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Aug. 16, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #198
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Good morning, Afghanistan, and welcome to the podcast, the Lotus Eaters, for the 16th of August, 2021.
I'm joined by John.
Hello, I believe I require no introduction.
And we will be talking about the fall of Afghanistan and Lawrence of Kabul and also woke imperialism because apparently that's the response to all of this from some people on the left.
Anyway, first thing to mention is some of the new stuff we have.
So first thing is the events, and I think I'll let you introduce this.
Yeah, sure.
Live events are back, ladies and gentlemen.
Our first live event, presenting Lotus Eaters Live, will be on the 24th Friday of September, and the second event is on the Saturday, the 25th of September.
The first event is going to be in South London venue, and the venue has a bar as well.
Doors open at 7pm.
Because we heard last time there were a lot of people complaining that doors opening at 6.30pm.
It wasn't enough time for them to get to the venue.
And the event opens too late.
And the second event on Saturday is in a central London location.
Although the actual venue itself doesn't have a bar, we have an after-party arranged and that opens too late.
So the prices on the tickets reflect that as well.
Because Saturday is obviously a high competition as well.
So, looking forward to seeing you all.
Yeah, it's been good in the last ones, and I hope this will be good as well.
Anyway, some of the things to mention on the website first.
So, the first thing there being an article from Luna, Can We Do It?, which is about feminism and some of the problems with that.
That's free, going to get that a read.
The next thing being contemplations.
So, this is contemplations, I think.
I think this is Hugo and Josh?
I can't quite remember.
I think so, yeah.
So how best to participate in politics and also the Epochs, which I don't know what we're going to do this week.
I think Bo is going to do that with Josh, but this one I think was with Carl.
Yeah, this one was with Carl.
Anyway, so go and check that out.
Otherwise, let's get into the fall of Afghanistan because there's a lot to go through, so I'm going to be quite off to it.
Anyway, it's going to be good fun.
So over the weekend, about 20 years of Western work in Afghanistan was wiped off the slate because the Taliban just walked in and took it.
And there was no resistance whatsoever by the looks of it.
Anyway, so the first thing to notice here was Biden talking about the Taliban.
So he said that there was definitely never, ever going to be a Taliban victory.
And the fact that the idea they were going to take over was not inevitable.
Let's go over this first clip.
Why was there a boy on that?
Why would that have meant...
Whatever, okay, never mind, don't worry, I got the wrong clip there, but it's Biden talking about the fact that it's not inevitable that the Taliban are going to take over, and also there'll be no airlift from the embassy, which definitely is not going to happen.
There's going to be no Saigon-style airlift from the embassy in Kabul.
Yeah, it didn't go well.
If we go to the next one here, we've got Mark Milley.
You remember the guy who was talking about white rage?
And he wants to understand white rage in the American army.
He gave an assessment of the situation.
The Afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country.
No, they don't.
They all defected or gave up.
So, things started going wrong, with people leaking pictures of the Afghan army retreating, because, I mean, why bother?
And instead, the Taliban just taking equipment from them.
So let's go to the next one here.
You can see this is footage of helicopters that they just walked in and took, because, well, I mean, everyone had left.
So, ours now.
If you go to the next one, you can see more helicopters.
There should be a different link there, but...
Yeah, this one.
You can see more helicopters being taken, the Taliban flag there.
If you go to the next one as well, we've got some guys walking into some warlord's house, like some mansion apparently he has, that the American government has paid for.
And Taliban are just like, well, that's neat.
Ours now.
And then we have the next one, which is just the guys inside, enjoying themselves, having a nice spot of tea.
And if you go to the next one, you can see the guns that they've just stolen.
Piles and piles of American brought guns.
American taxpayer paid for all of this, of course.
Just leave them behind.
Yeah.
So, if it wasn't the Americans leaving them behind, then it's the Afghan military just leaving, and therefore just leaving it behind, because they can't be bothered to fight the Taliban for some reason.
Because the next one, this has got memed, which is some good memes.
Yeah.
Look at this.
Anyway.
So, the Taliban started advancing on the capital of Kabul, and the capital turned into absolute gridlock, because of course it did, because everyone was trying to leave.
Although I am quite weirded out, because when you look at the polling, I don't really understand why people are so afraid of the Taliban when they talk about that they want the same things that the Taliban want in law, but we'll get into that in a bit.
The president of Afghanistan also decided to just leave, because why not?
Yeah, I mean, everyone's abandoned the central government, the regime, the US and the West have been propping up, and he was like, yeah, I'm out.
See you later.
I'm off.
He said he left to prevent bloodshed, which...
No.
To avoid bloodshed.
To himself.
Himself.
Yes, himself.
I don't know who else.
Because no one else was fighting the Taliban.
Everyone was just giving up.
So I don't know what bloodshed he thought was going to happen except his own.
There's also the next thing we get up here.
So the Taliban are issuing statements about the situation.
What I love is that the Taliban can issue statements on Twitter as well.
Yeah, but not Trump.
Not Trump.
Not Trump.
Trump banned.
Taliban.
They're allowed to wear a account.
So the Taliban issued an order that said...
The Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirates are to enter Kabul in order to, quote, prevent chaos and theft shortly after the president had fled the country.
Which, yeah, so they're just walking in.
Apparently there was just no resistance.
They were just like, yeah, we're just going to walk into the capital.
No one's going to stop us.
Great.
They're also preparing for the Taliban arrival, so we go to the next link.
These are images of women in some store, you know, to show off dresses like advertisement, and some guys going down with white paint and just painting over the women in preparation for the Taliban turning up.
How progressive.
Very progressive.
Those women are obviously stereotypes.
LAUGHTER Oh, God.
Let's go to the vice president's statement as well.
So this is the guy who was working with the president, the one who fled.
Apparently the vice president also went with him.
So he issued a statement, and here he says, I will never ever and under no circumstances bow to the Taliban terrorists whilst he leaves.
Yeah, it's not bowing, he's running.
That's why.
Okay, yeah, he never bowed.
He's technically correct.
Very good.
So the Taliban are insisting that there will be no revenge against those who worked with the previous government.
We get the BBC link up so you can see.
Taliban spokesman tell the BBC there will be no revenge.
No one believes this because of the video evidence on the ground of them just...
Knocking on the doors of everyone in the old government.
And I don't think they're giving them a raise.
I think they're going to shoot them, which is what has been happening.
So we've got the next one here.
You can see some guys noting that, yeah, all of the guys they serve with, apparently they've been executed outside of their own homes.
Yeah.
Taliban ain't the good guys, but then again, there aren't no good guys in this situation by the looks of it.
So Blinken, the guy in charge of the US Department of Defense, or whatever it is, is insisting that, no, we didn't lose.
We achieved our objectives, even though we just lost the whole country.
Well, if the objective is to lose the country, they've achieved it.
I suppose so.
So, US Secretary of State Blinken insists Afghanistan mission successful rejects comparison between Kabul and Saigon with the Americans retreating.
Didn't last very long, because if we go to the next image, you can see...
Yeah, there's the image of Saigon, 1975, helicopter on the...
Roof of the embassy and then Kabul a couple of days ago.
Same situation.
It is exactly the same.
Although I do love his idea that, yeah, we've been successful.
What have we done?
We've killed Arcadia?
Yeah, but you toppled the Taliban government, spent 20 years there, and that was just filler, was it?
You weren't doing anything else.
Opium farming.
Opium farming.
I suppose so.
But also, Osama bin Laden not being in Afghanistan, being in Pakistan.
No one ever mentions Pakistan, do they?
But I do love that someone pointed out that this is probably going to be Biden's legacy, this image of just the helicopter over the embassy.
Because, I mean, ultimately, what else are you going to remember Biden for?
He's already said he's not running again.
He doesn't even remember himself letting anyone else remember him.
I know, but he's got two more years.
I mean, what is going to be bigger than the fact that the Americans are just losing Afghanistan?
20 years of work.
One week.
Just evaporated.
Completely gone.
There's also some good memes coming out of this, so we can get the next one, so you can see.
Violent but mostly peaceful transfer of power.
CNN reporting there.
The Taliban have also now walked into the presidential palace, because, of course, the president had just left.
And what's interesting about this, you can see, Shemina Begum's lawyer just tweeted this.
The boys are back in town with a picture of them in the palace.
Is that real?
That's real.
That's the lawyer of Shimona Begum.
Oh, okay, what else to tell you about that?
Big surprise, he's an Islamist.
It's almost like Priti Patel when she talks about the activist lawyers.
Yeah.
Not just leftist activists.
No.
Islam or fascist activists.
Yeah, and he's one of them.
There's also some other stuff from him I've seen.
It's not just that particular tweet.
There's a bunch of others he's done where he's like, yeah, you know, I'm glad they're taking over.
Really, tells you all you need to know.
So if we go to the next link here, you can see the map of Afghanistan.
Apparently this is how the situation stands.
Hmm.
Yeah, so most of this map wasn't red, Taliban controlled, and then within the week it's all gone, except certain areas of the centre of the country.
That's actually one location that's got low threat.
Some mountain that no one's bothering with.
But my understanding is this was made by Voice of America the day before or whatever, the 15th of August.
It's probably all red now.
Yeah, it's now all red because the Taliban have just taken it.
The horror of all of this is that they've even lost the North, as you can see, so the Northern part all being red as well.
So when the Americans went in, they at least had the Northern Alliance in the North that were fighting the Taliban, and now they've got nothing.
They've literally left it in a worse state than they found it.
Not good.
Very bad.
Some of the chaos that proceeded from all of this is also pretty horrific, so if we go to the footage here to show people.
So this was last night, in which you can see the airport in Kabul just full of people walking around trying to find planes to leave.
A lot of men.
Wow.
Don't know where they are, but let's go to the next one.
You can see even more of this chaos.
People trying to get on a plane that's clearly full, and there's just tons and tons of people.
Yeah.
We go to the next one as well.
You can see the Americans standing here, holding it.
So this apparently is the last thing the Americans are holding, which is the airport and the embassy, although they might have left the embassy by now, which is just to get people out.
They made, like, a deal with the Taliban or something in which they were like, let us all leave, and we're good.
We just want to get out.
Yeah.
Afghan people, not so much though.
So if we go to the next one, this is the morning.
Still absolute chaos taking place, so you can see thousands of people trying to run towards the airport.
You can also hear gunfire in this video.
If we go to the next one, you can see more of this chaos still taking place.
Just people walking across the runway.
You can also see some planes landing, and they're still walking around, so if we go to the next one, you should be able to see people pulling up.
Really, if this isn't Saigon-like, I don't know what it is.
Just thousands of people.
It's like World War Z with zombies trying to climb up on a building.
Yeah, it actually is a better comparison than World War Z. So we've got the next one here.
I think this is the landing.
Yeah, you can see the plane either landing or trying to take off there.
