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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #54

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters for Tuesday, the 26th of January, 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum, and today we're going to be talking about Biden's European ban.
	We're going to be talking about the never-ending lockdown and, of course, the way that social media has affected the political class.
	But before we start, I've got a couple of announcements, small announcements.
	Of course, the first one is you can go to loadseas.com and check out all our premium content if you'd like to support us and become a member.
	But we get a lot of emails to our contact email address asking us to cover various subjects and to the tips email address as well.
	And I've been asked to remind everyone that we're just a small team.
	We only have two people currently writing.
	So we actually can't cover everything and we understand that a lot of people come to us almost exclusively as we're told.
	So what we're going to be doing, because we've had so many signups to the website, is we're going to be expanding the team.
	So if you would like to be a daily news correspondent, we've been thinking about kind of A kind of new way of approaching this sort of low-level news updates, basically.
	And if you'd be interested in doing something like that, you can email contactatlotuses.com with your CV and links to your social media accounts and any other relevant information, and we may well get back to you.
	But anyway, let's get on with Biden's European ban, which begins with Biden lifting his terrorist ban.
	And it is his.
	It came from him and Obama.
	But this, he says, beyond contravening our values, these executive orders and proclamations have undermined our national security.
	That's right.
	Not allowing the terrorists into the United States undermines the national security of the United States.
	It's weird.
	It's the way Biden looks at the world.
	So there we go.
	That shows you exactly where Biden's priorities lie.
	It lies with making sure that terrorists are reunited with their families and that American families are more vulnerable.
	I just love the idea.
	It reminds me of Clinton as the mother of ISIS. Like, the terrorist ban has harmed our alliances.
	Which alliances are you talking about?
	Our relations with ISIS have never been worse.
	But instead of a ban, the White House says it will improve the screening of visitors by strengthening information sharing with foreign governments and other measures.
	Yes, the government of Somalia is notoriously trustworthy, and we're going to be sharing lots of information with them, and that certainly won't increase terrorism.
	Within 120 days, Biden said he wanted his Secretary of State and Homeland Security Director to provide a review of current vetting procedures and information sharing, along with the recommendations for revising them.
	I find this really interesting because it kind of implies that, okay, if the ban's being lifted now, and in 120 days, this review will have been conducted...
	What happens in that intermediate time?
	Is there no particular vetting process beyond the normal one, I suppose?
	Is it just like a window of opportunity for terrorists to get into the United States?
	I guess we'll find out, won't we?
	But anyway, for some reason, the new White House Press Secretary, Jan Psaki, suggested that Biden hadn't called Trump's Muslim ban xenophobic, which is weird, because that was literally the primary term he used.
	She said that, I don't think that's quite a fair articulation.
	But the thing is, I mean, if we can scroll down a bit, we can see the tweets in which he literally is using the word xenophobic to describe the ban.
	Stop the xenophobic fear-mongering.
	Be responsible.
	Do your job.
	You know, it's not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobic fear-mongering.
	He's literally using it.
	So why would you come out and say that?
	That's an obvious lie.
	And I don't want to...
	I mean, you know, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and all these sort of, you know, Washington Post...
	They're not going to be fact-checking Biden in the same way they fact-checked Trump, and they just came out and said, no, we're not going to bother doing that.
	It's like, okay, well, I don't want to have to do that myself, but on this particular case, just fact-checkers found this false.
	He did call it xenophobic.
	Why are you lying about this?
	But, yeah, so it's literally in the tweets.
	Anyway, Biden today has announced that he's going to be banning Europeans from going to America.
	I don't really know why, to be honest.
	Well, I do know why, but it just seems really xenophobic, frankly.
	If that's the standard we're using.
	Yeah, if that's the standard we're using.
	It's a very anti-white of you.
	Is that where we're going with this?
	Because, I mean, if we have his worldview, that's essentially what it is, which, of course, it isn't.
	This area has a lot of COVID, therefore we should stop travel from it.
	But if we were left-wingers, then we would have no other way of describing it than being racism against white people.
	Joe Biden has announced that travellers from South Africa will also be barred from entering the United States as a new coronavirus variant surges through the country.
	Additionally, the president has extended restrictions that target travellers from Ireland, the UK and 26 countries in Europe.
	These restrictions are expected to expire on Thursday due to a proclamation signed by Trump, but Biden has since overturned that proclamation.
	And Jen Psaki again says, Beginning tomorrow, international travellers to the US must provide proof of a negative test within three days of travel to the airlines prior to departure.
	Restrictions on the country have been in place since mid-March and Brazil was added in May.
	So, just inverting everything, really.
	And speaking of inverting everything, Biden has, of course, lifted Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
	Now, there are legitimate arguments on both sides of this particular conversation.
	For example, people should have the right to try to be able to serve.
	I mean, you might not succeed, you might fail the entry tests, but you as a citizen should be able...
	Theoretically, to try.
	I can see you giving me a cross-eyed look.
	How does this apply to a medical condition?
	I'm giving you the arguments on both sides.
	I understand, but the argument from the opposite side will be what we say on if you have this medical condition, this one or this one, we just say no.
	We're not even going to try you.
	Well, apparently, transgenderism is not one of those medical conditions, according to Imperator Biden.
	Obviously, the arguments on the other side are, well, I mean, what if you're in a war zone?
	How are you going to get hold of your vital medical needs, like the medicines, you know, your hormone injections and things like that?
	I mean, we were going to prioritize ammunition, but...
	I'm trying to think of another counter-argument, which would probably be, you know, you keep them away from the front lines in the same way we don't let women go to the front lines in the British Army.
	Yeah, sure.
	And that's pretty reasonable.
	You have to be combat-ready still.
	You are a reservist.
	Sure.
	But, I mean, that just is an argument for saying women should be in the military, isn't it?
	It is.
	Let's move on.
	I'm joking, I'm joking.
	But no, I actually do think that in non-combat roles these things are fine.
	Being a woman is a medical condition.
	Sorry, it's just funny.
	You do need personnel working behind the scenes and doing administrative jobs, and there's no particular reason that a man or a woman or a transgender person can't do those things.
	I do think that when it comes to frontline combat, there are other concerns, and I think that transgenderism shouldn't be one of those things that's At the forefront of the minds of the soldiers when they're currently engaging in combat.
	But anyway, moving on.
	All of these changes are, of course, radically inverting everything that Donald Trump has done.
	And the Washington Post, in this one opinion piece, is not very sympathetic.
	And I can't get over the tone that is being approached with this.
	Because if this is Joe Biden's view of unity, if this is the unity that we're all expecting, right?
	I am not interested in it.
	So, the real problem that many social conservatives have is that they have a strict and hidebound perspective on matters of gender and sexuality, and to them the idea that people can't even be transgender just seems wrong.
	Now, that's true.
	The conservatives don't recognize the distinction between sex and gender.
	They think that one is informed by the other biologically.
	The radical left believe that there is, and people who are in the middle try not to think about this at all, presumably.
	And so they tend to oppose any expansion of rights for trans people.
	Now, that's not the only reason they oppose expansion of rights, because as far as they're concerned, there is no such thing as an expansion of rights.
	The amount of human rights there are is exactly equal to the number of humans that there are, and that will never change in the American conservative mindset.
	So the idea of an expansion of rights has already gone beyond what the negative view of human rights is, and has gone into positive rights, which is rights constructed by the government, which is whatever the hell they want to make up next, which is, you know, the Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, well, I've got a thought in my head, that should be a human right, you know, like, you know, trains arriving on time should be a human right, you know, I should have a human right to get shot on a battlefield, you know, like, whatever it is, you know.
	But anyway...
	And when the president takes that step with a stroke of the pen, it's a vivid demonstration that they have had their power diminished.
	They've just lost political power, which compounds their loss of cultural power and makes them feel more and more like victims.
	A week ago, they had a president they saw as a champion of their worldview.
	Now it's all gone.
	So liberals can say to them, we hear you.
	We understand why this is upsetting to you.
	We're not trying to disrespect you, which that boat has sailed a long time ago, I would say.
	But we're doing it anyway because it's the right thing to do.
	That's right, just tell them to F themselves, is basically what the message is.
	This is, like, just Washington Post contributor.
	Many conservatives will find the Harriet Tubman bill distressing, so it refers to putting Harriet Tubman on a bill, which I don't care about at all.
	Even though they can barely tell you the first thing about Andrew Jackson, does that make them racist?
	The real answer is, it doesn't matter.
	What's in individual hearts is not really important.
	Oh, so now my intentions and my own concerns just don't matter.
	They don't matter.
	To hell with you.
	We're doing it anyway.
	Why are you even still here?
	Are you getting the message, guys?
	This is what unity looks like to the left at the moment.
	Sorry, we don't care.
	Shut up.
	It's happening, right?
	So this is obviously just an appeal to power, right?
	It doesn't even matter.
	It doesn't even matter if you're a racist.
	Does it make you a racist?
	Doesn't matter.
	We don't care.
	Mene frago.
	The left has returned.
	They're now very unhappy, and they're going to keep feeling these symbolic blows as the news tells them that they're not in charge and that America is moving in a direction they don't like.
