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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 15th of December 2021.
	I am joined by Thomas.
	Hello.
	Today we're going to be talking about Miles of Sudan because I promised a Miles update and I thought we'd do it because it's funny and a bit of a laugh.
	Also the UK S show.
	I should probably change the title of that at some point.
	I don't know if you did.
	Yeah.
	On just the absolute S show that is British politics in general, exemplified by, of course, the vote on vaccine passports.
	Yeah.
	We'll get at that in a minute.
	Also, no one's vaccinated anymore, of course, or double vaccinated, or 300% vaccinated, or whatever the hell else they redefine it as.
	Anyway, and the last thing we'll be doing is France resisting leftist American cultural imperialism.
	So, I actually love that term, cultural imperialism, and you can see it firsthand, and how the French are resisting wokeism.
	Yes.
	They're like 10 years behind on this.
	It's going to be interesting to see how far their efforts go.
	Yeah, because it's funny though, because they're ten years ahead of us on Islamism.
	Like, they recognise that it's an existential threat, you can't have this mixing with Western society and it making anything good except just endless infighting.
	Yes.
	But they're ten years behind us on Wokism, where we've had these conversations in the Anglosphere.
	Oh boy, they've got a lot to learn.
	The Francosphere, they haven't been there yet, so they're getting into it.
	Good luck, France.
	Yeah, some things to mention first on the website though.
	So the first thing being a premium article from Hugo.
	So this is a republished version here.
	So this is fully automated luxury free market.
	It's obviously a play on automated communism.
	And it has an audio track now for Silver and Gold to your listeners.
	So in case you didn't catch it or you just want to listen to it, there you are.
	Because reading's a pain.
	So going to the next one, we have a premium video.
	So this is what did the anti-vaxxers get right?
	So a look at what their claims are and what's true, what's not.
	Of course, anti-vaxxer being a difficult term to define.
	Hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	The best of times.
	Being constantly mutilated is the term as well.
	Yeah, so go and check that out.
	I believe that Harry was in charge of that one.
	Harry and myself have been involved in that, yeah.
	There you are.
	Next thing to mention is Germany Has Fallen by Philip Tanzer, who is a very interesting chap.
	This is part two of his series, so he did a part one before, so if you read that, go and definitely have a check out part two.
	I believe that one's free as well, so that won't be behind a paywall.
	And then the next thing is Critical Based Theory, Part 3.
	I will let you sell this.
	Yes.
	Today, well, of course, I nearly went into presenting mode then.
	Basically, this episode is about the phenomenon of ratification, which entails how something becomes real, which isn't.
	And I basically explain this in a way that tries to...
	Explain how this is essentially a pathology of human experience.
	So go and check that one out.
	And last thing to mention, because I thought I'd tease it because I'm quite happy with how it came out, which is the permanent peace plan that Theodore Kaufman had for the world.
	So this is the second speech I gave at the live events, which was a bit of an S post.
	And if you don't know who Theodore Kaufman is and you want to do a bit of a spoiler, go and read up on him.
	But if you don't want to spoil, that'll be out tomorrow on Friday.
	I believe that's tomorrow, is it?
	No, it's not.
	It's two days from now, because I'm mixing up my dates.
	So on Friday, that should be going out, and people can enjoy.
	Which, yeah, retard.
	But, you know, his opposition were retards too, so it's just funny.
	There's a permanent police plan.
	What is it?
	So, let's get into Miles of Sudan, because it's just good fun, quite frankly.
	So...
	Miles of Kabul is no more.
	Miles has been to Kabul and has come back, and we did an interview with him and everything, all the rest of it.
	If you want to go check that out, of course you can.
	And he is now Miles of Sudan.
	He is going into the old British territories once again to reclaim it for a queen and country, presumably.
	And I thought we'd do a bit of an update on his trip.
	How's it going?
	And it's eventful.
	Let's put it that way.
	Because it's a bit mad of a thing to do, of course, and therefore I guess we'll see what he did.
	So the first one here, we have this up, which is his Twitter feed where he's posting most of this.
	So this is before he's on the way to the plane.
	Went to Mass in a state of grace, on the train with my equipment, on the way to the airport hotel.
	There were no seats, so I'm chilling on the floor, listening to O Come All Ye Faithful.
	Life is good.
	Him being a very Christian man.
	For people who don't know, Miles, his reasoning for doing these wacky, weird trips is, of course, there's a bit of goofing around, but the fundamental point that he can go there with a bundle of cash and just hand it out to people who are homeless or poor or whatever else.
	Direct charity, instead of giving it to some group who then, God knows where it goes, what percentage of it is spent on advertising for the charity.
	No, just direct.
	He wants to go there and hand it out directly because he believes that's the most issue.
	Ground-level altruism.
	Yeah, and it's after meeting the guy.
	So if we go to the next one, this is just the interview we did, which everyone should check out on Ludisees.com.
	And it was quite interesting to meet him personally and to interview him about this, because a lot of the criticisms that are laid out of him just don't stack up, in my opinion.
	And you can go and check those out in the interview.
	But also just the nature of the chap.
	He sincerely wants to just go out there and help people.
	It really comes across that, no, he's just...
	Genuine about it, which, yeah, okay, whatever.
	You know, that personality matrix is being produced and it's in him.
	Anyway, that's getting back to the trip.
	So what happened when he got to the airport?
	Well, he got detained under the Terrorism Act.
	It's a lovely way to start your trip.
	So, oopsie daisy, I got interrogated for terrorism under Schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorist Act.
	Chaps were lovely, took my prints and such, sadly didn't get a copy, they saw all my memes on my phone, oh dear, concluded that I'm not a threat and I'm free to travel, missed my flight, sad face.
	Why did they think he was?
	Because he travelled to Kabul recently, of course.
	Oh, of course.
	When the Taliban took over, and then of course him being like, yes, I want to go to South Sudan.
	We're like, you're not a jihadist, are you?
	That makes perfect sense.
	So, you know, fair enough to the chaps there who are doing their jobs, and he says himself that you can't blame them.
	You know, it's just what it is.
	And he didn't get detained or anything, because he's not.
	He's just some goofball, pretty much.
	So anyway, let's move on.
	So let's go to the next one, which he says, I can wholeheartedly say I've had more stress and trouble from Luton London Airport than I have from the Taliban invasion of Kabul.
	Eh...
	He had the same thing.
	Legitimately, him himself was persecuted more by his university than the Taliban when they overtook Kabul as well, because they just let him leave because they just wanted the foreigners to be gone.
	So they could carry out what they want to.
	Anyway, so you may remember in Kabul he did a bit of an S-post, like he left a log in the toilet for the Taliban to fight.
	Frankly, yeah.
	Yeah, he's done it again, apparently.
	TMI, but once again talked myself into multiple free meals on the flight and dropped a log in a South Sudanese hotel airport.
	The toilet is now leaking water.
	History repeats itself from Afghanistan.
	I find it funny.
	Toilet humor.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So he's been goofing around, so you can see him going out of the airport here.
	Apparently filming in the capital is not allowed, so he had to do this a bit discreetly.
	So he's just filming from the taxi of what it's like outside the airport and managed to upload it, which is amazing.
	Internet connection in South Sudan.
	Good luck.
	I mean, a lot of this is, of course, text because he's not able to do too many videos and whatnot.
	But as you can see, there's the place.
	Goofy place, as he says.
	Let's move on.
	So let's go to the next one.
	So this is him going to a cafe.
	Found a pseudo-coffee shop for young South Sudanese.
	It's got Wi-Fi, big TVs, people have MacBooks, and there's some cool hipster furniture.
	What a country!
	Do love me some South Sudan over Starbucks any day.
	Yeah, though Starbucks isn't exactly set the standards high, does it?
	Yeah, they've also got nice TVs.
	They've even got Coke, so everything's well.
	For people who don't know South Sudan or the history of it, it's kind of an S-show, of course, because recent...
	Well, I think it's since the country got its independence, the vice president and the president had a big falling out.
	And the different ethnic groups, dinkers and newers, and then they ended up declaring war on each other.
	It's been going on ever since.
	And also there are like 12 other groups declaring war on each other in between because it's a modern war.
	Something of a fractured country.
	Yeah, it's like Fallout New Vegas IRL. So my understanding is they have had peace talks for the second time since 2018, but in between then, loads of people have also just been killed because, you know, kind of lawless place.
	So yeah, there's the risks.
	So moving on from this, we'll get to the next one, which is him getting his currency.
	Of course, yeah.
	You have to exchange the currency for local currency, and as you can see, the currency's worthless.
	So it's been inflated, I think, 300%.
	Yes, and that'll probably be literally worthless this time, or the day after he would have been given it, because of the inflation rate down there.
	I don't know if it's like that anymore.
	You know, it's not like Venezuela, where every day it's doubling or whatever.
	Yeah, maybe I'm just exaggerating.
	But it's just funny, it's just like, yeah, have a massive stack of notes for a few dollars already.
	So, yeah, there's a bit of a soy face there as well, actually.
	I don't know if that's on purpose.
	But moving on, so if we go to the next one, we have him just goofing around.
	Casual morning, walk in the dodgy part of Juba.
	Got told not to go into this area, so I thought I'd check it out.
	Fair.
	More peaceful this morning than New York, I reckon.
	Looks like it from here.
	Probably true as well.
	So anyway, let's carry on.
	There's more posts.
	So this one is just him mentioning that toothpaste is brown in South Sudan, and when you spit it out, it turns green.
	Wizardry.
	I mean, actually interesting to me.
	I want to try the toothpaste, to be honest.
	Color-changing toothpaste.
	Anyway, the magic of South Sudan.
	Moving on.
	Let's get to the next one.
	First...
	Sorry.
	From my first day in South Sudan.
	The weather's lovely.
	People are very friendly and helpful.
	I don't feel unsafe.
	I got offered a tribal wife.
	I goofed off with the locals and got some cheap food.
	Absolutely recommend South Sudan.
	Can't wait for tomorrow.
	I can honestly say I prefer it to London in many ways.
	There's a point made on, and it'll be later, I just can't remember in which order I put it, in which someone's like, this is like reading a journal from the 1800s, where someone's just like, went on top and met the tribals, they offered me a wife.
	How lovely!
	Like a diary entry or something.
	So, it's just neat.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, this is him trying to take some images of the place.
	So, okay, on the first day, I was just taken to Ging.
	I noticed the dogs roam freely and are in bad shape, but are friendly.
	So, I'm going to buy a bunch of meat for them to eat.
	I saw a homeless lady with a child, so I'll help her tomorrow alongside sending the tribe some supplies.
	So, he also has various contacts in South Sudan who have asked him to come and want to meet up with him, so he'll have someone showing him around.
	But there's also the obvious point, as with Afghanistan, In Afghanistan, of course, they're Muslims.
	Dogs are not Islamic, so they're treated terribly.
