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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 15th of March 2022.
	I'm I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about that you must dignify and respect the trans penis.
	It is an aristocrat of our time.
	Also, the new variant that just dropped...
	Yeah, boys!
	And also, executing terrorists is not wrong.
	Strong position there.
	Hashtag change my mind.
	I don't know where you were pro or anti-death penalty.
	I didn't ask before we start, actually.
	Well, as long as it's to people who deserve it, yes, I'm very pro death penalty.
	Well, we'll have that discussion, won't we?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, so new things to mention on the website, of course.
	The new stuff being up here.
	So the new one being the Rudyard Kipling Collection, number three, If.
	So this is by John Wheatley, of course, with his voice.
	So definitely go and give that a listen, especially if you appreciate Kipling.
	If you go to the next one, that one's free as well, so don't need to subscribe.
	This one is also free, What Bercode Did.
	So this is another one of Beau's, let's say, investigations.
	A public individual.
	Well, we covered a bit of what Berko did the other day, but I'm sure that Bo will put his own spin on it.
	But also in depth of, well, these people and their motives.
	So if we go to the next one as well, there is also a new video.
	This one also being free.
	Why Governments Were Always S. This is your video, isn't it?
	This is the end of the textbook.
	So the big old textbook on the wall there.
	You finally got there?
	I got bored of it.
	Oh, you skipped a few chapters.
	Yeah, I forgot.
	Crap, I forgot.
	There's an edit I was meant to do at the end of that.
	Oh well.
	Too late now.
	Yeah, there was a moment I also mentioned that a bunch of the book is pointless because it's stuff on the EU. I was meant to put that in, but oh well.
	Oh really?
	Why?
	Well, because it was made before the official leaving.
	There's a huge discussion there about whether we will actually leave.
	Well, that aged well.
	Yes.
	So there's that.
	Go and enjoy.
	If we go to the next one, we also have the last thing here, being Western media, are the Chernobyl engineers of our time by Josh.
	So looking at the media's response to Ukraine, of course, and that one also being free.
	So do go over and check all of those out.
	But without further ado, we will get into the dignity and respect of trans-penis.
	So, you remember we covered the battle of trans-penis a long time ago?
	At the Wee Spa?
	Oh, was that the person who stood up and displayed their magnificent female penis to some children?
	And you had to respect that that was trans-penis?
	Well, now we've got even further.
	You must dignify and respect all trans-penis.
	Or at least this is a ruling in the UK. So let's load this up.
	This is a Pink News article.
	Favourite outlet for nonsense.
	When you say trans penis, let's just clarify this.
	What's not clear?
	I think there are two main variants of trans penis that you could point to, which is female to male and whatever amalgamation is created from that, and also...
	A female that wants to be a man and so has an operation to have...
	Yes, like that picture that came up where they had a skin graft from their thigh.
	And then there is what I assume we're going to be talking about here, which is male to female non-surgery.
	So a man who wants to be a woman, so does the dress or the rest of it, blah blah blah, doesn't do any of the surgery.
	Yes.
	And then it's not really convincing, not in the sense that they don't look like a woman, but not convincing because they then go out and become a rapist.
	So, to put it in precise terms, a biological male in a dress.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	That is, well, also rapist and arrest is what this is going to be referencing.
	Well, I mean, J.K. Rowling would certainly push that.
	Well, no, it is specifically about that issue.
	So, you can see the article here.
	Police Chief's J.K. Rowling tweet, Not dignified or respectful to trans people panel rules.
	Oh, what did she do?
	reports of a police Scotland chief saying the force would not misgender trans people accused of rape in light of new self-ID proposals.
	So a man who wants to be a woman believes he's a woman goes out and rapes a woman and then the police will say well we will say that he, no she raped her It was a woman who raped a woman.
	Even though it is obviously not, it is also legally a difficult question.
	A big grey area, because as far as I'm aware, legally, women cannot rape in the traditional sense, because rape legally, I believe the definition is penetration.
	There is these disputes within law as well.
	Yes, but I'm glad that we are at least such a progressive civilisation that we are dignifying the feelings of rapists.
	So, this 1984-esque statement by Police Scotland prompted a reference 1984 from Rowling, saying that she was referencing George Orwell's novel, 94, tweeting,"...war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, the penist individual who raped you is a woman." And of course, this speaks to a real issue, not a fantasy one, because we have many a case we have covered on here.
	The most famous one being Karen White, a person who is a danger to women, children, and animals, according to the judge, but was still put in a woman's prison where he, she, was able to sexually assault female inmates.
	Well, at least they didn't get put in the pen.
	I suppose so.
	We don't want them to hurt those poor animals, man.
	So, this continues.
	Despite the tweet being met with international criticism, writes Pink News.
	What a surprise!
	No, it was met with applause by everyone sane and by the alphabet people very much scorned.
	Even Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness, never heard of him, said, accused Rowling of spreading, quote, No.
	This is a real problem.
	Not just one individual.
	There are many an individual.
	This has already happened and it was easily foreseeable and easily avoidable.
	I love the way Pink News frame these things.
	It's like, you don't know what it is.
	Queer Eye is one of those shows where it's a bunch of, like, gay guys and they take a straight guy and they give him a makeover, basically.
	And it's like, oh...
	I've seen the South Park version with the crab people.
	Yeah, I think that's where I know it from, to be honest.
	It's more like crab tail...
	Crab people.
	Crab people.
	But what a surprise that this person who's based their entire identity off being queer would be upset at this.
	So here's the story.
	Tory Crime Commissioner Townsend decided to retweet it, the statement, whilst adding her own thoughts.
	Quote...
	She wrote, It's not a nice issue.
	It's not hysterical for women to be taking to the streets about it.
	We will not accept this gaslighting from men who keep telling us they are women, or from those who enable them.
	Hashtag I stand with J.K. Rowling.
	So that's a police and crime commissioner, someone who is there working with the police every day, saying, Nope, this is not a fringe issue.
	It's not niche.
	This is a real issue, and we've got to solve it.
	You alphabet lunatics.
	And interestingly enough, that's one of the big parts of the TERF argument, what you could call the traditionalist feminist position at this point, the conservative feminist position.
	Caring about women's rights.
	Yes, which is the idea that these males trying to be females are in fact just males invading women's spaces.
	That's how it's been seen.
	So, I don't know what's going on with my screen there.
	Sorry about that.
	Stuff just broke for some reason.
	Anyway, getting back to the story here.
	So, in an interview with right-wing journalist Josephine Bartok, Townsend claimed that Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, chair of the all-party parliamentary group on LGBT plus rights, had confronted her about the tweet in a phone call.
	So this is it.
	It's Tory on Tory violence.
	Ha!
	So there's a Tory MP. What does Whoopi Goldberg think of this?
	Man's inhumanity to man.
	So there's a Tory MP who's decided to try and take down this Tory Police and Crime Commissioner because the Tory Police and Crime Commissioner said something sensible and this cuckold Tory MP cannot admit to reality, apparently.
	Why do we have an all-parliamentary group on LGBT plus rights?
	Can you guess who?
	Carrie.
	No, Tony Blair.
	Oh.
	Later, she said, he submitted a complaint about her comments to the sorry police and crime panel.
	So she was going to be investigated by the police for daring to say, yeah, this is an issue the police should deal with.
	How dare you?
	Wow.
	According to the Daily Mail, Blunt said in his complaint that her messaging propagates dangerous myths about reality.
	Dangerous myths about reality.
	Okay.
	On Tuesday 8th of March, the Surrey PCP's Complaints Subcommittee published its findings, ruling that her tweet was not dignified or respectful.
	F's in the chat.
	She was not dignified or respectful to a rapist who claims he's a woman after he raped someone with his trans penis.
	You seem to be struggling to understand this, Callan.
	It's so simple.
	Just get what the time is, Pickett.
	Yeah, man.
	Don't you understand?
	It's the current year!
	But also the dignity and respect.
	Why do we not show the dignity and respect that trans people deserve in this society?
	Like the aristocrats.
	Like, that's something that cannot be insulted.
	They are above all of us.
	Well, I mean, if the queer lobby, the alphabet lobby, were to be believed, I think they would make a strong argument that they are above us, specifically because we have kept them below our boots for so long.
	We'll get the next one to see a trans-aristocrat, as we have there, from the 1700s.
	There's a cartoon from the time.
	What?
	I've not seen this before!
	That looks like a Dark Souls boss.
	Hail, thou production most uncommon, woman half man and half woman man.
	Alright, bro, okay.
	Whatever, but this is the thing as well, of course, and I've said this a million times, but we'll say it again for posterity spake, if nothing else, which is that you have the alphabet lobby, who are obsessed with these kind of things, well, unreality being taken seriously, and then you have gay people and trans people and whatnot, who it's, I'm a person, I'm an accountant or whatever, and also I'm gay, not, I'm queer, and that's it.
	That's their lives.
	That's the difference here.
	If we go back to the article, we can see more of this.
	Despite the subcommittee's ruling, Townsend refuses to accept that there was anything wrong with her comments.
	Based.
	Good on you, girl.
	Don't back down.
	Good on you.
	Insisting, this issue has really brought home to me just how many men feel threatened by women with opinions.
	Love it!
	I love that she doesn't back down, she doesn't change her framing.
	Whenever she's referring to trans women, she's just like, men.
	Constantly.
	But also the doubling down on the feminist narrative.
	You know, feminists, I'm not going to forget for all the wrongs they have done in that.
	There is a strong argument to be made that the feminists sort of opened the way up for this nonsense.
	Well, but also the clash they had with the men's rights activists, I'm not going to forget, because that was the wrong thing to do.
	But also, I love that she's like, yeah, this male MP telling me I'm in the wrong and I shouldn't have an opinion on women's issues...
	Oh really?
	That's not very feminist of you.
	And he's a cuckold Tory MP, so he should be respecting feminism.
	Should he not?
	Where does feminism stack up on the progressive stack?
	Is it feminists then trans, or trans then feminists?
	I guess we're finding this out.
	I think women are definitely down on the pile these days.
	Last year, Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend accused the LGBT plus rights charity Stonewall of pushing a dangerous ideology that threatens the safety of our women and girls.
	Look, Pink News, I already like her.
	Stop.
	This is pretty based.
	She was already lovely.
	And then you ran off with that as well.
	Did you know she's also fantastic?
	She hates Stonewall too.
	OMG, she just liked me, RL. Gonna put the love hearts in the chat in a minute.
