Hang Mike Pence was trending on Twitter.
	Twitter had let that trend.
	That was trending for hours.
	Hang Mike Pence.
	And yet Parler gets suspended for failing to moderate the incitement of violence.
	But if we can go to the next one, John, just...
	Yeah, just look at that.
	Politics trending.
	Hang Mike Pence.
	That's fine.
	And Twitter is...
	If they go for impeachment, it goes to the Senate and you have, like, a full proper trial.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So we'll get to see this all play out.
	Are they really going to sit there in that chamber and try and claim that you've incited violence, blah, blah, blah, by saying, be peaceful, and we've done nothing.
	Well, I mean, let's play the next clip of them inciting riots.
	I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
	Maybe there will be.
	People need to start taking to the streets.
	This is a dictator.
	You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.
	Enemies of the state.
	Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
	Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless.
	If they go low, we kick them.
	How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?
	The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.
	I thought he should have punched him in the face.
	I said, even if he lost, he insulted your wife.
	He came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists immersed.
	He said, well, what do you think I should have done?
	I said, I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
	You would have been a hero.
	I'd like to punch him in the face.
	I said if we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
	Punch some people in the face!
	When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
	They're still gonna have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
	Look as his character is stabbed to death.
	Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
	I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
	A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
	I will go and take Trump out tonight.
	And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, In a department store!
	At a gasoline station!
	You get out and you create a crowd!
	And you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.
	And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
	They're not going to stop before Election Day in November and they're not going to stop after Election Day.
	And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't, they're not going to let up and they should not.
	If you think we're rallying now, you ain't seen nothing yet.
	Okay, we can stop there, John.
	Right, so yeah, that was done by Cauldron Pool, that montage.
	But there are plenty of these, I mean, like the Trump campaign must have made like three or four of these.
	Yeah, loads.
	Over the summer.
	And it's sort of like that meme magic that is politics, where these people can't help themselves, can they?
	No.
	Like, they obviously know how compromised they are, but they just keep going.
	Yeah, well now it seems to be like the big lie that they're propagating.
	It's like Trump was the one inciting violence, even though he said the opposite.
	And they're not the ones inciting violence, even though they're literally saying, get out in the streets, make sure they make their lives hell.
	Like, again, the reason that I'm doing this book club on lock is because, really, we're talking about the will that underpins the actions and the motives for it, right?
	What we're talking about is the establishment of a civil society means we're not actively working against one another and trying to destroy one another, and that's not what you can take from that.
	You can't say that the Democrats aren't actively trying to destroy Trump and the MAGA movement.
	Because they are.
	And in fact, we can see exactly how they are because apparently Democrats in both the House and Senate are planning to draft legislation to classify MAGA rallies as domestic terrorist activity and require the FBI, DOJ and DHS to take steps to prevent such domestic terrorism.
	That's mad.
	Now MAGA itself is going to be seen as domestic terrorism.
	That's insane.
	That's like a third of the country that they're going to stigmatize as terrorists.
	Imagine if saying riding with Biden is a domestic terrorist organization.
	Right.
	Let's talk about the people for Bernie.
	That would be 5% of the country would be stigmatized as terrorists.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But I mean, like, the People for Bernie account the other day was tweeting out the other day, literally just, you know, these people are terrorists, we must get rid of all of them.
	Like, really extreme rhetoric.
	If MAGA are, then at least Bernie's crowd is gone.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I mean, Bernie's crowd have committed acts of terrorism, as Steve Scalise can testify to.
	But this was Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter, saying that she's not against sending these people to Gitmo, saying the domestic terrorists who stormed the capital should be treated the same way we treat Al-Qaeda, which just shows that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?
	Mad, obviously.
	Then you've got a squad newcomer.
	Now, the squad being the radical left faction of the Democratic Party, sort of the Montagnard from the French Revolution...
	This is one Cori Bush of Missouri.
	She's a freshman who plans to introduce a resolution on Monday that could lead to the harshest possible sanction of sitting House members, which is expulsion.
	It's only happened five times in the nation's history.
	She's a new member of the squad and she says, tomorrow I'm introducing my resolution to expel members of Congress who tried to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist coup attempt that has left people dead.
	Okay.
	That's mad.
	Just insane framing.
	Where's the evidence for the white ceramics part?
	None.
	The guy with Norse tattoos?
	Is that it?
	I guess.
	Convincing.
	Baked Alaska?
	Very convincing.
	Notorious idiot.
	Like two out of what?
	How many were there?
	I mean, we saw the pictures of the crowd.
	There must have been, what, several hundred thousand?
	Presumably that little old lady who had her flag.
	She was probably a white supremacist.
	But anyone.
	Anyone is a white supremacist.
	But this just goes to show you the kind of lunatics who are getting involved.
	And I was going to talk about Biden and his focus, but we'll talk about that tomorrow, actually.
	So we don't worry about the last link there.
	Do you want to read some comments or anything?
	Yeah, there's a couple of superchats here I can go through, just so we can let John set himself up.
	So, first one here, from Dylan L. Does Trump still have time and power to pardon or even apologize to Assange and Snowden while claiming common cause of them as a deep-state victim and lock in his legend?
	I assume so.
	I, like everyone else, have moved to Gab, which is why Gab is suffering from server load problems, and on Minds.com, and what other platforms do we still have left in the alternative tech sphere?
	Depends what you define as alternative, I suppose.
	Because DLive is now kicking people off.
	Yeah.
	VK is even...
	Even the Russians are agreeing with progressives.
	It's mad.
	It's like, Jesus.
	But yeah, so...
	His point there about Snowden and Parler.
	Yeah, but this way, on Gab the other day, I just put, look, now is the time to pardon...
	Assange, Snowden, and Manning.
	Like, just pardon them all.
	Manning especially, because Manning being a radical leftist, surely would be like, no, I reject your pardon.
	Okay, enjoy jail.
	Oh no, she's been released already.
	But she did nothing wrong.
	It was whistleblowing.
	And all three of them, as prominent whistleblowers, should be pardoned.
	In my opinion.
	I mean, Assange is the easiest.
	It's like, act of journalism.
	Wow.
	Snowden I found a little bit more complex, because apparently the way he leaked it, he was a little bit not too careful.
	Okay, sure.
	Even then, ultimately, I'm on his side, yeah.
	That might be the reason they're trying to get rid of him so much.
	Presumably why he's hidden in Russia, yeah.
	No, no, I mean getting rid of Trump.
	Oh, maybe.
	We need to get rid of him now.
	Yeah, it could be, yeah.
	What's he going to do in those five days?
	Oh, I wonder.
	Yeah, he can do pardons.
	He can declassify things, as I am aware.
	But to be honest with you, he's not going to get a lot of traction doing anything else.
	Because I imagine that the infrastructure around would just wait out the clock and just say, oh, sorry, you're not the president anymore.
	You know, so it's only like, you know, what, nine, eight days now?
	So...
	But yeah.
	But anyway, let's keep going because we're going to run out of time.
	Okay, yes.
	Yeah, and again, the same Super Chat rule applies.
	We'll do some Super Chats at the end, but I mean, we just haven't got the time.
	And I really want to get this book club recorded today because it's very useful.
	Anyway, so let's continue with the further deplatforming of Donald Trump.
	Trump has one remaining Silicon Valley platform left, and that is his YouTube channel.
	Which is surprising, to be honest.
	I would have thought that YouTube would have just joined the bandwagon, jumped on, and deplatformed him too.
	I guess it is in keeping with the fact that YouTube...
	Yeah, you're right.
	Credit where it's due.
	I don't want to pick her up too much, but Susan Wojcicki, for all of her faults as a person and her mindset of content moderation, she does seem to not be as radical as Jack or Zuck or be surrounded with so many people who are so radical.
	Yeah, I agree.
	So, obviously, that means that the actor who played Borat as a moral legislator can come out and demand YouTube removes the President of the United States.
	Now, I take the actor who played Borat very seriously, as does everyone else.
	There's nothing funny about Sacha Baron Cohen, and you shouldn't laugh at him because he's certainly not a comedian.
