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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #264

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	Music Good afternoon and welcome to episode 264 of the podcast of the Lotus Seaters.
	I'm your host, Harry.
	Joined here today by Leo.
	Hello!
	Hello, and this is the first time that you and I have been on the podcast together, so it should be an interesting experience.
	I'm interested to see how this will go, because we're going to be talking about the last day of the Rittenhouse trial in terms of what they've been going through with the closing statements from the defence and the prosecution.
	We're going to be going over Ben and Jerry's expansive history of calling everyone and everything racist.
	Yeah, even though they're racist themselves, their policy is actually to try and kill people from BAME communities.
	So we're going to go into that.
	Well, I'm very interested to learn more about that.
	And finally, we're also going to take a look at America's shortages and Jen Psaki's repeated and pathetic attempts to excuse them.
	But before we go into that, we've got a few announcements to make.
	So first of all, we've got a new premium article by Hugo, Conservatives on the Wrong Side of Whig History, which Carl recommended I read through because he said it was an excellent article, and I have done, and it really is an excellent article.
	Hugo's kind of examining...
	The way in which the turmoil between the Whigs and the Tories back after the Reformation sort of presented progress as a very one-way street.
	And from that positional view of history, the Conservatives have always been sort of seen as the weight on progress is back, not necessarily preventing anything, more just setting the pace.
	And then anything outside of the progressive or conservative paradigm being labeled as reactionaries, for instance, you know, kind of as a dismissive thing because they approach progress from a different perspective to what we would call the progressives.
	And he examines where he thinks that that sort of perspective will take us in the future.
	Very, very interesting article, so I'd recommend giving that a look in.
	How much is it to become a Silvermember?
	Oh yes, because it's premium we've got the Silvermember audio track.
	Silvermember, I think, is it £10 or £15 per month?
	I don't know.
	That's like a mobile phone contract.
	We've got to get paid somehow.
	Right now I'm playing the part of the sleazy salesman.
	Don't get in the way of my pitch.
	You're really running with it.
	Really leaning into it.
	Thank you very much.
	I've always thought of myself as quite a sleazy guy so I'm glad that I can Fit the role.
	Yeah, so any Silver members are above.
	Check out the audio track for that.
	We've also got this premium book club, which is Carl and Bo talking about Nico Machiavelli's The Prince.
	I've never read it, but I'm sure it's a really interesting discussion.
	Those two know a lot about history, so I'm sure it's a great chat.
	Also, be sure to follow us on alternative social media platforms, such as Getter.
	We are verified on there, so if you want to have the latest updates from us, give us a follow there.
	And also in relation to Getter, check out Carl's appearance on the 8th of December at Getter's Counter Conference where, you know, they're just having a discussion.
	I'm not exactly sure what they'll be discussing, but it's about free speech and all that good stuff, so give that a check out.
	And without any further ado, let's get into the stories.
	So...
	Many people will be aware that I've been following the Rittenhouse trial quite closely, and the most recent day of the trial was yesterday, which was the final day where the defence and the prosecution got to put forward their closing statements alongside a number of jury instructions that were provided by the judge to the jury for the consideration of the charges that Kyle was being levelled with.
	Originally, Kyle, I believe, was being levelled with seven charges.
	One that was already dismissed last week was the curfew violation because there was a curfew on in Kenosha when he was there.
	Didn't really stick because it turns out everybody else who was out in Kenosha that night was also violating curfew.
	Surprise, surprise.
	And then this...
	Oh, God, excuse me.
	The first thing that happened yesterday was that the judge dismissed the sixth charge that was being levelled against Kyle, which was the unlawful possession of a gun by a minor.
	Because it turns out, if you actually read the law in Wisconsin, as long as you're not owning a pistol or a short-barrelled rifle, if you're 17, you're able to carry a gun around and...
	AR-15s being a long-barrelled rifle mean that he was actually legally able to carry that around.
	And as you can imagine, there has been a certain level of left-wing cope in response to this.
	You can see here, we've got up Jonathan Capehart on Twitter.
	Rittenhouse judge dismisses gun charge against Rittenhouse, and I'm like...
	Well, no one really cares what you're like, but you're going to put your opinion out there anyway.
	And then we also go on to the most predictable response possible, which was that white supremacy did it.
	So white supremacy is when a cop goes free after murdering 12-year-old Tamir Rice, because Tamir shouldn't have been playing with a toy gun.
	No relation to this particular case, but gotta bring it up anyway.
	But a judge dismisses a weapon charge against a white supremacist, Kyle Rittenhouse.
	No proof whatsoever that he was a white supremacist for an AR-15 weapon of war.
	Moo!
	Sounds big and scary, doesn't it?
	Even after he actually murdered two people with it.
	Thing is, he didn't murder them, he killed them, and the trial was to determine...
	That's sub-judice.
	I mean, the trial is to determine whether it's murder or whether it was just righteous justice rained down by a, what, is he 15 or something?
	He was 17 at the time.
	He's 18 now.
	I think we should arm 15-year-olds and let them roam the streets sorting out problems.
	I wonder how it would work in the UK. I mean, when I was 17, I was sniffing glue and drinking cider.
	I think the good thing about America is even their psychotic 17-year-olds are like...
	I wouldn't call Kyle psychotic.
	No, I mean...
	I'd call them commendable, personally.
	Even their 17-year-olds are quite temperate.
	If this was Glasgow, he wouldn't have shot two?
	Oh, there'd be chaos in the streets.
	Yeah, there wouldn't be two people dead.
	Half the city would be gone.
	There'd be Kyle left.
	And, you know, who's to say whether that's a good thing or not?
	But moving on.
	So first of all, we've got to look at the prosecution's closing statements.
	We've got this article up for some more details if you want to check it out on Legal Insurrection.
	Otherwise, just check out the footage that has been streamed live from the actual trial itself.
	So, there's just a few things I want to go over and a few clips that I want to show in regards to Binger, who is the Assistant District Attorney, the head of the prosecution, who levelled the charges at Kyle in the first place, and has obviously had it in for Kyle ever since this happened, despite the fact that the footage clearly, as far as I can tell, showed Kyle defending himself.
	So there's a few things I just want to point out in regards to his closing statements.
	First of all, as you can imagine, given the sort of cope that we experience from the leftists constantly and their terror over-invoking its name, he repeatedly said AR-15, AR-15, AR-15, AR-15, because of course it is the media's favourite boogeyman buzzword when it comes to guns, because it sounds scary, it looks kind of scary if you're unfamiliar with guns.
	So he's obviously, like I say, trying to play up to the media frenzy of that gun scare, any potential jurors, because they are also quite unlikely to know anything about guns.
	It is quite a scary gun, though.
	It's an assault rifle.
	Well, it's a semi-automatic.
	My dad had a bigger gun.
	Okay, here we go.
	I'm aware of this.
	It's banned in America.
	It's that big.
	Really?
	It's mounted on a boat.
	And what was that called?
	Punt gun.
	Punt gun?
	Yeah.
	It can take out like 25 Antifa rioters in one go.
	Wow.
	If only my dad had sailed his punt up Kenosha.
	Yeah, he tried...
	Binger also tried to change the arguments that they were making for the prosecution from murder to provocation, because initially they were trying to state in the opening statements that Kyle had chased...
	Rosenbaum, who was the initial aggressor, alongside the two people that Rosenbaum had been with that evening, which was Joshua Zeminski and Joshua Zeminski's wife, who they'd all been going around Kenosha that entire evening, causing trouble as part of the riots, setting fire to things, threatening people, and just acting like pillocks, to be perfectly honest.
	And they initially had stated that Kyle was the one who chased them with the gun, which is what led to Rosenbaum chasing Kyle and then Rosenbaum getting shot.
	When they released the FBI footage and the drone footage clearly showed that Rosenbaum snuck up on Kyle and tried to ambush him, they changed tack.
	And is this one the pedal one?
	Rosenbaum was the paedophile, yes.
	So he's sneaking up on a 15-year-old, 17-year-old.
	I mean, still a minor, so the point's basically the same.
	I mean, Tucker Carlson, what was it, said, died as he lived trying to touch an unwilling minor.
	Yeah, it's pretty great, isn't it?
	Yeah, but now they're trying to introduce a late piece of evidence, which was an incredibly blurry photo, which was very unclear as to what it showed.
	Tried to use that piece of evidence to show that Rittenhouse was threateningly pointing his gun at Joshua Zeminski, which is what caused Rosenbaum.
	Complete change of the argument they were making to begin with.
	Big, big reach that they were trying to make.
	They also tried to imply a number of times...
	Yeah, they've got it here.
	They tried to imply a number of times Rittenhouse pointed at Zeminski.
	And they made a number of absurd arguments throughout the closing statement.
	So if you skip along...
	And obviously there's also video footage of, I think, everybody but the Rosenbaum incident.
	And there's eyewitness testimony of the Rosenbaum.
	Pretty much footage of everything that happened regarding these incidences from multiple different angles, because you go...
	A modern riot nowadays, you've got people running about with their phones out recording everything, so you're not going to be able to miss anything, really.
	So yeah, you can see here they've pointed out, written house prosecution lies on the first slide of his closing argument, and they've pointed, in a nutshell, a 17-year-old teenager killed two unarmed people and severely wounded a third person with an AR-15 that he knew he couldn't have.
	Well, turns out, legally speaking, he could, but he's not going to be able to do that.
	He was not protecting his home or his family.
	He killed people after travelling to another state and staying out past the city-wide curfew.
	But it's where his dad lived.
	Yeah, it's where his dad lived and also where I think his sister and his sister's boyfriend lived.
	Dominic Black, who's the guy who bought the gun for him, was the boyfriend of his sister.
	So the gun didn't travel across state lines, which is quite important, because that's the prosecution where we're saying they transported the gun over state lines.
	Cross state lines!
	Yeah, but he crossed it, and obviously it's perfectly legal for people to cross state lines.
