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March 24, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #95

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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Caesars for Wednesday, the 24th of March 2021.
	I'm John MacCallum and we're going to be discussing the various shootings that have gone on in America, but not really the shootings themselves because they just seem to be tragedies.
	As far as I can tell, they're not politically motivated either way.
	They appear to be motivated by mental people being mental.
	Yeah, by the looks of it, at the moment of recording.
	Yeah, at the time of recording, the best information we have is that these aren't political statements.
	We're not looking at the shootings, we're looking at the reactions.
	We're going to be, yeah, the meta reaction to it is what we're going to be commenting on.
	But anyway, before we do, we have a brilliant first-hand account of the Bristol riots.
	I did have the guy's name in my head just before I started speaking, but now I've forgotten it.
	Seb, right, a chap called Seb who recorded the events when he was down there on the front lines of the riots and he's given us a first-hand account.
	We've written it for lotuses.com.
	It's really, really good.
	Quick couple of requests that aren't so much about announcements.
	The first one is please don't spam video comments and try and keep them to 30 seconds.
	You can give us one every day, so you don't need to give us multiple ones in one day.
	One every day is fine.
	And there was something posted on the Lotus Eaters Reddit from an account that's been deleted.
	And so we can't find whoever created this.
	This is a very beautiful piece of artwork that we'd really like to use.
	And so if you made this, could you do us a favor and email us at contact at lotuseaters.com and send us the original sort of high def images, as high definition as you can, because we'd love to use it.
	We think this is a really beautiful piece of art.
	And it completely encapsulates the kind of weird or, you know, exotic aesthetic that we're going for.
	But anyway, let's talk about what happened first.
	So, there's been two shootings of note, and we're not a channel that focuses on shootings or ambulance chasing at all whenever we can help it.
	But these have piped up because the left-wing commentators on any given issue can't shut their mouths and just wait for the facts to come out, and it is embarrassing to see.
	And they're not the only people who have ever done this in history, of course, but these are particularly...
	Well, I mean, you've got to give them their credit.
	They wait for the very first sentence to come out and then see, oh, gunman was arrested or something like that.
	And then they jump to a whole series of conclusions based on their own prejudices.
	Yeah, and to be honest, this can just serve more as a tale of just why you shouldn't ambulance chase.
	If something happens that's atrocious, okay, leave it be.
	If you want to learn about the motives and so on and so forth, just wait for the facts to come out.
	I mean, what do you lose by just not jumping on a tragedy?
	What's lost by that?
	We don't get to push gun reform, I guess.
	I guess so.
	The first thing here is the stop Asian hate stuff that blew up in response to a shooting in Atlanta.
	So this is the Guardian reporting on the shooting itself and the FBI being under pressure to tackle anti-Asian hate crimes in the wake of the shooting, which you can already see the slow politicization there.
	So they give a quote from the Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.
	Record keeping of hate crimes against Asian Americans is so low because they're not even willing to accept that we are discriminated against and harassed because of our race.
	That's not true.
	They have the data, so I don't know what on earth she's talking about.
	And then she gives the data in this article, saying the latest statistics show that the FBI for 2019, 4.4% of victims of hate crime were of anti-Asian bias, compared to 48.5% of victims of hate crime being anti-black, and then 14% being anti-Hispanic.
	With Asians making up 5% of the population of the US, 4% of the hate crimes being them, there's just no argument there.
	There's just someone wasting your time.
	So this is just another leftist activist trying to make a point out of nothing.
	I don't understand it.
	And then there's, well, I do understand it.
	It's just politicizing.
	Typical left-wing politics.
	Yeah, and then it's not just that group.
	The Guardian also mentioned here that they're concerned about Trump's xenophobic description of the coronavirus as the Chinese virus, as if that has anything to do with anything here.
	And you can, just to preface this, there was a reason for the Atlanta shooting being described as white supremacist and all this.
	The initial reason came from a Korean outlet who published this headline, Atlanta shooter tells me I'm going to kill all Asians.
	This was apparently based on an eyewitness account that told this outlet that that is what the shooter said.
	But there seems to be no other reference to this.
	Police have not said that's the case.
	And that's, assumingly, where these left-wingers got that from.
	So they saw this, and were like, right, let's go.
	Let's run for it.
	Let's jump on this.
	First person being Elizabeth Warren, who decided to tweet out something about this, saying she's heart-stricken by the victims of Tuesday's shooting, most of whom were Asian-American women.
	That doesn't tell you anything.
	They have to throw it in because they...
	It's the fact that most of whom...
	Yeah.
	If most of a group being targeted is enough to say this is a hate crime against that group, then if we have a shooting where all of them are of the same group, how is that not a hate crime against that group?
	Yep.
	I mean, when a bunch of white people get shot by someone who's non-white, what happens then?
	Elizabeth?
	But, I guess, nothing.
	Xenophobic rhetoric around this pandemic has already put the AAIP community at higher risk.
	PI. Sorry, PI. I've got all the acronyms.
	I know.
	Our government must use every tool possible to keep our family safe.
	Just shut up.
	Just don't say anything.
	And then there's the stupider people.
	So this is the only politician I saw who was dumb enough to do this.
	But then this is the stupider people we're going to.
	Yeah, so, a white man has just assassinated eight Asians in Atlanta.
	Instead of sending thoughts and prayers, white people need to dismantle the toxic whiteness that is killing us.
	Whiteness is terrorism.
	Thank you for that very informed position, Sarah.
	Jesus Christ.
	I look forward to debating you again.
	This is the lady.
	What was your debate with her?
	You said...
	Well, she was saying that women are being oppressed because men hold all the positions of power.
	And at the time, Theresa May was the Prime Minister.
	Nicola Sturgeon was the Premier of Scotland.
	And there was a woman who was leading the Assembly in Wales.
	So I was just like, yeah, and we've got a queen.
	So I was like, so am I being oppressed as a man in this country?
	And she was like, ugh, and then rage quit.
	Like the Windows logo.
	Literally, yeah.
	And then just rage quit the conversation.
	Is that okay?
	Yeah.
	And there's been two reactions to this, at least two clips that I've seen.
	So the police gave a conference.
	This is the clip I've seen most shared among, let's say, right-wing audiences for the sake of it.
	But this is a left-wing outlet sharing it here, so it's not exclusive, of course.
	In which they're pointing out that the motives of the shooter after speaking to him and finding out from him...
	He gave that it wasn't racially motivated.
	He gave no signs that it was even religiously motivated.
	He seemed to give the argument that he was a sex addict and he wanted to eliminate locations that he saw as temptations for his sex addiction, which is a strange motive, sure, but if that's what it is, that's what it is.
	But the point is, it's not a political motive.
	It's not whiteness.
	It's a personal motive.
	He personally views these brothels as like a temptation or whatever, and so he goes on this mad rampage.
	That's his problem.
	Yeah, and you would think people would start correcting themselves or something, but no.
	So the left instead entirely ignored this segment largely and just focused on this segment instead, which you can see.
	If you can scroll down a bit, just see the number of likes this one got as well.
	There are loads of these clips.
	Yeah.
	And this is arguing, so they ask him, I think it was, was there anything about today that did this?
	And the cop responds with, he was at the end of his rope, he had a bad day, and so on and so forth.
	And this is taken to like, oh, he's saying, boys will be boys.
	He's having a bad day, things happen.
	And she's like, that's not the case.
	If we go to the next one, which is just a YouTube link of the full thing, I put it at a timestamp so you can see both of those clips, because they're right after each other.
	They seemingly ignored the clip before, the people clipping it.
	And you can see the context for yourself.
	The cop is very casually just speaking like, these are the motives of a killer.
	You know, this is my job every day.
	This is blah, blah, blah.
	And the left wing have just ignored that point entirely.
	And the worst defender being Trevor Noah, in my opinion, the one that blew up the most.
	So this is a segment of his in which he tried to pin the whole thing on race, specifically anti-Asian hate for some reason.
	And let's just play the clip so we can see a little broken down version of his argument.
	Eight people dead, six of them Asian women.
	And soon we'll learn all about them and who they were in life, but all we know right now is that they are dead, and a 21-year-old white man with a gun killed them.
	One of the first things that's been the most frustrating for me is seeing the shooter say, oh, it wasn't racism, it was sex addiction.
	First of all, you, man.
	You killed six Asian people.
	Specifically, you went there.
	If there's anyone who's racist, it's a mother who kills six Asian women.
	Your murders speak louder than your words.
	Six Asian women were killed.
	Racism, misogyny, gun violence, mental illness.
	And honestly, this incident might have been all of those things combined, because it doesn't have to be one thing on its own.
	America is a rich tapestry of mass shooting motivations.
	But whatever you do, please, don't tell me that this thing had nothing to do with race.
	Even if the shooter says that, he thinks it had to do with his sex addiction.
	You can't disconnect this violence from the racial stereotypes that people attach to Asian women.
	This guy blamed a specific race of people for his problems and murdered them because of it.
	If that's not racism, then the word has no meaning.
	What the hell are you saying, Trevor?
	Like, he literally didn't blame a race of people.
	He's literally making this up because he's a racial ideologue.
	If this isn't race, I literally have nothing to say about it.
	That's what he's saying.
	The majority of the victims, but not exclusively, were of one race.
	Again, Asian is a broad concept.
	Is that even a race?
	Therefore, this is an anti-Asian hate crime in which he went out with a racial motivation to, I don't know, save the white race or something.
	And therefore, that's why he did this.
	Now, I know he's not saying that.
	But that doesn't matter, because I've got a big brain, and I can see through this.
	It doesn't even matter if the shooter doesn't say it.
	That's why it is, because I've said so?
	Do you think the problem's you here, Trevor?
	I mean, we have seen this as well in the West, to be fair to the stupidity.
	This isn't unique.
	Oh, I'm not saying it is.
	We've had this in response to Islamic attacks, where the gunman shouts, Allahu Akbar, and then starts shooting people, and starts shooting people who are blasphemers or kuffar, and then people are like...
	Man, he must have been treated badly by the system.
	That must be his motivation.
	Nothing to do with his life.
	So this isn't unique, but my god.
	I mean, just shut your mouth.
	Just say nothing.
	I don't know what's wrong with you.
	But why is it beyond the pale for us to go, okay, it doesn't seem like he was a racist.
	It seems like he had a weird problem about sex.
	Given that he's said that.
	Yeah, I mean...
	And he's got the history of a sex addict.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, so the other point he made there, which is don't tell me this has nothing to do with racism, I just...
	Man, okay, fine, because that's all you can think, isn't it?
	That's literally all you can think.
	And there's a great response by Lauren Chen here, pointing out that, honestly, why would the shooter lie about his motivations?