And helicopters and people just running around trying to get on.
I have to wonder, because I am seeing a lot of people here, and what were there, 300,000 people in the Afghan army?
Against the 80,000 Taliban or whatever?
How many of them are just like, yeah, I just want to leave now?
It's like, you know, if someone had fought the Taliban, maybe this wouldn't be happening, but if there's no political will, there's no political will, I guess.
They don't have no mad lads.
No good mad lads.
Yeah, no good mad lads, as we will talk about later.
The only good mad lad in Afghanistan right now is British.
If all of them are mad lads, we wouldn't have this problem.
Yeah, could have actually solved it.
But it's pretty horrific.
You can see some other footage here of people running with it.
I don't know why these people thought running with the plane was a good idea.
You can see some of them there trying to hold on.
Yeah, it's just going to be like a thousand metres up in the air.
Like, cool, just hang there.
Yeah, this didn't go well.
It's not a train, dude.
We're not going to show the footage, but there is footage going around of this plane taking off, and then you can see people falling off the side.
It's horrible, but, I mean, if you grab onto a moving plane, I don't know what they thought was going to happen.
But, yeah, absolute S show.
So we go to the next one here.
I just want to talk about Joe Biden.
Remember this?
He won't have to worry about my tweets when I'm president.
No, we've got bigger things to worry about.
I think I prefer Tweety Man.
Yeah, less people die when it's just a tweet.
Yeah, when Orange Man is tweeting F around and find out, no problems.
No.
In fact, people respect the United States because they're like, well, I'm not going to find out, am I? Whereas now we have the man who you don't have to worry about his tweets.
Well, you don't have to worry about anything from him.
Well, yeah, the Afghans don't worry about him.
No.
Although apparently the Americans do have to worry about his tweets.
Specifically the CIA. Because he tweeted out the next image, you can get it up.
If you scroll down there, White House photo op of him trying to look tough.
And as you can see in the corner, there's a bunch of screens.
One of them is listed Doha.
It's a Doha CIA station that they were denying existed.
So he ended up doxing his own guys.
Oops.
Oops.
But there's also the thing about all of this.
That's the only thing they've done, is tweet images of Joe Biden.
No one's actually hearing from Joe Biden.
We've heard a lot more from the Taliban than we have from Joe Biden.
So we go to the next thing here.
You can see him, someone talking about this.
You know, we've heard more from the Taliban than Joe Biden.
If you get the one after this up, you'll see that Biden's issued a statement saying he will be issuing a statement to the nation in the next few days.
It's not like an emergency or anything.
Hang on, guys.
We need to take a few days, chill out, gather my thoughts, take some medication.
My dementia medicine needs a few things.
Exactly.
Extra dose.
I mean, my God, you've just lost a country that you've been fighting in for 20 years and you're like, yeah, give me a few days, bro.
And then I'll issue a statement.
Come on!
I've seen some people saying he probably should just resign from all this, which he's not going to, but imagine if he did.
I mean, to be honest, it'd be quite fitting.
I don't know, maybe Kamala Harris would be a little bit tougher than he is.
anyone be tougher than he is jesus christ some of the people saying that he should resign includes donald trump of course we have to go to someone tweeting out trump's statement uh sorry in miles chung tweeting out trump's statement here because well he can't tweet can he but the the taliban yes yeah so here's the statement it's time for joe biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen in afghanistan along with the tremendous surge in covid the border catastrophe the destruction of energy independence and our crippled economy It shouldn't be a big deal because he wasn't elected...
Oh, can't say that.
No, no, no, no, no.
Blow that out.
Not my statement, YouTube.
Donald Trump's statement, which I'm not going to complete.
Not even repeating, no.
Yeah.
So, to be honest, it looks like Trump is leading the country more than Joe Biden.
Yeah.
He said nothing.
He's just out of it.
Like, he was saying stuff before, and now he's just busy elsewhere.
Needs a few days to even just mention what's going on.
God.
The Taliban are also apparently coming up with a solution to incels, which is pretty stark.
Okay, let's hear it.
State mandated GFs.
So you can see here Dev posting the Taliban are going door to door and making it known that all girls over the age of 15 will be assigned husbands.
Okay, well...
I mean, that's one solution.
You see Ellen Powell, remember from Reddit, being like, tech companies, you're certainly full of incels.
What are you going to do about it?
Well, the Taliban have a solution.
Literally state-mandated GFs.
That's their policy.
Except, of course, it starts at 15, because Islam.
To be fair, I would have expected a lot lower for Islam, so I'm actually, you know...
Yeah, I mean, it starts at 9 if you're following Islamic law.
Exactly.
So 15 is actually like, you already had a very long time to look for a husband.
It's time for us to help you out.
This is the progressive Taliban here.
Yeah.
They certainly are progressive.
I mean, 4-year-olds can decide on gender identities.
I think 15.
Oh god, yeah.
We can't even dunk on the Islamic world at this point, looking at ourselves.
No.
I can see why they didn't want us.
Anyway, let's look at the cost of this whole thing, because it's over now.
That's the end of the war, by the looks of it.
I don't know anyone who's stupid enough to run back in.
So, yeah, that's the end of the Afghan war.
We lost as the West.
Which I'm not happy to say.
I mean, even to someone who doesn't like the Afghan war and, you know, wants people home, but the way we've lost it is...
It's embarrassing.
No, they've definitely missed a beat.
But even if you can agree that number one, we should leave, and also number two, the way we have left, has been an S-show.
Well, I say we should have left, but it's actually instead a trap.
So it's a famous strategy.
What you do is you do a tactical retreat, you leave all the buildings behind, hide explosives in all of them, let all the henchmen cover all the places, spread out throughout the country, and then, boom, take out the entire Taliban, and they come back in.
I'm sure the US Army is looking for recruits for the strategy team.
So stupid.
Well, if they got Mark Millie in charge, I mean, anyone can do better than him, so your idea might actually work.
No, this idea's been around since gunpowder existed, 2,000 years ago, all right?
Three kingdoms period, they're already doing that.
Basically, they lose the battle on purpose, retreat, but they leave everything behind, but they just put flammable substances and gunpowder everywhere, wave wooden and move into the camp, they guard to the low because they just scored a victory, boom.
Simple.
I have got a thought.
I had this discussion with Beau because the Doha agreement, if you remember a year ago, they were having talks with the Taliban about peace, and the US, Trump, and the Taliban did sign a peace agreement.
And what's interesting is they didn't invite the government of Afghanistan to the peace agreement talks.
And in the peace agreement talks, they were like, yeah, the government of Afghanistan will release 5,000 Taliban prisoners in return for 1,000 Afghani prisoners.
And they didn't tell the Afghan government.
They were just like, yeah, you're just going to do this.
So, I don't know.
Maybe the Americans were also just sick of the Afghan government.
That's just speculation.
I don't have a clue.
Anyway, let's get into the cost of this.
As you can see, there's an article about the cost of the war.
7,954 Western deaths in total.
I'm just totaling that up as fighters and aid workers and whatnot.
22,000 wounded.
19,000 being from the USA. 2,000 being from the UK. I mean, it must be tough if you know someone who served in Afghanistan, lost someone or lost a limb or anything like that, because it literally was for nothing.
I mean, for worse than nothing.
The Taliban ended up taking all the territory, including the north.
There's also 66,000 Afghanis who died on our side, 51,000 Taliban who died on their side, so we even lost the numbers war, which is sad.
And also 47,000 civilians lost their lives on the whole thing.
There's also the debt, of course, that is accrued by this entire thing.
So the debt financed as of 2020 is listed at 2 trillion US dollars.
2 trillion dollars.
That's what's already paid for doing all this, which ended in nothing.
Estimated interest costs by 2050 go up to as much as 6.5 trillion dollars.
I mean, it just sucks.
Like, the amount of money that has been wasted just going into the desert to civilize what?
Like, mountain people who think that pedophilia is normal.
The United States has committed to pay healthcare, disability, burial, and other costs roughly for about 4 million Afghan and Iraq veterans, so more than $2 million on top of all that.
But don't worry, lads.
It was all worth it.
You know why?
Progressive Taliban.
The Taliban have begun progressives.
The Taliban will respect the rights of women in Afghanistan, their spokesperson says.
The gender programs are working.
Don't worry.
It was all worth it.
We got women's rights out of all of this for Afghan women.
And I can totally believe it.
According to the Taliban.
Yeah.
We've spoken about this.
I feel like the Taliban's position is going to be that women are property, therefore don't have rights.
Therefore, we will respect those zero rights.
Absolutely none.
But yeah, respect women.
That was the point of all this, I guess.
There's also just the polling on the ground, if you actually want to know what hearts and minds have changed.
So here's a Pew survey at the time that we were in charge.
So it's not even when the Taliban are in charge.
Just what do the people of Afghanistan think?
99% say they want Sharia.
96% say converting others to Islam is a duty.
94% say the wife is always obliged to do what the husband wants.
85% say stoning must be the punishment for adultery.
79% say death must be the punishment for apostasy.
39% say suicide bombing is justified.
I mean, to be fair, if you look at it logically, right, Sharia is just Islamic law.
So if you're Muslim, you can't really not follow Sharia.
So the logic follows that all the rest just follow.
It depends how pious you actually are.
So the more pious you are, the higher the percentage you will be.
I understand.
But it's the point of like, we have this fantasy in our minds of like, oh, we're going to go over there and they're going to become a liberal Western democracy or some crap.
I mean, that was always the mission to set up some kind of friendly state.
You see, all of those things are actually things that make Islam anti-fragile, it's because they actually have such an in-group preference, and if you're trying to leave the group, you basically die.
So, yeah.
Yeah, which is why it's such a tough knot to crack, and isn't going to be cracked, at least by anything we've done over the last 20 years, which is evident.
So that's the funny thing on my mind, it's like, well, the Taliban are taking over.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, what's different?
I don't understand.
I don't really get what they're going to do that's different except women going to school.
If that's the only thing, they're like, right.
I'm not sure that was worth 20 years of warfare to go to this desert place in which we're just going to waste loads of our lives and money.
Women going to school?
I mean, what good did it do us?
Jokes aside.
But I thought I'd just end on this with what did we learn about all of this?
So, I mean, one thing we can learn, which is Pakistan to Lenta Est.
Death to Pakistan, in my opinion.
The state.
I cannot get over this.
So this is just a perfect example of the whole thing.
Of course, everyone knows that Pakistan's been funding the Taliban for decades upon decades, and this bites them in the rear sometimes when the Taliban invade them.
But they don't care, they keep funding them.
And this is some incident I thought I'd mention to perfectly crystallize why Pakistan deserves everything they get from this.
The Kurditz Airlift, or the Airlift of Evil, as its nickname.
