Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters episode 329.
I am your host, Harry, joined today by Leo.
Hello!
And today we're going to be looking at a few things.
We're going to be taking a look at the woke nonsense at this year's Super Bowl, which just passed by.
The Tories supposedly stealing the wealth of black families, and finally, Justin Trudeau invoking all-out war on the honky-boy truckers.
But before we get into any of that, we've got a few announcements to make.
First of all, we've got a new premium video for all of our premium members, which was a discussion between Carl and Luke Avery, who is someone we had on the show before, talking about the wisdom of, and I'm going to try and pronounce this as best I can, 60% sure I pronounced correctly.
Who was ecclesiastic?
Because I've heard the phrase ecclesiastical.
I'm not totally sure what it means.
I'm not the right guy to ask about this.
I should have checked with Carl beforehand.
Maybe we need to watch the video.
Yeah, maybe we should have watched the video.
But...
If you watch the video, I'm sure it's very interesting.
Carl and Luke have had a very interesting discussion before, and I'm sure this will follow in turn.
If we move along, we've got a new article from John, The Conquest of Decadence, which I've not had a chance to look at yet, because it's been released this morning.
But as far as I can tell, it's talking about the capture of the West by decadent attitudes and behaviours, some of which I'm sure you would highly approve of, but someone like John does not.
Well, I think there's different ways of looking at it.
Oliver Dowden today in his speech described wokeism as a decadence.
I would absolutely agree with that.
Which I can agree with, but none of those woke people are having sex or doing drugs or anything.
They're all too busy sitting around overthinking things.
But the decadence, I think, comes in having the time and resources to sit around overthinking things.
It's why wokeism is a new class system.
Because if you don't have time and the money to buy all these books, to buy the 58 books telling you how to not be a racist and to have your subscription to The Guardian and The New European or whatever, then you're not going to be au fait with all the new terms and the rapidly changing tenets that you've got to follow.
Yeah, I'd agree with you on everything there.
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Oh, okay.
Fair play.
And without any further ado, let's get into the news.
So...
The Super Bowl has just passed by this Sunday on February the 13th, and it's just another example of the long march of capturing all of the institutions.
The NFL, as I'm sure many of you are aware, has long been a place where wokeism has thrived.
In fact, the NFL and Colin Kaepernick is where this whole kneeling business started in the first place.
Although, at least back in 2016, when all that started, the NFL had the good decency to say, no, you can't do that.
That's disrespectful to the national anthem and the nation.
But now, they're openly endorsing it, as we will find out.
One of the first things I'd like to point out regarding all of this is the classic hypocrisy of all of the elites and all of the establishment.
Breaking their own rules when it comes to mask wearing.
So I've got this article up here, the Post Millennial, talking about LA Mayor Eric Garcetti defying his own public health guidance and going maskless to the Super Bowl.
So just for a bit of context, I believe LA currently has one of the strictest mask mandates going on, where even school children are still having to wear masks, whether or not that is effective or not.
And bear in mind it's for a disease that barely affects children.
Yes, it absolutely is.
And I think one of the recommendations that went out city-wide was that if you were going to the Super Bowl, you should wear a mask to prevent the spread of COVID. But of course, even the mayor didn't really stick to it and had some pretty ridiculous excuses as to why.
So the LA Department of Health issued an advisory prior to Sunday's big game saying that face masks would be required at the stadium in an attempt to curb the spread.
Eric Garcetti, the restriction-crazed mayor, showed up to the Super Bowl to root for his hometown Rams and notably did not wear a mask.
Garcetti recently claimed that when he was unmasked at the NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams, just as a heads-up as well, by the way, I have no idea who any of these teams are.
I'm not particularly into English football, let alone disgusting American football.
So you're going to have to just bear with us here.
I don't know how interested you are.
I'm not really interested.
There's too many numbers, too many stats.
It's like watching an Excel spreadsheet.
It's too stoppy-starty.
I don't like regular football.
The only decent sports are ones where people are fighting.
Yeah, I'll agree with you there.
To be fair, these guys run into each other and ram into each other.
That's close enough to fighting.
They do give themselves a lot of spinal injuries and head injuries that lead to behavioural problems later in life, and they murder their families and stuff, which I guess is slightly entertaining, but mostly...
Sports where people aren't fighting are boring, and if a fight broke out at the Super Bowl, everybody would turn around and watch the fight, because fights are more interesting.
And that's why people watch hockey, right?
Yeah.
Anyway, so two some days ago, it was also at the same stadium that he was watching this game, but apparently, supposedly, he was simply holding his breath.
Why isn't that an option for everybody?
Why can't I do that on the train?
I mean, I don't wear a mask on the train anyway, because I'm exempt.
Because if you say you're exempt, you don't have to wear a mask.
It's an amazing system.
But why can't I just hold my breath everywhere?
If I get stopped, I'll just be like, no, I'm holding my breath.
Well, I mean, the COVID can't get to me if I'm holding my breath.
Yeah, I mean, obviously when I explain that I'm holding my breath, I'll have to stop holding my breath.
Remember, if COVID comes near and you're not wearing a mask, you just say no.
Yeah.
That's the classic.
I wore my mask the entire game and when people ask for a photograph, I hold my breath and I put it up here and people can see that, he said.
There's a 0% chance of infection from that, he continued.
I put my mask right back on to make sure that there is no spread and I think that we should all follow that advice until we're out of this period.
I missed that bit of the advice.
That advice was never given out.
It never said, oh, you can take the mask off if you hold your breath.
I've never seen that advice.
It's safe for specifically the amount of time I have my mask off for.
Yeah.
Any other time is deadly, but safe when I do it.
So school children of LA, remember, if you need to wear a mask and you don't have one on you, just hold your breath.
What's the danger?
Just hold your breath.
And on a serious, very serious note, the masks are causing huge problems in schools and with young children.
Children are starting to speak at a later and later age because they can't see people's...
You learn to speak from watching somebody's lips.
We actually have an article on that written by, I think, a neuroscientist talking about the neurological development of being able to recognise emotions within people's faces and just talking about how it's really affecting these children's ability to empathise with one another.
And it's even worse because in LA the restrictions aren't just so that you have to wear the normal cloth masks.
They have to wear, like, basically airtight, sealed, heavy-duty masks as well.
Right, jeez.
Yeah, so it's not great.
But we've just got loads of examples of all the different celebrities and establishment elites being at this game without masks.
So we can just scroll through a few of them here.
John, if you want to move along.
Yeah, the next tab.
So here's just a video here.
There's Matt Damon without a mask and somebody else.
Yeah, yeah.
I think...
I forget who that is.
That might be the mayor himself.
Yeah, yeah.
Some celebrities.
Yeah.
Thanks as well.
There's LeBron James, of course, probably holding back tears.
Why did he cry?
He cries at everything.
Charlize Theron.
Libs of TikTok, Mark Wahlberg, doing a great job of keeping track of all of this.
Sean Penn, all of whom are, as we all know, liberal Hollywood elites who would probably condemn you to death for not wearing a mask around them.
Yeah.
Yeah, and we can just scroll through a few more of these, if we just keep moving along, John.
Here's just a spreadsheet, almost, of all of them.
You've got Ellen in the top left corner, Cardi B's there, Mark, no, not Mark, what's the name of that guy who plays himself in every...
Ryan Reynolds, Snoop Dogg, loads of people, all of them completely maskless against LA's strict guidelines that said otherwise.
And let's just keep going to see what people are saying.
Yeah, there's Ellen...
That was Boris Johnson.
Close enough.
There's Ellen in a crowd, and then Ellen's crowd itself, which, as we can see, is all completely masked, because it's very, very dangerous when other people don't have their masks on.
But when these people don't...
Eh, you know, it just sort of skirts around them.
She could be played by Christopher Eccleston in a film.
Oh god, she could.
Is this the new Doctor transformation?
Is this the regeneration?
Anyway, if we keep going, let's just take a look at some more of these people.
You've got the Youth Orchestra, the LA Youth Orchestra, which are all having to wear masks, except for the singers.
Because that makes sense.
I mean, we've seen images of those people who are having to play their horn instruments through little slots...
In their masks.
Why aren't these singers wearing masks?
With just a little mouth flap on them.
Masks are just for the little people.
If we keep going along as well, we can see that people are actually fighting back against this.
Where, as the game was going on, some plane flew over and decided to write this wonderful message in the sky that just says, Unmask our kids.
And, you know, it may be a bit of a superficial gesture, but it's still something, isn't it?
The people are trying to fight back.
I wonder how long it took for that to be described as far-right neo-Nazism.
Oh, I'm sure it was as people were going just on the ground, they were probably just whispering it to one another.
Did you see that Wormack fighter just riding in the sky above us?
Yeah, let's move along again.
The other thing that was funny about this was that The Rock decided he was going to show up after being fresh from stabbing Joe Rogan in the back.
He decided to open up this instead, where he, libs of TikTok pointing out that he says, ladies and gentlemen, and they are in LA, what about all the non-binary people?
This is not very inclusive, Mr.
The Rock.
Sorry, one moment.
There we go.
And if we go along again, I just included this.
