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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #322

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 4th of February 2022.
	I'm joined by John.
	Hello Lotus Seeders.
	And today we're going to be talking about Truckistan starting to win its victories because they are slowly piling up.
	Good boys.
	COVID policies are designed to hurt you and pay the man tax.
	Because we are now going to have to pay tax for being men because being a man is just so good.
	All that privilege.
	Some things to mention first on the website.
	So a few new things that are up.
	So the first one here being Critical Race Theory Explained number 5, Race Consciousness, Black Genocide, and Affirmative Action.
	As you can see there, we have the Critical Race Clan with flags.
	Someone had fun with that.
	Yeah, I'm really impressed with Michael for that one because that was fantastic.
	That's great.
	So go give that a watch.
	If we move on, we have some new articles up as well.
	This one being Christianity, the religion that dare not speak its name in modern Britain by Simon Webb.
	Or you may know him as History Debunked.
	I think it is on YouTube.
	History Debunked.
	I love the word debunk because it's so funny.
	So go and check that out.
	I think that's free as well, so you don't have to subscribe.
	You can go and check that out at lowsears.com.
	It should be on the front page.
	If we go to the next one, we have The Downfall of the Universities by Hugo.
	So this is also a re-upload, this time with an audio track.
	So now people who are premium or silver and gold team members, I should say, can go and give that a listen instead of a read in case you didn't read it the first time.
	Or you just love the voice of John Jonathan Crowe, which many people do.
	Last thing to mention, of course, being Getter as well.
	If you want to follow us on Getter, you can follow us at LotusEaters.
	I forget that up.
	Yep.
	At LotusEaters underscore com, of course, on Getter, which is now over 55,000 followers.
	Yay!
	Good stuff.
	I have noticed I now get more interaction on Getter than I do on Twitter, which is interesting.
	It's also all proper.
	So, let's get into the news.
	Truckistan.
	Or Truckistan.
	I don't know what it is.
	Truckistan?
	I'm sure it's got to be Truckistan, surely.
	Like Pakistan.
	But the free state of Truckistan and the free people fighting for that are winning.
	They're winning good.
	They're actually getting their victories.
	Excellent.
	I thought we'd start off by just checking out what's still going on in Truckistan in Ottawa.
	So if we load this up, we have some footage here of some guy just recording outside his apartment.
	I didn't actually download this because I thought it would be really irritating, but now I'm tempted.
	I wonder if you can hit play for just a couple of seconds, John, because it's Yeah, it's quite loud.
	That's for like 40-odd seconds solid.
	Just that guy filming outside his apartment.
	The honks will continue until freedom improves.
	Very musical, actually.
	You feel like it's going to swing into a full symphony, but it never does.
	Just the constant.
	There's that chord that they're setting up.
	They've got time on their hands.
	Lads, if you're watching...
	Yeah, retune your horns, you know.
	Oh, Canada!
	Like, come on.
	So if we go to the next one, we can also see a really funny example of the counter-protest that was going to take place against the Honks.
	So this is the Karen protest.
	As you can see there, the city of Ottawa is unable to support the permit of such an event.
	Because of COVID-19.
	So they got their permit taken away because of COVID. Don't you know?
	Trust the science, boys.
	No protests.
	Too bad.
	So the Cosmopolitans are going absolutely insane on this, and I really think we should start making that divide more clear in what it is in politics, which is, of course, I love that meme as well.
	The divide between two groups in the West, United States, Canada, everywhere, is always between the Quasperitans and the people not in the, well, hive cities.
	And if we go forward, we can see their response to this.
	Not only did they get their thing cancelled, there should be something else, I think.
	But if we go to the next one, maybe that's...
	No, there's a disclosed TV link that should be coming up.
	up i don't know if you can get that john because uh i wasn't going for the winter olympics instead but it's the fact that the the ottawa council are absolutely going insane so this is uh the council here meeting and they said quote we need to cut off the pipeline of funding to these mercenaries that are unlawfully protesting and occupying our communities
	it's amazing how how the cosmopolitan elite reacts with this sort of unhinged hysteria when the working class does anything contrary to their expectations other than just sort of sitting down being quiet and being I saw the quote, the people who feed Canada are the people who are free in Canada.
	They've turned out, again, our communities.
	I mean, this is the capital, where the parliament is, but that's only for you.
	Only for you.
	When these people use the word our, like our democracy, it's always very revealing, I think.
	Very sus.
	She also says in here that people should call GoFundMe and demand that they cease sending money to these mercenaries, and they should also look as a counselor suing GoFundMe.
	She's like, yes, but legal procedures take time?
	I was like, no, it's because you don't have a case.
	And any lawyer you go to is going to be like, get the hell out of my office, or just give me money to file a frivolous lawsuit, I suppose.
	The news on that as well, if we can go to the next one, the National Post reporting here.
	GoFundMe suspends Truckers Convoy Fund at $10 million, and some donors are just receiving unsolicited refunds, which is just ridiculous.
	So if you were involved in this donation, of course, find other ways to give them money.
	I'm sure there are going to be other ways to give money, other than having to give it to this dog S of a company.
	But this is how the establishment controls the narrative of protest.
	They're able to essentially prevent protests on the side they don't like from getting funding and getting resources in this way, because they can shut down forces like GoFundMe and so on.
	What is the possible argument for this?
	They caused disruptions in the transport network.
	BLM were burning stuff down.
	And you could GoFundMe for them.
	I know it's evident at this point, GoFundMe.
	I mean, come on.
	You remember Carl Rittenhouse?
	No matter how he was a horrible mass murderer and therefore couldn't be allowed to raise money.
	Yeah.
	No, he's actually a boy who did nothing wrong.
	Right.
	The evidence showed it.
	Let's move forward, because there's also other Cosmopolitans losing their mind.
	One here is a guy who came out and started screeching at the truckers to shut the F up because he hasn't slept in five days, which, yeah, as someone who has been kept up by loud noises at night, all throughout the night, I can sympathise, but at the same time, it is really funny.
	We're not going to play the clip.
	I'm sure people have seen it.
	He's just screeching at them.
	And then the truckers are like, well, the honking will continue until freedom improves, my friend.
	We're fighting for you too.
	So let's move forward because there is also the other insane thing the locals are trying to do.
	So Ottawa Police Chief, slowly, says City is considering requesting help from Canadian armed forces to deal with the trucker protest.
	Wait, is his name Slolly or is that a misspelling of slowly?
	Did he just say that really slowly?
	That's so strange.
	Slolly.
	He's got a learning disability.
	Yeah, the army.
	Interesting.
	We're going to call in the army.
	Remember the army that we're training with the Chinese a while back?
	Oh yeah.
	Well, presumably we know what they were practicing for.
	So we can enforce the Chinese solution to COVID, which is massive restrictions on liberty, instead of just get over it, get your vaccine and be done with it.
	That was what the liberal position was about to be, but whatever.
	So this is just insane.
	But let's go and check on what these horrible truckers are doing.
	Why do we need the army?
	The army to come in and start gunning these people down.
	So you can see here, they're doing horrible things, so just cooking pizza.
	They set up little pizza ovens.
	They're cooking pizzas.
	It's adorable.
	Apparently they're handing out free pizzas, as the guy writes here as well.
	There's just piles and piles of pizzas that they're making.
	Horrible.
	Disgusting.
	How can they do this?
	And if we move to the next one, we can see some other disgusting activities, such as playing hockey.
	Canadians will be Canadians.
	Very un-Canadian of them.
	Clearly Russian assets.
	Ridiculous.
	We go to the next one, we can also see they're building a community.
	So they're actually setting up structures now.
	I love Postlo there.
	Love his account change.
	But also the fact that he makes the point that compare this to the ridiculous tents and farms.
	Yeah, I was going to point that out.
	So in the Chaz they tried to set up these farms and it was pathetic.
	Any old person in this country with an allotment could make more produce come out of the ground.
	And regularly do.
	Than the lunatics in the Chaz and the Chop.
	And I bet these guys could do it even in the middle of the Canadian winter.
	I think they'd have a better yield.
	But that's brilliant, obviously.
	For people listening, they're setting up some kind of structure out of wood here to presumably serve more pizzas or something.
	Who knows?
	And it's professionally done because these people know what they're doing with their lives.
	They're actually productive instead of the anarchists.
	Yeah, they're truckers.
	They're practical people.
	They don't sit on Instagram all day wondering about how they would teach someone in an anarchist commune how to read the newest ideological literature.
	They actually have practical skills.
	Absolutely true.
	They have one other practical skill as well, which is being sexy.
	Oh, right.
	Trucks are very sexy, at least according to the queer feminists of Reddit.
	Lol.
	So this is someone saying, I'm really upset at what is clearly a masculine expression of anger, the loud horns, the trucks, the unwashed men sleeping in their trucks.
	Oh god, whilst these men may have a certain swagger, it's like, where's this going?
	Someone responds, you're so right, this whole show is just entitled male syndrome on crack.
	There's plenty of crazy ladies among them, someone else says.
	And then someone writes, yes, we notice them, but as a queer feminist, I hate to say it, those guys look rugged.
	Not very queer now, are we, my queer feminist friend?
	Oh boy.
	That's moving on.
	So that's the other practical skill, of course, they have of being sexy.
	But then they also have the practical skill of making very good jokes.
	So this is someone here.
	If we could scroll down on this.
	It's a video.
	This guy turns up to McDonald's.
	Hello, can I get...
	Are you texting the My Rewards today?
	No, thank you.
	No worries.
	Help me.
	Help you.
	Can I get...
	Ah, dang.
	Damn in there.
	But he just says, can I get the Trudeau special?
	And then she's like, what the hell is that?
	And he goes, the muck chicken.
	And then she just loses it, which is just wholesome as hell.
	It's like everyone's in on it.
	But speaking of Trudeau, I mean, where the hell is Trudeau?
	And this was a question that's been asked because he disappeared.
	And of course he's been in this little safe house.
	I don't know what to call it.
	You know, what dictators usually have.
	Then we move on.
	We can see what he's been up to.
	So this is his account.
	He decided to try the race card one more.
	Sorry, I just love the fact that he's disappeared like Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Iraq.
	He's in the bunker underneath.
	Where is Trudeau?
	Will we ever find his bolthole?
	Maybe someone will tip us off.
