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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #280

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for the 8th of December 2021.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello there.
	And today we're going to be talking about the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson, who I think has finally had a moment which is going to go down in history as the beginning of the end for him.
	And also Alec Baldwin's killer plebiscity stunt.
	So he's the real victim in all this?
	Absolutely, he is.
	And also, right-wing Strunk.
	I didn't really know the title of this one, but basically just some guy complaining that the right-wing are strong.
	I was just like, yes!
	Okay, fine.
	If you want to throw that label on us...
	I'll take the diss.
	Anyway, so some things to mention first on the website.
	The first thing here being Germany Has Fallen, part one.
	So I assume there's going to be a part two to this as well.
	This is from Philip Tanzer, who was the chap who came in, who was, as we were trying to figure out...
	Was it self-conversion therapy into being straight?
	By the sounds of it, he's an ex-gay.
	Yeah, but he wasn't, he did it to himself.
	Went full Milo.
	Yeah, so that's his story, and then he's talking about Germany here, so go check that out.
	We don't know about Germany, so we don't know, but I think he does.
	Anyway, so if we go to the next one, we have a video.
	Bob Bader shows there is no peace with wokeism, and this is a video me and Carl did together.
	It's also on the second YouTube channel, I think.
	Go and check it out on the website, because I read the comments there more than on there.
	And it's essentially an island that's 93% black or whatever it was, 4% white, even though they're all Irish, so 0% white, really.
	And they're still screaming about white supremacy being the root of all their problems.
	It's like, look, if you cannot get peace with wokeism here, you never will.
	Pretty tough sell.
	It's also a great point to make to people where they're like, oh, okay, but you're there, there are white people in the West, and it's like, no, okay, well, if we get rid of them all, now what?
	Oh, no, same problems.
	Big surprise.
	White people existing wasn't the root of all your issues.
	Anyway, so go check that out.
	If we go to the next one, we have The Treasures of London by Beau.
	So Beau's written, I assume this is about the financial system or something like that.
	I haven't had time to read.
	But he's always got a good wit about the people in power, so I'm sure he'll have some good stuff in there that's worth reading.
	I'm almost certain that this is more of a rebuttal to Carl's article, talking about how terrible London is.
	Oh yeah, I remember they had a big debate about if there are good things in London or not.
	Which, um...
	Hmm...
	I'll keep my mouth shut.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, the next one is a premium video.
	So, this is CNN is Worse Than You Remember, which we've mentioned before and also calmly did.
	If we go to the next one, we have another premium video.
	And this is The Politics of Stargate, which I don't know anything about.
	So, you know anything about Stargate?
	I'm a nerd, but I'm not that kind of nerd.
	Yeah, I feel like we're out of place to try and promote this one, but I assume this is John and Carla.
	I've heard that Stargate is very good, so...
	Yeah, but this is new, so go and check that one out.
	That's live at 3pm after the podcast as well, so just to mention that.
	But with that further ado, that's getting to the end of Boris Johnson, if only.
	I think we can signify that this is the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson.
	So, for people outside the UK who may not know, this is what has taken place, as you can see from this tweet here.
	If we can go on the media, so the image is just a bunch of media outlets all going with the same story, which is that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, decided to host some party in the middle of lockdown.
	You've seen that one coming.
	Yeah, so when he said Christmas cancelled for everyone in the country, at the same time was hosting parties at his place.
	Apparently three...
	So, it's not just one, as well?
	Yeah, I saw that.
	It was one in November, a full-on Christmas party in December, and then also a Christmas quiz that took place at an unknown date.
	And the first one being in his flat, as well.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, so, not going with the spirit of the law, even if not the letter of the law...
	So this is the big story, especially in the UK. There is nothing else anyone is talking about, especially in the mainstream.
	The smear merchants are all at it because they hate Boris, because they always have.
	And I've started to hate Boris because of the things he has done.
	So we'll just start with that.
	So the first thing to mention is, of course, Prime Minister's questions took place like half an hour ago and started.
	And we have a question from there.
	So let's play this.
	Will the Prime Minister tell the House whether there was a party in Downing Street on the 13th of November?
	Prime Minister...
	Mr Speaker, no, but I'm sure that whatever happened, the guidance was followed and the rules were followed at all times.
	I can't believe he actually went with that answer.
	No, but...
	Yes, but...
	But if they did, we followed all the guidance.
	We're like, well, if it's a no, then you don't have to say the second bit.
	But okay, fine.
	We'll just have the admittance that yes, it did.
	There's also the leaked footage coming out of this, so this is the other part of the big story, because it was alleged, like, a week ago that's taken place, but no one cared, because there was no evidence.
	run for press secretary.
	So apparently they were going to pick a press secretary and this is like the candidates they had and they filmed it for their own benefit.
	And then someone has taken the footage and leaked it to the mainstream media and given it to them to then go after Boris with, of course.
	I think this is especially interesting because the press secretary thing is literally...
	This footage is literally showing them teaching the press secretary how to lie.
	Yes, which is their job in every situation.
	They are there to be the boy who just defends whoever's behind them.
	But until this, we all sort of just inferred that we know that they're lying.
	But this is just direct evidence, pretty much.
	We'll look behind the curtain.
	Anyway, we also don't have these in Britain.
	There's like a public thing the United States does with Saki and whatnot, where they just stand there and constantly take questions.
	It's not really a thing here.
	But we tried it for a bit, and then apparently have just ditched it.
	So this is the footage, and we'll play this.
	I've just seen reports on Twitter that there was a Downing Street Christmas party on Friday night.
	Do you recognise those reports?
	I went home.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Would the parents condone a home at Christmas?
	What's the answer?
	I don't know.
	I didn't know.
	Is Chief of Mine alright?
	It was a business meeting.
	I'm joking.
	This is recorded.
	It's a fictional party.
	It was a business meeting.
	And it was not socially distanced.
	One more, and then one more.
	It is amazing.
	You can see them laughing about the fact that they know they've broken the rules.
	You can see them trying to joke about, oh, it's only cheese and wine, is that the defence?
	You know, the people in the audience there.
	And her sort of joking back, like, yeah, imagine if I did that, that would be funny.
	And it's good to see behind the curtain, I guess, but it does get to a proper issue, which is the...
	Well, you're not allowed to do this.
	You're the ones who set the rules.
	Why weren't you sticking to them?
	But, I mean, we all knew.
	You may remember this lady as well.
	I don't know who said it.
	Was it Allegra Strangton or something like that?
	Who cares?
	I shouldn't have to care about the inside circle of these people.
	You may remember this is back when they brought up her being the press secretary.
	This was as described by the Independent and Olive Branch to journalists as it was a departure from Dominic Cummings' strategy of saying...
	Smear merchants, get effed!
	Like, just wasn't interested, go to hell, you're not getting invited.
	Oh, you don't have an invite?
	Oh, boohoo.
	And this is why, you know, people couldn't be mad at Dominic Cummings, because it's just like, yeah, mainstream media, everyone hates you, get lost.
	I mean, I respect that position, to be perfectly honest.
	Yeah, so she was seen as a position of an olive branch, as described by the Independent, and it was also apparently part of the reason Dominic ended up leaving, of course, because him and his boys wanted to put someone in the press secretary position, and apparently the girlfriend, now wife of Boris Johnson, wanted this lady.
	So that was a cause of friction.
	Many other causes of friction, I am sure.
	It's office politics, so it's hard to tell who's down the truth.
	This is a point that's been made a number of times.
	Carrie Johnson seems to have an undue level of influence...
	Yeah, also apparently all the parties were her idea too, because she loves parties.
	Wow.
	So, I mean...
	How's that one working out for you, Boris?
	Oh boy.
	Anyway, so Number 10 has responded to these allegations after the footage was released.
	I mean, that's the best bit.
	So, like, the footage is released, Number 10 know the footage is released, and they respond with, there was no Christmas party and COVID rules have been followed at all times.
	As you saw Boris staying in the house 30 minutes ago.
	It's just like, no one's buying that.
	What are you doing?
	No one is going to believe this.
	Ever.
	The very fact that you keep having to put the little disclaimer at the end saying, well, if there was anything, though, we definitely did follow the rules.
	I mean, that just says it all, really.
	There is a much better defence I have seen from people defending Boris.
	I don't know why they bothered, but, you know, they're trying...
	And so if we go to the next one, this is the legal defence.
	And the legal defence is actually seemingly robust.
	So this is the health protections, coronavirus restrictions, blah, blah, blah, blah, 2021.
	And in here it says, for example, that a gathering is permitted, organised gathering, for purposes of these regulations if paragraph 2 or 3 applies.
	Paragraph 2, subsection A... The gathering is operated by a business, a charitable, benevolent, or philanthropic institution, or a public body.
	And number 10 being a public body, that would be the argument.
	But, well, no, in the law, we were allowed to have a gathering because we made an exemption for ourselves.
	Yes.
	Doesn't really make you look good, though, does it?
	I mean, yeah, we made a loophole in the law so we could do this.
	Fantastic.
	I mean, you're not going to court.
	You're not going to get arrested by the police.
	That's lovely.
	But, again, doesn't make you look good.
	Also completely undermines your point of insisting that the public is not able to engage in any such gatherings.
	But you are.
	As you put in your loophole.
	In the law you passed.
	Great.
	Thanks.
	Wonderful.
	haven't made these kind of double standards before.
	But I'm actually very happy about all this.
	I'm not mad at all.
	Because it completely undermines the government's restrictions.
	Oh, yeah.
	Anything that undermines a government is a good thing in my books.
	No, but specifically these restrictions.
	So these restrictions have, as Karl has described many a time, been completely tyrannical and has come out on the right side of this, of course, being the fact that, well, pretty much everyone and their mum who put these in around the world has broken them, regardless of what restrictions they were.
	But then the fact that you have to the point of the prime minister, the man who has continuously been slapped by the media and the left-wing politicians We need more daddy.
	Governors harder daddy.
	Oh yeah.
	And then he does it because he doesn't have any spine to just say get lost.
	Well, yeah, then all of this should go, because no one takes it seriously.
	I mean, you may remember, what is it, like, you know, okay, Boris has broken them, Kiyosama broke them when he had that party at Labour HQ. That's the two big people taken care of.
	You also have endless numbers of people in the SNP who broke them.
	You know, you've got, what is it, Neil Ferguson as well, which we'll mention in a minute, who also broke them.
	The guy who instituted the lockdown.
	No one cares.
	No one in the know cares about these restrictions in the UK. And these are the people in the know.
	So what does that say about the restrictions?
	People who enforce them.
	The ones who made it law.
	Anyway, so moving on from this.
