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	Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for Tuesday the 22nd of December 2020.
	I'm joined by Callum and today we're going to be talking about how the United States seems to be an absolute powder keg, the ridiculous stimulus bill, and how the Tavistock Gender Dysphoria, the NHS's Gender Dysphoria Treatment Centre, is appealing the decision for the UK courts made to block puberty blockers for under-16s.
	But before we start, we have some good news.
	First of all, if you go to Lotuses.com and you are a Gold member, you should be able to post a video comment to us or a video question to us.
	I'm not actually sure how the procedure works, but apparently there is a function for you to send us a video comment or post it in the comments or something like that.
	And so if you have a video question, post us one or two or something, and we'll do them tomorrow.
	I guess the second thing is just to let you guys know about our sort of Christmas broadcasting schedule, because obviously there are labour laws in the United Kingdom, and that means I have to let people have some time off, which is kind of disgusting, but we'll talk about how we're going to repeal those another day.
	LAUGHTER So, you're away, what was it, Friday?
	Tomorrow?
	I'm leaving for tomorrow, yeah.
	Sorry, Wednesday, sorry, tomorrow.
	So, you're off for four days or so, but we'll be back.
	So, we'll be broadcasting up until Christmas Eve, then we're off for four days of Christmas, then we'll be back.
	But we'll try and make sure there's some content that's scheduled to go up on the various channels and social media platforms in the meantime.
	And some more good news as well.
	We've been on Apple Podcasts for like a week or something, and we received an email with a link to something called Chartable.com, which tracks the Apple Podcasts.
	Specifically, this is the UK Podcasts in the News category.
	And as you can see, you've got the BBC at the top.
	Channel 4, The Guardian, Politico.
	And we are currently charting at number 65, which, I mean, doesn't sound that impressive.
	But out of the, like, you know, several hundred podcasts that there are, I'm quite pleased to see the podcast of The Lotus Season.
	I mean, we're beating Ian Dale, Crooked Media, I've never heard of those, at 538.
	And if we go down a little bit more, you can see we're beating The Telegraph and Navarra Media.
	So, you know...
	That's pretty good.
	Who's just above us?
	Who are we looking to beat next?
	The Economist, Radio 4, in fact, yeah, BBC World Service, The Times, Rachel Maddow, yeah, we're coming for them all.
	We're coming for them all.
	So make sure you go and listen to us on Apple Podcasts so we can go up those charts because I want them to be very annoyed when they find out that we're just below them and we're catching up.
	But anyway, let's begin with what I guess I would just call the American powder keg.
	There seems to be, in a large percentage of the Republicans in the United States, a view that there has been a lack of justice done in the 2020 election.
	There appear to be open double standards, and many Republican figures seem to be almost in revolt.
	And...
	Understandably, there are obvious feelings of unfairness that are present.
	And I think this is not an un-understandable position.
	It's not opaque as to why this is the case.
	There are lots of reasons.
	And in fact, this op-ed by Newt Gingrich in The Washington Times really does summarise a lot of the problems.
	Because Newt Gingrich is an establishment politician.
	He's been, like, Speaker of the House in the 90s or something.
	And he's been deeply involved with American politics for decades and decades and decades.
	He's not what I would describe as some sort of wild-eyed radical, although he is conservative.
	But he's not something outside of the norm of American politics.
	And if these are his opinions, then I imagine that there are a fair number of Republicans who share these opinions.
	And they're kind of irreconcilable, considering what's going on at the moment.
	So I'm going to be quoting extensively from this, so I'll try not to bore you, but to be honest with you, the way he's laid all this out, I think it is actually very compelling.
	He says, We live in alternative worlds.
	The left's world is mostly the established world of forces who have been dominant for most of my life.
	My world is the populist rebellion, which believes we are being destroyed, our liberties are being cancelled, and our religions are under assault.
	We also believe other Democrat-led COVID-19 policies have enriched the wealthy while crushing middle-class small business owners.
	Some 160,000 restaurants are due to close.
	In this context, let's first talk about the recent past in the presidency.
	So before we go on, I mean, I agree that that's an accurate representation of what's going on.
	And I think that social media has driven this distinction between the left and right just way harder than it would have been otherwise.
	The fact that we can enter into our own little echo chambers, welcome to our echo chamber, by the way, online by self-selecting, curating your own newsfeed means that people just curate the things they like to hear, which is not morally wrong, but it does have consequences, and these consequences are what I think Newt Gingrich is speaking to.
	This is why it's important to go to other places as well.
	Yeah, this is why we always say, you know, listen to our opponents, you know, listen to the people who disagree with us, because they might be right.
	We don't think they are, but we don't want you to only have one source of information, being us.
	Although, that being said, sign up to lidsies.com so we can brainwash you.
	LAUGHTER But I don't think he's wrong about the view that the Democrats have about COVID. It's very much a statist worldview, as the state will impose top-down, and this means that wealth has been vastly transferred to the large businesses, away from the small businesses.
	You could describe it as a form of class warfare that the Democrats have been engaged in, and I don't think that's wrong.
	And I think it's interesting how it's the Republicans who are concerned about the small business owner, the The working and middle classes, and the Democrats just love their international corporations.
	Anyway, he says, When my candidate won, it was blamed on the Russians.
	We now know, four years later, that Hillary Clinton's own team financed the total lie that fueled this attack.
	Yes, and we also know that Hillary Clinton took money from Russia.
	Members of the FBI twice engaged in criminal acts to help it along, once in avoiding prosecution of someone who had deleted 33,000 emails, It's not fair.
	If it was the other way around, there would be outrage.
	The national liberal media aided and abetted every step of the way, which they did.
	The left-wing media I mean, Rachel Maddow being the prime example of this, the hysterical nonsense she was coming out with, and still to this day comes out with, I don't think, I've not heard that she's recanted her state position on the fact that Trump is a Russian agent and a thrall of Vladimir Putin.
	But as he says, all of this was purely an attempt to cripple the new president and lead the appointment of a special counsel who ultimately produced nothing.
	I'm not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment, and I think this is a really valid way of looking at things.
	When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr.
	Biden's chances, where were the New York Times and the Washington Post?
	They were, of course, as he's been saying, you know, complicit in this cover-up, because it is a cover-up.
	I mean, they were literally calling it Russian disinformation.
	Yeah.
	Instead of reporting on the facts.
	Yeah, and Rudy Giuliani's like, and it couldn't be verified.
	And Rudy Giuliani's like, well, I have the laptop.
	I have the hard drive.
	You know, I can verify it.
	You know, anyway.
	The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming impossible to avoid or conceal.
	The family of the Democrat nominee for president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by a greatest adversary.
	It was a blatant payoff and most Americans who voted for Mr. Biden had never heard of it, or were told before the election it was Russian disinformation.
	Once they did hear of it, 17% said that they would have switched their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center.
	That's the entire election.
	The censorship worked exactly as intended.
	He's completely correct about all of these facts and he's not.
	It seems that, I mean, at least 5 million seems to be lowballing it.
	You know, I don't know how much the 10% ended up being for the big guy.
	But yeah, I mean, millions of dollars the Biden family has received from foreign entities.
	And all of this, the paper trail, all of the evidence is all out in the public.
	It's all come out of Hunter Biden's emails or various other allegations and things like this.
	So we have the evidence of this happening.
	But this is just the start.
	This is in reference to a tweet that Trump had published where you couldn't like or comment on it.
	You could retweet it.
	Staggering, staggering maneuver to think that Twitter has the authority to censor the President of the United States.
	Amazing.
	Apparently Jack Dorsey has unfollowed Trump on Twitter now, and there's been lots of talk of, oh, when Trump is forced to leave office, will Twitter ban him?
	They will, of course, ban him.
	Trump, frankly, should delete his account and open account on Parler.
	He needs to preempt them.
	Because they were asked previously about this, because leftists were always complaining, trying to get him banned.
	And Jack Dorsey's response at the time was, well, he's newsworthy, therefore what he says should stay up.
	He's the president.
	He's obviously since recanted on that statement, saying that even if it's newsworthy, it violates our rules, so it's going to go down.
	So he's backtracked on that.
	So why wouldn't he backtrack now and just say, no, your entire account's going to go down?
	And it's not like Jack Dorsey hasn't backtracked on every single part of Twitter's policy on free speech anyway.
	I mean, in 2009, they called themselves the free speech wing of the free speech party.
	And now they're like, actually, we're going to censor the president.
	I mean, I remember when they said they don't do shadow banning or they have no idea how to do it.
	And then a couple of years later, they were in Congress saying, yeah, we did that and it didn't work as intended.
	Yeah.
	When I see billionaire elites, elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, are able to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in specifically Democrat districts without any regard to election spending laws or good governance standards, I fear for the country.
	Again, another legitimate concern.
	When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never irritating China, and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our country.
	When I watch story after story of election fraud being spiked, without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity, I know something is sick.
	I mean, he's completely right about this.
	The media, the left-wing media, has been totally complicit in all of this.
	The election process itself was the final straw in creating the crisis of confidence which is accelerating and deepening for many millions of Americans.
	Aside from a constant stream of allegations of outright fraud, there are some specific outrages, any of which is likely enough to swing the entire election.
	Officials in virtually every swing state broke their own state's laws to send out millions of ballots or ballot applications to every registered voter.
	It was all clearly documented in the Texas lawsuit, which was declined by the US Supreme Court We're good to go.
	In Pennsylvania, it went from 1% to 0.03%.
	In Nevada, it fell from 1.6% to 0.75%.
	There's no plausible explanation other than they were counting a huge number of ballots disproportionately for Mr Biden that would not normally have passed muster.
	That's the election.
	This is just the beginning, but any of those things alone is enough for Trump supporters to think that we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment, which is likely to only get more corrupt and more aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.
	I mean, where's the lie?
	I was about to say, what is he saying that's wrong?
	There are a bunch of statistics that buck the trend for every other election in recent history.
	That's just true.
	And of course this is down to the fact that we had a massive increase in mail-in voting, a massive change because of COVID and all the rest of it, but that doesn't disprove the point.
