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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #248

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	Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday, the 25th of October 2021.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about the Alec Baldwin shooting.
	We're going to be talking about how the climate protesters are back and...
	Yeah, absolutely they are.
	Brilliant.
	And we're going to also be talking about how the vaccine mandates are not going exactly as Klaus Schwab has planned.
	But before we get into all of that, we have a lot of content on the website.
	So we've got Thomas's latest article about Jordan Peterson, which was very interesting.
	And we also have Hugo's latest one.
	Not that one, John, but never mind.
	This is one that we have got an audio track for as we're going through...
	The back catalogue, I'm putting audio tracks on for Silver Tier members and above, but this one's about Bitcoin being a threat to the environment.
	He's also done one about neo-neocolonialism, which is basically how the West controls the world, essentially, through not-colonialism.
	But also we have the contemplations that I did with Josh, the science of dadism, so why it's scientifically proven that they need dads in households.
	I don't know why I have to say that, but there we go.
	And of course we've got the Epoch's penultimate episode talking about the Hundred Years' War, which is the beginning of the end of the English Empire in France, after the Battle of Venoy, I can never pronounce it, but another glorious English victory, but then it all starts coming undone.
	And next week's one will be the final one, where we talk about from Joan of Arc to the end of the Empire.
	Anyway, and on Friday we have the Gold Tier Zoom call.
	So if you're a Gold Tier subscriber, come and join us at 4pm UK time on Friday and we will hang out and chill.
	But anyway, without further ado, let's talk about the recent shooting on a movie set done by...
	Very anti-Trump activist actor, Alec Baldwin.
	Now, this was a mistake.
	It was on the film set of a film called Ross that was in development, that was being filmed in New Mexico, and we are told that there was an accident involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.
	The Western drama's director of photography, Halnya...
	Hutchins, 42, and its director Joel Sousa, 48, was struck during the incident, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
	Hutchins was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, but died from her injuries, and Sousa was treated, but has survived.
	Baldwin was questioned by the investigators because he was the one firing the gun, and this was apparently an accident, a tragic accident.
	So we have more information from the Daily Mail.
	A prop master's union described it on Friday as a live round that was put into the gun that he was given, and he was running around screaming, why was I given a hot gun?
	The term hot and cold gun, referring to whether they're loaded with real ammunition or not.
	He says, in all my years, I've never been handed a hot gun.
	A spokesman for both film production and Baldwin said that it was an accident involving a gun loaded with blanks.
	They had me pick my gun.
	I was like, all right, what gun would you like?
	And I was like, I don't know.
	And the armourer was like, do you have gun experience?
	And he was like, a little.
	And she was like, I don't know whether he likes.
	This is how you load it.
	Check it safe.
	Do you want a hip drawn or cross drawn?
	He said cross drawn.
	That sounds fun.
	And so she says, I'll put some blanks in there and just fire a couple of rounds towards the hill.
	I walk out and she's like, just make sure you pull the hammer all the way back and aim at your target.
	The assistant director had declared the gun to be safe.
	We'll go to the next one, John.
	The assistant director had handed it to Alec Baldwin, shouting cold gun.
	To indicate it didn't have any live rounds, and the first official count was released from the Sheriff's Department on Friday, who put out a five-page filing which detailed many of the basic logistical details of the shooting, but left many questions unanswered, namely how a live round could have ended up in the gun fired by the actor.
	The assistant director said, I did not know live rounds were in the prop gun.
	I'm surprised, honestly, that prop guns can fire live rounds.
	See, I thought, from what I'm aware, what you're supposed to do with any gun, whether it's supposed to be a prop gun, a live gun, cold rounds, hot rounds, whatever, is that you are supposed to treat it as if it is just a standard gun.
	Don't point it at anybody.
	Don't point it at anything that you don't intend to shoot.
	And don't go around saying, like, oh, just give it a test.
	Here, there, everywhere.
	In Baldwin's defence though, the scene and the way it was being shot called for him to point the gun at the camera and then fire the gun.
	Oh, okay.
	Because, you know, obviously that was going to be a dramatic moment.
	It's a western, you shoot straight at the camera, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But it had a live round and shot the lady behind it and the director.
	Even from that, from what I'm aware, you're supposed to use movie magic to angle pistols and stuff in ways that it looks, because you can manipulate cameras.
	I've got no doubt.
	I'm sure you are correct, though.
	But anyway, so Alec Borden had been very cooperative, of course, in all of this, and so he doesn't seem to have been doing anything or be responsible for what's happened here, really.
	It's notable that Newsweek report that there were no union members on the set when Alec Baldwin was shot, so the production union were not part of this.
	And there was a text prior to this from the production manager, as Jack Posobiec reported.
	They say,"'We've now had three accidental discharges.
	This is super unsafe.'" That's interesting, isn't it?
	So on the set, there have been three actual live rounds fired prior to this accident because of what appears to be an unsafe work environment.
	Poor discipline in the crew.
	It does sound...
	It sounds a lot to me.
	I mean, everybody's been making the comparison.
	It does sound a lot like the incident that happened in the 90s with The Crow, which was also the result of a very unsafe work environment where people were not being responsible on the set.
	People were often tired.
	People were very...
	I think they were working 18-hour days.
	I don't know exactly what the environment was like at this, but I wouldn't be surprised...
	Well, I don't either, but the thing we're getting out of it is not very good news for those people who are concerned about things like gun safety.
	Anyway, so the question, of course, raises its head, well, was this done by Trump?
	If you're an insane person on Twitter, as this verified checkmark posted, might the prop gun have been secretly loaded with real bullets by a Trump supporter to punish Alec Baldwin for his Trump parodies?
	This should be a line of inquiry.
	What a reach.
	Imagine how many Trump supporters there are on the set of a Hollywood movie.
	Not many!
	But this obviously was an insane take.
	What they're talking about is Alec Baldwin's Trump impressions.
	We can get the next one up.
	As you can see, he's been doing Saturday Night Live and various other things where he's pretended to be Trump because he, along with the rest of the media class, suffer from Trump derangement syndrome.
	Personally, this felt like a huge cope to me.
	I didn't really...
	Find it offensive in any way, shape or form.
	But let's have a look at the armourer.
	That was the person in charge of the guns.
	Of course they have a TikTok.
	Don't look much like a Trump supporter to me.
	They also look younger than me.
	Yes, she's 24.
	Oh, so she is younger than me.
	Yes.
	How did she get this job?
	That's the question.
	So, who is she?
	The armour on the set, as the independent informs us, tasked with overseeing the prop gums and other potentially dangerous items, was 24-year-old former model and actress who had only served as the head armourer previously on one movie, The Old Way, which wrapped not long before the Rust shoot.
	Her name's Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, and she is the daughter of a respected Hollywood firearms expert.
	Ah.
	And apparently, now you see where the net is in.
	It's all starting to fit in.
	So she has not got this job through her experience or competence, she's got this job because of who her father was.
	This is interesting, I think.
	But she had gone on a podcast last month and said that her interest in following her father's footsteps had only peaked in recent years before taking on the head armourer role for The Old Way.
	She was really nervous about it and almost didn't take the job.
	Why would you be really nervous about it?
	Why would you almost not take the job?
	Unless you knew you weren't qualified to do the job.
	Which seems to be the case.
	She apparently said, also as reported by the Mirror, that she wasn't ready for this job.
	She says, I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready, but doing it, it went really smoothly.
	On the Old Way movie.
	She went on to express her fears about loading blanks into a gun, claiming they were the scariest thing, and that she needed help from her father, Fell Reed, to get over the fear.
	I mean, loading blanks into a gun, is that scary?
	Well...
	Once again, I think it is the case where, when you're on the set, even if it is blanks, they are basically a bullet just without the projectile at the end, so there is a chance, if it does fire, that it can still fire shrapnel from the casing and other such things that can be dangerous to people.
	So I can understand the fear, but if you had an experienced armourer on set, perhaps there wouldn't be that...
	Yeah.
	And there's a difference between, even if, for whatever reason, if she was qualified, there's a difference between being theoretically qualified and being experienced.
	Yes.
	And being the head armour, the head person dealing with all of these props.
	At 24?
	I mean, it feels like an assistant age.
	Yeah, it feels like she's been thrust into a position of extreme responsibility.
	Yeah, and presumably based on who her father was.
	But anyway, she's apparently totally inexperienced with this.
	The Daily Mail report that two sources told the Daily Beast that she had allegedly given an 11-year-old actress a gun without checking it properly while on the set of The Old Way, that previous film.
	And there are a couple of times when she was loading blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe.
	She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again.
	Again, these are allegations.
	I can't say they're true or false, but this is what's being alleged about the lady.
	So anyway, as we said, the thing has gone fairly badly.
	So a search warrant on Friday said that she'd laid out three prop guns on a cart outside the filming relation, and the first assistant director, David Halls, grabbed the gun from the cart, brought it to Alec Baldwin, unaware it was loaded with a live round.
	How could she not know the difference as the chief armourer?
	Yeah.
	I mean, surely as the chief armoury, you should be the one supervising all use of any firearm on the set.
	And if you're handing a gun to somebody, you should be able to tell them to point that at the ground until we say not to.
	Yeah, and you would think that those guns...
	I mean, I don't know why a Hollywood movie would need live rounds...
	At all.
	I mean, especially with special effects as they are these days.
	I'm aware that in the 20s and stuff, apparently they did use live rounds on guns.
	Well, we've wrapped back around, evidently.
	Evidently, but someone can inform me why they would use actual live rounds on a Hollywood movie set.
	But yeah, she had failed to properly mark it.
	Cold gun.
	Hall shouted before handing the gun to Baldwin, and then they were filming a scene inside an Old West-style church where Baldwin apparently aimed the gun towards the camera, pulled the trigger, and accidentally killed Halnia Hutchins and Joel Sousa, and injured Joel Sousa.
