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Trigger Warning: What Happens When Your MAGA Grandad Tries To Write A Book · Rachel Oates

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This book is the most hilarious piece of right wing propaganda
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slop I have ever read. This is Trigger Warning by
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William W Johnson and JA Johnston and the tagline is
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there are no safe spaces. Hey.
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available myself, which I'll tell you about later.
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But for now, let's talk about this book because it is wild.
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I was, I'm going to have to put my glasses on.
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Sorry to read. Sorry if there's a glare.
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I was recently reading a list of the worst books ever written on
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Reddit and I came across Trigger Warning by William W Johnston, a
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book about this ex soldier who enrols at a university to get
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his generic masters in biology. Just biology, nothing specific,
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just biology. And then while he's there, he
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realises, Oh no, this is a liberal campus.
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And obviously because he's a straight white man, everyone
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calls him a Nazi and ought to attack him because we all know,
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sis, white men are the most persecuted in the world and.
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Yeah. And then?
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There's like this crazy plot to like bomb the campus so liberals
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can get money off other rich liberals and there's something
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something and it's bad because there's gun control on campus
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and now the bad guys had. Guns and if.
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Only they had guns and now this Republican ex soldier has to
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save the day. I wish I was joking.
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It is. Oh my God it's so funny.
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It is one of the most ridiculous books I've ever read.
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I've been telling everyone in my life about this.
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I gave some dramatic readings to my partner the other day.
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I went to a Longest John's show the other night and before we
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were hanging out backstage and I was like reading a bunch of this
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to JD and he was like, this is unreal.
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It is. It is.
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So we've had a good time with this book and now I'm excited to
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share it with you guys. But here's the thing.
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This book. Is not exactly written by
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William W Johnston, even though his name is on the cover.
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William died in 2004, but apparently they've just not made
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enough money off his name. So this book opens with a
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publishers note saying. Following the death of William W
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Johnston, the Johnston family is working with a carefully
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selected writer to organise and complete Mr Johnston's outlines
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and many unfinished manuscripts to create additional novels in
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all his serieses like The Last Gunfighter, Mountain Men and
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Eagles, among others. This novel was inspired by Mr
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Johnston's superb storytelling, so this book in particular was
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apparently ghostwritten. It's got his niece's name on the
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cover, but most people think there was another ghostwriter as
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well who's just completely uncredited.
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Probably a solid NDA there. I can understand wanting to like
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finish off a series or something like that, but just slapping his
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name on a random book written by a random person that he had
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nothing to do with? Because all the stuff in this
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book, all these issues were not really like a thing.
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They were not big talking points in 2004 and before.
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So it's clear he didn't come up with this outline.
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He didn't come up with this idea.
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He didn't have anything to do with this book, but they slapped
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his name on it as a money making scheme, if you will.
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It's a cash crap. It's just a cash crap.
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And now I have heard that his other books are awful and not
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just fully written. But apparently William was very
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religious. His father was a preacher.
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He was really big on writing horror books with the theme that
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was basically all on believers either are demons or will be
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punished by demons or something something demons you know.
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I've also heard that he used to include horrific amount amounts
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of racist language in his books, but I've not read them myself so
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take that with a pinch of salt. This one in particular though is
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massively right wing propaganda. It's so hilariously bad.
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I can't believe anyone would seriously enjoy this and yet
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here we are. There were points in this book
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where I was like, are we sure this isn't like satire?
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Is this actually like mocking the right?
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But I no no right wingers actually think the world is
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like. We'll get to some reviews at the
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end, but yeah, it I am losing brain cells even thinking about
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this book. So let's jump into this.
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Let's get through it. We're going to go in depth like
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we always do, kind of talk about things line by line and just
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have fun picking apart this slop.
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It's going to be good. So the first chapter starts with
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our ex soldier protagonist Jake in his room at college getting
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frustrated with the required reading for his course.
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To be honest, he was glad for the distraction.
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He was on the verge of throwing a book against the wall of his
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dorm room in disgust since it was a hard copy, a thick trade
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paperback he had bought in the university bookstore for an
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outrageous price and not something he was reading on his
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phone or tablet. He could have done that,
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although the book was heavy enough it might have dented the
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sheetrock. So right from the off, this is
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meant to signify that he's frustrated with how stupid and
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liberal the college that he's decided to go to is and the and
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the courses that he's decided to take are.
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And I will agree with him on one thing though, university books
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are outrageously overpriced. Like if you're a student, get
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your book second hand if you can.
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But anyway, then Jake hears a noise outside, so of course he
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goes to investigate. He spotted movement in the
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shadows under those trees. Someone ran towards the dorms
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along one of the concrete walls, but another figure pursued and
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caught the first one, grabbing an arm to sling the fleeing
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person to the ground. Wait, no no no no.
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God this is so. This is so poorly written.
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The grammar is wild. There's right?
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OK, this makes sense. OK, right.
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Someone ran towards the dorms along one of the concrete walks,
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but another figure pursued and caught the first one, grabbing
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an arm to sling the fleeing person to the ground.
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Another cry. Definitely female.
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He wasn't really aware of it, but he was smiling as he went
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out. So call me a crazy liberal
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feminist I am, but I don't think the natural response to seeing a
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woman being attacked in the street should be smiling.
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No, the author thinks that all colleges in America that aren't
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Bible colleges are just full of people like this.
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It didn't take him long to get down the stairs.
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A group of students was sitting was sitting were sitting.
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A group of students was sitting in the lobby talking about
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something that should be were the gramme I.
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You know what? While I was first writing this
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review, I didn't quite realise how bad the grammar is, but
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it's, it's difficult to read aloud.
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I think I was like, autocorrecting it in my head,
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you know? But reading it aloud now?
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Wild. He heard the words
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microaggression and privilege and CIS normative, but Jake
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didn't even glance at them as he went by and none of them called
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out to him. He didn't have any friends here,
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and what if the subject under discussion, none of them wanted
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his opinion on it? He was just a big dumb brute
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after all. I mean, you've not done anything
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to prove that wrong. So have you.
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We're on page one of the book and so far you've just been like
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grumble, grumble. Books made me mad.
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Me want to throw a book girl I see woman attack.
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Smile like that's. Giving big dumb brute, if
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anything, you know, But yeah, the author is whoever they are
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from the very first page trying to set up this idea that all
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liberal leaning students hate CIS white men who are the poor
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equal victims in all this. And that the real issues like,
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you know, microaggressions and overall systemic racism and
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systemic misogyny and, you know, the the big important things and
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they're just silly. They're not even real.
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Stop it. As Jake gets outside, he
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overhears the argument, which is basically a woman has broken up
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with a man and he wants to talk, so he's grabbed her and won't
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let go. Domestic violence, basically.
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Damn it, Annie, just be reasonable.
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I'm not going to let go of you until you start thinking
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straight. Stop, Craig, just stop.
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The words gasped out as the woman clearly fought to hold
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back sobs. I told you it was over.
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Jake was still moving towards them, but he stopped as he heard
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what the woman said. A grimace tugged at his mouth.
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Lovers quarrel, none of his business.
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That was an old fashioned attitude and he knew it, but
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almost everything about him was old fashioned, including his
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dislike of a woman being mistreated.
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Of course, if he did step in to help her, more than likely she
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would stick up for her boyfriend and turn on him instead,
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accusing him of of perpetuating the patriarchy and the myth of
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women needing to be rescued. He already got enough crap of
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that every day he started to turn away.
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Ah yes, don't you love those good old fashioned values of not
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stopping a man from hurting a woman just because they used to
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be in a relationship? Like then he's going on about
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how like, oh it's just a lover's like do you not see how that's
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the problem? Just putting literal domestic
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violence down to a lover's quarrel or shouldn't get
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involved Annoying. Ah, I don't know who wrote.
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This and I refuse to believe it's a woman.
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Uh, but that stupid typical right wing talking point of all
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feminist turn on men to try to help them.
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It bothers me, it's ridiculous, I hate that.
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But he does finally decide to step in when he hears this man
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slap the woman. But instead of focusing on the
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well-being of the woman, his focus is on she was petite and
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blonde, while the guy was good sized with dark hair and a short
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beard. Something was odd about the
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shape of his head, and after a second, Jake got it.
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The guy's hair was long enough that he'd pulled it up into a
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bun on the top of his head. Jake ran his left hand over his
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own buzz cut. He'd had fairly long hair once,
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half a dozen years earlier, but he'd never worn it in a bun.
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And if it ever grew back out, he still wouldn't.
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Jake is like. I can excuse slapping a woman,
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but I draw the line at Man Buttons.
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Jake tells the guy, whose name is Craig to let go of her.
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But he's like, Nah, man. And then he says things that no
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one would ever actually say, like this is none of your
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businessman. He paused.
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Are you one of those football players?
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Kelton College had a football team and it hadn't won a game in
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three years. You're big enough.
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But Olmsted's not the not the athletic dorm, which is where
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the where Jake came out of. I don't know.
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But yeah, the also just has to let us know what a big, strong,
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muscley piece of muscle Jake is. Jake is like, let the lady go.
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And the author writes that the woman, Annie, and Oh my God,
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it's like a straw man idea of a feminist.
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It's so it, it's just a caricature of a feminist.
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It's ridiculous. You don't have to call me a
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lady. Annie said, just as Jake had
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expected. She sounded halfway offended.
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I'm trying to help you. That's no excuse for
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perpetuating stereotypes and spreading toxic masculinity.
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Jake couldn't hold back a sigh. Even scared and in trouble,
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Annie couldn't stop herself from parroting some of the garbage
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that had been forced into her head.
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Not for the first time in the past half dozen years since he'd
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enlisted, Jake found himself wondering if the people he
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fought to defend really deserved it.
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Brutal. God.
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So on the one hand, it's true that a lot of victims of
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intimate partner abuse will actually side with their abuses
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when someone else steps in, usually out of self preservation
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or misplaced loyalty. It's understandable.
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It's like, obviously you don't want to see it happen, but it
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does. However, this idea that this is
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something that women say in this situation because they've had
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feminist garbage forced into their head is just laughable.
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It's no, absolutely not. Next, do we get a little Mega
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Boys fantasy action sequence? Craig finally released Danny's
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arm, but only so he could ball that hand into a fist.
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He twisted towards Jake and threw a punch.
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Jake moved his head out of the way and said.
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Stop it man. Well you still can.
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I'm not scared of you. Craig shouted.
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I don't care how big you are, I know Krav Maga.
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He'd just started some sort of fancy martial arts move when
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Jake hit him with a left hook to the belly.
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Craig's eyes got so wide Jake could see the whites of them
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even in the bad light. As he started to double over,
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Jake swung a right cross to the jaw and snapped.
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That snapped Craig's head over. Craig went down hard, pounding
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his face against a concrete walk.
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You killed him and he screeched. No, I could have, but I just
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knocked him out. Didn't even break his jaw.
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He'll be all right. And of course the woman turns
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into a mess, because that's what all women do.
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Remember she came at him hissing and spitting.
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If only she was a good little wannabe trad wife who would fall
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into his arms and say oh thank you Mr Muscles, I love how big
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and strong you are with your propensity for violence.
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Let me repay you by marrying you before we probably know each
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other so I can gift you my precious virginity and become
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your little unpaid housemaid and sex slave.
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Swoon. He should have stayed with that
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weighty tome about how capitalism was the worst
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economic system and America was the most evil country in the
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world. Tell me you've never read a
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college textbook without telling me you've never read a college
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textbook, Especially about economics.
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Like oh, part of me wishes they said that it would have made my.
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Economics courses a lot easier. You, you fascist, she screamed.
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You oppressor. Jake heard a sudden rush of
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footsteps behind him and turned to see several black clad
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figures chasing him. He couldn't make out their
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faces, and when they yelled fascist fascists, the words were
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muffled and he knew why they were wearing hoods over their
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heads. Then they were on him, swinging
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bicycle chains with locks on them, metal pipes and other
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objects turned into clubs, and this peaceful night on a small,
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elite college campus turned into a fight for his life.
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And my first time. Reading this I was like, sober
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what the hell? This is so laughably funny.
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It's brilliant, but it trust me, it just gets weirder.
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Jake had battled against superior odds many times, but
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usually he'd been heavily armed and hadn't been forced to take
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his enemies on barehanded. So he like, grabbed someone by
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the throat. Not sharp enough to break the
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idiot's neck though. These were kids.
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Arrogant, small minded bullies, but still kids.
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They didn't deserve to die for being stupid enough to believe
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the pack of lies they'd been fed by their teachers, the media,
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Hollywood, and more than half of Washington DC.
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Why do so many right wing men spend so much time thinking
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about how I could kill you if I wanted to, but I won't, but I
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could? It's kind of concerning, isn't
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it? And I kind of love that this
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author thinks that liberals are being brainwashed by teachers,
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Big evil Hollywood, and that Democrats would respond to this.
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Or like as a consequence of this, be hiding in bushes
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wearing masks and hoods, hitting people with bike chains.
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It's so funny. A second later, somebody landed
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on Jake's back and wiry arms and legs around him.
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I got him, a female voice yelled.
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Kill the fascist. Down with the pressors kill.
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Him. I literally at this point I was
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like, are we sure this isn't satire?
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Like if you told me someone wrote this to mock right
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wingers, I'd believe you. If you told me Alizi had written
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this to mock right wingers, I would believe you.
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This is exactly the kind of thing she'd do.
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But no, this is like a genuine book from like these proper
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Republican, like a Republican family.
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It I can't, I'm, I'm losing words here.
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The pipe and chain clattered on the walk as Jake dropped them.
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Oh. He reached up and back, got hold
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of the attacker clinging to his back like a spider monkey, and
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tore her loose. You.
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Better hold on tight, spider monkey.
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He bent forward, swung her over his head and tossed her onto the
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ground, being careful to make sure she didn't land on the
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concrete or hit a tree. She screeched rape, rape as she
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rolled over on the grass. He wished for a second he hadn't
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been quite so careful. Auntie Fur.
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Auntie Fur toxic toxic racist Nazi Nazi.
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I really hope they make a film of this just so I can mock that
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as well because that would be so damn funny.
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Oh my God it definitely gives me pure Flix vibes.
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You know, Jake begins to have war flashbacks to things which
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are absolutely horrific, but I don't doubt there's also more
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than a mild undertone of racism in all this too.
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The black suits are on their feet again and regrouping.
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As they got. Ready to charge him, Jake
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flashed back for an instant to things he had seen in the past.
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Men in black hoods spouting Arabic as they held a Western
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journalist and sawed his head off with a big knife.
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More black hooded figures forcing a scared child with a
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bomb with a bomb strapped to him down a street while they
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threatened to kill his mother if he didn't blow up himself.
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And some American soldiers, Those same evil men or others
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just like them, shoot shooting at him and his buddies.
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He then compares the people attacking him to Nazis, which is
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fun and ironic, especially considering all Republicans have
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been doing in America the last couple of years.
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They Taser him, Jake, and shout down with Nazis, down with
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Nazis. And I wish I could say the book
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ended there, but sadly we still got under the 250 pages to go.
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The scene, Custer, God knows one couple of hours later or
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something and he's with some campus security guard or campus
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policemen or something like that, and he shows him a news
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article about what's happened with the headline.
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Far right extremist attacks college students.
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That's not even close to correct, Jake said.
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I didn't attack anybody. I just defended myself like I
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told you. And I'm not far right, far left
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or far anything else. I just want to go to school and
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get an education. Sir, we all know that I'm not
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political means I'm secretly conservative douchebag, but I
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don't want to admit it, right? We all know.
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Then we get a little bit of back story.
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Jake left the army because it's not what it once was.
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Jake hates his father and even changed his name.
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No, changed his surname to his mother's maiden name.
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We don't really know why. Something about his father being
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a bad guy. I think we maybe learn it later,
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but it's not really important. Like it's not important at all.
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And Jake loves his granddad, who seems to be some big deal at the
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college he's at now. And oh God, the granddad is
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awful. Chapter 3 is a flashback to six
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months earlier. The grandfather, Caudal
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Gardener, is some rich billionaire type.
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And when I say billionaire, I mean like actual billionaire.
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I'm not exaggerating. Gardener's estate sprawled over
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a lot of East Texas acres and included tennis courts, stables,
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and a nine hole golf course. Even though Gardener didn't play
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tennis, ride horses, or have any use for golf.
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Sometimes his guests did though, and he'd been raised to be
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hospitable. Is anyone else sick of just
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hearing from and about millionaires and billionaires at
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this point? Because I am scrap them all.
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Jake and his grandfather are like especially he's just
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holding all this land and wealth that could be used for like
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actual things. Like he doesn't even use tennis
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courts and he's got them. Like you could use that space to
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actually like like and the golf courses and whatever.
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Maybe like build some homes for homeless people or but actually
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know what? There's like a.
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Big problem in the world where like, we don't actually need
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more homes as such, we just need homes to actually be affordable.
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Sorry, I'm going off on one, right?
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Jake and his grandfather are busy shooting in his backyard
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because guns are fun and not dangerous killing machines
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apparently. And Cordell says Jake has to do
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something after being in the army.
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But Jake just wants to sit around and wait for you to die,
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so we'll inherit that fortune of yours.
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Uh, such a funny joke. Jake, of course, is an expert
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shooter because he has to be good at everything, apparently.
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And also his granddad says you've got a knack for it.
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Always have. Never saw a boy who could handle
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a gun like you, even when you were a little kid.
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You could shoot like a grown man when you were 12 years old,
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drive like a grown man when you were 14.
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I'd ask some of the Mamas of your high school buddies what
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else you could do like a grown man, but I don't think I want to
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know. Yeah, sorry.
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Did you just casually throw in a child rape joke there?
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Can we? Can we?
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Maybe not. Jake then talks about how he
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used to do street racing, which is both illegal and dangerous.
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Not a fan of it. Don't condone that.
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But it's all OK because his billionaire granddad could and
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did repeatedly just pay to get him out of trouble.
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Once again, let's scrap all the billionaires.
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Please. Let's not.
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I can't believe they've made this protagonist like they've
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tried to make him like relatable and like, like, this is our
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protagonist. This is supposed to be the good
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guy. And like, the joke is he thinks
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he's above the law because he's from a rich family.
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I can't, I can't. No, we learned that Jake and his
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grandfather have some issues with his dad because his dad was
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a lawyer who used to do cocaine sometimes.
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And yeah, again, I still don't really understand what exactly
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the problem was. And I think the issue was that
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he did drugs and maybe he's dead, maybe he's not.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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You know what, it doesn't even matter.
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We don't even need that back story.
21:01
It's just there, apparently. And anyway, apparently Jake got
21:04
his bachelor's degree while he was in the Army, so his granddad
21:07
tells him to go to college and get a master's and that he can
21:10
get him a spot at college, the one he's at at the start of the
21:13
book. And because he's like, he pays a
21:16
bunch of money to them and he funds a bunch of stuff.
21:19
And like, again, this is meant to be like a likeable, relatable
21:23
protagonist. And he's just a neppo baby whose
21:26
granddad can pay his way into stuff that he'll then go on to
21:29
complain about rather than like, you know, actually earn his
21:32
place or it like it. I can't.
21:34
I can't. And he, he's not even grateful
21:37
for this. He doesn't even, like, put time
21:40
or care into thinking it through.
21:41
He just says if one field of study didn't pan out the way he
21:44
wanted, he'd just do something else.
21:46
With Coral Gardener's money behind him, plus the small
21:49
inheritance he'd gotten from his maternal grandfather, who owned
21:52
a trucking company in New Orleans, he didn't really have
21:55
to worry about making a living. These people don't know how damn
21:58
privileged they are, do they? It I can't so instead of being
22:02
grateful for like literally basically having a free
22:04
education handed to him and doing whatever he wants for as
22:07
long as he wants, he has to complain.
22:10
Kelton College was a liberal arts school, though.
22:12
There was a science. Department of course, including
22:14
a programme that offered a master's degree in biology.
22:17
Just biology, but it was a small part of the school's focus which
22:21
was heavily geared towards literature, theatre, music,
22:23
philosophy, sociology and especially political science,
22:26
but only politics of a certain stripe.
22:29
Just looking at the names of some of the courses listed in
22:31
the catalogue had him frowning and figuratively scratching his
22:34
head. Gender, culture and U.S.
22:37
National identity. Feminist critique of
22:40
Christianity, social justice and American racism.
22:45
The psychological impact of male microaggression.
22:48
Countering war mongering and oppression in American culture.
22:52
Understanding multi phasic gender constructs.
22:56
Jake had never seen such a load of useless baloney in all his
22:59
life. Where were the regular courses?
23:02
He flipped over to the English section Heteropatriarchy in
23:06
American Literature L GB TQIAPK tales a seminar.