	And being British, of course, we find that particularly horrible to look at.
	Yes, because we love dogs.
	Yeah, and so the particular interest there, which many people might not, which is to go out of your way and try and help the doggos as well, because what do the doggos do?
	Yeah, but in a country like that, I can imagine there's not much time for Dogos because they've got bigger problems.
	So fair enough to the local people as well.
	But anyway, moving on.
	So that's what he's up to, doing as a bit of charity work as he does.
	Let's go to the next one, please.
	So this is him goofing off as well.
	So for people who don't know, apparently he went to Pompeii and found this coin.
	Oh, very nice.
	He thinks it's probably a replica.
	He was meant to hand it in, he forgot, and then he was on the flight home and he's like, oh, bugger, okay, whatever, I'll keep it.
	And then on the trip to South Sudan, he's going down to the Nile, and he's like, I'm just going to throw it somewhere near the Nile, and then future archaeologists can just be utterly confused.
	So that's what he's up to as well.
	Apparently he's going to throw it on the Ugandan border.
	That's a novel idea.
	It's just good fun.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	You're going to do there and do these charity things.
	Have some fun while you're doing it.
	Have a smile.
	So, moving on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So this is him saying, Guess who got invited to visit a remote tribe who only get contacted every few months?
	Apparently they'll offer me a wife and a new name.
	Very tempting, but I'll have to decline.
	Gonna bring them some supplies.
	So, again, talking about the tribe he's been invited to.
	He's been very well received, hasn't he?
	Yeah, I mean, he's also just very polite, and that's part of his charm, I must say.
	You know, I'll have to decline.
	Very nice.
	I'm sure you're lovely, but...
	This isn't the behaviour of people who would deem him to be an oppressor.
	No, and we'll get into some of the weird criticisms, which, again, just don't make any sense to me, but whatever.
	So we'll move on, so we'll go to the next one, which, I can't remember what any of these are, by the way, there's just so many.
	So him saying, it's 10.30pm here in South Sudan, and there are regular gunshots going off in the middle of the night.
	Might have to shout out of the window and tell them to shush, because I need my sleep.
	I'll tell you what, that's brave.
	Well, it had the same thing in Kabul.
	There's just random gunshots going off, which is part of life.
	I mean, in Kabul, the nice side of it is it wasn't so much people being killed, but people trying to get through traffic, and they want everyone else to move.
	It's actually admirable that he retains a sense of humour, even whilst you can actually literally hear gunfire.
	Yeah, I mean, this is actually a very good trait to have, which is, even when you're under stress, just laugh about it, because what else are you meant to do?
	It's a type of coping mechanism, if nothing else.
	So, let's go to the next one.
	So, I can't remember what this one is either.
	I don't feel unsafe, weirdly.
	People are just busy with their day and are glad to see you as a curiosity to them.
	A few people have chased me or threatened me with AKs, but it happens.
	Yeah, just...
	It happens.
	Yeah.
	S happens.
	The only issue is that people do try to overcharge you, but you'll find that anywhere.
	Yeah, as a foreigner who is presumed to be very rich.
	Yeah, we get overcharged every single day, but we don't have the legal right to question that charge, do we?
	Yeah, but I've had this in Eastern Europe as well.
	It's just part of being a foreigner who doesn't know what the local prices are.
	Anyway, so let's go to the next one as well.
	So, areas of remote South Sudan.
	Now, despite the living conditions, people were really friendly.
	Even if they didn't notice me, they were smiling in the streets and being polite to others.
	Kind of the most people in the UK. Not going to lie.
	Yeah, sounds like it.
	And then just some pictures there of the rural area and people making their little shacks out of whatever or whatever else.
	Because, of course, this is a recently worn-torn place and also, well, also just for hundreds of years has been kind of...
	Backwater.
	Put it that way.
	I'll be polite about it.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So we'll go to the next one, which is him saying, someone asked me for pics of the mud huts in South Sudan.
	They don't like photos because they believe it steals their soul as an image.
	I think that's a meme.
	Like, it's meant to be the Marlies or something.
	Believe that?
	Oh, okay.
	So I think he's referencing that, presumably.
	I climbed a hill behind it and sneaked a pic.
	Maybe they do believe that.
	I don't bloody know.
	I'm not there.
	He is.
	And you can see the mud huts there, which, yeah, not bad.
	I mean, you know, better than that shack we just saw.
	Yeah.
	Yes, certainly.
	I mean, if you go up to Stonehenge, actually, a bit of local knowledge, but there's a visitor's area and they recreated some of the old style buildings of like the Celts and so the little mud huts there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So very the same.
	Anyway.
	So moving on, we'll go to the next one, which is him saying he drank from a branch of the Nile, boiled used purification tablets, and then a life straw.
	It's insanely hot.
	So I'm drinking about four liters a day.
	Good lord.
	He has got to taste the Nile.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	A little dream there.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Let's keep going.
	What else is he been up to?
	So I do love these memes that are coming out.
	So you can see the meme here, for example.
	So here's the West, the Virgin West on the left there being like, I'm cancelling Christmas because of Immicron.
	And then there's Miles who's just walking around Africa aimlessly.
	Chad.
	Just drank out of the Nile.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he is having more fun than us.
	Like, what am I doing for Christmas?
	I know which one I'd prefer.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I was talking to him, actually, about, you know, could we go back for a trip together?
	Could it be funny?
	But I don't know, and we'll see why we don't know about that in a minute.
	So if we go to the next one, we have randos who are trying to shame Miles for doing this.
	Oh, of course.
	Very much the same criticisms from people who were upset about him being in Afghanistan.
	This one, particularly, being that he's some kind of white saviour who has turned up.
	Oh dear.
	Like Stacey Dooley, that evil, evil celebrity.
	Oh yes, who David Lampe took an issue with, yeah, I recall.
	Yeah, so this person here is very mad, and we'll go to some of his stuff in a minute, but you can see there he's tagging UK and South Sudan and trying to be like, how dare this guy turn up and film the place?
	And he's like, he's allowed to.
	He's got the visas, paid for them, it's his money.
	It's his life.
	You can't stop him.
	And he's helping them as well.
	Yes, but none of that really matters.
	He's white, so he bad.
	Okay.
	So you can see Lord Miles responding here.
	This man is making up lies.
	Sadly, I went here to document South Sudan.
	I've said very positive things because I like this country, I heard some gunshots, and I've done two days of charity work to help the sick and poor.
	I do this as a Christian, and I'm enjoying myself.
	As you should.
	There was only one thing in there which we can't confirm or deny because, you know, news from South Sudan.
	Funnily enough, not very quick.
	Miles said he had to be blocked at one point because a bridge had been blown up by a bomb, he was told.
	And then this guy's like, there's no bomb that's gone off?
	What are you talking about?
	And I was like, well, how do you know?
	Miles was there, asked the guys presumably, they told him that.
	Maybe it's false information, maybe it's true.
	Or maybe it's just a latency issue.
	Yeah, whatever.
	But anyway, I should mention it because it's in there.
	But if we go to the next one, we have him being mad, this individual.
	It is a trend lately that a lot of people from the West, white people to be specific, travel to third world countries and do what I like to call poverty porn.
	That's not what poverty porn even means.
	Oh, it means something else?
	Yeah, no, poverty porn is actually an old phrase.
	It means, essentially, where a charity will go to an area and make those videos just like, Juba has to travel 10 miles every day to get water.
	What, you mean Amnesty International?
	Three pounds a month could do...
	And when you, like, put the camera over there, you see a huge city.
	Oh, I see.
	So you go to an African country that, quite frankly, is not a third world in the middle of a war hellhole, and you make up some story or you exaggerate the situation, so you're only looking at the worst of the worst.
	And then you're not showing the big city in, you know, Botswana that's doing fine, for example.
	That's what poverty porn is.
	So it's not about white people turning up and being like, ooh, look, poverty.
	No, if the poverty's real, the poverty's real.
	It's distorting the image of the country.
	So the fetishisation of a cause, in effect.
	Yeah, which Miles hasn't done.
	As you've shown, he's showing us, well, look, you can get flights, you know, here's a cafe, it's quite nice, people around on bikes, all the rest of it.
	You know, he's showing you both sides of it.
	So, he also says here, they record only the poor and struggling sides of our countries and ignore the beautiful sides for their views and likes.
	Lie.
	Just lie.
	And this is why I have little time for this individual who just is not showing the truth and is trying to get Miles kicked out for some reason.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So if we go to the next one, we have Miles saying thank you to all the people, 40 plus, from South Sudan who have messaged me saying ignore that guy lying about my intentions with thousands of people from the West as well.
	I like this country and I don't care what one liar has to say.
	Fair.
	Fair enough.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So of course there are some Western haters who are weird.
	So this is some woman being upset.
	Bro, if you think South Sudan heat is real, let me just loop in K.O.T. They won't want your fake charity at their expense either.
	K.O.T.? I don't know what K.O.T. is.
	But fake charity.
	Like, he's literally giving them money.
	Yeah, it's not fake charity.
	I mean, that's the sort of simplest of charity work.
	I have money.
	Here's the money.
	You have the money now.
	Your life is better off.
	Yes.
	You see how that works?
	You see how that's the charity?
	We have needs.
	Okay, here you go.
	It's so simple, and that's why I find the criticism so strange.
	It's like, it's not real charity.
	What if he buys rice and gives them rice?
	Is that better?
	I don't know.
	What's her definition of true charity, I wonder?
	Well, we won't find out.
	Which is virtue signaling on Twitter.
	Because she responded to being called out by just blocking him.
	Oh, of course.
	Yeah, and then hiding herself.
	Standard.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, she ran away.
	So let's move on.
	So there is some bad news, of course, which is that Miles now has to leave South Sudan a bit early.
	So this is where the story gets a bit more interesting.
	So he got stopped by the military 40 miles in and said I needed a travel permit due to a bombing of a bridge.
	Ministry of Travel has closed for seven days, so there's no permit.
	The captain said I needed just two soldiers to escort us, but that was $300.
	No way.
	I've chilled with some people in mud huts, though, so just hang around there.
	I swear a lot of these soldiers are pointing AKs at a car like there were 14 as well, he says.
	So is he going to waste $300 on soldiers when he could just give it away to people who need it?
	Nah.
	So...
	Gonna not go down that road.
	So he's trying to do something else.
	So if we go to the next one, he says, So this was the plan that he would go around through a few countries.
	So he's having to change it.
	And he says, okay, I'll start out for Kenya tonight, limited tweets from now on, final shower for like two to six days, lol.
	Because he's on a little satellite program to upload these tweets, so not being able to tweet much in the middle of nowhere, unsurprisingly.
	And then something bad happened.
	The World Health Organization decided to let us in on something.
	So Miles Lanz had a goose around for two days under the World Health Organization task force has been sent to investigate an unidentified mysterious illness which has killed 89 people in South Sudan.
