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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #50

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast of the low seated.
	It is a slightly earlier edition today for Wednesday the 20th of January 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum, and we are going to be talking about Trump's last day, the inevitable purges that have already started to begin, and the return of the official state media to their position of glory.
	But Before we get into it, you can go to Lotuses.com and sign up if you'd like to support us and get access to our premium content.
	We've got lots of stuff already there, but tomorrow I think it'll be.
	Callum and I have done a premium podcast talking about the ethics of social justice and why I think we can explain how they end up siding with the worst villains in the world.
	And we've also got another book club for Marcus Aurelius coming.
	At some point, probably next week, I would suggest.
	But anyway, Callum, Trump's last day.
	How do you feel about it?
	Oh, I got some cake to sort of celebrate it.
	In the sense of not, oh, he's leaving, that's good.
	But, you know, four years, well done, lad.
	Can't believe what you've managed to go through and come out on the other side and still be mentally sane, frankly.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I've seen a lot of people criticising Trump's leadership since he was deplatformed from Twitter in the last couple of weeks of his leadership.
	And while I think that they are correct that Trump's leadership was lacklustre in the last two weeks, you've got to admit it's probably not been easy.
	Like, having literally the entire establishment turning on you and pouncing, even from the position of the presidency.
	So, I'm not angry with him.
	I'm not even disappointed.
	I think, considering the scale of what he was up against, Trump did a phenomenal job, frankly, the whole way.
	Like, back in 2016, I was just die-hard never Hillary, which puts me in the same camp as never Biden, basically.
	These people are the corrupt...
	Never swamp.
	Yeah, never swamp.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And Biden is just the latest iteration of the mask that the swamp wears to try and persuade people to vote for it.
	And yeah, so I was never really super pro-Trump, but as time went on and as Trump kept doing things I approved of and kept telling them all to get stuffed...
	I really found myself warming to him.
	And so I finished Trump's tenure being a diehard Trump supporter, and I think he did nothing wrong.
	And I'm going to stick by that no matter what.
	I can't think of any major policy points I'm in massive disagreement with.
	What'd he do?
	What'd he do that you don't agree with?
	He seems to have done everything right.
	The only problems I have with Trump is that he was obstructed.
	That's not his fault.
	That's the fault of the people who are obstructing him.
	So I just don't see any particular problem.
	I think Trump did a great job for all his faults.
	And it's because of his faults that I actually came to quite like him personally myself.
	I would enjoy his rallies.
	I would enjoy his speeches.
	Just because he never knew what he was going to say.
	He was riffing on the stage.
	It was tremendous fun.
	And his campaign leading up to the election was fantastic, in my opinion.
	But anyway, let's get on to what he's doing on his last day.
	Because today is the day that the Americans waking up and rubbing the sleep out of their eyes are realising that you are going into four years of doom and darkness as the great Lord Sauron has taken over and now the Eye of Sauron will be beaming down on us all.
	But in the meantime, Trump has decided to pardon a bunch of people.
	Now this is something I'm a bit disappointed about.
	There's no Assange, Manning and Snowden on it.
	Yep.
	Really disappointing.
	I don't know.
	Do we know any reasons why?
	Well, apparently, Bill Barr blocked Snowden's.
	Don't know anything about Assange.
	Don't know anything about Manning.
	But he did, pardon, Steve Bannon and Lil Wayne.
	Which, I mean, I guess they're the only ones I found notable on the list.
	But he pardoned or commuted the sentences of about 140 people.
	And I looked through the commutations of the criminals, and a bunch of them appeared to be people who actually, like, worked really hard to improve themselves in prison, had lots of recommendations from the officials who were organizing it.
	And so they actually look like people who actually look like they deserve a pardon, which...
	I only had a quick glance that there might be some on there that are terrible choices, but I didn't see anyone who leapt out as being an obvious terrible choice.
	It's not the same as the Democrats complaining that a bunch of people on death row were executed.
	If you actually look at these people, it's like, oh, murdered seven people, tortured two children.
	Domestic terrorists.
	Domestic terrorists.
	Murdered a mother and cut the baby out of her stomach.
	Murdered a pregnant woman, cut the baby out of her stomach.
	And they're like, oh, say their names.
	Don't forget that Trump executed these people.
	It's like...
	Good.
	I swear one of them actually was a white supremacist terrorist.
	Doubtless.
	And some lady, you know, BLM was pointing out, say their names, and his name was on the list.
	Again, this is why we did this ethics podcast, because you've got to understand why these people are bloody insane.
	But notably, Trump didn't pardon himself or Giuliani.
	Which we advised against the other day, so it's a good thing you were listening, Mr.
	President.
	But he didn't pardon himself.
	And that's important because I don't think he did anything wrong.
	And I don't think Rudy Giuliani did anything wrong either, at least not from the evidence that we have.
	So, good, I guess.
	But really, I mean...
	Trump should have just stuck it to them all and been like, I don't care what the ramifications are.
	I'm pardoning these three people on a matter of principle.
	And I don't doubt there are many people who are disappointed by that.
	That's why I said myself being one of them.
	The next thing is that Trump apparently, we're told by the Wall Street Journal, is considering the Patriot Party, founding a new party called the Patriot Party, which I'm not really in favor of.
	A new report Wednesday says he's discussing forming a new political outfit called the Patriot Party.
	He's discussed it, but no further info at all.
	So I don't really have anything.
	What's their source?
	Just someone said this?
	Just the Wall Street Journal has said insiders have said this.
	I mean, it's possible.
	It's totally possible.
	And it sounds likely, in fact.
	The Wall Street Journal has spoken to some White House staffer, passed them some money, and, okay, well, Trump said he wanted to start the Patriot Party because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But we don't have any proper information, but this is a rumor going around, and, like I said, it's not beyond the realms of possibility in any way, in my opinion.
	Frankly, though, I don't think it's a good idea.
	I mean, Trump has like a 77-80% approval rating still in the Republican Party.
	Basically, it is now the party of Trump.
	The base is Trump.
	So really, what I think they should do is destroy the rhinos at the polls.
	It's just prime room.
	Every single one of them thought, oh, I'm going to side with the Democrats and the Democrat narrative on what happened at the Capitol, which is obvious lies, and we have the video evidence to prove it.
	They should say, right, those people have got to go.
	The MAGA folk should be acting with one will at the moment.
	Anyone who even gave any credence to accepting the Democrat narrative on this needs to go.
	All of them need to go.
	In the next primary, put a MAGA candidate against them, have Trump endorse them, get rid of them.
	Literally MAGA candidates with MAGA hats on.
	It's that or the corporate shill who's willing to work with the swamp.
	You choose.
	And the politicians who get installed should simply not cooperate when the Democrats are trying to do some nefarious stuff.
	Do their best to stop the damage that Biden will do.
	Make sure that they understand the Republican Party is wide awake in the same way that the Democrat Party is.
	In the same way that the squad is.
	Wide awake as they have a genuine will to understand and defend what is theirs.
	Because what the Democrats do at no point is they ever give any ground.
	They never concede anything.
	They never toss out one of their own.
	And the Republicans, it's the only way you're going to win.
	Otherwise you're going to get eaten alive by these people, which is why you've lost everything now.
	It's because of the weakness of the Republicans accepting the premises of the Democrats in this contested political issue.
	That's why Trump's fallen, I think.
	Any thoughts on that?
	I mean, I'm a little bit...
	I was mentioning earlier, I saw the response to the fact that Julian Assange wasn't pardoned.
	And what I find kind of interesting there is the fact that everyone was kind of expecting Trump to do it.
	It would be the right thing to do.
	You know, he's the kind of guy who could do it.
	You know, he's not part of the swamp.
	And there's obvious disappointment.
	But no one, and I mean literally no one, is saying, okay, now Biden can do it, can they?
	Because everyone accepts, no, Biden is just a corrupt part of the swamp.
	It's not going to happen.
	Yeah.
	But Biden is the neoliberal establishment that hates Julian Assange and is the reason why he's currently in prison.
	But it's one of those questions I just have, like, how could this be the most popular man in American history, in politics, when literally, like, everyone knows this guy is corrupt.
	If evidence by, you know, numerous scandals, but also an issue like this.
	No.
	Yeah, the American people love Biden, man.
	We love him.
	We love the swamp.
	You can see because, I mean, at his speech, the speech we'll talk about in a minute, it sounded like he had about 12 people clapping in the background.
	I'm not even joking.
	Trump has arenas full of thunderous applause.
	Biden has a few golf claps, and it's like, okay, this is just embarrassing.
	Anyway, one thing that Trump did was revoke one of his own executive orders, number 13770, that Jake Tapper, very sensibly, decided to post a gif of, I don't know, is that from Peter Pan, a crocodile?
	But he says, on his way out the door, Trump revokes his own executive order, 1377, 13770, sorry, banning Trump administration officials from lobbying for five years.
	Jake, you're not opposed to that.
	You're not in favour of lobbyists being banned, politicians, sorry, administration officials even, being banned from lobbying.
	Jake Tapper has never expressed, as far as I'm aware, any kind of sympathy against the swamp.
	He's never tried to support any actions draining the swamp.
	You can't engage in the same tactics we do.
	I don't know if you have to say it, but there was, I think it was an NSA appointment.
	Trump had appointed someone just on his way out, and it was a seat that's hard to get rid of him.
	And Nancy Pelosi was whining about this, saying, How could you do this?
	You're acting like you're putting your guys in the deep state.
	It's like, oh, so we all agree the deep state's a thing, and it's a political, wide-awake part of the government.
	And it's currently full of Democrats.
	Is that what you're saying, Nancy?
	You're not complaining about any of the rest of them.
	You can't do it.
	Only we can use it.
	Exactly.
	So it's like, fuck off.
	This is another one of Jake Tapper's It's Okay When We Do It.
	Jake Tapper, just for anyone who's wondering, CNN anchor and total lunatic who thinks that the riot on the 6th of January was an insurrection.
	And he's been pushing this irresponsibly hard, in my opinion.
	But anyway, moving on.
	So Biden decided to come out and give a speech.
	We're not going to play you any of it because it's eight minutes long and it's really boring.
	But in his defense, he did look genuinely emotional.
	He did, you know, gives credit to his son and things like this.
	And as a father, I can empathize with the idea of losing a son.
	That sounds awful.
	So I'm not saying that, you know, nothing bad has ever happened to Biden or anything, and I'm not saying that you can't have an emotional moment.
	In fact, honestly, it was actually very sympathetic, this speech.
	But the thing is, I know it's all a fraud.
	Like, I know that when he says, oh, well, you know, the character that Delaware imparted to my family, it's like, Dude, we've seen the character of your family.
	We've seen the things that you do.
