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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #302

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	Good afternoon, thanks Welcome to episode 302 of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	I'm Carl and I'm joined by Leo.
	And today we are going to be discussing how the Democrats are lying about January the 6th, why there is an ideological civil war that's going on in the United States, and the top 10 COVID wet wipes, because good God, everyone needs to shut up about it this week.
	But before we get on to that, let's have a quick look at the new things that we have on the website.
	We've got a brand new article that I believe is a free article by Hugo called How to Cancel the Great Reset, in which Hugo has done an awful lot of reading about the Great Reset, especially Klaus Schwab's books and all of the stuff the World Economic Forum puts on the website and things like this, things that other people don't generally tend to touch.
	And so he knows a lot more about this than most people from their own perspective.
	So, definitely go give that a read, or if you're a Silver member, you can go give it a listen.
	The next thing we've got is the previous episode of the Epochs of the Low Seas that I do with Beau.
	We're doing the mythical founders of the city-states of the ancient world, because they're fascinating.
	Theseus is probably fictional, but the next one that's coming up on this Sunday is Lycurgus.
	And Lycurgus probably wasn't fictional, and frankly, he was a bloody communist.
	It's very interesting, this next one that's coming up.
	Anyway, we also have a new book club, which is me and Callum doing Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
	Now, this is going to be very pertinent to what we're talking about now, incidentally, in this podcast.
	So definitely go sign up and give that a listen because Burke is laying out what is essentially like the conservative alternative to the social contract theorists that took over the world.
	And that's, I think, the root of this conflict.
	And we also have a direct video that's coming up.
	Do you always do history books, by the way?
	Not always.
	Because I really want to know what you and Callum think about Fifty Shades of Grey.
	We could do that.
	Cool.
	Premium tier.
	Not necessarily something that premium subscribers are going to really want to watch, but, you know, it could be funny.
	But we've got a new direct video by Harry that's coming out at 3pm.
	Which is about the cultural anonymity of the modern city, as in there's no character to them anymore.
	He goes back to a small local area that he's grown up in and notices just the character of the place.
	It's rich with, like, aesthetics.
	Whereas in a modern city, it's just glass of steel.
	Yeah, well, I spent a lot of time, or I did before the pandemic, flying around to different cities in the world, and you just feel completely...
	And it's so easy now.
	Travelling in the 90s, there was a bit of drama and jeopardy.
	You had to have a lonely planet and all the rest of it.
	But now, you land in any city, all the same shops are there, everything's the same.
	You've got your Uber or whatever, or if you're in Southeast Asia, Grab.
	And yeah, it's just so...
	Everything's so sanitised and easy now.
	I'm going to go to a Starbucks, get my McDonald's, and then I'm going to go to the hotel chain that I stay in.
	And it's all the same everywhere in the world.
	It's awful.
	And finally, well done to Getter for topping the app charts, by the way.
	You should, of course, follow us on Getter, because Getter is booming at the moment, and it's doing really well.
	So go and follow Lodces.com or underscore com on Getter.
	And you should follow me as well.
	Yeah, you should follow Leo, me, and all the rest of the guys.
	I'm verified on there.
	Yeah, same here.
	Now this is why we've got to become lunatics now that we're verified.
	We've got to start having some really hot takes.
	So here's my hot take for the day.
	Democrats are just lying about what happened on January the 6th because this is...
	I can't actually say on YouTube why they're doing this.
	So I'm just going to say they're lying through their teeth.
	And they know they're lying.
	And it's deeply, deeply embarrassing.
	They're so over-egging the pudding on this one.
	That it's just cringe.
	It's absolute cringe.
	And they can barely get this out with a straight face.
	Let's begin with Kamala Harris and how she thinks...
	Kamala Harris is explaining to us the scale and the magnitude of the insurrection in the Capitol.
	Let's watch.
	Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were and what they were doing.
	When our democracy came under assault.
	Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
	December 7, 1941.
	September 11, 2001.
	No.
	And January 6th, 2021.
	There's literally no difference.
	Even if you worked at the Capitol Hill, Bill, it wouldn't be fixed in your memory like 9-11.
	You know what I mean?
	Even if you were like a cleaner and you saw the whole thing.
	You know what I mean?
	That is insane.
	And that's actually kind of disgusting.
	Yep.
	It's unbelievably vile, which is why Pete posted this on Getter.
	Go follow Pete at Gizmo Shimoto or something.
	But if you can get that up, yeah.
	Are you saying there's no difference between the Pearl Harbor bombing and the riot at the Capitol, Kamala?
	This is mad.
	It's absolutely mad.
	Like a bunch of boomers wandered around and made a nuisance of themselves.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they stayed within the guide ropes.
	We'll get to it.
	We've got it all.
	We've got it all.
	But anyway, let's just move on to the extremists in our halls.
	What the extremists who roamed these halls targeted was not only the lives of elected leaders, What they sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building hallowed as it is.
	What they were assaulting were the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have marched, picketed, and shed blood to establish and defend.
	Does anyone really feel like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are the sort of defenders of sacred American democracy?
	Does anyone feel that?
	I mean, weren't you calling the United States a racist, white supremacist country like 10 minutes ago?
	You know, is this really...
	Oh, we've totally reversed the narrative now.
	It's not that America's an oppressive slave state that's had an apartheid regime for, you know, 200 of its 250 years of existence.
	Now it's a sacred, hallowed place in our democracy.
	And I don't know how they can say this and not give reference to the context that there was like how many months?
	Like months and months and months.
	Over a year.
	Well over a year of BLM and Antifa riots.
	And they were destroying businesses.
	They were burning businesses that people had spent their lifetime building up.
	The entire livelihood's gone.
	Cars smashed.
	Property damaged.
	People assaulted.
	People killed.
	Like, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of people killed directly and also...
	The official count is something like 30 people dead from the BLM riots.
	But, like, who knows how many other injured or died as consequences or, you know, live with trauma now and have had their lives ruined, you know.
	Yeah, and it's like COVID. I mean, you've got to look at the sort of, you can't just look at the directly reported figures.
	I mean, the assaults on police officers, you know, were sky high.
	So, you know, it sort of created an environment that mitigated assaulting police officers.
	And for them to, you know, then talk about this as if it's just an isolated thing that just popped up.
	And surely if you're going to protest in a political way, doesn't it make sense to do it at a political building instead of going and burning down somebody's, you know, tired business?
	No, no, no.
	A seafood restaurant.
	You're exactly on the money here.
	The second the rioters go after the government, all the people in the government are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on.
	You're meant to be burning down Bob's bar over there.
	Sorry, what are you talking about?
	Not the government.
	Yeah, not the people who actually make these decisions that you're upset about.
	Exactly.
	How could you turn on us?
	And so, in fact, let's go into the next clip.
	That leads us nicely to this one.
	On January 6th, we all saw...
	What our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful.
	The lawlessness.
	The violence.
	The chaos.
	She hadn't noticed any of this in any of the previous weeks.
	So in July 2020, this is what had happened.
	There was night of destruction across D.C. as protesters clashed with police inside the White House, as the Washington Post described it.
	You can scroll down and you can just see some of the pictures.
	I mean, just, you know, violence, lawlessness, chaos.
	I mean, it just is, you know, this is all people, you know, burning American flags.
	I mean, at one point, Donald Trump was forced to evacuate the White House because of, you know, lefty protesters being violent, lawless, all this sort of stuff.
	But that wasn't an assault on democracy.
	That's not an assault on democracy, right?
	So, according to Fox News, 60 Secret Service members were injured during the George Floyd protests in D.C., in this place.
	Not like somewhere else in Portland or something, no.
	They don't care about that.
	And, of course, we've got pictures of Washington, D.C. just being on fire, if we can go to it.
	You can get up the first one where you can see the monument.
	That's things in the streets on fire across the city, but not government things.
	So she doesn't care about all of that.
	So it's not like people don't know what lawlessness, violence and chaos look like.
	This has been perpetrated by what's basically the militia, the youth militia wing of the Democrat Party.
	So she was fully supportive of this because it's creating violence and instability in the country while the opposing side, while Trump For Donald Trump, exactly.
	It's literally their foot soldiers on the streets doing everything that she was saying that was warning that was going to happen, lawlessness, violence and chaos, and the arrogance that she thinks that you're too stupid to know this went on.
	It's unbelievable.
	So anyway, let's go for the next clip where she can barely stop herself from laughing at you.
	We must unite in defence of our democracy.
	In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our prosperity and prosperity.
	That is the preamble of the Constitution.
	She can barely stop herself from laughing.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing is just delivered with an ugly smirk.
	Like the idea that, you know, we're going to unite now to deliver the prosperity and blessings of liberty.
	Yeah.
	Bollocks!
	It's like watching a bad Netflix satire.
	It really is.
	It really is.
	A badly delivered one.
	But anyway, enough of Kamala Harris.
	Let's go on to the kingpin himself.
	I was going to call him Mum Ra then, but I think his name is Joe Biden.
	Let's watch the first clip.
	One year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked.
	Simply attacked.
	The will of the people was under assault.
	The Constitution, our Constitution, faced the gravest of threats Outnumbered in the face of a brutal attack, the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police Department, the National Guard, and other brave law enforcement officials saved the rule of law.
	Our democracy held.
	We, the people, endured.
	We, the people, prevailed.
	Sounds like Mussolini speech or something, doesn't it?
	We the people prevail.
	We the multi-millionaire corrupt politicians who have been in government for 50 years prevail.
	What we the people is there here?
	It's unbelievable, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But using the term prevail, that's just weird, man.
	That's weird.
	And as if, I mean, we all saw pictures.
	It looked like a stag dude that got out of hand.
	It wasn't anything.
	The US has been involved in lots of coups.
	All around the world and they always, they need tanks, they need helicopter gunships, they need aircraft carriers, they need thousands of highly trained troops.