23:11
He had to look that one up. The The abbreviation, which
23:15
evidently today's college students instinctively
23:17
understood, meant lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex,
23:21
asexual, pansexual and kink. Whatever floated anybody's boat
23:25
was OK with Jake, as long as it didn't involve force, coercion,
23:28
or kids, but a whole college course devoted to stories about
23:32
such things. One glance into the political
23:35
science section landed him on a course called the Toxic American
23:39
Political Axes. Republicans, Nazis and Fascists.
23:44
Now, I'm not American, so I can't say for certain what, what
23:49
American colleges, all their courses are like.
23:51
But at my university, which, you know, it was a good one, they
23:55
would not have had courses like this.
23:57
They might have had some modules in courses like this.
24:00
But like, were there modules, for example, that did look at
24:03
things for a feminist lens? Yes.
24:05
But they weren't like, you need to be a feminist and look at it
24:07
like this and only think of the feminist thing and this and
24:09
this. And like they were like, OK,
24:11
let's look at this from a feminist perspective and
24:13
critique these things and analyse these things from that
24:15
perspective. But also what's the counter
24:17
argument? What's the other side of this?
24:19
Can we analyse both angles and arguments and come to your own
24:23
conclusion about it? You know, I'll be honest that
24:26
these sound a little more like dissertation titles than module
24:29
or course titles. And they're all very specific.
24:33
Whereas in general, at a university and even at a masters
24:36
level, the modules are meant to open you to like a whole area of
24:40
study and let you evaluate different perspectives within it
24:43
rather than just be like very, very narrowly focused.
24:46
Like these are. Like, I get it, the authors
24:49
trying to say like all universities are liberal
24:51
brainwashing machines, but that's just not true and it's
24:54
not hugely realistic. You know?
24:57
I do have to credit this author for not being like overtly
25:00
homophobic though, just subtly homophobic.
25:03
It's ridiculous, and it only gets worse when he meets his
25:06
advisor at the university. The guy was as pale as anybody
25:09
Jake had ever seen. Tall, balding Gorky with a
25:12
receding chin. He looked like a big white bird.
25:15
Jake couldn't help himself. He said.
25:17
Doctor Mutombo? The man sniffed.
25:20
I identify as African American. My ancestors were colonialists
25:24
named Motenbolt, I'm pronouncing that right, who lived for a time
25:29
in French Equatorial Africa before immigrating to this
25:32
country. I simply adopted a more
25:34
appropriate spelling to honour the unfortunate people they
25:36
oppressed and exploited. Again, this is just not a thing.
25:39
This is like a caricature of what they think liberals are.
25:42
This is just a pure straw man. You know, not everyone is Rachel
25:46
Dolezal, who pretty much everyone agrees was incredibly
25:50
offensive and is not like a spokesperson for all liberals
25:53
everywhere. You know, And I just, I find
25:56
this whole point in here in general is quite offensive.
25:59
And his advisor tells him to get a masters in biology, he needs
26:03
to take classes in economics, political theory and
26:07
socialisation. And I was like, do they mean?
26:09
Sociology. Have they got sociology and
26:11
socialisation mixed up? Because like a socialisation
26:15
class, especially at masters level doesn't make sense does
26:18
it? But again, I'm not.
26:20
American So what do I know? But again, it seems weird to me
26:23
that like any, any college would have you doing like these really
26:28
out there modules for a master's, like when you do a
26:31
bachelor's, you pick a course and take a fairly narrow set of
26:34
modules, right. And so like when I was doing
26:38
BioMed, I did like agents of infectious disease, proteins,
26:41
genes and genetics, chemistry for biology, like it was narrow.
26:46
It was you know, and then when I did my business degree, I did
26:49
like financial accounting, financial management and I did a
26:56
couple of economics courses. I did things like I did do some
27:00
slightly more out there modules like I did in neuroscience for
27:02
business module and stuff like that.
27:03
But again, it was still fairly narrow.
27:05
Like in the field when you do a masters, you narrow it down even
27:09
further. So I looked up my old university
27:12
Warwick where and I looked at their masters courses in the
27:16
general biology department. And again, you can't just get a
27:20
masters in biology as I expected, it's way more
27:24
specific. So you can do things like a
27:26
masters in diabetes care, diagnostic date, and digital
27:30
health data. Sorry, diagnostic data and
27:34
digital health, medical biotechnology, mental health and
27:37
well-being reproductive science. I just find it hard to believe
27:40
that anyone could get a generic masters in biology like and then
27:44
have to take a bunch of random courses in unrelated fields.
27:47
It seems unrealistic. But again, I don't know the
27:49
American University system, so maybe I'm wrong, or maybe this
27:53
author's just never been to university.
27:56
I don't know. Anyway, just to make the
27:58
university even more laughably stupid, they include this next
28:01
section. Now, it's normal for
28:03
universities to have a code of conduct, right?
28:05
Which can include things that you know the basics of.
28:08
Don't say racist stuff, don't say homophobic stuff.
28:11
Don't bully or harass all the students.
28:13
Don't cheat on your work. Don't, I don't know, like, don't
28:17
probably these days, don't use AI in your work, I'd assume.
28:20
Completely normal, right? I think yes, well, this
28:24
university goes really over the top with the idea of that and
28:27
completely mocks the idea of a code of conduct.
28:29
The professor opened a drawer in his desk and took out a sheaf of
28:32
stapled together pages at least 7 or 8 sheets thick.
28:36
He placed them on the desk and pushed them over to Jake.
28:38
This is our speech code as part of our commitment to diversity.
28:42
Kelton College guarantees all students a safe and inclusive
28:45
learning environment, so you shouldn't use any of the words
28:47
or phrases listed here. Jake frowned.
28:51
I seem to remember reading something about a right to free
28:53
speech. Motenbolt tapped a fingertip
28:56
against the pages. Bringing up the 1st Amendment is
28:58
listed in here. You shouldn't do that.
29:01
It shuts down productive discussion.
29:03
You shouldn't say anything about the Second Amendment either,
29:05
especially the Second Amendment. Before Jake could respond, he
29:08
took a booklet from the drawer and added it to the speech code.
29:11
Our sexual guidelines. I get it.
29:14
I get it. Universities are bad because
29:16
they're against free speech and guns.
29:19
Yeah, sure. You know, it's interesting.
29:21
I think a lot of people often misunderstand the First
29:24
Amendment, like this idea that like, I know I'm not even
29:28
American and we don't really have that as a thing in the UK.
29:30
But the idea of freedom of speech and the right to freedom
29:34
of speech generally means it's to stop the government from
29:39
responding to or restricting a person's right to freedom of
29:44
speech. So it means that, for example,
29:45
you can't be arrested for saying things critical of the
29:48
government, for example. It doesn't mean you can just
29:51
verbally harass people without consequence.
29:54
It doesn't mean you can commit hate speech without consequence,
29:57
you know? Yeah.
29:59
They also have to mock people who care about consent, too,
30:02
with these sexual guidelines. Jake asks if the sexual
30:05
guidelines are an abridged version of the Kama Sutra.
30:08
Motenbolt glared. Sexist comments like that are
30:11
also violations of the speech code.
30:13
No, this sets out the proper steps that are required to be
30:15
taken before any sort of sexual contact to ensure that all such
30:19
contacts are consensual. No means no way.
30:23
Exactly. So yes means yes, No yes also
30:27
means no because of our heteropatriarchal fellow centric
30:30
culture. No one speaks like this, no one
30:33
thinks like this. It it would be hilarious if
30:36
there weren't people who actually believed this, who were
30:38
making government policies in America right now.
30:41
You know, as in like they believe that liberals believe
30:45
this. It you know what I'm trying to
30:46
say wild. I know they think that they're
30:50
mocking and owning the libs or whatever, but the only people
30:53
it's mocking here are the right wingers who actually think that
30:56
other people believe this. Jake says something about like,
30:59
male and female students and mutton Ball says all students.
31:05
Not everyone accepts the antiquated concept of binary
31:07
gender, you know. Remember LG GB TDTTTIQQAAPP?
31:17
That means. Jake held up his hand to stop
31:19
him. That's all right.
31:20
I don't need it defined, but I thought it was L GB TQIPK.
31:24
Motenbolt blew out the scoffing breath.
31:27
That's outdated. The college experience is a very
31:29
fast-paced one these days, Mr Rivers.
31:31
You'll have to learn to keep up. Education is all about change,
31:34
hope and change and resistance and social justice.
31:37
Like, this is so pathetic. Like the way this is written,
31:40
it's like. They want to.
31:42
Mock these concepts, but they don't actually understand them
31:45
like it's. Crazy, isn't it?
31:48
You know, I can actually imagine all these like little red faced
31:50
mega boys sitting around reading this little book chuckling to
31:53
themselves, thinking they're so big and clever for like mocking
31:56
these people. It's like you're mocking people
31:59
and views that don't actually exist.
32:01
Yes, like a lot of us believe that gender is not binary.
32:05
That's like a completely reasonable thing when you
32:08
understand why we think that and when you understand what it
32:11
means when we say gender is a social construct and stuff.
32:14
But we're not. We don't act the way it's
32:18
portrayed in this book. It's not.
32:19
I don't know. I don't even know how to say
32:21
this anymore. I'm tired.
32:22
I'm just, it's wild, isn't it? So Jake planned on keeping his
32:26
relationship to Caudal Garden a quiet, but he wasn't above using
32:30
it to his advantage if necessary.
32:32
And the old man had it in his head that college was the same
32:34
sort of place it'd been 50 years earlier when he'd wanted to
32:38
attend but couldn't. So that meant Jake ought to live
32:40
in a dorm, as he saw it. Given the amount of money his
32:43
grandfather had forked over to Kelton College, Jake figured
32:46
they would find a place for him. Nepo babies are not cute,
32:49
they're not relatable, and they're not sympathetic in any
32:52
way. I thoroughly hate Jake as a
32:54
character. He is one of my least favourite
32:56
protagonists in any book I've reviewed for this channel so
33:00
far. One of we cut back to the
33:04
present. So after the fight and the the
33:08
main police guy in charge after the attack, he calls the
33:11
students that he's literally being paid to protect.
33:14
He calls some special little snowflakes and he says he's only
33:18
there because he gets paid a lot and he doesn't actually care
33:20
about any of them. So he's really not helping this
33:23
whole right wingers are just money hungry and heartless
33:27
narrative, is he? No, this isn't to be a critique
33:30
of liberals, but like this book. But instead they're just making
33:35
conservatives seem like, greedy and like they're all nepo babies
33:40
and they're all rich and spoiled and it just, yeah, it doesn't do
33:43
them any favours. And yet they think these are
33:45
like the protagonists. Like, I can't.
33:48
Anyway, Police guy is like, you can go to Jake.
33:50
And he says that whatever he does, he won't get kicked out of
33:53
the UNI because of his granddad's money.
33:55
Again, Sickening. We hate this.
33:57
And then Jake tries to head back to his room, but he's confronted
34:00
by four of the masked guys who've been hiding in the bushes
34:03
for him. The hooded figure ignored the
34:05
comment and went on. This is keeps now.
34:08
We don't want your kind here, Nazi, and it takes putting you
34:11
in a hospital to make you leave. We'll do it.
34:13
I am not a Nazi or a fascist. Jake snapped.
34:17
Go buy a damn dictionary. The Nazis were socialists.
34:20
Your side a convenient lie. Study some history you damn
34:25
fool, or go on spouting your precious narrative.
34:28
I don't care, just get out of my way.
34:31
I think the author of this book, whoever they are, needs to be
34:33
the one to study some history actually.
34:35
So sure, the Nazis were called the National Socialist German
34:40
Workers Party in name, but they were not socialist by any common
34:44
use of the word, especially not by the time Hitler was in power.
34:48
In fact, when Hitler wrote Mein Kamp, so before he was in power,
34:52
he repeatedly spoke about his own definition of socialism and
34:56
he hated that Marxists were using the term that he perceived
35:00
to be in the wrong way. So he didn't align with
35:02
Marxists. He didn't align with socialists
35:04
as we know them today. Ultimately, Hitler kind of
35:07
played around with different economic ideologies and went
35:10
back and forth supporting basically whatever would suit
35:13
him best at the time. I guess kind of like Donald
35:15
Trump does today on a coincidence.
35:18
Did he encourage capitalism at times when those who owned the
35:21
means of production supported and financed him?
35:24
Yes, absolutely. But did he also seize some
35:28
industries and nationalise them at times?
35:31
Yes, but mostly when those in charge wouldn't support him and
35:34
he wanted to seize the power back from them.
35:37
The Nazis were, to put it really simply, fascists who began under
35:41
the disguise of socialism, but they were never socialists as
35:45
the term socialist was understood today or even at the
35:48
time. We also have to understand that
35:50
they weren't just the Socialist Party, but they were the
35:53
National Socialist Party. And as Hitler associated the
35:56
German national identity with the white race, it can be
35:59
inferred that if the Nazi party ever did want some kind of
36:03
economic equality or to prioritise social welfare, it
36:06
was only for the white German people at the very real expense
36:11
of others. Which is obviously not true
36:13
socialism and is heavily rooted in racism, obviously.
36:18
OK, so anyway, then we get this little conspiracy filled rant
36:22
going on. There was something
36:24
fundamentally different in the way these guys stood and moved.
36:26
Something professional. Most of the members of the
36:31
various Antifa groups really were kids.
36:33
Spoiled, brainwashed, vicious little monsters, but still kids.
36:38
Jacob read enough about the movement though to have come
36:39
across rumours that within the groups terrorist cells, if
36:43
somebody wanted to call them what they really were.
36:45
Individuals have been planted by the liberal billionaires who
36:49
funded such madness. Men and women with military,
36:52
paramilitary and mercenary backgrounds who had done things
36:54
that would make the kids cry and wet themselves just to think
36:57
about. They were there to keep the
36:58
useful idiots in line, to make sure they showed up where they
37:01
were supposed to and rioted right on queue, and also to take
37:05
care of any actual dirty business that came up.
37:07
Careers will laugh for a moment at the idea of liberal
37:10
billionaires. Please.
37:11
Like no, sorry, please. Like you've heard the saying
37:15
there's no ethical billionaires, right?
37:17
Absolutely true. There's also no liberal
37:19
billionaires. Those two ideologies just do not
37:22
go together. You cannot be a millionaire or
37:24
billionaire without literally exploiting the working classes
37:28
in some way. It's just a fact.
37:30
There are perhaps millionaires and billionaires out there Who
37:33
say they're liberal and make out that they're liberal for PR's
37:36
sake, but you cannot have genuinely a liberal billionaire.
37:41
Like you can't convince me otherwise.
37:43
Sorry. Anyway, then they attack him.
37:47
We are 34 pages into this book and we've had our hero beaten up
37:51
twice already. But they're nurse genius.
37:53
You're liberals. I can't say I'm sad about it.
37:55
To be honest, I couldn't care less about him.
37:57
The hooded men hadn't been lurking here in the shadows,
37:59
waiting for him just so they could beat him up.
38:02
They meant to kill him just because he hadn't eagerly
38:04
swallowed and regurgitated their line of political bull.
38:08
Ron think was a capital offence in their minds.
38:12
Right wings really think they're the victims, don't they?
38:14
It's quite funny. Jake could tell by the way they
38:17
moved that they'd had some training, maybe military, maybe
38:19
police Academy, or else their group funded by liberal money.
38:22
What liberal money had paid somebody with experience to
38:26
teach them a few things. There's a lot of projection in
38:29
this book, you'll notice. Don't worry though, Jake isn't
38:32
in any real danger. The man said ah and dropped the
38:36
pipe. They had surrounded him like
38:38
jackals, eager to pull down a helpless victim and feast.
38:42
But not all victims were helpless, and they weren't even
38:45
victims. They were hunters and killers.
38:49
I genuinely think this is one of the worst, like most poorly
38:53
written books I've reviewed for a while on my channel.
38:56
In terms of just pure bad writing.
38:58
It's up there with Charles Coren's, what was his book
39:02
called? Winkler.
39:03
I think that was poorly written. I could kill you right now, you
39:06
know that, don't you? Jake said in a horse half
39:09
whisper. All it would take to crush your
39:11
windpipe is a little more pressure.
39:13
Then I could walk away and you'd lay there and suffocate and
39:16
there wouldn't be a damn thing you could do to stop it.
39:19
Instead of doing that, Jake. Jake eased up a little.
39:21
The man gasped in some air, then used it to rasp.
39:25
Fascist, Are you really that stupid?
39:29
Do you think a real fascist? A real Nazi?
39:31
I thought you thought Nazis were socialists.
39:33
Am IA real Nazi would let you live right now.
39:36
I've been listening to you idiots for years now yammering
39:38
about how any politician you don't like is literally Hitler
39:42
when all along it's been your side that's been acting like the
39:45
brown shirts and going after anybody who doesn't agree with
39:48
you. Free speech, but only if it's
39:50
speech we approve of. Speech that fits your precious
39:53
narrative. Anything else gets shut down
39:55
with violence if need be. Hell, you like the violence.
39:59
Makes you feel big and powerful. Punchy Nazis.
40:02
Feels great, only you're the Nazis.
40:05
Jake lifted the guy's head by the throat and banged it against
40:08
the ground. Are you listening to me?
40:10
Damn it, you've got me so mad. I'm the one who's yammering now.
40:14
So listen to this. If the other side was as bad as
40:17
you believe it is, if we wanted death camps, then by God we'd
40:21
have death camps by now. But we're still willing to live
40:25
and let live. If you'll just letters.
40:27
If you won't, well, do you want a civil war?
40:30
Because that's how you get a civil war, and it won't be
40:32
nearly as much fun as you think it will be with what Trump has
40:37
been doing the last few years. This has aged so poorly.
40:41
I think I said before, this was written in 2018-2019, something
40:45
like that. So just at the when was it?
40:48
Just at the like, in the middle of Trump's first term, I think,
40:52
getting all my dates mixed up, and now in Trump's second term,
40:56
This is aged. So if we wanted death camps,
40:58
we'd have death camps by now. That's not the brag you think
41:01
it. I, no, no, I can't.
41:05
I can't. It's hilarious, but at the same
41:07
time absolutely terrifying, right?
41:10
All of his attackers now are unconscious except one of them.
41:13
Don't, don't hurt me, he begged. Don't try to bully somebody
41:17
who's willing and able to fight back, Jake told him.
41:20
Better yet, don't bully anybody. People have a right to believe
41:24
what they want to believe. So social justice is ball.
41:29
There's just justice and sometimes it's a bitch, just
41:33
like karma. Jake walked off and left the man
41:36
there sobbing. New mega merch justice is a
41:40
bitch coming soon. On the way back to his room,
41:45
Jake meets a woman. Shocking, appalling, Can you
41:50
believe it? A woman out by herself.
41:52
It's disgraceful, isn't it? Jake stopped short instantly.
41:57
He took in several details about the person who had just spoken
41:59
to him, enough that he was reasonably sure he wasn't about
42:03
to be under attack again. Although he couldn't be certain
42:05
about that, he reminded himself. After all, women could be
42:08
dangerous too, Even women as attractive as this one.
42:12
Maybe, Maybe especially women as attractive as this one.
42:16
A guy might stand there thinking about how hot she was, never
42:19
even realised she was about to kill him.
42:20
I mean, we've all been there, haven't we?
42:24
But in this case, she didn't make any threatening moves.
42:26
She just stood there with her hands in the hip pockets of her
42:29
of the jeans she wore and looked at him.
42:33
Now this. Sorry, this is too far for me.
42:35
You want me to believe that liberal billionaires are murder
42:38
machines? That's fine.
42:38
I can believe that. But a woman been able to put
42:41
hands in her hip pockets Wouldn't happen.
42:44
Unbelievable. You've never you've never seen
42:46
women's jeans, have you? These ones I'm wearing now.
42:49
So annoying, right? Look at this, it's not even a
42:53
real pocket. What's the point?
42:56
Not not a pocket. So annoying.
42:58
Anyway, sorry, right aside, but in this case she didn't make any
43:03
threatening moves. She just stood there with her
43:05
hands in the hip pockets of her jeans she wore and looked at
43:08
him. It was a casual stance, but it
43:10
might have been calculated to make her breasts stand out a
43:13
little more prominently against the shirt she wore if that was
43:16
the case. It worked.
43:18
Of course. He's sexualising a random woman
43:20
for simply standing, God's sake. Oh my God, what?
43:28
Like she's literally standing there with hands in her pockets
43:31
and that's an excuse to objectify and sexualize it?
43:34
It's, it's silly, isn't it? It's so silly.
