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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters for Thursday 14th of January 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum, and today we're going to be continuing our coverage of the collapse of American civil society.
	It's always jolly, isn't it?
	We've gone back to the black pills, haven't we?
	Yeah, well, it does get worse.
	But before we start, we have a couple of interesting things that I think are worth bringing to your attention.
	The first one is a call for an investigation into what is being alleged to be the Chinese Communist Party's global lockdown fraud when it comes to the coronavirus.
	Now, Majid Nawaz, a commentator from LBC, and various doctors, attorneys, and a general have all signed this letter.
	And it's a very long letter with lots of detailed information about why this could be the case.
	Hugo has done the legwork.
	I made Hugo do the legwork of reading through the thing and writing an article about it.
	So it's summarized in much more digestible form.
	You can find that on lotuses.com.
	And of course, there is something that is more relevant to today's podcast, which is Josh's countering the narrative of the Capital Takeover article in which, if you can scroll down a bit, John, so we can see something.
	A chap sent us loads and loads of images.
	He had taken really high quality images of the protests.
	If you can go back up a second, just because I think this one's worth talking about.
	There was a huge Chinese immigrant, like Chinese American, for Trump protest at the thing because they're opposed to the CCP. Of course, you know, Joe Biden and the Democrats absolutely love the CCP in literal ways and just when it comes to taking two stacks.
	And so it's very interesting how these things are all being erased in the very compressed-down narrative of what occurred, and we'll be talking about that more.
	But again, really worth going through and looking through this, because it just wasn't as one-dimensional as is being portrayed.
	But anyway, you can find those both on lotuseaters.com.
	But let's begin talking properly about Twitter's monumental hypocrisy.
	Now, on Friday the 8th of January, Twitter posted a blog to explain why they had suspended Trump.
	And I want to go through this because I think this shows you the kind of bad faith that you are dealing with when you are dealing with Twitter, Facebook, Silicon Valley and the rest.
	Because this is just unacceptable in my opinion.
	So they complained that Trump on the 8th tweeted out, The 75 million great American patriots who voted for me, America first, make America great again, will have a giant voice long into the future.
	They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form.
	Shortly thereafter, the president tweeted, To all those who have asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on January 20th.
	Twitter says, Did you take that away from what Trump was saying?
	No.
	Like, why would you?
	He literally told you not to be violent, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, I mean, previously, in previous tweets, and in a video he'd put up, he'd denounced the violence, asked his supporters to go home, and said he was in favour of law and order.
	So even in the wider context, you cannot take away from that that he's inciting violence?
	No, I don't agree that he was.
	And at the speech on the day, he said, we want to peacefully march to the capital to make our voices heard, which is completely within their right, does not, to me, say, commit violence.
	I mean, he says the word peacefully.
	I don't know how else to describe it.
	Like, no one speaking for likewise matter ever said peacefully.
	No!
	I mean, Chris Cuomo said, show me where it says the process has to be peaceful.
	Where do protests have to be polite and peaceful?
	Yeah.
	His exact words.
	Yeah.
	In the Constitution, peacefully assemble.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Incidentally, Donald Trump said, peacefully, march to the Capitol and make your voices heard.
	And it's been the people defending Black Lives Matter and Antifa for the last four years who are the ones who have been defending the right to violently protest.
	Interesting how that's suddenly been revoked.
	I imagine the next time Antifa and Black Lives Matter go out doing what they do, they're not going to be treated with the same kind of strictness.
	Again, one rule for one, one rule for another.
	But anyway...
	So, they say this.
	This determination is based on a number of factors, including Trump's statement that he will not be attending the inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two tweets by his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an orderly transition.
	What?
	I don't know.
	That's just coming out of their own heads.
	Yeah.
	Who else is saying that?
	Yeah, we're just interpreting this as him asking for further violence and saying that this is even less legitimate.
	It's like, but he's agreed to a peaceful transfer of power.
	I mean, I wouldn't go to Joe Biden's inauguration if I were him either, because the bitter blood that has been left by this political cycle, I mean, it seems kind of ridiculous, doesn't it?
	Like, they've been calling him Hitler for the past four years, and he's supposed to stand there and smile as he hands this thing off?
	I mean, that's weird.
	I can't imagine they want him there, unless it's just a screech at him.
	I mean, can you imagine what these people would be like in the same room as him?
	But anyway, so I didn't take violence and delegitimization from him saying there'll be a peaceful transfer of power.
	And they say the second tweet may also serve as an encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the inauguration would be a safe target as he would not be attending.
	It's like, what?
	I don't...
	I'm not going to this inauguration.
	Right, so it's safe for us to attack.
	That's not what he said.
	And I think that's a massive leap in logic there, to get to that point.
	Like, what a paranoid person do you have to be to get to that point?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	This is paranoid and bad faith.
	You know, this is giving him no opportunity to do the right thing.
	He's trying, I think, to do the right thing, and we'll continue seeing in a bit later on in the podcast what he's trying to do, and obviously trying to do the right thing.
	But, like...
	This is just totally unfair.
	The use of the words American Patriots to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.
	Just calling them patriots, the people who support him as American patriots, which, to be honest with you, I think is a fair description.
	I mean, look at the number of American flags, look at the way that they dress, look at the things that they say, look at the things that they support.
	I mean, calling them American patriots just seems like a charitable interpretation of their own activism.
	So apparently, but this is now support for them.
	And the mention of his supporters having a giant voice long into the future, and that they will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape, or form, is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an orderly transition, and instead he plans to continue to support and empower and shield those who believe he won the election.
	Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state buildings on the 17th of January 2021.
	Well, if people are organizing violence on your platform, Jack, shouldn't Apple be deplatforming you about now?
	Shouldn't Google be deplatforming you about now?
	But anyway, nonsense.
	I mean, I don't agree that Trump...
	I mean, also, people have their voice listened to.
	Okay, let's just take that bit first.
	Okay, any politician says that after they've lost an election.
	Let's talk about Jeremy Corbyn saying, you know, what is it?
	We lost this election, but we won the argument.
	Exactly.
	It's like, our voice is going to be carried on.
	Okay, whatever.
	So shut up.
	That doesn't mean anything.
	And then the other part of it was...
	What was it again?
	Sorry, we'll be heard long as...
	And we won't be treated unfairly.
	What's wrong with that?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	What, do you want to treat them unfairly, Jack?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like BBC complaining that QAnon is trying to stop the satanic pedos.
	It's like, oh, sorry.
	Like, I don't know what they believe, but that doesn't sound bad.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why is that bad?
	But that's the thing.
	The fact that it's like, no, this is being treated as a call to arms, in a sense, it's not a call to arms at all.
	But by Twitter.
	By Twitter.
	This was why that they suspended Trump, because apparently they are interpreting literally everything he says, even the calls for non-violence, as in bad faith and as an interpretation towards violence.
	And so this, two days ago now, I should have covered it yesterday, but there's too much going on, but I couldn't let this go, right?
	So it is in this context That we get this tweet and this series of tweets from Twitter's public policy Twitter account.
	And this is just amazing.
	Now, I don't know anything about the Ugandan election, but I understand that Twitter has apparently, according to Twitter, deplatformed some of their politicians, I believe.
	And that's why they struck back and deplatformed Twitter itself.
	And Twitter?
	Oh, oh, I can't believe you're silencing us!
	I think it's a little bit more than that.
	I believe largely the internet was turned off for a lot of people, and subsequently all the social medias were, so it wasn't just Twitter.
	But, you know, Twitter, build your own internet then.
	Build your own Uganda.
	Ahead of the Ugandan election, we're hearing reports that internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps.
	We strongly condemn internet shutdowns.
	they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the open internet.
	Earlier this week, in close coordination with our peers, we suspended a number of accounts targeting the election in Uganda.
	If we can attribute any of this activity to state-backed actors, we will disclose our information.
	Access to information and freedom of expression, including public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.
	including public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Just staggering.
	Just staggering.
	And the idea that moral consistency is not important is actually, maybe I should do something bigger on this, because there's real concerns when you have someone who literally just says, I don't care about moral consistency.
	Because what they're saying is they don't consent to the concept of ethics.
	They don't consent that they should be governed by a moral structure of right and wrong that other people can judge them by.
	What they're saying is it's all in our favour and none of it against us.
	So this is...
	I mean, this is...
	What is it?
	Calicles, I think it is, from one of Plato's dialogues, is the immoral man who rejects morality, rejects ethics, rejects the idea...
	Of engaging in an ethical system.
	And part of the quest of ethics through the 20th century has been to explain to people why they should actually consider themselves as ethical creatures.
	Why they should actually be concerned with this.
	And Twitter is just rejecting this by rejecting any kind of moral consistency.
	Because when it comes to it, they'd rather just say, look, we'd rather be inconsistent.
	And be in control and have the power.
	That's not acceptable, man.
	But anyway, talking about injustice and lack of ethics, Parler obviously got digitally lynched for existing and not being under the heel of Silicon Valley.
	But Parler's mistake was not realizing just how far this cathedral spreads.
	And this, of course, meant that Twitter could get its primary rival deplatformed from the Amazon Web Service.
	So Parler is still offline, but I'm sure they'll be back in about a week or so because I'm sure they're going to get their own servers now that they've made a name for themselves and obviously are going to be able to get back online.
	And I can't wait until they do.
	In the meantime, Minds, Gab, and BitChute and all the others all still up.
	Follow us all on there.
	Follow the Lotuses on there because nobody's going to be on Silicon Valley platforms for long, in my opinion.
	But anyway, this was that Google said, well, you know, our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.
