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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 6th of July 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	Today we're talking about the Battle of Transpenis that's been taking place.
	I love that.
	I'm looking forward to the Wikipedia entry.
	Also, communists want indefinite lockdowns.
	And erotically, I love how they got called out on this as well, in the mainstream being called communists.
	And also businesses fleeing Democrats' assholes, because who wants to live there?
	Anyway.
	So, first couple of things to mention first is the new article Hugo has up about the end of the war in Afghanistan and the gradual end of it.
	I read this.
	It's kind of embarrassing, the whole thing.
	Like, the US is trying to spin this and being like, well, you know, we achieved our objectives, we're off.
	And it's like, yeah, the Taliban are still there.
	Waste 20 years and a trillion dollars in the graveyard of empires.
	That was your objective?
	Well, they got rid of Al-Qaeda.
	That was the point.
	You know, kill Bin Laden, get rid of Al-Qaeda, which, done, I guess.
	But that kind of wilded him to get rid of the Taliban and he failed in that.
	So, I suppose we have a new victor.
	It's the Viet Cong and the Taliban, the two ones being able to defeat the United States military.
	Didn't need any F-15s or nuclear bombs.
	So, there's that.
	Anyway, going into that read, the other thing I wanted to mention was the new article we have from V about the Great Leap Forward.
	So if we can get the next link up.
	Possibly.
	Nope.
	Never mind.
	All right, guys, playing around in the background.
	There's a Great Leap Forward going into that read, but without further ado, we're going to get right into it because we are going to run out of time otherwise because there's a lot of stuff to go through today.
	So, let's start with the Battle of Transpenis.
	I want that.
	I want that as a Wikipedia entry.
	I want the losses.
	I want the force types.
	You know, the meme.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So the battle of trans-penis decided to take place, and it's one hell of a battle.
	So this is the video that went viral of a woman turning up and saying, hey, I went into this spa called Wee Spa, and there was a bloke in there with his genitals out.
	And I don't want that in the female area, not only for me, but also there's young kids in there.
	Yeah, I can't ever notice there's a child right behind this guy.
	So let's go to the first video in which she explains her grievance.
	It's okay.
	It's okay for a man to go into the women's section, show his penis around the other women, young little girls under age.
	Your spa, we spa, condone that.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Like I asked.
	So he can stay there.
	He can stay there?
	What sexual orientation?
	I see a d***.
	Yeah, get your money back.
	You got a man with his penis talking about he's a woman.
	He ain't no woman.
	Uh-uh.
	Yeah, give her her money back.
	Are you talking about a transgender person?
	There's no such thing as transgender.
	He has a d***, okay?
	He has a penis.
	He has penis and hanging out.
	Okay, no, I'm not one.
	Actually, I'm a woman who knows how to stand up and speak up for my right.
	As a woman, I have a right to feel comfortable without a man exposing himself, okay?
	I already hate this straight white man who's going to tell the black lady that she's a bad person.
	Yeah, I mean, we get the next link up.
	This is just, like, memes endlessly coming out about this guy.
	He's like, actually, ma'am, it's a transgender person.
	It's like, it's a transgender penis.
	It's a woman's penis, ma'am.
	Yeah, so the explanation from the Asian chap behind the desk there and the Wii spa in question have taken the position of, well, we can't do anything.
	It's the law.
	Like, it's California law that this person can go in there and there's nothing we can do.
	No matter what you think about it, no matter what I think about it, nothing we can do.
	So I can't blame this bar because that is true.
	That is the law.
	One of the interesting things, I wouldn't usually mention this, but of course, from the left perspective, it's valuable.
	The person complaining, the main person there, Hispanic, the woman getting her refund after seeing that, Asian.
	So it's not these...
	White supremacist.
	Well, the only white supremacist around was turning around and saying, well, hang on, it's a woman's penis.
	Shut up.
	Enjoy.
	Stay in your lane, woman of colour.
	Yeah, so there's the soy boy there.
	New meme.
	Have some good fun with that.
	But as I mentioned the law, so we go to the next one.
	He looks properly...
	Sorry, he looks down and out.
	Carry on.
	He looks properly soy.
	Yeah, but look at the bags under his eyes.
	Look at the lintness of his stance.
	He's everything that you expect.
	Sorry, carry on.
	Also, I don't know what's up with men going to spas, but I don't know what this spa is, so that's one thing.
	California men.
	Are they men?
	Anyway, let's go to the next one, which is the law, as mentioned.
	No, they're not.
	You're quite right.
	So in 2005, Arnold Schwarzenegger passed this law, so it became the, what is it, public conveniences or whatever, is the wording.
	You can't discriminate on the basis, even on sexual lines.
	So if the person wants to come in and use the...
	Women's changing rooms or spa and is stark naked because that's the rules there.
	Yeah, you've got to look at that.
	You've got to look at that.
	Your kids have got to look at that.
	And even though you didn't consent, your problem.
	Even though you went into the women's area specifically to be with women, too bad.
	Thanks, Arnie.
	So, also to mention, I don't know if I left this as tuned in, transgender people are people.
	Not angels.
	Wow, amazing.
	This is the way to deal with it.
	I know why people endlessly think, oh no, they're trans, therefore they've done nothing wrong.
	You know, they can't have committed a crime or do anything.
	No, no, no.
	It's just the sound of choirs of angels in the background.
	Yeah, just wanted to make this point crystal clear again.
	Karen White, we talked about this before, this was a person, bloke, big-ass bloke, who had been described as a danger to children and women, sent to prison, male prison, decided he was a woman, went to the women's prison, and then sexually assaulted the female inmates.
	And then the UK has come to the conclusion, as all civilised countries should, which is that transgender prisoners get their own block or prison.
	They are not to be mixed with the other prisoners because they're too much of a mess there.
	So, if we go to the next link, this is some of the protests that happened afterwards in which the Yankee turfs are waking up and being like, hey, we should go and protest this.
	So they went down to the spa to be like, hey, this is nonsense.
	Again, not the spa's fault.
	It's the law's fault.
	But Antifa turned up.
	Antifa!
	Anti-fascists, as they keep calling themselves, turned up to attack and assault the TERFs who are protesting, being like, hey, if I go to the women's only section, I shouldn't look at men's genitals.
	I love how this completely undermines the claims that we're just against fascism.
	It's like, this has nothing to do with fascism, this is proof that you're a bunch of commies.
	Yep.
	Perfect.
	I mean, you couldn't play into the hands of reality better.
	But this wasn't the only one.
	They ripped away a woman's sign here for people listening.
	The next one here is the chap with the rooftop Korean t-shirt.
	Some woman turns up, kicks him in the balls, and in response, he beats her with a water bottle, and then she runs off, and he ends up getting arrested.
	But it's also Antifa tried to big this up and be like, oh my god, you attacked a woman.
	It's like, she kicked him in the nuts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Deserves everything she gets.
	What does she think she's doing?
	What did you think was going to happen if you're going nuts?
	He's going to be like, oh, fair enough.
	I mean, you are a woman.
	Yes, you're a 90-pound woman.
	You're going to attack an adult man.
	Good idea.
	Yeah, I got a rooftop Koreans on his t-shirt as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's obviously in the right Facebook groups.
	We go to the next link.
	There's more of this as well.
	So this is a video in which you have some woman walking around on a sign and then they just start attacking the woman.
	Oh, now it's okay to attack a woman, right?
	She's her, so she's not a real woman.
	She's a cis woman, so she's not a real woman.
	Unlike trans women who are real women.
	And also, she's a Nazi.
	No, I do love that standard is just like cis women, not women anymore.
	Not even just like you're a type of woman, no, you're a sub-woman, is what you are.
	So then there's the next thing, which is the...
	They are awful, though, aren't they?
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, you couldn't ask them to be worse.
	I mean, it's not like this is a surprise from Antifa being the worst people on the planet, but they're attacking what we'll see in a minute is just open left-wingers who are just like, shouldn't he be able to...
	I mean, this is just an obvious intimidation of this woman as well.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Awful.
	So the next thing here, this is the only argument or piece I've seen that's condemning the protesters against penises in women's areas.
	So this is a chap and they accused him in the tweet below of him pulling a gun.
	Turns out it was a taser, but I don't know what the rules are in California.
	Okay, I'm going to accuse him of only pulling a taser.
	Because it looks like a taser?
	No, but never mind Karen.
	Okay.
	That was a joke.
	I don't get it.
	They're like, oh, he pulled a gun.
	No, it was only a taser.
	Oh, it was only a taser?
	How disappointing.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, so there's also footage of them attacking videographers around who are not Antifa.
	So videographers that are not sympathetic to communism are just getting attacked.
	Because that's how free press works.
	Just a bunch of people clad in black, masked up, attacking random people in the street.
	That's fine.
	Attacking women in the street.
	Attacking journalists in the street.
	That's fine.
	It's all fine.
	I mean, this has happened to the Proud Boys.
	This has happened to Trump campaigners.
	This has happened to pretty much everyone who isn't a communist, who's ever tried to put on a rally in a left-wing area.
	Ben Shapiro, trying to give a speech, gets attacked by these people.
	It's endless.
	It's not massively new, but what is new, I think, is them attacking people who are not right-wingers.
	The brazenness of them just attacking women in the street seems neat.
	Parents and feminists.
	I mean, as we'll see later, one of the people who attended is a proper left-wing feminist.
	At least some things I would not agree with.
	But that's the people they're attacking now.
	Interesting.
	So, if we go to the next one, apparently the person organising the protests decided to do a bunch of posts.
	So if we can get up the third image here.
	Strange individual, but here's...
	There?
	She?
	I don't know.
	The post.
	I'm pro-human body in all its manifestations.
	Genitals are non-bestitual components of life.
	That's a great statement.
	Well, Hitler was a manifestation of a human body.
	Like, oh yeah, I'm definitely pro that.
	Pro-death camps.
	Look at all these dead, scrawny corpses.
	Well, that's a manifestation of the human body in a form.
	I'm pro that.
	Oh my god, that's a stupid statement.
	Genitals are a non-vestigual component of life.
	I'm also sick of children being leveraged for apathetic moral agendas.
	What's it?
	No nudity, unless that's...
	It's not nudity, but it's still weird.
	But the thing here of her being like, I don't want children brought into this argument.
	Now, I can see where this comes from.
	The argument of, say there's an issue about taxes, and someone brings their child to the debate.
	It's like, why did you bring a child?
	Sure, but what's an apathetic moral agenda?
	Right.
	I mean, every moral agenda has an intent behind it.
	It's literally the opposite of being apathetic, but anyway.