	No.
	And it doesn't validate, it doesn't justify why the Republicans should be unable to even get a hearing for their case their day in court.
	And the thing is, like, let's see what's on the other side.
	You've got Joe Biden.
	Whenever he's asked about Hunter Biden, he just says, like, he just says, I'm proud of my son, like he did in this interview here on C-SPAN. This announcement, sorry, he was giving, where he was asked about the probe while leaving a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware.
	One of the reporters shouted, did Hunter Biden commit a crime?
	Have you spoken to your son, Mr.
	President-elect?
	And Biden, who was walking away and shuffling away, like leaning on the table, he didn't turn around and just said, I'm proud of my son.
	And this is always the statement he makes.
	I'm proud of my son.
	It's like, really?
	Really?
	I mean, if that were my son, I'd be deeply ashamed that I had failed as a father.
	If my son was some sort of degenerate crack addict that was funneling millions of dollars from foreign governments and presumably buying the influence that gives them their friends in Washington, I would be just unbelievably embarrassed by this.
	I would consider everyone to be judging me personally as a father.
	But the only time where he's been asked about this, in a sit-down interview that I'm actually aware of, where he's actually given any kind of answer, was in an interview with comedian Stephen Colbert, which tells you everything about the way that the left wants to actually approach newsworthiness.
	So, in this interview, Colbert had said,"'You know that the people who want to make hay here in Washington are going to try and use your adult son as a cudgel against you.
	How do you feel about that, and what do you have to say to those people?' Biden replies, I'm not concerned about any accusations that have been made against him.
	It's used to get to me.
	And he's a grown man.
	He's the smartest man I know.
	I mean, in pure intellectual capacity, as long as he's good, we're good.
	What a weird response.
	I mean, I would be deeply concerned that the FBI was investigating my son on charges of corruption and fraud, and funneling money from foreign governments and all this sort of stuff.
	This would be something I would be deeply concerned about.
	But Biden just to go, well...
	It's just nothing.
	There's nothing to see here.
	Go away, folks.
	Colbert replies with, as a father, I understand and admire that.
	Oh, by the way, I mean, do we think that Joe Biden thinks Hunter Biden is the most intelligent person he knows?
	Like, do we actually think that he believes that?
	I don't think that he believes that.
	I think he's saying that as a way of, like, I don't even want to speculate, actually.
	I think he's just as complicit, and therefore he doesn't want to criticise.
	Well, yes, basically, yeah.
	That's essentially what I was going to say.
	Colbert says, as a father, I understand and admire that, which I don't know why he would admire that, but I guess he hasn't seen the photos that have come off Hunter Biden's laptop, you know?
	Like, how many fathers in the chat, if your son was like Hunter Biden, you'd be...
	Yeah, you wouldn't be a proud dad.
	And I don't see why you would be.
	And the thing is, I don't think it's necessarily Hunter Biden's fault.
	I think that his father has essentially pushed him into this lifestyle.
	That's the thing.
	Again, the buck, I think, all comes down to Joe Biden.
	But he says, I'm not sure if I could do that.
	Dude, I hope you all go to jail for this obvious corruption, the swamp, the establishment that Di Dongsheng was talking about, the friends in Washington.
	You are obviously it.
	We can see it.
	We can see you.
	And I think you should all go to jail.
	But Colbert's acting like Joe Biden is beyond reproach.
	Like Joe Biden is, oh, well, I mean, these evil partisan Republicans are just going to say, well, your son, corruption, corruption.
	And Joe Biden's like, no, my son's amazing.
	He's never done anything wrong.
	He's the smartest man alive.
	And Colbert's like, yeah, that's true.
	You're such a great guy, Joe.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	Like, Biden won't even discuss Hunter Biden with anyone else.
	This was published by NTD. On Fox News on Sunday, Jen Psaki, Biden's choice for White House Press Secretary, had said, Biden will not be discussing an investigation into his son with any Attorney General candidates.
	He will not be discussing it with anyone he is considering for the role, and he will not be discussing it with any future Attorney General.
	It will be up to the purview of a future Attorney General in his administration to determine how to handle any investigation.
	She also said Biden would oversee an independent Department of Justice and he's looking for someone with the highest level of integrity.
	Bull.
	Absolute bull.
	Right?
	I can't believe that nobody's talking about the obvious conflict of interest.
	As Barr's stepped down, then, assumedly, Biden's going to be replacing him.
	And Biden's surely not going to be replacing him when someone's like, yeah, so I'm going to get your son in jail.
	It's not going to happen, is it?
	This has already happened.
	You remember Ukraine?
	Well, yeah, yes.
	This literally already happened.
	And when the guy was investigating Hunter, Biden made sure he was gotten rid of.
	That's right.
	Good point.
	I forgot all about that.
	Biden has already taken these kind of executive actions in order to protect his son from legal ramifications for what is obviously corruption.
	So it's like, do you think, does anyone think for a second that Biden is honest?
	Going, highest level of integrity is the same as...
	The Chinese Communist Party is saying, yeah, we have friends in Washington.
	Yeah, sure you do.
	Yeah, with the highest level of integrity.
	Yeah, yeah, sure you do.
	I just can't believe that they think this is going to wash and that the Republicans are just going to be like, okay, well then I guess we'll just go away.
	And the thing is, it's not like vote fraud doesn't happen.
	Republicans can do it and be arrested for it, right?
	This is District Attorney of Delaware, charged Bruce Bartman, 70, of Marple Township, of illegal voting in place of his deceased mother.
	He intentionally and willfully violated election laws by registering two deceased individuals and returning an absentee ballot for his mother.
	So he gets charged.
	There's another one.
	This was about a month ago.
	A man arrested for vote fraud in Luzerne County.
	70-year-old Robert Lynn, who used a typewriter to fill out an absentee ballot application in the name of his deceased mother.
	He's a registered Republican, and so he gets arrested for vote fraud.
	The first arrest in 30 years.
	So when it's Republicans, they can be charged and arrested.
	But when it comes to Democrats, nothing.
	It's all...
	It's disinformation, Russian propaganda, it's all lies, it's all Trump, whatever it is, you know, it's all just not true.
	And so then we get to Dr.
	Peter Navarro's Immaculate Deception Report.
	I haven't had time to read all of this report because this has just come out, but I've just pulled out his executive summary from the beginning of this.
	I'm loving that cover.
	Great cover photo.
	Well, let's see it again.
	I missed it.
	Just the Donald Trump with the red.
	Oh yeah.
	Mike Pence dutifully clapping behind him.
	Anyway, so Dr.
	Peter Navarro is the Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy for the Trump Administration and National Defence Policy Act Coordinator.
	Act Policy Coordinator, even.
	From the findings...
	Sorry.
	From the findings of this report, it is possible to infer that what may well have been a coordinated strategy to effectively stack the election deck against the Trump-Pence ticket.
	Indeed, the observed patterns of election irregularities are so consistent with the six battleground states they suggest a coordinated strategy to...
	If not steal the election outright, strategically game the election process in such a way that I'm not actually going to finish that statement because I think that would be in violation of YouTube's policies.
	But that was a direct quote from the beginning of this report.
	And he says that the top-line findings of this report include the weight of evidence and patterns of irregularities such that it is irresponsible for anyone, especially the mainstream media, to claim there is no evidence of fraud or irregularities.
	There are, of course, tons of it.
	The ballots in question, because of the identified election irregularities, are more than sufficient to swing the outcome in favour of President Trump should even a small portion of these ballots be ruled illegal.
	All six battleground states exhibit most or all six dimensions of election irregularities.
	However, each state has a unique mix of issues that might be considered most important.
	To put it another way, all the battleground states are characterised By the same or similar election irregularities.
	But unlike Tolstoy's unhappy families, each battleground state is different in its own election irregularity way.
	This was a theft by a thousand cuts across six dimensions and six battleground states, rather than any one single silver bullet election irregularity.
	In refusing to investigate a growing number of legitimate grievances, the anti-Trump media and censoring social media are complicit in shielding the American public from the truth.
	This is a dangerous game that simultaneously undermines the credibility of the media and the stability of our political system and republic.
	Those journalists, pundits and political leaders now participating in what has become a Biden whitewash should acknowledge the six dimensions of election irregularities and conduct the appropriate investigations to determine the truth about the 2020 election.
	If this is not done before Inauguration Day, we risk putting into power an illegitimate and illegal president lacking the support of a large segment of the American people.
	How is he wrong?
	That's true.
	And I agree.
	Whether you consider the allegations to be true or not is kind of immaterial at this point.
	It's obvious that roughly 70 million people in the United States see Joe Biden as an illegitimate president.
	If he were to be put in, they would think that this was stolen.
	And he has come out with another claim in addition to this, saying that 379,000 illegal ballots were cast in Michigan as well.
	But this is sort of just an addendum to his report.
	And so the problem is that the Trump supporters are just not getting their day in court, as we saw with the Texas lawsuit being thrown out because Texas had no standing.
	Again, I don't agree with that.
	But the question that Trump supporters are asking is, if they can get no satisfaction from the law, what can they expect next?
	This is just an untenable position.
	It can't go on forever.
	This tension will be resolved somehow.
	And there do seem to be genuine injustices that have been done against Trump and his supporters through this election process that need to be addressed.
	And the entire thing seems set to explode.
	I mean, you've got this that Trump retweeted.
	And this is the best way, I think, of showing how Biden, frankly, is just an illegitimate candidate.
	Because everyone gets hung up on, oh, look at the popular vote, look at the raw numbers.
	They don't matter.
	At all in the electoral system in America, right?
	The popular vote, the raw numbers, has never been the way that the American elections are decided.
	In fact, it's the same over here, right?
	It could be that, like, Jeremy Corbyn won millions and millions of votes in certain demographic areas, but they each elect a representative that they would send to parliament, and in this they represent electors that then vote on the president.
	But this means that if, like over here, if Jeremy Corbyn had won millions more, but it was millions more in specific localised clumped areas, then that wouldn't mean that he would win the election.
