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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #572

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 572.
	Today I'm your host Harry and I'm joined by my guest Stelios.
	Hello, nice to see you again.
	And we're going to be going over some pretty horrible stories, or at least the first one's going to be a pretty horrible story, when we're going to be asking the question, how did an accused sex offender adopt two children?
	The answer will surprise you, because it's not an answer at all.
	We're going to be examining the war on merit, and then we're going to be looking at goodbye horses as Jacinda Ardern herself is taken out to the glue factory.
	Before we go into these stories, though, we do have a premium live hangout starting on, is that on Monday, John?
	Yes.
	Hangout 29 talking about the price of apostasy.
	And it's going to be Carl and Connor discussing the Conservative Party's excommunication of Andrew Bridgen, the MP, for suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines are not completely safe and effective.
	So that will be a very interesting one.
	I'm sure Connor is probably the one looking into most of the information there, and he is very astute with his data gathering.
	So that will be a very good live hangout.
	So be sure not to miss that.
	3.30 UK time.
	Anyway.
	With that said, let's get into the news.
	So, with this segment, I'm doing something a bit funky, which is that over the weekend segments, this will be covered in a bit more detail, because we're going to be looking at part three of a four-part series of investigative journalist articles done by Town Hall examining because we're going to be looking at part three of a four-part series of investigative journalist articles done by Town Hall examining the case of the two Georgia gay adoptive parents who turned out
	Callum is covering that over the weekend for part one and two, which is going to be examining some of the details of how it happened, what the details of the case were.
	What I wanted to look at here was part three, which came out yesterday.
	For those listening, part four is already out by the time that we're recording this live.
	I just haven't had the chance to be able to look through it, and it doesn't seem as pertinent for a lot of the information that I want to look at anyway.
	So, this is going to be looking at how these two men were able to adopt two children in the first place.
	When it turns out that back in 2011, one of them, I believe Zachary Zulak is what his name is, was...
	Potentially investigated, very briefly, for potentially molesting a 14-year-old boy and how despite that, in 2018, he and his husband were able to adopt the child.
	So we'll be looking at that.
	Before I go any further, I think this is quite a relevant one.
	This is...
	Another article from Connor's current attempt to purge the degenerates, I think is a good way of putting it, where he's examining the question of consent and pointing out that consent in and of itself is not a moral standard.
	This is following on from some of the stuff that we've discussed about Louise Perry's book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, and the interview that he also did, which is available on the website that you should definitely check out, with Louise Perry, where they examine the subject as well.
	Basically just looking at the fact that consent is being positioned currently as the moral be-all and end-all for all acts that one can take in the privacy of their own home.
	And obviously, consent is a very important thing.
	You don't want to be forcing people, especially in a sexual circumstance, to do things that they don't want to.
	That's heinous and immoral and just evil of somebody to do.
	But at the same time, positioning the idea of consent alone as being the only thing that matters when there are other things to take into account is a slippery slope that we are rapidly falling down to.
	So check that article out.
	I'm sure Connor will go into a lot more detail than I have here.
	Anyway, let's get into the actual story.
	So as I mentioned, Town Hall have been doing a quite spectacular four-part investigative piece on this.
	It's been led by Mia Cathal, I think I'm pronouncing that name right.
	And she's been doing a great job.
	It seems that they followed up on a lot of the information because this was just another story that could have flown under the radar.
	Well, become a big thing when it happened.
	I think it was back in August, end of July, August, last year.
	I think it was end of August.
	Yeah, end of August last year in that case.
	And it could have been one of those things that blew up and then everybody just ignores it and moves on to the next thing to be outraged about.
	But Mia and Town Hall have done a very good job following this up, gathering the details and finding out more about it.
	Now, as I said, Callum will be covering some of this over the weekend so I won't go too much into details, but for an important rundown of the things that you do need to know from part one and two to understand the rest of this article.
	So these were two Georgia-based gay men, Zachary and William Zulock, who were married to one another.
	One of them was a banking teller, and the other one did a job that I can't remember off the top of my head.
	I think he was a government clerk or something, I think.
	But not a big position.
	No, neither of these people had well-paying jobs or anything.
	I think between them, their combined income came to less than $70,000, which makes some of the developments in this a little, well, very, very suspicious and worth looking into, which I know the police are doing currently.
	So they adopted two children in 2018, and then last summer, in August, they got caught molesting both of them and offering them to other local gay men in the area to molest and share pictures and videos of, sadly.
	They got caught because two of these other paedophiles that they were trying to involve in it also got caught separately, And these two men sold these guys down the river to try and get a more lax deal on whatever sentence that they're going to get, because I think one of them was caught downloading child sexual exploitation material, which is all awful.
	Everybody except the children involved in this story is a complete scumbag, and it does make me feel...
	Very sick to talk about these sorts of things, sadly.
	And despite not really being able to afford it on their combined income, which, as I said, was about less than $70,000 between them, the two of them were somehow able to have a mansion built in Georgia over an incredibly quick period of time in 2020.
	Raising questions, where did that money come from?
	Yes.
	Where on earth did that money come from?
	Especially when you consider the plans to build the house must have included this, because it turned out that they had a secret room with no windows in the home, hidden behind a bookcase.
	This is actual supervillain stuff that was going on, and the people designing the house, the people looking at the planning for the house, the people looking at the finances, wondering how they...
	This just flew under everybody's radar, apparently.
	Very interesting.
	Very interesting that the IRS can seemingly track anybody down for tax fraud and other such things, except when there's just building a mansion.
	Just building a mansion, casually.
	Just took out some loans.
	That must have been what it was.
	The second part of the articles as well detailed their travels across the states in the US to a number of gay-friendly communities across the country and just other remote parts of the country, and examined the fact that, as I mentioned, they shouldn't have been able to afford this house, so how is it they were affording it,
	it which has led to many questions especially seeing as in the local area they were trying to get involved some other local paedophiles that there was a country-wide paedophile ring going on that they were at the center of involving the two adopted children which is very very horrible we about say something no it's just It's beyond words.
	It truly is.
	It's horrifying to read about such a thing, and it is shocking that this has happened, but it is important to shine a spotlight on it, and once again, well done to Town Hall, and Mia Cattle in particular, for following up on this and not letting it just get forgotten, like so many other stories do.
	So many of these stories tend to just get left behind in the outrage cycle.
	They get left behind and people just go on to the next one, or maybe just file it away as an example to bring up.
	Just an example to throw at a leftist, if they're in an argument with them.
	But it is really important to examine what went on, how it happened, and why it is that so much of the infrastructure for the local area, including this adoption agency and such, were able to let these people adopt despite the fact that one of them had previously been looked into for potentially raping a child.
	It's awful.
	So how did they get to adopt these children?
	I mean, if one of them was a...
	Someone who was accused of molesting a child.
	We'll go through that, because Mia and Town Hall have done everything they can to try and speak to the local authorities and get that information.
	Sadly, it seems they've not got a particularly satisfactory answer, or at least certainly not as far as I'm concerned, because there doesn't really seem to be an answer.
	But I'll go through the information.
	I don't think they will get one.
	No, no.
	The most I can say is that everything involved in this, from the state and local level authorities to the...
	I mean, the place that they got the agency that they adopted the children from, is pretty much gone now.
	I think it's shut down, it's defunct.
	So there's at least that, but...
	If the authorities were involved in this adoption, I think there needs to be some reform and people looking into this.
	So, seven years prior to the adoption, so that was in 2018 and this is 2011, Zachary was accused of being a child rapist but was never charged.
	There was a 2011 probe into Zachary's...
	Apologies.
	Zachary's alleged paedophilic behaviour when he was accused of luring a 14-year-old boy to a residence in Walton County, the same jurisdiction as today's horrifying child sexual abuse case, and having...
	doing vile acts with the underage victim.
	I don't really want to say exactly what it says here, because it's awful.
	But the 2011 case was shut down, and no charges were pursued against Zachary.
	And...
	We'll see that they have reopened that case as it is reasonable to do.
	Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney Randy McKinley, who serves Walton County, has now formally asked Walton County Sheriff's Office to continue its previous probe because he believes it was closed without a whole lot of investigation into it.
	And I would not be surprised if that is the case because...
	It's turned out that he's done the same thing later on with children that he adopted, so the likelihood is they prematurely close that case and people need to be punished for not looking into it anywhere near as thoroughly as they should have.
	The 2011 case is now being looked into by my office along with the Sheriff's Office, so we've got the District Attorney's Office looking into it personally as well.
	So, background information for the couple.
	Zachary started dating William in the summer of 2013 and the men married about four years later in December 2017.
	Since they've been together, William said he looked forward to the day and they got a lot of this information off of social media.
	They've also spoken to family members that were aware of some of the situation or at least aware of the surface level of the situation of, oh, they're just a happy family with kids now.
	That's what it was.
	That's as far as they saw.
	But they also, one of the family members was supposedly given access to Zachary's social media accounts.
	I think this might have either been before or after they were arrested and has been able to find some information through that that has been given to Town Hall.
