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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #191

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 5th of August 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Joe Biden versus Ron DeSantis, also the absolute state of Andrew Cuomo, good god that man fell fast, and also New York's mob wants your freedoms.
	Yes.
	And they're in charge of the city.
	So bad luck.
	Yeah, get effed.
	But anyway, before we get into that, first thing I want to mention was the book club you've done, the George Orwell.
	No, I didn't.
	This was Bo and Josh did this yesterday, but I was listening to it earlier.
	It was very, very good.
	Bo's quite rough on Orwell.
	We're actually going to do a podcast talking about this because I'd like to have a bit of a defense of Orwell because he was a socialist, but everyone was a socialist then.
	And the thing is, Orwell does a lot to peel himself away from socialism as well.
	But anyway, they do a really good job examining The Road to Wigan Pier.
	I haven't read it in a while, but it was a good listen.
	So definitely go check that out.
	I thought he was going to be annoyed with his writing style or something.
	No, they were defensive of that because Orwell is famous for having quite a straightforward writing style.
	He's not trying to be pretentious.
	He's writing for the average person.
	And they do a good job of defending that.
	He deserves some S for being a socialist.
	Everyone makes no mistakes.
	Everyone was a socialist, you know?
	All of the intellectuals are socialists.
	Yeah.
	You couldn't get around it.
	Not good enough.
	Anyway, so let's start off with Joe Biden versus Ron DeSantis.
	So Joe Biden's administration and himself have decided to go after Ron DeSantis because, I don't know, Ron DeSantis man bad.
	So, I want to show you some first stuff here to lead up to why they're fighting.
	So, the first thing here is just this footage you can see below there of Texas.
	So, this guy says Texas.
	Looks like it could be up to 1,000 people.
	We can only get a look at the area with our drone.
	This is the illegals that have been pouring into the United States, and they're then shipping them out to Texas, and you can see the footage of just loads of people under some kind of underpass or something.
	Yeah, they're not even catch and release now.
	It's just ferry them in under the Biden administration.
	But of course, they're all kept six feet apart and being tested.
	No, they're not.
	So the point of this also being that, well, you have the element of Joe Biden essentially importing the virus because you can complain about coronavirus numbers all you want, but most of the American population are vaccinated.
	That's still going up, in which case then the new source of infection...
	The disease is coming through the border.
	Yes.
	That's a correct statement.
	I love Candace Owen's response to this.
	She said, Me, in 2016, if Democrats ever get control again, they will import another group of voters and the black vote will become irrelevant.
	Yeah.
	Candace is not wrong.
	One thing I find really interesting about this as well is that the focus on the coronavirus is, honestly, in my view, the least of these worries.
	I mean, who are these people?
	What are their criminal records?
	You know, why are they coming?
	All the other problems usually with this kind of migration.
	How many of them are involved with, I don't know, MS-13 or anything like that?
	You just don't know.
	And it's exactly the same as the problem that happened in 2016 and 2017 with the migrants coming into Greece.
	We know that ISIS sent agents into Europe that way.
	Well, if MS-13 are operating in any way like ISIS, well, they'll do the same.
	But there's no responsibility, no control at all.
	Also, I'd be surprised if the Islamic groups of the world haven't realised this is an easy way to break into the United States with your agents.
	Well, that's a great point.
	I don't know whether you're going to cover it later, but it's weird that it's not just South Americans who are coming across the border.
	There's, like, you know, Africans and Middle Easterners coming.
	It's like, sorry, how did you arrive at the southern border of the United States?
	They walked on water.
	It was a long swim, that's all we're saying.
	Crossing the channel.
	This way to England, this way to America.
	And as we've featured multiple times, but just to reiterate the point, this is a massive problem with Biden himself, his administration, because the message they give is not the one that Donald Trump gave of, F off, we're full.
	No, it's instead, please come, we're going to be so nice to migrants by just letting you all in because that's a responsible thing to do and it's totally not an attack on the American citizens.
	Let's go to the next thing here, which is the graph, just to show the per-year stops at the southern border.
	You can see there the blue line at the top being Biden's first year in office, massive spike.
	You've got the upward spike there for one year in Donald Trump, but the other two, obviously, are much, much lower than what's going on.
	So it's $180,000 a month.
	My God.
	A month.
	Illegals.
	Oh my God.
	This is just the illegals.
	Before we even get into the massive illegal migration the U.S. has.
	So it's literally going to be millions a year.
	Mm-hmm.
	Okay.
	Well, thanks, Joe.
	Yeah.
	So there's that.
	And then the COVID part of this is, I think, worthwhile talking about, though, because I see a lot of people worrying about this.
	So if we go to the next one, there's some people talking about this.
	This is the guy from Fox News.
	Down at the city of McAllen, Texas, say the federal government has released over 7,000 COVID-positive migrants.
	So they did test them.
	They tested positive.
	They were like, on your way, buddy.
	But they don't have to isolate.
	I mean, if I go to France, I've got to isolate for a week or however long it is.
	But these people can just...
	Don't worry about it.
	Pretty sure if we visit the US now and come back, we have to isolate as well or whatever.
	Probably because of all the migrants that have been released into the population, I guess.
	So these have been released to the city since February, including over 1,500 new infected migrants in just the last week alone.
	So that's the ones they know about as well.
	That's mad.
	Not to mention all the cases they don't know about and all the people they're releasing they don't know about because they're just catch and release, which means no border.
	He's also got footage of them delivering the buses.
	So, I mean, these thousands upon thousands of people.
	He just mentions here, like, they went down...
	I mean, I know it's Fox News, but he went down there.
	I mean, the other people care about this issue.
	I mean, we're literally looking at video footage of it, so...
	Yeah, of buses arriving and just loads of people getting off.
	All morning long, we've watched Border Police drop off multiple buses of migrants at the Catholic charity in downtown McAllen, where they are given food and shelter before they take buses and flights across the United States.
	And who's paying for that?
	Buses arriving every 30 minutes so far.
	Who's paying for that?
	Who's paying for these buses and flights?
	Dragon Taxpur.
	Unbelievable.
	You just live with it, can't you?
	I mean, I guess on the plus side, at least there are families.
	It's not just working-age men.
	That's true.
	It's not like the Dover situation from the current footage we're looking at here.
	But when you break down the data, I mean, the previous graph, actually, they did have a statement in there of the different types of people coming.
	I think it was 79% or something like that are single, unaccompanied adults.
	So it is disproportionately also, again, The thing as well, just to note, is that this is enabling human trafficking as well.
	Like, all of these people would have paid stacks of cash to be trafficked by people smugglers to the United States.
	So this is one thing that, again, another reason why you should be against illegal immigration is that it facilitates criminals.
	And it's not like these people are treated well on their journey by the people smugglers.
	There's no accountability, no oversight, and they shouldn't be doing this.
	So, just a thought.
	So you could just build a wall, or you could just accept chaos, because, I mean, why not?
	So that's one attack the Republicans have been laying at the Biden administration, rightfully.
	I love the way that Biden has chosen chaos.
	Chaos is strong.
	I'm pro-chaos.
	And then the meme magic just comes together, doesn't it?
	The God Emperor's like, no, build the wall.
	Anyway.
	Keep the warp out.
	Don't want us to get sued by Games Workshop.
	Let's move on.
	God, there's so many complaining about them at some point.
	Yeah, we will at some point.
	Anyway, so DeSantis has been attacking him on this and also on COVID policy and all the rest of it.
	So in a message here after Biden getting upset and sending a message to DeSantis, as you can see here, get out of the way.
	So DeSantis said, I'd rather have 5,000 cases among 20-year-olds than 500 cases among seniors.
	Because of the proportionality of death.
	Andrew Cuomo's just like...
	And so I think protecting the vulnerable has always been the right way to go.
	Again, Andrew Cuomo, getting upset.
	What a radical statement from Ron DeSantis.
	Like, oh, I can see why he's a far-right Nazi or whatever they're calling him at this point.
	Like, protect the vulnerable.
	So, how do you say her name?
	Paxi?
	Saki.
	Saki, there we are.
	So she gave a statement in response to being asked a question about the COVID cases and people coming in with COVID cases and all that.
	She said, most Republican governors are doing exactly the right thing, but if you aren't going to help, if you're going to abide by public health guidance, then get out of the way and let people do the right thing to lead their communities.
	Whether they are teachers, university leaders, private sector leaders, or others who are trying to save lives.
	How is that saving lives?
	The guidance being, do a lockdown.
	Just do it.
	Oh.
	We can't force you to, but do it.
	That's the right thing to do.
	No, it's not.
	No, the right thing to do is not let in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are apparently infected with a disease.
	But also the point being from DeSantis is like, I'm protecting the old.
	Old people in Florida, they get the vaccines.
	They're the ones we're going to focus on for COVID. Young people, I don't care if they get COVID. Because they're not going to die from it.
	The risk is incredibly low.
	And that's not the right thing to do.
	Instead, it's to kill the old like Andrew Cuomo.
	So Biden later told reporters...
	Andrew Cuomo, the reaper!
	I don't mean to laugh, because it's actually awful what he did, but it's ridiculous.
	It's unbelievable that he did.
	So Biden later told reporters that DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott were making decisions that have results that are, quote, are not good for their constituents.
	And it's clear to me and to most of medical experts that decisions being made, like not allowing mask mandates in schools and the like, are bad health policy.
	Bad health policy.
	From Biden.
	I don't know why he repeated himself.
	I'm reading that right, but...
	Whatever.
	Yeah, that wasn't Callum's tick.
	That was Biden's tick.
	Yeah.
	So that's him attacking him on that.
	And then Santa's hit back by saying that, yes, I am standing in your way.
	Oh, yes.
	Fantastic.
	The absolute double down.
	That's what I like to see.
	I love Lawrence Fox labelling this.
	Hey, Boris Johnson, this is what leadership looks like.
	So it really is.
	So let's play the first clip because I've cut it down for the sake of time.
	Joe Biden has taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID. This is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to, quote, shut down the virus.
	And what has he done?
	He's imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.
	You have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across every month His solution is he wants to have the government force kindergarteners to wear masks in school.
	He doesn't believe the parents should have a say in that.
	He thinks that should be a decision for the government.
	Well, I can tell you in Florida, the parents are going to be the ones in charge of that decision.
	I want to clap as well.
	Joe Biden also believes that vaccination should be mandated by force of government and that you should have to show vaccination status to be able to participate in society.
	Now, Florida, we're very proud of our seniors' first strategy.
	You look at the mortality in nursing homes among seniors, it's declined dramatically.
	But we said from the beginning, we're going to make it available for all, but we're not going to mandate it on anybody.
	That's ultimately an individual's choice to be able to do it.
