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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Thursday, the 18th of February 2021.
	I'm John McCallum, and we're going to be talking about the death of Rush Limbaugh a lot, because a lot of people are really, really interested in it and have a lot to say.
	Um...
	But first, we better let you know that we have updated logacies.com.
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	Opportunities.
	Opportunities, that's correct.
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	And, of course, we've got loads of great content on Lodice.com, loads of good news reporting, and we have a new premium analysis up by Ian Miles Chung, talking about Wall Street bets and what the future is from the perspective that he occupies.
	We've also got loads of other great premium content, as you can see, but I won't spend too much time shilling.
	Just get yourselves over there and sign up.
	It supports us, and honestly, we really are proud of the premium content we do.
	Also, one thing I've been asked, for Gold Tier members, when you submit a video comment, please don't swear, because John has to go through it and bleep out the swears, because we're trying to be good boys, okay?
	Trying to be good boys.
	So, we're not allowed to swear, that means you're not allowed to swear.
	But anyway, let's talk about the death of the bigot king, which is how he's being described by the left.
	Just to be clear, we don't really know anything about Rush Limbaugh, apart from the fact that he was a conservative radio host.
	Other side of the continent, different time periods for much of his biggest parts of his career.
	So we're coming at this from an outsider perspective, but I think that kind of helps us look at this in a partisan way, hopefully.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I mean, he's a very strident Trump supporter, of course, and he's being credited with essentially creating Trumpism throughout his career.
	So I don't doubt that I probably would have enjoyed listening to him because apparently he's a bit of a shock jock.
	I mean, he sounds like he would have had a fantastic YouTube channel from some of the quotes that we're going to go through.
	But the point is, we're not personally emotionally invested in this.
	But if you are, show us in the chat.
	I bet there are going to be a lot of people who listen to Rush who also listen to us.
	I can already see some F's in there.
	Yes, exactly.
	F for Rush Limbaugh in the chat, folks.
	And so there are two ways of reporting on this.
	One way is by CBS News, which actually have actually produced a pretty good article about this.
	You know, it starts with a quote from his wife saying, It's with profound sadness that I must share with you directly.
	Our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer.
	And as many as you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult.
	Even more so, when that loved one is larger than life, he will forever be the greatest of all time.
	And many other kind words said by his wife, which is what you'd expect, really, from someone who died.
	Rush Limbaugh himself had told people in February that he'd been diagnosed with cancer, and then Trump had given him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the country's highest civilian honour.
	Then, towards the end of the article, goes over the fact that he was, well, as they say, Limbaugh made headlines for his controversial comments and was routinely accused of bigotry, sexism, and racism for his fiery remarks.
	Leftists, right?
	You remember what I was saying about Boris Johnson?
	And you saying, well, Boris Johnson called them pickaninnies with watermelon smiles and burkas looking like letterboxes and stuff.
	It's like, look, whenever you say these things, you are also advertising to people who hate you.
	Remember that.
	Because I had never really read anything or heard anything by Rush Limbaugh before his death.
	And now we're about to start broadcasting all of his greatest hits because you guys broadcast all of his greatest hits.
	So, I mean, we're going to get into that in a second.
	But the point is...
	They don't go off too much on this.
	They say, you know, over the years he's made apologies as well for accusing Michael J. Fox of exaggerating his Parkinson's syndrome, calling a law school student called Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute – I don't know who she is – promoting the false theory that Obama was not born in the U.S., which I think was started by Hillary Clinton, wasn't it?
	I believe he engaged in it.
	Yeah, exactly, but he engaged in it.
	He was a heavy smoker, enjoys cigars, and often downplayed the risk of smoke and secondhand smoke inhalation, and so I suppose it's with a certain amount of irony that he dies of lung cancer.
	But I mean, when you've been doing radio for 50 years, there are going to be some things you regret.
	Yeah.
	Fair enough.
	Yeah, and the fact that he apologised for a slew of things that he had said over his career that he realised were wrong was to his credit, and it's to the credit of CBS that they actually tell us this, frankly.
	But anyway, that's one reasonable report about the situation, if you know nothing about Rush Limbaugh.
	The other side is the Huffington Post, who literally say, Rush Limbaugh, bigoted king of talk radio, dies at 70.
	I thought you were joking about that.
	No, literally the bigot king of America is Rush Limbaugh.
	And I'm sat there thinking, wow, so that title's up for grabs, isn't it?
	LAUGHTER Excellent job.
	Limbaugh saturated America's airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party.
	So bass then.
	That's where we're going with this.
	So yeah, anyway, I love the language they use here.
	Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio pioneer who saturated America's airwaves with cruel bigotries, lies and conspiracy theories for over three decades, has died.
	The modern Republican Party, they say, often functioned with Limbaugh as a fulcrum.
	They think that he, I guess to summarise, was a tremendously influential man.
	I think they actually used the term radicalised conservatives, or at least one of the articles I was reading used the term radicalised conservatives.
	And maybe he did.
	Might be the case.
	He was just basically promoting...
	I mean, he doesn't seem to have been like Alex Jones, right?
	He seems to have been a fairly mainstream conservative.
	He just seems that when he was speaking his mind, he would do it in a very unvarnished way that the politically correct left can't stand to hear.
	And so there seems to actually be at least a kernel of truth around the things that he's saying, but he's just presenting them in a way that Republicans will find funny and Democrats will find out.
	He's presenting them like your dad would, you know?
	Yes.
	Which is part of my success, incidentally.
	But he doesn't seem to have been all that out there from his actual political perspectives.
	Like I said, it's just a delivery.
	But people did take up Bill Clinton's charge.
	Bill Clinton, by the way, condemned him after...
	Sorry, yeah.
	So in 1995, right, Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma, and Bill Clinton came out and said, The nation's airwaves spread hate.
	They leave the impression that by their very words that violence is acceptable.
	It is all time we stood up and spoke against this kind of reckless speech and behavior.
	Now, that's ironic coming from a Democrat who's now like, oh, well...
	It was bad, bad for them to do that.
	I mean, that's non-stop from the left now.
	Non-stop encouraging violence, encouraging rioting, encouraging punching Nazis, encouraging all this sort of, like, insane hatred.
	And it could be that Rush Limbaugh is the sort of catalyst for the left to become this way, because they could be acting in a response to him.
	Who knows?
	I'm not an expert.
	But Limbaugh assumed that he was being characterized by Bill Clinton there, and obviously went on the radio and condemned him for this.
	So, the Huffington Post say people did take up Clinton's charge to speak against Rush Limbaugh's style of reckless speech and behaviour, but without much success.
	Yes, thank you, news host.
	Appreciate that on the Huffington Post.
	Sorry for the pop-up there, folks.
	No, it's okay.
	It's trash websites.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Trash websites.
	I hate autoplay on websites.
	If your website has autoplay, in the bin it goes.
	But anyway, while remaining a controversial figure and at times suffering from advertising boycotts and derision from mainstream media, in less than 25 years, rather than be condemned by another American president, Limbaugh was given a medal.
	And so what they seem to be saying is that Limbaugh essentially fulfilled Andrew Breitbart's prophecy that politics is downstream from culture.
	And it seems that they're crediting Limbaugh himself with creating this kind of sea change in Republican thought that led to the election of Donald Trump.
	So that's a hell of a legacy.
	That's a hell of an achievement.
	And they are laying at the feet of this one man consistently.
	And so no wonder they reacted to him dying the way they reacted to him dying.
	I love this.
	A full accounting of Limbaugh's lies and exaggeration, his racism and his misogyny, his homophobia and his Islamophobia.
	This guy sounds great.
	And the sheer cruelty could fill books.
	But even a cursory overview of his lowlights makes his prejudice clear.
	I guess he was really effective, is what we can take away with this, which is why every single leftist is so ass mad.
	Even now he has died, they seem even angrier at him now.
	It's really bizarre.
	And so let's just get on to the blue checkmark Hugo repository.
	I mean, one of the things I love about this, right, is that every single one of these feels very much like a Biden voter posting their Ls online.
	Everything they're saying, it just feels like they're posting their own L's.
	It's like, here's every time Rush Limbaugh owned me.
	It's like, why are you doing this?
	It just makes them sound like Rush Limbaugh is owning them from the grave.
	So this is Andy Zeisler, who describes herself in a Twitter bar as a writer and editor for Bitch Media, co-founder of Bitch Media, speaker, author of We Were Feminists Once.
	Sorry, it just sounds like the We Was Kang's meme.
	Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
	But that's the thing.
	It's like, again, just reading what these people are and what they say just makes it sound like an L. Rush Limbaugh was a shitty, cynical person who did everything he could to make the world meaner, dumber, and more divided.
	I'm glad he's dead.
	I wish it had happened a lot sooner.
	Again, why does that sound like an L? The man died and you sound like you've just been damaged by that.
	How is that the case?
	Sorry, founder of Bitch Media.
	Did you have something to say about being a nice person?
	Are we taking you seriously?
	But anyway, on to the next one.
	This is Big Relly, whoever that is, who describes themselves as an organizer, educator, abolitionist, and she-her.
	It's like, okay, of course you are.
	Of course you are.
	Like, again, constantly, it's the people who came out of the woodwork to post their L's about Rush Limbaugh dying that is just such an interesting thing.
	The consistent thing, of course, is that they all have their pronouns and their bios, which just makes me think that Rush was an incredibly effective activist.
	The next one is a whoosier, political analyst, associate professor, a muckrake podcast.
	And he's just like Rush Limbaugh.
	He deleted this, obviously, because it never looks good when you're dancing on the grave of someone.
	I mean, like when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
	The Republicans were remarkably restrained.
	I expected much worse about her than they gave.
	And it's like, okay, well, good.
	Because I guess you knew that this was going to be an L in the future, which is why this chap deleted this tweet.
	But Rush Limbaugh was one of the most harmful and poisonous people in the modern United States of America.
	His pursuit of wealth and power hurt untold numbers of people and wrought incalculable damage to politics as a public good, society as a whole, and the planet itself.
	It's like Thanos or something.
	What the hell did...
	Jesus!
	Like, I mean...
	The dude's got a radio set.
	Yeah, exactly!
	Exactly.
	What's he do?
	Well, he talks on the radio and I don't like it.
	Another L from another leftist.
	The next one is someone who describes themselves as a content generator for Slate and the Daily Beast, a pediatrician who swears, and a strident homosexual.
	So this person, Daniel Summers, is very, very angry at Rush Limbaugh.
	Rush Limbaugh was a terrible human being in life and refused to abide by the convention that his death absolves him from criticism for his legacy of bigotry.
	I bet you do.
	I bet you do.
	But again, why does this sound like an L? I'm sure he had family and friends who loved him.
	Let them mourn him.
	As for everyone else, let's never forget that there's no minoritised population I can think of that that man was not willing to slur in service to his own fame.
	Okay.