43:38
And at first I like her because she turns to him and says you're
43:41
an obnoxious young man, aren't you?
43:43
In addition to being a violent 1 facts.
43:46
Great. Love that for her, but my liking
43:48
of her doesn't last very long, sadly.
43:51
Her name is Natalie Burke. She's a professor at the
43:54
university teaching criminal justice.
43:56
I don't know why I put that in quotation marks, but there you
43:59
go. And she says that she is 7, no,
44:02
six or seven years older than Jake and I actually, at this
44:05
point, I didn't have a clue how old Jake was.
44:07
I assumed somewhere about 25, but I could have been wrong At
44:10
this point. I don't remember how old he is.
44:12
But I do think we get reveal at some point.
44:14
We'll see. Jake says.
44:15
I'd say that you don't look like a criminal justice professor,
44:19
but that would be sexist, exclusionary, patriarchal, and
44:21
oppressive, she said sternly. Haven't you read the speech
44:24
guide? I looked at it.
44:26
Jake hedged. I was more interested in sexual
44:29
conduct guidelines. Yes, well, we don't have to
44:31
worry about that. And you even bringing that up as
44:33
harassment, you know. Jake held up both hands, palms
44:37
out. I surrender, Dr What can I say?
44:39
I'm an evil CIS normative heterosexual.
44:42
I can't help myself. He smiled.
44:45
Say, does that mean I'm mentally ill?
44:47
That cuts me some slack. I'm a disadvantaged, oppressed
44:50
minority on this campus for damn sure.
44:54
Is this what the author thinks flirting is?
44:56
Because that's what this is meant to be.
44:58
I can't believe it. But does anyone feel like
45:01
they're using the word? CIS normative wrong.
45:03
Right. Like, like a society can be CIS
45:06
normative and ideology can be CIS normative, but an individual
45:11
like, does he just mean cisgender?
45:14
Is he getting like, like the author got sociology and
45:18
socialisation, socialisation mixed up.
45:21
Are they getting cisgender and CIS normative mixed up?
45:24
Like they, they don't even know the meaning of the words.
45:27
They're trying to like mock and critique.
45:30
It's yeah, it's a lot. And so Natalie starts by saying
45:34
stuff about how she's going to call the police because she's so
45:36
attacking the men. And he's like good night and
45:38
walks away. As you do.
45:41
He was a little confused, it seemed at times as if the woman
45:44
was actually flirting with him. If that was true, it was one
45:47
hell of an odd time and place for her to be doing that.
45:50
At the same time, she'd been right about one thing.
45:52
Despite everything else swirling around them, political
45:55
tomfoolery and the like, people still had universal emotions and
45:58
were driven by them at times. And she had said that she taught
46:01
in the criminal Justice Department, he recalled.
46:04
Maybe she wasn't quite as caught up in the so-called progressive
46:06
movement as some then, remembering how he had read
46:09
where some criminal justice experts always blame society for
46:12
creating the predators or the victims being preyed upon and he
46:16
wasn't so sure. Again, so poorly written, isn't
46:20
it? The whole encounter had him
46:21
baffled. But give me to.
46:24
Maybe she would throw him under the bus, Maybe she wouldn't.
46:26
But either way, there was nothing he could do about it
46:28
now. The confrontation between Jake
46:31
and the Antifa patrol was big news for a couple of days.
46:34
Still makes me laugh. It was all of the Internet and
46:38
the cable news channel of. Course it was, of course.
46:43
And the various cell phone videos shot by people in the
46:47
almost mob got millions of views in total on all the different
46:51
Oh, got millions of views in total on all the different
46:53
social media platforms. Random comma in there.
46:55
In almost all the news stories, Jake was referred to as alt
46:58
right, far right wing, extremist, white supremacist,
47:01
Nazi, or accused of being a member of the KKK, even though
47:05
the trouble had no racial component whatsoever.
47:07
The fight with fists, pipes and chains was hysterically
47:10
headlined as a mass shooting by one of the Boston papers.
47:13
The New York Times decried the right wing brutality while
47:16
sneeringly implying that such was to be expected because,
47:19
after all, Kelton College was in Texas and everybody knew what
47:23
sort of presidential candidates those persons voted for.
47:28
Now, I know you're often supposed to suspend your
47:30
disbelief in fiction, but come. On.
47:32
It was difficult for him to get to class, and once he was there,
47:34
he had trouble concentrating because the other students, and
47:37
usually the professors as well, were staring at him with a
47:40
mixture of fascination and fear. He was like some exotic zoo
47:43
animal. He thought.
47:45
They lived in such a philosophical and political
47:47
bubble that they couldn't even begin to comprehend how someone
47:50
could fail to share their views on everything.
47:52
All that exotic animal comparison was apartment in
47:54
another way. Because they all seem to be
47:56
worried that he would attack and RIP their throats out for no
47:58
reason with no warning. Or, you know, maybe they're a
48:01
bit scared of you and staring at you because you're a grown man
48:04
covered head to toe and bruises. You know, they've just seen
48:08
videos of you beating up a bunch of people.
48:10
Whether they shared the same views or not.
48:12
I think it's pretty fair to be scared of you in that situation.
48:15
Just saying. Especially if they heard the
48:17
bits where you were like I could kill you right now with it.
48:20
Like I'd be scared of someone saying that too.
48:23
The 24 hour news cycles, insatiable thirst for fresh
48:26
content meant that meant that some new outrageous story would
48:29
be along soon. And so it was in this case.
48:32
And three celebrity sexual harasses, 2 corrupt congressmen,
48:35
both Democrats, although little mention of that was made, and a
48:38
transsexual beauty queen of colour later, nobody cared about
48:41
that right wing barbarian Jake Rivers anymore.
48:44
Jake was glad of that. So let's not with outdated terms
48:48
like transsexual, please. Let's not.
48:51
And also, while we're on the subject of corrupt congressmen
48:54
and the like. Why don't we release?
48:56
All the Epstein files and prosecute all the child
48:59
predators and rapists involved, at least one of which happens to
49:02
be God. What is it again?
49:04
Oh, yeah, the Republican president of the United States,
49:07
although a little mention of that was made.
49:09
See, we can both do this and be like, see, the corruption is
49:12
from Exide and live, live, live. But they don't talk about that.
49:16
Except the difference is this is a fictional example in mine's
49:19
real life. Anyway, Jake goes to see the
49:21
person in charge of the university.
49:23
Like, I don't know if they call him like the president or
49:24
something that I don't know. I don't know.
49:27
We have like chancellors at our university.
49:29
I don't know what Americans call it.
49:30
I think something like the president of the university, I
49:32
don't know. And on the way he meets Natalie
49:34
again, the woman from the night before.
49:36
There's more awkward attempts at flirting.
49:38
He insults liberals and antifa and progressives and forward
49:42
thinkers. And then he gets creepy about
49:44
watching her walk away in a dress and staring at her bum and
49:47
it's just OK. Uni guy is called Mr Pelleter or
49:52
Mr Pelletier. Mr Pelletier Tier tier Mr
49:57
Pelletier. We'll go with that.
49:59
Yeah, maybe. And he says that Jake has a
50:02
bunch of lawsuits against him. We're going to settle the
50:05
lawsuits. Pelleter went on after a moment.
50:07
The colleges lawyers assure me that the cost will be less in
50:10
the long run than fighting them. His lips curled an expression of
50:14
distaste. Besides, to be honest, I don't
50:16
have the stomach to defend the actions of a person like you, Mr
50:19
Rivers. I find your attitude and actions
50:22
repellent and reprehensible. Young man, Kelton College is
50:25
supposed to be a haven of learning for all students,
50:27
regardless of ethnicity, national origin, national
50:30
origin, gender, lifestyle, or philosophy.
50:33
We value diversity and welcome inclusivity.
50:36
This entire campus is a safe space, if you will.
50:38
And then you Pelletier looked like he wanted to spit you come
50:43
in here with your far right nationalist, patriarchal,
50:46
sexist, bigoted, supremacist leanings and make our entire
50:50
student body and faculty extremely uncomfortable.
50:53
And here's the thing I'm confused about, right?
50:56
Why do all these people? Think Jake has these views?
50:58
What has he done to make them think this?
51:01
We've not seen him display much of them outwardly yet.
51:04
But generally people don't just say this stuff out the blue.
51:08
And he can be like, oh, it's because I'm a sis straight white
51:10
man. There's plenty of SIS straight
51:11
white man on this campus and they're not being accused of
51:13
this. So what have you done to start
51:16
off all these rumours? That's what I want to know.
51:18
But like, if he wanted to defend himself in this conversation
51:21
with the university guy, he could simply say, I don't have
51:24
far right beliefs. I'm not sexist, I'm not bigoted,
51:26
right? But instead he chooses to say
51:29
you can't be saying that I'm the only student enrolled here who's
51:32
not some whiny little snowflake. Which actually does make me
51:36
think these accusations against him have some merit.
51:40
You know, the guy even says this isn't the time or place to argue
51:45
with the wisdom or even the necessity of a constitution put
51:48
into place by white slaveholders.
51:50
I'm saying that I've received a number of complaints about you,
51:52
Mr Rivers, even before your latest incident.
51:55
Your wide eyed raving has disturbed many of our faculty
51:57
and students. So at this point I'm like, well,
52:00
what were these complaints? Because it sounds like people
52:03
calling him a fascist. There might be some basis there,
52:07
you know, that said, the apparent accusations, they're a
52:11
little up and down. Some of these, like you, would
52:13
not get in trouble for others. Interesting.
52:16
Pelletier picked up a piece of paper from the desk in front of
52:19
him, looked at what was evidently a list printed on it,
52:21
and said, you were heard To cast doubt on the validity of
52:24
Keynesian economics and taking a Nikon class.
52:28
We're supposed to discuss things like that.
52:30
And you know what? I am actually on Jake's side
52:32
here. Like, I don't necessarily agree
52:34
with his conclusion, but in every economics class I've
52:36
taken, yeah, you should absolutely discuss this stuff
52:39
and be like, well, this has its pros and the cons of on this
52:42
side, and this has pros and cons on this side and so on.
52:45
Like to get good marks, you should be able to highlight both
52:49
sides of the arguments. And that's a normal part of
52:52
education. And a university would not
52:55
accept that as natural complaint.
52:56
But they're just, they're just making things up here.
52:59
And however, on to the next point.
53:02
I can see why Jake kind of got this complaint against him.
53:04
And I think this one's a little bit more valid.
53:06
You told another student that in your opinion, all lives matter.
53:10
Are you saying they don't? That's not the point, is it?
53:12
Like the All Lives Matter crowd is being purposefully
53:16
inflammatory to try and undermine the genuinely
53:19
important conversations being had by the Black Lives Matter
53:22
movement. It's not a matter of like, do
53:25
all lives matter or not? It's saying when you bring that
53:28
up in response to the talking points by Black Lives Matter,
53:31
you're speaking over the real genuine issues there.
53:34
You know, also if you are interested in hearing more
53:38
people talk about issues around like Black Lives Matter and just
53:41
kind of racism in general. One of my favourite people in
53:44
the world and a really wonderful friend of mine, Rosie Begonsi,
53:47
has this incredible poetry EP that she put out called I
53:52
believe it's Songs About Race. I'm just going to check.
53:55
Yeah, poems about race and Rosie's absolutely incredible.
53:58
She's so talented. She also plays the hand pan on
54:00
it and she's wonderful. So I recommend going and
54:02
checking out her stuff. It's on Spotify, I believe, also
54:05
on Apple Music, and you can find some stuff on YouTube as well.
54:08
So she's great. Sorry, just shamelessly
54:10
promoting my friends there. Anyway, it goes on and the whole
54:13
point of this thing is Jake crying because like, Oh my God,
54:16
I'm being punished for having their own opinions because I'm
54:18
not politically correct. People are so mean.
54:21
Like, whatever. OK, so the guy asked him to
54:25
withdraw from college. The like, president guy says,
54:27
like, will you withdraw from the college?
54:29
Jake is like, no end of chapter. Chapter 10 opens with this guy.
54:33
He's like the first time we've been introduced to him.
54:36
But he's like the main bad guy in the book, right?
54:38
And his name is Mathias Foster. And he is shooting some stuff.
54:41
He's testing some guns. And he comes out with cheesy
54:44
lines like this. Preparation, my dear Lucy,
54:47
Proper preparation is the key to success.
54:50
Forgive me for sounding like a motivational speaker.
54:53
You're right, Foster agreed. We have other powerful weapons
54:56
on our side. Our brains.
54:58
He touched his forehead and our hearts.
55:01
His fingertips rested for a second on his chest.
55:04
Those are a higher calibre than any mechanical weapons we might
55:07
employ, and we must test them as well.
55:11
So funny. So even though we don't know who
55:13
he is yet, like I said, he's the bad guy.
55:14
But these four men drive up to the firing range and approach
55:17
him. Four men get out the SUV and
55:19
walk towards them. All were in their 20s, one
55:22
black, 1 Hispanic, 2 whites. All wore the same sort of casual
55:25
clothes as Foster and Lucy. The black guy and one of the
55:28
white guys wore sunglasses as well.
55:30
The other white guy and the Hispanic had the Hispanic.
55:34
I let's like not forget that he's a person, you know.
55:37
I anyway they'd gotten out of the SU VS backseat.
55:41
Jimmy. Hank Foster greeted the 2IN
55:43
sunglasses with a nod, then smiled at the other two.
55:46
Carlos Ben, they are here for target practise.
55:50
Because sure we are the black guy.
55:53
Jimmy said. The only way to stop those
55:55
fascists from taking over the country and ruining it is to
55:58
fight back against them with something they'll understand.
56:00
Force. Carlos said.
56:02
The same sort of oppression they deal out to us.
56:04
No, liberals talk like this. You know that, right?
56:08
But you know what? This actually reminds me and
56:11
lots of things in this book really reminded me of that
56:13
terrible attempt at a novel by Debbie Pearl.
56:17
But I've got a couple of videos on it.
56:19
And basically in it, she had these like Muslim terrorists
56:22
fighting these good Christians who had like, they discovered
56:27
this miracle jam that could bring the dead back to life.
56:31
And they had to print a bunch of Bibles to save the world because
56:36
like, it was the end of the world and everyone was going to
56:40
ascend to heaven if they were a Christian.
56:42
But they also had this life saving miracle jam and volcanoes
56:45
were erupting and a bunch of Muslim people were setting off
56:48
bombs. It was, it was so damn stupid.
56:51
It's one of the stupidest, most offensive books I've ever read.
56:54
And this comes close. Well, in a lot of ways it's, I
56:58
don't know if it's worse. They're both pretty bad.
57:00
They're both kind of on an even keel with how bad they are.
57:02
This next bit has not aged well either at all.
57:05
You know, they put some on death camps if they could get away
57:07
with it. Hank said.
57:08
Ben nodded and said sure they would.
57:10
Racist, sexist, homophobic bigots.
57:13
That's all they are. Every single one of them.
57:15
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the
57:17
problem. I mean, they're not wrong about
57:19
right wingers, are they? Like, because they're saying the
57:21
right wing would do this if they could.
57:23
And I mean, yeah, they're not wrong.
57:25
Look at everything Trump's been doing in America in this last
57:27
term and that he's, he's got plan it.
57:30
Yeah. Anyway, Anyway, there's a stupid
57:32
drama because one of the white guys, Ben, has been passing
57:35
information on to someone via a flash drive, apparently.
57:39
So I'll, I'll tell you this now. These are meant to be like
57:42
liberal terrorists. I know.
57:45
And he's been passing information on to like the right
57:48
wing, I don't know, some right wing people or the right wing
57:52
government or something to like rat them out.
57:55
So Foster just, well, he says that he killed the guy that he
57:59
gave the USB to and he got it back.
58:02
And then when he's called out for this, Ben threatens them all
58:05
with one of Foster's guns. And Foster's like, ha, the
58:08
firing mechanism in that's broken.
58:10
You'll never do anything with it.
58:11
And then the other men just shoot him and kill.
58:13
Him. And that's the end of the
58:15
chapter. Just to remind you, these are
58:20
people who are supposedly on the side of wanting gun control and
58:24
less guns in the country, and apparently they all just sit
58:27
around talking about how much they love guns and shoot each
58:30
other. Again, it's this fundamental
58:32
misunderstanding of what liberals believe and do and.
58:38
It's wild. It's wild.
58:40
Go back to Jake and his billionaire grandfather who is
58:42
busy paying people off for him to get out of trouble again.
58:45
Typical. Then Natalie turns up at his
58:48
dorm room for, well, it's like, for God knows what reason.
58:51
And I was like, how does she even know where he lives, right?
58:54
It's dodgy as hell. But after laughing together
58:56
about how silly people are for getting mad about racism,
58:59
bigotry, sexism and homophobia and homophobia, they agreed to
59:04
go for a beer together. And we get another moment which
59:07
is aged so badly. And Jake didn't much like going
59:10
out without being armed, especially after the recent
59:12
troubles. As a private institution, Kelton
59:14
College had the right under the law to prohibit carrying weapons
59:16
of all kinds. Public universities which
59:19
receive tax funds had to abide by the law of the state of Texas
59:22
that allowed citizens to bear arms.
59:25
The news media, the academic world, and the left in general
59:28
had freaked out of that legislation, shrieking that the
59:30
states, colleges and universities were going to
59:33
become the site of frequent bloody shootouts.
59:36
Of course, that hadn't happened, just as all of the liberals
59:39
doomsday predictions about all sorts of things from global
59:42
warming to the population explosion had failed to come to
59:44
pass. When a provision was added to
59:47
the law allowing Texans to carry openly, it was the end of the
59:50
world as we know it. According to some, people would
59:52
be blasting away each other constantly.
59:55
That couldn't be allowed to happen.
59:56
Just think of the children. So one, if you don't like going
1:00:00
out without being armed, where's your gun when you were being
1:00:02
attacked last night? And two, do you really think now
1:00:05
after what happened to Charlie Kirk not allowing guns on campus
1:00:09
is a silly thing? Jake goes on to brag about how
1:00:11
he always carries a gun everywhere even when it's
1:00:14
illegal to because I guess the law doesn't apply to him for
1:00:18
reasons. I mean, this is what happens
1:00:20
when you keep getting away with breaking the law because your
1:00:22
granddad's rich. I guess you just think the law
1:00:24
doesn't apply to you anymore. But it's funny, he he brags
1:00:27
about this and I never go anywhere without a gun.
1:00:29
But then the times when he needs a gun, he doesn't actually have
1:00:31
one. So.
1:00:32
And then he blames liberals for that.
1:00:34
Weird. Remind me why we're supposed to
1:00:37
root for this guy? Because I don't.
1:00:39
But then again, not right wing so.
1:00:41
He also had several small but deadly combat knives he carried
1:00:44
on occasion. He knew some older men,
1:00:46
including his grandfather, had carried at least a pocket knife
1:00:48
every day of their lives for 50 years or more until the rise of
1:00:52
the nanny state and its metal detectors had created too much
1:00:55
of A hassle for them. Jake had a couple of guns in his
1:00:57
dorm room. They weren't supposed to be
1:00:59
there, but he wanted to have them handy anyway.
1:01:01
He didn't try to take one of them out with him tonight
1:01:03
though. Instead, as he slipped his
1:01:05
jacket on, he felt the comfortable weight of the
1:01:07
folding knife in one of the pockets.
1:01:09
The blade, when it was opened was a little less than 3 inches
1:01:12
long, but in the hands of an expert, and Jake was an expert,
1:01:16
that was more than enough to be deadly.
1:01:18
So caring about the well-being of people and not wanting guns
1:01:22
and knives everywhere does not make somewhere a nanny state.
1:01:25
Just going to say that. And sorry but if I was.
1:01:28
Going out for a beer with a guy who was carrying a gun or knife,
1:01:31
I'd be petrified by that. I'd be like, no.
1:01:34
Anyway, Nestle reveals that she knows who he is and who his
1:01:37
granddad is. And he's like, I don't want
1:01:39
people to know in case they think I'm getting special
1:01:41
treatment. Which actually means that he
1:01:43
doesn't want people to know that he is getting special treatment
1:01:46
because he is. He is.
1:01:48
I don't want to talk about it, he said, shaking his head.
1:01:50
I don't want people thinking I'm getting breaks or being treated
1:01:52
differently because of who my relatives are.
1:01:54
But he is. But you are, Natalie said.
1:01:58
Thank you. And that's just the way of the
1:02:00
world, Jake. People who have more wealth and
1:02:02
power, or whose families have more wealth and power are
1:02:05
treated differently. Some people who are obsessed
1:02:08
with trying to make everything in the world fair don't like
1:02:10
that. But there's nothing really they
1:02:11
can do about it. They've been trying for hundreds
1:02:14
of years, but they haven't been able to.