This is just a funny clip that people can watch if they want to remember The Rock backstabbed Joe Rogan about saying the N-word when there's some hilarious clips of The Rock from his old WWE days speaking Chinese in quotation marks.
In fact, just play a bit of this clip, John, if you just want to click on it, just so we can hear it.
Okay, if The Rock didn't run over Stone Cold, then who did?
Who's going to step forward?
Now, Mick, if you need even further clarification, let The Rock tell you in Chinese.
Chinese?
Oh, that wouldn't fly nowadays.
Oh, my God, that's an actual heat crank.
That's what we need.
Just pause that now.
I think the LAPD needs to be on that right now.
He might still be in the city.
There's still time.
I hope he isn't ever working again.
I mean, he needs to be cancelled.
Same as Stuart Lee, who says the N-bomb a huge number of times in a comedy set recorded at the stand.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Fair play.
But it wasn't the masks and it wasn't the hypocrisy that was the only thing that we saw at the Super Bowl.
There was also, of course, woke virtue signalling from Eminem, of all people.
A man who, if I cast my mind back to when I was three years old, a time I remember greatly, was accused of appropriating black culture.
Back in the late 90s when his career started and people were saying white people aren't allowed to rap, the only white rapper I recognise is Vanilla Ice.
Yeah, and bear in mind he did actually appropriate black culture.
And also his whole shtick was God sent me to piss the world off.
So he was there to agitate and push back against the orthodoxy.
And now he's become, he's kneeling to the orthodoxy.
Well, I mean, he's still agitating the normal people.
He's still pissing me off, so...
You're not normal, though.
I'm talking about the...
You're the mainstream...
The normies, yeah.
Yeah, that's fair.
But Eminem decided it was his time to say no to oppression and racial prejudice in the US and decided to take a knee in the middle of the Super Bowl 2022 halftime show, despite the fact that supposedly there'd been leaks saying that you weren't supposed to do that.
But...
That doesn't really seem to hold any water if we carry on.
So Eminem sent a message.
And he's going to be releasing a German polka album.
Oh really?
Yeah.
I'm sure that'll fly.
In recognition of his whiteness.
I would hope so.
Eminem sent a message by kneeling in the middle of the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday after reports surfaced earlier in that day stating the NFL would not allow the rapper to do so.
The Lose Yourself entertainer kneeled during the end of the show Now, why didn't he let Kendrick, why didn't he let Snoop take the knee?
Surely this is just taking attention away from black voices and stealing the spotlight.
This is a grave demonstration of white supremacy in the entertainment industry, Eminem, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
The great of Mary J. Blige's middle name was Olivia.
I don't get that.
Anybody out there, I'm sure you get that.
So, articles published earlier on Sunday suggested that the rapper would be barred from kneeling Colin Kaepernick style and that Dr.
Dre would be censored from saying his lyric, Still Not Loving the Police, while performing his song Still Dre.
But NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy denied that certain elements of the performance caught anyone off guard.
It was no surprise to us.
We watched all the elements of the show during multiple rehearsals this week, And it's such a middle-aged sort of, you know, all this stuff, like obviously Dr.
Trey, like back in the late 80s, you know, when there was a huge amount of racial discrimination in Los Angeles, especially, you know, from the police department and stuff, you know, you can understand it was like it was raw, they were young, it was from the streets.
Now, they're all billionaires, they're all middle-aged, and it's the most sort of orthodox, just...
Well, it's far less profitable to let go of all of that hatred that you've got in you.
Well, I don't think it's hatred anymore.
I think it's trotting out these platitudes.
It's very performative.
You know, F the police is a platitude now.
It's just something that everybody says.
NWA really meant it when they first came out.
Yeah, that's when it was raw and angry, and now it's just a thing that they're doing to make money, and because it's the right thing to say.
Well, yeah, it's the politically correct thing to say, absolutely.
So, NFL initially banned players and team personnel from sitting or kneeling during the national anthem, policy that was approved by all NFL team owners, save for the San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York back in 2018.
The policy stated that players wishing to protest could just stay in the locker room.
So just Stay out of sight.
probably the best way to deal with it.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodall said at the time that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic.
And who would think that a communist, anti-American gesture like that would be unpatriotic?
It wasn't until Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, after the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, that the NFL admitted that it was wrong for its treatments of players and personnel, We, the NFL, admit that we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encouraged all to speak out and peacefully protest.
We, the NFL, believe that Black Lives Matter.
So there you have it.
If the NFL had been kneeling, perhaps Derek Chauvin wouldn't have been.
And we can get a picture of...
I've got to be honest, if George Floyd came back tomorrow, the last thing he went to see is people kneeling.
That's a good point.
That's a very good point.
But we can just see from the responses that some people have had that this sort of token performative gesture...
Doesn't really work for all of the race baiters out there because they're still not happy.
You're still racist in their eyes.
They will never be happy.
Don't let the NFL's very black Super Bowl halftime show obscure the fact that it's still being sued by black coach Brian Flores, who said the NFL remains rife with racism.
And this is from someone called Emeon Abanga.
Remember the NFL blackball Colin Kaepernick and Jay-Z's social justice initiative for the NFL and has produced zilch.
So...
Even if you're virtue signaling now, we don't care.
Fair point.
It's all corporate window dressing.
It's all just marketing for these people.
I agree.
I don't agree with the initial statements that the NFL is racist in the first place, given that I think if you were to take the demographics of their players...
Oh yeah, but that's like saying slavery's not racist, because look at the demographics of the people working in the fields.
Oh, don't go all Colin Kaepernick on me.
Come on, they're not slaves.
They've got a choice.
Yeah, they've got a choice, but if we're talking about power imbalances, Prince was getting paid millions of dollars.
He still wrote Slave in His Face.
Yeah, that was performative as well.
I think the fact that it's white-owned and they have black players, that's the sort of imbalance...
Is that not just how the cards have fallen due to the positions where people have decided to try and focus their efforts?
Certain people have tried to get into the management and then certain people have tried to get into the actual...
Well, certain people had the opportunity to get into the management because of structural racism!
I think there's a fair point there, but I think the point is this is all just woke window dressing.
The NFL just wants to be doing the right thing.
I do agree that if there are disparities that are being caused by actual prejudice, this is not actually solving anything.
If Biden had got in and pulled his mask off and been like, look, I'm an authoritarian dictator, instead of leaving his mask on and being, look, I'm an authoritarian dictator.
If they're an authoritarian dictator, for example, they're in an Islamic revolution, then the NFL would be making everybody pray.
Instead of take the knee.
You know what I mean?
They're just doing whatever's the most politically expedient thing for them.
Yes, but the whole point is that they're very, very upset that a lot of the coaches are all white when the black players are now being controlled by the evil white coaches who are definitely doing it purely for the power, not so that they can just help the teams strategize and win or anything like that.
This is a point that Colin Kaepernick made in that ridiculous Netflix documentary that was released a few months ago, where he literally compared the lineup for trying out for a team to the old slave markets, which is just a ridiculous comparison, because if you don't want to be an NFL player, you can just walk away.
Yeah, it's pretty offensive to slaves.
And bear in mind, there's more slaves in the world now than there were at the peak of the transatlantic slave trade.
Yeah, these people are far, far too pent up on old injustices.
Yeah, because the old injustices, nobody can answer back.
There's no argument.
It's this tenet.
You can just...
Can go along with the flow.
If you wanted to stop slavery now, you'd have to go to Libya, you'd have to go to African countries, the Middle East, China.
You'd have to go and deal with difficult people who have a lot of power and aren't just white.
Now we've become accustomed to this mantra in the media that whiteness is evil.
And so obviously if you confront slavery now, it's not being done by white people.
Absolutely.
I mean, a lot of it wasn't also being done by white people back in the day as well, because it was a global institution.
Where do you think, you know, they bought the slaves?
Where do you think the word slave comes from?
Slav.
That's where it came from, because they were just known for being the slave population, the slave class.
But anyway...
Anyway, there are other articles that you can find.
And the first slaves, well, indentured servitude, which is sort of like slavery, but you get your freedom back, you can sort of work and buy your freedom back after like seven years or something.
The first indentured slaves in the Caribbean were Scots and Irish.
Luckily, we're terrible slaves because we're just like totally sunburnt.
Well, what I know is that in America they used to...
They left us in the sugarcane plantation, came back the next day, we chopped all the sugarcane down and built a job centre out of it and we're in there signing on, you know?
But then also, like, indentured servitude, you've got to come back to Aberdeen after seven years working in Jamaica, cutting down sugarcane, and try and get a job in Aberdeen.
And they're like, what skills have you got?
And you're like, well, I'm really good at chopping down sugarcane.
And they're like, well, all we've got is turnips.
Anyway, there's another article that I've just got up here, which is just talking about, John, if you'd like to move along.
Just talking about Super Bowls, woke capitalism.
So they're basically making the points that you're making, just saying that, you know, like, if they actually wanted to address some kind of disparities, they wouldn't just be putting all this window dressing up.
It's window dressing, you know what I mean?
I genuinely think, you know, Colin Caper, I don't agree with what he's done.
I don't agree with taking the knee, but I think there is, you know, some sort of structural racism...