	So if we go to the next one, we have the reports that there were many social gatherings at Downing Street because Carrie is addicted to them, says the source.
	Which I'm not shooked.
	Not shooked at all.
	Bad choice, Bojo.
	Anyway, moving on, so we go to Neil Ferguson, just to remind people, of course, of the fact that everyone in the know didn't care.
	And you can see here, Professor Neil Ferguson, lockdown cannot be ruled out to fight Omicron COVID variant.
	All of a sudden, we need no lockdown.
	And as you can probably...
	What was it in July...
	Sorry?
	What was it that they said in July when they lifted all the restrictions the first time?
	Wouldn't happen again?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	And then we got this guy coming back being like, yeah, new lockdown in the works.
	And we also have the government today endlessly talking about Plan B, which is just them instituting passports for COVID. Because, well, they tried it before.
	No one really cared and told them to get stuffed.
	So they've just waited until they can think they can get it through.
	To stop COVID? There's a new variant, so it's definitely necessary this time.
	It has nothing to do with stopping COVID. Because the vaccine passports have worked so well everywhere else.
	The passports themselves have far more to do with control.
	And if we move on from this, just to remind people, Professor Neil Ferguson, who's that guy?
	Well, he got kicked out of Sage because he was out with this lady in the middle of lockdown, cheating on...
	Well, she's cheating on his husband.
	So, she had a husband.
	She's cheating on her husband.
	Yes.
	So, that's that.
	Apparently they had an open marriage, so I mean...
	Morality of that?
	I don't know.
	Imagine getting cooked by this man.
	Yeah, I like Matt Hancock as well.
	Another one.
	He broke the rules.
	He lost his job.
	Boris?
	At least it wasn't Chinon's wife, I guess.
	Anyway, so this is the story here.
	So he resigned after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover.
	I acted in belief that I was immune, he said, after having tested positive for coronavirus and completely isolated myself almost two weeks after developing symptoms.
	So again, a man who is, in his words, able to assess the danger, you know, he's had the virus, therefore he's immune, therefore he can go out, and it'll be fine.
	Or on an individual basis as well.
	Yeah, imagine if everyone else had that kind of privilege.
	Yeah, he didn't extend those rules to anyone else, did he?
	No, no, he is the one who instituted the lockdowns.
	And also, he's now trying to do it again.
	And then, even with the argument being, oh, Omicron, it's like, well, look, we take your reasoning from when you were cheating.
	Almost every one of those countries had the flood, I think.
	Yeah.
	They've had the vaccine, or they've had the virus, pretty much.
	I mean, what percentage of people haven't had one of those two?
	In which case, well, I'd like to bring up your argument when you got caught cheating.
	I think there should be enough respect given to the British public to be able to say I am able to...
	Assess the risks.
	Yeah, assess my own risks.
	But no, no, government says no.
	So they say in here that Miss Stratz...
	Stratz?
	I don't know how you say it.
	It's written weird.
	Stratz.
	A left-wing campaigner who is also understood to be in an open marriage is the lady involved.
	She's got some soy boy leftist boyfriend.
	Yeah, sure, I don't mind.
	Literally.
	But, you know, that's none of my business.
	You enjoy yourself.
	You're a weirdo.
	But Neil Ferguson, being the public figure who introduced the lockdowns, has no such escape.
	But we also can move on from this.
	We also have Jacob Rees-Marc, who decided to step into this, which, bad.
	Look.
	And you have him saying here, at a Christmas party for us at the...
	Institute of Economic Affairs, and he mentions here, we're going to all be obeying the rules and regulations, aren't we?
	And this party is not going to be investigated by the police in a year's time.
	You're all being very carefully socially distant.
	And they all start laughing, because they're obviously not.
	And again, a terrible look for them.
	I mean, if you wanted to institute the lockdowns and the endless restrictions, don't break them.
	Pretty simple rule.
	Yeah.
	No one achieved that.
	Kind of undermines how effective they look.
	Yeah, but also the obviously right thing to do, because you don't care, by your own actions, I mean all of you, I'm not singling out anyone here who's enforced these rules, because it's so obvious that all of them don't care, then don't do it.
	Don't force restrictions on people.
	Let them assess the risk for their own situation.
	They have their own brains, just like you had your own brain, and assess the risk for your situation, and assess it to be fine.
	Other people can do that too.
	The public aren't automatons with no thinking ability.
	Anyway...
	We also move on, because I kind of hate the power dynamics here of the smear merchants all being like, aha, look, we've got a one-over on Boris.
	I'm just like, oh, shut up.
	Who's listening to these people?
	You're not the heroes in this story.
	We do have long-term memories.
	You remember?
	Unfortunately for you.
	Remember this?
	So, politics for all.
	On this day one year ago, Kay Burley, Beth Rigby, and who else cares?
	Some of the most senior journalists in the country broke lockdown rules to have a massive birthday piss-up.
	You remember that?
	Yep.
	They went to multiple places, because they went to some place and it was close, and they went somewhere else.
	It was quite well documented.
	There were a number of photographs going around of them all, well within six feet of each other, maskless.
	And they all got kicked out of the office for a while, because it was like, well, you've embarrassed us.
	Yes.
	All of the journalists, all of the smear merchants.
	So the idea that these people should get any kudos on any of this, go to hell.
	You people are just as bad.
	You were the people calling for the lockdowns.
	You were the people calling for the restrictions.
	So, no, I don't care that if you think Boris Johnson broke them too.
	No, you should never have promoted them.
	Like any sane person.
	But fine.
	We also want to see the response to this if we go to the next one, which is Kay Burley's response to being called out.
	Aww.
	Doesn't like being reminded of it.
	Oops.
	She blocked politics for all there because I'm very upset that, yes, you are a smear merchant.
	By your own definition.
	By your own actions.
	Whatever.
	So if we move on, we also have also the global situation with people just ignoring this crap.
	This is just an example from the bad man.
	I must of course say the very bad man.
	Bad, bad, bad man.
	What a terrible, terrible person.
	Roblin Tomlinson, or whatever it is.
	Here's an example here.
	And Italian school kids are socially distant by meter and windows remain open.
	Politicians in Italy and other VIPs amassed for the prima della scala.
	One rule for them, one rule for you.
	And you can see some eyebrows here where everyone's socially distanced.
	No, no one is.
	Because, of course.
	It's just one example, Italy here, but the point being that, globally, we saw Nancy Pelosi and all the rest of them in the US. Barack Obama's 60th birthday party.
	Endless numbers.
	Kamala Harris and all her friends, they're sat around in white.
	AOC and those photo shoots where as soon as they think the cameras are off them, they all take the masks off.
	None of them care.
	All of them have assessed the danger in their situation and have assessed that they don't need to do it.
	Why can't you have the same?
	Because you're not in power.
	That's how that works.
	So let's move to the next one here, which is...
	It's been 12 months since this happened?
	Who's been sitting on it for 12 months?
	Who done it?
	Who done the leak?
	Have it a guess.
	Mmm.
	Who could it be?
	Whoever could it be?
	Yeah, it's Dominic Cummings.
	Come on.
	It's really good, and I quite enjoy it.
	And for people who haven't been following, he has his own substack, which he's subscribed to for his inner thoughts about all this as well.
	Because he's trying to monetize it, because he's got to make some money somehow, I assume.
	Yeah, fair play.
	And you have him pointing out in that first tweet there where he was like, it's very unwise for number 10 to lie about this, talking about that they were lying about not having a party.
	And he's like, I've got the tapes, dum-dums.
	So I assume he's the one who released it, and you can see him retweeting there, hashtag regime change is coming.
	And he just seems to be having quite a Victory March gloating session right there.
	Yeah, fair play.
	Fair to him.
	Also, if you read his reasoning on Substack, we don't have time to go into it, but endlessly, he's basically just like, look, these people are incompetent, and if we get rid of them, we can have regime change and then get some better things done.
	Because he was really hopeful, I mean, who wasn't?
	He got the Brexit deal done, okay, more reforms, we can actually get some conservative stuff done.
	And then end up getting, like, bee fights with Carrie Johnson.
	I mean, who cares about her?
	And then nothing happened.
	And just endless disappointment, so he ended up leaving.
	And now he wants regime change, as he puts it, to right those wrongs.
	That is what his mission is.
	What has Boris done other than act as a vessel for leftist policies, just with a bit of a stone on his back holding him back from doing it as fast as Labour would?
	He talks about windmills a lot, and that's about it.
	Oh, okay.
	I mean, you're right, though.
	We've got Brexit.
	That's done.
	Okay.
	That was the point of the election, if you remember, back then.
	So, now what?
	Okay, all the other stuff you promised?
	No.
	Raising taxes.
	Fantastic.
	More diversity and equity within the NHS. We'll take every asylum seeker that just happens to be, I don't know, bored and get in the house.
	But, I mean, there have been some good things.
	I mean, like, Priti Patel's immigration point system.
	That passed.
	That's law.
	But that's Priti Patel's.
	That's not his.
	And then we have Kemi Badenoch, who has done a fantastic job of opposing critical race theory in Parliament, making sure it is illegal to teach in public schools in this country.
	Or Liz Truss going out and opposing Stonewall.
	None of those are him.
	So all of the good conservative policies that have come about have not been as a direct result of Boris.
	No, and he doesn't seem to have supported them in any regard.
	I mean, I don't know on the immigration stuff how much he's supported Preet Patel, but he has definitely not supported Kemi or Liz in their fight back against Stonewall and the LGBTQIA. Yeah, I don't remember him making any statements in regards to any of those.
	No, in fact, he supported them.
	But I do love that Dominic Cummings sees it as his mission in life to just do this now.
	Yeah, okay.
	It's a Count of Monte Cristo situation.
	Yeah, I don't even think he wants to be back in number 10 advising them.
	He just wants rid of Boris and Carrie because he thinks, well, what a waste of space.
	And some other people could do a much better job at doing the reforms that are needed in this country.
	You and me both, Dominic.
	Yeah, and I get the title of this segment from Nigel Farage, who Nigel Farage responded to this whole situation in the next link, by saying this is the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson.
	And I think he is probably right that this will be a cornerstone moment that people will look back on in the slow fall of him.
	Because he's done none of the things he needs to support the people who put him in power.
	No reforms, except from begs of being done.
	Okay, now what?
	You've got loads of time left, but instead he wants to go off and write a book about Churchill or something.
	He's already done that!
	People want you to be Prime Minister, as Dominic put it, when being text from Boris being like, I'm bored, I want to write a book.
	No!
	Do your job!
	So, Nigel making the point that, yeah, okay, if he really is going to do nothing, if he can't turn this around, I mean, Carl recommended, the Chad response to all of this would be to turn around in Parliament and be like...
