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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday, the 21st, Friday, Thursday, the 21st of January 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum and today we're going to be talking about Joe Biden's magnificent inauguration ceremony and the consequences thereof.
	But before we start you can go to lotusseaters.com and check out some of our premium content.
	We're gonna have, we did a premium podcast the other day called The Ethics of Social Justice because I've been doing a lot of heavy lifting on the philosophy side of these things and I was trying to persuade Callum that I think I'd got it down to where the problem actually came in.
	How convincing did you find my argument?
	The evidence seems to make it clear that the problem with the left is their low standards, and their low standards comes from the Enlightenment.
	It's the end goal.
	I've been thinking about it in my spare time, and I haven't got a counter-argument yet.
	I'm also quite worried that the Enlightenment might be the problem.
	I actually think it might be.
	And to be honest with you, I think these people, we can essentially consider them the kind of jihadis of the Enlightenment.
	These are the extremists of the Enlightenment, the communists.
	Fundamentalists.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The absolute fundamentalists.
	But anyway, that's something you can go check out on lotuses.com if you want to become a premium member and support us and make sure that we have food in our bellies tomorrow.
	But anyway, let's talk about Joe Biden's hollow inauguration.
	Now, like everyone else, I'm sure you will watch this, but there's a lot I want to talk about here.
	So let's begin with Joe Biden's A New Day in America.
	What an inspiring picture this is, with the empty fields that are instead filled with people, they're instead filled with flags.
	So what's missing?
	Well, the answer is, of course, Americans.
	A new day in America without Americans.
	How encouraging that must be.
	I mean, Joe Biden literally spoke to dozens of supporters, if we can get the next one up.
	I mean...
	Literally.
	Literally dozens.
	Probably a smaller crowd than our last live event, back when we did those.
	But I mean...
	And a sizable portion of that are just pure media.
	Yes, they are.
	We can go to the next one and you can see him actually speaking to...
	Again, you see how thin the crowd is and how just there really isn't one.
	And who are these people as well is the question.
	Because the public at large were apparently instructed to stay away from Joe Biden's inauguration, as if the razor wire fences and 25,000 National Guard wasn't enough of a hint.
	They were told not to come down for retaliation.
	Who are these people?
	I can only assume that people who are connected to Biden, his staff, his administration...
	I don't want to just say deep state that surrounds him.
	Senators, congressmen, people in the American government that are high up, and their family members.
	Civil servants, things like this.
	But the point is, it looks very much like the elite were invited to Joe Biden's inauguration, but the American people were not.
	And that, I think, really speaks volumes.
	I think that tells us everything we need to know about the style of presidency that we can expect from Joe Biden.
	It is going to be coming from the top where they have established what right and wrong is, what truth and false is, and what morality and immorality looks like, and they are going to dictate down to you.
	They don't need your opinions, but we'll get into that in a minute.
	Now, how is this being treated?
	Well, as Biden's motorcade drove past, as you can see, there were many National Guardsmen who appeared to have their backs to him, some facing him, some facing away.
	That's very interesting.
	Clearly not a uniform order there.
	Clearly not.
	It's very strange that, weirdly, this most popular president of all time, if the votes are anything to go by, can command such disrespect from the troops he has brought in to protect him.
	Now, maybe that had something to do with the military purge that went on, that we covered yesterday, but we won't go over that again.
	What we'll do instead is go to the outgoing president, Donald Trump.
	What was his reception like when he returned to Florida and Mar-a-Lago?
	Well, it was cheering crowds, lining the streets, waving Trump flags and American flags, with signs saying, we love you!
	Visible support.
	Actual human supporters.
	Yes, living human supporters.
	You know, he didn't have to put out one flag for every voter who came back from the grave.
	The difference here is just staggering.
	And I mean, this has got to be something that historians point out in the future.
	Because the fact that Joe Biden literally has zero public support, whereas Trump is beloved by his supporters, is just everything...
	Summarized, I think.
	And this leads us to an article that is now currently on Lotuses.com by Bo Dade, who's otherwise known on YouTube as History Bro.
	Very nice chap.
	I've done a bunch of history podcasts with him.
	And he did an article for us called Remember the Gracchi.
	And you don't know much about Roman history, do you?
	And not the specifics now, I know, like, vague parts.
	Yeah.
	Well, the Gracchi are one of the steps that happened along the road to the end of the Roman Republic.
	Because what had happened is the Roman Republic had been tremendously successful, conquered lots of foreign territory, expanded their reach to be the hegemon of the Mediterranean, and this brought with it vast amounts of wealth.
	And as you can imagine, this wealth didn't really go to the bottom classes.
	It went to the very top classes, you know, the kind of classes who would have attended, oh, I don't know, an inauguration for a console without the plebs being allowed to be there, something like that.
	And what was happening is lots of slaves were coming into Rome and to Italy, and it was dispossessing lots of otherwise small Roman landholders.
	So these people had nothing and they had no opportunities.
	And the Gracchi, the Tiberius Gracchus in particular, were, as Bo says, I'm just going to read you a quick quote.
	Again, I'm definitely going to read this full article because it's absolutely fascinating, right?
	Bo says, the parallels with Trump are striking.
	Perhaps not Trump the man, as he thinks Tiberius Gracchus had very little in common on a personality level.
	But their political journeys.
	Both men entered the fray, the political maelstrom, as outsiders.
	Both thumbed their nose at the ruling establishment, setting themselves up firmly on the side of populism.
	Tiberius Gracchus was very much attempting to drain Rome's swamp.
	Both men were accused of wanting to be a king, and despite the groundswell of popular support, they also met with a wall of hostility from a deep state committed at all costs to remove them from office.
	It is perhaps in the ending of Tiberius Gracchus' journey that the most salient parallels and lessons can be drawn.
	on.
	For here, it became clear that Tiberius and his faction were hell-bent on a program of reform.
	Come what may, the senators and retainers resorted to force.
	They simply gathered a mob, overpowered their opponents in a naked display of desperation, and clubbed Tiberius to death before throwing the resulting sack of bones into the river Tiber.
	Now, Trump obviously got the modern equivalent of this deplatforming, which was being digitally executed from every social media platform in existence, and of course, any platforms that would have hosted to him getting the platform themselves He's probably not going to get clubbed to death and chucked in the Tiber or river in America, but metaphorically, it's essentially the same thing.
	It's the Roman equivalent.
	Yeah, and this is the American equivalent, the modern equivalent, is what has happened to Trump.
	So I think that it's a very firm comparison that Trump very much has been playing the role of tribune of the plebs.
	And that's why the plebs are out on the streets cheering for him.
	He's their man.
	He is the people's president.
	And the elites who have just taken over with Joe Biden despise these people.
	And it's worth pointing out that as a Rasmussen poll conducted about two weeks after the election showed, nearly half of voters believe that the election was stolen from Trump, including 30% of the Democrats.
	We've covered this before, but I think it's just worth pointing this out.
	This is indicative of serious discontent in the United States.
	And the fact that the Biden administration is just acting as if their opinions do not matter at all.
	Nobody's opinion other than Biden and his administration's opinion matters.
	And the fact that they don't even want you at the inauguration, they don't want cheering crowds of plebs, they don't like you, is very much the message.
	And so then we come to Biden's inaugural address.
	And obviously we're not going to just repeat it verbatim, but there are some bits in it that I thought were very much worth going over, because I'm sick of the kind of empty words and hollow rhetoric that are being used.
	Like, Biden says, to overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words and requires the most elusive of all things in democracy, unity.
	Well, why were you not showing any kind of unity and solidarity with the presumably millions of Americans who voted for you and clearly love your policies and view you as an aspirational figure, Joe?
	Why?
	But he's like, no, I want everyone, America today, to unite our people, unite our nation, ask every American to join me in this cause.
	Unity is not a cause.
	It is a description of a state.
	You find unity in something else.
	Unity is a sort of meta-description.
	When you see five or six different people heading towards the same goal, you describe them as being in unity.
	They have achieved unity.
	But unity itself is not the one goal.
	Something else is what unifies people.
	And this whole thing, I mean, like, all of his rhetoric, all of this, like, what was the Fox News anchor who had moderated the debate?
	Who came out?
	I can't remember the guy's name.
	Chris Wallace?
	That was it, Chris Wallace.
	Yeah, the sort of Never Trump Fox presenter.
	He came out and said, oh, this was just the most inspirational speech of my life.
	And it's like, really?
	Really?
	It's all just empty rhetoric.
	Like, history, faith and reason show the way.
	The way of unity.
	We can see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbours.
	We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
	We can join forces, stop the shouting, lower the temperature.
	For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.
	No progress, no exhausting outrage.
	And no nation, only a state of chaos.
	I mean, I actually agree with that, but what's he really said there?
	You know, what's he proposing?
	What's he laid out?
	Perfect politician speak.
	But that's a wider point with Biden, which is, you know, name is policy.
	No one ever could.
	None of supporters ever could.
	Because he's a nothing but candidate.
	It was just that's to feed Trump.
	And now he's in power.
	It's like unity for unity's sake.
	Not to, you know, stop Chinese growth or to stop a genocide or to, you know, do XYZ. No moral arc that he's trying to achieve.
	Just unity because unity is good.
	I'm inspired, Chris Wallace.
	Yeah, yeah, inspired.
	But I mean, he is right.
	Without unity, there's no peace.
	And that's kind of true.
	But the thing is, Biden has to account for all of the many, many accusations against him and his family of corruption, abuse, malfeasance, various other things.
	And I'm not going to go over them here.
	We'll probably cover them.
	I'm getting Josh to actually write an article.
	About the allegations and the problems that people have with Joe Biden.
	So we can talk about it like tomorrow probably.
	Because if for a second we thought that Joe Biden was sincere, not that I do, but if we, let's assume that he's being sincere, before anyone, I think, on the MAGA side of things, I'm not going to
	address any of these allegations of corruption.
	I'm just going to ask you to come and join me.
	Why the hell would I join someone who seems to be obviously corrupt?
	And not only that, the hypocrisy of this, right?
	He's like, a dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.
	A cry for survival comes from the planet itself.
	Oh, knock it off, Joe.
	A cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear and now arises in a political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
	Right, so you're declaring the Trump supporters to be white supremacists.
	We know that this is...
	The intent behind this.
	In the same speech talking about unity.
	Exactly.
	With the Trump supporters.
	Exactly.
	So basically he's saying like, you know, we must have unity.
	Also, you're white supremacists.
	So he's saying, look, unity with my side only.
	You know, and the politics of division and fear and all this sort of stuff is like, okay, well this, I mean, you're stoking fear now with white supremacist terrorism.
	Now.
	And it's just embarrassing.
	And it's obviously, it's transparent.
	It's just rhetoric.
	And this was repeated at the press conference that was published on the White House website, on the White House YouTube channel.
	I watched this last night, and it was very, very interesting to watch.
	I don't know whether we can get it up, because they privated it after this.
	Oh, sorry.
	Unlisted it after only 60,000 views, which is weird.
	But anyway, right?
	My understanding is they do genuinely do this for live streams, as in it was somewhat a rule, but it's not just this live stream, is it?
