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	Tonk Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for the 27th of May 2022.
	I am joined by John.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Britain committing economic suicide, the state will not protect you, and also the decadent West is on the brink of cannibalism.
	Apparently, yes.
	According to the Russians.
	But anyway, some things to mention first.
	So firstly, just a Gold Tier Zoom call.
	That'll be going out at 3.30 UK time, of course, today.
	So if you're a Gold Tier member or want to be, come and join us.
	We do a Zoom call in which just every five minutes someone gets to ask questions.
	Mm-hmm.
	Go through and usually it's pretty fun.
	Yeah.
	Otherwise we shall get into Britain committing economic suicide.
	Yes, so the government is now just straight up stealing money to pay for things.
	Perfect.
	I know, and I just want to start with...
	When were they not, actually?
	Okay, right.
	No, normally government theft is called tax, and there are rules, and it's somewhat well understood.
	You know, there's a guideline, a framework to it.
	What governments tend not to do in civilised countries is just marching and saying, Oh, you made some money, did you?
	That's mine now.
	Where's my cut?
	Here's my cut, Callum.
	And that's what they're doing now.
	And I just want to say on this, I told you so, because I like to gloat.
	And this is a clip from my least viewed podcast segment on YouTube.
	And I pointed out the media coverage saying the government will not implement a windfall tax was part of a nudge campaign.
	In other words, it followed a government mass messaging pattern where they're saying, oh, we're not going to do that.
	Absolutely not.
	It will never happen.
	And then you hear that and you think, oh, oh, it's coming.
	Now that you've heard of it, now we can implement it.
	Exactly.
	Doesn't sound so mad anymore.
	Let's play the clip quickly.
	So the media are campaigning for a windfall tax.
	This phrase has been doing the rounds on the internet.
	And the government are currently saying they've ruled it out, which for me is a good sign that it might be brought in over the next few months.
	This is classic nudge theory.
	They did the same thing with face masks in schools.
	Do you remember that whole debate during COVID? As well as the vaccine passport scheme, where they said they had no plans to do it, virtually at the same time when it was revealed that they had tendered about five contracts to small companies to develop vaccine passports.
	Right, so this is not the first time this has happened, right?
	It's something I've started to get used to, and it's a little bit cynical.
	By the way, can I just say that's probably my favourite presenter on the Lotus thesis.
	I really like that guy.
	Shameless!
	But I actually wrote a whole series of articles on our website, which you can go and check out if you're a member, talking about this type of government propaganda and nudge theory and various psychological levers that the government uses in order to do that.
	And to be honest, I don't think I would have spotted this if I hadn't done the preparation, the reading, and the research for this series.
	So it's nice to see some work I did earlier from joining the load-seaters actually coming into play and helping out with the coverage.
	Back to the present.
	Okay, so we heard that.
	That was three weeks ago.
	No windfall tax, guys.
	Oh, what's that windfall tax?
	Sunak unveils £21 billion package and U-turns on windfall tax to help Britons hit hard by the cost of living surge.
	The Chancellor's measures will be partly paid for by the £5 billion raised from a levy on oil and gas companies.
	Right, so that should read government increases price of oil.
	I mean, what else is that?
	I mean, what do you think the oil companies are going to do?
	Yeah.
	There are so many ramifications and potential ramifications from this thuggish move, quite frankly.
	This is one of the most myopic things I have seen in politics since I realised that politics existed.
	it's just and we'll go in slightly to the details of what this means going forward but i just want to read for a bit more from this article um chancellor rishi sunak has announced a 15 billion pound package of cost of living support oh that's good including a 400 pound discount on energy bills for all that's amazing and a 650 pound one-off payment to the poorest 8 million households can you see the floor here right This is not a gift of money.
	This is a loan that the government is taking out on your behalf.
	You're going to get the £400 discount or rebate or whatever they call it now.
	Who's paying for that?
	You are.
	In the future.
	Or you in the past.
	This is not free money.
	There is no such thing as a free lunch.
	And by subsidising energy in this way, of course, that's going to put pressure on energy prices in turn.
	Or raise.
	I know.
	I just...
	Sorry, this just makes me really frustrated.
	I'm actually struggling to get the words out.
	It's that stupid what they're doing here.
	They continue.
	The measures will be partly funded by a temporary levy on oil and gas companies, which are enjoying bumper profits.
	Temporary levy.
	Great.
	As a result of soaring prices, and they're expected to raise £5 billion.
	Comes after inflation soared to a 40-year high.
	Why did that happen?
	Because they printed loads of money.
	I mean, I'm sorry, I know we talk about economics like it's very simple, but it is sometimes.
	And especially when you're dealing with stupid economics, where people are just being like, oh, just print the money, nothing will happen.
	And then they slowly start to worry and then say, oh, crap, something's happened, but it's not the money, trust me.
	Or just, well...
	Help you with the energy prices by raising energy prices.
	I mean, it's just painful to listen to.
	I know.
	With energy bills set to climb by a further £800 in the autumn, there's lots of pressures on that.
	You know, there's the Ukraine crisis, there's sanctions on Russia and so on and so forth.
	A lot of things happening around the world, as we'll get into.
	And the Bank of England warning of apocalyptic food price rises as a result of the war in Ukraine.
	Also because of inflation.
	You know, because the Bank of England has been printing money like it's going out of fashion, because technically it literally is.
	Anyway, if you want to help people with energy bills, how about you suspend taxes on energy and scrap green levies?
	That would be the simplest thing to do.
	It would also be popular.
	I was like, why do that?
	The green levy and VAT contribute a whopping 30% of your electricity bill, at least if we go to the next image.
	As I'm aware, as I've said before, the cost of constructing new power lines in to connect lots of small wind farms and so on might be accounted as an operating cost or network cost rather than, you know, an environmental cost.
	So there's ways of fudging these figures as well.
	But just look at that.
	There is so much of your bill that is just Gibbs from the government.
	15% to environmental slash social obligation cost.
	I spoke to a friend who works in the energy industry and he told me about this.
	He says the social obligations part might be, you know, it's giving money to people who don't have the money to pay for fuel, so then they can stay warm and not freeze to death in winter, stuff like that.
	You get that, but the majority of it is environmental, meaning it's literally just a green tax.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Absolutely.
	There's a huge chunk of your gas bill that the government could get rid of, but they don't want to do that.
	They want to keep the taxes high and institute a progressive rebate whereby some receive more cash than others.
	So they're explicitly engaged in social engineering, right?
	You know, if you're one of these poorest people who falls below a certain line, then you get more money.
	That's literally the way it works.
	I mean, look at the numbers, though.
	I read the 15% from the dual one.
	It's the electricity, 25%.
	I mean, I don't have gas in my apartment.
	So that's 25% of white pages going straight to green tax.
	And then 5% VAT on top of that.
	Yeah, of course.
	Yeah.
	The vicious cycle of government bloat goes like this.
	You raise taxes, then you throw cash at these mascot groups.
	You raise more taxes to pay for the cash you're throwing at them, which means mascot groups need more cash thrown at them.
	And it just carries on and on and on ad infinitum.
	This is...
	This is just classic progressive policy fallout.
	It results in more state power, more state control, less individual agency and less incentive for productive work.
	It's completely self-defeating.
	A genuinely conservative government, I think, would embrace every opportunity to cut taxes, abolish rebates, reduce the size of government and reduce money printing.
	So this is a progressive government with blue ribbons.
	And just to underline that point, if we go to this guy on Twitter, I've been consistently critical of Rishi Sunak and I'm still amazed he did so little for the most vulnerable in his spring statement, but thrilled by today.
	The Conservative Party's best tradition is its One Nation tradition and it's looking much healthier today.
	And it's also been heartening to see the Social Justice Caucus of Tory MPs in full mobilisation.
	The caucus founded and serviced by the CSJ think tank has 60 or 70 active members.
	Once, the main backbench of Tory groups were mainly about Europe, economy, defence.
	Not so much now.
	No, no, it's about social justice, boys.
	Which is why you've got a 25% tax on the energy for green crap.
	Fantastic.
	Wonderful.
	I know.
	It's infuriating.
	And Boris Johnson, of course, weighs in on this.
	All households will get £400 off their October energy bills, and the 8 million most vulnerable households will get at least £1,200 of support to help with the cost of living this year.
	Temporary energy profits levy will help pay for this support and promote investment in our economy.
	You know what I don't remember as well is when this was first being nudged, as you say.
	Like, the Labour Party were just massively talking about this endlessly, about how you need to do it, Boris.
	You should do it, Boris.
	And then he just goes and does it.
	I mean, it's like the lockdowns, like everything.
	Just the Labour Party says you should do a thing within six months.
	That whole Green Industrial Revolution.
	Yep.
	That was a Corbynite policy that Boris Johnson implemented and that we're paying for.
	25% tax.
	It's not small.
	No, it's not.
	That's a huge amount of money, especially when people are struggling with fuel poverty this year.
	Now, I do want to say I'm not heartless towards the most vulnerable in society because, of course, it is true that the poorest in society are the most vulnerable to fuel poverty by definition.
	But they're also paying for that increase in prices.
	Like, this is being done to them too.
	They're not out of this just because this money is being, well, one-off given.
	Yeah, it's not even given.
	This is a loan, right?
	We are borrowing and we are going to pay this back in the future.
	It was like when the government bailed out the failed gas companies.
	We're paying for that now.
	That's one of the reasons our energy bills are so high.
	As I said in my previous segment on this, it's because we are paying to cover the government's backside for bailing out the companies that failed because of its communistic policies of price caps and things.
	Anyway, back to Sky and let's talk about the details of this package.
	So the main headline here is a temporary targeted energy profits levy of 25% on profits of oil and gas firms.
	Phased out when prices return to normal.
	Well, who decides what's the normal price?
	The new normal.
	So there is no price.
	It's going to go back too.
	So just, okay, the price of oil is now 25% in the UK. Fantastic.
	Wonderful.
	Thank you.
	On top of the green tags.
	Right.
	I mean, I really am just disappointed by the Conservatives every single day at this point.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you would think, at the very least, okay, we know they're useless on social issues completely.
	You would think they have at least an iota of conservatism on economic issues, at least, but no, they're fully progressive.