In the NFL? I would disagree without being presented with hard evidence, and a lot of it just seems...
All the rich guys are white.
All the old rich guys are white.
All the black guys are rich as well.
What are you on about?
Yeah, they're rich as well.
They're rich as well, but they're rich for doing a different thing.
They're rich for running around banging heads off each other.
Oh no, you got paid millions of dollars for doing something else.
Oh, this must be racism.
What are you on about?
I think, you know, the coaches, I mean, what we see in the UK, where we don't have these issues, you know, we don't have the sort of historic issues with race that the US has got, because, you know, black people came here, they were invited here, they weren't, you know...
I think we should probably just try and get through the rest of the...
But I think here we've got, you know, you see many more, you know, black coaches and things.
Yes, yes, that's fair.
But if we move along, Biden has also weighed into this saying that the NFL hasn't lived up to its commitments.
So now you've got the President of the United States himself deciding that he wants to weigh into the wokeness and agree with all of this.
Why is the president getting involved?
This is more window dressing.
This is more him waving to all his little blue-haired fans being all like, hey, look, I'm doing something for Black Lives Matter.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Run the country!
Run the country!
I mean, how many compilations can you find of Biden saying the N-word?
Oh, man!
Quite a few, I'll just say that.
Yeah, Christ, if he was a stand-up comedian, he'd be cancelled by now.
And, of course, after any sort of sporting event, any football game, you have to have violence and riots, because after a sharing of peace and love...
Throughout the country, trying to bring all the races, all the different people together under the banner of sport.
Everything always goes to chaos when people split down team lines and start rioting.
So are those Canadian truckers, I'm assuming, seen as they're the biggest threat to humanity?
They must be.
They must be trying to throw an insurrection right there.
So you can see looting, people just running around the streets, smashing stuff.
Move along, and we've got this video, which I think would be absolutely terrifying to be in this situation, of just a man in a white truck.
It doesn't really bring back the videos of the LA riots that you saw from the early 90s.
People just trying to drive through LA in a white truck and loads of people just for no real reason jumping on it, stamping on it, presumably getting ready to sue him when he tries to drive off and they fall off.
So peace and love has truly been brought.
And just to really cap it all off, if we move along, there's this getter post here from Drew Hernandez.
Scroll down just talking about how a rapper, Kodak Black, And three others were shot at a Justin Bieber concert over the weekend as well.
So LA, ever the den of scum and villainy that it is.
How are they doing?
I don't know.
Imagine, like, there's a shooting at a Justin Bieber concert and they don't get Justin.
That's the tragedy.
That is the tragedy here.
But in the end, remember that when these celebrities, famous football stars and elites, when they make these gestures, they say that they're standing up to the establishment, but also they think they're standing up to you, the normal person out there.
They're standing in line with the establishment.
The people who are standing up to the establishment, like the Canadian truckers, they're denounced as Nazis and fascists, with the flimsiest connection.
They're not actually standing up to the elites or the establishment, they are the elites in the establishment, and all of their friends are as well.
They just hate the normal, average, on-the-ground people, and they think that you're all disgusting bigots.
And the Super Bowl is just another example of that.
Yeah, I hate the normal on-the-ground people as well.
That's fair.
But yeah, and now I'm going to be talking about Labour's race-baiting on Twitter.
So if we scroll up, this is Annalise Dodds.
Judging by the teeth, she's the daughter of Ken Dodds.
Do you want to click on her picture?
I'm not joking about the teeth.
Click on her face.
Yeah, click on her face.
Yeah, she could eat an apple through a tennis racket.
I can't be too mean, but she does look related to AOC. Why can't you be mean?
Guidelines and such.
That's how they got Leafy.
What am I with Leafy?
Well, he got kicked off of YouTube altogether for making insulting remarks towards people like Pokimane.
Oh really?
Maybe I shouldn't do that.
It was just a little gag.
Just a little gag.
So if we go back, let's not look at our teeth anymore in case we get in trouble.
So she said, Annalise Dodd, she's the MP for Oxford East, not far from here.
And she's the Shadow Women and Equality Secretary.
Very important post.
So she says that under the Tories, four in five black people have less than £1,500 in savings to cope with soaring bills.
Labour's energy plan would cut £200 off household energy bills and we'd bring in a Race Equality Act to tackle structural racial inequality at its source in the NFL. So, you know, a couple of things here.
She's blaming the Tories for four and five black people not having savings.
I'm not entirely sure it's the Tories' fault.
I'd like to see her workings on that.
And also, Labour want to introduce an energy plan, and they want to bring in this Race Equality Act.
So actually, if we look at the quote tweets on this, they're amazing.
So it turns out that Anneliese gets paid £1,500 each month from the public just for her rent.
Which, yeah, yeah.
If we see more...
Why not spread the wealth?
Come on!
There's like nearly a thousand quote tweets and they're all just slamming her.
So if we scroll through them...
If we scroll through them, we'll see some funny ones.
A lot of people saying, what about...
Hey, there's me!
I did one!
I said, ugh, so depressing to see the Labour Party so racial division to try and scrape a few votes and a race equality act in this context sounds suspiciously like a tax on whiteness.
I don't see how any of this is aiming towards racial harmony.
And it's true, I mean, you know...
Parties that are seen as being on the far right that deal with anti-immigration or whatever, they're accused of dividing people along racial lines.
Labour do exactly the same thing.
And I think the Labour Party, if we see the next one, so the Labour Party openly ignoring white people for votes.
So there's certainly a feeling...
Labour used to be the party of the working class.
Oh, certainly not anymore.
Definitely not anymore.
They've completely swallowed all...
Cosmopolitan, middle-class city dwellers.
The metropolitan elites who, you know, have the time to study all this wokest stuff and follow this new religion.
And they've completely abandoned their working class roots.
And particularly, if you see in post-industrial northern towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, places like that, not only have they abandoned their traditional working class voters, but they're happy...
They've imported a whole new class of voting, you could say.
They imported a new class of voters who around 85% to 90% of this particular demographic bloc vote Labour.
And also, they just sweep the crimes committed by that bloc against the white working class children.
They sweep them under the carpet.
Anyone who mentioned grooming gangs, social workers, healthcare workers, council staff, whatever, brought it up.
They were sent on diversity training.
They were demoted.
It's really shocking.
And, you know, Labour MPs even said, you know, we need to...
But anything about anti-Semitism, keep that nice hush-hush.
Oh, anti-Semitism, oh my god.
That appealed to these new class.
It's almost like because they were so intent on pushing down all these bubbles in the wallpaper of other races, anti-Semitism was allowed to grow.
And for some reason, Jews are seen as right-wing.
I don't know if that's because there's obviously a cultural tradition with Jews of owning business and property and stuff.
But they're seen as conservative.
But they're also not seen as a minority.
This is the interesting thing about wokeism.
Because minority means there's not many of them.
And just ask woke people.
And they get persecuted.
So, I mean, worldwide, there's like...
A few million Jews.
We're talking very low numbers.
I think it's 15 million.
15 million Jews.
Globally.
Globally.
You know what I mean?
Whereas there's 2.6 billion Muslims.
But still, somehow, Muslims are a minority and Jews are not a minority.
Well, Jews are white passing, so you need to understand that they...
They benefit from the privilege that you and I get.
A lot of my Muslim mates are, you know, people assume they're white.
And then it's great.
Like, my mate Darius, he gets people, I mean, he's not Muslim, but he's Iranian.
So he's, I guess, lapsed or whatever.
But, like, he gets people, you know, saying, oh, it's a white man.
All these, like, white lefties will be like, oh, it's a white man.
Oh, we're hearing a white man.
He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I am a person of colour.
Actually, here's my card to prove it.
And then they panic.
It's delicious.
But yeah, anyway, so basically there's a thousand quote tweets just slamming her because obviously everybody can see that it's racially divisive.
If we move on to the next one, we've already got...
Lots of racial equality acts.
So if we move on to the next thing.
So the Race Relations Act in 1965 prohibited discrimination on grounds of race and established the Race Relations Board.
So that would conciliate discrimination complaints.
That was added to in 1968.
So, you know, for a long time, for decades and decades and decades, we've been racially aware and putting it through legislation to deal with any discrimination.
So if we move on to the next tab...
The next one is further down.
It says, in 1968, the Act was extended the protection.
I think we're missing a tab here.
But anyway, in 1968, the Act was extended to give protection against discrimination beyond public places to include employment and housing.
You used to get signs on properties in London, like boarding houses, that said, no blacks, no dogs, no Irish.
In that order.
Yeah, yeah, basically in that order.
And, you know, now that's illegal.
And that's a great thing, you know what I mean?
That's fantastic.
And then that was extended to employment and housing.
Then in 1976, it was updated, the Act was extended.
So the definition of discrimination was extended to include indirect discrimination.
Discrimination.
And individuals also gained the ability to take discrimination complaints directly to civil courts or industrial tribunals.
And the Commission for Racial Equality was given responsibility to enforce legislation and conduct research to inform government policy on race relations.
Although the former head of the CRE has since been quite critical of all of this.
Yeah, I was going to say, do you know what indirect discrimination means?
