Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Cetus. Episode 1,256. I'm your host Harry, joined today by Carl.

Hello. And Friday regular and brand ambassador for G.B. News, Nick Dixon. Hello. Good to be here in my

official capacity. I hope you won't say anything that might get you in trouble, Nick. All views

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Remember, a complaint to the regulator is always there.

But first, before we start talking about anything political,

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it's what Alfred would have wanted. And while you're there picking up your mug, you can also get a copy of Islander, which is still available, and if you don't buy one, you're not invited to my barbecues. Anyway, let's get on with the news, because we're going to be talking about Trump's banning Antifa, Stama lying again because it's a day ending in Y, and the new sexist boys club party, which I'm excited about joining, and I hope that you are too. Let's get on with it. So Trump has decided that he's going to ban Antifa, which is good and fine, and it's been a long time coming. and I'm going to take you back through a sort of trip down memory lane just to see how we got to this point. Because actually, what's a bit strange about this, is that the fear of antifire has kind of cooled off in the last couple of years. You'll notice that they haven't really been doing all that much. Like, when was the last time you actually saw them, like, doing a black block or something like this, right? It's actually been a few years, right? So, it's a bit... 2020 was their best work? Yes, yeah, yeah, but... Yeah, yeah, no, it was. Everything that came before was a little bit esoteric for me. But that's when they hit their mainstream heights. Heights. During the George Floyd riots is when they really sort of became ultra-famous.

But yeah, anyway, so before we begin, I don't know, obviously.

But right, so you can see that they first came to prominence back in 2017.

And I've just taken this vice article as emblematic,

because as you can see, California anti-fascists,

want racist and the Trump administration to be afraid.

So basically, they were always a violent, radical bourgeois fringe of the left that was just not, well, of the left, but these are the hard left in America but the thing is they were always

quite unimpressive people like this typical antifar oh Jesus remember oh scrolling down

yeah well the funny thing about this is that they were always hiding their faces yeah Yeah. And making sure that they couldn't be, you know, tracked down because they would often go and beat up people, like the infamous bike clock guy. Yes, we'll get to him. Oh, I'm sure we will, but it just makes it all the funnier that, like, earlier this year, when we covered that South Park episode, what were they making fun of ice for? Oh, they want to hide their faces. Only bad people want to hide their faces.

Where was the Antifa episode, Matt? Trey, where was, where was that one?

That was a good question, actually. I didn't think about that. But yeah, as you can see,

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