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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #178

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 19th of July 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the Biden regime and how it is just saying it, like the mask is fully off now, especially on the banning section, which is what really disgusted me.
	Total fascism.
	Yeah.
	Also, Freedom Day.
	Congratulations, people of England, not the Celts, because F in the chat for the Celts, living under their regime.
	And also, based Jess Phillips.
	And Keir Starmer.
	Oh boy, okay.
	Yeah.
	I didn't expect the base Keir Starmer either, but I really didn't expect the base at Jess Phillips, but...
	The left is getting yeeted.
	It's glorious to watch.
	Also, like, the official left is getting based, which is also weird to watch.
	But the way they're based is by killing the far left.
	But then becoming them.
	Anyway, so first thing to mention is some of the new stuff we have on the website.
	So this is the first premium article here from Hugo called Scrooge Mint Duck Did Nothing Wrong.
	I love this, right?
	Because every single day on the internet I have arguments with leftists.
	Something around the theme of, well, when they get to $999 million, they shouldn't be able to earn any more money.
	And it's like, that's not what a billionaire means, you absolute brainload.
	It doesn't mean they're sat on a stack of cash.
	Like, it doesn't mean that.
	You're an idiot.
	All of you.
	And so this is the point of the article.
	Yeah.
	I saw Vox made a video recently in which they argued a similar thing in which it's like, yeah, Jeff Bezos has stock and we're not taxing him for owning it.
	Yeah, I don't understand economics either, Vox.
	I don't get it either.
	But I'm just aware that they're not actually sat on a billion gold coins.
	That's as far as my knowledge goes.
	So the next thing to mention is the Year of the Four Emperors epochs you did with Bo.
	Oh yeah, this was great.
	So Year of the Four Emperors.
	It was one of those periods of time where basically so much happens in such a small space, and none of the people involved, apart from Vespasian at the end, I think it is, who are notable.
	So you read it once, but then you don't bother going through it in detail to figure out what the hell has happened.
	Because it's just like, right, okay, this is a confusing mess.
	But Bo really loves this period because of the chaos is involved in it.
	And so it's a really, really interesting podcast to go through just to find out just how awful the Praetorian Guard are.
	And they're pretty awful.
	And they're terrible on the battlefield, too.
	Really?
	I thought they were good.
	No.
	I have no idea.
	They sit in Rome extorting emperors.
	They've got no battlefield experience.
	And I don't think they've ever been on the winning side of a battle when they have had to go into a battle.
	Every time, whoever it is from the provinces and the frontiers just comes back to Rome, crushes them, and then sets themselves up.
	Wisely.
	But anyway.
	Disappointed to learn.
	Anyway, so a couple more things is the new article from Josh, which is free.
	The generational terms are communist-style subversion.
	So him arguing, like, millennials and boomers and whatnot is something we should stop doing.
	And also the last thing is the contemplations we've written over on the weekend about how bad the war on drugs is.
	Go and check that out.
	But let's get right into it, because otherwise we're going to run out of time.
	Yeah.
	So the mask has slipped from the Biden regime, and I'm going to use the word regime.
	If you want to know why, you can check out one of our previous segments.
	In fact, you can't check it out on YouTube.
	You have to go watch it on our website.
	We'll link it in the show notes.
	But anyway, basically, I really do think that the US is descending into a kind of quasi-fascist regime, and I think that what's happened in the last week or so has really demonstrated it.
	Now, Jen Psaki did the infamous press conference on the 7th, I think it was.
	I can't remember the date exactly, but it was last week.
	And this was a fascinating press conference.
	Now, it was clips from Saki herself that ended up going viral.
	But I think that what was important is actually the way it was being set up, because I watched the entire thing, unlike most people, I imagine.
	It had 11,000 views on the White House's 2 million YouTube subscriber account, because they're so popular.
	And this, I think, is important.
	So this is US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
	I'd never heard of him before, and he looks like he's come out of some sort of cloning device.
	The sort of, like, progressive media personality cloning situation where they all have the same kind of demeanour.
	They say the same things.
	They all agree with each other.
	There's no criticism amongst any of them because, you know, why would there be...
	And they have this slow-talking way where all truth lies with us, all falsehood lies with our enemies, and we're definitely not fascists.
	So let's play clip one.
	Listen to the framing of this.
	Right now, we are seeing COVID deaths markedly down from their peak in January.
	We have 160 million people who have been fully vaccinated.
	And hundreds of thousands of people each day are choosing to get vaccinated.
	That is all good news.
	But we are not out of the woods yet.
	Millions of Americans are still not protected against COVID-19.
	And we are seeing more infections among those who are unvaccinated.
	And that's why I want to talk to you today about one of the biggest obstacles that's preventing us from ending this pandemic.
	Today, I issued a Surgeon General's advisory on the dangers of health misinformation.
	Surgeon General's advisories are reserved for urgent public health threats.
	And while those threats have often been related to what we eat, drink, and smoke, today we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health.
	Health misinformation is false, inaccurate or misleading information about health, according to the best evidence at the time.
	And while it often appears innocuous on social media apps, on retail sites or search engines, the truth is that misinformation takes away our freedom to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones.
	Isn't that subversive?
	You speaking on the internet about things we don't consider to be true at this moment is taking away your freedom.
	So using the language of freedom, subverting that, specifically using that, because they know that the word freedom is an important word to the Americans, to the people who's listening, but they're essentially saying that you not being censored is limiting your freedom.
	Terrifying.
	Absolutely terrifying inversion of values there.
	But again...
	In the beginning, well, I mean, we've got 160 million Americans vaccinated, fully vaccinated, so that's double vaccinated, so that's half the population who have had their vaccines.
	Then the number of cases, because of the Delta variant, is obviously going up, but the Delta variant is basically a sniffle, and so that's not a great threat, and of course the number of deaths is down, as he says.
	So it seems that the COVID pandemic is actually well in hand because they've continued Trump's program of vaccinations, trying to get a million a day, although they fell short of the number of people that get vaccinated, and that's one of the impetuses for this.
	They seem to have a kind of totalizing view of vaccinations, even though all the numbers are totally in their favor.
	Everything's going very well, and they should be taking credit for this.
	Instead, they're mustering up more fear for some reason.
	And I think it's purely to do with their view that the government should have total control over all aspects of American society.
	Let's play the next clip.
	We are saying we expect more from our technology companies.
	We're asking them to operate with greater transparency and accountability.
	We're asking them to monitor misinformation more closely.
	We're asking them to consistently take action against misinformation super-spreaders on their platforms.
	We're also asking news organizations to proactively address the public's questions without inadvertently giving a platform to help misinformation that can harm their audiences.
	So, do as we say, and don't let people contradict us.
	That's what they're asking.
	And we all know that governments just ask very politely, and if they get a no, they go, oh, okay, yeah, fair enough, your choice.
	That's how this works.
	You know that the Biden administration, sorry, regime, is going to be like that.
	I just hate the idea of people in power using the term misinformation because it means whatever the people in power decide it means.
	Exactly.
	And then saying that we're going to, as the federal government, just ask politely that people shut down this misinformation, this can't be constitutional.
	No, well, I very much doubt it as well.
	But note the way that he...
	Oh, I was going to point something out very quickly there.
	That's right.
	When he said it was the best scientific information at the time, I was like, okay, because go back a year, Fauci's saying masks don't work.
	Don't worry about masks.
	Okay, so Fauci was guilty of spreading medical misinformation.
	Oh, no, no, at the time, that was fine.
	So what you've got is the groundwork to establish just a flowing narrative of whatever is convenient and whatever the science, as if that's a settled subject.
	And at one point, he's like, oh, well, we've got loads of scientists who are agreeing with us.
	Yeah, but you've also got loads who disagree with you.
	You're not interested in hearing from them, are you?
	Of course.
	So at any point, anyone who they can point to as an authority can say, sorry, the narrative has changed and so everything has to change with it.
	And of course then we arrive into 1984 territory where it's always the present and never the past.
	The past never matters.
	It's always a constantly evolving present of what the government says is true, is true at all times.
	If you don't agree, you get banned for life.
	And if you don't agree, you get banned from all social media platforms.
	And for life as well.
	And for life.
	When the science changes, you don't come back.
	Yeah, and this attitude was reflected in Jacinda, what's her name in New Zealand?
	I can't remember her surname.
	But the weird tyrannical horse that's in charge of New Zealand literally came out and said, well, all of the truth you'll get is from us, and you should ignore any other source of information.
	It's like...
	Can you imagine?
	Like, why would anyone be like, oh, well, the government's got my best interests at heart if they're saying literally all truth comes from the States?
	That's pure fascism.
	That is the apotheosis of what a fascist regime looks like.
	And for some reason, everyone in Australia and New Zealand's fine with it.
	For some reason, the Biden voters, assuming there are any, are fine with it.
	And yeah, so anyway, let's carry on.
	But the bottom line is all of us have an important role here to play.
	And technology companies have a particularly important role.
	We know that the dramatic increase in the speed and scale of spread of misinformation has in part been enabled by these platforms.
	So that's why in this advisory today, we are asking them to step up.
	We know they have taken some steps to address misinformation, but much, much more has to be done.
	And we can't wait longer for them to take aggressive action because it's costing people their lives.
	Right.
	So there is the origin of the Joe Biden social media is killing people.
	What a thing to say.
	It's mad, isn't it?
	What a thing for the US government to say.
	We've already presupposed that there are false information out there, and therefore it is up to private companies to do our bidding and censor it.
	Yep.
	It's horrific.
	For the US government to say that is just nuts.
	The US government say, look, essentially what they're saying is we want control of the press and social media, which again, fascism, in order to counter misinformation, which is anything that disagrees with us.
	Like not promotion of a terrorist group, which you could claim is illegal.
	Misinformation isn't illegal.
	No.
	And it's also...
	If there is any connection between misinformation and people dying, it's a very, very tenuous one that has many other steps along the way, with many other agents who are responsible for their own actions along that path.
	So just saying, well, you know, it's absurd, and everyone can see that it's absurd, but the fact that they're ignoring the absurdity is, as Joseph Goebbels pointed out, just part of...
	Part of the program.
	But we'll get to all that in a minute.
	Let's go to Jen Psaki's, carrying on with this.
	With these social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team.
	Given, as Dr Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.
	In terms of actions, Alex, that we have taken or we're working to take, I should say, from the federal government, we've increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General's office.
	We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.
	We're working with doctors and medical professionals to connect Two connected medical experts who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content.
	So we're helping get trusted content out there.
	We also created the COVID Community Corps to get factual information into the hands of local messengers.
	And we're also investing, as you all have seen, in the presidents, the vice presidents, and Dr.
	Fauci's time in meeting with...
	So I should have got just the clip selections of Fauci contradicting himself, one after another, because there are loads of these compilations out there.
	But the point is that there is no standard, agreed-upon, factual analysis.
	There is just everything that has been said.
	Fauci has held every position at every time, at various different times.
	And so it's like the idea that the government can just act as if they're the source of truth, but then create an infrastructure that's going to create a lattice above social media, where they're now patrolling social media to get Facebook to deplatform wrong thinkers, people who disagree with the state on this, even though the state has not exactly got a perfect track record on it.
