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March 3, 2022 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #341

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 3rd of March 2022.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hey!
	And today we're going to be talking about Ukraine and the George Floyd effect, as it has been dubbed.
	Also, the...
	Oh, sorry.
	Firstly, Biden's Trump of the Union address, then Ukraine and the George Floyd effect.
	And finally, will COVID survive Ukraine?
	Which, will someone please think of the COVID? We'll find out!
	Please!
	I've invested so much time and energy the last two years and it's all gone!
	I saw someone putting that in the chat.
	Very funny.
	Good, guys.
	Some stuff to mention first on the website.
	So the first thing here being a new video from you, so I will let you sell this one, actually.
	Oh yeah, this is just a follow-up to a video that Tom and I did a while back talking about what the anti-vaxxers got right in the end.
	You know, all the conspiracy theories in quotation marks that were going around March and February of 2020.
	Nudging behaviour.
	Yes, and what it was that they got right, this one's just me, because no one else was available, so it's me on me, me on me Todd, on me lonesome, just talking about it, going through some of the stuff.
	I think it's pretty interesting, and I think my final conclusion is pretty accurate, although obviously this was recorded before the Pfizer documents got released, I think yesterday or Monday, so I'm currently looking over them, so there might be a part three, so stay tuned.
	If we go to the next one, we have the premium video I did with Carl, Zemmour, maybe the most based man alive, which I wanted to plug again, frankly, just because I... You guys really like Zemmour.
	It's so refreshing.
	This isn't just like, haha, it's more funny, but the debate that is going on in France around immigration is containing topics and talking points that don't exist in the English language debate about this.
	Oh, really?
	Like, just the ideas of, well, what is a refugee?
	Let's actually define it.
	Well, it's a freedom fighter.
	In which case, Afghan women aren't refugees.
	Oh, sorry.
	So, do go and check that out.
	What, you mean Ukrainian women aren't refugees?
	No!
	No!
	They deserve to be in the first safe country, not in the 50th safe country.
	That's the point.
	But if you also need your call fixed while he's on holiday, also go and check that out, of course.
	And the last thing to mention will be, because of the current situation, Miles of Kabul, which we did an interview with, because we have now also sent Miles on a rescue...
	Well, he's now Miles of Kiev, surely.
	Miles of Kiev, and we've sent him on a rescue mission, me and John, so we're not going to spoil anything, but I hope that all turns out okay as well.
	Got my fingers crossed.
	But, otherwise...
	Stay safe, Miles.
	Let's get into Trump's...
	Oh, no, Biden's Trump Union.
	So, Biden did the State of the Union, and this has been talked about a lot in various circles, and the typical response I've seen is, well, the expected one, the partisan one, of Dems being like, woo, and...
	Vote blue no matter who!
	Yes, because they can't see...
	Even Satan!
	...from other faces.
	And the Republicans saying, well, this was all crap and nonsense.
	A lot of it was.
	I'll give them that.
	But I thought we'd go through it, because I was actually quite surprised, because...
	Well, you'll see.
	So we'll start off with the bad man.
	Of course, we all disavow the bad man.
	How could the bad man have a platform?
	But he posted this clip here, and he says, I love this woman, and it's this lady.
	I believe she's a congresswoman, Lauren or something.
	And she's just filming the fact that all of the elites, none of them wearing masks, none of them social distancing.
	Not really a shock, but worth mentioning every time.
	I mean, why are you talking about COVID when Ukraine is happening, Callum?
	It's so insensitive.
	So we go to the next link, we can see the full State of the Union clip that I used for this.
	It was mostly boring.
	It was mostly Putin bad, and war is bad.
	Very stunning.
	Oh, wow.
	Brave positions.
	Pass my laws.
	You are the president.
	That's what I would imagine saying.
	Do it.
	Do it now.
	And also, some say we must live with COVID, but I say we must combat the virus.
	He said this after everyone was masterless and hugging each other beforehand.
	That's why it's worth mentioning, because these people still trot out their narratives.
	It's just pathetic.
	Well, they must have just finished beating it off before they got in, you know?
	Combat virus.
	That was terribly phrased.
	Oh, no.
	I'm sorry.
	Moving on.
	Next point is of course the fact that his bowls are crap and he's in a very bad position.
	So the State of the Union, every time they do this, and you must remember Trump's one, they're mostly, you could say, and I've seen this argument, it's a set piece, it's a propaganda piece in which you go, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo, I'm a good guy.
	Yeah, you bang the drum for an hour.
	Yeah, but you must remember Trump's one was actually exciting and exhilarating to watch, regardless of your views.
	Well, Trump was, if nothing else, an excellent public speaker.
	Yeah, but also he was laying out a vision for the future of what I've achieved and how the American century future is going to be, and how we're going to continue to be the dominant force in the world, and blah blah blah.
	Inspiring, patriotic...
	Yeah, and so there is a need for such an event.
	It didn't happen.
	I'm sorry, they chose a picture that really made Biden look like Mr.
	Burns.
	He's like, yes.
	If we go to the next one, we can see just a compilation of put together of the Bidenisms throughout.
	We'll enjoy this for a minute, just because if you're crap at public speaking, don't worry, you could grow up to be President of the United States one day.
	Let's play that clip.
	Instead, he met with a wall of strength from America to the Asian and African continents, preventing Russia's central bank from defending the Russian ruble and a pound of Ukrainian people, the proud, proud people, pound for pound, ready to fight with every inch of energy they have.
	A Russian dictator invading a foreign country has cost around the world.
	And everyone else in nearly a century.
	But we're actually doing it.
	We'll buy America.
	We don't now.
	China is.
	And in those factories, the average job is about $135,000 a year.
	Some of the most sophisticated manufacturing in the world to make computer chips.
	From generations of unions still working.
	It's time to see what used to be called a rush belt become the home of a significant resurgence of manufacturing.
	Call this increasing the productive capacity of our economy.
	I'm going to grow.
	We will grow the economy.
	Lower the cost of families.
	You can't build a wall high enough to keep out a vaccine.
	The vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases.
	Both Dominican Americans who grew up in the same streets that they later chose to patrol as police officers.
	Beyond our capacity, Yeah, uh...
	Okay, I'll just say, Calum, you've done an excellent job in cutting all of that up, because that was honestly more easy to follow than a typical Biden speech.
	I did see a lot of Republicans responding by saying, oh, it was a load of nonsense, and I thought, oh, you must be exaggerating a lot.
	Kind of, but then there was a lot of that.
	Like, not a little, a lot.
	And the guy had...
	That kept happening.
	The guy kept, like, sort of losing his place halfway through sentences, that bit where he's like, it's time!
	Blank.
	Yeah, or the bit where he's just like, we can't build a wall, and then realizes what he said, and then tries to backtrack on it.
	It's just weird.
	Wait a second.
	We can't build a wall high enough to stop the spread.
	What the fuck are you talking about, man?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	I'm going to build a wall and get COVID to pay for it.
	Yeah, Sleepy Joe, being Sleepy Joe as he is, I saw a Biden vote post on the rails online, of course, had this tweet.
	The whole Sleepy Joe narrative is going to be really, really difficult after tonight.
	No, still Sleepy.
	There's no need to repeat ourselves with the Joe part, we'll just call him Mr.
	Sleepy.
	Let's continue.
	If we go to the next one, we also see him saying that he stands with the Iranian people.
	This is...
	the Iranians.
	Yeah, let's play.
	Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.
	He'll never extinguish that love of freedom.
	And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world.
	But you're really glad you signed up to this, aren't you, Kamala?
	You can see Kamala there, even thinking, WTF? What are you on about?
	What the hell am I dealing with?
	I really want one of these Biden speeches to end with, like, a big hook and a pole to just, like, yank him off screen.
	And we had another event kind of like that, so if we go to the next clip, we have him saying tax cuts are bad, and that went down swimmingly.
	Let's play the next one.
	Unlike the $2 trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration, That benefit of the top 1% of Americans.
	The American Rescue Plan...
	The American Rescue Plan...
	And you can see there, again, all these seals then stood up and clapped because they had to try and musk the fact that a lot of people were like, what the hell are you talking about, as well.
	But you can get a sense for the room there.
	And, of course, I've looked at the interesting parts.
	You can go watch the full thing yourself and you can get a sense for it yourself as well.
	And I spoke to Carl before we did this, and I agree with him, which is, it very much is like a failing regime, just clapping itself.
	Like, what's going on?
	What happened to the first one to stop clapping?
	But there's nothing to gin themselves up.
	There's no Democrat talking points that they use.
	There's no Democrat energy.
	Well, I mean, if you're talking about, oh, tax cuts bad, that's a Democrat talking point.
	Is that really the best they can do for their own side?
	I mean, even for their side here, it's just not interesting.
	It's dull, stumbly, weird with all the clapping seal stuff, but again, it's very much an American Senate thing, apparently, or whatever.
	Are we...
	Can I mention this?
	Yeah, we'll mention this, yeah.
	The Nancy Pelosi thing.
	As Steven Crowder says, Nancy Pelosi is a squirrel on drugs.
	She just rubs her wrists.
	I think we've finally got a good visualisation of what money grubbing looks like.
	No, I think she was planning on clapping, obviously, and then he kept speaking, because he was meant to stop, and then she's going, oh crap, what do I do?
	I'll just rub my hands.
	I can create fire.
	Fix it sparks.
	Gather round, let us create fire.
	Stop watching JREC. Go to the next one.
	We can see someone trying to celebrate this as well.
	So historic.
	And on Women's History Month 2, State of the Union, we got a diversity hire in Kamala and an insider trader in Nancy Pelosi.
	Hashtag women.
	I also thought Women's History Month was a joke.
	If you go to the next one, you can see that it's real.
	And Google has a big-ass celebration for it.
	If you go to the next one, I don't know if, John, you can hit refresh on that and just we'll have all the...
	Yeah, there we are.
	Boundless resilience.
	I saw someone commented on my getter just underneath that they showed it to their wife and the wife went, oh, that's pathetic.
	Embarrassing to be seen.
	If we go to the next link, we can also see a statement from Biden in the middle of this, which is that Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways, but he has badly miscalculated it.
	That's very much cope.
	We shouldn't be in this situation.
	The interesting thing is, it's all just a load of, I don't know, they're just blowing hot air, as far as I'm concerned.
	The whole sort of like, oh, we're going to take this really anti-Putin stance, obviously I'm not supporting Putin, but it's the fact that it doesn't come across like there's any real conviction behind any of it.
	Well, it's more the fact that Joe campaigned on, I can stand up to Putin.
	You know, Putin doesn't want me as president.
	Remember all the tweets and the campaigning material.
	And then you're trying to still cope with that.
	And then as soon as Putin's puppet is out, then he does the invasion.
	But anyway, you might be wondering, why do I say Trump of the Union in regards to all this?
	And that's because, well, all of the talking points were milquetoast AF, except for those which are Trump talking points that he pulled out of his backside, which was strange.
