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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 7th of July 2021.
	I'm John Baikal.
	Hello.
	Today we're going to be talking about the football culture war, the brain load that is Claudia Webb and her antics, and also Zuby's pandemic lessons.
	So, looking forward to this.
	So, first thing to mention with the video comments, we've had a problem with music again, just because it causes problems on the back end, so please don't send in video comments with music if you can.
	Uh, next thing I want to mention was the new premium article we have from Hugo on the website, loadersleaders.com.
	So the United Nations is the insurance company, because I don't really know what the point of the United Nations is.
	I should probably have a debate with Hugo about this.
	He'll probably explain this to me.
	He's like, they can do this, but mostly pointless.
	But anyway, go and give that a read, and go and sign up, because that's premium.
	But something we do have that's free is the new article from Beau, in which he's written about uncomfortable truths.
	It's a nice picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
	And I think that's Epstein's father, Maxwell's father, sorry, Robert Maxwell, and Leslie Wexner, who, you don't know who that is, but you should.
	Anyway, it's a good article, I enjoyed it.
	Is she on trial yet or what?
	Not yet.
	She will be.
	She's being held.
	Waiting in the cell.
	Apparently a judge has requested the opening of some depositions that she provided.
	It'll be very, very interesting to see what happens and how she kills herself.
	Spoilers.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, spoilers.
	Let's get into the first thing.
	Yeah, so there's a football culture war going on.
	There's a culture war being played out across our football pitches, and of course this culture war began in America and has come to Britain.
	And so this has manifested itself in the England team taking a knee to the boos of the crowd.
	And, of course, England captain Gareth Southgate has to explain this.
	Now, just before we go on, I'm not a football fan.
	Obviously, I'm...
	English Patriots, so I want England to win.
	But I completely respect the point of the people who are booing the England team.
	Not that I think it's good optics to boo your own team, obviously.
	But this is not just neutral.
	This is not just some sort of ideologically neutral position that he's saying, well, I'm just against injustice.
	Sorry, there's a lot more to that.
	And pretending that there's not is not true.
	Yeah, like when we've done this before, but when England gave him the Nazi salute in Germany, it wasn't just for peace and mankind or something.
	No, it wasn't just support of the German people or something like that.
	But Gareth Southgate, of course, had to come out and address this.
	And so initially, he gave just some interviews explaining, saying, well, look, we've spoken about it.
	We're more determined than ever to ignore any boos and carry on with our kneeling, even though people, of course, had We've had enough of this and we're booing and they were just like, well, we're just gonna live through it.
	The first thing is that we're collectively very disappointed that it happened.
	I think that you have to put yourself in the shoes of a young England player about to represent his country.
	We're all trying to move towards equality and support our teammates because of some experiences they've been through in their lives, but people decided to boo.
	I think those people should put themselves in the shoes of the young players.
	If that was their children, if they're old enough to have children, how would they feel about their kids being in the situation?
	Well, I would tell my son, suck it up because he's being paid handsomely to be part of the England team.
	And if some assholes in the crowd are going to boo, you can just deal with it.
	Or, stop being a communist.
	Or, stop kneeling for communists, would be actually my advice.
	But the thing I think is important there is to notice what he's focusing on.
	We're all trying to move towards equality.
	Equality.
	England team players.
	equality.
	Not very equal, right?
	Because he followed this up with a public and open letter called "Dear England" where he tries to explain his perspective on what's going on.
	Now, I just want to give him credit for doing this.
	He probably didn't have to do this, that's the thing.
	There probably wouldn't have been much in the way of actual backlash, at least from the institutions, if he'd just been like, "Look, we support Black Lives Matter.
	We We've got the rainbow armbands.
	We're going to do this and screw you.
	But instead, he talks us through his reasoning.
	I find it very, very interesting, especially some parts like this one.
	For me, personally, my sense of identity and values is very closely tied to my family, and particularly my granddad.
	He was a fierce patriot and a proud military man who served during World War II. The idea of representing queen and country has always been important to me.
	We do pageantry so well in Britain, and growing up, things like the Queen's Silver Jubilee and Royal Weddings had an impact on me.
	So he's a patriot, and that's good.
	I'm honestly very much in that sort of perspective.
	My dad was in the military...
	And so I happen to be a patriot and a proud son of a military family, right?
	And so I can understand that.
	That resonates with me.
	But then he says this.
	Only around 1,200 players have represented England at the senior men's level ever.
	It's a profound privilege.
	Right.
	Let's go back to your talk about equality, Gareth, right?
	What you're talking about is literally a tiny select group of people, 1,200 people, who are demonstrably unequal.
	The reason that they have their position is due to their inequality.
	It is due to their superiority at the game.
	That's the point of it.
	That's how they got there.
	That's why everyone's cheering for them.
	That's why you're representing the country.
	If you want equality, you're going to have people like me on that pitch kicking around that ball, and we probably won't beat the Germans if that's the case, because I'm terrible at football, right?
	So don't sit there talking about equality for the privileged group of footballers that you are lording.
	These are the problems with your ideology, the way you're putting this across.
	He says, it's a profound privilege.
	Yes, it is a profound privilege.
	So why are we sat there going, oh, but think of these privileged elites who are representing this country.
	Think how they feel about this.
	It's like, okay, but how about you think about all of the millions of people who have got to watch you participating in a Marxist ritual?
	As you claim to be representing them and the country, you have adopted a foreign ideology and a foreign set of mannerisms to express a foreign point of view over what I guess we'll just call a crime since Chauvin was convicted that happened in a foreign country.
	And you start going, right, this represents England.
	Why?
	Because people on Twitter are racist to some of his players.
	It's maddening.
	It's absolutely maddening, right?
	So we'll carry on.
	He says, it's a profound privilege.
	Don't forget, many of our lads started out football league clubs like Barnsley and Sheffield United.
	Their backgrounds are humble.
	Yeah, okay.
	For them to make it to this point is one of the chosen few in England's history.
	Well, it simply doesn't happen without pride.
	Okay, fine.
	But Pride has become something of a dog whistle these days, hasn't it?
	This is a special group.
	Humble, proud, and liberated in being their true selves.
	Oh, thank God that the most privileged people in football are humble, proud, and liberated.
	I was so worried that the people at the very top of the pyramid of football would be oppressed somehow with their millions of pounds in wages and international fame as they...
	Go to well-earned victories, no doubt.
	You can't project the elite in British football as being oppressed.
	It's just not the case, and everyone knows that's not the case.
	There's tremendous social prestige being on the England team, which he's appealing to.
	He's like, yes, well, I mean, they're humble, proud, and liberated.
	But at least, didn't you know, some of them are not white.
	Therefore, they're oppressed.
	Exactly, right?
	And he seems to misunderstand the responsibility that comes with such privilege, right?
	The responsibility primarily is to the people who are booing you.
	The reason they're booing you is because you're abdicating this responsibility to them.
	They are the England football team, they are the England football fans, and you are...
	We're genuflecting to something foreign, to something else, to something other, to something that has a particular agenda for this country, in fact, which we will get to.
	Anyway, so he continues to say, I have a responsibility to the wider community to use my voice and so do the players.
	Okay, then why is it for a foreign cause?
	Why have you picked a foreign cause?
	And he says, well, this...
	He says, I have a responsibility here.
	Responsibility arises from where?
	Like, this foreign group who have nothing to do with the sport have decided, do you have a responsibility to promote their politics?
	Because his voice has weight and he wants to do something good.
	And he's like, sure.
	So it's not a responsibility that arises.
	It is pressure to support a political group.
	Yes, it is.
	It's their duty to continue to interact with the public on matters such as equality, inclusivity, and racial injustice.
	That's hilarious.
	The most unequal people in the country, in the most exclusive institution that we probably have in the country, he's like, oh, only 1,200 people have ever done this.
	Except maybe the monarchy?
	Yeah, beside the monarchy, what is more exclusive than that?
	Seriously, the idea that you can be like, I'm for inclusivity in the most exclusive team in the world.
	Sorry, this is not about inclusivity.
	This is about excellence.
	This is about merit.
	This is about exclusivity.
	This is specifically about the opposite of all of the things that you're preaching.
	And yet you sit there as the captain of the England team, the very, again, the manager, sorry, the England team, the very peak of this, and say, I'm for equality.
	No, you're not.
	You can't be.
	And it's ridiculous to say that you are, right?
	But of course, he says, I've got to be concerned about this.
	Using the power of their voices to help put debates on the table and raise awareness and educate.
	Right.
	So you've adopted a series of parts and talking points that stem from communist attempts to overthrow the West Such as intersectionality and critical race theory, which are, and they just say this in their own writings, that they're trying to undermine the classical liberal order of the West.
	And he says, I see players scrolling through their phones straight after the final whistle, and I think, hmm, is that a good idea?
	Reading abusive comments on Twitter or Instagram is never going to help performance.
	Why would you tag someone in a conversation that is abusive?
	Why would you choose to insult somebody for something as ridiculous as the colour of their skin?
	Because there are arseholes on the internet, Gareth.
	You shouldn't let them colour your view of society.
	You don't even know what country they come from.
	It could be a bunch of Spanish fans or something being like, ah, yes, El Negro, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, who's just trying to demoralise you.
	Like, who knows?
	You don't know.
	You just assume that somehow they're representative of the people of this country.
	But anyway...
	So he says, Do we have to adopt communism?
	I agree that progress is probably a good thing, assuming it's done in accordance with our values and traditions, but I can't help but notice that the people that you're promoting, the ideology you're promoting, expressly loathes our traditions, the values that we hold, and the country itself.
	He's explicitly saying there that he's going to abandon them.
	Like, you've got our traditions, but that doesn't need to stop the way of progress.
	It's like, okay, what happens with that progress?
	You have to replace the old traditions.
	No, no, he is right.
	You can have a form of progress that operates within the traditions of the country that you're in.
	Sure, but that's not what he's promoting when he says progress.
	And it's certainly not what he's promoting when he's taking the knee.
	That's certainly the opposite.
	You can't take the communist value of equality at the same time as taking the liberal British standard of freedom.
	No, of course not.
	They don't.
	And so this ties nicely into flags and Keir Starmer having his photo opportunity in front of a flag when he says, oh, I'm going to, as this leaked Labour plan showed a couple of months ago, that they're going to try and focus on the flag and patriotism to win back voters.
	This, as you can imagine, went down like an absolute lead balloon with the left.
	Anyway, so a few months ago, a leaked Labour plan came out with quotes like this.
	Labour must make use of the Union flag, veterans and dressing sparrows, Yes, because the Corbyn Labour Party was so obviously an anti-British party that this was not a vote winner.
