When Truth Battles Politics: The Real Coronavirus Numbers

Something fundamental has shifted in America's coronavirus response. The gloves are officially off as the White House distances itself from Dr. Anthony Fauci, with Presidential advisor Peter Navarro penning a blistering critique: "Dr. Fauci has been wrong about everything I've interacted with him on." The evidence is damning - from opposing China travel restrictions that likely saved countless lives to flip-flopping on masks and dismissing hydroxychloroquine despite promising clinical results.

But deeper questions emerge about Fauci's connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which received millions in funding through his agency specifically for coronavirus research. Meanwhile, Florida finds itself under media scrutiny despite taking a dramatically different approach to protecting nursing homes than New York, where Governor Cuomo's policies led to thousands of preventable deaths. Adding to the confusion, several Florida hospitals have admitted reporting wildly inflated COVID-19 positivity rates - one facility's actual rate was just 9.4%, not the reported 98%. These revelations follow countless anecdotal reports of testing irregularities nationwide.

Beyond America's borders, the Chinese Communist Party has effectively ended Hong Kong's autonomy decades ahead of schedule, implementing a sweeping national security law claiming global jurisdiction over anyone criticizing China. This existential threat to free speech has already manifested in the arrest of a University of Minnesota student for tweets posted while in America. The digital Cold War accelerates as Britain joins the U.S. in banning Huawei from its 5G networks, recognizing the security threat posed by Chinese surveillance technology. The world now stands at a crossroads between transparency and authoritarianism, between manipulated data and hard truths.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction: Peasants' Perspective
• 2:40 The White House Distances from Fauci
• 9:30 Florida vs. New York: Tale of Two States
• 18:00 China's Control of Hong Kong
• 43:00 Britain Bans Huawei from 5G Networks
• 50:00 Child Trafficking Arrests and Wrap-up

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

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Speaker 2: 0:15

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Speaker 2: 0:52

Good morning, welcome to another episode of Peasants Perspective. If you're joining me today, you may not be joining me on Spotify. Apparently, yesterday, for some reason, spotify would not upload the RSS feed that it normally gets. So, just you know, normally I click a few buttons and the podcast goes everywhere where you can listen to it, except yesterday it didn't go to Spotify. I have no idea if Spotify fixed their issue. I did reach out to customer service. I don't know. We'll see. So if you're not a spot, if you normally listen to me on Spotify, then hopefully you found this podcast on a different player app. Anyways, all right, you can reach me at Twitter, at Peasants Perspective Parlor, peasants Pod, facebook, peasants Perspective, and email at peasantspod at gmailcom. I love hearing from you guys. Yeah, okay, let's jump into it today. All right, a couple things that have gone on. The gloves have come off. That is going to be the title of today's show. I think the gloves have come off and I don't know that anybody really noticed it.

Speaker 2: 2:02

I I guess 3 pm there was a press conference in the Rose Garden. Now President Trump took a lot of heat about this press conference because he kind of went political on it. He was going to talk about China, which he did, and he also talked about Joe Biden and Joe Biden's America First platform, which is really a total farce. It's another one of those bait-and-switch policies, kind of like the Green New Deal isn't anything about the environment, it's all about the economy. Same thing here and it looks really similar to Bernie Sanders' platform and Donald Trump went through it bit by bit. But a couple other things have been going on as well and we're going to play one clip from that speech.

Speaker 2: 2:36

But one of the things the big things, the big themes, the big shift is the White House is distancing itself from Anthony Fauci Dr Fauci, one of the three amigos who we have covered on this podcast a handful of times. There's being some distance put between him and the White House. So I want to read you this article. This is from the USA Today and the USA Today. They're no Trump fans per se and they're kind of the simpleton news, but I want to read this. This is put out by them, dr Fauci has. So this is this is Peter Navarro is featured in this. So Dr Fauci has good bedside manner with the public, but has been wrong about everything I've interacted with him on. That's Peter Navarro, the advisor to the president.

Speaker 2: 3:23

In late January, when I was making Peter Navarro was making the case of the president to take down the flights from China, fauci fought against the president's courageous decision, which might as well have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. It's true, the virus is real. I mean what's going on in China and what we saw in Wuhan? That's real. The virus is very real and without treatment, without therapies, it can be very serious, especially for the vulnerable population. There's no doubt about that. Okay, that's a simple fact. So is the flu. So are a handful of other viruses that can run through and wreak havoc on a nursing home or a vulnerable population. That's what we saw happening in Wuhan. So Fauci fought against closing the flights. I wonder why that is. I mean we see Fauci tied in with China all over the place.

Speaker 2: 4:11

When I warned in late January of a possible deadly pandemic, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was telling the media not to worry. That's Fauci. When I was working feverishly on behalf of the president in February to help engineer the fastest industrial mobilization of the healthcare sector in our history, fauci was telling the public the China virus was quote low risk. When we were building the mask capacity in record time, fauci was flip-flopping on the use of masks. And when Fauci was telling the White House Coronavirus Task Force there was only anecdotal evidence in support of hydroxychloroquine to fight the virus, I confronted him with scientific studies providing evidence of safety and efficacy. A recent Detroit hospital showed a 50% reduction in the mortality rate when the medicine was used early in treatment. Now Fauci says a falling mortality rate doesn't matter when it's the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. The lower the mortality rate, the faster we can reopen.

Speaker 2: 5:16

So when you ask me whether I listen to Dr Fauci's advice, my answer is only with skepticism and caution. Peter Navarro, an assistant to the president and a director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing. So the White House we've known this for a few days now that they were going to be coming out against Dr Fauci. This is an opening salvo of coming out against Dr Fauci. And I have said this you know, show me one work product that Dr Fauci that has produced that has, you know, borne fruit that has even been remotely close to what he claims is going to happen. In fact, every work product he has put out is oftentimes claimed the exact opposite of what he said. And this is, you know. This is really obvious when you look at who Dr Fauci is. I mean Dr Fauci.