	He wants that, but yet if you want to vote, he thinks it's too much of a burden to show a picture ID when you're voting.
	So no voter ID, but have to show your medical papers just to be able to live an everyday life?
	Give me a break.
	And so I think the question is, is we can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state.
	And I can tell you, Florida, we're a free state.
	Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should, quote, get out of the way.
	But let me tell you this.
	If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way.
	I'm not going to let you get away with it.
	Why don't you do your job?
	Why don't you get this border secure?
	And until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you.
	Thank you.
	Okay, that was fantastic.
	Yeah, everything about that was gold.
	Yeah, I'm loving the Trump hand movements as well.
	So he's got his Trump persona on there.
	That's very nice.
	But that was a fantastic set of points that he was making there.
	Calling out the contradiction in Biden's policy is obviously brilliant.
	And the framing is excellent.
	Framing is senior citizens first.
	Yes, they're the people who do actually need to be protected.
	And families first, as in don't have five-year-olds wearing masks, because that's obviously inhumane.
	Brilliant.
	Absolutely brilliant.
	I mean, I don't see...
	I bet his popularity in Florida is just skyrocketing.
	Well, I got a couple of friends in Florida.
	They keep sending me clips from saying, I love my governor.
	Yeah.
	I see this from people who are Floridians all the time.
	You know, DeSantis is just the best.
	And you can see why they think it.
	Yeah, and that's what a leader looks like in the modern world around COVID, and Boris Johnson isn't that, which is also embarrassing, so Boris Johnson should take that up.
	So great speech by him, fantastic.
	The Biden administration were annoyed by this, so you can see the press secretary retweeting this, and she said, 23% of new COVID hospitalizations in the US are in Florida, and their hospitals are being overwhelmed again.
	It's nothing to do with a speech, but whatever.
	We are doing everything we can to help the people of Florida, and they're stepping up by getting vaccinated.
	We hope Ron DeSantis will join us in this fight.
	You notice how there's no real backlash on any of his points?
	Nothing there addressed anything that he said.
	I mean, bring up...
	Here's a statistic.
	Okay, but that's in isolation.
	What about the other places?
	It's not deaths.
	That's the whole point of the vaccine.
	It's not to stop you getting the virus, we've been told.
	It's to stop you dying from it, which is why he's giving it to the elderly, because they're the ones at risk of dying.
	Yes.
	A sensible policy.
	He's being right.
	He's being on the money on that.
	And they're like, yeah, but what about people getting the virus?
	Stop letting people in the border?
	I don't know.
	They keep coming from Texas.
	Unless you want me to build a border on the side of Florida or on the little panhandle.
	You're literally flying in infected people.
	So Ben Shapiro retweeted this and just posted the death rates, as you can see, for each state throughout this entire thing.
	You can see right at the top, New Jersey, New York.
	Yeah, where's Florida there?
	Scroll down, there you go, right at the bottom.
	Right at the bottom?
	Right at the bottom.
	Oh, really?
	Really, that's very interesting.
	That's very interesting how Florida happens to be right at the bottom of this graph.
	So you've got Florida Man, who was like, yeah, protect the elderly.
	Texas just above it as well.
	And you've got the Grim Reaper, second atop.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well then, point proven.
	Shut up, Jen Psaki.
	Absolutely nothing.
	The only thing I wanted to mention on this was also there's been some...
	So Biden's trying to pass a housing bill to stop people getting evicted, and he's even said that it's not going to pass because he knows it's unconstitutional, which is really funny, but whatever.
	But some of the things around it I wanted to mention that I thought were particularly interesting.
	The first thing here being AOC. So AOC decided to go to some rally with Cori Bush and argue that Biden must pass this, and he's going for it because sock puppet.
	And you can see here Breitbart getting the clip of her engaging in a photo op, which I thought was worth mentioning.
	So let's go to the next clip, and you can see her with no mask.
	And then they're like, let's take a photo.
	She puts it on, and then they say, photo over.
	She takes it off.
	Let's play.
	Let's take a quick photo so we can keep the pressure up so other colleagues can come out.
	And you can see her there without a mask.
	No, this is everybody, all right?
	Oh, Cory had a right to do a hit.
	She's got...
	No social distancing, no masks, photo op.
	The absolute grift of it.
	It's so unbelievably transparent.
	I know it's a small thing people might think with the mask stuff, but I can't get over it.
	Oh, but no, it's not a small thing, though, is it?
	Because it's a constant brow-beating of the American public saying, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to do this.
	Your children need to wear masks.
	Exactly, yeah, exactly.
	Your five-year-olds need to wear these masks.
	I'm not going to wear the masks among all of my progressive friends until we take the photograph, just so, you know, when I think that you'll see it, you'll know that I'm doing it as well.
	I'm lying to you.
	That's what that is.
	The race warrior Corey Bush was also there, and there was a picture of them hugging each other that Corey had posted on her own Instagram, which was pretty stupid.
	But I thought I'd end on another white pill around Corey, our good friend.
	Ken and Karen.
	They've been pardoned.
	Remember this?
	Remember these two?
	Yeah, but they should never have been in trouble in the first place.
	Yeah, sure.
	But I think it's great news and we should encourage it, let's say.
	So you can see here the story.
	Governor Parson, who announced the pardon on Tuesday.
	But before we go on, can I just reiterate, I love the absolute Chad Boomer energy from this picture.
	I mean, it was great at the time, but looking back on it now, it's like, this is literally your parents getting out into the street to fight Black Lives Matter.
	It's also very aesthetic, though.
	It is actually really aesthetic.
	There's something about the sort of like...
	Vice City-esque.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Proud boomers out there with their guns and a grim look on their face to defend themselves against the race warriors.
	You've got to love it.
	So the governor said that he would pardon the couple without a doubt previously, arguing that they were law-abiding citizens who were attacked, frankly, by a political process.
	which is definitely true.
	So they were always going to get pardoned regardless of the activists trying to charge them and take away their guns.
	But good news for that.
	But the reason I especially want to mention this is because Ho's mad.
	Particularly Cori Bush.
	Because remember, this race warrior was part of the group of people who trespassed on their property.
	She was actually in it?
	Yeah.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Yeah, she was there.
	Oh!
	As you can see here, you can see the chap who took this clip, Tom Elliott.
	Right, right.
	Everyone should follow him.
	He's a good guy.
	Saying that he was taking part in the trespassing and that ends up in this clip kind of threatening Ken and Karen, which looks really weird.
	So let's play the next clip, which I've got.
	Mm-hmm.
	You were actually among the marchers who encountered the McCloskeys that day.
	Mark McCloskey at the Republican convention called you the Marxist liberal activist leading the mob through our neighborhood.
	What is your reaction?
	There are other people that should, that there are pardons that we have been asking for, pardons that actually should happen in Missouri, and that was not one.
	That was not one.
	They stood there, they pointed their guns.
	Totally reckless to a group of nonviolent protesters walking down a street.
	He has spat on my name.
	And because of that, his day will come.
	You will not be successful in all that you're trying to do when you are hurting the very people that are out trying to save lives.
	There are other people, Governor Parson, that you should be looking at.
	We have an activist that's been sitting for such a long time.
	Sitting.
	Do something.
	Actually show up and be the governor of all the people of Missouri, not just those that follow your type of politics that actually hurt black people, that actually hurt brown people, that actually hurt people who are unhoused, that actually hurt our LGBTQ community, that actually hurt people who are of the Muslim faith.
	It goes on and on.
	I thought I'd stop it there just to save you the pretentious phony outrage that you can get from her.
	Obviously phony.
	They're hurting people.
	Who are they hurting?
	He's hurting LGBTs, Muslims, brown people.
	Jesus Christ, how pathetic.
	So, for anyone who didn't see the original footage, they're filming themselves literally breaking into their property, smashing in the gate, and then going out and chanting.
	And the McCluskeys are obviously very concerned that a bunch of race warriors and communists have turned up to assault the house.
	In the context of BLM burning down...
	Yeah, exactly.
	It wasn't like BLM had done nothing until this point.
	And so it's, you know, understand me.
	And the McCloskeys, they bought the house, like, you know, 30 years ago or something.
	And it was an absolute wreck.
	And they spent 30 years doing it up.
	You know, so this is a sort of a lifetime project.
	And it's a beautiful house that they've got.
	But they started with, you know, a very, very poor house and they built it up.
	And so you can see the investment.
	You can see the amount of love and work that had gone into it.
	And then a bunch of entitled communists come in and be like, right, we hate you.
	You're hurting us.
	It's like, no, get off my property.
	Get off my land.
	Absolutely the right thing to do.
	You stand up for your property.
	The American thing to do as well.
	Oh, absolutely.
	She says that his day will come, which again, coming from the BLM race, grifters, rioters, warriors.
	Your day will come because you're hurting all of these people.
	It's like, they're not hurting anyone.
	You know, they were just chilling at home.
	You could go away.
	It's so pathetic.
	Like, you know, she's like black and brown people.
	Then LGBTs, Muslims are just like, my God, it's just so transparent.
	Like, yeah, the LGBT Muslim parade that was taking place on their property as well.
	Yeah.
	I assume that was from the other side of the entrance that they put on that.
	I guess there's just no footage of that for some reason.
	But also she mentions that the governor shouldn't spend his time engaging in partisan politics, unlike her who never would.
	Of course.
	Yeah, of course.
	By pardoning the McCluskeys.
	But also you should pardon this activist who's completely unnamed because he's been sitting...
	Sitting in the jail cells.
	He is sitting, Callum.
	I don't know whether you understand that that's bad.
	Poor man.
	But I can't imagine that this activist, unnamed activist, we don't even know who she's talking about, but I get the feeling that she probably didn't name him because then we'd be able to Google him and find out why he's in jail.
	And we'd probably be like, hmm, seems that he did something wrong.
	Unlike the McCloskeys, who did nothing wrong.
	Didn't do nothing.
	Good boys.
	I'm glad they're out.
	Let's move on.
	So let's move on to the absolute state of Andrew Cuomo.
	So Andrew Cuomo is a poor lad.
	He's been through ups and downs, let's say.
	Just a working class boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
	That's all he is.
	But I thought I'd just go through.
	Because remember when this boy was like the golden boy of the Democrats, the left, just like, oh man, he should run for president.
	He's so cool.
	Because he had done COVID briefings.
	And don't look at the death statistics.
	That's not important.
	That's why he's nicknamed the Grim Reaper at this point, because of his actions which led to the deaths of the elderly by not prioritizing them.
	Tens of thousands of them as well.
	Yeah.
	He literally put COVID patients in nursing homes.
	I mean, I bet Ron DeSantis didn't do that.
	Nope.
	I was like, right, okay.