	And so, in WhatsApp messages, senior officials ordered, please prioritize Union Jack header images, not the plain red ones, as in the red of the communist flag.
	Yeah, good idea.
	Do you want to be seen as a patriotic party, don't have a communist background?
	Red wall voters have been targeted in Facebook adverts, saying things like, Britain is locked down, but the borders are open.
	Any idea why?
	Sounds bloody UKIP-ish, doesn't it?
	Like, fuck.
	And so naturally this...
	Not wrong.
	No, no, not wrong at all, right?
	And this got criticized for using language describing the hotel quarantine system that would normally be used in xenophobic attacks on immigrants.
	So, there we go.
	You can't even start talking about these things without the left-wing sides of the Labour Party springing out and screeching because they're anti-patriots, right?
	And so, the strategy accepts that Labour have excluded and ignored once-core voters, which the presentation appears to blame on Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, which is correct.
	Which, under the party...
	This is going to be blamed on Ed Miliband.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's not Tony...
	Well, maybe...
	Under which the party is described as a party of protest, expressing unpatriotic sentiments with arrogance and idealism.
	I mean, accurate.
	That's an accurate description, right?
	And so you have, like, left-wing Labour MPs, very left-wing, like the Labour left, people like Clive Lewis, saying the Tory party has absorbed UKIP and now Labour appears to be absorbing the language and symbols of the Tory party.
	What, by adopting the British flag?
	What country are you expecting to rule?
	It's maddening, right?
	But they're not singing the International, are they?
	And, you know, putting up placards to the Paris Commune.
	So now they're the Tory party, right?
	Damn, we have to be British?
	Exactly.
	Well, that's literally his point, right?
	He says, it's not patriotism, it's fatherlandism.
	No one in Britain uses the term fatherland.
	That's a very German phrase in our view.
	There's a better way to build social cohesion than moving down the track of the nativist right.
	So if you're nativist, as in you're patriotic for the native people of Britain, you're the problem.
	He wants to be patriotic for something else.
	Yeah, communism.
	Exactly as Orwell's notes on nationalism points out.
	Communism is something that generates a form of nationalism because nationalism, in Orwell's view, and I think he's right about this, is the striving for power for an abstract goal.
	So a movement, a nation, whatever it is, it's something above and beyond patriotism.
	It's a struggle for power.
	Anyway, so this all matters because recently Owen Jones posted a picture of himself at a pub with Ash Sarkar and a bunch of other communists with an England flag in the background.
	Why is there an England flag in the background?
	Well, of course, they were out celebrating the football because you know that Owen Jones and Ash Sarkar watch a lot of football on their days off.
	But this was obviously characterised alongside a tweet he had made criticising Keir Starmer about adopting the British flag as symbolism and patriotism as the view.
	He says, as someone has kindly posted on the picture of it, one of the many problems of this strategy here is it comes across as patronising and totally inauthentic, like people who don't understand the communities they're trying to win over going, oh, they like flags, don't they?
	Let's whack them in the background.
	He's not wrong.
	It is gross and inauthentic when a bunch of leftists sit there with your flag and claim that they care about the people and values that it supposedly embodies.
	They don't.
	And everyone knows they don't.
	Everyone knows they would much rather be there with a Soviet flag or a Chinese flag or some sort of communist paraphernalia.
	Which is why it looks like cringe.
	The cringe arises from that dichotomy.
	Yes, it rises from exactly that.
	The inauthenticity, as Owen has rightly pointed out, is manifest and bare for everyone to see.
	And so, unsurprisingly, he got criticism from the left.
	And rightfully so.
	Really?
	Yeah, no, but rightfully so.
	So socialistworker.co.uk, obviously you can see it's a communist newspaper, they post this, and you can't fault them from their own ideology.
	At least they're being consistent, right?
	Remember when the left was against nationalism and flags?
	Yeah, until it became really popular, until the England team were doing really well, until it was becoming desperately obvious that you had to be like, you know, pro-England in the football, or you looked like some sort of weirdo outsider.
	Like, the Communists aren't weirdo outsiders, but anyway.
	They say it wasn't that long ago when Labour leader Keir Starmer started delivering speeches in front of giant Union Jacks that most of the left got rightly annoyed and took the piss.
	A few successful England football games later, that's all forgotten.
	That's right.
	They're total grifters.
	I completely agree with the socialist workers here.
	Like, they should be...
	They're absolutely on point, and Owen Jones is being, essentially, a chameleon.
	Starmer poses in a budget England t-shirt for one photo shoot in an upmarket pub.
	Another pub, soft left writer Owen Jones takes a picture in front of a giant St George's cross.
	That's the same Owen Jones who complained about Starmer's inauthentic flag waving just one month ago.
	Still, as he pointed out, it was the pub that put the flag up, not him.
	He just happened to take a selfie in front of it.
	I love this patrolling.
	You just happened to do that, did you?
	cowardly excuse for doing the rounds from the other lefties on the England bandwagon.
	It's a diverse team, they say.
	Players take the knee.
	We can all unite behind this progressive patriotism.
	It's plastic rubbish.
	There's a reason why Boris Johnson looks more comfortable in front of the flag instead of Starmer or Jones.
	National unity, no matter how twee and fluffy, unites us with those at the top and sets us against those from outside.
	You see where this is going?
	If football comes home, it's going to Johnson's house.
	Let's not stand at the front door begging to be let in.
	We can't have national unity because then we can't hate the people at the top.
	And that's truly the leftist position.
	So Owen Jones, praising a bunch of millionaire footballers in their ultra-exclusive club where they just virtue signal towards inclusivity and equality, they are right to call it out as being the grift that it is.
	I do love the admission from the socialist there as well that the whole thing is anti-leftist.
	Like, you cannot support the flag and be a leftist.
	There can be no left-wing national unity.
	You don't want to be united with those at the top and set against those from the outside, according to the left.
	And so Owen Jones replies to this by obviously not engaging with it.
	Good to see the Socialist Workers' Party holding me to account for Chex Notes taking a selfie while watching a football match in a pub covered in England flags.
	Well, Owen, isn't it massively hypocritical if you'd suddenly be like English patriotism?
	I mean, it just really looks really hypocritical to me, especially as you obviously don't believe in these values anyway.
	And so, anyway, moving on.
	Republican, former Republican advisor Frank Luntz has been praising Gareth Southgate.
	Not necessarily for the things that he's saying, but at least the way he's saying it.
	Because in Gareth Southgate's defense, he didn't have to come out and explain why.
	You know, the fact that he gave his explanation as incoherent and contradictory as it is, and honestly, as much as I disapprove of what he was saying, at least he gave the explanation.
	So that's good.
	Anyway, Franklin says, he defines leadership.
	If a politician comes to me and says, what should I say?
	I tell them, be more like Gareth Southgate.
	He endorsed a common approach that people appreciated.
	That's the definition of unity.
	Well, I'm not sure if this has been uniting.
	I mean, it's kind of weird when your fans boo the team before the team even plays the game.
	So I'm not sure if that's actually as uniting as he thinks.
	But he called an article by the Dear England article, one of the best editorials I've ever read, saying at least people could see the actions were done sincerely and not for performative reasons.
	And that's fair.
	I'm not saying Gareth Southgate doesn't believe what he's saying.
	I'm saying he needs to think harder about what he's saying.
	He wanted to speak in favour of something and not against it, and that's a great way to bring people together.
	Something politicians don't understand, what you were for, not what you were against.
	Sure, but I feel that Frank Luntz isn't really thinking about what Gareth Southgate is speaking in favour of, Because he is actually not himself in favour of wokeness, and he thinks that wokeness, in the same vein as Macron, is tearing apart the West, it's tearing apart America.
	So the methods by which Gareth Southgate is put across his message is good, and politicians should favour it, but probably not the actual message itself.
	So let's play this clip, and this proves my point.
	This represents a commitment to unity.
	A commitment between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
	It represents what is great about this country.
	And I'm nervous that there are people who are trying to tear it down.
	I'm nervous about woke.
	I'm nervous about cancel culture.
	And I raise this because in the end it doesn't have to come here.
	The fact is you have a way to prevent it.
	And it's simply by the politician refusing to engage in this kind of politics.
	Refusing to try to upset and destroy an economy that's been really good for most people, not everybody.
	And a political system that hasn't had the ugliness that America's had.
	Now, you had Brexit, and you were the entertainment for the rest of the world for a couple years.
	Of course, we supplanted that with Donald Trump.
	I don't want you to have that kind of populism, because it is like a virus.
	And unlike COVID, there is no vaccine.
	If you get woke, and you get cancel culture, and you get that kind of division, I don't know how you get rid of it.
	I'm against wokeness and cancel culture too, which is why I'm condemning Gareth Southgate taking the knee.
	Why aren't you condemning it?
	Why are you instead praising him?
	I don't know why he combines Donald Trump and wokeness.
	Those things are diametrically opposed.
	Well, Trump, you could say, is a reaction to wokeness.
	I think that would be a fair critique.
	But that's the point, where it's like, oh, you don't want the wokeness, therefore you don't want Donald Trump.
	No, he's a reaction to it.
	Because we have wokeness, we actually need a Donald Trump.
	This is one of the great disappointments about Boris Johnson, is that he's not Donald Trump, and he's not strong enough to stand up to these people.
	But anyway, so the point he's making is that wokeness is bad, and it's bad when it's taking over your country and is going to drive everything apart, it's going to split everything up.
	As you can see, if you can get the England fans booing their own football team, you can see the power of wokeness to divide.
	You know, this couldn't be more divisive.
	How else could you get England fans to boo England's football team?
	They probably don't even boo when they lose, you know?
	And so, like, if he can actually take an action that get them to boo a successful popular team, that's incredibly divisive.
	But instead of critiquing that, Frankie Luntz is like, well, I mean, he delivered his message well.
	Oh, brilliant, you know?
	Yeah, you're right about even when they lose.
	That football chant comes to mind.
	I can't remember who it was.
	I think it might have been Leeds or something when they were losing.
	They lost game after game after game.
	And eventually the fans just started singing, you're not special, we lose every week.
	So the point I'm making with all of this is that Gareth Southgate's wokeness in his football is leading to consequences for other people who would just wish to support the football.
	So there was a primary school called Flake Fleet Primary School in Fleetwood, Lancashire.
	And they produced a video.
	Because back in the 90s, there was a...
	Who was the guy who did it?
	I can't remember the name of the guy who made that Vindaloo song.
	But it was a very, very popular song, and it was a football chant sort of song.
	And so they did a video with a bunch of kids, with their faces painted in the England flag, all just running around singing the song in a choreographed TikTok-style video.
