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Aug. 27, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #207
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 27th of August 2021.
I'm joined by Carl.
Hello!
And today we're going to talk about the bombing of Kabul, the chaos in Afghanistan, and the failing Biden regime.
Because what has happened over the last 24 hours is probably going to define Biden's legacy even more than the evacuation already did.
Yeah.
To be very frank.
I didn't realize it could get so much worse.
Yeah.
Probably should have expected it to get so much worse.
And it probably will get even worse than this.
But, yeah.
So anyway, first things to mention is stuff on the website.
So the first thing here being the live events to mention.
So the 24th and 25th of September.
I've got to keep mentioning it because I want to make sure people are aware.
The 24th is in South London.
25th is in Central London.
If you buy a ticket, you'll be sent the precise location.
I think it's the day before or something like that.
I can't remember off of my head.
Day before, John's saying is correct.
So then you can walk down.
But if you buy a hotel in the region, you'll be able to walk down or get the tube.
It's not that hard in London.
Everything's very connected.
Anyway, so there's that.
So go and buy some tickets if you would like to come to that.
It's going to be great.
It's going to be good fun.
So that's Dankula and Carl as well.
And Mystery Guest.
So if we go to the next one...
This is just the premium content.
Yeah, we've got loads of great premium content.
We've got a new article about Joe Biden and the End of Chivalry by John Tangney, which is a very interesting and philosophical, thought-provoking read.
But of course, we've got my favourite stuff, which is the Epochs and the Book Club, in which we talk about, well, in fact, you talked about Frank Dicotta's Great Famine, Mao's Great Famine.
And, of course, going through various interesting things in history.
And I tell you what, right, this one about the Roman naval disasters and the First Punic War doesn't get the love it deserves, because just some of the largest naval battles in all of human history took place in, like, 260 B.C., In, well, the seas around Sicily, and hundreds of thousands of people just die at sea through various calamities and catastrophes.
And the whole war goes on for 26 years with an indecisive result.
So imagine you've been fighting for 26 years, you've lost 300, 400,000 men on both sides combined, and then in the end it's like, well, we're just going to have to stop fighting for a while.
It's absolutely fascinating.
And no one ever, like, you know, Hollywood could be doing epic stories of this, and they don't.
But anyways...
What would be the ending?
Everyone died and then nothing happened.
Well, no, because then it sets the stage for the second Punic War.
Anyway, so there's that.
Also, the last thing to mention, which is a free article from Hannah Gell.
She put a lot of work into this one.
She wanted to explain antisemitism.
So this is, in her words, explaining antisemitism and its history and so on and so forth.
There was a funny mention in this.
She told her a Jewish joke, which is there's two Jews sitting in Nazi Germany, and one Jew is reading a Yiddish newspaper, learning about Jews leaving their jobs and their citizenship and whatnot.
And he looks at the other Jew, and the other Jew's reading a Nazi newspaper.
He's like, what the hell are you reading that for?
And he says, well, I read that one.
I learn about how we're losing our jobs and everything.
I read this one, and we run the world.
It's very good news.
That's actually really funny.
Anyway, so without further ado, I guess we should get into Afghanistan.
So...
First thing to talk about is, of course, the bombing itself.
So there have been two bombings in the airport area of Afghanistan in Kabul, and the results have been pretty striking.
So I thought we'd go through this in some kind of chronological order.
First convention is, of course, the warnings beforehand.
So this is a video of British intelligence warning about a threat from Islamic State Khorasan, which is imminent, incredible, and lethal to the airport itself.
So everyone told them They're foreigners in the region.
Get out of the airport.
Don't be there.
And that was the threat.
So the reporters kept asking Biden at these press conferences he kept trying to give.
I'm saying trying because he turned up, speak for like 15 minutes, and they'd be like, bye-bye, see you tomorrow, no questions.
But worse, he would turn up literally hours late.
Yeah.
Or just cancel them like the State Department did yesterday.
So if we go to the next one, you can see this in which a...
Oh yeah, he would refuse to take questions as well.
A reporter shouted out because he refused to take questions.
What about ISIS and their threats that Americans face now in reference to the reports of the threat at the airbase?
And Biden just walked off because...
No questions, folks.
This also became a meme.
So if we go to the next one, just every press conference, he's just walking off.
Yeah.
Just not interested?
There were loads of really important questions that journalists would actually shout at him, and he would just ignore them and walk off.
I mean, at the worst of time, I will admit, the journalist shouting things at press conferences come off silly, but when it's this serious and he takes zero questions...
Annoyingly, the journalists were actually shouting pertinent questions as well.
If they were shouting stupid questions, like they'd shout at Trump...
What's your favourite?
Ice cream?
Yeah, exactly.
It would have been fine, but Joe Biden actually needed to answer these questions, and he didn't.
Yeah, so we go to the next one.
This has also become a meme.
So this is the portrait of the, was it officially the 46th president of the United States?
Yeah, fitting.
So we go to the next one.
The Taliban issued a deadline to the United States to withdraw by the 31st of August, and the US officials are saying they're going to keep that Taliban deadline.
Because that's how the reins of power have gotten.
Yep.
The Taliban tell the Americans what to do and not the other way around.
So the Americans have gone to calling the Taliban Afghan partners.
So we go to the next link.
You have General Frank McKenzie, Commander of the US Central Command and Rear Admiral Peter Vasily, Head of the US Forces on the Ground in Afghanistan, now refer to the Taliban as our Afghan partners.
That's incredible.
Like, the Taliban are a terrorist organisation.
Yeah.
From the perspective of the Americans.
And this just, honestly, it just reminds me of this.
I feel like I'm getting dispatches from King Darius during the Macedonian invasion describing, you know, our Macedonian partners have taken administration of Egypt.
It's like, yeah, well, that means they've conquered it.
You know, they've defeated you, conquered it, and then they're coming for more.
Macedonian partners.
Yeah, exactly.
It's such a bizarre way of trying to normalize what's a terrorist group taking over a country.
But there is a reason for this, of course, is that there is no one else in Afghanistan running the place.
It is just the Taliban.
So at this point, if you're going to work with anyone, you've got one option.
Yeah, well, that's because...
What was the name of the president who ran, fled to the UAE? Can't even remember.
Yeah, exactly.
He just took, like, $100 million in a suitcase and fled.
There is some touching news from the Taliban.
Taliban fighters in the UK embassy have vowed to protect any portraits of the Queen from looters.
I mean, thanks, lads.
They're shooting people in the streets, but they're not going to desecrate an image of the Queen.
I mean, I'm British, so I'll take that as a compliment.
But of course, this might also have a bit of a dodgy aspect that apparently we left a bunch of documents for them to find in the embassy.
So we go to the next one.
The British embassy left details of Afghan staff for the Taliban to find.
So apparently in the embassy, the evacuation was so fast that people didn't think to burn all the documents with a list of, you know, our previous Afghan friends.
So the Taliban have a bunch of them now.
And in return, they're not going to destroy the portraits of the Queen, I guess.
And there have been reports that they've been going around killing people who worked with the American administration.
I mean, they said they would do.
Well, no, they said they wouldn't.
They wouldn't take reprisals.
Oh, they said they would, and then they took over and they said, we're totally not going to take reprisals, and then there's loads of reports of, yeah, all these guys I met in Afghanistan are all dead.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can't call them anymore.
Yeah.
I mean, if I was going to put my money on it, I'm suggesting that these very sane, austere religious scholars...
I mean, look at that guy's eyes.
Jesus Christ, he looks intense.
Yeah.
I'm guessing these austere religious scholars probably are shooting their enemies.
Yep.
There's also the fact that, okay, we may have goofed here a little bit with the massive evacuation you have to do on short notice, thanks to the Americans, because they're the ones who decide NATO foreign policy, let's be frank.
Well, we say the Americans, but it seems to have been Biden or his...
Yeah, specifically Biden, of course, but from a foreigner perspective.
Of course, yeah.
I don't want all Americans to feel blamed for what's happened here because I don't think it was your fault.
Not only do I not think you elected Biden, but I also think that he made this decision unilaterally.
So the US officials from Biden's regime apparently have given the Taliban a list of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry to the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city's airport.
That's amazing.
That's actually amazing.
That's the worst thing you could have done for these people.
You've just given the Taliban a kill list.
I mean, on a very charitable interpretation, I can understand the American citizens or green card holder types because we have the instance of the mad lad Miles, for example, who stated that he and his group of various nationalities were escorted to the airport by Taliban.
Taliban took them and made sure they were safe because they wanted to just get rid of the foreigners so they can get back to being the Taliban.
So I get that part, but to give them a list of names of Afghan allies...
I mean, the people they are trying to kill.
Take the Taliban's perspective.
You've just succeeded in conquering a very chaotic country.
The first thing you're going to want to do is absolutely purge those people who worked with the invaders.
So, of course, the airport is the thing to bomb if you're an Islamist militant who wants to kill a bunch of Americans or people trying to flee Afghanistan.
So we go to the next one.
This is just some footage of the scenes that were outside.
You can see people standing in the sewage there around the entire airport who are pleading to get in.
As Sky News reported, many of them have no right, but that doesn't seem to matter because this is just an S-show, again, as we've created.
And one of the bombs went off in a site exactly like this.
So we're not going to play the footage, but if you want to imagine what happened, just, you know, blow up a bomb here.
And yeah, I mean, the number of people...
Imagine the terror and chaos.
Yeah, so that's where one of the bombs went off.
So we go to the BBC article on this.
They have the details of what happened.
So at least 90 people have been killed and 150 others wounded, a senior health official in Kabul told the BBC. This number keeps going up and up because they are counting the bodies.
The Pentagon has confirmed that at least 13 US service personnel were among those killed.
So 13 Americans dead who were trying to protect the base.
The bombings came hours after Western governments had warned their citizens to stay away from the airport because of an imminent threat of an attack by ISK, the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State group.
The first explosion happened around 6pm local time, close to the Baron Hotel near the airport's inner perimeter.
The hotel was being used by British officials to process Afghans, hoping to travel to the UK. Sorry, Alta Perimeter.
So there's one bomb that went off right next to the entrance, and there's one that went off near to a hotel where the British are trying to process people who we want or don't want.
Don't know how well that's going.
So the US official said that at least one attacker had been wearing an explosive vest, so one of them was a suicide bomber.
So there's no getting him back.
There's no arresting him.