	Yeah, since they've been together, he said he looked forward to the day that he can start a family.
	The gay newlyweds then sought to locally adopt children not long after their picturesque wedding.
	In 2018, the Zuloc co-defendants adopted the two brothers through All God's Children Incorporated, a now defunct private special needs adoption agency in Watskinsville.
	The brothers, now aged 9-11, and you can understand that they have completely erased the faces, they've censored the faces from all the photographs included in here of the two children, and they have not included the names for privacy reasons.
	I can only hope that these kids get to go and be adopted by somebody who will look after them and get the appropriate help that they need, because I can't imagine this is going to be...
	No, that's horrible, and this is the kind of trauma that we, you know, we see in documentaries as being responsible for...
	Messing people up.
	I hope this doesn't...
	Understandably so.
	I hope this is not the case with them.
	Yeah, it doesn't help as well that supposedly these two children, who are brothers, as I mentioned, are from a broken home where their biological parents were addicted to heroin.
	And this is according to a relative's knowledge.
	And this relative, one of the family members associated with this case said, I do think they had every intention, and that's why they adopted them for this purpose.
	And when they say intention, intention of abusing these children...
	They also say that William and Zachary likely preyed on the children's vulnerability as kids raised by struggling heroin addicts.
	Yeah, and that was according to the family member as well.
	And it's just awful.
	It's awful to know that these kids not only went through that with their actual parents, first of all, being heroin addicts, but then that they were...
	By the state, and this does remind me a lot of the German Helmut Kentler case that was covered a few years ago on the podcast as well, which was talking about how the German state, in an attempt to prevent children from growing up to be Nazis,
	put foster children in the care of actual known paedophiles, purely because they thought that the sexual liberation of such an act, making sure that these children weren't sexually repressed from a young age, which is what they assumed, That's
	dodgy as hell.
	Genius.
	Absolute genius.
	And that was sponsored by the German government up until 2004, as a reminder there.
	This is tragic because governments, they cannot replace family.
	No, of course not.
	And I think that the breakdown of the family is, you know...
	It opens the doors of hell.
	And it's all a point of centralisation to ensure that the power remains in a few specific hands, really, isn't it?
	Because families can form opposite power centres to a government.
	Family is a very powerful thing, especially the more close-knit a family is.
	My goals, when I'm older, is to sort of position myself at the head of the Robinson family dynasty.
	That's what I want.
	I want...
	You want Clan Robinson.
	Yeah, I want Clan Robinson to rule the world.
	But the state has done a very, very good job at positioning itself in such a way and engineering the circumstances that we find it in to be really difficult to raise a family.
	I would love nothing better for my missus to be able to just not work a job, stay at home all day, and raise our kids when we have kids.
	That's incredibly difficult in the economic situation that we are right now.
	It's almost impossible and it is one of the main reasons why we have a problem with birth rates.
	Yes.
	It's not the only one, but one of the main ones.
	Oh, absolutely.
	But yes, the state was involved in this because, as we'll find out later, but as well as undergoing criminal background checks, William and Zachary were required to attend mandatory pre-adoption parenting classes called Parents as Tender Healers Trauma-Informed Training Curriculum To learn more about parenting children with a history of losses.
	An agency caseworker also completed a family assessment which was presented to social workers throughout Georgia for matchmaking and a home study of the Zoologs.
	The entire undertaking took 8 to 12 weeks.
	So that's all it took.
	That's ridiculous.
	Just a few classes, three months tops.
	Just look around the house.
	Everything seems fine to me.
	Are we going to do any background and criminal checks on them?
	Yes, apparently.
	It seems to me that this is something that comes to the mind of many people in these cases, where they say, no, we have to show that we give children to people, to foster parents, so we show how productive we are.
	Yeah, they've not actually done any safeguarding here, by the sounds of it.
	I'm sure there would have been signs, and if these guys did just turn out to be really good at hiding their proclivities, that's fine.
	But at the same time, Zachary literally had a case open.
	Open and shut, yes, but a case was still put against him about potential sexual abuse of children in the past.
	Why was that not questioned further?
	Why did that not raise any eyebrows in the adoption process?
	I would think that anybody having that sort of case put against them would probably at the least be a red flag.
	Obviously, there will be false allegations of such a thing, so it shouldn't necessarily bar people outright just from the off, but it should at least raise some concerns.
	It should.
	And this is, we shouldn't play with children.
	It's, No, it's a very dangerous situation to put kids in.
	The Georgia courts made the Forever Family official on November 7th, 2018.
	All God's Children, getting a bit more information from them, a former member agency of the Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agency's statewide network had worked in partnership with the Georgia Department of Health Service, which oversees the state's Division of Family and Children's Services.
	To find families for Georgia's waiting children, according to the agency's description.
	Town Hall did contact the Georgia DHS regarding how much oversight and involvement it had in the agency's operations, and their communications director, Kylie Winton, stated that the DHS's Office of Residential Child Care, a unit tasked with inspecting, monitoring, and registering child care facilities, licenses adoption agencies for the placement of children in adoptive homes, and that such licensed private agencies focus primarily on the adoption of children who are not in the custody...
	This does not seem to be answering the question of how involved were you in this.
	Obviously it means that they were massively involved in these organisations, but I think the implicit question as well is how involved were you?
	Were you aware of all of this as it went down?
	Did you have any scrutiny placed on these people?
	No response.
	No real answer to that question.
	This is a classic bureaucratic response, and I hate to be negative, but in this case, I will be.
	It seems to me that we won't get any answers.
	It's very easy for people to say, well, we didn't know, we didn't have any signs that were really good at tricking us.
	So, it's...
	Well, when you do all that, some people, and I don't think completely in an unfounded manner, are raising and have been raising questions for a long time ever since it was made legal in the United States and other countries, raising the questions of whether it's even appropriate to allow gay people Gay people,
	gay couples to adopt in the first place, especially given what most people are aware of as constituting the gay lifestyle and all of the scandals that have come out over the decades around that, especially given the fact that these two were LGBTQ whatever.
	Activists as well.
	You can see in the pictures that you've got there, Love My Family, they've all got the Rainbow Pride flag on.
	Their entire home in the photographs that Town Hall were able to get of it was completely head-to-foot in LGBT propaganda.
	They had lots of signs everywhere saying, love is love.
	Where have I heard that phrase before?
	And other such slogans.
	So these people are activists for the LGBT cause, as...
	As Callum would put it.
	So it does raise questions, okay, if these are the sorts of people that this movement attracts, should we be worried about the safeguarding of children around them, especially with everything else that's going on with Drag Queen's Story Hour?
	I must add something to this, because I was, some months ago, I was watching some Netflix documentaries about Ted Bundy and Gacy.
	And they were involved in communities, because that was a way to attract people.
	And they seem to me to be pretty psychopathic.
	I mean, you did well when you did not read what they did, but you know, it's horrible, but it seems to me that this is something that only very monstrous people would do.
	Absolutely.
	And it says a lot that they thought that the LGBTQ community is nowadays the community in which you get and have easy access to people.
	Especially given that it's all focused around protecting youth nowadays.
	You've got cases like LGBT Youth Scotland, where the actual organiser, I forget what his name is, something Rennie, of that organisation, was...
	Using it as basically a front to be able to get access to vulnerable young children and then take them to inappropriate environments.
	And when I say children, between 12 and 16 it seemed to be the age that he was attracting there.
	And he would then take them to gay clubs across the country...
	Get them into places where they were far too young to be, and introduce them to men who were very interested in very inappropriate behaviour with them.
	And that's just something that seems to be part and parcel with these organisations at this point, sadly.
	I wish it were the case otherwise, but that's just what seems to be the reality of the matter.
	But anyway, so Town Hall asked if the 2011 case was ever officially brought up, Guess what the DHS said?
	Well, screw you!
	Absolutely go and screw yourself with trying to absolve yourself of any responsibility by just going, oh, it's confidential.
	No, people deserve an answer.
	People deserve to know how complicit in this you were.
	If you saw it and just decided to dismiss it and say, oh, nothing, no problem, just put it through anyway.
	Or if you just ignored it or if you missed it, in which case you're just terrible at your job.
	I didn't mean to get a bit angry there, sorry.
	As such, we are unable to comment on the specifics of any child welfare or abuse neglect cases, nor confirm or deny the existence of related records.
	Absolute POS. I wish I could be harsher, but we want to be a family-friendly show.
	As for how involved Georgia DFCS was in the agency's background checks, family placement and home visits, Winton said, All families are required to undergo background checks, including fingerprint-based checks of state and national crime information databases and checks of child abuse and neglect registries.
	How did you miss it?
	How did you miss the accusation?
	It's absolutely, absolutely ridiculous.
	It's the one thing not to miss.
	Yeah, and a Zoolock family insider even said to Town Hall, everything seemed fine.
	I actually thought DFCS would be more scrutinising with them because they were a same-sex couple.
	It just seemed like they passed everything with flying colours.