	It's going to make them mad.
	But the right thing for Democrats to tell them is, we understand your feelings, we get why you don't like this, but we're doing it anyway, you'll get used to it.
	Wow, that is the most conciliatory and unifying statement and attitude that you could have approached any of this with.
	I can totally see why conservatives are completely happy with the Biden administration, and I'm clearly just going to go along with all of this in perpetuity.
	There will be no backlash to this, I'm sure.
	I'm sure that there won't be a backlash like Donald Trump setting up something called the Office of the Former President.
	Now, people may scoff at this, but I think it's wonderful.
	It's obviously a little bit of a bash at the Office of the President-elect.
	Yes, it is.
	Also not a thing, yeah.
	Well, it is a thing now, I guess.
	It's a joke thing.
	Yes.
	I mean, Trump has opened an office.
	He can do this.
	Doesn't make it official, but he can still do this.
	But legitimacy is often built on appearance and people's interaction with such thing.
	And the office itself will be responsible for managing Trump's public business.
	He technically is a former president.
	So, I mean, you know, I guess you just have to get used to it.
	And there's a bit of fake news that was going around that I just want to refute.
	And I say fake news, it's just not confirmed, really.
	A state representative from the 32nd District of Florida decided to tweet out, breaking, Hunter Biden is expected to lead the DEA, which is the Drug Enforcement Agency.
	Now, I mean, like...
	Stunning and brave.
	Yes, that would be one of my favourite things to happen in 2021, were that the case.
	Obviously, because, if anyone doesn't know, Hunter Biden's laptop was taken from a repair shop, it was given to Giuliani, and Giuliani leaked a bunch of stuff.
	And one of those things, we can get the next one up so we can see the picture.
	We can scroll down a bit, because we've got some pictures in here.
	Hopefully it's not the one of him having sex with a 14-year-old.
	That's right.
	Hunter Biden looking...
	Alleged.
	I think we should...
	Alleged, yes.
	Alleged.
	But I mean, feel free to sue us on that one, Hunter.
	I'd love to have...
	It out in court.
	Yeah, have it out in court.
	But there's Hunter Biden, unconscious, in bed with a crack pipe hanging out of his mouth.
	Returning dignity and decency to the White House.
	That's what the Bidens have done.
	This was, of course, suppressed by Twitter, and Twitter themselves came out and admitted, you know what, we probably shouldn't have suppressed that, because it turned out that something like 10% of voters in the US said that if they'd known about this in advance, they wouldn't have voted for Biden, and that would have actually put Biden under the requirement.
	But I suppose the F-curve would have just been bigger, so it would have been fine.
	But, yeah, anyway, the way this was reported, incidentally, by...
	Sorry, we'll go to the next one.
	I've archived, again, the Washington Post, who just seem to be on the wrong side of absolutely every issue.
	This is choosing cruelty to publish this sort of stuff, because as they say, it's well known that Hunter Biden's a drug addict.
	So this is why I think this is obviously fake news.
	There's no other evidence to suggest that Hunter Biden will be leaving the DEA, despite how great that would be, and while he's married to Lena Dunham, which is adorable, don't you think?
	I don't know why Lena Dunham wants to marry Hunter Biden and be his beautiful wife, but I have some bad news.
	I think the beautiful wife section may have already sailed.
	Maybe you could just be his wife.
	I mean, you know, that ship's gone.
	Side home, maybe.
	I don't even want to think.
	But no, I think they'd make a lovely couple, and I'm rooting for them.
	So yeah, everything in America is going horribly, horribly wrong.
	And the left don't care.
	They don't care about their opinions at all.
	I mean, just imagine if Trump Jr.
	was smoking a crack pipe.
	I mean, that's the thing that always irritated me with this.
	Like, okay, leaked from a laptop, that's Twitter's defense.
	I don't care.
	No one ever claims that it's not real, though.
	But that's the thing.
	If it had come from the other side, shoe on the other foot, what would be going on?
	God, it would be nothing but.
	Trump's kids had better watch themselves, because there will be constant...
	if that were to be the case.
	But yeah, but the point is, the real point I've gone through all this is that the ethos behind it, you can see it, they don't care.
	This talk of unity is actually talk of submission.
	You know, we're just going to do it.
	You're going to get used to it.
	You're going to deal with it.
	And we don't give a damn about your opinion.
	So shut up.
	I think you need to get the buttons just in case because I think I saw a thing on screen saying the TV might turn off.
	Oh, do you?
	We'll be cutting here for the clips anyway.
	We will.
	Sorry for people watching live.
	But anyway, how are things in the UK? So we've sort of been neglecting the UK a bit, I feel, because we've been focused, obviously, on the new administration in the US. And you've got to, because that's what's going on.
	And in the UK, not much has been going on, unfortunately.
	That's of interest.
	By law.
	Yeah, by law.
	There's literally not much anyone can do.
	Nobody's allowed to do anything.
	But I did find some of the stuff that was going on with COVID kind of hilarious and terrifying.
	So the hilarious part here is obviously the first thing I wanted to get up with.
	Terrified laughter ensues, right?
	Essentially.
	A little while back, there were arrests over disgusting racist COVID-19 stickers.
	Oh, don't be racist to COVID-19.
	And you might think, well, what's all that about?
	If you can scroll down, we'll get the stickers up so you can read it.
	So they were, Open Border, Virus Disorder, and Pubs Closed, Borders Open.
	Ooh.
	That's the racist stickers, which are disgusting.
	That was literally true, though.
	But I can see that there is a logo, a name attached to this, which I assume is the racist part, really.
	I can only assume.
	I know nothing about this organisation.
	It's not famous in the slightest.
	But the message there, pubs closed, borders open, is quite a famous meme at this point.
	Which is just that, well, throughout this entire period of lockdowns, we've had our international travel open.
	People can come and go as they will freely.
	But the borders between the UK nations are getting closed.
	And also all of our pubs are closed.
	Like, this doesn't add up.
	It doesn't make sense.
	Literally in Wales, they're not allowed to serve alcohol.
	Yeah, there were some funny parts here.
	The police said that they arrested two people who were aged 20 and 22 and held on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences.
	Against what race?
	Name them.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	Yeah.
	And then there was a local council talking about this, saying, using this pandemic to spread racism and hatred is unacceptable.
	Again, what race?
	Like, it's just absurd.
	The French are free to come here and we're not allowed to say that's wrong because it's racism.
	But I think they have found the culprits.
	I think they have identified who has been doing this, and if you can get the next one up, I think it's Priti Patel.
	I think they've got him.
	Got him, lads.
	So this is the news that Priti Patel wanted to close the UK borders in March, and this was a bit of a...
	Disgusting racism?
	Yeah, I assume that's the other way to describe it, but it's a mess up by her.
	She didn't say this publicly.
	She was on a Zoom call and said it to some supporters.
	So she says here that last week Johnson announced the suspension of travel corridors to protect against the risk of yet unverified new strains.
	So apparently the new strains were enough to close the borders, but why not sooner?
	Didn't think the new strain would come from within the country, did they?
	No, so Priti Patel made the point here, which, when she was asked about it, was she was on a call with Conservative Friends of India group.
	So she does, like, Zoom calls for each constituency at the moment, because there's nothing else to do.
	What else are you going to do?
	Yeah, so she's calling up the, you know, Indian friends.
	I think she's part Indian, is that correct?
	Well, her surname is Patel.
	Yeah, so that's, I guess, why.
	She's asked the question by the Conservative Friends of India.
	Should we have closed our borders earlier?
	And she answered, yes.
	I was an advocate of closing them last March.
	So on the right side of the issue there, which is good.
	And the travel corridors have been put into place, which is the next one.
	This is the Guardian reporting.
	UK shuts travel corridors and requires negative COVID tests to enter.
	Why was this not the case for the last year?
	Patel has nothing.
	She didn't have a solution, which is just, I was overruled by Boris.
	There we go.
	Fair enough.
	Well, he does want to build back better, after all, doesn't he?
	But the irritating part of all of this is it's a massive win for the Labour Party, which I did not see coming, because they've been able to...
	They're now, like, hammering out, like, close the borders, which is weird.
	Didn't expect this from them.
	Keir Starmer suddenly morphing into his...
	No, I'm not going to carry on.
	So they mention in this article, after months of criticism of the government's lax border policies, which Labour claimed was costing lives, the Prime Minister said that he was tightening the rules to prevent new variants of the virus reaching the UK. Didn't care that border policies cost lives before, did he?
	No.
	Not even slightly care.
	But now...
	I checked up on the Twitter accounts of the Labour Party and Keir Starmer, and yes, they are making posts that are just like, close the borders.
	We're gaining loads of followers with UKIP in their bio.
	But it's bizarro world.
	Absolutely bizarro world.
	I don't understand.
	There is no explanation for this.
	Why was this not done sooner?
	We know the answer.
	The answer is perfectly obvious, and Joe Biden was exactly an example of it.
	Xenophobic.
	It was the Labour Party going, no, that'd be racist.
	Xenophobic.
