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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for Tuesday, the 2nd of February, 2021.
	I'm John McCallum, and today we're going to be talking about the Game Stonk shenanigans, because we didn't cover it yesterday, although a lot of it is kind of intertwining these days with other news.
	AOC and how she is the radicaliser-in-chief in the United States, and of course, what we can look forward to in the new progressive era.
	Before we get started, we have lots of coverage of what's been going on on loadseaters.com.
	And you can also subscribe there to become a premium member and get access to all of our wonderful premium content.
	I do have a book club of Marcus Aurelius coming.
	I don't think I'll be recording it this week, though I think I'll have to record it next week because things have happened and, you know, I just have to do these things first.
	So, sorry for the delay on that, but it'll be out as soon as possible.
	Anyway, let's talk about Game Stonk.
	I am the proud owner of One Games Donk.
	And I just want to be clear, I know absolutely nothing about stocks.
	Neither does Callum.
	Do not take any advice from us at all.
	As far as I'm concerned, this is $300 I just burned.
	But burning it for a good reason.
	Because apparently the short sellers are holding the line, which I find interesting.
	I don't really, again, know anything about this, but despite losing nearly $20 billion as of Friday, apparently they're not surrendering as CNBC described it.
	Short-selling hedge funds have suffered mark-to-mark loss of like $20 billion, but they're still mostly holding on to their bearish positions, or they are being replaced by new hedge funds willing to bet against the stock.
	GameStop shares that have been borrowed and sold short have declined by just about $5 million over the last week.
	GameStop remained the most shorted name on the market, apparently.
	So that's very interesting.
	And I think Melvin Capital actually got out, even though other capital firms have come in, because they lost 53% of all of their capital, which, I mean, that's hella good.
	That's hella good.
	You call yourself Melvin Capital, and yet you have no capital.
	Interesting.
	That's very impressive.
	And the interesting thing about this is we have a timeline that was – we can go to the next one, John.
	Right, so this is really, really interesting because this is – it gives us the price of the stock up until Friday the 29th, so last week.
	And the events that were going on.
	And you can see exactly how they're affecting these things.
	So, you know, the people on Reddit first get it up to $150.
	And then Elon Musk, it hovers around there until Elon Musk tweets about it and just tweets GameStonk.
	Then it goes up to over $300 and it starts rising.
	And then Robinhood restricts when it's at nearly $500.
	And then it plunges down to the sort of just over $100 mark.
	And then returns back up to over 300 after they lift their restrictions.
	We'll talk about why they did that in a bit.
	But what's interesting is you can see that the artificial manipulation is in play and it's actually having a direct effect on these things.
	It's also interesting to see how much of an effect Elon Musk had, to be honest.
	Yeah, well he doubled it more than.
	I mean, he does have like 48 million Twitter followers.
	Yeah.
	I mean, looking back, him tweeting things like, you know, Tesla stock price is too high, does seem dramatically irresponsible.
	Yeah.
	Looking back at it, doesn't it?
	Unless he brought a bunch of his own stock afterwards, I guess.
	Yeah.
	I guess so, yeah.
	But anyway, Google decided they were going to leap to Robin Hood's defense and deleted about 100,000 one-star reviews, which was kind of them, I guess, for Robin Hood.
	They had 270,000 reviews with an average of one star.
	They went down to 180,000 reviews with an average of four stars.
	And there's been weird, weird sort of concern trolling coming out of the sort of mainstream stock market talking heads.
	If we can go to the next one.
	This is from MSNBC. And we won't play the clip, but basically this is really weird.
	He's like, oh right, okay, you guys are all having fun, but I have human capital concerns.
	You should be working out, not using the stock market.
	These young men are basically turning into depressed, gambling-addicted, basement-dwelling incels who cut themselves.
	It's like, okay...
	Who the hell are you again?
	Says the man standing on the roof.
	A billion dollars in debt.
	Exactly.
	And that's the point.
	Throughout the whole thing, he doesn't really sound like he's genuinely concerned for these people.
	He sounds like he's about to commit suicide.
	You guys are all losers.
	Now let me go back and take some more drugs before I kill myself.
	Now stop having fun, you know?
	It's like, okay, well, you know?
	I mean, I don't know anything about that.
	But anyway, what did Elizabeth Warren have to say?
	Yeah, so Elizabeth Warren tweeted this out, saying that the casino-like swings in the stock price of GameStop reflect wild levels of speculation that don't help GameStop workers or customers and could lead to market instability.
	Right, first thing there, like...
	Does shorting the stock help the workers or customers of GameStop?
	Yes, destroying GameStop by shorting it out of existence really helps GameStop.
	Thank you, Elizabeth.
	Yeah, but even if you want to take a company that wasn't being utterly destroyed, this is all stock market stuff.
	This has nothing to do with customers.
	No, they don't care about this.
	And she's asked for the SEC to explain exactly what was going on and prevent market manipulation.
	So she's ordering the powers that be to intervene on the behalf of the democratic government.
	Yeah.
	Which...
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Didn't know I have very many fans.
	I just, like, scrolled through the replies and a bunch of them are just people being like, hang on, like, I voted for you, I canvassed for you.
	And now you're signing with Wall Street.
	How could you do this?
	It's like Bernie Sanders turning up at Joe Biden's inauguration.
	What are you doing there?
	It's almost as if you were the only one stupid enough to be fooled for that, but okay.
	Sorry, lads.
	You learned the hard way.
	Yes, you did.
	So, that's embarrassing.
	But there was also a lot of speculation.
	So, we mentioned about how people were investing in AMC or...
	Bed Bath& Beyond or A-A-G-H because it's spelled R and things like this.
	And we don't know what was true, what wasn't, and we're not trying to, again, speculate on any of those stocks.
	But one of the funniest things was people starting to push this idea that the Redditors were going for silver over the weekend.
	People.
	Yes.
	People.
	As in media outlets.
	Kept producing article after article.
	Ooh, silver's the next one.
	And I saw loads of these in my own feed.
	If you can get one up, that's the Bloomberg should be the next one.
	So them talking about Reddit crowd bids up silver.
	Yeah, so...
	Okay, so the thing I just want to say here is...
	Everything up until this point was entirely oppositional against Reddit.
	Oh god, these horrible plebeians are rising up.
	This is bad.
	We don't understand what's happening.
	We're afraid.
	And now suddenly it's, oh well, those savvy Reddit investors are going for the silver stocks.
	Oh no!
	Let's hope they don't crash this shorted market too.
	Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, Bloomberg, yeah.
	Yeah, a lot of people found this sus, which I can agree with them.
	And it turns out it is definitely BS. So this is WallStreetBetsModerator.
	Verified account, so we can take that word for it.
	They were looking at the fact that people were saying that all the Redditors are going after silver, but only 3% of the mentions on WallStreetBets were about silver.
	So, no, there was not this huge bust for silver.
	What they should also have done is gone through a bunch of them and see how old the accounts were.
	These were all made in the last day.
	Yeah, exactly, and they're all going for silver.
	The Redditors are after this silver.
	Look at that Bloomberg article.
	So yeah, I can have sympathy with the people who are finding Elizabeth Sneaky.
	The idea that a bunch of guys at Wall Street are like, quick, make accounts, make them go after Silver or something.
	But Silver did get a bump out of it, so God knows, man.
	I mean, I'm sure it would.
	If every media outlet is saying everyone's going after Silver, yeah, you will get a bump.
	But I don't think it's the Wall Street best guys.
	No, it was the Wall Street guys.
	And it wasn't just various stocks.
	I mean, nice try.
	Nice try.
	You've got to give it to them.
	Look, there's a big competition going on here.
	There's a huge wrangle going on.
	I'm not surprised they're going to be trying something.
	It wasn't just stocks and commodities and so on and so forth.
	It was also the Dogecoin.
	So the Dogecoin, in case no one knows, is a meme currency.
	So it's a cryptocurrency that was made up and is obviously ridiculous in the same way it's a parody of Bitcoin.
	Yes.
	And the guy who owns, or at least set up Dogecoin, has not tweeted on his account for six years because the meme has been dead that long.
	And, nah, WallStreetBets decided to bring it back for some reason.
	It went up like 400%.
	I think it's gone back down now.
	I have no idea.
	Don't invest in Dogecoin.
	I'm not telling you to.
	But he had to tweet this out, saying, tweeting for the first time in six years to say, what the F? You got 600,000 likes, so they just...
	Like, Jesus, guys.
	Even I'd given up on this, the guy who made it, and yet they managed to get it back for like 10 cents or whatever.
	I tried to buy some Dogecoin, but I couldn't find anyone that sold it.
	Oh, well.
	Anyway, the other thing here was the fact that the stocks started to get rationed because of that in demand.
	Rationing!
	Yeah, so apparently Robinhood was allowing traders to only have two shares of stock in GameStop because...
	Artificial market manipulation, yes.
	I don't know the finances of what Robin Hood has to do and not do.
	We'll get into that later.
	But I just find it hilarious that something could be in that demand, that we've started a government rationing system of stock.
	I think it's hilarious that it's GameStop.
	Imagine if you have a rationing Dogecoin.
	It's just the absurdity of it.
	Oh, man.
	And this wasn't the first thing that was absurd.
	So over the weekend, the markets were closed, and we didn't cover it on Monday because the markets were still closed when we opened.
	And that didn't stop these people from just keep going with the absurdities.
	So the first thing I wanted to show was some guy, or at least they paid some guy, to fly a plane.
	And the plane spout out here, if you can see it's a little bit hard, hold GME. So hold GameStop flying over the Robin Hood HQ just to mess with them.
	And it wasn't just like a one-off absurdity.
	They started buying billboards up and down the country.
	Oh, nice.
	If you could just flick through these images on this tweet, you can see they're just random billboards all over the country.
	We like the stock, WallStreetBets.com.
	I love how Chad, the Wall Street Bets guy, the avatar looks as well.
	Yeah, it's the guy from...
	This is Times Square, so this is probably the most expensive one.
	Jimmy, yo, brr!
	Someone paid for this.
	Presumably with their GameStop money.
	The best bit about this is that you know the general public has absolutely no idea what the hell that's meant to mean.
	Yes.
	Like, what is this internet nonsense that's going on?
	Could you imagine being a normie who has absolutely no idea?
	Just walking down to get some shopping.
	You just see that.
	What am I supposed to be buying here?
	I guess I'm used to seeing McDonald's or professionally made graphics.
	It's just this.
	G Amigo Burr.
	Love it.
	I love it.
	It's amazing.
	Yeah.
	And if we can get the next one up, so there's also been some vigilante action, which of course I disavow.
	So apparently someone went down to the, this is the bull outside Wall Street.
	I've got a photo of it.
	Pagan nonsense.
	Someone went down and put a little sticker that says $GME, and then this wasn't the only one.
	They also put another sticker up, which is over its mouth, saying, hold the line, and then Wall Street bets there.
	Nice.
	Not a big deal, I would contend, but apparently a much bigger deal than you and I would realize, because the New York...
	Anti-terrorism group had to tweet out that they had to go down and protect the ball.