	Oh dear god.
	Ugh!
	And you can see him going, oh no, here we go again.
	He arrives in a country, it immediately collapses.
	Oh, crap.
	Not like this.
	Yeah, so he said he'd promised myself that I'd go on another adventure.
	I'm looking after myself and not letting anyone evacuate me.
	Instead, I'll leave my own accord.
	So now he's like, yeah, okay, if this country's going to go to hell, I'm going to get the hell out now, rather than waiting for the World Health Organization to announce some new virus that's killing people left, right, and centre.
	Yeah.
	Unlike Omicron, by the way.
	But anyway.
	So if we go to the next one, he also had a bit of a run-in with the locals, or at least one local who was very mean.
	So he says he's had one person anonymously email me stating they've got powerful friends and they've requested to have him arrested at the Kenyan border, paired with a virus that may stick the nation into lockdown alongside with no banking infrastructure, meaning he can't get money out.
	And as much as people have given money for him to do this trip of walking, he's like, nah.
	Nah, I'm not going to risk getting arrested by some weirdo also putting that country in lockdown thanks to this virus.
	So he's getting out by proper means instead.
	If we move on to the next one, there's also some...
	This is the meme I mentioned earlier.
	It's legit like a journo from the 18th century English travellers.
	Today I went around Bomb Day and a few turban-wearing gentlemen tried to cut my hands off because they thought I stole an apple.
	Luckily, they couldn't find it on me, so they let me go.
	Interesting day.
	Good lord.
	But that's how Miles types.
	Anyway...
	So if we go to the next one, we have the other run-in he had.
	So this is a run-in with a local.
	Yesterday, I paid someone to take me somewhere.
	The road was closed, the bombing.
	They got a quarter of the way there, so he paid a third of the price, and they said they had no issue with that.
	He then woke up by them demanding more money and saying to get in their car.
	I ran to get a taxi to the airport.
	They said they will hunt me down.
	That's a bit scary, isn't it?
	Yeah, so this is where it gets a bit scary and he's like, yeah, okay, virus that's just killed 90 people, come out of nowhere.
	All the roads have been bombed, can't go on those.
	And now I have some weirdos trying to kill me because I owe them $3 or whatever.
	Yeah, I'm going to leave.
	So if we go to the last one here, which is him saying, I have a donut and some pineapple juice along with my stuff.
	I tell them in advance I'll pay them in Great British Pounds and then they see the money and agree.
	They say Great British Pounds is no good, but I will have to pay them and I'm causing trouble trying to stop me from leaving.
	I pay more than a third too.
	So him being like, look, these guys are crazy.
	I'm getting out.
	And the news on this is the latest because I saw him posting just before, which is that he is now, as time of recording for the live stream, he should be on the plane getting out of there.
	So he's getting in a plane.
	I can't remember where to, but he'll be leaving and then carrying on the adventure.
	For wherever else.
	So anyway, that's Miles of Sudan.
	That's his time in South Sudan, as it seems, and how that all went.
	It sounds like he's having a while at a time, good, and of course some bad, but nonetheless.
	Yeah, you know, comes with the territory, you know?
	Yes, it does.
	He knows the risks, he knows the mess he might get himself into, and he's acknowledged all that, and just gone...
	Yeah, I accept that.
	It's worth it for me.
	The world would be a better place if there were more people like that.
	Not that I advocate going to South Sudan and goofing off on charity.
	No, but if you are brave enough to do so, then kudos to you.
	But anyway, otherwise, good luck guys.
	I hope you're alright.
	The show goes on insofar as the government's, shall we say, crepid handling of Covid is concerned.
	We were, of course, all forced into lockdown over Christmas, almost, I think, this time last year, in the delusional belief that our elected members of Parliament would, well, suffer the grind with us.
	My God, we were wrong, if we get the first image up here, because an image has emerged of a Christmas party, which we're now known to have occurred.
	So this one is Tory staffers.
	Tory staffers, but I can see, is that Sean Bailey?
	Yes, the mayoral candidate for the Tories.
	And this is combined, of course, with the previous leak, presumably from Dominic Cummings, of Boris hosting a Zoom call party as well.
	Yeah, but as you can see, no social distancing, no masks, all laughing at our misery, basically.
	Of course, none of us would have any issue with this happening if we weren't all forced into lockdown ourselves.
	But yes, if we get the next clip up, you can also see that Grant Shapps said that the Conservative Party did not know about Sean Bailey's party, which was pre-planned and had a buffet despite it occurring in Conservative Party HQ. So the Conservative Party is unaware...
	A party being host at Conservative HQ. Yep.
	Who believes that?
	Pretty much no one.
	Anyone with a brain.
	But this just rubs more salt into the wound, really, after Angela Strassen, of course, as we know, resigned from her position as a government advisor last week, following an angry backlash over a video of Number 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party.
	And we can also recall the Conservatives laughing in our faces.
	I think you covered this a month or so ago when they renewed their own emergency COVID powers.
	If we get the next, if we get the Mirror article up here, please, John.
	powers which include the power to detain people suspected of having COVID for up to 28 days, powers for the health secretary to shut down individual events, gatherings, shops or restaurants if they pose a specific risk, and allowing authorities to shut individual schools as well as ports, railway stations and airports where there and allowing authorities to shut individual schools as well as ports, railway stations and airports where there was perceived to So yeah, our government's.
	But anyway, we found out yesterday that Plan B... Boris' response to Omicron has passed by 369 votes to 126.
	The bill will see face masks become compulsory again in most public indoor venues other than hospitality.
	NHS COVID passes will become mandatory in specific settings and people will be encouraged to work from home.
	So just so we can see what this will look like coming into effect.
	As we get up Sajid Javid here.
	Yep, so no more international travel for 12 to 15 year olds without the NHS COVID pass.
	Including everyone else, by the way.
	Yes.
	He's just mentioning there that children now also have to have the jab, even though his own advisors say it's not worth the risk-reward, but who cares what they say?
	Indeed.
	And if we have a look at what this pass, this NHS pass, will actually look like...
	Yeah, so this is the NHS. I don't know if you were here yesterday, but the Department of Health got caught tweeting early that, oh, from Wednesday, you'll have to have the NHS pass even before the bill passed.
	They had this already in place.
	They knew it was going to pass.
	Yeah, suspicious, isn't it?
	Even though we should say thank you to the 90 MPs who rebelled.
	Oh, no, and we certainly will in time.
	This may or may not mirror health passes from a certain point in modern history.
	We get the next one up.
	Yes, this is David.
	Yes.
	Just a few examples.
	Yeah, health passes from history, Nazi, East Germany, EU and British.
	Yeah, fantastic.
	And of course, someone actually got into trouble for pointing this out.
	We get the next one up.
	British lawmaker Marcus Fish has come under fire for comparing Nazi Germany to plans to roll out COVID-19 vaccine mandates in some capacity in the United Kingdom.
	So how dare you?
	You heretic, I think is the message here.
	I don't get it.
	The Nazis had the Gesundheit pass.
	That's the reference.
	It's sort of like saying, did you know the Nazis had camps or something?
	Well, that's ridiculous.
	How dare you say that?
	Yeah, but they did.
	I don't get what the criticism is.
	It's a perfectly valid comparison.
	There are other comparisons you could make.
	But we didn't have them.
	Yes.
	But if we move on to the next one, we have patients are going to be discharged to hotels and GP appointments are going to be cancelled in order to protect our NHS for the purpose of delivering the...
	The booster rollout.
	So the NHS is no longer going to serve the health of the country in terms of the fact that there will be no more GP appointments, but just boosters.
	So it's literally just a booster health service.
	Yep, pretty much.
	And if we move on to the next one, we have GPs being only open for extreme emergencies, as if, well, we know that they haven't really been doing their...
	Many of them haven't been, shall we say, doing their jobs properly for some time now.
	Well, they haven't been able to.
	No.
	Thanks to the government.
	Yes.
	But no, it's a complete and utter mess.
	Illy falls out.
	But thankfully, a considerable portion of Conservative MPs, as you mentioned, did have the spine to vote against the bill.
	And if we get the tweets from Christmas Rose up...
	So yes, there were, what, 126 rebels, not from the Conservative, but people who voted against them in general.
	But how many, what was it, 90 Conservative Party members, did you say?
	I don't remember the exact figure.
	I can see Christopher, sorry, Mr.
	Rose saying that 69 MPs are supposedly Tories there.
	But then the rest of them, funnily enough, came from the Lib Dems and the Socialist Group within Labour.
	Yes.
	A lot of people, of course, found suspicious because Jeremy Corbyn voting against them, for example.
	Yes.
	I happen to think, or my theory on this, is not that Diane Abba, Dawn Butler, and Jeremy Corbyn were suddenly like, yeah, those are a bad idea.
	No, I think it's a factional fight within Labour, because I pay attention to these things in the party, even though I'm not part of it, because I just think it's funny.
	And the Starmerites and the Corbynites are still fighting every single day, and I think this is one of those things where they're trying to show a difference between the two for their supporters.
	Yeah.
	I think so.
	But at least they ultimately did the right thing.
	For cynical reasons.
	Even if it was perhaps for cynical reasons.
	The grudges me.
	Salute Jeremy Corbyn on that.
	On the Conservative side, if we get the standards list of the MPs who voted against the bill up from the standard...
	So notable figures who voted against the bill were Sean Bailey.
	Some redemption for him there.
	Is he an MP? He's not an MP. I don't know why his name would be on there.
	But anyway, Steve Baker, Desmond Swain, Chris Bading, Liam Fox, David Davis, Theresa Villiers, Graham Brady, Andrea Leadsom, Damien Green, interestingly as well, One Nation Conservative.
	You know what's interesting?
	I couldn't find Theresa May on this list.
	Huh.
	I did search.
	Can you see Theresa May on this list?
	Because she's been one of the most vocal...
	Yeah, yeah.
	She's been on the point of just being like, let's just live with COVID. Let's get over it.
	Which has weirdly redeemed her, of course.
	Yeah, pretty based.
	But in a separate vote, 61 COVID MPs were listed as having voted against the mandatory vaccine requirements for NHS and social care itself.
	And some of these were, again, David Davis, Desmond Swain, Andrea Leadsom, Liam Fox, Steve Baker, who voted against that.
	So yeah, there has been a considerable form of resistance against the Conservatives.
	So those people, if you live in those constituencies, send them an email of thanks.
	And if you don't live in those constituencies like me, you send an email to your MP asking what they were thinking, which I did.
	And I got an unhappy response, but I'll have that conversation another time.
	Yes.
	But if we could get the tweet up from Sky News about Wes Sweden, because he said something quite interesting.
	Even though Wes Streeting, of course, voted with the government and with the majority of the Labour Party on this deal, he basically emphasised how this just expresses the shattered authority of Boris Johnson.
