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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast on Lotus Eaters for the 12th of May 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about Florida Man, BTFOing communism, Pizza Hut nationalism, and also Sadiq Khan being very confused on his trip to the United States, which is also an embarrassment.
	But anyway, without further ado, we shall start with Florida Man.
	Yeah, so, Ron DeSantis has been going hard against communism in all forms for the past couple of years now, and it's been glorious, and I thought we'd just have a quick round-up and go through the things he's done, because he has recently declared that November 7th is Victims of Communism Day.
	Are there any victims of communism, Callum?
	Several million.
	Yeah, there are.
	And you can find out more about that if you'd like by going to Lizzy's.com and checking out our book club on Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dicotta.
	What was the worst thing in this for you?
	The baby eating.
	The communists reduced the population to having to eat the corpses of toddlers in some provinces.
	Yes, it was unbelievably bad.
	To say that this is on par with the Holocaust is just stating accurately the facts of the matter.
	It was intentionally done.
	Purposely done to eradicate groups of people and food was withheld for that purpose.
	Yes.
	Unbelievably awful.
	And so to say, oh, we need to talk about the victims of communism.
	Yeah, well, we talk about the victims of Nazism all the time.
	They're both ideologies with a radical future planned.
	So why not include the victims of communism?
	And so that's what DeSantis did.
	Let's play the first clip.
	Today, I am signing HB 395, which will officially designate November 7th as Victims of Communism Day to honor the more than 100 million people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world.
	Perfect.
	That's exactly what I want to see.
	American flag in the background, a bunch of Americans being like, yeah, no, communism bad.
	End of story.
	Exactly what I want to see.
	And so the most recent thing that he has done is say, well, look, we're going to have this as a part of our educational community.
	In schools, because it seems relevant that children should know about what the communists did in the 20th century, as they know what the Nazis did in the 20th century.
	I mean, I'm sure when you were at school, you got to learn all about Nazi Germany, didn't you?
	Endlessly, actually.
	Yes, I know.
	I did it in religious education, I did it in history, I then did it in ethics studies, which is what they renamed religious education, and then the next year in history I did the same thing.
	Yeah, it was the same for me.
	I hated history at school, because it was just trenches and Nazis, and I was like...
	I mean, I like World War II history, but it's too much.
	I didn't like World War II history because of that.
	And so, yeah, so DeSanta's like, well, we may as well learn about this other kind of genocide.
	And so beginning in 2023-24 academic year, high school students enrolled in Floridian classes will get 45 minutes of instruction on each 7th of November, describing how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence and suppression of speech.
	Completely fair.
	And that's not even like going overboard.
	It's not like every year, every day, these students are going to have it battered into their heads, which is why DeSantis is not yet the God Emperor.
	He put the law into effect in Freedom Tower in Miami, where 650,000 Cubans were protested after fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime in Cuba.
	So, good.
	I was going to say I love how Americans name things, but frankly, it probably is named after the Cubans.
	Yeah, it actually is, yeah.
	The Cubans, the people who are escaping communism on boats to America, the land of the free.
	But anyway, so you might think, hey, well, this isn't really very newsworthy.
	How is this noteworthy?
	This just seems like the normal, rational thing that a classically liberal country would do.
	Well, the answer is because it is...
	Produced the response that is essentially this meme that you hadn't seen before, had you, Callum?
	I haven't seen this one.
	You want to win, but you want your enemies to lose?
	Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
	You got me, Soyjack.
	I'm very...
	I suppose I'll just leave.
	And you know what?
	I don't even care if it is.
	Yes, okay, fine.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Soyjack.
	But anyway, so the response to this really does just exemplify everything this meme is trying to get across.
	Because this was literally the only thing that the communists on the left had to respond to this with.
	It wasn't even like, oh no, communism didn't do those things.
	Yeah, it did, but like, you know...
	Like we're long past that kind of area.
	Oh yeah, they're long past that, but they're like, well, I mean, you know, you're basically a communist yourself then, aren't you, Ron DeSantis?
	Which was literally, literally the opinion of Fabiola Santiago at the Miami Herald.
	So there are still some leftists left in Florida, right?
	Wait until students figure out that DeSantis is Florida and communism are bedfellows.
	Ah yes, nothing screams communism like Ron DeSantis' Florida.
	Are you an anti-communist?
	Basically a communist.
	You joke!
	What do Florida and Cuba have in common?
	Book banning, censorship, and added to the mix this week, state-mandated school indoctrination for political purposes.
	What?
	Oh, they haven't banned any books.
	No.
	You can still read all of the books that are no longer in the schools because they're inappropriate for children.
	That's not book banning.
	That's also not censorship.
	Also, as it exists in America, seems to have come from exclusively left-wing organisations in regards to social media is the best one.
	As for state indoctrination for political purposes?
	I mean, as if Americans don't all pledge allegiance to the flag anyway every year.
	That's kind of the point in the United States.
	It is a nation where you believe in Americanism.
	It's a propositional nation.
	Yes.
	That's based on an ideology.
	Did you know that Nazism and Communism are bad?
	Well, that's basically propaganda.
	I'm leaving.
	I'm taking my kid out of this school.
	Which is literally the argument.
	They're the hallmark of practices of the Communist Party-led regime in Cuba.
	Yes.
	That's just no difference.
	The Cubans arrive on Floridian shores and are like, oh god, I haven't escaped at all!
	Tools used for six decades to keep Cubans isolated and in the dark about information that falls outside of what the ruling party's ideology commands people to believe.
	As if Ron DeSantis is preventing people accessing the internet or something.
	Watching television.
	But also the idea that Radio Free America and Pravda Basically the same thing.
	I just can't tell the difference.
	Just propaganda mouthpieces.
	But at least they accept that communism is bad.
	You know, communism is bad and you're the communist, Ron DeSantis.
	Santiago here hasn't moved back to Cuba.
	No, no.
	But this is amazing.
	Educators are being censored and handed guidelines embedded into law about what they're allowed to say and not allowed to say to students on race or gender ideology.
	Good.
	Yeah, good.
	Good.
	I mean, you're literally, there are already laws.
	You can't just literally pull up a porno movie in a school and be like, right, kids, we're going to get educated on double penetration or something.
	Like, oh no, the law is censoring me!
	This has been the de facto for all of human history, and we didn't need, like, physical laws, because it was kind of expected that you weren't going to tell five-year-olds about your queer sex life.
	It was a bit strange.
	It all reminds me of the atmosphere of repression during my elementary school education in Cuba.
	Anyway, so the thing that he's complaining about, really, one of the things is...
	Imagine Mr.
	Garrison walking in with a strap-on versus some guy just being like, hey, did you know the West is free?
	I'd be like, will you censor this and censor that?
	That's the same thing.
	Not that free, is it?
	Basically communism.
	And this, of course, he's referring to the Stop Woke Act that was signed earlier this year.
	Oh no, all of his rights.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's amazing.
	The lies about this.
	And everything they're saying is basically a lie.
	And I hate to say it because you don't just want to say, look, they're just lies.
	They're just lying about everything.
	But they are actually lying about everything that Ronald Santa has done.
	For example, as they say in Red State here, even a cursory glance at the text of the bill would prove that the statement that this is to prevent education on racism is a lie.
	They're saying, oh, you're not going to tell people that America had racial slavery or segregation or Yeah, we are.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's fine.
	Of course.
	Historical reality isn't bothered by this.
	The issue the proposal addresses isn't training about black history, LGBTQ issues, and other concepts of injustice and discrimination.
	The bill itself says that required trainings cannot put forth racist ideas.
	As in, they can't be in favour of it, which seems perfectly reasonable to a liberal.
	Can't be in favour of Jim Crow or critical race theory?
	Yes.
	You're basically banning us talking about slaves?
	No, banning you talking about slavery is a positive.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But if that's the only way you can talk about it, the Uncle Ruckus version of history...
	Yes.
	And that's your problem.
	Literally, the text is, members of one race, colour, sex, or national origin are morally superior to members of another race, colour, sex, or national origin.
	You're not allowed to say that.
	Which seems totally reasonable not to indoctrinate children into thinking that they're inferior or superior because of the race.
	But my understanding is this is also also also been de facto given the civil rights act yes it's just that didn't encompass critical race theory because of an oversight in regards to enforcement because critical race theory didn't exist when it was drafted yeah so now this is to catch up with the modern left yes an individual by virtue of his race color sex or national origin is they can't teach sorry they can't say that an individual by virtue of his race color sex or national origin is inherently racist sexist or oppressive whether consciously or unconsciously
	And you can hear the critical race theorists going, yeah, but we're saying all white people are oppressing all black people all the time.
	It's like, yeah, that's wrong.
	Get out the classroom.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You shouldn't be teaching children.
	An individual's moral character or status is either privileged or oppressed, is necessarily determined by his race, color, or...
	So women aren't just oppressed by the virtue of the fact that they're women.
	You're not allowed to teach that.
	Women, listen, untermensch.
	The loser gender.
	You can't teach that.
	As the feminists have been doing for quite some time.
	Women are a bunch of losers.
	Look at the CEOs.
	30% women.
	Losers!
	And it's like, look, feminists, I think you should just go a bit easier.
	Maybe it's not.
	It's because they're female.
	It's like, look, I know.
	I know that that's your opinion, but tone it down a bit.
	Cooler with the anti-women remarks.
	Exactly.
	This is a bit misogynistic.
	Anyway, we get the opinion of one Floridian journalist, who I'm going to describe as a lefty, even though I know nothing about him, because he's like, parameters of...
	Checkmark.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Checkmark for me.
	Parameters of Florida education.
	Teaching about victims of communism good, teaching about victims of racism bad.
	Yep, that's it.
	All black people are victims of racism at all times in all places.
	Someone should probably tell Oprah Winfrey.
	What kind of racism?
	Only from white people.
	No other group on earth.
	Not allowed to talk about that.
	So anyway, in 2021, Florida banned critical race theory, which is what this person is complaining about, which is good, obviously.
	CNN reports, and I love the reporting on this, Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism.
	Yeah, because systemic racism is an interpretation of the facts.
	They're not saying don't teach the facts.
	They're saying there's a particular racist interpretation of the facts that makes all white people racial supremacists and all black people basically slaves.
	That's not good for the children to have them think that way.
	Who let you in the classroom?
	Exactly.
	I'm just imagining someone saying that.
	You'd think they're some kind of tramp who's walked in and you'd be like, please get out.
	Yep, and Ron DeSantis spoke at the meeting saying that critical race theory would teach children that the country is rotten and our institutions are illegitimate.
	That is not worth any taxpayer dollars.
	Yes, that's absolutely true.
	And that's absolutely correct response.
	The institutions probably shouldn't be undermining themselves to the next generations that are coming out of these institutions.
	Totally sensible, eminently reasonable, and the soy-jack left is like, you just want to win and your enemy's to lose, you hypocrite.