	Well, you need to remove Twitter by Twitter's own admission, then, because Twitter is a place that organizes violence.
	I mean, I've seen a pretty good breakdown of the individuals who went into the Capitol, and there's a website that's just logged where they were posting, oh, I'm in the Capitol, or something like that, right?
	All on Facebook, all on Twitter, all on Instagram.
	Well, we'll get to that.
	We'll get to this.
	Yeah, yeah, well, that's the point, isn't it, right?
	But anyway, so they say, in light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.
	Well, no, a rule for Parler and not a rule for anyone else.
	Again, the lack of moral consistency is a rejection of the concept of ethics.
	And they say it has seen accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
	Well, okay, A, I don't think we should characterize them as attacks.
	But B, accusations are not evidence.
	Accusations are not proof.
	And John Matzi had replied, well, Parler has no way to organize anything.
	Well...
	Let's just take them as true.
	You make those accusations, fine.
	They're accusations that's been done on your platform.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	By that same standard, we should be deplatforming all of your platforms.
	I mean, how much terrorism has gone through Google?
	Google controls most of the internet.
	I imagine a vast amount of terrorism that happens across the Middle East uses Google services.
	No one cares.
	But anyway, John Matsey had replied saying, look, Parler doesn't have, like, organizing groups and stuff, so it's got no way to organize anything, and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organize this action.
	But Apple said, we don't care.
	We won't distribute apps that present updates.
	But Google and Apple are just giving part of the Melian dialogue.
	Sorry, we're just more powerful than you.
	You can appeal to reason, you can appeal to morality, you can appeal to future consequences, but right here and right now, you're getting the treatment that the Melians got from the Athenians.
	And, yeah, and as the Washington Post published an article explaining, oh, actually, hang on a second.
	Oh, no, it was Facebook and Instagram and Twitter that was used primarily to organize this.
	I think we know this because all the Parler data was hacked and released, and I don't know whether it's true or not, but nobody has managed to link that hacked data to the protesters yet, which, I mean, surprises me, genuinely.
	I would have thought these people would have been on Parler just because they would have been part of the online ecosphere about...
	I imagine a large amount of work, but the point here is about the planning of trying to go in.
	Okay, well, where was that done?
	On Facebook.
	If there are no groups on Parler, but there are groups on Facebook.
	As the Washington Post shows.
	In the days leading up to last week's march on the Capitol, supporters of the present promoted it extensively on Facebook and Facebook and Instagram, and used the services to organise bus trips to Washington.
	More than 100,000 users posted on hashtags affiliated with the movement, prompted by baseless claims of election fraud, including hashtag StopTheSteel and hashtag FightTheTrump.
	The details emerging from researchers who have combed the surface in recent days shed new light on how Facebook services were used to bring attention to and boost attendance at the rally, which turned violent when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
	This is just a consistent narrative that you're not going to get the end of.
	The Stop the Steal hashtag was used by 128,000 people and used to coordinate the rally, and when asked about this, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg deflected the blame, saying that actually it was Parler and Gab that were the problem.
	We have effective moderation policies.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	No one's alleging here, or in the other one, that Parlour's caused the storming, because that's the only bit anyone cares about, the violence.
	The gathering of people for buses, the gathering of people for a political rally, none of that's a crime, none of that's wrong.
	And none of it happened on Parlour.
	But even if it did, who cares?
	Well, I guess that'll be Facebook's defence, won't it?
	Yeah, but that's the thing I'm seeing here.
	Everyone's seeing, oh no, they gathered this rally that then turned violent, therefore they're responsible.
	What?
	How does that make any sense?
	Because apparently the Trump supporters are unthinking animals who are puppeteered by social media platforms, in their opinion.
	But this is just to document the manifest injustice that is going on by people who have now divorced themselves from any kind of coherent ethical process.
	This isn't about fairness.
	This isn't about justice.
	It's not about reason.
	This is about destroying an opponent because they're considered to be dangerous because they are in opposition.
	And that's where we are.
	That's what happened to Parler.
	And obviously the cancel culture mob has been going for Gab as well.
	But the great thing about Gab, and I love watching Torba post about this on Twitter, because Gab still has a Twitter account, there were people saying, okay, where's Gab's services hosted?
	And Torba and Gab had just replied saying, we host our own.
	You know, basically shut up communists.
	You know, suck it, communists.
	Something like that.
	It's like, good.
	Good for you.
	You told us to build our own.
	We did.
	Yeah.
	Now what?
	You have no power over us.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Now you can just shut up.
	And Gab has had something like 600,000 new sign-ups, you know, millions of new views.
	No, 1.7 million new sign-ups, actually, yesterday.
	And, I mean, it's become quite slow because of the amount of people using it and because, of course, they can't just use Amazon to annex a whole swathe of new servers or anything.
	But, okay, fine.
	I'm willing to live with that until then get it back and running.
	As long as we've got somewhere, it works.
	It's just a bit slower than usual.
	But I imagine they're still increasing the size of it, because where else are the Trump supporters going to go?
	Where else are these people who have all been depart from going to go?
	I mean, destroying Parler...
	Parler is gone.
	It doesn't work.
	It's mad.
	I don't have anything to say about it.
	It's just absurd.
	It's just absurd.
	Should we talk about impeachment?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's just how naked it is that bothers me.
	It's just like we just don't care about your opinion.
	This is the end of civil society.
	This is now two armed camps that are going to be in a constant state of war with one another.
	Again, why you should watch the book club on John Locke that I did.
	You'd understand why state of war is a kind of ideological term and what it means.
	But anyway, let's talk about the impeachment.
	It's all pissing me off.
	I'm getting stressed out by all of this.
	It's horrible watching civil society breaking down because this is where things become dangerous, where people don't have a certain level of trust in their neighbours because their neighbour might have voted for the wrong person.
	And that's not good.
	But anyway, it gets worse.
	So, yeah, we'll talk about Nancy Pelosi's sad impeachment.
	She obviously got the vote through so she could bring the articles of impeachment to Trump, and this was how she characterized it before she signed them.
	Today, in a bipartisan way, the House demonstrated that no one is above the law, not even the President of the United States.
	That Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to our country.
	And that once again, we honored our oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	So help us God.
	And now, I sadly, and with a heart broken over what this means to our country, of a president who would incite insurrection I just don't believe a word of what she's saying.
	I don't believe that she's sad.
	I don't believe Donald Trump incited insurrection.
	And we'll look at the protesters again shortly.
	But I just don't believe that she's sad.
	She's been doing this since the very beginning of 2017, since his inauguration.
	She's been, like, doing everything in her power.
	Just various, you know, the Russia investigation.
	Saying the election was hijacked.
	Saying the election was hijacked.
	And all of the various investigations that have gone on and, like, beaten everything into the dirt and found nothing.
	You know, I'm amazed that they found nothing on Trump.
	I expected them to find something on Trump.
	But they found nothing.
	And they got their day in court.
	But anyway, when they say most bipartisan impeachment ever, that's a phrase that's doing a lot of hard work, right?
	Because the most bipartisan impeachment in previous eras was Bill Clinton being impeached, where five Democrats had defected to impeach him.
	In this case, it's ten Republicans.
	So you've got hundreds and hundreds of them, 10 of them have defected, 10 anti-Trump Republicans, who incidentally are Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Jamie Herrera-Butler of Washington, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, John Katko of New York, Adam Kisinger of Illinois, Peter Major of Michigan, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Adam Kisinger of Illinois, Peter Major of Michigan, Dan Newhouse of Washington, Tom Rice of South Carolina, Fred Upton of Michigan, and David Valandio And these are the people that the MAGA folks should be primarying in their next elections.
	If they think, and I'm not saying these people are traitors or anything like that, what I'm saying is they're idiots.
	They are people who do not realise that they cannot ever get a fair hearing from the Democrats.
	And thinking that you can be like, oh yeah, we'll join them and then we'll be protected because there's clearly a lot of force with them at the moment.
	If you think you're going to remain safe like this, it's not going to work.
	You will be temporarily sheltered until everyone else has been erased and you are on the list next.
	The Democrats will protect me.
	Are you high?
	Yeah.
	The Democrats want you gone.
	I don't know how they could be this stupid.
	And they just say it outright.
	You have to go.
	That's our version of inclusivity.
	Yeah.
	Stupid.
	Absolutely stupid.
	The Republicans...
	If the Republicans haven't become aware yet after the way that Donald Trump has been treated, and again, Donald Trump with massive approval rating in his own party, thank goodness, if Republican lawmakers do not understand that the Democrats have gone mental and are trying to purge you, then there's no saving you.
	Everything is on the table now, you know, deplatforming the President of the United States.
	We'll keep going, but we'll show you how everything is on the table, right?
	And the first thing is just the open lies.
	We've covered this plenty.
	Trump did not incite him violence.
	And again, Trump posts yesterday to the WhiteHouse.gov thing, because he doesn't have a Twitter account, what should have been a tweet, presumably.
	In light of more reports of demonstrations, I urge that there must be no violence, no law-breaking, and no vandalism of any kind.
	That is not what I stand for.
	It's not what America stands for.
	I call on all Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.
	Thank you.
	I love how he writes like he tweets.
	Yeah.
	Look at that, with the capitals.
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	And I love the little thank you at the end there as well.
	But I mean, he's not wrong.
	His whole tenure, he called for law and order, and he was the only person in public life who with any significance was calling it Antifa consistently for the entire time.
	And even in the debates with Joe Biden, it's like someone's got to do something about the radical left.
	Well, Joe Biden is.
	He's putting them into positions of power.