1:02:16
Oh, well, that's all right. Then we should just see
1:02:19
corruption and inequality and ignore it because why bother
1:02:23
trying to change it? Why make anything better?
1:02:25
It's been going on this long and it's only getting worse.
1:02:28
But yeah, let's not try and fix it at all.
1:02:30
What a sad, horrible, uncaring and selfish worldview to have,
1:02:36
right? Wild.
1:02:37
Anyway, they bond over complaining about how everyone
1:02:40
is throwing a hissy fit and that they're just looking for
1:02:43
something to complain about and blah blah blah blah blah.
1:02:45
This whole book is just self congratulatory right wing slop.
1:02:49
We find out at this point Jake is 24 and not for the first time
1:02:53
we're told that he has an old soul and he is mature for his
1:02:57
age. Which when coupled with that
1:02:59
line earlier about sleeping with adult women when he was a
1:03:02
teenager, feels creepy to me. Kind of justifying child rape,
1:03:06
but OK. I don't like it.
1:03:09
I don't like it at all. Natalie gives us the most over
1:03:11
the top description of Jake and it is unintentionally hilarious.
1:03:16
You're full of contradictions. You're a warrior, but you're
1:03:20
also a philosopher. You quote Shakespeare.
1:03:23
You're young, but you look down on people your age and venerate
1:03:26
soldiers from wars that were fought 3 generations ago.
1:03:29
You're quiet, spoken and gentle. And yet you've been one of those
1:03:33
rough men ready to do violence on other people's behalf when
1:03:36
you need to be. You still are a rough man.
1:03:39
I don't go out of my way to look for fights.
1:03:41
Exactly. You're like a warrior monk.
1:03:45
And then they kiss. And then Jake gets attacked
1:03:48
again. Those damn black hooded antifa
1:03:52
fanatics. They were after him again.
1:03:56
I don't. Get why this random nobody man
1:03:58
is a target at all? And honestly, after reading the
1:04:00
whole book, I still don't. That's so ridiculous.
1:04:05
It's funny. So, Jake.
1:04:07
Uses his knife and is an angry, emotional and violent mess.
1:04:11
As Jake returned to an upright position and stood there braced
1:04:14
for more trouble with his chest teeth thing not from exertion as
1:04:17
much as from emotion. He tried to calm the rage that
1:04:20
had burst into white hot fire inside him.
1:04:23
All the resentment and disgust that had been building up since
1:04:26
he had come here to Kelton College had broken free.
1:04:29
He knew he could have killed somebody if one of those knife
1:04:31
strokes had opened up a throat, but right at that moment he
1:04:34
didn't care. They had attacked him again, and
1:04:38
whatever happened to them was on their own heads.
1:04:42
So he's saved by campus police again, and while the main guy in
1:04:46
charge seems to be on his side, another it's not.
1:04:48
So we get the typical like good cop, bad cop thing, but it's
1:04:51
like right wing cop, left wing cop, blue cop, red cop, if you
1:04:56
will, or red cop, blue cop, whichever.
1:05:00
Way around 1 I don't. Anyway, I'm rambling here.
1:05:03
Natalie. Apparently someone who called
1:05:04
the police when he gets back to his room Natalie has text him to
1:05:08
check that he's OK. And at this point I'm like but
1:05:11
how did she get his number? Like he didn't give it to her.
1:05:13
She didn't give him hers. Like how did she text him?
1:05:16
I'm like she's dodgy as hell either like she's abused her
1:05:20
position in power as a lecturer at the university to find out
1:05:22
his personal information which is creepy as hell, or like she's
1:05:26
a plan sent to spy on him and that's why she's gotten from his
1:05:29
information. In which case I'm like but why
1:05:32
are they spying on him? He's not that important.
1:05:36
He's a nobody. I don't.
1:05:38
I don't like any of this. It's so silly.
1:05:41
Anyway the text when he read it he saw it said are you all
1:05:44
right? N that was her he thought.
1:05:47
He wasn't sure how she got on his number, but she had already
1:05:49
proven to be resourceful. He tapped out.
1:05:51
Fine, you all good? I'm glad you weren't hurt and
1:05:55
now you have my number so I'll be expecting you to call me.
1:05:57
Jake sent back a thumbs up, not knowing what else to say, then
1:06:01
put the phone in his pocket and went on into the dorm.
1:06:04
Driest texter ever. Oh my God.
1:06:08
Oh I'm so tired. OK, I'm going to stop us here
1:06:11
and film tomorrow night. OK?
1:06:13
Welcome back to Part 2 Filming and We Are Just.
1:06:15
Going to do voice over for this, if that's OK, because I got back
1:06:18
from Barcelona yesterday and I'm a little exhausted and I look
1:06:21
very, very tired right now. But we're going to do this
1:06:24
together. So we're starting off with the
1:06:26
next chapter, which cuts right back to our Antifa gang
1:06:29
ringleader Foster. Him and his buddies are
1:06:32
complaining about Jake saying, oh, Rivers is going to be a
1:06:35
problem, we need to take that Slough a bitch out.
1:06:38
Jimmy said he held up his left arm, which spotted bandage
1:06:41
around the forearm. He cut me pretty bad.
1:06:43
I had to get a dozen stitches. Man, if we didn't have a doctor
1:06:47
of our own, we'd have guys in the ER right now and the cops
1:06:49
asking questions. And we were lucky it wasn't
1:06:52
worse. Somebody could have gone and
1:06:53
killed. As it was, we've got men laid up
1:06:56
again, so obviously they're the ones attacking him.
1:06:59
I still don't really understand why they're targeting him.
1:07:01
Like, he's literally no one special.
1:07:03
And we don't really get an answer for that at any point in
1:07:06
the book. So just, you know, it's plot for
1:07:09
plot sake, all right? Just this book is nonsense.
1:07:12
It doesn't have to make sense. None of it does.
1:07:15
With this next bit though, I love how bad the dialogue is
1:07:17
here. It's so funny.
1:07:19
We've gone after him twice just to test him and find out how
1:07:21
much of a bad bum he really is. Foster pointed out.
1:07:24
Now we know he's not going to take us by surprise and die
1:07:26
harders. If he tries, we'll be ready for
1:07:29
him. That's why we have to make sure
1:07:30
where he is and keep track of him.
1:07:32
Still think we should just go ahead and kill him right off the
1:07:34
bat? Jimmy muttered sullenly.
1:07:36
And again, here's where things get confusing, right?
1:07:38
Because this whole book so far has painted all the liberal
1:07:41
Antifa students and just liberals in general right as
1:07:45
violent and aggressive, and they're doing all this
1:07:48
attacking, right? And then the liberal bad guy
1:07:51
says this. What about the rest of the
1:07:53
students hand cast? There could be somebody else who
1:07:55
might take us by surprise. Foster made a face and shook his
1:07:58
head. The chances of that are so
1:08:00
small, I'm not really worried about it.
1:08:02
You know what they're like. They're not violent, they are
1:08:04
bore violent. Just ask anybody, they'll tell
1:08:06
you. Oh, they can form a mob quickly
1:08:08
enough if anybody offends them and violates their safe spaces,
1:08:11
but as long as we keep them spread out, they won't do that.
1:08:13
They won't do anything unless the odds are on their side.
1:08:16
They think they're noble, but they're just cowards.
1:08:18
He laughed again. They're about to learn a
1:08:20
valuable lesson, though. What's that, Lewis?
1:08:22
He asked. And a world full of wolves.
1:08:25
There are no safe spaces. So I'm confused.
1:08:28
You're meant to be liberals. You're meant to be fighting for
1:08:30
the side who want safe spaces. You're complaining that the
1:08:33
people you're fighting alongside aren't violent, even though
1:08:37
they're the ones who started fighting first.
1:08:39
You're liberals. You're violent.
1:08:41
That like, but I, I don't know, I, I don't even think this book
1:08:46
knows what it's saying anymore. And not at any point.
1:08:49
So it wants to. Paint all liberals as like
1:08:51
violent bad guys, But then they're like, don't worry, they
1:08:53
want attackers. They're just liberals.
1:08:55
They're not violent. They're cowards, but they're I,
1:08:57
I don't know who. It makes no sense.
1:09:01
Then we get one of the creepiest scenes yet.
1:09:03
So Jake Gustav is a friend of his called Keith Randall who has
1:09:06
a 12 year old daughter. I you know what?
1:09:08
I forgot this was even in here because it's so insignificant.
1:09:11
But Keith likes guns, Jake likes guns.
1:09:14
Both the men have guns. The 12 year old daughter then
1:09:18
mocks Jake for having a small gun.
1:09:20
And Jake, this grown man in his mid 20s says to the 12 year old
1:09:24
girl. It's not the size of the gun,
1:09:27
it's what you know how to do with it.
1:09:29
Jake had responded, then immediately wished he hadn't
1:09:31
said such thing to a 12 year old girl.
1:09:33
He needed to watch his phrasing in the future.
1:09:35
Stop it. Why would the author even choose
1:09:38
to write this? They're always going off on like
1:09:41
certain liberals being like, oh. You're a danger to kids.
1:09:43
Like they hate things like drag Queens reading to kids and yet
1:09:47
they write they're supposed to heroes saying things like this
1:09:50
to literal children? What the hell?
1:09:52
Like the author did not need to include this.
1:09:55
Jake did not need to say it. He didn't need to be saying it
1:09:58
to a. 12 year old girl especially I stop it.
1:10:01
Stop it. But it's OK.
1:10:03
Apparently the conservatives writing this book don't want us
1:10:07
to be silly liberal snowflakes who are offended by child sexual
1:10:09
harassment. Because the small child wasn't
1:10:12
offended, she just went straight back to shooting an automatic
1:10:14
rifle, the book reads. If she'd been offended, though,
1:10:17
she hadn't shown it. She just snorted disgustedly,
1:10:19
shook her head and gone back to the AR15 she was sighting in.
1:10:23
What is wrong with these people anyway?
1:10:25
Then there's more of this like Oh my God, Antifa and the true
1:10:28
Nazis talk and it's just, it's too silly at this point.
1:10:32
So Jake tells this Keith guy about the guys who attacked him
1:10:35
twice and his friend says Jake that's that's unacceptable.
1:10:40
So clearly he's like me, big strong alpha.
1:10:43
That unacceptable. Me, me me me me.
1:10:46
At the shooting range Jake saw some old guy who was an even
1:10:49
better shot than him and he got all gooey eyed for him and
1:10:51
couldn't stop thinking about him.
1:10:53
And it reads, since then Jake hadn't been able to get the man
1:10:56
named Riviera out of his head, or Randall's comments about the
1:10:59
possibility of him being a private security specialist.
1:11:02
That sort of work appealed to Jake, or at least the idea if it
1:11:04
did anyway. He had training and experience
1:11:06
that had enhanced his own natural skills to the point
1:11:09
there was something not often needed in normal society.
1:11:12
Not many people needed an ever rougher man than usual standing
1:11:15
ready to do violence on their behalf, but when they did it was
1:11:18
often a matter of life and death, and Jake enjoyed pitting
1:11:21
himself against high stakes like that.
1:11:23
I think Jake needs therapy. Just being honest.
1:11:26
Back at the university and some random guy calls Jake a Nazi so
1:11:29
he starts arguing with him at a corridor and Jake calls him a
1:11:32
snowflake. So the guy responds by acting
1:11:34
like some over the top caricature and then the guy says
1:11:38
to him, we've had enough of your aggression.
1:11:41
He was all Jake could do not to turn around quickly and pop the
1:11:43
guy. He didn't figure it would take
1:11:45
any more than one punch. In fact, that punch might well
1:11:47
break his jaw. That would shut the annoying
1:11:49
little B word up anyway. So good job there denying the
1:11:53
claims. You're aggressive, Jake, by
1:11:56
being aggressive. The left didn't want the truth
1:11:58
getting out, though. To them, the liberal elite was
1:12:00
smarter than anyone else, and so they thought they ought to be
1:12:03
the ones to tell people what to think and do.
1:12:05
And liberals always included themselves in that elite without
1:12:08
ever occurring to them that if the communists saw the Islamic,
1:12:11
no Islamist, not sorry, Yeah, not Islamic Islamist.
1:12:14
OK, All the Islamist fanatics ever took over, they would be
1:12:18
among the first lined up against the wall for the firing squad.
1:12:21
Like, what is this nonsense? None of this book makes sense.
1:12:25
And then there's some stuff about Jake being kind of racist
1:12:27
to a black guy who tried to help him out, but Jake comes around
1:12:29
to him and realises, dude, it's OK, he might be black but at
1:12:33
least he's from a rich family so he's one of the good ones.
1:12:37
That's sickening, absolutely sickening.
1:12:39
The next chapter is just more of the same nonsense like this.
1:12:42
The answer to that was simple and near universal.
1:12:44
If a liberal said it, other liberals would believe it
1:12:47
regardless of what the facts showed.
1:12:49
Just not even close to true. I feel like they could be
1:12:52
talking about Donald Trump's followers here.
1:12:54
You know, the projection is it's a lot.
1:12:57
Once again, Natalie shows up out of nowhere and her and Jake bond
1:13:01
over their apparent hatred of the left.
1:13:03
No, the professionally outraged will just find something else to
1:13:05
be offended and upset about. You know that, Jake, the way
1:13:08
they moved the goal posts, nobody can ever win with them.
1:13:11
Like, this stuff is funny for a while, but it gets boring,
1:13:13
doesn't it? Just because it's so over the
1:13:15
top and stupid and they miss so many of the points that I, well,
1:13:18
I say that there is. It's a hilarious bit, though,
1:13:20
where they go to a restaurant, and it's one that Natalie
1:13:23
suggests. And they took his pick up with
1:13:25
Natalie giving him directions to the steakhouse.
1:13:28
Not that he really needed them. He knew he could have relied on
1:13:30
his innate sense of direction to find the place.
1:13:33
Yeah, You can find a place that you've never been to before just
1:13:36
because you have an innate sense of direction.
1:13:38
Shut up. This is not how men work.
1:13:42
There's more nonsense and lack of understanding about consent,
1:13:45
too. So they kiss, God knows why who,
1:13:48
who would kiss this man? But OK, here we are.
1:13:51
When the kiss ended, as it finally had to, Jake said
1:13:53
quietly. I'm sorry, I didn't ask your
1:13:55
permission to do that. Don't be.
1:13:57
She replied without hesitation. Look, let's forget about all
1:14:00
those ridiculous politically correct guidelines.
1:14:03
There comes a time between a man and a woman when none of that
1:14:05
garbage matters. He started to say something
1:14:07
about how she was being awfully hetero centric there with her
1:14:10
comment about a man and a woman, but then he realised she was
1:14:12
right. He shoved everything else out of
1:14:14
his mind and let and let human instinct guide him.
1:14:17
Kissed her again. There were some things
1:14:19
bureaucracies just couldn't make rules against, and what he was
1:14:22
feeling now was one of them. Let the petty little tyrants try
1:14:25
to regulate human emotions all they wanted.
1:14:27
In the end, they would fail. The human spirit wouldn't be
1:14:30
broken, if it ever was. That was a world Jake wouldn't
1:14:34
want to live in. No one wants to regulate human
1:14:37
emotion. What does that even mean?
1:14:40
So funny. In the next chapter things keep
1:14:43
getting ridiculous. Our big bad liberal gang leader
1:14:46
has now infiltrated a very elite group, the college
1:14:49
groundskeepers. He's apparently been posing as
1:14:52
one of them for weeks now and I'm not.
1:14:55
And on this particular day, he's decided to put his plan into
1:14:59
action finally and kill them all off 1 by 1 In my original script
1:15:03
tells like why, I don't know, but he's he strangles the head
1:15:06
groundskeeper, hits another over the head with a wrench, and then
1:15:09
he holds the other three at at gunpoint and asks them for their
1:15:12
overalls as as you do, I guess. And then he strangles one of
1:15:16
them and then the other two get stabbed with knives.
1:15:18
So now there's five dead groundskeepers.
1:15:21
Also he could get some overalls so a bunch of Foster's evil
1:15:25
liberal colleagues show up and dress in all the stolen overalls
1:15:29
and I just. I don't get why he a had to pose
1:15:32
as a groundskeeper for weeks to do this.
1:15:35
B had to kill them all. See why any of this is
1:15:39
happening. Like, couldn't you just bought
1:15:41
some of these overalls online or like stolen some?
1:15:44
I'm sure there's some spare ones lying around somewhere.
1:15:47
And like, the whole idea is that they're, they're wearing these
1:15:50
overalls so they can like walk around campus and start digging
1:15:53
holes without arousing suspicion.
1:15:55
But like that none of that was even necessarily necessary to
1:16:00
the plan anyway. So I just I, I'm, I'm so
1:16:02
confused by all of this. Not of this was necessary.
1:16:07
Oh my God. OK, chapter 19 is back to
1:16:10
Pierce, Jake's new black friend who is arguing with his also
1:16:14
black girlfriend about Jake. And here's the thing I find odd
1:16:18
about this book right, is that the author feels need to point
1:16:20
out the race and skin tone of only non white characters,
1:16:24
right? So if a student is like black or
1:16:28
Hispanic or something like that, then we're told about it.
1:16:31
But if it's anyone else who happens to be white, their skin,
1:16:34
their skin colour is never actually mentioned.
1:16:36
So like as a university president, Natalie, I think
1:16:40
maybe Jake himself, although maybe is mentioned that he's
1:16:43
white. I'm not sure.
1:16:44
But none of their skin colour is ever mentioned.
1:16:46
We just have to assume they're white.
1:16:48
It's like assuming that white is the default and racism they
1:16:52
pointed out if it is in the author's eyes, although, and
1:16:55
that kind of feels like racism to me, you know, I just, it's a
1:17:00
bit odd, you know, like I don't mind if authors want to leave
1:17:04
multiple characters race ambiguous in general if it's not
1:17:07
relevant to the story. I I have literally no issues
1:17:10
with that. But there's a difference between
1:17:12
that and an author writing a piece of right wing propaganda
1:17:15
trying to claim that they're neither racist nor a Nazi who
1:17:18
views. And yet they seem to view white
1:17:20
skin as the default, you know? Anyway, Pierce's girlfriend is
1:17:25
mad that he's been helping Jake. And she points out, you know,
1:17:29
good and well those damn white supremacists are setting up
1:17:31
death camps in Utah and Wyoming and are planning to send all the
1:17:34
black folks there just as soon as they steal enough elections
1:17:37
to control the government completely.
1:17:39
Which I know was written at the time to make her seem crazy and
1:17:42
unrealistic. But once again, reading this in
1:17:45
Trump's second term, this isn't so out there, is it?
1:17:48
She has a point. I feel like this book, the
1:17:51
liberals are like, meant to appear crazy and whatever, but
1:17:55
they're actually just like prophesizing what's happening
1:17:57
now. But like 8 years earlier.
1:17:59
It Yeah, it's a lot. There's also this section which
1:18:03
has aged so poorly. It's, oh, it's a bunch of
1:18:06
laughable nonsense. Right?
1:18:07
The previous semester, Pierce had written a paper on voter
1:18:09
fraud, and he knew from his research into the subject that
1:18:11
in virtually all the provable cases, the fraud had favoured
1:18:14
the candidate representing the Democratic Party.
1:18:17
People on the left like to argue that the Republicans engaged in
1:18:20
voter suppression, which was also a form of fraud, but Pierce
1:18:23
hadn't found any actual evidence of that.
1:18:25
On the contrary, the only instances of voter suppression
1:18:27
and intimidation he'd been able to find were cases where antifa,
1:18:30
Black Lives Matter and other progressive groups had prevented
1:18:33
conservatives from voting, sometimes by violence.
1:18:36
As someone who had always considered himself very left
1:18:39
with leaning politically, but who was also devoted to the
1:18:42
concepts of fairness and equal rights, those discoveries have
1:18:44
been rather troubling for Pierce.
1:18:46
Yeah, sure, that happens. It's definitely not happened on
1:18:49
the other side, has it? We definitely haven't had.
1:18:52
I say we. I'm English, but like, you guys
1:18:54
have definitely never had a Republican president try and,
1:18:58
you know, encourage his voters and fans.
1:19:01
And they actually have stormed the Capitol building because
1:19:05
they lost an election. Yeah.
1:19:06
I anyway, PS goes to me history group her all these
1:19:10
stereotypical caricatures of liberals.
1:19:12
Farid was on his feet, stocking around the table and talking
1:19:15
animatedly as usual. He was a wiry young man who had
1:19:18
shaved his head but kept a layer of dark beard stubble on his
1:19:20
face. He spotted Pierce approaching.