	Literally, the police prosecuting people, going after people for saying maybe the borders should be closed if the pubs are also going to be closed.
	Those stickers are racist for saying we should close the borders.
	The Labour Party were on the side of open borders.
	Yeah, Priti Patel's stickers and Boris's stickers, I guess, not advisable.
	But the broader point here is obviously that the lockdown has continued and is going on, and when's it going to end?
	Well, the BBC were talking about this, and Laura Kusenberg writing, she's the political editor, saying that, well...
	It's a long-winded article.
	Waste of my time, really.
	It basically came down to, they don't even know?
	Like, they kept saying, oh, we'll do it before Easter, we'll do it before Easter, and now it's, oh, we'll do it after Easter, we'll do it after Easter, and they just keep changing and making up new stuff.
	Yeah, I watched Boris's announcement the other day, and they just had it indeterminate.
	Oh, well, these lockdowns are just going to go on.
	And it's like, oh, are they?
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, like some days...
	And I guess we'll just accept it.
	Until we have X amount of vaccinations, until we have X amount of infections per day, you're just...
	Until the burden on the NHS goes down.
	Save the sacred, holy NHS, you see, Callum.
	That's the thing.
	And it really does show that the NHS has become the cathedral of Britain.
	It's the new religion.
	It is the thing to which we must all supplicate ourselves.
	I hate it.
	And I don't even hate the NHS. The NHS itself as an institution is fine.
	I've always had good interactions with it.
	You know, it's fine.
	I think it's a decent idea in principle.
	But sacrificing the country to save the NHS? No, I'm not down with that.
	Sorry.
	Fuck the NHS. Fuck the NHS. Like, if anything's been worse for the public relations of the NHS, it's actually the people trying to support it by promoting.
	Clap for them and save it and blah blah blah.
	And TikTok videos.
	TikTok videos.
	Jeez.
	I mean, like I said, I didn't hate the NHS, but I did.
	And then I looked on TikTok and then I began to hate it.
	Anyway, so they mention here that they don't really have a solution and it's embarrassing to watch.
	And there was some...
	Why don't they ring up Xi Jinping?
	Hi, Xi, we're doing your lockdowns.
	We're implementing them as hard as we can, but we actually don't know why it's not working.
	We don't know when it ends.
	Can you give us further instructions, please?
	Lockdown forever would be the advice.
	Destroy your own economy more.
	Exactly.
	We actually have a bonus premium podcast talking about this.
	Myself and Hugo did about a week ago, and it's worth your time because it seems that the origin of the lockdowns was, in fact, Xi Jinping himself.
	Which, why would you trust?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why would you follow his policy?
	Yeah, and the next one here was Reuters reporting that Dominic Raab talking about this.
	So he was hoping that we would end by March, and then has thrown that completely out.
	Would you have a government?
	So you're in charge of this.
	You can decide when this is going to happen.
	Yeah, you're making people do it.
	They won't give a date.
	And this has also made people pretty suspicious, because if we can get the next one, they pass some legislation.
	That should be another Reuters article.
	No, I think you've skipped it.
	Go back.
	Sorry.
	But right, anyway.
	So the British government has quietly extended the coronavirus lockdown laws to give councils in England extra powers to close clubs, restaurants, shops, public spaces until July 17th.
	So they had made it so you can, from a council perspective, extend the lockdowns up until July.
	Oh my god.
	But, of course, national government hasn't said it, therefore it's not really happening.
	It's like, well, why did you pass the legislation then?
	Like, if you're not going to use it, why did you pass it?
	So I mean, what's the plan?
	Are we to be perpetually in lockdown until people stop dying?
	By the looks of it, yeah, it seems to be a zero COVID policy now where we're trying to eliminate the thing, which I don't know how that's going to work.
	So that's the confirmed of what's happening.
	There are speculations that it might go even longer than that.
	Or until September and things like that.
	Yeah, things like that.
	But let's get the vaccination data.
	So if you can scroll down here, we can see a graph of vaccinations per hundred in each country.
	You can see that Israel's doing amazingly well, which is not good for them.
	And then the UAE, much smaller populations than most countries.
	But then you've got the United Kingdom being third, so the biggest success country, actually dealing with a major population.
	And that's about 10%, which if it carries on, we should end up with about 40% by next month, and then...
	What percentage of the UK is vulnerable, like, in the vulnerable age category?
	Like, you know, what percentage of the UK is, like, over 60?
	I think it's, like, 20%, something like that.
	So, I mean, can we not, once we've reached that, just get on with our lives?
	Yeah, I just don't understand why you'd need to extend till July, September, whatever, if this is about, you know, just mitigating it.
	But it doesn't seem to be.
	It's about, you know, saving lives, protect the NHS, then you vaccinate the old people, and then everyone gets on with their lives.
	Yeah, but that doesn't seem to be the policy.
	The policy seems to be that we're going to just do this until it's exterminated, which doesn't really make sense.
	Because of the costs.
	Because it's not just, oh, well, if we get rid of the virus, then all problems in the world are solved.
	There are other problems in the world to deal with.
	Many of them caused by lockdowns.
	Yeah, many of them caused by lockdowns.
	So one of this was just, I was looking at the O&S figures.
	So the unemployment for this year has gone up.
	So it's at 5% now, so it sort of goes down and then it peaks again, and it's expected to rise even further, so it'll probably keep going up, which isn't great.
	And for every percentage point of unemployment, what I mean, what is that?
	Like...
	600,000 people?
	Something like that.
	1%?
	Something about that?
	So millions unemployed.
	Yeah.
	Which, great.
	I mean, you can just, like, every day on my social media feed, I'll see something from, you know, some local paper that'll be like, in Bristol today...
	Debenhams are shut.
	So the Debenhams and Bristol's just shut.
	And they're like, oh, what are we going to replace it with?
	And the answer is nothing.
	Nothing's going to replace it.
	It's gone.
	In the same way that nothing replaced our Sainsbury's here.
	It's gone.
	That's just it.
	These things are over.
	They're not coming back.
	And they can't come back because nothing can be open.
	Hmm.
	So we can get the...
	There's also the question of mental health, so if we can get the next one up.
	This is a case which got kind of famous.
	It's just come out, which is that a mother admitting to killing her disabled son, who was 10 years old, while struggling to care for him during lockdown.
	Now, this was in the previous lockdown, not the current one.
	And the previous one was much better.
	It was much more easy to deal with.
	Yeah.
	But she went absolutely bloody cuckoo, by the sounds of it, and decided to suffocate him to death.
	And she did, and she's admitted it.
	she's now guilty so she believed that she was uh like there's audio recordings of her talking and she believed that she was sacrificing her son to save the world and weird stuff like this you did You did this.
	Your lockdowns did this.
	Drove this woman mad to the point where she killed her son thinking she's saving the country by doing it.
	You did this.
	Yeah.
	So she's been found guilty of this.
	She was being charged with murder.
	Then she admitted, no, it's not murder because I'm mental.
	It's manslaughter.
	So she denied the murder and admitted on the grounds of manslaughter with diminished responsibility.
	And to be honest, by the sounds of it, I do believe that she was just mentally ill and suffocated her son.
	Her son had huge problems with interacting.
	He had to go to a special school normally five days a week.
	And he couldn't because of the lockdown.
	I imagine that he was suffering tremendously.
	She ends up going mad, basically.
	Essentially, yeah.
	Seems to be how it went down.
	And this is just from the last lockdown.
	We have no idea how many of these cases or how many are going to be happening for this lockdown during the winter months, which is obviously going to be much worse.
	I mean, at least some old people may survive a couple of extra years.
	You know, I mean, it's okay.
	It's just children we're sacrificing to sustain these elderly people.
	I mean, have we asked any of these elderly people how they feel about this?
	God, I'm not even going to start.
	Let's just Well, I have some good news, so I can pick you up a little bit.
	So if we can get the first image up, I don't know if you've got that, but I decided to look at the ONS data for suicide, and the data per year is about 5,000 people dying thereabouts.
	It's pretty standard.
	It seems to be not changing that much.
	But with COVID, of course, a lot of people were worried.
	Is this massively going to go up?
	People stuck at home, things like this.
	And here's just a data sheet.
	It's a bit of a boring data sheet to look at, but I've highlighted the important bits.
	It's largely the same except for quarter two where we've had the lockdown, which you can see a 56% drop in suicides.
	So it's about 500 people, which is nice.
	But you look back at that and you think about that time.
	It was a few weeks.
	I can't remember how long it was.
	And it was during the summer months, so people could have an easier time.
	We don't have the data for quarter four for the winter months for the UK, which I can imagine are not great.
	Yeah, I mean, you can see in quarter three, it just went straight back up to the regular level.
	Yeah.
	But quarter four is obviously the worst because the winter months are the worst time to be alone.
	And yeah, with the lockdowns being much longer in a much worse part of the year, I imagine it's not great.
	And this doesn't cover things like murder and things like that, does it?
	Spousal abuse.
	Yeah.
	No, I just looked at suicides here because I was just looking at it.