	He literally said, someone's got to do something about Antifa, someone's got to deal with these guys, because these guys are left guys or whatever the hell.
	And Joe Biden's response was, a member of your FBI said that Antifa were an idea.
	Joe, imagine if I turned around and said, well, Nazism's just an idea.
	I mean, this idea assaulted Ted Wheeler in a restaurant.
	It drove him out of his home, set up autonomous zones around the United States.
	I mean, Joe Biden's not wrong.
	It is an idea, but ideas don't exist independent of the minds of people.
	If a person's not reading or understanding the idea, then the idea may as well not exist.
	But anyway, Trump yesterday again also put out a message calling for peace and reconciliation.
	Another call for violence, huh?
	Yeah, exactly.
	But this is the thing.
	Trump has actually had quite a consistent message here.
	I have yet to find Trump calling for any violence.
	Let's watch it.
	These are tense and difficult times.
	The efforts to censor, cancel and blacklist...
	Our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous.
	What is needed now is for us to listen to one another, not to silence one another.
	All of us can choose by our actions to rise above the rancor and find common ground and shared purpose.
	We must focus on advancing the interests of the whole nation Delivering the miracle vaccines, defeating the pandemic, rebuilding the economy, protecting our national security, and upholding the rule of law.
	Today I am calling on all Americans to overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one American people.
	Let us choose to move forward united for the good of our families, our communities, and our country.
	Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
	Yeah, that's incitement.
	According to Twitter, presumably.
	So, I mean, I think Trump's been putting out fair messaging, but I mean, he's been widely deplatformed.
	So who knows how many people are hearing it, which is precisely why they deplatformed him.
	Anyway, yesterday we were talking about how Mitch McConnell apparently was apparently thrilled about this.
	Well, he's kind of rebuffed these rumours, saying that he's not going to rush as Trump is entitled to a fair trial, which means that the trial will conclude after Biden has been inaugurated.
	So even if they find him guilty, he won't be removed.
	And he himself believes that Trump has committed impeachable acts.
	So, I mean, I guess good for Mitch for allowing him the day in court.
	Pathetic.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the Democrats have been trying to rush this through, trying to get, like, emergency things done, because they don't want a day in court.
	I mean, maybe Trump can present some useful evidence in this trial.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm looking forward to it.
	Yeah.
	Him learning out, okay, here's me calling for peace, here's me calling for peace, here's me calling for peace, here's me calling for peace.
	Why?
	Where's the violence?
	Tell me where the violence is.
	Not just that, you know, like, what are these people complaining about?
	This, this, this, and this.
	Explain it, you know?
	But anyway, so this, basically, right, this, False narrative that is being the pseudo-reality that is being portrayed by the media has led them essentially into eating their own tail and trying to get the American public to believe narratives that are just ridiculous, such as this one.
	232 members of the House of Representatives, including 10 Republicans, voted in favor of this sentence.
	President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government.
	That's a powerful indictment of a sitting president, even though he only has seven days left in office.
	It is stunning, just as we were stunned when we were in this studio one week ago, watching people wearing mega hats, carrying Trump banners, storming into that Capitol, breaking windows.
	Nancy Pelosi is going to speak moments from now, standing at the podium that we saw one of those rioters trying to steal.
	It's the very same podium.
	She's doing it for a reason, to send a signal here.
	And so on this defining day of the president of the United States, Has been impeached and the charge is that he essentially cooperated, orchestrated, organized an attack on his own government.
	Think about that.
	I mean, think about that.
	Yeah.
	Think about that.
	It sounds ridiculous because he didn't.
	Or he's writing an attack on his own government.
	It's just a lie.
	Just an open lie.
	Yeah.
	And, like, there are lots of people who believe the mainstream narrative as well.
	I've been following, like, you know, Boomer and, like, Normie social media groups and various things on Facebook, and they all believe that this is completely true.
	And I just, I will post, you know, well, what about this guy?
	Is this guy a black shirt?
	And I mean, this was a deliberately planned fascist takeover by black shirts, literally in those terms.
	And they'll just be like, I don't care.
	Deny, deny, deny.
	It's okay, but, you know, these are people who are at the protests.
	Anyway.
	Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats have been totally vengeful about this.
	This is Chuck Schumer's view of what should happen to the people at the protest.
	Like, you know, the hundreds of thousands of people at this protest.
	Was it banning planes?
	Nope.
	Nearly.
	Any of those who are inside the Capitol should not be able to fly and should be placed on the no-fly list.
	We are calling on the authorities, FBI, TSA, Department of Homeland Security to put them on the no-fly list immediately.
	Amidst the continued threat of future violence online, the federal government's own concerns, I spoke to Director Ray...
	Sorry, I'm laughing.
	He's like talking to his temp.
	Okay, I need some visual aids for my speech.
	No fly list.
	What can you do?
	No planes.
	You didn't need that.
	What the fuck are you doing?
	But, I mean, why can't they just be charged with crimes as usual, like normal people?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I agree.
	If you broke something, then fine.
	Be arrested.
	Be charged.
	I'm not saying that none of these people should be charged for anything that they did that was wrong.
	Trespassing in the Capitol building is probably some kind of crime.
	There's things you can charge them with.
	I agree it was a riot, at least in parts it was a riot.
	But what I don't agree that it was is a bloody insurrection.
	It wasn't.
	Not to mention, are we then going to put every member of Antifa who's engaged in rioting on a no-fly list?
	The people who literally say death of the United States.
	Because there's no fly list that's going to get pretty big.
	Yeah, it is.
	Of course it's not.
	It's only going to be one side.
	But again, China-style solutions here from the Democrats.
	It really makes you think.
	Let's close down their bank accounts.
	Let's close down their ability to fly, buy tickets, until their social credit increases.
	Exactly, exactly.
	But anyway, this is an interview that CNN did with one of the people who was inside the Capitol, a rioter.
	I guess we'll watch it and see how much of a black shirt this guy seems to be.
	Yeah, we went in there, and then I walked in, and there's just a whole bunch of people lighting up in some Oregon room.
	I don't know if it's in Oregon, just tons of Oregon paintings, but they were smoking a bunch of weed in there.
	And then we moved it down.
	So many statues.
	Cops are very cool.
	They're like, hey, guys, have a good night.
	Some of them.
	It's just crazy.
	It's really weird.
	You can see that.
	Some of them are on our side.
	And then they cut to another protester.
	But it's just like, this is a black shirt, is it?
	It's some idiot from the internet who can't believe that he's actually in this place.
	He's like, oh wow, this is cool.
	Look at those people smoking weed over there.
	Like, when you interview members of Antifa or any other terrorist organization, they're ideologically possessed.
	Yeah, they have a goal, you know, they have a direction they want to go in.
	They'll give you a series of grievances, you know, and things like this.
	They'll just spout off their ideology to you.
	This guy, there was nothing there.
	Yeah.
	They're just people who want to turn out to support Trump.
	I mean, Nuance Bro went down and interviewed them as well.
	And so, shout out to Nuance Bro.
	And let's just play one of the clips.
	What are some things like you support the president, obviously, right?
	Obviously.
	And what are some things about him that you support?
	Well, for one thing, he lowered taxes.
	He's building a wall.
	He's a Christian man.
	I took that one in particular because a lot of them were like, well, I'm just here to support Trump, so what's the plan?
	Well, I don't really have a plan.
	We're just going to support Trump and wave our flags, right?
	But that guy, I really felt, was very representative because it looked like he had a Confederate flag, but that's actually the state flag of Missouri or something like that.
	They changed it recently?
	They did.
	But he was literally like, well, I didn't change it.
	Because this is his flag, right?
	But that gives you an example of the kind of person you're dealing with.
	They're not irrational.
	They don't think that Trump is a glowing god who's perfect.
	He's a Christian man, maybe.
	Maybe.
	You know, but the point...
	And he's right, you know.
	And what's interesting is that Nuance Bro, like, he's a good questioner, right?
	He's good at getting in people's cracks.
	And a lot of these people actually have quite good answers to him, where he's like, right, okay, well, fair enough.
	You know, like, building the wall, you know, lowering taxes.
	And a bunch of them could give the...
	Because, you know, asking people, like, what policy sort of thing often puts them on the spot.
	And they're like, oh, God.
	But the Trump supporters are all like, no, no, no, I like this, this, and this that he's done.
	And, you know, it's not perfect, but...
	He's done a pretty good job.
	When you go to these anti-racist protests, you ask them, what's he done with racist?
	Don't know.
	Nada.
	Black faces.
	Exactly, exactly.
	But yeah, so this is why chaps like New Orleans Bro doing this are doing good work.
	But he managed to interview the Q Shaman.
	I don't know that he's not a white nationalist or anything, which is the accusation that's being made because of his Norse tattoos.
	But I mean, listen to him speak and let's hear it.
	Sure, and what are we trying to achieve?
	Well, what we are achieving is not what we are trying to achieve.
	What we are achieving is winning this spiritual war.
	You see, what we are doing here in Washington, D.C. is affecting the quantum realm.
	What we are doing here in Washington, D.C. is affecting the whole of the world, whether or not we know it or not, whether or not it looks like it or not.
	We are on the front lines of the spiritual warfare that is literally millennia.
	I mean, I don't know what to say.
	Is that where white nationalism's at now?
	I don't know.
	I don't follow it very closely.
	But I would suspect he's just a kind of QAnon person who has this mythological view of the world, and this is how he expresses it.
	I mean, he comes off as a crazy kook.
	But he doesn't come off as evil, right?
	He doesn't come off as a black shirt who's trying to overthrow the government.