	Especially when Antioch, where Kyle came from, is ten minutes down the road from Kenosha.
	I mean, these are the people going on, oh, borders are just invisible lines drawn on a map, and it's like, well, yeah, technically speaking, in this instance, Especially these ones.
	It's not even like going from Cornwall to Devon.
	It's like going from a ward in Haringey to another ward in Haringey.
	Nobody even knows.
	A postcode.
	It's no big deal whatsoever.
	They're saying he lied about being an EMT. I mean, he did in some of the footage big up that he was an EMT, but obviously he was in a quite high-pressure situation, so he wants to make himself seem big.
	He's got some of the skills.
	I mean, it's pretty obvious that this 17-year-old is not a qualified paramedic.
	Unless he's, you know, like Doogie Howser, whatever he's called.
	I have no idea that...
	Doogie Howser?
	Maybe.
	But yeah, and then if we move along, we've got a clip here, which is...
	Let's just go through some of the stupid arguments that Binger tried to put forward in his closing statements, which kind of just show how desperate he was.
	If you want to play this one, John...
	...situation is the crowd have perfect knowledge.
	When they're told that person running up the street just shot someone, we don't have time in the moment to go back and take a look at the body and replay the video and make a decision before going after the person with the gun.
	You know, we've had several police officers testify that in an active shooter situation, their first instinct, their first training is to go in and stop the threat.
	They don't sit there and wonder, well, maybe it was self-defense.
	I don't know.
	I'm going to wait and see.
	And every day we read about heroes that stop active shooters.
	That's what was going on here.
	And that crowd was right.
	And that crowd was full of heroes.
	That crowd did something that, honestly, I'm not sure I would have had the courage to do.
	If I see a guy running up the street with an AR-15 and I hear he just shot somebody, Yeah.
	So the crowd who were burning down businesses and rioting and assaulting people, they were heroes?
	According to the defence...
	I mean, that's an interesting tack.
	I wouldn't have thought he'd go without tack, to be honest.
	Yeah, I mean, trying to describe Anthony Huber, who I believe has...
	What was it?
	He has charges against...
	Well, he had, because he's dead now.
	Charges against him of beating his spouse and holding a knife to the belly and throat of his own brother and sister.
	Not what I would describe as heroic behaviour.
	And then Gage Grosskraut, who is an Antifa member, who was giving...
	He's the guy who's a lefty now, even more so than he was before.
	Yeah, he was a revolutionary kind of guy who admitted on the stand, yeah, Rittenhouse only shot my arm when I pointed a gun directly at his head.
	So, trying to paint these people as heroes, big reach.
	And this clip is just insane.
	He just happens to stumble into it.
	So what does he do that night?
	Oh, let me tell you all the awful things Joseph Rosenbaum did.
	He tipped over a porta potty that had no one in it.
	He swung a chain.
	He lit a metal garbage dumpster on fire.
	Oh, and there's this empty wooden flatbed trailer that they pulled out in the middle of the road and they tipped it over to stop some bearcats and they lit it on fire.
	Oh, and he said some bad words.
	He said the N-word.
	You know, if this was anybody else under any other situation, him saying the N-word would be a death sentence.
	Yes.
	I mean, I understand that lawyers have to play devil's advocate and stuff, but this just seems to be...
	He's saying all this bad stuff that you shouldn't do as if the guy's done nothing.
	I know.
	and saying it in the most patronising tone possible to the jury the jury I would imagine I would hope is not going to think that this is going to look great to them but he also did a number of other very strange things if you move along John no if you move along again Yeah.
	For some reason, he decided to point the gun at the jury.
	First rule of gun safety, don't point guns at people.
	I mean, unless you're trying to shoot them because they're trying to hit you with a skateboard.
	But yeah, don't point guns at people.
	Don't have the finger on the trigger unless you're going to shoot.
	Unless you're Alec Baldwin.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And also have the chamber open and stuff.
	Yeah, if you want to do a Baldwin, that's how you do a Baldwin.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Maybe Alec Baldwin will play him in the film.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	If we skip along, there have been memes of this.
	John, on the one hand, we have an armed and dangerous reckless maniac with blatant disregard for human life.
	On the other hand, we have Kyle Rittenhouse, highlighting there, of course, Rittenhouse when he was wondering about always had his trigger discipline going very well.
	I mean, Binger is a Democrat, so I'm not surprised that he doesn't know how to use a gun.
	Skip along again, we've got some more memes.
	Eddie A. Binger attempting to coerce a juror into having sex with his wife.
	Yeah.
	That's a great one.
	If we move along again, there's another one.
	This is from when Rittenhouse was on the stand.
	Okay, one more hypothetical question.
	Is it normal if my wife has a boyfriend?
	Hmm.
	Good question.
	And then if we move along, we can move on to the defense's closing statements.
	This argument in particular says that his defence delivered a disappointingly weak closing argument, and they make some good points, but overall I do think he did a much better job than Binger did, because Binger was all over the place.
	He was trying to stretch arguments and tie threads together that weren't there, and basically just say these rioters...
	I mean, he said these rioters were heroes, and...
	I mean, who's going to believe that?
	So he managed to wrap his arguments back around and kept reminding the jury that the state has actively been lying to them the whole time.
	For instance, we've all seen footage of Nathan DeBruin, the photographer with Asperger's, on the stand being cross-examined by Krauss, when Krauss says, you met with us?
	Yep.
	And we went over your statement with you?
	Yep.
	And we didn't ask you to change your statement?
	And then he just goes, well, yeah, you did actually, which just looked terrible for them.
	They've been lying about many different factors.
	because he brought up the fact that provocation was not mentioned anywhere in their original opening statement, but now is like the main foundation of their closing statement, basically just pointing out that their whole case has been flung together and is put together with tissue paper because they have no basically just pointing out that their whole case has been flung together and is put
	He also made point of the fact that it's a political trial because the prosecution saw someone who they considered to be on the other side of the political aisle to them shooting protesters and he immediately made up his mind about what had happened and presumably thought that he could ride the wave of goodwill off of prosecuting him without realizing that, oh god, I'm going to have to go through a trial and actually put forward an argument here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because that's the great thing about our criminal justice system, our American's criminal justice system, it's based on objective truth rather than...
	Yes.
	It's like with Meghan.
	Meghan's now in trouble because she made some, because of things, mistruths or whatever she said.
	Because there's like, you know when she talks about this is my truth?
	The court doesn't care about your particular personal truth.
	The court cares about the truth.
	The objective, absolute truth.
	My truth is just a synonym for my opinion, basically, as far as I can tell.
	My feelings.
	Yeah, he did a few things like pointed out Rosenbaum supposedly came out of jail that day.
	In fact, the prosecution had tried to say, oh, he came out of a hospital, even though there's no hospital records to show it.
	Yeah.
	And he also says that he wasn't properly...
	Maybe he was in a children's hospital.
	Maybe.
	Oh, no.
	He was also not properly medicated and also referenced witness testimony that Rosenbaum had showed up at the riot and shouted, I just got out of jail and I'm not afraid to go back!
	Hmm.
	Which doesn't sound great.
	So this is the hero for the left.
	Yes.
	A pedophile.
	Convicted pedophile.
	Is it surprising that they would stand up for a bunch of pedos?
	Yeah, a convicted pedophile who drops the N-bomb.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	So racist pedophile.
	Sounds like a Democrat to me, to be fair.
	So let's just play a few more clips from the defense.
	One where he points out that this is not a game, that this is Kyle's real life.
	John, if you could play that.
	This case is not a game.
	It is my client's life.
	We don't play fast and loose with the facts, pretending that Mr.
	Rosenbaum was Citizen A number one guy.
	He was a bad man.
	He was there.
	He was causing trouble.
	He was a rioter.
	And my client had to deal with him that night alone.
	And great point to make there.
	Rittenhouse, of course, being 17 at the time, you know, he's got the gun, he's being chased by a violent pedophile, gets that close to him that he can just grab the gun, you're going to shoot.
	You're going to shoot, because it's self-defense at that point, which is what the defense has been arguing the whole time.
	Yeah.
	There are a few other clips, but just to get through this segment a little bit faster, there was a few other important notes, which was that Joshua Zeminski and his wife, who were the two people hanging out with Rosenbaum the entire night, sort of like aiding and abetting him with whatever trouble that he was up to, did not appear at all at any point to give witness testimony as part of this trial.
	And the defense really hammered home on that, saying, like, you know, well, I mean, none of us have heard what Zeminski said, and the prosecution are trying to make it sound like Rittenhouse pointed the gun at Zeminski.
	Well, we've not heard that from Zeminski himself, so they can't really make that argument.
	Yeah, and then he went through each witness statement that they went through as part of the testimony, pointed out how each of them blew up in the prosecution's face, and he went through the videos in detail, the videos from the night, walked the jury through in detail.
	So overall, it wasn't exactly exciting past maybe the 15-minute mark where he was putting quite a lot of passion into it, but he did a much better job of actually walking the jurors through his argument rather than Bingo just going like, oh, you know, all they did was set fire to a few businesses.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, who wouldn't heroically set fire to a business?
	I mean, it's been really interesting.
	I don't have much experience of this side of the criminal justice system.
	My girlfriend's a former criminal barrister, though.
	So I'm looking forward to sort of playing the clips to her.
	Yeah, I've been following it with great interest.
	I've been sort of like every night when it's been going on just like watching the trial stuff because it's been more interesting for Than television.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah This is this is real life going on the prosecution really seemed to have dropped the ball and quite a few things They're almost treated it like a sort of PR exercises.
	Oh, yeah You know the the groundswell of public opinion on Twitter is going to carry this trial through But that's just yeah, exactly because the Twitter is not the jury as much as they wish it were But just to mention a few last things before we move on from this segment so that after the defense rested their case The prosecution got to do a redirect on their closing statements and
	And given that Richards, the lead defence attorney, had brought up a number of times how the state were lying, he even described them at one point, he was like, they remind me of whiny defence attorneys, this guy Krauss, Mr Blobby here...
