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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Ears for the 25th of February 2022.
	I'm joined by John.
	Hello Lotus Eaters!
	Leo is on his way.
	Apparently there was a fatality on the tracks.
	I don't know who he killed, but he's in a taxi now and he'll be joining us later hopefully.
	Just wait for the sirens to come past.
	We'll know they'll be after.
	Are you alright guys?
	We shouldn't joke because someone did die, but that's why he's late.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, culture wars meets the Cold War, and Majid Nawaz lays out the Checkpoint Society, which I really do have to appreciate how good Majid is on this sort of stuff.
	He's been very good lately, hasn't he?
	Did you see his appearance on Joe Rogan?
	I've seen clips of it, not the whole thing.
	He's dropping some truth bombs, I'll tell you that much.
	Absolute gold.
	That's why we're getting into it.
	That's the first thing to mention on the website, so the first thing here being a new article from Simon Webb.
	Is institutional racism a conspiracy theory?
	Kind of.
	I'm sure you can go check out his opinions there.
	You may remember him, of course.
	I believe he is History Debunked.
	History Debunked, obviously, on YouTube as well.
	I'm sure many people love him.
	I believe that one's free.
	Is that one free?
	I think it is.
	Yes.
	So go and check that one out.
	If you go to the next one, we have some other contents.
	So this is the Critical Race Theory Explained number six.
	What is a tribe?
	There's a video from Carl.
	He has been talking endlessly about this as well.
	It's like we need to redefine the English as a tribe.
	And these are some good arguments, so do go and check that out.
	If we go to the next one as well, we have a premium video interview with Gavin Bobby.
	This is by Bode, of course.
	As you can see here, it's on the encroachment of Islam, which I'm sure is going to be some very spicy discussions.
	So do subscribe for that one.
	And if we go to the next one, of course, we have the gold-tier Zoom call to mention as well at 3.30 UK time.
	That'll be Leo.
	LAUGHTER Today, much apologies, but Carl came in today and didn't feel well.
	Like, had to go home, so he's not going to be here for this one.
	So instead, I believe you're going to be stepping in for me.
	I think so, yes.
	And we're going to be doing that together.
	So if you're a Gold Deer member, please do come join us at 3.30, and we'll be doing questions five minutes per person, and just going through whatever, having fun.
	Yep.
	Like we usually do.
	Sounds good.
	That'll be good.
	And then the last thing to mention is a new thing, a new initiative we have set up, which is Dispatchers News.
	So to sort of do politics for all, or disclose TV-style new stuff.
	So as you can see here...
	Well, it's about getting more information out more quickly, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So as you can see here, this is the new Dispatchers, the Lotus Eaters.
	As you can see there, at Lotus Eaters News on Getter, of course.
	And as well, it is on every other platform you and your mum can think of.
	So you can see there, of course, being on Twitter, and then the last one here being on Facebook as well.
	So if you...
	Have a platform of your choice I'm sure you can find.
	Ask wherever.
	Anyway, without further ado, let's get into the...
	I need a new intro.
	I keep sounding like Keemstar every time.
	I was damn right.
	It's annoying.
	It's annoying me now.
	You've got the whole weekend to think about it, huh?
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So, Russia decided to invade Ukraine.
	Yeah, this looks fun.
	This has been exciting, of course, to say the least.
	Terrifying, and is what it is.
	And I have previously said in the past that I don't care in the sense of, like, I don't have the expertise to talk about such topics in a way of, like, geopolitical analysis or military analysis.
	People have asked for those sort of things.
	I know I can't compete.
	So I thought I'd start off just by mentioning some YouTube channels that...
	I don't know if they have the analysis either, but I just like them.
	So...
	Let's just mention these here.
	The first one, of course, being Caspian Report for Geopolitics.
	Go and check them out.
	And the next one being Binkov's Battlegrounds, which I love.
	It's a little puppet that he plays.
	So that's the military stuff.
	And they do seem to know their stuff.
	So in case you want those sort of things, give a shout out to those.
	But also, as we go through all of this, we have to keep in mind that there is a lot of misinformation.
	Yeah, deliberate propaganda, deliberate disinformation, just idiots posting clips from computer games, you name it, there is a lot of nonsense out there.
	People having fun as well.
	There is also going to be people mistakenly making propaganda as well, or misidentifying things.
	So I'm going to try and do my best here, but please no shoot.
	I'm going to do what we can.
	There's also obviously going to be a lot of psyops slash gayops.
	I've quite likely referred to going on from both sides.
	But one of the things to mention, because we had the Binkoff's Battlegrounds up there with the map of Ukraine, because apparently Carl was watching some video of Americans trying to identify where Ukraine is on a map.
	The majority of Americans could not find Ukraine on a map of the world.
	That's very encouraging.
	Apparently one third could not find a map, could not find Ukraine on a map of Ukraine either, so I don't know what that was about.
	Let's go to the next one, which sort of people who can't find Ukraine are Nancy Pelosi, to start off with.
	So this was her, before the invasion, responding to questions, and she said that if you look at a map, you see Hungary, and you see how encircled it is, She was thinking of Ukraine.
	At least we hope she was thinking of Ukraine.
	Doesn't know where Ukraine is.
	Fantastic.
	And, yeah, a lot of these people are a joke.
	Yes.
	And if we go forward, we can see another person who is a bit of a joke, especially right now.
	So as you can see there, a tweet from Joe Biden where he's talking about Vladimir Putin doesn't want me to be president because he doesn't want me to be the nominee because I'm going to stand toe-to-toe with him.
	And if we go to the next image, Russia begins full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
	Oh, that didn't age well.
	No.
	There's going to be a lot of takes that didn't age well throughout all of this, of course.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see a speech from Joseph R. Biden, Xiao Biden, in which he gave a big old speech in which he said he's going to do sanctions.
	Good old ratio, as John points out as well.
	Big up to the dislikers in the chat.
	The Biden disrespects us.
	Yeah, so, sanctions.
	All of the reporters were asking how is sanctions going to stop the tanks, and he said it won't.
	So, does that.
	But, okay.
	I mean, this is what you kind of expected.
	I'm glad that I only made one prediction in all of this.
	I'll try to stay away from that.
	My prediction was that if the Ukrainians did get full-on invaded, the West wouldn't die for Kiev.
	Yeah.
	Yay.
	I was at least right about that, even though it's horrifying.
	Well, there's a long history.
	There's a famous quote which has been floating around the airways from Henry Kissinger, I think it is, which is, to be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be America's friend is fatal.
	And if you think about that, well, I mean, you could bring up the British Empire, but South Vietnam, Iraq, Republic of China, and now Ukraine.
	There have been some examples.
	Those sayings don't come from nowhere.
	So, as you can see, big old dislikes.
	I did watch a lot of this.
	It was just him emotionally reading a script about how Putin was bad and had no good reason for doing this.
	Which implies that if he did have a good reason, he could go ahead.
	I don't know what that point was.
	But whatever.
	It was meh.
	Not really noteworthy, almost.
	And that's reflected by the dislikes and the general unpopularity of the man.
	So that's Joseph R. Biden.
	Vladimir Vladivinovich Putin, of course, had his own speech on the whole matter.
	As you can see, the New York Times is reporting it here.
	We're going to give this a listen, because it's in foreign, so we'll try and talk about it afterwards.
	But let's play.
	The National Republic of the Donbass brought us to Russia with request for help.
	In accordance with Article 51 of the 7th of U.S. and the sanctions of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and the United States of the United States of the United States, I made a decision to make a special military operation.
	Her goal is to protect people who have been in the past 8 years, who have been accused of genocide from the Kyiv regime.
	Who would not try to help us, and especially to create threats for our nation, should know.
	That the answer to Russia will be unimaginable and will lead you to such consequences, which you've never experienced in your history.
	We're ready to develop a new development of events.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, so this is the second speech he gave, and he gave a much longer speech on Monday evening, which I watched in full.
	I dug out the full speech, because all the Western media, of course, has been taking excerpts, which you can't really rely on very much.
	And in that former speech, he sets the context, essentially, for why he's doing this.
	The historical narrative.
	From his point of view, yeah, and all of that.
	So, yeah.
	Well, he mentions there his justification being the genocide and oppression of people from the Kievan regime.
	He says that anyone who interferes should not because we are ready for anything.
	Yeah, I mean, genocide is massively overstating it as far as anyone can determine.
	Like, there has been a proxy war, limited conflict, blah blah blah.
	Genocide, I don't think so.
	Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
	It's just kind of like, let's throw any old thing at it.
	Why not?
	I mean, he's got his arguments, of course, and I think you probably saw the map of Ukraine that he posted on national television.
	Yeah, which is wrong, but not as wrong as Western commentators might like to think.
	You can see it as somewhat coherent, but there are, of course, then statements like, there's a genocide going on, which, what?
	No, it doesn't seem to make sense.
	Anyway, but that's Vladimir's speech.
	But there's also a lot of other reminiscing going on right now that I thought we'd go and check out, because a lot of clips are being brought back up, because they always are, of things that age well or poorly.
	So the first one here being, I know CNN and MSNBC never aired this, so I figured I would.
	Spot on, what do you think?
	And it's Donald Trump speaking to the Germans, and just being like, we protect you with our military, and you guys just did a huge deal with Russia to import loads of gas.
	How dare you do this?
	And it's just berating them about, like, you guys are a bunch of bloody idiots.
	And, yeah.
	Yeah, age well.
	Did age well, indeed.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see some of the dire situation the Germans are on with this.
	So someone pointing out that apparently the minister decided to say that 50% of his coal comes from Russia, 55% of his gas comes from Russia, and 35% of the oil comes from Russia as well.
	Yep.
	Not to mention all the other guys in the EU bloc who also have their relations, which...
	Yep.
	You should have seen this one coming, lads.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Well, part of this has been because they've basically scrapped their nuclear.
	They've been greenifying, even though nuclear is a green technology.
	And in order to do that, it's just like the way they've reduced their carbon emissions by offloading all of European industry to China.
	They've now tried to offload all of their carbon emissions in terms of fuel sources to places outside of Europe.
	And surprise, surprise, that makes a huge strategic liability.
	Yeah.
	I do love all the memes of people saying, you know, there's a weird line between Greta Thunberg's speeches and then the Germans being utterly reliant on the Russians and therefore not supporting the Ukrainians.
	So there's that.
	If we go to the next link, I don't know if this link is working or not.
	Oh, it is.
	Oh, it's wonderful.
	So this is the live map for people who don't know.
	This is an extremely popular website.
	I was worried about it being down.
	Yeah.
	Because it keeps crashing.
	And this just shows you the situation of various things that are going on.
	Each one of those bubbles means something.