	They never have your mad uncle in a Viking helmet.
	It's always a bit more sophisticated than that.
	I mean, looking at the, I could have repelled them from my greenhouse.
	You know, it wasn't a serious attempt at a coup.
	I mean, none of them went with any guns.
	If you're going to have any attempt at a coup in a country that has more guns per capita than any other country in the world, the fact that none of them turned up armed with a firearm is staggering, isn't it?
	Most of them turned up armed with an American flag, so they're presumably going to take over America and replace it with America.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What was the threat here?
	Real regime change there.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's a great point, right?
	Let's watch the next clip.
	She recorded what took place.
	The real history.
	The real facts.
	The real truth.
	The facts and the truth that Vice President Harris just shared and that you and I and the whole world saw with our own eyes.
	Does anyone trust Joe Biden as being the arbiter of truth?
	Man, I wouldn't trust Joe Biden to run to the shops and get me a Mars bar.
	He'd never see him again.
	He'd get on the wrong bus.
	Yeah, and even if he did, he's not going to come back with a change, is he?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's not going to get that back.
	But he's like, okay, so we all saw other owners.
	Yeah, I saw stuff like this guy.
	Like, this just a Florida man having a good old time, you know, at the US Capitol.
	The building he pays for, incidentally.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We also saw the police opening the doors for the rioters and inviting them in, and as you said earlier, them staying respectfully within the velvet ropes.
	And you know if there's anything, there were a couple of nasty bits, but they were broadcast widely on the media.
	If there's anything, if there's widespread rioting, burning, all the rest of it, I think some of them took a dump on someone's desk.
	It's all pretty much...
	It's like if you broke into school aged 13.
	It's the sort of stuff you'd do.
	You know what I mean?
	I'm going to take a dump on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
	Oh God, democracy's over!
	No, you just need a French polisher.
	It's fine.
	It's fine.
	It wipes off.
	That's why they're varnished, Nancy.
	Get one eater in to clean it up for you, Nancy.
	It'll be fine.
	Get an average Democrat man in to eat it.
	He'll probably come about three times.
	The Bible tells us that we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free.
	We shall know the truth.
	Well, here is the God's truth about January 6, 2021.
	Close your eyes.
	Go back to that day.
	What do you see?
	Yeah.
	It's really the God's honest truth.
	He's undermining his own argument here.
	He is absolutely undermining his own argument.
	But okay, I mean, I remember Baked Alaska and Nick Fuentes running around Pelosi's office ringing her phone.
	Like, if you can get that one up, John, just like there was lots of footage of, I mean, it was literally like a university or college prank.
	Yeah.
	That's got out of control, where these idiots from the internet are just being idiots and excited to be somewhere that they're not supposed to be.
	They're literally like misbehaving schoolchildren.
	And Joe Biden's like, oh, it's a rampage.
	Well, how much of a rampage was it?
	We'll go to the next one.
	Minor property damage.
	Yeah.
	That seems to be it.
	Some papers were scattered on the floor.
	Things were knocked over.
	A couple of water bottles on the floor there.
	Someone took a dump on Pelosi's desk.
	I mean, tragic.
	Tragic seems.
	How will we ever rebuild?
	Anyways, let's move on to the next one.
	A mob.
	Breaking windows.
	Kicking in doors.
	Breaching the Capitol.
	American flags on poles being used as weapons, as spears.
	Fire stingers being thrown at the heads of police officers.
	A crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers, dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them.
	Over 140 police officers were injured.
	And I assume that the Democrat activists are all cheering, saying ACAB, all cops are bastard.
	I mean, like, were the rioters woke?
	Is that what he's saying?
	But unironically, like, you know, Washington high school yearbooks feature ACAB sign and arts of police assault.
	Well, the Democrats must be like, oh, bravo.
	I can't believe they got there before we did.
	You know, why didn't we think of this?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Why don't we think of protesting at the seat of power instead of just burning down hard-working people's businesses?
	Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it, how this just completely goes over their heads.
	I mean, they want to defund the police, remember?
	If we can get the next one, they've got a whole screed about enough is enough, the police are racist, they're oppressing everyone, defund them, and suddenly Joe Biden's like, well, those brave and noble It's like, sorry, that's just not what your activists think.
	It's not what your base thinks.
	You know, do you not remember when Portland Antifa were literally burning down police stations?
	Let me go to the next one, John.
	You can see here, just pictures of it and things like that.
	You can watch a video of them burning down a police station, running over cops.
	Joe Biden has nothing to say about this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, but the second you try and challenge the government, how dare you, sir?
	And of course, Portland is now a cesspit of violence and murder.
	Who'd have thought getting rid of the police?
	Just like Kamala Harris warned, in fact.
	We saw with our own eyes.
	Rioters menaced these halls, threatening the life of the Speaker of the House, literally erecting gallows to hang the Vice President of the United States of America.
	Should we have a look at those gallows?
	Let's have a look at those gallows.
	Let's have a look at the gallows.
	That's an adult woman.
	Is the Vice President of the United States a midget?
	What are you planning?
	You couldn't hang Peter Dinklage on those gallows!
	Like, sorry!
	Literally erecting gallows.
	Well, you know, mock gallows.
	And also, from a structural engineering point of view, that is not going to support a lot of weight.
	I mean, at best you're going to hang a hamster.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It needs at least some sort of supporting beam, doesn't it, on the arm?
	Bracing at the bottom and at the top.
	Yeah.
	No, they haven't thought this through.
	This is because American rioters are out of practice with building gallows.
	Apparently so, yeah.
	Like, not experienced gallows builders.
	Maybe they should have contacted some Black Lives Matter antifa types and got some professional information on that.
	I mean, it's probably just as well they didn't try a guillotine.
	It would have been like a Wilkinson sword three-blade razor on a rubber band.
	I just love the hysteria.
	Literally building gallows.
	Oh, come on.
	Come on.
	You're being ridiculous.
	I mean, yeah, it's not a very nice thing to do, but it's a symbolic thing.
	Yes.
	No one is going to get literally hanged in there.
	Yeah.
	And also you think maybe, you know, before they get to seize the vice president of the most militarily powerful government in the world, somebody might stop him.
	Somebody might be like, no, Grandma, no, you're not taking the vice president.
	We've got, you know, we've got a few guys with guns and like, you know, hard helmets here.
	And you didn't bring a single gun.
	But anyway, keep it on the time.
	Let's go see what Trump did.
	What did we not see?
	We didn't see a former president.
	Who had just rallied the mob to attack, sitting in the private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House, watching it all on television and doing nothing.
	So apparently Trump just rallied them all up to go and kill all of these senators and did nothing about it.
	He didn't storm in himself and say, no, no everybody, back in your vans, back in the bus.
	Honestly, he's the most disappointing dictator the United States has ever had.
	I mean, this is what Trump said before.
	Get ready for some inflammatory language here.
	It's wild.
	You know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building.
	To peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
	Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.
	Wow.
	And then, of course, when things started getting out of hand, Trump started posting things on social media.
	If we can just get those up a second, John, just so people can see them.
	Please support our capital and law enforcement.
	They are truly on the side of the country.
	Stay peaceful.
	Oh my god, I hope he was removed from Twitter for this.
	Good thing...
	You happen to mention that he's removed from all social media for this.
	There are things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously stripped and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated so long.
	Go home with love and in peace.
	Remember this day forever.
	Go home.
	And this was a video of him saying enough is enough.
	Go home.
	Of course, I can't get it because it's been taken down.
	I'm going to go to the next one, John.
	I think there's another one.
	I'm asking everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful.
	No violence.
	Remember, we are the party of law and order.
	Respect the law and our great men and women in blue.
	Thank you.
	Right.
	So, at least four different things.
	One video, you know, his speech was go over there peacefully.
	I don't think you can fairly characterize this as Donald Trump saying, hang them all!
	You know?
	It's ridiculous.
	But anyway, let's carry on.
	This narrative gets more ridiculous.
	This wasn't a group of tourists.
	This was an armed insurrection.
	Whoa!
	Armed insurrection.
	I don't know.
	I mean, if you look at them and you look at pictures of armed insurrections, which we've seen a few over the past few years in the Middle East, places like that, there's usually some dusty Toyota Hiluxes, some very angry men in their 20s hanging off with AK-47s and rocket launchers.
	What you don't have is an 82-year-old woman with a United States flag.
	Yeah, a little miniature flag and a mask wandering around.
	It looked like a barbecue that got out of control.
	It was unbelievable that he's like, and now the armed insurrection.
	And so I looked into this.
	I was like, okay, well, let's look into this.
	And CNN said, so far, with the investigation still ongoing, three individuals have been charged for allegedly bringing a gun onto Capitol grounds on January 6th.
	At least two other individuals have also been charged with gun crimes in relation to events of that day, although they have not been accused of carrying on Capitol grounds.
	And this is America, so that's probably lower than average for that day.
	That's probably lower than average for a school.
	I'm not even joking, actually.
	And so none of them took guns into the Capitol, on Capitol grounds.
	So it was the large body of people who were standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial and whatnot.
	There was some people who had pistols on their hips and stuff like that.
	But no one took guns into the Capitol.
	And so US Police Sergeant Aquilino Gunnell told CNN, The common things that were used as weapons, like a baseball bat, a hockey stick, a rebar, a flagpole, including the American flag, pepper spray and bear spray.
	The rioters had all these items used to attack us.
	Those are weapons.
	Okay, right.
	Armed with pepper spray.
	Pepper spray insurrectionists.
	Just like ISIS. Yeah.
	And so, let's carry on.
	My fellow Americans, in life there's truth, and tragically there are lies.
	Lies conceived and spread for profit and power.
	Do you know all about that?
	Well, no, just think about it.
	Lies conceived for profit and power.
	Yeah.
	Lots of them.