	That would be one Labour, you know, a cluster of Labour MPs, but you might have 30 Conservative MPs in the districts around them, right?
	And so it's the same sort of thing we hear.
	This is wild.
	Minus the states in question, Trump won 25 and Biden won 16.
	Those states housed 2,974 counties.
	Even with the votes in question, Trump won 2,496 of those counties.
	Biden won 477 of the counties in the United States.
	Trump won 84% of this.
	Biden won 16% of this.
	So this is way off balance.
	How is that democratically representative?
	Because this is like the...
	I was talking to Josh about this.
	This kind of reminds me of the experiment where you take a glass of water and they're exactly the same.
	Then you take one that's long and you fill it up with the second glass and then you present two of them.
	It's just density.
	If you're arguing that it's counties that matter, how on earth would you ever get a democratic president or a left-wing majority?
	Because it's the divide between the United States...
	By appealing to them on grounds that they would approve of.
	No, that doesn't make sense because the divide between the left and the right within the UK and within the US is the difference not between capitalism and socialism and blah blah blah.
	It's really between cities and rural.
	Sure, but that doesn't matter.
	What we're saying is the Democratic Party would just have to change their policies to appeal to the rural voters.
	Right.
	That seems like a weird system.
	Why would that be a weird system?
	That's the people getting what they want.
	How do you define the people here?
	Because you're just saying if you're rural...
	The people in these counties that are voting, they're voting for the...
	Some of these counties will have like 1,000, 2,000 people in them, compared to a county...
	I'm not necessarily saying that we should have some way of keeping the rural areas represented, obviously, but...
	But if you don't do it this way, the rural areas will not be represented.
	Because if it's just done on raw population numbers, then...
	And this is what the frames of the Constitution do.
	This is the point in the Electoral College, but I don't care about counties.
	This makes up the electors for the states.
	So this matters.
	So this decides who the states vote for.
	And if Joe Biden only won 16% of these...
	Counties don't make them other votes, don't they?
	No, the counties decide who the electors are, as I understand it.
	No, I think it's the votes.
	Like, if I get 51% of the vote of Texas, like, even if I don't get the majority of counties, all those electors are meant to go to the candidate.
	Yeah, but how would you get 51% of votes in Texas without getting the counties?
	Because of density population.
	I mean, you'd get the big cities and then a few other counties, and you wouldn't have the majority.
	Okay, but I don't know, man.
	I don't think you can discount this at all.
	I mean, like, if all of the red areas are full of people who just think this has been stolen...
	And this will be just the common theme across, like, the centre of America.
	And you've got the coastal areas that are blobbed up with, you know, millions of democratic serfs.
	This is a legitimate problem, and we have the same in Britain.
	Like, if you look back at British politics, it's London and the big cities that are Labour.
	Sure, but you can't...
	And as the founder said, this is why the electoral college is necessary, because you don't want just raw dominance of the cities over the countryside.
	Yes.
	But this is what's happened.
	The cities have taken the election from the countryside.
	You know, this is what the Republicans will see.
	This is what they're thinking.
	And this is not tenable because they don't believe Biden won legitimately.
	They think that he cheated.
	And so if that's the case and you've got essentially the Democrats retreating to their coastal enclaves, this is, again, this is a tension that has to be resolved.
	It looks terrible.
	You're correct in saying, see, what I'm really doing here is I'm disagreeing with this guy, the way he's framing it.
	Trump won 84% of America.
	Well, Obama got twice as many counties as Biden did.
	Yeah, that's because he got way more votes.
	He didn't get more votes.
	Sorry, more votes proportionally of the election at the time.
	No, not really.
	I'm pretty sure he did.
	He got a high percentage of the vote.
	Well, what do you mean?
	Like, let's say Biden's 52% or whatever the hell it is, I don't know.
	But, like, Obama got, what was it, 60% or something?
	No, he beat him by, like, 9 million.
	No, no, no, percentage of the vote.
	Yeah, yeah, but I don't know what the percentage are, but Obama got, like, 9 million in 2008, and who is he against again?
	McCain.
	It was McCain, yeah.
	He got, like, 60 million.
	Right, so that's 9 million.
	But, I mean, like, Biden's on, like, 81, nearly 82 million, something like that.
	It's about roughly the same.
	Yeah, I should have got it up, really.
	But it's not so dramatically different.
	And yet...
	But you are hitting on a point here, which is that there is a big problem, at least within Western nations who run democracies on left-right bounds, that we have this weird problem between cities and rural, and I don't know how we're going to resolve it.
	Well...
	At the end of the day, it has to be the cities that lose out here, which, again, was the reason for the creation of the Electoral College.
	They can't just be allowed to dominate with particular interests that are localized to urban areas over the interests of the rural areas.
	Because, A, the urban areas need the rural areas anyway, so it's not like they can just enslave them or something.
	But without this being redressed...
	This is going to just turn into a festering wound that will never end.
	And it will, honestly, I think, come to conflict.
	I hear from a lot of Republicans who are just saying, well, look, we just want to have it out at this point because we think they're a bunch of cheats.
	And I can't believe that Biden isn't prepared to address any of this.
	And that's not a unifying president, is it?
	When half the country is like, look, we're not going to take this.
	Biden's just like, why don't we just all come together and accept me as the king?
	No, that's not going to happen.
	This is something I think you're hitting on rightly, which is they deserve a day in court.
	And it's because of this kind of problem, which is that left-wingers, at least within the Anglosphere, dominate cities.
	And it's also some of the areas where you get the most corruption, or at least where it seems to be found the most.
	And that's going to be a driving factor for people's concerns that it's not legitimate.
	I mean, like with Birmingham we were talking about.
	Birmingham is a Labour Party stronghold.
	And they had a massive, what was it, a vote-rigging factory.
	Oh, that was in Leicester.
	The vote rigging factory was in Leicester.
	The vote rigging factory was in Leicester.
	I swear there was one in Birmingham as well.
	Oh, there may well be.
	I wouldn't rule it out.
	This is one of those problems, that if you let cities become a leftist stronghold, and we seem to keep getting massive amounts of voter fraud from them, because it's a lot harder to govern.
	In rural areas, it's just easier to govern.
	And honestly, it's because, frankly, I think that left-wing parties are not scrupulous.
	I don't think that they care about honesty and fairness and transparency.
	Well, left-wing philosophy doesn't.
	Yeah, exactly.
	At all.
	It cares about power.
	It cares about power because they have defined themselves as being correct before engaging with the real world.
	And this justifies anything.
	But anyway, let's move on to the stimulus because we've been going on about this for quite some time.
	Okay, well...
	Anyway, the stimulus bill.
	So, this has been a laugh, because this has been a long time coming, obviously, but it finally got proposed.
	You can see here the CNN reporting it as a $900 billion COVID relief bill.
	Bloody hell.
	So they were fighting about this, but they finally agreed on a framework for it, and they were going to have a vote on it.
	But it's not $900 million.
	This is only the first part, and then the second part got added, and it's totaled up to $2.3 trillion, because, of course, they then thrown in the government spending for the following year.
	Right.
	So it's a huge, huge bill.
	I imagine it's probably the biggest in US history, you know, single spending.
	Probably.
	I mean, I think World War II, maybe, proportionally, but anyway.
	Yeah.
	So there's a few things in here that everyone's been talking about.
	So the first one is obviously the $600 that every American is going to get.
	Wow.
	Great.
	Like, okay.
	Not a big deal.
	I mean, nice, obviously, because, I mean, they don't have furlough, they don't have the backups that our government's done, but...
	Is this nice?
	I mean, is it good?
	I'm not saying it's nice or good.
	I'm just saying it's not a massive deal after...
	When was the last one?
	You know, $1,000 months ago?
	Yeah, 1,200 months ago, yeah.
	Oh, man.
	But there's also some aid in there for businesses, some expansion of unemployment benefits, so people have been laid off in the restaurant industry so you can get things.
	But there's a lot of pork, and the pork is what I wanted to get into, because it's hilarious.
	Right, so for anyone who's not familiar, this is what the Americans would call pork barrel politics, where a necessary bill is presented, and then a bunch of people add a bunch of special interest to it that inflates the price or whatever it is, the scope of the bill, beyond reason, and is understandably objectionable.
	It's also a good way of getting things that people wouldn't vote for to get voted on and get passed.
	And the first example we have on the next one is for streamers.
	So if you are a streamer in the US, this applies to you.
	We're not haram because we're in the UK. But the bill wanted to make it illegal for streaming copyrighted material.
	And the way it's written is terrible.
	And the reason The Hollywood Reporter has been making a big deal about this, rightfully, is because you can be facing a jail sentence for streaming copyrighted material.
	So if you're streaming an entire movie, I presume?
	So this is what the guy was based on, the Republican, I think he's a congressman, not a senator, had proposed this.
	Fact check me on that one.
	But his idea was we'll go after people streaming movies because this has been a huge problem since the start of the internet.
	Sure.
	But the way he's worded the bill, I want to get just some wording from the bill.
	I've got a quote here for you.
	So, it shall be unlawful for a person to willingly, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or promote to the public a digital transmission service that is primarily designed or provided for the purpose of publicly performing works protected under Title 17 of blah blah blah copyright.
	Unless you don't have the quotation from the copyright owner to do it.
	And this is starting with fines, up to three years in jail, and if you repeatedly do this, then it goes up to ten years in jail for breaking this.
	So, you can see how that going at a website that's just streaming movies endlessly might make sense.
	Sure.
	Pretty strict, but...
	And there are lots of websites that illegally host movies that you can stream.
	Yeah.
	But that's obviously quite a broad way of looking at it.
	Anyone who's providing an online service, well, every Twitch streamer is doing this.
	Yeah.
	And there's the kicker.
	If someone sends you a video and you play it and it's got copyrighted music, you're infringing the law.
	Like, the only defense you have is that I didn't mean to because they sent me it.
	So they're saying they're going to try and edit it so it's not like that, but it's already passed.
	So would you want to...
	Like, it's a bit late for that.