	The whole world just knows he's a mass shooter.
	Sorry, mass murderer.
	Do you think he's just too shy to admit that he's a racist too?
	It's like, well, I might be a mass murderer, but I'm not a racist.
	What's wrong with you?
	That's obvious nonsense.
	That's such a weird, weird tangent for Trevor Noah to try and crowbar into it.
	Like, you just desperately know it is, it is, it is, even though there's literally no evidence and the shooter said it's not.
	And he's not the only one that did this.
	There were a whole bunch of them.
	It's just the worst offender, in my opinion.
	Because, I mean, especially someone with a major show.
	He's not just making, like, one tweet.
	Like, you can see here, this is the graphic she's responding to.
	But he did, like, a segment about this.
	I'm just like, Jesus, man, I can't get over it.
	But the other point of evidence, let's say, so if you want to look at the evidence for the argument that he was doing this out of a, I don't know, what would you call it?
	A hatred of sex.
	Because I'm not even sure what that is, because apparently he relayed no religious motive.
	So it's not a hyper-Christian who's like, die, heathens!
	That doesn't seem to have been the case.
	So this is the evidence I've seen.
	So this is from the website, this image here.
	Which shows, for people who are listening, gold spa, home, contact, and then a photo gallery of three, let's say, Asian women in tight dresses, with the words gold over each of them, posing in a promiscuous manner.
	Suggestive manner, at least?
	Yeah.
	I think I know what impression I'm getting from this.
	But that doesn't matter.
	So we go to the next one.
	So this person here, this is Ted Liao, who was trying to argue that this doesn't matter.
	So he went to the Google reviews and started reading the Google reviews and we'll get into them in a minute.
	But he says here, The murderer targeted young Asian mashar's parlor.
	He then drove 27 miles to another Asian spa.
	Here's the review for Gold Spa.
	Good atmosphere with Korean girls.
	Giving proper massage.
	If the murderer's temptations were Asian women and he kills them, that's racially motivated.
	That's not what that means, Ted.
	You're an idiot.
	I don't understand.
	If there were white brothels nearby and he targeted them, would that mean that he hates the white race or something?
	I guess so.
	Ted would have to be.
	He'd be forced to by his own logic.
	He would deny it, though.
	Of course he would.
	Because it's a nonsense statement.
	It's obviously not about race.
	We'll just go through the Goor.
	Hang on, before we go, I don't know why they aren't pushing the misogyny angle, right?
	Because, I mean, if this guy's got a sex addiction, he's probably got strange feelings about women, and he's obviously confused about women, and if he's visiting brothels and stuff like this, he's obviously got emotional problems with regards to intimacy and relationships.
	So, I mean, it would be much more sensible if you were going to try and politicize this, to be like, right, this is clearly misogyny.
	No, because in this particular climate, there's been a sharp rise in attention on Asians being attacked and therefore Asian hate crimes.
	The kind of people committing those hate crimes we'll get into in a minute.
	Yeah, but the point is, in isolation, it would be much more sensible for the progressives to politicise this along the lines of gender.
	Just saying.
	Even though it would equally be nonsense by the person.
	Even then, yeah, it's not...
	I mean, the thing is, I don't know it's not.
	I don't know this guy doesn't have a problem with women.
	No, we just have the statements from the police.
	It seems like he probably does, to be honest, if I was going to suggest.
	But anyway, let's carry on.
	So then we'll go for the Google reviews just to get the evidence.
	So that's the hard thing here, evidence.
	You could just look at whether or not this guy's telling the truth that he was targeting Massa's parlours because they are some kind of brothel.
	And this is the page.
	And then we'll go to the next one.
	This was six months ago.
	So some guy posting...
	It was very expensive.
	She took me in the back and told me about 400 bucks.
	Christ.
	400 bucks for a massage.
	Okay, maybe that's not convincing.
	Kings, never spend that amount of money on any woman, ever.
	So this is a review posted nine months ago.
	I've been here about five times.
	The quality of the service depends on which girl you get.
	There was one I really liked, but it's been a while and I forgot her name.
	All I remember is that she's kind of tall.
	Plan to return here in the near future.
	I hope she's still there.
	Okay.
	Next one is a year ago.
	If you're wondering, yes it is.
	Prices run usually from $300 to $500.
	You're welcome.
	Five stars.
	It's a year ago.
	And then there's another one, which is four years ago.
	So, this is not the proper location for a regular standard massage.
	This place offers more than what you think.
	It's that wasn't the absolute...
	Sorry.
	It's that wasn't the absolutely on your mind.
	They are more adult rated massage parlor and the prices are extremely high.
	Not even affordable to even go unless you have a black card or anything over $300.
	I mean, I'm not saying this is definitive proof, let's say, but I mean, if this isn't enough to suggest that he might have actually done it because this definitely seems to be a brothel.
	I mean, by the website, the Google reviews, people literally saying long before this attack has taken place.
	Yep, it's one of those places.
	Why are we even questioning?
	It's obviously a brothel.
	Well, what evidence do you need, you know?
	Yeah.
	I don't know what to say.
	I mean, just their website alone is more than enough to show that there's a brother.
	You don't have, like, these very scantily clad, suggestively positioned women if this is, like, an above-board normal place.
	Nah, it's got nothing to do with whatever the shooter says or any of the evidence.
	Instead, it's white supremacy.
	Okay, yeah.
	So this is CNN, uh, proposing this.
	So white supremacy and hate are haunting Asian Americans in response.
	Oh.
	And there was a whole bunch of these.
	I just chose CNN because they're the most stupid.
	Why is it every video I see about an Asian person getting attacked in the street, it's not a white person?
	Yeah, it's disproportionately another group of people.
	Let's name the group of people responsible.
	So this is someone, the next one, just a tweet, some guy tweeting out, statistics, the most dangerous thing known to man.
	For every one act of violence by an Asian person against a black person, there are 280 acts committed by a black person against an Asian person.
	If you want to load up the statistics, people can read it.
	So...
	You can see here, so of the offenders who are black against Asians here, 27.5% of offenses against Asians or the hate crimes are by black people, even though black people make up 13% of the US population.
	Whites underrepresented, Hispanics underrepresented, so on and so forth.
	It's like, hmm, okay.
	Interesting.
	It doesn't seem to be that white supremacy is doing this.
	I mean, black supremacy, if you want to go down that route.
	Well, why would white supremacy make black people do this?
	I can't get over this.
	It's that subversive.
	It convinces random black people to engage in Asian hate crimes, I suppose.
	Like it did with black people attacking Jews as well.
	Yes.
	In New York.
	And Lauren Chen had a good response to this, which is just making fun of all this nonsense.
	That's the argument here as well.
	Asians essentially have it good in the world, and all of their success is also white supremacy.
	So someone pointing out here that it was legal to ban Asian Americans from owning land up until 1952.
	And then Lauren Chan's response, Asian Americans face systemic racial oppression in America, now the one of the most affluent ethnic groups.
	What makes their story different than those of so many black communities?
	Did white people just wake up one day and say, look at the Asians, and go, nah, you're cool now?
	No, of course not.
	Obviously not how it went.
	But that is how it went in the leftist universe.
	In the leftist universe, that is exactly what took place.
	So if we go to the next one, this is the model minority myth.
	So this is what's pushed endlessly within leftist circles to try and explain away how Asians are beating every other ethnic group in every Western country.
	Before we go on, I'm just going to say, I don't know why Asians are doing so well, but I'm going to guess that it's something to do with good education, family values, and hard work ethic.
	Yeah, it's not just Asians either.
	I mean, England...
	Obviously.
	Indians, Jews...
	England's actually a perfect example of this case, which is that it's culture that matters.
	Because we've had immigration, large-scale immigration, from India and Bangladesh and Pakistan.
	And the only things that largely separate these places is cultural differences.
	That's why it's partitioned.
	And yet the Indians are doing literally the best of every ethnic group in England.
	The Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are doing almost the worst...
	Yeah, and it's like, well...
	It's clearly not a genetic factor, then, is it?
	You know, it's clearly something you're doing.
	It's also not because of bigotry or racial prejudice, because barely anyone in England can tell the difference.
	Not to be rude.
	No, no, that's true.
	Like, there are Sikh guys who get attacked for being Muslim, and they're like, uh...
	Yeah, and there's plenty of Indians who dislike Pakistan, so when someone uses a racial epithet calling them a Pakistani, they just turn around like, I'm Indian, don't call me that.
	Yeah, but Sikhism was also a product of the Islamic invasions of India.
	So it was a response to the Muslim invasion, so like, hey, you're a Muslim, it's like, What?
	I carry this dagger expressly because I'm not a Muslim.
	But it's, you know, the fact that, okay, the only things that separate that is the cultures themselves of those groups.
	It is not how the white population interacts with them because they can't tell the damn difference.
	And it is not because of anything else except culture.
	So the other point that they make in this article is they're like, okay, yeah, maybe Asians are doing better than every other group.
	And yeah, black communities are being around a long time and are doing much worse.
	But you know what?
	Slavery.
	That's the argument.
	It's just, yeah, but slavery.
	Slavery's a thing.
	Because they have to give the whole point of like, well, yeah, the United States did put all the Japanese people in internment camps.
	Yeah, we had to give them reparations for that.
	Yeah, there was discrimination laws on the books about where you could be, the Chinese Exclusion Act, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	It's like, yeah, but what about slavery?
	You never had that.
	That's why blacks are at the bottom.
	It's like, Jesus Christ.
	When does it end then?
	When does that argument run out of steam?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I guess never.
	But, I mean, Thomas Sowell's right.
	It seems to be a direct consequence of the introduction of the welfare state.
	Yeah, and it's also like the progressives here aren't any friends of Asian people.
	No!
	They're busy trying to make them white so they can blame them for oppressing black people.
	This is also the absurdity of, like, you've seen the anti-Asian groups, so there's, like, mentioned in a few articles I've seen, just, like, printed, like, a couple of days ago, the left is still trying to push, like, anti-Asian haters on the rise, please join the progressive movement.
	Why would anyone Asian join the progressives?
	Like, you literally hate them.
	It's like the Jews joining the Democrats or something.
	It's like, yeah, but you own all the money and we're going to make you pay for it or something.
	It's like, these are not normal people.
	These people see the world entirely through race and therefore want to oppress you on that basis.
	And the best example being, I think it was Harvard, so we can get the next one.
	Oh, yeah.
	So this is the affirmative action battle.
	Apparently that's still going on.
	They haven't actually accepted the decision.
	Yeah, the court told them, no, sorry, we know that you're being discriminated against, but tough...
	So for people who don't know, this was Asians applying to Harvard.