	And, to be perfectly honest, it does.
	Does he not see the irony, though?
	He must do, but he's trying to gloss over it.
	Him and all the snake people voted with the snake people in the Tory parties who got this through.
	And he's like, yeah, but they have no authority.
	I was like, why did you vote for it, then?
	Yeah.
	You quite literally legitimise their authority by voting with them.
	By voting with the shattered authority.
	You are part of the shattered authority, in effect.
	Like, if you think the Tory government doesn't have an authority, then you don't back them.
	You be the opposition and vote against them.
	That's what the opposition is for.
	But if you don't, and instead vote with them, well then you are part of the government.
	In fact, you are the people who are passing this stuff through.
	Because if Labour didn't vote with them, it wouldn't have passed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that's a very, very, very easy way of making himself look virtuous at the time when he has, well, again, subjugated the country to more tyranny, I would argue.
	An attempt, maybe.
	I see that.
	I just think snake.
	Yes.
	You know the lizard person conspiracy theory meme?
	I mean, part of it is true.
	There are sort of people that seem to have some kind of insect brain or something, where they just think about how to F someone over at the first possible convenience.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's trying to sustain the image of being in opposition, or the image of a functioning opposition for the benefits of Keir Starmer, and it's just not going to wash.
	But anyway, shall we have a look at the list of the Labour rebels?
	Which, again, you mentioned some of them earlier.
	Some of the most probably deplorable Labour politicians imaginable.
	Diane Abbott!
	Espana Bagan, Dawn Butler, Emma Lowell-Buck, I'm not sure who she is, Clive Lewis, Rebecca Long-Bailey.
	This is the democratic socialist wing of the party.
	Yeah, this is what I mean.
	It's the socialist group of them who have all decided they're going to fight against Starmer.
	I don't believe for a second if they were in power, they wouldn't have voted for this.
	Yeah, well, Jeremy Corbyn actually voted against both bills that I mentioned.
	And if we get the Daily Mirror article up here and scroll down, you can actually see the tweet.
	I'm not going to stretch that.
	For once upon a time, I may have said that.
	Tonight, I will approve both compulsory vaccines for NHS staff and the introduction of vaccine passports.
	Both measures are counterproductive and will create division when we need cooperation and unity.
	I mean, if you ignore the obvious newspeak here...
	He is absolutely right in saying that this bill does purposely advance the two-tier societies that we are currently seeing in Australia, Germany Um, Austria as well, where you quite literally have like a metal fence in supermarkets between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
	So he's actually not, he's got a point on this one.
	I think, I think that's fairly uncontroversial.
	Um, but now we have to turn to, um, to why this is such, well needless to say plan B is such an overreaction from Boris.
	Boris, of course, made his position perfectly clear on Sundays when he invaded our screens at 8pm to basically declare Omicron an emergency and launch an intense vaccine booster programme.
	He said that there was a tidal wave coming and that two vaccines was not enough to counteract the virus before proceeding to say that a third will definitely be sufficient.
	He interestingly says we don't know how serious the virus is at this point.
	For anyone who watches the news, this is an explicit lie.
	I mean, the dude is the Prime Minister.
	He's given every report on it as soon as it happens.
	Yes, and unless he literally never watches the news, he will know that he's lying, basically.
	And this is shown by the fact that the scientists who discovered the variant, Dr. Angelique, again, I apologise if I mispronounce your surname, Coetzee, basically said that this is all completely overblown.
	In an interview with Nigel Farage, she said that all the evidence in South Africa suggests that the symptoms are far milder and can't even be compared, really, to Alpha or Delta.
	And she proceeds to say in an interview with Sky News, if we get this up, that Boris's reaction is just utterly disproportionate.
	I mean, for a start, she affirms the fact that, again, this difference between Delta and the current variant is stark.
	She says in her own words, Delta was terrible.
	It was heartbreaking.
	When the patients opened the door, you just knew there was trouble.
	But when asked about whether she had seen similar scenes three weeks into the Omicron outbreak, she says, no, it's nothing like it.
	And when she turns to the British reaction to say they need to understand the clinical picture, adding that there was a huge gap between the science and what is actually happening.
	What do I give to Omicron patients?
	Do I give them the same treatment as Delta?
	No, you don't have to because there's quite simply no need.
	And when asked about whether the UK is overreacting, she gives a nuanced answer to say you need to take precautionary measures.
	Yes, you have to be prepared, but don't hype it up.
	Don't scaremonger, basically.
	That people are going to die from viral infections, that hospitals will be overwhelmed.
	It's just better to wait and see.
	And all you have to do is have a look at the data to actually see that this is a completely disproportionate response.
	I mean, just honestly, look at it on the internet.
	The hospitalisations are minuscule.
	But she basically says Britain has moved into crisis mode unnecessarily, and as a matter of fact, Boris's strategy is, and this is the most important part to take from this, likely to be counterproductive to the ends that he sets out, given that emergency booster campaigns can actually act as a source of transmission, with tens of thousands being forced to queue for added protection.
	We've already walked past this, reliable walk past this, on the way to work.
	The queues are enormous.
	But there's another thing here as well.
	And if you actually get up the temporary waiver, which has been announced for this.
	Now, you know, you may not know this.
	I've been vaccinated, so I've been through this process.
	When you're given the vaccine, you're then basically sent through to a waiting room where you have to sit for 15 minutes in case you experience any kind of reaction.
	When I was there for the first time, someone actually collapsed in front of me and actually needed medical attention.
	He was fine, no harm done, at least so it seemed at the time.
	But what they've actually done to speed up this booster process is actually eradicate that 15-minute observation period for the mRNA vaccines which I had.
	Now, just imagine if this person, if that gentleman, walked home and collapsed when he was crossing the road.
	Are we the only ones to have done this as well?
	I have no idea.
	I would never wish this on another nation, of course.
	But it's just utterly beyond belief.
	But I think...
	I don't think we're going to have the time to cover Keir.
	No, we will.
	Okay, no, sure.
	But basically, Keir Starmer has been completely and utterly useless in opposition.
	And if we can play the video here, we can actually see why.
	It is my solemn duty to challenge the government where necessary.
	The health, safety and security of our nation and its people must always be the first priority.
	That's why we will always support measures designed to protect public health.
	That includes the measures in Plan B. We are a patriotic party.
	And it's our patriotic duty to vote for these measures to ensure that they go through.
	And can you get any more sick?
	In doing so, we are supporting the NHS and supporting our country.
	But rest assured, I will still hold the government to account in the coming weeks.
	That is also in the national interest.
	Can you actually believe this?
	It is my solemn duty to challenge the government where necessary.
	To challenge the government by not challenging this at all.
	Must always be the first priority.
	That's why we will always support measures designed to protect public health.
	That includes the measures in Plan B. What a snake person.
	No, exactly.
	You know, I was mentioning the lizard person conspiracy theory.
	Honestly, if that dude isn't a lizard, then, you know, what's happened to him?
	How can someone honestly sit there and be like, I'm going to challenge the government by voting with them every day?
	I know.
	I mean, Neil Oliver actually gave a brilliant response in a conversation with Dan Wooten on this, and he basically said that Keir Starmer's response here is a suicide note.
	The opposition is just not an opposition.
	At best, a tissue paper, an insubstantial, inconsequential nothingness, with his point being that if that's the opposition that holds the Conservative Party to account, then it's pretty much all over.
	Yeah.
	It's pretty much all over.
	But if we move on to Dominic Raab, who's made a blivering error himself, unfortunately.
	You may recall that he announced that we had, what was it, 250 cases of Omicron in the United Kingdom.
	Don't know.
	As it turns out, it's not 250.
	He's 10.
	He got the facts wrong.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Yes, and that he declared in front of everyone on the BBC yesterday.
	But having corrected himself later on on ITV, I believe, he basically said that there are in fact 900 COVID-related hospitalisations in the UK, but this is, of course, generally...
	But even then, that's nothing, Berger.
	It's absolutely nothing.
	I mean, we haven't even considered reopening, for example, the Nightingale Hospital.
	We've got a surplus of resources to cope with this in the National Health Service.
	But we are going to finalise this segment by looking at Gibraltar, the most vaccinated place on Earth, who have cancelled Christmas anyway.
	Yeah.
	This was a memo sent out.
	The Gibraltarian government has told the people that they are to cancel any Christmas parties or gatherings or any of the sort because of the spread of Omicron.
	Yes.
	What are you talking about?
	Like, everyone is vaccinated in Gibraltar.
	This is why I find the obsession with the vaccination, especially in response to this, so absurd.
	So what is the bee under Boris's bonnet then?
	I mean, surely he must be looking at this and thinking, well, quite clearly, it's not working in Gibraltar, mate.
	Because it's not even about the jabs.
	I mean, it's not about the vaccine passports, it's not about the jabs.
	It's not about public health, quite frankly.
	Well, what else on earth could closing down Christmas parties in Gibraltar when 100% of the population are vaccinated be about?
	Yeah.
	And 67% of that have actually had the booster, haven't they?
	Yeah.
	So I don't know if we can go to, I assume, the next one.
	Yes.
	This, I believe, is the very...
	The images on here.
	I found it this morning, just to double-check.
	So Gibraltar being a perfect test study for just the local area, right?
	So if we can click that first one, please, John.
	You can see that 99% or more have been vaccinated, double-jabbed, 99%.
	67% have had a booster.
	So you could describe the place as 167% vaccinated.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next one, do they have cases?
	Yeah?
	Still get cases?
	But is that important?
	No.
	Because we can look at the deaths.
	If we go to the next one, there are no deaths.
	There's some occasional ones there.
	Literally nobody is dying from it.
	You can literally count them with your fingers because this graph is so small.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in the last couple of months.
	Six people.
	That's it.
	That's all you're looking at.
	The last one here, it's just the fact that, yeah, that's what they do in response.
	Got nothing to do with the virus.
	Reckon that's where we're headed?
	Yeah.
	I reckon we are.
	Getting the jabs means nothing to these people.
	So it seems.
	And with that, we must move on to...
	The Yankees.
	Yes.
	Look, I enjoy making fun of the Yankees, but it's deserved.
	Anyway, so...
	France is resisting leftist American cultural imperialism, and we can see some examples of this.
	We have covered it before in some articles where, for example, Emmanuel Macron came out and was like, yeah, Islamo-leftism.
	Needs to go.
	Can't have that here.
	It's an American importation.
	I'm like...
	Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a marriage that was sort of made in the wokest world, but the mass importation of the Muslim world was done by someone else into France, wasn't it?
	But anyway, he also mentioned wokism and whatnot previously as something that needs to be crushed.
	And I thought we'd start this off with just some examples.
	So we can see lips of TikTok here, a wonderful account, nice little Santa hat there.
	High school in Toronto.
	Okay, what is this?
