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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Loadseeders for the 1st of October 2021, I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about how social media is destroying children, DeSantis ads that make him look fantastic, and also how the elites are looting America.
	Yes.
	You okay?
	Yeah, I was just sorting the chair out.
	Rightio.
	Let's get into some of the stuff on the website first.
	So, first thing to mention is an article from Rory, The White Stag of Merseyside.
	Yeah, this is really good.
	I assume this is in reference to The White Stag Police Shot.
	Yeah, I read this earlier because the whole thing about shooting the white stag, it was done under the guise of public safety, but it's like, okay, how many people die a year because of deer, right?
	There was no need to shoot this thing.
	And Roy's done a really, really, really nice article here, just talking about, look, there is actually sort of cultural significance in British culture to what a white stag is.
	And so it's actually inappropriate to just kill this white stag for utilitarian reasons.
	It's wrong, you know, and they could have just chewed it out of the city.
	It would have been easy enough to do.
	Or, you know, capture it.
	The utilitarianism doesn't even make sense.
	No, exactly.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	And it's sort of mythically wrong to do, and I really enjoyed this article.
	I really recommend it, and it's got an audio with it as well.
	So go and check that one out.
	The next one to mention is an article, I want to show the audio there, for Silver and Gold Tears.
	And the next one being an article from Hugo about how the US government cannot run out of money.
	Yeah, this is a free one.
	We're going to be talking about this a bit later on, in fact.
	Ah, okay, so I'll leave that there for a minute.
	And then moving on, so some of the other stuff to mention.
	So we have The Book Club, Robert Conquest's Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
	Yeah, this is Robert Conquest just looking back at the 20th century through the eye of a pro-Western historian and being like, wow, communism was bad.
	Nazism was bad.
	We should have learned a few lessons by now, but we haven't.
	Look at it all in our universities.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Good stuff.
	You'll enjoy it.
	Very good, lad.
	I love how he predicts wokeism as well.
	Totally.
	Without realising.
	Totally.
	Which is really funny.
	So it was written in 2001 or something like that.
	Yeah, like he describes, what is it?
	There's always an enemy class now, whether it be men, whites, or so on and so forth.
	And he just writes, this is Marxism, come again.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, okay, he got it.
	He got it in 2001.
	Well worth your time, though.
	Anyway, moving on, some other stuff to mention, so looking back at the Met Gala.
	Yeah, this was really good as well, because this is Bo on top form with his viperous tongue.
	The people of the Met Gala, again, it's got an audio track to it, so it's nice and easy to listen to.
	But yeah, Beau's really great when he's being judgmental, when he's at his best.
	And the last thing to mention is the interview you did with Steve Hughes.
	Yeah, it was really good as well.
	Really good.
	I love how you pick up other people's stuff and you're like, yeah, it was alright.
	Yeah, but other people's stuff is very good.
	Oh, okay, yeah.
	I really enjoy it, you know.
	You moan at me sometimes, which is being like, yeah, it's fine.
	Well, yeah, okay.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's just funny.
	I think this one's...
	Oh, the reason I'm mentioning this is it's gone freemium, hasn't it?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	So this one's free to watch now?
	Yes.
	Is that correct?
	Yes, because people are like, oh, this is a really useful interview.
	Maybe this should be publicly available, so fine.
	Brilliant, and we'll be done.
	Anyway...
	So that's that.
	Go and have a watch.
	So yeah, sign up, because I lost us free.
	Anyway.
	Let's get into social media destroying children.
	So yeah, social media is destroying the minds of children, and Facebook know it.
	And this has been revealed to us from what has been called by the Wall Street Journal, the Facebook Files.
	Now, I'm no fan of the Wall Street Journal.
	This is not the first time, of course, they have gone after social media platforms.
	But they do have a point here because someone internally to Facebook had leaked a bunch of their own internal research that showed that their platforms are having significant effects to young people and this is what was found.
	So the Wall Street Journal just summarized this by saying, well look, they know in acute detail that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.
	There's a central finding of this series based on a review of internal Facebook documents, which I have been through, including research reports, blah, blah, blah.
	Time and time again, Facebook's researchers have identified the platform's ill effects, and despite these congressional hearings and things like this on it, they've done nothing about it.
	So number one is that Facebook actually does have a two-tiered system on their platform.
	There are rules for thee, but not for me.
	They allow users to speak, they claim they allow users to speak on equal footing, but the elites of politics, culture, and journalism don't have these standards applying to them.
	They have a program known as CrossCheck, which is intended to be a quality control measure for high-profile accounts, and it shields millions of VIPs from the company's normal enforcement.
	They actually have an expressly two-tier system on Facebook.
	I mean, to be honest, we have known about some of this for quite some time, thanks to people like Ryan Hartwig.
	I want to give credit to him.
	But it's nice to have, like, the documents, the shit.
	Yeah, but he leaked a bunch of them, and we had them on the website, which is just him showing that, yeah, here's what's written as, like, oh, these are the guys you must follow, and then here's what we get, and it's so much in-depth and so much more, this is okay, this isn't.
	I think one of the examples was, like, any Nazism stuff, of course, goes, but any Communism stuff was like, well, maybe.
	If Stalin wants to deny the Holocaust, you can't do that.
	It's like, right, okay.
	So anyway, number two, Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for many teen girls.
	This is something the company's found repeatedly, but we're going to look into in greater depth in a moment.
	Number three, Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier place, but instead it made everyone angrier.
	Wonderful.
	Good news.
	They were concerned about signs of declining user engagement, and so they were like, ah, what we need to try and do is strengthen bonds between users and improve their well-being by fostering interactions between friends and family.
	Turns out everyone hates their friends and family, and that was the wrong thing to do.
	It made everyone angrier.
	Number four, Facebook employees flag drug cartels and human traffickers, but the company basically doesn't do anything about this, especially in non-Western countries, this is.
	Employees flag that human traffickers in the Middle East use the site to lure women into abusive employment situations.
	They warn that armed groups in Ethiopia use the site to incite violence against ethnic minorities.
	I don't doubt that it's not just Ethiopia as well.
	They send alerts to their bosses about organ selling, pornography, and government action against political dissent.
	And they also show the company's response, which is basically nothing.
	And number five, Facebook hobbled Mark Zuckerberg's bid to get America vaccinated.
	The problem they have here is that Facebook allowed people to say things that weren't pro-vaccination.
	And that was the Wall Street Journal's problem.
	But there we go, that's the Wall Street Journal.
	And number six, Facebook's effort to attract preteens goes beyond Instagram kids.
	So despite knowing that their platforms are damaging to a large number of children, they're like, yeah, so how can we get more children on our platform?
	As you can see here, why do we care about tweens?
	And one of them was like, well, they're a valuable but untapped audience.
	Children shouldn't be using social media.
	End of story.
	I thought the limit was...
	Yeah, right there.
	The age limit's 13.
	Yes, it is.
	But that's still too young.
