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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 22nd of December 2021.
	I'm joined by John.
	Hello Lotus Eaters!
	And today we're going to be talking about Holocaust School, which is like School of Rock, but worse.
	Also, uh, Stalinists, Supertankies, and Sage.
	Yeah, yeah, a little who-do-you-think-you-are family portrait going on here.
	Yeah, and also Jimmy Carr comes out against cancel culture, which I am particularly pleased about personally, because I was quite worried that he was going the other way on this, because I remember during the Dankula situation he said nothing, and I was like, what's that about?
	Come on, you're Jimmy Carr.
	If anyone else is getting arrested, it's definitely you.
	Anyway...
	Some stuff to mention first on the website, so the first thing here being a republish here, which is an article by Hugo, United Nations, the insurance company, which now is republished with an audio track for people to go and listen to, on the silver and gold tiers especially, of course, being accessed to the audio track.
	But otherwise you can subscribe and get access to the article anyway.
	That was a really interesting article actually, I quite enjoyed reading that.
	On a kind of tangential note, I do want to mention as well, with the corruption in the UN, just a tweet by Lord Miles, because we don't have enough stuff to go through a Lord Miles section or anything, but I do want to mention it.
	He made it to the refugee camp, apparently, and he's out there with the UN, and he's just appalled by how crap they are.
	Like, there's people in there who've been waiting several months just to get some, like, glasses because they've got a problem with their eyes and they can't get it done.
	So he's just like, right, here's my PayPal.
	Send me money and I'll buy the stuff.
	And he's just out there buying the stuff and giving it to them, which...
	Damn.
	Yeah, I mean, that's...
	And as you can see him complaining there, you know, why does it take some random autist, me, a 750 mile trip to help someone here when these people can't do it with the billions of dollars they've got?
	Very good point, Myles.
	Anyway, sorry, backing that barb there.
	But let's move on to the next one.
	So this is just another thing on the website to mention, which is a video.
	This is by you.
	Ah, yes, this has gone up.
	Yeah, so we had a guest presenter come in, Dr.
	Chesticoff, who gave us a rundown of man flu, why you should be worried about it, and what steps you can take to prevent it.
	It's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, so I hope you enjoy.
	Yeah, so go and check that out.
	That one's free as well, so you'd have to subscribe to that one.
	Anyway, but without further ado, let's get into the news.
	I don't want to steal Keemstar's thing anymore, but I haven't thought of a better one.
	Callum, Callum.
	So, Holocaust School.
	So, this is a school you can go to and learn about the Holocaust.
	I went to school and learned about the Holocaust multiple times.
	It was a bit weird.
	We did it in religious class, we did it in history class, and all the rest of it multiple times, which was strange, but okay, we learned about the Holocaust.
	I didn't get this kind of Holocaust school, which is an almost like Holocaust reenactment school, which you could attend, apparently.
	So this is Fox News reporting here.
	D.C. schools investigating Holocaust lesson in which students told to play Hitler stimulate grave digging And also, apparently, some hate speech was used.
	Oh, no.
	By who?
	We don't know.
	So the teachers involved told the kids, you want to use going to be Hitler.
	For now and forever, apparently, because if there's a photo of that, that kid's never living it down.
	Yeah.
	Which is one thing.
	I'm so curious how they chose Hitler as well.
	But also, we're going to divide up the kids into the Nazis and the Jews, and the Jews are going to be forced to dig their own graves.
	I don't know if this is the right way to teach about the Holocaust, but it's pretty extreme.
	Anyway, so let's read the details here.
	So, DC Public Schools tells Fox News on Monday that it launched an investigation after elementary students reportedly were instructed to reenact the Holocaust.
	I don't know if they had, like, play guns as well or what, I don't know.
	Including portraying Adolf Hitler and digging ditches to serve as mass graves.
	The lesson, apparently, given to third graders at the Watkins Elementary School library on Friday...
	How old are third graders?
	Eight?
	I don't know, but that's like primary school, isn't it?
	Yeah, that's like eight years old or something, isn't it?
	It's secondary school.
	I bet if you said the Holocaust to them, they can't even pronounce it properly.
	But okay, they're going to be digging mass graves themselves.
	So the students said they felt traumatised by the whole thing, according to one parent.
	Yeah, I'm not surprised.
	Which...
	Yeah.
	I mean, if I had to dig my own grave, I'd be pretty upset.
	Anyway, last week we received a report of a classroom of students receiving a lesson that included portraying different perspectives on the Holocaust.
	Different perspectives.
	Different perspectives.
	Such as living it, I suppose.
	I mean, that's a perspective.
	We generally don't teach the Nazi perspective on the Holocaust either, do we?
	It's a first-person perspective.
	Oh, God.
	It's like a first-person shooter for all the kids.
	IRL. Students should never be tasked with acting out any atrocity, especially war or genocide, said the DC public schools to Fox News in a statement.
	It's just like, when do you have to get to that point?
	I don't think third graders should be made to reenact the Holocaust.
	I thought we were all on that page, but apparently not.
	Okay.
	Additionally, there were allegations of a staff member using hate speech during the lesson, which is unacceptable and not tolerated at any of our schools.
	So wait, hang on.
	Was the teacher just, like, living out their own strange racist fantasy in this lesson?
	They just really want to kill the Jews, I guess.
	And they were like, well, I've got some kids and half an hour to kill.
	I'll divide them up.
	And I'll put it off as a history lesson.
	Because apparently they submitted some kind of lesson plan.
	And it didn't include any of this.
	Obviously.
	Or it wouldn't be approved.
	So then they just did this for lols, I guess.
	But also the hate speech did come from the staff member involved.
	So the staff member was presumably also playing the role of a Nazi.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, a natural role for many teachers, I'm sure.
	I mean, you can't really do hate speech against Nazis, apparently, so she was doing what exactly?
	Well, presumably talking to the kids playing the Jews and using slurs about Jews.
	I don't know what else it could be, so that's what happened in the classroom.
	You've got half the kids digging their own graves while being called the K-word by their teacher.
	It's just...
	I mean, it is horrifying, but it's also just so absurd.
	That's why I'm laughing.
	Imagine being one of the kids.
	Imagine being told by, you know, your kids that that went on in the classroom.
	Would you believe them?
	Yeah.
	Well, if you did, homeschoolers never looked so attractive right now.
	Yeah.
	I mean, we've talked about grooming your kids.
	I mean, how are they going to turn them into Jews and be called the K-word all day?
	Right.
	The district also said the staff member involved in the incident has been placed on leave pending an investigation.
	I don't know what you're hoping to find more than this, but okay.
	This was not an approved lesson plan, yet no S, and we sincerely apologise to our students and families who were subjected to this incident, the DC Public School Board added, saying it was committed to creating a welcome environment for all kids.
	Except, I don't know, the Jew ones who were going to be put in the Jew camps and make the big their own graves.
	I don't know if they had some welcoming environment for the kids being forced to be Nazis either.
	Could you imagine if some of the kids who were Jewish got put into the Nazi camp?
	They're like, yeah, you're a Nazi now.
	Again, traumatising.
	Oh boy.
	In a letter sent home to parents, the principal of Watkins Elementary School, citing reports he had received, said the lessons included students being asked to portray participants in the Holocaust, like Adolf Hitler, digging the ditches, and simulated shootings.
	So they were with, I don't know, finger guns or toy guns or something, all shooting them into the graves afterwards.
	And then they all fell down.
	I don't know how the rhyme goes for this one, but radio.
	My husband picked up our child after school, and there was a lot of sobbing and crying and distress, one mother told the station.
	Yeah, I mean, if I'd just been shot in my own grave.
	The mother claimed her child was told to pretend to choke and die inside a gas chamber, and had to watch students simulate digging their own graves.
	So, okay, but they also gassed the kids.
	The teacher really wanted to gas some Jewish kids, or at least really wanted to see Jews getting gassed, and so had her kids in the classroom do it.
	Place your bets now on what kind of teacher this is going to be.
	That's a very good question.
	Who's had an opinion on the Jews recently?
	It's not the right.
	The parent added that the child instructed to portray Hitler is not doing well at all.
	I love that.
	He's not alright.
	He's upset as being clown Hitler.
	Or just the class Hitler, I guess.
	I mean, you've got the class clown.
	Could you imagine an eight-year-old comes home and is like, Mummy, Daddy, I got to play Hitler today.
	If he's Eric Cartman, he's ecstatic about that.
	I mean, you're going to be Hitler.
	Did he even get a choice in that?
	I wonder if the teacher just came in and was like, the whitest kid, we'll pick him.
	Well, it's going to be the sort of thing when you're eight years old.
	It's like, oh, who wants to be the bus driver or something like that?
	And some kid's like, oh, me, me.
	You can drive the buses to the camps.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this whole thing is just so like, what the...
	Was anyone thinking?
	But we'll find out what they're thinking in a minute.
	So another quote saying that they were traumatized.
	One parent told that their child was worried that the teacher in question was hiding in their house.
	So, I don't know, they went home and then thought, The teacher...
	Well, probably by some of the content that they would have gone through in this reenactment of the Holocaust, that would be a reasonable fear.
	If the teachers are like, oh, they're going to drag you out of your house and blah blah blah.
	Yeah, but also, like, presumably that kid also played one of the Jews and was, you know, being called the K-word by the teacher?
	Yeah.
	And then he's going home and he's like, that teacher's going to come out of my closet and call me the K-word again.
	Yeah, uh-huh.
	Yeah, I mean, this is pretty messed up.
	The mother, who wished to remain anonymous, told Fox, children are having nightmares and generally having a very hard time.
	The school is reportedly offering counselling to all students involved.
	This is what you pay your taxes for, Americans.
	American education at its finest.
	Elementary school kids shooting their other classmates.
	And gassing them, let's not forget.
	Their teacher jumps up and down behind them going, yeah, get that, K-words.
	Okay.
	So I said place your bets on what kind of teacher this was going to be.
	Mm-hmm.
	Do you have one in mind?
	Yes, I do.
	I reckon it's going to be a leftist teacher.
	You've got it in one.
	So let's go to Andy Ngo here, who has the deets, because he does very good reporting and in here has just found the teacher in question and then found their social media history and just shows us it.
	And, well, big shock.
	It's a hyper-leftist.
	Is her name literally Kimberlyn Jerkowski?
	Yes.
	That's an unfortunate name.
	Does sound like a joke name, but, you know, she's born with it.
	Anyway, the DC school librarian who directed young children to re-enact the Holocaust through pretending to dig ditches for mass graves and simulated shooting of their classmates has a social media history of showing support for BLM and other leftist causes, Andy writes.
	If we can scroll down on this to the next tweet underneath this one, he also points out some other stuff here.
	saying she was previously convicted for fraud for scamming her prior school district out of $24,000 and was also charged with animal cruelty and now child cruelty presumably Jesus Christ.