	I've seen in America, the Centre for Disease Control put out a report that said that there have been 26% excess deaths in 25 to 44-year-olds, so 25% more, a quarter more deaths in the young age range than usual.
	It's like, well, okay, how do you explain that?
	And it's not just the adults.
	Josh sent me this, which is a study looking at children in Germany during the COVID pandemic.
	And they were able to get their findings to align with people in India and Brazil as well.
	So it's foreign, but it seems to be representative of how people are dealing with it.
	People under lockdowns.
	Yeah.
	So their measurements here were quality of life was down 40% of those surveyed, and there were more mental health problems, a 17% rise, and higher anxiety levels among the children, a 24% rise, and children with low socioeconomic status were those worst affected, which does make sense.
	We've seen a lot of this.
	Not surprising in any way, shape, or form.
	And I just want to say, as a parent, I've seen the effect this has had on my own children.
	It's hurting them.
	Yeah.
	It is hurting my children.
	It's not going well.
	Boris, you are hurting my children to try and save elderly people.
	I don't know why you think that's acceptable.
	I want...
	God damn, I want this addressed.
	It's a weird inversion of morals.
	And then there's just the absurd part of the people must die campaign.
	So if you can get the image 2, 3 and 4 up just so we can show them.
	But the government decided that they weren't scaring the populace enough about what was going on.
	So they decided to release new campaigns to try and convince people.
	And here it is.
	If you go out, people will die with an image of a guy presumably on COVID dying on a bed or something.
	Not the best messaging.
	Not the best optics.
	No, no, no, no.
	I agree.
	Yes.
	You can cut out the if part.
	People will die.
	That is a true and eternally true statement.
	And if they don't die, they're no longer people.
	All people die.
	Memento Mori Boris!
	God, don't...
	And it wasn't just an online campaign, so you can get the next image up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I watched...
	My wife showed me an advert on TV yesterday, because I don't watch TV. TV, radio, and then the last one is just like a bus stop.
	Like, just a bus stop.
	People will die.
	Yes, they will.
	I'm just going to the shop.
	Sleep me alone.
	What the heck?
	Remember that you're mortal.
	Yeah, well, I know.
	And I don't know why they did this.
	I think they're sort of, you know, Fuhrerbunker mentality.
	Yeah.
	And they're sort of just coming out of stuff that doesn't make any sense.
	But that's the thing.
	We've been saying this for ages.
	You know, they're committed to a bad policy that has not had the effect that they want.
	I mean, I saw other articles that were saying, you know, COVID's currently ripping through nursing homes and stuff like that.
	And so that's why...
	The deaths are so high at the moment.
	It's like, well, those lockdowns worked, didn't they?
	You know, people will die, I guess.
	But your point about, you know, you will die, yes.
	I put this on Twitter and the best response was, big, if true.
	LAUGHTER I wrote this Memento Mori article a couple of weeks ago because this is something that just really bothers me.
	Basically, this is part of the teleology of a human being.
	You are born and you will die.
	And it's not just that you will die, it's that you must die.
	Part of being a human is your inevitable death, and it's the arc of your life.
	And this is what the ancient Greeks looked at it.
	They didn't look at it as in, you know, are you happy?
	You can only tell if someone was happy if they had a good life after they died, because you never know tomorrow what terrible catastrophes might befell you.
	And so you just accept that death is a part of life, and it is a part of the story of the human being.
	And in every culture, this is something people have to deal with.
	But anyway, this is basically my argument against this fantasy of eternal life that they expect us to have.
	I mean, just how long do we have to be locked in our houses until old people stop dying, Boris?
	That's the answer.
	That's the answer that you have to give us.
	How long?
	What's the date?
	How many years?
	And they can't give it.
	Obviously not.
	It's a stupid question.
	They've extended it for the councils to July, so presumably July.
	Right, great.
	Old people will stop dying after July.
	Brilliant.
	I hate this so much, man.
	Because I was saying earlier, it reminds me of David Cameron back in the day, he declared that child poverty was illegal.
	I was like, okay, that's done.
	Dealt with that.
	Let's move on to another problem.
	It doesn't make sense.
	You can't just say these things will go and they will go.
	That's not how it works.
	That's not how it works.
	Anyway, let's talk about how social media has changed politics and the political class, probably irrevocably until social media is banned for destroying society, which it probably is.
	Pew Research put out a big report and it was very interesting.
	I love the way they frame it.
	They're not especially productive in passing bills.
	The 116th Congress set new marks for social media use.
	Good.
	Why is that good?
	The Congress is not very useful, but they're on Twitter all day, every day.
	Brilliant.
	So anyway, the 116th Congress wasn't especially productive in terms of the number of substantive bills it passed during its two years in office, but it set several records for the lawmakers' use of social media, according to the Pew Research Analysis.
	This is amazing, isn't it?
	What a wonderful...
	The way that they're saying it is if it's positive.
	If it's an entirely negative thing, get off social media and get to work.
	Congress has always had a terrible approval rating, a single-digit approval rating.
	Any single politician in America is never as unpopular as all of them combined.
	I am actually going to disagree with you a little bit though.
	I like the first part of this article where they're saying they're not passing any bills because quite frankly it's the best place for them.
	It's like when they all go on recess.
	Do you feel safer with them on recess or in there?
	True.
	Fair point.
	But apparently the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.
	That means the median member of Congress produced more than 3,000 across their profiles on the two social media platforms during the span.
	they produced 738,000 more social media posts than the previous Congress of 2015-2016, the first one for which the Centre has data.
	So this is increasing.
	And presumably, they don't have the data for this, but let's be fair, it's going to be lower as we go back previously because social media was less popular and because social media is...
	Less young congressmen as well.
	Exactly, less young.
	And because the younger congressmen are coming in and because social media is getting prominence, it's just going to keep going up.
	Social media is going to be the primary avenue of their work, I guess.
	As Congress has grown more active on social media, audience engagement has increased as well.
	So we, the people who are watching and following them on social media, are encouraging this.
	Posts from members of the 116th Congress received more than 2 billion favorites and reactions across Twitter and Facebook, as well as half a billion shares, retweets on the two platforms combined.
	Meanwhile, the total number of users who follow members of Congress on Twitter or Facebook has nearly tripled over the last three sessions.
	The number of lawmakers with more than a million followers across their social media accounts has tripled over the last three legislative sessions, from just 10 such members to 30 in the most recent one.
	And the graphs, as we can see, if we go down a little bit on the thing, show that we can see that the blue is obviously the Democrats, the red are the Republicans.
	And as you can see, the Democrats massively outweigh the Republicans in this field.
	It's interesting to watch that the 114th is actually rather red.
	Yeah.
	Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and then the 116th, Bernie, Kamala, AFC, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, you know, dominating.
	How is Mitt Romney Republican?
	Yeah, and how has he got 12 million followers?
	Because he's not a Republican, that's why.
	Exactly, right?
	He's not a shadow band.
	12 million followers with pronouns in their bios, right?
	But the thing you'll notice is why there's so many Republicans on there.
	Well, I mean, the real issue, I think, is who was on Twitter during the 115th Congress?
	And who is not on Twitter now?
	Trump?
	Yeah.
	Obviously, right?
	Because if we can get to the next one, there has been a massive balance of power shift in this domain.
	After Twitter and everyone else enacted Trump's digital execution, Republicans lost tens of thousands of followers.
	Then-majority leader Mitch McConnell lost 45,000 followers.
	Chuck Grassley lost 50,000.
	Marco Rubio lost 78,000.
	And Lindsey Graham, who lost the most, at 112,000 followers.
	So if social media is becoming sort of influence metrics for Congress members, then the Republicans are losing heavily.
	But the Democrats are winning bigly.
	Go on.
	I think we did calculate at the time.
	The same time, was it Lindsey Graham lost 114,000?
	112.
	112.
	Nancy Pelosi gained like 200,000.
	Well, I was about to go through that, yeah.
	Amy Klobuchar, 70,000 up.
	Elizabeth Warren is 80,000 up.
	Bernie Sanders won 350,000 up.
	And Kamala Harris, 1.3 million up.
	Well, to be fair, she wasn't nobody.
	Yeah, nobody liked her.
	Yeah.
	Nobody liked her.
	She was down to less than 5% vote share in the primaries before she dropped out.
	Nobody likes her, and yet she's now the vice president, blah, blah, blah.
	But the point is, you can see that the abolition of Donald Trump has had a massive effect on the sort of social media environment.
	And now this matters because this affects the way that people think.
	People get locked into their social media channels where they only see news from one side, and they only see hostility from the other side, and this affects the way they perceive the world.
	I mean, it would be the equivalent for cable news.
	Like, if all the people who run the cables just decided we're banning Fox News, like, Fox News isn't there anymore, and then all of a sudden, you know, Newsmax has no more viewers, and then CNN has a million more.
	Yeah.
	And it'd be like, what the hell's happened here?
	But obviously it's the rigging of the social media system in the favor of the Democrats against the Republicans with the just outright, again, just digital execution of Donald Trump, then the sitting president.
	So this is the future.
	And the future is...
	Twitter getting mobs of social justice warriors on their platform to police what is true.