	Stop insulting Delaware, please.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's like, if I were from Delaware, I'd be like, well, hang on a second.
	I'm not a cokehead.
	Yeah, we're not taking two stacks from China.
	We're not corrupt.
	We're not taking all this money.
	We're not having sex with 14-year-olds.
	What the hell are you talking about?
	You know?
	I don't sniff kids.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We don't sniff children.
	We don't take money from China.
	What the hell?
	I'm not going to go on, but you know what I mean?
	There are lots of things about Joe Biden that are very wrong, just morally wrong.
	And we know this, and it's all pretended like there is actually nothing there.
	We've got all of the pictures, we've seen all of the emails, and yet he's never going to be held to account.
	No one will ever hold him to account.
	Anyway, so Politico put out an article saying that Biden staffers essentially fear what Trump has done to the administration of the government.
	I mean, I can see why they're bothered, but Trump-led agencies are pumping out last-minute rules, such as seeking to ban researchers from using fetal tissue from abortions to develop new drugs and treatments, as well as rules to make it harder for Biden to reverse conservative changes to the Medicaid program.
	Exempts religious groups from bans on discrimination against LGBT people, stuff like this.
	The thing is, this is all stuff that I think Biden's going to be able to undo fairly swiftly, so I don't really see the point.
	It is just going to be causing chaos.
	But everyone does this.
	Obama's administration did this, where you just pump through a bunch of stuff that changes the nature of the government.
	The new government can undo it, and it looks bad, I think.
	I think that's not to their credit.
	I think it's to their detriment.
	So...
	Yeah, I don't think it's good either, but it is just part of American politics.
	I'm not surprised by it.
	Sure, sure.
	But I actually think it would be wise for the Trump administration to be congenial about these things and just accept, okay, fine, you guys won in a free and fair election, and so we'll play our part.
	But we'll be back.
	It might be the Republicans.
	It might be the Patriot Party.
	Who knows?
	But it's not over, and we'll be back.
	The American patriots will rise again.
	But anyway, they say that the Biden administration will have to track down the Trump administration's political appointees who have burrowed into career federal positions across the government, many of whom have partisan and advocacy backgrounds that have lawmakers and watchdog groups worried they will attempt to thwart Biden's policy agenda from the inside.
	Good.
	Like, no, they're trying to infiltrate our deep state.
	Leave us alone.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	It's ours.
	We don't have to have this.
	This shouldn't exist.
	That's the whole point here.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, weak disclosure laws have made it so that Biden will be taking office without knowing exactly how many of these conversations have happened in the final months of the Trump administration.
	Or where in the bureaucracy the burrowed workers are.
	Biden's team is worried they'll have to spend scarce time and resources finding them reassigning the individuals so they don't have access to sensitive information.
	That's right.
	Anyone who worked with Trump is now suspect.
	Anyone who worked with Trump has to be dug out.
	They're burrowed into the deep state and they can't have access to sensitive information.
	You are literally treating your fellow Americans as if they're domestic terrorists and they're enemies.
	No, I sort of have some sympathy for this.
	Really?
	Because you remember this happened with James Comey.
	Like, Trump left him in place, he was put in by Obama, whatever, okay, he's going to be in the FBI. But then he just turned out to be a complete partisan who was working against him.
	And he ended up having to get rid of him, and then he was campaigning for Joe Biden.
	So it's like, okay, so he was in a position in which he could have influence and exercise partisan influence with the Russia investigation.
	So what you're saying is Trump didn't go hard enough?
	No.
	Look, that's the thing here.
	I hear them complaining, oh no, we're going to have to do this.
	Yeah, well, Trump didn't, and that was to his detriment.
	Sure, but it's also to his credit that he tried to act like a president who was not simply at war with the other side.
	Because, again, I'm saying the Democrats just act like they're at war with the other side, and we'll show you a video in a minute that completely proves our point.
	But the point is, legitimate and responsible governance is not about persecuting your own citizens, obviously, and it is about the consent of the governed, right?
	And you need the consent of the losers.
	And so if Trump had persecuted the previous administration, he would have forfeited that principle from the start.
	And this is what Biden is doing now.
	And so what I'm saying is we can see which side on which justice and righteousness lays.
	You know, Biden is just a return to the swamp, a return to the kind of, you know, business as usual and deeply, deeply viciously partisan agenda that the Democrats have been running, whereas Trump didn't do that.
	Maybe, but I'm just at the point where there's no justice in politics.
	There's not.
	These two are just going at all-out war, and why would you sit there and not use the tools available that they will then use against you?
	I agree that Trump maybe, in hindsight, shouldn't have been the better man, but I'm telling you, man, in three or four months, Trump's presidency is going to have this golden aura around it.
	Where he wasn't some lunatic who was interested in persecuting the Democrats out of existence.
	He didn't start any foreign wars.
	He didn't have domestic terror plans to root out all this stuff.
	Trump...
	And he just acted in America's interest.
	Trump is going to look absolutely golden after just a few months of Biden.
	And not just because of the things he did.
	Because the way that the MAGA protesters...
	MAGA supporters, Trump supporters...
	They weren't insane.
	They didn't try and hurt Democrats.
	They weren't trying to de-platform them or drive them out of society.
	Unlike Democrat supporters, this is a new video by a film I presume this chap called Don Winslow is going to produce.
	He's a New York Times bestselling author.
	600,000 followers on Twitter.
	He's a name.
	He's a verified checkmark.
	And he put out this video called Hashtag Trump's New Army, where he essentially thinks that Trump's base is essentially just domestic terrorists.
	And it's up to the citizens of the United States to root them out.
	Let's watch.
	Stand back and stand by.
	They heard their leader.
	They even responded to him on Twitter promising to stand by.
	And on January 6, 2021, Trump greenlit them.
	They suited up.
	They flew in.
	They took hotel rooms.
	They loaded their weapons, prepared their bombs.
	And they attacked with the intention of killing Nancy Pelosi and hanging Vice President Mike Pence.
	Mike Pence!
	They were vocally saying, where's the speaker?
	We know she has staff.
	They're here someplace.
	We're going to find them.
	In the years ahead, Trump will lead his army of domestic terrorists.
	He will encourage and incite violence.
	He will play the role of arsonist and fireman.
	He will start a civil war and then say things were more peaceful when he was president.
	We have to fight back.
	In this new war, the battlefield has changes.
	Computers can be more valuable than guns.
	And this is what we need now more than ever.
	An army of citizen detectives.
	I'm proposing we form a citizen army.
	Our weapons will be computers and cell phones.
	We who are monitoring extremists on the internet and reporting their findings to authorities.
	Remember, before the Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden, he had to be found.
	He was found by a CIA analyst working on a computer thousands of miles away.
	It's up to you.
	Terrifying.
	So, I mean, the message there is unmistakable.
	All of Trump's supporters, anyone who's MAGA, is some kind of domestic terrorist.
	That's going to start a civil war.
	And you, as any average citizen, has to try and root them out.
	We have to root out MAGA. So this means you essentially spending your free time stalking and snitching in your fellow citizens to the government.
	I mean, it's genuinely something out of 1984.
	It's just for the political beliefs as well.
	Like this guy down the road supported Donald Trump.
	He's very much Make America Great Again.
	He's got the flag, the hat.
	Come pick it up.
	Terrifying, right?
	But what this means, what this is going to lead to is the overt politicization of society, which is, of course, everything the radical left have wanted and everything the Democrats have been driving towards.
	And they're actively encouraging this.
	I mean, the Federalist put out this article that, if we can scroll down a bit, John, Democrats pledging to fight Trump rule, ensuring banks won't refuse service to conservatives.
	Right, so the bakers have to bake the gay cake, but the banks are allowed to sit there and say, no, you voted for Donald Trump.
	We're not going to give you an account.
	We're not going to give you a loan.
	We're not going to work with you.
	You have a choice to be a conservative.
	You don't have a choice to be gay.
	That'll be the argument.
	Well, that's very bigoted, because actually now, intersectionality has made it.
	So not only do you have a choice to be gay, there is no particular distinction between being gay and straight.
	So actually, you can't say that that's the case.
	And there is also an argument to say, well, who actually gets to choose what they believe?
	You believe what you believe based on the things you've seen and the values you hold.
	But you could also just fake it for the party.
	You could also just fake it with the party, so yes.
	And that essentially is what's going to have to happen.
	But yeah, 23 House Democrats have been opposing the non-discrimination that would be involved here.
	Just for a second, look at this.
	Is this bad?
	This rule, Trump's administration passed saying, doesn't matter what your political ideology is, you should be able to have access to a bank.
	That's the evil guy here.
	That's the dictator.
	That's the fascist.
	Yeah, that's the fascist who's seeking to exclude people.
	Idiocy.
	It's mad.
	It's absolutely mad.
	And the Democrats are sitting around going, no, no, no, that's not good.
	We need to be able to discriminate on the basis of ideology.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, who's the bad guys here?
	Yeah, it's just cut and dried in my opinion.
	The Democrats have gone full-on autocrats and seem to actually genuinely hate the Trump supporters and want them expunged from society.
	And that just seems to be from their words, you know?
	It's like, sorry, we don't want you doing any kind of business, obviously like Parler being roundly deplatformed just for being a conservative platform.
	And it's not even really a conservative platform.
	It's just where the conservatives went.
	And so you can see where this is going.
	And we'll move into the next segment already, because this paranoia over what is going to be termed domestic terrorism is just going to increase, and this has already started.
	So we can see exactly where this is going, but I'll let John spend a few seconds getting these things up.
	Right, so...
	Domestic, right.
	So in the National Assembly in the French Revolution, there was a point before the terror where they were debating what they were going to do about the monarchists and the counter-revolutionaries and the conspirators within their ranks.
	Very similar to what's happening now.
	Very similar.
	And I can't remember which one it was, but whoever was leading the House that day got up and was like, okay, well, terror is the order of the day.
	That was literally how he framed it.
	We are going to terrorize them in submission.
	And I think that's what's going to happen now to Trump supporters.
	Domestic terror operations are going to be the order of the day.
	As Reason reports, with Americans still reading from the January 6th Capitol riot, the Biden administration will begin its term amid a rapidly escalating tough-on-domestic-terror mood.
	After 9-11, Biden did not just vote for the Patriot Act.
	He claimed that it was essentially the same legislation he had been pushing since 1994.
	Jeff Bennett, NBC's White House correspondent, says the Biden administration plans to make domestic terrorism a key focus of the National Security Council, transitional officials tell us.
	Officials have been looking at ways to shift government resources previously used for counterterrorism to combating domestic terrorism.
	So that's good.
	So less resources on jihadi terrorism or any kind of international terrorism, more resources spent on calling Trump supporters white supremacists and terrorists.