	So yeah, not taking responsibility for being in the position she was, being, again, careless, we can say, and it seems that she achieved this position because of who her father was.
	So anyway, needless to say, she's deleted her social media accounts.
	Because why would you want to be on the internet when you've caused this kind of problem?
	I don't know what kind of legal ramifications will come for this woman.
	To be fair, and as much as I'm sure a lot of people don't like him, I don't think Alec Baldwin did anything wrong here.
	Well, I think he was one of the...
	To play a little bit of devil's advocate in that direction, I believe that he was one of the producers of the film, which should mean that he has a certain level of oversight over who they hire for certain roles.
	So he might have been in the position where he was okaying her hiring, but that, once again, is to cause nepotism.
	Yeah.
	But at the same time, that's still...
	It is a pretty horrible situation to be put in.
	It is.
	If you're doing what you assume is just a typical, you know, Hollywood scene where you just shoot a gun and all of a sudden there's blood everywhere...
	Yeah, people are screaming.
	I would not like to be in his shoes right now.
	No, but I mean, in a sort of direct sense, you know, he didn't do anything wrong.
	He obviously didn't mean to shoot someone.
	This is obviously a tragic accident.
	It does seem like the piling up of a number of bad decisions that has led to this...
	John's telling us there's a violation of the safety rules of the Actors Guild.
	He should have known.
	No camera person behind the camera if you take a shot at it.
	Fair enough.
	I'm no expert in these things.
	But I mean on a sort of direct level.
	Yeah, I think with a decision like that, it might be the director who would, being the director of the set, to say, get out of the way.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, Alec Baldwin has apparently cancelled a bunch of his future projects because, of course, this has affected him quite badly.
	He's absolutely devastated.
	He's pulled the plug on numerous other works.
	And a source close to the 63-year-old actor told People Magazine that he's cancelling other projects and needs to take some time to himself to recenter himself.
	Well, understandable, to be honest.
	So yeah, I mean, I could have put a bunch of memes up about all of this afterwards, but honestly, it just felt cruel.
	It's easy to find the memes amusing on the internet, and I'm not saying don't post on anything like that, but it is not really necessary.
	I don't think it was his fault or anything directly anyway, but maybe he was responsible for her getting that job.
	It would be tasteless for us to do anything like that right now, because at the end of the day, this is still a tragedy that's happened at the end of the day.
	It's an awful, awful thing to have happen.
	But the point that I think we can really highlight with this is this is why meritocracy is a necessary force whenever you're dealing with anything that might be dangerous.
	It's useful to have those people who are good at their jobs and not just there because their fathers happen to be good at their jobs.
	Not really too much else to say on that soon as we move on, but I think that makes the point, doesn't it?
	Yep.
	So, in that case, moving on.
	Many people out there in England will probably be aware that the climate nutters of Insulate Britain have returned.
	Who is funding these people?
	Well, I don't know specifically, but we had a blissful 11 days of peace where I believe they were taking a hiatus.
	But as you can see here from Talk Radio on Twitter, they have returned this morning and have been blocking traffic at a major road junction at London's Liverpool Street Station.
	They've released some statements regarding this from spokesman Liam Norton, who said specifically, We know the public is annoyed.
	They should know that this country will have to stop emitting carbon.
	So, blanket statement.
	They will have to, or else we'll just keep annoying you.
	And I think the situation goes a little bit further than just being annoying.
	As I understand it, we're 1% of the world's carbon emissions.
	Yes.
	I mean, one of the things that I'll go into is a lot of these organisations, because they are an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, have, as you would imagine, what could be described as a very anti-capitalist mentality.
	And it makes me wonder, are these, well, why are they ignoring that China makes up 27% of the entire global carbon emissions?
	Because if they went and protested in Beijing, they wouldn't get just dragged off the street like this chap's doing.
	Yes, there would be perhaps some scenes reminiscent of a certain unmentionable event.
	Yes, a certain unmentionable event, yes, exactly.
	Yeah, and it seems that they're doing, they've restarted these protests in anticipation of the next UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, which is starting next weekend, I believe, on the 31st.
	Yeah, Leo did a segment about it last week.
	Yeah, so they're very much starting to try and agitate again in time for that, to try and get their point across.
	A different spokeswoman said, Tracy Malligan, said that, You're not, though.
	You're not, really, though, are you?
	I bet they love this.
	I'm irritated, too.
	I've read the Chatham House report, and it's terrifying.
	I've not read that, but I just assume it's another climate report that's saying the world is going to end if we don't do this, this, this, and this by 2050, 2060.
	So yeah, I do believe that this is more than just irritating people.
	If you go to the next one, you can see they've been targeting Canary Wharf, which seems again to be another extension of their anti-capitalist ideals, being that it's a big business sector in the centre of London, isn't it?
	You can see there the footage of people just blocking buses, public transport routes, which I have seen other people tweeting that because of the blocking of the public transport routes, they've been having to take buses.
	Taxis and other such services, which doesn't seem to be doing something that I would imagine be helping the climate, forcing people to abandon public transport.
	And if we go on to the next one as well, you can see they've made a direct statement on Twitter here that's saying that we demand a meaningful statement that the government shall insulate the UK housing stock.
	Why should we wait until millions have lost their homes, are fighting for water, or starving to death now?
	What do they mean by insulate the UK housing stock?
	From what I've looked into, as you can imagine with a name like Insulate Britain, they are very focused on insulation, that being insulation of houses in Britain.
	I think they've...
	Cut down on energy bills.
	Yeah, I think it's the idea that the less insulated your house is, the more heat it's releasing unnecessarily, therefore, the more energy you're having to use to heat your house, such as in the winter months as we're approaching right now.
	But the thing is, I don't know that anybody would really disagree with wanting to insulate their homes, because for the majority of people, it's going to save them money.
	And most people's homes are insulated.
	Yes.
	Britain's cold in the winter.
	Of course you want insulation in your house.
	It's not a big surprise, but they are of course deciding to go out and agitate and do these sorts of...
	But they think that's going to stop climate change, right?
	Because why would we wait until millions have lost their homes fighting for water or starving to death?
	I assume they are expecting the climate catastrophe...
	Yes, they are absolutely expecting...
	If we don't insulate our homes.
	Yeah, later on I'll talk a bit about one of the guys who is instrumental in organising these things, as far as I'm aware.
	Yeah, and you can also see there just the fact that they're interacting with the public like an annoying marketing campaign with the emojis.
	Yeah.
	It's very irritating.
	It's weird that they think this is going to get people to agree with them.
	Well, being an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, what I've seen from Extinction Rebellion is that two of the founders have had high-level marketing positions in companies like Lush, and I forget what the other company was.
	So they do seem to have some experience with this kind of...
	They probably envision it as a mass marketing campaign, to a certain extent.
	But it explains why both this and Extinction Rebellion seem so goddamn corporate.
	Yes.
	It didn't feel like a grassroots movement of just regular people who were just like, we've got a concern.
	It felt like a scheme of corporate marketing, didn't it?
	Yeah, I believe the person I just mentioned, I don't remember their name, who was a marketing executive for Lush, is currently running for the Green Party as a potential MP, so we'll see how that goes.
	But yes, it is very corporate.
	There's definitely money behind this.
	And if you skip over, you can see the reaction that we've had of people just yanking them.
	Yanking them off the street.
	The regular people have just had enough of their ass.
	Yes, I mean, they've been doing this for the past month and month and a half at this point, so people are, they know what's going on, and people are just absolutely fed up, and it is great to see them doing this.
	Although there is the question of, why aren't the police being the ones to do this?
	And we'll get into that in a moment, but you can see if you skip over again, there's another tactic that they love to use, which once again they seem to have borrowed from their friends over at Extinction Rebellion, which is that they like to glue themselves To different parts of the streets.
	Both the road, lampposts, windows, all sorts.
	And the only reason that I can assume, and you can see more of it in the next one...
	Oh, he's done it with his bare feet as well?
	Yeah.
	He's done it with his bare feet.
	If you skip over to the next one, you can see people are doing their hands as well.
	And the best one, if you skip over, is a...
	Oh wait.
	Have you got the other one, John?
	There's a particular one that I really enjoy.
	If not, it's alright.
	Basically, there was a great image of a man who...
	Here we go.
	Who glued his face.
	Who glued his face to the road.
	If you just click on that image, John, I just want to get that for everybody at home to look at properly.
	This is a man whose life is going very well.
	Evidently.
	It really makes you pause, doesn't it?
	It's just mad.
	I mean, like, if this was a teenager doing it, I'd be like, okay, well, yeah, that's the sort of stupid thing a teenager would do.
	But, I mean, we've got to assume this guy is some sort of dyed-in-the-wool zealot who genuinely believes.
	I mean, he looks old enough.
	Yeah, to be, like, as old as he is and then gluing his face to the floor.
	He can't be, like, a chancer or something.
	Well, the strange thing is that a lot of the people involved in the movement are retired GPs and former medical care staffers.
	Yeah, so for all we know, this man could be a retired GP, which is absurd to me because I don't think anybody would recommend doing this for your health benefits, especially at his age.
	But the reason I imagine that they do these sorts of things is, one, obviously it makes them more inconvenient to get off because I believe the police have had to...
	Gather specialist superglue.
	Not regimes, I forget.
	Some sort of chemical antidote to superglue.
	Why there's the need, I mean these guys are obviously the need for a specialist superglue team.
	It obviously makes it more inconvenient, but I also imagine that if there is the potential where someone yanks them off and rips your skin, especially if it's your face, then the same way that I think everybody knows the Dave Chappelle protests at Netflix last week, there was Vito who they tore up his sign and then when he was left with a stick they said, he's got a weapon!
	It's a way for them to be able to cry assault.