	No, but I mean, legally, they're currently saying no one below the age of 13 should be on the platform.
	And at the same time, we're going to hunt those under 13 to get on the platform.
	Yes, because they're trying to develop new social media platforms that children should use.
	But of course, the answer is no.
	Children should not be using them.
	And we know this because of Facebook's own research about young people.
	If we go into the actual document now, let's go and have a look, right?
	So if we go to page 24, John...
	They say, well look, page 24 points out that generally, either teenagers on the whole either feel no different or slightly better, but about a quarter of teenage girls feel a lot worse from all of this.
	On page 27, teenagers, apparently, by the way, people feeling better, it's because of meme pages.
	People who are telling jokes on Instagram and Facebook are the things that are making those platforms bearable.
	Yeah.
	Well done.
	Thank you, Archbishop of Banterbury.
	So, you know, girls, get following those meme pages if you want to feel better about yourselves.
	Page 27, teenagers, unprompted across all groups, would say that Instagram is the reason that there are higher levels of anxiety and depression in young people.
	So all of them associate Instagram with making their lives worse.
	The social comparison on unprecedented scale is the reason, with no way to escape it on the platform, as in they're constantly, because they're teenagers, going, oh, look at that person, look at that person, I wonder if I'm being judged, I'm judging them.
	And so there's this constant social comparison that's going on, which of course this happens With all teenagers and all places and all times, but because Instagram gives you access to literally hundreds of millions of people, probably billions now, around the world, well, there's no way to escape it.
	And both boys and girls gave this as the primary reason why Instagram is worse than other platforms for mental health, with the young people openly attributing their increased anxiety and depression to Instagram.
	We go on to page 28.
	Teenagers with mental health issues, surprise surprise, says Instagram that makes it worse.
	They suffer from pressure to conform, pressure to match money and attractiveness of influencers, need for validation from likes, and then you've got friendship conflicts with people angrily messing with each other and stuff like this.
	Et cetera, et cetera.
	Not good.
	Page 29, those who are satisfied with what they have are the ones who don't have this problem, probably because that's like the top 20% of people when it comes to, you know, fortune.
	And they're not bothered, but then they're the ones who are being compared to, I would imagine.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Page 33.
	This creates a negative feedback loop.
	They say, comparison culture creates feelings of self-doubt.
	This heightens through social media use, brings on a low mood, and makes them more vulnerable to negative content that they see online.
	On page 34, they point out that this exacerbates the problems that they already have in their lives.
	These consumption patterns damage mental health.
	Young people know this but don't change, presumably because of the addictive nature of social media, and so can get addicted to negativity.
	Constant self-critique and scrutiny permanently shapes the way a person views themselves in relation to others.
	Boys and girls compare themselves to different topics at similar rates.
	This leaves them setting unrealistic and unattainable standards for themselves.
	Of course, this is most prevalent in body image.
	That's not good, is it?
	Teaching teenagers that they should be aspiring to completely unattainable standards and making them depressed if they don't, or when they don't.
	What was the difference between men and boys, sorry, boys and girls on this?
	Uh, women are more concerned about, um, sort of the beauty things and men are more concerned about, uh, trappings of status.
	So expensive clothes.
	Um, I was going to say jewelry, not jewelry, like, you know, big house.
	Yeah.
	I was gonna say watches, but I'm not even sure it's watches like, you know, expensive phones, you know, like stuff that they wear, you know, the cool Nike shoes or whatever.
	Right.
	Whatever the kids are doing these days, says the boomer, right?
	But girls, obviously, it's, you know, the Instagram models, particularly skin, apparently, is one of the things that, like, skin tone and stuff like this.
	Exactly, because these Instagram models, and you can see the beauty bloggers being like, right, I'm literally going to put five pounds of makeup on my face and then smear it all around, and then suddenly I'll come out looking like a waxwork figure.
	And it's like, yeah, don't try and aspire to that.
	It's not going to happen.
	You know, that's literally a piece of art done for one photograph for Instagram.
	And if you move the camera like five degrees, the illusion is ruined.
	Exactly.
	Another problem, of course, is that online bullying is particularly intense.
	So on page 39, they point out that this erodes trust in friend groups, making the children feel unsafe, isolated and depressed.
	So basically no one knows who's going to backstab the other one because none of these relationships are done in real life so you don't get to see the pain on the other person's face.
	They're not authentic relationships.
	They're not authentic, no.
	And this brings bullying into every part of their lives as well because normally when I was a kid if you were being bullied you'd go home.
	So you'd at least be away from the bullies.
	But the bully is in your phone, in your hand, in your bedroom, so you can't really escape it.
	But the problem is that these things are addictive.
	And if you're a 13-year-old, you don't have the mental awareness to be able to be like, right, well, I realize this is addictive, so I'm going to put that down and go do something else.
	That's not how kids think.
	Block them, but that was just me.
	Sure, but then other people can still see what they're saying, and they'll tell you, and things like this.
	It's not that easy, right?
	But basically, they feel they've got little they can do about it.
	Most of them feel they have to cope with this alone as well.
	Most of them feel they have nowhere to go when they're struggling, and one of the reasons is because their parents Weren't raised on social media, so they don't really understand it.
	They don't know what it's like to be a 13-year-old who's being bullied by their classmates or whatever, or constantly comparing themselves to Instagram models or, you know, some guy who's bought a Ferrari or whatever it is, because they didn't grow up with this.
	And so, you know, I didn't grow up with social media.
	Thank God!
	Tell you what, you know, if you grew up with social media, I'm so sorry, but your life has been ruined in advance.
	But yeah, so they feel really, really isolated, which is also very sad.
	Why do you look so callous about this?
	Oh, because I grew up with it, and for me it was always a joke, like the whole thing.
	Oh, good for you.
	I don't know if that's just me, but like...
	It seems that way.
	Yeah.
	But this, I think, is the worst aspect.
	It's on page 53.
	One third of teens want help controlling the time that they use Instagram for.
	They recognize that time spent is one of the worst aspects of their relationship to the app itself, and this is very interesting.
	Instagram or Facebook have this.
	This is what they say, right?
	They have an addict's narrative about the app.
	It makes them feel good and bad, and they wish they could spend less time caring about it, but can't help themselves.
	This is genuinely a drug to teenagers.
	So you might have been lucky, and you were like, well, I just don't enjoy this drug.
	This drug is silly, and I can just put it down any time I want, but there are lots of people who can't.
	Oh no, I still get the aspect of it being a bit of a drug.
	I mean, like getting notifications about stuff, right?
	And likes and reinforcements and all this.
	Does this person follow me of interest or that kind of thing?
	But I don't get the bullying aspect.
	Like, it's just something that doesn't seem to care about.
	Lucky for you!
	Literally, Callum just contentious and looking at his peers as if I care about your opinion.
	Yeah.
	Walks off, doesn't explain himself.
	Dating you?
	No, then who cares?
	Lucky for you, but most people aren't like that.
	Anyway, so moving on, the teenage girls' body comparison study.
