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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #208

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 30th of August 2021, I'm I'm joined by Josh.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Queer Wars 2.
	There's a new sequel to Queer Wars 1, which we did.
	I'm pretty sure we're on 2.
	I don't think we did a 2 before.
	Also, the repression of the freedom protests around the world, but particularly in the Anglosphere.
	And also, Biden counting down the clock, because I don't know what else he can do at this point, quite frankly.
	Everything's in motion.
	All he can sit back is just sit back in his meteorite and...
	Fall asleep.
	It's not...
	What is it?
	Um...
	Do not call it a grave.
	It is the future you chose.
	You know, it's that situation, essentially.
	I don't get the reference, but okay.
	Oh, well, anyway.
	So I wanted to mention a few things first.
	So the first thing I want to mention was over the weekend, me, Carl and John went up to the Academic Agent Conference.
	And I just want to show some of the pictures people have been posting online of just some of the stuff because I thought I could have some imagery.
	But I just wanted to say a big well done to anyone, the guys who set that up, the people who went.
	Everyone was fantastic.
	The venue, the food, the speeches were all great.
	And we've got all the footage.
	Me and John filmed it.
	We're going to be cutting up a couple, so Carl's speech will be going up on the website and whatnot.
	I think not so obvious, we're sending him his as well.
	And then the rest of them, so AA speech, unpopular opinions, that sort of thing, that's all going to get sent to the organizers.
	And they're selling a book, which will then give you access to all of those videos to, you know, make money off the conference.
	But that was fantastic.
	I can't wait to look forward to the next one.
	I just mean, like, look at the food.
	Like, if we can cook up the food here.
	Like, this is just some guy who took a picture of the desserts.
	I didn't realise.
	It was like 300 quid for Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
	And you've got a thing.
	What is that?
	That's...
	Is that three nights?
	No, that's two nights.
	So you've got two nights.
	So, I mean, any hotel, that's like 200 quid.
	And then the food was just...
	It was high quality, you know, stuff.
	Actually, that was amazing value for money as well.
	But if we go to the next one here, I just want to demonstrate the next link.
	Just wanted to demonstrate the as-po-the-person reveals.
	Revealed preference of soya milk versus normal milk for this conference was very well.
	And also the last one, if we can go on to.
	There was a journo, we're pretty sure, that turned up to the thing.
	It was some woman who came on her own last-minute ticket, and it looks like she's written her article, When Localism Becomes Nationalism.
	Because the whole conversation was about how to get more local and whatnot.
	So I imagine she'll be publishing something like this for the next few days about how it's white supremacy.
	Wait, so this is about...
	This is not an article she's written, but this is what I'm imagining she's going to write.
	I was about to say, that was very quick.
	Yeah, it is a real article, but it's just not the one she's written yet.
	Anyway, so let's move on.
	So a couple of things on the website to mention first.
	So the first thing being the contemplations.
	I'll let you talk about this.
	So yeah, I decided to have a look at different ways in which election results can be...
	Subverted, if you have a preferred candidate, and these are all the different methods you can use to get that candidate to win.
	There is no commentary for anyone who's looking to sue.
	I'm looking at specific electronic voting machine manufacturers.
	I didn't really specifically look at the United States.
	It's other things.
	No one mentioned that.
	We were just talking about the corrupt governments of the world who may be involved.
	Exactly.
	Which is very broad, of course, of interest.
	So there's that.
	The next thing I wanted to mention was the epochs that went over the weekend that Carl, I presumably, did with Bo.
	I haven't had time to watch it because, again, at the conference.
	About Roma Britons, the part two.
	That was me.
	Oh, no.
	It was me again.
	You and Bo.
	Yeah, you can't get rid of me, can you?
	So, yeah.
	We were talking about...
	We did part one, which was talking about Caesar, and then...
	We were talking about Caligula and Agricola and the Roman rule of Britain and how that went down.
	I don't want to spoil too much.
	Civilizing the natives?
	Let's move on.
	So let's get right into the news.
	So first things first.
	Queer Wars 2.
	So we had Queer Wars 1, which I think was a video we did in which there was arguments within the queer community.
	As they described themselves, it's not a slur.
	It is a term that has been reclaimed.
	And now we have Queer Wars 2.
	So if we can get this up, the first image, Andy and I reporting here.
	A gay man wearing an Alliance LGB shirt has his property stolen and was forced out of the gay pride event in Manchester.
	By radical trans activists shouting, Trans Lives Matter!
	Militant trans politics has come to dominate most gay pride events.
	So this was a gay pride event, as, you know, the typical pride events are these days.
	And a guy turned up with a shirt that says LGB Alliance.
	And he was kicked out by the LGBTs.
	So the LGBT Alliance kicked out the LGB Alliance.
	That's not very inclusive of them, is it?
	What happened to that principle?
	We're a very inclusive movement.
	We're for everyone, except if you disagree.
	And the way they did this is shouting Trans Lives Matter at him.
	So let's play the first clip so you can get a view of this.
	Trans Lives Matter!
	TRANSLIFE MATTER! TRANSLIFE MATTER! TRANSLIFE MATTER! TRANSLIFE MATTER!
	I think that some people are joining in with Black Lives Matter as well and mishearing the chant.
	Keep walking, keep walking!
	Keep walking, boys!
	And those lives, much of you, Tim!
	Cheering Cheering Cheering Bye, Oslo!
	Bye, Oslo!
	Oslo and Hugh!
	I'm sure the LGBTs can feel very good about themselves.
	Kicking out the LGBTs.
	Because they're not to be involved.
	Presumably it's all just teas left.
	Which from the posters are actually...
	Is this all lost on them, apparently?
	Just like, yeah, we don't want to be excluded from society.
	We want to be like normal people.
	But then...
	When they've got a little bit of power immediately, as soon as someone does something they don't like, gone.
	Well, the LGBs have got their rights.
	Tees me right now, therefore you're not interested, you're not involved in this protest anymore.
	How dare you argue for LGB rights, would be the thing there.
	I did love how they were shouting, you know, get out, boy.
	It's very much reminding me of Little Rock, you know, when they were integrating the schools.
	And you see the police presence there protecting the LGB alliance from the people around them shouting, get out of here, boy.
	You know, you're not welcome in this community.
	Hmm, okay.
	That's something to think about.
	We're also shouting, of course, trans lives matter, because that's the difference.
	You've got the LGB Alliance, which is a group of people who fight for gay rights, tolerance, I'm sure this would be the kind of thing they talk about, describing themselves.
	And, yeah, okay, that's a thing.
	And they've recognised that T on the end doesn't really have anything common to do with the LGB, because LGB is all about sexual preference, T is about gender identity.
	Different things, therefore different objectives, different goals, it's a weird thing that they became meshed, and of course led to the nonsense of LGBTQIA+, TUP, so on and so forth.
	If you don't cut off a limit, there isn't one.
	And the LGB Alliance being a group that did cut off a limit and say, we're about people who are homosexual, bisexual, or lesbian.
	Basically just gays or bisexuals, really.
	So the Trans Lives Matter chant doesn't really make sense here, because he's not saying, you know, they shouldn't exist.
	They should be...
	It's not like he's saying that their lives are meaningless or anything like that.
	No, of course not.
	But he is, of course, in the realm of reality that men cannot biologically become women.
	That's the heresy.
	Obviously.
	Which is why they're all screaming about friends' lives.
	So I just wanted to get a look at the state of these people so we'll go to the next one.
	You can just see some of these images if you could click through them.
	So I mean the first one, every event.
	I mean even at Swindon Pride that we went to.
	The dog costumes.
	What's my sexuality?
	Dog.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So let's go to the next one here.
	Of course, you have the trans racial pride flags.
	This one called Rainbow Noir, which...
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one as well.
	You have this woman, the one who was shouting, get out of here with her arm, and then the next image.
	I just love how much of a Cali B word she looks.
	You know, with the glasses.
	The kind of person here.
	You know the meme.
	Exactly, yeah.
	So we go to the next one.
	There's, of course, the verified checkmark queer response, which is, well done, Manchester.
	Trans flag.
	Homo flag?
	I don't know what the right term for that conservative pride flag is at this point, because it's no longer the LGBT flag, is it?
	It's the LGB flag.
	Just as a matter of principle, I'm not keeping track.
	I know.
	They've got that one rainbow flag, that's it.
	I'm not going to allow any of this.
	But it is amazing.
	I mean, the pride movement attacking each other over the fact that you're the wrong kind of gay?
	You know, you're not queer with us, you're queer with them.
	You're not gay enough for us.
	Rightio.
	Alright.
	Of course it has nothing to do with being gay.
	It's the radical ideology of trans...
	Trans ideology of the idea that you can biologically become a man or a woman, which of course lesbians or gay people cannot buy into for the obvious fact that you can't force a lesbian to suck a cock just because you call the cock a female cock.
	Not gonna work.
	Anyway.
	So let's go on to this.
	Let's go on to the next one here.
	So this is...
	continue to complaining about this.
	The leftist response.
	And he has some tweets from the person who was kicked out.
	And he says his LGBT... Sorry, LGB supporter seems to also be opposed homophobia and racism.
	And his example is the guy posting...
	Yes, I'm white and gay.
	Not cis.
	That's a silly name trans used to cope with life.
	No idea what POC LGBT is, but sounds like a prescription from your doctor that will get rid of it.
	Yeah, so this is his homophobia and racism for saying, I'm not an alphabet person, I'm just gay.
	Like, that's what it should be about.
	It should be about gay tolerance, acceptance, the traditional movement of these folks who are liberals versus the weird communist people who have declared reality an enemy of the people.
	Let's move on from this.
	So what else have the group there decided to do?
	Well, they've decided to start a petition to pressure media into deplatforming their opponents, which is how you know they're the good guys.
	Oh yeah, deplatforming.
	That always shows that you're in a position of absolute power, doesn't it?
	Yeah, I mean, kicking out people from your protest for being the wrong kind of queer and then starting petitions to censor your opponents.
	You know, the width of tolerance is just coming through the air.
	Anyway, so in here they provide their reasoning for why media should not talk to LGB Alliance.
	The UK media continue to provide an uncritical platform to the self-described LGB Alliance.