	Harvard decided they had too many Asians because they have racial quotas and decided we will accept less Asians and we will boost the black student population arbitrarily.
	So it wasn't based on their academic ability or extracurricular activities.
	It was based on their skin.
	Not just that.
	Because it was based on their skin, they essentially had to turn around and say the Asians are bad people, that we don't want coming here because they're bad people.
	It's like...
	Seems unfair, you know.
	Blimey, you talk about 18, 19-year-old kids.
	It's like you're a bad person because you're Asian.
	You can't come here.
	But that's the progressive worldview.
	That's what you're signing up for if you sign up for that.
	It's horrible.
	It's absurd as well.
	But there is one good response I've seen out of this.
	Yep.
	Sorry.
	There is another way of dealing with this, which is what a lot of Asian-Americans are apparently doing, which is buying guns.
	Yep, that's your right if you live in America.
	That's the way to deal with it, I think.
	Like, if you're worried about your community having people attacking people in the streets or whatever, well, an armed society is a polite society.
	I think that is a true maxim and always will be.
	So, yeah, I mean, you have a right to own firearms.
	You have a natural right to self-defense.
	The rooftop Koreans are returning.
	Nature is healing.
	We were the virus.
	I mean, I think, what was it, like, I think it was three or four of the victims in this case were Korean as well.
	So it's like, well, okay, if any of those families...
	Who cares?
	It's just Asian, mate.
	It's just a big blob that's Asian.
	Yeah, but if anyone is concerned about that, rooftop Koreans.
	That's the correct way of, in response to an act like this, not to sit around and blame white supremacy, as if that has anything to do with it.
	But speaking of being unable to blame what is reality and instead making up your own reality, let's go into the Arab white supremacist.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Habibi.
	Well, yeah, I don't know what it is about white supremacy that he loves so much, and his social media postings didn't give us any information about this.
	But anyway, let's just start at the beginning.
	There was a shooting in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.
	All ten of the victims were white, and the shooter had quite pale skin.
	And so Twitter, the verified check marks as usual, went nuts.
	As you can imagine, it is exactly...
	The same, obviously.
	And they were convinced, well, he looks white.
	Just shut up, wait for the facts, and then say the facts.
	Yeah.
	I mean, like, at least in the previous example, the guy was actually of European descent.
	There's that.
	I mean, his motive wasn't white supremacy, but...
	No, it wasn't racism, white supremacy, or anything else.
	But at least he was a European man, you know, of European descent.
	But this one, what was the guy's name again?
	I actually haven't got it written down in front of me for some reason.
	Do we have to say it?
	I don't even care.
	Yeah, okay.
	Just some loser.
	Some loser, right?
	But anyway, so let's go to the next one, right?
	Because this is just a montage of people on Twitter.
	Like, it's always an angry white man.
	Always.
	I mean, except where it isn't.
	I mean, we have the statistics.
	And if we go to the statistics next...
	It says the racial inclusion officer there.
	Yeah, it says the racial inclusion officer.
	It's always a white man.
	Well, it's not always a white man.
	Two-thirds of the time, it's a white man.
	And this is statistics that does not include gang shootings.
	So if you've got very Sinner City gangs, then if you look at the convictions for people who kill four or more people in a single go, then it's actually racially very different.
	Even excluding that, what is the white population of the United States?
	About 70%.
	So this is roughly what you would expect proportionally.
	So it's less likely to be a white man.
	Yeah, but despite being 13% of the population, the black population accounts for 21% of the mass shootings in the United States.
	So just weird how these statistics are a hate crime.
	But anyway, let's go to the montage of Checkmark Takes and pick out a few good ones.
	The shooter was taken into custody.
	In other words, it was almost certainly a white man.
	Again, if he were black or brown, he would be dead.
	Okay.
	Extremely tired of people's lives, depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.
	So, of course, this happened to be Ahmed Al-Iwi Alissa.
	Very European name, that.
	It turns out he's a Muslim immigrant from Syria, if you go to the next one.
	As Andy Noh points out, to CJ Werleman, who is a notorious Islamophile and defender of everything Islamic, including terror attacks sometimes, and of course hates white people.
	So look, it's a white man who had a bad day.
	And I guess you could come away with that impression, judging from the fact that the guy is quite pasty.
	He's not a very dark-skinned man, but he is from Syria.
	And that's because the Middle East is actually a really complex place.
	And there has been a great deal of immigration there from all directions over the millennia that it has been in existence.
	And so race isn't really that useful a thing in the Middle East, especially when everything is divided on religion.
	That's one of the things...
	Race isn't useful anywhere outside of the New World.
	Anywhere in the Old World, we don't care about such things.
	We care about the ethnicity of the person.
	Or the religious beliefs.
	Things like this are much better at determining what a person is rather than just white or black.
	Exactly.
	It's totally irrelevant over here.
	It just doesn't help.
	It makes the Americans look really, really low IQ as well.
	Yes.
	Like, not all Americans, obviously.
	We're talking about the leftists.
	No, the American leftists on Twitter, obviously.
	Yeah, when they define everything as white or black, it's just like, it's like an American coming over and saying, isn't Europe a country?
	And she's looking at them like, what?
	But dropped to the head as a child.
	The Israelis are quite Middle Eastern looking, and yet for some reason they're fighting with all of these other Middle Easterners.
	I just can't understand it.
	Hasn't anyone told them they're the same race?
	It's like, well, yeah, we've done the genetic studies.
	It turns out that the Israelis have got little genes that, you know, all of these people have got genes that have been there for thousands of years.
	So why are they fighting?
	Oh, I just don't know!
	It's like an American comes to the Middle East forum and is like, the Israelis have bombed the Syrians.
	Why are we talking about white-on-white crime?
	It's so ridiculous!
	But yeah, so the Middle East is not like a racially homogenous place, but no one cares, because that's not the problem.
	It's not what people are talking about.
	But anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Islam was trending, apparently.
	This was just an incredible turnaround from Wajahat, the butter influencer.
	White mass shooters somehow always get caught alive, just saying.
	Also, white insurrectionists.
	And then a few moments later, if we can scroll down a bit, John, Islamic is trending.
	Don't even have to click on it.
	Let me guess.
	Right-wing outrage and racism over the identity of the boulder shooter.
	But I thought it was always right-wing.
	But that's quick.
	Outrage and racism over the identity of the boulder shooter.
	Amazing.
	What were you doing, Wajahat?
	What were you doing?
	This was one of my favourite takes, in fact, I think, this next one.
	The bold shooter is a white man.
	The bold shooter is a white man, period.
	And then someone's like, except he's not.
	And then she's like, well, what's his race?
	And don't say Syrian or Muslim or Arab, because those aren't a race.
	Who says that?
	Americans.
	Americans say that.
	It's the stupidest thing.
	Americans say that when they're on Twitter, right?
	But the thing is, I mean, A, you're wrong about Arab.
	Arab is a race, and that's fine.
	No one cares, right?
	But the point is, when you say Muslim isn't a race, bravo.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Islamophobia is not a form of racism.
	British Council of Muslims BTFO'd by some dumbass American on Twitter.
	I mean, I actually agree with that.
	Muslim isn't a race.
	That's true, yeah.
	You've got me.
	Yeah, yeah.
	One of the most embarrassing ones is an author called Amy Siskind, and there are many examples of her doing this.
	After every mass shooting, she takes to Twitter to blame white people or men and then put her foot completely in it.
	For example, the shooter was taken into custody.
	In other words, it was almost certainly a white man.
	Again, if he was black or brown, he'd be dead.
	Then what?
	Turns out, if we can go to the next one, John?
	Next image.
	Next image, sorry, not the next link.
	Let's mourn the victims, but not glorify the killer with having the attention of his name widely known.
	It's because it's an Arab name, isn't it?
	No, it's an Arab name.
	Cut the feed.
	And so, yeah, let's just keep going.
	I'm loving these check marks.
	This is Uzair Hassan Rizvi, a poor white guy who may have had a bad day or just a sex addict, killed at least 10 people in Boulder.
	He was not only apprehended, not choked or shot to death because he was not black, brown or Muslim.
	Oof.
	Oof.
	Takes the age poorly.
	If we go to the next screenshot.
	This guy, a journalist from AFP Fact Check.
	Well, fact check it yourself, buddy, because it turns out he was very much a Muslim.
	Debunking misinformation slash fake news.
	Like, when you get banned for fake news on Facebook, these are the guys who are doing it.
	Andy Ngo tweets this out with debunking misinformation fake news as a quote, and then the reply tweet of him blocking Andy Ngo.
	Because that's how you know you won the argument on the internet.
	There was quite a spicy take from Michael Moore that was actually rather amusing.
	The life of Ahmad Al-Aliwi Alissa shows that people can come from all over the world and truly assimilate into our beloved American culture.
	Is now the time for dark jokes, Michael?
	I mean, I thought that was our job.
	I mean, God, I can't believe I'm doing this, but in an attempt to steelman his position, he would be arguing that this guy has become a mass shooter, which is so common in America.
	It's a part of American culture.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Mass shootings are a part of American culture, unfortunately.
	So...
	Maybe we should start listening to those people we've marginalized by calling them evil and oppressive.
	Just saying.
	Maybe if white men, or not even white men, but just generally the people were pathologized for things and they actually had a more inclusive sort of accepting form of culture, the progressives, I mean, then maybe these things would happen less frequently.
	But who knows?
	Anyway, I say my favourite, but a lot of these things are my favourite because I really enjoy all of these foot-in-mouth events.
	Tariq Nasheed.
	Tariq, how could you do this, man?
	I was bigging you up yesterday.
	And now, look at this.
	The boldest CEO shooting suspect is a white man named Ahmed Alissa.
	Okay, Tariq.
	The whitest of white names, Ahmed.
	Okay, Tariq.
	The fact that the dude gunned down 10 people and the police didn't shoot his ass, that means he's white.
	We ain't going to start playing games just because he was born in Syria.
	I suspect white is enough to benefit from the privileges of white.
	Jesus Christ.
	Look, just because he wasn't born in Europe or from European descent, we're not going to start playing this game.
	If the cops arrested him, he becomes white.
	So every black person who gets arrested by the cops is now a white person.
	According to Tariq Nasheed's amazing logic.
	Reverse you ain't black moment.
	Yeah.
	It's like, you white.
	But also, I love the idea that if we accept this nonsense as well, then suddenly a lot more of Britain becomes white overnight.
	Yeah, I mean, suddenly every black person who gets arrested but not shot by the cops is a white man.
	So congratulations on your white privilege.
	You've just joined the Asians as the newest additions to the white race according to Tariq Nasheed.
	The white race looks pretty bloody inclusive at this point.