	Oh, dear.
	Yeah.
	So the next one is just AOC complaining about this, and it's an amazing thing that's happened.
	The right and the left ultimately agree that this is bad.
	So this is AOC talking about the bill.
	They got the bill, it's over 5,000 pages, arrived at 2pm, and they've got two hours to read it and then vote on it.
	Not going to happen.
	I mean, based AOC, but this isn't a new complaint either.
	I remember these arguments happening during George Bush's tenure.
	When it came to all of the stuff that they wanted to pass for the Iraq War and the response to the 9-11.
	I remember all of these discussions happening then, and it's exactly the same discussions happening now.
	Okay, good on her for saying something good.
	Like, here's the Patriot Act.
	You've got an hour.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	It's ridiculous.
	But the interesting thing is, of course, the fact that people are supporting each other.
	So Candace Owens retweeted this in complete support.
	I'm saying I 100% agree with AOC on this one.
	This isn't a stimulus bill.
	This is a heist.
	Wealthy people are stealing tax dollars under the guise of COVID-19 release.
	I implore AOC and her colleagues to ask why the Smithsonian and Kennedy Center need over a billion dollars of our money.
	That's a great question.
	So that's...
	They're publicly funded, or at least I think they're publicly subsidised museums and whatnot, but that's not the worst of it.
	The worst of it is yet to come.
	So the big headline out of this for a lot of people was the foreign aid that got attached to it.
	And the big one was $500 million for Israel, which ruffled a few jimmies.
	But that's not the only foreign aid in there.
	Why does Israel need $500 million, though?
	So the...
	Clarify that in a minute.
	So they also, in the way he's reading, you can read that it's $2 billion for the Air Force, $4 billion for the Navy, and $2 billion for the Space Force, which is something I have a particular interest in, but I'll keep my bias to myself.
	So...
	Bad timing.
	Like, you don't want to be giving out $600 to your citizens at the same time, spending billions and billions of dollars on foreign aid and military spending.
	It's not a good...
	Yeah, no, that's a bad move.
	Very bad look.
	So the next one from Candace Owens is just listing some of the other foreign spending and domestic spending here.
	So if you scroll down, yeah, so the foreign countries...
	Egypt gets a...
	Is that a billion?
	1.3 billion to Egypt?
	Exactly.
	I think that might be a typo.
	$700 million for Sudan, $453 million to Ukraine, $500 million to Israel, $130 million to Nepal, $135 million to Burma, $85 million to Cambodia, $25 million to Pakistan.
	Then Asia RIA gets $1.4 billion.
	I don't even know what Asia RIA is.
	That's, I think, the Asia regional.
	Right, okay.
	And then American citizens, 600 bucks.
	Yeah.
	600 buckaroos.
	But that is buckaroos per citizen, isn't it?
	Yeah, so when you add that up, I think you get like $200 billion.
	Right.
	But when this whole thing's $2.3 trillion.
	That's wild.
	But why are you giving them money?
	So the obvious complaint was people saying this is attached to the COVID relief bill.
	Like, I didn't know our lockdowns harmed Pakistan's economy.
	Why does Ukraine need nearly half a billion dollars?
	Why does Sudan, why did Egypt get 1.3 billion?
	What is going on?
	The argument here is it's foreign aid, and foreign aid has been a long-standing thing where people spend stupid amounts of money, and the defense of this was given by one guy on the next tweet, trying to defend the 500 million for...
	I don't know what I said.
	This is a meme.
	This is essentially the response from Twitter, which is, you know, here's a bunch of money for everyone, but you get $600.
	Yeah.
	It's a good meme by shoe.
	It is a good meme by shoe.
	Sorry.
	So the next one is the defense.
	So the defense of $500 million for Israel.
	So the defense here was that it's for military spending.
	So this is for the Iron Dome system, presumably, to defend Israel from Palestinian rockets that get fired.
	And why does that matter?
	Sorry, why does the American public have to pay for the Iron Dome system for Israel?
	I mean, it's still half a billion dollars of American money going to Israel.
	Which, in normal years, maybe you could make an argument for.
	You know, I'm not an expert on foreign policy, but in the middle of a global pandemic and depression, why are we giving out half a billion dollars to Israel to build the Iron Dome system?
	Right.
	That's a great question.
	And I thought it had already been built.
	Yeah, I think they already have the system.
	I assume it's just advancement.
	I mean, I've seen videos of it in action.
	Yeah, but it's not perfect.
	Shooting down Palestinian rockets.
	It's not perfect enough, I guess.
	Oh, I guess so.
	But of course, this Russell Jimmy is because a lot of people who don't like Israel were upset about it.
	Sure.
	Yeah, the left were very upset about it.
	Yeah, excluded from Kat and Toson's list was actually $250 million for Palestine, which is the next link.
	So they're just...
	It's foreign aid spending.
	Right, okay.
	But why?
	Why all of this money and why now?
	Yeah, of all the times to do it, I don't know who's supporting this.
	But one of the sneaky things is, of course, you've got the shutting down of streamers, which is bad.
	I can't think of a single person except Boomer Republican congressman.
	Yeah, who's in favour of that apart from people who've been lobbied by Disney?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Foreign aid spending, which a lot of this doesn't make sense.
	A lot of it doesn't make sense.
	There's a reason we've cut our budget.
	It's clearly that lobbyists have been like, here's a good opportunity to get my boss tens of millions of dollars, so go.
	Sandwich our stuff onto the COVID roof.
	Who's going to vote against that?
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is an impenetrable bill that can't be challenged.
	Yeah.
	Even though AOC and Candace Owen seem to be like, yeah, this is awful.
	So yeah, everyone agrees.
	Rashida Tlaib is also in agreement that's terrible.
	And what is it?
	Not Rompol.
	What is it?
	Rompol?
	Ranpol.
	Ranpol.
	Sorry.
	His son's name.
	So for people who are sceptical of...
	And not even people are sceptical of big government.
	That's not the right way.
	People who position themselves as populists are concerned about this against what I guess we call the deep state or something like this.
	So one of the funnier parts of this was something that Hill found out, which I think they found out a bit too late because it had already passed by now.
	But the next point here, if you can put it up, John, was that the funding for the wall is in there.
	Oh, is it?
	That's interesting.
	$1.4 billion is in there.
	So the Great Wall of Trump is going to be built.
	So I think John's having trouble finding it at the moment.
	Computer problems.
	I'll put it in the chat just so you guys can look at it if you want to.
	But Trump had initially asked for $2 billion ages ago for the wall, but he's now got $1.4 billion in there, just as he's presumably on the way out if they're getting rid of him.
	Yeah.
	Which is great.
	I just love how the Democrats will vote for this.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So, the next link is just showing that they passed it.
	And this, of course, brings into question, like, why did it end up like this?
	Like, a lot of this is just American politics being bad.
	Yeah.
	But this is actually the fault of the Democrats, and we can square it at the Democrats.
	What a shock.
	Yeah.
	Because you'll remember a while back Trump tweeting out that he would give the American people $1,200 cash each if the Democrats would propose it.
	And he made a big deal about this on his Twitter account, tweeting out that if I am sent a standalone bill for stimulus checks, open brackets $1,200, they will go out to our great people immediately.
	Now, that's not an unreasonable thing to request.
	A standalone bill not filled with loads of special interests that's just for the stimulus checks, he'll sign that immediately.
	Yeah.
	I believe him, too.
	And, of course, the Democrats didn't do this.
	They blocked it.
	Because...
	That would help people.
	That's one interpretation.
	So the argument they would give is that, oh, this was just Trump buying votes, and it's like...
	You've been demanding this!
	Hang on.
	Like, that doesn't make any sense.
	Like, the government shut people down, and are the government trying to remedy that by giving them some of their taxes on that?
	Well, the state government shut people down.
	The federal government is trying to bail people out.
	Yeah, that's not buying votes.
	That's actually just...
	Well, that's following the left-wing agenda.
	They've been demanding that money must be given to people because of these shutdowns.
	It's like, well, you don't have to shut down.
	No, we do!
	It's like, okay, well, Trump will sign it if it's just that thing.
	No, not at all.
	That's terrible.
	You can't do this.
	But even if you're a libertarian, you could see this as a tax rebate.
	We need to give 1.3 billion to Egypt for some reason.
	Egypt needs this money more than you.
	If I... What is it?
	If I can't give $700 million to Sadar, then nothing.
	No one deserves anything.
	Anyway, yeah.
	You can see him tagging all the Democrats there.
	Especially Speaker Pelosi.
	Their notifications must have just been awful after that.
	It's like, I will literally give everyone in the country $1,200 if you vote for it.
	And they didn't.
	And this is the nonsense of it.
	Oh, we can't have Trump get votes.
	It's like...
	What?
	Like, that means that...
	By doing what you want, okay.
	Literally anything the government does is them buying votes by that means.
	Yeah.
	So if Trump gets elected on build the wall, then he proposes building the wall.
	We can't let him win votes.
	Yeah.
	What?
	But that just shows it's not about helping people either.
	What it's about is trying to get your opposition out of power.
	But really, you should be more concerned about representing and helping your constituents, because you are an elected politician, after all.
	Yeah, so a lot of people were annoyed with the second bill passing, why is it only 600?
	And as the Daily Wire reports, she couldn't answer.
	They asked Nancy Pelosi on CNN to answer some questions about this, and nada, she had nothing, no defence.
	And it ended up turning into a bit of a catfight, so I wanted to play the video of the catfight because it's pretty funny.
	Can we get that up?
	We're still streaming, but you can't do anything?
	No.
	Right, okay.
	Okay, well this is a good time to persuade you to sign up to literacy.com so we can buy John a new computer.
	A bigger computer presumably.
	I didn't know we were going to have technical difficulties.
	Okay, well that's...
	I'll tax credit in their proposal either.
	You evidently do not respect the chairman of the committee's who wrote these bills.
	I respect all of you.
	And I wish you would respect the knowledge that goes into meeting the needs of the American people.