	It's not a legal speech.
	The government has no business going after it.
	Absolutely not.
	And the fact that they're then using Facebook as a puppet to do such a thing.
	Exactly.
	The fact that they're using state power and taxpayer money to now tyrannize the American public for speaking their mind on Facebook.
	It's not wrong to be wrong on Facebook.
	You're allowed to be wrong on the internet.
	You know, that's...
	Should be.
	Otherwise, otherwise, you know, Biden's administration would have been deplatformed in the same way as Trump.
	You know, oh my God, they said something that turned out not to be true.
	Did you know Donald Trump was a Russian the whole time?
	Exactly.
	And not even just talking about pandemic stuff.
	And the fact that this term misinformation is, of course, highly up for debate.
	It's not like this has definite content to the meaning of it.
	But anyway...
	Any party propaganda is banned at that point.
	Yes, that's exactly what this is.
	And it gets worse.
	Providing for Facebook or other platforms to measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform...
	And the audience it's reaching, also with the public, with all of you, to create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their properties and provide transparency about rules.
	You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there.
	That's amazing.
	That's awful.
	Yeah, I mean, it's awful, but it's amazing in its awfulness, and I love watching the mask just come fully off.
	They don't distinguish between platforms.
	They see Silicon Valley as a cartel, which it is, and they expect all of them to act in the same way because they think of them as the same operation.
	That's why.
	It's also an exposure of the fact that they have said previously, Silicon Valley and the Democrats, oh no, they don't work together, just independent platforms with their own terms of service.
	Which we know they're not.
	And even the central part of the Democratic Party, the White House, their spokesperson for Biden, saying exactly, no, they're not.
	Yes.
	And then they also do our bidding.
	Yes.
	And we have state-run agencies and task forces that are on the lookout for Americans posting things we don't like.
	And in fact, they happen to, in fact, have a list of people that they want removed from social media.
	They didn't give us the full list.
	I only found out who one of them was.
	I don't know who else is on the government's list to be silenced from the public's domain.
	But one of them was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., because he is a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement.
	Now, they said they had 12 people.
	This is one of them.
	And so this is one of the people whom the CCDH said should be kicked off social media.
	His Facebook-owned Instagram page was shut down earlier this year for sharing COVID-19 misinformation, Facebook said.
	However, he's still allowed on Facebook himself, where he has more than 300,000 followers.
	This is what she's talking about.
	She's complaining that...
	And this is John F. Kennedy's nephew.
	They're complaining that he's not being removed from Facebook, even though he's been removed from Instagram.
	You might as well replace that bit where Facebook have said something with the White House, shouldn't you?
	Well, actually, Facebook actually had a surprisingly reasonable response to this.
	But I mean on the sense of this censorship just isn't coming from Facebook if they're being coerced by the state.
	The US government is actively demanding that Silicon Valley deplatforms American citizens.
	For saying things they don't like.
	Not a legal speech.
	Exactly, right?
	So, Facebook actually had a very surprisingly reasonable response to this, saying, we don't automatically disable accounts across our apps because accounts may post different things on our different services.
	Fair.
	Very reasonable.
	I imagine the White House won't be happy.
	It's not going to last.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They're not going to be happy.
	It's not going to last.
	But anyway, so the social media reaction to this was, of course, exactly what you'd expect from a group of people looking at what is broadly a I won't even start saying things that might get some trouble with YouTube because of their editorial policies.
	But anyway, it wasn't exactly good, and it was bipartisan.
	You had the Daily Beast's Noah Schachtman, who said, no, F, no, which is good.
	And you've got a left-wing author saying, why is the White House declaring who should and shouldn't be banned from social media platforms?
	Google, Facebook, and Twitter are effectively state actors in disguise when they engage in political censorship.
	Correct.
	This is White House directed collusion, radio host Clay Travis tweeted.
	When Saki said, well, we don't take anything down.
	We don't block anything.
	Facebook and other private sector companies make decisions about what information should be on their platform as if that's, oh, yeah, the government's just pressuring you for something.
	But don't worry.
	They're totally independent.
	This is their free will.
	We told them to do it, but it's totally their free will.
	Exactly.
	If they disagree, we'll get rid of their privileges.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, Stephen Miller, who's actually a really entertaining guy to follow on social media, said removing information on vaccines will translate right over to anything they think is misinformation on gun violence or climate or healthcare.
	What defines a man or a woman, which is why they're doing this.
	Completely correct.
	One Republican...
	I don't know if you were going to mention Trump's lawsuit as well.
	I wasn't, actually.
	He's currently doing a class action lawsuit against the US government on the basis that they use Twitter, Facebook and whatnot, private companies, as a conduit for violating the First Amendment, which they wouldn't be able to do if it was a state organization.
	So they're just using them as a puppet to do it.
	Precisely.
	Exactly what he's alleging, and they're just like, yeah, we do.
	Yeah.
	And it's not like there isn't more than enough evidence to suggest that Silicon Valley is highly partisan and deliberately coordinating with the Democrat Party.
	The White House saying it, I think, is good enough.
	Yeah, but we had all of this before.
	No one's sat there going, hmm, maybe Silicon Valley is an instrument of the Republican Party.
	No one says that, but they're obviously an instrument of the Democrat Party now, since they're in power.
	They are an instrument of the White House.
	So the US government, again, the reason this is being called fascism is because, as Glenn Greenwald goes on to point out that we'll cover in a minute, the merger of state and corporate power under the direction of the state is, of course, the corporatization of fascism that is the hallmark of it.
	It's the core sort of philosophy on how things should be run.
	Where the communists do it out of necessity, the fascists do it out of desire.
	Anyway, so a Republican representative, Thomas Massey, from Kentucky said, Saki's statement makes it abundantly clear they want people banned for simply disagreeing with the government's pre-approved narrative.
	Totally correct.
	And former GOP congressman Joe Walsh, a fierce Trump critic who supported Biden, said it's not the government's job to moderate Facebook.
	Well, Jen Saki and the Biden regime disagree.
	They think it is.
	And this was how the President of the United States described it to the public.
	What's your message to platforms like Facebook?
	They're killing people.
	I mean, they're really...
	Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated.
	And they're killing people.
	Senile old man can barely remember his words.
	You can see him struggling with it at the front of his mind.
	But they're killing people.
	Facebook is murdering people.
	That's the result.
	Now, I personally think that if there's a murder on the loose, you should probably arrest them, lock them up.
	If there's, oh, I don't know, some sort of machinery that's run out of control, maybe you should shut that down.
	You know, if there's just some sort of automated machine, like an automated car or something that's deliberately running into pedestrians, you should probably disable that.
	But Facebook's not going to get disabled, even though it's killing people.
	Weird, isn't it?
	So we've got a platform that's killing people, and it's just going to remain there because, you know, we can't do anything about that.
	No.
	If you actually thought it was killing people, you'd shut it down immediately, right?
	And if it was killing people, you'd be justified in shutting it down immediately.
	But you know you're not justified in doing that, and therefore you won't.
	You're going to just make sure they do exactly as you say instead.
	But anyway, so yeah, you get like this, New York Times, they're killing people.
	Biden isn't quite right, but he's not wrong.
	No, he is wrong.
	Facebook is not killing anyone.
	The coronavirus is killing people, sure.
	You know, people's decisions kill them occasionally, but Facebook isn't doing that.
	Like, the man in the town square giving bad advice isn't killing anyone.
	No.
	He's giving bad advice.
	No.
	That's how that works.
	Because, believe it or not, the individuals who are making the decisions about their lives are actually responsible agents who are the ones who have personal responsibility for the decisions they make.
	Anyway, this is amazing, right?
	It was a stunning thing to say, even if it is in many ways true.
	Hmm.
	Hmm, in many ways.
	But not in that most core way of actually being factually accurate.
	The truth is, Facebook serves as a gateway to both misinformation and facts, presenting clearly solid information about COVID, as well as a place where an enormous flood of lies has overwhelmed the same zone, and for a much longer time.
	You could blame individuals themselves for believing in lies, which is where it would be, or the responsibility would be, and not doing due diligence and checking their facts.
	After all, deciding to forgo a vaccine is a personal choice, even if it's an unfortunate one.
	I mean, it's not unfortunate for those people who've died of the vaccine, is it?
	They're not like, you know, fortunately I took the vaccine.
	Anyway, so they end with, is Facebook killing people then since it provided the invention that allows all this to happen?
	Not exactly.
	Yeah, no, not exactly at all, right?
	It's literally like saying Henry Ford is killing people by inventing the car.
	Well, there's car accidents every day.
	Henry Ford is responsible for all this.
	No, of course he's not.
	Of course he's not.
	That's ridiculous.
	But anyway, moving on, the New York Post rightly pointed out that this is tyrannical.
	This is literally tyrannical.
	Quoting a Republican senator for Utah, saying the government can't censor speech.
	The First Amendment makes that very clear.
	A private for-profit corporation can make his own decisions, but when it's doing that in collusion with government, it starts to look, to me, like a First Amendment violation.
	No kidding!
	No kidding!
	In which case, you should be able to sue the government if this was put in place.
	If the US government set up a censorship department that was the one enacting this stuff, you'd be able to sue them.
	Yeah, because this is tyrannical.
	Preventing people from having access to the internet in what is essentially what's going on here...
	Is what tyrants do.
	As ABC News reported about Cuba, right, this is Cuba's go-to tactic, cutting off the internet to prevent dissent, to suppress dissent.
	That's exactly what the Biden regime is saying to do in Silicon Valley, controlling, like, 99% of, like, conversation that happens on the internet.
	This is what they say.
	Restricting internet access has become a tried-and-true method of stifling dissent by authoritarian regimes around the world, alongside government-supported disinformation campaigns and propaganda.
	Wow.
	Who's feeling personally attacked here, Saki?
	On the extreme side, regimes like Cuba and North Korea, and the Americans, exert tight control over what regular citizens can access online.
	Elsewhere, service blockages are more limited, often cutting off common social platforms around elections and times of mass protests.
	There we go.
	You are part of the tyrannical regime that ABC News is complaining about.
	I don't want anyone saying this BS narrative of like, well, in the US you can at least access a thing, in China you can also at least access anti-communist websites, but they will forcefully slow your internet down to make sure that most people don't bother.
	They are smart about their censorship in the East, and they're smart about it in Silicon Valley.
	And remember that Joe Biden has spent more time with Xi Jinping than any other world leader, and he roundly praises his leadership style.
	Weird.
	Anyway, Facebook responded to this by saying, look, Biden's looking for scapegoats.
	Yes.
	Because they set themselves an unrealistic vaccination target, failed to achieve it, and now they're looking for the culprits.
	A Facebook official said, And then we get Glenn Greenwald's response, which, I mean, I couldn't co-sign on this more hard.
	And Glenn Greenwald, the last respectable leftist, practically, is doing the Lord's work here for personal freedom.