	Yeah, I mean, I do wonder about the technicalities of this, of course.
	I mean, what if BP suddenly rebranded itself as a green energy company rather than an oil and gas firm, which they have been doing, by the way, for the past 10 years or more.
	They have a lot of technology that has nothing to do with oil.
	They have their own green energy arms of the business and so on.
	What do you have to do, or be, to qualify as an oil and gas firm, I wonder.
	I wonder if there are loopholes there.
	I'm sure the oil guy and so forth will tell us in the comments.
	Yeah, well, we look forward to seeing that.
	Yeah, so I just want to say on this point, I think this is economic suicide.
	When a government suddenly turns around and just grabs a load of cash off a business or person, not because they've done anything wrong, I mean, there's no one saying that BP or Shell or anyone has engaged in criminal behaviour.
	They haven't broken the law.
	They've just made money.
	And so the government can just go and grab their money without even having the good graces to pretend it's a tax.
	It's just robbery.
	It's pure and simple.
	These firms have already paid tax on their profits, corporate tax.
	The government is just hiking the tax rate arbitrarily for short-term convenience.
	It's...
	And this is going to have a tremendous knock-on effect for the British economy if we're not careful.
	Disincentivising companies from doing business here since property rights are no longer sacrosanct and merely subject to the whims of a government that is behaving in an arbitrary and tyrannical way.
	It also disincentivises investment in other British stocks because good profits won't be returned to shareholders by dividend.
	They'll be snatched by the state like this one.
	We started this mess, in a way, by confiscating property from Russian businessmen in the UK, including Roman Abramovich.
	I don't know if you remember that.
	The manager of Chelsea.
	Owner of Chelsea.
	Part of the squad.
	And that's led to its precarious state.
	We set a precedent where government theft is the norm, if we just don't like these people.
	Many reasons not to like Russian oligarchs, don't get me wrong.
	But previously, the whole point of democracy, it evolved in this country as a way of stopping the king from doing this kind of thing.
	Stopping the king from just being able to say, oh, I need money for my war, I'm going to grab it here.
	Oh, I don't like you, execute him.
	That's the tyranny of the old monarchy that we tried to...
	To curtail with the growth of Parliament, the growth of a rules-based democracy.
	And now we're just going hundreds of years backwards with these economically illiterate ideas.
	Fair enough.
	I'll leave that there.
	So I suppose we'll move on to the state not protecting you, or won't protect you, frankly.
	Mm-hmm.
	So I thought we'd talk about the fact that the state won't protect you because, like a lot of people, I saw the footage of the cops at the recent shooting in Texas standing around doing nothing except stopping the parents moving in.
	And for this segment, let's promote something that's, you know, less weird for this segment, I thought, which would be the Gold Tier Zoom call.
	So we're going to go and talk about this afterwards at 3.30, of course, UK time with the Gold Tiers.
	And I know there are a lot of guys there who were either in the military or...
	Law enforcement in the US as well, so it'll be interesting to have their takes on this.
	If you're watching this on YouTube, this is part of the reason you should definitely go and subscribe and get access to this like this.
	Otherwise, we shall get into the story.
	So if we go to the next link here, this is a video Carl sent me this morning from Mr.
	Obvious, looking at some of the stuff that doesn't add up about this shooting, specifically the fact that the guy has no driving license and yet drove the truck there.
	He was outside for 12 minutes before going in and the police just seemed to...
	Nothing going on there.
	No one was spooked by that.
	There's also the fact that he managed to get four grand worth of guns and then a grand in ammo as well.
	Even though he's working at Wendy's, it's extremely poor.
	But to put those aspects aside, I just want to go through what we definitely know for sure.
	And it's horrific.
	And frankly, it just shows that the state will absolutely not protect you under any circumstances.
	They do not care.
	So if it goes to the next one, we can see the incompetent planning from the people in charge here.
	So they say, at a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Victor Escalon, the regional director for the Department of Public Safety in South Texas, said Salvador Ramos walked through an unlocked door, unobstructed, and there was no guard readily available.
	So there was no ability to protect the school from someone turning up with a gun and shooting the kids at any point.
	Fantastic.
	If only someone had thought of this idea before.
	Every Republican ever has thought of that idea and saying that's a solution to the problem.
	However, it contradicts earlier reports that he fired on a school resource officer.
	So again, confusion about what's true.
	That'll come back to haunt us.
	Ramos entered the school at 11.40am, 12 minutes after crashing the truck outside the school and walking towards the campus with an AR-15.
	That is when police were alerted to the scene.
	Four minutes later, at 11.44am, the cops first entered the school...
	It's a good response time.
	Ramos shot at them, and they retreated.
	It's unclear if he had already shot kids and teachers in the fourth grade classroom by then, or if he went on to attack them after the cops retreated.
	It then took an hour for specialized SWAT teams to arrive at 1.06pm.
	The incident was declared over, and Ramos was shot dead.
	In the meantime, 150- After Ramos was shot dead.
	He sounded like it was a summary execution.
	Yeah, it kind of was.
	In the meantime, 150 cops were gathering outside.
	150.
	Wow.
	150 cops in the United States.
	These aren't bobbies on the beat with rubber truncheons.
	Jesus.
	The guys with guns.
	150.
	Wow.
	Just stood around for an hour whilst this took place, it seemed.
	And you might think, that's pretty awful.
	And maybe there's some defense of this.
	So go to the next one here.
	We have a visualization of the whole event, which people show.
	There's some confusion about whether or not he shot cops in the hallway or not, or what went on there, but we'll get back to that.
	And then they eventually come in and just shoot the hell out of him, and he's dead.
	So get on the guys who actually shot him.
	If we go to the next one, you may remember I mentioned something about SWAT team.
	Apparently it was Border Tactical over there.
	into texas massacre school mid haircut with borrowed shotgun to rescue 20 kids jesus including his daughter eight after wife who teaches there text him saying there is an active shooter help i love you wow I mean, that's a hell of a headline.
	Yeah.
	I mean, of all the headlines we've ever read in the show, I mean, that is one, if nothing else.
	So that's a guy who works at the Border Force, sat getting a haircut, gets a message from his wife who's teaching there, I love you, please help, grabs the barber's shotgun, and then runs up and saves his daughter and shoots the guy.
	Or at least it's part of the team that went in and shot him.
	Wow.
	That's amazing.
	An off-duty border patrol agent has told how he evacuated children, including his own eight-year-old daughter from Robb Elementary School, armed with a shotgun he had grabbed for the barbers as he left and dashed to the site.
	El Barbaro's friend was the heroic CBP agent who entered the classroom where Salvador Ramos, 18, was holed up and shot him dead.
	So it was this dude and his mate who did the shooting there.
	I think another couple of guys, but the fact they know each other is also just great.
	If we go to the next one, there's also some people asking why the hell are border agents there?
	It's a fair question.
	Why didn't the local police just deal with this?
	The school isn't a foreign country, right?
	Well, there's a debate in here.
	A CBP official told Texas Monthly that as emergency calls first came in, four agents with CBP's Bortec SWAT team were investigating stash houses on the border to the west of Uvalet.
	The agents immediately responded, arriving at the school just before noon, and Bortec, being CBP's paramilitary force, they're amazing at doing this sort of thing, like going in and shooting cartels in confined spaces.
	The ball tech agents not in the SWAT unit will also rush the school for more personnel reasons, the fact that their own children were there, that being the individual we just read out.
	And again, I'm left with the question, as a lot of people were, why the hell didn't the cops just do it?
	And it seems to be the argument is that these guys are specialized in this, therefore you get them to do it.
	But in an active shooter situation in which the dude is shooting kids in the head, what the hell?
	And yeah, I'm not the only one to be a bit confused by that.
	If you go to the next one here, we have the fact that someone posted a story saying cops stood outside the school while the killer rampaged inside.
	Unlookers yelled at them to go in.
	They didn't.
	One parent urged bystanders, quote, let's just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they're supposed to be.
	And then the video came out.
	We've got the next one.
	We have someone release some of the footage here.
	And the cops literally stopped the parents from helping their own kids.
	If you go to the next one, we have the full footage.
	It's like six minutes long, which you can watch yourself in your own time.
	But we will play a short clip here, and it is pretty horrific to listen to, so there's a warning.
	Well, let's play.
	- What's that?
	- Get my face by the way, they're shooting.
	- Oh my God.
	- Get back, please.
	- You wanna go far?
	- What is that?
	- Hold that back.
	We got guys going in to get kids, okay?
	They're working.
	I don't have any information.
	I know we can't take our kids to a kid.
	I don't want to make sure our kids are coming out.
	Hey, so I'm just saying right here.
	So I'm just saying.
	No, but they're worried about keeping their...
	And as mentioned, that goes on for six minutes of just, you know, listening to the mothers there all screeching in pain with obvious reasons.
	And there's the fact there's also an individual here, a man, as you may have saw at the start, had been forced to the ground by the police.
	Plenty of force for him, so they're holding someone's father down from going in and saving his own kid, because don't worry, we've got guys going in.
	I don't know at what point this video was taken in the timeline, however, we do know that in between the police being there and the guy being killed, there's a one-hour gap.
	They had to wait for the SWAT guys, presumably, instead of just killing them themselves.
	150 of them.
	A ridiculous number.
	Go to the next link here.
	You can see the fact that people have been able to identify parents from the footage of kids who have been killed.
	So, she was there, for example, this mother, as her daughter was killed inside, and the cops all stood around saying, no, no, no, don't go anywhere.
	Don't worry, we're dealing with it.
	We're dealing with it.
	Just wait another 30 minutes, and it'll be dealt with.
	I ain't got much words, because this is just bloody ridiculous.
	If we go to the next one, we then have more information, which is one of the mothers was placed in handcuffs by federal marshals on the scene for attempting to enter the school to get her child.
	Another man was tased for trying to get his kid off a bus.
	Why?
	What the hell is wrong with you?
	But there we have it.
	I mean, the state are not there to protect you.
	They're not there to protect your kids.
	They're not there to protect any of us.
	They're there for their own purposes.
	We go to the next one here, we can see the Daily Mail article with the more information about all of this, which gives us at least one example of someone who is there to protect the kids, which is one of the mums.
	Unarmed.
	Whereas the armed police...