So this is apparently when the Americans, we invaded with the Americans, and we encircled loads of Taliban, and the Pakistani Air Force turned up and airlifted the Taliban out of Afghanistan to safety.
Okay.
Pakistan, our greatest ally in the region.
Well, I mean, you know, Nardin wouldn't be found in Pakistan for no reason.
No.
I mean, if anything can be learned from all of this, it's that we cannot trust Pakistan with a length of string for them not to use it to then hang us or something.
It is unbelievable the amount they have spent trying to undermine our efforts.
And this is why I just dust my hands with the whole thing.
She's like, well, should we have spent our years there and then trying to save the people as refugees to come to England to flee the Taliban?
No, not really our problem.
Expect more refugees after these.
Yeah, but there's the thing, I don't want to take any of them.
Except maybe the interpreters, because they work with us.
Because it's the thing of like, well, we fought the Taliban, and the Pakistanis funded them endlessly.
We would have succeeded if it wasn't for outside forces, let's say.
That's an idea.
And therefore Pakistan can take all of the problems that they have created.
Enjoy your victory, because it is in the West.
Anyway, let's move on to something more funny.
Lawrence of Kabul.
Ah, boy.
So, there is an absolute mad lad currently in Kabul, and hats off to the bloke.
We've had some guys probably get in contact with him as well, and he's still there.
Apparently he's running now to presumably the airport to get the hell out.
So, this is the first thing, if we get it up.
The premiere of The Man Who Would Be King, starring Lord Miles Rotech.
This is...
This guy is an absolute mad lad.
A lovable English rogue ventures out beyond the Himalayas, taking advantage of the political turmoil of the locals to seal his fate as a ruler of the mountains eaten with eastern lands.
So who is this autist?
Well, if we get up the first image, you can see him posting on Facebook his flight plan.
He decided to go on holiday to Afghanistan in the middle of all this.
As you do.
Afghanistan's turning into civil war.
Well, you know, time to go on holiday, isn't it?
Cheap flights.
So he got this roundabout path to end up there, and then he booked his flights back, and you can see he says there, wish me luck, I will bring back some small souvenir for whoever wants one.
I want to know how his conversation with his mum goes.
Hey mum, just going to Afghanistan for the weekend.
See you later.
With the lads.
He has a girlfriend as well, so it's like, well, it seems very risky for when you've got an established life, but...
So he was posting his adventures on 4chan, which, because not everyone has Facebook, so he wanted to share it with the world, as he put.
So if we get this first image up, so this is the British guy called Lord Miles.
So he says on 4chan, decided to pop down to Afghanistan for a few days.
Never been before.
Just goofing off and soaking in the sun.
Seems more peaceful than London to me.
Ask me anything.
To be fair, he might be right.
Last few days.
Maybe up until the last couple of days for Kabul.
If the Taliban kidnapped me, the plan is simple.
I'm legally, technically a lord.
Brought a fake certificate, wore a suit in a bank, and talked to talk.
You can see his card there.
Lord Miles.
So it says, Lord on all my bank cards.
The Taliban may see that as reason enough to keep me alive, thinking they'll think that I'm important.
Let's hope it won't get to that stage, though.
Tickets are non-refundable, therefore I either stay permanently in a grave or leave as the 19th was planned.
Should have named the segment Absolute Mad Lord.
Absolute Mad Lord.
Absolute Mad Lord.
I love what he just says, just the Afghan grind set there as well.
So this is the next one here with his card, and you can see the quote underneath there in which he says about him not wanting it to get to that stage.
But if we go to the next link, so you can get the next stuff up.
To the next link, sorry.
So you can see he posted more pictures because he just carried on posting in 4chan in the middle of a civil war.
So he says, I just wanted to reiterate my confidence.
The intelligence agencies show that the Capitol may be taken over within 30 days.
However, not in a few days, I'm almost sure.
LAUGHTER So I'll go.
I've got some time.
Let's roll.
Even said in here, if I get proven wrong and die, edit in a laugh soundtrack over my post, it'll be funny, I think.
Please don't die.
Everybody wants to have a really bad ending.
Yeah, we don't want a second episode on him.
I want Lawrence the Mad Lad to make it out.
Mad Lord.
Mad Lord.
Someone asked why I picked Afghanistan.
Well, I just googled the most dangerous countries to visit and used it as a shopping list.
I went to Chernobyl two years ago as my first ever holiday abroad and bribed an armed guard to allow me to take a gas mask I found out of the abandoned hospital and sold it on eBay for more than the cost of the trip.
Based?
Yeah, pretty cool.
I mean, kind of taking out artifacts and risking getting radiation poisoning, I guess, but...
So, he's kind of a mad lad anyway, and this is true as well.
If we can go to his Facebook, you can see on his Facebook, and we can scroll through these pictures to the right, you can see this is an image of a newspaper in Chernobyl, and then the next one, you can see just little dolls and stuff, the creepy place that is Chernobyl with all of its playgrounds and whatnot.
You keep going, there's some more pictures of just, you know, the Ferris wheel, the next one being the...
So you can see the stadiums and whatnot.
So it's real.
He definitely is telling the truth.
And his pictures from Afghanistan are real as well.
But Rimi's been posting more updates about all of this.
So if we go to the next tweet, there's a new update from him posting.
Country and anarchy.
Saw a few dead in a car crash.
Military is fleeing and only a few brave stay.
Embassy is closed, so I walk to the airport and I'm safe.
We'll find the British representatives and get a flight out.
Plane emoji.
Which I kind of love.
Just casual.
Number one, when you're in the middle of a city turning into a war zone, it's weird to be posting online about it.
With emojis.
Just casually saw some dead people.
Smiley face.
You know, shocked face or something.
Gonna get a plane.
Plane emoji.
God, this guy knows how to troll.
So then we go to the next link here so you can have him going another update.
You can see an image of him there with a headscarf on.
And he says, Jesus is king!
Literally like Jesus is King.
I saw his live stream as well, and he's very much very Christian about the whole thing.
He's like, well, I've got the Lord, so what are we going to do about it?
Christian boy summer.
Yeah, literally Christian boy summer is going to Afghanistan.
Yeah.
You've got to respect it.
I mean, either way.
That's some boozy stuff there.
Yeah.
We go to the next update he posted.
We can't find someone at the airport that knows what's going on or how to get out.
There are no representatives here, I think.
One said there are no more flights too.
Eek.
Well, I have to wage guerrilla warfare across the Taliban until I reach another country.
So the flight's stopped, and he's still there, and he's just stuck.
I guess I have to fight.
Oh, well.
He's going to fight his way to Pakistan, I guess.
So we'll get to the next update he has.
He says that he saw the Taliban enter the airport.
They saw me, but I kind of don't care.
I'm going back to the safe house now.
Plan is to wait and see if any flights resume.
And you're seeing the state of the airport that we showed earlier.
That's this morning.
So we go to the next update from him.
He says he's in a temporary accommodation.
Still better than my human accommodation.
Haha.
He's just so, like, upbeat.
So jolly.
Yeah.
Well, what are you going to do?
Make the most of it.
I will livestream soon, but I just need to get into Western clothes and drink some water.
It's cool, good, it's all good in the hood.
Like a jolly adventure of Lord Miles.
Literally, it's the extravagant British adventurer of olden times.
Where he's just like, oh, let's go to Afghanistan.
You know, it's a war.
Yeah?
It'd be funny.
So, he did a livestream, and you can see the livestream on this next link.
It's an hour and a half long.
But I watched a good section of it, and he's really likable, I must say.
He's really, like, just seems like a cool guy to hang out with.
He's just really chill about the whole thing and just wants to go explore.
We need to get him on a podcast.
Yeah, why not?
Sounds like we've all got to hang out.
Bring some souvenirs.
He says that he has no regrets about the whole thing as he waits in this safe house where there are no flights out of the country.
So, okay.
Although he does give a story about how he mentioned earlier about how the Taliban saw him.
And he says that he got like a hose and sprayed it into his mouth for water.
And apparently the Taliban were just weirded out by this and walked off.
Like, even though there's a white guy who they can take as a hostage, they're like, yeah, but he's weird.
Yeah, yeah.
No thanks.
Yeah.
So if we go to the next link here, this is another update from him.
You can see him dressed up there in some kind of British vest and a rifle.
Oh, that reminds me of, there's like this prank video where people start fights with big, massive bodybuilders.
And then as soon as he starts, he starts taking the clothes off and the other guy runs off.
It's kind of like that Come at me bro, and then suddenly start stripping Him with the gun being like come on afghan taliban Anyway, no, I mean the hostings.
He's getting over the host stuff He says I've met some of the forces great lads That's...
Flights for RAF are cancelled tomorrow, but I'm working on it.
Evac is likely.
America took back the airport, but apparently it's been breached.
I've been hearing gunshots for a while.
Packed just in case.
So pack the rifle just in case.
There's also memes of him going about, which I think are really funny, so we get the next one up, you can see, if you scroll down on this, just...
Look down at the bottom.
Yeah.
Current objectives, survive.
I mean, this absolute lunatic is just sitting around with a rifle being like...
Oh, I better live.
This is going to go back.
How old is he, do you think?
He's still in university.
So, yeah, it's like 20-ish.
Yeah, he's doing physics, so represent.
I'm pretty good there.
So the next update is a bit more British.
No more flights in Kabul.
I'm stuck in Afghanistan.
Bit of a pickle.
Bit of a pickle.
Bit of a pickle, yeah.
I'm going to be killed.
Well, you know, a bit of a pickle.
What are you going to do about it?
It's so British.
I love it.
Although it doesn't have all smiles to it.
He does come down to reality for one moment.
So we go to the next post here, in which he's pretty sombre about the whole thing, in which he's realising, am I goofed?
So...
Also, things aren't good for me right now.
As I spoke with the journalists about my experience, I actually remembered them.
I didn't remember them before.
I've emailed the mental health people in Ibro University, so hopefully they can help me.
I'm struggling to stand and keep water down.
I don't think I'll sleep tonight.
I've seen too many dead people.
I just wanted this whole thing to be a little charity thing where I can explore a weird country, but I've mentally broken down.
I'm not sure what's going on right now.
My face doesn't look right in the mirror.
How long was he stuck there before he broke him down?
Because he was still very jolly when he was stuck.
Yeah.
And then he's sort of suddenly off-turned.
How many days did it take for him to...
Not days.
Minutes.
Minutes.
And then he's like, heavy jolly!
Oh, depressed.
And then minutes he went back.
Fair enough.
Okay.
We get the next post in which he's just like, well, I slapped myself out of that.
Did some breathing.
Back to normal.
You just realise that you've been looking at people being shot and dying in car crashes and getting like, actually, this is pretty bad.
Everybody dies.
Ah, never mind.
And he's just like, well, actually, I know it's real British stiff upper lip, so man, if you get out of this, you really are the hero of the moment and absolute Chad.