	I don't know if you can scroll back a little bit, John, on the map there.
	If you can't, that's fine.
	But the map just tried to show, as you can see, the highlighted red areas.
	If you can scroll back in one more, and then we can try and see the highlighted red areas in which the Russian army apparently has advanced to, confirmed, and then presumably beyond that as well.
	So you can see the progress they're making, and now far they've gone.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see the attacks.
	So this is just a map of all the different areas where there have been attacks either from missiles or aircraft or ground forces.
	Mind you, this is from 8.45am local time on day one, so this is just the first wave.
	But it's the primary attack on, say, military bases and airfields or whatever else.
	Power stations.
	I presume, yes.
	Anyway, so let's go to the next link as well because we can see a map from the Institute for the Study of War with the same situation of what's been taken, where troops are.
	If anyone wants that, there you are.
	That's as good as we've got so far.
	God knows where they are at this point and how far they will get.
	And if we go to the next one, there's also some weirdness, of course, because it's the internet age.
	So this is an account called RomanAdler123.com.
	It's a Russian account.
	And the dude does seem legit.
	Like, it's a really old account.
	He's got it for a few years.
	And he's just posting a TikTok of him paratrooping in somewhere.
	This is the day of the invasion.
	So I can't confirm or deny whether or not this is real.
	I just assume it's real because of the details.
	But it seems that this is the first war we will see on TikTok Live.
	I don't know.
	I've seen a lot of people casting doubts on this video.
	Again, it could be fake.
	It would be hilarious if it were true, though.
	The wall will not be televised, but it will be TikTok.
	It wouldn't shock me, though, because you may remember, I think it was Vice did a series where they tracked where Russian troops were, and they did it because there was guys from the Eastern divisions who were the little green men, and they were all posting where they were on VK, so you could just track that they were in Ukraine when they weren't meant to be.
	Big old dum-dums.
	If you go to the next link, we can see a big old summation of Danuz.
	And in here, the person mentions, Ukraine calls for general mobilization.
	Zelensky says that the Russians have now entered Kiev.
	And 137 Ukrainians have been killed so far in the fighting.
	It's bad, but I mean, actually, it's quite nice that it's low, at least.
	Zelensky called up the reserves a day before fighting began, I believe, unless I'm remembering that wrong.
	The general mobilization, I believe, is to, well, let's just arm everybody who we can.
	Right.
	It's not just reservists, it's the men.
	We've seen people reporting that citizens trying to flee Ukraine are being literally pulled out of their cars, having a gun shoved in their face, men between 18 and 60, and just being carted off to the front, which is terrifying.
	But that's what you've got to do, I suppose, if you're in this situation and you're being forced to.
	If we go to the next one, we can see that news, as you mentioned, that male citizens in Ukraine between the ages of 18 and 60 are being prohibited from leaving the country and are then being forced at the borders to go back and fight the Russians.
	I will admit there is something to this.
	Remember the amount of people, especially the refugee crisis, and it was all working-age, fighting-age men running from wars, and you just kind of wonder.
	Apparently that won't be happening this time, if this is the situation.
	If we continue, we can see a little bit of a heroic story as well, out of all this.
	It has a sad ending, but it's heroic.
	As you can see, this is some island.
	This is some guys here on Snake Island, and they were called by the Russians in a warship, who told them to surrender.
	And if we go to the next link, we can see their response, which was to call back the Russians and say...
	F yourself!
	Very brave.
	Very brave.
	I mean, it really is nice to see.
	I really hope it's not misinformation as well.
	I imagine it's not, but just in case.
	And unfortunately, the Russian Navy will flatten them and kill every single one of them, apparently.
	So if you go to the next link, we can see the Wikipedia page for this, which will forever be about the Battle of Snake Island, in which the border guards told the Russians...
	If we go to the next link, we can also see the Russians apparently taking Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
	Not sure what that was about.
	Also, big Fs in the chats for those guys who died.
	Well, it's in a strategically useful position, I think, is the argument, because if you occupy that area, then you can use a pincer movement down to attack Kiev and surround it.
	It does have, I think, geographical significance.
	A lot of people are obviously obsessed with the power plant instead.
	One guy who was obsessed with the power plant was an MSNBC commentator, an apparently military intelligence enthusiast.
	US intelligence, 36 years, he says.
	So if we click on the first image here, this is someone saying, well, what does Putin want with Chernobyl?
	And then if we go to the second image, this dude responds to some verified checkmark, saying that it powers central North Ukraine.
	The reactors haven't been active since the 90s, so good luck with that.
	If we go to the next one, of course, you can see him claiming that he is a...
	Sorry, the next image there, please.
	You can see him claiming US intelligence, 36 years, MSNBC. Oh, no.
	I can understand it perfectly now.
	New York Times bestselling author.
	Don't trust a word he says.
	Is that an insult?
	It's like they-them.
	Yeah.
	Goodness me.
	Oh, boy.
	If we go to the next link, we can see some more going on.
	So we can see the Ukrainian Twitter account I don't know what they were doing for this for.
	So to demand, hey people, let's demand Twitter remove Russia from here.
	No place for an aggressor like Russia on Western social media platforms.
	Which...
	Okay.
	Like, fight the war instead, I would have thought.
	But I mean, if you're running a Twitter account, I guess that's a thing you can do.
	But then it also...
	But it does open up a massive debate.
	would give credence to then saying, well, of course, you're saying that the Russians are inciting violence, but they're not just inciting, they're doing it, therefore banned, as a sanction against the Russians.
	Well, then banning of Donald Trump is also a sanction.
	Yes, but it is.
	Yeah, we could just admit the reality there, but instead we have this situation.
	If you go to the next one, we can see the Kremlin's response to all this, which is to say that they're invading Ukraine because it's full of Nazis.
	They're going to purge the Nazis.
	There are a large number of confirmed Nazis in Ukraine.
	It's not just Kremlin propaganda.
	There are.
	There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
	I'm not saying the country is a Nazi country.
	That's ridiculous.
	Of course.
	But it's also not really surprising as well.
	For the fact, of course, you have the Soviet Union and the terrible things they did to the Ukrainians.
	And the Germans turned up and a lot of them were recruited.
	And that whole history there.
	So, not hugely surprised that it's about...
	But to say that you're denotifying the country, again, just ridiculous.
	If we go to the next link, you can see also Putin is saying he's going to have peacekeepers.
	Again, more peacekeepers, this time in Transnistria, the meme country.
	If we go to the next link, we can feature said meme country, as we have before.
	For people who don't know, especially maybe some Americans, there is a meme country on the side of Moldova that still thinks it's 1970.
	And it's pretending with the hammer and sickles and whatnot.
	And some peacekeepers are going to turn up there and keep the peace so hard that they might invade Ukraine.
	Oh, boy.
	If we go to the next link as well, you can see Vice playing about the neo-Nazi question as well.
	Why is this AK-47 toting grandma working with the neo-Nazis?
	It's because it doesn't matter.
	It's about defending Ukrainian sovereignty.
	I don't care that there are some neo-Nazi...
	Well, there is that, but then there is also the argument that if a bunch of neo-Nazis turned up almost anywhere else, there is such a supply and demand crisis for neo-Nazis that the media would be falling over themselves to report it.
	And so the fact that they don't is in itself revealing.
	Yeah, it's also obvious that you focus on that.
	I mean, there are plenty of extremist groups in any war, and it's not surprising there are extremist groups in a war, especially one for independence.
	And, okay, they exist, right.
	That's not a story.
	Also, you're playing against the obvious point that Putin literally made, which is that it's full of neo-Nazis, therefore I have to punch a Nazi, bro.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next link, we can see, I believe it's Mikhail Svetov on GB News, which was interesting.
	Mikhail is, well, I don't know if he was a leader, but he was a member of the Russian Libertarian Party.
	Right.
	Apparently he's now exiled from Russia, which is sad to see.
	But he's on here, of course, explaining that there is huge opposition in Russia to the war as well, to be kept in mind.
	And the fact that the idea of denartification is mad.
	So if we go to the next link, we can also see Mikhail talking about this.
	I messaged Mikhail as well to ask him about the situation in Russia, because I'm not there.
	And he said that the...
	Because I thought the rhetoric from Putin on peacekeepers and denazification was just him mocking the West.
	Right.
	And one would assume so.
	Mikhail said that, no, unironically, he seems to have lost his marbles.
	Oh.
	And sincerely believes that it's full of Nazis and he needs to defend Russia from the Nazi question.
	So, okay.
	It's worrying to know that he may actually be that mad.
	That's something to keep in mind.
	Thanks for that, Mikhail, to let me know.
	If we go to the next link as well, we can also see the anti-war protests springing up in St.
	Petersburg and Moscow.
	And there's that to keep in mind as well, which is great to see.
	The BBC claims 1,700 protesters arrested, I think.
	I imagine so.
	And if we get to the next level, you can see some of those arrests.
	So these are the Russian police beating up people.
	They were protesting about the war, some of them beaten.
	Presumably, the organizers were threatened with 10 years in jail and their bank accounts frozen.
	And you might think I'm a little bit crass, making the comparisons, the truckers in Canada, of course.
	But this is actually something I spoke to Svetov about when I was in Russia.
	And he was a member of the Libertarian Party advocating for liberalism in Russia.
	Liberalize the country, right?
	Every battle we have for freedom in the West doesn't end in the West.
	Mm-hmm.
	Because when he was making the case for liberalism in Russia, and then you have to respond to Russians saying, yeah, well, look at the West, look what they're doing.
	It's not untrue as well.
	Yeah, so the authoritarianism of Trudeau in Canada just entirely undermines the freedom and democracy movements in places like Russia, is what you're saying.
	You don't just harm Westerners, you harm the freedom movement.
	Yeah, because it's openly and blatantly hypocritical.
	Yeah.
	If you wonder why they have such a struggling time in such countries, it's not just because of the repression, but also these events as well.
	We should keep it in mind.
	And if we go to the next one, Svetov also makes the point that plenty of people oppose Putin in this tweet, because there was some Yankees, and I'm not going to get the tweet up, because the guy, I don't know if he was just fishing for attention or what, there were some Yankee accounts saying that, do Russians have no shame about all of this?
	And it was just like...
	Are you kidding me?
	So Svetov says, Fair point as well.
	If we continue on this line, we can see everything else.
	So we can see, speaking of the West, about all of this, let's go and check out what the West is up to in the meanwhile of a war breaking out.
	And it's not good.
	It's cringe.
	It's big old cringe.
	This is just the military side I want to focus on.
	So Titania McGrath making a joke here, which is, with our superior commitment to diversity and inclusion, Putin doesn't stand a chance.
	Haha, good joke.