	Do you know the Saddam meme with him in red underneath?
	Okay, people don't know what I talk about.
	Just change that for Trudeau, I want to see that one.
	But as you can see here, he decided to go with lyricism again.
	Let's call them lyricists.
	Ugh.
	There's no Canada.
	Like French Canada?
	No.
	So this is him saying, today in the House of Members of Parliament, unanimously condemned the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, the anti-black racism, homophobia, and transphobia, and, ugh, fucking, you know, put phobia at the end of it.
	Arachnophobia that they've displayed in Ottawa of the past number of days.
	A man who is clearly desperate.
	Yeah, because it's the truckers who are motivated by irrational fear, not the president who has fled the capital to an undisclosed location.
	I'm not even going to address this crap.
	This is clearly a man who is scared.
	Running scared.
	He is throwing everything that he has.
	This is his typical progressive moves of just being like, yeah, but did you know they're bigoted?
	And then, no, we're not going to play with this game.
	Jack Poso put out saying that whilst he said that that took place in the parliament also a motion was brought down to condemn the use of blackface and as Poso says the Liberal Party votes down a motion to condemn the use of blackface on the first day of Black History Month in Canadian parliament.
	Very spicy boys.
	Of course, because Prime Minister Blackface wouldn't have looked too good in his blackface, if that was the case.
	But let's move forward, because Justin also decided to make another speech.
	And as you can see here, he says, To the nearly 90% of truckers across the country who've gotten their vaccine and are working hard to keep shelves stocked in our economy moving, thank you.
	We just, sorry, just like we relied on you, you can rely on us to stand with you.
	You're making this in the middle of the truckie stan protests.
	We stand with you truckers for getting your vaccine.
	I love how you just implicitly admit as well, you remember when you were calling them anti-vaxxers?
	90% have got the vaccine.
	It's not a very anti-vaxxer of them.
	Yeah.
	Very disappointed from the anti-vaxxer action.
	He's trying to say that the one, basically this is an oblique way of saying that the ones in the capital are a fringe minority.
	Except they're just not.
	And I think you'll find that a lot of the truckers in the capital will also have been vaccinated and they are protesting not for themselves but on behalf of all of the truckers and all of the Canadian people whose freedoms have been restricted by goons like this.
	Exactly.
	And if we move forward, we can also find there's a really funny post that Carl mentioned, which is that the autists on 4chan have immediately found where he was as well, because God bless the autistic astronomers of 4chan.com.
	I don't know what to say.
	It's not org, isn't it?
	But let's move forward, because there's also the blockade that was taking place on the US border, and this is a really awesome update from this guy here.
	And if we scroll down, you can see the footage.
	So there's that one border that is really vital.
	So the local truckers just blockaded it on the US side.
	And then the farmers are going to join them.
	So the police set up this blockade, as you can see, to stop the farmers.
	And the farmers were just like, Lamau, good shot.
	Just drove past them.
	What, afraid?
	Yeah, as you can see, they're just going past.
	If we go to the next one, you can see someone saying this is fantastic because the police are helpless.
	Let's play this one as well because I think it's a better angle.
	You can see the fact that they're just...
	Go to hell.
	The police are all there and everyone's just like, eh, bye.
	Bye!
	You don't have any power anymore.
	You can't insist that we're not allowed to go and help these people.
	It really shows you how powerless the authorities are when people actually stand up to them.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this is the beauty of the Trakistan protests.
	We're all being inspired as to what is really the case, which is we have power, not them.
	And there is also some other beautiful things, as we can see if we go to the next one.
	We have those farmers as reinforcements on the west side.
	And in Ottawa, we've got the Polish reinforcements turning up.
	So this is some lovely lady who's turned up with loads of Polish sausages to help feed them.
	And then she says, we came from communism.
	We want a free country.
	So God bless the Poles.
	Always on the right side of history.
	Fabulous.
	And I mentioned the victories.
	The victories that are coming.
	And I think we'll end off with that.
	So if we go to the last link here, here's an update from some Conservative member of Parliament, and he says, The Quebec government has dropped the idea of taxing unvaccinated people.
	Other provinces are announcing they'll remove their mandates.
	Amazing.
	The tide is turning towards freedom.
	Hashtag freedom, not fear.
	Hashtag thank a trucker, as Trudeau used to say.
	And that's great.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's not the full thing, of course, but it's nice to see that it's immediately having an effect, which is people are realizing, oh, crap.
	The plebs don't agree.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, wait, no.
	They blocked my capital.
	Oh, wait, no.
	They're just setting up to stay here forever.
	What will I do?
	I can't sleep.
	I haven't slept in five days.
	So, yeah, the obvious solution is just stop being a tyrant.
	But, yeah.
	The victories are coming in.
	The truckers do have to stick to their guns, though, because the politicians will try and throw these things down.
	Oh, we won't do this.
	We'll take this back one by one.
	And what they're hoping is at some point the truckers will all go home and then they can quietly bring it all back.
	Making sure on the other side that they introduce laws and measures so that they can stop this happening again, which they absolutely will do.
	It'll be very hard, I think, to have another trucker's protest of this scale because now the establishment expects it.
	So I think that's even more reason to double down on this one until you get the concessions that the people of Canada need.
	Yeah, I mean, the two demands are fundamentally no more vaccine mandates and Trudeau gone.
	And, well, you've got to get rid of Trudeau to make sure the vaccine mandates don't come back, so just do it again, won't he?
	And then they'll try and make some measures to stop the truckers from protecting Canada ever again.
	Although I do like to end off here.
	So this is an account called Truckers for Freedom.
	You can find them on Getter on Twitter.
	And I just love this image here, as they've seen, because this has been inspiring not only in Canada, but around the world, especially the Anglosphere.
	And this is a great idea someone came up with, which, as you can see by this high-quality graphic, is let's just take all the trucks and go to the Mexico border and just blockade the border.
	Then what?
	Would that be building a wall by any chance?
	Build a wall of trucks and just patrol the border.
	What are they going to do?
	Stop us?
	Well, they didn't in Canada, did they?
	It's amazing how the truck is becoming the symbol of freedom in the West.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, I love how it's a symbol of power, really, over the power structures.
	I've mentioned before, and I'll mention it again, which is in the Soviet Union, the coal miners were able to have that kind of power and leverage over the state.
	The state couldn't just kill them all, because it'd be like, oh, well, where's your coal coming from?
	Yeah, good job.
	Not going to happen, so talk to us instead of trying to shoot us.
	And the similar situation is with truckers and supply lines in the West, modern day.
	And I've seen a lot of this, a lot of corporate media responding to the truckistan protests by saying that we should automate the truck faster, we need to get this done now.
	Right, okay.
	And it's because they know, everyone's realised, wait, there's huge leverage here.
	And truckers are not insane progressive cosmopolitans, so they are diametrically opposed to what you're planning.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's a lot of things that they can and probably will do in the next few years to try and stop this happening again.
	And one of them would simply be to essentially make it difficult, impossible or even illegal to actually privately own a truck.
	If you could make sure it was just businesses holding them, then you have more leverage over businesses than you do over people and so on and so forth.
	So I expect an attack on the freedom of truck drivers is coming in the aftermath of this, but it will have to come very slowly and carefully because I think if this carries on, this will bring down Trudeau's government and it may be the first time in a long time, probably in the whole of Canada's history, where a government was brought down by civil disobedience.
	Which would be awesome to see.
	Also, we should be inspired in the rest of the Anglosphere to realise the power that we have here.
	Absolutely.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So if you're wondering, are the COVID policies really that bad?
	Like, what really necessitates all of this protest and so on and so forth?
	Well, let's just ask the question, shall we?
	Are COVID policies designed to help you or hurt you?
	And we'll start this segment off with an article here by Fraser Nelson in The Telegraph, quote, the lockdown establishment will never accept that its disastrous policy failed.
	Now, why do you think that might be?
	Surely if the policy failed, then they'll be able to put their hands up and say, oh, it's a fair cop, we made a mistake, blah, blah, blah.
	But I don't think that's going to happen.
	He doesn't think that's going to happen.
	Do you think that's going to happen?
	Absolutely not.
	No.
	So what are they going to do, do you think?
	Double down?
	Just shift the subject, change the terms of the conversation, move on.
	Oh, look at this shiny thing instead.
	Who knows?
	But they're never going to admit fault.
	And he continues.
	New research suggesting that shutdowns made little difference to mortality is likely to fall on deaf ears.
	We haven't heard much from Sir Patrick Vallance recently.
	A few weeks ago, he wrote an article extolling the reliability of SAGE modelers.
	They speak scientific truth to power, he said.
	They're in the power structures.
	How could they be speaking to power?
	Right, exactly.
	He angrily rejected rumours of any negativity bias.
	Dozens of scenarios had been calculated for Omicron deaths, he said, with a huge range of variables.
	What I'd love to ask him is why, if there was no bias, did every single one of these scenarios end up overstating the threat?
	Why were they wrong, so wildly wrong, again?
	Why indeed?
	This isn't about parading Sir Patrick around Trafalgar Square with a placard of incorrect sage-graphs around his neck, they say.
	No comment.
	The important question is whether he even thinks there was a problem, whether Sage is capable of error correction, and what he thinks about the fact that the country was very nearly locked down on what turned out to be seriously duff advice.
	Given that it could happen again, and at any time, are lessons being learned, or are our scientific advisors still in collective denial?
	Now, I love the idea here, the sort of fantasy vision that he has, that someone might be held accountable.
	Never mind having placards around their neck or anything, just merely being held accountable for any of this nonsense that we've seen over the last two years.
	Maybe denounce, because clearly their ideas don't work in public policy.
	Right.
	We shouldn't follow these in future.
	Exactly.
	I mean, it seems like the last two years have been a brilliant case study in why scientists should perhaps not be running the country, the way many people have suggested over many years.
	In an era where all our lives are decided by the quality of epidemic modelling, the ability to scrutinise advice is vital.
	And I'm gonna stop you there.
	Why are all our lives decided in this era by the quality of epidemic modelling?
	Isn't that a huge failure of our constitution, our democracy, our freedom, our way of life, everything?
	Why is it that free individuals, so-called free individuals, have their lives subject to the whim of some model, some scientific model about this sort of thing?