	They've introduced something called Birdwatch, a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information, and they want your help.
	Well, of course you do.
	It's community-driven.
	I mean, the picture for it looks like an Orwellian eye, but we don't actually have it up here.
	We're going to get a mob to go after people.
	Yeah, but not only that.
	Like, yeah, this was the thing, the profile.
	They literally copy and pasted the 1984 thing.
	Virtually, yeah.
	They may as well have written 1984 in the centre of the eye.
	I mean, just...
	Like, there's no self-awareness at all.
	But this is the thing, right?
	So, what now?
	Truth is going to be decided on Twitter by the people who use Twitter.
	Now, if there's one group of people, one demographic, that I don't want deciding truth...
	They don't even know what gender they are.
	Exactly.
	They don't even know what gender they are.
	Truth is a meaningless concept to most of these people.
	They don't believe that there's truth.
	There's my truth, my subjective truth.
	Your subjective truth is nonsense because my subjective truth overrules it.
	My lived experience.
	Exactly, my lived experience.
	Right, so anyway, they put out a little video which they're like, you know, oh, someone posts, you know, whales are government robots.
	And we won't go through it, but basically they show you that they're going to have, like, various options.
	So you can report this to Birdwatch, right?
	And they'll ask you questions, sort of like, why do you think this tweet may be misleading?
	And the options are factual error, digitally altered video, so memes...
	Outdated information that may be misleading, which is a factual error.
	Wait, hang on.
	So that's going to be like Nancy Pelosi tweeting, this election is rigged in 2016.
	Yeah.
	Misrepresentation or missing context.
	Unverified claim as fact.
	Again, these things could just be termed as factual errors.
	Joke or satire misinterpreted as fact or other.
	It's like, right, okay.
	Do I, for a second, want a mob of Twitter users telling people what is and is not factual?
	Okay, these people, a couple of years ago, were being grilled by Congress and said, we do not want to be the arbiters of truth.
	Yeah.
	And now they're like, but we will let all of the psychos that we know have been funneled into these echo chambers and have a delusional view of reality, they can be the arbiters of truth.
	See, it's not our fault now.
	Now it's a community-driven project.
	Or minions that we've radicalized.
	Yeah, and honestly, if we're banning anything, like Parler or anything like that, Twitter's got to be next, man.
	Twitter is just...
	And this thing, the reason this matters is because all of these politicians are on Twitter all the time.
	They're constantly using it.
	They constantly have their worldview formed by Twitter.
	We spoke about this.
	The audience for Twitter is actually quite small.
	It's tiny.
	Less than telegrams.
	Yeah.
	But the important part is that they just have all the politics on it.
	And all of the politicians use it, and therefore their opinions are formed by it.
	And now the facts that they will have access to will be formed by the radical left-wing moles who control Twitter.
	Like, why the hell would anyone want this?
	And the question is, you know, is this going to...
	One of the things you're like, right, so you've reported the kind of thing it is.
	It's something true that we don't like.
	It's a meme.
	It's a meme, yeah.
	And the question is, will it cause little harm or considerable harm?
	It's like...
	I don't know, how many tweets have caused harm?
	I looked into this, and I did find a few, but we'll go into that in a second.
	You'll be provided with 280 characters to explain why your propaganda is correct and theirs isn't, and then this will be community checked to see if people agree with it or not.
	It's like, right, but that doesn't mean it's true.
	I got 20,000 people who all believe that, oh, I don't know, Bernie Sanders really is the president or something, to see if this tweet that I put out was true.
	And they said no, it wasn't.
	So it's not true.
	This is incredibly open to messing with.
	Because it's literally mob rule.
	But I have to wonder in my head, I feel like, you know, take extreme groups who are conspiracy theorists.
	Like, just take the QAnoners for a while.
	Well, like the Russiagate.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Rachel Maddow is going to be declaring everything about Russia to be true.
	Yes, but also at the same time, within a year, we will have, you know, Twitter fake checks that, you know, the demonic pedo cult is also real because the community says so.
	Well, they would if QAnon hadn't been waxed off of Twitter.
	Yeah, they can all just make new accounts.
	I guess they'll have to.
	There'll be a constant, like, you know, wiping of these people.
	But that's the point.
	It's like, allowing a mob on Twitter to determine truth from falsity is just an awful idea.
	But anyway, talking about considerable harm, right?
	I was looking at this, I couldn't really find...
	Is that not considerable harm?
	Should we all report the Birdwatch account for considerable harm?
	I think maybe that is an idea, but I don't think they'll do anything about it.
	The only considerable harm I could find was to stock prices.
	Elon Musk had tweeted back in 2020, May 1st, that Tesla's stock price is too high, in my opinion, and then it lost 10%.
	The only other one I could find was game developer Zoe Quinn after accusing another game developer, Alec Holowak.
	I can't pronounce that.
	Stupid name.
	Yeah, she accused him of raping her and physically confining her via Twitter.
	She didn't go to the police, obviously.
	And she did this on August the 26th.
	And then on August 31st, after having his career ruined, all of his friends turned on him in the interceding days, he committed suicide.
	However, this seems to be slightly outside of the scope of what Birdwatch is talking about.
	I don't really see that.
	How do you even police for that?
	Facebook does this, and they say all insults are to be taken down.
	So if someone comments under your post on Facebook and refers to you as a pig or something like this...
	content moderators that are informed to do because any type of insult could lead to a suicide.
	Therefore, all insults have to go.
	It's like, look, yeah, I mean, suicides are bad, cyberbullying is bad, but do we really want to give people license to delete anything that could be perceived as causing that?
	Yes.
	I really don't.
	Well, that's what they want.
	That's what they've done.
	And that's what they've done, yeah, exactly.
	But like you say, I agree.
	I think that's outside of the scope of what Birdwatch can achieve.
	But that was really the only direct harm I could find from tweets, was creating a giant cyber mob that ruined this guy's life that caused him to commit suicide.
	So presumably so, Quinn will be banned within a week, but...
	Well, I mean...
	Guess not.
	I wonder what the left-wing Twitter mob will find to be factually accurate or inaccurate amongst her tweets.
	I mean, she's making a bunch of allegations.
	How do you fact check these allegations without a police investigation?
	She didn't go to the police.
	There has been no investigation.
	There's no repercussions for her for driving this man to suicide.
	But her and a mob can fact check it.
	It's true.
	And they can fact check as well.
	She alleged we believe all women, therefore he was a rapist.
	Like, who knows?
	That's how facts work.
	This is how facts work in the realm of Twitter.
	And just to be clear, Twitter, for example, ban misgendering on its platform in 2018.
	So you can't deadname or misgender people.
	So if you would say that trans women are men, they would fact-check...
	Fact-checked as true!
	No, they would fact-check that as false, because trans women are women.
	Pantomime horses are horses, you know, like this...
	Wait, so I could identify, because I saw SoundCloud talking about identifying as an attack helicopter.
	A bunch of people could fact-check that as true, and then it just is true.
	If they say so.
	Okay.
	Truth isn't correspondence to reality.
	Truth is consensus.
	How many people believe it?
	Exactly.
	That's what we have arrived at, right?
	But yeah, so, I mean, and the thing is, right, if you were to say to someone on Twitter, like, if they say, my name is April, and you say, no, your name is Mark, and I've got a picture of your birth certificate and your current driver's license and your passport to prove it, then Twitter would say, no, fact check wrong.
	They say that their name is April, so...
	A hundred people disagree.
	Yeah.
	They don't have the birth certificate.
	A hundred people with mental disorders and pronouns in their bios, they know that person's name is April, so you're wrong.
	And also you're banned for deadnaming and misgendering this person.
	But it's just not just gender, because of course they're a transition.
	That's just an easy example.
	To any extreme.
	I mean, transracialism.
	If Sean King says he's black, he is black.
	It doesn't matter whether or not you've got, you know, photo evidence of his skin tone.
	Him and his followers believe he is black.
	If that's the standard, I don't see how this can possibly go wrong.
	Especially as the revolution is currently turning on its own.
	This is a chap called Will Wilkinson, who the Hill are complaining about, oh, cancel culture has come from the moderates.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Of course it has.
	Of course it has.
	What sort of stupid...
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	What did you think he was going to do?
	Who was left?
	You got rid of all the extremists.
	You cancelled them.
	You even cancelled the president.
	And now it's like, okay, well, we've still got this giant cancelling tool and everything looks like a nail, you know.
	There's no one else left to cancel.
	Sorry.
	You know, it's just the moderates that are left.
	And this was the chap who said, he sarcastically tweeted...
	If Biden really wanted unity, he'd lynch Mike Pence.
	Obviously, and I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with this article.
	That was just a sarcastic, satirical tweet, because the thing is, the guy who said it works for a libertarian think tank, right?
	And he was just like, look, this call for unity is a lie.
	They don't want unity.
	This is nonsense.
	So sarcastically, he was like, you know, if they wanted this, they'd call for lynching Mike Pence, obviously meaning the opposite, right?
	But, and he's issued his apology, but it doesn't matter.
	It does not matter.
