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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #52

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters for Friday, the 22nd of January, 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum, and today we're going to be talking about the continual remaking of the world by Joe Biden and his administration.
	But before we do, I just want to let you know that we have a new premium podcast up on lotuses.com, which is The Ethics of Social Justice.
	Now, I've had lots of comments on this.
	Some of them Basically complaining that I wasn't clarifying some of the things I said.
	And that's kind of true.
	I did kind of jump in at the deep end and assume a few things that maybe I shouldn't have assumed.
	So what I'll probably do next week is create a part two of this to answer a bunch of the comments that have been left on the video.
	Because they're really good comments, really good quality comments to explain and clarify and rebut one or two.
	But anyway, let's...
	I've come up with a bit of a counter-argument as well, but I'll save it for part two.
	Okay, well, like I said, it's not even necessarily so much an argument, it's just this is the way I think that ethical system works, and this is the ethical framework I think it's grounded on, and we can carry on drawing it through other events that have happened, but I don't want to get into it now, but we'll do it next week.
	Anyway...
	So, let's get into what we're going to talk about today.
	Now, today I think that we really have to, to me, this very much looks like Heinlein was right.
	Heinlein, in his prediction on what would happen in the 20th century in the book Starship Troopers, I think is actually completely right.
	And I think what we've seen with Joe Biden is what he described as the revolt of the scientists.
	I'm just going to quote a very, very brief bit of the book where he talks about it, because I think it's really pertinent.
	I think it really applies to what we're seeing now.
	The quote is, servicemen are not brighter than civilians.
	In many cases, civilians are much more intelligent.
	That was the sliver of justification underlying the attempted coup d'etat just before the Treaty of New Delhi, the so-called revolt of the scientists.
	Let the intelligent elite run things and you'll have utopia.
	It fell flat on its foolish face, of course, because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is not itself a social virtue.
	Its practitioners can be men so self-centred as to be lacking in social responsibility.
	Now, in the universe of Starship Troopers, what he predicted would happen would be the collapse of society.
	The social sciences, as a quote from Radcheck from the movie, brought the world to the brink of collapse, and then you had the veterans, who had the...
	The West had lost the war after this, and the veterans in the collapsed society into combat roving gangs of Black Lives Matter supporters, presumably, looters and burners and murderers, rose up and established a new form of government that was essentially limited only to veterans, which became the kind of incorporated service guarantee citizenship model of the Federation.
	That was Heinlein's prediction in Starship Troopers.
	I mean, obviously I can't say what's going to happen in the future, but I think what we're witnessing now is some kind of revolt of the scientists, because I guess we'll just ignore the question of how they came to power, but they seem to have a mission.
	To remake society in what they believe to be the perfect way.
	And I think that's what Biden is trying to usher in.
	So let's watch the first clip.
	Pay attention to the...
	This is just to highlight...
	So sorry, this came from Biden's inauguration of swearing and of presidential appointees, which he did, of course, in a virtual ceremony done by Zoom, right?
	So set the scene.
	It's not people in a room.
	It's not people holding their hands up or anything like that.
	It's people via a Zoom call, which can be more perfect for this kind of setup.
	But pay attention to the sort of things that they're saying.
	Some of you have worked in government before and thought perhaps your days of service were behind you until finding yourselves in this moment of national need.
	Right.
	So this.
	Some of these people are new, obviously, but there's a long, contiguous nature of cooperation and working together with these people.
	But notice the moment of dire national need.
	That is important.
	Because the reporting has been that Biden's entering office with four crises that he has to address, one of them being the coronavirus, which is what we're going to have to talk about in a minute, incidentally.
	But obviously, systemic racism and international chaos because of Trump pulling out various international deals, climate crisis, and blah, blah, blah, right?
	So they have arrived at this point thinking that essentially they're here to save the world.
	They're here to save America, the American people, and the world itself, which is a pretty grandiose thing to imbue yourself with, a mission to imbue yourself with, when you're going forward and into doing these things.
	Right, let's watch clip two.
	Having worked in government, I know that no public servant does this work alone.
	So I would like to welcome and acknowledge the friends and family of all our appointees who will support the work ahead.
	And now it is my honor and privilege to introduce a true public servant, for whom I was so lucky to first work for more than three decades ago, who will administer the oath of office, the President of the United States.
	Right.
	So, it's a big club, and you ain't in it.
	It's also a very old club, and they've all worked together for a very long time.
	They're not interested in your opinion, they're going to dictate the correct opinion down to you, and you're going to hear it.
	There was more than a thousand people in that call, so you can see the extent of the branches of the network.
	But this is one of the things that Joe Biden says, and he does have a kind of sincerity about him that makes me think that maybe he does believe this as well.
	It wouldn't surprise me that given the intellectual atmosphere in which Biden and his administration appear to be operating, that this would be something they actually believe.
	Let's watch.
	We've reached a point, in my view, where the American people have had sort of the blinders have been taken off.
	They've been taken off and realized, they didn't realize before, just how much systemic racism still exists.
	Because they didn't live in circumstances where they were with large minority populations, whatever the background was.
	And all of a sudden, they see what happened to George Floyd, with his nose being pushed up against the curb, suffocating to death and murdered.
	And they said, my God, that really happens.
	The interesting way he's framed that, they don't live in areas with large minority populations, as in Democrat voting areas, and in the Democrat voting areas, systemic racism still exists, as according to Joe Biden, and the Republicans just didn't realise because they don't think their areas are racist.
	Interesting condemnation.
	But as you can see, it's the full-on social justice agenda.
	I think they do believe that this narrative about George Floyd is true.
	I think they...
	I actually think George Floyd is some kind of saint.
	And Joe Biden seems to be completely in, fully committed.
	This I found to be an entertaining clip to tell you about the kind of just the things that are just on his mind, right?
	Just the way he'll just, oh, I've got an anecdote for you.
	Listen to the anecdote.
	I was asked a long time ago when I was with Xi Jinping and I was in on the Tibetan plateau with him.
	And he asked me in a private dinner, he and I, and we each had an interpreter.
	He said, can you define America for me?
	And I said, yes, and I meant it.
	I said, I can do it in one word.
	One word.
	Possibilities.
	Possibilities.
	We believe anything's possible if we set our mind to it.
	Unlike any other country in the world.
	Possibilities.
	You're my possibilities.
	You're the way we're going to get this done.
	So just chilling out with Xi Jinping in Tibet, you know, a country occupied by China, just been like, okay, so what's America about?
	Well, possibilities, presumably possibilities for a third stack, you know, like it just, but this is the, who has anecdotes?
	They're just like, yeah, I was just hanging out with a Chinese dictator who's genociding his people.
	That the American government still officially haven't rescinded this allegation of genocide.
	If you had to pick a word, you wouldn't pick possibilities.
	Any foreigner could tell you what America's about.
	It's about freedom.
	Yes, obviously.
	But freedom, possibilities, you can suggest that that's predicated on the idea of freedom.
	The possibilities could be endless because of the freedom the Americans have.
	I don't actually object to that.
	I object to the fact that he's just...
	The government of the United States has just declared Xi Jinping to be a genocidal warlord.
	And he's just like, yeah, so I was hanging out with Xi Jinping.
	Hold on there.
	That was the previous administration.
	Sorry, that was just the evidence of the accumulated...
	The current administration said nothing about them being genocidal.
	They have not yet.
	But they are willing to give us an anecdote where he's just hanging out with this genocidal maniac.
	And he was just like, well, we were just chatting.
	And I got my third stack.
	But yeah, so the thing that I find very interesting about that is, like, I imagine if Winston Churchill, like, had just been inaugurated as Prime Minister, and he was just like, yeah, so I was hanging out with Adolf Hitler, and he was like, what's Britain about?
	And I was just like, well, possibilities, you know?
	And it was like, yeah, that was just really interesting.
	We were hanging out in occupied Paris, you know?
	And it's like, what's Britain about?
	Neville Chamberlain.
	No, Neville Chamberlain, yeah, yeah.
	I actually hung out with him.
	Yes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, so that's...
	I just can't get over the lack of self-awareness and the lack of awareness of how that might look in light of absolutely everything that's come out.
	It's a weird commitment to the narrative.
	But let's go from the last clip I pulled out of this, because this one was the one that everyone was like, what about...
	We have such an awful lot to do, but I know you.
	I know your heart, your dedication, your commitment to this nation.
	And I know you can do it.
	And we're going to do it by leading with one core American value, humility and trust, collegiality, diversity, competency and family.
	And I want to thank your families for the sacrifices.
	I just want to be clear, right, to my American friends and listeners who are paying attention at the moment.
	Humility is not what people associate with America, but that's the good thing about America is that people don't associate humility with it.
	The thing I like about America is the boldness in the values of freedom and liberty.
	And constitutionalism.
	These things are America's great gift to the world.
	These are what are great about America and what actually makes America exceptional.
	And you've seen him already claiming that America is exceptional in its possibilities.
	And it is because of this lack of humility that America is able to do this.
	But, I mean, it's not a country I'm exactly quite humble.
	But notice how, like, that doesn't sound like America, does it, right?
	That sounds like someone from the European Union talking.
	You know, that's the sort of values and, again, kind of empty but, like, hollow, high-minded rhetoric that comes out of the European Union, where they say that they're doing these things for these wonderful and very abstract terms that don't really map onto anything that anyone can actually see.
	And again, you've seen what is essentially a group of experts, the professionals, the scientists, who are promising us utopia.
	As Heinlein said, I don't think we're going to get it.
	But he's also going to be doing some enforced tolerance.
	One of the things that got widely reported here is that Biden told staff he would fire them on the spot if they showed disrespect to colleagues.
	It's like, dude, you're calling half the country white nationalists at the moment?
	What do you consider to be disrespect?
	Yeah.
	But yeah, so obviously, core American values, humility and trust, and enforcing tolerance, which is actually, again, not really what I would consider to be American values at all.
	But the point is, it is a big club, and you ain't in it, as George Carlin said.
	And the way that this was, I think, most brought home to me, or at least one of them, was the way that Fauci addressed the press when they were like, oh, you know, welcome back, Dr.
	Fauci, because he kept having to lock horns with Trump because Fauci would say something technocratic and Trump would say something heroic.
	And that was essentially the two sort of impulses that were butting heads.
	And Trump being the president obviously superseded Fauci when it came to decision making.
	But just watch this.
	How much different do you feel?
	Less constrained?
	For so many times you stood up behind the podium with Donald Trump standing behind you.
	That was a different feeling, I'm sure, than it is today.
	Can you talk a little bit about how you feel kind of released from what you had been doing for the last year?
	Yeah, but you said I was joking about it.