	So, thinking too much to think positively, pride flag's a guide.
	Again, for kids in high school.
	If we can click on it, John, so we can see all the flags, because we don't want to miss any, do we?
	That would be very bad.
	Look at it.
	You got your pride flag?
	Which one?
	I mean, it's a meme.
	It's a meme at this point.
	The bear flag looks remarkably similar to the German imperial flag.
	Yeah, actually, in a weird way.
	I love the lesbian one, though.
	Battle axe.
	Literal battle axe.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, again, many of those, nothing even...
	I mean, it's a bear agenda.
	Slightly imitative of Prussia as well.
	Type of man.
	Anyway, very hairy man.
	We also have the weird iterations of the rainbow flag, agender, intersex, non-binary, pansexual, transgender, queer gender, gender fluid, polysex.
	It's a Tumblr meme.
	Yes.
	This was all a Tumblr meme 10-something years ago, and now it's, yeah, mainstream in a Canadian high school.
	Who done it?
	What made this the norm in the Anglosphere?
	If we go to the next one, there's also just a very funny example of this.
	So someone posted on TikTok, I'm still learning.
	Any constructive criticism is welcome.
	Someone says, what sexuality is that behind you?
	That's the German flag.
	Yeah.
	They thought the German flag was a gender.
	Because, I mean, look at the old ones, you know?
	They're all nuts.
	Anyway, so let's go to the main article on this, which I think is of worthwhile, which came out a couple of days ago on the BBC. France resists US challenge to its values.
	What kind of challenge?
	I wonder.
	Six months ago, if asked what they understood by woke, most French people would have assumed it was something to do with Chinese cooking.
	Yet today, in Paris, the notion of le wokeism is suddenly all the rage.
	I love French.
	It's such a silly language.
	Sorry, French people, but it just sounds funny to me.
	Anyway, the government warns of a new cultural totalitarianism creeping in from the Anglosphere.
	The Education Minister has set up a Laboratory of the Republic, dubbed an anti-woke think tank, to coordinate the fight back.
	Because, of course, being France, it's very top-down.
	You know, in the way they do the language, for example, you have the academy or whatever it is that determines what is a French word and what's not a French word.
	Yeah.
	But also, I mean, to be honest, if you're going to be French and you're going to do something about this, this would be the thing to do.
	So, fair enough to them for trying, because wokeism is a cancer, France.
	I know they're starting to get it into their society, as it seems, and fight it as much as you can.
	Stamp it out.
	On what basis, of course, you're going to have some problems if you try to defend it on an enlightenment basis.
	Anyway, King continues.
	And everywhere the persecutors of what might be to come are being reported in the media.
	A new gender-neutral pronoun in French.
	A threatened statue of a dead statesman, presumably someone great, who's not like the modern folk.
	Or a meeting on campus for only black students, because anti-racism.
	So we segregated the blacks into their own separate space.
	But equal, of course.
	Anyway, for the French, these signifiers of what critics in the UK and the US have termed wokeism are all very new and unfamiliar.
	I don't speak French, so I can't speak for French people as to whether or not this is hugely unfamiliar.
	I just have to assume it is because it's the various reports we get out of people looking at your country.
	So please do let us know in the comments, of course.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So they say in here, resistance to the Anglosphere.
	And this is part of the rhetoric I find around this whole conversation that I mentioned before we started that I weirdly like in a weird way, which is that France and a lot of the Europeans, of course, have a big strain of anti-Americanism in them.
	Even though we're friends and we're all in NATO, at the same time they're just like...
	Yeah, but they're Yankees.
	And part of me has a similar response, because there is a lot of crap that comes out of the United States.
	Not, of course, from the Republican right-wingers.
	They're pretty sensible.
	It's the leftists, and especially the critical race theorists, and the wokest.
	This stuff has been what my life has been, the production of the United States in ideological terms, and it's all garbage.
	And therefore, I do get a bit anti-American about this, of course, but it's not.
	For all of America, it is only for the leftists who deserve all the scorn you can give them.
	so anyway they say in here for good or bad france has so far resisted what is seen here as left-wing cultural movement dedicated to the promotion of minorities that originated in the american universities and now exerts considerable influence in the public sphere in the english speaking world i mean the writer here from the bbc knowing nothing I mean, as you can see, it's just a movement to protect minorities.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they have no idea what's underwriting this, do they?
	Protect them from what as well?
	In the UK, even the BBC actually, twice, has been caught promoting internships in which whites cannot apply.
	What are the minorities being protected from that?
	No, they're being privileged.
	Yeah, that would have had something to do with their allegiance to Stonewall, wouldn't it?
	Yes.
	Well, and also, them just being huge leftists.
	So, I imagine also the race stuff they're quite happy about.
	So, they say in here, partly that is because of an anti...
	Sorry, a built-in French resistance to any intellectual invader from the Anglosphere.
	Which...
	I mean, in this regards, they've definitely got it right.
	There is a bit of French culture that's very upset with the English, especially on the linguistic front.
	They're very defensive about the fact that in France we speak French, and we will speak French, just because everyone in Sweden can speak English.
	For example, the Swedes will sometimes speak English to each other, I've heard from friends of mine.
	And the friend of mine even got annoyed about that.
	He was like, what the fuck am I speaking English to a Swedish person?
	It's because it was just easier for them.
	And the French don't.
	They are very protective about their language.
	Which, I mean, good on them.
	It's a source of national pride, which doesn't...
	Yeah, anyway.
	So, them also resisting wokeness here on a basis of being like, no, we're French, get lost, Anglo.
	Which, as an Anglo, yeah, okay, based.
	But more importantly, it is because France has shown its own post-revolutionary culture rooted in the defence of human rights.
	Quote, Don't preach to us about protecting racial and sexual minorities, is the extinctive French response.
	We do it in our sleep.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, we'll just leave that there for a minute.
	And yet, as with so many other cultural forces that arrive from the US and the UK, think pop music or lunchtime sandwiches al desco, what was originally decried in France often becomes the norm.
	So, will they be able to actually fight back lewokism?
	Well...
	This is probably a conversation better for you, to be honest.
	Yes, well, if they identify that the abstract categories of race, gender, sexual orientation actually digress from the traditional notion of equality, of all being equal in the eyes of something more grander, or shall I say, the Rousonian notion of restructuring society in accordance to the general will, and only the general will alone, then they should understand that this is just a matter of a group of mutineers claiming that they have a better idea of what those universals are, which would, in effect, be an act of treachery on then they should understand that this is just a matter of
	But they wouldn't really...
	I don't think they're going to get there.
	And you'll see from the response why they might not get there.
	So we have a really cute story first, which is titled English Graffiti on Campus.
	I kind of find it funny that it's a hate crime against the French to write in English.
	That's how that reads.
	Anyway, so, quote, And this is a very sad story, almost.
	So this is an American professor who worked in the United States...
	And then has moved to Paris, quite frankly, it sounds like because he was just sick of his own students and how horrible they are.
	And, well, that's true.
	We've seen all the footage from American campuses, haven't we?
	Yeah.
	So he says, personally, I find it liberating to teach here.
	I don't have to mind my every word like I did with American students.
	Here, there is still a presumption that universities are a place to learn, and the staff is not there to cushion the subject matter.
	I'm sorry, I do have to pause for a minute.
	How tragic is that?
	It's awful.
	I mean, this chap has been teaching in the United States philosophy.
	Sent into exile for wanting to honour what universities should be doing.
	Yeah, he's essentially had to self-exile himself to Paris, all places, because American students are that insane.
	Yes.
	I, you know, there's the human cost of the, it's just on college campuses, bro.
	Anyway.
	But Professor Smith says that signs of wokeism are nonetheless appearing on campus.
	He cites seeing for the first time graffiti in English targeting TERFs, or trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
	the use of the english was significant he says because it trickles in via elite bicultural bilinguistic nodes such as can be found at the university however the new american ideas face a big difficulty in france he believes because one of the cornerstones of the french republicanism is a principle that has become an anathema in the context of u.s star wokism and that is of colorblindness so this is the uh the big clash we saw before between trevor noah and the french
	I think you remember, was it the French football team had won the World Cup or something?
	Yes.
	And Trevor Noah, being a stupid Yankee at this point, he's not South African.
	I don't think there's anything in his head that's South African at this point.
	He's just as dumb as the leftist Americans are because he lives in that world.
	And he did this little dance on a show being like, Africa won the World Cup because they've got brown skin.
	And then the French turned around and were like, the hell is wrong with you?
	They're French.
	I think rightly so.
	Because that's the cornerstone, as this guy points out.
	No, we have colour blindness.
	We don't believe in such things.
	And Trevor Noah being a racial nationalist, being like, well, they're black, therefore they're part of the African race, and therefore Africa won the World Cup.
	Pathetic.
	Anyway.
	So, it continues in here.
	But so-called woke thinkers have a different set of values.
	They say race, colour, gender do matter.
	Because they're mad.
	And they come up with this theory that these things should be equalised upon.
	And I always wonder what else they're going to equalise upon, as Jordan Peterson points out.
	I dread to think.
	Why not height?
	Why not hair colour?
	Why not weight?
	It could literally be everything, because it's indeterminate.
	It's all rooted in abstract claims to being oppressed.
	It's such a rabbit hole of just like, okay, we can get to the point, well, the fat acceptance movement is that rabbit hole in a nutshell.
	It's also ironic given that, well, this concept of lived experience glosses over anything they might actually be suffering as individuals.
	Yeah, but also how many factors are you going to equalise on, as Jordan Peterson would say?
	Well, they start to zip their mouths as soon as you start pointing out, well, you're going to equalise long height.
	Well, that is the pathology at the heart of egalitarian principles, isn't it?
	There is no limit to what you can define as unfair.
	So anyway, continuing with this, they say, alive to the injustice in here.
	so this is the defense from the french wokers who are gross some campaigners on a race gender and sexuality here say france's attachment to universalism is hypocrisy and an excuse for refusing to change and this is where they're going to run into problems
	i think and we had this chat at lunch but there's um for example the french minister who set up that think tank i mentioned his speech announcing that they were going to go after wokism from a top-down perspective was the well we're here for humanism universalism and uh you know traditional french values and therefore this is completely different to what's coming out of the United States.
	Yeah, but there's no line of logic between your nonsense and their nonsense.
	The Paris-specific being the nonsense here.
	The revolutions and the revolutionary philosophy and culture and all the rest of it.
	Being put through an American lens and all that.
	There is a view that essentially this is coming back for the chickens to roost, and a lot of people are sitting back being like, yeah, well, you get what you asked for.
	But, of course, it is American left-wing campuses that have come up with this stuff.
	I mean, we can name names.
	I mean, Kimberly Crenshaw.
	Yeah.
	You know, her essays.
	You know, it's not difficult.
	There's not some abstract concept.