	I think when you compare the state of affairs now to previously in history, just that statement itself would seem absolutely horrifying to someone born 100 years ago.
	And with good reason, I would think.
	There we go.
	But sage models, he continues, are compiled within a wall of secrecy, protected from scrutiny.
	Their full figures are never published, nor is the code for them released.
	This makes error correction far less likely and constitutes a massive flaw in our democracy.
	The scary thing is that Valence has had more power than any of us, says one cabinet member.
	Again, who elected Valence?
	No one.
	He's theoretically there on merit, but of course the weight that you carry when you enter a position through merit is that you have to do the job meritoriously.
	You have to do it well.
	If you get into a position through merit and you completely screw it up, then you've got no right being there, and you should be held accountable.
	And he finishes off by saying a recent Swedish book about the country's refusal to lock down uncovered emails from health officials saying, in effect, that since Imperial's Professor Neil Ferguson and his team got swine flu so badly wrong, their figures for Sweden's COVID deaths would probably be incorrect too.
	How do you think that turned out?
	Incorrect?
	Yeah.
	He wildly overestimated the figures.
	He estimated half a million deaths from COVID in the UK. I believe it's something like 3,000 under 65 with no other health conditions, underlying health conditions, but anyway.
	In case anyone's wondering, I can't remember the website name.
	Office of National Statistics?
	Some far right website?
	Right.
	Given Ferguson's record, it was never clear why so much store was placed on his original suggestion that lockdown could potentially reduce COVID deaths by up to 98%.
	At the same time, even Sir Patrick and Sir Chris Whitty didn't buy it.
	Both rejected lockdown, then realised to their horror that they risked being accused in the media of causing an extra 20,000 deaths by failing to do so a week earlier.
	Even this figure came from Ferguson, that has since been debunked.
	So again, you can sort of see how the power structures are at work here, and it's the pressure from media again that's forcing these people like Sir Patrick Vallance, like Sir Chris Whitty, who...
	Many criticisms are valid.
	To shift from their original position of there is no scientific evidence for lockdown back in March 2020 to let's do it because otherwise we're going to be accused of killing thousands of people.
	But that gives us another new list of individuals who need to be held to account.
	Yeah.
	The mainstream media in this country is Sky News, the BBC, ITV, maybe Channel 4, who cares about them?
	But then you take those people, the people who are running their, let's say, political editing or whatever the hell it is, all of you need to be held to account too.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no question in my mind.
	He says...
	Blumenel, what a depressing world to live in when they have this amount of power.
	No one elected them to these positions.
	Their models have been pretty unreliable, I think is an understatement so far.
	And yet they have all of this power over us, how we live our daily lives, whether our pubs are open or not, whether we can go abroad, whether we can go to the next city, whether we can leave our homes, and the list goes on.
	And the study they cite here, moving on, is that COVID lockdown prevented only 0.2% of deaths in the first wave.
	Researchers say the costs of lockdowns to society far outweighed the benefits and argued that they should be rejected out of hand.
	Now, I've been saying this for two years.
	I think we've been pretty consistent on this point, that we don't really believe in lockdowns.
	And finally, the science is coming out and proving what's pretty obvious, I would say.
	Well, the question was asked repeatedly from people in the, let's say, like, alt media, where is the scientific evidence that lockdowns work?
	And no one ever gave an answer because there wasn't an answer.
	No.
	And now we have it.
	They didn't.
	Well, 0.2%, there you are.
	Yeah.
	And people have also done analyses where they're saying, well, actually, this is going to torpedo our economy.
	And we had the largest recession in about 300 years because of the COVID shutdowns.
	And that's going to result in everyone being poorer.
	And we have reasonably clear correlations between the wealth of individuals and their life expectancy.
	So you could argue that if you're accounting in quality adjusted life years, that lockdowns did far more harm than good.
	But that's just one angle of analysis.
	They continue.
	Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Centre for Political Studies in Denmark said the cost to society far outweighed the benefits and called for lockdown to be rejected out of hand as a future pandemic policy.
	Hear, hear.
	The team even found that some lockdown measures may have increased deaths by stopping access to outdoor space, pushing people to meet at less safe places, while isolating infected people indoors where they could pass the virus on to family members and housemates.
	They also don't mention nosocomial infections in hospitals, which...
	Anyway, we do find some evidence that limiting gatherings was counterproductive and increased COVID-19 mortality, the authors concluded.
	Often, lockdowns have limited people's access to safe outdoor places such as beaches, parks and zoos, or included outdoor mask mandates or strict outdoor gathering restrictions, pushing people to meet at less safe indoor places.
	Because let's face it, who wants to go to a party where you're wearing a mask for three hours and can't see anyone's face?
	It's not a party.
	Exactly.
	I don't really know what to say here.
	It seems very obvious.
	And we have a look at the study here.
	And if you scroll down to page five on this reader, you can see they've got a graph at the bottom.
	And this is the correlation between the stringency index and COVID-19 mortality in European countries and US states during the first wave in 2020, taken from a number of different analyses.
	And you can see there's a very weak correlation between the stringency of measures and the severity of mortality from COVID-19.
	Having said that, I do want to point out that the meta-analysis of this type does have its work cut out because it's really simplifying the various tyrannical state interventions down to a single axis variable called stringency.
	And I think that's a very risky thing to do when you've got all of these different studies, lots of different countries, people with different cultures, even going down to the level of how close you stand to one another when you're having a conversation and so on.
	So I wouldn't set too much stock by that, but at least they've come up with some data which pushes against the lockdown narrative.
	Now, it's my personal belief, and I'm not trying to convince you of this, that these so-called public health restrictions have been introduced in the West to deliberately hurt the citizen.
	Now, that might sound like a tall claim, but consider the following.
	In the middle of a major pandemic, we have seen record numbers of illegal migrants crossing the Channel, many of them with COVID.
	As the Times reports here, COVID rife among Channel migrants, say border staff.
	Meanwhile, at the same time, citizens are prevented from flying abroad at times, hindered from returning home, forced into quarantine, locked in their homes.
	But we're just regularly importing thousands of COVID-infected migrants across the Channel.
	No one's doing anything about it.
	Interesting.
	We recently covered the story on our podcast of the pregnant woman from New Zealand who was forced to go to Afghanistan because New Zealand wouldn't take her and her Belgian visa was due to expire, I believe.
	New Zealand has taken 779 Afghan refugees on emergency visitor visas in this period, with 1,018 people total from Afghanistan, but they couldn't take a pregnant citizen.
	I think that really shows you where the priorities lie.
	The government has also used the excuse of COVID to suspend collecting international passenger statistics, so the most recent international migration estimates get very woolly from June 2020.
	We also covered that they made regular exercise much more difficult by closing gyms, closing swimming pools, closing outdoor spaces, forcing you to be sedentary and locked in your home, despite all of those things being essential for good physical health, and good physical health being good for your immune system.
	And of course, your good immune system being good against COVID-19.
	Huge amounts of money have been printed and spent, resulting in large inflation rises across the West that are essentially a stealth tax on savings.
	Public sector spending is also very close to World War I levels as a proportion of GDP. You can see this graph here from ukpublicspending.co.uk.
	So it peaked at about 55% in the middle of World War I, as you can see from the red there.
	World War I, 52?
	Yeah.
	And these figures aren't completely up to date, so we may have even surpassed that.
	But you'll notice how each time there's a war, especially World War I, it goes from very little taxation, about 10%, 12%, 15% taken in total, right up to 55%.
	And then when it comes back down, it only goes back down to 30%.
	Then again, World War II, it goes all the way up to 70%, but when it drops, it's only 40% of GDP. So every time there's a crisis, it never completely falls back down.
	The government never quite gives up all of its taxation powers.
	Thank you.
	you are doomed as a regime because people will not stand for it at some point.
	I don't know where that point will be but I think the government is playing with fire here.
	I could go on and Another last thing I'm going to mention here is this article here, which is the US Army summarily discharging soldiers who refuse the COVID vaccine.
	As tensions are hotting up in Ukraine, as the rise of China becomes more of an issue on the world stage, the Biden regime reckons it just wants to summarily discharge soldiers if they're not vaccinated.
	Who needs the army?
	Yeah.
	They're not important.
	No.
	At the moment, they have approved out of, I think, 3,000 applications for religious exemptions to the vaccine, they have approved zero.
	And of the, I think, about 790, I may be wrong, applications for medical exemptions, they have approved six.
	So basically, no one is getting off, and they are destroying these young people's careers.
	Based on whether they will or will not take a vaccine.
	Now, what was that thing that was really important in medical ethics until two years ago?
	Informed consent, was that it?
	Like not being pressured into having medical treatments done on you and being able to do it of your own free will, which, by the way, absolves the medical practitioners from the ethical quandaries of forcing treatment on you.
	So that's very important for medics and doctors and their consciences.
	Yeah, we seem to have forgotten about that recently.
	And, yeah, a pattern has emerged whereby due to COVID becomes the unassailable excuse for any action or inaction on the part of the state, with the inconvenience to or downright betrayal of the public taken for granted.
	You know, nowadays, if you ask the government to sort something out, some local council problem, you will quite often get the, ah, due to COVID, personnel shortages, resource shortages, cannot do at this time, blah, blah, blah.
	Taxing you more than ever, but also all of the services no longer work.
	But also the things they want to bring in get brought in at double time.
	And when you push back against it and say, ah, because of COVID, we've decided to fast track this to reduce infection rates or something.
	I remember in Cambridge, I brought this up before, nearby where I was living, these roadblocks appeared out of nowhere because they basically used the COVID legislation to circumvent their...
	The existing processes and fast track their plan for blocking cars out of certain roads.
	Now, whether you agree to that or not, it's entirely whether you're pro-car, pro-motorist, anti-car, whatever.
	But the fact that they did this, I found hilarious.
	Due to COVID, we've put roadblocks in the city.
	Yeah, how does that work?
	How is a roadblock going to reduce transmission?
	Yeah, you can make a roundabout argument, but...
	And I'm sure you watching and listening at home will have many examples that you can draw on of where your local area has been changed by local councils or government doing things or refusing to do things that would otherwise be normal.
	And if you thought for a moment that our dear leaders have the faintest clue what they're doing, look at this latest brilliant suggestion from the Scottish Premier.
	Nicola Sturgeon takes a saw to classroom doors in crackpot DIY effort to stop COVID in schools.