He's...
I've been paradise now, as they would say.
According to one account, one attacker fired into a crowd of people.
Other reports also said that the Taliban guards had fired into the air.
I presume that's because I've seen this with the Afghan army as well.
It's a weird tactic where in response to force, they just fire into the air to be like, ha ha, you know, we've got force too.
So I presume that's what the Taliban guards around the whole place.
Assumedly, it's an intimidation tactic.
Yeah, but it also tells you that the Taliban are basically running the show, as anyone who's looking at this can tell.
Oh, well, as we'll talk about later, the Biden administration has ceded the ground on this, and yes, they are running the show.
Yeah.
So, before the attack, a number of countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada, had announced that they would no longer conduct flights.
Turkey has announced that its troops, who had been providing security at the airport for six years, were also withdrawing.
So everyone else is basically just leaving.
Yeah.
Right, it's terrorism time again, back to normal Afghanistan, where everything's just civil war 24-7.
We're off.
As mentioned, ISIS had claimed responsibility.
As you can see, the different flag from the Taliban one, black background, not white background.
I want to make that clear for anyone who's working at the CIA. Apparently they don't know.
Also, if we go to the next one, the weird thing about this is that the British ambassador went on to GB News to say that he'd never heard of Islamic State's affiliate group in Afghanistan.
Yeah, I hadn't.
No one had it.
So it's not just like people who shouldn't be in the know didn't know, but people who should be in the know, you know, the ambassador was just like, yeah, I have no idea.
You can do a Google search.
And before, like, literally a couple of days ago, it just wasn't a phrase that had ever been mentioned on the internet.
So where has this come from?
His quote is, it never existed before.
The argument, I imagine, it's from the Taliban who walked into the prisons and just freed everyone.
I mean, the Taliban is not one unified force.
There are multiple factions, and therefore there's multiple factions of Islamists, in the same way you get with multiple factions of socialists.
Yeah, but the thing is, so very briefly, the only thing that we really know about these is the fact that they are deeply opposed to the Taliban.
And this is what we hear from Western media.
It's like, okay, but on what grounds?
They're both Sunni groups.
They're both terrorist groups.
They both want to institute a very strict regime of the Sharia.
They both want to kick the Kufars out of Afghanistan.
On what grounds are they opposed?
Yeah, it's like the Stalinists versus Leninists.
It's like...
No one but an autist can tell the difference.
Yeah, exactly.
Unless you're very, very deeply into it, I imagine.
You can't really see any particular philosophical or ideological difference.
But who cares?
These groups, like in Syria and Iraq, they're going to be incredibly porous.
People are going to move from group to group very easily.
Yeah.
I mentioned previously that we'd evacuated a whole bunch of people and what six of them turned out to be on a no-fly list and one of them made them all the way to Birmingham before we found out and he was described as a direct threat to the UK and we'd imported him into Birmingham as a refugee.
Yeah, this is getting worse and worse because if we go to the next link here, Afghans are being evacuated with forged documents according to the Telegraph.
So Afghan evacuees have arrived at Heathrow in the past 48 hours with forged papers and no documentation, a border officer on the ground told the Telegraph.
So not just no documentation, which could be expected, because war zone, you know, you have to run all the rest of it, the government doesn't exist anymore.
But forged documents?
Forged.
Right, so that took some time to create.
Yeah, took some effort.
And why would you have to do that?
Good question.
Even when we've said you don't need to bring your passport, people are making forged documents.
What's that about?
No idea.
I'm glad we've only imported one terrorist, and five others are just in the system.
God knows how many more are coming, and, well, we can look forward to Kabul Heathrow.
So, if we go to the next one, the Islamic Emirate has made a statement on this, because the Taliban are still on Twitter, and they're still on Twitter.
Favourite platform of choice.
The Mad Muller that runs Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is in full agreement with the Taliban's aims and objectives.
He did actually say they can use our platform as long as they don't break the rules.
It's like, really?
As long as they don't misgender anyone, go ahead.
Yeah, exactly.
That's literally it.
As long as they don't tell anyone not to overthrow the capital, that's fine.
You know, it's like...
It's absurd.
It's ridiculous.
The Taliban said in a statement the Islamic Emirates strongly condemns the bombing of civilians at Kabul airport.
I mean, I guess they would, wouldn't they?
They've taken it over.
I also love the bombing of civilians.
People love the Americans.
I mean, who gives a toss?
I mean, the Taliban still.
So they condemned it.
But then they went on a weird rant on their Twitter account.
Let's just read the rest of this, right?
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a US military base.
The Islamic Emirate is very concerned about the security and protection of its people.
The evil circles will be stopped in full force.
So they are taking on the rhetoric and aspect of an actual government now.
Oh, yeah.
They've been doing it for a little while, actually.
But their subsequent tweets kind of crashed that.
Well, I can imagine.
Yeah, so we go to the next one.
The Taliban claims that the explosions were U.S. troops destroying their own assets.
But...
If you're describing the civilians there as assets...
So the translation reads, Taliban spokesman, several explosions have been heard tonight in Kabul.
They were controlled detonations carried out by U.S. troops who were destroying their own assets at Kabul airport.
I wonder why they would say that.
I don't know.
And they doubled down on this.
This wasn't just like an F-up.
If we go to the next one, they say explosions were heard inside Kabul airport after dinner today.
I wonder what a time after dinner.
Anyway, so these explosions were carried out by American forces to destroy their own equipment, so the citizens of Kabul need not worry.
Right.
It's interesting how this is an attempt to get people to calm down.
Yeah.
I mean, if you're the Taliban and you've just taken over, you don't want people running around chaotically, do you?
Yeah, but you can also see the weird rhetoric being like, yeah, we need to destroy the evil.
Because a bunch of the Taliban died in this as well.
Well, that's of course how they think.
No, no, no, I mean a bunch of the Taliban died as in Taliban soldiers outside.
Yeah, yeah, but they think in terms of good and evil.
Sure, sure.
I mean the difference between them and ISIS. I don't know, it's just like, who cares, man?
So Russia Today reporting here, Taliban claims that at least 28 of its own members were killed in the Kabul blast, vows to step up security, but no deadline on extension.
So they're still saying the Americans get out by the 31st or else.
Right.
Or else what?
I can't believe that the Taliban security wasn't sufficient to protect from ISIS bombing.
There's also their claiming 28 if their own members were there.
Who knows?
Probably true, though, considering that they do have a bunch of their guys just surrounding the airport.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you've seen the footage of them literally standing around in the crowd.
So if a crowd gets bombed, then it's not surprising they'd get hit, too.
Yeah, and the last thing here is that evacuation flights are apparently set back up again.
So they're resuming to try and get people out.
Which, yeah, so that's another day in Afghanistan.
I mean, that's the thing.
I know a lot of people have been saying for the last 18 months, no American soldiers were killed, for example.
That was obviously because of the deal.
The Americans, 18 months ago, started a negotiation with the Taliban.
Therefore, for the subsequent 18 months, let's not kill the people we're negotiating with.
So there's that.
But back to normal, which is just, you know, civil war territory.
I mean, I saw some guy on GB News saying this, who'd served in Afghanistan, which is like, yeah, this is just normal days.
You know, this is not a big surprise.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
But now that there's all this attention on this, and because, of course, it is Biden's F-up, then were the other criticism.
And just to be clear, yeah, it is normal that, you know, explosions and terrorism and that happen in Afghanistan...
its last foothold.
And I mean, this whole thing was totally avoidable.
None of this had to happen.
And it was, it seems to have been Joe Biden's knee jerk response.
Cause that's the feeling that I'm getting from watching all of this is that none of this was very well planned.
And Biden was, you know, obviously the administration was, oh yeah, well this is all down to plan.
It's like, this obviously isn't.
This is obviously not planned.
This is obviously chaos that's going on, and you have no idea what's going on.
And for some reason, you, and this is why all the memes of Joe Biden's art of war do exactly the opposite of what Sun Tzu would recommend.
You know, take the soldiers out first, and then let's hope the civilians can get along on their own.
Yeah, but also he's the one who pushed back the deadline.
Everyone should have been out by May 1st, according to Trump's plan.
And then he was just like, no, let's just extend it to September 11th.
Yeah, why?
Why September 11th?
He still hasn't said.
Again, it just seems strangely significant that you would choose September 11th.
Yeah, I don't know if it's the weird Democrat mindset.
It was like, we went on for September 11th, I thought we were going out on September 11th.
Maybe.
Jesus Christ, though.
Well, maybe.
I know, but from a foreign mindset, I'm looking at that being like, if Americans understand that, whatever, but for us, that just looks like, why would you do it on the anniversary?
I get the feeling that Republican-style Americans would view that as an insult.
I would.
Well, that's the point.
That's the way I'm thinking, because you've got the Democrats who generally just kind of hate America.
It wouldn't be surprising to me if they were trying to subtly insult the Republicans at the same time.
Yeah, I think the bombs going off, yeah, normal.
The 13 deaths can be placed on Biden because of the failure to enact his own plan, which was set up by Trump, as he says, to go up by May 1st, and instead he extended it for no given reason.
It wasn't like the Americans were going to stay.
The plan had been drawn now to leave, and it's his bungle, and therefore he is responsible.
John, did you say it was the 31st of August?
Yeah.
That's the deadline.
Yeah, we mentioned that.
The Taliban gave up.
Yeah, yeah, of course they have.
Anyway, let's move on to the chaos in Afghanistan.
So, some of the hell that's been going on.
So, the first thing to mention here is, of course, the US diplomats talking about all of this.
So, this is a US diplomat who says from the State Department, put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan, telling them to leave since April.
So, there's the other question of...
He probably shouldn't have been there.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So, I mean, this is the criticism of Miles that is, yeah, somewhat valid, which is that he shouldn't have gone, for example.
Sure, but I mean, he seems to have accepted that.
Yes.
So, the US diplomat says here, people chose not to leave, that's their business.
Yeah, kind of.
There is also the counter-argument, of course, that the Americans said it won't topple for 90 days.
We're going to stick to our deadline of September the 11th to leave, which...
And even if that was the case, you wouldn't have expected the leaving to be such a debacle.
You'd have thought, okay, the troops are going to be there until the end, and then they're going to leave.
There's also the Americans who can't get out of Afghanistan.
So we go to the next link here.
Americans stranded in Afghanistan dispute White House claims of a smooth evacuation.