	He comes off as someone who's probably well-meaning, just kind of batty, you know?
	But yeah, so basically I would say these are the people of the internet.
	I mean, like, Florida Man has been charged.
	This was a few days ago.
	We probably already covered it, actually.
	But again, I just want to compare Chuck Schumer's CNN narratives, insurrection, overthrowing, to the people, the actual look of them.
	The video evidence.
	Yeah, the video evidence, the pictures.
	They're just regular people who look like they're thrilled to be in the place that they see on TV. Like, this guy, there is a post of him in Black Lives Matter protest a few days before saying, oh, it was loads of fun, loads of excitement, blah, blah, blah.
	And then there's another one of him when he gets back from this one, and he's just like, it was an amazing day.
	I can't believe I got to be where I was.
	It sounds like some boomers had a day out.
	It is.
	That's exactly how it sounds.
	And the funny thing is, he didn't even vote for Trump.
	No, I mean, it was a Black Lives Matter protest.
	But no, no, no.
	His name and voting history is public.
	As in, you can look it up on the official records.
	He didn't vote for Trump.
	He hasn't voted since, like, 2006.
	So, like, okay, diehard Trump supporter, didn't vote for Trump.
	And just looks like he's happy to be having fun on a day out.
	Yeah, like, he is stealing a thing, you know, not good, and trespassing not good.
	Yeah.
	He's being charged, that's fine.
	Is this an assassin?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Is this an assassin?
	Or is this someone who's just frustrated with the political process and is pleased to actually finally be a part of it?
	Because that's the thing.
	I think a lot of these people have felt marginalized and not listened to.
	And they've been in these echo chambers for a while, as the QAnon shaman has shown.
	And I think they're just thrilled to finally be a part of the process.
	To feel incorporated into the democracy of the United States.
	And I think that's the thing that the Democrats are trying to stop.
	They don't want to hear these people.
	Because what they are, and I don't know whether it's come across yet, they're obviously working class.
	These are not the elites of the United States.
	These are the working class of the United States who have not been listened to.
	And this is why, and I said this years ago, Trump is not a Caesar, he is a Gaius Gracchus.
	And what's interesting is after...
	Gaius Gracchus was essentially deposed and commits suicide.
	The people who take over then start undoing everything that he did.
	And that's what leads to Maris, Sulla and Caesar.
	So basically, Joe Biden's following the exact same pattern.
	He's already said he's going to undo everything that...
	Trump has done, literally, going to join the Paris Climate Accord, undo all of the travel bans, you know, from various countries, and all of the sort of things that Trump has done is probably going to sell the USA out China even further, etc., etc., etc.
	And so, it's just like, these are the regular people who have been ignored.
	I like some people in the chat who commented on you saying he's taking a stand.
	Certainly is.
	But I was watching some of the footage to come out of the impeachment and I wanted to include this from a senator, Mr.
	Tom McClintock.
	Don't really know him, never heard of him before.
	But he gave a great speech, so I wanted to play that.
	It's like he's been watching the podcast.
	And if we'd prosecuted BLM and Antifa rioters across the country with the same determination these last six months, this incident may not have happened at all.
	all.
	Now, short of declaring war, the power of impeachment is the most solemn and consequential act that Congress can take.
	To use it in this manner, in the heat of the moment, with no hearings, no due process, many members phoning in their votes after a hastily called debate, exactly one week before a new president is to take office, trivializes this power to the point of caricature.
	The Democrats have won everything in sight.
	The House, the Senate, and the presidency.
	In a republic, That calls for magnanimity by the victors.
	Only in a banana republic does it call for vengeance.
	We redefined intemperate speech as a physical incapacity requiring removal from office.
	Today, we define it as a high crime and misdemeanor.
	Well, the moment any member of this body gives an impassioned speech and the lunatic fringe of their movement takes license from it, be prepared to answer to this new precedent that we established today.
	Now, I could cite plenty of provocative speeches made by Democrats that directly preceded violence this summer, but we've already had enough of that.
	You know, after 600,000 Americans had perished in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln appealed to the better angels of our nature.
	He said, with malice toward none, with charity for all, let us bind up the nation's wounds.
	Those words were so important to the unity of our nation, they're inscribed in marble at the Lincoln Memorial.
	I cannot think of a more petty, vindictive, and gratuitous act than to impeach an already defeated president a week before he is to leave office.
	What you've just done, you've all just indicted yourselves.
	I'm not taking anything from these people.
	These people's votes, when they're voting to impeach him, these aren't serious people.
	But what's most important, and he's absolutely right, right?
	So they control the presidency, the House, and the Senate.
	Why are they acting like they lost?
	Why are they acting like they're not legitimate?
	I think they think they are legitimate, but they don't really care about that.
	What they care about is total victory.
	I don't know, because I think that if you think you are legitimate and you have a strong base on which to stand, he's right, you do act with magnanimity.
	But I don't think they think they're legitimate.
	I think their view of legitimacy is not, we won the election, but we're in charge.
	Sure.
	But what I'm saying is, what are the foundations upon which that is predicated?
	So if the foundations upon which that is predicated can't stand scrutiny, and therefore must be kept from the courts, and everyone who would want to scrutinize them must be destroyed and marginalized, then it looks to me like the Democrats are essentially saying that we are not legitimate.
	Anyway, what was the next video?
	So he mentioned the point there, which is, if you guys want to talk about this, you've been propping up Black Lives Matter for how many months?
	Well, luckily, Ted Wheeler actually gave an interview to a local press and they asked the question, which has been on everyone's minds, to a leftist.
	I wanted to play his response.
	And last week we watched as pro-Trump supporters broke into the U.S. capitals.
	The insurrection was unlike anything that this country has ever seen.
	But just three weeks ago, protesters broke into the Oregon State Capitol.
	I have heard people at these protests elsewhere saying, well, they let it happen in Portland, so why not do it here?
	It seems in some way the actions of these small groups that you're referring to have set the stage for what has happened on a state level and potentially a national level.
	I know you said it will take time to crack down on these groups, but do we have that?
	Are you blaming me for what happened at the U.S. Capitol?
	I don't buy that premise at all.
	No, not at all, Mayor Wheeler.
	What I'm saying is, what I've heard at the protests is people say, you know, we've seen this riotous behavior in Portland, so why not do it elsewhere like in Salem?
	It doesn't make it right.
	Nobody gets to point to somebody else breaking the law and say, they broke the law, therefore I can break the law.
	That's not how it works.
	We're adults here.
	And so the bottom line is we need to hold people.
	First of all, we need to denounce the violence.
	Not just me, but everybody needs to say, look, I don't care if you're on the political left or the political right.
	If you're engaged in acts of violence or criminal destruction, that is unacceptable.
	Ted Wheeler denounced you.
	Ted Wheeler denounced you.
	I hate it.
	But he didn't, though.
	He didn't, you know, specifically say, okay, yeah, I also denounced the violence from Antifa or anything.
	Sure.
	The left and the right.
	All violence.
	All violence.
	Exactly.
	The Jeremy Corbyn.
	Yeah.
	Never actually answering it.
	Nor did he address the point she made, which is, you let this go on.
	You sided with them.
	We got the images of you out there with them.
	And then people have used that as justification.
	Yeah.
	Do you take any responsibility?
	Oh, you're not allowed to take justification for us doing the thing that you're doing.
	I'm not responsible for the end goal, therefore I'm not responsible at all for the upping of the temperature.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Ted Wheeler could have stopped Antifa on day one, and he didn't.
	He wanted to try and ingratiate himself into it.
	It didn't work.
	They rejected him.
	And it is exactly him allowing this pressure to boil that has led to the events at the Capitol.
	But yeah, this was a video I posted to my Telegram, which you can follow if you'd like, by Matt Gates.
	Gates, I don't know how it's pronounced.
	But yeah, let's watch it, because I can't stand it.
	it again i just constant we brads that you call for people to get in the faces of those who serve and support the president I denounced political violence from all ends of the spectrum, but make no mistake, the left in America has incited far more political violence than the right.
	For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing.
	Or they cheerlead for it, and they fundraised for it, and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world.
	Now, some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame.
	Well, they lit actual flames, actual fires, and we want to put them out.
	Time fires, there will be more in the house.
	The gentleman from Ohio, do you wish to reserve your time?
	And you've all seen it, from our coverage and everyone else's coverage.
	He's exactly right.
	They lit actual flames.
	How dare you call us out?
	That's what those booze are.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	How dare you try and make us be ethical people?
	How dare you try and make us adhere to an ethical standard?
	What's that mean?
	Like, screw your booze?
	They mean nothing to me?
	I've seen what makes you cheer?
	Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.
	Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.
	You guys have got no respect for me.
	But...
	Yeah, so I wanted to get onto a white pill, at least, for the last thing.
	So, Project Veritas, the God's people who have been doing God's work.
	They are.
	They absolutely are.
	They have been doing God's work.
	So they've been essentially going out and doing the on-the-ground journalism that journalists, or at least the mainstream media, don't do anymore, because they're not interested in that.
	It's not that they don't have the resources.
	These people are billion-dollar companies.
	They can do whatever they want.
	They choose to sit around and do nothing and just be like, you know, it's all white national.
	It's going to be some of the good people watching us are doubtless supporters of Project Veritas in the same way they're supporters of us.
	And, you know, good.
	We have to be able to support people who are doing the right thing.
	Yeah.
	And Project Veritas have done two things, so I want to talk about it.
	The first thing was PBS. So PBS are, I believe they're publicly funded, or at least partially publicly funded.
	Yeah, they are publicly funded.
	So they have a standard of they shouldn't be engaging in.