	The next one is from a co-host on Crooked Media.
	Why would you call yourself Crooked Media?
	I don't know.
	But once I learned that my aunt listened to Rush Limbaugh.
	I knew I never had to speak to that aunt again.
	Thanks, Rush!
	Tolerant left.
	Tolerant left.
	But see, he's out there helping them.
	Helping them all.
	The next one is the editor-in-chief at Jezebel.com.
	She's not happy because of this amazing quote.
	Feminism was established as so to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
	Again, it just sounds like you're posting L's online.
	Like, I didn't know Rush Limbaugh had said that, and so I didn't know the depth to which I agreed with Rush Limbaugh on feminism, and now I do.
	It sounds like she's calling herself ugly there.
	I know!
	Like, she's not even being critical of the statement.
	It sounds like an endorsement of what he said.
	Just like, I resembled that remark.
	Bye, bitch.
	It's like, oh yeah, sorry, Miss Escobado Shepard.
	Right, so he's going up with the angels and you're still here and you're still ugly.
	And you're still mad.
	And you're still posting his quotes being mad about them, even after his death.
	The next one is one, Amy Siskind, who describes herself as an activist, feminist, and author of the Weekly List website and podcast, blah, blah, blah.
	She, her, obviously.
	Rush Limbaugh fertilized the seeds of hatred for decades that allowed bigoted trash like Trump to crawl out from under his rock and begin a campaign with Mexican rapists.
	That's right.
	If there's one thing I like out of my progressives, it's whenever someone criticizes MS-13, they dive in the way and go, no, but they're Mexican.
	Yeah, but they're also awful in every way, shape, or form.
	Now, it's not because they're Mexican.
	Why are you speaking in defense of these people?
	Well, to be honest, I'd also say they'd probably jump in the way of also rapists who are white, but that's the left for you.
	The next person, who's at his angry black lady on Twitter, which should...
	Why would you call yourself that?
	I guess you literally have nothing else about your personality.
	But, I mean, in her bio, she describes herself as the senior law and policy editor at the Rewire News Group and the real racist.
	Is that okay?
	Okay, good.
	We know now, I guess.
	She doesn't like him, obviously.
	Well, I suppose racists wouldn't like him.
	No, I guess not.
	He was white.
	The next one is Miss Pacchietti.
	She's not happy about this, of course.
	Who hosts MSNBC. I don't have anything to say about Rush Limbaugh, which is a lot kinder than he ever was in life.
	Again, you sound like an L. You've been silenced by the dead man.
	I will say this.
	The fingerprint of his life's work is all over January the 6th.
	And the last four years and the increasingly rabid, unrelenting cruelty of the last decade.
	Connect the dots.
	Okay?
	Connected.
	Rush Limbaugh is responsible for Trumpism.
	Okay.
	I like Trumpism.
	Screw yourself.
	And then Rolling Stone politics.
	No single person, not Reagan, not Cheney, not McConnell, not Trump, not Q, has contributed more than Limbaugh to the mass derangement of white America.
	Wow.
	So, again, they couldn't praise him more highly, could they?
	Like, this is the most influential conservative to have ever lived, as far as they are concerned.
	And they're posting the L's to prove it.
	So, the celebrities, of course, went on their own Twitter tirade, and they were not happy about any of this.
	And watching, again, just watching all these virtue-singling celebrities...
	Even after death, get steamrolled by this man.
	It's just hilarious, right?
	So here are just a few.
	Cancer killed the cancer.
	Oh, you're so clever.
	Well done.
	David Cross, good job.
	It's a real shame when someone wasted their lives being hate and lies.
	What a lonely, sad, and empty place it must be at the end.
	Not really.
	He seems to have enjoyed the unvarnished veneration of Republicans, millions of Republicans, you know, getting paid ridiculous stacks of cash, being listened to every day by millions of people all over your country.
	Oh yeah, what a lonely, sad guy this is.
	Doesn't look like it.
	And 70 isn't bad innings either, to be fair.
	Ron Perlman has the cringiest one, though.
	Well, that's interesting that he implies that the devil is a leftist.
	Like...
	It's weird.
	Rush Limbaugh has gone to his reward.
	I bet it's hot.
	All of these people are atheists, so it's weird.
	And I guess I'm grateful he lived long enough to see Trump defeated by Biden.
	That's the best take, actually.
	Definitely the best take.
	But my favourite take from all of this so far, and I don't mean to be biased in favour of this person, but I do have a long history of mocking this person online, and that's Jessica Valenti.
	Even in death, Jessica Valenti is still getting owned by Rush Limbaugh, which makes Rush Limbaugh some kind of conservative dreadnought that even in death he still serves.
	Because this is just hilarious, right?
	So she took particular exception to the feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream society.
	I mean, that is just such a great quote.
	I mean, again, looking like an endorsement.
	Not, oh, this is wrong because of these reasons.
	Yes.
	They post it thinking everyone is going to say, oh God, how could he say that about feminism?
	But everyone hates feminism.
	It's like 10% of the population actually like feminism.
	And so the replies, as you see, three and a half thousand quote tweets, or tweets, and then below it she puts, without fail, the men retweeting this with, where's the lie, resemble gangrenous thumbs.
	I'm sure they do, Jessica!
	But where is that lie?
	Everyone's looking for it and no one can detect it.
	And the best example of this, in fact, do you remember on Good Morning Britain when the grid girls were being deplatformed from Formula One and you had a slew of working class beauties who were sat there going, well, we really enjoyed our jobs and we felt safe and secure and provided for and everyone was really appreciative of the work we did.
	And then you have these dour old harridans who are like, yeah, well, I've spent 30 years in academia and I'm telling you, this is oppressing you.
	And it's like, that's got to go.
	It's like, God, how awful is that?
	Like, there are actual examples of what Rush Limbares said here, right?
	Because otherwise, who wants to hear from these old, you know, bags?
	But, yeah, I love that Jessica Leslie, just the follow-up, is like, well, all the men retweeting this can just shut up.
	I don't like them.
	They look bad.
	And then the next one is, what's sort of incredible about anti-feminism is it never really progressed past the you're ugly and barren phase because people kept posting, if you scroll down a little bit, John, people kept posting pictures of empty egg cartons at her.
	So it's like, how is Rush Limbaugh destroying you from beyond the grave, Jessica?
	Maybe just shut up and take the L. Just take the L. How has he done this?
	Like, I want this man's magical power.
	Like, even after I die, the leftist will be crushed by me and my legacy.
	Yeah.
	I mean, how many kids has she got?
	Because she's certainly not pretty.
	So, I mean, half of that statement's already there.
	She's out of interest.
	Well, I presume zero, right?
	But the thing is, the worst part about this is that this is, unironically, her career, right?
	If we can go to the next one, John, she actually, a few years back, in 2015, prior to this, in 2010, 2012, she'd write an article sort of like, oh, I get catcalled everywhere.
	It's terrible, because she's not an ugly woman or anything.
	Yeah.
	And then publish this article.
	Men rarely catcall me anymore.
	I hate that our culture makes me miss it.
	Right, this is the first one.
	Being on the subways and streets of New York while female used to mean walking through a veritable gauntlet of harassment and catcalls.
	But lately a curious thing has happened.
	My world is a much quieter place.
	The comments and lavicious stares from men have faded away the older I've gotten, leaving an understandable sense of relief.
	But alongside that is a slightly embarrassing feeling of insecurity that with every year goes by, I become more and more invisible to men.
	Isn't that what you want, Jessica?
	You didn't like the catcalls, and now they've gone away.
	You're like, oh, God, men don't even notice me anymore.
	And the funniest thing about this is the cope, because this was originally published in The Guardian with this headline.
	But after getting mocked heavily online, they changed it to, one perk of old age, fewer catcalls.
	Oh, my God.
	Trying to make it look like it's a positive.
	She had just said, this is a negative.
	Just take the L. Just, it's okay.
	Everyone takes L's.
	You're not exceptional here.
	Just accept it.
	Stop it.
	Carry on.
	But yeah, so the left seem to have been destroying themselves by just quoting Rush Limbaugh.
	And so since I'm not any kind of expert on his library, I thought that we would look at Rush Limbaugh's best quotes.
	Because, I mean, he has some really good ones.
	I don't know what they were thinking by making everyone read these.
	Because, well, is he wrong?
	You know, the where's the lie comment is...
	That's going to be the question of every quote, isn't it?
	Yeah, because where's the lie, Jessica?
	That was the question.
	So he's got a bunch of I don't really know.
	He talks about the NFL looking like a game between the Bloods and Crips without any weapons.
	There, I said it.
	You do get that reference, right?
	The Bloods and Crips are gang warfare in LA or something.
	Yeah, but I mean, I don't know.
	I don't follow NFL, so I don't know if that's an accurate representation, but obviously it was offensive because he was like, there, I said it.
	The NAACP should have riot rehearsal.
	They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
	Do you mean that?
	Jesus Christ.
	Jesus.
	Disavow.
	To a black woman caller on his program, he said, take that bone out of your nose and call me back.
	Which, again, just like, okay, disavow.
	Also, I find it hard to actually trust this person here, because I know they're a leftist, so they're probably messing with the context as well.
	But if we're just going to accept it on face value...
	What is the context?
	I don't know, man.
	I am sus of all of these, but I am willing to accept it on face context for now.
	I agree, but there'd have to be some very interesting context for that, not to be really offensive.
	I mean, if she was wearing a nose ring or something...
	Even then, it could probably be more sensitively framed.
	Black Americans are 12% of the population.
	Who the hell cares?
	Jesus.
	There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived at any other time in history.
	Does that sound like a record of genocide?
	I don't think we're allowed to make comment about that sort of thing.
	Okay, if you...
	That's how free the radio sounds.
	Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
	And that's actually one of the things, what was interesting about researching this, is one of the quotes from him was, when he was growing up, he'd hear the commentators on the radio, who just sounded like they were free and happy, and he really envied it.
	He's like, oh, I want to be like that.
	And it's like, well...
	I guess you are.
	You can just say whatever you like, apparently.
	Unlike on YouTube, where you can hardly say anything.
	But yeah, he says, if you feed them, if you feed the children three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer?
	Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the state, pure and simple.
	Well, that's kind of true, to be honest.
	They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.
	He said, commenting on women protesting about sexual harassment.
	Cool.
	It sounds like Milo.
	It does sound like Milo, actually.
	Yeah, disavow.
	I mean, Christ!
	Anyway, moving on.
	What does it say about college co-ed Susan Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?
	What does that make her?
	It makes her a slut, right?
	It makes her a prostitute.
	I wish I knew the context of this.
	I don't even know who that is.
	No, but I think this is about birth control.
	It's about having her birth control paid for.
	And so, like, I mean...
	The framing is rigid, if I can use that word.
	Okay, and so he says, so Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminatis, here's the deal.
	If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something.
	We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.
	See, but this is what I mean.