	Gotta protect the ball from the sticker people.
	That's right.
	Armed men protecting Wall Street from people who invest in...
	So this is NYPD counter-terrorism Twitter account.
	We're not sure if this is directly in response, but of course it looks like it's in response.
	It's obviously in response.
	The stock market has had an interesting week, to say the least.
	We are happy to report that Wall Street charging bulls is secure and continues to preside over Bowling Green for a foreseeable future.
	So they seem to be in response to the fact that people put two stickers up, sent down armed police to protect the pagan symbol.
	So I guess they're afraid of large groups of people turning up at Wall Street.
	Yeah, I'm seeing the comparisons of the capital more and more.
	Yes.
	Like, let's get some National Guard for the bull.
	We've got to protect that.
	The establishment is closing ranks.
	Get another 10,000.
	But it's not because it's just been sort of an online phenomenon.
	A lot of people have been getting into this, as we mentioned, Max Kaiser, Elon Musk.
	Another guy, which I didn't think he was up to this sort of thing, but apparently he's in for the memes, is the Wolf of Wall Street.
	Yes.
	Jordan Belfort, the guy who the movie is made after, has been giving interviews and doing things about this, talking about it.
	So on this interview, he backs Reddit and he's basically like, yeah, go for it, why not?
	Which, his opinion, not mine.
	And he also put out on his Twitter account, which is the next one, We're not effing leaving.
	Hashtag GME, hashtag hold the line.
	100,000 likes.
	Nice.
	Like, the man.
	The actual wolf is on the side of GME here.
	And then the last one here, which is him making his orders to the troops.
	He made a YouTube video, which I highly recommend going and watching the full thing.
	It's a little skit of him doing the speech to the crowd saying, we're not leaving!
	We're not leaving!
	It's really good as well, yeah.
	I love how much he's getting behind it.
	Yeah.
	Have you watched the movie, Wolf of Wall Street?
	No, no.
	I'm aware of the memes of it, though.
	You should watch it.
	It's a fantastic movie.
	But he's actually in it right at the end.
	Right, okay.
	He reforms his life after being as a con man, and he's giving tours and telling people how to sell stuff.
	And the guy that introduces the character Jordan Belfort onto the stage is actually Jordan Belfort.
	Right, okay.
	Anyway, just a little tidbit.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it's not...
	For a lot of people, this is a meme, and our opinion of it is it's definitely a meme.
	But there is some weird amount of feeling around this whole thing, as you've mentioned, and we've alluded to with the political points.
	But I have to feel for some of the people in this, because we read some of the Reddit posts of people posting.
	Now, the next one is a Reddit post that was actually deleted, I don't know why, by the moderators.
	But this is a guy on WallStreetBets posting about...
	Why he's deciding to hold.
	He could just be some guy who's lying.
	Yeah, he could be making up.
	But it does fit in with something I can believe to be true.
	And so the post is titled, This is for you, Dad.
	And then he goes on to talk about the fact that they got screwed over by 2008.
	And then all these guys got bailed out for messing up their portfolios and screwing the American people over, frankly.
	I mean, you can't take that amount of money from a taxpayer without doing it.
	What did the taxpayer get in return?
	Nothing.
	Nada.
	I mean, in the UK, we bailed out, I think, was it Lloyd's?
	Or one of the banks?
	Yeah, it was one of them.
	And then we just brought the bank, and then the bank folded anyway.
	It was like, great.
	That was a worthwhile investment.
	Like, why can't we just let these things fail?
	I don't get it.
	Anyway, so he points out that he got screwed over in 2008, his family, and now he's all grown up, and he's not going to take it.
	He's going to hold out and burn his own money on the basis that it harms the hedge funds.
	And it's hard not to feel with the guy for it.
	But the last thing we wanted to mention was Elon Musk.
	So Elon Musk was having a Zoom call, and the guy who runs Robinhood, the account system...
	Vlad Tenev.
	...decided to join the chat.
	He joined in.
	And some of the quotes out of this are amazing.
	So Musk was talking, and then he noticed that Vlad was in the chat.
	And he decided that, no, no, no, no, Vlad's here.
	We're going to give him the floor.
	He's going to come down.
	And the quote here is, Musk said on the chat, spill the beans, man.
	What happened last week?
	Why couldn't people buy the GameStop shares?
	People demand answers and we demand to know what the truth is.
	And he said, is anyone holding you hostage right now?
	Very Elon Musk.
	I love it.
	So the CEO did come on the chat.
	They gave him the floor to explain himself.
	And he gave the explanation, which he's previously given, which is that they needed more money.
	Well, this isn't the explanation he previously gave.
	Previously he said there was no problem with liquidity.
	He sort of bounced around on this.
	It wasn't completely consistent.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So he's had a narrative that's kind of woven through various positions that are contradictory.
	But yeah, sorry, go on.
	Yeah, so he mentioned in here that they needed more money because otherwise they would be in trouble with the SEC. Again, we know nothing about the truth of what his claims are and whatnot, because we can't discern it.
	We're in no position to.
	He says that they got $3 billion to show up their position so they wouldn't be in violation of the rules, and that Robinhood's market cap was less than what was coming in, so that's why they needed the money.
	They got the money in and now they're fine and they're saying trading will resume on Monday when this interview was done.
	I assume this is Tuesday, trading will resume as normal.
	But they did make no promise not to restrict meme stocks further due to volatility.
	So if a meme stock is doing this, they will just sell it or stop you from buying it on their basis.
	And they're saying that this is because of the rules, but very few people who seem to be in position to know seem to agree.
	And that's all I can say because we don't know.
	Yeah, we don't know.
	Yeah.
	We're just here to encourage you to burn your money, to be honest.
	We're not.
	We're here to encourage you not to engage in any of this and to do what we're doing.
	I just bought one of the stocks.
	I was going to say, we're sat here pointing and laughing, but you actually went in with one stonk.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, the last thing I wanted to do was just play a meme because, I mean, this has been amazing for me.
	I can't wait to see how it ends.
	Like, the stock is down, I think, $100 since yesterday.
	Yeah.
	Like, it's gone down, and I don't know where it's going to go.
	I'm not here to make predictions.
	but i just like this with all the orc memes this is why i made last night in response to the chat which is what i imagine is essentially going on which we'll play sounds like they directly have something I see you, Reese!
	So, Robin Hood, if you want an ad deal, I'm willing to sell it.
	Yeah.
	I'm like...
	Anyway, that's basically the update with Wall Street Bets and GameStonk, which is they're still raiding them, they're holding the line, the Wall Street guys are closing their eyes and wishing they'd go away, but they're not.
	And God knows how's it going to end.
	Can you remain autistic longer than they can remain solvent?
	That's the question.
	We'll wait and see, I guess.
	What I love about it, though, I love all these sort of meme uprising stuff where it bleeds into real life and you get the The billboards and stuff like that.
	I always love that sort of stuff because it's nice.
	It feels like people are genuinely engaged in something fun, which is why the MSNBC stock anchor was like, God, you incels, just stop it!
	Because I love it because the established, you know, got their own shows, got their own positions, respected people who are all hoity-toity, they can't enjoy this stuff at all because to them it's like topsy-turvy.
	It's a threat to their own power base.
	Absolutely.
	Whereas us, we're like, yeah, yeah, more.
	This is why it's great that the Wolf of Wall Street guy has just gone all in on this.
	It's just like, no, screw him!
	Like, he's not of the opinion of I need to side with the people in power.
	Oh, not even slightly.
	I thought he would, you know.
	I thought, oh, yeah, because he's got a movie.
	He's reformed and everything now.
	He's out of that business.
	He hates them.
	Exactly.
	But I would have thought that, you know, because he's, you know, obviously got a movie, got connections, blah, blah, blah.
	He'd side with the establishment that obviously had taken him in.
	But, no, no, clearly not.
	But, anyway...
	So, let's move on to the next bit, which is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has recently revealed in an Instagram video yesterday that she is a sexual assault survivor, which was news, apparently.
	Everyone has to talk about this now.
	We didn't get very many details from her.
	Did she file it with the police?
	Not to my knowledge.
	She went to Instagram with it.
	She'd never mentioned it before.
	She says she hasn't told many people either.
	So anyway, this is a credible story, and she's the real victim here.
	The obviously truthful Right Honourable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has established that she was a victim.
	And this, incidentally, this case of sexual assault was something that she managed to tie to Ted Cruz.
	So, I mean...
	Wait, how?
	Was he in the room?
	No, no.
	He is using the tactics of abusers, according to her.
	Yeah, very, very interesting, to be honest.
	But anyway, in this live stream, she was like, I'm a survivor of sexual assault.
	And as reported by ABC, she appeared to be holding back tears.
	Yes, she did appear to be holding back tears, didn't she?
	Lots of appearances going on.
	And it's very interesting how the reason that she's telling anyone any of this, right?
	It's not because this is some new emotional revelation or impulse.
	It's because she wanted to politicize this.
	This is a direct political attack.
	The entire past week she's been gunning for Ted Cruz.
	Completely.
	Everything that she does is a political attack at someone.
	And in this case, Ted Cruz.
	Presumably because Ted Cruz committed the high crime of agreeing with her on the Wall Street stuff.
	Yeah, he called her out, essentially.
	For anyone who doesn't know, she responded to the whole GameStop story saying it was ridiculous they were being stopped from trading.
	And then she was trying to gin up support.
	And Ted Cruz was like, I agree, we should work together.
	You nearly got me killed!
	And then she's like, let's change the subject.
	All of a sudden, I'm not interested in tackling Wall Street.
	It's not even that.
	It's not even just, we're going to change the subject.
	It's, we're going to make the subject about me and how I hate you.
	And it's just like, okay, that's really productive, Alexandria.
	Thank you.
	But I don't want to label the point, but it's the mask off moment for me that she doesn't actually care about the market.
	She doesn't care about Wall Street.
	She doesn't care about corruption.
	Like, these people are complete controlled opposition fakes to me.
	Well, she's part of the Democratic Party.
	Like, there we go, you know?
	But anyway, so she basically accused members of the GOP, as in Ted Cruz, of using the tactics of abusers and said that she hid behind the bathroom door in her office during the riots, showing real leadership there.
	That's what real leaders do.
	They hide behind the bathroom door when confronted with angry protesters.
	She's a leader.
	She described being terrified for her life during the storm of the Capitol and said that the Republican politicians need to be held accountable and accused members of the GOP of using these tactics by encouraging the rioters.
	And she says this quote, I'm not going to let it happen to me again.
	It's not going to happen.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Okay, Alexandria.
	Of course, she goes on and says, the reason I'm getting emotional is because these folks who tell us to move on that it's not a big deal, we should forget what's happened or even telling us to apologize.
	These are the same tactics as abusers.
	Right, so Ted Cruz is basically a sexual abuser, according to AOC. Look at that smile.
	That's the face of someone who's in the grip of severe emotional trauma.
	I mean, I want to be...
	It's not the face of a woman who is creating parasocial relationships with a bunch of dependent, needy beta simps, right?