	Have you come across this column?
	Yeah, she's going to chop off the bottom of the door so that that'll stop COVID spreading, which doesn't make any sense on the face of it, but also there's a reason there's a full door there.
	It's called a fire door.
	It's meant to burn so that it stops the fire from spreading.
	But no, now we put a big friggin' hole in it.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, I mean, I would hate to be in Scotland at the moment, because the quality of governance, I know we don't have much to write home about down in England, but this kind of thing is just, it's laughable.
	And it's this kind of governance which will make Scotland a laughingstock if you keep the SNP in power.
	Chopping the bottom off each door, by the way, is expected to cost around £150 per door.
	I'll do it for a hundred.
	Resulting in an estimated total cost to taxpayers of £300,000.
	This is how your taxes are being spent, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is why people in England and Wales give money net to Scotland, so they can run their own crackpot regime in the north.
	It's so they can spend it on vitally important life-saving safety measures, like sawing the bottom off a classroom door.
	I just find this hilarious.
	Shirley Ann Somerville, the Scottish Education Secretary, wrote to MSPs informing them that around 2,000 doors could be undercut to increase airflow.
	In a letter to Holyrood's Education Committee, she said between 2 and 4% of rooms across Scotland's schools and nurseries had been identified as having problematic carbon dioxide levels because of inadequate ventilation.
	Open a window?
	I don't know.
	I'm just suggesting.
	I know Scotland's cold, but if you've got carbon dioxide problems, if that's the real reason for the SNP's education policy failures...
	You know the neat things about doors?
	You've got these handles on them.
	You can open the door, and you can put a little bit of wood or whatever underneath, and there you are.
	You don't have to chop the door in half.
	It's now open.
	You've got your airflow.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what another person suggests.
	But anyway, she continues.
	She said this was the equivalent of around 2,000 classrooms, and £5 million would now be spent trying to improve their airflow using filtration units, extraction fans, and chopping the bottom off doors.
	Willie Rennie, the former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, attacked the SNP for only acting to improve ventilation nearly two years after the pandemic had started, and argued that schools deserved a better solution than having their doors shortened.
	The move emerged the day after Nicola Sturgeon refused again to allow secondary pupils to remove face masks in classrooms, claiming the change was still premature, despite it being made in England on January 20th.
	Ah...
	So they're still forcing kids to wear masks in Scotland.
	They're going to chop the bottom off doors, although they've since backtracked on that, because as you pointed out, firefighters came up and said, hang on a minute, this is going to increase the fire risk.
	And I feel this is a real mark of how ludicrous civilization has got, that the level of discourse in this country is you can only counter one dumb safety measure with another type of safety argument.
	It's like safety is the trump card in the deck of policy reasons here, so you have to come up with a safety reason to do anything.
	That just strikes me as a path to madness, because you end up tied up in health and safety restrictions until the end.
	Another FMSP wondered why teachers can't simply wedge the door open.
	For a sweet cost to the taxpayer of sod all.
	But why not spend taxpayers' money when you could spend taxpayers' money?
	And of course, while the state has been busy using your money to implement all of these nutty, oppressive diktats, they've been continuously flouting the same restrictions that you're forced to abide by.
	Let's remind ourselves, finally, of the more egregious lockdown breakers.
	Oh, look at that!
	Who did we mention at the start of this article?
	It's Neil Ferguson.
	Do you remember this?
	Yes.
	I wonder if you remember at home.
	Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover.
	Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing.
	So yeah, it's not just politicians, it's these scientists, these unelected, very powerful scientists as well.
	Way before the vaccine, right at the start of the pandemic, this man's modelling predicted half a million deaths and his revealed preferences show he didn't believe a word of it.
	But he still used it to lock us down.
	There's another one here which I think is interesting to talk about.
	Rita Ora, the pop star, has apologised for a second breach of the UK's COVID-19 restrictions after failing to self-isolate following a trip to Egypt.
	The 30-year-old flew to Egypt for a private corporate performance on 21st November.
	On her return the following day, she should have isolated for two weeks.
	Instead, she threw a birthday party in London, which was itself in violation of lockdown rules.
	Now, I'm actually more sympathetic in Rita's case, because she's neither a politician nor a scientist.
	She doesn't make the rules.
	She's just breaking them.
	However, the cost for her doing this is a fine of £10,000.
	It's generally true that whenever the punishment for non-compliance is a fine, this is designed to control the lower and middle class, because the wealthy, like Rita, can simply shrug it off.
	£10,000?
	I think I've got some small change.
	In general, when the rules are arbitrary and tyrannical, you could argue, YouTube, that there is a moral imperative not to comply.
	But of course, if you or I behaved in the same way, a £10,000 fine would be rather a big deal.
	Unlike Rita.
	And I'm not ragging on Rita here, I'm just using her example to point out the difference between the rich and the poor when it comes to these restrictions.
	But one person I am going to rag on is Kay Burley.
	Exclusive, I am an idiot.
	Kay Burley sent groveling email to Sky News colleagues after she was suspended for six months over 60th birthday party COVID rule breach on full pay.
	I think she should have lost her job for this personally.
	I want that on a Wikipedia page.
	Just, you know, famous quotes.
	I am an idiot.
	Quote Kay Burley.
	Yeah.
	And we were saying earlier that the media classes should not be let off the hook, even as they're ragging on the government.
	And they absolutely shouldn't be.
	Because this was not long after whipping up the furore over following COVID restrictions that ended up getting Dominic Cummings removed from Downing Street.
	Do you remember?
	What did he do?
	He drove up north to drop his kids off at their grandparents and stopped off at a station and there was something about it, a positive COVID test.
	It was against the regulations.
	Yeah.
	And so on.
	So having done that and participated in months and months and months, now two years of COVID fear mongering from the mainstream media, Kay just flaunted the rules to have a maxive birthday party with all of her mates.
	And this is the map of it.
	In the next image.
	So you can see they're jumping all around London, Soho, Mayfair, all of these places, straight after curfew.
	And she claims she just used the toilets there, but I believe when we covered this, it seemed like there was a rather extensive party going on.
	Starting, of course, with dinner at a private members club.
	It always does.
	Yep.
	Yet again, there is no shortage of elite support for plebeian restrictions.
	They themselves follow a different set of rules, and their revealed preferences show that they never believed COVID was a threat to them.
	Finally, of course, there are the politicians, and here's just some of the parties they enjoyed through all of this.
	I've got an extract from the party's timeline at Downing Street.
	13th November 2020, Johnson's chief aide, Cummings, leaves No.
	10 clutching a box of his belongings halfway through the second national lockdown.
	According to Mr.
	Cummings, a party then took place in the Downing Street flats where the Prime Minister lives with his wife.
	27th of November.
	Mr Johnson gives a speech at a leaving party for a member of staff in Downing Street during the second national lockdown.
	16th of December.
	Tier 3 restrictions come into effect in London, which is another way of saying total lockdown, meaning people were not allowed to mix indoors with anyone outside their household or support bubble.
	Two days later, a party takes place in Downing Street with 40 people in attendance.
	I mean, need I say more?
	I think this has been trammelled all throughout the media.
	People are aware of this.
	We all have our eyes on government for their lockdown breaches.
	And yes, sure, these are egregious.
	They should be held to account.
	But let's not forget the scientists who are also flouting the rules from start to finish or the elite establishment media class, exempted, by the way, from the business closures that have shut down many small and medium businesses, who are partying it up in London amid a national lockdown.
	During this time, thousands of ordinary British people were dying alone, many of them not from COVID, but from normal old age illness or other causes.
	But they were dying alone because hospitals, staff, carers, etc.
	would not allow relatives to visit.
	Even the Queen was forced to hold a minimal funeral for her husband of 70 years.
	And we have this photo here just encapsulating what the whole rest of the country was doing that was sticking to the rules while the people making them were laughing in our faces.
	Yeah.
	Ooh, what's happened?
	Someone's gone wrong with the document.
	Yes, it's been refreshing.
	Ah, okay.
	Weird.
	Oh, storage is full.
	Okay.
	Yeah, you've run out of space.
	For people wondering, we use Google Docs for just, like, notes, so I don't know what's going on there.
	Anyway, so that's over to the man tax.
	So, pay the man tax!
	So this is the jizya, I think as the Islamic world used to call it, for non-Muslims, they had to pay special tax.
	And now for people who are not part of the progressive future, such as men.
	The progressive ummah.
	White people.
	If you're cis, if you identify with your gender.
	Cis means not trans, by the way.
	So it means you...
	I'm going to end that sentence there.
	You're not part of the progressive world, so of course you have to pay a special tax.
	And we can see the examples here.
	So if we load this one up, you have libs of TikTok saying a nightclub in the UK offered tickets to an event with varying prices depending on your gender and race.
	And they give us the image here, you can see.
	And they have a BIPOC only.
	What the hell does that even mean?
	I can't even remember.
	It's black, indigenous people of colour.
	Indigenous people.
	We don't have any American Indians in Britain, so the indigenous can only surely mean, I don't know, the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons.
	This is in Britain.
	I mean, this is why the language is so foreign.
	Great.
	So I get to classify as BIPOC in Britain now.
	I get the privileged rate, 1680 only.
	I don't think they're going to see it that way, though, are they?
	So you have BIPOC only, queer women trans and non-binary BIPOC, so human, £16.80 for tickets.
	You have allies of this race war they're hopefully fighting, white trans and queer straight BIPOC women, £24.64 for a ticket for that one.
	Sorry.
	And then there's straight cisgendered men, £112.
	Love it.
	Big ol' ramp up.
	That's the man tax right there.
	And as you can see, it's a bit weird.
	And people are thinking, why is that fake though?
	Because I mean, we've got like the dashes instead of full stops that we use, the pound symbols at the end.
	No, it's real.
	It actually is real.
	So if we go to the next link, you can see the post for this.
	The tickets are no longer available.
	Surely, hang on a minute, if you're having to hang around with all of those degenerates, then £112 is what they're paying you to attend to actually make it a party?
	I have to deal with this nonsense.
	Did you know white men are the problem?
	Why do they pay to be here?
	Sounds like a real party scene, doesn't it?
	Yeah, so this is Pussy Palace, as you can see there, spelt with an X because we're edgy, I don't know, or maybe it's because no one there can identify what they are.
