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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 11th of March 2022.
	I'm I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to talk about J.K. Rowling, discovering Vosh, and a lot of clips.
	Trump, putting out a message which is, do you miss me yet?
	Certainly do.
	And also, good luck finding out the truth about the Ukrainian bio-labs.
	Because the rabbit hole there seems to go as deep as you could ever want it to as well.
	No, we'll get into those.
	Firstly, things to mention on the website that are new.
	So first thing here, being a premium hangout number five, can free markets and morality coexist?
	So this is a debate that Josh and Thomas had yesterday about whether or not you can have morality and a free market.
	This is really good.
	I was listening to this live as it was going on and trolling in the chat.
	And, no, it's just really, really good.
	And Thomas makes some really good points, but I'm not going to spoil that, actually.
	But, no, it's really good.
	You're going to enjoy it if you're a premium member.
	If we go to the next one, we also have some more stuff, of course.
	So this is another article here, Ukraine Conflict Day 15.
	For people who don't know, John has been paying attention to the conflict almost autistically well and therefore has the knowledge to be able to write what is going on day by day and it's being updating, as you can find on the website there.
	That's free, so you don't have to pay for that one.
	I can't believe this has only been going on for 15 days.
	Totally 15.
	Feels like a lifetime already.
	Bring back COVID. Go forever.
	The next one, we have another article, this one being Kim Fox and the Ballad of Jussie Smoulier.
	So this is from Beau.
	Because Mr.
	Smoulier is up...
	What is he?
	He got sentenced now.
	So do go and check that out.
	Is this a republished one?
	I don't think so.
	I think this is...
	It says published on 2021.
	Published on 10.
	I don't know about that.
	Has it got an audio track or something?
	I think it's because of the relevance of him being again.
	Oh, right.
	Well, that's why we're showing it, right?
	So, if we go to the next one, we also have a new thing here.
	This is being Thomas' second Deep Think.
	Is Christianity responsible for its own self-destruction?
	Part 1.
	And, of course, an audio track for Silver and Gold Tier members as well.
	And the last thing to mention, of course, being the Dispatches of the Lotus Seeders.
	So, this is the daily news thing we have now on Getter, as you can see there.
	So, you can follow us there at Dispatches of the Lotus Seeders at Lotus Seeders News.
	Without further ado, let's hear about Vosh.
	I want to know what's going on.
	So controversial children's author, J.K. Rowling, the architect of the Harry Potter universe...
	Controversial child opinion, have a Vosch.
	...has discovered controversial child opinion, have a Vosch.
	And this has been rather amusing, and I thought we'd just have a laugh, because it's really, really funny how there's a narrative that's going mainstream here, and it's not one that I think Vosch would enjoy.
	But anyway, so the origin of the controversy...
	I mean, you can see this has already been reported in Newsweek.
	There are a bunch of other mainstream outlets that report it.
	Because when J.K. Rowling, the, you know, billionaire, internationally beloved author of Harry Potter, does something with her, like, 14 million Twitter followers, well, it becomes newsworthy.
	And so this has had write-ups.
	And weirdly, they're all strangely favourable to Vorsch.
	Because remember, J.K. Rowling, last year or the year before, decided to tweet out, I think that maybe the word woman has roots in biology and is connected to something essential about the human body.
	And everyone went, oh god, that's it.
	J.K. Rowling is a heretic and she needs to be cancelled.
	But of course, you can't cancel her because she's got the exclusive ownership rights to the Harry Potter franchise.
	Which is literally everywhere and is making a lot of people a lot of money.
	So instead people have to just essentially disavow her while still paying her, which is always quite amusing.
	But also the progressives are obsessed with Harry Potter.
	All their protest signs.
	Yes.
	She created a generation of people who now hate her because she's not progressive.
	And Vaush is very progressive, extremely progressive.
	We'll get into how progressive he is in a second, in fact.
	And so the coverage is surprisingly neutral on Vaush, which is shocking.
	But anyway, so this began when the Labour Party in Britain put out the following clip on International Women's Day.
	Today is International Women's Day, a time to celebrate the victories women have won in the fight for equality.
	Labour governments have been a key part of that fight, radically improving support for women in their work and family lives.
	We are the party of the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act, the Equality Act, the Minimum Wage and Sure Start.
	And almost 100 years since the first women Labour MPs were elected, today we have gender parity in our parliamentary party.
	So Labour will put women at the heart of our recovery.
	We'll support women in business and industry.
	We'll bring in stronger family-friendly rights.
	We'll enable equal pay comparisons across employers.
	And we'll crack down on workplace harassment.
	Labour will lift women up, not hold them back, because we are the party of equality.
	There we go.
	The communists telling on themselves there.
	Hi, we're the party of communism and all those things that have turned out really badly that you don't like, we did!
	Vote for us.
	So reasons not to vote Labour, basically.
	I also love it.
	She's like, we achieved parity in the parliamentary Labour party for people who don't speak, party speak.
	That means that there are an equal number of men and women MPs.
	The way they did that was through a women-only shortlist, in which they just said, yeah, women can't compete, so we'll get rid of all the male candidates and then maybe they'll get some.
	But I mean, listen to the framing there.
	We'll lift women up, not hold them back.
	Yeah, because women won't do anything of their own.
	Women will literally just sit there as far as the Labour Party is concerned and do nothing.
	Dawn Butler, on the same day, gave a speech in Parliament saying, we will get rid of the ladder women must climb to succeed in business and replace it with an escalator.
	Exactly.
	Stand there and do nothing and it ticks you up instead of climbing and doing work.
	They literally believe women do not have agency.
	And this is what makes it all the more amusing.
	They haven't even had a female party leader, whereas the Conservatives have passed their second female Prime Minister at this point.
	But, you know, famously Margaret Thatcher saying, I owe nothing to women's liberation.
	But anyway.
	So J.K. Rowling took slight issue with this.
	And I have to say, in many ways, I don't support J.K. Rowling's politics.
	But when it comes to...
	The definitions of English words, I'm afraid that noted author, J.K. Rowling, does have a point in that the word has to define something, and there is a proper formula for a definition, primarily that it can't be self-referential.
	She said this, this morning you told the British public, by the way, that woman was Parliamentary Labour Equalities Shadow Minister Annalise Dodds, right?
	So she's talking to the Labour Party writ large.
	But she said, this morning you told the British public that you literally can't define what a woman is.
	What's the plan to lift up random objects until you find one that rattles?
	She's right.
	She's absolutely right.
	If you can't define a woman, you can't possibly advocate for women's rights, can you?
	It just doesn't need any further interrogation, really.
	But anyway, so I refer us back to an article that I wrote probably about two years ago now nearly.
	A year and a half ago.
	Called The Case Against the Intersectional Definition of Woman.
	In which I explain why there is a genuine need to have an actual definition of a thing before you can even talk about it.
	And the intersectional definition...
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	Sounds simple.
	Yeah, well, it sounds like the sort of thing a child might understand.
	But the Labour Party, as J.K. Rowling is pointing out, does not understand this.
	And so, essentially, it's just clearly not sufficient to simply not define a thing and essentially obliterate the definition of woman to be able to include things that are male.
	So the traditional definition, adult, human, female, or the intersectional definition, anything that identifies as one, means, A, you don't have a definition, this is a recursive loop, and you've included males in the definition of woman.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, so, she gets some pushback of this on Twitter, like this Wanda Maximoff saying, do you really want your legacy to be this?
	Are you going to die on this hill?
	And she replies, yes, sweetheart, I'm staying right here on this hill, defending the rights of women and girls to talk about themselves, their bodies, and their lives in any way they damn well please.
	You worry about your legacy, I'll worry about mine.
	Now, again, I don't support J.K. Rowling's insufferable feminism.
	But I support this 100%.
	This is totally right.
	She is totally right to say, well, yes, women should be able to define what a woman is and then advocate on that behalf.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	Men should be able to do the same thing.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	But the thing is, of course, the definition of man just got completely liquidated within seconds because no one cares.
	There's only women who care about their own gender, apparently, and their rights based on it.
	But to be fair, it's probably more pertinent to women because, of course, you don't really want women in your prisons who own penises and things like that, as we've covered before.
	So anyway, at this point, noted feminist activist and communist streamer Vorsch decided to chip in.
	With a surprisingly hilarious take, I've got to be honest.
	All JK Rowling had to do was shut the F up and she could have been almost uncritically beloved for like a century.
	Women be quieter and start apologising challenge.
	I can see why you enjoy this.
	I might print that out and put it up on my wall at home, possibly in the kitchen.
	But the thing is, I'm not a feminist.
	I'm pro-patriarchy.
	Vorsch is a self-avowed feminist, and so this went down like an absolute lead balloon.
	And somehow JK Rowling found this tweet and decided to make an issue out of it.
	As you can see, she's posted a screenshot of the tweet and said, What you and your ilk fail to appreciate is how tediously familiar I find your tactics.
	I had a violent ex-husband who used to tell me life would be great if only I'd comply, but you're making the same mistake he did.
	Women like me can't be bullied out of resistance.
	It's also a good political point there.
	It is.
	If there is something wrong, you could just shut up and the party won't bother you.
	You could be beloved in this case.
	But no, you could stand up and actually do the right thing and solve the injustice.
	If you have, as a woman, an objection to progressive politics...
	A man, who is also a progressive, will come along and literally be misogynistic to you, tell you to shut up and just continue taking it, and dismiss you entirely.
	Like a good little progressive.
	Like a good little progressive.
	Now, I mean, just saying, bad optics for the progressive movement, I would say, and managing to lose...
	Hang on, no, because they're for women, right?
	Are women, who think women are women, are they real women?
	They're not real progressives.
	No, but then are they even real women?
	Are they kind of traitor women to the cause?
	In a way, yeah.
	In the saying that you ain't black, you know, you have the wrong opinion, therefore you're not actually black.
	If you have the wrong opinion, are you really a woman?
	Ah, yeah, good point, because J.K. Rowling is- He's not a political woman.
	Right, so as far as Vaush is concerned, J.K. Rowling is losing her woman card here.
	So I'm not being misogynistic to you, because you're not a woman.
	You're not politically women.
	And in fact, that's exactly how he characterises her in his follow-up tweet to this.
	So she says that, which I think, you know, from a feminist perspective, seems perfectly rational.
	And just before we go on, I mean, the feminist movement losing J.K. Rowling is a massive L, I just want to point out.
	Like, if you're a feminist, you're a political activist, and you lose the Harry Potter author, then you've made a mistake.
	Like, you've really screwed the pooch there.
	But anyway, so Vorsha has a reply to this, and this is amazing.
	I love this so much.
	He goes, listen, Joanne.
	Sorry, are we on first name terms?
	It's Miss Rowling to you, I think.
	You don't get to play the victim card when you're advocating for taking away women's rights here.
	How do you know she is?
	Which women?
	Can you define what a woman is?
	The answer is no, you can't.
	You don't have a definition of woman, but she does.
	And so, from her perspective, and from the perspective of a, say, neutral observer such as myself, no, you're the one who's advocating to take away women's rights by obliterating them and making them the rights of males as well.