Because to me, that sounds like the whole CRT idea just slipping in there of if there are disparities, no matter what the causes are, that immediately means racism.
We don't need to look into it any further.
Yeah, and also people, you know, I think, and especially with the current woke definition of racism, where it's systemic.
It's in the air and the buildings and the power structures around you.
You know, it's not something that's tangible and provable and objective.
You just breathe racism.
Yeah, you're breathing, you're imbued with, it's like an original sin.
It's not something you can be free of.
So, you know, the old definition of racism was at least objective.
You could say this person said or did a racist thing against that person.
Now it's much more ephemeral.
And bear in mind, so then people can see racism anywhere.
Because, man, there's TV shows.
There's TV shows where people are walking around seeing ghosts.
And like, so if people can see ghosts, how am I supposed to believe that these people are really seeing racism?
I mean, have you seen that new trailer for that film or show, whatever it is, everything's going to be all white?
No.
That's really going to help with racial tensions in America.
It's basically just everyone going, white people are evil.
Did you know that white people hate black people just inherently in their bones?
This just sounds like every advert I've seen for the past year and a half.
Yeah.
So, you know, if we move on, then there was the Race Relations Act in 2000, another amendment, which places a general duty on all public authorities to promote racial equality, for instance, by consulting with minority ethnic communities and considering and monitoring the impact of policies.
So this was...
Following the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, Stephen Lawrence obviously was killed in a horrible, horrific racist attack in South London and the police fumbled the ball because they were racist.
I mean, I've worked in policing.
Police have made huge strides to reduce racism in policing.
So, but, you know, the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and everything is sort of what's fed into a lot of what's happening now.
So Labour now have this race equality act if we move on to the next bit.
Oh wait, that's not it.
But is it on the next one?
Maybe it's not.
Anyway, I'll just explain it.
So Labour's Race Equality Act is going to fix George Floyd's death, basically, because having somebody killed at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis can be fixed by a party in the UK. What does this have to do with us?
So they're going to introduce, you know, ethnic pay gap reporting, data by salary band and promotion rates, training and pay reporting.
They want to introduce equity instead of equality.
Because, I mean, they're...
We often hear about how diversity is good because there's cultural differences, but maybe some of those cultural differences, even if there's equality, will lead to different outcomes.
Yes, absolutely.
Like a Scottish person or whatever, somebody from the Highlands might want to work outside in a forest.
Just for example.
You know what I mean?
And then that's perhaps less well paid than somebody from Surrey who wants to work in some bloomin' insurance company.
You know what I mean?
People have different ideas of what they want to do with their lives that can be influenced by their culture and that can lead to vastly different outcomes before you get to anywhere where racism could occur.
Yeah.
And we see this with the gender pay gap.
If anything, women earn slightly more if they don't have children.
Yes, that is what all the studies have shown.
Yeah, and obviously having a baby, because men can't, I mean, unless you include trans men.
That's very transphobic of you here.
How could you?
Biological males can't have children.
So there's an issue there with the women have to make the baby inside them and squeeze it out.
That's how baby making works.
You know what I mean?
And then, the women quite often, they don't want to just chuck the kid in the chest of drawers and go back to work.
They want to look after the kid.
Women are known for liking their children.
Luckily my fiancée aren't far less than my fiancée, so I'm going to be the one staying at home watching DVDs and getting drunk.
So Labour, they blamed the lack of savings, they blamed all this racial inequity on the Tories.
And if we move to the next thing, Who's got Britain's most ethnically diverse cabinet ever?
Well, it's the Tories.
They've got, like, so many.
So many.
Some great, you know, and very possibly the next Prime Minister.
I mean, probably.
Rishi Sunak is certainly in the front running.
So, yeah.
The Tories have had two female leaders, prime ministers, and they've got the most racially diverse cabinet.
The thing about the Tories is it's not about tokenism with them.
With the left, it's all about tokenism.
With the Tories, they just want to see if you're doing it.
So we can say the Tories, certainly on measurable statistics, aren't that racist.
We move to the next thing.
I wanted to look and see if the fact that black people in this country, four out of five black people, don't have savings over £1,500, is that...
Is that true or have they just pulled it out of their arse?
Because in other countries, the Tories aren't in power.
Particularly in Africa.
Really?
So you think, if the Tories aren't in power in Africa, you'd expect...
What happened to the Empire?
You'd expect people there...
To have more savings.
So if we move on to the next thing, it's very hard to find out the information about household savings in Africa, but this person did some research.
Slide 8 says that household savings in Africa is classified into formal and informal, but more than 80% of the saving is not done in a financial asset.
So there's a lot of reasons for this.
Institutions can go bust and the banknotes are worthless.
There's a lot of inflation and all the rest of it.
And slide 16 gives even more information about that.
So all the constraints to savings in Africa.
So fragmented financial markets, there's a high cost of actually accessing savings and all this sort of currency devaluation, the risk of the institution you're investing in failing or going bankrupt.
So it's basically all to do with infrastructure problems that they have over there.
Yeah, and also there's a poor rule of law, poor regulatory framework, and a lot of corruption, and a lot of costs, and their currencies just aren't as stable.
But anyway, the thing that I did find, which is actually on the Wikipedia page, was an African...
Well, basically what I'm saying is, if you're in Burundi, You're probably going to have less money saved up than if you're in England.
You've got less money saved up than if you're in England.
And the Tories, I did some other research, the Tories aren't in power in Burundi.
Really?
Yeah, so you can't blame that on the Tories.
I also reckon if you're a white guy in Burundi, you've probably got a lot less money saved than a white guy in England as well.
Probably.
In all likelihood.
Yeah, we have no idea.
And moving on to the next thing, the other thing that Labour want to introduce, I'll just rattle through this because we need to get to the end so you can do your next bit, is Labour want to introduce this sort of energy plan.
They say they're going to get families £200 to ease immediate crisis costs.
They're going to fund it partly through a windfall tax on the North Sea.
Oh my god, but do you know how much the North Sea- More taxes?
I can't wait!
Bloody hell!
Obviously, taxes, windfall taxes are bad.
It's like a state grab.
It's a state theft of, you know, these private companies have gone in to invest in extracting this oil and gas, and then the state's like, oh, well, you did a good job there.
Let me take all that money you made.
Yes, it's just a form of wealth redistribution.
So then the next time, the companies are going to be like, well, we're not going to invest in this because it's risky anyway.
You're scaring them away.
It's risky anyway.
We've got to pay for all this.
We might not find anything.
It could be expensive.
Things can go wrong.
But also, if things go well, you're going to steal all the money off us.
So...
If we move to the next tab, you can see the revenue from the North Sea.
I mean, bear in mind, in the 80s, you know, we're getting billions, billions from the North Sea.
Even back in, like, 2008, 2009, we're looking at, like, 12.5 billion.
And that's, like, the government revenues.
That's the...
Just the tax that was going to the government.
Now, it's absolutely plummeted because there just isn't as much.
The oil fields are spent.
And also, the SNP and the Greens who are in power in Scotland are trying to stymie the development of oil fields.
Patrick Harvey, a Green MSP, Green member of the Scottish Parliament, said that anybody who wanted to work in oil or gas in Scotland was far right.
So, Okay.
I guess that's me then.
Words like far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi have been completely decoupled from their original meaning.
And I just mean somebody who doesn't go along with the orthodoxy, doesn't go along with the woke establishment.
And we can see, you know, a few years ago, actually, the government lost money on the North Sea, had to spend more than it made on the North Sea.
That was obviously them just taking all the money and distributing it to poor people, presumably, maybe.
Well, I think there just wasn't enough being made, the price.
I remember that.
That was great.
I remember it was like, you know, it's like £1.60 or whatever for a litre of petrol.
It was just over a pound.
It was beautiful.
I was driving everywhere.
That was a great year, actually.
Yeah.
So, if we move on to the next tab.
So they're also saying, you know, Labour are saying, oh, the...
Energy prices have spiked because the Tories know energy prices have spiked for a lot of reasons, but a lot of it is to do with green tariffs and the focus on net zero and environmental policy.
So, for a start, around 15% to 27%, depending on where you live, 15% to 27% of your energy bill goes on as purely a tax to pay for insulation for poor people and to subsidise the construction of windmills and renewable energy.
Thanks, Tories.
Thanks for that.
Windmills have a huge, you know, renewables have a huge upfront cost.
So a megawatt hour of power from gas costs $29.
Guess how much it is from wind?
$840.
Dollars.
If you want to set it up right now.
Obviously, once you've built the windmill, it doesn't need to be powered by gas, so over its lifetime, the cost comes down.
So we're all paying probably twice as much in the next coming months for a Tory vanity project.
Yeah, absolutely.
For something that we all know doesn't work as well as it should, when they could be investing in nuclear.
Solar is even more.
Solar is $1,000.
$29 for gas.
And also, not only that, we've got this focus on net zero.
So they've been cutting back on...
I don't know why they've been cutting back on nuclear.
Because it's safe and clean.
It's the most renewable energy out there.
The most renewable.
And the amount of radiation you absorb from nuclear power is equivalent to eating a banana a year.