	Like, we found out from the Biden family through Hunter Biden's laptop that the media censored.
	That the media censored and covered up the New York Post story about it, even though it was deleted from Twitter and other social media as well, even though it's a legitimate, verified, long-standing...
	The oldest paper in America.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the third most widely read.
	Yeah.
	So not a bunch of fringe lunatics.
	And they dug into the Hunter laptop story.
	It turned out the laptop was legitimate.
	And it turned out that we found from the emails that were on it that Hunter Biden is in bed with Chinese billionaires who are lavishing literally tens of millions of dollars on him.
	Yeah.
	10% of which go to the big guy.
	Yeah.
	Which we are, I think, safe to assume is Joe Biden.
	Yeah.
	But also with his Mexican business partners.
	Joe Biden attended meetings between Hunter Biden and his Mexican business partners.
	Yeah.
	Anything about conflict of interest about this?
	Anything about using lies for power and money?
	And of course we saw that the whole thing is about money laundering, basically.
	And we can see the ties they've got between White House and China.
	And so when people talk about electoral fraud, when people talk about the election being stolen, we're not talking about, you know, actually like Putin would do or like Putin does, you know, faking votes and destroying votes or anything like that.
	So the tech and media are systemically woke and these silent stories, the Hunter Biden stories were silenced and that created, you know, that was something that would have taken votes away from the Democrats.
	No, no, away from the Republicans.
	This is exactly what Robert Epstein pointed out.
	He's a longtime associate of Hillary Clinton, and he testified before Congress saying, look, algorithmically, you are influencing the election in this way.
	It doesn't have to be like, you know, someone has rigged a ballot or something like that.
	This is an unfair playing field that you're operating on, and it's in favor of the Democrats against the Republicans.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And so that's definitely something that's happening.
	But this is, I mean, direct, just direct corruption.
	If we go to the next one, you can see how this, you know, there's a money laundering probe that, of course, is going to go nowhere because Biden is just going to tell the FBI not to do anything.
	But, yeah, so let's get back to the most lucid part of Joe Biden's speech.
	It's that the mob who sought to impose their will through violence are the nation's true patriots.
	Is that what you thought?
	When you look at the mob ransacking the Capitol, destroying property, literally defecating in the hallways, rifling through the desks of senators and representatives, hunting down members of Congress.
	Oh, come on.
	Patriots?
	Not in my view.
	To me, the true patriots were the more than 150 Americans who peacefully expressed their vote at the ballot box.
	That's right, 150 Americans voted in the last election.
	Good to know.
	But yeah, I mean, imagine.
	I mean, honestly, that's the kind of Hunger Games I'd pay to watch.
	I mean, I hate politicians generally, so, you know, it's like, oh, they were hunting down politicians in the halls.
	It's like, oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Do go on.
	But yes, so the rioters, as was reported at the time, they appear to be curiously deferential to some of the symbols of democracy during the Capitol riots.
	And like you say, they're covered in American flags.
	If this is regime change, they're going to be replacing America with America.
	So this is obviously not the issue.
	This is obviously Biden totally lying about what was happening.
	No one was hunting down Democrat politicians in the halls Because we live in the bad reality.
	Anyway, let's get on to just the very dregs of what the Democrats have.
	They did this thing where they sit there and get up and tell their own little personal stories.
	So let's watch the next clip.
	A man and his cronies, drunk with power and intent on keeping the spigot of that power open, plotted and used the frustrations, ignorance, fear, anger, bigotry of many as a fire hose to push away the election results and destroy our democracy.
	The efforts of that day, January 6th, were crushed by the brave men and women of the Metropolitan and Capitol Police who defended the citadel of democracy, who put their lives as barriers to the hordes of hell unleashed by Donald Trump.
	Hordes of hell?
	Hordes of...
	Okay, the boomers are bad, but they're not that bad.
	Like, come on, hordes of hell, what is wrong with you?
	Right?
	And, uh, got another clip from there, this is just classic.
	I was frustrated because as I was leaving my office, my staff told me, you can't leave the office, you have to stay exactly where you are.
	And I got so frustrated, I was so angry, knowing that I could not be with you all.
	In the Virgin Islands, they say, I like to be in things.
	And I wanted to be in things with you all right there.
	And if you can believe, I actually pounded my fist on the desk.
	Can you believe that?
	That I couldn't be with you all.
	Does she look like she's telling you the truth?
	Well, and also, I mean, that's not the most horrific story of survival I've ever heard in my life.
	Somebody getting driven through frustration.
	One of the worst things that can happen to somebody.
	Driven through frustration to pound their fist on the desk.
	I know.
	But the thing is, I love the way she's like, can you believe it?
	It's like, I totally can.
	That's so obviously not a lie.
	And we'll finish on just like this insane narrative.
	Just a year ago, we watched in horror.
	As armed insurrectionists laid siege to the seat of our democracy, we feared for our lives and the lives of our staff.
	We bunkered down and sent prayers up while we watched domestic terrorists hoping to dismantle our democracy.
	That's ridiculous.
	We all saw it.
	We all know what happened.
	For them to paint it like this, particularly, even without the context of all the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, it's a joke.
	It's wild, isn't it?
	But anyway, we'll skip the last couple just because they're not important things.
	And let's have a chat about the philosophy behind the ideological civil war that's going on in the United States.
	Because this is something, one of the congresswomen we just watched was Stacey Plaskett.
	She was the younger black woman we just saw.
	And she had a very short clip with the BBC where she described what was taking place as an ideological civil war in the United States.
	And she's not wrong.
	There is an ideological civil war.
	And so I thought that we'd try and explore the structure of it very briefly, just to see exactly why the Democrats appear to have gone nuts, because they have.
	So let's begin with the view of government, because this is something that is deeply embedded in Democrat rhetoric.
	Joe Biden and the Democrats, we're going to go to the next one, keep calling the Capitol building sacred.
	Do you consider government buildings to be sacred here?
	I consider them to be little better than public toilets, much like some of the protesters.
	Except the government buildings are still open.
	And so this, I mean, literally Joe Biden calls it a sacred place that our democracy was attacked.
	In his speech, in Kamala Harris' speech, and if you can go to the next one, she called it hallowed in her speech.
	This hallowed building.
	If you can get to the next one, you can see senators posting saying, well, it's sacred.
	This one, I can't remember, yeah, hundreds of lives are sacred capital.
	Is it sacred?
	Like, what are you talking about?
	This is religious rhetoric they're using about the capital building.
	If you can go to the next one, there's another...
	In a supposedly secular country.
	In a supposedly secular country.
	Another one, again, protect our sacred capital building.
	They all keep using this kind of language.
	And this is coming from the very top, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, senators.
	And so this filters down to the activists who also, if you can give the next one, call it sacred.
	Our democracy is sacred.
	Oh, sacred, sacred, sacred.
	This is all imbued by the will of God, I guess.
	And of course, this then filters down to just random Twitter plebs who end up saying things like, I haven't given the next one.
	What about people's homes and businesses?
	Are they not sacred?
	Clearly not.
	They're allowed to be burnt because that's a legitimate expression of anger against things that happened 400 years ago.
	Yes.
	Now, speaking of things that happened 400 years ago, the Capitol building was built by slaves.
	Now, this, you would think, in a different Democrat narrative, and in fact, a previous Democrat narrative before January the 6th, was in fact the narrative of, well, this is proof that America is a white supremacist, racist country.
	I mean, the Capitol building is built by slaves, and we all are operating in it, and therefore...
	And so this chap, as Jesse Holland, he wrote...
	A book just called Black Men Built the Capitol and just talking about how 600 people worked on the Capitol and 400 of those were black slaves.
	Right.
	There we go.
	Yeah, that seems to be true.
	You know, I've looked into this previously.
	This seems to be a true statement.
	And so we shouldn't pull it down and throw it in Bristol Harbour?
	I guess not.
	It's really weird, isn't it?
	But no, it's a sacred.
	It's a sacred capital that was built by racist slavery.
	And so let's move on.
	This turns the US government into a form of religion, this sacral nature and the holy temple that is the Capitol building, turning the state into God and therefore the founding fathers into prophets.
	Mm-hmm.
	Straight white male prophets.
	Yeah.
	Which, six months ago, were, you know, terrible.
	I mean, you can find, like, articles like this in the Sacramento Times or something.
	For the founding fathers, only white men deserve rights.
	Oh, these are the sort of prophets, progressive prophets, that they're forced to adopt now because they've adopted the position that the state is God.
	As cliche as that sounds, that's what their rhetoric is.
	That's the locus of their affections.
	And also they'll be subverting the meaning of the word democracy.
	So democracy won't mean, you know, a multi-party system anymore.
	It means just the Democrats.
	And, you know, anything that you can do to keep the Democrats in power is democracy.
	And anything that Trump does to come back into power is a threat to our democracy.
	Yeah, that's a threat to democracy.
	Exactly.
	Instead of actually, that's what democracy is.
	And that's exactly how they've arrived at.
	Anything the Republicans do is a threat to our democracy.
	Our democracy.
	Yes, their democracy, which is where the state is God.
	It's their religion.
	But to the Republicans, the state is not God.
	But anyway, so just, you know, carrying on with this a second.
	The leaders of this country at its founding were mostly rich white men.
	Oh yeah, I can see why the Democrats are now calling them prophets.
	In fact, many citizens weren't even allowed to vote because they didn't earn enough property.
	Rich white men liked being the 1% of their day and they kept their money and privileges in the hands of said rich white men.
	Everyone else was there to maintain the system, as well as the slaves, I assume.
	In fact, these were prophets who owned slaves.
	We can go to the next one.
	George Washington had 123 slaves.
	Thomas Jefferson had 600 slaves.
	A bunch of others had other slaves.
	How is it that the very racially aware, the Democrat Party that has the pedigree of the crimes of the United States under its belt, and mostly in its own history, we're talking about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, all these other...
