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March 1, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Loaded Seaters for Monday, the 1st of March.
	We are, what, a week away from the kids being able to go back to school in Britain, which is exciting to me.
	It's really sad that that's exciting, but I'm really thrilled by the concept that maybe one day we won't be tyrannized by the government.
	Anyway, before we get started, because we do have lots to get on with, draw your attention to a premium article.
	This is on lowseas.com by the Right Honourable James Dellingpole, who has written an article at my personal request, because this was something I couldn't find a good resource for.
	And it's on Professor Neil Ferguson.
	Now, he is the architect of the tyranny in this country, and it is based on his absurd prediction models that we are still currently under house arrest by the government.
	And he has a long history of making these very, very bad predictions with these very, very bad models.
	And James has done a brilliant article featuring all of his greatest hits in the way that he has failed in the past.
	And it's really quite amazing how anyone takes him seriously at all.
	And yet here we are.
	So that's onlotsies.com now.
	It's absolutely well worth your time.
	And of course, if you're a premium member or subscriber, you can leave a message on the webpage for this podcast and we will read out those comments later, or you can send us a video comment if you're a Gold subscriber.
	But first, let's carry on and talk about how America First has taken over CPAC. Did you watch CPAC? I watched clips.
	I didn't watch the whole thing.
	I watched pretty much the whole thing.
	I was really enjoying it.
	There were several three hour long live streams I was able to find on the internet.
	So I put them on 1.5 speed and then just listened to as much of them as I could.
	And it was surprisingly good stuff.
	So we put all of this in the context of the failed impeachment.
	Donald Trump being the goodest boy has ever lived, Nancy Pelosi gnashing her fake teeth, and everyone being really angry.
	And so they haven't stopped trying to persecute Trump from this.
	There have been numerous different avenues, but small avenues that have been going after him.
	I mean, one of them is going after his tax returns.
	It's like, who cares?
	How is this in any way relevant?
	I mean, all that's going to be found, because Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns.
	Because what they're going to show is that Donald Trump Inflated the amount of wealth he possesses.
	That's what they're going to show.
	And that's why Donald Trump doesn't want these out.
	He's not as rich as he has claimed to have been.
	That's what they're going to find.
	It's only one billion, not three billion.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Literally, that's what the case is going to be.
	I'd bet.
	I would put money on this, right?
	And so they've been going after him in every way.
	Trying to make it so he can't, like, get a golf course in Florida or something like this.
	You know, really petty stuff.
	And the media, of course, has been weirdly creeping on him from the bushes when he's gone out and played golf and things like this.
	So this is the context in which CPAC has entered into.
	And so we begin with, of course, the Twitter attempt to cancel CPAC, because why would you not?
	Why would you not have, in the height of cancel culture, an attempt to cancel this?
	And you get some amazing, amazing inputs like this.
	I can choose to boycott Hyatt, which is the hotel chain that hosted it, because I don't support Nazi fascisms or insurrectionists.
	Stunning, brave, articulate.
	I'm so glad that the people on Twitter are doing their parts to ruin society.
	But a spokesperson for the hotel chain said, get stuffed, communist scum.
	Now they didn't quite say it like that, but that was essentially between the lines.
	We take pride in operating a highly inclusive environment, and we believe that the facilitation of gatherings is a central element of what we do as a hospitality company.
	We believe in the right of individuals and organisations to peacefully express their views, independent of the degree to which those perspectives of the host meetings and events at our hotel align with us.
	So essentially it is get-stuffed communists.
	I do actually like that he put it in their own language, though, to get them by the balls.
	This is an inclusive environment in which conservatives are tolerated.
	Yes, yes, exactly.
	Our own values support a culture that is characterized by empathy, respect, and diversity of opinions and backgrounds, and we can strive to bring this light through what we do and engage with those in our care.
	So yeah, it's properly like, stop being a bunch of tyrants.
	It's very beautifully written, actually.
	I have to give them extreme amounts of credit there.
	The general response from the media has been hilarious.
	The CNN coverage is essentially trying to paint this as some sort of Nazi gathering, which I don't agree that it is.
	And Jim Acosta went down there, and he got a really, really poor reception, if you can believe that.
	He wasn't well-loved by the Trump supporters, but he stuck around, despite the fact that he's probably giving him a few more grey hairs, and decided to interview a few of the people there.
	And I don't know who this chap is that he's talking to here in this clip, but CNN, like, they clipped this together.
	I didn't clip this together.
	They clipped this together, and they thought that it made Jim Acosta look good.
	Let's watch this clip.
	Are you concerned about having the president back here at CPAC, where he's going to continue to say that the election was stolen from him, when that just isn't true?
	Were there any illegal ballots cast from that election?
	I suppose there might have been.
	So how many?
	You just told me that there was illegal voting in the last election.
	You don't know how many.
	Did you sit down with the team in Nevada or Georgia and these states and ever go through the binders of information that good patriotic Americans came up with?
	But not enough to overturn the results of the election.
	How did you know that when you don't know the number?
	Are you that good at math?
	Joe Biden won by 7 million votes.
	I love how you're thinking.
	306 electoral votes.
	How is it that there's just no way that that's physically possible?
	That's Jim Acosta owning himself at CPAC, and CNN published this as if this was a good argument.
	I mean, literally, the guy had him down, concrete.
	If you accept that there were some amount of fraudulent votes and you don't know what that number is and you've taken no time to engage with the number that has been presented by people who have come forward as whistleblowers signing affidavits, then how on earth can you make categoric statements such as this did not happen?
	And the rest of the CNN segment that came from, they literally just kept saying, no, this didn't happen, this didn't happen, this didn't happen.
	It's like you guys sound like you're desperate, frankly.
	It sounds like you really don't want any kind of investigation.
	But one of my, so I'm not going to go through everything from CPAC, obviously, because there's a lot that happened there.
	But one of my favourite ones was James O'Keefe going really hard at the media.
	Did they give him a platform?
	They did.
	Good.
	They did.
	Yes, so James O'Keefe did a really, really great job putting together his presentation.
	It's like 70 minutes long.
	But it includes a bunch of the greatest hits from what Project Veritas has accomplished in the past couple of years, which is fantastic.
	Seven did a good job.
	And they got all of the whistleblowers that had come forward from within Big Tech and all the other companies that have come forward and got them up on the stage to give them a big round of applause.
	And it was really wholesome.
	That sounds wholesome.
	John, if you can skip towards the end of the speech, you can probably see them all on the stage in the background there.
	It was really, really wholesome.
	And the thing is, you can see these guys, they're not media personalities, the men who have come forward.
	I can see Ryan Hartwick there, just on the stage.
	A lot of them are like nerds.
	They're not particularly well-spoken.
	Yeah, but they're all tech.
	They're tech guys, exactly.
	And so it was really brave of them to come forward, and it was really nice that they could get honoured in this way.
	This was really, really good.
	Really good optics, in my opinion.
	And it was nice to see that, essentially, the Conservatives have come together to recognise that the left is in total war mode, Against the Conservatives.
	There is nothing that cannot be cancelled, or at least attempted to be cancelled.
	There is nothing off the table.
	There are no limits as far as they're concerned.
	And this was consistent through all of the sort of speeches and the panels.
	And most of the Conservative speakers were actually really quite good.
	And basically giving the Sargon agenda, like, which is, it was great.
	You know, literally all of them were just reciting from my YouTube channel, whether they realize it or not, because essentially it was like the left is bad and refuses to change.
	They've abandoned any pretensions of goodwill.
	And so we have to be all in it together.
	No, you know, this is the line, you know, not one step back.
	And that was good.
	That was very, very good.
	So they finally get it, right?
	And this was something that people have been saying, well, you know, we've known this for a long time.
	It's like, yeah, we on the online commentary sphere, I guess, have known this for a long time.
	But it's another thing coming out of the mouths of these elected representatives and very prominent ones.
	Saying, well, hang on a second, this can't go on, can it?
	It's like, no, finally, yes, it can't.
	And I'm excited about this, because this is what the Conservatives over here should have been doing when it came up to, frankly, Brexit.
	It should have got to the point where it's like, look, they just are not going to cooperate.
	My person to watch is actually not DeSantis of Florida, although he did a very, very good job, obviously.
	But my one to watch is Josh Hawley, right?
	Because Josh Hawley, I think, is the guy who could follow Trump and do a good, if not better, job of the thing.
	So he's a Missouri Republican senator, and he...
	Is one of the people who, prior to the storming of the Capitol on January the 6th, was objecting and saying, well, look, he was one objecting to this electoral college certification because of various complaints that his constituents had made about the process of the vote.
	And he said, well, it's my job to do this and stand up.
	And of course, he got cancelled.
	He got his book deal taken away from him.
	He's had gangs of Democrats trying to oust him from the Senate, all this sort of thing.
	and he gives very very well reasoned but more importantly principled and unrepentant positions on this and I think that's really important.
	Hawley himself when he said look you know I didn't back down and I'm not going back down you know these things should have been challenged he got a standing ovation the entire room was up cheering for him and that's good.
	He's the sort of guy in And the thing is, I think he's the sort of guy, right?
	Because I think he's the sort of guy who appeals to middle America in a way that Trump probably doesn't.
	Uh, he's, he's not bombastic.
	He doesn't say crazy things, but he very much is following the sort of working class America first agenda, which is excellent.
	So I think he crosses the bridge between the sort of rural populism into sort of intellectual conservatism.
	And he has a perfectly clean cut look about him.
	He's a family man.
	He's exactly the right kind of guy to be the figurehead for this kind of movement.
	And so I think he's the guy to watch.
	But yeah, everyone, everyone has basically in the Republican Party capitulated to the MAGA movement.
	There have been various polls that have shown that huge numbers of the MAGA, like the Republican base is MAGA, and even Mitch McConnell has just rolled on his back at this point.
	And this is hilarious, because the left, this is just, I love this so much, right?
	So after the storming of the Capitol, Mitch McConnell, what did he say exactly?
	Can you remember what he said?
	I can't remember.
	It was something like Orange Man Bad.
	And then the acquittal happened, and he was on the side of voting that they should not impeach him, and then gave a speech immediately after this vote condemning Trump, saying Orange Man Bad.
	It was just like, this is embarrassing.
	And the thing is, though, it's very obvious that Trump isn't leaving the Republican Party, and he has, in fact, consumed the Republican Party.
	So now he's flipped back again.
	So now the deceptive turtle has flipped back.
	When asked by a journalist would he support Trump if he were to win the nomination, McConnell responded, the nominee of the party, absolutely.
	Okay, well, you know your place then, don't you, Mitch?
	But anyway, the reason this matters is because I think that the left have been begging for the return of Donald Trump.