Speaker 2: 6:02

He has funded the Wuhan Institute of is. I mean Dr Fauci. He has funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology through the NIAID, so the National Institute of Infectious Disease. He's funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In 2014, he granted $666,000 to the institute to study quote across the human wildlife interface in China, molecular characterization of novel coronaviruses and host receptor binding domain genes, mathematical models of transmission and evolution. So bats appear to be natural reservoirs of these viruses. So he actually funded the study of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute. They go in this report that I'm looking at here. They go on to say that they plan to spend the next six years studying specifically wildlife markets in China, including serological and molecular screening of people working in wet markets. It's like they set this whole thing up, or at least they knew it was happening the way it was going to happen. They analyze host receptors and novel coronavirus genes. In addition, there'd be mathematical matrix models to study its ability to evolve.

Speaker 2: 7:10

They did a whole bunch of humanized mice studies. Humanized mice were introduced into viral studies in 2008 by funding from the National Institute of Health and Research, which they're not, we're not supposed to do that. Judicial Watch had a release where they filed a lawsuit with the government's involvement, with Planned Parenthood, and they found that Planned Parenthood was selling organ parts baby fetal parts, specifically for the purpose of human hybrid mice studies. I understand that these are called chimeras. This is like hybrid human-animal creations, so they're genetically modifying mice with human genes, and this is where you see the mice that are growing an ear on their back or different things like that. We've gotten to the point where we understand the DNA code so well that we can actually grow human parts on another animal by manipulating their DNA. I mean, that sounds great, right, like, okay, cool. But think about the ramifications of that. With that kind of power and that ability, should you want to do something truly grotesque. What's wrong? What is stopping us now from having a human-monkey hybrid? There isn't right. I mean this becomes a total abomination.

Speaker 2: 8:29

Dr Fauci is funding this type of research One of the researchers worked with. Anyways, I've got this thread here that goes into a pretty big detail about just kind of like the history of the last handful of years of what Fauci has been working on. For six years the NIDF funded efforts to prepare and contain this virus in Wuhan. What happened? What came first? What happened to molecular screening? Surely they would have found it. $3 million, just a, you know. I mean it's just grant after grant. The research in Wuhan included gain-of-function research. The final total of that research was $7.4 million. Gain-of-function research the final total of that research was 7.4 million.

Speaker 2: 9:06

Gain-of-function manipulation viruses in labs, potential spread for humans. Gain-of-function is banned. There's a worldwide ban on gain-of-function research because that's where you make a virus more deadly or more contagious. But no, that's okay, dr Fauci, he can fund it all he wants. So this is. You know. You do a little deep dive into Dr Fauci and you quickly realize this guy is a swamp creature. I mean, he is a medical swamp creature, if there ever was one.

Speaker 2: 9:34

In the WikiLeaks emails there's some Dr Fauci emails. Now, you know, in the WikiLeaks emails there's thousands and thousands of emails and some of them are more damning than others. But there's weird people that pop up and people that I mean just normal senators would email the president, the secretary of state at the time, asking for this, that or the other. So it's not that big a deal all the time. But there's one particular email in there where Dr Fauci wrote to Hillary Clinton and essentially is giddy about her and some experience he had with her, and it's. It's just kind of funny, you know, it's kind of strikes you as like a little school kid. Okay, so next thing, florida.

Speaker 2: 10:10

Florida has been taking a huge hit in the media lately because you know there's like this, there's these. There's the tale of two states. There's the tale of New York and there's the tale of Florida. Both states have similar population sizes, both, but they're couldn't be farther apart politically than any two states. You've got New York, which is run by Andrew Cuomo, has a Democratic supermajority, which New York is interesting because the city of New York is really liberal, but the rest of New York is extremely conservative, but New York City, being as populous as it is, carries the full weight of the electorate there in New York. Down in Florida you've got.

Speaker 2: 10:46

So Cuomo's the governor of New York, ron DeSantis is the governor of Florida, and they handled the coronavirus very differently. So Cuomo did like more full lockdown measures. Obviously, you probably are aware that Cuomo actually signed an executive order demanding that patients with coronavirus be put in nursing homes, which we're going to talk about that in just a second Whereas Ron DeSantis took an opposite approach. He created what he called a dome around the nursing homes. He basically put the nursing homes on lockdown and prevented mass spread inside of the nursing homes, and so you just got two different results.

Speaker 2: 11:20

But Florida has always been in the media's ire because the Cuomos are supposed to be the good guys. And during the pandemic breakout, when Cuomo was doing a daily press briefing just before the president's press briefing, a lot of people thought Cuomo would be a nice candidate to sneak in instead of Joe Biden and try to run Cuomo for president. I saw that all the time. I think the day that that potential died was the day that Cuomo Weared that white polo t-shirt without a sport coat or anything and you could see his nipple rings through the t-shirt. That was probably the day his presidential hopes really died. But it was shortly after that that we found out about the nursing home executive order and that he had gone against advice from his medical advisors To send patients into nursing homes. It really begs you to wonder where that policy originated from, how that ever was a good idea. Like, at what point do you send sick people into a room of healthy people? It just doesn't. It defies logic to understand this particular executive order that he did.

Speaker 2: 12:22

Okay, so back to Florida. So here's what's happening in Florida Florida is getting sucked into the politics of the lockdown. So it's not even now the politics of the virus itself, it's the politics of the lockdown. So if you remember, when this virus was breaking out, one of the things the Democrats were constantly pounding on was testing, testing, testing. We need lots and lots of testing. If you remember, nancy Pelosi was like testing, testing, testing, as she was trying to keep her dentures in, and so I've thought you know anytime that the Democrats or anybody is just pounding on one specific thing and it becomes a talking point.

Speaker 2: 12:55

It makes me think there's a racket here. There's something going on. There's a reason why they want the testing and what I think I've decided and discovered is that the testing is a financial benefit to certain Democrats. I mean, obviously these tests cost money to make, they cost money to administer and things like that. And I've got a feeling that if you go start following the money, you'll find certain politicians that have got their hands in the cookie jar when it comes to testing. But in addition to that, they just like mail-in ballots. They can mess with the testing, they can mess with these rates.