	Literally, all of the bad things in the racial history of the United States, the KKK, were under the Democrats.
	So the fact that they're now like, oh yeah, and they've got to praise Lincoln, who founded the Republican Party.
	And so they've suddenly turned on a dime.
	It's like, why?
	Because they're deifying the state.
	And so what does all of this come from?
	Now, I think this all comes directly from Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
	It was a French Enlightenment thinker who wrote The Social Contract, I think it was about 1762, so a decade or so before the United States Revolution.
	And I'm going to read a few bits from you, to you, and I want you to give me your opinion on it, right?
	So, the problem that Rousseau is trying to solve is he wants to find a form of association which may defend and protect with the whole force of the community, the person and property of every associate, and by means of each, coalescing with all, may nevertheless only obey himself and remain as free as before, right?
	And so the essence of the social contract becomes, that's page 14, page 15 says, the essence of the social contract therefore becomes, each of us puts in common his person and his whole power under the supreme direction of the general will, and in return we receive every member as an indivisible part of the whole.
	Right.
	That sounds terrifying, doesn't it?
	I mean, I didn't really understand it because it's written in sort of old-fashioned language.
	It's basically communism, is it?
	Fascism.
	Fascism.
	Each of us puts in common his person and his whole power, so everything about you, under the supreme direction of the general will.
	Will of the people.
	Which is, I mean, that's sort of what they say in communism, but then the will of the people is actually the will of the dictator.
	Yeah, the person in top, the general secretary of the party and his few crony apparatchiks.
	We'll get to that.
	So this general will, this incorporation of the entire thing, where everyone's under the entire power of it, is called something he calls the public person.
	Right.
	There's an abstract entity called the public person that represents the totality of the general will, right?
	He says, "This public person, which is thus formed by the union of all individual members, formerly took the name of city, but now takes the name of republic or body politic, which is called by its member states when it's, which is called by its members the state when it is passive, sovereign when it's active in power, when it's compared to similar bodies." So he's saying that this public person, the thing he's just magicked into existence, is now the state.
	That's the state.
	And so this sovereign state is above all laws.
	He says, you know, it's contrary to the nature of the body politic for the sovereign to impose on itself a law that it cannot transgress.
	So it's not bound by any laws.
	It contains everything within it.
	And all must be subjected to the general will of the state, he says.
	Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be constrained to do so by the whole body, which means nothing else than he shall be forced to be free.
	So if the dictator says you can't do that, the entire civilization will turn on you and make you do the thing the dictator's telling you to do, and that will be called freedom.
	Right.
	Doesn't sound like freedom.
	No, it sounds like tyranny, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's mad tyranny, right?
	And so he says that this is something that we have to essentially abandon our own autonomy in exchange for the civil liberties that will be provided by the state.
	He says, what man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right which tempts him And which he is able to attain.
	And what he gains is civil liberty and property in all that he possesses.
	So you'll lose your natural right to own the things you want, but the state will provide you with rights instead, civil rights.
	Yeah.
	And so these civil rights can be constructed by the state.
	So they can be anything.
	They could be the right to healthcare, housing.
	Yeah.
	They could be the right to be called a specific kind of pronoun.
	Yeah.
	They can be anything they want.
	You know, normal people believe that your natural rights are inherent within you.
	Yeah.
	You know, you can't...
	And they can't be a burden on anybody else.
	Socialised healthcare is a nice thing to have.
	Like the NHS, it's a nice thing to have.
	But it can't be a right, because then what if...
	Well, if there are no doctors.
	Well, if there are no doctors, or there's one doctor, and he's got to be held at gunpoint to work 24 hours a day to treat everybody in the country.
	Literally like in Cuba, where the doctors said we were slaves.
	They literally did that, right?
	But that's exactly it, because what you're saying is if rights are natural, then the number of rights is always equal to the number of people.
	It can't be expanded or contracted.
	But Jeremy Corbyn, who thinks that anything that's in the front of his mind at that time, broadband is a human right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	How?
	It's a nice thing to have.
	And actually, it's a nice thing to have provided by the private sector, which will provide it much more efficiently and cheaply due to competitiveness.
	Which it has done.
	I've worked in government.
	I've worked in government.
	And the amount of just corruption and waste and profligacy.
	I mean, there's four ways you can spend money.
	You can spend your own money on yourself.
	You can spend your own money on someone else.
	You can spend someone else's money on yourself.
	Or you can spend someone else's money on someone else.
	And obviously, if you're spending your own money on yourself, you're going to get a good deal because you know exactly what you want.
	And it's important to you to spend the money the best.
	So you're going to be careful.
	If you're spending someone else's money on someone else, you don't care at all.
	And later on to that, you've got the fact that a lot of people in the public sector are corrupt, especially in Scotland.
	But we see that with COVID contracts, for example, Transparency International says that 20% of the fast-track VIP COVID contracts are dodgy or potentially corrupt.
	20%?
	20%.
	It's insane.
	You can see Michelle Moan, Owen Paterson, Matt Hancock's former pub landlord.
	It sounds like a sitcom, but these are all contracts where they're creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money and feathering their cronies' nests and getting backhanders themselves.
	And that's an incentive for them to continue lockdown.
	So it leads to ineffective government that isn't in the best interest of the people.
	Yep.
	But all of this comes from the idea that the government is essentially a god.
	But anyway, moving back to Rousseau quickly, he says that, you know, well, you know, you're going to gain civil liberty and the property that you will possess from the state.
	He says, the state, with regards to its members, is the owner of all their property by the social contract, which in the state serves as the basis of all rights.
	Hmm.
	So the social contract, this thing that he's made up, is the basis of all rights, and everything in the society, all property in the society is owned by the state, and is essentially delegated by the state.
	So you only own your property at the pleasure of the government, at the pleasure of the dictator, the general will.
	And this is why the left consider the children the property of the state, and that all rights are just created by their own dictator.
	Yeah, and they literally bring through, so the SNP brought through legislation, the Named Person Act, which was scrapped, but it basically wrote into law that you're not responsible for your own children, the state is responsible.
	And you can see, like all these things, they probably come from a good place originally, so...
	Well, this is where it originally comes from, so no...
	It's not.
	Like hate crime laws and stuff like that, you know, that comes from the McPherson Report, which, you know, obviously a terrible crime, should have been seen in advance and headed off, and the murder of Stephen Lawrence could have been avoided.
	But, you know, you've got terrible parents in Scotland, you've got parents who are on drugs, who can't take care of their kids and all the rest of it.
	But to then go in and say, okay, for all parents, you're not responsible for your children.
	The state is.
	And, you know, bear in mind, the state is a huge organisation made of people.
	And people have, you know, horrible motives sometimes.
	So there could be paedophiles working.
	Even let's assume you get a well-meaning person.
	They just don't care.
	They're not invested in your children like you were invested in your children.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's someone else's money on someone else.
	Exactly.
	They're removed from it.
	They're not invested.
	Exactly.
	Five o'clock.
	Sorry, I'm clocking off now.
	Bye.
	Oh, you think public sector people clock off at five o'clock?
	Well, okay.
	325.
	I've never seen them clock in.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But you know what I mean?
	This is just their job, and that's as far as it goes.
	And so this is the thing.
	He believes the state literally owns everything, right?
	And the point of all of this is for equality.
	Yeah.
	The most important thing in the world.
	He says, So they can all just be all the same.
	The sovereignty of the state is, of course, the general will incarnate.
	He says, sovereignty, being nothing but the exercise of the general will, can never be alienated, and the sovereign power, which is only a collective being, can be represented by itself alone.
	So, essentially, the dictator always represents the entire civilization.
	Yeah.
	And interestingly, if you get tyrants from Saddam Hussein to all of them, they all believe that they are representing the people.
	Everybody creates this narrative that suits their situation and suits what they're doing.
	So they all believe that they're...
	A lot of them believe that they're delivered by God.
	I mean, North Korea is a classic example of that.
	But they believe that they're a benign force doing the best for their people, even when they're torturing people.
	Yeah.
	They convince themselves that the people being tortured are evil.
	They're literally, especially the communist and fascist and French revolutionaries, they're literally torturing people in the name of their own rights.
	These are the rights of man that we're here to enforce.
	These are your human rights that we're here to enforce.
	And you're evil and now we're going to torture you.
	How did I lose those?
	When did I stop being a man?
	Right.
	Yeah.
	But this is because the general will, as expressed by the sovereign, is infallible in this view.
	Right.
	He says the general will is always right and always tends to the public advantage.
	It does not follow that the resolutions of the people always have the same rectitude.
	So the state is infallible and it is the people who are wrong.
	You see how we get here?
	It's unbelievable, isn't it?
	This is what essentially can be called French social contract theory, and that's different to English social contract theory, which we'll go through in a minute.
	But the point is, the state has absolute power over all of the citizens, and anyone who attacks the constructed rights by the state...
	becomes an enemy of the state right listen to this every evildoer who attacks the social rights becomes by his crimes a rebel and traitor to his country by violating its laws he ceases to be a member of it and even makes war upon it he has broken the social treaty and consequently he is no longer a member of the state if you misgender someone you are now an enemy of the state yeah That's this view.
	That's actually pretty much the view of the state right now.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	If you go against what is this social contract, the right that's been made up by the state, you're an enemy of the state.
	And not just an enemy of the state, you're making war upon the state by contradicting this.
	And so he says, this person ought to be cut off from it by exile as a violator of the compact, For such an enemy is not a moral person.
	He is simply a man.
	And this is a case where you essentially have a right to slay the vanquished, he says.
	But that's interesting.
	The enemy is not a moral person.
	As soon as you...
	Criticise and...
	Dehumanise.
	Exactly.
	As soon as you contradict a progressive, you're no longer a moral person.
	You did something terrible, and therefore you're not a part of my group, you're outside of the compact.