	I was very serious about it.
	I wasn't joking.
	Still having a big laugh.
	They just don't care.
	No mask.
	No mask.
	Having a big joke.
	I mean, that's federal property.
	I'm pretty sure he should be wearing a mask.
	There was a mask mandate, which we'll get to in a minute.
	Small room as well, that press room.
	Small room as well, yeah.
	But the point is the press and the administration will know each other.
	They've all worked with each other.
	Doubtless, many of them were involved in Hillary Clinton's campaign, flew on her jet as her personal press corps, and they're glad that Fauci's back and they know how Fauci feels.
	You felt oppressed by Donald Trump, didn't you, Dr.
	Fauci?
	Ha ha!
	I wasn't joking about it either.
	Ha ha ha!
	Great.
	And so I think that the kind of mania that the scientists are going to be engaging in...
	I like Richard Dawkins.
	I like the fact that he was prepared to stand up to feminists.
	Since Trump got into office, the scientists have found themselves in an insane, deranged position.
	Look at what he said here.
	The US president has the single most important job in the world.
	Today we wake up to a hugely better, brighter, more hopeful world with a president who, whatever shortcomings may emerge, is at least not a lying, self-enriching, vain, lazy, incompetent, unqualified scoundrel.
	Every single thing that he said there applies to Biden, and I can tell you why, right?
	He's not lying.
	Yes, he is.
	He's openly lying.
	He's lied about lots of things.
	I mean, do we need a list?
	Do we need a list of, you know, I didn't do anything in Ukraine.
	I mean, he said he wasn't going to ban fracking in Pennsylvania, and I believe that he's done that, or he plans to do that.
	Now he's in office.
	He's given his word that, yes, don't worry, I will.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's not like we don't have enough examples of Joe Biden lying.
	There's probably web pages.
	Self-enriching?
	Yeah, self-enriching.
	Well, that's an interesting one, because that's something Trump isn't.
	He's lost money while in office.
	Joe Biden, over his many, many years, has only gained in office.
	Well, exactly.
	I mean, A, we know that he's the big guy that Hunter Biden was getting 10% for.
	where he got his two stacks and that bought him a massive private jet.
	So the idea that Biden has itself enriched while in office, not just him, but his family, remember the board of Burisma that Hunter Biden's on, the fact that he got three and a half million from the mayor of Moscow's wife for reasons unknown, and of course the millions that he got from China, as Tony Bobulinski told us, Hunter's business partner, we know that as Tony Bobulinski told us, Hunter's business partner, we know that he has been entirely self-enriching, right?
	His salary as a senator and congressman and blah, blah, blah does not pay for that plane.
	No, it does not pay for that plane.
	Vain?
	Well, I mean...
	Both of them are.
	I don't really care.
	Yeah, but I don't really care.
	But I mean, you know, a person who isn't vain doesn't get hair implants.
	Sorry, but you lost all your hair back in your 40s, Mr.
	Biden.
	What's this bit on the top?
	And it's all bald at the back, but he's had an implant in the front.
	So don't give me that they're not vain.
	That is vanity.
	I'm not even judging.
	One day I'll probably get hair implants myself.
	But don't say that it's not vain, right?
	Lazy?
	Man.
	Look at Biden's campaign.
	Look at Biden's presidential campaign.
	I don't even think that's laziness.
	That's just seniority.
	It's laziness, right?
	If you can't go out...
	Trump is almost as old as Biden.
	He was pounding the dirt.
	Lazy would mean you'd be able to do it and then don't out of choice.
	I'm not even sure if he could.
	No, I think that we've got to assume that Biden could.
	Otherwise, why were they even running him?
	He's been taking Alex Jones' male vitality pills.
	Exactly.
	And he just didn't.
	There's no reason...
	And the thing is, why wasn't Kamala Harris out pounding the beat then?
	You know, lazy.
	That's why.
	Unless, of course, they knew something we didn't know in advance.
	But incompetent and unqualified, we can just summarize those as Joe Biden's...
	The lying thing as well.
	The lazy thing.
	There are so many things.
	Like him stealing speeches and stuff like this.
	There are so many things.
	But yeah, incompetent and unqualified.
	Joe Biden lying about his qualifications.
	Oh, I came top of my class as a lawyer.
	And then whatever school it was just came out and said, no, he didn't.
	He was basically at the bottom.
	He was just not true.
	He's incompetent.
	He is unqualified or basically unqualified.
	I love the last one.
	Scoundrel.
	A very British upper class, isn't it?
	It is.
	Scoundrel has made it into the office.
	But I think after all of these things that we've managed to point out, I think that person qualifies as a scoundrel.
	Like, without a doubt.
	So the idea that Richard Dawkins thinks that these things don't apply to Joe Biden is insane.
	And we've seen the same sort of derangement with Sam Harris.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	Sam Harris.
	Like, again, I like Sam Harris.
	I have, like, I like and respect Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.
	Or I did until they started talking about Donald Trump.
	And I was like, oh my god, what is wrong with you?
	Like, Sam Harris being like, Donald Trump is personally everything I would, you know, the opposite of everything I would like to be.
	And it's like, okay.
	Okay, then just don't worry about it.
	That's not you.
	You don't even have to vote for him or support him.
	Just get some perspective.
	There are obviously some virtues that he has.
	Otherwise, he wouldn't have millions of supporters and he wouldn't have become the president.
	You don't have to like it.
	Joe Biden obviously has some virtues that has enabled him to get this point.
	He's a lying, self-enriching, vain, lazy, incompetent, and unqualified scoundrel.
	And if you do that enough, to an effective enough degree, then you can become president too.
	The big difference between Biden and Trump is the fact that Biden's a career politician.
	Trump came out of goddamn nowhere and took the thing.
	Absolutely, like the Gracchi article that Beau put up yesterday.
	And so yeah, so basically I think the scientists are all thrilled because Joe Biden is going to rule like a kind of Napoleonic EU autocrat.
	And they're thrilled about it.
	And so what I'd like to do is just move into Biden's foreshadowing.
	Now, the events of the past day, I think, are essentially foreshadowing of what's to come.
	And I think there's an awful lot of it.
	And I think it is the fact that these things have happened so quickly after Biden has just moved into office and then instantly it's back to not only business as usual, but more insufferable business as usual.
	I guess we'll just begin with Biden's Cesar Chavez bust, right?
	So as the Washington Post reports, each president goes in and changes the Oval Office decor in some way, right?
	This is not unusual, but what's strange are the people that Biden has put in.
	So, I mean, you've got the busts of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, which probably were there under Trump, to be honest.
	A painting of Benjamin Franklin is intended to represent Biden's interest in following science.
	But Biden, he also has a bust of Cesar Chavez.
	And Trump installed the bust of Winston Churchill after Obama had taken it out.
	And Biden has removed the bust of Winston Churchill.
	And I don't even know if he actually, maybe this is the one he replaced, in fact.
	But Biden has removed it.
	So the question is, who is Cesar Chavez?
	Because I didn't really know, right?
	I'd heard the name in passing, but I never looked into it.
	So I just looked at his Wikipedia page.
	And Wikipedia says, ideologically, his worldview combined leftist politics with Roman Catholic social teachings.
	So really, really theocratic socialism.
	Is that good?
	Is that what the left wants?
	I guess that's what the left wants, right?
	According to his leadership style section, he felt that he had to be both the leader and organizer in chief of his movement because only he had the necessary commitment to the cause.
	He was interested in power and how to use it.
	Although his role model in this was Gandhi, he also studied ideas about power by Machiavelli, Hitler, and Mao Zedong.
	He drew ideas from each.
	Is that good?
	What ideas from Adolf Hitler did César Chávez adopt?
	I'm very curious, right?
	His use of purges to expel people from his movement was influenced by Mao's Cultural Revolution.
	Oh, that's good.
	And he opened a 1978 board meeting by reciting a poem by Mao.
	His leadership style was authoritarian.
	He stated that when he launched his movement, he initially had absolute total power over it.
	A chap called Bruns characterised the union under Chavez as an autocratic regime.
	Ex-members of the group described Chavez as a dictator within the union.
	He felt unable to share the responsibilities of running his movement with others.
	Well, that's such an inspirational figure for Joe Biden to replace Winston Churchill with.
	Like, what a great guy.
	Oh, who's this?
	Well, a Tim Pott dictator, actually, who got control of the unions and ruled them with an iron fist, who happens to have taken advice from Mao and Hitler.
	So you replace the guy who destroyed authoritarianism in Europe, destroyed Hitler, with the guy who thinks...
	Eh, you know, this guy's got some good ideas.
	Oh, I need absolute power over whatever movement I'm leading.
	Getting rid of the anti-authoritarians bringing in authoritarian statues.
	Yes.
	Doesn't look great, doesn't it?
	So we've got authoritarian scientists.
	Again, this sounds a lot to me like sort of the Napoleonic rule of Europe.
	Like, Napoleon did basically something quite similar to this.
	I think we're good to go.
	We still want the trade deal.
	Obama and Biden didn't want us to leave the European Union.
	They put pressure on us not to leave the European Union.
	And now Boris is the Prime Minister of a Brexit Britain, a Brexiteer himself, and at least of all the things that we can say that Boris does have credentials on, it's his handling of Brexit, because honestly it wasn't bad.
	So, the fact that he's like, you know, oh well, it's up to the President to decorate it as he wishes.
	We're in no doubt the importance that Biden places on the UK-US relationship, and the Prime Minister looks forward to having a close relationship with him.
	That seems optimistic, but you can tell it's like, oh God, oh God, this is...
	Something a hostage would say.
	It is, something a hostage would say.
	Do you have the quote of what he said in response to Obama?
	Yes, I do.
	Yes, I do.
	Obama took it out previously, and his defense after being called out was, I put it upstairs.
	It's still there, I swear.
	Yes, he did.
	He called Obama's decision originally in 2016 to remove Churchill a snub, and speculated that the Park Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the British Empire may have been the reason for it.
	And Obama had basically...
	Exactly.
	He said, no, no, no.
	I moved it upstairs.
	It's still in the White House, I swear.
	Yes.
	Why did you get rid of it from the office then?
	Just out of interest.
	Yeah, it just really makes you think, doesn't it?
	At least he didn't exchange it for a communist, I guess.
	But symbolically, these things are important, right?
	It's the kind of passing of the torch.
	Because the things that Winston Churchill was standing for in opposition to the Nazis are the same things that the Americans were standing for in opposition to the Nazis.
	And so this is why, you know, they have a bust of Winston Churchill.
	This is, like, symbolic of a deeper relationship than America and Britain had.