	He's like someone's dad.
	Well, he got that future, didn't he?
	It's on OnlyFans, mate.
	Well, not even OnlyFans.
	I mean, most websites are filled with that stuff for free.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	It's like, okay, well, I mean, that kind of happened, buddy.
	But all of these just sound like something your dad would say when you're out drinking or something.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's quite hilarious, isn't it?
	But I reckon that's why he's got such a good audience.
	It's why the leftists can't stand it.
	Doubtless, doubtless.
	He's clearly effective at pointing out certain things, but I love the way he coined the term feminarty, which I guess we should probably thank him for at this point.
	There are more...
	The American Indian ones.
	So, it's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race.
	If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.
	Well, that's true.
	That is true.
	I mean, literally, if you want to think in racial terms, then sure, that's the race that ended slavery.
	Specifically, English.
	It is the English Caucasians who did that.
	But good for the Americans for ending it in America.
	Well done.
	Got there in the end.
	But you did get there a lot sooner than a lot of other countries.
	Well, like the Saudis, who didn't abolish slavery until 1963.
	And that was, again, only under great duress.
	Like, they didn't want to.
	But, I mean, yeah, he's not...
	Also something to remember, the Arab slave trade.
	The reason there's not so many black people in the Arab world is because when they imported their slaves, they would cut off their genitalia.
	They would.
	So...
	And not just the testicles either, the whole thing.
	It's awful.
	Absolutely awful.
	But yeah, so he's not wrong there, to be honest.
	And there was another one as well that I actually don't think I have, but it was about how white people had fewer slaves for a shorter amount of time.
	I think he might actually be right there too.
	The Arab slave trade went on for over a thousand years.
	But it also didn't end until the 1900s, the soonest.
	Exactly, yeah.
	It began in the 8th century or something, 7th century.
	And so, yeah, he's not wrong.
	This is the thing.
	He's just presenting these facts in a blunt way, like your dad when you're out drinking.
	So you go to Darfur and you go to South Africa, you get rid of the white government there, you put sanctions on them, you stand behind Nelson Mandela who was bankrolled by communists for a time and he had the support of certain communist leaders.
	That's true.
	He was supported by communist leaders.
	What's the name of the parties?
	You've got the EFF who are...
	The ANC or whatever?
	Yeah, the ANC who are socialists and the EFF who are just insane communists who want to kill white people and are just open about wanting to kill white people.
	Is that okay?
	Well, you know, this is the thing throughout all Africa as well.
	All the, you know, let's say anti-colonial movements, to be polite, were all backed by Soviets or backed by China or backed by North Korea in some cases, Zimbabwe.
	Then, yeah, okay.
	Like, what's wrong with stating that fact?
	They admit it.
	Like, the Soviet Union is proud of it.
	They made propaganda purposes showing that they were funding it.
	This is what the KGB did.
	It's mostly subversion.
	You know, it's like, okay, this is what Yuri Bezmenov tells us, you know, and I believe him.
	Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
	Like all the hate crimes are actually him.
	Yeah.
	A lot of young people are spending a lot of time on the World Wide Web.
	I assume this is an old quote.
	I came across a post last night at, of all places, Gawker.
	It's basically a militant homosexual site.
	Not militant, a gay site.
	Agree.
	Aren't they gone now?
	Yeah, they are.
	They got sued by Hulk Hogan.
	Yeah, they got sued out of existence by Hulk Hogan because they published his sex tape and wouldn't take it down.
	After moaning at everyone about revenge porn being so evil.
	Yes, yes.
	And Gawker was actually an absolute hole as well.
	It was run by, was it Nick Denton?
	Was it Nick Denton?
	I think it was his name.
	But the guy was gay and he spent a lot of time outing homosexuals.
	And it's like, why are you doing that?
	This seems awful.
	So yeah, it's good that it's gone.
	But Trump's reaction, of course, was one of profound sympathy for Rush, because he and Rush had been friends for some time, and of course he agreed with his political persuasion.
	And so he said, you know, he's had an incredible instinct for politics, he had an incredible instinct for life, he's a legend, and there aren't too many legends around.
	Then he put out a statement on Gab, which is obviously just more calm, but...
	Yeah, you know, Rush was a patriot, a defender of liberty, and someone who believed in the greatness of our country, all the greatness of our country stands for.
	Rush was a friend to myself and millions of Americans, a guiding light with the ability to see the truth and paint vivid pictures over the airwaves.
	Melania and I express our deepest condolences to his wife, his family, and all of his dedicated fans.
	He will be missed greatly.
	It's exactly what you'd expect, really.
	The sort of, you know, unvarnished praise coming from the great golden face of the God Emperor and his various supporters.
	But apparently Rush was a fairly good guy, actually, by virtue of action.
	If you ignore the fact that he says offensive things on the radio, he apparently liked to throw down massive tips.
	Sometimes up to like $5,000.
	And apparently he'd left millions and millions of dollars in tips over the decades, which is a very interesting thing to do.
	And he'd also raised millions for charity, as Jack Posobiec points out.
	He raised $47 million for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society over the course of his radio show and annual telethons with matching donations.
	And I like this.
	I still have some of the t-shirts.
	I used to buy them every year.
	That's really nice.
	So there's some wholesomeness there as well.
	And I guess we'll finish this bit with the clip of Rush Limbaugh getting the Presidential Medal of Honor.
	Medal of Freedom.
	Medal of Freedom, sorry.
	In recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	It's pretty sweet, isn't it, Randy? Randy?
	Wasn't expecting it.
	Yeah, clearly.
	And the fact that he had to brush away tears.
	That's really nice.
	And I think the most heartwarming thing about that was Nancy Pelosi's face behind Trump looked like she was about to chew her face off.
	She was, like, staring off like this?
	Like, she wouldn't even look at him?
	No, furious.
	Absolutely furious.
	No wonder the election needed to be fortified.
	So yeah, Godspeed Rush Limbaugh.
	It seems that you were a valiant warrior and crusader against the communists.
	So for that, we salute you.
	Disavow some of your more spicy statements.
	Statements don't matter.
	Actions do.
	Yeah.
	And you're a good guy, it seems, overall.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you're loved by your wife, your family, your kids, millions of followers.
	You seem to have actually helped out working people by giving them staggering tips and raising millions of...
	Or giving Joe Biden stacks of cash, giving random waitresses stacks of cash.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	I mean, you know, and if there was really bad stuff that he'd got up to, we'd know about it by now.
	Because the left would have been screaming and shouting and it would have been everywhere.
	But it wasn't.
	Unless there'll be like a, I don't know, Jimmy Savile in like five years or something.
	Well, there is entirely possible that will happen.
	But there hasn't.
	So far, it seems that Rush, based in Red Pilled.
	Godspeed.
	What's going on in Canada?
	What do we need to preface this story with?
	I'm not quite sure what we need to preface this with.
	I am quite sure, right?
	We need to preface this story with an outright denunciation of all kinds of racial politics.
	We are not interested in race politics.
	We do not believe there should be black unions or white unions or green unions or whatever.
	There should just be unions for interests which people of any race or colour or creed or gender or whatever can join if they so choose.
	Interest politics over identity politics.
	Correct.
	That's how we characterize our position, the classically liberal position of your personal interests, of your personal identities.
	Yeah.
	And this is in stark contrast to the far left and the far right's view on these things, if we want to characterize it in those ways.
	Which is why we've been rejected by both of those sides.
	Yeah, I mean, literally when we were campaigning, we got denounced by, what was it, Jeremy Corbyn and Nick Griffin?
	Yes.
	It was glorious.
	It was absolutely glorious.
	Interesting that the far left, though, are literally the leader of the major party, whereas the far right are a nothing burger, Nick Griffin.
	It shows you everything about the Overton window in this country.
	But it also shows about who's a threat there.
	Yes.
	Anyway, so this is something I got sent to me, which was some guy was like, hey, you've got to check this out on Twitter.
	And I did, thinking, I don't know what this is going to be.
	And it's amazing.
	So I wanted to go through it.
	What has happened is that there's a very, very progressive place in Canada and Alberta called Edmonton.
	I don't know if I'm getting the pronunciation right.
	Edmonton?
	Edmonton.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, so this guy is the principal of the public schools in this area, and this is his response to the George Floyd riots, in which he's saying that we need to get rid of racism within our society, particularly through the schooling system, so it's quite progressive.
	So you're going to brainwash people, is what you want.
	The next one here is the school endorsing the Black Teachers Association, which I'm presuming is a lobby group on behalf of black teachers only, and saying that their numbers had skyrocketed recently, so that's very good.
	So this is the sort of things they'll be doing.
	Also celebrating racially segregated history, because of course they will.
	The fact that you have black history, and that's a single month in the year, and therefore we will just celebrate it then, and then it's something else.
	Can't be Canadian history, in which black and white people are part of it, and Quebec and That's the problem, isn't it?
	It's got to be that there's black segregated.
	Well, that's exactly the problem, because the implication is that black people aren't Canadian.
	Yes, which is absurd.
	Anyway, going on, they also want to celebrate more things.
	So they retweeted here people engaging in this with these I Have a Dream posters they gave to kids in this school.
	They retweeted this tweet.
	So it's got a picture of Martin Luther King and then I Have a Dream and the students fill in whatever they want.
	And you'll notice here that the students are drawing things like, oh, I have a dream that people help each other.
	I have a dream that everyone has a home.
	And they're not making racial propaganda.
	No, it's really sensible, nice stuff.
	And then we have the Edmonton mayor, the premier, who's had to deal with problems in Alberta.
	So this is a white supremacist gathering, we are told by the media.
	He's having to condemn the white supremacists.
	Well, that explains why there are literally one, two, three, four, five, six, seven of them.
	And the speaker, sorry.
	So eight in total.
	We have some quotes here from the media which are trying to make the point that these are definitely white supremacists and they can prove it.
	A massive problem in Canada, clearly.
	One group was chanting Black Lives Matter, while the other group was chanting All Lives Matter.
	That's typical white supremacy for you.
	Yeah, that's got to be white supremacist.
	I'll tell you what, man.
	If there's one thing the Nazis said, it was all over Mein Kampf, is that All Lives Matter.
	Yep.
	Especially...
	So the group shouting All Lives Matter were described themselves as patriots, while the group shouting Black Lives Matter were describing themselves as anti-fascists.
	They interviewed one of these...
	One side described themselves as patriots, the other described themselves as communists.
	Right.
	So they interviewed one of these neo-Nazis.
	While people on that side accuse their rivals of being Nazis.
	Yeah, there we go.
	It's only communists who accuse people who aren't Nazis of being Nazis.
	I mean, in the title here, they literally call them white supremacists.
	So the media there is taking a position.
	So they interviewed one of these quote-unquote white supremacists, and he gave a quote.
	We are not hateful.
	I'm a proud Canadian patriot.
	I love my country.