	We'll just go for their summary on page two, it's easy enough.
	The body comparisons are formed by body standards, flawless skin, and fashion.
	Other comparisons were influencer, money for nothing, lifestyles, relationships, travel, experience, and talents.
	I should have got this up for this, but there was surveys done.
	In the West, what do kids want to be?
	YouTubers, Instagram bloggers, lifestyle bloggers.
	What do kids in China want to do?
	They want to go to the moon.
	They want to achieve something with their lives.
	Western teenagers want to be vapid narcissists.
	I am a little bit suspicious of those surveys in China, for natural reasons.
	Sure.
	About who's doing those surveys and what they express.
	I mean, there's also, they can't access YouTube and Twitter and Instagram?
	Well, no, because you remember, we did a story a little while back in which the CCP was cracking down on, what do they call it, like stars or whatever that they weren't happy with, especially the male ones for being too feminine.
	They're just like, these are not proper men, we're not promoting them.
	So, I mean, the engineering does go on there.
	Sure.
	But also, I mean, if you can't watch your favourite YouTube stars on YouTube, you're probably not thinking, I'm going to be a YouTuber.
	Sure.
	So anyway, social comparison journeys apparently mimicked the grief cycle.
	So pre-existing moods are a precursor to a downward emotional spiral from jealousy to dysmorphia.
	Confidence building and inspiration are rooted in the combination of reality, accessibility, and attainable aspiration.
	And of course, none of these things are present on social media.
	You can't build confidence on social media.
	It's not real.
	It's not, you know, the goals you're trying to get to are not accessible and they're not attainable aspirations.
	Social comparison is apparently worst on Instagram.
	Exploring and profile stalking enables never-ending rabbit holes.
	But apparently friends content is more impactful than celebrity content.
	So you're more likely to be profile stalking someone you know rather than some celebrity, which I don't know whether that's good or bad, I suppose.
	But anyway, and other apps they notice are shielded by what they call fun filters.
	Then TikTok is grounded in dance and like, you know, doing stupid things for jokes.
	Snapchat keeps the focus on the face and stuff like this, right?
	And so it's less intense than Instagram.
	And despite all of this, Facebook and Instagram still have strategies in order to get children onto their platforms.
	But yeah, so this is terrible for kids.
	It's making an entire generation catatonic.
	Specifically Facebook and Instagram.
	How do we get more of them?
	Seems awful, doesn't it?
	Do you make it more awful for them?
	One of the things is that they can become addicted to the awfulness of it as well.
	That's a selling point.
	Hate yourself?
	Want to hate yourself more?
	Join Instagram!
	I'm not even joking, right?
	So on page 7, they point out that teen acquisition is low and going down on Facebook, as in kids are like, that's a boomer platform, I'm not using that.
	Young adults are saturated on Facebook and their engagement's flat, though, and they're working on strategies to basically keep you on Facebook forever.
	On page 8, they point out that Instagram is generally saturated and growing in all markets, so Instagram is more addictive than Facebook, so expect the Instagramization of Facebook as they try and compensate in the near future.
	And on page 12, I point out that Instagram is the preferred platform for young teens joining in developing markets and retaining.
	That's good corporate speak for, yes, we're going to corrupt the youth of the world, not just the West, in this way.
	So looking forward to those Eritrean children who get on Instagram and then go mental.
	Nothing bad will come of that.
	This may impact why I'm a bit callous about it, because I never really got on Instagram either.
	I only recently got on just to try and find people.
	I have to say, I actually kind of like Instagram because of the sort of, like, unsocial nature of it.
	Like, I don't get to hear from people I don't like.
	I don't really get it.
	It's just mostly just pictures and videos and that's it.
	Like, you just scroll through and that's it.
	Yeah, I basically just post memes and, you know, political memes.
	There's no commentary, there's no explaining of ideas.
	No, but it's also not like Twitter where you're, like, talking to one another.
	You know, there's very little sort of cross-platform interaction in my experience.
	And so I don't get to hear from, like, insufferable leftist liars all day.
	So it's actually a kind of tranquil space for me, because I consciously curate my feeds to not give me crap I hate.
	And then I just put up my warmer models, and it's great.
	Anyway, so Facebook is, of course, downplaying this, because this all looks really bad.
	Really bad.
	And so, you know, Facebook have been open to, you know, there have been calls by lawmakers and regulators for more regulation of the social media network, but who knows what that really means.
	Facebook said that it had paused development of the Instagram Kids service, which would have been tailored for children of 13 or younger.
	No.
	It should probably be a law.
	I mean it.
	I'm pretty sure isn't there some advice in the UK? I don't think it's law.
	The threshold is meant to be 13.
	I think that's not too young.
	It's not even Facebook that has just that.
	It's just like, make sure you're 13.
	I honestly...
	I think at this point, prudence is the wiser decision.
	And just be like, look, just don't.
	Just make your kids go outside and play the football.
	That's the best thing.
	Anyway...
	So they had a Senate hearing yesterday.
	I haven't seen it though.
	But in the opening remarks, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee argued that Facebook, despite knowing the mental health risks, was scheming to bring even younger users into the fold.
	Facebook knows that services are actively harming their users, but they don't seem to care.
	Aspects of Instagram exacerbate each other to create a perfect storm.
	Now this is all true.
	And it's interesting how these sorts of, I guess we'll call them the political class, have started realising, hang on, Facebook's actually a terrifyingly dangerous entity?
	Can this be allowed to exist?
	Because The Atlantic published an article called Facebook as a Foreign Power.
	The largest autocracy on earth.
	Arguing that basically Facebook should be treated like a foreign country that's like colonizing the rest of the world.
	What kind of a factor is?
	Well that's the point.
	That's exactly the point.
	In many ways it actually is.
	Well, it's also treated like that by senators and whatnot.
	The way they interact with Mark is not how you'd interact with just some guy who owns a company.
	It's like they're talking to Vladimir Putin, isn't it?
	It's really weird.
	And the way he responds is very controlled.
	But anyway, so 2.9 billion people use Facebook monthly, and to Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, they're citizens of Facebook land.
	Long ago, he conspicuously started calling them people instead of users.
	I guess at least he's not calling them citizens.
	My fellow lizards.
	LAUGHTER But yeah, so it's mad that Facebook's GDP is 54 billion in the first half of 2021 alone.
	That is staggering.
	It's impressive.
	That's more than most of the countries on the earth.
	It's probably more than all of Eastern Europe combined.
	Like, it's such a huge amount of money.
	So they say here that GDP makes for a telling comparison not because it gestures at Facebook's extraordinary power, but because it helps us see Facebook for what it really is.
	Facebook is not merely a website, a platform, or a publisher, or a social network, or an online director, or a corporation, or a utility.
	It's all these things, but also it's effectively a hostile foreign power.
	And they've got a quote from Hillary Clinton here where she apparently told the author of this last year that she'd always caught a whiff of authoritarianism from Zuckerberg.
