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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Odiseatres for the 31st of October, August 2021.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	Never going to get the dates right.
	Today we're going to be talking about the Second American Civil War, which is oncoming.
	Also the Fortniteers, who are disrespecting that guy from Fortnite, MLK. I've heard of him.
	Don't know anything about him.
	Probably something to do.
	I think he's like a Fortnite star or something.
	I heard he's a gamer.
	Yeah, he probably used the gamer word.
	And also looking at a world where race doesn't matter.
	Yeah, so imagine that.
	Imagine how the left feels about a world where race doesn't matter.
	I mean, do they exist in that world?
	No, and they hate it.
	But anyway.
	Anyway, a couple of things to mention first on the website, some of the premium content that went up over the weekend.
	So first one here being an article from Josh talking about hiding criminalized speech control without accountability in journalism.
	So, I mean, you ever notice when there's a news story about our disgusting post against man visited by police and they never show you what the post is?
	Yep.
	What's that about?
	Yeah, good question.
	This happened with the graffiti on the mural in Manchester.
	Racist graffiti, except it was obviously football-related, and for some reason no one decided to tell us that, because otherwise we would have thought, well, that's not very racist.
	Yeah, all the police officers who have been discharged from their job or arrested in the cave for showing memes.
	And they're like, what's a meme?
	As you read the Guardian article from the Guardian, don't post a meme.
	Because if they did, you'd think, well, that's not worth getting arrested over.
	No.
	And then realise that it's bad.
	But anyway, go and give that a read.
	Just give us his arguments in there.
	Also, the next thing to mention is an article from Hugo.
	So, is Bitcoin a threat to the environment?
	So, you hear all these arguments about how the computer's running or killing the environment.
	And then, is that true or not?
	So...
	I think there may be bigger problems than Bitcoin for the environment.
	I mean, I'm no expert.
	Also, on the face of it, it doesn't make sense to me because you've got to compare it to physical money.
	Surely physical money takes a bigger toll, but...
	But what if we're using, like, nuclear or renewable energy for it?
	Yeah, but anyway, those are in the article.
	Both of those are premiums, so you have to sign up to the website to get access to both of them, and that's how we keep the show running, because you're the sponsors.
	Last thing to mention is just a thank you to Daniel Neal.
	What do you notice?
	He just stickers he sent in.
	I can't hold all three, but yeah.
	That's very kind.
	I don't know how clear those are coming through on the stream, but yeah, they're very cute, and thank you.
	Good stuff.
	Anyway.
	Let's get moving into the Second American Civil War.
	Yes.
	So, things aren't going very well in Afghanistan, as I'm sure that your news feed on social media has revealed to you, because, well, frankly, and I don't want to just be like, well, this is Biden's fault, but it is definitely Biden's fault.
	Or when I say Biden, I mean the Biden regime, whoever is controlling Biden, because I think you covered this yesterday, didn't you, with, uh, he's falling asleep in interviews, meetings, and, uh, He didn't actually.
	He just very much looked like it.
	Right.
	He just really looked like he was asleep.
	And then when he's presenting his press conferences, he says, well, they've told me to call so-and-so from ABC News, or they've told me not to talk about that subject.
	And the question is, well, who is that mysterious they?
	It's like, eh.
	But anyway, so they, whoever they happen to be puppeteering Joe Biden, have made a real mess of Afghanistan, and as we've covered last week, the US decided to leave the Taliban $85 billion of military equipment.
	For some reason.
	This was actually amazing.
	Just to recap, 167 operational aircraft, including 33 Black Hawk TAC helicopters.
	This totals to more than 200 airplanes and helicopters.
	Obviously not all of them are combat-ready at the moment.
	But still, why do they have the third or fourth largest air power in the world now?
	Thanks, Joe.
	I mean, I kind of get maybe leaving behind some transport helicopters in the sense of like, oh, we just got to get out of here, but then you blow them up.
	Yeah, you disable them.
	Yeah, it's like fully functional attack helicopters.
	Yes, we're going to let the Taliban have these because for some reason we have to leave right now.
	Surely you just get everyone out, get in the attack helicopter, fly up and just bomb the other helicopters with that one.
	I don't know.
	Presumably filming on your phone.
	It must look amazing.
	But anyway, so yes, Republican Representative Jim Banks from Indiana warned that due to the negligence of this administration, the Taliban possesses more than $85 billion worth of US military equipment, including 75,000 vehicles, 200 airplanes and helicopters, and more than 600,000 small arms and light weapons, which means they have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of the other countries around the world.
	Incredible.
	What amazing work.
	And so you can see the Taliban arriving at their new gift from Joe Biden.
	It's just incredible.
	So this is on top of the 85 billion, I just want to be clear.
	So they already had that, and now the Americans have left their section of the airport.
	This is them walking into the now abandoned section of the airport, finding yet more.
	I bet they can't believe their bloody luck.
	And, I mean, who can, really?
	Like, just walk in.
	There's all this pristine military equipment that nobody thought we need to scupper this or anything like that.
	Even if you're not going to take it, just leave it for them.
	To be fair, I think just before we started, a Taliban account was posting that American fools had tried to disable some of them.
	They were, like, smashing the glass windows on, like, the speedometers and whatnot and some of the windows.
	And he was just like, yeah, we'll just get this fixed in a day.
	Yeah, but bomb them.
	You have explosives.
	You're on a military base.
	You make sure that they're literally smoking heaps of ruin and rubble.
	But anyway, so you get the Taliban Twitter account, official Twitter account it seems, posting, like, them celebrating.
	Yeah.
	Basically, I didn't bother with the clip because they're just yelling Allahu Akbar.
	But there's a very strange energy to it.
	He's like, Takbir, Allahu Akbar.
	But it's very much like, I can't believe we've won.
	Yes.
	You can get it even though you don't speak the language.
	But then no one else can believe they've won either, so you don't need to speak the language.
	And so this led to the breaking news of today, which was someone hanging from a Black Hawk helicopter or some helicopter.
	That is undoubtedly something that the Americans have left for them as they fly around.
	And so the independent report the Taliban is seemingly parading their new air force.
	That's right, Joe.
	The Taliban's new air force.
	I hope you sent them a little thank you, you know, welcome card.
	I wonder if they sent them a thank you email.
	But yeah, they're parading their new Air Force over in the skies of Afghanistan with video online purporting to show US-made Black Hawk helicopters flying over the streets of Kandahar.
	The unverified footage was released by the Twitter account Taleb Times, which claims to be the official news from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
	It's amazing.
	Honestly, it feels like a bunch of...
	It feels like jackass has taken over the country, doesn't it?
	It just really feels that way.
	Just like, it's ridiculous.
	For any people who are good at editing and listening, I'd love to see a rendition with the Jackass intro and some of the footage.
	Yeah.
	They tweeted out, Our Air Force.
	At this time, the Islamic Emirates Air Force helicopters are flying over Kandahar City and patrolling the city.
	This comes days after another video showed the Taliban seemingly test-driving the captured Black Hawk helicopters over the ground at Kandahar Airport.
	The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US doesn't have a complete picture of the defence materials that have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
	No accountability.
	There's going to be no accountability for this.
	So I guess I've been proved wrong.
	I didn't think they'd know how to fly them.
	Well, there we go.
	There's been a story going around as well that a female Afghan pilot has been stoned to death.
	I've not been able to confirm this, and I just thought I'd add this on.
	This story's been going around, and it was using pictures from a few years ago that you can find on a Google reverse image search.
	So I'm not saying it didn't happen.
	I'm saying that the posts going around don't substantiate that.
	But yeah, so here we go, our Air Force.
	And there's been a lot of questions about the person hanging from the helicopter.
	Now, we can't confirm or deny who that is, because we have no idea, but it doesn't seem like they've been hung from the helicopter.
	It's seen, or hanged, as it were.
	They appear to be in a harness and waving their arms around, so they're not dead.
	This is why it looks like jackass has taken over Afghanistan.
	There's another high-quality photo as well of this where you can see him waving to the crowd below him.
	Why are you doing this?
	Who finds a helicopter and is like, yeah, strap me in, I want to go for a ride?
	What, inside?
	No, on the outside.
	Just hang me out.
	Do you trust the Taliban's helicopter pilots to successfully land?
	Because I don't.
	But anyway, so yes, things are...
	Johnny Knoxville over there.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Abdul Knoxville is taken to the skies in Afghanistan.
	I shouldn't be joking about this, because it's all terrible.
	But the Taliban, of course, are posting memes about it on Twitter.
	Why not?
	No, you don't need a gun from the insufferable Western leftists.
	And then replying with, the right to bear attack helicopters shall not be infringed.
	With all the attack helicopters they have.
	I mean, they're the ones who would know, since they have so many.
	Moving on, the next one.
	Keep memeing us.
	And to be honest with you, it's owning us.
	Absolutely owning us.
	The entire West is currently getting dunked on by a bunch of just sand-dusted goat herders from the mountains.
	How is this happening?
	So yes, listen Mr.
	Americans, your taxes are now in a better place than the last 20 years.
	They show pictures of some aircraft, helicopters and planes, and some small attack helicopters.
	They are laughing at you.
	Anyway, so returning to what the Taliban are actually doing then, it's business as usual.
	Pink News are complaining that a gay man was raped by the Taliban for being gay.
	It's a weird flex.
	They're not reported to do that, they're mostly reported to kill them, but I mean it's possible.
	The incident occurred after the chap called Hanan started talking to a man on social media who promised he would help get him out of Afghanistan, but it turned out to be a Taliban honeypot, as it were.
	And he was met by two members of the Taliban, who then proceeded to beat and rape him, and even demanded he'd hand over his father's number so they could call him and tell him his son was gay.
	So this is awful, obviously, but it's a very strange thing for you to say, you're not allowed to be gay, now we're going to have sex with you.
	This does exist in the Arab world.
	I didn't know it existed with the Taliban, but it's very normal, logical thinking.
	I hate gay people, therefore I'm going to have sex with a man.
	Just to show them how bad it is.
	I don't know.
	Well, the phrase I believe is like taking your soul.
	Yes.
	So it's like you leave the person essentially an empty vessel.
	Well, I suppose it would.
	But yeah, so Artemis Akbari, an Afghan LGBT plus rights activist who is now based in Turkey, told IGV News that the Taliban is lying when it says the new regime will be more tolerant than the previous one.
	Well done.
	Well, what do you mean?
	I can't believe, but they use the language of diversity and inclusion and tolerance and respect.