	Which women, though?
	The people who are biologically a woman or politically a woman?
	Well, he's looking at it as in the trans women, right?
	They're the rights that they're losing, assuming you believe that trans women are women, which J.K. Rowling obviously doesn't.
	But how do you even assert that if you can't define what a woman is?
	So, essentially, trans...
	On an ideological basis.
	Yeah.
	Who's black?
	Well, the people who agree with Joe Biden.
	Well, that's the first layer.
	That's the sort of semantic layer.
	And then you get to the political layer that you're referring to.
	And it's like, okay, well now we have these categories of political agents, and J.K. Rowling has been yeeted out of the category of politically woman by this man because other male-bodied people have come in to occupy that space of privilege.
	So, essentially, Vaush would have to do this to every other woman who objected to that as well.
	So essentially, in principle, there are no more women in the political category of women from Vaush's perspective, if you carry on with that logic down the line.
	Because he says here, trans women are raped and killed in men's facilities, and you want to keep them there because of your trauma.
	Quit making your feelings other people's oppression.
	God, the irony of that.
	Yeah.
	Quit making your feelings other people's oppression.
	Oh my god.
	Again, I might print that and frame it.
	Like, shockingly take the base takes from Vorsch.
	Then the first part of that, like, you just want them to be raped in male facilities.
	Did you forget?
	No, he's never even learned about the female prisons, has he?
	He has no idea.
	He has no idea about the female prisons.
	What was that woman's name?
	Sarah something?
	Which one, sorry?
	Well, yeah, which one?
	The trans woman...
	I mean, there was Karen White.
	That was it, Karen White, the famous...
	Definitely a Karen.
	Yes.
	Not a Bob.
	And a rapist.
	Yes.
	A male-bodied female woman.
	A danger to children, women, and animals, as described by the judge.
	And she is in a woman's prison, Worsh.
	Anything to worry about?
	No, but that's the point, isn't it?
	Women have been yeeted out of the category of woman, and Karen White has been put into the political category of woman.
	Karen White is politically a woman.
	Politically, she's the victim here, and J.K. Rowling is not the victim here, and neither are the other women the victims here.
	Isn't this very progressive?
	And so, yeah, this is just...
	I love the way that this is going, and the ideological stew that they've found themselves in now.
	It's just like...
	No one can identify what they are at this point.
	So J.K. Rowling and the TERFs being like, well, look, we're saying woman is adult human female and we're not moving from that.
	That's a good position to take, frankly.
	And so to encourage the pile-on that he was trying to get on J.K. Rowling, he retweeted that tweet or her tweet with this.
	Complaining about how victimized you are when you're a billionaire being mocked for opposing civil rights is the height of cry-bullying.
	Now that's fascinating, right?
	So, she's not saying she's victimised, by the way.
	I suppose she was when she had a violent ex-husband.
	But she was married to him before she was a billionaire.
	So she wasn't a billionaire when she was being victimised.
	So, I mean, I don't see how that stands up.
	Doesn't seem very feminist to be like, yeah, you're a billionaire, therefore you're no longer a woman.
	Like, you're out of the political category of woman, and now you're in the political category of billionaire.
	And Vorsch has got a bunch of assumptions about the political category of billionaire, which is, you're oppressing people.
	There's no ethical consumption under capitalism.
	Therefore, if you became a billionaire under capitalism, you're an oppressor.
	Unlike me and Hassan, who aren't oppressors, and who are also male, men, incidentally, but are speaking white nicely on defense of women, that doesn't include biological women.
	It's amazing.
	But the thing is about this logic as well.
	So, if someone would say the N-word to Oprah Winfrey, she's a billionaire.
	Would that matter?
	She's in the oppressor category.
	I think the progressive stack would excuse it, the billionaire part.
	I think they'd have to.
	And therefore the race part would be more...
	But assuming that there was a more oppressed person than a black person, it would have to be the billionaire aspect of Oprah Winfrey meant that she wouldn't be able to complain about people saying the N-word.
	I don't think they'd ever accept this.
	No, but it's interesting where it goes, isn't it?
	Anyway, so...
	Basically, Vorsch has got a new rule, which is it's okay to be misogynistic to women if they're rich, which is interesting.
	And so Rowling retweets a reply to Vorsch saying this, Trans people aren't a monolith and there's plenty of us do not define our rights by forcing others to validate fiction like gender identity.
	Shockingly based.
	My rights are not women's rights.
	I do not want my rights to erode theirs.
	Shouldn't you be busy advocating the decriminalisation of child porn?
	JK Rowling retweets this to millions of people.
	Like, we know you have a day job.
	Shouldn't you get back to it?
	Speaking of Vausha's day job, you might be wondering, hang on a second, that went from 0 to 100 rather swiftly.
	What's she talking about?
	What's Sophie XY talking about there?
	And, well, we have a...
	You can find lots of these clip compilations going around Twitter.
	Let's see what she means.
	Okay, so if you were to...
	So, you know, there's pedophiles, right, who buy child pornography?
	Would you say they should not be held responsible for doing that?
	Yes.
	Really?
	Even though they're directly supporting child rape?
	Yeah, I think it's hypocritical.
	Because I bought my computer, and the silicon in it was farmed in Africa by slaves.
	If I can do that, and that's legal, and no one's going to call me out on my shit, then yeah, I have to be consistent in that respect.
	Do you believe porn which includes bestiality increases the prevalence of zoophiles?
	Possibly, but I still don't care.
	I still think that, like, zoophile porn, like, drawn stuff, it's shitty 100% legal.
	In fact, and this is going to be a real hot take, I have yet to hear a convincing moral or legal argument as to why possession of child pornography should be illegal.
	Actual child pornography.
	How's that for a hot fucking take?
	That there are far more people caught up in the slave labor and exploitation of the developing world than there are children we rape.
	So if anything, owning child pornography is probably a hell of a lot more ethical than wearing the t-shirts on your backs right now.
	What if CP is free?
	If you're not paying for child pornography, then there is no argument in favor of morally condemning people who get it.
	Okay?
	It is possible.
	Please, please, right now, uncuck your dumb shit, lip cut fucking SJW brains and recognize this empirically correct fact that I am about to spit.
	It is possible for an adult and a child to have a sexual relationship and for it to have positive outcomes on the child as well.
	That is possible.
	We've all jerked it to Lolly at some point or another.
	We have at some point in our lives been going fucking crazy on some hentai site, and we've been fucking stroking as hard and fast as we can, and then after we nut, we go back, look over our history chat, and we go like, oh, jeez.
	Oh, boy.
	Some of these girls looked pretty young.
	Okay?
	I don't give a fuck.
	All I'm saying is, I think he probably has something on his hard drive that is illegal.
	Why are you showing me this president of Nambla?
	No!
	Well, because this is what J.K. Rowling has recently become aware of.
	She liked the tweet posted, as the quartering here points out.
	This is J.K. Rowling's likes, and someone sent her the clip, and she liked that.
	So she's probably watched Vorsch endorsing, or not even just endorsing, saying there's no moral argument against it.
	Did you buy a KitKat?
	Basically a pedo.
	The t-shirt on your back is less ethical than the child porn on his hard drive.
	This is where we are.
	J.K. Rowling has mainstreamed this discourse.
	And so, people started showing Rowling...
	There are a lot of members of Parliament that follow her as well.
	Good.
	Just to keep that in mind.
	Good.
	People started showing Rowling other video compilations of Fortune's greatest hits, such as his fetish for horse cock.
	He seems to talk about this a lot in his Discord.
	A lot.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Just saying maybe there's something wrong with this guy.
	But anyway, the check marks then begin discovering Vorsch, because of course, why wouldn't they?
	Begins with, well hang on a second, this is misogynistic.
	And it ends with the next one.
	Oh, no, we're missing one.
	So there's an article that we haven't included here, unfortunately.
	But the title of the article is Racist Anti-Semitic Child Porn Advocate and Sexual Harasser Tells Beloved Children's Author J.K. Rowling to Shut the F Up.
	I mean, that's a headline.
	If I didn't know what the hell was going on, that's a headline I'd click to try and find out what's going on.
	It doesn't seem to be entirely wrong, either, because there are loads of other clips that I haven't got the time to go through.
	Is there a link at the bottom of this?
	Or maybe I just put the wrong one in.
	Yeah, there we go.
	Sorry, yeah, that's the...
	You can just bring that up.
	Again, Mandy is a verified checkmark on Twitter, and this is what's going around.
	There were loads of other ones as well, because these clips started trending of Vorsch saying other things like trans people are subhuman and stuff like this.
	Don't know why he was saying that, but, you know.
	His opinions are unmappable to reality.
	Thank God.
	Moving on.
	These clips started trending on Twitter, and as you can see here, this is Vorsch tweeting out the...
	Well, I mean, that is technically what happened.
	And you can see Vorsch here going, well, look, I was raising $300,000 for Ukrainian refugees.
	I did nothing wrong.
	It's like, okay, yeah, sure.
	Maybe you did.
	I'm sure that's not going to go to the Nazis or anything.
	As we covered on Wednesday, there does seem to be a remarkable Nazi problem.
	Let's assume for steel man's sake, no, it's all going to the Red Cross.
	Hey, let's assume, right?
	Let's assume that it's not going to the Azov Battalion like American money is going to the Azov Battalion.
	But the thing is, he's...
	It doesn't really matter?
	Like, even if it's all going to the Red Cross, this is not why you ended up trending.
	You ended up trending because people, well, discovered who you were and the clips of the things you've said.
	No, he started trending for being a misogynist.
	And then, he started trending because he was telling J.K. Rowling to shut the F up, which is stunning and brave, and deeply patriarchal.
	But I'm not a feminist, so what difference does it make to me?
	But anyway, the point is, let's assume it's not going to go to the Nazis, but the thing is, he kind of has a history of doing this kind of thing, where he sends money to really bad people.
	He raised $286,000 for Hamas.
	Literal terrorist group Hamas.
	I've heard his opinion on Israel.
	Yeah.
	I don't think he's too upset about that.
	Well, he's one of those people who thinks it should be glassed.
	Yeah.
	So do Hamas.
	Yeah.
	So do Hamas.
	And which is why the money went to a charity called the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund in Gaza, an organisation that describes itself as creating centres for healthcare for children with cancer that is currently governed by, of course, Hamas.
	So he sent them lots of money.
	I mean, it might be illegal to do that, but who knows?
	But anyway, so let's go to the next one.
	Let's just carry on to finish this one off quickly.
	someone decided well look the real the real title description that Twitter should have given this is content creator who thinks that P-files should have access to child porn criticizes author JK Rowling for objecting to labor MPs refusing to say what a woman is there fixed it that's correct And this got written up by other news outlets, such as the Postmillennial...
	Can you see the title down there?
	J.K. Rowling slammed suspected paedophile influencer Vosh for telling her to shut the...
	Okay.
	I think Vosh's war on J.K. Rowling is not going as well as he thought it would do, and maybe he wants to be a bit more quiet.
	No.
	This is also a point about just, let's say, rightist media.