	They're not sending their best, are they?
	No.
	The librarian often reposted content from Yvette Falaka, the leader of California Antifa Group, by any means necessary, which I'm sure some of the older folks will remember.
	And if we can open up some of these images on there, just to show the various posts, and you can see that it's a Facebook account poking stuff here, and then you have Yvette Falaka, apparently still employed at Berkeley, somehow.
	Yeah.
	Keep our children safe.
	That's a bit ironic, isn't it?
	Yvette Falarka saying this.
	Do you remember Yvette Falarka?
	I remember Yvette Falarka.
	Yeah, because Carl made some good videos on her back in the day just showing what she was like.
	Just a raving lunatic.
	Yeah, and if you have forgotten, we'll go to just some reporting on this.
	this i actually found a source which is a very sympathetic to her and her cause of anarchism and uh i thought we'd just demonstrate their version of events which even makes her look bad so as we can see here berkeley side reporting berkeley teacher yvette falaka arrested on charges of inciting a riot so this was uh what was it assault and inciting a riot yes i don't think this is at all an uncharitable interpretation of what happened if you look at the footage
	Yeah, she's also, as a local terrorist, been doing other things which, like I mentioned, or you can see in the videos, of just her working with Antifa to try and gin up revolution.
	And unfortunately, this does have a sad ending, which is that she got found convicted but didn't really give much of a sentence.
	So if we go to the next one...
	What a surprise.
	So I was really hoping we'd have a nice little bit here in which she actually got to serve her time in prison for what she's done.
	But anyway, instead, she got given community service, she says.
	And her response to this, she gave a little speech.
	This is a victory, said Falarka.
	Of course I'm relieved.
	It's just been a long process and a struggle.
	I'm really so happy for all three of us.
	To me, it's a real affirmation of standing by your convictions.
	In other words, getting convicted and standing by the sentence.
	But also just American justice system at work.
	Standing by your conviction.
	So being a POS who goes around attacking people because they've got different political views and trying to gin up some kind of revolution.
	In the United States, that gets you now community service.
	You can go and injure people, or start a riot, and get community service.
	Yeah, and there are records of how she runs her Antifa cell like it's a cult as well, like people are locked in rooms, or kept in rooms and things, they're cut off from their relatives and their family, they're indoctrinated into this sort of very far-left radical messaging, and she's allegedly the one in charge of all of this in her local area, and community service, that's all she gets, typical.
	Yeah, although she only gets community service because, of course, she's a leftist in a leftist state.
	Well, she gets immunity from the law then, doesn't she, apparently?
	So moving on, we do have some good news, at least, which is the legal system does still work, apparently, for suing people, because a conservative group did sue her and ended up getting $20,000 orders out of her.
	So she is ordered to give judicial watch $20,000, which...
	There's some justice, but it didn't come from the court's system going after her for the assault.
	Instead, it had to come from some other unrelated lawsuit, which is nice.
	Anyway, getting back to the Holocaust schoolteacher, which is her local Holocaust school.
	So this is Andy Doe posting some more information here, which is she also posted frequently in support of Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and leftist causes.
	She is now being investigated for having young schoolchildren reenact the scenes, as mentioned, including being gassed to death And you can see some of the posts there.
	You've got this weird, like, intersectional Black Lives Matter fist flag with a petition to dismantle institutionalized racism.
	I mean, the usual stock rhetoric you can expect from these people.
	These are the kind of teachers, if you hire, what would they do?
	Crazy stuff.
	Yeah, they'll indoctrinate your kids.
	Yeah, and if we can move on from this, there's some more images here.
	So you can see her posting more stuff there from We Want Reparations.
	Okay.
	And then the last two here of the most interest, of course, being her promoting critical race theory.
	Ah, Ibram X. Kendi.
	Yes.
	How to be an anti-racist.
	How to be an anti-racist.
	And then the last one here being the book recommendations that she wants you to go out and buy.
	Also, White Fragility there.
	Or So You Want to Talk About Race.
	And all of these being recommended.
	Yeah, I mean, each one of these is a rival for Mein Kampf, to be fair, in terms of the sheer racist content in there.
	Well, you know about the essay, Spoof.
	Yeah.
	Do you want to explain?
	So this is James Lindsay, and so they essentially took extracts from Mein Kampf, reworded it in terms of people of colour and disadvantaged or marginalised groups in terms of an intersectional perspective, and managed to get Mein Kampf basically published in a mainstream academic journal.
	The best part is if you go and find the portion of Mein Kampf they're talking about, I went and got it and read the original, and it's Hitler talking about the schooling system and how we need to reform the schooling system so we can breed little national socialists all over the country.
	I was like, right.
	Yeah, so it's literally just indoctrination but changed national socialism for intersectionalism.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	Anyway, moving on from this.
	So let's go to the next one, which is...
	Where the anti-Semite stuff becomes more of a question.
	Because as you can see here, he also, and he mentions, she shared a video promoting the anarchist communist union international workers of the world alongside posts in support of black nationalism groups and Nation of Islam.
	Nation of Islam.
	And if we can clear on the last one there, of course, it's the Minister Louis Farrakhan, who's very famous for saying, I'm not an anti-Semite, I'm an anti-Termite.
	Which, yeah, no, that's an anti-Semite, is what that is.
	Let's not waste our time.
	And her promoting him and promoting that he didn't do nothing.
	No, he did do something, which would be an anti-Semite, which is just...
	I don't think that's arguable.
	Really?
	Anyway.
	Yeah, his messaging is like wall-to-wall anti-Jewish nonsense.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so that's Holocaust School and the Holocaust School teacher there who is on leave and will presumably be fired, and if not fired, what the hell is wrong with that school board?
	But, well, it's up to the parents then to go and fix it or take their students out, quite frankly, because that's the system.
	Yeah, I mean, like, the system, the worse the schools get, the more you have to think, okay, do I really want to send my children into this system?
	And obviously most parents don't have the option of sending their kids to private schools, so you then have to start looking at homeschooling options and things like that.
	I think, was it Hugo did a podcast and he was talking about, on our website, a contemplation, talking about, essentially, alternatives to mainstream education, which our viewers might find useful, especially if they live in D.C., Especially if you're maybe a Jew living in DC as well.
	You're thinking about sending your kids to school.
	Maybe check.
	Maybe check the teacher aren't some kind of raving anti-Semites who are going to have your kids shot and call them the K-word while they're at it.
	Which, again, how did she think she was going to get away with this?
	I mean, I know they get out of the way a lot.
	I mean, we've seen in Virginia or in California...
	Yeah, they reintroduced segregation in one school, didn't they?
	Good God.
	Okay, yeah, we're going to kill all the Jewish kids in the classroom.
	Right.
	Okay.
	That's not going to get noticed, is it?
	I'm a lunatic.
	It's pretty friggin' weird, and Stop Antisemitism pointing out that this story is, of course, horrific, and that she shouldn't have been there anyway.
	But also, there was a really funny story of these kind of organizations falling for silly things as well, which I have to mention because I think it's just hilarious how bad some of these organizations are at finding out what is real antisemitism and what is just obviously a troll.
	So let's go to the next one, just to try and cheer ourselves back up for that ridiculous nonsense, which is stopantisemitism.org tweeting out...
	Disgusting Holocaust denial by popular YouTuber Nicardo Avocado.
	Five million followers on YouTube.
	He tells them that the Holocaust was exaggerated.
	Susan Wojcicki, this must be addressed.
	This must be stopped.
	People who don't know, this is a guy whose entire YouTube channel is just him eating food.
	Ridiculous amounts of food.
	He's gotten ridiculously fat because of it.
	And it's kind of a meme.
	I think the joke is essentially, like, if I live less than him, then something's gone terribly wrong, because he should be dead from obesity at that point.
	And someone cut in, as you can see, just, like, screenshots of Google searches about the Holocaust, and then cut in, like, random clips of him, like audio tracks, in which he's just like, yeah, that's exaggerated, and it just cuts.
	Yeah.
	cuts and it's so obviously faked you can see the cut there and it just cuts again just random words in random sentences all put together and apparently Stop Antisemitism Org actually fell for that which is just pathetic but anyway that's Holocaust School I don't think you should sign up your kids.
	It looks like it's being shut down.
	You can hope so.
	On the subject of anti-Semitism and libel, viewers may remember Laura Murray, who was employed in the Labour Party's Independent Complaints Unit by Jeremy Corbyn.
	Does that name ring a bell at all?
	The whole situation rings a bell.
	Indeed.
	So Laura Murray was employed by the party ostensibly to tackle its anti-Semitism scandal, which was at its height when she was hired.
	She got the job, incidentally, two days after defaming Rachel Riley, who is Jewish, on Twitter.
	So whether that was a rite of passage or not, I'll leave you to decide.
	Well, it's like an elitist thing where we've all got to have dirt on each other.
	So it's like, you have to do this, otherwise you can't work in Labour HQ. Maybe it's just that you need to be sufficiently anti-Semitic to handle anti-Semitism for Labour.
	Who knows?
	Anyway, I'll leave you to decide that.
	Laura's been in the news recently over this defamatory treat because the ruling has come out, as we see here.
	Countdown star Rachel Riley has been awarded £10,000 in damages after she sued Jeremy Corbyn's former aide following an exchange on Twitter.
	The television presenter complained about a tweet that Laura Murray posted more than two years ago.
	The High Court heard in May that Miss Riley claimed Miss Murray's post caused serious harm to her reputation.
	Mr Justice Nicklin delivered his judgement on Monday and found that Miss Riley was entitled to vindication but did say there had been a clear element of provocation in the tweet she posted.
	Yes, this is Twitter.
	There is a clear element of provocation in everything.
	If we go to Rachel Riley's response, I'm extremely pleased to have won my libel case versus Laura Murray, former head of complaints for the Labour Party.
	This has been a very draining process, and I'm relieved to finally have vindication.
	Huge thanks to my lawyer, who's been a superhero, blah, blah, blah.
	Always thank your lawyers, by the way, after winning a legal case.
	I think that's good advice, don't you?
	I also, I don't know if you have this, but she was very much opposed to Jeremy Corbyn, Rachel Riley herself, and largely on the grounds of she thinks he's an anti-Semite or permissive anti-Semitism, and so I imagine this is a particular cherry on the cake for her, where it's like, I've got to go after my political enemies as well as one of the libel cakes.
	Absolutely.
	So the subject of the spat itself, I think, is pretty irrelevant.
	It's just the usual Twitter muck-slinging about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that surrounds Jeremy Corbyn's political career.
	But I do have the content of Laura's defamatory tweet here.
	She said, today Jeremy Corbyn went to his local mosque for Visit My Mosque Day and was attacked by a Brexiteer.