	There's one man who can be blamed for this, but everyone ignored this at the time and instead got Andrew Cuomo fever, so I thought we'd go through it just to remind ourselves.
	It's CNN. Andrew Cuomo said he'll never run for president.
	That's a mistake.
	Takes that aged well by Chris Silliza.
	Should've ran for president.
	But this wasn't the only one.
	There's New York Times as well.
	New York Times.
	Andrew Cuomo is the control freak we need right now.
	What?!
	Step on me harder, Daddy Cuomo.
	From the New York Times.
	The New York Times used to be a respected publication, you know.
	God, when?
	About 100 years ago.
	Ironically.
	They also say in here, another take that looks going to age badly.
	In ordinary times, Mr.
	Cuomo's relentlessness and bullying drive New Yorkers crazy.
	In the age of coronavirus, they soothe our battered nerves.
	Yes, talk about its bullying in a bit.
	Yes, this did wonders for the sort of 45-year-old white woman demographic, didn't it?
	They love this.
	Yeah.
	They, in fact, became Cuomo-sexuals.
	This is the term that was used.
	Los Angeles Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo approves of people who identify as Cuomo-sexuals.
	They don't work in his office, but, you know...
	The ones who work in his office have a different opinion.
	But of the good and great, the wonderful, the people who run late-night comedy shows, you know, the real people, the people who really matter, the millionaires who run comedy shows that go Orange Man bad, and that's their sketch.
	That's...
	Good night, folks.
	Come back tomorrow.
	They had a really good opinion of Andrew Cuomo, as well as the 45 white demographic of New York, apparently, that weren't in his office.
	So they're saying here, appearing on an upcoming episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Andrew Cuomo embraced the new term adopted by DeGeneres and fellow TV hosts Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert.
	Oh, really important people.
	To express their love and admiration for the New York governor and his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.
	It's such a transparent network of people.
	Like, it's so obviously this weird sort of fraud, and behind it, you can see there's a glistening face, but behind it, there's the rotting bodies that Cuomo has reaped.
	But there's also the kind of almost North Korea-esque writing there.
	It's like, to express their love and admiration for Cuomo.
	We call him the dear leader, I think you'll find count.
	He's a politician who gives a toss, but whatever.
	I guess Cuomo's sexuals rise up.
	But some people at the time were like, maybe we shouldn't do this.
	So you can see one out there here, Current Affairs, saying, stop trying to make Andrew Cuomo happen.
	They call this the magazine for mums at the top.
	For some reason.
	But no.
	Yeah.
	Just let it happen, girls.
	But they didn't stop trying to make it happen.
	As late as November, they were still sucking Andrew Cuomo's D. And you can see here, Andrew Cuomo to receive international Emmy for masterful COVID-19 briefings.
	Yeah, because I had to query this because I thought that was for actors and things.
	But apparently, anything that's broadcast on the television can get an Emmy.
	And so...
	That's kind of pathetic.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's really bizarre, isn't it?
	So, Andrew Cuomo, you know...
	Good boy.
	Nothing.
	In fact, the golden goose.
	Let's give him all the awards and everything.
	Here's an award, yeah.
	November 2020.
	They waited 10 days.
	And then some allegations came out that weren't so good for Mr.
	Cuomo, which is that he's been sexually assaulting everyone within his office.
	So we go to the next one here.
	This is just the update on the situation with that because I'm sure people know roughly that he's been alleged to have these things.
	And politically, it's looking really, really bad for him.
	And I'm surprised he hasn't just resigned because, I mean, screw this.
	But whatever.
	Cuomo facing impeachment votes from majority of New York Assembly if he doesn't resign.
	So he's just refusing.
	Well, they're claiming he sexually harassed 11 women.
	Yes.
	So, if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo doesn't resign following the State Attorney General's report this week that found that the Governor had sexually harassed 11 women, a majority of the State Assembly members are reportedly prepared to start impeachment proceedings.
	Now, I just want to make it clear that we believe in the presumption of innocence, so when someone is accused of something, we don't say they're guilty of that thing.
	However, he's not surrounded by people like us, he's surrounded by people who believe all women.
	But also, the Attorney General has done his investigation and decided that you're guilty.
	Oh.
	Okay, well then there's that.
	I don't know the process in the US for this kind of thing, so I don't know how binding that is.
	But it's not just, we think it.
	Like, in December, they were thinking it.
	Now he's done his investigation.
	He's like, nah, he definitely did.
	He's a creepy son of a bitch.
	So he says in here, they say in the article, prominent Democrats at the national and state level, including President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and both of New York's US senators have called for Cuomo to resign.
	The report found Cuomo engaged in, quote, unwanted groping, kissing, and hugging, made inappropriate remarks towards staffers, and oversaw a workplace culture, quote, rife with fear and intimidation.
	So, I don't want to make any stereotypical Italian jokes here, but...
	He'll make them later.
	No, I'm going to make them now.
	But, I mean, this does kind of sound like he's running the New York State as a kind of mob boss.
	Also, our Italians are quite touchy.
	That is true.
	They have the continental thing, for example, of kissing you when they meet you, which is weird.
	And they do most of their communication with hand movements.
	Which isn't even me being stereotypical of them.
	That's actually true.
	a lot of italian communication is genuinely through the hands apparently i wonder what would happen if you take an italian just like blank out their hands would just lose it'd be like cutting our man's tongue anyway anyway censoring me well that's the point you've got the president i can't touch my staff i'm being oppressed the speaker of the house democrat democratic president the u.s governors the people on the ground in his own assembly being like for the love of god resign like this looks so bad even the democrats are like i don't want to be involved in this this is the worst thing ever i'm not defending you just resign for god's sakes and uh he's just like
	nah - He's just like, make me.
	Which, um...
	I guess they can't, so he's just...
	Adding to his mob boss credentials, he's just like, no.
	What are you going to do about it?
	Sleep with the fishes.
	So, State Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat, called on the Assembly to return to session immediately to begin impeachment proceedings.
	So the fact that he's just been, like, set off and not doing nothing, they're just like, right, okay, we're going to get rid of him, because, good God, it's bad for us.
	So, Mr.
	Kim said...
	There is no measure left to hide the truth.
	The governor broke the law, so we must hold him accountable.
	Wow.
	When institutions fail to believe victims...
	Oh, for God's sakes.
	Why do they always have to go...
	Must believe victims...
	No, you go through the process and see if the victim is telling the truth or not, because the presumption of innocence.
	Anyway...
	Allow predators to act with impunity or fail to put policies of protection in place.
	It sends a strong signal that condones this type of unacceptable behavior.
	We cannot afford to ignore his transgressions any longer.
	Doing so will erode the integrity of our legislative body and demonstrate complicity in sheltering a sexual predator.
	Glory to Mr.
	Kim for that speech, actually.
	I agree with his points there.
	Apart from the part about you must believe victims, no, you take their allegations and you investigate them.
	I've just never heard a Democrat use the word accountability before.
	I know, right?
	They saved it especially for Andrew Cuomo, I guess.
	But the tastiest spicy meatball out of all of this has to be Mr.
	Cuomo's claims on sexual harassment and assault in the past.
	There's a tweet from him.
	You're not going to tell me he's anti-sexual harassment, are you?
	Not just anti.
	Zero tolerance.
	So, Andrew Cuomo, 2013 tweet.
	There should be zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment and must send a clear message that this behavior will not be tolerated.
	You know what?
	For once, I agree with Cuomo.
	He's got a good point.
	Shouldn't be tolerated.
	I wonder if they could meet each other.
	We could have a conversation.
	2013 Cuomo and 2021 Cuomo.
	But I have to wonder, how long is he engaging in this?
	Did he start doing this in 2015?
	So maybe his opinion changed or something?
	But...
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	So that's the spicy thing from him, but also his brother, because remember how incestuous the Democrats are.
	Yes.
	And not just that.
	The Cuomos have had a long and incestuous relationship with each other on television.
	An embarrassing one, in fact, where you can see the personal brotherly rivalries playing out.
	Because Andrew Cuomo, being the older brother, is regularly condescending or was regularly condescending to Chris Cuomo, which you could tell was driving Chris Cuomo mental on his own show, live on TV.
	And CNN eventually forbade him from interviewing his own brother because it was getting embarrassing and because professional decorum.
	Professional standards was the last of their excuses.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	And so, yeah, what happened with his brother?
	Well, his brother's not looking too good, because he gave a statement in favour of his brother, who's never been found to have engaged in sexual harassment, but okay.
	So, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, his brother, made absolutely no mention of the ongoing investigation against his brother on his show.
	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, on his show tonight, despite the fact that his brother was found to have been sexually harassing staffers after an investigation by the Attorney General.
	Hmm.
	So he was told about the fact that it was taking place, and on his show he's like, that's not a topic.
	We're not going to talk about that one.
	Not very interesting.
	But Chris Cuomo was also personally connected to the case.
	What?
	He testified in the New York Attorney General's investigation on behalf of his brother, and advised him on how to handle the proceedings and deal with negative press.
	Wow.
	Doesn't look fishy at all.
	But he does give an excuse.
	His excuse for why is, obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother.
	Now, of course, CNN has to cover it.
	They have covered it extensively and will continue to do so.
	So he's just like, wow, he's my brother, I'd be biased.
	It's a conflict of interest.
	And that never came up before.
	In all of the years that he was interviewing his brother.
	That wasn't a conflict of interest?
	Suddenly, conflict of interest, that's a phrase that's entered CNN's memory.
	When it's in their own defence, yes.
	I can't do that, that would be improper.
	Never was, was it?
	Anyway.
	But Andrew Cuomo has made a response to all of this.
	It's not just him going, nah, get lost.
	He did a big long video.
	It was like 14 minutes long of him just saying, I didn't do it.
	Even though the Attorney General said, I've done my investigation and you did, bro.
	So I don't know what's going on with that.
	But he says in here, I have never touched anyone inappropriately or made any inappropriate sexual advances.
	I have to wonder on the words inappropriate being uncertain there.
	So he thinks the sexual advances were appropriate, perhaps.
	Lots of appropriate sexual advances from Andrew Cuomo.
	Yeah, but there's also...
	I was surrounded by Cuomo sexuals.
	What was I supposed to do?
	There's also some weird wording in this.
	So if we go to the next link here, this is an article, I think Rory wrote this at the time.
	And he says, responding to the allegations, Governor Cuomo argued that he had been making physical gestures to, quote, convey warmth.
	for, quote, all his life and that his office is, quote, a demanding place to work and it is not a place for everyone.
	What?
	So if you don't want to be molested, don't work for me is what that sounds like.
	So, in a video released on Twitter, the governor proceeded to deny the allegations before exhibiting a montage of pictures of himself kissing and hugging people, which...