	Seriously, who the F is the White House to be dictating who should and should not be banned from social media platforms, to keep lists of who they think are the spreaders of misinformation, and then pressure companies they regulate to obey?
	Again, yeah, the government is the regulator of social media.
	Everything Julian Assange released is misinformation.
	Exactly.
	Anyone who tweets it, banned.
	Exactly.
	And that's what Chris Cuomo...
	You shouldn't have these WikiLeaks things.
	Only we, the media, should have that.
	I'm sure you think that, Chris.
	This is pernicious S. Here's more of Psaki issuing decrees on who should and shouldn't be allowed the use of social media, then smugly scoffing at the notion that this should concern anyone on the ground that we're going to die if we don't submit to the White House's orders.
	Day two of the American Civil Liberties Union's silence as the White House expands its boasting of the pressure it's placing on the tech companies it regulates to censor content it designates as misleading and to ban people on its lists.
	Now insisting they be banned on all platforms.
	Again, why has the government got a list of wrong thinkers?
	But also the ACLU practically supporting censorship at this point.
	Exactly.
	Your silence.
	If you can't speak up, ACLU. They took the intersectionality pill and have killed their own organisation because of it.
	Absolutely.
	And again, fallen into line like the good serfs that they are.
	With the US government and Silicon Valley monopolies merging their power to control political speech, platforms devoted to resisting this authoritarianism and protecting free discourse become increasingly important.
	Substack is one and so is Rumble.
	Another crucial point.
	You don't have to imagine or maybe speculate that the White House will start abusing this misinformation to claim censored content that's politically damaging to them.
	They already did it with, of course, the Hunter Biden laptop.
	Dems Media Tech Monopoly censored the Biden archive based on the CIA lie.
	Then when, right before the 2020 election, Twitter banned all links to the New York Post, again, America's oldest newspaper.
	You couldn't get any more mainstream newspaper on this.
	And they've been completely consistent on the right side of all of these issues, unlike the New York Times.
	But anyway, so yes, this was based on a CIA lie that they decided to censor your ability to read the New York Post article's expose, which was all factually accurate, about Hunter Biden's laptop, which was his and would have had election-changing information on.
	And the Biden campaign did not even disagree that it was real.
	No, they've never...
	Like, Hunter Biden desperately...
	Well, I mean, it might be my laptop.
	It could be.
	Yeah, we know it is.
	They never said it wasn't.
	Yeah.
	And who is it that...
	I can't remember if it was Bill Maher or something.
	Someone was like, yeah, okay, so look, I could believe that the Chinese might Photoshop M&Ms on Hunter Biden's dick.
	I could believe they'd do that.
	But a hundred times?
	A hundred photos?
	Do they need to do a hundred photos of that?
	It's like, yeah, exactly.
	Like, this is obviously yours, Hunter.
	Anyway, so, and again, next one, someone replied to him.
	Sorry, if I can go back to the previous one.
	Someone replied, I can't get over...
	Caitlin Johnston said, I can't get over how brazen the Biden administration is being and just announcing this is their place to determine who should and shouldn't be banned on social media platforms.
	And there's how little backlash there is against this.
	Imagine if Trump had done this.
	And Glenn Greenwald's like, yeah, exactly.
	I'm not surprised that they did it.
	They seem to...
	I'd expect them to do it in secret.
	The fact that Jen Psaki is boasting...
	She knows how pro-censorship are the liberal sector of corporate media and Biden voters.
	They love that the White House does this.
	But it's not going to stop there.
	It's not going to stop on social media, if you can believe it.
	The totalitarians don't just stop on one sector of society and then go, OK, our job's done.
	No, they're going to get phone carriers to vet anti-vax messages.
	So this was always the joke.
	Would you expect your phone company to complain that you were saying things on things?
	Well, no, they do.
	They actually do.
	You know, they actually think this.
	So, this is a Politico report about the DNC and other White House allies who want wireless carriers to scrutinise phone and social media messages for alleged misinformation.
	I guess we can just call it Jewish misinformation, since they've gone full Nazi at this point.
	Like, unironically, this is horrific.
	I can't believe this is being discussed in the United States of America.
	I can believe it's being discussed in New Zealand, because they're obviously a tyranny.
	Australia, obviously a tyranny.
	Us, obviously a tyranny.
	America...
	Hell, man.
	Unreal.
	This is unreal.
	If there's one way of showing the illegitimacy of the Biden regime, it's this.
	Anyway, this is in response to Charlie Kirk tweeting out, Biden is sending goons door-to-door to make you take COVID vaccine, sign a petition, say no to medical rates in America.
	Which is practically, I mean, a bit overstated, I suppose.
	But Biden is considering sending troops door-to-door to try and Like, get people to vaccinate.
	Not this one, John, if you've got the previous one.
	But anyway, Biden announced on Tuesday that his administration would step up efforts to get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 with a new program that would go door-to-door, literally knocking on doors.
	The government is going to send agents around to try and persuade you into getting a vaccine.
	It's like, well, that's going to look like intimidation, isn't it?
	Well, government agents just marching around going, you need your vaccine, you need your vaccine, you need your vaccine.
	They're going to have to be armed government agents as well.
	Of course they are.
	Of course they're going to be armed.
	But he said, we need to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes door to door, literally knocking on doors to encourage vaccination.
	Yes, I love being coerced by the government.
	And this is because they missed their self-imposed goal of 70% of the nation's eligible people being vaccinated by July the 4th.
	Next is, they want mandatory, he's considering mandatory vaccinations for the military.
	That sounds great.
	There's one way to make the military on your side is by forcing them to have vaccines.
	He says, I don't know.
	I'm going to leave that to the military, but I'm not saying I won't.
	I think you're going to see more and more of them getting it.
	And I think it's going to be a tough call as to whether they should or should not be required to get it in the military because you're in such close proximity with other military personnel, whether you're in a quarters where you're sleeping or whether you're out on maneuvers.
	Yeah, but if you're in the military, you're probably quite fit and healthy and under like 50.
	So you're in no danger at all.
	And of course, they want continual COVID propaganda.
	Continual.
	NASCAR racing is going to be somewhere where they propagandize you about vaccination.
	So, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
	I can never remember Mussolini's formulation.
	But the point is, it's never going to go away.
	It's going to be every aspect of your life.
	And then you get, sorry, I know this is going on, but there's been so much.
	Biden fear-mongering about the enemy.
	Oh, the eternal enemy.
	We're facing the most significant test of our democracy at the moment.
	The Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as the insurrectionists did on July the 6th.
	I'm not saying this to alarm you.
	I'm saying this because you should be alarmed.
	And then he ends his speech with, we've got to act.
	Sounds like a fascist.
	Just fascist fear-mongering.
	Unbelievable, right?
	And then the Guardian pointed out that stake are the basic principles of democracy.
	Who gets to vote and how they exercise that right and who gets to decide what vote counts.
	And then we got the famous clip of Biden basically quoting Stalin.
	It's no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote.
	It's about who gets to count.
	Who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all?
	It's about...
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	It is about who gets to count the vote.
	And if the people in charge are going to count votes in the way they want them counted, then they're going to get the results they wanted, which is Stalin's point.
	But it's not just Stalin or Xi Jinping or any other terrible dictator that Joe Biden cites.
	He's actually using Goebbels' The Big Lie.
	He says, you know, everything's a big lie, everything's a big lie about the audits that are currently going on in the elections.
	And this is genuinely a Joseph Goebbels quote.
	It's not the traditional one that you'll see, like, going around on Facebook.
	I actually looked this up because I just want to be sure.
	According to, I think it was the Jewish Chronicle, they're like, no, we couldn't find any source on that.
	But there is a quote that goes like this from Goebbels.
	The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big and stick to it.
	They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
	Well, that's the Biden regime pointed exactly.
	And for some reason, though, as well, just on the end of this, and this struck me as really weird, dictator-y behaviour, Jen Psaki is going to be the first person to throw a pitch at a baseball game?
	Why?
	The White House press secretary.
	Yeah, why?
	Such a bizarre thing for this regime to do.
	Anyway, so just to end up, I thought we'd just...
	What a bizarre thing.
	Who wants Jen Psaki throwing a baseball?
	You'd pick the president or vice president.
	Yeah, I know.
	The point, isn't it?
	The point is it's an integrated, corporatized regime that is taking over the United States in exactly the same way that fascists take over a nation.
	But anyway, so if you wanted to know what Hunter Biden had done, we did a premium podcast about this.
	this.
	Josh did a great job of putting all this information together so you can know exactly the kind of thing that Hunter Biden had been up to, as well as, of course, his connections to China and the amount of money that is being funneled to the Biden regime from the Chinese Communist Party.
	You can sign up on lotuses.com to check that out.
	It's well worth your time, and you're not going to get it from the mainstream media because they're the ones suppressing it.
	Let's move on to Freedom Day.
	Something a little more enlightening.
	Let's hope so.
	Let's hope so.
	So, Freedom Day.
	Freedom Day is the name being given in the UK, well, I say UK, in England, to the day in which we have gotten rid of all of our restrictions domestically.
	I think there are still restrictions to going abroad and whatnot, but that's what it is.
	So, I saw some people asking about whether or not we should call this Freedom Day, because the freedoms are a fundamental right, and therefore we're kind of celebrating the government giving them back.
	I saw Calvin Robinson had a decent response on this.
	We make it our freedom day, burn the masks, uninstall the app, stop isolating unless ill, don't get tested unless ill, hug our family, spend time with our friends, get on with our lives, which is his opinion on that, which I thought was funny.
	So, also, F in the chat for the Celts, because, as I mentioned, this only applies in England.
	I hope you're enjoying those devolved parliaments.
	I bet that was worth it, wasn't it?
	I don't know why you voted for a bunch of national socialists, but you did.
	There's the National Socialist leader Nicola Sturgeon there, whining about the fact that Sky News were reporting that lockdown was ending, and in Scotland it's not.
	Not under my watch, it's not!
	It's also in Wales, there's also this situation taking place.
	Mark Drakeford is presumably like, no, get inside, peasants.
	Yeah, so this image, if you can click on it, it's like, no mask, no Wales, as in if you're not wearing a mask, come to Wales.
	Oh no.
	So basically, just don't come to Wales.
	Yeah, so F in the chat for the Celts, because, well...
	They hate freedom.
	Yeah, that's that.
	William Wallace is presumably rolling in his grave if he was even given one.
	I also wanted to mention the armbands idea that's been floated in the UK. What?
	So there should be a link before that, which is a BBC story in which this guy who says that he's at risk, therefore he wants armbands introduced for people who are at risk to wear.
	They just can't help themselves with the goddamn armbands, can they?
	Armband calls for those with weak immune systems.
	So then this guy is arguing here that I want to wear this armband and here's the mock one I made.
	If we can scroll down to show people the picture.
	Just...
	what?
	Well, just tell me what colour the uniform's going to be.
	I don't have to say anything, just what the...
	No, no, just tell me what colour.
	Right, so it was the blue shirts in France, it was the black shirts in Italy, it was the brown shirts in Germany.
	It was the red shirts here, surely.
	Well, presumably, but just tell me.