	It's kind of annoyingly not funny, though, because it is also the reality of our militaries.
	Well, you don't want to go too far, because our militaries are still very capable, and people make the mistake in thinking that we are harmless instead of just spineless.
	Absolutely.
	But still, it's not good seeing this stuff.
	Ideological indoctrination is no replacement for military exercise.
	Yeah.
	And that's the point I'm going to try and make here.
	So if we go to the next few links, so if we go to this one, we can see...
	This is just stuff I found on the RAF's Twitter feed in the middle of all this, what they were posting.
	Oh my god.
	It's just like a guy outside the Ministry of Defence, he's got his little rainbow lapels, and then there's another one where there's a jet with rainbows all over it, and the Royal Air Force have changed their flag to rainbows, because it's LGBT History Month this February.
	What are you doing?
	What the hell is wrong with you?
	To be honest, this is one good thing about wars, in that you no longer worry about what pronoun to use when there are cruise missiles raining down around your ears.
	Don't misgender my corpse.
	We go to the next one.
	You might think I'm exaggerating.
	We have featured this before.
	I'm not.
	It really is that bad.
	We got this from some guy in the RAF. It's this image.
	I won't name him, of course.
	saying that they have to learn these common pronouns.
	They, them, she, her, zer, per, b-b-b-b-b-b, it goes on.
	And then it says that this is...
	Not negotiable.
	Even though there are made up pronouns in there beginning with Z. Not negotiable.
	You have to learn.
	Personnel are reminded of their obligation to promote total inclusivity.
	Total inclusivity is not negotiable.
	This is what our officers get.
	It's madness.
	This is not helping us be better warfare.
	This is helping us be worse.
	If we go to the next link, we can see some more of this.
	So we can see the mean of all this.
	The British Army decided to put out a video celebrating or trying to become carbon neutral in the army.
	Again, where are your priorities?
	And you might think, oh, isn't that funny?
	You know, okay, dumb video.
	They're just propaganda.
	Yeah.
	We'll get to the next one.
	We can actually see a former U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, here saying on Arabic BBC, the Ukrainian crisis could distract the world from the climate crisis.
	Shut up.
	Just shut up.
	Of all the problems with the West, like all the weird obsessions that we have with pointless things that don't matter.
	I know.
	It's infuriating.
	And it is most apparent right now, I think.
	It's not just him.
	It's also NATO itself.
	Okay.
	Who decided to put out some propaganda in the middle of all this.
	Titania McGrath, you're not joking.
	This is NATO putting out a video saying diversity is our strength, and then there's a whole bunch of people saying that diversity is our strength.
	We are better because of this and that.
	Again, stop.
	Ideological indoctrination is not a replacement for exercise.
	If we go to the next links as well, we can see the Western political response.
	We will get into the cringe in a bit.
	Just wanted to mention, we are using our tactical cringe.
	The West's finest weapon.
	Oh, no.
	Against Putin.
	Well, I think that might start a genuine nuclear conflict, to be honest.
	I don't know.
	We could check up his Twitter account and see if he said the N-word in the past.
	Oh, Putin beware.
	No, it's stupid.
	This person is particularly stupid.
	But then I thought I'd check in on Western nostalgia at the moment as well, because some things are also aging like fine wine.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	was one of the big brexit debates in 2016 yeah and this is where he's challenging the prime minister and the deputy prime minister i think it was at the time about a debate and he makes the the point back in 2016 he says look i'm not uh pro-russia in any sort of sense not pro what's going on but our expansion into the east is going to cause an needlessly uh an easily avoidable war and uh yeah looking a lot like nostalgia I can see why he's aging well there.
	If we continue, we can go to other people who have nostalgia, this time for Donald Trump, saying I miss whatever foreign policy strategy this was.
	Don't you?
	North Korean leader Kim Jong-un just started that the nuclear button is on his desk at all times.
	Will someone from his depleted and food-starved regime please inform him that I too have a nuclear button, but mine is much bigger and more powerful than his, and my button works.
	Who doesn't miss Trump?
	How can you not?
	And then if we go to the next one, we can see that strategy versus whatever the hell this is, which is we have interests in Ukraine, specifically my son and his corruption.
	And again, as Tim points out, the fact that Biden's move was to fire the guy looking into corruption instead of dealing with it.
	If we move on, I thought we'd also end off with some memes, because this is, of course, a very serious situation, but that's not the side of some humour, because life is short.
	And we'll start off with a bit of a gross one, but as you can see here, this is the flight traffic over Europe right now, which avoids Ukraine.
	I like that fun.
	Oh, the internet.
	Let's go to the next one.
	We have another meme here.
	Someone pointing out one for the pianist.
	Don't shoot.
	I'm retarded.
	Prove it.
	CBS News says the US economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply chain issues due to the Ukrainian crisis.
	Nah, it hasn't.
	Shut up.
	This was happening before.
	It's because of your government policies.
	We go to the next one, we can see another flight path meme.
	This one being a Leroy Jenkins moment as Air India bravely goes into the big gap in the sky.
	Wait, what?
	I guess someone didn't tell them.
	They were just like, I don't care.
	I want to save on the fuel.
	And if we continue, if we can go to the next one as well, we can see John posted this good meme as well.
	You can see Russian tanks versus US tanks right now.
	I mean, we do joke.
	I love the shortened barrel.
	That's the best part.
	I mean, I feel it should be an Apache attack helicopter, but there we go.
	Sexually identified as a tank helicopter would be good right now.
	Oh boy, there's that.
	If you go to the next one, I'm going to see some memes on the Russian side, but this time in reality.
	This is a tank with the Russians.
	Is that the Soviet flag on the top there?
	Flying a Soviet flag.
	It's got the markings that it's on the Russian side of the invasion.
	It's just like Dukes of Hazzard of the East over here.
	Hoorah!
	If we go to the next one, we can also see another meme, a living meme.
	Miles of Kabul, who is coming to become Miles of Kiev, presumably, as he goes back into the war in the middle of it.
	As you can see, he has a press pass there that he's made for himself by his own company, where he is the only member, which is hilarious.
	He's going back in.
	I spoke to him yesterday.
	I think he should be there right now.
	Miles, please don't die.
	We'll see if we can get some footage as well.
	Yeah, but if you've got some pictures, we'll feature them, of course.
	If we go to the next one, we also have another living meme, the Taliban.
	Who decided to issue a statement on Twitter, because the Taliban are still on Twitter, saying that they plead for peace and a peaceful resolution for the whole situation.
	Yes, of course, because the Taliban Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is so concerned with peace.
	They're drowning in peace.
	So, lads in Afghanistan, if you want to help, you could donate those helicopters.
	They do have one of the largest militaries in the world, thanks America.
	Let's just give them away.
	I mean, what are you doing with them?
	I mean, if they'd given them to the Ukraine, we'd be having a very different segment right now.
	Yeah.
	They've got the means.
	Yeah.
	So if we go to the next one, we can also see CNN's reporting on the situation.
	Goddammit, Sargon, indeed, says Count Dankula.
	I do not get this meme.
	Let's play.
	I know we talk about a lot about the world-looking cyberpunk dystopia, but that really is on It is, yeah.
	Here's air raid sirens in Kiev, but also Applebee's.
	I know you don't get the meme.
	The meme is that Sargon used to work at Applebee's.
	It's his fault.
	I see.
	There's some other people making, of course, some Nagasaki memes in response.
	The news reporting on Nagasaki, and then that turns into an Applebee's advert as well.
	But anyway, that's the absolute S show that has been Ukraine.
	I'll just take this moment as well to mention to people, like if you are watching on Facebook or any of the other platforms, I know that a lot of people comment on there.
	We have a live chat on the website, so if you want to get our, or at least me reading the live chat, because I know we talk about it a lot, do go over to the website, plug in the live chat there, whatever you have to say, and I will read your dank maimays, or whatever else you have to put in there.
	Oh boy, but yeah, big, big, horrible situation for the Ukrainians.
	I just hope everything's alright in the end.
	Anyway, what do you make of all that, Leo?
	Hello!
	Was that seamless?
	That was absolutely seamless.
	The Ukraine crisis seems to have affected the train service to Swindon, is what I can make of all that.
	The Russians are hacking the network.
	Yeah, they hacked it so bad somebody had to jump under the train.
	So apologies for being late.
	It proves that, well, we do it live.
	We absolutely do do it live.
	We definitely do it live.
	Every morning I wake up and go, F it, let's do it live, and we absolutely do.
	But yeah, the Ukraine crisis, I've actually, funny you should ask that, because I've actually prepared a little piece on it.
	Oh, have you?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, I mean, what I've found really weird is the people's, like the culture wars seem to be coming to the Cold War, is how I'd describe it.
	I mean, the left have come out with their usual expected, completely nonsense takes.
	So here we've got Corbyn talking.
	We don't need to watch this video.
	We don't need to see his face moving.
	This is Corbyn on Palestine.
	It's like they can't miss an opportunity to wedge a completely unrelated topic that he always bangs on about.
	Of course he's got a A complete boner for Palestine.
	This is the day of the invasion.
	We're not mistaken, by the way, in case anyone thinks.
	And of course, I think he's trying to bring some sort of equivalence between Ukraine, having this militarily stronger neighbouring country coming in and occupying it, with the state of Palestine.
	But actually, if we cast our minds back to the Six-Day War, which nobody on the left ever does because it kind of invalidates all our arguments...
	If we look at the Six Day War, basically the Arab countries round about Israel said to the Palestinians, you know, get out of Israel because we're going to come in, we're going to kill all the Israelis, you'll be in their homes, you'll be dancing on their bones later on this evening.
	And then Israel was like, well, wait a minute, and then just totally annihilated all the larger countries that tried to wipe it out and totally annihilated their forces.
	And that's why the Palestinians, they were told by these countries that were invading Israel, they were told to get out and told that they have the whole Israel.
	So, you know, I mean, it wasn't exactly the same as Ukraine, where, you know, Ukraine wasn't...
	Wasn't going to invade Russia.
	Wasn't any threat to Russia.
	Even with that attempted explanation there, the idea that this is time at all to even have this discussion about Palestine.
	Oh man, it's like, read the room!
	You know what I mean?
	We came within genuinely a few...
	Million, trillion votes of having him as their leader.
	You know what I mean?
	It was a real...
	It was on a knife edge.
	It was like the vote in the Duma yesterday.
	I don't know if you saw that.
	There was a vote in the Duma to recognise the People's Republics and to then go to war.
	And it was a very close vote of the representatives.
	It was 400 to nil.
	It's a big old debate.
	They then stood around clapping for God knows how long.
	Yeesh.
	We should rename it the Temple of Duma.