	Now, I've never heard of Visit My Mosque Day, to be fair.
	And he was attacked, as in an egg was thrown at him.
	I believe that was the substance of the assault.
	Pretty typical politician stuff, to be honest with you.
	Yeah, but Corbyn did sue, and he did win damages.
	So, what was the leftist reaction to this court ruling?
	Go to the next tweet.
	Love and solidarity to Laura Murray, who is once again the victim of the establishment's deranged reaction to a peace activist leading the Labour Party.
	Okay, that's interesting.
	The establishment's out to get Laura Murray.
	We go to the next one.
	Laura Murray is a careful and thoughtful socialist, utterly serious about our noblest principles, including when they're tough or inconvenient.
	To see our media and courts paint her as something quite different is an instructive lesson.
	I hope we can donate to her aid now.
	Okay, so she needs aid.
	Interesting.
	The establishment's out to get her.
	We go to the next one.
	Owen Jones, a familiar face on this channel.
	I've known Laura Murray for years.
	She's one of the nicest people I've ever met.
	Just a genuinely lovely, caring woman who I'm proud to know.
	Yeah, excellent judge of character there, Owen Jones.
	It's not affected by your political leanings at all.
	And finally, we have a clip here.
	Arch-Zionist Rachel Riley wins case against Palestinian descendant Laura Murray.
	Oh, God.
	You know, we went through the anti-Semitism complaints when it all got leaked, and I'm getting flashbacks to that.
	It's just endlessly, there was just low-party members shouting at each other, yeah, well, the Zios are in charge of everything, all right?
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	But I find this one particularly interesting, because is Laura Palestinian?
	Well, since you asked, let's play Who Do You Think You Are?
	On today's episode, we'll take a tour through Scotland, London Mayfair, Westminster and the USSR, but probably not Palestine.
	Shall we take a look at her parents?
	Oh, and I just love this as she's put on her bio.
	Please no bourgeoisie on my profile.
	Thanks.
	Laura Murray, a key aide to Corbyn, comes from a clan who made a fortune from the £50 million sale of the family Picasso.
	Bourgeoisie.
	But do donate to her fundraiser, please.
	So if we go through this article, today it can be revealed that Laura's family was behind the anonymous sale of one of the most expensive artworks in history, Pablo Picasso's L'Enfant en Pigeon, Child with a Dove, which was sold for £50 million in 2013.
	She also owns a share of a £1.3 million North London property transferred to her by her mother, reportedly saving up to £500,000 in inheritance tax.
	Murray is the daughter of Andrew Murray, 60, a key Corbyn advisor who comes from Scottish aristocracy and whose grandfather served as the imperial governor of Madras.
	He left the Communist Party after 40 years in 2016 to join Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party.
	Yet it is Laura Murray's maternal lineage that accounts for much of her fortune.
	She is the great-granddaughter of the second Baron Aberconwy, an Eton-educated Edwardian industrialist and aristocrat, and Lady Aberconwy, his wife, who was bequeathed Picasso's masterpiece by the art collector rumoured in the family to have been her lover, Samuel Courtauld, who founded the Courtauld Gallery, I believe.
	The oil on canvas painting of a child holding a bird has a special place in art history.
	Produced by Picasso at the age of 20 in 1901, it marked the start of his famous blue period of melancholic paintings featuring prostitutes, beggars and social rejects, and probably leftists too, in green-blue shades.
	They rank among his most celebrated works.
	So, who is Laura Murray's mother?
	The woman who gave her a 1.3 million mansion to live in.
	Sorry, that's just the dad's side.
	Yeah.
	That's just the dad's side.
	That's just the dad's side.
	As established as established as you can get.
	I mean, I don't think you could be more established unless you're a member of the royal family.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	It's incredible.
	I've got the full family tree coming up, because if we look at her mother...
	I don't think he was a member of the fucking Communist Party as well, whilst he's that...
	Well endowed.
	Sorry.
	I know.
	It's astounding.
	It's ridiculous.
	We go to the next slide.
	Her mum is Susan Fiona Dorinthia Michi.
	It's Susan Michi.
	People might not remember.
	I remember.
	Who is she?
	We've got a full profile, so let's get into it.
	Susan Mitchie herself is a lifelong member of the Communist Party, you can see by the helpful hammer and sickle here.
	Yet she also sits on the government advisory councils of SAGE and SPY-B as a top behavioural scientist, and has been described as an influential member and a real star.
	So why did the Conservative government hire a dyed-in-the-wool communist whose entire family is knee-deep in Stalinism, Corbynism, or both, as an advisor on the pandemic?
	We all remember, I think, the outcome of this calamitous hiring decision, but Peter Hitchens has a really good summary in his profile of Susan Michie.
	We go to the next slide.
	A now-notorious document was issued in March 2020 by SAGE called Options for Increasing Adherence to Social Distancing Measures.
	This is March of last year.
	It concluded that we were not yet frightened enough.
	It said,"...a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened by COVID." So we needed to be scared a bit more.
	It recommended, Well, most of us can recall such messaging, wherever can it have come from?
	So Hitchens goes on to outline that the chief suspect is, of course, our favourite communist, Susan Mitchie.
	In her book, State of Fear, Laura Doddsworth calls these people psychocrats, unelected behavioural scientists and psychologists who have used a position of extreme influence during the pandemic to spread mass fear throughout the British population, with the ostensible aim of getting us to support lockdown measures and increase our perceived level of personal threat.
	So let's just have another look at the family tree.
	Do you see any Palestinians there?
	Oh, is that one Eulalia Ilfdefonsa Heaven?
	No, it's not.
	What about Christabel McNaughton?
	No, not there either.
	No Palestinians.
	Gilmore?
	I'm not seeing any Arab names.
	No.
	A lot of aristocrats.
	There are two MPs there, as you can see.
	The Honourable Barber Mary Hope.
	Yep.
	She's the Honourable, I believe, because she's the daughter of aristocracy.
	I think she gets to claim the title, something like that.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, no, they're...
	You cannot get any more privilege in your life.
	And then, again, teeming with communists.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's sort of embarrassing, isn't it?
	Mm-hmm.
	But I suppose not unexpected.
	I'm thinking back to that ten grand.
	Yeah.
	She owes Rachel Riley ten grand.
	Ten grand.
	Yeah, big deal, right?
	That's nothing.
	That's nothing to her, is it?
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, when you've got that much property value...
	She lives in a 1.3 million mansion.
	I think she can find ten grand out of her back pocket somewhere.
	And yet you've got these people, you know, these brainlets on Twitter just being like, I hope we donate to her Patreon or whatever it is.
	But there are a few other people on this list who are worth talking about.
	Andrew Murray...
	Which is Laura's father, used to write for literal Soviet propaganda.
	He worked for Novosti Press Agency from 1985 to 1986.
	And we have an article giving a bit of a profile here.
	So Francis Beckett, who has written a book about the Communist Party and worked for several trade unions, described Marie Tamias extremely rigid and sectarian.
	He had added, Murray and the straight left people were more extreme than most of the Stalinists I knew.
	The Stalinists were known as tankies, but Murray's lot were super tankies.
	This is the sort of person we have advising the government.
	They weren't just like, send in the tanks, they were like, yeah, the Hungarians deserved it.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Quite frankly, I don't know why we weren't sending in tanks all day.
	And for many months, no one in mainstream news said a peep about Mitchie's political leanings, even as she was appearing all across our screens telling us to stay at home.
	I'll remind you, she's a psychologist and has no doctoral qualifications.
	She's not a medical doctor, is what I'm trying to say.
	The first to break the spell was Richard Madderley of Richard and Judy.
	In that interview, Mitchie was asked if her political views influenced her advice.
	A fairly anodyne question, you might think, but not according to The Independent, who branded this line of questioning, if we go to the next article, McCarthyite.
	Madly then questioned Mitchie about her political...
	Hang on, hang on.
	That's not an insult.
	Sorry, no.
	The joke is, when you use that as an insult, it's, I'm not a commie, so you're coming after me as ridiculous and McCarthy-y, right?
	Because McCarthy went off to see who weren't commies as well as commies.
	Yep.
	But you are!
	Yep.
	Like, you're a lifelong member.
	Your dad's a lifelong member.
	Your mum's a lifelong member.
	Your grandma on your mum's side's a lifelong member, including her husband.
	Probably not that far, but...
	Well, we went back, didn't we?
	Yes, they weren't so...
	Oh, no, not her grandma, yeah.
	But your daughter's a lifelong member of, well, the Labour Party, so same thing.
	Yeah, we've got three generations of super tankies and Stalinists.
	You can't say it's MacArthurite to go after communists.
	That just makes...
	It's not MacArthurite to ask, are you a communist?
	No, it's proper.
	Right.
	So Madaly then questioned Mitchie about her political views, mentioning her membership of the Communist Party and saying, if your politics informs your sense of control, it's not just a medical argument, but you have a political bent to want the state to tell people what to do.
	And Mitchie's deeply unimpressed response to this question was, I'm here to talk about science, not politics.
	Are we buying it, Callum?
	No.
	We shouldn't be buying it.
	The Mitchie clan's views on science and politics are very revealing.
	Take a look at the obituary for Susan's parents, Donald and Anne, in The Guardian, written by her ex-husband, by Andrew.
	Donald was for years the daily worker's science correspondent, drawing on his broad-based understanding of the sciences, as well as the Marxism that was always his intellectual template.
	The politics of solidarity was central to Anne, from helping post-war Yugoslavia build a railway to actively supporting trade union struggles near a home.
	They integrated scientific inquiry with the struggle for social justice.
	One without the other would have made no sense to them.
	As they sought to enlarge scientific knowledge, so they also worked to change society to allow that science to flower for the universal good.
	So just to reiterate, according to the Mitchies, science without social justice makes no sense.
	this.
	And she's in charge of whether or not the country gets locked down.
	She has no basis in science, particularly in viruses, but instead in controlling people.
	Yep.
	So just to round this off, this is the person advising the government on lockdowns.
	Now, let's complete the picture by talking about Mitchie's current husband, because Andrew Murray is her ex-husband.
	It'll get worse.
	Yeah.
	Yes, so her current husband is also a psychologist, Robert West.
	West regularly retweets George Monbaio and Owen Jones, and recently came out with this tweet regarding anti-lockdown protesters.
	Quote, These are very damaged people.
	Unfortunately, damaged people spread damage like a virus, and like a virus, we need an evidence-based and thought-through strategy for dealing with the threat they pose.
	So what is this on the UN scale of genocide?
	I think this is step three, like dehumanizing.
	It sounds like it, doesn't it?
	Okay.
	So he wants to basically treat lockdown skeptics like a virus.
	I want to just call them rats, if that's what you want to do.
	If you really want to be on stage three of what you're thinking about, then why not?
	Yeah, it's quite remarkable.