	Yeah, you're right.
	I don't care about the restrictions.
	Never did.
	And also, I was only pushed into it, and this government was only pushed into it, thanks to the media and you left-wing politicians asking us to be governed harder, Daddy.
	I mean, you imagine, they could go out today and announce vaccine passports, and the Labour response would be, not enough.
	Oh, absolutely.
	That's the point.
	They'd be like, well, we agree, but you should have done it two weeks ago.
	So, you know, you could turn around and do the Chad thing, but he's not going to, so that's not going to happen.
	Well, in which case, this is just going to be a downfall of him.
	I also wanted to mention one more thing in here, which I just found funny, and, you know, yesterday we spent bashing Labour, which is my favourite thing to do, so I thought I'd include this as well, which is that someone actually went out and made fake conservative...
	Leaflets.
	And they're really well made.
	They look pretty legit to me.
	I think it's really funny.
	So you can see here, the Conservative Party is proud of its record on net migration in the UK. And then he's got the graphs of the explosion in immigration and the Conservatives not doing anything about it.
	Or the mass fast-tracking of Afghan refugees in quotation marks there.
	And so on and so forth.
	We go to the next one as well.
	The Conservative Party proudly welcomes refugees and migrants into Britain with a picture of Boris hanging out of a mosque.
	I think it's funny.
	But anyway, last thing to mention on that.
	Otherwise, yeah, they could do the right thing.
	They won't.
	Of course they won't.
	Let's move on.
	Alright then, so, people may remember about a month and a few weeks ago, on October 21st, some news broke out, which we can see here, which was that Alec Baldwin shot some people on a film set by accident.
	And for all intents and purposes, this does seem like it was an accident.
	Just as a reminder, it was on the set of a new film, a little independent film that he was working on called Rust, which was a western, and he was handling a prop gun, which is...
	For all intents and purposes, a real gun for a shot.
	They were adjusting some stuff, and the gun went off, and it ended up killing the director of photography, a woman called Helena Hutchins, and also wounding the director of the film, a man called Joel Sousa.
	Since then, this has sort of gone a bit dark, until...
	until...
	Alec Baldwin decided he needed to come out and let us all know that he's definitely not the victim.
	Wink, wink.
	Yeah, because he came out recently and did this, if you want to move along, John.
	He did an interview with ABC talking about the full events and his responsibilities in them of what happened on the Rust set, which seems to be an interesting tactic to go for.
	I'm sure there is a police investigation going on into this at the moment.
	I'm sure...
	Baldwin's lawyers are currently on standby, and they probably said, don't do this, for the love of God, what are you doing?
	Don't do this!
	Because any lawyer will tell you, stay very quiet while there is still an investigation going on.
	And Alex said, no, no, I must speak to the people.
	They need to hear what I have to say.
	And honestly, the interview is very strange and...
	A little bit conspiratorial, I would say, so I thought it would be interesting to go through some of the choice clips from throughout it, because it is also interesting to sort of build a timeline of the events that make me think that, no, Alec, this is all of your fault, but we'll get into that before I poison the well any further.
	So let's just play the first clip where he's talking about why it is that he felt the need to do this interview, along with the follow-up of...
	How he definitely doesn't want to be seen as the victim, guys, I swear.
	A couple that I did concern myself about were there were these authoritative statements about this is what happened.
	The Sheriff's Department hasn't even released a report to the DA yet.
	The reason I wanted to sit down with you is because I really feel like I can't wait for that process to end in February, March, I mean, I'm not asking them to speed it up for my benefit.
	That's ridiculous.
	But I am saying that they're going to do what they need to do, and I wanted to come to talk to you to say that I would go to any lengths to undo what happened.
	I would go to any lengths to undo what happened.
	I think the big question, and the one you must have asked yourself a thousand times, how could this have happened?
	Well, there's two things I want to say about that.
	One is that when I talk about this, My concern is that I don't sound like I'm the victim.
	Hmm.
	Two things there, Alec.
	One, you just said the Sheriff's Department still hasn't even put in the full report to the DA. So why are you doing this?
	This is not the time to be doing interviews on this thing and turning it into a press tour.
	Two...
	How can you not be trying to portray yourself in some form of sympathetic light by coming out to tell your side of the story before any of the rest of the investigation is done?
	He's trying to demonize himself.
	Obviously.
	This whole thing comes across as incredibly cynical.
	I do believe that he does want to, if he could, go back and have that not happen.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Um...
	Too bad.
	Yeah, too bad.
	This is something that happened.
	You're going to have to live with it.
	And moving forward, this is not the best way of handling any negative press that comes about as a result of it.
	So then, if we move on to the next clip, we can see him talking about how it's definitely not his responsibility that the gun went off when it was in his hand.
	And the second thing is, is that all of what happened on that day leading up to this event was precipitated on one idea, and that is that Helena and I had something profound in common, and that is we both assumed the gun was empty, other than those, you know, dummy rounds.
	Weird way of phrasing it.
	This is what I mean.
	There is a certain level of very managed and sanitized production value that has very obviously gone into this interview.
	And it all seems to be trying to paint Alec, once again, in the very sympathetic light and take away any blame and responsibility for that gun going off from him.
	But I'm sorry, Alec, if the gun is in your hand, whether or not you assume it's empty or has dummy rounds in it, that's still your responsibility, no matter what happens with that gun.
	I mean, I'm not a gun owner, but you earnestly hear from American gun owners, rule 101, never point a gun at someone, even if it's unloaded.
	Well, he does have an answer to that as we carry on.
	So after that, he does...
	Because I don't want to just play the whole interview the whole way through.
	I'll sum up a few things.
	So he does talk about why he chose to make the film Rust.
	Apparently, it was quite low budget.
	It was like $5 million, an independent film, which $5 million is very, very cheap for a film.
	I know it sounds like a lot of money.
	You don't have to look so dour, Callum.
	I just forget what some people think is not a lot of money.
	Well, when you talk We're talking about Hollywood in most films.
	He was very excited for the film and was very hands-on with the production.
	And what they don't talk about in terms of how hands-on he was in the interview, which is once again why it comes across so cynical to me, is how they mention how he's a producer on it and therefore had some element of hands-on with the production.
	They don't mention that the production company making the film, El Dorado Films, is owned by him.
	And they also don't mention, as part of this interview with ABC, that El Dorado Films has a deal with ABC Studios, who are obviously in affiliation with ABC, the people conducting the interview.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	How cynical is that?
	I mean, dear God.
	The whole thing just comes across to me like a massive and obvious attempt by ABC to save whatever they can from this burning wreckage of an investment they have in front of them.
	I mean, is he trying to save his own studio at this point?
	Because they've lost 5 mil on that film.
	He's trying to make back some of that 5 mil doing these interviews.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I mean, he's trying to save his reputation, and it's obvious that ABC also have quite the vested interest in being able to wash their hands of it as well.
	This company that we have a partnership with, and which the guy who owns it we're doing the interview with, he did nothing wrong.
	Oh, I'm very shocked.
	And one of the other things that they get onto a little bit later is the fact that the armourer on the set, who's like a prop master, obviously the person who handles all the weapons and has all the gun knowledge, was a woman called Hannah Gutierrez-Reed...
	Who was 24 years old at the time, and whose father is a well-respected armourer within Hollywood, and she was like the master armourer on set, which is quite an important position for someone so young to be holding, especially when their father has got some pull in the industry, shall we say.
	So it seems to be a clear case of nepotism, and the question is brought up, Did you have any hand in her hiring?
	Did you think she was a good hire given how inexperienced she was and how young she was?
	Hang on.
	Is she the one who's responsible for putting live rounds in there?
	I believe so.
	As an armourer, I believe your duties are to obviously handle the gun, teach the people on set how to use the guns properly and handle them properly, and also is in charge of any of the rounds.
	There's also another person who was on set called Dave Halls, who was the assistant director who also had responsibility for holding the guns.
	They go into it all in the interview.
	And at the end of any take where they were using a gun for whatever reason, it would either be Hannah or Dave Halls that they had to pass the gun over to.
	And the other thing is that dummy rounds that he did mention there are apparently different from blank rounds.
	Because blanks actually do have some kind of charge in them that they can go off.
	that create the puff of smoke and stuff.
	Whereas dummy rounds just look like a bullet.
	But at the same time, you should never assume these things.
	Especially because prop guns, people talk about prop guns like they're their own special thing.
	No, they're just guns.
	They're just guns that are on the set and you don't...
	Rule 101.
	Don't point a gun at someone.
	Yeah, don't point a gun at someone.
	And if you are going to, don't just assume that it's completely safe to do so before you carry on.
	Because that's the other aspect.
	If you'd shot a fellow actor that was filming the scene and he was meant to shoot the guy and he shoots the guy and I know it's real bullets and he dies...
	the random like photographer yeah but uh but yeah once again with with hannah gutierrez reed he mentions that he didn't hire anyone but the people who do pass the choices on to him and they're just like oh what do you think and it seems that he was sort of had a very laissez-faire attitude towards the whole thing which was well if you think they're good enough you know whatever which uh once again is trying to diminish your own responsibility into this uh
	But if we carry on, we've got another clip where he's describing Helena, who is the woman who obviously died in this situation.
	And I just want to show his reaction, because obviously this is still a tragedy.
	He did kill somebody accidentally, so he does have a great deal of regret in regards to this.
	So we can just play this.
	People who watch The Daily said that her work was beautiful.
	She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and liked by everyone who worked with and admired.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, so obviously still quite emotional for him.
	But at the same time, with the music and everything, there's a certain insincerity.
	It may just be the way American filming goes and editing, but if that was British, you'd just play the crying.
	You wouldn't add music, you wouldn't have like three cuts in there.
	You wouldn't try and dramatise the thing, you know?
	Yeah, and he does begin crying again later on when he's discussing something else that's somewhat less morally substantive, you could say, than having murdered...
	Well, not murdered, obviously, that implies intent, but having killed somebody...
	But it goes on and talks about how the film was only supposed to be in production for 21 days in total because it was such a low-budget feature, which kind of shows that there was so much going wrong on the film within just a few weeks that Alec as the producer should have taken more responsibility and should have known what was going on more.
	So it started on October 6th and Baldwin himself showed up on October 11th.
	And within the space of a few days of him showing up, the entire production crew was already striking.
	Because there had been two accidental discharges of firearms on the set already by that point.
	So it's like, Alex, your job as a producer was not being...
	You were not taking the appropriate seriousness with it.
	And then we can hear also what kind of training...