	And it's not just left-wingers, not just right-wingers, like libertarians are getting it.
	Obviously the other day we found that Twitter had suspended several prominent anti-fire accounts, one of which had 71,000 followers following the riots and were created in 2012.
	And then Facebook starts suspending socialist accounts as well.
	The Socialist Workers Party has told the Express.co.uk, Facebook has given no reason for disabling the accounts and has not given any genuine way of appealing what has happened.
	Oh really?
	I can't believe Facebook would do that.
	That's totally unprecedented.
	They've never done that with anyone ever before.
	Let me get my violin out.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Activists have expressed concern that it amounts to silencing of political activists and left-wing views on Facebook.
	Oh no!
	Not the silencing of left-wing political views.
	It was fine when it was the silencing of right-wing political views, but now it's a problem.
	These people can just screw themselves.
	I imagine.
	I've got no sympathy for these folks.
	None whatsoever, right?
	And I think it's worth us just wrapping up very quickly with Gab is working great.
	You can follow me on Gab if John's got the link.
	That's mine.
	Oh no, that's Gab.
	Gab's working great.
	There have been massive upgrades to their servers and it's running smooth as anything.
	Trump should definitely join Gab as I posted.
	Mines, of course, is obviously doing very well.
	This is Callum.
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	This is Callum on Mines.
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	So you should definitely follow Callum as well.
	On Gab, sorry.
	And this is my account on Mines.
	Again, Mines is working great and doing very well and a perfectly good Facebook replacement.
	And for any of our premium subscribers in the gold tier, we're doing a Zoom call at 4 o'clock.
	And after this, we're going to be recording a premium podcast following up on the ethics of social justice, which was the one we did last week.
	It got a lot of very, very good responses and very, very good commentary on it.
	So I'll be addressing a lot of that commentary because it's really worth going into.
	So yeah, we will see you on the Zoom call.
	But for now, we'll go through some questions that we have received.
	Hello, Carl.
	Hello, Carl.
	My question is, what do you think will happen to the whole 2020 voter fraud investigation?
	First of all, do you think it's ongoing?
	And do you think that it will go for as long as the whole Russia thing went on?
	And do you think that the Biden administration will allow 40 million dollars to be spent on, well, you know, the investigation on voter fraud.
	Thank you.
	I'm sure he said voter fraud there.
	I don't expect Biden to give any investigation into voter fraud.
	Do you?
	No.
	Why would he want to?
	He's almost explicitly said no.
	He's carrying on with the impeachment of Trump, and I think he said now that it has to happen.
	That's Biden's word, so he's not even playing on the fence anymore.
	He's in favour of going after it.
	What would Biden stand to gain from investigating voter fraud?
	No one ever accuses the Republicans of voter fraud, do they?
	So, you know, I don't think that's going to happen.
	I think that the matter will just be ignored, and Biden will carry on with his radical agenda.
	Should we go for the next one?
	Hey, sorry, how's it going?
	Hopefully this works out better.
	Last time I guessed my audio didn't work.
	I have been following you since about...
	2012, 13.
	I started right following you when you were covering Obamacare before it first came out.
	And since then, yeah, I'm a top tier subscriber now.
	Thank you.
	A lot of my first question has been answered as to what happens next.
	The GOP, at least Rand Paul, is going around to these state houses.
	And they are trying to work with them to get better voting laws in place.
	My question for you is this.
	What do you think is going to happen?
	What do you suggest if two years, four years comes by and nothing has changed or the same people that are counting the votes this time are still in place as last time?
	What do you suggest?
	I know you're not going to suggest violence, this, that, and the other.
	It's YouTube.
	You're going to disavow that.
	I understand.
	But I saw a complete breakdown of the system this election.
	The fraud was in.
	The judges aren't going to do anything.
	And the people counting the votes seem to know that.
	So...
	As a peaceful British observer, what would you suggest?
	I would suggest...
	Right, so there are a few options, and it depends on how well-organized and well-coordinated the Republicans are.
	And I think that if there is one weakness that the right has, it is coordination and organization.
	Because the right seems to still be under the impression that there may be a fair system within which they can operate as individuals or small groups, which there isn't.
	The system is clearly...
	I don't want to say corrupt, but it clearly has problems that aren't being resolved.
	So I would recommend that concerned right-wingers, conservatives, Republicans, constitutionalists, organize.
	Now, this is something you hear from the left constantly.
	Organize, organize, organize.
	They have all of their own community organizers.
	Professional community organizers.
	People who, in the heirs of Saul Alinsky...
	Well, the right has to learn this.
	The left have been so effective not because they are popular, but because they are well organized.
	The right must do this.
	You must have people fairly counting votes, which means you have to have created an organization, a community organization, that then...
	Enacts this kind of will.
	And if you don't do that, it will be the Democrats' left-wing, you know, radical will that will be enacted upon you, and you will have nothing with which to stop it.
	This kind of fifth-generational warfare.
	You have to accept that this is going on, and you have to actually get out and spend the time and the money yourselves to do it.
	And that means sacrificing your evenings to go and hold coats at a local community center while, like, half a dozen, you know, boomers come in and say we're worried about the state of the republic, right?
	But then that, you've got to keep building, you've got to keep bringing people in, you've got to provide spaces for them to come into, and you've got to go and start actively protesting the local governor, sending them letter-writing campaigns, making sure that you've got a sort of political momentum that starts building.
	You've got to pick your community organizers.
	And there are some really good ones out there, right?
	What is it?
	Scott Pressler, the persistence guy, who goes around registering Republicans to vote and doing various sort of community organizing himself.
	He's an excellent example of the sort of thing the Republicans need.
	What would be good is for someone like him to create some kind of organization that people can donate to, a non-profit that people could donate to, because then it would be a tax-deductible expense, and they could hire people, recruit people, who would be trained to be organizers in the same way the left has trained organizers.
	And then these people can go out and start doing things in different areas, and hopefully you can start setting your republic to rights.
	That's the peaceful way of doing it.
	It's a long job.
	It's a thankless job in many cases.
	And there's no guarantee of success.
	But I think that's the best thing that we can advise.
	It's not going to be a lot of fun either.
	I'd say that's not true.
	It probably will be fun.
	Especially memes.
	Yeah, there'll be a lot of good memes.
	Especially when the leftists come out to protest, then it'll be fun.
	But yeah, otherwise it's going to be boring going through various sort of, you know, various state laws, what can be done, what can't be done, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	The unique thing with the United States is you actually have an ability on state level to do things.
	You do, yeah, exactly.
	So, essentially, the apparatus has to come under the control of people who have a particular kind of will, which is a will to hold a fair election.
	And if you don't do this, then what's going to stop them from repeating the Georgia runoffs and the 2020 elections?
	Andrew says, there was a video last night in Holland of anti-lockdown rioters blew up a bridge in a huge fireball outside of Amsterdam.
	It's getting crazy.
	Well, I mean, lockdowns are tyrannical.
	I can hardly tell them that they've done something wrong, can I? Well, I'm going to disavow any violence, even if it's against radicalism.
	I am kind of worried about the Netherlands, because I saw some mayor or something was saying, we're going for civil war at this point.
	The situation over there seems to be that the public's far more upset about what's happening than over here.
	The public here seems to just be accepting that this is normal.
	It's awful that the public in Britain...
	I mean, how are we letting the Dutch lead the way in liberty, folks?
	I mean, honestly, they were always dragging behind us.
	And now suddenly, they're way in front of the lead.
	It's like, no, this is not acceptable.
	But, yeah, no good.
	Like, you know, no one deserves to be locked up in their goddamn homes.
	Alex Alexandru says, please tell me what you think about the following statement.
	Men are what they do and women are what they are.
	Well, that's my statement, I'm pretty sure.
	Something that I've said in the past.
	Yeah, men are defined, the importance of men is defined by action and the importance of women is defined by their fertility and by what they are as a woman.
	Physically, as the adult human female.
	And this is an immutable truth of nature, because women will always bear children, and they will always need men to provide for them.
	Mute stream.
	Real talk.
	Thinking of making a D&D campaign with the Lotus Easter's characters.
	All silly made-up stuff.
	No real rules.
	Just craziness.
	Thoughts.
	Sounds like fun.
	Krizzle says, a decent answer on the trap thing yesterday.
	Losing issue if pushed.
	If you could pass only one Arthurian legend to your kids, which one would it be?
	That's a good question.
	I quite like The Death of Arthur, the English version, rather than the French version, because it has good advice for a young man who is pushing his way out into the world and is accomplishing things.
	But Gwaine and the Green Knight is a very beautifully written story that I strongly recommend.
	I'm not sure which one I'd go for.
	Probably Gwaine.
	Probably Gwaine, actually.
	The Shadowblade says, people kept asking for more control and unlimited government.
	Excuse me.
	You get the government you deserve, brother.
	You asked for it.
	Love the show, by the way.
	Thank you very much.
	We're doing our very best.
	But you are right.
	People do get the government they deserve.
	TF Allspark.
	Norwegian money to our British heroes.
	Thank you, man.
