Good afternoon, folks. It's Friday the 14th. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. I'm joined by Nick and Nate. And today we're going to be talking about how Hassan Piker has gone a nice trip to China. And it was a lot funnier than I expected it to be. We're going to be asking, where did all the money go in Ukraine? Just, you know, just, we poured billions into Ukraine.

Where did all that go, actually?

And then we're going to talk about the reaction to Rupert Lowe saying,

you know what, guys, there is something we can do about the evil murderers that we have in prison.

Yeah, we used to have an idea.

We used to have an idea.

And the reaction to that was honestly pretty

revealing, frankly. It's a great example of how we are not represented by our own parliament.

But before we begin, Blood for the Blood God has sent us another $200 super chat, which reads,

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Right, so Hassan Piker, as you can see, is China Maxing.

He's in China at the moment.

I don't know who's paying for the expenses, but on a trip that's being curated by the CCP. Because Hassan Piker has just become a pro-China propagandist all of a sudden. And it's really kind of strange because you've got an American Turk who's arrived in China. He's like, you know what? I love everything about China. There's nothing about China I don't love. It's like, amazing. Do you know what it really has in common is their attitude towards dogs? Well, I was gonna make that joke.

Sorry, I thought I've got to get in first.

You did.

Comedians trade-outs, like, get it in quick.

I assume he's over there because they like to abuse dogs too.

Yeah. But I said to you before the stream, who's more of a slave, Hassan or the dog? Because he's enslaved to streaming 10 hours a day now and he can't stop. It's a prison. And the thing is, you know that he hates his own audience and he hates his life. But the thing is like, you know, he's like, I love everything about China. Doesn't mention any genocide China's currently involved. I was going to say, doesn't he... Against Turkic Muslims. Oh yeah, he's the Uyga Muslims. What's his uncle's name?

Tankwiga. Is it? Yes. I forgot. I'm not, yeah, that's ridiculous. I thought he loved, I thought he loved it. I actually have it. His uncle is a Uyghur. Amazing. And he's just like, yeah, I'm going to go to China. And I don't care. So it's really, really remarkable how, like, Hassan, he exists in this kind of weirdly sociopathic space, right? Where, like, nothing outside of his bubble really exists. And so, like, yeah, okay, China might be literally exterminating his ancestors and his family but China is also basically a fascist state and if there's one thing he's deeply impressed

with it's China's basic fascism it's communism you know who I feel bad for this is going

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