	And Biden is here to overthrow this and impose a kind of deeper relationship between continental Europe and the United States.
	And therefore, you get a Spanish-speaking Latino who looks like a continental dictator, you know, from his bio, is the replacement for the sort of liberty-loving, Anglophile Winston Churchill.
	This is the ethos that's being introduced.
	I think we can see that.
	These are their ideals.
	Yes, these are their ideals.
	And this is just how they think the world should be run.
	And in line with the sort of European autocrat view of the world, that means that Biden himself is turning into a massive, massive hypocrite because they're all massive hypocrites.
	And this is why I can't stand the general sort of continental system.
	But yeah, so yesterday, Biden signs the mask mandate, right?
	So literally minutes after he's sworn in as president, he signs an executive order that means masks and social distancing mandatory and federal property.
	And then he urged everyone to mask up for the next hundred days as the government's going to try and make vaccines available, right?
	And then he went over to the Lincoln Memorial.
	Literally hours later.
	Literally hours later, and he's not wearing a mask on federal property.
	You...
	It...
	No, the senior moment, perhaps?
	No.
	He's being filmed.
	He has AIDS around him.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	They just don't care.
	These rules do not matter.
	And if they mattered, he'd be wearing a goddamn mask, right?
	What this is, is a revealed preference.
	He knows there is no danger when you're standing on your own on federal property with no mask.
	And so he's not wearing a mask.
	If he thought he was in danger, he'd wear a goddamn mask.
	But it's not.
	It's rules for thee and not for me.
	Right.
	If you went in there and you were in the Lincoln Memorial and you didn't have your mask, I bet you'd be in trouble.
	But old Joe, oh no, no, no.
	The rule of law is over.
	And this is the thing.
	The rule of law is over.
	It is one rule for them and one rule for you.
	And that's how it's going to be.
	And that's how it is in the European Union.
	And that's why I hate this kind of form of government.
	It is privilege.
	It is aristocratic privilege.
	I just can't...
	He's being filmed.
	He's being filmed by C-SPAN. They're watching, they're filming him on federal property without his mask, and he's just, they just don't care.
	They just don't care about your opinion.
	And this is just the start of the unbelievable hypocrisy, right?
	So, I mean, literally hours, literally hours.
	This annoyed me all last night when I was putting this together, right?
	And Biden signed 10 executive orders about the coronavirus, so I wonder which other ones he's going to violate personally, right?
	But when asked about this in a press conference with his press secretary, this was her response.
	And before we start, just enhance your calm.
	That's all I'm saying, right?
	Enhance your calm, and then watch this.
	Focused on doing his job to get the work done for the American people.
	Go ahead.
	Why weren't President Biden and all members of the Biden family masked at all times on federal lands last night if he signed an executive order that mandates masks on federal lands at all times?
	At the inaugural, I think he was celebrating an evening of a historic day in our country, and certainly he signed the mask mandate because it's a way to send a message to the American public about the importance of wearing masks, how it can save tens of thousands of lives.
	We take a number of COVID precautions, as you know here, in terms of Testing, social distancing, mask wearing ourselves as we do every single day.
	But I don't know that I have more for you on it than that.
	But as Joe Biden often talks about, it is not just important the example of power, but the power of our example.
	Was that a good example for people who were watching who might not pay attention normally?
	Well, Steve, I think the power of his example is also the message he sends by signing 25 executive orders, including almost half of them related to COVID. The requirements that we're all under every single day here to ensure we're sending that message to the public.
	Yesterday was a historic moment in our history.
	He was inaugurated as President of the United States.
	He was surrounded by his family.
	We take a number of precautions, but I think we have bigger issues to worry about at this moment in time.
	Go ahead, Anita.
	You mentioned...
	Oh, sorry, Jeff.
	Sorry, can we stop it now?
	Because I already went to you if that's okay.
	Thanks very much.
	There is no defense.
	Yeah.
	But what's more telling is she does all of that with a smile on her face.
	Yeah, but what's most frustrating about this, right?
	And the journalist, I don't know whoever that was, asked a fantastic follow-up question because quoting Biden...
	You know, we're not going to lead by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.
	That's a good line.
	If you in any way are interested in being virtuous, right?
	Because it's being virtuous, as Heinlein said, you know, science is not a social virtue.
	You've got to show the social virtue.
	Is Biden showing the social virtue by turning up without his goddamn mask after he's ordered a mask?
	No, of course not.
	And as you can see, the way that she stumbled through what she was saying, oh my God.
	That's right.
	That sounds terrible.
	And the fact that she then goes, ah, well, the power of his example is him signing an executive order.
	It's like, no, that's the example of his power.
	That's him using his executive goddamn power, ordering people to do it while he himself did not do it.
	The rampant hypocrisy is already driving me crazy.
	And that's day one.
	One day he's in office and I'm already like, this is unacceptable.
	If this was Trump, you know, the media, everyone, it would be an uproar.
	This would be 24-hour coverage for at least, I don't know, three days.
	Yeah, I can't stand it.
	I absolutely can't stand it.
	And the fact that they just don't care.
	And again, the revealed preference, it's all a cosmetic rule change.
	It's for you.
	They've ordered the American people and that's all they need to think about.
	It's rules for you, not for me, and I'm sick of it.
	Anyway, we've got loads to get through and I didn't realise how long this is taking.
	So Biden, of course, has brought back critical race theory, which is good news for everyone who loves racism.
	Why?
	I mean, obviously because Black Lives Matter, right?
	So yeah, he's reversed Donald Trump's ban.
	What was I going to say about this?
	Not much to say other than, obviously, the radical left-wingers who Biden has appointed around him say, oh, bravo, bravo, this is fantastic, this is brilliant, right?
	The Trump administration's effort to quash any discussion of the continued pernicious impact of structural racism, implicit bias and sexism in US society was both gratuitous and harmful, says Scott Schloetz, Council and HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal, which is one of the LGBT rights groups that is suing Trump over this executive order.
	But Biden promised to do this, and now we've got an honest and long overdue reckoning with sexism and structural racism in society.
	Trump was like, this training is racist, get rid of it.
	And the response is, no, you can't do that.
	We need the racist training.
	So now it's back.
	Thanks, guys, who put Biden in there.
	I hope all of those, you know, the socialist left who recognise that wokeness is bad and wrong and is damaging society are really happy with what they've accomplished by endorsing Biden.
	And this is going to bleed into everything, right?
	And this was such a bizarre brag, if we can get this next tweet up, right?
	Biden's economic policy team signalled that he will be the first administration ever to construct economic policy around issues like race, gender equality, and climate change, rather than around traditional indicators like GDP or deficit ratios.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, this, this is, this is like the hill tweeting out.
	Oh, Anti-Semitic crime is at its highest levels in Germany since records began.
	It's like, no, it's not.
	And they were forced to actually correct that.
	They're going, actually, in the last 20 years is what we meant.
	Because if you go back 80 years, it was slightly worse, right?
	And they're not the first administration to construct economic policies around issues of race.
	Like, do you not remember slavery, Joe Biden?
	My God!
	It's driving me crazy.
	I hate it.
	I hate everything about it.
	Thank you for bringing back racial economic policies, Joe.
	It wouldn't have been possible without you.
	Tell us how the segregation is going to work.
	I love how good this makes Trump's administration look.
	Trump's administration's economic policy was looking at the economy.
	How terrible.
	How can we get joblessness figures back?
	Oh, look at that.
	Record lowest joblessness in all categories.
	Literally, the left administration comes in and they're just like, focusing on the economy, that's kind of boring.
	Let's just focus on race and gender instead.
	It's just mad.
	It's literally the inverse of what is virtuous and good, in my opinion.
	You shouldn't be creating economic policy around race.
	That's evil.
	And of course, again, day one, Biden decides to send more troops into Iraq.
	Day one.
	We were having a bet yesterday.
	How many...
	Oh, it'll be six months until he declares war on somewhere else, Russia or Syria or whatever.
	No, no.
	Day one!
	They have hit the ground running so quickly.
	Oh, I mean, technically it's not war, is it?
	Oh, not yet, but it's...
	You may as well.
	It's only getting ready for war, don't we?
	When you start building up troops on the border or in the northeast of a country, then, sorry, you've essentially revealed your hand here, right?
	Right.
	I assume these are the troops that Trump took away because he was like, we need to get out of these pointless wars.
	Yes.
	I would assume so, yeah.
	But that's the thing, right?
	A large US military convoy was seen entering northeastern Syria on Thursday, marking the first time since Damascus issued its letter to the United Nations Security Council demanding immediate withdrawal of American forces from the Arab Republic.
	According to a field report, the U.S. military convoy consisted of a large amount of weapons and logistical equipment, which were transferred to their bases inside Al-Hazaka and Deir Ezzor governates east of the Euphrates River.
	They would add that the U.S. military convoy consisted of 40 trucks, armoured vehicles that were escorted by helicopters until they reached their destination.
	These movements by the U.S. military have become routine, with the latter often moving troops and equipment back from the neighbouring Iraq.
	Okay, maybe I'm over-egging it.
	Maybe this is nothing.
	Maybe Biden isn't going to declare war on Syria and overthrow Assad and carry on with his Middle Eastern regime change, like the neocon slash neolib consensus of regime change.
	Maybe that's not going to happen.
	But if I were Assad and the Americans, Biden comes into power, and suddenly, oh, look at that, 40 armored vehicles and Humvees are bringing loads of military equipment into the northeast of my country, I wouldn't exactly be feeling good about it.
	You know?
	Maybe it's just me.
	I mean, this has been a weird thing that's been going on since Obama.
	Like, American troops are in Syria operating in a way at which, you know, you would usually describe as a war with the country.
	Yeah.
	And it's that there's no war.
	Like, no war's been declared.
	There's no war in Ba Sing Se.
	But, you know, sending in another convoy with a bunch of people, well, eh, looks like you want to escalate the situation, not get out of Syria.
	Yeah.
	So...
	Unlike Trump, who was trying to reduce the number of troops that were stationed in the Middle East.
	What was interesting is that the number of troops stationed in the Middle East was actually fewer than the number of Guard that were in DC, which, incidentally, we can talk about now, right?
	So the Guard in DC, after doing their jobs, protecting Joe Biden and the Hunger Games elite in the capital...
	From apparently no threat whatsoever.
	From apparently no threat whatsoever of the MAGA plebeians, who they hate...
	They were then told to go sleep in a parking garage, like on the concrete floors.
	They've got no bedding or anything like that.
	Just go sit down there, right?
	This is what one of the guards says.
	For the last week, my battalion has been sleeping on the floor of the Senate cafeteria.
	Today, the Senate kicked us out and moved us to a cold parking garage.