	An organisation many in the LGBT plus community feel is a hate group and does not represent them.
	They do not speak for us, and they should not be quoted or asked to comment on issues affecting the LGBT community without queer and unequivocal reference to their status of perceived hate group.
	The LGB Alliance are widely thought of as an anti-LGBT hate group.
	As such, any discussion with the UK media should frame them with respect to how they are perceived within the LGBT community.
	There's a lot of interesting stuff going on there.
	That's amazing.
	I like also how they have the nerve to be like, yeah, they don't talk for LGB people like us, even though that's who it's made up with.
	I love it.
	We speak for gays, not them.
	How can you tell?
	They don't have the T at the end.
	Right, okay.
	So it's literally the group of radical gender ideologues, and then you have the LGB Alliance, which is the people who are in the movement who have now left and formed their own group to be like, hey, no, we're drawing the line at gay tolerance.
	They don't represent gay people, we represent gay people, the LGBT plus group.
	I mean, this is the criticism only labelled at the gender ideologues, which is, of course, they don't represent most homosexuals, because when you ask most homosexuals, so on and so forth, they hate these people.
	And, well, I mean, you can just look at them.
	Like, the kind of people who go to these parades and are ideologically involved in that way, they are not normal people within homosexual groups.
	They are the fringe of the fringe.
	And they honestly endlessly claim, like, we represent homosexuals and so forth, and they obviously don't.
	And they've always hated that criticism, but now they're using it against the LGB Alliance, who is explicitly just gay people who are like, yeah, we're not up for gender ideology.
	We just want to be accepted.
	I mean, amazing.
	but also the fact that they're just like yeah our opponents hate group really what have they done i mean you kicked them out of the pride event forcefully i mean you ended up getting the police having to escort him for his own safety out of your pride event from the group of diversity and tolerance and also you're now trying to pressure the media into not talking to the enemy because they have different opinions and they're the hate group are they they're the ones spreading What have they done?
	Not you.
	Yeah, it wasn't exactly a chance of love I heard there.
	Get out of here, boy!
	Those accusatory fingers, yeah.
	Get the authorities to escort him.
	Not gonna be safe.
	Owen Jones had something to dribble on about as well, so he also had, of course, the same position.
	He says, Media outlets note the LGB Alliance does not represent lesbian, gay, or bisexual people in any shape or form.
	But the LGBTs totally do.
	They totally represent homosexuals, but the LGBTs, they don't represent any homosexuals.
	I can't get over just the brain-dead take of being like, yeah, that alphabet group doesn't represent them, this alphabet group does.
	Even though, of course, the only difference between the two alphabet groups is the T bit.
	And the LGB's trying to claim, okay, we can speak on homosexual issues.
	And that's the line.
	That's why we're dropping it.
	You know, LGB. But the T group is like, no, no.
	Us transgenders speak for the gays.
	The gays don't speak for the gays.
	Amazing.
	Anyway.
	So I also wanted to demonstrate again how these people are totally not hateful.
	I mean, we go to the next image here.
	I mean, the people using racial pride flags...
	And they're using black power fists.
	Are totally not hateful.
	Especially when they're screaming at people at a protest.
	Get out of here, boy!
	But, okay.
	So, uh, someone tweeted in response to this situation.
	Condemning it.
	So we go to the next one.
	Someone else.
	Helen Joyce.
	I'm not familiar.
	And she says in here that woke homophobia is going to get someone seriously injured soon.
	I can believe it.
	Yep.
	I mean, these people are zealots for their ideology and will not accept dissent as evidence by them kicking out a dissenter.
	Like, I mean, it couldn't get more explicit than that, can it?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, but it turns out apparently he was assaulted, so if we go to the next one here.
	This is some guy who tweeted in response who was very proud that this guy had been bullied out of the entire thing.
	So he says in here, the first image we can get out.
	Bullying the guy in the LGB Alliance shirt who came to the march is my favourite part of Pride so far.
	Kiss kiss.
	The movement of love and tolerance.
	I love bullying people.
	That's entirely what this movement is about.
	Let's be frank.
	Well, it seems like it's so ironic that something that supposedly came out of protecting people from prejudice and bullying is now becoming the main force in society of doing so to others.
	They've clearly not learned their lessons, have they?
	He later went on to issue another statement in this, in which he was talking about, like, oh, I tweeted about this earlier.
	I was celebrating, and still do, the bullying of the guy.
	However, physical assault is bad, he goes on to say.
	It's like, right, so the guy ended up apparently getting physically assaulted after the cameras stopped rolling.
	So, yeah, he did get injured.
	He was assaulted.
	Fantastic.
	Fantastic.
	That's the way Queer Wars is growing.
	They're gonna have the LGBTs physically fighting the T's in the streets.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I didn't expect this to come so soon, though, to be fair.
	I was more expecting the Islamic LGB parade that was planned in Britain to be the spark for this sort of thing, but apparently...
	Yeah, whatever happened to that?
	I think it's still postponed, but it's happening.
	Oh, right.
	Lauren Southern's going to be the primary speaker, I hope.
	I also just, like, you were mentioning about the line here.
	I mean, there's obviously the two groups.
	I mean, there's so obviously the group of people who are like, yeah, gay tolerance, acceptance.
	And then the people who are like, yeah, gender ideology.
	Men can literally become whatever they, you know, they can become women if they just say so.
	And also, I don't know, you mean dog is a fetish.
	You know, leather is, sorry, dog is a sexuality.
	Leather is a sexuality.
	What else is your sexuality?
	Bunny wearing suits.
	The idea that everything is socially constructed is so obviously wrong.
	It can take you two minutes to refute it.
	Easy.
	But anyway, if you needed a way to wake up some people on this who are still on the train of Lyme, I'm for LGBT plus acceptance.
	Oh, there's a Q&A at the end?
	Well, I'll add that to my flag.
	Like, you know, people who are not really paying attention.
	This is a great example, where it's just like, look, there are two distinct camps here.
	One talking for gay tolerance acceptance and one talking for a million other things.
	And what group should you be sporting, rightfully?
	And it's got to be the tolerance and acceptance group, surely.
	So the LGB Alliance have issued a statement on this, and they say, Of course, the fact that LGBT is a term doesn't make any goddamn sense, even in the construct.
	Ironically, Pride was originally created to promote those rights.
	It's ludicrous that a gay man now can't assert those rights at a Pride event without being harassed and evicted.
	This shocking incident shows that today's LGBTQ plus movement is dominated by gender identity extremism.
	Correct.
	Those who take a different view, including trans dissenters, are hounded out.
	we strongly reject this mindset and we'll continue to promote uh our message of just you know traditional being like yeah liberal standard we don't want to discriminate in law kind of thing i don't know where they stand on bake the cake or any of that stuff but it's you know there's there's the obvious difference here i've just been like here's our limit they can at least point to one you know they don't just put plus at the end and just leave out to your imagination to what kind of things they're going to declare a gender or sexuality in the near future they're pretty upfront about what they actually believe right yeah we got gays lesbian spies Right, done.
	That's the end of the conversation.
	Not plus, in which, I don't know, you can sneak a pee in later on, perhaps.
	I was just thinking that, actually.
	Yeah, one of the problems these events have.
	But some people are taking memes out of this, you can see this one here.
	One of these things is allowed at Pride, the other gets you thrown out which one is which.
	And for people listening, on the left there's a person wearing the LGB Alliance shirt, and a person on the right.
	It's three guys in dog costumes, wearing nothing but the dog masks, some leather straps, and presumably some underwear, I hope for the love of Christ.
	Next to some child, little girl with a pride flag, being like, hey, look, doggy men.
	I mean, it's disgusting.
	And yeah, one will get you kicked out, one will get you celebrated by the gender identity extremists.
	So, there's also the question of, will he get justice out of this, the guy who was physically assaulted?
	Because if he was physically assaulted, that's a crime.
	And then you can take that to the police.
	Will he bugger?
	Because we all know how the police stand on this debate within the queer wars.
	They are not in agreement with the LGB Alliance, are they?
	No, they're in agreement with the LGBT alliance.
	So how does the LGB group of this queer war ever get justice if they are victims of law-breaking, such as being physically assaulted?
	And with the spot rainbows capped in here, and if you scroll down, the rainbow cars of the police are rolling out.
	They're not going to.
	They just are not going to.
	At all.
	The police seem to have, weirdly enough, picked a political side which is, of course, against their principles, isn't it?
	They're not allowed to take political stances.
	Because we had the policewoman who got fired for saying Free Palestine at a Free Palestine rally in London.
	There's a whole host of problems with police...
	Partisanship in the last year.
	But the point I want to specifically get on here, we were driving back from the AA conference and we overheard in the rainbows some idiots arguing about the rainbow cars and they were being like, oh, there'll never be a problem with this.
	There'll never be a situation.
	How unlikely is it that there's going to be a dispute about gay rights or something?
	Well, we have it now.
	It literally happened the day after that event.
	And it's like, well, which side of this debate do the rainbow police of vice and virtue stand?
	It's obvious.
	And if you need proof, well we have it from Lancashire Police.
	Literally the same day.
	So if you scroll up on this one, someone wrote about this.
	Security guard and I noticed and removed these disgusting stickers.
	What were the stickers?
	These horrible stickers.
	They said, trans women are men and have a penis.
	A factual statement.
	I don't know what else to say.
	And in response, the police responded, Hi Jamesy, this is really disappointing to see.
	Disappointed face emoji.
	We are made aware on this day, and we removed immediately, and there are no further issues during the event.
	We take reports like this extremely seriously, and have recorded it as a hate incident.
	Thanks!
	Lancashire Police verified checkmark.
	The voice in which you read that out.
	I can't think of how else this guy typed.
	Yeah, so Fair Cop, Harry Miller, has responded to this.
	So we go to the next one.
	This is fantastic.
	We've handed ourselves in.
	Full details provided.
	So if you scroll down, you can see that he actually did.
	The mad lad.
	He literally called out the police.
	It was just like, yeah, I've done this.
	Like, emailed them.
	And, you know, the incident report of him being like, yeah, I totally did this.
	Now what?
	Come and get me.
	Come and arrest me for it.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	He says in here, let's see how serious Lancashire police really are.