	It's like, really, Hillary?
	That's ironic.
	I forgot who's talking.
	Yeah.
	I feel like you're negotiating with a foreign power sometimes.
	He's immensely powerful.
	She's not wrong, though.
	He is immensely powerful.
	One autocrat looks at the other and is just like, I see you.
	Mark Zuckerberg's like, I'll crush you.
	Yeah.
	At least he's more pro-free speech than she is.
	Well, that's the point, isn't it?
	For her to say I caught a whiff of it, it's like, well, actually...
	Just a whiff of it, unlike my full-blown.
	Yeah, exactly, unlike my general stench of it.
	But anyway, so the question is, well, what can we even do, right?
	Socially responsible companies can boycott Facebook, but that's never worked because it's an amazing marketplace to have access to.
	Maybe rank-and-file Facebook employees could lobby for a form or...
	Have a mass walkout, but they need their jobs, and Facebook probably pays very well, given the amount of money that it has.
	SJWs have tried that as well.
	Yeah, it's not worked.
	There's currently a conservative union inside Facebook that's struggling not to resist against social justice.
	But the answer is, of course, Facebook users of the group with the most power to demand change.
	Could enough people come together to bring down the empire?
	Well, no.
	There's no way that 2.9 billion people could coordinate.
	They don't even speak the same languages.
	Even if Facebook lost a billion users, it's still by far the biggest social media platform I think it's only technically beaten by YouTube.
	But YouTube's not like a social media platform.
	Yeah, they're trying to move into that space, but it's not.
	It's like a TV station.
	That's what YouTube is.
	Of the sort of active social media platforms, Facebook is just by far the biggest.
	And even if it lost a billion users, it would still be by far the biggest.
	And so the author just has to be like, well, we need to recognize the danger we're in.
	We need to shake the notion that Facebook is a normal company or that its hegemony is inevitable.
	But the thing is, what can stop it?
	What can be done?
	Anyway, the question is answered by...
	Based Florida man, Ron DeSantis, he's trying to take legal actions against Facebook, having an investigation for alleged interference at the behest of DeSantis, but this isn't going to go anywhere, frankly.
	The companies get the free speech protections in the US like everyone else does, and they can just bat all of these away.
	It's not going to go anywhere, unfortunately.
	Legally speaking.
	Legally speaking, yeah.
	And so, basically, you're going to have to go the Russian option.
	Ban it!
	Which is not what I'm saying I'm for, but it's...
	That also doesn't solve the problem.
	It doesn't solve the problem, no.
	Because then you have VK. Yes.
	But I mean, at least that's smaller, I guess?
	I mean, you know, it's terrible arguments.
	And like I said, I'm not for banning anything, really, but like...
	Sometimes you've got to accept that, hang on, maybe this shouldn't be just in the hands of one guy.
	I mean, if Mark Zuckerberg got it into his head to just do something mental, well, he could do something mental, and there's literally nothing you can do about it.
	Sorry, I'm still sick.
	No, that's all right.
	You can engineer the thoughts of a billion people, three billion people.
	That's a bit too much for one man to have, really.
	Especially when he's like, yeah, so now we need to get the kids on here, too.
	We're saying Kanye West was right all along.
	What did he say?
	No one man should have all that power.
	It's not wrong.
	And the thing is, the problem is it's not necessarily having that much power.
	The problem is the lack of accountability that goes along with it.
	But anyway, Russian authorities, basically, if they don't delete content that Moscow deems illegal, they're going to start finding up to 10% of its annual turnover, which is quite a lot.
	Because they complain that Facebook's failed to remove child pornography, drug abuse and extremist content.
	Facebook, I haven't commented on this, but this is not the option that I want to see either.
	But then, I mean, what are the options?
	I don't know what our alternatives are, so there we go.
	Alright.
	Well, speaking of Base Florida Man, at least.
	Yeah.
	So, Base Florida Man is doing Base Florida Man things.
	And I thought we'd enjoy some of the salt.
	So, there are a group of guys, or gals, in Florida who are trying to take down Base Florida Man, Ron DeSantis.
	And the way they're going to do this is by making attack ads about how the evil man is literally irredeemably evil.
	And they're really good for him.
	Like, they make him look really base, and I thought we'd just go through a couple of them and enjoy what they claim.
	So if we get this first one up to show people, this is the account RemoveRon.
	New ad, retweet if you believe Governor Ron DeSantis has blood on his hands.
	The man's a murderer.
	Why?
	Because COVID, of course.
	Ah, yes.
	He's sneaking into nursing homes at night, coughing on them, like Andrew Cuomo did.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's...
	Oh, he didn't do that, did he?
	No, that was Cuomo.
	Sorry.
	Moving on.
	Let's enjoy this first advert.
	There's no denying it, Ron.
	You've got blood on your hands.
	It's your fault that masks and vaccines have been politicised, questioned, even disputed.
	And now, a darkness has fallen over the Sunshine State, as Florida has again become a worldwide epicentre of COVID-19.
	We are in crisis mode here in the state of Florida.
	We can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state.
	And I can tell you, Florida, we're a free state.
	Over 40,000 moms, dads, veterans, police officers, even children, dead.
	Your policies didn't save their lives, Ron.
	They just allow Delta to spread further and faster than any other variant, leading to more suffering, human misery, and death than ever.
	We won't let you get away with it, Ron.
	You get to Florida.
	I love how he's like the Zodiac Killer or something.
	Yeah, like he's scheming in his office, right?
	How can I kill more women and children?
	He's killed 41,000.
	He can't keep getting away with it.
	What were the deaths in California?
	I don't know off the top of my head.
	They're huge!
	Yeah, but that person has whoever's in charge of California doesn't.
	But I just thought I'd go through some of those quotes in there.
	So, Ron ensures children will get COVID. How did he do that?
	So, Ron said that if you want to send your kid to school, you can.
	And if you want to wear a mask, go for it.
	If you don't, go for it.
	It's your choice.
	Your choice.
	Your body, your choice.
	Especially with it's your children.
	And that makes him bad.
	Your children, your body, your choice.
	I'm the villain here.
	So it's also that it's your fault that masks and vaccines have been politicized.
	Oh yes.
	Oh yes.
	It was him that did that.
	You will recall the clip we did yesterday on the Defiant Elves, that chap.
	Totally not other people who are also engaged in this, particularly on the left at the time it was convenient.
	And then all of a sudden, no, totally flipped.
	Nothing to be talked about.
	Anyway.
	Also, they have a quote from him where he says, we can be a free society or a biomedical security state.
	As if that makes him sound bad.
	Yeah, and then he says, we're a free state.
	Yeah.
	It's not a dunk.
	Like, that makes them sound awesome.
	You can put all the scary music you want over that, but that's good.
	Yeah.
	It's just got some, like, speeches from, oh, I don't know.
	And the leftists are just like, well, you don't want the biomedical security state?
	No!
	Of course I bloody don't.