	And these are the people responsible for spreading mass fear throughout the whole country.
	Stalinists and super tankies.
	I mean, again, to be...
	These people are the threat to the country.
	You are the guys locking down the country, not on the basis of what is scientifically the correct thing to do, but instead, what is the communist thing to do here, comrade?
	I need to be a super tangy.
	Yeah, I mean, the idea that...
	I don't even know what to say.
	No, the idea that mass fear was the correct solution as well.
	Like, when people are scared, when people are stressed, their immune system is compromised, and it makes them more susceptible to respiratory illnesses, not less.
	And so the idea that you can just terrify anyone into following whatever restrictions you come up with, and the world will be a better place for it, this is definitely Stalinist thinking right here.
	And don't you think there's something in it which is very much like once you decide what the greater good is, then you are justified in doing anything to achieve it.
	And they've justified themselves in setting themselves up as dictators in the sense that they are telling everyone what to do, being very intrusive and disruptive to their lives.
	They're using manipulation to get people to obey.
	I think this is an absolute moral evil, and yet there's been no ethical input on the whole decision-making process as far as we can tell.
	I'm just thinking in my head, like, look at that tweet.
	If we can get that tweet back up to show people.
	And just, like, change the name to some Chinese name and change the image to a member of the Communist Party of China, an official, put a verified checkmark on it, and then how do we view this?
	And remind us that they're all super tankies and would happily send in tanks on these people.
	Oh, absolutely.
	No, they would definitely send in the tanks.
	We would all start becoming liberals again, wouldn't we?
	Everyone who's been supporting this stuff would start to remember, oh no, there was something valuable about freedom.
	But because this guy's in the West, we just let slide, even though he's in central government.
	I've even found a lot of leftist literature writing about how they hate Susan Mitchie and their lot, for lots of reasons.
	One, because they're aristocrats, and they're fabulously wealthy.
	They are Prosecco proletarians.
	But don't worry, they'd run the proletariat over in a tank in a second.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And another one is they claim that they are not real communists, of course, because that's the classic leftist insult, isn't it?
	They're not real communists because they are Stalinist and authoritarian and they're trying to lock the whole country down.
	While they sit in their mansions at home being quite comfortable, I think.
	It's remarkable, isn't it?
	Anyway, that's the Mitchies for you.
	I always knew it was bad.
	I remember when Carl told me one of them was a commie, like, for a lifelong Communist Party member.
	That was bad enough.
	But, like, that level of just corruption, frankly, in a family around her, and then the things they've done and said.
	The idea that Boris, the Conservative Prime Minister, keeps any of that around.
	Yeah.
	It's purging instantly.
	Absolutely.
	Why on earth, as a Conservative politician, would you have your advisors full of communists?
	Absolutely.
	Again, I mean, even without any of that, even if she wasn't a Communist Party member and instead was just, you know, her daughter works at Labour Party HQ for your opposition.
	And her ex-husband.
	Yeah.
	And yet you have her in your central government working with you.
	Yeah.
	And her brother, by the way, is a big friend of Seamus Milne, who was another of Corbyn's top advisors.
	So, like, she's literally in the Labour family clan at this point.
	And you're going to hire her to talk about the pandemic, really.
	No.
	God, it's insane.
	I hate it.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	Let's move on to something a little bit more light-hearted, I guess, than, well, just the absolute state of our country.
	Jimmy Carr.
	So Jimmy Carr's a funny guy, and I quite like Jimmy Carr.
	I like his jokes, I like his type of humour, because it's very offensive, on purpose, to create a laugh.
	And if it wasn't create a laugh, what's the point?
	So, this is the article here, which is him coming out and saying that he's on the right side of history here, which is that he slams cancel culture.
	He is not on the side of those insisting that people be shut down for their jokes.
	Which is good news particularly to hear because, as I mentioned, I didn't hear a peep out of him when Count Dankula got charged.
	I even tried to find if there was a way to contact him to see if he could say something at all, because David Bidile did.
	Ricky Gervais did.
	Big free speech guys.
	And Jimmy Carr was touring or doing something else, I suppose.
	Sitting on the fence, probably.
	Yeah, if Count Dankula can get arrested for a joke, Jimmy Carr's definitely getting arrested for a joke.
	I was going to tell one of his, and then I realized, you know what, it's not even appropriate for this podcast, so we won't.
	Anyway, but if you want to look up those stuff, just look up Most Offensive Jokes Jimmy Carr.
	You'll have a good time.
	Anyway, so this is him slamming council culture.
	So he did a documentary with a group, and these are the bunch of quotes out of him.
	Jimmy was asked whether there were jokes he wrote 15 years ago that he would no longer perform, or whether the threat of cancel culture had changed the way he writes comedy during the program.
	Quote from Jimmy.
	Canceling someone on Twitter is now the new burning of their book.
	It is the same as someone with the Beatles record when John Lillen said we're more popular than Jesus and they're burning the Beatles record.
	And I imagine now those people feel like...
	There's a P and then a belliger asterisk, so I have no idea what he said there, so I don't really know, but we'll just say bad people.
	We'll do that.
	It breaks the golden rule, which is to treat other people how you would like to be treated because we all F up.
	I think that's a really important point, and I don't think it really gets mentioned enough, so good on Jimmy for making that, which is, well, the golden rule is important.
	You do want to be treated how...
	Well, you should treat people how you want to be treated.
	And if you're going to say that there is no redemption ever for anyone who ever says anything wrong...
	No matter how bad, then, well, okay, it was just speech.
	It may have been ridiculous or absurdist or whatever, but it didn't harm anyone.
	Yeah, but there is a slight grain of problems with the Golden Rule, because imagine if you're one of these cancelling leftists who never says anything interesting anyway.
	It might be entirely consistent with the Golden Rule to want to burn other people's books and cancel them, because you're never going to say anything interesting enough to make you worth cancelling.
	I was going to say there are, of course, the Communist Party members who eventually get put up against the wall at the end of the purge.
	They're always upset that they turned out to be purged as well.
	But I have read a few accounts, especially from Orwell, talking about the fact that there were some Communist Party members in the Soviet Union who were carrying out the purges, and even when they were getting taken to be shot, they were like, yeah, I deserve it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's the level of mass psychosis.
	The one group that can break the golden rule.
	Socialists.
	Anyway, so speaking about writing comedy in 2021, Jimmy went on to say, When you're doing a try-out show, when you're testing things out for the first time, you're a little bit nervous.
	It's no use me getting a sharp intake of breath on stage, that's nothing.
	It's no good offending people, I'm there to make them laugh.
	If it doesn't make them laugh first, it's gone.
	So yeah, he's not just because he's a comedian.
	Yeah, it's not about just being offensive, it's about being offensive and funny.
	Yes, and if you're saying offensive and funny cannot happen, well then it's a point in any of this.
	Yeah.
	It's a point in comedy.
	Anyway, he went on to say about his comedy, I often say this, my show contains jokes about terrible things, terrible things that may have affected you and the people you love, but they're just jokes.
	They're not the terrible things.
	Yeah.
	I mean, again, I mean, a million jokes about the Holocaust he's said over the years that are hilarious, but, of course, are jokes about the Holocaust or rape or anything else that he brings up, which is purpose.
	He does mention, I think it's one of his shows where he did try to do the most offensive jokes just all night, and it's a very good show.
	Right.
	He did it in several places and then did the recording last.
	And he said basically every single place he went to there was always one person at the end who would say that part wasn't funny in the set.
	Right, one particular part.
	And then the next show it would be one person but they've got a problem with another particular part.
	They're like, could you take that out of the recording?
	No.
	Go to hell.
	Because all of a sudden everything's deleted.
	Anyway.
	He also said there's always been shunning and people being thrown out into the wilderness and that's still happening.
	How we do that now is on social media.
	We say, this guy's cancelled or he can't be in that pop band anymore because he did a thing.
	Jimmy says, I'm super relaxed about being cancelled because he doesn't give a toss.
	Well, he's made his money as well, hasn't he?
	Yes, and also avoided the tax, which I'm not even mad about.
	People may not know, but most people know, which is Jimmy Carr, was found to be avoiding tax for a while.
	You can see there, Jimmy Carr's a panic attack about the tax scandal he was involved in.
	But, I mean, tax is theft, so, yeah, kind of based.
	Anyway, so he says here, which is his reasoning for not being scared about being cancelled, the joke that cancels me is already out there.
	It's on YouTube somewhere, and it's perfectly acceptable until one day...
	It isn't.
	And he added, there is not a damn thing I can do about that.
	Let the cards fall where they may.
	Which, yeah, I mean, if they ever do come for him, good luck, number one.
	Because he's sort of too funny to stop.
	But also, number two, his entire audience is people who are not snowflakes.
	So if some snowflake comes to him, someone who didn't know what the name was, and then hears a joke about the Holocaust and pisses their pants...
	He's not going to care.
	No.
	Because you saying, I won't turn up to the next show, okay.
	It's going to sell anyway, so what do we seek here?
	Anyway.
	So moving on.
	He's not the only comedian to speak out about counterculture in recent week.
	Yep.
	Of course, there are a lot of others, which is a nice little flurry.
	There's always a nice little flurry every three months or so, I seem to know, of comedians starting to wake up, and it's getting more and more mainstream, which is nice.
	So you can see here, of course, another one here being Jack Whitehall, who says he fears cancel culture will end his career due to controversial jokes and...
	Well, I mean, maybe.
	Which is why I just don't engage in it.
	Just cancel cancel culture.
	No, we're not going to do that.
	If someone says a bad joke, don't care.
	That's part of the process.
	Anyway.
	We also have Bill Burr, who came out and said he voiced an opinion against cancel culture.
	Again, all in this week.
	A quite interesting development.
	Sorry, this month, I should say.
	And if we move on, we have some more.
	I mean, there are just loads of these.
	I don't know how you say her name here.
	Maureen Lipman?
	Yeah.
	Is that correct?
	Cancel culture could wipe out comedy.
	Absolutely true.
	Again, today, just coming out.
	And it's nice to see more and more of them.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We even have some more.
	So we'll just mention one more here, which is Michael Sheen, who also says that it's a real danger to the entire scene.
	Absolutely is.
	So, good on him.
	And then we'll go to John Cleese, because John Cleese did an interview with the BBC recently and sort of blew up.
	And John Cleese, obviously not a fan of this stuff, has spoken out against this stuff.
	He's been outspoken on free speech issues for many, many decades.
	Yes.
	And so he's done his duty.
	He's now retired and moved to, I think it was Nevis?
	Neves?
	I don't know how you say it.
	Some tropical island, right?
	In the Caribbean, having a wonderful time.
	But he still wants to do comedy.
	So he's doing some shows in Singapore or whatever, apparently.
	And if you're in Singapore, I mean, go and enjoy.