1:19:22
He stopped waving his hands and glared angrily at the newcomer
1:19:25
instead. Chunky purple haired Marjorie
1:19:27
Dawn didn't look happy to see PS either.
1:19:29
Marjorie was never happy though, so Pierce wasn't surprised.
1:19:32
She was one of the most perpetually outraged people he
1:19:34
had ever met, and that was saying a lot since Pierce's
1:19:37
father saw racism everywhere he looked.
1:19:39
The other two members of the group just looked like they
1:19:40
wanted to get on with it. Jenny Trumbull had been a
1:19:42
cheerleader in high school, but a couple of years that Kelton
1:19:45
had changed her. Now she wore her blonde hair in
1:19:47
dreadlocks, seldom washed it and wouldn't be caught dead in make.
1:19:50
That's that's not how dreadlocks work.
1:19:53
Like you still have to take care of them.
1:19:54
I no stop, OK. Clark Mitchell was short, pudgy,
1:19:58
round faced and more glasses the stereotypical nerd, but he was
1:20:01
highly intelligent and fiercely devoted to Jenny, although she
1:20:04
never paid him anything more than perfunctory attention.
1:20:08
They all say nonsense things like none of that matters.
1:20:11
Nothing can be allowed to distract from the narrative.
1:20:14
You know that Jake Rivers is evil and must be driven from our
1:20:17
midst like. No one, no one talks like this,
1:20:20
no liberals talk like this. Tests or aggressions.
1:20:23
Marjorie said under her breath. Just another way for the
1:20:25
patriarchy to keep oppressing us.
1:20:27
The system keeps us in it's iron grip.
1:20:29
Farid said, holding your hand up and clenching it into a fist to
1:20:32
demonstrate. But one day all the oppressed
1:20:34
people of the world will join together and explode.
1:20:37
He opened his fists emphatically.
1:20:39
Then there will come a reckoning for the simple western society
1:20:42
and all it's ills. So once again, this book was
1:20:45
clearly written by someone who's never been around actual
1:20:47
liberals in their life. It's laughable.
1:20:49
And no one talks like this. And of course, they're making
1:20:52
the one Muslim character in the book start talking about like,
1:20:54
explosions and oh God, yeah, let's not it.
1:20:58
It only gets worse. The portrayal of Farid in this
1:21:01
is disgusting. Thing is, like, it's not just
1:21:05
that they try and make him out to be like some sort of
1:21:06
terrorist or whatever, they also try and make him out be like a
1:21:09
rapist and it's really disgusting.
1:21:11
Listen to this bit. Yeah, Clark said, venturing to
1:21:13
express an opinion without waiting for Jenny so he could
1:21:15
follow her lead. The revolution.
1:21:17
What a glorious day that will be, and we'll all be fighting to
1:21:20
liberate the world together, won't we?
1:21:22
MO Amar Watch I think is Fareed's.
1:21:25
I think he's going to be his first name.
1:21:26
I'm not sure. I think Fareed might be a
1:21:27
surname. Of course, my friend.
1:21:29
Fareed said with a cold smile that didn't possess a shred of
1:21:31
sincerity. As far as Pierce could see.
1:21:33
When the day came, if Fareed had his way, a soft little BLOB like
1:21:36
Clark would be slaughtered with the rest of the infidels, Jenny
1:21:39
for sure, and maybe even Marjorie would be raped to death
1:21:42
for the glory of Allah. Pierce knew that a lot of black
1:21:45
people had fallen for the Muslim line, but he never had.
1:21:47
There was such a thing as taking the enemy of my enemy.
1:21:50
Is my friend too far? No.
1:21:52
If Farid and the guys like him ever captured any real power,
1:21:55
Pierce wanted to be as far away as possible when that happened.
1:21:59
It's just it must be exhausting to live this way and think this
1:22:02
nonsense all the time. Right?
1:22:04
It just. Yeah.
1:22:05
Clearly whoever wrote this book has never been around an actual
1:22:08
Muslim person in their life because, yeah, I've definitely
1:22:11
been critical of a lot of the more fundamentalist and extreme
1:22:16
Muslim beliefs before. I've got videos about it.
1:22:18
Absolutely. Like there was this one book,
1:22:21
because obviously I make books about like certain extremist
1:22:24
Christian ideas and stuff and like, you know, the ones that
1:22:27
especially perpetrate rape culture and everything.
1:22:30
But I, I did one once about it was something about like how to
1:22:34
be like a good Muslim woman or something.
1:22:36
And it took these quotes from the yeah, it took these quotes
1:22:39
from the Koran and often took them really out of context or
1:22:42
kind of took the most extreme ones and like then took them to
1:22:46
the extreme. And it was telling women you
1:22:47
have to do this and this and this and subservient.
1:22:50
And if you don't do this, you'll get stoned.
1:22:52
But, and obviously not all Muslims believe that.
1:22:54
I think, I think we can all agree that's just not the case
1:22:57
for the majority of people. And they're taking these ideas
1:23:00
are very outdated because there's similar ones in the
1:23:02
Bible. Absolutely.
1:23:03
But there are extremists in all religion, well, in most
1:23:06
religions that can believe this stuff, and I'm always going to
1:23:08
be critical of them. But I don't think you can talk
1:23:10
every single person in a religion with the same brush.
1:23:13
Just like there's some bad actors who are atheists, there's
1:23:17
going to be bad actors who are Christian and Muslim and
1:23:20
numerous other religions. But there's also a lot of good
1:23:23
people who believe those things. I just feel like we can't just
1:23:26
demonise an entire religion because of the minority, you
1:23:29
know, and we can criticise some of the ideas of the religion
1:23:32
without having to turn the people who follow it into these
1:23:35
over the top offensive caricatures, you know?
1:23:38
Anyway, nothing actually happens in this chapter except to make a
1:23:40
bunch of students seem comically evil.
1:23:42
There's some nonsense about the liberal police officer who
1:23:46
thinks all fascists should be, in his words, rounded up and
1:23:49
shipped out or dealt with in some other way.
1:23:52
And I I find it really revealing that so many Republicans just
1:23:55
assume that everyone on the left thinks the same way they do.
1:23:58
Like they are very much as we've seen in America right now, like
1:24:02
they're like, if you disagree with us, if you're not like us,
1:24:05
if you're not part of the in Group, then we want you sent
1:24:07
away or killed, right? Because we're seeing that, like,
1:24:10
with the way ICE are rounding up so many immigrants and treating
1:24:15
them so poorly and so awfully, and how when, even, like,
1:24:20
American citizens get in the way, a lot of them are getting
1:24:22
killed, right, or hurt or injured or just treated badly.
1:24:25
So I feel like the Republican author here projecting that onto
1:24:29
the liberals in the book. It's just, it's very telling,
1:24:32
isn't it? It absolutely is.
1:24:34
Then Jake goes for another meeting with the university
1:24:36
president. Because this book is repetitive
1:24:39
and poorly structured. And I guess they had a page
1:24:42
count they needed to reach. And when he's confronted about
1:24:45
being in another violent incident, he replies, no
1:24:48
offence, Sir, but that wasn't violence.
1:24:50
That guy might as well have been trying to play Patty cake with
1:24:53
me. It's like, Nate, violence is
1:24:55
violence and does not belong on a uni campus, whether you've
1:24:58
seen worse or not, you know? And anyway, the president's
1:25:01
like, I wish you'd never been accepted here, of which, let's
1:25:04
be honest, like a man in his position would never actually
1:25:06
say that. He's just all opening himself up
1:25:08
to lawsuits if he does. Like it's so unrealistic.
1:25:11
And then Jake is like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
1:25:13
But you had to because my and as rich, which is something as well
1:25:16
rich kid would say, isn't it? But it doesn't make him likeable
1:25:18
at all. And then another line which has
1:25:21
aged like milk. Jake says I don't hate anybody.
1:25:24
Look around at the rest of the country, Sir.
1:25:26
The stock market's up, unemployment's down.
1:25:29
The economy is growing at a nice rate around the world.
1:25:32
Other countries respect us again.
1:25:33
It's like, come on, Trump near destroyed America the first time
1:25:37
round and now he's back. His actions are having an even
1:25:40
bigger negative effect than ever.
1:25:43
And let's be honest, no one around the world respects the US
1:25:46
right now. No one respects Donald Trump.
1:25:48
We all think he's massive laughing stock, but also that
1:25:50
he's dangerous and he's just ruining the economy for
1:25:54
everyone. It's this is aged like milk.
1:25:56
Absolutely. And I'll remind you again, this
1:25:58
book was written during his first runners president.
1:26:02
And so now in his second, it's like we know this is nonsense.
1:26:06
The university president responds with, you mean they you
1:26:09
mean they fear what the lunatic in the White House might do.
1:26:11
Facts love this. And Jake says with a smile, a
1:26:15
little fear can be a healthy thing, which is a horrifying
1:26:18
thing to say, isn't it? And also, no, nothing Trump has
1:26:22
ever done or continues to do can ever be described as healthy.
1:26:25
Let's be real, the president threatens to make stuff up to
1:26:28
get Jake kicked out of uni, which again, someone in his
1:26:31
position would never say. This is entirely unbelievable,
1:26:34
but Jake thinks he probably could.
1:26:36
After all, the left specialised in banding together and spinning
1:26:39
false narratives. The mainstream media had been
1:26:42
doing it for decades. They took pride in being able to
1:26:44
tell the public what to think, whether the so-called news they
1:26:47
peddled bought any real resemblance to the truth or not.
1:26:50
They claimed that Hillary Clinton was the most qualified
1:26:52
candidate for president in the history of the country.
1:26:55
Hadn't they? God, again, it's so ironic that
1:26:58
this was written at a time when they had and now currently have
1:27:01
a president who just makes up nonsense off the top of his head
1:27:04
and claims it's a fact. Like I, I would say Trump has
1:27:08
been the worst presidential candidate ever for just
1:27:11
spreading such blatant misinformation.
1:27:13
And I mean, look, I'm, I'm no Clinton fan in general, right?
1:27:16
But even I know she was far more qualified than Trump ever was.
1:27:20
I don't believe she's the most qualified candidate ever like
1:27:22
that. Not, not by a long way.
1:27:23
But more qualified than Trump, yes.
1:27:26
I mean, I would be more qualified than Trump and I'm
1:27:29
English and know nothing, so says a lot, doesn't it?
1:27:33
And I mean, I say all this as someone with literally no horse
1:27:35
in the race. I'm an English person who never
1:27:39
has never will, never can vote in America.
1:27:41
Yeah, Like, that doesn't affect me other than like, your
1:27:45
elections don't affect me other on other than on like the global
1:27:48
scale, like when Trump screws up and it puts petrol prices up all
1:27:51
over the world and food prices and so on and so on.
1:27:53
And again, I would say that like, politically, I don't
1:27:55
really fall into either of your like Republican or Democratic
1:27:59
ideologies as such. Like in the UKI have been a
1:28:02
green voter for pretty much all of the last 15 years.
1:28:06
I think there's just one year in London.
1:28:07
I voted Labour instead because I just prefer the local candidate.
1:28:11
But generally I'm a green voter through and through.
1:28:14
And like the area of Leeds where I live the last six years we've
1:28:17
just got a green candidate in and stuff and I I love that.
1:28:20
So my point is, I have no horse in the race.
1:28:22
Even I know this author is talking nonsense.
1:28:25
Anyway, not the point. Throughout all there's slight
1:28:27
mentions of the maintenance team.
1:28:28
You know maintenance team. That and so silly, the anti for
1:28:33
terrorists who are digging outside buildings across campus.
1:28:37
They're wandering through the library.
1:28:39
Cool, OK, they're clearly putting their plan into action,
1:28:42
and I'll say now their plan is stupid as hell.
1:28:45
It makes no sense, but OK. Other than this, not a lot's
1:28:48
happening. Jake goes to the library to meet
1:28:50
Natalie, and then in chapter 22, Police Chief Man Frank goes to
1:28:54
the maintenance room for reasons, I guess because of what
1:28:58
needed him to, and he sees the shoe on the floor through the
1:29:00
window, so he panics. And then he breaks down the
1:29:03
door, finds a dead body, but only one, not the other four,
1:29:06
and is about to call for backup when conveniently, someone
1:29:09
attacks him from behind. They fight.
1:29:12
It's a scuffle. Frank ends up stabbing his
1:29:15
attack in the chest and calls for help when it's walkie-talkie
1:29:18
and then the chapter ends. But back to Jake and Natalie in
1:29:20
the library. And while Jake's there, he
1:29:24
spotted a familiar face and recognised the guy who had given
1:29:27
him the unedited video of one of his confrontations earlier.
1:29:31
PS Connors PS Was sitting with a group of students, one of whom
1:29:34
was a young Middle Eastern guy. This is awful.
1:29:38
Listen to this. Jake knew a lot of people would
1:29:40
say it was racist of him, but whenever he saw somebody like
1:29:43
that, he always felt himself tense up inside for a second.
1:29:47
Too many people who looked like that guy had shot at him or
1:29:50
tried to blow him up. Once you'd lived with something
1:29:52
like that for months, it took a long time for the instincts
1:29:55
developed during such an experience to fade.
1:29:57
Yeah, that is racist. Like my granddad, who he died
1:30:01
before I was born. I've heard a lot of stories
1:30:02
about him, Right. He fought in, I believe it was
1:30:05
World War 2. And he had horrific PTSD when he
1:30:08
came out, came back, we're talking like, nightmares every
1:30:11
night and just like panic attacks and all sorts.
1:30:13
And obviously he was shot at by a lot of white German people,
1:30:16
but he wasn't scared of every white person he saw after that.
1:30:20
He was obviously scared of like loud noises and bangs and
1:30:22
fireworks and he had nightmares but he wasn't scared of white
1:30:26
people because when you attribute that fear like to a
1:30:30
race that is racist, you know I. Anyway, we go back to foster the
1:30:35
bad guy who is now changed into regular clothes and him and his
1:30:38
Co conspirators are all heading to the library.
1:30:41
We also learn more about his back story and motivation and it
1:30:45
doesn't really make sense, I'll be honest.
1:30:48
So. He's super duper duper, duper,
1:30:50
duper duper liberal and he used to be a college student at this
1:30:53
college but everyone there hated him because he was on the
1:30:56
scholarship and he was poor, he says.
1:30:58
It hadn't taken him long, however, to realise that they
1:31:00
loathed him too. Because he was poor.
1:31:03
Their commitment to diversity and equality didn't extend to
1:31:05
boys from squalid little oil field oil field towns like the
1:31:09
one Foster came from. No matter how smart they were.
1:31:11
With his passion for learning and disdain for sports and hard
1:31:13
work and his liberal notions, he'd never fit in back in his
1:31:17
hometown. It should have been different at
1:31:19
Kelton, but although the reasons were different, most of the
1:31:21
people there seemed to despise him as well.
1:31:23
He'd joined all the right groups, said all the right
1:31:25
things and firmly believed what he was saying.
1:31:27
But none of it seemed to make any difference.
1:31:30
So apparently this means he's evil now.
1:31:32
I I guess, I guess it's like a matter of in the sources eyes,
1:31:36
what's more evil than a liberal person, a poor liberal person.
1:31:40
So they've not just made the bad guys in this liberals, but poor
1:31:44
people. And the hero of this story is a
1:31:48
rich right wing nepo babe. It's, Oh my God, it's so, it's
1:31:53
so stupid. So, so stupid.
1:31:55
So Foster goes into the library because he's got a man on the
1:31:58
inside working there, apparently.
1:32:00
And here's a question, do American University libraries
1:32:03
not need an ID card to get in and out?
1:32:04
Because in the UK you do. And if not, like, that's crazy.
1:32:08
Like, OK, I guess he's walking into the library.
1:32:11
They all can. And he goes into the toilets on
1:32:14
the 1st floor, which to US English, I believe means the
1:32:17
ground floor. So let's remember that, that
1:32:20
that distinction, that distinction has got me lost in
1:32:22
so many American hotels. It's embarrassing for me, but
1:32:26
anyway, on this ground floor bathroom, first floor bathroom,
1:32:28
he locks the door, he locks the door behind him and he kills
1:32:31
around the man who's in there because why not, I guess OK, as
1:32:35
you do. We're like 50% into the book now
1:32:38
and our death count is at 5 minute in.
1:32:39
His guys. Bad guy who betrayed the antifa
1:32:42
terrorists. Bad guy that the policeman
1:32:44
killed. Random student in the toilet.
1:32:46
So I believe that's eight so far.
1:32:49
In the ceiling of the loos. He's got a gun hidden and it
1:32:51
says inside. Inside the draw spring bag was a
1:32:54
Glock 9 millimetre pistol with a loaded magazine already in the
1:32:56
butt, plus eight more loaded magazines.
1:32:59
There were other ammunition caches scattered around the
1:33:01
library if they became necessary.
1:33:02
His people had been working on this for weeks, planning and
1:33:05
patience. Those were the keys to his
1:33:06
operation. And I'm confused like why did he
1:33:08
not just have the gun with him anyway?
1:33:10
It's not like this campus has any like security.
1:33:12
There's no metal detectors around.
1:33:14
Like Jake's been carrying around a gun secretly for weeks with no
1:33:18
consequence. He bragged about it earlier so
1:33:20
why did this guy need to hide a small pistol in the loose?
1:33:23
In fact, how did he even get it into the loose to hide it there
1:33:25
in the 1st place if he's starting to hide it I don't
1:33:29
understand. And also why did he have to kill
1:33:31
the student in there? Like he could have just waited
1:33:33
for him to leave, locked the door behind in there, whoop got
1:33:35
the gun out or even probably got the gun out while he was there
1:33:38
and just been like hey I've got a gun and stay quiet leave.
1:33:40
Also I don't I don't know, none of this makes any sense.
1:33:45
This is the most irrationally stupid book I've ever read.
1:33:49
Anyway, for some reason, most of this university library is
1:33:54
underground. I don't know why.
1:33:57
It's like all of it, like mostly isn't a basement level.
1:34:01
So there's like 3 or 4 floors up and then the ground floor in a
1:34:04
basement level. And most of their like students
1:34:07
are on the basement level. For some.
1:34:08
I don't, I don't know. I do not know why It's OK,
1:34:12
right? We're just going with this.
1:34:15
So he's got a bunch of people in the library with him and he goes
1:34:19
downstairs to the basement level and he shoots a light and he
1:34:22
tells everyone to do as they're told or they'll die.
1:34:25
The irony in the author here who is a right winger who supports
1:34:29
guns for all and is against gun control making the bad guys in
1:34:34
his story who are apparently pro gun control use guns to commit
1:34:39
some sort of mass shooting slash hostage event in the library.
1:34:42
Like this makes no sense. Like if you look at stats right,
1:34:45
only around 4% of mass shooters by extremists between 2012 and
1:34:50
2021 in America were left-leaning. 75% were right
1:34:54
wing. So the choice to make a left
1:34:56
wing extremist carry out a mass shooting just seems absolutely
1:35:01
ridiculous and not realistic. And again, it feels like
1:35:04
projection from these right wingers because they're like,
1:35:06
well, this is what we do. So obviously the left ward as
1:35:08
well is it? It makes no sense.
1:35:10
But amongst all the chaos, the Liberal police officer who is
1:35:13
now in the library as well, he gets knocked out immediately.
1:35:17
So I think, I think you can kind of see where this is going,
1:35:19
right? If you're right wing, your hero
1:35:22
will survive this or at least have like a hero's death.
1:35:24
And if you're liberal, you're weak and will die.
1:35:27
Pretty much what happens, we'll see One of the students tries to
1:35:31
run at one of the attackers, slash hostage takers, get shot
1:35:35
in the chest. So our death count is now up to
1:35:36
9. Jake at this point has seen all
1:35:39
this happen and he's dived on Natalie to protect her, but he's
1:35:41
like, Oh no, I don't have my gun with me today or I'd be totally
1:35:46
returning fire right now. Like come on, you've bragged
1:35:49
about carrying your gun around all the time, why do you not
1:35:51
have it today? I'll tell you why for the sake
1:35:53
of the plot. The Yeah this part of the
1:35:56
chapter reads. So there was a lot of firepower
1:35:58
in here, at least relatively speaking.
1:36:00
Because Kelton College, like a lot of private colleges and
1:36:02
universities, was a so-called gun free zone.
1:36:05
The whole concept was one of the stupidest things Jake had ever
1:36:08
heard of, a glaring neon sign of an invitation for evil to March
1:36:11
right in and have its way unchecked.
1:36:13
But that was the situation, and wishing it was different was
1:36:15
pointless. More than likely, nobody in the
1:36:18
building was carrying. Even the campus cops who worked
1:36:20
with Frank Mckaney just carried stun guns, nothing lethal.