Speaker 2: 13:25

So if you've been on social media and you've spent any time looking around at this stuff, you'll see all kinds of anecdotal experiences where people say that the tests just aren't right. So let me run through a few of the ones I've seen. Now I'm not going to read them directly, I'm just going to kind of run through the different scenarios that I've seen and then we're going to go to the actual news. So I've heard yesterday on War Room Pandemic there was I don't exactly remember who it was, but he's, you know, high up muckety-muck, not somebody who would just be throwing out accusations that don't have base. He's a guy that you know is on a either one of the. He's either running for Senate or he's on a presidential committee of some kind. Either way influential guy. I could go back and look at it if somebody cared that much exactly who it was. But he said oh, he's campaigning, because he says he's out on the campaign trail and he says he personally spoke to a woman who went to one of these testing centers you know one of these like drive up testing type places and while she was there, something came up in her personal life and she needed to leave and go take care of it and, just you know, ended up not getting tested.

Speaker 2: 14:25

But when she'd pulled up there, she filled out you know a little piece of paper, put her name on the paper or whatever, and then, after she had to go, she just said, hey, I got to go and she left. Well, later that day she got a notification on her phone saying your test results are in. You have tested positive for coronavirus. And this guy was like she didn't even take a test, didn't take a test. He's like I have firsthand knowledge of a person that this happened to. So you have a situation where it's like, okay, how do you get a positive for that test. Now, if it's just one example, one experience, that'd be fine. But then you start getting dozens of dozens and dozens of others. I saw one yesterday that was also very credible.

Speaker 2: 15:06

There's some county somewhere I think it's in Arizona where there's starting to an onslaught of people to be tested to be tested, not to be checked in or anything. There comes an onslaught of people to be tested because simultaneously, while this is happening, hospitals are filling up. Why are they filling up? Because they're opening up. They're opening up and people who needed elective surgeries, people who delayed you know all kinds of medical procedures for the last few months, are finally making it to the hospital and they're filling up. So, in conjunction with the filling hospitals, if we can ramp up testing and ramp up positive test results, then it kind of makes this correlative like, okay, look, people are going to the hospital with COVID. It's not really the case.

Speaker 2: 15:56

So anyways, this particular hospital in Arizona, these nurses and doctors were suspicious of you know from things they were seeing, and so they decided to run a little test. So they popped open 10, not one, not two, not three, not four 10 coronavirus tests and then they sent them in without swabbing anything. They completely empty blank test, no swabs, no, nothing Sent them in. They got 10, 10, 100% back positive test results. So that particular hospital is beside themselves on what to do because they're being told by hospital administrators and government regulators and things like that how to proceed, but yet they know for a fact these test results are absolutely bunk.

Speaker 2: 16:36

You've got hundreds of cases of people now, hundreds, not dozens, hundreds of cases of people now where families are going after counties and hospitals because their family members on their death certificate died of coronavirus but they died of other causes car accidents, gunshot wounds, things like that. So it's starting to become an issue because, as these people are trying to get things like insurance payouts, you know coronavirus is considered an act of God. So depending on what your, you know a pandemic. So depending on what your life insurance policy is, you may or may not be covered, whereas you are covered in a car accident. So this becomes really important and very serious.

Speaker 2: 17:13

So you've got all these anecdotal experiences of people with the testing not being right and if you hearken back to the kind of the beginning of the testing, if you remember it was that it was the president of, was it Tanzania or it was an African country. I could go back and look it up again. It was easy reference. I think it was Tanzania. But he got these tests and he said nah, I don't really like what's going on here. So he swabbed a fruit and a. Was it a mosquito or something like that? It was a fruit and a mouse. Anyways, he swabbed a rodent and a fruit and sent them in and they both came back positive for coronavirus. So he actually fired his health minister and fired cabinet members that were promoting these tests. So this isn't like a new thing. This has been going on. But now in America, what are we doing? More tests than anyone else? Well, florida had to admit a little bit of an accident, a little oopsies.

Speaker 2: 18:02

This comes from Just the News, john Solomon, but this is on lots of news. This was Fox News. It was headline news all over the place. It's going to run through the news cycle very quickly. It's going to come and go unless there's more like it to follow, which I'm sure there are. But what's happening now is these labs are going to get hip to the fact that this microscope's on them.

Speaker 2: 18:20

Okay, a Florida hospital handling COVID-19 tests confirmed to media this week that its near 100% positivity rate was overstated by a factor of 10, raising already heightened concerns that numerous labs are over-reporting the number of confirmed infections. The Florida Division of Emergency Management posts a daily coronavirus update on its website, which features a list of positivity rates of every COVID testing facility in the state. Hundreds of labs and hospitals throughout Florida are regularly testing state residents for coronavirus. In recent days, numerous facilities have begun reporting 100% positivity rates, figures significantly higher than the statewide average of around 15%. Many of those labs claim they have tested only one patient, claims they have tested only one patient, though others with 100% rates, report testing dozens and sometimes hundreds of patients.

Speaker 2: 19:14

Orlando news stations Fox 35 said on Monday that it undertook an investigation of those astronomical figures, after which several medical facilities confirmed that their actual positive rates were much lower than those reported to the state government. So what's going on here is the hospital knows how many people are actually sick. They test a hundred people, but there's actually six sick people six. But then the testing center, who's reporting independently to the state, is reporting that a hundred people are sick with COVID. Do you see the discrepancy there? You have six actual sick people on 100 tests, but the lab is reporting. All 100 tests are positive to the state. So you have this disconnect. So Fox 35 in Florida called the hospital directly to get their numbers and then cross-referenced them with the lab.

Speaker 2: 20:00

The news station reported that the hospital, that a different hospital Area Hospital, orlando Health, confirms errors in the report, with hospital officials stating that their positivity rate is only 9.4%, not the reported 98%. Another Orlando area-based lab, veterans Medical Center, listed a positivity rate of 76%, but a company official said that the positivity rate for the center is actually 6%. The inflated numbers come as Florida has been recording record numbers of COVID-19 infections, though an analysis of state data by just the news last week revealed that the state's record-breaking counts of infections have been overestimated by as much as 30%. And so that's real. Okay, it is what it is, right. I mean, this is where we're at Coronavirus. The whole response to it is just a big fat hoax, right, guys? We can't even count sick people that are supposedly coughing and have pneumonia. How do you think we're going to count ballots for an election here? For goodness sakes, man. It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 2: 21:05

So, in keeping with this, so yesterday, donald Trump so you know Andrew Cuomo, the policy that he did in New York City was at the outbreak of everything, he signed an executive order that said that people that tested positive for coronavirus could or would or should be put into these care facilities, these long-term nursing homes, in order to take the pressure off the hospitals. So his intended goal was to try to take the pressure off the hospitals. You know, he would say things like it's like there's a tsunami coming and we're just looking, we're just at the beach and we can just see the crest on the horizon. You know he had all these euphemisms for how bad this was going to be, and it could. You know. I mean, this thing could have gotten crazy, out of control. Obviously it has the abilities to pile up the bodies if you put it into nursing homes, and so he decided to send patients into these nursing homes. Now this doesn't really make any sense. There's no precedent for this In the state of Washington.