	Townsend also demanded that Surrey Police leave the Stonewall Diversity Champions program, insisting the charity risks putting feminism back 50 years.
	Again, stop.
	I really like her.
	She wants to defund Stonewall and not just get rid of them.
	That's also lovely.
	And then they end this off with, at the time, Townsend again clashed with MP Kristen Blunt, who the day before her Stonewall comments hit out at the British media for driving a moral panic over trans kids.
	If you wanted to know how much of a cuckold this MP really is.
	Okay, point to the moral panic and I will point you to all of the examples driving the moral panic.
	Well, that's an interesting phrase, isn't it?
	There's a moral panic about an event.
	It's obviously trotted out in a way that will imply that it's an illegitimate moral panic.
	But if there are real things going on, immoral things going on, that the public then have a moral panic about the immoral things...
	Yes.
	That's perfectly reasonable.
	And actually good.
	I mean, for the love of God, there's a clinic in Florida that performs surgery for this kind of surgery on 13-year-olds.
	I think parents have a right to point at that and go, don't want that.
	Not to mention all the other stuff that's gone on in the UK. We covered detransition day yesterday as well.
	If you want to go and find out some of the horror stories, or at least people who have been misled in their own words, go and check that out.
	But otherwise, we will go back into the Cockhold MP, because he's the MP for Rygate.
	So anyone from Rygate, let us know how much of a useless man he is as well.
	If you go to the next link, please, John.
	You can see them saying here, After a bitter internal Tory row over the government's long-awaited response to the Gender Recognition Act, Crispin Blunt has vowed to carry on what he sees as a vital battle for trans rights.
	Of course he does.
	He clashed here with Liz Truss, because Liz Truss dared to be sensible.
	You may remember.
	Adult.
	Human.
	Female.
	I believe.
	The clash escalated to the point where it was widely reported that Blunt had called for trust to be sacked from the equalities part of her brief, though he later issued a somewhat unconvincing clarification.
	He said he wanted this part of her job, she's also International Trade Secretary, to be given to someone else.
	Well, no, that's the same thing, which is him saying that he can't help or he can't stand that someone sensible is in charge of these matters and not someone like him who doesn't understand the issue.
	I mean, just by his own statements.
	If you do, mate, if you're going to say that you do, define a woman for us all.
	And let's see if it's not a circular argument.
	I love the sputtering whenever they start that.
	The complete silence followed by...
	A woman is a woman if they identify as a woman.
	Whoever describes themselves as a woman.
	Trans women are women because trans women are women because trans women are women.
	The Chad, Matt, Walsh...
	Yes, but what is that?
	Actually define it.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see a bit of Lisa here.
	So Lisa has become my new favourite person in British politics.
	And if you scroll down, you can see her election in 2021.
	Absolutely smashed it.
	Absolutely smashed the Lib Dem there.
	Good job.
	I don't know about the local area or what else she's done, but you can see democratic mandate to do what she's doing.
	For people who don't know, police and crime commissioners in this country are elected.
	Don't really understand the arguments around that, but that's for another time.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see that Lisa does not give an F. About all of this.
	And she was invited by Andrew Doyle to go on his show on GB News and just talk about this.
	And she was very frank.
	So let's play it.
	JK Rowling had tweeted following a case in Scotland around women with penises committing rape.
	And I retweeted it and I added a comment to it saying, essentially, I think my frustration came out quite clearly, saying that, you know, women wouldn't put up with this anymore.
	We would not be gaslighted by these men who had no intention, actually, most of living as women at all.
	But suddenly wish to declare themselves as women once they'd committed rape.
	So I retweeted that.
	As you said, there were three men who made a complaint, one of whom was a local MP in Surrey, where I'm PCC. And the panel came out with their decision, sent me their decision on Tuesday of this week, which of course happened to also be International Women's Day.
	I mean, that's the cherry on top, isn't it?
	Yep.
	On International Women's Day, we have discovered that women are not women.
	That's the position of the police.
	Feminist BTFO'd.
	Yes.
	Get out of here.
	How dare you say that women are women?
	That's the position that the police took against Lisa, the Police and Crime Commissioner, as well.
	Amazing.
	So, J.K. Rowling is also now, of course, Romlyn Tomlinson.
	Levels of heresy, at least to the progressive left, the adeptarian left.
	People haven't tried kicking her out of the country yet.
	I think they'll go for it.
	I don't think there's anything that will stop them.
	Well, actually, to be fair, I say that they've tried to de-platform her and un-person her from her own stories.
	So I thought we'd enjoy some hoes who are mad.
	So I'll start with one ho.
	So as you can see here, pronouns in the bio, all the time.
	Wonder about that.
	Not even bio, in the handle.
	What do they decide right here?
	If you enjoy the wizard books, you're a transphobic, racist, homophobic, anti-Semite piece of S. You've run out of chances to try and defend yourself.
	You're a right-wing C-word, and you support other right-wing C-words.
	And I love, as you can see there, just 794 quote tweets.
	Yeah!
	The quote tweets, PROVE I'M RIGHT! If you disagree with me, you're wrong.
	Yeah, it goes on.
	I mean, this does not seem like a particularly reasonable person.
	But this is entirely normal for the identitarian left.
	Well, yeah.
	This is where they have arrived, and will arrive the rest of them within, I don't know, the afternoon.
	This is where the nutty echo chambers lead, where it's like, well, if you disagree with me, then you're just a homophobe and an awful human being.
	You should probably just die.
	Yeah, but this isn't the French.
	Like, this is box-standard leftist rhetoric.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, when is there not an election where they just go, yeah, my opponent, he's a racist, Islamophobic, homophobic?
	Well, it's a lot easier than providing an argument, isn't it?
	It's so box standard, it means nothing.
	It's the white noise of sitting in a room full of socialists.
	You just hear this in the background.
	Don't describe that, please.
	I'll be just having nightmares.
	I'm going to go to the Labour Party conference next time live.
	You know what, actually?
	I might have to come with you.
	Yeah, so this quote tweets...
	Sorry, the quote tweets prove that I'm right.
	Surely do, love.
	Him.
	Who cares?
	The supporters of those garbage books and the garbage human who wrote them are right-wing bootlickers who think some children's books are more important than human lives.
	No, we think that the human lives are the most important thing, therefore we shouldn't mislead people into destroying their own children or other people's children.
	Also, it does just have to be pointed out every single time.
	J.K. Rowling is not right-wing.
	She has never been right-wing.
	Up until 2020 when all this happened, she was...
	Very far left wing.
	Right wing according to who?
	According to the far left, of course she's right to them.
	According to the far leftists.
	She's a reactionary.
	Counter-revolutionary.
	She's reacting to gender ideology, therefore reactionary equal right wing.
	But to anybody living in the real world, she's still pretty much a leftist.
	So she ends us off with, they keep coming, guess everyone who quoted these tweets thinks slaves who enjoyed being enslaved...
	I have no idea what the hell that's a reference to.
	I do.
	I do.
	Would you like the context?
	Sure.
	Trans people slave now.
	In The Goblet of Fire, there is the subplot with Hermione trying to free all of the house elves who are basically slaves after having met Dobby who has been freed after the Chamber of Secrets.
	You'll remember this.
	This is a plot they left out of the film of Goblet of Fire.
	For understandable reasons, which is when she goes down into the kitchens and sees all of these slaves and is like, you guys need to rise up, basically comes out there with Lenin, like, workers' rights, we need to rise up against the bourgeois.
	All of the elves go, but we love being slaves.
	It's what we're raised to do.
	It's fantastic.
	It's such an easy life.
	And they just get her to go away.
	And Hermione, like, I think even Ron's like, well, that sure showed you, Hermione.
	Yeah.
	See, they just love it.
	They just really love those boots on their necks.
	Well, okay, so they're the Ood.
	I mean, yeah, that's the thing.
	Within the context of the universe, it's like fair play.
	Obviously, it's not something that would hold up in the real world, but we're talking about a fantasy universe.
	Yes, of course.
	All right, that's hilarious.
	I can't believe you didn't know that.
	No, and I'll keep that in mind for the Harry Potter book reviews that we do at some point.
	Oh, I'd happily do a read-through of them again.
	Yeah, so if we go to the next one, we can also see Emma Watson, or Hermione there, who was very upset about her predatarian moment, also decided to come out and say that she stands with all the witches in some award ceremony of rich people who all earn God knows how much.
	And also disconnected from reality who cares.
	But this was her, or it was interpreted as her saying she stands with the trans feminists, not the feminist feminists, of course.
	And I saw someone pointing out here, when your I'm not defined by J.K. Rowling moment is still defined by J.K. Rowling.
	Yes.
	Emma, no one would know who you are if it weren't for J.K. Rowling.
	And you always have to live with that.
	Go to the next one, because there's some images from her at the gala here.
	Some people saying that they took some images there.
	We're not allowed to say anything about these.
	We'll leave this to the female commenters and move on completely, because otherwise it's misogyny.
	So, let's go to the next one, in which I wanted to talk about the definition of a witch, because she says she stands with all witches.
	Well, here's a definition, at least according to harrypotter.fandom.
	Some people not involved.
	Tom Watson doesn't know the law.
	An individual male human with magical ability was known as a wizard, plural wizards.
	And an individual female human with magical ability was known as a witch, plural witches.
	Although wizard was sometimes used as gender neutral singular noun like man.
	So not a woman...
	Well, no, it is a sex definition.
	But a female human.
	You have to be a female.
	Okay, very interesting.
	France women can't be witches, at least according to harrypotter.fandom.
	Very interesting.
	Yeah, I&E, well, have you looked at this wiki page?
	Yeah, well, I'm not wrong, though, am I? No, you're not!
	If the lore literally states that you have to be a female to be a witch, then, well, that's the lore.
	Again, not really my huge franchise, did enjoy it growing up, but there we are.
	There's the lore for a lady who apparently hasn't read her own series' lore.
	Let's move on to the last one here, which is just the Turf response to all this as well, which is making Turf art about J.K. Rowling, who's becoming some kind of, I don't know, presumably saint.
	To be fair, I see every so often I stand with J.K. Rowling just crops up as trending on Twitter because every so often the TERFs just come back out with it again.
	Fair play.
	And if we can click on this just to get the image there of what was written, which is, you know, of course, TERF rhetoric saying Feminarchi, TERF, B-word, witch, times change, women hate is eternal.
	Well, that's the feminist perspective of all this, but there we are.