	Just tell me what colour your shirts are going to be.
	Yeah, so there's that.
	There's also some weird stuff coming out of all this, so I wanted to mention, if you want to see what's coming up next about from the armband, I guess go check out the Brave New World book club.
	Yeah.
	Moving on, let's go to the Soy Boy from GB News.
	So GB News, we're out asking people, and this guy, who, yeah, suddenly got the outfit, said that the branding...
	That's the colour of the shirt, is it?
	The branding of Freedom Day is terrible.
	The pandemic's still going on.
	I was like, I don't care.
	The celebration of Freedom Day is not, that's the end, the coronavirus has been exterminated from the planet.
	No, it's the tyranny of the government has ended.
	Yeah, and the death rate just doesn't justify government tyranny.
	Yeah, we're going to get into that in a minute.
	It's just the whole thing of him being like, yeah, it's not Freedom Day because the pandemic's still there.
	Well, it's Freedom Day because the government's gotten rid of its restrictive measures, which, clap-clap to the English government, at least.
	Celts, not so much.
	So, I mean, always people worrying about what the government is going to do after the pandemic goes.
	Well, we at least got some of the freedoms back so far.
	Yeah, I didn't have to wear a mask walking around the corridor.
	It was wonderful.
	Also, if we go to the next one, there's leftists who are mad, of course, that they're free.
	Cry harder.
	They think everyone's dying.
	So if we go to the next one as well, there's someone else being mad about this.
	Retweet, if you don't consider basic public health measures an infringement of your personal liberty, mandatory lockdowns.
	What?
	Basic health measures, mandatory lockdowns is what we live through.
	Oh, basic public health measures, says Dr.
	Julia Grace Patterson.
	Presumably not a member of the Communist Party, but we'd have to check.
	Well, she's the chief executive of At Every Doctor UK. She's the CEO of a lobbying group, that's all that is.
	That explains it.
	I bet she's a member of the Communist Party, just like the other one.
	Yeah.
	There is some complaints about all of this, people being irresponsible with the fact that the pandemic is still existing and therefore is clubbing the wisest thing to do.
	And I can see this argument and leftists have been raising this argument and I don't care.
	Yeah, to that I say cry harder.
	Because if nothing else, leftists have been doing this the whole time.
	And for some reason, when you guys all gather together, coronavirus is scared.
	Big Black Lives Matter protest, but nobody has to say anything about that.
	But also the same day.
	Like the same goddamn day.
	Taking a knee for a footballer who missed his shot.
	Important stuff.
	Yeah, very scared about footballer who has...
	Where are your masks?
	Not died.
	Oh, one guy with a mask, there we go.
	And also the next image is them doing it at Downing Street as well.
	Like, you Trotskyist scum decide to gather left, right, and centre, and then when you see some 20-year-olds out clubbing, you're like, end of the world.
	And I can't believe they've done this.
	Unbelievable.
	It's pathetic.
	Anyway.
	So, no, I don't care.
	I don't care about the clubbing.
	Do what they want.
	What are they going to do?
	They're all 20 anyway.
	The risk of death is extremely low.
	All of the old people have been vaccinated.
	What are you saying?
	Vaccinations don't work?
	Are you an anti-vaccine?
	You're disgusting.
	You should be deplatformed.
	Now I'm going to contact the Biden administration.
	If we go to the next one, this is the other cope I've seen trying to declare that the term Freedom Day is right-wing propaganda.
	Okay.
	Which is a really bad thing.
	Yep, the right-wing cares about freedom, the left-wing wants to tyrannise you.
	We agree.
	So this person here is saying, such a saying closely follows two of my ten golden rules of propaganda that I've been developing in my years of studying the practice.
	Thanks, Nauti.
	First, appeal to the instincts rather than the reason of the audience.
	Okay.
	As if politics is all about pure reason anyway, but whatever.
	And second, build a slogan around it.
	Repeat, repeat, repeat.
	Concepts like freedom, in quotes, and liberty have been invoked by propagandists since the 16th century Protestant Reformation and subsequent enlightenment.
	Listen to the English wanting freedom and liberty.
	Don't they understand that we like Germany and their view of freedom?
	But also being like, yeah, the Enlightenment, a bunch of propagandists for freedom, that evil concept.
	But all they're doing is citing English writers here, Thomas Paine.
	Yeah, she says they emerge as influential writers, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, to name a few.
	And I'm like, what?
	This doesn't...
	Began to philosophize about the rights of the individual.
	Yes, this is English individualism.
	This is exactly the problem.
	The communists, who are the continental writers who want to have systematic control over all of society compared to the English, and the idea of freedom and liberty goes back a long, long way in England.
	A long way.
	Way before the Enlightenment.
	It was just picking up this theme of English political life.
	But, mate, that's all propaganda.
	It is, yeah.
	And therefore, the Freedom Day today is also propaganda.
	That's right.
	Good propaganda.
	Against the correct position of internal lockdowns.
	So, yeah.
	I mean, dunce takes.
	So, let's move over that one.
	So, the data, as you mentioned earlier about all of this, well, we can just look at it.
	You've got 78% of people are vaccinated.
	87%.
	Yep.
	Okay, great.
	But also, if you look at the cases, the cases are going up.
	That's a true point.
	Cases are going up.
	Deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
	25.
	And you might think that's a bit strange.
	And usually you have to wait about two weeks for the deaths to go up, but they didn't go up with this line.
	So you might be wondering what's happening.
	Well, the same thing is happening in Gibraltar, as has been pointed out.
	So we've got the next link.
	You can see in here, Gibraltar, you've got cases rising up again, Gibraltar being a very small area.
	And 99%, if not more, are vaccinated.
	And yet when you look at the list of people who are going into, sorry, are testing positive, if we can click on the image there, you can see there are three people who are unvaccinated, the other people there.
	All vaccinated.
	Yeah.
	The reason for this is because the vaccine, as it seems to be, doesn't stop you from transmitting the virus.
	This was the question on everyone's mind, apparently.
	But the point is that you're not going to die from it if you get it.
	Like, if you're atheist and then you get the vaccine, that means when you get the real virus, the dosage isn't going to kill you.
	That's the argument for getting the vaccine.
	Which then brings the question, well, who cares about the cases rising in England?
	Flatten the curve?
	Save the NHS? No, but if we've got a bunch of cases in the UK, but no one's dying...
	Who cares?
	No one.
	Because the Delta variant is the equivalent of a cold, according to the government's description of what the Delta variant is.
	But if the death factor of it is mitigated by the vaccination and 80-odd percent of the country is vaccinated, then there is no threat.
	You could infect everyone in the UK if they're all vaccinated, and if they're not dying, what's the argument for locking down the country then?
	This was all predicated on death.
	This was not predicated on people getting ill.
	Well, it was predicated on saving the NHS, but even then, the NHS is safe.
	But I have to say, Callum, this is a very, very persuasive, rational argument you're presenting that the left have been demanding, but I actually would much prefer to just go back to slogans.
	Freedom Day!
	Freedom Day!
	If that's alright, it's just easier.
	I actually agree.
	Because it's the same consequence either way.
	Yeah, so I just wanted to mention as well, there is also more fear-mongering from the mainstream left on this.
	You can see The Guardian.
	But again, England's COVID unlocking is a threat to the world!
	Say, 1,200 scientists.
	You mean communists?
	Scientists.
	International experts say an ethical experiment would allow vaccine-resistant variants to develop.
	Oh, you brazen bastards.
	Okay, we'll leave that one there.
	But no, I saw loads of this propaganda.
	Loads and loads of media outlets sitting there going, oh, England's unlocking is a threat to the world.
	It's like, good.
	Yeah.
	They continue, government advisors in New Zealand, Israel and Italy were among those who sounded the alarm bells about the policy, while more than 1,200 scientists backed a letter to the Lancet Journal warning that the strategy would allow vaccine-resistant strains to develop.
	Oh, the Lancet!
	That politically neutral, certainly not compromised institution that we can all trust and would never lie to us.
	Yeah, I mean, if the Lancet say it, then no communists are taking advantage of this.
	Come on.
	Come on, man.
	They made one mistake with the World Health Organization.
	They made that one mistake in which they said they'd definitely come from the virus and then had to backtrack when they realized, oh wait, the guy who told us this.
	The DASAC guy who's connected directly to the Wuhan lab and they lied.
	All is forgiven.
	Come on, one mistake.
	They would never publish something that was clearly not backed by international experts.
	Turns out if you go to this letter, you can sign it yourself.
	It's just a Google Doc.
	So I could just make up my title, Dr.
	Carl Benjamin.
	Do whatever the hell you want.
	And if you go to the next one, the Daily Mailer will be reporting on this, in which the list included social workers, midwives, dentists, and students with no scientific credentials.
	Right, brilliant.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	Again, Lancet, credible scientific institution.
	Jesus Christ.
	Absolute joke.
	They published this.
	I just love the idea of, like, we need to log down again.
	Why?
	The dentists say so.
	What?
	What have the dentist got to say about this?
	There are a bunch of social workers who are very concerned about opening up.
	It's a threat to world freedom, or something.
	Of course, one of the signatories, as you are alluding to, was the commie herself.
	Of course it was.
	So we go to the next one.
	This is a Guido Fawkes article about that.
	I love Guido Fawkes for the fact that they do archive all of their gossip.
	And I didn't realise that it was worse than we thought.
	So you can see how they're endlessly being on TV, labelled University College London and not communist, which is the correct thing to label someone who's obviously blinding.
	Communist Party member, Susan Michie.
	For 40 years, straight.
	Still, haven't left.
	But you can see there, they also mention Arden Calderwood supporter and gave £14,000 to the Labour Party in 2018 alone.
	So, God knows, on the other side of those years.
	She's also one of the signatories.
	So I can be put in the bin, because who cares?
	But there is something else to mention about all of this, which is really funny, because you've got the government SAGE group, and then you've got mad leftists who are deciding that that's not good enough, and have set up their independent SAGE group, which isn't run by the government, doesn't advise the government, quite frankly it's just a bunch of losers in their room, The SAGE group should be disbanded for being politically compromised, but anyway, carry on.
	But let's just make another politically compromised one in case it does happen.
	And apparently it's been running by a far-left anti-Brexit group, and it's really funny.
	So, The Independent reporting in here that that is the case.
	An independent, in quotes, group of scientists that regularly criticises government for not introducing tougher COVID-19 restrictions is being run by a body which boasted last week that it is, quote, good at creating havoc.
	And was founded by an activist journalist accused of peddling conspiracy theories about Brexit.
	The Telegraph can disclose.
	Okay, very trustworthy.
	If the government listens to these people, I'm going to have some serious words about that.
	Do you have any idea who these loons are?
	Well, they say the citizens founded by Carol Candwalder.
	I don't know how to say that.
	Candwalder, yeah.
	Describe itself as, quote, founders and producers of Independent SAGE, a committee of academics that claims to provide proof, sorry, provide independent scientific evidence.
	Totally independent, which is why we, a bunch of political activists, got together to make this.
	Like the original, let's be honest.