	I can't believe they're not being honest about it.
	I'm super shocked.
	Anyway, moving on, apparently the American service dogs, 51 of them, have been caught, and now they're in cages.
	The Taliban aren't exactly reluctant to shoot human beings, and Islam generally doesn't like dogs very much, does it?
	It's a philosophy.
	The Prophet hated dogs.
	The followers of the Prophet must hate dogs.
	I personally think they're good boys who didn't do nothing, and best boys who need to be let go or sent home.
	But they're probably going to get shot because a lot of other people are getting shot and I don't think they're going to be like, well, not the dogs.
	Anyway, so this has led to General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, pointing out that yes, there actually were Americans who couldn't make it to the airport and were left behind in Afghanistan.
	This...
	Somewhat contradicts a tweet from the current US President Joe Biden, made in 2019, where he says, In the United States of America, we leave nobody behind.
	No matter your race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, we need a president who understands that.
	Let me go to the next one, John.
	So, hmm...
	Turns out that was a lie.
	Turns out they do.
	Joe Biden himself leaves people behind, and good boys.
	Many.
	Many of them.
	And lots and lots of taxpayer-funded military equipment for people I think we can just scientifically, objectively describe as evil madmen.
	God, look at these two people in this video here.
	Like, we trust in Joe Biden they started that with.
	Oh, God.
	It's awful, isn't it?
	Anyway, so apparently it's about 250 stranded Americans, according to reports.
	Interestingly, the Iranian hostage crisis was 52 Americans being held hostage, and Joe Biden's going to do nothing about this.
	And so Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to go out and try and explain himself, and the explanation was embarrassing, to say the least.
	He sounded like he was a manager at a corporate board meeting.
	So, oh, well, growth this quarter has been up 300%, and we're doing so fantastically well in Asian markets, and things like that.
	And TPS reports are very...
	Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly.
	You know, our profit margins are increasing by 3% every week, something like that, which would be fantastic growth, actually.
	But he sounds exactly like that, and it's generally embarrassing.
	It's a bizarro corporate presentation.
	When there's genuine human tragedy going on, and Americans being left behind, behind enemy lines, to the tender mercies of psychos.
	But also, just to mention the real politic of this, I know Joe Biden gets a lot of the blame because he's commander-in-chief in the American system, but this guy's meant to be in charge of defence.
	He's the military man.
	Yeah, he's Secretary of State.
	He's not Secretary of Defense.
	Sorry, sorry.
	But he's just a very...
	But the whole...
	The Biden regime, whatever components of it, they're all...
	Surely you would think they'd be firing all cylinders to be like, right, okay, well, we've got a bunch of Americans that we stranded in an incredibly hostile country.
	What person would be thinking about anything other than rescuing them?
	But they've been really busy.
	They're diplomats.
	They've been incredibly busy.
	Let's watch the clip and we'll find out how busy they've been.
	...coordination under some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.
	Many, many people made this possible.
	I want to commend our outstanding diplomats who worked around the clock and around the world to coordinate the operation.
	They volunteered for duty at the Kabul airport.
	They flew to transit countries to help process thousands of Afghans bound for the United States.
	They deployed to ports of entry and American military bases to welcome Afghans to their new homes.
	They staffed a 24-7 task force here in Washington, overseen by Deputy Secretary Brian McKeon.
	And they built a list of Americans possibly seeking to leave Afghanistan, then worked to contact every single one of them, repeatedly, making 55,000 phone calls, sending 33,000 emails since August 14.
	They solve problem after problem to keep the mission moving forward.
	Done everything we can, Callum.
	55,000 phone calls.
	55,000...
	33,000 emails.
	Dear Mr.
	Taliban, please let Abdul, the collaborator, come back to America.
	Don't worry, bro.
	We totally will.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you've got...
	No need to call him.
	You've got the Brits and Canadians and the Dutch and whatnot sending in special forces to retrieve them, extract them...
	But, you know, they're sending emails.
	I do want to mention, I did see a report of, I think it was SEALs or someone, some American Special Forces, just disowned orders and were just like, we're just going to go out and get our people, like the Brits and the Canadians.
	Yes, Chad.
	And there was also a private initiative, apparently, trying to do that as well.
	So, good.
	But, yes, the Biden administration will send them strongly worded emails and hopefully get them at a time when they're in the office to pick up the phone.
	So, what are they going to do with the Taliban?
	Let's find out.
	For the time being...
	We will use this post in Doha to manage our diplomacy with Afghanistan, including consular affairs, administering humanitarian assistance, and working with allies, partners, and regional and international stakeholders to coordinate our engagement and messaging to the Taliban.
	We need to make sure the Taliban understand our messaging, you see.
	That's what this is really about, the messaging.
	I'm sure the Taliban are listening.
	I'm sure they're really bothered about this.
	Well, they were listening to people saying you need to be inclusive.
	Then they started saying, yeah, we'll be inclusive.
	That was all that mattered.
	Literally no one will be off the table for being killed.
	Anyway, so, meanwhile...
	I didn't want to mention him saying that thousands of Afghans are heading for the United States.
	I still just don't get this.
	Because, I mean, you've got the...
	I think the Pakistanis have set up a camp in northern Pakistan for like 100,000 people.
	Yep.
	Okay, if they're safe there, then...
	I don't know what the problem is.
	But also, the next place is surely India.
	Much closer, much more involved.
	Or Iran.
	Has a much better stakeholder there.
	Western ally kind of thing.
	India over Iran.
	Then going all the way to the United States.
	And not to mention, those coming to Britain.
	They're probably safer or as safe in India as they are in the UK at this point.
	No, I mean in the sense that they'd be as safe in India from Islamic terror as in the UK. Because we both have both problems with Islamic terror in both these countries in serious amounts.
	Yeah.
	Yes, I mean...
	So India seems like a perfect destination.
	Sure.
	But the point is, you know, like...
	Although I was literally about to say that, John.
	They're leaving Americans in Afghanistan and bringing Afghanistan to America.
	That's not the point.
	I mean, just the optics of it.
	I just can't get over it.
	But anyway, so meanwhile, in the Biden administration, you get this.
	The Justice Department is hiring their first chief diversity officer.
	Because, you know, it might be an absolute S-show in Afghanistan, but there's no reason why we can't have diversity in the United States.
	Yeah, so the Department of Justice has posted a job for Chief Diversity Officer, who would be tasked with leading the agency's equity and inclusion initiatives.
	That's the reason they lost in Afghanistan.
	Not inclusive enough.
	Yep.
	Do you want to guess how much money they're going to make?
	I can read it there.
	$144,000 to $172,000 a year.
	Six figures a year.
	To be like, no, you need more browns.
	What else are they going to say?
	What, some other message?
	No, don't worry, we've done actually quite well.
	You can fire me.
	Yeah, too many whites need more browns.
	Simple as.
	Every year, until they get fired.
	It's literally the only thing they've got to say.
	And so, if you want to know why this is a particular problem, Callum and I actually did a podcast on this called Ethical Companies.
	Because these are not new, these ideas.
	And basically what this is, is a kind of way of rinsing the taxpayer for religious tithes.
	At the expense of the business, the incorporation, or the government.
	And this is you.
	This is the people who should have that money left in their pockets at the very least, if nothing else.
	So, advancing the ethical agenda under what should have been a secular system.
	But anyway, so you can sign up and watch that.
	And I totally recommend it.
	The calendar did an amazing job showing that, look, this has got precedent within history.
	For private companies, I mean, it's the customer and the employees who are getting ripped off.
	With the government, we're all getting ripped off.
	Yeah, so it's even worse, really.
	But anyway, so, moving on.
	It's also back to the traditional American left-wing, well, and right-wing, I suppose, position of drone striking.
	Families.
	Apparently they tried to blow up someone from ISIS-K and blow up a family.
	Did they get the guy from ISIS-K who was even there?
	Not sure.
	Unconfirmed.
	I mean, what are we going to do?
	Ask the Taliban for reliable information.
	We haven't got people on the ground to verify.
	They are fellow stakeholders in the region.
	Well, that's the thing.
	They are partners.
	And what was the Canadian politician called?
	Brothers.
	Yeah, brothers.
	Yes, brothers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So this is just continuing on, the drone strikes.
	And we've even got a picture of the apparent funeral.
	So, good.
	Business as usual, then.
	And also, literally, the meme.
	Literally, the meme.
	Like, more diversity in drone strike.
	The actual meme of drone striking for Black Lives Matter and trans rights.
	Was that image actually real in the end or not?
	I have no idea, but it may as well be real.
	It's an artist's representation if it's not real.
	It's genuinely what is happening here.
	And ironically, the diversity and inclusion Biden regime is drone-striking children in Afghanistan now.
	But for trans rights.
	For trans rights, yeah.
	Exactly.
	I can't stand it.
	They're also going after people who participated in the January 6th protests.
	These people didn't necessarily do anything wrong, but as you can see here by Ryan Nobles, the 1-6 committee will ask telecom companies to preserve the records of members of Congress and the Trump family who participated in the Stop the Steal rally.
	The rally.
	Not people who stormed into the Capitol.
	The rally.
	When Donald Trump's like, don't go into the Capitol, go home.
	Enough's enough.
	Those people need to be, for some reason, tracked.
	Enemies of the regime, I think is the phrase that we can apply to that.
	They even say in there, we have the names, meaning, if you can go down to the next one, you can see here, it's genuinely intimidation, right?
	Political intimidation.
	So they're focused on those who played a role at the rally.
	Yeah, it's a bunch of Republican representatives, elected representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, and a bunch of others who are obviously on the hit list for the left-wing ideology that's taken of the Democrat Party.
	They're looking at them and going, right, they're counter-revolutionaries.
	They have to be put up against the wall metaphorically and shot, and so we're going to go after them.
	And again, the way they phrase it, it's like, we have the names.
	So, hmm.
	And in addition to members of Congress, the committee will also ask to preserve records of these members of the Trump family.
	Anyway, come on.
	The next image here.
	Next one on.
	You can see the, what is that, Donald Trump, former president.
	Yeah, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Laura Trump and Kimberley Gufoyle.
	I've never heard of her.
	But yes, clear and present dangers to the United States, obviously, as you can see.
	But obviously the British people, the British government think that Biden has gone mental because he looks like he's gone mental.
	The reports from the British government, we'll go to the next one, John, is that Biden has apparently been warned that Biden holds grudges because the reports came out, leaks came out from the British government.
	They were like, hmm, he seems to have gone completely mad following his press conferences on Afghanistan.