	In fact, we have an article here from one Sean O'Grady where he's just outright saying it, in fact.
	We can get the next one up, John.
	Twitter must allow Donald Trump back.
	The ban makes no sense at all.
	I want, need to hear what he has to say, even if it's offensive, especially if it's offensive.
	Just really wants his ex-girlfriend to unblock him.
	This is not because of any journalistic integrity.
	It's not because we need to have free speech in the world to actually advance anything.
	No, it's because I need content.
	Yeah.
	I need my content back.
	It's not that.
	There is clearly an addiction to Donald Trump's Twitter feed that this guy has, and I don't think he's unique on the left either.
	No, I mean, we did a segment on this with just journalists writing exactly the same thing.
	Yes.
	Journalists, like Trump owning them after his ban, which...
	I love the way he says this.
	Why do I want him on my Twitter feed?
	Precisely because Trump is dangerous and because he still matters.
	He is important, even though he doesn't deserve to be.
	I want, I need to hear what he has to say, even if it's offensive, especially if it's offensive.
	It's like, yeah, you love it, you slag.
	You can't get rid of Trump by silently on one social media platform, particularly the one who's most likely to be challenged.
	The only thing that happens is he and his followers retreat into more extreme virtual echo chambers, which is precisely our argument for free speech that he's trotting out here, which is good to see.
	The outright ban on Trump is disproportionate and plays into his absurd self-image as the underdog fighting a corporate conspiracy on behalf of left-behind Americans.
	Well, that's because that's exactly what you did!
	And then you published the conspiracy in Time magazine bragging about it, which we'll talk about in a minute because Trump calls it out.
	But yes, you do seem to be doing exactly the thing that he is accusing you of.
	And of course, he's like, we need to know about this menace to society and directly.
	Uncomfortable as it is, he is still adored by millions of Americans.
	They believe the election was stolen, even if Trump secretly doesn't and is using them.
	I don't think that's true.
	I think Trump genuinely believes that he was stolen.
	They'd vote for him again tomorrow or in 2024.
	Kicking him off Twitter makes little difference to that, except to make them feel more victimized and marginalized on his behalf.
	Also, I suppose journalism is a lot easier if it's done on Twitter.
	It means he doesn't have to leave the room.
	And Trump lashes out on Twitter with some piece of race hate, but of course, Twitter can and should delete it.
	Yeah, sure.
	Sure.
	You just love it.
	You want it back.
	Because you knew it was fun.
	What's he tweeting now?
	Oh my god, look what he said, quick!
	I have to get an article out.
	You love it.
	You miss the excitement of Trump being in charge.
	You miss not being the boss.
	Because you are actually, Sean and the left, are not very good bosses.
	You're actually terrible bosses.
	You actually kind of hate when you're in charge, but you like to be critics.
	And that's what you're trying to get to.
	So anyway, let's get on to Trump's speech.
	Now Trump's speech was like an hour and a half long, but it was a very good one.
	Did you watch it?
	No, I just saw some of the very good clips coming up, like I said at the start.
	Anything noteworthy you can think of?
	There were a few good ones.
	I think probably the best one that everyone was talking about was him saying maybe I'll beat him a third time.
	Oh yeah.
	So he's hinting at running back again, which, how do you feel about it?
	Because I know you're big on Tucker Carlson, but if he did go for it, would you?
	Oh, Trump?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, obviously.
	I mean, he's the God Emperor.
	I'm not going to be like, no!
	But I wouldn't be upset if he didn't run and then endorsed someone else.
	Again, I'm actually leaning towards Hawley, to be honest, because A, he's an established politician as it is, and B, he's repeatedly now, in at least three occasions I can think of, just told the Democrats to go hang.
	Like, just, you are bad people.
	I stand against what you are, and...
	Go away.
	And I'm not going to back down from this.
	And so I think that Hawley deserves as much support as he can get.
	And I think he would be a good heir to the Trump legacy.
	But anyway, so this was really interesting.
	Because before Trump took the stage, we got to see some straw polling from within the Republican Party itself.
	95% of the Republican Party wanted to continue with Trump's agenda.
	So Mitch McConnell's just sat there sweating, just like dabbing his face.
	95.
	95%.
	Trump himself has a 97% job approval within the Republican Party.
	So it's just the question of, is this Trump's party or not?
	It's just, it's answered.
	I can't think of anyone anywhere else who's had- Like Stalin's like, I can't get numbers that high.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is literally North Korean levels of approval, right?
	But 68% of them want Trump himself to run, so it's not necessarily that they're committed to Trump as an individual, although obviously two-thirds of the people being...
	But the agenda itself, America First.
	Exactly.
	The agenda itself, America First, has clearly captured the Republican Party.
	And that's good for the Republican Party.
	55% of the GOP members would vote for Trump over another Republican candidate.
	And without Trump, the next front-runner is DeSantis.
	I think this is Ron DeSantis from Florida.
	I watched his speech.
	I didn't know much about him, but I've heard a lot of MAGA supporters saying that DeSantis is actually solid.
	He's not the rhetorician that Trump is, which is a shame.
	He's got kind of a whiny voice, to be honest.
	I don't really know much about him.
	I thought he was only really famous because he refused the lockdown.
	Yeah, well, that's...
	I mean...
	And then they're doing a lot better than New York?
	Yes.
	They did lockdown?
	Florida's doing great, it seems.
	But yeah, DeSantis, he's a MAGA governor.
	No, I think I do actually remember something.
	I think he was saying, like, if the BLM want to come to Florida and then break into people's homes, just a reminder, we're armed, or something like that.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's why, without Trump, DeSantis is getting 40% of the poll out of, you know, that's a plurality of...
	Yeah, but it's not Mitch McConnell, that sounds like.
	No, no, no, no, not at all.
	He's definitely on board with the MAGA agenda, which is great.
	So MAGA is the conservative movement.
	And then Trump comes out and it's very much like his campaign events.
	And honestly, why not?
	You know, that was a great formula.
	Why break with something?
	He comes out to the same songs in the same order.
	So it's like, you know, macho man and all that, you know, and then the proud to be an American song that he comes out to.
	And honestly, it was quite an emotional moment because like you could see that like everyone had worked really hard.
	You know, that was the thing about his campaign.
	You can tell like Biden is sat in his basement doing his occasional press conferences for 10 minutes before he falls asleep.
	And Trump is out there pounding the pavement, you know, going from event to event to event, with, like, multiple events in the same day at the end of it.
	You can tell these guys had worked really, really hard, and so the feeling of being cheated is an understandable one, even if, you know, nothing had happened.
	You could see why they would be like, this guy did nothing, and we worked our asses off, and yet he won.
	But, yeah, it was a really, really positive attitude.
	Everyone was obviously thrilled.
	Trump was looking in good cheer and in good health.
	And he begins by pointing out that, look, this is a movement of hardworking American patriots.
	Can't say that about Biden, can you?
	Can't say that Biden's movement is a movement of hardworking American patriots.
	They seem to hate America.
	They don't seem to work very hard at all.
	They seem to be getting, you know, other people to work hard for them.
	He called out a bunch of really interesting stuff.
	So the identity of Americans is under threat, which I think is a very salient point.
	And that came quite early in his speech because it is.
	Again, Biden's Democrats seem to hate America.
	They're how they ended up in charge of it.
	He obviously points out that Biden's first month has been a catastrophe, which it has been.
	As we showed on last Friday's podcast, Biden has essentially returned America to sort of clown world where up is down and black is white and everything is back to front.
	He's put the coyotes back in business and this time there were no media outlets going, oh, he's a coyote!
	Because now they've learned their lesson and realized that actually that's an industry term for drug trafficker or people trafficker.
	And he, as you said, threatened to beat them for a third time.
	Now, that is code for break the rules, because obviously you can only have two terms as president, right?
	So if he's going to beat them a third time, it sounds like that's him.
	Well, no, because he's obviously just saying, I want that last one.
	Sure, but it's got two interpretations, I think.
	But anyway, Trump suggests they should leverage their position, promote the American First Agenda.
	And one interesting thing I found was him calling up teachers' unions for keeping children out of school.
	Now, this, as we covered last week, there was a teachers, not a union, but an assembly board or something that resigned in California because they were all just saying, oh, they just want their babysitters back, blah, blah, blah.
	We're being paid to stay at home, so we don't want to do it.
	And he used a bit of interesting language here that keeping children out of school will leave them with a scar.
	And that's a very interesting way of putting it.
	And I really like the intonation there, because I think that's true.
	I think there's going to be some kind of long-term damage done by keeping kids off school for a year.
	I think that's really bad for them.
	Which is why I keep going on about getting the goddamn kids back to school.
	But of course, he calls up the election for not being fair.
	He says the Democrats' energy plan doesn't work.
	Although he didn't promote nuclear, and I don't know why.
	Do you have any problem with nuclear power?
	No.
	It just seems like the best kind.
	Yes.
	So, what's the contention?
	It's a lot of investment for the startup, whereas other things are cheaper to startup.
	That's the only thing I can guess.
	But they never say that as a refutation to it.
	No, because they don't have any good reputations.
	They have to focus on myths about it instead.
	I don't want to get into an argument about nuclear right now.
	People can look it up in their own time.
	Every argument against it seems to be nonsense.
	Well, that's what I've always thought.
	I have no emotional investment in energy generation.
	If solar power or wind power works, use that, I don't care.
	But it just seems that looking at the statistics, nuclear power is by far the safest and most productive.
	So why are we even having a conversation?
	Apparently we have a problem in the UK that we sold a bunch of our designs to the Chinese under the, I think it was either, I think it was brown ears, so we have a problem there.
	Americans have all that stuff, so I don't know what's stopping them about it.
	But yeah, after this though, he goes into the trans records in women's sports, as in transgender people are breaking records in women's sports.
	He brought this up in his speech.
	He brought this up in his speech.
	This is why Trump's great, because he'll hit every goddamn thing.
	Big oof, basically, because he's not wrong.
	It's very easy ground to hit the leftists on, especially Biden who just legalized this, didn't he?
	And not only that, absolutely he did.
	And not only that, it puts you as the defender of women.
	Which means the feminists are now the defender of male trans people who transition to be women.
	So the Republicans are now the defenders of women.
	The Democrats are now the ones who are destroying women's sports.
	And honestly, I don't think he's wrong.
	I think he is right that essentially transgender male to female We'll end up dominating all of women's sports.
	Josh is actually putting together an article that will be up later on Lotases.com about how this is happening, because we've had loads of examples of this for various debates and videos that we've done in the past, so it'd be nice to have a fairly comprehensive list of them so you can just use that as a source in future.