So it's not dangerous at all.
But...
The focus on net zero means that we haven't been investing.
And energy companies, I think in the next tab you can see, or actually no, sorry, back in that tab and scroll down.
Energy companies and governments, keep scrolling, haven't been investing.
And keep going, there's a graph.
Keep going.
Just keep going until Leo says.
Yeah.
Basically, we haven't been in here.
Oh, no, that's not it.
Sorry.
Keep going.
So another issue is China has been importing a lot more gas.
Keep going.
Keep going down.
Keep going.
Keep going, John.
Just keep going, man.
There we go.
There we go.
So energy investment.
This is where it should have gone is the dotted line and where it actually has gone down and like flatlined.
So people haven't been investing in getting more energy.
So obviously the price of energy has skyrocketed.
Everybody thought that windmills are going to power.
But if the wind stops blowing, we've got no power.
So this focus on net zero is fine when the wind blows.
When the wind stops blowing, we suddenly need Russia's oil and gas to power our power stations.
And we don't have it.
Obviously Russia's got us over a barrel, so prices have spiked.
And now prices have gone up.
So the problem is, I mean, there's other issues as well, like China's using a lot more gas.
But the big problem is just focus on green policy.
Scrap the green policy, start fracking, build nuclear power stations.
Everything's great.
Everything's looking rosy.
Everything's looking rosy.
And I think I can end that there.
I've got the picture of the gerbil if you want to see it.
Let's just see a picture of a gerbil.
Let's go on.
Is it on here?
It's not on there.
I think it's the link that's just underneath that, John, if you just want to pop that in quickly.
Just for a little nice...
Because last week I was talking about gerbils and how cool they are and how Genghis Khan had the first ever pet gerbil.
And so somebody...
I can't remember who it was now, but somebody made this mock-up of...
I mean, what I would describe as the perfect utopian society.
So there's a nice...
I trust that gerbil more than I do Boris.
So do I. So do I. He's got a more carefully groomed coat.
That's true.
And he's carrying me in his paw, so he's taking me...
Taking you on a wild ride.
Yeah, on a ride through Tokyo.
So there you go, Tories.
If you want to stop being hated by everyone and want to stop that energy price rise...
Build some massive gerbils.
All right, let's move on.
Okay, and finally today it's time to look at Trudeau's tyrannical power grab.
So, in the next step in the ongoing trucker versus Trudeau scenario that we see unfolding in Canada...
There's been quite a few developments over the past few days, so I think I'll start off with some things.
The truckers at one point were blocking some of the routes between the US and Canadian border, so Canada went and broke that up.
A vital US-Canada border crossing was reopened on Sunday night, marking the end of a six-day blockade by the self-styled Freedom Convoy that disrupted trade and traffic.
But in Canada's capital, authorities and protesters remain at a standoff.
And this standoff is, of course, a bunch of truckers hanging out with their family and friends, honking their horns, putting up some bouncy castles, and just having a great time, to be perfectly honest.
So obviously being denounced as Nazis.
Yes.
And you know, one of the justifications...
One of the justifications, I'm sorry, I'm not making this up.
One of the justifications for calling them Nazis was the fact that they're honking their horns, so honk honk is the same letters as Heil Hitler.
LAUGHTER I'm not even joking.
I'm not even joking.
We live in clown world, but I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago, but now that just sounds...
Yeah, probably someone said that.
Go on.
But yeah, they're in the standoff.
The back and forth is the latest chapter in a saga that's pitted law enforcement against protesters, which I've not seen much pitting against them.
They've just sort of been there.
Yeah.
Chilling out, having ice cream in, you know, minus 20, just doing what Canadians do.
They haven't been burning businesses, they haven't been burning homes, they haven't been looting, they've been smashing up cars, they've been assaulting anybody.
There don't seem to be many paedophiles, whereas considering...
97% of Antifa are active paedophiles.
Rittenhouse randomly fired into a crowd, according to some news sources, and still managed to hit at least one paedophile in a BLM Antifa crowd.
So, what does that say?
The protests, which have raged for three straight weekends, have inspired similar demonstrations across the globe, from New York to New Zealand.
Some of those we'll see in a few minutes, by people fed up with pandemic policies, angry at their governments, and in some cases, driven by extremist views and calls for insurrection.
So, Extremist views such as wanting freedom.
Yes, well, we'll get into an article, a rather spectacular article later on, that tells you that, don't you know, wanting freedom means you're a Nazi.
So, yeah, and there's been some other updates, including Give, Send, Go, the organisation, the crowdfunding, if you just go to the next article...
Yeah, give, send, go.
People will remember that GoFundMe were originally the place where people were crowdsourcing and crowdfunding a lot of the money that was being used to fund these truckers and their protests.
GoFundMe decided freedom, nah, not for us, and decided to try and shut it down.
They were going to give it to all of their favourite charities until they realised that's stealing $8 million worth of people's money and giving it to their friends.
And before they could get sued out their arse, decided, you know what, we'll simplify and streamline the process and give all the money back to the people who donated specifically for this cause.
How could they possibly think that it's acceptable to take the money that's being donated to freedom demonstrators and give it to organisations?
It's your brain on progressive politics.
Yes, man.
That's what it is.
That's all it is.
And as a result, a load of the people who were giving money through GoFundMe decided to go to GiveSendGo, who are, I believe, a Christian-run American business, who, as a result of this, got hacked.
I can only assume, and this is just a theory...
Just a theory, but I can only assume by Justin Trudeau personally.
So what they did was they did this horrible, cringy thing where they took a clip of Frozen 2 and the song Into the Unknown and displayed it on the site with a manifesto scrolling over the video, condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.
A file was posted which...
Which was allegedly containing tens of thousands of names of the donors to the Freedom Convoy, so they didn't just want to stop you from being able to donate, they wanted to dox you for having donated in the first place.
Shortly after the hack was noticed and began trending on social media, the website was restored, and as of the time of the publication of this article, it appears that Give, Send, Go has corrected for the hack.
And I just want to read through some of the writing that was put up on the website, because it's utter cringe.
Attention, give, send, go.
Grifters and hatreds.
The Canadian government has informed you that the money you assholes raise to fund an insurrection is frozen.
TD Bank has frozen several accounts.
You helped fund the January 6th insurrection in the US, citation needed.
You helped fund an insurrection in Ottawa.
In fact, you are committed to funding anything, anything that keeps the raging fire of misinformation going until it burns the world's collective democracies down on behalf of the same people worldwide that want to continue living in a democracy.
I'm now telling you that Give, Send, Go is frozen, hence the Frozen 2 video.
It's just awful cringe, isn't it?
That's terrible, and I'm pretty sure the Canadian government might have done that themselves, and Trudeau himself might be behind the writing.
I'm not saying anything definitive, that's just my idea, but as has been kind of a question going on recently between those who are saying that they're defending our democracy, basically meaning all my democracy, and freedom, if it's a choice between democracy and freedom, I'm siding on freedom every single time.
And there's nothing you can do to stop me.
And, of course, just a reminder that Justin Trudeau thinks that if you are funding these truckers or supporting these truckers, that you are a racist misogynist.
If we move along, there's just this interview that he did in French where he says that people who are anti-vaxxers, as is the new definition of anti-vaxxers, they're extremists who don't believe in science and they are often racist and misogynist.
And bear in mind that...
Being a noted misogynist yourself, Leo, what do you think of this statement?
Well, some of the, although I've got a certificate proving that I'm not racist, but I think this is ridiculous because some of the groups that are most resistant, most hesitant to vaccines are people of colour because they've traditionally been dealt a poor hand by the government.
Especially in North America.
Yeah, yeah, particularly when it comes to things like diseases and medical testing and things like that.
So, you know, you can understand why they'd be hesitant.
And he's saying they're racist.
They're the racists?
Yeah, apparently so.
I mean, Democrats...
I mean, I know, obviously, Trudeau is the head of the Liberal Party in Canada, but Democrats are desperate for people to forget that the whole point of Planned Parenthood was a soft form of eugenics for black people back in the day.
So, you know, just throwing that out there, Mr Trudeau.
And now Trudeau is threatening you and your children as well.
So let's just play this clip of him speaking to the Canadian people.
So make no mistake...
The border cannot and will not remain closed.
I want to remind everyone that politicians don't direct police in a democratic society, but I can assure you that the RCMP is working with provincial and local police departments to enforce the law.
Everything is on the table because this unlawful activity has to end, and it will end.
Of course, I can't say too much more now as to exactly when or how this ends, because unfortunately we are concerned about violence.
So we're taking every precaution to keep people safe.
What violence?
But the absolute safest way for this to end is for everyone to return to your communities now.
If you're still participating in illegal blockades, you're hurting your neighbours.
So it's time to go home, especially if you have kids with you.
What does that mean?
So it's quite an ominous...
It's like watching the President of Belarus or somebody giving a speech.
And bear in mind Trudeau spoke up in defence of the farmers who did the exact same thing in India, blockaded, I think it was Delhi.
He also has given praise to China's dictatorship before, which is evidently something that he is trying to emulate here.
Yeah.