	And, you know, it was just wholesome fun.
	It was just something that was quite nice that they were all doing.
	And, of course, the school got bullied on Twitter by the woke mob for this.
	And so they just shut down their Twitter profile and pulled the video.
	And because it was being called mindless hooliganism, when it was just so obviously not, it was just so obviously some kids doing some fun, creative thing at school.
	Do they think the kids were burning anything down?
	Well, exactly.
	Do they fight him with the police?
	But this is the point, like, saying, oh, well, you know, like, wokeism is dangerous and divisive, so yeah, then don't support it.
	But this is, anyway, this is how this is being played out across the football pitches of the United Kingdom now.
	And unfortunately, it doesn't, like you said, I don't know what to do to get rid of it.
	You've just got to not engage with it.
	It's like, well, sure, but you are...
	It's not really an argument.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like, don't fight the battle.
	You mean let it win.
	Well, it's not even that.
	The battle is going on.
	You know, it's way too late to say, well, you shouldn't fight this battle.
	Sorry, we're in the middle of it.
	You know, we're currently engaging with the enemy, and they're currently winning victory after victory, and you're like, hey, they're winning victories in a really impressive manner.
	It's like, dude, that's not good.
	But anyway, yeah, so that's that.
	So I want to talk about Claudia Webb's brainlit existence.
	If you don't know who Claudia Webb is, I think we've featured her quite a few times because she is fantastic.
	Was a Labour MP, we'll explain that in a minute.
	But if we get this first up, this is just her profile.
	This is going to revolve a lot around her Twitter page because that's where most of leftists are.
	So she explains herself as a socialist, feminist, she, her.
	Exactly the kind of brainlit things I expect on her Twitter bio.
	Used to be Labour?
	Not anymore.
	We'll explain that in a bit.
	So, there's the first thing, which is why she's popped up and why I've done this, is that a clip has gone viral this morning of her trying to ask a question in the most incoherent manner possible.
	So let's play the first clip.
	Thank you very much, Claudia.
	You wanted to come in?
	Thank you, Chair, and I hope I'm not going to be asking questions that you have already answered, but let me just start with a quick-file one on LaRousse, as we've just spoken about that.
	Why does the government not consider legal action to be necessary in the case of LaRousse?
	Belarus.
	Why does the government not consider legal action to be necessary in the case of Belarus?
	What is the legal action that you're proposing?
	Well, I'm asking you the question.
	Does the government consider legal action to be necessary at all?
	Sorry, forgive me.
	What I was trying to clarify is who do you want us to sue and where?
	That blank stare.
	Does the government agree that the situation in Belarus requires an intervention from the UK?
	We don't own Belarus, Claudia.
	And if we invaded it, I mean, the Russians would probably have something to say about that.
	We're going to sue Lukashenko.
	I'm sure he's going to pay up right away.
	So the previous guy who posted that said it with the comment, to be fair, we've all made fools of ourselves at various times.
	True, but none of us have made fools of ourselves consistently throughout their entire lifetime.
	So from what I can see of Claudia Webb at being in public view, she is an absolute dunce.
	It is unbelievable.
	And all she does to try and get support, and all you have to do to be an MP, especially on the left, is be a parrot.
	You just have to sit there and parrot stupid phrases and then you'll become an MP. Because that's all she does.
	So, I mean, here's just an example of her tweeting the Belarus thing and her being like, yeah, we should intervene here.
	But we go to the next one.
	There's her talking about Jeremy Corbyn.
	Restore the width of Jeremy Corbyn.
	Oh, no, I agree.
	Make him the party leader again.
	Good grief.
	Yeah, or the next one, where we have the sea is literally on fire.
	This is a climate disaster based on pure capitalist greed.
	Again, just parrot leftism, in case you haven't known.
	This has been in response to a lot of leftists being like, look at this capitalism.
	The company that did this?
	State-owned.
	State-owned company.
	If we go to the next one, there's someone who's put these all together.
	Someone's like, yeah, but capitalism is still to be managed.
	It's like, yeah, but it's owned by.
	State-earned and run by a woman.
	Yeah, there's also people who've been like, it's time for women, progressive women.
	The state-earned company is run by a woman.
	It was nationalised in 1938, so...
	Don't know what to tell you there, but I saw one defence from socialists, like, yeah, but it's still run for profit.
	The nationalised company.
	Who do you think the profit's going to?
	The people, of course.
	This is your people's defence for nationalising things.
	Like, how are you...
	We did socialism, did something stupid.
	Yeah, well, that's not real socialism.
	It's just every time with these people.
	It's the same goddamn argument.
	Ugh.
	But anyway, there's her other beautiful statements.
	So we go to the next one.
	The Earth is overpopulated.
	There are too many rich people.
	To solve the climate crisis, rich must be abolished.
	We're gonna abolish the rich.
	I mean, that's pretty socialist.
	I love it.
	We're going to kill all the rich people.
	It's full on Maoism, really.
	That includes her, by the way, because she's paid £81,000 a year as an MP. Where else could she earn £81,000?
	It's only through public service.
	Someone this incompetent could barely be on minimum wage, to be quite frank.
	So we'll go for the next one, which is her talking about a map.
	This map has been hidden from you all your life.
	It's a map of Africa.
	This is how they carved up Africa.
	What?
	The Western colonialism?
	This is not secret.
	This isn't every textbook in every school in the entire country.
	As a point of pride.
	And it just shows, like, West Africa, taken over by the French, the British section, taken over by the British and so forth.
	And she's like, what do you mean hidden?
	Hidden from who?
	If you closed your eyes your entire life, Claudia, that's not anyone else's fault.
	I didn't look, therefore I didn't know.
	I had not studied this at all, and so this was hidden from me.
	Yeah, so I mean, it's not just a one-off.
	It's not just her talking about Berus, or however the hell she said it.
	This is a long list of stupidity.
	If we go to the next one, it's Shia Tori, mocking her.
	They're like, this map has been hidden from you all your life.
	This is the map of African slavery.
	Don't want to talk about that, do we?
	So, there's also...
	I don't even know what to call it.
	Again, I'm going to use the word stupidity and brainlit a lot because I don't know what else to call this individual.
	But we go to the next one.
	This is her saying in response to Sasha Johnson being shot in the head by a black gang.
	What was it?
	BLM activist.
	No, no, but it was something Black Panthers or something, wasn't it?
	I can't remember the specific thing.
	She was a very militant offspring of Black Nationalists and Black Lives Matter.
	So she was shot by a black gang member in the head.
	In a 3am drive-by shooting of a party.
	So, I mean...
	While her kids were at home in bed.
	You would have thought...
	I mean, most of the leftists just kind of avoided that topic because it was like, right, that's a lose for us.
	Yeah.
	So, what did Claudia Webb say?
	The black community are not responsible for the manufacture, importation, or distribution of firearms.
	So, what?
	They're culturally appropriating firearms?
	What are we...
	Which is like the black man shoots a black girl who was campaigning for black nationalism.
	Who made that gun?
	The white man did this.
	The white man is responsible.
	Like, the black guy who's shooting the gun is no agency whatsoever.
	The framing of this is so good.
	They're not responsible for manufacture, importation, or distribution of firearms.
	Neither are they the cause.
	Well, hang on a second, right?
	Because those guns are illegal in the UK, right?
	So it's not like you can be like, oh, well, gun manufacturers did this.
	No, no, no, no.
	No gun manufacturer did this.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They literally are not allowed to sell their products here, right?
	Guns and violence have no regard for women, children, or families.
	Just like, there's just a gun sat on the table and suddenly it turns to you and it's like, don't do anything or I'll shoot.
	It's like, what?
	Like it's a Chihuahua.
	You put it down and it's just like, I want to kill kids.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's not what happened.
	It's an object.
	It doesn't move.
	It doesn't live.
	The gun is not real.
	It's just an object.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The gun doesn't move on its own.
	But then the government must do more to end this culture of violence.
	It's like, okay, but that culture of violence isn't the guns hanging out and shooting randomly.
	This is the people who are carrying the guns and pointing them at each other and then pulling the triggers.
	Yeah.
	I mean, again, it's just situation after situation where she just starts, I don't know, like stepping in S for some reason.
	There's another one here, which is the next one, which is just her going on a protest with a mask on, free Palestine, and then someone's like, why are you wearing a mask outside?
	She's like, yeah, because I'm vulnerable.
	Okay.
	Maybe, yeah.
	But then there's the tweet literally the day before where she's outside with no mask at another protest, presumably about free Palestine.
	Who cares?
	Not vulnerable on that day.
	She doesn't care.
	But also, she has a problem of whenever she is mocked, she gets extremely butthurt about the whole thing.
	Extremely butthurt.
	So, let's go to the first one here.
	This is someone mocking her because there was an image of her underneath a bust of Lenin and a portrait of Fidel Castro.
	Castro, what?
	Giving a speech.
	I mean...
	Of all the bad optics you could have, but...
	Just...
	I mean, the term anti-patriot really springs to mind.
	And of course, notable intellectual.
	So what was her response to this?
	She was like, how dare you do this?
	This is the consistent ridicule and abuse I have to put up with on an almost daily basis.
	Yeah?
	Because you're an MP. What did you think the job was?
	It's a public job.
	Like, it's a public role.
	I can't believe the public are concerned about what their representatives are doing as they sit under pictures of Mao and Lenin.
	Why are the serfs able to mock me?
	Can anyone guess where this picture was taken?
	It seems no one can ever imagine that this picture was taken in a library.
	Okay, well I'm a bit concerned about the state of that library then.
	The Marx Memorial Library.
	Oh, that's why.
	I was like, that doesn't make it better, though.
	Yeah, no, that makes it worse!
	This is awful!
	It wasn't like, oh, I was taking a picture, I didn't know what was behind me, come on, it's just some public library.
	Which would have been fair.
	No, I went to the Marxist library, in which I knew there were busts of Lenin and pictures of Fidel Castro everywhere.
	It's like a reverse of the Owen Jones defence.
	Well, I was just in a pub, and the pub hung up the England flag, and I just happened to take a selfie in front of it.
	I was just in a library that had Marx and Lenin.
	Okay.
	So we're going to the next link.
	You can see the place online.
	It's just like a socialist shrine.
	You can see there, all busts of Lenin.
	They have pictures of Ho Chi Minh and all that as well.
	Of course they do.
	It's just...
	Yeah, okay.
	So there's that.
	So why would the cope?
	Like, she's also publicly endorsing authoritarian leftists all the time.
	Oh wow, yeah.
	Chavez.
	What a hero.
	Hugo Chavez, rest in peace.
	A defender of the left.
	Champion of the poor.
	What?