Yeah, so this is important because, of course, the Biden regime has been claiming the dollar.
I mean, they've claimed multiple things and multiple times.
But one, that there's no Americans trapped in Afghanistan.
Or two, that the Americans can get out because they're being escorted by the Taliban.
Or three, there's no problem whatsoever.
And these people are like, actually, there are problems when we're stranded here.
Please get me out.
Why are you ignoring us?
And of course this was a massive, shameful episode for the Biden administration because it makes them look like they're just abandoning US civilians and troops in Afghanistan.
awful i also did see the valid criticism from san lindy cruz which is the background airport just to the north of the current airport they're trying to get people out of much better defended it had a military presence and that was one of the airports where they vanished overnight yeah because to get their guys out and they the vanishing that would have been a really useful place to extract people yes it would have been and it's so weird as well because didn't they not even tell the sort of afghan allies on the ground that they were leaving yeah So the next day, they're gone?
What do you mean they're gone?
No, they're just left in the night.
Presumably they wanted to get some stuff out and they didn't want to be attacked or something.
I don't know.
Embarrassing.
It's not my reasoning.
So the Taliban are now apparently being said to protect the Americans.
According to the Americans.
So this is the further statement from U.S. General McKinsey.
So he says on Kabul ISIS, sorry, he says that ISIS will continue these attacks, McKinsey says, quote, that includes reaching out to the Taliban who are actually providing the outer security cordon around the airfield to make sure that what we're expecting them to do is to protect us.
The Taliban are protecting the Americans.
Good to know.
To make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us.
So they're expecting the Taliban to follow US procedure in presumably screening people to make sure they're not a part of ISIS and don't have suicide bombs on them or something in order to protect US interests in Afghanistan.
Taliban, please make sure that no Islamic extremists come with the rest of the people.
The American military is expecting the Taliban to protect US interests.
Just lay that out.
The American generals under Biden are expecting the terrorists they've been fighting for 20 years to protect their interests, to protect their soldiers, civilians and equipment.
Like, what absolute backwards clown world is this?
This is mad.
I just can't go over how insane this is.
This is why we're describing it as chaos, because I don't understand why you would do this.
And then there's, of course, the other aspect of this, as we mentioned previously, that the US has provided all the names of American Afghan allies to them to then get out as well.
Please evacuate these people.
Oh, we're going to evacuate them, all right?
not to the airfield but if we move on from this there's of course the biggest shame which is the next clip which is the fact that this guy says there was an estimate at the time that he did it of 80 billion dollars worth of equipment being left behind like I knew there was a lot of equipment I didn't realise how much and it's just being the number is going up and up and up as they realise more and more stuff was left behind your taxation at work This morning the Telegraph had been able to make the new estimate of 85 billion, so it went up by 5 billion overnight of just new equipment they're figuring out had been left behind.
And I'm sure everyone's seen the videos going around that the Taliban themselves have taken of just stacks of guns, stacks of missiles, you know, Humvees, helicopters.
There was a video going around the other day where apparently the Taliban were trying to fly one of the helicopters.
Didn't know that.
They didn't get off the ground.
But it was just like this $85 billion worth of military equipment just handed to the terrorist organization that the Biden regime is expecting to defend American interests.
It's just insane.
I would never have thought anything like this would happen.
I mean, the conspiracy theories I don't think are true, but it looks like the Taliban are basically the CIA or something.
It sounds like it.
I mean, the American government used to give weapons and equipment...
They did give money to the Taliban, didn't they?
No, I mean to terrorist groups around the world and to be their friends.
And at this point, they're just like, well, that's $85 billion worth of stuff.
It's just so backwards, though.
Anyway, so let's play this clip in which this guy lays out how bad it really is.
We now know...
That due to the negligence of this administration, the Taliban now has access to over $85 billion worth of American military equipment.
That includes 75,000 vehicles, over 200 airplanes and helicopters, over 600,000 small arms and light weapons.
The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of the countries in the world.
But they don't just have weapons.
They also have night vision goggles, body armor, medical supplies.
And unbelievably, unfathomable to me and so many others, is that the Taliban now has biometric devices, which have the fingerprints, eye scans, and the biographical information of the Afghans who helped us over the last 20 years.
And here's what we just learned again in the briefing that we just walked out of.
This administration still has no plan to get this military equipment or these supplies back.
That was a guy who worked to get this equipment to the Afghan army.
I was now looking back, being like, me and all the other guys who did this part of the logistics, and I'm like, everything we gave to them has just ended up with the Taliban.
And the Americans have no plans to recover it, which of course would be hard, but they then have no plans to even destroy it, like just to blow it up.
So, I mean, if...
Just go back five years, right?
And if that was suddenly on the news, the Taliban have seized $85 billion worth of military hardware...
That would be cause for a massive surge of troops and a severe ground and air campaign to make sure they don't continue to own those things.
Or just an air campaign to blow them up.
I mean, you can't hide helicopters of that magnitude or that number of vehicles, surely.
Sure, but like 600,000 small arms and ammunition and stuff, they can stash that in a cave.
So you've got to send in troops to go get it back.
You have to go and get that back.
You can't just leave 600,000 guns in Afghanistan.
They're going to go everywhere.
And all the other high-tech equipment and stuff like this, that would be justified in a military operation to go and get that back.
I just don't get the helicopters, though.
Because, I mean, they're pretty big.
You know where they are.
I don't even care about the helicopters.
No, but they're so easy to blow up.
Like, of course, it's hard to go into the cave and get the guns, but you could just fire some rockets and just blow up the helicopter after helicopter.
You could literally drone strike the equipment.
Yeah, as Trump said, you bomb the bases and then you leave.
Yeah.
And then there's nothing for them.
At the very least.
The Americans have done this so many times.
Like, it's not even difficult.
That's why I'm so surprised.
They don't even have any plans to just blow up the helicopters, at least.
But I mean, just that amount of, just the small arms, just the regular stuff, because like any insurgent army is going to be constantly looking for small arms and ammunition, right?
These are the sinews of war for an insurgent force like the Taliban.
And so giving them 600,000 guns and God knows how much ammunition, like you need to get that out of their hands, right?
You need to get that out of their hands.
That's just going to be so much worse further down the line.
To be fair, they're not an insurgent force anymore.
What?
I agree, we can semantically change.
Small arms are not a problem, but the helicopters presumably still are.
But also I wanted to mention, he mentioned 70,000 vehicles are now in their hands, and that's going to be a lot of armed Humvees and all the other stuff that we've got use of.
The stuff the American military needs in order to make their military, their warfighting capacity efficient, has now been handed to the Taliban.
A lot of it's probably going to be the older stuff that they've just handed off to the Afghan National Army at a price, right?
Sure.
Presumably at a price, so if they've not just gifted it at them, which would be...
But what they're doing is enabling the Taliban to have all the access to the sort of military infrastructure of an actual army to be able to now become a competent army in Afghanistan.
Yeah, but the point I'm trying to get at is that you've got those armored Humvees and all the rest of it, tens of thousands of them.
They've all been given over to the Taliban.
And then we just look at what, like, two-power are having to deal with over in Kabul.
They're driving around in, like, unarmored trucks to go out and do raids to get our people out.
And, yeah, at the same time, all the armored vehicles are being owned by the Taliban.
It's madness.
It's just embarrassing.
It's not just embarrassing.
This is actually legitimately mad and is turning into a colossal military defeat.
I mean, I don't know if there's maybe an advantage to being faster in those trucks or what, but I bet they're not having the safest of times of it.
There is no advantage to having these.
Yeah.
I mean, I remember back in the day the American military advisors would drive around in their armoured trucks.
They wouldn't be allowed to go in cars like this alongside the NA because they were just considered unsafe.
Of course.
Because you can shoot people through them.
Yes.
Yes.
Anyway, so if we move on, it gets worse.
So the CIA director has said that apparently we're going to have to go back in.
Yeah, to get all of that military equipment, because you've got no choice.
So I quote from the CIA director, we'll probably have to go back in to Afghanistan to get ISIS former Defence Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta, tells CNN. I mean, I bet by the end of this year, the Taliban are considered one of the largest arms dealers in the world.
They've got so much military equipment they can just sell.
God, I wish I was an arms dealer right now.
I'd make so much money.
Well, I don't know.
I think the market's just crashed, actually.
It's going to be flooded with Black Hawk helicopters.
I don't know.
Move it all to Syria or something.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, so there's a meme American response to all this, of course.
So if we go to the next one, this is Paxi.
This is a joke.
Right now I would advise ISIS-K to think very hard about how it would like to be perceived by the international community going forwards.
Because what else are they going to do?
Bomb them?
No.
Apparently they have no plans to do so.
It's unreal.
There's also the Taliban meme response, except that the Taliban meme response is real.
Because they're allowed on Twitter.
Of course they are.
This is a Taliban account who just tweeted out a meme mocking ISIS. And his version of mocking ISIS is his quote.
It's an image of a stick man with an ISIS face.
And then, hmm, today I will attack every Islamic country in the Middle East, but never lay a finger on the Jewish state.
Because the Taliban, of course, think that ISIS is run by the Jews.
Yeah.
But the thing is, right...
Like, all I'm saying is, it is weird how their policy is bomb the mosques, radicalize the moderates, and the Taliban are like, we're trying to actually take over a country and make an Islamic state here?
It's like, yeah, we're going to bomb that.
Why?
Are you a CIA front?
You know, you just came out of nowhere.
I don't know why, you know.
I can see why they're like, this doesn't seem right.
It's like white nationalists bombing the higher-ups of the DNC. Like, they're all white, mate.
Yeah, it would be like white nationalists bombing, like, Oklahoma or something.
Anyway, so yeah, that's the meme response.
I thought I'd demonstrate that.
His account is literally full of memes as well, if people want to see some Taliban memes.
I'm not going to show them all because they're pretty out there, but the number of just, like, the engagement with Western memes, I think, is something to be marveled at.
They're better memers.
Of course, the conclusions in their memes are nuts because they're Islamist, but they're better memers than the left.
I love the fact that they've spent 20 years in a cave.
They've been on Twitter for five minutes, and they can still mean better than the left.
But you are right.
A lot of their memes are quite cutting.
They're very incisive.
And, I mean, this is actually a good diss at the Taliban, to be honest.
From an Islamist perspective.
Yeah, from an Islamist, obviously.