1:36:24
Which meant that if Jake was going to fight back successfully
1:36:26
against these bastards, he needed to get his hands on one
1:36:29
of their guns. It's almost like just telling
1:36:31
people, hey, don't carry guns isn't enough, is it?
1:36:35
It's almost you need something like, I don't know, off the top
1:36:37
of my head, laws around gun control to restrict the
1:36:40
manufacturer and use. No.
1:36:41
Yeah. Yeah.
1:36:42
OK. Do you know why we don't need to
1:36:44
label places as gun free zones in the UK?
1:36:46
Because no one has a gun. The average person cannot and
1:36:49
does not carry one. We don't need to specify this as
1:36:52
a gun free zone because it's just not normal to carry a gun
1:36:55
around. It's not common.
1:36:56
That's why our per capita rate of gun deaths in the UK is just
1:37:00
nought point. Nought 1/3 compared to America
1:37:03
or the USA's 4.31 per 100,000 people.
1:37:07
Obviously the USA has more gun deaths per day than we have in
1:37:11
an entire year. And sure it's a bigger country
1:37:14
but your population is about 5 times figs in ours and yet you
1:37:18
have over 300 times as many gun deaths.
1:37:21
It's almost like, and call me crazy here, almost like gun
1:37:24
control works wild. I know the idea they're pushing
1:37:28
in this book is well you need good people with guns to stop
1:37:31
the bad people in guns. It's crazy when the solution
1:37:34
could just be oh you stop the bad people getting guns in the
1:37:37
1st place. No because even a lot of the gun
1:37:40
deaths though they're from so-called good people with guns
1:37:43
when you have accidents or something.
1:37:45
So I anyway, sorry, I'm always going to be pro gun control.
1:37:49
Always. Anyway, what does this group
1:37:51
want? They say it's really very
1:37:53
simple. The only way anyone leases
1:37:55
campus today without more bloodshed is if $100 million is
1:37:59
transferred into an offshore bank account, the number of
1:38:02
which I'll provide to the authorities in due time.
1:38:04
There's that's a one with eight zeros after it.
1:38:07
For those of you who believe math is racist.
1:38:10
The man chuckled. Of all things.
1:38:12
And I know there are some of you in here right now who believe
1:38:14
that. Trust me, I can see your point.
1:38:17
Racism really is systemic in this country.
1:38:20
God. Let's be real, that is pennies
1:38:23
to most of these billionaires that are at this uni right?
1:38:25
So it's not really asking a lot is it?
1:38:26
But like, what the hell is that last part?
1:38:28
No one genuinely thinks maths is racist and this is not what
1:38:32
systemic racism is referring to at all.
1:38:34
Like what? What is this nonsense?
1:38:36
He goes on. Which brings me to my next
1:38:39
point. We're not demanding that the
1:38:40
government pay $100 million. No, it needs to come from the
1:38:44
families of students here at Kelton.
1:38:46
There are approximately 3000 students enrolled here.
1:38:49
That means, and again I'll help out the maths challenged among
1:38:52
you, that each of their families would have to come up with less
1:38:54
than $35,000. He smirked, waved his free hand
1:38:58
and the gun in his other hand never wavered as he went on.
1:39:01
Most of the families you come from are 1 percenters.
1:39:04
Old money, dirty money, money made on the backs of common
1:39:07
people, run out of them along with their sweat and blood.
1:39:09
He didn't sound quite so self controlled now.
1:39:11
Is it heated up? Seriously, you're going to try
1:39:13
and tell me that your parents can't just sit down right now
1:39:15
and write a cheque for that much and never miss it?
1:39:17
You know I'm right. Yeah, you know what?
1:39:19
I kind of see his point. I mean, no, I'll never spot
1:39:22
killing or blackmail or waving guns around or violence like
1:39:24
that. But honestly, I couldn't care
1:39:26
less about millionaires or billionaires losing a little
1:39:29
tiny bit of the wealth they hoard.
1:39:30
You know, I'll say again, there's no such thing as an
1:39:33
ethical millionaire or billionaire.
1:39:35
You, you can't become a billionaire without exploiting
1:39:38
people along the way, whether that's the people making
1:39:40
products you sell or people spending far more money on you
1:39:45
than they should, or maybe overpriced service charges or
1:39:49
something like that. It just there's, there's, there
1:39:50
has to be exploit exploitation involved somewhere.
1:39:54
The guy might be a killer, but what he said was true, Jake
1:39:57
thought. A semester's tuition, housing,
1:39:59
and other expenses can easily add up to that or much more.
1:40:01
A lot of parents paid it again and again so their darling
1:40:04
little snowflakes could get degrees in intersectional
1:40:06
feminism or gender studies, although in this day and age it
1:40:09
would have to be gender fluid studies.
1:40:11
That this also does not know what gender fluid means, do
1:40:13
they? It doesn't make sense.
1:40:15
Anyway, Bad Guy goes on to say that he's not asking for money
1:40:17
from the families of scholarship kids or poor families, only the
1:40:20
filthy rich. And again, I kind of think he
1:40:22
has a point here. Well, if you subtract the
1:40:24
families who truly can't afford it and the ones who are too
1:40:26
uncaring to pitch in because they never pitched in to pay
1:40:29
their fair share of taxes, did they?
1:40:31
And the family, you might have more than one kid attending
1:40:33
here. Can't forget them.
1:40:35
I figure that leaves us with about 2000 families that need to
1:40:37
come up with some cash. They only have to average 50
1:40:40
grand a piece. And I know there are a lot of
1:40:42
them who can do more than that. And I want documentation of
1:40:45
where every penny comes from. That's very important.
1:40:47
No tax dollars ripped off from the middle classes are going
1:40:50
into this account. Only money from the oligarchs
1:40:52
who have taken over this country.
1:40:53
Yeah, they want us to hate him, but I kind of don't.
1:40:56
And I'm not saying I'm on his side here, but I'm not not on
1:40:59
his side. They end by saying that they've
1:41:02
also planted bombs all over campus that they'll detonate if
1:41:05
anything goes wrong. So, yeah, OK, he, he lost me
1:41:08
there. I guess that and with the
1:41:10
murdering. But honestly, I can't.
1:41:14
Isn't this so bizarre that they're like, the left are evil
1:41:17
because non liberals And then he makes their motivation wanting
1:41:22
to like steal and hoard millions of dollars, which is what they'd
1:41:25
normally be like protesting against.
1:41:28
So it just it doesn't make sense.
1:41:29
It's not a realistic motivation for a liberal villain, is it?
1:41:33
OK, Meanwhile police chief man who's been passed out is awake
1:41:37
again, and another police officer's with him and EMTs and
1:41:40
he's watching this live stream of Foster in the library, which
1:41:43
he labels as the usual left wing drivel about how evil 1
1:41:48
percenters were responsible for everything that was wrong in the
1:41:50
world and oh God, here's some nonsense, right?
1:41:53
Are you ready for this? As it happened, Mccainy actually
1:41:56
did believe that there was too much income inequality in the
1:41:58
country. For the most part, though, it
1:42:00
wasn't the high earners who drove the economy and paid 95%
1:42:03
of the taxes who were responsible for it.
1:42:05
In Mccainy's opinion, the blame lay with the Democrats.
1:42:08
Of course it did. And some politicians who called
1:42:11
themselves Republicans, who had increased taxes again and again
1:42:14
and again, who had loaded down the average working stiff with
1:42:17
astronomically high health insurance costs, who had over
1:42:20
regulated many small businesses to the brink of extinction.
1:42:23
Those are the people who had done their best to grind the
1:42:25
middle class out of existence so that most of the population
1:42:29
would be condemned to sucking on the government's teeth forever,
1:42:31
and therefore would have no choice but to continue voting
1:42:34
those politicians and others of their stripes into office in
1:42:38
perpetuity. Those with vermin in human form
1:42:41
who had created the income gap. Sorry, but this is just wrong.
1:42:45
Admittedly the top 5% of earners do pay the most tax, as they
1:42:49
should in America. But that's only around 60% of
1:42:53
all income tax, not 95%. And we all know for a fact that
1:42:56
the very highest earners and not the ones contributing to that,
1:43:00
they use all kinds of tax avoidance and tax dodging
1:43:02
methods to not pay taxes. Not to mention corporations who
1:43:06
go out of their way to avoid paying like 1/10 as much tax as
1:43:10
they should. You know, there absolutely is an
1:43:13
issue with middle classes disappearing though, but that's
1:43:15
not the fault of Democrats. It's because the highest earners
1:43:18
are hoarding a bunch of wealth, not actually putting it back
1:43:21
into the economy, not paying their staff fairly, and often
1:43:24
stealing from small businesses. It's one of the reasons I really
1:43:27
like voting Green, because they have a policy they want to
1:43:29
introduce where the CEO of a company can only earn 10 times
1:43:32
as much as his lowest paid employee.
1:43:34
And I think that is completely fair.
1:43:36
You know, maybe not that exactly, but some version of it
1:43:39
seems like a really damn good idea.
1:43:41
It seems completely unfair to me that you can have people making
1:43:43
millions of year and they're earning that money because
1:43:46
people who are barely on minimum wage are scraping by and
1:43:50
essentially being exploited. You know, again, sorry, they're
1:43:52
going back to America. Like it's because Republicans
1:43:54
keep giving the 1% help and tax cuts and making those with
1:43:58
middle incomes pay more instead. It's because there's not enough
1:44:01
help or social care to help the lowest income people get out of
1:44:04
debt or get a quality education or have or have access to the
1:44:08
resources they need in order to earn more and put back in and
1:44:11
put more back into the economy in the end.
1:44:13
And God, don't even talk to me about health insurance like the
1:44:16
idea of a private healthcare system is predatory and vile and
1:44:19
you cannot, you cannot convince me otherwise.
1:44:22
You should not have to pay for your health.
1:44:24
That should be a basic human right.
1:44:26
It's one of the reasons again, I'm so scared for the UK at the
1:44:28
moment. Reform are getting more and more
1:44:29
power and their plan isn't to. And their plan is to entirely
1:44:33
destroy the NHS and privatise it slowly and subtly with their
1:44:37
policies and it's terrifying. Nationalised healthcare isn't
1:44:40
about getting people to rely on the government.
1:44:42
It's not making sure that every single person, no matter who you
1:44:44
are, what you do, where you come from, what your health condition
1:44:48
is or even whether you have a legal right to be in the UK or
1:44:51
not, every single person should get free, high quality, easily
1:44:56
accessible healthcare as and when they need it.
1:45:00
I'll say it again, that is a basic human right in my mind.
1:45:02
It's something that I am personally more than happy to
1:45:04
keep paying my National Insurance and taxes for.
1:45:07
Not just so I get free healthcare, but so everyone in
1:45:10
this country can get free healthcare.
1:45:11
And if that means I pay in more than I essentially get out so
1:45:15
other people can benefit, good. That is what we want.
1:45:18
A health emergency should never ever put someone in debt.
1:45:21
People should never have to choose between paying rent or
1:45:24
paying for medical care, paying for food, or paying for medical
1:45:26
care. And I don't think that should be
1:45:28
controversial. I just, sorry, OK I'm getting
1:45:30
off topic. My point is the theory in this
1:45:32
book in this. Part of the book.
1:45:34
Is so idiotic I can barely contain my frustration.
1:45:37
And it gets even more nonsensey after this.
1:45:39
Right. So remember Jake's advisor or
1:45:43
whatever he was? Motenbolt, I think his name was?
1:45:46
Or Motenbolt, I can't remember. It's.
1:45:48
Oh, yeah, no, it's coming from my notes.
1:45:50
Anyway, he's in the library at this time, and he just had a
1:45:53
conversation with Jake outside saying that he was not against
1:45:55
him, which is enough that maybe he'll do something marginally
1:45:59
heroic in the future. Who's.
1:46:01
Yeah, he does. He does.
1:46:03
At this point he realises what a silly little liberal he is.
1:46:05
He's just so weak and he wishes a big, strong Jake was there to
1:46:09
protect him. Not even joking.
1:46:12
He also, and I quote, he thought about his ancestors too.
1:46:15
Then ever since he'd been old enough to understand the evils
1:46:18
of imperialism, he'd been ashamed of the role some of his
1:46:21
forebears had played in colonising Africa.
1:46:23
They had been brutal rapists and exploiters and killers.
1:46:25
But if one of them had been able to come down through the mists
1:46:28
of time and stand between Montenbolt and that gunman right
1:46:31
now, he would have welcomed the all reprobate with open arms.
1:46:35
Sorry, what? And of course, we need a little
1:46:37
bit of copaganda too. Apparently.
1:46:39
Normally Montenbolt thought of the police as racist, trigger
1:46:42
happy, power mad bullies just looking for an excuse to shoot
1:46:45
innocent black men. He was a fervent supporter of
1:46:48
Black Lives Matter. But right now he couldn't wait
1:46:50
for the cops to get here. Just pathetic at this point,
1:46:53
isn't it? So anyway, a gunman finds him,
1:46:55
shoots him, he escapes somehow, throws A bookshelf at him, like
1:46:59
a whole bookshelf as you do, And gunman drops the gun.
1:47:02
Advise the guy, picks it up blindly, shoots at him, doesn't
1:47:05
know if he's killed him or not. He has spoiler.
1:47:07
And then he hides in the ceiling and crawls away as you do.
1:47:10
That was fun. We go back to Jake, and Jake
1:47:13
wasn't surprised to hear the bomb threat come out of the
1:47:15
man's mouth. He knew enough about the radical
1:47:17
left movement to know they'd always been bombers, going all
1:47:19
the way back to the 50s and 60s. That was just part of their
1:47:22
methodology. Champion free speech by shutting
1:47:25
up everybody who's doesn't agree with you.
1:47:27
Advocate for equal rights by taking other people's rights
1:47:29
away from them. Protest violence by blowing up a
1:47:32
bunch of people and stuff. Cowards at heart, every damn one
1:47:36
of them. I struggled to read that because
1:47:38
I was laughing so much, because this is just ridiculous.
1:47:41
Every friend that I've read this to has been like what the hell?
1:47:45
I was literally reading this backstage the other day to JD
1:47:48
Longest John's show and you just couldn't believe it either.
1:47:52
It's just. So I looked up statistics around
1:47:56
this and according to the Centre for Strategic and International
1:47:59
Studies Warfare, Irregular Threats and Terrorism programme,
1:48:03
that's a really big long name and there are considerably more
1:48:06
terrorist attacks carried out by right wing extremists than the
1:48:10
left. They're going to say that in
1:48:12
recent years the United States has seen an increase in the
1:48:14
number of left wing terrorist attacks and plots, although such
1:48:18
violence has risen from very low levels and remains much lower
1:48:21
than historical levels of violence carried out by right
1:48:24
wing and jihadist attackers. I do think as well the line
1:48:27
about going all the way back to the 50s and 60s, that's a bit of
1:48:31
mistake. That's a bit of a mistake as
1:48:32
well. I think it's supposed to be
1:48:34
referring to the Weather Underground which with a small
1:48:37
extreme left group which formed in 1969 but in the they bombed
1:48:42
the statue and some banks. But The thing is, and I might be
1:48:45
wrong so correct me if I'm wrong here, but from my research no
1:48:47
one actually died in those bombings except three of their
1:48:50
own members in an accident. Like no members of the public
1:48:53
died. However I did look at overall
1:48:55
stats of right and wing left inspired domestic terrorist
1:48:57
attacks in the USA. And again I might be wrong but I
1:49:01
couldn't find any examples of bombings by the left after the
1:49:04
80s. So any terrorist attacks that
1:49:06
there were weren't bombings. However, there were bombings by
1:49:10
right wing extremists and another summary I found said
1:49:13
that between 2008 and 2016 there were 115 for right inspired
1:49:19
terrorist incidents in the USA. 29% of those resulted in
1:49:23
fatalities and there were 79 deaths in total.
1:49:26
Whereas in that same period there are only 19 far left
1:49:29
inspired terrorist attacks with only two causing fatalities,
1:49:32
totalling 7 people. And again, that's just general
1:49:35
terrorist attacks, not bombing. Whereas right inspired ones
1:49:39
remix of bombings and other attacks.
1:49:40
So I have I have no idea why this idea that the left are
1:49:43
violent cowards who always bomb everyone has come from as I
1:49:46
cannot find any evidence of this at all.
1:49:49
And it's just laughably funny. And we're back to Jake and we
1:49:51
get the story of him killing in his words, a fanatic soldier in
1:49:55
the Middle East, saying it was the right thing to do.
1:49:58
So this is the 10th on page killing of the book so far,
1:50:01
lovely and and it's pretty, pretty graphic.
1:50:04
I'll be honest. There's more nonsense, as
1:50:07
Fareed, the one Muslim character, remember, approaches
1:50:09
A gunman and oh God, this is so. He says.
1:50:13
Do not shoot, brother. You and I are on the same side.
1:50:16
We both believe that this materialistic American Society
1:50:19
is the source of everything that is wrong in the world.
1:50:22
We would both like to see it replaced by a caliphate ruled by
1:50:25
Sharia law. Fareed shrugged.
1:50:27
What would you prefer? He asked.
1:50:28
A godless communist government? That argument is an endless 1,
1:50:32
and it can be resumed at another time.
1:50:33
What is important now is that we would both like to see this
1:50:36
country full of heathen capitalists and imperialists,
1:50:39
brought low. Is that not true?
1:50:41
Let me join you in your righteous anger on this den of
1:50:44
thieves and whoremongers, Farid said.
1:50:47
Let me help you destroy this land of of Kardashians.
1:50:51
Give me a gun. I can't.
1:50:54
I can't. No, I would say this, but once
1:50:58
again, I don't think this author, whoever it is, has ever
1:51:01
met a Muslim person in their life.
1:51:03
I just, I, I don't believe it. I do not.
1:51:06
Anyway, he gets laughed at by the gunman and as the reader and
1:51:09
then Fareed and Pierce start arguing with each other as you
1:51:12
do, Pierce is like I'm a rich one percenter.
1:51:14
These gunmen hate me. And Fareed says to him, and
1:51:17
again, this is shocking. You are no true black man.
1:51:20
If you were, you would embrace the Islamic faith and turn
1:51:23
against your decadent Western culture.
1:51:25
I always knew. You were a fake.
1:51:27
On the other side of the table underneath it, Jenny Clark and
1:51:30
Marjorie were looking at them. Marjorie stared at Pierce and
1:51:33
said, Uncle Tom, Yeah, you're just a What is it?
1:51:36
Jenny said. Uncle Tom?
1:51:38
Clark supplied. It's from a book or something, I
1:51:40
think means a black guy who sucks up to the white
1:51:43
oppressors. Oh, this is easily.
1:51:45
One of the. Stupidest, most offensive books
1:51:47
I've ever read. I can't take this seriously, and
1:51:50
you shouldn't either. Anyway, just like everyone else,
1:51:52
Pierce starts wishing for Jake to save everyone, as you do.
1:51:55
Then we get a chapter about the police chief again, which ends
1:51:58
with, you guessed it, him wishing Jake was there to save
1:52:01
the day. What?
1:52:02
What is it with everyone centring Jake as like the big
1:52:06
hero and like, oh I don't know, just like someone to fear?
1:52:09
Like where has this come from? I don't know.
1:52:12
Anyway, so pathetic. Some FBI guy called Graham shows
1:52:15
up, plus his bomb sniffing dogs which are never mentioned again
1:52:18
I don't think. There's also a Homeland Security
1:52:21
person called Agent Vega who is a woman, and apparently it's
1:52:25
important to note that she is not beautiful because apparently
1:52:28
that makes her lesser in the eyes of this author.
1:52:30
The police chief doesn't like her and because she's a woman
1:52:33
with power, she has to be shown to be incapable by making crazy
1:52:36
states statements. Like Vega said, he's bluffing
1:52:39
about the bombs and then after a couple of lines, a bomb goes off
1:52:42
because women always have to be undermined, don't they?
1:52:44
But what's funny is that like, later, Jake goes on about how he
1:52:48
thinks he's bluffing about the bombs.
1:52:50
Except he's not like, laughed out by all the characters or
1:52:53
under mind. He's actually like, proven to be
1:52:54
right. So this is stupid.
1:52:56
In the next chapter, a gunman comes to collect Jake and
1:52:58
Natalie and asks them to move. When Jake is snarky to the
1:53:02
gunman, the gunman warns him to show up or he'll shoot him.
1:53:06
Oh, and we have to be told that this gunman is black.