	A British government minister apparently said he looked gaga and he's gone doodlally.
	So typically, proudly British statements there.
	But they say that, well, careful, because Joe Biden holds grudges.
	It's like, well, maybe he used to, but now, can he remember?
	I think the direct quote from him was, I will remember that.
	Dementia patient's like, I will remember you insulted me.
	And everyone's like, okay, old man.
	But anyway, so the Biden voters have not been happy about this.
	But remember, before we move on, remember, right, everything about Trump was not, he was either, you know, unqualified, so he's just a businessman, he has no qualifications to do this, or he's evil, right?
	So that was the framing for Donald Trump.
	Not that he's literally suffering from the advanced stages of dementia and can't do anything that a commander-in-chief should do, So anyway, moving on to the Biden voters posting their Ls online.
	I love this one.
	Caitlin Flanagan.
	We told ourselves a fable that Biden was competent because we were rightly desperate to free ourselves from Trump.
	Because you'd pathologize Trump as evil, whereas Biden is literally getting people killed.
	Trump wouldn't have done this.
	Next one is Biden voters are somehow in a stage of cope.
	If we can get to the next one.
	This was a great little interview about people at a protest.
	And the chap asking questions was asking a Protect LGBTQIA plus Afghans protester about the Taliban planning to enforce Sharia law that will infringe their rights.
	And then a Muslim man jumps in and goes, oh, what's Sharia?
	What's Sharia?
	As if you can see him just whip around.
	He heard the word Sharia.
	I'm getting involved in this.
	This guy needs to be told.
	And so the interview is just brilliant.
	He's actually like, well, I don't know, but the Taliban say it's this.
	And so what do you think?
	And he's like, oh, I've got to go, I've got to go.
	I can't talk about this.
	It's like, hmm, hmm, very interesting.
	He accuses the interviewer of being Islamophobic.
	Yes, because he used the term Sharia.
	As if that's somehow not connected to Islam or a denigration of Islam.
	But anyway, and he also afterwards apparently came up to him and was like, so you're from Israel then?
	He was like, yeah.
	Where?
	Doesn't exist.
	Oh, we really are.
	I love it.
	Every single time someone criticizes me, are you a Jew?
	Yeah, basically.
	That's the response.
	You can tell that guy would vote Labour if he lived over here.
	Anyway, so the next one is the fact that the mother of the man who was killed and she came out and said, well, that demented POS did this and got my son killed.
	Well, she's been deleted from social media because why wouldn't the cartel in Silicon Valley be on the side of the failing Biden regime?
	And, of course, Wikipedia has updated itself to point out that the Afghan war was won by the Taliban.
	Taliban victory.
	Result.
	That's true.
	At least it's over.
	And so we got to hear one of those very roundabout statements from Donald Trump because he can't post them on Twitter or Facebook himself.
	He says, Correct.
	So, we know who the leader of the insurrection is going to be when it comes, and we also know the sorts of people who are going to be backing it up.
	There's a lieutenant colonel who resigned because he had questioned why the Biden administration was doing this, and he was fired from his position as a battalion commander, so he resigned his commission entirely, he's not going to get a pension, he's not going to get anything now.
	Because he obviously despises the way this has been done.
	And so he's not sure what he says.
	He says, I don't think that's the path I'm on.
	He's resigning his commission, forfeiting his retirement, all his entitlements.
	And then we got a really interesting statement from the Marine Corps itself from this.
	They say, the Marine Corps is taking appropriate action to ensure the safety and well-being of Lieutenant Colonel Scheller and his family.
	This is a developing situation we cannot comment further on at this time.
	I mean that just sounds ominous, doesn't it?
	We've taken care of him and his family.
	And this is coming from the military of a regime that is actively targeting and persecuting their political opponents.
	So it's not like it's without precedent, and it's not like they don't stand to lose an awful lot of, I suppose we call it social credit and quality.
	But anyway, so 90 retired generals and admirals have called for General Milley and Austin to resign immediately.
	90 of them, in the French tradition, signing a letter to the government saying, you've got to stop this.
	This is bad.
	This is really bad.
	And things are not going to go well.
	At all.
	Based on these key events involving the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, they say the consequences of this disaster are enormous and will reverberate for decades, beginning with the safety of Americans and Afghans who are unable to move safely to evaction points, making the de facto hostages of the Taliban.
	The death and torture of Afghans has already begun and will result in a human tragedy of major proportions.
	And so you can see the battle lines of the two sides being drawn.
	One side is diverse, inclusive, and tolerant, and in no way capable of governing anything, and the other side can't believe that these things are being done and are actually resigning out of exasperation.
	And so this leads us to General Flynn.
	Now, you might remember General Flynn.
	He spoke at the Stop the Steal rally.
	He's quite active on Telegram, and he, of course, believes that the results of the election was not entirely on the up and up.
	He's been cancelled from his Chase Bank credit card accounts and various other bank accounts, citing possible reputational risk.
	To the bank.
	To the bank.
	As if that makes any sense.
	As if anyone cares who people bank with.
	Imagine calling up your political opponent, who do you bank with?
	Ah, screw them.
	Starting a boycott of the bank.
	As if the bank gets to decide your speech.
	But obviously, as with all things in the Biden administration, they're going after their political opponents.
	That's what this is.
	And so what happens when...
	This is the kind of thing we do to sanction foreigners who we want to destroy.
	Yeah.
	But this is the thing, right?
	So what they're doing here is setting the stage for the civil war and confirming to us who's going to be involved.
	I mean, Biden's approval rating at the moment is something like 37%.
	People approve of how he's handling Afghanistan, so people who obviously don't watch the news.
	So you've got tremendous weakness at the top.
	A massive amount of power vacuum and a national humiliation on the world stage for the United States.
	I can't even begin to imagine what the Americans in the military must be feeling right now, like genuinely disappointed, thinking, wow, this guy's just betrayed all of our oaths.
	We had an oath, and that has an obligation on the part of the authorities and the commander-in-chief, and that's been totally betrayed.
	People I know have died.
	People have died unnecessarily.
	An actually evil regime has taken over in place of where we were.
	This was done terribly.
	And they're persecuting those people on the other side who have said, maybe that shouldn't be the way we do things.
	Like, openly persecuting them.
	I mean, one way to guarantee someone becomes a radical is to take everything away that they have.
	Making sure that the generals in the United States have nothing to lose, and a bunch of the middle ranks, the officer class, have nothing to lose, and you've got loads and loads of angry soldiers who are just like, wow, I can't believe this guy's done this.
	And on top of that, I should have included this, but the American public...
	aren't convinced that it was a legitimate election either.
	The number of people, it used to be 47%, and Rasmussen put out a poll the other day saying actually it's now 51% who think that some shenanigans happened in the previous election.
	and so you've got the general feeling that you don't have a legitimate regime you've got loads of like officers and generals in the wilderness 90 of them saying this has got to stop you can't do this and the biden regime going well everything went brilliantly thanks very much we're not going to take any more questions on that and it just looks to me like this is genuinely something that people should be concerned about and i i really really mean this like i think that something bad's coming
	i suppose we move on to something a little more uh hopeful uh I don't even know if it's hopeful, just entertaining.
	Yeah, let's have a laugh at something, because that was genuinely depressing to get to.
	I didn't want to do something depressing, I didn't want to do something for a laugh, so I thought we'd just talk about Zoomers disrespecting that guy from Fortnite.
	That guy from Fortnite apparently being MLK. That's all he's known for now, being in Fortnite.
	So here's the first link.
	So PlayStation.
	Celebrate the legacy of Dr.
	Martin Luther King Jr.
	in March through time.
	A new experience in Fortnite creative.
	Who asked for this?
	I don't know.
	I presume someone at Time Magazine, because apparently this is a collaboration between Fortnite and Time Magazine to go through Time, march through Time.
	Yeah, this wasn't going to go well, was it?
	It instantly became a meme, so let's go to the meme, just to get this.
	Whoa, our teacher is going to class on the guy from Fortnite!
	Yeah, because that's what Martin Luther King Jr.
	is now.
	It's just a Fortnite man.
	So I thank you that I did a video about this, which I thought was pretty funny.
	I wanted to clip just the best thing in here as well.
	So let's play the first clip.
	The I Have a Dream.
	I have a dream where a man will not be judged by the colour of his Fortnite skin, but by the quality of his Victory Royale.
	That's also a quite horrible question.
	Of course, the Victory Royale comparison has been made to him being assassinated, because that's how you get the Victory Royale.
	This is all very distasteful, you might say, but then again, the implementation in the game was very distasteful as well.
	So this is the first image here, as you can see.
	Someone saying this is insane.
	And it's an image of a white and coloured water fountain segregated off from each other.
	And the coloured water fountain is like a basic sink, and the white water fountain is like a fancy sink with a bottle of water next to it.
	And then the image is of someone in a girl outfit and then Rick and Morty, Rick, stood next to them because it's Fortnite, so people have their own skins.
	Yeah.
	I love how they went through the extra effort of making sure the coloured water fountain looked like crap compared to the white one.
	So people are disrespecting Martin Luther King in Fortnite.
	Yes.
	So, they had a problem before with people disrespecting things that they wanted them to respect.
	I love that it's called 37,000 likes.
	I know.
	Literally millions of people are going to have seen that.
	Unbelievable.
	So, apparently they tried to do a BLM event before.
	Okay.
	Why?
	And you can guess how that ended.
	They ended up having, what was it, Van Jones from CNN giving some stupid speech.
	People just started throwing tomatoes at Van Jones.
	They were like, get off the screen.
	Oh, talk to this.
	It's just him whining about systemic racism in a country where...
	So I saw a headline that was something like, you know, they're banning a bunch of emotes in Fortnite because of racism.
	Is this that?
	Yes.
	So if we go to the next one here, you can see another example.
	So they bring up a big screen of Martin Luther King.
	And people just started, like, doing emotes of taking the knee.
	I love it.
	One word.
	Powerful.
	What are we looking at?
	Rick from Rick and Morty's watching up and an alien from the film Aliens is taking the knee.
	In front of Martin Luther King being like, I have a dream.
	It really reminds me.
	You remember what was it?
	A BLM event.
	What was it?
	David Guetta or one of these DJs.
	They went to a rooftop of some skyscraper and played a remix of I Have a Dream and they were dancing to it to themselves in the middle of the COVID crisis so there wasn't anyone there to dance with them.
	I've not seen that, but that sounds cringe.
	Major, major cringe.