	And so this is the French view of rights that the Democrats hold to.
	But I take it this is the French view that was...
	Was that written very soon after the French Revolution?
	It's before.
	This is what inspired...
	Right, right, right.
	So this was, you know, a sort of replacement for a feudal system.
	So this wasn't, although, I mean, it sounds like it could have been written in any university between the 1960s and now.
	But this, yeah, this isn't a sort of contemporary, this is a sort of unreformed, unreformed...
	Don't worry, I'm watching the time.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, no, no.
	This is the Rousseau's theory which led to the French Revolution, right?
	And we compare this...
	By the way, for anyone who's wondering, you can learn more about this and the alternative to this in one of our previous book clubs, which was, in fact, this most recent one, which is Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.
	He's speaking about the consequences of all of these ideas and saying, you've gone mad...
	And you're murdering people in the streets and you're, you know, arresting your own king and tearing down your own civilization.
	For what, you know?
	And so if you want to know about that, go and look at that.
	But the American Republic, the United States, is not built on French social contract theory.
	It's built on English social contract theory, which is markedly different.
	Yeah.
	Is it better?
	It's way better.
	And I'm not just saying that because I'm English.
	I'm saying that it's because you don't murder people and turn the state into a living deity.
	We did a book club on this, of course, John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, which is very important in this conversation and that American Republicans should be able to cite just on a whim, right?
	So Locke's view is that the rights that we possess are our natural rights and they're given to us by God.
	They are not constructed by the state.
	Yeah.
	In the state of nature, we exercise these rights, and as Hobbes famously put it, and as Locke partially at least concurs, the state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short.
	So we come together to form governments for the protection of our natural rights, and we do this by sacrificing certain freedoms.
	We can't just murder each other, we can't just steal people's property, things like this.
	And though, I mean, traditionally, you know, people have said that your rights end where my safety or my, you know, your freedom's end where my safety is in danger.
	My rights are in danger.
	But that's now being sort of subverted by safetyism in society.
	So people are saying, you know, if you do something that's like misgendering me, it's making me unsafe.
	Yeah.
	Where it's not.
	A lot of times it's a legitimate mistake or you just haven't put the effort in and you look like a bloke.
	Or I don't owe you calling you a specific gender.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Get fucked.
	Yeah, I mean, like, obviously it's a nice thing to do.
	But it's one of those things, like the NHS, it's a nice thing to have.
	But honestly, if you've put no effort into looking like the gender that you want to be referred to as, why is my brain having to do the heavy lifting in your transition?
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	Because they come from the opinion that, oh, well, the state has constructed a right not to be offended.
	And so you're now obligated.
	And it's like, no, I'm not.
	I don't believe in state-constructed rights.
	So why would I think so?
	So when people complain about comedians telling jokes, they say, oh, this joke made me feel unsafe.
	And then it's unsafe, so then it removes the comedian's freedom to tell that joke.
	When, in fact, they're perfectly safe because they're in a comedy club and not in the front line of the Somme, which is where they were.
	That's exactly right, though.
	That's exactly right.
	And so it's these two different worldviews that we see play.
	And so basically, Locke's like, well, look, people come together to form a government for the protection of these rights and to manage the ability for them to live side by side.
	Because you're going to have a certain person wants to do X, other person wants to do Y. There needs to be a legal decision made about this in order to secure our life, liberty, and property.
	It's completely sensible, doesn't lead to insane purges or godlike dictators or anything like that.
	It's totally sensible and normal, right?
	And so if men are labouring under a government that they feel doesn't suit their sensibilities, they're totally free to change it.
	They're totally at liberty to change it because there's nothing sacred about a government building.
	The government is just something we constructed for our own ends.
	And if we don't like it, we can deconstruct it because it's ours.
	We pay for it.
	It serves us.
	We don't serve it.
	It's the total opposite of Rousseau's view where, you know, the government owns everything and you are its pawn, you know.
	And so in this view, nothing is sacred about the state at all.
	And it's interesting that both Locke and Rousseau were very religious men.
	And it's, you know, Locke doesn't create a sacrilegious view of the state.
	Whereas Rousseau does create a sacrilegious view where The state is given the power of God.
	But anyway, so Locke ends up with just, you know, a constitutionally limited government that is there to protect the rights and the property of men who own it themselves.
	It's not owned by the state.
	It's the complete opposite.
	And so you can see this in almost any Republican talking.
	This is just the first example of Republicans complaining about the Capitol isn't sacred.
	Why would you say that?
	There's nothing sacred about this because Liz Cheney, who calls herself a Republican, had also said that the Capitol building was the most sacred space in our republic.
	There's nothing sacred about a republic.
	As far as you're concerned, Lockean style, you come together to institute your own government.
	And if you don't like it, you can just burn it down.
	It's yours.
	You pay for it.
	You know, for the love of God.
	And this is why the libertarians are just openly celebrating Insurrection Day.
	You're starting to win me back over, libertarians, just so you know.
	But anyway, very briefly...
	I would agree with your buddies.
	I mean, just, you know, what makes them...
	Like, it's the American Republic.
	If it could ever be said that the Americans think government is sacred, how do they ever revolt from the British?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the king was literally put there by God, you know?
	Yeah.
	Government has to be changeable.
	It absolutely has.
	I mean, who was, I can't remember who it was, like, Tom Wolfe or someone said, you know, government and nappies need to be changed regularly for the same reason.
	And, yeah, anybody who's in power for a significant amount of time, as you'll see if you look to Scotland, like, look at North Korea, like, you know, things tend to atrophy and power collects and it becomes a feudal system.
	And everything that, you know, the French Revolution was there to overturn.
	So, I mean, I understand that the guy, Rousseau, who's writing about, you know, a more idealised model of government after, you know, the revolution.
	Oh, no, this was before.
	Yeah, but for, you know, to overthrow the government and put in a more idealised system of government, he hadn't been exposed to modern Western democracy.
	He didn't know the consequences.
	He didn't know how good things could be.
	That's exactly it.
	That seemed like a...
	You see that communist regimes tend to come into play to replace extremely horrible dictators rather than to replace free democracy.
	But I'm worried in the West that we're really being sort of lured down this track of the...
	Yeah, and it's happening.
	Well, let me show you how.
	Government share of GDP is just increasing, increasing, increasing.
	Let me show you how, right?
	I did a video about this, because I've been going through on the other channel, just lotuses.com.
	I've been explaining critical race theory, because it's pretty cancerous, to be honest.
	And part three, I'll be recording part four this afternoon, but part three is how they substituted Locke for Rousseau.
	And they did this consciously.
	So I can't remember the title of the essay that I'm examining in this one.
	But in one of the essays, the critical race theorists just explicitly and self-consciously say, we don't like Lockean assumptions.
	We don't like that Locke thinks that we did this, this, and this, and we don't agree with that.
	We agree with Rousseau, and he expressly says this, because the difference is contained about the basic assumption of what a human being is.
	Locke follows the Hobbesian model of saying, well, human beings are basically bad and they need to be civilized by society.
	This is why we need good institutions, good laws, and respect for one another.
	Whereas the Rousseauian position is man is inherently good.
	The savage man is a good man.
	And therefore, anyone who creates a civilization is tainting that man.
	He's corrupting that man with civilization.
	So we are corrupted by our civilizations.
	This is why everything is about tearing down what already exists in order to return to this perfect state of being where we were just, you know, like...
	People in the Garden of Eden or something, right?
	And it's ridiculous.
	This is definitely not the case.
	You know, civilization is there to civilize us.
	And so I'll leave links to all of this in the description so you can go and watch and go through these at your own time.
	But I'm explaining everything about what I've said here because I've had to very quickly summarize it.
	But anyway, just the final thing here, right?
	You can see this teacher who's saying, well, look, we want a multiracial democracy versus white supremacy.
	What they're really saying here is we want Rousseau's communist dictatorship versus Locke's American Republic.
	And it's creating a straw man.
	There is no white supremacy system in the United States.
	Throughout business, throughout society, throughout politics, you've got a lot of representation of different ethnic groups.
	And also Trump increased his share of the ethnic vote.
	But that's the point.
	The fact they're characterizing it as white supremacy, what they're characterizing as white supremacy is Lockean republicanism.
	It's the idea that people can manage their own affairs and don't need to be governed by the state and aren't the wards of the state, whereas the multiracial democracy is the Rousseauian view that the democracy is sacred and owns everything within it, and therefore is free to engineer the society however it likes it.
	And this is what we're seeing.
	But anyway, I realize I've gone along there, so let's go through your...
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	I'm delighted.
	On the surface world, nobody knows who I am, but I'm Getter.
	I'm a real person.
	So this is all the people who moan.
	One of the things about lockdown that did my nutting was all the people just using it, their inner little...
	Nazi, fascist tendencies came out and also unveiled a lot of misogyny as we'll see in these.
	Normally I'm in favour of misogyny but not when it comes from woke people.
	I mean, there's a guy, there's a comedian.
	There's a comedian called Matt Green, and he posted on Facebook, you know, this is a lockdown, when you're allowed six people over or something, he was like, My neighbours are having a barbecue!
	And there's like eight of them.
	And you're only supposed to be...
	Should have phoned the police.
	It's like, oh, you curtain...
	I wrote underneath his post.
	I was like, you curtain twitching little stazzy fuck.
	You know what I mean?
	Just mind your own business.
	You should wish...
	These people are just bitter that they couldn't fill a barbecue.
	They couldn't fill six people in their house.
	Can you imagine that that's your life?
	Oh, I'm going to complain because my neighbour's got two people too many at his barbecue.
	Yeah, and they're outside.
	They're eating.
	Come on, people need to socialise.
	Being outside, having a barbecue is pretty safe.
	The government said you're not allowed a barbecue with more than six people.
	Get effed.
	I don't care.
	Then maybe don't listen to the government.
	It's the government.