	But then again, I mean, if you're this unpopular, steal the other guy's stuff, I guess.
	I mean, yeah.
	So this is the New York Times releasing a clip of him talking about we must stop relying on foreigners and instead make stuff in America, which is, of course, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	And then you have the chants of USA, USA. Let's play.
	That means make more cars and semiconductors in America.
	More infrastructure and innovation in America.
	More goods moving faster and cheaper in America.
	More jobs where you can earn a good living in America.
	Instead of relying on foreign supply chains, let's make it in America.
	Look, economists I'm so confused.
	But it's such a surreal part of the speech, where this is so obviously Trump 101, right?
	Yep.
	Like, America first.
	America good, make things in America.
	But Biden says it so everyone stands and claps, and as you can see, it's just surreal.
	The fact that he thinks that, okay, I can get away with claiming this is my policy.
	It's not.
	Like, demonstrably, you failed on this front.
	He looked confused, but I don't know if he's confused because he doesn't know where he is, or if he's confused that I can't believe that works.
	I understand why the other guy was so popular now.
	What if we just do things for America instead of just because Hunter Biden has got involved?
	No, we won't get into that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We get to this one up, so you can also see a big L for BLM. Very justified L. This is BLM, to verify checkmark, tweet now.
	Point of view, listening to Biden declare the answer is not to defund the police, it is to fund the police.
	And then there's Maxine Waters over there, the one who called for violence, being very upset.
	It's a revolutionary thought, isn't it?
	That more policing equals less crime.
	Who thought of that one before?
	So then if we go to the next clip, you might also think, okay, again, very Trump, fund the police.
	He also, Biden decided to say that the two years of him in charge have been the worst ever for the United States.
	Let's play.
	We meet tonight in an America that has lived through two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced.
	Mate, the time I have been in charge has been terrible.
	Okay, Biden.
	I mean, he's finally saying stuff I agree with, so...
	I can get behind this Biden.
	And then the next clip, we're not allowed to comment on.
	Whatever you do, do not say anything.
	We'll just listen to Mr.
	Biden.
	This is Mr.
	Biden's claims about...
	Are we allowed to emote with our facial expressions?
	I don't know.
	We're allowed to say that Mr.
	Biden said this about voting in the United States.
	Let's play.
	The most fundamental right in America is the right to vote and have it counted.
	And look, it's under assault.
	In state after state, new laws have been passed.
	Not only suppress the vote, we've been there before, but to subvert the entire election.
	We can't let this happen.
	No, he can't.
	I banned this madman for saying these things.
	Is Biden still on Twitter?
	I don't know, he just keeps interfering with Trump.
	If we go to the next one, we can see that he made a big deal about this boy here, who has to pay, well, his dad has to pay for insulin for him, and it's extortionate.
	And then he's like, ha ha, look, we've put a cap on the price of insulin.
	For those of you who are not asleep, you may remember that Donald Trump, that was one of his policies, again, it was an executive order that on like day one or whatever it was, we went through it, Biden repealed.
	It made the insulin cost more.
	Did someone show Biden the Republican manifesto and he was like, damn, this is good actually!
	Why didn't I think of this?
	It's just throughout.
	It's just again and again.
	Of course, it is all just fluff.
	He doesn't believe any of this crap.
	He's instead just realising, oh yeah, I'm really, really unpopular.
	Maybe if I say some Trump talking points people might like me.
	Yeah, he's piggybacking off of it so that he can get some kind of popularity going.
	It's difficult at this point.
	He isn't just stealing Trump's lines straight up.
	Go to the next one.
	This was a compilation here in which there was some line at the end here that he just took directly from Trump's previous State of the Union.
	Like, word for word.
	I've taken that, that's mine now.
	Okay.
	Okay, well, I wonder to myself, has Biden actually potentially just hired on Trump's PR team?
	Like, legitimately, because this was obviously very popular stuff under Trump, the Dems know that everyone hates them right now.
	Have they just gone, right, hire the guys from the other team to write all our stuff for us?
	Maybe.
	We'll go for the last link here on that side of it, which is, of course, him saying about the fact that you can't build a wall.
	You certainly can, folks.
	You can't build that wall.
	That wall just got ten feet higher.
	Stop the vaccine.
	It's just...
	It's just like roaming needles out there searching.
	Well, now you know.
	But, of course, this is a subsection of the speech.
	It's not the whole thing.
	The whole thing is mostly, as I say, a very surreal feel of a group of people in the capital surrounded by armed guards, again, and fencing, preparing for the truckers' protest that's going to turn up soon, apparently, all clapping themselves.
	And it just is not right.
	Like, this is not people who seem to think that everything...
	It's going well for them.
	And so, of course, you can see the also stealing of narratives.
	This is a criticism that could be lobbied at many different political systems, but it does sound somewhat cultish.
	But you remember Trump's State of the Union?
	I remember.
	It was exhilarating.
	And not to be just partisan because, you know, I like him over Biden, but honestly, it felt like a completely different thing.
	It felt like a strong character who was strong in the place he was, feels legitimate, feels like he's going to bring the future.
	This was...
	I swear we haven't messed up as bad everyone thinks we have.
	Please.
	It doesn't work.
	If we go to the Republican response as well, we'll end with this, which is just, I saw this Republican saying a great point.
	The Department of Justice treats parents like domestic terrorists, but looters and shoplifters roam free.
	This is not the same country it was a year ago.
	Yeah, fair point.
	Fair play, we've seen all of the footage from California that came out October-November of people literally like a clown car procession just piling into a store, stealing everything and no response to it.
	The police just shut down the street to make it almost easier for all the shoplifters to get in and out.
	Well, we don't want the public getting in their way.
	Remember guys, $1,000 is the limit.
	That's what the police are saying.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see something funny that I saw, which is the lady there, Lauren, having a shirt on that says Drill Baby Drill, because, of course, the price of gas is ridiculous, and trying to blame us on Ukraine is not good enough.
	There's other things going on.
	If we go to the next one, we can, of course, see some of the other things that are going on, as I mentioned previously.
	I don't know if you can click on that to make it bigger.
	John.
	But this is just a graph of US oil production.
	As you can see, under Trump, skyrockets.
	Biden gets into office, just cuts a whole bunch of it.
	You may remember all the executive orders.
	It's definitely purely to do with Ukraine that the prices have been going up since Biden.
	He shouldn't get away with that scapegoating.
	No.
	It's not good enough.
	And the UK is still trying to do it as well, so.
	Yeah.
	It's just like...
	What could possibly affect the price of supply and inflation?
	Both federal decisions.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see Ben Shapiro's takedown of this whole thing, which I had a look at and was very good as well, on the point of, well, a stay of a union is for unity.
	To bring everyone together.
	We America.
	America number one.
	USA, USA. You know, that kind of stuff.
	And they've got a USA chant going.
	After stealing Trump's.
	Yep.
	Rhetoric.
	But on everything else, I mean, as Ben points out, he encourages businesses to bar the unvaccinated, even those with natural immunity from public places.
	Then he sought to have them fired from their jobs in the single largest executive overreach in modern American history.
	It's a very good point by Ben.
	This is not unity language, and the slyest is open divide and a rule.
	But anyway, that is the Trump State of the Union.
	So, there you go.
	Let's move on to, uh, Ukraine.
	Right.
	So, I wanted to talk about Ukraine, but in a sense, about the George Floyd effect, as it has been dubbed, because we have gone over this a lot, and as I've said many a time, and let's say it again, which is not an expert on the topic, don't know what's going on on the ground, no one does, fuck of war, all that.
	So, people making ridiculous predictions sound ridiculous, and then they end up proven foolish by the way things are going, it seems.
	But also just, okay, sure, we'll see what's going on and report on what we can because please no shoot, please no bully.
	I'm happy to be a fence sitter in this situation.
	Just because what's going on in that regard.
	So this is the latest map.
	I don't know if you can click on that to get it up.
	And I did see some people wondering why we don't provide commentary on it.
	I don't know what's going on.
	But I did see a lot of commentary on this, so I'll say what we can note, because especially John has been following this incredibly closely.
	So you can see some people have said about the forces around Donetsk and Luhansk in the east there, who are maybe going to be surrounded if the southern branch pushes up and the one at Kharkov pushes down to encircle them.
	Maybe.
	I see some people speculating on that.
	Again, don't know.
	The Azov Brigade, or at least the majority of them, are in Mariupol, all encircled.
	So, um, goodbye Nazis.
	I don't know what to say about that.
	Oh, well...
	That's that.
	Also, there's a beachhead, as you can see at the bottom, over the Dnieper River, and, well, now they have that completely, so they will be able to move forwards without the river stopping them there.
	There's also the strange situation.
	You can see the little, like, pop there from Belarus next to Kiev.
	This was strange.
	Again, I'm not sure, but, like, they seem to be pushing into Kiev directly, and then aren't doing that now, and are now trying to encircle it, which would have thought that's what they'd been doing immediately.
	But again...
	That's the military situation as far as I can tell with what has been done.
	But if we go to the next one, we can see a video which I watched yesterday from LaserPig.
	Because I like LaserPig.
	I've mentioned him before.
	I've never heard of him.
	He's a bit of a military nerd.
	Again, it's just he says himself...
	When it comes to military stuff, I'm going to leave myself out of the conversation.
	I am not a strategist.
	I do not know what I'm talking about.
	So LaserPig even says himself, I'm underqualified.
	But this is his take, as you can see.
	I have no idea what is going on because no one does.
	It's impossible.
	I don't know if you can hit play without the audio just for a second, John.
	The good thing is, with stuff like this...
	Either do you.
	Yeah, there you go.
	There you go.
	It's like you said with the terrible takes the other day with people like Hassan commenting on it.
	If you don't know, just don't say, or at least say that you've got no real idea what you're talking about.
	Yeah, or just wait for the information, because it's impossible to say, right now I definitely know what's going on when there's such a fog of war.
	However, so if you could pause that as well, because I don't want to spoil it, people should go and have a listen, because he's a funny guy, if nothing else.
	He does make one point here in his analysis that people asked him to make, which I was speaking to John, and I think can be made at this point, because enough days have passed.
	Which is the air war.
	So the airstrikes versus Desert Storm, for example.
	And, well, it's not very impressive, at least in comparison to Desert Storm.
	And he makes the point of, like, well, all the power plants still work, all the telecoms still work, everyone's still got TV access, or at least after day one, all of these things are going to be in Desert Storm.
	And we are still getting plenty of videos coming from just people on their phones, so they can still charge their phones.
	It's not exactly great when, like, the guys ahead of you in the armored cars all got ambushed and blown up, and now you've been given a civilian truck to drive fuel to the front, and all the civilians keep taking pictures of you on their smartphones that they've charged last night, and are then uploading them onto the internet, where anyone can find them.
	It wouldn't feel that successful so far, would you?
	No.