	And they're no longer taking ticket sales, so unfortunately you miss the party in which you have to sit around and be lectured.
	You're going to have to do other things, such as anything else.
	And so if we move on, we can actually see the company behind it called DICE actually have a website which I went to at the end of this, and it's their DICE statement, the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality, a platform for everyone, they label it, except white men.
	Or maybe they can come, but they have to pay a special tax.
	They say in here, we're dedicated to fostering a culture where everyone feels that they belong.
	Except white men.
	Our aim is to make our company and industry fairer for underrepresented communities so we will continue to hold ourselves accountable and make DAI integral to our business.
	The whole aim of the company is for making things fairer for underrepresented communities.
	And then they just have this stuff?
	There's just endless statistics about how they all identify?
	We don't do this as a company.
	We've never needed to.
	I just must point out that the way that they organise their diversity, inclusion, equity is diversity, equity, inclusion, the acronym of which is DEI, which obviously means gods in Latin.
	But these are rather the gods that they are pursuing, the carbon idols that they've set up, and they will rearrange all of society based around these idols, and you can't challenge the idols.
	They're very interesting.
	You can look at it that way, but I really do think it comes under dye, because I think they really just hate everyone.
	I think it's dye because of the death of society, but yeah.
	I think they actually just hate the people who aren't them.
	So if we go to the next one, we can see Colin Brazier of GB News actually notice this, so good boy.
	And as you can see here, him pointing out, a disco in London is charging straight white male clubbers six times more for being straight white males.
	And yes, as you can see, the Daily Mail even picked up on it.
	But then there are people in his comments specifically leftists, the kind of people who have he, him, or she, her in the bio, because you can't tell by looking at them.
	Yikes.
	And if we go to the next one, you can see someone going, you know, a big old snore to them going, actually, if you check out their FAQs before trying to start some fake Twitter outrage, you'll see what's really going on, really what is going on.
	What's the defence?
	And they write here, the people running the website.
	Who is your community?
	But also, we're not forcing you to.
	You can pay less, that's fine.
	But we've said that you have to pay less.
	That's not how the law works, honey.
	They continue, regardless of your identity, you should pay with your heart and your wallet, while keeping in mind that larger contributions supports PP's dream of being a sustainable and equitable black and brown queer and trans...
	Let's just take a breath.
	Okay.
	Lead space and allows us to give free tickets away to low-income QTIBO POC. I'm assuming that's queer trans...
	Intersex.
	Queer trans intersex...
	Indigenous.
	Bisexual people...
	Maybe they've got the INB mixed up the wrong way around.
	Maybe it's supposed to be QT BIPOC. Queer trans indigenous black people of colour?
	I mean, how small are we getting now?
	What percentage of the population are queer, trans, inter...
	I'm not even going to try, it's just silly.
	And then they end this off with saying, we do not police this, you make your decision how you feel you should pay, except on your website you have to click a box about what you're going to pay, and you do say that if you are a white cisgendered male, you have to pay this, and if you are a black, trans, queer, person of colour, more acronyms that you can count, then you pay 20 quid.
	So, no, this is not how the law works.
	It's one of the tyrannies, actually, of online forms.
	And I know that might sound like a grandiose statement, but in online forms, you can just design the form so that there is no conversation.
	You just have to do what you're told if you're applying for something.
	And that way it gets rid of all of the external complaints and issues and real concerns there might be.
	But also it's just obviously illegal, so we're not even going to have this conversation about morality because we don't even have to, because I think most of us agree on the morality of this anyway.
	It's the weird fringe, as Trudeau would say.
	And if we go to the next link, we can actually see their response to this, which is to double down.
	they're going to defend their position even though it was pointed out this is clearly criminal but whatever so as you can see the title here is uh pussy palace defends decision to change to charge straight men six times the door price the promoters behind the event who describe themselves as quote a small group of queer and trans black and brown slags i'm not even joking that's what it says that's a quote who love this work and do not have all the answers said they stand by their model completely
	They claim that straight men have harassed their guests and become violent against door staff when not adhering to the policy.
	Could you wonder why that is?
	Could you wonder why there's straight white men who turn up having to go clubbing when they're told they're paid six times?
	I just want to point out, it's not straight white men, it's straight men.
	So, yeah, there does seem to be a group of people, straight men, who are getting angry with door staff when they're picking up on this.
	Why do you say that?
	They do say white in the tickets.
	I looked, I seem to remember it was, I don't believe white was actually in the 112, I think it was just straight cisgendered men.
	Oh, maybe I'm mistaken, but someone can go back and check.
	Yeah, there's the BIPOC aspect.
	So, yeah, it is white.
	So they claim that straight white men have turned up and harassed them.
	I love how we told the straight white men you have to pay six times as much and they got upset, so we were harassed.
	Pathetic.
	Their website says straight cisgendered men don't come unless you are down to pay £100 plus.
	But adds, we do not police this, you can make your own decision as you feel you should pay.
	Well, I could just pay a pound, can't I? But my understanding is that black and brown straight cisgendered men would also have to pay the £112.
	Even though white men are excluded from the BIPOC categorisation, they're also excluded.
	But that's a point.
	Maybe.
	I mean, we're dealing with the progressive stack here.
	It's not exactly a logical conglomerate.
	But I can imagine how if you were a privileged BIPOC and you come to the door and you're being charged the white man fee, you might get pretty violent and angry.
	Don't you know I is black?
	It's no longer is I. Is it because I is black?
	Don't you know I is black?
	There's the affront of being discriminated against when you thought you were higher up the stack and would get more privilege, and then your privilege is not being recognised in the structure.
	That would be angering to people.
	But they say, quote, Help with what, exactly?
	Just creating racial division.
	I mean, you could actually argue that this does breach Britain's...
	What is it?
	The racial incitement laws.
	I don't know if gender incitement is a thing, but it, of course, breaches the discrimination aspect.
	Isn't it the Equality Act 2010?
	Of course, but also just the act that you could say, well, no, if you openly engage in racial discrimination in this manner, you're going to make people pretty upset about race relations, and that is racial incitement.
	So I'd love to see that also be thrown in the book to them.
	Quote, "As for the criticism, I hope that people will take the time to evaluate why they are upset with us when we are just one club fighting to tackle the multitudes of disparities in our community that we face and we hope this inspires people who are also creating spaces for people with protected characteristics." Protected characteristics!
	You know what they are?
	Privilegions?
	But also as written in law, because she's referencing a piece of British law, for foreigners don't know, characteristics are race, gender, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, which includes white.
	So she's actually also inadvertently saying that I could set up a white club, as in a nightclub for white people.
	Well, no, no, no, no, no.
	It's not for white people.
	I'm not discriminating.
	Just white people pay a pound, everyone else pays two million.
	But it's up to you how you want to pay.
	Club club.
	But let's go to the next one because there's more on this.
	So this is someone, as you can see in there, who's trying to defend this.
	Presumably one of the promoters or something.
	I don't know why they are jumping in the way of this.
	And they say, The black people of colour queer community is owed time to celebrate their lives when so much of it is spent having to protect, defend, and justify them.
	Okay, Jesus Christ, what are white men owed after the reign of the SJWs?
	If you're owed the right to discriminate against everyone who isn't you, what are white men owed for what the SJWs have done over the last 20 years?
	Open discrimination, lost court cases many a time.
	But the use of the word ode in this paragraph as well just really underwrites the fact that this entire ideology is based on grievance and vengeance.
	And honestly, you cannot build a positive worldview when the foundations are grievance, vengeance, resentment.
	They're full of hate.
	It's like the communists.
	They don't love the poor, they hate the rich.
	And you've got the same situation here.
	They don't love themselves, they don't love their own community, they don't love their alphabets, simple as.
	No, no, no.
	They hate all the people who aren't part of the alphabet, simple as.
	But if we go on, we can also see I did notice that the venue itself was retweeting everyone who was defending them.
	So they were openly mocking the fact that they had been caught breaking the law and didn't care.
	And I don't expect the Metropolitan Police to do anything because Metropolitan Police are full of nonce protectors, apparently.
	So I doubt they have any care for this either.
	But it's just amazing that that's the side that we live in, just openly flouting the fact that you're breaking the law.
	Why?
	Because you know the police will defend you.
	Yeah, and do you remember the Edward Colston statute trial as well?
	The police will defend them and the jury might even defend them as well if you get the right London woke jury.
	Basically, it's these people subverting all the institutions of this country to make it a miserable world.
	Enjoy.
	Enjoy.
	But that's the man tax, as you can see an example there in Britain.
	But there's also one more example I thought I'd go through for a laugh, which is in Australia.
	So if we go to the next link here, this is a lovely story.
	It has a wonderful ending.
	So this came out a year ago, but we didn't cover it at the time.
	So, Handsome Her, Australian vegan cafe to close after man tax for all.
	Handsome Her was accused of reverse sexism, otherwise known as sexism, after operating in Melbourne in 2017.
	Its owners provoked a debate by offering women priority seating and charging men an extra 18%.
	One week a month.
	I remember that.
	Yeah.
	Although non-compulsory, again, this is the weird defence of like, wait, wait, wait, I didn't force anyone to pay the man tax.
	I just put it up that you had to.
	It's not a defence.
	When you go to court, you're not going to win.
	Simple as.
	So they say in here that it wasn't compulsory.
	It reflected the gender pay gap, the owners said.
	They have made an announcement in their decision on Facebook to close down their venue because it didn't work.
	It wasn't profitable.
	I just want to say, I haven't actually heard the phrase gender pay gap for quite a while.
	It seems to have lost all of its power, doesn't it?
	Yeah, it's an earnings gap, not a pay gap.
	Exactly, and people all understand that now.
	It's lost all of its power now that people know that it's nonsense.
	Feminists are dead.
	I suspect that the Jordan Peterson-Cathy Newman interview may have played its part in killing that particular canard.
	They mentioned on Facebook about why they've shut down on their last day of business.
	The reaction to the man tax quote showed us how fragile masculinity is and solidified the necessity for us to confront and dismantle the patriarchy.
	Okay, bye-bye.
	Take your furniture with you.
	You're writing this as you close down because you're not profitable.
	The real problem was the patriarchy, not the fact that I can't do business because I'm a retarded leftist.