	Evan Hill of the New York Times says, So literally, they want to treat MAGA as if they are ISIS. It's insane.
	In my understanding, I mean, I'm sure there's someone who knows better, but this is actually part of the reason that 9-11 ended up happening, is that the Clinton administration wanted to pull away from having to deal with stuff abroad to deal with stuff at home.
	And it meant that they didn't have the eye on the ball with jihadist terror, which then led to the opening of, you know, people being able to engage in terrorism without having the correct scrutiny.
	Surely the same thing is going to happen.
	If they spend their time wasting time with MAGA people, like the international terrorists who do want to bring down America as well, Well, I know I agree that the MAGA people do, but let's just say if they were actually going after people who did.
	Well, they're not going to have their eye on the jihadist terrorists.
	No.
	Then what?
	As soon as we get the next 9-11.
	There are going to be more 9-11s.
	Are we going to admit that there's a fault or what?
	But even then, that's just a practical concern, right?
	It's like the allocation of resources.
	I'm more concerned about the sort of moral implications of pathologizing at least a third of the nation as being terrorists on par with al-Qaeda and ISIS. I mean, I don't see them explicitly saying that MAGA... I mean, it's pretty well implied to get me wrong.
	Well, I mean, I haven't even got to that part yet, okay?
	So I will show you where they're explicitly saying these people are the problem, right?
	But this is a real problem.
	This is disgusting.
	This is not my fellow Americans.
	This is us versus you.
	You know, this is, again, setting the stage of the war.
	It's a redefinition of my fellow Americans.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, mine means not you, you know.
	But yeah, Washington Post columnist Max Boot says, Biden needs to reinvigorate the FCC to slow lies and sedition from Fox and other right-wing broadcasters.
	Fox News is now a seditious broadcaster, according to Max Boot of the Washington Post.
	I mean, this is insane.
	This is mad framing, right?
	The terrorism we saw on January the 6th may only be the beginning rather than the end of the plot against America.
	I'm telling you, they are going to call MAGA supporters terrorists.
	And it's going to be all of them.
	The ideas of patriotism themselves will become a form of terrorism.
	Lloyd Austin, who's a recently retired army general who's been nominated for Secretary of Defense, has said, well, I'm going to rid our ranks of racists and extremists and commit to a climate where everyone fit and willing to serve can.
	Well, are racists and extremists not fit and willing to serve?
	Like, I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't think that the people you're talking about are actually racists and extremists.
	I think you're talking about Trump supporters, who I don't think are extremists and I don't think are racists.
	And you're saying that they're not going to be able to serve, but everyone else is going to be able to.
	So that's all right, okay.
	This leads us to a purge of the Pentagon because, of course, they are paranoid that Trump loyalists are everywhere.
	As the New York Times reports, the Pentagon is intensifying efforts to identify and combat white supremacy and other far-right extremism in its ranks as federal investigators seek to determine how many military personnel and veterans joined the violent assault in the Capitol.
	The military's examination of its ranks marks a new urgency for the Pentagon, which had a history of downplaying the rise of white nationalism and right-wing activism, even as Germany and other countries finding deep strain embedded with their own armed forces.
	These people are not representative of our country's military, says General Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in an interview.
	He said that most active-duty troops and veterans continue to serve honorably and uphold their oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution.
	We can go on to the militia that is currently occupying Washington DC. Apparently, after doing the background checks on the 25,000, they found that only 12 of them were linked to the militias.
	I mean, that surprises me, to be honest.
	I would have thought there would have been more.
	That doesn't mean they're terrorists, by the way.
	Oh, no.
	They're just members of a militia.
	It doesn't mean anything, really.
	That's the thing.
	Right, so 12 of these National Guard members have been removed from the inauguration security mission after they're found to have ties with right-wing militia groups.
	According to Newsy, two guards were removed from the security mission because of inappropriate texts and comments and other reasons that were flagged at unrelated events to DC. Uh...
	CNN confirmed this and two members that were pulled, Republican Tim, sorry, Representative Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio, said the members were being pulled as a precaution and that they weren't necessarily in trouble and that they were no threat to President-elect Joe Biden.
	So, right.
	So why are you doing this then?
	If they're not in trouble and they're no threat...
	Why would you be doing this?
	Because Joe Biden's a paranoid nutjob.
	Exactly.
	Because inappropriate text.
	Well, give us an example.
	What's the example?
	Well, we have that, right?
	So we can carry on this.
	If we go to the next one, this is a video.
	I'm not going to play the video, but again, as you can see, the chief of staff going National Guard individuals and their duties.
	They're vetting efforts that identify any questionable behavior in the past or any potential link to questionable behavior, not just related to extremism.
	And they're not even asking questions of it at the moment.
	So, I mean, what's a potential link to questionable behavior?
	That is not extremism.
	That is not extremism, yeah.
	So, I mean, engaging in questionable behavior, questionable means iffy, right?
	It doesn't mean definitely bad or definitely good.
	It means questionable.
	We're not sure.
	And then it's indeterminate.
	And then a link to that, a link to indeterminate behavior, okay, that's tenuous, right?
	But a link to questionable behavior that is a potential link, so not even the link to the behavior that isn't even illegal or wrong is now enough for them to be like, yeah, well, get rid of those people.
	They mention stuff on their phones.
	Is a Pepe the Frog image?
	Is that enough?
	Because if we're going this tenuous, I bet the establishment takes the ADL position unquestioningly because they're idiots.
	No doubt.
	This is a hate symbol.
	Therefore, anyone who has a Pepe the Frog meme, are they needing to be removed from the military?
	I guess so.
	Because, I mean, Jack Posobiec has a White House source apparently, which I quite well believe in the same way that the New York Times does, or the Wall Street Journal, sorry, that says the NRA, Turning Point USA, and Patriot Guard Riders are three of many non-militia groups listed in the CID-FBI list and are using as cross-reference in vetting potential extremists.
	Turning Point USA? The Young Americans Foundation is also on the list.
	It's just like conservative, like Boy Scouts, basically.
	And they're looking at various Turning Point USA chapters in almost every university and high school, where there is one, and college-age soldiers already in.
	Investigators are also looking for the following in pictures.
	MAGA slash CAG apparel, so make America great and keep America great, Gazdan flag, Confederate flag, NRA gear, and Q stuff.
	So literally MAGA and the Ganson flag.
	Any member of the National Rifle Association, or anyone who has the images of the National Rifle Association, you're nuts.
	What a dragnet this is.
	These are people who signed up to be in the National Guard.
	What do you think their views are on gun rights are?
	Do you think they approve of the Second Amendment or not?
	It's an easy question.
	Soldiers' Facebooks, Twitter, Instagrams, TikToks, and Snapchats are also being checked.
	Units from deep red states such as Texas are being thoroughly examined.
	Yep.
	I bet they are.
	Why'd you get kicked out of the military?
	TikTok-to-meme.
	Posted a Pepe on Instagram.
	I liked the NRA on Facebook.
	Now they won't trust me.
	Shared a Ben Shapiro Turning Point USA meme.
	Left-wing anarchist groups are also listed, but not a top priority.
	What a surprise.
	In fact, zero have been investigated as of this evening.
	Leaders in both Army and FBI have directed focus attention on groups with strong conservative sentiments.
	The NCIS and a bunch of the alphabet agencies are also expecting to receive a directive from senior Department of Defence officials in the coming days that goes way beyond the inauguration.
	It won't magically stop after tomorrow.
	So the military is being purged of anyone who has even the most tepid of conservative leavings.
	I mean, the NRA. The NRA is not an officially partisan organisation.
	It's just gun rights.
	I know there's an explicit left-wing one, but that's because the explicit left-wingers don't go along with the NRA. Shock horror.
	Because the left-wingers are intolerant of the right-wingers.
	But they mentioned the left-wing anarchist groups are also listed but not top priority.
	Who?
	I'd love to see that list.
	Because I bet that's going to be actual extremists.
	And then compare that to the conservative ones.
	I bet it's not.
	I bet the leftist version of the NRA isn't on that list.
	No, of course not.
	I bet Antifa isn't even on that list.
	Even though they've engaged in terrorism.
	I love it.
	You're going to get purged for following Charlie Kirk on Twitter.
	But then...
	And Twitter, I think...
	Someone asked Charlie Kirk how he feels about this.
	Well, not yet.
	I think Twitter does have an influence here because this is a clip from a representative, Steve Cohen, who decided to just speculate that actually maybe the problem is white men.
	Have we considered that the problem is white men?
	I mean, if we're going off the basis that, you know, if you have a Pepe meme, that's enough.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you're a white man, why not?
	You support Trump.
	You're probably a white man.
	You're probably a terrorist.
	Let's watch.
	This morning I was reading about this on my Twitter account, I guess, and people were reminding people of Anwar Sadat and Indira Gandhi who were killed by their own people.
	You know, I was thinking the Guard is 90 some odd percent, I believe, male.
	About 20% of white males voted for Biden.
	You've got to figure that in the Guard, which is predominantly more conservative, and I see that on my social media and we know it, they're probably not more than 25% of the people that are there protecting us who voted for Biden.
	The other 75% are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something.
	Now, he goes on in this interview to say that he's got no evidence whatsoever for this, but I find that really interesting.
	Oh, what a shock.
	Well, yeah, I mean, obviously.
	Got no evidence, but we're just going to do it.
	Yeah, but I've noticed that the guard is like 90% white male, and therefore white males mostly didn't vote for Biden, and therefore the people who are guarding us are actually dangerous.
	And it's like, okay, well, hang on a second.
	What you're saying here is that the security of the back of the republic is on the backs of straight white men in America, right?
	So that's an interesting admission there.
	And it's interesting that you're like, actually, yeah, maybe you should think about what you're doing.
	But also, I love the way he's like, well, I was doing it on my Twitter, I guess.
	And it's like, yes, exactly, right?
	This is your paranoid, delusional fever dream that has been arranged for you by your Twitter feed, your self-selected Twitter feed, on a platform that is just full of racists, open racists who just hate white men, I just want to mention,
	I've actually seen him in Congress defending the attacks on the Portland courthouse as peaceful protesters who were beaten and gassed by Trump's stormtroopers.
	And I'm like, okay, so this...
	Insane Twitter activist.
	But there's the thing.
	In Congress.
	We've always accepted, or at least in the last 20 years or 30 years or whatever, it became accepted that, what was it?
	Immutable characteristics.
	So being white, being male, being gay, whatever.
	You can't do anything about it, therefore we'll leave it alone.
	But we've completely gone in version of that.
	And it's now, if we can estimate that your characteristics mean you're a certain ideology, we can discriminate.
	Well, I'd love to see the guys who got sued for baking the cake.
	You know, refusing.