	Corbyn also managed to get another point in, so he's part of the Stop the War coalition, who aren't Stop the War at all.
	They're Stop the West.
	They're Stop the West coalition.
	They're very happy for war to continue throughout Africa, throughout the Middle East, as long as it's not countries with some diverse politicians doing it.
	By diverse, I mean multi-ethnic and women and all the rest of it.
	But yeah, so he made the point that like, for some reason, he hates NATO. He thinks there shouldn't be any eastward NATO expansion.
	Surely the fact that Russia has invaded a European country pretty much makes the case that NATO should expand.
	You can make the argument.
	I'm sure he would make the counter-argument, of course, that the expansion has caused the Russian anxiety.
	I'm not saying I buy it.
	I wouldn't listen to that argument because he's got a boring voice.
	That's as good a reason as any.
	But it wasn't just famous leftists that people listened to that were making the point.
	So this is Alan Smith MP. So he's a SMP MP. And absolutely...
	So, he says, I mean, this is annoyingly cropped.
	I don't know who crops pictures so you can't read the text.
	Oh, no, there we go.
	It's Twitter automatically cropping it.
	So, still more worrying indications from Ukraine this evening.
	Everyone should watch their comments over the next days carefully and don't share fake news and avoid speculation.
	We'll continue to monitor the situation as it develops.
	Ah, I feel so relieved knowing the SNP is monitoring the situation.
	All the military might of the SNP are going to be involved, are they?
	Yeah, what are they going to send?
	Like a haggis and three sheep?
	Like, come on.
	This is the SNP. As much as I'm Scottish and I love Scotland, I don't think we've...
	I mean, apart from the nuclear weapons, we've got stationed.
	But they're Britons.
	I love the nukes.
	Not the SNP. I love nukes as well.
	I think this has made the case that we need more nukes.
	Have you seen...
	I don't know if you have Gary Lineker in here.
	I don't want to spoil it if you do.
	You see Gary Lineker's response to all this.
	Oh my God, what did he say?
	He said that, well, we spend all this money on nuclear deterrence.
	Look how that went.
	And it was like...
	You're the dumbest fucking person in the entire planet.
	Yeah.
	For people who might...
	For Gary Lineker, who might not know.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The Ukrainians did have nukes.
	They gave them to the Russians for a guarantee of non-aggression.
	Yeah.
	And then, well, that didn't work.
	Yeah.
	Although, I mean, at the time, you know, we were kind of happy for them to hand back their nukes as well because...
	You know, weapons, Ukrainian weapons.
	In 1991, after Ukraine left, the Soviet Union disintegrated.
	They didn't have a lot of economic strength or order in the country, and they were selling military weapons on the black market.
	They didn't even have the launch codes for the nukes, actually, in Moscow.
	Oh, government had those.
	Oh, right.
	So they couldn't even launch them.
	Right, yeah.
	And you can't just go and, like, I don't know, go down and press a button on it and, like, override it.
	Apparently they could get them, but it would just take lots of money and, like, trying to, what do you call it, reverse engineer.
	Right, yeah.
	I see.
	And yeah, and the other thing, just staying on that one, so Alan Smith, he's in the SMP, and the SMP have, in the past, I mean, I don't have the clips here, but Alan Smith in particular has made threats to people and told them that they're on databases, and so, you know, when he says everyone should watch their comments over the next days carefully, like, he's sort of saying, we're watching you.
	The SMP generally have databases for dissidents, and I mean, I hope I'm on one.
	But yeah, there's a video, covert video of Alan Smith warning a woman in her car that she's on a watch list and she should be very careful.
	And so we know that if the SNP actually became, if Scotland became decoupled from Westminster, which is quite a calming, stabling influence on the SNP. Then they'd just have a full-on Stasi and we wouldn't need to wait for Russia to invade.
	Glasgow would already be communist.
	But yeah, if we move on to the next one.
	So Owen Jones.
	Actually, in fairness to Owen Jones, he's tweeted a lot of stuff that I've actually agreed with.
	But he's also made the point That all these Labour MPs, basically 11 Labour MPs signed a petition or signed a letter supporting Stop the War and saying we shouldn't have any war with Russia, we should just wait for them to come in and kill us all.
	And he says that it's Keir Starmer trying to purge the Labour Party because they're going to withdraw the whip of these MPs.
	He says Keir Starmer is trying to purge the Labour Party of left-wing Labour MPs.
	Please.
	Which is a great idea.
	I mean, I think if any organisation needs a McCarthyist witch hunt, it is the Labour Party.
	I have to listen to someone say comrades once more at a Labour Party conference.
	Oh, when they say it, it makes my balls.
	I cringe so hard.
	I've literally got my scrotum caught in my ribcage.
	It was awful.
	I know there are those British accents.
	I just love all the Americans listening to it.
	Like, you guys are literally saying comrades.
	What is this?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And also, like, you know, have you ever seen a Labour MP who would be successful in a communist system?
	Like, you've got to be a real Machiavellian, like, scheming, like, complete cold-blooded...
	Multi-millionaire.
	Multi-millionaire to succeed in a communist regime.
	And also, like, when they...
	You know, they die in the gulags they're demanding to be built.
	So yeah, if we move on to the next one, we can actually see those labouring pieces.
	We just scroll down.
	So the signatories are, oh, this is just a list of...
	I hope this is the next...
	I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.
	It's Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, Richard Bergen, never heard of him, Ian Lavery, Beth Winter, Zahra Sultana.
	She's absolutely chronic.
	She's the one who's complaining.
	Islamistist.
	She's the one who's complaining about masks, people not wearing masks in Parliament, and how she didn't feel safe.
	And then, like, literally the next day on Instagram, she's, like, tweeting pictures from the Mobos, where she's, like, hanging around with everybody with no mask on.
	So, I mean, it just shows how mask wearing has become this politicised partisan issue.
	Bel Ribeiro Adi, Apsana Begum, don't know if it's in relation.
	Mick Whitley, Tahir Ali, Ian Mern.
	So they're, yeah, they're...
	You know, they think NATO should roll over and play dead.
	You know what's funny?
	I think those are pretty much all the leftists that I follow from the Labour Party, just because they always say the funniest things.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I follow them not because they're interesting, because they will come up with something like, let's just ban everything that's Islamophobic.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, also, like, I mean, some on the left is in the UK, but in Canada, they're currently, the Parliament is debating this bill that means you can get somebody reported, you can report somebody for hate speech before they've said it.
	Now we've gone from these words are so bad that even just, like, if you say them out loud...
	Hate think.
	They summon the devil.
	Now we've got, like, this person might say a word.
	I think this person might say a word that's so bad it'll summon the devil.
	So we've gone from this weird...
	Because it's witchcraft.
	Hate speech is basically witchcraft.
	Like, saying a word...
	Yeah, but hate think is another level of witchcraft.
	And hate think, yeah, or future hate speech.
	You know, the Minority Report pre-crime division of hate speech.
	Anyway, we should probably rattle through these a bit faster.
	But you expect nuttiness from people on the left.
	You expect unpatriotic, complete nuttiness, anti-militarism and all the rest of it from people on the left.
	But people on the right, this is what blew my mind.
	So...
	I don't know if we've got time to play this, but this is Mike Pompeo.
	He's a former Secretary of State, so this is a very high office of the land.
	He's also a future possible presidential candidate.
	He's still held in very high regard.
	And he's also previously been quite hawkish and very...
	As a Republican, obviously, he's been...
	Anti-communist.
	He served under anti-communist and very pro-freedom and democracy and all the good things.
	So it's just weird.
	He's come out and he said Putin is very shrewd and very capable.
	In the middle of the invasion?
	Yeah, this is a few days before, right?
	Yeah, this is before, but you know, during the build-up.
	So, yeah, and he's also said, I have enormous respect for Putin.
	I've been criticised for saying that.
	You compare that to Condoleezza Rice, who's another former Secretary of State, and she described Putin as megalomaniacal.
	Which is a difficult word to say.
	I can't say it.
	Have a go.
	No.
	Megalomaniacal.
	Yes, okay.
	Megalomaniacal.
	Megalomaniacal.
	So apparently I've been saying the word ascertain wrong for decades.
	I've been saying ascertain.
	It's not even a word, is it?
	Ascertain is a word.
	Yeah, but acertain.
	Acertain isn't a word.
	Reminds me of a friend who used to say Naples instead of Naples.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Although it was my missus that corrected me, and she pronounces lambast, lambaste, and she refuses to accept that it's wrong.
	I think the worst one!
	I think the worst one was Darius Davies.
	I do a podcast with him, and he said, I've heard him say this before, and he's like, okay, we're going to siege into the next section.
	And we're like, what do you mean?
	Sieg?
	And he's like, Sieg, it's a word.
	And we're like, do you mean segue?
	And he's like, and then he got the thing, he got Google to pronounce it.
	So as if he was like, you know, no, listen.
	And Google obviously said segue.
	So he thought segue and Sieg were different words.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	Um...
	So, Mike Pompeo, he's come out and sort of said very nice things about Putin.
	Tucker Carlson defended Putin as well.
	So, yeah, they've actually put this up with subtitles.
	I mean, we could maybe watch this because we can't read the subtitles.
	I mean, not yet.
	In 10 years' time, when Putin's finished his invasion of Europe, we'll be able to read the subtitles.
	Yeah, I wouldn't have been a while.
	Since the day that Donald Trump became president, Democrats in Washington have told you you have a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin.
	It's not a suggestion, it's a mandate.
	Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.
	Many Americans have obeyed this directive.
	They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin.
	Maybe you're one of them.
	Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America's foreign policy.
	It's the main thing that we talk about.
	Entire cable channels are now devoted to it.
	Very soon, that hatred of Vladimir Putin could bring the United States into a conflict in Eastern Europe.
	Before that happens, it might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, what is this really about?
	Why do I hate Putin so much?
	Has Putin ever called me a racist?
	Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?
	Has he shipped every middle class job in my town to Russia?
	Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years?
	Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination?
	Is he making fentanyl?
	Is he trying to snuff out Christianity?
	Does he eat dogs?
	These are fair questions, and the answer to all of them is no.
	Vladimir Putin didn't do any of that.
	So why does permanent Washington hate him so much?
	I don't know, maybe because he does stuff like invading Ukraine, you know, invading Georgia.
	Sure, I'll try and defend Tucker here because I can kind of see the point he's making, which is that you spend so much time hating this foreign guy who does poison his opposition, just openly has them killed in Russia.
	And in Salisbury, as well.
	Of course.
	You know, murders people in NATO countries, and all this, and you invade Ukraine and Georgia, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But you don't have that hate for, say, the Dems, who will literally come and take your job and all that, just because you've made a tweet.