	That's that.
	I also wanted to just talk about the fact that Townsend, Lisa over there, Keep it up.
	That was great work.
	Yeah.
	Good job.
	Go to the next one.
	Well, boys, I got exciting news.
	New COVID variant just dropped.
	COVID. New covariant.
	I'm sorry.
	Just dropped, and it's looking like some exciting times.
	Let's go over what's going on here.
	So this is an article from a week ago.
	I don't know if this is what it's talking about.
	Has anything to do with the new variant, but it seems quite similar.
	And also, we'll just point out to all of the tactics that the media and governments will be taking going forward, which is that as soon as you get any amount of freedoms back, no, no, no, no.
	Be very careful.
	There might be new variants hiding out somewhere.
	There's a way for Ukraine to be gone first.
	Yes, we will, but they're laying the seeds, they've planted everything ready for when Ukraine is done.
	They can just pop back up with COVID variants, everybody get back indoors, stop being so naughty, sharing air with one another.
	Very awful.
	So, an Omicron-like variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, one that appears to be highly divergent from circulating strains and sticks out on a long branch of the virus's family tree, has been discovered.
	In a population of white-tailed deer in Ontario, Canada, according to a new study.
	Same strain has also been found in a person from the same area who had confirmed contact with the deer, but there's no evidence of sustained transmission from deer to humans, and it's unlikely to pose an immediate threat to humans.
	Very strange way of putting it, because if he has the same strain as the deer, that would imply there is some transmission going on there.
	I don't know what relations he had with the deer.
	Perhaps it was the monkey AIDS situation from the 80s, but...
	But the article leaves that ambiguous.
	That's from CNN, who knows?
	Yeah, but that's the thing with CNN, with all of these sorts of things, there will always be a new variant and a new strain to worry about, whether it's in people already, or if it's just gestating in animals, waiting to be...
	Burst out.
	And after that, all of a sudden, recently, there has been a new variant popping up, which has been tentatively titled Deltacron, because they don't already sound enough like Transformers.
	I mean, Deltacron, seriously?
	A new COVID-19 variant, unofficially dubbed Deltacron because it's a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants, has been detected in a small number of cases in France, the Netherlands and Denmark, the World Health Organization says.
	Because there are fused cases, scientists don't know much about the variant, such as how easily it spreads and if it causes severe illness.
	We have not seen any change in the epidemiology with this recombinant, we haven't seen any change in severity, but there are many studies that are underway.
	Who scientists also noted that the variant will probably spread.
	Unfortunately, we do expect to see recombinants because of this is what viruses do.
	They change over time.
	We're seeing very intense level of circulation.
	We are seeing this virus infect animals with the possibility of infecting humans again.
	So again, the pandemic is far from over because this pandemic will never be over.
	I mean, potentially, Putin has managed to end it temporarily.
	Black...
	He's got a minor buffer on it.
	Black Lives Matter ended it for a few weeks.
	Yeah, that's true.
	This is a very interesting pandemic.
	Despite being far from over at all times, it can be put on pause temporarily.
	The fact that there is not much of it, that even the two cases we saw were different, suggests that it's probably not going to elevate to a variant of concern level.
	It's only a variant if it produces a large number of cases.
	So no, if it's not causing lots of cases, people don't need to be concerned.
	And that's That's what we're getting from the scientists.
	You trust the science, do you not, Callum?
	You're being very hesitant here.
	We're on YouTube.
	That's true, that's true, but you trust the science, right?
	I'm not being a jo- I'm not joking!
	I mean, come on, you trust the science, and this is what the scientists are saying, don't panic.
	I trust people who are actual scientists and not smear merchants and political actors.
	Yes, well, the scientists are saying, don't panic, the independent-...is implying otherwise.
	So if we move along, the media have got a hold of this all of a sudden.
	And now all of a sudden, it's concerns have been raised about a more infectious substrain of the Omicron COVID variant as cases across the UK rise again.
	The UK was hit by a wave of infections caused by Omicron, also known as BA1, in December and over the new year after it spread from southern Africa.
	Despite infections subsequently falling, prompting Boris Johnson's government to drop all social restrictions in England, by February, Omicron remains the dominant strain of the virus globally.
	And easily, as we all know, the least concerning variant so far, it can still, obviously for YouTube, it can still affect people very negatively, but it is the least severe of all of them.
	And so, while the Independent tries to make it sound otherwise, you should stay worried at all times, Omicron is the reason why all of the social restrictions have been lifted, basically, alongside high levels of vaccination.
	However, the UK Health Security Agency has said that a sub-lineage of Omicron known as BA2, or Stealth Omicron, we've got the Sneaky Ninja Omicron in now, first discovered in December...
	Sorry, just a note.
	I haven't seen it on stream as well, John.
	I don't know if you can get up the article on stream so people can see.
	Oh, is it not up there?
	You want to continue?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	First discovered in December is being treated as a variant under investigation.
	Its chief executive, Dr Jenny Harris, warns the increasing presence of the BA2 sub-lineage of Omicron and the recent slight increase in infections in those over 55 show that the pandemic is not over and that we can expect to see COVID circulating at high levels.
	The Wellcome Sanger Institute has also calculated that the strain accounted for 57% of the 27,000.
	New cases recorded in England in the last week of February is therefore Already the dominant version of the virus being transmitted.
	So I feel it ramping up.
	I feel it ramping up to calls for lockdown again.
	Does the vaccine work?
	Well, yes.
	Yes, it does, in fact.
	That's going to be ignored, isn't it?
	That's the thing.
	Well, it was ignored with Omicron.
	Yeah.
	It was ignored every single time when it's politically convenient to lock down because loads of people are starting to freak out about it as pushed by the media.
	So, it's not currently known whether stealth Omicron produces different symptoms to the version of the coronavirus we've seen so far, but the most common symptoms being reported by patients are runny noses, headache, sore throat, and fatigue.
	Other common COVID indicators include sneezing, persistent cough, hoarseness, chills or shivers, unusual joint pains, fever, dizziness, brain fog, sore eyes, altered sense of smell, muscle pain, swollen glands, loss of appetite and chest pain.
	So all pretty standard symptoms that we're aware of with Omicron.
	Honestly, I was ill for some of last week.
	Those were my symptoms.
	So I think I've probably had this.
	But I'm fine now.
	It wasn't particularly serious.
	Obviously, it can be negative and badly affect some people.
	The extreme risk groups.
	Yeah, the extreme risk groups and otherwise.
	But for somebody like myself, or if Callum were to catch it, or anybody else in the office, it's pretty harmless.
	For the most part.
	Doctors say so far there is insufficient evidence to determine whether BA2 causes more severe illness than Omicron BA1, but data is limited and the UK Health Security Agency continues to investigate.
	In better news, the agency found no evidence of any difference in vaccine effectiveness against stealth Omicron.
	So there you go.
	The vaccines still work.
	The vaccines are safe and effective.
	So, no need to worry, right?
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	In its most recent update on 11th March, the UK government reported that 399,820 people had tested positive for COVID within the last seven days, a rise of 56.3% week on week, part of a steady increase since the start of March.
	Although it is no longer legally required for members of the public to wear face masks and observe social distancing in most indoor spaces, It might be advisable to resume those habits in the interest of protecting others from infection.
	So don't panic, but still panic!
	Right?
	You need to be on guard, because this is stealth Omicron now.
	It could sneak up on you and get you by the throat, and who knows what will happen.
	So...
	In the spirit of such reporting, I thought I would play a little clip from the South Park post-COVID special to kind of let us all know what we'll be in for when they really start to ramp this up once the Ukraine crisis is over, if you'd like to play this for us, John.
	There is no reason to panic, but Kenny died of COVID.
	It's a new variant, the COVID Delta Plus Rewards Program variant.
	Everyone, please!
	We cannot panic!
	Huh?
	No!
	No!
	That's it!
	We're all out of tin diapers!
	Oh, God!
	You're all out of tin diapers!
	Oh, God!
	So that's a nice little taster of what will be happening in the next few months if things go as I'm honestly expecting.
	I would like to think otherwise.
	The government has removed the restrictions and all that recently, but honestly, I just have no trust in our governments to do the sensible thing.
	Not to follow the science.
	To follow the science, exactly.
	I have no reason to trust that they will go, well, the vaccines still work, therefore, let's just carry on as we have been doing, because cases do not mean hospitalizations, and cases do not mean deaths.
	And I'm sure if you were to tally up the percentage of deaths from Omicron or these new variants, whatever, it's probably going to be very, very low.
	So, and BBC has asked what are the COVID variants, do vaccines still work, and even they've got it here.
	Preliminary lab studies found two doses of COVID vaccine may not be enough, which is why some countries, including the UK, are giving people extra doses to boost their immunity.
	Research suggests boosters should provide good protection against even severe illness.
	UK officials have been keeping an eye on the recent descendant of the Delta variant called AY4.2, Or Delta Plus, just making South Park come true.
	Again, Delta Rewards Plus.
	As well as...
	As well as Domicron, which I can only assume implies that it will also make you go bald, or Deltacron COVID infections that combine Delta and Omicron.
	So, if you have been vaccinated, you should still be fine, and honestly, it should just be your choice up to this point, as it is, really.
	It's your choice whether to get vaccinated.
	But if you're worried, you can do that, and you'll be fine, according to this.
	Unless, of course, you asked...
	The Pfizer CEO, who says a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be needed.
	To help fend off another wave of COVID, people will need a fourth dose, says the chief salesman of COVID vaccines, Pfizer CEO Albert Borea.
	God, should I be panicked buying toilet paper again?
	Maybe!
	I wouldn't suggest it.
	Please, for the love of God, don't everybody go out and panic buy.
	No, no, just because there will be people.
	Don't go out and panic buy.
	Don't even go and prepare panic buy.
	Everybody just relax.
	Alright?
	Calm down.
	Relax.
	Everything's going to be fine.
	Okay?
	It's become a tradition, really.
	Why are you at the shops today buying toilet paper as is traditional?
	Every February we go and buy 10 years worth of toilet paper.
	I've still got my stocks from last year, but you know, you can't miss out.
	What accent is this?
	I don't know.
	It's a South Park voice.
	Hello there, neighbor!
	Slowly turning Canadian.
	Hey!
	Screw you, guy!
	Oh.
	Alright, back to it, okay.
	Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade, in a skillful way, the immune protection that we're giving.