	If somebody does yank them off and maybe rips the palm off their hand or something, they can say, I've been assaulted.
	I've got very little sympathy for that argument.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I don't think that anybody should show sympathy, but if you skip over, The Guardian has had an article that we can see here where Insulate Britain protesters themselves have asked, why aren't we in prison?
	Right, okay, so this is very interesting now, because if you're asking that, what I'm taking from this is this is a big virtue signal, and what you want is a badge of honour for all of your fellow protesters, but like, well, yes, I'm such a resistor that I've been to prison, you know?
	Oh, yes.
	They release books about it.
	Extinction Rebellion specifically have books telling the stories of particular protesters, and I've read a little bit of them when I've been flicking through in Waterstones just for...
	You know, the entertainment of it.
	And one of the stories was specifically, oh, I got sent to prison over a weekend.
	I'm a martyr.
	Yeah, and by the time that I'd been released, I'd have converted all of the police officers and they all knew my first name and we were all having a great chat about how we're going to save the climate together.
	Absolute wish-fulfillment nonsense.
	Right.
	But yeah, in this article...
	See, in previous eras, these people would have been hardcore Christians, wouldn't they?
	Oh, absolutely.
	You know, that's what this is.
	The sort of religious zeal to save the world from the apocalypse.
	Yeah, I mean, I think Callum has the perfect term for them, which is sun worshippers.
	Yes.
	But in this article, it says here, a spokesman for Insulate Britain said that the group had initially expected the campaign to be extremely short-lived because all of its members would be in custody.
	So, once again...
	Playing into your ideas, they also revealed that police had politely emailed to ask for details in advance of where the group planned to protest, so they could deploy resources, but said Insulate Britain was under no obligation to offer advance warnings.
	It's fair to say that there is absolute disbelief and surprise that the campaign has lasted this long.
	We assumed that we would not be allowed to carry on disrupting the motorway network to the extent that we have been.
	We thought that people would basically be in prison.
	Yeah, and everyone's wondering why aren't you?
	Yeah, why aren't you?
	Especially with the police saying, oh, could you email us ahead so that we can get everything prepared for you?
	It's very middle-class containment protest, isn't it?
	Yes.
	If this was Lord Voldemort's lot, a bunch of them would be imprisoned.
	They'd be out with the truncheons.
	Exactly.
	They would have been physically removed long ago.
	But instead, because they're a bunch of middle class ex-doctors and whoever, they get the very soft treatment and they're not being persecuted by the state.
	Interesting.
	Also, given how Boris and the Queen and everyone else are going on about climate change, I'm having trouble suspecting this is not some sort of tactic from the establishment to say, well, look, if we just make this an issue that's in the news, then we can say we're justly taking action.
	We're speaking on behalf of the people, evidently.
	I wouldn't put it past them either.
	Since this article, I have seen that 53 protesters have been arrested, but the difference between just being arrested and being held in jail, I imagine that they're probably just taking them in, filling out the paperwork, and then just setting them back out on the street, which is why they're probably all so confused.
	Disappointed.
	I was supposed to spend two weeks in jail, so I could tell my friends on the internet that I'm a martyr.
	Yes.
	What am I going to say at dinner next week?
	Yeah, exactly.
	How terribly embarrassing.
	You just released, oh, that's not very interesting, is it?
	Yeah, but if we move on, going back to the gluing technique, you can see here there's an example of them using it when it was Extinction Rebellion earlier on this year.
	Rory did this dispatch earlier this year, where an Extinction Rebellion protester who was accused of blocking a Hertfordshire road last year was adjourned on Tuesday after he glued himself to the dock and began lecturing the judge.
	And this particular man, this man in particular, as you can see, he is a stallion of a human being.
	Clearly said.
	Yes, is Liam Norton, who is one of the spokespersons who spoke on behalf of Insulate Britain this morning, and gave one of those initial statements regarding the protests.
	So he seems to have just gone straight from Extinction Rebellion to Insulate Britain to show how much the two organisations are interconnected.
	So yeah, Rory wrote, XR protester Liam Norton, who donned the pink eye mask in the trial, was charged alongside five other protesters with using vehicles and makeshift structures to obstruct roads in Broxbourne in September 2020.
	So once again, we see repeating the techniques that they used to try and cause agitation.
	And this sort of thing where they just glue themselves to things and start to lecture random judges, it does make it come across a little bit.
	It's where it comes into the martyrdom, and to a certain extent LARPing, just to get themselves in the spotlight and show, look at what a good person I am.
	LARPing as martyrs.
	That's exactly what this comes across as.
	Yes.
	But for all those people who do think that they are just LARPing, this is just a reminder that these things, blocking roads, does have consequences, because in doing so, you are, of course, blocking roads from emergency services and other such places.
	I think Callum covered this last month.
	Just to remind everybody that a woman was left paralyzed because of these protests that were going on on the M25.
	Here we can see a mother who suffered a stroke has been left paralyzed after eco-protesters, eco-terrorists, blocked the M25, prevented her son's car from reaching the hospital.
	Chris, her devastated son, has said that he was forced to watch his mother slip away while sat in traffic for six hours.
	Chris said, I was caught up for about six hours and I was doing a mission of mercy to help my mother.
	When we got her to the hospital, the doctor said that if we were to have gotten to them within 90 minutes, her symptoms, her recovery would have been minimal.
	And because she'd been left to endure a stroke after six hours, she had complete paralysis down her left side.
	Which is just a tragic story that these people don't seem to have any...
	Well, they've got a mission, haven't they?
	Yes, they're saving the world, don't you know?
	Your mother can have her stroke and we don't care.
	But this sort of behaviour is also why it's very obvious that the general public of Britain have absolutely no sympathy for these kinds of protesters.
	I mean, there are clips of people coming out and just shouting at them, saying, like, we agree with you, and that's obviously individuals saying that they agree with them, because I think the majority of people do hear climate change and just go, like, why not, you know?
	Do you want insulation on your house?
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah, why not?
	Save me a few quid each month, surely.
	But people shouting, we agree with you, why are you having to do this?
	Why are you blocking us?
	Because it's people being late to work, affecting their livelihoods, potentially affecting their business if they can't get to my business to open up.
	I mean, if this happened here, and none of us could get to the office, what are we going to do?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, and then you can see the absolute callousness Of the people who run the organisation, if you skip over to the next article, Roger Hallam, who was one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion as well, who was actually let go from Extinction Rebellion,
	not because he disagreed with the methods or what they were fighting for, purely because of the fact that he was bad optics, because he'd been caught in interviews saying things like the Holocaust was just another effery in human history, and saying other such things.
	whether or not they agree with him or not it didn't it didn't do well to have him just saying all of this stuff out loud you know mask off i don't really care that much but i mean he is consistently mask off uh in this article you can see that he did an interview uh i don't remember exactly who with but it says the founder of extinction rebellion has admitted he would block an ambulance carrying a dying patient to hospital roger hallam said he would block a patient needing life-saving care
	in response to footage of a woman begging insulate britain campaigners to let her pass through that roadblock outside the blackwell tunnel the distressed woman can be seen pleading with activists to move so she can follow an ambulance rushing her 81 year old mom to hospital hallam confirmed he too would have blocked her way he said he would have stayed there and confirmed he wouldn't move even if the emergency vehicle was carrying a dying patient.
	How compassionate.
	I know.
	These people really care about people.
	That's what they're really doing all of this for.
	so I mean once again he's been involved with both organizations and you can see that kind of aloof attitude that aloof attitude towards the value of human life because of the fact that they can put themselves above it for some higher cause, as you said, much like religious zealots can.
	I mean, he's literally saying he's willing to sacrifice you or your mother for his protest.
	It's like, sorry, Richard, your protest, or Roger, sorry, your protest just means nothing to me, and I don't care whether Britain's insulated or not, I would care about getting my mother to the hospital.
	Exactly.
	Deal with it.
	And they've done some other cheeky things as well, if you go over this, one's a bit, I don't know how serious they were with this one, but they were calling for a 10 mile an hour speed limit on the motorway so that they could disrupt roads and safety.
	I'm sorry, no.
	Yeah, obviously not.
	Yeah, so this is what I mean with retired GPs.
	retired GP Diana Warner said national highways should slow traffic to 10 to 20 miles an hour when protesters are on the carriageways.
	The full text of her statement has been posted on Insulate Britain's website and she says if national highways are committed to safety they will slow traffic to 20 miles an hour or 10 miles per hour when there are people on the motorway.
	I'm asking the national highway to do this.
	The brazen demand was heard at a high court hearing today where a judge extended an injunction to transport for London against Insulate Britain and national highways the government agency responsible for maintaining England's motorways later said that it would not be changing the speed limit.
	Obviously Yeah, but there's a certain kind of falseness to all of this, isn't there?
	Yes.
	Like, they know that they're not going to get in trouble.
	They know that they're not going to get their ridiculous demands met.
	So this all just feels very artificial.
	It very...
	Very much does.
	I mean, you probably remember the footage from the Extinction Rebellion protests that were going on, was it, two months ago in London?
	And it did just look like just an excuse for people to party in the street, to throw gigantic hippie parties where there's no consequences, no repercussions for any of their actions.
	And the police are kind of feeding into this by just arresting them and then just letting them go, presumably, because they're demonstrably proving you've not got any consequences for this.
	Yeah.
	They all expected to be arrested after all.
	Yeah, but a demand like this is just childlike.
	No one thinks they're going to slow traffic to 10 miles an hour on a motorway.
	If you run out in front of motorway traffic, you've kind of got to accept what's going to happen if it does happen.
	The fault is on you.
	There should be no pedestrians on the motorway.
	I couldn't find the clip, but I'm pretty sure there was footage, I forget if it was on the motorway or if it's on a dual carriageway or something, where the police actively came out in front of the road, stopped the traffic to make it safe for the protesters to just run out and sit down in front of them.