	I mean, he did champion a lot of people into poverty.
	If it wasn't for him, there'd be so many more few poor Venezuelans.
	So I have my own interaction with this lady as well, which she decided to tweet out one day, out of the blue.
	Even her own supporters didn't know why she tweeted this, because they were like, what the hell's going on in the comments?
	Nobody made you tweet this, Claudia.
	One day I will be free of police racism.
	What?
	Everyone's just like, what on earth are you talking about?
	How are you the victim of police racism?
	So this is why I mentioned that she'd been removed from the Labour Party.
	The reason she'd been removed is because she's being accused of harassment.
	Leicester East MP Claudia Webb suspended after a harassment charge.
	Ooh.
	She is accused of threatening and making multiple unwanted calls to a woman, and the CPS are investigating her for that.
	That's why she's suspended.
	Well, that happened in, what, September 2020?
	Or April 2020, something like that.
	So she's accused of harassing a woman, and then that's why the police are investigating her.
	So I can only presume that is why she's tweeting out, one day I'll be free of police racism, because you're being investigated for harassment.
	They're already investigating me because I'm black.
	Dude, that is how she argues.
	We'll see that in a minute.
	So I made a meme mocking this, because just, what on earth?
	So she's Claudia Webb, like, suspended for harassment.
	One day I'll be free of police race.
	What a mess of a woman.
	Anyway, she didn't take this mockery very well, so she decided to respond with accusing me of male violence.
	What?
	Terrible of how misinformation, racism, and injustice works.
	Meanwhile, hate, abuse, death threats, and male violence against me just continues.
	It's a meme.
	What?
	It's a death threat.
	That's male violence right there.
	The bicycle meme.
	I don't know what on earth was wrong with her.
	What was Darren Grimes' response?
	Just out of interest.
	It's just a gif of the little girl being like, what is that?
	What are you talking about?
	This wasn't even the cringiest part.
	If you just done that and moved on, it'd be like, alright, what weirdo, but whatever.
	She then broke, turned into a robot.
	So if we go to the next one, she started responding to everyone mocking her with the same phrase.
	Who's talking about a meme?
	Endlessly?
	What else are we talking about?
	I made a meme, you got butthurt, and then you're like, nah, I'm not talking about a meme.
	What meme?
	I was like, hmm, okay.
	So then she eventually responded with, I didn't accuse the meme of anything.
	So we go to the next one.
	Right, so she's accusing you posting the meme of male violence, hate abuse, death threats, and whatnot.
	But also just the idea that you could accuse the meme.
	Wait, what?
	Like, the meme is guilty of being a death threat?
	No, you posting the meme.
	Sure.
	That's what she's accusing, if it's not the meme itself.
	Which I like is capitalised.
	She knows the meme.
	Like, she knows that it's about a meme, so I don't know what it was with the robotic speak.
	But, I mean, thank God the meme itself isn't a crime.
	The meme is innocent.
	You're the one who's guilty.
	Yeah, it's innocent memes.
	But, as you mentioned, her response to any criticism being, that's racism.
	That's a real thing she does.
	Oh, I believe it.
	Go to the next one.
	This is a compilation, so we click on the first one here.
	In which she's just responding to some guy.
	I can't remember.
	Wasn't that interesting?
	And she's just like, I don't know you.
	Do you target me because I'm a black woman?
	I was like, what?
	No one brought that up.
	I've literally got a list of black women and you just happen to be next in the list.
	It just so happens you're an MP. The previous one was a cleaner, you know?
	Like, Claudia, come on.
	So then there's the next image here.
	Same thing, someone accusing her of having two roles, and then she's like, no, this is true, stop targeting me.
	Stop the anti-black hate.
	What?
	Sorry, is that Dr.
	Rakib Ehsan, a noted white supremacist, is he?
	Going after the black women all the time.
	Hmm.
	So we go to the next one as well.
	She's gotten mugged for this Belarus thing.
	So, hey hun, did you want us to sue in Belarus?
	I'm not your hun, and please take your sexism elsewhere and stop being so ignorant.
	Okay.
	I like Dominic Rams.
	What?
	What are we supposed to do?
	There's one more of these in which someone dared to call her babes.
	Figured out what legal action you want the UK to take against Belarus yet, babes?
	I'm not your babes.
	Take your nasty misogyny elsewhere.
	Aw.
	I like hearing about misogyny.
	It makes me nostalgic.
	Quaint, isn't it?
	But yeah, I mean, absolute mess with individuals.
	How on earth did this happen?
	So the seat before used to belong to...
	Belong?
	As if they're entitled to it.
	It used to be owned by Keith Faz in this Labour piece.
	It used to be occupied by Keith Faz.
	That's the correct way.
	And until his cocaine and male rent boy scandal came along, he was spending money on cocaine and male rent boys, and he promised to buy them the cocaine.
	I think with taxpayers' money, I'm not quite sure about that, but it was embarrassing, to say the least.
	Meanwhile, how many expenses does Jacob Rees' mod claim?
	Zero pounds.
	Zero pounds.
	Zero pounds of cocaine.
	Maybe he uses his own money.
	I don't know.
	I mean, he's probably not having as much fun as Keith Vaz is having.
	I mean, look at him.
	He looks like he's having a good time.
	Yeah, so this guy stuck around three years after this scandal as well, somehow.
	And then, just to keep in mind also, Keith comes across to me as an absolute scumbag.
	So, on the issue of Salman Rushdie is the worst one.
	So we're going to the next article here in which they're talking about all of the scandals he had.
	One of it was in 1989, two years after becoming the first Asian MP since 1929.
	He led a march of several thousand Muslims in Leicester, calling for Salman Rushdie's book, The Satanic Versus, to be banned.
	Well, I can see why he joined the Labour Party.
	It's also reported that on the march he was saying this was one of the greatest days in the history of Islam and Great Britain.
	He's a Catholic as well.
	Okay.
	Isn't that funny?
	Well, actually, yes.
	The black flag of labour goes across all religions.
	So anyway, there's that.
	And then the local news from this place is also just amazing.
	I don't know how it produces such waste in candidates.
	But this is a thing that happened locally.
	There was a petition who called Gandhi a fascist.
	They want his statue toppled.
	Gandhi, noted fascist.
	They're sick of going after Winston Churchill and then wanted his statue toppled.
	Obvious nonsense.
	Obvious leftist BS. But, Keith's response to the petition writers was to say that he would criminalise them.
	So he said, if it's not withdrawn, I will certainly refer it to the police and consider whether it incites racial hatred.
	What?
	Okay.
	Like, for all of the stupidity in writing a petition to call Gandhi a fascist, it's not racial hatred, so whatever.
	So, Keith Vaz was a moron, and a moron has taken over his position.
	Yeah, I don't know how they got a bigger moron to do this, but the real dark side of this is, of course, funny, stupid Labour MP, but there are real problems in her constituency, and I just don't mean, like, economic problems, I mean real goddamn problems.
	Oh, Leicester East?
	I can't believe it.
	Leicester East.
	So, a Conservative MP went on Ian Dale's show to give the information that apparently one in eight people in this constituency are modern-day slaves.
	Slaves.
	Labour MP, one in eight people in your constituency is a slave.
	What a surprise.
	So let's go for this clip in which he makes his accusations.
	That there are probably 10,000 modern slaves in Leicester.
	10,000?
	10,000.
	I would point out that all the factories are located in the constituency of Leicester East, which is also the hotspot of where the virus has flared up in Leicester.
	Millions and millions of pounds worth of VAT fraud going on in this industry in Leicester.
	And that the slaves are being supplied with cash that's laundering money from the drug trade.
	So, Ian, there's nothing good about any of this.
	This is absolutely an appalling situation.
	Three Labour MPs, there's a Labour Mayor, there's a Labour Police and Crime Commissioner, the Council's got 54 councillors, 52 of them are Labour, one independent, one Liberal Democrat.
	This is a one-party state in Leicester.
	I mean, you're talking about one in eight of the people.
	Walking the streets in Leicester East, which is a very small urban constituency of a few square miles, one in eight people is a slave.
	Labour, one party state, one in eight people is a slave.
	Deeply corrupt.
	Could you get any worse?
	And you would think an individual has taken over that constituency.
	That would be the only thing they talk about.
	I can't believe people keep voting for Labour.
	But anyway, just to substantiate these claims as well, it's not just a Conservative MP said this, and then therefore it's gospel.
	No, Sky News went up there.
	Sky News not exactly right-wingers.
	They went up there and they filmed the factories.
	Factory owners were not happy to see anyone with cameras.
	They found immigration enforcement were patrolling the area endlessly.
	You just walk out and find them.
	So the Home Office knows.
	And then you've got the fact that they spoke to Labour councillors.
	And the Labour councillors quoted as saying that it's not just an open secret, it's just open.
	They know.
	They know damn well.
	And yet what's done?
	What does Claudia do?
	Go on Twitter and whine about people being racist.
	Just like Gareth.
	She whines about other slavers.
	Right.
	The fact that there's not a statue of her, presumably.
	So we go to the next one.
	This is her talking about Priti Patel being like, hey, you shouldn't pull down statues just because.
	Not a good argument.
	And then Claudia Webb responds, statues of slave traders memorialized in our inner cities tells us all we need to know about Britain today.
	You're presiding over constituency where one in eight people is a slave.
	You're like, yeah, but slaver statues.
	It's like, what about the slavers in your constituency?
	It's about the race of the person who owns the slave.
	Yeah.
	That's what it's about.
	The slavers and the slaves in Leicester East seem to be all of, let's say, Asian origin.
	This is the more polite description I can give.
	And then there's that.
	And then she's like, yeah.
	Exactly.
	Atrocities committed by the British Empire.
	She doesn't mind atrocities being done by non-white people.
	That's fine.
	That's acceptable.
	In fact, that's something clearly she's happy to just live above.
	But I love doing this segment, not just because Claudia Webb, idiot.
	I mean, absolute brainless.
	But it also reminds us that MPs are nothing.
	They can be as stupid as they come, they can be as pointless as they come, and if you are just a parrot, you can get elected.
	Put a red rosette on a pig, as they say.
	Anyway, I thought we'd end this one with Zuby's Pandemic Lessons.
	Zuby, good guy, rapper and commentator, posted on Twitter, 20 things I've learned or had confirmed about humanity during the pandemic.
	And I thought we'd just go through them because there are some interesting points and just have a nice chat about them.
	So, number one, most people would rather be in the majority than be right.
	I mean, that's a timeless truth, isn't it?
	It's so obvious that people are total conformists.
	If the YouGov polling is anything to go by, then people are total sheep, which is disturbing.