	Because, you know, someone dared to put up a sticker that said people with penises probably aren't women.
	Women have vaginas.
	The Liz Truss position, the conservative position on what a woman is.
	Stunning and brave.
	I saw Harry Miller talk about the Rainbow Police cars on GB News and that was very good as well.
	Yeah, fantastic.
	But also there's the other point of like, well, okay, maybe you're still not convinced this is all nonsense.
	I don't know, what kind of world you're living in where you think this is clearly a sane situation to be in.
	Well, let's go to the next cutting-edge thing with an LGBT ideology.
	Not part of the LGB alliance, definitely part of the LGBT group.
	What's this?
	Someone's typing, there are lesbians who like men, there are lesbians who are men, there are lesbians who are straight, there are lesbians who are bisexual, there are all this and more.
	I love Undoom there.
	What do words even mean?
	There are lesbians who like men.
	Right, so what is that?
	That's someone who's in a lesbian relationship.
	They've got two women, right?
	They're two normal women in a relationship.
	They're lesbians.
	They're part of the L group.
	And then one of them decides that, actually, I think I've been a man all my life.
	I'm going to become a man.
	And now that lesbian likes a man, and they're still lesbians, even though one of them's a man, as we are told to must agree.
	But also there are lesbians who are men as well, so the lesbian in that relationship is also a man, but still a lesbian.
	And then there are lesbians which are straight because maybe they're dating a man, and they've accepted that the trans man is a man, and therefore...
	I'm confused.
	I'm not going to waste any more time on this, but the police now have to answer this question.
	Look, if you're going to take the position of the LGBT group movement over the LGBTs, I mean, you could just pick the position, the traditional P-like position of being like, we're just the police.
	I don't give a toss.
	Like, we're just going to enforce the law.
	But no, you've given up that, and you want to endorse the LGBT plus movement.
	What is the answer to this question?
	I want to hear it.
	Anyway.
	Is there even a question there?
	It's just a series of weird statements.
	Do they agree with this?
	Yeah, this is totally true.
	I don't think it's possible to understand this.
	I want to see Krustin and Dick endorsing it, though.
	Because if she doesn't endorse it, what a bigot.
	Let's move on.
	So if we go to just an example of...
	You may think, well, this has nothing to do with me.
	I'm not engaged in any of these groups.
	Well, do you like money?
	Do you pay taxes?
	Because, yeah, it does involve you.
	So you can just look here.
	These are the head of equality and diversity and inclusion groups within NHS trusts all over the country because of government-funded healthcare, taxpayer-funded healthcare.
	And Krustin and the taxpayer, just on this list that David found a loan of £221,000.
	Just on this screenshot of...
	That's the conservative end of these salaries as well.
	I didn't bother to calculate the higher end of what it's going to cost us.
	I have seen like £71,000 a year for the head of diversity and inclusion, which...
	What are you being paid for there?
	70 grand there, 75 grand there, full ahead.
	And yeah, if the NHS ever complains about money again, I'm going to shoot them.
	So let's move on.
	That's a joke.
	You can't say that.
	That's a joke.
	I'm saying about the institution of people complaining.
	Just shut up.
	I don't want to listen to you.
	You've got hundreds of thousands of pounds going down the drain every year just on salaries of people who check the melanin of the different people who work for you.
	So let's move on to the US, because that's where we're going, because apparently the US is even worse than us.
	So we have a teacher here, California teacher, removes American flag and tells students to pledge allegiance to the pride flag instead.
	Amazing.
	Let's play the clip.
	Okay, so during third period we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance.
	I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don't stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, don't have to say the words.
	So my class decided to stand but not say the words.
	Totally fine.
	Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag.
	It used to be there, but I took it down during COVID because And I packed it away and I don't know where, and I haven't found it yet.
	But my kid today goes, hey, it's kind of weird that we just stand and then, you know, we say it to nothing.
	And I'm like, oh, well, you know, I got to find it.
	Like, I'm working on it.
	I got you.
	In the meantime, I tell this kid, we do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to!
	And he, like, looks around and he goes, oh, that one?
	So she took the American flag down during COVID, as she said, you might not have heard it, because it made me feel uncomfortable.
	Why?
	Because it represents a liberal world order, not a socialist world order, that's why.
	So she then got her kids to pledge allegiance to the racial pride flag, the one with the little pincer movement going on there, of the black and brown stripes with the trans phalanx behind them coming in for support.
	But again, I just can't get over how progressives look at this, and none of their brains even turn a cog.
	They just think, why do we segregate the black and browns into their own equal but separate stripes?
	But okay, just moves on.
	So, yeah, that's where we're going in the UK, because the Americans are already there, and I presume this teacher is still working there and still indoctrinating her students.
	I hope not.
	I can't imagine someone like that ever educating anyone's children or giving them anything of use.
	The only other thing I wanted to mention is we do need to be on patrol.
	Thus, those of us on the right for people engaging in such thinking.
	So let's go to the last link on that section, which is just to mention that they walk among us.
	So this is a conservative MP. I think she's also, what is it, like an apprentice for the Women's and Equalities Department minister position or whatever.
	So there's the young Tories who all got together, some catch up, and they're all having a drink.
	So me and the boys.
	They definitely look like young Tories to me.
	Yeah, and she responds, all blokes, and then an emoji of a woman with like, meh, you know, the hands up, and being upset, because some guys got together from the young Tories to have a pint.
	So what?
	Yeah, she needs to be, I think the rightists need to be on patrol for this kind of thing, especially within conservative movements.
	That is nonsense, and of course she would not say the same thing if it was a group of women who got together.
	She'd be like, 100% diverse, so inclusive.
	I was like...
	To the young Tories' credit, at least they dress far more smartly than a lot of Labour MPs do.
	They dress more smarter than me.
	I mean, it's great aesthetics.
	I mean, again, like trying to put them down for being men.
	Conservative MP. That's right.
	I'm a Conservative.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	Let's go to New Zealand.
	Sure.
	So, I wanted to talk a bit about both this New Zealand protest of one person, which the state felt the need to break up, but also lots of other stuff.
	Hang on, so it's just one guy with a sign?
	Yes.
	So they planned the protest, one guy turned up.
	What did he plan it with?
	Did he talk to himself?
	Yeah.
	Well, I think the intention was there to be more people, but it must have been either poorly organised or whatever, because I fail to imagine that one person is all the objection the New Zealand state is going to have to some of its policies, because, of course, the decision to place the country into a level four lockdown, which is the highest possible form of lockdown, was made after one case.
	Which, in and of itself, was also called into question because there was questions of whether it was a false positive or not, and whether it was a matter of just a faulty test.
	So it's not even guaranteed that it was a legitimate case or not, but they went into lockdown, and then only one person turns up.
	I love the chat is just full of people being like, down with this sort of thing, careful now!
	LAUGHTER I don't want that English spirit to be infected with this New Zealand tyranny though, to be fair.
	So apparently the police were alerted of a...
	They were alerted of a gathering of one person.
	Apparently, I'm reading a quote here.
	Police have been in the area and have spoken to one person who arrived intending to attend the protest.
	Police spoke to the individual who was encouraged to comply with the alert level four restrictions and chose to leave.
	So they couldn't just let this one-man protest go on.
	One man on his own, infecting nobody, doing nothing, but saying, careful now, down with this sort of thing, and that's too much for the commie New Zealand authorities to deal with.
	Apparently so.
	So it goes on to say an account on Instagram called on people who see the bigger picture to get involved in the protest.
	The post criticised Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the government for destroying the economy and destroying jobs.
	And then the article goes on to point out that despite the unemployment rate dropping to 4% in June 2021 quarter and the economy weathering the pandemic better than expected, And this is actually the interesting point here.
	It's not the fact that the protest was attended by one person.
	It's the economic stuff that they point out.
	And you think, well, how can that be right?
	We know that loads of businesses have had to shut down for a very long time.
	Lots of high street places have closed.
	So I've looked into this and the actual economics of it, and this is actually very surprising.
	So with the UK's data, because I know all of that stuff pretty...
	Intricately, apparently our GDP dropped by 9.9%, but of course GDP, as any economist will tell you, is just one marker of an economy, and there are lots of other markers.
	So supposedly small businesses were most impacted by turnover, with a slight around 1% decrease in turnover, but medium and large businesses actually increased turnover on the whole, and the number of companies actually increased throughout the lockdown.
	And This seems very counterintuitive, doesn't it?
	You think, well, everything was closed.
	How is this happening?
	And of course, the fact is that it's backed by lots of borrowing.
	But people have also seen all these shops and things on the high street closed down.
	However, it's the online sector that's growing a lot to take over.
	And of course, this was a trend that was happening well before the pandemic.
	And of course there is the high street shops being closed because the owners are leveraging the credit rating of these companies to take on more debt, make more money, and then of course declare bankruptcy as well.
	So it's not entirely pandemic.
	All these things are closing down anyway.
	However, the fact that the economy and economies of lots of Western countries that have locked down It's largely unaffected is actually a lot worse than it sounds because, of course, it makes it easier for the government to keep us at home because ultimately their bottom line, the money that they're making, isn't going to be so affected as you might think.
	So this doesn't bode well for future lockdowns and things like that.
	However, as I mentioned earlier, the UK borrowed £299 billion to pay for the first year of lockdown, although...
	You know, the UK's always run a deficit, and for example, 2016-17, we spent £772 billion in government spending.
	So, just a quick aside on the economics that that point raised is that actually, yeah, the economy isn't as badly affected as we thought, but that's not good, because they're just going to use it as an excuse to lock us down more.
	But...
	The protests weren't just one person in New Zealand, there were massive crowds in London, as we can see from this video here.
	So supposedly this is part of the ongoing protests that happen pretty much, it seems, every weekend.
	And I wanted to cover this again.
	Nothing particularly interesting happened.
	It was just a mostly peaceful protest, but I'm not using it ironically, where people just went for a wander with some placards and stuff.
	And none of the media outlets really cover it, and when they do, they cover it really badly.
	So, um...
	This next video is a protest in Newcastle over the weekend where the police use a police dog on a, I suppose, anti-lockdown protester.
	So if we could start that one.