	I do find it actually reflects reality more accurately at this point than anyone else.
	I mean, from his own words, if there's anyone we can call a suspected paedophile influencer, I think it's Vosh at this point.
	Let's move on.
	I just really want to go.
	It was just so funny watching it go on in real time.
	It's like, wow, this was a giant L voice and you don't even realise it.
	Let's go to Trump.
	So Trump has decided to tweet out a breaking statement.
	This was a couple of days ago, but as you can see, we'll get this up first because it's the title of the segment as well.
	Breaking news!
	Highest gas prices in history.
	Do you miss me yet?
	You know, I've seen loads of clips of people saying, bring back the orange man, I don't care what he tweets.
	Just normies.
	Who would ever care?
	Normie people who are not involved in the sort of political thing.
	Just people being like, look, I just don't like how I'm going to pay this much.
	I know you guys are eternally on Twitter.com, but I'm not.
	I have a job.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, that's never a concern for anyone normal.
	It was only a concern for other people.
	And you can see here, if we go to the next one, there's a statement from him talking about the fact that he was on a podcast and this podcast was just straight up deleted.
	Huh.
	Thank you.
	This was him, invited by a group of people, who decided they would interview the ex-president, so he's a guest, like Alex Jones on Joe Rogan, and YouTube have now changed their terms to be that you cannot even talk to someone from a different place.
	This is a change of the terms.
	He used to be that Alex Jones is banned, but Joe Rogan can have him on and talk to him, because it's Joe Rogan's show, and he's just, you know, Alex is there.
	He's a guest, yeah.
	He's a guest.
	That's not even allowed now.
	Right.
	At least, if we are to take this for what it is.
	They deleted it for us, they would say, election...
	fill in the blank.
	I'm not going to say it.
	And if we move forward, we can see the responses.
	So this is a response from one of the guys who did it.
	This country has fallen apart.
	Our interview has been deleted after being one of the most popular podcast videos in the history of our time.
	I'm out.
	Which, I imagine, yeah, they had a million and a half subscribers and this had already gotten three million views by the time I was watching it.
	I was halfway through.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Came back this morning, turned it on, gone.
	And I bet YouTube didn't give any explanation for this at all.
	Well, they did send him a link.
	I don't know if I have it here, but they sent him a thing, or at least they sent it like, oh, you've had channel strike reasons.
	Election blank information.
	Right.
	If we move forward, we go to the next one.
	They also have the fact that he speaks in here about the weakness on Afghanistan.
	Because I'll try and remember what I can from this interview now.
	You better not actually play the clip.
	No, I can't play this.
	Just don't avert your eyes, ladies and children.
	So in here, he says that if he was...
	Yeah.
	So with him in office, he says there would have been none of this stuff with Ukraine.
	And he lays it out.
	And he actually lays it out incredibly in detail for Trump as well.
	He just says, look, I gave them orders, which is take every single nut, bolt, everything.
	He said, what about the hangers, sir?
	He was like, take the hangers back.
	And even the guy interviewed him, what do you mean take the hangers back?
	He was like, literally undo them, take it back, everything.
	I don't want a thing being left there.
	Then get the civilians out, then the soldiers.
	Like that was what he told them to do.
	That was his plan.
	Oh, that's sensible.
	Yeah.
	Made all kinds of sense.
	Yeah.
	And, no, that is what happened.
	They took out the soldiers first, left all the equipment and the civilians, and then, well, we all remember what happened.
	13 people died.
	Yeah.
	And he lays out, well, this is what led to the United States internationally be seen as weak.
	Yep.
	Cannot even manage your own evacuation from Afghanistan without it being an absolute S-show.
	As if there was no great pressure either.
	That was the thing.
	There was no...
	It's not like the soldiers were losing a war.
	Like, the Taliban weren't, like, you know, overcoming battalions of American soldiers and storming the gates...
	No.
	There's no need for it.
	As he says himself, I spoke to Abdul.
	It was great.
	The leader of the Taliban.
	And he agreed with Abdul.
	He said to him, he says, don't you kill any American soldiers?
	Absolutely none.
	I don't want any more coming home.
	Otherwise, we're going to hit you harder than you ever felt it.
	And 18 months passed with not an American soldier being killed.
	Zero Americans were killed.
	I mean, he did drop a Moab on them, so...
	But to tell them, you'll be hit harder than you ever have if you do anything bad.
	And so 18 months went by, and a quote from him, no Americans were killed in 18 months, not in Democrat-run cities like Detroit and Chicago, but in Afghanistan, no Americans were killed in 18 months!
	Well yeah, they definitely can't say that in Detroit and Chicago.
	For those 18 months, it was much safer to be in Afghanistan than it was to be in Detroit or Chicago.
	Demonstratively true.
	And then he says, well, look, as a result of that, Putin has done what he's done.
	And if I was there and we organized that evacuation properly, Putin wouldn't have done what he's done.
	That's correct.
	And he says, look, I've called Putin many times when he was in office and said, don't do it.
	If you do it, we will come at you and we will go after you.
	And then while he's out, the evacuation goes terribly.
	The American...
	Empire, you know, the American world looks weak as hell.
	Well, it's receding.
	Like, it's actively losing territory at this point.
	Yeah, there was also the point he made there on that front of energy independence or energy dominance, as he called it.
	Because he was like, look, we were dominant in energy.
	And then Biden screwed it up.
	What I love about this as well is it's completely destroyed the Trump-Russia narrative.
	It's like, what, Putin waited until his puppet was out of office to invade?
	Stupidest thing in the world.
	You know, if anyone's a puppet at this point, doesn't it look like Joe Biden?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, who also left all the helicopters for the Taliban?
	Yeah.
	Who are now, as he says, the biggest armed dealers on planet Earth for the last year, because they've been making some great deals.
	If we go to the next one, we can see some of this that he speaks about, of course, the fact that he also called General Millie an effing idiot, because Millie was like, oh, we'll just leave the $80 million helicopters there.
	And Trump was like, why don't we just put a couple of thousand pounds worth of fuel in them and fly them back to the United States?
	Yeah.
	No, sir, it's cheaper to leave them there.
	You're an idiot.
	Okay, why not blow them up then?
	Like, you want to spike them in some way.
	All kinds of stupid.
	If you go to the next one, Millie, of course, is still around, doing what he's doing, and is here, you can see a Daily Mail article, saying that he's helped implementing 6 million mound hours on diversity and ideological indoctrination.
	Well, I mean, Millie, for anyone who doesn't remember, was the guy who was like, I'm really concerned about white rage.
	I want to know about white rage.
	I want to check my privilege.
	I want to know how January 6th happened.
	Yeah.
	Okay, Millie.
	Six million man-hours wasted.
	It would have been...
	There's also apparently, as you can see, $500,000 were spent on this, just for the materials.
	Now is the time, is it, Millie?
	Now is the time.
	The writing of the materials.
	15 days into the invasion of Ukraine, and now is the time for diversity training.
	Spend half a million on that.
	I mean, literally, if you burnt the money, it would have been more useful.
	If you go to the next one, we can see that the full interview is up on these guys' website.
	Of course, we can't play any clips because God knows what will happen.
	But there you are.
	That's fullsend.com.
	So if you want to go and check out what they are up to, which is not on YouTube, of course.
	And then I thought we'd go through some of the other things that may make you miss Trump, which is the White House apparently does because they're campaigning for him.
	Oh.
	Which is weird.
	So we go to the next one.
	You can see here the White House decided to tweet this out.
	U.S. natural gas production is at a record high.
	In fact, the U.S. was a net exporter of petroleum and petroleum products in each of the last two years and will be a net exporter of natural gas for years to come.
	And then they have a graph.
	That's a very interesting graph.
	I happen to notice that it stops at 2020...
	The year Trump left office.
	2016, there's a huge spike in exports, a continual drop in imports, and you get energy independence or energy dominance.
	And you get all the way to 2020, where it's peak.
	And then, well, we know what happened.
	Because this graph only goes to 2020.
	If we go to the next one, I think we can see a more modern graph.
	As you can see, it shows all the years.
	Dramatic drop from Biden.
	Yeah, as you can see, Biden gets to office, a little red line there.
	I don't know if you can click on it to make a bigger job.
	Incidentally, nearly back to 2015-2016 levels before Trump came in.
	So you can see exactly what the intention here is.
	But also the fall-off is immediate.
	Yeah.
	There is no way this is not him.
	Day one, he killed the Keystone XL pipeline development and various other things.
	It's all being done under the auspices of environmentalism.
	It's environmental to get the Venezuelans to produce American oil, apparently.
	If we go forward, we can go to the next one, of course, which is the White House continues to campaign for Donald Trump by tweeting out, when we have electric cars powered by clean energy, we will never have to worry about gas prices again, and autocrats like Putin won't be able to use fossil fuels as weapons against other nations.
	Again, the narrative of, just buy an electric car, bro.
	What are you moaning about the gas price for?
	Where do they think the electricity comes from?
	There's that as well.
	Cold power plants!
	They're making the assumption that it'll all come from renewables.
	But even then, in the middle of the fact that you've pissed off your citizenry to a degree that gas is almost $7 a barrel.
	Sorry, $7 a gallon.
	And then you're screeching, just buy an electric car.
	I mean, you saw how I went down, covered it the other day.
	They're continuing this.
	This is still the line.
	If I could buy an electric car, I probably wouldn't be complaining about the fuel price.
	You can't afford the gasoline?
	Why don't you just buy a $60,000 electric car, loser?
	But they don't...
	I mean, they must know that renewable energy is not going to be able to power, like, millions of cars that the Americans drive around every day.
	It's just...
	it's delusional.
	No, it's delusional.
	I mean, if they were like, yeah, so what we're going to do is have an electric car subsidy scheme and start pumping out nuclear power plants, I'd be like, okay, well, at least they've got a plan.
	You've got some green energy there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You've got something, but they've got nothing.
	If we go to the next one, I just wanted to demonstrate, of course, the other reasons that make people miss Trump.
	As he said, the gas prices.
	I don't know if you can click on that for the meme, which is a good meme.
	My girl asked me to take her somewhere expensive, and he's gone to the gas pump.
	Jesus Christ, look at that.
	Seven dollars.
	$7 a barrel, whatever that is.
	Trump did predict that as well.
	Yeah.
	For British people, this is £1.17 per litre.
	And if you're British, you may be frothing in the mouth of the idea of it going back down to that much, because we'll talk about that in a minute.
	And there's not the bee also pointing out that as you shell out your cash per gas, remember that said cash is also worth 8% less than last year as America now hits a 40-year inflation record.
	That transitory inflation.
	That is mad.
	It's now at 40, sorry, 7, sorry, 8%.
	I told everyone Donald Trump's presidency will be like a glowing golden era.
	I told everyone.
	You were right.
	There's also the fact of just, keep in mind, let's say the Afghanistan withdrawal went beautifully, and then Russia had had a change of heart, and in 2017, or 2018, I would just join NATO, and And then there was no conflict in the world.
	The inflation would still be 8% if Biden was in office and had done the things he's done.
	And all the spending from Trump as well, I must admit.