	Number two, at least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies which will emerge under the right conditions.
	I'm reasonably sure this is actually based on a study that was done a while ago.
	Apparently it's 30% of the population at any one point could basically go super fascist.
	It's like, yeah, as we can see.
	You know, loads of people are pro-lockdown.
	It's mad.
	Number three, the fear of death is only rivaled by fear of social disapproval.
	Well, that could be stronger.
	Seems to tie in with number one.
	Anything you agree with there?
	Disagree with?
	No, I don't think I can.
	I mean, the thing as well is, like, fear of death.
	Well, social disapprovalism form a sort of social death, so it's essentially the same thing in many ways.
	Well, I mean, John Stuart Mill described it as worse than, I think, talking about, like, capital punishment from the state, because it goes more deeply.
	It can infect every part of your life, and you've got to live with it.
	And it can go on forever, yeah.
	Propaganda is just as effective in the modern day as it was 100 years ago.
	Access to limitless information has not made the average person any wiser.
	That's so totally true, isn't it?
	That's so obviously true.
	Like, it's scary watching, and yesterday we covered how the scientists knew they were propagandising in the same way that totalitarian regimes do, and they did it anyway, even though they themselves called it unethical, and Zuby's right, the propaganda is just as effective now as it was when it was invented.
	No question of it, in my opinion.
	Anything and everything we can and will be politicized by the media, government, and those who trust them.
	That's correct.
	Again, those are just statements of fact, aren't they?
	Many politicians and large corporations will gladly sacrifice human lives if it is conducive to their political and financial aspirations.
	Had your vaccine yet?
	I'm more interested in the facts.
	You remember when they closed down the country and you had It was weird, because the fact that you close down in the name of saving lives, and then you end up, obviously, with the unintended consequences of people having their lives ruined.
	And then the fact that they're like, yeah, that's fine.
	That's not a concern at all.
	You don't see politicians talking about that.
	No, that's because it would rather undermine the messaging, wouldn't it?
	Well, I should mention, I have seen one or two MPs mention that, so I'll say central government.
	Well, yeah.
	But not just that, though.
	The fact that the Labour Party were in favour of lockdowns when it was something the government are doing is mad, because the opposition should surely oppose, in some ways.
	Isn't that kind of the point of being in the opposition?
	Yeah, I mean, I would have guessed, but what do I know?
	Once they have made up their mind, most people would rather commit to being wrong than admit they're wrong.
	This is Mark Twain's famous adage.
	It's easier to fool a man than persuade him that he's been fooled.
	That's completely true.
	I've noticed this myself.
	I guess there's something about the pride of knowing something or thinking you know something and the humiliation that follows from that pride after being demonstrated to be wrong.
	It's easier to block than to reconsider your own position.
	Humans can be trained and conditioned quickly and relatively easily to significantly alter their behaviours for better or worse.
	That seems like it's true.
	See, was it Chris Whitty's...
	Are there three reasons I'm going to wear a mask, whatever, after the mandates have been lifted?
	And I just saw this being published in, you know, like the Independent and stuff.
	Three reasons why we should wear our masks after the government stops making us do it.
	That's not what he said, you know, but it's all a part of this conditioning.
	We also have the communist millionaire being like, yeah, we should keep lockdowns going forever.
	Yes.
	But the point is, loads of people are in favour of this.
	Loads of people essentially haven't done any particular thinking about it, and they're just going to do what they're told.
	He's absolutely right.
	They can be conditioned quickly and apparently easily to alter their behaviours, and they have.
	And the communists know this, which is part of the reason that the behavioral psychologists on the Sage Advisory Committee, the communists, are there.
	They're not epidemiologists, they're not virologists, they're not experts in viruses.
	They're here to talk about human behavior and how that can be modified, and they have a vision in mind.
	Yeah, I mean, no surprise, all those people are communists.
	Exactly, they absolutely are.
	Specialised in manipulating people.
	Yeah, of course you're a commie.
	Yeah.
	When sufficiently frightened, most people will not only accept authoritarianism, but will demand it.
	And this is how, tying into the previous one, how people have been easily conditioned to alter their behaviours, tell them that there's something terrifying going on, and they're going to personally be affected by it, and therefore suddenly they're all like, yeah, everyone's got to wear a mask, we're going to have lockdowns, we can never ease up.
	Ooh.
	It's constant.
	And you see it with the people who still live in fear.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to mention names, but I know of couples who essentially S themselves and are still in the position of like, I don't want to go out and meet people and whatnot because fear of the virus.
	I'm just looking at them like, what?
	My wife's nan is in that position.
	She's been double vaccinated and she still won't go out.
	It's like, why?
	Was she an anti-vaxxer?
	No, she's been vaccinated twice.
	But it's just fear.
	And it's fear because it's constantly in the media cycle.
	And so people's understanding of the world is filtered through this prism.
	And obviously they think, God, people are dying in the streets.
	The hospitals are overcrowded.
	Everyone's about to die of COVID. When that's just not the case.
	and the people in the central government are able to go out and have sex with the women who are not their wives or go out and not wear masks where they've told everyone else to wear them.
	Because they know.
	Kay Burley going to parties, even though she's the one going, oh, social distance and mask mandates and all this.
	Yeah.
	They've assessed the threat, they know what the threat is, and they've acted accordingly, but they tell other people not to do that and instead to act over the top.
	Yeah.
	People who are dismissed as conspiracy theorists are often well-researched and simply ahead of the mainstream narrative.
	Man, isn't the Wuhan lab leak theory proof of that?
	I watched Johnny Harris.
	I think I've mentioned him before.
	He used to work at Vox.
	Yeah.
	And he made, like, the Borders series and whatnot.
	He's an interesting YouTuber.
	But he's very left-leaning, and he made a video recently talking about exactly that.
	And you could see the light bulbs going off in his head.
	Like, he still has to couch it in the language of, like, right-wing bad.
	Like, he keeps blaming Trump for saying Chinese virus, for example, and, like, linking that to hate crimes.
	It's like, no.
	That literally comes from the Chinese saying it's an American virus.
	You know this.
	Why would you not say that?
	But also, the hate crimes are not being done by Trump supporters.
	Yeah, it's not happening.
	But the...
	No, no, there are hate crimes happening, just not by Trump supporters.
	So you can see some of the light bulbs going off in his head where he's like, wait, why did the progressive sense of this?
	Why are we the guys who are like, yeah, we can't talk about this because Trump's promoted?
	Are we the baddies?
	Yeah, you can see some light bulbs going on.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, the conspiracy theorists, obviously conspiracy theorists is just a dismissive, thought-terminating cliché.
	You are someone whose ideas are so loopy and ridiculous that I'm not even going to engage.
	It's like, sure, but they do have a good point that you've got the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then the exact kind of disease they are studying emerges in the same city.
	We need a new term, because conspiracy theorists, it's a thing.
	It's been redeemed.
	When the Chinese Communist Party conspire to do something, yeah, that's a conspiracy theory.
	That doesn't mean it's false.
	And pretty much everything the communists do is a conspiracy against the Chinese people.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	I guess we do need a new word for it.
	But anyway, conspiracy reality is a good suggestion by John.
	Well, that's the thing.
	You can deal in conspiracy theories or you can deal in conspiracy facts.
	And it is a fact that, say, the Chinese Communist Party conspires against their own people, obviously.
	Every Communist Party does.
	But I do think there is something to a lot of the conspiracy theories that we are hearing.
	But, I mean, obviously we can't challenge that any further if we want this to go up on YouTube.
	So, moving on.
	Most people value safety and security more than freedom and liberty, even if said safety is merely an illusion.
	That's true.
	That's not a new innovation either.
	Who is it?
	Benjamin Franklin, I think, who made that point.
	Do you value safety over liberty or get neither?
	Well, you should get neither.
	No, you should get neither, yeah.
	I hate the fact that he added a should there.
	I might be wrong.
	No, no, no, I think he did.
	But, I mean, good observation.
	True.
	Still.
	Hedonic adaptation occurs in both directions, and once inertia sets in, it is difficult to get people back to normal.
	That's true.
	Once the machine of the state is set in motion, and it's put into everyone's minds that this is what we're doing, and Deserve, neither.
	Deserve, right, yeah.
	And I object to his framing, but we'll talk about it in a little time.
	Anyway, yeah, no, once everything gets moving, because of the sort of low information and low amount of critical thinking that goes into what's going on, it means that you still get people going, oh, we have to save the NHS. The NHS is fine.
	The NHS is not good.
	From what?
	But that's the point, you know, but the inertia is set in and now the machinery is moving and there's so much weight behind it.
	Even if you sit there with someone who's like a dyed-in-the-wool sort of like COVID apocalyptic believer and you explain to them, look, it's just not the apocalypse going on.
	Very few people are dying now.
	The NHS is just fine.
	You know, most people are vaccinated at this point, 65% of the population or something like that, and yet they'll still just default back to, yeah, but I've been told to become afraid.
	And so the inertia of it continues.
	A significant percentage of people thoroughly enjoy being subjugated.
	Yeah, they also enjoy being the subjugators, those very same people, I think.
	But that is annoying, isn't it?
	When the left are like, oh, you know, the oppressive state, lock me down harder, daddy.
	Why are you in favour of lockdowns?
	Is the state being oppressive?
	It actually does affect the poorest worst.
	And if you're like some sort of race identitarian, you'd be like, well, that disproportionately affects black and brown people then because they're disproportionately poor.
	So how could you be in favour of lockdowns from your own logic?
	Because we want to be in charge.
	Exactly.
	Because we want that power to be available because one day we see our revolution coming and once we get it, that'll be a totally legitimate thing for us to do.
	Can't stand it.
	Anyway, the science has evolved into a secular pseudo-religion for millions of people in the West.
	This religion has little to do with science itself, and often it's completely flying in the face of science itself.
	That's actually a good development of this last couple of years.
	Is it?
	Scientism.
	Yeah, I mean, people have always hated...
	I've got to say, Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the worst people for this.
	I mean, he's not trying to be bad, I don't think, but the way people like him have characterised science as like...
	Fetishising science.
	Yeah, it's been really cringe and bad, and everyone who knows anything about science has been like, don't do this.
	And now that view has been destroyed, I think, for most people.
	Yeah, I mean...
	I mean, sure, on the left, you've still got people being like, trust the science, which is just like, fuck up, you have no idea what you're talking about.
	Yeah, there is no such thing as trusting the science.
	Like, if you say that, you're being anti-scientific.
	That's a deliberate, faith-based perspective on what should be, essentially, the process of critical thinking.
	But yeah, absolutely.
	Science has evolved into this secular pseudo-religion.