	It's growing.
	It includes all of the Middle East and all of Asia and all of Europe.
	The fastest growing race on Earth.
	So when does it include all of Africa?
	By next week?
	All they need to do is get arrested and not shot.
	Tariq's going to get arrested and not shot and then he's in.
	Yeah, then you're in.
	Then your black privilege is gone, Tariq.
	But Tariq followed up on this.
	He didn't stop here, right?
	White supremacists are trying the hardest to deflect from the fact the boldest suspect is white.
	Syrians in America are legally, politically, and socially white.
	Their white status is well documented in court cases.
	Terms like Muslim, Arab, and Islamic doesn't change whiteness.
	That's right.
	All Muslims and Arabs are now white.
	They are basically North Europeans, in every sense.
	This is absurd, Tariq, you bloody idiot.
	Stop talking, you are an American.
	In America, these things don't make any sense either, but anyway.
	That's why all the white nationalist groups of Europe, they never target anyone of Middle East and origin, ever.
	What's up, my white boy?
	Yeah, exactly.
	My fellow Abrahamic religionist.
	You know, like, it's just...
	Just Americans.
	White is the new black.
	American leftists.
	From the chat, white is the new black.
	Yes, it is.
	Everyone in the Middle East just loves being white.
	Anyway, so heavy...
	Did I get that reference to you?
	No.
	It's a Syrian thing, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's a Syrian song.
	Yeah, I don't...
	Anyway.
	I'm not as big a fanatic of Eastern dictatorships as you are.
	I don't endorse it, I just think it's a really funny song.
	It looks really weird.
	Anyway, Heavy did one of their fast facts about the guy, and it's a really good article.
	Basically, Ahmad Al-Wi Alisa, I mean it's such a European name I can't pronounce it, He's a 21-year-old Colorado man who was identified as a suspect.
	He was born in Syria but spent most of his life in Colorado.
	Big fan of Islam, apparently.
	One of the things he said was, Muslims might not be perfect, but Islam is.
	I mean, I don't agree, but whatever.
	I mean, I agree that Muslims might not be perfect.
	Communists might not be perfect.
	Communism is.
	Well, that's exactly the same principle.
	It's exactly the same principle.
	This is why we can call the radical leftists the jihadis of the Enlightenment, because that's basically their view.
	But according to the police, Alyssa stripped off his clothes inside the store and was bleeding from his leg when he was arrested.
	And what they had done is gone up to him and said, surrender yourself.
	And he surrendered himself, which is why he wasn't shot.
	Which is incidentally why anyone isn't shot by the cops.
	When they surrender, the cops actually don't tend to shoot them, which is interesting because that's not what Tariq Nasheed believes.
	But yeah, so they spoke to various people who knew Alyssa and his brother said that he was deeply disturbed, very antisocial and paranoid.
	In high school, he would say he was being chased by someone or someone is behind him and someone's looking for him.
	He thought that racists were trying to hack his phone.
	Apparently, he was on the wrestling team when he was at school, and his former teammates said he was short-tempered and scary and once threatened to kill people during a match.
	His senior year during the wrestle-offs, to see who makes varsity, he actually lost his match and quit the team and yelled out in the wrestling room that he was going to kill everyone.
	Nobody believed him, but we're all kind of freaked out by it, but nobody did anything.
	He would talk about him being a Muslim, and if anyone tried anything, he would file a hate crime and say they were making it up.
	He was always talking about how people were looking for him, and no one was even there when he was saying this.
	They always thought he was messing around, but it turns out he was bloody mental.
	On Facebook, he posted about his belief about being stalked, and said that he believed that, in part, it was racism for sure that someone was stalking him, and also believed someone spread rumors about him that were false, and that maybe that set him off.
	Okay, so that's interesting.
	And one of the things you get from his Facebook postings is a bizarre mix of Muslim religiosity and traditionalism and progressive talking points.
	So it's very interesting how he's at the sort of intersection between these two philosophies.
	The Islamo-leftist alliance.
	It is the Islamo-leftist alliance that we're seeing here, incidentally.
	But to be honest with you, I don't think this guy was actually...
	We've got no evidence that he was doing it for Islam.
	We have no motive as of yet.
	The police have not released anything.
	So witnesses from the shooting.
	One witness told the Denver Post that he entered the grocery store wordlessly in open fire.
	He didn't say S. He just came in and started shooting.
	He let off a couple of shots, and then he let off a couple more.
	He wasn't spraying.
	These are apparently targeted.
	Given his past unpredictable history, it seems that he was just a mental who went on a killing spree because he's an angry man who's full of rage.
	We don't know the motive.
	The police have said nothing.
	No, no, exactly.
	And just what we can gather from the statements about people who knew him, which is why he was really angry and kind of unhinged.
	He didn't go in with any ideological motive that he announced, which is weird, because normally when these things happen, they do have a certain catchphrase that they yell.
	So, you know, that's a fairly easy way to identify.
	So I'm not going to ascribe this to Islam.
	But yeah, apparently one witness said they heard the police yelling surrender now.
	It turns out he did surrender.
	He wasn't very political up until 2016, before the presidential election, but at times he shared anti-Trump posts, he shared pro-immigration posts, he shared one anti-abortion post and wrote, abortion is disgusting.
	So you see how it's like very much the leftist narrative and the Islamic narrative.
	In 2019, he shared a post about Christchurch, the mosque shooting, with the meme that said, the Muslims at the Christchurch mosque were not the victims of a single shooter, they were the victims of the entire Islamophobia industry that vilified them.
	Again, it's Islamo-leftism.
	In May 2019, he wrote, just saying the genocide in Syria and the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust and slavery are all terrible things that should never have happened, all something in common, too much government control.
	I mean, comrade libertarian, like, I agree.
	Like, too much government control can lead to genocide.
	That's right.
	Weird that a mass shooter would say that.
	After, A, promoting a bunch of leftist talking points and then a bunch of Muslim talking points, now it's a bunch of libertarian talking points.
	So this guy's kind of all over the shop.
	He's the most centrist person around, I guess.
	And so, yeah, he also didn't like gay rights, it seems.
	In July 2019, he mocked Microsoft Xbox's rainbow flag logo during Pride Month saying, F-Box, the F word that we can't say anymore, loses PS4 wins with two laughing emojis, and God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, just saying.
	Oh, God.
	It's so boomer.
	I know.
	But the point is, like, I don't think he had a coherent ideological position.
	Seems like a pretty confused guy, but again, there is no information yet.
	So the right thing to do is just to say, that's the information that's there.
	Yeah, this is the only information we have.
	There's nothing definitive about it or anything like that.
	I lean towards him being just a mental.
	At one point, by the way, as well, after the ISIS attack in a nightclub in Paris, he added a French flag filter to his Facebook profile.
	So he was mourning the people killed by ISIS. So, again, I don't think he was jihadi.
	I think he was just someone who was kind of mad.
	Facebook, of course, scrubbed his profile immediately because why wouldn't you, Facebook?
	You wouldn't want people knowing that he opposed Trump?
	I hate this.
	So there's a policy at Facebook and Twitter and whatnot that I understand the reasoning they give, which is that if a mass shooter has happened, they take down the account because it can cause problems.
	But it's just like...
	Well, yeah, but it looks like you're censoring people finding out what his views were.
	And that's just true.
	Like, you are.
	Yeah, and you shouldn't.
	And so, yeah, this is all the information we have at the moment.
	As with the previous one, We don't really know why it was motivated.
	We can take the previous one, at least he's got a word for it.
	He's given a police interview and said I did it because I'm a sex addict and these guys are engaging in brothels.
	I imagine at some point we'll get some information from Ahmed here as to why he did it, but until then it doesn't seem to have been an expressly political event.
	No, and there's actually, this isn't the only time in history this happens, as I've mentioned.
	Before, we just double-check the facts.
	So the Spanish government, after the Madrid bombing, they tried to blame it on the Basque separatists.
	They'd be like, the Basque separatists have done this, and then it turned out it was Arcaida that had blown up the train, and then they lost the next election.
	It was just like...
	Al-Qaeda lost the election.
	Sorry.
	No, the Spanish party that tried to blame it on the Basque separatists.
	It's just one of these things.
	When this sort of thing happens, just shut your mouth, for Christ's sake.
	If you don't know, don't say.
	It's that simple.
	Nothing is gained by not politicising a tragedy.
	I mean, I know it sounds like a basic...
	And nothing is lost, sorry, by not politicizing a tragedy.
	Like basic B-daddism, don't lie.
	Yeah.
	But, I mean, really.
	Not just that, don't leap before you look, either, which is what's happening here.
	You know, if we're going to go back to traditional homespun daddist wisdom, just don't put your mouth...
	foot in your mouth.
	Just shut up if you don't know.
	Anyway, let's turn our sights back to good old Blighty, which we can otherwise call Incel Country, because we're going to take a brief tour through the history of the COVID lockdowns, I suppose, which have been going on for a year now.
	Welcome to the anniversary.
	What's the actual date of the anniversary?
	It was yesterday, right.
	Don't think about it.
	Yeah, so yesterday, it had been one year since the first lockdown, and we are still in a lockdown, because Boris refuses to take the win.
	Boris has won.
	He has conquered the coronavirus.
	Things seem to have gone very well.
	But anyway, yeah, as I said, sex is currently banned in Britain between people who don't live in the same household, which is literally turning every single person in the country into an incel.
	Literally an entire country of incels by government fiat.
	You can't even get married.
	You don't have to have sex with someone you don't already live with.
	We did a podcast that I don't know when I'm ever going to get finished editing about a government report warning about the rise of extremism.
	So there's one of the lines in this report in which they're saying we are worried about the growing rise in the threat of incel extremism.
	Maybe you shouldn't make everyone an incel then.
	Maybe they knew they were going to do this.
	Yeah.
	But alcohol was banned pre-lockdown in Scotland and then...
	La Hockba.
	Yeah.
	And then it was banned in Wales as well.
	La Hockba.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the point.
	It's genuinely like we're in some sort of COVID show.
	Now this obviously took place before the new lockdown.
	You know Ajem Chowdhury got released from prison not too long ago?
	I bet he sat at home like, well, it worked.
	Yeah, Alara's done everything I asked for.
	The next thing he could do now is ban Christmas.
	Oh wait, Boris did that too.
	So we came into the lockdown at Christmas, or just before Christmas, Boris banning Christmas.
	It was November, sorry, that we came into the lockdown, which meant that Christmas was banned and we had to deal with it.
	And it turns out that we're in the harshest lockdown in the West, right?
	So a global ranking of government stringency in response to the coronavirus, compiled by the University of Oxford's Black Vanity...
	I can't pronounce that.