	Take some Ronald Reagan speeches about why, you know, individualism is better than socialism.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And put some scary music over it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It doesn't work.
	But also that little bit at the end there was some text that said, Ron is the mad king of the COVID era.
	LAUGHTER Absolute mad lad.
	I agree.
	Seems pretty cool.
	Yeah, bro, compare it to Biden.
	I mean, for the love of God.
	Yeah, so what's this mad lad doing?
	He's literally just like, yeah, free choice.
	Your body, your choice.
	We're not going to tyrannize you.
	I'm literally not going to force you.
	You can do what you want.
	That's the bad man.
	Okay.
	But this is one.
	And then they release the next one.
	And the next one is even better.
	And it's a little bit long, but I think we're going to enjoy it.
	So if we get this link to show people, Ron DeSantis does not want you to retweet this ad.
	And let's listen to the ad.
	Doesn't he?
	Doesn't he?
	Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of your cabin crew, we'd like to inform you that we have officially entered Florida Airspace.
	Let's mask.
	Let's mask.
	Now that we're making our final descent, please watch this short message from Governor Ron DeSantis on COVID-19.
	Thereafter, everyone on board will be required to comply with the state's forever purge.
	We are not doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida.
	We trust people to make their own decisions in this state.
	We are not going to be bludgeoning people with restrictions, mandates, lockdowns, or any of that stuff.
	As Governor DeSantis stated, while you're within state lines, you do not have to wear a mask.
	Do not have to get a vaccine.
	It is against the law for private businesses or schools to mandate masks or vaccines.
	And you have the absolute right to infect whoever you want, whenever and wherever with COVID-19.
	Thank you for traveling with us.
	And please, enjoy your Florever Purge.
	COVID-19 is surging again.
	It isn't the time to double down.
	The governor is doubling down.
	He says students shouldn't be forced to wear masks.
	If you are trying to lock people down, I'm going to stand in your way.
	Florida just requested 300 new veterans.
	Hospitals are filling up here.
	There is evidence that children are making up much higher cases that are emerging.
	The numbers continue to rise across Florida.
	This fall.
	Don't.
	Bring.
	In.
	This is insane.
	The Florever Purge.
	Coming to a theater in live streaming networks near you.
	This is like a parody.
	I know.
	I don't know if it's a parody.
	It doesn't seem to be.
	Like, the guys in charge of it definitely seem to be anti-Rontosantes, and the opposition candidate keeps retweeting their stuff, so it seems legit, but it's unbelievable.
	Like, yeah, scary music.
	What's this man gonna do?
	You don't have to wear a mask.
	You don't need a vaccine passport.
	Unbelievable.
	Literally, you know, the governor of Florida's like, I'm not going to tyrannize you.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to preserve your freedom, so I've got to be afraid.
	A speech from him was like, I'm going to, if people want to lock down, I'm going to stand in their way.
	Quotes come up, terrifyingly evil.
	It's just unbelievable.
	There aren't even going to be any jackboot stormtroopers forcibly vaccinating me in the streets.
	This is awful.
	I can't live here, says the person in California who made that ad.
	You know the meme of the guy surrounded by fire and being like, yeah, this is fine?
	There's the opposite version where we're surrounded by rainbows and sunshine, and he's like, this is unbelievable.
	You know, this is an unbearable torment.
	Anyway, so some of the quotes are that.
	So, everyone will be required to comply with the state's forever purge.
	Okay.
	How are they going to do that?
	We have a quote from him saying, we trust people to make their own decisions.
	That's a basically Hitler quote.
	That's what that is.
	You don't have to wear a mask or get a vaccine.
	You have the absolute right to infect whoever you want.
	Just like in California with AIDS, eh?
	Yeah.
	How did they decriminalise the status of infecting someone with AIDS? So if you knowingly gave someone AIDS, that was a crime because that's kind of evil.
	I mean, obviously.
	Because AIDS is actually very dangerous.
	Yeah, and so they decriminalised that because it was homophobic.
	LAUGHTER You should be able to knowingly, again, knowingly, be able to give someone AIDS. Giving someone a variant of the flu?
	Oh, that's way worse.
	Not allowed.
	And then the big quote's terrifyingly evil.
	That was my favourite bit.
	They call it the Floor Ever Purge.
	And yeah, so that's the opposition to Ron DeSantis, and his poll numbers just keep going up.
	I wonder why.
	Anyway, so let's go into some of the stats on this, because...
	Of course, the claim on them.
	Are we not just taking the fear-mongering at face value?
	I don't think we will.
	I think we'll try and look at the actual data as well, so we can get a rounded picture.
	So this is just a website that hosts all of the data for cases and deaths by states in the United States.
	And if we can scroll down, if you do on, what is it, deaths per 1 million for each state, it reads as followed.
	Top of the list, Mississippi, then New Jersey, Louisiana, Alabama, New York, Arizona, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, then Florida.
	Well, I mean, literally by this, you can just see total death.
	Go back over a sec.
	No, no, go back over a sec.
	It's on total deaths at the moment, right?
	Total deaths, California, 69,000.
	Florida, 55,000.
	Sure, but if we want to be probably charitable, then you have to do it per million, and even then, they look fine.
	Death per million, yeah.
	They're just coming out of a spike, so it's higher than it was previously when we talked about this, but still not the highest in the country.
	New York's worse.
	Yeah, and a lot of others are also worse.
	Can we scroll down a bit?
	New Jersey's worse.
	Yeah, well you can see them all there.
	Yeah, but where's California on the list after death per minute?
	I don't know.
	Scroll down.
	I want to see where California and Florida are, respectively.
	33 is California.
	Right, where's Florida though?
	Florida's right at the top.
	Oh, was it?
	Yeah, underneath all the ones I read out.
	Oh yeah, a number right there.
	Okay, so also if we just look at the case numbers, so if we go to the next link here, you can see, so we get the next one up please, you can see just the fact that they had a spike, and now they're coming out of the spike.
	So, again, you have to take that into advice.
	They are taking their spike right now, and then they're not going to have one, presumably.
	And also I love how when it was going up, of course, this is Rod Sanders has failed.
	No mask mandates, no vaccine mandates.
	There's clear evidence that these policies are not good enough.
	And then when it starts going down, and there's still no mask mandate, and still no vaccine mandate, that isn't proof that those things aren't needed.
	Well, you can compare it to Israel, can't you?
	With like 90% of the population double vaccinated, and they're on the third spike now.
	Because that's the situation there.
	And I don't think we can talk about vaccines in any meaningful sense anymore, thanks to the new update of YouTube's guidance.
	I don't have any doubt on the vaccines at all.
	It's just that, look, there's...
	We'll have to leave it there, because the update has become even more ridiculously authoritarian.
	People can read that in their own time, of course.
	I'm not even against the vaccines.
	Yes.
	So, how did people respond to this?
	So if we go to the next one, we have Ben Shapiro responding to this for an example of the right, and I love it.