	No.
	Well, we'll get to that in a bit, won't we?
	But anyway, so the phrase unity was repeated ad nauseum, but when asked, no, the impeachment is still going to go on.
	She didn't say, no, the impeachment, you know, in the sake of unity, we're going to have healing and togetherness.
	We're not going to persecute Trump's words.
	No, no, no.
	That's still going on, right?
	And when asked what actions, not words, that she's going to take and they're going to take, she just gives this long rambling, again, Joe Biden-esque sort of like, we want unity, we want unity, we want unity, and How are you going to achieve it?
	Nothing.
	No action.
	No action at all.
	And it was just like, right, okay, weird.
	Essentially, she was just forced to say, well, what's it going to say?
	What's it going to speak?
	And that's going to be it.
	And embarrassingly, one of the press members...
	It was like, oh, do you promise to tell the unvarnished truth?
	And it was presented in such a way as if to ask, can we just uncritically accept what you say to us without doing any further work?
	Which has been the modus operandi for the press from day one, really, for the last four years.
	I mean, look at everything, especially during the Obama years as well.
	The investigative reporting for the press is taking, like, whatever the accusation is.
	You can see this in all the sort of Snopes debunking and stuff like this.
	Here's the accusation, and then, oh, but the person being accused denied it.
	Well, there we go.
	That was a government office.
	Therefore, that's that.
	End of story.
	Carry on with your lives.
	Right?
	So it's, you know, the journalists are not going to get any better, unsurprisingly.
	What a mainstream media question as well.
	Like, Mr.
	President, do you promise to tell the truth?
	Yes, I do.
	Oh, that's good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, thank God.
	Thank God for journalists.
	Yeah, I was so worried you were going to lie to me.
	Like, this is a president of a country.
	Why should you believe what he says?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why would you expect him to not?
	The fourth estate is meant to be holding power to account, not to be uncritically, and like we saw yesterday, like North Korea style, you know, promoting and fluffing the president.
	And you shouldn't do that with Trump either in case anyone thinks that's politics.
	No.
	You listen to Trump and you know that he was probably spinning a load of BS sometimes.
	Of course.
	And then you'd find it out.
	But you wouldn't even dare to think to ask, do you promise to tell just the truth?
	Because you know he's a president of the United States.
	He's a politician.
	Any politician.
	But anyway...
	So yeah, so we'll carry on.
	Bernie Sanders was at the inauguration.
	Some good memes out of that.
	Sat on his own.
	Like a loser.
	Because Bernie Sanders is a loser.
	How's the unity doing, Bernie?
	Hope it was worth it.
	Really looks like it was worth it.
	And yeah, loads of great memes came out of this.
	I think my favourite one was him sitting there being like, this could have been an email.
	And it could have been.
	I mean, who went there, you know?
	Yeah.
	But it's nice that he got an invite, you I mean, he did sacrifice his career and his credibility, so it's nice that he at least got an invite to the inauguration.
	But speaking of communists, the communists over at Novara Media were thrilled with Biden's win.
	I mean, I posted a bunch of these things on Gab.
	This is just the livestream they did, and you can see just how unbelievably excited they were that Biden was in.
	They thought this was the start of a fantastic new era.
	In fact, they even called it that.
	The start of the Biden era.
	And look at how happy they are.
	I'm glad the communists are really happy with Biden in.
	And it's not just these communists, not just our communists in the West.
	It's also the Chinese communists who tweeted, Good riddance Donald Trump!
	It's like, really?
	If you can scroll down a bit, there's a tweet that we can see.
	And it's a picture of, what is it, the White House, or is it...
	There was one.
	It was a picture of the White House with, like, Goodbye Trump or Good Riddance Trump on it.
	But anyway, they say the tweet included a link to English language commentary that Xin Hao published on Saturday with the headline...
	How's my pronunciation there, John, by the way?
	LAUGHTER Good riddance Trump administration in its final madness.
	It dismissed the administration's final policy gestures against Beijing as part of a preposterous show that urged future US policymakers not to let the US-China relationship be led astray by a small bunch of extreme forces.
	So I assume this is in response to the last couple of things Mike Pompeo was doing?
	Yeah, we'll get to that.
	Exactly, yeah.
	So, while fielding questions at a briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hao Chunying fired back at the outgoing US Secretary of State, asked if she would miss Mr.
	Pompeo after he stepped down.
	She said, of course, he has given us lots of joy.
	Every day, we're all watching a big show, but I think that the damage he has caused to himself in the US in terms of national image and prestige is hard to remedy.
	Yeah.
	And on Twitter, she described Pompeo on her Twitter account as the clown of the century.
	Really, that's interesting.
	Certain US politicians have left a reputation of destroyers of the international order, world peace, stability, and human rights in the world.
	Imagine China talking about human rights.
	Time is short for them to wake up to this reality and cure their madness, which is a stain in world history of development.
	So full-on sort of, you know, communist revolutionary rhetoric.
	You know, we have a perfect goal that we're trying to progress to, and you are a stain in the history of the world's development.
	That stain, of course, was Pompeo, and the reason all this invective is coming out from China, because Pompeo has determined through the evidence that China's committing a genocide.
	That we all knew because we've seen various reports that have been coming out, but he tweeted out this.
	I've determined the People's Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, China, targeting Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups.
	These acts are an affront to the Chinese people and civilised nations everywhere.
	The People's Republic of China and the CCP must be held to account.
	So Chi-Com's mad.
	I love how you have China state-affiliated media just below being salty about it as well.
	And it's not just that.
	He spent the last week promoting that different Chinese organizations need to be shut down immediately, promoting that the American organizations trying to get the Chinese people to not be communists need to be supported.
	He's going after them hard.
	and and that's one of the reasons that China always hated Trump and his administration because he was not going to let them get away with what they wanted and there's the thing like two stacks Biden isn't going to change any of these things obviously um they're not worried about him in the slightest no no he's their guy he's their friend in Washington as Di Dongsheng told us he takes the two stacks he's good and friendly with China how'd you pay for that plane Joe yeah exactly how did you pay for that massive plane Joe uh but anyway uh the chai comms are mad I'll Obviously, we can get to the next link.
	Hua Chengying told a media briefing, Pompeo has made so many lies in recent years that this is just another bold-faced lie.
	Okay, thank you, liar.
	Thank you very much for that lie about Pompeo not lying.
	This US politician is notorious for lying and cheating.
	Oh, really?
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree that politicians aren't notorious for lying and cheating.
	Hey, I might be committing a genocide, but at least I'm not a liar.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Also, I'm not committing a genocide.
	Anyway, the new administration will work together with China in the spirit of mutual respect and properly handle differences and conduct more win-win cooperation in more sectors.
	Yeah, I don't doubt.
	I don't doubt that Joe Biden will just be like, yeah, I'll take the genocidal regime's money.
	I don't care.
	This is fine.
	But the thing is, Biden has appointed former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken to be his Secretary of State, and he actually thinks that Trump was right about China.
	Trump got it right on China, as he says.
	I believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach on China.
	I disagree very much with the way he went about it in a number of ways, but the basic principle was the right one, and I think it's very helpful to our foreign policy.
	Well, there we go.
	I guess that Trump was right about China and Joe Biden was wrong to take the two stacks.
	I'd like to see how long this Anthony Blinken sticks around then.
	Well, yes.
	Yes, I mean, that's, you know, how much money do they have to give Joe Biden before they fire Blinken?
	That's the question, isn't it?
	But yes, so Biden's war on everything that's not unity continues with Democracy Now!
	reporting that white nationalists slash militia leaders have been arrested of the capital attacks.
	Someone called Guy Refit, who's a member of the far-right 3%ers militia group.
	I don't know anything about them.
	I do know something about them.
	Ah, go on.
	Okay, so the 3% is meaning that...
	3% of the American public were needed to rise up against the British.
	That's all that you need to overthrow a tyrannical government.
	I don't know anything about their deep ideology, but there just seems to be American revolutionary types.
	Okay.
	I've got no problem with that.
	Okay.
	This is what the founders wanted.
	I'm not saying that's far right or not, but that's part of America, surely.
	It's quintessential Americanism.
	There was a chap called Brian Betancur who they claim is a self-professed white supremacist.
	So at least we've got someone who apparently claims to be a white supremacist being treated as a white supremacist.
	My understanding is they accept anyone because it's about overthrowing tyranny.
	Oh no, not overthrowing tyranny.
	Yeah, you could be anyone, but again, don't quote me.
	No wonder that the two-stacks Biden is bothered by this.
	And there was Riley June Williams, who was also arrested for stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop.
	It was a young lady.
	I don't know what's going to happen to her.
	I don't know whether she got the information off her laptop or anything like that.
	But yeah, so...
	Yeah, that's fine.
	If they broke the law, they broke in.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They should be arrested.
	Absolutely.
	That's the law.
	Just like I said with Black Lives Matter, don't steal.
	It's that simple.
	It's that simple.
	But you notice the flurry of activity in response to this was not there whenever Black Lives Matter do anything.
	Yes, exactly.
	No one was arrested.
	They didn't care about this.
	But yeah, so they have begun, basically.
	It begins here, but I don't think it's going to end here.
	And then you start getting the bizarro narratives about Trump, which I find very amusing.
	This is Salon.com.
	Donald Trump started no new wars, but he is one of history's biggest war presidents.
	Are they even trying anymore?
	I mean, that's just not true, is it?
	That's just not true.
	Imagine writing that.
	Not only did he not start any new wars, but he removed troops from the Middle East, or at least tried to, and the generals lied to him about the troop numbers and dispositions in the Middle East and around the world.
	Yeah, multiple times.
	Multiple times.
	Trying to get troops out of Iraq, trying to get troops out of Afghanistan.
	Yeah.
	So...
	So, we've got a nice graphic that Darren Plymouth has put up.
	There's a chap I used to follow when I was on Twitter.
	He was a good guy.
	President of the USA and there are wars, and you can see the list of wars.
	And, you know, fair enough.
	Reagan, he's in the Cold War.
	He's got to fight proxy wars.
	George H.W. Bush.
	Okay.
	Bosnian war.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	Yeah, exactly.
	They literally can make a genocide.
	You've got to get involved.
	Yeah, Bill Clinton, Kosovo, things like this.
	What are you going to do?
	But then you get to the Bush.
	Afghanistan.
	The war on terror.
	Iraq.
	No, Bush came out himself and just said that Iraq was not linked to the war on terror.
	This is just something they wanted, I guess.
	And then you've got Obama's list of wars.
	And then you've got Trump with a nice blank space because he didn't do any of the things they're accusing him of doing.
	So, I guess from this point, we can go on to Joe Biden's cultural revolution.
	After the swearing-in of the new...
	Well, not even the new elite class, but the newly restored...
	Jesus, the old elite class is back.
	Yes, the old elite class...
	The thing is, it's not just going to be business as usual, which actually is kind of worse, because if it was just business as usual, then it would be annoying, it would be insufferable, it would probably become intolerable eventually, but it would just at least be okay, well, you know, four years of...