	And you always say, this guy is saying on the internet that he's discovered something all these epidemiologists didn't discover.
	It's like, have you considered they might be deliberately hiding something from you?
	You know, you're assuming, like the communist woman, playing on the idea that, oh, well, I'm just a neutral and partial scientist.
	Don't believe you.
	At all.
	I mean, you're a communist, for a start.
	But the point is, anyone familiar with the philosophy and history of science...
	Will not sit there and say, right, the science is incontrovertible or settled or, you know, the method is fixed or something like this.
	The question of, like, scientific paradigms and how they move forward and things like that is very much up in the air.
	And no one is saying in...
	Just how strong is the evidence?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's never settled.
	It's just it's strong.
	It's probably this.
	Yeah, but even then you get the problems of the paradigm you're operating within.
	It affects the things you look for.
	And we've got good examples of this.
	Missing things that are true and scientifically relevant that were just not seen because of the way you look at the thing.
	And so there's no saying, oh, the science.
	It's like, no, that's just not a thing, really.
	There is no one science.
	But anyway...
	Most people care more about looking like they're doing the right thing rather than actually doing the right thing.
	Straight out of the Bible, that.
	Jesus says, don't pray in public, pray in private.
	But he's not wrong.
	I mean, that's what virtue signaling is.
	All the leftists do pray in public.
	They do.
	And if you have to signal your virtue, then you're not being virtuous, because virtue signals itself.
	Politics, the media, science, and the healthcare industries are all corrupt to varying degrees.
	Scientists and doctors can be bought as easily as politicians.
	This is a long-term concern of the left, incidentally, with science.
	And you see this all the time.
	Oh, well, Big Pharma or the cigarette companies or alcohol companies...
	Paid some scientists to do a study and they came up with a study that supports the conclusions that the alcohol and tobacco companies had already come to the conclusion on.
	So this is faulty.
	It is suspicious.
	It is obviously riddled with bias.
	And it's because of the fact that these scientists have been paid to do these things.
	And it's like, yeah, it's like now apply that to vaccines and COVID. Oh no, I'm a Pfizer guy.
	I've got my Moderna vaccine.
	It's like, do you think there's not the same sort of goddamn interest in play for some reason?
	Well, a better example would be the Wuhan lab, where it's just like, well, we have the names, we have the guys, we have their contracts in which they were clearly partisan.
	In the same way that you're like this tobacco scientist who works for Camel isn't trustworthy.
	Why is Peter Daszak, the guy who works with the Wuhan lab, trustworthy?
	Exactly.
	And I mean, say politics in the media and healthcare industries are also crud.
	Well, duh.
	But I mean, yeah, that's absolutely true, obviously.
	But the thing I think is worth hammering on is the fact that scientists are not simply neutral actors.
	And this is the left's position four years ago when they started saying this.
	And you've got people like the sort of new atheist-style scientists...
	No, science is objective and neutral.
	It's like, sure, ideally, it's supposed to be.
	But when you have such obviously political and, dare we say, corrupt people running around under the label of science, you can't really assert that and think you're standing on firm ground.
	18.
	If you make people comfortable enough, they will not revolt.
	You can keep millions docile as you strip their rights by giving them money, food, and entertainment.
	Obviously true.
	And again, not a new observation, but he's not saying that each one of these is new.
	He's saying these are definitely true.
	And that is definitely true.
	This is the bread and circuses of the modern era, as the Romans did it to keep the plebs in line.
	As they were taking away their land and giving it to massive landowners who used slaves to farm the soil instead of the Roman working man, they just gave them a free grain doll and some entertainment to watch.
	And we've got the same thing now.
	Stay at home, get your free government money, watch Netflix, be quiet.
	They're busy remaking the world without you.
	And I see number 20 is easiest to convince a person they've been fooled rather than to fool them than convince them they've been fooled.
	I'm sure he said that one earlier.
	Yeah, so, okay, there's a repeat there.
	But I thought these were all really good points, and I think that Zuby made them very, very well.
	And these are things that I think are demonstrably true.
	And that's why I thought I'd cover them, just because this is good.
	Good stuff.
	Completely correct.
	I didn't know the world champion for women's deadlifting was also a philosopher.
	He is.
	Let's end that there, I guess.
	I guess we'll go to the video comments.
	Hey, Lotus Eaters.
	Two things.
	First, is a point from weeks and weeks ago, probably closer to episode nice than episode 100 nice, is that building your own stuff is very, very rewarding, and you feel very proud of it when you're done.
	I build mantles like this, and also floating shelves like this, where the brackets go on the inside.
	They come out very nice.
	I really like them.
	Secondly...
	You guys say that you don't watch anime, or have never seen anime, but I heard Callum say Uncle Ruckus the other week, and Boondocks is an anime.
	So my question is, what's your favorite moment from the Boondocks?
	For me, it's when they brought Martin Luther King back from the dead, and just implied he was in a coma.
	That episode is the funniest.
	I still don't really watch Boondocks or like it.
	Is it an anime?
	I don't know.
	I guess it probably is by the style.
	I don't know if that's the standard.
	But the Uncle Rocco's character, I just found really funny that they could play that on American television and nothing happened.
	Why did society not burn down over that character existing, considering how sensitive Americans are to just someone wore blackface in a 90s sitcom?
	I assume he was voiced by a black actor?
	Well, therefore it's alright.
	Okay.
	Sure.
	He's got an M-word pass.
	He's got a racism pass.
	It wasn't just the M-word.
	The dude was literally like Klan on 2000 or something.
	Anyway.
	But if you don't know what Uncle Ruckus is, go and Google Uncle Ruckus best moments on YouTube and have an evening.
	I tell you, I'm totally jealous of people who do woodworking, though.
	I love watching woodworking videos on YouTube and Facebook.
	It's so sad, but I get really enthralled by watching it, and I wish I did it.
	Instead, I do this.
	Do you shop a woodworking shop?
	Maybe I will!
	The last thing I made in woodworking was when I was in school.
	I made a little duck.
	That was about it.
	I can't remember what I did, but I remember you really enjoying it.
	Saber failed to protect your subjects in life, and now looks to rewrite history.
	Writer protests.
	To rewrite history would be to insult those of who participated.
	To Saber, kings is a sacrificial rule.
	To give up on one's own life in pursuit of just rule and law.
	Writer claims that people and countries serve their king, not the other way around.
	Saber says that this is tyranny.
	Writer says we are tyrants and thus we are heroes.
	But if a king regrets his reign or its ending, he is simply a fool.
	A worse ruler than a tyrant.
	Saber accuses the writer of kingship purely driven by greed.
	Here's your response next time.
	What is this pro-anime propaganda we're being subjected to?
	I don't know.
	Purge.
	Evolution of Keto.
	Evolution of Keto, John says.
	Let's go with the next one.
	Callum, on Monday you seemed upset that Americans weren't dunking on the bridge properly, so I'm just going to do this, and hopefully that's good enough for you.
	Yes.
	Can't argue.
	You're a genius.
	If a Yankee wants to dunk on an Englishman, this is how you do it.
	You do not sit there and be like, yeah, I've got Doritos and Mountain Dew mixed together.
	There's not something we're jealous of.
	Yeah.
	This is something else.
	Beardless of the world, unite.
	We must overthrow beardism.
	Smash beardyarchy.
	Because your country needs you to grow a moustache.
	That's awesome.
	I mean, he's got a good point.
	Yeah.
	Like, I can't do that, but I do love people who do.
	I mean, it's the general Melchard thing, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Gives you a certain sound like...
	In a city that voted for Gills, escape of the new hamster dam.
	Coming to a red state near you.
	As someone who lives in a state that's been overrun by leftists, I can unfortunately say that never have I seen them leave their politics behind.
	you're not going to be a good one.
	Yeah.
	Sad, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's worse than sad.
	It makes me angry.
	It's full-on parasitic.
	Oh, I've destroyed my home.
	Can I come and live in yours?
	Sure, as long as you're not a parasite.
	And it's like, no, no, I'm going to carry on chewing at the walls and making this all fall down.
	I just want to live with you because where I live sucks because of the destruction I've wrought to it.
	So why?
	What?
	No, go away.
	Remember, I was watching some TV show with my mum, and there was...
	I think she was an immigrant.
	I might be wrong.
	But there was this woman and her child were given a house by the council, and they clogged the toilet.
	So what was their solution to this?
	Happens to the best of us, yeah.
	Could you unclog it?
	No, no, no, no.
	They filled it to the brim, and then they filled their bath to the brim.
	And then there were just bags of trash in their house, and it was just like, what is wrong with you?
	How could you take someone's house and do that to them, even if it's a council house?
	That's what leftists are doing.
	They're filling it to the brim with, you know what.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I think you need to look a bit more into this Oli London situation after you reappeared on This Morning.
	I think this guy's a stupid genius.
	He got so much hatred and criticism from the left for ironically using the same arguments that we make about gender, but it's okay because it's about race.
	Although I'd argue that race is more of a social construct than gender, but that's besides the point.
	He's highlighting how stupid this idea is, and because they can't refute the idea, they say that he's making an unsafe environment for trans people.
	What are your thoughts?
	He is a trans person, and so the unsafe environment is something he's going to be a victim of.
	I don't think he's this smart, and the reason I'll give is because go to his YouTube channel, as I did, and just watch a bunch of his videos going back years upon years, and he genuinely is just nuts.
	Like, he's the kind of guy who is...
	Genuinely believes he's trans-Korean and is the guy from BTS or whatever it is.
	But that's why he's a stupid genius.
	Maybe.
	It's like, you know, the clock being right twice a day that's broken.
	It's like you've stumbled into it.
	Yeah, it's not out of a kind of theoretical understanding of the issues involved.
	It's about a kind of gut-level instinct of, I want this.
	And this just happens to be the issue that explodes in sectional politics.
	So, I mean, he is right.
	In fact, tomorrow I'll probably carry on because Ollie London got props from Rachel Dolezal.
	So it's nice to see the transracial movement coming together.
	Transracial pride worldwide.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And yeah, so we'll cover that at some point.
	You asked why scientists are communists.
	It's because of the system that they operate in.
	The university system is, at best, feudalistic and at worst.
	They have to share resources.
	They get their production taken from them and given to whomever the chair decides.
	It's a total and complete disaster, but it's what they're used to.
	It's what they operate in.
	And so they tend to allow it to carry over into their political lives.
	Hmm.
	Not a bad point.
	I don't know how to solve the university problem.
	Because you need universities, but...
	I think there's more to it than that, but I think that is an issue that he's identifying there.
	I quite like UKIP's policy on this back in the day, which was at least one way of bettering the whole situation, which was to make...
	Abolish higher education?