	So I can kind of see the point he's making.
	It's not...
	Ideal.
	Yeah, yeah.
	For me, this is like separate things.
	So, I mean, the culture war is separate from global geopolitics and, you know, it should, or geopolitics.
	I'm just trying to be careful to pronounce all the words right.
	But, yeah, I mean, for me, it's kind of weird because I don't, like, from my point of view, I haven't really heard much saber rattling from Biden and the Democrat administration over Putin.
	We haven't been brought up with this mantra that Putin's evil.
	So it's kind of weird.
	And also, a lot of Western countries have been doing business with Russia, and he's been accepted in the World Economic Forum, which is obviously the ultimate leftist global elite club.
	He's welcome at the table at the UN, and Russia's welcome at the Olympics and stuff.
	You know, the leftist elitists have ostracised them or, you know, run this campaign.
	I think it's based on a false premise.
	And also, I think you should be called Cucker.
	Cucker Tarlson.
	For saying this.
	For being unpatriotic.
	Cuck!
	So, yeah, I thought it was ridiculous.
	I disagree, but that's fine.
	And also, anything that they say gets repeated, you know, it's used in Russian propaganda.
	As we can see, you know, they're just playing this speech with Russian subtitles.
	So, yeah.
	So, here we go.
	And the next bit, I don't know if...
	Oh, yeah.
	So, here we go.
	Yeah, the bio labs.
	There's also this...
	In all the right-wing groups that I'm in and WhatsApp and stuff, they're talking about the US building biological weapon labs in the Ukraine.
	And it just...
	Obviously, they're not building bioweapons labs in the Ukraine.
	For a start, the Ukraine isn't...
	Isn't it a secure country?
	It's not a secure country.
	I mean, it's in Europe, but it's on the fringe of Europe, and it's not in the EU. The Americans do have other places to do this.
	Yeah, they do it in America!
	They do it.
	They're not like, look, we're China!
	And it's Bioweapons Lab in Wuhan, right in the middle of China.
	I've been there.
	I've been there.
	Right before the, probably right after the thing got out, I was probably the person who brought it back.
	Patient zero.
	Yeah, patient zero.
	But, like, you wouldn't place, I mean, if you had some sort of, you know, very special, and also, you know, you want your people with expertise, you know, you're not going to say to them, like, oh, you got to go to the Ukraine on the border with Russia.
	You wouldn't have, like, your weapons factories right on the border with Russia.
	That makes no sense.
	Steelman position, it might be because, you know, let's say there's an argument you want to build somewhere because that's out of the way of US jurisdiction.
	But then, you know, let's see the evidence.
	That's always got to be the question.
	Well, somebody put this evidence saying, oh, look at these missile strikes that are on the bioweapons labs.
	It's like, no, the missile strikes are in sort of, you know, areas where there's infrastructure and buildings and stuff.
	Military targets.
	Yeah, so it's correlation.
	It's not causation.
	And yeah, it's just absolute, absolute nonsense.
	But I mean, particularly, you wouldn't put any sort of weapons lab or anything like that in a country that's controlled by an enemy.
	So for a while now, Crimea and also parts of the Donbass region have been controlled and occupied by Russia.
	So you wouldn't do it.
	And also it's encircled by Belarus, and as we've seen, and by the sea at the bottom, so as we've seen, it's not a safe country.
	It's got really hot women, though.
	Man.
	Oh my god.
	You've seen the immigration policy.
	Because all the men have to stay and fight.
	Right.
	And the British government just released that we're accepting thousands of refugees.
	Well, isn't this better than, this is, I mean, this is this sort of mass immigration.
	We're all going to end up with harems.
	This is the mass immigration I can get on board with.
	I made a speech saying exactly this.
	Isn't this better than taking fighting age men from Syria who ideologically hate us and want to kill us and see us all as infidels and, you know, man.
	Absolutely.
	I see this as a, well, that aspect as a way.
	Instead we're going to get beautiful women from the Ukraine who speak 12 languages and, you know, sing in the opera.
	And it's going to be great.
	Because that's the thing with immigration.
	I think, you know, if you've got shared values, perfect.
	You know, come on.
	Obviously, we've got to have sensible limits.
	But yeah, if you've got shared values, shared principles and all the rest of it.
	It's just high value immigrants.
	Fine.
	But yeah, yeah.
	But like, you know, we've had a policy of like, you know, having pretty much unfettered immigration and with people who don't share our values.
	And in fact, in some cases, Hate us and our values and want to destroy us.
	So that's not a good idea for anybody.
	Call me crazy, call me a weird racist, but yeah, I don't think that's great.
	And also, so as well as the right being all like anti, because I guess they're opposing Biden, so anything Biden does, they've got to oppose it.
	But surely something like this is something we can all get behind.
	We can all get behind supporting You know, military support to the Ukraine and against Russia.
	So, you know, I don't know why people let partisan politics come in front of that.
	So leftists have been screaming traitor at people.
	And it's just so it's such a flip flop because traitor, you know, patriot is normally a term used by the right to identify themselves.
	I identify as a, as a patriot, maybe, maybe not just for Britain, but for Western liberal democratic values, um, very fiercely patriotic, even Europe, even though we've left it and stuff, like I feel great affinity with Europe and Australia and America and all the rest of it.
	And, you know, I feel those, you know, these people are my brothers and I want to help them and defend them.
	Um, And the left are traditionally hating the West, hating themselves, hating all the history.
	Oh, we did all this bad stuff in 1600.
	We're all terrible.
	We're all straight white men and stuff.
	So it's weird to see the left like Bette Midler coming out and calling people traitors.
	What are they patriotic for?
	Well, this is the thing.
	I think the left have now become, they've got this very narcissistic personal patriotism.
	Yeah, they're patriotic for their worldview.
	Now that they see, at least in their view, that their worldview has overtaken the nation, therefore they can be patriotic for that nation because it is now ours, instead of what it actually stands for.
	Yeah, and also having a flag for your own identity.
	So you're becoming a patriot for yourself.
	You're not a patriot for any country with the shared values and principles in history.
	You're just a patriot for yourself.
	But why not all the military using the racial pride flags?
	I'm sure you've seen the RAF accounts and the military accounts, including all this stuff.
	Of course, yeah, the progressives can finally be patriotic because it's...
	Yeah.
	It's for them.
	No wonder.
	No wonder Putin thought he could invade all this stuff.
	But yeah, it's weird.
	So here's Bette Midler calling Fox News traitors.
	So this is a complete flip from in the 60s when it was leftist activists like Jane Fonda, for example, fighting against the US government, fighting against the establishment.
	And then Jane Fonda was called a traitor.
	So now it's the left who are calling the right the traitors.
	So that's a bit of a flip.
	And if we move on to the next one, go...
	I can't say it because we're on children's TV. It's a Christian podcast.
	Is it?
	No, I'm an atheist.
	So go fun yourself, Putin-loving traitor, which is something...
	Have I had my eyes shut?
	I'd assume that was something that I'd said to somebody on the left.
	But if we go into the next one...
	Oh yeah, so now the European Union have some...
	Even though a lot of the people who voted to remain were anti-NATO. But then they've all suddenly got Ukrainian flags in their profiles.
	Yeah.
	That's new.
	Yeah.
	I thought that was a new gender identity.
	I was like, what's this?
	I'm blue-yellow.
	Yeah.
	But I mean, I think, you know, on the right, all right, we want, we want, and people also, people have been making a lot of false equivalences between the EU and NATO. So they're saying, oh, don't you wish you're still in Europe and stuff?
	It's like, we're still in NATO, and NATO's the military system.
	Side of things, you know what I mean?
	You could argue that the EU has played a large role in this as well because of the Euromaidan revolution.
	But let's not get into that discussion.
	The people in Ukraine want to be part of Europe.
	It's an argument that is being had with these people.
	I'm not saying I disagree, it's just that that's an argument.
	Three quarters of the people voted for Zelensky.
	They want to be in Europe.
	And, you know, I think we should respect the democratic folk.
	75% is a bit more than 52%.
	If you want slavery, okay, go for it.
	Slavery.
	Oh, man.
	Being a member of the EU. This is the other thing.
	National slavery.
	It blows my mind.
	People are like, and all the WhatsApp groups, and they're like, oh, we're not free in this country.
	The government lies to us in this country.
	It's like, there's no way it's the same as Russia.
	Like, in Russia.
	No, don't get me wrong.
	Being part of the Federation isn't the other option.
	Being independent is the option I'd go for.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the stuff that we're saying now, we'd get literally put in jail and tortured for.
	There's more political prisoners, more prisoners of conscience in Russia now than there was during the Soviet Union.
	So...
	You know, Putin is amazingly, you know, he's now as brutal and barbarous as the Soviet Union.
	And what he's doing now is he's returning the economy to levels that were last seen in the Soviet Union.
	So, honestly, I think, I mean, I'm getting a bit off topic, but I think Putin could be felled by a coup from inside.
	Because it's like the Sopranos.
	And the Sopranos, if all Tony's captains stop earning because he goes to war with New York, then they're going to be like, well, we need to get rid of Tony and we need peace.
	And so, you know, I think that could happen.
	But I don't understand what's behind people on the right suddenly licking Putin's anus.
	I mean, I guess from a right-wing point of view, Putin's been strong on immigration, although, you know, immigration, there's benefits.
	He's actually very poor on immigration.
	Oh, really?
	He has an open border with Kazakhstan, and there's just endless illegal migrants coming in.
	Yeah, but Kazakhstan, they're shared value.
	No, the illegal migrants come from, like, Central Asia, you know, Tajikistan and whatnot, which...
	Western Russia and that are two different places.
	Right.
	Anyway, a whole other conversation.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So he's been bad on that.
	He's actually bad on immigration.
	It's a thing where we have a view of him like this, but it's not true.
	Right, yeah, yeah.
	He's been good on Islamism, or is he not?
	Yeah.
	Oh, he has been.
	I was right on that one.
	There are like three million Muslims in Moscow.
	Three mosques.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But there's also the, you know, Russian Muslims.
	I mean, I've spoken to them and stuff, and they just seem a lot more chilled out and less.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So they're sort of Russian first and, you know, Muslim, which I think is a good way, if you're religious, I've got no problem with religion, you know what I mean?
	As long as people understand, it's just a social club.
	English first.
	Yeah, English first or British first.
	And whatever second.
	And whatever second.
	Jehovah's Witness second.
	Also, he's preserved Christian values.
	Don't I think this is something in this country?
	I'm not a Christian, but I like the Christian values.
	I like the Judeo-Christian values.
	They're good values.
	They're tolerant and forgiving.
	It's nice and working hard and being...
	I should save the time.
	We should...