	Um, got really triggered and just basically started, went up and instead of actually doing a coherent argument as the redirect to try and wrap around the way that the defense did, the arguments that had just been made in their favor, he just went up and started yelling at the jurors.
	Can we watch it?
	Yeah, we can watch it.
	We can watch a clip of it.
	...and that he had to exhaust all methods.
	Clearly, if there is provocation, he's guilty.
	But even outside of provocation, Why do you get to immediately just start shooting?
	As Mr.
	Binger said, he brought a gun to a fist fight.
	And he was too cowardly to use his own fist to fight his way out.
	What, to fight a guy who had a gun?
	I mean, Grinchcraft had a gun.
	That we think that the 12 of you think that it is reasonable to have used deadly force in that situation.
	Everybody takes the beating sometimes, right?
	Sometimes you get in a scuffle and maybe you do get hurt a little bit.
	That doesn't mean you get to start plugging people with your full metal jacket AR-15 rounds and no bullets are not bullets.
	That's legally correct.
	If somebody attacks you, you're legally allowed to defend yourself.
	And also, I don't know how he could say such a thing as part of the final part of his closing statements.
	Everybody takes a beating sometimes.
	So you've just admitted, right there, that the mob posed a physical threat to Kyle.
	Yeah.
	Because guess what?
	You get a few kicks in the head, that can kill you.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Especially if you're a 17-year-old and you're being attacked by a paedophile, a guy with a gun.
	And a guy with a skateboard.
	And a skateboard can be used as a deadly weapon, shocking as it may sound.
	Apparently it's not quite as good as an AR-15.
	Yeah, so that was a terrible redirect, made the prosecution's case look absolutely even worse than it already did.
	There have been people complaining, you know, as you would, but just let's skip over this just in the interest of time.
	So basically it just seems that the prosecution, as always, has made an absolute pig's ear of this.
	And now all it is is down to the jury's verdict.
	So hopefully, as we say, they adhere to the reasonable objective facts rather than going off of whatever Twitter or any other emotionally charged outlet might want them to go with.
	And hopefully we actually see justice here.
	Well, what little justice can be taken from this?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I want to see my, as Megan would say, I want to see my justice.
	Yeah.
	So my segment follows on from your segment quite nicely.
	Yes, it does.
	It segues, dovetails really nicely because it's about Ben and Jerry's.
	So they've waded in.
	I didn't even realise Ben and Jerry's had such a history of being politicised.
	I mean, as far as I knew, they were an ice cream factory.
	The shame is that it's damn nice ice cream as well when I've had it in the past.
	It's alright.
	I think it's really nice.
	Alright, we're not here to sell Ben and Jerry's.
	They don't need the help.
	They've got the largest, the top sales of any ice cream in America.
	£163 million in 2020, I believe.
	And also it went up 26% during lockdown because everybody just sat in their arse spending their furlough money on ice cream.
	I think they started as a co-op.
	Right.
	So they always had a bit of a political bent to them.
	No, no, like a cooperative in terms of how they ran their business.
	But yeah, let's continue.
	Yeah, cool.
	So yeah, so basically Ben and Jerry's tweeted about the Rittenhouse trial and I was like, what?
	I thought you sold chilled sweet lard and I don't really understand why you're getting involved like you're running for president.
	But yeah, they said that The justice system is racist and this proves it.
	So somehow a white guy shooting three white guys who are attacking him is racism.
	I don't know how that works.
	And how would this trial be going if he was a black 17-year-old that crossed state lines illegally carrying the AR-15 and shot three white protesters?
	It would probably be going exactly the same.
	If he was defending himself.
	So yeah, my reply was, if he was black and he shot the same three white men, like a paedophile and armed white guy and some other armed white guy, you'd name an ice cream after him, which I thought was pithy.
	But it got me banned from Instagram, so...
	I put a screenshot of it on Instagram.
	If you scroll down, your post goes against the community guidelines of always saying the right thing and following rules that are opaque and not transparent and nobody knows what they are.
	So we just arbitrarily remove stuff.
	So posts removed for violence or dangerous organizations.
	So Ben and Jerry's.
	Instagram have come out and said it, what we're all thinking.
	Ben and Jerry's is a violent and dangerous organization.
	But yeah, getting back to Ben and Jerry's and their tweeting.
	I didn't realize there's a history of...
	I mean, it's a marketing campaign.
	Obviously.
	They've seized the woke social media marketing and they're just constantly, constantly doing these virtue signalling posts that get loads of retweets and loads of likes.
	I love that they've actively tagged Preeti Patel in this.
	Like the home office is going to be like Ben and Jerry's are pushing again.
	Come on Preeti, we need to get stuff done.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So this is going back a year.
	And so they're tweeting about...
	We think the real crisis is our lack of humanity for people fleeing war.
	We pulled together a thread for you.
	And in the thread they basically go on about how borders are wrong and everybody should be...
	They sound like every white teenage girl on Instagram, basically.
	And so real politicians who have actually got the qualifications and the mandate to speak...
	Hit back.
	Here's James Cleverley.
	Good name.
	Yep.
	Good name.
	Much better name than James, stupidly.
	But he said, can I have a large scoop of statistically inaccurate virtue signaling with my grossly overpriced ice cream, please?
	Bam!
	Slammed!
	So yeah, if we go down, we can see Ben and Jerry's.
	Ben and Jerry's, if we go to the next one, sorry.
	And again.
	And again.
	Well, yeah, actually, this is the same one.
	So they want open borders, but if we go to the next one, the next, yeah, the next one.
	So this is the Ben and Jerry's factory tour.
	And guess what?
	It's got a big gate round it, a big fence round it, and a gate that locks.
	A border?
	That border!
	Oh my God!
	And then you get inside that border, they've got another border.
	The building's got walls, and it's got these, like, hinged, like, sort of flaps on it, but they lock.
	What?
	They try and stop people coming in who aren't allowed to be there.
	Which I find disgusting.
	I think everybody should be allowed to go to Ben and Jerry's and take whatever they want.
	Open borders for fatties.
	Open borders for Ben and Jerry's.
	So they're hugely hypocritical.
	And you should definitely, if anybody's watching, you can righteously shoplift and riot and burn down Ben and Jerry's.
	I mean, it's probably going It's made out of ice cream.
	It's not going to burn.
	You can shoplift from Ben& Jerry's.
	You can stick your finger up your bum and then touch the ice cream.
	I dug through the history of Ben& Jerry's tweet.
	Sometimes I agree with it.
	This Veterans Day, it's time to stop incarcerating veterans.
	I think veterans do need more support for mental health.
	The There's a tendency to just discard people when they've come out of active service.
	And obviously, man, people can talk about PTSD. I told my girlfriend this morning, I was like, I've got PTSD from living on the Metropolitan line.
	Everybody's just shaking when I Google the line status and stuff.
	I missed a gig on Friday.
	Missed a wonderful gig.
	Comedy Carnival in Covent Garden.
	I left to get there an hour and a half early, but because the Metropolitan Line is so terrible, I missed this.
	I think I got there too late, and now, you know, promoter probably hates me and stuff, but...
	But yeah, so I'll skip through these because there's loads of them.
	So this is all the things that Ben and Jerry's think is racist.
	They think everything is racist.
	So COVID restrictions are racist, even though, as far as I know, in letter and in law, they're not racist.
	They're applied evenly to everyone.
	The next one, policing is racist.
	So defund the police!
	Defend black communities, which is exactly what Kyle Rittenhouse was doing.
	And then when it's actually applied in practice, when somebody steps in to fill the void created by the police stepping back and allowing rioters and looters to come in and destroy black-owned businesses, then somebody steps in to help them and they get criticised for it.
	Apparently it's a bad idea then.
	And the next one is also...
	Police are racist again.
	The next one...
	Prisons are racist.
	So the prison industrial complex is racist.
	It's a good name for ice cream, by the way.
	The next one, prisons are still racist.
	We've got to close the wasteful and racist jail in St.
	Louis and send them all to the Ben and Jerry's factory where the doors will be open.
	The next one, contracts with private prison companies.
	Prisons are racist.
	The next one...
	Prisons are racist.
	The next one...
	Elections are racist.
	I think that's just America is racist.
	Yeah.
	They basically say elections are racist.
	So here's our take on the election.
	Because everybody's wondering what some ice cream vendor...
	Oh, thank Christ.
	I was thinking about the election.
	It's like, Jesus Christ.
	I mean, I understand people can have a platform and use the platform, but you literally make ice cream.
	If you're involved in anything, if you're a newspaper or just something to do with opinion and fact and stuff, but you're not.
	You literally just make really unhealthy ice cream.
	Who scrolls through the Ben& Jerry's Twitter feed and goes, thank God, now I am informed?
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	So the next one, voting laws are racist.
	There's not much that Ben and Jerry's think isn't racist.
	The next one, society is racist.
	The next one, shameful rhetoric is racist.
	I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
	Racism is a virus.
	It's not a virus.
	It's literally not a virus.
	You can't inoculate yourself against racism.
	You can't have some sort of jab.
	You can't get some sort of racism passport.
	Actually, that's a lie.
	I've got a certificate of non-racism.
	I'm the only comedian in the UK who's certified non-racist.
	So everybody else is racist?
	Well, I can't say that for sure.
	But you've not seen their passport.
	The only thing I can say for sure is that I am not racist because I've got the certificate.
	So...
	You should bring it in next time.
	Yeah, I will.
	Just approve it.
	I will.
	I know you'll be very relieved when you see it.
	Thank God we were so worried.
	So yeah, this is funny.
	This is about Asian American racism.
	Because after Black Lives Matter, companies were giving people a day off.
	My friend works at a company that gave everybody who's black a day off to have time to think about stuff and do whatever community work or whatever.
	Or as my mate did, who's black, played video games.
	But then there's some sort of, you know, there's the Asian American thing, like back in March, and there's racism against Asian Americans, so the same company basically just sent an email out to everyone saying, look, okay, Asian workers can do the same.