	Strange defence.
	I really don't know why he included this.
	This is okay, because I always molest people.
	So, to give the context, his argument is that it's an Italian thing.
	Well, it might be.
	My parents taught me to do this, which is that when you meet someone, you, like, grab their face and, like, you give them a kiss or a hug or something, and it's weird.
	The Confidentials are weird people.
	Yes.
	So, mm-mm.
	But then, why did you include a montage of you looking awful?
	And here's the montage of him not looking great.
	I do it with everyone.
	Black and white, young...
	Is that Bill Clinton?
	...and old...
	Straight and LGBTQ, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street.
	After the event, the woman told the press that she took offense at the gesture.
	And for that, I apologize.
	I've been molesting people my whole life.
	Strangers, friends, straights and gays.
	Old, young, Bill Clinton are the senators...
	There's no limit to the amount of people I won't touch inappropriately.
	Like, I know what he's trying to say.
	I know, I know.
	But it's just like, that's the stupidest thing for you to include.
	I don't know who advised you to leave that in.
	But good God, it looks terrible.
	And that's the thing, right?
	Unless there's like a direct allegation where he grabbed a woman's breast or something.
	Well, the Attorney General said he was found to have been groping.
	Right, okay.
	Fair enough.
	I don't know.
	I haven't looked into it.
	You're the one who looked into it.
	But like...
	I can see what he's trying to say there.
	He's trying to come across as warm and family-like and things like that.
	But of course, if he's accused of actually groping people, that's not exactly a good defence.
	I'm not sure I'd describe it as family-like.
	I'd describe it as maybe Joe Biden-like.
	Well, Joe Biden's a lot worse.
	Oh yeah, Joe Barnes clearly was.
	Why are all these Democrats touching each other in weird...
	I can understand what you're saying.
	It's trying to put across a kind of familial affection and a closeness.
	And in those pictures, if it was out of context, if we weren't talking about the fact that he apparently has sexually assaulted a lot of women, that's not awful.
	It's weird to us because we're English, right?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the cult...
	I don't know if there's foreigners watching who don't think we're being really stupid-fying this.
	No, no, no.
	If you meet someone at a conference that you're a member of the party as well, like those kind of interactions, right, you shake hands.
	In England we do, yeah.
	And in America, normally...
	You don't give them a kiss and...
	Sure, but like...
	No, no, but continental culture is a lot more touchy-feely.
	It really is.
	We're quite uptight in their opinion, and that's the genuine truth.
	And so like...
	Well, it is for a reason.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's obviously the proper way to do things.
	And, you know, there aren't going to be 11 women claiming that I groped them, you know, so...
	And if they do, they're lying.
	Firm handshake.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Maybe just a wave from across the room, yeah.
	There's going to be a bunch of men being like, well, he crushed my hand.
	Anyway, yeah, so that's the absolute state of Andrew Cuomo, and I agree with 2013 Cuomo.
	I believe all women.
	Yeah, I like watching his fall, though, because I don't like him, so...
	Anyway, speaking of New York, New York's mob dons want to take your freedom.
	It's not just Andrew Cuomo who's insistent on making sure that you're part of a kind of...
	How did DeSantis describe it earlier?
	Some sort of biomedical tyranny or something like that.
	Biomedical state.
	That was it, yeah.
	Yeah, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, also wants to do that as well.
	So you might remember that he's really weird and wanted you to get vaccinated.
	And he did a really weird press conference.
	Can we play the video with that sound, just so I can talk over it a second?
	Is this of him eating the food?
	This is of him saying, look, you know, this was back in May, saying, look, we really, really, really want you to get vaccinated.
	And so what we're going to do is incentivize you by incentivizing you with junk food.
	Specifically burgers and fries, because Murica.
	Yes, I mean, obviously, if the Americans are going to do anything, it's got to involve burgers.
	It is very Murica, but the thing that mostly kills you in COVID apparently is being overweight.
	Yes, yes.
	The deaths are disproportionately for the elderly and obese.
	So, promoting junk food.
	And just generally, I think that maybe elected officials probably shouldn't promote junk food, no matter what the case, no matter what the cause.
	It's probably bad for you to promote junk food.
	You know, you could have framed this.
	Well, this is the state that also tried the sugar tax.
	Well, there we go.
	And you could have framed this in a very different way.
	You could have appealed to people's different set of sensibilities that people have.
	You could have said, look, you know, the vaccine is going to make you healthy, so we'll give you a free salad with it so you can keep going on and your diet will get better and things like this.
	And it would be a nice upward momentum rather than, listen, fatty, get your vaccine and I'll give you a burger.
	Because that's literally what this is.
	I don't know why the governments of the world didn't just make gyms free throughout all of this.
	Great question.
	It would have been an amazing thing to do.
	Yeah, or, you know, and just, I don't know, some sort of, like, subsidies for salads and things like this.
	Yeah, but if you sign up for a gym, it's free.
	Just go.
	Sure.
	But, yeah, whatever.
	If we're going to subsidize anything, it probably shouldn't have been burgers and fries, but, you know, what are you going to do?
	There's also the cardinal rule of politics, never eat on camera.
	Yes, and that was the especially weird thing, him chomping and talking with a full mouth.
	But this is what he said, right?
	I want you to look at these french fries and think about how great it is to get vaccinated.
	Is it too early in the day to eat a burger?
	And then he said, mmm, vaccination.
	While eating?
	I mean, if you need evidence that the people who are running Democratic areas...
	Literally view the people that they rule over as their inferior serfs and are morons who are addicted to their own impulses.
	This is it!
	I want you, and he literally just says it, I want you to associate French fries with vaccinations.
	Okay, normally you don't just say it out loud.
	Normally, if you've got this elaborate plan, you just do it subtly.
	So it's, you know, like, you know, you didn't hear it, but your brain heard it, sort of, you know, style.
	But instead, he just comes out and says it.
	And obviously, that didn't work, apparently.
	Apparently, not enough people were addicted to burgers and French fries, as de Blasio thought.
	And so he came out and just said this.
	Play the clip.
	In a second.
	The vaccination drive for kids 12 years old and up.
	And look, I'm a parent.
	My kids went to New York City public schools.
	If my kids were going to school in September, I would be running to get them vaccinated right now.
	And life was said a moment ago.
	We used to do this as parents all the time for a variety of vaccinations.
	We've got to shake people at this point and say, come on now.
	We tried voluntary.
	We could not have been more kind and compassionate as a country.
	Free testing.
	Everywhere you turn.
	Incentives.
	Friendly, warm embrace.
	The voluntary phase is over.
	We can keep doing those things.
	I'm not saying shut it down.
	I'm saying voluntary alone doesn't work.
	It's time for mandates because it's the only way to protect our people.
	I mean, that's a terrifying statement, obviously.
	You know, we're literally, you know, we've tried being, you know, the voluntary way.
	That didn't work.
	So now it's the involuntary way.
	Again, the sort of thing a rapist might say.
	Also, we're going to do it to your kids.
	You must get your kids vaccinated.
	Yeah, but I find it really interesting.
	When he's saying that, he can't stop himself from laughing.
	He's literally grinning and laughing.
	Ha ha ha!
	As if he's enjoying saying that you're going to be involuntarily vaccinated.
	Because, I mean, this is why DeSantis is not doing...
	Young people didn't even do himself when it started out.
	I don't know where he is in the queue now.
	Because it's just like, well, the risk is really low.
	For kids...
	Virtually non-existent.
	It's tiny.
	Yeah.
	And so, yeah, I mean, it's not like he was alone in this.
	The good governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, came out and gave what was definitely not a veiled threat to businesses in New York.
	If we can play the next clip, please.
	Private businesses, I am asking them.
	And suggesting to them go to vaccine-only admission.
	I believe it's in your best business interest.
	It's in your best interest.
	I'm asking you.
	I'm not telling you.
	I'm asking you.
	But you may well be speaking.
	I'm a politician.
	I'm just asking.
	You may well be sleeping with the fishers.
	I'm just the governor of New York State.
	I'm just a nobody.
	I'm suggesting that it's in your best interest to do it.
	Not terrifying at all, and especially after we learned that everyone was intimidated in his office and things like this.
	Nothing concerning.
	You're going to stop selling those cigarettes in my turf.
	It's in your best business interest.
	I mean, and let's just analyze the logic of that for a moment.
	You have a customer pool of X and that 100% is your customer pool.
	And now Andrew Cuomo is saying, right, well, we want you to get rid of a certain percentage of that customer pool.
	Like about 50 for the US? Whatever it is.
	And that's in your best business interest.
	It's like, it's obviously not.
	I mean, there's no way that you could believe that.
	Unless there's a threat.
	Unless you're going to end up sleeping with the fishes or something, yeah.
	So anyway, de Blasio has decided, you know what, screw it.
	The voluntary phase is over, Callum.
	You've got to understand.
	The economy will sleep with the fishes.
	The economy will get to that, in fact.
	Because there are demonstrable effects from this.
	So anyway, yeah, de Blasio has begun mandating vaccine passports.
	So there's a CNBC report.
	New York City, also on July 30th, started...
	Oh, just before we get to the mandate, actually.
	They give us some information.
	So on July 30th, they started just offering $100 for anyone who received vaccinations on a vaccine site.
	So if you got your vaccine, that was silly.
	You should have waited them out.
	Like, you were like, oh, I was holding out for burgers, but I don't know.
	I think I'm going to do better.
	$100, I don't know.
	I think I'm going to get a free car at some point.
	You should have waited for the stocks to go up some more.
	Exactly.
	You know, just wait for them to get more desperate and offer you more stuff.
	And don't wait too long before the Stormtroopers come round, though.
	It's any stocks.
	You've got to watch the market, right?
	You've got to get the right time for your vaccine stocks.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Actually, how are my Pfizer doing?
	I didn't end up buying Pfizer.
	11,000 people got the $100, so that's costing quite a lot of money.
	de Blasio had also mandated vaccinations for all of the city's new hires.
	So if you're going to work for the city, you had to provide proof of vaccination on the first day of work without the option for getting regularly tested instead.
	He also issued similar mandates for city employees and healthcare workers in July.
	Ask them to verify their immunization status by August 2nd or submit weekly negative tests.
	So anyway, yeah, so he's moved on to just being like, you know what, screw it.
	Mandated inoculations for a range of indoor venues, such as restaurants, gyms, and entertainment centers.
	You know, the places people go when they want to socialise.
	Gyms.
	That require people to actually voluntarily go.
	I mean, if it was like, look, it's underground, you know, the subway or something.
	Okay, fair enough.
	People have got to go on that, so, you know.
	But these other places, they don't have to go there.
	And so, if they don't want to, they won't.
	Or if they're not allowed.