	But again, you've been on a jag defending the administration all this time with no knowledge of the difference between our two bills.
	And I thank you for giving me the opportunity to say that to you in person.
	Madam Speaker, these are incredibly difficult times right now, and we'll leave it on that note.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	No, we'll leave it on the note that you are not right on this, Wolf, and I hate to say that to you.
	But I feel confident about it, and I feel confident about my colleagues, and I feel confident in my chairs.
	It's not about me.
	It's about millions of Americans who can't put food on the table, who can't pay the rent, who are having trouble.
	And we represent them.
	And we represent them.
	We know them.
	We represent them.
	Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as they say here in Washington.
	Madam Speaker.
	Always the case, but we're not even close to the good.
	All right.
	Let's see what happens because every day is critically, critically important.
	Thanks so much for joining us.
	Thank you for your sensitivity to our constituents' needs.
	I am sensitive to them because I see them on the street begging for food, begging for money.
	Madam Speaker, thank you so much.
	Have you said them?
	We feed them.
	We feed them.
	We'll continue this conversation down the road for sure.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll be right back.
	Thanks.
	She sounds like she's about to have a meltdown.
	Yeah.
	Absolute meltdown.
	My God.
	Like, okay.
	So, yes.
	Yes, Nancy.
	It's important that everyone gets 600 bucks and it's important that Egypt gets 1.3 billion.
	Yeah, she had no defense.
	And there is no defending this.
	So the bill has now been passed, which is fine.
	And it's up to Trump whether or not he wants to veto it.
	So the populist leftists and the populist rightists are desperately asking him to veto it.
	But of course the problem there is it's got the wall funding.
	The right thing to do would be to veto it.
	The right thing maybe would be to veto it.
	Trump hasn't said anything himself.
	Apparently a White House source has hinted that they will pass it.
	But that's the stimulus bill, guys.
	That's your 600 buckaroos and what it's cost you in reality.
	Goddamn, man.
	That is a really good example of how reform is required in the United States.
	If the president can't even demand and get the single issue bill that he would literally immediately sign, I imagine you'd get that done in a day.
	But if this can't happen, I don't know, man.
	I remember back in the day, I think it was John Stewart, The Daily Show.
	I remember him mocking a Republican who was saying that this is ridiculous in the early 2000s.
	And he demanded, I think it was, you need to give me a piece of A4 and if it's not on two sides and that's it, I'm not passing it.
	And John Stewart was mocking him like, I don't like to read!
	That's my problem!
	And it's like, no, you get 5,000 pages with two hours to read it.
	You can't pass that.
	No.
	And that's exactly the problem that you're in now.
	Huge problem.
	That's mad.
	But, I mean...
	I think our computer is dead.
	It sounds like Trump should probably veto that.
	Even though he'll lose his funding for the wall, I guess he'd have to find that funding some other way.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so since the browser...
	Can we go on to the next one?
	Can we get anything up?
	There's just two links on the next one.
	Three links.
	The entire browser's frozen.
	Right, okay.
	It's alright, you'll just have to listen to me talk about this then.
	So the other day we covered how two UK judges ruled that children under 16 in the UK were unable to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty blocking drugs.
	Sorry, three High Court judges ruled.
	The case was Broadgate's Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which is the only gender identity clinic in the United Kingdom, which said it had been disappointed, but immediately suspended such referrals for under-16s.
	One of the claimants, a Miss Kira Bell, said she was delighted by the judgement.
	She had been referred to the Tavistock Centre.
	Which runs the UK's only gender identity development service as a teenager and was prescribed puberty blockers at age 16.
	She argued that the clinic should have challenged her more over the decision to transition to a male as a teenager because she took all of these puberty blocking drugs and had a double mastectomy.
	Judges said, given the long-term consequences of the clinical interventions at issue in this case, and given that the treatment is as yet innovative and experimental, we recognize that clinicians may well regard these cases where the authorization of the court should be sought prior to commencing the clinical treatment.
	This didn't sit very well with the Tavistock Centre, which has now appealed.
	And I find the way in which they're appealing to be very, very interesting.
	They say they're now appealing against the decision, according to the BBC, along with University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.
	These three bodies are appealing this High Court decision.
	The NHS Service Tavistock say that the move harms young people with gender dysphoria.
	Doctors and patients have told the BBC that the ruling could cause distressed trans teens to self-harm or even take their own lives.
	And young trans people have been giving their reaction with one calling the ruling honestly terrifying.
	So if they can't give them the puberty blockers, this is a risk to the trans kids.
	Yes, and if we can't give your children untested drugs, that's a form of oppression.
	That's where we are.
	I don't even know what to say.
	Well, I would suggest that trans activists have persuaded these children that, in fact, there is something going on with them that may or may not be true.
	I'm not in a position to judge, but I think for them to say that's honestly terrifying.
	I mean, having to wait a couple of years before being given any kind of treatment, I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to do in order to protect the obviously going to be large number of children who are not sure.
	And as with Miss Bell, were essentially drawn in and encouraged in to the process and ended up getting surgery.
	I think it would be better to err on the side of caution and not mutilating the bodies of children than I would...
	Essentially giving in to Twitter activists.
	And so this is something that Tavistock are not happy with.
	They say that any access to medication will not be automatically withdrawn as a result of the ruling, but they've confirmed that no new referrals are being accepted.
	So there are still children on puberty-blocking drugs that are experimental at the moment that it is completely legal for them to carry on with.
	They can't give it to new kids?
	Yeah, they're not accepting new applications.
	A spokesperson for the NHS Trust involved told the BBC this is a temporary pause, and Dr.
	in Harrop, a GP from Liverpool who has defended the right of children to begin transitioning, says young trans people now have had the rug pulled out from under them.
	It makes me terribly worried that there is now nothing there for those children and nothing that can be done to help them.
	Parents are being left at a point where they're having to struggle to cope with these children who are in a real state of distress and anxiety.
	Sadly, there's a very risk of seeing more suicides.
	Well, that is a potential risk that has to be weighed on one side.
	Of course, the other side is actually not really about risk at all, but actually about consequence.
	There are consequences to taking puberty blockers.
	These consequences are not very well understood because these medications are experimental, but we can find some studies that will tell us about it.
	A paper called Growing Pains, the Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria was written by a team of three experts.
	Dr.
	Paul W. Hurres, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine, Dr.
	Lawrence S. Mayer, a scholar in residence at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, and a professor at Arizona State University, a Dr.
	Paul R. McHugh, University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.
	So people that I, as a layman, I'm looking at saying, well, they seem credentialed.
	They seem to know what they're talking about.
	They've done this.
	It's a meta-study as well.
	The study examines 50 peer-reviewed studies on gender dysphoria in children and considers emerging treatments for the condition, including hormonal treatments such as puberty blocking, which is using hormones to suppress biological puberty and surgical intervention.
	So the previous doctor's complaint, Dr.
	Harrop, His complaint is, well, there might be a problem.
	There might be suicides.
	These kids who are having gender dysphoria, a few hundred, maybe, that Tavistock is treating, have got a real state of distress and anxiety.
	That's terrible.
	That's bad.
	Obviously, we don't want kids in distress and anxiety, and there's nothing that can be done to help them.
	Well, there seems to be only one tool in the box of the transgender activists to deal with gender dysphoria, and that is transitioning.
	And so...
	I don't think we're allowed to make any recommendations about maybe other aspects that can be looked into or something like this, because that's politically incorrect.
	And you'll get a large activist lobby coming down on your head.
	And I say we, I mean like people who are interested in the subject, doctors, you know, who want to...
	You get other, you know, an aggressive lobby attacking you and defaming you.
	But anyway, in this study, they say that potential adverse effects include disfiguring acne, high blood pressure, weight gain, abnormal glucose tolerance, breast cancer, liver disease, thrombosis, and cardiovascular disease.
	And finally, as Dr.
	Ryan Anderson notes, all of the children who persist in their transgender identity and take puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones will be infertile.
	So these are major life-changing events.
	And there are other problems with, like, bone development and stuff like this, but again, this is experimental.
	These are preliminary findings, but they seem to be really quite consequential.
	And back in March 2019, Tavistock was accused of covering up these negative side effects by an Oxford University professor.
	Dr.
	Michael Biggs, an associate professor at Oxford's Department of Sociology, claims that the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock has been giving puberty-blocking hormones to children without robust evidence as to the long-term effects.
	Declaring the trial a success, the clinic continued to treat over a thousand children with hormones, but Dr.
	Biggs' research suggests that after a year of treatment, a significant increase was found in patients who had been born female self-reporting to the staff that they deliberately tried to hurt or kill themselves.
	The patients also reported a significant increase in behavioral and emotional problems and a significant decrease in physical well-being in children born female.
	According to his research, there was no positive impact on the experience of gender dysphoria, the diagnosis given to those who are described as feeling intensely uncomfortable with their biological sex.
	Dr.
	Biggs said, Puberty blockers are exacerbating gender dysphoria, yet the study has been used to justify rolling out this drug regime to several hundred children under the age of 16.
	A Freedom of Information quest to the NHS Health Research Authority showed that the study's own research protocol stated,"...it is not clear what the long-term effects of early suppression may be on bone development, height, sex organ development, body shape, and the reversibility of the treatment if stopped during pubertal development." In an interview with The Guardian in 2015, Dr Carmichael of the Tavstock Centre said,"...nothing is completely reversible." This has been lobbied by a charity called Mermaids.
	Before 2010, puberty blockers were only prescribed to over-sixteens, but Biggs claims that the clinic's caution was opposed by Mermaids, the charity that identifies people as trans and refers them to the Gender Identity Research and Development Clinic, whose purpose is to, quote, improve the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people.
	So let's assume that all of these activist organizations on the left who are promoting puberty blocking for transgender people are acting in good faith.
	and they are not just zealots who have a belief that they want to try and impose on reality and make reality change to fit their mold.
	Let's assume they're acting in good faith.