	You can also have a day off.
	You know what I mean?
	In a really sort of resigned...
	Only white people work today.
	There you go.
	Sorted.
	Racism solved.
	I mean, it's just the sort of patronizing and the way they sort of grudged it.
	They sort of, you know, they're like, okay, you can also have a day off.
	You know, it's that kind of tone.
	But the Asians are our best workers, don't they?
	That's racist.
	Oh, no.
	The Scots are the best workers.
	Well, I must have left my certificate at home.
	Yeah, and next tab.
	So, if we go up, If we go up.
	Oh, I think this is actually the same thread.
	It's the same thread.
	The next one.
	So ice cream that isn't this ice cream is also racist.
	So this is Change is Brewing.
	This has got fudge brownies, marshmallow swirls, and a movement to invest in black communities instead of racist systems of policing.
	Now that's sweet.
	I mean, come on.
	It's ice cream.
	It's ice cream.
	Stop praying to be Maya Angelou.
	It's ice cream.
	Okay, next thread.
	Schools are racist.
	Schools are racist as well.
	Next thread.
	Some guy called Steve King is racist.
	Don't even know who he is!
	I bet he's not even racist, you know?
	Not that Steve King, just a different Steve King.
	He's not the writer.
	He's not the writer.
	So yeah, and obviously Ben& Jerry's, they've famously got an ice cream on the next one that's got Colin Kaepernick on it called Change the World.
	Change the World.
	So fighting for justice for black and brown communities is hard work.
	Celebrating...
	Celebrating the pursuit of a more just tomorrow with Colin Kaepernick's Change the World non-dairy ice cream.
	So, I mean, you know, this is them.
	Virtue sick.
	It's basically them riding off the back of the Black Lives Matter movement to get free advertising, which is pretty cynical.
	I mean, bear in mind, Ben& Jerry's, they're not just a private company.
	They're owned by Unilever, which is a global, multinational conglomerate.
	These guys don't care about anything except money and they've found a way to make money and get cheap advertising through these social media campaigns right on the back of social justice.
	So this is pure advertising.
	Oh yeah.
	And Kaepernick does not ever miss an opportunity to have his face plastered on something.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And Colin Kaepernick, if we move on to the next one, he's recently compared, I mean, considering this guy's the figurehead, the fighter for racial justice, he's compared the NFL to slavery.
	Bear in mind the NFL, the American Football League, the players earn tens of millions.
	Tom Brady's on like $41 million.
	So they make insane amounts of money.
	And also, they're at liberty to leave.
	They're not slaves.
	And they earn more than the coaches.
	I don't remember any time in the slave markets where the slaves were earning more than the people selling them.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And a quote from, if we move on to the next one...
	Oh, no, sorry, this is still in the same one.
	This is a quote from Colin Kaepernick.
	What they don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic...
	Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod and examine you, searching for any defect that might affect your performance.
	No boundary respected, no dignity left intact.
	So he thought that was the same as slaves being poked.
	But when you're a high-level sports player, of course you're going to get all the scans and all the medical checks.
	Quite often, a lot of companies have medical checks.
	When I had a proper job, I had a medical check to make sure I wasn't going to fall down dead or if there's anything the private medical had to be concerned about.
	And if you're competing at a very elite level, You know, minor injuries can affect your performance.
	So before they spend, like, tens of millions of dollars on you, they need to check that, you know, your knee isn't going to blow up on your first run.
	I doubt they're going to get Kraus from the Rittenhouse case to go and do the quarterback for the NFL, for instance.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Because they'd poke and prod him and realise that he's a fat shit.
	And Kaepernick as well.
	He shills for Nike.
	He's the face of Nike.
	So you can see here Nike shoes.
	Do you say Nike or Nike?
	I say Nike.
	Nike.
	Let's say Nike then.
	And if we go up and see the headline, just go up.
	So Nike actually uses real slaves, genuine slaves.
	There's more slavery now in the world than there was at the height of the transatlantic slave trade, by the way.
	Oh, really?
	But it's not being done by...
	Is that a different definition of slavery?
	No, it's basically...
	There's a lot of forced labour and there's a lot of indentured servitude and stuff as well.
	But if you go to Libya, there's open slave markets.
	Just actual slaves have been taken from sub-Saharan villages and places like that and being sold at markets.
	In the Middle East, there's slavery.
	And in the Far East as well, there's a lot of child labour and, you know, very unethical working practices.
	But in China in particular, so China obviously is committed, it's been described as a genocide by America.
	Oh.
	Possibly by the United Nations.
	So the Uyghur Muslims, who are being persecuted by China, they're having their whole culture, way of life wiped out.
	There's horrific things going out.
	There's rape, there's forced breeding programs, just real horrific things.
	Concentration camps, and in the concentration camps, they're forced into slave labor.
	Actual slave labor.
	There's not indentured servitude, actual forced slave labor, unpaid, treated, worked till you die.
	Yeah, terrible, terrible stuff.
	Horrific stuff.
	And who uses it?
	Nike.
	Nike have been using slave labour in China.
	Absolutely disgusting stuff.
	And they've also used child labour if we move to the next one.
	So there's still labour abuses at Chinese factories for Nike and stuff.
	I think if you scroll down you see Nike mentioned...
	And the next one is, so this is a famous photo, this is in Time magazine.
	So this is a 12-year-old boy, Tariq, yeah, Tariq in Pakistan, sewing Nike footballs.
	This appeared, sorry, not Time magazine, Life magazine.
	And this brought a lot of public attention onto Nike to stop them using child labour and slave labour.
	Otherwise they'd still do it because they're a company that wants to make money and their whole business model is based on the ethos of using the absolute cheapest labour to produce their incredibly expensive branded goods and then they've got more money to pay to their elite stars such as Colin Kaepernick to advertise these goods that are made by forced slave labour and child labour.
	So Colin Kaepernick as well.
	If we move on to the next one, he calls for abolishing police and prisons in an essay.
	So he's started doing essays now.
	I can't wait to read them.
	And also in the next one, he wants to replace them with community policing.
	Ben and Jerry's want to...
	Oh wait, that's the same thing again.
	Have we got to the next one?
	Next one.
	Maybe it's not on there.
	But he supports replacing them with community policing, which is exactly what Kyle Rittenhouse was doing.
	He was protecting his community.
	But yeah, Ben and Jerry's have tweeted about his trial.
	So actually, that's why it went back to that one.
	Nice little...
	We're closing the loop there.
	So yeah, and so Ben& Jerry's constantly tweeting about race, constantly tweeting about racism, but it's actually Ben& Jerry's who are racist.
	So if we move on to the next tab, Ben& Jerry's milk and cookies ice cream, incredibly high in sugar.
	You can see the nutrition information there.
	31 grams per 100 grams is sugar.
	So half a tub would be 77.5 grams of sugar, which is a lot.
	And I think half a tub is sort of what you'd eat in a sitting, you know?
	Yeah, generally.
	No, this contains eight servings.
	Oh, this lasagna feeds a family of eight.
	No, it doesn't.
	I eat a whole thing.
	It eats me.
	It feeds me.
	That's it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Stop describing me.
	Stop trying to identify me as a family of four.
	I identify as a man of one.
	So, incredibly high in sugar.
	So the safe amount, if we move to the next tab, the safe amount of sugar to eat per day, according to the American Heart Association, is 37.5 grams of sugar if you're a man, 25 grams if you're a woman.
	So, you know, like, half a tub of this stuff contains, like, twice, or if you're a woman, like, three times as much sugar as you can have.
	And sugar, of course, causes...
	Obesity, sorry.
	No problem.
	It causes obesity and other loads of health problems, inflammatory problems, all kinds of health problems, rots your teeth and all the rest of it, but it also causes diabetes.
	And if we move to the next tab, ethnicity and type 2 diabetes.
	So people from black African, African Caribbean, and South Asian backgrounds are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which is developed through the consumption of refined carbohydrates and sugar, especially sugar.
	Sugar leads to a direct spike in insulin levels.
	There's a good point to be made here, which is that these sorts of people, especially the activist Ben & Jerry types.
	Always go on about how it's structural inequalities and the disparities in the results is what makes it racist.
	So you are correct that Ben& Jerry's are feeding white people and black people and Asian people ice cream all of the same kind, but it is disproportionately affecting black and minority ethnic.
	Therefore, Ben& Jerry's, you are racist.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And also their woke virtue signalling riding on the back of Black Lives Matter.
	They're trying to align themselves with BAME communities.
	And so they're selling.
	They're actively promoting it to BAME communities, which is targeting BAME communities and is resulting in deaths in BAME communities from diabetes.
	So according to the CDC, the next tab, according to the CDC, diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the USA and there are nearly 80,000 deaths Each year due directly to diabetes.
	So Ben and Jerry's, their sales have gone up 26% during lockdown, during all the Black Lives Matter stuff because they cleverly jumped on it.
	I don't have the exact stats, but I think if we broke down the increase in sales, I think given that they've hijacked the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice movements and they're using Colin Kaepernick to advertise, they're targeting BAME communities.
	They're actually causing...
	This is a serious thing.
	They're causing more deaths.
	They're directly responsible.
	They're killing a community.
	They're killing a community with diabetes.
	Absolutely shameful and racist targeting.
	Ben and Jerry's marketing policy of deliberately targeting BAME consumers is racist and it's killing them.
	I hate to end on such a sombre point, but that's genuinely what's happening here.
	Put the spoon down.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So...
	And the skateboard.
	Yes.
	Let's move on, shall we?
	So, if you're living in America, currently, you'll probably be aware that if you go into any shops or, for instance, head into a gas station, there might be a little bit of a shortage of basically everything.
	Well, thankfully, Bloomberg is here with a solution.
	Don't worry about it.
	Just get less stuff.
	They've got here its conventional wisdom that the US economy is built on American's endless appetite to buy lots of stuff.