	I'm not entirely sure what he's done to deserve this, so maybe he did something bad.
	i'm gonna have that caveat that it looks pretty awful to be fair and then they just walk over with the dog right Obviously, the dog's meant to be used to catch people.
	And it's grabbing the shirt.
	I cannot slap enough butt.
	Get off his mouth!
	So, obviously, they're not using proportionate amounts of force.
	That's a bit of his T-shirt, I think.
	I think, thankfully, it wasn't biting his arm.
	Don't need to watch anymore.
	Anyway, yeah.
	It grabbed his t-shirt, thankfully.
	So for people listening, this guy comes running down some alleyway, some cop's trying to talk to him or grab him, and he runs into another cop, so he tries to run away again, so the second cop runs at him, and they tackle him, which presumably he's done something, they need to arrest him, just making assumptions.
	I mean, the dog...
	It's been trained to do this sort of thing, yeah.
	It's been the good boy that it is, which is that it sees the person that the cop has ran towards and goes in for a bite, and starts biting this guy who's on the ground, and then the guy who's brought in this dog is now trying to punch the dog to try and get it to stop biting someone on the ground, who's clearly not a threat.
	Yeah, he was being held down by the police whilst this dog was biting him.
	And obviously that's not how police dogs are meant to be used at all.
	And this is the kind of thing where, had it happened under the guise of another event, everyone would be up in arms, but no one's talking about it.
	For this one, no one cares.
	If he went to the Sarah Everard vigil, which the cops went to, and the dog started biting the hair and shirt of some woman, then the entire country would be having a conversation.
	We would never hear the end of it, would we?
	That police officer's life would be over.
	I mean, not just his career, his personal life would be over.
	God forbid that happened at a Black Lives Matter rally.
	Yeah.
	But no, we haven't heard about it because it was an anti-lockdown protest.
	Can we go back to that first article, though?
	Because I don't think you mentioned it.
	There was something at the end there as well, which I found really funny that you can read.
	So, what was it?
	Last week, around 100 lockdown protesters gathered in Queen Street, and four of them were arrested.
	I mean, again, they're just like these tiny protests where they're not upsetting anyone.
	You know, the chances of infection are incredibly low, and yet still not enough.
	They arrested four people.
	Four people were also arrested at a protest of around 20 people in the city of Tarunga.
	20 people went to a protest and the cops turned up and arrested four of them.
	Yeah, it is ridiculous, isn't it?
	I mean, New Zealand in particular is probably one of the worst cases of government tyranny in response to COVID we've probably seen in the Western world.
	I mean, they list another one there.
	Another group gathered outside a police station in South Ireland's city of Nelson the same day.
	They don't name the number, so presumably it's five people or another one.
	But dispersed after officers issued 20 verbal warnings.
	But it's so...
	So kind of worrying that the most authoritarian regime is also the one that has the smallest protests.
	Yeah, the smallest amount of dissent cannot be tolerated.
	Unbelievable.
	But anyway, I'm going to make you even more annoyed because we're going to have a look at some of the reporting from the Daily Mail about some of the protests.
	So they say thousands of anti-vaxxers march through London in massive medical freedom demonstrations against vaccine passports.
	So two very different things here as well.
	Against vaccine passports, but they also deliberately use the term anti-vaxxers because that's used as a slayer now, basically.
	Those are two different groups.
	Yeah, they're two different groups, but the media keeps on conflating them all the time.
	So, at this point, I think it's almost deliberate, isn't it, to wind people up.
	Just to say, okay, it was all these anti-vaxxers when in reality it's people against mandated vaccines and vaccine passports, which that's a perfectly liberal cause, perfectly reasonable in a civil society to protest.
	There are many people who are anti-mandate because they want people to get the vaccine.
	If you mandate it, then people are going to be upset, rebel, suspicious.
	That's the argument for the pro-vaccine anti-mandate argument.
	That can't exist and you'd be an anti-vaxxer.
	Doesn't make sense.
	Yeah, it should be your choice.
	You shouldn't be compelled to take anything or put anything in your body by the government.
	That's...
	The liberal position?
	Yes, it is indeed.
	But it just seems to me that even, especially the male as well, this is meant to be, you know, right-leaning.
	The main one.
	And...
	Why are you going, ooh?
	I just want to call it references.
	Whenever you mention the right-wing, like, right-wing newspaper.
	Right-wing my arse.
	Well, on some things they are.
	They like making fun of woke people, but also...
	Sort of many left-wing people.
	Yeah, I suppose.
	But even they, meant to be our opposition media, apparently not.
	But never mind.
	So I'm going to move on to what's happening in Australia.
	There is some resistance going on there as well.
	This is annoying coverage by the Mail again, which...
	I thought it was interesting, but at least I suppose they are covering it as opposed to some of the other outlets which are just ignoring it.
	But they say Australian truck drivers block roads in protest against the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia.
	And many truckers particularly took issue with the vaccine requirements for crossing state borders.
	So that would mean that if they were to continue in their job, they would have to get a vaccine or face...
	Losing their job just for crossing state borders within Australia itself, which seems a little bit strong and heavy-handed in my view.
	Supposedly the truckers blocked the M1 motorway in Reedy Creek, south of Brisbane, as of this morning.
	Apparently the traffic was backed up for several kilometres before the person in charge of the protest said an hour later, you know, that's enough.
	We're going to stop holding people up now.
	So at least they are protesting in a somewhat considerate way.
	And they say in the article, yes, actually, some of the people who were held up were kind of honking their horns and putting their thumbs up in support, even though they had been held up.
	So Extinction Rebellion, take notes.
	You don't annoy people by holding them up all day.
	Maybe hold them up for a little bit at most, but I don't really think this tends to work.
	Yeah, unless you're trying to destroy the country.
	I remember the...
	I don't remember it because I wasn't old enough to remember, but the fuel protests.
	So when truckers in the UK would literally go around just blocking fuel depots and driving on the motorways to hold people up and whatnot...
	Unless you're really going to put the pedal to the metal and see how far you can take things before the government buckle.
	Don't be a bad about it.
	That's one way of putting it.
	For example, the Mail here talks to one of the organisers here, Tony Fulton, who says, we want to end these lockdowns, we don't want forced vaccinations, and we want to open up the country and to learn to live with the virus.
	These are not...
	No, this is government strategy in the UK, YouTube, if you're listening.
	This is the standard for most Western countries at this point, not for Australia, it seems, and that's their folly.
	Absolutely.
	And this is interesting here, I thought.
	This is more kind of questionable reporting by them.
	He admits that he's somewhat apprehensive about getting the vaccine.
	He's a bit worried about it.
	And then the mail writes here, fears about the vaccine have been noticeably absent among those who have issued heartfelt pleas from their hospital beds after being struck down by COVID while unvaccinated.
	That's just such a blatant and obvious dismissal of perfectly valid liberal opposition to these policies.
	And it's just trying to browbeat people with emotive responses.
	It's appalling, really.
	Anyway, protests have also continued in France.
	Apparently, over the weekend, 160,000 people turned out to protest the campaign.
	Pretty strict rules as far as the...
	So in France, they have done mandatory vaccinations, and it is that if you want to go to live and life, then you have to have the app with your vaccine certificate on it, papers please style, and, well, yeah, not very liberal, very French.
	I think it's anyone entering a restaurant, theatre, or cinema, or a long-distance train, or a shopping centre must show proof of vaccination to even enter.
	So we had the amazing protest strategy of sitting outside the restaurant and just having a picnic.
	That's a protest done right, where you're not getting in anyone's way, but you're showing hypocrisy.
	Someone could just look at you and say, okay, why are they sat next to these restaurants?
	Oh, it's because of the mandate.
	Yeah, isn't it awful that this restaurant does that?
	It shouldn't do that.
	Yeah, when people are minding their own business as well, they're more likely to win sympathy, but never mind.
	So, supposedly the protests in France have been continuing.
	This is the seventh one in a row.
	The last one was 200,000 people.
	I don't think there's any chance of stopping, but I thought...
	It's important to cover this stuff because very few outlets actually are bothering anymore.
	So it is important to know that people are actually letting their objections be heard and not giving up.
	And I think a lot of people get the feeling that they have been given up on in a way and nothing's going to change, but it doesn't have to be that way.
	I mean, literally all it takes is political will.
	All of this was done by political will from the elites, while political will needs to push back on it.
	Anyway, let's move on to Biden counts down the clock, I suppose.
	So, Joe Biden, his international joke, in case any Americans are wondering.
	I mean, I don't know if there was ever any respect for him outside the United States, as I like this weird guy who kind of follows Obama around, but especially after Afghanistan and all the rest of it, he is just, like, openly joked about, apparently in British cabinet, Which is the best part.
	So let's get into this.
	So the first thing here being Biden apparently falling asleep at a press conference with the Israeli PM, the new one, because they go out of Netanyahu.
	And you can see the footage here.
	It's like 20 odd seconds.
	And from the camera angle, you can see the Israeli PM trying to talk to Biden and Biden sitting in his chair snoozing off because it's been a hard day.
	I mean, I feel you, buddy.
	I want to sleep sometimes, too, but maybe not when you're meeting someone else's prime minister.
	So there are a lot of memes made out of this.
	So we go to the next one.
	You can see some people making good memes.
	Average conversation fan, trying to do conversation.
	Average sleep enjoyer, having a much better time of it.
	Apparently, this is fake news.
	So if we go to the next one, you can see that a video of Joe Biden meeting with his Israeli prime minister is misleading, cropped fact-checkers and journalists say.
	Don't really trust them, but if you go to the next one, there is just the footage the Israelis released of another camera angle, and you can see in the section where he appears to fall asleep because it's high quality.
	You can just about see his eye being open, and then he does respond to him after the 20 seconds of having a little bit of a moment.
	And it is true that he's not asleep, but, I mean, good God, barely.
	I mean, Biden, even at the best of times, there's no brain on, so he might as well be asleep, but whatever.
	That's the truth of the situation.
	So we go to the next one, of course, there's the bomb that went off in Kabul, killing a bunch of Afghans and also 13 US soldiers.
	Apparently the bodies of the 13 US soldiers has now arrived back in Dover for Biden and the families to, I suppose, accept and bury.
	What else are you going to do?
	And you can see Biden there tending, which was, I thought, ballsy of him.