	Which is just, yeah.
	Well, dumping like half of the dollars that have ever been printed in your first year of office.
	Print the money.
	What do you expect's going to happen?
	Yep, there's that.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see more memes about this.
	I saw this one from Spoon, a good friend of the show.
	As you can see here, Fed prints 80% of all dollars in existence in 2020.
	Causes record inflation.
	Damn it, Russia.
	How could you do this?
	Very sad.
	Yeah.
	And then we'll go to UK petrol prices, because I want the Americans to know how bad it is here as well.
	And as you can see, this is someplace that's selling it at £1.84 a litre for regular.
	So that's what, $4?
	Something like that?
	No, no, no, no.
	Per gallon, remember.
	Oh.
	It's $11 per gallon.
	Oh, Jesus Christ.
	The Americans are spending $7 a gallon and losing their minds.
	They're spending $11.
	It's not good.
	It's really not good.
	Right, okay.
	Let's go to the next one, so we can see the fact that people were also pointing out that...
	Oh.
	Hey, Greta.
	How you doing?
	Oh, Jesus Christ.
	How's all your campaigning been doing that's now hurting us immensely?
	Oh, no, you found a new thing to jump on a bandwagon for.
	Nice hat she's wearing.
	Look at that.
	Yes, transgender hat.
	Yeah, the trans hat.
	Fridays for Future, I Stand With Ukraine.
	Literal bandwagon jumper.
	Costs her nothing to do this.
	It's amazing.
	She probably makes money out of it, in fact.
	She's an adult.
	She'll never be held accountable now.
	Nope.
	Never, ever, ever.
	Thanks for making us all poor.
	Thanks for that.
	I know she's put on weight as well.
	She looks like she's been through one of those FaceApp things that make you fat.
	Yeah, she's an adult.
	She can take these kind of things now.
	But also, the fact that we now have no serious energy policies anywhere in the West, thanks to her activism and people like her, who have just played...
	To be fair, though, it's not really fair to...
	Blame her.
	They all wanted it.
	She's just a representation.
	She's a representation, I guess.
	But she's not...
	She is a figurehead of a movement.
	And that movement meant that we don't have a 100-year energy policy.
	Where we sat down and thought, okay, 100 years, we're going to need nuclear.
	Okay, we'll pay for that and we'll make it all in place.
	Instead, we had stupid things like Theresa May, who went, oh, we live in an on-demand world now, so all these gas reserves we got, we'll just sell those for a good price, and then we'll just buy them back when we need them, right?
	We're on an on-demand world!
	She actually did this, apparently.
	And then, yeah, everything happened, and now we have to buy it back.
	It's going great.
	It just annoys me hearing it.
	Going back to this Russian gas.
	Total lack of prudence.
	Going to a Moscow-based, funded organisation here, Pravda, the biggest newspaper in Moscow, they decided to go with this headline, which is Gazprom supplies gas to Europe, to Ukraine, as usual, throughout all of this.
	This is interesting.
	I mean, it's winter.
	No, but this is during the war.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is five days into the war.
	Gazprom was still sending gas at an increased rate than usual to Europe.
	Europeans had asked for more.
	So the leader said that the EU had added the application supplies, saying they needed it grown to 109 million cubic meters, which was an increase of like 10 million cubic meters for whatever they had.
	And then if we go to the next one, we can see a map of the pipelines.
	And we have a friend who is married to a Slovakian and whose brother works in the gas industry in Slovakia on the pipes for an independent contractor.
	And he told us, so we're taking his word for this, apparently it has now doubled that particular pipeline there, transgas, coming from Russia.
	They doubled the input because they're desperately trying to buy as much as possible.
	That's on the 9th of March.
	Europe is basically powered and heated by Russian gas, as I understand it.
	If we move forward, we can see the fact that the Germans have also decided to reject all calls to ban Russian oil and gas.
	Because there's literally no way they can do it without their civilization shutting down yet.
	The rest of us, as you can see with Biden and all the rest of us trying to do these things, the Germans and the EU are just like...
	Not doing that.
	And if we move forward, we can see Trump saying that he warned about this, and he even sent Merkel a little white flag of surrender after she did the gas deal with Putin.
	This is beautiful.
	Glorious golden era.
	I love how he writes this as well.
	He said, I preached loud and clear to Angela Merkel.
	You are making a tremendous deal by making this deal with Russia, with Nord Stream 2.
	And until I came along, no one knew what Nord Stream 2 was.
	It's just like nobody in the room knew.
	He walks into a deal being struck between the Germans and the Russians.
	No one has any idea what's going on.
	I do.
	I mean, he was right.
	No, but he says that no one knows what...
	I was telling her loud and clear and publicly, and in fact, I sent her something as a little gift.
	It was a little white flag.
	It was a flag of surrender.
	She said, what is this?
	I said, that's the flag of surrender.
	Could you imagine the text?
	She's just like, why did you send me a French flag?
	It's because you're looking French, lady.
	So, there's that as well, which is beautiful.
	Do you miss him yet?
	Because I do.
	It's wonderful.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see apparently the EU are aiming to double the amount of gas in storage by next winter.
	What, the amount of Russian gas in storage?
	As said, apparently the input from Russia is being doubled, the Slovakian side of this.
	We're going to bite up while we can before the Americans cut the supply line.
	They're also rejecting to ever cut off Russian gas in Germany, so you can guess who this is all coming from.
	They are closing down the nuclear power plants, though.
	Ukraine, we stand with you, but also we're paying for the Russian invasion.
	Right.
	Unbelievable.
	We can also see that Germany is increasing, this is a graph of what they have done over the last few years, so increasing their renewables and gas, but also halving their nuclear production, because nuclear bad.
	Ideological nonsense.
	Yeah.
	There's nothing wrong with nuclear power.
	Oh, God.
	Anyway, Karen.
	Because the next one, we can see this in the UK as well.
	Because there's a nice little graph here.
	Oh, I hate this so much.
	Yeah, I've shown you this before, but I think people should know.
	So this is costs in your energy bill, and there are graphs here.
	I don't know if you can click on that one there.
	As you can see, breaks it all down.
	What's that red one?
	25% of the cost of electricity goes to environmental and social obligations.
	That's right.
	It's a government tax.
	A quarter of your energy bill is a government tax for ideological reasons.
	I spoke to a friend of mine who works in the energy industry to fact check this.
	And he said, basically, yes.
	There is a breakdown that is further.
	So part of it, the social obligations part, is like subsidizing old ladies who need electricity to keep warm and all that.
	The environmental bit.
	The environmental bit is presumably the majority.
	As you can see, it has increased over time as well.
	Tremendously.
	And I can imagine this is also coming to everyone else in the world, not just us.
	Thanks, Carrie Johnson.
	Thanks, Greta.
	Again.
	We'll go to the next one.
	I thought I'd end this off with an advert from Trump advertising his position on all of this, which is, again, do you miss me yet?
	And let's play.
	Elections matter.
	And when folks vote, they order what they want.
	And in this case, they got what they asked for.
	U.S. crude oil prices hitting a new seven-year high.
	The wave of smash-and-grab robberies in California and nationwide.
	They got what they asked for.
	We just have this jobs report.
	I see 194,000.
	That is real low.
	A stark reminder of what defeat really looks like.
	They got what they asked for.
	The Russians are moving towards decapitating.
	Shortages will unfortunately be with us again.
	This would not happen if President Trump was in the White House.
	Brutal.
	Yeah, I mean, I know it is a Trump advert, and American adverts for politics are amazing.
	But it's also totally accurate.
	It's so true.
	I mean, that's what's powerful about them.
	And the Democrat ones are just not.
	I thought I'd also end this off with, just to mention something close to my heart, which is space travel, and the fact that, well, everything in the US government turns to crap as soon as the Dems are in.
	Again, NASA has had this problem.
	A bit.
	It's gotten worse, as you can see here.
	NASA pronouns.
	Make sure the aliens correct our pronouns.
	We're committed to supporting the right of every employee at NASA to be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns.
	Click here to read our statement from our Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity in regards to recent gender pronouns IT project.
	They say in here, we're also supported by NASA's leadership so that employees can share their gender identities and show allyship with the LGBTQIA plus community.
	What about the map community, NASA? Meanwhile, let's go look at someone who is involved in actual space travel, unlike NASA. You see?
	Someone who doesn't have his pronouns in his bio and is actually getting into space.
	Elon Musk's another 8048 Starlink's just reached orbit.
	A man who Joe Biden hates and will refuse to say the word Tesla as often as possible.
	Meanwhile, Donald Trump was shaking his hand being like, you're one of our geniuses when you take care of you.
	People who can get stuff done.
	Do you miss him yet?
	Oh my god.
	I won't even go into it.
	I won't even go into it.
	Let's move on to the biolabs then.
	Yeah, okay.
	This is what I wanted to talk about.
	Yeah.
	So, biolabs.
	Biolabs in Ukraine.
	Why would there be biolabs in Ukraine?
	I don't know.
	Big conspiracy.
	Big conspiracy theory.
	Are they Ukrainian biolabs?
	We'll see.
	I thought I'd start this off, because people might be seeing this as a Pravda moment, and I thought I'd start off with a headline from Pravda, like the literal Pravda in Moscow still.
	It's Czech, and this is funny if nothing else.
	Quote from the foreign minister for Russia.
	We are not going to attack other countries.
	We also didn't attack Ukraine.
	It's a bold move.
	And we laugh at this.
	This is hilarious.
	So it sounds like the Iraqi information minister.
	Yes, nothing to see.
	And we think, well, as Tucker will say, our elective officials will never do something so brazenly stupid.
	So obviously.
	For no discernible gain as well.
	We all have the publicly available information on Ukraine, for example.
	Let's move forward.
	Go to DuckDuckGo to start this off.
	DuckDuckGo's CEO, so I'd tweet this out.
	Like so many others, I am sickened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create.
	Hashtag I stand with Ukraine.
	Who is not upset about all these things.
	So what did he do at DuckDuckGo?
	At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that downrank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
	What is the point of being DuckDuckGo, then?
	A search engine that prides itself on not being Google.
	Well, I actually saw one of his responses to this, and he was like, ah, we pride ourselves on not keeping your data, not on not manipulating the search results.
	Oh, great.
	Yeah.
	I was like, wow, you really got me there.
	Thank God you're not selling my data like I care about that, really, because let's be honest, what can I do about it?
	Yeah, but also the kind of people who use DuckDuckGo, the user base, the kind of people that are concerned, you also manipulate the results.
	That's the only reason I use DuckDuckGo, is to get search results I can't find on Google.
	I literally have DuckDuckGo set, or I will until the end of this podcast.
	You look up a thing, and you don't find anything on Google.
	Exactly, and then I use two different browsers for different things to make sure that I'm using different search engines as convenience.
	But yeah, I've got DuckDuckGo as my main one because I can get results that Google doesn't show me.
	That was the point.
	So keep in mind, how is all this going to go?
	Let's go to the next one so we can see his justification here in which he talks about all this and he says...
	We won't be manipulated because we don't know anything about you and therefore don't have the capacity to alter individual results based on your search history.