	And I do wonder, given the age that we live in, if it was a worry about being called out for being homophobic.
	Not being considered inclusive enough.
	If it was the political pressures that we see all the time these days being put on this organisation that they just decided, let's not bother.
	We don't want to have a massive mob of woke activists outside our front doors.
	Let's just push it through anyway.
	In which case, this is just an absolute neglect of duty of care.
	In the most awful way possible.
	But...
	Let me just remind myself of the name of the organisation, All God's Children, the original place that they adopted from, dissolved in October 2022.
	Zachary's social media accounts showed that he had privately discussed on Instagram its impending dissolution with All God's Children's ex-executive director So in likelihood, let's be perfectly honest here, he was probably going to direct another nonce of where to get easy pickings.
	That's how I interpret that.
	Zachary disclosed that he and William were deciding on adopting a girl, too.
	We're still trying to decide if we want to adopt a girl.
	We're doing awesome.
	The boys have changed so much from when we first met them.
	They aren't even the same kids.
	And no, they never will be ever again.
	Because of you.
	Just awful.
	Just absolutely awful.
	Thank God that they didn't get the chance to expand...
	What I consider here, these people were probably, in all likelihood...
	I mean, we know that they're in the local area, but they were probably running a paedophile ring across the country.
	So I'm so glad that they didn't get the opportunity to expand the range of their services.
	Because we know that they were looking for vulnerable kids.
	They were specifically going through a place that operated on the basis of, we will re-home...
	Vulnerable children from bad backgrounds.
	They were looking for vulnerable kids that they could take advantage of, who they know that they can manipulate and force them into keeping their mouths shut.
	And they lived in a very expensive mansion.
	Yeah, when they had no means otherwise of affording it.
	That should raise suspicion by itself.
	They didn't just buy it either.
	They had it built in record time across the summer of 2020, and it had a specific...
	Windowless secret room hidden behind a bookcase.
	And they were ratted out by the other two people.
	So, I mean, there are at least four grown-ups involved in this.
	And I doubt that it would have just been two extra incomes from what they were trying to get from those guys that would have been able to allow them to afford such a massive home.
	It's absolutely disgusting and absolutely ridiculous.
	And what is the left-wing response to this case?
	Is it outrage that this happened?
	Is it concern for the well-being of the children?
	No.
	No, it's not.
	It's how dare you notice.
	How dare you notice that bad things happen when we get our way?
	Media Matters.
	In the year 2023, I can hear this in John Oliver's voice in my head, prominent right-wing commentators still have a problem with same-sex parents.
	I... I wonder why old-fashioned gay bashing hasn't died out on the right with influential figures continuing to target same-sex couples who want to participate in institutions typically praised by American conservatives like marriage and parenthood.
	Now...
	Most people, in reality, are just reporting on the facts.
	I have seen people asking questions like that, but I don't think it's unreasonable for them to do so.
	I'm not saying that similar things don't happen with straight parents.
	Even in the UK, we have some awful cases.
	Like, I'm going to say these names, don't look them up online, because you will be subject to one of the worst and most horrifying stories you've ever heard.
	But Fred and Rose West, for instance, there are examples of awful...
	Awful parents who are otherwise straight and normal, etc.
	But I don't think it's out of the ordinary to say that this is a more likely occurrence with gay people, especially gay people who are on the woke activist side of things, given gay hookup and cruising culture, which I... Sadly learned about over the past year,
	well-documented connections from the 1970s and 80s with paedophile groups like Pi in the UK, situations like I brought up earlier, like the LGBT Youth Scotland turning out to be basically a honeypot for another paedophile ring that was going on there, led by the leader of the organisation, and other well-documented cases of gay teens being pressured and taken advantage of by older men.
	This is all just...
	Facts that you can find out there that the media don't want you to know.
	Is there any research for this?
	I was looking at a research yesterday that said that one out of, I think it was 240,000.
	I'll have to...
	I don't want to give false data.
	The most that I can say off the top of my head is that Josh has looked into some research and found that a lot of the time people...
	Excuse me, who say have alternative lifestyles, shall we say, often tend to score much higher on dark triad scores, psychologically speaking, and also I did see some research that people were pointing out recently that came to the conclusion that gay people are not more likely to be paedophiles, but then also the research itself Just completely dismissed the idea that if you are a man raping a young boy, that you are gay.
	So it was automatically discounting them as being gay people in the first place, even though it's a same-sex assault.
	It's awful, but it is telling.
	It's telling of how they conduct this research to be able to provide the conclusions that they already want to get to.
	They find the conclusion first, and then manipulate the data to try and get to that conclusion in a more legitimate fashion, shall we say.
	And the article goes on, but I mean, do we really need to go any further into this?
	This is an awful story, and awful circumstances, and we've got the clown world response as usual, so I'm sorry for having to bring this to your attention, but it is important, and well done to Mia Cattle and Town Hall for actually putting in the legwork and doing some more research on this and making sure it doesn't just turn into another story that was forgotten and left at the wayside.
	This has turned my stomach, I must say.
	Yes, yes, that's how I felt researching it as well.
	Okay, speaking of families, imagine you're trying to raise a family.
	You're working hard and you're showing the discipline to raise your children and give them a good education that will give them what they need to go forward.
	And they compete for the national merit award and they win.
	But for equity policies, the school decides to withhold this information from them.
	In fact, it withholds such information from them for so long that they miss the opportunity to use it on their application.
	And they miss a very good opportunity.
	How would you feel?
	Before we say more about this, why not visit our website, lotusitas.com, and read the article Anatomy of the Communist by Harry Robinson.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Yeah, I must say that I read it and I really like your article and I think that it is very deep in its analysis.
	Thank you.
	It's been getting a very positive response so far, which I'm always thrilled to see.
	It's an article that I thought would be interesting, as I've mentioned before when I've been bigging this up on the podcast over the past few days.
	It's an article that goes into some of the details about how communism is not just an economic policy and it should not be argued on purely economic minutiae as many in, shall we say, Conservative Incorporated and the mainstream centre right wing want to do, like Tom Harwoods and people like that.
	They want to argue against communism on the purely economic terms, while, realistically speaking, agreeing with many of the prescriptions for these social justice causes.
	Whereas we should look at it as an overall ideology, and I even put forward the idea that if, for instance, a free marketer, somebody like a Tom Harwood, only advocates for the free market to get to the same end results as a communist, what is the material difference?
	What is the actual, tangible difference between these two people?
	Read the article to find more about it.
	Okay, so let's go to the next link and read this article that was published on Wall Street Journal.
	Don't be afraid about the title.
	It's actually a pretty based article.
	All right.
	So it's titled, The New Structural Racism.
	In Northern Virginia, affirmative action has hardened into a war on high achievers.
	Okay, I'll read the article.
	Before the Supreme Court renders its decision on Harvard's and the University of North Carolina's use of race preferences in admissions, the justices might take a glance across the Potomac.
	Northern Virginia today offers a snapshot of how affirmative action, intended as a benevolent effort to prevent discrimination, has hardened into an ugly war on achievement.
	I will say immediately I disagree with the idea that affirmative action was supposed to be some benign political tool just to make everything fair.
	It was always intended as a hammer.
	I agree with you, and I think that the author does this in order to lure some people who would want to see this.
	Yeah, he's trying to come across even-handed.
	Okay, so he continues.
	The latest fuss was kicked off before Christmas when Asra Nomani, an Indian-born mom and reporter, wrote a piece for the Manhattan Institute City Journal detailing how her son's Virginia high school never informed him he had been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Programme.
	Now, other students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science, known as TJ, and regularly ranked America's number one high school, said they had the same experience.
	This is important as well.
	As far as I'm aware of scholarship programs in America, they pay for your university fees for you, don't they?
	So this kid had been just completely not informed that, by the way, you could get your university paid for you.
	That's big.
	Yes, and if you see, these are kids that are going to public schools.
	They're not going to private schools.
	And those are the people who need the scholarship programs.
	Yeah.
	So, Virginia Attorney General Jason Millares launched a civil rights investigation on January 4.
	Days later, principals at two more Fairfax County high schools, Westfield and Langley, admitted they too had failed to inform student award winners.
	So, as you'll see, This is going to be a recurring theme, isn't it?
	Yeah, there are more and more schools who do this to students.
	Mr.
	Millares then expanded his investigation to all Fairfax County.
	No sooner had he done so, the neighbouring Loudoun County reported that three of its high schools had delayed notified its students, though officials insisted it wasn't intentional.
	What?
	So now...
	Likely story!
	It's not happening to...
	Oh, we didn't mean to!
	We didn't mean to, guys!
	From three schools, we've gone to six schools.
	On Friday, four more Fairfax High Schools fessed up, followed by another on Monday.
	So we have at least 11 schools who did the same.
	Now...
	11 schools not notifying its own students that they've just been given the opportunity of a lifetime, potentially.
	Just what are the odds?
	The National Merit Scholarship Program is a competition of 1.5 million students based on their scores on the Preliminary Standard Achievement Test, National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
	Commended students rank in the top 3% while semi-finalists test in the top 1%.