	In another post on Facebook, the owners insisted they were not closing because of the vitriol from men's rights activists or because of anything else.
	They said it was because they're not making enough money.
	Right.
	Sorry.
	So, I mean, you did alienate all of your customers.
	So, they denied reports that the Mantax had run their business into the ground, saying they just don't want to own the cafe anymore.
	So, I just love, like, I set up a cafe because I was, uh, don't worry, I was just pretending to want money.
	Really, I don't want any money at all.
	I hate money.
	I don't want any money.
	It's like, you can picture them crying, but they're like, why am I in debt?
	Why am I going to have to pay £500,000 for this loan I took out?
	But then we'll end this off with one more story, because this is all taking place, and no one went to jail for this.
	I mean, sure, the Australians can BTFO themselves, and the British club can have no one attend who's interesting, because everyone else is just going to be talking about the gender.
	To be honest, I think they're doing a public service by keeping all these losers out of the other clubs, but that's my opinion.
	But we can get some justice.
	And this is where I think, as we keep laying this down, we have to reckon with the fact that a civil rights movement is needed and taking place in the modern era for exactly these reasons, to combat the SJW in law.
	And as you see, this is admin sacked to improve gender pay gap win discrimination claim.
	Two white male creative directors at a top London advertising agency have won a sex discrimination claim after a female director vowed to, quote, obliterate its mad men reputation of being full of straight white men.
	Sorry, something caught in my throat there.
	five men who were axed from the agency, which is part of the WPP, because bosses urgently wanted to address its poor gender pay gap a tribunal court has ruled.
	And you might wonder why on earth a company would ever do this to itself.
	Let's take the people who built the company and fire them, and they get sued because we fired them for being men.
	And well, they actually give us a little rundown And this is quite a tragic story, frankly, of just a company killing itself and the people in it.
	So the men were dismissed in November 2018, shortly after the firm revealed a medium gender pay gap of 44.7%.
	So they figured out that there was an earnings gap between different groups.
	In this case, it happened to be sex.
	And then they S-ed the bed, because progressivism.
	A female creative director, Joe Wallace, was appointed to help the company shake off its reputation as a Knightsbridge Boys Club where white cis men create above-the-line advertising, which apparently above-the-line advertising means advertising to the widest audience possible instead of specific advertising campaigns.
	So they were all about, hey, let's build a company on the basis that we have wide-reaching advertising, and they've built a successful company, but then progressives aren't happy about it.
	Therefore, we're going to bring in Jo Wallace to start batting down the white men who have built it.
	And what did she do?
	She organized a diversity conference entitled Crisis, the Mother of All Change.
	Great.
	She's already paying dividends.
	We're all making money here.
	At the conference, Wallace, who introduced herself as a gay woman...
	No one asked.
	she just can't shut up about it said quote one thing we all agree on is the reputation of jwt once earned as being full of white british privileged men has to be obliterated what's wrong with them being british I don't know what's wrong with them being men are white.
	I mean, no, but I've heard them go on and on and on about the problem with being straight and the problem with being male, the problem with being white.
	But what's the problem with being British?
	It's indigenous.
	Therefore, it has to go.
	After they say, after the conference, Bayfield 52 and Jenner 50, who the tribunal heard, are both white, British and straight.
	So they expressed concern about the safety of their jobs.
	Which, I mean, you would, wouldn't you?
	It's like, we've just taken on this lunatic with pink hair who won't shut up about being a gay woman.
	I mean, I think she walks into the room and goes, Hi guys, I'm a gay woman.
	Okay, gay woman.
	It's like Strong Woman from South Park, so that's her name.
	And she comes out and says, I'm going to obliterate all the white, straight British men.
	And the white, straight British men at the top of the company who have built it are like, crap, does she mean us?
	Yes, she does.
	Yes.
	Quote, I found out recently JWT did a talk off-site where it vowed to obliterate white middle-class straight people from its creative departments.
	There's a lot of worried people down here, writes the guys who were fired.
	The tribunal heard that bosses thought the men were challenging the diversity drive by writing that email.
	So they say, we're going to fire all the white straight men.
	The white straight men are saying, you mean us?
	And the response is, well, you're challenging diversity.
	So...
	Could you get the mask any more off?
	And what did they do in response?
	Oh, they fired them.
	Within two days of the meeting, it had been decided that Bayfield and Jenner would be made redundant.
	What was their crime?
	They were saying, hang on a minute, are you targeting us?
	That was their crime.
	Yeah.
	As also being white, straight, British and male.
	Because those are all things you should be ashamed of.
	That's how the law should work, according to the progressive left.
	And so they have won this case, so this is the justice in it, the silver lining at the end.
	Bayfield and Jenner are in line to receive compensation, and the three other male creatives who were also sacked settled out of court.
	Well, first of all, good for them for taking this to court, because I think in order to fight this progressive nonsense, we need to become far more litigious as a culture.
	It's something we shy away from normally, but I think there's no other choice.
	Otherwise, they'll walk all over you.
	We have got all the tools.
	I mean, the law is the law.
	And until the progressives get round to butchering it even further, white men are still protected by the law.
	Men are still protected by the law.
	I think being British is also protected as an ethnic group under the Equality Act as well.
	And being straight, of course.
	So if you do have anyone trying to do this sort of stuff, sue the pants off them.
	If for no other reason, for a fat stack of cash.
	Because this is something that I would definitely, on our side of things, you know, the liberal side of racial politics, in which we don't care, and our side do have, as Harry Miller said, when he sued the police for checking his thinking...
	A sort of a very British refined version to I don't want to seem like I'm just about the money and I'm here for the principal.
	Nah, bugger that.
	Right, okay.
	You're here for the principal already because you're bloody winning and you're right.
	Don't worry about that.
	Get the money as well because they have to feel that it hurts.
	Yes.
	And this is a great example.
	If they do this to you, if you're one of those people, even if you just brought a ticket to that event, regardless of what you paid, Sue, you've got a case!
	You can make compensation, my friend!
	Call now!
	Again, we don't give legal advice, but the general principle, I think, is clear.
	Well, my legal advice, and I can give this because it is as the law writes it, which is if you are discriminated against on the basis of your protected characteristics, you can sue for compensation.
	That is just how the law is written.
	Good luck, my friends.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Well apparently it turns out Leo the fake Scotsman can't understand a Glaswegian accent.
	Disappointed but on the plus side I am glad you don't know any gay languages and I'm also glad that Callum at least you know the Big Les show so well done.
	What's your favourite character?
	I think mine's probably either Sassy or Clarence.
	What are you talking to me?
	It's got to be probably Big Les.
	I just like how belligerent he is.
	You watch the Big Les show?
	Oh, it's fantastic.
	I'll have to put it down.
	I didn't even know about it until fairly recently.
	I'm going to give her a shout.
	I don't know what she's up to these days.
	But there was a girl called Charlie from the Lisbeth who showed me it and I was like, that's amazing.
	So if you don't know what it is, you're in for a treat.
	Go and look up the Big Les show and have fun.
	And yeah, I suppose what are the gay languages?
	That's another question I've got for Jack there.
	I'm on the point of understanding Glaswegian, no one does.
	John's writing, you guys seen the other doc for comments?
	Oh, apparently we have another doc for comments as well.
	Let's have a look.
	It makes no sense to say Holocaust isn't about race because that's what Hitler believed.
	I didn't catch the start of that, sorry.
	So was it wrong or right to say the Holocaust was about race because that's what Hitler believed?
	If we can play it again, please.
	Sorry, I don't think I got it.
	It makes no sense to say Holocaust isn't about race because that's what Hitler believed.
	Yeah, it's pretty simple.
	This is something that...
	I don't know why if you're talking about a subject you wouldn't...
	Especially a genocide or a murder or whatever else.
	You wouldn't look through the eyes of the guy who did it.
	Well, this is the thing.
	This is actually a perennial failure of particularly Americans when they look through history and across the world and geopolitics, which is that they judge everything by their current moral worldview.
	They look back on, say, the Crusades and they convince themselves that it was all out of materialistic concerns.
	It's like, you've got to be insane to think that.
	And the same sort of people, they look back at Nazi Germany and they say, well, no, it must have been about something that wasn't race.
	And it's like, are you serious?
	It's about the control of oil or whatever is actually done.
	Right.
	I'm expanding the Reich to include all the Germans for oil.
	What, are you going to turn the Germans into oil?
	Yeah.
	Just stupid.
	And, of course, this isn't all Americans and all the rest of it.
	Yeah, I'm not saying all Americans.
	The leftist ones in universities are very common to do this, where they rewrite history to all be about materials, and it's just like, Just because you personally don't believe in anything and don't understand the concept of belief doesn't mean that other people in different places and different times couldn't be motivated by these passions.
	Materialistic leftists are like, I don't understand why you'd kill for the glory of God.
	Deus Vol, that's why.
	No explanation needed.
	Deus Vol.
	Allahu Akbar.
	Right.
	They're not just saying it because it's a funny phrase.
	Let's go to the next one.
	What's the matter with him?
	Is he dumb or something?
	No, he's British.
	Naturally, he couldn't dream of discussing business with you until he's been formally introduced.
	With so many new streaming platforms appearing and giving light to some truly woeful stories, it's worthwhile to preserve a memory of what came before that was so much better.
	You British.
	You'll be the death of me.
	Yes, exactly.
	Indubitably.
	I recommend the TV series The Avengers, particularly the Diana Rigg years, for some enjoyable stories that take us back to an age when Britain was proud, confident, and forward-thinking.
	Oh, that's beautiful.
	It's funny how in Japan and Korea, at least, they still have that tradition that you actually have no way of introducing yourself to a lot of people.
	I remember when I was at Samsung, I had this conversation, how would I address someone whose rank I didn't know or whose age I didn't know from a different team?
	And they basically said, well, what you would do is you would speak to your boss who would speak to their boss who would find that out and then you'd be able to start the conversation.
	It's like...
	Because you literally can't address them otherwise, unless you know those things, without being very rude.
	Mental.
	Weird.
	I put Alex in the general chat, so I'll check that out.
	I love that clip, yeah.
	Some companies have made supposedly giant fighting robots, but there haven't really been any fights because they were either too dangerous to fight or they didn't want to destroy their showpieces, and I can't blame them for that.
	Even megabots had to be super careful with their fight in order not to kill each other.