	But the issue we're dealing with here is not tax reform or climate change or something that doesn't require a child's opinion.
	This is someone in the changing rooms with kids with the genitals out.
	I feel like the children might be relevant for that conversation, but okay.
	So there's also some reviews, because people have been having good fun, with the Wii Spa, which they always do.
	So this is one guy rated at five stars, and he says in here, I for one think that this spa is the greatest spa anywhere in the world, because as a married man, I can walk into the women's dressing room and see all the unclothed girls.
	This makes much better than going to a strip club.
	So just people dunking on the spa for being that.
	It's not the spa's fault.
	Yeah, it's not the Sparks' fault.
	I can't blame the Sparks' fault here.
	I don't know what their opinion is on the whole thing, but it's not relevant because the law is the law.
	Thanks, Schwarzenegger, for that one.
	So the next link is a lady I saw this morning on Posey Parker, so I don't know if she did a stream, but she was a lady who was present at the protest and then was attacked.
	And she's clearly a left-winger.
	There's absolutely no way to say she's a right-winger in the language she used throughout this interview and all the rest of it.
	Melissa Cohen there looks like a stereotypical Republican to me.
	Yeah, not really a thing.
	I mean, Posey's not a right-winger either, but I guess if you define a right-wing as anyone who doesn't agree with the far-left, then that's how that works, I guess.
	So she says on here that she considers transgenderism is woke homophobia, and it's also gay conversion 2.0.
	No, no, I can defend those positions.
	It's a robust language, as the conservatives would say.
	No, no, no, because they are basically transitioning gay men to become women, therefore making them straight.
	Yeah, what's interesting is this is actually an accusation, I think it's, what is it, Douglas Murray and the Spectator, whoever has been labelling it, Stonewall, because there used to be a homosexual rights group that would defend toleration and have the same rights in law, and these days are more about, if you're gay, nah, you're trans.
	Like, that's the solution?
	Like, we have no gay children anymore, they're all trans.
	It's like, what happened to all the gay kids then?
	All those effeminate gay kids, no, they're all women.
	So she also describes the...
	She says, like, the trans activists, as in the anti-part types, and then she says, oh, and also the MRAs, which I found strange.
	What the MRAs got to do with this?
	Like, I didn't know why...
	Like, if you went to the MRAs, I bet if she went to the MRAs and started asking them, what do you think of all this?
	Do you think men are men and women are women?
	They'd agree.
	Yeah.
	Which is why I'm kind of...
	I'm a bit disappointed in being like, I'd love to see an MRA feminist alliance on this.
	How funny would that be, if nothing else?
	Let's get Karen Strawn on Posey Parker's podcast.
	I want to hear it.
	That'd be amazing.
	But also that lady there.
	I mean, I want to see the Yankee MRA, not Posey, Feminist Alliance here, where I want to see them holding hands and being like, yes, men are men, women are women.
	For any of our activism on both sides to work, we have to agree on the gender role.
	Yeah, otherwise none of this works.
	We're both out of business, yeah.
	Anyway, so that was good fun.
	So this is the point I'm trying to make, which is just that it's clearly not even anyone centrist or liberal or rightist anymore.
	I mean, even people who are pretty sounding left from what I heard from her are getting attacked.
	So, something to mention about the spa.
	So, this is from the spa's website.
	Before I got taken down, I can't find it anymore.
	On there, they list that you must remove your clothing in some areas.
	So, please do not wear bathing suits in the spa.
	So, certain parts of the spa, you have to be naked.
	It's just the custom.
	Korean spas, and a bloody one.
	Yeah, I've never been to one.
	But that's the thing.
	The women's section is naked women.
	So, it's not just when you're changing or in the shower or something.
	There's other parts of it.
	And if there's someone there with their meat and two veg out...
	Bit weird.
	Well, I can see how it would attract perverts.
	Which is why it did.
	I guess it is, yeah.
	I'm not just talking about this instance, this accusation.
	We have records from TripAdvisor, weirdly enough, of people making reviews years before this came up.
	2018, someone wrote a review in which that happened.
	So this person says, I really like this bar, but I had an unpleasant experience.
	They went to the spa.
	The clerk advised us that, quote, there was a transgender male in the women's locker room.
	Okay, no problem.
	I'm not the type to discriminate against people, but once in the women's area, I saw the mentioned transgender individual naked in all his glory, and he still had the male organ hanging there.
	Okay, no fuss.
	That surgery is very expensive anyway, so I go on about my routine and I get to the shower room.
	He was almost next to me showering too when I start to overhear conversations that he is having with a lady that was also in the shower area and clearly heard him say that he had sex with probably 100 women and that he was looking for a female girlfriend to share his time with.
	I love that we have to specify you need a female girlfriend.
	I love that.
	It's so amazing.
	He also mentioned that he uses cocaine and LSD to relax.
	Sure.
	Okay, not my business about what he does to relax.
	Because that's what cocaine does.
	It relaxes you.
	But hey, transgender person does not act like a guy around women, nor do they state how much they like women, nor how much do they like having sex with them around other people.
	Management said that according to the law, there is nothing they can do.
	Yes, they have the right to provide services to anyone, but that's not against the law, because they can't get rid of them on the basis that they're walking around with their cock out talking about how much they love having sex with women, and how would you like to come home with me, fellow woman?
	2018.
	I'm looking for a female girlfriend.
	This is not new.
	And also there are other accusations that have surfaced.
	I don't know about the subsequent ones because there's an argument to be said that this is blown up and therefore there's a motive to make something up.
	So I'm not saying if they're true or not true.
	That's what they are.
	So if we go to the next one...
	This is one that was made that says before spring 2020, there was a claim in a different spa of a very similar incident.
	As it happens, WeSpa isn't the only similar place that's had to balance accommodating both cyst customers and trans customers in various stages of their transitions.
	A representative for Century Day and Night Spa on Olympic Boulevard recalls a similar situation just before the pandemic shut them down in spring 2020, in which a trans woman, with everything reflected female on her driver's license, caused an uproar among cisgender female clients by exposing male genitalia caused an uproar among cisgender female clients by exposing male genitalia in the female pools and She wouldn't really use the spas.
	She would just sat at the corner of the pool with her feet in the water and her legs spread or took front-facing showers, the representative recalls.
	People began to feel uncomfortable.
	It became very disruptive.
	When the spa finally confronted her, she was adamant that the spa should attempt to normalise young girls and women to viewing male genitalia.
	Wow, very progressive.
	But are we sure it's male genitalia?
	I feel that this genitalia has been mislabeled.
	I thought it was a female penis.
	Yeah.
	What happened there?
	Interesting.
	Progress marches on, I suppose.
	So there's also another claim that's come out.
	So this is someone, I think, at the protest said this, that in January 2020 there was also a situation in which a woman who was not identified said that a person with a beard and a penis...
	A person with a beard and a penis.
	I call that a man, but okay.
	Got into the hot tub naked with her six-year-old daughter at Wii Spa on Wiltshire Boulevard in January 2020.
	She claims that she and her six-year-old daughter had gone on the outing to the spa together when a transgender woman sat on the edge of the pub where they were soaking.
	Why do you want to sit with kids?
	Yeah.
	Why the kid?
	Okay, groomer.
	Why couldn't you go to a separate section?
	Normalize them seeing male genitalia, said the groomer.
	Talking about normalizing people seeing male genitalia, whatever happened to the argument about unsolicited D-picks?
	Remember the feminist argument for all this?
	Yeah.
	Sending a D-pick to someone is essentially sexual assault or rape, depending on how much of a feminist you want to be.
	And to be honest with you, I'm kind of leaning that way myself now.
	Yeah, I mean, no one's pro unsolicited D-picks.
	It's not really a thing.
	But then in real life, I mean, can we describe this as that?
	I mean, you go to the women's only section of a spa in which you are made to be naked, in certain sections, because Dem's the rules, and then you're seeing unsolicited Ds.
	Uh...
	Makes sense to me.
	I mean, I don't see what the problem with arguing in there.
	So this is just an example of exactly that.
	2016, why your DPIC is a form of sexual assault by some feminist.
	And we go to the next one.
	This is just the Guardian arguing that unsolicited DPICs shouldn't be laughed off, but criminalized.
	So this is the Left Wing Guardian two years ago.
	How things change.
	And then if we go to the next one, we can actually have Jess Phillips herself claiming that we should criminalize cyber flashing, as she called it.
	I don't even disagree.
	I'm not sure I disagree either.
	That's the thing.
	I don't...
	Because it could be...
	But I have to ask, what's the moral difference, if any, between that and going into a women's space in which it's meant to be just women with your six-year-old daughter and...
	Sitting on the edge of a hot tub, naked, so a child and her mother can look at your junk or can see your junk seems to me like unsolicited cyber flashing in real life, to be honest.
	LAUGHTER So it's not even cyber flashing, it's worse.
	There's nothing on my mind.
	If a Bobby went down there and arrested someone for that, for flashing, I mean, what would be the law?
	What would be the outcome?
	Well, I would expect it.
	I mean, anywhere but California, I would expect it, obviously.
	So there's even a parliamentary report into this in which the government recommended that we will explore issues of online flashing raised by the Women and Equality Select Committee on the report on sexual harassment in public places.
	So then, why can't...
	I mean, if we are actually going to do this, we are going to criminalize that.
	I have to wonder, why does the same not stand?
	I just wanted to end this section, because, I mean, that's one hell of a little battle going on there.
	But also with a section that I just found hilarious, and I think it's sort of relevant to this.
	So, even in Britain...
	Where we're, you know, the government is at least right on some things, like Liz Truss coming out and saying that women are women.
	So this is the biggest right-wing newspaper in the UK, The Times, and they're reporting on her.
	Liz Truss, the equalities minister, is reimposing a more traditional line.
	It's the traditional line.
	Last month, she said that women have vaginas.
	Very traditional.
	Love the conservatives at the Times.
	Return to tradition.
	The traditional line that women have vaginas.
	Unlike the new tradition or whatever the new stance is.
	But yeah, I suppose return to tradition.
	Get rid of that law in California and stop giving unsolicited defrontals to children.
	Yeah, I mean, unbelievably, we have to sit here arguing for the sanctity of women's spaces.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	Well, no, no, I agree there's nothing wrong with it, but I never thought that when I first started criticizing feminists that I'd end up being like, look, women have a right to exist.
	But I didn't think it'd go that far.
	You know, I started with men have a right to exist, and now it's women have a right to exist.
	I mean, just, it's just bizarre.
	But not unexpected.
	Anyway, let's talk about the coronavirus, because nobody's sick of hearing about the coronavirus, and how communists seem to want indefinite lockdowns, even though none of the data seems to support this.