	Flash and pizzazz and excitement under Trump where things are happening and maybe things are going in the right direction.
	That's all over.
	And you'd be back on the slow, steady decline into mediocrity and the decline of empire.
	But no, I think with Joe Biden, it's going to be a full-on cultural revolution, Mao style, incidentally, because that seems to be what Joe Biden is actually doing.
	We have a report from...
	Where was it?
	The Telegraph, and the way they describe this, is Joe Biden on Wednesday began dismantling the legacy of his predecessor faster than any other incoming president in the modern era.
	Aide said he was set to sign up to 15 executive orders on his first evening in the Oval Office, far more than any other recent president.
	None of his immediate predecessors signed more than one executive order on their first day in office, instead attending celebratory inaugural balls.
	So his first action was to order that US government employees wear masks on federal property.
	Then he urged Americans to wear masks for the first hundred days of his presidency.
	Not that this is an executive order.
	He ended Trump's travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries.
	Well, this was Obama's idea and his idea that he is now overturned.
	And he stopped the building of the wall on the US-Mexico border.
	He has ended the National Emergency Declaration that has allowed Trump to divert money for its construction.
	He has not ordered that the wall be torn down yet, but he has obviously proposed an immigration bill that will provide an eight-year path of citizenship for the millions and millions of illegal immigrants in the US. He's rejoined the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization, and he plans to make one of his first actions the nomination of a new U.S. Surgeon General, following the resignation of Jerome Adams, who was appointed by Mr.
	Trump, presumably was asked to step down by Biden, which means that one of Biden's first acts was to fire a black man.
	He also is going to institute a temporary moratorium on the new oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is authorised by Trump, and he has revoked the presidential permit for the Keystone XL oil and gas pipeline.
	So, like, full-on, no, I hate everything Trump has done, and I'm going to do my best to undo it.
	And then we get to the other sort of...
	I don't want to call them ancillary because I think these things are actually still important, but they're not the sort of...
	These are the sort of main core of things, big, normal, mainstream political things.
	But then you get the sort of things that surround that, that also give you an impression.
	Just anything and everything Trump ever did.
	Like I saw there was apparently a press conference held earlier yesterday, and one of the questions from one of the mainstream journalists was, are you going to get rid of the colour scheme of Air Force One that Trump brought in?
	Yeah.
	She was like, I haven't looked into that yet.
	She started smiling and was like, oh, I hadn't thought of that.
	And she's like, what do you even care?
	It's a colour scheme.
	But Trump did it, therefore it's got to go.
	I guess so.
	And speaking in the spirit of things that Trump may have done and have to go, the White House petitions are gone.
	The whitehouse.gov website used to have petitions.
	Like, you know, they would want to hear from the people.
	If they got 100,000 signatures in 30 days, they get an official update from the White House.
	A lot of people care about this.
	We should probably look at it.
	You would think so, you know.
	This is a good way for the public to talk to the government directly.
	Look, there's a lot of us who are bothered about this.
	That's been deleted!
	So you just get redirected back to the main page of the White House.
	So if Joe Biden's inauguration with zero people there and massive fencers and guards weren't enough of a hint that he literally doesn't care what you think, well, you can't even talk to him now.
	You can't even present this position.
	This is actually a pretty basic part of trying to make a democratic government at this point.
	If you're trying to set up a new state, for example, one of the basic things you do to try and deal with corruption is you set up a corruption hotline so people can call and report if someone's being corrupt.
	And petitions are another way of setting up so...
	The writer's petition is an ancient feature.
	Yeah, but the online type is what I'm meaning.
	So you'll probably still be able to send physical petitions by post or something like that.
	But the online one is the point of trying to make the government more open and transparent and available to the people.
	Just gone.
	There probably is one for the Iraqi government, I bet.
	The Americans have probably set one up for them, but for Joe Biden, nah.
	Not needed.
	Not interested.
	Sorry.
	Two stacks, Joe.
	Just not interested in your opinion.
	Sorry.
	So there's also the fact that the 1776 report was also deleted from the White House website.
	This was the patriotic education proposal that Trump brought up to try and get rid of critical race theory, which, you know, I haven't actually heard any news about Biden's view on critical race theory, but given the views of his manifestos in favor of it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So I imagine that he's going to revoke that executive order at some point as well and bring critical race theory back.
	Yeah, if he doesn't have an opinion on it, he'll have had it bashed into him by Wednesday.
	Someone will have an opinion on it around him, yeah.
	Also, the list of achievements that Trump's administration put out just before had also been deleted.
	I just wanted to mention that, but I didn't have an image for that.
	And also, we mentioned the YouTube channel, so the White House YouTube channel.
	I took this this morning.
	It's just a screen print of the social blade.
	So the channel had all of its videos from the Trump era deleted.
	They're all either...
	So memory-holing as if Trump was never actually the president.
	Yeah, it's not just that one live stream.
	It's all gone.
	So they had, what is that, 190 million views on the channel, and then Biden's team came in, and now they have 13 million views.
	Bloody hell.
	Over 150 million views just gone.
	That is a hell of a modern book burning that Joe Biden just engaged in.
	Yeah.
	You can see some people unsubscribing because, you know, if you're upset about Trump...
	Well, who wants to get regular updates on unity from Joe Biden?
	Yeah.
	It's not exactly a unifying message.
	I don't know if Trump's administration did this with Obama's videos because the data doesn't go back that far.
	But it's not exactly a strong message for unity, is it?
	No.
	Delete everything you ever did.
	Well, erase the public messages that the previous president put out.
	I mean, if for no other reason you leave them up as a historical record...
	Why would you want them taken down?
	Unless, of course...
	It doesn't cost them anything.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It costs them time to delete them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's irritating to go back and go back.
	Yeah, I mean, their YouTube channel's probably monetized, you know?
	Yeah, you can see the...
	You can't see it on there, but they had estimated revenue if they were monetized, and it was like a few thousand pounds a day.
	Yeah.
	But on the plus side, I bet Joe Biden's social credit score went up really well.
	Well, he doesn't need YouTube's money.
	He's got China's.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sorry, Cameron.
	So that's just the stuff that they've destroyed.
	There's also the stuff they're promoting, in case you think that might be good.
	And it's something.
	So the first thing is, if you go onto the website of the White House, you can now put your pronouns.
	Ah, yes.
	Good job.
	Day one.
	What we need on the White House website is people to be able to tell us their personal pronouns.
	Yeah, which to me is just a dog whistle for I'm an intersectionalist.
	I don't believe they actually give a toss about people who want to be addressed by the correct pronouns or something like that.
	By evidence of she, her, and he, him.
	Who unironically uses them?
	Who's like, my pronouns are he, him?
	Because if they are, if you are the term cis, you are male and think of yourself as male, no one engages in that unless you're some kind of activist.
	Yeah, why would you need to?
	Weird.
	But of course, this is part of the wider thing that was going on.
	So promoted before was the idea that they were going to bring back the bathrooms.
	So Trump's administration put out guidance for schools saying, nope, you should go to the bathroom your biological sex is aligned with.
	And they've done this.
	If you can get the next one up, that's the executive order saying that that is what's going to happen.
	Any school that is funded in part or full by the federal government...
	Has to provide that sort of thing.
	What's interesting about this is it's under Title IX, and Title IX was about sex discrimination, so you shouldn't be discriminated on the basis of your biological sex.
	And this has just been ballooned by activists into the point that it means gender and everything else as well, which it obviously doesn't.
	Which isn't something that you can say is fixed squarely if you believe in this kind of worldview.
	They can't even believe this.
	So there's a sentence from here that shows this.
	Enforcing prohibitions on sex discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
	Like, sex discrimination on the basis of identity or sexual orientation.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	There's different things.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	Well, sexual orientation has got nothing to do with the sex that you are.
	So this was the argument from the Trump campaign.
	Because you remember Trump didn't give a toss about whether transgender people use different bathrooms.
	He even said, if you come to Trump Tower, I don't care.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it was the point of, well, the law is about sex discrimination, so that's what it should be.
	If you want something for something else, well, file another lawsuit at the Supreme Court and get that passed, or put something into law.
	But that's not what Title IX was.
	And then there's the wall funding.
	So this is the order saying that, yep, all the wall funding is stopped.
	All building on the wall, I think the word was paused.
	So within seven days, anything that's currently being built has to be stopped, anything on the southern border.
	He referred to it as a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.
	Oh, I love that.
	I'm sure all the children who are being trafficked illegally across the border are like, thanks, Joe.
	I sort of get the hint there he's hinting at like, you know, we're going to divert this money to deal with a real problem.
	MAGA. Oh, yeah.
	And that's where it's going.
	So he says here it should be a policy that this administration will spend no more American taxpayer dollars on the construction of a border wall.
	So not even just Trump's wall, just border walls in general.
	He'll put a wall up around the Capitol because the government is important and all the important people are already behind that wall and we've got 25,000 people to guard that which is doubtless going to stay there in perpetuity.
	But a border for you plebs?
	To prevent MS-13 coming across and raping and murdering you, or preventing drugs and guns from coming across illegally, or human trafficking?
	Not his problem.
	Yeah, I mean, Mexico is a dangerous place.
	Yeah, especially North Mexico.
	You look at a graph of how many people die due to conflicts every year, like Mexico's always next to Syria, and the amount of people dying per year because of cartel violence and so forth.
	And the Mexican government is very weak.
	Can't get a handle on that.
	But there's a thing.
	I'm going to get in trouble for this, but bringing up Israel.
	But if you have a Palestine next door, you have them basically at war with you.
	Well, then they built a border wall because it's a violent area, you have violent people.
	And it's a similar process.
	If you have a state next door that's got extreme violence going on and you're not that kind of state, well, you build a wall.
	I don't know what the problem was.
	Anyway, and then there's also the terrorist ban.
	So he got rid of the terrorist ban because of...
	Well, what, Biden?
	Because you promoted this.
	Your administration was the one saying, these countries are full of terrorists, we ought to stop these people coming into our country because they pose a massive terror risk.
	Send them somewhere else.
	But that was in the interest of protecting American citizens from terrorism.
	Yeah.
	When Trump came along and said, you know, I actually agree.
	These states do seem to be filled with terrorists.
	I think the last administration had this right.
	I think Mr.
	Biden has this right.
	We're going to ban these people.
	That was the Muslim ban, as it was shown.
	But of course it's not, because it didn't ban all Muslim countries.
	It didn't ban people on the basis of being Muslim.
	And it just assumes that every single person in this country is a Muslim.
	Yeah, which is obviously untrue.
	Yeah, which is obviously untrue.
	But this is the point, isn't it?
	The things that Biden is doing is just not in the interest of the American public.
	If you are a regular person in America just going about your private life, it would be better for you to not have potential terrorists coming to your country than not.
	It would be better for you to have a border wall than not.
	I mean, we spoke about the guy who came from Libya the other day and chopped up a bunch of people in a park.
	And that was what this was aiming at.
	It's like, look, this state is in the middle of a civil war.
	We're not taking refugees from there.
	We will send them to the country and next over and then they will go back afterwards.
	Because otherwise they're a terror threat.