	School of Government.
	Makes the United Kingdom out as the strictest lockdown nation in the Western world, scoring 86 out of a possible 100, with only Eritrea, Venezuela, and Lebanon scoring higher globally.
	This puts us above the Republic of Ireland on 85, Germany on 83, Italy at 82, and Spain at 71.
	The United States is way down the rankings at 68, because there are people like DeSantis in Florida who are like, screw your tyranny, let people live.
	Oh god, I wish we could have something like that.
	But anyway, So we went through the Christmas period with no Christmas.
	We weren't allowed to go anywhere or do anything.
	And Boris in February said, well, look, I'm optimistic about the summer holiday because the vaccine had been developed and we just started vaccinating people.
	And so Boris is optimistic about it.
	Didn't give any concrete answers because he didn't know.
	He set out more details later on in the month, which weren't very useful.
	But he said, I don't want to give too much concrete information, by the way, of the dates for our summer holidays.
	I'm optimistic.
	The vaccine program has got to be successful, blah, blah, blah.
	And Matt Hancock was like, yeah, well, I hope we're going to have a happy, free, great British summer.
	It's like, well, you're the only thing preventing it at this point, Matt.
	So, like, you know, fingers crossed.
	I hope we can do this.
	Yeah, Matt, if only someone could make it so.
	Yeah.
	Matt?
	If only there was someone who was enforcing the lockdowns we could appeal to.
	Yeah.
	Don't know who that might be.
	But anyway, so on the 10th of February, like two weeks later-ish, we were told by Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, that people shouldn't go booking their holidays right now, not domestically or internationally, because it's too soon to give people the green light.
	And back in February, it may well have been.
	Weird that Matt Hancock had booked a Cornish holiday, though.
	He just came out and was like, yeah, yeah, so I booked my holiday at Cornwall.
	And it's like, Matt, that's the total opposite of the government advice.
	This was also a total C-up, in which I believe the entire cabinet had been told to say they're not booking any holidays, and then Matt Hancock just blurted this out after they'd asked three members of the cabinet who all said we're not booking one.
	Yes.
	Idiots.
	But anyway, he obviously looked like a prat, because when doesn't he?
	But anyway, he told Sky News, though, it was still too soon to give fellow Brits any certainty over whether they should book their own holidays, either at home or abroad.
	So this very much came across like one rule for us, one rule for you.
	And it's like, well done, Matt.
	Idiot.
	Anyway, fast forward to a few days ago, March 19th, and we have the government's latest travel list ban country.
	So these are countries which the UK government will ban you from entering the UK if you are travelling from.
	And if you lie, what is it?
	A massive fine and up to 10 years in prison?
	Yes, something along those lines.
	If you've been to any of these countries in the previous 10 days, you'll be refused entry to the UK. And if you're a British or Irish national and you have residence rights or you have residence rights, you will be able to enter, but you must quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days.
	That's Angola, Argentina-based, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Eswatini – never even heard of that – Ethiopia, French Guiana, Guyana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
	Ten years in jail, if you lie.
	It's a lot.
	And then, of course, we were told that if you go on holiday, you're going to be fined.
	So if you go to any other place, apart from these places, you'll be fined £5,000.
	So what's irritating about that is it's not a criminal offence or jail time, because that's the thing where it's like, okay, so this isn't a fine, this is a premium.
	This is the premium to go abroad.
	If you can afford to pay £5,000 to the government and then go on your holiday...
	Holidays are now legal to you.
	Yeah, you can actually still go on a holiday.
	But everyone else is screwed.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, poor people.
	I guess you'll have to go to Cornwall with Matt Hancock.
	To be honest, I almost...
	Oh wait, you're not allowed to do that either?
	I almost certainly expect that this is actually them knowing that probably members of the cabinet or their family members or their friends are going to cock up who are all rich.
	And they're just like, well, we'll just make it a fine then.
	They can pay that.
	Yeah, let's make it a bigger fine.
	What about 500 grand?
	Why not?
	I mean, why not?
	I guess that might actually cut into their incomes.
	But yeah, so anyway, this is part of the coronavirus laws that are due to be introduced next week because previous ones are expiring.
	British citizens who travel abroad for reasons other than work, volunteering, education, medical needs, or to attend weddings or funerals will be fined five grand.
	So they're part of the statutory instrument that's being introduced in the most recent iteration of lockdown legislation.
	Under the stay-at-home laws, which were introduced February last year, foreign holidays are not permitted, and as of Monday, stay-at-home laws will no longer apply, and the ban on holidays will become a specific law, punishable by a five-grand fine.
	So it's just going to be its own standalone law.
	That's what I don't get as well, because the argument is, well, the red zones have their unique variants, which are of massive concern.
	Fair enough, whatever.
	But the idea that you have to ban all travel and whatnot, because there's a third wave coming from Europe.
	They're hitting a third world.
	It's just like, okay, we're an island.
	Just stop the travel then.
	And then we can unlock our country, and we can all be free at least.
	I mean, we're all vaccinated.
	50%.
	Well, we'll get to that in a minute, right?
	So, the renewal of the Coronavirus Act is actually getting some of the Conservative backbenchers up in arms, understandably, actually.
	And why hasn't this happened sooner?
	Just out of interest.
	Apparently, the vaccination rates that Britain has achieved gives ample justification to end the lockdown.
	Before the 21st of June, that's right.
	I mean, as if the moral justification against lockdowns wasn't enough, I guess we need this one too.
	As the anti-lockdown coronavirus recovery group of Tory MPs, the chairman, Mark Harper, has stated, sticking rigidly to a set of dates based on now outdated and overly pessimistic modelling would be a mistake.
	Yes, it would.
	Yes, it would be a mistake.
	But anyway, Matt Hancock isn't ruling out banning travel to the European Union.
	This is what you wanted.
	Talon, Matt Hancock's going to give you it.
	Yeah, if he would then give it on the silver pillar of like, UK will be opened up, we will be free, and in return, no travel outside of the island.
	Like, we will take cargo to feed our nation, that's it.
	To be honest, I take that trade.
	It's like, the continent's full of plague, we'll cut them off.
	Full of a plague that less than one cent of people die from.
	I know.
	I'm taking it...
	With the average age of death being 82 years old.
	I'm taking it from the standpoint of the government.
	I know, but I just hate it.
	But anyway, yeah, so apparently it's definitely a possibility that all of Europe could end up on a travel ban red list and...
	Obviously.
	Why not?
	I mean, this is clearly not political at this point.
	Not about Brexit at all.
	And you may remember that when the new strain in December originated from the southeast of England, 40 different countries put the UK on a travel ban.
	So it just seems...
	Honestly, it's starting to look just like political posturing.
	So you can put a ban on us, are you?
	Well, here's a ban on you.
	What now?
	Hmm?
	Hmm?
	What about the vaccines, eh?
	This is the third wave coming from Europe.
	Boris has reassured European leaders, if you go to the next one, John, that they don't want to see blockades on the export of COVID vaccines.
	This is a nice...
	Like, politicising the vaccine has been an amazing thing to watch.
	This comes over a dispute on the possible block of exports of coronavirus jabs to the UK, because, of course, everyone was like, oh, God, this is going to cause blood clots.
	It's like, well, that will get you deplatformed from YouTube.
	Why are you saying that?
	That's not true.
	Because there isn't actually any evidence for it.
	Because it turns out that something like 3,000 people a month get blood clots.
	So all of the data that we have, and I don't know either way, but the data we have is that there's absolutely no evidence for this whatsoever.
	It seems to have been a moral panic that spread across the continent.
	And there's something like 20 countries, a dozen nations, most of them in Europe, temporarily halted the vaccine use.
	This was earlier this month.
	Most of them who couldn't get the vaccine from the UK and instead were importing the Russian one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Suspiciously decided, no, we didn't want the UK one anyway.
	Yes, and actually the UK one causes blood clots and therefore, and it just didn't seem to be the case.
	I mean, like the control groups that were given placebos...
	But I mean...
	Yeah, as John points out, the control group actually did have a higher rate of blood clots than the test group for the vaccine.
	But like I've already said, apparently there are 3,000 blood clots a month in Britain anyway.
	So this is not a new or rare phenomenon.
	It's not unusual for people to get blood clots.
	This happens.
	This is just something that happens in life.
	But obviously, you know, the AstraZeneca are like, well, there's no connection.
	What are you talking about?
	And the drug regulator, Europe's drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency, has said there's no indication that this shot was causing blood clots.
	And I believe the vaccine's benefits continue to outweary the risks.
	And the World Health Organization said exactly the same thing and that, in fact, we should continue using it because it seems to actually be having an effect.
	And So the European Union completely reversed its position on the 20th of March.
	We'll go to the next one, John.
	Threatening to ban the export of the vaccine if they weren't supplied with it first.
	It's like, what?
	That poisonous vaccine is giving you blood clots?
	We're not going to send you poison.
	Yeah.
	Huh?
	If you don't send us the poison, we're going to ban it from being exported from Europe.
	We want the poison!
	That's literally what they're saying!
	But it shows that the allegations about blood clots and things like that, I think it was more political than it was anything else.
	In which case, if it was true, why do they want them?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's that simple.
	Exactly.
	But Ursula von der Leyen said, we have the possibility to forbid planned exports.
	That's the message to AstraZeneca.
	Fulfill your contract with Europe before you start delivering to other countries.
	Because Boris had essentially snaked the European Union here, which was actually a good job, to be honest.
	Well, no, it was because the European Union is shit.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, I swear.
	But he gave the order to buy more vaccines literally months before.
	And then they're upset that their process takes longer.
	Yeah.
	Because you're terrible.
	But that's a good decision on Boris's part.
	Here's a bunch of cash, give us loads of vaccines, and the European Union is dithering because it's a giant, slow bureaucracy.
	It's almost like there's a problem with the European Union.
	It's almost like this was exactly what we were saying.
	Oh, if Britain becomes an independent country, we can move more nimbly.
	We're discriminating against us because we suck.
	Yes, yes, that's the reason for our discrimination against you.
	You suck.
	But yeah, so she, furious, saying, I cannot justify to European citizens why we export millions of vaccine doses to countries that produce vaccines themselves and from whom nothing comes back.
	Well, Ursula, the reason is rule of law, actually.
	You know that law-based international order you were asking for?
	Well, it turns out that if Britain starts a contract with AstraZeneca, then AstraZeneca, under EU law, is obligated to fulfill that contract because money has changed hands.
	It's just weird how that works.
	You're not speaking to a German.
	Well, this is why the Germans should be particularly like, oh, actually, no, I can see exactly why that contract's being fulfilled.
	Because the law demands it.