	So currently...
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	What's that got to do with it?
	So, apparently, the variant of the coronavirus that has overrun the UK is the Delta variant.
	I'm no expert, so I'm just going to be going on what The Guardian is reading.
	This is the Indian one that we've renamed.
	This is the Indian one that we've renamed.
	So, apparently, it accounts for 99% of England's COVID cases at the moment, because it's 40% more transmissible.
	And you might think, oh my god, that sounds terrible, until you realise that the symptoms of it, the number one symptom is a headache.
	Followed by a sore throat and a runny nose and occasionally fever.
	So basically it's a common cold.
	Right.
	But it's still got the ability to kill you if you've got, you know, preconditions or very old?
	Well, not sure, to be honest, because if we then look at the government's coronavirus dashboard, see the data on this, as you can see, they're doing 7 million plus tests a week.
	They've got 178,000 positive results, but only 2,000 or less than 2,000 people in hospital.
	And yesterday, the daily deaths within 28 days of a positive test were nine.
	That's strange, because my understanding is the deaths are about two weeks behind, but not hospitalisations.
	Well, that's the data from yesterday.
	Yeah.
	And this variant has been going around for the last month or so now, so if this really is the catastrophe that everyone thinks it is, well, it's not showing in the data.
	But the thing is, there's good reason to think that this is actually not a problem, because A... I mean, it gives you the sniffles.
	It appears to be about as dangerous as the common cold.
	But it could kill you, if you're extremely old or not.
	Well, yeah, sure, but a cold could kill you if you're extremely old.
	You know, that's what old people often die of, is respiratory diseases.
	But the public, of course, is massively vaccinated.
	I think it's something like...
	Almost all over 50s have been double vaccinated now, or something like that.
	We've been...
	Really hammering home those.
	So you can understand why this isn't causing very many deaths.
	Because the people who might be susceptible to it have been vaccinated.
	And so they're complaining, oh, it's all young people getting it, young people at risk.
	No, they're not.
	Young people are not at risk of this.
	As you can see, it's less than, like, not even double digits.
	We've got the percentage there of people who have the doses.
	86% of the British public have had the first dose, 64%, second dose.
	Yeah, staggeringly high, right?
	So this is not a problem, this is not a threat, it is not overwhelming hospitals, and it is not causing bodies to pile up in the streets.
	So why, oh why, are there bots on Twitter promoting that we need to extend lockdown?
	This is something that Paul Joseph Watson found the other day.
	And it's just bots all with exactly the same text.
	This is disgusting.
	Masks and social distancing should be in place till minimum Christmas time at the earliest.
	The governments are clueless.
	The Delta variant should be taken seriously.
	We should go into a national lockdown to prevent it spreading.
	Why?
	All these people will happen to post the same thing.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Word for word.
	Even with the same, like, lack of capitalization in the this.
	So this is obviously a bot farm that has been pumping this out.
	You're setting up bot farms to spread COVID fear.
	Exactly.
	That's a great question.
	Who is doing that?
	And I don't have the answer to that, by the way.
	But I think it's just worth noting that this is not something to be afraid of, at least from the information that we have.
	The data that we have suggests that this is not a problem.
	In fact, this is actually a very good thing because then everyone gets antibodies against COVID from a non-lethal strain of COVID, or what is basically non-lethal.
	I like Ron's response though, he's like, what does Gnome Chomps have to say about this?
	Great question.
	So it makes you wonder why the SAGE advisors, the SAGE panel, which is the government advisory panel for the coronavirus pandemic, are advising the government to extend lockdowns.
	Now this of course comes in the wake of Matt Hancock being disgracefully removed from his post.
	And Sajid Javid being introduced, and Sajid is a bit more traditionalist when it comes to British values and doesn't think the government perhaps should be locking us down forever and wants to see things returning to normal.
	So good news there, to be honest.
	But what I find really interesting about this is, as Rory's reported, this is behavioural psychologists.
	These are not scientists, at least epidemiologists, right?
	Sorry, Josh.
	Didn't mean to throw you under the bus there.
	These are not biology scientists.
	They don't study diseases or anything like that.
	So they're talking about the behavior of people.
	And one thing that's very interesting is there seem to be a fair few communists on this advisory panel or advisors to the advisory panel.
	One of them is Susanna Mickey.
	Now, she is a multimillionaire.
	She's inherited $52 million from her mother, who was the daughter of the second baron, Aba Conway, an Etonian industrialist.
	She also sold a Picasso painting for like $50 million.
	She's got hundreds of millions, right?
	She, uh, she obviously...
	And she's a communist.
	And she's a communist, yeah.
	She obviously owns...
	My shock.
	Yeah.
	She obviously owns a huge estate called...
	A huge house, sorry, mansion, called Aberconway House, which is a 20-bedroom mansion in Westminster that she owns and lives in.
	She also has a 5,000-acre estate in Wales, which is also, I mean, nice, if you can get it, I suppose.
	It's enough room for the three kids she's got.
	Yeah.
	Possibly all grown up and left anyway, but...
	Yeah.
	And so if we go to her Wikipedia entry quickly, John, you can see that she is herself a clinical psychologist on the Sage Advisory Group.
	And she had said that measures meant to combat COVID in 2021, June 2021, she said this, such as face masks and social distancing should continue forever to some extent, adding that I think there's lots of different behaviours we've changed in our lives.
	We now routinely wear seatbelts where we didn't have to.
	Yeah, but people were actually dying of car crashes, whereas very few people are dying of COVID. We now routinely wear seatbelts.
	She said that vaccines, testing and tracing and border controls and people's behavior were key factors towards controlling COVID-19.
	Hmm.
	Very interesting.
	How bloody lunatic are you?
	Well, she's a rich communist.
	That's the kind of lunatic she is.
	And she went on Good Morning Britain.
	I think it was yesterday or the day before.
	And she was asked some questions about Richard Manley.
	And she gave the left-wing, fear-mongering perspective on COVID, which is that there are going to be an overwhelmed NHS. Millions of people are going to die.
	Millions more will be on long COVID, as if Lockdowns can prevent that, because lockdowns haven't prevented the spread of COVID anyway.
	So anyway, so she thinks that lockdowns should continue indefinitely.
	And so Richard grills her with this question.
	It's quite a good one.
	Well, the logical extension of everything you just said would be that you think that we shouldn't lift restrictions at all on the 19th, then we should carry on exactly as we are.
	Am I right?
	Is that what you're suggesting?
	Well, lifting restrictions will increase transmission.
	And with all the problems that I've just talked about, it doesn't seem to me the best time to do that.
	In fact, if you remember a few weeks ago, we actually postponed lifting restrictions because the situation was so serious.
	But the situation's even more serious now than it was then.
	What is she smiling about?
	Look at her smile.
	Can we get the picture up, John?
	Look at that smile.
	Look at that smug bitch face.
	Look at that smug, rich, annoying, insufferable face.
	We need to lock down forever.
	Yeah, that's easy for you to say when you've got a 5,000-acre estate and a 20-room mansion, probably your own private chefs, and God knows how much space and free money to go and do whatever you want with.
	It's really easy for the incredibly wealthy top one, or probably higher than 1% of the country, to sit there and go, yes, peasants, we need to lock down, or else there might be transmission.
	There's going to be transmission anyway, and thank God we're all vaccinated, I guess.
	A... But this is the smile who knows that they're getting one over on you.
	You can't present what are apparently tragic things with a massive grin and think that this person isn't getting one over on you.
	And I mean this from a character analysis perspective.
	If you are ever dealing with someone who is presenting you with bad news or a bad option and they've got that kind of smug grin on their face, they're owning you.
	That's what they think they're doing.
	So let's go to Richard's response to this.
	You've been a member of the Communist Party for about 40 years now.
	You're still a member.
	And we know that communism is basically statist.
	We look at communists in countries around the world and we see that they are tremendously top-down dominant and controlled societies.
	I just wonder, and I'm putting this question on behalf of those who wonder about your politics, if your politics actually informs your sense of control, it's not just the medical arguments, but you have a kind of a political bent to want the state to tell people what to do.
	I've come on your programme as a scientist, as do all people who come onto your programme as scientists.
	They come on to talk about the evidence, relevant theories, How we approach our scientific disciplines.
	You don't ask other scientists about politics.
	I'm very happy to speak about science, which is what my job is, and to limit it to that.
	Notice how she is.
	The tension in her face is gone now.
	Now she's very...
	Well, I mean, I'm not limited to talk about the science.
	I hate that routine.
	I hate people who do that.
	I'm just a humble scientist.
	Yes, I may be an Islamist, but that has nothing to do with science.
	Well, that's exactly it, isn't it?
	You didn't ask the other scientists about their political affiliations.
	Yeah, because they're not commies.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sure, the other scientists aren't part of the Nazi party.
	They haven't been for 40 years.
	Still a member.
	She shouldn't be on a school board if you're still a member of the Communist Party.
	Exactly, but she's a government advisor.
	Central government.
	Central government.
	This is the SAGE Advisory Committee, right?
	And just to be clear, your politics clearly inform your beliefs on this because the data obviously doesn't.
	And I love the implication that scientists are somehow pure and above self-interest, which is a myth we're going to BTFO by the end of this.
	Lysenko, pure science.
	Exactly.
	Goebbels, he's just a scientist.
	Don't worry about the fact that he's a member of the Nazi party.
	Albert Speer, just an engineer.
	It's mad.
	Why does that not follow for any other profession on Earth?
	But that's the thing, right?
	Hang on, why does science get that out?
	Because they are lying to us, that's why.
	But the left of all political wings...
	For them to be like, well, don't worry about bias.
	Sorry, no.
	You are the party, the wing, the movement of implicit bias.
	Especially the communists.
	Everyone's biased in all things and therefore there's no objectivity.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Don't sit there and try and fall back on this.
	Well, I'm a scientist.
	I'm being objective.
	I've removed my feelings from this.
	Nonsense, right?
	She's still in the committee.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, for some reason...
	Sorry, that's the biggest story for me, where it's just like, the moment anyone found out you were a communist...
	We'll get to it.
	We've still got loads to get through, right?
	And so the communists at Novara Media obviously had her back.
	Let's play clip one.
	Okay, so what Richard was saying is that because communism is a statist ideology and Susan is allegedly a member of a communist party, that she's come to her view because she's ideologically wedded to the idea of the state controlling individuals.
	Correct.
	Now, I think it's a pretty big claim to make on the integrity of a scientist that they'd be led by political biases and not their interpretation of the data, the evidence in front of them.
	What a reach.
	What an absolute reach.
	What was the...
	Mengele.