	Even the BLM title, like, doesn't make us look good.
	It just seems deeply disrespectful to think that this was a good idea.
	Oh, yeah.
	I can't think of anything more insulting.
	I mean, as a fan of Martin Luther King's dream...
	Well, I suppose critical race theory is the...
	Yeah, they'll be happy about it, because it makes him less credible, let's say, which is what the Critical Race theorists want.
	So, let's go to the next one.
	This is another one of the emotes you can do here, so you can just go through these images.
	Let's click on the first image.
	There you can see Alien, taking a seat, next to some sign about the speech.
	Oh my god!
	Just...
	So it's just the, I have a dream that my children will one day live but they shall not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
	I love the fact that the alien is sat there as if it's pondering this thought.
	Yeah, let's go to the next one.
	So you can see the last one here is just Rick and Morty and the alien holding signs.
	With people holding hands with the word dream on it.
	And Rick here looks like he's plotting.
	Like with his big bulging eyes.
	Just like, yeah, isn't this funny?
	It's a great skin on the alien though.
	It looks very convincing.
	Yeah, it's a very good alien skin.
	But I just love how evil Rick looks holding this sign purporting to show Martin Luther King's dream in a sign.
	So I did see some comments.
	Someone said in one of the released clips, today we remember when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the battle bus.
	Very little memes like that.
	There's also one other thing which made it look pretty disrespectful.
	Let's go to the next one here.
	So the way you get in is like you fly into the Times thing.
	I mean, there's an emoji of a guy doing a kite dancing.
	But here's how you get in.
	So, Gangnam Style, your way into the Time magazine to go and see Martin Luther King.
	God!
	Just...
	Much respect.
	Maximum respect possible here.
	No way this is going to be super cringe.
	And it's the guy from Halo.
	What am I watching?
	It's like, what was it?
	That VR game that was free.
	You know the way.
	Do you know the way?
	You remember the Knuckles?
	Yeah, yeah, the Knuckles.
	You got the Knuckles, yeah.
	Yeah, like, it's that game, except, you know, it's Fortnite because of all the skins.
	But then you try and throw in and be like, we're going to be very serious about civil rights and the deep history of racism in our country.
	Why do they think this is going to work?
	And then just go and get in the corner and just do an open Gangnam style.
	You know, it's a mess.
	What's kind of cringe about this in a real sense, you know, upsetting, is that apparently the guys who are responsible for Martin Luther King's intellectual property didn't get anything out of this.
	Which is kind of weird.
	Oh really?
	They weren't in favour of this?
	The Martin Luther King Jr.
	Centre, verified checkmark, the King Centre does not licence Dr.
	King's intellectual property and therefore was not involved in any decision concerning the endeavour with the Time Inc.
	and PlayStation Fortnite.
	These licensing decisions are made by intellectual properties manager.
	Oh, I love this.
	So guys, hang on a second.
	I know you're going to be mad at us, but this is not our fault.
	They're the ones who make that decision.
	We just hate it.
	They're like, yeah, the soulless intellectual property people are in charge of us.
	Us who venerate Martin Luther King's legacy.
	Message and dream, yes.
	We don't want anything to do with this.
	Don't say it's anything to do with us.
	We're out of here.
	Hashtag MLK. We don't have anything to do with this, guys.
	Yeah, let's get the last one here of just the footage, and let's play this clip, just so people can get it.
	My poor little children, who one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
	I have agreed to be.
	Why did anyone think this was a good idea?
	I don't know.
	I mean, like, they'd done the BLM event before as well.
	People just threw tomatoes at Van Jones.
	So, yeah, they weren't happy with that.
	At least they disabled the tomato emoji.
	Yeah, so we go to the next one.
	This is what you were referring to.
	So, epic disables disrespectful Fortnite emotes in the Martin Luther King event.
	Why not?
	But what's interesting is they actually dissembled the tomatoes immediately.
	It was all the rest of the emojis, such as apparently a rainbow.
	Gangnam Style not considered disrespectful to MLK. Right.
	Good to know.
	Let's go to the article from Kotaku.
	Yeah, why not?
	But whatever.
	The other one's reporting on this.
	The March Through Time event will only allow things like protest signs, they're saying.
	So all the other emotes, they're all going to be deleted because people are not taking this seriously, damn it!
	This is my Martin Luther King Fortnite event and people are taking me seriously!
	It's like...
	Why did you think they ever would?
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	This is just not the appropriate forum for that.
	A bunch of 12-year-olds, like, going around shooting each other or making emote signs at each other.
	It's just not the appropriate place.
	Yeah.
	So, they say in here, Yesterday, Epic added interactive Martin Luther King Jr.
	Museum to its popular free-to-play shooter.
	Fortnite.
	A free-to-play shooter.
	You added the man who got shot and killed.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	While Civil Rights Education event came with some specific emotes for players to use, such as the signs, it also allowed folks to activate any emote from the widest table of options.
	Having this freedom went about as well as you might expect with players, so Epic has taken action today.
	Seemingly in response to players being S-wordy about using emotes to be disrespectful or toxic during the event, Epic has now disabled all emotes during the March Through Time experience.
	You gotta stand there and do nothing!
	Just stand there and look, dammit!
	This is very serious!
	He's giving a speech about his dream!
	It's like, God...
	We all know the dream speech.
	It's not even new or anything, but I guess for 12-year-olds it's...
	It's literally the only way you can tell 12-year-olds not to be racist, is it?
	Stop doing the rainbow emoji, dammit!
	This is very serious.
	The only exceptions are the eight emotes Epic included by design to be used during the event, a sitting and protesting emote, among others.
	So, presumably the knee's still included.
	I don't know.
	I don't think I disavow that yet.
	It should be noted that Epic actually disabled some toxic emotes, including the ability to toss tomatoes, right at the launch of the event.
	So it seems the publisher was aware that players using emotes distastefully was a potential problem.
	Problem for who?
	Problem for who?
	I mean, who was hurt out of all of this?
	Like, someone throws tomatoes at Martin Luther King.
	I'm a fan of Martin Luther King.
	The dignity of Martin Luther King was hurt by all of this.
	Yeah, like he's the holy prophet or something.
	I don't care.
	I actually do think there are certain figures maybe we should try and preserve the dignity of.
	And that means not doing a Fortnite event involving them.
	But I don't want the Queen's death to have a Fortnite event.
	Right?
	I really don't.
	Exactly.
	That's the sort of thing that I'm talking about.
	Maybe there are some people who shouldn't, and I think MLK's probably one of them.
	That's a great point, though.
	If they were actually concerned with the respect of Martin Luther, then maybe they shouldn't have done this at all.
	But, okay, they're more upset about tomatoes being thrown.
	So it seems the publisher was aware that players using emotes they tastefully was a potential problem, making it odd that the company even waited 24 hours before deactivating all non-approved emotes.
	More odd that they ever thought this was a good idea.
	You would have thought.
	Oh, everyone in Fortnite is going to be fine with it.
	No one's going to be awful.
	I also love how the segregation and all the racism stuff is now like a museum event.
	I think it's nice that they are admitting that the racist past is so old it's a museum piece.
	Yeah.
	Like the segregated water fountains.
	Like 12-year-olds, we're going to explain to you what racism is.
	Yeah.
	Because in your world, it's never happened really.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't take place.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, at least not in the way that it's happening now, but yeah.
	We have to explain to them, you know, blacks were being discriminated against at one time in this mythical land of the past.
	That's a good way of looking at it.
	It's interesting that they have to admit that that's the case.
	Yeah, that's actually a good take on it.
	I was looking at this and thinking, oh, this seems a bit silly, Callum.
	That's actually a very good point and a very good take.
	Yeah, I just want to have some fun, to be honest.
	We're going to have some more fun in a second, because we're going to talk about Salon.com.
	And they really, really need you to be concerned about race.
	And you can find articles like this.
	Now, I just picked this because it was the first one that came up on Google and I put it in Salon and Race.
	Why White Liberals Need to Talk About Race.
	And I didn't even look at any of the other articles.
	I just chose this one, put it in there, and then just...
	I went through it, skimmed through it, and got the parts out that I knew were going to be in it.
	I knew they were going to be in it.
	Because they've only got one way of thinking about race, and this is it, right?
	So they're talking about two film directors who are making a film called A Conversation with White People on Race, which sounds brilliant.
	I can't believe I haven't watched it yet.
	And this is part of an eight-part Conversation on Race series that are featured on their streaming site.
	And they say, well, have you considered a Fortnite event?
	I strongly disagree.
	I strongly disagree that racism no longer exists and or isn't that big of a deal.
	Sorry, I strongly disagree with that, but trying to discuss it directly with them wasn't getting me anywhere.
	I was also trying to acknowledge and come to terms with my own privilege and honestly examine my own beliefs and actions around racism.
	No, no, we haven't even got to the best part yet, Colin.
	This is why I not only co-directed but also appear in the film.
	It's about me.
	Me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
	Says Blair Foster.
	I've never appeared in one of my own films, but I felt that if I was asking other white people to examine their views on race, it was only fair if I had to do the same.
	I'll admit it was very uncomfortable.
	I dread to think what my views on race are, then, if they're really uncomfortable for her to admit to.
	But I think it's time for white people to get uncomfortable.
	I'd say that's the least I could do.
	And then Michelle Stevenson, the co-director of this, As a light-skinned black woman of Haitian and Panamanian descent, I can't escape the legacy of colonialism, racism, slavery, genocide, and privilege that runs through my veins.
	What percentage of your veins?
	What's a light-skinned black woman?
	Describe to me how white you are.
	Let me tell you about the phenomenon of colorism, where you may be technically black, but your skin is very light, and so you get passing privileges, and We've got a lot of black people from Africa and the Caribbean who look like people from Africa.
	American blacks do not really look like they're from Africa.
	But anyway, so this is the way that this woman thinks because someone has done this to her.
	And I believe that none of us living in the Americas can escape that common history.
	It bleeds into all aspects of our lives.
	To heal as artists, we must tell those stories and make works that open spaces for conversation, self-reflection and system shifts.
	I've dedicated my storytelling to explore the aspects of our racial caste system that have affected me and my community, unearthing how we internalize systems of oppression and oftentimes repeat them in our personal, professional, and social relationships.
	I just want this to, if you are watching this like a thousand years in the future and you've dug it up from a Recovered hard drive from the rubble of Google offices or something.
	I just want you to know that there were lots of people who thought this way and they honestly commanded our civilization and it was awful.
	And this is not unusual or uncommon for these people at all.