	Obviously, you would have thought after that's happened twice, to the point that people are striking, any more interaction with firearms would be so strictly controlled.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And you should probably check what's...
	If two guns have already discharged accidentally, you should probably...
	Or you should probably just at least check what's in them before you handle them.
	But we can see what kind of training he went through with the guns with Hannah Gutierrez.
	Read in this clip here.
	We spent an hour and a half shooting the pistol.
	Her giving me all her safety instructions.
	Did you think she was up to the job?
	I assume because she was there and she was hired, she was up for the job.
	And nothing she did raised any red flags with you?
	No.
	This training course you do, what did she tell you?
	She said things like, remember this is a blank route, so you have to create the discharge yourself because there's no projectile.
	Okay, that sounds quite lax in terms of the sort of training that you'd expect with a firearm, and also, once again, trying to diminish and just dismiss any responsibility that he had by just being like, well, I just assumed.
	To be honest, though, there's a bit of me like, there is no way anyone in charge of firearms on set wouldn't immediately say, don't point out at someone.
	And I'm thinking, when he's looking back at, you know, you can see him, like, some cogs turning of him thinking what you're reminded to say.
	Yeah.
	He's never going to say that, yeah, I was told by the armourer, don't point at someone.
	Because then immediately it's his fault, and only his fault.
	Exactly.
	But yeah, there's a bit more information here.
	Well, I mean, the thing is, he talks about how Hannah wasn't just the armourer, she was also the assistant prop master.
	And the interviewer rightly brings up, okay, she's doing a dual role on a very small production...
	Where there is a very limited amount of time that all of this is supposed to be going down.
	So, is it that she could have been stretched and wasn't, you know, attending to her duties properly?
	And Baldwin basically just goes, Ah, low-budget films!
	Everyone's stretched on low-budget films!
	I'm stretched on low-budget films!
	So, you know, like, what are you going to do?
	But the thing is that, once again, does not absolve you of any responsibilities, Alec.
	We all know...
	We have many examples of what happens on stretched and stressed out film sets.
	I mean, obviously the most immediate comparison that you can make to this whole incident, which everybody already has made, was with The Crow from the early 90s.
	Are you aware of that situation?
	Just for anybody, Callum included, who may not be aware, The Crow was the film set where Brandon Lee died when he got shot in a very similar manner by a prop gun during the filming of one scene, but this was a scene where he was supposed to be being shot by another actor.
	Makes far more sense.
	Primarily due to the fact that there was a massively overworked, tired, and very stressed out production crew on hand.
	And another one that people don't bring to mind, but should more often because it is such a tragedy, was you know about the Twilight Zone, right?
	You've heard of it at least.
	Yes.
	They did a film in the 1980s, which was like a compilation of different stories done by different directors.
	And one done by John Landis involved a scene where they were having a helicopter flying above people at night.
	And due to how reckless the production was and how stressed out and tired everyone was, the helicopter, when they were filming the scene, came down on the primary actor, Vic Morrow, killing him.
	And his final act as the helicopter came down on him, it's gruesome and horrible, was trying to protect the two children who were extras for the scene, who both also died.
	So you've got to recognise the dangers that come with any film production when you're involved with heavy machinery or guns.
	Whether or not you just want to say, ah, you know, everyone's stressed out, everyone's stretched.
	You don't have time to worry about that sort of stuff.
	Also, I don't care.
	Like, you think you're special because you're in Hollywood, therefore it's okay to be negligent.
	If this was on a work site, and you'd overworked the men's to the point that someone had died in the factory, the factory only couldn't be like, ah, come on, everyone overworks their staff to this point.
	Yeah.
	No, the negligence is still there.
	And it's not like there weren't already massive signs of what was going on.
	Once again, there were the two accidental discharges, and there was a man called Lane Lupra, who was the first camera assistant, who on the 18th of October emailed his resignation...
	To the production company, citing safety concerns on the sets.
	And this was apparently the first time that Alec had heard anything about issues with the production, despite the fact that Lane's resignation cited the two discharges and said that everybody was tired, there was no rest, and the accommodation for the crew was like two hours away.
	So by the time everybody even got to set, they'd already had to not have enough sleep, because getting there to and from already took up, you know, four hours in total.
	So, he already knew, should have known, I should say, that there was bad stuff going on set, but you can see him here when everybody started to strike, his response to that, if you want to play this clip.
	This photo, posted by Helena, showed the cast and crew in solidarity with IATSE, the international alliance of theatrical stage employees, which had been on the verge of a strike.
	And Alec posted this on Instagram.
	And I want to say to the people in IATSE, do what you need to do.
	You want to go on strike?
	Go on strike.
	Because I'll tell you something about the executives.
	They don't give a f*** about you.
	So, standing there in solidarity with the striking crew who all left on the 21st of October, which is the day it happened.
	Didn't stop him from carrying on the production with non-union production crew, though.
	Wow.
	Yep.
	So, another case of Alex seemingly being disingenuous to save face.
	Isn't he a big, like, left-wing advocate as well?
	Yes, he's a big anti-Trump, anti-gun advocate.
	I am shook.
	I know, right?
	I'm shook that the anti-gun activist knows nothing about how to handle guns.
	Yeah, but he says that this guy who emailed his resignation, Lane, that his main complaint to him personally was that they needed better hotel rooms and didn't mention anything about any other dangerous incidents on set.
	But, once again, how could you not have known that two guns had already accidentally discharged when they shouldn't have on set?
	When this ends up going to court, that's going to be laid out and he won't have a defence.
	Yeah.
	So you're either a very unconvincing liar or just kind of dumb, Alec.
	Sorry to break that to you.
	And then we can see once again him talking about his solidarity with the production crew, if you want to play this one.
	because what i was about to do which i've done on any number of films and tv projects was to give more of my salary back to the production to pay for x and i was about to say to him let me know what it would be to be and be you guys in a house that's closer to the how we can address your problem i will be happy to contribute to that the next day they were gone so you had no sense from anyone on the set that people had been stretched to the point where safety was compromised no no
	i never heard one word about that no no Explain the resignation.
	Yeah, explain the resignation, which clearly laid out the concerns.
	Explain how you somehow didn't know that two guns are discharged when they shouldn't have.
	And let's move on to the next clip as well, where he's talking about the nature of the low budget.
	Were costs being cut at the expense of safety and security?
	In my opinion, no, because I did not observe any safety or security issues at all in the time I was there.
	Once again, how can anyone believe you in that circumstance?
	You're either lying or just massively incompetent, Alec.
	I mean, honestly.
	But then it carries on with a little bit more background.
	So October 21st is the day where the incident happened.
	Lane and the other production crew walk off set.
	The non-union crew show up.
	Once again, obviously don't care enough to halt the production until they get what they're asking for.
	He tries to play it off at one point that the people judging him in the mainstream press don't understand what it's like to be in a film set.
	And he's like, oh, you know...
	I used to love filmmaking so much and then all of a sudden I just stopped after a while and this film was what was bringing me back to my love of filmmaking.
	I've worked with Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep and he starts crying again.
	Except this time, unlike the other time he cried, you can see that he's actually got tears running down his face.
	Which makes the first one seem...
	Weirdly insincere.
	Not saying anything definitive there, it just once again makes it seem very strange.
	But then he says that on that day he was handed what was called a cold gun.
	What he was told was a cold gun, and in his experience a hot gun means that there is something in it, like live ammunition, whereas a cold gun means there's nothing in it.
	But then he clarifies to say that cold gun means dummy rounds, but that could also mean blank rounds, which are the ones that can kill people.
	But once again, whether or not you are told that there's something in it or not, you still check it yourself.
	That doesn't absolve you of the responsibility.
	Also, you never point it at someone.
	Yeah, also don't point it at someone.
	But then, talking about that, we can see this clip here talking about how the actual incident happened.
	But we kept doing this news, so then I said to her, now in this scene I'm going to cock the gun.
	And I said, do you want to see that?
	And she said, yes.
	So I take the gun and I start to cock the gun.
	I'm not going to pull the trigger.
	I said, do you see that?
	She goes, well, just cheat it down and tilt it down a little bit like that.
	And I cocked the gun and I go, can you see that?
	Can you see that?
	Can you see that?
	And she says, and I let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off.
	Sorry, what?
	So you're pointing at the photographer here.
	Yes.
	You cocking the gun...
	And then she says, oh, you're done now.
	I'll just, like, lackadaisically just throw my finger off of it.
	I mean, because the thing is...
	I mean, this is his excuse for pointing it at someone, right?
	Yeah.
	He needs to see what it looks like.
	They were setting up a shot, yes.
	Right.
	But once again, that just shows kind of a weird irresponsibility of the production crew that they would just be happy to not do any movie magic, like just, you know, point the camera at a mirror so he's not actually having to point it at anyone.
	They might not have a mirror around, that's fair, but then, you know...
	I mean, they've got five million dollars, they could surely afford a mirror.
	Well, you know, low budget.
	But if you're at the point where you're like, right, okay, no, I need to check it, we have to get the photography right so you can see how it looks when I'm pointing the gun at you.
	Okay, fair enough, whatever, right?
	Well, in which case, you would triple bloody check that there are goddamn bullets in it.
	Yeah, but he's basically like, yeah, you know, like, in my experience, you just never check, you know, even though people like George Clooney have come out and been like, no, Alec, you always check.
	But to anyone who wants a gun...
	Yes.
	I mean, being an anti-gun advocate, then...
	Obviously, if you knew something about guns in the first place, Alec, maybe this would have been avoided.
	Not to be unsympathetic, of course.
	But yeah, and then you can see this clip where it starts to get conspiratorial.
	It was like seeing aliens.
	It was utter disbelief over the idea.
	It was unacceptable, the idea that it was a live round.
	And finally, one of the police officers at the conclusion of my interview, I was there for like an hour and a half or so, she takes her phone and she slides it across from me and she says, that's what came out of Joel's shoulder.
	A.45 caliber slug was a real bullet.
	So there you can see where it's starting to get reframed.
	It wasn't just an accident on an irresponsibly managed set.
	It was, someone put a bullet in the gun, and I want to find out who put it there.
	This is not one of your films, Alec.
	It's not some grand conspiracy.
	It's pretty obvious what happened.
	I mentioned this before we started, but there's some memes.
	It's like Agent 47 planted the bullets.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And a hit.
	There was no, like, government interference, somebody sneaking on set to plant a live bullet in your gun.
	No, it was an irresponsibly managed set where everyone was stressed, tired, you had production crew who had just arrived that day, an inexperienced armourer, and in the chaos and confusion, obviously the wrong type of ammunition was put in the gun, handed to you, you were too stupid to check, and then this happens.