	Like, Omicron's just there, like, hiding around the corners, like, waiting for the vaccine to pass by, or something.
	The protection we are getting from the third dose is good enough, actually quite good for hospitalisations and deaths.
	So, for that thing that we initiated the lockdowns for in the first place, hospitalisations, overwhelming...
	The UK health system.
	Third dose, perfectly fine for that.
	But my bottom line says we need a fourth dose.
	Stat.
	Isn't this the dude that sold all his stock in Pfizer as well and they're tanked?
	Has he re-brought it?
	And now he's like, yeah, guys, fourth dose.
	This is the CEO. I don't know his current stock situation with the company.
	I might be mistaken, but I swear it literally was the CEO that sold all his stock and then the news came out that Omicron wasn't as bad as it was.
	Pfizer stock went down.
	And he's like, right, buy, buy, buy, buy.
	I don't know if he's rebroad, but just...
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	I wouldn't put it past him.
	But protection after three doses is not that good against infections and doesn't last very long when faced with a variant like Omicron.
	You know, for a salesman of his own product, he's not selling it very well.
	In fact, actually, they're not very good at all, is basically what he's saying there.
	Not that I agree with that or anything.
	I disagree with that.
	I disagree with the Pfizer salesman.
	No.
	Actually, your product is good.
	It's necessary a fourth dose right now.
	So, once again, you have to ask, does this man have any vested interests?
	He's a salesman.
	I know, this is something I will put to the audience.
	I will make no comment.
	And it's so sad, because this is just as things were starting to look up.
	Sajid Javid posted that on this Friday coming up, the travel restrictions will be lifted.
	So, from Friday, if you're on a plane, no tests and no passenger locator forms, which will be excellent for anybody who's actually looking to, you know, go on holiday or make things a lot easier for you.
	If you wouldn't mind scrolling down here, John, as you can see, there are the usual types complaining to say, what a terrible idea, that's all very well, but don't you understand, cases are going up!
	You lifted restrictions and cases for the incredibly mild variant.
	I love that he's included that graph.
	I don't know who this is, but you can see from that graph New Zealand's surviving it because they're not having the same kind of problems that Hong Kong is.
	And it's like, yeah, and our island is what, like 80% vaccinated for over 12?
	I think 80% for double vaccinated or something like that.
	Fine.
	Yeah, so we're absolutely fine, but Twitter wants you to panic, and thankfully, it seems that Sajid Javid is, maybe, has regrown a backbone?
	Shocking for a member of the Tory cabinet.
	Come on, we're not giving him that benefit of the doubt.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Ant-Man is just a political win Yeah, well, the wind is blowing him in a very particular direction, and it's a good direction this time, because the political winds ever since all of the party gate came out seems to have been pushed him in a position of don't be a hypocrite.
	Which, you know, fair play.
	So he was asked about the newly identified Deltacron variant.
	And said that a handful of cases had been identified in the UK but were not of particular concern.
	About 99% of infections in Britain were of the Omicron variant.
	He said, we keep the situation very carefully under review.
	There's no other variant of concern out there that is an issue at this point in time.
	Janet told Times Radio that officials continue to monitor infections, case numbers, hospital admissions and capacities.
	We are the most open country in Europe and that's happened because of the country's approach and the British people's approach to vaccination, he said.
	I would say it's because the media called him out and Boris out.
	Yes, and then all the restrictions collapsed.
	And yes, because they didn't really have much of a leg to stand on.
	But if you want to say that, Javid, you know, it's your...
	You want to cope harder?
	If you want to cope like that, you know, like, you're free to do so.
	But this is not looking...
	People across different elements of the government are not looking at this in the same way.
	Like, in Northern Ireland...
	And I can only expect this to potentially be something our government takes going forward.
	The devolved government of Northern Ireland says that their health department wants their powers extended in response to the new variant.
	Northern Ireland's health minister, Robin Swan- He set out plans to extend his department's power under the Coronavirus Act for another six months.
	Everybody remembers that the Coronavirus Act was passed in 2020 to give the governments the power to initiate lockdowns and forceful restrictions on social gatherings and such.
	It is due to expire on the 24th this month.
	So we'll see if they let it expire.
	He repeated his view that it is important to keep the ability to introduce COVID restrictions if needed, such as in the case of a new variant.
	The IRA variant has forced us to bring in these...
	It's forced us to lock down all the Protestants.
	Catholics.
	Sorry, yeah.
	However, he acknowledged it would be almost impossible to reintroduce COVID rules in the absence of an executive.
	The executive, Stormont's devolved government, collapsed last month.
	I looked into that a little bit.
	They've had massive sexual harassment allegations that caused the government to collapse, so that's nice to know that the only way to truly get rid of restrictions and COVID rules is for I really don't want to have to do this to you guys.
	I really don't want to have to do this to you, man.
	This hurts me more than it hurts you, I swear.
	Look, officer, she walked into the doorframe.
	It was nothing to do with me.
	But they said that no objections had been raised by other ministers against the extension.
	So, once again, you know, everything's looking alright over in England, but...
	We'll see if they let the powers expire on the 24th, and we'll see what they do going forward from that, because I do not see a position where the government will really let go of any power that they can get their grubby little paws on personally, but we'll see how it goes moving forward.
	But what we need to remember in these trying times is that if the restrictions are put back up, restrictions on work and social gathering, which is that prostitutes will be the most affected, Sex workers and strippers explain how COVID has forced them to gamble with their safety.
	This is going to be a particularly big interest to Boris Johnson, I imagine.
	While some people have been able to work remotely during the pandemic, many people's livelihoods depend on in-person contact.
	Oh, pink news.
	Bless you.
	Bless your little hearts.
	They never heard of a cam whore.
	Like, there is a COVID-safe alternative.
	I mean, Thomas is going to be furious at me for suggesting this, but there is always OnlyFans, guys.
	Come on.
	To make matters worse, sex workers are classed as self-employed, meaning they can't access sick pay or other benefits.
	The result is that many sex workers are left struggling to make ends meet if they test positive for COVID-19.
	Ignore!
	God, I wish I could play the violin.
	Just...
	Ignore all of the other self-employed people.
	This also implies to...
	Won't somebody think of the poor whores?
	I think they're hard workers.
	Yeah, I'm sure they are very, very hard workers.
	But they also need to remind everybody that, plus, many strippers.
	It's not just strippers and prostitutes.
	Porn stars as well?
	It's queer strippers and prostitutes.
	So this is also affecting the alpha...
	What about BIPOC queer strippers?
	Mate, don't even get me started on the BIPOC queers.
	So many strippers are queer, and a significant portion of the customer base also is.
	Closing strict clubs down would once again be removing safe spaces for the community due to the high security presence in those venues and the very strict licensing.
	So you've really got to think of the poor whores.
	And just another reminder as well, that when people are trying to push all of this hysteria and fear, it does lead to mass neurosis in a population.
	I'm not going to read through this article.
	I've already gone through this article in a premium podcast, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
	He's cute, but is he swab-worthy?
	How rapid testing became a dating ritual.
	And this is just an article that is unironically going through all of the very many ways in which people are...
	So highly neurotic about COVID now that they are ruining their own personal lives.
	Like some guy having to spend his 41st birthday alone at an art gallery when he was intending to go to a date because, like, his partner, the person he was intending on going with got the sniffles, so he's like, well, I may be alone on my 41st birthday, but I'm ever so glad to be vaccinated and even boosted.
	This is the sort of scenario we've found ourselves in.
	This is the atmosphere that we're living in currently, as far as society goes, and the media will not let it go, as long as there are new variants.
	I think she's dodged a bullet, frankly.
	To be frank, yes.
	But this is the atmosphere that the media want to keep Go on from that.
	Are you pro-death penalty?
	Depends on the circumstances.
	If you want an actual answer, I am very wary of any state power to just execute people, but at the same time do believe that there are certain crimes that absolutely do deserve punishment by death, pedophilia, murder, you know, the typical, the usual suspects.
	Well, I'm going to argue it definitely for terrorists, and let's see if there's any changing of minds here.
	Often they sort of, like, help themselves out, in that sense, but yeah.
	So anyway.
	I think executing terrorists is not wrong, and hashtag change my mind's in the comments, I suppose.
	I'll go and read them.
	But let's start off with where this story starts, which is here, this article.
	Boris Johnson vows to end addiction to Russian fuel ahead of Saudi Arabia trip.
	British PM hopes to persuade Crown Prince Salman to raise oil and gas production to reduce reliance on Moscow.
	With no sense of irony, that is what he said.
	That is the whole purpose of this trip.
	Russians so we're going to the Saudis to make sure we're not relying on the Russians anymore okay you're just going to be relying on the Saudis instead as we have been in the past and ends up funding jihadists all over the world you see how this is creating a circular problem Boris so Doesn't get it.
	Quote, We cannot go on like this.
	The world cannot be subject to this continuous blackmail.
	As long as the West is economically dependent on Prince Salman, he will do all he can to exploit that dependence, and that is why the dependence must and will end now.
	Sorry, as I say Salman, I meant Putin.
	In that sentence, of course.
	Easy mistake to make.
	Yeah, so if we go to the next link here, we can see on GB News, Nigel Farage talking about this and his biggest upset.
	And the major one I've seen from the right wing is, of course, well, this is ridiculous.
	It is obviously hypocritical.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	If you're arguing for energy independence, that should be the position you're going for.
	He is also trying to push through a referendum on the green deals and other such things, which I think it...
	Nigel is.
	Yes, yes.
	Obviously not Boris.
	They're all his ideas.
	But if that referendum does go through, which, unlikely as it is, I would like to see, that would be fantastic, because I think it would give everybody the opportunity to go, no, this is bankrupting me.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Please don't do this.
	We'll get into that another time, because that's not where this segment's going, which is just that this is the debate I've seen from the right wing, or at least the response to this obvious hypocrisy.
	But unless the socialist concern, or at least the major one that the socialists have been harping on about in response to his trip...
	And this is an article from a World Socialist website.
	I mean, guess where they stand?
	Why do you visit this?
	It's just where I go.
	Saudi monarchy executes 81 men in one day.
	Medieval barbarism from a top US ally in the Middle East.
	In a brutal act of mass murder, the US-backed Saudi monarchy executed 81 men Saturday in the largest such massacre in the history of the kingdom.
	The barbaric action received only perfunctory attention in the American media, in sharp contrast to the saturation of coverage of every alleged atrocity carried out by Russian forces in Ukraine.