	It's an achievement that can make a difference on a college or scholarship application, but the kids who weren't told they were National Merit winners or were told too late couldn't include it on their applications.
	So, as you said, this is a game changer.
	I mean, this is ripping opportunity away from these kids that otherwise wouldn't have it due to financial and economic circumstances, I'm assuming.
	Well, that's equity.
	So, given that the program leaves notifications up to the individual schools, it's possible that all these failures were bureaucratic snaffers.
	But the context offers a less generous reading.
	Okay, now we'll think.
	There we go.
	Things are starting to spice up.
	That was a cliffhanger sentence.
	Public education in Fairfax County has become the front line for an equity agenda that has hardened into a war on achievers who are disproportionately Asian-American.
	As a federal judge pointed out in 2022, in a case contesting TJ's new admissions policy, the Fairfax County School Board eliminated the merit-based entrance exam to make room for African American and Hispanic students by reducing the number of Asian Americans.
	In that sense, it worked.
	Yep, I mean, if that's what you want to do, what these were always originally intended for is not to prop up African American or Hispanic students.
	It's to push down students who display anything resembling whiteness, which is, of course, just anything about achieving well, Western culture, politeness, all of this sort of stuff.
	They want to eliminate all of that, and it ends up, because it turns out Asian Americans are the best at being white, that they get punished disproportionately as well.
	It's basically anything that screams, I don't want a paternalistic government over my head.
	I can look after myself.
	That's whiteness, yeah.
	Apparently.
	The class admitted before the change was 73.05% Asian American, 3.29% Hispanic, and 1.23% African American.
	After the change, these figures went to 54.36%, 11.27% and 7.09% respectively.
	The share of white students grew from 17.70% to 20.36%.
	I'm honestly surprised they allowed the share of white students to increase at all.
	But then again, they are still disproportionately maligned by this if you want to present it in that way.
	Now, the thing is, why did this happen?
	The district attorney has said that the superintendent ordered a muti ufag bai of Performance Fact Incorporated to develop an equity policy for schools.
	So the article continues.
	Meantime, in October, district officials signed a $455,000 contract for strategic planning with consultant Mutu Fagbei of Performance Fact Incorporation.
	A PowerPoint presentation he had already delivered the September 2022 Fairfax County School Board retreat defines equity as equal outcomes for every student without exception.
	Okay, what's the...
	What's the point of even teaching them at that case?
	What happens if you apply that to the letter, the kids come in, you hand them all gold stars, you give them all cake, and that's your job done.
	Because that's an equal outcome for every student, without exception.
	Fantastic.
	Job done.
	But they don't have the opportunity to brainwash them into becoming...
	Yeah, yeah, sorry.
	Well, I mean, you would probably end up making them all fat, which, as far as the state is concerned, is just as good a response.
	You either make them complacent or fat, preferably both.
	Or consider Shona Yashar, another TJ mom whose son wasn't told he was a commended student until after the deadline for his early admissions application.
	Ms.
	Yashar says that when she complained to TJ's director of student services, Brandon Kosatka, he told her that the school wants to recognize students for who they are as individuals, not focus on their achievements, and that it delayed informing winners to spare the feelings of those who didn't qualify.
	But what if who they are as an individual includes their personal achievements as well?
	They don't like to think about that one.
	I mean, there is a long tradition that says that what we're doing is part of who we are.
	Yes.
	You could go back to Aristotle for something like that, for instance.
	It's hard not to notice that those who paid the price for this approach were overwhelmingly Asian-American.
	Judging by the names on the National Merit Semifinalists list published by Fairfax County, Asian-Americans at TJ accounted for 101 of the 132 winners, or 77%.
	At Langley, it was 10 out of 15, 66%, and for Westfield, it was 4 out of 5, 80%.
	Asian Americans make up only 18.97%, let's say roughly 19% of the student population of the Fairfax County public schools.
	Now, what makes Asian American achievement so resented by our equity warriors is that it exposes as false the narrative about an irredeemably racist America where minorities can't succeed.
	This progressive disdain for Asian Americans is amplified by a resentment of moms and dads who believe they should have a say in their kids' education.
	And for all the accounts that I've heard, oftentimes it is down to the mothers and fathers having a hand in the education that leads to Asian American kids achieving so disproportionately.
	It's not because that they're inherently genetically just smarter than people over in the West.
	It's that they have an inbuilt culture where they are very demanding of their children.
	They want their children to succeed.
	The amount of memes that I've seen of Asian Americans just saying how true it is that their mothers there going like, Why aren't you a doctor yet?
	And they mean it deadly seriously as well.
	Of course that's going to force you to get your head together, get your head straight.
	But I think it's important to repeat the sentence that the problem is that this shows that the narrative about an irredeemably racist America where minorities can succeed is false.
	Oh, of course.
	It's complete nonsense.
	I mean, the entire political system is set up to prop up underachieving minorities in America anyway.
	Exactly.
	And I want to tie it back with something you said before about whiteness, the property, not necessarily white people, but whiteness in the sense that we have to go and achieve things.
	Whiteness is a set of values and virtues and a way of life, which it turns out that when they come over here, Asian Americans can actually excel at, primarily because they do have a very family-orientated lifestyle.
	I mean, Asian Americans, as far as I'm aware, correct me if I'm wrong in the comments below, please.
	As far as I'm aware, they're quite unique in that they're one of the few minorities that still keeps to multi-generational households.
	So even if the parents are both at work, the grandparents will be living with them, so that children will still have disciplinary action from family members who are telling them, you need to achieve, you need to do this, but also raising them on good values as well.
	And that's a very positive thing, and honestly, I do think that white people should try and adopt that kind of lifestyle again.
	Okay, so now these same officials want parents, especially Asian American parents, to believe that not informing their children that they want a prestigious academic competition was an innocent oversight.
	We'll see what the Attorney General finds.
	But nothing these school officials have done has earned them a presumption of trust.
	I think that, I mean...
	Just to see how many schools have happened.
	And the district attorney has said that they expect at least a thousand students have been treated in this way.
	I mean, that's no chance.
	No, of course not.
	In fact, once again, it's been set up.
	Do you mind if I have a quick interjection here?
	Because I did recently do a big premium podcast with Connor, which should be coming out relatively soon, which I'm very excited and very proud about.
	And as part of that, I did read, as I've mentioned before on the podcast, Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement, which talks about a lot of the cultural changes that happen off of the back of the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
	There is a brilliant passage where he talks about the case of Alan Back, I think that's how you pronounce his name, from 1978, and how the Civil Rights Act and the affirmative action quotas that were put in just created this modern idea of diversity.
	And if you're talking about merit...
	So, Alan Back was a guy who tried to apply to a medical school at University of California in David.
	He was rejected twice.
	The school gave him the answer, oh, it's because you're too old.
	It's because you're too old.
	He was only 33, but you're too old.
	Okay.
	He blamed the university's Task Force program, an affirmative action program that set aside spots for 16 minority students in every class of 100.
	Back's scores on the multi-part medical college admission test would normally have won him admission to even the most elite schools, We're good to go.
	But the averages for the minorities admitted through the university set-aside program were 34, 30, 37, and 18.
	That's quite a drop.
	That's quite a drop.
	So if you want to talk about merit, that's the absolute chasm of difference we're getting.
	And to be honest, as Thomas Sowell has covered all the time, it doesn't really work for anybody when this happens.
	You end up with people who are achieving, who don't get the opportunities that should be afforded to them, and you end up with people who aren't achieving being given opportunities that will vastly outstrip their actual talents, and these minority students end up dropping out, and then they end up thinking that they're useless, and then they end up going into very negative lifestyles.
	And it's very important to focus on the notion of envy here because we regularly listen, we regularly hear equity advocates saying that it's economic discrepancies.
	These are children that went to public schools.
	They needed it.
	It's not that they had the money...
	There's kids already coming from underprivileged backgrounds, if you want to classify it that way.
	So, this seems to me to show that envy is the prime motive behind this.
	Absolutely.
	We've all met progressives.
	They're very bitter people.
	So, next link, if we go, this is what the person who received $455,000 prepared.
	If we go to page 18 of 53, you see how he understands equality and equity.
	So equality is supposed to be quality of resources and supports, where supports are distributed evenly, irrespective of individual needs or assets.
	And the starting point is relevant.
	Equity incorporates the idea of need.
	Distribution of resources and support is purposefully unequal.
	Starting point is an important factor.
	Now if we go also to page 25 of 53, We'll see that basically, again, the thing is equal outcome.
	The equity imperative.
	Equitable access, equal outcomes.
	Equitable access to resources and opportunity that guarantee fair, just, and affirming experiences and produce equal outcomes for every student without exception.
	It's always loaded with the new speak, isn't it?
	Affirming experiences just means getting what you want, no questions asked.
	If it were up to me, I would just do away with the entire equality-equity dichotomy in the first place and just go back to good old-fashioned fairness.