	But yeah, he says, you know, obviously we're going to defend people of every race, colour and creed.
	Things were going great for everybody, which they were.
	And then the crowd just spontaneously burst into chants of, we love you.
	Like, we like the stonk, basically.
	You know, we like the Trump.
	And it's like, you can't argue with it.
	You know, he's definitely hit on something here.
	Rejects cancel culture.
	He goes at the Supreme Court for being afraid to hear out the court cases and dismissing on standing, which is interesting.
	He gets a bit rambly towards the end, but that's okay.
	I can forgive that.
	He accuses the Democrats of using COVID and mail-in voting as a way of cheating.
	Everyone knows it.
	Everyone knows it.
	It's like...
	That's what he said.
	YouTube?
	Yep.
	Well, we're not on YouTube.
	No, we can do what we like.
	No, yeah.
	Yeah.
	The election rules changed, which they did in places like Pennsylvania and Georgia.
	Democrats...
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is the bit, right?
	So then it's after all of this that he's like, the Democrats admitted all of this in Time magazine.
	And he's like, go and read the article?
	And I'm like, yes, finally.
	Because we had said, you know, don't let this be something that just exists in our little area of the internet that nobody in the Republican Party knows about.
	And the God Emperor himself is calling out that article.
	Good, he's read it.
	Exactly, he's read it, or at least the people around him have read it.
	And...
	Excellent.
	You know, absolutely excellent.
	And he finishes by committing to breaking up big tech, which is good.
	He should do this.
	Shame he didn't sooner.
	Shame he didn't sooner.
	And then ends the speech on just that and playing YMCA, which why not?
	So that's the thing I mentioned in our work chat earlier, when I was looking at some of this stuff.
	He's great in opposition.
	Yes.
	Like, I don't know if the Americans have this concept of, like, there's the government and then the opposition.
	And Trump being in the opposition, he's born for it, you know?
	Yeah.
	Like, there is, of course, it was quite good, him being in government, but I don't know, there's just something great about him being on the outside, pissing in the tent.
	There is, and it's because he's not afraid to say the things everyone's thinking.
	And that's genuinely wonderful.
	And so the Babylon Bee, I think, had the best representation of the mythic occurrence of what's happened here.
	Donald the Orange returns triumphantly as Donald the White.
	That's wonderful.
	That's perfectly and beautifully mythical.
	Because the minions of Sauron are terrified.
	As Pink News show, Donald Trump mocks trans athletes in first sinister speech since leaving the White House.
	Good.
	Well, at least he didn't throw gays under the bus, Pink News.
	And what about women as well, to be honest, you know?
	Women's sports, you mean trans sports.
	Gay people, you mean trans people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And of course, you have people like The Independent going, oh, Trump's speech was a fever dream.
	And the things I read through this, and I wanted to pick out some amusing comments, but there was just nothing in it.
	It's no content of any value in this piece from Holly Baxter.
	Just orange man bad, which means orange man must have done good.
	Yeah.
	Good to see Trump's back.
	I would love to see Trump absolutely smashing them in 2024.
	And it's good to see that the Republicans are of one mind on this.
	They've realized that the Democrats are not playing fair.
	They're not going to give them any credit.
	They are just going to come at them as hard as they can.
	So the Republicans, as they've been saying for a while now, is hold the line.
	You've got to hold the line.
	You don't give them an inch.
	Love it.
	Good.
	Good to see.
	They did well at CPAC, actually.
	I'm kind of annoyed we don't have one in the UK. It sucks.
	It's because our Conservative Party are awful.
	Yeah, but...
	I mean, do they even have, like, a...
	I mean, is CPAC run by the Republican Party, or is it...
	Well, I assume so.
	I didn't look into it.
	But, um...
	But yeah, no, the whole thing was really, really well done.
	The speakers were all following our agenda, frankly.
	It was really good.
	Really good.
	There was very, very little that the Democrats could pick apart out of it.
	And that's an impressive thing in and of itself, because you'd expect with that many boomers in one room, there would be some cock-ups.
	Exactly, there'd be some cock-ups.
	But everything seemed to flow really, really smoothly.
	So, well done, guys.
	Yeah.
	It's also good to see Project Veritas being accepted.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	That was what I was trying to make the point.
	It's like, all of those things that you might have thought were on the outside, no, they've all been integrated in.
	And that's excellent.
	Excellent.
	Like, the establishment of the party is now a thing that can incorporate, I don't know, what do you call it?
	The...
	I guess you'd say the fringe.
	But it's not nonsense.
	It's accepting things that are true.
	I mean, you don't see like the Q Shaman up there, for example.
	No.
	You see Project Veritas up there who are like, look, we've shown them to be liars in video footage again and again and again.
	Yeah.
	So anyway.
	That was really great.
	Really great.
	So I wanted to talk about the SNP real quick, because someone had mentioned this a few times in our chat.
	The Scottish Nazi Party.
	Yes, the Scottish Nazi Party.
	They've been in power for a long time now, and they have an election coming up for the Scottish elections, and they're tanking in the polls because of a little kerfuffle that's going on, and the kerfuffle is amazing to look at.
	Because, I mean, we have no investment either way, it's just like, right, I think...
	Well, I kind of invested against them.
	Like, I hate the SNP, but if Scotland does keep voting for them, well, you deserve them then, you know.
	It's not my problem.
	You get what you vote for.
	So, some background story.
	So, this is all going to revolve around a guy called Alex Salmon, for people who don't know who he is.
	So, Alex Salmon was the leader of the Scottish National Party for 2007 to 2014.
	It was the day after the referendum that he lost on independence.
	He resigned.
	And then he became an MP for somewhere for a few years and then lost it when Theresa May called a snap election.
	So, that's his background.
	Now, this is just him showing he resigned from the party.
	I remember going back like, yeah, like 10 years now, not quite 10 years, but like going back a while, he was like, he was phenomenally influential in the SNP before Sturgeon, right?
	He was the leader.
	I mean, he was the driving force, and he also brought them up to where they were, to which Nicola could take over and then become the main thing in Scotland, let's say.
	Otherwise, it was before something else.
	So I never used to follow the SNP or anything, but I knew that he was a huge player.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, you would think they would have massive respect for the guy.
	It's the guy who got the party to where it is.
	Oh, yeah.
	But then he got MeToo'd.
	So, there's a court case that was brought against him in which 14 charges were put against him, including rape and sexual assault.
	He had raped people.
	And just the notes at the bottom, which we're just reading some of what happened in the court case.
	First witness comes up.
	She's nicknamed Woman H, because that's how law works here.
	And she claims that she was raped after a private dinner, but did not tell the police at the time.
	said this was obviously fabricated.
	And then they call a witness up who says that Woman H wasn't even at the private dinner.
	Right.
	So it was obvious nonsense.
	The story's already falling apart, yeah.
	Needless to say, after an opening like that, all of it fell apart.
	The charges were dropped.
	One was not proven and one was withdrawn for being nonsense.
	And then Alex Simon was able to claim this was some kind of witch hunt against him.
	And he seemed to blame the SNP for it, which is interesting.
	Right.
	But what was weird about the trial is that in this next link, there's a description from his defense, and it just sounds weird.
	So they defended themselves, and they say in here, the defense case readily admitted that he had not always been well behaved.
	Mr.
	Jackson, his lawyer, said throughout his time he had been touchy-feely.
	Mr.
	Salmon could certainly have acted inappropriately.
	It's like, well, that's your defense.
	Like, I'm Joe Biden, not like...
	Harvey Weinstein.
	Harvey Weinstein.
	It's like, okay, well, yeah, so clearly not a good guy by his own defense's admission, but not a rapist.
	Right.
	So I couldn't get him on that.
	Fine distinctions, I guess.
	Yeah, but of course, because he was ex-leader and he'd been in Scottish government, the Scottish government did an inquiry into the whole thing, sorry, did an investigation into the whole thing, and it turned out that they had completely acted unlawfully, and Alex Salmon was able to go after the Scottish government for doing this, and he won.
	He won £500,000 in legal expenses because the Scottish government had acted unlawfully against him.
	Apparently this is because Nicola Sturgeon had instructed the people to act in a way which was not the same as her legal advisor, the Lord Advocate.
	So the advisor for the government told her to do something, she didn't do it, and they ended up cocking her up and ended up costing £500,000 in taxpayers' money to pay to this guy.
	So there was a parliamentary committee set up to look into this cock-up.
	How bad is this and how could you have done it?
	And you can see the membership there on the side.
	I went through their party list.
	So four of them are SNP. One of them is Green, two Conservatives, one Labour, one Lib Dem.
	Now the Greens are apparently basically in bed with the SNP in Scotland.
	Again, if we get something wrong here, we're not massively in tune with Scottish politics.
	But I could totally believe that the Greens and the SNP are in bed.
	Yeah.
	So it effectively means that it's five people in favour of Sturgeon and then four who are against Sturgeon.
	So they have a voting bloc.
	They're in charge.
	There's nothing we can do.
	And then they called in the Lord Advocate to talk about what advice he gave.
	And apparently he just stonewalled.
	He just was like, well, it's not for me to give.
	It's for something that's private.
	Did he dismiss on the standing, as it were?
	No.
	But the interesting point is also that he was appointed by Sturgeon to his position.
	Oh, really?
	So he's in the Nicola camp here.
	Because again, Salmon might have been the leader of the SNP before, but it seems Nicola Sturgeon is, you know, some kind of other camp, you know?
	Apparently there was some friction between them when Alex Simon wanted to get that parliamentary position as an MP, in which he just announced it before asking her, and she issued a statement saying, he must be reminded that I am the leader now.
	It's like, okay, there's some weird friction going on there.
	But this guy came in there, he refused to give the advice, the Parliament then voted twice to get the legal advice, saying you should release this, because we'd like to know how you cocked up this bad.
	And then they even called Nicola Sturgeon's husband, which is the next link, to give evidence in this inquiry, in which he completely cocked up as well.
	So they asked him a series of questions, eventually he ended up, what is being alleged, as he committed perjury twice.
	God, it's Mitch McConnell's Scottish cousin!
	The turtles!
	The turtles are missing!
	Leftist turtles, man.
	Anyway, so he was asked about some text messages in regards to Alex Salmon's abusers, and apparently he said that he had no messages relating to it, he'd never spoken about it on text message services, like WhatsApp, what's even that, social media, isn't it?
	You know, this sort of thing.
	And then they found out that no, he had sent a message, and he was saying that it was a good time to be pressuring the police.
	The day after he resigned, sorry, he was found to have been engaged in such things.
	It's like, okay, so the Nicola Camp knew of these allegations before he got charged with them, and her husband is messaging people that it's a good time to be pressuring the police.