Speaker 2: 21:59

We were potentially going to have a serious outbreak like this as well, and we were ground zero for the virus. And when the virus got introduced here, the first, I think, 11 deaths we had all within a couple of days. I mean, I go back and look at the timeline, but they all were out of nursing homes. It was like and then by the time we were up to a hundred deaths, it was 70, 75 of them were in nursing homes. So Washington state, immediately the first state in the union recognized you got to protect the nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and we put all the long-term care facilities on just almost complete and total lockdown and you know, we've kept our, our death rate really low. Actually we're 1300 people dead. Maybe we're up to 1400 people now, but we know that our numbers are inflated significantly and adjusted for, adjusted for inflation, adjusted for car accidents and cancer and adjusted for all the other reasons. People died that wasn't coronavirus. Our numbers are probably sitting under 1,000.

Speaker 2: 22:58

So that was the precedent that was set by Washington State Cuomo. Simultaneously, as it's starting to break out in New York, he's sending people into the nursing homes. So, steve Scalise. So in response to that, there's been criticism from Cuomo. So he initiated an investigation into his nursing home policy and his investigation into his nursing home policy concluded that no one is at fault for the nursing home policy. So basically, cuomo has used a government you know, a government investigation into this to clear himself. Well, that's not going to work, steve Scalise, who is the Republican whip, minority whip in the house, which you know power player, steve Scalise is the one who got shot by the Bernie Sanders supporter a couple years ago playing baseball. So Steve Scalise wrote he's a house member from New York, so he's written a letter, signed on by others, basically saying no, we're going to keep looking at this and don't think this is over. You killed all those people. I mean very strong, very strong. So this is Donald Trump. Listen to what Donald Trump said yesterday about the situation.

Speaker 3: 24:02

Our senior citizens. We could have used it for other people. They could have used it instead of sending our seniors back into nursing homes that were infected, where you lost thousands of people. Thousands of people in New York died because of poor management by the governor and it's a very sad thing to see and very sad to watch and very sad to look at those statistics. But we have an incredible Javits Center that we built with thousands of beds I think it was 2,800 all ready to go and they could have sent people there or they could have sent senior citizens there instead of sending them into the nursing homes.

Speaker 3: 24:41

And after all of that work and getting it done, the Army Corps of Engineers I mean the job they did was incredible. They built it in a matter of days. When it was all completed, fema everybody was there doctors we ended up getting doctors. They said we can't man it. I said so we'll man it and woman it. And that's what we did. We brought in doctors, nurses, everything. We're all set. We said where are the people? They didn't send the people. Very few people came in. They could have sent them into the Javits Center. They could have sent them to the hospital ship, which was virtually unused, but we were there. By contrast, my administration acted very early to ban travel from China from Europe.

Speaker 2: 25:27

So Donald Trump is laying this right at the feet of Andrew Cuomo. He's saying look, I did my part. I came in and I built the Javits Center 2,800 hospital beds at the Javits Center, specifically for quarantine patients. You know how many people went to the Javits Center? It was like 14 people. It was like why did we build this thing? We could have cared for these people in the lobby right. We sent the I don't remember if it was the mercy or the comfort.

Speaker 2: 25:51

Both ships got deployed, one to LA, one to New York, and same thing. I mean, I think they originally it was supposed to be for healthy patients, so they were going to redirect healthy patients from the New York hospitals to it. But the first patient they sent was a COVID positive patient. So they immediately shifted that into a COVID facility because they contaminated it with their very first patient that stepped on board was a coronavirus patient. But then they didn't use the facility. They continued to send people to their nursing homes, to these nursing homes for care and caused thousands of people to die.

Speaker 2: 26:24

And this isn't over, like it's just not over. Listen to this. This is Jake Tapper talking about Cuomo, because Cuomo was kind of taking a victory lap now, like okay, because two days ago they had zero deaths from coronavirus in New York, which is significant. Like let's clap and cheer, that's a big deal. Like open up, let's do this thing right. Like I mean, that means, isn't that like the biggest indicator that we've got this thing licked? Nobody cares if we all just get the sniffles, if nobody dies. People run around all winter long with runny noses and coughs and hacks and sneezes. We all know someone or ourselves have been sick for three or four or five weeks at a time. As long as you're not dying, nobody cares. Right, as long as you're not dying, nobody cares. So if the deaths are at zero in New York City, the place that's hit hard, open, back up, man, let's do this. Well, listen to how Jake Tapper goes through this.

Speaker 4: 27:22

Speaking of New York, new York's Democratic governor, andrew Cuomo, seems to be on something of a victory tour, congratulating the state and himself for defeating the virus, even selling this poster which shows his state getting over the mountain by bringing down the curve during the 111 days of hell, as the governor put it. The poster includes references to his daughters and a boyfriend little inside jokes. There are no illustrations, however, of the more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state. No rendering on that poster of criticism that Governor Cuomo ignored warnings. No depiction of the study that he could have saved thousands of lives had he and Mayor de Blasio acted sooner. No painting there on the poster of his since rescinded order that nursing homes take all infected patients in. Here's what Governor Cuomo had to say yesterday.

Speaker 5: 28:10

What we went through and what we did was historic Because we did tame the beast, we did turn the corner, we did plateau that mountain and then we came down the other side and they will be talking about what we did for decades to come.