	Uh, close.
	No.
	I'm joking.
	Take STEM and make that free.
	No tuition.
	But if you're doing gender studies, double the tuition.
	It's just like, get stuffed.
	Yeah, make the gender studies people pay for the STEM people.
	Yeah.
	It's just redistribution of wealth, comrade.
	Like, if you're going to waste your four years here, and then you're going to waste everyone else's time for the rest of your life, at least pay for it.
	Right, let's go to the next one.
	Hello, Callum.
	In yesterday's podcast, you kind of wanted men in a spa.
	I'll have you know that as an owner of a spa...
	40% of my clientele are men.
	Yeah, Calum.
	Why?
	Well, it doesn't love to go to spa.
	Also, my spa's name is Lotus Spa.
	Ooh.
	Good to think.
	Yeah, Calum.
	I've never seen men in...
	I've never had the idea of even going to a spa as a man.
	It's just a woman's thing.
	You get a body scrub.
	What's that?
	Where they get, like, crystals or something and then scrub it on your skin.
	What?
	I don't know.
	I'm not an expert.
	I'm just aware that that's something they do.
	Where have you been on your weekend?
	Because I've had to go to a spa before.
	Yeah, but you've got a wife, so that makes sense.
	Yeah, I know.
	She dragged me to this bloody spa.
	It was quite nice.
	I mean, you sit in the heated pool, reading a book, and they've got this lemon scrub that they put in your bag.
	It was quite nice.
	It was alright.
	It was alright.
	I'm not going to do it on a regular basis, but it wasn't awful.
	I just, I can't fathom that book.
	I mean, you weren't naked or anything, so that's probably why I wasn't naked.
	Alright lads, I'm gonna hit you with a vast generalization, and you tell me if you agree with it.
	I'm of the opinion human beings are, if it ain't broke, don't fix it by default, and it's only when it's personally affecting them will they explore ideas and concepts outside of their current realm of knowledge.
	Which leads me to speculate, unless this prerequisite is present, it makes most political discussions ultimately pointless.
	Probably true.
	Because I do think that a person's politics is because of their general disposition of character.
	And so if something is provoking them into becoming political, then there must be a problem.
	And that's the only real circumstance where you can actually have a proper conversation about it.
	Because otherwise, I think he's right.
	Most people are just like, just leave me alone.
	I'm not bothered.
	I want to get on with my life.
	Could be wrong.
	Probably true.
	So after three weeks of hard work aboard the ship, it is time to get up for another three weeks to rest and relax.
	Where again we'll come back on the grind again for another three weeks.
	It's been fun.
	Looking forward to next time as well, but I really am looking forward to that post-work beer.
	That's the best part of it all.
	Also the definition of woman is what?
	Formless, limitless, Without constant shape or anything definable, so does that mean that a woman is basically a cup of whipped butter?
	It's pretty formless.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	That's definable.
	It's a certain kind of thing.
	It's got an essence, butter, and it's in a particular container that has a form, a cup.
	That's actually the opposite of what a woman is.
	It's way too defined.
	Oh, at least we've defined one thing as not a woman.
	Yeah.
	Cup of butter, not a woman.
	That's correct.
	We're making progress.
	That's correct.
	We'll get there in the end.
	Eventually we'll have reconstructed what it is to be a woman.
	Let's go for the next one.
	Morning, guys.
	Apologies to Carl if I'm giving you conflicting feelings.
	Secondly, is it just me or is the trans perspective now real gynocentrism hasn't been tried?
	And on your point about communists favouring lockdown yesterday, is it possible that they are deliberately focusing wealth even further to create an even poorer, lower middle class?
	100%.
	I'm absolutely convinced that the communists are smirking because they know that this helps destroy capitalism.
	I mean, that's their explicit stated goal.
	So, no question of it, in my opinion.
	I think you're right.
	By the way, guys, I've got an idea for a business that I was wondering if I could pitch to you guys.
	Is there an email I could contact you on?
	Contact at lotusseaters.com?
	Yeah.
	I don't know if we're investing.
	That's your wheelhouse, but...
	Well, it depends on the pitches, I suppose.
	If you're selling us something, I'll see about buying it.
	If it's any good.
	Hiya.
	I have just kind of thought of this just there.
	It's more of a question for Carol or Bo, because I think you'll know most about this.
	Do you see any similarity with any of the kind of social justice stuff going on just now with how Christianity became the kind of dominant force in the Roman Empire later on?
	Because I can kind of see it.
	I do have one short example.
	The way that they both kind of We're bubbling under the surface for a while and then exploded and suddenly it was everywhere.
	Suddenly the Emperor's a Christian.
	Suddenly Boris is saying there's nothing wrong with being woke and Biden's doing the same.
	Or Biden is himself woke.
	Yeah, he's exactly right.
	In fact, what's very interesting is that wokeness is very much mimicking the form of these ideological revolutions.
	The Christians did exactly the same thing.
	Same thing.
	They tore down old statues and old sculptures, defaced them.
	They had a particular kind of orthodoxy.
	They banned competing orthodoxies.
	He's exactly right.
	It's exactly the same process.
	This is clearly not something that's unique or unfathomable that's happening with wokeness.
	This is clearly a mechanism within human societies.
	When a new paradigm comes in, the new paradigm expresses itself and ruins and removes the old paradigm in exactly the same way.
	He's correct.
	Did the early Christians used to fetishize weakness as well?
	you Bye.
	Thank you.
	Um, yeah.
	That's what a martyr is.
	Someone who gets killed in order to prove the point of conviction to Christianity.
	Alright.
	Just a little bit of something that might have in common.
	The hell?
	Only a few more hours left and then I can finally get off the boat and then I'll have some alone time with me and this bottle of mead.
	I have a stereotype pro poll, okay?
	You ever had Mead?
	Yeah, it's nice.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah.
	It's good.
	Yeah.
	Omar says, calling football fans racist for booing the kneeling when those same fans cheer after the team starts playing.
	The same game they're paying to watch is peak leftist gaslighting.
	The left can't help but confuse their self-projection from mind-reading powers.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	Like, if it was about racism, why would they stop booing after the kneeling stops?
	It's not because it's about racism.
	In fact, they cheered last time, remember?
	Yeah, it's about foreign ideology, and everyone can see this.
	2.9 says, I love my football, and I'm super nervous for tonight, but over the last year, I've had to wait until just after kickoff to switch it on to try and dodge the communist propaganda.
	Yeah, to be honest with you, I'm actually a bit concerned if England loses.
	Like, there seems to be a vast well-feeling...
	About the way that the England team performs.
	And this is one of the reasons I don't get into football.
	Because I actually don't like my emotional state being in the hands of people who I have no influence over.
	I can't stand it.
	Events that I have no influence over.
	Because if the England team loses, then all of this excited and happy feeling is going to be absolutely crushed and driven into despair, which I understand that many football fans have experienced for quite some time now, incidentally.
	And so I refuse to allow myself to be captured by that.
	See, this is why you need the feeling of the guys who are chanting, you're not special, we lose every week.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I suppose it's a wafer, but the World Cup should be like, we haven't won since 69, so you're not special.
	That's the point, though.
	But you know, domestic abuse goes up every time there's a football game when England loses.
	Yes, that's because this is very disappointing for a lot of people, I think.
	And like I said, I don't know what's wrong with men who are beating their wives over a football game.
	The whole thing, I just can't bring myself to get invested in something that I can't participate in like that, and so I don't tend to favour it.
	But I mean, I don't blame people for doing it, and I can see they're having fun, so that's good.
	How do you feel about the argument between cheering for England is the right thing to do because they're in the semi-finals, or is it not because they've embraced Marxism?
	Well, that's an interesting question that I don't have an easy answer to, because...
	I mean, how much Marxism do they have to do?
	I mean, they start doing Hitler salutes at the finals.
	Do we still cheer for them or not?
	Well, what's their argument to not?
	You know, by the argument that, well, they're your team, you've got to cheer for them.
	Yeah, but they're a team of commies or Nazis.
	Do I have to cheer for that?
	Well, they are your team.
	Well, great!
	You know, that's...
	Are they?
	Yeah, exactly.
	They have been taken over by a foreign ideology.
	I don't like that.
	It's like the...
	You know, this is the England team.
	And they're all like, yeah, Sieg Heil.
	That's not the England team, it's the German team.
	Well, that's what it looks like to me, you know, and that's, again, same thing.
	So, I mean, I'm personally never going to say don't cheer for the England team, but I can't stand the communism.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Even if there's E-Karling, I'm out.
	Well, okay, yeah.
	Well, I mean, that's why I'm, like, critical of them bending the knee.
	Yeah, as well.
	So I would be if they were giving the Nazi salute.
	But, like, I'm not going to tell people don't cheer for the England team, because that in and of itself sounds anti-patriotic, and I think you're playing into the communists by doing that as well.
	I do like the crowd solution, though, of just boo, and then when they stand up, all right, yeah, let's play the game.
	When they stand up, cheer, you know.
	Yeah, that seems to be a good solution.
	Justin says, I've always thought that most footballers were self-absorbed, egotistical, overpaid somethings.
	That are terrible role models, so I feel some schadenfreude hearing about the fans turning on them, but I can't wait for it to end.
	This kneeling is the same as if the team announced in advance they would do an even more appropriate gesture against racism than the team had goose-stepped onto the field doing the Roman salute.
	Yes, I agree.
	I can't stand it.
	Student of history.
	Not enough inclusivity.
	No, you're there because it's exclusive.
	You're the best.
	They need the best to cuck the frogs and jerrys on the field.
	Two, you have chosen communist talking points in the field of I have a platform.
	I must do this.
	Three, owe your unequal.
	Dry your eyes, you poor soul.
	Dry them on your money tissues and cry yourself to sleep on your millions.
	Yeah, no sympathy.
	And I just hate that, oh, I want to be, you know, equal and inclusive.
	It's like, then you're going to have to quit the England football team, mate.
	Because it's unequal and exclusive.
	The very antithesis of everything you claim to stand for.
	It's a competitive enterprise.
	Yeah, so stupid.
	Edward says, this is the disconnect between the players and the fans at the moment.
	When you step out on that field, you are representing them.
	You are wearing the lions.
	You become the embodiment of England.
	Kneeling when on that pitch is to humble the nation, and the fans know that.
	Once, show your support for your fellow players.
	Stand straight with them.
	Chin up and belt out the national anthem because you represent the nation that brought an end to slavery.
	And England should kneel to no one except to God himself if you believe he exists.
	Well, I agree to that.
	And the Queen.
	Yeah, well, yeah, obviously.
	Well, she's the embodiment of God.
	Exactly.