	Yeah, why not?
	You have to get John Cleese in your backyard.
	So, I mean, enjoy that if there are any tickets left.
	And the BBC called him up and were like, hey, we'd like to do an interview about your shows.
	Yeah, just your shows.
	Yeah, just what you're doing, we promise.
	Oh yeah, so this is not like sneezy, sneaky journalism stuff at all, right?
	No, it is.
	Imagine my shock.
	He's like, no, I don't want to talk about anything else, just my shows.
	Okay, yeah, just the shows, just the shows.
	It'll just be the shows, John.
	It's not.
	Anyway, so you can go and watch the interview yourself.
	It wasn't that interesting, but it's just so scummy.
	Again, we're just like, oh, we just want to discuss this.
	And then immediately, this lady here, just like, so, cancel culture.
	It's like...
	Oh, for God's sakes!
	So, it says in here that John Cleese has issued a formal complaint against the BBC because of this interview, saying that he was called up to the interview to discuss his stand-up shows in Singapore and Bangkok, but had instead been asked about why he was interested in cancel culture, again, repeatedly.
	Like, they get about halfway through, he explains his position on cancel culture, and he's like, quite reasonable.
	Okay, fine.
	I have this interest because it's important and it's killing comedy and we need to guard against it.
	I didn't used to have it when I was young.
	You happy?
	Right, let's talk about my shows.
	They do like one question on that.
	And then she's like, so what about cancer culture?
	And he's like, oh, for fuck's sake.
	He just walks off.
	Good.
	Good for him.
	Yeah, I like it when people treat the smear merchants as they should be.
	Yes.
	If you're just going to lie to me about the nature of the interview, then I'm not going to take part.
	I'm going to help.
	And it's classic.
	I remember with the infamous Kathy Neiman Jordan Peterson interview as well, the whole setup to the interview was very different to the interview itself, right?
	And yes, they had agreed to talk about political issues and so on, but they're all nice, they're on your side, they're getting your side of the story out until the moment the cameras are on and they turn on you to try and take you by surprise, like an ambush tactic.
	And you should not have any time at all for them.
	They're just smear merchants at this stage.
	You've got two options, and if, quite frankly, you've given them the fair chance to do the thing, you've explained to them, no, I'm here to talk about X, and they just carry on with talking about Y, you've got two options.
	You can either just walk out like John Cleese did, and everyone will side with you, because you've clearly not been invited in good faith.
	Yeah.
	Or you could do what Jordan Peterson did and just sit there and slowly demarch the person over half an hour.
	I mean, I've seen him talking about that and he said that she was incredibly nice to him, some common courtesy, and then when the cameras were on, different personality from Kathy Newman.
	He described it as animus possession, didn't he?
	Yeah.
	And where is she now?
	Who cares?
	She wrote a book, a feminist book.
	She still puts in the odd article every now and again.
	See what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Who cares?
	Right.
	Where's Jordan Peterson?
	You know, still touring the world.
	He's got that podcast now, doesn't he, which has millions and millions of viewers.
	Yeah.
	But also, John Cleason here did mention that he was learning and reading about cancel culture and would like to know more.
	So I thought I'd just mention a section I have before, just in case he hasn't stumbled across and has happened to watch the podcast, which is cool.
	When's the interview happening?
	But this is On Liberty, John Stuart Mill.
	And there's a section in here which, again, is just kind of beautiful that even in 1859 people are referencing cancel culture.
	And John Stuart Mill is in here in one section.
	Because, of course, it's not just the tyranny of the magistrate or the king or anything else.
	It's also the tyranny of the majority.
	So we go to the quote.
	Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority, society collectively over separate individuals who compose it, is means of tyrannizing, are not restricted to those acts which it may do by the hands of political functionaries.
	Because, of course, of the majority or society can do far worse things.
	Society does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right or any mandates at all in things in which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, enslaving the soul itself.
	So I think it's a funny thing, because I do kind of hate some of the discussion around cancel culture, where it's like, oh, this is a new thing that's all of a sudden come about.
	Not really.
	This has always been something you've got to worry about, the kind of all of society castigating a person.
	But I actually think that what John Stuart Mill is talking about here is something that's slightly different, because the cancel culture that we're seeing at the moment, like, where does its power come from?
	Who is doing it?
	Fundamentally, we're talking about bots on Twitter.
	Okay, we're talking about some real people on Twitter as well, but we're also talking about a lot of bots which are following up on trends and things.
	I don't agree.
	I mean, of course, it could be that all of society has an opinion and you have the opposite, but it could also be that a section of a powerful part of society can coerce everyone else into it, which I think you're getting at.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	It seems like there is this small cadre of people, like noisy direct action activists.
	These are the ones who are writing to your comedy club saying, don't platform Jimmy Carr or whoever it might be.
	And it's not, that seems slightly different to what Mill is talking about, because he's talking about society genuinely and openly essentially enforcing what it views as social norms on people.
	And that's not what's happening here, where it's political activists enforcing their political will on people.
	Well, I think there's little distinction, really, in the realm of real situations, because, of course, a lot of people don't engage with any of this.
	So, say that all the society is doing, or a subsection of society, all it takes is who's got the power to force everyone else to comply.
	And, well, the workers do have the power to comply, make people comply, as evidenced by people not getting gigs or losing their job or...
	Right.
	I would argue that's fundamentally because of bad education about things like Twitter.
	It's because if a bunch of Twitterati are screaming at you about something, why should that mean you should cave to what they say?
	Anyway.
	Well, I agree, but it is the world in which we live.
	But we can take a look at some of that as well.
	So, I mean, we can look at Donald Trump, for example, because, of course, cancelling is not just people won't talk to you, giving you the silent dream or something.
	It is far worse, which is trying to take your livelihood away from you and destroy your life because they don't want you to live.
	They can't kill you because they're not the king.
	They're not the magistrate.
	But they don't have to.
	They don't have to.
	And also they can do far worse.
	Enslave your soul itself.
	So you can see Donald Trump here, for example, being cancelled by his bank.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	Yeah.
	Donald Trump, not allowed to trade with Deutsche Bank.
	They weren't the only ones either.
	I think his local bank also was like, here, take your millions of dollars.
	We don't want them for some reason.
	I love the way the Guardian frames this as they had propped up the organisation for years.
	No, it had been their client, their customer.
	What?
	Deutsche Bank's propping up Donald Trump.
	Right, if I buy milk from Tesco, Tesco is not propping up my lactose purchases.
	It's a ridiculous way of framing it.
	But also, like, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, I think he's probably got more power than Deutsche Bank at his prime than Deutsche Bank.
	Well, yeah, definitely, when he was president, certainly.
	Except maybe it's a rights bank or something these days, don't know.
	Anyway, but of course it's not just losing a bank, this is not only Donald Trump as well.
	If we go to the next one, we also have just little things, I mean, little ways of using your money.
	I mean, here's the bad man, I think officially bad man trademark, and there are other bad men out there that everyone is forced to hate as well, in which he loses his PayPal account.
	What's that to do?
	But this is a different aspect of cancel culture, I would say, because this is discriminatory denial of service.
	So it's not usually the case in this situation that there is some business which has the undesirable as their customer, and so the business gets pressure from activists and then cancels them.
	Oh, that does happen with this.
	It does happen, but mainly when it comes to banks, places like PayPal and that, the banks are just turning up and saying, well, because of political reasons, we're not going to serve this person.
	And because together they constitute a monopoly, that means suddenly you can't use banks or you can't use food.
	I don't find much stock in the idea that PayPal or the banks have a huge interest in morals or politics.
	I think it largely is pressure.
	But I can see John mentioning also with the bad man here, the Lord Voldemort of the UK, he who shall not be named.
	He also lost his banks as well.
	All of them.
	So he's only got cash now.
	That's just how he has to live in life.
	Also, in a time in which every goods and service in the UK is saying we no longer accept cash, only card, because of COVID. Fantastic.
	Now we can literally make a class of people who can't operate the world.
	We can de-platform people from money.
	De-platform them from life, essentially.
	And, well, again, what mandate is this?
	To say that a section of society don't like you, therefore you shouldn't be allowed to use money.
	Hmm.
	I mean, what is that?
	I mean, it's a horrific situation for us to find ourselves in the West.
	And if the CCP had done this to an individual, we'd call it a human rights abuse.
	Well, they probably have done it as well.
	They have.
	With the social credit system.
	Yeah.
	Where it's more like...
	You can have money, it's just no one will accept it.
	But, again, it's the unique aspect of the West where, you know, if this was in the East, very easy, government just comes in and platforms a person's ability to use money or get a job and all the rest of it, and we're like, well, that's obviously human rights abuse, it's because you don't like politics.
	In the West, no, a small subsection of elites or activists can pressure PayPal or so on and so forth to have a big long ban list in which they can slowly add people they don't like and get them banned from using money.
	And that's not human rights abuse instead.
	That's just free service.
	Well, that's where the whole alternative tech movement comes in, because the entire reason for the existence of that movement is to stop this discriminatory denial of service from basically ruining businesses.
	I'd also love to ask Elon Musk what he thinks of all this.
	I mean, not just the bad man, but all the rest of it.
	The fact that, like, how do you feel that a lot of people are banned from using PayPal?
	You know, the thing, I think he set it up.
	Him and Peter Thiel, wasn't he?
	Yeah.
	He was involved.
	Because they've got opinions that are quite similar to yours, Elon, on some things.
	And they're banned from using your service, or at least your old service, let's say.
	It's horrific, in my opinion.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So, back to the documentary that Jimmy Carr was featured in.
	I did find some funny stuff out of this, and so Channel 4 set this up in which they interviewed a lot of people who were cancelled and got their stories, and then spoke to the people who wanted them cancelled, and all the people who wanted them cancelled look horrific.
	Big shock, I must say.
	I mean, there's loads of stories in here, like the one we covered about the guy in the Oxford Union, the Cambridge Union, who interpreted Hitler.
	He did an impression of Hitler, and he said the Jews and the N-word as well, but in the character of Hitler, to make a point.
	And there were loads of people who wanted him banned from campus for that.
	He's literally saying Hitler's bad.
	That's the point in the impression.
	Brainlet, but okay.
	Yeah.
	So they looked at all that, and then they went to a trade show.
	And you can see the timestamp here.
	We can't play clips because it will just get copyright struck.
	But you can see the timestamp here.
	I don't want you to play that, John, because I don't know what's going to happen there.
	But it's a board there showing all loads and loads of different pronouns.
	Hmm.
	And you might wonder what they were up to.
	So they set up an organisation called Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality.
	DAI, for short.
	They went with the DAI one.
	And they went to the trade show and see if they could convince major corporations of just BS. And to get them to do BS. And this gets back to your point about whether or not it's a section of society forcing these companies to do it.