	I imagine they're going to be taking scientific advice from all people across the spectrum, including those people who disagree with them.
	Yeah.
	So, as I was saying here, the Citizens is also currently bringing legal action over ministers' use of apps such as WhatsApp to communicate about official business and claims to be gathering evidence about the privatization of the NHS. Base.
	Which is totally going on.
	God.
	Base.
	The group's role was highlighted by an NHS doctor who said that there was, quote, something quite disingenuous about supposedly independent scientific group being formed by what appears to be a political organization.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, it's almost like they're liars.
	Yeah, it's putting it lightly, mate.
	Which is why the communists shouldn't be in the official one, but yeah.
	So the lady in charge of all this, who has carried out investigations into the role of Cambridge Analytica, a data firm in the Brexit campaign, has also previously apologised for falsely claiming that Mr.
	Banks had not been found to broken the law.
	I knew I'd recognise that name!
	Yeah, are they right?
	Yeah!
	She also labelled a conspiracy theorist over her claims that Russia influenced the 2016 referendum.
	Well, there she is.
	And how did that Russian claim go?
	Because that's actually been bothering around Westminster for a long time.
	And I kept an eye on it because I thought it was really funny.
	Like, the Russians hacked the referendum.
	It's just such a stupid thing.
	Cope, cope, cope, cope, cope.
	So here's a conservative MP who says that that was the case.
	And then the years of investigation which led to We Found Nothing.
	Let's play this clip.
	Russia is interfering and it is doing so to try and undermine public confidence in political institutions and in the mainstream media in Western countries.
	And we have to regard the spread of fake news propagated by fake accounts across Twitter and Facebook in this way as a real threat to our democracy.
	But you must be able to point to something.
	What is the worst example you can give of Russian interference in our democratic process?
	What is the worst thing they've done as far as you know?
	Well, that's the question which we want to have answered.
	They have nothing.
	They literally have nothing.
	I read the report at the time.
	The strongest accusation they had, which is what that Conservative MP labeled before, which is that they'd influenced the election, how?
	By undermining the confidence in the mainstream media.
	How do they do this?
	Because Russia Today and Sputnik operate in the UK. And therefore, this undermines the mainstream media's credibility?
	It's like, how?
	Because they give a perspective, and therefore, you can also see the fact that there's a perspective that's not given on the BBC, and that's undermining the BBC? I'm amazed they have the gall to use the term mainstream media and credibility in the same sentence.
	I also love how he said it was a threat to our democracy, like the NPC meme of just, this is a threat to our democracy, you know, that one.
	But also the fact that if you go look at RT's stuff during the referendum campaign, it is true that they platformed quite a lot of pro-Brexit people.
	Oh no!
	Not the majority of the country.
	We don't want to hear from them.
	But that's not a crime.
	Nor is it improper.
	It was the duty of the BBC to do that and they failed and RT filled that slot.
	And then you're like, yeah, this referendum, Russians did it.
	How did they do it?
	Well, they gave a platform to the people to convince the country.
	You got them.
	You got them, bro.
	Massive cope.
	Massive cope.
	Anyway, Labour is finally turning on the communists within their ranks, and leading the charge is my old friend, Jess Phillips, who's become remarkably base.
	She's become something of a keto chad.
	I'm rather impressed, so I salute, because I like it when people start saying things that are true and doing the right thing.
	Didn't think it was going to be Jess Phillips, but okay, I'll take whichever champions we can get.
	This is now the Jess Phillips Fan Club, and we very much support our dear leader in her mission to expunge the communists from the Labour ranks.
	And I'm saying that without any irony or duplicity at all.
	I totally believe that she's correct in almost everything she's saying here, which is a weird thing for me to say.
	I never thought...
	I would be the one saying that, but here we go.
	So Jess Phillips did this, she's written a couple of books, and so this really is about a book tour that she's doing, because she's not exactly our saviour, but I mean, at least she's dropping a few bombs on the left here where she's doing it.
	But I think the first thing to note is she's lost three stone, about the same as what I've lost, incidentally, over lockdown.
	Good job.
	She only eats bread and drinks at the weekend, and otherwise she's on a strict thousand calorie a day diet during the week.
	I would have gone keto if I were you, Jess, because I get to eat quite a lot and I've done alright.
	But she looks fantastic.
	Good for her.
	And then during the lockdown she wrote her books.
	And she says for some reason that her greatest achievement is making women as important as bins.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, you can see the title there.
	The only way women are going to win in the Labour Party is if men refuse to stand.
	She seems to have a very low opinion of women.
	Women literally can't compete with men.
	Yeah.
	Can't get a bin voted into office for some reason.
	Oh, fuck that.
	Well, that's her.
	Not me.
	I didn't say that.
	When is she comparing for bins?
	Like, what was the point she was making?
	She was saying that that's her greatest achievement.
	She managed to make...
	Because apparently, you know, like...
	Oh, people locally love talking about bins because...
	They're important to their daily lives.
	Yeah, because the council are awful and they keep demanding that we don't have bins.
	Yes.
	Anyway, she asked, both the Labour Party and Starmer's personal poll ratings have died.
	Does Philip think he's doing a good job?
	And she says, look, he needs to do better without question.
	He needs to build a team that can go to the country.
	The trouble is, she says, is that the public can't name any of them.
	So has he chosen the wrong people?
	No, I think this is a terrible time.
	We've got no opportunity to act like a team and get around a table.
	Right.
	So is it the country's fault?
	Isn't she on the front bench?
	I believe she was part of some women's group.
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's one of the people she's saying that no one can name.
	Yeah, but what I find really interesting about that is how it's not Labour's fault that they suck.
	I think it might be Jess.
	I mean, I just really think it actually might be their own fault if they're not very good.
	Generally, people who are brilliant politicians tend to shine.
	Anyway, we've definitely got to be much more optimistic.
	We've got to laugh.
	Labour have to be optimistic and happy and joyous.
	Their entire position is this country sucks.
	Vote Labour to radically reform the country.
	We've got to laugh, we've got to be joyous.
	We've got to be big and bold and bright and funny and charming.
	Best of luck.
	I mean that as well.
	You've got to be like Boris Johnson, is what you're saying.
	Oof.
	I think true.
	Yeah.
	But that's a really hard thing to do, A, in a global pandemic, and B, when you're in opposition.
	If you start being too optimistic about things, people will be like, you're not scrutinising the government.
	Yeah, but do you not remember how Tony Blair won?
	He was big, bold, and optimistic by scrutinising the government.
	It's just the problem you have is that it's actually the Conservative government that actually wants us to be free.
	And everyone's, oh no, Freedom Day, all the left-wing people who vote for Labour are all saying, no, don't do this.
	You're fighting an uphill battle here.
	But again, I wish you the best, transforming the Labour Party into Boris's party.
	She's not wrong, though.
	It would have been a very easy win if the Labour Party took on the stance of, no, this is not British, we want freedom, so on and so forth.
	Oh, I would have supported that.
	I would have been like, well, look, the Conservatives are locking us down.
	I don't see any other choice.
	You know, as awful as the Labour Party are, as well as the Conservatives.
	If they'd actually been an opposition.
	If they'd actually been pro-Brexit, if they'd actually been anti-lockdown, I'd have been like, okay, look, the social justice stuff is annoying and we'll have to deal with it, but they're ruining the country, the Conservatives.
	But no, it was Keir Starmer leading the charge.
	No, we have to lock down, we have to lock down.
	And Boris just bending beneath Keir Starmer every five minutes.
	But anyway...
	Okay, so like I said, I want to actually give her some real props where she's done something right, because I think that when someone does something right, they deserve it.
	And this was actually a really great example of that, and much more mature than I would have expected from Jessica Lutray.
	In 2018, a man called Michael tried to kick down her constituency office, accusing her of turning a blind eye to Asian grooming gangs.
	Now, she absolutely did.
	But she arranged to meet him.
	They talked, they didn't agree, but they were the same age, raised in the same area, so they formed a sort of human connection, right?
	Good start.
	That's nice.
	Phillips showed him speeches she'd given to contradict the lies he'd read online.
	I presume that these are speeches of her saying, yes, the Asian grooming gangs were a problem.
	I haven't seen them.
	I'm surprised I haven't seen them because you'd thought this sort of thing would have been sent to me or something like that.
	But I don't think that she's denying the Asian grooming gangs, but I'm not sure because they're not clear here.
	But then she said, Michael is a human being.
	He's not an internet avatar, and I'm not a video game baddie he must stamp on.
	Wow, that's a very mature perspective.
	One I totally co-sign.
	Well done, Jess.
	Very good.
	Anyway, so she carries on.
	Labour Party's problem writ large is that somebody has to be perfect.
	They have to look good standing outside 10 Downing Street.
	Well, Boris has bucked that trend.
	But also has to be down with the people, while also being right about everything.
	Yeah, that's actually not a requirement.
	Boris Johnson doesn't give an S about any of that.
	You don't have to be perfect.
	Good point.
	But she then goes on to talk about the parliamentary party.
	I genuinely think the only way women will win is if the men don't stand an all-women shortlist.
	Now, Jess Phillips is an MP because of an all-women shortlist, as she said in her previous book, which is presumably why she thinks that's the only way it's going to win.
	Now, one has to ask why are the Conservatives, now the proud owners of two Maybe I shouldn't have said owners.
	Bearers of two previous female Prime Ministers.
	And honestly, I think after Boris, Priti Patel should go for it, just to have a big dunk on the Labour Party.
	So not only is this our third female Prime Minister, it's a woman of colour.
	And you hate her!
	You know?
	Why can't you get your act together, Labour, is what the Conservatives should be basically saying.
	But anyway.
	So, she's questioned about biology.
	Jess Phillips, noted expert on biology, has some thoughts about this.
	The woman question.
	The woman question.
	What is a woman?
	Now you might remember they even cite Jo Swinson melting down about her inability to answer the question of what is a woman.
	So Phillips says, I think that biological sex exists.
	Good enough.
	Case closed.
	Jess Phillips is a TERF. I mean, actually true.
	Oh yeah, she's also correct.
	That's a true statement.
	We are discriminated against on the basis of our biological sex without question.
	True.
	I've had an abortion.
	I've had to go home from work because I'm on my period.
	Born my children and lost loads of salary.
	My womb is more political than any other part of my body.
	That's true.
	But I think if somebody identifies as a woman, I should refer to them as a woman.
	That's what I think.
	Now, I totally agree with this.
	If someone's gone through all of the effort to transition...
	And, you know, like, had surgery, they're doing the makeup, they're doing everything they can to be a woman.
	I'm going to be polite to that person and call them she.
	And it's not because, biologically, I think they're a thing, and it's not because I'm being coerced.
	And if I was being coerced, I probably would just deliberately be rude about it and say no.
	But if someone has made a lot of effort and they're being polite about it and you want to be nice to them, I don't see a problem with that.
	And so I actually fully agree with Jess Phillips there.
	I agree that it's all biological.
	But if someone's going to make the effort, I can be polite about it.
	I know you don't like it, but I... No, the only thing in my mind is Ollie London.
	I'd be like, well, he is making the effort.