	It's like, okay.
	Not good optics.
	Looks like you are going after him here, in which case this is improper.
	He was also found to have...
	Sorry.
	He also said, what was it, that he'd gone out when they were having a meeting together and Nicola said that that was the first time.
	So Salmond and Nicola met and she said that was the first time she heard of any allegations.
	And he said that he went out when they turned up and then didn't come to the meeting and then later said that he did come back long before the meeting ended and heard the whole thing.
	And it was like, okay, so you're not doing great here.
	So there's two perjury investigations into him.
	And the question is, while he's being alleged to perjury, well, who's going to charge him with it?
	Well, it's the Lord Advocate, who's appointed by Nicola Sturgeon.
	So would Nicola Sturgeon's camp like to prosecate Nicola Sturgeon's husband?
	So what we're saying is the party is in control of all of the organs of government that would be required to hold the party responsible.
	Yeah, the committee that's meant to hold it to account is run by Nicola Sturgeon's SNP. And then the person in charge of prosecuting anyone who commits perjury is appointed by the SNP. And then they're also on Nicholas camp trying to stonewall the whole thing.
	And it's like, okay, so this is...
	It looks deeply corrupt to me.
	I don't know.
	It's a complete breakdown in the rule of law.
	So I can understand people's frustration looking at this, being like, well, he should be charged.
	There should be an investigation of why he's lying.
	This is what happened with the rush kit stuff.
	Like, what is it?
	Roger Stone and whatnot.
	I know that people can misspeak and then mess up and then he'll be charged with perjury.
	But why have you not investigated him?
	Well, we know why.
	Yeah, because they're all in a certain camp.
	So Alex Sermond was invited to this inquiry, and he decided he would give a written statement first to be inserted as evidence in the whole thing.
	And he put in his written statement that he was accusing Sturgeon of misleading Parliament, that she said when they met, that was the first time she heard of the allegations, which is obviously bollocks.
	LAUGHTER So he says that she then went out and said that that's her misleading parliament because she had heard of it before and therefore would be a breach of ministerial code.
	And the voting bloc on the committee just decided, nah, we don't have to hear your evidence.
	They just rejected publishing the statement.
	They were like, nope, that's not being admitted.
	I was like...
	Okay.
	So his statement given in evidence was withdrawn from the record or what?
	For criticizing Nicola for saying that she had broken ministerial code.
	His record was just like, no, we're not having that.
	But I mean, is he not entitled to speak at some point in his own defense?
	He could give oral, but he didn't want the written part.
	And it was like, this is weird.
	Why couldn't he just read out his statement?
	He was like, right, I'm not going until you publish it.
	And then the spectator went to court.
	So the spectator is a, let's say, right leaning outlet in the UK.
	And they went to court to say, no, we must publish this because you can't just have this censored.
	And the Scottish courts, which are outside of control of the S&P for now, I guess, were able to say, yes, you will have the journalistic right to publish this.
	So they published it.
	And then it got put on the parliamentary website, because it's in the public domain now.
	It's over, right?
	No.
	The next link is the Crown Office decided to censor it on their own parliamentary website.
	So it was up for 16 hours, and then taken down, and then they censored it, and then put it back up.
	Right.
	You're not making me think that you're not Nazis, SNP? And again, the Crown Office, the person who runs it, is the Lord Advocate.
	The guy appointed by Nicola Sturgeon.
	It just all comes back to Nicola Sturgeon.
	It's really weird, isn't it?
	And you might think, well, okay, this is alleging about sex crimes, therefore censoring names, contacts, and anyone would agree to that.
	Both sides would agree to that.
	No essential detail on what's alleged would be removed.
	That's not what happened.
	If we can get image one up.
	So this is an example in which they took five sections out, and this is one of the sections here, in which it's got nothing to do with the sex crime stuff.
	It's just him alleging that she had lied to Parliament.
	They underlined it, redacted, it's gone.
	You couldn't read it.
	So the Nicola Sturgeon-appointed officer was basically jumping in the way of Nicola Sturgeon and saying she didn't do nothing.
	Anything that makes Sturgeon look bad gets censored.
	This is what they did.
	They censored it.
	They just got rid of it.
	Amazing.
	Weird, right?
	Again, it's one of those out-in-the-open events where it's like, mask off.
	Actually, the SNP controls all of this, and we're going to prevent you from doing anything.
	What now?
	Hmm.
	I mean, what are you meant to do?
	I feel like, I don't know, the Nazis are just saying, you know, get in the camp.
	Yeah.
	I mean, what is Regis?
	So the parliament corporate body also agreed with the censorship.
	So this is the people who run parliament on a day-to-day basis.
	Yeah.
	Came out and said that this was fine.
	This was the right thing to do.
	And I was like...
	Is it?
	I don't think censoring criticism is the right thing to do, but okay.
	And now Salmon has finally been able to go in public in this inquiry and give his statement, which is the last link.
	And his view on this, which I'm very sympathetic to, is that this is some kind of scheme against him to take him down, and that the whole thing, all of the BS sexual charges were also some kind of scheme against him.
	I mean, I am sympathetic to that view now as well, and it's only because of the actions of Nicholas Sturgeon's SNP. Yeah, and all the people around her that are just acting for her.
	Yeah, if they hadn't done any of these things, I might not be so confident that Salmon might be telling the truth.
	I mean, just to recap here, so Sturgeon had...
	He was accusing Sturgeon of lying to the Parliament, which would then be a breach of ministerial code.
	She'd be in huge trouble for this.
	And when he made these accusations, they censored the accusations.
	Which is like, nope, those don't exist.
	Right, okay.
	Like...
	I mean, I don't think you should be able to do that.
	I mean, imagine if Biden did this.
	Imagine if the UK government did this.
	I mean, this is Barnard Republic stuff, where it's just like criticism of the dear leader.
	Gone.
	Yeah.
	On any basis that it's just, it offends the dear leader.
	I think the appropriate term in Scottish is Führer.
	Yeah, Fuhrer of the Sox.
	So the guy who sent me a load of information on this, thank you for sending it, I went dogsy or anything, but he gave me a good quote in here, which is, if I was in charge of my own trial, and I censored all of the claims against me, would you think that I was guilty?
	I would now.
	Looks pretty guilty, though.
	So then, this is where you end up with articles like this, the next one, which is just that Scotland is now a failed state.
	From the Scotsman!
	Yeah.
	Just this is over.
	And he's not wrong, because he's making the point, like, you know, the S&P have failed on trivial things like the economy, education, healthcare.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Now they've failed on the rule of law as well.
	It's like, well, what are the point in these people?
	And it's interesting because you can see the approval ratings for the SNP and independence going down.
	And Dankula's sort of trying to explain this as he thinks that people aren't becoming anti-independence, but they're looking at the SNP and realising it.
	Anti-their independence.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you could be an independent state, but an independent state isn't for a bunch of authoritarian socialists.
	Who wants to be an independent but not a republic?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, who wants to live under that?
	And they're not wrong.
	I mean, we've gone through a lot of nonsense that the SFP had done.
	I just wanted to go over something Hamza Yusuf posted.
	So this is the guy who was upset about whites.
	This is him congratulating the new leader of Scottish Labour for having brown skin.
	That's his comment here.
	He's just like, congratulations on becoming the leader and being a person of colour.
	Makes him the first Muslim and person of colour leading a political party in the UK. Which is an incredible and historical achievement, of which I'm proud of him.
	Is it?
	Like, is being brown?
	Is that an achievement?
	I guess it is.
	Well done, Anas.
	Well done.
	And this is the guy in charge of justice, as well.
	I mean, for the subject we're talking about.
	God, the SNP are just the worst.
	But this is what happens when you put SJWs in charge of a state.
	I mean, we're seeing this in real time in Scotland, let's say.
	Because, I mean, they've been overwhelmingly in favour of nonsense social justice stuff.
	Hamza probably being the worst offender here with his speech against White.
	I mean, it was just...
	I don't know if anyone has not seen it, but you should.
	Just look up Hamza Yusuf White, and you'll get him just going on and on for like...
	I think it was like five...
	Scotland is full of white people.
	He sounds like he's spitting every time he says...
	The Lord Justice Seal, white.
	Everyone in my apartment, white.
	This bread, white.
	Man, you guys are crazy.
	Why do you live in Scotland, thumbs up?
	The moon, white.
	Worse, it's full of Scots.
	I find it funny how basically the comparison is, is Westminster so bad?
	Not now.
	Suddenly the devolved parliaments are looking awful.
	It's also the interesting thing here.
	So apparently, what would you call it, like, devolution skepticism has risen in response to this.
	And Alex Salmon, while he's making this case, is constantly having to go, oh no, it's not the structure that's failed, it's the leadership that's failed here.
	It's like, right, but when you criticize the UK, you would never make that argument.
	You wouldn't say, oh, this is Boris Johnson's fault.
	If only the SNP were in charge of Westminster, then things would change.
	You would never say that.
	So it's like, look, no, there is a structural problem here, that these devolved parliaments are not only just pointless, inefficient, breed separatism.
	They also become Timpock dictatorships for you nutjobs.
	I bet Plaid Cymru would go in exactly the same direction, were they to gain the kind of power over Wales that the SNP gained over Scotland.
	And I think it's something to do with the fundamental constitution of these kind of national socialist parties.
	I mean, it's how they define themselves.
	I mean, the way they campaign and the way they do things is, in a sense, on the National Socialists.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I know they dress it all up in SJW propaganda, but I see no reason why the Nazis couldn't jump on board with that.
	Well, I'm sure that we can describe them as the progressive Nazis of the future, because that's how they look.
	I mean, they're just unbelievably corrupt.
	Levels of corruption, I wouldn't accept.
	Like, so I don't blame the Scots.
	Do you imagine Boris censoring, you know, people alleging that he'd done something?
	Like...
	I mean, there'd be a constitutional crisis.
	It would be like the sky was falling.
	Yeah, like the Conservatives would just throw him out in an instant, I bet.
	I mean, I dread to speculate, but it would be so beyond the pale that the legitimacy of the political system itself would come into question.
	And that's not good.
	That's not what you want if you're, I don't know...
	The fledgling SNP in their nice little devolved parliament trying to advocate for independence.
	This is not a good model of what an independent Scotland would look like under the SNP. We will abolish the rule of law.
	That's popular.
	Go for that.
	I can't get over it.
	The thing is, I think it's about midwits being basically incompetent and being given control of things that they don't actually understand.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	The plus side, though, let's end today on something of a white pill.
	It's becoming a feature, is it?
	It's becoming something of a feature.
	Well, I'm saying that, the CPAC thing was quite a positive story, too.