	Okay, socialists, right?
	The White House and State Department did not issue any public statements on the situation.
	If we go forward, we can see more socialists and their responses.
	So you can see Jeremy Corbyn, who is very mad about the situation, saying Boris Johnson must cancel his trip to Saudi Arabia and condemn the largest mass execution in the country's history.
	Sign the petition below.
	There's the petition there.
	Because the next one we have is Lamo Labour, who of course has something to say.
	She said, 14,000 likes that.
	Have we found out why they were executed yet?
	Are we getting onto that?
	We will get to it.
	Okay.
	Let's go to the next one so we can see another socialist.
	Mad about this.
	Not even going to bother reading this one.
	You get the point.
	Which is Islam of Labour.
	And Labour.
	Very mad.
	And then we'll go to the Saudi side of the story.
	Because you always hear this, and I remember always hearing this.
	And you always hear, oh, the Saudis have executed 50 people or something.
	They are barbarians.
	And, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean...
	There is an important element of that that's not being mentioned, though.
	There is a death penalty for being homosexual.
	There is the death penalty for going against the government.
	I mean, it is Saudi Arabia.
	When I say that I'm worried about state power having the ability to execute people, that's the sort of stuff that I worry about.
	Just the arbitrary power of it.
	This is what comes to mind when you think of such things.
	And yeah, I imagine there is some of this in here.
	And do not get me wrong and do not trust the Saudis.
	The Saudis are the Saudis as much as everyone else is what they are.
	But I thought I'd actually just go through and read their side of the argument.
	And I found myself not entirely unconvinced about some of the individuals involved.
	So this is the English Saudi press agency.
	So the state media response to the whole situation.
	What do they have to say?
	Ministry of Interior says, Not
	looking very good.
	No, these are all looking like reasonable charges to execute somebody on, so far.
	There are a lot of people in Guantanamo, which, quite frankly, if the United States government decided tomorrow, yeah, we're just going to end this.
	Here's your sentence.
	They would not have this level of evidence against them, or these charges.
	Well, no, they may have the level of evidence, but it's just that I wouldn't care.
	Oh, yeah.
	Like, if you've got a bunch of guys from ISIS you're keeping in Guantanamo, who are clearly guilty, or the guys involved in 9-11, and you're just like, yeah, I don't really feel like putting you in prison for 500 years.
	Buzz.
	Shoot.
	Whatever.
	Whatever the methods are in whatever state they're going to try them in.
	I'm not sure I'd give a toss.
	This is if, of course, these people are guilty of such things.
	They continue with the crimes.
	The list is even longer.
	Oh, okay.
	Sorry to cut you off.
	Moreover, the convictions include crimes of kidnapping, torture, rape, smuggling arms and bombs into the kingdom.
	The aforementioned individuals were arrested and tried in Saudi courts through trials overseen by a total of 13 judges over three separate stages of trial for each individual.
	The accused were provided with the right to attorney and were guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law.
	This is where I'm...
	Yeah, that's the thing for me, because it's like, I don't know how thorough all this is going to be.
	No, I don't trust the Saudi legal process.
	Yeah.
	I mean, come on.
	Would I trust the United States legal process for such people involved in such crimes?
	Yeah, a hell of a lot more.
	Yeah, I would trust it a lot more.
	They also continue in here saying that they were given their rights of the Saudi law.
	I can't believe they wrote that.
	I expect everyone to take it seriously, but okay.
	Damn it, this thing keeps breaking on me.
	Sorry, my laptop.
	They then continue to say that they were charged for various heinous crimes, for charges against civilians.
	Again, just reiterating themselves.
	The kingdom will continue to take a strict and unwavering stance against terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the stability of the entire world.
	That's their side of it?
	That's the English version side of it.
	Oh, okay.
	That's the funny thing.
	Okay.
	This is why whenever you look at foreign propaganda, always check out the English version they provided, and then go and read the native one, because the native one's always more fun.
	Yeah, I'm sure it's probably going to be a bit more zealous.
	Yeah.
	I couldn't find the Arabic version.
	However, I did find an English outlet, as you can see in the mirror here, who did, and have given us some snippets.
	Oh, wonderful.
	Oh, boy, is it poetic.
	I bet it is.
	The way of describing it, at least.
	So, the government said the men were put to death for following the path of Satan.
	And because their hands were stained with innocent blood.
	The statement released by the Saudi press agency said, By the grace of Allah, the security authorities were able to arrest these criminal elements, whose hands were stained with the blood of innocents, and their thoughts and actions were polluted with treachery to this country.
	We need to start releasing press releases like this, I swear.
	Yes.
	By the grace of God!
	Honestly...
	I mean, we are a kingdom.
	I mean, yeah, we are.
	And majesty is put there by God.
	That is our state ideology.
	Yeah, I mean, it sounds fair to me.
	If legal documents were written like this, I would be able to take them seriously.
	I want the queen herself to be swinging the sword on the execution.
	Deus Vult!
	A group of seven Saudi nationals were also put to death for several crimes, including gunning down citizens and their children in a village during Ramadan.
	Oh, Christ.
	I mean, could you get any more things?
	The men included 37 national Saudis who were found guilty in a single case for attempting to assassinate security officials and targeting police stations and convoys, the statement said.
	Another group was slain.
	I love it.
	The language used is just so different to what we're used to.
	So, for communicating with a foreign entity with intentions of harming the state and sending them coordinates of government agencies' sites.
	They were killed for covering up people belonging to terrorist groups, breaching the trust, and infiltrating the kingdom to carry out terrorist acts by targeting security men and plant mines and participating in smuggling of weapons and hand grenades.
	The number dwarfed 67 executions reported in 2021 and 27 in 2022.
	Uh, 2020.
	Sorry, 2020.
	So there you have it.
	Huge ramp up in executions, but apparently not without cause.
	However, this is the Saudis.
	Yes.
	Do we trust that all 81 were given the due course?
	Do we trust that all 81 were guilty of all these things?
	If the outcome could be that you die, there needs to be a ridiculously high burden of proof.
	Yeah.
	So, do we trust all of this case?
	I don't think I do.
	What a shock!
	However, of course, it's Saudi Arabia, given the state of Saudi culture and the situation, let's say, in the state of what they fund and all the regions around them.
	The idea that there aren't people in Saudi Arabia that do these things and have done these things and then been put on trial, I find it believable that there is an element of these people.
	Are you going by the logic?
	Well, if I pick out 81 from a crowd, at least some of them are going to be terrorists.
	Yes.
	And I think my estimate is reasonable because, I mean, we all remember Bin Laden, for one.
	Yeah, that's true.
	A guy who the Saudis could have taken back and executed and ended up not for multiple reasons.
	We have a book club on that.
	Go check that out.
	But yeah, these people do come from Saudi society.
	Remember all the hijackers, 9-11.
	Yeah.
	So if we go to the next one, we also have another reporting on this, this time from the Gulf.
	And this is some of the people involved in this, or at least the charges against them.
	Two Saudis executed for killing mother who tried to stop them from joining ISIS. Oh, okay.
	I'm not going to shed many tears for these guys.
	I believe it for this one.
	The duo were among the 81 put to death on Saturday in the kingdom's largest mass execution.
	The brothers' crimes date back to July 2016.
	driven by radical beliefs they allegedly killed their mother after she tried to stop them from joining isis in syria in a case that outraged saudi society fair enough quote the only thing we have established is that these twins follow takfiri ideology the ministry said takfiri is when um we're both muslims are we all right just say we are for the sake of argument
	Quote, Okay.
	They have that position, according to the ministry, using a phrase which Saudi authorities used to refer to Islamist militancy.
	Okay.
	The case is under investigation, said a spokesman, who declined to give further details.
	This is funny because they've been killed.
	Like, they've been executed.
	And the Ministry's like...
	Wait, no!
	We're still investigating the situation.
	We'll clear them at the funeral if we have to.
	Like, the Minister is holding up the head of the twin and the blood's pouring out.
	He's like, yeah, we're still investigating.
	Yeah, definitely.
	Don't worry, we'll give you a fair trial, bro.
	I don't know what that one's about, but okay.
	In a statement after the attack, the Interior Ministry said that the twins, Khalid and Sila al-Orani, were allegedly on suspicion of stabbing their 67-year-old mother, Haliya, their 73-year-old father, and their 22-year-old brother at a family home in the capital of Riyadh.
	the point of hospitalization 70 and their other brother and their other brother because they were trying to stop them from joining isis the mother who died of her wounds had objected to her son's joining isis in syria the father and brother were in hospital with serious condition while the alleged attackers were arrested trying to flee across the border to yemen okay see with this i i don't distrust that all of this is true and they probably did this so I can imagine this happening in Saudi Arabia.
	Yes, I can absolutely imagine.
	It's just the killing them and then finishing off the investigation.
	That is the only case where I'm like, what?
	It's the process that I care about more than anything, because I can easily see how under that you could get some innocent people killed and then they go, oh, we'll still investigate, don't you worry about it, love.
	I don't trust the Saudi justice system.
	No, not at all.
	However, you may think, well, in the UK you may still not agree with me, but this is the thing that changed my mind, because I used to be anti-death penalty completely.
	As did I, as did I, to be fair.
	The thing that changed my mind fundamentally was the Reading Stabber.
	So, if we go to the next image here, you can see we gave him the death penalty in the UK. We gave him a whole life prison sentence.
	That is the rest of his life in the UK. This isn't some flimsy 17 years.
	That is, he will never leave prison.
	He will stay there until he dies.
	Yeah, that is death by prison.
	That is absolutely death by prison.
	As you are implying.
	And I can see how, in this circumstance, it sounds like we're probably spending quite a lot of money on just keeping him alive for the rest of his life when we know he's going to die anyway.
	So I've made this argument forth for people who don't know.
	This is a chap, refugee.
	Needed so much refuge, didn't he?
	Came over here, ended up becoming a terrorist, was put in prison for terrorism offences, and then upon release, immediately went out to Reading Gardens, Farbury Gardens, and stabbed a bunch of gay guys to death, and then handed himself in.
	Okay.
	So then he was given a whole life order.
	We've got you on camera.
	We've got an admission.
	It's you.
	Did he not tell them about his trans penis?
	He didn't, funnily enough.
	I wonder if he'll convert in the next few months.
	Surely this is one of those little girls that I see coming across on the channel.
	The evidence is so high that we gave him a whole life order.