	I don't see any grand conspiracy about it, it just seems like...
	I mean, I assume it's a revolver or something.
	It was a Colt.45 revolver.
	Take out the bullets so we can cog it back safely.
	In fact, actually, a Colt.45 surely would be one of the easiest ones to check what's in it because, you know, it's got one of those wheels where you can see.
	But even if you don't want to take the bullets fully out because you might have to put them back in and that's work, I mean, at least, like, you know, slide it to the side so the bullets aren't going to be hit by the hammer.
	Yeah, but whatever.
	But yeah, and then we've just got two more clips on this, so if we just play the next one.
	People said to me, I mean, I got countless people online saying, you idiot, you never point a gun at someone.
	Well, unless you're told it's empty, and it's the director of photography who's instructing you on the angle for a shot we're going to do.
	And she and I had this thing in common where we both thought it was empty, and it wasn't.
	And that's not her responsibility, that's not my responsibility, whose responsibility remains to be seen.
	Yep, it remains to be seen.
	Why is he saying that?
	Because he knows it's going to go to court, and it'll be between him and the armourer, who is more responsible here, fundamentally is going to be you.
	Yes, obviously.
	The person holding the gun is responsible for whatever happens with that gun.
	Whether you want to accept that or not.
	And then we can just play the last clip where he's just the whole time doubling down, diminishing his own responsibilities and trying to deflect it onto, like...
	But how did the bullet get in the gun?
	So let's go ahead with that.
	What is the actor's responsibility?
	I guess that's a tough question because the actor's responsibility going this day forward is very different than it was the day before that.
	Now I can't...
	First of all, I can't imagine I'd ever do a movie that had a gun in it again.
	And I can't.
	Too late for that.
	When you say what is the actor's responsibility, the actor's responsibility is to...
	Do what the prop armorer tells them to do.
	And we did not have a problem.
	I mean, I understand there was an accidental discharge at one point on the set of a blank round, but we did not have a problem for me until that day.
	Everything gets slowed down, Zapruder film-esque here.
	And the issue with that is there's only one question to be resolved, only one.
	That is, where did the live round come from?
	I know.
	Probably the box the rounds were in.
	Yeah.
	Probably from a member of the production crew.
	Unless he's trying to argue that the live round came from the armorer, therefore it's their fault, not mine.
	I sense a little bit of that sort of, like, trying to twist it around and pivot the whole situation.
	But at the end of the day, Alec, you were the one with the bullet, with the gun in your hand.
	I had a little bit more, but we've ran over time massively on this.
	So, just to sum up, this interview is...
	Incredibly cynical, highly sanitized and manufactured, and I think it's probably one of the most disgusting attention grabs and victimhood status-seeking things I've ever seen.
	Anyway, let's move on to, uh, Right-Wing Strong.
	I've got to rename this afterwards, but I have no idea what to call it, so, uh...
	I think Right-Wing Strong.
	Right-Wing, very strong.
	Poland into space.
	Says it all.
	Anyway, so, uh, The Right-Wing, strong.
	Very strong.
	And, uh, Man Upset about Right-Wing being strong.
	I mean, it's got French in the title, so strong men, obviously.
	This is David French being afraid of the strong men, particularly the Right-Wing being strong.
	So, this is the Atlantic Island cult titled The New Right Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness.
	Dangerous.
	It's dangerous to be tough.
	How dare you be tough?
	That's bad.
	Be weak.
	You're more difficult to control if you're tough.
	Yeah, and this instantly reminded me of a lot of memes which have come around to describing the right wing in recent years, so I thought we'd just enjoy some of them first, which is, of course, this right, we have an old Guardian article, if we go to the next one, in which, uh, do you boast about your fitness?
	Watch out, you'll unavoidably become right wing!
	Good to know!
	Great!
	Right-wing people, take care of themselves.
	Alright, next.
	This is not a dunk on the right-wing.
	This is where the stupid, sexy right-wingers comes from.
	Left-wing outlet, the Guardian, is like, yeah, well, the right-wingers, they take care of themselves.
	Good to know.
	And if we move on from this...
	Honestly, we can see how the left-wing doesn't take care of themselves.
	They wear it proudly.
	Yeah, but I love when the police get involved in this meme, which I wouldn't expect.
	There you can see here, Bedfordshire Police, verified checkmark.
	Get off Twitter.
	Wait, what are you doing on Twitter?
	Do you think you could spot signs of right-wing extremism?
	Do you know when someone would have hashtagged cross the line, says the police?
	And if we can go on the image, it's a graphic that says, what will you decide, cross the line?
	And it's someone getting a text, and the text says, Hey, it was good to meet you yesterday at the gym.
	I'm going out tonight.
	Want to join?
	Question mark.
	That's it.
	That's right-wing extremism.
	Are you going to allow yourself to become radicalised by lifting weights, or are you going to eat the doughnuts?
	But also, I just like that if there is nothing in there that's descriptive of anything except maybe the gym part, right?
	So, presumably, going to the gym is the right-wing extremism from the police.
	Thanks, Bedfordshire Police.
	Also agree with The Guardian.
	From this, I can only assume that it's quite easy to run away from the Bedfordshire Police.
	Presumably.
	They want to become right-wing extremists.
	They clinically avoid any exercise.
	Breakfast, dinner, and lunch.
	Part of the Prevent programme.
	Get fat.
	So we go to the next one.
	This isn't the first time even they continued with this and as you can see it starts with a guy you meet at the gym and ends with someone lying in the street.
	Would you cross the line?
	How far would you go?
	This is all coming across to me like the way that over lockdowns they just kept shutting down the gyms as well so you know anything you could do to make yourself feel better.
	They're far right hotspots.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	The neo-Nazis are all meeting in the gyms.
	You go to the gym, and you work out, and by the end of it, you're just killing black people.
	You do one too many reps, you look in the mirror, and your arms are just covered in SWAT stickers.
	Boy, it's a very slippery slope there.
	Anyway, that's according to the police.
	I hate this country.
	And the left-wing media, which, I mean, you can't expect from them, but they're Back to David French.
	He's very upset.
	So he writes here, the new writes strange and dangerous cult of toughness.
	An emerging culture idolizes a twisted version of toughness as the highest ideal and despises a false version of weakness as the lowest vice.
	So there's a false version of weakness and a fake version of toughness.
	It's like, right, okay, so what the hell is he talking about?
	In my experience, it's the left that tends to twist language in such a way, not the right.
	But, you know, the right might have learned a few tricks.
	So he says in here, last month at the National Conservatism Conference, a gathering of hundreds of leaders and members of a movement that hopes to represent a new, less libertarian American right.
	One of its speakers, a lawyer named Josh Hammer, delivered a strange denunciation of fusionism.
	Such an American name.
	Yes.
	For those not steeped in the language of conservatism, fusionism refers to the alliance among economic conservatives, social conservatives, and defense hawks forged during the Reagan administration.
	It was designed to confront the government overreach at home and the threat of Soviet tyranny.
	I was going to say, the Reagan administration was pretty successful against the Soviets.
	Yeah, I mean, you could see why it's a positive movement.
	Well, the problem with fusionism, as would be described by the conservatives, is it's weak.
	It's fundamentally weak at fighting culture.
	And he decries in here, he says, however, so one of the conservative arguments, fusionism, Hammer said, is inherently effeminate, limp, and as Hillsdale College David R. Z. might say, unmasculine.
	It makes for a cowardly way to approach politics, in part because it ensues never having to face pushback from one's political opponents on the most contested issues.
	So that's the argument being put by the conservatives.
	And what I think he's talking to, and what I hope I'm right about as he's talking to, is the fact that it is weak on cultural change.
	You might be able to get good foreign policy objectives, like getting rid of the evil empire, which, you know, cool.
	You're not going to be mad at those people for doing that.
	But on the cultural front, you let things by the net.
	Things getting in that really shouldn't be getting into your movement.
	And we've seen that very much with UK Conservatives, haven't we?
	But we'll go to the US for some examples, and if we go to the next one, we have the Libertarian Party, which...
	So they say in here in this tweet, saying that Black Lives Matter isn't an endorsement of the organisation Black Lives Matter, it's an endorsement of the movement calling for criminal justice reform, an end to the drugs war and abolishing qualified immunity and holding agents of the state accountable.
	Think for a minute.
	What does the criminal justice reform mean to the Black Lives Matter movement?
	It means moving away from individual justice and moving towards racial justice or social justice, whichever one they picked this evening.
	And you can see this in action with their response to their martyrs and their devils and, well, with one of their martyrs, Jacob Blake.
	Oh, yes.
	He may have had a knife when he was shot by the police.
	Doesn't matter, though, because he is black.
	Yes.
	That's the argument.
	That's the level of debate.
	I mean, that's basically it.
	As somebody who's quite partial to some libertarian views, I do not stand by this.
	In the slightest, this is pathetic.
	This is why many on the right see the Libertarian Party as cringe.
	Yes, this is very cringe.
	On this issue, I think correct.
	And, of course, you can compare it to one of the devils of BLM, one of the people they hate, Carl Rittenhouse, who may have been defending himself from BLM rioters and attempted murderers.
	But he was white.
	Supposedly.
	Therefore guilty.
	I mean, yeah, legally he's Hispanic, so...
	Yes.
	But it doesn't really matter.
	This is the way they think.
	This is what the criminal justice reform that they are describing when they talk about racial justice.
	Because by definition, racial justice is not individual justice.
	It is what your race deserves, not what the individual deserves.
	Which is why it's bad.
	Well, it's not right-wing.
	It's something we shouldn't promote, libertarians, but...
	Well, I mean...
	See that, I don't think.
	I think the thing there is that the libertarians...
	Libertarian arguments do have arguments against certain elements of criminal justice in the police system, but this just looks like they are projecting what they think it is onto the BLM movement.
	Then you don't stand next to BLM talking about such things, because...
	Well, yeah.
	It's very cringe and stupid.
	We agree with BLM on criminal justice reform.
	It's like, what?
	I mean, you've got these tentacles in your hands...
	And it's like, maybe you just promote what you want, like the end of the drug war, right?
	This collectivism really appeals to my libertarian principles.
	This is what I mean by letting things by the net.
	You could talk about the end of the drug war and all the rest of it, but putting your hands in the BLM sewer, it just makes your hand smell.
	So, let's move on.
	So, if we go to the other examples of this kind of conversation, we have it in Britain, of course, with David Cameron, who gave a speech, and as you can see, titled here by the BBC at the time, State Multiculturalism Has Failed, Says David Cameron.
	I mean, this was a breath of fresh air at the time and everyone was shocked.
	How could it be if we have loads of ghettos that never intermingle?