	Why is that playing?
	A bit sooner than expected, John.
	That's the Fox News one, I think.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, it sounds bad.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Sorry, go on.
	Spoiler.
	Yeah.
	So they do underground stinging someone, in case anyone doesn't know who Project Veritas is.
	So they'll send a journalist and they'll record him for a few months and then they'll get the things that he says when he's not on air to be like, look, this is who he really is.
	Is this appropriate or not?
	And a lot of the time it's crimes.
	So...
	But this one was PBS. Before we go on, Project Veritas have done some amazing work as well.
	I mean, back when the primaries were going on, they embedded themselves with Bernie staffers and found them to be open Leninists who wanted a revolution and that cities were going to burn and things like this.
	I mean, exactly what Gates was saying earlier.
	These leftists were saying, look, if we don't win, cities are going to burn.
	And so it's like, right.
	They also had a guy in Antifa for, I think it was a year and a half, collecting evidence on them.
	So they really play the long game as well.
	Yeah, they've been doing amazing work.
	Amazing.
	So they got a PBS lawyer.
	They had some, I assume, some hot girls hang out with him, buy him drinks, see what he really thinks.
	And they asked him about the election and what was going on with the Capitol and everything.
	And he mentioned that if Trump wins and they go down there, we should surround the limo.
	And then they're like, well, for what?
	What are you going to do?
	He's like, we'll take some Molotov cocktails.
	And then we'll throw the Molotov cocktails, presumably, at the limo and kill Trump.
	Jesus.
	Okay.
	Is this a PBS? Yeah, this is a PBS lawyer.
	So he's a lawyer for PBS. What a maniac.
	So Project Veritas went down to him and kind of like, here's the footage.
	What do you make of it?
	And his response was the funniest thing.
	He turns around and says, oh, they're a type of cocktail.
	We were talking about cocktails we were drinking.
	It's like, What?
	Everyone knows what a Molotov cocktail is?
	As if, like, you know, Project Veritas is going to be like, yeah, oh, it's just a type of drink.
	Right, so you were going to surround Trump's limo and drink drinks at him, were you?
	I mean, what a...
	It's embarrassing.
	Yeah, it is really cringe.
	So, that wasn't the only thing, though, is we had the Fox News clip playing.
	Yeah.
	The Fox News had an interview with Project Veritas with some extra stuff.
	So he also mentions that, what are you going to do with the country?
	You know, the girls are like, well, you know, it's all fascist, right?
	And he's like, yeah.
	What are you going to do?
	And he says, okay, we'll take MAGA kids and we'll put them in re-education camps so that they can be re-educated and never be released into society.
	Presumably watching PBS all day.
	Do we have a clip of that?
	Can we play the clip of that?
	I want to get the clip of him talking about it.
	I don't think I clipped it.
	Okay, okay.
	But this...
	I mean, we've got all the articles, we've got the videos.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We'll have the links.
	There's some...
	And for anyone who wants to get the reading list of everything that we include in these, you can go to lotuses.com, and on the top right of the website, you can see the latest podcast, and on that page, all of the links to sources that we're using are on there.
	People have been asking, and that's where it is.
	He also talks about COVID in red states, saying that the COVID cases in red states is a good thing because it means that less Trump supporters will be there.
	And some of them might die.
	Yep, and there won't be out voting and things like that.
	It's like, okay, pretty rude, to put it lightly.
	And of course, PBS, I don't know if they did the right thing or not, but they announced that he had left their organization and no longer worked for them.
	If we can get that up, that's the Twitter link.
	Can we get the Twitter one up?
	So, yeah, in response to the Project Veritas, this employee no longer works with PBS as a mid-level staff attorney.
	He did not speak on behalf of the organization, nor does he make editorial decisions.
	Okay, fine.
	There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual's views in no way reflect their own values or opinions.
	Murdering Trump supporters and re-educating them.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Honestly, though, right, I feel like it's on a knife edge, right?
	It could have easily been them saying, yeah, get ready, you know?
	We stand by what you said, and we're not going to fire him.
	I mean, I was surprised that they did this, but it's not actually that they fired him.
	He resigned himself.
	Oh, right.
	So I wonder really what went on there.
	So if you can get that up, there's the AP saying that, you know, PBS lawyer resigns after being caught in Veritas sting.
	Good job.
	That's a scalp that Veritas have taken.
	Also mentioned there that he said Donald Trump was close to Hitler, but to be honest, that's not really new anymore.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	Who isn't?
	Who isn't?
	Yeah.
	But I wanted to talk about this because it's not just that.
	It's Project Veritas will go undercover, get the good stings, the things that everyone's thinking is really happening.
	And the response they get is awful.
	Like, I just typed in Project Veritas voter fraud, and this is what comes up in YouTube.
	I know it's a little bit small, but all of those are mainstream media.
	So you've got CNN, CBS This Morning, TLDR News US. You'll notice none of them are Project Veritas.
	None of those links.
	And even the ones that are there, they're all trying to disavow, sorry, like disprove Project Veritas.
	Yeah.
	Like the first two, Project Veritas, Forward Story.
	Yeah, it's all hostile.
	Says he was bribed.
	There's one there saying, you know, claim election fraud, evidence scant.
	It's like, okay.
	So if you can get the next one, that's the evidence scant one, the YouTube link.
	Like it's just a smear merchants thing where they're just outright lying.
	They're not taking the issue seriously.
	And then the next one where they're saying he's been bribed.
	And my understanding is Project Veritas are suing them for this and saying, no, you will make a retraction like we have a wall of retractions in our office.
	Yeah, they've got hundreds.
	Hundreds of them.
	Hundreds of retractions.
	And it shows that they're solid.
	Like, they've got the video evidence.
	They're not going to put something out that jeopardizes their relationship.
	Yeah.
	Because why would you?
	Yeah, and Project Veritas have built up a very good reputation in the last four years.
	So you can get the next one.
	This is a story they broke a while back about election fraud.
	So this lady here in the chair, you can see her back.
	Raquel Rodriguez?
	Raquel Rodriguez?
	Yeah, so she used to work for Democrats and now works for a Republican, well, did work for a Republican congressman as a political consultant.
	And this is in Austin.
	And they managed to get her on tape saying that, yeah, she commits voter fraud for him, has done it in the past for other people, presumably the Democrats, and says that she knows it's a crime, but she does it anyway because that gives her power and also it gives her a good job.
	And we have some quotes from her saying that it's about $5 to $8 a vote.
	So if you want to harvest a vote, that's the going rate.
	Right.
	And then when you jack that up, it's $55,000 for 5,000 votes.
	That's a price she gives.
	And she says, yeah, we can do that.
	Thank you.
	Sorry, daily siren.
	But she's just open about this.
	Yeah, but 5,000 votes for $55,000.
	I mean, you think about Georgia.
	What was that?
	11,000 votes?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So 100 grand and you've got Georgia.
	You're half that.
	What's that, 6,000?
	Yeah.
	That would be a swing?
	Yeah.
	It's nothing.
	55 grand.
	I mean, would you pay that?
	I mean, if I really wanted to get elected.
	If I was a corrupt...
	If I was a corrupt criminal.
	Yeah.
	And I had lots and lots of slush money from the Democrats...
	And the undercover journalist asks her how many she's done right now in this election that was going on, and she says, I've already done 1,800 votes, and she brags that she's probably going to bring in about 7,000 votes.
	This is just her.
	1,800 votes?
	Yes.
	So she's made 20 grand off of this already.
	And then she's going to bring down 7,000 votes, so that's more than 55 grand.
	So yeah, she's going to be looking at 100 grand by the end of it.
	Yeah.
	So it's lucrative.
	Very lucrative.
	But that's just one person.
	That's the thing to keep in mind.
	This is one political consultant for one potential congressman at the time.
	Unreal.
	And, okay, we'll replicate that over the country.
	How bad is this?
	That's why I take these claims in which people say we think there's something going on.
	I'm not just going to fully dismiss it.
	No, no, no.
	I mean, there are lots of examples of these people doing it and admitting it on bloody tape.
	Yeah, and this is the absurdity of the media trying to say that nothing's going on or, you know, we don't care.
	Yeah, this was a perfect election.
	It was the most secure election in history.
	So, yeah, maybe from outside influence, but from inside?
	Are you not going to take it seriously?
	Yeah.
	And it's not just, oh, these wacky Project Veritas people have released this and people were accusing them of, like, how dare you try and, you know, mislead the American public with stories like this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well guess what?
	She's arrested.
	They got her.
	The Attorney General for Texas has arrested her for crimes of election fraud that she admitted to on camera.
	Break out the mission accomplished banners.
	Yeah, literally.
	So you've got the quote here.
	Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced the arrest of Rachel Rodriguez for election fraud, illegal voting, unlawful assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot.
	So she was literally going up to them.
	You know, the footage shows.
	She takes her ballot.
	She's like, oh, you voted a Democrat here.
	Sorry, a Republican.
	You need to vote Democrat here.
	And then they're like, wait, what?
	She's like, you wanted to vote all Democrat, right?
	But you voted a Republican here.
	And then they take back to the car and the journalist is like, but you made her change her vote.
	She's like, yeah, that's how we did it.
	Okay, so there is no debate here about whether or not she's guilty.
	He's arrested her.
	We've got the video evidence.
	You can watch it for yourself.
	She's definitely guilty.
	And she's not the first in Texas either.
	There was another one a couple of weeks ago who was also arrested.
	Not because of Project Veritas, but just because...
	I can't remember the name.
	I should have got it really in advance of this.