	I'm tired of seeing racial division.
	We just believe all lives are equal.
	All lives matter.
	What a racist!
	So, they have a problem in Alberta, maybe?
	But I love the thing.
	The man who said that involved declined to provide his name and affiliation because he's presumably afraid of being persecuted for the...
	I mean, I'm just going to come out and say it.
	Centrist, tepid, milquetoast take that all lives are equal and all lives matter.
	I don't think that's in any...
	I mean, where would you have to go, apart from a Black Lives Matter rally, to find that controversial?
	Yeah, so this is definitely the case, though, because as we all know, any kind of racism against white people does not exist, and this is definitely defined by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, who published this article.
	Do you want to scroll down there just for the title?
	That reverse racism is a myth, and they argue in here that basically because brown-skinned people, and this somehow includes Native Americans or Indians, I don't know how, and Asians, which again, I'm not sure about how they're brown-skinned, they can be, They can have racism done to them because they are brown and therefore underprivileged, whereas white people are privileged in all circumstances for all time, forever, and therefore they cannot be victims of racism ever.
	Which is why when the state-funded media decided in this next link to pose a job interview for everyone except Caucasians, this didn't happen.
	This definitely didn't happen.
	So we can ignore this and just move on to what's more.
	I'm not surprised you raised eyebrows, though.
	Like, literally anyone but white's job postings seem...
	I mean...
	Okay, so for anyone who doesn't know, very, very, very briefly, they view race as being a series of consequences, whereas people like us view race as being intention.
	And so the people who say, well, you can't be racist against white people, because they will say race is a series of structures that reinforce power and privilege for a particular race, which they mean white people, against non-white people, and therefore nothing that these structures will ever do will ever impact white people, and therefore you can't be racist against white people.
	And that's how the term reversed racism can even come into being, because you're implying that the structures are actually reversed and then are now persecuting white people like they are.
	But to us, racism is the intention behind an action.
	So CBC would argue we don't have enough brown-skinned employees because it should be X percentage based on our own feelings, and therefore we can say to employees, if you're white, don't apply.
	And that's fine.
	Whereas, obviously, anyone who sees racism as an intention saying that a black person shouldn't apply because they're black and we've had too many black people or a white person, so on and so forth, is obviously absurd.
	Yeah, the consequence doesn't matter.
	It's the act itself that contains moral content.
	Too bad.
	It didn't happen.
	This thing can't exist, as we are told by the authorities who write our laws.
	So the next thing here is the story that this guy sent me on Twitter, which I think is a really weird moment.
	So this is a white student alliance that was set up in a public school here, trying to represent the white students, presumably.
	And some of the quotes in here I've just got to read.
	Administrators at a South Edmonton high school are consulting with Edmonton Police Service hate crimes units that they are investigating an online group that encourages local students to fight, quote, black supremacy.
	Hmm.
	The Scota White Alliance calls on students at the name high school to rise up and fight against racism against white people.
	Well, okay.
	I've had some experience in looking at white extremist groups, and they always phrase it in the terms of we're being discriminated against.
	You know, this is a common thing, an act of weakness, that the structures are against us, and therefore we must rise up against it.
	And also Black Lives Matter makes exactly the same claims, just out of interest.
	Like, even if you're being given funding through scholarships, Yeah, as we previously saw, we can find identifiable examples of them saying no whites allowed.
	But we've been told by CNN that they're being underserved, therefore they're allowed to do what they're doing.
	So presumably they would also say that this white alliance is allowed to do what they're doing.
	Of course not.
	Of course not.
	This is something else.
	So the chair of Edmonton Public School Board described the post on this account as disappointing and disgusting.
	It's blatantly racist.
	It's rooted in fear.
	It's rooted in hate.
	Sorry, it's racist to oppose black supremacy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's weird, because I'm not in favour of any kind of racial supremacy.
	I view that as racism.
	Hmm.
	She goes on.
	It's so clear that further anti-racism education is needed, not just in our schools, but in our society as a whole.
	So, further re-education.
	But I like the way it's like, okay, it's not just here, it's everywhere.
	It's just broadened the scope of this.
	It just highlights how critical we need it as a school division and a society to reflect on what truly means to be anti-racist.
	I'm not religious.
	You'll notice here that, yeah, it's in religious tones, because this isn't about being non-racist.
	As they would say, they would think that's a racist position.
	They need you to be anti-racist, which means becoming a religious leftist.
	Yes, but I'm not religious, and I'm not going to go and pray to the god of anti-racism.
	So a spokesman for the school also gave a statement which they said there is zero tolerance for hate-filled accounts and posts like this.
	And Twitter suspended the White Student Alliance on the basis that presumably it was hate speech what they were posting, but it probably gets black supremacy.
	Yep.
	And they also mentioned another post here that was posted, says, quote, White Lives Matter.
	We have been forced to sit in our classes and listen to clowns ranting about how terrible and racist all whites are.
	I don't doubt that they have been forced to hear that.
	Is that an incorrect statement?
	I don't know.
	But the place is very progressive.
	And they're literally saying, we want to indoctrinate our students into anti-racist thinking instead of non-racist.
	And I can totally believe that they have had clowns ranting about how terrible and racist white people are.
	And because this Twitter account, an Instagram account, existed, they contacted the police.
	How many followers do they have?
	I have no idea.
	Like, next to nothing.
	But there's a reason I'm bringing up this story.
	Not because it's a huge issue, but it gets onto a real point here.
	Right.
	So they contacted the police, of course, who are saying that they're working closely with the school to investigate this post.
	The Hate Crime and Violent Extremism Unit.
	Yes.
	Oh my god.
	Okay.
	And this is not just one media report.
	So this is the state media reporting on it.
	You know, the group that said that they weren't hiring people on the basis that they were white.
	There's another global news report on this, so a more private institution.
	Just to be clear, we do not endorse the White Lives Matter movement, nor do we endorse the White Student Alliance.
	We are the All Lives Matter supporters here.
	Well, each life matters, but I think I might have you endorsing the White Student Alliance by the time you actually see what they posted.
	So we'll get to that.
	Hang on, I don't endorse the framing of it.
	I don't like racial politics.
	No, not the framing.
	But the things they're actually saying, we'll get to it.
	So this is more reporting on it, and I just wanted to play a clip.
	So this is just what they reported it as to their viewers.
	So let's play the first clip.
	A racist social media account dominated conversation at Skona High School.
	Honestly, I was shocked about it because at Skona, it's a very diverse community here.
	The Skona White Student Alliance account on Instagram using the school's logo came to the attention of the Edmonton Public School Board and was flagged to police.
	I don't know if it matters how widespread it was.
	The fact that it existed, the fact that it is harmful, the fact that it is blatantly racist.
	Even if it had a small spread, doesn't take away the fact that this was done and that it has an impact.
	In a letter sent out to families, the principal of SCONA says there is zero tolerance for hate-filled accounts and posts like this.
	I have heard from many of our black, indigenous, and people of color students who feel unsafe and unwelcome at our school.
	This simply isn't who we are, who we aspire to be.
	What is in our curriculum?
	What supports are in place?
	I think that's all part of the discussion moving forward.
	The Edmonton Police Hate Crime Unit is investigating and looking into this account with the school.
	So I'm sure everyone's reading that, what's there.
	You'll notice that he's talking about Martin Luther King.
	So if you go to the first Instagram link there, it's a post.
	There should be another one.
	You can get the one before.
	Can we go?
	No, there is one there.
	All right.
	Anyway, so they posted Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
	So they literally just posted the full speech.
	You can listen to it yourself.
	Martin Luther King's like, I have a dream that one day everyone will be together.
	White boys and girls will be holding the hands of black boys and girls and everything will be fine.
	It's incredibly tolerant, liberal, and the sort of 90s consensus.
	Everyone was like, yeah, I agree with that.
	Pretty far right, I assume.
	And then they have a quote next to it.
	So this is what they're claiming is obviously racist, as she said.
	Once a wise man said...
	I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but the content of their character.
	Hmm.
	Today, that's not the case.
	Society is being dominated by victimhood and anti-white racism.
	We are slowly regressing back to the starting point where others are treated differently on the basis of colour of their skin.
	Our school has been doing the exact same thing.
	We are facing straight-up racism against white people at our school.
	Rise up, Skona.
	We demand equal treatment for every person in our school.
	We've had enough.
	This ends now.
	Okay.
	Is that blatantly racist?
	I mean, quoting Martin Luther King and saying Martin Luther King's view that everyone should be treated equally and you should be based on the content of your character, not the colour of your skin...
	It depends how far left you are.
	I suppose so.
	If you're far enough left, Martin Luther King is indeed a racist.
	But the school came out and immediately denounced this.
	The media came out and immediately denounced it.
	We denounce equal treatment!
	And in case you're wondering if this is just a single thing, there's another one here, which is just a white post, in the same way you put a black space.
	And this is the first post they did.
	So they're saying in here, I'll just take a couple of quotes, that, Oh, yeah.
	Oh yeah, this is real racism now.
	We should judge each other by our actions and not the colour of our skin.
	Oh god, this is just pure dripping with bigotry.
	I can see it.
	I mean, could you imagine the neo-Nazis marching through being like, we all need to be treated the same.
	Black people should not be treated by the colour of their skin, nor should we.
	No, this is not what's going on there.
	But you saw the immediate denounce level.
	Weirdly, it's very strange how the progressives view that as racism though, isn't it?
	It's like, look, if you judge black people by their actions, you're a racist.
	It's like...
	What are you saying about the actions of black people?
	That they're predetermined, I suppose.
	Progressives have a very, very strange view on race relations.
	Pretty racist one.
	Yeah, I would say so.
	One of the interesting things here is that I said earlier that Twitter took down their account.
	This guy's complaining that Instagram, he reported them.
	Instagram were just like, no, this doesn't violate any of our terms of service.
	He's framing it as if they're a whites-only group.
	I saw no reference in any of their postings.
	It's an Instagram page.
	What are you talking about, whites-only?
	But no, like the group itself had not posted anything that was whites only.
	It was just like, we believe that everyone should be treated the same regardless of their skin tone.
	And Instagram agreed.
	That's not racial harassment, sorry.
	They were like, we don't think Martin Luther King is far right.
	You've got us.
	Checkmate, Instagram.
	And then the school also has to issue a notice on this.
	There were a bunch of Twitter and Reddit posts about it, but I think any of them were particularly noticeable.
	But the school had to issue a notice to everyone around, being like, we need to deal with this.
	Statement on racist social media accounts.
	You know, those guys posting Martin Luther King videos.
	But wait until they discover 4chan, man.
	Yeah.
	There's also the problem here.
	No one knows if a student or a teacher set this up or a parent.
	Could be anyone.
	And even then, everyone's going to come out and denounce this immediately once it gets 12 followers.
	Whoever's running this must be having a wonderful time.
	I used to rattle them so bad.