	No, her essays in which she lays out the philosophy of intersectionality, it's now coming into France in the form of wokeism.
	Yes.
	Anyway, so going on with this, so he says, the French leftist says, the people who say France must protect itself against wokeism are the people who want everything to stay the same, because they are the ones who benefit from the status quo, says anti-racism activist Ricoia Dillieu.
	God knows foreign names.
	But I love that.
	It's just, don't you know that people who live in a site that isn't infected with wokeism don't want it?
	Why?
	Because it works.
	Okay.
	I was like, okay.
	France has got a lot of problems, but it's mostly on the immigration front, from what I can see.
	Yes.
	Not on the, have we accepted race nationalism front.
	Yeah.
	Also, her there, I imagine she's licking her lips, looking at, like, the United States campus's equality and diversity hires who are getting upwards.
	I saw one the other day, a Brett Weinstein tweet, I think.
	It's like, some head of diversity at a university.
	$300,000 a year.
	What the hell?
	$300,000.
	I mean, the NHS is hiring for $100,000 or whatever it is.
	For what?
	So no, are there some people who will benefit from wokeism taking over France?
	Yes.
	So they're earning $300,000 a week just to be a diversity hire to then advocate for the furthering of diversity hires.
	Yes.
	Great.
	They're just political activists getting paid, well, from a racket.
	So for campaigners like Miss Diallo, woke is a new adjective that they're happy to apply to themselves if it has the sense of being alive to injustice.
	But they believe the French establishment has also been all too happy to fixate on the term as an easy way of denigrating its exponents.
	It's like, yeah, it's because you're nuts.
	I mean, this is kind of funny where they're like, yes, no, I like the term woke because I'm woke to injustice, right?
	It's like, yeah, but at the same time, it's a derogatory term.
	Because your movement's crap.
	Yes.
	It wouldn't be a derogatory term if your movement was any good.
	And it's because it involves subscribing to something that you haven't disambiguated sufficiently.
	Because ultimately, when you break it down, there's nothing to separate it from ethno-fascism.
	As in, actually...
	I mean, we went through this with Kimberly Crenshaw's essay on intersectionality with Carl.
	And just by the end of it, you're just like, this is just black fascism.
	And she's like, yeah, but that's okay.
	She had an argument with Thomas Sowell about this.
	Thomas Sowell being a liberty-loving American who is the traditional type.
	And he's arguing for individual justice and individual rights and the Constitution and all that.
	And she's like, yes, but black fascism, though, would give us more power.
	And he's like...
	Yeah, what?
	Black people are going to get more power from black fascism.
	That's not a good goal, Kimberley.
	No.
	She doesn't get that at all.
	Anyway, so France is decades behind the US on other issues like gay rights, she argues, and then she argues that she wasn't able to get gay married in France before in the United States.
	It doesn't have to do with anything.
	That's not even proving that your movement's good at all.
	No.
	I don't really get the gay marriage debate anymore.
	Like, I don't know why it's such a big issue point for some people, but whatever.
	It is what it is.
	Like, if I was homosexual, I don't know why I'd be involved in religion, but that means an atheist.
	Well, Douglas Murray does make the argument that it extends conservatism to homosexual couples, which could then kind of take on an assumed family, to take on, or should I say, propagate family values, if you like.
	Yeah.
	I do see some mirrors in that argument, but I think it's not something that they think about all too much.
	I don't know.
	But I'm not even opposed to gay marriage at all.
	It's just, if I was gay, I don't know why you'd get married.
	I'm very Milo on this issue.
	Like, Milo being a Catholic, he was just like, well, the Catholic Church kind of persecuted gays for years.
	I don't know why I'd want to do that.
	But then he is a Catholic.
	And Milo's a weird person anyway.
	But it's just, whatever.
	Me as an atheist, don't understand it.
	Anyway, so then we have the existential threat part, in which they name drop Eric Zemore.
	Because Eric Zemore's actually fighting back in an effective manner.
	manner so they say that is indeed precisely what the anti-woke movements in france believes that via universities pressure groups and social media the u.s is exporting a cultural virus into france that poses an existential threat to french society yes Chad, yes!
	Absolutely yes.
	It's happened in the UK. We've had it in Canada.
	We've had it in Australia and New Zealand.
	The exact same thing.
	Right on the money.
	Exactly how it happens and exactly the point to push back on.
	From the writer Bruce, French name, a member of the Laboratory for the Republic think tank, Wokism puts people into tribes in order to control them.
	It says you belong to my tribe and that leaders of my tribe will tell you how to behave.
	This is foreign to French mentality.
	Yeah.
	None of that is inaccurate.
	and I fear that we would come close to civil war again if this goes too far.
	Just as former US President Trump was a reaction to wokeism in the US, we too have crazies like far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
	People are taking sides.
	It's like, right, okay, the Macronists are upset about Eric Zemmour.
	Why?
	Because he's actually effective at being able to create a new paradigm in which he fights them back.
	And if you're wondering who Eric Zemmour is, we did do a clip on him, but I thought we'd also mention a video we did, me and Carl, about a blockbuster speech he gave before he ran for president, hitting the money exactly as well.
	Anyway, going back to the article.
	Another anti-woke campaigner, Quebec-born commentator Matthew Bock, French name, believes...
	I don't know.
	I'm not going to try.
	Believes such ideas run counter to many of the formative elements of French identity.
	We are in a country where the freedom to talk about anything and everything is taken for granted.
	When you have minorities who say such and such a topic is off limits, people instinctively say that's censorship and we can't accept it, he says.
	I mean, again, the French taking their freedom of speech aspects, at least on the face of it, to heart.
	I did see Eric Samor actually arguing about the Holocaust laws, for example.
	So France is one of those countries that did pass anti-Holocaust denial laws.
	And Eric Samor is just like, no, that's against free speech.
	And he's Jewish.
	So, you know, he's the perfect guy to be able to...
	No, we're not having that.
	The truth does not need the law to defend it.
	No.
	It's that simple.
	Anyway.
	So for him, France has the chance to be a beacon of inspiration against such ideas.
	You certainly do.
	In the US, opposition to wokeism was monopolized by the conservatives under Trump, to say at least, but this is not an attractive example, he says.
	I don't really know why, because, I mean, if the left are happy to run into this place, well, let them...
	I think it's because, well, Trump almost looks too much like the caricatured, like, I don't, the caricaturable evil white guy, maybe.
	What, for the wokest?
	For the wokest, yeah.
	That probably works at their advantage.
	Successful!
	Yeah.
	But there's also, there's an interesting thing in France that, so when a terrorist, when an Islamist decides to murder someone in the UK, such as an MP, we all go hush-hush, talk about something else.
	Yep.
	In France, not only do the right and the left both agree that, no, Islamism's a massive problem, we've been to stamp out now before it's too late.
	They're happy to have that conversation openly, and hopefully they're able to have that conversation about wokeism as well, which would be nice.
	Indeed.
	So I thought we'd also just end on something that was a side story, not really related, but also just kind of something I find disgusting, but again, the American left seem to be doing.
	And I'm not a fan, but...
	So of course, this is the story.
	Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue to be melted down and turned into art.
	It's like, right...
	I have a personal axe to grind.
	We're not going to get into this story again, but I'm very much of the opinion that you should always keep these historical statues around, even if they're hideous.
	So even if it's Lenin's tomb, for example, or Stalin's in the Kremlin wall, the Russians keep him there.
	And Putin even defends keeping him there on the basis that, no, this is our history.
	It's an inseparable part of Russia's story.
	And if you want to tell the future generations of what happened, what our people did, and what we venerated, you show them.
	And you have to preserve the good and the bad, so that the meaning can be retained.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, I mean, you explain all the horrors of the Soviet Union to them, and say, well, why the hell did you build this big tomb?
	And it's like, exactly, that's the point.
	Show them the tomb, and be like, look, this was real.
	Look, this is the part of decolonisation that I don't understand, or...
	At all.
	For a simple reason that surely, if you want to explain how bad the past was, you'd want to keep these monuments up if they are that bad to you.
	What's underwriting the desire to actually remove them, to actually make the past, if anything, look slightly less oppressive when you are not around to tell everyone else how bad your past was?
	But anyway, let's not rehash the whole debate, but it's infuriating.
	But anyway, you could also argue that the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville is, of course, compiled with the terrorist attack in Charlottesville, the guy who drove the Dodge Challenger into the crowd.
	So there's that as well, in which you could be like, this is historically important because of that, and therefore is another symbol of evil.
	And instead, no, they're going to melt it down.
	And they say in here, the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee that drew protest to Charlottesville, Virginia, will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public art by an African-American heritage center.
	Which is, again, weird.
	You would have thought if you want people to remember why African American heritage or the history of the African Americans is important or the historical oppression and blah blah blah and everything else, you'd keep the statue and show people, look, people in this town put up a statue to Robert E. Lee.
	After the Civil War, we're still dealing with these symbols and oppression and blah blah blah.
	And instead, no, we'll melt it down and turn it into God knows what.
	So, that's that.
	I mean, they're the kind of people who would destroy the Holocaust memorial outside Berlin and the Reichstag, just because it doesn't represent trans women of colour who died in the Holocaust.
	They literally would.
	But anyway, good luck to France.
	Keep fighting.
	Let's move to the video comments.
	Hey guys!
	I recently got around to watching Karl and Thomas talk about critical theory, and it was a really good video in my opinion.
	So, two questions.
	In the end of the first one, Thomas mentioned the Dark Enlightenment, so I wanted to ask you guys what your opinion on the Dark Enlightenment and especially the neoreactionary movement are.
	And also, interview with James Lindsay.
	When?
	Well, on The Dark Enlightenment, I do have a plan or something on Nick Land lined up, so I'll probably explain more on that when I get to it.
	On James Lindsay, again, he's actually someone I've only discovered very, very recently.
	His...
	The series on critical theory, on repressive tolerance in particular, was particularly good.
	But I take issue with some of his claims, notably about Hegel and Marx.
	But again, I'll get to that.
	And thank you very much for, of course, watching me and Cole's segment on that.
	I did message James Lindsay a while back because there were rumours he was coming to the UK. He wasn't because of COVID and whatnot.
	I don't know if he has any plans, but if he does come down, of course, we'll extend an invite to the office.
	If I may say one more thing, I've suspected for some time that there are dark enlightenment forces behind wokeism at the moment.
	And the very reason I'm going to investigate Nick Land's philosophy is because I think there are reasons to think that what we're seeing now is all in accordance to what he anticipates and his accelerationism.
	But yeah, we'll get to that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I've got a proposition for you guys.
	Do you want to swap Prime Ministers?
	You can have Scott Morrison and we have Bojo.
	What do you say?
	Well, given what I saw of what was the Australian Hitler with Harry last week, I think I'd rather keep Boris.
	At least he's, like, with Boris you can tell everything he's doing right now is just because he's so caught with his trousers down.