	Or if they're not allowed, yeah, they won't.
	But also gyms.
	What is it with the attack on gyms from every government around the world?
	Every time they're trying to shut them down.
	That's the one thing that could save lives.
	They're probably looking and thinking, well, people either choose gyms or burgers.
	And so we've got to attack one of them.
	And we've got the big burger lobby is behind us.
	So, you know, what are we going to do?
	Anyway, this order goes into effect on August 16th and with full enforcement being in September 13th.
	And this is going to be called the Key to New York City Pass, which would encourage increased immunizations to combat the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant.
	The least deadly variant so far, incidentally.
	Anyway, he says, when you hear these words, and I love the way he frames this, it's so weird that he thinks he's talking to robots or something.
	When you hear these words, I want you to imagine the notion that because someone's vaccinated, they can do all these amazing things that are available in the city.
	Again, you can't tell me what to imagine, Bill.
	Like, that's not how imagining things works.
	If you want to sort of build the myth around it, you can't just directly say, I want you to imagine this.
	Sorry, no, you've got to put the image in my head.
	But anyway, he added that the city would be inspecting businesses for compliance in mid-September.
	All affected customers and workers can either provide their vaccination cards or upload proof of their vaccination to the Excelsior Pass application.
	That's great.
	So you're going to have government mandated apps now.
	It's just going great in New York City.
	I love how this is going.
	And I love how Florida is going in comparison.
	Checking vaccination status isn't like IDing a customer before serving them.
	Staff can receive training on how to do that, says Larry Lynch.
	Sorry, I've actually missed out.
	What the name of the group was.
	Sorry, the National Restaurant Association.
	So they're not too happy with this, although they do generally support what he's doing.
	I wonder how they're funded.
	Well, that's a great question.
	But they represent half a million food establishments in New York.
	And so they're quite concerned, but they are generally in favour.
	But possibly because Governor Cuomo is...
	You know, giving them the evil glare from the corner or something.
	Who knows?
	The children will be returned safely.
	Exactly.
	Tillman Ferrita, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Landry's, which operates several restaurants in New York City, echoed that statement in an interview saying, well, look, you know, we're pro-vaccine, but we don't want to become the vaccination police for customers.
	And his complaint, though, not that this is immoral, it's, well, we just don't know how to do it.
	We need to know how to do it.
	Okay, that's great.
	The New York City Hospitality Alliance also raised concerns about the mandate.
	In a statement released on Tuesday, the alliance acknowledged that the new measure would be a difficult and controversial step, but added that it could help forestall new occupancy restrictions and shutdown orders that will again devastate small businesses and workers who have not yet recovered from the pandemic.
	They're expecting another lockdown.
	So, how do New Yorkers feel about it?
	Well, Fox News went out and decided to interview a few of them, and here's what they said.
	I think the mandate is too strong.
	It should be more voluntary and be suggested rather than mandated, said one.
	Another local said, I mean, obviously, the voluntary didn't work, and a lot of people have been catching this new virus, and if that's what it takes to keep people safe, then I'm for it.
	Literally, put me in prison, Daddy, because I'm worried about being free.
	The vaccination order is a good thing, because left to their own devices, then it won't be done.
	We've all got to be a part of this.
	You've all been conscripted into Bill de Blasio's coronavirus war.
	I can see why people don't want to live in these areas.
	Oh, absolutely.
	When your neighbours are like this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, we'll get to that in a second as well.
	Another one said, that's the way it should have been.
	It's a good policy.
	I don't know who these people are.
	Just randoms.
	I think it's so unfair that everyone has to get it.
	Said one, it should be a decision.
	Another one said, it's the control.
	I don't like being controlled.
	Well, then you're going to want to do what everyone else is doing and flee democratic areas.
	Another said, it's a no-brainer.
	If you know you're liable to get sick and get people around you sick, just go ahead and take the shot and get it over with.
	Sure, but that's not what this is.
	I mean, that is exactly a sensible statement, but that's not what's happening here.
	And apparently, at the time of writing, 55% of New York's population is fully vaccinated, so double vaccinated, compared to 49% of the US population.
	So more people there are double vaccinated than elsewhere.
	So that's good.
	And so let's have a look at New York's coronavirus cases.
	Let's see how they're doing.
	Pretty good.
	All things considered.
	As you can see, the latest cases, or almost the latest cases, 1,120 in a city of about 8 million people.
	So, pretty small.
	And I guess then we have to worry, how is the Delta variant translating into deaths?
	Because that's the real problem.
	Do you see yesterday's death right there?
	There's no spike.
	Two.
	Two people.
	Two people died within 28 days of a positive test of coronavirus in New York.
	Of all, 8 million people in the city.
	Two!
	So get your coronavirus passport because you're threatening granny.
	So needless to say, New York has not been going very well, because its Democrat governors have been running it into the ground.
	And this population exodus from the city is not new.
	In 2019, it was noted that, hang on, New York's actually losing people.
	I mean, it had stagnated for a few years.
	It used to be, it used to be, a dreamy place where foreigners would be like, oh yeah, one day I'll live in New York, it'd be amazing.
	You know, friends sat there and things like that, so it gave it a good image.
	But not recently.
	In 2019, the population was just over 19 million, and it dropped by 0.4%, and everyone was like, hmm, that's weird.
	And the author of the study that did this said, you'd think with a strong economy, New York wouldn't be losing population.
	And of course, this was because of their ridiculous tax rates.
	And Cuomo had come out and said, look, don't flee rich people, I'll buy you dinner.
	And that didn't work.
	I'll buy you dinner.
	Yeah, he literally said, I'll buy you dinner.
	You got DeSantis and the guy running Texas was like, I'll tax you nothing.
	I'm like, well, one of these.
	Yeah, well, Cuomo's offer of dinner, I guess.
	Dinner with Cuomo?
	Or pay less tax.
	Definitely can't bring my wife to that one.
	So yeah, anyway, the report surmised that the high cost of living may be catching up with the Big Apple, and that was strange.
	Moving on to December 2020, it turns out that millions of people had fled New York City, costing the city an estimated $34 billion.
	Which is really not good if you're the one running one of America's major cities.
	I mean, that's just not what you want in the headlines, is it?
	People are fleeing my city and it's costing us billions.
	Come to New York.
	You need a vaccine passport.
	Don't bring your wife.
	Also, the governor might molest you.
	I just love the idea that literally his offer for like, why should we stay in New York?
	Well, I'll buy you a dinner and grope your wife.
	I was like, I'm not sure I want that.
	I'm going to Texas, mate.
	See you later.
	I've always been handsy, though.
	You know, that's what he...
	It's fine.
	It's an Italian thing.
	You've got to understand.
	But yeah, so...
	But what's interesting is it's 70,000 people left the area, which is $34 billion in lost income.
	And...
	Sorry.
	Yeah.
	And then the people who have moved in have been on lower incomes.
	So it's the general lowering of the quality and wealth of New York City that we're watching happening under the Democrats, where the people who can leave are leaving.
	And so when they're like, ah, you can get the coronavirus passport and visit all the wonderful things that are in New York City.
	Well, they aren't going to be there for much longer.
	They're going to leave with the business owners who are moving out.
	Where are they going?
	Can you imagine where they're going, Callum?
	Can you imagine?
	Do you think they're moving to California?
	I'm going to sing Lone Star Texas.
	San Francisco, perhaps?
	Ah, there we go.
	Yeah.
	Yes, of course.
	Of course they're moving to Florida and Texas.
	Specifically from New York.
	I wonder why.
	So, as the Daily Wire reports, among states experiencing a large exodus of residents, New York, and in particular New York City, saw that most people leave.
	The next cities people are leaving are Anaheim, San Diego, Riverside, as well as Chicago.
	Guess what party runs them?
	Just take a wild guess.
	Stab in the dark.
	Throw a dart.
	Red.
	Yeah.
	No, obviously Democrats.
	And so, meanwhile...
	What did Ben Shapiro move to?
	Was it Tennessee?
	I think it was Tennessee, yeah.
	Because I'm wondering, they're going to move there.
	They're all going to vote blue.
	And then Texas will turn blue.
	Florida will turn blue.
	And then they'll turn into shells within, like, you know, 20, 30 years.
	And then Tennessee will be the place to go.
	There we go.
	The cycle continues.
	Yeah, the cycle continues.
	People fleeing Democrat governance.
	The tyrannids move on to the next...
	Yeah, and it's literally just, yeah, the people fleeing around the country.
	And eventually, the Republicans will end up retaking New York, rebuilding it, and then the Democrats will return, like some sort of crawling, like, invasion on the ground or something.
	I don't know.
	But obviously, the most popular destinations for these people to move are Idaho, Arizona, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Colorado.
	What do you think the connecting thread there is?
	That's right, they're all Republican.
	And Tennessee apparently became more popular than anywhere else in 2019.
	And incidentally, and just as a final thing to finish on with this segment, New York City shootings increased by 73% in May 2020.
	Just in that month.
	Yeah, because remember, they're defunding the police and rerouting all of this money to social services, which apparently is good for people, although it doesn't stop bullets.
	I'm not surprised.
	Crime has been up almost a quarter in that year.
	I mean, I should probably have got this year's statistics.
	We probably have this year's statistics.
	But 2020 is the year that you start defunding the police.
	Exactly.
	And then the crime rate just instantly starts skyrocketing.
	So would you like really high taxes and a really high crime rate in exchange to get molested at dinner by Cuomo?
	I'd rather go to Florida.
	I think I would too.
	Just be left alone.
	If it's not supposed to be left alone with a giant Ron DeSantis-shaped wall blocking the rest of the United States from interfering with my business.
	The wall that keeps them in the northerness to the north.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Anyway, so yeah, that's the way things are going in New York.
	Not great.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	I just had to show this to you guys.
	So I write fanfiction.
	Don't judge me.
	Some people get millions of dollars for writing fanfiction, like Kevin Smith.
	And I actually thought that Masters of the Universe Revelation had a lot of potential, but it was never realized.
	So I wanted to write my own version.
	And then 10 minutes after posting the first chapter, I get this.
	So nobody was made...
	Oh, can we go back to that?
	Can we pause on that?
	I don't know.
	I'd like to read it out, just because the comment looks amazing.
	I just sort of lol at your misogyny.
	I just have to show this...
	There we go, right.
	Anyway, yeah, lol at your misogyny.
	Anyway, nobody was made unlikable.
	Teela was amazing in this show because she had every right to be angry.
	If you're whining about her being unlikable, it's only because your dumb ass has a massive issue with women.
	Yes, I think that she has a massive issue with women as well.
	You know that what you could have done instead of spewing your hot takes and misogyny earlier in the introduction, you just said you were rewriting it.