	This reminds me of my recent flight back from California to Florida, and my complete and utter relief at being in a state where the governor says things like, we trust people to make their own decisions in this state.
	Honestly, did Ron DeSantis write this commercial?
	Because, I mean, just take off the scary music and that would have been a good advert for him.
	Yeah.
	I imagine he's sat there like, well, okay.
	I didn't even have to pay for that.
	Someone got that one for free.
	Anyway, so also if we go to the next one, there is an example of the response by the left to trying to gin up the Ron DeSantis man bad.
	Why?
	Because kids are dying of COVID. The number of kids who have died of COVID in...
	Are they?
	Florida has doubled...
	You can see this, Fatso.
	This is a question I asked the VIP reception that made Ron DeSantis refuse to speak to the Job Creators Network event unless police escorted me off the hotel premises.
	Why are you so afraid?
	You can see him retweeting Occupy Democrats, a leftist outlet.
	Verified checkmark.
	Ron DeSantis is a disgrace.
	Why?
	Because kids are dying of COVID on unbelievable numbers.
	The rate has doubled, Carl.
	God.
	The rate has doubled.
	God, that sounds terrifying.
	Yes.
	Combined with that commercial, I am just terrified of based Florida, man.
	Let's go to the next clip just to see what happened here.
	Florida, if you look at, we have the lowest per capita tax burden in the country.
	But the rate of kids dying from COVID has doubled!
	The rate of kids dying from COVID has doubled!
	Are you concerned?
	Hey, hey, take your hands off me.
	Take your hands off me.
	Hey, take your hands off me.
	Take your...
	So this dude, who's clearly just some leftist who wants to...
	A leftist hobo.
	But I also love how, you know, he's so concerned about COVID that he hasn't lost some weight.
	He also has no mask on, and also has food in his beard, which is weird.
	But whatever, just not taking care of himself.
	But we have the data, you obvious liar.
	We can just look at the numbers.
	So this is the data set that I found.
	And if we go to the next link on this, there should be a slide.
	And you can see here that we have the summary of deaths by age group, gender, race, and ethnicity age group.
	Under-16 and 16-29, so these are the two groups you could describe as children, although the under-16 being the primary one.
	Yeah, 16-29, then let's just have the whole thing, because I can't help but notice that the case fatality rate is 0.0%.
	It is to two figures, nothing.
	Statistically unmeasurable.
	Statistically insignificant, as you would probably say, if you're assessing these things.
	And yeah, 0.0% for both of those groups, and going up it gets a little bit high, to 0.1%, 0.4%, 1%, 2.2%, and 9% for those over 65%.
	That's amazing.
	You've got a 91% chance of survival if you're 65 or over.
	This is also thanks to Governor DeSantis' rollout of the vaccine being very specific and the response of how to isolate people was focused on the elderly.
	Right, so he did the sensible thing.
	Yeah, instead of doing the...
	He didn't shove people with COVID in nursing homes.
	Not that I'm aware of.
	But also the main point there, him saying, the number of kids dying has doubled.
	And then the adverts being like, kids are dying.
	Well, if you double zero, Callum, that sounds very terrifying.
	I mean, there are 22 deaths, but as a case fatality rate, as listed by the official statistics in Florida, that's 0.0.
	I did do the extra calculations just to show you what the numbers are, if you go to more significant figures.
	So we go to three significant figures just as an idea.
	Under 16s, it's 0.00466%.
	Right.
	Right.
	16 to 29, 0.0448.
	Yes, both numbers that you'd reasonably round off to just zero.
	So he's not trying to hide the fact that it's low.
	You know, he's not fiddling the figures or something.
	It really is just that low for the data given by the government and for the government to use.
	Yeah, so again, obvious fear-mongering.
	Although I thought we'd go through some of the other things DeSantis have been up to that are just really based and I think fun.
	So we go to the next one, Sky News.
	Sky News Australia reporting on DeSantis saying that we should cut off ties with Australia in response to what they've been doing.
	Well, he's not wrong.
	Yeah, it's a quote from him.
	Look what's going on in Australia right now.
	You know, they're enforcing, after a year and a half, they're still enforcing lockdowns by the military.
	That's not a free country.
	It's not a free country at all, in fact.
	I mean, I wonder why we still have the same diplomatic relations when they're doing that.
	Is Australia freer than China?
	Communist China, right now?
	I don't know.
	That fact that it's even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff.
	That's a good point as well.
	Yeah.
	China was actually freer.
	I mean, it probably still is freer right now than Australia is.
	I'm glad he's speaking out about what's happening in Australia as well.
	Good man.
	Based man.
	And again, it's the point of like, well, you want the biomedical state.
	That's what it looks like.
	I'm not doing that.
	Go to hell.
	Not doing that.
	Anyway, we carry on.
	So we go to the next one here.
	So this is a business decider.
	Apparently, DeSantis is saying he's not going to run for president.
	We hear more words about Donald Trump wanting to run.
	So presumably that's what's going to happen.
	No, no, that's very sensible.
	If Trump is going to run again, then he doesn't want to get in the way or DeSantis gave some interesting responses as well.
	Governor DeSantis says he won't run for president because he's trying to make sure people are not supporting critical race theory.
	That's what I would have said.
	That's a great response.
	A quote from him.
	I'm not considering anything beyond doing my job.
	We've got a lot of stuff going on in Florida.
	I'm going to be running for re-election next year.
	DeSantis said in reply to Hannity's question about whether or not he's considering running for president.
	Well, just remember to watch those polling stations because you know they're going to try and fortify that.
	Another quote from him.
	We are also working on a lot of things in the state beyond the governor's race.
	We got school board races, DeSantis added.
	I want to make sure people are not supporting critical race theory, making sure that parents have the ability to send their kid to the school that they want to.
	Excellent.
	And if we go to the next link here, you can see him make a Twitter post about this, empowering Florida families to keep healthy kids in school.
	Because if your kid is healthy...
	There's no reason they shouldn't go to school.
	The government of Florida has the statistics for the death rate.
	Not statistically significant.
	And we also know just how bad kids missing school is for them as people.
	It's a cost-benefit analysis, like all things.
	And it's very, very costly for kids to miss school for very little benefit.
	I thought we'd end this segment with a nice little enjoyment of comparing this to the left.
	So here's what the right is offering.
	Go for a champion of the left, Hasan Piker here.
	Ah, yes.
	The authentic voice of the left.
	I mean, unironically, though.
	Unironically, yeah.
	So let's play this last clip of what Hasan thinks we should do in the biomedical state.
	I want to literally forcibly vaccinate this mother f*** in their sleep, okay?
	I do not give a f*** about American values.
	I do not give a f*** about your dumbass concerns.
	I love it, and I'm glad that Greg listed that as they are telling you what they think of you.
	Oh yeah, believe them when they tell you.
	Like, you literally, I don't care about your American values, says the communist.
	What DeSantis is offering clearly looks better, and I hope they keep up those attack ads, because those are gold.
	I don't think they're going to be harming his approval ratings.