	Yeah, considering this could be blamed on him, really, and his extension of the withdrawal, I mean, I'm always apprehensive blaming deaths on someone, but I think, yeah, it's relatively fair.
	You had Trump's plan to withdraw by May, you delayed it, and then bungled the situation, and I'm going to put the blame on him for this one.
	So we go to the next one here.
	You can see some of the photos, so you can see some of the mothers down there having a tough time, which you would understand.
	If you go to the last photo on this section, you can see, yeah, this is the photo that came out of this situation.
	A moment you would have thought would have been briefed a million times of just, okay, we look terrible.
	Let's make our best, make sure, okay, we're going to go down there, we're going to, you know, seem like we're taking responsibility by standing with the families as the bodies come back.
	No, there's a moment in which he just checks his watch for the time, being like, you know, how long have I been here?
	I can't think of any worse optics than being the 13-year soldiers who everyone's blaming you for the deaths of, and their mothers crying at the corpses, and you sat there with your watch out.
	I mean, the most charitable thing you could potentially say would be that maybe that was a photo of him on the way to meet them, and he was making sure he was on time.
	It wasn't.
	You see the hand there?
	That's from the footage earlier, so with his hand up like this.
	Oh, right.
	So he is actually, when they're being laid off the plane...
	Yeah, when he's put his hand back, he's like, I'll just check my watch.
	I've been here for an hour.
	Do I have to be here much longer?
	That's a fair point.
	Yeah, so it is a fair criticism.
	He does do it very fast, but he did actually do it.
	Yeah, you would have surely been briefed a million times about how to look good in this situation.
	That's definitely not it.
	Apparently not.
	So, some of the family are quite rightly, in my opinion...
	Really angry at Biden specifically and Democratic voters.
	And one mother called up a radio station to talk about this, as it seems.
	So this is New York Post reporting.
	So the quotes from her...
	Just going to make sure this is not my opinion, because some of these quotes are going to upset a few people in Silicon Valley.
	20 years and 6 months old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife and watch the birth of his son.
	That feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die, she told Wilkno, the radio show she called in on.
	I woke up at four o'clock this morning, Miss McCullen said.
	Two Marines were at my door telling me that my son was dead.
	I just want you all Democrats who...
	I don't know if I can say that.
	C-word in the election?
	I think we can know what the C-word is.
	Who voted for him, or voted for him legitimately.
	You've killed my son, she claimed.
	Quote, with a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn't even know that he's in the White House, who still thinks he's a senator.
	So, I'm gonna try and calm down.
	Sorry.
	So, that was her calling up to the radio station to be like...
	Yeah, this dementia-ridden idiot who I'm sure legitimately got evoted into office.
	He's got my son killed.
	She blames Biden directly for it.
	So, that's the situation there, which is not great.
	But that's only the opinion of the families who knew their son and, you know, have lost them.
	Why don't we ask the opinion of the journos?
	Far more valid.
	Who's to blame for the deaths of 13 service members in Kabul?
	We all are.
	What?
	Really?
	You and me, folks.
	And you.
	You're going to blame for this as well.
	Not even American, but I'm sure we're all to blame as well.
	Who's not on that list?
	Presumably Biden.
	Biden's the one man out of the human race who can't be blamed for this situation.
	I mean, such obvious cope.
	If we go to the article, so this is in here, and I just took a section in which he tries to rationalize his blaming of everyone.
	And how does he do it?
	Well, he just says Trump did it.
	Trump's fault.
	In a sense, the fuse bomb that exploded on Thursday was lit 18 months ago.
	That was when Trump, with bipartisan support, concluded a terrible troop withdrawal deal that freed 5,000 Taliban terrorists and sapped the morale of our Afghan allies.
	Trump made scant provision to save Afghan who had fought with our troops.
	So, if Trump's to blame, but we're also all to blame, does that mean that we're all Donald Trump, then?
	Based.
	We're all Trump.
	He's...
	It's not what's on the outside.
	It's what's here.
	It's such an obvious cope.
	It also doesn't make any goddamn sense because the 18 months ago, why 18?
	Why not less?
	Why did they not leave on, what was it, May 1?
	Whatever the date was that Trump picked.
	Why was it delayed?
	Because of Biden.
	He is the one who made that call.
	He did not have to make that call.
	They already said we're going to leave by this date.
	They already told the Afghans we're going to leave by this date.
	And they already told Taliban we're going to leave by this date, which is why they hadn't killed anyone in 18 months.
	You know, they hadn't killed any Americans.
	Kill plenty of Afghans, because the civil war's still going on, and will continue to go on.
	And also the point he says that it's 5,000 Taliban terrorists who were released in the peace deal is to blame for this.
	I'm not even sure if that's true.
	I mean, number one, it wasn't Taliban, according to the Americans, who did this.
	It was ISIS-K. Didn't the Taliban disavow the attack as well?
	We're going to leave that debate there for a minute.
	I'm not going to take them at their word for anything, but even so, they're outwardly presenting themselves in that way.
	But, you know, I don't know.
	Someone please tell me in the comments.
	But I thought I remember they signed this in the agreement that the Afghan authorities would release those guys from Afghan prisons.
	And in response, the Afghan government, who wasn't even invited to the talks in Doha, said sod off.
	So I don't know.
	But, you know, fact check me on that one.
	I just can't remember off the top of my head.
	I just thought that was really funny in the talks in Doha.
	It was just like, yeah, we're going to have a peace deal with the Taliban.
	Should we call up the Afghan government?
	Nah.
	I mean, it's like the Munich Agreement where we didn't invite Czechoslovakia to the talks and then just agreed that the Sudetenland belonged to the Germans.
	Yeah, anyway.
	So if we move on from this, there's of course some other fallout here.
	So this is one guy in the American military who decided to make a video talking about his time and the fact that he's really, really annoyed with the accountability within the chain of command going to Biden as the commander-in-chief, as they like to call themselves.
	I have been fighting for 17 years.
	I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, I demand accountability.
	Marine Lieutenant Corporal Stuart Scheller.
	Sorry about the name.
	So he's upset about the failures in Afghanistan.
	And yeah, what happened to him?
	He got fired.
	Really?
	For criticizing...
	Well, you're not meant to.
	If you're a soldier, you're not allowed to do this.
	He would have known the cost.
	He said, you know, I'm willing to throw away.
	Too cool for accountability.
	And yeah, he left.
	I do love the person who re-ended this, and if we can click on that just to make it a bit bigger, you know, the Nike slogan, believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything.
	Well, this guy did.
	Colin Kaepernick, not so much.
	I think he was right to do so, though.
	I mean, it's one of those things where how could you continue if you could see the chain of command being so incompetent and you can't even say anything about it?
	And it's your life on the line, ultimately.
	He making the point about accountability as well, he's the only man who has currently been fired for the failures in Afghanistan.
	For criticising the government.
	I can agree that it's not a soldier's place to do this under normal circumstances, but I'm sure he would argue very abnormal stances, which I can see his point.
	Anyway, so if we go ahead to this, Biden has been walking around doing more stuff.
	What has he been doing?
	Well, he went to FEMA because there's a storm on the way.
	Because the storm on the way in New Orleans is apparently coming in.
	And so he went to FEMA and was giving some press conference about how I'm going to fix it.
	Who believes this crap?
	Anyway, so he said at the end of it, I'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead to one of the reporters.
	And then he responded after the reporter was like, I want to ask you about Kabul airport.
	He responded, I'm not going to answer questions on Afghanistan.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So here's a clip.
	If we can play this clip.
	Commissioner, I really think it all works.
	I'm not, I'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead.
	Mr.
	President, on Afghanistan?
	I'm not going to answer Afghanistan now.
	Can you say if they're still in a crisis like this?
	Okay, so there is President Biden there.
	He just turns his back and walks away.
	What?
	It's also really awkward for people listening.
	Like, he just bangs the table and goes, I'm not going to take any questions in Afghanistan.
	And, like, turns, but then doesn't know where he's got to walk because he's not in the White House press room or whatever it is.
	So he just turns around and just, like, stands there with his back to the person who asked him a question.
	He's continuing to, like, oh, okay, I'll ask a different question.
	I know it's over.
	And he's just, like, standing like a child.
	He's like, if I don't see it, it's not real.
	It reminds me of the Mighty Boosh.
	Have you ever seen that?
	I'm going to turn my back on you, and then it's just really anticlimactic.
	It does nothing.
	Yeah, I mean, that is what happened.
	And eventually some handler's like, yeah, you can probably scully off down there or something, and then he sods off.
	But yeah, not taking any question in Afghanistan.
	Not going to answer.
	Not interested.
	No accountability.
	Yeah, I mean, that's a correct assessment from the guy who's now lost his job for asking for accountability there.
	What a show.
	But the last thing here to mention is probably the New Orleans storm that's coming in.
	So New Orleans, as I'm told people say there.
	Or at least I'm told from Dead Island.
	So this is the Guardian reporting Monday briefing.
	New Orleans in the eye of the storm again.
	So some hurricane that comes against the south of the United States, which they do all the time.
	And the fact that it's going into New Orleans, specifically, becoming the eye of the storm.
	And I've seen some people making the point.
	It's like he's trying to speedrun the Bush presidency.
	He's only got four years, so he's like, I guess we'll do it.
	Destroy New Orleans, bungle some stuff in the Middle East.
	I don't know when the 9-11's happening, but presumably soon, considering there's far more Islamic terror in the world now.
	Thanks, buddy.
	But yeah, that's the situation with Biden, and my assessment, I probably think he's just counting down the clock at this point.
	I mean, when even senior UK officials are calling Biden names, I mean, even Tony Blair came out of the woodwork and called him an imbecile.
	Yeah, I thought I had included it.
	I seem to have forgotten.
	But there was, as you mentioned, some people in the British cabinet started to refer to him as Sleepy Joe and Dementia Idiot or whatever the hell else the other terms were.
	And Biden had been told about this.
	So he released a statement saying, I will remember that.
	Which, of course, just sounds like, I don't have dementia, I'll remember it!
	I was like, no you won't, come on.
	The most empty threat ever.
	The dementia patient is threatening that he'll remember that you insulted him.