So he said he slapped himself out of it, did some breathing back to normal.
I'm making things work.
I won't reply to most messages right now as I'm calling people who may be able to get me out.
I still have no regrets, but damn, I wish I packed more socks.
You'll always have to pack more socks.
We're number one.
Of all the regrets, he has no regrets about going to Afghanistan.
He has no regrets of booking a flight so late that he's now trapped there.
But, no, damn if you wish you had more socks.
That's the lesson of the day.
Yeah.
So we get the next image up.
You can see him talking about his...
He's been given body armour, emergency evacuation right now to a better place as most compounds are being abandoned.
I'm with the best of the best.
So...
Hopefully he's alright.
In the livestream he mentioned the compound he's in is there's multiple layers of walls and armed guards everywhere with hundreds of other people who are Westerners presumably.
So he should be safe until they can get an evac out.
The Taliban have also seemingly, I'm not going to say absolutely, but seemingly seem to have made a deal that they're not going to kill Westerners.
They just want the Westerners to shut off.
I think it's actually a good plan on their side, because they know if they start killing civilians, then the Americans and the British will have no choice but go back in.
And then, although it would be a massive cost to us, but we will win eventually.
So they don't want that.
They just want control.
So they'll be like, get the hell out of here.
This is my country now.
Yeah.
We might not even go back in, but just bomb them.
And that's not worth it either.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I said, my original plan was much better.
Plus, they would drone strikes, like, literally, from orbit.
When they all gather in, bang.
I must admit, it is quite funny seeing the Taliban take a North FC approach to immigration, where they're just like, yeah, get out, foreigners.
We're not going to kill you, just don't like you.
Just don't like them.
Get out.
Simple ass.
I just wanted to mention the last thing here being the poster for the upcoming movie, Miles of Kabul.
You can see him there.
But yeah, absolute friggin' mad lad.
And last I heard, he's still alive, he's still running to try and get the hell out of there, and I really hope he does.
Salute.
Yeah, absolute salute.
Goddamn lunatic.
But also an absolute meme of a man that shows off Britain as its best in a weird, weird way.
Bit of a pickle.
Can't get out.
Probably gonna die.
Oh well.
What the hell?
Anyway.
So let's move on to woke imperialism.
The response to Afghanistan has been strange.
Most notably, the strangest response being woke imperialism, in which people are saying from a woke perspective we should go back in.
Because, you know, 10 more years, bro.
But surely Islam is the most feminist religion.
Why are we going back in to remove feminism?
Yeah, that's a good point.
But I just want to get this...
If we can pause on the first frame here so you can see the Gravel Institute, the Leftist Institute.
Obviously the Taliban is bad.
And then, but...
Infamous but...
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of weird simping for the Taliban, which is...
I've seen some from the right, some from the left, but the woke stuff is the more interesting stuff here, I think, which is just strange, because Taliban bad?
I mean, yeah, regime also quite weird and bad, but doesn't make Taliban good.
But anyway, so we're not talking about that stuff.
We're not even going to talk about LGBT Afghanistan.
Which the Americans were trying to do.
For what reason?
I don't know.
But, you know, it's the holy month of Pride, I guess.
So this is the US Embassy in Kabul tweeting out a Pride flag with just the month of June is recognised as LGBTI Pride Month.
To be fair, that's probably an intern working in America using a Twitter handle.
I'd be surprised.
I reckon they do have staff who do that in Kabul for them.
They're that cringe.
Do you not see...
What was it?
It was...
I think it was Pride Month or February a while back for Black History.
It's Pride year.
Every day is Pride.
Every day is Pride.
I think it was Black History Month, actually, where the embassies around the world for the US hung Black Lives Matter flags.
Oh, yes, yes, I remember that.
So, I bet in the embassy they're up for it.
Okay.
Anyway, so, if we go to the next one here, we're not talking about that either.
We're talking about stuff like this.
Remember this lady?
The lady who said white lives don't matter, as white lives?
I said Oxford lady.
Professor, who in response to that got a promotion.
Whereas the guy who said white lives matter who was up north, I can't remember his name, but he lost his job.
But the Indian lady here who says white lives don't matter, she gets a promotion.
Oh, but she said it's white lives don't matter.
That's white lives.
Yeah, totally different.
See, that's totally different.
She made a very woke case for imperialism, which I thought was interesting.
Co-signing Afghanistan to its fate and not our business is actively disgracefully racist.
Hmm.
If we don't go back in and waste more of the West's lives to prop up this regime, we're being racist.
Wait, wait, wait.
I thought she's for decolonialism.
Yeah.
This is, by definition, decolonialism.
We are decolonizing Afghanistan.
Yeah, we're decolonizing Afghanistan.
What does she want?
Yeah.
She won colonialism.
The Afghan people seemingly want the extremist Islam that the Taliban are giving.
That's why they're not fighting them.
It's not extremist, it's just Islam, mate.
It's just Islam, you are right then.
I'll prove to you later, right?
You don't have to, you're just right.
But anyway, she says it's disgracefully racist for us to be there.
Not magnificently anti-imperialist.
Good God.
She says it boils down to, quote...
Let the brown bastards be ground down by other brown bastards.
Why should we care?
That's what they're like.
Not pretty put that way.
So, us leaving and letting the Afghans sort their own goddamn country out, that's us being racist because brown people are killing brown people?
The white man did this?
Well, it's true, because Black Lives Matter...
Oh boy.
I just thought that was a particularly amazing take, although she's not the only one who's arguing that we should go back in, presumably.
So let's go to the next one here so you can see Tobias Elwood, MP for the Conservatives, who I don't know why he has this opinion.
I don't get it.
So he posted about a woman getting her aged gals out and young girls being turned into sex slaves, which...
Yeah, the Taliban are barbarians, because everyone in that goddamn region is a barbarian.
And he says, Parliament will now be recalled.
Thank you.
I encourage all my colleagues to make it clear to the PM that abandoning Afghanistan is the wrong decision.
What does he want us to do?
Like, this is what I don't get.
Like, sure, you can say that the exodus has been poorly planned, but there was no resistance.
Like, we were there, and it stood, and as soon as we left, it collapsed.
I mean, what does he want us to do?
Stay another 10 years, and then suddenly everything will be fixed?
We've been there for 20 years.
Well, I think it's just staying there is not enough.
It's a half measure.
You either do it or you leave and they chose to leave.
You need to finish the job or get out of there.
So this guy is in charge of the Defence Select Committee as well.
He's not just some MP. He's in the position to push on this.
And Parliament's been recalled.
I presume they're just going to whine about it and then nothing will happen on the floor.
But it's not just him.
The Labour Party are also standing by this policy of we need to discuss it.
They'll strongly condemn.
That's what they usually do.
Strongly condemn, yes.
Lisa Nandy, we've witnessed a catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan.
I stand with the people of Afghanistan.
And all the LGBT sufferers over there.
That's what I'm going to say, you know.
To be honest, if you are gay in Afghanistan, get the hell out of me.
Oh yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Don't hide in the rooftop.
Yeah.
So this is Lisa Nandy, Labour Party.
I think she's still on the front bench.
So she says there are serious implications for Afghanistan and the UK. It's the right thing to do to recall Parliament.
But what on earth has it taken this long?
Because it's pointless.
They're just going to bang the tables about how we should be in Afghanistan still.
Why do we need to be there?
We've been there for 20 years.
The regime we set up...
We can't possibly replace the Americans.
It's a non-starter.
All the Americans left, we can't have at least minimum double that troop in order to take back the territories.
It's just not going to work.
Anything the Pentagon does, we do.
That's how our politics works on defense.
If they're gone, we're leaving too.
You mentioned...
Tobias Elwood mentioned that the Taliban are taking female girls as sex slaves.
Yeah, the Taliban are a bunch of barbarians.
But the thing is, everyone in Afghanistan seems to be a goddamn barbarian.
And I'm not just talking about the people on the ground.
I am talking about the people we put in charge.
The police.
The police engaged in exactly the same thing, except with boys instead of young girls.
So you get the next one here.
So this is a clip from a documentary in which an ex-BBC employee went there and he just recorded what was going on.
The Americans trying to advise the Afghanis and how barbaric the Afghanis are.
So if you play this first clip, this is what he got when he discovered that, well, the Americans discovered that the police were taking young boys and using them as sex slaves and then the Americans went to the guy in charge of the whole region and was like, hey, we need to raid these places.
What was his response?
Let's play this clip.
Why was there a boy on that BB?
Why is, what did that commander say to you? - Yes. - He said, "I'm not going to go to the - But I'm not going to go to the - But I'm not going to go to the - Why? - He said, "I'm going to go to the - I'm going to go to the - I'm going to go to the - I'm going to go to the -
We told him that he was a country -
He said, "The boys want him to be there." Which begs the question, well why would they be trying to escape?
And in one case they tried to poison, one of them tried to poison the policeman so that he could escape and that's what led to him being shot.
That's the people we were propping up.
I think our original strategy is wrong.
We should have sent them a lot of wood chippers.
You'd have to wood chipper a lot of the country by the looks of it.
Because that's not just some guys.
Fertilizer is good for the...
Anyway.
That's not just, you know, you walk into the village and there's a couple of pedos in the village.
No, that's the police commander.
He's in charge of a bunch of police stations.
Oh, yeah.
And the police are the ones taking the child sex slaves who are all boys and then raping them.
So, I mean, that's what we're dealing with.
We're dealing with a level of...
Well, the Taliban are a bunch of pedo rapist barbarians.
Yeah, well, the police we put in charge are a bunch of pedo-rapist barbarians, too.
I don't know what to say.
Well, it's like, you want to rape girls, you want to rape boys, I mean...
That's the decision.
For people listening as well, in case you can't understand the words he's saying, his response to why are there boys on the PB, the police base, was him...
His response was, if they do not F the asses of these boys, who shall they F the P-words of their own grandmothers?
Well, actually, that may be symptomatic of, like, in Islam, you're allowed to have four wives.
So if one man has four wives, that means there's not enough women to go around for the other men.
So this is inevitable.
Logically...
I think it's to do with Baku Bazi, you know, the...
No, no, I know, but the reason that actually happened is because there's not enough women to go around because there's more...
One man has more than one wife.
The numbers of male and female are approximately the same.
A lot of men have no women.
So what else do you think?
I don't know, but I do know that everyone there is a goddamn barbarian.
Like, these are not people you want to interact with.
The people on our side in the South who are in charge of the police.
Well, I mean, there are some interactions, like with a baseball bat.
Yeah, that's the interaction.
But the Americans couldn't do that, and we couldn't do it either, apparently.
So there's also the memes that come out with all this, because that was pretty grim, so let's try and lighten the atmosphere.
There was some journalist who went down to talk to the Taliban to ask what they're going to do when they take over, and she asked them what about women's rights.
So let's play this clip.