	Very strange behaviour and once again...
	Yeah, it looks facilitated by the establishment.
	Yes, absolutely.
	And once again, just another example, we've got another dispatch from earlier on this month where Insulate Britain says sorry, but they didn't really.
	Insulate Britain, Rory writes here, an offshoot of the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion has apologised to ordinary people for causing disruption to roads in and around London.
	speaking on tuesday after uk prime minister boris johnson labeled members of the group as irresponsible irresponsible crusties i mean yeah where's the lie a spokesman for insulate britain said that the movement was profoundly sorry for any disturbances caused to drivers and that its members could not imagine undertaking such acts in normal circumstances once again it sounds like a half-hearted apology yeah Again, I just don't buy any of this.
	I feel like I'm watching a sort of sixth form drama production.
	You know, like, none of this feels very real.
	Like, no one feels like they're very committed or that they truly believe.
	But I feel that they're trying to persuade me that they do.
	I mean, it does feel like agitprop.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely so.
	And there's also the idea that they're apologising to ordinary people.
	Of course, one of the justifications that they would probably give for it is that they're trying to send the message to the establishment man.
	Yeah.
	But the fact of the matter is that, as we've seen, it affects normal people.
	Yes.
	And the spokesman went on to argue, however, that Insulate Britain was justified in its actions due to the reality of our situation, just as I said, predicting that the UK would face economic chaos and the breakdown of law and order in a matter of years in the face of climate change.
	Yeah, but that's not reality, though.
	That's presumption.
	Yeah, once again, they seem to...
	Roger Hallam specifically was on GB News back in May speaking with, shall we say, he who shall not be named any longer about climate, and it was very clear that he had taken the most extreme results from certain climate models that had been taken, and just extrapolating them to the nth degree where he was saying, oh, if we don't get all of this sorted by 2040, the There'll only be the 1% left of billionaires and stuff like that.
	So it's very much catastrophizing on a very grand scale.
	But, in lighter news, moving on, there was something very entertaining that came out from this, which was that a mum, I think in London, decided to have a little altercation here, as we can see in the footage, where she came up and asked them to try and get out of the way.
	And when they refused, she decided to take actions into her own hands by attempting to run them over.
	You can see that she's very angry.
	They're very much, probably quite smugly, just saying no.
	You have to understand, we have middle-class reasons for not moving.
	You're going to have to wait.
	Exactly.
	So she just decides, you know, F this and F you.
	I mean, full respect to her.
	We do not endorse running over protesters on the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	However, I can understand and empathise.
	And then, if you skip over again, she released a little statement about this saying that I never ran them over.
	I gave them a nudge.
	So dramatic, man.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I thought you guys were all about drama.
	I thought the world was ending.
	Exactly.
	It's just a little nudge.
	Calm down.
	So while we do not condone that, it is quite entertaining to see.
	So yes, hopefully Insulate Britain will go away at some point.
	Yeah, but this obvious PSYOP is going to continue because none of it challenges anything the government actually wants.
	The people in charge are all talking about this climate nonsense.
	Especially in the run-up to COP26. Yeah, exactly.
	It all just seems like it's part of a performance that we're watching.
	Yeah.
	So we'll just have to see how that goes, sadly, but that's about everything I had on that.
	Yeah.
	So, turns out the vaccine mandates are not going according to Klaus Schwab's plan.
	You can see that by this meme I posted on Getter, we'll keep the supply chain broken until you all get the jabs, and that's the...
	Point of pressure, isn't it?
	And so there have been vaccine passports and vaccine mandates going across a lot of countries and across the world, and these have provoked large amounts of unrest, we could say.
	In Italy, there's a particularly large protest against vaccine passports and mandates.
	Because apparently, something like 16% of Italy's population is subject now to this two-tier system.
	We've got it from another angle as well, I think.
	It's massive, as you can see.
	There's not small numbers of people out protesting.
	There was one in Switzerland as well.
	Again, massive.
	Switzerland's only got something like 8 million people in it, so this is a pretty sizable protest.
	There was one in Ireland as well.
	Again, large protests in Dublin.
	Media says nothing about all of this.
	And of course, there's continuing protests in Australia.
	This is basically a Nazi state at this point.
	Again, very little coverage of any of this from the media.
	Now, if you're watching this on YouTube, that's as far as we're going to be able to go, because...
	I guess talking about protests against vaccine mandates is not against the editorial guidelines of YouTube, but the rest of this will be.
	So you'll have to follow the link in the description to the remainder of the podcast, linked on lotuses.com, if you'd like to watch the segment.
	Anyway, so it turns out that the vaxxers are a religion of peace.
	Of course.
	But one man decided to drive into a protest against vaccine mandates in Palmdale, California, injuring at least one person, authorities have said.
	A man's called William Alaskan, 64, was arrested after he got into his car and ran into a crowd at a vaccination mandate rally.
	So literally, people opposing, the government forcing them to have this thing injected into them, and this guy...
	Does a truck a peace attack?
	Like he's an Islamic radical.
	Seems like the nth degree of indoctrination of we must do what our overlords tell us to do.
	Imagine being this mad.
	But yeah, so he was arrested and a woman is injured but stable.
	Anyway, so moving on.
	Austria is considering lockdowns for the unvaccinated.
	Of course they are.
	Officially a two-tier society.
	Welcome to the new world.
	I played Half-Life 2 the other day.
	Oh yeah.
	For the first time in like over a decade.
	Just to refresh my memory.
	And honestly, it feels like the world we're going into.
	Who'd have thought of all the dystopian fictions?
	It would be Half-Life.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	I'm waiting for the alien reveal, but...
	Yeah, no, it's going to be something that's being considered.
	The Austrian Chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, says he's considering imposing a lockdown on people who are not vaccinated if the coronavirus numbers continue to rise.
	It's like, well, who gives him this authority?
	What gives him this authority to literally create a surf class in society based on a vaccine that's been around for, what, a year?
	Well, I mean, if the UK government recently has anything to go by, they just keep giving themselves the authority.
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	This authority isn't derived from a legitimate source.
	And when they give themselves the authority, they'll be actively laughing in our faces about it.
	As they did when they extended the COVID powers in the Parliament.
	But anyway, let's fly over to New Zealand, because Jacinda, the tyrant of New Zealand, is going to explain to us why getting vaccinated is more important than ever.
	Vaccinations are our armour.
	They help keep us safe.
	So my message to New Zealanders who have not yet had their first dose, if you want summer, if you want to go to bars and restaurants, get vaccinated.
	If you want to get a haircut, get vaccinated.
	If you want to go to a concert or a festival, get vaccinated.
	If you want to go to a gym or a sports event, get vaccinated.
	If you are not vaccinated, there will be everyday things you will miss out on.
	And if you are vaccinated, you can be assured that in the new framework, you'll get to enjoy the things you love, secure in the knowledge that the people around you and the environment you are in is as safe as possible in a COVID world.
	If you've done the right thing to keep yourself and others safe, to look after one another, you should feel safe.
	You should be protected from those who haven't made that choice.
	Isn't that horrific?
	The implication there being that if you haven't done what we say, you shouldn't feel safe.
	Yes.
	To a certain extent.
	The government will tyrannise you.
	Yes.
	And also, just the idea...
	We keep having to point this out.
	If you are vaccinated, surely the point of the vaccination is that it should keep you safe from those who are carrying the virus.
	Not that getting this particular vaccination stops you from carrying the virus in the first place.
	Yeah.
	But I hate this kind of psychotic mothering of New Zealand society.
	Big sister is going to watch over you.
	And the whole thing, we are going to deny you activities that were in the social realm, as in things that people should be free to do.
	You know, go to a shop or go to a concert or whatever.
	We're going to deny you this based on an arbitrary characteristic in your vaccine status.
	And we are the ones who provide this freedom.
	This freedom isn't something that resides in the population as it is, with that population constructing the government as the sort of classical liberal view of what government is.
	No, no, no, no.
	This is the continental sort of vanguard view, that the government is the progenitor of all of your rights, freedoms, and anything good in your life, which is the same as the way the fascists view what the government's role is and what its powers are.
	They're basically saying, do what we say and we'll give you your freedom tokens.
	Yes.
	And then you can go out and live a normal life.
	Yeah, it's a genuinely dystopian administrative state that Jacinda is in favour of.
	And so a journalist challenged her on this and let's watch her response.
	You basically said this is going to be like, it's almost like, you probably don't see it like this, the two different classes of people.
	If you're vaccinated or if you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights.
	If you are vaccinated.
	That is what it is.
	So, yep.
	Yep.
	What's with this grim?
	Why is she so thrilled?
	I mean, the journalist asking that question, quite rightly, was like, you probably don't see it like this.
	It's the most charitable interpretation.
	Yeah, because you would hope that somebody would be doing it out of what they see as, what they think, at least, is the good of humanity, whereas she seems to be just sort of like, nope, that worst possible interpretation, that's exactly what I'm doing.
	I mean, literally, she looks like Hitler to me.
	So you seem to be saying that the Jews are saying, yeah, yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, those Jews, they're getting it.
	They're not getting any of the same rights as Germans, you know?
	And so it's like, right, okay, actual Nazi actually has a fascist conception of government, wants a two-tier society in which a minority of people are going to be treated like some sort of subclass, right?
	As we saw in California, we know where this goes.
	It turns into, I guess, what they call stochastic terrorism, where it's okay to attack those people who are the unvaccinated because they are the problem.
	Not good.
	You know, not good at all.
	But the thing is, her original argument of, well, you know, vaccines are our armour.
	They keep us safe.
	Do they?
	Do they?
	Well, in a way, they do.
	They reduce the chances that you are going to die of COVID-19.