	5,000 soldiers, one power outlet, one bathroom.
	This is how Joe Biden treats American soldiers.
	Well, yeah, it appears to be.
	Politico reports like this.
	Like, what?
	I mean...
	Why wouldn't you just disband them?
	They just don't care about how you feel and what you think, and they don't have any respect for you.
	They don't consider you to be morally important.
	But why not just send them home?
	You clearly don't need them.
	There was no threat.
	Nothing happened.
	Well, who knows?
	The MAGA chuds might rise up at any moment, and you're going to want loyal and dependable soldiers who love and honour your regime to protect you.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You've treated well and made sure they haven't gone through any hardships or anything.
	Anyway, so, the internet is obviously not happy with Joe Biden's new galactic empire.
	It's been 12 hours as this person posted Gab, and you can see all of the streams that have been going on on various platforms massively, massively downvoted.
	Overwhelmingly.
	I mean, the clip of Biden swearing in his officials, that had 25,000 downvotes on it.
	It's like, right, okay, this is mad, right?
	So YouTube has started removing these downvotes, claiming that they're spam, and it's like, right, okay, YouTube says, as part of its regular efforts to remove engagement it considers inauthentic, they have been removing tens of thousands of dislikes.
	As Epoch Times reports, screenshots indicate a total of at least 16,000 dislikes removed from at least three videos, even after the adjustments, the five videos on the channel, about 14,000 likes, combined versus nearly 60,000 dislikes.
	People are not happy.
	Again, foreshadowing.
	Social media.
	I mean, why would they care?
	Why would they care?
	Oh no, there are loads of inauthentic dislikes on this White House stream.
	Oh no!
	I guess that's over for Joe Biden then!
	Inauthentic dislikes!
	It's a visual representation of how much people dislike the administration and that can't go.
	Exactly.
	The plebs can see that they're actually in agreement that they don't like.
	The voice of the plebs is being heard and they don't like it because they don't want to hear from you.
	And the way that social media operates is not going to get any better.
	I mean, we can just go for the recent Twitter scandal that has come out about Twitter refusing to take down child pornography, which apparently didn't violate its policies.
	So what had happened is a 13-year-old boy, like these clips, had showed a 13-year-old boy engaging in sex acts, which is, of course, child porn.
	And this teenager, who's now 17, and this was when he was in the Northern District of California, but now he lives in Florida with his mother, was between 13 and 14 when sex traffickers posing as a 16-year-old female classmate started chatting with him on Snapchat.
	The material was put on Twitter where it had 167,000 views, and they reached out to Twitter and said, excuse me, could you take this child porn of my child being abused down, please?
	And they were like, thanks for reaching out.
	We've reviewed the content and didn't find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time.
	It's like, do you not have to follow the law?
	Like, this isn't even just a Twitter has a personal policy on this.
	This is the law.
	Like, they don't have a choice in this.
	Yeah, you would think, wouldn't you, right?
	Well, legally, they don't.
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	You would think so, right?
	And so, two days later, the teenager's mother connected with an agent from the Department of Homeland Security, and then they got Twitter to take it down.
	They had to get the Department of Homeland Security to engage with Twitter and say, look, you actually have to take this child porn down.
	And so, it's like, okay, that's interesting, isn't it?
	But it's like, this is the hill I'm going to die on.
	Keeping up child porn.
	You can't hear from the president, but this child porn didn't violate our rules.
	Sorry.
	Anyway, the next hill they're going to die on is Facebook just handing over your messages to the US government.
	Just because you, oh, the Capitol riot is, well, here you go, here's all the information that Facebook has.
	Which, incidentally, implicates Facebook in being the platform upon which they organized this riot.
	But, yeah, they just handed over all of these things.
	And you've got Sheryl Sandberg going, oh, well, this was all organized on Parler.
	It's like, okay, there's no evidence of that, as Glenn Greenwald reported.
	Actually, the evidence all seems to point to it being organized on Facebook.
	It all happened on Parler, and that's why the FBI only care about Facebook.
	Exactly, right?
	And the thing is, the FBI are investigating Parler, but I doubt they're going to find much because Parler doesn't have the kind of organizational capacity of Facebook because there's no groups.
	But anyway, Facebook are obviously pointing the finger at Parler while handing over your data to the government.
	And they've opened an investigation into Parler, but What are they going to do?
	And this is very, in stark contrast to Apple in 2016, when the FBI demanded the access to the messages from Saeed Farouk, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino attack, Apple, Tim Cook...
	Well, I mean, this case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation, so when we received the government's order, we knew we had to speak out.
	At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties.
	Okay, well, I guess civil liberties are just off the table, then.
	You know, with the Cesar Chavez loving Biden in charge, everyone's like, yeah, we'll just hand over the public's data to the government.
	Screw the public!
	Like, we don't care about this anymore.
	And this wasn't even under Trump, right?
	This was under Obama.
	And, if you want, again, more foreshadowing of things to come, Florida Bank has deplatformed Trump.
	He had two accounts with them that had $5 and $25 million in, and they're like, nope, we don't have any depositing relationship with him anymore, because I guess the Washington Post was hounding and snapping at the heels of these institutions.
	We hate money.
	Please take away $30 million.
	Yep, basically.
	This is on the heels of Signature Bank in New York and Deutsche Bank also saying they won't conduct business with Trump anymore.
	So the banks have now become ethical and are conducting their fascist regime to ruin the previous president of the United States.
	I don't know what's going to happen to Trump's $30 million there.
	I mean, I don't know.
	He's going to have to do a Carrie Lam and just carry it around in suitcases.
	Well, I assume that they're just going to give him that money, which, I mean, if they don't, what's he going to do?
	But yeah, I guess he's going to have to do a Carrie Lam and carry it around in suitcases, which is wild.
	And again, all of this is the beginning of trends that I think we're going to continue to see.
	Trust in the media has dropped to an all-time list.
	I realize this has gone on for a long time, but there's been a lot to...
	But basically, the trust in media is now the lowest ed it's ever been, with most people not trusting the media.
	56% of Americans agree with the statement that journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or are gross exaggerations.
	So only 44% of people don't agree with that.
	More than half of Americans now think that journalists are purposely trying to mislead them.
	The question being asked, we'll have, you know, like five boxes to tick.
	And that means like 56% of people tick the worst possible box.
	Yeah.
	You are deliberately lying to us.
	And the other 44% are like, well...
	I think you're a little bit lying to us.
	Exactly.
	Maybe you're doing it by accident, you know?
	So the percentage of people who think that they're trustworthy is going to be tiny.
	Very, yeah.
	Sorry, 58% think that most news organisations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.
	Well, that's based public.
	They're not wrong.
	Yeah, absolutely they're not wrong.
	In fact, it's sad that it's only 58%.
	Obviously, this splits between Democrats and Republicans with only 18% of Republicans trusting the media.
	But 57% of Democrats trust the media, which means 43% of Democrats don't trust the media.
	So it's like, okay, the constituency of the media is rapidly shrinking to a tiny hard core of Democratic supporters, neolib Democrats.
	If you needed a statistic to show you evidence that the media as an institution, and when we say the media, everyone knows what they mean.
	They mean the mainstream.
	The corporates.
	The people who were on Hillary Clinton's press corps.
	Yeah, these people.
	That is a partisan issue, in the sense that the supporters of the Democrats think these people are just fine and the Republicans don't.
	Well, that's not because, you know, they're telling the truth of the light.
	Like, that's not a factual issue, that's definitely a partisan issue.
	Yeah, but the fact that nearly half of Democrats don't trust the media as well...
	Yeah, it's even bad for the Democrats.
	That's staggering.
	Like, they know, yeah, I'm basically just watching propaganda at this point.
	Yeah.
	But that doesn't stop the Washington Post calling for the deplatforming of Fox News.
	They wrote just an opinion piece saying, well, we don't platform Fox News, Newsmax or One American News, in the same way that we don't platform ISIS. Right?
	The essay penned by critic Max Boot, a prominent columnist and CNN global affairs analyst, explained by holding the president accountable for his role in inciting the violent insurrection is insufficient.
	There is a whole infrastructure of incitement that will remain intact after Trump leaves office.
	Just as we do with foreign terrorist groups, so with domestic terrorists, we need to shut down the influencers who radicalize people and set them on the path towards violence and sedition.
	I'm telling you now, man...
	I think that violence and sedition is a consequence of people not having their voices heard.
	I think that everything that they're doing at the moment guarantees violence and sedition.
	And I am an anti-revolutionary.
	I do not want revolutions.
	I want incremental change.
	I want everyone to come to the table and talk to one another.
	But the Biden administration is doing the exact opposite of that.
	They're saying, we literally don't want to hear from you.
	We've closed the petitions thing on the website.
	We're not going to be interested in your opinions.
	You're not going to be at our parties.
	You're not coming to the inauguration.
	You can just sit there and be dictated to from on high.
	And we will get our tack dogs in the Washington Post and CNN to get rid of just the media that was a kind of way of, like, an outlook.
	Because the thing that I've heard most over my entire career doing this is, like, thank God someone was saying something I thought was sane.
	I thought the media was insane.
	I thought the mainstream narrative was insane.
	And then you were here saying things that were counter to that that I agreed with because I could see it with my own eyes.
	Thank God you kept me sane, basically.
	And that's what they're trying to do.
	They're trying to get everyone into the single narrative.
	And it's not going to work.
	And of course, the final piece of foreshadowing that the Biden administration is going to give us are...
	Continual gaffes of Joe Biden growing ever more senile as his handlers obviously have more problems dealing with him, right?
	So this is a very interesting clip where Biden is walking up to some Marines standing at the door and the normal thing to do for the president when he's entering is to salute the Marines, right?
	But instead Biden says the words, salute the Marines, which kind of implies that he had an earpiece and someone who feeds him through what he's supposed to say and he just says it rather than does it.
	Let's quickly watch.
	Just salute the Marines as he goes in.
	Why?
	Senile.
	Senile old man who was told to salute the Marines and just repeated it.
	And this is not the first time that Biden has done this either, but I didn't get any of the other clips of it.
	I mean, there is endless examples of him being senile.
	I just wanted to say something on that previous statement, that the idea that what happens to radicalize a person is they hear a slightly right or left position, and then that gets them on the path to being an extreme right or left winger.
	Something like this.
	Which is just a complete inversion of the truth.
	Because their solution is to just cut off all information that could ever take you on that path, which means all information.
	So it would just have to be what they agree with.
	But that's exactly what doesn't happen with extremists.