So would you believe in the democratic vote though?
So would people be allowed to vote in women politicians?
And for people listening, he just starts laughing.
And then says, stop filming.
Stop filming, because that's just such a...
That reminds me of the time of...
Remember that documentary when a female journalist was asking the Muslim scholar about rape, or has it been raping their wives?
And he was laughing at her and said, I should just send her off and get her raped and cut her nose off.
Do you remember that clip?
No, I don't remember that.
Anyway, I digress.
But that's the level of barbarians you're dealing with.
I mean, these people believe that women should be in burqas 24-7, no education, cut off their clit, all of that stuff.
And she's like, yeah, but you're going to let women be elected into office, aren't you?
No.
No, this is the land of barbarians.
I don't want to stay on that point too much, but it needs to be reiterated.
There is nothing to salvage from this place.
There is nothing to salvage from many of these places, in my opinion.
Anyway, so let's go to the next thing on this, which is just to remind people of the other wokers around all of this, which is that the Taliban have an account on Twitter issuing statements.
So if you want to keep up with the Taliban, you know where to go.
Their favorite platform, twitter.com.
But Donald Trump, you've got to go elsewhere for that.
It can't be on our platform.
He's encouraging violence.
But the Taliban, very, very kosher.
Anyway, so there's also the response from the embassy.
So if we go to the next one here, you can see one of their statements in which they say, We assured all embassies, diplomatic centers, institutions, and places that foreign nationals in Kabul that they will not face any danger.
So this is why I mentioned earlier about them being like, we're just not going to kill Westerners as much as they'd like to.
They're just going to let you leave.
Makes sense.
Get out.
So they say, let everyone be in Kabul with full confidence.
The forces of the Islamic Emirate are tasked with strengthening the security of Kabul and all other cities.
Because this is going to be it now.
The Islamic Emirate is coming back.
I think China's already recognised them or on the stage to recognise them.
And there is one thing out of this that I thought was interesting as well, which is Biden said something sensible.
That's what I mean, a broken clock and all that.
Yeah, pretty much.
But this is obviously before all of this has taken place, but you can see Lauren Chen actually being like, well, never thought I'd say this, but I'm agreeing with everything Biden says here.
Some Western journo was interviewing him like a week ago and was like, yeah, but what about my women's rights?
If we all leave, the women's rights are going to go down in Afghanistan.
And Biden's just like, I don't care.
That's not my problem.
Like, I'm here to secure America, not Afghanistan's women's rights.
See?
Should have evacuated all the women.
Just take all the women.
Just take them all.
But let's play this clip of Biden making some sense.
The Washington Post quoted you this week in a story about Afghanistan, saying that back in 2010, you said to Richard Holbrook, the then envoy, I'm not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women's rights.
It just won't work.
Not what we're there for.
Is that how you remember it?
What did you mean?
What I meant was there's a thousand places we could go to deal with injustice.
I can think of ten countries where women and or children and or people are being persecuted or being hurt.
But the idea of us going to be able to use our armed forces to solve every single internal problem that exists throughout the world is not within our capacity.
And don't you bear some responsibility for the outcome if the Taliban ends up back in control and women end up losing the rights?
No, I don't!
Look, are you telling me that we should go into China because, go to war with China because what they're doing to the Uyghurs, a million Uyghurs out in the West in concentration camps?
Is that what you're saying to me?
It was your quote, sir.
I was asking you.
No, I know.
I gave you my, I gave the answer.
Do I bear responsibility?
Zero responsibility.
Love my zeros.
Absolutely.
White supremacy is confirmed.
No, it's just Dominic Tarjinsky.
Just zero.
Zero responsibility.
Not my problem.
And I'm in personal agreement with him on that, which is that, who cares?
Like, you can try and blame the West for this.
No, Pakistan ultimately has the blame for this, because the might of the United States military would be able to stamp out the Taliban if they had no funding or support, but they do, from people like Pakistan.
Yeah.
But anyway, him saying something sensible, and he got bashed for it there.
But the point I'm trying to make is you can see from the Oxford professor and this lady and people talking about, oh, but what about my women's rights?
It's like, you can't try and justify staying in Afghanistan forever on the basis of like, yeah, but what about this and that?
Don't care.
Like, well, let's do a job and then get out, which, that's the thing.
I actually agree.
What even was the job in the first place?
Well, the original job was to get Hassan bin Laden, but then he ended up in Pakistan.
Yeah, so...
There is also one response from the establishment Dems, who for some reason are making this narrative that we should have stayed, which is funny.
So Nancy Pelosi saying here, and I found this statement particularly weird, The US, the international community, and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban.
As we strive to assist them, we must recognise that their voice is important and respect their culture.
That's kind of a contradiction right there.
Respect the culture, I presume, of the Afghan government that no longer exists.
Well, the Taliban is the government now, so...
But also the established government was permitting child rape by the police.
Yeah, and honour killings.
We'll respect their culture of rape.
Cutting women's noses off, clitorises off, you know, that's the culture that you want to respect.
Fair enough.
I mean, it really is like one of Coles, you know, all those series he did.
Every Culture is Beautiful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The culture of Afghanistan?
Respect their culture.
What?
What is there to respect?
I just don't know.
There is nothing there to respect.
Anyway, respect a bunch of pedos.
So let's go to the next link on this.
Of course, the West is to blame for everything, because it always is.
I can admit that, yeah, we did go in.
Yeah, we then set up a government.
We didn't take over the whole place because of the rest of the Islamic world funding the Taliban.
So we're leaving.
We've given the government 300,000 troops.
We trained them.
We gave them loads of weapons, as you can see.
And they didn't fight.
So they lost.
And this isn't the West's fault, in my opinion.
I just have no sympathy for this idea.
As you can see, the eye trying to push here.
Afghanistan, brace for refugee crisis or risk more asylum seekers dying at sea, charities tell the UK government.
UK, Afghanistan.
Borders.
There's just nothing in the way between Afghanistan and the UK that they could go to.
I don't know, they just jump right at sea from Afghanistan straight to over here?
If only there was some country that could take them.
Some country that's culturally similar.
Like next to them?
Maybe with more responsibility than the British for the Taliban victory.
Begins with a P. We could go to that one.
Pakistan and stay there.
But no.
No, of course.
This is Britain's fault.
We need to build more four-star hotels, I think.
There's a hotel in Reading which just got taken over for this purpose as well.
Already.
Aren't you glad you moved?
Yes.
Sorry to beat up on Reading, but the Labour Council there are awful.
Anyway, so yeah, I mean, only if we could make the Pakistanis be responsible for their own actions.
So they continue on in here.
The United Nations estimates that as many as 18 million Afghans, nearly half the country's population, need urgent humanitarian aid as the Taliban continue to capture more territory.
You know who they can go and visit?
The nearby countries.
We're not moving 18 million people to the West because Taliban have taken over.
Sorry, 9 Avenue.
Britain has committed to helping resettle former interpreters who worked with the UK armed forces during the 20 year conflict and may become a target who may become a target for militants.
Well, fair enough for those ones, I think.
Yeah, that one, anyone can agree with.
These guys risk their lives to work with us in a military capacity.
They get asylum.
Surface guarantee citizenship.
Yes, and that's fair.
The idea that we should take other people just because, well, you know, living under the Taliban is bad.
Yeah, it probably is absolutely awful, but not our problem.
And there are plenty of other countries for you to move to that are similar.
So the government has not promised to resettle any other refugees through multilateral channels because we shouldn't.
Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister, Bambos Charlymanbos, insisted that UK had an obligation to the Afghan people in the wake of the war in which the US and Israel's allies have left.
And this, I think we can expect more of.
We can expect more of Westerners trying to pinch that we should definitely take more refugees.
Well, yeah.
Because nothing ever goes wrong.
It's a battle of refugees welcome signs.
Although the Home Office has done something sensible in response to this, so the Home Office spokesman said, no one should be in any doubt of our commitment to build upon our proud history of resettling refugees in need of protection.
We have a sound track record since 2015.
We have resettled more than 25,000 vulnerable refugees, around half of whom were children.
Which is just, we take plenty, go away.
Not interested.
And the idea that we should take the interpreters, yeah, I can find truck with that.
You know, service guarantee, solution shift.
Yeah, anyone works for the military, etc.
Yeah.
I have seen them tweeting earlier, I think it's Dominic Grouda made a statement or someone, that they're going to waive passport checks for that, and no one seems to include the context that that is for the interpreters, as is written.
If they go further than that, then yes, bad, but for the interpreters...
So long as they can verify their identity for other means, you know...
Yeah, we know him, we work with him, you know, that kind of thing.
Also, I don't know how they're going to get passports at this point, because I'm...
Should embassies...
The government's gone.
It's like it's not there anymore.
Anyway, but why would you want to check the refugees?
Why would you not just want to wear millions of Afghanis?
Well, I mean, who could tell?
Let's go to this next story, which is just horrifying.
This is an Iraqi who arrived here via dinghy four weeks ago.
He was found contacting a 14-year-old with the aim to rape her.
Cobra Chile protection intercepted him.
If you scroll down, you can see the chap.
Any comments?
RNLI, Pretty Patel or Boris Johnson?
Silence.
I mean, just absolutely silence from them.
The RNLI being the guys who are going out to pick these guys up because of humanitarianism.
No, they come from France.
They can fuck off back to France.
This is obviously an underage child.
An accomplished child.
Just want some company from other children?
It misinterpreted what they mean.
He just wants some friends of the same age.
And as a child, you know, without a stable gender identity, they might have a sexual emergency.
You'd be more lenient than that.
Isn't that a defence used in one of these cases?
Yes, sexual emergency it was.
Like some Islamist rapist.
Some backward ass.
I have a sexual emergency, that's why I raped her, Your Honour.
These are the people who are going to come with them.
And this happened like a week ago, that these guys arrested this guy and intercepted them.
So the idea that we're going to take millions of Afghanis, when you've seen on both sides of that conflict, everyone there just has barbaric views beyond the pale of even interaction, never mind resettlement and re-education.
No, no, I don't think we should take anything there that isn't something that has helped us militarily, like the interpreters.
Like I said earlier, I can prove to you that it's not radical Islam, it's just Islam.
Because if you look at all the countries in the world, and then you line them up on the x-axis, you've got the population and percentage of Muslim population.
And then on the y-axis, you have the human rights condition of those countries as their treatment to, say, women, to homosexuals, to religious minorities, atheists.
And then what correlation do you see?
I mean, you know...
If all the Muslims in the world don't represent...
An exponential one.
You know the left always loves to talk about representation?
If all the Muslims on the whole world don't represent Islam, I don't know what the F does.
So that's a thought experiment.
You're right.
But yeah, asylum is absolutely no solution to this problem.
Anyone suggesting it is clearly a snake who just wants to harm the country.