	You know, and it's like, oh, we didn't sign a contract.
	No, two weeks ago, you were saying these are lethal vaccines, Ursula.
	You know, sorry, you did this to yourselves.
	This is exactly, exactly why Brexit was a good thing, exactly why the European Union is a bad thing, and now it's run by people who can't admit that they made a mistake.
	Anyway, Britain's doing really well when it comes to vaccinations.
	Now, according to the latest government data, 28 million people have received their first dose, with two and a half million receiving their second.
	There hasn't been an epidemic of blood clots here, or if it has, it's been very well suppressed from the media.
	So it seems...
	State.
	Sorry?
	From the state.
	Well, well...
	I mean, the NHS data are a lot.
	Well, yeah, I guess.
	But, I mean, yeah, I mean, the NHS is doing a good job of keeping this secret from the media.
	But yeah, and honestly, it seems...
	Well, that's nearly half of all people in the UK. Yeah, because that's the thing as well.
	The deaths from COVID, what is it, like 65% or something ridiculous is from 65 over.
	It's an exponential decline.
	So if you've got half the country vaccinated and you're going age group by age group, that means you've got, what, maybe 80-90% of all the people likely to die are all vaccinated now?
	And they actually rolled it out in a sensible way, starting with the elderly and the people on the front lines.
	So it's actually like, okay, well done.
	Yeah, but that's my point.
	If this is about deaths...
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	If 90% of the people who could die...
	Oh, yeah, they're vaccinating people in their 50s now.
	What's this about now?
	I mean, I'm probably going to get...
	In a week or two's time, I'll get an offer to get a vaccine myself.
	I mean, I'm not going to get bothered because I'm not in danger zone for it, but, like...
	The point is, the people who are at risk have been vaccinated.
	And, I mean, if we just go to the next one, which is the UK's current summary, if we scroll down a bit, you can see the graphs.
	And it's like, okay, the vaccine seems to have worked.
	Take the W. Yes, it seems to be a reasonable inference that the number of cases have, I mean, the cases peaked at like 50,000 cases a day, now it's 5,000 cases a day, and with 100 people a day dying within 28 days of a positive test, which, I mean, and that's high today.
	Yesterday it was like 65 or whatever.
	So it's like, okay, you have defeated the coronavirus.
	The Conservatives have done it.
	Not only did they defeat the European Union by moving faster than them, they appear to have actually competently rolled out the vaccination programme, which shocks me more than anyone else, I'm sure.
	And we appear to be in a position where actually, we won!
	In which case, take the win.
	Yeah, take the win.
	In which case, we can also now defeat the European Union again by opening up sooner and having our economy skyrocket as companies try to find somewhere where they can trade.
	Yeah.
	I mean, like, Spain and Portugal have already said, look, we're not going to prevent, and Greece have already said, we're not going to prevent British tourists from coming here because they need their money.
	Gagging for money.
	They are gagging for money, because a third of Greece's economy is tourism, and something like 20% of that is British tourism.
	Exactly, right?
	And so they need as much of us to go.
	And the thing is, I love holidaying in the Mediterranean.
	I love it in Greece.
	It's lovely.
	I'd love to go and give them my money.
	The people there are lovely.
	The food there is amazing.
	Keto-friendly, too, which is great.
	And, no, no, lots of meat and cheese and olives.
	It's good.
	And, obviously, you can't put a price on the historical value of the place.
	And so, it's a wonderful place to go, and the weather's great.
	Wonderful place to go, and which is why they're like, look, just come.
	And it's like, we'd love to, but the government won't let us.
	You know, sorry, Greece.
	We'd love to come visit.
	And Portugal.
	Yeah.
	But then Boris decided to go and put his foot in his mouth over this tremendous victory that he could be trumpeting around by saying actually greed and capitalism were the source of the UK's vaccine success.
	And it's like, oh, God, why?
	And now, the allegation...
	Left framing.
	It's so bad.
	It is so bad.
	It takes the left framing and is like, that'll do.
	You can say freedom or independence to make our own decisions.
	Liberty.
	Liberty.
	Property, or whatever it is.
	The thing here, ultimately, was our ability to sign that contract in like that, whereas the European Union couldn't.
	So it's like, well, the independence of the UK is what helped us there, in that respect.
	But no, it's greed.
	Prudent decision-making could be, you know, it was the prudent decision-making of my conservative government.
	But no, he instead frames it as greed, like a dunce.
	But this was a private meeting of Tory MPs, and someone leaked this.
	So, in his defence...
	It's not public, fair enough.
	It wasn't a public statement, and it seems that he's making a joke, right?
	Right.
	So, and don't get me wrong, I believe that he probably was making a joke.
	I could believe that that was the joke.
	Oh yeah, it was Greed that did it, boys.
	But the point is, you don't say irresponsible things like that if it's likely that the press is going to hear about it.
	And anything you say about coronavirus is likely the press is going to hear.
	They know as well.
	Every cabinet member, never mind the goddamn PM, any Zoom call you do is public.
	Yeah, just assume they're public idiots.
	Anything you do online is public if you're at that level of government.
	Yeah, so like I said, this was apparently absolutely clear it was a joke, a reference to the film Wall Street.
	Whoever leaked it needs to take a long, hard look at themselves because it was very irresponsible.
	Yeah, it was.
	It was very irresponsible.
	It was such a dumb, dumb thing.
	Like, you had this sewn up, you know?
	This whole thing was perfectly sewn up.
	You couldn't fail.
	You'd literally defeated all of Britain's rivals.
	You'd done a good job rolling out the vaccine.
	They're like, yeah, it's because we're greedy.
	Oh, just such an idiot statement!
	And it's not even, like, I don't, like I said, I don't even, like, oh, Boris, you're...
	No, because if it's a joke, I get it, but you know that that's going to be leaked.
	Come on.
	Yeah, you're at the cusp of an amazingly well-crafted narrative that is a victorious narrative.
	You could have taken the win.
	But yeah, basically, lockdowns are over now, Boris.
	We don't need lockdowns.
	You've cured the country.
	You're the saviour.
	We'll put up a statue of Boris the Corona Conqueror.
	You know, I'm happy to do that.
	Just let us out of the fucking houses and let's go on holiday.
	Please.
	You ask for so much.
	Yeah, I know, I know.
	Please, Boris.
	Anyway, let's go to the video comments.
	Hi guys.
	Much like Dr.
	Saad spoke about ideologies that have parasitic characteristics, can you think of ideologies that have symbiotic characteristics?
	One that comes to mind for me is the warrior ethos.
	For instance, it can stand on its own, but it can also join with other ideologies, like Catholicism plus the warrior ethos equals Templars.
	Are there other ideologies that you can think of that share more symbiotic characteristics?
	Does he mean like ideologies that are very good at, not sympathising, but working with ideological groups?
	Because, I mean, liberals, surely.
	They're working with anyone at any given time, depending on who's the biggest threat.
	Yeah, there's always going to be a kind of syncretic overlap between various ideologies, and essentially they have to agree on certain basic axioms before they can work in tandem, but if they do, then there's no particular problem.
	Yeah, like Sikhs, Hindus, liberals, you know, they're all just fairly able to take advantage of certain circumstances.
	But this is why I think that leftism and Islam actually have a great deal of overlap and why Islamo-leftism is a thing.
	Because I think that they both operate on the axiom of victimhood.
	And they see themselves as victim identities fundamentally, even when they're not, even when they're busy oppressing people.
	And so this means they can work together, and it's why it doesn't work for other people.
	I mean, if there's a symbiotic relationship between two that is the best, it has to be Islamo-leftism right now.
	It's amazing.
	You're Islamophobic, which means you're unreasonably discriminating against us.
	We're also the victims.
	Also, you should do things the way we demand you do them.
	I imagine some guy being like, I believe in a woman's right to be oppressed.
	I believe in a woman's right to wear a burqa.
	Anyway, let's go for the next one.
	Hey there!
	Was out enjoying the Norwegian nature and weather as I listened to the bird song and a podcast and I discovered we have been visited by greatness.
	We have been visited by a celebrity.
	We have been visited by...
	Cardi B! Isn't it fantastic?
	You motherfucker!
	Oh, God.
	I'm glad I don't live somewhere it's snowing all the time, though, I've got to say.
	Oh, that's a good joke.
	That was.
	Last podcast, you mentioned the All I Want for Christmas is a white genocide guy, and I was at Drexel when that happened.
	I was studying, and this guy came up to me and said, we're having a sit-in for this professor to protest his potentially being fired.
	And I said, I don't really want to go unless I know more about this situation.
	And he said...
	Oh, it's a free speech thing, and of course that's been a cause near and dear to my heart for a while, but I still didn't want to go.
	Then you covered it on your channel, and I found out what this guy said, and I was very thankful that I didn't go.
	The thing is, ironically, I actually do agree with his free speech to be able to say that all he wants for Christmas is white genocide.
	I just think that they're probably...
	I mean, anyone asking for any kind of genocide should probably have some sort of professional repercussions, especially if they're a professor at a university that's constantly promoting Marxism.
	It just strikes me as being odd how...
	I mean, he did actually get fired, eventually.
	So he's the former professor now.
	But it's just weird that everyone on social media is like, oh, there's nothing wrong with him saying that.
	I mean, to be honest, I think the biggest gripe people have is the inequal application of the principle that if you call for...
	I don't even know what you call it.
	Racial discrimination is the bane of the West.
	It's the thing in our culture that we hate the most, let's say.
	It's the thing that's the most poignant that gets everyone fired up.
	And it's the case that if you do that against brown-skinned people...
	Instant dismissal.
	There would be no question.
	But when you get, what is it like, the lady who was hired who was saying, I like to bully old white men.
	That's right.
	Being an editor.
	Was it Sarah Jong?
	Sarah Powell, I don't remember.
	No, I think it was Sarah Jong.
	I think it was Jong.
	Ellen Powell was the Reddit person.
	Yeah, Ellen Powell was the Reddit one who was like, what are you going to do about the incels working at your company?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I don't have to sleep with them.
	My company's full of incels.
	If we're going to have that principle in which the professional life can be terminated on the basis of proposing racial discrimination, it has to apply to everyone.
	There's no racial discrimination.
	He's, like, advocating for genocide.
	Well, there is racial discrimination.
	Well, I mean, yes.
	In an extreme form, of course.
	I'm trying to take it to its...
	Sure, sure, sure.
	But, like, don't worry about the category.
	Let's look at the magnitude, right?
	So I'm just saying, like, I don't like racial discrimination.
	Obviously, I don't agree with it.
	But I do think there could be a separate category for genocide advocacy.
	That maybe anyone who advocates for genocide, no matter who they're advocating for, probably isn't appropriate for university.