	Can they turn around and say, well, actually, the majority of homosexuals vote for the Democrats.
	Therefore, we're not saying it's because you're homosexual, but because you're likely a Democrat.
	Yeah, and we're allowed, since you're allowed to refuse us bank loans because we're conservatives.
	Yeah, we're white men.
	Therefore, you probably vote Trump.
	Therefore, no bank.
	Yeah.
	That's where this line of logic leads.
	Yeah.
	And it's not like we don't have, like, evidence that there is definitely a kind of bias when it comes to that.
	I mean, this is a clip from Black Lives Matter in D.C. in August 2020.
	So they're in Washington, D.C. This is before they started setting fire to everything, as you can tell by the lack of fires.
	Well, after four years of riots and fires and murders before.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	During the George Floyd protests.
	Like, just listen to what he says here.
	I'm at the point where I'm ready to put these police in a fucking grave.
	I'm at the point where I wanna burn the fucking White House down.
	I wanna take it to the senators.
	I wanna take it to the Congress.
	I wanna take the fight to them.
	And at the end of the day, if they ain't gonna hear us, we burn them the fuck down.
	Tolerant.
	Where was the energy about the insurrectionists there when that was going on?
	That senator literally said they were peaceful protesters in Portland.
	They were bombing the courthouse and he was like, yeah, those are peaceful protesters.
	I mean, a bunch of them attacked the White House and forced Trump into a bunker.
	Peaceful protests.
	It's insane.
	And yet no purge, no...
	No one who supports Black Lives Matter has been purged because of the violent activity of Black Lives Matter.
	The openly insurrectionist speeches and statements and actions.
	I mean, the reverse, you know, the Uno reverse of this would be Trump coming out and saying, well, the majority of Black Lives Matter's runners are all black, therefore we're going to expunge blacks from the military or something because they can't be trusted.
	Imagine.
	Just insane.
	It would be insane.
	That's how bad what they're doing is here.
	Yes, yes.
	Open racial discrimination is going to be the order of the day.
	And, yeah, so, like, the fact that this is always one-sided is just naked and exposed, in my opinion.
	But one thing to finish this segment off that I found really interesting and genuinely shocked me, and when I first saw this, I only glanced over it, and I put it in my notes as the reverse of what it actually was.
	I thought Rashida Tlaib, Congresswoman and squad member...
	I was shocked to read that.
	She actually has got a good argument in this.
	I won't go through it because it's just, you know...
	It doesn't match her rhetoric.
	No, it doesn't, right?
	And I was just like, I mean, that's why I just wrote that down as, oh, she's calling for another Patriot Act.
	She's actually against another Patriot Act.
	So, you know, pat on the head.
	Well done when you do something good.
	You know, the US government's power to spy and persecute its own citizens.
	And this was signed by Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and whichever the new one was.
	Oh, I know what this is.
	This is the whole, well, if we do expand it, then the next administration will use it against us because we're worse.
	We engage in more terrorism.
	It's entirely possible that it's totally cynical.
	But well done to the squad for doing something that isn't awful.
	I'm as shocked as anyone else.
	Not real socialists.
	Unironically.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I guess so.
	So how are the press taking all of this?
	Press having a wonderful time.
	I mean, we read before the White House correspondence dinner is coming back.
	Back to the new normal, guys.
	It's a dinner in which you have the president and members of the press and members of the government all coordinating with each other, joking about each other and having a good time together.
	Black tie dinner, drinking champagne, eating unbelievably nice steaks.
	Yeah, and what would you expect this to do?
	This is just going to breed corruption.
	This obviously looks corrupt, and it is corrupt.
	Even if it's not corrupt, it's still the establishment of an elite political class who are wide awake and have a will of their own.
	Yeah, so I'm glad that's coming back.
	And one of the problems with the Obama administration was this exact thing, where they were all caught with each other and it would just become cringe.
	They're genuflecting towards Obama.
	They're slamming on the floor.
	Oh, hi, Lord Obama.
	I hate it.
	Yeah, it wasn't good.
	And it's not been like that under Trump, obviously, because they all hate him, which is great, which I actually kind of enjoy the press being over-the-top hateful of him, because it means if he does do something wrong, he will be caught to account.
	That is what the press probably should be doing.
	Well, that's what the Fourth Estate is supposed to be doing.
	In paper, yes.
	Yes.
	Not the autoplay.
	Sorry.
	But that's what they are supposed to be doing.
	But uncritical praise of the president is what Pravda does.
	There's actually a funny speech.
	When Obama was leaving the White House, he gave a speech to the press call there, and his closing statements were that you people are not meant to be sycophants.
	You're meant to hold me to account.
	And then he ends it with, and that's what you've done.
	Thank you.
	But it's a reminder of what the purpose of these people are.
	They are not there just to suck off the president and say, aren't you wonderful?
	But that's what's going to happen because these people are all Democrats and we have a new Democrat in charge.
	And honestly, it is like they wish they were the press in the Soviet Union.
	It really is.
	It's embarrassing.
	And of course, it's not just the press.
	It's the late night hosts and all the rest of it.
	So I wanted to just kick off with this first point, which is Kamala Harris.
	And don't ever forget this.
	Kamala Harris on Joe Biden accusers.
	I believe them.
	She believes that the accusers of Joe Biden were correct and he did sexually assault them or rape them.
	I can't remember which she was alleging.
	The allegation was that Biden pinned a woman up against the wall in a Senate chamber or something.
	Yeah, and then kissed her.
	And grabbed her, I think, as well.
	But either way, you know, okay, she believes that this guy is engaging in such things.
	Siyosha believed in the debates that he was a racist because he supported the busing of black people.
	And she had a response to this, if we can get that up.
	This is going on Stephen Colbert, which is, of course, a completely neutral platform, but whatever.
	That's the thing.
	I don't even mind if they're just open about it and they just say, yeah, this is a democratic platform.
	MSNBC, for example.
	They're so cringe, but they're so openly Democrats.
	It's fine.
	Whatever.
	Like Fox News.
	Just declare your colours.
	But I love the absurdity in this, in which her response to being called out and said, well, you said this guy was basically a rapist and a racist.
	Why are you now saying he's great?
	We shall vote for him.
	Which was, it was a debate, bro.
	So let's play that.
	Cool.
	Because in those debates, you landed haymakers on Joe Biden.
	I mean, his teeth were like chicklets all over the stage, and now I believe you that you're fully supportive of him.
	How does that transition happen?
	How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?
	It was a debate.
	Not everybody landed punches like you did, though.
	It was a debate!
	So you don't mean it?
	It was a debate.
	Literally, it was a debate.
	It was called a debate.
	I understand.
	Everyone traveled to the debate.
	There were journalists there covering the debate where there would be a debate.
	Yeah, so no response.
	But what should happen is that's obviously something absurd, and the members of the press should bring this up every time she gets a speech, saying, you know, can you please address this?
	You never have.
	You said you believed his accusers.
	Do you still believe them?
	And no member of the press is asking that, because they're all Democrats.
	They're all partisans, yeah.
	But I mean, that was an embarrassing response.
	Just, well, you know, it was a debate.
	So what you're saying is everything said that the debates was false, and not worthy of being reported, and not significant in any way, shape, or form.
	Total lies.
	Total lies.
	Could you imagine if Mike Pence was like, yes, Trump is genuinely a racist who hates everyone who has brown skin, but I'll be your vice president, sir.
	And then why have you done that?
	Well, it was just a debate.
	No, no one believes you.
	And, you know, late night talk show hosts are cancer.
	But let's go to the New York Times here.
	So this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
	So this is, I believe, an editor of the New York Times saying, call to the New York Times mission.
	We will scrutinize the incoming administration just as thoroughly as we did the outgoing one.
	So the idea that they all cover Biden just as harshly as they did Trump.
	And then there's this lady here saying, Biden landing at Joint Base Andrews now.
	I have chills.
	It's like, oh my god, he's coming, he's coming.
	She's an editor of the New York Times.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, she co-edits it.
	And yeah, she's now deleted her account and be like, shh!
	I didn't do nothing, guys.
	I didn't tweet that.
	But it's the obvious point that, no, these are just lies.
	These people are just lying to you.
	And the further evidence of this is it's very broad.
	So if we can get up the next section, someone put this together, which is just a series of reporting on the Biden group, let's say.
	And this first one here is them reporting that Biden and his wife have a fight about who gets to go on the bike first to exercise.
	Wow.
	Because that's in the public interest.
	Hard-hitting.
	And then CBS reporting here that we're finally going to find out the story behind Kamala Harris's sneakers.
	Yep.
	Brilliant.
	That's just as hard as you hit Trump, I'm sure.
	CNN Politics, the fair and neutral CNN, saying that we'll find out about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's playlist for your inauguration party.
	Yeah, okay.
	Like, if Trump had released a playlist for the inauguration, would they be interested?
	I mean...
	No, they'd say this isn't worth our journalistic time, would they?
	Well, obviously, or they would spend their time mocking it like a bunch of mean teenagers.
	But I mean, how embarrassing is this?
	This is just the most tepid, weakest journalism I've ever seen.
	Yeah, and then the next one is the Washington Post.
	You can see, like, it's most outlets are like this.
	Yeah.
	Reporting that most people know her as Jill Biden, but also, sorry, but to some she is known as Dr.
	Biden, a compassionate and challenging educator who went the extra mile.
	I mean, just, like, glowing praise.
	Yeah.
	Like, we're not gonna...
	Well, again, this is the sort of thing that Soviet Pravda would have written about Stalin.
	Yeah.
	And I'm not saying Fox News doesn't engage in such things with the Republican campaigns.
	Yeah.
	But it's just Fox News.
	Like, it's just them.
	They're the only ones who kind of do this.
	Yeah.
	And if it was just MSNBC that did this for Democrats, I don't really care that much.
	But all of them do this.
	And this is why they're so tepid and it's depressing their back.
	Well, it's like the press corps flying on Hillary Clinton's plane doing, like, viral videos with Hillary Clinton and stuff like this.
	It's like, look, the idea of, like, neutral and impartial journalism is obviously gone.
	Yeah.
	What you are is a public relations, a giant public relations outfit for the Democrats.
	And Fox News is the public relations outfit for the Republicans.
	Which, I mean, if that's the way things are going to go, okay, but let's not pretend it's otherwise.
	Which is why I don't really understand why the Trump administration for the press corps didn't just do the thing of being like, all right, all of you are just Democrats, get out.
	Because when the Democrats are in there, is Biden going to keep OAN in the newsroom?
	No, get out.
	You're just propaganda.
	Well, why don't Republicans just do that?
	Yeah.
	What's stopping them?
	Because they're fair-minded.
	That's the thing.
	Trump was not an extremist.