	The analysis is, well, okay, they've not achieved that in the slightest.
	Air superiority and then an air campaign of meaningful effect in the same way Desert Storm was.
	Although this is probably just because they can't do it.
	They don't have the capacity like the Americans do.
	I don't know if they'd want to go for a sort of scorched-earth approach anyway.
	Well, it's not so much that.
	It's just about blowing up key infrastructure parts.
	So the television's gone.
	I mean, the very famous example he gives in Devastorm is the American generals were watching the CNN broadcast from Baghdad, and as soon as the CNN broadcast went off, they were like, right, job done.
	Oh, great.
	The enemies shouldn't be able to communicate with each other.
	That's the ideal situation, let's say.
	So they failed on that.
	As for everything else, I don't know.
	If we go to the next one, we can see some of the responses from Westerners.
	One wonderful Westerner, Diane Abbott, who decided to say she stands with Croatia.
	She's always known for getting the facts right.
	Let's play this clip.
	Wrong.
	He seemed to think that his tanks could roll in to Croatia.
	Into Ukraine.
	Into Ukraine.
	Diane Abbott moment.
	That look on her face is like, did it again, damn!
	Of course, she wasn't the only one.
	If we go to the next one, we have, of course, the State of the Union address for Biden, in which he said he stands with the Iranian people.
	Again.
	We say Sleepy Joe, I think Diane Abbott seems like she's half asleep most of the time anyway.
	She's awake, she's just neurologically damaged.
	Oh, okay.
	Here we go to the next link.
	We see another Western response.
	This from Sadiq Khan I mentioned, which is, he said, London is well prepared for a nuclear attack.
	Don't invite one, Sadiq!
	Sounds like he's saying it deserves one, which being there, I agree.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So we have Kamala Harris, who decided to go on what is listed here, the Morning Hustle, so some apparently black-orientated radio station, and explain the situation.
	She did not explain it like a human being.
	She explained it like she was talking to a toddler.
	Let's play this.
	If you're watching any level of news, even social media, you're seeing everything that's going on right now in the Ukraine.
	Break it down in layman's terms for people who don't understand what's going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States.
	So Ukraine is a country in Europe.
	It exists next to another country called Russia.
	Russia is a bigger country.
	Russia is a powerful country.
	Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.
	So basically that's wrong.
	Wow, we've got geography and ethics all in one little lecture right there.
	It's beautiful.
	Was that for all of the public school children tuning in to that station?
	What's going on with American education?
	That is how you would describe things to a five-year-old, not a member of the average public, I would have thought.
	It says a lot about how she sees the audiences.
	Oh, God.
	She just, yeah, there's small country, big country, big country.
	They might as well have just gone, explain in football terms, unironically.
	No, that's not...
	Again, this is not even that.
	No, it's not even I'm five pints down and trying to talk.
	It's...
	I've literally got a two-year-old that is like, watch Ukraine, and that's how she decided to respond to him.
	If we go to the next link, we can see someone turn this into a book report.
	LAUGHTER You did it the night before, didn't you, Kamala?
	Ukraine's country, Europe, next to a bigger country called Warsaw.
	What's going on?
	Weirdly, next one as well.
	Because some people say, okay, well, maybe she just is dumbing it down for the American public.
	No, she's spoken to other people on multiple bases.
	And as you can see from her own Twitter account, talking to journalists and whatnot, where she's going to be describing, again, for the public, she speaks like a human being.
	Explaining a situation.
	Oh, so she doesn't just teach everybody like toddlers?
	No, no.
	She decided to teach that radio station as toddlers, which is a black-majority radio station.
	Which, if we go to the next one, there's actually something to mention on the book club Active Measures that I did with Carl.
	In this section, there's actually the Russians have the same opinion the Democrats do.
	I'm not surprised.
	They're both socialists.
	This is going to be pretty spicy.
	Oh, okay.
	The Internet Research Agency, the Troll Farm, you may remember from the news, all those memes.
	Some journalist got in and then just leaked all the hand notes they had for how to work as a troll online.
	And the quote from the Russians.
	Coloured LGBT are less sophisticated than white.
	Therefore, complicated phrases and messages do not work.
	One document advised that black, Latino, and Native Americans are very sensitive to hashtag white privilege and react to posts and pictures that favour white people.
	So this is the...
	Russians.
	Being ridiculously racist.
	No, this sounds like the democratic platform for the past few years.
	Yes.
	At the same time.
	It really does.
	It really does.
	And I really do believe the example of Kamala there really illustrates it.
	I'm not surprised the Dems are getting all of their talking points from Soviet propaganda.
	Russian, not Soviet.
	Russian propaganda.
	Yeah, but I really do not believe the Dems don't have the same kind of writing in their own PR training.
	Let's be frank.
	After that performance.
	And what's the...
	Big, small country.
	No, what's the famous quote attributed to Lyndon B. Johnson, I think it is?
	Can we say that?
	Can we transmit that?
	We'll get those slurs voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
	That's Lyndon B. If you go to the next one, let's move on from those Westerners and instead see the other Western response, which is, I'm going to cancel Russia.
	Yeah!
	Yeah, this is weird.
	So you have Apple halts sale of products in Russia.
	Okay, I could see this as a financial sanction, maybe?
	And we have one Russian response to this situation.
	This is posted on 4chan.
	I think I've seen this as well.
	Quote from some guy.
	This war is effing hell.
	Since Apple turned off Apple Pay for our country, I need to type in my credit card number every time I want to order some munchies.
	I hope it sends soon.
	I hope it stops soon, because this is really annoying.
	Oh, my stomach's starting to ache.
	I enjoy the memes.
	But to get to the next one, we also have the fact that the French satellite apparently carrying Russia today has decided to just turn it off.
	So if you wanted to see that, too bad.
	That's no longer transmitted in all of Europe.
	Cannot see it.
	Sucks to be you.
	Yeah, if you go online, in Europe as well, on YouTube, that is also blocked, because this is a liberal society that can stand up to foreign lies.
	You know how authoritarian societies can't stand up to foreign lies and therefore have to censor them?
	Liberal ones don't need to?
	What are we doing?
	The funny thing is, it's Russian state media, so it's obviously going to be presenting only their side of the argument.
	But it's still very useful for the public to be aware of what their argument is.
	Sure, but if we are a liberal society, we should be able to deal with that as well.
	Openly, our leaders are saying, no, you are children and we must manage what you see.
	This is not a world I want to live in.
	This is terrifying.
	Well that's just the strategy in politics for the past two years.
	Yeah, but the fact that they're going after someone on YouTube, you can't even look up Russia Today right now.
	That's not a reasonable or free thing.
	Who is it you pointed out?
	They've taken it off Skype or Al Jazeera.
	Still readily available.
	Of course, Al Jazeera.
	Perfectly fine.
	But you can see here as well, the Russians pointing out that, well, the BBC is spreading fake news, so we're just going to ban the BBC. Good job, Dean Doris, our culture secretary.
	You banned Russia Today, so they're going to ban the BBC. Fantastic!
	No information exchange.
	That'll help liberalise Russia.
	Idiots.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see the fact that, as I know it, it's gone from Freeview.
	My dad sent me this.
	Heartbroken.
	It's just not there anymore.
	Can't even see.
	But Al Jazeera, that's fine.
	Qatari-funded media.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see the EU saying that they're just combating war propaganda.
	But again, Al Jazeera, just fine.
	Let's go to the next one.
	As you can see, Al Jazeera, still available on YouTube.
	No problem there.
	If we go to the next one, you also have the Youth Wing AJ Plus, who I'm sure a lot of people will be familiar with, because they ran loads of apologia for, like, Charlie Hebdo.
	Of course.
	And then run videos constantly just being like, yes, America bad.
	They owe money to this group or that group.
	Destroy the West.
	Any divide in Western society.
	It's the same playbook as Russia today.
	And, of course, you can say that's bad or good or useful or not.
	That's fine.
	Whatever.
	What's the point is, can we stand up to these foreign lies?
	Can we stand up to these kind of subverts?
	Well, with AG Plus and Al Jazeera, apparently yes, but Rush of the Day, no.
	Interesting.
	If we continue, we can also say this before we even get to the dirty, dirty smear merchants who never have propaganda transmitted on their airwaves.
	Not once.
	Not once.
	I've not done a book club on an entire book about the New York Times spreading misinformation and lies throughout their entire history.
	No.
	If we go to the next link, we can see at least one person standing up for Western civilization here.
	As you can see, Odyssey.
	I'm sure Bitchute and all the others will be doing the same, but I saw Odyssey here saying, Russia today has found its new home with us.
	We are not banning any news networks.
	It's a slippery slope.
	Good on you.
	Yeah, fair play.
	That is the correct Western thing to do, not the Eastern thing to do on this matter.
	But then we have the fact that we're just banning stupid stuff because we're stupid.
	Go to the next one.
	So this was a university in Milan that bans the teaching of a Russian writer because he was Russian.
	Fyodor Dostoevsky as well.
	Dostoevsky was sent to Siberian labor camp for reading banned books in Tsarist Russia.
	As you see there.
	Time is a flat circle, my friend.
	The West are idiots.
	What are we doing?
	This isn't helpful at all.
	I also saw there was a cat award ceremony.
	They banned Russian breeds of cats attending.
	Take that, Putin!
	Dumb.
	Putin was really looking forward to his little kitten getting number one.
	This isn't when we aren't having a Real debates about the real issues, such as trans rights in Ukraine.
	Ooh, yay.
	Let's go to the next one, so we can see CBS reporting on transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread.
	Oh no.
	This is what we need to be focusing on.
	They could also be dead with a 24-hour CBS, but we don't want to misgender the corpse.
	No, no, no.
	They're transgender.
	That means that everyone's always trying to kill them.
	This is actually Russia trying to eliminate the trans population, obviously.
	It's the secret reason for all this.
	As they say, it's a war within a war.
	It's their big brain.
	It's not.
	If we go to the next one, there is some meme here.
	I'm not really sure what went on.
	A lot of people pointed this out, it was funny.
	Russian Dr.
	Phil.
	You can see here, Belarusian leader, Lukashenko, decided to hold some press conference so he could look like a big military man, and had a board full of plans, including future invasion plans, and he put this live on TV. Is he colonel yet?
	I don't think so.
	He hasn't remade the Soviet army.
	That was the plan!
	If we go to the next one, of course, this could also just be fake, because, well, it's war, so you sometimes leak things on purpose, so who knows, but whatever.
	It's still very funny, so it could just be way too over the top.
	But now I wanted to talk about the reason I named the segment about the George Floyd effect.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, this is someone pointing out, And to start off, I'm just going to say, Easterners, anyone in Ukraine, none of this applies to you.
	Any of you in Eastern Europe or NATO members, none of this applies to you, of course.
	This is a purely Western phenomenon.
	You guys are dealing with active invasion and invasion on your borders.
	No, no, no, no.
	This is not you guys.