	And to be honest with you, the SNP collapsing and on their own corruption.
	Yeah, it's also quite positive.
	It's been a good weekend, actually.
	Things are going quite well.
	And the one that I thought we'd finish on is that Brexit Britain is actually doing remarkably well.
	And of course, that means Ramona's most affected.
	They're not happy.
	But let's go through just some of the successes that Brexit Britain has had recently.
	And it turns out that a lot of industry is moving back here and we're going to be making a lot of money because a lot of people have jobs.
	The first one is Cadbury, moving dairy milk production from Germany to the UK with a £15 million investment.
	It's not actually going to create any new jobs, apparently, this one, but it is going to increase the amount of tonnage of chocolate made in the country and will sort of breathe life back into their Bourneville site in Birmingham.
	Now, I went to the Cadbury factory with my kids before the lockdowns, and it was actually...
	So fun, isn't it?
	Yeah, it was really good fun.
	Anyone visits Britain, go to the Cadbury factory in Birmingham.
	Yeah.
	And B, you don't realize how much of an impact Cadbury's as an institution made on British life.
	And especially, like, because, you know, they had entire villages, you know, entire communities that were built up around this industry.
	And so it's actually quite nice to have that coming back.
	And, you know, it was a part of, like, the fabric of British life, like, 100 years ago, you know, and it was an important thing.
	But yeah, so that's good news, obviously.
	And then you've got Nissan investing millions in their Sunderland plant after the launch of their...
	How do you pronounce it?
	Qashqai?
	Right?
	So this model's been particularly successful, and for some reason, the chairman of Nissan's AMEO region, which includes Europe...
	It said that more than 100% confidence in the Sunderland plant, and it was partially true that the company's hand had been forced into committing to the factory because of difficulties of moving such large facilities.
	So all of the hot air about, oh, we'll leave Britain, that's a massive factory.
	Are you really going to move it?
	They're like, no, we're not really going to move it.
	Then why talk the big game, you know?
	But apparently hundreds of millions will be invested in this Sunderland plant to continue producing this particularly successful model of car.
	Did they mention any talks with government here?
	Not to my knowledge, actually.
	I bet you there's some skullduggery going on here, where there's a little bit of lobbying.
	Well, I don't doubt that the Conservatives have sent, you know, missionaries, emissaries out to all of these parts and said, look, We'll give you a concession, just shut up.
	Exactly, just stay here, you know, invest here, and you'll get these tax cuts and things like that.
	And to be honest with you, I'm all for it.
	I'm not even against that.
	I'm all for it.
	No, give them...
	Like, we should just have a...
	Like, that's what I want Britain to be, is this little tax haven off of Europe.
	Singapore and Thames, yeah, exactly.
	That's what they're afraid of.
	And they know that that would be bad for them.
	It's like, yes, we're going to ruin your entire continent.
	How?
	Tax cuts.
	That's how we're going to do it.
	Tax cuts.
	Go on, tell us we're bad people.
	You can't.
	We're threatening them with free market economics.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what we're doing.
	And obviously, yeah, that's exactly it.
	And the Germans and the French are like, oh God, why would you do this to us?
	So yeah, right, we did that to you, did Anyway, the next one is that Siemens are producing new trains in Yorkshire, which is good.
	They're spending £200 million to set up a plant and village surrounding it where they'll be creating trains for the London Underground, things like that.
	Good.
	Good to know.
	700 permanent workers and 1,700 jobs in the supply chain are going to be created.
	Good news.
	German company.
	Yep, that's right.
	Don't want to be in the EU, huh?
	Nope.
	Weird, isn't it?
	Weird.
	What is it?
	All those regulations making you uncomfortable, aren't they?
	I kind of feel it's like wearing a corset or something, right?
	You'd just rather not.
	You'd just be like, yeah, I know I should, you know, but it'd just be easier to not.
	But anyway, the next one is a new aircraft parts factory in Prestwick is opening.
	No idea where Prestwick is, but it's a £22 million factory.
	It's somewhere in Scotland, apparently.
	But they're going to be making components for spoilers on Airbus A320 wings, which is another more than 100 jobs.
	The next one is electric vehicle tech firm REE, R-E-E. It's a 4chan startup.
	I'm just saying meme magic is real.
	Don't ever doubt it.
	Back in 2016, when I saw the meme of meme magic going around...
	Just look at those bullet points there.
	Re-corner and re-board are the company's two main technologies.
	I'm not even joking.
	It's real.
	I was doubtful.
	I didn't think meme magic was real, and then it turned out I was wrong.
	But 200 high-skilled jobs at Warwickshire, which will be an investment of £66 million from this Israeli company, which is good.
	We're just taking the world's industry now.
	It's like, good.
	That's what we should have been doing from the start.
	So yeah, that's excellent.
	The next one is Sedemil.
	It announces an $18 million expansion to its Yorkshire distillery.
	This is an Italian-owned agribusiness which produces potable alcohol for whatever reasons.
	I have no idea.
	I don't know anything about this industry.
	But it's going to create 75 new jobs, which is good.
	SR, Fulcrum Bioenergy, has got a £60 million waste of fuel plant in the UK, which is the next one, John.
	This is a £600 million waste of fuel plant in the northwest of England.
	See, I way prefer this.
	Okay, yeah, fine.
	It's fine to process waste.
	Just don't put it in a glass and tell me to drink it.
	That's all I'm saying, right?
	Exactly.
	We can use it for fuel instead of drinking water.
	Love it.
	Love everything about it, right?
	So this is going to convert non-recyclable household waste.
	It's going to be Indian news as well, hasn't it?
	God dang it.
	You don't know the poo and the looming?
	I do, I do.
	I didn't even realise it was Indian.
	But yeah, so they're going to be turning non-recyclable household waste into aviation fuel by use for airlines.
	Good news.
	And the plant's not going to be operational until 2025, so this is a long-term investment.
	So that's good.
	Next one is 180 million contract from Thales, which is delivering the British Army's new boxer vehicles, which is good.
	These are like weird, as you can see from the picture, they're like weird optical things for these boxer vehicles.
	So basically they'll have more information about the battlefields as they're on it, which I guess is good.
	But yeah, so that's $24 billion over four years that was being spent, and this is part of it with 700 new jobs.
	The next one is JCB, landing a £26 million order with Ardent Hire Solutions, which is for their load-all models.
	Again, these are industries I know absolutely nothing about.
	But just endlessly significant investments.
	Exactly.
	Massive investments.
	Like, you know, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of pounds of investments.
	And in the light of the fact that we're still locked down and we can't do anything, this is a bloody miracle.
	I have to wonder if they're looking at the vaccine rates and thinking, well, Europe's going to be closed for another six months.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Another great advantage.
	Yeah, I don't want to give the Conservatives any credit for anything, but they did handle the rollout of the vaccine well.
	Got to hand it to them.
	Biden, though, is the one flying the ointment, as it were.
	We've got the wrong one up, but it's alright.
	I'll read from the Express.
	Yeah, there we go.
	The Daily Express, not happy with Biden.
	I mean, you wouldn't expect the Daily Express to...
	So what's he done?
	He's apparently appointed a trade czar called Catherine Tai, who has slammed the brakes on the talks, pointing to a lot of developments since they began in 2018, and the priority of defeating the COVID-19 threat...
	I love the job.
	Sorry, the chat.
	We like the jobs.
	We like the jobs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's great.
	But apparently she said there was a need to review the discussions and negotiations so far in light of all these developments.
	But the thing is, and you know that Biden, claiming to be of Irish descent and has a general hatred of the UK in its essence, they can say, well, you know, COVID-19.
	It's like, yeah, we're the ones who've got a handle on that.
	Europe doesn't.
	Why would you be like, we have to realign ourselves to suit them?
	It's obvious nonsense.
	It's obvious nonsense.
	It's obviously ideological.
	And it's obviously about his own bigotry.
	But anyway, so Biden is the one flying the ointment here.
	But to be honest with you, as far as I'm concerned, this is all good news so far.
	It's not like we're going to stop.
	We're not going back to the EU. That's over.
	No, that's over.
	And for anyone outside of Britain, there's no political will.
	There is no political will at all to go back into the EU. I mean, like, even the Liberal Democrats are at the position where, like, fine, we've left, we're gonna stay out.
	They're like, one day maybe we'll return, but it's in that language of, like, someday in a hundred years or something.
	Yeah, maybe King Arthur will return from Avalon to save the Liberal Democrats.
	And that's the EU Nationalist Party.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They've accepted it.
	It's over.
	And the great thing is it's going fairly well.
	And the way that you know that it's going fairly well is when The Guardian have to publish an article like this, titled, I hate to say it, but Britain's doing okay.
	Do you hate to say it, Ed Cumming?
	Because I love to hear it.
	I love to hear it.
	You can keep publishing these articles, but I hate Britain's doing so well.
	Oh, God, it makes me so angry.
	Yes.
	Yes, it does.
	For diehard Ramonas like me, all this endless good news about jabs and carbon emissions is pretty hard to take.
	Oh God, this makes everything worth it.
	The whole, the five years of them whining and calling everyone bigots and everything about how Britain's awful.
	Good news is hard to take.
	Exactly.
	And now that we're winning, they're like, oh God, we can't take it.
	It's like, yes.
	Love it.
	So I'm just going to read through some of this because it's so good.
	For those of us who like to talk Britain down, all of this good news is hard to take.
	The vaccination figures are shocking.
	Nearly 20 million first doses administered.
	A forward-thinking procurement plan.
	Leading a large nation far ahead of the US and more gallingly for us, frothing Ramonas miles ahead of Europe.
	Nothing could be more depressing for the honest, self-loathing liberal Brit.
	You know the type, recycle assiduously but fly once a fortnight.
	Yeah, the kind of hypocrite, the kind of disgusting, self-loathing hypocrite who everyone kind of hates.
	Yeah, we all know the type.
	They read The Guardian.
	They write in The Guardian too.
	Jesus Christ.
	I mean, it's weird, isn't it?
	Like, he knows what's wrong with him and his class.
	We'll get to it.
	I'll explain it.
	I can explain it in a minute.
	But I just want to go through his disgusting self-loathing and the admission that actually they lost.
	And this is, again, another thing, right?
	The way this is framed, it's...
	Not that they're glad that Britain is winning.
	Sorry, they're not sad that Britain's winning, but they do like to pretend like they're sad that Britain's winning, right?
	And that's what this all is.
	He says, we can't say we haven't had a good run.
	The past few years have been wonderful.
	Any positive stories could be written off as a fluke or statistical aberration.
	There has been abundant bad news to confirm what we already knew.
	Britain is a sad, great little...
	Excuse me.