	That's the last thing he wants is for this to be taken as a joke.
	He is demanding serious executive action through his authority as an actor.
	And I think that Sundar Pichai and Susan Wojcicki should do the right thing, too.
	Virtually every social media company has removed Trump, except YouTube.
	Trump's YouTube channel is still showing videos of election lies to millions of people.
	Ban Trump to save democracy.
	I totally agree.
	Totally agree.
	And if this unelected actor on social media can get the elected president deplatformed, then that's justice, in my opinion.
	That's how justice looks like.
	Just factually false as well for a second.
	The last video there from that account, even if you want to agree with the radical exposition and everything, that last video on his YouTube channel is him saying go home and also him conceding the election, I believe.
	There'll be a peaceful transfer of power.
	Go home in peace.
	That's enough to get him kicked.
	Because that's what he's really arguing about.
	According to moral authority, Sacha Baron Cohen, of course.
	Now, I mean, Trump admittedly has never made a movie in which he chants anti-Semitic songs, which may be to Trump's failing.
	If he did, maybe he would have the moral authority that this Borat Act has.
	Or an Islamophobic movie.
	Or an Islamophobic movie, yeah.
	And homophobic as well.
	Homophobic, yeah.
	And of course, naked sexism.
	The very characters he's playing are infused with sexism.
	Now, if Trump had done these things, he would be in a position that Borat's in.
	Sorry, Sacha Baron Cohen's in.
	And he would be able to make these kind of moral pronouncements and get other people deplatformed.
	But because Trump was not anti-Semitic, sexist, homophobic and racist enough, Trump can't do that.
	And he will be the one who's deplatformed.
	He doesn't have that kind of political capital that the left really appreciates.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	So moving on from the Robespierre of this current affair, we go on to Deutsche Bank, which has decided, and Signature, which have decided to de-platform Trump.
	And this is the terrifying bit.
	If they can be like, look, the sitting President of the United States, we're not going to do business with him anymore because of his political positions.
	I mean, Signature Bank And they both, you know, Trump owes them millions, basically.
	And Trump had two accounts with Signature Bank that had $5.3 million, which they're closing.
	They're just closing his accounts.
	I don't know what's happening to his money.
	Where's he going to put it?
	When he can't have a bank account, it's going to give him millions of dollars in bills and be like, right, there you go.
	This is what the US did to the, what is it, the Premier of Hong Kong?
	She has to carry around suitcases full of cash for her salary because she literally can't go to the bank.
	You know, that's a sanction tactic.
	So the Deutsche Bank are sanctioning the President of the United States.
	Yeah.
	It is mad.
	I mean, they literally say here...
	Is Deutsche Bank owned by the German government?
	I would have to check, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	But Signature Bank say, we believe the appropriate action would be the resignation of the President of the United States, which is in the best interest of our nation and the American people.
	Sorry, I mean, I guess you've got more moral authority than an anti-Semitic actor, but, like, why the hell should the banks be able to make this kind of demand?
	We're going to de-platform you unless you resign, is effectively what they're saying here.
	And, I mean, I don't even know.
	Maybe they're like, no, we're de-platforming you under any circumstances, whether you do what we demand or not.
	But anyway, that's the most disturbing deplatforming.
	But of course there were more.
	Twitter has removed 70,000 QAnon accounts.
	Facebook has decided to remove all Stop the Steal content.
	So anything with the phrase Stop the Steal is being deplatformed.
	As well as, of course, and as reported on Lotuses.com, the walkaway movement that had been deplatformed as well.
	This is a really great article that Hugo's written and we'll link in the description because it's got a big list of places and it's all of the details that you'll need.
	Just for people who don't know, the walk away movement is probably the most tepid Republican thing in imagination.
	Is it even Republican?
	No.
	It's Democrats saying, we think the Democratic Party's gone too far so we're going to walk away.
	Objecting to the squad and the radical left-wing politics that have been infused into the Democratic Party by them.
	And the walk-away movement is a response to that, saying, look, we don't agree with this.
	It's not even explicitly a Trump movement or anything like this.
	It's not even explicitly Republican, actually.
	It's just the Democrats have to change because they've become a bunch of racists, basically.
	And, yeah, anyway, so, you know, the...
	They literally say Walk Away was established from the goal of helping individuals on the political left being able to distance themselves from the Democratic Party and its divisive tenets.
	So yeah, I completely agree.
	And then, of course, you get the Visigrad Group.
	Tell me about the Visigrad Group.
	So the Visigrad Group is essentially a grouping of a few nations that are sort of anti-EU in Eastern Europe.
	So you've got Poland, Czech, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, old habits die hard, and Hungary.
	And all of them have their sort of anti-EU, which we find kind of based when they're anti-EU. But they also do some other things.
	But the Visigrad group account is literally just an account that posts statements from their national leaders and images of Prague going, oh, Prague looks brilliant in the snow.
	I mean, it probably does.
	Here's the food of Hungary.
	Isn't it nice?
	Probably delicious.
	I love goulash.
	But that's it.
	It's nothing extreme.
	It's nothing even out of the mainstream for these countries.
	And these are elected leaders.
	Elected leaders, yeah.
	These are not like...
	You know, fringe weirdos on the internet or something.
	God knows what it was, because they don't even seem to know what on earth got them deplatformed.
	But Facebook just says, nah, you have to go.
	I mean, that's the leaders of four European countries.
	Mad.
	Screw you.
	Facebook have spoken.
	And then the one that I think really outraged most people is Ron Paul.
	How can Ron Paul be worthy of deplatforming?
	I'm still on the position that Ron Paul can still win.
	That's why.
	He's claiming election interference there.
	In my election in 2000 or whatever it was.
	I love Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul is a promoter of the golden rule.
	Do unto others as you have them do unto you.
	Is this how Facebook would have them be done unto, is it?
	It's not very social justice, is it?
	It's crazy.
	It's like, I mean, he's never had, as I said, a notice of violating the community standards.
	He's not had anything pulled.
	And he wasn't notified of this.
	And yet, no, you're locked out of your page.
	You're not allowed to use this page.
	I mean, Ron Paul...
	I don't think he even said anything about the Capitol or Trump.
	I don't even think he's pro-Trump because he's a big libertarian.
	Yeah, he's not really pro-Trump, no.
	So it's like, for what?
	I mean, this is the most tepid of tepid Republicans again.
	If Ron Paul, a constitutionalist, is not mainstream conservatism, then nothing is.
	Then it's just leftism.
	But anyway...
	Ben Shapiro.
	How's Ben Shapiro still up?
	If Ron Paul's down, went...
	Yeah, exactly.
	On what do Ben Shapiro and Ron Paul disagree?
	Nothing.
	Absolutely nothing.
	But anyway, and then you get, of course, YouTuber Dave Cullen, who ran the channel Computing Forever.
	His channel was just unceremoniously yeeted from YouTube.
	Yeah, wasn't this for a spiritualism video?
	Yeah, yeah, that was it.
	He said something as a spiritual battle or something.
	And YouTube were like, this is against our community guidelines, therefore we're taking down your entire channel.
	Not even just a warning, just...
	Yeah, just entire channel.
	Sorry?
	It was Third Strike, was it?
	Right, okay.
	So, yeah, Third Strike, take down the entire channel.
	And then today, this was like two days ago, but today his channel's been restored with no warning and no reason given to Dave.
	And can we get up his Gab post?
	We can.
	Gab's actually, right, I'm really impressed with Gab at the moment.
	It's looking a lot better than I used to use it.
	Isn't it?
	I signed up for Gab Online in 2016 or whenever it came out, and it didn't look nearly this neat and tidy, and it is looking very, very nice now.
	So you can follow me on Gab at Sargon of a Gab.
	But yeah, so Dave Cullen's channel was back.
	But the thing is, I mean, look at what he said.
	For some odd reason, my YouTube channel, Computing Forever, was reinstated last night, though I suspect it will only be a temporary situation.
	It doesn't change my plans to permanently switch to alt-tech.
	The channel will likely be removed again.