I don't know why else they would suggest it when the evidence is so plain.
Although I think that we have learned one thing from all of this, which is...
Leave it to Pakistan.
It's their stupid prize.
They funded the Taliban for years behind our backs, airlifted them out whilst we were fighting them, and they can win it.
They can have that little prize to the North that will eventually invade them, and they can deal with that.
Not our problem.
Completely hands-off, my opinion on the situation.
Let's end that there.
Let's go to the video comments.
A weeb has been detected on the Sultans of Chatelain.
Someone has admitted to having a balding pillow.
Now, with this in mind, I have the following to say to this individual.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm not in whatever group that is, so, yeah, just don't be a weeb.
Carl and Callum compliment.
The lion roars and the lioness kills.
Build up your romantic potential, Carl.
Or romance your crush, Callum.
And then act like you followed Carl the whole time to your mates.
As for the long march, I offer number seven.
Send ninjas back in time to wait until the proper moment.
Speech is thought, screeching like a banshee is violence as a barbarian sword.
I don't think option number seven is viable, so we'll have to do six for now.
That was from the book club we did about the long march to the institutions, if anyone's wondering.
Basically, this guy wrote a book which is just like, here's the culture war, but the last couple of chapters are like, here's the options for how to win it, and they're not badly argued, and you've got to pick one because they're all incompatible pretty much, except a couple of them.
Go give that a watch.
Good morning from Ontario.
Trudeau has called a snap federal election here in Canada, and things are looking pretty grim.
We only have about five weeks to react.
Trudeau is polling incredibly well and might snag a majority government.
Despite his blackface, misuses of power, and illegal gun grab, this only leaves us with one based opposition party.
That is the People's Party of Canada.
But they have effectively been deplatformed from the mainstream conversation, so I need your help.
Spread the message.
The People's Party of Canada.
The base decision.
That's a great way to answer that.
So what you're saying is actually Canada had these, had a, is it Prime Minister?
Yeah.
Yeah, so it had a black Prime Minister.
He identified as one for a short time.
Yeah, exactly.
He doesn't remember how many times he identified.
The one-day rule.
So he identified for a day, for life.
I am literally the guy that's just like, he can't keep getting away with it, though.
With Trudeau.
How the hell does he keep getting re-elected?
Look, you know the leftists have no standards, right?
They don't care if their own side do anything wrong.
They just, whatever.
They just shield for them.
Is the Canadian population that cucked?
I mean, I know they're mean, but...
I don't know.
Well...
I don't know.
He's presentable.
He's good looking.
So the people who don't follow politics will vote for him because he looks good.
I guess so.
Oh boy.
I mean, the worst scandal that's funniest for me is not even like the blackface or the dumb stuff he said about, you know, if you let your enemies win, you lose.
Then you win or something like that.
Crap.
If you kill your enemies, you win.
If you kill your enemy, yeah.
They win.
It's like, no, no, no.
That's not how it works.
Like there's a million stupid things.
Picking his cabinet along gender lines instead of getting a real job.
Yeah, 50%.
50% cabinet.
The worst one, I think it was, his Secretary of State had blocked corruption that was going to help him, so he ended up firing her, and then she made this public and was like, look, this guy's just utterly corrupt, and even all this feminist nonsense.
Like, he fired his major woman out of the cabinet because, well, because he's obviously corrupt.
He can't keep getting away with it, I swear.
Ugh.
Political correctness has been ruining things longer than I've been alive.
That scene had to get cut out of later versions of the game, even though it was made in Japan, and it was 1992.
Aptly subtitled The World Warrior, Street Fighter II features an international theme, with fighters with different nationalities and skin colors competing to see who is the best in the world.
It was made in Japan in the early 90s for an international audience, and the developers were likely not even aware that the USA would be so offended as to force the change.
Yeah.
Absolute classic.
I've never actually played Street Fighter.
You've never played Street Fighter.
Right, I have to dig out my old SNES and have a go.
Do you have a SNES? Yeah, I have a SNES. Yeah.
I would actually like to try that.
He's actually like a Japanese version.
It's called like Super Formacon or something.
So it's like a slightly different version because it's NTSC rather than PAL. But it still works.
I would mention as well, I've seen, I can't find it, but I'm sure someone will know what I'm referring to.
There's a speech during the Bill Clinton, yeah, Bill Clinton administration, in which you can see somebody at some White House press briefing.
And he's listing off, essentially, what is wokeism at the time.
And he's saying, like, this is coming out of the American universities.
They believe this, this, this.
And it's absolutely crazy, and we should do something about it.
And that's in the 90s.
And that's how far back this really goes.
You can see the early conversations about it.
No one listened.
Here's a hot take.
Callum's rantings and fanboying over Warhammer sounds just like anime fans.
Maybe, but Warhammer's actually cool.
Anime's not.
Anime's cringe.
That depends.
There's some cringe, there's some that's okay.
Ah, okay.
It's the medium.
It's like, there's some cringe books and there's some good books.
There's a lot of cringe, don't get me wrong.
There's a lot of cringe.
There's some good stuff.
You're right.
I don't even actually dislike anime.
It's just the meme because I'm so sick of people being like, you need to watch anime.
I know you're resistant to anyone pushing anything on you.
Be it anime, women, whatever it is.
You're like, the more you push, the more you're going to tell me game.
Okay?
Stop it.
So I'm like, yeah, okay, fine.
We're going game now, boys.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh, the sound's gone.
This might be the one he mentioned earlier.
I've had issues with this commenter in the past.
I think it's a codecation.
No one can hear you.
You want to use the mic?
Oh, you are using it.
Sorry, sorry.
His point is about forgiveness and about how war just breeds more war and that's why it's important to forgive each other.
I mean, opponents in politics, sure that's true.
Friends, I'm sure that's true.
Have you heard of game theory?
Yeah.
So the original game was basically the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Have you heard of that?
It's like you can either shuffle each other or cooperate, and then you're working out an algorithm, basically, it's a computer science challenge, of what algorithms is actually going to win the game.
Basically, you just put two programs together, one will shuffle each other a certain number of times and react to each other, and the winning one is like a tit-for-tat, which is basically just mimic what the other one does.
But there's one disadvantage of that is if it goes to the future cycle, if the other one's constantly shaft and then you just never end.
So a newer addition of that, a newer iteration of that is actually have like a break.
So after a certain number of future cycle, you actually cooperate again just to test the waters.
So that is ultimately the best algorithm.
It's basically mostly Be nice, but if the other person is not nice to you, then don't be nice to them.
But after the official cycle for a certain length of time, you need to have a break.
Otherwise, it just never ends.
But the alternative to that is to completely eliminate your enemies so they no longer exist.
So that will also work.
You don't need forgiveness by somebody who doesn't exist.
Which is what the Taliban are doing as well.
Well, they're letting the Americans go, I suppose.
Yeah, just not the Afghan army.
They'll get the doors knocked on.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey Lotus Eaters, Tony D and Little Joan here with another Pines legend, Bloody John Bacon, the subject of book six of the Pineys.
Bacon was a British loyalist and pirate during the Revolutionary War, and him and his men committed the Long Beach Island massacre 19 American soldiers killed in their sleep.
He was eventually hunted down after the war by a patriot, Captain John Stewart, who shot him through the heart.
I want to be like he did nothing wrong because he's British.
No, it is how you describe it.
Okay, fair enough.
Okay, gents.
Let me very succinctly sum up Douglas Murray's position on LGBT. There are the gays...
And then there are the f***!
Yeah.
Agreed.
I don't know if everyone's read, but you really should give it a try at least, which is The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray.
I still think his Strange Death of Europe book is much better.
But in The Madness of Crowds, he literally dedicates a whole section to...
So he splits it up and he's like, yeah, women, gay, and that's the list of the topics.
And when he gets onto gay, there's just like two pages of him, but like...
Yes, there are gay men like myself who are just gay.
Just like a normal person.
That's it.
And then we're conservatives and everything else.
And then there are the queers!
Who makes everything about a gender identity.
The entire lives wrapped around it.
Can't bloody shut up about it.
In my mind, like I'm reading it, I can almost hear him carving into the page, being like, and then they make it the whole entire idea.
With his muscular arm.
Single arm.
Anyway.
Next.
Let's go to the next one.
Yeah, I'm sorry Callum, but Carl's right on this one.
What are the three rules?
Don't go chasing girls, they only want attention.
No tinder, it's pointless and vapid.
And absolutely no, absolutely no simping.
Build yourself up as a man first, get some value behind you.
Buy yourself a house, get your money in order, keep set.
Let the girl come to you.
Don't go chasing girls.
Man, I need to quit smoking.
What the hell is it?
Oh, that's beautiful!
Do you know about that?
No, I don't.
Tell me more.
I can't remember the name.
Someone will get it in the chat.
It's this German castle that just looks like something out of Disney.
Yeah, that looks like a Disney princess castle.
If I remember correctly, the guy who used to own it used to have geese running about for no goddamn reason because he was a lunatic.
But yeah, you can go and see it.
It's really, really pretty.
You should take German waifu there.
Anyway, to his point about no Tinder, you're not going to be joining it anyway, I know.
Yeah, I was not advocating Tinder.
No, no, no.
You're not going to advocate Tinder.
But no, Tinder's rubbish because it used to be about 60-40 male-female ratio, which is like about 60% male.
But now, even though women don't like it, so it's about 10 to 1.
So it's even worse than any other avenue that you can possibly imagine.
So it's a complete waste of time.
Don't do it.
Self-improvement.
Go to the gym.
I love the idea that Tinder's literally become a sausage fest.
Oh, it is.
It is.
It's terrible.
Let's give the next one.
Callum!
You're wrong.
Man, you want a girlfriend?
Stop trying to get a girlfriend, okay?
Women can smell desperation.
Now, I met my wife on Tinder.
I know.
Hear me out.
I wasn't actually looking to meet anyone.
Instead, everyone I matched with, I ran them through D&D modules.
Were they confused?
Yes.
Did I explain myself?
Hell no.
But did I have fun?
Hell yes I did.
And I ended up meeting my wife through it.
So, that's how you meet your soulmate.
That's real king shit.
King Arthur, out.
Why is everyone butchering my position?
I was just about to say, why is everyone getting out on you?
No, but also they're just completely butchering the position.
I never argued that you should be desperate to women or go on Tinder or anything of the sort.
I just said that if you like a girl, maybe you should ask her out.
No, you should.
I mean, I don't see why you shouldn't.
That was entirely my position.
It depends on the situation.
But the genuine idea is that if you're young, it's much harder to compete with older guys because obviously they have a lot more resources than you do.
But I never contested any of this.
So you should improve yourself so that you're more viable rather than focusing, like predominant focus is trying to go out and chase girls every weekend.