	He was fair-minded and he wanted to be a decent president, I think.
	Peace is never an option.
	Apparently it wasn't!
	Because I look at these people and the way they act and I'm just like, fine then.
	If we're doing that, that's what we're doing.
	But the worst example of this has come up with his inauguration.
	So this is the Daily Caller who had taken a clip from CNN, the fair and neutral CNN, talking about His inauguration.
	And he's put up a bunch of lights around the...
	What do you call it?
	The pool.
	The reflecting pool.
	Yeah, the reflecting pool.
	And this was CNN's view on it.
	Let's play this.
	There's still some tinkering going on with the inaugural address, but his aides have made really clear it's not like he's trying to ignore or paper over either what happened at the Capitol two weeks ago or what we've been through throughout four years of the Trump presidency.
	And the contrast on display tonight was so stark.
	I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's like almost...
	Extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
	It was a moment where the new president came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of remembrance, outstretching his arms.
	And contrast that with that video you just saw of a disgraced president on his way out at his lowest point in his presidency at the very end here by himself.
	Fighting for his political movement to live on.
	And not even necessarily promising that he's going to be leading that movement, you noted in his remarks tonight.
	I just think that sort of isolated...
	His arms going around America.
	Well, again, it's Soviet.
	It's pure Soviet propaganda of, you know, old Uncle Joe, you know, with his big bushy moustache, looking nobly over the Soviet workers.
	That's how this is.
	You remember similar things about, like, I think it was LGBT Day or something, made-up holiday, where Obama had, like, coloured lights, and then when Trump didn't do it, because, I mean, why would you?
	Who cares?
	I'm not a communist.
	They're lost.
	They got all offended by this and it was like, really?
	No one cares.
	There's just some lights.
	But it's creepy.
	And I love how unfortunate a metaphor it is as well.
	Like, he's going his arms around America.
	Well, we know how Joe Biden's arms work and his nose.
	He's going to give America a nice big sniff.
	Nice meme from Neo-Unrealists there.
	God.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	And even Glenn Greenwald saw through this, saying that not even North Korean TV would say this, just listen.
	Oh, Glenn Greenwald has been amazing recently.
	I absolutely love it.
	I mean, he's always had...
	He's a lefty, and he's always had, you know, this sort of social leftism.
	But he's not a moron.
	No, no, but he's...
	The great thing about Glenn Greenwald is he's forever sceptical of central authority.
	Yeah.
	And power.
	And he's been very, very true to these principles, and I've got a huge amount of respect for him.
	I always did respect him quite a lot, but this has really impressed me.
	There was also the fact that he mentioned that the Trump administration is disgraced at its lowest point in all of history.
	Well, this is just a lie.
	If we can get the Hill up.
	So the Hill reporting that Donald Trump's approval rating relatively unchanged in the wake of the Capitol rioting.
	The fact that, nah, he's actually doing fine.
	Oh, it's the lowest point of his presidency.
	Well, actually.
	Yeah.
	And there's also the last one here from CNN reporting that on their chyron, Trump to leave office tomorrow is a disgraced president.
	That's Brian Selter, who works for CNN. So he's proud that they put that up.
	And I'm like, that's cringe.
	Like, why would you do that?
	Brian, you disgusting little gremlin.
	Shut up.
	But this is how they're going to report stuff.
	And it's just sad.
	I bet.
	So here's a prediction from me that you can hold me to in like a couple of months time when it either does fail or fails or comes true.
	I think that literally in about three or four months time, there will be polls that say, you know, retrospectively, what do you think of the Trump presidency?
	I bet Trump's approval starts going up and up and up.
	As Joe Biden starts making things worse and worse and worse, Trump's going to look even more golden, I'm telling you, man.
	I agree with you.
	One of the funnier parts in this is just a piece of data so we can see how the media respond to different presidents.
	There's a Freedom of Information Request chart.
	And you can see here, if you can scroll down a little bit just so you can see the years, that in the Trump era, the freedom of information requests from the press skyrocketed.
	Oh wow, they did, didn't they?
	They're all of a sudden very interested in what the government's up to, but under Obama and Bush, not so much.
	which I guess with Bush because internet's not really a thing, but under Obama it definitely was.
	And they mention here that during the Trump administration, the media filed more than 386 FOI cases.
	That's more than all the FOI cases made during the 16 years of Bush and Obama administrations combined.
	So during the Trump presidency, the media actually did their job and Trump appears to have done nothing wrong.
	Yeah, and the final note of this is his farewell speech.
	So him saying, you know, this is it, I'm off, our movement will carry on, blah, blah, blah.
	It was quite a dignified speech.
	Yeah, so he gave this speech and they just didn't show up.
	Because why would you?
	And this is the independent reporting here.
	And apparently only Newsmax was airing Donald Trump's farewell video at the time it was released.
	So it's not a live video, it's a pre-recorded thing.
	I did see it on Fox, though.
	That's the thing.
	At the time, so here's the video.
	Newsmax just put it straight on.
	And no one else, apparently everyone else at the time, was more interested in Biden's plane.
	Well, one thing that's interesting about Biden's plane is it's a private plane.
	He didn't go on the...
	But they weren't criticizing it, obviously.
	No, but that is weird that he didn't go on Air Force One or whatever it is.
	It's also huge.
	Yeah, what's even weird is, how does Biden, as a politician, afford a massive private plane?
	You can see why Trump does, because he's a billionaire.
	So he has multiple private planes.
	Exactly.
	He's a titan of industry.
	A senator?
	Yeah, exactly.
	A public servant.
	How did he get to afford this?
	And it was a huge plane as well.
	How does he afford this?
	On top of all of his homes, and he's got to send his kids to...
	I mean, I guess that's what the two stacks are for.
	Yeah, so then they say that Fox News announced it would run the message in full, and after some time they did.
	And then apparently since then, most media outlets have put the footage out, but it's not prime time, not when it's just come out, they're just, so we've done our job.
	Yeah, but we don't want Trump to seem sympathetic or give air to any kind of popular sentiment for him.
	Yeah.
	That's the point.
	And this is the thing.
	They can do this to even the President of the United States.
	They can prevent the President of the United States being heard by the American public.
	He's deplatformed off almost all of social media.
	The news networks are just like, we're just not going to play it.
	We're just not going to show it.
	So now people don't even know what his final speech was.
	And who's going to stop them?
	If they just say no, they're not going to do it.
	Well, now what?
	Even Fox News.
	Even Fox News not running it at the time it came out.
	They waited and then did it.
	It's crazy.
	The media have got so much goddamn power at this point.
	It's terrifying.
	I mean, it's just a reminder how evil these people are and how they're not going to change.
	And in fact, it's going to get worse.
	But even then, I can accept evil exists, and you have to accept that evil exists, and people who have got really just nefarious intent.
	And no scruples exist, but the point is the rules are usually arranged in such a way that their damage is limited.
	But at this point, I mean, what can't they do?
	If they can deplatform the President of the United States and then destroy the competition that says, well, we'll host the President, then what are they not in control of?
	You know, what can't they destroy?
	And is there any point at which, like, you know, private companies say, well, hang on a second, do I really want to be part of the, like, social terrorism, the reign of terror that's being enacted here?
	Apparently they're fighting with it.
	Apparently so.
	I want to just end on a small clip from his speech, because I think, if they're not going to show it, then we'll show a little bit.
	You can watch the full thing in your own time if you Google it, but it will be linked in the show notes, and then we'll do the Super Chats, so let's play.
	Four years ago, I came to Washington as the only true outsider ever to win the presidency.
	I had not spent my career as a politician, but as a builder looking at open skylines and imagining infinite possibilities.
	I ran for president because I knew there were towering new summits for America just waiting to be scaled.
	I knew the potential for our nation was boundless as long as we put America first.
	So I left behind my former life and stepped into a very difficult arena, but an arena nevertheless with all sorts of potential if properly done.
	America had given me so much and I wanted to give something back.
	Together with millions of hard-working patriots across this land, we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country.
	We also built the greatest economy in the history of the world.
	It was about America first because we all wanted to make America great again.
	We restored the principle that a nation exists to serve its citizens.
	Our agenda was not about right or left.
	It wasn't about Republican or Democrat, but about the good of a nation.
	And that means the whole nation.
	Yeah.
	Great speech.
	Great part.
	Nothing I disagree with, though.
	No.
	And, again, sympathetic, you know.
	And I think the BBC did a fact-check of his speech, and I read through the fact-check, and it's basically like, well, I mean, he's basically right, but he didn't say this.
	And he's basically right, but he didn't say that.
	And it's like, so he's right, then.
	It's always the fact-check.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, he's wrong, but if you read the text, he's actually, oh, he's right, but he didn't say this one thing.
	Yeah, but we didn't like the way he framed it.
	And it's like, well, just shut up.
	Then these aren't fact checks.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You're not fact checking anything.
	So apparently we have some video comments.
	Right, we have a video comment.
	Do we know the name of the chap?
	Sorry, don't worry, just...
	It's fine.
	That was the volume. - Thank you.
	Would it be possible to do an analysis series on culturally important cartoons, films, etc., one of the which I would highly recommend being Avatar The Last Airbender, as it asks a lot of moral questions, and of course, Aira is the absolute best simp you can simp for.
	On a more serious topic, another one to do would be the Naruto Shippuden series.
	of waves as it asks a very important question on the existence of men men specifically one for you because you do Yeah, I guess so.
	I mean, yes, it's certainly possible something I could do in the future, but at the moment I just don't really have the time to do it.
	But yeah, I'm certainly open to the idea when I can find some free time.
	But at the moment we've just got, you know, it's all systems go at the moment, so there's no real spare time.
	I mean, we are still thankfully expanding, thanks to you good folks subscribing to Lotuses.com, which means that we have been expanding the team and hopefully we'll be able to expand in the future.
	And so I'm not saying no, just not yet, I think is the answer.
	What would be your next video if you had to do...
	Oh, Moana, definitely.
	Moana?
	Oh, yeah.
	What's that?
	A 2016 Disney film about an island princess, a Polynesian island princess, who has to go off and save the world, right?
	But this is the one with the rock in.
	Where he's playing the big Maui giant hero guy, right?
	But it's a really, really fantastic film.
	And people, I don't think, understood the implications of what's being said when describing why Moana has obligations to her home.
	And it's definitely worth analyzing, but I haven't got the time to do it at the moment.
	All right.
	We've got another one.
	In HBO's Rome, Pompey is looking out on the ocean.
	Caesar's victory in Italy is assured.
	A slave runs up to Pompey from out of frame and hands Pompey a letter.
	Pompey reads the letter.
	Caesar has refused truce.
	Pompey speaks to the kneeling slave while looking out on the ocean.