	When you talk to an extremist, why do they become an extremist?
	it's not because there's an abundance of propaganda for right-wing left-wing islamism blah blah blah it's for them there is no propaganda except the one that makes them extreme so if they're an islamist they're only listening to islamist propaganda and then that's what takes them on the path because they're not hearing anything else yeah whereas these guys are literally trying to radicalize you then because they know this they know that if you cough all other sources of propaganda you're just gonna get one and that will make you radical on that basis yeah it'll make you only believe one thing
	But I think the thing that starts people on a path to radicalization is actually before that, where they think there is something true that they can see about the world that is either denied or simply not represented in a mainstream context.
	Yes.
	And so they go out looking for those people who are actually talking about what they've perceived to be true.
	And when they find one of these people, if it's like an Islamist, you know, they'll be like, you know, the Koran is holy and sacred.
	And then you get these people who, yeah, it is.
	And this is why.
	And look what Muhammad tells you you have to do.
	All of those kafir are lying to you and all this sort of stuff.
	It becomes, you know, paranoid fear-mongering.
	And you get the sort of, you know, similar thing in any kind of echo chamber, but underlying it, there's bound to be some grain of truth.
	And that could be, I want respect for my religion.
	I want respect for my political position.
	I just want to be heard.
	You know, I don't like the fact that Biden's being hypocritical and taking so many stacks from China, whatever it is, right?
	But the point of erasing all this, exactly as you say, the opposite is the right thing to do if you want to deradicalize people.
	You, in fact, have to expand the conversation.
	You can't narrow it.
	Narrowing the conversation just creates more types of extremists.
	The extremists are the people outside the Overton window.
	Yes.
	And if you want to get them back to being part of the conversation, you expand the Overton window to be like, look, okay, we'll accept that you have something to say and part of the process in which we live.
	Yes, exactly.
	But they don't want to do that.
	They want to radicalize people.
	So speaking of extremism, what's Biden's extremist position on prisons?
	Yeah, so Biden's been doing some things on transgenderism which people find strange.
	So the first one was putting the pronouns on the White House website, which is kind of cringe.
	And then I saw the other day that the TERFs are up in arms, and I didn't expect them to have such a revolt, but they have a point.
	There's this.
	Yes, it was TERFs and Biden erased women were trending on Twitter.
	And like all the most voted up posts were actually the TERFs saying, you know, Biden go hang himself.
	And there is a reason for this.
	As Brett Weinstein points out that if you want to create protections for women, but at the same time any man can declare himself a woman, well, there's no real protection for a woman there.
	That's just a thing people can opt into.
	I'm not saying that people are being, there are some people who are being opportunistic and declaring themselves women.
	This happens with the Labour Party.
	they had an all-female list and the guy just said I'm a woman now get me on the list And there was nothing they could do.
	Can't fight it.
	This does happen.
	So, you know, opportunities do exist.
	Brett Weinstein doing the Lord's work there.
	Evolution endowed the sexes differently.
	Protections for women are just and must be defended.
	Right, that's it.
	That's good.
	That's what I like to see.
	The biological essentialists have got to come out.
	It also puts a bit of a spanner in the works for Kamala Harris, because of course she's the first female president, the first woman to be up there.
	And it's like, well, okay, well, that doesn't really make sense, if anyone can become a woman.
	So if you can scroll down to read Joe Durant's response, which I thought was interesting.
	Yes.
	She is the first person to become vice president.
	Yes.
	Which, true statement.
	And it's not just...
	It's not a true statement.
	She's not the first person.
	First person?
	Yeah, she's the first person to become vice president.
	That's not true.
	She's not the first person.
	She's the first, like, she isn't a man or a woman, she's just a person.
	Yeah, but they're all people.
	But man or woman is extra information about a person.
	It's one of those thick concepts that we talked about.
	So, uh, she, she's not the first person.
	So her, her, yeah, but that means that Kamala Harris's contribution to the history, the moral progressive history of the United States has just been erased.
	She's not the first woman.
	She's just the first person.
	Not even the first person.
	She's just a person.
	To transracialism, which takes away that other character.
	Oh, well, yes, yes, yes.
	But this isn't just a redefinition.
	It goes into the military ban.
	So you remember Trump said, okay, if we have people applying who are transgender, we don't want them in the military.
	Not because we just hate trans people, but we have to pay for things.
	We have to make special arrangements.
	And we don't want to.
	It's not worth it for us.
	And this is a common thing throughout the entire world.
	Everyone has different standards on who they accept and who they don't.
	And I just want to be clear about something.
	You don't have a human right to join the military.
	I know there's going to be some leftists going, but what about my right to join the military?
	You don't have a right to join the military, you low-teaf, fat little...
	You are probably useless, lazy, going, ah, while you have your little bloody console gamer.
	And you don't have a right to join the military.
	You are not capable.
	You have to attain a standard.
	It is an exclusive institution.
	It's not an inclusive one.
	Sorry, carry on.
	The most extreme example I would give is the British military.
	I believe if you have eczema, so basically your skin cuts off, you can't join the British military.
	Is that a violation of their human rights because they didn't get to choose to have eczema?
	Not in any way, shape or form.
	There's no human right to join the army.
	Sorry, that's not the case.
	So what Trump did here is he defined gender as biological sex, which of course academically might be iffy, but in common parlance, if you ask a random person on the street, you know, what are...
	It's only academically iffy if you believe in the distinction between sex and gender.
	And if you're not an intersectionalist, there's no reason that you have to.
	Like why these things are connected.
	If you ask a random person, they don't even make a difference.
	No, they don't.
	Man and woman, they would say.
	They wouldn't really say male and female, or at least I think most of them wouldn't.
	And that's, of course, the thing here.
	He just says, well, if you're a man, you serve in the male part.
	If you're female, you serve in the female part.
	And if you don't reach, don't reach.
	And this, of course, is somewhat controversial because, you know, serving in the military, but where it really gets worrying for me, and I think the UK has proved this, is with prisons.
	So he gave a statement before where he was an LGBTQ forum, and he decided to say that, yes, in prisons, if you say you are a woman, you should just go into the female prisons, and if you're a man, you should go into the male prisons.
	So we'll play this clip just so you can get him saying it.
	So many of them.
	And so, yes, and by the way, in prison...
	In prison, the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what, in fact, the prison says it is.
	And in that case, you should be entitled also to OGBYing.
	Anyway, you didn't ask that question, but you're not likely to either, I guess.
	Can't even get the LGBTQ logo right because no one ever can.
	Sorry to interject again.
	That means that he's presuming the definition of woman is anyone who identifies as a woman.
	Yeah, and this was his position.
	So if you check out his manifesto, that's not just a one-off.
	He had it in his manifesto under the section Increased Safety for Incarcerated Transgender Individuals.
	The Obama-Biden administration issued a transgender offender manual requiring gender identity to be considered when making housing assignments.
	So if you came in and they would ask you what your gender identity was, and if you said female, the rule was in this manual, you must go to the female prisons.
	I tell you, if I ever went to prison in America, I'd definitely claim it.
	Yeah, I'm a female.
	Why wouldn't you?
	So the Trump-Pence administration has rolled back this standard and is now requiring biological sex to be used in determinations of putting transgender inmates in the prisons, which is causing serious danger of assault and rape to those inmates.
	I don't doubt it.
	And this is just a lie.
	So the transgender manual, if you can get that up, this is the one he issued.
	He's telling the truth that they did put in, that the gender identity should be the thing that determines which prison you go to and not the reality of your sex.
	And the Trump administration updated this, and the updates are perfectly reasonable.
	There is no other way to interpret them, because even if you're on the side that this should be taken into account in circumstances, well, that is what happened.
	So...
	They took the TEC will recommend housing by gender identity when appropriate, deleted that, and replaced it with the TEC will use biological sex in the initial determination for designation.
	So initially, we're just going to take you, we're going to put you in the biological sex prison.
	And they ignore the fact that it also comes up under more advice.
	The designation to a facility of the inmate's preferred identified gender would be appropriate only in rare cases after consideration of all the above factors where there's been significant progress.
	progress towards transitioning and demonstrated by a medical and mental health history also the fact that they wouldn't then cause a risk to the female prisoners because that's where we're really looking here what's wrong with that I mean, that's not him saying this will become impossible.
	It's saying, okay, we're going to do it on biological sex.
	And if you can prove to us you are genuinely transgender and you generally have a risk of being in a male prison and in a female prison, you would be safer.
	Fine.
	We'll do it.
	That's wrong.
	Which one of those standards would you pick?
	Anyone at home?
	You'd obviously pick the Trump administration one, I'd assume.
	Yeah.
	And this is not something that comes out of nowhere.
	This is not writing because people hate trans people.
	No, in the UK we have had this issue, so if you can get the Guardian article up, this is a transgender prisoner who sexually assaulted inmates and was jailed for life because of it.
	I just want to talk about Miss White for a minute because she's awful.
	So she was still legally a man and was put into a female-only prison.
	So in the UK, you have to show a two-year commitment to being transgender and then you are recognized legally as a female.
	So she hadn't done that.
	Right, okay.
	But she was put into a female prison because she said she was female.
	That was enough.
	She was already found guilty of being a pedophile and was on remand for grievous bodily harm, burglary, multiple rapes, and other sexual offenses against women.
	LGBT aren't sending their best, are they?
	A pedo, a rapist, and a sexual offender.
	Let's put her in with the women because she says she is a woman.
	Amazing.
	This isn't a bad actor taking advantage of any of this or anything.
	Yeah, she had additional convictions for indecent assault, indecent exposure, and gross indecency involving children, animal cruelty, and dishonesty.
	I remember covering this a few years ago when this came out and just being like, this is what we're going to get, and it turns out this is what we're getting.
	Yeah, this is not some fantasy that right-wingers make up to the scaremonger.
	These people do exist, and they do carry out these crimes.
	So, she was transferred to a female-only prison after being arrested on suspicion of repeatedly stabbing a neighbour, whilst inside she sexually assaulted the women.
	So, she's got this history.
	She then stabbed her neighbour.
	They sent her to prison.
	She's like, I'm a woman.
	Send me to a woman's prison.
	They said, yeah, that's fine.
	Shoved her in there, and then she started sexually assaulting the inmates.
	That's what happened.
	So she's since been sentenced, the life sentence, and been sent to a male prison because that's the right thing to do.
	So this is going to happen in the US. These people will exist in the US and they will carry this out under Biden.
	Thanks, buddy.
	And the response from the UK, which is the right thing to do, is to set up a transgender-only sector.
	So they set up a transgender unit.
	I assume we'll have to build transgender entire prisons at some point if the trans population keeps growing, which is perfectly reasonable.
	What's wrong with that?
	Yeah, I don't see anything wrong with that.