	These are the Westerners I'm talking to now.
	These are the Americans, primarily, I find, who can only view things through an American lens.
	Not just that.
	This is much throughout the Anglosphere.
	We are all guilty of this, or at least our society seems to be guilty of this as well.
	That is true.
	So if we go to the next one, there's someone who's put this into an image.
	So as you can see, I support the current thing.
	And then the NPC logo.
	And yeah, we have a lot of this.
	Because normies are going to normie.
	And normies will normie, so what can you do about them?
	But there is a thing, and I've shown it down here...
	Normally nuanced people, and I've seen a fair few, and we've gone through a few of the retarded responses previously, who are nuanced, have just, like, become NPCs on this issue, and it's not to say that, you know, Russia good, or any of...
	No, no, no.
	This isn't about that.
	This is the fact that you have people who haven't said anything about Ukraine for, like, until seven days ago, haven't read anything, don't know anything, but all of a sudden have the strongest possible opinions on the matter, and can tell you exactly what's going to happen.
	And I've noted down to people who are like, yeah, Ukraine, Russia, goodies only do good, so I am for the good things.
	Anyone who brings up anything that makes my side look even slightly questionable, there's a bot.
	Like, no discussion, just you are bad.
	Even if it's not even sincere or like, oh, this changes the dynamic completely, it's just, yeah, this is a bit silly.
	No, no, that can't be.
	Only an NPC could disagree with me, said the NPC. Yeah.
	And then you've got, you know, purposeful misinformation, accidental misinformation, and people make these opinions based on such things that they've seen on Twitter.
	They've never spoken about Ukraine.
	They can't find Ukraine on the map, but, you know, seven days ago a thing happened, and now they're radically obsessed with it.
	We heard how Kamala Harris had to explain this to some people, but I'm sure those people she was explaining it to had a very strong opinion on the subject.
	But any of those people who then walked away, put a Ukraine flag in their bio, and started screeching about it on Twitter, it's just...
	Oh, you absolutely know that they did.
	This is what I'm talking about.
	These kinds of people.
	The kind of people we showed who said, you know, non-binary children in Ukraine are the same thing.
	This is a George Floyd moment.
	There was one lady who literally said, this is George Floyd all over again.
	Yep.
	Honestly, when I saw what you named this segment, I thought that's what it was going to be focusing on.
	That's part of it.
	I actually think the George Floyd effect is a good term to use moving forward.
	Yeah, and there's a reason for that.
	It's because, as I know, this is exactly the same thing as what happened with George Floyd's death.
	Not that any of these events are similar.
	What is similar is the Westerners' response, specifically the kind of Westerners we're talking about, in which I've seen a video, cops love murdering black people, anyone who disagrees with me is a racist murder apologist.
	And that's the end of the conversation.
	Black Lives Matter.
	Why wouldn't you tweet it?
	Are you racist?
	That kind of dense response to an event.
	And we see some of that the same.
	And we also saw it with Charlie Hebdo.
	I don't know if we can go to the next link just to show...
	There should be Douglas Murray in there if you can...
	Sorry, wait, no.
	This is an example of exactly what I'm talking about.
	Sorry, John.
	So this is a guy who decided to tweet this, right?
	There are no more innocent, neutral Russians anymore.
	Everyone has to make a choice.
	Support will oppose this war.
	The only way to end this war is if hundreds of thousands, not thousands, protest against the census of war.
	Putin can't arrest you all.
	As if innocent Russians...
	Who have no influence.
	I know.
	Are no longer innocent.
	Well, that's the thing.
	To absolutely try my best to steelman this position, because I've seen it, I can see that what he's saying is that in response to the war, anybody in Russia who doesn't want the war to be going on should protest and do all that sort of stuff in a country that is notorious for political dissidents and other such vanishing off the face of the earth.
	maybe not the best thing to be pushing for and obviously starting off by saying that there's no innocent or neutral russians uh interestingly i sent this to you last night i don't know if you saw it uh but i found a tweet from this guy from last year almost a year ago in march where he says i'm always careful to criticize putin's policies but not russian people But now there are no innocent people.
	So you're talking about people trying to be nuanced and then just forgetting it.
	This guy is even more of an example.
	So, I mean, again, there is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
	If we go to the next one, there's also his book, which made us laugh whenever we get together last day.
	From Cold War to Hot Peace, There Are No Innocents.
	This isn't war, this is just very hot peace.
	Oh, this peace, it's scorching!
	But back to my point.
	So if we go to the next one, we see Douglas.
	Because this happened with Charlie Hebdo as well.
	And I couldn't find the video.
	I've just picked the video of Douglas because he's a pretty boy.
	But the point he's made in one of his videos, which is after Charlie Hebdo, he very quickly realized who you can actually rely upon.
	Who's got a steady head in a panic.
	Because all these people who have been saying they were liberals and they would stand for freedom of expression...
	Suddenly wanted to censor the cartoons.
	In Britain, we didn't print them.
	No TV station held them.
	Wasn't one of the interesting things, I think it was, of all people, Seth MacFarlane, you know, the family guy, creator, around the time that that happened, was being asked about it on, like, Bill Maher or something, and he was like, I just wouldn't touch it, because they were like, well, you know, South Park's done all this dodgy stuff where they've pushed the line when it comes to Islam, and Seth MacFarlane just came out as basically an absolute coward.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's a perfect moment to find out who can be relied upon.
	And it's not, you know, none of these specific events are connected in any other way other than this Western response, which is that thing happens and some people just become irrational.
	It's painful to see.
	And thankfully, Charlie Hebdo had a right answer, which is defend freedom, reject Islamism.
	So that was easy enough.
	Loads of people got that wrong, as you mentioned, even Seth MacFarlane, apparently.
	And that's that.
	And again, I mean, you can have disagreements about all these things, and there will be more battles to fight, so let's move on from that.
	But in the meantime, I'm going to end this segment off because life is short.
	Apparently it's very short if you're in Ukraine, so let's try and cheer some people up if they're watching from there.
	Let's have some memes!
	Yeah!
	Let's end this off.
	I know people criticize me for enjoying memes, but life is short.
	So, as you can see here...
	What's the point of war if you can't laugh?
	See Russian aircraft?
	Have Stinger Missile?
	Kaboom!
	This was, as well...
	Ah, babushka!
	Laserpig also noted this was, like, meant to be the super-uber-advanced Russian helicopter can counter any modern weapon system and was taken down by an AT Stinger Missile.
	It has actually been blown up.
	You can see the footage.
	If we go to the next one, I also noticed there was, uh, we all wish the Ukrainian negotiators their best.
	However, if you can click on the first image there, we can see, and I'll try and be rude, but he does, guys in suits, and then the Ukrainian side, there's just this guy with a black baseball cap and a black shirt.
	If we go to the right, I mean, his outfit does only remind me of one thing, which is, would you like fries with that?
	Hey man!
	He came in with their fries and they're like, wait, wait, sit down.
	You might have something important to say.
	Someone needs to do the coffee run.
	We dominate you.
	No, this man just sits down and immediately takes over the meeting.
	I have no idea.
	He's probably the smartest guy in the room, but just his expression as well gives me the sense that he's like, I don't know what I'm doing here.
	I ain't paid enough for this.
	Minimum wage.
	So we've got the next one.
	There's also the story of apparently Turkey have started sending...
	They're attack drones to the Ukrainians to help them out with all this.
	So we have an artist, a rendition, an interpretation of the future days to come.
	If we go to the next one, we can see that rendition.
	Yeah, there we are.
	Toad bro face.
	And if we go to the next one, we can see the truck, which I'm going to use the thumbnail because, again, this is so funny.
	I get that it's a vehicle and it works or whatever, but this is meant to be an ambulance for the Russians.
	It's just covered in those little Zs.
	Imagine going into war.
	Alright boys, you're ready, you're geared up, here's your vehicle.
	There's all these guys in armored cars that have all been blown up in ambushes and then they give you this.
	Yep.
	We also have a large Doberman dog to take with you.
	You can track down mysteries and solve them.
	So this has become a point of good memes as well.
	If we go to the next one we can see Pepe himself driving it.
	In my head he's playing Almost Heaven, West Virginia.
	Please don't kill me.
	And then I open the renditions of this as the Mystery Machine.
	Because, I mean, look at it.
	So if we go to the next one, we can see that.
	I don't know if you want to do the reading for this one.
	Okay, this is going to be for the meme videos.
	Like, zoink, Scoob!
	We better find the gang!
	Thanks, Shaggy.
	You're welcome.
	Notice your nickname.
	Go to the next one as well, we can see the last.
	I don't know if you want to do this one as well.
	Like, zoink, Scoob!
	This doesn't feel like a military exercise!
	Anyway, that's the Hannah Bambara rendition of the war.
	What's going on?
	Fuck a war.
	No one knows.
	Anyone pretending they know for sure is just not being serious.
	But that's the George Floyd effect in practice for some Westerners, of course.
	Not people who know what's going on.
	All the Easterners who are suffering with this situation.
	But thank you very much.
	Alright, time to move on to my...
	My nose is itchy.
	Sorry.
	No worries.
	I don't want to ruin your intro.
	Me just going...
	Start the YouTube video.
	You're picking your nose.
	It's just itch, but...
	Yeah, yeah.
	So he says.
	So he says.
	Also, I just need to put...
	Check the vlog, bro.
	I just need to go...
	Just throw this out there.
	Callum likes Douglas.
	Yes.
	Almost every segment you reference him and then you're like, oh, he's a pretty boy.
	A good writer.
	And a pretty boy.
	I'm not denying it.
	It's just a bit of a theme I've noticed.
	Alright then.
	Check out the Mumsnet posts.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Oh, really?
	Have you not seen?
	No, no.
	To be fair, I have actually...
	That sounds like a pleat tangent.
	I've given my mum a copy of The Madness of Crowds, and she's like, oh, it sounds very interesting, but the writing's so small in it, breaking out of little old lady glasses.
	But he got all buffed during COVID, and there was a Trotsky's farm or whatever it was in Mexico where he got killed.
	There was a picture of him, like, buff as hell.
	And then on Mumsnet, they were all showing it, going, ooh, I know he's right wing, but...
	Ooh, oh my!
	Anyway, sorry.
	Anyway.
	Right, so, it's time to ask the question, will COVID survive Ukraine?
	And, to be honest, the forecasts aren't looking good, and this is more in terms of the COVID narratives.
	Oh no, not my COVID narratives.
	Ah!
	I know!
	They've all fallen away!
	I'm naked now!
	And this is actually going to be a good way of looking more in depth at what you and now other people have dubbed the George Floyd effect, where it seems that most people have taken the one thing that they were very angry about, that this is the hill I'm going to die on, and...
	I've seen one video on YouTube.
	Yes, and now I have hopped over to the next hill along that I'm going to die on.
	But...