	Okay, deal with it, losers.
	It's just wild.
	The amendment states that topics must be factual and objective, and specifically prohibits the teaching of critical race theory, meaning that the theory of racism is not merely the product of prejudice, that racism is embedded in American society and legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons.
	Again, not about the facts themselves, but about an interpretation.
	Of the fact.
	And that's fine.
	And it also bans the 1619 Project after the New York Times had to retract it anyway, saying, yeah, okay, this was historically nonsense, but never mind.
	And the thing is, this is, the reason I bring up critical race theory is because it genuinely is part of what is essentially a communist plot to overthrow America.
	And you might be like, well, hang on, that sounds a bit strong.
	You're saying critical race theory is a communist plot?
	It's like, yeah, I am.
	Yeah, because I've read all their stuff.
	I know exactly what they think, exactly what they've said.
	I mean, this is a premium podcast we did, where we go through the origin point of critical race theory, which is Kimberly Crenshaw's essays in 1989 and 1991.
	Mapping the margins would probably be the most important one, but there are a few others.
	She has really long titles for them, so I can never remember them verbatim.
	They're literal memes at this point.
	Yes.
	Black feminism, a critique of anti-racist...
	Okay, thanks.
	But in them, she explains that she's a communist, she's a feminist, and she has a problem, literally in Gramscian fashion, with the fact that Western institutions aren't just falling to communism, and so they need a different vector of attack, and they realize that, oh, race and gender is a good one.
	And that's what they've been doing, is unironically part of a communist plot.
	Anyway, moving on, the groomers at Vice are very upset by this.
	You can't say gay in Florida schools, but Ron DeSantis is mandating teachers talk S about communism.
	You can say gay, which is why you've all been saying gay, and none of you have been arrested.
	That's fine.
	You're always allowed.
	What you're not allowed to do is turn around to the kids and be like, yes, a gay sex, let me tell you.
	Yes, exactly.
	You're not allowed to groom children.
	As the American Conservative reported here, this is just a quote from the anti-grooming bill, which is how it's framed by normal people, or the you're going to stop us from being gay bill, how it's framed by lunatics.
	Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.
	Oh, dear.
	Gay people will never recover from this.
	Which is literally the New York Times position, right?
	This vague but menacing language...
	Vague but menacing language is clearly focused on chilling any mention of LGBTQ plus lives.
	It's overreach in search of an actual problem.
	This is gay erasure.
	Nope, nope.
	LGBTQ plus is not gay.
	I'm saying it.
	They're two different things.
	I'm not having it anymore where people say this is gay.
	No, it's not.
	No, you're queer.
	Shut up.
	I mean, literally, that's what the Q means.
	You wanted the Q word back as your word.
	You can have it, and it's for you people and no one else.
	It's for the groomer types.
	But anyway, going on to the Vice grooming article, Florida is making students sit through 45 minutes on the horrors of communism.
	Yeah, it should have been an hour.
	Good point.
	Why round it down?
	Exactly.
	45 minutes probably isn't enough, given the actual voluminous nature of the crimes of communists.
	Acknowledging that queer people exist and have human relationships?
	Bad.
	Just making this up.
	Nuanced conversation about America and race in schools and the workplace, also bad.
	Again, just lies.
	Just total lies.
	Nearly hour-long nakedly political lessons on the victims of communism, good and mandatory if you're in a public school in Florida.
	Yes.
	Good.
	Suck it.
	Sorry, if you didn't want that, then, I don't know, make the whole of the 20th century look better?
	What do you want?
	Yeah, why shouldn't?
	I mean, it's not like communism didn't have a broader and more longer-lasting effect than Nazism anyway.
	You know, the Nazis were in power for like 12 years.
	Communism is still dominant in China.
	Yep.
	Like, sorry, it's still the party of Mao, the guy who's responsible for the Great Famine.
	Or the party of Kim, or in Cuba, or in Laos.
	So, it's still there.
	Absolutely.
	Anyway, you get other activists, and we'll end on Tim Wise, who's my favourite communist activist, if I can dare say that I have one.
	I love, look at this response.
	If you can scroll down a bit, you can see the headline on this.
	So, DeSantis signs the bill mandating communism lessons in class.
	And Tim Wise, more disregard for free speech.
	Oh.
	Oh, we care about free speech now, do we?
	I'm imagining the alt-right turning up to parent-teacher meetings with their naughty caps on being like, I do not like the way you teach the Holocaust.
	It's very aggressive towards my free speech.
	I don't know.
	I mean, make the Holocaust not as bad as it would then.
	This is the thing.
	It's reality that you're opposing to.
	These are things that happened.
	Not even interpretations of them either.
	Compelling people to speak in a desired way about a desired thing is blatantly unconstitutional.
	That's right.
	Okay, so I know.
	No, no, no.
	Listen, listen, listen.
	I know that you're a math teacher, right?
	And we're going to compel you to speak in your math class about addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.
	That's compelled speech.
	It's unconstitutional.
	Instead, talk about your genitals.
	Tell the children about your gender preferences.
	You know, that's totally constitutional.
	You're mad.
	Absolutely mad, right?
	DeSantis and his supporters are fascists.
	Again, going back to the compelled speech is unconstitutional again.
	As if your pronouns aren't the issue here.
	Yeah, but also just being like, you must tell them that the Holocaust was bad.
	Oh my god, my free speech.
	This is an outrage!
	Mate, you're being paid by the state to tell them about the historical reality.
	Yeah.
	Remember, this all costs money.
	Yeah, and this isn't a compulsion.
	You can leave that job at any time.
	There's no point in anyone being compelled.
	You're being paid to do it.
	It's a privilege.
	You signed up to work for the state to tell kids about what happened in the 20th century.
	And then when you're mad that what is in the textbook doesn't conform to your delusions.
	Well, you're mad because you're a communist and it makes communism look bad.
	That's what you're mad about.
	But anyway, DeSantis signs Bill, so he says, he follows up saying, so we can't teach about systemic racism in American history.
	No, no, you will have to teach about Jim Crow and slavery, which are examples of systemic racism.
	But we must teach about systemic oppression under communism in other countries.
	Yeah, you'll get both sides of that coin.
	So, so much for we just want classrooms to be free from politics, frauds all of them.
	Well, I mean, I have actually heard some really good arguments against free speech.
	Recently.
	From Tim Wise.
	What?
	Would you like to hear them?
	Ah, yay.
	Free speech follies.
	Part one of four...
	Of my big long essays about why you don't have rights.
	That's exactly it!
	So, Tim Wise going, well, so much for free speech.
	Well, I wonder who destroyed free speech, Tim?
	I mean, this has been a funny moment in the last month.
	I mean, this in which they're just all of a sudden appealing to the right, being like, no, but free speech to say that communism did nothing wrong to kids.
	And also with the abortion stuff, they're like, no, but my right to choose, right?
	Yeah.
	So we'll give them the anti-choice arguments, the anti-free speech arguments.
	Speech is free, platforms are not, and no, you are not entitled to be heard.
	Wow.
	Speech is free, but the platform of being a teacher is not, and you're not entitled to tell the students anything you want.
	That's totally true, Tim.
	You're being paid to tell them about maths.
	You've got them that.
	He says, lately it has become commonplace for some, despite having long since cleared the middle school hurdle referenced above, to argue that Twitter and Facebook pro-tip both private companies.
	Oh, that aged well, didn't it?
	That is really well.
	Other than that, pretty much nothing.
	So, have you been jailed for teaching critical race theory?
	No.
	Have you been tortured or killed?
	No.
	Then your free speech has not been violated.
	Has it, Tim?
	Love it.
	No one owes you a microphone.
	Column inches in their newspaper or a podium at their college.
	Just so perfect.
	When you had the reins of power, you thought, right, I'm going to really pull these hard.
	Get all of these people deplatformed.
	You know, give them the lash as much as I can.
	As soon as it turns around, oh, but my free speech, my free speech.
	Now, get effed.
	Get absolutely effed.
	But I love how nothing has happened to them, though.
	Like, all that's happened here is like, okay, if I'm going to hire you as a math tutor for these students, then you need to teach them mathematics.
	And you've gone, yeah, but I want to tell them about my genitals.
	And you go...
	No, no, no.
	You can't do that.
	But the issue is, how am I going to continue to indoctrinate students?
	And that's what's been taken away from them.
	I can't pervert the children.
	Like, yeah, you can't.
	But age is coming to an end.
	Yes.
	But that's oppression of me.
	And that's bad.
	Okay.
	Oppression of you was good, and you didn't have a right to free speech, but when it's oppression of me, oh my god.
	And there's another one as well.
	It's not like this is the only...
	But what about a man's right to groom?
	I mean, they literally do think the children are their property, don't they?
	So anyway, that four-part diatribe was not the only thing about the free speech he'd written.
	This is from this year.
	Elon Musk's vision for Twitter should scare the hell out of you.
	With his insistence that Twitter should be an unmoderated forum, allowing maximum free expression with virtually no guardrails, Musk would steer Twitter onto the rocks of ever more abusive online behavior.
	It's the way that hyper-libertarian, futurist tech bros think, though.
	Based, frankly.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	But no, you're right.
	We can't have an unmoderated forum in the classrooms.
	Could be any.
	Maximum free expression?
	I don't think so.
	Not having any of that, as Tim Wise would have it.
	Anyway, that was that.
	Love it.
	Ron DeSantis, BTFO and the communists.
	Yeah, he's doing a great job.
	Am I not a brother and a man?
	No, get out.
	Shut up, communist.
	He's in the labour monkey dildo suit.
	If someone could meme that, actually, that would be great.
	The labour monkey dildo suit in the am I not a brother and a man pose.
	Just you.
	I suppose we should move on to Pizza Hut Nationalism, which is a Jack Posobiec invention that has been popping up over the last couple of days.
	I thought we'd talk about it because it's an interesting story.
	But we'll start off, because it is relevant, with the cyberpunk dystopian hangouts we've been doing.
	So this is for premium members on LonelySids.com, in which we've been going through some of the cyberpunk nonsense that we actually live in.
	Is this the one in which I pointed out that McDonald's used to be a welcoming place for human beings?
	I think this was, yeah.
	And now it's a grey corporate board.
	There was a particular picture of an armed guard standing outside of one, wasn't there?
	I haven't got one as good as that, so go and check out that livestream for that.
	But if we go to the next one, we have an example of that, which a user noted, which is, you know, look at what they took from you.
	And you have the happy, welcoming McDonald's with its arches that looks like some kind of place to visit.
	It looks like a place where you'd want to take your kids.
	Yeah, and then you have the...
	I don't even know how to describe it.
	Brutalist McDonald's?
	But it's even worse than that, because the concrete buildings we have, at least in this country, for the Brutalism era, look better than this, because this looks like a weird shipping container with a sign on the front.