1:53:08
So Jake wonders if the guy had a real reason to hate him or if
1:53:12
his skin colour and political views were enough to justify
1:53:14
that hatred. As far as Jake recalled, he had
1:53:16
never seen this man before. I'm exhausted by how stupid this
1:53:19
book is. Anyway, Jake decides to cause
1:53:21
some trouble and make some Islamophobic references too
1:53:24
because I don't know, God knows why.
1:53:26
Jake stopped short and said in a loud voice.
1:53:28
Wait just a damn minute, they're bluffing.
1:53:30
See what I mean? He can do it and not get laughed
1:53:32
out, but the woman does. You're not crazy enough to blow
1:53:34
yourself up along with everybody else.
1:53:36
Jake said. I can tell that by looking at
1:53:37
you. You're no martyr.
1:53:39
You don't believe there are 99 virgins waiting in heaven for
1:53:42
you. The Middle Eastern looking guy
1:53:43
standing with Pierce glared at Jake when he said that.
1:53:45
Jake ignored him. Keep talking.
1:53:47
The leader said you're smart and I want to hear your thoughts.
1:53:50
No, you probably don't. Do you honestly believe we
1:53:52
didn't plant bombs all of this campus?
1:53:54
Is that what you mean by bluffing?
1:53:55
That's right, Jake said. You just want everybody to
1:53:58
believe you did so they'll be too scared to make a move
1:54:00
against you. So I won't push a button on this
1:54:02
phone and send out the destination signal.
1:54:04
Well, do you any good if you do, By now all the cell phone towers
1:54:06
in the area have been taken offline.
1:54:07
Jake turned to address the crowd.
1:54:09
Check your phones, you won't have any service.
1:54:11
As far as you could tell, nobody did what he said.
1:54:13
They were too afraid with good reason of the guns pointed at
1:54:16
them. So the leader, who we obviously
1:54:18
all Node B foster, cheques his phone.
1:54:20
No service, but apparently the bombs run on satellite phones or
1:54:24
something. So he sets one of the bombs off
1:54:25
for funsies. Jake starts thinking about how
1:54:27
this man is motivated by money, and he thinks.
1:54:30
Jake had faced people who are dangerously fanatical when it
1:54:32
came to their religion or political beliefs.
1:54:34
And for many on the left, their politics were their religion.
1:54:37
Not true. But he'd never run into anyone
1:54:40
who's lust for money could rival this man's.
1:54:42
That might make him even more dangerous.
1:54:44
Like sorry but your granddad is a billionaire.
1:54:46
I'm sure you've met plenty of people with a dangerous loss for
1:54:49
money, including your own family.
1:54:51
You don't get to be a billionaire by being ethical,
1:54:53
remember? And what why is this nonsense
1:54:55
about the less politics being religion?
1:54:56
Like there's plenty of religious people who are left-leaning
1:54:59
anyway. It's just such rubbishes man.
1:55:01
Also reading this out now and realising how many times this
1:55:05
book just says so and so said so and so said so it's just said
1:55:08
said said said. There's no other creative use of
1:55:10
language in here for like saying how someone said something.
1:55:14
There's no, you know, he yelled, he screamed, he blah, blah.
1:55:17
It's just he said, he said, he said.
1:55:20
I've actually just done a quick search and remember this book is
1:55:22
262 pages long. How many times do you think the
1:55:26
word said is used in this book? I'm going to give you a second
1:55:29
to think about this and have a guess.
1:55:30
Actually, there's there's a new feature on YouTube where I can
1:55:32
do like a quiz. So if you can see that on your
1:55:35
screen, have a guess now and I'll tell you the answer is 500
1:55:40
and 73573, he says. That's insane, isn't it?
1:55:44
Oh my gosh. OK, anyway.
1:55:46
Where were we? Anyway, Jake decides to tackle
1:55:48
Foster because he was considerably bigger and heavier
1:55:52
than the leader, so the impact drove the man off his feet and
1:55:54
toppled him over And then Oh my good word is shake and cheesed.
1:55:59
Jake gets the gun and threatens Foster, but Natalie sneaks up on
1:56:02
him and puts a gun to his head and it turns out Natalie is
1:56:05
actually Lucy, who's working with Foster, except her name
1:56:09
isn't actually Lucy, that's a code name.
1:56:10
Her name is Natalie. But.
1:56:12
She's a bad guy. Apparently I, I think I'd be
1:56:15
shocked if I cared about any of these characters at all.
1:56:18
But no, I'm not and I don't. And also, wasn't it kind of
1:56:22
obvious that she probably double cross him because she refused to
1:56:25
like speak much about her politics or say what side she
1:56:29
was really on accepting like a couple of cases And there was
1:56:32
weirdness about her, like having his phone number without him
1:56:35
giving it her and stuff. So it just, yeah, I get it.
1:56:38
Also, I am confused because, like, if she's just going to
1:56:40
come out and double cross him now, like, why did she just
1:56:42
spend the last hour lying on the floor with him and all the other
1:56:45
hostages when she didn't have to?
1:56:46
It makes no sense. Like, there was literally no
1:56:49
reason for her to wait. I I don't know.
1:56:51
Anyway, Jake drops his gun because he's got a gun pointed
1:56:53
at him and he lets Foster go. And then all of the lights go
1:56:56
out in the library. And remember, because they're in
1:56:58
the basement, it's actually dark down there because there's no
1:57:00
lights. Sorry, there's no windows.
1:57:02
We go back to the police chief. The explosion didn't kill
1:57:04
anyone. That's cool.
1:57:06
There's more putting down the female home security officer,
1:57:09
You get it. They get all the power on campus
1:57:11
shut down, which is what we just saw happening in the library.
1:57:14
And then we cut back to Jake again, and he uses the darkness
1:57:16
as a chance to grab the gun off. Natalie and I now see why so
1:57:22
much of the library is in the basement for the sake of the
1:57:24
plot. Oh God.
1:57:27
Jake starts running around the library in the dark as you do as
1:57:30
you do, and all the bad guys start to shoot at him.
1:57:32
Meanwhile, he didn't let himself think about Natalie and her
1:57:34
stunning betrayal. It's like, mate, you've known
1:57:36
him for three days, calm down. Jake runs down the stairs, grabs
1:57:39
the book to throw out the gunman, which hits his hand just
1:57:42
as he fires at Jake. Or, you know, some stupid
1:57:44
miracle that could only happen in fiction.
1:57:46
And since this guy missed his shot, Jake knocks him down and
1:57:50
then uses the man as a human shield when the others shoot at
1:57:52
him. So we're now up to 11 dead, I
1:57:55
think. Correct me if I'm wrong and
1:57:56
you've been counting along too. He shoots the second gunman and
1:57:59
I assume he dies too. So let's count this as 12 deaths
1:58:02
on page. Jake then starts running up like
1:58:05
a secondary stairwell and at the third floor, so he's gone.
1:58:08
Basement first, second, third floor, he hears gunshots, so he
1:58:12
just bursts through that door. And the chapter ends with, and I
1:58:15
quote, the pistol gripped in both his hands, ready to deal
1:58:18
out death. We get back again to Jake's
1:58:20
advisor crawling around in the ceiling.
1:58:22
He sneezes. A gunman below him starts
1:58:24
shouting and shooting at the ceiling.
1:58:26
Clearly this was all the chaos on the 3rd floor that Jake heard
1:58:29
right? Advisor man falls out the
1:58:31
ceiling. Jake immediately shoots the two
1:58:33
gunmen on that floor who were after him, but not Motenbolt.
1:58:36
Motenbolt. I can't remember his name, not
1:58:38
Advisor guy like he thoughts. That's 14 deaths now.
1:58:42
Jake creeps upon another guy, hits him over the head with his
1:58:44
gun to knock him out, then locks him in a cupboard as you do.
1:58:46
He gets all the hostages on that floor to hide together in a room
1:58:50
while the advisor guards them all with a gun, ready to shoot
1:58:53
anyone who comes for them. And then Jake heads off again
1:58:57
to, I quote, clear the rats out of the nest.
1:59:00
We come back to. Pierce on the basement level,
1:59:03
who has start to crawl away when all the lights went off.
1:59:05
He thinks at this. Point I need to fight back.
1:59:07
I got this. And there were enough prisoners
1:59:09
here on the library's lower floor that if they all rose up
1:59:12
at once and struck back against their captors, they would
1:59:14
overwhelm the gunman. No doubt about that.
1:59:17
It was possible, even probable, that some of them would lose
1:59:19
their lives. But that couldn't be helped.
1:59:21
The alternative was to remain hostages at the mercy of people
1:59:24
who might well be ruthless enough to slaughter them all.
1:59:27
Like, wow, wow. Careful, everybody.
1:59:29
You're starting to sound a little bit like a Marxist there.
1:59:32
And we all know that's a dirty word in this world.
1:59:35
But anyway, as Pierce is getting away, Fareed rats him out
1:59:38
because, you know, reasons I get.
1:59:40
And you've got to make the Muslim character the bad guy.
1:59:42
And then Fareed chases after Pierce, tackles him.
1:59:46
Pierce kicks him in the face and runs off again and decides to
1:59:49
follow Jake up the stairs. And the pacing of this book is
1:59:52
so terrible, right? And not not only like the pacing
1:59:55
but the in world timeline but will.
1:59:58
OK. Pierce literally saw Jake go
2:00:00
into the stairwell and immediately followed him in
2:00:03
right? That little chase with Fareed
2:00:04
didn't last long, but apparently trained soldier and Superman
2:00:08
Jake never heard him following him.
2:00:10
And Pierce didn't appear any of the time he was rolling around
2:00:13
the third floor killing people and moving the hostages.
2:00:16
So you're telling me that it takes Pierce longer to go from
2:00:21
the basement level to the third floor, climbing the stairs, than
2:00:24
it took for Jake to go all around?
2:00:26
Around the third floor, kill a bunch of people, knock someone
2:00:29
out, lock him in a cupboard, go speak to hostages, calm down the
2:00:32
hostages, get them all in a room, give his advice or
2:00:35
instructions, and then head out again.
2:00:36
You're telling me in all that time Pierce could only make it
2:00:40
up like three sets of stairs? Makes no sense.
2:00:42
So we come back to the police guy and the FBI guy, and he says
2:00:46
I lean toward thinking that the bomb threat is mostly a bluff,
2:00:48
Despite that explosion earlier. But there's no point in taking
2:00:51
chances. So why is everyone so sure it's
2:00:53
a bluff when in this universe left wing extremists apparently
2:00:56
are well known for bombing everything?
2:00:58
Make it make sense also. Why is it?
2:01:00
Unbelievable when a woman says that, but not when two men say
2:01:03
it. So annoying.
2:01:04
Then some old guy turns up and it's very clearly like the guy
2:01:08
from the gun range earlier who was shooting, right?
2:01:10
But I guess we're just not meant to know it at this moment.
2:01:12
But Mccraney, the the police chief guy, had never seen the
2:01:15
man before. He was older from the looks of
2:01:17
his weathered face and the silver in his hair that had once
2:01:19
been dark and still bore traces of that.
2:01:21
He moved and carried himself like a younger man, though
2:01:23
Mccraney had seen guys like that before, men who took such good
2:01:26
care of themselves and who are blessed with good genes to boot,
2:01:29
that it was difficult to tell if they were 40 or 70.
2:01:32
This lean and medium sized stranger fit right into that
2:01:35
category. This is how all right wing men
2:01:37
see themselves, isn't it? So I'm thinking at this point
2:01:41
like, he's probably some right wing good nut who's been
2:01:44
tracking those damn lefty terrorists or something like
2:01:46
that, and he wants to take them all out and show them some good
2:01:49
American compassion, by which I mean shoot them, you know?
2:01:53
The first thing he says is so laughably pathetic in an attempt
2:01:56
to look tough, right? He says.
2:01:57
I've never worried that much about being in dangerous places.
2:02:00
The stranger replied with a faint smile.
2:02:02
I suppose I wouldn't know what to do if I found myself
2:02:04
somewhere that wasn't dangerous. Why does this sound like
2:02:07
something Andrew Tate would say? He's like, I can always get it
2:02:10
anywhere I want and then condescendingly tells all the
2:02:13
women, police officers, and only the women that they should be
2:02:15
leaving because it's not safe. Ma'am, look on a vomit.
2:02:19
The guy's like I have personal reasons to be here and they just
2:02:22
decide yeah, cool, let's let's let the stranger roam around a
2:02:25
campus because they're idiots and this would never happen in
2:02:28
the real world. My God, at least have the
2:02:30
decency to tell me your name. The craney exploded.
2:02:33
The stranger paused and looked back.
2:02:34
It won't do you any good, he said.
2:02:36
But it's Barry. Barry Rivera.
2:02:38
But you can call me Dog. Just dog.
2:02:40
This is so funny to me. They, they really think this is
2:02:46
like some tough guy thing, don't they?
2:02:47
Like, I think this is meant to be like a Bond, James Bond
2:02:50
moment, but he just sounds so silly.
2:02:52
I can't. I can't.
2:02:53
OK. We come back to Jake and he goes
2:02:55
back out into the stairwell and up to the 4th floor.
2:02:58
Still hasn't bumped into PS yet. Purely for the sake of the
2:03:00
story, I guess. But then, as he reaches the top
2:03:03
floor, he hears PS shuffling around quite a way below him,
2:03:07
and Pierce calls up to him. So, like I say, the timeline
2:03:10
makes no sense. Because you're telling me that
2:03:12
in the time it took Jake to get up three flights of stairs, Kill
2:03:16
two people, roam around the third floor for a bit, knock a
2:03:19
third person out, lock him in a cupboard?
2:03:21
Go confront a bunch of hostages, lead them to safety, give them
2:03:24
instructions, head back to the stairwell, go open up another
2:03:27
flight of stairs. Pierce has only managed to run
2:03:30
away, kick a guy in the head and get up two flights of stairs.
2:03:33
This makes no sense. Jake decides to stand in the
2:03:36
dark and wait for Pierce to make his way up the stairs, where he
2:03:39
immediately grabs him by the neck and threatens him to stay
2:03:42
quiet. So like, yeah, great way to
2:03:44
treat an ally, mate. And, you know, tell us again how
2:03:47
you're not violent. Yeah, but yeah, I guess he is
2:03:51
black and you're a Republican, So what else did we expect,
2:03:54
right? Again, tell us how you're not
2:03:56
racist. After a whole bunch of nonsense
2:03:59
and back and forth, Jake decides to give Pierce a chance and he
2:04:02
gives him a gun and asks him to help him shoot the 4th door. 4th
2:04:05
floor door open. Pierce says he's never shot a
2:04:07
gun before, and Jake thinks first mountain bolt.
2:04:11
Now Pierce. How did people grow up without
2:04:13
ever putting their hands on a gun?
2:04:14
Jake wondered. He couldn't even begin to
2:04:16
comprehend that easy, easily. In a society where guns aren't
2:04:20
normalised, Most people don't regularly handle those dangerous
2:04:24
killing machines. It's that simple.
2:04:26
So they get into the 4th floor, Jake shoots another man.
2:04:29
I think we're up to 15 dead now. Meanwhile, Foster sends Natalie
2:04:32
up to try and find Jake, and if she's anything like Pierce, I'm
2:04:35
sure it'll take 1/2 an hour to walk upset steps too.
2:04:37
Jake makes Pierce stay with people on the 4th floor and
2:04:40
leaves and heads back down to Foster.
2:04:42
So I guess it's cool to just leave everyone on the second and
2:04:45
first floors in danger, right? Yeah, okay, cool, right?
2:04:48
They don't matter. We randomly got to another
2:04:50
building that's been taken over by the big bad money hungry
2:04:53
lefties. This is the administration
2:04:55
building. Dog man enters the building and
2:04:57
kills all the bad guys in it by snapping their necks because
2:05:00
he's your big strong boy doing some shooty shooty and being
2:05:03
pingo Mandy and he frees everyone in a matter of minutes
2:05:07
and then runs off again as you do we.
2:05:10
I wish I could give you more details but like this is pretty
2:05:12
much all there is. It's so stupid.
2:05:15
We got we got back to FBI guy who says he knows rumours about
2:05:19
Dog Man. Apparently he says a long time
2:05:22
ago, and I'm talking going back 30 years or more.
2:05:25
Yes, such a long time, 30 years. When I was just starting out in
2:05:29
the Bureau, we used to hear rumours about a guy who went by
2:05:31
the code name Dog. No one knew who he was or if he
2:05:33
even really existed. Look, and now he's just handing
2:05:36
out his name, and he's supposed to be some secret anyway, but
2:05:39
the stories about him said that he was some sort of freelance
2:05:42
troubleshooter who answered only to the president.
2:05:44
He'd been a truck driver, so he roamed around the country and is
2:05:47
specially outfitted truck looking for, well, wrongs to
2:05:51
write, corny as that sounds. Sometimes the government would
2:05:53
point him in a certain direction and turn him loose like a force
2:05:56
of nature. But most of the time he found
2:05:58
his own cases, and he did a lot of good for a while before he
2:06:00
dropped completely out of sight. So he's just a male Mary Sue
2:06:04
callsies? Sure, whatever.
2:06:06
I will call him Dog Sue now. Dog zoo then breaks into another
2:06:09
building, kills all the bad guys there.
2:06:12
I mean at this point he's killing dozens of people faster
2:06:15
than Pierce can climb a flight of stairs.
2:06:17
This book is so illogical. Back to Jake, he heads down the
2:06:21
third floor to get those guys and send them all upstairs to be
2:06:24
together. And Natalie, God knows where she
2:06:27
is, apparently she's really taking her time getting up those
2:06:29
stairs too. And then after going down to the
2:06:33
third floor, sending them up to the 4th floor, heading down
2:06:36
again. He starts to get to the second
2:06:37
floor when he finally hears Natalie calling to him from only
2:06:40
the first floor. No, no, this makes sense and she
2:06:44
says Jake if that's you, you have to help me.
2:06:47
I don't want to do this anymore. It was all a terrible mistake
2:06:50
and I'm so sorry. A pleading note entered Natalie
2:06:52
voice. Please, Jake, I'm putting my
2:06:54
life in your hands. Cool.
2:06:56
Sure, whatever. So he calls back to her, and
2:06:58
there's some secret third person behind her in the stairs who
2:07:02
shoots up at Jake. I don't care at this point, I'm
2:07:04
just trying to go to the end of the book.
2:07:06
Jake shoots down and of course he kills the shooter.
2:07:08
But in all the drama, Natalie's been shot in the shoulder but
2:07:11
protected by plot armour. She's not dead like all these
2:07:14
are the bad guys. They're killed dead in one shot.
2:07:16
But Natalie can survive because plot armour.
2:07:18
So he picks her up, carries her like the sudden little object a
2:07:21
woman should be, right? Misogyny.
2:07:25
And he takes it back up to the 4th floor to the other.
2:07:29
See, he can carry a dead weight of a body from the 2nd floor to
2:07:33
the 4th floor in no time, but it takes a healthy adult woman like
2:07:38
10 times as long to get from the basement to the first floor
2:07:42
anyway. This makes no sense.
2:07:44
He takes up to the 4th floor and tells the others to keep us
2:07:46
safe, try and stop the bleeding. And he nodded and said.
2:07:50
You're doing good work both of you, now I need to get back to
2:07:53
what I started. He reached out, touched
2:07:55
Natalie's shoulder for a second. She appeared to be unconscious
2:07:57
now killing the rest of those sons of bitches.
2:08:00
Oh my God what a big strong haired man.
2:08:02
So many, so alpha. So I don't care.
2:08:07
Back to Foster. Who's thinking.
2:08:09
The other scenario would seem so much more dramatic, though.
2:08:11
Taking over entire college campus and threatening to blow
2:08:14
off the face of the earth. That was the sort of thing the
2:08:16
legends were made of. If he was able to pull this off,
2:08:18
his name would go down in the annals of terrorism right next
2:08:22
to Osama bin Laden. Yeah.
2:08:24
Because that's what all true lefties dream of being compared
2:08:27
to. Bin Laden may be for real.
2:08:30
I can't This. This book gets Jupiter every
2:08:33
page. I'll say it again, this feels
2:08:35
like it was written as satire of like what the right think, but
2:08:39
this is actually written by someone.
2:08:41
Like in the name of someone who was right wing their whole life.
2:08:44
I, I can't, I can't. Dog Sue rescues people in yet
2:08:49
another building and then on the walkie-talkie he taunts Foster,
2:08:53
who sets off another bomb. Now Foster thinks if the
2:08:56
hostages ever decide to rush them, it wouldn't end well for
2:08:58
Foster and his allies. Fortunately, the chances of this
2:09:00
happening were insignificant in his opinion.
2:09:02
These were college students and stuff.
2:09:04
They had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the same sort
2:09:07
of progressive clap trap he had once believed himself.