	No.
	She's not posing as their fictional online girlfriend when she's smiling into the camera like that with her hand on her chin.
	No, no, no.
	That's not what's happening.
	This is a woman who's traumatized.
	Trauma compounds trauma.
	We take her words seriously and literally.
	That's what trauma looks like.
	Completely.
	We've got to believe her, haven't we?
	Yeah, we've got no choice.
	We believe women.
	We respect women.
	We believe women.
	And when women are being clearly honest and open, like AOC is, we take their word for it.
	I mean, let's watch this clip.
	These people are just trying to tell us it's not a big deal.
	And they're trying to say, you're making too big a deal over it.
	Or, my favorite...
	This past week, Ted Cruz and now representatives Chip Roy and oh, by the way, some of the other representatives who actually encouraged people to threaten members of Congress or tweeted out the location of the speaker are now telling me to apologize for saying and speaking truth to what happened.
	These are the tactics of abusers.
	Or rather, these are the tactics that abusers use.
	And so when I see this happen, how I feel and how I felt was not again.
	I'm not going to let this happen again.
	Just not again.
	Never again.
	I'm not going to let it happen to me again.
	I'm not going to let it happen to the other people who've been victimized by this situation again.
	And I'm not going to let this happen to our country.
	It's like, what you mean is just projecting your emotions onto things.
	Your...
	Your astounding bravery of hiding in the bathroom.
	Again, I just have to say, if I were...
	I mean, the Republicans shouldn't have left either.
	They should have held the floor and engaged with the protesters.
	They should have spoken to the protesters.
	Running away looks pathetic and cowardly and definitely shows a complete lack of leadership on all sides.
	You might disagree, and I'm fine with that, but I think it's deeply uncourageous to have done that.
	In an ideal situation, I might agree, but you have to look at the reality of what it's like to be in the Congress and to not know what the situation is.
	If these people are just told that there's a group trying to storm the Capitol, you have to leave.
	Cowards!
	I know that they didn't have weapons, there was no evidence, but if you are inside, you do not know that.
	This just speaks to the complete...
	Air of illegitimacy that surrounds what they are doing, generally, the politicians as a whole.
	If they are so distrusting of goodwill from the public, then, like, you shouldn't be doing what you're doing.
	You know, you don't have legitimacy.
	If you honestly are so afraid that the public can break in and lynch you, there are some serious questions to be answered there.
	There could be a lone terrorist with the group.
	That is unreasonable.
	So that's why I'm saying, like, if you were to take it as a whole and now know what we know, like, You can make that argument.
	In this moment at the time, I have to agree that the correct security procedure is to leave.
	If you are in that way inclined, yes.
	But if you're not, then no.
	That was a good rebuttal, wasn't it?
	I do find her remunition of it obviously farcical.
	Yeah, obviously.
	The Republican version is, well, we were told to leave, so we left, and then you come back, right?
	I love the way that it's like someone tweeted out her location, what, the capital?
	Guys, she's in Washington right now.
	I've been doxxed.
	You were literally on C-SPAN 30 minutes ago.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	But anyway, so AOC obviously is going to hold this victim card and double down.
	But the thing is, why is she so bothered by these capital rights?
	And I don't think it's just that, oh, it was scary and unexpected, right?
	I think she knows that she has been highly aggressive and provocative in her politics.
	And I think she's been destructive to the fabric, the civil fabric of US politics.
	And this is what we've obviously seen here, with her accusing Ted Cruz of essentially being a gaslighting rapist.
	And of course, accusing him of trying to get her killed, and various other things, and we'll go through some of her other...
	She can't just say, I disagree, I think the election was won fairly, and you're trying to overturn it, it's wrong, or something like this.
	You're a bad person.
	She just has to say that he's trying to murder me, also, he's probably like my rapist.
	Exactly.
	It's like, Jesus Christ, calm down.
	God, unity and, you know, polite politics are certainly back in the room, aren't they?
	The only thing we have on Ted Cruz at the moment is that he's a serial killer.
	Just kidding.
	Just kidding, Ted.
	I really appreciate your work.
	I love how he loves the Zodiac Killer meme as well.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He plays into it.
	Yeah, it's hilarious.
	But this is the thing, right?
	I think that she actually has immense ray, a guilty mind.
	And I think that she knows that she has been responsible for quite a lot of trouble.
	And I think that she thinks...
	When these things are happening, the reason I would be interested in engaging forthright, like when we were on the MEP campaign, right?
	Whenever the leftists came at me, I didn't think anyone was going to stab me or anything.
	I thought they were angry at me and they wanted to debate me, and so I was quite happy to walk around and debate with them, engage with them on whatever issue they wanted to bring to me, right?
	But I don't think that she thinks that she is doing that.
	I don't think that she thinks she's being a good-faith actor, that she's approaching the opposition, the sort of rural, working poor, in a good-faith way.
	She knows that.
	She is there to conquer, not to persuade.
	Exactly.
	She's there to conquer.
	And so when it appears, oh God, there's some kind of uprising, she's like, oh God, I'm going to die.
	It's like, why?
	Because if you were in their position, that's what you'd be doing, because you know your own intentions going into the thing.
	And so you're projecting that, assuming onto them, and then it's coming back at you.
	So anyway, that's my view on that.
	But her staffer has obviously corroborated her story.
	Which is very, very persuasive.
	AOC and a person that AOC pays have both come out and said the same thing.
	Well, that's got to be true then.
	That would stand up in court.
	Yeah, exactly.
	AOC has fact-checked herself and AOC is right.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what this is, right?
	But according to her staffer, AOC was opening up doors and I was like, can I help you?
	What are you looking for?
	And she said, I'm looking for places to hide.
	That's real leadership right there.
	I'm really impressed.
	Real leaders look for places to hide and throw their staffers under the bus.
	You don't need a place to hide.
	She's in a bunker.
	Swap with me.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's almost exactly what happens, right?
	So she says...
	I'm kicking you out of the bunker.
	That's basically it.
	I'm looking for a place to hide.
	AOC 2021.
	Two memories of that, really, especially as a mum, I think were just especially powerful to me.
	When I said, I'm a mum, don't worry, I've got everything I need.
	We can live for a month like this in this office...
	As if AOC is going to be enduring a month-long siege in her own office or something.
	What a ridiculous statement.
	Right, again, how extreme is your thought process to think, oh god, some protesters have broken into the capital, we're going to be here for a while.
	You know, barricade up the doors, like, let's collect the weapons, collect the food, and we'll just see if we can hold them off.
	Like, come on!
	Crack all the soup cans.
	Exactly.
	But AOC apparently replied to this saying, I just hope I get to be a mum.
	I hope I don't die today.
	Okay.
	All right.
	This is all coming from her staffer.
	Yeah, this is all coming from her staffer.
	What I guess she thinks is impressive and praiseworthy statements.
	And it's like, right, kids...
	Seemed to be over-egging it, in my opinion.
	The second thing was that she was wearing heels and I was wearing flats.
	And I remember her saying to me, I knew I shouldn't have worn heels.
	How am I supposed to run?
	Yeah, anything.
	The only important person here is AOC, right?
	Like, literally under the bus.
	Did she swap her shoes?
	We found her a pair of sneakers to wear from one of my staffers so that she could run if she needed to literally run for her life.
	Because, again, it's like the bunker meme.
	We're just like, you've got better shoes, give me that.
	Yeah, I might need to run.
	Oh, well, then you're in trouble, I guess.
	What about me?
	You take my high heels.
	It's just like, what a hero, what a leader.
	Showing the way by throwing everyone under the bus and hiding in the bathroom.
	Like, I can agree with leaving, you know, as my point about procedure.
	But the point about, like, just openly throwing your staff under the bus.
	Twice.
	Twice now.
	Yeah.
	Not a good look, in my opinion.
	Looks rather self-centred.
	Again, like, you're the most important thing in the room.
	I mean, you do keep making everything about yourself, Miss Cortez.
	You're meant to be protecting your boys.
	Well, girls in this case.
	Well, yeah, in this case, yeah.
	But no, no, that's...
	That's how it works.
	But yeah, anyway, what I wanted to go on about is I think that she knows that she is a radicalizing force because she is essentially a merchant of extremism.
	Fox News did a great article covering just some of the most extreme things that she said.
	And she really is a lunatic.
	I mean, you can begin with her labeling the migrant centers as concentration camps.
	Now, Fox have called these Trump's ones, and it's like, well, no, these are set by Obama, and Trump actually didn't really change anything.
	Well, he changed a few things, but anyway.
	Are the kids still in cages right now?
	Yes.
	So they're Joe Biden's kids in cages now.
	But they're not on TV. But they're not on TV, so we don't worry about it.
	AOC has dropped that because it's no longer useful in a partisan way to attack the Republicans with.
	So why would I bring it up?
	By the way, I'm also throwing more staffers under the bus.
	But my staff is in cages as well.
	She said the fact that the concentration camps are now institutionalised practice in the land of the free is extraordinarily disturbing.
	Never again means something.
	We need to do something about it.
	And obviously various people came out and condemned this.
	But she followed up and said that the border agents are caging children and injecting them with drugs.
	She was arguing with someone and said, at least I'm not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs.
	That's not a mistake.
	That's a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin.
	That's not a mistake.
	That's just hatred.
	That's just cruelty.
	That's just wrong.
	And what it was, apparently kids were forced to take psychotropic medication.
	It's like, okay, but I mean...
	I don't know what that is.
	Yeah, I don't know, and I don't care.
	I'm not sure I even take up word for it.
	No, I don't take up word.
	Like, is this when she went down there and did the whole crying in front of a fence as well?
	Yes, yes, the fake crying in front of the fence.
	It turned out to just be a parking lot?
	Yes, and it was empty.
	But it was a great photo opportunity with the cameras around her.
	But yeah, so the point is, she's a massive radicalizing factor, and this led to the attack on the ICE facility, which we've talked about many times, but it's just worth noting that the guy who did it wrote a manifesto.
	And in the manifesto he mentions it.
	He doesn't just mention it.
	He mentions the term concentration camps four times, and obviously being corporate for profit, which they're not.
	The government runs, I don't know.
	He was a member of Antifa, so...
	He said, I'm 100% Antifa.
	Obviously, he's mimicking her rhetoric.
	She's the one who brought the term concentration camp into the dialogue.
	She is obviously, by any standard the left would use regarding incitement...
	Guilty of incitement of this.
	And the man died because he got shot after firebombing the location.
	He threw the firebomb, set fire to the place, and then was stood there with a rifle, and the cops came out and shot him.
	Yeah.
	Because he was about to then shoot them.
	Yes.
	And they managed to put out a fire that would have killed people.
	Yes.
	So she, an extremist, managed to get another extremist killed in an act of terrorism.
	Well, she...
	This is the thing.
	I don't blame...
	I don't think you can pin it on her by an actual standard of incitement.
	No, but by her standard of incitement.
	If Ted Cruz is a rapist...
	Yeah, by her standard of incitement.
	Like, sorry!
	She's completely screwed.