	It's just like the basis of Martin Luther King.
	So they have some questions here.
	Over the past few days, we have been made aware of racist, hate-filled social media accounts that have been used our names and the names of two schools.
	So they're using the imagery and the names of them.
	An updated policy outlining our commitment to anti-racist education and equity were presented to the trustees last month.
	Ah, not equality then.
	Equity.
	Gotta be equity.
	We also have formed an equity advisory committee to further advise on this important issue, and specifically, how we can collect race-based data.
	Hmm.
	Why?
	Why?
	But I just love the dilemma here.
	Like, you've got one group who are literally saying, like, I don't know the guys.
	They could post anything crazy yet.
	But they haven't.
	That's the thing.
	They're just posting Martin Luther King videos in quotes.
	And then in response, you've got the media and the establishment in the form of the schools here all saying this is hate-filled nonsense and must be destroyed.
	And in response, we're going to enforce anti-racist equity.
	And we're going to start collecting race-based data on figuring out how to do this.
	We warned everyone about the SJWs.
	We did it for years.
	We said this is going to take over everything, it's going to dominate every aspect of your life, and it will persecute even the smallest opposition, and here we are.
	This is just some small high school.
	Again, the reason I've chose this is not because, you know, oh, it's some big event.
	But it's a small event that shows you how much of modern day life this has gotten into.
	Yeah, this is totally pervasive.
	And it's simply the same with pretty much every high school in the UK at this point, I imagine.
	They've all got their own commitments to equality and diversity of their public funds.
	And you can't challenge it?
	No.
	And then I decided to look in.
	So they have this reference where they were debating about collecting race-based data.
	And I went through their internal emails that they publish online for some reason.
	And they were literally just saying, like, yeah, we agree that we need to start publishing race-based data because otherwise we're not anti-racist enough.
	And I decided to click the link that they're referencing, the study that proved that they need to do this.
	So this is the study.
	Ignoring Race, a Comparative Analysis on Education Policy in British Columbia and Ontario.
	So, hmm, okay, I wonder how they came at this.
	And they're just getting into the abstract.
	Like, there's just a couple of words you need to find in these things.
	And we're just like, no, in the trash.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	And you know what they are.
	After reviewing provincial policy context from the early 1990s onwards, we discussed the results of content analysis of provincial education policy documents using critical policy and analysis in the form of critical race theory.
	Oh, there we go.
	There we go.
	So it's just garbage.
	Shove it all in the bin.
	Communist racial garbage.
	But this is going on.
	And I just love that this white alliance here is sitting there on a stack of Martin Luther King anti-racism.
	It's just like, what have I done wrong?
	And I'm just like, ah.
	You called yourself white.
	That's what you did wrong.
	That's the only thing there.
	In which case, hmm.
	I mean, again, I don't endorse the framing, as you're saying, the idea of becoming a white alliance to counter black alliance.
	I mean, there is a black student alliance, for example.
	So I'm assuming that's where they got the name from, was to be like, well, come on.
	Yeah, yeah, that's doubtless going to be where they got the name from.
	So I kind of get the humour here, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's the right way to go about it.
	Well, it's certainly the right way to get a reaction out of them.
	Which it certainly did.
	Yeah, which it certainly did.
	22 Instagram followers.
	The national broadcaster is getting involved, writing articles.
	Now it's an international story.
	I mean, you went a long way.
	Congratulations.
	Because to be honest with you, I bet that person's probably listening.
	They are right.
	That's what I was saying.
	I'm not saying you should endorse the framing of being like, well, in response, we should make a whites group.
	No, no.
	But there shouldn't be a blacks group either.
	But the rhetoric there, the rhetoric was just, here's Martin Luther King speech in full.
	I never actually watched the full speech.
	It was actually quite refreshing to watch.
	I was like, yeah, okay, this guy's pretty cool.
	And then the quotes are just being like, look, we want racism for nobody.
	We want to be treated as equally as everyone else, not on the content of our pigment, but on the content of our character.
	And then the lefts come out and say, yeah, but that disadvantages black people somehow.
	It's okay.
	I think you have too low an opinion, is my opinion.
	I just think this story was like a perfect microcosm of everything we've been saying.
	But the fact that it's on a small and local level is important, because this is what we've been saying.
	Look, this isn't going to remain abstract and somewhere far away from you.
	No, this is going to come down to your personal lives, to literally your daily life, and here we are.
	This isn't the elite universities.
	There's no Oxford, Cambridge, you know, MIT, these loony professors who live there.
	That's, you know, it's funny.
	Yeah.
	Presumably they have their own little sequestered world and you can ignore it.
	And then it gets into national government because these people come up with advisors.
	Okay, it's bigger, but it's still kind of absurd.
	But then it gets into literally your local high school.
	This is a high school.
	This is not a university.
	And then they also, I think they have primary schools as well, which they were giving these students.
	No doubt.
	I have a dream things, for example.
	When are you getting worried about this?
	Because they will literally take you quoting Martin Luther King and denounce it as obviously racist.
	Yeah.
	And where else do you have to go?
	How far are you going to back up?
	Well, last thing, if we can't defend Martin Luther King's statement on race relations, then what can we defend?
	I mean, the school, the national broadcast, the biggest private broadcast, we're all denouncing Martin Luther King here as hate-filled and obviously racist.
	That's insane.
	Jesus, man.
	Anyway, I had to go over that because it's actually funny.
	We have some video comments.
	Yeah, right.
	Video comments.
	If you want to send us a video comment, you've got to become a gold member on Lotuses.com.
	You've got access to all of our content, of course.
	Get some comment on the site and you get to send us video questions and comments for the podcast.
	So let's hear the first one.
	Also, what a nice mask that chap's wearing.
	Exclusive as well.
	You can't buy these anymore.
	Howdy!
	I'm wearing this mask as to avoid you spreading the koof, you know, because who knows?
	Am I spread through the f*ing screen or some s*?
	But I have a question.
	We're calling them leftists, we're calling them progressives, but wouldn't it be more fitting to call them morally challenged instead?
	That and sorry for forgetting the cheddar.
	You're right.
	It's good.
	Especially smoked cheddar.
	Good.
	He's right about Sonic Cheddar, by the way.
	Morally challenged.
	That is pretty good.
	It is good.
	It is very good.
	However, I don't think there's enough invective in it.
	I think we can just call them deviance.
	Moral deviance.
	It's very close to Degenerate.
	Yeah, but that's the point.
	It's close to it, but it's not it.
	I kind of like morally challenged, because it's on their terms as well, which kind of undermines them.
	You know, the fact that it sounds politically correct.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	There is an advance is our.
	I will ruminate on this.
	The morally challenged.
	Hugo's proposing neo-socialist, which I quite like as well.
	I just can't find myself using it as often as I should, to be honest.
	I just want to call them communists.
	Yeah, but that doesn't have the same effect.
	Shut up, commie.
	But then everyone turns off.
	Let's say normies are not that versed in politics.
	They just see you as the same as an Antifa type shouting Nazi.
	To be fair, calling them morally challenged is pretty amusing.
	That's a good suggestion, actually, the more I think about it.
	Yeah.
	Because I can see myself referring to a progressive, if you've got a debate between you, a progressive, and a normal guy, and you're like, look, I appreciate the morally challenged position does have some merits, but as I said, it's a bit morally challenged and we don't actually want to become racist in the process of trying to end racism, do we?
	That wouldn't make sense.
	You can see how it would actually flow in a conversation with a normal person.
	So, okay, yeah, I like it.
	Morally trans is good.
	Very good.
	Good comment.
	And smoked cheddar is good.
	So well done.
	Double approval.
	Right.
	We've got some comments from the podcast page.
	Daniel Christmas.
	Hi lads, yesterday I mentioned talking to a lefty lecturer in uni on masculinity and gender and thought I'd report in.
	Went as bad as could be expected, to be fair, maybe better.
	She agreed with my biological definition of man or woman.
	I think I caught her off guard.
	I thought, oh really?
	Then that's the battle won.
	If you can get them to commit to the biological definition of man and woman.
	That's why there's so much fight about this, because as soon as you've got that definition, it's over.
	Yeah, it's over.
	I think I caught off guard.
	However, on masculinity, she argued that toxic masculinity was also a set of beliefs.
	For example, men should be paid more than women.
	Yeah, but who argues that on the basis that they're men?
	Just because I am a man...
	Well, no, that's a mischaracterization of even the most based man alive, right?
	He was deriving it from the fact that they work more and longer hours and more difficult jobs.
	So yes, if someone works in longer hours and a more difficult job, they should get paid more than she does.
	She hasn't said there that the person arguing is because they're men.
	They just said the statement, men should be paid more than women.
	Which implies that it's because they're men and not because of something that they do.
	But like I said, that doesn't represent anyone's position, right?
	I said I wouldn't call that masculine, just illiberal and sexist.
	I'd say values could be more masculine or feminine, but not ideas or beliefs.
	What do you think?
	I mean, a value is an idea and a belief.
	So...
	How much distinction is there, really?
	But I think there can be masculine and feminine values.
	I mean, values that are associated with masculinity and femininity.
	I don't think that's wrong or illegitimate, but the thing is, it's not a monopoly, right?
	So even if we, say, were to associate physical courage with masculinity, if we saw a woman demonstrating physical courage, we wouldn't deny her the honour of Of being courageous, like, you know, standing up for a fight or something, just because she's a woman.
	If anything, it might be more courageous.
	She's got balls.
	Yeah, there we go, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We've got terms for this sort of thing already.
	Sure, it's couched in masculinity by calling it balls, but that doesn't mean she doesn't get the praise.
	Exactly.
	And she deserves the praise if she's doing something praiseworthy.
	And nobody would contest that, I'm sure.
	So, yeah, no, I think it sounds like you did a good job there, Daniel, to be honest.
	But yeah, like I said, once you get on the definition of man and woman, that's it.
	You've won, basically.
	And then she's fighting a defensive battle for the rest of it.
	Femric Holubar says, Democrats, you should respect Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.
	Also Democrats, Lowell Rush Limbaugh died.
	Good riddance.
	The message is very clear.
	It's okay when we do it.
	That's literally their entire political platform at this point is it's okay when we do it.
	Joseph Smith.
	Which is a valid question.
	I wonder if it could be that they see it as an attempt to rescue them from an ideology that seeks to destroy their femininity and beauty.
	After seeing some of those before and after photos from the video we did on this, I wouldn't blame a Republican guy for thinking maybe I could save her from ending up like that.
	Yeah, I have seen that in my personal life as well.
	I can imagine there is.
	Yeah.
	Like guys dating, well, not like full-on gone women, but women who believe stupid stuff, like that all men are rapists or something, and it's just like, what's wrong with you?
	And then you start dating them, and then they're just like, yeah, maybe I'm a retard.