	You bring up a good point with the previous one, though, where she said, oh, my views on race are going to make me feel uncomfortable.
	You ask most people, what are your views on race?
	You know, most liberals don't care about it.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't make you feel uncomfortable at all.
	No, I just wonder why you're harping on about it constantly.
	But anyway, so they say, it's evident in the film, but in your words, why is it uncomfortable for white people to talk about race?
	And Foster says, I think there are numerous answers to this.
	One is they're afraid of saying something wrong that might offend someone.
	Some conservative white people believe there's too much talk about race and it isn't an issue.
	But I think the biggest reason is they don't want to be called a racist.
	Few words provoke more defensive and hostile response from a white person than calling them a racist, because white people have the luxury of viewing this issue as individuals instead of being part of a systemic institutional problem.
	Sorry, I've got to stop you there.
	What a moron.
	Their problem with why white people are so sensitive about this topic is because they get called a racist.
	And she's like, yeah, and that's a privilege?
	No, no, no, no.
	If you call any other group here a racist, nothing happens to them.
	You say to a white person, you know, publicly shame them and call them a racist, they'll lose their job, they can lose their bank account, they can lose their house, you know, their family and friends.
	It's a special stigmatizing word that is only applied to people of a particular race.
	But it's also deeply emotionally painful for them to be called this.
	And it's not the N-word.
	But it does mirror the N-word, doesn't it?
	That's a good point.
	Exactly.
	So, anyway, we like to think we're personally not racist, but I see the ubiquitous I have many black fans response.
	But I have much harder time coming to terms with being part of a system and institutions that are racist.
	So there we go.
	The United States, racist.
	Everything about it, racist.
	White people get persecuted because they're racist.
	And that's a privilege.
	What a privilege.
	Yeah.
	And, of course, our light-skinned black Panamanian wherever...
	Our unicorn.
	Yeah, our weird unicorn says, it's hard for white people to acknowledge their privilege and understand meritocracies don't really exist in our society.
	To acknowledge that, maybe you didn't land that job, but just because you're smart and talented, but that other systemic factors played into it means that you have to take a hard look at your own personal journey.
	Why even do that?
	It takes a lot of self-awareness to take that deep dive.
	So you sit there and go, right, actually it's because I'm white that I got my job and she didn't get it because she's not.
	That's it.
	Only two factors.
	Anyway, so of course this leads us to the attempt to dismantle the systems of white supremacy that they think are everywhere, all around us, in the room with us now, as they say.
	And so they say, well, have these conversations with white people and race changed since 2015 when the film was released?
	And this interview was done in 2018.
	And it says, well, we stand at a crossroads today.
	I wake up some days feeling frustrated and depressed by how white supremacy stares me in the face in such a flagrant way through the current administration in power.
	This is Donald Trump's administration.
	You know, the picture with all the black people, like, around him?
	Kanye West in there?
	It's like, yeah, typical white supremacist.
	Because if the KKK took over America, the first thing to do is have a bunch of black people in the Oval Office.
	That's not obvious.
	Yeah, the thing in my mind is, like, she wakes up from her bed and she's got a TV there, and she wakes up and it's just a picture of Trump, like, staring at her or something like that.
	It's just a picture of someone with a Klan hood on.
	It's everywhere.
	Well, same thing for that.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	That's the point, though, right?
	And she says, the excuses of colourblindness can no longer fly in the same way.
	Terms such as white supremacy are less taboo today than they were a few years ago.
	Although we're only taboo because it was obvious nonsense.
	But anyway, I personally have engaged in much more direct conversations with white colleagues about systemic racism.
	My son comes home from school with questions about truth and history that demonstrate that his classrooms are helping build students' critical thinking skills that will push for greater justice in our society.
	This critical race theory stuff has been in our classrooms for a long time, folks.
	But this is thanks not just to the sudden shift right now that our government has taken and forced us to see ourselves in the mirror, but thanks to the relentless anti-racism work we are all doing in a variety of fields that have been happening since the Civil War.
	So they think this has been happening that long.
	Good to know.
	Our ancestors' work continues to be relevant today.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And so our unicorn says, the veil has been lifted since the election of Trump.
	There I said his name.
	There is no more need for dog whistle politics.
	I don't think Donald Trump has got enough, like, I don't know how to describe it.
	Enough self-awareness to kind of hide his intentions like that?
	I don't think Donald Trump uses dog whistles.
	Mexicans are a bunch of rapists.
	What's that dog whistle for?
	No, he'll just say it.
	Some of them, I assume, are good people.
	Direct quote.
	But not only does the racism no longer need to be captured in terms meant to disguise it, it's being openly celebrated, as in Charlottesville.
	You know, the thing that Donald Trump condemned.
	I personally believe that the 2016 election was a huge wake-up call for white America, especially liberals who consider themselves in the middle of the road.
	We can no longer fool ourselves into thinking everything is okay and we can enjoy our democracy without having to engage and fight for it.
	The threats to our democratic system are clear and we need to face up to our own privilege and ask ourselves what we can do to help dismantle racism and inequalities in order to preserve our democratic principles.
	Same rhetoric for years and years and years and it goes on forever.
	The revolution will never end.
	No, no, it's constant revolution.
	Constant revolution.
	But anyway, and then something happens that they just can't believe, and it's the rhetoric in this movie review on Salon.com.
	If we go to the next one, they talk about a film called Vacation Friends.
	Now, I haven't seen this film, so I can't comment on the quality of the film, but Vacation Friends is a happy buddy comedy in a world where race doesn't matter.
	That's a problem.
	The colourblind chads are getting along.
	Shut up, MLK. I need to talk about race.
	Like, this is ridiculous.
	So, buddy comedies are basically arranged marriages between stars and people you want to see together.
	That's what makes the genre such a reliable, crowd-pleasing fare.
	Besides knowing that everything will end well regardless of how each person feels about the other when the movie starts, it gives the audience a chance to see their favourite actors share a moment of chemistry.
	Tossing an interracial component into the mix generally changes the tone, though.
	Does it?
	Like, what was the one with Chris Rock and Jackie Chan?
	I can't remember.
	I don't know.
	There was a film, and I remember watching it.
	It was like, that was fun.
	And I wasn't like, hmm, but mixing the races, though.
	It just didn't occur to me.
	It wasn't the way I was looking at these things.
	And, yeah, so it changes the tone, though.
	Unless, as in Vacation Friends, the filmmakers ignore it entirely.
	Based.
	Rush Hour, you want to say.
	That was it, Rush Hour, yeah.
	Clay Tarver's Harmless Flick marries the dual appeals of John Cena and Lil Ray Howery into a comedy of misread intentions and substance-fueled mishaps that begins at a Mexican resort and ending in a destination wedding at a lodge and spa on the outskirts of Atlanta.
	When the film picks up after, you know, blah, blah, they go through a synopsis of the film, but it's not really very interesting.
	But when it picks up at Marcus and Emily's wedding, which Ron and Kyla crash figuratively and actually, don't know why my reading's going weird today, Well, that's where the social dynamics get peculiar.
	That is, if you think about them, which is contradictory to the point of a buddy comedy.
	And so the problem is the interracial buddy comedy doesn't actually have anything to say about race.
	Literally doesn't have anything to say about it, right?
	And so she says, well, one of the reasons that interracial buddy comedies are a standard is because they create a fantasy friendship between a white male protagonist and a black male protagonist.
	A fantasy friendship?
	As if no white person has ever been friends with a black person.
	It's literally the Peter Griffin meme where he turns up and finds Cleveland talking to Stan from American Dad and he goes, a black and a white talking if it's normal!
	Yeah!
	This salon reader's just like pointing guns at the screen going, what?
	That's exactly, I mean, she's literally like, you know, the American propaganda from World War II. It's like, listen, the Brits may have a black in their home and talk to them like they're normal people.
	That's just what they do over here, right?
	And it's, okay, weird racist from this era of segregation.
	Anyway, so yeah.
	I love how it's literally the liberal utopian vision of, like, the colourblind chads, and it all just works.
	Yeah.
	And then the writer's like, well, they can't work.
	Can't work, I swear.
	Yeah.
	Well, let me carry on, right?
	So, as if, yeah, the fancier friendship between a white male protagonist and a black male protagonist, let alone a white guy from Oregon and a black man who lives in Georgia, that in the real world would be highly unlikely.
	Oregon, remember, is a very progressive place and full of white people, and Georgia is a place where there is a long history of cohabitation by white and black people, so apparently the people from Oregon can't get on with the integrationists.
	Sorry, you live around black people.
	This progressive is writing an article being like, we progressive white people from Oregon, we never talk to blacks.
	Literally, you can't be friends with blacks, you're white.
	It's such a, just such a wild ride reading through this.
	The women in these films are secondary figures, which is unfortunate.
	Sure, but at least they're not being implicated in, you know, race mixing.
	Like...
	So they get to escape this condemnation from Salon.com.
	Ori is a wonderful slapstick actor, blah blah, right?
	The Vacation Friends writers, Tom Mullin, Tim Mullin, John Goldstein, John Francis Daly, and Tava, upped the ante by making Ron and Kyla the minorities at an Atlanta-based wedding where the bride's family is significantly wealthier and more bourgeois than the groom's.
	As in, the blacks are more than the whites.
	And Salon are like, ooh, edgy.
	How do you think it'd be like if you went to Oprah Winfrey's wedding?
	We had a black president, Chris.
	And it's not like there are lots of rich black people.
	They're on TV all the time.
	Like, they've been on TV for decades and decades.
	I don't know why this is some sort of, oh god, a black person with money.
	Just a case on.
	The organ progressive is just like, what do you mean black people have money?
	I'm going to flip Reati on its head and have a rich black guy!
	Okay, there are no poor white people, but anyway, go on.
	Anyway, Harold demonstrates a strain of waspy assimilationism, as in white Anglo-Saxon Protestant assimilationism.
	Sorry, is that a slur?
	Yep.
	That's disgusting.
	Yep.
	He's an assimilationist.
	He wants the black people to come to his wedding.
	He wants to be Anglo-Saxon.
	Well, yeah, it's just...
	Not just Anglo-Saxon, but the sort of American integrationist ideology.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I just can't believe they actually openly talk like that.
	But he demonstrates this waspy assimilationism that even his younger relatives can't quite get behind, including insisting that everyone embark on a formal fox hunt and then critiquing Marcus for not having proper number of buttons on his jacket.
	Harold is black, so they're complaining that the black guy goes on fox hunts and has proper manners.