	If Dr. Biggs is right in his studies and his research that there is no increased positive impact on the experience of gender dysphoria because of puberty blockers, which are again experimental drugs, and in fact it seems to which are again experimental drugs, and in fact it seems to exacerbate the problems of gender dysphoria and it has this whole host of various other medical conditions and infertility that end up with
	How on earth could it be that this could be allowed?
	And so, essentially, we have to hope that the Court of Appeals considers all of this information and denies the Tavistock Centre's appeal.
	But the question is, why is the Tavstock Center not considering these facts?
	Because it appears that these are facts that we have established.
	Why are they not like, well, actually, we want to help.
	We don't just want to apply a process that we have agreed on.
	And if the process isn't working, as Dr.
	Biggs is suggesting, then why don't they revise it or scrap it or do something else?
	I mean, what's happening with Tavistock is they're not able to take new...
	I don't want to call them patients, but I say patients on.
	Yeah.
	No, they can take new patients, just not children.
	Just not children.
	I mean, and it's not even that they can't take children.
	What it is, they can't prescribe puberty-blocking hormones to them.
	Okay, so they can't give them untested drugs, which...
	Which is a start.
	Okay, because I'm wondering why the government haven't said anything about this.
	Because why would they?
	Would you want to get involved with the angry trans lobby on Twitter?
	Because that's the thing.
	I remembered, I didn't get this up beforehand, so I wanted to mention it here, was that there was actually a debate about allowing self-identification to become the standard for becoming trans in the NHS, and just figured out it's Liz Truss, the lady we spoke about before, who came up and said, no, I'm not doing that.
	And they're keeping it in, so you have to get a medical diagnosis rather than self-ID. Good fare.
	So they seem to understand that there's a problem here and that the trans lobby are not legitimate people.
	They're just activists.
	They seem to be activists.
	They're not representing the trans people in this country at all.
	Well, it's not about them representing the trans people.
	They're not representing the science as far as the scientists see it and have researched it.
	And they're being accused of covering up the fact that they're not representing the science, presumably in favour of their ideological agenda, which is to promote transgenderism and the normalisation of transgenderism.
	To the cost of anything else and everything else.
	Apparently to the cost of the interest, the long-term interest of the people involved.
	If you're being encouraged to take drugs that are going to leave you with various kind of bone cancers or other kind of cancers or various other awful conditions and infertile, sterile, sorry, at the end of it, I don't...
	And this is for them to be able to...
	Explore their gender identity before they reach puberty?
	That seems very one-sided to me.
	I think that this is not the prudent or responsible thing that a parent would want for their children because they say, okay, well, look, you might be having emotional problems and we'll have therapy for emotional problems, but we're not going to allow you to destroy your body as a child.
	That's got to be off the table.
	Yeah.
	Did Tavistock admit what they've done is wrong or anything like that?
	Because I remember this court case, which was...
	Well, this is what the appeal's about.
	They're like, no, this is terrible.
	Yeah, but what's interesting is as soon as the court case was done, during the court case, Tavistock were asked to produce a list of how many children had come in and how many of those they had given the puberty blockers to, and they refused.
	They were just like, no, we're not giving that up.
	It's a court case.
	Really?
	I didn't know that.
	It came out immediately after the court case ended, because they were like, oh, no, the data's being compiled.
	We don't know.
	And then it was compiled and then released the day after, and it showed, what was it, all but one of the children had come in, had been given the...
	Yes.
	There was nearly a 100% follow-through rate, wasn't there, from being dragged into the process to taking the drugs and going through the procedures.
	Which...
	Seems a bit high.
	In fact, I recall us covering this, because they had interpreted this as, in fact, oh, there's much higher demand than we realised, so we should be expanding the scope of our operation.
	Which is not what that implies at all.
	It implies that there's something weird going on in the Tablet's Dark Centre.
	Yeah.
	Hopefully they'll get knocked down in their appeal as well, because this doesn't seem sane.
	Yeah, no, I mean, as a parent, no way is the response I would have.
	You're not giving my children untested drugs, and again, it just seems to be a way of experimenting.
	It's like, sorry, I think that's pretty unconscionable.
	Anyway, Jaffo on the Baron says, This bill is a joke.
	It's almost like they're asking for the pitchfork mobs.
	Who is John Galt?
	You spelled golf wrong, mate.
	But yeah, I agree with you.
	The bills does seem to be a joke.
	Jake Orger, good morning from Ketchikan, Alaska.
	How can people contact you to help contribute?
	Tips at lotuseaters.com, right?
	Yeah, if you have something you'd like us to see, you can email tips at lotuseaters.com.
	JJHW says, Merry Christmas to everyone, even the French.
	Even the French.
	You missed one there.
	Unholy.
	Didn't get a chance to send this yesterday.
	My contact email for the talk show guy is unholydredge at gmail dot com.
	Okay.
	Possible pilot deviation says, letting the hired help off to celebrate Christmas?
	Disgusting.
	How much coal is allotted for the office stove?
	I bet they even expect it to be paid, too.
	Yeah, I know.
	Honestly, all these labour laws are a real problem, and I didn't realise how much of a problem they were until I started a business.
	That's a reference to, what is it?
	What's the name of the Christmas?
	The Christmas Carol.
	Yeah, are you going to re-watch that this Christmas?
	Well, I watch it.
	Excite with Scrooge.
	I watch it every day.
	The more I have to pay out in wages, the more I'm like, God, Scrooge is right.
	Merry Christmas to you all in the chat.
	Thank you, Charlie.
	Evan S. says, I find it laughable that Protestants slash left mock my belief in papal infallibility, which has been used two times in 2,000 years history, when they have their own version of infallibility with scientists.
	Yes, I hate scientism.
	This weird religious belief in the science and the scientists.
	Look, the science can tell you a lot of things you don't like.
	But anyway, we'll talk about that another time.
	I'll probably write something on scientism because I'm finding it insufferable.
	Jedi Knight Anakin Cringe Walker says, When we eat poorly, our bodies reflect our revealed preferences.
	It took thousands of years for fat to be viewed as poor self-control.
	What does poor news diet look like and how long until that looks bad?
	Well, it looks like echo chamber people like...
	I watched an episode, a clip of The Young Turks the other day.
	I haven't watched The Young Turks in years.
	And Anna is just angrily yelling at every statement.
	And it's like...
	Why don't you just talk to the people you disagree with?
	Because she's, like, demanding answers, but there's no one there to answer her, right?
	It's really weird to watch.
	Yeah, it's really bizarre.
	It's like this angry, like, thumping.
	It's like, why don't you talk to those people?
	I bet you could get some.
	But anyway, Alex News says, I want to do political commentary channel.
	I'm in the middle.
	I'm scared.
	Far Left will come and find me and cancel me, and YouTube will erase YouTube politics.
	To be honest with you, I think YouTube might be interested in erasing politics altogether.
	Actually, I think they've decided that political commentary is actually too much hassle, and so I suspect it eventually will all be erased.
	Thumblegudget says, have you guys considered getting Dr.
	Mike Yeadon on to talk about the government pseudoscience behind the COVID restrictions?
	He did a great interview with James Dunning-Pole a few months ago.
	We can certainly reach out to him.
	I've not heard of him, but I'll write it down.
	Yep, I've heard of him.
	JediTimelord42, hi, I have a satirical drawing I drew in relation to yesterday's podcast.
	Is there a way I can send a screenshot of it to you?
	Thanks.
	I don't know, you can tweet it at lotuseaters underscore com?
	Twitter?
	Or you can send it to contact at lotuseaters.com.
	Or you can send it to contact at lotuseaters.com and we'll put it on tomorrow.
	Guitar operator says, I've been saying this since fact-checkers started gaining momentum.
	They're here to replace the need for people to apply some critical thinking.
	They're here to ensure that we all think right.
	Right?
	Yeah, definitely.
	It's the cathedral establishing its hegemonic narrative.
	Buncey the Frog says, I'm really enjoying seeing this endeavor grow and succeed.
	The initial Two Stacks China segment has been a great intro with my family.
	I'm glad to hear that.
	I'm really glad to hear that that's the case because we're working really hard, as you can tell, and we seem to be having a good time doing it, and I think we've been doing some good work.
	So, thank you.
	I've heard it really wholesome when people share stuff with their families.
	Yeah, me too.
	And I'm glad that the way that we present things now is much more shareable.
	And that was the point, you know.
	So, you know, I like the old Persona and everything, but, like, it wasn't family-friendly.
	I mean, that was the point.
	Couldn't share it with your grandma.
	No, no, not really.
	Does your grandma watch your old stuff?
	No, no.
	My parents do.
	Hi, Mum and Dad.
	My mum will be playing Ark Survival Evolved, probably, listening to this.
	Charlie the Beagle, Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 did nothing wrong.
	At RUC. I assume that's a reference to the IRA. I'm not sure.
	I'm guessing it is, and if that's the case, disavow, yeah.
	MuteStream, you think Hugo realized the simps are male yet?
	Have you two realized yours are as well?
	We need diversity.
	Where are the female simps for Vicky?
	That's a good question.
	But yeah, I think I'd assumed that, to be honest.
	Monty says, been with you since Gamergate days.
	This new venture seems to be really working out for you.
	Keep them coming, Carl and Co.
	Well, thank you very much.
	If you'd like to support us, you can go to locates.com and become a member.
	In fact, we recorded a podcast the other day, and I really wanted to put it up because it's an amazing podcast.
	I want it on YouTube.
	But we're talking about the changing demographics of the UK in this podcast.
	And the left and right wing reactions to this.
	And so it just didn't seem safe to put it on YouTube, but thankfully we can put it on our own website.
	So this will be up as a premium podcast because we did an awful lot of work for this one and you're really going to want to watch it.
	I think I listened to it again this morning to see whether we could put it up on YouTube or not.
	And I was really impressed with the quality of the podcast.
	I was Just to blow our own horn here.
	But I thought it was really, really well done.
	But it wasn't safe for YouTube.
	That's the thing as well.
	There's nothing wrong or we understand factually incorrect about the podcast.
	But just because you're talking about a subject which YouTube doesn't like, can't go on there.
	Yeah.