	At the same time, the government were having barbecues and they were having affairs and they were driving to Durham and all the rest of it.
	So, yeah, it's ridiculous.
	And he deleted me from Facebook.
	So, who's this guy?
	Spotted in the United Terminal SFO. I've been in four airports this week and far more travellers flaunt mask regulations in US airports versus community.
	This guy is complaining that people in airport terminals aren't wearing masks.
	Bear in mind, most of the people seem to be wearing masks.
	If you scroll down, you can see he's upskirting.
	This is called upskirting.
	She's not wearing a skirt, but never mind.
	Well, if she was wearing a skirt, it would be upskirting.
	It's uptrousering.
	Yeah, he's taking a photo of a woman in public without her consent.
	I mean, it's legal, as my solicitor has explained to the judge many times, but it's not good form.
	And if you scroll down, he's just taking loads of photos of loads of people.
	And most of them are wearing masks.
	Like the guy behind him, he's wearing a mask.
	Oh, it's not high enough over his nose though.
	Yeah, this guy's not wearing a mask.
	Well, don't go near him.
	Look at this guy.
	Oh, he's not wearing a mask.
	He's got it over his chin.
	What more do you want?
	He's made a token effort.
	This guy's not going over...
	I just can't stand these people.
	And also at the start, he says, I've been in four airports this week.
	What are you doing?
	So you've got Zoom.
	You've got Zoom.
	You can have your meetings on Zoom.
	You don't need to be traveling all around the world.
	You're the one spreading coronavirus.
	Yeah.
	You're the one killing grannies.
	Not that anybody's dying anymore because Omicron isn't particularly bad for you.
	One man super spreader.
	Yeah, so if you want to see his tweets for real, he's called Anal Man.
	Anal Man on Twitter.
	So the second thing is, so these are wrestlers in Mexico holding people down, spraying them with some sort of...
	Grabbing them, spreading them with some sort of decontaminant, and then wrapping them up.
	Which makes, especially for me, like assault.
	And also, one of the ways you spread coronavirus is you touch.
	So if you're grabbing people, these guys have gone all the way through the market touching so many people.
	So, yeah, you stop the video now.
	They're going all the way through the market, just grabbing people.
	So as well as being assault, it's spreading coronavirus.
	I wonder how many grannies they killed.
	Sorry, why do you think you have the right to force me to wear something?
	Who the hell are you?
	Who deputized you?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Who made you the mask milk monitor?
	Oh man, everybody was taking it upon themselves.
	Although this probably is a government-sponsored initiative.
	Who knows?
	I mean, they're wrestlers.
	They're going to want paid.
	The next one.
	I love the next one.
	This is my favorite COVID wet wipe of all time.
	This is a drunk Karen on a flight screaming abuse at a man.
	She spits on him.
	She's not wearing a mask herself.
	He's legitimately not wearing a mask.
	Do you want to play it?
	Yeah, I want to play it.
	Let's play it.
	Drink your ass up.
	Don't you dare talk to me like that.
	You stand yourself up.
	Stand your ass up.
	Stand your ass up.
	Sit down, Karen.
	Karen?
	You're a goddamn Karen.
	Sit down.
	She's not wearing a mask herself.
	Oh, no, you're the dick.
	Ma'am, do you want the police to meet you on the ground?
	What about him?
	Mascot.
	Now.
	Mascot.
	You got your mask, girl, bitch.
	Now she's getting told to put her mask on.
	It's like a human scent.
	Oh, she punches him!
	Oh, she's gonna kiss him!
	No, she fists on him.
	And then they decide to use the drinks trolley to barge her to the back of the screen.
	You fucking piece of shit!
	Oh my god!
	You fucking idiot!
	Absolute lunatics!
	That's like my mum after a pretty shitty thing.
	Put your fucking mask on!
	Tell him to put his mask on.
	Put your fucking mask on.
	She scratched my face.
	I wanted the fuck out of it.
	Put your fucking mask on.
	Still going.
	Put your fucking mask on.
	Put your fucking mask on.
	I won't get my mask on.
	Well, yeah, I think people just wanted to use it as an excuse to do all this kind of thing.
	But yeah, basically, she spits at him, she punches him.
	These are ways, as well, you know, considering masks are there for our own health, spitting on people, that can definitely transmit coronavirus.
	That's A, disgusting, but obviously going to infect someone with anything that's in your mouth.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	My God!
	Probably worse things than coronavirus.
	Punching someone as well.
	That's probably legitimately something that could be called an attempt to try and infect someone with a disease.
	Spitting in the face.
	People have been charged, people have spat on police officers and been charged with trying to infect them.
	She's an ex-Playboy model who's on an episode of Baywatch, our producer has just told us.
	Right, that explains why she's nuts.
	So, yeah.
	But, yeah.
	And here we've got Dr.
	Julia Grace Patterson.
	So she's, you know, she's stepped up her mask wearing.
	This is an online Twitter activist, isn't it?
	Yes.
	I recognise her.
	She's a Twitter activist.
	So she wears a mask while she's scuba diving, while she's in the street in the park.
	And she switches to an FFP2-3.
	That's one of the droids of Star Wars, I think.
	I believe so.
	If she enters a crowded place like public transport.
	I went to London yesterday.
	I didn't wear a mask anywhere.
	I don't wear a mask in London either.
	I never get stopped.
	No, no one ever says anything.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I think I was stopped in a bar.
	Was I in a bar?
	Where was I? I can't even remember.
	Oh, I was on the train.
	I was on the train.
	And I just said, oh, because, yeah, this is why I did a list of me and my fiancée got the train up to Scotland.
	Yeah.
	And somebody had a go at us for not wearing a mask, but really they were having a go at us because we were drunk.
	We made friends with this older couple who'd just bought a racehorse and we're talking to them and I guess we're being a bit loud or boisterous or whatever.
	And this girl got up and she was screaming at us for not wearing masks.
	But it was obviously just, she must have had issues going on in her life.
	So, but yeah, and then the ticket attendant came down and told us off for using bad language that could offend people.
	And obviously my fiancée being a barrister, you know, because he was saying, oh, it's in the terms and conditions that you can't use offensive language.
	Well, I'm the lawyer, so let me tell you something.
	And she was like, I'm going to check your terms and conditions.
	And then she said, no, it's not in the terms and conditions.
	You told a lie there.
	But yeah, we got told off for, well, they said, you know, do you have any mask?
	And we were like, we're exempt.
	And they were like, do you have any evidence?
	And I... I don't need any.
	I googled in front of him, NHS mask exemption.
	I was like, look!
	And he was like, oh, right, yeah.
	They can't ask you what the evidence is.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But imagine if you could do that, just Google, like, driving license and be like, there you go.
	There's my driver's license.
	But yeah, what I love about this one, so she's saying, oh, you've got to wear all these masks.
	Look, I've got this fancy mask.
	And then if you scroll down, if you scroll down, obviously being a doctor isn't paying well, and I've scrolled down a bit more.
	A bit more.
	So she's like, oh, my business makes these masks that you can buy.
	So here's the link to buy these masks.
	Hey, what's wrong with profiting off a pandemic?
	Make a bit of money while you're virtue signalling.
	Here's some modelling pics of me wearing the mask.
	Amazing.
	So not only is she an e-girl trying to get attention, she's also trying to make money off these masks.
	She's making money off these masks.
	Although apparently it's a not-for-profit organisation.
	Yeah, yeah, sure.
	You draw a salary from that.
	I think all that means is whatever profit they make goes into a salary.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	So it's very much a for-money organisation.
	If we scroll down, there's a man screaming at...
	Sorry, go to the next one.
	There's a man screaming at an unmasked woman.
	We're running a bit short of time.
	That's all right.
	It's my fault.
	I'll take the blame.
	So...
	Get out!
	Right now!
	Yeah, I'd skip through about halfway through.
	Get the f*** away from me!
	Whoa!
	Can you imagine this guy storming the beaches?
	Can you imagine this guy storming it facing machine gunfire?
	Bro, it's a woman.
	Calm down.
	And this is the thing.
	All the examples I've found were always men shouting at women.
	I couldn't find any examples of women shouting at the men.
	But like so many of them are these big burly men shouting at these tiny little women.
	You call the manager, but in the meantime, get six feet away from me, you stupid bitch!
	Get away from me now!
	No mask!
	Get out of me!
	I've never said that to a woman at all, and I'm called a misogynist.
	He's shouting.
	Shouting is, even if you're wearing a mask, shouting spreads coronavirus, which is something I'm very, very against.
	I mean, he's acting like she's carrying the bubonic plague.
	Yeah.
	Get out of my way!
	No mask on, you f***ing...
	Oof.
	Jeez.
	Well, good for her.
	And here's one in London!
	This could have been...
	You could have seen this the other day.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And bear in mind, you can see how few people are on the platform.
	There's hardly anybody there.
	You could stand 50 feet away and be fine.
	The woman said, you know, this was totally socially distanced.
	There was nobody on the tube.
	Otherwise, she would have been wearing a mask because she normally wears a mask.
	But if you see...
	So this massive guy...
	This massive big tub of lard comes down.
	Put his health at risk by making him eat kebabs.
	Also, his mouth isn't covered by the mask.
	He needs to keep it on when he's eating pies.
	Put it on in the pie shop.
	Look, his thing even says, he's got the instructions for a kebab on his t-shirt.
	Meat, salad, sauce, and he hasn't ticked the salad.
	And he's like a big fat shit.
	We can all agree he's a big tub.
	Are we allowed to say?
	No, well, we're not allowed to swear.
	All right, we're not allowed to swear.
	Even though I've sworn him.
	So he's a big tub.
	He is, yeah.
	And, like, he's saying, oh, you're putting my health at risk?
	In his defence, COVID does attack fat people.
	It actually attacks the fat cells.
	Then he should lose some weight!
	Yes, he should.