	I've already reached my decision to migrate away from Google, so please find my new content on the following sites.
	Now, this really is...
	Abusive behaviour.
	Like, if this was a spouse who had come to you and said, right, we're breaking up, and then the next day they came back and said, no, actually, I love you, come back to me, and stuff like that, you'd be like, you're manipulating me, you're messing with my emotions.
	You know, this isn't a healthy relationship.
	And what YouTube is doing is essentially abusive towards the people, because, like, why?
	There's no accountability.
	No one understands why YouTube makes the decisions they make.
	And so I don't blame him for moving away from Google.
	I do not blame him at all.
	And if you're watching this on YouTube, the fact that you're watching this on YouTube is part of the problem, really.
	You could go to lotusthesis.com and watch this live stream to the site, but instead you came to YouTube, which enables these people to continue hanging this over our heads.
	We will also be uploading everything to BitChute.
	Yep, everything will be on BitChute, Mines, Gab, all of the other non-Silicon Valley platforms, our own website.
	You can get this content anywhere else, but the fact that you guys are on YouTube means that YouTube has power and influence over us.
	And it's really frustrating because I'd love to be able to make the sort of jokes we used to make before and talk about...
	I'm dreading the day we get to platform from YouTube because this show is going to go a lot more interesting.
	Well, I'm not saying it's not, but...
	But it's really frustrating that the editorial policies of YouTube constrain us in such a tight way.
	It never used to be like this.
	But anyway, there are world leaders who decry this deplatforming.
	You've got Michael McCormick, who's the acting Australian Prime Minister.
	The Junior Minister for European Affairs in France said that he was shocked to see this.
	This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO, he said on Bloomberg TV. And France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, called tech giants the digital oligarchy and one of the big threats to democracy.
	Even Angela Merkel was backing Trump.
	Even Angela Merkel got her MAGA cap on and was like, no, this is wrong, right?
	In the political article, the fundamental right of freedom of expression could be interfered with, but along the lines of law and within the framework defined by the lawmakers, not according to the decisions of the management of social media platforms.
	Says one of her staffers.
	Well, I mean, I don't agree that it can be interfered with, really.
	So you took this as like, they also hate Silicon Valley, therefore...
	They do.
	That's one thing.
	I think it's actually them realising, because these are national leaders, realising, well, if they can get rid of the US president, why can't they get rid of me?
	Exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	I mean, they're all in the same boat here, because they all occupy essentially the same position, and if the most powerful among them of their peer group can just be roundly deplatformed and censured by everyone, and just totally ruined in this way, then they're all potentially on the chopping block.
	And not only that, they feel it's their perspective and their place to be able to censor people.
	They don't want other people doing it.
	They're saying, look, the right can be interfered with, but don't encroach on our territory.
	That's our job.
	It's like, oh, great.
	You know, rival censors.
	But anyway, finally, there's the epic statement on Parler.
	Now, Epic hosts Gab, and they've said they've had no contact with Parler and their team.
	And they make quite a great point, to be honest.
	they say, at the end, Great sentence.
	That is a great sentence, isn't it?
	And it exactly hits the mark.
	They're treating themselves like a new aristocracy, as the French finance minister pointed out, and they are not.
	Do you want to go for some super chance?
	Yeah, it's still true.
	I really like that the elected representatives are not worth any more than anyone else.
	Did you see that?
	I think it was the Florida's governor who hadn't got the jab yet.
	He was just like, look, I'm not more important than anyone else.
	Sod off.
	He wasn't having it from the meeting.
	I didn't see that.
	So I've got one here from Adam.
	I'm just reading what's on my screen, guys, so it's out of order.
	Adam, where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
	Ah, yes.
	Democrats showing their true colours by idolising a man who killed the president for freeing the slaves.
	A man who killed a Republican president for freeing the slaves.
	And they're like, yeah, God, we wish he'd come back.
	Yeah, very telling.
	That's amazing.
	There's a lot of things they want back.
	Arceus, censorship is cringe.
	Here's some American pesos for bringing a brighter future for my baby of a cat.
	Thank you very much.
	Matthew Fallon, Idaho internet provider is banning Facebook and Twitter.
	Yes, I forgot to include that.
	We saw that.
	Good.
	There should be more kickback.
	Yeah, like we saw Poland's doing the same thing, which we're all very excited about.
	Germany should do it.
	Why not?
	Because here's the thing, like we're pointing out there, Merkel finding out that essentially she doesn't have the power, Silicon Valley has the power.
	Because it's not about the money for them.
	Well, it was initially.
	They wanted money from...
	No, no, they did want money from Silicon Valley.
	I know.
	But I reckon that this is more important to them than the money.
	They've got plenty of money they can steal from Greece, don't worry.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, no.
	Well, I'm sure that this is more important to them in a sort of immediate sense.
	But like, a couple of years ago, when it was...
	Oh, what was the...
	What was the article that we went to the European Parliament for?
	Article 13 and Article 11.
	Right, yeah, there we go.
	When we went there, they were trying to extract money from Silicon Valley because of local European news outlets and various links and things like that were being shared on Silicon Valley platforms, which meant there were clicks going to these that weren't being generated into cash or something, or revenue in some way, and they wanted to extract that money from Silicon Valley and return it to Europe.
	You know, I don't agree, really, that they should be able to do that.
	I didn't like the fact that I found myself in defense of Silicon Valley, but it just seemed to be the just thing.
	Got to be done.
	Sorry?
	Got to be done.
	Yeah, got to be done.
	And yeah, but now, so they already dislike Silicon Valley anyway, for its impetuous response to their demands for money.
	And now they realize, Christ, Silicon Valley can be more powerful than elected leaders.
	Terrifying.
	Yeah.
	One more here.
	So, Thunderstorm.
	I'm disappointed.
	Big brother in the book movie had uniforms.
	Yeah.
	That's a good point.
	Terrible fashion sense from the progressives.
	Yep.
	Are we ready to go, John?
	Yep.
	We'll load it up next segment.
	Right.
	I want to talk about Andy Ngo, because something interesting happened over the last day in which...
	So Andy Ngo is bringing out a new book about his recollection of his experiences with Antifa, the violence they've done, the terrorism they've engaged in, particularly over the last year and how bad it has been because it's probably the worst year in American history for it.
	I don't want to spoil the book.
	He sent us a review copy, full disclosure.
	I've read quite a bit of it.
	What would you give it so far?
	It's great.
	I'm enjoying it.
	Two thumbs up.
	Yes.
	And these Antifar guys turned up to rally against him publishing a book because him publishing a book in which he just displays this is what they believe, this is what they've engaged in, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	This is what they've done.
	Yeah.
	This is bad.
	Well, it is for them because what they've done is bad.
	So this is important to know.
	If we can play the first video here, you can hear them shouting.
	Stop selling Andy No's book!
	How can you have DLM section?
	Stop selling Andy No's book!
	So yeah.
	And that goes on for a while.
	They're just shouting at the guy.
	And this is the owner of the bookstore.
	But the book isn't even out yet, is it?
	Yeah.
	It's not even public.
	These guys haven't read it.
	They don't have a copy.
	Well, I mean, they don't need to read it.
	They're going to be like, Andy knows going to make us look bad by telling people what we've done.
	Yeah.
	His name is on it, and that's enough.
	So the second one here is just them saying that they're going to come back every single day.
	We won't play the video for that one.
	Oh, you know what?
	Yeah, let's do it.
	So they were back here at the bookstore.
	We will shut down the store!
	We will shut down the store every day!
	You will lose money every day!
	Every day that you sell his book!
	We will shut down the store!
	Okay.
	Terrorist.
	So you could see the owner came out there earlier, and he tried to reason with them, which, bad move.
	Good luck, yeah.
	Like, that ain't gonna work.
	And this is one of the more talkative, I'm not gonna say reasonable, members explaining her position on this.
	Okay.
	One thing that I do want to say is that earlier, the owner of the only black bookstore here in Portland came up and told us, had some criticisms for what we were doing today.