	Okay, sure, fine, yeah, that's gonna happen.
	Doesn't Biden hate the UK anyway?
	Like, he always mentions that he's genetically Irish whenever the UK is mentioned.
	Just like, oh yeah.
	We didn't ask you about Ireland or if you're Irish.
	We just said we're from the BBC. I'm Irish.
	Jesus Christ.
	But yeah, I really think he's just counting down the clock, as I said, because, well, I mean, look at him.
	I mean, you saw a while back when the situation on the ground was changing rapidly, him not able to keep up with it because he was too busy trying to find a nap he could take.
	And then his press secretary even looking like, oh, crap, I can't deal with this.
	And the entire regime is just kind of looking at the situation, I think, and just being like, right, let's just get a pint and wait for it to blow over almost.
	But instead of doing a Chad thing of getting a pint, they're just kind of bumbling around, being like, what if we just ignore all the questions?
	I know the Taliban are taking many, but we're not going to take any.
	He should be in a pair of slippers, in a rocking chair, with a blanket over his legs, retired, not in the Oval Office.
	I mean, whoever his handlers are, they're very cruel men, quite frankly.
	That guy should really be enjoying the farm.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So it's my 30th birthday today, and so I decided I would wish myself happy birthday on stream.
	Because...
	Happy birthday.
	Why not, I guess?
	Happy birthday, me.
	You old f***.
	In all seriousness, though, I do feel as if I haven't achieved as much as I ought to have by this age.
	Don't know if anyone else feels that way when they reach 30, but, uh...
	Yeah...
	I'll wait until you're 40, I guess.
	All together now.
	Happy birthday to you!
	In the chat as well.
	Happy birthday to you!
	Happy birthday, dear Jonathan!
	Happy birthday to you!
	There we go.
	Cheers!
	I'll have a drink of water as well.
	Yeah, me too.
	Anyway, let's go for the next one.
	I have been making this project for a while, and I think you might find it of interest.
	It is value ranking.
	It is made in Excel because I don't know how to program, but I have taken 48 values and have provided a tier list of sorts.
	I have organized the different tiers into five different categories.
	I even tried my damnedest to define all these words as values.
	If any of you are interested in this little project of mine and would like to try it out yourself, I will put a link to the Google Drive where you can find this file, download it, and organize your values.
	This is the exact thing I recommended to do in an episode of Contemplations where I talk about virtues, where I talk about defining your virtues and then rank ordering them.
	And it helps you formalise how you think about the world and what things are important.
	And then once you have these definitions, you have an understanding of what areas they apply and what behaviours you have, then it makes it a lot easier to uphold them.
	What's that pyramid that's, like, the guy's hierarchy of needs or whatever?
	Oh, Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
	I feel like this is, like, the hierarchy of based, or it's just, like, you know, the better, you know, the, like, the virgin values and then, like, the Chad values.
	Hierarchy right at the top.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey guys, I got married.
	Congratulations.
	I've been talking to my brother-in-law and his wife in Seattle who are expecting their third child.
	Now they're both very vaccine sceptical and they've been talking to midwives who anecdotally have said that there seems to be a correlation between miscarriages and people who have been vaccinated.
	I don't know if that's true or not, but as a result there is a sort of underground community of midwives forming who are going to provide non-vaccinated care to pregnant women.
	As a routine course, we're going to have to disavow the medical opinion of midwives, because people who work in Silicon Valley...
	This isn't going on YouTube, so we're alright.
	I don't know.
	I always want to be careful of these things, because there are other things to consider.
	But yeah, there's that.
	I know another couple who are trying for a baby, and they've also taken the opinion of, I don't really care what the government says, we're just going to not.
	And I can respect that opinion.
	People coming to their own decisions is not ever a bad thing.
	Yeah, I mean, it's the each-the-own thing.
	I don't really have an opinion on if anyone should get it.
	It's up to you.
	If you have a health condition where it actually makes you susceptible to dying, then definitely.
	If you're over the age of about 70, then definitely.
	But other than that, I think you...
	Yeah, like me.
	Yeah, you sound nice and healthy.
	There's water.
	I'm going to carry on talking while you suffer in not silence.
	Water went down the wrong hole.
	Wait a minute.
	Well, Callum's going to cough in relative peace.
	I'm going to try and...
	Oh, you're back.
	You're back already.
	Yeah, everything's good.
	I expected you to...
	Normally that lasts for a few minutes.
	Yeah, I know.
	It wasn't that bad.
	Sorry, what were you saying, my friend?
	I can't remember now.
	Right, let's go to the next comment.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Logos, part one of five.
	Many Greek concepts have broad connotations that do not translate well into English.
	For example, the Greek word metania is translated as change of mind, conversion, reconciliation, transformation.
	Each of these translations are kind of true because each expresses only a part of the meaning.
	Metania is something like a change within a person so profound that what now exists is a completely new person.
	What English word expresses this completely?
	Like metania, logos is such a word that has deep tendrils of meaning but is significantly more complex.
	You could also use metamorphosis, something like that, where it's implied that something grows and becomes something better at the end of it.
	Thank you.
	I don't have an opinion on what to use, but I will appreciate your interest in this, because I have similar interests as someone who likes languages.
	Especially, so far, only with German I've started to find this, where, like, you know when you're first learning a language, you just find the direct translation as it's written?
	Mm-hmm.
	And then over time you start to appreciate the word in the context of the language it's written.
	And then you start reading some words where it's like compounded with other words.
	That's rife in German, isn't it?
	Yeah, which it's easier to do with German, I think, because it's the compound.
	And then you start to get like a rich understanding of what the word means.
	And with Greek, I can imagine, because he made the point as well, the Greek word for freedom apparently is more encompassing and more stiffly defined as well than it is in English.
	And therefore, they have a much easier time of trying to make the case for freedom than we would as a defining writer's principle.
	It's the kind of thing that if you just kind of wrote, learned stuff at home when you're reading translations of stuff, you're not really going to pick up on it.
	It's why, like, in-person experience of talking to the language speakers is the most important for being fluent.
	But I don't think we can rely fundamentally on a Greek translation to justify the words we use.
	Carl was trying to make an argument, we need some kind of language we can use that is outside of the leftist language.
	So for example, they're endless talking about inclusivity, diversity, and cisgender.
	You know, all the stupid terms they have.
	We need right-wing versions to then identify one another and also make advancements and subvert their worldview and all the rest of it.
	But the idea we can use foreign words to do that, I'm skeptical about because fundamentally we are trapped in the paradigm of our own tongue.
	And we're not going to get out of that because...
	Do we really need to invent a new language?
	I mean, the left has created its own.
	Can we just not keep normal people's manner of speaking?
	No.
	No?
	But he also makes the point of...
	You know, I've just picked up one.
	We could import singular words, maybe?
	Because, I mean, we do have, like, oikos, for example, where I just grew it and used to describe homeliness or whatever it is.
	We do it with French all the time.
	Yeah, so I mean, maybe, maybe, but I'm sceptical of trying to use foreign words too much to try and make a writer's language.
	We use Latin as well.
	Still thinking about it.
	Vis-a-vis.
	That's French, I think.
	Or is it Latin?
	I can't remember.
	This is why I really like English.
	I've told you about English before, aren't I? You have indeed.
	People look up English word book, so it's English, but we purged the French, and now the entire language is Germanicized, so dictionary becomes word book, for example.
	Let's move on.
	So it took 20 years, four presidents, thousands of casualties on each side, just for us to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
	Great.
	Hey, I mean, look on the bright side.
	They no longer have an insurgent al-Qaeda group with them.
	They have an insurgent ISIS group with them.
	I mean, even al-Qaeda declared war on ISIS, because they considered them too extreme.
	Also, we lost the North.
	So yeah, the net involvement of the West NATO in Afghanistan is not just the same, it's worse than we found it.
	But at least we got Osama.
	I mean, silver lining.
	Yeah, I know.
	Look, if we can learn one thing from those 20 years, it's don't trust Pakistan.
	I thought you were going to suggest we should have invaded Pakistan.
	Hey, that's all for the Indians, which I will fully support.
	Let's move on.
	Hey guys.
	My book is a collection of essays.
	Why read it?
	One of the essays is Why Learn Latin?
	To taunt your enemies, of course.
	There is also a story wandering through the Supreme Leader's Korea.
	I also redistributed a moral code by a Japanese man.
	There is an essay arguing for better tobacco policy.
	I also confront the question of quitting smoking, describing the decision-making process through quantum mechanics.
	I also provide a presentation on Roman mathematics.
	The Romans did more than just kill a lot of comedies.
	I mean, I'm interested in the Korean one, but that's because of me.
	As for learning Latin and whatnot, I mean, sure, sure.
	I've actually been trying, not very successfully, because...
	We've got, like, Duolingo or something.
	Yeah, it's not really the same, but it's just to be really pretentious, so...
	It's not because I ever intend to use it, it's just, if anyone's annoying me, I'm going to reply in Latin just to establish my supremacy over them.
	It's like, no, I'm joking.
	It's very Sigma male.
	LAUGHTER It's just interesting.
	I like Roman history and therefore I've been learning a bit of Latin just because it's novel to me and also, of course, it informs lots of European languages, which is interesting, just the etymology of it.
	Let's go for the next one.
	Hey everybody, Tony D and Little Joan here with another Pines legend, the Wallum Ollum, an ancient book supposedly written by the Lenny Lenape Indian, but it's very controversial, discovered in the 1800s and some of it was translated.
	No one's really sure if the book actually existed or if it was an elaborate hoax.
	It supposedly tracked the Lenny Lenape movement from the Bering Strait all the way across North America, but the book disappeared before it could be authenticated.
	I mean, my initial impressions from that image does make me think of Joseph Smith.
	You know, the C.S. Stone seeing out of a hat thing where I'm like, eh, I ain't so sure about the authenticity of that.
	But I don't know.
	I mean, if this is the original thing, why would it all be in nice, neat English?
	I don't know.
	What?
	I don't know.
	It's not in English.
	As in English writing?
	I don't think the Native Americans were writing in English letters, were they?
	Presumably it's been translated, but I'm looking at the drawings there, I don't know.
	They make me think.
	But it's possible, certainly possible.