	I'm sure that's true.
	But the former Center for Disease Control and Prevention director Robert Redfield said that more than 40% of people who have recently died from the coronavirus in Maryland were fully vaccinated, as in vaccinated twice.
	He says, a lot of times people may feel it's a rare event that fully vaccinated people die.
	I happen to be the senior advisor to Governor Hogan in the state of Maryland.
	In the last six to eight weeks, more than 40% of the people who died from coronavirus were fully vaccinated.
	So this is not just as easy as saying, well, this protects you and those unvaccinated people, well, they're evil.
	because they don't want to protect you.
	You'll be safe if it wasn't for them.
	Well, no, not really.
	You know, I mean, there's nothing about being unvaccinated that is a guaranteed death sentence from COVID, obviously.
	Especially for people in my situation where I'm still young, still healthy.
	I mean, I'd imagine, I've not looked at the figures recently, but I'd imagine the majority of people who have remained unvaccinated are probably more your age or my age and not in any particular risk from this.
	I mean, this article here mentions Colin Powell, who was fully vaccinated.
	I mean, he was, what, 83?
	84, I think.
	Yeah, he was double vaccinated, got COVID, died a bit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So when you're at that sort of age, there's only so much that you can do to keep people holding on.
	Yeah, and it doesn't justify a two-tier system of tyranny that pathologises one class of people as some sort of untermensch.
	But anyway, in England, more vaccinated deaths than unvaccinated deaths from COVID now.
	If we can go to the next one, John.
	More than 1,000 fully vaccinated people have died from the Delta variant between 1st of February and 29th of August.
	According to the latest public health data for England, and in that time there were 536 COVID deaths of unvaccinated people in all age groups.
	Important to note that 70% of the population are double vaccinated, so it's not making sure that you won't die of it.
	Yeah, well, I mean, they're fully vaccinated for now.
	If the boosters are anything to go by how some of the others are classifying it, what is it, six months?
	Yeah.
	If you've not had your booster, you're unvaccinated again.
	Yep, and so Boris has been forced to admit, well, the vaccines don't prevent transmission or prevent you from dying from it.
	They just reduce the likelihood.
	But let's play the clip.
	A lot of protection against serious illness and death, but it doesn't...
	It doesn't protect you against catching the disease and it doesn't protect you against passing it on.
	So now is the time to get your booster.
	So there we go.
	So there's no justification for vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in any way, shape or form.
	Because they don't stop you from catching it.
	They don't stop you from passing it on.
	They don't prevent the spread of the disease.
	This is not useful.
	It doesn't do what they said they're going to do.
	So why would you bring it in?
	Well, I guess it's because you want a dystopian administrative state.
	Why not?
	Heroes last year?
	Yep, heroes last year, now they're scum.
	Scum, unvaccinated Jews, that's what those NHS staff are.
	Even though once again...
	Well, that's going to help with the stress the NHS is under, right?
	I thought this was about the stress of the NHS. Yeah, but if they're not vaccinated, we're going to get rid of them.
	It's like, who's making you do this?
	Even if they are vaccinated, they could still pass it on.
	I mean, Boris himself admitted that.
	There's not even any hiding of it, which makes the whole thing seem more illicit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And so where's this coming from, though?
	Because it's flying in the face of the science.
	Like, it doesn't show vaccines do not, like, make you immune to the coronavirus.
	They do not prevent you from spreading it.
	Therefore, what's the point in having passports?
	And at the end of the day, why even bother having the passports?
	Because, I mean, if the vaccines prevent your chance of dying from it, and people have had the vaccine or not, well, that's their choice.
	You know, if you're worried about it, get the vaccine, and then you've reduced your chance of dying, which is the best that can be hoped for.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, moving on.
	I mean, to draw a comparison, it's like Insulate Britain.
	If they want to run out in front of a motorway, let them.
	Not that those are comparable things.
	But we shouldn't be changing the speed of the motorways to 10 miles an hour.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, so we've got a report from a chap on Twitter, who's from Lithuania, who has informed us what it's like to live under this two-tier system of society.
	And it sounds awful, right?
	It's really awful.
	So I'm just going to read through this Twith thread.
	In just six weeks, the COVID pass has transformed my country into a regime of control and segregation.
	In this new society created in Lithuania, the nation furthest along the path to authoritarianism, inevitably facing all countries which impose a COVID pass regime.
	In Lithuania, it's called the Opportunity Pass.
	Again, the framing.
	Jacinda's framing.
	Oh, well, we will give you these freedoms.
	As if all of the good things in society are the product of the government, right?
	I'd classify this as gaslighting at this point.
	But it just strikes me as, again, Half-Life 2-style authoritarian administrative state.
	But anyway, the opportunity pass allows you the opportunity to participate in society, as if the government should have the right to lock you out of society if they deem fit.
	This chap says my wife and I don't have the COVID pass.
	We refuse to accept the authoritarianism of the new regime.
	So far we've lost our jobs and been banished from most of society.
	It's been six weeks so far.
	There is currently no end date planned.
	With no pass, we may only enter small shops with street entrances which mainly sell essential goods.
	Food, pharma optics or pharma pet stores.
	This convenience store meets the requirements so we may enter.
	Every other store must by law ban people without the pass.
	In Lithuanian, the pass is called something I can't pronounce which is abbreviated as GP. No pass, no entrance.
	This is a clothing store.
	By law, it must ban me and my wife because we don't have a COVID pass because clothing is considered not essential.
	Why is an ID needed to shop in addition to the pass?
	To verify the pass is yours.
	So you have to prove that this is your pass.
	You can't just use someone else's pass to go in.
	This is the sort of level of control that they can see in Lithuania.
	He gives an example.
	A construction worker wanted food for his morning shift.
	Without his own pass, he used his boss's QR code to enter a supermarket.
	He was fined €5,000 and the police issued a press release.
	Thank God they got the criminal.
	Again, just really reminds me of Half-Life here.
	The law bans people without the pass from all non-essential services and economic activities, as in religious supply store, book stores, knitting stores, art stores, can't pick up online orders, not allowed any beauty services, anything like that.
	Without a pass, we may not receive repair services which last longer than 15 minutes.
	Why?
	Why not 16 minutes?
	Why not 10 minutes?
	So arbitrary.
	It's totally arbitrary, and it's about control of the population.
	Without a pass, we can't enter most government buildings, so we can't talk with government officials in person.
	So there we go.
	Now, not only are you a disenfranchised minority of the dirty Jews, you are not even allowed to try and petition the government to whom you have to pay taxes for redress.
	Without COVID pass, we can't enter banks or insurance companies and essential financial purposes where the services last longer than 15 minutes.
	All restaurants, cafes and bars require the Opportunity Pass.
	There's scant reporting about this and the segregation authoritarianism that has resulted from it.
	Lithuania's COVID pass started in May as a temporary measure, the goal to facilitate economic activity.
	In August, the temporary measure became permanent law to banish people from society.
	This is how they bring this in.
	They don't bring this in by saying, oh, we're going to tyrannise you forever.
	No, no, no.
	It's slowly, slowly.
	Oh, it'll just be temporary.
	It's just for now.
	It's just because we have to.
	And then, boom, it becomes permanent.
	So anyway, the person points out that this is an inversion of universal rights and free society.
	You can do whatever you want unless the law prohibits you.
	Under this new regime, this is inverted.
	You can't do anything unless a bureaucrat permits you.
	This is an emergency law, and we have this same emergency law.
	There is little accountability, oversight, or media scrutiny, and with power unchecked, bureaucrats make arbitrary rules again and again.
	This is not science or health.
	This is rule by bureaucratic whim.
	Absolutely.
	Which is why even some MEPs in the European Parliament are opposing this.
	This is how bad this is.
	That's shocking.
	Yes, exactly.
	You'd think they'd been all for this because it gives them increased bureaucratic control.
	Pure bureaucracy.
	Exactly.
	But even they are like, okay, look, we're for bureaucracy, but is this enough?
	Is this too much bureaucracy?
	Well, I would say so.
	So where is this all coming from?
	Well, I don't know.
	It looks like it's coming from the World Economic Forum and various other sort of internationalist projects like that, which the Conservative Party appears to be well on board with.
	And the other day, it was just really weird that Hillary Clinton just came out and demanded that Boris impose vaccine mandates and passports in England.
	I'm sorry, foreigner.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What do you have to do with it?
	Who elected you to anything?
	Yeah, exactly.
	But you weren't even elected in your own country, let alone in our country.
	Why would we want Hillary Clinton's opinion on this?
	But let's play this clip.
	I do think it's imperative that the Prime Minister do what he can to stop the rise in COVID in the UK. He doesn't need to shut the society down, but he does need to mandate vaccines.
	By mandate vaccines, you mean what we would call vaccine passports, insist that people coming into buildings, into clubs, into restaurants show everything.
	And employers.
	I mean, part of what we've done in New York, for example, is We're good to go.
	Sounds fair.
	Yeah, who the hell is this evil harpy to demand this kind of stuff of us?
	We don't want to shut down society except for those who don't comply with us.
	Do you know what you want to do?
	You want to persecute those people who don't agree to our demands?
	And using New York as a good example?
	No, it's a terrible example.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, we've covered it in previous podcasts.
	An awful example of what's happened here.
	But, I mean, we've got another one, a lot closer to home, in Scotland.
	Because Scotland does have vaccine policies.
	Because Scotland is run by the Scottish National Socialist Party, again another vanguardist party who think that the government is where all of your freedoms and rights originate.
	And when they think the government is the originator of your rights, that means that they are the people who can take them away.
	This is what Scotland has done.
	So they say, in the Scotsman, proof of full vaccination is required to enter nightclubs and large events as part of the Scottish Government's efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus and increase vaccine take-up.