	You also don't have to worry about a filter bubble on DuckDuckGo search, which is the manipulation of your search results based on a personal profile about you.
	We'll just do it instead based on our political views.
	Yeah, that's...
	Okay, why did you even put this in?
	How is that better?
	But the point is, you don't have to worry about the manipulation of your search results based on a personal profile, I bet you know.
	I have to worry about your political interests.
	If we go to the next one here, we can see the fact that apparently the EU were making sanctions against Russia, requiring search engines and social media companies to suppress or disappear Russian news outlets, or Russian disinformation, which is of course a very broad word and could include biolabs.
	Well, it just means anything Russian, really.
	And so this is the Western Iron Curtain that's going down.
	Yeah.
	But also, this Russian misinformation, that could be the Biolabs conspiracy theory that the Russians have spread.
	It clearly is.
	The Russians have been making all this up.
	Yep.
	Let's go to the next one, in which we can see a hearing in which Secretary of State Victoria Nuland decides to turn up and tell us all about the Biolabs in Ukraine.
	A Russian asset, I'm sure.
	A Russian conspiracy theorist is in the US government.
	You may remember Victoria Nuland being the one as well who orchestrated who was going to be Prime Minister after the revolution.
	Ah, yes.
	She picked the Prime Minister over a phone call.
	The F the EU comments for people who don't know.
	Type that in.
	Go have a look.
	Let's play the clip.
	Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of.
	So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach Right, so it begins with we don't have any biological labs in Ukraine, but we are rather worried that the Russians are going to get our biolabs in Ukraine.
	Well, she says the Ukrainians have these biolabs.
	Oh yes, I'm sure they're not funded and operated by Americans.
	No, not at all.
	The Ukrainians are completely operating these, they're only for...
	Ukraine is literally the poorest country in Europe.
	How can they afford biolabs?
	Down the back of the sofa, mate.
	So she was asked about, do Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons from a senator?
	And that was her response, saying, well, not chemical, but they do have a bunch of biolabs, and we're worried about it falling into the Russians.
	I saw the broader clip where it's like, are there bioweapons labs?
	That was the question.
	And she was like, they have biological research facilities?
	It's like, right, okay.
	I asked for bioweapons.
	If you're saying biological research facilities, and in response to bioweapons, that implies you're developing weapons there.
	Otherwise, why would you mention them?
	You'd be like, no.
	So this is where maybe a bit of nuance is.
	So this is the difference between a lab that's making weapons and a lab that is detecting weapons.
	Or at least this is the wording.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	If we go to the next link, we get this up.
	Fine distinctions here that I really trust them on.
	So that US Embassy link there.
	Sorry, John, if we can get that up.
	Which is the US Embassy in Ukraine saying that, yes, we have these labs.
	As in, we operate them.
	Which is funny.
	So the US Embassy's position is, the Biological Threat Reduction Program's priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose a security or stability threat.
	So that's what the Russians would also say if they were the ones caught with them.
	Yeah, but also just, okay, it's just about detecting the situation.
	That's all these labs are for.
	And then they say, well, we're working with them.
	So it's gone from Ukraine's in charge of these to we're working with them on these.
	I'm not surprised.
	I'm pretty sure the initial response was we don't have any.
	Yeah, that was the initial one, so we've moved quite far.
	So we've gone from we don't have any to the Ukrainians to the ones we work with as well.
	I love the old we don't have any, but on your embassy website you have this written.
	Anyone can check this website out yourselves.
	Why would you say yeah?
	But as they say, it's only for detection purposes.
	So they say that the biolabs have been upgraded.
	They've upgraded many laboratories for the Ministry of Health and State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine, reaching biosafety level 2.
	Keep that in mind.
	In 2019, they also constructed two laboratories for the latter, one in Kiev and one in Odessa.
	That's in 2019.
	So that's...
	In 2019, there were two more, right?
	Okay, keep those facts in mind.
	Isn't Odessa in Georgia?
	No, it's southern Ukraine.
	What's the capital of...
	I must be thinking of something else.
	Sorry about it.
	Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, if that's right.
	Right, okay.
	So if we go to the next one, we can...
	Foreign places, I don't know.
	Yeah.
	This is a thing I saw from David putting out as well, which the WHO, the World Health Organization, says it advised Ukraine to destroy pathogens in health labs to prevent...
	disease spread.
	Just out of the blue, we're just suddenly very concerned with disease spread from any pathogens the Ukrainians might have.
	Just issued a statement.
	Just get rid of them, mate.
	Just a case.
	Where have you got them?
	That's not important.
	I like the pathogens in health labs.
	Sounds very healthy.
	Very much for health.
	Also, for no reason, just...
	Where are they?
	In which labs?
	We know you've got some, don't know where, but just get rid of them.
	Okay, keep that in mind.
	And then we'll move forward, because Tucker Carlson did a fantastic segment on this that you sent to me, and he burst out laughing to this statement.
	But we'll go over this, because he said that, well, we've been told by the Americans that the Ukrainian government are operating this, and unnamed Ukrainian officials have said that they don't have any either, which isn't reliable, and obviously doesn't make any sense.
	Wait, he's going for the USA Today fact-check, where they're like, no, this is totally nonsense.
	And it's like, okay, where's the source of that rebuttal?
	And it comes from unnamed officials and the Ukrainian government.
	Yep.
	Take their word for it.
	And then that clip came out of Newland, which then disproved that initial statement.
	Yep.
	USA Today saying they fact-checked it as conspiracy theories.
	The EU also denounced these secret labs, that this story was spread by Russian disinformation.
	That came from Ukraine?
	I don't know who was alleging they were secret.
	You can find them online.
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	They're secret labs.
	No, they're not.
	Everyone can find them.
	Literally, I will demonstrate to you in a minute how easy they are to find them.
	Snopes fact-check Russian disinformation.
	Anyone can find the labs.
	So the Russians have also made this fake story in which they claim that Kiev are working on plague and anthrax.
	Keep that in mind.
	Plague and anthrax.
	They'll also come back to haunt us.
	The State Department then says that the US does not own or operate biolabs in Ukraine.
	As you can see the statement there.
	But...
	Dot dot dot.
	We run diagnostic and defense biolabs.
	Right, what's the difference there?
	Now, you could argue the semantic difference is that we're not making bioweapons to be used, but we are using biolabs that are only there for diagnostic purposes, to detect if a weapon has been used, or defense biolabs, which presumably, again, to detect, or I'm not sure.
	I would love to see them put this to Putin himself, and see the look on his face as he tries to process how phenomenally BS this narrative is.
	The concern about all of this is irrelevant to that distinction.
	Because what we're concerned about is an outbreak happening due to the war.
	Whether these buildings are bombed, whether someone releases them who's pro-Ukraine.
	I just don't believe them.
	Well, no.
	So, you saw Victoria say we do have those.
	So, the materials that are in there, if someone leaks them who is pro-Ukraine and wants to create an incident, or if they are bombed and it's an accidental situation, either way, that's what we're concerned about.
	Not whether or not it's offensive or for detection.
	No, no, no.
	Do you have these things there?
	I mean, I agree that that's a genuine concern.
	Like, if that was all true, then that would be a genuine concern.
	I just don't believe them.
	There's also the question, which is, why didn't you remove all of this when the war looked on the horizon?
	Yeah.
	Which, uh, mm-hmm.
	I mean, Russia has been massing troops for years now.
	Maybe you could say you're there to then, you know, if the war happens, we can detect if biological weapons are used.
	Maybe, I get, but then you'd think you'd be panicking at this point, like 15 days into the war.
	I don't believe them.
	Move to the next one.
	We can see Russia's claims on US and Ukraine biolabs.
	Absurd, untrue, says US defense officials.
	Completely not the case.
	The Kremlin is accusing the US of being involved in biological weapons research at Ukrainian labs, but such claims are laughable and part of a Russian disinformation campaign, according to US defense officials.
	Again, the weapons.
	We're not concerned about whether it's weapons.
	It's whether or not you have these things there that can then leak out, and then we cannot confirm or deny whether or not it's a weapon used by Russia or a potential leak or...
	I just can't help but think of the origins of COVID. Oh, it's a Wuhan wet market, which I was wrong about, by the way, and I should probably apologize for.
	I was totally wrong.
	No, it wasn't.
	No, it came from a lab.
	Oh, how did it get in the lab?
	Well, it seems this is a virus that's not found in nature that was funded by Fauci.
	So if we go to the next one...
	But if they're going, well, we would never have a biological weapons lab in Ukraine, it's like, well, why would I believe you?
	But either way, the threat of what everyone's concerned about here is, let's say it gets leaked, and then everyone doesn't know whether or not the Russians have used them, so the media narrative will become the Russians have used biological weapons, they're deploying anthrax.
	Well, that's definitely a lie that they would tell, but again...
	Therefore we must do something, and then we end up in a situation where the war's escalated between NATO and Russia.
	Sure, but I just can't believe this is a truth that they're telling us.
	But it's a concern that no one seems to be taken seriously in this debate.
	Because as you can see, political factors come up with China have also spread this complete rumour that there are biological weapons labs.
	That's not the important point of this discussion.
	It is whether or not, again, there is anthrax or whatnot for detection purposes, even in this area.
	If we go to the next one, you may always remember, as you said, these fact checks.
	Let's get the headline here, because the headline is the funniest thing.
	Oh, have you not got it there?
	Oh, damn.
	The headline was from USA Today.
	Coronavirus not man-made or engineered, but its origin remains unclear.
	But there is evidence that it is, and it came from the lab, and the Fauci funded it, and we know this.
	But regardless, all of that, let's say Fog of War, no one knew this at the time, that sentence doesn't make sense.
	I know, its origins remain unclear.
	You can look at a thing and say, okay, I don't know where this came from, but it obviously didn't come from X, Y, or Z. That is fair.
	They couldn't know that, though.
	Maybe not at the time, of course.
	To not know that.
	Sure, but that's not in and of itself exactly wrong.
	It's very bold.
	Yeah.
	And it's someone lying to you.
	Which is why they had to issue a correction.
	Yes.
	Corrections and clarifications.
	This fact check has been revised based on updated reporting since it was first published in March 2020.
	Because it turns out it was man-made and did cover a lie, but actually we paid for it.
	And fact checkers don't know what the hell they're doing.
	Yes.
	No, well, they're just towing the party line.
	That's what the fact checkers are for.
	Go to the next one, we can see the National Pulse have got hold of documents in regards to these bio-labs and to what capacity they are.
	And presumably, because these documents are from 2010, they're not made by the Russians.
	Right.
	Who were preparing for a war with what was then their own puppet country.
	Presumably, they weren't planning all this since 2010.
	Maybe because everyone always assumes that the Russians are playing 5D chess on a level we can't understand.
	Usually not.
	Usually they're as stupid as we are.
	Judging by their military performance, I'm going to say no.
	And then if we go to the next one, we can see the archive of these documents.
	This is, as you can see, June 11th, 2010.
	US Senator Dick Luger applauded the opening of the Interim Council Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.
	The Level 3 Biosafety Lab...