	It looks like a method of punishing the people who have to go there.
	Yeah, like, they are going to feed you the books.
	But I mean, like, seriously, when I was a kid, in the 80s and 90s, I mean, that's what McDonald's looked like.
	You know, it would have, like, you know, it was all cheesy, you know, whereas, like, cartoon McDonald's characters and stuff like that.
	Everything about it, every part of it screams McDonald's, right?
	Yeah, but it also screams, bring your family here.
	Yeah, whereas what does every...
	Prison!
	What does every section of the cube give you?
	It just makes me think prison.
	Yeah, that's where Jeffrey Epstein was, where the cameras went out.
	I don't know.
	But if we move forward...
	Literally, actually.
	Because this is about Pizza Hut, not necessarily just McDonald's, of course.
	And this is in regards to Pizza Hut nationalism.
	So we'll move to the next one.
	We can see Jack Posobiec, who took a big old visit down to Pizza Hut.
	We'll ignore the Mecca King post-so part.
	That's a whole other story.
	But it's also based.
	Thanks for the memes, Joe Biden.
	Basically, Joe Biden called Trump the MAGA king, so everyone in the Republican Party is putting on their crowns going, thank you very much.
	Recently after the ultra MAGA agenda.
	MAGA kings going after the ultra MAGA agenda.
	I mean, this sounds awesome.
	So Posobiec went to Pizza Hut with his kids and said, I tried to take my kids to a classic Pizza Hut near D.C. last night, and it was a wasteland.
	Guess they don't do dine-in anymore.
	Unmade boxes all over the tables, dirty delivery drivers hanging out.
	Grew up with buckets, personal pans, red cups and arcade games.
	It's all gone now.
	I had exactly the same experience at McDonald's on my son's birthday.
	We went to McDonald's and we go in and it's literally the most uncomfortable chairs.
	We're sat around a grey table, sort of a light grey table.
	And on the right-hand side of the restaurant is just boxes of stuff that are ready to be delivered, with delivery drivers just standing there in their delivery gear.
	It's like, am I, you know, what am I, in a warehouse?
	Yeah.
	You know, what am I doing here?
	It's almost like Costco almost.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's not a dine-in.
	Yeah, it's not for human habitation.
	No, it's to get out, is what you're doing.
	And if we get to the next one, because this is how his experience went, and he also continued complaining.
	And if you click on the left one there, we have a pizza hut in China, apparently, and it looks like a restaurant.
	It looks inviting.
	There are chairs that aren't bolted to the ground, that have comfy soft bits on them, so your ass doesn't hurt after two minutes.
	And they have, look at that, you've got little forks and everything, they've got fancy things, they've got lighting in the place.
	Not even using chopsticks.
	That's Western colonialism for you.
	And if you go to the next one, there's the image of one of the older pizza huts, which is now abandoned.
	Of course.
	He says it's in America.
	Apparently this one is in Australia.
	But the same sort of corporatization is happening everywhere.
	It's about the West, frankly.
	And if we go to the next one, you can also see the fact that this is just a load of examples of abandoned old pizza huts with their weird pizza hut roofs.
	And I say weird because they just don't exist anymore, at least in my lifetime.
	They're all shipping containers or prisons these days.
	It's not just pizza hut, of course.
	Man, Sorry to interrupt, but in the 90s, in the 80s, in I think it was like Ipswich or something, there was a UFO McDonald's.
	That just sounds cool.
	It was the coolest thing in the world.
	It was literally a big silver UFO building, and you go in and the whole thing was like aliens, friendly aliens.
	You never get that approved now.
	I know, it was amazing.
	Wouldn't happen.
	It's actually derelict now.
	I saw a picture of it and I'm heartbroken about it.
	But anyway, that one's from Australia.
	If we move forward, that didn't stop me making a meme about the whole thing, so we can go to the next one, please.
	We can see we're just being like, yeah, this is a Vermont cake.
	I don't know if this is a different one, but again, it's the same thing of like, here's all the old pizza huts in the West, and they're decrepit and abandoned.
	The places you would sit down and have food and a comfy seat, as I say, with a bit of foam, the luxuries the world used to have in your day, they would sit down and your arse wouldn't immediately hurt.
	Well, it's when you had a society.
	Now everything is just delivered to your house, so you never have to interact with another human being.
	Yeah, whereas now you sit down and it's, I don't even know what it was made of, just pure plastic, I think.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And whereas in China, they're still enjoying a middle-class lifestyle in regards to this, amazingly.
	But they're also enjoying a social lifestyle, as in you would take your friends or family to a restaurant, or one of these places, and the kids would play and it'd be fun.
	It's a real embarrassment for us in the West, of course, just being like, how the hell are the commies at least more concerned with their well-being in regards to at least sitting down, if nothing else?
	Moving forward, we can see more of this because there's also him asking for Elon Musk to buy Pizza Hut and restore it to its traditional values.
	I've never seen a Pizza Hut like this.
	I mean, this does actually look like somewhere I'd actually be like, hey, this is cool.
	I want to go and visit.
	Yeah, man.
	Memories now, I'll tell you.
	I don't know what the Red Cups are about.
	Oh, they're just novels.
	Okay, apparently he loves them.
	But we'll move again, forwards.
	If we go to the next one, we can see him being like, hey, remember what they took from you?
	And it's a whole assortment of things from his, let's say, enjoyment times.
	And as you can see, you've got not just Pizza Hut stuff, but then...
	What are those animals called?
	I can't remember.
	I've seen the cartoon.
	Oh, the Land Before Time.
	Yeah, that one.
	And all the rest of it.
	Just all this 90s things.
	And if we go to the next one as well, you can see the fact that many a meme was made from this situation is because he started trending nationally for whining about Pizza Hut.
	There were 20,000 tweets.
	I salute that.
	That's fantastic.
	So this is him outside the Pizza Hut in Washington, DZ. Mainstreaming this issue.
	And an artist's interpretation of him just whining, being like, yeah, Pizza Hut's crap now.
	And immediately this caught on with tens of thousands of people who were like, yeah, it's crap.
	What the hell happened?
	He's hitting a real nerve, though.
	This is genuinely about the decline of our society.
	This is an aspect of it.
	And if we go to the next few, we can see people enjoying and joining in with their own memes.
	Of course, they reject maternity.
	I mean, look at that.
	Again, the prison aspect.
	It's the same architecture.
	It's awful.
	I mean, absolutely terrible.
	I look like I've been punished.
	I feel like I've been punished.
	And then the bottom one, which just looks like an interesting place.
	A fun, quirky, cheesy place to go.
	You notice how the roof is like a hut?
	And it's like the logo?
	It's a joke.
	A dad joke.
	It's got character.
	It isn't just a box.
	It literally isn't just a converted warehouse.
	Yes.
	I mean, he's so right.
	It's just ridiculous looking at it and thinking, actually, yeah, why the hell do we live like this?
	Yeah.
	If we go again forwards, you can see more of these memes.
	Corporate efficiency.
	That's why.
	Poso Hut was trending, of course, as well.
	Seriously, why do we live like this?
	Corporate efficiency.
	Yeah.
	And if we go to the next one, we can see the Postmillennial commenting on the fact that he was trending all of a sudden.
	You're like, what the hell?
	just whining about pizza hut can make you an international superstar overnight they say pizza hut nationalism is reminiscent of the 1970s era pop artist andy warhol who canonized basic products like campbell's soup cans and the person who wrote this article puts it quite well they say though many of his cultural fans thought he was painting soup cans with irony as something of a takedown he was painting them because he loved them because they were so distinctly of us the high culture slash
	low culture divide has now been completely upended by corporate social justice concerns that belittle americans their desires their families and their values There is a transparency to their elitism, and Pizza Hut trending on Twitter exposed it.
	And I think this is some really good commentary on why these things resonate.
	Because if you think of Pizza Hut now, it's not just the box.
	It's not just the outside.
	It's not just the fact that they treat you like dirt.
	There's no comfy chairs in the side.
	There's not even a tent made.
	It's a piece of plastic you saw on.
	Yeah.
	It's not just that.
	It's also just the way they operate their companies on the PR side.
	And this is so true.
	If we go forward again, you can see another brick here, this being McDonald's, because, of course, all of them look the same.
	I mean, I'd be surprised if the American flag hasn't gone within a few years as well, wherever this is.
	I'm surprised it's not a trans flag.
	And we'll take a look at McDonald's just for their PR side of it.
	The fact that they endlessly try and tell you about social justice.
	It's just like, no American wants this.
	Are you mad?
	Ah, it's a modern progressive burger company, Callum.
	Do you remember that big picture?
	Modern progressive burger company.
	Quote from the CEO, which we'll come back to.
	So this is a McDonald's post, which they just say, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	George Floyd, we see them as our crew members.
	What?
	This is them trying to signal to the black community.
	The blacks, you work for us now.
	I wouldn't want to work at McDonald's.
	This was them trying to say BLM. McDonald's even, I can't remember, I think I was watching, there's a podcast called Cumbtown.
	Weird name, but funny guys.
	And they did an episode once they were talking about, I can't find it anymore.
	McDonald's did set up a website for black people, as in like, black people McDonald's.
	It was the weirdest thing.
	Half expected them to write in like, slang words.
	It was so out of touch.
	It was in BBC Pigeon.
	Essentially.
	Whereas, meanwhile, in China, of course, we go to the next one, we can see them being like, hey, no black people in the McDonald's.
	And McDonald's corporate are having to apologise for that.
	Whereas in America, at the same time period, they're being like, yes, Black Lives Matter.
	Michael Brown did nothing wrong.
	I mean, this just goes to show that these corporations do not care about you at all.
	And they're happy to go along with all this.
	The next one as well, we just have it endless again.
	I mean, I know we went over it when it happened, but looking back at it...
	Black trans women have a very simple message.
	Stop killing us, says McDonald's.
	I haven't been convicted of killing anyone yet, McDonald's.
	I don't know why you say it.
	It's like the black trans women are talking to McDonald's.
	Stop eating the burgers.
	Look at her chin coming along nicely.
	Maybe she's got a good point.
	You noticed all of a sudden I seen Tim Paul and a whole bunch of other people looking back at the crazy COVID stuff that happened and being like, man, we should really never forget this.
	This was mad.
	I'm doing the same thing here with the weird BLM period in which this stuff propped up.
	If we go forward again, we have more...
	Indoctrination from Ibram X Kendi.
	Burger Inc.
	There's not enough anti-racist research figuring out what's wrong with racist policy.
	Now eat the burger.
	How does this sell us burgers?
	Burgers.
	Stone Toss really has immortalized reality with that one.
	If we move forward again, we also have we must protect, honor, love, and defend black women at all costs.
	I think my wife is going to have a lot to say about this.
	Yeah, I also think black men are going to have a lot to say about that.