	She incited this terrorist attack that got a man killed.
	Yes.
	And this is, again, not the end of the extreme statement she's made.
	There is actually another terrorist attack where this is also mentioned, the concentration camp term.
	It's in Andy Ngo's book, which interview is going up at 2.30, a little plug.
	But you should definitely read it.
	And again, that guy also got killed.
	So, you know, that's not just one, that's two.
	So AOC now has a body count of two, which is, yikes.
	But yeah...
	This is by far the first radical thing she said.
	We've got a few to go through because why not?
	Fox has listed a few.
	Back when she first got elected, she said the world was going to end in 12 years because of climate change.
	Good news.
	That's not apocalyptic or anything.
	That's been dropped now as well.
	Yeah.
	Like she backtracked on it being like, oh no, I didn't mean 12 even though you said 12.
	Yeah.
	And now it's not mentioned at all.
	Yeah, she completely reversed her position on that because it turned out that was just a lie that she couldn't get away with.
	Another lie that she couldn't get away with was Amazon paying its workers starvation wages.
	Now, I'm hardly one to enjoy defending Amazon, but she was like, oh, look at this.
	Bezos is able to make billions because he pays his workers starvation wages and Amazon had to come out and go, we pay $15 an hour minimum.
	Which is what you want as the minimum wage.
	You know, why are you doing this, you lunatic?
	She'll probably pay more than her, you know, minimum wage staff get paid.
	Yeah, I'd be very interested to know.
	She also, for some reason, said cauliflower was an outgrowth of colonialism, which, I guess.
	I mean, she was...
	Sure, why not?
	I actually looked into this at the time when it happened.
	And basically, she was in New York or something, and she was doing a gun.
	And she was like, why don't we have yucca plants in it instead?
	Because yucca plants grow in the desert.
	That's why.
	Cauliflower grows at northern latitudes.
	Yucca plants don't.
	End of conversation.
	It's not about colonialism.
	It's about nature.
	It's about environment.
	And the world isn't going to end in 12 years, you lunatic.
	And also, she has her theories as to why the GOP hates her.
	She says, the reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their moral, their lack of moral grounding on so many issues.
	And not just that, the real reason they're so upset and acting like the girl in The Exorcist, like they're vomiting pea soup, it's like them and negativity, which is not a very coherent statement, but okay.
	Not many of her are.
	No.
	Well, I mean, no, no, that's not fair.
	She makes coherent statements, just they're often lies or ridiculous.
	But they're still coherent, as in an English sentence, right?
	I have problems with coherency and I disagree.
	And I look down on her with score.
	Yeah, even I'm not.
	No, no.
	Her language skills are fine, really.
	Normally.
	But the thing I love about it is that's not why Republicans hate her.
	Republicans hate her because she consistently seems to demonize and hate them at every opportunity.
	And that's even when they're trying to support her.
	Okay, you appear to have come in to the conversation with the Republicans with an explicitly adversarial will.
	You know, nothing a Republican can do is right.
	Everything they do is wrong.
	They're also murderers and rapists.
	Any further questions on the dialogue that AOC wants to have with the Republicans?
	Oh, why do the Republicans hate me?
	Yeah, I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	Anyway, so this next clip is the clip that she put up on her own Facebook page.
	And again, let's just watch it.
	I just can't get over it.
	I opened the door when all of a sudden I hear that whoever was trying to get inside got into my office.
	And then I realized that it's too late.
	That it's too late for me to get into the closet.
	And so I go back in and I hide back in in the bathroom behind the door.
	And then I just start to hear these yells of, where is she?
	Where is she?
	And I just thought to myself they got inside.
	And so I hide behind my door.
	Like this.
	Like I'm here.
	And the bathroom door starts going like this.
	Like the bathroom door is behind me.
	Or rather in front of me.
	And I'm like this.
	And the door hinges right here.
	And I just hear, where is she?
	Where is she?
	And this was the moment where...
	I thought everything was over.
	Maga Jason Voorhees was walking her stalking through her bathroom.
	Yeah, I have a difficult time believing this.
	Yeah, BS is my opinion of this.
	But I do believe that she acted like a coward and showed no leadership whatsoever.
	I believe that part of the story.
	Well, I love that that was from her staffer, like, trying to make her look good.
	Oh, I'm from her, you know.
	I was trying to hide in a closet, but I couldn't.
	It was too late.
	I had to hide in the bathroom.
	Behind the door!
	Oh, yeah, yeah, okay.
	The shoes.
	Sorry.
	Just in case I had to run away like a leader.
	What about me?
	You get the heels.
	But this is clearly an overreaction to what happened, in my opinion.
	I think she is totally milking this.
	They had security guards.
	They had armed security guards with them.
	When they're told to leave, they weren't just like, great, you're on your own.
	Good luck.
	No, they had Secret Service detail.
	They have all these security guards.
	It turns out the guy is shouting, where is she with the security guards?
	Yeah.
	How did she know they weren't, right?
	But this thing, we wouldn't accept this kind of fear-mongering from someone like Brett Kavanaugh, right?
	Because when he was being confirmed as a judge, a Supreme Court judge, the leftists stormed the Capitol during his appointment.
	They occupied a bunch of buildings.
	Hundreds of them were arrested.
	You know, he didn't get any kind of sympathy, or he didn't play the victim, or he didn't get to play the victim, and we wouldn't have accepted it from him if he had, because it wasn't the chaos, it wasn't like, you know, a scream movie, you know, a scary movie-style scenario, and bull, bull, I don't believe it.
	But you notice how she is, thankfully, pretending to be like the lost, scared woman in the horror movie, and it's like, dude, you are one of the biggest instigators of, like, hatred and agitation and terrorism.
	In American politics right now, you know, you're not like the little scared girl victim.
	Sorry, you're the one causing these things.
	You know, why does she do it?
	That's the point.
	It's an effective tactic.
	But the reason Brett Kavanaugh doesn't do it is because he wouldn't really gain anything from it.
	Like, she wants to up the tension and up the temperature endlessly.
	Like, you can see Trump trying to bring it down, saying, you know, go home, all the rest of it.
	We'll march peacefully to the capital.
	Yeah, so on and so forth.
	What an inciting Nazi.
	And you know, there's a place for upping the temperature to make a point about something.
	Sure.
	But when you've already got two terrorist attacks under your belt, the country's on a knife's edge and you just keep going.
	Yeah, maybe it's time to wind it back a bit.
	Pretty telling, isn't it?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And the fact that you're so afraid for your life is very interesting to me because, like, people of conviction rarely worry about their own safety when the conviction is on the line.
	And when it came down to it, she was suddenly like, oh no, actually, give me your shoes.
	I have to flee and hide in the bathroom.
	So, okay, well, there we go.
	Person of conviction right there.
	Does it remind me of the whole feminist meme?
	Yeah.
	It's like she's turning into little pigtails here.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, oh, I was so afraid of Maggie Jason Voorhees stalking through the corridors going, where is she?
	You know, come on.
	Come on, no one believes you.
	But yeah, so the playing the victim is never going to end.
	And we have moved into a new progressive era of politics.
	It's actually kind of insufferable watching the progressives still winning everything, even though they should be losing everything.
	I never realized SJWs were this popular.
	No, yeah, they're just well-loved.
	So for the final second, we're going to go through just three stories of just how the progressives are taking over, well, just things that they've got no business taking over and have got no use for themselves, right?
	The first one is this wonderful report by Marie Claire, which is exactly the place I would expect to hear this story, where female soldiers will be allowed to wear lipstick, nail polish, and I don't know what locks are.
	I assume they're...
	I don't know what that is, right?
	I'm not a woman.
	Yeah, it's a woman thing.
	I don't get it.
	This actually reminds me, we were in Germany and we met a member of the AFD. He was telling us there was a dispute there at one point because they built these new tanks for the army and then the problem was the complaint that this violated the Equality Act because pregnant women couldn't operate the tanks.
	Well, that's true!
	He's like, but why would we send pregnant women to war?
	Why wouldn't you, you bigot...
	If they want to do it, it's a biological thing, therefore they should have equal access to driving tanks and murdering the Russians.
	I'm sorry, but the tanks are just not built for pregnant women.
	Well, that's bigoted.
	What kind of absurd country sends pregnant women to war?
	The United States, actually.
	The U.S. Army has announced the changes citing diversity, equity, and inclusion, which are three dog whistles, code words, buzzwords, shibboleths that the radical left use.
	Marie Claire tells us, for women in the U.S. Army, the changes to regulation and grooming standards announced Tuesday morning will mean more freedom of expression, as well as some much-need support.
	You know, I don't want soldiers having freedom of expression, right?
	When you...
	Sorry, you're not allowed to wear political adornments.
	You're not allowed to make political statements.
	You have to wear a regulation uniform because it is an army.
	It's about discipline.
	You're meant to be depersonalized.
	Exactly.
	The whole process of training is to do that.
	Exactly.
	It is to turn you into a killing machine.
	Why is all your hair cut off?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why do you shave your head?
	Because the helmets can't handle it?
	It's just more comfortable that way, to be honest.
	I'm tempted to do it myself, actually.
	But the point is, you're turning yourself into a killing machine because the enemy are also killing machines and you have to win.
	But anyway, it's okay.
	We want more freedom of expression for the soldiers.
	The female soldiers.
	The male soldiers actually don't get this privilege.
	So, interesting how women have been in the Army five minutes and they've already got privileges.
	Sergeant Major Mark Anthony Clark from the Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Personnel remarked on how the Army's grooming standards was in place for soldiers to present clean and professional appearance.
	Now that can include lipstick, nail polish, earrings, and hairstyles like braids, twists, and locks, as opposed to buns.
	Right, so at least when they're charging the enemy, the enemy will be like, wow, they're so pretty.
	In an effort to stop hair damage and loss stemming from hairstyles like the bun, the army has approved healthier hairstyle options that are more inclusive of various natural styles.
	Sorry, it just hit me, like the absurdity of the army caring about hair loss.
	I mean, I'm more worried about limb loss, to be honest.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Troop loss?
	Hair loss, that's a bigger issue.
	Yeah, I mean, lost a few legs to IEDs, but the hair looks great.
	But this is, again, Joe Biden's army now.
	This is what Joe Biden's army looks like.
	I'm just reading her about breasts.
	Yeah, no, we're going to get to that, right?
	We're going to get to that.
	Because additionally, breastfeeding or pumping soldiers, as in breast pumps, are now permitted to wear undershirts to better accommodate their needs.
	That's right.
	Imagine...
	Like, you're being deployed, and you're like, right, where's the squad?
	They're over there, and they're all breastfeeding.
	And you're like, right, okay.
	We're about to go over the tunnel.
	Like, yeah, okay, well, I've still got to extract X amount of milk.
	So, it's like, what are you doing here?
	No, I'm not even going to make an argument about suitability.
	Why would you?
	Why would you need to make an argument about the unsuitability of pregnant or breastfeeding women on the field?
	No, but if it, you know, it's giving birth to combat effectiveness.
	I'm not even going to put that.