2:09:10
They considered themselves superior, the elite who were too
2:09:13
smart to work to ever embrace violence.
2:09:15
So is he not a liberal anymore? Or is he?
2:09:17
Because I thought this was meant to be a I'm OK.
2:09:20
I'm very confused by what this book is trying to say.
2:09:23
Like, what is this man's motivation?
2:09:25
What are his political leanings? I mean, I'm confused and I think
2:09:27
the author is too. They want to make liberals the
2:09:29
bad guys so much. But that doesn't make sense if
2:09:32
you're just going to make them do whatever crazy, crazy stuff
2:09:35
for whatever crazy reason and just blame it on liberal and
2:09:38
left ideologies, even when that makes no sense.
2:09:41
This is a man who's claiming he's liberal, but he's different
2:09:43
to these other liberals and they're not violent and he is
2:09:47
violent. And then you have right wing
2:09:49
Jake been like damn all liberals.
2:09:51
They're just like extremists who are violent and they blow up
2:09:55
things and we all know liberals love their bombs.
2:09:57
But also liberals are cowards and they won't do anything for
2:10:00
it. Makes no sense.
2:10:02
None of this makes sense. Foster goes on to think not much
2:10:05
of a chance of this bunch risking their lives by fighting
2:10:07
back. They were used to being sheep,
2:10:08
being told what to think and do every moment of their waking
2:10:11
lives by the government and the media and sheep, they would
2:10:14
remain scared. Little sheep.
2:10:16
Sure, if you say so mate. Again, I'm confused.
2:10:18
A lefty is little sheep who never fight back.
2:10:20
Or are they dangerous terrorists who have a habit of going around
2:10:22
bombing everyone? This book needs to make up its
2:10:24
mind. You can't criticise them for
2:10:26
being both at once. So Jake decides to skip freeing
2:10:30
the second floor hostages for now, because the second floor
2:10:33
wasn't that important now, and Jake decided he could afford to
2:10:36
bypass it because whoever was posted there wouldn't be able to
2:10:39
come to Foster's aid right away if shooting broke out on the
2:10:41
lower level. Like, OK, but you know, they
2:10:43
have walkie talkies. Foster could give an order for
2:10:45
them to just kill everyone on that floor.
2:10:47
And I guess you're just OK with that.
2:10:48
Yeah, like that. That's a risk worth taking.
2:10:51
Those innocent people's lives don't matter as long as you get
2:10:53
to play the big hero. Yeah, stupid.
2:10:55
There's more blathering about how great Jake supposedly is.
2:10:58
Jake had spent enough time in the library to be aware of all
2:11:01
this, just as a matter of habit. He constantly studied his
2:11:04
surroundings, and he had the sort of brain that once
2:11:06
something was noted in it, he tended not to forget.
2:11:08
He had no real reason for doing that, other than he liked to be
2:11:11
prepared for whatever might happen.
2:11:12
He had never forgotten a quote he'd heard attributed to General
2:11:15
James Mattis. Always have a plan to kill
2:11:17
everybody in the room. That sounded like good advice to
2:11:20
Jake. That sounds like bad advice.
2:11:22
That sounds like something a psychopath would say.
2:11:24
I've literally like I've as a woman, you always think about
2:11:27
like, oh, what if I'm endangering this scenario a lot?
2:11:29
But. You never think about.
2:11:30
How to literally kill people? Who does that?
2:11:33
No one does that anyway. He gets the first floor, like
2:11:35
ground floor, and he sees the liberal police officer that Jake
2:11:39
hates wrestling with one of the gunmen.
2:11:41
Jake shoots the gunman dead. The number of dead people in
2:11:45
this book is now, oh, I don't even know.
2:11:47
It's higher than Jake knows how to count, like 16-17, something
2:11:51
like that. Actually, not including all the
2:11:52
people. Dog suit was killed.
2:11:53
So God knows we're probably in the 30s or 40s now.
2:11:56
As for the other guy, Jake goes and hits him over the head like
2:12:00
the other Goodman police guy grabs the guy's gun and breaks
2:12:03
his jaw. Then Jake kicks him in the head.
2:12:05
So he's either unconscious and like there's some sort of brain
2:12:08
damage from all that or he's dead.
2:12:09
I don't know, I don't care. Jake tells everyone to leave and
2:12:12
the author can't resist One more lefties A cowardly sheep dig.
2:12:15
But but is it safe? As the male undergraduate with
2:12:18
multiple piercings on ears, nose and lips, a girl with pink hair
2:12:21
said we should stay where we are until someone from the
2:12:23
government tells us to leave. The administration needs to
2:12:26
issue a statement and address this.
2:12:27
Added a middle-aged man who Jake pegged as a professor.
2:12:30
This campus is supposed to be a safe space in a gun free zone.
2:12:32
He looked pointedly at the pistols Jake and and Granderson
2:12:35
held. Neither of you should have
2:12:36
those. You should turn them into the
2:12:38
authorities immediately. Literally no one would act like
2:12:40
this in this situation. It's so stupid.
2:12:42
Back to Foster and he's now down to just five bad guys himself.
2:12:46
Two men with him on the basement level and two men on the 2nd
2:12:50
floor. And he's actually got one of the
2:12:52
bomb too, which I think is supposed to be around the
2:12:56
library that they're in or something.
2:12:57
The rest are all apparently decoys or something like that.
2:13:00
That right? And he says they were aware that
2:13:02
he'd been able to get hold of enough explosives to build only
2:13:04
three working bombs. The others were decoys intended
2:13:07
to keep the bomb squad busy checking out the work done by
2:13:09
the groundskeepers that morning and to keep the cops worried so
2:13:12
they would hold back in order to prevent a possible Holocaust.
2:13:17
Now I get this is meant to make readers associate liberals and
2:13:20
the extreme left with Nazis, but it's a stupid comparison, right?
2:13:24
Comparing bombs on a small campus to the Holocaust just
2:13:27
feels offensive. Bombs aren't going to commit a
2:13:30
pre planned genocide of 1,000,000 / a number of number
2:13:33
of years based on people's identities.
2:13:35
A better comparison might have been to when the KKK bombed a
2:13:37
lot of black churches across the American South in the 50s and
2:13:40
60s. But I guess this book doesn't
2:13:42
want to portray the KKK as bad guys, do they?
2:13:44
You know. Or maybe he could have compared
2:13:46
it to the Oklahoma City bombing things in 1999.
2:13:48
Oh no wait, that was done by a right winger too.
2:13:50
OK, how about the Centennial Olympic Park bombings in 96?
2:13:54
He could have compared. Oh no no wait, that was done by
2:13:56
Eric Rudolph, who also bombed abortion clinics in 97 and 98
2:14:01
and a lesbian bar in 97. And he was literally a member of
2:14:05
a right wing extremist group. Are you seeing a pattern here?
2:14:08
Anyway, the narration reveals that Foster has been secretly
2:14:11
planting a bunch of explosives around the library for the last
2:14:13
couple of weeks, and he could blow it up any minute now.
2:14:16
And we cut back to Jake. And in an utterly confusing
2:14:19
moment, he looked at the building's lift.
2:14:21
And the really interesting thing about it, though, was that the
2:14:24
downward pointing arrow on the panel above the doors was lit.
2:14:27
That meant that the elevator was descending from an upper floor.
2:14:30
How? There's supposed to be no power
2:14:32
in this whole campus, Definitely not in this building.
2:14:35
All the lights are out. All the power's off.
2:14:36
How is the lift moving? How is it working?
2:14:39
How is there a light on the lift?
2:14:40
Doesn't make sense, but without any explanation for this, Jake
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hits the button to make the lift stop on the ground floor.
2:14:45
The doors open, him and police guys shoot inside the lift, and
2:14:49
then the two men in there from the 2nd floor are now dead.
2:14:52
Cool. However, Oh no, Mr Policeman has
2:14:55
been shot. What a shame this trend of only
2:14:58
liberals dying in this book continues.
2:15:01
Just before he dies, Policeman decides to get in the lift and
2:15:05
go down so he can distract Foster so Jake can sneak up on
2:15:08
him and kill him. Cool.
2:15:09
Anyway, lift goes down Policeman, Then he dies.
2:15:12
Jake appears on the basement level floor.
2:15:14
He kills one guy, kills the other guy.
2:15:16
Now Foster is the only terrorist person left.
2:15:19
Unless you count Natalie with her gunshot upstairs, but
2:15:22
apparently we're not meant to count her anymore.
2:15:23
Okay, so tired of this, Foster runs away with the intention of
2:15:29
either sneaking up on Jake, or to kill Jake obviously, or
2:15:34
setting off the explosives around the library, killing
2:15:36
everyone still in it. And at this point I'm like, why
2:15:38
even bother trying to kill Jake? If you're ready to die for the
2:15:41
cause? Just just blow up the bomb
2:15:42
already, right? You know you're not going to
2:15:43
kill him. You're lucky he's 5 this long at
2:15:45
all. If that's really your goal, just
2:15:47
set off the bombs. Of course he doesn't because
2:15:49
plot. So Jake chases after him, they
2:15:51
have some nonsense back and forth and then a fistfight and
2:15:54
blah blah blah blah blah. Forced to get shot in the neck.
2:15:57
Jake gets shot in the chest, he passes out.
2:15:59
Pretty sure Foster's dead here. And then even in the aftermath
2:16:02
of everything, the author can't resist being snarky as hell and
2:16:05
it's disgusting. So we kind of like Fade to Black
2:16:09
at this moment and we get a sort of like aftermath of it all.
2:16:11
Councils provided by the college were overworked as they tried to
2:16:14
help the students deal with the trauma they had gone through.
2:16:16
This had been a macro aggression and some of those already easily
2:16:20
triggered snowflakes would never get over it.
2:16:21
That was the trouble with being a snowflake.
2:16:23
You melted if things got the least bit warm.
2:16:26
Like, sorry, let's not mock people for being rightly
2:16:29
traumatised by being held at gunpoint and threatened with a
2:16:31
bomb. Yeah, you can't mock people for
2:16:34
that. That's ridiculous.
2:16:35
Sadly, Jake has survived. And I know that sounds
2:16:39
heartless, but I couldn't careless about this character
2:16:41
and and his granddad being some rich billionaire.
2:16:45
Whatever gets them to put up some plaque in the library in
2:16:48
his honour. And Jake's like, shouldn't
2:16:50
policemen get something? Because, like, he did literally
2:16:53
die right from the say people. But the police chief says we'll
2:16:56
put something up in the station for him.
2:16:57
Don't worry. He sure was an unlikable kid.
2:17:00
Like have you ever heard of Don't Speak I'll of the dead?
2:17:02
He wasn't that. This is pathetic.
2:17:04
He was not that bad. Jake says he's leaving college,
2:17:06
but he doesn't know what he's going to do.
2:17:08
But it's OK because he's got family money to fall back on.
2:17:10
It's all right for some, isn't it?
2:17:11
And then he's approached by Dog Sue or Barry Rivera, who is
2:17:15
like, Jake, I am your uncle. Very Darth Vader.
2:17:18
Also what his name apparently isn't really Rivera, it's
2:17:22
Rivers. So Oh my God, how shocking.
2:17:24
What an excellent way of hiding. No one would have ever figured
2:17:27
that out. What a well thought out secret
2:17:29
identity. And Jake is like.
2:17:32
But Uncle Barry was killed in an explosion with his wife, and
2:17:35
he's like, surprise, I survived and oh God, this was so stupid,
2:17:40
right? Are you ready for this?
2:17:41
I've seen pictures of Barry Rivers.
2:17:42
Jake said stubbornly. You don't look like the blast
2:17:45
tore up my face. When the doctors put it back
2:17:47
together. I didn't look exactly like I
2:17:49
used to. I think you can still see a hint
2:17:52
of the old me here and there if you know where to look.
2:17:54
But most people never would. And you never saw me when you
2:17:57
were a kid. I was dead before you were born.
2:18:00
So was your Uncle Paul. He died in that insane asylum
2:18:03
where he belonged. I might act what a ridiculous
2:18:06
ending to a ridiculous book. So Dog Sue is like, hey, work
2:18:11
with me nephew, be an assassin or whatever, and the book, and
2:18:15
this is so bad. This is literally how the book
2:18:17
ends, right? Do I get a code name?
2:18:19
Barry squinted over at him. Said.
2:18:21
You're as big as a horse. How about horse?
2:18:24
No, Jake said, shaking his head. Not horse.
2:18:27
That's not a good code name. He thought about it now.
2:18:29
Stallion, maybe? I don't think so.
2:18:32
Barry clapped a hand on his nephew's shoulder as they walked
2:18:34
off into the Pleasant autumn afternoon.
2:18:36
We'll work on it. I'm sorry, Stallion Step thanks
2:18:40
a lot of himself, doesn't he? And that is where this pathetic
2:18:43
excuse for book ends. I don't think we ever really
2:18:46
find out what happened to Natalie.
2:18:47
I think it's assumed she survived, but I don't.
2:18:49
I don't know, I don't remember, I don't care.
2:18:52
There is, this is interesting, right?
2:18:54
There's an about the author section at the very end of the
2:18:56
book, which doesn't credit whoever actually wrote the book,
2:18:59
but it does say, though known largely for their westerns,
2:19:03
national best selling authors, William W Johnston and JA
2:19:06
Johnston are the authors of some of the most explosive and timely
2:19:10
thrillers of the last decade, including Blah blah blah blah
2:19:13
blah. The Johnstons know that freedom
2:19:15
is never free. They fully support our military
2:19:17
and regularly donate books to our troops.
2:19:20
You can learn more about this and blah, blah, blah, blah,
2:19:22
blah, the website. So yeah, not good people, are
2:19:26
they? Where this is where I like, I
2:19:28
keep thinking like, is this just meant to be a satire of the
2:19:30
right? And then you're like, no,
2:19:31
because the people putting this out are right wing.
2:19:34
It terrible. I I should also add as well, I
2:19:36
did not pay anything to review this book.
2:19:38
I did not pay for this book. I did not buy this book.
2:19:41
So we're OK. OK.
2:19:43
I often like to end videos like this by looking at some of the
2:19:46
tops, by looking at some of the top Goodreads reviews of this
2:19:48
book. And in this case, I found some
2:19:50
really good ones. This was these are so funny one
2:19:53
star. So what a fundamental
2:19:55
misunderstanding of the left agenda.
2:19:57
I don't mind that he wrote a book to dispute the left agenda
2:20:00
and represent a more conservative viewpoint.
2:20:02
However, maybe he should have like counterpoints.
2:20:05
Like he didn't really argue anything.
2:20:06
He didn't even have a stable plot or make sense.
2:20:09
OK, I guess. This person says one star.
2:20:12
Hey how about you don't One star.
2:20:15
Literally the worst. One star seems too much.
2:20:18
Agreed. One star.
2:20:20
No, just no. Absolutely effing not this
2:20:23
person. They actually got a early.
2:20:25
Copy to review. And they said if you just looked
2:20:28
at the blurb of this book and thought to yourself, this is a
2:20:30
joke, right? It's April Fool's or something.
2:20:32
Just wait until you read the actual book.
2:20:35
Oh God, I won't even gain to quote.
2:20:36
But no, this is not one of those books where the disillusioned
2:20:39
lead goes to college. And, I don't know, learn
2:20:41
something instead? The author, who hasn't set foot
2:20:43
on a modern college campus probably ever, and certainly has
2:20:46
never met anyone who went to college, gives us exactly the
2:20:49
example of a snowflake paradise. We can expect someone who thinks
2:20:52
that just because we want to learn, we can't be brave.
2:20:55
Snowflakes don't know what to do besides melt when it gets warm
2:20:58
or some crap. F that noise.
2:21:00
You like this guy's books? Bully for you, you can keep it.
2:21:03
Finally, there's. I can't remember if this was the
2:21:06
same person who wrote these things or two different people,
2:21:09
but this person said one star who was high at the publishing
2:21:11
company when they made the brilliant decision to print this
2:21:13
crap. Or maybe someone decided to
2:21:15
grant the dying wish of their grandpa who wrote this crap
2:21:17
while sitting on the toilet in their nursing home.
2:21:20
It's a plot that falls flat on its face when one considers that
2:21:23
gun control, the thing that so-called ultra lip special
2:21:26
snowflakes are pushing for, would have prevented the entire
2:21:29
thing, thus rendering a story useless to exist.
2:21:33
It reads as a gun humping conservatives wet dream
2:21:36
basically. So good.
2:21:38
Now I did try and see if there are any positive reviews but it
2:21:41
was difficult. All the five star ones seemed to
2:21:43
be giving it so many stars because they were like it's so
2:21:45
bad it's good. They were laughing at how
2:21:47
pathetic it is with things like 5 stars.
2:21:49
Absolutely hilarious. A+ plus comedy laughing my bum
2:21:52
of all the way. Five stars.
2:21:54
Easily the dumbest book I've ever read.
2:21:55
The writing and plotting were absolutely abysmal and read like
2:21:58
a deranged fever dream of Tucker Carlson.
2:22:00
I couldn't put it down. And this one's quite long but
2:22:03
I'll just read a few excerpts and five stars.
2:22:06
We really kicked some straw man but here didn't we?
2:22:09
And it's it's all quite educational if you don't
2:22:11
normally consume conservative media.
2:22:13
Five stars then for the publishers genius in using
2:22:16
Jasmine and zombie author Uncle Bill to expose and ridicule the
2:22:19
pure I will pure our world view of American conservative
2:22:22
populism. Sadly, the five stars can't
2:22:25
stand points are just as follows Doc One star for the too obvious
2:22:28
straw man fallacy. Sorry Doc 1 1/2 stars because I
2:22:31
was offended. A rape scene in the 1st chapter
2:22:33
is simply not appropriate in a children's.
2:22:37
It's not actually a chocolate book.
2:22:38
They're laughing at how Paul he has written add one.
2:22:41
Add 1/2 star for Jake stating that he doesn't want to be the
2:22:44
kind of guy who sees everything through an ideological lens.
2:22:47
A comic master stroke and best line in the book.
2:22:50
Doc 1/2 star for the vigilante Ex Machina of Just Dog.
2:22:54
Yes, I read to the end. Lone twist.
2:22:56
It still loses 1/2 star and I'm being generous.
2:22:59
Doc Another half star for the cheesy plot detail of everyone
2:23:02
dying instantly from gunshots until the love interest is hit
2:23:05
but only injured. Final score.
2:23:07
Three stars. Worth a read if you're in a
2:23:09
funny mood but don't spend any money on it.
2:23:13
Oh fantastic. And but there were a few serious
2:23:16
reviews who who like genuinely liked it and this shocks me so.
2:23:19
Five stars. A very entertaining book from
2:23:22
beginning to end. The simple fact is obviously
2:23:24
triggered so many folks here. Makes it even more hilarious.
2:23:27
Five stars. A rude awakening.
2:23:29
This could be today's headlines. Too many people are ready to
2:23:32
complain about everything and do nothing.
2:23:34
I will grab a book by these two. Over it over another so there
2:23:37
any time real life and everyday heroes.
2:23:40
So I thought like, okay, well, like this person obviously
2:23:44
saying we want to read this over other books.
2:23:45
I was like, I wonder what else they're into?
2:23:48
What else are they reading? So I went on that Goodreads
2:23:50
profile and I feel like we should take his review with a
2:23:53
pinch of salt because his favourite books include Book of
2:23:58
Mormon, Made Easier, Parts 1-2 and three, Jesus the Christ
2:24:03
Illustrated, and a lot of Doctor Seuss.
2:24:07
Like a lot of Doctor. Seuss.
2:24:11
OK, two last reviews, 5 stars, and again, I'm just going to
2:24:14
read you some excerpts here as not only a former student, but
2:24:17
an employee of a private college.
2:24:19
Not all together. Unlike Kelton, this reviewer can
2:24:22
attest to the reality of the leftist bias which dominates
2:24:25
today's Academy. Johnston does a good job of
2:24:28
capturing the essence of the of the modern collegiate mindset
2:24:31
and then amping it up exponentially thanks to the
2:24:34
machinations of terrorists who have chosen Kelton as their
2:24:36
target. Rivers is an extremely likeable
2:24:39
protagonist. Sorry, are we reading the same
2:24:40
the same book? What?
2:24:43
Trigger Morning is great fun and shines a much needed spotlight
2:24:45
on the sad state of contemporary higher education.
2:24:48
A thrilling read for all fans of action and adventure.
2:24:51
This one was five stars and says while some criticise the
2:24:54
portrayal of liberals, I believe the depiction to be accurate,
2:24:57
lending authenticity to the narrative.
2:25:00
Again, were we reading the same book?
2:25:03
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2:25:07
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2:25:12
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