	Britain is a sad grey little plague island in the Atlantic, incapable of relinquishing its past glories and heading full tilt towards irrelevance.
	Brexit has been gloomster Glastonbury.
	These are the people who run the country.
	These are the kind of people who've been dictating and dominating public life.
	I hate them.
	The kind of people who've been demanding that Royal Britannia be banned, for example.
	The people whose professional life is built around demoralization.
	Unlike us, our professional life is built around remoralization.
	So I hope you're feeling pretty good about things at the moment.
	Got three white pills today.
	And the crying Ramonas, who have to openly admit, yeah, Britain's doing great.
	Brexit was a great idea.
	We were wrong.
	Yes, you were.
	The self-loathers haven't had it so good since Suez, but this year life is increasingly bewildering.
	The test and trace fiasco was comforting.
	It proved that when the Tories combined public money with private business, an orgy of cronyism ensues, yet the vaccine program has turned out to be a slick collaboration between hard-nosed business people, big pharma, and the academic establishment.
	It's almost as confusing as Gillian Anderson playing Margaret Thatcher.
	Even Private Eye conceded that they'd been harsh on vaccine czar Kate Bingham.
	American economics professor Tyler Cowen, in a blog about The Economist's piece, said Britain was grossly underrated and also pointing out our performance in AI and London's enduring appeal as a global city.
	Our bond yields are substantially higher than Germany's, indicating hopes for recovery are better advanced.
	At the time of writing, it looks though European football championships originally played across the continent will be held solely in England.
	A neat metaphor for this confusing year.
	Do you hear that, Continentals?
	We win!
	I don't even care about the football championships!
	Don't even care at all.
	I will never watch them, but God damn it, am I happy to hear that.
	There are glimmers of light for the gloomsters.
	Amsterdam has overtaken Europe's share capital.
	Tell me more.
	So I looked into this, right?
	And I shared a meme on my Facebook page.
	Because there are a bunch of different ways that these shares are...
	And in the smallest category of the least important one, Amsterdam had a tiny blip above us.
	But the other graphs, you just look at them, they're massive.
	There's shares in stock exchange, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	But it's a specific kind, and it's a very, very, very small percentage that Amsterdam has just overtaken the account.
	I'm actually surprised Amsterdam's so small in the stock exchange.
	Well, same here, to be honest.
	Because of the historical stuff.
	Yeah, the Dutch are very sort of enterprising, forward-thinking, much like us.
	Do you know about the self-seas bubble story?
	No, no, go on.
	I'll tell you about another part.
	But anyway...
	Yeah, of course they want the people who get the products, their avocados.
	They want those people to be suffering because of Brexit, but sorry, it's not going that badly.
	But anyway, does Ed Davey deserve some credit?
	Is Matt Hancock not the literal devil?
	No, he is.
	Is the UK actually good?
	Yes.
	Yes, that's the position you've come to.
	Is the UK actually good?
	And the answer is yes.
	I like how they accept as well.
	Their position all along has been UK bad.
	Yes.
	We are here to try and make you feel bad about your own country and your own identity.
	And when you actually succeed, we kind of hate it.
	Or at least we pretend publicly hate it.
	But they spent the last, you know, let's say eight years at least.
	I mean, if not forever with this type of people.
	Saying that UK, oh no, we like it really.
	We just think it should be better.
	But it's just a mask.
	Rip it off.
	No.
	It's just a mask.
	But as he says here, you know, he wants to be able to indulge in this kind of morose attitude towards the UK and the end of Empire.
	They don't want the UK to look good on the world stage.
	They want to feel humiliated.
	But he says, we must be thankful for the cricketers, presumably reading about the vaccination rates from their bubbling Gujarat.
	They took the trouble to engineer one of the most craven defeats in recent memory.
	So the worst thing that he can come up with is that we lost the cricket.
	Good.
	I don't care.
	Not surprised.
	But when everything else is looking up, it's nice to have failures you can rely on.
	Imagine living in that worldview, where you're excited when things are going badly.
	But what this is, this is something that if you've been following our book club...
	I think the first one I did was Orwell's Notes on Nationalism.
	And the reason I did this one first is because I think this is really important, because this is not a new phenomenon.
	And you can go back and watch that episode, but I'll give you a quick quote that I think is very, very pertinent.
	Orwell identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this kind of pathetic specimen, saying, Saying, Saying, identified this
	and He called it anglophobia.
	And is that not exactly what he is describing there?
	Yeah.
	It's the same thing.
	The exact sentiment is exactly correct.
	And so the anglophobic intellectuals in The Guardian, BTFO'd, Trump glorious return to CPAC, and the SNP melting down.
	It's been a good week.
	What's not to like?
	Yeah, what's not to like?
	Anyway, so we've got a few video comments which you can send us if you're a gold tier member on Lotaseeast.com.
	Then we'll go into the comments that you've left on the page.
	So let's get on.
	Gentlemen, we need to stop talking about Dadism as a philosophical movement.
	We're not communists.
	Clearly needs to be a religion so we can get the tax benefits.
	Good point.
	Oil guy makes a good point.
	Yeah, I don't like paying taxes.
	What's the next one?
	Stephen Molyneux recently published on 21 Studio YouTube channel a little snippet of a talk he gave where he posits that cancel culture is a dress rehearsal for mass murder.
	It seems like the weight of history might be on his side, and he talks about the use of language As an incendiary device to rile people up and into action.
	I think we've all seen that the left is actively trying to do this.
	However, I feel like turning more into a boy who cried wolf scenario rather than a downward spiral.
	I let's give an opinion on which way this ramping up of rhetoric will push people.
	Will they grow numb to it or?
	Well, I'm of the opinion that cancel culture is the digital equivalent of a beheading.
	It's only because they can't get physical access to the people that they want to exterminate that they take the digital option and get rid of them from the internet as best they can.
	I mean, it's just French Revolution tactics, frankly.
	Watching people spiral out of control.
	It's like mobs running through Paris getting whatever wrong thinker of the day who happens to have been, I don't know, once...
	Shown kindness and deference to Mary Antoinette or something, and they need to put him on the block and have him guillotined.
	I think the left are definitely inspiring terrorism.
	We've seen examples of it, and I think they'll continue to do so.
	I hope the right doesn't follow that strategy, because I'm not someone who wants to see more terrorism.
	But I don't think the left is going to be dissuaded from their hyperbole.
	I think it's going to be inevitable.
	Have we got any more, or is that the last?
	Regarding feminism, Genesis 3.16, where God curses Adam and Eve, states, To the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing.
	In pain you shall bring forth children.
	Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.
	I have heard a number of different interpretations and translations of this passage.
	The one that I find most consistent is that women shall desire the position that men hold in society but never really fully gain it.
	This was written thousands of years ago and yet seems to be constantly playing out in our society.
	What are your opinions?
	My opinion is that God is clearly a misogynist.
	But yeah, there does seem to be some historic social truth to the idea that women test their men for fortitude.
	And this is actually present in one of the King Arthur tales.
	It's Gwaine.
	I can't remember who it is he takes.
	Guinevere, presumably.
	a witch or something in a forest.
	And the witch tries to, has to get him to discover what it is that women actually want.
	And it's really, really fascinating.
	We will do a premium podcast on it at some point because it's really, really fascinating.
	But it does seem that there is a historic truth that has been handed down through iteration upon iteration that men have to consider themselves the leader of their families.
	And if not that, we get bad times, which is the basic theme of what's being said there.
	Probably true.
	There's probably something to it.
	Otherwise, it's unlikely it would have survived for thousands of years as a sort of axiom of storytelling.
	Anyway, Nicholas Malson says, Hi folks, the return of base Donald Trump was a great conclusion last week, and once again his speech was amazing.
	It was on point, he was charismatic, and honestly much more entertaining than Sleepy Joe.
	Well, like, joke Biden.
	Yeah, I think Donald Trump did a great job.
	Eric JustChristensen says, Question, how much do you want to bet that if Trump wins in 2024, we will see impeachment, episode 3, return to the angry Democrats, followed by impeachment, episode 4, this time we hope we get rid of him, and if not, there's always episode 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
	sooner or later we have to succeed.
	Yeah.
	But it'll actually be amazing, because once you're on impeachment three, I mean...
	Failed impeachment three.
	Yeah.
	I mean, then impeachment four.
	I mean, who's paying attention?
	This must start to wake people up.
	I mean, especially after impeachment two failing as well.
	Yeah, I mean, at the end of it, you're like, so Donald Trump has been acquitted 17 times.
	Wow.
	The best president we ever had.
	Like, I just can't get over the fact that the billionaire playboy is the guy who did nothing wrong.
	I still can't get over it.
	Responsible guy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Of all of the people.
	Emergency update from White Hot Peppers, our roving reporter in the capital.
	Hi guys, so morale here has been rather low because of how terrible our food has been.
	Yeah, so she sent me a message the other day just telling us how the food is so bad in the capital that it's almost like they're doing it on purpose, right?
	It's like they're abusing the troops at this point.
	And I can speak from personal experience growing up here.
	I grew up on a German camp that is English and American, British and American.
	And the Americans always had such better stuff, such better stuff, right?
	The Americans had a free cinema in their section of the camp, and so we would sneak in, and the guards would be teenagers, they'd let us in and watch movies and stuff, right?
	And the American stuff, it was better quality, they had a bunch of free perks and stuff like this that the British squaddies didn't get.
	And so it was very impressive and enviable how well treated the American soldiers were, and it showed you how the Americans valued their military.
	They valued the men and women who were actually doing the job, and rightfully so.
	Any power should do the same.
	And so when she was telling me today that the National Guard members are being given atrocious food as they guard Joe Biden in the capital from the MAGA terrorists who are occupying the countryside, it makes you wonder why the hell they're doing it.
	So she sent us a link here, right?
	Last night, everyone was so excited and happy when we realized we were having burgers for dinner.
	But this crashed into the depths of hell when everyone's burgers were still raw.
	I like my burgers a little pink, but biting into it and having blood drip down your chin is a no-go.
	This is disgusting.
	We've got a picture up for anyone listening on the audio.
	We've got a picture up, and this genuinely looks gross.
	This has been going on for many months, and many soldiers are buying their own.
	A few soldiers have got into trouble starting GoFundMe for food.
	It's getting ridiculous.
	They're in trouble.
	Yeah, here's an article for anyone who wants to know how shit our food has been.
	I know it sounds like a small thing, but food has been one of the most important morale boosters that has won us wars.
	Yeah, I mean, an army marches on its stomach.
	This has been a military truism since day dot, right?
	Sargon the Great knew about this.
	Everyone knows that you keep your soldiers' stomachs full.
	And yeah, this is amazing.
	Like, what was the metal shavings?