	That's what this was and that's why Biden promoted it.
	And then, of course, Trump did it, therefore it's bad, therefore it has to go.
	It's the total inversion of values, where everything that was good is now evil, and everything that was evil is now good.
	And therefore, Biden is just embracing all of these things that are going to be harmful to the American public.
	Not having border security, when you've got literally gangs like MS-13 operating near the border and trying to get into the United States.
	That alone is more than enough justification for a border rule, let alone all of the other problems that come from having this porous border.
	So the next one he passed that was of interest to me was the racial equity stuff.
	So he wants to advance racial equity.
	I could just imagine a Soviet-era poster with him behind it.
	Let's advance racial equity.
	There are four, so something like that.
	But I'm not too worried about this one per se, because I found this kind of weird, the wording in it.
	Each agency must assess whether and to what extent its programs and policies perpetuate systemic barriers to opportunity and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups, such as the alphabet people.
	It goes on and goes forth.
	Which, that's obviously an SJW language, but they define in the definitions the term equity as consistent, systemic, fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals.
	Well, that's not possible.
	Because from the way that this is framed, this is clearly framed in the dialect of social justice.
	And if you are a believer in social justice, then you believe that everyone is inherently biased.
	Their treatment isn't good enough for social justice types.
	Yeah, it doesn't matter.
	It's an inherently racist, structurally racist system, full of people with inherent biases that can't be overcome.
	And so why would you even bring this up?
	But this is why I think it's essentially the SJWs last 24 hours.
	Oh, yeah.
	They've already been in 24 hours.
	What have they been up to?
	Oh, yeah.
	And you can see how they haven't updated all the terms yet.
	They're going to have to go back and redefine equity and whatnot.
	Oh, absolutely.
	But I mean, like, you know, bringing the pronouns, racial equity, all this sort of stuff.
	These are all social justice.
	Yeah, they are going to correct their mistakes.
	Yeah.
	You mentioned this earlier, but the XL pipeline thing, he also got rid of that.
	Apparently, Justin Trousseau is quite peeved about this.
	Were the Chinese not happy with it, Justin?
	Yeah.
	No, Alberta wasn't happy with this because they'll make a lot of money out of it.
	And they were complaining to Justin to try and intervene, and he has not because he wants good relations with Biden, which I'm sure that's worth it.
	Why don't you just break out your cell phones and see which Chinese Communist Party members you've got in there and bond over your mutual corruption?
	Make a group chat.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Make a group chat.
	But of course, this also makes no sense.
	I don't know that much about pipelines, but from the videos I watch learning about it, it seems that this is the safest way and cheapest way to transfer oil.
	Otherwise, you've got to send it via trains.
	Yeah, but it goes through native land.
	But that's not really the point here, which is that the attempt here is not because Biden cares about native land or anything like that.
	It's because you want to stop using oil.
	That's the argument.
	But that's not going to happen.
	It's just going to go by trains, which means you'll have more accidents and kill more people.
	I think you're being too...
	You're not giving Biden enough credit.
	I think that Biden himself is about to join the Native American reservation.
	I think he'll declare himself a one.
	Anyway.
	But the other SJWs, our lovely friends in Antifa, decided to riot because apparently the MAGA guys weren't up to it.
	So, you know, all this worrying about, oh, MAGA's going to go out and riot because of Joe Biden, and then nothing happened.
	There were no terror threats against the 25,000 soldiers.
	Nothing seemed to have happened.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But what did take place was Antifa in Portland here going down to the headquarters of the Democratic Party and smashing it up.
	Wow.
	Because F Biden.
	You know, Biden's not good enough.
	Well, I can't believe that Antifa were just not prepared to stand down.
	You can see them trying to cover the comrades up with their umbrellas there.
	But obviously smashing it.
	The people dressed in black covering their faces and smashing things up, they're the good guys.
	This could be Proud Boys, I have no idea.
	That's essentially the response I saw in the comments.
	I suppose it could be.
	But it's not just in Portland, also in Seattle where the Chas and the Chop were that killed so many people.
	Same thing, except here they were smashing up local businesses.
	So this is a historic Starbucks, apparently it's the first one that was ever made.
	Oh, the very first Starbucks.
	Oh no.
	It's got to be destroyed.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	And the claim is still Antifa does not exist.
	So you can get the next one.
	This is the response.
	No, it should be.
	Oh, sorry.
	This is Fox News reporting on it saying that they were anti-Biden, Antifa destroying things.
	Fair description, to be honest.
	Yeah, like, what's wrong with that?
	And then the response being that, you know, this isn't a real thing.
	Anti-Biden Antifa caused damage in Portland, Fox News are claiming.
	But local news is reporting it was J20 who are anarchists, not Antifa.
	Fox News is still lying, no surprise.
	I know who Liana Kersner is.
	She's wrong there.
	Antifa are anarchists, Liana.
	I picked her because she has a checkmark, but there were literally endless comments under that Fox News piece and Andy Knows comments being like, oh, this isn't Antifa.
	Some people trying to claim it was the Proud Boys because it's anti-Biden Antifa means they're the Proud Boys.
	Jesus Christ, guys.
	Like, the idea is smashing up your headquarters.
	Yeah.
	And Joe Biden's like, oh, should I say something?
	Should I not?
	Nope.
	But they're going to do nothing.
	Get what you deserve.
	And it wasn't just Justin Trudeau that's been cringe in response to this.
	Boris Johnson has been incredibly cringe.
	So he was asked the question, is Joe Biden woke?
	To which the obvious answer is yes.
	And, you know, as a conservative, I should be opposed to that.
	But he didn't say that, did he?
	So let's play the clip and you can see what his view on that is.
	Do you think, as some senior politicians in Britain seem to, that President Biden is woke?
	I can't comment on that.
	What I know is that he's a fervent believer in the transatlantic alliance, and that's a great thing, and a believer in a lot of the things that we want to achieve together.
	You know, insofar as being woke, but what I can tell you is that I think that it's very, very important for everybody to...
	I'll put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions, and your values and things you believe in.
	Finally...
	Okay, that was an awful answer, right?
	So, there's nothing wrong with being woke.
	Yeah, there is.
	The Nazis were woke.
	Wokeness is the politicization of race, gender, other inherent characteristics to turn them into political weapons with which you can attack the opposition.
	So that's the first thing.
	But Boris saying, well, I believe in your traditions, your culture, you're standing up for your values and all that.
	They don't believe in that.
	They hate your traditions.
	They hate your culture.
	They think that's white supremacist, Boris.
	And if the conservatives still at this point do not understand how dangerous woke is to them, then they're lost.
	They're absolutely lost.
	They should be signing up to lotuses.com so we can teach them what they need to know.
	Right?
	Unreal.
	There's nothing wrong with being woke.
	There's nothing wrong with being a Nazi, but I happen to not want to be a Nazi.
	It's like, well, then get used to being a Nazi.
	So I heard a defense of this, which is that he's basically a bit of a normie and probably doesn't know what this is, and that's just bull.
	Let's assume that he is.
	That's irresponsible.
	Like, this woke stuff is everywhere.
	It's just taken over the White House.
	You're the leader of the conservative movement of the UK, and you still have no idea.
	And you're literally coming out and saying, well, actually, I happen to like the traditions and history of my country.
	Yeah, but they don't.
	They hate your country.
	But you can also see the obvious problem there, that it's him having no balls, no spine, because he says we need to be able to stick up for our tradition and our values.
	Well, if you're a conservative, your traditions and values are opposing wokeness.
	I'm sorry, that is what you're about.
	Then why are you able to say there's nothing wrong with being woke?
	Exactly.
	Obviously, our traditions and values are not white supremacy, but that's how they're viewed from the woke perspective.
	Like, you know, England, America, these are considered to be white supremacist countries in the woke worldview.
	You can say, oh, there's nothing wrong with being woke.
	It's like, yeah, there is.
	Look at that for a minute.
	Like, the Conservative Prime Minister, the leader of the Conservative movement in the UK, saying, we must be able to stick up for our values.
	But also, there's nothing wrong with being woke.
	Mad.
	What purpose of you is there if you're not able to stick up for the most basic value, which is to be a conservative or even just a liberal?
	Because even the liberals hate wokeness because it's just communist nonsense.
	Wokeness is unironic racism.
	So if it's like there's nothing wrong with being woke, it's like there's nothing wrong with being racist.
	I'm sorry, but there actually is.
	I actually don't like racism.
	I just don't like talking about racism.
	Yeah.
	I saw a lot of people responding to this being like, well, define wokeness for me other than things I don't like in the comments.
	So I just sent them a video that Carl made a while back, which is Ash Sarkar defining what wokeness is and how it's obviously evil.
	And I'll probably get the wording a little bit wrong.
	She defines it as, on a political level, the redistribution of wealth, land, and power along class, gender, and racial lines.
	it's like how is that desirable how is that not what the nazis did like how is there nothing wrong with that boris yeah like there is a lot wrong with that how how is it that you're still after all this time of dealing with this so incompetent when it comes to answering this question and the thing is right boris and this is the one thing you've got to take away from this the british public hate wokeness They don't like it.
	Nobody likes wokeness.
	There's like a 10-15% fringe of activists who just happen to be in the media who like wokeness.
	Just come out strong against this and you'll find your approval rating starts rising.
	So let's go into the cabinet.
	Yeah.
	Since we're talking about wokeness, let's talk about Biden's woke cabinet.
	So this was the question being posed.
	Do you think Biden is woke?
	Well, okay, maybe let's just ignore Biden for a second.
	Let's look at the people around him.
	We've read his manifesto before.
	We've gone through it.
	It's full of woke nonsense.
	It's woke garbage.
	But his cabinet members were interesting.
	So the first one I want to talk about here was his pick for Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland.
	And you can see she, her in her bio, which is amazing.
	But then this is the first tweet we found from her.
	Single mother, brilliant.
	First Native American woman.
	Okay, of course, that's your definition of yourself.
	But this is Black Lives Matter Plaza and her celebrating that Black Lives Matter Plaza has been sent up.
	So Black Lives Matter Plaza is a symbolic starting point for the movement that says enough is enough and creates a future where we dismantle institutional racism.
	Hashtag BLM. And again, just to be clear, from her perspective, institutional racism is the institutions themselves are racist.
	The institutions themselves that are concerned about the way that people behave.
	And so the way that you interact with the institution is predicated on the way that you treat others and the way that you deal with yourself creates different outcomes.
	And that normally is what we call justice.
	Like someone who commits a crime should go to jail.
	Someone who doesn't commit a crime shouldn't go to jail.
	So the way that's actual justice.
	Yeah, that's actual justice, the way that this is behaved.
	But then when you look at it and go, well, OK, but this group has committed more crimes than this group.
	Therefore, that's racism.
	It's not what that means.
	And that's where the social justice comes in, as opposed to justice.
	Does the social group have its justice of having an equal amount of people arrested?
	And of course, that doesn't make any sense.
	No.
	It's just nonsense.
	But she's not the only one that's obviously indoctrinated.
	There's another tweet from her here talking about the fact that Native American women have an additional nine months and 23 days to get paid what white men were paid in the previous year.