	Household consumption makes up 67% of GDP. When the economy falters, we're told to spending is our patriotic duty.
	But it doesn't have to be this way.
	We need to live more like Europeans.
	What that means exactly, I don't really know.
	And the actual article itself goes into a bit more detail saying, Americans can't spend like they're used to.
	Store shelves are emptying and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa and we need to live more like the Europeans as a result.
	Now, see...
	The problem with that is I am not too adverse to the idea of people should stop being such mindless consumers.
	I think we should all do better to maybe keep it tighter, hold on our wallets and purses, and maybe not spend so much on meaningless trash that we spend a lot of money on in these sorts of times.
	But there's a difference between spending your money on random knick-knacks and Ben& Jerry's, for instance, that you don't necessarily need, and being able to afford to buy and being able to find a fridge.
	Those are kind of more essential products that you need.
	This is the issue I have with the Bloomberg article because it's quite classist because it's assuming that household consumer spending is a frippery.
	And it's not.
	Household consumer spending is people buying things that they essentially need to live.
	So cleaning products, food, all the rest of it.
	Yeah, but there are questions of what's caused this, what have been the multi-layered factors that have gone into causing all of these shortages, and there are a few things that I personally would suggest, one being vaccine mandates causing people who don't necessarily want to get vaccinated to be forced out of their jobs and positions, And you can see it all the way from people in gas stations and nursing homes, all the way up to people in the NFL and NBA getting forced out of their positions because of the fact that they've just decided, no, it's not for me.
	I don't really need it.
	And that's not to comment anything on the efficacy of vaccines or anything like that.
	That's just the mandates that have come about.
	And there's also supply chain issues, for instance.
	But we'll get into that in a moment.
	But it also sounds like the Biden infrastructure bill, which is coming forward, doesn't seem to be actually addressing.
	anything regarding this.
	There They're all just saying like, oh, here's this big infrastructure that built.
	The government will take care of everything for you.
	We'll nurture you.
	We'll take you under our wing.
	You'll never have to fend for yourself or take responsibility for anything again.
	It's not helping.
	Well, some of it will help, but the timescales are very long.
	If we're going to...
	Fixing bridges and stuff, then that's a very long-term solution.
	But a lot of this supply chain problem is a result of the green policy and the chronic underinvestment in oil and gas, which the economy still needs.
	We'll go into a little bit of that in a moment.
	And I also really hate the patronising tone that comes here.
	I mean, so far, everything related to the Biden regime has been coming at the public with an incredibly patronising tone of voice, I find, that doesn't Doesn't sort of endear one to the person patronising them.
	It also comes across a little bit like a psy-op.
	It comes across a little bit like the you-will-own-nothing-and-like-it mentality that we see spreading currently.
	Yeah, if we move on, next here, we can see Jen Psaki has insisted that the vaccine mandate will not lead to staff shortages.
	I mean...
	I don't know how you could back that up at all.
	From the article itself...
	But it's already leading to staff shortages.
	Particularly in healthcare where people are needed so much.
	And apparently NHS or healthcare...
	Yeah, we're seeing it in the UK at the moment.
	Healthcare systems are so under stress because of coronavirus...
	Oh yeah, it won't lead to staff shortages, John has pointed out, if the businesses are already closed.
	Good point there.
	But then there might be a shortage of things you need from that business.
	Exactly.
	But yeah, what you were saying there, we've seen it in the UK already, that certain jobs that are becoming mandated that you need a vaccine to be able to perform your duties in, the nursing homes are struggling to be able to keep up the staff, because loads of people who have got conviction for their beliefs are going, well, okay, no then, and then they're just leaving the job.
	Yeah.
	And then the nursing home is stuck without anybody to staff it, which is not beneficial for the people who need work and also not beneficial for the people that they're looking after.
	It's a bad situation all around.
	The people who are being looked after are the worst affected.
	Because if you're in a nursing home and you're having intimate care, it's not just something that you can get a temp in.
	You have a relationship with a person who's washing you and providing all that.
	And these people are very vulnerable.
	Vulnerable and you don't want to change.
	You don't want a stranger suddenly come in and like...
	Yeah, they don't want to have to rebuild those relationships.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, this article goes into a bit more detail.
	The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday insisted President Joe Biden's COVID vaccine mandate would not lead to staffing shortages as she returned to the briefing room 13 days after she tested positive for COVID. So, I mean, I'm sure she's vaccinated.
	She still had to take some time off...
	She's got that natural immunity now.
	Oh, yeah.
	But the Labor Department announced Friday that a record 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, or about 3% of the nation's workforce.
	So when you put it into that 3%, it doesn't sound that much, but 4.4 million is a lot of people.
	I don't see how that won't be leading to certain sectors of the economy becoming understaffed.
	She also downplayed a question as to whether that number might increase if workers quit rather than get their COVID vaccine, a federal mandate that will go into place in January.
	I think that's the one where it's going to be any company that has over 100 employees, they're going to have to mandate it.
	She argued that many companies have already implemented a mandatory vaccine policy, such as McDonald's, GE, I don't know who they are, Google and United Airlines, and they haven't seen workers leave their jobs at all.
	Conveniently leaving out Southwest Airlines, which had a big strike on behalf of the pilots who didn't want to get the vaccines and didn't want to adhere to mandates.
	Did they end up getting their way?
	I'm not sure, but it certainly caused a huge amount of disruption to the services.
	Other companies, like my girlfriend, even though they're working remotely, I think four days a week.
	There's still a vaccine mandate.
	Yeah, and it's not helping businesses or it's not helping people.
	It's not helping the vaccine roll out.
	Because I don't want to get a vaccine because they're forcing it on me.
	I'm of the same attitude.
	If I go into a shop, I remember I went in to buy a car and the guy was like, what about these cars?
	And he was like, no, no, you want to get this?
	You want to do that?
	And it's like, no, I asked you about this car.
	But he's like, no, you've got to get it on finance, you've got to do that.
	He's like, no, I told you, I've got the money, I don't want to get finance, I want to just buy...
	Man, if somebody's trying to force something on you, we all know.
	Because if something's really good, people seek it out and get it themselves.
	But yeah, and then there's the various ways the White House is trying to play off these shortages that are going on.
	So if we skip along, we've got a clip here of Jen Psaki trying to explain herself, if you want to play a little bit of this, John.
	You said that it's a worker's market, that some industries need to create more competitive packages, that it's a good thing.
	People have more choices.
	Is that your way of saying that the White House doesn't view this as a problem at all?
	I think I also said in response to Ouija's question that there are some industries where we're seeing labor shortages.
	There are a couple of reasons for that.
	But some of the people, the workers, and we've seen this statistically and on a lot of surveys, people, many people across the country feel this is a good time to change jobs, right?
	To look for a more competitive job.
	What I'm saying is, ultimately, that's a good thing.
	It is challenging in certain industries.
	If you want to stop that there.
	So that just says it all, really.
	They've found a way to try and twist the logic to say that people who are losing their jobs and causing shortages in these industries is a good thing.
	It means that other people can apply for those jobs.
	It's opening up the economy for people to be able to change jobs.
	Absolutely ridiculous.
	That's an interesting interpretation.
	She should be in the prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Then there's this from October where they were saying about how port issues and delays are causing supply chain issues that are resulting in a shortage of supplies, which is one of the reasons if you're in America you might see some of these shelves in your local supermarkets not being stocked.
	And they make a statement here saying that the White House is prepared, it's not an issue, don't worry about it, stop asking questions.
	Pretty typical response from them.
	And they also make a notice of, oh, there's lots of different layers.
	There's lots of different layers.
	But isn't it interesting that a lot of these layers didn't really start to pile up, seemingly, until Biden stepped into the White House?
	It seems to have all started to factor in all at the same time.
	And then if we move along, we've got this article here.
	And this is from Wednesday.
	So they say here, And in a video posted, he claimed that things are improving and that people should not be worried about the coming holidays.
	I mean, given his level of organizational skills demonstrated up to this point, I'm worrying a little bit.
	Why?
	Do you live in California?
	Well, I mean, I'm worrying for the people in California and America because it says here, Los Angeles and Long Beach's docking ports have been consistently packed despite a recently passed edict from the White House ordering ports to unload container ships 24-7.
	The two ports account for an estimated 40% of all shipping containers entering into the United States.
	So if you're in America, no matter where you are, this is likely to affect you because 40% of all ported goods...
	Come through California.
	So this is a massive problem.
	They made the point, if you skip over, that renewables didn't cause any of these shortage issues as well.
	They were saying it was an issue with fossil fuels like oil and coal.
	But that's why there's an issue with fossil fuels, because everybody's been focusing on renewables, there's been no investment.
	I've got shares in oil companies, because I was like, man, we're getting new oil for a while yet.
	And especially with renewables.
	I mean, solar's great when it's daytime, wind power's great when the wind's blowing, but if you want to fuel trucks and stuff, you need oil.
	So, yeah, basically because there's this underinvestment in oil and the uptake in demand after COVID lockdowns ending and the oil supply just wasn't there to rush back, especially with Russia sort of cutting supply to the West.
	So, yeah, it's caused this real crunch, this real squeeze, as you can see when you go and fill up your car.
	Oh, yeah.
	In America, I'm pretty sure gas prices have been skyrocketing recently.
	It'll still be a bit of fifth what it is in the UK. I was going to say, it's still putting us to shame, but they're still going up.
	And one of the ways that they've not been helping this was one of the first things that Biden did, of course, earlier on this year, was stop the production of the Keystone Pipeline.
	Was it going to be carrying oil from the straits in Canada down to America?
	Yeah, that's it.
	It was thought because of the environmental devastation that it would cause, but actually it would cause less environmental devastation than transporting the oil by truck.
	Because obviously transporting it by truck is inherently, or by rail is inherently...
	I mean, you're going to be shooting more CO2 and you're going to be burning more fuel.
	There's going to be more leakages, there's more contact points, so the pipeline totally made sense.