	This is just a reminder for everybody that the elites and the ruling class are probably going to use the events in Ukraine to try and distract everybody from the fact that we have been tyrannised for two years and distract everybody from the fact that just a week ago, just a week and a half ago, the thing that was on everybody's minds was the Canadian trucker protest, which has suddenly and very conveniently vanished from mainstream discourse.
	So just as an update on some of the things that are going on regarding COVID, the CDC has updated its masking guidelines in America, which is very convenient for people.
	Even California might be experiencing a little taste of that freedom, which they may have not been very used to.
	to for a while.
	So they announced new guidance on face masks as the US continues its shift in strategy towards COVID-19.
	The CDC will consult new metrics to determine whether a community should enforce indoor masking, looking at COVID-19 hospital admissions, overall hospital capacity, and new COVID-19 cases as the deciding factors.
	The results, currently only about 28% of people in the US live in a county where they'd be recommended to wear a mask indoors per the CDC's new metrics.
	The universal masking recommendations for schools have been dropped as well.
	Yes, which is a very good thing.
	We're finally getting to make our own decisions.
	They didn't really, as far as I can tell, seem to be helping that much in schools anyway.
	If I'm allowed to say that.
	Am I allowed to say that?
	I think with a gun to my head from YouTube I have to say this.
	Must play a role in dealing with the coronavirus.
	It's literally written, like what you must say as a guideline.
	So that's that.
	There we go.
	Bureaucracy achieved.
	Everything else we'll take from the CDC because that's also halal.
	Yes.
	Previously, Case Council used the sole measuring stick for Americans masking gup.
	Now, given the vaccine and everything, waves of infection that come through Omicron and Delta variants resulted in mostly mild symptoms that didn't require hospitalizations and also led to a lot of natural immunity because we're...
	We're allowed to talk about that again now, spreading throughout the country, so everything's looking alright.
	You can even, if you move along, check out the CDC guidelines for yourself, if you're interested, just to see that.
	I think it's not that there's anything specific in there, it's just that a lot of stuff has been taken out.
	But...
	Most people aren't paying attention to this stuff anymore because of Ukraine.
	And we've had people who've kind of taken a notice of this.
	Mark Dolan saying, dreadful humour knowing his fair play to old Vlad for ending the pandemic.
	Thanks for that, Putin.
	Doing a favour.
	It is a good point that this pandemic is now looking a bit small news.
	You even mentioned the other day that when people are trying to force the COVID narrative into this, it seems a little bit misplaced, like this one that you pointed out.
	Sorry for a minute, but remember how COVID is probably, and almost certainly, killed more people than the war in Ukraine as well.
	But when there is a war or something like that, all Black Lives Matter riots, remember, it all disappears.
	Yep, that's the thing.
	Well, that's an interesting thing we've got as well, is the protests, the government-approved protests, don't seem to have much of a mask restriction on them, I'll just say that.
	But yeah, this one that you pointed out the other day, a lot of people in Ukraine crowding together inside, but only 35% of them have been vaccinated and less than 2% boosted.
	And this did not get a great response.
	If you scroll down, I think lives of TikTok have the best response, which is just the frog of shame.
	If the frog of shame gets more likes than the original tweet, then you really suck.
	And it did!
	What did Miles say?
	Great ratio.
	Just scroll down so...
	A man who was in Ukraine.
	Miles just put, nobody cares.
	I'm in a bunker right now, losers.
	Missile strikes, I sleep.
	Sheltering while unvaccinated, I awake.
	Yeah, the whole thing just seems completely pointless, where it's just sort of like, what we need to do is we need to segregate the bomb shelters so that those in the unvaccinated don't give everybody else the sniffles.
	No, we have COVID passes, only the vaccinate are allowed in.
	If you did not get vaccinated, clearly you wanted to die, so out in the bombs with you.
	That's the only solution that we have to this.
	And there is talk about the vaccination rates, but there's also the talk about Ukrainians fleeing and becoming refugees, which seems to be...
	It's interesting, seeing as so many of them will be flagrantly anti-vaxxers.
	Most of them surely won't be vaccinated if only a third of the country is vaccinated.
	Remember, that makes you an anti-vaxxer.
	It really does.
	So we're going to have an influx of anti-vaxxers into Western countries, and All of a sudden, the ruling classes seem perfectly fine with this.
	We don't care.
	Yes, while Ukraine is under attack by Russia, Ukraine's civilian population is also under siege from the coronavirus.
	A situation only likely to worsen.
	Which, just...
	Priorities, mate.
	Shut up.
	Priorities.
	I mean, come on.
	Why are we accepting all these refugees from an active war?
	What do you think?
	I don't know, man.
	The fighting in Ukraine's east is forcing a mass migration to the west that is crowding mass transit centres and trains and jamming roads.
	Video images of the large numbers of Ukrainians on the move show understandably few signs of face coverings, even as the county is just getting past a record high point in its infection rate.
	I have no idea that Mr.
	Hassan here is going to go down.
	What is it with Hassan?
	I don't know.
	I swear to God.
	Mr.
	Hassan is like, yes, we must accept refugees from the Middle East, presumably.
	And then he gets to the women and children fleeing from Ukraine to Slovakia or Hungary, and he's stood there just pushing them back, going, no, you're anti-vaxxers.
	No way!
	He's just got a bar.
	He's like, no!
	I mean, good God.
	Syrian children can come all they want.
	Only about one third of Ukraine's 44 million people are fully inoculated against the coronavirus.
	And then they talk about Russia, despite being one of the first countries to develop and approve a coronavirus vaccine, has fully vaccinated only half of its population.
	According to Our World in Data project, it's also dealing with an Omicron surge.
	Recording an average of 160,000 new cases over the last seven days, or 111 cases per 100,000 people.
	So honestly, with all that going on, it's a wonder they could muster the manpower for this invasion.
	I mean, Putin, don't you understand?
	There's a pandemic going on, man.
	Soldiers could be hurt.
	What if they sneeze on each other?
	What if someone sneezes in a bullet wound?
	What happens then?
	COVID mutates and makes bullets sometimes.
	I don't know, man.
	You turn into a monster from the thing, maybe.
	And yeah, obviously there are all of the refugees being welcome over here, and as long as they're just coming over here for the duration of the conflict, obviously if they can go to neighbouring countries, which are much closer by.
	Again, I am very sceptic.
	Sorry, I interrupted.
	Yeah, no, no, go for it.
	It is, which is...
	It's nearby.
	That's ideal.
	That's cheapest.
	We can save the most people.
	You can already see Canada can expect refugees.
	Why?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	The money you're spending on those plane trips could be spent housing people in Slovakia.
	Canada is thousands of miles away.
	There's an ocean!
	Send money to Poland!
	Not to Canadian air!
	Yeah.
	Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian government said it's prioritising immigration applications for Ukrainians.
	Prime Minister Trudeau said the federal government is urgently issuing travel documents for affected Canadians' permanent residents as well as their immediate family members.
	But isn't this interesting?
	Canada, just the other week, pretty hard line on un-vaxxed people, but now, all these un-vaxxed Ukrainians, come in!
	Please!
	We need to accept you so that presumably we can prevent you from getting a job, and keep you, and then put you in prison for being un-vaccinated, maybe?
	So we had these 90% vaccinated truckers, they're forbidden, but the 34% vaccinated women and children from Ukraine.
	That's, okay.
	But it's also the aspect, again, of just, if you're Ukrainian, do you think it's going to be easier to speak Polish or English?
	Do you think it's going to be easier to get a job in Poland or England?
	I have a good idea of which.
	Who could we save with the money?
	But you mentioned the whole George Floyd effect, and it is interesting because this is just a great example of it, where just a few weeks ago, it was COVID was the thing on everybody's tongues, and now it's Ukraine, and you can't have space in your tiny wickle brains.
	Kamala Harris, she knows how small your wickle brains are.
	Big country small.
	Country, small country.
	You can't have space in your tiny brains for two things at the same time.
	Therefore, you have to focus on Ukraine, and if you talk about anything other than Ukraine right now, you're pro-Putin, and you're trying to destroy the West, and let Ukrainians die.
	And this is just...
	Lauren Boebert had a great example of this where she was pointing out that, hey, you know, Ukraine's bad, but there was some pretty sketchy stuff going on in Canada, you know, they might have done some things like hack people's accounts, freeze people's accounts, hack people who were trying to donate to these peaceful protests, hack people who were trying to donate to these peaceful protests, and then they go, You know those peaceful protesters in St. Petersburg and Moscow?
	They're all being arrested, beaten, have their bank accounts frozen for protesting against the war.
	This sounds a little bit familiar.
	I know, but that's over there.
	It's fine when it's over here.
	Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was condemned for comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the clearing of a trucker's protest in Ottawa, saying we also have neighbours to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated, which I think is a pretty...
	Uncontroversial statement when Trudeau has been acting as such a tyrannical leader for the past few months.
	But many in Canada and the US reacted to Bobut's comments with anger.
	Bruce Heyman, who was US ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said the congresswoman's remarks were reckless, dangerous, and crossed every line of diplomacy and decency.
	Bobut would have been expelled from the Republican Party before Trump, but is now the darling of CPAC. Canada is our...
	Best friend, best trading partner, closest ally, and should be treated as such.
	So who cares if there's a few human rights violations going on?
	We get all our maple syrup from there!
	I can't...
	I can't go without me syrup, Lauren!
	It's like Saudi Arabia.
	If Trudeau decided he would institute public executions like the Saudis, he'd be like, well, we've got to have that maple syrup flow.
	Like the oil.
	We'll just accept that we need the oil, we need the maple syrup.
	If they're imprisoning people without charges or anything, oh well, I'm hungry, damn it.
	And there's also the question...
	Americans are like, our breakfast can't survive without maple syrup.
	I know.
	But do you think that somebody like that hacker who hacked Give, Send, Go, Kurtner, and released all the names of the donors who were donating to the trucker protest, do you think he's going to be doing any hacking to help the people of Ukraine?
	Do you think he's going to be trying to bring down the Russian systems?
	No.
	No, because of course he isn't, because this isn't going to align with certain progressive things.
	The only thing that the progressives have to do in regards to Ukraine is put the little flag in the bio, make a nice little virtue signal tweet, and go, I support the people of Ukraine, and then just leave it alone.
	And just every so often get offended at people like Lauren Boebert for saying, we've got our own problems over here, remember?
	Yeah, I mean, these kinds of people's lives were put on a mask, and it was BLM, then masks and more, now a Ukraine flag, and then God knows what it'll be in a few months.
	They've changed out the brain chip to take us back to the NPC memes.
	Here is a nice visualisation of what's been going on.
	Scroll down, I don't care so much about the text there.
	Yep, CNN, MSNBC and Twitter, COVID, Ukraine, still angry.
	And again, this doesn't apply to anyone in the East, or in Ukraine, of course.
	No, of course not.
	We're talking about those Western NPCs.
	Yes, and there are bloody plenty of them.
	And just like that, with the simple flick of the switch, protests are allowed in Canada again.