	I love the way she frames it.
	Can you believe it takes a native woman an additional nine months and 23 days to get paid while a white male was paid the previous year?
	I know, because it's not true.
	They are earning the amount that they earn because of what they do.
	They are not having to work an extra amount of time to get paid the same.
	It's obviously distortion of what is reality.
	It's a complete misappropriation of the language as well.
	Like you say, they don't get paid, they earn.
	Less.
	And then she says, two-thirds of native mums are breadwinners, yet they make 58 cents for every $1 a white man makes.
	I love how she has to compare it to white man.
	Like, why can't you compare it to a Chinese man or an Indian man?
	I wonder.
	But this two-thirds of native mum are breadwinners is not because two-thirds of Native American men are house husbands.
	No.
	It's because, like her, she's a single mother.
	So it's like, okay, why has your community's social familial systems collapsed?
	No.
	Why have you found yourselves in these positions?
	I'm willing to bet as well.
	You can see the statistic there being 58 cents for every dollar a man makes.
	Well, if there's half the amount of people in the household, I bet it's done on household wealth rather than individual wealth.
	Probably.
	I'm willing to bet.
	Unreal.
	Two-thirds of Native American mothers are the breadwinners.
	Where are the men?
	She's the secretary of the interior now.
	Obvious nonsense on race, obvious nonsense on gender.
	I mean, this is the old wage gap myth, which Sean Head did a great takedown of, and I'd love her to do a response to this.
	Probably is disavowed at this point.
	I hope not.
	But she's not the only one, as we mentioned.
	There's the Secretary for Energy, if we can get that one up, which is her talking about to the black communities.
	There's an article saying, you know, why should you vote for Democrat?
	What have you got to lose?
	Her question here, what the hell do you have to lose?
	Answer, roughly over 37,000 black lives.
	This is a reference to the fact that apparently 37,000 black people have died because of COVID. Oh yeah, I went through this article.
	And therefore this is Trump's No, no, no.
	It gets better, right?
	So in this article, they say, the pandemic that has killed black Americans at a rate of three to five times that of white Americans, depending on what state you live in.
	According to a research lab, black Americans make up little more than 22% of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States.
	It's like, well, whose fault is that?
	Whose fault is it that COVID-19 has been more fatal to black communities than white communities?
	Trump's.
	Well, yeah.
	But, like, I mean, if this is...
	They don't have agency.
	This can't be their own fault for being less healthy or because of a genetic factor.
	It has to be because of political reasons.
	Exactly, right?
	But I love this.
	The COVID-19 pandemic is killing us at a higher, faster, and more lethal rate than being dragged across the Atlantic Ocean on a filthy ship shackled and stacked on top of each other while being routinely whipped, starved, and raped.
	Anything comparable to that is definitely losing.
	Right, okay, so COVID is worse than slavery.
	That's the narrative we're at, is it?
	Yeah.
	Like, oh, unreal.
	Like, unreal.
	Therefore, you must vote Biden, because otherwise we're essentially experiencing slavery if Trump continues to be president.
	I don't know.
	Obviously nuts.
	Yeah.
	The other one here that I found from the cabinet was, this is the representative they're sending to be the ambassador for the United Nations.
	Oh, goodness.
	And her response here, you must have seen this meme a million times now.
	Yeah.
	So this is the response to peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrations at the Lincoln Memorial last summer.
	So this is in response to people saying, oh, the cops didn't do enough to stop the Capitol Hill protests.
	And this is just a lie, by the way.
	This is just a complete bull.
	How is it?
	Like, if you check this image, like, you just Google search for the image and try and find out where it comes from, you get...
	uh the next link if we can get it up which is that it was a city curfew in effect in response to riots over the last couple of days thanks george floyd so you've seen the images i mean you know the night where all the fires are going up in washington dc and then they came out and issued a curfew so no it is not that black lives matter turned up to do a protest and then they were met with this and then you know then the right black lives matter had burned down a bunch of cities and then they were met with this Yeah.
	So, I mean, you can see the, you know, 25,000 troops in response to the Capitol Hill.
	Well, in which case, the disproportionate response will actually be the response to Capitol Hill.
	Yes.
	It's an obvious lie.
	And these are the kind of people you're getting in there.
	Those are the kind of people that are promoted by Biden.
	So is Biden woke while the people around him are woke?
	His manifesto is woke.
	His, you know, executive actions have been woke.
	The answer is yes, Boris.
	That's what you should have said.
	I mean, I don't see how you could say no.
	I mean, have we got the last one, which is Biden's pick for health secretary?
	Yeah.
	This is a lady who is called Rachel, who is his assistant on health.
	And also the first trans-Senate come for me.
	Yeah.
	And looks very healthy.
	Like every health minister.
	I look forward to taking health advice from this clearly healthy and sane person.
	But this sort of...
	God, what jokes can I even make?
	None.
	But the point is, go back to the picture, go back to the picture, right?
	The point is, right, this is Biden's strongest step forward, right?
	This is the intersectional credentials.
	The first trans-senate committee.
	Do you think this person got the position on the merits of their work in the field of health?
	Definitely.
	No question.
	I look at that person and think, expert.
	No question of it.
	I also think woman.
	Because I don't want to get deplatformed.
	The interesting thing, though, about this is...
	This is just this congenital problem with the left.
	That every single one of them is an abject raging hypocrite.
	Rules for thee and not for thee.
	And this person, Rachel Levine, Dr.
	Rachel Levine, was the health secretary for Pennsylvania.
	And she'd become quite the face of Pennsylvania.
	It's not a good transition.
	I think I'm allowed to say that.
	She's not pulling it off.
	I just can't stop thinking of Lord of the Rings.
	Why?
	Which character?
	My master, Biden the Great, bids thee welcome.
	Anyway.
	Anyway!
	I don't mean to be mean.
	It's not nice to...
	No, I do not buy for a second that this person got the position on the basis of the hard work.
	I honestly believe this is like many leftist positions where you just say, you've got the right intrinsic characteristics.
	You're transgender.
	Therefore, I want a transgender minister.
	Old orange face.
	Sorry, Lord of the Rings, don't worry about it.
	So she appears to have essentially deliberately gotten old people infected with COVID in Pennsylvania, which is weird.
	Like, weird that they would want this to happen, right?
	That's what I was getting at.
	Like, I knew it.
	Like, it wasn't going to be someone who had demonstrated excellence.
	No, no, no.
	Like, the exact opposite.
	The exact opposite, right?
	So, as Human Events reports, Pennsylvania is one of the many states witnessing catastrophic COVID-19 death rates, specifically in nursing homes and long-term care facilities for the elderly.
	Nearly 70% of the fatalities have occurred in these facilities, right?
	So, in old folks' homes in the place she was in charge of health, 70% of people have...
	70% of the COVID deaths occurred in these facilities, right?
	So despite this, on March the 18th, Levine directed licensed long-term care facilities to continue admitting new patients, including those discharged from hospitals.
	So people who have been in hospital with COVID were to be admitted to care homes.
	So...
	I mean, hospitals have been a major vector of transmission for COVID, because obviously everyone goes there when they're sick, and then COVID spreads to other people, and then it gets taken away.
	So it's like, okay, well...
	So she's sending potentially sick elderly people?
	Not even potentially.
	Certainly.
	There are certainly going to be sick elderly people with COVID who have been discharged from these hospitals, and then taken to these care homes, right?
	Right.
	Expert.
	Absolute expert in health.
	The guidelines.
	The guidelines.
	This is from the guidelines she wrote.
	This may include stable patients who have the COVID-19 virus.
	And at the time of writing...
	It's certain.
	Like, they're certain to have it.
	Certain to have it, right?
	At the time of writing, of the state's 3,806 deaths, 2,611 had occurred in these nursing homes and long-term care facilities, right?
	Right.
	After harshly ordering these facilities to accept coronavirus patients and risk even more loss, she moved her 95-year-old mother out of her personal care home.
	So she knew these things were killing people.
	Yeah, and so she moves her mum out.
	Her revealed preference is that it's true, so she takes her mum out.
	Exactly, and it's like...
	But everyone else's mum...
	Just the staggering hypocrisy.
	For thee, don't care.
	For me, my mum's going to be safe.
	And she's like, oh, well, my mother requested it and my sister and I, her children complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak.
	Yeah, probably because she's like, you're going to get me killed?
	What are you doing?
	Why did you do this?
	Get me out of here!
	You know?
	So it's like...
	I mean, just the...
	Again, just the staggering hypocrisy of people who I would have thought...
	Excellent pick for health minister.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Someone who's demonstrated a great capacity to kill old people.
	Totally incompetent, but has the right diversity credentials.
	Ticks the right boxes.
	Biden needed a trans person on his team to fulfill the intersectional agenda.
	And there we go.
	We got one.
	You know, even though she seems to have been absolutely terrible.
	And she seems to have actually got people killed with her ridiculous decisions.
	But, you know, anyway.
	There's another problem with wokeness, though.
	It's like, you hire people on the basis of being a woman or trans and blah, blah, blah.
	It means you get incompetent people.
	Not because they're a woman or trans and blah, blah, blah, but because that's the vector you're hiring them.
	You're not hiring them on the basis of competence, but on other vectors that have nothing to do with competence.
	Absolutely.
	And that's the problem with hiring leftists as well.
	You get massive hypocrites.
	Anyway, I believe we have another video comment.
	If you would like to leave us video comments, if you're a member of Lotuses.com, you can just film yourself and upload one and then we'll answer it.
	Let's go.
	Hi there.
	I'm sorry about the audio.
	It's just my web camera is a bit crap.
	So if my audio is bad, then I apologize for that.
	But if you can hear me clearly, my question is, due to now Biden being the presidential elect, That now inevitably means that the entire progressive and globalist takeover of the entire Western world and if not the world in general is now complete.
	They have now technically won.
	So my question is, What does it mean for us?
	Does that mean that we as a dissident, now dissident right-wing faction, will we be treated under full tyrannical marginalization to the point that the only solution for people like us will be sent to either political death camps?
	Will that actually happen?
	Or will there be an educational indoctrination program where we will be forced against our wills to attend these educational indoctrination camps?
	Because, you know, I'm quite worried about this.
	What are your thoughts about this?
	Well, I mean, it's already happening.
	I do agree with that gentleman that essentially they have won.
	They have taken everything over.
	The ESGWs did win.
	They did win, yeah.
	I've got lots of friends who are just IRL friends I've had for decades who have been messaging me recently, in fact, since the death of George Floyd, saying that my workplace, I never really paid attention to all the woke stuff you talk about, but my workplace is now making me...
	Take what they describe as, quote, Marxist indoctrination courses.
	And they are having these things forced on them.
	And they're really bothered that the people around them seem to be lapping this up and not understanding.
	I mean, some of them are openly attacking capitalism and things like this.
	It's like, what the hell is this?
	Like, you know, this person is like, I work for, you know...
	I can't remember where it was, but, you know, just some NHS trust or something or just some private corporation or something like this.
	And woke training is everywhere.
	The wokeness is everywhere.
	And AOC and people have all been like, yeah, we want to reprogram people.