	It was level 2 prior, wasn't it?
	That was the ones they opened in 2019.
	Right.
	Apparently in 2010 they opened level 3 once.
	And I assume level 1 is the highest.
	No, no.
	Oh.
	But we'll get to that in a minute.
	Oh, okay.
	Which was first built under the expanded authority of the- Are you saying they've reduced the safety of these labs?
	New Luger Corporation Threat Reduction Program, which will be used to study anthrax- Remember that?
	Remember that from earlier, how it was a conspiracy that there was anthrax?
	Huh.
	Okay.
	Tuluminaria, don't know what that is, and Q fever, as well as other dangerous pathogens.
	Luger said the plans for the facility began in 2005 when he said then-Senator Barack Obama entered in a partnership with Ukrainian officials.
	So there's a barbers involved in this.
	Again, we have no idea where they don't exist.
	Senators can do that, can they?
	We literally went there in 2005 and organised the setting up of one.
	Right?
	Just anthrax, bro.
	This level thing.
	Let's go to the Wikipedia page, because again, no expert on this stuff.
	I can only read what is written for such layman as myself on this matter.
	Biosafety levels.
	So, the levels for safety precautions.
	Starts at level 1, goes to level 4.
	Level 4 being highest.
	Right.
	So remember there were level 2 ones being set up in 2019, and then there was a level 3 one being set up in 2010, and then you've got level 4, which is like, holy crap, this is bad, and then you've got level 4 plus extraterrestrial samples, which is for bringing stuff back from space, which I just found funny.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	These are all defined by the CDC. Keep that in mind.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I looked up just Anthrax.
	Apparently that's meant to be kept at level 3.
	So that one in Odessa probably has Anthrax.
	Keeping in mind...
	What's in the level 3 one if not?
	Which is why they said in the letter there, as you remember, Anthrax they were keeping.
	Let's go to the next link, which is that I found a document that was also released on the National Poll's website.
	That has an address.
	The state institution, Milikov Ukrainian Scientific and Research Anti-Plague Institutes, address 2 over 4, Truskova Street, Odessa 65003.
	And then they have the various descriptions of what they're doing.
	As you can see, they have a pathing group 2s.
	Malaburg virus, Ebola virus, God, I don't know.
	Congo haemorrhagic fever virus?
	Oh god, this sounds awful.
	This is wonderful to have in a bit of a war.
	That's just group one as well.
	There's no way this thing could get blown up and we'd all be very upset.
	And what would happen?
	Let's go to the next one.
	I mean, your average Russian infantryman surely knows not to fire at whatever this building is, right?
	It's very clearly marked.
	If we go to the next one, we can see the fact that apparently the Institute also offers Masters in Microbiology and Virology.
	So it's probably the right place.
	Probably where it is.
	And then we tried to find it, me and John, using Google Maps, using the address given.
	We couldn't.
	On Google Maps it doesn't work, which is funny.
	But you had to have the street, so we had a look on the street and started going down to see what we could find.
	And we did find this building, which is the only building on that street which could fit this description.
	Because if you zoom in on there, on that little blue sign, that says Medical Laboratory.
	Look at it though!
	Look at the state of it!
	Yeah, there's your signage.
	Please don't shoot at this building.
	Great.
	I don't know if you can zoom out and turn to the right, John, because this is also just out of interest.
	How would you distinguish that from anything?
	I don't know if you can move down the street quite a bit.
	Just keep moving down.
	And at the end of this street, like not far, but just at the end of it, there is, as you can see, the chimneys.
	There's a power plant over there, looking very normal.
	If you turn to your right there, and then you can go to the front gates, which are very interesting as well.
	So, we don't know if we found it there, but that is the only thing on that street that is labelled medical laboratory, and is also suitable for being some kind of lab.
	What's notable about this?
	This is just the gas power plant, very nearby, so if you wanted to blow that up, it's nice and close to the lab.
	Wonderful.
	That's fantastic, for at least the suspected lab.
	Let's go to the next one, because we have a document that also confirmed all of this as being true, as in, that place is the place.
	Because, don't scroll down, because we'll end up doxing the guys who run it.
	Don't do that.
	So, Sergei V. Pozdrovkov is the director, PhD, and his operations are at 2 over 4, Trinskova Street, Odessa, 65003, Ukraine.
	Right.
	The exact address I just read out.
	Right.
	And, well, the only building on that street that looks like one that is labelled Medical Biolab is the one we found.
	Right.
	Oh, I can't spell these words, can I? Epidemiological.
	Not my first language.
	Potential.
	Development of new or improved methods for diagnosing such things, and also the Institute's laboratories fulfill monitoring of related territories and are ready for quick indication and identification of such things.
	Okay, so they're there for the detection, as was warned.
	The objects of biological pathological agents of level 3 to 4 classification.
	The highest levels.
	The ones that would be holding anthrax, again.
	So, presumably there's either multiple, and they're all at different levels in Odessa.
	Or it's this one, and no one can seem to agree on what level it's meant to be.
	Or what it's meant to be holding.
	Interesting.
	And then we go to the next link, which is that we keep getting told this.
	Russia could use chemical or biological weapons.
	White House warns.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	What about...
	This is a narrative we've heard before, isn't it?
	Sure, but I don't put it past them.
	We must keep this in mind.
	No, I don't put it past them either.
	I don't put it past the Russians to not use such things.
	But what I am really worried about, and what I think is a substantial worry and isn't some conspiracy theory, is, well, these places exist.
	You've got confirmation from the embassy, from Newland, from the documents you could just find easily online.
	We can see their address and we looked at the building.
	Google mapparoos.
	Yeah.
	And you can find these places, and they're meant to be holding anthrax and all kinds of other things, and if those get hit, or someone sympathetic to Ukraine, and I'm not saying this out of no reason, and I'll prove that in a minute, maybe an American who is sympathetic to Ukraine releases such things, so they can have the story, look, the Russians have used biological weapons, we must do something.
	And I bet if this happens, that will be the narrative.
	Which is definitely not the narrative they used in Syria.
	And if you're wondering why I keep saying that some American would be dastardly enough to do such a thing, it's because we actually have an example from 2001.
	Okay, go on.
	Go to the next link.
	You may remember this story.
	Remember this?
	2001?
	After 9-11?
	Anthrax?
	No, not offhand.
	Right.
	So, Anthrax was released in the United States, and people were freaking out because, like, what the hell?
	This story was eventually summed up, and they got the guy.
	At least the FBI say so.
	Seven years later, they solved the case.
	And it was an American army microbiologist.
	Who released the anthrax.
	Why?
	Motive.
	The anthrax vaccine program, to which Dr.
	Evans had devoted his entire career of more than 20 years, was failing.
	Following the anthrax attacks, however, his program was suddenly rejuvenated.
	Oh, he was going to get more funding.
	But also interest in anthrax vaccines, because we should take it seriously.
	Right.
	So that's why he did that.
	He killed eight people so that he could gin up support so he could then save more people's lives with the interest in a vaccine program.
	That's so forward-thinking.
	Yeah, so I don't put it past that, again, there are mentally unstable people who could do such things in a situation in Odessa or where else.
	We need to protect people with anthrax.
	Why?
	Because I'm about to release them!
	It is big brain.
	That's a 4D chess movie if ever I've seen one.
	It is as big brain as Al-Qaeda blowing up Muslims to protect the Muslim world.
	Yeah, radicalise the modern.
	It's against anthrax.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next one, I wanted to mention some other social media madness that's going on so quickly.
	Facebook allow hate speech against the Russians.
	Amazing.
	MetaPlatform will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of Ukraine's invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
	I love this so much.
	Facebook's like, hate speech is bad.
	It's like, really?
	Well, not all hate speech.
	It's like, really?
	What's the good hate speech?
	Facebook?
	The good hate speech is if you're a Russian in Ukraine, we can call for your death, a soldier or not, apparently.
	Civilians in the Federation, different matter.
	Oh, right, okay.
	So you have to be a Russian in Ukraine?
	Also, you can now call for assassinations of Vladimir Putin or Alexander Lukashenko.
	That's allowed now.
	That's perfectly allowed.
	Is this because, what's his face?
	The Kentucky chicken guy.
	Why can't I remember his name?
	The Colonel?
	Well, yeah.
	American politician.
	Lindsey Graham.
	Lindsey Graham, right.
	Just because Lindsey Graham did it.
	Chicken man.
	Yeah, well, he is, basically.
	Yeah, literally.
	So, they've changed that.
	You can now call for the Russian Vader to be killed.
	But for how long?
	Then in six months' time it'll be over, they'll take it back and you get a strike.
	Just don't bother.
	Don't do it.
	Because also, this only applies to certain countries, funnily enough.
	The privileged access to hate speech in this country now.
	Hate speech is based only in these countries, according to Facebook.
	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia.
	Okay.
	Slovakia, Ukraine.
	So, the old Soviet sphere.
	Yeah.
	Except Germany.
	The East Germans can't do it.
	Yeah.
	But everyone else can.
	This is stupid.
	This is so dumb.
	The Russians have responded by saying users of Facebook and Instagram did not give the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and pit nations against each other.
	Fair.
	As much as the Russians are the Russians, that statement is true.
	It's like Vorsch being misogynistic.
	Occasionally they get something right.
	The end of this statement.
	Emails also shown that Meta would allow praise of the right wing, as of Battalion.
	LAUGHTER The literal Nazis.
	They're not allowed to use Facebook because they're literally Nazis.
	But you are allowed to praise them now on Facebook.
	They are on VK. I'm sure they are.
	There are lots of Russian Nazis on VK as well.
	I'm sure there are.
	We'll do a segment on that at some point, I'm sure.
	But yeah, just right wing.
	I know they're not all Nazis, but right wing.
	They're our Ceausescu battalion now.
	Which is normally prohibited, is now allowed.
	The Meta spokesperson said previously the company was for banning such things, however they are now allowed narrow exceptions for praise for Azov, strictly in the context of defending Ukraine or in their role as part of the Ukrainian National Guard.
	Praising as a battalion as Nazis is not based and you're not allowed to do it.
	Until it becomes based and then you can do it.
	Until our Nazis.
	We'll get into the fact that Al-Qaeda are also defending Ukraine now.
	So we can now presumably also praise Al-Qaeda for the defense of Ukraine.
	You must be thrilled with all of this, really.
	I love memes.
	Some of your social media feeds are lighting up.
	Let's go to the next one, because I also added this up with another stupid thing from our overlords on social media, which is the UN. So UN Moldova tweeted this out.
	Women and girls bear the brunt of the crisis.
	91% of Ukrainian refugees in Moldova are women and girls!
	Wait a second.
	Refugees are people who are not in the fighting, and therefore are not dying to the war.
	They're secondary victims of the crisis.
	These aren't refugees.
	Come on, there's too many women and children.
	Do you not remember what real refugees look like?
	Yes, young Middle Eastern men, yeah.
	Who end up doing so many bad things, they get the moniker at Refugee.
	Bear the brunt of the crisis.
	Again, it's the Hillary Clinton, well, women are the primary victims of war.