	Yeah.
	And incompetent.
	Yeah.
	It's more incompetence than out-and-out cynicism.
	The devil you know.
	Yes.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Sorry, North Americans, Canadians and Americans alike, but if you ever want to understand how superior the British are compared to you, here is your evidence.
	The toilet paper here is silky smooth and a pleasure to use, unlike your fragile stuff.
	Also, John, what's happened?
	Where's the denim?
	Did I have an effect on you?
	I shouldn't have.
	You're made of sterner stuff than that.
	Sadly, John's not here to answer for himself.
	But I will make him pay for his crimes tomorrow, don't worry.
	Toilet paper?
	I've never used American toilet paper, so I'll have to suspend judgement on that.
	I don't know, Chad, tell us.
	What's wrong with American toilet paper?
	What are you guys using?
	I don't know what the...
	Send us some, and we'll tell you.
	But don't send me your toilet paper.
	Just tell me what's wrong with it.
	What are you using, wax paper?
	Let's go to the next one.
	G'day, guys.
	I want to tell you about an amazing book, The Achievements of the Labour Government, by Alan Pease.
	Let me just show you how much information is here.
	It's a great book.
	And if anybody wants to grab this copy off me...
	If you order my books off cscooper.com.au and you use the promo code WHITECHRISMAS for a 20% discount, I might include this in one of the packages.
	It'll be a little surprise.
	Next book club sorted.
	So if you want to enter that raffle, again, that's cscooper.com.au and use the promo code WHITECHRISMAS. Sorry, if I bugged that up again.
	I don't know what it is with C.S. Cooper.
	It makes me laugh.
	Anyway, the next one.
	Alright, so referring to the Zoom call we had a while back.
	Sorry for not getting this one out sooner.
	This is what I want to show you.
	It is a knight that slays the evil of communism.
	A wonderful beast, as you can see.
	Standing triumphantly with its golden eye of knowledge and whatever you want to call it.
	And of course, it has the true insignia, the Knight of Lotus E.T. Oh, that's quite nice.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure I'll very much appreciate that.
	Good work.
	Art gains?
	Are vaccine passports and masks the mark of the beast?
	This is a question that many Christians have been asking themselves recently.
	So, what is the Mark of the Beast?
	Well, in Scripture, it's a kind of false sacrament that identifies you as a good servant of the government.
	It indicates that you've put your faith in the government, a government which recognizes no higher authority above itself.
	I mean, maybe.
	I've mentioned this story twice, so I won't again, but the sheep people I walked past the other day...
	I don't know if you heard.
	There was a busker, there were some 20-year-olds who were clearly not at risk, wearing their masks, walking past.
	His busker just stops playing, looks at him and goes, how many more shots are you going to get before you realise it's bollocks?
	They just had to run and win as many as it takes.
	You will literally do anything, won't you?
	Yeah.
	I do have a longer explanation behind this phenomenon, but I will...
	I will abstain for now because it will probably take us too long.
	Although I wonder with the I presume like Antichrist stuff especially.
	To be honest with you, the evil that exists in the world, people who do honestly evil things are probably the ones who would just go along with anything.
	It's not so much they're evil but they'll just go along with what's happening.
	Don't find comfort in fear.
	That'll be my short message to that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with an announcement.
	We got banned off of YouTube for a week.
	We're getting more strikes and expect to see the channel completely erased.
	So join us on Rumble under Screenplays and Opinions if you'd like to see some of our longer videos.
	Also on Bitchute under my name.
	And we just started the channel at Odyssey.
	I talk about movie trailers, screenplays, the news, and of course, South Jersey.
	Let's screenplays and opinions if you want to go and help them out on Rumble and Odyssey, he says.
	Cool.
	What the hell did you get a strike for?
	You and Little Joan, what are you saying that's upsetting YouTube?
	God!
	I hear some more stories from the Pines and YouTube's like, none of that!
	I'm not having that on my...
	Fuck, man.
	Sorry, it's just...
	It's just like you're so wholesome 24-7 and then you guys get strikes.
	Maybe that's his crime.
	Yeah, they're just too wholesome for a YouTube.
	Get out of here.
	I want more twerking or something.
	More WAP. Yeah, sounds about right.
	I'm just disappointed none of you made this sooner.
	Today's coverage of the Raccoon City Outbreak brought to you by Umbrella.
	Discussions on galactic travel and ethics brought to you by Weyland-Yutani.
	This discussion on the terrorist acts of the Assassin's Order brought to you by Abstergo.
	Nice.
	Although I have a feeling Umbrella's probably operating in South Sudan making new viruses, apparently.
	Already killed 100 people.
	Anyway, see the next one.
	To follow up my last video, the Tories and the pre-Donald Trump Republicans are globalists, which means that they believe in a leftist philosophy, they just happen to not link many of the places where that philosophy leads to, which means that they are capable of pointing out problems with leftism, but they don't have any philosophical basis to actually do anything about them.
	Yeah, that's also the problem within the critical theory tradition, really.
	It's a...
	It's a philosophy.
	It allows you to diagnose problems but offers nothing by the way of solving them.
	It's very painful to live with.
	Yes.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's completely impotent as a political strategy.
	And if you have people who are running operations like that, then I'm afraid, well, we're the ones who have suffered the consequences before they then are compelled to change it.
	Well, I mean, God bless Donald Trump and everyone who went out and campaigned for him, voted for him, all the rest of it.
	You guys have actually reformed the Republican Party into something that is, well, what it should be.
	Yeah.
	It's nice.
	Yeah.
	It's more promising than it was.
	Let's go to the next one.
	My apprentice had a question for you guys today.
	So, in Canada, when we're telling jokes, we'll often use a British accent to try and make ourselves sound excessively upper class.
	And he was wondering if you ever do something similar with the Canadian or American accents.
	If you can actually tell the difference between the two.
	I can't.
	Well, I imagine the British accent you're using is an upper-class British accent, for one.
	So there's that distinction.
	Whenever you see people do American accents in, let's say, pop culture over here, American is usually stupid.
	Yeah.
	Like, just moron.
	Kind of like a redneck who can't pronounce any of the words.
	Yes.
	Kind of American.
	I think Jeremy Clarkson's one is very famous on this.
	He went to a car dealership and he was like, we've got a Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, Nissan.
	Anyway, so usually that.
	Canadian accents, we don't use that often.
	No, we couldn't pull them off either.
	No, I mean, there's just not enough cultural knowledge or distinction, I think.
	I think you need to almost be American enough to understand the value in mocking Canada, because it's much easier to pick up on the differences in how they speak.
	I think there's a few things.
	Canadians say out rather than out.
	That's the only difference I know, so I wouldn't dare apply it.
	No.
	Maybe I just don't know, but I'm sure some of the Brits, if they're in the chat, can tell you some that I don't know.
	We don't seem to have many stereotypes for the Canadians.
	Maybe because they're sort of brothers, and maybe because they're slowly being Americanised in their form.
	We've lost sort of anything for them.
	Sorry.
	So, Chet Chris Holmes says...
	Chisholm.
	Again, as if I'm going to change.
	It's an English name, Callum.
	This officially makes John my favourite.
	But if it helps, Callum, my name's an alliteration, or I sound like I was named by Stan Lee.
	Okay, sorry.
	But yeah, I've got a problem.
	I have no idea how to fix it, which is, I can't read.
	Anyway, moving on, let's go to the written comments, because that fits in perfectly.
	So let's go to the Miles Sudan stuff.
	So firstly, from Nitrocellulous Doormat, will Miles become the Lotus Eater's roving reporter slash travel show?
	I mean, he's sort of already doing it, isn't he?
	Yeah.
	He did wonder about what he's going to do with his various travels, and I'm sure we could do a collaboration at some point.
	Anyway, so, Shaker Silver.
	Let's hope Miles doesn't have a run-in with Joseph Kony, often found roaming in South Sudan for the 10-year anniversary of Kony 2020.
	God, he still hasn't been caught, has he?
	No.
	I think the guy who did the Kony 2012 stuff, where's he?
	No idea.
	Like, I know he did a bunch of interviews after having a mental breakdown, and he didn't jack off in public.
	That's fake news.
	He just got nude.
	Right.
	Anyway.
	Like, what is it?
	Internet storing the video on him?
	But I don't know what he's doing now.
	I mean, I suppose Kony, I mean, no one, I suppose people in the region will know.
	I presume killing children.
	What else?
	Anyway.
	But, yeah, we all hope Miles is okay.
	By now, he should be in the air going somewhere else, away from South Sudan.
	Baron von Warhawk says, Stay tuned for more adventures of Lord Miles!
	Next week, he will be venturing into the jungles of Papua New Guinea to make contact with cannibal tribes, where he will take a boat ride into the wild Amazon River, where he then has an adventure into Los Angeles to try and find and battle the fearsome crackhead tribes.
	With his Martini Henry rifle and a pith helmet.
	Finally, he will be venturing into the darkest of Canada to capture Bigfoot for the Queen.
	To be honest, I'd watch that series.
	I was thinking of The Adventures of Herbert Daring Dashwood from Fallout 3 then, with some of that.
	Anyway...
	I think he does have a pith helmet when he's in Sudan.
	He bought it on specially.
	I don't think he's allowed a Henry Martini rifle.
	I think in the UK, if you buy a rifle that's made before 1870, even if it's a proper one but has been deactivated, you can carry it in public and show it off and whatnot.
	Oh, really?
	Because the law applies beyond them, because it's like, oh, it could be a real gun, but before it's, we wanted to make an exemption for re-enactors, and also, you're probably not going to hurt anyone with one of them anyway.
	No.
	No.
	So that was the exemption.
	So I think he could...
	I don't know if Henry Martini's made before then or after, but I'm sure he could find some old-timey rifle that we used to carry and get a nice little red tunic.
	Student of History says, Why do I feel like he's going to inspire a Catholic crusade where just tons of people end up doing this?
	Oh, you know, next trip to Israel.
	Reclaim for the Holy Land, DS4, DS4! I mean, Miles, all I'm saying is you're a big good meme.
	Ango Shishan says, is there any way to support Miles?
	Send him money if he needs it.
	Yes, so I believe on his Twitter account it's just the simplest place to find him.
	He has a PayPal link as the pinned tweet.
	My understanding, as he explains, is he uses that money to give out.
	So that's the money he's spending.
	I think he does have a job in investment banking or something, as he said, which is stressful as hell.
	It's also probably why his personality matrix is a bit strange.
	He takes risks and it doesn't bother him as much as it would a normal person.
	Yes, he has to switch between an instrumental and a moral disposition, which is quite jarring, I imagine.
	Jimbo G. Sure, Miles has been to some dodgy places, but has he ever been to a Democrat-run American city?
	Plenty of gunfire there.
	That is true, and I'll double-donkey-dare him to go to Detroit, I guess.