But the thing on my mind is just like I mentioned before, they seem to have learned a thing or two about how to interact with the West on a communications level.
Philosophically, they're well aware.
I mean, no other group knows how to interact the way they do.
No.
Anyway, but we'll move on because the Taliban, of course, are not just meme lords.
They are the Taliban.
So we have reports from Afghanistan.
Just to be clear, nothing we've said is an endorsement of the Taliban.
In case for some reason you think I'm a funny meme, therefore good guys.
You like the Taliban.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this is the story.
Reports of torture in Afghanistan.
So Amnesty International said its researchers have spoken to witnesses who recounted how the Taliban killed nine Hazari men in the village of Mundakat between 4th and 6th of July.
Hazaris are Shia Muslims who were previously persecuted by the Taliban who have made major gains in education and social status in recent years.
So presumably they'll be continuing all of that as well.
So persecuting minority Muslims.
Yeah, torturing them.
It's fun.
Anyway, we also have the claims that the Taliban have been going around killing women and children who are haram.
There is a picture on this, John, but don't scroll down because it's pretty gruesome.
So the former interior minister of Afghanistan claims the Taliban militants have been killing children and elderly as they seek to rule the country by terrorizing its people.
Quote, the Taliban are trying to rule over people by terrorizing, killing young children and elderly citizens.
Masood al-Barabi said in a tweet, alongside shocking images of a baby and a young child who We're allegedly killed by insurgents, so he's provided some photos to prove his claims.
That's why I'm saying don't scroll down.
That's the state of the absolute chaos in Afghanistan, which is the West looking ridiculous.
The Taliban being the ones in charge, according to the West, I mean, the Biden administration being like, they're the ones protecting us and securing the area.
Also, we trust them with the names of Afghans who worked with us to get them out.
It's some level of crazy.
And also, we provided them with $85 billion of Humvees, equipment, helicopters, and whatever else was on their shopping list, apparently.
Yeah, yeah, night vision goggles, you know, all the sort of thing that the Americans use themselves.
Yeah, it's not pretty, but that's what it is.
So let's move on to Biden.
Yeah, so let's talk about the failing Biden regime in the wake of their complete collapse in Afghanistan because Biden decided unilaterally to pull out all of the troops before doing anything that you would actually do when you're leaving deployment in a foreign country.
So what was Kamala Harris doing when ISIS bombs and suicide bombers were exploding at Kabul, killing 60 or however many civilians and 13 American citizens, including servicemen?
She was in Vietnam.
For some reason.
She had flown previously in the week to Southeast Asia to talk about LGBT rights.
Top priority.
I'm sorry, this is the biggest international crisis the Americans have had to deal with in years.
Yes.
That directly involves them.
As you said, it's going to be the defining feature of Biden's presidency.
Unless something worse happens tomorrow, somewhere else.
But I can't imagine what that could be.
But of course I didn't think this was going to happen.
But yeah, she for some reason is in Vietnam discussing LGBT rights.
Oh, and climate change.
Yeah, and climate change and disabled rights and things like that.
Because that's important.
And so this is apparently increasingly important to American efforts to counter China's influence globally.
It's like, yes, China won't have any influence in Afghanistan.
I mean, they only share a border.
They're only going to be...
I mean, they have diplomatic relations already.
They already have diplomatic relations.
Unofficial, not official.
Of course, of course.
But the point is, this is ridiculous, and I can't believe that this is even on their list.
Who cares about LGBT rights in Vietnam when American troops are dying in Afghanistan because of your administration's bad decisions?
Unbelievable.
I mean, I don't...
I just don't even know what to say about it.
It's just going to show you how myopic their view of the world is and how Twitter-focused it is.
Nobody who's not on Twitter gives a damn about this right now.
Anyway, so what's Nancy Pelosi doing?
What do you think Nancy was doing?
I don't know.
Trying to organise an airlift?
Pressing the vag.
What?
Women!
We need to talk about Women's Equality Day in San Francisco.
Literally.
Literally.
American soldiers are dying in Afghanistan.
All the Republicans are like, oh my god, what's going on in Afghanistan?
And Nancy Pelosi's like, women's rights, women's equality.
This is exactly, I think it's the same day that the Taliban have now got the seat at the UN's Women's Committee or whatever it is.
Not one criticism of that.
Not of our comrades and partners in Afghanistan from Nancy Pelosi, because that would go against the Democratic Party line.
I mean, it seems like to me they all want none of this to go on them.
They want all of the blame to go on Biden.
Therefore, I'm just going to walk off and talk about women's rights.
Literally, I'm going to do something else so I don't have to be tarred with the complete failure that is Biden's administration.
So yeah, just why not talk about women's rights in San Francisco?
There's nothing more important going on.
And I tell you what, if there's one thing that there's a real problem with in San Francisco, it's got to be women's rights, right?
I mean, California, you know how oppressive that is to women.
They can't, you know, any women's problems are most severely felt in California, I've got no doubt.
I've just got Bernie Sanders' speech stuck in my head.
The American people are tired of women.
You've seen that clip, haven't you?
I have, and I think he might be on to something.
Presumably that's what he's up to.
Yeah, what was the military's bureaucracy up to?
Well, Jack Posobiec lets us know.
Talking about diversity.
Diversity in the military.
What was the General Millie, presumably there in blackface with makeup and nice long nails, tweeting, diversity is a number.
Do you have people who don't look or think like you in the room?
Inclusion is listening and valuing to those people, which is probably why they're saying our partners in Afghanistan, the Taliban, right?
They don't look like us and they don't think like us.
And if this is your philosophy...
To include people, bring everyone in so everyone's involved, then we actually have to take the Taliban seriously as a political and intellectual force.
Because they're going to have perspectives that we won't have.
This is all critical race theory, by the way.
We're going to do the thing on the book at the moment.
I'm working on it.
And this is exactly the rationale that arrives at this position, right?
You know the thing in my head?
Remember the diversity advert the Americans did?
I was raised by two moms.
I'm looking forward to the next one where they celebrate diversity and it was like, me and Abdul here, my partner in Afghanistan, Taliban all around him.
We have an inclusive space.
And we can defeat ISIS together.
These people don't look like me, therefore we're better together.
It's amazing, isn't it?
It's absolutely incredible.
Inclusion is listening to and valuing those people.
Women's Equality Day reminds us that we're smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, coherent team our values demanded.
We're a more lethal force when we're inclusive.
I'm just saying the results are already manifest.
Like, it doesn't appear to be true.
It appeared that when Trump was in charge of the military and telling them how to do things, that they were actually a far more lethal force than they are now.
Women's Equality Day makes us more lethal.
What a statement.
I mean, technically it does.
I mean, more American servicemen have died since we embraced this.
I guess that's true.
But it's just so embarrassing.
And it's like, look at the colour swatch of soldiers that we've got.
That's amazing.
Brilliant.
Which one are you?
Black soldiers.
Asian soldiers.
That's incredible.
That's so forward-thinking.
I wonder if we can win a war.
Jesus.
Anyway...
So, of course, where's Biden?
Where is the person upon whose shoulders, whose dusty, ancient, graying, parchment-like shoulders does this rest?
Well, who knows?
Jack Posobiec tweets out, it's like Biden is in a fugue state, paralyzed, totally MIA of rapidly changing news, as per one anonymous White House official.
Not surprised, because basically it's been really weird getting reports from the Biden White House.
They've looked increasingly catatonic with the We're good to go.
What are you doing?
You know?
But anyway, so they were going to have a speech and press conference today, but then it was cancelled, and so was Psaki.
But the thing is, events kept getting worse, and it got worse and worse and worse, and so eventually Biden had to come out and give another press conference.
Look at that dislike ratio.
Oh, yeah.
To be honest with you, it was way higher yesterday.
I was watching it.
I probably YouTube at that work again.
I do believe it may well be.
But, yeah, so this...
I mean, the speech that he gave is quite a stock speech for an American.
He starts leaning back into, like, you know...
Honor, God, country, and things like that.
It's like, that's weird, coming out of the Democrats.
Don't really buy it, to be honest, but I guess it's a traditional fallback.
But yeah, so the fact that initially they weren't going to do any press conferences, it had to be done.
So he came out, again, late, and honestly, he just seemed battered.
He just seemed exhausted, just really slumping.
He just seemed down, man.
And I'm not surprised.
But also, you can see how much of a stage-managed production Biden's press conferences are.
He literally has a list of people to ask.
He literally is...
He just says it, because he's too old.
These are the pre-approved questions.
Oh, absolutely.
And pre-approved people.
And you can see it in other press conferences, where he pulls out a piece of paper and then asks someone the question.
And it's like, okay, so you know who you're going to ask, and you have the answers already prepared, so you chose that person.
But then, in this one, he just says it.
Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here.
Well, who's they, Joe?
Who's the they who gave you a list?
The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O'Donnell of NBC. Like, you're saying the quiet part out loud?
You're not meant to be saying, look, my presidency is an entirely stage-managed presidency.
And I'll tell you what, the results of which are very, very obvious.
You know, we were guessing this anyway.
So I guess it's just nice for you to come out and say it, that you're not really in charge.
And everyone can see that, right?
And so he's got this list of people to ask.
And so he ends up going through some questions.
And I figure that we'll view through the clips, because the responses are just amazing.
Joe Biden, he's totally out to lunch, and it's incredible.
Let's play the first clip.
There's been some criticism, even from people in your party, about the dependence on the Taliban to secure the perimeter of the airport.
Do you feel like there was a mistake made in that regard?
No, I don't.
Look, I think General McKenzie handled this question very well.
The fact is that We're in a situation, we're inherited a situation, particularly since, as we all know, that the Afghan military collapsed 11 days before, in 11 days.
That it is in the interest of, as Mackenzie said, in the interest of the Taliban, that, in fact, ISIS-K does not Metastasized beyond what it is.
No one trusts them.
We're just counting on their self-interest to continue to generate their activities.
And it's in their self-interest that we leave when we said and that we get as many people out as we can That's amazing.
That's amazing, isn't it?
Is he away with the fairies or something?
Yeah, he's totally gone, right?
He's literally like an Egyptian mummy at this point.
But this is an incredibly stupid series of statements.
So, the first one, was it a mistake to put American security in the hands of the terrorists who you used to call the Taliban?
Two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago, and now you call your comrades or allies or whatever it was.
No, we didn't make a mistake.