	Speaking of people who don't care about your American values, the elites are looting America.
	The Democrats' elites are looting America.
	And this has come in the latest absurd bill that, as you can see here, is literally like a foot long, 250,000 words, pages, sorry, not words, Christ, 250,000 pages, no, 2,500 pages, sorry, that nobody's read because it's like twice as long as the Bible.
	They're like, right, this is what we're doing.
	Like the last one where Pelosi was like, well, we're going to pass it to see what's in it.
	Yeah, I think that was Obamacare.
	It was like, you've got to pass it to see what's in it.
	That's not how this should work.
	But clearly they don't care.
	And they're like, well, if you're okay with the 1.9 trillion COVID relief bill that they passed earlier in the year, if we can go to the next one, John, as you can see, this has passed in March, then you may as well double that.
	Let's go three and a half.
	Let's see what happens.
	Do you remember that guy on, I think it was Jon Stewart's show, and he was making fun of this Republican, because the Republican was like, just make every bill one page.
	And he was like, making fun of him for just being like, I don't want to read.
	Look at what they have to deal with.
	To be honest, if an opposition party gave that to you in Britain as like, this is the bill, you'd have no reason to work with them ever.
	So right, you're just taking the mickey.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you didn't present this, like, you know, six months in advance, so our lawyers can read it, go through it, and then address all of the points that are clearly going to be needed to be made, then this is clearly...
	you're attempting to hoodwink us.
	Oh, come on.
	Even if you gave that to a lawyer?
	That's just cruel.
	Yes, but, you know, that's for their sins.
	But at the end of the day, yeah, the reason they are doing this is to make it impenetrable.
	And they know it, and everyone knows it.
	It's being done on purpose.
	To fleece you, because they think you're sheep.
	Because most of the public are, really.
	But anyway, so what sort of stuff's in it?
	Well, apparently, some of it's $15 million of it is going to people who are underserved due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.
	Okay.
	Thanks.
	So we're going to fund Grindr?
	I don't know what the hell else that means.
	No, I don't know.
	But anyway, moving on to more sensible coverage.
	NPR have given some information on it.
	So Chuck Schumer has released the text of this $3.5 trillion budget framework, which is meant to give the Democrats the opportunity to approve major federal investments in childcare, family leave, climate change provisions without the support of congressional Republicans.
	Because at this point, I think they actually do know they're beyond the Rubicon, right?
	I think the Democrats are well aware that they're pretty unelectable from this point onwards.
	And so unless they're just going to commit to the continual fortification of every election from here on out, which was probably a lot of work.
	I don't think they can do it every time.
	I think they're just going, going for broke.
	Hell for leather.
	We've crossed the Rubicon.
	We'll burn it all down.
	See what happens.
	Unfortunately.
	And so, yeah, they're going to be setting up everything in that way.
	And do you really want them to do this?
	You know, do you want them to, you know, we're going to have leftist stuff everywhere?
	Childcare, family leave, climate provisions.
	We don't care what the Republicans have to say about it.
	And it's like, okay, if that's the case, shouldn't the Republicans not organise some sort of walkout or something?
	Go and protest.
	Have a session of the plebs on the hill on the other side or something.
	Say, look, we're not cooperating with you.
	You're not cooperating with us.
	You're deliberately bypassing us.
	This is unacceptable.
	We refuse this.
	The government is over.
	That's what I would have done in response to be given that bill to read.
	You're not taking me seriously.
	You're not respectable to any kind of politics at all.
	This isn't autocracy.
	This isn't politics.
	This is autocracy.
	And the fact that you're doing this deliberately to go around us means that you clearly think that you've won some sort of civil war and the Rubicon's crossed and we abstain, basically.
	But anyway...
	Chuck Schumer says, When we took the majority in the Senate earlier this year, the American people entrusted us with a great responsibility to make their lives better.
	I'm happy to report we're making great progress towards that goal.
	You can say that with a straight face.
	Apparently the bill contains $726 billion for health and labour, education and pensions committees with expansive instructions to address some of their other top priorities, blah, blah, blah.
	$107 billion for the Judiciary Committee, including instructions to address lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants so you cross the border Not even sneak anymore.
	You come across the border because Joe Biden's abandoned the border.
	Well, you get permanent status.
	$135 billion for the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
	I can't help but think this is going to end up in Lysenquism 2.0.
	But $332 billion for the Banking Committee, including instructions to invest in public housing, housing trust fund and housing affordability, and equity and community land trusts.
	I'm sure none of this is going to be wasted.
	£198 billion for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, including instructions largely related to clean energy development.
	Wonderful.
	Wonderful.
	So the Democrats plan to use special budget rules to pass new spending without the threat of a Republican filibuster in the Senate.
	Republicans have broadly rejected plans for additional spending, and the Democrats are threatening...
	They say the Democrats are threatening chances of bipartisan support for other critical economic issues, such as increasing or suspending the debt limit.
	Well, I guess the debt limit's going to be something we're going to...
	Have to talk about at some point if you're going to keep spending trillions of dollars like it's going out of fashion.
	To be fair, this is a guilty thing of both parties.
	I know.
	But the thing is, there's one thing going, oh, we're going to have to increase it.
	Yeah, okay, we're going to increase it.
	And then there's Joe Biden being like, five trillion in one year.
	I think I will.
	There is a distinct difference there.
	You could argue, yeah.
	And will argue.
	Mitch McConnell said basically the Republicans would offer no help on debt limit if the Democrats pursued more spending, and so Joe Biden was like, ha ha, like I care about your opinion.
	So the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, if we go to the next one, has warned lawmakers that the federal government will likely run out of cash and extraordinary measures by October the 18th, unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.
	Oh, come on, let's hope so.
	Let's hope so.
	I mean, like, you know, run out of money, Joe.
	Well, that means I can't spend anymore, thank God.
	You know.
	Obviously, all bad stuff.
	But Hugo's done an article talking about this on NoCist.com, why the US government cannot run out of money.
	Obviously, they're not going to.
	It's going to be that they just don't raise the debt ceiling.
	Quoting from this, Claiming the US government will run out of money is ridiculous.
	Modern monetary theorists are completely correct in claiming that a government that issues its own currency can never go broke.
	On paper...
	They can always create new money in order to cover obligations it has in currency, so if that runs out, it's just a declaration of the unwillingness to print more for some internal reason, as we can see.
	Of course, money creation dilutes the purchasing power of all of this currency already in circulation, making everyone poorer in a massive daylight robbery.
	That's what Joe Biden is doing.
	That's what the Democrats are doing.
	They are looting from you.
	If a central bank or the government does it too much, the currency will be destroyed and the country will be cast into hyperinflationary turmoil and impoverishment.
	But from the point of view of the government, the fact that it can manipulate money like this is great.
	It can do whatever it wants as long as people are willing to trust it and go along with its shenanigans.
	Because that's what this is about.
	This is all based on trust.
	And Joe Biden is just like, right, okay, trillions more.