	Uncooked food?
	Like, worms?
	Things like this.
	What the hell is going on?
	I mean, it's not like you're living in a foreign country or a war zone either.
	You're in the middle of the capital of the country.
	Yeah.
	Supplies have been interrupted.
	Sorry, you're going to have to have raw burgers.
	What are you talking about?
	And if this is the state of the food, I mean, that looks awful.
	If this is the state of the food, how exactly are the transgender soldiers meant to get their hormone shots and things like that?
	Can't even supply things to the capital correctly.
	How are you going to do it in Afghan?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's exactly the point.
	What is that?
	Look at that.
	That looks like uncooked chicken.
	That's just uncooked.
	That's not cooked at all.
	What do they do with that?
	Just batter it in whatever fucking sauce that is and then serve it.
	Yes, and don't sweat, but it looks like...
	You said the expert earlier.
	Yeah, well, I was quoting.
	I have my excuses, all right?
	But yeah, so White Hot Peppers says you can message her on Instagram at White Hot Peppers.
	Keep fighting for the truth, guys.
	We've already got quite a few fellow soldiers hooked on your stuff.
	Well, we love our men and women in the uniform.
	Terrible, terrible stuff.
	But thank you so much for the update, by the way.
	Because this is...
	I just can't go over it.
	It's just embarrassing.
	But it's more than that.
	It's like the Biden administration are literally saying, we dare you to revolt, right?
	And again, it feels like a fundamental illegitimacy to the people in charge.
	If you can't even keep the soldiers...
	If a regime can't even keep its own soldiers fed, it's not going to be much of a regime at the end of it.
	That's my opinion.
	But...
	Jeremy Clark says, I was going to send a video message saying thank you, but it was too busy today between work and running around for the kids.
	Perk of dadism.
	Yes, it's life.
	So I've emailed a scraping of the Conservatives' Guide to White Fragility to a mate, so I'm interested to see what comes of it since it will get screened by a staffer.
	Hopefully we can start waking up our politicians, and if we can't, then we need to start our own parties to represent our strong Christian-slash-Aristotelian moral and ethical paradigm and smash the woke SJWs and pseudo-Conservatives.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm not against the idea.
	And there are at least roots that have been put down with the alternative parties that have come around in Britain.
	That's something.
	But the Conservatives are a slippery beast.
	We'll probably end up just absorbing them at some point.
	But I wouldn't even care if the Conservatives would just do their goddamn jobs and just conserve things.
	Think about stuff.
	It's not that hard.
	Can we get that burger off the screen?
	It's in my corner of my vision.
	It is disgusting to look at.
	Honestly, I really feel sad.
	It had to be a burger as well, didn't it?
	Yeah.
	The symbol of Americanism.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	I give that one out of 12 burgers.
	That burger.
	I mean, yeah, if you can't even get your burgers right, America is over.
	Miguel says, hello, I've been trying to de-escalate the left-wing radicalism very slowly from a small group of friends, even following small advice, where he said anything that could be interpreted as an attack is to be avoided.
	However, I fear they lock down to any type of contrary belief, even considering to check what happened under a timeline is considered blasphemy.
	I hate the idea of labeling someone a lost cause, but is this the final case?
	The reason why I don't drop them as friends is because I really care for them.
	What are your thoughts?
	I think that...
	I don't doubt that there are some people who are going to be lost causes.
	Like, that's right.
	When you...
	Don't drop your friends.
	Don't drop your friends.
	Yeah, this is the first thing.
	It's this kind of human connection that even if your friends do something stupid or crazy, then they probably still need you.
	And at some point, they may find themselves running up into reality and realizing that actually everything was nonsense, we've been fed a pack of lies, and they actually will probably need your help on an emotional level, not just a factual level.
	So, don't just drop your friends.
	As insufferable as they might be, try and stick with them.
	That's what I'd say.
	Tyler Williamson says, in light of last week's episode and seeing even middle-aged women engaging in OnlyFans, what hope is there for young men to find women with morals even in the same ballpark as us?
	Do we have to go scouting out churches when Boris allows us out?
	Honestly, yes.
	Lads, let's go out for a night.
	Find some women.
	Go to the church.
	Yeah, we're going to church, lads.
	Bunch of atheists got to go down and get our wives, you know?
	It's either that or it's thoughts on OnlyFans.
	At the end of the day, the sermons are boring, but it's not the worst thing to happen to you that day, is it?
	You know?
	Oh, boy.
	Trying to appreciate the architecture?
	I don't know.
	There were some responses to your video, and I find one of the points floating in my head, which is that the criticism was essentially, some people were saying about, it's the fact that they've got kids that makes this especially concerning.
	Because I thought in my head, there's a porn star called Brandy Love, who you may have seen.
	She's like, I think she's like in her 40s or something.
	She plays the cougar.
	Okay, yeah.
	But what was interesting is she used to- What's her only fan today?
	No, she's a proper porn star, not a general.
	Anyway.
	So she used to play around, she got her husband, and they settled down.
	I think they may have kids, but then the kids grew up and they've all left the nest.
	And then apparently her and her husband liked having sex with other people, like sharing themselves, and I just don't care, you know, whatever.
	And then they decided to get back into porn.
	You know, I'm like, yeah, whatever, to be honest.
	Because there, of course, are some things to talk about there, but compare that to the lady who's got the kids in the school at 8, what was it, 8, 10, and 12.
	I mean, I suppose it's one thing if they're grown up and they've left.
	Yeah, they're all 20s, 30s, and you're all just like, well...
	When you're in the schoolyard and everyone is literally showing you your mum's naked pictures, that must be awful, frankly.
	Your dad's wife.
	Your dad's wife.
	Yeah.
	Paul Roach says, It could have been, to be honest.
	I'm definitely suspicious.
	I have no evidence either way, of course.
	But if I were to put my money down on one side or another, it wouldn't be the side that got good faith interpretation of what's happened here, frankly.
	I don't have one for them.
	But the fact that the capital is currently still occupied, still has razor wire fences, and now the troops are being abused with bad food, I mean, doesn't make me think well.
	Fenric says, is there enough election reinforcement that can be done against Trump in 2024?
	Well, that's the question, isn't it?
	I'd like to see them try.
	Yeah, can the election be sufficiently fortified?
	Because I would be very surprised if the Republicans, given the new direction that they're going in, are going to be giving any of the Democrats the benefit of the doubt.
	But also, this is something I'm probably going to get in a debate about at some point.
	So one of the interesting things about this first month is Biden's failures have really turned off a lot of left-wing people, like amazingly large amounts of them.
	And I think that's great because part of politics is not just getting out your base, it's suppressing the other side, making them not feel like they're under threat so they don't go out and vote.
	And this is one of the things that I think Trump is bad at, that part of it, of making sure they think you're not a problem and therefore don't go out to vote.
	And him being banned from Twitter, I think, is an advantage in that way, that he's not going to be rallying up these leftists constantly.
	So if he runs in 2024 and with Biden being so pathetic, there's going to be a lot less pushback from left wing.
	There's a lot less unity.
	Well, I mean, I think that the bread tubers should all stand by their man.
	They all endorse Joe Biden.
	They love him.
	They love his policies.
	They love the fact that he's not going to do a damn thing that they want.
	I think they should carry on campaigning for him.
	But the point I'm making there is just like, how can he not get more and more popular?
	I mean, if all the left side of this are collapsing and his side is completely solid and they're going to be growing, well...
	I can just see the results in 2025 now.
	Oh my god, Joe Biden got 90 million votes!
	Trump got 85 million, but Joe still beats him miraculously.
	Incredible.
	Well fortified.
	Calling the National Guard.
	I think the National Guard might have something different to do next time around.
	Yes, yes.
	I can't imagine Biden's building up much goodwill with the army.
	Callum says, hey Carl and Callum, quick question.
	Since the Welsh, Irish and Scots have their own governments, and we have a parliament which each member of the government can give their voice, or should be able to, with the prospect of making an English government with the sole responsibility of domestic policies, leaving parliament to dictate the rules for the country as a whole, just want to hear your thoughts about this and keep up the good work.
	Well, the English parliament is Westminster, so...
	I mean, yes, get the Celts out of it, I don't know.
	There are two views you can take on this.
	Either Westminster is the government of the UK, and that's how we do things.
	We are a nation of the UK, and devolved parliaments are nonsense and get rid of them.
	Or we set up a new devolved parliament for England, because it is absurd that we have one in Scotland, one in Wales, one in Northern Ireland, but the English only have Westminster to go to.
	Or...
	We give them what they want.
	Yes.
	And return to being the Kingdom of England.
	Westminster returns to being the English Parliament.
	I suppose that's the third option, which is eject the Celts.
	Yes.
	And it's only because they keep voting for separatist parties.
	I mean, if they were voting Unionist parties, I don't want to eject Northern Ireland, but if you're going to keep...
	I don't really want to reject Wales either.
	No, me either.
	What's funny is abolishing the parliament is actually over 50% now.
	It's the popular position.
	What, the devolved parliament?
	Yeah, to get rid of the Welsh devolved parliament is the popular opinion in Wales.
	Really?
	Because like two or three years ago, it was only 25%.
	Yeah, apparently it's gone down in popularity.
	Amazing how bad these devolved parliaments are.
	Even the people of them are like, okay, this has to go.
	It's just a waste of money.
	This has to go.
	Look at what it's doing.
	I personally am in the camp of abolish the devolved parliaments or abolish the United Kingdom.
	I'm happy with either one of those, to be honest.
	Well, it's not even a position.
	This is a true thing that is going to happen.
	You either will get rid of these devolved parliaments or you will get rid of the United Kingdom.
	Yeah, so one or the other.
	I don't actually mind which one.
	I don't mind the Celts being independent, and I don't mind if Britain remains as long as the devolved parliaments are abolished.
	Either one's fine.
	And again, I quite like the sound of the Kingdom of England.
	I can't like the idea of returning to that, to be honest.
	Michael says, Hi Carl, considering your stance on no simping, I thought you'd be the best one to answer the following question.
	Where do you draw the line between simping and supporting a content creator?
	Well, the line is very simple.
	Anything that is you doing things for us is not simping.
	Anything that is you doing something for another content creator is simping.
	I think it's pretty clear.
	I don't know.
	I kind of feel like there should be...
	If you're dependent on a content creator, there's a dependency.
	I don't know how you describe...
	Remember the story we read where the guy was sending hundreds of dollars to OnlyFans girls but spent nothing on his girlfriend's birthday?
	Yes.
	There's something weird about that.
	Yeah.
	I think if your relationship looks like that, where it's almost kind of a...
	The girlfriend was completely in the right to be like, am I the asshole for being concerned about us?