	And I completely understand those criticisms, being that they sell Mein Kampf, they sell these things, but they don't sell the anarchist book books.
	But anyway, I see that argument, but also at the same time, this is active fascism.
	There's a difference between the historical value that we get from Mein Kampf, from that thing, to not repeat that.
	This is different.
	This is active fascism that we can do something about right now.
	Because if Mein Kampf hadn't been published, You know what I'm saying?
	This is active fascism that we can fight in this moment.
	And this is what we have to do.
	We have to show up every day until we stop selling that fucking book.
	That's all.
	Okay, that is wild, right?
	Hey, I mean, this is the Booker Manifesto?
	Andy's book.
	I'm not going to talk about the contents too much, but it's not anything extreme.
	Is he presenting a worldview in the same way Hitler was in Mein Kampf?
	No.
	Right.
	So he's just documenting events?
	He's giving his account of them.
	So that's why they're so upset.
	It's an accurate description of them and their movement.
	But...
	Awful.
	Which is why it's a problem.
	That's why it's active fascism.
	I'm in agreement.
	I love the way that she is actively defending Mein Kampf.
	And saying, no, no, no, there's historical value in Mein Kampf.
	It's fine that these other bookstores sell Hitler's manifesto, but it's not okay for them to sell Andy Ngo talking about us.
	Yeah.
	That's unreal.
	Just what Andy Ngo has to say about the, you know, Antifa and the movement.
	That's got no value whatsoever.
	But Hitler's worldview, I mean, he's got some decent points.
	Historical value?
	That's their opinion.
	Historical value?
	Like...
	The Antifa endorsing Hitler.
	But also the complaint that they don't...
	How is it that they think Andy Ngo is like Hitler?
	Because everyone's like Hitler to them, isn't it?
	Except they think Hitler's got some valid points, or at least it's got historical value or something, right?
	For anyone who doesn't know, we've had Andy Ngo on the podcast, and he is a very lovely, mild-mannered chap who doesn't demagogue, so he's not very much like Hitler.
	He's an incredibly soft-spoken, careful person who tries to be as accurate as he can.
	Yes.
	And that's the problem.
	Yes.
	That's obviously the problem.
	I love the defense, like, they don't store the anarchist cookbook.
	Oh, yeah, that was another...
	Yeah, exactly.
	The anarchist cookbook, for anyone who doesn't know, right?
	This is...
	I think it began as, like, a document that was passed around on the web in the 90s, right?
	And so it was one of those things that in school you would hear about.
	And it has bomb-making instructions and trap-making instructions and how to conduct insurrections and stuff like this.
	And it's like, why would they sell that?
	That's not a novel.
	That's not an informative book.
	That's a terrorist manual.
	It doesn't have the communist terrorist manual.
	But it's the terrorist manual for her movement.
	Yeah, for her movement.
	Yeah, the communist terrorist manual.
	But they do have Andy Ngo talking about the communist terrorists and also Mein Kampf.
	Yeah.
	It's unreal.
	Sorry, go on.
	Yeah, so the police had to turn up to this bookstore, and I remind people this is over a book.
	This is over a man who has written a thing.
	The police turned up and they had to quell the situation because they were just harassing this random bookstore for no reason other than they have written a book that they don't even know what's in it.
	They haven't read a single page.
	And it got worse, so they didn't just stand there shouting.
	Of course it got worse.
	On one situation, I'm...
	If they want to protest the bookstore, they look stupid and sound like idiots.
	But they did harm the place.
	They vandalized.
	Of course they did.
	This is some stickers they put over the thing.
	Please be fully secure.
	Your racism before entry.
	Yes.
	Can you press play?
	Make sure your racism is secure, like that copy of Mein Kampf from the other bookstore.
	Yeah.
	Just so you can see, they put placards all over the store.
	They've had to shut down the store.
	They've lost business for a day, at least.
	Hell no, we won't know.
	That's a clever play on words.
	But it's social terrorism.
	We will socially terrorize you until you do what we want.
	And we can get the next one up.
	You can see there, this is the store opening hours they put up.
	Continue to vandalize it.
	You know, it's not very serious.
	Fascist o'clock to COVID o'clock?
	Oh no, chudder clock, sorry.
	Select rooms opening for sucking Andy Nose member.
	Service white supremacists only.
	Very progressive.
	They've reached the opinion of the jihadists.
	Not here for black lives.
	Jesus.
	But they've reached the opinion of the jihadists, which is if someone publishes something, then we've got to go after them.
	It's such pathetic stuff.
	And it works, apparently.
	So if we can keep going.
	This is Andy Ngo responding to Pal's Books, which is the bookstore is Pal's Books, saying that they will be taking this book down.
	This book will not be placed on our shelves.
	We will not promote it.
	That said, it will remain in our online catalogue.
	We carry a lot of books that we'd find abhorrent, as those with other things we treasure.
	Then we'll go on to stuff later.
	But the action here is, these people turned up to our bookstore.
	They socially terrorised us into shutting down.
	And then we're going to have to not have this book here.
	I bet that bookshop carries Mein Kampf.
	They do.
	They admitted they did.
	The bookshop owner said, yeah, we have Mein Kampf.
	I mean, she was referencing that.
	I just think it'd be really funny if Mein Kampf ended up selling out from that bookstore.
	LAUGHTER We couldn't get Andy Nose books, so we had to go for the second best option.
	It was really well advertised by the protesters.
	Oh, man.
	But yeah, the people running these things decided to say that they're going to do this every single day until this book is taken down, so I suggest that.
	I guess that's saving the hassle.
	And if you check the account...
	Are there any other books you'd like to burn?
	I'm sure there are plenty.
	Why would they stop here?
	Why would they just stop with Andy Nose?
	Well, they're not going for my camp, are they?
	We're going to get rid of that one.
	That's got historical value.
	You've got to understand.
	It's a sacred text for them.
	But if you check out the account of the people posting this, they're literally called Andy Ngo's book Terrorism.
	It's like, okay.
	But this isn't terrorism.
	It's like, this is fine.
	This is nothing, Berger.
	And I wanted to go to Powell's commitment to free speech, which is their full statement on this.
	So this is like, I don't know, some blood for the free speech people.
	You know, the United States citizens, as you would imagine, the freedom-loving Americans.
	And their argument here is, there are books in our store inventory that contain ideas that run counter to our company and our employees' values of safety, equality, and justice.
	However, many of us also read these books to inform ourselves about events, learn about local and global history, and to understand the arguments of people and groups with whom we disagree.
	I assume they're referring to, of course, The Lord of the Rings.
	I mean, who endorses Sauron's plan to take over Middle-earth?
	I don't agree with that.
	I read that book, or at least most of it.
	It was kind of boring.
	But I didn't endorse Sauron's plan to genetically modify elves and turn them into a...
	Oh, that was Sauron's plan.
	Sorry.
	But I mean, see, two plans.
	If it was communally done among the commune, then it would be...
	It was definitely the age of industrialisation.
	But again, I wanted to return to nature, and so I actually do object to them holding these books that contains ideas I don't agree with.
	So they continue.
	While we understand that our decision to carry such books upsets some customers and staff members...
	Upsets.
	Key point here.
	It's a book.
	Yep.
	We do not want to create an echo chamber of pre-approved voices and ideas.
	It is not our mission or inclination to decide to whom our customers should listen.
	So why would you de-platform Andy No?
	Like, lovely words, but and yet, you still did it to Andy No.
	You said, we're not going to host your book.
	Yeah.
	So I don't give a toss what they have to say for the rest of this thing.
	You've still got copies of The Hobbit in which Smaug steals the dwarves' gold.
	I don't agree.
	This is unacceptable.
	You need to take this down.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Hell no.
	So, this isn't going to stop either.
	I bet they're going to carry on going further.
	Of course it's not going to stop.
	We spoke about, I think it was Josh Hawley, the senator who wrote Big Tech Tyranny, and in response to the Big Tech Tyranny that's come out, they've also deplatformed him.
	Yeah, yeah, they tyrannized him.