	No.
	The police were doing nothing.
	Uvalde police handcuffed and pepper-sprayed parents who urged them to storm the school, including the dad of a murdered girl and a mum of two who got free, jumped the fence and rescued the kids herself.
	Wow.
	Who cares about your kids?
	You.
	That's it.
	The state doesn't.
	No, not in the slightest.
	I mean, we've gone through it in the Great Famine, where the kiddos were all given over to the state to be taken care of, and then the kids just end up dying en masse, because the people who were in charge of taking care of them didn't care, in the slightest, about their own deaths, because they were more important things like themselves.
	And yeah, it's the same with the police, it seems, from the evidence.
	Quote, Anjali Rose Gomez told the Wall Street Journal.
	They were just standing outside the fence.
	They weren't going in there or running anywhere.
	Gomez has two children in second and third grade, and she reportedly drove 40 miles to the school after hearing of the attack.
	She was one of the desperate parents who engaged police with increasing urgency to enter the school.
	Eventually, federal marshals put Gomez in handcuffs and told her she was under arrest for intervening in an active investigation.
	I mean, just the use of force was used on the parents, not the killer to go and get the killer.
	Yeah.
	Because she turned up and wanted her kids.
	She was the one who had to be dealt with.
	That's where they had the armed officers, not in the school.
	Amazing.
	Gomez said she was able to convince one of the officers, whom she knew, to have the marshal free her, and she took the opportunity to move away from the crowd, jump the school friends, and ran inside the school, where she rescued the children herself.
	I mean, I don't have anything, because frankly, it's just evident.
	Who cares about the kids?
	Her.
	She cares about her kids.
	How much do those cops care about the kids?
	None.
	They were arresting her for trying to save them.
	And then she had to run in and get them himself.
	Angel Garcia, whose daughter was killed, was handcuffed after trying to run into the school when he heard that a girl called Amarie had been shot, which is her girl.
	So she found out that her daughter had been shot, tried to run into the school.
	Police arrested her.
	I mean, there's a lot of things to be said for, you know, the obvious points.
	I don't know anything about law enforcement, but I do know some things, which is that you're meant to create a perimeter in these kind of circumstances.
	You want it clear so you don't end up getting someone killed.
	There doesn't need to be all the rest of it.
	I'm sure there are things to be said there.
	But when you're waiting an hour with an active shooter and you don't just go in and kill the guy, instead of doing that, you spend your time stopping the parents from doing anything.
	I mean, something's gone really, really wrong.
	I mean, this is the other aspect.
	I don't know who the hell makes this decision.
	Because it can't be the officers on the ground, surely.
	Like, the guys stood there with their eyeballs, presumably thinking someone's dealing with it.
	I mean, otherwise, the hell's wrong with them.
	Very simple things, you would have thought.
	Now, if we go to the next one, we can see the cops try to defend this circumstance.
	In an initial interview, this was CNN, in which some representative here says that, well, you know, there's a reason we didn't go in, which is we could have been shot at.
	Yeah, kind of a decision you make when you join the police force, you would have thought, in the United States.
	Let's play the clip.
	But don't current the best practices, Lieutenant.
	Call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site.
	Correct.
	The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing.
	You want to preserve life.
	But also, one thing that, of course, the American people need to understand is that officers are making entry into this building.
	They do not know where the gunman is.
	They are hearing gunshots.
	They are receiving gunshots.
	At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could have been shot.
	They could have been killed.
	And at that point, that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside that school.
	So they were able to contain that gunman inside that classroom so that he was not able to go to any other portions of the school to commit any other killings.
	That's the defense from the police there, which is, in his words, they were able to keep the gunman in one classroom killing kids instead of going into other classrooms.
	That statement's going to be denied by the police force later on, which is amazing.
	Apparently that's not the case, is the debate.
	If we go to the next one here, we can see the fact that the even the leftists are picking up on how obvious this is.
	So you've got Vice News pointing out that the police timeline of the Texas shooting has a lot of holes, and they say eventually those officers were responsible for containing the gunman in a classroom, McCaw said.
	This is about the Hmm.
	news outlets earlier that the suspect barricaded himself in the classroom and then immediately started shooting so in which case your officers had no impact whatsoever They weren't doing that.
	And have you just made that up?
	Because you've realised what happened.
	And now you look like the worst people on the planet, frankly.
	I mean, I wouldn't put it past them.
	I guess we'll see.
	There's also then the horrific detail, which is that the parents were stopped, of course, from going in and getting their kids, except the ones who were able to break through, did do a heroic thing in saving their own kids.
	Whereas if we go to the next link here, there's accusations that the police went in and saved their own kids from the school and blocked the parents from doing the same in that hour gap.
	Let's play this interview in which the interviewer asks about this.
	So first I want to acknowledge the brave men and women of law enforcement that showed up to the scene, that actually were involved in the scene, that actually made entry into this school and saved more lives that, of course, we lost 18.
	But I want to praise those brave men and women of law enforcement.
	Also, offer our condolences on behalf of Texas Department of Public Safety to the families, to the victims, and the entire Uvalde community.
	And we've also heard word that a Border Patrol agent was struck with gunfire, a few officers shot.
	We've heard that some law enforcement officers actually went into school to get their kids out.
	Can you talk about that?
	Right, so we do know, Vanessa, right now that there was some police officers, families trying to get their children out of the school because it was an active shooter situation right now.
	It's a terrible situation right now.
	And, of course, just as we mentioned, the loss of life.
	It's just terrible.
	It's a terrible tragedy when it took place.
	But, again, we've got to keep acknowledging those brave men and women that actually were there on scene.
	So in his own words, there were officers on site trying to get their kids out.
	Their kids.
	Wow.
	I mean, I don't know how to get...
	I mean, we talked about it before.
	Tim Paul's talked about it endlessly, which is that the state won't protect you.
	You are the only one who will protect you and your family.
	And I don't think it can be more starkly shown than the evidence so far that we have from the shooting.
	Which is, there are a million people who say a million things about mass shootings, and there's a whole conversation to be had there, of course.
	But in this specific incident...
	We actually have some incredible failures on a level I don't think we've ever seen in the United States.
	Just the police standing by, 150 of them, all armed, whilst a shooter goes ahead and kills more kids because...
	Because what?
	Because you don't want to go in there.
	That's presumably the answer.
	Or someone didn't want to send them in there.
	Let's find out.
	There's also another horrific detail, which apparently they were incompetent right to the end.
	So, let's read this.
	When cops came, this is from an account of one of the kids who's in the classroom, hiding, in silence, of course.
	When the cops came, a cop said, yell if you need help.
	And one of the person in my class said, help!
	The guy overheard, and he came in and shot her.
	As in, the shooter.
	Heard a kid yell out help and then shot the kid.
	The cops barged into the classroom, the guy shot at the cop, and then the cops started shooting.
	Presumably that's when Ramos was killed.
	Right to the end, completely incompetent.
	Just yell out help if you need help.
	Some kid yells out help, obviously.
	And they get that kid killed.
	Just with their own stupidity.
	It's...
	I can't get over it.
	I mean, I've not served in law enforcement or anything, but there'll be many people in the Zoom call, as I mentioned, who I want to talk to about this, because I don't understand.
	I mean, what the hell is wrong with you?
	You haven't got the shooter.
	Just start yelling out to the kids, oh, do you need help?
	Of course, he's going to come and shoot them if they yell out.
	You would have thought it would have been something in their mind.
	We go to the next one as well.
	We then have the fact that it's not just the public who are utterly confused by this...
	I mean, incompetence is one part, obviously.
	I don't know if you call it malice or just neglect of their own duties, but the authorities now confirm they're examining the response of the police into the shooting and amid conflicting witness statements, including what steps they took to actually stop the gunman.
	And this is part of a review, as he says, into the timeline and the fact that the radio traffic as well, because there's huge confusion about whether or not when he first came in, did he actually shoot at police officers or not?
	Did he run into anyone or not?
	That's not even confirmed yet.
	There are conflicting statements on that from the police.
	There are conflicting statements about whether or not they barricaded him in or he barricaded himself in.
	Why?
	You would have thought that would have been an easy thing to knock down by now.
	But no, really not.
	Officials said a school officer and a gunman exchanged fire on Wednesday night.
	They said that they could no longer confirm this initial report.
	We will stay with this to fully understand what happens.
	And then, of course, that's the story.
	That's really it, which is that the state won't protect you in the absolute slightest.
	They won't protect your kids in the absolute slightest.
	Why would they?
	They've got no duty to your kids.
	They don't know your kids.
	I don't know you.
	And this isn't you, either.
	I mean, this is just the most horrific example in modern day, I think we can find, of, well, let's just wait an hour.
	Why?
	We'll wait for the SWAT. He's killing kids.
	Yeah, but I could get shot at.
	Yeah, you're an American police officer.
	I mean, again, I don't know, but I would have thought that would have been the first thing you think of when you sign up to become a police officer in the United States, is, yeah, I'm going to be shot at because this is the United States.
	I mean, you see endless dash cam footage of even, like, traffic cops getting engaged in gun battles, so...
	And then we'll go to the politicians, of course, because the politicians have got something to say, which is, how can I get more power?
	And that's all they have a bloody thing about.
	So let's go through them.
	So you can see this one here.
	So you have Greg Abbott holding a press conference with sheriffs about the situation to give evidence of what happened.
	And then Bader O'Rourke turns up and is like, my time to shine.
	And he just starts standing up saying, this is your fault to try and make a situation in which he can get fame, frankly.
	I don't know why the hell else he did this.
	And then one of the sheriffs in the audience even calls him a sick SOB for it.
	Which, yeah.
	Yeah, that seems like the right thing to do.
	The hell's the matter with you?
	Yeah, let me make this my moment.
	This is all about me.
	Okay.
	If we go to the next one here as well, we also have Andy Noe pointing out that a bunch of leftists then fell for rumors that Greg Abbott offered money for the parents to pose next to him in photos.
	Okay.
	Some rando just made this up out of thin air because, you know, it's the internet.
	And every verified checkmark and their mum fell for it.
	Being like, well, this is definitely true.
	How dare he?
	I was like...
	Picking up rumours.
	Okay.
	Engaging in more fake news, as you usually do.