	That's right.
	He's just a scientist.
	He's just going on his interpretation of the data.
	The data that he extracted because he can operate on Jews with impunity because he's a Nazi and he doesn't see them as human.
	But the integrity of my scientists.
	Don't agree that the scientists have any integrity.
	I mean, can you name one that has some integrity?
	Or is it Neil Ferguson?
	We need lockdowns.
	Also, I'm going to break lockdowns.
	Sorry, I've got no respect for the scientists who are in charge here.
	Scientists are people.
	Yeah, and that's exactly the point.
	Let's go on their interpretation of the data.
	Yes, the interpretation of the data is their bias.
	Because my interpretation of the data, with fewer than, you know, like nine people...
	Yesterday having died within 28 days of a test, confirming nothing at all, and the fact that the problem just seems to have actually solved itself at this point, means that my interpretation, through my bias of someone who wants liberty, means that we shouldn't have lockdowns.
	And so if a communist can look at that and come to, oh, we need more lockdowns, then that's clearly an expression of our individual political biases.
	I mean, she's not just a status.
	She's a totalitarian.
	Yes.
	Everything should be under the state.
	But then, then, ah, so now we have to leap to the...
	No, not communism.
	Communism's perfect.
	So let's go to the next clip.
	Are communists more likely to be in favor of maintaining strict lockdowns or indeed preserving mask mandates?
	Well, the problem for Richard Baddeley is that mask mandates don't really correlate all that strongly with communism.
	I think that if Susan Mickey was saying that collectivizing agriculture was key to controlling the virus, then sure, you might have a point in saying your membership of the Communist Party is relevant to what you're saying.
	But in this instance, there is simply no connection between feasing the means of production and everybody wear a mask other than in Richard Madley's fevered imagination.
	Ash.
	Ash.
	Think about this.
	You're a communist.
	The person you defend is a communist.
	The other guests you have on your podcast are a communist.
	And I can't think of a single communist who is pro Opening up.
	All of the communists are pro-lockdown.
	You're pro-lockdown.
	Why are you saying this?
	Why are you lying about this?
	And what I love about this is the very thin definition of communism or communism is just collective ownership and the means of production.
	Oh, well, if that's it, then why do you talk about it at all?
	You know, you've got nothing to say because we're not collectivizing the means of production.
	But it's not about that, of course.
	You know, this is...
	Yeah.
	Any socialist regime on Earth, all they do is collectivise the farms and that's it.
	They never touch culture at all.
	Exactly.
	They are not totalitarians.
	They don't feel that they have a mandate to reshape society according to the revolution or anything like that, Ash.
	No, your audience are stupid and they know that you...
	Well, they probably do know that you're lying.
	But they probably agree with you lying.
	But the point is, you're lying, and you know you are, by giving this very thin definition of communism that speaks not to the people who are engaged in it.
	But anyway, the problem that Ash has, of course, is that the guests on her own show just come out and be like, yeah, I'm a communist, I want lockdowns.
	Let's play the next clip.
	But Javid, you know, as I mentioned, he is even more obstinately against restrictions of any kind, even when it clearly makes sense to have, you know, mild, you know, somewhat mildly inconvenient restrictions in order for long-term sustainable collective health.
	And this kind of leads to this, like, Darwinian approach where it's like, let the bodies pile high in order to sort of secure the investments and business of a tiny group of people.
	Right.
	So, Communists pro-lockdown.
	Literally saying we want restrictions on people's freedom for the collective health.
	There is no such thing as collective health.
	Health is an individual subject as well.
	So one person might be healthy, another person might be unhealthy.
	There is no collective health between them.
	But anyway, it doesn't matter, right?
	But the point is, all of the Communists are in favour of the lockdowns and it's the Conservatives who are in favour of opening up.
	And what I find really interesting about that is that that woman is absolutely dumb.
	Because the idea that, oh, well, the 1% want to open up because then they make money.
	No.
	The lockdowns have facilitated an unprecedented change.
	Transfer of wealth from regular working people to billionaires.
	This is not new.
	This is not a surprise.
	We know this.
	We in fact know exactly how much went across from working people to billionaires.
	10.2 trillion, apparently.
	According to a report by the Swiss bank UBS, billionaires increase their wealth by more than a quarter at the height of the crisis, just as millions of people lost their jobs or struggling to get by on government schemes.
	The communists want the same thing that will make billionaires even richer.
	And the question, I guess, is why?
	Now, the answer, I think, is to destabilize capitalism so they can instigate their revolution, so they can overthrow the capitalist system, bring about the socialist system, and end up killing millions of people.
	Any critique with that?
	A couple of things.
	Firstly, the Ash Sarkar point of the Communists only care about collective farming and nothing else.
	There's such a lie.
	Just explain the DPRK's rules on haircuts.
	Why are there no mohawks in the DPRK? They're concerned about culture in all forms.
	It's totalitarian.
	It's every aspect of life.
	So for her to fall back on the most thin definition, a Marxist definition of what communism is, it's such an obvious lie.
	And again, why are all the Communists in favour of lockdown if communism has no correlation to lockdowns?
	The USSR had no problems with what clothes she wore.
	I mean, you weren't even allowed to leave the US, I thought.
	Such an obvious lie.
	I know.
	The other point here I do want to mention, because the idea that the money's just going to the billionaires, I mean, not really true.
	I mean, you've got the other point here, though, of a lot of people are losing a lot of money to take.
	It's disproportionate, and it's easy to understand why.
	Sure, but take the middle, let's say, wealthy, whatever.
	A lot of them are getting screwed over as well.
	Sure.
	Of course, to try and increase the wealth gap.
	I think that's a fair point to be made that that's what they want.
	Oh, absolutely.
	But take like Wetherspoons.
	I mean, Wetherspoons is going to get actually destroyed by all of this.
	Yeah.
	But Amazon is doing great.
	It's because of the business model.
	The business model of Wetherspoons is actually the same essentially as the business model as the regular business owner, the person who has a high street shop, who needs the shop to be open and people to come in to get their money and to do trade.
	That's the same model as Wetherspoons and they can't change that.
	Whereas Amazon or various other companies that can operate remotely in the same way, they're doing amazingly.
	And so Ash Sarkar and all the other communists are like, yeah, we should do what makes them wealthier.
	Why?
	Why do you want to rip money away from the average working person and give it to billionaires that you claim to hate?
	You are either stupid or you are lying, and I'm not feeling very generous.
	Anyway, so coming back to the totalitarian statist nature that Richard Madley had brought up, accurately so, it turns out that the scientists admit that their use of fear was totalitarian.
	They just know it.
	They know that what they do is unethical.
	This was the SPIB, the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour.
	This is the group that Mackie, Mickey, whatever her name was, Susan Mickey, is part of.
	The Communist Millionaire.
	The Communist Millionaire, yes.
	And so this is her group, and Gavin Morgan is another one of those.
	And this group seems to be essentially made up a majority of communists.
	Rory's doing a big investigation into these, in fact, that will be done, I'm sure, in the next week or so.
	But it seems a lot of them are communists.
	And so it should come as no surprise that essentially they've been totally dishonest and totally unethical.
	So the SPIB have said they've expressed regret about tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the government's COVID response.
	They warned last year that ministers needed to, quote, increase the perceived level of personal threat from COVID-19 because a substantial number of people do not feel personally sufficiently threatened.
	You aren't scared.
	We need to make you more afraid.
	That's what these scientists advised the government.
	Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team and probably a communist, said clearly using fear as a means of control is not ethical.
	Then why'd you do it?
	Why'd you do it?
	Why was that your advice?
	If you turn around a year later and go, hmm, actually, that was evil.
	Why did we do that?
	Because you're evil.
	That's why, right?
	Using fear smacks of totalitarianism.
	Yeah, well, you're surrounded by communists.
	Of course you're totalitarians.
	It's not an ethical stance for any modern government.
	By nature, I'm an optimistic person, but all this has given me is a more pessimistic view of people.
	It's given me a more pessimistic view of scientists and the unjust authority they seem to have accrued.
	So ministers faced repeated accusations.
	They ramped up the threat from the pandemic to justify lockdowns and coerce the public into abiding by them, a claim that will be examined in a forthcoming public inquiry into the pandemic response.
	These are one of the subcommittees that advise SAGE. So it's like organs upon organs of government bodies, basically.
	But one SPIB scientist told the Telegraph, in March 2020, the government was very worried about compliance.
	They thought people wouldn't want to be locked down.
	There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance and decisions about how to ramp up the fear.
	The way we have used fear is dystopian.
	The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable.
	It's been like a weird experiment, and ultimately it backfired because people became too scared.
	Another SPIB member said, you could call psychology mind control.
	That's what we do.
	Clearly we tried to go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.
	And another warned that people will use the pandemic to power grab and drive things through that wouldn't happen.
	Otherwise, we have to be very careful about the authoritarianism that is creeping in.
	The communists, who are advising the government, who want us to be locked down forever in order to destroy capitalism, are using fear-mongering totalitarian methods in order to get that goal achieved.
	And when confronted on this by Richard Madley, all the communists can say is, well, I'm just the scientist.
	Liars.
	All of them.
	I hate it.
	It's really depressing.
	Yeah.
	So you vote conservative, vote conservative.
	None of them will be held to account, either.
	A group of commie billionaires are the ones running the show.
	Yeah.
	A group of communists and they're brainlet activists who are all in favour of the 0.0001% who are the evil capitalists that are puppeteering the world, according to them, but they want to do everything to enrich and empower these people.
	At the same time, we're ruining society.
	Absolutely ruining it.
	Awful.
	We better move on to something at least a little more heartwarming, I guess.
	So, businesses are leaving Democrat assholes, because, I mean, you would, wouldn't you?
	Yes.
	And this isn't new, as The Hill reported before the pandemic.
	This has been a thing that's been going on for a hell of a long time, and everyone knows the reason.
	Blue cities are overtaxed.
	They're not worth it.
	They're way too expensive.
	So, this is just an article that I'm saying, as companies flee blue cities, middle-class workers are hurt.
	This is the reason why they're left.
	It's not fair to put the blame here on the business that's leaving for Texas or Ohio.
	It's to put it on the politician, the blue, who are taxing them so much that they're leaving.
	Like, that's not the business's fault there.
	If they can get better taxes in Texas, where do you think they're going?
	Well, if the state in whichever city is not going to protect their business and is going to penalize them for success, what do you expect?
	Yeah, so now the cities are also filled with disease and BLM, so...
	And Antifa.
	...even more reason to leave.
	So if we go to the first one here, this is just New York.