Speaker 4: 28:33

Here to discuss this and more is CNN chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta. And Sanjay, look, I know a lot of New Yorkers are happy that the infection numbers are down and you know we all hope that they stay down. But let's be clear this is revisionism and a lot of the crowing and Governor Cuomo going on late night is offending a lot of New Yorkers, given the fact that this is the highest death toll of any state more than 32,000 dead. The next closest is New Jersey with 17,000. Are people going to be talking about what Governor Cuomo did for decades to come in the way he hopes?

Speaker 6: 29:06

decades to come in the way he hopes. Unfortunately, I don't think so, jake. I mean, I think we're very early days in this. We're looking at the first few pages of the history books and I think there's a lot more to be written. I'm a little surprised by that poster I got to tell you because I think, if anything, that's what this virus has taught us, is that we need to have a significant amount of humility. This virus surprises us over and over again. There's no place in the country that's not vulnerable, and I think that we should have learned. I think we have learned that victory laps are not the thing to be doing.

Speaker 2: 29:37

Victory laps are not the thing to be doing. It really is quite incredible, I mean, yeah, we're going to be talking about this for decades to come, but not in the way that he thinks, not in the way that he thinks at all. In fact, we're probably going to. He's probably going to end up being one of the villains of this whole story, I would imagine, especially as the America tells the tale. But the real villain of all of this, of everything that's been going on, is China. So the signal through the noise there's lots of noise out there there's lots of chatter, there's lots of opinion and you know, I mean I'll throw myself in there, I'm just a lot of opinion and chatter too but the real signal, the real problem, the real existential threat to the United States right now, this moment, is communist China, it's the communist China party, the CCP, and one thing that I've heard over and over again this year is Donald Trump and his administration is the first administration ever to actually single out and separate the difference between the Chinese people, or what they sometimes call the Lao Bai Jing, which is interpreted old hundred names, which in America we would call them the deplorables, or the. You know, the Trump, the Trump voters, the, you know, the silent majority, so to speak. So that's the normal people in China. They're called Lao Bai Jing, the old hundred names, and what you have to understand is that the Communist Party in China rules in a dictatorship over China. They weren't elected right, they assumed and came to power by force and they have maintained force at the barrel of a gun. In fact, their founding documents say just that that the Chinese Communist Party will maintain power by force over the people because the ends justify the means. That's kind of the whole point of communism is the ends justify the means because they don't believe in God. So you know, kill, rape, pillage. If you end up with utopia, then that's the goal.

Speaker 2: 31:29

If you've ever read the book Animal Farm, you remember there were the pigs and the pigs were a little bit smarter than the other animals, so they kind of set up the whole farm right After they ran the farmer off, and so the pigs have a manifesto and everybody's equal and works together. And then pretty soon the pig's got to go do a little bit more you know executive work, a little bit less labor. They got short legs anyways and they got to use their brains. And next thing, you know. Eventually you get to the point where the animals look inside the farmhouse. Now the farmhouse represented the government and represented crony capitalism and it represented, you know, all the fruit and all the profit of the laborers who are the farm animals and everything they produce. But the farmer gets to live inside his warm, cushy house and so initially on the farm nobody was allowed to live inside the house. It was a symbol of imperialism. It was a symbol of whatever. It's really similar to the way the Black Lives Matter protesters in Antifa talk about the government. You got to bring it down right. It's a symbol. We got to board up the White House. Well, eventually, at the end of the story, the pigs unboard the house up, they move into the house, which offends some, but they do it in such incremental steps throughout the book that the farm animals pretty much don't kind of see it coming. And then eventually they look inside the windows and the pigs have invited outside humans, right, other capitalist pigs to come to the farm to trade and they're all sitting around a table and they're playing poker and they're drinking. And as the farm animals look around, I think that the final sentence in the book is something to the effect of, as they look around the table, they can't tell the difference between the pigs and the people. So you know, you've come full circle, full corruption.

Speaker 2: 33:05

And that's what the Chinese Communist Party is. Chinese Communist Party in the country of China has 1.2 to 1.4 billion people and there's only 90 million Chinese Communist Party members. So the way to think about that is like here in the United States we've got political parties, so most people when we like. There's 360 million people in America, but only 60 million of them vote. So you've got really 60 million politically active people in America. In China, they have 90 million politically active people. So think of it in terms of that. So there's 90 million people that care enough to have officially affiliated themselves with the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaker 2: 33:43

Now, who are these 90 million people? Well, the Chinese Communist Party has a spy. In every single apartment building, every single office building, every single manufacturing building, every single place has a hall monitor. That's what the Chinese Communist Party is mostly made up of is hall monitors. They're made up of the people that tattle on you, that tell on you, that pass information up to the leaders of the CCP so that they can come punish you or whatever the case is. So they basically secure their rights and freedoms, not necessarily because they believe in communism, but they don't want to get beat up, so they'd rather tell on someone and side with power rather than side with what's right.

Speaker 2: 34:18

I guess you could think of it like that. So of the 90 million Communist Party members, there's probably only 9 million hardliners. So there's probably only 9 million hardliners. So there's probably only 9 million people that actually really believe in communism, like, like to their core and like understand the philosophical underpinnings and are truly atheist. People, right, truly truly, that have that, that that atheist vitriol that can exist, that that hatred for humanity that exists in the Chinese communist party, I mean at the highest levels. So you're really talking about a small number of people who, through exclusive use of force, have been able to enslave a large population. And they're able to do this mainly because the Chinese people have never really been free. I mean, they only had a taste of freedom for a few years before Mao Zedong took over, and so they kind of don't know freedom. I mean, that's just the way it is. I often think here in America we have to surrender our freedom, because if a foreign country actually invaded here. I mean, there's so many guns, there's so many freedom-loving patriots, we would fight back with everything we have. China never really did that. They never really had their independence. They got their independence and then it was just immediately taken by Mao, and at the time it wasn't like there was mass communication and things like that. So what's been happening?

Speaker 2: 35:36

As you know world history, hong Kong was a colony of China or of Britain, and in 1997, after the British empire has been dismantled, they basically turned Hong Kong back over to China. So they had what was called the uh, the uh, two. One, one country, two governments. One country, oh, one, uh, one country, two systems. That's what they call it the one country, two systems, uh system. So Hong Kong was to, while it was a part of China and was under the flag of China, is supposed to operate as an autonomous uh city or essentially like an autonomous area, and they were to use democracy, rule of law, all of which had been well established when they were a Chinese colony. And Hong Kong is very successful I mean, it's the world's third largest financial market Well, china has been. They had a 50 year. The treaty that they signed in 1997 gave Hong Kong 50 years. So for 50 years, china couldn't impose itself on the government of Hong Kong. You're supposed to let it be autonomous? Well, we're only halfway through that and Hong Kong has completely taken away or China has completely taken away Hong Kong's sovereignty of whatever it had.