	But seriously, if I come home, darling, I'm going to have to protect, honour, love and defend black women.
	She's going to be like, you're married to me?
	That's what you're meant to do with me?
	She's going to be like, what the hell are you doing?
	Are you leaving me?
	I'm sorry, I'm loving it.
	I've got to go.
	It's so weird.
	I mean, they're literally marriage vows.
	Yeah, but also inhuman.
	Again, like this advertisement is so inhuman, no human being would actually come up with this as a marketing strategy.
	If they genuinely wanted you to feel welcome and relaxed and bring your family, bring your kids and have a sit down, have a meal, give me the money, there we go, look, I'm going, you know, that's how business works.
	101.
	And instead they're like, yeah, no, we're going to beat you over the head with critical race theory.
	What I love about McDonald's is just banking, look, you're addicted to our products, so, you know, eat the sugar, enjoy the carbs.
	Go to the next one, we also have just...
	The seed oils.
	This is from that post-millennial article.
	Look at this Pizza Hut.
	I've never seen anything like this.
	So I think what's important here is what Jack Sobiek is driving at is the fact that you get a particular aesthetic experience from this, right?
	So when you look at the McDonald's that looks like a prison, it makes you feel in a certain way.
	The non-aesthetic features, as in the square building, the grey colour, the emotionless attitude that is presented.
	How is that meant to make you feel?
	That's the aesthetic experience.
	It's your feeling of the thing.
	Under attack.
	Exactly.
	You're meant to feel like you've done something wrong.
	You should be on edge.
	Whereas this is meant to make you feel welcome and homely and familial.
	You know, this is a very kind-looking place where people care about one another.
	You do not get that feeling from the modern McDonald's or Pizza Huts.
	You're going to sit down, your ass isn't going to hurt, because I'm really sorry about that.
	Sorry, it's not just me.
	You're going to sit down on a comfy chair, you're going to put your hands on the cloth on the table, because there's a cloth on the table, that's a luxury.
	You're going to have a fun experience with nice food, with people you love.
	That's not what the McDonald's or the Pizza Huts are advertising now.
	No, and that lady there isn't going to come over with the pizza as she serves it to those smiling parents and go, it is our duty to honour and protect black women.
	It's just not a conversation that's going to come up.
	It's going to be like, here's your pizza.
	Can I talk to you?
	What was Starbucks where they had their race for life or something?
	It's like, we're going to have racial conversations with our baristas and the public is like, oh God, I just wanted a coffee.
	Could you imagine her coming over and being like, yeah, black trans women have a message for you.
	Stop killing them.
	Here's your pizza.
	Should we leave?
	Framing the customer as a villain.
	That's what it is.
	The whole thing is framing the customer as a villain.
	Exactly.
	If we move forward again, we'll see more of this.
	He's not the only one who had this idea.
	Someone called Donut Operator had the same idea.
	He was like, hey, I should probably re-buy these and call them Pizza Home.
	And just to bring people home as well.
	So, good idea.
	And then we'll move forward again and see the fact that, no, Pizza Hut doesn't want to follow these ideas.
	Instead, they are too busy literally sponsoring Critical Race Theory.
	In this case, Myth and Thorned Milwaukee bringing this to us.
	This is some anti-racism training.
	It's funded by Pizza Hut.
	That's what they spend their profits on?
	They don't give you a bit of a cushion.
	No, they're too busy spending the money they made on this.
	Well, they probably see it as a form of reparations.
	Because if there's one thing that's been oppressing the black community, it's Pizza Hut.
	If anyone needs to pay, it's definitely Pizza Hut.
	If anyone's got dirty hands in the question of slavery and Jim Crow, it's McDonald's.
	That's why they got rid of the comfy bit on the chairs, because of the cotton.
	We need to make white people suffer.
	If we go to the next one as well, this is just something I also want to look back on.
	This is an advert I found called...
	This is Wendy's anti-communism advert from 1985.
	And again, just the homeliness of the advert here.
	here i think we're going to enjoy so let's play pay attention Please thank you!
	Is next day there?
	Very nice.
	Is that evening there?
	Very nice.
	Having no choice is no fun.
	That's why at Wendy's every hamburger isn't dressed the same.
	You get your choice of fresh toppings, fresh tomatoes, fresh lettuce, fresh onions, cheese, bacon, and more.
	having a choice is better than none he's next swim there choose fresh Choose Wendy's.
	I mean, that makes me want to go to Wendy's.
	Nothing else.
	I'm hungry, man.
	Yeah.
	But also just the fact that of...
	Think back to those blocks.
	Those prison cells of a restaurant.
	Who in that advert would have built those, you would have thought?
	The voiceover?
	The American?
	Or the weird Soviet half-German man-woman?
	Okay.
	Telling you about how there'll be no choice.
	We'll have everything uniform and perfect.
	So we will have it in a block in which you go in and buy your food and get out.
	I mean, that's what you'd expect as well.
	There's also the fact that Wendy's social media has continued to be based as well as anti-communist.
	So, thanks on them for that.
	And if we go to the next one here, we do have some Twitter philosopher who has some thoughts on this whole matter.
	Oh yeah.
	They say...
	In the 90s, common elements of the middle-class suburban life and culture, like Pizza Hut, were seen by sophisticated tastemakers to be empty consumerist quiche, to be enjoyed by unsophisticated rubes.
	What is happening now is that the kids who enjoyed that life and unironically liked those things, middle-class houses and decor, restaurants like Applebee's and Pizza Hut, accessible mass media, think Nickelodeon, before the pre-woke Disney films, not cool art house films,
	They view those things with nostalgia because they were part of a time when the world was stable and a middle-class life experience could be replicated across the country and shared, even if that culture is Nintendo 64 Pizza Hut and renting a blockbuster on a Friday night.
	And there's much to be said for this.
	I find that interesting, the condescension with which these things are treated.
	There's nothing wrong with these things.
	These things are all nice things in moderation.
	Hmm.
	But they're also, if everyone can share in them, and you know they're a bit crap, but they're actually, there is some element...
	They're pretty accessible, yeah.
	There is an element of trying to make your life better, like the standard of living can be better.
	I mean, when would you ever hear the word standing of living by the people who make those prisons?
	Well, never!
	I mean...
	It's not going to come up in the conversation.
	Ergo, well, they keep giving me that crappy plastic seat you have to sit on, instead of just the modicum of decency that you would give a guest in your home.
	They are right.
	My parents were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but once every week or every couple of weeks, we'd go to McDonald's or some other burger restaurant.
	And that was the highlight of my week.
	I still remember, you know, literally being like, you know, 10 years old, sat with my sister and my parents in, I think it was Wimpy, my dad used to take us to.
	I've heard of that.
	Yeah, basically is like Wendy's from Richmond Wendy's.
	And it was great.
	And I still have very fond memories of doing it.
	You know, it didn't cost that much.
	It was something you could do every now and again.
	It was a family thing that you did together.
	It was pleasant.
	But also, look at that photo of Pizza Hut, you know, the one with the carpet and...
	I don't know if I'm saying it.
	You know what, we read...
	We had a carpet!
	Yeah, we read...
	Tablecloths!
	What the hell we're saying?
	Because we'll read, like, Miles' Great Famine and Bill being like, yeah, there was no more tablecloths and all this, all the basic needs were gone.
	And I'm thinking, no, that's how we live.
	Like, there are no carpets in the Pizza Hut.
	There are no tablecloths on the table.
	There is no foam to protect you from being hurt all night.
	It's unbelievable what we accept these days.
	But there is also a major reason for some of this changing.
	Of course, it is the aspect culturally, as in the people who make those decisions, never thinking of cost of living, you know, standard of living, sorry, or never thinking about anything else but how to just squeeze more money.
	But if we go forward, we can see some of this in action, which is with McDonald's Corp.
	Because back in 2015, they had a particularly bad year, and their chief executive, what was his name again?
	I can't remember.
	Ah, well, I will.
	So the chief executive came up with new ideas on how to reorganize the franchise business by selling off all their franchises that they didn't want and weren't making profit, so then they didn't have to worry about that, and also reorganizing all the bureaucracy and blah blah blah.
	And that's where the quote came from.
	He claimed in 2015 to turn McDonald's into a modern progressive burger company.
	Who asked for that?
	The progressive aspect.
	Who asked you to be modern?
	The classic McDonald's was amazing.
	I mean, he made the argument because they weren't making as much money as they needed to, and you can see that happening in a system in which you're incentivized to make money, of course.
	But then the progressive aspect, I mean, all the virtue signaling just wasn't necessary.
	If we go to the next one, he did actually get this working in the sense of, well, McDonald's made more money.
	And, well, how did he do it?
	Fundamentally, it's by stuff like this.
	Oh, yeah.
	You can see the self-service.
	Yeah, literally, you'll be served by robots by the end of it in a grey, concrete building that looks like a goddamn prison.
	The concrete building wasn't necessary.
	The stripping of the chairs wasn't necessary.
	Take your calories.
	That aspect wasn't necessary.
	The replacing staff with self-service, okay, you can make money that way.
	It makes sense, but everything else you didn't need to do.
	Engage with the touchscreen.
	Drink your sugar water.
	Eat your seed oil burger.
	It's literally just turning things into statistics.
	There's also home delivery, which was a new thing that McDonald's did in the West, finally.
	They've been doing that in foreign countries forever.
	I don't even know that.
	Like, India and Kuwait, you could get that for years.
	Yeah, but I bet it's crap because it's going to be freezing cold by the time it arrives.
	Eh, it's McDonald's.
	Yeah, but this is why you wanted to get to the restaurant itself.
	At least it'd be warm.
	Yeah, but if we move forward, of course, this did work in the sense of actually saving money, so they ended up making more profit.
	If we go to the Express article here, just, yeah, they did save from that, and then they fired Mr.
	Easterbrock.
	If we go to the next one, we can see why.
	He was fired in 2019 after it was discovered that he was sending inappropriate texts and videos to an employee, which he had a non-physical consensual relationship with.
	Right, okay.
	At least it's consensual, I suppose.
	Yeah, I suppose it's not.
	He had to give back $105 million in compensation.
	Jesus.
	That was his severance package, apparently, because he was lying about multiple relationships, not just the one.
	He said in a statement he handed back the money and his equity awards...
	McDonald's equity awards.
	I mean, this is how leftists apparently took the progressive aspect to heart, handing out awards to the CEO, and also issuing an apology that he failed to uphold McDonald's values.
	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	McDonald's values.
	Yeah.
	What do you have left?
	Well known for their ethical standards, McDonald's.
	You're a prison building that produces addictive food.
	What is it you do?
	I don't want what values you have except apparently screeching at the customer about black trans women.
	Telling the customer that they're evil because they're white.
	Or oppressed because they're black.
	I just want my carbs to be alive.
	Just give me the sugar water.