	Yeah, so this is August 2020 because, of course, during the lockdowns when Cuomo was destroying his city, the New York Times reported that national retailers and restaurant chains are permanently closing locations in New York City because of de Blasio's management of the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to a mass exodus of our residents and businesses.
	And this was also reported by the Washington Examiner.
	In the latest state-by-state economic review, the American Legislative Exchange Council, New York ranked 50th out of 50 for economic outlook.
	In 2019, it was 49th.
	So anyway, sorry, no, in 2013, sorry, it was 49th.
	So it's just gone down, but so not good.
	But then getting to this year in Minneapolis, Yeah, Minneapolis, even worse.
	So, I mean, this is just the target thing.
	Target now just departure of Minneapolis.
	Yeah, I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	Well, what was the actual reason they gave?
	So, the reason sighting less space needed, if that's the point, not the endless looting, burning.
	Yes.
	The iconic image of the giant building on fire in Minneapolis, I think that was a target.
	Ironic name.
	Well, yeah, it is, yeah.
	Anyway, they're not the only ones, so we've got the next link here.
	This is just some local reporting that a manufacturing company that has been here in Minneapolis since 1987 has decided to leave the city.
	The company's owner said that he can't trust public officials who allow his plant to burn during the recent riots.
	They don't care about my business.
	Totally fair.
	Totally fair thing to do.
	Get the heck out of there.
	So there's also more of these, so if we go to the next one here, this is just a report in which they're trying to be like, ah, there's some positives and some negatives to all of this, and I'm like, how?
	How on earth?
	The positives they give are just like people who have had their business burnt down and then come back.
	Oh, wow.
	Brilliant.
	Fantastic.
	Amazing.
	It's about broken windows economics.
	Jesus.
	So they say in here, city officials and fundraising groups have calculated the total cost of about $500 million shared by 1,500 businesses just within the city.
	Social justice.
	Grassroots efforts have raised more than $50 million towards recovery so far and in all of the impacted areas.
	You only need to multiply that by 10.
	Yeah.
	The goal, said by the people who are raising this money, is to hold local businesses and affordable commercial spaces whilst giving preference to businesses' owners within Minneapolis communities of colour.
	Right.
	You learn nothing.
	So if you're white and you've got your business burnt down, that's a shame.
	But also, identity politics caused the $500 million worth of damage.
	You know what?
	Yeah, you know what?
	I'll fix this.
	Identity politics.
	Yeah.
	Morons.
	Morons.
	I mean, this is why my feeling on this is just leave.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Move to a Republican area where they care about your private property.
	No questions.
	I don't know what else you're meant to do.
	Just let it become Detroit if your city is turning into Detroit.
	And if you're fleeing a blue area, don't you dare vote Democrat.
	Anyway, so they give a quote.
	Olivia Rodriguez owns an El Rey car auto shop on East Lake Street with her husband.
	She's been renting her space, but since June she used more than $60,000 in the grant money to replace what was lost and then purchase a new building a few blocks away.
	So looters came in and stopped all her stuff.
	The looting of the store a year ago still haunts her.
	Speaking in Spanish with one of her employees...
	Jesus or Jesus?
	Jesus, I think it is.
	But we can say Jesus because we're English.
	Jesus Cordia, interpreting Rodriguez, had tears in her eyes as she remembered losing almost all of her inventory.
	But she is grateful that other customers who continue to support the small business and her family.
	I was like, great.
	Great.
	Again, Spanish lady.
	Hispanic.
	Don't care.
	They don't care, do they?
	According to the figures from January...
	Doesn't even speak English.
	Yeah, I mean, I wasn't even going to speak English for this interview.
	So, according to the figures from January, 261 of St.
	Paul's properties that were affected by civil unrest.
	About 27% of those still need repairs, and 13% are still vacant, condemned, or boarded up.
	People left.
	They were just like, to hell with this.
	What other options have you got?
	There are a bunch of race warriors and communists running around the streets burning things down and shooting people.
	Why am I staying there?
	I wouldn't stay there.
	And all the people in charge are like, based, continue.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is social justice, by the way.
	Just let them do what they want.
	Sorry, no.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so, moving on to San Francisco.
	And Target have said they've closed all five of their San Francisco stores early, not because of space problems in San Francisco, because of crime, specifically thefts and shoplifting.
	Whose job is it to prosecute shoplifters and thieves?
	I imagine it's someone else's job.
	The company says that for more than a month, their stores have been experiencing an alarming rise in theft and security incidents.
	We need to make sure that when these crimes occur, there is accountability component.
	When the police make an arrest, which they have, which you saw on the news with the guy on the bike and the rest has been made, so this is one particular case, will they be held accountable for what they did, says Mayor Breed.
	The man that the mayor is talking about is facing 15 counts of multiple shoplifting cases.
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	In the Democrat-run areas, the perpetrators are treated as the victims.
	And so it's not surprising, really, that half of San Francisco's residents, when polled, nearly half, say, actually, I'm thinking about leaving San Francisco.
	Imagine if half of Londoners were like, yeah, I'm out of here.
	Which they probably are.
	So yeah, 44% of respondents to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's annual City Beat poll said they intended to leave the city within the next few years.
	And this follows another poll that the Bay Area Council had done that found almost half of Bay Area residents are planning to leave as well.
	So the survey found that homelessness and street behaviour, whatever that's supposed to mean, is a top concern for 65% of respondents.
	Now, you may remember that San Francisco is plagued with homeless.
	This is the one where you have so many homeless that are just taking defecation in the street.
	Yeah, and shooting heroin and things like this.
	I've been to San Francisco.
	It's weird, right?
	Because the homeless are all drugged up zombies.
	And so San Francisco itself is a Beautiful city, right?
	The buildings are gorgeous.
	The streets are nice and wide and well-paved and they've got, you know, like trees lining the roads and stuff like that.
	And then you just have these zombies walking down the street and you just have to go around them because they're just drugged up, stinking homeless people.
	That the city will do nothing about, right?
	And because California's weather is of course so clement all the year around, there's no winter to force them into shelter.
	So they can just live on the streets permanently because the climate allows it and the government pay for it.
	And they give them their drugs.
	They pay for them to have drugs.
	Wait, what?
	I was about to say, what are they doing to stop them taking drugs?
	They give them drugs.
	They give them needles.
	They give them these things, right?
	And so this has obviously led to massive quality of life issues in San Francisco.
	So, yeah, crime and open-air drug dealing is a top concern for 46%.
	Long-standing problems facing San Francisco residents, such as housing affordability and cost of living, were far behind, cited as top concerns by 19% and 10% respectively.
	Just 5% had similar response about the COVID pandemic.
	In the survey, 70% of respondents said quality of life in San Francisco had worsened over the past few years, with just 7% saying it improved.
	Presumably those were the ones getting the free drugs.
	And among the survey respondents, 60% had said crime in the city had become much worse in recent years.
	Whereas in January 2020, 37% said crime had become much worse.
	So obviously this is getting noticeably worse.
	Now, I found this Twitter thread from Michelle Tandler.
	She is a San Francisco resident and a writer for some websites.
	And she posted this Twitter thread that I think is just worth going through because this is her direct first-hand experience from living in San Francisco.
	Right, so I'm going to skip over a few of the posts.
	Get to about halfway.
	She says, there seems to be an impression among many conservatives that the left doesn't support and protect businesses, doesn't protect citizens from criminals, and is trying to destabilize our social order slash society.
	Yeah, there is!
	That's a good diagnosis.
	That's exactly what the conservatives think of the left, and that's because that's what the left are doing.
	On this last part about society, the right tends to critique, branding white people as oppressors, e.g.
	critical race theory, recasting American history as rooted in evil, e.g.
	renaming schools, and of course undermining meritocracies such as getting rid of advanced maths.
	Yeah, that's exactly what the left is doing.
	San Francisco caught a lot of national attention as we are a petri dish for many progressive ideas, and how well they're working out for everyone.
	Harm reduction in housing, first approach to addiction and homelessness.
	So, to maintain the homelessness and drug addiction, basically.
	I mean, you can't make homeless people stay in houses, but you can give them free drugs so they don't hurt each other trying to get drugs.
	High taxes and decarceration, ending bail, lax prosecution.
	Again, in every left-wing area, and this goes to every left-wing area ever, anywhere, lax prosecution and decarceration is top of their priorities because they see the criminals as being victims of society.
	That's legalizing crime.
	Yeah, it's legalizing crime.
	That's what that is.
	It is.
	And because they think the criminals have no agency of their own, no responsibility for their own actions.
	I voted for legalizing crime and the crime rate went up.
	Yeah.
	And now people are leaving.
	How could this happen?
	There are early signals that politics is having a significant impact on the Bay Area.
	45% of businesses in San Francisco are still closed.
	And the exodus from California is real.
	Remote working is here to stay because people don't want to go downtown, apparently.
	Why would you?
	We're still remote working, not to make savings on the office, but because I don't want to walk to the office.
	Yeah, it's dangerous.
	This is one of America's great cities, and it is a beautiful city.
	It's a beautiful city and a beautiful place, and this is what the left have done with it, right?
	I think we'll start to experience a real shift in outlook if real estate prices start falling.
	This could occur due to recession, remote guts city of the younger workers, and crime driving out elderly families and women.
	And then she gets to her personal experiences.
	And I think this is really important because she is a moderate Democrat because, of course, no Republicans live in somewhere like San Francisco.
	She says, Anecdotally, every single one of my friends right now is considering leaving San Francisco and myself included.
	The biggest driver is no longer cost of living.
	It's crime.
	My friends are scared for their children.
	Their husbands are scared for their wives.
	And it isn't about metrics.
	No one is saying we're X percent up in this category.
	It's about how they feel walking the streets.
	It's walking a stroller next to a tent that has a pile of bikes next to it.
	It's being screamed at or being chased by someone who seems mentally unstable.
	What I'm seeing is that if there is a big enough incident, it shakes people up.
	It could be a robber trying to climb into your child's bedroom, being pulled off your bike, having someone chase you with a pipe.
	These incidents shake people up and their friends too.
	There is a social contract inherent in living in a city.
	We are all crammed together in a small space with the expectation and understanding that we protect one another.
	There is an expectation that our government will protect one another from each other.
	There's an expectation from our government we'll keep things functioning smoothly so we can coexist, and San Francisco's government has abdicated on that responsibility.
	It is focused on equality and justice at the expense of fulfilling its basic duties.
	Fee caps, school renaming, criminal justice experiments, public banks, red tape, corruption, the list goes on.
	My whole life, I've considered myself a proud liberal, progressive San Francisco Democrat.
	Today, I am ashamed of my city.