Speaker 2: 36:43

Over time, they've infiltrated, they've you know, all kinds of machinations, and last year there started to be some serious protests because what happened was they passed this law. It's an extradition law and it said if you're found guilty of a crime against China in Hong Kong, then China can extradite you. They can take you out of Hong Kong, where you have rule of law, judges, jury by trial, all those things, and they can take you to China and try you there. Well, once you cross over into mainland China, there is no jury of your peers, there is no rule of law. If Xi, who's the president of China, declares something, it is law. If he says you die, you die. There is no appeal, there's no rule of law. It's completely. Whatever the Communist Party says goes. That's it. So the fact that now they can take someone who's guilty of a crime against China, which are plenty right it's very easy to break laws in China. Um, they can extradite you and basically do whatever they want.

Speaker 2: 37:41

Well then it's upped it even more. That was last summer, so that that triggered a whole essentially year of protests and Hong Kong's in a tough spot. So you got to remember they've got this treaty, which basically means in 50 years nobody's going to own private property in Hong Kong, because there's no private property in China. If you buy a house in China, you get a mortgage and you basically get to live in that house to the end of the mortgage, At what time it reverts back to the ownership of China. So it's just a lease. All construction loans and mortgage loans in China are just leases. You're leasing it and then you just give it back to China at the end.

Speaker 2: 38:16

So all of Hong Kong, the future is pretty bleak. If you're a 20-something, 30-something-year-old in Hong Kong, you're going to have to live in Hong Kong when China takes back over. So you know you're slowly starting to see the divestment of banks, divestment of things. So the longterm economy in Hong Kong is facing a lot of struggles. So you've got a lot of like people who are starting to realize the only way out of this is freedom. Right, the only way to have a future in Hong Kong is to somehow maintain freedom, and China is squeezing that out of Hong Kong rapidly. What you've got here is a situation just like when Hitler was taking over Czechoslovakia. You've got this, or you've got the same exact situation going on here. You've got China is moving into Hong Kong.

Speaker 2: 39:02

Now, what they did just recently was they passed what was called the national. A national it's going to come to me in a second but basically they passed a rule that said that Hong Kong is now under complete China rules. So they've just completely said no, we're not honoring that treaty, it's ours, it's under our rule. So there's no more rule of law in Hong Kong right now. And they've moved in lots of Chinese mainland troops. So that's significant, because you know, when you've got Chinese Hong Kong police officers, they're only going to be so brutal to their brothers and sisters. Right, there's a certain line that you just don't cross when you have community policing. That's the beauty of community policing. Well, now you've got military policing. You've got military people from mainland China who are not sympathetic to the Hong Kong people and they are in their policing. And here's the deal.

Speaker 2: 39:53

This new law says this If you're guilty of a crime against China, that they can punish you and take you back to China and you serve a minimum of 10 years in jail just for speaking ill of China. And the way that they wrote this national security law the way they wrote it is it has jurisdiction over the whole world. So anybody in the whole world who ever speaks bad of China can now be taken by China. China has basically said we can take you. Now how does this hit home? Why am I covering this for us peasants? For one thing, the Lao Bai Jing they're our brothers and sisters, right, they're the deplorables across the ocean and they're just like us. They care about their families. They've been devastated by the communist party, and so you know we've got some kinship there. But even more so in our own personal self-interest, let me read you this little story. So this came out yesterday. Excuse me, this came out. This came out a little while ago, but this is. This is the exact situation.

Speaker 2: 40:49

University of Minnesota sent students sent to Chinese prison for critical tweets. So this student, when he was in the United States, had sent some critical tweets about the Chinese government and then he went over to China. So a 20-year-old of University of Minnesota student named Lao Dekuying so he is a Chinese, was arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for sending tweets critical of the Chinese government while he was in the US. According to court documents reported on by Axios, the report says that Lau was arrested in his hometown of Wuhan, so he went back to visit where he returned after finishing up the spring semester in Minnesota in July 2019. He was then held for several months and sentenced in November, all for the post that the government referred to as denigrating a national leader's image. Lau's Twitter account, which Axios can say can be found here, contains tweets and retweets comparing President Xi to various cartoon characters, including Winnie the Pooh and the villain from the 1990 show called Biker Mice from Mars.

Speaker 2: 41:47

The arrest and sentence could chill any criticism of the government by Chinese citizens, even when they're in foreign countries. Over the past year, the Chinese police has escalated their fight to censor social media and crack down on critical posts. Chill any criticism of the government by Chinese citizens, even when they're in foreign countries. Over the past year, the Chinese police has escalated their fight to censor social media and crack down on critical posts by arresting more users who post content that they consider objectionable. Plenty of internationally popular sites including YouTube, twitter, facebook and Instagram are blocked in the country and can only be accessed by a small community of users who can get around it with special software. They break through the firewall with VPNs and things like that.

Speaker 2: 42:18

So, because China blocks off information, okay, so I'm at risk just for having done this podcast. So I've just pretty much decided I'll never get to see China or anything that's under China rule, right? Because at this point, what we're saying here is now China, china's going to get really squirrely with this. Okay, everywhere where they've got their one belt, one road initiative, they're going to start enforcing this. Weak countries that have compromised their sovereignty you know countries in Africa, maybe Italy, countries that have really, really softened their sovereignty. When it comes to China, you just watch, I'll find it, it'll happen. But at some point they're going to arrest somebody outside of their territorial jurisdiction and that's when all hell's going to break loose, because that means everybody's at risk. Everybody's at risk of being tortured, beaten by China, and this is terror. If they do that a couple times, then pretty soon people will start to be quiet and self-censor, and that just leads to change in behavior. It leads to acceptance, which is basically where we're at now, except we're just waking up to it. Britain this week this is breaking from the national polls. This was yesterday Britain bans Huawei from their 5G network.