	Maybe.
	I mean, in my absolutist free speech worldview, I'm sort of like, okay, well, I don't think it should be a crime.
	Definitely not a crime, but I have to wonder, like, is there any academic value to this so I can pull out my behind?
	I think that being pro-genocide is probably something that universities should take a stance against.
	Call me an oppressive socialist tyrant or something, but maybe there should be a line there.
	I'm generally in agreement.
	If we're going to accept that this is a thing, it has to apply to everyone fair enough.
	That's just life.
	But in my mind, I'm thinking of some utopian liberalist society.
	Can I find a position in which this is academically useful?
	And that guy gets tenure?
	I'm just having a thought experiment.
	I just don't think that's a good idea.
	Probably not.
	Like I said, I'm a free speech absolutist.
	I don't think any of it should be illegal.
	But I don't think that a university should have a professor on the books who's pro-genocide.
	I suppose China would.
	Yes, they would.
	Actually, it's probably a field you can study it.
	And that's probably why we shouldn't be doing it.
	Yeah.
	That's a good point, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	If China's in favor of it, we should probably be against it.
	Right, let's go for the next one.
	After the shame of listening to my own wrong take twice yesterday, I realized maybe the party was right about the memory hole.
	Sorry, I missed that.
	After listening to his own wrong take yesterday, maybe the party's right about the memory hole.
	He wishes for that to be forgotten.
	But it's fine, man.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's no big deal, is it?
	Oh, well, Joe Biden's already proposed it.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Literally every rifle can be used to assault someone.
	So it's a butter knife.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You'll take our lives, but you'll never take our potato peelers.
	But as an implacable Second Amendment supporter, I am forced to take a hard line just to keep them at bay.
	So I say things like this.
	I don't care if a daycare centre full of handicapped POC trans kids are shot up every day.
	I'm not giving my property rights full sob.
	I mean, that's pretty hard line.
	But it still doesn't justify it.
	Just saw in the chat.
	Maybe WAP is the memory hole?
	Oh, God.
	Oh, the shadow of Cardi B looms large over this podcast.
	It's dripping on us from above.
	I wish you'd have to make it worse.
	But it's just such degeneracy where it's just like, I don't think anyone can disagree with that point.
	No.
	Like, if you need something to point to, that's it.
	Cardi B's woman empowerment is pointing out that women are wet holes.
	It's this freedom, you know?
	Just saying, maybe Islam is looking more appealing.
	Dave Carter says, as a black man, Trevor Noah knows a lot about anti-Asian hatred.
	No, that's not fair, right?
	That's not fair.
	He's from South Africa.
	Well, how did South Africans treat Asians?
	Well, I don't know.
	I bet it's not swimmingly well.
	How many Asians do they have in South Africa?
	Probably excluded them all by this point.
	Alex Ogle says, The Atlanta story contrasts nicely with the Boulder story.
	There, when the media found out the shooter wasn't white, descriptions shifted to the gun he used instead of who he is.
	Either way, the media are lazy, lying bastards.
	Correct.
	Joseph Woodland, I'm surprised at the sheer number of foreign daily show hosts in the US. Maybe it's time for some daily show nationalism.
	Maybe the daily show format just needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.
	Yeah, it was okay for John Stewart, and it's just trash.
	Yeah, it's embarrassing now.
	Particularly the John Oliver variety.
	I don't know why people think that it's popular.
	The Nish Kumar variety.
	Well, that's just...
	Exactly, yeah.
	It is that show.
	Yeah, he's just ripped them off, and it's just like...
	It's such obvious leftist propaganda.
	That's the thing.
	It's like, believe this thing!
	Ha ha ha!
	Isn't any counter-argument to it hilarious?
	Ha ha ha!
	Someone made a good point, I think it was like a 4chan post or something, where someone pointed out that it's actually really good conditioning as well.
	So you essentially say two nonsense things that is left as propaganda, and then make a really pointless joke that's just bad, but it distracts you from the fact that you've just listened to two bits of nonsense.
	And you make the joke in response to the right-wing response to your points.
	So if the right-wing says something normal, you just laugh at that, and then...
	Doesn't even matter.
	So even if it sort of conditions you to just believe the left is nonsense and then laugh at the right-wing stuff, and it doesn't give you really any time to take into consideration what's true and what's not.
	And you've gained no new knowledge out of it.
	No.
	You've just been conditioned into thinking...
	Actually, it's kind of like the Brave New World stuff.
	It's very much like the Brave New World stuff.
	Oh yeah, by the way, we recorded part two of the Brave New World premium podcast leading up to the book review, the book club, so that'll be out...
	When will that be out, John?
	Tomorrow.
	So, excellent.
	I'm really looking forward to that.
	I was really happy with how that turned out.
	Trevor Noah finally gives a definition of racism from the left, blaming the entire race for your problems.
	Sounds familiar.
	Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
	If this man targeted sex workers and it ends up being mostly Asian women, and by doing so, he's targeting Asians, does that mean most Asian women are sex workers?
	I mean, no, but like...
	That is the view of Trevor Noah, because there was a bit I cut in which he's saying that we must take into account his targeting of, what is it, like Asian stereotypes or something?
	I was like, what?
	I don't think of Asians and then think prostitutes.
	I didn't think that was a stereotype.
	I mean, like...
	Maybe in the United States, but I've never heard that one before.
	I mean, maybe for Thai, but then it's ladyboys, it's not even prostitutes.
	Trevor, defending the honour of Asian women for a minute, they're not all hookers.
	I don't know why I have to say that, Trevor, but it's just...
	Hashtag not all Asian women are hookers.
	Yeah, hashtag Trevor have some decency, for God's sake.
	Hannibal Reincarnate says, Hi guys, hope all is well with you.
	I noticed that society is getting more and more sexualized and therefore is more alleged crimes due to this.
	I wonder what your view on the future impact of this is.
	I personally think we'll get stuck in a positive feedback loop and have further sexualization in response to further sexual crimes reported.
	Obviously this isn't the only factor, but it seems significant.
	Your thoughts?
	That's an interesting point.
	I mean, incel, terrorism, where the hell does that come from?
	Not being able to get a wife.
	Enforced monogamy.
	Jordan Pearson's right.
	But then you've got the sex addiction, terrorism now.
	Seriously, go back 100 years and almost everyone is married by the age of 25.
	I don't know.
	Some of the sexual revolution stuff doesn't seem to work.
	Yeah, it seems to have been markedly optimistic, frankly, when it comes to male-female relations.
	But yeah, Edward of Woodstock says, It sounds like someone just let Mac Yusuf out of Scotland and let him go ham.
	This shooter, white.
	These Syrians, white.
	All Asian Americans, white.
	Cubans, white.
	He must be recaptured for more innocent people who have been declared to be white.
	That's a good point.
	Hamza Youssef?
	Hamza Youssef's going to blow.
	Africa, white!
	The Scottish Justice Secretary, white!
	Well, actually, we have got North Africa is also white.
	I've just forgotten that.
	But Hamza's from Pakistan.
	Are they white?
	Well, according to the people claiming that this guy's white.
	I mean, I guess if they're a kind of Asian.
	Okay, well, welcome to the white race, Hamza.
	Hamza Youssef, white!
	The Boulder Shooter, Schrodinger's white person.
	Anyone else get whiplash from the narrative shifting so fast?
	Man, I really do.
	It's actually genuinely amusing to watch it in real time.
	When something like this happens, you go on Twitter and you search for your favorite verified checkmark and you say, right, archive, archive.
	Now's the turnaround.
	The shooter goes from perpetrator of white supremacy to a victim of it in the time it's second.
	The second his name gets released and the left realized he was part of one of their victim groups.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	It literally goes from perpetrator to victim.
	It's amazing.
	And what I love about this as well, right, is that nothing has changed in reality.
	Like, they're busy making up narratives that don't represent reality, and then one fact has changed.
	The whole narrative has to flip, and yet reality is just as it was the second before.
	Nothing had changed.
	It's almost like these people on Twitter just need to do something else.
	Nathalie Collier says, White males are the majority of mass shooters.
	White males have a shooting spree problem.
	Asian males are the majority of grooming gang members.
	How they suggest that Asian men have a grooming gang problem?
	But you can suggest that Asian women are a bunch of hookers, and that's fine.
	That's such a horrible thing to say.
	The dignity of these women is like, yeah, prostitute.
	Fucking hell, Trevor.
	I thought you were meant to be a progressive.
	Sort of like an 80-year-old dad sat next to you at a game or something.
	Trevor, leave the Asian women alone.
	Yeah.
	You see them?
	Bunch of prostitutes.
	And I'll say...
	You know, this Asian mum's just there doing the dishes or whatever, and she's watching, oh, tell the Daily Show, Trevor, no.
	Yeah, Asian women prostitutes.
	What?
	Joey Reynolds.
	There's racist media personality and racist leftists on Twitter.
	Can't distinguish the difference between whites.
	The Colorado shooter is white Syrian, the same way George Zimmerman is a white Peruvian.
	Yes, that's exactly it.
	It literally is down to the lightness of your skin.
	Wasn't George Zimmerman the first white man?
	He was the first transracial?
	Yes.
	He went Hispanic to white overnight?
	Yeah.
	I mean, is there anyone before him?
	Probably, but I'm just not aware of them.
	Has he ever given an interview about that?
	Who wonder?
	Well, he did get acquitted, didn't he?
	Does he do interviews?
	That'd be a hell of a podcast.
	LAUGHTER I'm not being serious, by the way.
	It would be funny.
	The Colorado shooter presents a novel face for white supremacy.
	Only in America we can turn everyone white.
	It's like there's a vat or something of bleach.
	Natalie Collier again.
	If Asians are now being included as white, does that mean the grooming gangs in the UK are actually overwhelmingly white?
	In that case, can we actually start addressing and investigating the problem and arresting people now?
	I mean, on the plus side, some people have been arrested for the grooming gang.
	I mean, you know, they are regularly still putting people away for it.
	It's just the media won't allow us to report on this and the government won't allow us to talk about it.
	It's like, okay, thanks.
	Boris, on the subject of Boris, Andy D says, I travelled to the UK last week, even though I thought I would share my experience.
	Having returned from Luxembourg, who opened outside dining this weekend.
	God, the luxuries they have in Luxembourg.
	Outside dining.
	Can you imagine?
	I bet they even got to see their relatives at Christmas.
	He had to go to Luxembourg for emergency medical treatment.
	I had to prove that there's a reason for my return.
	Multiple declarations of reason for travel, being good health, temperature checks, four tests in ten days, including the three you have to pay for, quarantine and constant monitoring by the COVID team via phone.