	He should lose a bit.
	If we saw him now, he'd be fatter.
	He'd be fatter because the government closed the gyms, not that it looks like that affected him too much.
	But everybody's sitting inside playing their Playstations and getting fatter.
	And honestly, I see fat people now.
	If you're fat now, you've made your decision.
	You've made peace.
	We've had this coronavirus for like two years now.
	You know.
	And he's got a blue beard as well.
	He's dyed his beard blue.
	And he's not a pirate.
	He's not a pirate and he's dyed it blue.
	If someone like him confronts you in the street, you can have a light jog away from them and you're completely safe.
	Yeah, if somebody like this ever shouts at you, just walk up a flight of stairs.
	And he'll just stand at the bottom shouting up at you.
	Wheezing.
	But yeah, such a tough guy.
	And also she was black, so he's racist.
	So he's racist and misogynist.
	Yeah, another thing I don't approve of progressives doing.
	And here we...
	This one, I mean, they're getting a bit crazier now.
	So this is a man...
	If we put it on, it's about two minutes in that it gets to...
	Oh nice!
	Brilliant!
	There's a 60 year old girl on the bus, not wearing a mask.
	What if the rights to do, and you have to put on another mask on?
	You've got more chance of killing people than me, same devil!
	Do you know what, you're 16 years old by I'll just skip it for about two minutes.
	- It's because if you fix the eight one, not do the f***ing eight one.
	- Oh, right. - I want to see you try.
	- What?
	- You think?
	You think?
	You think the eight one?
	- Oh, I think. - I do think the f***ing four is responsible.
	- Okay, okay. - I am going to see you. - So this pit, like, is crazy.
	It's just crazy.
	It's so fun.
	If anyone ever shouts at me...
	Watch what happens here.
	He actually stabs him.
	I mean, he's not like Jackie Chan, but he's a stamper and a 16-year-old girl.
	That's unreal, isn't it?
	And then this guy...
	Good, good, good!
	Stabs him.
	Absolute Chad there.
	Ooh!
	Ooh, okay!
	Yeah.
	You're f***ing well.
	Jeez.
	Is that the bus driver?
	I don't think so, no.
	But yeah, he bundles him off the bus.
	Good for him.
	What a horrible thing to do, to try and stamp on a 16-year-old girl.
	I just feel, you know, we're talking about dehumanising people earlier.
	So the woke left have sort of dehumanised people who aren't wearing masks, so they're not seen as people anymore.
	So it legitimises and encourages violence against them.
	And then you see the real...
	The real people coming out.
	You see the misogyny, the bullying, the racism coming out and being enabled by...
	Well, like we were saying with Rousseau, they've broken this social contract, right?
	And so they're not moral people anymore.
	Now they're enemies of the state.
	Now they're attacking the establishment and stuff like this.
	And that's how that gets.
	But I tell you what, man.
	If anyone ever complains that I'm not wearing a mask, the first thing I'm going to do is say that they're a racist.
	And the second thing I'm going to do, if they don't let it go at that point, I'm going to tell them I've got a suicide vest on.
	I don't know if you know Darius Davies, but my mate Darius is a comedian and he broke his back so he's got this scar in his ribs like that.
	So he's been waiting for ages for this to happen, but somebody challenged him for not wearing a mask and he said, you know, I'm exempt.
	Not all disabilities are visible.
	He doesn't look disabled.
	I mean, when he speaks, he sounds a bit, but he doesn't look disabled.
	So they were like, oh, you're not disabled or whatever.
	So he got the chance to pull up his shirt, be like, look at my scar!
	Look at my scar!
	Not all disabilities are visible!
	And obviously, scar is where they took a rib out to grind it into little bits and put it in his vertebrae to fix it.
	But yeah, I've really had no problem saying I'm exempt.
	And we've got to understand that, you know, all right, masks probably do slow down the spread of the virus slightly.
	At this point in the pandemic, everybody's either had it or been vaccinated or been vaccinated and had it.
	Literally everyone I know seems to, the week before Christmas or so, when I got it, everyone else seems to have got it.
	It went around like an absolute wildfire.
	That's when I had it as well.
	It was a runny nose and a sore throat.
	Exactly.
	We're all still here because it's like a weaker version.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	That's what I like to hear.
	Yeah, so really the pandemic is kind of over at this point.
	So we don't need to be...
	I mean, wear a mask if it makes you feel happy, but if somebody's not wearing a mask, don't go and kick them in the face.
	Yeah.
	Because that's worse.
	That's worse than Omicron.
	There might be some Chad good citizen around who'll kick you in the face.
	Yeah, like there was on that bus.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right.
	Is that the last one or any more?
	Well, there's AOC and DeSantis.
	So, yeah, your favourite person, Alexander Orcasio-Cortez.
	So she criticised the Florida governor, DeSantis.
	Obviously, in Florida, they don't have lockdown.
	They don't have mandates, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, all the rest of it.
	They've got laws against mandates.
	Yeah, they've got the rights of citizens.
	Absolute chats.
	You take responsibility for your own health in Florida.
	So if you want to be healthier, you stop eating kebabs instead of shouting at a woman in the tube.
	You know what I mean?
	It makes sense.
	You'd be responsible for your own health.
	It's not somebody else's fault that you're a fat tub of stuff.
	So she was criticising Governor DeSantis.
	Because she was holidaying in Florida without her mask on.
	Where does she go on holiday?
	Well, she goes to the fun place where you don't have to wear a mask.
	So the next tab is...
	Scroll down to the pictures.
	You can see her.
	Here she is, no mask or enjoying cocktails.
	But that's fine.
	She sat down.
	Okay, but there are other ones where she's partying.
	I don't know whether they've got them in this one.
	But there's other ones where she's literally out at clubs and stuff like that, you know, hugging people, no masks.
	And it's just like, what are you doing?
	Double dropping Mitsubishis.
	New York has the most stringent mask mandates in the entire United States.
	Yeah.
	And they've got loads of coronavirus.
	And in Florida, they don't have all these mandates and they don't have much coronavirus.
	It's the lowest incidence, isn't it?
	It's really weird, isn't it?
	All the things they're trying to do aren't doing the things they want.
	It's almost as if letting people be responsible for their own health and their own life works better than having the state governing it.
	Shocking.
	Yeah.
	Shocking.
	If we move on to the next one, we can see a tweet from...
	So she responded...
	She responded to the criticism of her hypocrisy, saying, Ah, you're just saying that because you want to bone me!
	You just want to bone me!
	Ah, yes.
	Well done, AOC. You have literally reduced yourself to a wet hole.
	Like, oh, this is about my vagina, isn't it?
	No, it's not about...
	It's very obviously about the hypocrisy of you saying that Florida has got terrible COVID regulations or lack of COVID regulations and then going there on holiday because it's a fun place to go because they don't have COVID regulations.
	Well, in her tweet she did say, well done to New York Governor for having such a well-governed state and it's like, then why did you have to flee it?
	Why aren't you wearing your masks just because you could in Florida?
	Why are you obviously lying and then you're like, yeah, you're just interested in my vagina.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But like we see with, you know, throughout the government, all the restrictions and things never apply to the government.
	And even when they do apply, they don't follow them.
	So, you know, Downing Street, we're having the parties.
	Dominic Cummings drove to thingamide.
	Neil Ferguson had an affair.
	Matt Hancock had an affair as well.
	So, yeah.
	Well, again, it comes down to Rousseau's, the sovereign can't create a law that binds it.
	Rousseau was just really ripping off Catholicism, wasn't he?
	In a lot of ways, yeah.
	Anyway, right, late, but let's go to the video comments.
	So what is the world of My Hero Academia?
	Well, in the not too distant future, people have developed superpowers, known as quirks, and due to this, superheroes have arisen, taking an odd halfway spot between celebrities and law enforcement.
	You go to school, you learn how to be a hero, then you go on to save people.
	The world resembles our modern day life, in which, if you ask a kid what they want to be, 90% of them are going to say, a hero.
	Kind of like in our world, you know, a streamer.
	Look forward to part two of that.
	Thanks.
	Bingo!
	I finally got the Rona.
	Funnily enough, it's not nearly as bad as the other two things I had back in October that wasn't a Rona, so now I get to read a book, Curse of the Wendigo.
	I enjoyed this.
	This is a scary book.
	And watch some gay anime and stuff.
	So, cheers!
	See, Omicron, it's just everywhere.
	Yeah.
	Although, out of all the people I know that have had Omicron, she seems to have had it the worst.
	And I gotta tell you, running is like the worst exercise you can do, okay?
	You ever seen a runner that really looks good?
	I haven't.
	They look like s***.
	They always look like they're about to die.
	People are about to have a heart attack.
	Stay away from running.
	Get in the weight room.
	Lift heavy weight.
	Joshua, obviously you are immensely strong, but I would remind you of the original motto of the Special Boat Service, Not by Strength, by Guile, which was shortened to By Strength and Guile, to compete with the SAS's Who Dares Wins.
	Surely that's about the scale of the force in the special boat service, as in they're not fielding 100,000 men to go and invade France or something.
	They've got like 50 men who have got to go on a secret mission.
	Is that where they're disguised as a frog in the badge?
	I can only assume.
	I don't know.
	Let's go for the next one and let's hope this is not about anime.
	So Wales' top doctor is now saying that people should self-isolate for colds.
	Dr.
	Coronavirus.
	Oh my god.
	The flu.
	Cold.
	But at this point they're practically indistinguishable.
	That's my f***ing gun.
	Literally, the Omicron.
	I'm on a 30-day Facebook ban at the moment because some news outlet posted a list of the Omicron symptoms and they're just the cold symptoms.
	You don't have a runny nose, sore throat, you might have a light cough.
	And Facebook are like, boom, that's misinformation.
	Get out of here.
	It's like, well, I got it from MSNBC and B, it's not exactly terrifying, is it?