	But we dig into the history of the verboten term in question, where it's come from.
	The large resettlement.
	Yeah.
	And how true it is.
	But this will be up in the next couple of days.
	I think it'll be up on Christmas Day, actually.
	So Merry Christmas.
	That should be quite good.
	You can see it on lodocies.com.
	Eric Edward, where be the Hugo?
	Hugo will be joining me tomorrow, actually, because Callum will be off.
	So Hugo will be joining me tomorrow.
	TLSE Podcast says, Carl, I've been watching you since days.
	You've inspired me to start my own podcast.
	Can I get a shout-out?
	TLSE Podcast on YouTube.
	Love the show.
	Yep, go and check out TLSE Podcast.
	I wonder what that stands for.
	Not a Band Account says, Did you guess Boris would be a tyrant lockdown man?
	No!
	But who was?
	Yeah!
	Like...
	Who saw that coming?!
	Yeah.
	we can't vote for him.
	Yeah, you'd be like, that's mad.
	That's obviously not what Boris is going to do.
	And so, yeah.
	Patrick says, in Georgia's runoff they have voting bus going around a Dem-heavy county.
	Almost definitely illegal, just stunned.
	Yep.
	Scott Hennessy.
	Hey, man.
	How's it going?
	Scott is a personal friend of mine.
	He popped into the office yesterday to watch the podcast yesterday.
	Eleven pull-ups.
	That's all.
	I can only do three pull-ups, but Scott's been working out a lot recently.
	Possible Pilot Deviation says when Civil War II kicks off, the rest of the world needs to keep an eye on China because they will make moves to suck up everything they can.
	Yes, they will.
	Not-a-bound account says, can Her Majesty prorogue Parliament end lockdowns?
	I have no idea.
	I think in law, yes, but in reality, no.
	Yeah, I can't imagine people will accept this as a...
	But, I mean, I didn't think we'd accept conversations about putting road blockades up and preventing people from leaving London.
	So, you know...
	Honestly, monarchy is looking pretty good, eh?
	Yeah, I mean, it depends on the king, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	It's not that different with a republic.
	It just depends on the leader.
	Yeah, but at least you can get rid of the leader without having a civil war.
	You can get rid of the king.
	With a civil war, yeah.
	The amount of food they're unable to sell at the supermarkets is sad.
	I hope it goes to the food banks and not landfill.
	Thanks, Boris.
	There's a happy line.
	Yeah, it just annoys me that Boris does everything that Keir Starmer demands.
	Like, yesterday, we were saying this, and I go home and I'm just like, you know, on the internet, and I saw that Keir Starmer, like, you know, nine hours previously, had made a demand saying that Boris Johnson needs to address the nation, and then, like, three hours later, Boris Johnson addresses the nation.
	Boris, you don't owe him anything.
	You don't have to do what he says.
	Do what you think is right.
	Ignore this guy and bring back Dominic Cummings, who incidentally should answer my email.
	Mark Laferne says, if Trump manages to pull a win out of his hat, he better show that swamp why government should fear the people.
	Yeah, I daren't even speculate about what's going to happen in the US election.
	I mean, we're so far off the rails at this point.
	Nothing is predictable.
	Mute Stream says, Sweden's trying lockdown.
	No alcohol for after eight.
	Eight while demonstrating and at home.
	Prohibit sales next week.
	Still just recommendations.
	If they pass it, they will tear up our foundational laws.
	Oh yeah, I mean, this has already happened here.
	Like, I mean, Wales not only has banned alcohol sales in pubs, but now they've banned supermarkets from selling toys and Christmas presents.
	Mark Drakeford, the absolute scrooge of Wales, is definitely letting it...
	Boris didn't want to cancel Christmas, but I do.
	I want to cancel fun as well.
	Let's go further.
	The most absurd of when he would try to cancel buying clothes for winter is just an evil thing to do.
	There's no way of flipping that.
	I'm not too sympathetic with Mutant Stream there because Sweden's history with alcohol and laws is pretty weird as it is.
	So I'm not even sure that's a massive change for you guys.
	Right, okay.
	Lord Al-Abeen says, Callum is right about the popular vote.
	This is why Philadelphia, only Philly and Pittsburgh are needed to win the 20 electoral votes.
	Yeah, no, I'm sure that he is right, but the problem is the way that it represents the country and the way that things have been left.
	Which is why the electoral college exists.
	Yes, but this, it's...
	If such a large swathe of the country just didn't vote for Biden, and it's just stacks of people in very, very tight locations, I don't see how that's tenable.
	I don't think you can carry on.
	Anyway...
	Cathirga says, what people don't seem to understand, an attack on our electoral system is an attack on the Republic.
	This is a casus belli.
	What do people think is going to happen when there's no legal recourse?
	Well, that's the main thrust of the complaint that I'm making.
	If they can't even get their day in court, and they can't even have the evidence shown to the public, and addressed by judges, and actually judged on, And the guy who's coming in with all of this evidence that he and his son are deeply corrupt and owned by China can't even be held to account by asking him questions.
	If he can just say, well, no, I'm not answering questions about that, then that will never go away.
	It will never be resolved.
	And it will always be that there will be half the country say, well, he's an illegitimate president.
	And that's terrible.
	Anyway, Shaker Silver says, electors are sent by legislators based on the population vote.
	Counties don't count.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Why not flip things?
	Why shouldn't the GOP change to appeal to the majority?
	Well, they are.
	This is why Trump made so many gains in these demographics.
	But the problem is the democratic machinery in these counties, as Rudy Giuliani points out.
	And I think that he's right.
	This is, I think, a warped interpretation of what it is as well.
	So the leftists will argue we have the majority of popular votes, and the framing is that the Republicans can't win a majority of popular vote, which I don't think is true.
	The problem here is winning city-dwellers votes.
	That's the difference here.
	The concerns of city-dwellers versus people who live in the countryside are just massively different.
	Yeah.
	But Trump made massive inroads with these people.
	So you can't say it can't be done.
	You know, he did.
	My point there is where he's saying they should appeal to the majority.
	It's, well, you've got to appeal to city dwellers, but that's...
	Yeah.
	But I don't want to get into it now.
	Yeah, sorry, sorry.
	But yeah, it's a long thing.
	But anyway, Charles Doherty says, never screw with your food supply.
	Should state secession occur, food would be cut off from the coastal cities.
	Once again, socialists starve.
	Well, no, they'll import food.
	They'll import food.
	But, I mean, you just look at the 20th century.
	Essentially, the left wing is a form of attack from the bureaucratic centralized cities over the decentralized, independent-minded countryside.
	And the cities tyrannizing the countryside never ends well.
	DRTS-King says, urbanisation was a mistake.
	Democrats, delenda est.
	Gunn Griffin says...
	The first statement was right, at least.
	Yes.
	Well, the second one was wrong.
	Actually, yeah, the second one was...
	As long as it's not literal.
	Well, yeah, just dissolve the Democratic Party.
	That's what needs to happen.
	The president is to negotiate between each state.
	Each state votes to choose their representative.
	This is why we use the Electoral College and not the popular vote.
	Yes.
	And I think the Electoral College was genuinely prophetic...
	In its creation by the founders.
	Zoranek says, one, Democrats and progressives talk about healing, but what they mean is healing, as in bringing to heal.
	Learning to recognize doublespeak makes it easier to understand the bad faith actors.
	Yes.
	Larry Romano, the states decide how they award electors.
	Fair enough.
	Yep, we'll skip over those because I appreciate the correction.
	Hey, lost my job last week, so it might be the last Super Chat for a while.
	I'm sorry to hear that, man.
	I want to say I'm so pleased with the new site, and it's worked out well.
	God bless you all.
	Thank you.
	And obviously, we're going to have up today a very interesting look by Hugo into some of the diversity materials that we've been sent.
	And it's full-on Robin DiAngelo, but he goes through it in good detail.
	So you'll want to check that out later.
	The Earl of Longford.
	The expansion of copyright legislation was a mistake.
	Good core idea, but it's something like 125 years after the death of the author.
	Yeah, that's ridiculous.
	It should be 40 max.
	Yeah.
	Zoranex, second example.
	Nancy Pelosi said aid money over $1,000 is breadcrumbs.
	Now she says $600 is significant.
	I'm looking forward to my gourmet ice cream.
	Yeah, you'll be able to put it in your $25,000 freezer.
	Yeah.
	Yes, he can.
	To be honest with you, Biden might well put the boot down on Antifa.
	Now they're no longer useful.
	So he might not actually make it worse.
	Three years, and then it'll be the same again, though.
	Yeah, of course.
	When Trump comes back, or the next Republican who takes his place comes back...
	The idiots will be needed.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The useful idiots will be needed to go and terrorise the population.
	Pirate Skeleton says, I'm against all career politicians.
	Establishment, no one should ever enter the public service to enrich themselves.
	Yes.
	I don't like career politicians either.
	Charlie the Beagle, blessed be the God Emperor Trump and his mean marines.
	They shall know no re...
	Inquisitor Jack says, That's true.
	Again, that's what Giuliani's complaining about, basically.
	Yeah, I mean, map that onto England.
	If we were all ruled by London, it'd be pretty weird.
	Yeah, yeah, it'd be awful.
	Imagine Sadiq Khan having extended powers across England.
	Kieran B for a pound.
	Thank you, Kieran.
	MuteStream says, Murricans, how the fudge is she still in office?
	I assume you mean Pelosi.
	Good question, by the way.
	Possible pilot deviation.
	I'm going to censor myself here.
	I want someone to take a redacted.
	You're not saying that.
	No, I'm not saying that, no.
	I'm not your buddy guy says, call me crazy, but I believe not only the fate of America, but also the world will be decided on the 6th of January.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, like, Trump's position as the president is such a sort of lodestone that draws in things to its, like, position, that without that, it'll be things drawn to Biden's position, and that will be bad.
	DRT is king.
	Friendly reminded that Nancy Pelosi was swept into office with the help of Jim Jones.
	Look into the connection.
	Said Kool-Aid provider had to the California Democrats.