	Let's be clear, the rewrite isn't even that good.
	Kevin Smith honoured the characters.
	Honoured the characters, what, by killing He-Man in the first episode?
	Thank you, Kevin Smith, for your service.
	Honour the characters, their histories, and their right to be furious.
	You did nothing but spew garbage based on your issues with women.
	Grow the F up.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Very good.
	That's how you know you got them, so you're doing a good job.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	Do you know what?
	I just love this accusation of misogyny.
	I love it.
	Because it just feels like I'm being told by an inquisitor that what I'm doing is, you know...
	Heresy.
	Yeah, heresy.
	The Catholic Church forbids this.
	Misogyny is so quaint these days, though, as an insult.
	You're a misogynist.
	Alright.
	What are we living in?
	The year 2000?
	I can't even imagine taking that accusation seriously.
	Imagine, like, no, I'm going to tell them they're a misogynist and thinking that's going to get a result.
	No, you're such a misogynist!
	And even though, obviously, she doesn't know she's saying it to a woman, you know.
	Just on that note, though, someone sent me a meme of the new human.
	And I think that, what was the lady's name who commented again?
	I can't remember her name.
	I can't remember the top of my head.
	But she makes a good point.
	There was a huge amount of potential in there, and it's Sophie.
	There was a huge amount of potential in there, especially with the quality of the animation and the action.
	But one thing that people point out is that, look, He-Man defended Castle Greyskull and Eternia for 200 episodes, and not once did Skeletor win.
	The women are in charge for five episodes, and Skeletor's taken over the universe.
	LAUGHTER So what, the new version is the misogynist version?
	I mean, based Kevin Smith, you know?
	But that's a good point.
	Skeletal never won in the original.
	How is this happening?
	Anyway.
	After watching some episodes of the original He-Man, I noticed two things.
	First, it's essentially a knights of a round table story.
	You got king, queen, prince, man-at-arms, even a court wizard.
	And everyone strives to essentially live by chivalric virtues.
	Second, the show is entirely sincere about almost everything.
	Something that is still even lacking in today's media.
	Yeah, it's wonderful.
	The sincerity of the whole thing.
	And you sent me a clip of the moral lectures that they gave at the end.
	One of them was a moral lecture about the importance of the Magna Carta, which, unbelievably based, and as I was saying in the chat we did about it, is genuinely a celebration of Western heroic virtues.
	Yeah, I mean, you look at Cartoon Network, I mean, the people take clips and throw them up, and it's such obvious, I don't even want to call it progressive, just socialist, degenerate propaganda at this point, where it's like, I wouldn't even watch this to laugh at, never mind show it to innocent children.
	But you look at that, and it's like, you've got that propaganda, and then you've got the clips I send you, where it just looks like pro-Western propaganda, if we're just going to call it that, it's like, right, I'm picking that one.
	Every day of the week, that's the one you're picking.
	Absolutely.
	It was totally wholesome.
	That was the thing.
	It was totally wholesome.
	There was nothing about it that was subversive or designed to, like, you know, injure your children's moral development, unlike all of the cartoons that are being produced by millennial...
	I'm not going to swear.
	I mean, just without the Magna Carta one, there was another one in there where he was just like, well, what was the lesson from today?
	Oh, when He-Man destroyed this thing and did this?
	He was like, no, that wasn't the lesson.
	When he had the power later on, and he didn't use it, that's a strong message and stuff.
	Right, yeah.
	Like, what's wrong with these messages?
	How are these wrong?
	They're not wrong.
	They're actually the right messages.
	In fact, I'm going to go buy the rest of the He-Man stuff so I can make my son watch it.
	I think you'll really like it, actually, to be honest.
	So, you know.
	Hey there, I've constantly heard of Adocracy being used as a reference towards as a documentary for our current state of affairs, but I think for the wrong reasons, though.
	Because it's always being used as a high IQ versus low IQ all the time.
	I think in reality it's more like people who take responsibility and people who don't.
	And it even shows right off the bat when you have the high IQ types who make up excuses to not have kids, you have the low IQ who just indulge all the time, and then the average IQ being entirely checked out entirely.
	It's also just the small things in life.
	There's some guy who went around Swindon and he just spray-painted his stupid name on a bunch of stuff.
	And you know spray-paint exists everywhere.
	It's in alleyways and whatnot.
	This douchebag.
	He went up to the Italian restaurant in town and on the window glass did his tag.
	On this active business, I think it's one of the highest rate places.
	It's just covered in spray paint.
	I was just like, what a loser do you have to be to do that?
	What an asshole.
	What an inconsiderate...
	I bet he's an immigrant from Bristol.
	But that's the difference.
	It's the difference, I think, in the great point of what he's making there.
	Michael knows what I'm talking about.
	The people who take responsibility for society.
	You've got the people who run the Italian business and they're making money, they're cooking, they're making the place better.
	And you've got the kind of people who are just like, whatever, isn't this interesting?
	Yeah.
	It's not the IQ difference, I don't think.
	It's about being a selfish...
	I'm not going to swear.
	Yeah, he's right.
	Yeah.
	There's a comment about Antifa.
	I like being a ninja since it's hard to hurt what you can't see.
	Also, you may be able to see a new book that I got.
	The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump inspired me to do my own.
	I built a wall, I built a wall, I built a wall.
	Beautiful, huge, the best.
	I know walls and this is the best of walls.
	Disagree or are fake news?
	Stay on the other side.
	I built a wall.
	Hey, that was beautiful.
	And a genuinely accurate representation of the Trump presidency.
	And this is the thing, right?
	So when the God Emperor DeSantis rises up and achieves his throne, I'm actually, I'm obviously going to be in support because he seems to be doing a great job.
	He seems to have his head and heart in the right place.
	But he's not going to have the memes.
	He's not going to have the same memes like Donald Trump did.
	Donald Trump, you know...
	It's a once-in-a-lifetime event, and I'm glad to have lived it.
	Yeah, me too.
	But, like, the memes are just so golden.
	It was just so ridiculous.
	And, yeah, done with sincerity, and, like, no, this is actually what we're doing, and this is actually how we're doing it.
	It's like, what, really?
	Okay, let's get on the board then.
	Let's do this.
	DeSantis is going to be at least vaguely articulate in what he's saying.
	He'll make a good point and it won't be as ridiculous as Trump.
	That's the only drawback for DeSantis that I can see.
	But in 40 years, we're still going to be talking about Trump.
	Yes, we are.
	Because it's just such a magical thing.
	Yes.
	Many such cases.
	Everything about it is gold.
	Everything about the presidency was just the most American thing in the world.
	And the fact that he...
	The burgers!
	The burgers on silver platters!
	Like, what an American icon that was!
	And all of them were just like...
	I remember at the time, they were just like, oh, look at this low-brow idiot.
	If I was on the football team and I just joined the warehouse and they had loads of McDonald's, I'd be like, Well, you could see they were thrilled with it.
	It was piled in and started getting in the burgers.
	I was like, yeah, they're not complaining.
	Trump knows his people, you know?
	Anyway, let's carry on.
	Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
	A couple of months back, someone suggested that we watch the anime and manga, Naruto.
	Now, as someone who has seen the series, I would like to suggest the otherwise, because I'm actually not a weeb.
	You see, no one should watch it for the following reasons.
	Naruto is the most self-hypocritical series in its own writing, and in the sequel series, in the manga, there is a 12-year-old who gets sexualised.
	So, very compelling arguments, weeb, but, um...
	That's a nice looking bow.
	I need to get a bow, actually.
	I had a bow a while ago and it broke just because I overused it.
	And now my son's six, I guess seven next year.
	So he's probably big enough to use a bow now.
	So I might actually get one for me and him.
	Another reason you should take him to the manor house.
	They have kids' bows and adults.
	I will.
	I'm going to keep shilling for the manor house.
	I'm not getting paid to.
	It's a good resort.
	Don't even know if they're still there.
	Let's go for the next one.
	I'm going to use 5 ounces.
	I'm going to use 2 ounces.
	The average ones are supposed to be 5.5, so... ...nerge that.
	Turn this one to the end.
	And the adjustable gas block.
	The guy that made the gas block.
	Try this.
	The other one.
	Yes.
	You can hear it!
	It's real!
	You can hear the ping.
	We were talking about this with Josh.
	We were talking about what's your favourite gun.
	And Garen, I don't know how you say it, comes out at the end and makes the tinging sound.
	And it's beautiful.
	I love it.
	But it's also the worst thing because everyone knows you're out of ammo.
	Good point.
	Hi, all guys.
	I understand why some people prefer the city over places like where I live.
	Like, this is my whole entire town.
	Like, There's almost nothing behind me except a farm.
	And it's about 150 miles to the closest city for me.
	So that means 150 miles to the closest city, which means that with the coming collapse, you're probably going to be safe.
	Yeah.
	Although I do kind of feel like it's almost like the kind of place I'm hearing where you'd have like a volunteer run shop or something.
	Yeah.
	Which is actually just quite quaint.
	Enjoy it.
	You don't get those things elsewhere.
	Yeah.
	Josh posited that Hamza Yusuf's children didn't deserve consequences from their father's actions.
	I believe this highlights one of the failures of individualism in modern Western philosophy.
	There is a corporate aspect of family exemplified in the Bible, where somewhere it is written that the consequences of the sins of the fathers will be visited upon their children's children.
	Setting aside the responsibilities of children, this concept should drive home the importance of virtuous behavior and the importance of deadhood.
	He does have a point that it does drive home the importance of, you know, personal responsibility.
	But it also seems rather unfair that, you know, when your dad says, Dear Xerxes, please can I leave one of my sons at home?
	Xerxes says no and then kills that son.
	It just seems a bit unfair, you know, and that's basically what's happening there.
	Collective punishment over individual punishment.
	It's not even collective because he's not actually punishing the father directly.
	He's actually punishing someone else instead of punishing the father.
	And, you know, I can see the argument there.
	But it turns out that that nursery was run by other Asians.
	And so it's like, right, okay, pfft.
	But he mentioned the idea that your children's children will have the sins of the father.
	And if we're talking about punishment here, because the son, daughter, I don't know what it was, lost the place in the nursery.
	There is only one country enough that I'm aware of that does engage in that thing, and it's the Northern Korea.
	If you have a crime which is worthy of you getting sent to a nice special place, your grandchildren are also going to be in that special place, and only their children will be set free.
	That strikes me as a bit unfair.
	Gotta say.
	Y'all asked what the best gun is.
	And to that I say, why choose when you can use all of them at once?
	But in all seriousness, it's the Mossberg 151.
	I love the orc solution there.
	Just strap them all together, obviously.
	More DACA! Oh, God, we're going to get Super GW for making jokes.
	I feel really bad about the...