	What's fair?
	We could draw the distinction.
	Are we talking about equality of opportunity or are we talking about equality of outcome?
	And it seems that equity advocates are for equality of outcome.
	Well, there is that, but there are...
	Karl has made a very cogent argument that the idea of trying to strictly get to equality of opportunity will just inevitably lead to this anyway, and I think there is an argument from experience to be able to say, well, we had equality of opportunity, and it has led us to here anyway, so it wasn't much of a gatekeeper for this inevitable outcome.
	Okay, so the thing is, it seems to me that this is just leveling down.
	This is punishing people for being smart, punishing people for working hard and for being disciplined, and for the sake of what?
	Promotion of idiocracy.
	And I want to say that I think that this is a weird agenda.
	It's a statist and paternalist agenda because it constantly tries to reduce every relationship between people into a student and teacher relationship.
	If you focus on the examples that they give, they constantly talk about students in a classroom who have different needs and that these different needs should be taken care of and should be satisfied.
	Yeah, I'd call it the maternal relationship.
	They assume every relationship like they're taking on the burden of the overprotective mother.
	The overprotective mother that needs to bubble wrap the entire world around these people.
	But, once again, I think we need to point out, it's not because they actually care about these people, it's because they enjoy the feeling of moral superiority they get from it.
	The feeling of power they have in the classroom.
	So I want to say that this is the kind of education that does not prepare children for the outside world.
	And it breeds unfairness.
	I mean, they're pretty open about it, but it's also interesting to see a further way in which this takes place.
	When we think of how we spend our money, provided we can afford it, we choose the best person for the job.
	This is how everyone, almost everyone spends their money.
	So how we try to, for the most part.
	So this is how we judge other people.
	When you need a doctor, for instance, you want someone who will cure you.
	And you want someone who has the greatest chances of curing you.
	If you have those opportunities open, you have the choice, absolutely.
	Now, definitely, if things were different, another person would occupy that doctor's position.
	But that's not...
	Your clock is ticking and you need a doctor.
	And all of a sudden we've got Abdul, who's just off the boat, who's been given the opportunity because, well, it would be very racist and unfair to do so otherwise.
	So the point is that if this is how we judge others, why should we insist on being judged differently?
	That's a double standard.
	A double standard, as all these people have.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, it's pretty narcissistic.
	And let's move to this next video, because before we play it, I want to say that this is the kind of education that exists nowadays that people don't know even basic logic.
	Let us...
	Let's give this a watch.
	So a couple of people might have been surprised by my transgender pin that I put on this morning.
	I figured it's about time that I came out and talked about my gender identity.
	No.
	I am trigender, which means like a triangle, I have three genders.
	Male, female, and non-binary.
	And the difference between trigender and gender fluid is that I feel all three of these genders at the same time.
	All the time.
	It doesn't ever shift or change where I feel one gender more strongly than the other, like gender fluid tends to be.
	Also, I should recognize and accept that a lot of people don't see nonbinary as a third gender.
	They see it as something completely separate from the binary of male and female.
	But for me, it's like a third gender.
	Or I guess you could call it a third identity.
	So how I feel gender-wise is like a man, like a woman, and as neither at the same time.
	I hope this clears things up, but let me know if you have any more questions.
	I'm happy to answer.
	This is really quantum stuff.
	I'm a man, I'm a woman, and I'm neither a man nor a woman.
	Oh, I feel...
	And I hope this clears things up.
	I'm sorry.
	I feel so bad for ugly women these days because they are so susceptible.
	They are so susceptible to this nonsense.
	They're not getting attention from men.
	They're not getting attention from women.
	People ignore them.
	What am I to do?
	I know!
	I'm three genders at once!
	This is basic logic.
	We need to go back to meritocracy and get done with equity.
	But just to end on another note, the thing is, how would you refer to the trigender person?
	What pronoun would you use?
	I think that it didn't clear things out, and I think Cyprus can give us some ideas.
	Oh no.
	This is Cypress, and Clown mentioned not having people use Clown or Clownself pronouns for Clown, and so in this situation, I would make sure that I exclusively use Clown pronouns to talk about Cypress, so Cypress knows that I see Clownself for who Clown is, and I want Clown to be hearing those pronouns You know, that's the one I'll accept.
	That's the one I'll accept.
	You use the word I, Cyprus, and clown.
	I mean, they already dress like clowns.
	They either dress two ways.
	They dress like a clown or they dress like some poisonous frog, a poisonous amphibian.
	And with that, I thank them because it's really easy to tell them out in a crowd.
	So we really need to reinstate meritocracy and possibly teach Bay Elementary logic to people.
	You cannot be simultaneously a man, a woman, and neither.
	I think it's a simple fact.
	I've decided when I have kids, the first thing I'm going to do, there's a big coffee book that you can get of the Trivium.
	Just the classic Trivium, logic, rhetoric, and whatever the third one is.
	Apologies that I've forgotten the third one.
	And I'm just going to sit down with my kids and just explain it to them.
	Because it's like, these are the basic skills you need to get along in life, okay?
	You need to understand this.
	But anyway, let's move on, shall we, to our final segment of the day.
	Goodbye, horses.
	That's right, Jacinda Ardern, chief of New Zealand herself, is being taken out to pasture.
	She's being taken to the glue factory.
	She is resigning.
	Thank God for all of our New Zealand followers.
	Please let us know in the comments below how this makes you feel.
	Because I can only imagine that you are thrilled, you are over the moon, you are very excited about it.
	And I thought appropriately that I would promote this recent symposium that came out yesterday, which is Stelios' signature series, talking about the conceptions of political freedom, which is appropriate because I feel like Jacinda might need to give this one a watch.
	Do you want to give it a quick rundown, tell everybody what they can expect watching this?
	Yeah, we are having a wonderful conversation with Bo about three main traditions of conceiving of liberty in a political sense.
	One is the negative that understands liberty as non-interference.
	The other is the positive that understands freedom as a kind of rational self-mastery.
	And the third one is the Republican version of freedom, which understands freedom as non-domination.
	And basically what we are saying is that language can get corrupt and there are people who are using these notions in a twisted way in order to put forward an agenda that has nothing to do with the history behind these traditions.
	Sounds very interesting.
	We'll give that a watch if you get the opportunity, but let's get further into the story, shall we?
	So I've got post-millennials coverage here.
	Bless you.
	Thank you very much.
	This news came very out of nowhere for a lot of people.
	It certainly came out of nowhere for me, because Jacinda Ardern has been such a staple in lolcow clown world politics for the past three years.
	She really started to make waves and make herself known Everywhere outside of New Zealand, as far as I can tell, when she started to put down some of the most draconian lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, she included things like the absolutely ridiculous zero COVID policy, which meant that even if you had one case of COVID, BAM! Lockdown!
	Are New Zealanders happy of clown policies?
	I don't think they are.
	I did see some pretty base videos of a lot of them, the Maori natives and the normal New Zealand population as well, just out there doing weird Maori war dances in opposition, in protests to the New Zealand government.
	Doing the haka dance.
	Yes, it was really cool, actually.
	I respect that, and it's something the English should do more often when we want to protest the government.
	We should just do...
	We should do dances around the Maypole as protest.
	So, just reading into this.
	So, Jacinda Ardern served as Prime Minister of New Zealand since 2017.
	She has announced that she'll be resigning, effective February 7th, at the latest...
	I'm playing my tiny violin for the rest of this, by the way.
	Ardern revealed her decision at the Labour Party's annual caucus meeting on Thursday...
	I'm leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility, she said.
	The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not.
	I know what this job takes and I know what I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice.
	It's that simple.
	Oh, my violin broke.
	I don't care.
	I'm very glad to see her go.
	I will say, if you've got nothing left in the tank, you must have been running on fumes for a long time, because you missed the boat.
	You missed the boat on when you realise when you're not the right person for the job.
	But then again...
	Given the agenda that we exist in right now is global, and the COVID agenda was massive and across the entire world, I suppose for your paymasters, you were the right person for the job, and now she has simply run her course.
	Of course, a lot of the underlying, what's implicit in this, is not necessarily that she doesn't want to do the job anymore, or isn't fit for the job anymore, it's that the people who are pulling her strings don't think that she is fit for the job anymore.
	because before she was the compassionate, she was the kind, she was the oh-so-brave feminine Prime Minister of New Zealand.
	And then everybody hates her.
	Literally everybody hates her now.
	I'll go through this.
	So the election is scheduled to be held on October 14th.
	During her time as leader, her government imposed on the people of New Zealand some of the strictest COVID-19 restrictions in the world.
	At the onset of the pandemic, for example, books were deemed non-essential as Ardern and other officials attempted to keep people in their homes.
	So this was books and bookshops were deemed non-essential so they couldn't open.
	I think that's a weird example for post-millennial to immediately jump to, but I know why they did it.
	It's because they go, oh, they just didn't let you read books.
	Do you know who else wasn't a fan of books?
	It was the Nazis!
	And can we...