	I mean, this is how pathetic the United States political dialogue is getting, where the leftist will just go out and ban books, like books by a senator, by a very moderate journalist documenting his journalism.
	How is this different from the Nazis burning the books of the Institute for Sexual Research, or whatever it was called?
	The piles of book burning, that's from a Jewish academic's research in sex and sexuality.
	They're just burning in a big pile.
	How's it any different?
	What's the difference?
	But they've got Antifa in the name.
	They're anti-fascists, as Don Lemon tells us.
	Well, the National Socialists had socialists in the name.
	Is that...
	Oh, no!
	Oh, it was in the name!
	The name doesn't mean anything!
	Exactly.
	So pathetic.
	Their socialist policies meant something.
	Yeah.
	So I wanted to mention this just because I couldn't believe my eyes.
	Maybe I'm just naive and I should be expecting this breakdown at this point.
	But I also wanted to get out the Amazon link, which is just Andy's book.
	Also just to point out, 25th of February release date.
	Right, okay.
	It's not public.
	They don't know what's in it.
	We'll do a book club on that, doubtless.
	We will be.
	Hopefully we're going to try and get Andy back to talk about it as well.
	So it'll be, I don't know, the first book club where we have the author.
	Oh wow, that'll be awesome.
	Yeah, that'll be awesome.
	And yeah, if you want to pre-order so we can go through it together, that'll be a thing.
	Yeah.
	I didn't want this to just go by the wayside.
	Because there's another point here, which is that this kind of socialist terrorism.
	I'm going to call all these people social terrorism.
	It is social terrorism, yeah.
	I don't know what else we should call them at this point.
	You know, how many more people and how many more monotops?
	Thank you.
	These folks doing it so much that everyone's bored of it.
	I know.
	I know a lot of people at home will probably be like, okay, they went to the bookstore.
	Yes, again.
	Again.
	But it's that fascist thing.
	And I remember the story being told to me about Menafrego with the fascists in Italy.
	Yeah, we don't care.
	We don't care.
	They just murdered the person and we don't care.
	And they moved on.
	They kept going.
	And no one ever cared.
	And that's what's happened with Antifa and the democratic movement.
	And that's part of the reason I find what happened on the Capitol.
	So, eh.
	Like, I'm obviously against it.
	You know, not interested in it.
	I'm not in favor of it.
	But at the end of the day, much worse has happened.
	But that's the point.
	While the Republican response was, you know, we care.
	We give it up.
	This should not be taking place.
	Whereas the leftist response, every one of these just falls under the radar.
	And I don't want to get into that position.
	I'm with you.
	So let's go to the Super Chats because we've got some time left.
	Right, okay.
	So MuteStream says, since you did not read it yesterday, forgive me for I have sinned.
	Go to lotussimpers.com and vote.
	Callum is in the lead.
	Unacceptable.
	I'm going to check that out.
	Is that a real thing?
	Simpwars.com also works.
	Let's break the ice of these dark times.
	Please don't sue me.
	I'm not going to sue you.
	Nesedia says, here in Germany, Merkel wants to prolong the lockdown until Easter.
	Is that a real thing?
	It's good as well.
	I just deleted it.
	Oh god, it's better than our own website.
	Yeah, there we go.
	Such belongs us.
	How am I not winning?
	How has someone put effort into this?
	Come on, keto bros!
	Vote.
	Let's see the results.
	I'm voting for myself.
	Look, there's like Keto Bros, Calamus gets the job done, Huguenots, it gets worse.
	Yeah, yeah, go for it.
	Someone put effort into this, so let's give it a plug.
	Jesus Christ, you guys are weird.
	Where do I get the results?
	Oh, there we go.
	John, you look like a dictator.
	Oh, the results aren't loading for me.
	Oh, okay.
	maybe they're getting traffic issues that's amazing Like, I always thought the simps would amount to nothing.
	Yeah, simps rise up.
	Oh, boy.
	Right, okay.
	That's very good.
	Um...
	Sorry, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, it does that from time to time.
	Yeah, there we go.
	Should I pass it?
	Right.
	Here in Germany, Merkel wants to prolong the lockdown until Easter.
	My colleagues laughed at me and I told them, believing the Chancellor wouldn't be so unreasonable.
	Ha ha.
	Yeah, well, we're still in another lockdown yet again.
	And I keep watching the comments on the Swindon Advertiser, where everyone's like, oh, well, if any people would follow the lockdown.
	It's like, everyone has been.
	Everything's closed.
	Everyone's at home.
	What do you want?
	We are confirmed we'll be doing it till the end of May, so the start of April.
	And we also confirmed that I think the pubs will be shut till then as well.
	This massive self-flagellation.
	And they were saying, well, we've got the peak number of cases.
	And it's like, well, then lockdowns aren't working, are they?
	I don't know what to say.
	I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says the ministry has fallen.
	Liberty is dead.
	They're coming.
	Ivan Mechenek says strip people's voices of them and finally dehumanise them.
	This is how to justify genocide.
	Yeah, it is genuinely genocidal language that is coming out of the left at the moment.
	And it's terrifying, frankly.
	The dehumanization of the opposition is just the worst thing you can see.
	The engaged few say once in office, Biden should call for Pelosi's prosecution removal for incitement to mutiny.
	It removes a dangerous enemy, sends a message to potential enemies and defends his office and gets him points with the right.
	He should, but he wouldn't.
	GuitarOperate says, Finally a paid member on the site.
	Thank you very much.
	I went for the mid-level.
	The premium content is excellent.
	Maybe even more excellent than the Pornhub Premium.
	Well, if it's even better than Pornhub Premium, that's a ringing endorsement that we will definitely accept.
	They actually did have to delete all their content as well, didn't they?
	They did.
	But yeah, our premium content I'm very, very proud of.
	Actually, I've got to say.
	Very happy with my Memento Mori article.
	Very pleased with it, but you'd have to be a premium member to read it.
	CLC says, What I have learned from the left to control the social media.
	If the right controls the trucking, it's our right to stop shipping food and fuel to violent cities.
	We get to pick which cities.
	Yeah, again, it's an uncivil society, which puts us back into a kind of state of nature, which means that we can end up in a state of war if John Locke is imagining these things correctly.
	And the thing is, I think there is real value in what you're saying, but this is why I'll do the thing afterwards.
	Troy Burgall says, isn't Trump's digital takedown eerily similar to Gaius Gracchus' death?
	Mind blown.
	Yeah, see, I called it.
	Trump is a Gracchi.
	We haven't reached Caesar yet.
	But, I mean, it was only one generation, really, from the Gracchus to, well, maybe two, I suppose.
	I'd have to go and check the timeline.
	But you've got the Gracchi, then you've got Marius and Sulla, then you've got Caesar.
	So we've still got the civil war of Marius and Sulla to go yet, and Sulla's march on Rome, which will be where the Democrats really will get the raw end of things, I suspect.
	So there's an update on the Anarchist Cookbook from Grant Thompson here.
	The original Anarchist Cookbook was made by a man disillusioned by America.
	It provided tactics, improvised weapon builds, and narcotic recipes, many not being accurate.
	Updated copies circulated the internet.
	He later denounced it and became a Christian.
	Based.
	I'm not even a Christian, but yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	I want to stop destroying the world.
	Anything that isn't communist agitation is based, okay?
	Yeah.
	I'm not endorsing that.
	Quitter.
	TF Fullspark.
	Norwegian money to our British heroes.
	This isn't reparations.
	You've earned this.
	Thank you very much.
	Landry Chamberlain says, I'm curious why more people aren't pondering the Antifa infiltrated the storming capital movement.
	If you look closely at the pictures, the leaders look like fake caricatures of cliche MAGA people.
	Because I can't prove either way, to be honest.
	I don't want to start speculating on things I can't confirm to any extent.
	I don't think it's fair to say that the protesters weren't MAGA supporters.
	I think that most of them were, at least.
	But I can't rule out that there weren't any glow-in-the-darks or Antifa infiltrating, of course.
	Joe Woodland, I heard last night that some state government's mishandling of the coup is going to affect congressional districts for their states.