	Did you see, um, what is it?
	If the Emperor had text to speech, he's released a couple of just clips of just stuff they had on the books, and he's just throwing it out there, and he's just like, there we go.
	I don't know why they're doing it.
	Why have they become so grasping?
	We're going to destroy our own fan community.
	Why?
	Because we're not selling enough tabletop miniatures.
	And you wonder why everyone's selling for 3D printers.
	It's just because they're sick of you.
	It's not because they hate the tabletop.
	If you had a fan community that loved you, they'd want to go out and buy it.
	Yeah.
	Hey Lois here.
	I don't know if you've heard about Patrick King in Alberta, but he recently got the Chief Medical Officer of Alberta to admit that there isn't any evidence to isolate SARS-CoV-19.
	And therefore, no evidence of pandemic and proving that the PCR tests are complete bullshit.
	So, I think you should probably investigate this.
	We will, but whether we can broadcast anything saying that is a different matter, because the rules that we have to follow are really strict.
	Not our rules, I'm afraid.
	I think there's the difficulty of searching things as well.
	Stuff just gets deleted or hidden, doesn't it?
	Well, let's go for the next one and we'll look at that.
	The fact that naturally high testosterone women can't compete in the Olympics because they perform too well actually points to a certain hollowness of the whole system besides the trans thing, which is that the people who compete train to compete.
	Rather than being, say, lumberjacks and mailmen who derive their strength from their work doing something useful in the world and then competing with one another in a strength competition, say.
	That would be more natural.
	Yeah, there is something more wholesome about the olden Olympics, like the 20s and whatnot.
	Well, half the people taking part were doing other things as well.
	Yeah, they weren't professional athletes.
	But also, there's something...
	Something absurd about saying this woman's got too much testosterone.
	Like, if she's born a woman, and she's got naturally high testosterone, surely that's...
	And then she's the best woman at the sport.
	She's the best woman.
	I don't know why you'd exclude her.
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	It's meant to reward excellence, but it's like, only in this band, you know, we'll narrow this band...
	So if you happen to fulfill all of the authentic categories of being a biological human female, you still may be born wrong if our testing bears out that you have too much testosterone.
	It's like, no, that's not how it's supposed to work.
	It goes against the ethos of the thing, doesn't it?
	And it's very obviously a kind of way of coping with the fact that they've actually changed a bunch of the definitions and now, oh, we have to bring in like these weird extra categories that require like blood testing and stuff like this.
	So what?
	Okay, but I'm, you know, if you're an athlete from like Albania, are they going to start blood testing your ancestry?
	Sorry, your ancestry isn't from Albania, so you can't even compete for Albania now.
	Because your ancestors came from Turkey.
	Exactly.
	That's the point, isn't it?
	So it's like, right, now you're connected to this or something like that.
	It seems weird and invasive to have measuring your blood and things like this to determine whether you're allowed to compete.
	That's awful.
	I'm more and more convinced by the comedian solution, which is that you just have the steroid Olympics, in which everyone can compete, and you can just take as many drugs as you want.
	The same roid rage across the face.
	How funny would it be if you're watching the javelin, and the guy throws it, it just disappears, and it's just gone.
	Or just penetrates through the wall or something.
	No, but I mean, he throws it because it's the stadium, you know, the pitch for the jab, and it just goes, and they're just like, well, he's one.
	God, the high jump and be like, that'd be awesome.
	I'd watch the Royd Olympics carefully.
	The steroid Olympics would be something amazing.
	I mean, why can't we just have them parallel to one another?
	You can have the normal Olympics, where women aren't allowed to compete if they're too strong, and then the alternative Olympics, where literally it's just a madcap...
	Yeah, free for all.
	Take what you want.
	Do what you want.
	Just play the sport.
	Yeah, these bulging lunatics smashing stuff.
	That'd be amazing.
	The only downside, I suppose, from the Olympic position is that the original Olympics would no longer be watched.
	Sure.
	Because they're watching the Super Olympics.
	No one's watching the woke Olympics, Callum.
	The Super Olympics, they're going to go.
	Yeah, but if there's any third world country that doesn't care about doping laws, Russia.
	Russia, yeah.
	We should set that up.
	Let's go for the next one.
	So this is a request to create a compilation of every time the government had said we wouldn't need to do something, and then it turns out we haven't sacrificed enough, so we need to do it now.
	Obvious one is the vaccination of kids.
	We didn't need to vaccinate kids.
	Turns out we haven't sacrificed enough.
	We need to vaccinate kids.
	I think it'll be a good way to showcase nodding along and giving inches isn't helping anything here.
	We've moved a mile.
	We still haven't sacrificed enough.
	There's no endgame here.
	I don't mind editing clips.
	I don't mind.
	You can send me clips.
	I just think it'll be a good way to show there's no endgame.
	That would be good.
	We don't really have people free to do it, though.
	There was a good compilation I saw.
	I think Lawrence Fox might have retweeted it, which was, it's just this, it's just that, and then it's...
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Which was not bad, but I'd like some clips in there as well.
	Yeah, it would have been good, wouldn't it?
	So what I meant in that comment a week or two ago about, you know, Crowder having this and Ben having this and what are you guys going to get, it wasn't really about merch.
	It was more about the exclusive item that you give to people who subscribe for an entire year at a time.
	Because if you're looking for something for silver tier and up, that's your thing.
	If you guys get a mug like this, anyone who buys a year of silver or a year of gold gets it, but it's not available in your regular store.
	I mean, that's a great idea.
	What do you mean?
	We don't offer yearly subscriptions at the moment, so we can't.
	We were thinking about silver still, because what did the silver get that's useful?
	And for some reason you were resistant to the OnlyFans suggestion.
	Yep, so we were thinking about chat, because the other day I think we were streaming, and then afterwards the chat thing we got, we didn't turn it off, so it just kept going.
	And then there was just like 3,000 people on the site just talking to each other, and I was like, that's actually pretty cool.
	That's pretty cool, actually.
	Yeah, but I noticed it the other day, and I guess I think Vicky had forgotten to turn it off or something, just, you know...
	Yeah, she was on holiday.
	And so it was forgotten to turn off, and it was just a cool thing to have.
	And it's the sort of thing we'd like to have, but it does actually cost a lot of money to have that chat.
	And it's per 100,000 views or something like that.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, there's bans.
	They offer different kinds of services, and if you're getting 100,000 views a year or something, then you've got to get to the next one.
	And then it gets into custom plans and things like that.
	I'm annoyed now, because someone's going to steal this idea.
	Like Google or something, you're going to have a system where there's just live chat on our website now, and we...
	I don't think they will.
	I think they'll be furious.
	Yeah, there'll be people saying mean things in here.
	Weirdly, it's just swastikas.
	Swastikas and watermelons.
	I don't know what this is about.
	That's what Google's chat will be.
	But the thing, what I'd like to do is have a live chat for Silvermember and above TM. If you go and gab it, it's just respectful conversation.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	But there's hardly anyone using it now.
	I would like to have that, but we'll have to get a web developer and see what we can do.
	Promise nothing.
	Callum, what do you mean that you wish I did a magic trick?
	I literally had the entire deck vanish right in front of you and only left the kings.
	Probably didn't notice because I'm a terrible magician.
	But what I meant to say yesterday is that it should be met around 15, 16.
	They should try to get a girlfriend, but they shouldn't try to seek out something that they need to have right now.
	Don't try to be like Chris Chan.
	Don't try to find a boyfriend for your girl because you might eventually end up leaving your own mother.
	Well, I mean, I agree with the statement, don't be like Christian, but I disagree with the statement, you're not a good magician.
	I was impressed with that trick.
	No, we just didn't notice it.
	Like, we saw him, like, doing this, and then at the end of it, he pulled out the four kings, and we just assumed it was just four kings the whole time, like, your memory forgot that it was disappearing.
	No, no, I thought you did a great job.
	Yeah, I didn't even notice it disappeared.
	I mean, that's actually good magicianing.
	Yeah, good optical illusion.
	But, yeah, what was he saying about, like, not chasing after women?
	Oh, it was the point you made before about, so you said that if you're under, what's the time of age, I can't remember, you shouldn't worry about trying to chase women.
	It's like, that could be misunderstood, is don't try to get a girlfriend at all, which is not the right idea.
	No, I fully endorse that.
	Don't try to get a girlfriend.
	You may get a girlfriend, you know, the opportunity may present and suddenly say, okay, sure, we'll go on.
	Obsessing over it is different.
	Not even obsessing, don't try.
	No, you shouldn't be trying to court a woman.
	If a woman comes to you and, you know, you happen to find a girlfriend because one has presented herself...
	Those are two different things in my mind, though, of what is...
	That would be obsessing, where it's like, there's the girl, I'm going to try and especially try and court her and all the rest of it.
	Don't even try to get a girlfriend.
	You should be trying to build something.
	Right.
	Did I stutter?
	I disagree.
	Well, then you're wrong.
	Okay, moving on.
	Who's the 41-year-old married man?
	That's right, it's me!
	Yeah, under your logic, I should be not trying to get a girlfriend, though.
	Yes, correct.
	Disagree.
	Hang on, hang on, before we go on, we're not moving on from this, right?
	What do I do?
	I'm serious, don't try and get a girlfriend.
	Try and do something, try and improve yourself, and a woman will present herself.
	Okay.
	I promise.
	Let's go to the next one.
	In my opinion, the best gun to have is the humble assault weapon.
	Everyone's favorite invented media term designed to scare people into giving up their guns.
	AK-47 or AR-15, whichever you prefer, doesn't matter.
	Or even the FAL, if you're, you know, particularly deep-pocketed.
	Whatever it is, at least you're armed.
	They're not trying to ban pistols this time around, despite the fact that they are the vast majority of gun crime.
	Curious that.
	Then again, you can't win a war with pistols.
	That's a good point.
	The pistols are the things that are doing all the damage, and yet they keep going after the assault weapons, the assault rifles or whatever they are.
	I think that's a very good point.
	I don't know what it is about the AK-47, but it's got a certain kind of aesthetic that's really appealing.
	It just looks good.
	Well, I've also...
	So, when I was younger, I used to wake up at, like, 6 o'clock and watch some crappy news before I went to school.
	And I ended up orbiting towards Russia today because it was just more interesting than BBC. Reminded you of your homeland.
	Whatever.
	And the annoying thing was, every single morning from, like, 6 to 6.30, they'd run the same documentary about the AK-47.
	So I'm very much propagandised into, like, knowing all the facts about it and how it's the best gun ever because it's got all these features.
	He's not going to apologise for defending the motherland, is he?
	But it's mostly about the fact that it's so goddamn old and it just works.
	There's no need to update it all the damn time.