	Also, good to see you again, and Joan, who's been good.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Two little things.
	I wanted to explain why you might get some background laws in some of my comments.
	And, of course, I wanted to show off my hobbies.
	It's fun.
	Is that a laser printer?
	Is that?
	I don't know.
	I'm ignorant of these things, but I've always thought they're really cool, how you could just put in something and then it creates it.
	Save a lot of trouble.
	There's a guy who made a speech at the AA's conference about 3D printer.
	I think it was Pharaoh who made this point.
	That 3D printers are the most overblown invention of all time.
	Oh, right.
	Because they were going to fix everything.
	We were going to print cars and all this.
	We're going to do everything on 3D printers.
	You can print whatever you want in the house.
	So you'll never have to go shopping.
	And it's like, no, that wasn't going to happen.
	And instead, you get sort of these miniature things.
	But I'm trying to wonder what use they have on a practical sense...
	Getting around gun legislation in the States.
	That was one of the ideas, which doesn't seem to have taken off as well as people were hoping.
	But you can make very unique, aesthetic, interesting things that you couldn't make elsewhere on a cheap budget, at least.
	I think you've got to be relatively talented as a designer to be able to make the designs to put in the machine.
	Oh, you can download them.
	Well, of course you can do that, but for most people, if you're getting something that's so expensive, you're going to want to be able to use it yourself and come up with things yourself, right?
	You don't want to just be downloading stuff off of the internet, because you're not really going to be getting much value for money.
	For me, I'll be downloading Imperial Guard Unit 1, Imperial Guard Unit 2.
	Over my head.
	Oh, well.
	Let's go to the next one.
	We got it?
	Hey, good afternoon, guys.
	Thank you so much for that shout-out that you guys gave me.
	I got over 250 subscribers from it.
	And also, anyone else who wants to subscribe, I have a new video up that also thanks you guys and it gives you options between three different magic tricks you want to learn.
	So if you guys want to learn anything, go and comment below on my video and I'll make that video for you guys.
	Thank you.
	There you go.
	It was good to see your video as well on your channel, because of the way we have to do this, like the bit wrote on the TV screen we're watching, I imagine on the stream as well, it's quite low.
	It was good to see you in actually HD as well.
	Oh, alright.
	I don't know, it's like when you see the TV get updated, and you see stuff, you know, how it really is.
	The transition from standard definition to HD. Yeah, don't worry, you didn't have the 40-year-old female presenter problem of all the greys showing or anything like that.
	No, you look fine.
	But the channel, what was it?
	I can't remember.
	I can't remember the name off the top of my head.
	Damn.
	But go and check out his channel.
	It's good.
	Good magic tricks.
	Cedric Purcell.
	Cedric Purcell.
	There we go.
	Jordan Peterson has often said, as a civilization, we don't know the limits of the left.
	Some limits that have been made obvious due to the nature of the modern radical left are quality of outcome and majority of racial group denigration.
	However, what about the following limit?
	Be it socially enforced or otherwise, on the ability to question fundamental assumptions of human nature and civilization broadly, to limit the year zero revolutionary tendency of the post-Marx left.
	I think what he's asking is, do you think they'll go with that as something else they want to push?
	Which, I mean, they are.
	Am I getting that right, or did you get something else?
	I'm guessing, yeah.
	I think he was talking about the ability to question everything, but I don't necessarily see anything inherently left-wing about that.
	I think you shouldn't ever take things at face value.
	I don't think it was just about questioning.
	He gave the example of they push equality of outcome as a serious thing, which is just slightly ridiculous on the face of it, but whatever.
	Will they go for declaring reality a class traitor?
	They have multiple times, and they are doing right now.
	I mean, I refer you back to story number one of the LGBT LGBT wars.
	Let's give them a written comment.
	Do you want to read these out?
	Sure.
	I might drink again and mess it up.
	Oh, we do have comments down here actually.
	So, why are people in New Zealand putting up with this?
	I guess when you give up your firearms then you have to turn in your balls too.
	They had to hand in all their guns, didn't they?
	Yeah.
	Living in Australia and seeing New Zealanders allow open tyranny disappoints me.
	It's demoralising.
	At least in my country we have patriots putting up some kind of resistance and it's being a great recruiting tool for the Liberal Democrats of Australia, our Libertarian Party.
	Australians on here who care about our future should join and end the two-party system that the main parties are trying to create.
	Yes, I'm all for there being more parties involved in politics, especially if they're Libertarian ones.
	Lib Dems, but I mean, go and have a look if you're in Australia, I guess.
	On the thing of New Zealand, I don't agree with the gun buybacks ever, but the Australian one, for example, one of the things they did.
	But with the New Zealand one, it's just outrageous where it's like some foreigner came over with some guns, did a terrorist attack, and therefore native New Zealanders need to give up their guns.
	It was clearly just an excuse, wasn't it?
	It was just using a tragedy to then take away people's guns.
	Like some Frenchman had come over to England and done that, and we had gun rights, and we gave it away over that.
	It would be outrageous.
	I don't get over how everyone just...
	I mean, maybe there has been this debate in New Zealand, I'm just not tuned into it, but the fact that it was a foreigner as well.
	I mean, you would have thought you would just respond by saying, okay, yeah, any foreigner who comes here doesn't get the right to hold guns, or something like that.
	Because, I mean, he had a ton, but Isn't that the case in some places in the States as well, where if you're not a citizen, you can't have a gun?
	Yeah, we can't go over to the States and buy guns and own them, is my understanding.
	I think we can go to a shooting range and use them, and that's about it.
	I think that's fine, though.
	If you're borrowing them off of someone, they're probably going to have to be present, so you're fine.
	Henry Ashman, welcome to Manchester Gay Pride.
	No gays allows.
	Some trans person.
	Yes.
	But that's the thing.
	I mean, they dropped the gay pride part, didn't they?
	It's just pride now.
	It's just always pride.
	Like, that's the name.
	It's like, you know, Swindon Pride.
	Not Swindon Gay Pride.
	No gays allowed.
	Like, no girls allowed.
	I find your lack of trans inclusion disturbing.
	Anna Lynn Vader, Queer Wars 2.
	I don't know.
	I'm just thinking of, I think it was in Battlefront 2, there is a pink Darth Vader suit you can wear.
	There is?
	Yeah.
	I've actually played that a fair amount and never noticed that.
	I think it's a mod.
	Okay, yeah, I was going to say.
	I don't know if there's a mod for the trans-racial...
	It's capes, just multicoloured.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if I've got...
	I'd love to get on screen, because I haven't included this, but I really should have.
	There's a shirt that Everton released recently.
	It's just like a mixture of all the flags.
	We talked about this when I was on the podcast with you previously.
	I think so.
	Yeah, it's...
	But it's not just Everton.
	I think Chelsea have done it as well now.
	It looks hideous.
	It looks like a goalkeeper's shirt from the 1980s.
	If you can make it bigger as well.
	Horrible.
	Yeah, look at that.
	I mean, just look at it.
	I mean, imagine that on Darth Vader.
	That's what I've got my mind on.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's the world they want.
	This is what I'm going to give to you.
	You can see what they've taken from you.
	Which is the conservative pride flag.
	But anyway, let's do the next one.
	Where was I? Kevin Fox, so when are they changing their name to the TQ Plus Alliance since they don't want anything to do with the LGB? You can't sensibly claim to believe in diversity and inclusion.
	Include categories of people that you believe are a hate group.
	True.
	Fair point, yeah.
	Gays, lesbians, bi, they all hate.
	They all just hate people now.
	Sorry, I just kicked you under the table then.
	It's fine.
	The idea of a TQIP +, that can be the new movement.
	Go for it.
	I can imagine it's not going to go well, especially with the P in there as well.
	Well, what's stopping them?
	You know, when they put plus at the end, well, that includes everything.
	That's the thing.
	That's what I quite like about the LGB Alliance guys, that they've got a strict limit.
	And it's like, no, we're here for sexuality.
	You know, our members can't help it.
	I was born this way, that kind of argument.
	And therefore, they should be equal under the law and all the rest of it.
	And there's a set limit.
	I mean, who can really have some massive gripe with that?
	But when you come across and say, also, by the way, involved with all of that is that you must accept that lesbians can have sex with men and also should be forced to, or they're transphobes, then no.
	But anyway, made the point.
	Partially foreign.
	This whole LGB versus LGBT plus fight sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
	Literally, the People's Front of Judea versus the Judea People's Front Yeah, except I'm with the Judea's people front on this one.
	People's front of Judea are going nuts.
	Sheldon Baumgardner, if there was ever a reason to homeschool your kids, that teacher would be it.
	Seeing those types more and more in the US, if the flag makes them feel uncomfortable, maybe they should move to Afghanistan.
	I hear they have a new and more inclusive government.
	I thought they were going to say something about their flag.
	We were talking about that earlier, weren't we?
	Johnny Harris, I don't think I've mentioned it before.
	He's a guy who used to work at Vox.
	I quite like his editing videos, even though his politics are leftist, and I don't like that.
	But he released a video recently, and he turned the comments off, and it's just called, The Taliban Are Lying to You?
	And he's spoken to his neighbour, who's from Afghanistan, and the video is just him speaking to him, being like, the Taliban aren't forming an inclusive government.
	It's like, yeah, no S. Who is stupid enough to fool for this?
	Are you serious?
	And he's quite mainstream Democrat, and I'm just like, seriously, is the rubric in the Democratic Party right now the conversation of, well, maybe the Taliban were lying to us?
	I mean, you know, we were mocking the fact that they gave the list of Afghan interpreters to them.
	Yeah.
	Because they're obviously just going to kill them.
	Maybe they really are that stupid that they thought the Taliban were going to be honest partners.
	I mean, imagine taking the Taliban at their word.
	Just like, yeah, they're going to be perfectly upfront and reasonable to the West after we've been fighting them for 20 years.
	I mean, I don't want to be too hard on Johnny because he's...
	You know, I got a soft spot for him.
	But at the same time, I'm looking at people hanging up and I'm just like, look, there is no reason to make this video, surely.
	Because no one is stupid enough to believe that, but apparently there is within his life and circles.
	Good God.
	Michael Stratton, LGBT Mafia versus the LGBT Mafia.