	And if we go to the next one, we have, as we featured yesterday, AOC, who had to make this moment about Ha as well, presumably before she found out his name was Ramos, and claimed it was all about white supremacy and white domestic terrorism.
	I mean, it's just pathetic, but it's not the worst one.
	There is the worst one, which is Obama.
	Okay.
	Had something to say.
	I don't know if you've seen this.
	Barack Obama, as we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd.
	Oh, hang on, where's my hip flask?
	It's George Floyd again.
	What is the connection?
	I mean, name the connection between George Floyd and this shooting.
	I don't know, police incompetence?
	I mean, the police didn't seem to have killed George Floyd from the evidence, so if that's your argument, then Obama didn't know that at the time either.
	I mean, the only link is, I can get power out of this, isn't there?
	How can I use this to push my agenda in the simplest fashion possible?
	Is the shooter white?
	White supremacy is to blame.
	Okay, he's not white.
	Where's the guns?
	How about we get rid of the Second Amendment?
	I mean, it's like an NPC. NPC politics.
	And, well, or it's just, is he black?
	Well, therefore, white supremacy again, as he mentions that we must think of George Floyd in this troubled time.
	Presumably, he'll be saying this to the parents if he goes and visits them.
	And I know your son has been shot, but, you know, think of George Floyd.
	I mean, could you imagine him doing that?
	I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that conversation.
	I mean, what else is this tweet?
	And then we have Shillery, because of course Shillery has to turn up.
	It's the guns.
	It's all the guns.
	It's as simple a narrative as it is, because he wasn't white.
	If he was white, they'd just be saying, well, it's white supremacy.
	We all know this.
	It's not a debate about what on earth comes out of their mouths.
	And then we obviously have the fact that we go to the next one.
	It's just the fact of international homicides, 100,000 people.
	The United States is actually doing pretty well compared to all the countries.
	Yep.
	Her graph as well, she specifically, well, Vox, who made it, started to carry out every country that wasn't white or Asian.
	Interesting.
	Don't know why, but let's leave that there for now.
	And then we'll go to the last thing here, a message by Tim Paul I saw had been put up.
	I'm going to buy more guns today.
	Someone responds, I'm an Australian and I would like to ask, why do you need guns?
	And someone responds, so we don't get locked in camps for having a virus with a 99.9% survivability rate.
	And, you know, it's a pretty usual dunk, but it's also just, you know, why do Americans need their guns?
	Well, it's because the state won't protect you in the absolute slyest.
	A friend of mine from school sent me a meme earlier.
	It's some NPC watching the news and the news goes, you know, mass shooting happens.
	It's just like, well, clearly, I need to give up my guns because the state will keep me safe from this.
	No, there's more mass shootings.
	You need to be safe.
	Like, if there had been an armed officer stopping the guy from coming in, shooting the guy, then what wouldn't have happened?
	If the police had walked forward and shot the guy, it wouldn't have happened.
	But no, that didn't happen instead.
	They didn't.
	Great police.
	Wonderful guys.
	And if we go to the next one here, we also have the fact that this is as old as time, it seems.
	This is a story, if you haven't watched it, it's from Cracked.
	And it's a guy who was on the New York subway.
	There was some lunatic out there who had been stabbing a bunch of people.
	Mm-hmm.
	Go on the subway.
	He didn't know.
	So he's just like, weird.
	But New York subway.
	And he starts bashing on the engineer's door to be like, let me in.
	Presumably to stab the engineer to death.
	And there's two cops who knew that all this was taking place.
	They were waiting for him to turn up.
	They're on with pistols.
	And then they say, well, you're not coming in.
	So he says, fine.
	Turns around with his knife and starts stabbing that bystander.
	And the bystander is able to tussle with him and get him on the ground, not before being stabbed in the skull multiple times, hands, chest.
	And at that point, that's where this freeze frame is, which is after he's able to get him on the ground and disarmed, after being stabbed multiple times, only then do the two armed police officers come out from behind the glass and arrest the guy.
	No.
	in the slightest.
	That was not their job.
	He took them to court over this, twice.
	And both times it got all the way to the court and the court heard all the events and went, yeah, that's horrible.
	But they don't actually have any duty to protect you.
	And he lost.
	Twice in court.
	Because that's the reality of it.
	The police don't have a duty to protect you.
	That seems to be it.
	So, who is going to protect you and your family?
	Well, the cops, it's you.
	It's you.
	And how are you going to do it?
	Well, frankly, this is why I find the attack on guns in response to this so blisteringly stupid and pathetic.
	It's like, no, if you're going to defend your family from someone with a gun, you need a gun.
	It's as simple as that.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, that was depressing, but that's the news, which is just looking at the evidence we have, that's the situation.
	I look forward to talking to people on the Gold Tier Zoom call about that, specifically, and just asking them, look, what the hell has happened there?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, there's a lot that we need to find out about that incident, I think.
	So, I feel I want to throw in a two-minute palate cleanser.
	Yeah, we can win if you want.
	We've done it before.
	Have you?
	Yeah, we do segments about grooming or whatever, and it's just like, oh, God.
	Should we do something funny?
	Yes, so I've been keeping half an eye on Russian propaganda, and occasionally they come out with an absolute doozy.
	And today is no exception.
	They've somewhat jumped the shark, and they claim that Britain is on the brink of cannibalism, and their source is Jeremy Clarkson.
	Hey, look, it's a pretty good source.
	Don't you know he's a farmer?
	I mean, that's true.
	But it's quite funny reading.
	And I just want to read this.
	So the Russian propaganda was saying, you see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke.
	Dropped are the first sign of trouble.
	They're only as good as the world allows them to be.
	We'll show you.
	When the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other.
	Oh wait, that wasn't Russian propaganda, that was Heath Ledger's Joker.
	Easy mistake to make.
	Also, I was imagining that being a Russian living in the Soviet Union, frankly.
	Well, we'll get into that.
	But this is Russian propaganda.
	A Russian news outlet has claimed the rising cost of living in the UK may soon tip the country into a Cannibalism.
	Okay, cool.
	I mean, I'm listening.
	Looking around the office, seeing who I can get a good cut off already.
	The television channel, owned by Putin-backing businessman Konstantin Malofaev, quoted Clarkson's Sunday Times column at length, in which the broadcaster wrote, Politicians say they're monitoring the situation.
	Which means they aren't doing anything at all, but one day they will have to because while people can live without heat or clothing or even sex, they cannot live without food.
	Hunger makes people eat their neighbours.
	Okay.
	That's a good point he makes, to be fair.
	Bad point by Clarkson.
	The Tsargrad TV article headed cold hunger cannibalism, London fell into its own Ukrainian pit, claimed to be presenting only the fact.
	Things are not going well in the UK, the report stated.
	While politicians are playing into the Ukrainian crisis, their own population is preparing for starvation.
	I mean, this does sound like a translation error gone bad.
	It does, doesn't it?
	It's like they're reading and they're like, oh god, terrible.
	I mean, I don't know how, I don't know many people I know who are preparing for starvation.
	How would you prepare for starvation?
	Do you just eat a huge amount of food and try and build up the body?
	Do you start weighing people to work out who gets carved up first?
	Is that how it goes?
	I mean, if we're actually reading about the cannibalism and the great famine, it's usually people just eat corpses.
	The actual people eating isn't really a thing.
	Like, it's incredibly rare because if I have to bash you in and kill you to eat you, I'd like to see you try.
	It's a risk that people don't take, because, like, what's the point?
	Just wait for him to starve to death, and then you can eat his corpse.
	That is how that generally happens.
	Sorry to bring down the mood again.
	Interesting.
	I didn't realise I had an expert on these things.
	Read a lot about cannibalism.
	Read a lot about socialism, so there you are.
	It's naturally cannibalistic in nature.
	Europe is seeing an explosion in prices, they continue, and politicians are talking about the threat of mass starvation.
	In some cities of Britain...
	Jeremy Clarkson's a politician.
	This isn't Jeremy Clarkson, this is Russian TV. Oh yeah, yeah, but they say politicians in Britain are saying this while they claim Jeremy should run.
	In some cities of Britain, a state of emergency is introduced due to food shortages.
	Wait, what?
	Like, name one city which has a state of emergency.
	Ukrainian cities?
	No.
	Is that part of the West?
	British city.
	I mean, I think there's a state of emergency in Swindon.
	That's just because it's so rubbish.
	It's just a big grey.
	But I love the idea of the interest.
	There's a good architecture state of emergency in this town.
	Okay, look at photos of Swindon, you'll see what I mean.
	But I do like the idea of a new Top Gear intro, and it's like, tonight, James eats Hammond.
	I kill them both, and Ukraine dies.
	That sounds like a...
	I wonder if Russian state TV would pay for the rights to that series.
	Oh dear.
	I would.
	In fact, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered a global food crisis, they continue, which is affecting developing countries that can least cope more than wealthier Western nations.
	It's true.
	The war has caused growing food shortages and soaring prices due to sanctions and the disruption of supply chains.
	Both Ukraine and Russia are major exporters of grain, as I've been saying for months and months, and the UK and EU have accused Russia of using food as a weapon.
	Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has accused Putin of seeking to hold the world to ransom through Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports.
	Around 22 million tons of grain are reportedly stuck in Ukraine.
	I have heard stories that the Russians have essentially announced that they will take various ships through, but only under certain conditions and so on and so forth.
	So on the Russian side, they're at least saying, oh, there's no blockade.
	We're not trying to starve the world.
	We're the good guys.
	But the fact is that Whatever the truth of it is, on the ground, those grain silos are staying there and there are no ships leaving this active war zone.
	Thank you very much.
	I mean, I'm surprised, to be honest, that people don't just organise trains.
	I mean, like, from seeing Miles' adventures as he toddlers around Ukraine, for example...
	It seems that the transport still does work, of course, for people.
	I'm assuming most of them are out now, the ones who want to evacuate.
	In which case, want to just reorganise train shipments?
	Well, there's a few problems there.
	One of them is that the Ukrainian rail infrastructure has been quite heavily degraded by, like, 100 days of missile strikes and airstrikes and so on.
	Another is that they're using that to move around supplies which are more vital to the war effort rather than food for trade, which is understandable again.