	Because I think this is the vector of attack in which most of this power comes from.
	Which is companies being pussies.
	Which, just say no.
	Someone comes to you with a stupid idea.
	Say no.
	It's your money.
	You don't have to listen to them.
	And some of the stupid ideas they came to them with were gender-free outfits for employees.
	These were surf tunics.
	We're talking about, like, North Korean Mao suits type things.
	No, no.
	Tunics for, like, surfs.
	That's what it looked like.
	They were like, yeah, that's a gender-free outfit.
	We'll give that.
	So we're literally going to turn your employees into surfs.
	A lot of companies were up for that.
	Yeah, I bet.
	They also, as you can see there...
	50 different pronouns for you to learn.
	It's a very conservative number.
	Only 50.
	It's not very many at all.
	And they sat that, that big board there in front of a bunch of different people.
	They were like, yeah, sure, I can see it catching up.
	Yeah, I could do that in my company.
	It's not too difficult.
	It's awful respect and tolerance and all that.
	And then the two actors turn around and say, yeah, but what if we just use gender-neutral ones to eliminate any mistakes?
	Because that's quite a lot.
	So we'll delete all of them except the gender-neutral ones.
	Then everyone can be gender-neutral.
	And all the idiot tradespeople are like, okay, yeah, I can see that as well.
	And then they go with, yeah, what if we even eliminate them?
	And then we just use people's names.
	It's like, we're back to names, are we?
	I bet they're still nodding along, like, gonks as well.
	Yeah, like Churchill dogs or something.
	Like, you can lay all this stuff out, and it's...
	The funny thing was, the guy who even stood it up was like, you know, we sat in a boardroom making up this crap, and having these two actors lay out in intersectional language, he could see himself nodding along almost, and he was like, wait, no, I wrote this to be stupid!
	Like...
	You get convinced because it's just part of the politically correct culture.
	Yes.
	They also said the last one in the kicker was they wanted 21 different toilets in your company.
	And this was based off 21 sexualities that they listed.
	So between gender fluid and demigender or whatever the hell else kinds of sexualities.
	And yeah, again, nodding dogs entirely.
	And the best part is they even at that trade show then won an award.
	Oh, that's ridiculous.
	So the guys who sat at the trade show were handing out awards.
	They gave them the award for diversity and inclusion.
	See, actually, this is one thing I love about political correctness.
	It is such a self-parody already.
	It's very hard to tell when someone's taken the mickey out of it.
	And this means that you can get people who are very based going into the diversity industry and just trolling everyone.
	And if you are doing that or interested in that, more power to you, because that sounds like great fun.
	At the live event, we did meet some guys, and I keep mentioning them because they're so cool.
	They work in the Cydia thing, and they started infiltrating the diversity committees, and then the diversity departments over time have, of course, got this huge amount of power to set policies and whatnot.
	And they're now on the boards.
	And they're all sat there.
	So there'll be like, you know, nine-haired, you know, blue-haired feminist nutjobs and them.
	And they'll come up with some crap.
	And then they're the ones who basically just like reword it so it means nothing.
	So then the new policies have no effect.
	That's brilliant.
	That is a hero.
	Like, that dude gives up his time to work in the most, like, toxic environment possible.
	That's legal for some reason.
	Yeah.
	And just so he can defend his fellow employees.
	They're doing God's work.
	They're doing Lord's work.
	But I thought I'd just end this on the point, as Jimmy Carr points out about, you know, cancel culture is terrible.
	And the reason it ties in so well with this trade show is because, I mean, what is cancel culture really about in the modern age?
	It's about political correctness, not factual correctness.
	That is the difference.
	I mean, that is why there is a term, political correctness.
	Why something is politically correct...
	By definition, it is not factually correct.
	Yes.
	Or you wouldn't have to say it's politically correct to say X. In the Soviet Union, it was politically correct to say there were no famines.
	It wasn't factually correct, but that's the point.
	If it was factually correct, you wouldn't need a political correct point.
	Sure.
	That point isn't made stark enough, I think.
	But it is obviously in here, which is, it is about believing nonsense because it shows that you will comply.
	Yes.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Leo, have you not heard of crimes of passion?
	Plenty of crime is motivated by love.
	So I think I heard that Leo hasn't heard of crimes of passion.
	Plenty of crime is motivated by love.
	Absolutely, yes.
	I was quite surprised to hear Leo come out and say that he was in favor of hate crimes in a concept.
	Really?
	So he was arguing that he can see why...
	If you've committed a crime and it's motivated by racial hatred, that should be treated more seriously than normal assault.
	Really?
	I don't agree at all.
	That's why I mentioned South Park probably right on this.
	Assault is assault.
	I don't care where you did it.
	If you did it for nationalist reasons, should that be considered more legitimate?
	Yeah, I mean, this whole attempt...
	So we do take intent into account, but we do that for practical reasons, as in, you know, why did the man do the act?
	But to go down the full, like, psychoanalysis route, it's like, did he do it because of racial prejudice, or because of gender prejudice, or because of whatever it might be, that seems ludicrous to me.
	But why...
	I mean, I've got to dwell on it a little bit, because I just don't understand it.
	So...
	If I commit assault against you because of racial hatred, that should be taken more seriously than if I commit assault against you because you believe in breakup of the UK and I don't.
	So, I mean, I don't think it should, but in law it does.
	We take intent into account because we're talking about things like, okay, when he swung the baseball bat, was he trying to hit a baseball or hit someone in the head?
	You know, the outcome can be the same, a bat connected to someone's head and it was bad.
	But we look at the intent as to whether they were trying to do the crime or not.
	So in that extent, it's worth looking at the intent.
	But if the intent of the action was the same in that they were both trying to hit someone in the head with the baseball bat, I don't think it should matter at all why they did that.
	But it's an obvious point, then, why would you do that?
	And my initial thoughts as well, okay, then this is just a weapon of political control.
	Yes.
	And the police are the ones enforcing that, whether they like it or not.
	Exactly.
	And it creates a privileged class, naturally.
	Yeah, because again, these hate crimes only go one way.
	I really should have brought this up to Lee.
	I don't know if he's watching, but I'll send him a message or something as well.
	So Ella Hill, who's written for us about the hate crime data and what's being hidden, she is a victim of anti-white hate crimes.
	There are plenty of people who are.
	And when they report it to police, police don't take it seriously in this country, because why should they?
	They're not the victim class.
	Yeah, they're not the privileged class.
	Again, it's not even just we will make it criminal to do assault on a racial basis or whatever else.
	It's only against one race, or at least a group of races that are not this one.
	Yeah.
	Because that one deserves it, really.
	That's the world we live in.
	Yeah.
	I mean, sorry, just to reflect on that for a minute.
	I mean, it's awful.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Before I go do a warm-up and then go to the gym, I need to say something about...
	Some people on the Sultans of Chalet, and this is not what you think it is, those of you on the server.
	Guys, please, please, for the love of God, I am not that interesting, and I'm so glad it's tongue-in-cheek and not worshipping me, but you cannot have a fan wiki about me.
	You need to go outside.
	You need to do something more productive with your day.
	You cannot let me live that rent-free in your head.
	Please do something productive.
	Okay, I have no idea what any of that is.
	Yeah, it sounds like, uh, yeah, Sultan's a Chatellaire drama there.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Anyway, I have almost finished listening to Bo and Carl's Bear Osiris series, and I do have a couple of ideas for you guys, if you like.
	One is about the political life of Margaret Thatcher, because I wanted to hear your opinions about her.
	And another about the nation of Rhodesia.
	The latter of which I know a little bit about because I've actually met people from Rhodesia.
	Well, one person anyway.
	Yeah, those both sound like good suggestions for content.
	I do think Rhodesia is an interesting story.
	Thatcher is obviously an interesting story as well, but I don't know nearly as much about it.
	The main thing with Rhodesia I don't understand.
	It's obviously a failed state in a bit of a mean country, and that's funny enough.
	But the international outcry about them specifically is difficult for me to understand, because I'm not in that time period, so I don't get that part.
	But just the fact that the entire thing seems to be based on Rhodesia bad, why?
	They racist.
	Okay.
	We're fighting the Cold War.
	Have you looked at the Communists?
	Have you noticed they commit quite a lot of genocides against ethnic minorities?
	Not just, you know, racist system and systemic racism and whatnot.
	I don't know why Rhodesia gets such a stick about it.
	Like, I understand that racism bad, duh, but, like, Rhodesia is this huge threat and a huge story at the time, and I'm like, yeah, China's currently killing their ethnic minorities, and we just, that's just accepted?
	Is it just because it's a British colony and therefore we expect better of them, or what?
	No, I think a lot of it comes out of the post-war consensus, because it was a conservative government at the time, Harold Macmillan, that essentially forced Rhodesia to transition to minority rule.
	So there's a lot that's involved in it.
	There is a compelling argument, which is that if they were all racists, then why did so many of the essentially white minority continue to live in Rhodesia long after the war?
	Ian Smith is often held up as an example of the worst, most racist, who was Prime Minister of the country during all of this time.
	He was the one who unilaterally withdrew from the Commonwealth because he didn't want to transition to minority rule.
	He again continued to stay in the...
	Majority rule.
	Yes.
	He continued to stay in the country long after the war was over, right up until his death.
	And he used to have many well-wishers from white and black come to his house afterwards.
	I don't know.
	It does seem as well like the sheer level of mismanagement that took place in Zimbabwe under Mugabe does seem to somewhat vindicate the struggle against his guerrillas as well.
	So it's a very complicated piece of history.
	Well, yeah.
	Do you paint the black communists as the authentic voice of, let's say, black people in that region?
	It's like, why would you do that?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I think Mugabe, I can't remember what it was, Zanu and Zappu.
	One of them was funded by the Soviets.
	The other one was funded by North Korea and China.
	Yeah.
	I don't get why we had such hatred for them, as in the Rhodesian state going independent.
	I know it's a bit of a rogue state and all that.
	All of their crimes seem so minor when compared to the Second World, the one we're really at war with.
	You have to view decolonization as part of America's grand geostrategic project as well, because that was one of their conditions.
	If they were able to decolonize Europe, then they set themselves up basically as the world monopower.
	Yeah, but they also supported Rhodesia in the early years, and South Africa, so...
	Right.
	I mean, to put this on the US, I find...
	Oh, not completely, but certainly they were one of the forces who were pressuring the decolonisation process, one of many.
	But I see it as, like, the UK government seems to be the most upset about the whole thing, and, you know, it's not like I don't get why they would be upset, but to be so upset to the extent that we're focusing on Rhodesia instead of, you know, all the other crimes in the world...
	I don't know, I don't have to put this, like, in a modern context.
	Who would you point to?
	I suppose...
	I don't know.
	Obsessing about Donald Trump's stormtroopers.