	Well, because that shows that he's integrating, and therefore that's...
	Again, I mean, it's like the liberal utopia on race is integration, colourblind chads getting along, and she's complaining that that can't happen, she swears, because where I'm from, we don't talk to blacks.
	Well, it's because blacks don't act that way, Callum.
	Literally.
	If you can scroll down a little bit, I actually didn't include this quote, I think, but if you can scroll down a little bit, because I had to...
	There is a part in it.
	Yeah, less believable is the presentation of black folks mounting a fox hunt with hounds in the woods in Georgia, you know, as something that happens at black weddings.
	This is not to say there isn't a black family in existence with such traditions, but let's say it's the first time I've seen it in a movie.
	But also, do you think that happens at most white weddings?
	I guess so.
	I don't have any plans to go fox hunting when I get married.
	I don't know if you did when you did.
	No, I was in Crete.
	Anyway, after that, nothing Ron or Kyla, the white characters, say or do, that's odd or tasteless, is attributed to their whiteness, not even in jest.
	Ha ha ha, you funny white people, they don't ever say that once.
	If their actions make them the centre of attention, which frequently happens, everyone simply goes with it.
	They just treat them like they're normal people.
	I can't believe it, right?
	Then again, the reason everyone likes them is because regardless of how loud or declassé their behaviour is, they're deferential and sweet to the family elders.
	Most never witness the times we're on oversteps the boundaries of Marcus, which is what all clowns do to the straight man of the pair in these movies.
	Race never comes up.
	Not once.
	Whether it's a point of celebration or criticism depends on what a person expects from a movie like this.
	Hear that.
	Hear those words.
	Race never comes up.
	Not once.
	and I hated this movie for it.
	I hate the future.
	I hate it.
	And literally, they say, here we are in 2021 with a perfectly serviceable comedy about black people and white people mixing harmoniously with no problems whatsoever.
	Burn it!
	That's literally the criticism!
	You're allowing race mixing, and you're not even commenting on the fact that they're mixing races.
	Not on my TV. Yeah, exactly.
	In 2021, in the current year.
	Unbelievable, right?
	So yeah, the affection fueling the friendship, Ron assumes and Marcus, comes from a touching place that, again, has nothing to do with race.
	Oh no, they like each other as people.
	Instead, revealing the detail that underscores the idea that Ron only sees Marcus as a beautiful spirit and a solid character.
	That's lovely.
	But it does not match the current social atmosphere, and it doesn't trust Cena and Harry's abilities to speak honestly and humorously about their very obvious differences in terms of upbringing.
	Class, and yes, race.
	And how those traits impact the way the world sees and treats each of them.
	Just let them have their fun.
	It's a buddy comedy film and you're like, this isn't racist enough.
	There's too much race mixing in my buddy comedy film.
	At least point out that they're rape mixing.
	God!
	Make a big deal about it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you're not going to make a big deal about races coming together and having fun, then I'm not watching this.
	Have you seen the meme where you have like the, it's like the virgin critical race theorists where we're all like arguing with each other about whether I've been racist today.
	One of my sins.
	And you get like the Chad colorblind guys who are just, you know, grilling.
	Yeah.
	And that's what this is.
	Just like, yeah, we could sit there and go on about systemic racial hatred between the races, or we could just have a barbecue.
	Which sounds great, actually.
	I'd love a barbecue.
	Yeah.
	But that's the thing.
	That's the whole thing.
	It's the way they look at the world.
	So how could you be doing this?
	And so the assumption that underpins this, of course, is that they think that the races are in constant war with one another, just in real life.
	And the thing is, if you go to New York or somewhere like that, LA or whatever, you see people of all kinds just wandering around.
	No one's engaged in an active race war.
	Weirdly enough, I don't know why I have to tell them that.
	And so yeah, they say Vacation Friends joins a long list of such comedies that promote the fancy that racial strife between white people and black people, capital B, is a matter of perception and not reality.
	In that view, to be honest about the reality of the world, these characters purport to travel and live in would be a downer.
	So instead, bringing candory humour into the mix and trusting talent and able comic actors to handle societal obstacles with grace and levity, they don't address them at all.
	Instead, what we get is a film with a mostly black cast that assumes a level of racelessness, as some white people might imagine it.
	A wonderful comedy about black and white friendships for people who see no colour and love an opportunity to ignore their troubles and retreat from it all.
	How dare you?
	How very dare you.
	Didn't even have separate fountains.
	And on the fortnight anniversary of MLK Day...
	Didn't even make the effort.
	I know.
	I loved reading that article.
	I loved reading it.
	They didn't mention race.
	They're mixing.
	I just can't go over it.
	It's like, yeah, that's okay.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I thought it was going to end with the South will rise again, to be honest.
	It'll be the West will rise again, won't it now?
	Well, it will now.
	The two coasts versus everyone else.
	Oregonians wouldn't have friendships with blacks.
	Salon.com 2021.
	It's the current year.
	We progressives don't like the browns.
	If you're not telling the blacks they're inferior and how oppressed they are, then are you even a white person?
	You know, like...
	That's what they're saying!
	In a movie review!
	And they've been saying it for years, and it's just, like, awful.
	I can't stand it.
	Let's go to the comments.
	Logos, part 2 of 5.
	The Greek word logos at its base is reasoned argument.
	However, definitions also include words like logic, intelligence, speech, word, free speech, thought, and more.
	Connoted within logos is not only the concept of argumentation, but also the items that must exist at the personal level for the argument to be expressed or even exist.
	Thus, rather than logos being a mode of argumentation, say as opposed to pathos, logos is better described as a state of being.
	Put another way, we can say that instead of using logos to make an argument, one must be logos to make an argument.
	I'm not entirely sure I'd agree with that last characterization, but interestingly enough.
	I don't know any Greek.
	Sorry.
	We just explained it to you.
	I know, but still.
	He was making the argument, we were having this debate yesterday, could you essentially import, because you said you were looking for a language that writers could use that would be valuable, make our framing outside of the left, and all the rest of it.
	Describe events as well as judging them at the same time.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So there was a concept of, like, he was saying, well, look, there are Greek words which are perfect for this sort of thing because they're very specifically defined in a way that's good for writers.
	Could we not just import them?
	Well, it is an argument, but what we're going to have to do is find words that the common man understands already.
	Yeah.
	We don't want to create new words.
	I mean, it's not to say you can't import them, but things like Schadenfreude, for example, which, like, fairly recent is the English language, let's say.
	They're kind of rare, and they are a bit of a...
	Yeah, but I want nonpolitical people to understand why what has happened is bad.
	Okay.
	Right.
	Good morning from Ontario.
	Let's talk about the vaccine.
	While myself and everyone that I care about are fully vaccinated, I took the vaccine back when it was voluntary.
	If I knew the quote-unquote liberal government was going to impose vaccine passports in infringement on our mobility rights, I would have never gotten the vaccine purely out of principle.
	Please check out the PPC's COVID policy.
	It is the base decision.
	Imagine having to have a policy.
	They're just like, yeah, we'll let the surfs travel around.
	We're not going to be forcibly vaccinating you and you'll be allowed to leave your home.
	Vote for me!
	Because the alternative is that you won't be able to do those things.
	They're just like passports for travellers.
	That's the name of their discussion.
	It really reminds me of medieval terms.
	Where it's like, we won't allow them on the highways.
	Yeah.
	God.
	Literally being treated like medieval Jews.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Dear Carl, despite our best efforts, it appears that our virtuous success was only temporary, and OnlyFans has reversed its new policy decision.
	The Tulsa chapter is demoralized, and we seek your wisdom in how to proceed in these trying times.
	Despite having let you down when we failed to save The Simps from OnlyFans, I would be remiss in my sacred duties as a dad to not at least point out...
	It's the thought that counts.
	Your humble daddest scholar, Fox.
	Also, tell him, this is Radar, and he loves you.
	Hey!
	That was awesome, actually.
	That was really funny.
	Unfortunately, I don't know what we can do about any fans, but just continue preaching the good word of thou shalt not simp.
	I mean, clearly, if he was kidnapping the CEO, the mistake was letting him go, because then he clearly got horny again and decided to re-allow it.
	Move on to the next one.
	Hey guys.
	I don't understand the whole gay acceptance thing.
	Like, I was a sailor.
	You can't say sailor without it sounding gay.
	That's correct.
	Try it.
	Join the Navy.
	Also, why have we not ever nuked a hurricane?
	I think it would actually disrupt it and work.
	And the fallout would be like Bikini Atoll.
	I don't think it would be that much if you nuked it five days out.
	See, the answer to that is obviously fear of creating Godzilla.
	I don't know why you didn't think of that one.
	I mean, the obvious answer is presumably because of the radiation.
	You don't want that going everywhere.
	Exactly.
	God knows what it's going to do.
	Godzilla.
	But the idea of sending a Moab or something...
	Moab to blow up a hurricane.
	It's the most American idea I've ever heard.
	I know, but I do want to see what would happen.
	I mean, what would happen?
	I'm mildly curious.
	I mean, what's the footage?
	Don't get me wrong, you know?
	Yeah, okay.
	I mean, if there's anyone in the Department of Defense who's got access to a Moab and is upset with the Biden regime, wants to go out with a bang.
	Don't make recommendations like that, please.
	Of course they're not going to Moab a hurricane.
	Please Moab a hurricane, Mr.
	Biden.
	Write a petition.
	Write your letters, folks.
	Can we pay the taxes?
	Look, if you're going to piss away the money to the Taliban, you may as well at least do something fun with it.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	I'd love to see that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Peak environmentalism.
	Guys, another life lesson out there for you.
	Never get on the defense from a leftist.
	And what I mean by that is that if they ever call you, like, sexist or racist from a completely innocuous statement, it's because they're trying to derail the entire conversation.
	Because once you say that and you start getting on the defense, they know they don't have anything.
	But once they reach out and you start defending yourself, saying, I have a black friend or whatever, you actually make it real for them and just destroy everything that has happened before you.
	So, yeah.
	He's completely right.
	This is precisely why we've got to develop our own sort of language and methods of not only just counteracting what they're saying, but also going back on the attack by the very nature of what they've said.
	And we will develop these things.
	He's completely correct, though.
	I've always wanted to see a live TV debate, a professional setting, and whoever they're debating, they call them a racist, and he just goes, yeah, I don't have any black friends, what of it?
	It's like, that's his defense?
	It's like, well, I just never met any.
	I live in Oregon.
	I write for salon.com.