	What is the issue about trans women in a prison and trans men in another prison separated from all other groups?
	Well, what's the issue with that?
	It's keeping them safe.
	It makes the Democrats happy.
	It's keeping them safe from the male inmates who have raped them.
	And it means they're not raping anyone else.
	But no, if they ask for it, they should just get it.
	That's what Biden has now.
	If the transgender, female to male, or man to woman trans, are not safe in male prisons, then it would be ethically justified to...
	Segregate them off, keep them safe from the other...
	Keep them safe from them, obviously.
	In the same way you keep a TR segregated from an Islamic population.
	And if you've got man-to-woman transgenders who occasionally prey on female prisoners, then it makes sense to separate them two.
	I mean, maybe you can't have these even in the same separated prisons.
	No, two separate prisons.
	So you'd have to have, you know, male-to-female and female-to-male prisons, maybe.
	I can't imagine they're going to be too full, to be honest.
	But you could make units instead, like we've done.
	But the ideal situation would be separate prisons entirely, obviously.
	But that's not good enough.
	Biden is going to make it law that, no, we should return to.
	If they ask for it, they should just be able to go into that prison.
	And the TERFs are right here.
	It's not just a one-off.
	There's not just an occasional issue of this.
	The Times reported on this.
	So this was a study looking over five years, and they said transgender prisoners are five times more likely to carry out sex attacks on inmates at women jails than other prisoners are, official statistics show.
	So, this is over a long time period.
	You look at the transgender inmates that go into female prisons.
	They're committing sex attacks far more.
	It's not just a one-off.
	And we've learned the hard way, and we're now fixing this.
	America's just going to have to learn the hard way.
	There's just going to have to be a few rapes in female prisons before the message gets through to Biden's skull.
	That's just what's happening.
	Even if that is the case, even if he will change his mind on this, because it's entirely possible that he won't.
	It's entirely possible that he'll commit to theory rather than reality and just keep driving it home regardless of what happens in reality.
	But I just want to say on lotuses.com, I wrote an article called...
	Against the intersectional definition of woman, or something along those lines.
	And I would strongly recommend it.
	It's a public article, so it's not a premium one.
	And I would strongly recommend using it for your own ability to argue against the intersectional definition of woman.
	I won't go through the arguments now.
	But I'll link it in the description or pinned in the comments afterwards.
	Because this is one of those things that's actually quite pernicious and quite difficult to get through, and you end up having to go through a bunch of layers of things.
	But I think what I've done is address them all in the article.
	So you should be able to disarm the allegation that a woman is anyone who claims to be a woman, which...
	There are just so many things wrong with it.
	But anyway, sorry John, we don't have to get up now.
	I'll put it in the comments afterwards.
	Let's answer some questions.
	Did we have a video question today?
	Oh, I thought we did.
	Okay, well if you...
	Alright, there was no audio to it.
	Well, if you'd like to send us a video question, if you're a subscriber, then you can do so by just posting it in the comments, I believe, of the previous or the current podcast on the website.
	Coffee time, General.
	Yes, Coffee Time General.
	Today I found out Twitter mods will recommend you DMCA CP vids involving your kids.
	How come 4chan janitors have a better stance on CP than big tech mods?
	The jannies, they do it for free too.
	They do.
	4chan moderators are more moral than the people who run Twitter.
	I just don't understand why Twitter is like, not just, oh god, child porn on our website, take that off.
	You think they would have some active policing model?
	But I mean, YouTube has been in trouble for this sort of thing as well.
	you know the various videos have all been presumably deplatformed now apparently like were like funneling pedos into like certain kind of communities and stuff like that this is actually like kids in bathing costumes and stuff like that so we haven't really covered it but Pornhub got into a massive issue and they've had to delete everything that isn't verified yeah on the reasons like this rape videos of porn child porn going up I don't And I do wonder if we're moving to that kind of way of the internet where everyone has to be verified and then all your data will be handed over to the government, obviously.
	It turns out that Facebook's going to do that anyway, so what difference does it make?
	Yeah, Twitter will do it too.
	Yeah, they'll do it too.
	Everyone's getting a verified checkmark, boys.
	They won't take down child porn, but they will hand over all of your data to the government.
	Good news.
	Good news for Vorsch fans, I suppose.
	TF Allspark says, Norwegian money to our British heroes.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	Funny how Biden has restarted the drone wars in a week.
	Phew, I was worried that we'd have peace for a second.
	Yeah, but at least they're going to be rainbow-coloured and have Black Lives Matter fists on them as they're bombing Syrian children.
	ObserverDude, what are your thoughts on hydraulic fracturing?
	What, fracking?
	I don't really know enough about it, to be honest.
	I'm in favour.
	You're in favour, right?
	I'm going to skip.
	Alex Holt, Ave Carl, no longer working as a slave at Amazon.
	I want to thank you.
	I'm glad to hear that, man.
	Your ideals about self-improvement have often helped.
	So all that's left to say is this.
	Thank you.
	Well, thank you.
	And they've helped me too.
	I've really found just this kind of mindset to be liberating and empowering.
	And we have all this now, you know?
	So thank you for everyone who subscribes, by the way.
	We're past 3,500 subscribers on the website now.
	Which, honestly, and if people keep subscribing, this means we'll actually be able to expand the team, get some more writers.
	I'd like to think about getting video hosts, people other than us that will make videos.
	So if you think you're charismatic and charming and interesting and good at researching and making videos, you can email us at contacts.logistice.com with some examples of your work.
	I'm not necessarily hiring anyone now, but in the near future, we might...
	Send you an email or something.
	But it depends how many people sign up, really.
	SidebookVR says, Koreans, Indians have local underground economies in the US. Works because they are non-mainstream and a single identity.
	A solution to prisoners' dilemma.
	That's a fair point.
	The engaged few.
	Political purges, high unemployment, economic depression, and imminent return of forever wars in the Middle East.
	You should start taking bets on when Biden voters will start having buyer's remorse.
	Well, day one should be enough buyer's remorse.
	Joe Black.
	Plato's myth of metals.
	Camel and the children sniffer...
	I assume that means Kamala.
	Camel and the child sniffer aren't even made of aluminium or copper.
	I think they're compound of turds and sulphur.
	Stay silver, my guardians.
	Say it loud.
	May the keek be with us.
	Eric Edward, here is a stack for Hugo and yesterday's stream autism came up and me and my girlfriend both have been diagnosed with it for several years and happy to tell you more about it and how we view things.
	Sure, leave a comment.
	I'd be interested in reading it.
	Louis Carlo, punished the CCP by the UN heightening every Chinese citizen's social credit score for the same amount of time the West has been under the rona.
	Takers?
	I don't think they're going to do it.
	Bauer Media, for $30, says, Hi guys, we've really been enjoying your work, Carl.
	You're right about building our own culture to combat the narrative.
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	Mr.
	Winter, for 50 British pounds, thank you very much.
	Here's an essay on the relevance of Atlas Shrugged.
	Mrwinter'sessays.locals.com.
	More essays are to come, i.e.
	the State of Science Institute's Alternative Facts.
	The money is for Callum's English GCSE. Rebuild Hadrian's Wall and make Scotland pay for it.
	Man, that'd be a hell of a campaign, wouldn't it?
	Lotus Simp says, I'm not just here to simp for you, I'm here to simp for pottery as well.
	Hashtag simp for pottery shards.
	Hashtag thanks for Hillary and Putin.
	The engaged few say, stunning and brave public servants too.
	Too afraid of the coup to actually show up.
	Empty inauguration and empty press conferences for an empty president.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	Sayer on this, I assure you the blinders are off.
	I see how corrupt the US government really is.
	I mean, it's just nakedly on display.
	That's the thing.
	Like, if they can just pause the counts, load in Biden votes, and then just carry on and be like, look, just ignore the F graph.
	And the courts are not going to touch any of it.
	Texas doesn't have any standing to complain about being cheated or their belief that they were cheated.
	And then Biden can literally occupy the Capitol with 25,000 troops, shut everyone down, shut everything out, and do all of this remotely.
	And then just, again, just begin the wars, begin all of the business as usual.
	Then they just don't care about your opinions.
	They've been...
	I can't imagine...
	The only thing we need now is for Biden to say, literally, I don't work for you.
	You know, I don't...
	Which he said to the worker, didn't he, on the campaign trail.
	He said, I don't work for you.
	It's like, don't you?
	You know, I don't owe you.
	Can you work for them?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And when there was a...
	What was the thing that the press were like, you know, the American people deserve to know?
	And he was like, they don't deserve to know.
	His opinion on packing the court.
	That was it.
	Yeah, that was it.
	They don't deserve to know what my opinion on that is.
	It's like, Jesus Christ, Joe.
	Only the Chinese deserve to know.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	If you want to know who his master is, it's not the US government.
	One of the bigger worries I had from the whole process of dealing with the claims of fraud was that, I'm just going to assume that Trump's completely wrong, it's all nothing, but what is a candidate meant to do if they honestly believe fraud has taken place in a US election?
	Let's just say it's a Democrat or a Republican.
	What are they meant to do?
	I mean, what Trump did was complain about it, take it to the courts, and then just the courts with the Texas lawsuit just, you know, the Republican ones just said, we're recusing ourselves.
	Yeah.
	I was like, well, okay, well, it's an easy vote, three to two, you lose.
	I was like, well...
	What's going to happen in four years, eight years, another time when someone complains?
	There is no mechanism, it seems, to defend them.
	And the lack of standing decision was really concerning to me.
	You don't have the standing to claim that the presidential election...
	It affects Texas.
	Yeah, it affects Texas.
	If a different state cheats, that doesn't affect you.
	Well, they had procedural errors.
	They were breaking the Constitution.
	Sure, but let's assume that's not even cheating.
	What if they make dramatic mistakes and are just incompetent and fail to follow their own constitutional procedures that ends up electing maybe the wrong president, not necessarily in this case, but in other cases maybe, Texas would still be like, okay, but we can see all of these procedural errors they've made.
	It's like, that doesn't affect you.
	It's like, How?
	I mean, and again, that assuming that there was no malintent, which I just, you know, I'm beyond now at this point.
	But anyway, the engaged few.
	George Floyd was brutally murdered by Officer Fentanyl.
	Oh, disavow.
	Thunderstorm.
	Science and elites have no social responsibility to people.
	That's correct.
	NASA doesn't care about the cobalt that comes from slave children.
	Yes, that's true.
	The elites love the slave system.
	It's their system.
	That's globalism.
	That's true.