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And also military strength, which, again, we're sort of embarrassed of military strength in this country now.
	And I think a country is more than...
	Anyway, and also he's quite socially conservative, which I guess appeals to people on the right.
	I mean, I'm socially liberal, but I think the pendulum swung too far and is now openly discriminatory to the West's indigenous people and unprotected demographics, such as white, male, heterosexual, cisgender people, us...
	So, you know, in this Instagram picture, somebody sent this to me yesterday, so a room available for an East London apartment.
	No cis straight men, please.
	You know what I mean?
	It's the new no blacks, no dogs, no Irish.
	It's open discrimination.
	Again, culturally normal.
	There's a sense of malaise across the West.
	We've diluted our culture and punished our people.
	We promote victimhood and weakness.
	In all our institutions we repeat baseless mantras such as diversity is strength.
	If diversity is such strength, how come when Britain wasn't diverse we conquered the whole world?
	That made us diverse?
	Yeah, I want to see some data, some analysis that shows what incredible strengths diversity brings.
	You know, I think diversity's great, but, you know, we've got it now.
	We've got the recipes.
	Well, you've never heard that.
	You're like, where would England be without its curry?
	One recipe away.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And also, there's all other kinds of food.
	Also, people who say that English food, British food is bland and tasteless and not spicy.
	Have you had English mustard?
	Have you had any English mustard?
	It's too far.
	English mustard is the spiciest thing in the world.
	And, you know, if you've got the state of Biden's nuclear waste advisor, so if you scroll down, Jesus, you know what I mean?
	Yes.
	Sorry to give you all erections at this time in the afternoon.
	I've got no problem with people doing this, but do it in secret.
	Be a bit embarrassed.
	It's meant to be part of the kink, presumably.
	Yeah, but what, do it in public?
	No, doing it in private.
	Yeah, it makes it more fun.
	You don't want your mum and dad being like, no, there's Steve.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, Jesus.
	Like, come on.
	It's more fun.
	Everybody does, you know, freaky stuff.
	I've brought Carl to Thanksgiving.
	Most of us have just got the...
	In his dog uniform.
	Most of us have just got the good grace to do it in secret.
	So to tell you, I think you've already had this on.
	I've had enough of it.
	Can we go to the next one?
	So yeah, I mean, I think Tatiana McGrath, a.k.a.
	Andrew Doyle, just perfectly nails it with her superior commitment to diversity and inclusion.
	Putin doesn't stand a chance, you know what I mean?
	But yeah, I mean, all right, all this gender nonsense is...
	And also it's quite exclusionary and people get cancelled when they shouldn't.
	I can understand why people on the right won't want to be fully behind our leaders on the left.
	But all this gender nonsense is basically just this generation's double denim and mullets.
	They're all just doing it because it's the new thing and it's trendy and it's cool and stuff.
	None of it means anything.
	I think it's far more insidious.
	It kind of is when people are getting cancelled over it.
	Nobody was ever fired for not liking a mullet.
	But, I mean, we didn't destroy Western democracy because of Kajigugu.
	I don't think we should destroy it because a few people want to say, oh, I'm actually called Z and Zier.
	You know what I mean?
	Depends how lost it is.
	but there's a guy writing an article about this I'll send it to you when it's done which is essentially the reason there are a lot of patriotic people who would be patriotic otherwise suddenly rooting for Russia out of nowhere is because as mentioned they look at the military and then they look at the people running the place and they think is this actually the country that I was patriotic for?
	Is it the same place anymore?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, just why has the military got to do it all?
	You know, like, I think it's great that, you know, people can serve in the military regardless of, you know, whatever sexuality they are.
	That's not the question.
	The question is ideological indoctrination.
	Yeah.
	Which is a whole different thing.
	Yeah.
	And, yeah, especially when you're in the military, it's supposed to look tough and stuff.
	Like, you know, rainbow flags just aren't that tough.
	You know, I think it's great that, you know, they're just not that tough.
	They're associated with leprechauns and gay pride.
	I like coffee flags.
	Yeah, so, like, just have something else.
	Like, that...
	Islamic State!
	Their flag is amazing!
	You know exactly you're getting a Jordanian pilot burned in a cage!
	You know!
	It's tough!
	I look forward to the new RAF flag!
	Leo's designed it!
	I love the flag burn!
	Should we move on?
	I'll just say I miss...
	That's Kajigugu there, just as I was describing the mullets.
	The one thing I will say is I miss Reagan.
	I miss Reagan.
	I think if we move on to the next one, we've got a thing...
	Oh no, we don't...
	I miss Reagan!
	We don't have time for this, but search this out.
	It's going viral.
	It's hilarious.
	It's based on a Hollywood liberal.
	I've just done some beat poetry.
	Shall we play a little bit?
	Yeah, let's play a little bit.
	Dear President Vladimir Putin, I'm so sorry that I was not your mother.
	If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light.
	Never would the stories plight the world Unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting peaceful under a night sky.
	If I was your mother, the world would have been warm.
	So much laughter and joy, and nothing would harm.
	I can't imagine the stain, the soul-stealing pain that the little boy you must have seen and believed, and the formulation of thought quickly taught that you lived in a cruel, unjust world.
	Is it making him feel emotional?
	Is this why you now decide no one made it past you?
	Probably ran it past some friends.
	Is this why you do not hide nor away shy from taking back the world?
	Was it because so early in life, all that strife wrapped your little body with fear?
	If I was your mother, if the world was cold, I'd have died to make you warm.
	I'd have died to protect you from the unjust, the violence, the terror, the uncertainty.
	I would have died to give you life.
	If I was your mother, I would have smacked you in the head.
	I'd give you some chicken nuggets.
	If only I'd been your mother.
	Perhaps the torture of unwritten youth would not within your heart imbue ascription to such fealty against that world that you thought was so cruel.
	Perhaps you would hold dear human life and on this night instead of Mother Russia you would call me and I would set your mind quite free with the love that only a mother can give and only a mother can take away.
	She's really maternity shaming Putin's mother.
	Putin's mother might have been alright.
	He did very well.
	He rose through the ranks of the FSB. I can't imagine how it feels in your heart, but I know I was your mother.
	Can we stop that?
	Please.
	Please.
	Before I switch sides.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, it's sort of beautiful in a way, that sort of naivety, but...
	I'm going to start singing the Russian National Anthem in a minute.
	Let's move on.
	Let's talk about Imagine Now as laying out the Checkpoint Society super quick, because I know we are stuck for time.
	I really, really wanted to show you this, because I don't know if you've seen it, but I really wanted to show you it.
	So, very quickly, let's just get into it.
	This is Imagine Now as on Joe Rogan's podcast, and this is probably the most important clip of that entire three-hour conversation, but do go and listen to the full thing if you have the time.
	Let's play.
	Let's play.
	Do you feel like you're sounding the alarm for people that don't understand what the f*** is going on?
	So here, I've pulled it up for you here, yeah?
	So there's the video.
	I don't know if your camera can see that, but there's the video.
	There's him speaking about it.
	The G7 is launching a set of public policy principles for retail central bank digital currencies, CBDCs.
	Central bank digital currencies could be a digital version of money, a bit like a digital bank note.
	Right, so that's the guy who runs our economy in the UK. He's named the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
	And here is the article.
	Bank of England tells ministers to intervene on digital currency programming.
	And here's a quote from the article.
	This is in the Telegraph, the one he pulled up.
	But it was behind a paywall, so I'll just read the quote.
	Digital cash could be programmed to ensure it is only spent on essentials Holy shit.
	Now, I'm going to take it one step further for you, Joe, right?
	So, the vaccine passport infrastructure is in place.
	But now we know that the vaccine doesn't stop infection or transmission, but the Checkpoint Charlie exists everywhere.
	They bring in digital banking, central banking, digital currencies.
	You've got a scenario now that you're checking in and out everywhere you go using vouchers that are programmed and you can only spend where you're told you can spend them.
	There's another word for that, man.
	That's called the Chinese social credit system.
	That's what it's called.
	And anyone who watches Black Mirror will know what I'm talking about.
	That's our TV show, right?
	Yeah.
	So what they are telling us, and when I say they, who's they?
	People in power.
	That's the head of our economy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
	Second most powerful person other than the Prime Minister and maybe the Foreign Secretary in the UK, right?
	He's telling us, I just played it there for you.
	He's telling us that's what he, as the UK, the head of the G7, want to bring in for the G7. So a scenario where like in New York at the moment, because the passport infrastructure is in place, you bring in that digital currency and you've got this total control.
	And if I'm speaking to you the way I'm speaking now, and my employer or government, you heard that in the quote directly, deems me as saying or doing something inappropriate, suddenly I can't actually pay to come here and speak to you anymore.
	My digital currency won't even pay for the ticket.
	Because it will be known that I'm coming to speak to you.
	sorry, your vouchers don't allow you to purchase that ticket to go and speak to Joe.
	Now, I know that was long, but the reason I definitely want to show that is because what he is pointing out there is exactly one of the major, major issues with the vaccine passport system.
	And, well, combining it with the social credit in the form of your bank account being digital and owned by, well, the Fed or the Bank of England is no joke.
	Yeah.
	It's not him making stuff up, so I thought we'd fact-check this lunatic man who has to be kicked off LBC because he's lost his marbles, he's an extremist now again, somehow, no.
	This is the article from The Telegraph here, and they say in here that Mr.
	Mutton, the guy from the Bank of England, says...
	that's the decision on what going ahead is that is really delicate debate that needs to be had and it is not something we can settle ourselves that is something the government needs to lead on a digital currency could make payments faster cheaper and safer but also opens up new technological possibilities including programming effectively allowing a party in a transaction such as the state or an employer to control how the money is spent by the recipient that's terrifying so the
	You're going to have a bank account, and it will be with the Bank of England instead of a third-party bank, because, well, it's just easier and faster and cheaper and all the rest.
	Except now that we can also decide whether or not you're allowed to purchase things.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Or your employer.
	And what you can spend it on.
	I mean, that's terrifying.
	I think this is what's driving cryptocurrency growth, because they are basically digital cash.
	It's...
	It's finance that can't be traced by the government, although it can be in some places.
	As we saw in Canada, they can stop you converting into normal currency.
	Also, you can track it as well.
	Russian intelligence services found that out the hard way.
	Right.
	So they got caught trying to do things and then, yeah, they got caught by their Bitcoin transactions.
	There's a steel man version of this.
	So let's just say Majid is, as some of his people or some of the people around him left this, lost their minds and said he was an extremist.
	There's a steel man position.
	What's that one?
	What's the justification that you could possibly have for saying that the future we should endure is one of a checkpoint society where your bank account is controlled by the states and you can be told whether or not you're able to purchase things?