	More scapegoat, please.
	Lucas Pina says, Trump has declared a state of emergency in D.C. Legions raised.
	Very doubtful.
	Very doubtful.
	Unless these National Guardsmen are Trump loyalists, highly unlikely.
	But like we were saying, this is the death of the Gracchi brothers that we're watching.
	Caesar's yet to come.
	Who's the Marius, do you think?
	You don't know anything about the Realm of the Republic, do you?
	I've watched a bunch of Historia Civilis' videos, but that's about it.
	Right, okay.
	Well, I wonder who the Marius is going to be.
	Ryan Seeley says, Jordan Peterson must feel like he has woken up in a nightmarish alternate reality.
	Well, everything he predicted has come true, really, isn't it?
	I wonder if he's following the news.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, like, but he's been right about all of this.
	Dylan L for $100 Canadian dollars.
	Thank you very much, Dylan.
	Does Trump still have time and power to pardon and even apologize to Assange and Snowden while claiming common cause with him?
	Yeah, we read that one.
	But I agree he probably does.
	Earl of Longford...
	I'm seriously concerned from talking to good friends that in this post-truth world, made up of isolated echo chambers, bad things are going to happen.
	How do you pull yourself back from the edge?
	Well, I mean, the way to de-radicalize people is to make sure that they're included in the same conversation that everyone else is having.
	So censoring them is the path to radicalization.
	It guarantees radicalization.
	The path to deradicalization is inclusion, which means bringing all of these people back onto the platforms and addressing the claims that they're making.
	You know, transparently, you can head on.
	You know, what's their best claim?
	Right, okay, is there any truth to it?
	And if there is some truth to it, they're taking action to show that people are being held accountable.
	Like, again, the poll watchers in Detroit not being allowed in...
	There are organizers in Detroit who need to go to jail for that.
	That's a federal crime.
	That has a jail sentence as punishment.
	If the Democrats are just going to lock arms and be like, yep, no one on us, I did anything wrong, then I dread to think what the consequences of that will be.
	I think Prevent agree with you as well.
	Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure their advice is that if you see someone who's isolating themselves, they're becoming radicalised.
	And the correct thing to do is to continue to interact with them and bring them back from it and address what they're thinking.
	Yeah, talk to them.
	But anyway, Silicon Valley seem to want to directly radicalise people.
	Garrison says, I'm an Alaskan, or as an Alaskan, I'm begging the Democrats not to force me to think down the iron sights.
	Well, yeah, like, just don't.
	And again, this is why I'm doing this book club, because it's the foundational ideology of the Republicans in the United States.
	It's what they all think, whether they know it or not.
	And so what they're going to do is actually predictable, as much as I don't want them to do anything, of course.
	We do not encourage action here.
	We are...
	Merely observers here, of course, but it's predictable what's going to come next.
	Bastier says, only incitement if it passes the Brandenburg test.
	I do know what that is, but I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.
	I've heard it before, the Brandenburg test.
	I'll go look.
	Person of the years, Vatinik.
	Hyperbole is the Democrats' weapon of choice.
	Yes, completely.
	Joe Woodland says, how would you feel on making the trade-off for lifting the parliamentary mace, being bopped with it?
	It seems to be lifted more and more frivolously of late.
	So the Brandenburg test was a case in which the Ku Klux Klan, I read this before so let me get it, I'm pretty sure it's right, they wanted to march down somewhere where they would incite violence was the argument, because the locals were black, and then the counter-argument was, well it doesn't matter what the locals are like, they have a First Amendment right to be wherever they want.
	And they won.
	Because it was like, look, just because they hate this group in which they're marching.
	So Oswald Mosley marching in a Jewish area, for example.
	It doesn't matter.
	That's not incitement to violence.
	Incitement to violence is them standing there and saying, we will now cause violence to these people.
	You should attack them.
	Provocation isn't enough for incitement to violence.
	Yes.
	True Chaos 6 says, I'm so tired of being gaslit by Dems.
	They incite violence every day.
	They dehumanize, silence, ostracize us, destroy our lives, but we are the problem.
	I just want to be left alone.
	Yep, they're not going to leave you alone, I'm afraid.
	And you know that.
	And you're exactly right about the gaslighting.
	It's staggering, staggering the way things are.
	And the fact that there are people on social media who don't even read the New York Times reports on what Pelosi has been trying to do to Trump is mad.
	Because...
	It's just out of bounds.
	Well, that's how you know you're in an echo chamber.
	Yeah, it is.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And if you don't even take the time to watch the videos you're criticizing.
	Alexander Cross, with all the movement to alt-tech platforms, what do you recommend for a replacement search engine?
	I'm using DuckDuckGo.
	I've got that set as my default search engine in my browsers now.
	We use Brave in the office?
	I'm still using Chrome on my laptop, I should update that.
	Yeah.
	Ah, okay.
	Yeah, yeah, Brave the browser.
	But again, it's not Google.
	It works fine as well.
	It works great.
	No, I'm going to do that now.
	The thing about Google as well is that if you're searching for anything political, you will only get one side of the opinion.
	I can't find counter-arguments through Google.
	I have to use DuckDuckGo if I want to see what the alternative to the current media narrative is.
	So they, and this is the worst thing that Google can do, is actually give a use to the alternative services.
	There's a reason for them existing and a reason for people using them.
	They're going to grow.
	So, anyway, R Dubu says, "The only thing Dems and Republicans is good for is fertilizer.
	Time to buy lots of farmland." Cerberus, "At work listening, I was wondering if you heard about the parlor hack.
	Apparently the hacker hacks are considering a mass doxing.
	Tankies don't understand that.
	It's a bad idea." I've heard about it, but I also heard it was fake news, and I don't know anything about the subject, so I haven't bothered looking into any further details.
	Grimbold Knight says, Yeah.
	I'm not your buddy, Guy.
	The culprits have incited turmoil.
	We're absolutely from within.
	Always...
	John, can you move the cursor, please?
	Always read between the lines.
	AJcos.
	My favourite 4chan quote from the last few days.
	Guys, I don't think there was any 4D chess.
	I think he was actually stupid the whole time.
	LAUGHTER Well, I mean, I don't agree with the 4D chess thoughts at this point.
	I think, frankly, the villains have just been victorious.
	The idea that Trump's been stupid the whole time.
	Yeah, that's why he got voted for.
	Yeah.
	Like I said, he's a bumbling fool, but he's our bumbling fool.
	And he made good decisions, frankly.
	You know, at the end of the day.
	Siko, what's your opinion on Switzerland?
	It's most similar things to the US, like guns, but almost no gun crimes.
	And every region is having the same local government.
	It's not true they have almost no gun crimes, actually.
	Switzerland actually does have a significant rate of gun crime.
	But all of the men are required to go through the army and have a gun in their houses.
	Because Switzerland has like 4 million people in it.
	So good luck raiding someone's house.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I bet there's far fewer burglaries.
	But the tattoo on the shaman, there are several Christian churches that have adopted it as a sign of the Holy Trinity.
	Possible explanation.
	Or it could be some idiotic, esoteric thing about interdimensional lizard people.
	So, I mean, he seemed like that kind of guy.
	I mean, cool.
	Yeah, cool.
	Yennel said, William the Conqueror tried to silence the English language.
	Didn't work.
	Big techs trying to silence conservatives.
	Won't work.
	History repeats.
	Garrison says, in line with Heinlein, universal suffrage was a mistake.
	Well, Heinlein was prescient as well, because, I mean, like, the rule of the scientists and the social sciences seem to be causing the upheaval and ruin of society, and the revolt of the veterans is kind of what happened on Capitol Hill.
	Yeah.
	This is what happened in the Capitol protest.
	The woman shot was a veteran.
	A lot of these people are going to be veterans.
	So the fact that he predicted this so accurately is interesting.
	Chris Robertson, to be fair, zip ties could have been to restraint.
	Antifa, just having zip ties doesn't imply criminal intent.
	No, but I think that you...
	Not necessarily, but I think if I were to reasonably infer...