Speaker 2: 43:36

So 5G is the internet of things, right, just like the internet came along and we all got email and our AOL accounts and it revolutionized the way we communicate because it basically made Snell Mel less relevant for regular routine communications. And then things advance. We get the cell phone. Okay, now the landline's kind of obsolete and then pretty soon I mean, there's lots of people and you listening to this, you might not even when was the last time you logged onto a computer? Right, lots of people really live their entire lives off their cell phones. I can say for myself once I a couple of years ago, once I kind of got really heavily involved in construction gosh, I mean, I'd go two, three weeks without popping open my laptop. Right, you can do everything from your cell phone. So 5G is like a super fast wireless network that allows your cell phones and everything to operate at beyond normal. You know, even like what's the word I'm looking for Even like normal DSL and normal cable speeds. You know real high speed, and this will allow things to be included in the network.

Speaker 2: 44:37

So right now, if you are technologically savvy, you know you might have an Apple watch and it syncs up with your phone. And then when you get in your car, it tells you oh, you're this far from you know, depending on the time of day. I used to get in the car and it would say you know, starbucks is two miles away, because it knows at this time of day I always go to Starbucks. And then it says you know, you're at 5 o'clock. When I jump in my car, the GPS would always pop up Home, you know you're this many miles from home. It like anticipates where I'm going. Well, refrigerators have internet technology now, and so it can tell you when you're out of milk. I mean, we're going to get to the point where a lot of things in our life are going to be automated by these systems, and 5G facilitates that.

Speaker 2: 45:22

And Huawei, which is a part of the PLA, which is the People's Liberation Army, which is the Chinese Communist Army, pla, is in charge of Huawei. They have claimed for years that they're a private company. They are not a private company, they are totally a part of their military operation. But what they've done is the Chinese government has subsidized Huawei. And then they have taken the Huawei infrastructure and technology for 5G and they've spread it all across their Belt and Road Initiative countries. So you know, you've got these Huawei 5G towers and you've got Huawei phones, you've got all kinds of Huawei apparatus. All of the Huawei gear has back doors in it so that the Chinese Communist Party can spy on you. So if you're using a Huawei phone, huawei software, they're spying on you. They're taking all your data and, as the 5G networks grow pretty soon, they're not just taking who you called and where you are, they're taking you know what your grocery shopping habits are, what your health habits are if you've got health problems. The amount of data and information that they can have makes them unbelievably powerful unbelievably powerful. So Huawei is a real threat to any country's national security and sovereignty and they have really snuck their way in by paying for this expensive 5G equipment in competition with, say, verizon, because the government is subsidizing it. So you know, get your 5G for free and just make this. You know we'll come in and install it for you and the tradeoff there is, but we're going to spy on you.

Speaker 2: 46:44

So the United States, when Trump got elected, got hip to this and they banned Huawei from the United States. They banned Huawei phones, they banned Huawei infrastructure Everything Huawei can't have it. And in addition, they've informed their Five Eyes partners, so New Zealand, australia, canada and United Kingdom and the USA. They informed the other four members of the Five Eyes networks that if you use Huawei equipment, we will not share technology with you or intelligence with you, so essentially ending the Five eyes relationship based on Huawei. So Trump drew a line in the sand and said you either side on the side of America, you side on the side of China, and Huawei is that line. And so Britain had already had significant investments of Huawei and their 5G network in Britain, and yesterday Britain came out and officially fully banned Huawei from their 5G network. They will be completely replacing all existing 5G infrastructure by 2017, and then they will be phasing out of it soon. So this was covered as it was breaking on War Room yesterday. So let's just listen to that.

Speaker 7: 47:49

I want to just jump in real quick as well, while I have the time to talk about this latest polling coming out of the United Kingdom. Now you know that between myself and Nigel Farage, we've really been the only ones pushing this what we call the no Way Huawei campaign from last year, talking about how Huawei was overtaking the British telecommunications infrastructure, the 5G networks all of this stuff On the back of the coronavirus, the Henry Jackson Society. We had Dr Alamendoza on last week Fabulous. They've done a poll and the poll came out in the Sunday Times yesterday and they actually sent me all of the crosstabs. I want to go through them real quick for you. 74% of Britons blame the Chinese government for what's happened here. 74%, 74%, 71% say sue the Chinese government if it can be proved that they breached international law in this cover-up of the whole thing. 83% say the UK should demand an international inquiry into the matter. I guess that's pooling resources from all over the world to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 7: 48:46

It's my Nuremberg trial. And the plurality 40% are now against Huawei, while only 27% support Huawei in Britain's five-day budget.

Speaker 3: 48:56

But they still don't totally translate what the Chinese Communist Party did to them in the virus to. We can't have the Chinese Communist Party in our telecom system, is that?

Speaker 7: 49:06

because that's still not a direct link. Yeah, they don't believe. Britons aren't aware, necessarily en masse, that there is a direct link between all of these oligarchic type companies in China and the Chinese Communist Party. There's a. There's a lack of public information there. Some of that's been filled over the last couple of weeks. You're getting more reporting, which is why the numbers are shifting. But in addition to that, also remember most people are saying or rather the differential between the 40 percent and the 27 percent here. The rest are saying we just don't know yet, so they're waiting for more evidence.

Speaker 2: 49:36

Okay, so he's talking more about the polling, but that polling is what led to Britain finally making this decision. So the political pressure finally got great enough that they said no more Huawei. It's awesome, awesome news. Okay, wrapping up, a couple of other funny things that are kind of weird. So Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. If you remember his story, he served in the House and he had an intern that was working with him and she suddenly died one night while they were working late in the office together. She fell and hit her head and died.

Speaker 2: 50:07

Anyways, donald Trump has accused Joe Scarborough of a cover-up and he has called for a reinvestigation into the cold case of the Joe Scarborough of a cover-up, and he has called for a reinvestigation into the cold case of the Joe Scarborough killing, as he kind of calls it and calls him crazy Joe. Well, he co-hosts Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski. Mika Brzezinski is very politically connected. I can't remember who her dad is. Her dad was like a Henry Kissinger type person, anyways. So they're married. They have the show together.