	In schools, I can't imagine it's going to get any better.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	And Boris is just out there going, there's nothing wrong with being woke.
	Yes, there is.
	You idiots.
	Like you mentioned, camps, they don't need such a thing.
	No, no.
	We've seen this under the radicalization under Tony Blair.
	I think Biden will be very similar, where it's pushed through the cultural axis through the law.
	So you make mandatory diversity training, so you have to indoctrinate people into these things.
	You start teaching in schools.
	You start making everyone who works for the federal government have to sign up to a charter of equality and diversity, which is what Blair did.
	Mm-hmm.
	Things like that, and eventually the culture's just changed to a point where the right has an immense task to try and push that back.
	That's where we are in the UK, and it's why everyone was so hopeful for Boris, but then Boris comes in and doesn't do anything on it.
	Yeah, the first thing I posted, I posted on Gab that they went viral, actually, in like 3,000 shares.
	But I think it's worth reiterating, is we have to start building our own infrastructure.
	So basically, and this goes right down to starting your own bank.
	Now, I actually looked up how to start a bank.
	It's actually not as difficult as you'd think.
	It's just an expensive task, obviously.
	I saw the comments, like, Trump Bank.
	Trump's got to set one up.
	He's the only one with the money.
	Well, Elon Musk could do it.
	He co-founded PayPal, you know.
	He can do the PayPal, let Trump do the bank.
	Exactly.
	But the point is that essentially there is going to have to be patriot industries that spring up.
	And the one benefit of this is that the demand is clearly going to be there.
	It's already there.
	Gab's servers are currently today, they've been upgrading their servers because they own their servers in-house, so they can't have those taken away.
	Because all of the deplatformings are predicated on the idea that...
	You are not entitled to service.
	And that the service provider is entitled to just refuse service anytime they like.
	Unless, of course, they're baking cakes.
	But, you know, that aside, the idea is that Amazon and the Amazon Web Services say, sorry, we're just going to shut this down.
	You know, PayPal, Patreon, they can all just be like, yeah, we'll shut you down.
	We just don't need to have business with you.
	And there's no law that compels us to do so.
	Even though there are anti-iscrimination laws that do compel that sort of thing.
	But it doesn't matter, right?
	But the point is, they can't just take your property away from you.
	And so, if you own the service, if you...
	As far as I can tell, I looked this up...
	The last line of defence, literal property rights.
	Yeah, literally owning these things.
	You can't rely on left-wing controlled businesses.
	But Hoover does this, it's going to make a ton of money as well.
	They are.
	Because literally everyone within these distant movements will want to promote that thing and say, hey, they're good for us, you should use them as well.
	Because they're tolerant.
	You're going to get...
	You've got a huge ready-made sort of slate of, I guess we'll call them right-wing commentators, who have been deplatformed from various other places, who have got millions and millions of fans between them all, who would love to support these people and would love to buy their merch, they would love to send them money...
	Also to know that their bank account will be safe.
	Exactly.
	And who would love to have this in a bank account of their own.
	And you're going to make huge amounts of money.
	It's just, at the moment, no one's setting up.
	So basically, I looked into this, and it's actually not a hard set up a bank.
	You just essentially need to buy a building...
	Set up a bunch of servers and purchase.
	You can purchase just off-the-shelf banking software.
	It's all available.
	It just costs a lot of money.
	Some rich guy has to do it.
	Exactly.
	I went to a bunch of websites that had instructions on how to do these things.
	It costs, they think, between $12 and $20 million.
	It's like, yeah, that's a lot of money.
	But you're going to make a really large amount of money out of all this, and you're going to be doing the thing that is genuinely necessary, which is creating an infrastructure that can't simply be deplatformed.
	And that means that the people who oppose wokeness, and I'm not just going to say right-wingers, because it's not just right-wingers, you know, all the TERFs.
	The TERFs got deplatformed from the co-op bank.
	You know?
	And it's like, why?
	It's like, oh, because they don't agree that gender is something you can just choose.
	It's like, oh, no, those bigots, you know, deplatform them.
	But that's the point.
	Like, no one's describing Posey Parker as far-right or a member of the right wing.
	Like, she's not.
	No.
	Not to my knowledge.
	But anyway, but the point is, you know, it's not just going to be right wing.
	It's going to be those post-awokenists.
	And if you want those people to survive...
	Something like this has to grow up.
	I mean, that was the point of us creating a website.
	And we are going to be trying to get off of Amazon web hosting services pretty soon, given how they treated Parler.
	But this is a process that takes time for everyone.
	But the point is, we're going to be in the back end.
	I mean, hopefully you guys won't notice any difference.
	You can just look it up.
	You can go, who is?
	Domain search.
	There's no point trying to hide it.
	But the point is, hopefully no one on the back end will notice when we migrate off of these things.
	But everyone is going to have to find somewhere else to go.
	And so the quicker someone can provide an alternative that is the Patriot alternative, the better it will be for everyone, including that person who sets them up.
	Because they're going to make money.
	People in the chat are like, Trump pal.
	Yeah, Trump pal.
	Yeah, do it.
	Anyway, let's do the super chats because we need to finish up.
	So, mute stream.
	Biden, Biden, Biden.
	I'll miss him soon enough.
	I already miss Trump.
	Yeah, me too.
	It's going to look good.
	Phil Arlott.
	Carl, you liked a comment of mine yesterday on Gab.
	Must have been a good comment.
	At Phil Arlott.
	Your site is great.
	Premium membership is awesome.
	All the best from Wiltshire.
	Yeah, fellow Wiltshireite.
	It's good to be in the Shire, isn't it?
	Pagan Homeslice.
	We survived the establishment before and we shall survive them again!
	This time is going to be a lot more difficult because they are coming for us.
	They're wide awake.
	Yeah, they're on the march.
	The cathedral has lifted itself up out of the ground and is now hunting for victims.
	Ian B. started telling my leftist friends that if their current concerns are true, it's like having a brain tumour.
	The media are telling them to remove it with a shotgun and the Dems are selling them ammo.
	Not quite sure I understand that one, but...
	Sorry.
	Liberty Prime.
	Liberty Prime Online.
	Systems nominal.
	Communist insurrection of America detected.
	Patriotism subroutines engaged.
	Mission.
	The destruction of any and all Chinese communists.
	Defeat is not an option.
	Godspeed, Liberty Prime.
	I'll tell you what, man.
	Fallout 3 was amazing.
	Yeah.
	White Hawk.
	Fun fact.
	Robinette means kitchen sink in French.
	That is a fun fact.
	I suppose you say Robinette?
	Robinette, yeah.
	The Shadowblades.
	Atlas Shrugged is coming true.
	Just need the Strikers now.
	I never read Atlas Stroged.
	Me neither.
	I probably should.
	It's massive.
	It's absolutely massive.
	That's why I didn't bother.
	Student of history.
	I wonder if the media can get a bulk buy deal on KY Jelly with how quick and willing they were to spread their cheeks.
	I don't know what KY Jelly is.
	Doesn't sound good.
	Lube.
	Anthony Willis.
	Joe Biden has been in politics for the past 20.4% of America's existence.
	Yes.
	And look how much he's solved.
	Well, I mean, you know, he used to be very much against, you know, civil rights and gay people.
	Gave a speech at a member of the KKK who opposed it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The thing is, Joe Biden is old enough to have been part of the Democratic Party when it was the openly racist party.
	Now it's the covertly racist party, and he's still a part of it.
	Biden's inauguration summed up, everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
	Perfect.
	Absolutely perfect.
	They were told not to show up because a clear lack of support would have been clear.
	I know.
	Yeah, would have sucked for them, wouldn't it?
	Biden, progress through unity, unity through conformity, conformity through persecution.
	Yes.
	Farmer Mick here.
	My friend Rob Dunn, the lawyer, tried to do a farmer-based pun yesterday, but you didn't get it.
	Lawyers' puns lose their appeal.
	Ha ha ha.
	I actually get that one.
	Okay, I don't.
	You can appeal in a court case, but you won't.
	Ah, okay.
	The far-left nonces having standards.
	I suppose if me is a standard.
	Yeah.
	Good message from Baz there.
	Ha ha ha.
	Why do I get the feeling that we are going to get a Robin Hood diatribe set in this era?
	Derivative set.
	Derivative in this era.
	Good king removed and fought for, the evil king in power to fight for.
	It's actually a decent setup.
	Yeah, we need to become the Merry Men off in the woods.
	This is why we're going to have to build our own industries.
	There'll be the Greenwood, the Sherwood Forest, that we retreat to when we're fleeing from the Sheriff.
	Mick the Farmer only has cattle livestock on his farm.
	He actually has a sign at his gate that says, No sheep allowed.
	This means you.
	Do you know what a you is?
	I don't get the Mick the Farmer things.
	Do you know what a you is?
	No.
	It's a female sheep.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	I've just done classes for the week.
	My order of plastic crack, aka Dundon Kits.
	Gundam Kits.
	Gundam Kits.
	Arrived, and my favorite podcast is on.
	Oh yeah, it's coming together.
	That sounds like a good afternoon together.
	I like the Q memes as well.
	It's like, this is not how it happens.
	It's all coming to the plan.
	He gets elected, and then he enacts all the SJW stuff, and then it becomes...
	Yeah, I never really understood QAnon, to be honest.
	It was way too esoteric, but it's clearly off the rails and nonsense.
	It's all true.
	The plan is allowing Joe Biden to take over and the SJWs to ruin everything.
	That's not a very good plan.
	Putting every exit strategy that the illegitimate Democrat Party had was either careful planning or just sheer luck.
	I don't get it.
	Sorry.
	The left have uses for the word...
	Sorry.
	The left have uses...
	The left have used the word cause all the time and that's all the information you need, comrade.
	Biden visited Arlington to thank the last loyal voter base of the Democrats.
	Arlington Cemetery.
	We must work to force accountability to local levels and to ship of thesis it.
	Yes.
	Straight through unity, unity through faith, faith through the state.
	Joe Biden probably.
	All of these fascist slogans apply directly to Biden.
	I was thinking of starting my own credit and banking services to fight against the cathedral.
	What do you think?
	If it works, we will use it.
	Yeah, literally.
	But you're going to have to buy the property upon which you're going to build it, and then you're going to have to buy the servers that will connect it, and then you're going to have to own all these things.
	You're going to have to be off the leftist grid.
	That's the difficulty.
	They mustn't have a way of deplatforming you, basically.
	It's not like renewable energy.
	You can get off the electricity as well.
	Basically, yeah.
	Here's $5 on the MSN using this unity messaging to make dissenting opinions an enemy of the state for the next two years until the midterms.
	Yeah, they are.
	I'm glad I can't be recalled because I'm counting down the days until Biden starts the next war.
	Oh, it's only a matter of time.
	It's only a matter of time.
	You guys...
	Hang on, let's be clear about how this is going to be ginned up.
	It's going to be the SolarWinds cyber hack.
	That is going to be pinned on someone, and then that will be who Biden starts a war with, I think.
	You guys frequently refer to having sources in your podcast.
	What do you mean by this?