	Pompey says, How happy to be a slave!
	To have no will!
	To make no decisions!
	Driftwood!
	How very restful it must be.
	Some say the left-right debate has become the debate of authoritarianism versus freedom.
	The new rallying pole of the right is certainly freedom.
	What, in your opinion, is the new rallying pole of the left?
	Is it the comfort of servitude?
	How very restful it must be.
	That's a great point by Pompey.
	Hmm.
	Well, I mean, I would suggest it's globalism, central control, and, I mean, yeah, kind of serfdom, comfortable serfdom.
	You know, it's the number of people who essentially want to be protected by some all-powerful state and who have got no faith in their own ability to manage their own lives.
	One of the interesting things, he brings up Pompey and Caesar.
	Pompey had all of the senates and senators with him.
	Pompey was the Joe Biden establishment, and Caesar was very much the sort of Trumpian rebel during the Civil War, and Caesar won.
	But Trump wasn't Caesar, right?
	He didn't want to cross the Rubicon.
	No, he did not want to cross the Rubicon.
	And a chap called History Bro, who I do a history podcast with, has written us an article that will be up probably today or tomorrow, giving us a kind of comparison between Donald Trump and Tiberius Gracchus, because I think that Trump is actually one of the Gracchi, possibly the first Gracchi, but one of them nonetheless, because the similarities between him and the Gracchi brothers is very, very, very...
	Interesting how much they parallel one another.
	So that will be up on LotusEast.com either today or tomorrow.
	Anyway, Chaz says...
	Scroll up, we did these.
	Oh, we did these ones.
	Yeah, these are yesterday's ones, John.
	Yeah, that's the 19th.
	Those are all 19th, you need to reload.
	Okay.
	Well, and a sec folks.
	Right.
	So Huh, it's not coming up.
	Weird.
	Have you got any on your screen?
	I'll read some on the screen.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, for some reason YouTube hasn't updated the Super Chats at the back end, so...
	So, Student of History.
	During the first Boog, there was a position called...
	There was a position called Colour Bearer.
	They would carry the flags to lead the troops forward, but they were targeted as flags fell, others would take them up and lead the charge.
	There will be others.
	Well...
	I don't know if we can disavow that or not.
	I mean, I think we...
	I suppose we're still allowed to endorse the American Revolution?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I think he might have been talking about...
	Well, is he talking about the American Revolution or the Civil War?
	The First Book.
	Well, yeah, I presume.
	But either way, I mean, that is what they did.
	So...
	It's alright, we'll figure it out later.
	Clemson something?
	Sorry, it's all Greek.
	I've followed politics for about two months now, and I went from being a decently left-leaning to completely against nearly every modern leftist idea.
	There's no excuse for the willfully ignorant activists ruining the United States, in my opinion.
	Yeah.
	That's why we do this.
	Basically, everything the left is basing their worldview on is not true.
	And so it's just one of those things where it's like, okay...
	And good for you at reassessing your positions as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	If I do this and I'm wrong, I'm going to say so as well.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, sorry.
	On the back end, the soup chats aren't coming up for us for some reason.
	Probably doesn't bode well.
	Probably been demonetized.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, you know, if you'd like to go sign up on losis.com, that'd be great.
	Mike DeJesus, I think logically the military was the only way.
	Why would Q be attacked so hard if it was just a LARP? Yeah, the Democrats really are making me reconsider if Q's true or not, even though it still sounds like absolute nonsense.
	It's just like, why are you so scared of it?
	Yeah, I mean...
	What's going on?
	Well, that's the thing.
	I'm actually with Alex Jones.
	Everything the Q people have said has just not happened.
	Anyone who's a plan truster at this point is probably wasting their time and living in a bit of a land of delusion.
	Like, did you see the face meme?
	They're going to change faces.
	I mean, I'm sure that's not something that anyone reasonably believes.
	But I mean, you know, quantum energies.
	Do you think a reasonable person believes that?
	No.
	Well, I mean, maybe.
	I mean, I don't know.
	Anyway, he continues.
	Why are we being the first to be purged?
	Sometimes you have to walk through the darkness to see the light.
	Optics is everything God wins.
	So a bit cryptic, but I am with you on the sense that it's very weird that the Democrats are obsessed with Q. Like, I think they believe in Q more than anyone else.
	Well, yeah, I mean, they think about QAnon way more than I do.
	Like, you know, I'm in all the sort of MAGA supporting circles and stuff like that, so it's like, the Q stuff just doesn't really come up apart from, like, the kind of loopy activists, you know?
	Yeah.
	James Carl, I believe good can be best defined by adherence to a moral standard despite your desires.
	It is struggling on with one eye gouged out and one arm in the demonic moor.
	Dems are opposite of chaotic good.
	The Democrats are certainly lawful evil, alignment-wise.
	Lawful?
	Yeah, no, totally.
	They have one law for us and one law for you.
	But, yeah, so the Dems...
	The thing is, philosophically, the term good is actually fairly hard to pin down, and a great deal of work has actually been done on this.
	And essentially, I've come to the conclusion that good merely means in one's own interests.
	Because you can ask almost any question, sort of like, well, God may decree it, but is it good?
	And the is it good question can be added to almost everything.
	And essentially what it seems to mean is, is it in your interests?
	I mean, if you're arguing from a highly religious perspective then surely if God wills it, God wills it.
	I mean, God has to be good.
	Well, then your answer would be yes, but the point is you can still ask the question, is it good?
	And is it good seems to be a question that can be asked of anything.
	So really, it seems to refer to the person asking it and whether they think it's decent, because there doesn't seem to be any kind of absolute good.
	Creaky Boy, the only person you should simp for is Lady Liberty.
	Keep your rifle by your side, lads.
	I agree.
	Yeah, true.
	Yeah, maybe the date's wrong, so we'll just, yeah.
	All right, then.
	Yeah, sorry, we don't know what's going on.
	It might just be a YouTube bug, rather than us.
	Yeah, I mean, but we're going to have to...
	We'll go through as many as we can, but we've got to go in a bit.
	This is way too far back.
	Yeah, no, we did that one.
	We did that one.
	Yeah, no, go up.
	These are yesterday's ones.
	Sorry for everyone listening.
	This isn't really our fault.
	YouTube's messed up.
	Yeah, okay.
	About here, about here.
	No, up a bit.
	Yeah, up a bit.
	We did that one.
	Right, okay.
	Go down a little bit.
	We'll start about here.
	Will today be a US version of Bloody Sunday?
	Only time will tell, says RC Bandit.
	I hope not.
	The Eye of Sauron looks oddly like the Google logo, says Alexander Cross.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm honestly amazed that the Democrats just haven't adopted it as their own symbol at this point.
	You know, they may as well rename DC Mordor.
	Alex Masters, everyone needs to sign up to YouGov.
	The government claims popular consent on a few thousand votes.
	I think together we can tank the lockdown's approval.
	Well, I mean, I've been thinking about this sort of stuff myself.
	I don't know how influential YouGov is to the government's actual opinions on things, but it couldn't hurt.
	MichaelVPS says, odds of ever having a legit vote again?
	I don't think you can speculate.
	Yeah, I don't think you can speculate about that, but moving on.
	Thug Life Bear, he'll be the first one since Lincoln to leave poorer than before.
	A man hasn't enriched himself from the office.
	Yeah, this is true.
	I saw, I think about a year ago, I saw some hit piece in the New York Times or something like that where they're like, oh look, Trump's lost billions in office.
	And it's like, dude, that's a good thing for the American people.
	Like, Biden managed to acquire a giant private jet.
	Trump has lost money.
	You know, who's been enriching themselves on the backs of the American taxpayer here?
	Like, corrupt men don't generally lose money while in the government, so...
	Yeah, they get 10% for the big guy.
	But anyway, Galacta Watkins says, here in Milksham, re-watching Star Wars prequels, funny how much it seems to resemble long-term Democrat strategy.
	Hashtag make America British again.
	Well, I mean, Christ, the last thing I want to do is inflict our method of government on the Americans.
	We're having a lot of troubles with ourselves.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We're hardly a model of good governance at the moment.
	So, you know, calm down.
	This is actually one of these...
	Honestly, I can see the parallels.
	I know a lot of people criticize simping for America in the sense that this seems to work better than here.
	Is it unpatriotic or something?
	No, it's just a better form of liberalism in my view.
	England seemed to invent liberalism when we implemented it, but the Americans seemed to have implemented it from the base, whereas ours is not from the base because it's a thousand years old.
	The Americans are like the English liberal revolution.
	Liberalism in England...
	It's an incrementalist process, so it's constantly butting up against traditionalism.
	And the thing is, there are some aspects of traditionalism that are valuable, that you don't want to just simply erase, right?
	And part of it is being connected to a longer than a thousand year history of being a continuous nation.
	That's not something you can just replace, so you don't want to get rid of these things.
	But it's sort of like the Marxists simping for the Soviet Union.
	It's like, well, it's not in Germany or something.
	Sure.
	But it's the ideology they care about.
	Yeah, but yeah, it's the spirit of the thing.
	And the spirit of the thing is very much based in English constitutionalism, obviously.
	And there's no reason why we wouldn't find it amenable.
	Yeah, like if Russia became a liberal state that was very English liberal in its outlook and functions.
	In the same way that the communists support the Rojava, you know?
	Yeah.
	But, I mean, the thing is, right, I mean, I'm not even against the idea of, like, an English republic, to be honest, at this point.
	Like, just flip the table, let's just have it, let's just have it out.
	Labour would never be back in power.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What's not to love?
	Exactly.
	Anyway, I often wonder if Alex Jones is just some nutter, but the politicians are also watching like, yeah, you know what?
	That's not a bad idea, actually.
	Shut up, Alex.
	You're giving them ideas.
	That could be the case.
	Nick Palladino says, those establishment fools want Trump gone so they can get back to the way things were.
	Well, we know the truth.
	There's no going back.
	He's changed things forever.
	Well, I mean, honestly, I hope so, because it is literally Joe Biden, a return to the swamp, but worse, a swamp with pink hair.
	And, like, you know, Fat Pride marches.
	Transgender Health Minister.
	Yes.
	I love that as well.
	Have you seen the reporting?
	We'll go over it tomorrow.
	No, no.
	No one's used her name.
	None of the reporting.
	You notice none of them have her name.
	It's all just Transgender Health Minister.
	Oh, yeah, look.
	The person, completely irrelevant.
	In the byline, they have it.
	Yeah, but it's like buried.
	Yeah, it is.
	That's true.
	I find that interesting.
	Yeah, the important part is she's trans.
	But yeah, it's going to be pumped up as well.