	It's like, really?
	The people who get shot on the front lines are no longer the primary victims of war.
	Well, they're not going to live for long anyway, so...
	Well, I guess not, yeah, yeah.
	So these are the primary victims, or buried the brunt.
	It is our shared responsibility to ensure women and girls' rights are respected.
	We need hashtag gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.
	Send them back!
	Yeah, conscript them to the front lines.
	You're a woman.
	Gender equality.
	Here's an AK. Being a refugee is bearing the brunt of the crisis.
	Being on the front lines is just based.
	Yeah, also the girls.
	Presumably the girls themselves also are going to be given guns.
	We're going to have child soldiers.
	The boys were?
	The boys could leave, apparently, as long as the gender equality and the number of boys and girls.
	But if there are too many girls, we'll send the girls back and we can have a girl-child-shoulder army fighting the Russians under the pride flag.
	For equality.
	If we go to the last one here, the UN Russian account also decided to go out on this bandwagon.
	If we click on the images, the first one is them saying the same nonsense.
	The main burden of this crisis is borne by women.
	Of course.
	And then someone, if we go through these images, points out the bleeding obvious, which is that men are conscripted for the war and aren't allowed to leave.
	You utter scum.
	And then the last one is them responding by just blocking.
	Of course.
	But anyway, that's the story with the BioLabs and our social media overlords who determines what misinformation is until it's not misinformation.
	Or that our Nazis.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Okay Callum, so you asked about a month ago why I don't use wire strippers to strip the outer jacket off of wires and it's the wrong tool for the job so it's harder to use and as you can see I damage the insulation on the wires when I strip it with the wire strippers.
	The correct tool is a knife.
	You're such an obvious office worker.
	What do you mean?
	Like, I used to do electronics and we used to strip them to use them, but he wasn't, so I was just asking.
	Yeah, well, he clearly didn't know he told me that.
	Well, yeah, I did say.
	That's why I asked.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, Callum and Cat of Kit, I just thought I'd chime in and say that Alfred Ed 2 is a great choice again.
	Terrible charge.
	Playing as the infected is a lot of fun, especially when you manage to charge someone off a building.
	Playing as a tank in this game is also really fun, especially when you manage to kill the enemy team.
	For anyone who's never played Left 4 Dead 2, I'd really, really recommend it.
	It's a good game.
	It's old, but it holds up really well.
	It's a lot of fun.
	I also love Versus the most.
	I've never actually played the Versus mode.
	Really?
	No, no, yeah, I'm a huge fan of Left 4 Dead 2.
	That's great.
	We should play Versus.
	You'll enjoy it.
	Especially on Mercy Hospital up there.
	Because a lot of the other maps, it's hard to be as infected and just get them.
	But you can just hit them off the roof.
	I didn't know you could get them on the ladders either, so thanks for that.
	Something I'm going to use in future.
	Thank you.
	The coronavirus pandemic is in decline.
	Bad news!
	The Great Reset, where you will own nothing and be happy, is being brought about by economic policy decisions made by your government that will facilitate the advance of the most powerful interests on earth.
	They call it on their own website, they call it The Great Reset.
	That's what they say themselves.
	Because The Great Reset has always been this gigantic conspiracy theory.
	So this is going to be this never-ending process to slowly move the goalposts towards more and more authoritarianism.
	Wow, Russell Brown's getting a bit based.
	Yeah, he's on Gather too now.
	Oh, is he?
	Oh, no, I'm following him now.
	We should interview him.
	If you want to do it, why not?
	Reach out, feel free.
	So tell me about the global conspiracy theory.
	Well, I mean...
	So there's this guy called Klaus Schwab, he wrote a book.
	Well, I mean, yeah, we say all the same things we know, you know.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's the offer.
	Let's go to the next one.
	School for Scoundrels is a deliciously smart comedy about turning the one down into those who are one up.
	Ian Carmichael's character learns ploys to use polite manners to infuriate those vexing him wooing a lady.
	as Alastair Sims' headmaster teaches, Eve getting Adam to bite into the apple split humanity, not into something as trivial as male and female, but...
	Another dichotomy, more basic, more profound.
	At that fateful moment, the world was divided into winners and losers.
	Thank you.
	Ooh.
	Cool.
	I also love how...
	This is a side note, but just the fact that we have old footage from the 50s and whatnot, I really wish we had old footage from the American Civil War or further back.
	There are lots of people who wish that, yeah.
	Yeah, but just to see how they talk and all this.
	And I really love the fact that going forwards, humanity will be able to look back at the 50s and get weird statements and advice, like how to woo women, and it's all...
	The thing that's most striking, though, is just how different the people are.
	There was a clip of, like, 1980s high schoolers going around on Twitter the other day that I saw, and it's so strange.
	They look healthy and happy.
	Unlike people today.
	Not a depressed mess.
	No.
	But not, like, anemic and depressed, either.
	Like, they, you know, something has changed, and it's not been good for us.
	But anyway.
	Let's go to the next one.
	You know, it's ironic now that there's actual Nazis to fight, Antifa are nowhere to be found.
	That's a great point.
	I did see in the early days a Vice documentary where communists from the US had turned up to fight for Ukraine.
	So that would have been in like 2014 or whatever it is when the separatists died.
	So they would have been there with the Nazis at the beginning?
	They would have met each other.
	What was their argument?
	It's okay for us to fight for the Azov Battalion because...
	I didn't get to see that meeting.
	That wasn't part of the documentary, but I'm sure they did meet each other.
	I'm going to have to go back and find the clip.
	I keep mentioning it.
	I want to be in the room for that conversation.
	It's been a bit uncomfortable.
	Everyone's armed.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony B and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines.
	This time it's the Gables.
	It's a fancy restaurant and inn in Beech Haven, New Jersey, down the Jersey Shore, and it is haunted by a 19th century ghost, a woman who wanted to work in the resort town, but she died before she could find love, and now she weeps in one of the rooms, and the guests hear her and can smell the scent of lavender when she is present.
	That's a pleasant ghost, I guess.
	Yeah, not the worst.
	I can think of a much worse ghost.
	A whiny woman who smells of lavender?
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Guys, hope you're doing well in these chaotic times.
	So, by the time I get this video, it will be my birthday, and I was hoping that you guys could sing me a happy birthday song.
	If Harry is there, I know you've got a great singing voice.
	I've seen it, don't you lie.
	Also, because we're getting a fair few black pills lately, I thought I'd cheer everybody up with a picture of my neighbor's cat.
	Aww.
	I love a kitty.
	Well, we can't sing happy birthday, but we can certainly wish you a happy birthday.
	So, happy birthday, man.
	Happy birthday.
	Alright, Long Talks on the Neach says, Slave labour mining is unethical, but mining can be made ethical via the use of paid consenting adults.
	Child cornography is, by definition, unable to be made ethical by using paid consenting adults, because then it would be normal porn.
	Anyone trying to conflict the two isn't raising awareness about third world slave labour.
	They're rationalising sexual abuse of children and they should be ostracised and ridiculed appropriately.
	That's correct.
	That's also a great point.
	It obviously comes off as someone looking for excuses.
	Yeah.
	Because he's just jumping from thing to thing to thing.
	Yeah.
	In the different clips.
	Yeah.
	Why do you not...
	Even if it was some principled stance, it would be a consistent argument.
	Yes.
	If someone didn't pay for it, they just have it on their hard drive.
	There's no moral argument against that.
	It's like, that's really making me suspicious of you.
	I really want your hard drive checked by the authorities now.
	Student of History says, E-communist and noted pseudo-pedophile Vorsch tells award-winning female author she needs to STFU and that she's incorrect on what women are.
	All for women's rights.
	Yes, those women who have penises need their women's rights.
	Sweden, I don't know if that's the entire country, says, It's not surprising that Vorsch is reluctant to define woman considering how unwomanly his girlfriend is.
	I have no idea.
	Christine says, Is Vorsch a feminist or is he, as Tim Paul coined it, a male rights activist?
	That's a good question.
	There's certainly a male...
	Well, males can be politically...
	Women.
	Politically women, therefore.
	And they're the women that Vaush is defending against the females who are politically not women.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, it does apply.
	Jimbo says, I love annoying feminist university types by simply asking exactly what J.K. Rowling said that was so bad.
	You can never get a straight answer, and it's almost always about her doubling down after the abuse she got.
	I wouldn't pull that thread, ladies.
	That was true.
	That was exactly true.
	Silly Amidon says, So Vorsch telling a woman to shut up and then using her first name after her publishers asked to use her initials to appeal to more to her target audience.
	I don't agree with a lot of it.
	Yeah, that's another thing.
	It's kind of like dead naming her as well.
	So, you know, J.K. Rowling is how everyone knows her, but no, no, no, Joanne.
	It's like, okay, Michael.
	Ah, you've dead named me.
	Sorry.
	You're the ones who are talking about identity.
	She identifies in a particular way.
	She presents in a particular way.
	And you're like, no, I'm going to use a different way of presenting, you know, of identifying you.
	I mean, it is a smaller ass to change a name than to change a sex.
	Sure, but it's just a weird inconsistency.
	You know, they're like, oh, well, we're going to have to call this person Brenda now, because Michael identifies now as Brenda, and so we don't use the name Michael, and we'll use Brenda.
	But shut up, Joanne.
	You know, it's like, okay.
	But anyway, I don't agree with a lot of rallying stuff, especially her post-hoc pandering to the LGBT lot.
	But the double thing from Vaush is incredible.
	Next he'll tell her to get back in the kitchen and make him a sandwich.
	Don't make me join Vaush's team.
	But no, you are right.
	It's despicable, obviously, from his point of view.
	But then his point of view is despicable, so does that make it good?
	Tell J.K. Rowling to get back in the kitchen.
	I don't think that makes up for the other side.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, regarding Vorsch, I think the whole segment could be summed up as a male feminist and non-sapologist, progressive short, uses the same tactics of domestic abusers to mansplain to a woman what the nature of a woman is.
	Just a male feminist.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just gross, though.
	But it is also hilarious watching the Vorsch narrative go mainstream.
	Like, all the blue checks retweeting about Vorsch being announced.
	Like, just all the MPs suing that and going, okay.
	Yeah.
	Sweden also says, I used to be a fairly well-known YouTuber, but cancelled because I claimed that porn in all its forms is morally reprehensible as it leads to exploitation.
	I said that if I had a child who entered porn, I'd probably kill myself, so I'd fail as a father.
	I was called misogynistic and it led to me being cancelled.
	Jesus.
	I'm surprised you could be cancelled for that.
	Vosch is still monetized with all of his takes.
	I was a pro-model painter.
	If you ever want anything painted, Carl, send me a message on the house.
	You got me through that rough time of my career being destroyed.
	Man, I'm sorry to hear that.
	But I can't send you anything to paint because I want to paint on my own things.
	The painting is part of my attachment to my army.
	How well can you paint?
	Hello, Callum!
	I have some plans.
	Don't spoil them.
	Yeah, I won't, I won't, but they are quite good plans.
	Callum Dayton says, Progressives don't know the difference between what good or bad is, or even what optics means.