	What more can be done without locking people up?
	Well, you do get quarantined for ten days in a hotel if you come back as well, if you're a citizen.
	So, they do lock you up as well, if you are actually from this country.
	Just saying.
	You know, I mean, like, why not?
	Luxembourg, open outside dining, drinking at the weekend.
	No real progress with the vaccine and reasonably high number of cases.
	The UK is a mess.
	Yeah, the UK is a mess because Boris has won and won't accept it.
	It's just so weird.
	I mean, just go around.
	Have you seen anyone coughing?
	Why can we not just go to restaurants being able to open at least?
	I mean, what's wrong with that?
	I mean, you were happy to do that a few months ago before December.
	Like non-essential businesses, right?
	What they call non-essential as in, you know, a stationary store or something like that, right?
	And that's just the first on mine because I need to go buy more highlighters.
	Like, why does that have to be closed?
	Like, there's no particular reason that that should be closed and yet a supermarket can be opened selling the same product.
	Any arguments for any of this is now gone.
	Yeah, it's all over.
	And so it's like, right, okay, let's get on with it.
	The Civic Nationalist says, wait, people haven't been having sex with people who aren't in their houses.
	I've been seeing my girlfriend.
	If the government wants to stop me, they can take the Johnny out of my hands if they want, but I'm going to be bollock naked.
	Come and take it, you perverts.
	I wouldn't tempt them.
	Yeah, don't tempt them because they will.
	Don't reveal your identity.
	Because if the government finds out that you're having sex with people who don't live in your house, you're in trouble.
	Someone you forgot to ask about that consensual sex.
	Exactly.
	Boris just sat there scowling.
	Fenric Ferenik says, open up the pubs and clubs, let people meet and have sex.
	Incels are the most dangerous threat to society.
	If you look at most Western terrorists, they're not very lucky with the ladies.
	I mean, there may be some truth to that, but unfortunately we've got a country full of incels now because of government orders.
	And now Ellen Powell's like, what am I doing about the incels working at my company?
	Oh, God.
	I don't think my wife's going to approve of the solutions.
	Angel Brain says, banning booze in Scotland is at best optimistic as the 24-hour Care Bear marathon.
	At worst, it's naive as a horse thinking that a Frenchman is its buddy.
	Yes.
	English Loyalist, don't you find it funny they can be strict on travel, yet they are letting these people in dinghies right into the UK? Yeah, it's really weird, isn't it?
	There's a guy on Twitter who, I don't know if he's watching, but he endlessly sends me just updates of like, oh, another 20 people have arrived today, and then the next day it'll be like another video of three boats have arrived today.
	It just never ends.
	It never ended, and it's only going to get worse with the summer coming.
	Yeah.
	No one cares.
	It's just a thing.
	Why can't we just have a boat out there that just turns them back, returns them to France, and then confiscates their dinghy?
	Hmm.
	You came from France?
	Yeah.
	It's not like you came from the United States with this dingy, did you?
	Go home.
	Awesome Wells says, Gentlemen, if a racist tree falls in a forest and no one's around to see it, is the tree still racist?
	The answer is, of course, yes.
	Racism is an intrinsic property of the tree.
	Samuel Kennedy says, Hey guys, I was recently rereading The Odyssey and was wondering if there are any characters that are worth emulating.
	All seem to have some life-ending flaw.
	Uh...
	Well, I mean, yes.
	I guess Odysseus, because he's the only one who makes it out alive.
	Should you emulate the guy who lives?
	Well, he gets everyone killed.
	So, I mean, try not to...
	If some guy's like, look, we're going to go on a wonderful journey, or there's a nice island of people who are eating a tasty fruit, stay with the people eating the tasty fruit.
	They don't all die.
	Adam Carley says, What do communists light their homes with before they use candles?
	Electricity.
	That means it's an old one, but true.
	Mostly Hammer says, Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	Just wanted to say my wife is pregnant with our sixth child.
	Dadism kicking in for a larger house.
	Congratulations.
	Well done.
	Plenty of hell.
	Maxwell Silverhammer says, I was wondering if you could have a children's book review down the line.
	Maybe have Vicky do it because she gets no screen time and women being nurturing and whatnot.
	Do you fancy doing that, Vicky?
	No.
	Weird, that isn't it?
	I would recommend one that stuck with me through the decades is The Little Red Hen, when the moral of the story is no one is entitled to the product of your labours.
	I was actually thinking about doing one, because my son got a book called Zog.
	Have you ever heard of it?
	Why would you?
	Do you know what that stands for?
	Well, not in Korean, no.
	No, there's...
	Oh, God, I'll explain it after.
	Don't worry.
	Okay.
	But the character of the book is a dragon called Zog, right?
	And the whole point of the book...
	Is he in charge of the kingdom?
	No.
	No, he's a dragon.
	Okay, okay.
	But he's going to dragon school, right?
	And so they're taught how to fly, they're taught how to breathe fire, and they're taught how to fight knights, and so he's going through dragon school.
	And then eventually he has to capture a princess, and so he captures a princess, and a knight turns up, and the knight's like, right, I'm here to fight you, dragon.
	And then they all agree that actually maybe we shouldn't be knights and dragons who fight each other, maybe we should become doctors and just fly around the world being doctors.
	And it's like, oh my god, this is an amazing, amazing way of, Expressing the death of heroic man that we've been talking about, the rule of the scientists devaluing and destroying all of this ethical knowledge that the dragons and the knights had, instead becoming modern scientific men.
	I found it really annoying and I didn't like it.
	But I don't know what Zog means, so...
	You know, AA actually also does, like, children's books reviews, kind of, whenever he explains...
	Well, there's value to them.
	Yeah, because it's also, like, you can destroy socialism with just the most basic of books from children.
	It's like, look, the hen did the work.
	The hen baked the bread.
	And now all the other animals want the bread.
	And the hen says no.
	Phew.
	Why is that right?
	Because the hen did it.
	Let's consult Boris Johnson.
	It's the hen's greed.
	Shut up, Boris.
	I'm sure that was a joke, though.
	I am sure that was a joke.
	It was just an off-hand comment the media is misrepresenting.
	It just looks really bad in the headlines.
	Anyway, Heathcliff says, I want to share something with you that I read on a transgender Reddit forum.
	God, this is going to be good, isn't it?
	As a male-female transgender person, I was in a five-month-long relationship with a man.
	She had not told her boyfriend that she was transgender and been born male.
	They had not yet had sex.
	As the transgender person was asking the forum if she should disclose to her boyfriend that she was trans before they had sex, what astounded me is that almost all of the responses said that she had no duty to disclose that she was trans.
	They did not consider it deceitful or even dangerous that she didn't inform her boyfriend that she was born male.
	Your past medical history is none of his business.
	How is a person supposed to react when you find out you've been dating a biological man for five months?
	Stick to Christian dating, lads.
	Well, yeah, Islamic dating actually includes trans people, doesn't it?
	I think yes.
	It's a very inclusive religion.
	It's very diverse.
	It's not gay.
	Again, the Islamo-leftist alliance, the Venn diagram gets closer and closer.
	We can accept the T but not the LGB. That's the Islamic position.
	Weird.
	Mike says, Hi guys, I have a question regarding leftist hypocrisy.
	Well, you've come to the experts there, Mike.
	Me and my partner have a friend who's a typical Marxist, ACAB, uni-educated, England-loathing Marxist, who's apolitical before going to university.
	They now work within the museum sector and wish to become a curator.
	Obviously, with the lockdown, I'm unable to properly speak with them about the weird radicalisation that I've seen with him.
	I've raised it with my friends, they're all worried, but he lives in another city, so we can't go see him.
	How do you think anyone could consolidate these worldviews into anything coherent?
	I can't get over the idea in his head that he must be colonising history.
	I want to have a civil chat with him, but when my government allows me my freedom again, sorry for the long post, have a good one.
	Hashtag curfew for men 2021.
	Honestly, I think that your friend is going to be...
	Very emotionally primed to take your reasonable criticism as a personal attack on him and his deeply held morals, and he's going to disavow you by the end of it.
	I'm not optimistic.
	Oh, really?
	It doesn't show.
	Yeah.
	But, I mean, I've just seen it so many times.
	Yeah, I know.
	I've seen it so many times.
	So, it's very, very difficult.
	You're going to have to have a very strong personal bond with your friend for him not to do that, I think.
	Tf Allspark, been loving the evolution of Carl the Sargonian to Carl the Devourer of Lotus.
	Your team is equally good at the work.
	Here's to many years of growth and success.
	Well, I hope so.
	Yeah, everyone's doing great.
	There's loads of great content on the website every day because I work them like a slave driver.
	Joe Rittenhouse says, decided to get some skin in the game.
	I'm running for my local school board.
	Oh, well done.
	See, this is the sort of level of public engagement that people usually ignore, and that means that the Karens get to do everything, and the Karens are not very well resistant to progressive ideology.
	They tend to adopt it because it's a managerial ideology, and they are natural managers.
	And so if we want any kind of counter-progressive people doing these things, then you've got to volunteer.
	This is why I keep saying to people, they're like, well, I don't know what to do after university.
	It's like, well, you've got to become a professor.
	Because otherwise a communist is going to become a professor.
	Actually, all of politics as well is sort of volunteering.
	I know MPs and councillors do get paid, but it's a lot of nonsense you have to do to even get the position to why you're the one.
	And if you ever wondered why so much of the Labour Party's MPs, like all of them, and all of their councillors are just so many midwits, This is why.
	It's just because there aren't people taking those positions.
	Yeah.
	And you can always check the accent as well.
	They've always got a kind of Middle England single degree in English literature accent.
	It's not well...
	The MPs.
	The MPs, yeah.
	All the Labour MPs.
	They're all the, and the Lib Dems.
	They're all these people.
	They're not well-read.
	They don't really understand what they're talking about, but they do have a basic grasp of intersectionality and they can point fingers and say, you're a racist.
	And they're going to run with it.
	And they're going to run with it.
	It explains all of the world all of the time in all circumstances.
	But he says, My opponent was actively promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion course with a local woke group.
	I decided to pay $40 to take the course.
	My opponent was also in the course with me, After the night, he complained to the professor teaching the class and got the professor to kick me out of future lessons, citing the fact that I made him feel unsafe.
	Totally insane, so I got a check from the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group in the mail.
	Question is, how should I spend my reparations?
	How should he spend his reparations?
	40 acres and a mule.
	I don't think 40 bucks is going to buy you 40 acres and a mule.
	I could buy some Play-Doh.
	I guess so.
	we don't have any concrete suggestions for how you should spend your reparations, but I would suggest doing it in the most misogynistic way possible, which is giving it to an Asian woman.
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