	But that is Pizza Hut nationalism, as Poso made it all out there, which is something true, which is the aspect that the Chinese apparently still have that in their stores, whereas us in the West are enjoying our prisons instead.
	Well, they want their civilization to be livable.
	Radical ideas!
	Yeah, I know, it's crazy.
	Now, go into the concrete box.
	Anyway...
	So, we haven't checked in with Sadiq Khan for quite some time, and I thought we would, because I follow him on social media, because of course I do, and he's a very confused man.
	That's just the only way I can describe him.
	Very confused.
	He doesn't know what he is, doesn't know what he's doing, where he's going, but he's definitely being harassed online by racists.
	And so I thought I'd add to that.
	I'm of course joking.
	Do not harass Sadiq Khan online.
	Just come and watch us laugh him.
	But the thing is, Sadiq Khan is a product of modern Britain because it wasn't always like this way.
	We didn't always have a person like Sadiq Khan in charge of the capital city.
	It used to be that Britain was a British country, and we covered this in this premium hangout we did on Loicies.com, how Britain has changed.
	Where we go through just the footage, if you just look at the city, I mean, actually physically look at it, and then look at it now, you can see how different it is.
	And it is, as it says, within living memory.
	Also, just the aspect that London used to be England's capital, and now it might be in your textbook, but in reality, no one in England thinks of that as their shiny example.
	Well, interestingly, now it's not the capital of England.
	Now it is one of the outposts of the global order, and Sadiq Khan represents that global order, and he seems to...
	Be aware that he's a part of this global order, and this is what I think is confusing him.
	Because, I mean, there's a quote from Sadiq that I find hilarious.
	There was a clip of it, but I couldn't find the clip.
	But the clip of it is him saying, I'm a proud Londoner, a Brit, a European, of Pakistani heritage, and a Muslim.
	We all have multiple layers of identity.
	That's what makes us who we are.
	But yeah, but some of these seem a bit conflicting.
	100% conflicting, one might say.
	A Pakistani European.
	Pakistani European Brit Londoner.
	Eh?
	Yeah.
	So this is the point.
	Sadiq seems to be completely confused.
	And in his very progressive way, where he wants to make everything inclusive, it forces him to try and be everything to everyone.
	And so, say, come around St.
	George's Day...
	Should we have a look?
	I don't think what he did.
	Post on his Instagram.
	Today, once again, we brought St.
	George's Day celebrations to the heart of our country's capital city.
	It was wonderful to honour everything that makes England the country we are today.
	To everyone celebrating St.
	George's Day, I had a great day and hope you do too.
	I mean, at least they've got some English people.
	I was about to say, looking at this, not to be rude, but this doesn't look like a field on St.
	George's Day where you take your kids and have fun.
	But then they are in London.
	No, this looks more like when it's Oktoberfest, and in London you can go and see Oktoberfest-themed stuff, right?
	It looks like, again, the Londoners interacting with a foreign culture.
	Yes.
	Yes, it does.
	That's a great way of putting it.
	It looks very much like Londoners interacting with a foreign culture.
	But yeah, so he's a proud Englishman now.
	Yeah, that was the next one.
	I think so.
	Oh, no.
	Alright, well it doesn't matter.
	We've already read it.
	Yeah, I was going to go on to that.
	It was on the Instagram link.
	But that's fine.
	Go back to that one then.
	He also followed this up with, quote, I'm proud to be English.
	I'm proud to be British.
	Proud to be European.
	Proud to be of Asian origin and Pakistani heritage.
	Doesn't make any sense.
	Because Pakistani being an ethnic origin is the same as English being an ethnic origin.
	May I agree?
	Are both his parents Pakistani?
	Yes, of course they are.
	So, how is he...
	He's claiming to be English.
	I mean, if he said culturally English, maybe.
	Yeah.
	You know, he's probably born and raised in England.
	Probably says the Diprov and all that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he's certainly British.
	You know, he's a product of Britain.
	But he's not, like, ethnically English.
	And it's weird how he seems to be claiming, in a way, to be ethnically English, which I just find very peculiar.
	Especially as, I think, on any other given day, he'd be like...
	Yeah, St.
	George's Day.
	But like you were saying, it seems like they're kind of like, oh, look at this strange, quaint folk culture from this foreign country.
	You know, let's get them doing their little dances.
	I mean, if we can go back to the footage just to show people more, which is just, I mean, really look at it.
	It really does look like it's Oktoberfest and there's, like, this could be German people celebrating St.
	George's Day in my mind.
	And that's the aspect of the global order, isn't it?
	Like, every particular little, like, you know, quaint folk culture gets their own little day, and this is the one for the English, apparently.
	That guy dancing in a dress.
	But the thing is, he makes the conservative sound based, which is just always amusing to me.
	If we can go on to the tweet, where it's, yeah, complaining, oh, conservatives and Zach Goldsmith ran an Islamophobic campaign against me, but we will continue to tell non-Muslims that Islam is about peace and coexistence, says Sadiq Khan.
	We're going to continue to lie to non-Muslims.
	In London, as well.
	I mean, the amount of terrorist attacks London's been through from the religion of peace and coexistence, as Sadiq puts it.
	I just can't stop staring at his gigantic nose.
	It is rather large.
	It's colossal.
	Yeah.
	The height, he's really short, his nose is really big, it's really strange.
	This isn't a pet peeve either, like, it really is abnormal.
	It's not normal.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, he's also a Muslim, of course, as he said, and...
	Now that you see it, you can't get it out of your mind.
	It's a side note.
	Look, there are ugly people out there.
	He's one of them.
	But anyway, yeah, he's a Muslim, and so with his fellow co-religionists, went down to London for Ramadan Iftar.
	Doesn't Trafalgar Square look beautiful?
	I mean, I guess.
	And this is what I mean.
	That's just where they were, I believe.
	A second ago with the England, the St.
	George.
	It's a local, oh, let's engage in the foreign culture and buy some trinkets at this market.
	And that's the thing, because Sadiq Khan isn't really even authentically a Muslim.
	You know, he's like, well, I'm Pakistani Muslim.
	It's like, yeah, okay.
	So do something Muslim.
	It's like, huh.
	But anyway, he says here in London, we celebrate and embrace our diversity.
	We now go to the average Sadiq Khan voter to see what that celebration inclusion looks like.
	We can play the clip.
	You know what's in six million?
	Size of London.
	Here we have a holocaust denier.
	You want me to believe you are a liar.
	Six million people size of London.
	What do you think of Hitler?
	Hitler?
	Yeah.
	He's a good man.
	He throw you out because he's making trouble.
	I'm voting Sadiq.
	We celebrate our diversity!
	Yeah, I mean, that is the message.
	Diversity is our strength, and what does diversity bring you?
	Pakistanis who endorse Adolf Hitler, apparently.
	But anyway, the thing is, Sadiq Khan is not actually a fan of Islam, and that's one thing that I didn't really expect to see.
	He says, well, I'm deeply concerned.
	He reports that women in Afghanistan will be forced to wear a veil.
	These men in power should concern themselves with keeping women and girls safe, not policing what they wear.
	It's like Sadiq.
	Are you familiar with Islam?
	They are keeping women and girls safe by giving them the veil.
	That's literally the purpose in the Quranic injunctions that Sadiq Khan appears to be deeply unaware of.
	Like, they're concealing their beauty so they don't get abused.
	That's the point.
	That's the argument made by the Islamists.
	Well, it's not just the argument made by the Islamist.
	There's literally quotes from the Quran, which we have now, right?
	So, in the Quran, from Surah 3359, quote, O prophet, tell your wives and daughters that the women of the believers to draw their cloaks and veils all over their bodies, that will be better, they should be known as so not to be annoyed.
	Other translations have that as, like, harassed, abused.
	Basically, the Quran, well, Islam views Muslim men as not really capable of...
	Yeah, they're not in control of their sexual desires.
	It's up to women.
	No, Islam believes that their male followers are essentially animals who will attack women at the first sight.
	Yeah, that's exactly what they think.
	And so this one is, you know, the warning that a woman could bring sexual abuse on herself if she's not properly covered.
	There's, of course, another one.
	I won't go into these.
	Quote's too long.
	But the woman is supposed to cover herself, except when she's with relatives, and also to look down as to avoid making eye contact with men.
	The exact quote, in fact, is, say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers.
	So, I mean, it's literally in the Quran.
	There is another one as well that says that a woman can present herself without avail, only to family and slaves.
	So it's like...
	You know, the normal thing.
	When you go home for your slaves and you can relax finally?
	Well, yeah, but, you know, I think it's fair to say it's an argument from the Tyne.
	1963 in Saudi Arabia.
	But when it's also the perfect word of God and can't be changed to this modern day.
	That's true.
	But so him being like, well, I can't believe in Afghanistan the Taliban are making women cover up.
	It's like...
	What?
	Like, do you not know anything about Islam?
	Have you ever been to a mosque?
	Have you ever checked out your own campaign to cover up women on the Cube?
	Well, that's where I was going next, because, incidentally, progressivism and Islam have actually synchronized on this point.
	Cover-up whore was, I think, the exact quote from Sadiq Khan.
	Probably.
	Might be a bit of a mistranslation, I don't know.
	But in 2020...
	His campaign slogan is in Urdu.
	Well, it may as well be.
	Yeah, well, you know, there are members...
	This isn't even a joke.
	What is it?
	Tower Hamlets has got the Urdu bloody train station.
	Yeah, we're not even taking the mickey.
	Labour campaigners on the regular go out and campaign in Urdu.
	Not just on the written, but also in speeches.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But anyway, so this was in 2016 when he pulled the Beachbody Ready adverts for being...
	I think it was anti-feminist.
	Sure.
	We'll go with that one.
	Yeah.
	He said, as the father of two teenage girls, I'm extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies.
	It's high time it came to an end.
	So he's arrived at the Islamic position from the other direction.
	It's like, well, we don't want men assaulting women, so they've got to cover up.
	Oh, we don't want women feeling bad, so they've got to cover up.
	It's incredible.
	It's like, look, either way, men have to control women's bodies in some way.
	So Sadiq Khan, going back on that, is somewhat ironic.
	It was also that this woman here, her body is literally impossible to become.
	It is an unrealistic beauty standard.
	However, it was then revealed that there was no editing whatsoever.
	She was just a bit of a fitness freak.
	Yeah, she was a vegan fitness freak.
	Yes.
	But he was like, I want to send a clear message to the advertising industry about this.
	And we don't know how women on posters.
	Yeah.
	If she was wearing a burqa, he would have had literally nothing to say.
	Yeah.
	I mean, whoever made the poster, honestly, should have just re-shopped it, deleted her, and put the same thing back up?
	Yeah.
	And be like, by order of Sadiq Khan?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, so Sadiq's been out on tour in America for some reason, hanging out with the evil queen herself, the evil stepmother.