	Just like the BLM ones.
	Look at all these shockingly unmasked people.
	It is very interesting how all of a sudden protest is allowed when it's a government-sponsored protest.
	Just take- yeah, here.
	You see that woman, the short woman at the front?
	Yeah.
	That's Christia Freeland, the Vice President, Prime Minister, I should say, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, the woman who was talking about freezing bank accounts for the protesters.
	But when it's something I support, I'm going to be right there on the front lines waving that flag.
	Also, I get this event as a form of solidarity and all that, you know, you can agree with that, but as a protest, when the government already agrees with the protest, it's kind of mute in that regard.
	Like, when you saw them protesting BLM, and it was like, you've got the Prime Minister taking a knee, that doesn't make sense as a protester.
	That's the thing, they suspend the rules when it's something that they already support or know will be politically expedient for them.
	Or good optically.
	And people are still trying to talk about Canada, because I think it's a good reminder, just to keep saying this, this was only like a week and a half ago that people were being persecuted in Canada for trying to protect their freedoms.
	But, in the David Raboy sense, when it's somebody else's freedoms who are being stepped on...
	Someone else's nationalisms.
	Yeah, someone else's nationalism, somebody else's freedoms, then we're all in support because we're liberals over here.
	Yeah, people pointed out, I think this is one of the most recent articles I could even see related to it because of the fact that so many people, all the news articles are just all being overtaken by Ukrainian coverage.
	Talking about class rage behind Trudeau's trucker emergency, the separation between the ruling classes and those people who were on the ground, class dimension evident from the demeaning and charge language used by politicians and journalists in referring to the protesters, and now in regards to anybody who has a Even remotely nuanced take on the Ukrainian conflict.
	Despised by members of the Canadian elite who are often blissfully unaware of their own privilege, protesters were considered blue-collar outcasts from the hinterland, presumptively racist and small-minded.
	But, Ukraine, the elites can get behind that, make themselves look good and empathetic, care towards your own citizens, we don't need it.
	And here's one of the most...
	I just see in the chat, someone's mentioned honk for Ukraine.
	That could be a smart move.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	Truckers.
	That's genius.
	Matt, this is a Ukraine protest.
	We need Trudeau to know how much we support Ukraine.
	Let's park back up outside Parliament, boys.
	What's he going to do?
	Have your stormtroopers come back in and beat you up for defending Ukraine?
	Oh yeah, John's got it there.
	But one of the most ridiculous takes I've seen regarding this.
	Move along, John.
	This got 72,000 likes.
	Have you noticed that none of the anti-Trudeau hashtags have trended since Russia turned off Twitter?
	Huh?
	Do you really believe that if the Russian hackers were such geniuses that they've coordinated everything that's gone wrong in the West, that just turning off Twitter would stop them?
	Have you heard of a VPN? I think the internet research agency might be able to afford NordVPN.
	Basically, if I don't like something, it must have been Russia.
	And the fact that everybody has been distracted from the Canadian protest and turned straight over onto the Ukrainian issue means that I'm proven right.
	If I don't like it, it's Russia.
	72,000 likes.
	I despair.
	Flag in the bio.
	Flag in the bio, yes.
	I absolutely despair.
	And another reminder that there are people still being persecuted because of the Canadian regime, such as one of the convoy organizers, Tamara Leach, who wants out of jail but has had her bail denied.
	One of the leaders that occupied downtown Ottawa, Was in court on Wednesday hoping to overturn an earlier judicial decision that she be held without bail until her trial on charges of counselling to commit the offence of mischief and committing mischief.
	So, you're a domestic insurrectionist terrorist who's been going around and committing terrible, terrible mischief.
	Canada, you are not a serious country, my god.
	She was out in Ottawa, up to no good.
	She was the Grinch or something.
	Going on, you were putting coal in all the children's stockings!
	Yeah, I'm up to no good.
	Tamara Leach, 49, asked Ontario Superior Court Justice the honorary John M. Johnston to overturn a ruling made by a lower court judge, Ontario Court Justice Julie Bourgeoisie that Leach can be held without a bail.
	And is there anything more mimetic than the fact that the justice who is trying to jail...
	Judge Bourgeois!
	Judge Bourgeois!
	Judge Bourgeois, member of the ruling class.
	My God.
	It said the working class trucker organiser cannot be released for mischief.
	For mischief for protesting her worker conditions.
	Judge Bourgeois.
	I know.
	I know.
	Seriously.
	There are people, though, still trying to bring this to people's attention.
	If we go along, there's a video here that I've seen on Twitter where there are people outside of the Canadian consulate, activists against mandates, gather and chant, free Tamara Lich.
	I don't need to play it, it's only like 10 seconds long, but yeah.
	They are still out there trying to, you know, get her out on bail, at least.
	And the comments are full of absolutely hateful people who, of course, want to put the flags in their bios or in their names so that they can look like they actually care about something and care about people, all making fun of these people, all saying that this woman is a joke and that she could get jailed for ten years.
	There was no trucker protest.
	It was an insurrection.
	I hate people sometimes.
	I'm a socialist, that's why people who protest and organise should be arrested for ten years.
	Yep, I know.
	Okay, czarist.
	The whole point seems to be, why worry about domestic tyranny when there's something going on over there?
	We just need to keep sleepwalking into allowing our rights to be gradually stripped off us.
	And it's ridiculous.
	It's awful.
	And we need to return to England as well.
	I'll try and speed through because we're going over time.
	There are people, other NPCs, such as David Lammy, talking about how we need to basically remove all visa restrictions for any refugees or anybody fleeing Ukraine or that area.
	Because, you know, just...
	Uncritically letting any refugee in at all has worked so well for us in the past.
	There's more people let more in if you move along.
	UK government Johnson says we're out in front on refugees.
	Patel defends the indefensible badly.
	Talking about how Patel has said, hey, hey, hey, hey.
	Maybe we should have some criteria for the people that we're letting into the country.
	Just a little bit.
	11,000 likes.
	Indefensible position.
	We can help them in Poland.
	There is even a letter being written against Preeti Patel that has been signed by, as far as I can tell when I first looked at it this morning, 116,000 signatures.
	John, let's see how many that's got.
	The UK must give safe passage to those fleeing war in Ukraine.
	116,000 signatures.
	But the thing is...
	Refugees are welcome over here.
	Preeti Patel has said herself, move along, this article for some reason says refuses to open UK's doors to meet Ukrainians fleeing war, but she said herself, family members of British nationals who are not usually eligible will be allowed to come to the UK for up to 12 months as long as they pass security checks.
	Ah, you're trying to keep all those refugees out.
	How dare you try and make sure that the person coming is actually Ukrainian and not just jumping into Ukraine to get past the borders.
	I know.
	I love how literally the first line as well is, Home Secretary says she will take 100,000 Ukrainians who are seeking refuge.
	No, she's refusing them!
	No, she's just going to let the boat rock up to the shoreline, and then she's just going to push it back.
	Not that it seems to make much sense, though, as I said.
	I don't know why we've forgotten things that we learned from the last crisis on this regard, which is help Poland.
	Well, because the progressives, they always just want it to be our problem.
	They don't like to look at any...
	It's ironic, because the people who I would describe as progressive and complain about things being Eurocentric or Anglocentric are the most Anglocentric when it comes to how we solve the problem.
	This is the only place on Earth worth living.
	Yeah, I mean, I agree.
	Everywhere else is a literal hellhole, even France.
	I agree.
	Very based.
	I agree, but...
	But there are limits!
	And we just need to remember as well that the ruling class will never let a crisis go to waste because while this has all been going on, Calvin points out that the police crime and sentencing and courts bill passed on Monday night.
	The House of Lords previously removed the draconian measures to restrict the right to protest, but the House of Commons put these clauses back in and pushed the bill through while everybody was distracted by Ukraine because nobody's going to be paying attention To these sorts of things, especially you mentioned the other day on the podcast as well, the digital currency that's being brought in.
	Nobody's going to pay attention to this while the media is whipping them into a frenzy about Ukraine.
	And we should care about what's happening in Ukraine to a certain extent.
	We need to stay informed on these things.
	But don't let it distract you from the fact that there are things domestically, whether in Canada or the UK, going on in the Anglosphere that we still need to stay very, very aware of.
	That's about that.
	That's fair enough.
	I should say some people talking in the comments about the Poland thing.
	It's just like the Polis, the Slovakians, the Hungarians are doing so much to help them.
	And good on them.
	They need cash to be dealing with the situation.
	So if you wanted to help the most people with the cash you have available for such things, that's the way to do it.
	I think that is what we learned from the last crisis.
	But anyway, let's go to the video comments.
	Tom, this is your new assistant, Joe Kirby.
	Just showing the ropes, will you?
	And if you find any corpses under those spuds, give me a whistle.
	To raise a hue and cry is to call for the pursuit of a criminal.
	This first of the Ealing comedies is a refresher on the robust way people used to be able to talk with each other without taking offense.
	The plot surrounds a gang of children who have uncovered a crime syndicate operating in plain sight with their plans put out in a weekly comic.
	It's particularly interesting for its capture of a post-Second World War bombed and ruined London with life still bustling in it.
	That is great to see even back then, after everything that was going on, the sort of positive attitude that people were trying to put forward.
	Like, it's time to rebuild.
	We can do it.
	We're all in it together.
	Me and Carl were planning, or at least Carl did plan, we were going to do a premium podcast where we just look at footage of London throughout the decades.
	Yeah, he was...
	Like, decade by decade.
	He was talking about this the other day in the office because he said he'd watched the Pet Shop Boys video for West End Girls, which is set in London, and it was incredible that it was just all English people.
	Which shouldn't be that shocking when you're talking about the capital of England, but apparently it is.
	But it's also just the shops.
	Like, the shops sell English food everywhere and stuff like that.
	And you, when you go to Poland, I remember we were with, I think it was some Polish MP or someone, where we mentioned the fact, oh my god, there's so many Polish people in Warsaw.
	And they just looked at us like, what?
	Like, You mean your cities aren't full of immigrants?
	Yeah, so we were also going to find out, because I don't know an English Londoner.
	It doesn't exist.
	Cockneys being in London, they don't exist.
	They've been moved out.
	No, but they're like a figment of my imagination at this point.
	They're just a story thing, like, oh, I don't know, fairies or something.
	When I go to London, if I see actual English people in there, I assume they're visiting for the day, like I am.
	Yeah, let's go to the next one.
	Everyone's making fun of Harry for his silly pirate song.
	Meanwhile, I'm looking at that Paul Reed Smith going, Ooh, Harry, you got good taste, my friend.
	Anyway, love to see more Harry.
	Pirate song?
	Thanks.
	Oh, did you not check it out yesterday?
	I was writing things.
	Oh, Based Ape put together a little short compilation of images and bits from my band's song where I dress as a pirate because that's what I do.
	I've got to Oh, yeah.