	It's not a bad enough example because he didn't do anything wrong.
	I don't know.
	It's difficult.
	Obsessing about Belarus when ISIS is about or something.
	I get bad beating down all the protesters, rigging elections and all the rest of it.
	Anyway, it'll be an interesting podcast.
	Yeah, it's a difficult one though.
	So, in regards to Scrooge McDuck did nothing wrong, what I have here is The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa.
	And one of the things they explain in this book is that Uncle Scrooge's money bin is actually just a tiny portion of his wealth, most of which is distributed all over the world in various business ventures, and each one of these coins represents a memory for him.
	That's actually really cute.
	I like that.
	I love the way how Scrooge McDuck is slowly becoming the cartoon mascot of this channel as well.
	This weirdly fits in.
	I watched Elon Musk do an interview with Babylon Bee, like, a couple of days ago or something.
	And it wasn't that interesting, frankly.
	I didn't find much in there.
	It was around politics.
	But they asked him about his wealth, and that actually fits in perfectly.
	Because Elon Musk was just like, it was not very interesting.
	Like, I put my money in Tesla.
	I work there.
	Tesla stock went up.
	I became a billionaire.
	It's just what it is.
	And...
	It's like the money isn't really there.
	It's in the business ventures.
	Yeah.
	It's not liquid.
	No.
	They wish you a merry disease and a season of death.
	To Fauci, festering grandfather of plagues, hear your servant's prayer.
	Look upon your creation and the devastation it has wrought, the death and misery it has spread, the minds it has infested with your suppurating truth.
	I beg of your favor and your boon, that it might strive all the harder to spread its new variants across the world.
	That's the Chaos Plague God Nurgle there in his aspect of Anthony Fauci.
	I love it.
	For those who don't follow Warhammer.
	There were a lot of Warhammer memes portraying getting COVID as, like, you know, people who wouldn't wear the masks as COVID Nurgle worshippers.
	I love where it's now come full circle.
	It's actually like, no, the guy threatening death has caused so much damage to people's mental health and all the rest of it, and to all the people now dying of cancer and all the rest of it.
	Yeah, it's not the people not wearing the masks.
	No.
	I'll answer your questions about if you can safely celebrate the holidays with your family and friends.
	The answer is absolutely no.
	Second point, we're prepared today for what's coming.
	Thanks to my administration, it may be deadlier than the ones that have come before.
	So starting this week, I'll be deploying hundreds more vaccinators.
	If you're fully vaccinated, you are highly protected.
	If you're unvaccinated, You're at a higher risk, you're dying.
	So, folks, let me summarize.
	The science is clear.
	That's such a good meme.
	Biden's gonna kill us all.
	Did you read his death threat?
	No.
	So he wrote a death threat.
	Which again, it's just like, what the fuck?
	So it's a White House official death threat in which he just said, if you're vaccinated, you've done the right thing.
	Well done.
	If you're unvaccinated, you're in for a winter of death and disease.
	Oh my god.
	But no one's dying of Omicron.
	Joe, still we're in for a winter of death.
	Wait, hang on, how are you gonna...
	Sorry.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, Brian Tyson was removed from Twitter after treating 7,000 COVID patients, having only four of them hospitalized and zero deaths.
	And when you tell people that he treated them all with hydrochloroquine and evermectin and that it worked for 80 cents per dose, they get mad.
	Why is this?
	Like, vaccinated or not, wouldn't you rejoice the fact that people don't get sick or die?
	Yeah, people aren't rational about COVID. What can I tell you?
	Like, people are scared.
	Did you get a chance to check out all that stuff?
	No.
	Because I've heard Michael and Mona talking about it, and, you know, I don't know the details, so go check it out yourself.
	I'm not a doctor.
	Yeah.
	It did sound like all of the treatments he was prescribing were just basic stuff that wouldn't have any real side effects.
	I mean, why not go for it?
	If I had COVID. There was a very interesting podcast with Dr.
	Peter McCulloch on Joe Rogan a week or so ago, and he was saying much the same thing along the lines of, there seems to be real hostility to the idea of treating COVID patients before they need to be hospitalized, which is an irrational stance to take.
	Very irrational.
	I also, I get the hostility and the censorship of obviously nonsensical claims, where it's like, you know, in India, eating cow dung or cure COVID or stop you from getting it.
	That's going to give you some problems, so don't allow that.
	But for people when they're recommending, I don't know, drink some water or take antihistamines or something, it's not really going to cause any side effects, is it?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't know what all the hostility is about.
	Yeah, it seems to be about controlling the message.
	And also, arguably, if there are treatments for COVID, then that would encourage vaccine hesitancy, is one other narrative that you could interpret as the misbelieving.
	But it's a very strange attitude to have.
	Also vaccine, I mean.
	I'm annoyed about this.
	I looked up the definition of vaccine the other day, and in there, it is, of course, that a vaccine gives you immunity to the virus.
	Okay, well, it's not.
	If you're having to get seven doses, or four, or whatever France is on at this point, well, that's preventative treatment.
	That's, well, you know, something like that.
	That's not a vaccine, because it's not providing you immunity.
	Yeah.
	I would have thought, but again, I'm not a biologist, so feel free to correct me.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Let me be in, little Joan, with an announcement.
	I have put together a South Jersey supercut of all the comments Joan and I did on the Lotus Eaters about South Jersey and the monsters and the legends and the ghosts.
	So if you missed one, come check it out.
	It's on my YouTube channel where we do videos.
	Also on Odyssey, Bitshoot, and Rumble.
	I'm currently not banned on YouTube, but who knows how long that's going to last.
	I don't know, man.
	That sounds great.
	YouTube trying to shut down any talk about the Jersey Devil.
	They're really upset that people are believing in those wacko conspiracy theories that are totally not true, that the Jersey Devil is out and about.
	So, anyway, you gotta check that out.
	Is that the end of the Jersey Devil stories, or self-Jersey stories, by the way?
	Because I've enjoyed that.
	Yeah, they're quite fun.
	When I talk to my parents about the podcast as well, they're like, yeah, I like that guy, he always turns up, tells his whole story.
	I hope we'll have more.
	Maybe we'll have to move up to New York and have some stories up there.
	Yeah, but feel free to check out his channel and see if there's anything you like.
	Anyway, let's go to the Gas the Kids story.
	So on my screen, I get like, you know, here's the comments and then a little title and then all the comments and so people have fun with them.
	Paulie P says, As a kid, I liked playing pretend soldiers, but I don't remember any war crimes being involved.
	Well, you weren't playing hard enough, were you?
	Roleplay is the Serbians next time.
	Paul Neubauer says, well, at least teaching a pug dog to do the Nazi salute wasn't part of the reenactment.
	That would actually be an anti-Nazi action.
	That's true.
	Do you know about the German Shepherd?
	I do.
	In Finland, wasn't it?
	He was taught to do the Nazi salute, and the SS wanted him, but I believe that someone in the Nazis was like, ah, it's not worth it.
	Yeah, whereas the SNP were like, hmm.
	It is worth it.
	There can be no criticism of National Socialism under the Scottish Nationalist Party.
	Freewill2112 says, These modern teachers are not teachers as I remember them.
	They are ideological freaks.
	Can't agree more.
	Paulie P says, What's in the next lesson?
	The class Nazi at mock Nuremberg trials.
	That sounds more fun, to be fair.
	They learn more, as well.
	Because the Nuremberg trials are actually a really interesting piece of...
	Yeah, I do think this material is way too sensitive for eight-year-olds, though, generally.
	Sure.
	I mean, trying to teach them all the ins and outs of the Nuremberg Trial, I mean, they're going to be looking at the windows or whatever.
	So, fair enough.
	But I do go and read up on the Nuremberg Trial.
	You know, unless they're enacting the death sentence as well, which is another problem.
	Oh, God.
	The way these American teachers think, I don't know what's beyond them.
	I mean, don't.
	But in my head, you know, I have got a thought experiment in mind.
	It's like, how far could you take this?
	And, like, then you make the kids starve as you rebuild Germany together in the classrooms.
	I don't know.
	Maybe half of them get put in a communist camp because German segregation after the war.
	By the time they graduate, they'll be inviting millions of Middle Eastern migrants into the classroom.
	Yeah, the guy playing Hitler will be playing Angela Merkel.
	His little We Schaff and Das thing.
	He'll be like, yes, come to Germany.
	Everyone, come to Germany.
	No problems will happen.
	None at all.
	Baron von Warhawk says, when I was in school, I had to learn about the Holocaust.
	We read a PowerPoint and watched a documentary.
	I didn't have to dig my own grave.
	Does this teacher have a fetish for traumatising kids or is just insane or both?
	Either way, she needs to be fired as fast as possible.
	I can explain all of that for you.
	She's a leftist.
	She is a leftist.
	I don't know what kind of law she's breaking, so I don't know what kind of comeuppance she'll get.
	But firing I don't really think is enough.
	No.
	Because there's also the breaches there of the trust that's been in place to her as a schoolteacher.
	She's been put in charge of these people's kids.
	People are putting trust in you to not traumatise their kids.
	And you've done it.
	Without anyone else's approval except your own.
	Yeah, well particularly in the case of, like this is one thing, but the case of the school groomers who we covered the other day.
	Like, that's particularly where you want to have crime sentences.
	You want to have criminal sentences and prison time for people who are ruining children's lives.
	I don't think fines and community services are enough of that.
	No.
	M1Ping, next year this teacher will probably run the same lesson, but with the unvaccinated in place of the Jews.
	Yeah, and there'll be no complaints.
	And everybody will clap.
	Taffy Duck says, that Holocaust score.
	Next time the teacher asks the kids to, quote, put your hands up if you know the answer.
	LAUGHTER It's going to get a lot of Roman salutes.
	What's a Roman salute look like, Callum?
	I'm not doing that.
	Fell for that once.
	Pegahero says, just a remember of sweet times in my youth when in my 6th or 7th grades had a day with my classmates doing a valley forge day of marching and training in the snow.
	My school did this and makes one think about all the hardship one went through during the Revolutionary War.
	The Holocaust.
	While at my school, a survivor came to talk to us and read us a book.
	Whilst at DC, schools, they sound like they're just poised.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm not against reenactments, if that's the point.
	Got a bunch of noisy eight-year-olds to deal with, you know, reenactment might be the right method, but this is not really the subject, is it?
	I mean, we did a reenactment at my school of Rome invading Gaul, and I was one of the barbarians, for example.
	I'm not surprised.
	Oi.
	Celts did nothing wrong.
	Anyway, but the Romans just threw a load of javelins at us, and we all just splat on the ground and died.
	That was good fun, but I feel like we went a little bit further and re-enacted what else the Romans did.
	Cool.
	Wouldn't have been too much.
	Well, you mean the rape and pillage.
	Yeah, and the genocide and the Roman things.