	I see smug ignorance of the laws of unintended consequences, moral grandstanding of winning over data, logic and facts, radical candidates winning elections unopposed, social justice warriors getting into government and wreaking havoc on neighborhoods, businesses and children.
	Why have we all been asleep at the wheel?
	Where is our sense of civic duty and civic pride?
	Is this who we want to be?
	She goes on, but that's, I think, the most damning case you can make for any of this.
	One left just wakes up.
	Maybe they put on the glasses and look around them and realise what a mess of this.
	Yeah, what have we done?
	And they're going to move to Texas or Florida and vote Democrat.
	Yeah, speaking of which, just wanted to mention, it wasn't just big businesses, but also big names that are leaving.
	So I mean, whenever Elon Musk leaving, he's like, screw this place, I'm out.
	Fair enough.
	They mention him here, there's not just them.
	There's also loads of big tech that are also leaving.
	So Howard Packard Enterprise is also leaving with their headquarters going to Austin.
	And then Silicon Valley giant Oracle has also got its plans to leave for Austin.
	And then you've got people like Ben Shapiro.
	I mean, as you mentioned, with being chased...
	Did he move to Tennessee or something?
	I can't remember off the top of my head.
	I think it might be Tennessee or something.
	Or Kentucky or one of these places.
	But he and his entire company left.
	And when he gave his speech, I don't know if you listened to it, in which he was just like, no, my employees can't come to work without being attacked by a homeless person or having their stuff smashed up.
	So we're out.
	Bye.
	And what was it?
	I think he said all but two people from his company were like, yeah, sure.
	He expected half of them to be like, no, I'm not going to move.
	I still live here and whatnot.
	But no, they were like, no, I want to leave too.
	This is crap.
	Good.
	Well, they join half of Californians who want to leave California.
	This was in 2019.
	So before the pandemic, before any of this sort of stuff happened, they still want to go.
	And of course, California's population has declined for the first time ever last year, fell by 182,000 people.
	Normally, California, I mean, since it became a state in 1850, its population just skyrocketed because, again, glorious real estate, good position, lovely place to be.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Great weather.
	You know, very, and of course, there's a gold rush.
	There's always been opportunity in California, and now people are fleeing it because of Democrat policies.
	You did this.
	No one else.
	You were given all of the resources, all of the natural advantages that one could ask for, and you have destroyed it.
	If you're leaving California, do not vote Democrat wherever you go, you absolute scumbag.
	Sorry, I shouldn't just call you a scumbag, but honestly, I am actually really annoyed by it.
	I'm really annoyed that this is like...
	If this was my political politics...
	If someone left the USSR and came to the UK and voted communist...
	Yeah.
	I mean, you'd just look at them and be like, what are you doing?
	Yeah, exactly.
	If this were the policies I was advocating for, I'd look at the result and be like, right, okay, these actually weren't a good idea.
	I'm obviously not very good at politics and I don't know what I'm talking about because I vote Democrat.
	That's what I'd be thinking.
	I just find it disgusting.
	That's...
	Yeah, no, it's horrible.
	I mean, you can ruin a place faster.
	Well, and New York as well has the same problems, and it's just like, there is one uniting factor across this.
	There's one common thread that links them all.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Hey, little seeders.
	I was wondering if I could just get an awesome happy birthday today, because it is my birthday.
	And Carl, when you get knighted, can you ask the Queen to dissolve the Canadian Parliament?
	Thanks.
	I'll see what I can do when that knighthood comes along, but for now I can wish you a happy birthday.
	Happy birthday to you!
	But I must admit, watching the statues getting pulled down is making me go more and more monarchist by the minute.
	Like, I'm not even sure Parliament's a good idea in the colonies anymore.
	Well, direct rule.
	Yeah.
	Mantest.
	Welsh edition.
	What?
	Actually, you know what?
	Never mind.
	See, man test Welsh edition.
	Yeah, I know.
	He's pointing at sheep.
	Yeah.
	If you're single, what are you doing about it?
	Huh?
	Come on.
	I'm not even a looker.
	I know I've got a girlfriend.
	Come on, then.
	Come on.
	Get out there.
	Stop bitching and moaning about you being single and fucking get at it.
	Yeah?
	Well, you shouldn't swear, but otherwise I appreciate the energy.
	Yeah, I feel like it's a direct challenge of me as well.
	Condemn you, Callum.
	Alright, I need to know the name of something from Greek philosophy before I can continue with the politics of Attack on Titan, because it's something that is brought up in the politics of Attack on Titan, but obviously not by the same name.
	The man who, as long as we have the social power, as long as we have the political power, we can do what we like, we are the moral good because we have the power.
	What is that man's name in Greek mythology, in Greek philosophy?
	Calicles.
	There we go.
	He's a man that believes that all is power.
	Whoa!
	All is power and power relations.
	And Plato is trying to get him to commit to ethics, and he refuses, saying, well, I'm just the strongest, and that's fine.
	Speaking of which, what is his heresy?
	Karma's somewhat of a bitch.
	I've had to make an offering to the great god of capitalism in the form of my beard to do a job I've currently got on.
	I need to use a BA set, which requires me to be clean-shaven.
	So, yeah.
	Prescient video, Mr.
	Burton.
	Who is this woman and why is he making me gay?
	Isn't that a quote from an imam?
	Yeah, it's Turkish imam.
	Beardless men are attractive and therefore they're making me gay.
	It's like, imam?
	Doesn't that sort of tell you something about you?
	Anyway.
	So I guess I probably should have clarified that my video from yesterday was directed specifically at Americans.
	That's a joke.
	But I do want to say that I think I finally eliminated my cigarette vice because it's been about three days now and I haven't had one.
	So hopefully it stays that way.
	I have to say, three days is not enough time to say you've eliminated the vice of smoking.
	When you've gone three months, and then three years, and then three decades, maybe.
	And then smoke at a party because you're bored.
	Yeah, which is what I did, actually.
	Did you?
	Yeah, for a while I'd quit.
	Literally, like, six months or so.
	I went on holiday to Greece, and I was like, oh, well, I'll be all right.
	You know, just a couple here, and then that was it.
	So, yeah.
	What was it?
	Like, all the Greeks smoking?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was, you know, smoking doors and stuff on the outside.
	So this is the view from the top of Little Round Top.
	It was the left flank of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg, and it was saved by a bayonet charge when they ran out of ammo.
	That's Devil's Den down there.
	Lots of people died there.
	So my question is, what's your favorite bayonet charge in history?
	Oh, that's a good question.
	God, I can't think.
	I'm sure you've got one.
	Bayonet charge.
	Well, for you it'll be a charge, won't it?
	I mean, there's no bayonets in your history.
	I'm more of an ancient history guy, so...
	I mean...
	Any one where we're bayonetting the French, I guess?
	I can't think of one at the top of my head.
	I'll probably have to go look one up.
	But I do have one in my mind that I don't...
	It's not a specific charge that's known in history or something.
	But I remember watching a documentary about the Korean War and they were interviewing Americans.
	And the Americans were like, yeah, we were there.
	And the Chinese turned up and invaded.
	And then the Chinese started mocking us, saying that we couldn't fight without our planes and all our technological advances.
	So I went down to my boys and I said, boys, fix bayonets.
	LAUGHTER And he says they went over in the next charge to take the trench and they did it with bayonets because he was so annoyed about being mocked.
	And they took the trench because the Chinese were like, what the fuck?
	They're coming out there with bayonets!
	Or isn't this what the Europeans who were watching the American Civil War were saying?
	Like, why are you just standing there shooting each other?
	Like, are you not aware of this?
	Wait, the Europeans and...
	Yeah, European advisors came over to the Americans.
	They're having the American Civil War.
	And, you know, they'd be, like, in lines shooting each other.
	It's like, no, no, no, you have to put the bayonets on and go move them.
	You know, because they're not going to stand the charge.
	You know, if you're charging with bayonets, they've got no armor.
	Yeah, they'll break and run away.
	And then you'll win and you won't lose thousands of men.
	And instead, the Americans being total amateurs, which is...
	at each other.
	It's like, idiots.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if they had good commanders or whatnot.
	It's not that they didn't have good commanders.
	What it is, is that they didn't have a lot of experience in war.
	And like the Europeans at the time, who of course did nothing but war.
	I remember Indy Neidell making some points, there were some early mentions of like, what would become trench warfare out of that as well.
	Where it's like, if you just hunt on the men, why not just put them in a trench or something?
	And they're not being shot.
	They're just going to stand there.
	Anyway, but Rourke's Drift, was there a bayonet charge at Rourke's Drift?
	No.
	There was a massive charge of Zulus where they were desperately like, ah!
	I mean, do you count that as a bayonet?
	I mean, they doubtless used bayonets when they ran out of ammo, but no, there wasn't a bayonet charge.
	Did they lose?
	I don't know.
	I'd have to go look it up.
	No, they won Rourke's Drift.
	No, no, no.
	I mean, did they end up having to resort to a bayonet charge?
	No, there was no options charged because they were in a fortification with a building and they'd lost the front lines and then they had to hole up in the building and desperately jab out of the windows and fire because there were thousands and thousands of Zulus everywhere.
	All right.
	So yeah, no bayonet charge.
	By the way, put some bayonet charges in the chat already.
	Yeah, fix bayonets in the chat.
	The summary is of Season 1, Episode 11 from Fate Zero.
	The series is about a fight to the death between seven mages selected by a wish-granting grail.
	These mages summon years from the past to fight for them to obtain the grail.
	This summary is about a discussion between three heroic spirits who were kings in their time, about who among them deserves the grail, and what makes a just king.
	For shorthand, the king of heroes is Gilgamesh or Archer.
	The king of knights is King Arthur or Saber.
	The king of conquerors is Alexander the Great, or Ryder.
	Side note, King Arthur is a female opus fanservice.
	And also, Alexander was real.
	Like, the other two are fictional.
	Okay.
	Some mentions in the chat.
	So you've got the bayonet charge of Wee Spa, which is a good joke.
	Also, there's just mentions of Krieg, which...
	I don't know if the core of Krieg ever did bayonets.
	I thought they did, like, shovels.
	I would have to ask, Arch.
	Come on, next one.
	Afternoon, gentlemen.
	New video out yesterday, and I'm currently working on two more.
	One is a documentary called When Cultural Diversity Gets It Right, a social critique of one of my favorite games growing up.
	The other one I'd like Mr.
	Benjamin to watch, seeing as I'm calling it Sargon is a conservative.
	Sort of, where I feel I can make a pretty good case as to why.
	And I was wondering, may I please use the introductory sound effect from your old videos for that one?
	Sure.
	Cheers, gentlemen.