	I guess that's why some people get excited for my redneck mechs.
	They're crappy enough to be safe and affordable.
	And this fall, hopefully I'll be starting up a competition.
	I already got someone willing to be a host and help me find competitors.
	That's awesome.
	What is it going to be like?
	A first international mech fight?
	It's going to become an Olympics or something?
	Do you remember Robot Wars?
	Yeah.
	It's like Robot Wars but with mechs.
	What's not to love?
	He does make a good point about the safety aspect of a person being inside.
	So I think one of those was someone was controlling it from the back.
	I think, yeah, Robot Raw style might be better.
	Well, what you need to do, ultimately, is to, well, essentially build like a, I can't remember what they're called, but like a remote sensing suit so that you can control the mech without being in the mech, but you can control it with your actions and so on.
	I know it's technically, I don't think it's a mech at that point, it's a robot.
	It's a drone, I suppose.
	Well, whatever.
	But I think you have to do that, because the problem is otherwise you fall into the problem of all combat sports, which is in order to make them safe for the people doing it, you take actually the combat out of it.
	But you have an opportunity here, potentially with mechs, to create a real combat sport with mechs, if you can implement that rather difficult technology.
	I love building a fighting mech and then being like, well, I'm not going to have a fight.
	I love it.
	I don't want him to get hurt.
	It's like, you built a fighting mech?
	What did you think you were planning on doing it?
	Painting its nails?
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I was thinking about gender inequality.
	Specifically women in the military.
	Oh sorry Lord man.
	So let's choose a few big ticket items.
	A couple of world wars should do.
	American Civil War, why not?
	Let's crunch the numbers in Excel.
	Put it into a card chart.
	And so gender equality means an extra 35 million dead women.
	Just a thought.
	I don't know.
	Maybe we have a policy of only women can serve in the army for the next thousand years and then that'll make it up.
	Hopefully.
	That's equality.
	Stupid goal.
	I don't know why people are obsessed with equality.
	Thanks, man.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Another common rhetoric given in favor of the vaccine mandate is, yes, you have the freedom to do so, but as reasonable people have the freedom to disassociate from you.
	Do you, though?
	Is the government segregating society really the freedom to disassociate?
	It sounds like you don't have a say.
	Also, do you have the right to disassociate from blacks?
	How about women?
	I'm reminded of the interview of Jordan Peterson by Jim Jeffries.
	When pinned on how the incident with the gay wedding cake and civil rights movement are different, Peterson responded, maybe I was wrong about that.
	An interesting discussion I have yet to see is when do we have the right to disassociate and when is it immoral to do so?
	It's a wonderful question.
	I've thought about this a lot and I never got through an answer.
	The only aspect that I can say is that Peterson hasn't taken into account, in the gay wedding cake example, the speech aspect.
	Because you could argue that's not about association.
	I'm happy to have gay guys come in and buy the cupcakes, as many bakeries have argued.
	I've got no problem with that.
	But I'm, you know, Allahu Akbar, therefore I don't want to write, you know, John and John happy gay marriage or something.
	It's compelled speech, I think.
	That's a speech aspect rather than an association aspect.
	So I think Peterson has taken that into account.
	But on your question of association, I don't know, honestly.
	Because it's...
	I think I've mostly come down on the side of...
	I think you should probably just go with it.
	I think you're generally making a mistake when you...
	I think it's complicated enough that you're making a mistake when you're trying to create a general rule to impose upon that situation.
	You have to deal with it contextually in specific circumstances.
	That's the best cop-out answer, by the way, for these sorts of things.
	Sure.
	I'm sure I'm not seeing the unintended consequences, but the idea that on basis of, let's just say, protected characteristics, because this is how the law currently works, you can't disassociate I can see an argument for it.
	In the example of, like, you break down your car, you need to go on a petrol station, he says, I don't serve your kindness here, and you have to go out and walk 200 miles to the next petrol station or whatever.
	It's just easier if you can deal with it.
	A petrol station is a utility, though, so that's a different example.
	You could make this distinction and be like, this is utilities in which the law applies, never else it doesn't, but it's...
	There's going to be so many unintended consequences, I don't really know which side to take on any given issue on that one.
	Yeah, that's why I say when you're trying to create general principles, you're making a mistake.
	And then when you implement those in law, you're making a catastrophe.
	Go to the next one.
	So I'm out here in the garage and just showing you kind of what's going on here, at least for right now.
	Engines all tore apart.
	I'm rebuilding it.
	There's the block sitting right there.
	There's another engine behind it from another car that we're going to build soon.
	And you can see inline four-cylinder.
	Not really a big engine.
	And right there is a piston that I replaced the head on.
	And putting those stupid clips in to get the piston head on is a pain.
	So, I'm a bit of a big deal, but I changed my bike gear chain the other day.
	I just thought I'd leave that out there.
	No, that looks fabulous.
	Do you remember what we were saying at the start of the podcast about people having actual practical skills?
	Sorry, I was really about to sneeze, and then I didn't.
	No, that looks really cool stuff, man.
	Thank you.
	I know Carl always appreciates it well.
	He enjoys watching those ones.
	Here's a book recommendation, Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, published in the 1500s.
	This book is where we get the word gargantuan from.
	It's essentially The Simpsons, only set in the Middle Ages, full of social commentary and lowbrow humor.
	They say the more things change, the more they stay the same, and reading this book really does give you that impression, especially how it portrays the intelligentsia as the real retards.
	So did he do that artwork himself as well?
	Because that looks fabulous.
	Great piece of digital art.
	That's really good stuff.
	You're the real retard.
	He's not wrong.
	Thanks.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, I'm just about done.
	My protest sign is gonna waterproof it and then attach it to a pole.
	I have my battery packs, charger for my heated vest, got my fuzzy socks, Canadian flag, and I got new brakes on the Jeep.
	So, tomorrow morning, 16 hours after I leave, I'll be in Ottawa.
	Godspeed.
	Thank you for your service.
	We were discussing the Canadian flag before we started as well.
	Do you want to tell the story about NASA? Well, it's part of the story.
	There's a lot of aspects to it.
	But apparently one of the reasons that Canada had the referendum to change its flag was because they were peacekeepers in Egypt after the Suez Crisis and NASA objected to their flag because it had the Union Jack in the top corner.
	But I actually quite like the old school Canadian flag, and I'm glad that many of the provinces have basically inherited it and altered it slightly for their provincial flags.
	We were thinking of making an edited version of the old flag, but the icon has a big old truck and a moose and a few bits in it.
	You can make it stylistic as well, like inside the Crescent or whatever.
	You can get rid of one of them and just redo it so there's a truck in the background in a nice way that fits in with the surroundings.
	It'd be good to remember, especially if Trudeau does get yeeted.
	Oh, I hope so.
	Surely he can't come back from this.
	Go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another legend of the pines, the ghost of Rowan University.
	This ghost supposedly haunts the Rowan University campus at Bunce Hall, which is part of the theater program.
	It also encompasses Toehill Theater, which is named after Elizabeth Toehill, and legend has it that the ghost is actually Elizabeth Toehill, attending shows and going to rehearsals.
	Apparently you get a little more for your tuition at Rowan.
	We also get spooked in the night.
	I did also see there in the side it said, what was it, Fields of Screams?
	I want to know what that is.
	So, if you need an idea for the next one, I definitely want to know what the hell that is.
	Always thank you.
	Always good to see you and Joe.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Okay, Kellum, so you asked me how much I make to do a panel tie-in.
	I make over $30 an hour, and since a panel tie-in takes me about half a day, then I make more than $100 to tie in a panel.
	If I were to get a job working for a union or doing industrial commercial work, I could probably make a slightly higher hourly wage, but the type of work that I do in residential is just significantly more rewarding.
	Yeah, I mean, it looks so as well.
	Yeah, I can see because you're actually helping people out when you're doing residential stuff.
	It's not like something for an office or a company or helping people.
	I can see that.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Excellent, I guess, no.
	Last night our Chief Minister here back at home announced that the island is going to scrap all its current COVID regulations.
	That includes the legal requirement to isolate when you come down with COVID. It's also going to scrap any requirements for travel documentation, requirements for vaccines just to enter the island.
	Which island is this?
	I don't know.
	I'm assuming New Zealand is my guess.
	Because I don't know which other island he's proposing.
	Could be Channel Islands or something.
	Maybe, yeah.
	He doesn't sound New Zealand.
	No, no, his accent isn't.
	Maybe I was thinking about that because of the story we did.
	But otherwise...
	Yeah, I like how you tested positive for COVID and you no longer have to quarantine.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Good to know.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hi guys, you're right.
	I just heard a Advert on Talk Radio for a government website called Share Checklist.
	And it's a checklist for people that they should look through, that they should go through on posts for social media to make sure that they're not sharing misinformation.
	Probably something you should look into.
	Cheers, guys.
	Thanks.
	Isle of Man, in case someone has been here.
	Right, okay.
	I really hate the term misinformation.
	Ah,.gov.uk.
	I'll check that out.
	Thank you.
	I'm not going to go on a big rant about it, but it's just...
	So there's a separate doc for today's comments.
	Have you got it up?
	I'll start.
	There is a bunch on the Truckee stuff, so I can just start here.
	So the Minicus Monicus says, One hunk to free them all.
	One hunk to find them.
	One hunk to bring them all.
	And in liberty and maple syrup, bind them.
	Honk on, my brave friends across the pond.
	You're a symbol of hope for all of us out here in the barren wasteland of continental Europe.
	You certainly are.
	Honestly, it is actually really inspiring just to see it all taken place.
	It's very wholesome.
	I do think the Anglo-Nations have a lot more in common than the political ties suggest.
	And, you know, it kind of feels like by supporting Canada, you're protesting for us as well.
	I feel like we should strengthen the ties.
	I mean, I think if you're Canadian and you come to the UK, you can vote.
	Europeans don't get to vote.
	They shouldn't be allowed to.
	But quite frankly, we don't really have any combatants, mainly with the idea of Canadians.
	I think it was one of the huge foreign policy blunders of the post-war governments in the UK to essentially tell the former Commonwealth to get shafted.
	Anyway, that's a discussion for another day.
	But especially the Anglo nations because of the common heritage, the fact that you've got the same language.
	The integration is so much easier.