	Why are we sending mothers, like newly made mothers who are still breastfeeding, to war?
	Like, why would you do that?
	Like, a newborn has to feed, like, every two hours at the most.
	Like, give them the time off.
	I know this because I am currently a father of a newborn.
	Where's the maternity leave advocates here?
	Yeah, this is just...
	Exactly.
	Really.
	You can't get maternity leave in the army.
	No, sorry.
	You're being deployed to the front.
	Like, you're still going to get the placenta out or something.
	Okay.
	It's just like, what is going on?
	What is going on?
	So yeah, these changes come just days after Biden overturned the banning of transgender people in the US military.
	We know that actions speak louder than words when it comes to inclusivity and equity within our ranks.
	So Joe Biden is feminizing the US Army, I think is a fair way of describing it.
	And yeah, I think that's great.
	That's great.
	That's so progressive.
	It's effective.
	That's what it is, about meritocracy.
	Anyway, let's move on to Disney and their racists.
	It's the absurdity of the transgender soldier argument as well.
	It's not really about should you have the right blow and so forth.
	I mean, we may have laboured this point, but I just want to make it again, which is that...
	The point of the army is to be the best.
	Like, your army is to be the most effective fighting force.
	Only if you want to win a war.
	Yeah, as in that's the purpose of it.
	And I can't get over how the West seems to view this as some kind of civic right or something.
	That you have the ability to go out and join the killing force.
	Well, you know, the death squads that we make are there to be death squads.
	And if the enemy's death squads are better, our death squads are going to lose.
	I mean, maybe we should bring back conscription for trans people and pregnant mothers.
	That's the new army.
	Well, actually, that's banned men.
	Why not?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, straight white men have held institutional power in the military since time immemorial.
	I mean, going back to the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, for Christ's sake.
	Maybe this is like accelerationists.
	We need to advocate within the British army and maybe the US army a rainbow division or something like this.
	Absolutely.
	Gay conscripts.
	As diverse as possible.
	Transgender battalion.
	Yeah.
	The pregnant mothers driving tanks.
	You know, like, all of these very progressive and inclusive, equitable positions.
	There's that Danish comedian who does sketches.
	That's one for him.
	Like, enough to see that, the Rainbow Division being set up.
	It's like they don't understand that the army actually fights wars, to be honest.
	Giving birth in the tank while shooting Russians.
	Yeah, but anyway, Disney is racist because foreign cultures have strange practices and Disney noticed this and represented it.
	So representation itself is becoming racist.
	What do you call throwing gays off rooftops?
	No, no, no.
	It's not even anywhere near that bad.
	It's not great, actually.
	But anyway, so they've revamped their Jungle Cruise ride to remove racist depictions of indigenous people.
	So they announced on the 25th of January that they were changing the plans to make it more inclusive for guests.
	Which is something that these people welcome.
	As a culture, we have to change.
	I mean, we have to change.
	These are things that really probably should have never existed in the first place.
	And the things that they're talking about...
	This was a guest who was at the...
	Mr.
	Shenling, who was at Disney, just conveniently, and then was interviewed by NPR. He was like, oh yeah, we definitely need to change.
	I'm very progressive.
	So, that's weird.
	But these things should never have existed in the first place.
	One of them, at the very end, was a controversial part.
	An indigenous man named Trader Sam was holding up several shrunken heads.
	And that was deemed as racist.
	as racist.
	But shrunken heads are a real thing.
	Yeah.
	These things should never have existed in the first place.
	So it seems like a judgment about the culture that creates shrunken heads, which I think sounds kind of racist in itself.
	A bit imperialist, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	Like your move of getting rid of them is kind of minimalizing the representation of indigenous And aren't you destroying a beautiful native culture when you tell them they should never have had shrunken heads in the first place?
	Cancel Disney.
	Cancel.
	The next person that is consulted is Rollins College English professor Anne Zimmerman.
	Thank God we've got her opinion on everything.
	I don't know what I was thinking before I got...
	English language professor.
	Yeah, just an English professor, yeah.
	Just like, okay, well, let's have her opinion.
	She studies the stories Disney tells its guests on the rides, like the Jungle Cruise.
	The first time the boat encounters indigenous people, guests are told they're entering headhunter territory and that sometimes the natives attack crews.
	That's because they did.
	Like, that's historically accurate?
	Yeah.
	Gets worse, though.
	They had a Union Jack flying in the boats, and you have these colonizers getting attacked by a tribe of indigenous people in part of the original narrative.
	Yeah?
	Yes.
	That's what happened hundreds of years ago.
	Like, we still don't know what happened to Roanoke.
	It either got destroyed by the natives, or they got incorporated.
	We don't know.
	But yes, this is what happened.
	Colonizers, sometimes with British flags, often without...
	Andy Millman teaches theme park and attraction management at the University of Central Florida.
	I can't believe there's a degree for this.
	He said that Disney updated its Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World in 2018 by taking out the scene of a bride auction.
	Several years ago, a show in the Pirates of the Caribbean are a scene depicting a woman being sold as a slave.
	So now slavery is verboten from having existing in the past.
	Again, another beautiful native custom that's been taken away by imperialism.
	But yeah, so Millman said that if anything, technology and a nationwide reckoning around race are speeding up these changes.
	What a weird little...
	They all agree.
	They all happen to agree in exactly the same narrative surrounding this.
	Very interesting.
	And the next thing that the progressives have taken over, usurped, and will eventually destroy is the Muslim Council of Britain.
	Bass.
	Now, I told everyone that the Muslims are not going to be able to resist the communists.
	The intersectionals are going to take over Islam and ruin it like they've ruined everything else.
	And everyone's like, no, Islam will defeat them.
	Well, you're wrong.
	They've lost one battle.
	Yep, they've lost the first and probably one of the most important, because the Muslim Council of Britain is like an umbrella organisation that essentially advises mosques around the country.
	Well, actually, no.
	They spend most of their time advising the government.
	Yes, about what they think Muslims...
	And it turns out something like 3% of Muslims in the country actually support the Muslim Council of Britain.
	So really, they're just like an elitist organisation.
	It's a wing of the Labour Party, essentially.
	It is not representative of Muslims in the UK. Yeah, absolutely.
	And to be honest with you, at some point, I expect, because these sort of, like, elitist, detached organizations always end up getting the sort of Game Stonk, Gamergate treatment, at some point, I expect that the progressives will take over it, and there'll be a kind of Muslim uprising against the Muslim Council of Britain, but we're a bit, we're at the beginning stages of this now, right?
	So we're telling the news for a year from now.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Put a pin in this.
	This is going to come back, right?
	So she takes over as the Secretary General of the largest body of mosques in Islamic schools and Muslim associations.
	Being a young female, she says, it's quite a good representation of the future leadership that we need to see now.
	This is Zahra Mohammed speaking.
	She says, I think women sometimes hesitate to take on leadership roles, even though they're more than qualified to do so.
	This is like 2010 feminism.
	This is such a long way back, this sort of narrative.
	It's really important to engage young people and engage more women and diversify the organization and the work we're doing.
	Yes, it is.
	Yes, it is.
	I want to see more diversity on the Muslim Council of Britain.
	In particular, I'd like to see more religious diversity.
	I'd like to see some Catholics.
	I'd like to see some Jewish people and maybe one or two Protestants.
	And then I would like to hear everyone's opinion on Israel.
	She says, and Sadiq Khan tweeted this out, quote from her, My vision is to continue to build a truly inclusive, diverse, and representative body, driven by the needs of British Muslims for the common good.
	And he says it's terrific to see Zahra Mohammed elected as the first woman Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain.
	And she's looking into how ethnic minority communities have been impacted during the pandemic, and also said that Islamophobia was a pervasive issue she wanted to challenge.
	Well, I agree.
	I wish her all the best.
	I hope that she fully manages to change the agenda of the Muslim Council of Britain from whatever it does, which I assume is advancing the interests of Muslims.
	Protecting Islam.
	Exactly.
	From protecting Islam, advancing the interests of Muslims, to advancing the interests of tolerance and diversity.
	I can't wait.
	I can't wait until the Muslim Council of Britain is completely diverse.
	I can't make any jokes.
	I've got to shut up.
	I can't make any jokes.
	Do we have a video comment?
	This one's a bit dark, but it is a video comment.
	Hey, gentlemen.
	Hope you can hear this all right.
	I wanted to get this in before you guys started your video for Monday, 1st of February, I think.
	The question is this.
	With the Wall Street bets fiasco and everything else that's happened in the past several years from the Wall Street bailouts that launched the Tea Party movement to the bailouts of the auto industry and of the recent election and what we've seen with Bernie,
	how long do you think it'll be Before no one believes anything about the system anymore and everyone loses full faith.
	Because I can't imagine that we're that far off.
	And what do you think is going to happen when that happens?
	Thank you.
	What do you reckon, Callum?
	Depends what he means by losing full faith.
	If he means, like, losing full faith in the US dollar or something, then that's...
	More the various institutions, as in, will people get justice from the courts?
	No.
	Will they get representation from...
	A large part of that has already happened.
	Yeah.
	Will they get representation from their politics?
	No.
	Will they be fairly employed at their jobs?
	Probably not.
	You know, things like this.
	I think one of the things he's alluding to there, which a lot of people are worried about, is if this GameStop thing carries on and a bunch of hedge funds go bankrupt or lose 53% Melbourne capital...
	Will they get bailed out?
	And if they do get bailed out, I think a lot of people are going to lose trust in the government, which they rightfully should at this point.
	I mean, if 2008 wasn't bad enough, you could make the argument that it was going to crash the global economy or some such thing.
	I think Wall Street Biden will bail them out.
	But if just you guys got destroyed and a bunch of other people got rich, therefore we're just going to give you a bunch of money.
	There is no defense of that, in my view.
	So that would be something really bad for trust.
	I think when people have fully lost the confidence of the institutions, things get quite bad, to be honest.
	It's the institutions that hold the country together, to be honest.
	This is why it's such an important thing for the people in the institutions to actually take the time to engage with the people who are complaining about them, even if they hate the people who are complaining about them.
	You have to understand that these people are...
	Voters and taxpayers and, you know, citizens of your country, and you don't actually have any right to cut them out of the political process, even if you dislike the politics.
	They have earned it by paying the taxes.
	Anyway, MuteStream says, the one true stonk, the Jugoslavian stonk.
	PlusPiPope says, completely unrelated question, best seed creature.
	Blue whale.
	It's the best.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's the biggest.
	That doesn't mean it's the best.
	Big means it's best.
	Orcs, orcs, orcs!
	Sorry.
	Okay, well there we go.
	The blue whale.
	That means it's the best creature ever to have lived, incidentally.
	Yes.
	Mute stream.
	Would you say Hugo is a victim of male gaze?
	I am now, yeah.
	Yeah, certainly by you.
	Platypie Pope.
	Follow-up question.
	Spermwell versus Megalodon.
	Who wins?
	Well, obviously the Megalodon.
	The engaged view, GameStonk, is the revenge of teenagers who watched their parents' life work evaporate in 2008.