	So should we call him Jim In?
	Well, I mean, I probably would if he was like, if he introduced himself to me, hi, I'm Jimin, you know, what have you been doing today?
	I don't know him.
	I don't want to offend him.
	I'd probably be nice about it.
	But I mean, like, if he was like, look, I really need you to believe I'm a Korean, I'm not going to do that, Jimin.
	You know, come on.
	There's one thing about me being polite while I'm in your company.
	There's another thing about you trying to take ownership of my belief system.
	No, that's my balls.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, Jessica Yaniv.
	But the point is, I actually really agree with her.
	I think she's completely right.
	But they say, but now some activists blur the distinction between sex and gender, claiming a trans woman is female.
	Well, of course not, she says.
	And recalls an intimate chat she had with a trans woman, said, I suppose that there's an upside to not having periods.
	And she said to me, the thing is, I'd really love to have a period.
	That woman is a woman to me, but neither of us were under any illusion that we had the same biology.
	Correct.
	She also complains...
	That woman is a woman to me.
	Well, she's going to talk to them as if they're a woman in treatment, but they accept that the biology underpinning this is not there, right?
	Okay.
	And that's polite.
	That's fair.
	I don't think that's wrong.
	But anyway, she complains against the de-womanising of language, which is all fair, because of course that's happening.
	But she's blaming the Conservatives for it, which is not the reason.
	Doesn't make sense.
	Well, she puts the onus on her arch-nemesis in Parliament, Philip Davies.
	My personal hero.
	Really?
	He's the people trying to debase the language of its characteristics.
	Well, it's because the left has set the stage, and Philip Days was like, well, men suffer from gender-based problems as well.
	That has nothing to do with de-womanizing language, though.
	Well, kind of, because they have to then say, you know, people who have had problems, rather than just women who have had problems, because men can be subject to these things as well.
	And remember, in British law, you can't be raped by a woman.
	I don't think that's true.
	No, it is.
	No, that's been adjusted.
	Oh, has it?
	The word is he is there, is what you're referring to, but there has been an amendment to all British law that if it does say he, that's meant to mean...
	No, there's something about forced envelopment.
	I'll have to look it up.
	No, it has been changed.
	Okay, okay, I'll take your word for it.
	But then she carries on, again, like, blames Philip Davies, but it's like, it's male violence against women.
	Trans people, she adds, don't want breastfeeding to be called chestfeeding.
	Well, that's not Philip Davies, is it?
	That's what I mean.
	He didn't do that.
	He's not doing any of that.
	They don't want you to eliminate the word women and use people with cervixes.
	Yes, but that's not Philip Davies.
	And she says she's aghast that the modern left seeks to legitimise and idealise prostitution, so she's a sex-negative TERF. Very interesting.
	Which, in her long experience in the refuge movement, she sees as sexual abuse.
	She uses the term prostituted women, rather than the euphemism, the woke euphemism, sex workers.
	And she also had a nice little dunk on Owen Jones and Navarra Media, where she compared them to noisy, overexcited children who have had too much sugar.
	Quote, who cares what they think, frankly?
	Comrade Phillips!
	I know!
	Just shocking how much I agree with Jess Phillips on this!
	I'm really impressed, actually!
	Jess Phillips has gone through lockdown, had a big think about things, been like, no, this is crap.
	Bravo!
	So the response from the Novara Media crew and Owen Jones was gold.
	Owen Jones tweeted out, if I were Jess Phillips, who publicly boasted of telling Diane Abbott, the most abused female politician in the country, that's right, you've got your prop.
	Bring her out.
	Look, I have a black woman.
	People are abusing her.
	How dare Jess Phillips say something to her?
	Hide behind your woman of colour, Owen.
	She told Diane Abbott to F off.
	Again, based.
	Has it got to do with race?
	Nothing, but it's making Jess Phillips look really good.
	Because Diane Abbott should F off.
	She is the worst thing to ever happen to politics, never mind the late party.
	Diane, I think Mao did more good than harm.
	Abbott can F off, correct.
	Absolutely correct.
	Jess had actually lied about and presumably pressed attention.
	I'd avoid attacking other people for being childish.
	You are a child, Owen.
	Literally and metaphorically.
	Because lying about telling bullied women to F off in an attempt to publicly humiliate them is, of course, really grown-up behavior.
	The sort of thing that a ten-year-old with a moral compass would understand as very bad behavior.
	Yeah, okay.
	Stay away from kids, Owen.
	I guess if Jess Phillips' strategy is to slag off left-wingers in the Murdoch-owned Tory press, ooooh!
	The Murdoch-owned Tory press are giving a platform to a feminist.
	I mean, that is bad, actually.
	Why are you doing that?
	Good point, Owen.
	Good point.
	Like, stop giving platforms to feminists.
	Like, if you're the right-wing press, why do you do non-right-wing things?
	Yeah, exactly.
	But he's complaining that, oh, she won the approval of Darren Grimes.
	Ooh, Darren Grimes!
	The most right-wing of right-wing people who just was like, well, you know, in response to the Owen Jones and Navarra media noisy over excited children, he's like, well, she's right.
	And she is right.
	And Owen Jones is definitely proving the point by this reaction.
	Darren Grimes, Nick Griffin, basically the same.
	Darren Grimes, Nick Griffin, Jess Phillips, all the same!
	It's the far-right alliance against the progressive alliance.
	This is exactly the point he brought up with George Galloway in his interview.
	And George Galloway was like, you're a moron, leave me alone.
	Because he said, like George Galloway said to him, there's a propensity on the left for people to label everyone far-right.
	And Owen was like, oh, no, there's not, not me.
	You're literally calling Darren Grimes a member of the right here, like the far-right.
	Famous Marxist George Galloway is part of the far-right.
	Darren Grimes is part of the far-right.
	Jess Phillips has just joined the far-right.
	That's a booming movement!
	We're doing great!
	The far right encompasses literally everyone.
	I can't drink my tea now.
	Thanks, Callum.
	I've got to drink hot tea now.
	I nearly spat that all over the table, so, you know, I'm glad I saved it.
	Anyway, Aaron Bastani, who I think is the best communist at Novara Media.
	You disagree, don't you?
	I prefer Michael.
	Yeah, but Michael's such a lettuce.
	He's such a limp lettuce.
	At least Aaron's, you know, he's out there fighting the good fight.
	He's a good Stalinist.
	Yeah, he is.
	Michael's like, oh no, I'm a faithful Democrat.
	Oh, shut up, you limp-wristed lettuce.
	I'd rather hang out with Michael.
	Nah, Aaron would be way more interesting to talk to.
	But anyway, he had the best response to this.
	Owen Jones should have just shut up and let Aaron deal with this.
	He tweets out, good that Jess Phillips is focusing on job.
	Writing three books in six years is impressive.
	I guess she has a sideline in politics too.
	Good response.
	That's funny.
	That's funny.
	Better knowing Jones, who was puling like a child on Twitter instead.
	Of course, Aram is a massive commie, so I'll just carry on.
	But also just his book-writing skills aren't great either.
	Like, his only book he's ever written is, what is it, Towards Luxury Space Communism?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism, yeah.
	Maybe I'll read it one day.
	After I finish reading all of the other gay communist manifestos that I keep having to read.
	No, there's literally an Italian one.
	I love the idea that it's just like your Amazon wish list or something.
	Like, oh, you read this, maybe you'll like this.
	It goes on forever.
	I'm still getting through the critical race theory stuff because it's like a stack this big.
	But after that, then I'm going towards a gay communism, which is written by an Italian gay communist who committed suicide at 31, so he must have some good ideas.
	Anyway, Keir Starmer is not taking this lying down, though.
	You might remember that he yeeted Jeremy Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party, and he's decided, you know what, actually, I think all of these radical leftists maybe are actually the problem.
	It's like, wow, really, Keir?
	You finally got to that position, did you?
	The radical communists are the problem of the Labour Party.
	Thing is, this is not the first time.
	This happened in the 80s.
	Militants.
	And they had to just physically eject the communists.
	And look at that.
	Two generations later, now we have to physically eject the communists again.
	Yes, you do.
	They're going to be forever a problem unless you're very firm on these.
	So anyway, he's preparing to purge far-left Labour members as part of the poisonous campaign groups in a bold confrontation with operators loyal to Jeremy Corbyn.
	Good.
	Good.
	You don't get that reference, do you?
	No, but I... I assumed it was going to be something like that.
	Some 20th century dictator that you fetishise.
	I just find them funny.
	Anyway, Labour's NEC is going to prescribe for, or be asked to prescribe, for toxic, quote, organisations that promote communism, claim anti-Semitism allegations are overblown, and demand the whips being restored to Jeremy Corbyn.
	Those banned will include Resist and Labour Against the Witch Hunt, which claim anti-Semitism allegations were politically motivated, and Labour in Exile, which expressly welcomes expelled or suspended members.
	Yeah.
	Get out, commies.
	There's a Communist Party of Great Britain, somehow.
	How many MPs is that going to include, though?
	Because it should include quite a few.
	Hopefully lots.
	Because lots of, like, the entire Corbynite group have been calling for Corbyn to come back, and they've also all said that the allegations of anti-Semitism are overblown.
	But how is this happening?
	How is it that the Conservative majority and the polling has been like 45%, 46%, Throughout the entire pandemic, after this massive win, and the Labour Party have been given all of the opportunities to attack the Conservatives on everything they've done, and somehow their popularity is going down, and now the party is splintering apart.
	How has that happened?
	I also love how the Conservatives can't get rid of a communist within central government in the SAGE group.
	Keir Starmer's like giving these...
	General Starmer is just like...
	Head on pikes, head on pikes, you know?
	Who's the most popular communist in the Labour Party?
	Corbyn, kill him.
	Can he come back in?
	No.
	Why can't Boris do this?
	Anyway, I realise we're running over time, but we're almost at the end.
	So, yeah, they're going to...
	This is expected to pass in the NEC, and that means more than 1,000 members would be auto-excluded as a result.
	Yes!
	One Labour source said, under Corbyn, those from the far left fringes with poisonous beliefs and warped worldviews were welcomed into the party.
	We told you.
	We told you.
	We said exactly that.
	Keir is right to stamp out anti-Semitism and toxic extremism, which means getting rid of socialists, and get the party back into the decent mainstream of Labour values.
	Yes, it is.
	John McDonnell...
	What did he have to say?
	Wasn't thrilled about this.
	You know, John McDonnell, yes, I'm a Marxist, my job is to overthrow capitalism.
	We interrupted him long enough where he was chanting death to Israel to give a speech about what was going on in the late party.
	What did he have to say?
	He said, standard Blairite fair to try and show how strong a leader you are by taking on your own party, but bizarre to do it by expelling people, most of whom have left already.
	There's no problem, is there?
	So what's the issue?
	Yeah, what are you upset about?
	Jeremy Corbyn's already gone.
	Why are you still there?
	Looks desperate and when what is needed is a restoration of the whip to Jeremy Corbyn, publication of Ford and taking on the Tories.
	Get wrecked.
	So yeah, anyway, that's basically that.