	Why are these sources so important?
	They make the podcast delicious.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	The historical equivalent of what is happening with Trump isn't Rome.
	It's the events surrounding Easter.
	Dems equals...
	Pharisees.
	I'll have to have a look, but I don't agree.
	I really think the Tiberius Caracas thing is...
	Really apt.
	Brian Allman.
	Biden is going with the Obama playbook of empty rhetoric at the top while the administrative state grinds America to the dust.
	Completely correct.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Ignore the name, you can't change it, but have you seen the MSN started going ham on anti-baddies?
	I assume that's meant to be Antifa?
	Yeah.
	The day after the inauguration is the first day I see the MSN calling out their riots and calling them by their name.
	Yeah.
	Because the Antifa were used as a tool against Trump.
	While it looked bad for Trump that these people were out rioting and looting and hurting people, then fine, let it carry on.
	Because they don't care about the average American at all who's affected by any of this.
	But no, it started affecting that.
	It started affecting Nancy Pelosi's house.
	It's all been a part of a political maneuver for the Democrats.
	Biden's speech was delisted because after 60,000 views, it had 13,000 dislikes.
	It was mentioned on Tim Pool's podcast.
	Love your Facebook trolling, by the way.
	Yeah, because obviously, and I should have promoted this, right.
	So what's our at on Twitter, for example, at lotusseeters underscore com?
	Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Minds, Gab, Instagram, BitChute, all of these other platforms, because like I said, one day these things won't be here.
	But also, we've got a chap called Ramvir, who's become our new social media manager, and he's doing a fantastic job.
	Not only posting our stuff, but posting interesting cultural things that you want to do.
	That we don't end up including in the podcast or in other places on the website.
	So it's just, you know, to get extra things that you may have missed that you may find interesting, follow us on all these things.
	And he's doing a great job, so...
	How do you know when the Chinese government is lying?
	They are moving their mouth.
	Yes.
	That would be my answer.
	Are Pompeo official prefects in Chinese press translate to enemy of the people?
	He's not a member of the media.
	Yeah.
	I want to be optimistic, but I doubt Zhao Baideng will unite.
	Yeah, I don't think he will.
	He's offering you two stacks.
	Why aren't you into it?
	Yeah.
	I mean, Trudeau, how does it feel, buddy?
	Yeah.
	Do you feel Brits in this corner of YouTube are suffering from the Gell-Man amnesia?
	I don't know what it is.
	When it comes to the US elections, irregularities.
	It seems like guys such as Trigonometry and Charles, I think Douglas Murray, not Charles Murray.
	Yeah, I think.
	Just go along with the MSN narratives.
	Yeah, I think that they're afraid of what happens if they challenge things.
	I don't know about Douglas.
	That's strange.
	Bronze Biden and Iron Toe Harris, not of Garden Metals.
	Not of Guardian Metals.
	All mixed up.
	You don't know what's what, and when the next thing, turn around, you'll find a person is you.
	Huh.
	Alexander Cross.
	Remove our ability to complain and we lash out that we get into I have no mouth and I'm a screen territory quickly.
	Yeah.
	Gay Rascal says damnatio memoriae.
	Yeah, that's what's going to happen to Trump.
	That's definitely what they're doing to Trump.
	Henry Ashman, Biden's approach to unity seems to be the same as Grand Moff Tarkin's approach to removing all crime and Alderaan.
	Oof.
	No, no to give.
	Regarding the laptop, see the chapter on thieves in Gulak Archipelago.
	The state didn't care if you stole from the proletariat, only if you stole from the state.
	Yeah, the administrative state grinding the American people into dust is exactly the perfect description, as someone else had given, about what Biden is going to be like.
	And you're exactly right.
	They don't care if you'd stolen your neighbor's laptop.
	They care that you stole Pelosi's laptop, you bloody plebeian.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	Yeah, I mean, you don't know Cassandra, do you?
	No.
	No.
	Okay.
	Pretty awful, isn't it?
	I know what's going to happen to you.
	Yeah, I don't believe you.
	And then it happens so well.
	There we go.
	MB Mephisto says, that's because the children being trafficked will now go straight to Biden.
	Well, I'm afraid I have to disavow that.
	Obvious fact.
	Alexander Cross, my pronouns are His Royal Majesty and His Majestic Highness, and I feel insulted that they're not included.
	Exactly.
	Nookie Bear says, big shout out to yourself and Robbie, a work friend who's helped Red Pill me keep up the good work.
	Mucho love from Leeds.
	Thank you very much.
	Shake Silver says, Biden loves immigrants so much he set up an eight-year path to citizenship to keep them as second-class citizens and to inflate census numbers for more reps.
	Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it?
	It's an eight-year path.
	So that keeps them on the hook for a long time and keeps them in line, doesn't it?
	And presumably voting Democrat.
	Galacta Watkins says, interested in your thoughts between autism and transgenderism?
	As an autist myself, I think there's a lot more here than people currently know.
	I actually don't know anything about any potential links between autism and transgenderism.
	We had that one case in Brighton where it was a class of 30 autistic people, and what was it, like 20 of them?
	Yeah, the only...
	We didn't know if that was the teachers doing something.
	Yeah, I don't know if there's a biological link or anything, or whether it's just these are vulnerable people who are being groomed into it by activists, which the latter would be my thoughts.
	They have a high rate of gender dysphoria, John tells me.
	But again, I don't know whether that's actually real or if that's actually, they've just been told that that's what the case is.
	But anyway, Intentionally Blank says, We need to end the stigma where criticism of America's greatest ally is allowed to be called hate speech by the ADL.
	Biden is 100% a Zionist.
	Sure.
	I mean, I think criticism of Israel should be open.
	I don't think he's a Zionist, actually.
	I think he's anti-Israel.
	He probably is.
	But the thing is, the ADL just call everything anti-Semitism.
	I mean, they asked Andrew Torber, the owner of Gab, for a comment the other day, and he was like, I'm not giving you a comment, Jesus is king.
	And they're like, oh, look at this blatant anti-Semitism.
	They said the phrase Jesus is king is evidence of anti-Semitism.
	Yeah, so being a Christian is evidence of antisemitism.
	So what isn't evidence?
	Not serious people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Not serious people, yeah.
	Tom says, given all the complaints that Trump didn't work with the transition team, how did Biden change all these things so fast?
	Well, they've got control of these things now.
	A lot of these were just executive orders, so he would just sign a bunch of stuff, and obviously he was able to get access to things like the website and the YouTube channel, so the transition team couldn't have been too obstructive.
	MuteStream says, Yeah, I did too.
	AcroTumOfTops says, I don't know whether I'm supposed to be insulted by that.
	Joe Black says, Boris sounds like Bugs Bunny.
	Bloopity, bloopity, that's all, folks.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Alex Alexandru says, My heart's with Caesar in the grave.
	Shaker Silver says, Read Greenwald's new article on the new domestic war on terror.
	It's not Republicans versus leftists.
	It's neolibs using both to stoke fear and gain power.
	Undoubtedly is.
	And Greenwald's probably right.
	I haven't read it, but he's undoubtedly right about that.
	And it's going to be patriots versus globalists.
	That's the new front.
	Grant Thompson for 50 Canadian dollary-dos.
	Thank you.
	Boris is responding in turn to the fact that an important trade partner is vindictive and completely willing to cut trade ties based on bad press.
	If Boris jeopardised the British economy for a jab at Biden, I'm sure people would be more livid.
	And that is actually a really good point and a really fair one.
	But I think that Boris has to understand that Biden actually does hate Britain.
	And I think this comes from him believing himself to be an Irishman.
	And therefore believing that the Irish are supposed to be bigoted against the Brits, and therefore screw England.
	Mostly Peaceful Fascist says, Here in New Zealand, institutional racism is being used to dismantle universal healthcare in favour of ethno-socialism.
	I have not been paying attention to New Zealand at all.
	Charles Eccles says nearly 8,000 people in the US died from COVID today under Joe Biden's leadership, making it the deadliest first day of any US president.
	Well, Biden's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic is definitely something to which he should be held accountable.
	Do you want to go for this one?
	Drizzet, in Magos voice, that is a man.
	Definitely was.
	Leftists can't explain why racism is bad.
	Humans have inherent dignity, and race is insignificant to that dignity.
	They, of course, value people based on race.
	Yeah, I mean, this is an age-old Democrat problem.
	Leftist problem, I should say.
	Zero tolerance.
	I had a dream about Carl.
	He gave me Belle Delphine tights, and we played basketball.
	It was romantic.
	Disavow.
	Yeah, that also sounds nice, though.
	I like playing basketball.
	I haven't played basketball in years.
	I'd probably be terrible at it now.
	Does Belfeld Delphine sell tights?
	I don't know.
	She'd make a lot of money if she didn't.
	I don't doubt.
	Not that she needs any more.
	Yeah, how many mansions does one lady need?
	Gareth Green.
	June never disavowed her stance on the gender wage gap.
	She just seems to believe in the class wage gap.
	She's not as radical as you make out.
	She stated that she's a social democrat, not a narco-communist.
	Well, I did say to her, you know, like, you're going to end up being a communist.
	She said never and then deleted the never tweet.
	She tweeted the other day that she was a socialist, not a social democrat.
	Well, there we go.
	But that's not even really the point.
	It's just if you can see the problem with the SJWs is their way of thinking is nonsensical with the wage gap as an example.
	Well, then why does this not apply to every other part of economics they ever talk about?
	Because it's not about economics for them.
	It's about a moral system for them.
	Also, I think a lot of it is about fitting in as well.
	There's a label of left that these people are desperate to cling to, which I find kind of weird.
	I don't know why.
	To me, the label of left is dripping with disgusting slime.
	I wouldn't want someone calling me left at this point.
	Like, I don't even really like the label right.
	No.
	That's why I don't really consider myself.
	Oh yeah, that's why right, you know.
	I don't really consider myself to be part of either camp, but at the moment the right wingers are far, far less insane than the left.
	Like, they'll leave you alone.
	Yeah.
	They're not evil.
	They might be stuffy and boring sometimes.
	They're not battering me over the head with the Bible saying you must believe in the ideology in the same way that progressives do.
	We're going to ruin your life if you don't say that Jesus is king.
	Basically, you know, it's like...
	Like, Andrew Torber's not saying that.
	No.
	He's like, just leave me alone to say Jesus is king.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, you say it all day, mate.
	I don't care, you know?
	Vanta Blackberry Jim says, I thought Phil Spector was dead.
	I don't know who Phil Spector is, I'm afraid.
	Ryan Ibarra says, the new health secretary looks like a scientist from Independence Day.
	Aliens confirmed...
	That's true!
	Fred Spiner, Data, Commander Data played that.
	Aliens confirmed.
	Is Biden getting ready for a Galactic Republic attack?
	No doubt.
	The engaged few says, the bleeding eye of Sauron has fallen upon the land.
	All hail our woke overlords.
	Yes, indeed.
	Nicholas Fitzgerald says, 11,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. due to the Keystone Line being cancelled yesterday.
	Thanks, Biden.