	Yeah, and feel free to send it across.
	I'm happy to watch it.
	Yeah, I mean, I certainly don't want people accusing me of being left-wing at this point, so...
	How do you feel about being called a Conservative?
	Honestly, it doesn't bother me.
	I mean...
	It just seems to be, because the Conservatives don't seem to have any kind of forward and upward pushing principles and momentum, right?
	They seem to be desperately clinging on to what they have.
	So anyone who doesn't want something stolen by the Progressives is now a Conservative, basically.
	I think there is something in conservatism that can be used as a creative force.
	I just think the conservatives have no idea about their own ideology.
	And so I'm actually working on kind of a thesis now, I suppose, about how this can be done, how the Conservatives view the world, and from this vision of the world, what they can do to push forward.
	Because as soon as they find something on which to place their feet, I think they've got a lot of energy, they want to do something.
	But I think a lot of them are just not quite sure what they can do in the current environment, They end up defaulting to positions that the left has essentially already undermined.
	And so the point is, what does conservatism look like in a post-leftist world?
	After experiencing and coming head-on with the intersectionals, after critical theory, after post-modernism, what do the conservatists have left?
	That's all obvious nonsense.
	So when it's dead, what do we do?
	Yeah, but it's not just that.
	It's not when it's dead, because it's never really going to die.
	Communism is going to be with us forever, probably.
	But how can the Conservatives retool their position to incorporate the attacks the left has made on their position and still move forward and build out from that?
	So that's something I'm working on as a kind of long-term project, overarching project at the moment.
	Let's go to the next one.
	That's the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument over there.
	This is from my aunt and uncle's boat on the Potomac and it's really fun and those are all the people who are out to watch the fireworks.
	On the way back in we saw a cop and I thanked him for his service.
	I think we should all thank cops for their service so that we can positively reinforce the behavior and hopefully encourage them to stay on the force by knowing that they're appreciated.
	That's all, guys.
	Thanks.
	I mean, if you live in a Democrat-run area, definitely thank the cops.
	I didn't know they had so many boats next to DC. All my knowledge of DC comes from Fallout 3.
	I was about to say exactly the same thing.
	The only reason I know anything about that is because I've run around it as a wasteland.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of weird to see it at IRL. Pictures of it's not destroyed.
	Fewer super mutants than I was expecting.
	Let's skip to the next one.
	Well, howdy from Texas Channel.
	It's currently 2.45 my time.
	About halfway done with my shift.
	I just wanted to say for my first video comment, thank you guys so much for all that you do.
	Carl, I've supported you since the Sargon days, and I hope to continue to support more.
	Well, thanks so much, and thanks for helping.
	Thanks for making what we do possible.
	If it wasn't for you good folks, then we wouldn't have this opportunity, and we're very aware of that.
	Yeah, thanks, man.
	Right, okay, comments.
	George says, I see the Wii Spa incident is a great way to show normies how bat-esque the SJWs truly are.
	Only when something is a detriment to whamen, will people notice it's negative.
	Same with women's sports.
	Yeah, but I mean, at least it gives us a place from which to stand to push back against this, doesn't it?
	Now the question is which gynocentric narrative will prevail?
	The biological one or the trans one?
	Which is basically a deification of the image of Whammon.
	That's a good way of looking at it.
	I for one will just stand on the side and laugh.
	To be honest with you, we've got to support the TERFs.
	Really?
	We've got to.
	Because at least the TERF definition of what a woman is is at least sensible.
	Yeah.
	If nothing else about what they say is.
	Omar says, not sure if you're familiar with the term NIMBY, as in not in my backyard.
	Yeah.
	Sticks made a video yesterday using it.
	It seems to aptly describe a lot of leftist behavior.
	Promoting policy that doesn't affect them.
	Lockdown policy is a great example of work from home.
	NIMBYs demanding stricter measures to keep them safe when they won't be the hardest hit.
	And they're not even at risk of bloody COVID. So a bunch of millennials.
	What is it?
	What is it?
	Beverly Hills Communists who's streaming about policies that never affect them?
	Yes.
	And the same with British Communists who live in Westminster.
	You can see it exhibited by Europhiles or the upper class when they advocate for illegal immigrants, climate change, hate speech, cancel culture from their white-gated communities, or lockdowns from their 5,000-acre Welsh estates.
	I definitely think we should start calling them NIMBYs more often as it perfectly encapsulates their rules for leave and not for mean mentality.
	Well, I agree.
	Omar also says, if you can't show a male penis to underage girls, what's the difference in showing a female penis?
	Why is it disgusting for one and not both?
	Maybe we can meet in the middle somewhere and just say adults of any kind should not show their penis, female or otherwise, to underage girls.
	Or to boys, I agree.
	Maybe children should not be exposed to random penises?
	Well, I mean, if you're in the changing rooms...
	Sure, I suppose.
	But, I mean, I guess we could just say girls should not be exposed to penises of any gender.
	I think we can do that.
	I think that's strong enough.
	Narco-Republican says, of course noncephar would turn up.
	Bigotry has to be fought.
	Noncephar?
	Well, noncephar are right.
	There are loads of pedophobes out there.
	And they've got to battle that bigotry wherever they find it.
	Yeah, I saw Paul Joseph Watson's video on this.
	It was quite funny.
	He was just like, yeah, well, they're all nonces.
	That's why they're there.
	That's true.
	Well, I mean, it's the Carl Rittenhouse conundrum, isn't it?
	Yeah, like, why are there so many pedos in your movement?
	Then you turn up and you're like, yeah, we have the right to show our penises, the little underage girls.
	It's like, yeah, why would you be arguing with that?
	Fire into a crowd of anthem, hit a handful of nonces.
	Cindy says, I feel like women are the ones who always seem to end up on the losing end of the trans issue.
	They absolutely are.
	Sports, safety in women's spaces, etc.
	Of course, what do I know?
	I'm only a birthing person.
	Well, no, we're actually going to do a premium podcast going through this.
	Because so many examples of this have come up that it's actually worth documenting at this point.
	And we probably won't be allowed to host it.
	But yeah, you're absolutely right.
	I think women are the ones who lose out in this, and that sucks.
	Alex says, Maybe.
	I mean, women are adults, so...
	Chris says, pressing the left on the transracial issue has been very effective lately.
	The only response they seem to have is that we don't understand the trans issue, but when I say race and gender are both constructs, they short-circuit.
	Their ideology has hit a wall.
	Yeah, it's because they need to exploit people who are on the basis of their race.
	But, of course, transracialism, if anyone can just identify as another race, and race is purely a social construct, stop being black.
	Or stop being white.
	I'll try.
	Well, it turns out you can just stop being a man.
	Yeah.
	I realise this is putting the feminine penis in the face of a bunch of little girls, but apparently the left has signed this into law, so...
	Tom says, Yeah, I mean, it's just awful.
	The things that they do is just awful.
	Yeah, five years ago.
	That's all we heard about is women, women, women.
	Now it's like, no, men.
	How times change.
	I kind of like that lady, Posey Haddock, where she was describing all trans activists as MRAs.
	I love the idea.
	If the MRAs, like, this hasn't happened, but it would be amazing if it did.
	If all the MRAs from the old feminist MRA debates were just like, right, well, we're getting deplatformed, so what we're going to do is we're all going to transition that, and then we're just going to be better women, and we're just going to make our way to the top.
	It would be amazing if transgenderism was an MRA plot to undermine women.
	That would be legitimately hilarious, but I think that on transgenderism, the MRAs and the feminists actually agree.
	But just like, who is, that's the thing, it's obviously the case that they get along, but who is the guy, like the old guy, in charge of like Men and Boys or whatever it was, that organisation?
	Oh, Mike, uh, just for Men and Boys.
	Yeah, like him, the Yankee guy who was in charge of getting fathers, like kids' backs.
	I want to see all them, just like, in my mind, they all transition and be like, yep, we got women rights too now.
	Well, that's where it's going, isn't it?
	As his mother, I want to see my son.
	Like...
	Marcus says, it's the trolley problem in reverse.
	Harm the most amount of people to appease the minority.
	Hilarious outcomes.
	Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it?
	Mike Buchanan, there we are.
	Mike Buchanan, that's it, yeah.
	Sorry, Mike.
	I didn't know.
	Mike's a great guy.
	He is.
	Northamptonian Knight says, at this point, I'm just waiting to see a news report that goes something like this.
	A reported flasher in a public park was allowed to continue and given compensation for being questioned by police after the individual self-identified as trans Vietnamese slash Moroccan gender fluid transgender.
	But no, that has happened in the UK. Or even worse has happened in the UK. Crime bodge, give him a subscription.
	I think you've even mentioned one of these stories.
	Multiple times now, a nonce has been found with nonce materials or engaging in noncery, and they've pleaded in court, yeah, but I am transgender.
	And the court judge has agreed, and been like, well, fair enough, you're very vulnerable, and let them go.
	They'll give them a suspended sentence or something instead of prison time.
	Do you know what's really weird?
	Swindon judges are remarkably light on noncery.
	That was one of them.
	Was that one of the Swindon ones?
	There's been like three places.
	Oh, I know the one you're talking about now.
	It's really weird.
	It just keeps happening.
	And the Swindon advertiser have got to keep reporting on how nonces are being let go.
	And everyone on social media is like, why?
	But he's transgender.
	But he's a nonce.
	I mean, I would rather they let go petty thieves than nonces.
	But it's the same as the Muslim gang rapist thing, where it's like, yeah, he's been raping children.
	Yeah, but he is Muslim.
	So, it's like, that's not an argument.
	Yeah.
	And Al Sabai Deeznut says, I find it almost funny when the TV presenter is giving the communists a fairly softball question with an easy out.
	She doesn't take it.
	She could have easily lied and said, no, of course my politics don't affect my scientific opinion.
	But instead she got mad about it, and now we can all see her for what she is.
	A communist with a state-controlled agenda.
	Yeah, the fact that she didn't even deny it either.
	She's just like, yeah, I'm not here to talk about my politics.
	In every other respect, in every other walk of life, I as a leftist would say, well, your bias informs everything you do.
	But mine is fine.
	She couldn't let it go and take the easy out because he had blasphemed against communism.
	Therefore, it needs to be put down.
	Justin says, Yeah, I've been tempted to do that.
	I've got an exemption.
	Says who?
	Me.
	My Ron Swanson.
	My license.
	I can do whatever I want.
	I love Ron Swanson.
	Yeah.
	Israel says, imagine being a psychologist and trying to equate wearing a seatbelt with the shutting down the entire economy while you have multi-millions.
	Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it?