So you can spend your weekends doing work, but you see a girl you like, go for it.
life's too short for maybes go for it but I'm getting bored of the you're wrong because straw man at least address the point of like you should never ask a girl out because that was all I ever advocated but anyway let's go for the next one good afternoon guys I have a film suggestion for Carl.
And don't worry, it's not anime.
Thank God.
One movie that I think that you guys should watch is Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan.
I know it sounds weird, but it's basically a psychological war movie in high school with women.
I think I've seen it years ago.
You've just got to see it to understand it.
It's really, really funny, and it has a really, really good message for young women for today.
But yeah, let me know what you think.
Alright, maybe we'll watch it.
I swear I've seen it.
I'm looking at images of the film.
But I can't remember any of the scenes.
You know what?
We can get Bo to watch it and do one of those movie club things.
Bo.
The epochs.
It's got no historical value to it.
And then he'll get really annoyed.
I'm sure you could argue it has some.
It's quite a good representation of toxic femininity, being girls.
It's just high school girls being mean to each other.
Just being high school girls, yeah.
And just breaking each other's reputation Is it like, what is it, Easy A? I can't remember, you remember seeing that movie?
Where it's this girl, there's this old folktale of some Mormons or something.
No, it's not Mormons, it's Puritans.
And they, a woman who adulterers, they put a red A on them and then she's like carved with it and this new version is she decides to lie and tell everyone like, if you give me two bucks then I'll say that I slept with you, right?
And then it starts spiralling out of control and then she starts walking around with like an A tattooed on her clothing and just like lives up to the whole thing and then reveals actually it was all nonsense and no one in this school got laid with me.
Yeah, she sews an A to her clothes for A for adulteress.
The joke is that she's actually a virgin.
She's never even had sex.
No.
Like, she never even folded anyone.
Pretending to have sex with us.
Just like proto OnlyFans before the internet.
Yeah, that is.
Join my OnlyFans.
Literally.
Let's go to the next one.
Since it has been discussed, I figured I might as well share this C96 with terrible reproduction handles.
The lovely internals of the C96. Very few screws except for in the grip.
Lots of fun little machined pieces.
I also have a few Biden Land Fun Bucks, 1918 edition.
Wait, seriously?
Are they First World War German money?
They look weird.
They look like cards.
I assume they're German, not Austro-Hungarian, although it's hard to tell, because, you know, I don't know what the hell this is.
But, yeah, because the currency turned to nothing, didn't they?
Well, I do love the...
I can't remember the name of the gun you were showing, but people keep taking them and sawing off the end because they want to have Han Solo's blaster.
Oh!
So then they'll glue on other crap to make it look like Han Solo's.
I'm ruining it.
Yeah, people who own that gun are apparently getting more and more annoyed that they keep disappearing because of Star Wars simps.
Let's go for the next one.
Hi guys.
I'm glad you've been liking the consumer research ads.
I got one more that I can put on as a video comment.
There's another one that's a minute long that I highly recommend.
It's a music video, Woka-Cola.
If you want to just find them really quick, they're in my playlist.
Based videos, five minutes and under.
And on Friday, I went to a fish and chips joint with my family.
And as a proper American, I had this.
Seven out of ten burgers.
Why?
You know, actually, usually when I go fish and chips, I usually get burger anyway, so I can't talk.
I'm not a huge fan of the battered cod.
What about other fish?
Like plays or something?
Yeah, it's not too bad.
Is it because of flavorless or what?
Yeah, basically.
Yeah, because cod is like, yeah, flavorless.
Try the other ones.
Yeah, okay, fair enough.
We'll give you that.
But also, you're an American, so I guess burger is the only correct response to what you would like to eat.
Let's go to the next one.
To the lady who was asking about people talking about a civil war in the States in reaction to all the nonsense going on, I would only say hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Obviously we want to Aim for a peaceful solution to all this, but preparation matters and sometimes that kind of preparedness is the road to the peaceful solution.
If there's no threat, why wouldn't they just press on and keep harassing us forever?
That's an amazing comment and very well put.
I mean, we've seen what's happened in South Africa, for example.
And when you look at that footage, you just start to think, okay, if all these people were prepared like the American Republicans are, then you wouldn't have these problems.
And in some of the areas where people were prepared, you didn't get those problems.
And then you look at BLM, it's the same thing.
It's exactly the same situation.
So be prepared for doing it.
I think this was the clip I wanted to play earlier.
You know, we might as well play it now for folks just to see him talk about this.
Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
No, it is not.
Why?
Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world, and an air force, against something like 75,000 Taliban.
It is not inevitable.
Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling...
None whatsoever.
Zero.
What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy.
Six, if I'm not mistaken.
The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army.
They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.
It is not at all comparable.
Exactly that is what happened.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
They may have actually been more efficient than the Vietnamese, to be honest.
Yeah, they were faster as well.
Yeah, they were faster.
And the other thing there, I'm also kind of gloating on Josh, because I remember when we did the last episode in Afghanistan, before it all went to hell, Josh was like, well, you know, they've got 300,000 troops and all these weapons and everything.
I was like, yeah, but it depends on the troops.
And he was just like, oh, there's 300,000.
I'm like, yeah, they're all abandoned.
Yeah, because I thought, like, historically, like, they say, like, only very few people actually killing people on battlefield is, like, a few people that are, like, proper elite going around slaughtering everyone, and most people just stood around trying not to die.
It's kind of like that.
Apparently the entire Afghan army were the guys trying not to die, and the entire Taliban army were the guys killing.
Well...
Oh, boy.
I mean, you should go and watch, everyone should go and watch the This Is What Winning Looks Like.
That's the title.
Documentary.
It's on YouTube.
You should go and see it.
I think it's got like 9 million views.
And it really is eye-opening as to how bad the government is there.
I mean, he has a scene where he goes down and he meets the Afghan army, who are meant to be patrolling the area, keeping Taliban at bay.
And they're just high on heroin.
What?
Like, all of them.
They're not just on Wii.
They're just stood around.
Yeah, well, no wonder they can't fight.
It's like they have no interest.
The Americans turn up and they're like, hey, we should build a sandbag wall here so you don't all get killed.
And they're like, do we have to?
It's for your protection.
They end up, like, roping in civilians and making them do it because they can't be bothered.
I mean, there was no army.
It was 300,000 on paper only by the looks of it.
I mean, maybe there was some kind of army in Kabul, but they're all dead.
So, rip.
That's over.
Anyway, I think we're out of the video comments there.
Do you want to read the comments here?
Yeah, I'll read a couple of the four.
Right.
From Brian Tomlinson, the Town Twining Association has confirmed that Kabul 2021 has been twined with Saigon 1975.
Oh, that's weird.
Free Will 2112.
Stop the War Coalition issued a statement on their website saying that we ought to pay the Taliban money to help reconstruct Afghanistan.
If we were at war with hell, these people would side with Satan.
Yeah, I mean, they literally did during the Cold War, the Stop the War Coalition.
It's essentially a Stalinist front.
I mean, this is a weird thing I learned from the book, The Long March of the Institutions.
Like, a bunch of them literally were Stalinists when it was set up.
And the Soviets even wrote about how successful they were in setting it up.
Yeah, because I was like, I was on Facebook and so it was 8-Bit Communism was gloating about like, oh, we never lost a war, eh?
And then they were gloating about Americans losing the war.
So you know those people are, they not just want communism for the country, they actively want the country to lose, they actually hate the country.
I mean, we have...
What's that quote from Notes on Nationalism?
Karl always says that the intellectuals during the Second World War wanting Britain to lose.
I mean, you can see that in real time with Afghanistan.
I mean, as someone who, yeah, wants us to be out, I'm sure you want us to be out, but the leaving is a mess.
But at the same time, I don't want us to lose, and we did lose.
Well, I want us to ambush them, as you've heard.
It would make a much better one.
Anyway, Matthew Hammond.
If the US and the other coalition forces over the last 20 years had switched the economy of Afghanistan from an opium-producing country to a rare-earth mining country, we may not be in this situation today.
I don't know.
I mean, the Congo kind of did that as well.
It's still kind of an S show.
M1ping.
I can't wait for the fact checks on Saigon Cabal memes.
Mostly false.
The helicopter is painting a different colour.
So it's painted a different colour.
So Cabal evacuation looks nothing like the Fort Saigon.
That's going to happen.
That is definitely going to happen.
Paul Roach, the US couldn't defeat the Taliban for the same reason the British couldn't defeat the IRA. If there's a significant proportion of civilian population willing to support the insurgency, it's almost impossible to eradicate, unless you're willing to use extremely evil methods on those civilians.
Yeah, true.
I mean, that's one of the things.
The speed of this advance, as an outsider who isn't a military guy, so, you know, just looking at it, is that it seems to be, from the polling as well, people don't really mind the Taliban in the same way that they minded the Americans or whatever.
Yeah.
The support seems to be there.
Not, oh, we love the Taliban, but enough to say, we'll live with that.
I mean, there's a saying, which is, every country deserves the government it gets.
Yeah.
Even dictatorships?
Because I think those countries see the Americans as foreign invaders, so they'd rather have their own tyranny over foreign tyranny, in their sense.
But from the phrase of everyone deserves their own government, I mean, even in a dictatorship, like, I don't know, we'll take...
China, for example.
De facto, there is a level, even if it's not avid support, there is a level of acceptance of the current order.
And if you have that, well, the current order will survive.
The thing is, most people want stability.
So if they've got a stable life, they go home, everything's fine, they've got a job, they don't want change, usually.
That's the case.
Anyway, I'm not sure I can pronounce his name.
I just reduced to saying Spanish name.
As Kyle said, I expect the Trump era to have a golden glow to it for how good we had it comparatively.
But damn, I didn't expect it to be this soon.
I don't know Americans have the concept of emergency elections, but Biden and the Democrats should be expelled from the White House for the incompetent and outright traitorous administration.
All for his meme retreat date of 9-11 and avoid giving evil Cheeto Hitler a win.
Yeah, for some reason they decided the official evacuation date was September 11th.
Yeah.
Which, they were like, yeah, it's the anniversary of 9-11, so it's like we're leaving after 20 years.
Yeah, we haven't lost a man on that date, so...
It sounds awful to pick that date, but whatever.
But also the idea of him getting kicked out.
I mean, the fact that he's not given a statement, I do find very strange.
Like, why is he not...
I think he's probably ill.
He better be ill or something.
He's probably, like, not compass mentis, it's just not there.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not just Trump saying he should resign because, well, you know, Trump, but there's a lot of people wondering, like, is he going to go?
Are we going to get President Harris over this?
Because why is he saying nothing?
Why has he not made a statement being like, look, we've left, you know, I claim victory because...
Great success!
Yeah, you know, we were there to kill Al-Qaeda, not the Taliban, we got a peace process with them, the Afghan government failed, that's not our fault.
Our friends of the Taliban.
Some fucking spin to not sound so stupid.