	We won't have a British culture instead.
	London.
	Big shock.
	Wait, you mean that foreign cultures don't all just get along?
	No, we have to integrate them.
	Anyway, so he says in here, quote, Frankly, we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and much more active muscular liberalism, the Prime Minister said.
	And, yeah, migration control and incentives and disincentives to integrate isn't very libertarian.
	But it is necessary to keep what we have from becoming what we are importing.
	And if you don't do it, then the country is going to look like what you import and not what you had before.
	And this is where libertarians are weak and where we need that tough conservatism there on that point.
	The social conservatives of that.
	I think this is why there is a certain sect that I've only really encountered online, where there is a certain branch, like people like Sean, actual Justice Warrior, who would consider themselves conservatarians, who have certain libertarian principles, but they marry them with more culturally conservative principles at the same time.
	I mean, you know, the libertarians are never going to be the enemies of the right or something, but there is just a lot there where you're just like, stop being cringe.
	And this is an example of it.
	I have read Mises and there was one point where I was agreeing with everything he said until he just went, yes, a true liberal will support open borders.
	And I was like...
	Yes, this is what I presume he's talking to, which is why you have the Conservatives always saying, stop being weak, and this is what they're hitting on, is the cultural issue.
	So anyway, back to the article.
	So in here, he says in here, long-time fusionists who are veterans not just of the intense and consequential debates surrounding foreign policy during the Cold War and the War on Terror, but also of countless successful courtroom contests designed to expand the First Amendment rights in the face of government censorship might be startled by this news.
	And...
	Maybe, but I mean, if they'd actually seen what's been going on and the changes to the country, and then thinking, ah, maybe we should do something about that, they wouldn't be styled.
	But it's hardly the oddest part of Hammer's critique.
	Fusionism is unmasculine.
	How is that claim a part of an alleged serious ideological argument?
	The critique, however, helps illuminate the emerging culture of the right, a culture that idolizes a twisted version of toughness as the highest ideal, despises the false version of weakness as the lowest vice.
	This is just a repackaged way of saying toxic masculinity.
	It's kind of, yeah.
	As far as I can tell.
	Imagine having the courage of your convictions.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, that was what was missing.
	So we brought it into politics.
	Boris Johnson has shown that a true conservative is spineless.
	You know what we really need is people who say, I want to do X, and they just not do it.
	That's the old conservative way which we enjoy.
	It's like, no, actually I'd like if Trump said, I'm going to build a damn wall and then build the fucking wall.
	Yes.
	It has all the funding there.
	I mean, it's very sad that Joe Biden came in and decided to just cut up the funding, so there are huge holes in it, but that's, you know, that's down to who won the election.
	Anyway, so going on from this, he says, claims of cowardice have particularly purchased among Trump followers.
	Coward is a one-word rebuttal that not only attempts to end an argument, but also aims to discredit the person who made it.
	Who wants to listen to a coward?
	Who wants to be known as a coward?
	Good questions.
	Maybe don't be a coward.
	Fundamentally.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you say, for example, in Britain, that we need to integrate immigrants, as David Cameron was, right?
	You know, he's out there giving that speech.
	That's him saying, we need to change this, and therefore he's got some, you know, the correct ideas, in fact.
	And there are a lot of people who were reeing about that at the time.
	They're like, no, no, no, let's keep all these ghettos, never touching, never intermingling.
	Let's not have their children meet.
	Well, to be fair, it does give them an excellent example to point to about unequal outcomes of But their argument would always be, not because they want to destroy the country, but, oh no, we can't challenge multiculturalism because then we'll look racist.
	Yes, complete relativism.
	You're a coward.
	You're a moron.
	You're going to get this country destroyed with your cowardice.
	And that's exactly what's being hit on.
	Anyway, so what makes the claims of toughness and weakness especially curious and dangerous is the way in which they are tied to the person of Donald Trump.
	example of courage but that doesn't get through this guy although toughness has long been a populist virtue especially in the south the age of trump transformed the right's definition of strength and courage by reference to the man himself and what are trump's elects strength strong masculine virtues and he goes on to attack him for trying to not go to vietnam i say okay but that's not what the masculine virtues are yeah okay strengthening your convictions does not mean that you have to go and be a bully like
	Like, it's President Trump they're looking to.
	Candidate Trump.
	Not, you know, entrepreneur Trump, right?
	Yeah, from back in the 70s.
	Whatever.
	Okay.
	So, I'm just going to skip over that because it's just kind of silly.
	It's like, no one's looking to that.
	Otherwise, that man wouldn't be...
	That man wasn't president, you idiot.
	Anyway.
	So, he continues.
	This is a curious definition of manliness.
	Saying what you think, or what others seem afraid to say, isn't inherently manly.
	Sorry, let's read that again.
	This is a curious definition of manliness.
	Saying what you think or what others seem afraid to say isn't inherently manly.
	You're an idiot.
	Having courage is manly.
	Why would it not be manly?
	I mean, having the courage, everyone in the room doesn't want to talk about the elephant in the room.
	Let's say it's multiculturalism, right?
	And, you know, someone has the balls to stand up and say, this isn't working.
	This is going to get the country destroyed.
	We have to build a wall, beautiful wall, make the French pay for it.
	And that's courage.
	That's the courage of your convictions.
	And also, why is it that these attributes could be classified as manly is because women don't want cowards, generally speaking.
	These are attributes that can draw, you know...
	Well, because it's what makes a man.
	Yeah.
	You know, what is a man in your mind?
	You know, that role.
	What's the ideal man?
	And a man is definitely someone who is courageous.
	Yes.
	It's not someone who is afraid, timid, and weak.
	And two of the P's provide and protect.
	Mm.
	And you provide and you protect by standing by your convictions and having courage.
	But also warning of the threats that are taking place before everyone.
	Everyone can see it, but everyone is denying what they can see.
	And no, Donald Trump and a lot of other people have come to the fore, at least as the populace, and said, well, what everyone can see but refuses to say.
	Speaking your mind isn't inherently virtuous, much less inherently masculine.
	Why wouldn't it be?
	If you believe X, and instead you silence yourself, is that courageous?
	No.
	No, it's cowardly.
	Again, it's cowardice, which is not manly.
	Being courageous is manly.
	Anyway.
	So he says, Trump has said many false and harmful things, and the fact that other people might whisper them does not mean that they should be shouted from the presidential bully pulpit.
	Yeah, but the things you're very upset about is him pointing out the problems in the country.
	Him saying that, yeah, we kind of have mass migration, illegal immigration, especially from Mexico, that needs to be sorted out.
	One of the things I love about the history of American immigration as well, you should really look up, there's a great video, it's like, what is it?
	Immigration into the U.S. by state, and it shows you the type of immigration, whether it's Germans, Swedes, Italians, Mexicans, whatever, right?
	Over the years, and you can see the diversity of immigration.
	It's pretty consistent, as in there's loads of different countries that people are coming from, loads of different cultures, right up until very recently, which is just like 90% of the states are just Mexican.
	Yes.
	I'd say that's kind of a predictable conclusion, sadly.
	But also just something no one talks about, which I find interesting.
	I mean, people on the left absolutely hate to acknowledge that diversity refers to more than just skin colour.
	Especially with immigration.
	Anyway, so, the next quote from him.
	The weakness-slash-strength dichotomy works as a shield and sword.
	Any critique of Trump, Trumpism, or the new right can be dismissed as evidence of mere cowardice or fragility.
	Well, because it usually is.
	We usually have some weak conservatives who are like, no, we can't talk about that, we'll lose votes.
	And it's like, yeah, but if we don't talk about it, we'll lose the country.
	Pick one.
	Yeah.
	So, the never-Trumpers and classical liberals aren't strong enough to fight the right, the new right tells itself.
	Rather than doing what it takes to stand against the left, they retreat into the shelter of elitist spaces where the left welcomes them with open arms.
	Hmm.
	Who can you think of of the old movement, who didn't have any strength to be proper conservative, especially in public, and has become very elitist in response to being thrown out, and has been welcomed into the left's arms?
	You're going to have to enlighten me on that one.
	Mitt Romney.
	Oh, big surprise.
	I mean, we'll just go to the next article to prove this, which is just why Mitt Romney marched with BLM. This is it.
	This is exactly what you're talking about, David.
	David.
	Specific example.
	Look to Mitt for no further.
	You can get a man who is a coward, had no conviction to stand up for conservatism, and instead just buckled.
	Because immediately he was like, well, you know, racial justice.
	No, it's not individual justice.
	No one wants that crap.
	I know there are a number of conservatives who would also, obviously he's dead now, but lay the same claim at John McCain.
	I'm not too familiar with him.
	Well, apparently he was a very, very anti-Trump sort of going over into the Democratic establishment when previously, obviously, he was a Republican nominee for president.
	But, you know, we have Mitt Romney out there marching with BLM and voting for impeachment multiple times because he's butthurt.
	And, uh, too bad.
	Get lost.
	You don't have any strength.
	You're a coward.
	You're not tough, as David French would call you.
	Anyway, so back to the article.
	This defiance of moral norms means that Trumpists' toughness was never and could never have been truly confined to online spaces or even to tough rhetoric.
	Boundaries are for the weak.
	So while Trump's new right allies and successors often treat Twitter as their Omaha Beach and angry tweets as the vicious assaults, Online space is equivalent to attacking German pillboxes with rifles and grenades.
	Others know that becoming a keyboard warrior is hardly the highest masculine ideal.
	Maybe not, except it does cost things, doesn't it?
	Like your job, if you say the wrong thing on Twitter.com.
	Yeah, if you're not behind the layer of anonymity, if you're doing it with your own name and profile image and stuff, well then yes, it could cost you something.
	But then you are actually going in as the freedom fighters fighting against collectivist nonsense.
	You're out there fighting the diversity industry tweet by tweet or whatever else, right?
	Because you're going after these people, especially the leftist Malays, which we all find ourselves in, who will have your job if you don't agree with them.
	Yes.
	I mean, who's in the pillbox here, David?
	You.
	You and your friends.
	Anyway, so moving on from this.
	So he carries on saying, thus we see an increased prevalence of open-carry AR-15s at public protests, the increased number of unlawful threats held at public opponents, and outbreaks of actual political violence, including large-scale violence on January 6th.
	And yes, violence bad.
	All violence bad.
	I think I'm compelled to say that, if nothing else.
	I don't know why someone wouldn't come to that conclusion.
	But we can see a distinct difference between patriotic violence and non-patriotic violence.
	And to ignore it would be dishonest.
	Because, of course, you live in the United States.
	You're an American.
	How was that country formed?
	Through a thousand years of having a king?