Because what does it mean when you say, "Oh, it's going to be the safest measure if you just go home, especially if you have kids." Yeah.
That's a threat to violence.
And also the statement of, "We politicians don't control the police, except we are going to control the police to get rid of you." Yeah.
He said it like, "We don't, but we do." Yeah, exactly.
I'm not saying I did, but if I did, this is what I would do.
Yeah.
And it's ominous.
And all he needs to do is go down there, speak to them, acknowledge them, understand that it's a democracy, and he doesn't just govern the people who voted for him.
He governs, he speaks, he represents everybody in the country.
And one of the cornerstones of democracy is the right to peaceful protest.
And as far as I can tell, honking your horn is not the same as Molotov-ing small businesses.
Yeah, yeah.
And if he agreed with the protest, it wouldn't be a protest.
It would just be a picnic.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The simplest way to get all of this gone without violence is for him to give in to their demands and remove the restrictions that he was going to be placing, the COVID mandates, but he won't do that.
Given that COVID is over because of Omicron and because everybody's been vaccinated.
85% of the truckers have been vaccinated.
Everybody's like, oh, they're spreading medical misinformation.
No, they just don't want a mandate.
They don't want mandated.
Also, it's unfair that the truckers coming across from America aren't subject to the same mandates.
So they literally want freedom, and they don't want state coercive medical mandates, which is a completely understandable thing to have.
85% of them have been vaccinated.
They're not anti-vaxxers.
Well, according to Trudeau, they are.
But Trudeau has decided that he's going to try and get some even more tyrannical, draconian measures put in place and activated so that he is able to basically just sick them with the army, essentially.
He's trying to invoke the Emergency Act, which has only been invoked one time in Canadian history in 1970 by...
Drumroll...
Pierre Trudeau!
His dad!
So, like, father-like son, eh?
Except his dad was actually doing it in response...
Well, yeah, maybe.
But his dad was doing it in response to an actual, like, I think, abduction of major political figures and terrorist attacks, so he at least had some kind of legitimate fear, whereas what these guys are giving...
They're just giving people headaches.
If you want to consider that violence, go ahead.
But it's not.
So Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Never Used Emergencies Act to give his government enhanced authority in response to the anti-vaccine mandate protests and blockages gripping Canada.
The law will grant Mr Trudeau's government...
So he's taking the kiddie gloves off and going full fascist here.
The Emergency Act passed in 1988 bestows the government with added powers in times of national crisis.
The situation must meet a high bar, specifically an urgent and critical situation that seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians.
So it doesn't endanger the lives because they're peaceful.
It doesn't endanger the health because, you know...
They're not saying don't take the vaccine.
Exactly.
They're just saying don't make a...
Which is probably something that's going to encourage more people to take the vaccine because it's like don't make a state mandate.
Don't force people.
Don't turn it into a political issue.
Psychological reactants and people don't want to do the thing you're forcing them to do.
And it's not affecting the safety of Canadians.
Might be making some of the Amazon deliveries a bit slower, but, you know, that's a protest.
I mean, I'm sure you can live without your one-day delivery.
The Cabinet may only invoke the legislation if the emergency cannot be addressed by any existing federal law, and if it exceeds the capacity of the provinces to handle it effectively.
The situation must be considered a threat, as defined by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act.
This outlines four possible scenarios.
Espionage or sabotage.
So unless you consider the American truckers coming over espionage, no.
Foreign-influenced activities.
I mean, there's lots of support, but that's not really influence.
Although they have some of the...
I think CBC claimed that Russia was behind them.
Oh, of course.
It's always Russia.
Yeah.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
Yeah, it does.
Threats or use of acts of serious violence for political, religious or ideological objectives or covert unlawful acts intended to undermine or overthrow the constitutionally established government.
So there's why you can see why they've been trying to call it an occupation, why they're trying to make it, frame it as they're trying to overthrow the government because it gives them the right to use this.
But, even the BBC note here, it's so far unclear which scenario Mr Trudeau will rely on to justify the use of the Emergency Act, none of these four scenarios have been clearly present in Ontario.
So even the BBC are like, that's a bit of a stretch there, mate, come on.
To invoke the law, the Prime Minister must also consult with the Premiers of any impacted provinces, and if the Act does not, before putting the move before Parliament, if the Act does not pass a vote here, the proclamation will be revoked.
So there is still a hope, That the members of Parliament in Canada will just vote against this, although I'm aware that the Liberal Party, which Trudeau heads, currently has a majority, so whether that actually happens or not, we'll have to see.
Under the act that the government has a number of far-reaching powers at its disposal, the government could bar travel to or from specific areas, from Parliament Hill or major border crossings, for example.
It could order the evacuation of people and personal property from certain areas, But while they may soon be granted carte blanche to respond to the protesters, there's no indication the Prime Minister will also seek military intervention.
While Mr Trudeau has said that everything is on the table, he has maintained that military intervention would be a last resort.
We're a long way from having to call in the military, he said on Friday.
But that was Friday!
And now it's Tuesday.
So we'll see how that goes into next week.
And there's a few other things that are very interesting about this, which is that the Emergency Act seems...
Well, they're trying to extend the Emergency Act to make it seem like they can regulate and halt crowdfunding payments.
So just more evidence, if you ask me, that the Give, Send, Go hack was done by the Canadian government, potentially.
Just play this clip, John.
We are announcing the following immediate actions...
First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use.
These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.
The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.
Our banks and financial institutions are already obligated to report to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, or FINTRAC. As of today, all crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use must register with FinTrack and they must report large and suspicious transactions to FinTrack.
So if you're donating to an organisation or cause that we don't like, we reserve the right to completely block that.
This will just discourage, because Gives and Go is an American company, if they have to comply with that, they will have to presumably just stop doing business in Canada.
And there are also rumblings that they might be trying to shut down bank accounts that are related to members of the organisation.
So this is becoming a lot like China, where you have a social credit score, It turns out
not.
I don't know.
So it's not surprising that they're all going against freedom, seeing as the World Economic Forum in particular has a very specific definition of freedom, which is, you do what we tell you.
And you can see how they're trying to change the definition of freedom completely in this next article.
I was going to take a read through it, but I imagine Carl's probably going to have to look at this, because it's just absolutely insane.
John, if you just move along.
Why the word freedom is such a useful rallying cry for protesters...
The word has become common among far-right groups.
Experts say, oh thank goodness!
What?
The experts have waded in to let me know that if I want to be free, I'm actually a Nazi.
Cheers.
Thank you, experts.
I will continue listening to everything that you have to say.
I mean, they're kind of...
The way all the meanings, the semantics of words completely changed from where it was 10 years ago.
So, you know, if I see somebody being called a racist or a transphobe or whatever, you know, 10 years ago, I'd be like, whoa, oh my God, what, are they racist?
Now I'm like, my first thing, I assume that they're not racist.
I just got based.
That's my response.
Because it's become, it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
It doesn't mean the dictionary definition anymore.
No, they've stolen all meaning from it.
So for the state media, the state...
Yeah, this is the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
This is state media.
This is their equivalent to the BBC, but it is actually tighter in with the government, and so it's basically their Pravda.
And for them to be saying freedom is a right-wing thing...
That just makes the right wing seem pretty cool, to be honest, if you ask me.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
I'm sorry, if authoritarianism and oppression is on the left wing, I might just be getting further right by the minute.
Of course, this has all inspired a lot of other protests against vaccine mandates everywhere else across the world.
If we move along, we can see in New Zealand.
For Bernie's tweets, you've got a bunch of Maori guys protesting vaccine mandates and doing Maori war dances.
More racist, presumably, according to Trudeau.
They must be.
Jacinda Ardern's going to have to crack down.
Must have a lot of internalised racism.
Obviously, that must be it.
Even though they're doing their traditional war dances, which, to be honest, is pretty awesome.
This is the kind of energy you want to see at these protests.
And the most notorious country for saying F you to the establishment and the ruling class, France has been rising up as well.
France has been under some pretty strict mandates for the past few months.
You've seen protests where, you know, if you're not allowed in a shop or something, or a cafe, they'll just sit outside and just have their food there.
But recently, They've been having their own freedom convoy where they've been blocking traffic and just basically trying to emulate some of the stuff that the Canadians have been doing, which makes sense.
Canada, French Canada, you know, they've got a bit of blood there.
And the French police have not been very happy with it.
And I can only say that if you just go along into some of these clips of what's been happening in Paris...
No, John, if you just move to the next...
Yeah...
They've got tanks there.
This is what's going to be happening next week in Canada.
I'm calling it right now.
This is what's going to happen.
Tanks on the streets of Paris.
Armoured vehicles with police coming out to try and direct you to a comply citizen.
And then there's more.
Just move along to the next one.
Drew Hernandez on Getter posting.
Just play a bit of this clip.
Yeah, you can see here.
Jesus.
Just beating people in the street.
The police.
Macron stormtroopers.
And there's an interesting thing in The Economist this week about democracy and how it's actually receding.
After years of pretty constant expansion, the last couple of years I've seen democracy recede, and only 6.4% of the world's population lives in full democracy, which terrified me.
I thought it would be about 75%.
No, I think it's only something like 30 countries in the whole world are liberal democracies, so that just goes to the show.