	Death by prison.
	In which case, quite frankly, I'm not opposed to the death penalty for these people.
	And then I thought for the rest of this, in case you still don't agree, well, fine.
	We'll still enjoy each other's company, because I thought we'd end this on some memes.
	If for another reason, then I just find it fun.
	Because there's my argument.
	It's not a Callum segment if we don't end with some memes.
	No, I think my political argument, I've given you the information...
	Now let's have a laugh.
	Let's laugh at some memory TV. Now for all that dark topic, let's have some funny times.
	So let's end off with just some stuff and stop me when it's no longer based.
	Let's play that game.
	We'll start off with this meme.
	If women was to start driving in Saudi Arabia, things would go from bad to worse.
	Yeah.
	Have we run it through the simulations?
	Let's put it in the machine.
	I'm just saying we should give it a try.
	Why don't we pump all the gas in, little?
	Let's go to the next one.
	So we have another example here.
	The Americans, I'm sure, will be in much agreement.
	Here's your pocket money.
	Go and buy yourself a gun.
	Now that I stand by.
	That's based.
	Everyone should be armed in a free society.
	Because the next one, this is of course a meme on a meme here.
	By Allah, behave yourself or I'll give you a taste of my shoe.
	Some people need it.
	And then we go to the democratic debate, or at least a democratic debate.
	I don't know if we can zoom in on this, John, because people won't be able to read the text otherwise.
	So as you can see, the democratic society is debating here.
	I will chop off your tongue if you talk about Saddam.
	Eat S. I will talk about Saddam.
	The democratic...
	And then they're just, come here, you son of a bitch.
	Do they just disappear off camera because they're engaged in fisticuffs?
	Yeah, the guy running the station hits a button and it takes it back to the outro screen.
	like a simpsons skit technical difficulties or something if you go to the next one you can also see another meme on a meme here which i did enjoy so this is the memory tv gf so that erdogan chick is a whore so is our country very based Your boyfriend of 60,000 whores, what?
	Another one here, I think I have a disorder, Anon.
	You know the cure for those.
	You know the meme.
	Yep.
	I can love you as long as you're not a Jew.
	It is memory.
	Yep, not surprising.
	Again, quotes from them.
	And then, may a hundred barrel bombs be dropped on your ex.
	So there you go.
	That is the absolute state of Arab TV. To give you a taste of what we are dealing with.
	And the Arab world.
	Yes.
	It is always nice to pop in on the foreigners and see the weird foreigners doing weird foreign things, I think.
	And think, glad I don't live there.
	Very glad to be English.
	Well, I'm not there.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So Vosch's argument isn't even that child pornography isn't bad.
	It's that by simply owning a computer, you already support child abuse and slavery in Africa.
	And it would therefore be hypocritical of you to oppose this form of child abuse if you already support that form of child abuse.
	Basically, you're already terrible people, so we should just be okay with it.
	Which is hypocritical of him, because he does not apply that to any other issue, for example, violence against women.
	He just wants to abuse children.
	To which I say, get in the wood chipper.
	Yeah, I mean, there's also him saying, uh, hey fellas, why don't we all be child abusers?
	And it's just like, what?
	What, Vosh?
	No.
	No, it's not like that.
	The reasoning is obviously highly motivated, as if it needs to be said, but the whole thing is just absolutely nuts, because everybody, I see loads of people going like, That was a few years ago, you know?
	He's taken that back.
	Show me the clip.
	Show me the clip where he disavows what he used to say in the past instead of just skirting past it.
	I don't know.
	Did you watch Adam and Sitch on Sunday?
	I haven't been able to, no.
	Because they were watching a Vorsch video, and it's ridiculous because he knows all of his beliefs.
	I don't believe a single thing that comes out of his mouth because all he talks about is optics.
	That's all he cares about.
	He talks like he's Vorsch.
	All right.
	All he talks about is optics, like he's the head of a bloody PR firm or something.
	He's like the marketing man who knows how to get you through anything.
	It's like, oh, sorry, you advocated child porn?
	Well, let me get you a shovel so you can get yourself out of that one, bro.
	It's ridiculous.
	What's that German movie called?
	The Guess Who's Back?
	Or whatever it's called.
	Where Hitler Comes Back?
	I think so.
	Well, I think, yeah, I've seen it advertised.
	Yeah, guess who's back?
	Why?
	Yeah, because Hitler comes back, for people who don't know, and everyone thinks he's a character.
	Like, he's a guy playing a character.
	As they would.
	Haha, look how Hitler he is.
	Isn't that funny?
	So they put him on TV, and Hitler makes his arguments.
	And that's what you're kind of reminding me of.
	It's like someone who just cares about optics.
	It's just, yeah, I'm just going to use the nature I'm in to try and serpent my way.
	Yeah, no, that's what it is.
	His own audience was calling him out for forgetting the optics so that he could insult JK Rowling, and then he's just there like, no, no, no, you need to understand that if I say it's good optics, then it is good optics.
	It's like, what on earth is going on here?
	What is this weird little community of pedos that he's got around him?
	Yeah, just stop.
	Stop trying to be a nonce, or at least defending nonce reactions.
	Did you know you brought a KitKat?
	You're a nonce.
	Yeah, don't you understand the child slave labour?
	Is there not degrees of separation?
	Then again, it's the left.
	I don't know what we're even saying.
	We're going to change these people at the slightest.
	I know, I just want to call them all nonces.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Pretty trippy, isn't it?
	Pretty relaxing, so I like it.
	You're listening.
	I'm listening.
	I'm listening to Leo and Harry on TV.
	We've also said this in the time.
	Something that's got a chemical compound similar to Ashley.
	There's a yo-yo take home.
	That can take home.
	Okay.
	Okay!
	I get you, bro.
	I get you, man.
	Moving on.
	I want what he's having.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Unfortunately overlooked, the hill is a powerful tale of men pushed too far under a system strained to its limits.
	Damn funny hill, nothing seems to grow on it.
	Full surprises!
	What?
	The only thing that's been known to grow on that hill is soldiers.
	They grow weary!
	Set in a North African British military prison, fresh arrivals clash in a hellish environment with power struggles, character flaws, stifling heat, and arbitrary punishments.
	The moral reckoning at the end leaves everyone the worst off except for the king's regulations, which arguably forced the whole rotten mess.
	Good review.
	Yeah.
	Thank you for that.
	Next one.
	All this trans non-binary stuff reminds me of a Japanese colloquialism, Chunibyo.
	Chuni, or 8th grader syndrome, is when a young person gets inspired by popular culture like anime or video games to think they've got some sort of special power, ability, or knowledge that makes them an insufferable little git.
	They're usually asocial and don't have a firm grasp on reality.
	Like if someone wanted to use my mechs to start the Imperium of Man, that would be Chuni.
	Practical applications of mechs and power armor are very limited, and mine aren't really practical at all.
	Yeah, I can tell you're having fun.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Whether or not they're practical, they're still awesome, so...
	I mean, the fire there definitely is for fun, not for, I'm going to burn your feet.
	Yeah.
	Hi, guys.
	Took a bit of a lead from CS Cooper and dropped off from news media and everything like that for a little while.
	And now I'm just starting to go back into it.
	I don't really...
	What sort of news media do you lot listen to and read and such?
	Gives me a bit of an idea.
	I mean, it depends on what you mean.
	I mean, for the podcast...
	I mean, outside the podcast, I try not to, because you go mad.
	Yeah, that's the same for me.
	When I'm not in the office, I tend to try and avoid some stuff, other than what's, like, trending on Twitter, maybe, just because, like you say, you'll go mad.
	But we tend to use, like, sources like BBC and all sorts.
	Well, I use just anything.
	Yeah, anything that's relevant.
	I prefer leftist circles, so, I mean, like, for the leftist ones, I love popping into Vox, I love popping into Vice, of course.
	Also, like, the Labour subreddit, which I've spoken at length for for my...
	Apparently the World Socialist Society or something.
	You know, just...
	You can find entertaining takes.
	To be fair, every so often it is very entertaining to just take a dip into pink news and see what the headlines there are because you know there's going to be some gold.
	Yeah, so there's that for good fun.
	For other things, I mean, like, I mentioned before I really like Binkoff Battlegrounds or LaserPig to just talk about military stuff that I know nothing about and...
	You know, the funniest thing, I've got to tell you this, because I can't keep it to myself.
	Okay, okay.
	Go watch LaserPig's latest episode if you haven't, because I find him incredibly funny.
	So, apparently, the Russians were talking to each other on completely unencrypted communications, so it was just radio frequencies, and then some people leaked the list of radio frequencies they were using.
	So, if you had a walkie-talkie, you could just join in...
	So people would shove it up against their radios and whatnot and just blast music.
	Beautiful.
	So things like that, I enjoy learning.
	That's fair.
	That's nice.
	Something that I've been watching recently, I've found that Milton Friedman's old series, Free to Choose, where he talks about economics and uses examples like Hong Kong and other such places and examples of...
	The principles and theories that he's talking about.
	The entirety of that show, it's like 40 episodes each an hour long, is free entirely on YouTube, so I've been starting to watch a bit of that recently.
	Very interesting stuff.
	Caspian Report for Geopolitics.
	I don't really know how many to give.
	I think we've covered a few.
	Hopefully that helps, mate.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Conventional wisdom tells us that mid-20th to 21st century geopolitics is defined by the USA as the global hegemon in which it uses its massive military might to maintain order and peace.
	However, in 2020 they proved that they cannot win an asymmetrical war, in 2021 they proved that they cannot win a conventional war against a comparable nation-state, and in 2022 they proved that they cannot or will not come to their allies' aid when needed.
	These failures seem to show that the USA is no longer our protector, and we know why.
	How does this bode for the rest of the century, and the future in general?
	It is certainly true the United States is becoming increasingly untrustworthy in this regard, as in Washington is.
	Not the people, of course.
	I don't know what to do.
	Hopefully we don't go down that path.
	Hopefully the right people are able to steer them in the right direction.
	Although I disagree with you on the Ukrainian one.
	Yeah, to be fair, I think to a certain extent that a lot of the problems have been caused by America inserting itself as Global Guardian.
	To a certain extent, and I don't think the US or anywhere else should have too many obligations in that sense.
	There is, yeah, I mean, Trump's position on this, that, you know, why should the United States be everywhere at once?
	It doesn't need to, necessarily.
	No.
	That seems to be true.