Okay, so 13 Americans dead and 60-odd however many civilians dead was not a mistake, according to Joe Biden.
I mean, getting yourself into a position where you're in this rather than evacuating in May...
It's mad.
That's the thing.
I know the charitable interpretation will be, well, you know, everything's collapsed, therefore we have to use them.
It only collapsed because of his choices!
Exactly, right?
That's the thing.
It's like...
You're the one that made this whole situation, lad.
Unless it's the people who instructed you on how to conduct this press conference.
Could we speak to your handlers, please?
Would that be more easy for you?
Easy for us.
It'd be easy for us, yeah, definitely.
I love this, right?
So, no, we didn't make a mistake.
So, right.
So, this was intentional.
So, you planned to have this happen.
Don't really believe you, and really what this comes across looking like is the fact that Joe Biden can never admit when he's wrong.
So the point of their narrative, and you see this with left-wing narratives, especially coming out of Saki and the rest of them, it's never, we made a mistake, we shouldn't have done that, we could have done things better.
No, everything is always perfect all the time.
So this is basically a fascist narrative, glowing golden, oh, we did nothing wrong, right?
Obvious nonsense.
And it would really be very easy for him to say, yeah, it looks like that was an oversight, we didn't think this was going to happen, so this is what we're going to do.
Be an adult about it, right?
But instead, Joe Biden is acting like a child about it.
But moreover, he's like, well, we're expecting the Taliban to...
We're expecting their interests to prevail.
We're relying on their self-interest.
You could argue it's in their interest to get rid of the Yankees, so then they can get on with being the Taliban.
It is not in their interest to let the Afghanis who work with the previous administration leave, is it?
Because they might form a resistance.
Therefore, it's in their interest to just kill those people on sight.
But think about it.
Who are the people who are going to be surrounding Kabul airport?
It's not loyalist Taliban supporters, is it?
No, it's those Afghans who are trying to get out of that country because they worked with the Americans because they think the Taliban are going to shoot them.
And so they're like, gods, we're relying on their self-interest.
Their self-interest is those people being blown up, Joe, right?
And it's just mad.
Why do you think you know what the Taliban's self-interest is?
You're adopting a very American-centric perspective.
Do you think the Taliban care if a few civilians die?
They don't care.
You know, they don't hold human rights sacred as the Americans are supposed to.
But anyway, let's go on to the clip where he continues, like, and this is the only argument he's got.
So, oh, well, we thought it was the Taliban's self-interest.
It's their self-interest.
Go on.
The Taliban.
They're not good guys, the Taliban.
We're not suggesting that at all.
But they have keen interest.
As many of you have been reporting, They very much would like to figure out how to keep the airport open.
They don't have the capacity to do it.
They very much are trying to figure out whether or not they can maintain what is a portion of an economy that has become not robust but fundamentally different than it had been.
And so there's a lot of reasons why they have We've reached out, not just to us but to others, as to why it would be continued in their interest to get more of the personnel we want to get out.
The Taliban are not good guys, they're not trustworthy, but they have reached out to us and we think it's in their best interest that they're going to be doing this, and so we'll take them at their word for it.
They don't care about civilian casualties.
They don't care.
Well, they have an active interest to kill those who are trying to flee because they might join some kind of resistance against their role.
Yes, they do.
And this, again, there's no real thought that's on behind it.
Well, they want the airport open, and they don't care how many people die in the process of keeping that airport open.
They just don't care.
They're not bothered.
This is not how they think.
And so this entire, entire perspective from the Biden administration appears to be, well, we can work with them because we can give them something and they will give us something in return.
It's like, did they?
You trusted them with the security of Americans in Afghanistan and they're not good guys and they're not trustworthy.
Why did you do that?
You're idiots.
That's why.
This inclusive philosophy that you all seem to espouse seems to have gone far too far, doesn't it?
Anyway, let's see if Biden wants to take any responsibility for this.
Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks?
I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened of late.
Here's the deal.
Exactly.
You know, I wish you one day say these things, you know as well as I do, that the former president made a deal with the Taliban.
If he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May 1.
In return, the commitment was made, and that was a year before.
In return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others but would not attack any American forces.
Remember that?
I'm being serious.
No, I'm asking you a question because before No, no, no, wait a minute.
I'm asking you a question.
Is that accurate?
I think they have an issue that people are likely to get hurt.
Some, as we've seen, have gotten killed.
And that it is messy.
He goes on to then make further excuses.
But you can see, I take responsibility, but Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
But that's not a dunk on Trump.
No.
Yeah, Donald Trump made the peace deal, and he also had the plan to get out by May before everything crumbled.
And that's why no American servicemen died in the last 18 months, thanks to him.
And he backed it up with force.
They knew that he was going to drop bombs on them if they didn't do as they were supposed to do.
When they reneged on a couple of the first draft agreements, well, he dropped them up.
Yeah, exactly.
He couldn't really have gone much bigger than that, right?
And this, I think, at least the Taliban can understand.
Okay, so we've got a lunatic in the White House who's actually going to drop the biggest bomb he can on us.
Right.
Well, maybe we won't attack the Americans then.
But now, you've got a complete weasel in the White House.
Look at his hands!
Just look at them!
What was the whole thing where he's just in the middle of listening to the reporter?
He just put his hands in his face?
No idea.
But he looks completely crumpled.
A quick sniff of his own hands, I guess?
No, no, no.
He looks like he's about to cry, frankly.
And I'm not surprised because he's the one who's got these people killed.
He did this.
We also know his entire presidency is now abandoned.
Yeah.
And so him claiming, yeah, I ultimately bear responsibility, but I'm not going to take any responsibility for it.
Of course he's not.
Of course he's not.
He, of course, as you said, admitted that it was Trump's deal that was the reason that there were no US deaths, as in this didn't happen on Trump's watch, did it?
It was also very amusing to watch Jen Psaki fleeing her own press conference.
So she was doing parallel press conference for some reason alongside Biden.
Don't know why she didn't do it before or after.
But watch this.
So this is the end of her press conference.
Oh, can't get out of there quick enough.
Gone.
That's it.
Thanks very much.
Bye.
Anyway, so Biden is a disgrace starts trending, which I'm not surprised at at all.
Have we got that next one up?
No, not that one.
We'll go to Trump's response afterwards, if that's all right, John.
Come back to that one.
Next one.
There we go.
So Donald Trump Jr., Biden is a disgrace, starts trending, and obviously everyone agrees.
Even huge amounts of left-wingers are like, yeah, okay, this was too bad.
This was just beyond the pale.
And this is a great point.
If China were to hatch a plan from within the United States to weaken us on the global stage, make our allies question our allegiances and our resolve, and embolden our enemies, could they possibly do a better job than Biden is currently doing?
No.
Not really.
I mean, what more could be done?
You know?
So, and of course, he is suggesting that perhaps maybe Biden should be impeached for his terrible plan, his catastrophic withdrawal, and being responsible, in his own words, for getting 13 Americans killed.
Why not?
Are we talking about impeachment yet?
Asking for a friend who was impeached for a phone call but definitely wouldn't strand thousands of American civilians behind enemy terrorist lines.
And just to be clear, after the Battle of Argonusse, I think it was, during the Peloponnesian War, when the Athenian admirals left a bunch of Athenian sailors floating in the sea and fleeing, they were all court-martialed and hanged.
Just to let you know.
When you leave your troops behind, you get killed for it back in a sensible state like ancient Athens.
In modern America, apparently, you go off and talk about diversity.
Anyway, so there were some amusing things that came out of this.
Sam Harris actually had the good grace to retweet one of his old tweets.
Sam, not a big fan of Donald Trump, and when Biden got in, feeling overwhelming gratitude for the adults in the room now after Biden's election, and he tweets the same publicly eating these words syllable by syllable.
Well, good for him.
He does also follow this up, though.
And Gad Sad, go back in a second, actually.
Gad Sad says, well, someone has tried to warn you, but you were drowning in your hysterical and irrational Trump hatred.
Based Gad Sad.
Absolutely love the Gadfather.
Next time around, don't reject those with whom you share many values simply because of your blind travel hysteria.
Bloody hell, you're going in hard here.
I'll wait for your apology or privately if you prefer.
Phew.
Okay, Gad.
Sorry to say, Gad's just obviously right.
He's taking no prisoners.
Sal Harris went very strange on Trump.
Like, his rejection of Trump wasn't just, well, I think he's ineffective, or I think he's bad because of these reasons.
He's a bumbling moron, blah, blah, blah.
No, it was unreasonable.
Trump is the great Satan.
Sam Harris, famous atheist.
Shaytan.
But yes, and this didn't stop either.
We can go to the next one, right?
I love this.
So someone was like, if you think Trump would have done better, you're a delusional.
And he says, I don't think that.
I'm merely acknowledging how incompetent, utterly incompetent the Biden administration has been in executing our withdrawal from Afghanistan.
So, okay, how could Trump have done worse?
We have Trump's plan.
Yeah.
I mean, literally, May 1st, as Biden says, that was the out date.
Like, everything was to be gone then.
And if Afghanistan would have collapsed anyway, as in the state that was there before the regime and the Taliban took over, everyone would have already left.
At least American citizens wouldn't have been there.
And if they had remained, it would be their fault because they were told to leave by May 1st.
That was Trump's plan.
That's actually a good plan.
I don't know how that looks worse to this, which is extend it for no reason, start evacuating your troops immediately, but leave loads of civilians behind, not tell them to get out, and then as everything slowly collapses, do nothing until the point where the Taliban are now your partners and allies in the region.
Put your safety in the hands of the Taliban and hope that they protect you from ISIS, which they didn't.
Yeah, Trump would have been way worse.
He would have been just as incompetent, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Anyway, so the leftist hypocrisy on this is palpable and gross.
So if we can get this picture up.
So this is this guy.
He's got like a million followers on Twitter.
Yeah, some weird verified checkmark.
He's like a paid up.
If he's not getting paid to do this, I don't know why he does it.
Well, he must be.
He must be getting paid.
But I love this.
It's so ridiculous, right?
The Trump admin has been one rolling disaster after another, but the disaster in Syria comes with a steep price.
Civilian Kurds are dying, and all because Trump needs distractions from the impeachment.
Do something, Congress.
Hashtag Kurds betrayed by Trump, right?
And then now, that was in 2019.