	I get why we do it, but can we stop with the boomerisms?
	It's just, I don't, I'm tired of hearing literally everything bad compared to Nazis.
	Can we just have it be bad on its own terms?
	I find it funny that that's the first go-to there.
	But August 2021, following a six-month period where no cases were recorded, I forgot that this happened.
	I entirely forgot that this happened.
	Wow.
	Genius.
	That's some statementship right there.
	I mean, brilliant.
	I think maybe she's now resigning because she wanted to have the Simpsons dome over New Zealand.
	So they're bringing in Tom Cruise to institute that policy instead.
	The government of New Zealand has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine.
	No, that was Tom Hanks.
	Bugger.
	Sorry, I buggered that one up.
	But anyway, those who chose not to adhere to the draconian policies were hit with heavy penalties, including fines of up to US $8,400.
	Ardern was also an ardent supporter of tightening restrictions on New Zealanders' online activity, calling for increased censorship.
	After years of clamping down on the freedoms of her citizens, Ardern's popularity ain't looking good.
	Ain't looking good.
	Began to plummet, it says here.
	A December 2022 poll revealed that her support was down to just 33%.
	And I wonder if that had anything to do with a particular story that I unearthed, which I, yes, haven't included here, so I'll just talk about it right now.
	Where they, in New Zealand, a couple was...
	with a newborn who had a heart condition was told that the child needed a blood transplant the parents said okay but we'll only accept blood from somebody who didn't take the COVID vaccines the New Zealand government said No, no, we don't think you will, and confiscated the baby from them temporarily so they could perform the blood transfusion without their permission.
	I wonder if actions like that have anything to do with Jacinda Ardern's plummeting popularity.
	And support for the centre-right National Party sat at around 39%, and in the first polls of the new year, they continue to hold the lead.
	So, I... I hope New Zealand's centre-right party is nothing like England's centre-right Conservative Party, in which case that you will still get the dome, but at least it won't have a gigantic rainbow flag printed on it, so there's that at least.
	And at least they will feel bad about it.
	Yeah, they'll definitely feel bad about it.
	And then down the line, there'll be a Spectator article talking about, I was always against the Dome!
	I was always against the Dome!
	You know, you'll get that, but you will still get the Dome.
	And let's go through a few more of Jacinda Ardern's greatest hits.
	So there was this time when she just outright stated that she is the truth, I am the truth, and to be honest, I can't handle this truth.
	So let's play this clip, if we remember.
	The most up-to-date information daily.
	You can trust us as a source of that information.
	You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.
	For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumour you may hear, covid19.govt.nz.
	Otherwise, dismiss anything else.
	We will continue to be your single source of truth.
	We will provide information frequently.
	We will share everything we can.
	Everything you are, else you see, a grain of salt.
	And so I really ask people to focus on that.
	What's a gorgeous example of that appears to be this text which originated in Malaysia and has become a viral hoax in Australia and in New Zealand.
	How irresponsible is it that people are sharing that news of a lockdown imminent in New Zealand?
	And look, that's the kind of thing that adds to the anxiety that people feel.
	So I continue to share the message.
	New Zealanders must prepare.
	But do not panic.
	Prepare.
	And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
	And I really ask people, just visit covid19.govt.nz.
	It has all of the up-to-date information.
	And we will continue to provide everything you need.
	Wouldn't you trust that face?
	Wouldn't you trust that?
	Hell no.
	42 she is.
	Somehow, 42 years old.
	If there isn't any greater evidence that Jacinda Ardern and others like her have sold their soul, it's to recognize that Jacinda Ardern is 42 years old.
	That's it.
	It's pretty suspicious when people go around saying, trust me, trust me, trust me, hear no one, you know.
	Not just trust me, trust me, trust me.
	I am the truth.
	I am the truth.
	Okay, she's like, Judge Dredd, is basically what that sounds like to me.
	There was this other classic clip that was shared recently as well that we all remember, but let's play it anyway just as a little reminder.
	So you basically said this is going to be like, almost like, you probably don't see it like this, the two different classes of people.
	If you're vaccinated or if you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights.
	If you are vaccinated...
	That is what it is.
	So, yep.
	Yep.
	Can you describe, as you were previously hoping not to have to do that, I guess, when we still think we could maintain elimination across the whole country, I guess that has now changed because...
	I think it was less because necessarily of the elimination determining that and more because we, of course, Maintained and actually we have managed very high vaccination rates generally without the use of certificates.
	But actually what has become clear to me is that they're not just a tool to drive up vaccines.
	They're a tool for confidence.
	People who have been vaccinated will want to know that they're around other vaccinated people.
	They want to know that they're in a safe environment.
	It is a way that we can give confidence to those who are going back into hospitality or events.
	And so that is something that I think we should offer to people who have been vaccinated.
	That confidence that we're doing everything we can to keep them safe and that they can come back out and start enjoying those things safely.
	And I thought the whole point of a vaccine is that I don't need everybody around me to be vaccinated to be safe.
	But no, that was when she was advocating for the pushing of COVID vax passes, as you would expect, because they all were.
	They still are.
	Digital IDs, sadly, are in all likelihood still coming.
	You should watch my segment that I did the other week on the WHO and the secret meetings that they've been having, which...
	We'll see what goes on with that.
	But yeah, just straight up asking.
	So you're creating...
	This is going to sound extreme, but you're creating a two-tier second-class citizen thing?
	Yes.
	Yes, I am.
	Big smile on her face.
	We're doing it so we can inspire confidence.
	That's why she was popular, I imagine, for a lot of people at first.
	Because she could do all of the evil things that the regime wants, but because she's a woman with...
	The toothiest grin you've ever seen in your entire life, because she's a woman who looked like that, it gave this kind of warm, like, oh, she just cares about me.
	It's like me mum.
	It's like me mum, she just cares about me.
	No, she doesn't.
	No, she doesn't.
	They put it behind the warm smile of femininity.
	She cares about her position.
	Yeah, obviously.
	And her posture.
	Like they all do.
	But now that they're gone, now that she's going, I should say, A lot of people on our side of the aisle are celebrating.
	A lot of New Zealanders, I'm sure, are also very happy about this, although still pensive about who she's going to be replaced by and what's going to happen in this upcoming October election.
	So I just thought I'll Google Jacinda Ardern's name.
	Surely there'll be a lot of articles talking about her.
	And there were.
	And here's a cross-reference of just a few of the headlines that I saw so we can take the temperature on the mainstream response to this.
	The Week says, Speaking from the heart, Jacinda Ardern's legacy.
	RNZ says, Jacinda Ardern's defining legacy, serving New Zealand.
	RTE.ie, whoever they are, New Zealand's Ardern leaves legacy of kindness, but also disappointments.
	So, it wasn't that she was actively malicious, she was trying ever so hard to be kind.
	She just let herself down at a few points.
	And she was feeling bad when she did it.
	She felt so bad.
	She felt terrible when she did it.
	Isn't that enough to stop whining?
	I mean, maybe.
	Maybe.
	I'm starting to feel bad.
	I mean, I'm sure she just wanted the best.
	She just wanted the best.
	We've got Time Magazine's article saying, Jacinda Ardern led with her heart.
	I can only imagine these read in sort of like a...
	In politics that doesn't end well.
	In this kind of voice, you know?
	It's the kind of voice that's soothing, puts you off edge, gets you all nice and comfortable.
	Jacinda Ardern led with her heart.
	That's one reason she's leaving now.
	So her heart has just given up on her.
	She's just not got enough left to give.
	She's only 42 and she already looks like bloody Voldemort.
	So, you know, something's gone wrong there.
	The Liberal leader secured her place as a household name for her swift yet compassionate response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque utings and for hugging first responders after a deadly volcano eruption in 2019.
	Ardern also followed in the rare footsteps of Pakistan's late Prime Minister Beniza Bhutto when she gave birth while in office in 2018.
	None of these are political achievements, so she made a pithy speech after a shooting, she hugged some people after a disaster, and she gave birth, which, I'm sorry to break to you, is what women are designed to do biologically speaking.
	So none of these are particular political achievements.
	I mean, congratulations on the child, you know, that's excellent.
	The fact that you did manage to do it while in office is commendable to a certain extent, maybe.
	But what were your actual politics like?
	What were your policies like?
	Well, they give her a nice rundown of her legacy, October 2020.
	Ardern oversees a landslide victory for Labour and stalls the most diverse government and parliament ever.
	Okay, I'm not just going to applaud that automatically.
	We're living in an increasingly polarized world, a place where more and more people have lost the ability to see one another's point of view.
	I hope that this election, New Zealand has shown that this is not who we are, that as a nation we can listen and we can debate, she said.
	Her Labour Party won a landslide victory on the election on the back of New Zealand's successful early response to the pandemic.
	Well, that goodwill dried up quick.
	With a new mandate, Ardern appointed eight women, five indigenous Maori ministers, and a gay deputy prime minister.
	Just by itself, none of this is anything to be celebrated.
	Are these people good at their jobs?