	As they twist the knife in the hedge fund's belly, they will hiss, where was our bailout?
	Good stuff, I say.
	Hold the line, boys.
	Yeah, but I mean, that's your theory, basically, isn't it?
	It's like, you know...
	If everyone loses their money on GameStop, where's their bailout?
	It's not happening.
	Yeah.
	But if, you know, Melvin Capital loses a bunch of money and they get bailed out...
	Yeah.
	And there's the thing, like, there shouldn't be any bailouts.
	There shouldn't be any bailouts.
	Should they?
	I want to say a thing that I can't say because of YouTube.
	Okay.
	I don't think anyone should be getting bailed out.
	If you lose your money, you lose your money.
	Deal with it.
	You knew the risks going in.
	That's the whole point.
	That's why we're saying to people, don't take our advice for the Wall Street.
	That's why I say to people, if I buy a GameStonk, I'm burning that money.
	Yeah, this is a very risky business.
	And they, on that side of it, also knew that getting in.
	Yeah.
	And I think the Wall Street Bets guys are very aware of this from what I've seen.
	TfWalspark says, Norwegian money to our British heroes.
	Thank you very much.
	Do you think the toxic left and far left knows of its own projectioning but are too scared to admit it?
	Well, that's the thing.
	Even if they can't admit it and be tactically inadvisable, AOC running for cover and hiding in the bathroom while stealing her staff's shoes is kind of a revealed indication that they know they're at the...
	The centre of the problem.
	William Glenton says, thank you to our heroes at Melvin Capital for making this donation possible.
	Yeah, well, thank you very much.
	I appreciate taking their money.
	Angry Baneling says, great stream with Nick today, Carl.
	Come back soon.
	Yeah, dude, I really had a good time on Nick Rakita's stream.
	He's been covering a lot of the GameStop stuff, and he is a lawyer, and he covered a lot of the Trump stuff as well.
	And as he is a lawyer, he knows what he's talking about.
	And so I was relying quite heavily on a lot of his coverage, and so it was a real pleasure to go on.
	And the thing is, I just like the kind of guy.
	He starts with me as the kind of guy I go for a beer with, you know, and just chat about 40K and stuff like this.
	So I had a really great time on that.
	Nicholas Insantio Malson says, quick FYI, my nickname is pronounced like the word insanity with the letter O instead of a Y at the end.
	It may not matter, only writing this today.
	I did say Insantio, so I think that's right, isn't it?
	I hope so.
	Insanito.
	Oh yeah, Insanito, not Insanio, yeah.
	Okay, yeah.
	Rido33, Southampton money to us, Swindon's Heroes.
	Based, thank you.
	Shush Sugin, they're trying to hold GameStop against a room full of autistic people.
	Won't work out well for the hedge fund.
	Cheers from the Isle of Lucy.
	Never even heard of that.
	Yeah, I find it interesting, though, that you can see the obvious manipulation that's going on by the establishment moving across this.
	Like, the various angles of attackers are saying, oh, it's bad for you.
	Oh, we don't care anyway.
	Oh, you know, we're just going to get rid of all these one-star reviews.
	It's like, what is all of this, you know, like, all of these reactions?
	What does Google owe Robin Hood?
	Yeah, but if you didn't care...
	You'd do nothing.
	You wouldn't even react to this.
	You'd be like, whatever.
	I'm going to get back to ruining businesses.
	Or whatever it is they do.
	Eric Edward, the stonk is back on the menu.
	Wag!
	Joe Woodland said, took part in the US Civil War games.
	Estimated 3 million dead at most conservative, and up to 10% of the population at worst.
	Don't think people realize how bad it gets.
	Civil wars are actually generally worse than regular wars, because the problem with civil wars is they always come from some kind of ideological difference.
	And that means that the people on the other side actually need to be dealt with in the most kind of harsh ways.
	This is the message from the Spanish Civil War that, you know, Franco went for civil war instead of a coup and then ended up with, yeah, you have to kill everyone on the other side or they have to kill you.
	And that's why they're terrible.
	Yeah.
	The English Civil War, the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War.
	Civil wars are always really gross.
	So it's not something we encourage.
	We don't want a civil war.
	But it seems to be the sort of thing that the Democrats want.
	Slickback says, I don't know what you've been told, but Wall Street Boys is mighty bold.
	We're the stonkiest of the lot.
	We make you all look like grots.
	I'm loving these memes.
	Jorthack says, I'm deeply offended by that statement.
	Roughneck MP says, Focahontas showed who she really is.
	Hillary wearing a Bernie mask.
	Yes.
	Here's a bit of beer money from the Lone Star State.
	Thank you.
	But again, they all show their mask, because as soon as it comes to, like, actually challenging the sort of, like, the Wall Street power establishment and the Democratic Party, they all fold instantly.
	Fold, fold, fold, fold, fold.
	Even though there's a huge amount of political capital to be made in resisting this.
	Elizabeth Warren's early statements were in favour of Wall Street bets, but her actions, call the SEC, shut this down.
	Interesting.
	Thug Life Bear, Bloomberg, hello my fellow Redditors.
	Yes, yes.
	Yes, that's exactly what's happening with the silver.
	Kuki Couture says, SLV is paper certificates of silver which outnumber physical silver 250 to 1.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Yeah, again, we're saying we don't know anything about finance.
	A WallStreetBets-like squeeze in silver should be for bullion or PSLV. SLV is Melvin.
	Yes, I believe it.
	And AnywhereSomewhere says, on reviews, I'm in mobile.
	You can wipe them manually anytime, but it costs you in user acquisition.
	The cost of RH Robinhood ads will skyrocket.
	Paper install.
	Alexander Cross says, hold the line.
	Ridiculous says, I was listening to Andy Ngo talk about Antifa.
	It got me thinking, maybe the security is not just for MAGA chuds.
	We don't want Biden.
	We want revenge.
	Well, that's a good point, actually.
	But I think that they think that Antifa isn't going to be that much of a threat.
	The chatter that comes out of the left-wing political class is always about the right wing.
	They're definitely referring to MAGA. I don't know.
	I feel like an Antifa type could come up and just...
	Oh, I'm not saying they couldn't.
	I'm not saying it couldn't happen.
	But I don't think that's on their mind.
	I think they view Antifa as...
	I don't think it's on the mind of the Rafters, no.
	But on someone like Biden, I think.
	Actually, yeah, maybe.
	I think he sees that as just...
	Sort of trivial nonsense that can be stamped down with the good old boot of the state.
	I mean, we've got 5,000 guards here.
	What are they going to do?
	Yeah, but that's why they're there, you know?
	Well, that's one of the reasons they're there.
	But, I mean, I don't think it's Antifa.
	I think they're worried about the Republicans basically arming up and marching.
	Like, you know, if 100,000 armed Republicans end up at the Capitol, like, what the hell happens?
	I mean, it's going to be a really interesting day either way, right?
	Anyway...
	Kerr Norrock says, The first thing about stocks is that you don't actually lose dollars until you sell.
	They are holding the line, waiting for the meme to die, and then the stock to crash.
	Right.
	The Shadowblade.
	08 was caused by government regulations, not Wall Street.
	Wall Street are just players.
	The government created and runs the game.
	Yeah, I love how he's been going at this.
	And just the tweets he's been putting out, it's like, you know, you can't sell a car you don't own, you can't sell a house you don't own, but you can sell stocks you don't own.
	Oh, did he?
	Right, so John...
	That's because he's got work.
	Breaking news, apparently he's taking a break from Twitter for a while, which is disappointing.
	But, you know, Thug Life Bear says, the people losing money on the other side of these GME holds.
	Press Secretary's brother, Obama's Chairman of the Fed, Steve Cohen, members of Congress.
	Yeah, that's another important point.
	Like, these people are all deeply connected to all of the sort of...
	that everyone has to deal with.
	Like, you know, Yellen getting $800,000 in speaking fees and stuff like this.
	Like, they've all got, like, all of this gross swamp money that's involved in the Democratic Party and this is where the slush money all comes from.
	So it's like, all of these people are the right people to be losing money.
	So, you know, I don't feel bad at all about burning my $300 worth of money.
	It's fine.
	White Hot Peppers, hey dude, in D.C. Yes, this is our roving reporter on the ground, White Hot Peppers, who's in D.C. right now for National Guard duty.
	Guarding the capital for the next two months, maybe longer.
	I absolutely hate it.
	Never thought I'd be directly protecting the people screwing me over.
	Phil's bad man.
	Now, what I'd like to know, White Hot Peppers, is how widely you perceive that kind of sentiment to be proliferated among the National Guard that you are serving with.
	Because I'm very interested to know how reliable they would be in a pinch for the Biden administration and whether the Biden administration has bet on the wrong colour, as it were.
	Jaffa on the Bound says, When we thought Taco Bell was going to win the Franchise Wars, it looks like GameStop is going to be it.
	Be well, Ben and Co.
	I get that it's a Demolition Man reference.
	Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it?
	You know, the Stonk Wars.
	All shops are GameStop now, after the Stonk Wars.
	Wolfgang Deo says, sorry, in Rikisa Law, had absolutely no idea you were Sagan of a Cat.
	Oh, nice.
	Oh, thank you.
	I do wonder at what point will people know you more for this than Sagan of a Cat.
	It'd be a weird time.
	Yeah, weird days, eh?
	Karma and Kerosene.
	I have some Russian backers that would love to run the price of Lotus Eater stock to the moon.
	What's your ticker symbol?
	We don't have one.
	We don't trade on the stock market, I'm afraid.
	In the same way Gap doesn't.
	Yeah.
	Harrison Gray.
	Still waiting to hear AOC denounce her radicalization of people like Willem van Spronsen, who we talked about earlier, the anti-fire attacker of the ICE institution.
	A far leftist that tried to firebomb an ICE facility.
	Yeah, well, there we go.
	Yeah, no, of course, she's never disavowed anything.
	She's never walked anything back.
	If you're waiting to hear her denunciation, there is a video, Rebel Media did a good bit on this, they got one of their reporters, to just have a long walk with her, keep asking her, do you know about this?
	Do you know just about what happened?
	She ignores it.
	Several minutes, ignores the guy, doesn't want to respond to it at all.
	The other members of the squad do the same thing.
	I've seen other videos with reporters doing the same thing with the squad.
	They know what they're doing.
	They know that they're extremists, they know that they're radicalizing people, and they know that they are deliberately increasing the pressure of the politics in America because it is only in conditions like that that revolution can be possible.
	When a terrorist goes out and commits a terrorist attack, that's a win for her.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	She's thrilled with it.
	Which is why she says, oh, they're concentration camps.
	We have to do something about this.
	Never again.
	And all this.
	And this is why she's doing it now.
	I was nearly...
	Ted Cruz nearly killed and raped me or whatever she's connected to.
	It's like, look, this is an extreme allegation that no one actually believes.
	You're just trying to get up your radical followers to go and do something.
	Which is instantly exactly what she says.
	And yet she's never held to account for it.