	Instead of being like, you know, I've got ten black friends, I can't be a racist.
	I'd love to see the reverse just for a laugh.
	But the point is, the fact that you're defending yourself means you've accepted their framing, accepted their premises, and now you're on the hook for being a bad person, even though you were just sat there minding your own business.
	Yeah, let's go for the next one.
	Just to clarify the previous comment, Peterson said that the West broadly doesn't know when the Left goes too far, and thus can be marginalized in the same way that real Nazis are.
	Based on the recent behavior of the radical Left, some obvious limits are the quality of outcome and majority racial integration.
	However, Woodluck-Carl's opinion on the following limit.
	The questioning of fundamental assumptions about human nature, and thus civilization derives from that nature.
	For example, questioning that boys are boys, and the fundamentally competitive structure of nature and reality.
	Okay, I think you get it.
	I mean, I agree that is when the left goes far too far, but the problem is you can't just say, I'm going to marginalise people for investigating gender.
	Well, then I've said that.
	No, you can't.
	It becomes a bit tyrannical.
	No, because, I mean, we have limits on the right in polite conversation.
	I mean, that's the point.
	Oh, okay, yeah.
	It's like, we as a society know when the right goes too far, when they start talking about, like, racial or genetic claims and whatnot.
	I honestly don't think that this is a right way.
	I know, but it's his framing.
	And then it's like, well, where do we have the boundary of just saying anything beyond this on the left is unacceptable in polite parliamentary systems?
	And there doesn't seem to be a limit.
	You know, they can carry on and carry on, and no one stops them.
	The answer is, of course, any form of socialism, including taxation.
	Yeah, I mean the equality of outcome thing, all the rest of it.
	Seriously, I would absolutely love it if there is a coup in the United States and then whoever takes over is just like, right, okay, I'm abolishing all taxation, the entire government's going to be run as a charity.
	Just what would be the fallout?
	The left is going to be like, what you can't do, that's like, I have just done that, now what?
	Better donate, cough up.
	Love the idea.
	They're not going to give a penny.
	Well, no, no.
	They're not going to give a charity, do they?
	No, no, no.
	Well, the left don't.
	No, exactly.
	But then the Republicans have got to start donating to the government if they want services.
	I do think that there are some limits, of course, of where you can say the left's gone too far in polite society, but the problem is...
	See, that would be the right going too far, in fact, turning the government into a charity.
	But it limits leftism to essentially nothing if you just say, yeah, basically leftism is where the left goes too far because it is.
	Yeah.
	And it's like, well, what have they got left?
	Yeah.
	Lib Dems talking about, oh, maybe the EU's a good idea.
	But I mean, like, well, no, because that's the undermining of your nation's sovereignty.
	Sounds like treason to me, liberal Democrats.
	You see what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Like, what is left if you want to put limits on the left and there isn't anything?
	Well, this is why, like, you know, for ages I was like, oh, no, no, I'm centre-left, I'm centre-left.
	But then I just sat there just going through it all in detail and be like, right, what do I actually agree with anything that they're doing?
	It's like, no, this is all cancer.
	Everything about left-wing thought is absolutely cancerous.
	I can't take it.
	I hope I'll answer that question.
	So a gentleman asked yesterday about the COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy.
	This gentleman here would be my jump-off point if you'd like to learn some.
	This is Dr.
	John Campbell.
	He's a nurse practitioner and health educator.
	He's got a couple videos, and if you go to that link, it'll pull up the four videos he's done over the past year on pregnancy pertaining to COVID and the vaccine.
	I'll try to dig out some more resources, and I might do a quick little clip or two, just trying to help put some things into perspective.
	So, I hope that helps.
	I'm surprised that this guy's got a million subscribers and is allowed to make videos about vaccines.
	I was about to say, well, he is a doctor, but then that never matters.
	Yeah, that doesn't matter.
	A bunch of doctors have been censored.
	So, anyway.
	Hey Lotus Eaters, Tony D and Little Joan here with another Legend of the Pines, the Blue Hole of Winslow Township, featured in Weird, New Jersey Magazine, and my own comic, The Jersey Devil, issue number 8.
	The Blue Hole is filled with crystal clear water with a blue tinge.
	It is very cold and is said to be a home of the Jersey Devil, and if you go swimming in it, the Jersey Devil can pull you down.
	The reality is, you might get hypothermia, so stay out of the Blue Hole.
	That's awesome.
	I was about to say it'd be fun to go skinny dipping and see if you find the devil, but hypothermia are not worth it.
	But I love these sort of like, you know, enchanted little places where they've got these legends.
	I love all that sort of stuff.
	I do wonder how many you've got, bro.
	Like, yeah, we've been through a lot of them.
	Yeah.
	No, no, keep them coming.
	I love them.
	Go for more.
	In New Zealand, it's illegal to marry a cousin.
	The governed justification is that 75% of babies from such a union are born healthy and Just imagine if we were this casual when it came to COVID. In New Zealand, if your government's ever telling you that they need to take away your rights to protect your freedoms, just think.
	Is this really more dangerous than sleeping with my cousin?
	I just love it.
	Look, the memes of the Aussie police, like, literally the trunches, this is for your own health.
	Just, thanks.
	There's a great one that's circling around again, but it was from the London protests, I think, in 2008, or whatever, where a police medic decides to get in on the bashing, and it's just a police medic on his back, with the fist in his hand, and it's like, right?
	Batten raised.
	It's full of medicine.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	It's like a video game.
	So here I am, drinking my morning coffee, having my breakfast, scrolling through Twitter just to see what happens, and look what I found!
	Canada's Supreme Court just ruled that oral sex with animals is legal.
	What the actual f***?
	This is just...
	You just can't get any more left like this, right?
	Except from Marxism and shit.
	Please save us, God, Emperor Trump.
	MAGA 2024, come on.
	I'd rather pray to the Tyranids than that, but...
	It just keeps happening, though.
	It just keeps happening.
	I saw that Shu had found this map support group, and they were like, yeah, come and join our Discord server for ages 13 and up.
	And I was just like, it just keeps happening.
	And Shu was like, why is nobody upset about this?
	I was like, yeah, why?
	Why is nobody on the left upset about that, Shu?
	If any people on the right are just like...
	Yep.
	If you called me a leftist, I'd demand you take it back because I'd be offended.
	Yeah.
	But also, it's a great point there and that one of just, well, what is the plus?
	What does the plus not include?
	It's a plus.
	It literally means everything.
	In Canada, it includes legal bestiality.
	And in America, it includes Matt Pride.
	That is just awful.
	Apparently it's five years old, so they legalised sucking off your dog five years ago in Canada.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	So moving on to the comments.
	God.
	Got a message from White Hot Peppers.
	Hey dude, my brothers-in-arms have died for nothing.
	This country needs a wake-up call.
	It's an absolute S-show in Afghanistan, but isn't even it.
	I think Carla's right.
	Something really bad is coming.
	There are even worse things happening behind the curtain that only servicemen and government employees can see.
	There's a warning to those who live in the States watching this unfold.
	Pay attention, people, and watch your fellow members of the community's backs.
	I just can't imagine.
	They're busy progressifying the army.
	And purging it.
	Because you've seen the articles.
	Like, oh, the army's got a real neo-Nazi problem.
	It's like, yeah, I'm sure there are loads.
	It's just nothing but neo-Nazis.
	It's not just the journos, either.
	For people who are interested in that sort of thing, you can see the British army, it's been going for a long time with the RAF, the leaks we get sent.
	Thank you, everyone who did.
	And also just the speeches publicly, the websites, the different inclusive drives they have.
	And then with the US army, you can see it from the defense people literally making videos advertising this sort of thing, the kind of adverts they put out.
	The entire thing has been crumbling.
	But I think there's a very obvious break from the past.
	It's become very clear a new order has entered in, and the majority of Americans don't feel that it's legitimate, electively.
	And they're actively making large segments of the military hostile to them and persecuting them, as well as persecuting their political enemies.
	This is the recipe for a civil war.
	Well, that's the inclusifying of the military, whatever you want to call it.
	That's them trying to make sure the military is loyal to their ideology.
	But then what they've done is disenfranchised God knows how many ex-soldiers and generals.
	It's not like they can't form an army.
	I wish this had been stopped in the UK. I hope it can be stopped in the US. Yeah.
	Alpha of the Beta says, we are in a free-fall 9-11 moment without even the luxury of cathartically lashing out at another country.
	The world shifted on 9-11.
	It shifted again this week.
	The ramifications of that shift are far more reaching because they are self-inflicted.
	Our Afghanistan legacy will be with us for decades, a milestone marker on the road to the end of the American hegemony.
	Not to say it's the end of the Republic.
	You're looking at end of the Republic territory here.
	And I really mean it.
	I've said it before, but I do mean it.
	And the worst part is as well, like, Biden's going to die.
	Like, the progressive faction will doubtless throw someone else up, but I don't know.
	I just don't see how this is sustainable from that perspective.
	Do you think it'll be Pelosi?
	Maybe.
	The other point in my mind was, and it's just left my mind, so...
	It's fine.
	What were you saying?
	No, it was important.
	Well, the point is, like, the massive L that the Biden regime has taken, and you remember the Wall Street Journal article, we don't need you to do anything, Biden, we just need you to be alive.
	Well, what if he's not alive?
	What does this faction do when their figurehead dies?
	You know, who do they throw up as to be the new figurehead?
	How do they, like, coordinate and find authority and legitimacy and things like that?
	And so it'll be a deeper commitment to the ideology itself.
	Whereas the Trump faction has got plenty of legitimacy.
	What they believe to be the legitimately elected president, who was rejected and overthrown...
	They've got a bunch of generals who can see that something terrible has happened and the manifest military collapse in Afghanistan and the tragedies that have fallen on from that.
	This is a really like, it is like a 9-11 style narrative nexus where a bunch of narratives are all intersecting and then will project forward and it's like a reverse prism, right?
	And so now you've got a very powerful, motivating force that goes out in society, and there have been people like General Flynn who have been part of this for a while now, and I mean, I think these things kind of have to resolve in some way, and so that's not good.
	There are some people, I mean, we made the joke yesterday, some people have been mentioning, which is that it looks like Biden's trying to speedrun the Bush presidency as fast as possible.
	Yeah, it does.
	And then there's the question of, well, I suppose, what's his 9-11?
	And people correctly pointed out in the comments, well, 9-11 is actually coming up.
	So now the Taliban are back in force and ISIS are around and al-Qaeda is still budding around somewhere.