	If we move along as well, you can see them trying to address this, and if you want to play this clip, because we've got this clip here, John, just as a short one...
	Go ahead.
	Thank you.
	Two topics.
	I'll move quick.
	Is the White House rethinking their opposition to new pipeline projects since one really important one goes offline and gas stations start running dry?
	I wouldn't say we look at it as through that prism, Peter.
	We look at it, we analyze both the impact, the economic impact, as well as the environmental impact.
	And that will certainly remain the case, but we look at different, each pipeline project individually.
	So that's a no.
	Basically what that is right there is a no.
	And then we've got this next clip here we can just play a little bit of, where she tries to put the blame onto other people for issues like the vaccine mandates and other such things.
	So if you want to play a little bit of this in regards to staffing shortages...
	And do you know if this particular hospital might have been having staffing shortages because they have a vaccine mandate and maybe some folks have had to leave because they didn't want to get vaccinated?
	I would love for you to account for me where that is the issue over more so than the number of unvaccinated who are filling emergency rooms, filling ICU beds.
	That is the problem in hospitals across the country.
	Go ahead.
	So she just completely skirts and deflects around the question right there.
	That's not what he asked.
	That's not the answer to what he asked.
	You asked him a question instead.
	Jen Psaki has this tendency, I've noticed whenever I've seen clips of her, to be asked a question she doesn't like and she will smugly ask another question, like reframing it in another way.
	Almost as if she's a politician.
	Well, yeah, that's a good point.
	But yeah, they've also got this.
	They've got the nurse shortages going on in America.
	If we skip along again, CBS, they're saying that we're doing everything we can using every lever.
	This is back from May.
	Every lever of government to ensure we reduce the impact on the amount.
	It was the American government that's caused a lot of these shortages in the process.
	So maybe if you step back, it might help to alleviate some of the burden that people are experiencing.
	Yeah.
	And also, don't forget, the government thinks that these shortages are a good thing, because the government is right behind the climate change agenda, so rising oil and gas prices, even though they harm the consumer and push families into poverty and push businesses out of business, they reduce the consumption of oil and gas, which is seen as a good thing.
	If you're a Washington elite, you don't care about people being forced into poverty.
	I mean, you pretend you care.
	But, you know, their main concern is, like, bringing down CO2 emissions.
	Exactly.
	And then, yeah, if you skip along again, you can see it's gone from, well, this is also back in May, they're saying that at this point in time, I'll just reiterate, we don't have a supply issue, so the old tactic of just deny it's happening in the foot...
	In the first place, if we skip along again, we've got more shortages of people because now it's not just affecting nurses and other such people, it's also affecting police officers and firefighters and other such people who are in positions, I would say, of utmost importance within society.
	I mean, this could be beneficial if you're an ACAB, defund the police kind of guy.
	Yeah.
	But it's not really great for anybody who suffers in a neighbourhood where there's a lot of crime, for instance.
	We've seen this in Seattle, I covered this a few weeks ago, where 8% of the police and firefighter force have left recently as a result of the vaccine mandates, and they all left their boots on the steps of City Hall in protest.
	I'm sure the White House would characterise these people as all evil, they're trying to hurt everybody by not sticking to our mandates.
	What they did instead of going to their job, because they were kicked out, they all decided to go and feed the homeless instead.
	What Oh yeah, the firefighters and stuff.
	As if, like, you know, if you're burning, if you're in a fire, and, like, you know, a fireman sends his ladder up to the seventh floor where you are, you're going to be like, have you had your booster jab?
	I'm not getting on the ladder unless you've had your booster jab!
	Yeah, I know I've been vaccinated and that protects me, but if you haven't had your booster jab, then, you know...
	Yeah, but also, like, is it really great to let this sort of stuff happen in cities like Seattle, which had enough problems last year with everything that was going on?
	And then just finally, we had the former secretary during the Trump presidency, Sarah Sanders, saying that the Biden regime is an absolute and abysmal failure, saying that they're completely incompetent.
	The Biden administration is a complete and total failure.
	And the defining characteristic of the administration is incompetency.
	Well, I think, I mean, because Trump was was completely incompetent, but that led to good government because he was so incompetent.
	The government couldn't do anything.
	Government couldn't function, which is the perfect government.
	Government is not getting stuck into people's lives and causing problems.
	Because I've got to tell you, there's no situation that isn't made worse by government involvement.
	So with this administration, because they can actually do things, their incompetence has a measurable impact.
	They're actually sort of getting things messed up.
	And just to leave it on what Sarah here has said, there's no doubt that everything happening in the Biden administration is a complete and total failure.
	And I've got to say...
	I agree.
	we go let's move on to the video comments this video comment is in response to currently a names video comment from last friday do you know what else is for josh geico 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance on a serious note one of the best white pills that happened last week was the announcement that the university of austin texas would be started and it will be doing a
	So far it has had over 30,000 inquiries from college professors.
	Sounds good.
	Cool.
	Let's move on to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joe with another legend of the pine, Soupy Island, a sanitarium used to treat children with tuberculosis.
	It was built in 1887 called Soupy Island because the lunch ladies there made soup.
	Eventually, it was turned into an amusement park.
	The Campbell's Soup Company and the Globetrotters had to save it financially, but you can go there now.
	The original pool from the basement of the sanitarium is still there.
	If you'd like to see Soupy Island, it's open from 9 to 3.
	Soviet Russia?
	That sounds pretty cool, to be fair.
	It sounds interesting.
	You saw the pictures.
	No, it sounds interesting.
	I like the story.
	Given some of the ones that you've gone over recently, I was expecting it, especially given if it was a hospital back in the day, I was expecting it to be some haunted sort of place.
	I'm not sure it's not haunted.
	Well, it might be.
	What's your feeling on haunted places?
	Are you a believer?
	Are you a sceptic like I am?
	The thing is, I believe in the human spirit, so I believe there's something beyond the physical world.
	I spoke to the Oxford professor of philosophy of physics, and he was trying to convince me that free will is an illusion.
	Oh, Josh would agree with him.
	Obviously free will's not an illusion.
	Obviously free will exists.
	Why would you get up in the morning?
	Everything's going to happen anyway.
	And why do we have a criminal justice system?
	Why is Kyle Rittenhouse on trial?
	It was going to happen anyway.
	You should have moderated on Carl and Josh's debate on this.
	The deterministic model of the universe is just completely anathema to me.
	I've worked in criminal justice.
	There's no point to life if everything's deterministic.
	We might all just as well lay down in the street because it's going to happen anyway.
	What, like that Radiohead video?
	Do you know the one I'm on about?
	Never mind.
	Never mind.
	But I agree with you.
	Let's carry on.
	I think now we have a very feminine totalitarianism.
	Like the whole Covid thing is a perfect example of this overbearing mother that keeps you from living.
	...neine Veranstaltungen mehr, keine Messen, keine Konzerte und vorerst auch keine Schule mehr.
	Keine Universität, kein Kindergarten, kein Spiel auf einem Spielplatz.
	Niemand ist tatsächlich.
	Alle zählen.
	Es braucht unser aller Anstrengung.
	See, I've not watched that interview with Philip Tanzer, but I absolutely agree with what he's saying.
	I made the comparison when I've been talking about the infrastructure bill in America, and you see all of the promises that are coming as a result of that, and they're saying, like, ah, from birth till death, the government will have your back, you'll have government-sponsored programs for all your kids, free education, free this and free that.
	And I say it's the opposite of, like, what you could call the...
	Nurturing father style of government where they'll make sure you're alright but they'll push you off and let you be responsible for yourself.
	It is very much the overbearing mother style of government and Angela Merkel is a good example of that.
	Do you want to hear my joke about her?
	Yes, absolutely.
	I've got a triangular pubic wig.
	It's an angular merkin.
	LAUGHTER But yeah, this whole collectivist thing, I don't like it.
	It's coming through with all the lockdown stuff, and it's pretty unnecessary.
	We know it's unnecessary because we've got Sweden, which hasn't done it.
	And I just feel people can manage their own risk.
	What we all think.
	But it's quite sinister, handing so much power to the state and removing so many individual rights.
	Even if it's got noble intentions, I think it's dangerous.
	It speaks to me in that sort of voice that you hear somebody going like, can't we all get along?
	And it's like, no, I don't want to get along with everybody.
	Leave me alone.
	That's a terrible argument.
	We should all get along.
	To a certain degree.
	The government's boundaries stop where we should have autonomy.
	Because we've got free We will.
	We need to exercise it.
	There you go.
	The other thing that's coming through with collectivism is green policy.
	So that's, again, that's the government being a nanny state and telling us what to do.
	I think you've looked at some of the cop stuff as well, haven't you?
	Yeah, I did a video about it on my YouTube.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Did you see that big creepy doll that they had?
	Yeah.
	Oh god, it was so weird, wasn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, we should probably get on to the next video comment.
	Once in a while, I will choose to cook for myself.
	It is easy.
	The necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes.
	Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our homes.
	Why keep a pasta maker and a crepe cooker crammed in our cupboards?
	We can just order them when we need them.
	You are a class 7 person, and on your way up, Class 7 consumption, Morrie.
	It is your duty as a class 7 consumer to consume, Morrie, the ration of consumer goods allocated by the state as befits your status.
	It really does come across like that, doesn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Did you see that weird Forbes article that Josh was reading out?
	No, it wasn't satirical or anything.
	No, it was written by someone from the World Economic Forum, because of course it was.
	And it's basically describing this horrific, totalitarian, dystopian future where the government does everything for you.
	But it was trying to sell it to you.
	As if it was a good thing.
	Yeah, I mean, I look like a sleazy car salesman right now, but that was the sleaziest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
	It's weird.
	And also, in living history, we've had rationing in the UK. We've had the government saying what you can and can.
	I know there's reasons for that.
	Post-war, we didn't have our own supply chain squeeze caused by German U-boats.
	But yeah, we've had it before.