	And then finally, I just want to point out that international shipping is far more efficient than rail.
	Like, you've seen the size of these container ships, the amount of stuff you can fit on them.
	I don't think people, because we live on land so much, I don't think people really grok how enormous these things are.
	There is no substitute for them, even with our trains and planes and cars and buses and trucks and that, shipping is the king of international logistics.
	So, there is one person who is ahead of the curve.
	Let's play this next clip.
	I'll admit it.
	I will eat my neighbors.
	I'm not letting my kids die.
	I'm just going to be honest.
	My superpower is being honest.
	I've extrapolated this out, and I won't have to for a few years since I've got food and stuff, but I'm literally looking at my neighbors now and going, am I ready to hang them up and gut them?
	I'm ready.
	My daughters aren't starving to death.
	I'll eat my neighbors.
	See, my superpower is being honest.
	I'll eat your ass.
	I will.
	I'm Combat model, optimum self-sufficiency, probably the leader.
	The point is, is have you thought about that yet?
	Because I'm somebody that thought I could fix this, and I'm starting to think about having to eat my neighbors.
	You think I like sizing up my neighbor, how I'm going to haul him up by a chain and chop his ass up?
	I'll do it!
	My children aren't going hungry.
	I will eat your ass!
	That's why I want the globalists to know, I will eat your ass first.
	I'm just imagining the crew in Alex Jones Studio cracking up as he says this, but have you seen the remixed version of that, where someone turned it into a song, and we should just go, I'll eat your ass, eat your ass, I'll do it!
	It's great!
	Can I look that up?
	It's mad.
	It's a clip from a couple of years ago, and I think Mr.
	Jones has had maybe too much internet for one lifetime.
	But based on this clip, Zagrad TV could long ago have claimed that America was on the brink of starvation, which is also false.
	America actually has a lot of food reserves and a lot of food production capacity.
	So at the moment, touch wood, we should be all right in America.
	Although, again, it also shows who cares about his kids.
	Well, Mr.
	Alex Jones' kids are cared for by Mr.
	Alex Jones by hanging up his neighbours and eating their ass.
	I mean, my neighbours are lovely, so I haven't had those thoughts.
	Oh, okay.
	But in previous house shares and so on, you know.
	Anyway...
	I can already see you in the comments, by the way.
	I can hear it rattling from here.
	Alex Jones was right.
	Alex Jones was right.
	But before you start sizing up your neighbours for freezer space, let's just chill out for a second.
	So times are going to be tough, and I think the best way to get through that is not wild theatrical catastrophizing, but stoical preparation.
	I think.
	But, on that note, I'd like to introduce some work we've done before about Mao's Great Famine!
	This is a book club you did, was it not?
	Yay!
	The baby-eating book, frankly.
	I've taken it to myself, I've just started calling communist baby-eaters because of this.
	So go and give this a watch if you haven't.
	To be honest, it is probably one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read, and I really did enjoy doing the book club and learning from it, and so I would highly recommend people go and check it out, because you do start to realise that all the socialists are really just baby eaters.
	But if you've had enough black pills for one day and you still want to watch our premium content, we also have this one, which is a more abstract form of cannibalism, and you might enjoy watching the Anglosphere eat each other with our podcast Contemplations on American Cultural Influence on Britain.
	Less baby eating.
	Yes, significantly less baby eating.
	That's probably the best thing about America, actually, is the low rate of baby eating.
	Boy, I miss Trump.
	Anyway, let's carry on.
	Let's look a bit more at Farmer Clarkson's critique of the West and put a bit more context to this article.
	Great.
	It suits him, doesn't it?
	The Ukraine business is causing me to have a few chin-scratching moments of despair.
	I don't pretend to be an expert in geopolitics any more than I pretend to be a farmer, but I really think the world has slipped into a pair of margarine trousers and is now hurtling down a well-watered slide into the pit of hunger, misery and death.
	That's not very optimistic, is it?
	Well, it's Clarkson.
	I used to watch Clarkson to have a laugh on Top Gear, not to get dire prophecies of imminent famine.
	No?
	I thought it was a...
	I don't know, I prefer his document, but okay.
	Let me run you through my thinking, he continues.
	The conflict and the sanctions and all of the other flotsam and jetsam that hurtle around a war zone have caused gas prices to skyrocket.
	You know this, of course, because it now costs a million pounds to heat your house and twenty thousand pounds to cook a lamb chop.
	Poetic license detected.
	I know it too, because chemical fertilizer has gone from about £250 a tonne last year to about £1,000 a tonne now.
	And that's also true.
	I remember reporting on, I think, November, December last year about the issue with Belarusian potash, which is one of the primary ingredients of a lot of types of fertilizers.
	And that hit, that squeeze hit long before Ukraine crisis.
	But then when that hit, that's another load of supplies taken out of the global supply chain.
	Anyway.
	Naturally, because you don't need fertilizer, you don't care.
	Yep.
	Generally true.
	But you should care, because soon you're going to go to the supermarket and all you'll be able to buy is an out-of-date copy of Auto Express magazine and maybe 20 Benson& Hedges.
	And then, on the way home, you'll be murdered.
	Yep.
	I mean, this is why I like Clarkson, frankly.
	The way he writes and talks is fantastic.
	It's just like, yeah, you don't buy us, you don't care, but then, you know, you'll be murdered.
	I mean, that is a good reason to care.
	I think he's definitely appealing to us there.
	The problem is that next year, many farmers will decide that because of the costs involved, they'll use less fertilizer.
	I think they're already making that decision, actually.
	Some will doubtless try to use none at all.
	Others will try to use cardboard or lawn clippings or feces instead.
	Either way, they will produce less food.
	Some farmers, I know three in my area alone, have already decided to follow their fields next year and grow nothing at all.
	Nothing at all. - Stupid sexy farmers.
	But that's quite alarming.
	One thing I've heard is that there are farmers who are following their fields and selling the fertilizer stocks they've got because it's a good price.
	Obviously, if that's happening globally and that's a supply chain problem, that's a big problem.
	But it's also just a global issue.
	I think it's an internet story put it best.
	He was talking about the lockdowns and the effect that had on farming because of course you sell all your stuff and then no one buys it because of global lockdowns.
	You can't just stop.
	You have to replant them and then destroy all your crop because no one has brought it.
	And you just keep doing that and it's just like, okay.
	So everything's gotten terrible over the last two years and then this hits.
	I can imagine a lot of people just being like, yeah, I won't grow anything.
	I imagine that might actually just genuinely be true.
	I don't know.
	I think I would go the other way.
	Certainly, I think for consumers, it's good to plant, you know, maybe plant a potato patch, put some tomatoes in, that sort of thing.
	You never know.
	It probably tastes better than your neighbor, I'm just saying.
	Have you seen that?
	Anyway.
	And this is not just happening in the UK. It's a global phenomenon, and it could well result in there being maybe 20% less food in the shops than is necessary.
	That's bad.
	And then it gets worse because between them, Russia and Ukraine grow more than a quarter of global wheat exports.
	They are also responsible for about half the sunflower seeds we use, which is why already sunflower oil is being rationed in Britain.
	That is actually true.
	It's actually true.
	There are restrictions on sunflower oil.
	But, I mean, there is an argument that food waste in this country has been a problem for decades.
	A lot of the stuff that ends up on shop shelves, supermarket shelves, gets thrown away because it passes its use-by date or sell-by date or so on, and Actually, the amount of food that we produce as a world, that we buy as a nation, is vastly greater than what we actually consume.
	So one thing that I can predict is we do actually have a reasonable buffer of expectations to necessities.
	I expect what's going to happen is that there's going to be a lot less food waste this year.
	I would like to think so, anyway.
	But then it is also possible that the whole sell-by-date system, etc., is so inflexible that we will farcically be throwing away food while people are starving, even more than usual.
	So thanks to the war, we lose a lot of the grain we need, and then, due to the cost of fertilizer, we lose 20% of what's left.
	Prices are already going up, not by 7% or 10%, but by a massive 37%.
	And the World Bank says it won't stop there.
	They call it a human catastrophe.
	Yeah, so you might want to start weighing your neighbours up after all at that rate.
	Better have good neighbours.
	Yeah, and if we go to the next one, to prove that this is not just some random crank speculating, scroll down slightly, this was The Economist front page last week, this week.
	The coming food catastrophe, and they have three stalks of what look like wheat, but if you look closer, do you notice something?
	They're all skulls.
	They're all skulls.
	Yeah.
	That's not ominous at all, is it?
	And I know that saying food shortages are coming is like the media equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theatre, but it does seem that the doomsayer, the naysayer, is right occasionally.
	Well, it's the difference between saying there's no more toilet paper and the farmers saying I'm not growing any food because the toilet paper will be back.
	Don't worry about it.
	It just takes a lot of space.
	But the I'm not growing any food, okay, well then in the future there'll be less food is a very simple thing.
	Yeah.
	I don't think we have a big enough reach to cause panic buying of supplies and shop supplies, and I think it would be prudent to have a stockpile, whoever you are, wherever you are, for this sort of thing, because we don't know what the future could be.
	It might be that this is a big scare story that everyone is overestimating because of factors that are intrinsic to the global supply chains that you know about and blah, blah, blah.
	It turns out actually we'll be fine.
	We'll be okay.
	We'll get through.
	Entirely possible.
	It could be that people rise to the challenge and they do indeed dig for victory, in a sense.
	You know, they get their potato patches in order and so on.
	There are many variables coming next.
	I think we will see tough times, but it's up to us as a generation to deal with it.
	I suppose with that we'll go to the video comments.
	Yeah.
	If you release those two gases into a confined space with a hole at the other end of it, and mix them as you do so, and then set light to them, you get that.
	James Burke charts inventions linked not by time or place, but by concept.
	The surprising leaps reveal an understanding of how the big ideas are based on the smaller ones that preceded them.
	The series neatly illustrates the Cicero quote Beau used at the beginning of his recent Kamala Harris article.
	The ignorance of what occurred before you were born is to remain forever a child.
	Totally true.
	I love the aspect Alex says there about making the small things actually big.
	Because I do hate that whenever you're learning about anything and they just keep telling you about the concept and you're just like, I don't care.
	And then to actually show the rocket going off and to do it in such a way as he did is just gold.