	It's not giant mutated pustules under your arms that are going to bleed you out.
	Yeah, which the bubonic plague was.
	Yeah.
	Which was actually terrifying.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'd be isolating for the plague.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	But not for a runny nose.
	No, that's good for the next one.
	Hey guys, I'm just sitting here eating some pop noodle with my neighbour's cat, Bella.
	Who's that?
	Say hello.
	Bella cat.
	So by the time you get this video, I'll be starting my keto diet and I was just wondering if Carl's there, what was the hardest thing you had to give up during your keto diet and if you have any advice for me.
	Sugar and bread, by far.
	The bread itself wasn't too hard on a day-to-day basis, but when you could smell freshly cooked bread, it was, oh God.
	But it was sugar.
	There was actual, real cravings.
	I could feel sweats, cold sweats and stuff from not having sugar.
	And I didn't have sugar for six months.
	It was driving me mad.
	And so I found some, like, it was chocolate as well, like, you know, sugar-free chocolate I managed to get in the end.
	But it was, you know, sugar.
	That was the real addictive thing.
	Did sugar-free chocolate quell the cravings?
	Totally, yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Because by that point, it wasn't sugar I was craving, it was actually the chocolate.
	Right.
	Because it was just like, you know, you miss chocolate or whatever.
	Yeah.
	But for the first, like, month or so, the actual sugar itself was definitely...
	The thing.
	And my wife, the other day, my parents were up visiting for Christmas, and my wife was talking to my mum about it.
	She was like, because I broke my diet a bit over Christmas, because, you know, it was Christmas.
	So they didn't put any weight, which I'm pleased with.
	But she was complaining because I'd had, like, some Ferrero Roches, and she was like, oh, God, he's going to be miserable for a month now as he gets over the sugar cravings again.
	It's like, well, sorry, you know.
	I don't think I have been miserable for a month.
	I think I've handled it quite well.
	But, yeah, no, the sugar and bread itself.
	Right, yeah.
	But once you get past that, it's actually really easy.
	Because you can still have loads of delicious stuff.
	You can have all the meat and cheese and stuff that you want.
	So you've still got basically a burger just without the bun.
	You can have all of that stuff.
	It's all fine.
	It's not like a normal diet where it's like, right, now I have my couscous salad.
	Oh God, kill me.
	It's a good diet.
	Right.
	And you felt healthy on it?
	You felt alert?
	I felt amazing.
	Right.
	Honestly, it was dropping the sugar.
	I'm sure it's the sugar makes you feel like you're being held back.
	It makes you feel tired, you've got less energy.
	And so every day I just wake up and I just spring out of bed now.
	Right, I've got my half-hour bike ride to work.
	And I'm not like, oh God, I've got no energy.
	I've always got energy now.
	Right.
	It's great, honestly.
	It's really good.
	Are you still on it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	And full keto?
	Well, not full.
	No carbs?
	Yeah, I don't eat any carbs consciously.
	I mean, there are going to be some carbs and stuff, but I don't ever have potato on my plate or anything like that.
	So I just have broccoli, cauliflower, runner beans, low carb stuff, and then just a big pile of meat, put gravy over it.
	It's still good, and I'm still on it, which is why I haven't gained all the weight back, you know?
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, no, and I feel great.
	Cool.
	Yeah, I'm very happy with it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Maybe I'll do it.
	So, the guy that I was talking about was Jon Stewart, and yes, he has done a couple good things in the past, but at the end of the day, though, he did help lay down the groundwork as to how leftists deal with their opposition.
	If you don't believe me, look at the old episodes, and you can see for yourself.
	And the crew that he was around, like, look where they're at right now.
	I mean, he did handpick Trevor Noah, for that matter.
	DS-731 is the Japanese student that did those experiments on the Chinese, and that does an AK with a sitting very ground magazine.
	Not practical, but fun.
	I mean, that looks like a lot of fun.
	Have you ever fired an AK? I've never fired an AK, but my dad had a gun so bad in America.
	You've told us about it many times, but no, firing an AK is great fun.
	But I completely agree with him.
	I assume this is on a podcast that Callum and John had done or something like that, talking about John Stewart.
	But John Stewart, I do think that it's right to credit him Yeah.
	your own position seriously i'm just a comedian you know i'm not standing on any of it in order to just basically avoid any kind of criticism or self-reflection i know yeah i think john stewart i used to love john stewart yeah you know but looking back now i'm just like kind of embarrassed and it's a bit of a cop-out i mean that is our excuse there you know we've genuinely got an excuse if i do gb news like tonight i'm doing headliners on gb news so we say uh you know we can get away with more because we're comedians so it's not meant to be taken seriously but really i mean as howard jacobson says comedians have become public philosophers
	yep because we're the people who can say the outrageous things that transgress over the line absolutely and we've got that freedom for for some reason you know comedy clubs are seen as having that freedom they are There's a kind of state of affairs that's created in a comedy club where you can, as you say, literally explore the boundaries.
	And the point is because going outside the boundaries is surprising and that's what makes it funny.
	It's like, oh wow, that's hilarious.
	Obviously I'm not going to agree with that, but that's why I'm here in the comedy club.
	You create a little special place for that kind of Behaviour.
	And it's actually a progressive thing to do because, I mean, all social progress comes from transgressing against the boundaries of what was already there.
	So progressives should be in favour of it.
	Instead, they're putting up boundaries.
	Exactly.
	So maybe they're not that progressive.
	Not very.
	Skip for the next one.
	I've been working on a tabletop game of my own.
	I actually used to work in the tabletop industry between 2014 and 2016.
	And I did a lot of contracting work so I finally started working on my own stuff.
	Here's some of the creatures.
	That.
	We got that.
	And this.
	They're all kind of different sizes, scale.
	I'm still working out all the details, and I actually plan to get it done by the end of this year.
	That's my January goal.
	Well, good luck.
	They all look suitably hideous.
	Yeah, I would have loved that stuff when I was like 14.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Hey guys, you alright?
	I just wondered if, Carl, you were going to plan on doing a conversation with Jordan Peterson in the near future because I know you've had a conversation with him quite a few years ago but I think it'd be interesting to hear your Your conversation considering how much your opinions and your philosophy has progressed forward, and especially since the world has changed so drastically since four years, five years ago when you had the original conversation.
	Or maybe you already have and I've just missed it, but I just want to hear your thoughts.
	That's a good point.
	I think a lot has changed in the last four or five years, as myself, Peterson, and the world around us.
	I'll send him an email and see if he's up for it.
	Who knows?
	He might say no.
	But anyway, right, let's get a couple of comments.
	Matthew says, Ted Cruz received a proper rebuke from Tucker Carlson when he went on his show last night, saying that the people at the January 6th rally were terrorists.
	He tried to clarify his comments that he was only talking about the rioters, and Tucker corrected him, saying they are rioters and not terrorists.
	Tucker's so great, honestly.
	He's like the one mainstream media talking head I actually like.
	I can actually watch.
	Although I kind of agree that the Republican Party shouldn't become too extreme and too Trumpist.
	And this sort of man expelling Liz Cheney.
	Well, I think that's fine.
	She's basically a Democrat.
	It'd be like GB News firing Tom Harwood.
	It's like, well, you've just fired a leftist.
	But I think it's good to have some sort of balance.
	She's not a leftist.
	She basically is.
	She's not AOC. She's like half of AOC. She's a rhino.
	I agree.
	I'm not massively familiar, but from what I've seen, I think she is a rhino.
	But anyway, M1Ping says, next year Kamala will probably compare violence from January 6th to the Battle of Cannae.
	Also, what is sacred about the capital?
	There's bigger criminals in it than the nearest penitentiary.
	Well, I mean, like, literally a bunch of them were probably in Epstein's black book.
	So, exactly.
	What's sacred about it?
	Stuart says, the Democrats normalized and enabled rioting mobs and then a mob came for them.
	Yep.
	Yep, that's exactly it.
	You know, you get what you deserve.
	And everyone knows it.
	Everyone can see it.
	So pretending that it didn't happen, not referencing that in their speeches, they couldn't mind.
	They've just lost legitimacy with so many of their own voter base as well.
	I mean, this is why the Democrats are absolutely tanking in America in the ratings.
	No, I totally agree.
	As Omar puts it, and this is exactly it, our democracy is sacred, your democracy is literal terrorism.
	That's how they view this.
	Anyway, just a quick go on to the next one.
	I wonder how long it'll take masks to become burkas, says Nikolai.
	Drew says, imagine thinking you're so important that you can tell your peers what to do and even use violence to get your desired results.
	I'm sorry, I thought we lived in a peaceful society.
	Now, this is why I think no one's really challenging anyone around here on mask wearing.
	I've only been asked once to wear a mask.
	I just said I'm exempt, and that was it.
	The thing dropped.
	I didn't have to say or do anything else.
	And it's because of a lack of authority.
	No one really feels like they've got the authority to tell you how to be.
	You should wear masks.
	Yeah, but am I the guy to enforce it?
	Probably not.
	Yeah, which is the way it should be.
	People shouldn't have power over other people.
	The only time I've been forced to wear a mask was on a Ryanair flight.
	And normally, on flights, I just say I'm exempt.
	Or I'll just wait.
	If it's only an hour, I'll just wear a mask.
	I don't mind.
	But if it's a longer flight, I just can't be bothered.
	I'm going to lie down and go to sleep, so I don't have a mask on.
	But yeah, getting on the Ryanair flight, I said to the guy I'm exempt, and he was like, oh, you need to have a letter from your doctor.
	Do you have a letter from your doctor?
	I was like...
	Well, apparently there are terms and conditions.
	Unfortunately, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't argue as well as my fiancée.
	But yeah, I ended up putting it on just to be able to get on the flight and go to Ireland.
	On that note of cuckoldry, I think we're out of time.
	All right.
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