There's been nothing.
Nada.
No word.
Anyway, M1 ping again.
Hang on, sorry.
I lost my position.
Do you want to read one?
M1 ping.
You need F-15s and nukes to take on the government.
That didn't really pan out, did it?
No.
Just the selection of American small arms you can steal from their base.
Well, it's given to them, really.
It's left it there.
It's like loot.
I was going to say, it is kind of like watching loot boxes or something.
It is.
I found some helicopters.
I found some jets.
Open this chest.
Loads of guns.
Oh.
Good God, this is embarrassing.
Look, comparisons can be made to Vietnam, I suppose, but all those guns being left behind is shameful.
I wonder how Joe Slott will try and spin this, because if I was the leader of the free world after this, I'd be sweating.
I mean, as I say, I saw Blinken trying to spin this as being like, well, they had to kill Al-Qaeda, I was like, yeah, okay.
Really?
That's where the mission started and ended, did it?
Why weren't you out there 15 years ago?
No.
It was about trying to keep Taliban out and we lost.
As Westerners, this is a big L. I mean, they're trying to keep the European farms running, that's why.
Yeah, probably.
That's why they've been heard.
Anyway, she's silver.
Trump had agreed to an orderly withdrawal back in May, where Biden decides to postpone it and speaks in the face of people of Afghanistan, completely delegitimising the Afghan government and easy propaganda for the Taliban.
Hence why the country rolled over for the Taliban because of that.
Now Biden's making a rush and bunk retreat, leaving all the equipment, all the translators and the embassy behind for the Taliban to F with.
Mission accomplished, indeed.
Yeah.
Blinking.
That was the other comment I saw from Trump, which is, we agreed to go out by May, therefore it would have been orderly and we would have planned it all and we wouldn't end up here.
Because he was now moving back to September, where it's now a disordered hellhole and there are people falling off planes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Next one, Adam Clayton.
Biden needs to resign in disgrace for the complete S-show he's created for Afghanistan.
He just couldn't let Trump have a win and as a result disrespected the Afghans, Afghanis and the Taliban and gave the Taliban propaganda to recruit and push.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the thing.
I'm sorry to not really talk much, but there's not really much positive out of this.
It's just we really effed up bad as the West...
Oh god, there's more memes from Mad Lad Miles.
Oh, let's have a look.
Decided to pop down to Pennsylvania for a few days.
Never been before, just goofing off and soaking in the Gettysburg.
Seems more peaceful than London to me, ask me anything.
Is there another one there underneath?
He's going to Hoth, just popping into Hoth for a few days.
Oh boy.
What the hell is that one?
Just shoving off, soaking the helms deep.
Oh, this is brilliant.
Look, the entire British government, if anyone from the British government is watching the screen, please, for the love of God, get Miles out.
That man is too precious to be left there to die.
We should move to the next segment.
Do you want to read some out?
Okay, sure.
Buck Schwossler, feeling cute.
Might head to a war zone.
Might get deleted later.
Rose Gonala, mad lad must be the reincarnation of Amo Kuivin.
Sorry, I don't know him.
Look him up.
Those are the eyes of a man who saw the face of God and laughed.
Michael, can you look up that name?
Just see who it is.
I imagine it's someone that Dank has done a Mad Lads on or something.
Yeah, there we go.
Who's that guy?
Do you know him?
No, I don't.
Let's find out.
Finished World War II soldier and documented first case of overdosing on methamphetamines during combat.
Blah, blah.
Okay.
So he got really high on meth and just like fought the war high.
He was in World War I and World War II. How many kills did he make before he killed himself?
He was in World War II and win the war.
Good lad.
Although I do know, do you know about Panzerschokolade?
No, no.
So it's called, the translation is tank chocolate.
The Germans used to give this to their tanks, and it's just meth.
Actually, I have heard of it.
Yeah, you mentioned it.
Yes, I have.
You just get really f***ing high.
It's like, okay...
So, JHW said, Lord Miles for the Lotus Eaters, foreign correspondent.
Sure!
I mean, if he wants to go to every hellhole on Earth and give us reporting...
Yeah, we have to interview him.
We can offer him a job.
He can be like a war zone...
Yeah, definitely.
Miles, please make it back.
What if he goes to North Korea?
Tiger Fett says, Sorry, but while I don't hope the lad dies in Kabul, I don't care if he does.
No, no, come on.
It's too precious.
He will put others at risk if they have to save him.
If he gets captured and ransomed, that's money for free terrorists in exchange for this idiot.
He intentionally chose to go to the more dangerous place on Earth he could.
Same when you see the idiot SJW who decide to bike around Islamic countries and get killed.
I suppose the only caveat there is that he was promised from the United States government and their intelligence agencies that the regime wouldn't fall for at least 30 days.
Remember?
We had secured it.
We were having an organized retreat.
And he got bum-rushed by reality, as did the US government.
It sounds like Lord Miles was prepared to die.
Yeah, Lord Miles said he had no regrets.
I die here, I die here.
I've got a gun in my arms.
But the idea we shouldn't be upset if he dies...
Oh, come on.
There's someone that...
Come on, man.
If some...
Sort of mad lad...
Michael says the chat thinks Callum has gone gay for the mad lad.
I haven't.
Also, he has a girlfriend and he's Christian, so that's not going to happen, but...
Yeah, homewrecker.
It's not going to happen.
I do love, in his livestream, he just kept bringing up that he's Christian to all the degenerate commenters who were like...
Jesus is king!
Yeah, essentially.
People kept commenting inappropriate stuff, and he's like, no, I have Christ.
Anyway.
Student of History says, is Lord Miles going to rally the Afghans to fight for lord and country?
Is The Trooper by Iron Maiden going to be playing the whole time?
Find out next time in The Adventures of Lord Miles.
There's some good music to be gone with this as well.
Like, I'm sure people can get some Lawrence of Arabia music or something and just redub the entire trailer as Lord Miles.
It'd be good.
Elfer of the Beta says future Miles slash Calum bromance in the cards.
Don't die, hubby.
See, this is why you need to get a girlfriend's stats and no one ever make those jokes again.
I don't mind hanging out with Lord Miles.
The guy's a goddamn lunatic.
Like, that's amazing.
Do you want to do the work of parallelism?
Yeah, sure.
It's JJHW. The Americans didn't use racial pride flag in Afghanistan.
That's why they lost.
Yeah, big thing.
Turkestani freedom fighter.
If the West invades a third world country, this is colonialism.
If the West doesn't intervene in a third world humanitarian crisis, if white people were suffering in the West, would interfere.
If the West retreats from a third world country, this is because they don't care enough about brown people.
It's like Catch-22.
Catch-22.
Everything is with this shit abuse, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Either way, you lose.
Catastrophic regression threshold.
The clip was the most coherent thing I've heard Biden say in years.
Kind of impressed and depressed at the same time.
Yeah, it's weird.
He actually said something sensible, and he's getting panned from the Democratic left.
I did see Michael Malice talking about the fact that the most positive thing that has happened through all of this is it's now mainstream right-wing Republican position to just be like, we're not getting involved.
Like, we don't want to go back in.
The rhinos ain't getting involved again.
Well, the rhinos will be pissed off.
But the Trump position of non-intervention, we're getting out.
And if it goes to hell, not our problem.
Whereas the Dems are like, no, we should go back in.
It just seems like they leave in the middle of the night, rather than a strategic retreat.
We'll deploy certain troops here, so we're retreating this troop from here.
If you do it in stages, so it's not a drastic change, it doesn't give the opponent a sudden rush to attack.
But never mind.
That's the criticism Trump's labelled.
He's like, I had my plan, you screwed that up, you did your own, and now you have to pay for it.
Yeah.
Anyway, Joe Schmell?
I don't know.
Only woke imperialism can savour some of these mostly peaceful capital rioters in Kabul.
But I don't think woke imperialism has any progress left to make in the region if they're already addressing the incel question and letting boys identify as women.
I must admit, there's a very much a me and the boys attitude, a, like, feel to the images of them in the palace.
I know, man.
It's brown boy summer.
It's like, they literally stormed the capital, and in their version, the president just left.
So, wheeze the government now.
They need to be wearing sunglasses in there, holding the guns in the embassy, and then, uh...
Although I did see they didn't have a drink and do cheers because of course Muslims.
But they did instead just all shout Takbir Allahu Akbar in the office for like five minutes and then left.
Whatever turns you on.
Speak one's mind.
Am I right in saying that Trump wanted the troops to start pulling out in November and then it was only partial withdrawal?
I thought Biden catered to the demands to pull all troops out in the summer was a bit fishy.
It kind of gives me the impression that Biden will now use this to send troops back in and the cycle will start over again.
I don't think so.
I don't think they would send troops back in.
It really looks like it's over and I hope it's over.
I don't think Biden is going to send troops back in.
That's just going to inflict massive casualties.
I can imagine him doing it.
Because obviously, if you're defending a stronghold, it's much easier than attacking.
You need vastly more men to attack somewhere than defend.
Unless they just want to send drones and just bomb it to smithereen.
That's a different story.
I do like what Ranvier's been saying about this, which is the attitude should be, well, it's India's problem now, and if India wants that place secure for its own political interests, send in your troops and you can deal with it.
Because, I mean, they hate Pakistan anyway, so, I mean, them fighting each other there...
Start a foreign war.
Proxy war.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, they've never really stopped being a war properly, so...
Yeah, I suppose.
But the only time they stopped having war was when Trump was in power.
Pretty much.
Yeah, they invade a new country for I don't know how many...
Although I should clarify, Trump's plan was not to get them out in November, as the commentator said.
It was to go out in May.
The negotiations, I think, were last November or before in Doha.
So negotiating in November to pull out in May...
Don't quote me.
Go and read Wikipedia for the specific dates.
Craig Gorman, I disagree with a lot of foreign practices and cultures.
However, it's not on to us to change them.
We change the world by provincially trading with countries that share our values, and the change will be slow, but that's how the change should be.
Yeah, I mean, with Tobias saying that we should civilise them, it's like, well, if we had the British Empire, I could agree.
It could be the British's job to go around the world civilising the world.
We don't have the British Empire anymore, and we're not going to set up a protectorate there.
So, well, we have no duties to them.
George Windsor.
Gentlemen, I've noticed that no swearing standards begin to slip.
Kyle broke it a few days back and this morning, Callum has also been devolved to linguistically.
While I, as a newfound lender, half my dialect is proven to someone.
Understand that someone's swearing is warranted.
Sometimes swearing is warranted.
I would like to see you maintain the standards as it's both more professional and demonstrates discipline.
Also, John's accent is effing with my cognitive functions.
You're effing right.
Try and stop swearing, but just sometimes.
They just slip sometimes, I get it.
Anyway, but we'll end it there on that bombshell because we're out of time.
But thank you for joining us.
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