	But there was another one a few weeks ago that was arrested for the same thing.
	So she's looking at 20 years in prison, probably going to get quite a few of them, and she deserves it.
	Absolutely.
	100%.
	Although I love the quote from the Attorney General here.
	So you can see the headline, which was, San Antonio election fraudster arrested for widespread vote harvesting and fraud.
	A little bit of a jab at the media there, especially YouTube and people like them, saying there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
	Well, she's engaging in widespread fraud in Texas.
	Well, is it widespread?
	I mean, it seems to be targeted and local, to be honest.
	But how do you define widespread?
	If she's engaged in previous campaigns for other candidates in the area, well, widespread within Texas, or at least Austin.
	Yeah.
	But for YouTube's Terms of Services purposes, we're going to say that this is a specific and targeted voter fraud.
	Yeah, the Attorney General is a liar.
	That's YouTube's position.
	So he gave a quote here saying, Many continue to claim there's no such thing as election fraud.
	We've always known that such a claim was false and misleading, and today we have additional hard evidence.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Yeah, you do.
	So all these people trying to claim there's no fraud, just send them this.
	Send them this.
	Because they're liars.
	Yeah.
	It's not even the liars.
	I think they're being deliberately misled by the media and the Democrat establishment.
	Because they know.
	They know that these problems exist.
	Exactly.
	And it's always one way.
	There's no Republicans who are being arrested for vote fraud.
	Well, she was working for a Republican.
	I want to say that.
	Yeah, but she was a Democrat.
	She works for either.
	The individuals who do this, they don't seem to care.
	Because, I mean, it's a hundred grand.
	They're just in it for the money.
	Right, fair enough.
	But the point being, this is why I continually can't shake the feeling that the Democrats feel illegitimate.
	Because they feel like they're not based on anything real.
	They feel like they're based on...
	I'm not going to carry on.
	So how many Rachel Rodriguez's are there in the country?
	How many in swing states?
	Good question.
	So I have one last video to play, which was a video of James O'Keefe giving a speech, and I think he deserves it.
	So let's end on that.
	Now we're doing investigative reporting here, showing fraud.
	Someone's been arrested.
	I get an email last night from one Brian Schwartz from NBCUniversal who emails me and asks, quote, Project Veritas is also one of a bunch of groups that align with the president's claims that some form of voter fraud was taking place in the election.
	They're trying to shame me.
	For doing my job and reporting on this individual, breaking the law, they're trying to make the argument that somehow I'm, quote, aligned with the president's agenda?
	It's called journalism, Mr.
	Schwartz.
	Maybe you should try it instead of attacking my team for doing our jobs because had we not done this, you would not know about the fraud that's taking place.
	Is it millions of votes?
	Well, it appears to be at least tens of thousands of And those are the only ones we know about.
	Raquel Rodriguez is the tip of the iceberg and we need more of it, not less.
	So for those of you in the news media who says there is no such thing as voter fraud and we're trying to undermine elections like Mr.
	Schwartz here, take a seat!
	You've done nothing!
	You do nothing but punditry and censorship and attack those who actually do their jobs.
	And for those of you who are in our audience, for those of you who are hopeless and cynical and bemoan how tragic it is what's happening in our world and our society, follow me, I'm going to show you something.
	You know what?
	You can have hope because this is the consequence.
	I know it's not the consequence that you want, but it's the beginning.
	The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
	Yesterday, a lawyer for PBS gets fired because we caught him on tape committing acts of violence.
	Today, the Attorney General of Texas arrests someone after we caught her on tape committing voter fraud.
	And there's thousands more like it.
	So is it enough?
	It isn't enough.
	Should we do more?
	Yes, we should do more.
	But if you want to change the world, start by changing yourself.
	He's doing the right thing.
	Yeah, the real legwork though.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Let's answer some questions and read some comments.
	But yeah, no.
	I mean, it's good that there are still people in the world who are doing the right thing.
	Few and far between though they may be.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I've loaded up the Super Chats on here as well.
	Try and do that.
	Okay, go on.
	So, Mute Stream.
	Can't stay today because rules say I can't do Partix from the bathtub.
	Still here are today's Simping Cash.
	Hashtag Team Hugo Forever.
	Do your part and vote.
	That's, what is it?
	LotusSimpers.com.
	That's right.
	This is not a website we made.
	Someone else made that.
	TF Allspark, Norwegian money for our British heroes.
	He sends us this every day.
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, it's reparations, I guess.
	Well, thank you.
	One ideology to rule them all, one to demoralize them, one to blind them, and for the greater good, bind them.
	Sorry, not very good at my talking.
	Rapier 10001.
	Raptor.
	All the hypocrisy we are seeing from the representative...
	All the hypocrisy we're seeing is from the repressive tolerance playbook by Marcuse.
	It seems as though complaining about it and pointing it out is futile.
	Any white pills around this?
	Well, James O'Keefe is delivering them.
	Thank God.
	Some people are actually being held to account.
	Unfortunately, it's not the media.
	Well, there's PBS's lawyer, but that's not close enough.
	Yes, but anyway.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	is everywhere now.
	Apparently famous YouTuber Uncle Roger had to remove a recent vid and it was just a cooking reaction.
	Jesus.
	Eric Edwards says, my girlfriend has ditched Callum for Keto Bros and hope you are all well.
	Hashtag Team Hugo.
	I don't care.
	That's good.
	Well, I mean, this is what Chuck Schumer, Pelosi, and the squad all seem to agree on, is the outright persecution of the MAGA folk.
	As the Republican senators made the point, now is the time for magnanimity, and they can't show it.
	And I think they can't show it because they're insecure.
	They don't think that they won fairly, I think.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping the Republicans are smart and do exactly the same thing.
	Let the Democrats have their little show trial and then just vote no, so Trump isn't impeached, basically.
	It doesn't depend on the Democrats.
	It depends on the Republicans in the Senate.
	Well, that's what I said.
	I hope the Republicans do the right thing.
	The idea of the Democrats are clearly against doing the right thing at this point, in my opinion.
	But the Republicans have got to vote no on it.
	Krizzle says, AOC would make for a killer guest on the Murray Franklin show.
	Can't wait for the premium content when more payment options are added, Kings.
	Well, yeah, I don't know about what other payment options we can add or anything.
	But there's lots of premium content already there, though.
	Yuki Tayo says, The red cap is the new yellow star and the Trump train goes to Auschwitz.
	Well, that's what they want to do to you all.
	They really seem to hate MAGA with a passion.
	Thug Life Bear, did you see the video of Lindsey Graham at the airport?
	Yeah, we covered it in the podcast a few days ago.
	The Civic Nationalist says, you can already hear the helicopters starting up, only this time, not the commies.
	Simping is not king shit.
	God save the queen, long live Britain.
	Guitar Operator says, I think if we were in a different time period, AOC would make an outstanding SS officer.
	In fact, she would have been great at running a camp.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	That would have been our job.
	Yeah, yeah.
	She is an unbelievably unfeeling person, in my opinion.
	Krizzle says, Remember Kings?
	Arthur returns to rule on the darkest day.
	Now's the time to embody the heroic spirit in smaller big ways.
	Time to light the way forward.
	Yes, and I completely agree with James O'Keefe's point.
	You know, the journey of a thousand miles does begin with a single step, and that's exactly everything we're saying.
	Just make yourself better, make the world around you better, and then the world will be better.
	If this were a movie script, the next big event would be a false flag assassination of Biden at the inauguration, blamed on MAGA and the right in general to cement the left as the good guys.
	Yes, that's the kind of Palpatinean narrative arc that Alex Jones would expect, I imagine.
	But I mean, I don't even call out Alex Jones for being crazy anymore.
	He's saying completely sensible stuff like, don't storm the Capitol.
	You know, like...
	Well, yeah, whatever.
	But yeah, I am expecting Joe Biden, you know, this attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed.
	I'm totally expecting it.
	Well, that's what they're doing, aren't they?
	By saying this was an attempt on our lives.
	Yeah, this was an attempt at assassination.
	Nonsense.
	Robert Dunn, can you please say hello to my good friend Mick in Ireland?
	Dealing with a full COF lockdown, he's a farmer and always outstanding in his field.
	Ha ha ha.
	Hello, Mick.
	No, no to give.
	Oz's government leftist diversity channel SBS News interviewed a DC Latino couple on the riots and election.
	They point blank said the election was stolen by Biden.
	Pure cold.
	Lucas Menhet says, We need more video clips like The Capitol Storming was not a surprise, and throw them into left-wing echo chambers on Facebook or Twitter just for fun.
	Yep, you can go to our alternative channel, Lotus Eaters, and find clips on that.
	I'll probably record something a bit later, actually, because there's a wonderful Snopes article that's debunking the meme of the Democrats calling for violence, and they're like, yeah, mostly false.
	And if you go through it, it's like, all of these are true.
	It's okay.
	So I'll probably do a short video after this to go through that.
	Pirate Skeleton says, the left wants to collectively judge Trump's base by the worst among them.
	If you apply the same logic they use, you end up justifying the worst kinds of bigotry.
	Yes, that's true.
	Mr.
	Falange says, which is woe to the conquered.
	Kyle Pascoe says, have you guys seen Mike Pompeo on the Iran Al-Qaeda another day?
	Obama administration knew Iran was aiding them, yet still gave them billions.
	I have not seen that.
	Easily believable, though.
	Ryan Caulfield.
	90% of the world's child pornography is traded through Google and Facebook Messenger and they ignore most of it.
	Yes, they do.
	Krizzle says, Minifrego, stunning and brave platforms.