	That's all I care.
	That's all I care.
	And if we just go down, we can see the article goes to 2021 and then ends.
	And then it just ends.
	2021, she has very strict lockdown policies with COVID. Her popularity starts to unravel.
	No more achievements.
	Leave it.
	We don't want to talk about anything in 2022.
	People hate her now.
	Just get it.
	Cut.
	Run.
	Cut and run is what this article does right when they know that they're going to have to start talking about some of the difficulties in her leadership run.
	I hope it's not part one of an article though and we get a part two.
	I'd be interested.
	I'd be interested to see how Time tries to sell 2022 and the vax passes and everything else.
	You can see they've given the most brief overview of some of the things that she did.
	We've also got in the UK, we've got Sky News trying to run cover for her with this clip from Bernie's tweet, so just play this for us, John.
	Welcome to you.
	Thank you for joining us.
	Jacinda Ardern was very refreshing in her leadership.
	She had authenticity and compassion that you rarely see in world leaders.
	Your reaction to this news that she's decided to step down?
	Some feel it's too soon.
	And if we're just telling outright lies, yeah, she was refreshing, she was authentic, she was compassionate, she looked useful, she was glowing, she was beautiful.
	If we're just going to add more lies.
	Original.
	Her policies remind me of no other policies around the world.
	I know, it didn't seem to be coordinated or anything.
	And then we've got celebrities saying very stupid things like Pink saying there will be never another like you.
	I wish there were.
	You have my admiration, my respect, my well wishes for you and your beautiful family.
	I've watched you shine uniquely and bravely from afar.
	Thank you for showing the rest of the world what's possible.
	People were questioning whether Pfizer typed this particular message up for Pink to just post on her social media.
	But no, Pink is just this stupid that I think these are her original thoughts.
	And then, do you know who- Is that Pink, the singer?
	The singer, you know, so what, I'm still a rock star, acting very much like a rebellious rock star in this tweet here, certainly.
	We also had Kim.com, of all people.
	Now, I'm not too familiar with Kim.com, but I did know that he came a bit to prominence recently with the whole Twitter files thing.
	He was shouting on Elon saying, yes!
	Yes!
	Get us off, freedom back, Elon.
	You can do it.
	Go on, our son.
	But then out of nowhere, he reveals himself to, frankly, be a bit of an enemy here by posting out, Jacinda Ardern just resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
	She's been subject to much criticism and abuse.
	I believe she's tried her best.
	She had a great start and then came COVID-19.
	I wish Jacinda and little Niamh all the best.
	Why is effort so...
	We want success from politicians.
	That's generally what we're looking for.
	Just trying your best.
	If you try your best...
	Unlike Coldplay...
	Do they want you to pay your taxes or to try to pay your taxes?
	That's a good question, actually, isn't it?
	Which one am I going to prison for?
	Listen, man, I tried.
	I'll try again next year, IRS. Just please, just HM Revenue and Customs.
	Please, I'll try again next year.
	And I feel bad.
	Yeah, I feel bad about it, guys.
	Come on, my heart just wasn't in it.
	But I was shocked to see something like this, because once again, Kim.com was somebody who was saying that he was all for freedom, he was all for this and that, but it turns out he might have just been grifting, because even David Wolfe, who I'm, once again, I'm not too familiar with, but I'm aware that people think David Wolfe's a bit of a nutter.
	Is he a flat-earther?
	I don't know.
	He might be.
	I don't want to strawman David Wolfe.
	I don't know who he is properly.
	But he came out just saying, bro, she's a Freemason in their club.
	She's never had your best interest in mine or anybody else's.
	She's closing up shop and probably moving up the Freemason hierarchy for obeying her master's orders.
	She's a tyrant and a disgrace to the human race.
	To which Kim.com just decides he's going to double down in the next tweet.
	He just says, I disagree.
	I know Jacinda.
	Alright, she's a good person.
	Tried her hardest to protect the New Zealanders, if that's what you want to call it, okay.
	She's become a victim of US, and then saying things that I don't think I'm allowed to say on YouTube, and I will disavow for the purposes of YouTube.
	But Kim.com coming across either as very naive or honestly like a bit of controlled opposition, if I'm perfectly honest.
	And just to close this off, goodbye Jacinda, but remember there are still absolute nutcases and tyrants all over the world, including Trudeau, Fidel Castro's favourite child, who decided to put out some new government recommendations in Canada, talking about how alcohol you should only keep to two drinks in a week, that's all you need, which was very strange because at the same time they've decided they're going to legalise small amounts of crack and heroin.
	few weeks just completely the the fact that it doesn't make sense is the point right the point the point is they don't want it to make sense because that keeps people confused that keeps people on their toes that keeps people always guessing it prevents them from organizing it prevents them from getting any action if we're all getting too annoyed looking at everybody going like oh canada says that two drinks a week is bad but also heroin that's the point that's the point they want to ruin your neighborhoods they want you to be immiserated and they want everybody to just be very confused.
	But, at the very least, Jacinda Ardern is gone, and Good riddance to you as soon as you are gone.
	But still, that doesn't change the fact that we are led by complete and utter clowns.
	Anyway...
	Let's move on, shall we, to the video comments.
	So I've been thinking about the question of how to hold journalism accountable without violating freedom of speech, and what occurred to me is, if libel is the equivalent to murdering the truth, there is no legal equivalent to manslaughter.
	You have to prove in the US in a court of law that someone intentionally lied.
	If they just published an untruth due to negligent reporting, there is no legal recourse.
	I work in a line where I sometimes have to handle hazardous materials and I can be personally fined if I negligently mishandle them.
	Why is it that when journalists are negligent in their job, they get away with oopsies because hands up don't shoot caused a lot more measurable damage than I ever could.
	Because they're in the club, really, isn't it?
	I think journalists are expressing views that help some politicians, especially.
	That is why they get away with it.
	And also, it's very easy.
	I think the level of journalism has decreased dramatically in the last years.
	And I think it's also important to remember that it's not the laws as they're written down on paper, it's the laws as they're applied by human beings.
	So it might be liable, it might be all of this sort of stuff, but if you get a judge who just doesn't want to take the case or just dismisses it outright, etc., etc., if the entirety of the people operating within an institution don't want to hear your side, they're not going to hear your side.
	Yeah.
	They'll just refuse it.
	And this is something Thomas Sowell has talked about often, just the idea that politicians and other such people in those positions, and let's be honest, most journalists are just an extension of the politicians' media representatives really, aren't they?
	They always get away with doing stuff that has terrible repercussions for everybody else, but never for them.
	Anyway, get into the written comments, shall we?
	Baron von Warhawk said, I think it's evidence that these two pedos were able to get their mansion by pimping those kids out to the highest bidder.
	Sadly, that's how it comes across to me as well.
	If I were a cop, I would investigate everybody these two pedos met up with in their lives, and however they visited, whenever they left the state, there is no telling how deep this rabbit hole was.
	Absolutely correct, and that's what should happen.
	What will happen, I guess we'll see, because it seems that these two guys are going to get nine life sentences each.
	At that point, I don't understand why you don't just fry the two of them, to be perfectly honest.
	I mean, I know that there's a debate to be had on the pros and cons of the death sentence, but if you're going to put away people for nine life sentences anyway, just kill them.
	Just killed him.
	The difference is, do you want them dead now or later?
	That's what you're doing there.
	Paddy Griff.
	So, it says here that you molest children.
	Do you not think that might have negative effects on the child you wish to adopt?
	Oh, I'm gay, by the way.
	Oh, my apologies.
	We'll speed through your application.
	Yeah.
	Pretty much.
	Casey Darling, as a Georgian, I'm horrified to hear this happened in my state.
	Funny I haven't heard anything about it locally.
	The depraved culture of people who have moved to Atlanta and turned it into a cosmopolitan hellhole is like a cancer in this state.
	That's absolutely right, and I'm sorry that those sorts of people are moving there, because as much as we were laughing about the great Californian exodus, I think it is always important to remember that a lot of those people who were moving were moving because of the result of policies that they voted for.
	And they intentionally moved to places so that they could try and turn them blue.
	I don't understand why you would leave a state destroyed by the policies you support and then go somewhere and immediately start voting for those policies again, but these people are absolute lunatics and deserve to be shot off to the moon in Minecraft.
	Anyway, Grant Morrison.
	Not Grant Morrison, bloody hell.
	Grant Gibson.
	Harry, I'm not sure that we know enough to make some of these sweeping statements about the adoption agencies that you're gunning for here.
	Example, looking the other way for a gay couple.
	A psychopath could easily look normal for as long as it takes to get their hands on a vulnerable kid.
	That would normally apply, but there was genuinely a case put against this guy, and the fact that it was done in 8-12 weeks, which everybody says was really fast-tracked, suggests to me that they either didn't look into it when they did have a certain duty of care to do so, or they saw it and just decided to ignore it because they didn't want any bad press against them.
	So I understand, and I do think that you're right in most cases, But, in this, I think there's enough information that we can infer that this was not a usual situation for it and it was possibly fast-tracked.