	It's really intelligent education.
	Go to the next one.
	When you build something, you're getting off your butt and paying attention to reality.
	This is kind of the general idea of what the Bible has been trying to get across to folks for thousands of years.
	So conversely, those who can't or refuse to make, well, they'll resent those who do make stuff.
	Like Cain vs.
	Abel.
	Of course, making is not limited to physical things.
	It could be conceptual, like a family, community, etc.
	Don't be like Cain.
	Get off your butt and do something difficult.
	Yeah, it's true.
	It's always good to have something you're actually working on as well.
	It always feels like you've actually made an achievement even if everything else is going badly.
	Absolutely.
	The next one.
	Oh, so everyone's talking about Halo.
	I'll join in the conversation then.
	These Spartan super soldiers were not originally designed for fighting alien races.
	No, the original reason for their creation was, say if someone of The government made a decision which the public didn't like and the public said they didn't like it.
	Well, we need to have a way of dealing with those naughty, silly public people who don't know any better.
	Just so happened that there were alien races, and then the Spartan soldiers could be used to protect humanity, but oh no, that could have gone dark places.
	I mean, I'm not a big Halo guy, so I don't know, but that does seem like kind of lazy writing, though, because surely the United States...
	Oh, what is it?
	It's not the United States.
	Whatever stupid term they use.
	The Marines they have instead could have just dealt with it.
	But, okay.
	Good to know.
	Let's go to the next one.
	The hills are alive with the sound of...
	LAUGHTER All right.
	Yeah, the Isle of Man.
	Isle of Man, all right.
	That's amazing.
	I've always seen those things, and I always think, how do you not ask yourself?
	Because it's bad enough when it's on track, but at least you know what's coming, it's all regulated.
	But when you're doing it out in streets that are essentially the country, and I know it's been cornered off and they've tried before, but still, you can never surely feel that comfortable in that environment.
	I don't think you're there to feel comfortable.
	No, no.
	But just the fact that you're not going to have your head sliced off as you try and go around a brick wall.
	Mm-hmm.
	Do you not see yourself riding a motorbike rocketing across the highways of this country?
	I've done it with my dad.
	I don't want to do it.
	Even he gave it up after.
	He's just like, nah, it's too risky.
	And I think he's probably right in a lot of regards.
	Fair enough.
	Go for it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Yes, Carl, I know you were talking about Hollywood.
	I just thought you'd laugh.
	Most of my videos are intended to make you laugh.
	Or make Callum pull his hair out.
	Oh, by the way, Alex, I'm uploading more of your reviews onto Instagram, and you're right, I'm not woke.
	By the way, I am fighting off really, really bad flu, and seriously, COVID wasn't nearly as bad as this flu right now.
	I hope you get better.
	Yeah, I'm sure Carl knew as well, don't worry.
	I'm sure he takes it in a dress.
	Otherwise, let's go to the next one.
	Good morning, Dean and Little Joan with your Bigfoot update.
	The last known sighting of Bigfoot in South Jersey was 2018 in Browns Mill, New Jersey.
	And this was confirmed by Eric Spinner, a representative of the National Bigfoot Field Research Organization of New Jersey.
	Bigfoot sightings tend to congregate in Sussex County up north and Burlington County down south near me.
	And you can see by this map, Bigfoot travels up and down the Garden State.
	Or it could just be a population density map, but who knows?
	That's how I always feel when I see these things.
	I'm not a Bigfoot believer like Carla's.
	I'm sure he'll maybe appreciate that, but even in the debate we had, he was just like, look, now Bigfoot on the East Coast, that's silly.
	However!
	So, I guess we'll see.
	We did actually, because there's spoilers technically, although I don't know if he's even writing the script, but remember we found out about a cannery somewhere in Alaska where there was a Bigfoot sighting, and the cannery company shut down the cannery, evacuated all the workers.
	They didn't take it off as a joke.
	They genuinely were like, okay, yeah, fair enough, we need to leave.
	And it's still there.
	You can go out and see the place where it was, and there's some guys who have gone out there once to film it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We're thinking, yeah, company trip.
	Like, want to go to Alaska, fight Bigfoot, kill him?
	Yeah, why not?
	Sounds good.
	Well, I don't want to kill him.
	Maybe we want to make friends.
	I don't think so.
	Why not?
	Like, all the descriptions of him as being this big lumbering ape thing that, like, tries to destroy everything it comes across.
	Might have the philosophical side.
	Yeah, you can try that.
	I'll be with a rifle.
	Give me the bait.
	Let's get the next one.
	What was this?
	It was in the Cloud Museum.
	Okay.
	Interesting.
	That was weirdly cryptic from Sophie, so...
	Alright.
	People listening, she, like, high-fived a glowing booth with a hand in it, and then told us that...
	Okay, the oil guy has something to say.
	He says, the windfall tax is BS. The barrel price of oil is the base rate, and when you buy fuel, you pay the base rate, plus tax for every extra pound.
	The oil company made...
	The government effectively made three pounds once in there.
	Mm-hmm.
	So that's the fact that it doesn't make any damn sense.
	They're just making energy more expensive than saying, oh, don't worry, we're helping you.
	Ridiculous.
	It's just painful to listen to.
	Anyway, so General Hai Ping, still a great name, says...
	I think it might be the same guy, I hope it is, who did Zhao Biden when he got elected.
	Good puns.
	Rishi Sunak supposedly spent half a million pounds of taxpayers' money trying to repair his damaged public image after the semi-scandals the MSM drummed up over his own finances.
	Absolute mega-brain move there.
	Yeah, he's a sleazy fellow, I think.
	JJHW. It's murder by the Conservatives and the Bank of England.
	Anthony Parrish says, Remember in 2019, when Corbyn said they've won the argument, looks like they have.
	God, I miss being able to vote UKIP. Yeah.
	Who do you vote for now?
	How are the alternative parties doing?
	Yeah, it really annoys me thinking back as well.
	Especially, do you remember that stupid debate David Cameron set up back when UKIP hadn't got its referendum yet?
	But they were put on a stage with David Cameron, Miliband, whoever the Lib Dem was, Plaid Cymru, SNP, and then Nigel Farage?
	Right, yeah.
	And it's just, you know, so many people it's ridiculous.
	They're all to just keep UKIP down.
	And, well, it worked in the end, didn't it?
	Yeah.
	I mean, there needs to be some kind of force there.
	There just isn't.
	Mm-hmm.
	Two-party system at the end of the day, isn't it?
	It feels like you have to work through the party machines.
	They are enormous.
	But it's not even that, because in this country we don't have a two-party system.
	We have multiple parties.
	It just so happens that there's one official right-wing party, and all the rest are leftists.
	So you can see it.
	If you watch late-party conference and then check out the Green Manifesto, you can see the debates going on and how that extra party has so much pressure on the main left-wing party.
	They do radically change over time because of it, whereas on the right it doesn't exist.
	There's nothing there.
	I mean, there is no pressure on the conservatives to do anything good, ever, by the looks of it.
	Well, there was a Eurosceptic part of the party during the whole Brexit process.
	That's it, though.
	It's more than nothing.
	It was more than nothing, and now that's done.
	That debate is pretty much dead.
	I know there are some things to fix up.
	There's a few people like Steve Baker who comes out to speak about, for example, Net Zero and how it's lunacy.
	There are some people like that in the Conservative Party.
	But that's the thing.
	You can count them on your hands.
	That's about it.
	I'm not thrilled.
	No.
	For me, the thing which gets me is how there seems to be a pipeline straight from Green Party policy to Labour and then to the Conservative Party's Boris Johnson.
	There should be no pipeline between the two.
	No, there shouldn't be.
	How does he get all of his dumb ideas from his political enemies?
	Maybe they're not actually enemies.
	Anyway...
	Free Will 2112 says, COVID, fuel price rises, and food price rises are the mechanism by which society will be adjusted and the greater reset implemented.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	It's usually economic with these things, social revolutions.
	But top-down social revolutions, I think, are usually economic.
	If you have counterexamples, same for the afternoon, then we can talk about that.
	Sophie says, You know, I can't help but be kind of suspicious of my own country Denmark here.
	We have that whole green energy and monkeypox thing being bushed.
	And it just so happens that Denmark is the biggest exporter of windmills and the vaccine needed to prevent monkeypox.
	Climate change is heavily pushed in Denmark.
	It is also a net benefit for us to get other countries on board and no one ever talks about that.
	So yeah.
	I do love how she gives us little bits of tidbits into a country that, not to be rude, but on climate change especially, is irrelevant.
	Like, Denmark's emissions production this year mean nothing at all, but they still act in our media as if, like, oh, this is a big thing we must worry about.
	And it really puts it into perspective.
	It's like, we have the same thing here.
	It's like, don't you know?
	You must care about the climate, and then we're 1%.
	I wonder what the Faroe Islands green policy is.
	That actually is somewhat Danish, anyway.
	Even their local paper is just like, you must care.
	Yeah.
	Also, the country who has no natural resources doesn't have the citizenship to have a big impact and wants to keep on being wealthy.
	Hmm.
	I'm not saying any of this is intentional, but it's a strange pattern.
	Denmark would love for England to get rid of their oil so we could sell you windmills.
	Good point.
	Although I think the wind industry is in a big crisis at the moment, because they are really struggling to get raw materials, etc., much of which has been monopolised by China or other countries.
	And this pushes the prices up for inputs.
	They were already a massively subsidised industry.
	And there's lots of things.
	There's been wind factories closing in Germany, for example, which you would imagine is a fairly well-supported business ecosystem.
	Industry leaders saying we're facing a total wipeout economically unless the government steps in to support this industry.
	So it is, you know, renewable energy is facing its own problems.
	It's not just causing problems, it's also facing them.
	I remember we did a report ages ago on the, I think it's 50% of the materials that it takes to make a silo panel in the West come from China, but not just China, come from Xinjiang, so it's also just suspected slave labour.
	That's what you want in your green industrial revolution, isn't it?
	Slave labour.
	Fantastic.
	Excellent.
	Also Chinese slave labour, which, anyway, just thinking of the historical parallels.
	S.H. Silver says, these neoliberal governments have been consistently selling out the future of the people to secure their own political present.