	They're going to be going as fast as they can.
	again but we'll cover all this tomorrow in tomorrow's podcast because there's so much to go through uh luke jones for 55 australian dollary dues thank you very much and the maga rebellion has been foiled the remaining republicans will be hunted down and defeated the republic will be reorganized into the first american empire for a safe and secure society anyway have a carton of bush chooks on me honestly luke that it really has overtones of that doesn't it You know, I'm genuinely surprised that Biden hasn't given the Palpatine there was an attempt on my life speech yet.
	The 1801 Project.
	The end of the Trump presidency is upon us.
	The wasps are being purged from high office.
	Chairman Biden awaits.
	The Irish are in charge now from the EU to the USA. Abandon all.
	Hope ye who enter.
	Bring back the black and tans.
	Daniel J. Carica says, I think it's time that we start throwing tea symbolically in a harbour.
	It's not going to help you, but for $1776, I will endorse that.
	Imar Flex says, Have you seen Jonathan Pye's deranged mouth diarrhoea?
	Yeah, ever since Andrew Doyle left, Jonathan Pye became crap.
	It's just, well, he doesn't write his stuff, does he?
	No, yeah, Andrew Doyle used to, and that's why it was good, and he left, because he became really successful with Titania McGrath, and now Jonathan Pye has just left this mouthpiece late-night comedian talk show host, basically.
	It's kind of embarrassing.
	Robert Dunn says, my mate Mick the farmer says I'm pro bono.
	Fake news, my job pays the bills.
	Speaking of jobs, Mick fired a new guy to help him out, a pharmacist.
	I have no idea what that's talking about.
	Easy.
	Today's Trump's last day.
	The left cheers.
	Tomorrow, Trump is a billionaire with a new political interest.
	No government obstruction.
	The left cries.
	Well, let's hope so.
	I mean, again, I don't think that he should start a new party.
	I think he should solidify his hold on the Republicans.
	Warty You Up says, I'm rooting for you, Colin Callum.
	Jesus is the way.
	We're atheists.
	Sorry, buddy.
	I am quite liking Andrew Torbo.
	I've seen him on Gab.
	Everything is, you know, Jesus is king.
	His response to the ADL was great.
	Didn't ask, don't care, go away.
	Jesus is king.
	I'll pray for you.
	Again, lifelong atheist, there's no interest in religion at all.
	Good job.
	It's not like that.
	Carl Biden was a no-namer who shot to fame on his son's death.
	He's been riding that mediocre wave ever since.
	He lucked into big bucks under Obama.
	Yeah, but, like, I mean, I guess maybe it's just me as a dad speaking.
	I don't want to cast this version.
	I don't doubt that Joe Biden actually does love his sons.
	He's just very bad at being a parent, obviously.
	Yeah, he's just a terrible parent and a deeply corrupt politician.
	Base potato.
	So now that all Trump supporters are terrorists, does that mean Obama is going to send us cash and guns?
	I mean, you will be getting that $1,400 stimulus check, and I hear that an AR-15 costs like $900.
	So...
	Go nuts.
	Yeah.
	Mr.
	Flange says, on yesterday's twerk for BLM, are they not appropriating Indian culture?
	Apparently, twerking is an ancient and noble African art, as we have been informed.
	So...
	Big Chunga says, Good man.
	And this is the thing.
	There should be...
	A lot more Republican sympathy in the Latino communities, I think.
	They've really got to just start asking, what do you think the Democrats are going to do for families?
	The answer is break them up.
	Do everything they can to break them up.
	And if you're a family-based community, then maybe you want to consider this.
	Wingy, open a Streamlabs account.
	We will, because surely demonetization is not going to be long.
	But anyway, Albert says, so this is how liberty dies with no applause.
	Yeah, with 25,000 armed guards and a field of flags that Biden needs to be protected from.
	I saw some guys going around on a scooter and a speaker playing the purge, like siren, just to mess with the armed guards.
	Well, I'm unironically going to dub the Imperial March over Biden's inauguration.
	So Clay Castle, is it strange that I just listened to 1984 for free on Audible?
	No, not really, but everyone should read 1984 to understand why all of this is such a problem.
	Liberty or Death says, if they want to come and get me, then come on by.
	Student of History says, Democrats were testy about entrenched partisans to hold back the office.
	I'm sitting here asking, what do you want the credit for the idea?
	Also, following yesterday's camp comments, State Department finally calling out the Uyghur genocide.
	Yeah, well, I'll cover that tomorrow.
	Some sad news from the UK. Our amendment to say that we wouldn't do trade deals with countries engaging in genocide has been shot down.
	Yeah, we'll cover it tomorrow.
	Comoran, Biden's latest gaffe between sundown and dusk.
	MVP says the time has come for a patriot bank.
	Yeah, the patriot institutions are going to have to be built from the ground up.
	A patriot supermarket, a patriot bank, a patriot funeral director.
	Because the left are totally intolerant.
	They're totally intolerant.
	This is why everyone on YouTube is being persecuted.
	Everyone else on social media is being persecuted.
	The banks are going to persecute you.
	Like, it's not going to end.
	Like a patriot kebab shop.
	Like, I want to see that.
	It's bound to happen.
	A fuzzy creature says, Well, I mean, he did coin the term Make America Great Again, so maybe.
	Why wouldn't they?
	What's the limiting principle for not going after ex-presidents?
	Yeah.
	Jaffer on the Bound says, After a complete year doing what I have to do, today of all days, the coup has gotten to me.
	Wish me luck on my test, the irony, the irony.
	Good luck, but on the plus side you've got like a 99.8% of surviving, so you should be fine.
	Thug Life Better, be on the lookout for MAGA people, is some guest.
	I don't know what guest means.
	Charlie the Beagle.
	So with Trump gone, can we get to the original Orange Man bad that staged an actual coup?
	William of Orange, the Dutch upstart that usurped the throne.
	Man, there's a lot of deep lore behind that that I'm not going to go into.
	Catholics suck.
	Get out.
	But yeah, but on the plus side, he was a Protestant and he did sign, agree to the Bill of Rights.
	So, yeah.
	Anyway, Matt Colossus says, starting an hour earlier makes a big difference for Australians.
	11pm rather than midnight.
	Positively civilised.
	Oh yeah, to be honest with you, I haven't minded starting earlier.
	I did.
	Did you?
	Charlie the Beagles, oh sorry, Thug Life Bear says, APO stuff, guest APO stuff right there.
	Charlie the Beagle, as a Paddy, I'm sick of Biden's faux-Irishness.
	Yeah, and what I find really interesting is Biden seems to take this Irishness as permission to hate the British, in fact.
	He seems to genuinely hate Britain and the British.
	And, I mean, I saw a clip of him saying, well, the rule of thumb comes from English common law, that you could beat your wife with a stick as wide as your thumb.
	It's like, that's not true.
	That is a lie.
	There is nothing in English common law that suggests you're allowed to beat your wife.
	And moreover, that comes from carpentry.
	Joe, you liar.
	But again, it's any reason to say England is bad.
	It's just English bigotry, which is fine, whatever, but it's cringe.
	It's not like we're not used to it from the Scottish National Party.
	But this thing, and Biden, he refused an interview with the BBC because he was like, you know, where are you from?
	And they were like, BBC. And he's like, well, I'm Irish.
	He's like, do you think Irish people don't talk to the BBC? Yeah.
	Should have shouted back, shut up American.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, Ryan Dark says, theme songs for the day, Hell March by Klopaki and Feeling...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	We're not having any simping for the sort of continental socialists who are currently taking over the United States.
	But Hell March is a perfectly acceptable...
	Jeremy McDude, I've tried joining the website, but it keeps yeeting my card info.
	Being as I live in the U.S., is that an issue with the exchange or the processing?
	I don't know, but if you email contactatlotuses.com, we'll be able to help you out.
	I don't think it's the U.S. I think we have U.S. subscribers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't think it's the U.S. problem.
	And for people who are wondering how else they can get in contact with us for tips and things like that, you can email tipsatlotuses.com and our writing team will pick that up.
	Griffia says, oh no, the guards who are meant to guard against us, the whites, are white.
	Quick, kick the guards out of the guard.
	Yes, because they're white.
	Be paranoid.
	Michael VPS, an army of citizen agents.
	Laughs in Stasi.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like they think the Soviet Union was the right way to run things.
	JJ says, Watching the way things are in the US, I find myself listening to the Far Cry 5 soundtrack, A Lot of Late, We Will Rise Again, lyrics feeling spot on.
	Disavow.
	Yeah, disavow.
	Jeremy McDude, By the way, if you have any.303 lying around, I have an Enfield rifle that needs ammunition.
	No, no, no.
	Oh, no, he's American.
	Yeah, but we disavow anything that might cause YouTube to be angry with us.
	Rafe, Ghost Eagle, $5.
	Thank you very much.
	A Happy Lion, £5.
	Thank you.
	Leftists or anti-military, who do they think will be left after the purge?
	Centrists who are in it for a job.
	I smell private army that follows money.
	Concerning.
	Can you do these on a second?
	Keeping Fish.
	Hi Sargon, I was wondering what are the chances of you guys doing a deep dive into the Libertarian Party Manifesto in the UK? No one else values freedom.
	You did give a talk at one of their events.
	They've seen fine guys.
	Yeah, I've got nothing but positive feelings towards the Libertarian Party in the UK because Lord knows we need one.
	Easy E. If Trump released a playlist, he'd be banned on Spotify.
	Oh wait, he is.
	I can't believe he can't even stream on Twitch.
	If you try going on www.lotaseeders.co.uk, it takes you to Vosch's YouTube channel.
	Hashtag Keto Bros Unite.
	We set that up because we want that to be an example of what not to do.
	Take a pick.
	Is it.com or.co.uk?
	Which one's better?
	You choose.
	Frank Carr.
	How long before we do a regime change or start another war now that Biden is in?
	Peace-loving Democrats.
	What a joke.
	Oh yeah, it's not going to be long.
	It is not going to be long until Biden starts invading.
	Syria?
	Like which country?
	I don't know.
	I would say...
	I wouldn't want to predict the country, but I would say within six months.
	All right.
	Within the six months.
	Holy Stuart.
	Caught my son simping for Biden's granddaughter.
	Disgusting.
	Discipline.
	Not his outstretched arms, but his hairy legs.
	Big tech and left-wing news outlets will only be safe while they pay their tithes to the war master Biden.
	As soon as they don't, they will face exterminatus.
	Seems to be true.
	Happening to Facebook right now.
	The US Army is already planning on reintegrating unconscious bias training.
	Jesus.
	Lifting the ban on transgender soldiers.
	Why?
	And preparing us for smaller pay rises.
	Source, the Army Times, January 2021.
	Yeah, I mean, I imagine that Biden's going to completely undo Trump's ban on critical race theory as well.