	With all of this buyer's remorse going around, I can't help but the smuckles.
	This is the age of schadenfreude.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, the Biden voters get what they deserve.
	Yeah.
	Gaven Death says, Boris is now considering 14-day hotel quarantine for international visitors and closing borders.
	Why wasn't this done since March or April last year?
	Keir Starmer had clearly not called for it, that's why.
	Angry Baneling says, here's some Zelda currency for making a quality podcast that I enjoy listening to.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I'd love to see you and Nick Rakita do a stream together sometime.
	Well, I'd love to too, and Lou Levi was trying to set us up, but he hasn't sent me a friend request on Discord yet.
	So I can't.
	I'd love to chat to him though.
	I think he's doing great work at the moment, Nick.
	Tanushi says, That's what I've been told by prominent left-wingers.
	I disavow, obviously, but that's the leftist's opinion.
	Who was that lady you debated who literally said that?
	It was Thomas Smith at MythCon in 2017.
	He literally said...
	Freedom allows white men to control everything.
	Yes.
	That's white supremacy, Thomas.
	I just don't agree.
	Mr.
	Winter.
	New essay.
	The simplest case against the trans argument on Mr.
	Winter locals.
	Also search Tim Dillon and play his funny one-minute video on Biden's health secretary.
	E-nominee guy at Hunter said Ocasio-Cortez are whammon.
	Okay, I didn't get that last bit, but...
	Okay.
	Alex says, Yeah, what's the point of vaccinations if it doesn't change anything?
	If nothing is affected, why bother doing it?
	Nasida says, I know I'm late to the party, but I finally bought a MAGA cap.
	Good man.
	Or lady.
	I'm not sure.
	Shadow Rodney says, Good day.
	Let's start the Brotherhood of Nod.
	But instead of Cain, we have Carl.
	Freedom through power.
	Yeah, well, you know, power moves swiftly in the Brotherhood or changes swiftly in the Brotherhood.
	It's been years since I've...
	You've never played Command& Conquer, have you?
	I have.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, is it power changes quickly or moves swiftly?
	I also haven't played it in a long time.
	Oh, my God.
	Okay, well, yeah, Kane did nothing wrong, is all we're saying.
	GDI really do, in retrospect, looking back, GDI just makes me think of the...
	Globus.
	Yeah, the Globus, yeah.
	I mean, it's the Global Defence Initiative.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's Klaus Schwab, you know, and so all I'm saying is, what did Kane do wrong?
	I'm starting with a scrim.
	Anyway...
	Leggette says, I work at a college.
	More than half the department turned in our lieutenant for having a sexual relationship with a student.
	They didn't fire him because of diversity quotas.
	Just felt like venting.
	Love from Cali.
	I hope you're diverse enough to escape any punishments yourself.
	Slickback says, That's white privilege right there.
	Slickback says, Happy Australia Day from your favourite colony.
	There it is.
	Thug Life Bear, Trump created the office of former president.
	Yes, we covered it.
	Charles Eccles says, 50,000 Italian restaurants reopened a few weeks ago under LAPRO, I open, forcing government to cancel the lockdown.
	30th of January is the great reopening here in the UK. Let's hope so, man.
	I've seen individual articles, articles of individuals who are saying, look, I'm just going to, on January the 30th, incidentally, just open my business and I don't care if the government finds me.
	I'm just going to do it.
	And it's like, good.
	Good.
	Those are absolute heroes.
	The government has no right to prevent you from opening your business.
	It's essentially the opposite of a national strike.
	Yeah.
	National work.
	Yeah, national work, yeah.
	But it literally is the opposite of the purpose of government to close your business.
	The government is there to protect your property from interference.
	Nicholas Eitelback, Carly, you still simping for Hannibal?
	Join the winning team and become a Stanford Supertai?
	Genghis Khan's right-hand man?
	Obviously, I'm still simping for Hannibal.
	Supertai, though, probably a close second.
	Don't get me wrong, anyone who doesn't know the legend of Supertai should definitely look him up.
	Very interesting guy.
	Very successful.
	Mr.
	Tucker says, I'm really starting to think that whenever Biden says something about our anything, he isn't talking about Americans.
	Yeah, I get that picture too.
	You know, the people who are not Americans are important to Biden, and the Americans seem to be anything a hindrance, if anything, you know.
	Some oil guy says, I've sent you guys a few mails about providing merch services.
	Are you sure you haven't been infiltrated by a communist who's deleting them?
	They'll get put into a fold-up, which we're going through.
	Yeah, we're collecting offers at the moment, and...
	We'll get back to people.
	Honestly, again, it's just really sort of staffing.
	Cheers at the moment.
	But again, contact at lotuses.com if you want to get a job here being someone who writes news.
	Megas Tyrannus says, giant tyrant, gents, love the analysis, love the channel.
	Here's an aphorism for you all.
	When you are strong, you're welcome being strong.
	When you're weak, don't let others speak.
	Hmm.
	Shane B says, if you want to see what a demoralized population looks like, check out the Invasion Day tag on Twitter.
	Leftist cultural suicide on full display.
	They want to change the date as if that will be enough.
	Happy Australia Day.
	I haven't seen, was it?
	Invasion Day tag.
	Oh, is this...
	I've seen, I've actually seen some of this, where leftists are complaining that, like, you know, Europeans took over the continent of Australia.
	It's like, okay...
	I am also unhappy about things that happened 300 years ago.
	What now?
	the war of the bucket will be avenged yeah exactly you know the the emus were right uh arry six says giuliani getting sued by voting machine company yeah we'll we'll well i'll probably cover this tomorrow or something because um you know there have been updates uh but yeah like i know this is actually one of the things i want to talk to nick rikita about because uh he he had a very interesting take on this which um which which opens doors it seems so let's hope that giuliani gets into court with them
	angel dimitriov says since sulla was a member of the optimates and he ended up winning wouldn't his modern version be the swamps champion and so opposed Yeah, it absolutely would.
	Sulla was not in any way, shape, or form a populist, but what came after Sulla?
	Sulla isn't the end of the story.
	And it could well be that Joe Biden is our Sulla, but I don't think he is.
	I think he's...
	I think he's the Marius.
	But who knows?
	It could well be that I'm wrong, that Biden is the seller of the American story.
	Son of the Wall says, Serving the US military is a privilege, not a right.
	Correct.
	Less than 1% qualify for active duty.
	Correct.
	Ridoculous says, Carl, no bully the fanboys.
	We need everyone we can get.
	Any right-wing cutie lamenting the lack of traditionally masculine bone in their body can come to North Florida and I will provide one uwu.
	Disavowed.
	Scottish Maine Blue says, with the executive order to wear masks on federal lands, does that mean people who live or work on federal land must wear a mask at all times?
	I.e.
	Native American land in New Mexico and Cap Hill.
	I believe that's what it means.
	I may be wrong, and if I'm wrong, correct me.
	But that's what I understood it.
	That's what I took it, man.
	Buxman says, remember when ACB was nominated for SCOTUS? How the news covered her Catholicism?
	Compare that to Biden's coverage.
	Take a gander as to why.
	Yeah, that's really interesting, isn't it?
	Because Biden leans on his Catholicism a lot as well.
	And he never gets castigated in the same way that ACB did.
	Very interesting.
	Again, it's just rules for me and not for thee.
	That's how this works.
	CLC says, now trans people can be crammed into a parking garage where the Democrats are done with them, just like the rest of the military.
	Congratulations.
	Yes, it's very inclusive.
	Tim Cornish says, here in Illinois, we went from out-of-control COOF spread to restaurants wide open in less than a week.
	First of many Zhao Biden miracles.
	Yeah, this is another thing as well, isn't it?
	Oh, suddenly, oh, actually, the COOF's not so bad.
	Suddenly, lockdowns were a problem.
	Yeah, yeah, it's transparent.
	We can all see it.
	Josh Leak, remember all of Trump's achievements were due to aftershocks of Obama's policies and all of Biden's failures will be because of Trump's policies.
	Yes, it's literally always one way.
	Joshua Willikens says, been here since Gamergate.
	Just want to support the cause.
	Thank you.
	It's always nice to meet a veteran.
	Well impressed with the website and the podcast.
	I'll subscribe when I get a decent wage.
	Thank you very much and good luck on your hunt.
	Radoculus says, also did you see Chuck Schumer said inciting the erection.
	Yeah, but I said the same thing.
	So I have to say that Chuck Schumer did nothing wrong when he incites erections.
	Love your content.
	Keep the good work.
	Belated congrats on Brexit.
	Yeah, thanks.
	It's the one thing that went right.
	You know, at least kind of right.
	But we're out of the European Union, which is enough.
	DRT is king.
	The left only understands the Melian dialogue.
	For power is all they crave, and the only good they can grasp.
	One day they'll meet their masters in hell.
	That's true.
	And that's what the Washington Post opinion piece was talking about.
	It's like, look, you're just going to have to deal with it.
	It's like, oh, really?
	You know, that's hardly a democratic worldview, is it?
	Eazy-E says Hunter Biden is going to single-handedly stop the crack epidemic by smoking it all himself.