	Rather than planting trees whose shade they know they will not live to enjoy, they are tearing down the trees so that Money Printer can keep going.
	Yep.
	Omar Awad says, It's not myopic policy if you know it won't affect you and your buddies.
	As a whole, politicians aren't stupid, they are malevolently selfish.
	A Ponzi government only has to last long enough to pass on the impending collapse to the next generation.
	Oof, uh, Henry...
	Depressing but true.
	Well, there is a limited factor there.
	So the way I see it is that leaders have a threat radar, which is their primary means of navigating the world through politics.
	And so if the people have no power, as in a super totalitarian state, it doesn't matter how many of them are starving because it doesn't threaten you at all.
	And this is an argument actually for democracy, in that if the people have some kind of power, even if it's greatly distributed and not very meaningful on an individual basis...
	Once every five years.
	Right, but there is still an argument that this is more than absolutely nothing.
	Yeah, of course, but is it actually really worthwhile by comparison?
	And a lot of times, yes, but in times like this, it certainly doesn't feel it.
	No, of course not.
	Well, this is the thing.
	We don't live in a democracy.
	We live in a modern democracy, a modern Western democracy.
	So we have to really ask ourselves what that means.
	Quite frankly, the test of whether we have political power or not will be how many of us starve to death if there are food shortages.
	That's the ultimate test, really.
	Alright, let's try it.
	I believe there are other things going on there as well.
	If you're saying filled up, that's about petrol as well.
	We were talking about electric and gas in your house.
	So if they take 25% off the energy bill, I mean, I think, what's the estimate?
	It's like most people I see on Facebook getting a 50% increase in their bills.
	So if you take 25% off that, there's not nothing.
	Right.
	But the other thing I want to point out is that...
	My brain has just gone completely blank.
	One thing I've noticed with petroleum is that when oil prices go up, petrol pump prices go up immediately.
	There's like no lag.
	But then when prices go down, it takes a long time for the petrol pumps to be like, we'll put our prices down just a little bit, just a little bit.
	And it seems like they've got so much power because what are you going to do?
	You're going to take the fuel pumps to court?
	Well, my understanding is it takes a while.
	At least Oil Guy explains it this way, which is that it takes a while for it to correct.
	But of course, I imagine there is an incentive to just be like, wait a little bit longer.
	Right, exactly.
	But it does seem...
	And I can understand that because, you know, the pump's buying it off someone who's buying it off someone and there is a chain there.
	But why is it when prices go up, it's immediate and then there's this long lag?
	And how much money is actually being made by that?
	Anyway, it seems like cost savings, customers, individual people...
	Encounter cost savings last of all and very slowly, whereas cost rises are immediately felt by them.
	Sorry, I've just had a private message from Carl going, it's effing Bigfoot, Callum!
	So there we have, we have the answer.
	Okay, that's that mystery solved.
	Soupcan Harry says, I'm waiting for Rishi Sunak to announce a fresh air tax.
	Probably around the £400 to £1,200 mark.
	Well, you breathe all this lovely oxygen and expel all this evil carbon dioxide, don't you?
	So shut and give's money.
	Henry says, Yeah, sad but true.
	Let's go on to Callum's Black Bill.
	Yeah, so Bald Eagle, 1787.
	So what I've been able to gather, the police have forced the shooter into the Texas school after forcing the truck he was in driving into a ditch.
	They then set up a perimeter and stopped parents from trying to save the kids.
	The cops then sat there and said the shooter began killing kids and teachers.
	I see dozens of lawsuits being filed against the city and the entire police force being fired.
	They caused the shooting and waited for no good reason.
	Thank God an off-duty Border Patrol agent acted like a toxic male to save his family.
	Otherwise, the entire school would be dead.
	God, I hate those cowards wearing the badge.
	I haven't been able to find...
	I was unclear.
	Please send me the source, essentially, I'm asking, for the first part there, because the rest of it just seems to be true, which is the idea that they were chasing him in his truck, or that the truck is stolen, I believe.
	Crashed it, then got out, and there's the 12-minute gap there.
	I wasn't able to confirm that.
	I've seen the argument as well, but I didn't want to present it in the segment just without being 100% sure.
	So please send me that.
	But yeah, the whole thing is just...
	I mean, there must be lawsuits, surely.
	I don't know.
	Well, apparently not, because that guy went in the New York subway and then just got told to go...
	himself.
	So Maureen Peters said, one would think that there had been a guide for situations like these, especially since they happen so frequently in the United States, but instead the cops stood there waiting for protective shields while the parents, who did try to save their children, got tackled to the ground pepper sprayed and tased.
	I mean, there's something sad about this segment.
	Every comment I'm reading here just makes me upset.
	Because the more you say it, the more you think, okay, these guys are scum.
	And look, if they really were able to stop him and they just didn't, I mean, I don't know what to do with those guys.
	I mean, yeah, every single one of them has to be fired, but frankly, you also just start thinking, should they be seeing prison time?
	If you're in a position of duty and you show neglect for a child and it ends up dead, you get charged.
	If you're in a position to protect that child from a shooter and you show neglect, I mean...
	Anyway, he continues, And inside the school, the shooter was calmly posting on Facebook, and her little girl died calling 9-1-1.
	If you accept the paycheck, you have to accept the responsibilities as well.
	They knew what they were signing up for.
	Your responsibilities do not change when you don't have protective gear that is on you.
	Yeah, I heard this.
	I wasn't able to identify where from, but I heard there was an argument from the police that, oh, he's got body armor, so what we need is other stuff to deal with that?
	I was like, doesn't matter?
	Okay, we're going to assume that the body armor protects him from every single bullet that you fire.
	Okay, sure, why not?
	But that's going to hurt.
	That's going to stop him from shooting until you can shoot in the head, surely.
	I mean, like, I've seen, like, what is it, the Iranian embassy siege, a description from the SAS guys who went in there, and apparently in close quarters, I imagine American SWAT's different, but just the aspect of, as soon as you see the guy, just keep firing bullets, just every bullet you've got, until he's definitely stopped.
	I'm thinking, even if you just hit him just repeatedly in the chest and he's got body armor on, okay, who cares?
	Like, you just keep shooting and keep shooting.
	I mean, if you've got five guys, as they did as well, 150 outside as well, What if we've been able to do something about it?
	Well, Peter Hitchens has always said that the modern police, and this is Britain of course, but they're the block rather than the solution.
	Everyone thinks they're there to protect you, keep you safe, solve crime, that sort of thing.
	But they're not.
	They're there to stop you from solving crime yourself, from taking your safety and security into your own hands.
	And by doing that...
	Well, I mean, this is the perfect example of that, tragic though it is, of the police preventing civil society from taking the law into its own hands, even to save their own children.
	And that's what they're there for.
	Like the police are creatures of the state.
	And there are some great police out there.
	And there are some very good people working in the police in Britain and the US. But fundamentally, the institution itself is designed to be more like the stormtroopers at the Canadian truckers protests than to be, you know, your local Bobby helping you out.
	That's what policing is thought of now, because it's thought of by people who think in state matters instead of community matters.
	How do we help the neighbourhood?
	That never comes into mind.
	It's instead, how do we help the power system, essentially, from those in the College of Policing here, or whoever the hell makes the decision in the United States.
	Colton Petty says, There is no law so obscene that the police would not be willing to enforce it, up to and including the mass execution of innocent children.
	Michael Malice.
	Amazing point about Malice.
	I've talked to him about it, frankly.
	I imagine he's got some things to say right now.
	Michael Magos says that the second the shooter stepped onto the school grounds, government property, he was breaking the law.
	Cops should have said, drop the weapon, you're under arrest.
	If you refuse, they could have used deadly force before the shooting happened.
	Yeah, there seems to be confusion as to what interaction he had with police.
	Because you get this one argument that he walked in and then he was met by police officers and shot them or something.
	Again, I'm saying or something because it's not really clear what the hell happened.
	But either way, shoot the kill.
	Kevin M says, So we've got cops basically doing nothing but blocking parents from rescuing their own kids and probably arresting some.
	Defund the police.
	Yeah, that instance.
	They're not a police force, are they?
	No.
	I mean, we're no aspect that we think of that as what the police are.
	Instead, we think of them, and everyone who signs up to be one, presumably thinks of them going in to kill the shooter.
	You know, saving the kiddos.
	Not standing around arresting the parents while you help the shooter kill kiddos.
	Shaker Silver says, Metro police force are unelected and unaccountable to the public that they often don't even know, as they're typically shipped in by whatever bureaucrat is in charge of dispensing them from a centralized force.
	If there is one thing I agree with BLM over, it is that policing of communities should be done by those communities, but I would prefer elected sheriffs or whatever BLM has in mind.
	Yeah.
	Over whatever BLM has in mind.
	Yeah, imagine BLM has racial police officers in charge.
	Yeah.
	You know what BLM's take on this would be.
	Yeah.
	It's definitely true that you want police in the area.
	The MetroCop system seems to be retarded, but...
	You also think of just the Border Patrol as well.
	I mean, I know that some of them are all local, but...
	I mean, even when you bring Border Patrol to Portland, they do the better job than these cops.
	Even Durston says, I'm scared of a school shooter, so I won't enter a school, is not the response you should have if you're a bloody police officer.
	Every single officer there should be fired for such an abhorrent response.
	Lord Nereva says every single parent who stood up to the cops and forced their way in to rescue their children is a hero.
	The Uvalde police are nothing short of cowards here.
	I sympathize that they would want to get home safely and that being a police officer is a difficult profession, but acting in situations like this is really the reason they get their paycheck.
	I don't...
	That's the thing as well.
	Who signs up to be a cop and thinks, you know when there's an active shooter, I'm going to stand by and arrest a parent?
	Yeah.
	Who on earth signs up for that?
	No, you signed up to go kill the kid.
	To stop him killing other kids.
	Instead, no, they all just sit around.
	I mean, I'm amazed, frankly, that some of them didn't just disobey orders.
	And I presume, as the system would probably work, is that someone's told them, set up a perimeter, we're getting guys in to do the swap thing.
	Right?
	And you hear that, and you think, when?
	And you say, I don't know.
	Well, if you don't know, we've got 150 guys, they're all armed.
	Let's just go in and kill them.