	The Labour Party is getting to a position where they're not going to be radical communists because obviously that is poison to the electorate and about time.
	I still think that's all.
	Oh, they're cancer.
	They'll have no way of getting rid of the woke stuff.
	They will get rid of the people endlessly calling for socialism or Israel, but they'll not be effective in getting rid of the woke stuff.
	It depends, because you may end up with the sort of base Jess Phillips perspective, where actually it's biological.
	Deal with it.
	Because this is Turf Island, remember?
	Jesus Christ, Jess Phillips is going to save the Labour Party.
	Jess Phillips saves the West.
	Didn't think I'd say it, but I'm glad to hear it.
	Well, end that there.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Hey there, Lotus Eaters.
	It's Antipropaganda here.
	So I just made a video about Hong Kong where I basically discussed my opinion of the fact that Hong Kong seems to be far too entwined with China to ever really be successfully cleaved off.
	And I pretty much state that Hong Kong is done.
	I don't think anyone can save them anymore, or that anyone will.
	What's your opinion about the future of Hong Kong?
	I'm no expert, but I'm pretty much of the same opinion that it looks dire.
	I think it's become evident again, for the 90th time, let's say, in British history, that the UN and the Yanks are idiots, and instead should have left the colonies to the British.
	Because even if they did invade militarily, the Chinese, they'd be invading a pile of ashes.
	So, we wouldn't have this problem.
	But the future of Hong Kong?
	It's not a Chinese city now, isn't it?
	So, enjoy your CCP. Let's go to the next one.
	Billionaires in space.
	communists most affected crimey river commie So, commie-fornia is quickly becoming the pedo capital of America, and labor's granny dildo butt monkey of magical rainbows is walking and fapping around kids.
	At least they make it easy to know where we're gonna blow shit up.
	I mean, in Minecraft, of course.
	So, I mean, I think it would be really amusing if someone were to, you know, put up a sign, Welcome to California, pedo capital of America.
	That'd be hilarious.
	Just pedo population.
	If anyone's listening in rural California, just put it on the border.
	It'd be good fun.
	You deserve your own state.
	Then leave.
	Unless you're doing that before you move.
	There is a secession movement to get Red California away from Blue California, and I endorse.
	Jesus, who wouldn't?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Why wouldn't you?
	Let's go to the next one.
	The other day when I jokingly called you guys tossers, Carl called me an American, and I'm Canadian.
	That's why I made a joke yesterday about converting Canadian currency.
	But I guess I'll have to be more direct in the comments I make.
	And yes, I wasn't planning on making a 30-minute video explaining the difference between leftism and homosexuality, but Callum suggested it.
	Did you?
	He does have a Canadian accent, though, so we should give him props.
	I didn't hear him say eh, so I couldn't tell.
	About.
	Yeah, all these Yankees sound the same to me.
	Okay.
	Just anything from North America now.
	Well, can you identify the difference between an Australian and a New Zealander just from their accent?
	Oh, it depends how thick it is.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	That's a good nice one.
	Hey, Carl and Calum.
	Thinking about routines, I prioritize adaptability.
	The best way to adapt, though, I think, would be to have multiple routines that you can have parallel, that you can switch between.
	And if something goes wrong, then you can immediately think, oh, let me just go ahead and do this instead.
	Good advice.
	What does that look like?
	Well, as in, we've got basically a daily routine in the office.
	So you have multiple?
	Sorry?
	How do you have multiple?
	Well, it's for different things.
	I've got a routine at the weekend with the kids, but when there's a summer holiday, I have to adapt that routine to be during the day, or whenever, because of course the kids aren't at school, so the routine has changed.
	You've got to be adaptable.
	That's a good point.
	Very good point.
	Regarding video comments, take everything.
	You don't have to air everything.
	If you don't play something, either you didn't like it or you didn't have any time or something else.
	Perhaps I can just redo another video and one day it will air.
	It's a free market.
	I think that's the most reasonable perspective.
	Obviously, we love having these video comments.
	These are one of the best parts of the podcast for me because I don't have to do any talking.
	But time is limited, so what can we do?
	Hey guys, here's how you get around the taxation is theft argument.
	It's not theft if it's just going to maintaining roads and maintaining essential infrastructure, because that's important.
	And I don't think that should be monopolized or run by private companies.
	But it becomes theft when it goes to...
	Leftists.
	...load of bureaucracies and subsidizing people who, for God's sake, have got two feet in a heartbeat.
	What do you guys think?
	That's going to be an endless conversation.
	I mean, I basically agree with that.
	What's necessary, though?
	Not leftists.
	But that's the thing.
	Where do you draw that line?
	Whatever a leftist is asking for is unnecessary.
	Okay.
	I mean, you couldn't make it more clear, could you?
	Even the leftists are like, I want more military spending.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Well, clearly we don't need it.
	Otherwise, we'd be advocating for it ourselves.
	Like, we don't need to take their opinions on anything because they're wrong about everything.
	I would generally agree, but if you can figure out where taxation is theft in the abstracts, there are going to be writer's sources.
	Craig's problem is the idea that I want to get around the idea that taxation is theft.
	I'm not sure I do.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Good morning, Lotus Eaters.
	Here's a hot take for you.
	Weebs praise animes with subs over dubs because anime dialogue is terrible and full of cringe, and it sounds better when you're reading it in your head than you're hearing it out loud in a language you can understand.
	Ah, this is fantastic.
	This is very much Voltaire's.
	Anything that's too stupid to be said is sung.
	Yeah.
	Anything that's too stupid to be said is said in Japanese.
	That also fits with the Serbian music, doesn't it?
	Because it's just stupid.
	It's good for the next one.
	So I heard someone say Attack on Titan is not political, but I'd like to tell you his tale.
	You see, I know some SJWs, well, ex-SJWs, who watched Attack on Titan, saw the big reveal in Season 3, started debating with each other different reasons why it's wrong for fictional characters to be judged for the supposed sins of their supposed ancestors, and I just said, yeah, I watched that show too.
	Now, understand the metaphor, apply that argument to white people, they're not SJWs anymore.
	Ooh.
	I don't want to watch Attack on Titan, but everyone keeps saying, watch this weeb crap.
	I might have to.
	I'm not.
	Harry's made a good case there.
	You can beat FOSJWs with it.
	Find a bunch of lefty Attack on Titan fans and then destroy them.
	Good point.
	Let's go to the next one.
	There's a beach and an ice cream stall.
	In the middle, it is convenient for the customers.
	A competing stall, but this is not competitively positioned.
	Here, it can get almost half of the trade.
	If it goes to the left, then the one on the right will sneak up and seize territory.
	This is why a KFC and a McDonald's are often placed next to each other.
	Why, when labor goes woke, so do the Tories.
	That is a really good explanation.
	I told you about this before.
	It's also the worst thing for the customer because, of course, the ideal situation is that you're going to be spaced.
	Yeah, so everyone can get best, but that doesn't happen.
	That's a good point.
	The Daily Wire has this.
	Crowder has this.
	What are you guys going to get?
	Hmm.
	Body pillows.
	Callum body pillows.
	I resign.
	No, we have the merch.
	It's coming.
	I don't know what the specific status is.
	Yeah, we've got to deal with tech stuff and then we should be good to go.
	A correction to Friday's video.
	I meant England receiving reparations from the Italians due to the Roman invasion of England.
	Sorry for the confusion.
	We should not accept the modern-day Italians have anything to do with Rome because it really annoys them.
	But the problem that we have there is that England was created after the Roman withdrawal from Britain.
	So basically the Welsh need reparations from the Italians.
	The Scots weren't even in Britain either.
	They were from Ireland.
	What about the Cornish?
	The Welsh, the Cornish, they can get reparations from the Italians.
	Breton.
	I think you guys were far too critical of the idea of decolonising music.
	I, for one, am excited to hear Symphony No.
	5 for the bongos.
	I'm interested to see what Vaughan Williams could have achieved had he accessed to a didgeridoo.
	Consider my mind changed.
	You got me.
	I want to see your version of decolonising maths now.
	Okay, so first off, I'm contractually required to deny the existence of railguns.
	If they did exist, they're all pointing in the wrong direction.
	Leftists don't have enough iron in their bodies to be successfully launched, and if they did, they'd be immediately immolated by the plasma discharge, and anything that survived would be rendered into a kind of nicely heated soup, you know, something of the borscht variety.
	I mean, we'd get there, but...
	Okay, but when's he gonna give us the drawback?
	Oh, here we go.
	As a storage capitalist, I abhor communism.
	But I have financial interests in Cuba, and this is not good for them.
	I'm sort of forced to support the communist regime.
	Have I reached peak capitalism, or am I just an asshole?
	Unfortunately, I think I know the answer.
	Where's the oil in Cuba?
	Yeah, how do you end up with financial interests in a communist regime?
	I'm curious, but I think that probably is peak capitalism, when even the communists are being puppeted by the capitalists.
	That does strike me as capitalism winning.
	It also means that Cuba does have access to capitalism, which means Black Lives Matter can go shoot themselves, because they're arguing that, well, they don't have access to capitalism, therefore they're failing.
	Well, they still do, and they still fail.
	They just don't access to American capitalism.
	Right, so James says, wow, the Surgeon General is literally arguing against allowing science to take place.
	Yes, yes, there's other theories out there, but it's all misinformation, only we know the truth because we have evidence.
	It's fascist by inductivist justified belief.
	That's completely correct, and very well formulated.
	Most people won't know what you mean by inductivist justified belief, but I do.
	Sorry to be a prick about that.
	I'm very smart.
	Yeah, I am.
	I know what the hell it means, so go ahead.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Nobody studies the justification of belief anymore, apparently, but I had to.
	So, we need to argue back by saying it's a bad explanation every time someone makes an argument on these grounds.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Matthew says, the definition of fascism is the marriage of corporation and state.
	Benito Mussolini.
	True.
	Completely correct.
	The French fascists, in fact, invented the idea of the corporatization of the nation.
	So why is this Surgeon General dressed as a goddamn April?
	Yeah, good question.
	It's an American thing.
	Yeah.
	Why does he also look like he comes from a Hollywood TV set?
	Like, that's not normal.
	Like, our health advisors don't dress like that.
	No.
	But he also looks like he's just been made up.
	Like, makeup-wise, you know, he's perfectly groomed.
	He's got this amazing diction when he's speaking.
	It's like, this is a media personality.
	This isn't like, you know, a person who's dealing with science all day.
	Everyone except Biden, isn't it?
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	That's the point.
	And that, again, another hallmark of fascism is it's a theatre production.
	Mussolini was an actor before he became a dictator.
	You know, it's like literally this is all about theatre and Psaki's regime looks very much theatrical, doesn't it?
	It's all about delivery.
	Zach says, haven't they learnt their lesson about being censorious even as recently as the coronavirus coming from a lab being censored then proved to be a legitimate claim?
	Well, that's a great question.
	They've learned nothing.
	Science evolves frequently and surely challenging a point that makes it stronger overall if it's genuinely true.
	Yeah, this is Thomas Kuhn's view of scientific paradigm changes, which I think is true.