	They are at the point of fascism, where they literally do not care what you say.
	anything you say will be used against you.
	Evan Meschnick, "Biden is rumoured to target poll on because they work with Trump.
	This is true.
	Trump supporters are the least of his worries.
	Don't F with polls." It's true.
	Lucas Penner says, I don't think they were the Gracchi brothers.
	Fencing Mitch says, remember, it's my private business until it comes to wedding cakes.
	Yeah, that's another thing as well.
	I hate this.
	We don't regulate private businesses.
	Yes, we do.
	Shut up.
	We force them to bake cakes.
	Shut up.
	Narco Republican says, this is no French Revolution.
	It's a Reformation.
	Luther has been excommunicated.
	Now's the time to build our decentralized alternative to the corrupt and decadent cathedral.
	Protestantism, ho!
	I don't know, man.
	I think it's got definite French revolutionary overtones.
	Pirate Skeleton from yesterday.
	Communism is not for compassionate people to be good.
	Communism is for giving bad people a good excuse to do bad things.
	Exactly.
	Alexander Cross.
	And as we go on, you can rest assured that evil won.
	Yeah, I think the villains are winning here.
	I hate to say it, you know, it's not what I want, but I do think the villains have won.
	Lord Ganon gave me boundless strength and protects me.
	Useful idiot inevitably consumed by the demon Lord Ganon.
	Yes, that's Pelosi.
	That is exactly Pelosi.
	Ryan Ibarra says, Silver lining about 2020, all the demagogues went full mask off and revealed themselves to us.
	The bad news, they went full mask off, showing they're not afraid anymore and do not fear any repercussions.
	Yes.
	The consequences will all be going one way as far as they're concerned.
	Stuart McLean, idea, talking about Antifar, 44 dead, 3,000 injured, 3.7 billion in damages, quite the idea.
	Yes.
	Yes, it's communism.
	That's all it does.
	Kill people and destroy things.
	President-elect Zhao Biden says, Blacklist is a racist term.
	We prefer list of colour.
	Good point.
	Oh yeah, did you see Pelosi breaking her own gender rules?
	I heard about it.
	I didn't get time to look into it.
	Okay, so she brought gender rules to the house saying that we can't use, like, daughter, mother, anything like this.
	And then she began her speech on impeachment saying, I'm a grandmother, I'm doing this for my mother, and I'm doing it for my daughters.
	And then she's like, oh, for God's sakes.
	Nancy, you goddamn unsurprising hypocrite.
	Like, God, God.
	They just can't get five minutes of moral consistency.
	Like, this is the thing.
	People who are not ethical do not care about moral consistency.
	Jerry3 says, nothing more American than saying miracle vaccine.
	That's true.
	JaffaOnTheBound says, what if Trump's greatest legacy would be getting the world pushed back against big tech?
	We are John Galt.
	You know, I've never read Atlas Shrugged, and I probably should.
	JoeR says, also, Kathy Griffin's still up on Twitter with Trump's head reposted in November.
	Yeah, she'll never face any penalties from Twitter for inciting violence.
	Sam Lawrence, it's astonishing to think that Trump isn't a politician.
	Yeah, that's the best bit about it, isn't it?
	Trump didn't change his character.
	Charles Eccles says, Yeah, there was a thing that apparently 60% of health workers in America were refusing the vaccine when offered.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I saw in New York they were throwing some away because of a lack of demand.
	Yeah.
	Like, okay.
	Weird.
	Like, you would think that stuff is gold dust, but...
	Yep.
	Can't even give it away.
	Liberty or Death says the people with the most guns ever showed up to an insurrection without guns.
	Okay, yeah, this is the thing.
	I was arguing with idiots on Facebook yesterday.
	It's not the reason I came in late to the office today.
	It was just something I happened to do for fun.
	And there's one chap called James, I think it was, who was just like, no, this is a fascist insurrection.
	And I'm like, okay, but why didn't they take any guns?
	He's like, well, you don't need guns for an insurrection.
	It's like, yeah, you do!
	Yeah.
	Okay, yeah, before guns were invented, you used swords and spears, sure.
	But now you use guns for an insurrection.
	You don't have...
	You know, the Beer Hall Putsch or the March on Rome would have been a bit useless without any weapons.
	Yeah, they would have just said no, or what, you know?
	The Beer Hall Putsch, they literally went there with rifles and the army support, and then the army put them down.
	Yeah.
	Like, okay.
	But if they turned up with nothing...
	They wouldn't have done anything.
	Yeah.
	Because you can't.
	Michael VPS says, current US development reminds me of Weimar's end.
	Yeah, Arch thinks we're about 10 years from the Hitler, to be honest.
	Who's the Hitler going to be?
	Well, I don't know.
	I think AFC. I mean, I hate to do the everything is Hitler meme, but it fits the bill.
	No, that would be the communist takeover.
	Socialists, they're all the same.
	Yeah, I guess they are.
	But yeah, no, I don't like the way things are going.
	I think that the MAGA folk need their day in court.
	Zach Ulysses, oh sorry, Stetson's Gold says, go on Carl, get in their cracks.
	I do my best.
	Zach Ulysses says, I'll take a double shot of whatever the white buffalo is having.
	I assume that's me.
	No, no, that's the Q shaman.
	Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, he sounds like he's really funny to hang up at parties.
	Yeah, like Alex is.
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	You know, you don't know what's going to come out of his mouth next, and I like that.
	I don't like being able to predict everything someone can say.
	Alexander Cross, we can start up some kind of frat group, call it Antico, because I imagine the reactions would be interesting.
	Well, that's the Proud Boys.
	Yes, that is the Proud Boys, yeah.
	W Bishop, the war for the quantum realm is real.
	The ones alter our melanin by reconfiguring our quarks.
	I disavow this message.
	Yeah, basically, yeah.
	I mean, you know, that's what the Q-shaman thinks.
	Dover, violence can be defined as knowingly and intentionally causing physical harm to another human being.
	Yeah, that's a good definition of violence.
	The open and free exchange of ideas over the internet isn't violence, Chuck.
	Keep telling the truth, boys.
	I completely agree.
	I think the term violence on the internet can only be used for incitement at best.
	That's the strongest way that you can use violence on the internet.
	James Quinn, you guys need to check out the song version of Alex Jones and the Q Shaman.
	It's by Jonathan Mann.
	It's so good.
	Alex played it on the show too.
	Jonathan Mann, isn't that the leftist one who did a song called I'm a Cuck?
	Or Proud Beta or something like that.
	But I think that's making fun of leftism.
	No, no, no.
	He is a leftist.
	And him and some other beta leftist did like a proud beta cuck video.
	And it was like, okay, that's weird.
	Okay, well, I'm going to find it.
	Just take the insult back, I guess, guys.
	Edward of Woodstock, Trump is definitely a Gracchus.
	He's sadly no longer a sacrosanct with his office taken.
	And the Optimates are closing in around him.
	However, I think he's the first, not the last.
	Who's Tiberius, though?
	Well, I mean, he may well be Tiberius, and then whoever comes after him may well be Gaius.
	But the point is, you can see from the class dynamics of his supporters that he is representing the working class concerns.
	Anyway, Marcus Holm.
	Let them impeach Trump.
	This was never about him.
	He's only a fallen soldier in the age of populism.
	We'll dismantle these super-governments one state at a time.
	No violence, no war, just leave.
	Yeah, I mean, this is why I was saying, you know, a secession of the plebs is no bad idea.
	It's also the stupidest thing about all of this.
	Like, we'll get rid of Trump, and then everything will be solved.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	If they think that this is going away, and then go back to four years of darkness under Joe Biden.
	Leashed King Joe Biden.
	He'll raise the dead again, don't worry.
	Mr.
	Wonderful.
	Disable Superchats, enable Streamlabs, no 30% cut.
	Yeah, we'll do that when we're deplatformed.
	Until then, we're going to be a part of the system.
	Because the thing I think that drives them nuts is that we are a part of the system.
	I think it drives them crazy that we defile their perfect and sacred platforms.
	Alrighty.
	Gotta profane things.
	That'd be another one to add to the list, Hugo.
	John Schaefer of the band Ice Earth.
	So we're preparing a list of the people who have been arrested.
	Because it turns out a bunch of them are quite notable, really.
	There's an Olympic athlete arrested.
	The woman who was shot owns a business.
	And these are not like down and outs.
	You know, people who are just living on the streets of San Francisco or something.
	This is the backbone of America that is coming out to protest this.
	So if they think they can turn on these kind of people, then man, I don't know.
	Alexander Cross, Tom McClintlock, a Republican of quality.
	If that speech is anything to judge by.
	Joe Woodland, what happens when the Republicans impeach everyone now the Dems have used it as this sweeping club that is so easy to grab?
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	Mark GI, would the US civil tensions have any impact in the British civil mindset?
	Do you think more Brits will have less trust in their own government?
	Will US tensions have no impact?
	Honestly, I just...
	I don't have much hope for the fighting spirit of the Brits at this point.
	We all seem to be completely content with having our livelihood stripped away from us.
	And nobody seems to want to do anything.
	And I see a lot of people on Facebook and various other comment sections complaining that other people aren't allowing the government to flagellate them hard enough.
	It's very sad.
	Kathy says, Carl, you're the one of the most rational people I've ever heard.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I do my best.
	FA Tuesday says, I predict that by 2025 the UK will be back in the EU. You'll use the euro and the union jack will be no more and it'll be legal to own one.
	Well, in four years, I don't think that will happen and God willing it'll never happen.
	Mute stream, I forgot to mention the poll is closing on 12am Friday.