	Zen Chan says, have you seen The Home Office made what looks like a parody meme of the old you-wouldn't-steal-a-movie ad, but it's telling people not to do house parties because my lockdowns.
	Can we get it up?
	All gatherings are currently against the law.
	Stay home.
	Protect the NHS. Save lives.
	You shouldn't go to a party.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	Even the government's become a narc.
	COVID arms.
	You wouldn't go to a pub.
	You shouldn't.
	No, it's you shouldn't.
	That's the thing.
	Yeah, but that kind of ruins it.
	It should be.
	Yeah, but I should go to a rave.
	You shouldn't save lives.
	Oh, no, go to a rave.
	Sorry.
	I think my wife's going to complain, but I still think I can justify it.
	You shouldn't hold baby showers.
	God, you bloody killjoys!
	Where are the rabbis on this?
	I really hate how all the rabbis are complying with this.
	None of them are.
	You shouldn't be meeting up.
	Just...
	That's right.
	Stay at home.
	Be isolated.
	Meeting up is against the law.
	Yeah, but that's the problem, isn't it?
	Like...
	I can't believe...
	This is really pretty cringe as well.
	It is total cringe, right?
	I bet I can make a better one later.
	But the point is, right, if I were the government, I'd be like, right, we've got to the point where we're telling people they shouldn't meet people and they are banned.
	It's illegal to go on holiday.
	Things like this.
	I don't even know if it's worth caring about the virus at this point.
	I'm like, okay, just give me it.
	Just give me the goddamn virus.
	I think...
	There are some things that I would, I mean, especially if you're the Conservatives, I can totally see Labour doing this and being proud of it.
	But the Conservatives should be deeply ashamed that this is where they've ended up in their tenure.
	Well, some of them are.
	Like, you do hear some of the good ones on radio or in Parliament being like, oh my god, I hate being in this party right now.
	And fair enough, I would too, if I got elected and they were standing there like, Jesus Christ.
	I would just have to, every time I was asked, what's your opinion, I'd be like, this is all immoral and we should stop it right now.
	But it's embarrassing that it's the backbenchers.
	At least if you were going to do these things, let's say you were convinced by it, you would want to give a preference on every time being like, I really, really don't want to.
	I'm really liberty-minded.
	So on and so forth.
	This is the case.
	But they don't.
	They just say, this is the case, now get on with it.
	In Boris's defence, I do think this is against his instincts.
	I don't think he enjoys doing this.
	He doesn't say that anymore, though.
	He said that in the outbreak.
	He did.
	He looks...
	Distraws, to be honest.
	He does.
	I mean, it might be a brilliant act, but I mean, if it's an act, it's a very good one.
	Anyway, King Elessar says this...
	The remake of those was like, you wouldn't tyrannize the population or something like that.
	Oh, well, yeah.
	No, you shouldn't tyrannize the population.
	Nah, but I want to make it in the original.
	Yeah.
	So, King Elisar says, As a future dad, I'm on board with your depiction of dadism.
	Just wondering, could you flesh that out a little more?
	My poor wife has no idea what I'm talking about when I espouse the virtues of dadism.
	P.S. Floridian money to our British heroes.
	Thank you.
	Hang on.
	Yes, we do.
	Where's your manifesto?
	You haven't read it.
	Okay, I'll write a manifesto.
	The manifesto of dadism.
	Some girl says, Hi Carl and Co, I'm a student of history midway through a module on the formation of English identity in the Middle Ages and yesterday's podcast had me thinking.
	Part of what we considered was the role of Anglo-Norman historians in the 12th century and how their work could be framed as an attempt by the authors to reconcile their mixed parentage of the history of England as a recently conquered kingdom.
	Resulting in a jingoistic rhetoric, the pointing end of which our Celtic neighbours became very familiar with.
	To what extent do you believe the modern cultural disconnect between BAME activists and academia is the product of a similar dilemma, albeit inversed?
	We have the descendants of colonialism wrestling with a mixed historical legacy, while only having the homeland of the colonisers to call their own.
	Their histories serving as a means of personal reconciliation, but which salts the earth of our own heritage.
	Which aspects of English history ought to be emphasised to encourage these activists to embrace our history as their own without the need for antagonism?
	That is a hell of a good question and one that I don't feel I'll be able to give an adequate answer to now.
	What's interesting is there does appear to be an English identity before this with Æthelstan and Alfred the Great.
	Æthelstan the Glorious was the first king of all of the English and this appears to be a pretty concrete establishment of the English identity.
	And doubtless that the English identity was under attack further after the Norman conquest and had to be legitimised in the way she said.
	The problem is, exactly as she points out though, if you have stigmatised England as being the colonising power and you live in England, why would you not want to decolonise it?
	Which means destroying the indigenous culture.
	What other option do you have?
	I mean, you can't exactly accept it, can you?
	And so it does put these progressively-minded activists in a pretty firm bind.
	I mean, how can they get out of that?
	I've just got into how they actually think about this.
	Because the English land exists in England, let's say, but it has been colonised by the English.
	So you have to decolonise the land.
	But you can still have England, but you just replace it.
	But then, I mean, then you are actively being anti-indigenous, because English is indigenous to England.
	But I mean, they're not 100% wrong there, though, are they?
	Like, the Angles and the Saxons and so forth did come here, and the Celts were before.
	Well, yeah, sure, 1,500 years ago.
	I just love to see, like, Celtish nationalists arguing for decolonizing England.
	Well, I mean, that's the thing, though.
	So it takes on the aspect of a race war, and that's the problem.
	Well, they are race warriors.
	They are, but the point is, if the English, after being in England and Britain for 1,500 years, are not considered indigenous, then almost nobody is indigenous to anywhere by that standard.
	What was your example?
	I think it was the guys that got to New Zealand.
	Polynesian Islanders, yeah.
	They've been there for like 500 years.
	Less than the English have been here.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I would consider that to be indigenous, but then by that same token, the English are indigenous to Britain.
	I think the way to look at it is actually looking at it through the lens of time is wrong.
	It should be looked at through the lens of culture.
	Was this culture found somewhere else?
	I agree.
	I agree.
	That's something that wasn't found elsewhere.
	You can't find American culture in Britain in the same way you find it in America, so you can consider it indigenous.
	And so I think that's a more concrete, frankly, way of looking at these things, rather than going through time, because what difference does it make if it was 100 years or 500 years?
	If people still don't see themselves as the place they are, then...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But the question of the reconciliation about salt and the earth, really, really well formed.
	And I don't think there's a very good answer there, frankly.
	I'm trying to think of Sparta, because they thought themselves as not of the place.
	So they were not indigenous to the area that they called Sparta.
	Well, it's almost the same with everyone.
	Almost every, like, the Athenians thought of themselves as autochthonous.
	They were sprung from the soil of Attica.
	So they had nowhere else referenced in their own sort of founding myth.
	But the Spartans were part of the Dorian invasion, and so they knew they'd come from the north and set this kingdom.
	No matter how long they stayed there, they still thought themselves as coming from somewhere else.
	Yeah, but I don't think that is...
	It's not to say that Sparta wasn't theirs, right?
	Because it's the conquered area.
	They claimed it as theirs.
	Yeah, I'm just saying it's not indigenous to that in their minds, whereas if it is in your mind that you're indigenous to that area.
	I don't think that that's the way that they thought of it.
	I don't think that's the way we should think of it, right?
	Because I think that if, you know, in like 100 BC, like you went to the Spartans and said, you know, the Spartans indigenous to Sparta, they'd be like, duh.
	I don't know.
	Every historical record I've heard, they weren't, but I'm not an expert.
	No, no, no.
	Even though they will have an origin story somewhere else, because almost every culture does, it doesn't matter, because that would have been hundreds of years in the distant past, and so it's just a sort of...
	Are you saying time does matter, though, surely?
	Well, it's not that.
	It's the evolution of the culture, right?
	The product of the culture.
	Like, no one's going to say that the northern area of Thrace was Sparta.
	This is not what they were going to say.
	But that's where the Spartans are claiming they've come from or something like this.
	And so it's like there is a detachment from the migration, right?
	When the migration is not about the location, it's about the people themselves, right?
	And so the people themselves would say, look, we have a historical continuity.
	Like, for example, the Angles and the Saxons, right?
	They don't come from Britain.
	They come from areas of Northern Germany and Denmark.
	But, and so we can see ourselves as a continuity of those people, because we are, but that doesn't mean that English and England is indigenous to Germany or Denmark.
	It's not, obviously.
	And so it's a very complicated thing, and I think we need to make sure that we have a sort of more three-dimensional view of it, rather than compressing it down to a timeline.
	Because when you compare it to that timeline, bad luck Polynesians, you've got no claim to these islands and we just turned up yesterday.
	We've got to decolonize the Polynesian islands.
	Sorry, it wasn't our choice.
	You've only been here 500 years.
	It's not acceptable.
	And so I think we need to have that deeper view.
	But what aspects of English history ought to be taught to emphasize these activists to embrace our history as their own without a need for antagonism?
	I would suggest it would be the constitutional history of England that we should emphasize.
	Because the last 800 years has been like...
	The Anglo-Saxons resisting Norman tyranny.
	And they've done a very, very good job and created the kind of Western liberal democracies and constitutional democracy that we view as the norm now.
	And it was only because of the English conquering the world, essentially, and enforcing this kind of regime that it's become the norm.
	And so, I mean, that's the way I view it, as my own sort of colonial history.
	You know, like, my ancestors at some point in my dad's lineage would have been slaves, and so I'm very thankful to the British Empire for making sure that that's not my fate as well.
	That's an inspirational way of looking at things.
	Christopher Ford.
	Hi Carl, I'm the guy writing a fantasy novel with you and the EPAP guys as cameos.
	I'll be adding Callum and Hugo with their permission and give Hugo a harem of Catboy Simpsons.
	Okay.
	I have a question for you.
	I was watching a live stream with Shad and the conversation on relationships got me a bit down.
	I extended a relationship with a female friend of four years.
	She is rather a conservative girl who aspires to be a housewife.
	She shares my values and someone I want to spend the rest of my life with.
	She also saved my life in some way.
	In a dour time I had lost purpose and she awakened something in me Well, I mean, it's been, what, years?
	I mean, I don't know how long you've been together, but I would assume that you would move together?
	That would be the first step, I would have thought, to creating a long-term relationship with someone that you love.
	I'm quite skeptical of long-distance relationships anyway, so I would definitely recommend one of you relocate.
	Tom Ricketts, I've never really followed Rush Limbaugh, but I can't help but notice that whenever a conservative right-wing figure dies, the leftists jump to celebrations, mockery, and derision, whereas when one of their own dies, RBG for example, they are immediately granted social sainthood and considered beyond reproach, just another double standard we have to put up with.
	Yeah, it is, and it's one we should get used to, and that's why the Ruth Bader Ginsburg example is such a good one.
	I mean, the conservative reaction was very tepid.
	I mean, there was genuine criticism of her.