	Such a pleasure to meet Hillary Clinton in New York today.
	Please don't shoot me.
	To discuss a range of pressing issues facing London.
	What's she got to do with pressing issues in London, Steve?
	Well, the American elite.
	Colony of the global order, I know.
	He met Mike Bloomberg as well, which must have been weird.
	At least they can look eye to eye.
	They're both midges.
	Are they?
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Look at them!
	Do a low shot.
	It's like, look, I'm not sure I can get that far down.
	But unironically, Sadiq Khan's like five foot four.
	The photographer was in the ground at this point.
	Anyway, so Sadiq was like, yeah, I think decriminalizing cannabis would be a great idea.
	We can get the next one.
	It's just like, yeah, he's open-minded about it.
	It's like, Sadiq, it's not your bloody choice.
	the mayor of london not the king of england yet uh but anyway priti patel replied to this being like um sadiq's time would be better focused spent on knife and drug crime in london the mayor has no power to legalize drugs they ruin communities tear apart families and destroy lives so i love the ultra conservative smack on the head from priti patel there It's like, listen.
	Learn your place.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You have no power in this regard.
	Exactly.
	There are so many different layers to this, right?
	It's institutional hierarchy right there.
	It's like, know your place city.
	You're the mayor of London, not part of the government.
	You have no power in this regard.
	Also, social conservatism.
	Drugs are bad.
	They're bad for kids.
	They ruin communities.
	Just layers of conservatism from Prince Patel there.
	It's a good thing to see, you know?
	Good thing to see.
	Anyway, so on his whirlwind tour of America, Sadiq Khan carried on whining about Trump.
	Of course.
	Of course he did.
	Yes.
	He claims that he received 233,000, quote, explicitly racist or racialized social media messages since being elected mayor of London in 2016.
	What does that mean?
	What's a racialized message?
	Well, who knows?
	I mean, it's saying we have our first black gay woman in the White House.
	That's a racialized message.
	I'm absolutely certain that every single one of them would have come from Mexico, though.
	Yeah.
	Sent from an iPhone in Mexico.
	What's the map?
	It's like we've done the study and identified the four most racist countries on Earth.
	It's Mexico, India, the Philippines.
	Argentina.
	Argentina.
	That's where all the white supremacists come from.
	We're screeching, I am white!
	But, yeah, so Khan blamed a 1,892% rise in abuse to Donald Trump's election as U.S. president.
	Because, of course, they had a feud in 2017 when Trump criticized him over his response to the London Bridge terror attacks.
	Yeah, rightfully.
	Because Sadiq Khan was like, I have no idea about Islam.
	Why would they do this?
	Why would my fellow Muslims do this?
	I'm going to have to pick up a Koran sometime.
	Trump was like, sort yourself out.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And yeah, so he says during those four years he was president, that led me to having to receive police protection and a lot of racial abuse.
	In the last year of him being president, once he was banned from Twitter, I received the least racial abuse over any time over the last five years.
	On the one hand, social media, Facebook and Twitter are great.
	On the other hand, it's the consequence of a lack of control and a lack of regulation.
	So of course, Sadiq doesn't want Trump to come back on.
	No, he doesn't want anyone on Twitter that doesn't agree with him.
	Yeah, if you go to the next one, he called on Elon Musk to think again about allowing Donald Trump back on Twitter after revealing the extent of the online abuse he suffered.
	It's like, Sadiq, I know you're a midget, but you're not a woman.
	LAUGHTER Like, that's not gonna work!
	Man up.
	Yeah, exactly, man up!
	But also, I can't stand this rhetoric.
	This idea that, oh, don't you know that I had to have police protection as the mayor of London because of threats made against me from random people?
	It's like, yeah, now imagine if you were a random individual who criticised Islam and then had to have your own protection and endless threats made against you.
	Now imagine if you were Sir David Amis who didn't receive any threats on social media.
	No.
	I imagine that everyone who deals with anything controversial has to end up with this situation.
	It's not new.
	People in positions of authority have to be responsible to the public.
	And yeah, you have to deal with horrible things in public life.
	But that is the game.
	That is a horrible part of reality there.
	But then the idea that the response to that is that anyone who criticises me should be banned from social media.
	I mean, could you imagine if someone made the same argument?
	Be like, well, I said this thing about religion and now I'm getting loads of religious grief from certain countries.
	So we'll just ban all the Muslims.
	I mean, imagine if someone said that.
	I mean, that's literally what Trump did with his Muslim ban.
	It was from social media.
	It was from even entering the country.
	Yeah, well, you know, too many terrorists.
	Yeah, so Sadiq Khan was at Stanford University in California.
	It's part of this five-day tour of the US. And, of course, in that period of time, Elon Musk came out and said, actually, the Twitter ban on Trump was morally wrong and foolish in the extreme.
	And he would reverse it.
	He didn't add to whether he thought it was a good thing that Sadiq Khan's racial abuse went up and down with Trump's ban.
	But if it's morally wrong when Trump's banned, it must be morally right.
	I don't think that follows.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, if you go to the next one, he has publicly asked Elon Musk to consider readmitting the former president.
	Let's wait and see if Donald Trump has learned his lesson.
	He wasn't actually banned for being racist to you online, Sadiq.
	He never was.
	No, he wasn't.
	But he wasn't banned for that.
	And so, you know, he didn't even get banned for calling you an annoying midget.
	I'm pretty sure he did do that as well.
	So Donald Trump's like 6'2 or something, so he can do it.
	But anyway, the bad news for Sadiq Khan, though, is that Twitter terms of service have already been updated.
	These aren't even enforced yet, right?
	Apparently this new terms of service effect will take effect on 10th of June 2022, and they say now this is new, quote, Any use or reliance on content or materials posted via the services or obtained by you through the services is at your own risk.
	You can be treated like an adult.
	We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness or accuracy or reliability of any content or communication posted via the service or endorse any opinions expressed via the service.
	You understand that by using the service you may be exposed to content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate or in some cases postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
	All content is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such content.
	We may not monitor or control the content posted via the services, and we cannot take responsibility for such content.
	So Twitter is being moved suddenly and strictly in line with Section 230 protections, and Sadiq Khan is getting BTFO'd entirely.
	Sadiq, if you don't like it, don't use the service, is Twitter's position.
	I love Elon Musk.
	We'd love to see it.
	I mean, I know there has been an unbelievable amount of praise of him, but frankly...
	He has earned it, let's be honest.
	He has done more than any single individual has in quite some time.
	To make Sadiq Khan grind his teeth.
	But yeah, so that's just a round-up of what's been happening with Sadiq Khan.
	we haven't checked in in a while so i thought we would it's also just an embarrassment because uh we have a lot of interest in the united states obviously the fact that like half our economies trade goes with them and all that and so you have boris johnson over there at the moment and even though you've got you know basically a dead man in the white house he's still trying to be friendly with him and all the rest of it but you censor d can't over all he does just cause grief and just start talking about how he hates donald trump his personal issues Yeah.
	People online think mean things to me.
	And Twitter's like, well, don't use our service because these are terms and conditions.
	But there's no aspect of him trying to help Britain.
	No, of course not.
	It's about him whining.
	Maybe I can legalise drugs.
	That'll fix things in the black community.
	Just...
	Good thinking, Sadiq.
	Thank God for Priti Patel.
	Just no short man.
	We can see eye to eye to on this.
	Priti Patel's sake.
	Yeah, exactly.
	She's tiny as well.
	But anyway...
	I'm not interested in sharing a moral interaction with them.
	I'm interested in blowing them the f*** up.
	Well, you know, have you considered their side of the story?
	I have.
	And when a million screaming green retards turn up on my planet, I just shoot them.
	I just shoot them.
	Joke's on you.
	I'll enjoy it.
	You're going to have to put that in the shed, Drive John, because I'm going to put that out on social media after it's on Guest.
	But yeah, you fight the orcs, you lose, because they win.
	Because it's fun.
	But at least I didn't die.
	Yeah, you might.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Reply to Callum.
	I do believe that the entertainment industry actually believes that going Vogue is how you earn money.
	The thing just is that they have been living on the Twitterswear and they have been catering to the Vogue crowd specifically.
	So if they were to backtrack now and have a white male doctor, they would be attacked and they are afraid of it and they have been alienating everybody else.
	So now they have nowhere to go.
	You get what you deserve.
	By the way, this has Tomega's autograph.
	Oh, that's pretty cool.
	I was going to say, that's so stupid, but you're so right, I bet they believe that.
	It's the dumbest idea.
	So Doctor Who's audience, for people who don't know, just knows that.
	The ratings are terrible.
	And Sophie makes the point that, well, the tiny audience they have left are the Wokesbergs, and they're scared of losing them, because then they'll have no one.
	That's a great point, actually.
	It's not like you could ever get back all those other people who have left, because this is retarded, and you need to stop.
	They don't think that, do they?
	They can't imagine that coming back.
	But I mean, I think she's probably right.
	I think a lot of them did think, like, this is like the constant thing about chasing the mythical wider audience that they're constantly trying to do.
	It's like, okay, we need to be inclusive.
	We need to get essentially the normies, and Warhammer's doing this as well, where it's like they're trying to essentially normalize themselves.
	It's like, look, if you do that, you're going to lose the core audience who actually enjoyed the fact that you were niche.
	It's not like you're not making money.
	I can understand some movement because it's like...
	Yeah, if profits were down or something.
	We're not making enough money with our core customers, therefore we need to expand the base.
	But when you're making money and it's all going well and you're just like, yes, what if we ruin the whole thing?
	Sir, it's a brave strategy.
	Everything's going great.
	I'm not happy with this.
	It happened with Doctor Who.
	I mean, like, 90% all the way throughout, and then it got to Capaldi, and it's, you know, it went to 60%.
	I'm surprised, actually.
	I thought Capaldi was alright as a Doctor.
	I'm not a fan of Doctor Who, but, like, my wife watched it, so I've had to see it.
	The late ones, but there was a certain accomplice.
	I guess Capaldi wasn't, like, appealing to the teenage girl demographic.
	It's the scripts and everything else as well, but there's a lot of things going wrong here.
	And then Dr.
	Karen was just the final nail in the coffin.
	Yeah.
	Where it's just like, well now, nosedive.
	Dead.
	12%.
	Down to 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
	The latest thing they put out.
	Which I'm not even going to bother watching because who cares.
	Looking forward to it.
	In the next one.
	Hey, Lotus Eaters.
	So this previous Mother's Day, then I went to the stock car races with my little brothers.
	So here are some highlight clips of the hit-to-pass race, where you have to bump the guy in front of you to be allowed to pass him.
	It led to a lot of spin-outs, and one guy even rolled his car.
	Nobody was hurt, and it was a lot of fun.
	Looks like how I play driving games.
	I've always wanted to do that.