	The International Labour Organization says, another 6 million jobs are projected to be lost globally as a result of the U.S. rejoining the Paris Climate Accord.
	He's just making the world a better place, folks.
	This is what social justice looks like.
	You ever looked into the Paris Climate Accords?
	No, I never did.
	A little boring.
	I'm not massively interested in it either, but from the green people I've even watched talking about it, they think it's crap.
	Because the thing was, the Americans came up and were like, right, we're willing to sacrifice this amount of our economy to save the planet, to lower pollution and blah, blah, blah.
	And we want all of you to sign an agreement as well to say that you'll do X amount.
	And China just gave them the finger, right?
	China, Pakistan, everyone else is just like, blah, mal, are you this stupid?
	Just telling them, yeah, we promised to do what we're already doing.
	You know, signed China.
	And then everyone else did it.
	So when the Americans pulled out, you know, Trump's saying, hang on, you guys haven't done your fair share, so we're leaving.
	He was made to look the bad guy.
	Unbelievable.
	So all that's happening here is Biden is turning up and saying, yeah, I'm willing to go back to sacrificing it in return for nothing.
	I'm willing to help promote the Chinese Communist Party's interests around the world.
	Signed, Joe Biden.
	Mechanized Manifesto says, if they were willing to you-know-what an election, is it beyond belief they wouldn't fake a birth certificate?
	Is this about the Obama thing?
	I still haven't seen it.
	Didn't Hillary Clinton start the birtherism?
	I don't know.
	I'm pretty sure that it was during the primaries or something like that that she brought it up first and Trump latched onto it and went wild with it.
	I don't know.
	That meme magic tells me it's true.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If it's not true, it should be true.
	Lapse of Apathy says, yes, exactly.
	We need parallel economies, period.
	Honestly, even parallel currency, too.
	For instance, crypto.
	Yeah, I mean, it's not just we need them.
	We have to have them.
	Otherwise, we're going to find ourselves deplatformed everywhere and totally under the heel of the left wing.
	And they're not going to be merciful towards you.
	Radio TV Brave Browser has just announced an IFPS support, which is a blockchain-based web server.
	Maybe worth looking into is not even domains can be censored.
	I mean, that sounds awesome.
	We all use Brave Browser.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, I use Brave as well.
	Carl Leggett says, hey, you eaters of the lotus, as much as I love the idea of a non-woke patriot bank, I prefer the idea of being your own bank through cryptocurrencies.
	Sure, and maybe that will work for you, but that won't work for my mum, or my dad, or any of the normies who are walking around.
	But if they can, you know, use their phones to go to an online bank, then that will work for them.
	And if that online bank isn't going to persecute them for having wrong thoughts, all the better.
	What part of the planet actually can you live just on cryptocurrency so far?
	It doesn't work.
	I'd love for us to be 30 years in the future where it can work and I can pay my bills on it, but I can't.
	Bobby Collins.
	Everyone a part of the Lotus Seaters podcast are predominantly white.
	The host?
	White.
	The co-host?
	White.
	Hugo?
	White.
	No simping.
	Video questioners?
	White.
	That Asian guy?
	White.
	The purple waiting screen?
	White.
	Yeah, Ranveer?
	White.
	Like, there's a thing, right?
	There's a...
	I didn't think about this when hiring everyone, but I was thinking about this the other day.
	We have actually got a really diverse office, and I really didn't mean for that to be the case.
	I wasn't planning, right?
	Fuck!
	I'm just saying, if we're white supremacists, we're really bad at it.
	But the point is, that's not why we hired any of the people.
	No, it was hired on competence.
	Yeah, and things I didn't even get to choose, basically.
	I'm running it past Vicky and John about who we hire, basically.
	But yeah, I know it's terrible, isn't it?
	What's the guy's name?
	The dude that they're parodying.
	Hamza Youssef.
	Hamza Youssef must be furious.
	Justin Dubé, can you say one good thing about Biden?
	Yeah, I mean, I can say a lot of good things.
	He's a tremendous actor.
	Tremendous actor.
	I've never seen acting abilities like Joe Biden's.
	You know, I mean, if you're going to be a corrupt, embezzling politician, having like a 40-year career of doing it without getting impeached or removed or arrested, that's impressive.
	That's very impressive.
	But I mean, on a serious note, I don't doubt that Joe Biden loves his family, right?
	The affection he has for his family seems sincere.
	He seems to love his family.
	Even though he's a terrible father, he seems to genuinely love his family.
	So yeah, sure, I can say a good thing about Biden.
	The problem is, why would I bother when there are so many bad things that no one else is saying about Joe Biden?
	I was going to make a joke about the crime bill, but I'm not.
	Julian Frachtman says, thoughts on Krista Stanton, Georgia, and the man who stole Pelosi's hard drive and suicided by hunting rifle shots to the chest.
	I don't know if that's true, that he stole Pelosi's hard drive, because the only thing I heard about being stalled really was the laptop, and that was a lady who stole it.
	But I don't know.
	The guy who commits suicide by, yeah, shooting himself in the chest.
	With a rifle.
	Really suspicious.
	I don't think any answers will ever be found on it either.
	Anyway, Ian Inkster says, remember the ban Trump from the UK debate?
	Yep.
	Start a parliament petition to debate the ban of Biden from the UK because naked support of Antifa.
	To be honest with you, like the other comments said...
	We're going to need the trade, and we're going to have to go in a minute, so we'll do a couple more and then we'll have to go, I'm afraid.
	The Great Indoors, 1979.
	Carl, please try to interview Peter Schiff.
	Make sure the starting your own bank is one of the topics.
	He's been hinting about running for president, but in my opinion, he would serve as a more effective role as based banker.
	Kate Plants Plus Two says, think they've figured out that they were useful idiots to the Dems?
	Perhaps today they finally found out they've been demoted to?
	Well, just idiots.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I think they're going to find that out one day.
	They've surely got to figure it out.
	Brandon McGregor says, I argued with a 17-year-old socialist about communism, and he said, sorry, communalism, and he said, we would need to re-educate people.
	Yes, you would.
	Also, what do you think about Kanzek UK? Sorry, Kanzek.
	Love from Australia.
	Well, I mean, it looks like the Anglosphere is spiralling out of control into degenerate wokeism, so I don't see what good it would do at the moment.
	Brad P., reading lessons for Callum?
	Yes.
	MuteStream, get frigging glasses, goddammit.
	Eric Dieter, their target is those in the centre?
	That's correct.
	and the center will not be able to hold.
	Hi, sorry, still love the name.
	Which edition of meditations are you using for review?
	Which translation would you recommend?
	I haven't got it to hand.
	I actually left it at home, so I can't go and check.
	I don't know is the answer.
	It was just one I ordered.
	I'm sure they'll all basically be the same.
	But yeah, the next book club, which hopefully, I mean, honestly, probably next month now will be the next book club, but it'll be Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
	But you can check out our previous book clubs.
	The last one was Locke's Second Treatise on Government, which I think is remarkably relevant at the moment.
	Mostly Peaceful Fascist says, already talk of returning democracy to Venezuela.
	Oh, good news.
	Good news.
	Crazed in Days says, return Glass-Steagall.
	I'm pretty sure that Joe Biden opposed that.
	Cedric Purcell says, if you guys are going to do movie analysis, you guys should check out The World's End, a great brick comedy with a great monologue about freedom.
	Not really doing movie analysis.
	Not at the moment, but I mean, one day I'd like to be able to do.
	Lord Kelvin says, honoured to be able to make the first contribution towards Callum's English GCSE fund.
	I got a C. Fuck off.
	Greg O'Neill.
	By a lot of help, that's how I got it.
	Hi chaps, I've signed up to bronze on premium.
	If you stop saying cathedral, I'll upgrade to silver.
	Thing is, I don't see a better term to describe this organised movement that is acting in a coordinated way.
	Cathedral's actually a really good way of describing it.
	And so I don't know what else to see.
	But I want to be able to characterize the interplay between the activists, the academics, the media, and the left politicians.
	I want to be able to summarize them in one go because you can see how they move.
	You can see that they'll react to each other as if they've been given orders.
	But anyway, we'll go for one more and then we'll go.
	Sorry we're not going to be reading out others, but we'll be here all day, I'm afraid.
	Joe Woodland, my friends and I are doing a pre-Biden war sweepstake location in time frame.
	We'll see if I win with Israel in eight months.
	I don't think Biden's going to be declaring war on Israel in eight months.
	I think it's going to be Russia in August six months.
	We'll go for that.
	What are you going to go for?
	The sweepstakes, where Biden is going to invade.
	The country will invade in X number of months.
	I would say Syria, but it's kind of over.
	Like, it's done.
	Yeah, but there's no...
	I mean, the civil war in Libya is still going on.
	Yeah.
	I feel like the Americans...
	I mean, because they're on the run.
	The Russians are actually winning there.
	Oh, are they?
	I've been paying attention.
	That would actually be...
	I'm going to say Libya, because Libya is still going on, and it's somewhere they should win.
	Actually.
	I mean, if you're going to topple to Gaddafi and cause this much trouble, at least do the right thing and take it over.
	Well, it's better than having Putin in charge.
	Well, I agree.
	I agree.
	But, like, I don't see them doing anything to the benefit of the Libyans.
	No, but, you know, neither was Gaddafi.
	Neither was anyone ever.
	Neither were the Italians before them and the Romans before them.
	I've actually got quite a good line of Gaddafi apologia.
	Oh, do you?
	Yeah, I do, actually, yeah.
	Just start your own bank.
	Well, being the abject communist that he was, he at least did some things.
	Despite being a communist, he actually did a few things that were actually half-decent, like the Great Underground River was one of them.
	Do you know about it?
	No.
	He created a bunch of aqueducts that drew water out from under the desert, brought to the surface, so cities could actually be built in areas where there was no water.
	And he redistributed the oil money from the state's oil fund to people.
	So there are actually some things that he did.
	Oh yeah, he's better than what's going on, doesn't he?
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you look at what's happening now, and you're like, okay, well, I would have preferred to live under Ganaf.
	I mean, when a couple got married, they got 50 grand to buy a house.
	Now, I mean, that's communist nonsense, but like...
	It's better than the alternative, right?
	Your anarchy is worse than communism.
	The communists have got us there.
	Yeah, okay, yeah.
	Hands up.
	If you can pull oil money out of the ground and you give it to people...
	Your standards and your system of government is better than literally nothing.
	But that's it.
	It doesn't really...
	Jihadist warlords fighting over your territory or being given some free money by the government.
	But you have to praise Gaddafi day and night.
	Fine, whatever.
	Maybe I'd even want to.
	The chat's saying Iran, but I don't buy it.
	I think he'll go back into the Iran deal and basically give Iran money.
	He said he would.
	Yeah, he said he would.
	And with the North Koreans, he's going to do nothing.
	With the Chinese, he'll do nothing.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, folks, if you'd like more from us, you can go to Loses.com.
	Honestly, I really do recommend the Gracchi article by Bo.
	It's really fantastic.
	I actually asked him to write that for us, and he did a brilliant job of it, because I didn't have the time to write it myself, basically.
	But yeah, go to Loses.com.

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