	For example, she should have resigned when Barack Obama was in charge because she was very old then, and why run the risk?
	But otherwise, that was pretty much it.
	And the Stone Toss comic, I suppose, was probably the worst thing I saw, where it's her on an island on a beach looking nervous and the crabs going, wait for it.
	So, you know.
	Derek Pratt started reading the history of Western philosophy.
	Could you please explain in layman's terms Socrates' oracle?
	It wasn't really explained in the book.
	Thank you.
	Think of upgrading my tier.
	Love the work.
	Okay, so The History of Western Philosophy is a massive book.
	And so when he says Socrates' oracle, I assume that you mean when he is told he is the wisest man in all of Greece.
	And this is because Socrates himself said, I don't know anything.
	And I'm on a mission to prove that the rest of you don't know anything either.
	And in a world of what I suppose we would describe now as Sophists, who actually couldn't prove that they knew what they thought or asserted that they knew, Socrates was the one man in Greece who had the humility and wisdom to say, actually, I don't know all of this stuff.
	And he had the skills to be able to, what we now call the Socratic method, dismantle the non-truths that were being presented by the Sophists.
	So I believe that's what you're referring to, and I believe that's the explanation.
	Joseph Woodland.
	And that's why he was the wisest man in all of Greece, because he was the only man in all of Greece who didn't believe in things that weren't true.
	At least, relatively speaking.
	Joseph Woodland.
	Slightly off topic for today, but still a pertinent question.
	I've been in an IR relationship, WMBF, for two years now.
	What the hell does that mean?
	An IR relationship.
	I don't get it.
	WMBF? Am I looking up?
	I mean, these are probably like modern dating terms.
	I'm married.
	I don't know what...
	Interracial.
	Interracial.
	Right, okay.
	Interracial.
	Right, white male, black female.
	Right, okay, yeah.
	Thank you, John.
	That makes sense now, right?
	Recently, she has started to be slowly indoctrinated by the woke culture while at uni in Scotland.
	This is slowly shifting.
	Ideal obviously affects my hopes for the future because there can be no hope of raising children with someone who will poison their minds with racially based low expectations.
	What's the best way to proceed?
	No, I think that the way that we were attacking the White Lives Matter, the White Student Union thing, would be the best way to really get down the point that, look, you can look at racism in one of two ways, it's either consequentially or through process of action, and you are someone who believes that Yeah.
	need not apply.
	Yeah.
	Is this bad?
	And if she can agree that it's bad, then she has to agree that it's the procedure.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But you've got to emphasize that there's moral content in the procedure.
	There are actions that are in and of themselves right and wrong.
	And so it's sometimes right to always do something, even if the consequence is bad.
	For example, I mean, you know, it could be right to sacrifice yourself, you know, to save your children, right?
	The consequence is bad for you, you're going to die.
	But it was morally right to do that.
	And there are also morally wrong actions like racial discrimination.
	No matter who the race is being discriminated, no matter what the consequence is, it's wrong to racially discriminate.
	And that's how I would enter into it, because you obviously...
	She obviously doesn't realise that that's the road she's going down, and you don't want to go down the road.
	And make sure that you make it clear that you're very serious.
	Don't be flippant about any of this.
	Make sure that you're very clear that it's...
	Sorry?
	Like, don't be rude or belligerent, obviously.
	Yeah, obviously.
	Like, I had this with my ex-girlfriend.
	She was doing law.
	And one of the law modules she took for an easy A was like, I think it was like gender, race, and diversity or some BS term.
	And then when she started telling me about it, she'd come back and she'd be like, oh, we've been learning about intersectionality today and how intersectionality is in the law.
	Because if you're being discriminated under the Equality Act, for example, for being black and a woman, you can claim more compensation.
	And then having to go through all the theory of why intersectionality makes sense.
	I started just giving her basic counter-arguments about, yeah, but isn't this kind of absurd?
	And then I noticed they hadn't given her a single counter-argument in these seminars or lectures.
	There was no pushback whatsoever, and you wouldn't expect it because it's an indoctrination course, in my view.
	And then just going through her, by the end of it, she actually found it funny that it was her and the one man in the room who were being based, and then all the rest of them were just spouting off nonsense.
	She was like, it's insufferable, but it's also an easy A. She got the A, so it's like, okay.
	But the point is, intersectionality is in the law.
	Oh, yeah.
	But Hayden trying to convince her, like, just, like, whatever she's studying, like, just give small counter-arguments, build it up, and see what she thinks.
	Like, showing her the CBC or BBC saying that whites need not apply.
	Yeah.
	Right, we'll move on to the Super Chats because we're running out of time, as usual.
	Student of History says, can we expect a video on dadism?
	Is it an ideology, a religion, a cult?
	What?
	When are you going to write its gospel?
	F for Rush Limbaugh.
	And finally, to round this out, a humble prayer for the American icon and war hero, John Paul Jones.
	I don't know who John Paul Jones is.
	I didn't realize there'd be so many people who wanted a manifesto on dadism.
	Coffee Time General says, Dear Dr.
	Jordan Peterson talks about identifying your own personal hell and doing what you can to move away from it.
	I was just wondering what yours is.
	For me, it's 20 minutes of office space.
	Did you get the memo?
	Yeah, office space is amazing.
	Amazing.
	I watched...
	My judge did this film called Office Space where it's about...
	I've seen it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Fairly clever guys who are just really frustrated that they're middle office workers and...
	Their lives are boring and meaningless and then go on hijinks and ruin everything.
	Great film.
	Well, the way the system works is to do minimal work.
	That's the most rewarding way of doing it.
	There's no incentive to work properly.
	My own personal hell...
	I don't know.
	Would you enjoy doing an inclusion diversity degree?
	No.
	No.
	I mean, I might do one.
	Because it'd be nice to have the qualification.
	I don't know.
	My own personal hell, I guess, is what I'm trying to avoid us going into, which is everyone becoming just this racialized, genderized, like, society of non-humans.
	Because this is the thing, as soon as you start...
	South Africa, you know?
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	But it's more than that.
	It's about the kind of quantification of humanness that I kind of hate.
	It's like, well, how many black people do you have?
	I don't know.
	How many black people do we need?
	Well, that's exactly what I mean.
	Like, the law in South Africa, if you have a number of black people, you then have to start rejecting applicants on the basis that they're white or black.
	Yeah.
	Because the law says so.
	And then that's being expanded to ownership of farmland.
	Why not expand it to how many offices can be rented?
	Yeah.
	And at which point you end up like one of the guys who happens to live next to me.
	He's actually South African white.
	He was in the police force, canine unit.
	He lost his job for being white.
	Black empowerment.
	Jesus.
	They fired him and he was like, right, screw this country.
	I'm out.
	Yeah.
	Fair.
	Totally fair.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so, I mean, it would be something like that, to be honest.
	Which we're getting into.
	Which we're arriving at, yeah, at this point.
	But fundamentally, what I hate about it is the reduction of the human being to not the sort of narrative of themselves, and it's just the reduction of them to the physical and material aspects of them.
	So when they say things like black bodies, it's like, I hate that term.
	That sounds like corpses.
	You know, oh, but you're putting black bodies in danger.
	It's like...
	That's a horrible, horrible phrase.
	These are people that you're talking about.
	Individuals with their own sort of internal lives and thoughts and dreams and feelings of their own.
	Goddammit, why can't you just treat people like humans rather than numbers on a spreadsheet?
	Eric just says, question to the parents in the studio.
	Do you teach your children the best thing in life is to crush your enemies, seem driven for you, and hear the lamentation of their women?
	Well, obviously.
	It's the first line of the daddest manifesto.
	Ontario's Roman Baber introduced a bill to reduce all politicians' pay to CERB level just so they would know what people went through, got laughed off and got his pay reduced out of pettiness.
	Well, that's what the politicians think of you.
	It's always such a good idea, in my view as well.
	Like, peg the pay of a politician to the pay of an average person in the country, or something like that.
	Like, it could be two times, three times, but as long as it's pegged, I feel like it'll be interesting.
	Yeah.
	And then make it illegal for them to take money that's not given to them by their salary.
	Literally, you know, you make money selling books.
	Nope, that's illegal.
	You can't be a politician.
	You know, you've got to...
	You have to leave the office.
	You've got to donate it all to charity.
	I don't know.
	You know, it's just got to automatically be taken and given to charity.
	I don't care.
	And then you can make loads of money as long as my salary is going up.
	So did Rush get struck down and become more powerful than they could possibly imagine?
	Well, it looks that way.
	Like, he wasn't owning the Miss Harden life, I think.
	You know, like, getting to come out and self-own is amazing.
	Yeah.
	Yes, that's correct.
	The left has TV in the papers, but never succeeded in radio.
	Any guess why that is?
	Is it similar in the UK? No, it's not similar in the UK. We don't really have talk radio yet.
	We've got some talk radio.
	Well, talk radio, the channel exists, for example.
	Yeah, it's fairly, like, the popularity...
	But it's very centre-right, if you would be so charitable.
	Yeah, but, I mean, how wide an audience would you say they have?
	I think they've got a couple million, something like that.
	They're not doing terribly, but it's not huge.
	And then everything else that exists is leftist.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And it's very small, in my view.
	Matthew Hammond, Russia's TV show in the 90s was fantastic.
	In one bit, he wore ribbons on his lapel of 20 causes and said how much better he was than everyone else without having to actually do anything to help people.
	Wow, that's a good pastiche.
	Yeah, I mean, it sounds like he's got this magically imbued microphone.
	And that sounds like a mythic thing.
	This is a microphone of Rush Limbaugh.
	As he said, you know, it contains years of dunking on the lips.
	It's got to go in a museum.
	Yeah, and I mean, you know, how can we get hold of it?
	Look up Booker T. Washington's thoughts on Race Grifter.
	I'll let you do that.
	Booker T. Washington.
	The Load Seaters, at least twice as based as the next leading brand.
	That's true.
	More Gibbs for atrocious spelling.
	Thank you, Ash.
	And Elizabeth says, you can find real rush quotes on the Bongino report.
	They assembled a list.
	Well, great.
	And good for them.
	And that's probably a good place to go.
	But getting them from the leftists is funnier because the leftists just look like they're endorsing everything that you said.
	So, yeah.
	We'll go through some more Super Chats and then we'll have to call it a day.
	Wherever we are...
	Right, okay.
	Shout out Rodney.
	Are you going to make a segment on China, the Uyghurs and the Chinese Olympics in the near future?
	People need more awareness of that.
	Yeah, I think we probably will end up doing something like that because Joe Biden just came out and said, well, it's kind of a difference of opinion.
	No, if you watch the full clip, it's a senile moment.
	Oh, is it?
	It's a senile moment.
	So he literally, like, he asks him, what about the yugas you were on the phone call?
	And he says, we must stand up for human rights, and then goes on to say, there's a cultural difference.