	Slavery.
	Hashtag Roman things, anyway.
	Could you imagine if we crucified half the kids?
	Would have been some friends I had in school that I would have crucified, but oh well.
	Anyway, Baron Warhawk.
	These insane teachers are the reason I'm going to get into education and teach history, so I can counter their message from the inside.
	The best way to defeat these lunatics would be to use their own infiltration techniques against them to counter the madness.
	That's when we're doing it.
	Get into school, teach kids proper stuff that they need to learn rather than letting the leftists.
	Yeah, I mean, I presume they had two candidates and they ended up with her.
	So, I mean, if there was a third candidate, which is you, who is like...
	Then at least they have a chance to do the right thing.
	In the interview, I won't gash your kids.
	Like...
	What about you, candidate B? And she's like, well, I've got a lesson plan.
	Anyway, Bilbo Baggins says, I'd gotten an A-plus in the Holocaust reenactment class.
	I hope you were the Jew in that case, rather than Adolf Hitler.
	God, could you imagine being that kid?
	Like, that kid, if he ever wants to go into politics, it's ruined.
	Yeah.
	Do you reckon he could pull the I-was-forced-to-be-Hitler card?
	You know, I was just following orders.
	He's eight years old, for God's sake.
	You know, it would work there.
	It's like, well, he was only following orders.
	This is lunatic.
	This is a child, yeah.
	Anyway, read us now.
	Trust the Stalinist section.
	Freewill 2112 says, Laura Murray is right.
	She isn't a member of the bourgeoisie.
	She is an aristocrat.
	I'm not sure.
	I thought the aristocrats were members of the bourgeoisie because they live in the bourge, the city, but I wouldn't know.
	Top 10,000, though.
	Depends what kind of communists the bourgeoisie are, I guess.
	That's true.
	If they're a communist bourgeoisie, then they're not really bourgeoisie, are they?
	Captain Charlie Weigel says, Funny thing about Laura Murray, her backstory is similar to that of Ursula von der Leyen, who married into a very old European aristocratic family.
	At least, though, von der Leyen isn't a hypocrite and commie.
	No, she's a full-on authoritarian, isn't she?
	She is a hypocrite.
	A German junker.
	I don't know if you saw her private jet because she's the president of the EU or whatever it is.
	What's it called?
	EU Force One?
	Yeah, she wanted to go from Vienna to Bratislava.
	I've made that journey.
	It takes like 10 minutes on a train.
	Yeah, I've done the same train because we had to get a flight and if you're travelling in Europe and you go to Vienna, always get the train over to Bratislava and then get the plane because it's so much cheaper.
	And she decided she'd take a private jet for a 10 minute journey on a train.
	And at the same time she went to a climate summit.
	He's ridiculous, isn't he?
	Yeah.
	EU hypocrites, what can I say?
	Alexander says, Andrew Murray, talk about champagne socialist and the rest of them don't look much better.
	I see where his daughter got the stupid from.
	Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
	Anyway, Callum says, Callum, your face reaction to this Laura Murray bio just spells out what we are all thinking.
	Full bourgeoisie, establishment, privileged commie brat, and then a statement which I am instructed to disavow relating to all of the stuff that she has.
	I can't get over how it keeps happening, though.
	Like, every time there's a communist in the West, they're so well-endowed, it's ridiculous.
	Not physically, sadly, but...
	No, I mean, they're hideous.
	Materially, yeah.
	But materially, they've got everything going for them.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, it's almost like there's this super upper-class guilt complex that they have to, anyway, reorganise society.
	X, Y, and Z says, How does this work?
	Landed aristocracy who are commies?
	What the...
	exclamation mark.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Ignacio Junquera says, At some point, after seeing commies terrorising children, burning cities, controlling government policy from the unelected shadows, and setting all the narratives, I have to think this is the Shadow Cabal, and it's not even a conspiracy theory anymore.
	I don't know.
	I wouldn't go that far.
	I don't think it's a world conspiracy, if it's a self-aware world conspiracy.
	I prefer the term cathedral, because it's a bunch of people who believe.
	Yes, they believe in the message, and they will all enact the message, even if they don't know each other exists.
	Kevin says, when I see how the UK is being forced into restrictions by the Michi Cabal, it makes me feel so much safer living in Thailand, where we are only ruled and controlled by greedy idiots.
	I know which I prefer.
	The guys here are just out to fill their own pockets and have the combined IQ of an eggplant.
	That is so much better than the bunch of inbred commies you are being controlled by.
	Also, doesn't Thailand still have the king?
	So, let's fall back on that.
	Yeah, who's not a very popular figure.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	What do you do?
	Oh, lots of stuff.
	It just hangs around the string vest doing drugs and sleeping with hookers, allegedly.
	But I'm not allowed to say that because they're quite...
	That's just an alleged rumour.
	Like, look it up in your own time.
	They're also quite litigious.
	Makes me think of the Romanian kings.
	They're just like, during the interwar years, they just have massive parties constantly.
	That's just the emigre lifestyle, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Omar says, the problem with trying to apply rules to the left, even the golden rule, is that they're more than happy to rewrite language itself, let alone the rule it describes.
	Absolutely true.
	When our speech is harm, their violence is self-expression.
	There are no rules.
	Yeah, very, very true.
	And finally, Northamptonian Knights says, Should SAGE be abolished?
	Certainly it should be heavily vetted with additional checks and balances on appointments to the group.
	Well, yeah.
	It doesn't take that much to be like, no communists.
	No communists.
	No like, yeah, certainly no super Stalinist tankies.
	I mean, it's not even like she joined the Socialist Party or, I don't know, wrote a book about socialism and therefore she's a bit suspect.
	Lifelong member of the Communist Party.
	Super tanky.
	Yeah.
	You know, married to a lunatic who wrote propaganda for the Soviet Union.
	Like, daughter works for Jeremy Corbyn.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	There's enough crimes in there.
	My suggestion would be we had more actual frontline doctors in SAGE and SPI-B, because as far as I can tell, the vast majority of them are either so senior in the NHS they've never seen a COVID patient, or they're just physicists or behavioural scientists.
	But if you want to actually solve the pandemic, maybe you want to hear from actual frontline doctors.
	Just my thought.
	Anyway, on the comedians noticing cancel culture.
	So, Paulie P says, Jimmy Carr only mentions freedom of speech when it affects him and his career.
	Just like Maureen Lipman.
	I have more respect for David Baddiel, who stuck out his head above the parapet for Dankula.
	Yes, I do.
	I have great respect for David Padilla as well.
	Although I wouldn't say that Jimmy Carr is now only mad because freedom of speech might affect him.
	In his quotes, and I do believe him, he doesn't care, frankly.
	I don't think he can be touched by this stuff, because he's already made so many jokes that are so offensive that if they wanted to come for me, they could have.
	Yeah, but it's also the fact that once these people get particularly prominent in their field, they've already made most of their money anyway.
	If they were at the start of their career in their 20s and so on, then they're much more in threat from it, whereas he's basically done.
	Yeah, like, I see Jimmy as someone who, quite frankly, couldn't be stopped if they tried, which is why they haven't, and has nothing really to gain.
	He's got all the money he wants, he's got his girlfriend or whatever, ran eight out of ten cats, got to meet Rachel Riley, you know, he's living the life.
	Anyway, he heard his joke about Rachel Riley.
	So, for people who don't know, you mentioned, she hosts, well, I used to host Countdown, I think someone else does now.
	incredibly attractive and so people would come up to jimmy and be like oi rachel riley she's fit as she looks and uh jimmy's response was that whenever someone asked him that he says look i would crawl over broken glass to suck the cock of the last man who fucked her i know that was crass but i had to listen because it's just so funny It's just like, the dude doesn't care at all.
	We'd have to mention all the Holocaust jokes.
	That doesn't actually answer the question.
	There's the Holocaust joke he told, which is, you know, he's trying to make the audience offended.
	He's like, right, I'll tell you something offensive.
	My mate got caught masturbating in the showers.
	Nothing?
	No?
	Will it really ruin the school trip to Auschwitz?
	He doesn't care.
	He's just there to have fun.
	So I don't think it's because he's under threat.
	No.
	Thankfully.
	The other lady chap or whoever you mentioned may very well be.
	I'm not.
	Yeah, but it is true that I do respect the establishment figures or popular, well-known comedians like Ricky Gervais who came out and spoke up for someone who was essentially a nobody at the time, Dank, because he's just a normal guy on YouTube.
	And a lot of them do seem to have this kind of snobbishness where if it's part of the club, you know, on the same social level, same circuit, they'll be there.
	But if it's some pleb, they don't care.
	And Jimmy, you know, at least he's come out and he's denounced the problem.
	Yeah, the other thing that comes to mind has now left my head, so I've completely forgotten it.
	Moving on.
	Sorry, brain fart.
	Chris Wolf says, Jimmy had good points when it comes to trauma or fear.
	A common solution is facing the situation.
	Telling a joke isn't recreating the tragedy.
	Your fear isn't the traumatic incident.
	It's important to feel it and move forward.
	Yeah, it's engaging with it rather than trying to block it out of mind, which is good in a way.
	It's often said that, for example, the humour of the Tommies in the Trench was one reason that they were able to cope with it better than people from other nations, because they were able to engage with the situation around them on a comedic level, which lessened the trauma.
	I heard the French soldiers, like the conscripts, thought we were a bit mad for that as well.
	So what's wrong with them?
	They keep joking about the fact we're all dying, and it's like, yeah, well.
	Yeah, but it's funny, isn't it?
	Oh, look, it's a bunch of shredded frogs.
	That's what you call frog's legs.
	Henry Watkinson says, Jimmy Carr's entirely self-serving bint.
	He's against cancel culture because of his tax dodging, almost getting him cancelled.
	Also, he recently had a bit for easy applause where he got people to raise their hands if they're unvaccinated and got them to slap themselves in the face if they were unvaccinated.
	He cut out the bit where he got wrecked by someone challenging him who he then decided to remove by security because he couldn't hack it.
	Yeah, I did see that and that was pretty, you know, cringe.
	But, I don't know.
	It's good to see him say these things.
	I do, again, as reiterating, I don't think he's really getting anything out of this.
	He could continue to stay silent.
	He has, to this point.
	Nothing's harmed him.
	To him getting cancelled by tax dodging, back in the day, yeah, but I mean, that's a long time ago now.
	He's certainly recovered from that.
	And, yeah, the thing with the vaccine was cringe.
	And you should go and see that clip if you haven't.
	I'm annoyed that Kyle had a bit of him getting wrecked.
	I want to see that.
	If anyone's got a copy, send me it.
	Northamptonian Knight says, I thought Jimmy Carr was reasonably okay until fairly recently where he made a joke.
	Okay, well, we already read that piece because it's about the same thing.
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