If you are using the terrorist attacks on America and Afghan citizens to blame President Biden, stop it.
It's disgusting.
Shame on you.
Whose side do you want to win anyway?
And that's what it all comes down to.
Our team can do no wrong, and Trump's team is evil.
Even when the situation is obviously different.
One's a country that we've been in 20 years, one's a country that we're not even meant to be in, and also one's about Kurds and one's about Americans.
And also, Trump's actions in Syria saved a lot of lives and prevented an escalating war in that conflict zone.
So, sorry, I don't think Trump did exactly the right thing in Syria, and he would have presumably done the right thing in Afghanistan.
He asserted American dominance.
Obama and Biden, both being in there, put their red lines, and then when the foreigners went over the red lines, did nothing.
So Trump was like, here's a red line.
They went over it.
All right, boom.
Yeah.
It sucks for your airfield.
A couple of people died, but everyone was quiet.
We are the biggest economy on Earth by an unbelievable amount.
We are the biggest military presence on Earth and can invade multiple places at once and feel nothing at home.
I mean, I'm sorry, but American power on a geopolitical scale is immense and is to be understood in that context.
And then the inability to use that is just weird.
You're the President of the United States if you're Obama.
Why not just enforce your red lines?
Do something.
And Trump did, and this guy was whining about it.
But really, you get the sort of disgusting conclusion of the Biden regime.
This is just...
I don't think we can use the airport anymore with the TikTok influencer.
I love this meme so much.
Because this is just the absolute nadir of the Biden regime.
This is what they think of themselves as.
We're going to be like the internet administration or something?
I swear to God.
But yeah, no, you deserve all the ragging that you get for this absolute catastrophe.
But right, so let's go back to Trump.
So Trump had posted somehow or somewhere, it wasn't on his website, I don't know where the statement came from, but if we can scroll down and actually get the statement up so I can read it out, because it was just a picture.
Do we have the full thing?
There should be a Breitbart link, not this one.
Right, okay.
So, Trump says, I mean, what an absolutely sensitive...
And remarkably sensitive, again, for Donald Trump.
Well, also sane, and what you'd expect.
Yes.
I mean, that's the thing, there's nothing...
Appropriate.
There's nothing amazing about that where I'm like, oh my god, you know, the wordsmith.
But that's what you'd expect the President of the United States to say in response to that kind of attack.
But it's exactly the right turn, exactly the right turner.
He doesn't make a partisan attack, even though, you know, he says it shouldn't have been allowed to happen.
Anyone could have said that for any reason, because it didn't have to happen.
None of this had to happen.
And then there was a Fox News presidential announcement from the president, Donald Trump, the previous president, I suppose we have to say.
And this, honestly, I think is what I think we're all missing, because I don't know about you, but I'm really missing Trump at this point.
A little dark age.
It's absolutely dark age.
But let's hear it.
As one nation, America mourns the loss of our brave and brilliant American service members in a savage and barbaric terrorist attack in Afghanistan.
These noble American warriors laid down their lives in the line of duty.
They sacrificed themselves for the country that they loved, racing against time to rescue their fellow citizens from harm's way.
They died as American heroes and our nation will honor their memory forever.
I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of those we have lost.
Today all Americans grieve alongside you.
Together we also pray that God will heal the other courageous American service members who were wounded in this heinous attack.
In addition, our hearts are with the families of all the innocent civilians who died and with the many men, women, and children who were terribly injured in this act of evil.
This tragedy should never have taken place.
It should never have happened.
And it would not have happened if I were your president.
Over the past few weeks, I know that many Americans have felt profound sorrow and even pain watching the events taking place in Afghanistan.
And perhaps none more so than the veterans of that 20-year war.
Many of them answered the call proudly and without hesitation after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Every American who served in Afghanistan has made tremendous sacrifices for our country.
On behalf of your fellow citizens, I want you to know that those sacrifices were not made in vain.
We know what you did, we know how brave you were, and we thank you, we salute you, and we honor you for all time.
Thank you.
God bless you.
And God bless America.
Much better.
Yeah, I was actually surprised Biden did press conferences instead of just making a pre-recorded video like that.
Yeah, you would think.
I mean, that's such a much more correct thing to do.
Proper.
Yeah, proper, as the English would say.
But yeah, so, the failing Biden regime.
Let's hope they go soon.
Let's go to video comments.
So for anyone listening, we're watching dolphins jumping out of the sea.
Which is not what I was expecting.
That was nice.
Yeah, it was nice.
Surprisingly calming, actually.
Because I'm quite angry after that segment.
The last church normally being on YouTube is a good thing.
Do you want to know why?
The last church is the most atheistic author imaginable in all of history, trying to essentially debate it out for which is better, the steel man position of religion or the steel man position of atheism for society.
The problem is the following.
They come to the conclusion that the steel man position of religion should be to admit to be wrong on every point of every part of the debate, admit to be at fault for everything that has ever gone wrong in human history or development, Be it fault for holding back all of science, be it wrong for holding back every development in art and culture and tradition, and as soon as we remove that last church, everything will be fine.
It's not a very fair steal, man, is it?
So, you're responsible for everything bad.
Do you agree?
No?
Well, that is the...
That's the atheist position I'm writing.
Well, the emperor of mankind's position.
Right, yeah.
I'm not looking to try and find influence for ideas in 40k lore, I just find it really interesting.
That's funny, yeah.
Yeah.
Two of my crusade against racial hiring practices.
The root of the problem, in my estimation, is the Multiculturalism Act of Canada.
Section 3, subsection 1c.
Unfortunately, I am on a time limit, so I cannot read the section note to you.
But I trust you can read it yourself.
But back to the point I was trying to make.
Now that all sounds well and good, but the key parts of equitable and elimination of any barrier are rotten socialist speak that leads to unequal treatment of individuals.
Now if only there was some sort of based Canadian party willing to repeal the Multiculturalism Act.
Yes, now if you're a Canadian you have to vote PPC. You have a moral obligation.
They seem to be the only good party in Canada.
You're sold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, we're firm supporters.
Shame we're not Canadians sometimes.
I still don't know.
I hate to just say, like, a great party in foreign country, but from what I've read, I mean, I read, as I said, the free speech section they had, and everything there was sensible, at least.
Yeah, I follow Maxine Bernier on, like, Instagram and stuff like that.
I do.
And everything he posts, I just listen to it, or whatever, I read it, and it's like, yep, endorse.
Endorse.
He seems right.
He's just basically our guy.
All right.
So I know DID is a real thing, I just think the TikTok version of it is almost completely nonsensical.
Some of the more ridiculous claims that I've seen are, one of my alters is a transphobe.
One of my alters is a neo-Nazi.
I'm 15, but my alter is 30 and attracted to other guys.
There was even one where this person's alter was a celebrity, and the actual celebrity messaged them saying, stop pretending you're me.
Some of the alters are characters from TV show, including multiple characters from the same TV show.
It is incredibly cringe.
It wasn't the Korean, was it?
I have no idea.
I got kind of distracted with him building stuff.
I saw a meme on Facebook the other day.
It was hilarious.
So apparently in a swimming pool, something on the diving board or something needed to be replaced.
So a couple of guys came over to the side of the pool and, like, drilling stuff.
And it was a woman who was taking photos.
And the photos were hilarious because, like, some guy starts drilling and she's commenting, the drilling started attracting other men.
And so you've got this collection of men just standing around watching them fix this thing.
It felt very much like that.
I was just like, yeah, okay, yeah, whatever you say, but keep fixing it.
That's just something very wholesome about it.
It's like men get around and say, oh, yeah, good job of that, you know.
I love watching things being built, you know.
His point about the TikTokers who are like, yeah, my new gender is that I have a mental disorder.
My new gender is a mental disorder.
Yeah, yeah, literally.
The other gender is another person.
Not just, I sometimes feel male, I sometimes feel female and all this silliness.
But they're like, you can very clearly have multiple personality disorder.
And that's a gender.
That's a different gender of mine, because one of them's male and one of them's female.
So they have Michael and Lily, for example, and they are a woman, and therefore they identify as Lily.
But they also sometimes identify as Michael, they're saying, but Michael is clearly just a personality disorder.
They think they're another person.
I think we've finally reached the final stage of progressivism, which is to admit that it's a mental illness.
Yes, and that's the point he's making, which is that it's not a small thing either.
There is a large group of people, like the transracial movement, where it's becoming burgeoning enough that you're like, right, not enough of these people are just memeing, and now progressivism has to wrestle with, so how do you accept this into the inclusion and diversity?
I say let them.
Yeah, we're literally going to have mental illness representation is going to be an argument from progressive politics that you need...
We're all mentally ill, vote for us!
Yeah, I mean, it literally is multiple personalities, sort of, so...
So I just realised that all those videos that people used to make about all those kids in universities back in 2014, 2015, that used to shout down people like Milo, used to shout down people like Ben Shapiro, that used to shout down people like Jordan Peterson...
Time marches forward for everyone, including those kids.
If they were 18, starting university back then, that was about 6-7 years ago.
They're going to be 24-25 now.
All these new people, in things like the police force, the civil service, teaching, that are spousing the same shit, it's not because they believe in the same things, just so happen to.
It's the fact that they are literally the same people, having grown up, spreading the same filth everywhere.
Mm-hmm.
The NPC meme really does fit.
It's completely correct as well.
Mm-hmm.
I just wanted to ask if either of you have ever watched the miniseries Chernobyl from HBO. This miniseries is absolutely fantastic.
The true villain here is in the power plant.
The regime who cut corners and covers up and are even using the phrase, we need to stop the spread of misinformation when trying to cover up that a power plant blew up, kind of reminds you that Spreading fake news.
We must stop fake news.
And the great theme of the show is that for every lie we tell, we pay a debt to the truth and it will come for you.
Love it.
Chernobyl is absolutely fantastic.
Highly recommend.
I can't remember who's the guy that they end up pinning it on.
They've got the operator in the room, not the bosses.
Artimov or something?
I can't remember the name.
Anyway, but he actually wrote a defense for himself because he went to prison, but then the Soviet Union collapsed and he got out because everyone got out.
Yeah.
The old country doesn't exist anymore.
Political prisoners aren't necessarily prisoners.
Well, he was not in the politics, but for messing up.
And he did mess up his argument, and he wrote a big argument afterwards, and then he died of cancer shortly after he wrote this, which is expected.