	Isn't it quite an accurate weapon as well?
	It's not bad.
	That's the thing.
	It's comparable to the M15? I can't remember the American ones.
	It's fairly good accuracy.
	It works.
	It's durable.
	You can make tons of them easily.
	It won't break on you easily.
	It's kind of a marvel.
	But it also looks nice.
	It's an appealing looking gun.
	It's just communist.
	That's the only downside.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	With a lot of American guns, I think that they try too hard.
	Because when I was out in America with Alex Jones, we went to gun shops and gun ranges and stuff.
	And a lot of the guns, you can see that they've spent a lot of time designing it to look very sleek and modern and edgy and things like that.
	It's like, yeah, but the AK-47 has got this kind of unassuming sort of naturalness to it.
	It's not trying to look a certain way.
	It just is functional and that looks good.
	There's also modern remakes of the AK and they all look a bit gross.
	Yeah, I saw a bunch of them.
	Using modern materials.
	There's also the really sad story because it's the Soviet Union.
	The guy who made it didn't get a squat.
	Every gun maker in America became a millionaire if the gun was as successful as the AK. And he got just a bunch of medals.
	Great.
	I think it's better than getting nothing.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This is a question for Carl in particular.
	I want to ask, where a duty originates from, and at one point does one have a duty, and when is one clear of obligations?
	An example of non-ambiguous duty is parents to their children, and the other way around.
	In non-familial relationships, at one point does a platonic-friendly relationship go from transactional to carrying some form of duty in times of need?
	When does someone fulfilling what they believe to be their duty become predatory on the part of the person receiving aid, Well, that's a great question.
	And I refer you to our premium podcast on vagueness, because there is no firm line that you can draw in any of these concepts.
	None of them are scientific or numerical or calculable or anything like that.
	It's about your reasonable judgment.
	But it seems, and I'm going to say something I'm not necessarily 100% sure on, but it seems that duties are always contingent, so they're always based on something around you.
	And the, like, for the parents and children, things like that, is some sort of circumstance you're in.
	And they're also based on the thickness of the concept of the relationship that you have.
	So two stations in life, say, again, parents and children, the obligation is built in to the concepts of parent and child.
	But this is something that I guess I should probably do a video on, really, because it sounds like an interesting topic, doesn't it?
	But I think that that covers the basics of it, but I'm going to think about that more.
	What up, though?
	I just wanted to ask what you think the future of the discourse is, because I don't really believe in the split, because I think that there's much more in the center than there is on the extremes.
	Like, let me read off some stuff to you.
	Childhood obesity is linked to air pollution from vehicles.
	That's in The Guardian.
	Exposure to air pollution during childhood increases the risk of developing schizophrenia.
	So this is like NO2, NOx, things that are coming out of the motor vehicle.
	You can really empower people by trying to address that car-dependent, sedentary, consumer lifestyle, and instead develop traditional urbanism, where you're encouraging people to bike to work, walk to work, do these things, and be a part of their community.
	And some interesting points about some cross-party options, sure.
	But the natural state of politics is always going to devolve into two camps.
	It's kind of as old as time.
	Yeah, but the problem that we have at the moment is that, and it really is the left, I hate to be like that guy who's just like, no, it's the left that's the problem.
	But it really, like, go back 100 years, and the Democrats at least had a shared agreement with the Republicans on what the foundation of their political order is going to be.
	As in, the United States is a just and valid place, and we're going to defend it from the Communists, right?
	Well, I mean, they're doing that in the Cold War.
	You don't even have to go back 100 years for it.
	Well, yeah, yeah, but more.
	The Cold War pretty much started about 100 years ago.
	Like, I suppose, you know, 80 years or whatever.
	Go back to that sort of time period, and you're looking at least a country that is unified in the acceptance of the country itself, whereas now the left have actually abandoned those foundations and gone, no, the US is evil.
	And I was thinking about this the other night.
	I actually think that if China declared war on the United States tomorrow, there would be a significant portion of the Democrat party and base that not necessarily would openly side with China, but would want to openly side with China.
	They would look at the United States and say, well, China's better than that.
	In the same way, the intellectual base of the UK were siding with the Nazis in neutrality.
	I kind of hope that we lose because we're the evil Western imperialists.
	Or siding with the European Union when it came to Brexit, things like this.
	I genuinely think there's a significant portion of the left at this point that views our civilizations as irredeemable evil and anything else more remote would be preferable.
	It's horrible, but I think that's the case.
	So this is a response to a video I made about the rise of enlightenment in the Middle East.
	I need to clarify a few points.
	First off, I was actually referring to a secular enlightenment and not a Islamic one or religious one of any kind.
	Secondly, I had to edit the video real fast so a lot of information was missing.
	Thirdly, I was referring to the Middle East and Europe in say 200 years time.
	I didn't see the original video.
	I didn't follow.
	Sorry.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Was that the last one?
	Okay.
	Azrael says the Ken and Karen pardon even made the news here in Germany.
	I can imagine what the news in Germany about this was like.
	Of course, the article it made sounded as if they were threatening the group of unironically peaceful protesters that just happened to walk past their house.
	Of course they did.
	Of course they did.
	Two number nine says, Ron DeSantis is literally the only person in charge of anything that's followed the science during the entire pandemic.
	Yes.
	Yet 83 million people still voted for the 78-year-old Democrat last year.
	Such a shame to see what's happened to the US. Well, you know, it's a fortified election.
	Chad Koala says, with America's illegal immigration woes, it makes me glad that my land is girt by sea, as our anthem points out.
	Maybe the border states should invest in a big-ass moat.
	I mean, Florida probably could do that.
	I love the inherent idea that the northerners can't swim.
	Well, actually, if you were to, like, judge by, you know, percentages, they probably can't.
	So just the border is just like, it's already swamp, so I mean, just make it more swamp.
	Well, yeah, I mean, and it'll fill itself with alligators.
	It actually will as well.
	I love the idea of, like, you know the welcome sign?
	It's like, welcome to Florida, and it's just the sign underneath alligators are Republicans.
	Clayton Ross says, not allowing mask mandates, framing the issue as if DeSantis is restricting your freedom to check notes restrict other people's freedom.
	Yes, DeSantis did nothing wrong.
	James says, Of course they're not going to admit that.
	That would be culpability on their part.
	They're not going to admit that.
	Luke says, can we make Florida Man our PM? Disappointingly not.
	Chet says, one of the most important things in medication administration is informed consent.
	Yes, this means the patient needs to understand what the risks and benefits of receiving the medication are before they receive it.
	This goes for all medications.
	Vaccines are no exception.
	That's why recently, who was it, the government scientist?
	Not Sage, but was it Sage?
	Who came out and admitted that their fear-mongering the public was unethical.
	Yes, it is.
	I think it was only like two members and not the communist one who said this.
	The communist one was like, yeah, it's fine.
	Well, why would the communists care about ethics?
	But lockdown is one of the worst things to do in order to deal with COVID. Not only does it cause tremendous damage to people's mental health, but COVID-19 is a respiratory disease that transmits far more effectively in doors, locking people in doors, making COVID worse.
	Probably true.
	M1 says, when's the last time we heard people cheer Biden, clearly the most popular man in the history of democracy, the way they cheered base Florida man in that clip?
	Yeah, well, great question.
	I mean, you must have seen Biden's rally or speech that he gave the other day.
	Literally fewer than our live events went to Joe Biden's live event.
	Amazing.
	Most popular man in America.
	Incredible.
	Incredible.
	Moving on to Cuomo.
	Alpha of the Beta says, Yeah, that's a great point, actually.
	I should have made that point as well.
	Well, that's the thing.
	It doesn't seem to be nonsensical allegations.
	You know, there was allegations of groping, kissing people, which is not just...
	Because there's the difference between Harvey Weinstein, again, always Hollywood Democrats, isn't it?
	It's really weird.
	And the silly allegations that have existed, where it's just like, believe women, what happened?
	Nothing.
	No, there does seem to be something here.
	Well, I mean, the Democrat Attorney General investigated, and all the Democrats around him are like, yeah, he's a molester.
	And it's like, look, if all these Democrats are saying it, then...
	I mean, in the sense of, like, whenever it's a Republican...
	Yeah, but that's the thing.
	If it was Republicans making the allegation, I could be like, yeah, okay, maybe partisan politics, blah, blah, blah.
	But it's all the people on his team who loved him up until five minutes ago.
	Anyway, David says, amazing defense by the Grim Reaper.
	One thing you can say is the guy's no racist.
	I'll molest people of any race, says...
	Says Cuomo.
	I may be a molester, but at least I'm not a racist.
	Oh, God.
	I literally saw the...
	I may be a pedophile, but at least I'm not a Nazi meme in real life the other day.
	I'll find it.
	It was amazing.
	It was Chris Chan, wasn't it?
	No, no, no.
	It was a 2018 article about...
	It was Vice, I think, had interviewed a gay gang inside a prison, and they fought with the white nationalists all the time, and then when you looked them up, the reason was in there for raping a child.
	It was like, literally, I may be a pedo, but at least I'm not a Nazi.
	It's like...
	Adam says, Yeah, well, it's a democratic fiefdom, isn't it?
	Run by the Don.
	And that's not going to go anywhere.
	It's not going to change because for some reason people keep voting for it.
	Who knows why.
	George says, with regards to New York, I finally figured out what actually is in the vaccine.
	Soma.
	Those taking it won't see the totalitarianism of the world they live in.
	This is, of course, a joke.
	It's not really Soma.
	But it is weird how, for some reason, people are just like, fine, tyrannize me.
	David says, if it's no longer voluntary, it never was.
	They were just biding their time.
	Ooh, that's a good point.
	I think that's a really good point.
	Ignacio says, I refuse to become a second-class citizen and be insulted 24-7 for not taking an experimental vaccine for a disease that does not threaten my life.
	If it's so effective, people that are at risk can have already had it and are therefore protected, so what's the problem?
	Yes, the base Ron DeSantis position that makes sense and follows the science.
	Hammurabi says...
	I'm glad he's one of our subscribers.
	Friendly reminder that forcible jabs are a violation of the Ninth Amendment's protection of bodily autonomy.
	Not that the Democrats care about such trivial things as constitutional rights or bodily autonomy.
	But where is the Supreme Court in all this?
	I don't know.
	You know, the one that got packed with Republicans because of Trump.
	I don't know.
	Why aren't they doing Republican things?
	Like, stopping you from being raped?
	I suppose the court case has to come to them first, but...
	I suppose.
	But why aren't people raising it?
	I mean, there must be something that people can do.
	Cuomo is not just suddenly, oh, I'm actually the emperor of New York.
	Well, I mean, maybe he is, I guess.
	What do I know about American politics?
	I think we've hit time there.
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