	The measures initially came into effect from October 1st, but an 18-day grace period is announced following a backlash from affected industries and significant problems of the new app.
	The Scottish Hospitality Group said that staff have faced intolerable levels of abuse, and venues saw a drop in football of up to 40%.
	Footfall, sorry, not football.
	So basically, they've almost halved the number of people going to their venues.
	It is calling the Scottish Government to scrap the scheme, which has been legally enforceable since the 18th of October.
	Well, that's happened quickly.
	Going brilliantly.
	Anyway, so there was a leaked memo of winter restrictions that has been published by Bristol Post.
	An email sent by the UK Health Security Agency to local council leaders and directors of public health.
	A string of measures were outlined.
	These included working from home, vaccine passports for nightclubs, and the return of legally mandated face masks, reports the Mirror.
	Again, this is in England because these things are already in existence.
	In Wales and Scotland.
	According to The Sun, one official wrote, I've been asked Canva's opinion on the level of support for the immediate rollout of the Winter Plan, Plan B. Just days earlier, Sajid Javid refused to trigger Plan B, despite a rise in infections.
	The rise in infections, by the way, is among schoolchildren, people who are virtually immune to COVID. He told a number 10 press conference that he was right to hold back on Plan B because the pressure on the NHS isn't unsustainable yet.
	I mean, infections, once again, is one of those things where infections does not mean a hospital bed has been taken up.
	It means that somebody has got a positive test.
	Exactly.
	It doesn't even mean they're ill.
	It could be an asymptomatic carrier.
	But thankfully, thank God, at least at the moment, the government is working on models that imply the cases will go down.
	So the COVID places will plummet in November according to their models, even without the Plan B restrictions, the modelling seen by the government suggests.
	Ministers are thought to be holding back from introducing restrictions such as compulsory face masks working from home and vaccine passports.
	I've seen projections from several groups which show infections declining rapidly.
	Well, let's bloody hope so.
	But the point is, I don't think that England should impose this two-tier society.
	I think that really does go against the traditional and very old English value of one rule for all.
	Even if these models were saying something completely different, we still shouldn't even be considering this stuff.
	I don't care.
	I don't care what Hillary Clinton says.
	I don't care what Klaus Schwab says.
	The answer is just a no from me, I'm afraid.
	And just to be clear, all these apps they're using to do this, it's not like these are secure.
	So they've got your data, and what are they doing with it?
	Well, the Scottish Government's vaccine app has been sent, the NHS app that the Scottish Government uses, has been sharing its data with Royal Mail, Amazon, Microsoft, and an AI facial recognition firm.
	Because the administrative dystopia is not dystopian enough.
	Because we need to take more pointers from China for facial recognition.
	Yes, and so they're turning this into the sort of social credit system that is awful.
	And the Conservative government are busy here going, well, maybe, maybe if the numbers on my spreadsheet go up too much, then we'll implement this tyranny.
	That's what this is.
	Welcome to the future, folks.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Oh, I wanted to let the chap himself make that...
	Assuming that I did decipher that correctly, yes, the chap himself did make that.
	It was fun dusting off some skills I haven't made use of in a while, and I hope it's just this first of many a spicy meme of serious craftsmanship.
	Got a few in the pipe, we'll see what happens.
	Also, Carl.
	I think it's well established at this point that simping ain't king s***.
	But with all this recent talk of lionesses, one and a half metric a tons of sandwiches and whatnot, are we to understand that simping is in fact queen s*?
	Also, based in and out.
	11 out of 10 burgers.
	Yeah, good for In-N-Out for refusing to become the vaccine police.
	It's good to see businesses standing up to this.
	Yes, it is.
	And I look forward to your future memes.
	And I don't think women are capable of simping.
	I think simping is by definition something a man does.
	It's the gad-sad male sneaky effer tactic.
	Allow me to become your best friend so that eventually you will gift me.
	Yeah, I think that simping is only something men are able to do.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This comment is for Carl.
	The reason I was discussing hatred is because non-pathological hatred is tied to judgment.
	Employing good judgment on dealing with people or other life affairs is not only good but essential.
	If someone possesses and applies good judgment, they must have disdain for degenerate and sincere and dishonest behavior.
	To truly love good, you must hate evil.
	The left is anti-judgment because they are against moral standards and objective morality itself.
	Fully automated luxury of space communism is a perfect example.
	They want to be free to engage in degeneracy without being exposed to truth or reality.
	That's fair, but again, my problem is the issue with the word hatred itself.
	I think it comes loaded with too many other assumptions.
	Maybe it's just me, but I always view hatred as a kind of pathological emotional state which demonstrates a loss of control.
	And I don't think that one should lose oneself in hatred.
	So I think there are other statements you could use in place of hating something that I think would be less indicative of a personal loss of self-control and responsibility.
	Let's go to the next one.
	No sound on this one, it seems.
	Right, okay.
	Well, it's nice to see people out partying.
	I hope they've got their vaccine passports.
	It must be Extinction Rebellion.
	Hi there, fellow Lotus Eaters!
	I have a simple, concise question today.
	Seeing as I'm from Sweden, and we all know what Sweden's been like for the past couple of years, longer time perhaps, decades.
	I was wondering if there's anything you think I can do as an individual to help better the situation in this country, or if I should just abandon it and leave it to rot and burn.
	That's it.
	Have a good one, lads and gals.
	Personally, I don't think you should abandon your country.
	I think that's the wrong mistake because, again, it's just ceding more ground to left-wing activists.
	I think the best thing you can do is be a good example of whatever it is you're professing and become politically engaged, which means, unfortunately, writing letters to your representatives.
	And I mean real letters, not just emails, though emails if for some reason you can't be bothered to write the letter, but write letters.
	Explain your position and After enough petitioning, perhaps they'll get the message that people aren't happy.
	But that's about as far as really I can advocate in that.
	But I would definitely make sure they're aware that you're not happy with all of this.
	And vote accordingly, obviously.
	And on the just leaving the country, that's not just ceding the ground to the activists, it's pushing the responsibility onto somebody else as well, which is not what I would consider to be a virtuous...
	No, no, exactly.
	And you're also assuming that there's somewhere else to go.
	Yeah, that's the good point as well.
	Like, where are you looking at?
	Are you looking at America, run by Joe Biden?
	Australia?
	Yeah.
	Canada?
	You know, New Zealand?
	Like, Britain?
	You know, we're about to get our vaccine passports too, so, you know.
	You've got to make a stand at some point, right?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	There's not really going to be anywhere else to go, because this is a global plan that is being enacted.
	It's everywhere.
	She hadn't noticed.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Come on, guys.
	I can't be the only one who noticed that the quote-unquote protesters who beat up the innocent sign-holder, one of them was yelling, Repent!
	Repent!
	Repent!
	You need to repent!
	It really is a secular religion!
	Holy crap!
	Yes.
	I didn't point it out, but I said, oh, she might as well be saying that, and I think Callum said, yeah, she is saying repent.
	It is insane.
	I didn't even hear that.
	Yeah, it was the one with the thing bashing against the tambourine, yeah.
	She was actually yelling repent.
	Apparently she was like, along with a lot of profanity, she was just yelling repent in Vito's face.
	They don't understand the optics of the situation, do they?
	But he is absolutely right.
	It is a secular religion.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I would like to reply to a Tara in regards to social justice at the workplace.
	That is bad because not only does it allow, but it directly encourages harassment, bullying, gaslighting and discrimination.
	This leads to a toxic work environment and that is exactly why everything woke turns to...
	So if your boss wants to have a company in five years, He shouldn't allow social justice to bring that up with him.
	See, I missed the original comment, but I guess Atara was like, well, maybe in the workplace is okay.
	I think I must have missed it as well, but everything that she was bringing up there, I agree.
	Yeah, I have to agree with that.
	I could not imagine working in an office infested by social justice.
	That would be absolute hell.
	Yeah.
	Basically what that grip does on the back of the nice lady's rifle from yesterday's podcast is...
	It just changes your hand position to a rifle grip instead of a pistol grip, because pistol grips in the eyes of the California government, for some stupid reason, are more dangerous than rifle grips.
	That being said, I went hunting the other day, and I found a buck shed.
	And if you guys want me to make a knife handle out of it and want to see it, just let me know.
	I do want to say that, yep.
	I'd be interested.
	And I think that was responding to something from Friday and we were just wondering what on earth that was for.
	Right, right.
	Interesting.
	Ridiculous California legislation for people who don't know anything about guns.
	I'd imagine so.
	Yeah.
	How could a pistol grip be more or less dangerous than a rifle grip?
	It's just a way of holding the gun.
	I have no idea.
	It's ridiculous.
	If no one minds, while I don't have a distraction, I will elaborate on my point from my last video comment.
	It is actually possible, in theory, to customise a cockpit for someone who has an amputation to fly an aeroplane.
	The problem is, is that something done privately and not on a commercial airline for a number of reasons.
	The logistics are an absolute nightmare and Depending on the amputation, it can take hours and hours to actually do the customisation, which I will elaborate on next time.
	Well, I look forward to hearing that.
	Fair play.
	Are you aware of the comment that you sent before?
	No, no.
	What happened?
	Oh, it's in regards to pilots not wanting to get vaccinated under the threat of if they develop a blood clot, they might have to have a limb amputated, which will obviously prevent them from being able to fly anymore.
	So, yeah, that sounds like...
	Perfectly reasonable.
	Yeah, perfectly reasonable to me.
	A Tony D and Little Joan update.
	First, Callum, Lucy the Elephant is a gift shop slash museum, not a restaurant.
	Carl, Joan was tired because we went walkies in the Thursday video, the one I shot outside.
	And finally, thanks to all the Lotus Eaters and Lotus Eaters fans out there for buying the Pineys.
	I sold a bunch of books over the weekend.
	Currently at 293 on the Amazon Horror Comedy category.