But he wrote his argument, and he was like, yeah, of course I messed up.
It's not my damn fault, and tried to explain why, and then also tried to explain the structural problems and all that.
And what's interesting is you can see the narratives on Chernobyl change, and that's a great example of Getting closer to what is surely the truth, which is, when you get into it, the Soviet Union is the fault for this.
I mean...
Well, that's the thing.
I think the true villain, which is really well shown in Chernobyl, is the socialist thought.
Yes.
The way that the structures are run.
You can't tell the truth, and you have to be party-politically orthodox at all times.
Every thought has to be put into the box of political correctness.
Yeah.
That's fantastic.
And we also have the main scientist recordings.
There's no graphite on the roof.
It's like, okay.
You didn't see it.
Comrade.
It's like, but I have radiation burns.
Yeah.
I mean, I literally know.
But also, it's fantastic.
I really like the effect they did.
I know you're not a fan of this, but they did everything in British accents, even though it's an American show.
That's the one thing I hear.
The reason they did this is very smart.
They explained in the after stuff, which is that they wanted to, because British accents, for people who don't quite get it, is that there are ties to class with accents.
Working class accents is a thing, and it comes from different regions.
So they wanted to demonstrate the class differences within the dynamics of everyone as well.
So remember the lady who comes along later on, the second scientist who represents a bunch of them.
She's quite prim and proper, and she walks into an office in the guy in Belarus, and he's got a quite working-class accent, and he says, I used to work in a shoe factory, and now I'm the boss.
And he has no idea what the hell's going on.
And it's another example of the class dynamics, but...
But it just sounded really weird to my ears.
You know, I expected them to have Russian accents, and they didn't.
I would have thought they'd be worse.
Although I do like the little bits of Russian throughout.
Like the emergency call, so when the trucks went around, they'd be a mania, a mania, attention, attention.
Get in your cars, you'll be gone for 24 hours, that thing.
That's real.
Also, the phone call is real as well, and you can find them all on YouTube, the originals.
And yeah, they're really scary, to look back at the originals as well.
Great series.
Anyway.
Must have felt like being at home, right?
Moving on!
Moving on!
I just wanted to say that I'm all about remembering when the environmental movement was about doing little things at home and now it's all about Twitter screeching and we have totally left behind the actual actions that you could be taking to save the environment.
So, for instance, I make my own cleaners instead of using industrial.
I make my own deodorant so it doesn't have to go through that intense machine process.
I make my own detergent and it's so sad to me to see all of the things that these people could be doing that would actually be productive left behind.
Good point, though, as well.
One of the things I hear about Extinction Rebellion is they're abject hypocrites about their environmental activism, and they think, oh, we need systemic change.
It's like, okay, but you realise that the mass aggregation of small actions also has a major effect, which they don't, obviously.
I also love the clean your room bucko response.
Oh, yeah.
They can't do anything.
Yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, good point, Natar.
Oh, you make your own deodorant, she said?
I have no idea how to do that.
How do you do that?
I just smell.
I don't bother using deodorant.
I'm married.
What am I going to do?
Why do I care?
Press another woman.
Yuck.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't want to, you know, just stay away.
Okay, well, let's move on.
To the guy who said that the lab's going to start defending disassociative identity disorder, I think you would absolutely love this webpage that my camera doesn't want to focus on because it is all about exactly what you predicted.
Yep.
Okay.
My other gender is Michael.
I didn't see this coming.
It's beautiful.
I mean, it really is the transracial stuff, where it's just like, right, they're actually going to get into a point where it's so obviously stupid, but they're still going to defend it.
But it's like transpersonal as well.
You know, and multiple different people in one body.
I'm sure you are, Smeagol.
Exactly.
Hey Lotus Eaters, Tony D and Little Joe with a political video.
Callum, the reason we didn't bomb Afghanistan is Donald Rumsfeld famously once said there are no good targets in Afghanistan.
Hillary Clinton during Obama told the Afghani government to collect more taxes when they didn't even recognize their own central government, much less our corrupt one.
Firewood collecting is considered an occupation in Afghanistan.
You can't bomb people to the Middle Ages when they already live there.
That's a fair point.
I was thinking more like the government buildings, so whatever institutions they had at the time.
But if there weren't any good targets, if Thomas Rumsfeld was right, then yeah, God, I have no idea what the hell you were meant to do in response to Okaida.
Because the question was being, but why invade?
Why not do something else while the options were on the table?
Why not entrust them with your own security?
Yeah, that's 20 years down the line of stupidity.
Yeah, yeah.
I've been thinking a lot about this word recently because I believe this word is at the very crux of all the issues we talk about on this channel.
Vaccine passports, lockdowns, trans children, BLM, CRT in schools, all of it is done under the false guise of compassion.
I really believe that in these people's minds they think that they're doing the compassionate thing.
And what kind of awful person would be against doing the compassionate thing?
Never stopping to think that if their assumptions are wrong, then what they're doing is not compassionate at all.
It's actually a really horrible thing to do.
We need to start addressing the problem with this toxic, false compassion, because if we can destroy this shield, they have nothing left to hide behind.
That's a great point.
I don't agree at all.
I really don't think they are compassionate in the slightest.
I don't think when...
Ah, no, no, no, hang on, hang on.
You've missed this point.
No, no, no.
I don't think when they are alone and thinking to themselves and being honest, that they would actually honestly be able to say that their politics come from compassion, but instead from hatred, I think.
Yeah, but look...
The way they would frame it is they would call it a kind of structural compassion.
Yeah, and it's hard to cope.
Of course it is, right?
Of course it is.
But you've got to remember this systemic compassion is the way they'd look at it.
And they'd say, well, you know, black people as a class have been oppressed for blah, blah, blah.
And therefore, systemically, what we're doing is compassionate and blah, blah, blah.
So this is why you need to lose your job.
I know, but to me, that's just a public face.
I think when...
No, no, no.
Let me finish.
I think the conscience in their minds, when it comes down to, say, the socialist, it is the hatred of the rich.
When it is the racial socialist, it is the hatred of whites, or so on and so forth.
I think it genuinely is.
That definitely drives much of their activism, and it's probably the underlying impulse to why they do what they do.
But the fact that they think of themselves as being compassionate to the oppressed, I think, is true.
And he is right that we can show this.
Deep down, they still really think that.
There's an emotional...
They wouldn't be so committed to this if it didn't have an emotional hold on them, right?
So it does have an emotional pull on them and what they're doing, and they wouldn't be able to...
Keep this thing going if there wasn't a true belief that underpinned it.
But the excuses that they make for the damage that they do is the problem, is the real problem.
If you think that black people are being oppressed and you want to go out and help them, Go ahead, you know, but you don't get to hurt people in the process, you know?
If you're doing like, you know, food charity drives or something for the underprivileged black kids or something, great!
That's wonderful.
I'd donate, you know, whatever.
But that's not what they're doing, right?
They're actually attacking the civilization around them.
But it is driven by a moral and emotional component.
So I don't think we can be entirely cynical about it.
They just think it's justified.
And breaking through the shield of compassion that they show themselves.
So you've got to show them their victims.
Look at the people you're oppressing.
That's kind of the way I think it has to be done.
He is right, though.
I do think he's right.
I'm not convinced, but I can see the argument.
I'm not saying in every case or anything like that, right?
I may have radicalized the officer position.
Sure, but what I'm saying is there are going to be lots of cynical actors who are using social justice as a shield to be able to enable themselves to hurt people.
But there are going to be lots of well-meaning people who aren't that way.
And so the difficulty is distinguishing one from the other.
I think it's very telling, though, when you look at leftist thought and what they accuse others of is very commonly what they believe.
And the obsession with the term hate among leftist theorists or activists, where they very much accuse the right of being full of hate, I cannot think of a group of people who spend more of their time thinking about, well, if we just kill this group of people, everything will be solved, then leftists.
And then when they come across and being like, yes, and you're the hateful ones, it's like...
We spend most of our time talking about relationships and how we need to build a community, not most of our time thinking about who's the evil group we can kill to solve the problems.
The chap who's promoting the PPC, they have literally the language, we need to exterminate these barriers to inclusivity.
I don't have anything I need to exterminate.
No.
That word doesn't come into any of my political activism, the word exterminate or hate or defeat or destroy, you know, until it comes to talking about socialists, I suppose.
But like, that's only defensive as well.
But I'm never looking at something like exterminate this thing.
There's nothing...
You don't need to.
No.
There's never any need to in rightist, liberal, conservative politics.
You never get that kind of language.
You only do in leftist spheres.
Absolutely.
But anyway, let's move to the next one.
But it comes from the fact that they're systemic thinkers.
And so if you've got, like, you know, if you lay out the entire system, then they can't...
I mean, you see this as there's no place for racism.
There's no place for...
It's like, well, okay, well, that's a core aspect of the human condition.
You know, it's been with us since time immemorial.
It probably will always be with us.
So what, you know, how are you going to get rid of it?
I'm just reminded of Mitt Romney's phrase, corporations are people, my friend.
It's like, yeah, systems are people, my friends.
And, you know, when they complain about systemic X, Y, and Z, why does it always come down to, well, if we just kill this one group, then it'll be solved.
That's because, well, you see that group of people as the system.
I mean, socialists and Jews comes to mind, but there are many others, of course.
Let's go to the next one.
Jesus Christ, I'm so sick of these stupid leftists.
They always completely just make their own problems.
They're just like, I have depression.
I have this.
I have this.
All they do is get notification upon notification on their phone.
All they have to do is literally just get off of it.
Just stop.
Get off of Twitter.
It's not that hard.
Jesus Christ.
Also, guys, yeah, follow me on everything.
Cedric Purcell, Instagram.
I just need four more subscribers.
I have 400 on YouTube.
Come on, guys.
Come on.
Cedric Purcell.
P-U-R-C-E-L-L. Come on.
Go check him out.
I think that was a great little rant as well.
Also, if you ever run for office, man, you should really do tricks on stage.
It'd be great.
Whilst reaming the left.
You could do it, I mean, like Penn and Teller, they do points about free speech, for example, in which they take a constitution and they set fire to it, and the trick is it's not that far.
Of course.
But the point being that we can, and that's our right.
Yeah.
Anyway, let's go to the next one.
I'm on another hike today, guys.
Were you allowed outside, Craig?
Used to be.
I couldn't walk this without ditching and complaining, because I was fat.