	Two crime families fighting for control.
	Michael's opinion.
	Shake Silver.
	These clashes clearly show groups to be purely political movements and not a community.
	They are as far from a community as possible as they claim to be representing the interests of any random person who is slightly queer.
	Queer as well.
	Only certain kinds of queers.
	Not all queers.
	Pirate Skeleton.
	The way things are going, having the classic rainbow flag will be viewed as an anti-trans hate symbol.
	You know what's funny about that is that 4chan tried to do this.
	They've already beaten reality to it.
	Yeah, it was a joke for them.
	And I think the Babylon Bee even made an article about it in which...
	So the traditional pride flag in all the colours, they're all on their own, separated from each other.
	And the meme from 4chan was, what was it?
	A place for every race.
	So it's like racial pride.
	But then they went and made a racial pride flag.
	And now they're declaring the traditional version a symbol of hate and a group of hate.
	It's just like, well, yeah, they actually beat them to it and they're coming to the 4chan position in the LGBT plus movement.
	I don't even understand why, on the original rainbow flag, why the colours have to correspond to specific groups.
	That seems a little bit...
	That's not the point.
	The point was that it was all the colours, because it's the rainbow.
	No, now black and browns have their own separate but equal place, and presumably the yellow stripe in the original one is also for another group.
	Dave Carter, every time I hear someone trot out the teachers are underpaid nonsense, I just think of all the idiots on TikTok.
	Fair point.
	Yeah, that's one of the positives of the Libs of TikTok account, is you can just send it to normies and be like, come on, come on, agree with this.
	No, you don't agree.
	All right, you're in the far right now.
	Come on.
	At the conference, there was a guy there who was fantastic, and he told me a story.
	He said that he was kind of a queer icon, and he knows a lot of queer people in the London scene and whatnot.
	And they all look to him as one of these guys that went through it in the olden days.
	He's now at the point where he's defected from the LGBT plus movement, the LGB movement, let's say.
	And he keeps meeting, as he said, other queer people that he's known throughout the years.
	He'll come up to him and be like, have you been part of the far right?
	Have you been radicalised?
	And he's like, well, I suppose so.
	I'm the far right now.
	And they're like, oh, me too.
	I like how you characterise their conversations as like a couple of old ladies out at a bus stop when he was doing it.
	Shake a silver again.
	Stretching anti-vax to include anyone against medical apartheid is definitely deliberate.
	They won't tell you about the French mandate protests who are already vaxed and burning their cards in solidarity.
	It's all about normalising their authoritarianism.
	Create the new normal, as they say.
	Yes, that was part of the reason I did that segment in the first place.
	That they're calling them anti-vaxxers.
	Many of them might well be vaccinated already.
	And it's just the idea of the government having to mandate these things that is the problem.
	Anthony Parrish, the British political elite mock the US president they want to deal with over Trump.
	Don't let them forget it.
	Yeah, it's a fair point.
	Although, to be fair, I don't think senior conservatives actually said anything about Trump, did they?
	They kind of kept quiet.
	It was mainly Sadiq Khan and people like that.
	Who are just like, yeah, we don't want Trump coming here.
	I am very sceptical of the Conservative Party's take on Trump.
	Yeah.
	Aikido Forks is probably the best example.
	It's like they're a right-wing outlet.
	They're explicitly anti-Labor, let's say.
	And even they were tweeting in the final days of Trump being like, it'll be good when this clown is gone.
	I just thought about...
	Yeah, it's a little bit unusual, isn't it?
	Surely much better for us because he was more willing to work with us.
	Now we've got Biden in charge.
	He hates us.
	Our ally and friend.
	Yeah.
	We'd sooner ally with France than we would Biden.
	Which I never thought I'd say.
	Let's go to the next one.
	You're making some faces, I thought you were going to say something.
	Kevin Fox, Biden wasn't checking his watch, he was checking his Fitbit to make sure he still had a pulse.
	That was a good one.
	None your business.
	Great name.
	Trump certainly did seem to leave a lot of potholes for the Biden administration, as was claimed by the Biden admin when they entered office.
	But if they knew they were there, I would think that they wouldn't hit every single one of them seriously.
	Yeah.
	That's a fair point.
	I mean, there's the argument that's been made about that Trump's the one who got the Americans to agree that NATO's going to leave because of the peace deal, and therefore this isn't Biden's fault because we're going to leave anyway.
	But again, I mean, it's just like, well, if that's a pothole that he's left for him, well then, why did he make it bigger?
	Why was he the one that delayed it and then was like, no, we'll just not agree to what we agreed and also we're just going to delay it to a point in which the Afghan government doesn't exist so our guys can get bombed.
	I mean, didn't Biden get inaugurated in January and we're now almost in September?
	That's pretty much nine months.
	Well, the agreement for the date to leave was May or whatever it was.
	I know, but to suggest that they hadn't had time to deal with it is a bit ridiculous, really.
	Do we have any more comments?
	Yeah, I'm on the website now.
	So...
	Spot Bell Aspirina.
	Merriam-Webster has already changed the definition of anti-vax to include anti-vaccine mandates.
	Check it out.
	Yeah, I don't recognise Merriam-Webster then.
	Oxford and Cambridge dictionary only.
	Well, that's not how English is meant to work anyway, for dictionaries.
	English dictionaries are not to be prescriptive, they are to describe how the word is used.
	So yeah, they're going against that principle then, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	Unless they're saying that the word is being used by elites to mean people who are also vaccinated but don't want mandates, and therefore they're updating it that way, but I don't buy that.
	It's subversive use of language at the best of interpretation.
	Who are his wranglers and what are their goals?
	I think it's handlers, isn't it?
	Rather than wranglers, although I think that's a more accurate word for them, trying to capture him and keep him down from causing trouble.
	There's the term that has been used, hard wrangling, and so they're wrangling him.
	His level of cognitive awareness does seem to be the level of someone who is at 60 IQ. I mean, isn't he, what, 78?
	Something ridiculously old for a president.
	Have you watched any footage of him before, back when he was a senator?
	Yeah, it's completely different, isn't it?
	What's interesting, though, is it's a cognitive, awake man who's clearly not allowed to be on Death's Door or anything.
	But it's also the point of, like, he wasn't ever very good.
	Even at his peak, he's just kind of like an average senator.
	An average Joe.
	Yeah, an average Joe.
	And now his troth of his life, they put him in the White House.
	I remember seeing a clip of him talking about a bill that was going through the Senate in the 1980s, and the difference in how articulate he was then, which wasn't that amazing, but...
	Compared to now, the difference is absolutely stark.
	You can't get a sentence out of the guy, although I'm not always one to talk.
	The difference between the two is unbelievable.
	It's clearly showing some degree of degradation there, intellectually.
	Sorry, I'm confused.
	I don't know what's going on in the chat.
	People are discussing Tiger Woods and Trump rerunning together.
	Tiger Woods?
	What?
	I don't know why.
	This is like the Tiger Patel, Tiger Woods alliance, but...
	I'm pretty sure Tiger Woods' chance at a political career disappeared when he cheated on his wife, but...
	I think that kind of bars you from any moral...
	What's the word?
	Never mind, I'll move on to a comment.
	So...
	George says, happy birthday, Jonathan.
	I'm trying to find all the comments.
	There we go.
	So, alpha of the betas.
	We may have left Afghanistan worse than we found it, but at least a lot of corporations and shady individuals got filthy rich setting up for the next 20 years of terrorism, swings and roundabouts.
	This is something that is always worth pointing out, that The main people who did benefit from the war in Afghanistan were the weapons contractors and people like that that kept it going and charged exorbitant rates from the government, and that's tax money that they have got rich on as well, charging over the odds because they're pals with the people in government, which happens a lot.
	Sorry, I mean, you know you've got the people who are living paycheck to paycheck, and behind them you've got the banks who are living investment to investment, and then you've got the US government which is living war to war.
	I don't know what the next one's going to be, to be honest.
	Do you reckon the Americans will win it this time?
	I think the Americans should give it a rest, to be honest.
	We're going to get brought along, aren't we?
	Just like, oh yeah, America's started another war, here we go.
	I mean, how many have they lost now?
	I mean, is it just Vietnam and Afghanistan?
	There have been some other things as well.
	They've lost, I mean, proper lost wars.
	I mean, there have been kind of excursions that they've lost as well, like the Bay of Pigs invasion.
	That's just not war.
	Nah, it doesn't really count.
	I see Snow Dog saying, I wish Orange Man had won.
	Yeah, me too.
	I was making memes over the weekend as well, like little dark age memes of Trump and Biden.
	I mean, I just look at the state of him, and then you just look at the images of Trump's presidency.
	I mean, with him with all the Big Macs at the White House, or him just hugging the flag.
	I mean, stuff like this.
	I mean, just images you don't get out of the Biden regime.
	Stephen Fletcher just looked it up.
	Biden is an Anglo-Saxon surname, either from Old French, boton, meaning button, or Old English, by done, meaning dweller by the down, clearly not Irish.
	I do like the interpretation that it's actually Mandarin.
	Was it Joe Biden?
	Whoever was doing that before with their name.
	It's great.
	Oh, get down in the comments again.
	Shake us all says, Yeah, I saw that they drone-striked.
	They were trying to get some ISIS guys, is their claim.
	And apparently they killed a bunch of kids.
	There was collateral damage, which...
	Not good.
	I mean, the one drone strike, in response to all of this, you kill a bunch of kids.
	I was like...
	Didn't the Taliban also recently mention how they don't like how the US is just drone striking without any communication with the Taliban in government now?
	Yeah, but so will Pakistan, so get stuffed.
	I suppose they must be a bit wary when their past enemy is just using missiles with impunity in their territory.
	Yeah, but there's another point.
	You know, our ally in the region, Pakistan.
	Sometimes we're using missiles in their territory, just blowing stuff up.
	Sometimes you're sending in a couple of helicopters to raid a compound and find a certain man.
	You just don't tell them.
	It's amazing, really, how we can even refer to Pakistan as our ally.
	Is that...
	I mean, they're more closely aligned with China anyway, aren't they, than us?
	So, since when does that make them our ally?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah, it's dumb.
	But anyway, we're about out of time, so I'm going to end the show here.
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