	She's the embodiment of the country.
	I mean, if the Queen ends up taking the knee to Black Lives Matter, I'm going to be genuinely annoyed.
	Well, the monarchy is also an embodiment of God.
	Like, it's not just...
	Well, in a way, I suppose.
	It's not...
	Well, the ceremony.
	The coronation.
	Like, you create a goddess.
	Oh, dear.
	It's a conversation for another time.
	Israel says, I like how Labour's response is.
	Change how we brand ourselves, not how politics are arse.
	Let's change that.
	If I facepalm any harder, the noise is going to break the sound barrier.
	Yeah, it's mad, isn't it?
	Anyway, Student of History says, What?
	Are you going to sue a sovereign nation or are you advising Britain and the coalition of willing to invade Belarus?
	Well, I mean, what are our options?
	It's very neocon thinking.
	Someone in Belarus is doing something I don't like.
	Well, quick, do something.
	Why?
	Why?
	What have we got to do with Belarus?
	We can put sanctions on them because, I mean, if there were British citizens that were kidnapped.
	I mean, what was it?
	A Lithuanian citizen or something was kidnapped by the Belarusians.
	Yeah, but what do we export to Belarus?
	We even banned selling them guns, so it can't even be that.
	We're sanctioning Belarus, and the Belarusians are like, who the hell are you?
	I don't know, look it up.
	Luke says, Claudia Webb is a prime example of why you should promote people based on skills and identity.
	Is there any chance that Claudia Webb gets elected if she happens to be of another race or political persuasion?
	Well, it's actually a great argument for getting rid of shortlists based on race or sex, because it produces MPs like Diane Abba or Claudia Webb, and that's pathetic.
	Whereas if you go over to the conservative side of the aisle, you end up with Preeti Patel or Kevin Badenok, who are fantastic.
	Ash says, Claudia is a perfect example of a modern-day leftist, consistently pushing a narrative and not knowing anything outside of it beyond the daily-aimed NPC update.
	Yeah, and if she didn't have Twitter, imagine where she'd be.
	She wouldn't even know what that is.
	Janalis says, I wonder if the British people were able to prop up a single man or woman from a humble area who knows a little bit about politics, and he or she would probably still sound smarter than Claudia Webb here.
	Yes, it's amazing how the guns are the things responsible and not the people carrying the guns and shooting the guns and acquiring the guns against the law.
	So apparently we send them combustion engines and they send us oil.
	Okay, I guess sanction them.
	Will the Impaler says, I can't help but feel the American guy on GB News is trying to subvert the right wing.
	He told the conservative politicians not to engage in the culture war.
	He knows the left are going to continue fighting the culture war no matter what.
	It is central to their ideology, as you guys have said previously.
	The majority of the public will side with the conservatives on culture war topics, so he is preemptively persuading them not to engage.
	Well, maybe.
	That's possible, but it could also be that he's saying, well, look, adopt the tactics of the left because they're effective, but just do them for conservatism.
	Which is not necessarily a bad idea either, because, I mean, if they're successful tactics, don't just ignore them.
	I should clarify what I call Pratel a great politician earlier.
	I'm saying great politician, not necessarily in great enacting policies.
	Well, yeah.
	But they're able to operate at a level which Claudia is never going to.
	Well, obviously.
	But yeah, the problem is the Conservatives have no idea what they should be pushing for.
	And so giving them a brilliant set of tactics, okay, but they're not going to conquer any armies.
	They're not going to take any castles.
	They're not going to do anything.
	And we sat on the battlefield drilling, I suppose.
	Drew says, guns do not kill people.
	People kill people and they don't even need guns to do it.
	Well, if the London death counts are anything to go by.
	Ash also says, What do you mean by that?
	Well, it's like, keep provoking, basically, until there's enough against someone to say, right, this person should be cancelled.
	So, accuse you of harassing her, basically.
	Oh, right.
	So just throw everything up, see what sticks, and then you can use that to cancel it.
	Angel Brain says, After spending years reading about this, the only conclusion I've arrived at is that communists that live in a world of plenty like the West, whether pauper or millionaire, still arrive at the same point through either personal guilt or deserting their social duty.
	It's all someone else's fault.
	Yes.
	It's comforting to know that Parliament is full of intellectual titans.
	Ha!
	To be honest, I think it's more comforting to know that it's full of brainlets.
	Because then you don't have to take this lot seriously.
	This is also the thing, whenever they go on holiday, people get mad and be like, oh, they're not passing laws.
	Good!
	Who wants them in Parliament?
	Jesus Christ!
	Take a year's holiday!
	Sod off!
	The less time the MPs spend in Parliament, the better.
	Yeah.
	Better the country gets, numbers go up, world more good.
	Belgium didn't have a government for six months and it was going great.
	Yeah.
	Maybe Hugo's got a point.
	We need to expand the holiday MPs get to how long?
	Most of the year.
	Yeah, let's give them five years holiday.
	Okay.
	Justin says, I hate the rhetoric about statues.
	Yes, some of them have checkered a bad past, but the statues are raised to celebrate their good accomplishments.
	Colston gave a lot to charity, for example.
	If we don't celebrate bad people when they do something good, what incentive is there for them to ever do anything good?
	I would expect the statue to be removed if they do something bad after it's been erected, though.
	Yeah, but I mean, Colston had been dead for like 100 years, so pretty safe on that account.
	But also the slavery thing, like during his time it was acceptable.
	So what are you to do?
	It's not like he personally got the slaves, he just had shares in the company.
	So, you know.
	I mean, like, just put it in your own perspective, like supporting homosexuality right now is acceptable, let's say 100 years it's not, then what?
	There we go.
	Then you are going to be unpersoned from the public record.
	Kevin Fox says, the simple desire to become a politician should automatically bar you for life from ever becoming one.
	Honestly, I've been thinking about this.
	What if there was essentially jury duty for politician duty?
	Well, didn't the Greeks do this?
	Yeah, they did for certain posts.
	How did it go?
	Well, I mean...
	Well, I mean, it was...
	Can't go any worse.
	Yeah, I mean, saying how did things go in ancient Athens is...
	I mean, it had its ups and downs.
	Many more downs than ups, really.
	But the point is, like, if we did it by drawing lots effectively, it would probably give us a better quality of politician than the electoral system we have now.
	The university pipeline.
	Well, there's a chance that someone who isn't co-opted by special interests will become a politician, will actually be able to say things that are in favour of the country and the people who live here.
	I think Claudia has a master's degree as well.
	God, in what?
	It's in, like, ethnic studies or something.
	Of course it's in ethnic studies.
	Of course it is.
	North Antonio Knight says, Yes, and they know what they're doing too.
	Azrael says, Well, that's exactly it, isn't it?
	Running around looking for a bat that has this coronavirus.
	Again, we haven't found one, but we're certain it came from the bats.
	And not the lab that has this virus in it?
	No.
	Definitely the bat.
	Well, bats are in southern China.
	Viruses in the middle of China.
	Yeah, but none of those bats have the virus.
	I know, but even then, it's like the viruses, the coronaviruses you get from the bats are not even in this region.
	Yes.
	And none of them have the virus.
	That's the most important thing.
	Because, I mean, you could be like, oh, well, this bat flew a long way.
	Maybe it did.
	Yeah, maybe.
	But the bat doesn't have the virus.
	So what now?
	But, I mean, it could be possible that one bat in the south has it and we just haven't found it yet.
	But it's like, but it's in the south.
	Highly contagious disease.
	It's not going to be just one, is it?
	Zin says, That's true.
	That's true.
	You should be nice to people when they're correcting themselves because, of course, that's what you want them to do.
	Luke says, I've noticed the change in reporting of COVID cases.
	It used to be daily new cases and daily deaths, but as our vaccination figures have gone up, the daily deaths has dropped.
	Personally, I don't care how contagious the virus is if I'm likely to survive with no issues.
	Yeah, that's the whole point.
	If no one dies, what?
	It's not a scary disease.
	The Delta variant, the primary symptoms are a sniffle.
	A runny nose and perhaps a headache.
	Not organ failure.
	Yeah, okay, fine.
	Anton says, Good afternoon.
	Heard about Sweden's socialist left-wing coalition government collapsing last week.
	Socialist party leader Löfven lost a vote of no confidence in the parliament.
	First time in Swedish history that this has happened and is currently dealing with the aftermath.
	With a new election coming up this year, things are getting spicy.
	He links to an article.
	I haven't been following it.
	What's been going on?
	I don't know.
	Do gamma, do free.
	Is that some sort of Swedish Nazi anthem?
	No, no, it's a Swedish Nazi anthem.
	Oh, okay.
	So it is some sort of Swedish Nazi anthem.
	Oh, for fuck's sake.
	T-Chi, T-Chi, Taiki, I don't know.
	It says, just wanted to extol the virtues of Beau's new article on Uncomfortable Truths.
	As always, his writing style is a delight to read.
	He's got a quote.
	Call me old-fashioned, but I'm a big fan of the truth.
	There is something beautiful and liberating about the truth, even when it leads to dark and sordid places.
	There is no greater disinfectant than sunlight.
	Good and righteous and noble things follow from the truth, and in its absence, the void is invariably filled with filth, subversion, and perversion.
	It's fantastic.
	This is why we hired him.
	He's great.
	I love Bo's writing.
	And I guess the last one, Elizabeth says, Good morning from Texas.
	Good morning.
	Love your show and content.
	Well, thank you.
	I was watching your critical race theory on the defense video.
	You mentioned that the teacher did not want to be recorded.
	I was a teacher for five years.
	I had to record myself teaching every day.
	Then the teachers would get together and judge my teaching and look for microaggressions.
	My students call me racist every day.
	Oh my god.
	It was demoralizing.
	Yeah, it sounds like it.
	After I was punched by one of my students, one of my students wrote on the whiteboard a message, Die Jewish B. It was hard.
	I left the profession and now take care of my home and five kids.
	Anyway, keep up the good work.
	Yeah, dude, that's awful.
	But did you microaggress?
	I mean, was that recorded?
	Like, that's just horrific.
	But yeah, you see the irony there of, like, I don't want to be recorded saying racist nonsense.
	Yeah.
	We're going to record you and then claim that you're saying racist nonsense when you're not.
	I mean, it's like the Inquisition.
	Yeah.
	But that's mad that that was happening in Texas as well, in all places.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if that was happening in California, I'd be like, well, it's California.
	It's New York.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what you expect.
	How's the Nation of Islam doing?
	But that's such a horrible thing for her students to be doing.
	And no recourse.
	Because of power dynamics.
	Anyway.
	Oh, we're out of time.
	Right.
	Well, we should probably end then.
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