And Canada's one of them, and France is another one, so we're losing...
The defenders of democracy are the ones taking it away from the people living in those countries.
And just the final little clip that you've got here, John, in the next link, you can see they're just firing tear gas into a freedom demonstration in Paris, and it's hitting cafes full of families.
So families in cafes just enjoying their meal.
These are the people who presumably have been vaccinated, if they're allowed into a cafe, and sticking with the mandates, are getting gassed.
For their privileges.
So this is what's going to be happening in Canada, as far as I'm predicting.
Because the establishment hates you, but at the same time they know that there is power in the normal people rising up.
So they're afraid of you.
It terrifies them.
I mean, this is an Arab Spring.
We're seeing our version, our sort of redneck, working-class, blue-collar version of the Arab Spring.
Yeah, this is the workers rising up like Mark's always wanted, but it turns out his acolytes years down the line aren't too thrilled about it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Seize the means of production.
Like, you know, that's kind of what they're doing.
Yeah, but if they weren't afraid of you, they wouldn't be doing all of this.
So keep on keeping on, truckers, and I support everything you're doing.
Yeah, and me too!
Hashtag me too.
Alright, let's move on to the video comments.
Tony D and Little Joan with a response to Leo.
Leo mentioned the Sopranos episode that takes place in the Pine Barrens.
Yes, that's the same Pine Barrens I talk about and that episode always kind of bothered me.
I never knew why.
I went back and looked at it.
As you can see in the background, the trees, they're maple and oak.
They have no leaves.
If you look at the Pine Barrens trees, this is the way pine trees look in the winter in South Jersey.
Because they're Thank you, Leo.
Mystery solved.
Yeah, it's not a pain, so they must have filmed it somewhere else.
That doesn't surprise me.
Film productions always go film basically wherever the tax is cheapest.
Braveheart was filmed in Ireland.
Yeah, Breaking Bad was supposed to be in L.A., and then they realised they could pay maybe a third of the tax if they did New Mexico instead.
And I'm really glad that they did, because it just looked so much better than it would have been in L.A., But yeah, that's interesting about the Pineburns.
Yeah, very interesting.
Thanks.
Great episode of The Sopranos.
If you haven't seen it, oh my god, phenomenal.
I need to watch it.
It's like the best thing I've ever seen.
I've watched it through twice and it's just phenomenal.
Just a real quick shout out to T.F. Allspark for the amazing new artwork that he did for us at Band Hands and the Stoa Group.
A lot of new flaps coming up this year.
Check it out.
What's this?
I don't know.
It's pretty trippy, isn't it?
Yeah.
Pretty trippy.
Pretty relaxing as well.
I like it.
Just a tip next time.
Maybe boost your own volume in the editing a little bit when you're talking just because the music was kind of going over it for me.
But thanks for sending that in.
And also send us in some tabs of, not acid because that's illegal, but something that's got a chemical compound similar to acid that is legal.
That Leo can take home with it.
That I can take home.
Establishing his position in the Novosti Press Agency, Besmanov then delves in detail into the active measures from his talks.
Codified in the late 50s and early 60s, they are troublingly relevant.
Enfeeblement of the media, disregard of religion, urbanization of the people to split them from the land, among other demoralizing methods.
His tale of a Vietnamese town captured by communists and then retaken by the Americans is tragic, as the communists spent their short time in control taking every listed undesirable person out of the town to be shot.
The Americans couldn't believe it was possible.
Besmanov could.
There's just a highlighted bit here.
Number five, by encouraging government extravagances, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
That sounds shockingly familiar.
It's what we've had since 2008 with quantitative easing.
And then quantitative easing became like quantitative chucking the baby out of the bathwater over the last couple of years with the COVID thing.
And now we're seeing, now it's coming back to bite us with inflation.
Inflation, remember, just steals from, if you've got savings, it steals from you.
Yep.
It's basically just a stealth tax on people, really.
Yeah.
On people who've been prudent and saved money instead of just spunking it up the wall or getting into loads of debt.
If I'd have known it was the fiscally prudent thing to do to get up to my eyeballs in debt 25 years ago, I would have done that.
I would have bought loads of houses in London and I'd now be a millionaire.
Fair.
So, I have a bit of advice for joining the Sultans of Châtelet group.
Same with if you want to take part in the Sultans of Châtelet meetups.
You know, shower and change your f***ing shirt.
It's like step one.
But the other thing, um...
If you're going to join the server, a word of advice if you don't want everyone to hate you in five minutes, don't pick a fight with literally everyone on the server and call everyone names and tell everyone that you're better than they are.
Just a bit of advice.
I'd say that's generally good advice if you want friends in the first place, to be perfectly honest.
So, Sultans of Chalet, watch out!
Or else you'll get kicked out, I suppose.
yeah thanks for sending it to him from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh i thought it was kind of cringe mgl i crave the paste and red buildness of steel i aspire to the drip of the blessed machine
your kind claim to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you but i am already saved . .
Nice.
Check out Nye Mechworks for more of that.
Is that the ideal future that you would get with that gerbil in charge?
You'd be side by side with your mech suit.
That'd be like in a biomorph gerbil suit controlling a massive gerbil like in that film where everybody was blue.
It was Avatar.
Yeah, yeah.
Nye, that's the next thing you need to do.
You need to build a giant mech gerbil suit.
Yeah, and not mech, but actual bionic so it's got fur and lungs.
Okay, there might be a few ethical issues with some guy doing that in his garage, but you know, try your best.
It's fine.
They do it in Wuhan all the time.
You can do whatever you like.
I don't want to be emulating the Chinese.
Yeah.
Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from the Jersey Devil book.
The Jersey Devil Hunters in the 50s and early 60s.
A lot of people would go off into the woods hunting the Jersey Devil.
It got so bad that the Gibstown Police Department posted those signs that said the Jersey Devil is a hoax.
And no wonder the Broadway Improvement Association of Camden promised $10,000 reward for the Jersey Devil.
And the Hunts Brothers Circus in Florence promised $100,000 for the Jersey Devil, dead or alive.
Interesting.
I mean, the hoax thing, that's just what they want you to think, am I right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's still out there.
You just don't know.
After discussing with cabinet and caucus, after consultation with premiers from all provinces and territories, after speaking with opposition leaders, has invoked the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address Excellent
little statement there.
I agree wholeheartedly.
I guess, judging by that little video there, I must have missed it.
I guess that he's already spoken to everybody, and the vote might have gone through where they've already invoked the emergency.
So yeah, definitely watch out for tanks coming into Ottawa next week.
Friday, Ontario invoked a state of emergency.
This is about protecting institutions, occupying streets, harassing people, breaking the law.
This is not a peaceful protest.
Yesterday, the Ambassador Bridge was reopened between Windsor and Detroit.
We cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue.
Keep on fighting guys.
But seriously, I don't know what Trudeau was thinking when he let those photos be taken of himself.
Rule one, don't let photos be taken of you dressed as Hitler.
Well, the thing is, he didn't think it was bad to wear blackface, so he thought it was fine to have the photos taken.
So I can do it then.
If he genuinely uses violence to dispel peaceful protests, that'll be a watershed moment for Canada.
Yeah, there'll be a watershed moment for Western democracies in general, to be perfectly honest.
It'll be absolutely horrendous, and I think it'll show, it'll wake people up.
Wake people up who so far haven't necessarily been paying as much attention.
Because lots of people, they just go about their daily lives, and they say, I need to get this jab, whatever.
But then they see that people who aren't doing anything, just honking their horns, get beat the ass out of.
Yeah, yeah.
And there's going to be people who swallow the line that, oh, we had to do it because they're all Nazis.
And there's going to be other people who can actually just watch what's happening and be like, well, this is just regular working guys and families just protesting against government tyranny.
And, you know, it doesn't need, you know, the government should go and speak to them rather than sending in tanks.
How's it going, guys?
I was at the convoy to Canberra on the weekend.
Covid test pending.
And I really, yeah, it was a great atmosphere.
Really, really nice.
I did a video about it, describing the whole thing and getting some really, really good footage.
It's on my Rumble page, cscooper.com.au slash rumble.
You can't miss it.
Please give it a boost.
I really want everyone to see what's happening in Australia.
We're not lying down and taking it.
Great to hear.
That building was called Quokka.
That's a type of Australian gerbil.
Yes, no, I've seen them.
They're really friendly.
Aren't they indigenous to a specific island where there are no predators?
Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth.
Yeah, so they're really friendly and they'll come up and take photos with tourists who show up.
That's wonderful.
I want to go there.
They're all over.
I've been there.
It was great.
Oh, really?
Did you get any photos with them?
Yeah.
Aw.
That's awesome.
Alright, we should get into the written comments then.
So, for the Super Bowl, George Hap says, Do you think that the annoying virtue signaling will eventually convince normies to stop paying attention to these sporting events, or is the bread and circuses effect too strong?
I... Yeah, I think people don't pay that much attention to it.
They sort of see it and they think, you know, people are still lulled by the mantra, taking the knee is good, Black Lives Matter is good.