	No.
	Like, if you're spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on us, but not on your girlfriend, I'd also be worried.
	Yeah.
	Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that we're the better investment, but like...
	Think of your girlfriend.
	Yeah.
	But I don't think there is a hard line that can be drawn.
	I think it might actually be more to do with intent, actually.
	It may be about, like you were saying, emotional dependency.
	And you should try not to be emotionally dependent on people on the internet.
	Because they are just people.
	They are just people on the internet.
	And they're just regular folk.
	Anyway, Edward of Woodstock says they fear Trump and they failed to make an example out of him.
	That's correct.
	Trump's path to power as a non-politician with a populist agenda has been blazed and all the Democrats have shown that their only defence is clandestine and morally questionable action.
	They tried to throw him into the Tiber.
	He swam out again with a sweep of his hair.
	I just wish politicians on this side of the pond saw how popular these stances are.
	Yeah, I mean, Nigel Farage is going to have an enduring popularity.
	Regardless of what happens to him now, he'll be able to, if adverts go up around the town saying Nigel Farage is giving a speech here about whatever subject, it'll be packed.
	It'll be absolutely packed.
	So this sort of populist view is not an unpopular position.
	Believe it or not.
	I just wish that Boris would lean into it.
	It is one of those things where I feel like whatever he does will define the, let's say, alternative parties.
	Like, he's the big force there.
	Which I also kind of hate because I don't like everything depending on one man here.
	Yep, yep, that's true.
	That is true.
	And people have got to remember, when Donald Trump eventually disappears from the scene, presumably he's put on a golden throne for life support or something.
	But he cannot be the end of America First.
	Well, yeah, but the thing is then all of the threads that have been woven together all then get released.
	And so you'll get them being picked up by different people as you have multiple different competing power centers.
	But hopefully that means that a new paradigm is being ushered in.
	in but who knows Heathcliff says maybe the real radicalizer is just people finding the truth of how worthless their leaders are yes yes I think that is I And not just the leaders, the media, the institutions, academia.
	My local council voted to increase my council tax by 5% after spending £20 million on consultancy fees and other FAF during 2020.
	And what, I'm supposed to just take it?
	Yeah, well, as far as they're concerned, you are.
	Obviously, you should be doing local activism to make sure that people are aware.
	And I could just be posting things on Facebook to make sure people are aware that in your local area, this is what your council is doing.
	Just put the two and two together.
	Here's your council tax raise and here's where money is going.
	Yeah.
	Do you want to pay £20 million on consultancy fees?
	Which is going to be £20 million in the pockets of friends of these councillors.
	I mean, in my local area, I spent tens of thousands on redoing a mural, which is just a mural to, let's say, Black History Month.
	To be polite, it's like American telling of history, which has nothing to do with Reading.
	This is the sort of thing the Voice of Wales were complaining about, wasn't it?
	They were like, oh, the Welsh Arts councillors got all these Americans on it.
	Yeah.
	Like, I think we featured it.
	It was like Malcolm X quotes and pictures of Martin Luther King and, you know, the pyramids.
	And it's like, why are we spending money on this?
	Or, like, the LGBT crosswalk that we've just repaved?
	And I'm just like, I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Callum also asks, how many members of the site do you think you need to be sustainable for the future in case you get cancelled for Wrong Think?
	Well, I mean, there's no particular number, but we're coming up to 5,000 now.
	We'll probably pass 5,000 subscribers this week, so thank you, everyone.
	By the way, which means we are sustainable at the moment.
	But we've got two new hires coming in on the 8th, I believe it is?
	Is it the 8th?
	It is the 8th.
	And we are, of course, looking for more.
	So if you think you have skills that we can use and you can do something, I don't know.
	We're looking for video content creators, really, primarily.
	You can email careers at lotuses.com and we'd love to hear from you.
	Long Talks on the Nietzsche says nuclear power is the best solution.
	The reason it never gets talked about is because it takes around five years to build the plant, safety specifications, assuming no hurdles or construction stores, which is inconvenient for a politician who needs to be re-elected before the plant is ever operational.
	Great point.
	That is a good point.
	But again, it just seems by the numbers, like, Yeah, it's the best thing, but it's hard to do in a democracy.
	Sure.
	But we have nuclear power plants.
	I know, but we used to live in an age where you could do that, and it was smart and the right thing to do, and it was easier.
	It just seems to be the public will, though.
	The argument is always, oh, but they're dangerous.
	But they're actually not.
	The technology has massively increased since, like, the 70s, since the last time.
	They always cite an example from, like, the Soviet era.
	It's like, why would we take that as our money?
	Soviet engineering.
	Yeah.
	But also, like, decades upon decades ago in research.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, we're way, way advanced on that.
	And if you look at the numbers, it's actually quite staggering.
	I didn't realize so many people died because of wind power.
	I just didn't realize.
	Nuclear power is just this tiny sliver.
	Megawatt of electricity generated.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	Nobody dies from nuclear power.
	It's remarkably productive.
	And I don't know anything else about it.
	Why would I need to know anything else about it?
	Let's build me the goddamn plant.
	Charlie the Beagle says, Hey Carl, as a Catholic, I decided to ditch Facebook, Reddit, and Parlour for Lent, and it was more of an exercise of self-control than religious reasons.
	Currently, YouTube is the closest to social media I'm on.
	So far, I don't miss it at all, and I would happily tell people to give it a try if for no other reason to improve their mental health.
	Yeah, I've not been on Twitter for ages.
	For anyone who wonders, there are zero Twitter accounts that I control that you can interact with.
	So please stop booking interviews with them?
	Yes.
	It's people winding you up if someone claims on Twitter that they're me.
	And honestly, I feel absolutely zen after not being on Twitter.
	Because I used to love fighting with people on Twitter.
	It was great.
	It was a constant battle.
	It was tremendous fun.
	Gets all the right chemicals going if you want some excitement.
	But it does stress you out.
	It is much nicer to not be on it.
	Angel Brain says, Yeah, we covered that.
	They banned anything but the most supine reporting on this when it looked like a repeat of the Black Wedding.
	Black Wedding?
	This is where the Scottish clans killed each other, isn't it?
	I don't actually know about the Black Wedding.
	I'm pretty sure it is.
	This is where the Campbells got shanked up by the McDougals or something.
	I'll have to Google it.
	Yeah, Dan covered this a while ago.
	But the guy who messaged me as well, he's like, we've also got a problem here.
	You've got the election coming up, but basically everyone's locked up in their house, so no one can campaign to expose this.
	And also the media has been really lackluster on this.
	Supine?
	Either because of support or because of misunderstanding because it's up in Scotland.
	I mean, like we say, I had to take some time to understand anything about this.
	And it sucks.
	I mean, what are you meant to do?
	I mean, they're still likely to get back in, even with this drop.
	There are like 50% polling or something like this.
	It's ridiculous.
	Well, I mean, rebellious Scots to crush could be a thing again.
	Well, hopefully the Scots crush the Scots themselves, you know?
	Get rid of the Naughty Party, please.
	Yeah, if you don't mind Scotland.
	I'm really not opposed to the idea of a patriotic Scottish party.
	I don't think that's a bad idea at all, and I keep saying to Dank, look, just start the Braveheart Party.
	Just call it the Braveheart Party.
	And just it being on the ballot will be a winning...
	You'll get votes just from being on the paper.
	You don't have to do a damn thing in a campaign.
	You'll find you get like, oh, we got like 50,000 votes.
	How did that happen?
	Because people like the intention.
	That's why.
	Like independence on the basis of freedom, not independence on the basis of national socialism.
	Yeah.
	Like, what are you going to do?
	Argue with that?
	Christian Anderson says, love your work.
	Been too lazy to read all the good stuff and it keeps piling up.
	Well, we have got so much good stuff.
	But I've bought all but one of the book club books as audiobooks and intend to listen to them for watching the book club episodes.
	Finally, a question.
	What are the perks to upgrade from bronze to silver?
	The perks probably need working on, to be honest.
	But of course, you get to leave comments, get access to the premium stuff and no advertisements, but we don't have any advertisements anyway, so I suppose that's the thing.
	You get the tracking ability to see what you've read and not read, but we do need to find more stuff that we can add to silver.
	If anyone's got any ideas of what we can add to the silver, leave us a comment on this, and let us know, because I think the gold tier stuff is pretty good, because you get the Zoom call and you get the video comments.
	We were going to move the video comments down to silver, weren't we?
	That was one thing we were going to do.
	But we need suggestions of what we can do for the Silver members to give them something special.
	And honestly, it's just hard to think of stuff, so help us out, please.
	Chase Bonesteel says, If all the Scotland stuff is true, isn't Scotland under the rule of the UK? Can't Boris step in and oust this corruption?
	Yeah, that's the point.
	The Westminster is basically going to step in to put the SNP in its place, isn't it?
	I don't know.
	I mean, it's going to have to.
	They haven't said anything.
	But the responsible thing to do here would be to destroy the devolved parliament.
	But there doesn't seem to be much will for that, which is embarrassing.
	Otherwise, I don't know what they can do.
	I mean, the law is a hugely complex thing here.
	Yeah, but Westminster must have the final authority on this.
	And if they're like, well look, you've done all of these things, what we view to be corruption, I'm sure they'll have some sort of legal process to declare as corruption, then something has to be able to be done.
	But it's just really funny how basically the Scots are going to have to lean on the English for justice.
	Sorry.
	Please tell me the Guardian article is satire.
	What the actual F? Sorry, S. Jill.
	I think it's a genuine, sincere emotion that you're hearing from a Guardianista.
	Nathan Forster says, Trump really is a man of the people.
	Loved every second of his speech.
	He's so charismatic and speaks the truth and Dems hate him for it.
	I'm not even American, but I love Western values and glad to see someone who's fighting for them.
	Fantastic.
	We'll go for the last one because I didn't realise we were over time.
	Christian, how can people say the UK is a small place?
	It ruled half the world for half a century.
	It was more than half a century, really.
	In contrast, the EU is having increased issues with countries who want to leave and the disaster of a vaccine response to COVID. The UK's economy is stronger than the continent.
	What are they not seeing?
	Don't believe the naysayers.
	Britain needs to charge full speed ahead on HMS sovereignty.
	Their lies will be exposed and their argument defeated.
	It's time to retake Normandy and post the Union Jack.
	Well, I totally agree.
	And it's really nice to be able to give people some moralising news.
	Because there is good news.
	You just don't hear it from places like The Guardian because they want Britain to fail.
	However, we don't want Britain to fail.
	And if you don't want us to fail, you can go over to lotuses.com.
	That was a good segue, wasn't that?
	Smooth.
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