	It must cost, I don't know, $1,000 or something.
	It sounds like a great time, though.
	Go to the next one.
	Callum, I used to be fully against the death penalty on a moral level, but even now as I agree some people deserve death, I don't agree the state should do it.
	Ignoring even the argument of mistake in human error, I'm concerned about the philosophy of the state.
	As it is, we've seen people try to stop deportations, ignore ethnic minorities doing evil things, and actively punishing people who either point this out or take matters into their own hands.
	I'm not against the state passing death penalties.
	I'm against the state which I think is against innocent and good people.
	They can and will punish you, and I'm not willing to hand them that power.
	I was sympathetic to that position, except they already have that power and they're already using it.
	So this is Peter Hitchison's point, which was you already have the death penalty, just not in law, so you can still be killed by the police under certain circumstances and it's fine.
	That is also an argument.
	But I will say that we are making the presumption, obviously, and this is why you've made your argument, that we'd be in power to change the law in that regard, because then we'd fix all that other crap as well.
	And anyone who was involved in it would be removed from those positions and would not be allowed back in, ever.
	So, yeah, we are making that presupposition, that is true.
	I understand the whole life orders, man.
	Whenever we have a terrorist who is going to be in there for life, I just think...
	Just execute him.
	I'm not even thinking...
	See, to me, that's too consequentialist.
	I don't even care if he's in there for his whole life.
	I'm not bothered about the taxes.
	I think that if someone has done something so heinous, then there comes a threshold where, yeah, the correct punishment is for that person to be killed.
	The only reason I say that is not because of the consequentialist aspect.
	It's the evidentiary standard.
	So it's so high for a whole life order that, okay, yeah, we've not got this wrong.
	Yeah, it's literally impossible for it to have been wrong.
	Because I think the percentage for the United States, probably get this wrong, but it's around like 4% of all death penalties over the last 30 years or something have turned out to be wrong.
	It's not a small number.
	No, no, that's not.
	I'm not saying we shouldn't have a remarkably high standard.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a concern raised by those who are out of death penalty that I'm not unsympathetic to.
	But that's why when you look at the whole life orders, it's so simple because it's so high.
	We've got an admission.
	We've got footage.
	We've got the guy on the day.
	It's not hard.
	But the guy like David Armas killing.
	There's just no question it was him.
	It's what philosophically is called infallible justification.
	It couldn't be wrong.
	So if that's the case, man, just hang him.
	That's my opinion.
	He deserves it.
	And even if the progressive state does that, if that's where it is, then it would be ideal.
	Anything else I'm not arguing for, so that's a caveat.
	Let's go to the next one.
	All this junk data, preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate.
	It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution...
	Riley, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.
	Are you telling me it's not?
	You're being silly.
	What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.
	Create context?
	This game was made 21 years ago.
	Holy crap.
	More to come.
	Isn't that like Metal Gear Solid or something?
	I assumed that was a redub or something, to take the piss out of her.
	If that's the original, that's...
	She's actually arrived at that position.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	Did you watch the clip with her?
	Yeah, yeah.
	There are a bunch of clips.
	But the one in which you said the verification thing, it's not about verifying.
	Because apparently checkmarks can alter the warnings under a piece of content.
	Oh really?
	So you know when you see, oh this is factually incorrect.
	Right, yeah, yeah.
	That's the checkmarks.
	They're the ones doing that.
	They have the power.
	So that's what the club is about.
	Right, okay.
	Or at least new since 2020.
	I did not know that.
	So that's why you have all the right wingers getting unverified all of a sudden.
	Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
	So the whole thing has been finally explained.
	And I'm just glad that they're so liberal with how evil they are, frankly.
	At least it's obvious.
	Next one.
	This footage is of my power door for my mech that can still be opened manually for, you know, safety reasons.
	A good thing about leftoid ideology getting a foothold in the institutions is that being conservative will be cool and edgy.
	R.F. Laird proposed this in his 1990s Boomer Bible, which you can read for free online at theboomerbible.com.
	And a lot of his stuff is real interesting, like Shuteye Town, an absolutely decrepit internet game that seems hauntingly familiar.
	To be honest, I was mostly thinking about dreadnoughts.
	She was like, oh yeah, I can open it.
	For safety reasons, I'm like, no, it should stay shut forever.
	It kind of makes me want a chaplain dreadnought.
	Does it exist?
	No.
	Or a librarian dreadnought.
	Well, I mean, I could kitbash one, but I wouldn't have official rules for it.
	Which is a shame, because I'd love a chaplain dreadnought.
	That'd be awesome.
	Something to think about doing, actually.
	Anyway.
	Go to the next one.
	Hello, gentlemen.
	Something that brought me the wrong way in the Financial Times interview with Elon was the host called Washington the capital of the world.
	And if you know American mentality, that's not how Americans think about their capitals.
	Like, perfect case in point, the capital of New York is Albany.
	It's not New York City.
	There's kind of a reason for that because capitals are considered over here to be administrative shitholes run by bureaucrats.
	They're not cities, they're not dissenters, and only a complete smear merchant, an elitist smear merchant, would call it a capital of the world.
	I think he's using it metaphorically as in capital, as in this is an important place.
	Not necessarily a strict definition of what a capital is.
	But I agree with you.
	I like the American mentality towards these institutions.
	And this is what rubbed me the wrong way when they were like, oh, our sacred capital building.
	It's like, sacred?
	I'd piss on it.
	It's not sacred.
	Like, the average American owns that.
	Shut up.
	It's not holy.
	The god of democracy doesn't live there.
	Lunatics.
	But that's everything that follows from that formulation.
	It's deeply Rousseauian and I can't stand it.
	But also being an American, because their nation didn't form the same way ours did.
	The monarchy, her buildings, all the rest of it, the crowd...
	Sure, you can say they're sacred.
	It's sacred.
	But if you're an American, the government is something to laugh at, not to venerate.
	Yeah, but exactly.
	We don't have a Lockean self-generative...
	Yeah, like your constitution, your Americanism, as in your ideology of Americanism, is valuable and sacred, you could argue that, but then...
	But that's the constitution, and the ideas contained therein, not the buildings.
	The crappy buildings.
	The president himself isn't sacred.
	He's a bit of a meme.
	You know, if you go back like 100 years...
	There's a channel on YouTube called Voices of the Past, and there's an account from a Japanese tourist who goes to America in like 1890, and he goes to the White House, and they're just like, well, you can go in, of course you can go in.
	He's like, what?
	There are no guards.
	He's like, yeah, so?
	It would be weird and anti-democratic, it would be European to have guards on the gates, because, you know, we're a democracy, we elect this guy by consent, and so, of course you can go in, because why wouldn't you be able to?
	And now, just imagine that.
	It's a European model has taken over America.
	And also you think of it as compared to the forbidden nature of the Japanese emperor.
	Oh god, yeah.
	He's like, what, I can go to the president?
	So yeah, he's just a guy.
	We elected him, we chose him.
	One of the funniest things, I think this is true, I think John Wheeler has to fact check me, but I believe the voice of the emperor of Japan was only first heard in the surrender.
	Oh really?
	So it's ridiculous, sacred words with Americans.
	Well, it's the president.
	Crabby building.
	You have a president of a company, don't you?
	Yeah, a friend of ours actually went to the White House, like as a tourist back in the day, when you could, and just walked around and he was just like, crap in here.
	Like all the plug sockets are hanging out and stuff like that.
	It's like a really crap film set, apparently.
	Because it's made for filming.
	Really?
	Good point.
	Go to the next one.
	With the hoax all over the newspapers, Norman Jeffries, the man who started it all, was worried the cops would come to him and blame him for any damage, so he staged a capture of the Jersey Devil using his cronies, a kangaroo painted green with feathers and antlers on its head, and dragged it off to the 9th and Art Street Museum that he ran.
	He billed it as Leeds Devil, a living dragon, and you can see from the illustration, this is the beginning of the modern look of the Jersey Devil.
	The world was a lot more interesting a hundred years ago.
	No, he's like the Jersey Devil.
	That doesn't work.
	Leads, leads, leads, leads!
	That's fascinating.
	I love it.
	I guess we'll go to the written comments.
	Longshank says, It shall now become an annual Florida tradition that children should be brought to the Assembly Hall every November 7th and watch Callum's Great Famine and Cultural Revolution book clubs.
	For now!
	I will sit down and read it to them.
	The sections on cannibalism.
	It was a drag queen story hour.
	Replace that with...
	Anti-communism story hour.
	Yeah, essentially.
	Drew says, When I was in high school, communism was described as, quote, a nice idea on paper.
	And then they'd blow through how it was ultimately evil, almost like a prime of college professors to feed a certain ideology to their prospective students.
	Kevin says, with any luck, teaching people about the horrors of communism will result in the Red Salute being treated equal to the Sieg Heil.
	Goodness knows it's long overdue.
	George says, given the state of Florida's proximity to and population of former Cubans and their descendants, this is a solid move.
	Not only will it show Cuban Floridians that their heritage is recognized, it stakes a hardline position against the forces most interested in the discorporation of the West, let alone the USA. Yeah, I know, it's fantastic.
	It's an absolutely great move.
	There's a reason that DeSantis has got like a 63% approval rating in Florida, like with a 20% disapproval rating.
	Fantastic.
	Every right-winger in Florida I ever talk to really doesn't want him to run, because that's how much you love him.
	Well, they're going to lose him as the governor.
	Yeah, they're really terrified of that.
	uh sh silver says given the nearly million cuban expats in florida there's obviously a self-serving electoral aspect of this however it's still amazing to see him get the journalist class to recoil from attacks against communism yeah i know they all felt personally attacked is the problem um uh callum says first done take that meme post you want to win and defeat your enemies real break real big brain take there from the clots then claiming ron de santis the florida man is a communist i mean face palm and head bang on the desk right there
	if ron is a communist just humoring that for a second uh why do they have such a beef with him they are okay with communism in china and cuba to name a couple of places but not a communist in florida i mean bit That's a good point.
	We're like, oh yeah, we love communism.
	Oh no, Ron Sanders is a communist.
	It's like, well then you should be okay with it.
	But he ends this with, ow, my brain is actually hurting.
	I know, it's amazing.
	Brandon says, 45 minutes about the victims of communism?
	That's way too short.
	There's no way you can describe the lives of 2.22...
	2,222,222 victims per minute.
	You've done the math for us?
	That sounds too much.
	I can't be right.
	If you're doing it in 45 minutes...
	There's a comment from Longchanks that's in your...
	Yeah, no, that does seem alright, actually.
	If you count out the victims of communism globally, so you include...
	Oh, 45 minutes.
	Yeah, there's a comment from Longchanks.
	Do you want to read it in your southern voice?
	It's not very good, but it's fine.
	Southern slave owner voice.
	Great.
	Um...