	It's such an obviously transparent attempt to exert this kind of social control that the communists want.
	Because the conservatives are weak and stupid.
	Come on, if you can't battle communism, what kind of conservative are you?
	That's a great question.
	If you can't even say that communism is wrong after the 20th century, then what are you doing?
	That's right.
	I'm a conservative.
	I have communist advisers.
	What are you doing?
	I mean, why don't you prescribe the Communist Party of Great Britain?
	Why wouldn't you?
	You don't allow a Nazi party, but you allow a communist party?
	They're aligned with Beijing.
	There is no reason to have them around.
	Yeah.
	That's the party that supported the Soviet Union.
	These are awful people who want terrible things and will do everything they can to get them, including lying to your faces.
	Alexander says, as Brett Weinstein says, Yeah, I don't think it's...
	I mean, we seem to have the evidence of bot farms about the Delta variant operating on Twitter.
	So, I mean, what's saying?
	Bilbo Bagaines says, thinking of starting a petition on the government website to make Sage advisor an elected position, as no one with so much power over the people as we have seen Sage demonstrate in the last year and a half should be there without the people putting them there in the first place.
	Any advice on how to frame my argument?
	Well, I mean, I think that's actually been fairly well framed.
	I think that you're completely right.
	Anyone with this much authority over the British government and the public should probably be elected by the people.
	But I mean, that's only if you care about democracy, which of course communists don't.
	Pirate Skeleton says, historically communist scientists cannot separate the communism from their science.
	It can point to some mass starvation as evidence.
	Well, exactly.
	I mean, like the idea that plants are cooperative.
	I'm just about the science.
	That's why wheat has collective solidarity.
	I'm just going with what the data says, you know.
	Don't you know the seeds are the proletariat, and the closer you plant them, the more solidarity they have.
	Yeah, the more proletariat they are.
	It's the stupidest thing.
	Like, even if you're a communist listening to that, you'd just be like, what on earth are you talking about?
	It's amazing.
	Noce Celio's doormat says, I'm not amazed by how wealthy and their offspring advocate communism and socialism, while working class are migrating their masses to traditional conservative values.
	I'm glad to see that Richard Madley was criticising emotes.
	Yeah, but he was very, very soft.
	Very soft on it.
	It's corporate media.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's nice when property analysts question.
	Shame no one was reviewing scientists and politicians for their personal politics, bias or funding, who have advocated and pushed lockdowns and infringements of liberties.
	Yeah, well, Rory's on it, so we'll get something up.
	Ty Buffett says, when it comes to lockdowns, no matter what the country, there always seems to be a divide between the middle class and the higher who are able to work from home and live in spacious homes and the working class who never lock down.
	Either they lost their jobs or had to go to work every single day since patient zero.
	And what's worse as well, if for some reason you can get them locked up, well, okay, they've got a bunch of kids in a small house.
	It's generally the experience of being a working class person.
	And that's cruel to say, right, you're not allowed to go anywhere with your children.
	You've got to stay indoors.
	You can go out for a walk one hour every day or whatever it was.
	It's like, no, you know, that's easy for you to say in your spacious mansions or on your 5,000 acre estates.
	But for a regular person living in a regular house, this is not an option.
	I mean, there was a counsellor I knew in UKIP who had her kids locked up in her house.
	She was just like, it's hell.
	Yeah.
	Having to deal with these guys.
	Yeah.
	But if you've got a 5,000-acre house, I mean, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, I live in like a normal middle-class house, and it was difficult enough for me with, you know, three kids.
	But imagine if you're in a two-bedroom house or something like that.
	You know, a...
	What do they call them?
	Not a detached or semi-detached, but a...
	Bungalow?
	No, there's a word for a row of houses that are all connected.
	Terrace, that's it.
	Thank you.
	A terrace house, yeah.
	Like, on a street sort of thing.
	I just live in apartments.
	Yeah, of course, because you're not married.
	But for all of these families on the streets, the tension must have been awful.
	It must have been awful.
	But anyway, Ruben says, an actual scientist with integrity.
	Scientists are weak institutionalists who just follow the crowd.
	I see it every single day.
	That's true.
	That's definitely true.
	Michael says, Carl, I have great respect for your political and philosophical thinking, but maybe take it easy on the blanket condemnation of scientists.
	No.
	This is the anti-scientist action podcast with Carl Benjamin.
	Listen, let me explain to you how the scientists are ruining the...
	I'm joking, obviously.
	But the thing is, right, why are all the scientists singing from the same sheet here?
	And why is it that the scientific establishment can marginalize and completely ostracize those scientists who go against the narrative?
	I have to say, I think there is a problem with the scientific community and their political beliefs and what they've been enforcing on the rest of the country.
	And if there are any scientists hearing this who are like, oh, I'm offended by that, go and speak to your commie comrades, all right?
	Sorry, go and speak to your comrades, your fellow scientists.
	I'm not a scientist.
	You know, I'm not one of those people, so...
	Don't they always turn out to be communists?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why are they communists?
	Every goddamn time in the centre of British government.
	I mean, what was it?
	Ollie Robbins, the guy who was the chief advisor to Theresa May or whatever.
	The head of the civil service.
	Communist.
	I mean, Neil Ferguson's a communist.
	But it's like the head of British government.
	Endlessly.
	Just a bunch of commies.
	How does this happen?
	But, yeah, no, I'm not saying that scientists are necessarily bad people.
	I'm saying it's coincidental that so many of them are bad people.
	You know, there was a friend who used to say to me, all communists are bad people.
	I used to think it was a bit of a meme.
	I mean, nah, it's just true.
	It's just true.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to take that at least.
	Yeah.
	Socialists, communists are bad people.
	Uh...
	Spring Valley Itland says, I never understood the commie thing.
	Everyone says this real communism hasn't been tried.
	Should need to answer, what do you do with the first guy who uses extra time to produce something he sells for profit?
	Any thinking human should be able to see that's wrong.
	Just tell me how the DPRK is on Socialist.
	Yeah.
	Again, areas ruined by left-wing politics.
	Yeah, I mean, how many cities have to become Detroit?
	Yeah.
	How many countries?
	I mean, that's what the sage scientists are trying to do to this country.
	Literally ruin capitalism, because there are a bunch of communists.
	And it's like, okay, well then, no.
	I just don't want these people advising the government.
	Duffy says...
	Yeah, I know.
	I've just got no sympathy.
	No sympathy.
	Alistair Crowley says...
	Yeah, but the problem is they're allowed to leave.
	That's the problem.
	And then vote elsewhere.
	Yeah, and then vote elsewhere.
	Turn Texas cities blue.
	It's like...
	What?
	Like, you voted for crime in California, got crime, and were like, there's too much crime, I'm leaving, I'm going to Texas.
	Also, vote crime in Texas.
	I desperately desire Republican governance, but I can't bring myself to vote for it.
	It's like, have you considered not voting at all?
	You know, that would be a better option, wouldn't it?
	But anyway, and lads, if you're feeling bad, remember this only happens in very blue states.
	Red states and even neutral states have strong Second Amendment rights and self-defense laws.
	Yeah, until the leftists move, flee like the plague-ridden rats that they are, and move to your cities and then start voting for Bernie Sanders again.
	I really love the boomer way of saying Democrats.
	Demon KKK rats.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	God, there's something in that.
	It's hilarious.
	Well, where's the lie?
	LAUGHTER It's just the real demon KKK rats.
	I feel like the rats is too far.
	The rest of it I'm okay with.
	They're parasite-carrying little animals who scurry to anywhere that something productive is happening and infect the place.
	I'm not comparing people to rodents.
	They're communists.
	Oh, well you got me there.
	Chris says, the city is full of disease, BLM and Antifa.
	Pretty sure disease would have covered all of that.
	See?
	Matthew says, COVID destroyed the economy, the credibility of scientists, the credibility of politicians, and pulled the mask off our faux free society.
	We do not live in a free society.
	We live in a simulation of a free society with a shared delusion that we are free men.
	That's a great way of putting it, to be honest.
	Carbohydric Crusader says, seen two more black kids have been stabbed to death in London.
	It makes me wonder.
	Oh, really?
	That's today's news?
	Two children killed in London through stabbings?
	Will the race socialists ever realize that black lives matter to literally everyone except them?
	Those poor kids.
	Imagine being raised in that hellhole.
	No, I mean, if I were someone who migrated to London, discovered it like this, I'd move my kids back to Somalia or wherever.
	Like, it's awful.
	I just can't stand it.
	Student Infistry says, Red states will take blue state refugees.
	However, you vote Democrat, you get deported back to San Francisco.
	Based.
	I mean, that's what the policy should bloody well be.
	I saw some articles calling them left-ugees.
	Left-ugees.
	It's a good way.
	You need to start mocking these people.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	When they turn up on your door and be like, yeah, we're from California, they'll be like, ha-ha, left-ugee.
	We're from California?
	It's like, you can go back to California.
	We have free gun rights in these parts.
	Yeah.
	Ty Buffett says, California Democrats, we give drugs to an ever-growing homeless population.
	Our taxes are high.
	Homes are super expensive.
	We don't convict criminals.
	All boys are girls and all girls are boys.
	Our forests aren't on fire.
	Our cities are, but talk about some of the downsides.
	Yeah, it's awful.
	Moderate Democrats should definitely move somewhere else inside California and see how that does them.
	Only the truly red-pilled should move to Florida, Texas, or Tennessee.
	Well, that's true.
	I want to see DeSantis come out.
	It'd be like a new bill, the red-pilled immigration bill.
	It's just running disincentive campaigns in California and whatnot.
	TV ads are like, just don't come to Florida.
	I'm pretty sure the Danish did this at one point.
	When they were distributing leaflets, being like, don't come to Denmark.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, I do think they should have a policy of deporting Mexicans and Democrats.
	Tia Foolspark says, congratulations on episode 100 and nice.
	Thank you.
	Avar says, morning gents, any thoughts on the conspiracy hypothesis that Guetta was partly designed to be a trove of personal information of Trump supporters?
	Well, don't give them any personal information, I guess.
	I've seen this floating around on the net, but I'm not sure that any, you know, buy blah blah blah...
	I don't know.
	I've seen no info about it.
	But it was made by members of Trump's team.
	Why would they?
	They're not getting much out of me.
	They're getting my email address, which I already gave them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Which is less than Parler asked for, because they want my phone number.
	So, you know.
	I like Trump's emails.
	They're good fun.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, I mean, follow us on Getter as well.
	Yeah.
	On that note, on that bombshell that's in the show.
	On the bombshell.
	It's not already much bombshell.
	Anyway, so we'll be back tomorrow, 1 o'clock.
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