	I've got a gig on Saturday where I'm going to be dressing as a pirate again because that's what we do because we're a fun theatrical fantasy band that sing about testicles and other such things because we're all very mature.
	Thank you very much for the compliment.
	I don't think anyone was making fun of me, or at least I hope they weren't, for being dressed as a pirate because I think it's cool.
	My mum made it.
	No, I have some character.
	Otherwise, that was the point.
	Yeah, yeah, man.
	I think people mainly enjoyed it, to be perfectly honest.
	And I guess you were the guy who was commenting saying, nice choice of guitar.
	I've had that PRS, it's the Paul Anders Signature Model SE, for about 12 years now.
	Got it when I was like...
	God, 13, 12, 13 years old.
	A few years back, stripped it of the EMGs that came in it.
	You know, I'm not a big fan of active pickups.
	Put some passive pickups.
	Blackhawk.
	The hell are you talking about?
	Bare Knuckles.
	I'm trying to give him an answer.
	He said about the guitar, so I'm just talking about the guitar.
	None of those words meant anything to me.
	I don't need them to mean anything to you.
	He will understand.
	Okay.
	But yeah, it sounds great.
	It plays great.
	I've kept very good care of it.
	I've got a few other guitars, like a Chapman, but apparently that's not what Callum wants to talk about right now.
	Sorry, this is like...
	Callum, I'm bored.
	Right.
	It was after like ten words of just things, I went, hang on, what is it?
	You're speaking English?
	Guitar...
	Big bit wood.
	Go strum.
	Big neck on guitar.
	Put bit of metal wire on guitar.
	Go strum, go wow.
	But when you're on stage, nobody hear strum strum.
	So you plug in.
	You have pickups.
	Magnet, yes.
	Magnet, good.
	Wire go bong, and then people hear strum strum.
	Yes, through magnet, go through lead, into amp, go boom, boom, boom.
	No way to prevent this.
	If you guys haven't watched J-Rag, check out the Anprim video by J-Rag.
	Anprim anthem.
	Honestly, that's how I feel.
	If I ever get you a guitar, I'll just get you a plank of wood with a string just nailed onto it.
	That's fair.
	I mean, there are those things called...
	There are things called cajons that are literally just like hollow chairs that you can sit on and just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom on it.
	I'll get you one of them for the office.
	Alright, I could be the boom, boom, boom player.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Sorry, that's just not funny to me.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So assuming Thomas or Harry is watching this, the reason why you should keep a martial art out of the Olympics using Judo as the perfect example.
	Before Judo was in the Olympics, it was a much more functional martial art and had a lot of good groundwork.
	Then it got into the Olympics, and governing bodies said, this is all impressive and all, but can you take everything that's not flashy out of this martial art so it looks better for the cameras?
	Pretty please.
	And, well now it's still functional, but a lot less effective.
	Yeah, well, thanks for the information there.
	John actually mentioned yesterday while we were talking about it that apparently any sport that gets entered into the Olympics ends up being made massively worse through its participation in the Olympics.
	So thank you for the explanation on why that is.
	It doesn't really make much sense, though.
	The flashy stuff would look good for the camera, surely?
	No, no, no.
	I think he said take anything that isn't the flashy stuff.
	So all of the functional stuff...
	Okay.
	John says they make everything point-based, so it's all about tags dropping real damage.
	Yeah, all the, like, meat and potatoes stuff that makes it functional gets taken out, so it'll just look flashy and cool.
	Alright.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Pounding the streams down a bit.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Oh, really?
	I still think we need to send this man to Ukraine.
	He'll sort it out.
	Show me what passes for fury amongst your misbegotten kind.
	Okay.
	Okay, alright.
	I don't know what to do with these.
	These are slowly just becoming threats.
	We're going to step outside the office one day and just hear...
	Approaching.
	I'm glad he's on our side, I guess.
	Hey, do you want to be hide his security?
	Tony D and Little Joan with another legend of Swindon.
	This time it's the Swindon Firehouse.
	Back in 2007, the Swindon Advertiser did an article.
	Ghost hunters were on the case and they found strange visions, things opening and closing on their own and an otherwise clean floor would suddenly have mysterious footprints across it.
	Even one of the firefighters' dogs wouldn't go into certain parts of the firehouse.
	And as I always say, trust the doggos.
	Okay, number one, Joan's very cute.
	Number two, I'm annoyed now because that's actually quite close to my house.
	Oh, really?
	You've not seen it.
	It's up near the, what is it?
	Is it Lidl?
	Or Aldi?
	I can't remember.
	I forget which one.
	No, I think I know what you're on about.
	Yeah, I remember when you say it's right next to the Magic Roundabout as well.
	Do you hear any spooky noises coming from around there?
	I'm far enough away that I wouldn't hear anything, but...
	Or do you ever hear any disembodied screams in the night?
	Whenever you go on the Magic Roundabout, you just hear the dogs.
	Sorry.
	Thanks, man.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So I am a decently popular fanfiction writer and as it turns out one of my fans is from Belarus and we had quite an interesting conversation yesterday and she told me that from her perspective, from their perspective, This conflict, the Ukraine conflict, feels more like a civil war than an actual war.
	She has friends and family both in Russia and Ukraine.
	So to see from her side, it's like if England invaded Scotland and Carlin was conscripted to shoot Leo.
	It's their territory.
	It's not just two completely different countries invading each other.
	I think That's an important perspective to have, that for them it's like a civil war.
	It's like fighting their own and that's why they're all against it.
	I get your point.
	Being that you're barely English, who would you side with, Carl or Leo?
	You're going to have to make some difficult choices.
	So with the overlap of the regions of Ukraine and Belarus, and all of those have their histories with the Russians and the Russification, thanks to Stalin.
	That makes sense as to why it would feel like more of a Civil War type scenario, especially given the amount of ethnic Russians in the area.
	I can understand all that perspective, and thank you for telling us.
	However, your example of the English and the Scottish shooting each other, they're all too for that.
	You're giving the SNP ideas.
	We all enjoy a good fight.
	I feel like Carl's nationalism and Leo would have some nationalism for fun if nothing else that happens.
	I feel like it wouldn't descend into shooting, it would descend into drunken piss-up brawls, you know?
	Imagine Carl with a flintlock and, of course, Leo with his big-ass punk gun.
	What else is it going to be?
	It's illegal in America!
	The girl's like, shut up!
	Anyway, we're out of written, sorry, video comments, so we'll go to the written comments.
	Someone make some art of that, I want to see that.
	Yes, please.
	30 paces and turn, Leo with his dick-ass punk gun.
	So, on the comments, a magician of Svidestan says on Ukraine, What do you lads think about Conservative MP Tom Tuggenhatz suggesting that the UK should expel all Russians in light of the Ukrainian...
	Is he mad?
	Quote, We can expel Russian citizens.
	All of them, we can make a choice to defend our interests, to defend the British people, and to defend our international partners.
	Yes, I prefer being an international puppet to waste British lives and economically cripple my country.
	I'm a conservative.
	That is insane.
	That's stupid.
	Stupidest thing I've ever heard.
	I don't believe in ascribing collective guilt on people.
	So if you just happen to be Russian or ethnically Russian living in England, it's not like you're actively getting in the planes and doing bombing runs of Ukraine.
	Well, it's also even stupider because then he said, presumably, I assume he's saying Russian citizens, well, he does say Russian citizens, but if you went for all ethnic Russians and then they're banning loads of Lithuanians, you know, Estonians and whatnot as well.
	Constantins out there.
	Because of all the minority groups and lots of people that left.
	Oh yeah, actually, I'd have some friends, like, kicked out of the country as well.
	That's a stupid idea.
	I think every Russian I've met in England has been anti-Putin as well.
	Well, except one, but she was a...
	Well, I know a very pro-Putin Russian, but to be fair, I've not spoken to him since the invasion.
	So I'll have to see if he's still on side or not.
	The pro-Putin lady I met, she was Lithuanian, so she was very much just like, well, I'm oppressed, so come and liberate me.
	Yeah, to be fair, my Russian mate, his wife is Lithuanian, and she's also very pro-Putin.
	Their daughter, though, who I'm friends with, is not pro-Putin, so the whole thing's a mess right now.
	Yeah, mate, that dude's...
	Also, just another question.
	Would it not be an incentive if you just go, ah, go back to Russia?
	Are we not just giving them more manpower to throw at Ukraine?
	They've got plenty, come on.
	They've got plenty, but we're just giving them more.
	Tom is just like Uber, North FC, just like, Brexit means Brexit, get it.
	Sorry.
	You're warming me up to him now.
	So Baron Von Warhawk says, I don't understand why BLM feels betrayed by Biden, refusing police, refunding police.
	I mean, there is a photograph of him at a KKK man's funeral.
	He was responsible for laws that put thousands of black men in prison, and he voted against segregation and race mixing.
	Sorry, did he vote against segregation?
	I thought he voted against reintegration, but anyway.
	I assume he means...
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's pretty obvious that this guy was not their friend.
	You would have thought, but they all still voted for him, because...
	I mean, to be fair, it wasn't the big criticism of Kamala Harris, the fact that she sort of pushed for a lot of Californian prisoners, many who were black, to be left in prison beyond when they were supposed to be released, because she got that nice free labour from them.
	Sean King comes to mind.
	Callum Dayton says, Dear Lotus Eaters, I'm nodding off when Biden talks.
	Please provide some entertainment when Biden talks.
	Can you juggle?
	Sure.
	No, I could bring my guitar in.
	Because we're in a little corner, aren't we, when something plays.
	So we'll start doing things instead.
	We'll just start playing Rock, Paper, Scissors and people will be very excited to who wins.
	I'll bring in a clipboard.
	We can play Hangman.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Kevin M says, the most infuriating bit of Biden's speech I watched the drinking game on Tim's cast was when he singled out insulin as a drug that became unreasonably expensive.
	Oi, Joe, remember me who it was who undid Trump's order to keep the cost of insulin low.
	Yeah, he does.
	It's an embarrassment.
	Omar says, I mean, are we taking Kamala Harris and goddamn what's-her-face Pelosi?
	Are we taking them seriously as well?
	What was that?
	Oh, I'm getting a bit cold.
	I do think there was some way...
	I think she must have looked down at her phone and seen that some of her investments had just boosted and she was like, yes!
	She wanted to be the anti-Semitic meme.
	Exactly that.
	But I saw someone commenting, I mean, it's kind of getting elder abuse, and I've said this throughout, I almost feel bad for the old man, because it's just like, Mr.
	Sleepy should be sleeping.
	I get the feeling that when he, like, he doesn't actually walk or travel properly, he's like, you know Hannibal Lecter when he's on, like, the slab with the mask on and everything?
	Well, they have a big bed that they roll around.
	Yeah, they just wheel him around, and then he just gets off it so that he can walk on stage and mumble a few non-sequiturs.
	The woobble.
	Where am I? What's going on?