	Maybe it's the previous one or the current one.
	The leader of the Bank of England is Canadian.
	It's just fine.
	Brother.
	Sorry.
	Tom Wei says the honking will continue until policy improves.
	It certainly will.
	Reece Sim says, How long will it be until the word honk is labelled as a white supremacist label and join the ranks of the OK sign and it's OK to be white?
	Then the geese will be on our side with them.
	We shall be on top of more.
	Ha ha ha.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, good luck trying to make the Canada goose a symbol of white supremacy.
	We can try.
	There's nothing stopping us.
	It's a good idea, Rhys.
	Alfred the Vader says, make a tyrant act like a tyrant.
	The only way Trudeau can win is through force.
	Since they're still pretending that this is about safety, they need justification to use force.
	They have been denied justification by truckers and Ottawa police acting responsibly.
	As long as the truckers don't quit and are wary of false flags, they're going to win.
	The government is acting hysterically, and that's an expression of weakness, not power.
	Yeah, and there have been examples of people who have been found sort of all masked up and a bit suspicious on with a confederate flag and things like that.
	Let me go to the anti-mask protest for the mask.
	Yeah, and you can imagine how, for example, certain nations' secret agencies might want to infiltrate this process and discredit it.
	Not saying that that's happening, but I would see it as believable.
	Because they need that justification desperately, and they are desperate.
	But also, they are going to win.
	I mean, you can see by Trudeau's tweets alone, if not.
	All truckers need to do is sit in, keep honking.
	It's not hard.
	Keep having fun.
	Honkity honk honk honk.
	Yep.
	Learn how to play some tunes.
	Come on, with the honks.
	Yeah.
	Be creative with it.
	Have fun.
	Create a fiesta, festival atmosphere.
	Play more hockey.
	Make more pizza, you know.
	Yeah.
	But also if you're around, I mean, you know, take them some Polish sausages or whatever else.
	Take them some muffins.
	I did see the Freedom Truckers posted.
	There was some grandma who's made like 100 muffins.
	And then they took the 100 muffins down and just gave it to random people.
	That's amazing.
	Yeah.
	Good support.
	Freewill2112 says the left are now mainly the urban middle class who work in the public sector or media for the most part.
	The sort of democracy they're talking about is the same sort as practiced in the people's democracies of the former communist bloc like East Germany.
	Yeah, just look at a voting map.
	If you break it down, it's always the cities versus the royals.
	Everywhere now.
	Not just in America, not just in Britain, Canada, everywhere.
	It's the same thing.
	And I know it's always been a somewhat of that aspect.
	But it's got so extreme now, I think that is really the divide.
	The different attitudes to everything that stem from that.
	Student of History says, I find it hilarious that the Ottawa commissariat believes that this is the main strike.
	This is the polite warning.
	They do not manage to remove the actual peaceful protests without giving into escalation.
	They would be halting deliveries.
	That being said, nice guy truckers being nice guys.
	Yeah.
	No, that's true.
	Like, this is not even their final form.
	So, I'll end on this for this one.
	So, Edward Woodstock says, Protests for freedom.
	Receives money in support.
	Uses money to make free pizzas for everyone.
	Even the leftists.
	Ladies love them.
	Goddamn, these guys are total shats.
	Right on, you son of a guns.
	Keep on truckin'.
	That guy who was criticized in calling them Visigoth chats.
	It's like, ah, brilliant.
	What you talking to me about?
	Sorry, I love Sasquatch speech.
	On COVID policies, we have Lord Nerevar saying it's absolutely unbelievable just how wrong Sage and the modelers were every single time they spoke and how it took so long for the government to tell them where to stick it.
	Policy is not decided by science, especially when said science is wonky and unproven.
	Paul Neubauer says it's the same modelling that drives climate hysteria and the same motivations.
	Yes, absolutely.
	I've got a series of articles that are sort of on the back, trundling along, trying to lay this all out.
	But you can see that there is absolutely a common thread between the way that a lot of the COVID hysteria and a lot of the climate hysteria is propagated.
	Well, it's also with the models.
	I mean, Jordan Peterson said this on Joe Rogan's podcast a couple of days ago, but it's a great point, and everyone just skipped over it.
	He was saying the fact that if you were to model your life, for example, if you tried to do that for yourself, well, you can kind of guess that tomorrow's going to be kind of like the day, and then the day after is going to be kind of like two days before, and then so on.
	But then the error bars get bigger and bigger, and eventually you're looking at 100 years, and you're just like, oh, well, you know.
	Let alone 100 years.
	So even just saying, okay, where am I going to be in five years' time?
	That's very challenging.
	It could be anywhere.
	But then when you're talking about something as complex as the climate and all the changes that are going to take place in relations to it, good.
	This is why I think that a lot of the scientists have essentially deluded themselves.
	And I think there are some valid conclusions you can draw about the climate and that.
	I'm not taking anything away from that.
	But there is a lot of the debate that has been propagated through pure propaganda mechanisms.
	And if you care about science, then you need to be very, very sceptical of that, I think.
	Bleach Demon says, modelling as a basis for health policy is akin to using weather forecasting to predict how wet your shoes are going to get.
	Let's go, Trudy, eh?
	Sorry, bleach demons.
	Great, great handle.
	Drew Doomhand says, we keep being told that no rights are absolute, that we should trust the science.
	However, based on what you've shown us in this segment, as well as what we've seen with our own eyes for the past two years, that science isn't some sort of absolute itself, like it's meant to be challenged and questioned constantly.
	The authorities seem to be wrong about the absolutism of science, so perhaps they are also wrong about the lack of absolutes in the natural rights of man.
	Thank you.
	and they seem to have a very basic understanding of philosophy.
	I was talking to my brother about this yesterday actually, he's a scientific researcher and I found it very interesting how we basically came to the conclusion that most scientists don't understand the philosophy of what they're doing but they understand what they're doing So they understand it as in it's the job that they do and they've been doing it for years and years and years and years.
	But if they're actually challenged and brought, okay, so what's the epistemic basis for the conclusions you come to?
	A lot of them would actually struggle to really lay it out, to identify the nature of scientific inquiry and discovery and so on.
	So I found that quite interesting.
	Ross says, During the lockdowns, the hospital trust I worked for closed all exits and entrances bar two.
	One was for staff, the other for all patients.
	So to protect people from an infectious disease, they made all people travel through the same areas at the same time.
	I pointed out the issue and asked repeatedly for the evidence-based practice for this rationale.
	I was met with silence by the management, none of which are medically trained.
	Good to know.
	You know that when he asked that, they all realized and just knew they couldn't say anything?
	I saw a clip recently.
	Have you ever been to a supermarket now?
	There's like the conveyor belt, and then the lady, and there's a big plastic screen in front of the lady.
	And there's some guy in a video who's just like, oh, I got to pay with cash to her.
	He's just like throwing the cash at the plastic screen.
	Oh, it doesn't go through.
	Oh, I'll just step over here.
	And then look, we're face to face.
	Oh no!
	So this does nothing?
	Yeah.
	Minicus Monicus points out a good point from the segment I did, which was a criticism of the first article that I quoted.
	As much as I enjoy outcome-based criticism of lockdowns and other COVID policy, I feel as if it risks discounting the ethical considerations involved.
	Pointing out how lockdowns are probably more disastrous than COVID itself implies they would be all right if the virus were more dangerous.
	I think most of us here agree the government not having any right to lock its population down as a matter of principle, regardless of outcomes.
	I think it's very important to remember that.
	And I definitely sympathize with that point of view, though I can understand if our audience is split between that view and the idea that if there was something super infectious, I don't know, Ebola or something, Black Death, then there might be justifications for actual public health restrictions.
	I think there is a debate to be had there.
	But certainly the lockdowns we had for the virus we had are wildly disproportionate.
	I think everyone can agree.
	It's comical, frankly.
	Yes.
	And shall we move on to the comments for the last section?
	There's some great comments that we have to skip as we're running out of time.
	Sure.
	So George Hap says the price differentials in clubs are nothing new.
	Usually the target of discrimination is men, since they see having women in there as more profitable.
	But this is taking it to a more intersectional direction for virtue signaling rather than the honeypot for thirsty dudes.
	Yeah, I didn't, people have mentioned, you know, ladies' nights or whatever, and that's a case.
	It is also illegal in the UK, so you can't do that anymore, by law.
	You haven't been able to do it for tens of years at least.
	But the aspect of this is, as they explain, the people who ran this, they did it for intersectional reasons, they explained their reasoning.
	White men have more, we have less, therefore Gibbs, right?
	Go to jail.
	I don't know what else to say.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there is a strong business case, though, for ladies' nights, because if you get more women into the establishment, then the men will come.
	Whereas if you get more men into the establishment, it doesn't follow that the women will come.
	This is also the folly of equality law, fundamentally, which is just, it ends up butting against reality as well.
	Yes.
	Well done, government trying to control our economy.
	So, Jimbo G says, can you imagine the sort of people who are attending that nightclub?
	The toilet may as well be an inclusive hole in the ground.
	Oh, thanks, Jimbo.
	That's fantastic.
	Yeah, I do think it would be a public service if they just let them all in and locked the doors.
	Anyway.
	Frankly, yeah, I mean, it's got to be one of those places where we're just like, we only have unisex toilets here.
	Do the Japanese toilets, the hole in the ground, the old-style ones, where it's just like, you've got to squat.
	Just make it terrible on purpose.
	Chinese toilets, yeah.
	So you can see Agent000 says, as long as I have alternatives, I don't mind the woke-only business.
	As a matter of fact, I enjoy avoiding them.
	Certainly the case.
	I mean, it...
	If it was the case that we had none of these laws, sure, and it would be hilarious.
	If nothing else, we can still condemn them and say it's morally wrong, but whatever, if you guys want to waste your evenings talking about feminism, go for it.
	But, you know, all these laws are there, so use them.
	Why not?
	So, I don't know if we can find a short one there, but we'll go for the honourable mention for the end of this.
	It's just M07 says, Truck Frudo.
	Truck Frudo, indeed, my friends.
	But let's end on that.
	So, if you want more from us, of course, go over to LotusEars.com, subscribe to get access to all the premium content, and it helps keep the show running, of course.
	But otherwise, we'll be back on Monday at 1 o'clock.
	Thank you and goodbye.

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