	Hashtag stunning and brave.
	Yes.
	Nightmarish Visions.
	Everyone always donates money for Callum's reading lessons, but today I thought I'd give a little to fund Carl's Dentures.
	I see that missing tooth, Sargon.
	Yeah, I know, right?
	And I can't get anything done about it because everything's closed.
	Ray Young.
	A great question.
	Don't drink Coca-Cola, folks.
	Do not drink Coca-Cola.
	I used to drink a lot of Coca-Cola when I was in my 20s, and I was a kuma, and that was the result, so don't do it.
	Nightmarish Visions.
	Everyone always...
	Oh no, I've read that one.
	Ray Young, a great question.
	An interview for Mrs.
	Biden-Nee Dunham would be, what first attracted you to the millionaire Hunter Biden?
	And she'll be like, his crack habit.
	Do you want to read a couple?
	Razor Fist.
	Democrats spell healing with two E's.
	Hang on a sec, change the things.
	Apparently we have a comment on our thing.
	Can you scroll up?
	Scroll up, I can't read.
	Morning, guys.
	I would love to know if we've ever seen or know of a true example of what is far right.
	It seems as though the left and the right basically mean nothing, and they've not really heard anyone describe them.
	Yeah, I mean, how would you actually describe a genuinely far right group?
	I mean, if left and right are to be used in the context from which we inherited them from the French Revolution, then right means conservative and traditionalist.
	So someone far right would be like a Roger Scruton, right?
	So they would be people who are particularists who care about the country they're in and the state it's currently in and the traditions and heritage that they have inherited and wish to continue that on into the future.
	That is far right in a real sense, in a meaningful way.
	But this puts revolutionary ideologies of reason on the far left.
	So that means fascism, communism, and liberalism to a certain degree.
	I wouldn't say it's far left, center left, heading out towards the left.
	But really, the terms left and right, I just think are pointless now.
	And really, we should just talk about political philosophies and what we're trying to achieve in a meaningful way.
	I always find it's kind of just outdated, like the fascists don't exist anymore in any meaningful way.
	But it's like, you spoke about the fact that if you go to the Islamic world talking about Islamism, it doesn't really...
	Oh, it wouldn't make any sense.
	I mean, everything in the Islamic world would be far right.
	Exactly, because the far left and right, well, it doesn't really exist in that paradigm.
	And in the same way over here, I think that the fascists don't really exist in our paradigm anymore to any significant extent.
	No.
	And if they did, I would put them on the left.
	Because they're radical enlightenment philosophies.
	There's a reason they were all socialists first.
	Yeah, there is.
	Anyway, we have a comment on the website.
	Did you see London's ambulance service tweet regarding the increased suicide-related call-outs in October?
	I'll link below.
	I work in some London hospitals and I've seen increased MH admissions.
	I hadn't seen it.
	I was saying for quarter four we don't have the data yet.
	So it could be that this is the data being displayed.
	I'm very willing to believe that it's probably gone up for that quarter four because it is the worst time of the year and also exponentially worse with the lockdowns.
	So let's go back to Super Chat.
	We've got a lot still carrying on recording I'm afraid.
	Busy day today for some reason.
	Yeah, go back up.
	You pass it.
	No, I don't think...
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	A little bit up, a little bit up.
	About here, yeah.
	Morning, guys.
	I would like to know if...
	That's what we just did.
	All right, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Trump should have opened the office of the future president, legendary troll.
	I honestly still think he should have declared himself a woman.
	Unity means bow, which is the left's version of unity.
	Oh, wait.
	Yeah, Andrew Jackson was a legend.
	I don't even care.
	You know Trump had a portrait of him in the Oval Office?
	Based.
	Biden's got rid of it.
	AJ, of course he has.
	AJ Koss, I feel like it has many, many passages which reflect the times you live in.
	I will at some point.
	The current book club is in process.
	It's going to be Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
	Hopefully I'll have it out by the end of the week.
	But if not, it'll be next week.
	But it won't be too long.
	And it's going to be a good one, because Marcus Aurelius is daddy.
	I have leftist friends and it strikes me how they are always ruled by toxic femininity and fear.
	They are anxiety ridden and focused only on feeling.
	Can we reconcile when they are so different?
	Yeah, I mean, they weren't always like this.
	They were trained into being like this.
	They were tricked into it and they can be trained out of it.
	It just is going to take time and it's going to be difficult.
	Jaggi Zangi says, I don't know what that means.
	Something about perfect fight or something.
	You know we can't actually read Latin.
	Yeah, we actually don't.
	We don't read Latin, I'm afraid.
	Because we weren't posh enough to go to a school that would teach us Latin.
	Daniel J. Carica says, My 18-year-old daughter disowned me for being in D.C. on the 1st of the 6th.
	We sang the National Anthem and chanted USA. BLM chants Down with America and ACAB while burning down society and they are called Peaceful.
	Yeah, it's propaganda.
	And I'm sorry about your daughter, but I'm sure...
	Don't lash out at her or anything.
	Remember that she's kind of trapped in a particular kind of world that she can't really escape.
	You have to be the forgiving one.
	Robert Dunn, Biden has to address civil rights for people with dyslexia.
	It's an outrage.
	I say dyslexics of the world unite, or no, sorry, dyslexics of the world untie.
	Hello and salute from New York.
	Also hi to Mick the Farmer in Ireland.
	Great crowd, lad.
	Matthew Hammond, I guess it's a good thing I bought a concert ticket insurance for a concert in early May and not bought a plane ticket from the US to England.
	Yeah, I mean, there's no travelling anywhere for anything.
	Someone sent us a Google Doc.
	Deaths from all causes as a percentage.
	Okay, we'll worry about that afterwards because we're not going to go through statistics in the middle of this.
	Alexander Cross, conclusion, MPs are vampires from the old ones especially.
	Yes.
	I can't pronounce that.
	Ooga Booga, if it only saves one life, I can murder my ten-year-old crazy people.
	Yeah, I mean, this is where we're at.
	This woman has gone mental and thinks that she's saving everyone by killing her kid.
	And it's like, look, this mental disease wasn't in existence before the lockdowns.
	People weren't killing their children in order to sacrifice their children to Moloch, the Moloch of the lockdowns.
	I can't stand it.
	It's awful.
	Can you, you can start to tell by Carl's delivery that he's getting really sick of the nonsense, or to put it all politely, as am I, Carl, as am I.
	Yeah, I'm very angry about lockdowns.
	I mean, the phrase failure is too generous.
	You know, if the first one didn't work and the second one didn't work, there's no point trying it a third time because we've already tried it twice.
	And now the third one hasn't worked.
	What a shock.
	But it is killing young people, and it's harming young people.
	It's harming children, and it's bad for everyone that we harm children.
	Like, this could be a generation, literally a generation of children that we are giving mental disorders to, that we are destroying their ability to socialize.
	You know, we don't know what the knock-on effects of forcing everyone to stay in their homes all day every day is going to be, but I can't imagine they're going to be good.
	So...
	Nice to see you guys do a couple of questions via the website comments.
	Well, doing our best.
	You know, you pay to be able to comment, so we're happy to take the comments.
	Look into the trans-regulation for the United States military members.
	It will explain why soldiers have an issue with the regulation.
	Okay, we will do.
	Eric Edward for £50.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	With the whole lockdown things, I know my girlfriend has been struggling with it, and I dread to think what would happen if we did not have a life together.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can't start new relationships, can you?
	You're not allowed to have sex with people who don't live in your household.
	Thanks, government, for the government-mandated sharia that has come to Britain.
	But, right, we're going to do a couple more because then we're going to have to go.
	And Anthony Wurst says, if lockdowns are the solution, then they need to, with time to prepare, do a total lockdown, i.e.
	not allowed to leave the house for any reason.
	Anything less than this shows they don't believe in lockdowns.
	Yeah, but that's just totally, totally impractical and utterly morally unacceptable.
	And they know it.
	And they know it, yeah.
	And, I mean, Xi Jinping must be rubbing his hands thrilled about how this is all gone.
	I bet he was like, there's no way all of Europe is just going to shut down and destroy their economies and just ruin their children's futures.
	And they're like, oh, you never know.
	Let's try it.
	See what happens.
	Tyler Dunn.
	It's a meth pipe, not a crack pipe.
	Sorry, Tyler.
	I didn't know the distinction.
	The apartheid left.
	I believe this is a great term to classify the ranks of AOC and others who believe in the need for lists, re-education, cleansing, and truth and reconciliation commissions for their political rivals.
	Yes, that is a good way of describing it.
	Yeah, I like that.
	That is a good way of describing it.
	And the last one from Captain Ahab.
	The lockdowns are like the trolley problem, only you run over more people and the person you save gets hit by another trolley a year or two later.
	That's a good meme.
	We should start memeing that, in fact.
	All right.
	Thank you, everyone, for joining us.
	Remember to follow us on Gab and Mines.
	And, of course, go to Logistics.com and sign up to become a member and get access to all the wonderful premium content that we've done, which will include the podcast that we're about to record where I explain to Callum why everything's screwed.
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