	Well...
	One potential use could be control over the benefits system, said Sandra Rowe, chief executive for the Global Blockchain Business Council.
	She compared a programmed digital currency to the US system of paying benefits in vouchers, as it could have a similar goal of restricting the recipient to only buying essentials such as food with the money.
	Yeah.
	Just do the vouchers then.
	Yeah.
	We don't have to destroy all of society in the way we have money for you just to go, yeah, we'll just do food vouchers again.
	I think we used to have them in the UK as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I don't know if we still do in some form.
	Yeah, and they have them in America.
	And yeah, it just seems such a...
	Minor upside.
	People never understand that, like, you know, the next government that comes in might not be as nice and warm and cuddly as this one.
	Or even our current government.
	Or our current, you know...
	What happened to Boris being a Nazi, huh?
	Yeah, it doesn't even have to be the government.
	It could be...
	We're seeing, you know, in Scotland, we're seeing people getting...
	Or the truckers having their money cut off.
	In Scotland, we're seeing people getting deposed from jobs for expressing opinions, for expressing scientifically fact, like you can't change your biological...
	Sex.
	Which is true.
	You can change your gender or whatever because it's just a made-up nonsense thing.
	The trucker points this right on the money, though.
	Because, of course, it's one thing to say that your bank account in Canada is frozen.
	You could set up an American one, there are other ways around it.
	It's horrifying and we should not be living like this or accepting it as normal as the slightest.
	But, right, okay, if we're going to fight tyranny, there are ways around it.
	If the bank account is owned by the state...
	Yeah.
	There is no way around it.
	You're buggered.
	And if it's the only way of exchanging your labour for food, then you can't eat.
	No.
	Dystopia.
	Communism.
	I wanted to bring that up, and not only because it's important and everyone should share this video and Majid's clips and his chat with Joe to go and see that, because that is terrifying.
	There's also one article that came out recently that I started digging into for a segment Carl was doing about the effects of lockdown, but very quickly I realised there's something much worse going on.
	So this is a scientific analysis of why the lockdowns failed.
	So it's just some scientists and people saying, yeah, okay, we were advising, we showed them why it failed, and here's the reason.
	So they say, British scientists and politicians were primed to respond disastrously to COVID-19 long before the virus was even heard of.
	The author of a book says, saying that everyone went mad, and precisely because of their experience with the previously known diseases.
	First there was influenza, on which our pandemic preparation was based.
	that was why covid models included schools which were key drivers of flu transmission but not care homes which had disastrous consequences as leak did the second uh diversion was a specific outbreak of flu the swine flu epidemic of 2009 to 2010 largely forgotten because it killed fewer than 500 people those who do remember it are sure to indicate the parents sorry sure to include the parents of around 70 british children who died quote many more children as woodhouse 63
	a father of one daughter points out then died from the novel coronavirus infection in 2020 yeah more died from swine flu than the novel coronavirus Some 2019-2020 scientists were loathed, quote, to make complete fools of ourselves by crying wolf again.
	Drastic early interventions which could have made a difference, like closing the borders, became unthinkable, propelling policy even further towards the most draconian and, in Woodhouse's view, wrong-headed interventions of all lockdowns.
	from the idea that covid could be eradicated and the idea that covid could be eradicated emerged from the third misleading encounter with disease the other coronavirus sars so this is laying out the preparation why did they make such stupid decisions on a scientific level with the preparation specifically with the lockdown right and he says okay well we interacted with sars we tried to eradicate it that was the reason that we thought okay we'll eradicate it again Which in 2002, SARS, was confined and ultimately crushed by one of the great triumphs of modern medicine.
	The problem is that there was a crucial difference with SARS. It was almost exclusively transmitted by patients who were obviously sick.
	Isolating symptomatic cases stopped most of the spread, says Woodhouse.
	But COVID... I mean, there's a bit of a false premise here because lockdown wasn't just to eradicate it, or wasn't an attempt to...
	We sort of knew it couldn't be eradicated, but we wanted to reduce, spread the burden on the NHS.
	Well, this chap worked with the government to come up with the policy.
	So he's saying that they were thinking of eradication at February.
	Right, right when it first came out.
	I am assuming he is correct in this.
	We haven't even had his word for it.
	But COVID spreads asymptomatically too, making eradication effectively impossible.
	Yet convincing those in power to give up the dream of killing off COVID proved impossible.
	Even when he laid this out, even when this became transparent, we knew from February, 2020, nevermind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem.
	It would simply delay it, Woolhouse says.
	A note of enduring disbelief in his voice.
	And yet in government, quote, there was no attention paid to that rather obvious drawback of the strategy.
	So he was in government advising these people.
	It's February.
	February 2020.
	Saying them this won't eradicate the virus so the strategy doesn't work.
	No response.
	Just, no, we don't actually care about that.
	Okay.
	Instead, lockdowns, which, quote, only made sense in the context of eradication, became a tool of choice to control COVID. The die was cast in China, which initiated ultra-strict measures, and, unforgivably, in Wilhouse's book, was praised by the World Health Organization for its bold approach.
	The WHO, he suggests, got the biggest calls completely wrong in 2020.
	The early global response to the pandemic was woefully inadequate.
	It goes on to say, All this despite a report on lockdowns, wider consequences sent to SAGE by the Office for National Statistics as early as April 2020, assessing how many years of quality life would be lost to lockdowns.
	The best guess from the Office for National Statistics in April was that suppressing the virus would cost three times more years than the disease itself.
	Yeah.
	April 2020, the government knew lockdowns were doing more damage than the virus.
	But they had to play safe or be seen to be playing safe because we've got a nation of bedwetters.
	Not everyone's a cool right-wing live-or-die.
	Well, there's the thing.
	You have mitigation strategies.
	We could distribute masks.
	You could make hand sanitizer available everywhere, make it free so people use it.
	All this stuff.
	There are other kinds of tools.
	Stop being pussies.
	That's that as well.
	And these tools were not considered.
	I got coronavirus and I thought I was going to die.
	But I was like, well, so what?
	Okay.
	And then when I got Omicron, I was like, this is nothing.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah.
	There's a lot more in here I don't have the time for now, but he says in here, for example, there's a horrible situation where they were talking about the fact that, well, the virus was racist, sexist, and discriminatory, in a good way, in the way that they could actually then target people to be saved from the virus instead of just blanket using rules.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Target, like, the elderly, for example.
	The vulnerable.
	It's the unvulnerable.
	The medically fat.
	And he says when they proposed this, he was sent a message by his team saying, you should correct your comments.
	And also, it became a mantra that protecting the vulnerable was actually unethical.
	Unethical.
	I mean, how on earth do we find ourselves saying that?
	Yeah.
	Again, another scientist in the government who decided these things.
	And this is another example of wokeism actually doing harm.
	So everybody's like, oh, but woke is just about trying not to be racist or trying not to be sexist or whatever.
	So how can it possibly do harm?
	It can do harm in Rotherham when the fear of looking racist allows the worst crimes in humanity to happen.
	And it can do harm when it stops you from targeting the particular groups that are more vulnerable.
	You can be saved.
	Yeah, he ends this off with saying about the fact that he thinks that the reason they failed is because they all panicked, and there was a groupthink failure on the situation.
	But looking back at Majis' discussion with Joe Rogan, I'm starting to wonder, because when he mentions that they pointed out in February 2020 and April, these are causing more damage than they can ever possibly save.
	Also, these were all based on eradicating the virus, and that isn't going to happen.
	They were ignored month after month after month by the government, going all the way to then December, instituting another lockdown.
	Right.
	So I think we have confirmations.
	The reason I bring up the article, if Magic can get a hold of that guy, I'll go over and give it a read himself.
	I'm sure he'll enjoy getting confirmation that the government did not care.
	It was not about stopping the virus.
	It was about something else.
	Yeah.
	As Magic claims, it's about control.
	Yeah.
	It's about setting up a checkpoint society, which I think definitely has a lot of legs to it.
	Yeah.
	Absolute communism.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	All right, good.
	I don't know.
	I don't play judo.
	Anyway, cool.
	That was great.
	Greetings from the openly fascist state of Canada.
	Once again, I'm back up to gold tier.
	And I wanted to just say, are any of you really surprised that the government has gone tyrannical after all this time?
	I've been saying it for a while, we are a fascist state, and our leader is now a dictator.
	In response to Monday's podcast, it was really hard and emotional for me to review everything our government's doing to us, and when will we stop?
	Thanks.
	Yeah, man, I didn't see it coming.
	I didn't see the Ukraine invasion coming in the scale it has, and I didn't see Trudeau going, like, the first little sniff of challenge to his authority, going full-on dictator, dictator.
	I mean, I wasn't really surprised, because he ran on a campaign of, I'm going to enforce vaccine mandates, all this, the other, and then, I know it's a bit of a kerfuffle, but he did win that election as in the biggest party.
	Yeah, but he didn't win it in a strong way, and, you know, Yeah, yeah, of course.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Canada's seen as a democracy and the thing about democracy is if you've got a large group of people who are saying something, you've got to listen to them because that's the democratic way.
	He didn't go down, he didn't speak to the truckers.
	All he needed to do, if he'd gone down, acknowledged them and said, yeah, you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for, and also I'm sorry for all the other stuff I've done with screwing up the economy in Alberta and, you know, treating you, treating you like...
	I'll stop wearing blackface.
	Treating you really, really badly and calling you all racist, transphobe, misogynist and all the rest of it.
	If he'd have said any of that, he would have walked away like a hero on both sides.
	Sure.
	The point he made was about how could you not...
	How are people not succumbing and whatnot?
	And when you had a candidate campaigning on, I'm going to do mandates, I'm going to do this and that, the very fascistic sense, and fascistic used properly, is in Mussolini's version of everything within the state, nothing without the state, nothing against the state.
	Everything is there to work for the state, and the vaccine mandates are an example of that, in my view.
	And, well, okay, well, what were you expecting him to do?
	It's pretty open-cut when he campaigns on, I'm going to do fascistic things, as in, you belong to the state.
	And then, well, goes ahead and does it and starts freezing your bank accounts, because you don't have any value, other than what you can give to the state, and you're protesting it currently, so you're not for the state.
	But it was a massive overreaction.
	Also the propaganda that he put out, smearing everyone as racist, misogynist, transphobic.
	You know, number one, it's irrelevant.
	It's not true.
	You know, anything.
	Big old bollocks.
	It was all nonsense.
	I mean, they're bouncy castles.
	They're not Nazis.
	When have Nazis had bouncy castles?
	You know what I mean?
	The Ukrainian Nazis have bouncy castles?
	I think not.
	The two things that are called Nazi these days are peaceful protesters and comedians.