	The reality of the thing is just not as important as the theory of the thing.
	four crises or four pillars of the first american empire for the god emperor there is no innocence only degrees of guilt say the imperial inquisition uh say yeah that's literally what's going to be happening uh acronite says look up joe biden in the book talkings uh they were stealing people's property for the war on drugs sorry taking oh taking sorry uh they were stealing people's property for the war on drugs and now it'll be the war on racism it'll be the war on domestic terrorism it'll be the war on maga basically uh reverend dave says two stacks
	joe publicly defamed the officers who arrested St. George.
	George and publicly spread lies from the media appointee.
	Yeah, nobody cares.
	Nobody cares what the autopsy revealed.
	Nobody cares.
	Nobody cares about the fact that the police video footage of him sitting in the car shows him going, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, way before he's put on the floor.
	Nobody cares.
	Yeah, asking to be put on the floor.
	Exactly, that's right.
	Put the pill on his mouth.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And not only that, I thought they dropped it.
	I thought they dropped it.
	Anyway.
	The defence is arguing that this is obviously fentanyl.
	Right, right, right.
	The opposition has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it wasn't, which I don't think they're going to be able to.
	Yeah, so Derek Chauvin is probably going to walk free.
	Yeah.
	And then a bunch of stuff will get burnt down.
	Biden will give a statement endorsing the burning down because feelings.
	Well, because it wasn't targeted at the government.
	That's why.
	If they were around Capitol Hill...
	It's an opportunity to terrorize the plebs.
	Exactly.
	Keep them silent.
	Exactly.
	Keep them divided as well.
	Don't worry about Biden's government.
	Worried about the rampaging mobs that are burning down what's left of your businesses.
	The Purest Form of Cancer says, In other news, Twitter has forgone the foot and just blew its whole leg off, and Arch has recovered his channel.
	Ah, yes, that's true.
	Arch did.
	It was a pretty good morning, I think.
	Well, I mean, like, I'm actually not despondent about the way things are going, because the Biden administration seems to be so bloody incompetent and just ignorant of the fact that everyone is watching this, that this can't go on forever.
	I mean, like, why are you pissing off all of the National Guard, Joe?
	Don't you think you're going to need them?
	Well, he doesn't, literally.
	There's no threat.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There's literally no threat.
	But I assume he thinks there just never will be, you know?
	Anyway, XBC says, Joe Biden will soon announce the creation of a new church where George Floyd and Xi Jinping are both idolized prophets.
	Thunderstorm says nations are a problem for globalists because nations are about loving their people and treating others with dignity and equality.
	Well, yeah, if you're a globalist, obviously a nation is a problem for you.
	Distro, Biden's mishandling of the pandemic has already killed thousands of Americans.
	He must resign.
	Good point.
	Robert Conner says, Biden towns one American value and lists six non-American values.
	Yes.
	The Earl of Longford, we do need lists.
	I find myself reaching for evidence regularly and can't keep up with the speed of conversation as Google attempts to hide.
	Well, that's one of the things that I got Josh working on today, which should be out, is the accusations against Biden.
	Just like a coherent list.
	I've just everything summarized.
	So, look, if you want to see what people's problem with Biden is, here's a bunch of stuff that he needs to account for.
	He has to answer for these things.
	Clarence Boddicker says, Thank you for reminding me that every day that the whole world has not gone mad.
	See, I told you we get these comments all the time.
	Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
	The Outsider Channel says, Can you see a scenario where moderate Democrats will revolt against Biden?
	No.
	No, I think that he's going to follow the Cesar Chavez model of leadership and rule with an iron fist.
	Anyone who is even impolite will be fired on the spot.
	Here's the irritating thing as well.
	I don't genuinely believe he understands anything he's doing.
	I think he really is just that far gone.
	It's the people around him that are the extremists like AOC types who are pushing him into doing these things.
	So I don't think the moderates will ever really have a chance to do anything.
	I think the moderates totally buy into social justice.
	I think the moderates, the genuine moderates who don't believe this stuff are just too kowtowed.
	Not even that.
	I just...
	It's not...
	What it is, I think, is that there is...
	Like Tulsi Gabbard.
	Let's take Tulsi Gabbard.
	Sure.
	Tulsi Gabbard doesn't, but I think there are lots of people who in many ways are moderates, who don't have a philosophical basis to challenge any of the assertions made by social justice.
	And so they go, well, that must be true then.
	And it's not that they're rabid SJWs and they hate men or white people or anything like that.
	No, they've just built into the precepts and now they have no way of diverging from that course.
	Exactly.
	Everyone around them is saying it.
	They don't know any different.
	They go, yeah, well, I want to help black lives.
	Yeah.
	You know, oh God, there's systemic racism everywhere.
	I didn't know.
	I don't like systemic racism.
	And they sincerely believe that these things are being done honestly.
	And that's going to be a fairly large chunk of just regular folk, you know, I think.
	Like regular Democrats anyway, obviously.
	But not to say that they're committed in necessarily the way that the social justice activists are.
	But I think you are right about the politicians.
	You just check their Twitter accounts.
	It's the reason I'm actually still on Twitter, because it's a great research tool for leftists.
	If you check out a right-wing on Twitter, there's so much self-censorship and deletion, which has been enforced by the left, obviously.
	But if you check out a left-wing account on Twitter who's a politician, there's no filter.
	They just say what they believe, and it's the most radical stuff.
	It's like, right, here's what she said, there's what they said.
	It's mad.
	Bannon, Shakespeare says, ban on new fracking on federal land.
	Cancel the Keystone Pipeline extension with CAN. An artificial oil shortage that's a perfect pretext for a Middle Eastern war.
	Yep.
	Amazing, isn't it?
	This is why I like fracking.
	It's gotten America off the idea that they need to go to war in the Middle East.
	Oh, that's a good...
	That's one of my huge...
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, Donald Trump got them energy independent, didn't he?
	That's how he did it.
	That was the fracking.
	Right, okay.
	That was how he did it, right.
	And that's the thing as well.
	Joe Biden, first day in office, he cancels like 11,000 jobs.
	Amazing.
	I think it's 50,000 in total, actually.
	Is it?
	Oh, bloody hell.
	But I was going to say, for the Keystone Pipeline, I saw it was 11,000 jobs.
	It's like, okay.
	So 50,000 jobs gone in a day because of Joe Biden.
	We're off to a good start.
	Off to a great start.
	I mean, Christ.
	Yeah, it does sound very familiar, in fact.
	So, again, it goes right back to the French Revolution.
	What we're seeing is this continental view of the Enlightenment and the sort of dominance and Supreme authority of reason over the material and human aspects of a person.
	And it's going badly.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	Ah, Biden and Obama on Brexit.
	Self-determination for me, but not for thee.
	Reminds me of when the American politicians called Falklands Las Malvinas.
	Yes, yes, and the West Falklands was presumably thrilled about this.
	Lieutenant Noggs says, hello from Sweden.
	Carl Simp here.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	But you shouldn't be simping.
	Sarah on this says, the problem with calling leftists hypocrites is they don't care about being labeled like that.
	It's like they're also proud to be communists.
	Oh yeah, they don't care about moral consistency at all.
	This is one of the things we talk about in The Ethics of Social Justice, in fact.
	Trabacious T says, glad to see you shilling media alternatives.
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	Been enjoying that more than Gab.
	Yeah, you can follow Lotus Eaters at LotusEaters underscore com on GabMines.
	In fact, we have a Telegram channel that John asked me to shill.
	So you can find us.
	Again, just search LotusEaters.com on Telegram.
	You should be able to find us.
	We're on all of these platforms.
	Rumble's been crashing, so we've been unable to upload the videos to Rumble.
	We're on Odyssey, Library, BitChute, Mines, obviously.
	I personally use Mines, Gab, and Telegram quite a lot, so if you want to follow me on there, you can find me just searching my name.
	Raging Furball.
	I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
	Cesar Chavez was known to hate illegals.
	Yes, he was.
	He would often gather several friends to hunt them down and beat the hell out of them.
	So, reading about this, because that's all I knew about him before I started reading as well.
	Apparently, the reason he hated illegal immigration is because...
	So, he was a unionist setting up strikes, and then the bosses would bring in illegals to do strike busting.
	So, he wanted to get rid of the illegals, not for any other reason, but to make sure he kept his power.
	Yeah, it's not on the principle of the rule of law or something.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, that would be high-minded and decent.
	What you are dealing with is a leftist.
	So, high-minded and decent is out of the window, and now it's purely about self-interest.
	Anyway, Joe Woodland says, do you think the European overlords were intentionally just stalling a deal in hope of a Biden win?
	Should we move closer to our African allies?
	I wouldn't be surprised if they were.
	They're definitely going to be the big winners of the Biden presidency when it comes to the European theatre.
	And Joe Woodland says, ride their African allies, incoming growth, so to speak.
	I don't know on that one.
	Svidian says, There is nothing worse in this world than a hypocrite.
	I am losing my goddamn mind over the insane amount coming from the government slash media slash entertainment in the last few years.
	It's only ramping up.
	Yeah, so I just want to say, I'd never watched The Hunger Games, but I had seen clips of the bits at the Capitol, and when everyone was pointing out Lady Gaga with the big golden eagle on her chest, and it's like, look, these people look like The Hunger Games' Capitol, where they're totally out of touch, have no idea what the struggles of the real people are.
	The Capitol is literally segregated off, and it's the richest of the rich, and everyone else lives like shh.
	Yes, in the district.
	And all they do is they care about their image and what's on the TV and that sort of thing.
	I mean that's really quite a scary parallel to what we were seeing.
	Yeah, well, it's made to be a sort of, you know, jab at Hollywood and that not.
	But we didn't expect them to literally bring themselves into the Capitol and try and use them as a front for the Democratic Party.
	Yeah, which is now where we are.
	So, like, welcome to the Hunger Games, I guess.
	Yeah, they used it as a manual.
	Yeah.
	Andrew McGillivray.
	For my sake, Carl, please take the stickers off the bottom of your thermos.
	It's been driving me crazy since podcast number one.
	I don't...
	Oh, yeah.
	They're kind of...
	Let's see if...
	Riveting podcast.
	Yep.
	Riveting podcast where I take off the tickets off and bought my clothes.
	Listen, right?
	Just don't say I never do anything for you.
	All right?
	Andrew?
	I'm not going to throw it on the floor because I have to clean it up.
	So I'm going to put it on the floor.
	Ted Ferguson says, recommendation for book club, the Unabomber's Manifesto.
	Despite being a terrorist and murderer, Ted Kaczynski had an uncanny ability to cut through the weeds, plus only 34 pages.
	But every extremist does.
	So my understanding is he's an anarcho-primitivist in his meanings.
	So basically technology is the problem.