	Yeah.
	I did see this morning, John mentioned, Jusé Smoulier is getting sued by the city of Detroit for defamation.
	Sorry, Chicago.
	It's just like, for defamation, really?
	I mean, I know he defamed the city, but I mean, that much?
	Let's go to the other stuff.
	Yeah, we're on to the next segment.
	So, the Omicron...
	Sorry, Heathcliff Flowen says, the Omicron death announced by Boris Johnson remains the only reported Omicron death in the world.
	I didn't know that.
	PHE refused to release any details of the patient.
	Yes, interesting that.
	Then they use it to push for vaccine passports.
	Yeah, it's really, really weird.
	None of this adds up.
	What's your bets on he killed him?
	Who would take a bet for that?
	Jimbo G says, Going to a football match tomorrow, I am double jabbed and not willing to get a booster, so I have a valid passport for now.
	I have no idea how they are going to check 50,000 people on entry without it just being random spot checks.
	The whole thing is superficial and just pits the general public against the enforcers.
	Yeah, though sadly I suspect that football may well be...
	Shut down very, very soon by the way things are going at the moment.
	I know that some football clubs have actually tried to avoid implementing the mandates by reducing the number of people that can come, or at least reorganising the seizing or whatever.
	Sorry, I'm just being reminded.
	Do you remember when they started doing that?
	And then they immediately...
	Everyone was like, close it down, close it down.
	You remember Piers Morgan?
	And a month later, he's posing with himself at the football match.
	No, it's insufferable.
	Enjoy the match tomorrow.
	And again, I won't be getting a booster either, so I don't blame you for not getting one.
	Yonah Lord says, just like supermarkets, all venues have to do to stop the restrictions from impacting their business is to simply say that they cannot enforce said restrictions.
	If all of them do it, it's dead in the water.
	Yeah.
	Well, that is the silver lining, as mentioned.
	If you go down to a shop, no one cares about masks.
	No one will ask you in this country.
	Because why should they?
	Why should they waste their money and their standards?
	Compelling it will come to the detriment of those businesses because less people will be coming to buy things from them.
	Like the security guards.
	Why, if you're Tesco's, do you want your security guards to go through stress and hassle?
	And also, why do you want to pay for more of them to implement this crap?
	So you just don't?
	It's just going to be a nuisance.
	And even if you ask them, I mean, if I was a security guard, I would probably just screw it, to be quite frank.
	No, I agree.
	There's an easy way to get past this, and that is just don't listen to the blimming government on this.
	Sardock Spamfish says, Holy cow, even Diane Abbott's Rebecca Wrong Daily and Jeremy Corbyn voted against the stupid COVID passports.
	Ah!
	How can Boris screw up this badly?
	That is a very good question.
	Oh, Jeremy Corbyn.
	Yeah, we do need some memes of them literally wearing the same clothes or something like that.
	Yeah.
	What happens if you make a...
	No, it goes purple, doesn't it?
	Blue and red?
	Yes.
	That's crap, because that's UKIP. That doesn't make any sense.
	But anyway, there's...
	We don't have a Conservative Party, because for reasons that we've discussed many times, they're not conserving anything, and Labour have been acting in contempt of the working class for a very long time, and we now don't have an opposition, because Keir Starmer's just bowing to whatever bad plan Boris Johnson has at the moment, for whatever reason.
	There needs to be a second force in British politics, never mind a third.
	The only opposition that we have is, of course, the revolting backbenchers of Desmond Swain, etc.
	So all I can say is keep at it for our sake.
	Anyway, Bilbo Swaggin says the Tories are rightfully getting backlash for these parties, but I hope the public do not forget that Labour are just as guilty.
	Now is the time to vote for a third party.
	I would say that, but then again, the first-past-the-post system would probably mean that you'd get an even stronger majority.
	We need a UKIP position.
	So UKIP didn't get the seats, but it had that impact.
	The hope is essentially you get to the position they were in in 2015, not on a single issue, but then can get the seats and replace them in the same way the Liberal Party did to the Liberals.
	Yeah, the thing is, it was effective on matters related to Brexit, but I'm not sure if it's really going to be the same this time.
	I don't know.
	Maybe I'm just being cynical.
	It's a hell of a task.
	It's a hell of a task.
	Kevin Fox says, under Plan B, NHS to become NPPIS, National Pfizer Profit Increase Service.
	Yup, there's an argument to be made for that.
	Tom Wise says, Yeah, I mean, Nazis did have health passports, segregated society and camps, but they were not doing it for the greater good like we are.
	Yeah.
	Well said.
	Oh, hang on, I've just scrolled far too much.
	Holy cow.
	So Sardock Spamfish says, "Holy cow!" Even though that's one I've already read, I apologise.
	Long Talks on the Nietzsche says, "Hope you lads are doing alright over there." Yeah, we're doing fine.
	This kind of behaviour from governments just screams of insecurity, and they're in a race to demoralise their electors before they snap under the weight of two cancelled Christmases.
	I'm just going to ignore them.
	That's what I think everyone should do, honestly.
	I'm not going to listen to them.
	No one should.
	Sorry, they're going to be partying again for like the tenth time.
	Yes.
	Get a crap what they think.
	Yeah.
	I've got no respect for them at all.
	Cynthia Paul says, full list of MPs voted against vaccine passports can be found in this link.
	And it doesn't include Theresa Mays.
	I was indeed right on that, as it turns out.
	Did she even abstain?
	Or not?
	She may have abstained.
	It wouldn't make sense at all if she voted for the deal, given everything she's been saying all year.
	Yeah, but she's a politician.
	Yeah, she's a politician and a wet one of that.
	Alexander P says, protecting the NHS means wrapping it up in cling film and putting it in a display case where us plebs can only gawp at it.
	God forbid somebody dirty it up by using it.
	The government can only claim a successful socialist project by freezing it in time before it falls down.
	The NHS is pretty, on the COVID front, is very, very well resourced.
	Well resourced enough for them to have closed the Nightingale Hospitals.
	Yeah, if they need more resources, we'll just pay for them like we did before or every other time.
	Right, yes.
	It's not hard.
	Yeah, so it doesn't need protecting.
	On the COVID front, it is fine as it is.
	We don't exist to protect it.
	No.
	It exists to protect us.
	Yes.
	And the last one, Oakwood Woodward says, you mentioned the removal of the 15-minute observation period after being vaccinated.
	What would have happened if the person who collapsed had been driving?
	Exactly.
	The evidence also seems to point to a reduced immune system following the vaccinations for around two weeks, which is why you don't count as being vaccinated during that period.
	That means that huge portions of the population rushing through booster shots during a highly infectious variant is more likely to make the impact worse than otherwise.
	No, I won't tell that story because I'll get someone in trouble.
	Sorry, I won't do that.
	Anyway, France.
	Oh, on France.
	Jimbo G, so read the German gender person.
	Yeah, I'm Still Learning is code for radicalization.
	The amount of people who self-identify as a priestly class who encourage people to ask them questions about their trans religion is infuriating, isn't it just?
	I do love that it's perfect.
	What gender is that?
	It's German.
	It's German.
	I want to see more of those as memes.
	So completely unearned self-righteous moral posturing is because they read stuff on the internet 2021.
	Yeah, and ever since, to be honest, could you prescribe Tumblr as sort of like a radicalising force in the UK? And just be like, nah, banned.
	Put it on the prescription list as a banned organisation.
	I'd certainly like to.
	It's up to the purview of the Home Secretary, so if you become one.
	Anyway, Callum Dayton says, I would like it if the French stopped referring to us and the WOKUS as the Anglosphere.
	For a start, this came from their country in the first place, then went to Russia, which went to the US, which is Yankland, not Angloland, and now has come to their homeland where it began, so France.
	Where does the Anglosphere nature of WOKUS actually come from?
	That's actually a fair point.
	You can trace this back to Rousseau and his snowflake idea of humans being just unsullied by their very, or at least humans being in their best form through their unsullied existence.
	I don't deny a bit of the irony there, but to say this doesn't come from Yankee-land.
	Yeah, it comes from Yankee-land universities, specifically Kim Buchanan Shaw.
	She is a Yankee, and she's a Yankee leftist, and that's the worst.
	To say it comes from the Anglo-land, it's just French-speaking, which, you know, it certainly doesn't come from the UK. You've got that on the money.
	So, student of history, as an American resisting leftist imperialism, based, just note, there are Yankees on your side.
	There certainly is, and we thank you for your service.
	You're the only group in the Anglosphere, in mainstream politics, who are actually having an effect, irritatingly enough.
	I mean, we try endlessly with the Conservatives here, we see it with the Canadians, we see it with the New Zealanders, the Australians, everyone who watches from all the other parts of the Anglosphere.
	Kimberley Yangshaw.
	Brilliant.
	Anyway, yeah, so Kimberley Yangshaw is at least being fought back by the Republicans in the United States.
	You guys actually do do the work.
	I mean, there was a vote today on Islamophobia, which is snucked in by the Islamo-leftist caucus of the Democrats, and every Republican voted against it.
	So they were just like, no, this is a blasphemy law.
	Go to hell.
	That would never happen in Britain.
	You'd have a huge section of them being like, well, I don't want to be called a racist.
	I'll step in the...
	Useless.
	Anyway, sorry.
	Mad.
	So, Agent000.
	I like the term woke because it is so much easier and shorter than neo-communists.
	Yeah, though there's an argument where you could argue that wokeists are somewhat...
	I mean, I see the most...
	Carl's called it before.
	It's like the feminists are eventually gender communists.
	You have the race communists.
	I want to equalize across the races all the genders and whatnot.
	And the wokeists are like, we'll do that on all basis.
	I'm like...
	Yeah, I'm just thinking about something that Hannah Arendt said about totalitarianism, which is that it's not those who actually understand the ideology, that's the problem.
	It's those who align themselves with them.
	Face the wall, communist.
	Kevin Fox says, Ergo, the smallest group shall have all the power.
	Hang on, wasn't that what happened in Rhodesia and we called it apartheid and the world fought against it so they want apartheid so long as the minority are benefiting are black, sexually different, or pedophiles?
	Yeah, I mean, I love this question, which is gonna happen, presumably in the next census as well.
	One of the main points of Rhodesia, and again, a failed state meme, quite frankly, is majority rule.
	Endlessly.
	That was our rule.
	Look, get the country, the people running it into majority rule, black population are running it, then it goes independent.
	And so that's the British way of dealing with getting rid of our colonies.
	And with Rhodesia, of course, they didn't do that.
	They said, no, the whites are going to be in charge.
	And so the question has to be asked, well, does majority rule apply to everyone, or only those nations?
	And as the demographics change in Europe, I wonder how that conversation is going to come about.
	I'd love to see the same people having that discussion.
	Anyway, so I think we'll end that there, which is quite a mysterious point.
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