	And like, you know, the Nazis weren't about bouncy castles in comedy clubs.
	Let's go to the next video comment.
	The thing that I thought that struck me is so miraculous about music and why it has this element of salvation.
	It's like it puts you directly in touch with the meaning that sustains you in life directly.
	And it shows you what that would be, which is something like to observe the harmonious interplay of the patterns of being stacked on top of one another.
	And then to bring yourself into alignment with that.
	Nice.
	Okay.
	Do you know Jordan Peterson wave music?
	It's a real thing.
	You just take speeches of his and put music.
	It's a huge thing as well.
	Somebody's putting clips of my stuff over some music.
	I saw there's a Facebook group, The Saturian People's Front, and somebody was posting in there.
	Okay.
	So I'm looking forward to that.
	Somebody did it before.
	I can't remember who it was.
	David, I can't remember.
	The new Beach House album is really good, by the way.
	I think that's some common ground.
	You're talking about the wrong guy.
	As well as backing the West against Russia, maybe there can be some common ground and everybody can like the new Beach House album.
	I too like music.
	I know nothing of Western music.
	Sorry.
	What do you listen to?
	Polkas?
	Eastern nonsense.
	Do you listen?
	Yeah.
	I'll send you my playlist.
	What is it?
	It's full of, like, Eastern nationalist music, and then, like, at the moment, a lot of Arab stuff.
	A lot of Saddam, because I just find it funny.
	Because it's just insane.
	I used to listen to a lot of North Korean propaganda as well.
	They made K-pop in North Korea, but it's just, you know, the dear leader is the most beautiful man in the world.
	It's just mad.
	I enjoy the madness.
	That sounds amazing.
	I'll send you it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Please do.
	Go to the next one.
	You say that we're protesting for freedom, but I don't think you're unfree.
	So to prove that I'm not forcing you to do anything, I'm going to bring out the Stormtroopers, because of course, I'm legitimate, and my force is proof that I'm legitimate.
	Now, when I have beaten you to near death with horses, you will understand that you always had the decision to agree with me, for you were never not free.
	You were lying to yourself the whole time.
	Well, this logic firmly established, let's have a toast to the death of Canadian freedom.
	And again, this stuff all doesn't stay in the West.
	It transfers to our friends fighting tyranny abroad as well.
	Exactly.
	And it's interesting, we can see dictators in not just Russia, but also China, the way it talks about how its actions against the Uyghur Muslims are actually emancipating the women and its feminists and all this sort of stuff.
	You know, the Belarus dictator, Lukashenko, when they're arresting people, they grab them for things like breaching lockdown regulations and stuff like that.
	So any language that's used in the West, any sort of tyrannical moves in the West, are echoed and copied and used to excuse tyrannical activities by dictators.
	Absolutely.
	That's a nice one.
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	Yeah.
	I endorse that message.
	Sometimes we have seen people just sitting there with their hands up.
	It's not.
	It's not.
	Because you can see on screen people with their hands up, like the emoji.
	So I don't know what that was about.
	But yeah, that's the way you do it.
	Right.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Let's see.
	Ooh, it's cold today.
	Hey, you guys know I recently became a dad, right?
	I want to show you my baby.
	Not our daughter.
	We adopted a teenager.
	She's great, too.
	But you guys know I'm a dadist.
	I believe in responsible dadship, self-improvement, and getting new skills.
	So this summer, I took the opportunity.
	Got what every dad's supposed to have.
	This is my baby.
	What do you guys think?
	So, other responsible dads, what's your favourite thing to grill?
	Is it gas-fired?
	I hope so.
	But not, like, it's got to be wood or charcoal.
	Oh, really, does it?
	Yeah, it's got to be a real fire.
	Oh, yeah, that is actually true.
	You get my flavour on it.
	Yeah.
	And also, it's cooler.
	It's starting a real fire.
	I'm looking forward, Chad Dad, you need to get the I just want to grill meme, like, outfit as well.
	And they just set their grill.
	I was just like, I don't care about Ukraine, I just want to grill.
	And you've got to get charcoal.
	And you've got to get wood.
	Get wood.
	Someone clip that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	One consequence of the lockdown I've discovered is you've got a bunch of smart people at home with a lot of time on their hands.
	So some of them have started building power armor.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Networking and meeting new people with the same interests makes it kinda nice to know that you're not alone.
	That can't be safe.
	I mean, that's appropriate use of gas.
	Maybe we should start a power armor convention, eh?
	Yeah.
	I mean, look, if we're going to usher in a new kind of warfare, let's do it on our own terms.
	Yeah.
	I want to see those power armor suits.
	Yeah.
	Then we'll copyright them until the US military can't use it for a laugh.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Love that stuff.
	Love what you're doing, man.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan here.
	Callum asked me if I'm going to run out of ghost stories about the Pine Barrens.
	Well, the answer is, Callum, there's a hundred links here on Shadowlands.net that I haven't gotten to.
	And there are literally thousands of links at Weird New Jersey Magazine.
	They've been covering this stuff since 1989.
	But I think it's time to mix things up.
	So next week, I'm going to do The Ghost of Swindon.
	Is there a ghost in Swendon?
	You can't do that.
	I live here.
	I don't want to be scared.
	That's not fair.
	Oh, God.
	I didn't know there were so many damn links as well.
	Like, I knew there were a lot, but like, okay, I can see why you get so many now.
	Thanks, man.
	I hope you're good.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	So, on the risky invasion, Norwegian Viking says, Have you seen NATO's diversity of strength ad?
	Yes, we did.
	We put it up.
	It's insanity that is likely to make Russia and China emboldened.
	Dan Taylor says, What is the probability that China might start a little expansion effort?
	It's the ideal time strategically.
	I've seen this discussion going on.
	Absolutely.
	I was almost thinking China could have been whispering in Putin's ear and telling him to do this so that the world will be distracted while they can take Taiwan.
	From what I've seen from military strategists, or at least people who focus on how would you actually physically do this, because you've got to build boats and you've got to get over and not be blown out of the water.
	China's the biggest military expansion, biggest military build-up of any country since the Second World War.
	They have tried these things a lot of times, and they've failed a lot of times.
	There's a reason they haven't taken it.
	It's not the same as Ukraine and Russia.
	Of course not.
	There is a really funny situation during the Civil War, like the ends of it, where the nationalists have retreated to Taiwan, and there's like, I think it's the Xinmin Islands, whatever, these tiny islands still left on the mainland, basically.
	And the communists would just send guys in like rowing boats over, like hundreds of thousands, and the nationalists would just sit there with machine guns, like it's D-Day every day.
	Just like hundreds of thousands of deaths taking these tiny islands.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, yeah, it's not easy.
	Yeah.
	We'll move on because we're running out of time.
	Where was I? On the second section, so on your one.
	SillyMidOn says Putin won't care about the woke cringe.
	Call him fat and bad, a judo all you want.
	It won't rattle him.
	Maybe get Big Baz from North FC to challenge him to a fight when it gets Ukraine.
	Hmm.
	Charge of the Light Brigade style.
	What is North FC? You know what North FC is?
	What's North FC? Snore Football Club.
	It's a meme.
	So North FC is like the guys who are so English and, you know, don't care, just love me pints, love me missus, love me home.
	And they're talking about North as in the north of the country.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's the meme.
	It's like, you know, I hate leftists, hate foreigners, not racist, just don't like them.
	I'll say some North FC memes.
	They're great.
	But they represent reality in a way.
	Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, um, Free World 2112 says, the list of labor...
	R words.
	Good talk, I can't say it anymore.
	That you read out are basically traitors who hate this country and want to dismantle Western civilization.
	They would side with Satan if he invaded.
	Nope.
	But hang on the money.
	I hate how the Labour Party has gone from being a very patriotic organisation that stands up for the working man to being this elitist, completely out of touch, globalist organisation that hates Western democracy and hates Britain's indigenous people.
	And can't spend five minutes without talking about Palestine, apparently.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, Student of History says, I'm not sure I followed that one.
	John's loaded up something.
	Is this...
	Whoa!
	Should we play this or not?
	Yeah, okay, why not?
	I don't think there's any gore, so it's kosher.
	This is a Russian vehicle, I don't know what type, and it runs over some guy in his car.
	I believe it was an old man.
	The old man is okay.
	He's not dead.
	And what about the people in the car?
	I don't know about them.
	Jam, presumably.
	Oh, we're laughing, but it's a horrible situation.
	It's like the military with Miles.
	They're in that horrible situation with the Taliban.
	Everyone was just cracking jokes.
	If you can't laugh, you're going to go mad.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But the other thing, we've seen reports coming out of Russia of the troops are actually pretty sort of, they're not well organised and they're not well funded.
	So they're sleeping in train stations, they're selling diesel for money and stuff.
	So they're not like, they're not highly disciplined ranks.
	When they come into the Ukraine, they're just going to be stealing and raping and doing all.
	No, no, no, no.
	They're not raping anymore.
	I know they used to do that.
	They're on Tinder now.
	They're on Tinder!
	It's now consensual.
	No, I think they're also going to be doing some raping.
	I mean, it's almost a weapon of war, which the worst war leaders...
	Oh, the Russians.
	Do you know about the Soviet invasion of Europe?
	Oh, man, yeah, yeah.
	And, like, I mean, it's used any sort of undisciplined, you know...
	Ass-backward country.
	Not that I'm saying Russia's ass-backward.
	I know a lot of Russians are great people and stuff, but their government, oh my God.
	They don't have any good political traditions.
	Any country that doesn't have strong moral values and principles at its core.
	Because as much as we mock our government, at least they've got those principles at the core.
	They've got political traditions.
	Yeah.
	And the Russians don't have that.
	Yeah.
	Because of communism and then, well, gangsters.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there's a gangster state.
	I will mention, just considering what we're talking about, if you want to look it up, when the Soviets invaded Europe to get rid of the Nazis, they also, yeah, it's called the Great Rape of Europe.
	There's a Wikipedia page.
	Yeah.
	We'll end this off on something a bit more light-hearted, hopefully.
	So, one of the last comments.
	So, Callum Dayton says, UK and other Western governments pushing Chinese social credit spending.
	I really hate the world I was born into.
	That wasn't a light.
	Callum Dayton.
	Goddammit, man!
	It's okay.
	We've still got cash.
	We've still got cash for now.
	We're going to have to keep fighting.
	I think cash will always stay because, you know, we can't...
	Train gold bars if we have to.
	Yeah.
	I'm not ending on that.
	Let's go on a joke.
	I want a joke for the end.
	Robert Longshore says, by not including your enemies in your army, you are not being inclusive enough.
	Definitely true.
	Titania McGrath, tweet that.
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