	If you can push me into the top ten, it will be a happy Halloween indeed.
	Wow.
	That's good.
	Congrats.
	Yeah.
	Go, man.
	Even Durveson says, Even Durvesons, Even Durvesons, Even Durvesons.
	Thanks, Callum.
	Oh, Carl.
	Oh, Carl.
	Have we tested Callum on reading comprehension?
	Well, he's got dyslexia.
	Oh, has he?
	Oh, okay, that makes sense.
	But he's never going to get past it, I guess.
	I mean, he forgot my name.
	Yeah, there was no excuse for that.
	And then I think he was mistaking Tom for me as well at one point, probably.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I know you asked about what the spin thing is.
	I don't know whatever stupid excuse they came up with it.
	It's just to dissuade people from buying them, basically, because it's a pain in the arse.
	And then you guys were talking about meeting with online friends and stuff.
	I've met a dozen or more of my online friends over the years.
	Actually, my boyfriend that I've been with for almost six years, We met on Left 4 Red back in 2016, and we became friends, and eventually I flew out to visit them, and we started dating!
	And we're still dating now, and we plan to move in together probably the beginning of next year.
	Oh, that's nice.
	Well, that's just sweet.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's lovely.
	And thank you for the answer.
	That's another interesting answer for that question.
	So on the idea of the Norwegian terrorist attack, it's one of three camps.
	It's, oh, Islamists.
	I knew what happened eventually.
	He's not a real Islamist.
	And, of course...
	Hmm, every single theory so far has been a one-man attack by delusional fringe people.
	Maybe we should talk about it and find out why it's like that.
	Also, oil, if you want to dab on chefs, use a real knife, not global knives, dude.
	I can easily see now that you're not a real chef and you probably never will be like that.
	That oil guy, BTF-O'd.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's good to be nice.
	It's very impressive.
	God bless America, I suppose.
	Jesus.
	I mean, I don't know how he could stand after that, personally.
	But, I mean, practice, probably.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is a PSA. A public stonk announcement.
	Remember the, oh my god, it's just like Trumpism, narrative around GameStop in January?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	The only thing more Trumpy than gamers rising up on Wall Street is a Trump stock doing exactly the same thing.
	Digital World Acquisition Core is a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, See, I was going to get some of that stonks, but it wasn't available on eToro, which is what I used, so I couldn't...
	I still need to dip my toe in all of the investment.
	It's probably a massive waste of money.
	That's my worry.
	That's why I haven't so far.
	This isn't just financial advice.
	This is negative financial advice.
	Anyway, FUBAR says, Normally if a weapon is being fired towards camera, they will film a mirror at 45 degree angle so the camera crew aren't in the line of fire.
	Safety and stuff.
	Having worked on a few sets that I know corners get cut with regards to safety for the sake of time, this should not ever happen to the head of department.
	It is responsible for the safety of everyone working under them and are normally personally liable.
	There we go.
	Neither am I. I know a little bit.
	I've watched plenty of documentaries and stuff, so I know a little bit.
	But yeah, I mean, even if he is culpable, it's still tragic what has happened.
	But obviously, I see it more as a blame that should be spread across numerous people.
	But I mean, it doesn't really excuse what's happened.
	Whoever assigned the woman who was incapable of doing the job and who didn't have the experience to do it, That's the person, in my opinion, who bears the brunt of the blame.
	And especially as she seems to be a nepotistic hire rather than for merit.
	But I mean, who knows?
	I mean, I haven't seen any proof that she's a diversity hire.
	Maybe she was that as well.
	Rowan says, Not a fan of firearms.
	As a consequence, I do not go out and handle them.
	Last time I was five years ago, under the supervision of someone with a lifetime's worth of experience, who told me unequivocally that every time a gun is picked up, the person holding it should check to see if it was unloaded, including that there was no bullet in the firing chamber.
	He also instructed me never to point a weapon at anything I wasn't prepared to shoot at.
	I took that to be common sense gun safety.
	I wonder if this kind of horsing around was going on in the movie set that actually involved three accidental discharges, one resulting in a fatality.
	Yeah, that's another thing as well, because I've been to a few firing ranges in the United States and fired a few guns, and if there's one thing people weren't doing on these firing ranges, it's horsing around.
	Yeah.
	They weren't doing the Simpsons cowboy thing of just firing wildly into the air, were they?
	Weirdly, they were not.
	Oh, strange.
	Actually, it was remarkable, actually.
	On all of them, I think there's been three now, and on all of these rangers, the discipline of the people using them was very, really reassuring.
	Well, I'm sure that's what infuriates so many people when stuff like this happens, that there are so many responsible gun owners out there who can just see that it was irresponsible gun use.
	Like they say, even if you know it's not loaded, you just don't point at anything.
	Because you might be mistaken, like in this particular case.
	But no, the culture of firearms in America is actually really responsible, I've found, from my personal experience.
	So good job, lads.
	I always find it quite wholesome to see those videos of dads teaching their kids.
	When I was at the range with Alex Jones, we were at one side and down the other side.
	That must have been an interesting time.
	Oh, it was brilliant.
	And he's hilarious.
	But there was a father teaching his...
	His son must have been like eight or nine, something like that.
	He's a quite young son.
	Teaching him how to use the guns responsibly.
	I was just like, oh, that is really wholesome.
	Yeah.
	You know, it's a really good thing.
	Henry says, The armourer sounds like a typical into-the-family-business-as-last-resort type.
	Baldwin has some degree of culpability, more because of his role as producer in the film, his responsibility for hiring people.
	Also, I'd be nervous about loading blanks into a prop gun too, mostly because I'd be aware that a mistake could kill someone, but that would make me more rigorous and strict with ensuring everyone's safety.
	The only reason I could think of is to why a live round would be on set for a close-up of the round being loaded, but then you would just take the powder out of the shell, I presume?
	Again?
	Yeah.
	I mean, that all sounds...
	Reasonable?
	Yeah, reasonable to me.
	Yeah.
	But again, like...
	Okay, so you're doing a shot of...
	Okay, well, you've got a close-up.
	You've got loading the bullet into the chamber.
	Okay.
	Now you've done that shot.
	Just take it out.
	You take it out, yeah.
	I mean, the fact that the union workers had all presumably gone on strike or something, and the fact that they'd brought in non-union people, all points to the idea that this place was just being horrible...
	This whole production was being horribly mismanaged.
	Yeah.
	So, we don't know the specific details of it.
	Having multiple accidental misfires before this as well?
	Yeah.
	You'd think someone would call them up on that.
	You'd think they'd call themselves up on that?
	How?
	We've got to stop firing live rounds on this set?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, I don't know.
	Mr.
	Baldwin, please stop pointing that good at me.
	I'm not a crazy Hollywood director.
	M1Ping says, if the armourer is waving guns around, leave the set.
	Yeah, good point.
	Yeah.
	Why are they handing weapons to people who have no clue how they function?
	I'm sorry, it's not going to absolve him of responsibility.
	If you or I pull the trigger while pointing a weapon at people, regardless of your belief status of the gun, and those people were killed, we would be held responsible, but millionaire camera whore does it, and he is some kind of victim, jail for the evenothomy.
	Possibly.
	And I'm willing to concede that I'm wrong on this point.
	She's an inclusivity higher due to her gender and exclusivity higher due to nepotism.
	Now, in regards to that, I've not seen it personally, but I have heard that she was packing some they-them pronouns in her Twitter bio before they got deleted.
	So I can't confirm that.
	Well, given the videos she was posting on TikTok, I'd be shocked if she wasn't, frankly.
	George says, Even though Alec Baldwin is a murderer guilty of manslaughter at minimum, he won't see any prison time because of who he is.
	On a bright note, it was nice seeing Carl on Honey Badger Radio on Thursday.
	I thought it was a really insightful discussion.
	Well, thank you, and I really enjoyed going on.
	SH Silver says, Nearly all props or guns are real guns just with dummy ammunition.
	A prop is anything used in the movie set.
	It's more troublesome getting a safe replica gun that looks and acts like the real thing.
	Right, okay, fair enough.
	And Anon says, While it must feel horrible what happened, mark my words, this will spark a push for stricter gun control laws in the US, Maybe strict gun control laws on Hollywood movie sets?
	I wouldn't be surprised if they try and take this as a, well, you don't want what happened to me to happen to you, so give me your guns.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Don't give up your guns.
	Yeah, don't.
	You see what happened to Australia, right?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right, on to the climate nutters.
	Benjamin Charles says, I call this behaviour virtue-bation for three reasons.
	Good term, like it.
	It feels good, but it also makes it harder to enjoy or achieve actual virtue.
	Excessive virtue-baiting makes you morally blind, and public virtue-baiting is in poor taste.
	Yeah, great.
	Based.
	Joe W., this has probably been said before, but these climate change activists are the exact same socialist groups.
	They always believe in the idea that the ends justify the means.
	It does not matter to these people that they are responsible for people losing their jobs or having their lives ruined, like that woman who was paralysed, because as long as their goals are met, the horrific acts are completely justified in their eyes.
	I mean, they've got even more in common with the socialist groups in that they all hate capitalism as well.
	I mean, they are.
	There's a reason the greens are called the watermelons.
	The green on the outside, but red on the inside.
	Yeah.
	It's always the same.
	Soupcan Harry T.S. Eliot said, Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
	They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them, or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
	Sounds like Insulate Britain crowd.
	To you, it does to me.
	That is a very, very good description of them.
	Yes, I think it's a Peterson sort of point as well, that people will take on these grand causes to avoid having to look in themselves to improve.
	But also there's a kind of falseness about the Insulate Britain climate protesters.
	Whenever they're giving their pre-packaged climate spiel, it just feels like it's phony.
	It's not real.
	They don't really believe in the same way that they really love their mothers or something.