	But every extremist is very good at cutting through the weeds because they're very...
	Single-minded?
	Radical.
	They get to the root of their complaint.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But they're also very single-minded and tend to focus on one thing at a time.
	I haven't read the Unabon was manifesto.
	I don't honestly think the political environment at the moment is safe enough to cover such a thing, even if it was just an abstract and intellectual look at what the guy said, even if we disagree.
	Even the criticism.
	If it was just like this guy's nuts, I feel like it would get taken.
	I don't feel that that's safe.
	And the scope of deplatforming is pretty big at the moment.
	But the next book club, as many people have been asking, will be Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
	Food for the soul.
	That's what I was aiming for with that.
	Food for the soul.
	It's good for you.
	And it'll be good for us to talk about.
	White Hot Peppers.
	Hey, dude.
	Hey, lads.
	I was called to go to DC from the Michigan National Guard, but they decided not to send me when vetting me.
	I told them I love America and only care what's best for the country.
	I guess that's too controversial.
	Big sad.
	Yeah, they probably took one look at your social media, but like, you know, I love President Trump.
	They're like, no.
	Deporable pirate captain says, excuse me, if there are no, if there are non-Terran vehicles flying in the sky, how do we know they don't meddle in the election?
	We don't.
	And apparently Trump released the Black Vault, which is a bunch of CIA UFO stuff.
	And I can't believe I haven't seen more about this.
	I expected a bunch of, you know, interesting things to have come out of it.
	But, like, I've seen nothing in my Facebook and feeds.
	Yeah, is there anything about the Tic Tac?
	No, I would love to know more because, you know, I'm interested in this.
	Yeah.
	I want to believe.
	I want to know what else they have on that.
	Yeah.
	Sean Garvey says, Greetings from Occupied America.
	Brace yourselves, this is the new rise of woke supremacy.
	Yes, it is.
	And woke supremacy is a good way of framing it.
	MB Mephisto, I feel so negative for the future now, and I truly believe our politicians delay Brexit as much as possible so that we never got our trade deal with the US. It could well be that is the case.
	That puts Boris in a really bad position, though.
	So I would be surprised if he personally delayed it on purpose.
	Were you watching what happened with the Conservatives?
	Do you think there was a plan?
	These people are just incompetent, mate.
	Yeah, that's also another very strong argument.
	But to be honest with you, like I said, I'm not feeling down.
	The Biden administration looks very weak.
	It looks very vulnerable.
	It looks like there are very many different places upon which the whole thing could suddenly start collapsing.
	And it looks like they don't understand what will cause the collapse.
	They seem to have these huge blind spots about moral consistency and optics and the way that they should treat the people that they're getting to guard them and to run everything.
	It's literally the Tyler Durdens of the world, right?
	We guard you while you sleep.
	You treat these people well, because you want them to do the right thing when it comes to the crunch.
	Voltaire's Ghost had a good point as well.
	The midterms and the next four years' elections, with the amount of overreach, it's probably going to be pretty easy for the GOP to get back.
	Yeah, the overreach is one of the things that makes them very vulnerable.
	That's a good way of putting it.
	So I'm actually not terribly down, and I'm actually kind of optimistic.
	I'm angry at the manifest hypocrisy on day one!
	But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
	Anyway, Turwox.
	The way things are going right now, I've half a mind to support a reenactment of the last part of V for Vendetta.
	Disavow.
	The establishment and corporate elite could use some unscheduled...
	Don't do anything like that, right?
	Because I think what you're going to see is things falling apart all on their own.
	I don't actually think we're going to need to do much.
	But if you are going to do anything, make it a secession of the plebs.
	Make it a giant protest where you just say no and you refuse to engage.
	And en masse, a secession of the plebs was literally...
	What happened is the...
	The Roman aristocrats had drafted the plebs to win these wars.
	And after the wars, the Roman aristocrats were like, look, go back to business as normal.
	And they were like, no, we deserve some political representation.
	This is like 495 BC. So basically, they just left the city and went and sat on a hill and said, we're not going to do a damn thing for you until you give us a tribune to argue in our case.
	And Trump ended up playing that tribune role, in my opinion.
	But yeah, if you're going to do anything, just refuse to do what they want.
	You know, refuse to cooperate.
	Strike.
	You could call it a strike.
	That's acceptable leftist language.
	Shaker Silva says, Addendum to oil comment.
	A U.S. troop convoy has moved from Iraq to Syria by Kurdish-controlled areas rich in oil.
	Joe was right.
	America is back.
	Yeah, look forward to the Rainbow BLM bombs, to be honest.
	Joshua Carrico, Rip Syria, appreciate your work, lads.
	Thanks, man, we're doing our best.
	Gavin Death says, only six more weeks of annual BS story of Al-Assad gassing his own people.
	He didn't gas anyone during Trump's administration.
	Then suddenly...
	Josh Leek.
	With half the soldiers turning their backs to Biden as he drove, I'm wondering when the purge on MAGA troops will start and transition from the U.S. Army to the Progressive Army.
	Scary thoughts.
	It's already started.
	It's already started.
	But yeah, the troops turning their back on Biden and then Biden locking them in the basement.
	Very interesting.
	Patrick Leonhead.
	Keep up the good work, lads.
	Thank you very much.
	We'll do our best.
	Sorry?
	David Franco, Jr.
	I think scientists have a superiority complex, which leads them to believe they are more qualified to speak on matters that affect the public.
	Sam Harris thinks that he is vastly superior than half of the USA.
	Yeah.
	And not only that, I think that having good knowledge on some things makes them think they have massive knowledge on other things that they don't.
	And this is what Socrates ended up getting hemlocked for.
	The number three says, Yeah, it's not looking good, is it?
	Yeah, but I mean, someone's going to have to.
	When we get a store set up.
	We are getting these things together.
	These things just take time, though.
	But Heinlein was right.
	Artemis, inciting the erection.
	Carl Benjamin, 2021.
	Yes, that was a misspeak on my part, but if...
	We'll get that on a shirt, don't worry.
	Yeah, we'll get that on a shirt, and if I happen to have incited erections, then I disavow.
	Fencing Mitch!
	Be great if you could interview Dr.
	David Wood on morality since he's got a PhD on it or on anything really.
	Mike, make me become a member.
	Stay safe from the UK and strand of the coronavirus of virus of stay safe from the UK strand of the virus of undisclosed origin.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, David Wood got his channel demonetized the other day for reasons unknown.
	Best of luck to him, honestly.
	The universal acid down under supports your early starts?
	Yeah, I know, but Callum didn't like it.
	I floated the idea of starting midday every day and he didn't like it.
	David Franco Jr.
	What's ironic is scientists that make moral objective claims concerning a man's character when they spend their careers suggesting there is no morality.
	Yeah.
	And not only that, look at their lives.
	Look at them.
	There are so many of them that are just kind of personal failures.
	They don't have husbands, wives, children.
	They're not going to have grandchildren.
	They're very lonely.
	they're lonely people um david franco jr uh no i read that one easy everyone two brain cells to rub together uncle joe is stoking civil war tensions the media there is no civil war and bussings hey political pothead says caesar chavez was actually quite based on legal immigration yeah yeah we've we've we've covered But that doesn't justify him being a dictator.
	But he would be furious at Biden's immigration plan.
	C.K. Vega, initiating directive 7395.
	I don't know what that's a reference to.
	Well hung and done.
	Can we have a violent erection t-shirt?
	No!
	Good God, no!
	I'd be in so much trouble.
	We got a Patriot merch store, first thing.
	I misspoke, to quote Hillary Clinton.
	Say on this, they want to radicalise Trump supporters so they have an excuse to eliminate them and their narrative.
	Yeah, that's why I honestly think the Trump supporters can be fairly optimistic, right?
	Just keep nipping at their heels on social media.
	Keep criticising what they're saying.
	Keep posting the proof.
	You know, when you sign up with your new burner account because you've just been deplatformed for the 50 millionth time, you know, but post the proof in the reply.
	So on social media, the counter narratives are there.
	And I think that Biden's, like, you know...
	I don't think it's got the depth and the strength that it's going to need to be able to survive this.
	I think if you continually chip away at the narratives, continually chip and chip and chip and chip, then they'll crack quicker than you think.
	So you don't need to do anything more than using your phone here, I think.
	Artemis says, At this point, I think we should have a wieners-out march just to say we did it.
	That sounds like stunning and brave meninism to me.
	I'm not going to do that.
	I don't want pictures of my dick all over the internet.
	Thank you.
	Oh, it's a reference to Liberty Prime.
	Oh, right, right.
	It's a Liberty Prime.
	Initiating directive 7395.
	Destroy all communists!
	I might do a premium podcast about the philosophy of Liberty Prime.
	No, I've been thinking about it for a while.
	What I love about Liberty Prime is the categoric statements.
	There are categoric moral statements that are made.
	And we can substantiate these.
	I wonder who did the voice of it.
	Let's see if they're still alive.
	Yeah, see if we can get them to do a Liberty Prime voice for us.
	Doesn't Antifa and current progressive strains meet Hannah Arndt's definition of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism?
	I'd have to go back and re-read it.
	I think I read it when I was like 15, but I can't remember, but probably.
	I mean, they are totalitarian.
	There is no aspect of life that they consider separate to politics.
	Yeah.
	What?
	Sorry, I just found a thread that's like, who voices Liberty Prime?
	And all the answers are like, a true American.
	Uncle Sam.
	Nice.
	Right, we're going to have to go, so I'll do a couple more, but we'll have to go, I'm afraid.
	I had fun with the Shakespeare stuff on the 6th, but in all seriousness, thank you guys for all that you do.
	Your service has proven that you will continue to prove invaluable.
	Have a great weekend.
	Thank you, and you too.
	And making prisons more inclusive to discourage scrutiny about the soon-to-be sudden increase in inmates.
	The camps are inclusive.
	CNN in four months.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm going to leave that.
	But yeah, so I hope you all have a great weekend.
	We've got a recorded weekend podcast in a minute, but we will have more content to come tomorrow.
	As I said, you can go and subscribe to us on lotuses.com and get access to all of our premium content.
	The great thing about doing the premium content is it's often relevant beyond the immediate time that we've made it.
	So we've got a nice library of exclusive stuff.
	You can't get anywhere else that I'm very, very proud of.
	And, yeah, I'm very proud of it.
	No, I'm laughing because I'm reading the chat and they're like, we've got to deal with erection fraud.
	After we've dealt with the problems at hand, okay?
	And the violent erection.
	Look.
	Make erections great again.
	This is going to be a good meme.
	Oh, God, this is not going to be a good meme.
	Right, that's it.
	Okay, that's it.

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