	God knows what they're going to do, because I imagine they have something planned for that.
	Yeah, I mean, every day it could be just something way worse than what happened before, and everything that happened yesterday was terrible.
	But student of history says, mild correction, boys, the Black Hawk helicopter is designated UH, the utility helicopter, used mostly for transportation of equipment.
	People use the AH attack helicopters, either the Super Cobras or the Apaches.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I'm not an expert on American military technology, so thank you for that correction.
	Ghost of Adelaide says, Joe Biden needs to be replaced with Kamala Harris immediately.
	God, imagine what she's going to be like when she's in charge.
	Just, she looks like she doesn't want to be there anyway.
	And then if Joe Biden just dies tomorrow, it's like, right, you're in charge, Kamala, what do we do in Afghanistan?
	She's going to be like, ha ha ha, Joker laugh.
	It looks like a bureaucrat, though.
	Yeah, but it's just awful.
	Could you get any more illegitimate?
	It's just like, now some unelected bureaucrat is now in.
	Yes, now someone you didn't vote for is taking the office.
	But he says, it's not a matter of supporting her over him, or if you don't care about the Democrats at all.
	America needs a mentally competent leader who will remember what happened the previous day and knows what to say, even if it's BS. Yes, I guess.
	I guess it would be a step up.
	Stewart says, are the US government now the number one funding terrorism with $85 billion?
	Yes.
	They always were as well, though.
	But now they've really decided to step that up.
	The totally legitimate Biden regime has made sure that the worst terrorists in the Middle East have got loads of money and equipment.
	Are the US government going to go to war in itself?
	The USA does have a lot of oil.
	Hmm.
	That's a good point.
	There was that fact, we did it before, which is the biggest funder of terrorism in the United States is the FBI.
	Because they'll sell fake plots and give them loads of money and then arrest them.
	Catastrophic regression threshold says, Morning, gents.
	The Taliban are on the return to power.
	Carl, when you said you wanted a return to tradition, I'm going to assume you wanted them to go this far back.
	Well, this wasn't what I was expecting or asking for, to be honest.
	Are they making Islamic Trompton?
	JJHW says, this is an advert for the Taliban's superglue, which is strong enough to hang you from a helicopter, now available on Amazon.
	Jamie says, it's not what it seems if the cathedral wishes to punish the country for ending a lucrative war.
	What better way than to make the withdrawal as painful as possible?
	Yeah, I don't think that's how it works.
	I don't think you can say that the cathedral, which is the sort of autonomous, self-organising...
	Religion of the left that has taken over these things has that ability to have that kind of will because it is decentralized and distributed.
	And you can see that there's clearly – this was not expected to go this badly, right?
	No one has expected it to go this badly.
	And the actual outrage, the actual...
	Because I think that they thought, look, we control the media, so we can essentially just set the narrative and just, you know, this is what ISIS just called the golden media halo, right?
	Wherever American goes, there's always this positive media coverage, and so you've got to get through that to be able to actually make a difference.
	A dent in someone's understanding of what's going on.
	And I thought that they thought, well, we'll always be able to control that because we've always been able to control that.
	And therefore, we'll just do exactly what we want, propagandize the plebs, and everything will be great for us.
	And we'll be the ones in charge and remake the world in whatever way we want.
	And this has been a massive blow to that.
	This has ruined Biden's reputation.
	He will never recover from this.
	And this is what people will remember going forward.
	Biden killed people, Americans in Afghanistan, by just this bizarro knee-jerk withdrawal.
	He had no good reason for it, no excuse for it, and it was just utter incompetence.
	And you can see that the entire administration is rattled, not taking questions, not doing this, not doing that.
	Psaki just looks like she's...
	You know, a deer in the headlights sometimes.
	She's like, right, yeah, I'm just going to answer that, and then rush off out of the room.
	You can tell this is not what they were planning.
	So, you know, they're powerful, but they're not all powerful.
	And they've made a massive mistake here.
	And they know it.
	And they're still going after their opponents.
	They're still trying to remake the world.
	And so people who are looking at them going, you don't have any legitimacy at all, are then going to hear them saying, right now, you have to do this.
	You have to do that.
	And they're like, do I, though?
	Do I?
	So anyway.
	The Afghan situation, says Alexander, is what happens when leftism starts to infect your government and institutions and no one cares about anything anymore.
	Society collapses in chaos.
	Leftist defences of Mao claim it's just mismanagement, bro.
	You can't call it genocide.
	No, the mismanagement is the point.
	It's ideologically motivated genocide.
	Perfect.
	Go check out how Mao was a great famine as well.
	With Mao it's even worse though, because some of the famines were purposely made to kill off certain groups.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, in the Soviet Union you could say, sure, I mean, it was ideological, but then, again, I think the Kulaks were targeted, weren't they?
	Yeah, they were.
	It was a genocide of the Kulaks, a genocide of the rich or people in the cities or whoever else.
	Yeah.
	And don't get me wrong, I'm sure they weren't planning to have as big a famine as they had.
	But once you've got it, you might as well use it.
	Well, that's it, yeah.
	I mean, this is the horrible collectivist mindset you have to have.
	Yes.
	Never let a good crisis go to waste, isn't it?
	Don't worry, guys, there's a female treasury secretary.
	A female, that's exactly it, isn't it?
	That's exactly it.
	Anyway, Matthew says, How do intersectionists get upset about disrespecting that guy from Fortnite when they think that you should judge someone based on the colour of their skin and not the content of their character?
	Exactly.
	They don't like MLK. Look at the Curricle Race Theory is probably the ones throwing tomatoes at MLK. Well, there's the book review of the book club on the critical race theory keywritings that form the movement is in progress.
	It's 500 pages.
	It's going to take me a while to do all of this, and there'll be a few episodes.
	But one of them is about MLK, incidentally.
	And they do want to MLK what is done to everything that they touch.
	They say, right, what we need to do is bastardize this, turn it into something that it wasn't.
	And that means that they are subverting MLK, but they're also surpassing him.
	They're not really interested in what he had to say or his thoughts, and it doesn't really resonate with what's going on now, obviously.
	Anyway, yeah, they fundamentally disagree with everything he said.
	If he was alive today, they'd do a Kanye on him and call him white, as well as bashing him for being a Christian.
	That's true.
	Oh, some people did at the time as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Fair enough, people would call him white for saying he was integration.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing.
	In this thing, basically, spoiler alert, they think that integration is black genocide, and they use that term.
	Fortnite had forgotten that MLK wanted black people to integrate into white society, which in 2021 makes them a white supremacist.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	Joe says, I can't tell if MLK Gangnam Style Fortnite is better or worse than saying Anne Frank would have been a Belieber.
	Yeah, probably the Anne Frank one.
	The entire world wasn't bastardized like that up until now with VR games.
	Sam says, remember the Habbo hotel raids?
	I remember.
	This carry-on with Fortnite reminds me of that.
	I'm waiting for an unending horde of autists to sweep into the event and do something chuckle-worthy.
	Well, good thing they disabled others emotes, eh?
	Omar says, the left, why won't you submit?
	We could be living in a time where race doesn't matter.
	Normal people.
	2005.
	But that's the thing, Omar.
	They want race to matter.
	And when you try to create propaganda that reflects a world in which race doesn't matter, A wealthy black family are getting on with a lower middle class family that's white from Oregon.
	That can't be allowed.
	They can't be friends.
	They can't stand it.
	You didn't even mention race.
	It's awful.
	It's awful.
	George says, I grew up in Canada in the 80s and 90s.
	It didn't mean S. The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, etc.
	We watched all these shows and never once cared or really thought about the race of the people on the screen.
	Exactly, right?
	So when I was in boarding school when I was like 12, 13 years old, every night we used to sit around, all of us watched Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and we talked about the characters on the shows.
	At no point it was like, oh look, we're going to go watch The Blacks.
	No one said anything like that.
	No one thought anything like that.
	We were like, everyone loves Will Smith.
	We're looking forward to watching Carlton and Will Smith getting BTFO'd by Uncle Phil.
	Is it Uncle Phil?
	I don't know, I didn't watch it.
	It was great.
	Uncle Phil was just a right-wing hero, man.
	I can't remember who's got that in the bio.
	Who's on Twitter that's got that in the bio?
	It's one of the Oinka representative.
	Shout out.
	Uncle Phil's a right-wing hero, and he's totally right.
	He's the archetypal daddist, and yeah, I don't care that he's black.
	It just doesn't matter at all.
	But anyway, yeah, so when the leftists were calling the rest of us racist, they were really only performing a self-own.
	That's true.
	Chad Koala says, That's a great point.
	I mean, literally, you know, we've got too much to do here.
	We've got lots of different people types, classes.
	I love it, people types.
	You know, it's like, I feel like I'm talking about Magic the Gathering game or something.
	You know, there's a race and class.
	You know, human warrior.
	Zeph Sintatch's version of...
	Yeah, exactly.
	Protection from Mexicans, you know.
	Dark owls.
	It's just like, why are you even thinking in this way?
	Anyway, they literally must have nothing better to do.
	David Shipton says, how many actual racists trying to paint all white as this or that do we have to listen to before we start calling them out for their actual racist views and opinions?
	Well, they are actual racists, but they don't care.
	They're pro-racism.
	That's the thing.
	They are pro-racism.
	So calling the left-wing racists, they'll be like, yeah, I am a racist.
	As Robin DiAngelo says, that's her main selling point.
	I, Robin DiAngelo, am a racist, and I've written a book about white people.
	I mean, you've seen it.
	I think Nick Fuentes did this, where he went to some mall and he was live-streaming it, and he was talking to people.
	And eventually, from the people we'd be talking to, he'd be like, are you a racist?
	And he goes, yeah, that's based.
	And that's the response you get from the leftists, is why we're calling them racist never works, because they just essentially respond with, yeah, and that's based.
	Yeah.
	That is actually Robin DiAngelo's exact point.
	Like you're not criticizing them at all when you call them that.
	No.
	You need to call them something else.
	We're going to work out what we're going to call them.
	James says, Carl, the rightest language you're looking for is the language we inherited, and in particular, the words that the left label is politically incorrect.
	No, no, no.
	It's deep in that.
	You can go and watch the Thick Language or Thick Words podcast that we did, Thick Concepts podcast.
	That's the key to it all.
	It is inherited language, as you say, and it's the sort of social human language that we have that's pre-theoretical.
	But it is out there and we're going to use it.
	And I suppose that's probably time, isn't it?
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