	If I can't teach my children in my classroom the joys of the LGBTQNOP community, then it is my rights that have been violated, sir.
	I don't know why you wanted that.
	Because you've got a great southern slogan.
	That wasn't your best, though, Callum.
	No, no, no.
	It wasn't your best.
	Sweden says, I can give you an interesting perspective on burger chains in Sweden.
	We have far more native burger chains, such as Max and Bastard, that are actually quite soulful and plaster everything made with 100% Swedish beef.
	I wish I could show you a picture of what Bastard burger chain restaurant looks like.
	Like, complete opposite of American chains.
	I don't know why they're called...
	I mean, they're actually called Bastard burger chains.
	Doesn't feel very homely and wealthy.
	Max and bastard.
	Well, I suppose if it's Swedish.
	Chipotle Aristotle says, McDonald's dropped the act.
	Classic drug dealer tactic.
	They know you're addicted to the unhealthy sludge they serve.
	Why bother looking nice?
	They own your ass and the fat in it.
	Now get in here and get your Big Mac and your gallon of Diet Coke.
	That's exactly what I was getting at.
	That's exactly right.
	They are actually like drug dealers now.
	You're worthless.
	You're terrible.
	You don't even deserve a nice place to sit down.
	Yeah, bro, come over.
	We'll have a joint, you know, blah, blah, blah.
	Now you're hooked on whatever, just take it.
	Get out.
	Druggie.
	Grant says, perhaps unsurprisingly, the profit motive favours dine out, and so fast food is no longer a dine-in place.
	I don't see a problem with this.
	There's lots of places where dine-in is a good experience.
	Well, yeah, but it used to be that, you know...
	That was one of them.
	SH Silver says, are we really at the point where we lament the degeneration of our fast food restaurants?
	This is the worst in culture we have to weep over losing.
	Look, man, it's not something intrinsic to the fast food itself.
	It's that that becomes just a staging point.
	Four, the homely experiences you have with your friends and family.
	You know, it's not that there's something intrinsically important about the fast food restaurant itself, but conversely, why shouldn't it be?
	You know, these are pillars of our culture.
	This is something that we've always done, or at least we did always do.
	Vicky has provided a link to Bastard Burgers.
	I've sent it to John, if you can get it on screen.
	I'm genuinely curious about Bastard Burgers.
	I love they have a trademark phrase.
	So, you know how you have, I'm loving it.
	They've got, like a bastard.
	I'm amazed they're actually allowed the name, Bastard Burgers.
	Since, you know, Swedish, they're not English, so I suppose you can get away with whatever you want.
	Some of you go to France, and they're playing American rap music, and they don't censor the hard R. Yeah, there we are.
	Bastard Burgers.
	Not a sponsor, but...
	Not a sponsor of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	Edward of Woodstock says, Speaking on the topic of McDonald's, I think part of it is why it's changed from advertising to kids and families and on to millennials.
	You know, there might be some good points to this, because I'm pretty sure there's going to be some kind of legislation that prevents the advertising of fast food to children.
	I'm sure I remember something about it.
	Yeah, that was passed.
	Yeah, so it could well be that their customer base now has to be adults.
	But I believe that's just in advertising.
	Yeah, I know, but they've got to pitch it to adults.
	The ball pit stuff, though.
	Like, the fact that they got rid of the ball pit.
	What's that about?
	Slides outside.
	I will admit, the Golden Arches are a great place after a boozy night out because they're open 24-7.
	My friends and I went there after bar crawls, reenactment events, and so forth.
	It's convenience taken to an extreme and thus has very little allure.
	Matthew says, check out the McDonald's next to the Museum of Communism in Prague.
	Yeah, that'd be interesting.
	Brandon says, the brutalist McDonald's is why Chick-fil-A is so popular in the US. It has a fun atmosphere.
	The employees are beyond nice and the service is quick and efficient.
	Yeah, and they're also based.
	Yeah.
	Kevin says, the drawbacks of the Chinese Pizza Hut outlets is the pizzas.
	They only do deep pan, no choice in crusts other than some cheese stuffing.
	Just like all fast food outlets, KFC McDonald's, there's more Chinese dishes on the menu than traditional dishes.
	A KFC I used to visit in China would regularly tell me at 8pm on a Friday night they had no chicken and no fries.
	What the hell are you even doing?
	Baron Von Warhawk says, stop killing black women, says the corporation that kills thousands of black people with clogged arteries.
	I mean, McDonald's is definitely guilty of contributing to the obesity epidemic in the black community, which of course does inform the COVID deaths, that's correct.
	McDonald's killing more black people than COVID. So the fat black trans woman is like, stop killing us.
	Is she talking to me, McDonald's, or is she talking to you?
	I have yet to kill any fat black trans woman.
	Well, no one knows what the future holds.
	I'm not planning on it!
	John's got the Flickr image of the McDonald's next to the Communist Museum.
	Yeah, that actually looks nice.
	That looks very Western, doesn't it?
	That's what it used to look like.
	I love the communism sign, though.
	Like, um...
	What's annoying though, when you go in, they don't let you film.
	Oh really?
	They have to like secretly film, and I'm like, dude.
	It's a museum of communism, Callum.
	Like I want to show people the horrors of communism.
	You're going to feel the horrors of communism when you're in there.
	I had some Czech guy come up to me and be like, uh-uh.
	Weird way of doing it.
	This is what it's like under communism, Callum.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, I brought some playing cards from them.
	Very nice.
	I would recommend at least.
	Anthony says, traditional pizza, come and have a meal and bring your family and friends.
	Modern pizza, intake the nutrition.
	I think he's generous calling it nutrition.
	Bleached even says, customer, I'd like a burger.
	McDonald's, do you want CRT with that bigot?
	And moving on to Sadiq Khan, Drew says, if I load enough identifiers onto my persona, more people will vote for me and think I care about them.
	Sadiq Khan, probably.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's mad, isn't it?
	Supreme Duck's like the ultimate nose towering above all other normal noses.
	There must be a movie called, like, Shark 2 or something, with just a fin coming out of the water.
	If someone could redo that movie poster.
	I mean, I'm sorry to harp on about it.
	I know mean, and I know that he's going to have been bullied his whole life over his nose.
	Yeah, but he kind of deserves it when you've got one like that.
	The thing is, you've got to remember that your nose grows as you get older as well.
	Does it?
	Oh yeah, your nose and ears never stop growing.
	No, it's true.
	Is it just men or is it women as well?
	I think it's both.
	And so in 20 years' time, Sadiq Khan's nose might actually be a threat to the integrity of London itself.
	Check out Elephant Man's nose.
	Robert says, The men are animals and cannot control their urges.
	That's why women wear the veils.
	Women like sweets to be kept wrapped up to keep off the flies, which are men.
	Yeah, and I've seen Muslims posting literal memes of that, like a lollipop that's been dropped that's covered in the wrapper, and then one that's not, and it's got ants all over it.
	It's like, see?
	That's why women have to cover up.
	It's like, hmm.
	That's a damning indictment of Muslim men.
	That happened to me at university.
	Oh, really?
	So there was a lady in my hall, so I won't say her, but she was born in Pakistan, raised in Saudi Arabia, so there were more Jews on campus than either of the countries she'd ever been to, which I found funny.
	And she came, I was arguing one day, because I was like, look, what's all this crap?
	We'd argue about Islam.
	And she came in and showed me that meme.
	Oh, really?
	And it's the meme, as you say, there's a lollipop that's covered up and there's no ants, and then it's open and the ants are on it.
	I burst out laughing.
	She got really upset by that.
	I was like, dude, you're saying Muslim men are ants.
	Like, Muslim men are basically insects that can't help themselves.
	I mean, it's an amazing thing for a Muslim woman to make the argument.
	Well, I mean, they've got to live with the Muslim men.
	I suppose so.
	They're like, look, this is what it's like.
	I mean, maybe we're not ones to judge their lived experience on this.
	You know what was really funny?
	She had a Skype account.
	And apparently, she says, before ISIS, she had the Shahada in the same way that it was on the ISIS flag.
	That's her profile picture.
	And then she forgot about Skype, like everyone.
	And then when ISIS rose up and did their thing, she was getting messages from people being like, Oh my god, are you okay?
	Where are you?
	I was like, what?
	She checked the Skype account and was like, oh, fucker.
	On a watch list.
	Zen Chan says, I've heard lots of slang for breasts.
	Tits, knockers, hooters.
	Ornaments is a new one.
	To be honest with you, ornaments is actually quite a nice one.
	It's quite a classy way of describing a woman's chest.
	Ornaments.
	It's upper class for me.
	Well, that's the thing.
	It's got a kind of, you know, nice air about it.
	It sounds like it should have tassels on them.
	They're ornaments.
	Okay, calm down.
	It just seems weird to be like, yeah, but the flesh is the ornament itself.
	It seems like a polite euphemism to me.
	XYNZ says, Khan's a typical idpola.
	Whatever criticism he receives has everything to do with insert-ism and nothing to do with their insufferable personality traits or the way that they mishandle terror attacks.
	Carbohydrate Crusader says, I think I speak for everyone when I say Sadiq Khan's nose is bigger than Boris Johnson's ears.
	I mean, maybe.
	Alright, let me measure it.
	I've never really thought about Boris Johnson's ears.
	Boris Johnson's ear size.
	Oh, sorry, no, I should finish that sentence.
	I think I speak for everyone when I say that Sadiq Khan's nose is bigger than Boris Johnson's ears is the cutting-edge journalism I signed up to load seaters for.
	Never noticed it before, it's like he's got the shard hanging off his face.
	I know, it's wild, isn't it?
	Bloody hell, Boris does have some big...
	It's not the fact that the ears are lengthened.
	No, it's the gap.
	Oh, is it?
	It's weird looking.
	Oh, yeah.
	I've got to send John an image.
	It's from the dispatch box.
	In the meantime, Free Will says, I will see if we can pass that on to Harry.
	Sounds like all you.
	It sounds like something you'd be interested in.
	It's weird, right?
	Okay.
	I can't remember the feel, though, Carbohedric Crusader.
	You have informed this journalism.
	There we go.
	We take tips.
	Tips of noticing us.
	Apparently from Jesse on Facebook.
	There's a Bastard Burgers in Manchester now, so are we going to have a day trip to Manchester?
	Maybe on the weekend.
	Bastard Burgers in Manchester.
	Let's see if he's lying, because otherwise...
	The Dirty Bastard Burger, what?
	I'm not sure that's the same one.
	Crazy?
	Oh, apparently there's a few types of different names.
	How is Bastard such a popular term for burgers?
	I don't know, but it's pretty good.
	Apparently in Sweden, I did see the statistics.
	30% of all burger sales are from Bastard Burger.
	McDonald's make up 4% of Swedish sales.
	Swedish guys rejecting modernity?
	Returning to Bastard?
	Otherwise, we're out of time.
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