You've got to look past the layer, you've got to unpick it a little bit and see the sort of dirty reality, which is that, you know, the tens of millions of dollars that were raised by Black Lives Matter have vanished.
60 million of them, to be exact.
Yeah, and all the people who vanished, who left the organisation, have suddenly bought luxury properties.
Patrice Cooley suddenly has a vast...
Property empire, what's going on here?
I wonder where the money went, you know what I mean?
I know, I know.
It certainly didn't go to black families.
Well, it went to a few very specific black families is where it went.
I don't know.
I do think that...
I don't necessarily think that people don't pay any attention.
I just don't think that their hatred of the virtue signaling is enough to stop them from coming to the sporting events.
We saw it with England last year where, you know, they started taking the knee.
All the crowd boos, yes, but they still show up.
They still show up, they still pay money for the tickets, and they still support the team because that's what sporting fans do.
They'll show up, they'll support the team, whether or not the team is full of cat kickers.
Although, interestingly, sports that go woke, so this happened with basketball, but we're even seeing it with the NFL. So traditionally, the NFL has had a huge, it's the biggest sporting event in the American calendar.
Viewing figures are down, I think, almost 20% or 25% on the peak in 2015.
Really?
Okay, so...
Obviously, there's many more options for entertainment now.
Yeah, well, hopefully, that's a positive sign in that case, because maybe people will start, maybe these organisers will go, let's just scrap this, it's not working, don't do this anymore, guys.
We're seeing any sport or any form of entertainment that goes woke, I mean, it's definitely happened with comedy, that's, you know, something that I've seen happen, and I've said, you know, comedies, woke comedies, like women's football, it gets written about a lot in The Guardian, but...
But, I mean, it's true.
Anything that goes woke goes broke.
Yeah, yeah.
And George Windsor says, response to the big sports hall, Leo's got it right, real sports are the ones with fighting, boxing, judo, MMA, hockey.
Pretty sure rugby is just a lengthy gang fight with a ball for garnish.
Yeah.
Yeah, probably.
Totally.
Student of history, responding specifically to you, so here you go.
Leo, I'd say there's a slight difference between being whipped and told to keep that cotton and a team of multi-millionaire athletes.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it's about the imbalance in the power structure.
Well, some not being exactly the same as something else doesn't mean that it's right.
Okay, okay.
Well, there's a response for you, student of history.
I would like to see more representation of people of colour and the coaches.
Where's all the Asian footballers there?
Well, you're talking about the actual sport.
Stop Asian hate, Leo.
You're talking about the actual sport.
Stop Asian hate, man.
You're talking about the actual sport.
Sean, can you believe this guy?
My God.
We're talking about the actual sport.
I'm joking, Leo.
But it's a serious thing.
Sport is a meritocracy.
It's the ultimate meritocracy because you've got to be the absolute best, which is why sport leads on racial integration.
I've not seen the specific examples of the higher management that would lead me to believe that it's Explicit racism.
Neither have I, but I made them up in my head.
Ah, there you go.
Playing devil's advocate, eh?
M1Ping says, I'm surprised LeBron wasn't wearing his CCP flag to this game.
As am I. Resim Rugby Six Nations is way better watched than any football and pretend American football game happening right now.
However, it's great to see Americans telling the elites to do one whenever they can, even if it's overshadowed by LA, BLM, peaceful protests.
Omar Awad: "The irony of protesting unfair treatment of black men in the justice system where there is no place on earth outside the NFL that you will find more black people who have escaped the consequences of their actions." That's totally true.
How many footballers have gotten away with a light slap of the wrist for Yeah.
because they are popular slash valuable plays.
I'd say the only place that would be more susceptible to that is gangster rap.
Yeah.
Because they actively brag about it in their songs, and no one cares.
In fact, Omar, same guy in his next comment, mentions Gangster Up mentions Eminem.
Yeah, Eminem personifies the meme, how do you do, fellow activists?
There are few jesters more hollow than a forgotten millionaire trying to push for relevancy using current issue of the day.
Actions speak louder than words, and all they do, aside from speaking platitudes, is nothing.
I mean, come on, Eminem!
Eminem's not released a good album in like 10 years at this point.
Everything he's released since 2013 has been utter rubbish.
And I think there was an album he did, Relevancy or something like that.
Relevancy is something he doesn't have, but he tried to go full-on anti-Trump with one of his albums in 2017.
He's like, Eminem, no one cares about your political beliefs.
I don't care what Why are you anti-Trump?
Why have you been going for cocktails with Charlize Theron and Emma Thompson?
You're supposed to be anti-establishers.
You're supposed to represent trailer trash.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
He's the definition of trailer trash.
That's what all of his early stuff is about.
I beat my girlfriend.
I raped my girlfriend in my trailer back somewhere.
And now he's going, we need to think about the consequences of fascism rising in America.
Yeah.
What are you on about?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's been sniffing more glue, that's probably what's been happening.
Yeah.
Yeah, I really liked The Rock.
I thought it was cool that he actually stuck up for Joe Rogan.
And then the second someone goes, oh, but didn't you know there's a compilation of him saying the N-word?
Yeah.
He immediately just, like, threw him under the bus.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what loyalty will get you.
Jacqueline Green, Eminem took the neon stage and took the D-back stage.
That's great.
Do you want to go through some of your comments now?
Yeah, yeah.
So Omar Awad gave me a great comment to the last one.
It says, diversity in the Tory party happens when you let meritocracy run its course.
So everybody in the Tory party is not a tokenistic.
It's not, you know, when Joe Biden says, oh, the next Supreme Court judge is going to be a black woman.
What?
It's like, why can't you say it's going to be the best person?
And then if it's a black woman, it's a black woman.
You know the people in the Tory party got there due to meritocracy.
And labour is what happened when you don't believe minorities can hack it on their own.
So you treat them like children and only hire them based on those similarly low expectations.
So yeah, the prejudice, the discrimination of low expectations...
That's very prevalent on the left.
Great comment there.
Freewill2112 says, given how bad the Tories are, Labour are even worse, and she is a prime example.
That's Annalise Dodds who said that thing, trying to blame black savings on the Tories.
Everything's the Tories!
God, it's like being back in Scotland.
What is the point of voting for any of them?
All they do, unless you're part of one of their favourite victim groups, is tell us how much they despise us and bring in legislation to confirm it.
Yeah, but vote Tory anyway.
Speak One's Mind says, regarding the Labour Party section, the Labour Party race baiting, why am I not surprised?
I do think that Harry does partially have a point.
In the NFL section, which applies to this part, you have the media and leftist groups given very large platforms which spout rhetoric to make the black community feel that they're worthless and always oppressed.
So it corrupts their ambition to improve their own lives and choose not to.
How many words can you put on Twitter now?
This isn't Twitter, this is the website.
Oh, is this the website?
And so fall into what groups like Labour and BLM are promoting.
Well, it then goes on to say, actually I was wrong and Harry doesn't have a point and Leo was 100% right.
I don't see that part.
Student of history says, you know, gents, if your Conservatives weren't half made of a pack of feckless cucks...
Great start.
Not keckless.
Feckless cucks.
I would advise the idea of thinking about negotiating on it when some real movement on race-based sexual exploitations of young women and girls are perhaps a proper response to constant writhing sea peoples perhaps, but alas, I'm not holding my breath for you.
The Tories are putting through that thing to be able to deport people.
Well, we'll see if they stick to it because the Tories, Preeti Patel in particular, has often been all bark no bite.
So we'll see if they actually go through with it.
Because this is what the Conservative voters want.
They want a Tory party that will actually stick by what they say they do.
They want to see all of these rapists and murderers getting deported or deported somewhere that will just immediately get put in prison.
We don't want those sorts of people coming around here where the Tories go, we get it, you don't, we'll do something about it, and then three years down the line, nothing's changed.
I mean, immigration is great.
It's good for the economy, but it's kind of like steroids for the economy.
It gives a short-term boost because you've got people willing to come here and do jobs that perhaps people here don't want to do.
Do them for cheaper, but then the next generation want to...
Well, the thing with that is that the best incentive to get people to do jobs that they don't want to do is monetary, is money.
And if we don't have this bloated labour market being imported over, then those jobs that normal people don't want to do...
Rebalances and working class people get paid better, which is good.
Which is a good thing.
Surely that should be what the left won.
That's what happened with the HGV drivers last year.
Yeah, and this is why the hard left traditionally have been quite sort of anti the European Union and anti this free market.
And even Corbyn was pro-Brexit, wasn't he?
Yeah, yeah.
Because even someone like Corbyn...
He had to come in and take a very weak anti-Brexit line, but you can tell his heart wasn't in it.
He's not a globalist, neo-liberal.
No, he's just an old-school socialist, which makes him still bad, but still, you know.
Yeah, I'll go on.
I'll just go through one more comment on the Trudeau's tyranny.
So M1Ping says, And isn't that the truth?
Chris Wolfe, so they really are using shady techniques against non-leftist protests.
They said the Ambassador Bridge blockade cost $300 million in damage to business.
As if there's any evidence of that.
Apparently we count damages from leftist protests in insurance payouts, but we count damages from freedom protests in lost revenue.
And isn't that very interesting?
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