	Right, so go to Lotus Simpers and vote for Simping is not King Shit.
	Yeah, I know.
	I just think the villains may have won at this point.
	You take away my Supreme Court hearing?
	Well, my impeachment hearing will be the hearing.
	Dude, I'm down for it.
	Let's start laying it out.
	Loyal Suspect says, Hey guys, we'd love to see more book clubs with books available on audiobook.
	As a tracker, I don't have much time for reading, but lots of time for listening.
	Well, I think, I mean, I know John Locke's definitely going to be able to find an audiobook.
	You'll probably be able to find that on YouTube.
	And The Rule of Law, possibly not.
	Okay, I'll try and find books there.
	I've got audiobooks.
	I'll do my best.
	Aurelius' Meditations is the one we're going to do next, and you can definitely find that on an audiobook.
	It's 2,000 years old, you know, so there's bound to be on YouTube somewhere.
	Didn't you used to do audiobooks?
	Yeah, but I haven't done it in years.
	I don't...
	Did I do meditation?
	I may have done meditations.
	Eva Komar says, for 54 euros, thank you, I'd love to invite you to Jernaz Online, a Dutch YouTube show, to talk about the state of the populist right.
	The host is a black libertarian politician who was cancelled on our national television for racism.
	Been a fan for years.
	Thanks for everything you do.
	Sure, if you want to email contacts.lotuses.com, I'm sure we can arrange something.
	I wonder what his views are on Svartapete.
	Well, I guess I'll ask, won't I? You know.
	Alexander Cross.
	We've got to root for the next election.
	Matt Gaetz and Tom McClintlock.
	Remember those two names?
	I would add Josh Hawley to that because he was making very good principled objections.
	And Josh Hawley is getting protested by the left.
	They are demonizing him in the same way they demonize Trump.
	So I don't know what it is about him exactly because I showed it to a friend of mine.
	He was like, well, this seems to be just a Basic conservative republicanism.
	It's like, yeah, but for some reason the left are really upset by this guy, and it's because probably he's young and has given no ground to them.
	He doesn't accept any of their premises, and he's resisting what they're saying.
	And hopefully he'll continue to do this.
	And add the names of the ones who are reliable.
	But anyway, Mute Stream.
	Wow, John as a boomer confirmed.
	True.
	Marcus Byrne.
	How funny would it be if Lynn Cheney, daughter of Darth Cheney, was to join the DNC? That would be funny.
	Ken Jones says, joke, instead of Lotus Eaters, have you thought about calling yourselves BNN, Boomer News Network?
	It was floated initially.
	Mark GI, it turns out none of us are actually boomers.
	If US tensions boil over, countries like Japan should invest in a standing army.
	You can't help but think there'll be land grabs by certain countries.
	Yeah, I mean, this is another thing that the Democrats are doing, is imperiling the world order by going insane like this.
	So yeah, it's mad.
	Stephen Thompson, Matt Gaetz, representative from Florida, pronounces his name as if at the English word Gaetz.
	Thank you, Steven.
	Loyal Suspect says "I swear Dems have perfected doublethink.
	We were always at war with East Asia.
	It's really scary how many parallels can be drawn.
	We need a Callum body pillow as well as Hugo." Yeah well the gas lighting is just off the scales at this point.
	I can't stand it.
	Yeah.
	Not just Molotov cocktails, but yeah, the rifles too.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Loyal suspect, daily sirens always make me think I'm getting pulled over.
	Yeah, me too.
	I'm not even driving.
	Frank Carr, if Trump had incited violence, why did the Secret Service deliver Pence to the Senate?
	For $50, by the way.
	By the way, thank you, Frank.
	Certainly these experts in crowd control know better than to do that.
	No planned insurrection would use shaman and baked Alaska instead of ex-Navy seals.
	Yeah, in a lot of the CNN footage, baked Alaska pops up, and apparently he hasn't been charged.
	I saw on Twitter people saying that he hasn't been charged.
	But he's like the most famous one, surely.
	Like, he's got his own Wikipedia.
	So, did you intercede there, Hugo?
	He's a Fed.
	He's a Fed, right.
	But the thing is, I don't think, again, giving him way too much credit.
	You know, but I think that's interesting how he hasn't got any charges.
	Prank calling from Nancy Pelosi's office and he doesn't even get charged.
	Mr.
	Tuck says, stop trying to gaslight us.
	Everyone says, stop trying to gaslight us.
	Mainstream media, gaslighting is a myth.
	You've made it up because you're crazy.
	Yes, that's exactly what they're going to do.
	Ryan Dark says, Drizzit says, thank you for doing this podcast at the time.
	I wake up at 4am my time and go to listen to all my drive for work.
	You'll rock.
	Well, thank you very much and I hope you have a good day at work.
	Chris Leiforest, that was actually the point of doing this podcast in the middle of the day.
	So I figured it'd be when people are at work or traveling to work.
	So hopefully we're a bit of a respite from the mundanity of real life.
	Chris Laforest, sorry.
	He said in his video last night that the violent people weren't his supporters.
	He said it over and over again.
	Yeah, they don't care.
	They don't care.
	You may as well not say anything because they're just going to tell you what you said.
	AJ, here's my poultry donation for your new Swindon-built Tesla.
	Yeah, so the Swindon Advertiser, the local newspaper here.
	Apparently a councillor has written to Elon Musk asking him to build a Tesla plant in Swindon because of the Honda parts being shut down.
	And I posted on Facebook with it and said, yeah, sure.
	And I'll even buy one of those Teslas.
	And it would be fantastically amusing if Elon Musk did actually build a Tesla plant in Swindon.
	There's a bunch of memes that he should become the right-wing source as well.
	Yes, there are.
	It should be amazing.
	I mean, he is now the richest man in history.
	So...
	Come on, Elon.
	Help a brother out, you know?
	We need them Gibbs.
	Yeah, we do.
	On that note, subscribe to LotusEast.com and Gibbs.
	We'll get good content in return.
	Um...
	I think that would be an excellent thing.
	And the thing is, there is actually a workforce here that is experienced in building cars.
	So it's not actually that it would be a difficulty in acquiring the human capital to do this.
	But anyway, Toldrin says, Pelosi asked for an uprising and BLM attacked the White House, burned the guardhouse and assaulted the secret surface until they evacuated Trump to the bunker.
	How is the capital right unprecedented?
	Exactly.
	Yeah, Trump was rushed to a bunker.
	And then they were all like, oh look, Trump the coward's rushing to a bunker.
	It's like, sorry, you've incited mobs to try and lynch him.
	What the hell are you talking about?
	Why wouldn't he?
	What would the Secret Service be doing?
	You know, Mr.
	President, there appears to be an angry mob outside.
	They're trying to get him.
	We'd like to get you to safety.
	It's a totally salient thing to happen.
	Mark Zed says, let them eat Lotus.
	Exactly.
	I can't pronounce what I believe to be this Indian name.
	Trump counter-couped his own coup, and now he's apparently recouping his own counter-coup to uncoup the legislature trying to coup him.
	All that to ensure a Biden presidency.
	Democrats really make sense.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's why I had the CNN clip, where he just has to be like, yeah, so Trump attacked his own government.
	Why?
	That doesn't make sense.
	Bomchus says, everyone who's engaged in or publicly condoned riotous behavior in the past 12 months should get 12 months in prison.
	It's about 300 MAGA chuds and about 10 million BLM and Antifa, as well as the entire MSM. You know, I agree with those standards.
	Isabel says, is there any hope for this country?
	They could literally start going door to door and no one could stop the purge.
	Well, I mean, honestly, if there is no concern for moral consistency, then fuck everyone is basically the message.
	And I don't mean to swear, I realize it's rude, but it's immoral.
	It's absolutely immoral to allow them to do this in full view and for them to get away with it.
	Menace Blue says, Yeah, no, fair enough.
	Fair enough.
	I'll look into it more deeply.
	You did miss one.
	The Twitter Uganda thing isn't hypocrisy.
	It's Twitter telling the world that they can and will deny you your basic human rights as they define it.
	Sure.
	But then they complain when they're censored.
	So I do consider it to be hypocrisy.
	But they are way more powerful than they should be.
	And I mean, I'm at the point where I think that maybe social media platforms actually shouldn't get to choose who they de-platform.
	Maybe that should be something that is outsourced to a government agency.
	And there can be some accountability from the public towards that because they're then a part of the government.
	I mean, we didn't talk about it today, but Poland's law in which they're saying that you companies, if you want to exist in Poland, you can only censor things that we consider illegal.
	Yeah.
	What's wrong with that?
	Exactly.
	You tell me what's wrong with that.
	Yeah.
	Giving that power to Silicon Valley, a bunch of unelected nerds, clearly a mistake.
	Yeah.
	Clearly a mistake.
	Norn Iron John, I think that is.
	If people think change can be made without actually physically...
	We're not going down that road.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, I mean, just stop using those platforms if possible.
	Joe Woodland.
	Vicky was winning the simp war at last check.
	Oh, really?
	Disavout.
	Dave Franco Jr.
	Pelosi asked for 5,000 Marines to support the poorly trained weekend warriors.
	General told her to get fudged.
	Good.
	Have I ever heard of Jonathan Pegu?
	Yes, I haven't.
	There's an interview with me on his channel.
	He explains in religious terms how wokeism is religion.
	Rebel Media did a good show with him recently.
	Yep.
	Tannoushi, it occurs to me that Trump is being given the same treatment as the Chinese government is promising those with the worst social credit score.
	Yes.
	The Daily Siren could have been a good name for the site.
	Damn it.
	Could have been a good name for the site.
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