	I mean, sure, like, two of you may die, frankly.
	I wonder if there was a leader on the scene.
	I wonder if they were all just not wanting to take responsibility to step up.
	That's the other aspect.
	If you're a police officer, surely you think in those terms of, I will give my life to save kids.
	I mean, I can't imagine any single one of them before the shooting wouldn't have said that.
	Oh no, I'd stand back.
	But what's that social theory where if someone screams rape in a crowded environment, there'll be lots of people who hear that cry and can potentially go to help, but because there's a lot of them, they will think, oh, someone else has got it, and no one will.
	What's that effect called?
	Maybe it's something like that.
	I know what you mean, when someone collapses in the street, and there's a lot of people around, no one tries to help them, but when you're on your own and someone collapses, you go up and help them.
	So obviously I don't know enough about the details of the situation, but there is a possibility that a lack of leadership on the ground meant that they were all doing that.
	Maybe, but it's just the kind of person you think signs up the police force.
	But let's be fair as well.
	If you were a police officer surrounded by 150 police officers, it probably wouldn't even occur to you that there's no police actually sorting out the problem.
	Maybe, maybe.
	It's mad.
	But I just can't get over it.
	He continues.
	Sorry, I cut him off.
	I don't know if you'll cover this, but I also heard that the cops went into the school to rescue their own kids.
	Yeah, we did cover that.
	Every single parent and teacher should get a gun and some training.
	Frankly, yes.
	I mean, I was thinking in my mind, I mean, honestly, if you sent some of the parents in just with a gun, I'd probably do a better job.
	I mean, I know there's the obvious risk you don't want them killing someone who doesn't have a gun.
	Or each other.
	Yeah.
	Picking each other as the active shooter.
	I mean, if the police aren't going to do anything, let's say there was zero police there, right?
	Because that's effectively the situation you had.
	Any random passerby with a gun would be preferable to doing nothing.
	Yeah.
	Edward of Woodstock, does our society not value children anymore, or more accurately, does the government?
	no they don't if children are in trouble as a police officer it should be your duty to risk your life and limb to save them hell as an adult it is this is not this does sound like the entire issue could be solved by a good guy with a gun as a proper can say yeah utterly spineless, it's utterly disgusting.
	Why would anyone trust their child to these institutions that brainwash your children and then stand by and let a madman with a gun gun them down?
	Yeah, I mean, it really is pathetic looking at the United States these days in situations like this, because again, it's a school, and we all know what's happening in American schools.
	Why on earth would you give your kids the state?
	Callum Dayton says individual citizens are more heroic and brave than the law enforcement and the state, and this is the state of Texas as well.
	Texas.
	I'm just bloody lost for words of what to say, but there had better not be another incident like this, and the bloody law enforcement needs a washout and a clean up of its personnel.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, what do you even do, frankly?
	I guess we'll wait for all the details, but it's just...
	I don't know how much more of this to read, because a lot of them are the same, but we'll go for a couple more.
	So Adrian Bradley says, This is one of the reasons I want guns legalised in the UK, readily available for all.
	When seconds matter, police are minutes away.
	We have a right to self-defence, and criminals won't obey the law by definition.
	We've seen in London gangs and terrorist incidents they will use knives, vans, cars, and bombs.
	That's before you get to the fact that the police will probably side with the enemy anyway, thanks to the rainbow left this agenda.
	Yeah, I mean, I mentioned this with Carl when we went through it yesterday, and he listed all the crap that's happened in London.
	I mean, London Bridge is the one that gets me, where you've got guys with knives, so they go in their van, drive down everyone on the bridge, can't get away from them on the bridge.
	You either jump into the Thames or you're dead.
	And then they get out with knives and just start slashing people up, and the police just don't turn up for ages.
	It's just...
	Okay, look, this isn't human.
	Like, this is not a human way to run society.
	And the argument, oh, it's just the guns, again and again, is just ignorance, frankly, of how the world...
	I mean, again, even in the United States, like, if you're an American and you're anti-gun, do you ever think the United States may have changed a bit?
	Yeah.
	Like, if you're an American, you sit there and go, you know, we've always had guns, We've always even had real good guns.
	Since the Second World War, people have been able to buy Thompsons and whatnot.
	It was over the counter without a background check back in the good old days.
	And they didn't have this.
	So, the idea that, oh no, it's just the guns.
	Most brain-dead response.
	The most NPC thing to be like, oh quick, get rid of the guns because the state will protect me.
	Yeah, I know.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Do you want to go on to your section?
	Yeah, sure.
	So, Paul Neubauer says, so the Russians believe Britain is going full Rimworld.
	Do you play Rimworld?
	I played a little bit.
	Yeah, so I've played a little.
	Yeah, it's possible.
	Have you seen Seth's review of Rimworld?
	No.
	Seth Syntach?
	Okay, I'll send you that later.
	Okay, cool.
	I'll do a little bit of a spoiler.
	There's one bit where he figures out a wonderful defense mechanism, which is that you have the entrance to your base, but it's like a corridor of concrete that just goes round and round and round and round.
	So you let the raiders turn up, get into the corridor, and then you seal it off and light a cozy fire for them inside, and at which point they notice that the walls are covered with scratches.
	Yeah, just burn them alive in there.
	Works too.
	Yeah, that's what the Russians believe we're coming to.
	To be fair, that would be one policy of dealing with boat people that I've not heard anyone raise so far.
	Benjamin Charles says...
	No, but that's too cruel for that.
	Just send them to Rwanda.
	It's much safer.
	If you guys in the UK do have to resort to cannibalism, just remember this.
	Vegans are a ready source of free-range non-GMO meat.
	It's a kind of hideous irony to that statement, isn't it?
	Someone online says, and yes, it's not just someone online, his handle is someone like, you get the picture.
	Word of warning for your upcoming cannibalism.
	Do not eat the brain or spinal column.
	You may develop kuru, the shakes, a pretty nasty disease.
	Isn't that a prion disease?
	I'm pretty sure that's a prion disease, like a misfolded protein.
	And prion diseases are the most insane diseases out there.
	I had a friend who's doing a PhD in prion diseases and often regales me with stories about the ridiculous things that prion diseases can make you do.
	It's just a misfolded protein in your brain which is misfolded in such a way that it encounters other proteins and turns them into misfolded proteins.
	You get lots and lots of misfolded proteins.
	Very hard to detect because it's such a small scale.
	And you can have people who are, like, eating their own hands because of this disease and just behaving in really weird ways, like they're possessed or cursed or something.
	And yes, funerary cannibalism is one of the ways to transmit a lot of these Bryan diseases.
	There was a disease in, like, Polynesia, which was like this, and this disease would lie dormant in you for decades, and then suddenly...
	And then you'd go...
	Everyone goes mad.
	Yeah.
	And so long after the colonial authorities had ended the practice of funerary cannibalism, they were still getting this disease.
	So no one knew what it was.
	They had no idea.
	It was just people going crazy.
	Anyway, so that was your word of warning.
	Don't eat the brains, guys.
	It's not about the brains.
	Maureen says, Cannibalism is an excellent idea.
	You have more food and fewer mouths to feed.
	The Christians only have to exchange the communion wafer for their elderly neighbours, and you may even be able to absorb the strength and knowledge of the disease.
	Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work.
	As I mentioned, because both the famines in China and North Korea, the ones I've read a lot about, both of them were basically stopped, not by an increase of production of food, but because enough people had died.
	They caught up with the amount of food production that had been cut.
	Yeah.
	And as I said, everyone eats the dead rather than eating the alive.
	So you just have to wait it out.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Henry says, so it's eat your neighbours or eat ze bugs, then.
	Ze bugs are looking pretty good right now, aren't they?
	I will eat ze bugs.
	In that case, right?
	They're eating their ass.
	Hammurabi VI says, I will eat your ass for now.
	Also cannibalise it, should they need their eyes.
	I don't know why he's Russian.
	Communist porn right there.
	Andrew Narog says, John, why the mutual exclusivity?
	You can have your neighbour with the tomatoes you've grown.
	Let's not be uncivilised.
	We can still have taste and culture in the coming dystopia.
	Yeah, a meal isn't complete without meat.
	If you want to get ahead of the publishing curve, how about 101 recipes for human meat cooking with your neighbours?
	You know, I bet that's real.
	Human meat recipes.
	I bet I'm going to get something.
	Yeah, there's ten.
	Oh dear.
	Omar Awad says, While people will be more willing to...
	Stop it, Garland.
	Deep fried genitals.
	You'll make yourself sick.
	You're making me sick.
	You're making our viewers sick.
	Stop it.
	While people will be more willing to grab something off the reduced section, I can fully envision a corpulent bureaucrat holding a bag of out-of-date food shouting at a starving child, You can't eat this.
	You might get sick.
	Could happen.
	Stranger things have happened.
	I think we are going to live in an era of possibly great tragedy, but definitely great absurdity.
	And Bleach Demon says, On the food shortage discussion, after the coup crisis I was able to conclude that at most two months before human-driven shortages empty stores.
	That's without blind panic setting in.
	Buy an extra can of meat, veggies, and fruit in every trip like previous generations did.
	Yeah.
	And John, I think, writes, Callum, you're going to get put on a list.
	Why?
	I'm just looking at the recipes.
	I'm not going to do it.
	Who the hell wants to eat deep-fried genitalia anyway?
	That's horrible.
	Ugh.
	Anyway.
	And Wuhan Wet Market says...
	And now to the Wuhan Wet Market!
	John over here speaking calmly and smoothly about the daily destruction of everything we hold dear as we literally watch it get harder to eat every day because of economic collapse.
	How do you gents hold it together?
	Well, I was speaking to Josh about this not too long ago, and...
	Generally speaking, there have been times in human history where things look really bad, and we always, more or less, pull through.
	You know, a load of people die, we move on, we rebuild.
	One way of looking at it, yeah.
	Hard times create strong men.
	Okay.
	So, that's the upside to all this.
	Silver lining, everything will be better in the future, because it's terrible now.
	Yes, the future that we build.
	Yeah.
	Otherwise, we're out of time.
	So if you'd like more from us, loaders.com.
	Otherwise, we'll be back at the Gold Theater Zoom call at 3.30 UK time.
	Thank you.

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