	No.
	It was through violent revolution.
	And in which case, how can you justify that?
	You're an American, for Christ's sake.
	Or, I mean, you could look, potentially, at Eisenhower's enforcement of integration in the schooling system.
	You know, sending down the National Guard to enforce the integration.
	You can see that as a form of violence that's good for the country, or an Americanism, or being made equal and all that.
	The critical race theorists would label Booker T. Washington's recognition that after slavery, the black population could only raise itself up through education, and through education entrenched in what they would now call white cultural norms.
	They would see that as some form of violence as well nowadays.
	But you could look at the Battle of Athens if you're an American as well.
	For people who don't know about the Battle of Athens, it was eventually a bunch of G.I.s who came home and found out the elections at the local level were rigged.
	Oh, Hank did a video on this, didn't he?
	Yeah, so then they literally overthrew the guy in charge, and then ended up giving the votes over to the National Guard, whoever turned up, and got the proper result.
	The guy's rigging it.
	Democrats, weren't they?
	I can't remember.
	I wouldn't be shocked.
	Anyway, so that's the point, which is just, you can see political violence that is patriotic, restoring the order that was before, and...
	Well, the new political violence, as he goes on to mention.
	One of the most dangerous developments in our continuous times has been the growth of radical ideologies bolstered by radical intellectuals who often treat decency and even peace as impediments to justice.
	Who does that describe?
	Who can you think of?
	Who are the new intellectual types who think peace and decency is the left?
	It's not pissing off.
	I mean, obviously.
	And then he explicitly states it by saying, the riots that ripped through American cities were inexcusable expressions of political fury and sometimes nihilism that were too often rationalized, excused, and sometimes even celebrated.
	The author and academic Freddie DeBoer has compiled a depressing list of articles, essays, and interviews in prominent publications, excusing and justifying violent and civil unrest.
	Yes, and you can say violence bad.
	I don't know why that's hard.
	But again, violence is not the same as the Battle of Athens, for example, is it?
	No.
	It's collectivists, specifically the socialists, turning up, burning down the cities in the hope of a socialist revolution.
	They want to create disorder so then they can start the revolution.
	It's BLM, for Christ's sake.
	Take a guess at what they want.
	Racial justice.
	Anyway.
	So then he continues the last part of this, which we'll end on, which says the right-wing cult of toughness in its distinctly Trumpist version is no exception to the trend.
	Chad, yes.
	I mean, again, the cult of toughness within the Trumpist movement.
	Cool.
	Like, who doesn't want that?
	And again, it's also the point of just, like, every movement needs toughness.
	I mean, yeah.
	How are you going to get anything done if you don't stand by your principles?
	Yeah, if you don't actually have any confidence in your position that it's right and it needs to be done, then how is your movement ever going to get anywhere?
	I mean, you can look at this in, like, Tony Blair.
	I mean, him and his men, as evil as they are, do not have weakness as their virtue.
	No, they had the "no, we're going to reform this country how we want it", and that is them being tough in an evil way.
	In a very strange way.
	Fine, yeah.
	Even the infiltration of subversion of the institutions takes a certain level of toughness, even if it does mainly involve just whining about stuff.
	Let me finish this off here.
	When it is drained of limiting principles and tied to a man who would rather seek to upend our nation's constitutional order rather than the weakest power, then the threat of the public is plain.
	Just, I don't like Trump.
	Of course you don't.
	That threat will remain under the supposedly weak classical liberals on the left and the right who do what they've always done at their best, rally in defense of liberty, rule of law, and the American order itself.
	So until we get Mitt Romney back, we don't have a proper right wing.
	No, I'm Gad, Mitt Romney, and his ilk are gone, and we shouldn't be upset about that.
	But amazing, just, I'm mad, right, because the right has found its stones, and they stand by their convictions.
	Okay, that's what we're missing in the UK. Oh no, they're going to rally in defence of liberty.
	Oh no!
	Anyway, I thought we'd end this because I was pointed in the direction of this article from a guy I follow called David Raboy.
	Oh yeah.
	You could see him because he thought it was going to be the meme as I thought as well.
	I was reading Waiting for French to talk about the trend of lifting weights and improving your physique on the right.
	Shouldn't have been surprised that he fails to mention it with a picture of French who's, you know, looking pretty average.
	I'm an average guy.
	In weights, let's say.
	But David Raboy is not.
	David Raboy is a goddamn human tank.
	So we go to the next one and he shows it off because, you know, you've got it.
	Look at that man.
	Look at that.
	I mean, if that's not, there's the point made by Carl.
	Virtue is evident.
	This man is obviously virtuous because he's able to stick to his diet, his regime, and therefore build his body mass as he wants to.
	He's achieved the thing he wanted to do.
	Whereas no one else...
	I mean, look at David French.
	He doesn't have that demonstrable virtue, does he?
	No.
	Neither do I at the moment, but this is reinvigorating me.
	Hey, there's virtues other than being strong, of course, but David French...
	Sorry, David Roboy obviously proving that he's got that one.
	And the fact that David French didn't want to talk about it, I wonder why.
	Anyway, we'll end that there.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	I saved the best for last.
	Picture books for little children.
	I have to spend Christmas pretending I'm fine with this.
	It's my birthday now.
	It's gonna be great.
	Well, you have suffered your sins for our enjoyment, because that was great.
	God, the dress on the drag queen goes swish, swish, swish.
	It's ridiculous.
	I am a big fan of David Bowie, because there was a David Bowie book in there, but I don't know how appropriate his androgynous dress sense and everything is for kids.
	Yeah, kids' books.
	Yeah, kids' books, you know.
	Besides, Frank Sapple was better.
	We met the Muslims in Birmingham.
	We were protesting what was being shown to their kids.
	Initially, everyone thought it was just...
	They're mad that they're telling them gay people exist.
	Haha, very silly Muslims, right?
	That's the story.
	You went and met them, and they're showing us these books, and it's just like...
	Oh.
	Like, what was it?
	Genderqueer and stuff like that that was given to the kids in Virginia public schools.
	Yeah.
	Not kosher.
	Lost the election for the Democrats, didn't it?
	Also, I love in Scandinavian countries.
	You know how they say grandmother?
	Oh, how?
	So they say mother by saying more, right?
	Oh, okay.
	And dad is far.
	And it might be slightly different for Norwegian and Danish.
	So you say grandmother by saying more, more.
	Grandfather by saying far, far.
	So it'd be like me going, oh, dad, dad.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, it's dad's dad, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	But you're just saying dad, dad.
	But the other beautiful thing is there's something we can't do in English, but they can.
	So if you want your mother's grandmother, specifically, you say more, more.
	And if you want the dad, it's more far.
	Yeah.
	And the other way around for the dad.
	And you can't do that in English.
	So you say grandmother.
	Well, which one?
	Yeah, that actually makes more sense.
	See, it's pretty useful, but it does sound like a child is talking.
	It does.
	See you at the next one.
	Like a full-on psychopath.
	I mean, I'm going to be an armchair psychologist here and say that there's something going on there.
	Limited knowledge of the monarchy.
	The idea that I grew up in L.A., you see celebrities all the time.
	This is not the same.
	It is my firm conviction that Markle thought she was going to be a fairytale princess where everyone in England would look at her dozingly and say, God bless you, ma'am.
	You're so lovely and we're so ugly.
	Thank you for waking us up from our racism and colonialism with your wisdom and love.
	Yeah, I do agree.
	Markle deserves nothing.
	And I'm glad the meme was noticed.
	I stand by that.
	See you in the next one.
	So right here is a M9130 standard.
	I don't have a M39 yet.
	I'm in the process of getting one of those things.
	But I will say though, you should probably check out 9-hole reviews where he walks the M39 out to over a thousand yards and it's pretty scary how good that particular rifle is as compared to what the standard Russian Mosvigat was given out to.
	That's really cool.
	That's why I was asking about the Finnish one, because I saw one YouTuber talking about it, and I didn't, you know, it's just one guy, but I wanted to see if it was true, because the Finnish ones, as my understanding, were made before the war, so they're, like, really high-quality crafted, and then during the war, you know, it's a piece of crap, because you just need hundreds of thousands of them.
	Yeah.
	So, those really treat...
	And everyone goes for the Russian ones, they're, like, you know, you know, Russaboos, like me, and they want the Russian style, but it's actually, like, why would you want that?
	That's literally the crap one.
	You get the Finnish one, it's good.
	So, anyway.
	For people listening, it's a seaside.
	Okay.
	Earth flying over.
	That sounds for the same two.
	Is this just an idea?
	Is this just meant to relax us?
	I appreciate it.
	I mean, I am being relaxed.
	I can just take a moment.
	Oh, there we are.
	Well, thank you very much.
	That was very, very peaceful and calming.
	The podcast The Lotus is sponsored by the sea.
	And that one fasted seagull.
	Let's go to the next one.
	We did a little Joan with a little travel tip for the Brits.
	Fly to Mexico and then walk across the border because apparently you don't need a vaccination to just walk across our border.
	Worst case scenario, you get caught, you get a court date, which you can ignore.
	Hop a bus from Texas, come to New Jersey, see the Pine Barrens.
	Now getting back might be problematic for this very same reason.
	In which case, go to Tunisia, take a boat to Italy, walk across over to France, and then hop a boat.
	I hear there's boats leaving from France every day to get to the UK. Excellent advice.
	Fantastic advice and totally official and totally not unofficial.
	Yes.
	We stand by this.
	Just in case someone does die in the channel and blames it on us.
	Not official.
	Yeah.
	You and Joan are doing good.
	Hello, guys.
	There's this saying in Russian coined by Chekhov that goes something like this.
	The more languages you speak, the more of a human you are.
	And I always had this interpretation that what it truly means is the more languages you speak, the more personalities you hold within yourself.
	This is definitely true of my own self since I've noticed that my trail of thought leads very differently, especially regarding social matters when I think in Russian and when I think in English.
	Just kind of a testament as to how much language shapes our thought, which speaks volumes of the intentions of people who try to shape your language.
	That's a very interesting comment.
	I'd love to hear in your next one the difference between your views on things between English and Russian.
	Because what I assume you're alluding to is when you're discussing an issue in Russian in your head, you think you're far more conservatively.
	And when you're doing it in English, you're far more liberal about the thing.
	It'd be good to hear.
	You should ask John as well, because he's multiple.
	So, finally, after a long time of waiting, after smashing my head in with a boat, that's fun, I am now finally on the airport of Venice, waiting to get back on the boat.
	The only thing I need to just ask, should we be worried about that Danish comedian chick?
	Because her descending to leftist books kind of seem to make her a bit crazy.