	He's promised it.
	It's in the manifesto.
	Oh, right, okay, there we go.
	Full-on social justice nonsense is going to be taking over the United States, and they'll believe that they have the most popular mandate ever.
	I certainly believe it.
	Mike DeJesus for 50 US dollary dues.
	Thank you very much.
	Think logically.
	The military was the only way.
	Why would QB attack so hard if it was just a lot?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	But thank you, Mike.
	Elizabeth I wasn't very popular until the stewards came to power, and with retrospection, she became a heroic figure.
	That's true.
	And again, I really think the same sort of thing will happen with Trump.
	During the first book, I followed politics for about two months.
	We read that one.
	Remember, we don't start fights.
	We just finish them and we win them.
	What happens to lockdowns now that Biden is president?
	Do they intensify and all suddenly go away?
	Do they remain for a long time while they're just going to I think Biden's going to be encouraging lockdowns.
	Didn't he say he was going to have a nationwide mask mandate for federal workers and things like this?
	Yeah.
	Part of me wonders whether or not they're all just BSing, and as soon as they're in power, they're just going to be like, right, we need the economy.
	I mean, you already see, what is it, the government of New York saying exactly that.
	Yeah, I mean, it's entirely possible, but I think they'll be in favour of it.
	What do you think about the KKK getting bigger because of the Biden group wanting segregation?
	Not in favour of the KKK getting bigger.
	Yeah, I don't think people should join any Democrat-founded groups.
	No.
	I had to go to Infowars.com to watch Trump's speech.
	Yeah.
	Irritating, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I believe good can best be defined by adherence to a moral standard, despite...
	We read that one.
	The only person you should sin for is Lady Liberty.
	We read that one, and yes, I agree.
	We're just going to reload, do a few more, and then we will head off, because we have...
	We have a fire alarm that we have to adhere to.
	I honestly think that he's going to backslide on the lockdowns.
	All of a sudden, the economy will be important.
	Oh, well, quite possibly.
	Yeah, a little bit more.
	Yeah, up a bit.
	Up a bit.
	There we go.
	Student of History says, we're saying movement leader, not civil conflict.
	My bad, not a lot of characters.
	Yeah, I mean, hopefully Trump does remain as a titanic figure.
	Again, in the Republican Party.
	I think, you know, the Republicans should be aware that it's their voters that love Trump.
	They don't love them, you know?
	Yeah.
	It's the weird thing about party politics.
	No one actually seems to know the randos in the party because who cares?
	Yeah.
	Which, true.
	But the MAGA folks seem to have a will of their own and make themselves known, which is excellent.
	If AOC is Robespierre, who would you consider to be Dayton?
	Danton.
	I don't know off the top of my head.
	I'll have to go and have a think about that.
	You can have an extra Super Chat since YouTube won't show my original Super Chat, Silvers Unite.
	Oh, thank you, RC Bandit.
	CLC says, please look up Over the Mountain Men and King Mountain.
	I've not heard of it.
	Mute stream, not reading my super chat, but my simping, hashtag Team Hugo.
	Sorry, I thought we did.
	Joe Woodland, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
	Remember that home cares not from whence the blood flows, but it could just as easily be your own that he thirsts for.
	Corn, right?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I couldn't read it properly.
	Devil King says, if you are for a republic, then you ain't English.
	God save the Queen.
	I'm not really for a republic, to be honest.
	I mean, to be honest with you, I was having a kind of chat with a few friends of mine on Facebook about this.
	Because George Osborne had given an interview where he said, look, basically the English are ready for the end of the United Kingdom.
	If Scotland leaves, no one's going to mourn it.
	And if Northern Ireland...
	We'll be richer.
	What do we care?
	Well, that was my point, right?
	If Northern Ireland joins the Republic of Ireland, nobody's going to care because nobody really thinks about Northern Ireland very much.
	It's sad, but it's true.
	Yeah, we just don't know much about it, really.
	And if Scotland leaves, it's like, okay, what has England actually lost there?
	I mean, the Scots continually vote for an anti-English party, an explicitly anti-English party, all the time with massive increasing vote share that just wants to break up the United Kingdom.
	And that's despite the fact that we pay for their standard of living.
	So I'm just sitting and thinking, okay, but if they do leave, if the Celts essentially leave, I don't know what happened to Wales, but like...
	Politically, the right wins.
	Economically, the English win.
	Yeah.
	If we return to just being the Kingdom of England, A, that sounds cool.
	I like the sound of the Kingdom of England.
	That sounds good.
	It sounds historic, traditional.
	It sounds prestigious.
	It sounds like maybe we'd be allowed to focus on our own problems for once and actually take the problems of England seriously, which we're never allowed to do.
	I'm actually not against the idea at all.
	It's actually starting to sound kind of rosy.
	So you'll be donating to the SMP this week, I assume.
	Right.
	Yeah, I hope the SNP get their wish.
	But the thing is, I'm not against the union or anything.
	I suppose the only cruel thing here is we're leaving the Scots with the bloody SNP. Hey, you get what you vote for.
	53%.
	53%.
	Get out.
	You deserve...
	Well, except Dankula as a refugee.
	Yeah, we'll take the base Scottish refugees any day, obviously.
	But if you guys are going to vote for this secessionist...
	National socialist fucking party.
	Exactly.
	Sorry, I'm not going to be bothered when they turn Scotland into a hellhole and we have to rebuild Hadrian's Wall.
	I'm not going to be sad about that at all.
	Like, sorry, you did this to yourself.
	It'd be good to teach the children of England about this is socialism to the north.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Don't do what they're doing because look at it.
	But yeah, so, I mean, you know, and the thing is, I was thinking about this as well, like, if you look at England as a, like, continuity of the civilization, then the joining into Britain during the colonial era and the empire, the British Empire, you know, you can look at that as, like, the imperial project phase, and I think we can agree that we're beyond that, right?
	Britain, as an incorporated entity, is the remnant of the Imperial Project.
	And it was very successful, and we made the world a better place.
	And we've left the world a better place.
	And so now, can we go back to just being little old England?
	You know?
	I would like that.
	Yeah, I always thought the term Little Englander isn't really an insult.
	No, it's not an insult.
	I mean, it was originally, it was in the 19th century, when it was first coined, where it was applied to essentially Whig politicians who didn't want the empire, who wanted England's borders to end England.
	So the anti-imperialists, they were pacifists.
	I'm not a pacifist, but in all other respects, they're like free marketeers, individual liberty, anti-imperialists.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Far-right extremists.
	Little Englandists.
	Yeah, but it's not an insulting identity to me.
	I think the great thing about England is the little parts of it.
	But anyway.
	We went off a bit of a tangent there, were we?
	Yeah, but it's been something I've been thinking about.
	Report troop count in D.C. at 65,000.
	60...
	Source.
	Yeah, we'd like a source now.
	But let's assume it's just 25,000, right?
	What that is is a show of strength.
	That is a show to the plebs to say, look, consent of the governed is over.
	We do not need your consent.
	We have a military.
	We do not need you at the inauguration.
	We have flags.
	We have symbolism.
	The Republic is over and it's moving into the Principate.
	But that doesn't mean the end of America.
	The Roman Empire carried on for hundreds of years after the fall of the Republic.
	So it's not like America's over, it's just the Republic is over.
	The idea of the government that is formed by the people and for the people, built on the consent of the governed and secured by the armed population of the United States, that's over.
	But you'll still be a massive and powerful country.
	Mike DeJesus says, I see today's inauguration much like North Korea military parade or China's community dances.
	All propaganda and fear.
	Cheers from Texas.
	Yeah, Matthew, I think you're exactly right.
	And like Glenn Greenwald was saying, not even North Korea would be like the loving arms of Joe Biden.
	But if there's a security threat, you have the FBI, the CIA, and the Secret Service take over.
	You do not need 25,000 soldiers.
	That's just propaganda.
	Well, that's what you have if you're expecting an enemy invasion.
	No, but that's the thing.
	They're not.
	Of course.
	This is just propaganda.
	Well, it's not just propaganda.
	It's a show of force.
	It's showing, look, we are willing to deploy 25,000 men, so stay in your place.
	Anyway, Mike DeJesus for 50 US dollary dues.
	Thank you very much.
	Who controls the National Guard until noon?
	Which presidents federalized the National Guard to save the Republic?
	Can the National Guard work in coordination with the Marines?
	Under what conditions?
	Q asked this three years ago.
	They make us look crazy for a reason.
	I'm afraid I don't have the answer to any of those things.
	I have no idea how they relate to Q. Sorry.
	I'm not saying that anyone's crazy.
	I'm saying that the things that have been predicted by Q that I've seen haven't really come true.
	George says, Superchats are expensive.
	Silvertier members post video questions when?
	Today!
	Today it happened.
	Oh no, wait, that was for Gold Tier, wasn't it?
	No, it was for Silvertier, wasn't it?
	You tell me.
	You're in charge of the website.
	You own it.
	Vicky, does Silvertier...
	Right.
	It will be.
	It will be coming, I promise.
	We've requested it.
	It will happen at some point.
	The dev is doing it.
	Yeah.
	Lich Isaiah Ziel for $2.
	Thank you.
	Alexander Cross.
	Paranoia, paranoia.
	Everyone's coming to get me.
	That's definitely what the Dems think.
	Dubious Prime says, just a gem from the Midwest.
	Been with you since your first ruined channel via YouTube.
	Keep it with your work.
	Thank you very much.
	Did you ever have a channel before Sagan of a Cat?
	No, no.
	That was your first one?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And that wasn't even a channel.
	I used to subscribe to other channels I can watch videos on for like three years.
	I mean, that used to be what I did with mine and then I started making stuff for a lot.
	But I wondered if you had like a secret shitposting account before then.
	No, no, no.
	The Dalhook says, oh, the tips emails for information.
	Do not open the pictures.
	Christopher Murray says, Trump had spending go wild.
	That, I believe, was a problem.
	Yeah, he did.
	He did.
	DevilKing1994, I'd be for a kingdom of England.
	Perhaps we should have a referendum to kick out Scotland.
	Leave them to the SNP. As they say, you get what you deserve.
	Honestly.
	Honestly, that does sound like some meme magic.
	I'm up for that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I am up for a return to the Kingdom of England.
	And Wales can stay with us if they want.
	You know, I've got no problem there.
	But imagine a UK referendum on the membership of Scotland that doesn't include Scottish foes.
	Just the rest of the union's like, nah.
	If it was just England, just like...
	Anyway, Joe Woodland, let the Scots crumble and remove their autonomy.
	I always prefer the term perfidious Albion in reference to our superior treachery.
	Yeah, well, I mean, the Scots can go and ally with the French again, can't they?
	You know, see how well that worked out.

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