	Honestly, most times, as far as I can tell, it seems to create more problems than it solves.
	I mean, if you want to talk about Afghanistan, I mean, they were there for 20 years, And then it just went straight back to what it was before.
	Well, the best example I've heard is with the...
	Under Trump's administration, Trump wanted to reduce forces being everywhere at once, so he took a bunch of the navy out of the Arabian part of the world and moved it back.
	And apparently that was a big reason as to why Saudi Arabia and Israel normalized relations and became sort of friends against Iran.
	Oh, okay.
	So it means you can get that Western outlook, or at least our allies still combating our enemies, without us having to have a huge navy there.
	So there are examples where you just don't need to be there and you can work better without it.
	On the Ukrainian one, I see a lot of people saying, and I don't know if people believe this or not, but I'll just say it because some people do apparently.
	So when we signed that agreement with Ukraine, they would hand over the nukes to Moscow.
	Moscow would destroy them.
	A lot of people think that we signed the agreement saying that we would protect Ukraine, as in it was a guarantee of independence from Russia, the United States, and the UK. It was a non-aggression pact.
	We all agreed not to attack Ukraine, not to defend them.
	Oh, okay.
	So, I see a lot of people getting this.
	I don't know if that's where you're getting it from, the chap who commented, but we have no obligations to defend them.
	We have interests, but not obligations, it seems.
	I only see an attack of that scale escalating things further.
	As far as I can tell, which is not something I want.
	I've seen a lot of people saying we have a duty to go in and defend them, and it's like, no, we have an obligation to defend ourselves and NATO, and they're not part of that.
	There are interests, there are reasons to do it, that's all there, but it's not an obligation.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you my suicide note.
	Oh.
	Copyright music.
	So it's a lady screaming.
	She turns into a tiger.
	Jesus Christ.
	Called Ukraine, we are warriors.
	Yeah, some lovely chap.
	That being said, I will not kill myself unless it is with a shotgun in a crowded Marvel theater.
	Yeah, some lovely chap.
	I don't know if it was you, mate.
	Someone sent me a link to a telegram group called, was it Ukrainian Fur Force?
	Got like 20,000 members.
	Oh, is it what I think?
	Yeah, we joked that all Ukraine was missing was furries on their side for a joke, and then no.
	No, they're not missing.
	They've got the full set.
	No, there are apparently furries.
	They've got Nazi furries on their side.
	I didn't see any Nazi furries.
	Not yet.
	But there was one guy who was like, yeah, I'm a moderator and I'm here with Ukraine and he's got his little rifle and it's just like...
	How do you operate a rifle with those big paws?
	Well, they didn't have paws on but he had agreed apparently to be able to wear his mask.
	It's...
	To be fair, to be fair, if I was Russia, I would be terrified at the sight of 20,000 kamikaze furries coming over the horizon.
	No, I don't know what they're going to do with me once I'm dead.
	No, but you get the message from the Kremlin.
	Like, you know, you're going to go out there and you're going to fight back the degenerate West and you're joking, oh, come on, they can't be that degenerate.
	And then the furries over the horizon...
	I don't know, I'd be terrified personally.
	I don't know the depths that these people are willing to sink to.
	I'll show you the 40k furry thing after this.
	No, please.
	Why do you always have something to show me after the podcast?
	Fun.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another legend of the pines.
	From the Lenny Lenape Indian comes the tale of the Yakwa Wiak, otherwise known as the Big Rump Bear.
	This was a creature who stood maybe eight feet tall, had big stiff legs, and looked like a bear except it was completely hairless.
	It was...
	A man-eater, and no one's ever actually seen it, but then of course, if you had seen it, it would be unlikely you would survive.
	That's really cool.
	I just like the fact that they called it the Big Rump Bear, which implies that the one person who saw it and survived, all he could talk about- Man, it had a huge ass.
	Shaved.
	Alright.
	Just wondering if it was Tarare or something, but...
	Next one.
	So I just thought I would show you guys a cute little video of my boyfriend's dog and my cat interacting.
	It's Sasha and Coco.
	Coco the kitty.
	She's crazy.
	She wants to play, but she's a little afraid, and Sasha really wants She's super cute.
	And then a small story, my mom actually worked in the oil fields with my dad in the 80s and she basically told me that even back then she was basically like a diversity type hire because apparently every group needed a woman and a Hispanic on it to even out.
	You had the cutest of videos with the most like...
	Random of interjections.
	No, it's sort of like, oh.
	Could you imagine being your mum?
	She fooled us!
	She tricked us with the cute animals!
	Makes up for it, I guess.
	To be fair, what you're talking about there, yeah, this stuff's been going on for decades at this point.
	Affirmative action has been around for a long time.
	I did get told a story by one of our subscribers.
	He worked in the oil industry and most of the secretaries were girls.
	They didn't make as much money and there was a party at the end of the year so they paid for the girls to come to the party.
	And it was just a nice thing.
	And then they got in trouble because they had dared have done this because it was sex discrimination.
	What?
	To pay for the women?
	So then the women had to pay for themselves in the future.
	What?
	Really helping them out.
	What has feminism done to women?
	Go to the next one.
	So Harry, since you did a pretty good analysis of left-wing rock and roll, what about right-wing rock and roll?
	This guy right here was very big in the 80s, and his music is very, very right-wing.
	And if you don't believe me, you can take a look at that song and that album, as well as that song and that album, if you don't believe me.
	There's more to it than just left-wing.
	Oh, I'm very well aware that there's more than just left-wing music out there, especially in the rock and metal scenes.
	I've forgotten his name.
	I follow him on Twitter.
	There's the vocalist of a metalcore band who's very libertarian, who I follow, who's really based on some stuff.
	I wasn't aware of Ronnie James Dio being particularly right-wing or not.
	Ronnie James Dio is a guy I'm a big fan of.
	I've listened to loads of his music.
	My band used to cover Holy Diver.
	But I've not analysed it in terms of right-wing themes in the music.
	I might have to take a look into that.
	Did you check out Ain't I Right in the end?
	Which one was Ain't I Right?
	It's the American song about communism where he's like, you came around here to cause trouble.
	No, I didn't actually.
	Send it through to me.
	Unless you already have sent it through.
	I might have just ignored you, Callum.
	I'm completely sorry.
	I was too interested in sending...
	It's a good song.
	It's a very good song about communism.
	I was too interested in sending you songs about very inappropriate subjects.
	Yes, you did.
	Okay.
	Did you listen to them, by the way?
	Some of them.
	Oh, really?
	Did you enjoy them?
	Do not das fleem the holy peen.
	Adrian of the Fountain says, Counting trans rapists as female on female rape is certainly a way to bring about equality.
	It certainly is.
	I mean, there's one way, yeah.
	Baron von Vorhock.
	So trans rapists are just the ultimate feminists.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Really helping with the inequality.
	I find it weird how leftists claim to stand with women's rights but at the same time will go through such lengths to defend rapists if they are trans or Sharia invaders.
	Or just tell women that they should shut up and start apologising.
	Agent000 says, why should anyone ever care about the feelings and dignity of a rapist?
	They shouldn't.
	Ever.
	Because you're a leftist and you probably are yourself.
	I can't, I really don't get this.
	I've even seen some people say, just, I'm not going to say some people.
	We've seen it in media.
	We've seen it in many, many main, well, corporate media headline or article where they dare not blaspheme against the gender of the rapist.
	Like, it's a rapist.
	No, I think all holds bars.
	Take it off.
	Call them ugly.
	Go for it.
	Yeah.
	Anything that is tangential to them being a rapist is thrown away because, number one, they're a rapist.
	You don't have to be nice to these people.
	Blood, bunch of question marks, says...
	Rightgate isn't too far from Brighton, lived around the area for three years.
	It's awful.
	The only decent MP around that area was the Tory MP in Crawley.
	They voted against the mass mandates in December's referendum.
	Everyone else just contaminated with the wokeism coming up from Brighton.
	Well, sorry to hear that.
	Brighton is...
	A hellhole.
	Callum Dayton says...
	of the Harry Potter books the house elves servants in Hogwarts kitchens just another demonstration of why communism doesn't work and why intersections are losers Rose Gornela says Oi Emma Watson is not aging well Gord eat a sandwich or something are we allowed to say stuff now on that because we're not on YouTube anymore No, I think we still have to let the women do the commenting on that.
	Oh, fair.
	Silly Midon says, I wonder if the hoes are extra mad because they pinned their entire life to Harry Potter's franchise.
	I bet those pronouns in the bio replace the Hogwarts house in the bio.
	Probably, actually.
	That's not a bad observation.
	No, it's not.
	This lot used to be the house elves of the left and now having a complete meltdown because the women they were building up as the next L, Ron Hubbard, didn't completely agree with everything the mad Tumblr crowd said.
	She spawned and thought.
	To be fair, that's probably true.
	I wonder how many of these people not just had Harry Potter House titles in the bio, but they all seemed to want to go for Slytherin, because that was cool and dark and edgy and mysterious.
	Was it?
	I think there's a crossover between the goth and emo girls becoming the intersectionalists of today.
	I know a few of them who used to be like that and are now massive intersectionals.
	I think there's a crossover with the dyed hair and stuff like that.
	I never had that much interaction.
	And they're still all attention whores.
	The only ones I know, the only people I know who did that, I think she was Hufflepuff, and she was nice, so that's my vision of the whole subculture there.
	You have a very different experience of it than I do in that case.
	Edward of Numenor says, See, once upon a time, people could enjoy media without having to worry about political stances of those who wrote it.
	Ultimately, rational people have to today, otherwise we can never enjoy anything for the most part.
	If you like the wizard books, this is so much cope from someone who is probably the former fan who has gone off the rails thanks to a political takeover on the author.
	If people just separate the personal from the political, like well-adjusted people, this would all be fine.
	Yeah.
	Leftists can't do that, though.
	They've all done this themselves.
	I don't know if you want to read the ones on the boogeyman.
	Yeah, I'll read the ones on the COVID boogeyman returning.
	Chris Chisholm, sorry, Chet Chisholm says, new COVID variants at this stage.
	Sorry, Chet Chisholm?
	This is in Chechen.
	Chechen.
	No, no, Chet Chisholm.
	Right, okay.
	I assume is how it's pronounced.
	New COVID variants at this stage are likely not something to worry about.
	I agree entirely.
	The existence of a new variant to the average layperson is largely irrelevant and is just a means to try and scare people.