	Well...
	I mean, she does look a little bit more upset than usual, but wouldn't you?
	You know?
	What else are you meant to do with that?
	We won't mention it if nobody else does.
	Okay.
	I hope the boat's fine.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This might sound crazy because it's late, ten-hour shift, but it feels like the left is constantly demonizing new technologies, like cryptocurrency, because, oh, it's so bad for the environment.
	It's space stuff, because, oh, we have problems here, we can't go elsewhere to bring our problems.
	We've even seen 3D printing being demonized, because it can make evil guns that do bad things.
	Are they trying for a new dark age, or am I crazy?
	Don't print a gun.
	Obviously.
	But you can get the Liberator, which is the design, which is the nice easy one.
	I'm sure there are more advanced ones now, but it was the first one of the bit of a joke.
	And apparently they used to drop them over the Netherlands.
	It was like one shot, and they just wanted some people to shoot some Nazi officers or something.
	But you can get the design because it's so simply made on a 3D printer that's basic.
	And a friend of mine did make almost all of it to keep it legal.
	And yeah, it does work.
	Oh, nice.
	Cool.
	But on the technology point, I love the being mad at space technology.
	There's a black nationalist song from, like, 1970-something.
	I love it.
	It's always the propaganda with you.
	You make cultural references straight out of my head.
	Propaganda, I'm in.
	Yes.
	But anyway, the black nationalist song from, like, the 70s is this guy who's singing about the, you know, the black community doesn't have XYZ, but whitey on the moon.
	And there's this really funny bit where he just goes, I can't pay my doctor bills, but whitey on the moon.
	It's just like...
	You need to send me there.
	I will.
	I think it's called Whitey on the Moon, I think.
	This sounds like a nursery rhyme title.
	It kind of sounds like that when you listen to it.
	I like it.
	It's just so pathetic.
	It's just like, yeah, space travel.
	Dumb, am I right?
	Am I right, fellow blacks?
	I'm reminded of Neil deGrasse Tyson, who was talking about this.
	Someone was criticizing, like, oh, why do you want to go to space when there's problems on Earth?
	He was just like, yeah, why do you want to leave the cave when the cave isn't warm enough yet?
	To find some things you've retarded.
	It's very circular logic that will just keep everybody in perpetual misery if you take it far enough.
	Let's see if we can find Whitey on the moon for the next one.
	So I wanted to show you guys this, and I know a few of you use Instagram, so I thought it was important to show.
	I tried to access Instagram but it wouldn't let me and one of the reasons why was because it wanted to scan my face so I can enter into Instagram.
	This of course I found invasive and intrusive so I decided to try and enter which I tried to do by other means but all of them failed so I'm no longer on Instagram.
	Eh, I'm not really either.
	I signed up because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and I saw it was a bunch of girls in weird outfits, so I was like, well, that's nice.
	Yeah, that's lots of social media.
	I mean, honestly, if you're not on one piece of social media, then, I don't know, I don't see that as a bad thing.
	No.
	The less social media on you, the better, really.
	Also, just personal preference.
	I'm not hugely into Instagram.
	Doesn't seem that fantastic.
	Anyway, so the comments on the site.
	So on Boris Johnson.
	We've got seven minutes.
	Yeah, we've got time for this.
	So Reece Sims says, Boris Johnson has to be the most anticlimactic prime minister in our history.
	He came in strong and swinging.
	A Brexiteer, a successful mayor of London, and seemingly a supporter of the common man.
	Yeah, after the 2019 election landslide for his aforementioned traits, he went limper than a sock.
	Worst of all, he could have been a great leader if he had only had the balls of his idol, Winston Churchill, to stick through his principles.
	Hashtag make the Conservatives thatch right again.
	Yeah, I mean, that's the disappointment of Boris.
	Because the thing is, looking back at the elections now, I mean, you know, I've said this before, number one, Nigel should have stood as a candidate in just, like, Bolton or something, and he would have got it, and things would be marginally better, because you'd have at least a voice in there.
	Anyway, I'm sorry about that.
	But the other point, which is, looking at the candidates for what you have at the time, the Brexit had to be done, every other party was literally just saying, no Brexit.
	Either another referendum, or we're just not going to do it.
	So...
	What were you to do?
	Yeah, it's just such a disappointment.
	And, well, now he's done his one job, which is get Brexit done.
	Okay?
	It's not perfect, but you've got it done.
	Yep.
	Well, then there is no point in him.
	Yeah, that's the one thing people voted him in for, really.
	Yeah, and everything he's done since has been bumbling or weird.
	Or just pushing left agendas.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not against windmills necessarily, but I just find it so weird.
	His whole...
	You know, I've got nothing against windmills here.
	I've got nothing against windmills, but it's just the obsession with windmills, where I'm just like, do you not have anything else to do, mate?
	Do you not have any speeches to give, ever?
	Do you not have any old Labour policies to tear down?
	Oh, God, anyway.
	So Omar Awad says, can Boris end if he never began?
	Aside from slowing down the inevitable end of Brexit slightly less than his predecessor, I can't think of a single thing he's done that the Tory government is expected to do.
	The Tories have been so disappointing that they can't even not Labour with a Conservative majority.
	Well, as I say, as I said, there have been ministers who have done good things, and that is the way our system generally works.
	So on the not-huge things, they're able to get stuff done, like the opposing critical race theory and whatnot.
	I say not-huge things as if the government's not highly concerned with them, the prime minister really.
	So Boris isn't obsessed with critical race theory.
	He doesn't even know anything about it, I imagine.
	So Kemi is able to get things done there, because there's not endless watching eyes on her from him.
	And that's good.
	And they deserve that.
	So the less involvement Boris has with anything, the better it will end up being.
	So far, yeah.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	So, yeah, I mean, he did the one thing he said he was going to do, which was break it, but, you know.
	Step down.
	So Baron von Warhawk, my opinion, is now that we should start referring to Boris as Boris the Unready because of his complete and utter failure as Prime Minister.
	He had all the power to save this nation, yet he's too weak or foolish to do anything about it.
	I... Charitable, but he has some time left.
	You know, two years or whatever it is.
	Three years.
	He could pull it back?
	He could.
	He's not going to.
	You know, don't get me wrong.
	I'm not dreaming.
	We're not delusional here.
	Yeah, you know, he's still got that.
	But referring to him as Boris the Unready, I think, is fit.
	And I think it's some Carl mentioned, which is correct.
	Freewill2112.
	Boris and his cohorts only have themselves to blame.
	They won an enormous majority, and instead they buggered it up, which is basically what the rest of that comment says.
	I know it's been only about four minutes, so I'm going to move on because we've got comments for you and whatnot, but I'm seeing nothing I disagree with in there, mate.
	Alright, so regarding Alec Baldwin, Captain Charlie the Beagle says, Agree with all
	of that, yeah.
	If you're going to be on a film set, as he has been many times with multiple different firearms, you should probably know how to use them.
	The land of the white people.
	But then he wouldn't be an anti-gun advocate.
	Well, because he would understand guns, and therefore he couldn't be.
	Yes, I agree.
	Rule one of firearms is a gun is loaded until proven otherwise.
	Yep, you should have checked it.
	Another one from the land of the white people in the UK. We don't use the term accidental discharge.
	The correct term over here is negligent discharge, which tells you exactly where the responsibility lies.
	Actually, that's a good point.
	Negligent is probably a good term.
	Well, I was going to say at the end, but we didn't have time, which is the debate is fundamentally around accident versus negligence.
	Yes, and it comes across very much like negligence.
	You know, I have no idea what the official written laws are, but all of the evidence seems to point to negligence.
	Yes.
	I imagine that is how the law agrees.
	I mean, whether or not you want to say, you know, like, oh, he didn't have anything to do with the hiring of these people, whatever, he owns the production company.
	So even beyond anything else, he has that responsibility on top of it.
	All of that's not irrelevant and is surrounding evidence, but it fundamentally comes down to that interaction, as he said.
	He's handed a gun, told it didn't have any bullets in, you know, let's just assume everything he's saying is correct, right?
	And then he points at a woman...
	think to empty it to the side, doesn't think to check if there are bullets, none of that.
	Yeah.
	And it's like, no, I'm sorry, you don't have no responsibility.
	But I didn't pull the trigger, though, as if the hammer doesn't have any involvement in the process.
	But even then, if someone hands you a gun and says it's not loaded, his argument is that from that point, you could shoot ten people and it wouldn't be your fault at all.
	It would be the person who handed you the gun.
	I mean, I didn't know.
	It's like, bang!
	Oh, but I was told it was empty.
	Let me try again!
	Bang!
	Oh, dear!
	That is essentially his argument, and I'm just like, I don't...
	I assume that's not how the law works, and I don't buy it.
	Yeah, no, I don't buy it either.
	M1 Bing, The Baldwin Interviews, The True Film Actors Guild.
	Gild, wait to handle potential manslaughter charges.
	Free wall 2112.
	Real bullets don't magically appear in guns after they've been safety checked.
	Student of history, gentlemen, my apologies for being an actually kind of guy, but guns don't just go off, the trigger must be pulled.
	Well, that's the thing, he pulled the hammer back and then released it, and the hammer is, from what I'm aware, what causes the spark that sets off the cartridge.
	From my video game knowledge, when you hold the gun, sometimes in the game they do this, and the gun goes off.
	Yeah, and the gun goes off.
	I do have played Call of Juarez, so...
	That was my payday, though.
	Michael Magos says, I can't understand how a single-action Colt revolver can drop its hammer past half-cock without the trigger being pulled.
	It's literally impossible.
	Well, I mean, that just questions, once again, the sincerity of anything that he was saying in the interview.
	Do you want to go over any more of your comments while we've got less than a minute to go?
	I'll find some short ones.
	So, Student of History.
	Gentlemen, my apologies for being actually...
	Oh, wait.
	That's the one I just read.
	My apologies.
	Student of History again.
	Right wing.
	Pumping iron and slamming beer.
	Be afraid.
	Be very afraid.
	Free will 2112.
	I thought getting more physically fit during COVID was supposed to be a good thing.
	No, that's fascism.
	Okay, you say so, guys!
	Oh, God.
	The police.
	I mean, that's the best one for me.
	Paul's objection to abs is primarily just because he's so anti-fascist.
	Obviously.
	I don't want to go with abs.
	I'm not fascist.
	Fascism left-wing, anyway.
	But Baron von Warhawk says the only reason why David French is worried about right-wing lifters is that his wife is probably sleeping with gym bros rather than his wimpy ass.
	It's just the boyfriend that got the Nintendo Switch for Christmas.
	Don't make fun of Dave.
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