	Three months training is just not enough.
	Yes, I know.
	I am very angry, but I'm also just...
	I don't want to sound like a leftist here, but I'm just very tired.
	It's Friday, and I'm looking forward to the weekend.
	Dean Parker says: "Many of us millennials went through an emo phase during our youth and have since grown out of it.
	More fool you.
	I can't help but wonder, if we had been born later, would we be experiencing the current trend of clown and clown self?
	Hopefully, those who are going through these phases know now will look back on them with the same embarrassment as we do now.
	For one, probably.
	For two, don't be embarrassed about your emo years.
	At the very least, there's a lot of emo music out there that's good.
	If you want to classify bands like My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy as emo, then I really like those bands.
	Fall Out Boy just released a new song the other day that was actually really good, so I'm...
	You know, I'm not saying...
	It wasn't my cup of tea.
	There was too much complaining in it.
	Well, all we do for a job is complain, so it actually fits perfectly.
	I don't want this from music.
	I love it.
	I love the catchy melodies.
	I love the catchy...
	I love a wide, broad variety of music, but there is still a place in my heart for cheesy pop-punk bands from the early 2000s, and I think that's just wholesome.
	Michael Magoice...
	I'm so sorry.
	As I've been raised and adopted by my foster parents, all the information about warning signs I've picked up over the years about a kid is being abused.
	The behaviour of the Rainbow activist sets off so many red flags, as it should have for the adoption agency.
	Brandon Thomas, yep, to the state, normal couples are the real danger to orphans.
	That's certainly how Germany saw it.
	Brandon Thomas, I'd wager that it's easier for an inclusive alphabet couple to adopt children than a cisgendered, heteronormative, bigoted couple to adopt.
	And it's that last part before a couple, bigoted, because that's what they assume you are, unless you have all of your badges and all of your little virtue signal displays.
	Shaker Silver, I think this is for yours, but I'll read it anyway.
	They aren't clown self, they're the whole circus self.
	That's quite good.
	I like that.
	X, Y, and Z. Ah, yes.
	Another This Week in Nonsery.
	Let me guess.
	A number of the standard controls were waived to avoid being labelled cough homophobic cough.
	Yes.
	That seems how it is to me.
	AZ Desert Rat.
	Horrible.
	It feels like they intentionally took advantage of these children.
	They absolutely did.
	They went for the vulnerable children for that reason.
	I believe the agency should also be held accountable for this incident.
	yes x y and z again hopefully the sheep shaggers don't follow the usual trend of stock chrome syndrome we've seen of heavily locked down constituents that return to their abuse that return their abusers to power i think this is in reference to the last segment but that's fine it may be different with a national lockdown as people cannot flee to more open jurisdictions my understanding is that the opposition isn't much better i thought that might be the case sadly but Let's go on to yours.
	Okay, so Colin P. Do we by any chance have a breakdown of the races of those not notified?
	They were disproportionately Asian American.
	I expected so.
	Okay, Robert Longshow.
	Without exception, accept these exceptions.
	It's not meant to make sense.
	Free Will 2112.
	Equity is basically a form of jealousy disguised as a virtue.
	Yes, it's this leveling down mentality.
	Progressivism turns everything upside down.
	Vices become virtues.
	Sinners become saints.
	Just what you expect.
	Okay, so again, Free Will 2112.
	Family values and hard work are virtues that are still important to Asian families.
	This will make them unpopular with the equity tyrants, as it did, because it destroys the narrative that, as we said, that American education is racist and that there is no chance for minorities to go forward.
	Now, Grant Gibson, both at Stelios and Harry, Public schools in North America are not the same as in the UK. The public school systems in many areas are just fine and there's little or no benefit to paying 45k a year to put your kid into private schools.
	We could easily afford to put our kids in private school, but the public schools are almost as good.
	You're paying for the network.
	Fair point.
	Thank you very much for that.
	Fair point.
	Bold Eagle, 1787.
	All I'm hearing is yet another reason why you should never be sending your kid to public school.
	Okay, you and Grant need to sort this out in the comments, all right?
	If educators, within quotation marks, are intentionally ensuring that the words go out based on skin colour, then the system is beyond repair or saving.
	But I think that there wasn't even an award there.
	It's not that other students won.
	They just felt less bad.
	That was the idea.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	It's not that we had different winners.
	Also, the US has given out the most degrees in its history over the last few years, yet graduates are stupider than someone who has a high school education.
	Going to college in the West does not mean you're smart.
	It means you're most likely stupid for...
	I feel so called out right here.
	...taking on debt for a piece of paper saying you learn good in gender studies.
	I didn't do gender studies, but yeah, I do feel dumb for taking out so much debt for university, so...
	I mean, there are other disciplines, but I'm going to give you a point there because there have been some astrophysicists now who say that astrophysics is racist because hypermasculine words are used to describe planets.
	So, I mean, you have a point.
	AZ, Desert Rat.
	How about schools help black and Latin American students succeed rather than clubbing down other students?
	It's a good question.
	If you want the answer, it's not going to be nice, but it's because it's a lot harder.
	Because there is a culture among black students in America that if you are a good achiever, if you're doing well, then you are acting white and need to be beaten down by your peers.
	That's...
	Generally, everything that I've ever read about the situation and I've seen it happen in documentaries and such, it's really sad because a lot of those people really do want to learn, they want to achieve, but all the community around them looks down on them for it.
	It's horrible.
	Colin P. Equal outcomes, i.e.
	drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
	Bold Eagle, 1787.
	The war on merit has been going on since World War II. I guess the Allies' handbook on resistance towards Nazi occupation explicitly states that promoting and rewarding your stupid employees will demoralize and anger your competent employees.
	I guess it's still making rounds and is the go-to book for business today.
	Yeah, it must be.
	Okay.
	X, Y, and Z. What really...
	S. Me over these atrocities caused by these meddling activist bureaucrats is that the people who have to pay out these lawsuits are we the taxpayers.
	And the person who designed this policy received $455,000 for just saying that equity requires equal outcome.
	We need to make acts, this egregious, a personal liability for these FWITs.
	Additionally, make them like student loans where they cannot declare bankruptcy.
	Also, prohibit corporate and trust structures being used to protect assets.
	All sounds quite reasonable.
	Also, when you told me just then how much that man was paid, I think I died a little bit.
	Just a bit on the inside.
	I wish I could get paid almost half a million pounds for just mocking up just a PowerPoint presentation that says the most obvious things that everybody who will be watching it already agrees with.
	That would be really nice.
	Anyway, onto the goodbye horses comments.
	Dean Parker, the majority of mainstream news coverage regarding Jacinda Ardern's decision to step down, has been overwhelmingly positive.
	I know, it's somewhat frustrating.
	It's worth questioning why certain grievances or criticism from New Zealanders have not received as much attention.
	Because they just don't care.
	You think democracy is about the people?
	Got some bad news for you.
	It seems you will go down in history books skewed positively internationally, as will so much of what we hate.
	This is why we need to reclaim the history books.
	Who controls the past controls the present, after all.
	Baron von Warhawk.
	Jacinda Ardern led with her heart when she locked up your country.
	Tried to create a two-tier system, with anyone not following orders being turned into serfs, and then working hand-in-hand with Xi Jinping, one of the worst dictators, and who is actually committing actual genocide right now.
	You must understand, she just had so much love, and she tried her best.
	It was all for love.
	Stuart Beresford, regards to Jacinda.
	Tyrants rarely quit, suspect her own party, are seeing people starting to read the room and the possible investigations.
	They're going to get buried, so she's got to go into hiding.
	Yes, she is a patsy in this, basically.
	She's the fall guy, whereas in reality they're just going to replace her with somebody either the exact same as her or the opposition party is going to go in and do everything that the Labour Party was going to do except two weeks later than they were originally planning.
	I'll read some honourable mentions.
	AzDesertRat.
	Harry, I don't think a dance around the Maypole will have the same impact as the Hacker.
	Not sure if I spelt that correctly.
	I don't know.
	I think a bunch of bazzes dancing topless, beers in hand, around the Maypole will be very intimidating to the Parliament.
	LeFrench.
	Sorry, LeFrench.
	Rumours are Jacinda is set to become a new BlackRock executive.
	Only time will tell.
	That's almost guaranteed to be true.
	George Happ as well says, "Jacinda Ardern is one of the most evil world leaders.
	I still remember her openly admitting with a grin on her face that she wanted to create two classes of people with the unvaccinated being the "untemensch" or when she laughed about the suicides during her lockdowns.
	I forgot she did that.
	The only place she should be retiring to is the Phantom Zone." And yes, I agree.
	And with that, I think that's all the time we've got for today.
	Remember that on Monday, we've got an Excellent livestream coming up, a premium hangout where Connor and Carl are going to be talking about the price of apostasy and the uselessness of the Conservative parties across the world.
	But with that, thank you very much for tuning in.
	We'll see you again on Monday.
	Have a great weekend.

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