	So there's no difference between something that makes them look good or bad.
	What I say is factually correct, but politically wrong.
	Facts that matter to these invalids, I can see graphite, they can't.
	Exactly true.
	Jimbo says, Can you imagine what people think of when they see Trump having a civil conversation that included non-white people?
	This will never do.
	Delete that video.
	I didn't even get to see the podcast.
	Like, you know, any of it.
	I'll have to watch it at some point.
	But was it good or what?
	Yeah, it was great.
	Actually, it's very refreshing because I really hate...
	I don't hate them, but it's really not as good when you see, not for a shame, but a Trump event or an interview on TV or the White House press secretary room or whatever that is.
	It's not real.
	And then him sat there with one of these mics, just sitting there with a couple of other guys in some bar in his house in Mar-a-Lago.
	And you can just see him with ties to the side.
	Just having a chat.
	It was very wholesome.
	Very human.
	He's a good talker as well.
	He's interesting to...
	He can carry a room with him when he's telling a story.
	Anyway, M1Ping says, Until a renewable energy source can get a commercial jet off the ground, it will never replace the energy needed for vehicles.
	Completely true.
	Which is why they're going to build a railway to Hawaii.
	I still can't believe she's in office after that.
	Well, there's not been another election yet.
	That'll be coming up soon, I believe.
	Recall petition at least, surely.
	Student of History says, there's everything good about nuclear energy.
	One kilogram of uranium has the same energy return as absolute mountains of coal.
	Yeah, and Australia is one of the largest uranium producers in the world, apparently, as well.
	So it's not like the supply would be unavailable.
	They have to rely on Russia for uranium, is what I'm saying.
	There is no argument against it.
	No, there's just not.
	It's the safest, cleanest, most productive.
	I've told the story before.
	The French guy came to our university and literally just lectured all this about nuclear energy.
	And just the most of it was just like, it's the safest thing ever.
	And he just went through.
	And you just got bored of listening about all the safety procedures they have.
	I'm persuaded.
	It was just like, yeah, mate, move on.
	Rick says, you're not allowed to report on reality because it infringes on the fantasies, I mean lived experiences, of all the people living in cloud cuckoo land.
	I so badly want a hidden camera documentary on California tech companies.
	Yeah, so do I. I'd love to have, like, you little fly-on-the-wall cameras just to see what they're talking about.
	See how mental they are.
	Because I bet they are.
	Student of history again, Donald Trump, do you miss me yet?
	Every damn day.
	I told you, glorious golden era.
	I'm so glad I was pro-Donald Trump during the Trump presidency as well.
	I went to New York Trump Tower, got myself a Trump hat, MAGA hat.
	Can you imagine being someone who was pro-Biden, ever?
	No.
	See if we can find one somewhere.
	The cope you must have to still believe in him at this point is unbelievable.
	I actually, I mean, I can imagine in the Democrat Party, every day they look at the news and say, oh god, oh god, what am I doing?
	Like the polling I've seen is like 20% of Dems still approve of him, and it's just like...
	God.
	Free Will says, the Green Agenda is a project of the globalist rich, and as such, they don't really care about the impact on everyone else.
	It's not even that.
	It's an explicitly anti-human project.
	It's a pro-Earth project, but not a pro-human project.
	And they don't care about a synthesis between them.
	In fact, this is the problem that they have with nuclear power, is it is a synthesis between being pro-human and pro-Earth.
	You know, that's a good point, because they see things, as you've put it, the universalist perspective, in which it's like, oh, from the perspective of the universe, what's good?
	Yeah, the human race is a cancer.
	The Earth should be preserved, even though cosmically that doesn't even make any sense.
	Preserved for who?
	But if we were to put to them, let's say there's a planet, I don't know, it's all made of gold, and we just mined it and mined it and took all the gold, I bet they would oppose that on the basis of, like, it's the natural order, even though it makes no sense.
	No, no, I've seen, what was it, there was one about asteroid mining, and one of the arguments was, well, we should leave it as it is for...
	For who?
	For the rock!
	The rock doesn't feel anything!
	That's exactly what I said.
	So why?
	Also, the rock's probably going to go into a sun and just disappear forever, you morons!
	Exactly.
	Why wouldn't we just take the metal out of the rock?
	Who cares?
	There's literally nothing on it.
	It's an asteroid in space.
	Why shouldn't we preserve the natural order or whatever?
	What natural order?
	There is no natural order!
	It's just nature.
	It's like, well, I mean, that's a very expansive definition of the word nature.
	But no, they absolutely will make that argument, because they think of humanity itself as the problem, and the planet as the intrinsic good.
	But I bet if we found an alien race, they would be like, well, no, they can do what they want.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	As George Kay said, go out and buy a Tesla.
	China is a major carbon polluter, but because the rich are sucking up to China, they're making our countries take up the slack of carbon reduction rather than making the Chinese reduce theirs, even though our reductions will have a minimal effect on carbon reduction.
	To be fair, the United States is about as bad as China when it comes to carbon emissions, but like the rest of the world, that's like half the world, though.
	Like, US and China.
	So the rest of the world may as well just sit down and shut up, because they've just got no input in this conversation.
	You know?
	Like, we're 1% of global...
	Like the Danish girl who was saying, just like, we're obsessed with saving the planet Denmark.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Not to be rude.
	No one thinks of Denmark.
	Well, no one thinks of Britain.
	In most conversations.
	Like, you know, we're in the GA or whatever you can argue.
	1%.
	We make 1% of all the emissions, at least.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I suppose.
	That's our achievement.
	Hammurabi says, Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it?
	It's incredible just how quickly and bad Biden has made everything.
	Baron Von Warhawk says, if gas prices go up any higher, I'm just going to buy a horse and return to Cowboy.
	Honestly?
	Like, if it's practical, if you don't have to travel that far.
	There's a reason I like living so close, I can just walk to the office.
	I saw, yeah, yeah, that's why I biked to the office.
	I saw some propaganda from, like, the 1920s against the automobile, which was an automobile drowning in the sea, and the horse going, well, you were just a passing fad, but I'll be here forever.
	Yeah.
	And it's like, well, maybe the horse was right.
	Maybe you will.
	The horse is going extinct anytime soon.
	Exactly.
	Maybe you answer the passing fad.
	Alpha of the Beta says, Monday, we have no biolabs in Ukraine.
	Tuesday, we have no bioresearch in Ukraine.
	Thursday, we have no bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
	Friday, we can't let our bioweapons labs fall into Russian fans.
	There's no confirmation on the weapons side yet, but it's just like, if that technical document is to be believed that they do have level 4 level bio-detection labs, as the embassy states, controlled by the US. I just don't believe them.
	When they're like, we don't have any bio-weapons labs, yeah you do.
	You just said it.
	It doesn't even matter, though.
	Every time you say something, I just believe the opposite.
	As I said, all it takes is one anthrax.
	Sure.
	Some guys have to distribute anthrax, and then you've got...
	That's a reasonable good-faith interpretation of someone who I think is fundamentally going to be speaking in every time, in every way, in bad faith.
	So when they say, no, we don't have that, okay, you've got that.
	Why do you have that?
	That's what I think.
	I'm done with their lies.
	I'm done with believing their BS. They've lied over and over and over on every single subject, even petty subjects they don't need to lie about.
	And it's like, so now they're like, yeah, we definitely have bioweapons there.
	It's like, yeah, okay, now you do.
	Now I'm convinced you do.
	If you just said nothing, I would have been like, oh, who knows?
	But now you said that you don't, I'm sure you do.
	And I'm not saying you should believe that.
	I'm not saying anyone else should believe that.
	I'm saying this is what I believe, after watching them for such a long time.
	I'm not unsympathetic to that either, but there is something interesting I happen to know about Iraq, which is they did have WMDs, just not nuclear ones.
	There were some chemical weapons, and then there were American soldiers.
	But that wasn't the allegation.
	No, it was complete BS, don't get me wrong, but they did end up discovering some chemical weapons that American soldiers then...
	We know Sudan had chemical weapons because we sold them to him.
	Oh, so he'd been using them.
	So we knew he had chemical weapons, but they were like, oh, he's got nuclear weapons.
	I was like, no, he doesn't.
	Why isn't chemical weapons good enough?
	I'd love to have been old enough to remember that time when that discussion was going on, because it just sounds insane to me.
	People were just laughing in their face.
	There was a great clip of George W. Bush when he's like, right, we're going to invade Iraq.
	And they're like, oh, what's Iraq got to do with 9-11?
	He's like, nothing.
	We just said it.
	Yeah.
	You can find it.
	It was the Saudis.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, no, it just says nothing.
	It's like, so why are we doing it?
	And it's just like, okay, that's a great question.
	Neocons, that's why.
	What a plan to be alive.
	Yeah, I know.
	SH Silver says, US-backed biolabs and tin horn regimes they want to control seem to be a running theme.
	Sure hope we don't get another coup out of this.
	Honestly, it looks like it's going to be worse than the coup if things go wrong with this biolab.
	SupremeDuck says, DuckDuckGo is already lost.
	We need to find another search engine that isn't located close to New York, something less woke preferably.
	People have been recommending Yandex to me.
	I've never used it, but I'm going to go look at it after this podcast.
	That's the Russian one.
	Oh, is it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Brave.
	John is recommending Brave, who have a search engine.
	I'm going to have to go change that to that, because until they decide they need to get ethical as well.
	X, Y, N, Z says, so what they're concerned about falling into Russians' hands gets the noggin-joggin.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, it's not like the Russians don't have endless amounts of chemical and biological research weapons.
	They've got the largest stockpile of nukes in the world as well, so...
	Anyway, M1Ping says, Vorsch's attack on J.K. Rowling went worse than the first day of the Somme.
	I mean, it was quite bad for Vorsch.
	I mean, mainstreaming the narrative that he's a nonce isn't great.
	Lars says, there's nothing wrong with Vorsch that can't be fixed with a quality woodchipper.
	That's true.
	Edward of Numenor says, I think I'm going to disavow that because it's too specific.
	It can be fixed with a woodchipper.
	Doesn't mean it's not an endorsement.
	Right.
	Edward says, now we need an edit of the memory meme with Voss saying, by Allah, behave yourself or you'll get a taste of my shoe woman.
	Yeah, I know, so great.
	And Edward again, I'm not too keen on Rowling's School for Satanism.
	What?
	I actually had a friend's Catholic mother tell me this as such when I was about 12.
	Oh, right, Harry Potter, right, okay.
	Mainly because, as an adult, I recognise, well, it's children's fiction and an entry-level to the genre at best.
	I've been ever a Tolkien fan since my dad read me The Hobbit when I was small, but I respect anyone who sticks to their guns like she has and who has good sense to keep her intellectual property tied to them so it can't be cancelled.
	At some point, we're going to have to do an exploration of just how based Harry Potter is.
	Because it is the most traditionalist, hierarchical, and intrinsically right-wing thing apart from the Imperium of Man.
	But we'll get to that another time.
	We have gone over the gun club thing before, which very much is.
	Yep.
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	It's Thursday.
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