	Basically, the fringes eventually who point out a truth...
	They get sidelined by the paradigm.
	Eventually, their point becomes so undeniably true that the paradigm then flips when the great and good within it adopt the new theory and then ch-ch-ch-ch like dominoes.
	And I think that's true.
	I think that's a correct explanation.
	And that means that there should be no such thing as off-limits science or, like, unexaminable claims and things like this.
	One person saying we have the truth, that person's lying to you.
	You know a scientist is lying to you when they say that they have all the facts.
	They don't.
	They know they don't.
	Anyway, Harry says, if social media existed during the Bush administration saying that Iraq didn't have WMDs, you would get banned from misinformation.
	Yeah, you would.
	Yeah, you would.
	You absolutely would.
	It's exactly the same.
	Are you trying to demoralize the country, huh?
	Yeah.
	Omar says, the scariest thing about the US government asking Facebook censor on their behalf is that you can justify it for censorship, you can justify any other tyranny as long as they use a proxy private company.
	Yes.
	This was one of the problems with Blackwater.
	In fact, talking about Iraq, all of these private mercenary companies going around Iraq doing terrible things.
	Well, not ours.
	It's a private company.
	Here's the cognizant concentration camp, not the US government one.
	It's run by a private company, don't you know?
	I mean, we do fund the entire thing and tell them what to do, but it's a private company.
	Fascist dictatorships taking shape.
	Chad Kowal says, in communist Poland, media and speech were strictly controlled, and yet everyone in Poland knew that the official party line about the Katyn massacre not being committed by the Soviets was BS, and it was dangerous to say that out loud.
	Yeah, that's exactly where we are now.
	Thank you.
	Similar pressure is put on social media, the US can become the same way.
	It is.
	Like, they can't convince the country that Biden was legitimately elected.
	They can't do that.
	One of the things in my mind, and he gives a good example of the Katya massacre in Poland, like in a communist country, there's no way of actually doing this, but I'd love to find out just how many, like in modern-day communist China, for example, actually think that the CCP are a good thing and whatnot, or the line on, say, the nuclear genocide is...
	I know, it's an impossible thing to know, but I'd love to get, if you could do a retrospect thing on Poland, for example, and find the generation living under communism, like 90% of them knew it was nonsense, and yet no one rose up.
	I mean, wouldn't that be an interesting fact?
	It would.
	What was the other thing that they can't persuade people of in America, even though they've been trying?
	There was something else.
	Epstein, that was it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Most of the American public, when polled, say, no, he didn't kill himself.
	Everyone's like, so what does that mean?
	Well, it means that there's an organisation of pedos at the top of American society who are lying to you and you don't think they're telling the truth.
	Jonathan McIntosh said information that would lead to Hillary Clinton's arrest.
	Moving on.
	The White House is running a protection racket.
	They've made Silicon Valley an offer they can't refuse.
	Good point.
	Yeah, well, the Dems, whenever they bring them in, you always say the Republicans, because we're interested in this, they bang on the table and talk about censorship and they do nothing.
	But the Dems, they bang on the table and talk about breaking up Facebook.
	Like, we will use our government power to break up your company and, you know, disown you from being the CEO. Openly coercive.
	If you don't do our bidding, which is actually more threatening.
	Whenever you ever watch the grillings, that's what they do.
	Yeah, because the Republicans are making strong moral arguments.
	Good, good moral arguments.
	They're completely right.
	On a moral level, Ted Cruz is right, you know, Josh Hawley's right, they're all right.
	But then on a practical, political level, they're not threatening them with anything.
	So Facebook can go, well, maybe you're morally correct, but I don't have to move.
	I'm not going to change a damn thing, and you're not threatening me with any action.
	Whereas the Democrats going, morals?
	We're going to shoot you, you know, metaphorically speaking.
	Yeah, we're going to steal half of your wealth by splitting up your company.
	Exactly.
	We don't care about morals.
	Which one do you think is a bigger threat?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Matthew says, if...
	Sorry, I messed this up suddenly.
	If the UK government proposed a Freedom Day, how could it not include constitutional rights to free speech and self-defense?
	Well, because what it is is End of Tyranny Day.
	It's not a Freedom Day.
	End of government-mandated tyranny.
	Edward says, so I think that in London we are still required to wear masks on trains and wear masks in shops.
	Yes, because Sadiq Khan's a little tyrant.
	I don't know what it is with the UK. Like our system, like Westminster, the Hall of All Power, decides that this shouldn't take place.
	And yet devolved parliaments that are lower than it get to do what they want on this.
	And also the mayor of London gets to decide this for TFL. I would literally have co-signed this with a little note that says, look, if you disagree with this, I'm going to abolish your office.
	I just find it weird.
	Like, how does the mayor of London have...
	Yeah, but there's no threat behind it.
	They're like, please don't, please don't do it.
	We think people should have freedom.
	No, abolish the mayor of London if the mayor of London is not going to play ball with the UK government.
	Abolish the developer.
	I mean, these are the things that probably should happen anyway, just in principle.
	But, like, threaten them with something.
	God!
	You know, political action can be taken by the government.
	They've got all of the majority they could ever need to do anything they want.
	And it's like, well, please don't.
	Yeah, but anyway, thankfully now I can play what happened with my mates again, but hey, well at least there's something good that came out of it.
	Israel Hay says, do people know that a vaccine does not make you immune?
	We've had flu vaccines for decades and it's still kicking around.
	How are people this unbelievably stupid?
	It's terrifying.
	or we're having a conversation about democracy and stupidity just before the podcast actually uh omar says i can't wait for the inevitable spiking cases that will send us back into lockdown even though it was expected since the vaccine doesn't even stop even getting sick or spreading it which we know is true i'd really like to see a timeline of how many times they've changed the definition of cases and even covid deaths aka deaths with covid yeah that turns out to be a vanishingly small number uh Maybe misinformation, quote, is so prevalent because they don't even remember what the approved information is supposed to be.
	Well, as we saw with the Biden administration, that just changes from day to day.
	Whatever the facts are telling us this day obliterate any of the history.
	So we've got a constant rolling now in which the party is always correct.
	Welcome to 1984.
	Radnor says, the government was delighted with the pandemic.
	It allowed them to do a trial run for fascism, testing just how much control people would allow the government to have over them.
	I completely agree with that.
	I think it's completely true.
	And I think this is what the communists are smirking about when they're saying, oh, we can't open up, we can't open up.
	They love this control.
	They're the ones with the control.
	They're the ones telling the governments what to do.
	Considering how people just accepted lockdowns, the results are pretty unpleasant too.
	Now they want to drum up the fear to tighten the noose.
	It seems that there is a very large lobby group that wants that.
	Henry says, All Freedom Day has done is transfer the totalitarian overreach from the national government to the local government and private companies.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	100 times yes.
	Sadiq Khan doing whatever the hell he wants.
	Shops are going to strongly encourage mask usage, etc.
	Yeah.
	It's like outsourcing government tyranny to private companies is not any less tyrannical, as John Stuart Mill would have told us, in fact.
	Yeah, it's actually worse because you can't escape it.
	You know, there are limits to where the agents of the government can go, but there are no limits to where agents of society are because that's you.
	That's everyone.
	That's everywhere.
	Anyway, Carbohydrate Crusader says, Happy Freedom Day, lads!
	Excited for two weeks' time when Adolta and Neil Ferguson and the papers team up to get us back into lockdown.
	Yeah, how has this guy still got a job?
	Every prediction!
	I don't care what this adulterer has to say.
	I don't care that he's an adulterer, really.
	I care that every single prediction.
	He's had models for decades, modelling every pandemic, and they've all been wrong, all of his predictions are wrong, and then he breaks his own rules.
	The adultery aspect of it, oh my god, this is his wife's problem, not mine.
	My problem is that his lies and his failure to adhere to his own standards are crucifying the country.
	I think it's a porn, though.
	Like, it just shows that he's not a moral man.
	No, he's not a moral man, but he's also wrong, which is more important.
	Even if you could show to him what he's doing, if he was right, was morally wrong, you just still wouldn't care.
	Of course.
	Do you think people will accept lockdowns again?
	Yeah, I think they probably will, to be honest.
	Anyway, moving on to the base jest stuff, since we're running out of time.
	Small L libertarian.
	If the UK Labour had been pro-freedom the entire time, then the Conservatives would have taken that as permission not to take away everyone's rights.
	The dog is very well trained.
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, Labour would have gained significant portions of ground, I think.
	I think they would have actually converted people to their side.
	They'd have said, look, lockdowns are a bit un-British.
	You know, it goes back to Magna Carta.
	Government can't just take away your property.
	That would have been like base Labour, like traditional British English sort of, you know, Families are important.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Maybe we shouldn't be destroying the country.
	Like, who knows?
	But you are right about the well-trained dog.
	Something you mentioned during the Jess Phillips part was about Boris being weak and bending the knee to labour.
	In US politics, we often see the parties come together for their overlord zeitgeist, to get what they want, and are often referred to as two sides of the same coin.
	That's true.
	Imagine asking what their opinion on Israel is, for example.
	I think the same can be said about Boris.
	They project weakness because being run by a weak party annoys people, but it's not as visceral as being run by a tyrant, so they avoid further discrimination.
	Speak One's Mind says, Can't get a bin into power.
	Well, just wait until Count Binface comes to power.
	That'd be interesting to see.
	Is this Jess's based identical twin sister who killed and hid the real Jess Phillips?
	Because using Jess Phillips as based in the same sentence feels wrong.
	Yeah, I know.
	Weird.
	In praise of Jess Phillips, a Sagan of a Cad manifesto.
	Weird.
	I can't believe I've had to do it.
	But she's right.
	And she's been mature about things.
	And so it's like, okay, well, that's different.
	You know, go back five years when she's giggling like a child when she's got the control in Parliament.
	Good to see things change.
	Yeah.
	No, John.
	Zin, while I agree with the idea of being socially nice, the question is, at what point is agreeing to call a bloke a chick, given the commie argument's validity?
	Well, that's the problem, isn't it?
	Because that's one of the ways that the communists are subverting us.
	Because we have a set of rules for propriety.
	And one of those rules is not being rude to someone's face.
	And if someone's got a quirky request...
	It's very English to sort of acknowledge and accept that thing in a polite manner, unless they break up one of the rules, in which case you don't have to.
	But unfortunately, that is something that we, I think, are bound by.
	It's just really rude to do that, and there's no need for it.
	This is where the Ben Shapiro stance is probably the most effective, in which he's like, look, if we're in a public setting debating politics, I'm not going to say your preferred pronoun because, you know, it's a public setting.
	But if we're in a private setting, I'm just going to be a person about it and just be like, whatever.
	Well, that's exactly it.
	But then I have to wonder, he talked about his dad or his grandfather who used to think the radio was talking to him.
	I wonder if when he's around that guy, do you kind of agree with his delusion that the radio is talking to him just because it's easier?
	I mean, maybe.
	Yeah, it depends, you know, but that's the point, isn't it?
	But I think we're out of time here.
	So we're going to end the show.
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