	ZZ Top says AOC walks into a bar Barman asks what she wants She says A large aperitif Barman says Sorry flower I don't think that's possible Ha ha Alexander Cross says You want to hold us to account?
	Okay you first Yes White Hot Peppers again.
	My first sergeant and I explored the capital last night.
	He just kept opening random doors and going in.
	We ended up in Nancy Pelosi's office.
	These people live like kings, completely out of touch.
	Disgusting.
	Yeah, I agree.
	And I really hate the rhetoric that surrounds it as well.
	This sacred building.
	There's nothing sacred about government.
	At all.
	Ever.
	And when we start thinking that government and the institutions are sacred is when you start getting rampant tyranny.
	Anyway, Thug Life Bear.
	Jordan Belfort has a similar story to Martin Shkreli, working class kid who climbed into finance the world through talent then shafted by the moral police.
	Eh, no.
	He engaged in some bad practices, so no.
	Who?
	Belfort or Screlly?
	Belfort.
	I don't know anything about Screlly.
	But even from the own movie, he confesses, yeah, what I did was bad.
	And that's why the book money he made ended up going back to the people he screwed over.
	Screlly is the farmer bro who ended up jacking the price.
	I just don't know about what he did that was specifically wrong.
	Because with Screlly, he was arguing, well, if I jack up the price, I can throw more research into it.
	Which, I don't know.
	Obvious nonsense.
	I mean, like, you know.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It looked like a predatory business practice to me.
	But Belfort admits, yeah, I was shoveling nonsense to people.
	But there was something about Scrayley's attitude I quite enjoyed.
	Well, I don't give a shit attitude.
	Like, I enjoyed that.
	Even if he's a bad guy and he's in the wrong.
	AJ Cost says, Did you see Ted Cruz himself made a Zodiac Killer joke and recast the AOC tweet on his latest podcast episode?
	Fing killed me, Cruz 2020.
	Yeah, they decoded some of the Zodiac Killer's notes, and Ted Cruz retweeted it being like, uh-oh.
	See, I like Ted Cruz.
	Yeah, Ted Cruz is a funny guy.
	By Kazyaka, I watched the Capitol being evacuated during the Insurrection Live.
	They even had time to finish the hearings.
	AOC is just lying about the bathroom.
	Yes, she is.
	Red Lighting 001.
	AOC came out with that because she needs to distract from her simps.
	She needs to distract her simps from the fact that she's with the establishment, not against it.
	It's a distraction.
	Correct.
	Bobby Collins says, basically, AOC wants that TCD disavow.
	Furthermore, I applaud to the gentlemen and lads.
	Please do your utmost ability and dogged mind.
	Hold the line, warg.
	Filthy Jim the Internet Peasant says, I heard Nancy Pelosi bought a bunch of Tesla stock.
	Hint, hint, Elon.
	Yeah.
	That's probably why he's got off Twitter, to be honest.
	Philip Abudi says, Hugo needs to wear a lighter color shirt.
	The darker shirt, the paler skin looks.
	Either that or your next hire is a hair or makeup crew.
	No simp.
	I don't ever see us hiring a makeup crew, to be honest.
	Beckett says, First time finally catching you guys live.
	You're doing flying spaghetti monsters work.
	Keep it up.
	Thanks so much.
	AOC is Genk Yogurt TYT Endgame.
	Yeah, well, I mean, he is in part responsible for her achieving her lofty position now.
	He was the one who co-founded Justice Democrats.
	He put his money into it.
	They got a bunch of people going.
	And, like, she was one of the breakout successors of that.
	So, you know, there is that.
	Palindrome says, the timing is too suspicious.
	AOC is trying to distract us from the stonk war.
	The peasants are too unified right now, and the cathedral is desperate to drive any wedge into us that they can.
	Yeah, that's another interesting thing, isn't it?
	She's like, oh, well, you know, like, they shouldn't be prevented from trading, and then suddenly that's it.
	That's the one mention that gets, now it's back to Republicans or evil rapists.
	Dover says, it's hard to argue against Callum's point.
	Oh, sorry, to argue against Callum's point.
	There would be no need to run or hide if one was not sending their citizenry up the creek without a paddle.
	Yeah, this is exactly the point I'm making, right?
	If you're afraid of your own citizens, what are you doing that's putting you in fear of them?
	You know, you must be doing something.
	Well, that's very romantic, but that's not reality.
	I don't know.
	Reality is if there's a group of people breaking into a government building where you have politicians, you have to evacuate them.
	Because, yeah, 99% might be fine, but if one of them is a terrorist, you failed at your job as a security personnel.
	Yeah, okay, but my job isn't security personnel.
	That's not my problem.
	Yeah, that's what we're looking at.
	You're saying, why should they not just stand there?
	Yeah, but I'm not interested in the job of the security personnel.
	That's their business, right?
	A policeman's job is only easy in a police state, right?
	The job of a politician is to lead.
	And leading does not mean running and hiding in the bathroom.
	Okay, hiding in the bathroom, I agree.
	Like, that's silly.
	No, they should have met them on the Senate floor.
	They have to be evacuated.
	I just don't agree.
	Okay, that's fine.
	Pseudonymity says there are two outcomes.
	We rocket Bitcoin with Wall Street engulfed in our engines or we hold the stock they need back in our diamond hands.
	Either way, they are screwed.
	I hope so.
	Tim Cornish says AOC another box checked.
	How will we overcome body positivity?
	How will she overcome body positivity?
	I assume that she's going to get really fat at some point.
	Which I think is stunning and brave.
	Zack Adamson says, I was in a mass shooting situation in 99 and had to wait for a SWAT team to get us out.
	Listening to AOC drone on makes me sick.
	Yeah, I don't think it's comparable.
	Again, they weren't unarmed.
	They had security.
	Filthy Jim, the internet peasants again.
	Got silver back in June, thinking it would hold value better than having cash.
	Says the government money prints was burr.
	Would like to go sell before it goes down, but my state has one new COVID case, and now I'm under house arrest.
	Oh yeah, in Australia, right?
	Yeah, bad luck.
	You told us about this yesterday, didn't you?
	The fact that it was in Perth, or I can't remember which one, but one case of COVID, and the entire state locks down.
	The Isle of Man, incidentally, have just abandoned lockdowns.
	So good for them.
	Blundering Tusk says, please return the article outline I sent via Lotus East's contact form, my dumbass.
	Didn't save it locally and I could do with it for drafting.
	You didn't send the email.
	We don't know what email it was.
	But hopefully Vicky can hear and see that and check that out.
	She does all the emails.
	AceQuala45 says, Minimum wage is the tool of corporations to stifle local and small businesses.
	Probably true.
	Amazon, Walmart and Starbucks were behind the push in Seattle.
	Yeah, no doubt.
	I mean, obviously, if you have to pay people $15 an hour, then if you're a small business, you have a problem there.
	American Bravado says, If only AOC had a law about men going into women's restrooms.
	Captain Bigos, concerning Schoenhead's leaked nudes.
	Oh, God.
	Whoever did it is a terrible person.
	Anyone looking to them is just as bad.
	Yeah, agreed.
	We're not going to talk about them.
	Yeah, we're not going to talk about them.
	Rob McLevin, super specific details, just like Jussie Smollett.
	Yeah, it is, isn't it?
	It's weird, because normally when something scary happens, and I'm sure that we could have got Josh to weigh in on this, your memory is one of the first things that becomes really fallible.
	I did A-level psychology when I was in college, and it was really interesting how we were...
	As part of the example of how fallible memory is in tense situations, and it's not just your memory, it's your perceptions overall, right?
	We were told to watch a video, and it was a video of a corner shop and there's a woman behind the till, and then a guy comes in with a mask and he's got a gun in his hand, and he threatens her and says, give me the money, and she gives him the money, and he goes out.
	And then we went around the class asking, you know, the teacher was asking me, so what do you remember from that?
	And none of the women noticed that he had a gun in his hand.
	It's like, what?
	And I was just like, what did you think he was threatening her with?
	Like, you know, but none of them had noticed that he had a gun.
	It's like, right, that's really interesting, isn't it?
	You know, the perception of the thing is very, you know, it's very subjective.
	Like, I have heard a lot about police lineups actually being kind of gank.
	Yeah.
	Because people just mess up and don't remember stuff.
	Well, I was terrifying.
	Like...
	You know, you get this all the time.
	I was attacked by a really huge guy, and then the guy comes in, he's five foot seven.
	It's like, okay, but he felt huge when he was attacking you and whatnot.
	Feelings are an important thing there, unfortunately.
	But yeah, so the super specific details, like remembering every small detail, that's actually a mark of suspicion.
	You know, that's a mark of a person who's in a calm and relaxed state, filling in details that they think will make it sound more convincing.
	But it's like, if something's actually happened, you'll be panicked and you'll be like, oh, I don't really remember this, but I just remember this, this and this.
	And, you know, these are the things that I held on to.
	But anyway, 2.0 says, AOC is like the Roman Emperor who switched clothes with a soldier in order to survive a battle.
	I came, I saw, I ran away.
	That's exactly what this is.
	I'm sure this is a giant win for her beta simp base, but for me, I'm just like, that's pathetic.
	Matthew Hammond says, I may have to take a break from Lotus Eaters if you keep playing AOC clips.
	She's insufferable.
	Maybe you could warn us.
	Sorry, I'll put a trigger warning up next time if that helps.
	Can we get on a little bit, please?
	AOC is a coward and a scoundrel who's only coherent long enough to tell an inflammatory lie like the rest of them.
	Seems to be true, to be honest.
	Chew says, Australian leader recently made killing the enemy on the battlefield a jailable offence.
	What?
	I don't know.
	I am assuming this is in response to the allegations of war crimes.
	Afghanistan, yeah.
	I'll look into it, I guess.
	I've never heard of her.
	NWordSticks says, Big fan of the podcast, guys.
	We'll be cancelling my YouTube premium and sending those funds your way.
	Thank you very much.
	Also, get you some Cardano before it moons.
	You will thank me later.
	What's Cardano?
	I don't know what that is.
	Enraged God says, AOC, the gift that just keeps spewing bile, hatred and division.
	Not one for unity.
	Reminds me of Justice League.
	Join the unity.
	Won't be long now.
	Alexander Cross, live dumb, die stupid, but leave a pretty corpse.
	The war secretary, probably.
	Yeah, I just can't get over the, you know, you can wear makeup in the army.
	Why?
	What is the functional benefit of makeup in the army?
	Marcus Byrne says, I cover all the CRT and wokeism stuff in the military at heterodoxsoldier.com.
	I see no reason why straight white men should enlist anymore.
	Broken Arrow.
	Yeah, I mean, it'd be nice to send out all of the women and minorities to fight for us for once, wouldn't it?
	You know?
	laughing It would certainly be a sight to behold.
	Change of affairs?
	I mean, too long has the military been dominated by straight white men.
	Saga says, where is the fight for equality?
	Where is the fight for women to be forced to sign up for the draft?
	Exactly.
	You know, soon, in fact, the men have had the privilege of the draft.
	Since time immoral, since the setting up of the United States.