	Absolutely, most people who are still wearing the masks are not really going to be caring that much about how...
	Threatening variant is they're just going to hear new variant, be afraid.
	Unless something drastically changed for the worse, a new variant will likely not impact the way those of us in healthcare do our jobs.
	The only likely change would be to medications and treatment options for patients, and again, that largely doesn't enter the day-to-day lives of the average person.
	What the real emergency that we're experiencing is, is the ever-growing number of vaccine-injured, those who are still suffering from long COVID, and the psychological impact this has had on so many people.
	Yeah, like I said, this has just caused massive neurosis in loads of the population population.
	People who are still wearing masks, still scared, still think the virus will kill them, even if they have no comorbidities or are not in any sort of, like, the high-risk elements.
	I agree.
	The media keeps trying to cover up their existence and they, along with Big Pharma, are entirely responsible for the suffering of those groups of people to begin with.
	If you truly want to get a grasp on the horror show we are witnessing, I would suggest going over the Dr.
	John Campbell's YouTube page and watching the videos pertaining to the Pfizer documents that have been released.
	Keep in mind the data is currently published is for the first six months and largely doesn't include kids and young people yet.
	I'm afraid things are going to get far worse.
	I've actually been going over some of the Pfizer documents myself for a premium podcast that I will be recording later this week, hopefully.
	And I've mainly been going over that document that's had the eight and a half pages of side effects.
	And honestly, I don't get why some of them were being held back, because a lot of the stuff that they're talking about is happening in such small percentages to such a small amount of people.
	I don't get why they're holding it back, but it confirms so many of the things that they've been denying, like cytokine storms and other such things that the mainstream media and the WHO have been denying for over a year, and it's like, well, you've got documentation showing you knew about this back in February last year, at least. you've got documentation showing you knew about this back in It's just all very sus.
	Rose Gunella says they can keep trying to drum up the COVID fear all they like.
	I'm not buying it.
	At this point, I wouldn't buy it if they stuck a Louis Vuitton logo and 50% sale sign on it.
	And just watch.
	That's going to be their next trick.
	No, their next trick is going to be not letting the COVID act expire, letting a new variant drum everyone up into hysteria, and then locking everybody down again because, I don't know, energy crisis or something.
	Reece Sim says, I can't wait to try out this new COVID DLC. The last Omicron expansion was a real letdown, so let's hope Deltacron is exciting as the devs say.
	M1Ping looks like the midterm mail-in ballot variant is waiting in the wings.
	Actually, that's a good point.
	Silly mid-on.
	At this point, sod it.
	No more restrictions.
	The prevention was killing me.
	I might as well risk it for a biscuit with the actual disease.
	Probably got a higher survival rate than lockdowns.
	Well, at this point, I'm likely to have had it twice, so...
	Yeah, I'm doing perfectly fine.
	Bit of a sore throat, but I've been talking for a while.
	Edward of Numenor says, Oh no, literal whores are going to suffer.
	Oh well, time to find a more virtuous line of work, maybe.
	No?
	Sex work is valid work?
	Okay, Coomers.
	I really hate this.
	No choice.
	McDonald's were closed, were they?
	Well, imagine if it does go down, you know, and all these prostitutes are out of work with nothing.
	I mean, Boris is going to have to take them in.
	I mean, Carrie's an intersectional feminist, so she obviously supports them.
	Sex work is real work, so Boris, what are you going to do, mate?
	Are they in an open relationship or not?
	I don't know.
	No, because you know Boris was with his previous wife.
	No, I didn't know this.
	That's how he met Carrie.
	For God's sake.
	And then he got feelings, and that's why the marriage broke down.
	Well, like, it's a 15-year-old.
	Oh, sorry, I caught feelings, mate.
	Well, yeah.
	For God's sake.
	Like, we're both sleeping with just random people.
	The country is being run by a horny 17-year-old.
	Great.
	I already knew this partially, but that just makes it even worse.
	Oh, there you are.
	Thanks, we've got such a virtuous leader.
	Alex Bradbury says, Love the teaser of the new variant.
	I wonder what rights we'll lose with this one.
	My money's on self-defense and extra speech restrictions, so they can put their boot in harder and the lefty mobs can destroy more towns.
	Probably.
	Lord Nerevar, trust the science, they say, but science isn't faith-based, so I'll still question it all the same.
	Good idea.
	Karen M, the vaccine's safe and effective.
	Not the Pfizer variety, I'm afraid.
	Last night on the Matt Walsh show, Matt showed footage of the Pfizer CEO saying in a televised interview, it's not very good against infection, but it does not last long.
	Well worth watching the whole thing.
	It's only two minutes.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Matt Walsh showed probably the clip that I was referencing when I was talking from that article, where it's like, yeah, it's very safe and effective, guys, but it's not effective enough that you don't need to get booster shots every six months.
	Great.
	Great salesman tactic right there.
	Finally, George Windsor, don't panic.
	Newfoundland lifted their public health emergency order yesterday, but kept some restrictions, I suspect, so that they can maintain a minimalized panic level in order to have an easier time reinstating the damn thing later.
	Also, Callum, I'm not your buddy, guy.
	Also, also, I believe that CEO who dumped his stock left the position shortly after.
	Okay, there you go.
	There's an answer to that.
	Does it mean he can't re-buy?
	On the base, terrorist removal.
	Sorry.
	Not for this.
	No, I can't make these jokes.
	Alexander Pease says, The best arguments against the death penalty is that the government cannot be trusted to do anything.
	We live in a world where Derek Chauvin is behind bars for life.
	This is true.
	Us Brits live in a country where the police couldn't care less about your stuff being stolen, but mobilize in to the high gear spending, your tax money, investigating disrespect to trans people and other non-crimes.
	Do not trust the government.
	I can get this argument.
	It's not that the government will be perfect.
	No one's deluded about that.
	But on these specific individuals, I mean, I can't really get to make the whole argument, but you've got the guy who shot the MP during the referendum.
	I can't remember his name, but he's been given a whole life order.
	You've got the Redding, Stabber, and one other terrorist who I can't remember.
	What are we doing?
	Yeah, I think in those circumstances, as long as there is an incredibly high burden of proof, and if that burden of proof has been met, then what's the point in holding them until they die?
	We're just wasting money on them.
	They've got to eat.
	They've still got to eat.
	I'm paying for that food.
	The argument is the government could make a mistake or something like that.
	I understand that point, but if you have it strictly in the hands of the judiciary and only on...
	As you say, a ridiculous high barrier that you have for whole life orders.
	I don't know, but thank you for the disagreement.
	It is a fair argument about why the death penalty is bad.
	I do also agree with that argument.
	That's why I'm mostly pro-death penalty, but also very suspicious of governments being given that power.
	The worst example of this was Priti Patel.
	She won a question time if you argued for the death penalty, and she was given examples of people who would have got the death penalty under the old system, back in when we used to do it.
	And she said, well, these people were then found not guilty because it was just for basic murder, and there was not DNA evidence, and these people would have been killed.
	And she was like, yes, well, I'm still for it.
	That's a terrible argument for us.
	Here's all the times we failed and killed someone anyway.
	Some guy next to her said, well, how does that work?
	She said, well, it's a deterrent.
	And he went, it's not a deterrent killing the wrong people, you idiot.
	It's not a deterrent.
	Somebody else got away with it!
	Yeah, so it can't just be for murder or rape.
	I know that's a very common thing for, like, conservatives, especially the Americans, to say, but I don't think it's high enough.
	I think it's got to be these instances where there isn't a doubt.
	Like, it's a terrorist offence.
	We know everyone involved.
	Multiple homicide or something like that.
	Yeah, but so high that, you know, you've got video evidence, you've got admission, you've got multiple witnesses.
	Someone like the Plymouth shooter.
	We definitely haven't got the wrong chap.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So Ignacio Spain says, I dare to argue the West executes too few people.
	I've made a 180 on the death sentence.
	Screw the keep them alive to suffer arguments.
	Kill them off unceremoniously.
	And if they're terrorists, maybe humiliate them before doing so.
	There are a lot of pedos of repeat violent offenders, terrorists, and all kinds of unsavory people leeching resources just so we can punish them while feeling moral about it.
	I don't see the whole, like, oh, keep them alive to suffer argument standing up very much.
	It doesn't convince me.
	Yeah, it really doesn't convince me because it's like, I'm sure there are plenty of people, especially if they're sociopathic or psychopathic enough to be that mythanthropic in real society to want to kill a load of people.
	They'll probably love just being by themselves all day.
	I don't think expanding it that far as we just made that argument about it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But I love it when people say, oh, if you kill a jihadist, you're just sending him to paradise, so don't do that.
	And it's like, pfft.
	Like, I'm happy to send him there, mate.
	I don't believe in that BS anyway.
	So it's like, why would I... That's not an argument I'd agree with.
	I can't remember which general it was.
	It was like, oh, they want to get a paradise to them.
	Well, I'll help them.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Sorted.
	So, Chet again, sorry, saying, here's why I'm against the death penalty.
	Here in Canada, the leader of our government labelled those who are against the vaccine mandates as terrorists.
	Honest, hard-working Canadians who believe in freedom of choice and medical ethics are terrorists.
	The government does not deserve the power to take the lives of individuals as it sees fit.
	But yeah, of course.
	And that's the position if they start doing that, you just, well, it's rebellion time, isn't it?
	Because it's obviously ridiculous.
	Student of History says, There's a Polish song about that.
	About leaves hanging from trees.
	We'll leave it there.
	Free Will 211 says, Yeah, that's the question of, like, could somebody like Harry Miller...
	Have been convicted under it.
	Oh, you've thought crime, off to Gulag with you, something like that.
	This is why, in my mind, you just have it, as I said, and anyone who tries to mess with that is clearly suspect, and frankly, it's time for rebellion.
	There is one honourable mention before we finish, I know we're basically over time now, but Lord Nerevarus said, Also, Laz, it's my birthday today, so I'd be thrilled if I could get an orcs, orcs, orcs from Calum.
	No, I made a memorandum.
	We made this before, which needs to stop.
	Why not?
	It's too much.
	So, no.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry, Lord Nerevar.
	Callum just doesn't love you enough.
	No, I just can't.
	I can't do it anymore.
	I know on that note, I can see Baron Von Warhawk saying the Freedom Convoy apparently has turned up in Washington.
	I haven't seen much news on that, so please do send it through.
	Yes.
	I would like to keep up to date with what's going on with that.
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