	I think we've been lulled into a false sense of security by the golden years of prosperity and freedom since the 60s.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Let's move on.
	End of the way, Farrah.
	To answer your question, yes, there are a bunch of cheaters.
	Jeff Bozo and the D.E. Shaw hedge fund made money out of exploiting loopholes and inefficiencies in the financial market, which is fair enough, I guess.
	But David E. Shaw is a very intelligent, cunning man.
	But look into his wife, who doesn't share the same surname.
	She worked very closely with Obama, contributed loads to mainstream media, and the D.E. Shaw hedge fund contributed a lot of money to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
	So you can tell exactly what kind of people they are.
	Scum.
	I don't know enough about Bezos' history or David E. Shaw, but if everything that was said there is true, I agree.
	Yeah.
	I mean, yeah, I think they're clever.
	They exploit the loopholes.
	You've seen it with tax law, employment law and stuff.
	But I just think that's where the government needs to tighten up some loopholes in the law.
	That's government...
	Companies are supposed to do everything they can to maximise profit for the shareholders within the regulated framework.
	If the regulated framework needs to be improved, then do it.
	That's one area where the government can actually do some good.
	For you, I'm tying in a 200 amp residential panel.
	The red and black wires are the hot wires.
	The white wire is neutral.
	There's 120 volts from hot to neutral and 240 volts from hot to hot.
	The wire is a 4-aught aluminum.
	The little white bottle you see me using is an anti-oxidization compound that you have to put on all aluminum wires.
	I didn't think to put the camera on until after I had the wires in the box, unfortunately.
	Nice.
	That's really cool.
	I don't really know what it's for.
	Is that a heating thing?
	I don't really know.
	I'm honestly intimidated sometimes by the fact that most of our gold tier members sending these videos in are obviously so much more intelligent than I am.
	But, you know, it looks really cool.
	Yeah, it did look cool.
	It looked like a sideways TV. Did it?
	Yeah, from the back.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, from the back.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, yeah, let's move on.
	Hi.
	So this is for HairAerie.
	Carl mentioned that you are doing a premium podcast on some heart issues that have been coming up amongst the population, primarily among young men recently.
	And if you are looking for some help, I would be more than happy to donate my time.
	I can give you lots and lots of resources and give you a crash course in cardiology if you like.
	You just let me know what you need and I can probably get it to you.
	Oh, very interesting.
	Thank you very much for your offer of help.
	I might be in touch in that case.
	Hey guys, so I've got a solution for the Mets' racism and our border force.
	What we'll do is take all the racists from the Met and put them in the Border Force.
	Take all the terrible lefties from the Border Force and put them in the Met.
	Problem solved.
	In other news, I'm working on some CS Cooper fanfic.
	I say fan.
	I've commissioned Trim to do some artwork, so you can look forward to seeing that soon.
	What is that thing he's in?
	I've seen that before.
	I'm sure he's done a video comment before.
	I don't know what that thing is.
	It looks vast, industrial and imposing.
	It does, yeah.
	Almost like a greenhouse, but for growing sequoia trees or something.
	Or possibly some sort of power generation or transport thing.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, pretty cool.
	Hey, guys.
	My iPad, the original one, was broken for the anniversary, so I couldn't actually celebrate with you all.
	So I consider it's a bit late, but...
	Not got any good whiskey in the house, so wine.
	Hope you like the suit.
	I got it originally for my grandma Barbara's funeral on my dad's side, so yeah.
	Oh god.
	I never have French or American wine.
	Apparently French wine is really gay.
	I'm going to get the Australian stuff.
	You can't use gay as a pejorative anymore.
	Pretty gay there, Leo.
	No, it's not gay.
	I'm glad I'm not the only Harry who decided to dress up today, and thank you very much for the celebration of the one year.
	If you wore that to my funeral, I'd come back to life and slap the shit out of you.
	Well, I'm just glad to hear I'd get an invite.
	The glare, the shine off your jacket would dazzle people.
	They'd stumble into my coffin.
	Let's just say one last goodbye up close and personal.
	Is it true that anybody can go to a funeral?
	I don't know.
	I've only been to a few myself.
	So I've never really been walking past the funeral and had the temptation to just join the crowds.
	Be a funeral crasher.
	I think the rule is that anybody can go to a funeral.
	I suppose if you can just fit it and just start tearing up a little bit maybe.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Some of the sandwiches.
	Yeah.
	That's what you're in it for.
	Yeah.
	Alright, let's move on to some of the written comments, and on that we've got the written house stuff.
	Sean Nash?
	Why do you advertise an ad blocker?
	What?
	Or do you not have adverts on your thing?
	I don't know.
	I don't think this shows up on the stream.
	Oh, right.
	People are going to be very confused hearing that.
	Lotus Eaters don't approve of ad blockers when you're watching their content.
	Does it have adverts on it?
	What?
	Lotus Eaters approve of ad blockers.
	Yes, we do.
	Yes.
	Sean Nash.
	The prosecutor playing with his guns is effing priceless.
	The guy should be hauled onto the dock himself for such gross negligence.
	Once again, yeah.
	I mean, the guy could have pulled a full Baldwin right there.
	Can you imagine?
	Oh, my God.
	You thought there was a parallel reality where that actually happened?
	That'd be amazing.
	I kind of hope so.
	Oh my god.
	As mean as it sounds, that would be really funny.
	Just to see the shocked look on everyone's face.
	That'd be an event.
	And then he just goes over to the defence side and like, I would like to stand witness to myself, please.
	I'd request a recess.
	Yeah.
	Tom Y, Kyle only let Grosskraut live so that he could deliver the message to the rest of Antifa.
	I mean, I would like that to be true.
	It's primarily just because, you know, it was circumstances.
	He just got his bicep blown off.
	But that would be pretty cool if he had done that.
	It's very impressive that we talk about community policing, which is what the left wants.
	One of the things the left always talks about when it comes to actual policing is, why don't they just shoot to disarm?
	I mean, Kyle did.
	That's literally what he did there.
	He disarmed him, that's for sure.
	He didn't shoot that arm, he shot disarm.
	That's true.
	That's alright.
	And that guy had a gun.
	Oh yeah, he had a gun.
	He was about to point.
	They got him on the stand to admit that Rittenhouse only opened fire when he pointed the gun at his face.
	And the prosecution are like, oh, why didn't you use his face?
	A 17-year-old is going to fight off a paedophile, an angry paedophile, some guy with a skateboard, a guy with a gun, like with his fists.
	Yeah, I mean, at the time, the prosecution was busy with its head in its hand.
	I mean, that guy Krauss, there's the famous image of him now just facepalming after their star witness.
	witness blew up their entire case.
	Yeah.
	Spadroon to Rapiers.
	I'd just like to point out, you turn up to a war with a civilian AR-15.
	You'll be leaving in a bag before you've even seen an enemy soldier.
	Weapon of war, my rear end.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean...
	I look like a weapon of war to me.
	It looks cool.
	That's the difference.
	It doesn't have the rapid fire rate.
	Yeah, it's a semi-automatic, which means it fires as quickly as you can pull the trigger.
	So it will only fire a single round, unlike something like...
	I mean, I'm going to show up my lack of knowledge of guns here.
	I think like an AK-47, a fully automatic rifle, you pull the trigger and it'll fire as fast as it fires.
	Yeah, but the thing with a fully automatic is most of the time we're never going to use it on fully automatic because you've got no control over it and you're also going to rattle through your bullets in a matter of seconds.
	Yeah, I think the other thing is the AR-15, despite how cool it looks, actually has a pretty low-caliber type of bullet.
	It's only a little bit more powerful than your standard handgun, from what I'm aware.
	Which is one of the reasons why it's such a popular production gun for a lot of people to buy.
	But yeah, I agree for the most part it's not going to be too effective taking that into a war zone.
	"Student of history, to my fellow Americans in reference to St. Kyle of Kenosha and the trial, it isn't just Kyle on your trial, it's your right to self-defense.
	P.S. I'll see your punt gun and raise you a cannon, which is not regulated at all and can be legally owned." That'd be pretty great.
	The rioters all show up to your front lawn and you wheel out your cannon.
	Yeah, don't give Islamist terrorists any ideas, you know what I mean?
	They'll be like, you know, getting in a taxi with a cannon saying, can we go to the women's hospital, please?
	It'd be pretty obvious at that point.
	Yeah, just fire it straight through the side of the taxi.
	Don't even open the door.
	Just wind the window down, just stick it out.
	Like a galleon.
	But yeah, I agree.
	What is obviously the defining factor of this is that the prosecution is kind of...
	Trying to destroy the very idea of self-defence.
	If you bring a gun with you to defend yourself, but end up using that gun to defend yourself, that somehow means you forfeit your right to self-defence.
	Absolute nonsense.
	But they are trying to destroy the very foundations of the Second Amendment through this case.
	It is an attack on American values, as far as I can see it.
	George Windsor, in a crowd of heroes, Kyle shot three criminals.
	We need to replace the police, border security, and secret service with 17-year-olds.
	I think this is your plan, actually, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Give everyone in Glasgow guns and all sort themselves out.
	Yeah, I'll go on holiday for a bit and then, you know...
	Yeah, get back and you've got the cream of the crop.
	Yeah.
	Battle Royale.
	Oh, God.
	M1 ping.
	Rosenbaum didn't even rape any kids that night.
	Bingo, probably.
	I mean...
	That's unconfirmed as far as I'm aware.
	Kevin Fox, how great would it have been when Binger picked up the AR-15 and pointed it at the jury, not having first checked it was cleared, had actually fired it?
	Can't see there being a rush of people stepping up to defend him.
	Max Clifford isn't available to help him.
	Yeah, once again, the meme, that would have been hilarious.
	Tragic, yet hilarious.
	Student of history, everyone takes a beating sometimes.
	Hopefully he doesn't have a domestic case anytime soon.
	That could be a problem.
	That's true.
	A lot of the people following him are...
	I think...