	It feels like corporate markets speak.
	Yeah, and it's all rationalized about hypotheticals, and it's like, yeah, but this isn't something that's real to you.
	You know, it's theoretical.
	That's the name.
	Drew Doomhand, great name.
	You guys have a point.
	A lot of the climate change solutions are perfectly reasonable.
	Things like recycling more spend less on heat and investments in green energy, including nuclear energy.
	can do wonders for the environment the issue lies in the absolute insanity from the cult and their ignorance of actual solutions in favour of insane and impossible goals that they want to achieve that's absolutely right They just go straight for the doom and gloom.
	They go the same with the Remainers back in the day where they were just doom and gloom if the Brexit were ever to go through.
	And they just don't actually look at any real solutions or anything particularly plausible.
	Yeah, and this is a long-time problem for activists as well.
	I read a book about cults called The Wrong Way Home years ago.
	And one of the things...
	He was a California anti-nuclear activist for a while because he was...
	Basically, this is how he understood, oh, this is actually a cult.
	Yeah.
	Because he would be like, yeah, I'm for nuclear disarmament, blah, blah.
	But on the other side of the argument were people saying, well, okay, but if it doesn't happen, then maybe we should stockpile food and supplies and build bunkers and stuff like that.
	And the anti-nuclear activists were like, no, those people are evil.
	They're trying to stop our activism and things like that.
	Whereas he looked into it and he was like, well, look, the data suggests that, yeah, millions of lives would be saved if we did do this.
	Why wouldn't we do this?
	It's because it contradicts the narrative of the cults.
	Yeah, and it's also putting the responsibility on yourselves rather than some greater institution.
	Exactly, rather than abstract, theoretical, systematic solution.
	That's exactly right.
	It's things we could do.
	Yeah, I can't help but think with the whole anti-nuclear thing that one of the greatest pieces of probably unintentional propaganda against nuclear energy has been The Simpsons over the years.
	People think nuclear, they think Mr Burns.
	They think blocking the sun out with a gigantic dome...
	And I don't think they're meant to do it, but sadly, that's the impression that most people get.
	Three-eyed fish, all that sort of stuff.
	Yeah, I agree, but it's totally unfair as well.
	True power is just the safest form of power, and most productive.
	It's really insufferable to watch us just ignore it.
	But the thing about the cult, I think you're absolutely right, is...
	There's a desire to not have to do anything that's embedded within the activism itself, right?
	So it's like, look, we're going to bravely sit on this, you know, tarmac or whatever, in order to not do anything like recycling or actually get off our arses and actually, you know, like change small things about our lives, right?
	Yeah, I think there's...
	I don't know the veracity of this, but Roger Hallam himself is an organic farmer, and I think on his farm people have snapped, there's like six big diesel guzzlers, just cars just lying about the place.
	So your organic farm could do without those diesel guzzlers, couldn't it, Roger?
	Exactly.
	Yeah, but instead, I'm allowed to continue doing this as long as I profess a public faith in some abstract, intangible climate change that is...
	Ruining the world and will do within X number of years.
	It's like, there we go.
	There's a big cope.
	Yep.
	Moving on.
	Free will 2112.
	Insulate Britain would be tank fodder in China.
	The world is not going to end and the application of nuclear power with rigorous oversight will be the answer to climate change.
	Correct.
	Not the platitudes of upper middle class twats.
	Even more correct.
	Yes.
	Chad Koala: "What strikes me most about the Insulate Britain protesters is the police nearby who are just walking around doing nothing while a crime is being committed by people whose lives are so void of responsibilities they have full days to spare for activism." Yeah, that's another point, isn't it?
	It's like, where have you got the time for this?
	I'm busy.
	There's stuff to do.
	A majority of them are either NEETs or retired.
	Strangely retired GPs.
	Meanwhile, the hordes of the public the police are sworn to serve and paid by are being prevented from tending to their own responsibilities.
	As a result, the OICUS is just expected to keep toiling to fund state uselessness.
	And that, though, is how you know that these people are coming from within the system as well.
	Because the police aren't beating them with clubs.
	Yes.
	It's like, what's the name of the Facebook whistleblower who just came out to rapturous applause from all the mainstream.
	Henry Ashman, can we just classify these climate nutters as terrorists and be done with it?
	All this lot are really saying is, I'm an awful climate sinner, so I must punish you all to offset that.
	In the words of Jordan Peterson, clean your room.
	I doubt any of these lot are carbon neutral or carbon negative in their lifestyle.
	I notice Boris has jokingly suggested feeding people to animals to help the climate.
	Can we start with this lot?
	No.
	Disavow?
	Yeah, disavow, yeah.
	However, I understand the...
	I understand why you're upset.
	Yes.
	Anyway, on to the vaccine mandates.
	David Shipton says, Austria becoming a Nazi state?
	Never.
	Yeah, I know, right?
	He's just a little bit evangelist.
	Long Talks on the Neat says, can confirm, as a younger demographic, I'm unvaccinated against the coronavirus.
	My doctor said, given my age, level of exercise and level of health, the risk of COVID was about on par with the risk of adverse effects of the vaccine, as the technology is still relatively new.
	I do not understand why the government is insistent on me not listening to my doctor.
	Well, this is what the SAGE advisory group actually told the UK government.
	For children below 16 or something like that, the risks of the vaccine are as great or higher as the risks of COVID, so don't worry about it.
	The government were like, yeah, we'll think about that.
	Well these people are basically branded heretics at this point.
	Yeah, I'm not...
	I haven't even had a PCR test.
	I'm not doing it.
	I don't care.
	Bilbo Swagin says, A response to Harry's video on Friday.
	I hold a private pilot's license.
	I'm training to be a commercial pilot, and you can actually fly with prosthetic limbs.
	Oh, God.
	We're not getting into this.
	Fair play.
	Steve says, if vaxxers work, then why are they so worried about other people getting them and not just thankful they got one themselves?
	Again, the eternal question.
	This is about a tyrannical administrative state, unfortunately.
	Henry says, have the government decided on what fully vaccinated even means?
	It was two doses earlier, now it's two with a booster, and if you're in Israel, it's four doses and counting.
	Feels more like an arbitrary license to work at this point.
	Well, that's exactly what it is.
	And the example of Israel being like, isn't something like 90% double vaccinated in Israel?
	Something ridiculously high.
	It's absurd, and the COVID cases are soaring because it doesn't prevent people from getting the disease.
	Justin says, the amount of misinformation on vaccines going around from the official sources is terrifying.
	I'm no scientist, but from the research I've done over the years, all any vaccine has ever done is to train your body how to fight a virus.
	Anyone saying that it stops you catching the virus or it stops you from getting sick either doesn't understand vaccines or is deliberately lying.
	Jacinda.
	Yeah, no, it's terrifying how...
	I mean, people like Jacinda, like that clip you watched, it's just fear-mongering from the government and a lie that is being peddled in order to justify the fear-mongering.
	Yeah, I mean, the whole thing, one of the little strange things that this always brings into my mind is, in 10 years, when the generation that I'm part of starts to have more kids, hopefully, what's going to happen to chickenpox parties?
	Is that going to be a thing, or is it going to be considered too dangerous?
	Is that not going to be following the science anymore?
	Are we going to start getting chickenpox vaccinations just in case?
	I mean, if they're going down to, what, is it 5 to 11 years old in America for COVID? Who knows?
	I have no idea.
	Anyway, Alpha of the Beta says, number of people shot.
	Alec Baldwin, two.
	Donald Trump, zero.
	Yeah, Donald Trump, what a loser.
	Baldwin's in the lead.
	Come on, Donald.
	Thomas says, I hereby challenge gold-tier meme video cutters to remake that Australian lady into Rick Morty.
	Keep summer safe.
	Drew says, less gun control, more firearm safety.
	That would be smart.
	Jimbo says, why does every insulate Britain activist look like they're a hot air balloon enthusiast?
	That's a good question.
	Lord Ariel Tolkien says, the more demanding these globalists get, the more I want to dig my heels in and resist.
	I will not comply.
	Same.
	Free Will says, is this why we can't see our GPs?
	They're gluing their faces to the tarmac.
	Good question.
	Yeah, that is a great question.
	Because for some reason the GPs are objecting to the idea of actually treating patients.
	Yeah.
	Not their job, I guess.
	I mean, I suppose you can do an over-the-phone appointment when your face is on the floor.
	Hmm.
	JJHW says Lotus Eater's content isn't as killer as Alec Baldwin.
	Which is true.
	We have yet to kill anyone.
	Alec Baldwin has at least killed someone.
	That we know of, yeah.
	Alpha of the Betas says, if you're a 65-year-old retiree lying in the middle of a London high street with your face glued to the asphalt begging for the state to arrest you, your life may be on the wrong track.
	And he says, this is just a hobby that takes no skill for old lefty cultists with nothing better to do.
	And that hobby, that's the word I was looking for.
	It feels very much like this is them doing a hobby.
	There's no real investment in this.
	This is something they do for fun.
	Some people collect stamps, some people do Warhammer, some people lie on the floor in the middle of the road.
	Go and be insufferable protesters who don't get their just desserts from the government.
	Dahl's Chicken says, Journalists, you probably don't see it this way, but you're making two separate classes of people, one with rights and one without.
	Fascist.
	Yes, I'm doing exactly that, and I enjoy it immensely.
	It's so delicious that I can barely contain my psychotic laughter at the mere thought of it.
	Yeah, it was quite terrifying watching her enjoy it.
	Being like, yeah, I am persecuting the Jews.
	What now?
	And the political class are all doing that across the world.
	We had it, once again, in the UK, where they were just laughing while they were extending their own powers.
	It's like, how disconnected could you be?
	I just, I can't believe that we're, we've gone back a hundred years.
	But anyway, on that note, we will see you tomorrow.
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