But now, yeah, I can do it pretty easily.
I've been doing it every couple of days.
Good man.
Thanks for that.
I hate noise.
Sound.
Yeah.
People listening.
He says wind was noisy to no sound.
Got a vaccine appointment tomorrow.
Here's hoping there's no complications.
Damn.
Hoping to.
Fingers crossed, man.
You'd enjoy your extra hour after that as well, can't you?
Hmm.
Yeah.
To access the publicly available health datasets, I had to go through ethics and human subjects research training.
One of the principles outlined in the 1974 Belmont Report for treating patients ethically is respect for persons, which is defined as treating individuals as autonomous agents and respecting their informed consent.
It's amazing that the medical community understands this well for research of human subjects, but politicized hacks want to throw these principles out for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Think about that.
You need patients' informed consent to collect and use data about them, but not to inject a foreign object into their body.
Yeah, the idea of informed consent is deeply important to the medical community, I have been told, because of various horrible things that happened in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
And that seems to have gone, because you're a bigot for not taking a vaccine.
Yeah.
The entire ethics department just collapsed overnight.
Yeah.
I mean, in Britain, the ethics committees were like, yeah, we were wrong to fearmonger the public.
Oh, really?
You think so?
You were wrong to have a mass scare campaign to the public?
Like, everyone who came before you in these committees said so in the past.
Unbelievable.
They knew what they were doing.
Let's go to the next one.
Hello, guys.
Thank you for yesterday.
Really fun and bent, I assume.
So, of course, now that we have blown our load early on the Zoom call, there's like nothing to do on Friday.
So let me suggest going to Sultans of Châtelet on YouTube, one hour after Lotus Eaters, for your viewing pleasure.
And just to be clear, the art at the top there, he did this himself.
This is all really great art.
I like the orcs.
Yeah, me too.
Ah, Spoon's there.
Yeah, so definitely go give him a shout.
Where is Spoon?
Oh, he sent a video yesterday.
He does his little rants on his YouTube channel now.
Yeah, but he never sends us anything.
Yeah, well, that's fine.
Oh, he's too big for us now.
He's too good for us.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, but they're good.
Of course not.
Let's go to the next one.
Was that?
Yeah.
Brad says, I lost friends and limbs from Taliban IEDs when I was with the Marines in Helmand a decade ago.
The fact that this administration is now acting almost as if they are allies is the ultimate betrayal in my opinion.
Yeah, honestly, I can't stress this enough.
The Biden administration have taken in the enemy as their own and are relying on them.
I also want to reiterate a point I made before.
If you know anyone who did serve in Afghanistan or so on and so forth, please just call them and take them out for a drink or something.
Yeah, buy them a beer for us, man.
They keep saying things like, it wouldn't be in their interest to interfere with our evacuation because they want international legitimacy.
What they fail to realize is that these people operate on ideology, not rationality.
If they can kill infidels, they will.
Don't believe what this admin tells you.
Terry knows everything that goes down.
They let the bombers through.
We should be shooting all Taliban on sight.
Which was policy like a month ago.
Two weeks.
Two weeks, yeah.
Exactly, exactly.
They are a terrorist organisation that you are at war with.
Were, sorry, now they're your comrades.
Was it not as comrades?
Well, it could be worse.
It could be the Canadian Equality Minister who called them brothers.
Oh my god.
The Trudeau.
She's the Equality Minister.
Our brothers in Afghanistan, she called them.
All right, Jeremy Corbyn, calm down.
P says, the one thing that keeps bothering me about Afghanistan and the West is that Europe is blaming the US despite the fact that we as Western Europe have neglected our defence since the early 90s.
Well, we as Britain haven't.
We've been maintaining our NATO commitments.
We've cut more than we should have.
There's a lot of criticisms there.
Are we still over 2% of GDP? Yeah, I think we're still over the requirement.
But Germany and France?
Yeah, not so much.
But there is an interesting idea here.
The silver lining to this may be that the rest of us start to realise we can't just depend on America because sometimes they vote in a moron.
Yes.
And we need to be able to operate without them sometimes.
Yes.
And, yeah, we really should sort of take more care of our own events.
Yes.
But I don't really want the Germans militarizing, so anyway.
We have to hold our own governments responsible because...
Still occupy them.
Because it's beyond reproach that our own armies can't hold Kabul, even in a European context.
I mean, Biden effed up, but Western Europe got rid of all their possibilities preemptively, so we were mainly responsible for having to leave our own people.
Yes, and we did evacuate our people, didn't we?
We're still doing it.
It's a British show.
The Canadians, Netherlands and so forth left.
They're not going in anymore.
M1ping says, if only there was some kind of airbase with military security to stage the evacuation from.
As you pointed out, it was a back-ramp or something.
Yeah, back-ramp, just to the north.
Like, literally, go on Google Earth and you can see it.
It's just the north.
It's so much bigger.
It's better.
You know, there's a million planes there on Google Earth.
It's just like, man, you could have so many people getting out so fast, and instead you have this really bad airstrip.
Biden is just so incompetent.
The whole regime is incompetent.
It doesn't even seem malevolent at this point because they look so rattled in their press conferences.
They look like they thought they could actually rely on the Taliban.
They honestly do.
And it's just, like, amazing.
The ideology of diversity and inclusion was bollocks.
I can't believe it.
We're more lethal when we're diverse.
I know!
We're 41% more lethal either.
What?
Will the Impaler says, so the Taliban are showing more respect to the Queen than Oxford University students.
Interesting.
Yeah, yeah.
Duffy says, There's no question.
Western credibility really has been harmed by this for the long term.
It weren't just David Biden, of course.
Yeah, absolutely.
But like, you know, I mean, assuming Trump gets in and does something productive, maybe it can be partially restored.
Nick says, U.S. Passes laws that make women eligible for the military draft.
Also U.S. On the brink of reigniting a war in the Middle East that most citizens oppose and wouldn't voluntarily enlist to fight.
Glad to see we're fighting for women's rights, though.
And it's pronounced Fur Azar.
And yes, I'm Italian.
Well, maybe you should have phonetically written it out for me.
I don't know.
Marianne says, are we really believing this level of incompetence, leaving documents, leaving people, leaving weapons, etc., isn't deliberate?
Quite what for?
I don't know, but this is beyond unreasonable.
Never underestimate how badly Joe Biden can F things up, Barack Obama.
And Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, co-signed Osama bin Laden.
So, it looks like, I mean, Biden strikes me, I've not studied his history or anything, but every clip of him from the 70s and 80s and 90s that I've seen, he just seems like a grifter, a shell man, a con man.
Nothing spectacular about him at all.
No, he was totally mediocre.
And that's him in his peak.
Yeah, him in his peak.
Lied his way through.
Has been shown to be a liar multiple times.
Seems to be deeply corrupt.
I think he's just incompetent.
I really do think he's just this incompetent.
I mean, he's now right in the trough of his life.
I mean, with the dementia.
Yeah.
Chad Kowal says, I didn't think you could get any dumber than pulling out all the military assets before evacuating the rest of your people, but the Biden administration deliberately gave the Taliban lists of people they wanted evacuated.
On the idea that they thought they could operate in good faith because of the interests of the Taliban.
Yeah, they got Pashtun Wally.
Culture of honour, don't you know?
It's unbelievable.
Sometimes I wonder if whatever entity is running this simulation got bored and started mashing the keyboard.
Good point.
Brian says, Women and children last, said Captain Biden, as the USS Clownland filled its last lifeboats with general security staff, diplomats, terrorists with fake papers.
Not wrong.
If there's any meme lord there still, if it was me, I'd get out a big speaker and just play the clown song.
Right.
So this is a good point by Maria here.
Regarding Ahmad Wali Massoud, he's not the British ambassador to Afghanistan.
He was the former ambassador of Afghanistan to the UK. Sorry.
I did think it was a bit strange.
I was like, really?
That was his name, was it?
He was the British ambassador.
Well, to be honest, it could be.
It could be, yeah, actually.
Yeah, good point.
But apparently that was a typo by GB News, so thank you for correcting us there, Maria.
Cindy says, Yeah, it's unbelievable.
I'm not worried about them having Blackhawk helicopters.
I don't think the Taliban can use Blackhawk helicopters.
Yeah, it's more annoying that they're so easy to blow up.
Well, it's not even that.
I mean, yeah, they should have just blown them up.
But it's also the fact that they're going to get sold on.
They're going to sell them to China.
Yep.
Anyway.
Callum says, Only Vrax has more equipment, gear and stuff for rebels to take and steal.
God Emperor Preservus.
Name redacted.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but during presidential debates between Trump and Biden, I don't recall foreign policy being a topic of debate at all.
Probably because the orange man, capitalized orange, had things relatively under control and Biden, his handlers, let's be honest, couldn't find much to argue against.
I think that's probably true and I think there's probably also a truism that the sort of Deep state of the United States puts a consistent foreign policy across the entirety of the United States.
So it's not really up for public debate in that way.
I do think there's probably some truth to that.
Sorry, I just saw a comment below it that's depressing.
Okay, well we'll get to that in a second.
I was interested in seeing a debate on foreign policy between the two, but I guess we needed to vote for Biden, quote-unquote, see what his plan was.
Oh yeah, that was right, wasn't it?
He wouldn't tell us.
On the Supreme Court, foreign policy, anything.
I'll let you know when I'm president.
You'll find out.
It'll be a good surprise.
Yeah.
I hope to see this clown being charged with treason, leaving weapons and equipment for the Taliban, but restricting what American civilians can carry.
Sorry for the rant.
It makes my blood boil.
Don't apologize, man.
We're all angry.
M1 Ping.
$85 billion in military equipment would rank third globally in annual military spending.
Yeah.
It's unbelievable.
Like I said, if this had happened like five years ago and the Taliban got hold of $85 million worth of military equipment, that would justify whatever it needed to go and take it off of them.
The third best funded military in the world is Taliban.
Behind China and America.
I just can't believe what I'm reading sometimes.
Just madness.
Kobe says, looking at the timeline on factcheck.org, I know, I believe that the American army didn't plan to evacuate at all, despite the Dua agreement, and it was only in April this year that the Biden admin finally forced them to do it.
That's why it's a shambles.
Could well be.
Maybe.
I don't know behind the scenes.
But all we have is public statements, which was to get out by May.
And, well, then Trump didn't get in, did he?
No.
Someone else went in.
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