	In fact, I think this may be misinformation, but I'm pretty sure I've seen Grosskrauts, the guy who got his arm blown off.
	Somebody posted his rap sheet to Twitter, and one of the things that was when he was 18 years old, he beat up his grandmother to get money.
	Right.
	So, these are real, real scum.
	Was his grandma Hinch?
	I mean, maybe.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I've not looked into the family history.
	Adrian Ward, Rittenhouse prosecutor, he brought a gun to a fistfight.
	You mean a riot.
	A riot with a mob containing other people, arms with chains, skateboards and guns.
	Guns?
	Yeah.
	Absolutely true right there.
	Do you want to read out your comments for Ben and Jerry's?
	Yeah.
	Where are they?
	How did I get them?
	Oh, you're in the document.
	Just scroll down.
	Oh, cool.
	I'm going to scroll down.
	Scrolling now.
	Here we go.
	Ben& Jerry's.
	So, Tyber Fett.
	Cool name.
	It says, Ben& Jerry's are owned by the same company that owns Dove.
	Dove makes women feel bad about their body image.
	Sell them ice cream until more and more are fat.
	Dove does marketing campaigns saying plus size is beautiful.
	Sell them more ice cream.
	That's a great point.
	That is a genius marketing campaign right there.
	That is a great point.
	It makes them fat and then tells them that fat is beautiful so they buy more ice cream and they buy more Dove.
	Perfect, like, synergistic marketing.
	George Happ says, I totally agree!
	100% agree.
	And more than that, I think if they support defunding the police, you can righteously shoplift from places like Sainsbury's.
	Sainsbury's were the worst.
	They had that tweet that was just so aggrandizingly...
	I've not seen this.
	It was like they said...
	Sainsbury's welcome diverse customers!
	And if you don't like it, then shop somewhere else!
	It's like, what you're saying other shops are racist?
	What shops are racist, Sainsbury's?
	You know what I mean?
	This implication that there's loads of racists out there and they shop at other shops, it's ridiculous.
	Alright, there's some racists.
	You know what I mean?
	I'm not going to deny that.
	There's issues with racism and stuff.
	But the idea that Sainsbury's isn't racist is bunk.
	Because Sainsbury's is owned by Qatari royals.
	And Qatar is a deeply racist, homophobic, misogynist society.
	I've not seen their non-racist certificate anywhere.
	Yeah, so it's ridiculous.
	And also Sainsbury's introduced segregated workspaces like it's the 40s in America.
	You can righteously shoplift from Sainsbury's and from Ben& Jerry's.
	Disavow, but I support your right as a consumer to spend your money on companies that don't hate you.
	And I'd support your right as a consumer to not even spend the money.
	Just take the stuff from Ben& Jerry's in Sainsbury's.
	It's your duty.
	We can't advocate crimes.
	Disavow that.
	Disavow that.
	Even though Sainsbury's and Ben& Jerry's support it, because they...
	Apparently we're not allowed to say you should shoplift from Sainsbury's.
	Yeah, disavow.
	You're not allowed to...
	Don't shoplift from Sainsbury's!
	I didn't know there was we had to abide by.
	Stop having an argument with Carl.
	I'm ACAB. I'm ACAB, man.
	Mr.
	Fibble says, Ben and Jerry's have been insufferably woke activists for a few years now, so I don't buy their products.
	Haagen-Dazs.
	Ooh.
	Good callback to the 80s.
	It's better quality, yeah.
	Student of History says, why is an American ice cream company making comments on UK borders policy?
	Great point.
	Yeah, good question.
	Because they want to sell ice cream in the UK. Callum Dayton says, never had Ben& Jerry's, never intend to give them their politicization.
	Otherwise, whites killing whites is racist?
	I thought that was supposed to be a good thing.
	And if Kyle was black, well, a black 17-year-old defending himself against three white attackers, one is a pedo.
	You know, are we missing something?
	Are they missing something?
	Everybody's missing something.
	Yeah, it seems so obvious.
	Freewill2112 says, How do you think Ben and Jerry's would fare in Stalin's Russia?
	Well, they'd have to spend less on refrigeration.
	Or Pol Pot's Cambodia?
	Probably sell really well because it's a hot country.
	Aligning with hard leftists who would liquidate you if they gain power is probably a bad idea.
	Well, I agree.
	There wasn't a lot of delicious ice cream in the gulags.
	Yeah, I don't think Cambodia was overflowing with ice cream reserves somehow.
	But you can get it now because of capitalism.
	And what I find really interesting, the values of the West, the freedom of capitalism.
	You know, if you see a gap in the market, you can start a business.
	So even though America lost the war in Vietnam, you go there now, I mean, it's ostensibly still, I think it's communist or semi-communist.
	I think it's still socialist or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You notice it more in the North.
	But anywhere you can go, you can get beers, delicious food, taxi, whatever you want.
	It's not like capitalism is one.
	The American values are one in the long run, which I think is great.
	Alex Ogle says, That would have been a bit difficult for them to point out.
	Yeah, that was the defining characteristic between all of these attacks, was that bar one, committed by a Middle Eastern dude, all the videos just showed black guys, but Ben& Jerry's, all those woke virtue signaling companies, aren't going to mention any of that.
	It's just black people are mysteriously being beaten by phantoms in the streets.
	Oh, goodness.
	Asian people.
	Oh, yeah, Asian people, whoops.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Um...
	And Clayton Ross says, many NFL players demand those medical checks for their own safety.
	Yeah, of course.
	That's a good point, actually.
	Yeah, I'd want to know.
	So, yeah, then you know if you've got anything that's going to pop when you're playing.
	Noord Nerevar says, anyone remember when Ben and Jerry's literally added Priti Patel to rant at her about Channel Crossings?
	Yeah, we showed the tweet.
	I don't know if you're having a dump when we went through that.
	Kevin Fox says, isn't that Ben and Jerry's Veterans Day poster racist?
	That looks like a noose!
	Good point.
	Yeah, I think this is referring to somebody in Scotland.
	Oh, why can't I remember her name?
	Marianne Miller, who was arrested for a hate crime because she tweeted a picture of a suffragette ribbon that somebody perceived to be a noose.
	Oh, really?
	Then it became a hate crime, even though it looked nothing like a noose.
	And even tweeting a picture of a noose shouldn't be a crime.
	I'm sorry, Leo.
	The country you hail from is becoming more and more ridiculous by the day.
	And your country's following.
	Also, it's the same country.
	It's the same country, you bigot.
	Sean Nash says, Colin Capernickers, I like what you did there, Sean, was an absolute garbage-tier quarterback for years before he found the race hustle and jumped, well, this is Sean's opinion here, not mine, and jumped onto that particular bandwagon.
	He'd actually got cut by his team for being so unbelievably bad.
	That might be his opinion, but it's an opinion I've heard shared multiple times whenever we bring Kaepernick up.
	Ah, yeah, I'm not allowed to say you should steal Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
	Well, yeah.
	Yes!
	You're not allowed to say that, but you're allowed to...
	You're not allowed to steal Ben.
	It's against the law, and you shouldn't steal Ben and Jerry's ice cream, even though it's what they want, and they've specifically said they want you to do it.
	No, disavow.
	I'm saying they shouldn't do it.
	Yeah, okay.
	HR Slave says, I love when leftists like Kaepernick talk about community policing.
	I live in Northern Ireland where we have community police, but here we call them paramilitaries.
	And this is very true.
	And yeah, you really want a police force that's run by the state.
	I mean, the state is good at some things, or certainly better than the community for some things, and policing is one of them.
	You want them...
	Especially in the UK, and I think to a certain extent in America, we've got pretty good, fair police who mostly try and do the best by people.
	Well, apart from actually me and my girlfriend got stopped by the police.
	When was it?
	It was two weeks ago.
	It was the night before I did Lotus Eaters.
	And they stopped the uberware and were stopped for ages.
	So I asked the policeman, what's going on?
	He's perfectly innocent in that.
	I wasn't being a dick.
	And he's all like that, well, your Uber's not up to standard.
	He looks at us.
	We're sitting in the back of this Uber.
	He's like, if an Uber turned up and it was this tatty, I wouldn't get in it.
	I was like, why are you giving me shit?
	You know what I mean?
	I haven't done anything wrong.
	And obviously my girlfriend is like, she's redhead, so she's insane, but she's also a former criminal barrister.
	And she was drunk.
	So she leapt out of the car to Give him what for.
	How did I stop getting arrested here?
	But it was so unnecessary.
	And also the policeman who did it had this wispy little beard.
	Man, if your face turned up, you know what I mean?
	You look homeless.
	You call yourself a man and you can't even grow a beard?
	If you can't grow a beard, just shave.
	Just shave.
	There's no shame in having a wispy little...
	You know how every...
	ISIS cell has got a ginger kid who couldn't get any pussies so he joined ISIS. I've not heard that.
	Whenever you go down Islington High Street and there's that picnic table and they've got all the Korans and they're giving off and yelling at people and stuff, man, there's always a ginger one.
	Who just joined because he couldn't get any pussy.
	And they're like, oh, guess what?
	In heaven, you're going to get loads of pussy if you join.
	And he believes it.
	I was not aware of that.
	There's always a ginger.
	And they're the ones, like the shoe bomber.
	He was a ginger Scott.
	Oh, fair play.
	A ginger guy.
	Tried to sit fire at his shoes.
	Oh, yeah, we need to...
	I'll do one more comment regarding Saki's shortages, which is from Kevin Fox saying the scariest words to hear.
	I'm from the government.
	I'm here to help.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I absolutely agree.
	And with that, it looks like we've run out of time, so thank you very, very much for joining us for this episode of the podcast, The Lotus Eaters.
	Be sure to join us again tomorrow at 1 o'clock UK time for more fun.
	Yeah, follow me on Twitter and also on YouTube if you want.
	Yes, do that as well.
	Leo Curse.
	Leo Curse, yes.
	Thank you very much for tuning in.
	Have a great afternoon.

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