	I think we can reasonably infer that this guy had intentions to tie up someone.
	And I don't think he should be doing that.
	Hunter Heath says, you guys should check out online great books.
	It's a book club and a podcast.
	Cool.
	Royal Ulster Constabulary.
	Since everyone shills here, can I get a shill from my Instagram and other pages?
	Which is at 1801project.
	For those who want to support unionism and its memes.
	Definitely go to at 1801project.
	Political Pothead says Trump approval went up since the storming of the Capitol.
	They're making Cheeto, Hitler, and Marta with the censorship, and they don't even realise it.
	I haven't checked since there, but before the storming, his approval was going up.
	But you'll notice how all the pressure on him has suddenly disappeared, because all the focus is on the censorship.
	They had just shut their mouths, said this is bad, and didn't censor him.
	They'd be riding high on political capital, and now they've got nothing.
	Because everyone loves the underdog.
	Everyone can see the flow of force, the application of force.
	They can see who's punching who.
	So Pelosi going, yeah, this guy's a real threat, while punching him repeatedly in the face?
	Everyone can see you doing this.
	To-do-to-do says, so McCain's daughter wants them treated the same as tea, so like her father McCain and ISIS in Libya supporting them.
	Yeah, the apple doesn't fall far.
	Zoranek says, Democrats have become racists again.
	Become?
	Maybe they never change.
	Exactly, they never change.
	Party of identity politics prior to civil rights movement and still today.
	Yeah, it's exactly the same.
	They're doing exactly the same stuff.
	Zeo says, Ron Paul's midnight ride against socialism comes back to bite him.
	I don't even know what that means.
	What I was referring to.
	I think it's a meme.
	Yeah.
	We covered this one already.
	Thank you again, Person of the Year, Svatnick.
	Arceus, censorship is cringe.
	Oh, we did that one.
	So Brewmaster Monk says, Sheldon Andelson is dead.
	Who's Sheldon Andelson?
	I don't know.
	I'll Google it.
	Thunderstorm says, I'm disappointed.
	Big brother in the book movie.
	Had uniforms.
	We read that one.
	I can't read that, Hugh.
	Lord of the Nerds says, Thank you, Sagan, for the pushback on Sitch and Adam's stream.
	Yeah, well, one of the things that was just apparent is that Sitch had spent no time looking into the claims of the Trump supporters.
	And...
	None of it is proven, but there's more than enough evidence to suggest that in certain locations, constitutional procedure was not followed.
	And that's unacceptable.
	People have to be held accountable to that.
	Weversberg, do you hear the people sing?
	I do.
	He was a billionaire who was a massive donor to the Republicans.
	Don't recognize him.
	Oh, goddamn.
	How'd he die?
	Don't know, but he died today.
	That's a shame.
	Presumably of old age or something.
	Yeah, he looks very old.
	Alexander Cross.
	Bookstore.
	Sells books.
	Antifa.
	Or hell no.
	Or hell no, sorry.
	Yes.
	Wonderful pun, isn't it?
	Kenny Demetta says, good advertisement for Andy's book.
	It's like a trailer video.
	Yeah, it is, isn't it?
	Like, now I want Andy's book.
	I like how extortion is now legal from the left, says Lords of the Nerds.
	Yeah, it is.
	Like, we're going to deplatform you from our bank because we disagree with your politics.
	Is...
	I mean, it's just unacceptable.
	The Doge whistle says, yes, what Antifar is doing is active fascism.
	Yeah, it is.
	This is exactly what fascism looks like in practice.
	None of these people heard of Charlie Hebdo.
	No.
	The only reason anyone knows about Charlie Hebdo outside of the Franco sphere is just because of the attack on them.
	Yeah.
	But, like, it is fascism, but it's also communism.
	This is exactly what the communists do, which is why we're seeing it.
	Socialism.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this is just a feature.
	National socialism, international socialism.
	It's just a feature of socialism, which is why we at the Lotus Eaters disavow all kinds of socialism.
	The number three, this leftist-burning books is what happens when you spoil your kids, bring back spanking.
	I think it's what happens when they're allowed to radicalize and be encouraged.
	Well, read his book.
	Trust me, he's got a good answer for why.
	Oh, has he?
	Right, okay.
	Well, I will read it.
	BucksFan77, maybe that girl should also read The Gulag Archipelago and Dostoyevsky's Demons, but of course, that would be an instruction guide to her.
	Yes, it would.
	Robert Jantz, an Andy Nose book doesn't teach us how to make thermite like the Anarchist Cookbook does.
	Yes, I know, it's crazy.
	They don't sell the Anarchist Cookbook, well, probably because they shouldn't.
	I've got a couple of chapters left.
	I don't know if he'll go off the rails by the end.
	Well, yeah, maybe by the end of it, you know.
	Linda Washington says, Is there a website where I can buy banned books like this?
	The Art of the Deal, Gone with the Wind, The Bible.
	I'm sure there is.
	That's a great quote, but yeah, there probably is.
	Max Jones, Antifa defending Hitler.
	I can't stop laughing.
	I know, right?
	Yeah.
	I mean, Hitler's got historic value.
	Andy, no!
	Angelo Nuno Almedia says, Merch store when?
	I need the I Disavow mug and return to Pottery Shards hoodie.
	They'll make great conversation starters.
	They will, and we will have something coming soon-ish, I promise.
	Louis Carlo says, We will not allow them to paint us in a bad light, because we're perfectly capable of doing it ourselves, say the far left.
	Kingsley O.G. says, Big Tech and Big Church seem real similar in the leverage of the users of the government bodies of the day.
	Also, Kaylin and I know who Uncle Ted is.
	Yeah, this is a comment I made to Hugo, actually, when he was telling me about this earlier.
	This is exactly the same way that the churches used to essentially politically incentivize their flocks, because they've got them all there, you're all going to listen to me talk, and now here's my political opinions.
	And it is very, very similar.
	Aiden Paladin.
	Hey, dude.
	War is Peace, Freedom of Slavery, Ignorance of Strength.
	Welcome to 2021.
	Yeah, the total inversion of values is complete by the left.
	Being endorsed by Antifa.
	Well, that's the thing!
	Antifa endorsing Mein Kampf was not the flex I expected in 2021.
	Who had that on their bingo sheet?
	Yeah, nobody.
	Nobody had that.
	Oh, man.
	What's going on?
	Just reload in the chat.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Well, well.
	Right, there we go.
	Someone sat in Baron Pelosi's chair, and now she's off to invade Poland.
	Yes.
	Stinking ape, whenever they burn books, they will also burn people.
	Heinrich Hain, German-Jewish poet, born in 1797.
	Correct.
	Trace a bullet.
	A word to the unwise.
	Torch every book, char every page.
	Burn every word to ash.
	Ideas are combustible, and therein lies your real fear, says Ellen Hopkins.
	Okay.
	Robert Jantz, it's Morgoth's plan, not Sauron's.
	Oh, sorry, sorry, I forgot that Sauron was merely an agent of Morgoth.
	Sorry, I forgot.
	But I assume that Sauron endorses the plan, since he's going along with it, in the same way that Saruman presumably endorses the plan, and I disagree with those ideas.
	I'm against imperialism over the Shire, frankly.
	The Golden Pepper says, just managed to get a contract at my work.
	Keep up the good work, boys.
	Well, thank you very much and congratulations.
	Grant Thompson says, oh, we read that one.
	Royal Oscar Stabulary, gang calamites rising.
	Vessel says, you cannot give one group moral authority without being authoritarian.
	If you give one ideology unfair access to the global community, you're not a private company anymore.
	You need to be regulated like a public utility.
	Well, I mean, one of the things is that you're certainly, you have an editorial position, so you're no longer a platform at the very least.
	I'm getting the position of just nationalize them.
	Yeah.
	Just be done with it.
	Totally.
	Because if the United States government was in charge of it, at least they'd have to apply the First Amendment.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It would be way freer if the US government was in charge of it.
	And it would be unlikely to operate in this open cartel procedure.