	So Mark Thomas says, someone really needs to cut Biden's speech with clips from FIFA and Dessa when the fascist cops are pointing guns at the audience.
	Someone can try.
	Shaker Silver says, one would hope that Biden's for America first is due to how Trump shifted the overturn window back, but it seems more like the struggling gas of a failing regime.
	Could be both as well.
	Yeah, certainly true.
	Christopher Fisher says, give it another month and the kid sniffer will be chanting MAGA. What?
	Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren were both chanting out Build a Wall throughout his speeches as well, which was very funny.
	How do you say that?
	Kalouin Sloan says, so he only talks understandably when he's plagiarizing someone.
	Israeli Crusader says, Biden saying Iranian was probably the highlight of the speech.
	I can't believe he did that.
	I stand with the people of Iran.
	Maybe Biden's one of those people who can't find Ukraine on a map.
	Almost certainly.
	I don't know if Rebel News are there, but some of you.
	Someone, if you're there, get a map of the world, and next time you're covering the hill, and just have all the senators go, come on, pick it.
	I want to see if you find it.
	Maybe the reason Kamala explained on that radio station the way she did, she just thinks to herself, explain like you're speaking to Joe.
	Maybe she doesn't, though.
	What?
	Actually, no, that can't be true, because I was thinking maybe she is that stupid as well.
	But then she's given speeches that are coherent.
	I think Joe Biden was just like to her side and she just decided to explain it to him as well.
	Big country, small country.
	So it's a big country Joe and then a small country.
	She breaks the globe out and gets lost on it.
	Oh god, where'd it go?
	So I'm back to sleep.
	So MrTrucker says, Do you guys think Conquerors was given cue cards or something for the State of the Union?
	They appear to clap early and or at really weird times.
	Almost like they were messing up their scripted reactions.
	No, this is just an American thing and sorry for...
	Talk about something I find weird about the Americans again, but you guys do do weird things.
	And this is one of them.
	The clapping.
	It's gotta stop.
	No, it's...
	Every state of the union's like this.
	Every time a plane lands, they do this.
	To be fair, it's kind of interesting.
	Yeah, it ties it.
	I've recently been listening to the audiobook of The Case Against Socialism by Rand Paul, and in that he talks about the time, like, ten years ago now, when the media outlets started to try and call him out because during a State of the Union speech he'd been caught on camera not clapping enthusiastically enough.
	And in the book he's like, literally, we've been clapping for so long, my hands just hurt, I just wanted to stop.
	This is a, I'm sure you've seen the American green text, where it's like, go on holiday to America, plane lands, everybody claps, everyone tips the pilot on the way out, go into baggage carousel, bag gets scanned, everybody claps.
	And we have our own version.
	But Jeb still gets no claps!
	That's why he was so upset.
	I don't know.
	You guys clap for anything but me!
	We do have our own version, which is that, of course, the MPs shout, hear, hear, which is slowly devolved into...
	Which is why someone will sit down and you hear the old place erupt into...
	We were reading about the Privy Council and their governing methods, which was just to get drunk and go to sleep.
	That was the cabinet.
	Oh, sorry, the cabinet.
	The much more important position to be in.
	Get drunk in front of the cave.
	So I think maybe the Parliament have just brought back the old tradition.
	They're just drunk and sleepy, so they can't be bothered to go here, here.
	It's an American tradition to hurt your hands, and keep doing it, I guess, but we are still going to find it strange.
	So Hammurabi VI says, Two Stacks speech was great.
	I hadn't fallen asleep that fast since I crashed my head into a steel beam.
	Actually, you know, to be fair, I just gotta say, God bless you, Callum, for actually sitting through the whole thing.
	It's not...
	I mean, I'm at work, so I shouldn't be falling asleep.
	You did look pretty sleepy yesterday, though.
	Ukraine, the George Floyd effect section, says, yes, the best thing to do, make all the Russians suffer, just like after World War I. The correct answer was to make all the Germans suffer.
	Get organizing support.
	I don't think it's that bad.
	yeah but it's just like we banned a russian author from our university because his name's russians hell you're doing free will 2112 says the yield of the hiroshima atomic bomb was about 12 kilotons the yield of a warhead from a trident is about 400 kilotons the trident warhead is representative of many modern nuclear weapon yields that means a blast about 30 times greater than hiroshima how can london be well prepared there will be not a london It will be totally gone.
	Khan is talking bollocks.
	No, he's not.
	He's saying they deserve it, and all of London needs to go.
	To be fair, on the projections that I've seen on maps as well, dropping a bomb on London, we'd be just outside of the zone of any effect whatsoever, so we'd be fine.
	Also, the wind goes that way into Norway, so...
	Ah, excellent!
	In the southwest, we're golden.
	Ha ha!
	Break out the cigars, boys!
	Lord Nerevar says the problem with being largely on the same side as the MSN on an issue of Ukraine is that most of the abject cringe is now on my side.
	I feel for you.
	Yeah, I mean, the MSN are some kind of cancer that just ruin anything.
	Anything at all.
	Edward of Numiverse says, No, Sadiq, we aren't.
	I haven't brought my beans.
	You may have a nice little bunker that you can hide in, but I don't.
	I don't want to bloody die.
	Shut up and keep your nose out of international politics.
	Fair enough.
	Yes, in fact, Sadiq, get out of politics altogether.
	You're not well suited for it, mate.
	The Minicus Monicus says the George Floyd effect isn't exclusive to the Anglosphere either.
	So many people I know over here in Germany who know literally nothing about Russia or Ukraine are suddenly extremely distressed and think the world is ending and are endlessly harping on about how terrible the situation is.
	I really wish the NPC memes were less accurate, Si.
	I mean, it wasn't so much talking about people saying war bad, but just...
	I know what's going to happen.
	I know who's going to win.
	I know that it's all going to end by this date, in a few days, and all this, and it's just like, stop.
	Love of God, stop.
	The only person I've seen who has even maybe a modicum of room to actually do that was, because he's there, was Coach Redpill.
	I found a telegram post that he put where he's like, on Sunday, he's like, ah, judging by it, they'll probably have this all wrapped up in 7 to 14 days.
	The most reasonable person on this issue is Coach Redpill.
	Coach Redpill, yes.
	Because he's there and can see.
	Oh, what a world.
	Robert Longshore says most of the Twitterati couldn't point to Russia on a map, let alone Ukraine.
	Yeah, even though they've got a 10% chance of being right if they just go random.
	Yeah, if they just put their finger on landmass, they've got a good chance.
	Christopher Fisher, there are no more innocents or neutrals in North America anymore.
	Everyone has to make a choice.
	Either you support or oppose the corporate fascism crushing our rights and erasing our nations.
	There need to be millions of protests, not just thousands of truckers and grannies.
	I don't agree.
	I think normies are allowed to be normies.
	Normies are allowed to be normies, but it would be nice if we saw millions of protesters against all this stuff.
	But I'm not going to crack out the shotguns and start...
	Yeah, it's time for a purge, boys!
	There's only three minutes left, so if you want to move on to...
	Yeah, yeah, I'll go on to the COVID and Ukraine stuff.
	So, Brandon Napier, George Floyd, guys, we need to get together to protest in support of Ukraine.
	Chad, but I thought we were supposed to social distance.
	George Floyd, why do you bring up that old S? Pretty much, that sums up the attitude.
	Student of history, I understand your nation is under assault and your husband's sons, brothers, fathers are fighting it back, but are you jabbed?
	And have you considered the plight of the alphabets in your home, Western leftists?
	Could you imagine being transgender in Ukraine and worrying about being misgendered?
	You're gonna be dead in two days!
	You, sir, come into the shelter!
	Sir!
	Sir!
	How dare you!
	I will stand out here, damn you!
	Where are those bombs dropping stands under it!
	I don't want to live in this country anymore!
	Chris Wolfe, the government and the people marching together is not a protest.
	It's a virtue signal.
	Everything you guys said is spot on.
	Thank you very much.
	I agree completely when it's a government-endorsed protest.
	There's not much of a protest.
	M1Ping, so protests flying Canadian flags in Canada are banned, but rallies flying foreign flags in your capital are fine.
	Yes.
	This is the thing.
	You're not allowed to be proud for your own country.
	You have to be proud for the nationalism of others' countries.
	It's great, isn't it?
	Calhoun Sloan says segregating the bunkers of the untervaxxed could be called the final solution to the COVID question.
	Maybe.
	Brandon Napier, bro, where did all these people get these Ukrainian flags?
	I live in a...
	That's a great question, actually.
	Where are they getting all of these from?
	I assume there's just...
	Whoever manufactures these things is making a killing right now.
	You can buy flags pretty easily.
	I know, but...
	Funny story.
	I once tried to buy my friend an ISIS flag as a comedy prank.
	As if, like, here's something that'll get you reported to MI5. So I went down to the local flab shop who said he was selling them.
	Don't know why he had ISIS flags.
	I asked for one.
	He said, we've sold out due to popular demand.
	I'd be a bit sus there, you know?
	Yeah, I'd be like, what?
	Who's buying all of these?
	Where are they from?
	Anyway.
	Robert Longshaw, honk honk for Ukraine, but don't forget, honk honk means Heil Hitler.
	I mean, there might be some bones to that.
	There might be something behind that.
	Will COVID survive Ukraine?
	That's not the question I'm asking.
	I'm asking, will Kiev and Kharkiv survive?
	COVID's dead for the next six months at least.
	These Ukrainian cities might end up looking like Grozny post-Second Chechenian War or Warsaw in 1945.
	Interesting.
	Do you want to do some of the honourable mentions?
	Sure.
	So, Student of History says, I feel the need to point out that not all Americans are sub-literate monks who are unable to read a map or speak in adult terminology.
	Then stop putting all of the illiterate monks on television, then!
	Of course.
	It is not most Americans' fault.
	In fact, the Republican side is increasingly coherent on all of these matters.
	I mean in the sense that no one I've seen from the Republican online side has said anything really stupid.
	Whereas we've got all these people, as you can see, with Kamala Harris and whatnot.
	Apparently we've got conservatives in the UK saying dumb stuff.
	You do put it very well.
	Sub-illiterate Hmong.
	That's a great term for it.
	That is Carmela.
	Call her Carmela.
	Sir Colun Sloan also says, I think he should remain Miles of Kabul, at least until he does something that makes him even more noteworthy.
	Well, the story of Miles of Kiev has not yet ended, so we'll see.
	We will hopefully see him when he comes back.
	Fingers crossed.
	Please, Miles, it'll be a great interview.
	And I also know he's got that big trip coming up, though, so I guess we'll see.
	Brian Tomlinson says, 1pm and a journey from the City of London to Heathrow during a tube strike.
	Thank you for giving me a little bit of entertainment during my drive.
	Yeah, apparently the tubes are all on strike and Sadiq Khan's buggered that up again, so...
	This is why Sadiq's praying for a nuke.
	Ended by suffering.
	Otherwise, we're out of time.
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