	Alexandru, this is turning into the bread doll.
	Is history repeating itself?
	Kind of.
	The reason that the Democrats end up looking like various socialist regimes is because they mimic the politics of socialist regimes within the confines of the American Republic.
	But they'll subvert it wherever they can.
	Snafu says, I hope Trump rips it up and then writes 1,200 with his signature.
	Says, here is your money.
	And congressional members like Pelosi can't do anything.
	It would be based.
	I imagine he'll just veto it.
	Mute stream.
	Huguenots, H in the chat.
	Hugo's love, Hugo's life.
	Political Pothead says, I understand the impetus and the desire for that, but that gives the president remarkable editorial control.
	In that way.
	Well, what's the point in the Congress?
	Exactly, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's too much.
	Jedi Timelord says, I think I'm the only transgender traditional liberal.
	I'm disgusted by their behavior of the trans lobby and the left.
	They tried indoctrinating me and I refused.
	Good for you.
	Robert Connor says, COVID release bill $20 million to recruit women into the Afghan army.
	Money well spent.
	I mean, that's weird, isn't it?
	You know, just why?
	Dragzoon WRE for $100.
	Thank you, man.
	Buy non-boomer equipment, please.
	I guess he's talking about John's computer.
	It's a good computer.
	Shut up.
	Don't say no it's not.
	I spent hundreds of pounds on that computer.
	Hundreds?
	You want a live stream 4K with four cameras on a hundred Well, more the reasons, sign up.
	I'll get John even nicer equipment.
	You should see his monitor, honestly.
	Buddy Lee, your brain develops during puberty, blocking it coincidentally blocks development.
	I'm sure it does.
	Pink Bunchen says, today's my 23rd birthday, happy birthday.
	And a week from now I'm closing on my purchase of a condo.
	Wow, a 23, that's fantastic.
	You must have worked really goddamn hard.
	Thanks for all the great content that helped me expand and develop my positions.
	Merry Christmas and God bless.
	Thank you very much.
	Seriously, that's great.
	Buying your own condo at 23.
	That's amazing.
	Anrad says, 28 and still asleep in my bunk bed in my parents' house.
	Well, there we go.
	There's the duality of man, right?
	I can't help but notice that Anrad sent us Euros and Pink Bunchen has sent us Dollars.
	Just...
	Sorry to hear if it's not your fault.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Good luck.
	We're just teasing.
	Jake Bartlett says, Elliot Page flip-flopped on their sexuality well into adulthood with a fully developed mind and able to critically analyze their lifestyle, but a five-year-old knows absolutely what they want, right?
	Yes, if you work for mermaids.
	A student of history says, Prefrontal cortex, the decision-making area, isn't fully developed until 25.
	The American powder cake is very accurate.
	Anyone who voted for that bill needs to go now and enjoy V for Vendetta IRL brother.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then this thing, we are concerned about this because we don't want civil conflict.
	Lady Babylon...
	Oh, that disappeared.
	Sorry, I'll get that back up.
	Please don't send anymore.
	Yeah, we've got to go.
	I've got to try and do some last-minute Christmas shopping, to be honest.
	Because I'm terrible.
	Lady Babylon says...
	Well, I mean, I don't know that that's how they feel about it, but that will be a consequence of it.
	There is some pretty evil stuff being alleged about them as well.
	I don't know if this has been proven yet or not, but one of the allegations is that there'll be homophobic parents who are from certain kind of backgrounds, I'm going to assume...
	Who don't want their kid to be gay desperately and would much rather prefer that they were trans because that's acceptable.
	What?
	Coincidentally, the law of the land in Iran is that if you become transgender after being accused of being a homosexual...
	Then you actually count as a woman.
	You get to live, but you have to go through with the transition.
	Jeez.
	So...
	I mean, really, homophobic parents are like, well, it's okay if he transitions, but I'm not having him sleep with a man.
	Yeah, well that's the law of the land in Iran.
	Well yeah, sure, but that's not here.
	But that's the, if you get the world, you get the world's problems.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Mantis Raga says, thanks for covering Tavistock.
	I've been talking about how lobbyists use and abuse people with gender dysphoria as a voting bloc at the cost of their own health.
	I've been called all sorts.
	Yeah, no, I think that's, I think they're doing it for ideological reasons.
	I don't trust them.
	If children can make life-changing decisions, might as well allow them to vote and drive.
	Wasn't it 20% chance of a suicide in later years from child transitions?
	Probably higher, to be honest.
	Philip Heron, Merry Christmas from Belfast.
	Merry Christmas to you, Philip.
	Convincing Reality says, I'm a man, but I identify as a more muscular and hairy man.
	Where can I go to receive my NHS-approved testosterone and HGH? Or is that somehow too silly?
	I don't know on what grounds they would refuse you, or could refuse you.
	If you were a less masculine man why couldn't you go for it?
	I don't know.
	I don't feel like a fair man.
	Apparently, something like 95% of the gender dysphoric children lose gender dysphoria as they go through puberty anyway.
	So it seems that maybe these hormones have some kind of effect on your view of yourself, and maybe blocking it is actually not good for those children.
	Maybe children can't consent.
	Yes, maybe children just don't know what they're talking about.
	And I say this as a person, right?
	A person, a parent.
	I'm also a person.
	I say this as a parent, children don't know what they're talking about.
	Frosty Guns 55, get China Uncensored on.
	Carl, what did you do with the 40k from your lawsuit?
	Did you use that money to start the Lotus Eaters?
	Yes.
	Zach Redpiller.
	To both, in fact.
	Yes.
	Yes, to both.
	Yeah, that's exactly what happened.
	Zach Redpiller.
	Did you ever check out Harry Dent's work on demographics and the economy?
	I didn't.
	Didn't recognize that name.
	No, I don't.
	Sorry.
	Graham B. Great show, guys.
	You keep mentioning the cathedral, so there's any chance you might have a chat with Curtis Yarvin.
	I don't.
	The infamous Mencius Mould book.
	Maybe.
	The cathedral is a useful concept that he popularised to explain why when a left-wing politician does something, every left-wing media outlet and activist is working in lockstep.
	Because what they're describing with the cathedral, and it's not surprising that it comes out like Catholic thinkers.
	It's always the Catholics.
	Well, no, they're describing a rival belief system, and that's why they call it a cathedral.
	But it's a good term.
	but I'm not against the idea of talking to him.
	Royal Ulster Constabulary, who's atting me, I'll bring the black and tans.
	Right, okay.
	As fun as it is, we're disavowing.
	The Earl of Longford, Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4, Irish National working in the UK, picked up after a provisional bombing, evidence fabricated and released after a decade in jail.
	That's right, Aaron Corwin.
	We covered this once with the Birmingham guys.
	So, yeah, I mean, they didn't do anything wrong.
	I still disavow to be sure.
	But yeah, just in case.
	The Earl of Longford.
	Mr.
	Royal Constabulary is salty because it's PSRI now.
	Oh god.
	Irish partisanship.
	Yeah.
	I can't pronounce that Polish name.
	Sargon, what's your opinion on Marcus Furious Camillus?
	Is this...
	Which one is this?
	I'm going to have to go and check that I'm thinking of the right person.
	As I understand it, from the very, very beginning of the Roman Republic, after the fall of Tarquin the Proud.
	But I can't quite remember what he did offhand.
	So, I'll have to check him out again, refresh my memory on Marcus Furious Camillus.
	I remember the name, though, because it's cool to have the name Furious.
	It sounds awesome.
	Like, there's a cool name.
	Yeah, it looks that way.
	Matt Hancock definitely, as you can see our weekend podcast from last weekend.
	Crafty Huragok says lockdowns equal the destruction of the nuclear family.
	They also equal the destruction of independent wealth.
	So, you know, Mark Laferne, congrats, Carl, on getting my last name right.
	Well, thank you.
	So what did Furious do?
	So he was a soldier, he got four triumphs, and was five times made dictator, which is pretty amazing.
	Yeah, so there we go.
	384 BC, 367 BC. He was also given the title of the second founder of Rome, which is pretty good.
	Yeah, I can't remember exactly what he did, but I have read him, man.
	He's been dictator five times.
	Well, the dictator was an official position that lasted for a year.
	I know.
	And it was in times of high crisis.
	Well, that's because he obviously did a good job.
	Doubtless some sort of Gallic invasion or Sabine uprising or Sam Knight invasion or something like that.
	Something that he dealt with.
	MuteStream says, I'll have you know Sweden has weird laws, but our drinking culture is still quite strong.
	The law regulates sales and drinking in public.
	We drink a lot.
	Yeah, I know you do, but your laws about alcohol are still weird, mate.
	Yeah.
	Captain Z for $20 says, thank you.
	The food, energy supplies, and power plants come from the rural areas.
	The rural areas will control their own airspace.
	Cities will be cut off.
	If not food, energy costs for the cities will go up a lot.
	Yeah.
	I don't even speculate.
	We don't want to go down this road.
	Ryan Dark says, Yeah, remember, you guys are all paying for this.
	And more importantly, the Republicans just need to carry on doing what Trump was doing, and appealing to them on Republican values, because it's not like your values are wrong.
	There's nothing wrong with the values you're espousing.
	It's about the persuasiveness and the ability to sidestep Democrat narratives about racism and white supremacy and all this sort of stuff.
	Don't talk about any of that stuff.
	When someone does, just be like, okay, that sounds like communist garbage to me.
	I'm going to talk to you about how we can get your taxes down, how you can have more money in your pocket, how your business can thrive.
	You know, talk to them about the real concerns.
	But anyway, MuteStream won't argue against that, but they're still base laws, okay?
	ThugLifeBear can confirm JP, TW, CH, and KR all waiting on January 6th.
	I don't know what those things are.
	So we'll carry on.
	Political pothead.
	Congress could still override the AA line item veto.
	Many individual states already use this method.
	Right, okay, I didn't realise.
	But anyway, thank you very much everyone for joining us and if you would like to see more content from us, you can go to lowseeds.com where we have lots up already and more to come.

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