	Like, government-owned internet would be freer than Silicon Valley-owned internet.
	Like, what kind of mad world is that?
	Like, government censorship is always meant to be the bad guys.
	Nah, they're more free lately.
	Yeah, it is.
	Base Potatoes, Saruman was right about the elves?
	Yeah, maybe, but the men were right about Saruman, so, you know.
	Borland Stalin says, Yeah, exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	They embrace violence as part of their moral structure.
	They don't give a damn.
	Well, it's part of their moral structure.
	David Nolak says, Please, please, please ship Hugo and Josh.
	The thought of them being in a loving embrace really warms my pantaloons.
	Can we ban him?
	I hope you can hear this, Hugo and Josh.
	MuteStream says, you broke the server.
	Well done, chaps.
	Well done, everyone.
	Marcus Byrne, the state of emergency is a formality to allow the Department of the Nasty Girls and security funding, deployment of the Nasty Girls and security funding, done every inauguration in the State of the Union.
	I assumed it wasn't anything out of the ordinary, to be honest.
	But my point is, if you're staging a coup, why are you just going through the normal motions?
	Zoranak says, look up M19, female communist group that bombed the Capitol building in 1983.
	We covered that yesterday.
	Jem R, 1984, Unmasked, Andy Ngo, On Tyranny, The Last President, and a few self-improvement books currently in the top 10 books on Amazon charts.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, it's very interesting, isn't it?
	I mean, when the top ten are all books that are banned or, you know, anti-authoritarian, a little bit of tough times.
	Jason Solo, Elon Musk will be Marius.
	No, no, no, he won't.
	Marius...
	Marius was a populist who essentially altered the structure of the Roman army in order to decouple it from the traditional moorings that held it in the Republic itself, which is the requirement to join the army was property ownership.
	You had to be a property-earning man to be able to join the army.
	And Marius was like, yeah, but we've got loads of landless serfs that are just sitting around on the grain doll.
	Why don't we use them as an army?
	And in the short run, that sounds like a great idea because you had a massive barbarian invasion coming down from Germany and you needed to be able to fight that off.
	But in the long run, it meant that these people had no loyalty other than to the general themselves.
	And so Marius really was one of the key steps on the fall of the Republic.
	And so whoever ends up – and it won't be the armies, but it will be with these sort of voters – Whoever brings in UBI is the person who's going to do it.
	That's what it is.
	Sounds like a good requirement to bring back for the army, actually.
	What, property ownership?
	Yeah.
	The army would be very small.
	So, I mean, how big is our army?
	Tens of thousands?
	80,000, something like that?
	70,000?
	It's like the smallest it's ever been?
	Yes.
	I'm sure we can do it.
	Yeah.
	But the point is, like, the investment in the state, right, is not going to be there.
	And this is the same sort of effect will be achieved with universal basic income.
	People won't have an allegiance to the society.
	They'll have an allegiance to whoever's giving them X amount of money each month.
	And if that person says, well, this person isn't going to give you money, that person doesn't get elected.
	And whoever the seller is to overturn this regime will be an interesting one as well.
	But anyway, DRT, as King says, do you think the Alamo speech will be anything?
	Truly, we live in interesting times.
	Full Chinese curse times we live in.
	I don't know what the Alamo speech is going to be.
	I assume it's Trump's going to give a speech at the Alamo.
	Hell of a place.
	Hell of a place.
	Matros says, didn't rioters break into the Capitol during T's speech?
	If true, I do incite people who can't hear you.
	Well, yeah, that's the thing.
	These people who were breaking in during Trump's speech weren't being incited by Trump.
	And if they were, then they were literally doing what the media did and hearing the opposite of what he said.
	Gemr says...
	Oh, I read that one already.
	Sorry, can we go up a bit?
	MAGA supporters should not go to any armed rallies for the next week because of their setups and are going to be used to use force against the movement.
	Yes, that's probably true.
	Bolin Stalin says you are put on an FBI list if you purchase the Anarchist Cookbook, something that bomb techs read to recognise and disarm makeshift bombs.
	don't doubt j roller says i just joined premium on the website thank you very much and i was wondering if there's an app in the works also lets you know the us the uk empire 2.0 um i we we haven't got an app in the works uh I don't think we're big enough to warrant an app yet.
	Also, none of us know how to make them.
	Well, I mean, it's not to say we can't get an app made, and I'm definitely not against the idea of us getting an app made.
	I just haven't had the time to look into it, really.
	But it's something that we can, you know, we're only like two, we're in our third month now, really, of operation, so it's definitely something we can look into.
	Yeah, apparently he's going to the Alamo to give a speech on the wall.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	Carl Page says, The Anarchist Cookbook is the superior cookbook with Disavow.
	Nescedia says, Concerning merch, I'd like to ask for a tie with your logo.
	Oh, we'll see what we can do.
	Cerberus says, In any case, due to the recent open authoritarian push, I'll be happy to sequester myself to the hills of Appalachia.
	Country roads take me home.
	Yeah, honestly, the cities are not going to be pleasant places to be in the near future.
	The Democrats are the ones who have run them into the ground anyway, and giving them more power and a kind of persecutorial will that they will have now to try and hunt down the white supremacists.
	They're going to start getting paranoid, they're going to start persecuting people, and...
	Better to be elsewhere, frankly.
	Bob the Great says, Merch for US used Bunker Branding.
	Demo runs YouTube.
	Right.
	Let me Google that.
	We'll Google that.
	LCA2K says, Hashtag Pelosi Loves Trump is number one on Twitter.
	What?!
	No way.
	Oh yeah, have you not seen that?
	It's a great meme.
	Pelosi's stolen laptop revealed her secret naughty Trump fancy in a love diary in before Russian different information.
	I don't believe it.
	No, it's real.
	It's trending.
	Basically, it's a joke.
	But you take images of Pelosi looking at Trump and you just put captions like, you know, no man like him or anything like that.
	Well, I mean, that is true.
	And she does seem to have been really obsessed with him.
	There are certain elderly ladies who are obsessed with me.
	That I'm never going to have an affair with either.
	And so I can understand why the joke hit home so hard.
	Right, we're not going to...
	We're going to stop in after a couple more.
	Please don't send any more.
	Yeah.
	Right, so Smithy Button says, I haven't heard anyone mention so far Rudy Giuliani's video.
	That will happen on the 6th.
	It's available on YouTube and it was censored and deleted from YouTube.
	I didn't see it, presumably because it was censored from YouTube.
	Matt Brooke says, So I'll wear the MAGA hat with my red coat.
	Yeah, basically, again, this is why we're going to stop now, in fact, because I want to go and record the new book club about the concept of a civil society necessitating certain requirements.
	But anyway, thank you.
	We'll do the last three, can't we?
	That should be it.
	Is it three?
	That should be the last three.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, right, okay.
	I didn't realize.
	Just one more.
	Sam Ballack, Tolkien, Lewis, and Chesterton were right about everything.
	Chesterton's wrong about literally half of everything.
	MuteStream says, irony, thou shall not simp in the lead.
	Sad.
	Good.
	Based.
	Adam first.
	Based.
	Where is the simp option for MuteStream?
	Their site looks great, although their Hugo simping is questionable.
	Yep.
	Say the least.
	Good site, though.
	Hello, Sargon and co.
	Aiden Paladin needs to be on the show.
	Don't know who that is.
	I plan to bug you all until you do it.
	She's a YouTuber, but we can't have anyone on the show because everything's in lockdown.
	There are new restrictions that anyone travelling to England has got to have had a negative COVID test within 72 hours.
	Currently everyone is banned as well.
	Yeah, and currently everyone is banned.
	Alexander Lund, Miles Power, a chemist on YouTube, is a great video on the anarchist's cookbook.
	Turns out it's very completely wrong and likely to blow the anarchist up himself.
	Which is, I mean, if you're going to write something like that, it's the best prank, isn't it?
	Well, would you trust crowdsourced information on how to create bombs?
	I wouldn't.
	It's a Darwin award, isn't it?
	Yes, it is, yeah.
	It's a Darwin test.
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