Speaker 2: 50:34

Well, he's been taking a little bit of time off, so he took about a week off and Mika wrote this. A word on my husband. Joe is taking a week off, week or two off. Now, keep in mind he runs a national TV show. Like usually when these guys take days off, they take a day or two. I mean they usually don't really see these guys take like a whole week off. I mean they're paid like $20 million a year to talk right, so I mean that's like pretty significant. So he's taking a week off or two. He may jump in or may not. The reason I told him to. So she's saying the reason is I told him to. When he's not by my side in the morning, I fill the void.

Speaker 2: 51:07

For 13 years Joe's been analyzing, advocating, prognosticating, like no one can. Nobody comes close. This is rarely I do better. Come on, guys. This is rarely recognized, by the way, because it makes it look so easy. This show has become a vital part of the political landscape. Joe created the platform pitch to Phil Griffin, anyway. So she just kind of goes on. Joe's job is like juggling precious China and fire sticks because he's running probably from an indictment. He puts himself out there because he loves politics, loves his country. Joe's a quick intellect and passion for our country. Anyways, super interesting. He's just taking a week or two off while his wife continues to host. So it's not like a vacation, it's just really weird.

Speaker 2: 51:49

Another one of those like I think something's about to happen here. A couple other things. So there was a Blackpool woman in Europe that was arrested. She was arrested with 81,000 images of child sex abuse. She's being jailed for only nine months. This is boggling to me. There are some parts of this world that just do not take these things seriously. I don't understand it. She's only getting nine months? Uh and uh she's. It says in here 677 of the images were of the most serious kind. Um, she got caught because she had a heart attack and tried to access her images via a public wifi as she recovered from her heart attack.

Speaker 2: 52:29

Um, another significant thing that happened in the in the human trafficking and child sex roundup, open Secret reported yesterday Jan Harzan arrested for soliciting sexual activity from a 13-year-old. And who is he? He's the head of a major UFO organization. This is huge. He's the executive director of Mutual UFO Network. These guys run like a TV channel. They gosh, they do, they, they, they do. There's big, I mean. It says in here it says uh, let's see. It says, uh, there's a quote in here. It's how impactful this is Anyways big deal. Uh, it's a, it's a really big deal in the UFO network. Uh, this guy was kind of the head of it all.

Speaker 2: 53:14

Another really good thing happened yesterday is the number one wanted person in the whole world for child pornography, specifically child pornography, the most wanted pedophile mastermind behind the dark net sites that served thousands across the globe, is arrested. He was arrested in France and we don't know his name. I don't think we ever knew his name, other than those who were seeking after him. This was a guy who just operated on the internet and himself was a. He did the victimizing as well, so, and videoed it and things like that. Anyways, that's good.

Speaker 2: 53:53

I just, you know, there's a part of me just thinks, like when you, when you wrap up the darkest elements of society, right, it's like you, you create this, like righteousness just shines through, like every time one of these vile people is taken down, the ripple effect of the future not being victimized, right, like if you've got someone who's a serial abuser and you take them off the streets, then there's no one, he won't abuse any more people. So every single one of these persons is a victory. And when you roll up networks and when you roll up like the number one guy that's running these websites and then you're able to shut those websites down right. A lot of times it's the opportunity to commit these crimes Like these crimes wouldn't happen if the opportunities aren't there. For the most part, you know, there's very few people that seek these things out proactively. A lot of people stumble across them and then get sucked into the vortex of it. So it's so amazing when these people get wrapped up. I mean it just makes me so happy and it again tells me there's progress being made, but it's being made in the shadows because the implication of who some of these people are just is ranging.

Speaker 2: 55:04

Another interesting thing, which I'm going to cover later as I continue to digest it and understand it. But I got some information about Justin Trudeau dumped on my lap, so I thought it was a little bit odd when the USMCA was memorialized, that Justin Trudeau didn't come down to the United States to uh, to the signing. In fact he he just sent a delegation and uh, the, but the president of Mexico came and it was everybody kind of thought it was super odd. Well, it might not be quite as odd, because part of the signing of the USMCA, if you actually read through it, there's some anti-corruption things and there's some very clear verbiage about what it means to be corrupt and not be corrupt. And Justin Trudeau is going through some things in Canada. He has affiliated himself with some very, very corrupt people and has probably himself been involved. What I've looked at so far, what got dropped on my lap, which is just a Twitter thread, but nonetheless it's pretty damning. So I've got a feeling that Justin Trudeau didn't come to America because he might have been at risk of possibly being detained in America per the rules as they're written, so he might've wanted to avoid that whole scenario.

Speaker 2: 56:10

This is very, very interesting, very interesting. So we're going to see what's going on with Justin Trudeau and how the relationship with Donald Trump continues to go. If you remember, justin Trudeau was backed by Barack Obama, which is a big deal. By the way, united States presidents are not supposed to endorse people running in other countries like that, so the fact that Barack Obama endorsed him and did a good get out to vote campaign is very, very concerning, to say the least, and so we'll see how this plays out.

Speaker 2: 56:40

But, man, this could be fun. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, some of these people, some of the some parts of the world, can just burn, right? I mean, some of these corrupt organizations and institutions, they can just burn. We'll figure it out after it's over. I mean, I don't want to burn the whole thing down, but some of it's got to be fixed, all right? Well, that about wraps it up for me today. I appreciate you spending some time with me. You can find me at the Peasants Perspective on Twitter or Peasants Pod on Twitter, peasants Pod on Parler, the Peasants Perspective on Facebook, and you can email me at peasantspod at gmailcom. And if you like the podcast, please share it. I appreciate it very much and five-star reviews love them. Thanks, bye.

Speaker 1: 57:21

Who are the Britons? We all are. We are all Britons and I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class is oh, there you go, bringing class into the gang. That's what it's all about. If only people would, please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then, who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Speaker 1: 57:53

We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see, by a simple majority. In the case of pure internal affairs, be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of Be quiet. I order you to be quiet, order.

Speaker 1: 58:11

Who does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, how do you become king then?

Speaker 1: 58:20

The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest, shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up. I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had loved a scimitar at me, they'd put me away. Shut up, will you Shut up? Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help. I'm being repressed, bloody peasant. Oh, what a giveaway. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me?