	And that has been systemic structural sexism and racism against, well no, not really racism, just sexism.
	I have always wondered, if you were given the option, you know, we don't have a draft in this country, but exemption from any drafts in return for not having a vote, what would you choose?
	Like, would you take that deal?
	That's a good question.
	Because that's the question about, you know, why women couldn't vote.
	Part of it, of course, was the fact you don't have to go and fight more.
	That was a huge part of it.
	But if you were to open the floor now to an egalitarian society and say, actually, if you do want to give up your right to vote, we will get you out of all drafts.
	I think we should conscript women.
	It's the only way to achieve equality and diversity in the army.
	Specifically pregnant women.
	Yeah, specifically breastfeeding mothers.
	The God of Gravy says, new US army to replace camo with rainbow flags.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, where does this end, right?
	Brando Commando says, Because he thought that he was going to be killed by the Praetorian Guards who came to appoint him as Emperor.
	Didn't the Praetorian Guards kill a lot of Emperors?
	Oh yeah, but that's in later eras.
	Oh, okay.
	It was before they started?
	Yeah, this is in like, I don't know, I'd have to look it up, like 100 AD, something like that.
	Well, no, early in that, probably like 20 AD, something like that.
	But the point is, they had to find him hiding behind a curtain, because he was doing the AOC, and he thought he was going to be killed, and instead he was made the Emperor.
	And he was like, right, well, that was a turnaround, wasn't it?
	And he was a weak-willed man but ended up doing a fair amount of good.
	It sounds like a Reddit ship poster, actually.
	It does.
	But no, I don't know.
	I'd have to read Hansen's argument because I don't see the natural alignment there.
	I think Trump's bullish personality and the fact that he came from the outside of the establishment.
	There's no question of it.
	They hate him.
	They totally rejected him.
	So I don't see the modern equivalent of the Praetorian Guard just turning up and embracing Trump, you know.
	Matthew McNair says, My wife has been in the Army for 20 years.
	Armed services has been a social justice experiment for the last decade.
	The Army is a much more cuddly place than anyone realizes, and we're in trouble.
	Well, let's hope the Russians and the Chinese don't realize that.
	Let's hope they're doing the same.
	I doubt they are.
	Turwalks11 says, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, or if you want to use the acronym, DIE. Great point.
	I never thought of that.
	No, yeah, the acronym is definitely...
	The die agenda.
	Memento Mori.
	Makes you wonder what their true motives are, doesn't it?
	Irony is, I just want to play video games, but here we are.
	Yeah, I didn't want to have to bring down the global stock market or anything, but I bought my share.
	Wolfgang Day says, AOC is a known liar, psychopath, and narcissist.
	Yes.
	As such, she is likely projecting as the abuser herself.
	Yes.
	AOC, you are the insurrectionist.
	Those six months of rioting last year resigned.
	Yes, that's all correct.
	She totally encouraged the riots, she has been behind terrorist attacks, and she is the font of divisive rhetoric.
	The idea that she's like, eh, someone else did this, get stuffed.
	Jedi Knight Anakin Cringewalker says, I don't know, boys, swelling the ranks with transsexual battalions and sending them into highly conservative Muslim nations sounds kind of based.
	Joe's Order 66, well, I disavow that.
	Look at you, man.
	I can't stop imagining.
	No, I want to see equality in the army.
	I really do.
	Like day one, transgenders are allowed back into the military.
	Yeah, equality.
	Day 50.
	And you're all conscripted into this very specific division.
	Day 100.
	You're all being deployed to Syria.
	LAUGHTER The army needs to be made up of 50% pregnant women.
	Richard Blum says, are you guys planning to make an app?
	I haven't got any plans at the moment, but I'm not saying no.
	DRT is king.
	Most women in the armed services are in non-combat roles, and while stupid, I think it is to encourage more urban women to fill desk jobs.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't see any problem with women being in non-combat roles, like, obviously.
	What would be the concern there?
	But obviously, when it comes to, I don't know, being nine months pregnant and driving a tank, I'm just saying maybe there are some things that are questionable.
	Brandon Goby says, the infantry battle school in the UK recently changed their social media profile pic to a rainbow flag with a bayonet.
	Can't wait to stick my bayonet into the chest of the enemy in Mali circa 2022.
	Oh, my God.
	Yes.
	Just screaming Black Lives Matter as you stab some Mali guy to death.
	This is for healthcare!
	Like, unironically, the Rainbow Bombs and BLM Infantry, I just love them.
	It doesn't perfectly fit when you're bombing Iraq or whatever, but if you're literally bombing Mali, everyone is definitely black.
	BLM, open the doors.
	We live in a clown world.
	Transgender soldiers screeching BLM as they shoot.
	Arm gayonets!
	It's got like the rainbow on the night.
	It's rainbow sheen, yeah.
	It's kind of want one now.
	I kind of want to see it now, to be honest.
	Gareth Green says, as a child of the religious right, I grew up viewing the Democratic Party as the utterly evil servants of Satan, so I can't fault AOC for reciprocating.
	Isn't Marie Claire perpetuating patriarchal beauty standards?
	Well, I'm just saying, right, maybe it's time to revisit that view of the Democratic Party.
	Alexander Cross, why do I feel like the takeover of the MCOB will be more violent and potentially pyrotechnic?
	Because it will be.
	D-Lo says, Tom Clancy, Rainbow 69, Trans Hunter Siege.
	Do you want to refresh it to make sure there's none we've missed?
	Otherwise there's been quite a tight timing.
	I'm quite happy with it.
	It's going to be an interesting video game to play.
	I don't feel like I could make jokes about it, but there are so many jokes that I could make.
	I wonder how philosophy Tube feels when he gets drafted.
	Constricted, yeah!
	Because what's even the argument?
	If the argument is, we need diversity, and then the draft gets introduced...
	Mandatory diversity.
	If the draft does get introduced because of a war, and white males are over-represented...
	Well, then you have to adjust the draft to draft more transgender and female and so on and so forth.
	Literally 50% of the soldiery has to be female, basically.
	Which is...
	Based.
	Feminist.
	Progressive.
	That'd be funny.
	Definitely going to be good at winning wars.
	Pirate skeleton.
	Flee, Congresswoman.
	You must survive.
	You're the chosen one.
	Take my shoes, AOC staffer.
	That's exactly the way it's being portrayed.
	Like, oh no, you've got to get out alive.
	Yeah, take my shoes.
	Hide in the bathroom.
	It's like, what?
	She's a politician.
	Who cares?
	Tyler says, so the only reason some simp was able to steal AOC's shoes was because she was trying to use her staffers as a human shield.
	The plot thickens.
	Yeah, right?
	Yeah.
	The Earl of Longford, howdy lads, getting my copy of Meditations for the birthday.
	I'd like to direct your attention to C.S. Lewis' arguments against dictators for liberal democracy.
	Doing my bit to remind my paddies, we fought for liberty and something in Irish that I can't pronounce, but yes, you did.
	Yeah, but yes, meditations, I was going to try and do it this week, but honestly I feel a bit squeezed for time, so probably about next week, but it's going to be good.
	It's very, very, I was going to say entertaining, but that's not the word I want to use.
	There's a very interesting perspective that Aurelius has, and it's interesting that it's a Roman emperor that has this perspective.
	I mean, this guy rules over the largest empire in the world at the time.
	And so he's got this very, like, sane point of view.
	It's like a really, really...
	Again, the sort of point of view that the regular person can really engage with and actually find productive.
	And you think, if you're a Roman emperor, how do you come by that point of view?
	You know, how do you get to the point where you're like, actually, here's some sensible life advice that you'll need.
	It's like, shouldn't you be burning down a Germanic village or something?
	No, I've got wisdom.
	Zombie Elvis says, I don't have transgender legions yet.
	We need a meme where AOC uses a toddler as a human shield like the guy in the Dead Zone.
	Nona Togiv says, At its core, SJWism is an atheist's vile repackaging of Catholicism.
	Yes.
	It has all the guilt, shame, and self-flagellation, but it's been decoupled from the hope of atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
	Yeah, notice how, you know, when she's like, oh, well, I attack them on a moral level.
	It's like, yeah, okay, but I don't treat you as a moral authority on anything.
	So, who cares?
	Gary Talowin says, SJWs aren't well-loved, it's just that the framework has been put into place to give them power and reach.
	Social engineering, a long time in the planning.
	Completely correct.
	The Earl of Longford.
	Nona Tugiv agreed.
	Hence the Catholic nations are inoculated.
	Brazil, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Mexico.
	Yeah, man, Poland.
	I'm going to be doing a segment tomorrow about the way that the Biden administration is treating social media versus the way that Poland is treating social media.
	And Base Poland, thank you for your service.
	MuteStream, the simple one will never end.
	I will pay for a gold plan.
	Oh, God.
	I imagine you'll probably get a direct email address to Hugo then.
	Matthew Hammond, is Wall Street Bets GME delaying promised $1,400?
	I can't tell you.
	To do, AOC equals Mary Antoinette?
	No, no, no.
	She's much more like Robespierre.
	She's an inciter, an instigator.
	Devin Silva, an extremist.
	To give you an example, Sargon, the security guard for Nigel Farage lost his job and license because he allowed him to get milkshaked.
	Exactly.
	He should have been standing in the way and taking that milkshake.
	You can actually hear Nigel Farage saying in the clip, if you listen carefully, he can go, you should have stopped that.
	Like, he's very mad.
	Well, he's correct, you know.
	They look like professional security.
	I imagine they paid them quite a lot.
	Exactly.
	Carl Leggett, as a Perth dweller, yes, complete lockdown over one case.
	You would be proud of my 1984 is not a manual mask.
	Yeah, I would.
	Yeah, isn't that ridiculous?
	Like, one case, and it's like, right, the entire state.
	The Earl of Longford, speaking of Isle of Man, is DeJure part of the papal holding?
	Is it?
	as your monarch is not a Catholic, we would like it back.
	Yeah, well how about you come take it?
	Jedi Knight Anakin Cringe Walker, Mr. Sudaret is the CEO of Smartmatic.
	He also founded the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, who ran the election in Myanmar.
	Big thunk.
	We'll have to check that.
	Hugo's writing something on Myanmar.
	Yes, so Hugo is currently doing a big article which will explain it in detail, so that's good.
	The funniest part of it is the Chinese government's response, which is amazing, because for anyone who doesn't know, the army's taken over the country, and the response from the Chinese is, well, that was a cabinet reshuffling.
	Joe Biden's denounced it, though, so I can't help but feel the army's in the right.
	When do we send the babies to fight for us?
	When we run out of women?
	Insert J.J.S. The U.S. Army already has a Rainbow Division.
	It's the 42nd Infantry.
	I'm going to Google that.
	Oof.
	Right.
	Thank you, everyone, for joining us.
	If you'd like more content from us, you can go to lotuses.com and register to become a premium member.
	What?
	It is actually called the Rainbow Division.
	Oh, God.
	Of the National Guard.
	But why are they not guarding the Capitol?
	Yeah.
	You'd think that Joe Biden would have wanted them in.

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