	And it's like, okay, retard.
	So...
	Can't use that word.
	I didn't say it, I said it myself.
	But, yes, so we will probably cover that in some way.
	Do you mean the R word?
	Yes, the R word.
	Oh, God.
	But we will definitely cover that.
	We've already got coverage on lotuses.com about that, which you can go and check out at your leisure.
	Marie Benedict says, Keto Carl, what do you think of mukbang?
	I'm struggling with an eating disorder, really thinking of restricting fasting instead of keto carnival.
	I don't know what mukbang is.
	You don't know what mukbang is?
	No.
	Okay, so essentially you get tons of food, and you have the camera way too close, so you can see these mountains of food.
	And then you sit there and you just eat all of it on camera, and that's the video.
	You just watch someone eat, and it's like 20 minutes.
	Is this something that happens in Japan?
	No, it's a Korean word.
	But it's spread to like, you know, all over the globe.
	And there's like people doing it with Kentucky Fried Chicken, for example.
	So you just eat food?
	Yeah, yeah.
	But like tons of really unhealthy food.
	So you just watch them eat the whole thing.
	There's a great one with this lady.
	It's just a huge bagel of like noodles.
	And she just eats the whole thing.
	And it's really weird to watch.
	It's like watching a snake eat or something.
	But that's what it is.
	I haven't got any thoughts on mukbang, I'm afraid.
	We'll make him watch some afterwards.
	I'm not someone you want to take dietary advice from, to be honest, because I'm not exactly an expert.
	I don't know what's good for you, but I would definitely avoid sugar, frankly.
	You don't even have to go full carnivore or anything.
	Just drop the sugars.
	Honestly, I feel a million times better.
	I feel a million times better.
	Eric Just, what can change the nature of a man?
	Ah, it's a great question.
	From Planescape Torment.
	And there are, in fact, there are loads of really good articles out there, like, think pieces that people have written about this.
	And I have been tempted to write my own at some point.
	So, did you have something?
	That's a mukbang.
	It's just eating.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm hungry.
	So, like, you know.
	But it's really gross.
	Like, some people do it with the most disgusting thing possible, because it's funny.
	Okay, gross.
	But yeah, what can change the nature of a man?
	That's a good question.
	I think the quickest answer is time.
	Habit changes the nature of a man.
	But there are lots of interesting think pieces about it, and I actually really recommend people look at it, because I looked this up a while ago, and I might write something on it myself, because it's actually a fun question to answer.
	But sadly, the number of people who are connoisseurs of Planescape Torment is vanishingly small, and the number of heretics who have no idea what it is is increasing per day.
	It's unfortunately bad.
	Anyway, Matthew Hammond.
	Andrew Breitbart credited Rush Limbaugh with causing his turn away from the left after his father-in-law requested that he listen to him.
	Oh, that's very interesting.
	I knew there'd be a connection there somewhere.
	Student of History.
	Oh, we read that one.
	The Engaged Few.
	Russia's Undeniable Truth of Life No.
	4.
	Feminism was established to allow and attract women easier access to the mainstream society.
	Again, Jessica Valenti didn't refute this.
	None of them refuted anything that he said, but they let us know what he said.
	Eric Jeff.
	I love how in Death, that's still the most famous bit of his death.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's great.
	So they've essentially carved it in gold.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's this giant slam dunk on feminism and feminists.
	Eric Just.
	Question to the parents of the studio.
	Oh no, we read the one.
	Cyrus Guitar and Lyft.
	Ontario's...
	We read that one too.
	Longshot Low.
	Facebook is exerting social media tyranny over Australian citizens.
	The story must not go ignored.
	Facebook Australia.
	Yeah, well, after the podcast, at some point this afternoon, Hugo will have an article up about what Facebook is doing with Australia, because it seems to be related to Article 11 of the European Union.
	We're trying to essentially extract money from Silicon Valley.
	As much as I hate to say it, I think Silicon Valley is probably in the right there.
	You literally went to the European Parliament to defend them in that case, if they're doing the same thing in Australia.
	Yeah, the Australian government shouldn't be doing this, but that's my liberal ideology speaking.
	I suppose if you have a particular vendetta against Silicon Valley...
	Like you?
	Like me, yeah.
	It is difficult being put in this contradictory position.
	But yeah, I mean, it really speaks to the problem of social media.
	It's like the mass, the huge amount of influence and power to the point where they can just tell national governments to go stuff themselves.
	There's a problem.
	I'm not going to sit here and say there's no problem with Silicon Valley or anything.
	Yeah, and the leftists are always really derisive about that as well.
	It's like, oh, did someone hurt your feelings online and so you decided to change all your values?
	It's like...
	Yeah.
	It seems that the people who held the values I thought I espoused were all evil.
	And I was like, Christ, am I honestly hanging out with a bunch of evil people who mock the death of this person just because he disagrees with them politically?
	Like, I saw Vosh moaning about that.
	I kind of thought, what is it?
	Boroshenko, that lady?
	Like, she was complaining that everyone around her who was a leftist was being super mean to her for no reason.
	And then he was mocking this, like, oh, what a stupid reason to change your views.
	It's like, yeah, but if everyone with this ideology is terrible to be around, this doesn't produce good outcomes.
	Maybe I'm wrong for endorsing the ideology because clearly if the other guys over there are being nice and they're like, well, we look at the world differently and we think that the things you do matter and make the person you are and you can become a better person by doing good things, well, that sounds a lot more persuasive suddenly than just if you hold the correct set of beliefs, you can be as evil as you like to anyone you want.
	I mean, there's a reason that Peterson advises for persuading someone, be kind, be nice to them, and that goes for any political ideology.
	I mean, just basic entry level, if you want to persuade someone, don't be an asshole.
	The left hasn't got there yet.
	No, and they think they're justified in what they're doing too.
	They don't seem to understand.
	Again, time-honoured wisdom can come into play.
	You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
	None of your business says it would be hard to overstate the impact Rush had on American political landscape.
	The man was a complete legend.
	Love him or hate him.
	Yeah, I think that's very obvious, frankly.
	And he seems to have been good fun, to be honest.
	Bugsman77.
	They feel the same about Rush as they do about us.
	That's correct.
	No, in fact, that's not quite correct.
	They feel more strongly about Rush because clearly he was very effective.
	He's done more than us.
	He's done more than us, yes.
	But when we get to the point where we've done as much as Rush, then they'll hate us as much.
	BucksFan77, I read that one.
	Yes, we will cover it.
	We will cover it.
	But you should go and watch the full clip.
	It is him being a retard more than him actually saying that.
	Stop using the R word.
	Oh, for God's sakes.
	Why is that a swear word now?
	It never used to be a swear word.
	Yeah, but a lot of things never used to be a swear word.
	It's literally, what is it, 60 IQ. It's got a medical definition.
	There are people who get suspended from Twitter if you're using the term dude incorrectly.
	Calling women dude can get you suspended from Twitter.
	So, not my rules.
	Stupid rules.
	I hate them.
	Matthew Hammond.
	Oh no, I read that one.
	Can we go up a bit please, John?
	Zone, are you going to speak about the terrible Biden Town Hall event?
	I guess we'll have to tomorrow.
	See, this is the thing.
	We're a small team.
	We are hiring, but we're a small team.
	We're still growing.
	We're only four months old.
	We can't cover absolutely everything all the time.
	We're doing our best.
	Finally subbed on the website.
	You'll have any plans to make an app, says Artyom.
	He will tell you when.
	Yeah, maybe in the future, but again, we're still growing.
	And if you'd like to help us grow, you can sign up at lotuses.com.
	Vantablack, Greg Jim, read that one, I think.
	Thumbugly says, segregation is racism, changed my mind, also wog.
	Yes.
	V.S. Check out the song No Lives Matter by Tom McDonald.
	Describes how the media wants us to destroy each other until no lives matter anymore.
	That's pretty much how I feel about it.
	Criminals rule the world now.
	Sends us two pounds.
	I find it interesting that you say now at the end of it.
	Like it's not always been that case.
	King Tesseract says...
	Um...
	Napoleon the pig, sorry.
	I mean, that is Vaush's position, that it's okay when we do it.
	Some animals are more equal than others.
	Interestingly, I'm reading Brave New World again, and it's really, really interesting.
	I'm going to do a book club on it.
	Because you know when we talk about thick concepts, right?
	These moral concepts that describe the world?
	That's the world that Huxley is describing.
	But the thing is, it's difficult, and he's explicit about this, but it's difficult to pick up on if you're not looking for it, because it's not obvious, right?
	But it's really, really good, and I will talk about that.
	And I should do Animal Farm as well at some point, really, shouldn't I? Student History, look at...
	John, can we go up a bit, please?
	We'll do a couple more because we're over time and we have to go.
	Tanushi, SJWs and unironic alt-right racists are unable to disentangle skin colour and content of one's character.
	Blackness is a state of mind.
	Yeah, they both believe it.
	Jesus Fried Christ, I'm a Canadian lib.
	Trudeau is anti-Canadian communist and the son of Castro, correct.
	Eric O'Toole is a total beta Tory, Maxime Bernier or bust.
	Yeah, I like Bernier.
	Everything I've seen from him is just really well phrased is the best way I could say it.
	I hear him like, apart from the French accent, I can't disagree.
	Stephen Parsons, hey dudes, any opinion on the UK business minister saying there might be a legal basis for no job, no job?
	I have not seen that.
	Can we go up a bit again, John, please?
	He's a tyrant, if he is.
	Yeah, he's an absolute tyrant, if that's the case.
	The Earl of Longford.
	King Arthur is set in the Brythonic Race War against the Germanic Angles, Jutes, and Best Gaetic Innisfail, blah, blah, blah, some Irish stuff.
	Kind of.
	Not really, actually.
	The legends of King Arthur are not historic.
	They are mythological, and King Arthur is English in them, and the King of England.
	Zeranax says, regarding the morally challenged suggestion, could we call them virtuously constipated?
	We could call them virtuously disadvantaged, I think.
	Scotty says, That's a good point, actually.
	Never occurred to me that I might be able to make some stonks money on the leftist latest fad.
	I saw weed was going up massively as well.
	There are weed stonks.
	No, nothing we say is financial advice.
	Ever.
	Right, okay.
	That's interesting.
	But anyway, this is not financial advice, and we'll see you tomorrow.
	If you want more content from us, in the meantime, you can go to loadstheets.com.
	We've got loads of great premium content, and we've got really...
	Is the premium podcast up yet about the guilds?
	No, I'm editing it.
	You're editing it, right, okay.
	I didn't know which one it was.
	But when's it going to be up?
	Whenever I edit it.
	Rough timescale?
	Well, I've got to edit this first, don't I? I don't know.
	Whenever I get time.
	Okay, whenever we get time, we're going to get that up.
	Right.
	But it'll be up soon.
	Ish.
	But, right.

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