	Trillions more.
	It means such a large amount of money.
	I'm not going to try and describe how much money it is.
	You may just think of it as infinite money, because they do, right?
	Because Pelosi literally thinks this is going to cost you nothing.
	Three and a half trillion.
	Oh, the net cost of this is zero.
	What even is that a zero?
	Can't even make a zero properly.
	Can't even do a proper Polish zero.
	Disgraceful.
	She's probably signalling to white supremacists or something.
	But she says, you know, it's not about a dollar amount.
	The dollar amount, as the president said, is zero.
	And so it's like Corbyn's plan is totally absurd, right?
	And even Newsweek had to publish an article going, hang on.
	Pelosi, you lunatic, shut up.
	Because, if you can go to the next one, the Newsweek actually did a really good job of explaining why these people think this way, right?
	So it's just like Corbyn, where they, you know, do you remember his plan?
	Oh no, it's totally costed.
	It's totally costed.
	Here's the money, exactly.
	This is what we're going to spend, this is how we're going to get it.
	And everyone's like, look, if you just try and fleece the rich, they'll leave.
	And you won't get the money in returns that you're expecting.
	There's actually an economic term for it, I'm not, I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.
	Capital flight?
	No, no, yeah, that's what will happen.
	But there's a particular economic term for the formula of what you actually get back.
	You know, you're expecting this much, but you actually get this much, and there's a formula you can use for it.
	I don't know.
	I'm not an economist, but it's not very complex, frankly.
	But they say in here, and this is really great, right?
	To understand how the government works, look no further than the assertion by both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
	The Democrats plan to spend over $3.5 trillion over the next 10 years, which will cost $0, right?
	Both of them have spent 80 years combined in Washington.
	And concepts like how much something costs have a very specific if peculiar definition.
	To Washington lawmakers, adjustments to the federal budget, whether a tax cut or a spending increase, only cost something if it isn't paid for.
	That is to say, yes, the government will be spending a lot more, but it's okay because we will increase taxes in sufficient amounts to cover the cost of all that new spending.
	So if you look at the spreadsheet, if you do your Excel calculations...
	This is why they think it costs zero.
	Net difference, zero.
	It'll cost the government zero.
	It'll cost you plebs three trillion.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's not our problem.
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	And what I love about this article, they're like, so look, setting aside for a moment whether this is actually true, spoiler alert, it isn't, and consider the mindset.
	As long as the government revenue increases by as much as the government is spending, the effect on the federal budget will be nil, and thus the legislation doesn't cost anything.
	In the real world, of course, no one believes this kind of thinking or acts on it.
	Yes, that's it.
	In the real world, no one believes this or acts like they do.
	And so, basically, what they've said is, well, we're only going to be taxing people who make more than $400,000 a year, and so it's just their personal taxes that will go up.
	But that's not going to be how it works.
	But CNN are doing their due diligence as an organ of the Democratic Party, going, well, hang on a second, 90% of households won't see a bigger tax bill under Biden's $3.5 trillion plan.
	Oh, that's very reassuring.
	If it's said on CNN, it must be true.
	Well, they have two options.
	They could tax you more, or they could just print the money.
	And if you print the money, you tax people through interaction.
	Yes, you do, which we'll get to in a minute.
	But I love the way they frame this, right?
	So, many economists assume, for example, that an increase in the corporate tax rate will result in lower wages for workers, and other elements like higher tax on cigarettes would disproportionately affect lower- and middle-income households.
	They just assume it, do they?
	Okay.
	Roughly 90% of households went to see a tax increase during the first year of the plan.
	Oh, and in fact, they will see that after-tax incomes go up, according by an analysis by the right-leaning Tax Foundation.
	Yeah, okay, maybe.
	Maybe.
	That might be true.
	That might be completely true.
	I mean, you know, that's what happens.
	When you're going into massive amounts of inflation, because it turns out that as you looked up in July, things are getting really expensive in America.
	In fact, they hit an all-time high on fuel prices.
	We can get to the next one.
	CNN again reporting, hmm, everything's getting more expensive.
	So you might have an extra $100 a month, but your food, fuel, and energy costs will have gone up by like $300.
	Thanks, Biden.
	You know, thank you very much.
	It's not the government's fault.
	That's the corporations putting those prices up.
	We assume they won't transfer those costs onto the consumer for some reason.
	Don't know why they're saying that.
	But yeah, so apparently in July, consumer prices increased 4.3% in the 12-month period ending July.
	Slightly lower than June's overall increase, which was 5.4%.
	Brilliant.
	Weirdly hot dogs saw the biggest price jump at 4.8%.
	Pork roast steak and ribs at 4.4%.
	Compared to this time last year, petrol was more than 41% more expensive.
	People don't need petrol, do they?
	I say gas in America, aren't they?
	No, I know, but I'm not saying that.
	They've got their horses in carts, haven't they?
	Haven't these peasants got feet?
	Can't they walk places?
	Oh, no, America's massive!
	You have to have a car in America.
	Unbelievable.
	And the public transport's abominable.
	So, anyway, Marco Rubio has come out and been like, well, this is Marxism.
	And they were all like, ha ha ha!
	How's that Marxism?
	He's like, what do you mean, how's that Marxism?
	I mean...
	You're literally saying, we hate the rich, and we're going to take their money, and we're going to spend it on what we consider to be the poor.
	Redistributive.
	Exactly.
	So, yeah.
	I mean, the very lens you're looking at this through, how can we attack those wealthy people?
	Because they must be illegitimate by virtue of them being wealthy.
	That is what Marxism is.
	He's not saying it's collective ownership of the means of production.
	He didn't say it was communism, which is what everyone's taking that to mean, because honestly, they're all like, well, Rubio's engaging in political hyperbole, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	You know, this isn't communism or socialism.
	No, but it is Marxism.
	They're looking at this through a Marxist lens, suggesting that the rich, by virtue of being rich, are oppressing the poor, and therefore it's justified to take down money.
	That is a Marxist framework.
	That is the Marxist lens.
	Choosing someone to be the Comptroller of Currency, and the person he's chosen appears to be a Soviet lunatic?
	Moving to the next one, John.
	It was reported by Zero Hedge.
	Biden's pick for Comptroller of Currency is quite the anti-capitalist.
	Cornell Law University professor, again, Law University professor, why that person?
	Saul Omorova, who proposed ending banking as we know it, and that a radical change to the system would make the institution more inclusive, efficient, and stable.
	What?
	Until I came to the US, I couldn't imagine that things like the gender pay gap still existed in today's world.
	Say what you like about the old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there.
	Is that true, Callum?
	No.
	Do you remember that?
	There's a section in Mal's Great Famine we did, in which they literally went as far in China as to make communes, and they got rid of money, and they declared it was at work points, and then the women still got underpaid by work points.
	I never claimed women and men were absolutely treated equally in every facet of Soviet life, but people's salaries were set by the state in a gender-blind manner, and all women got very generous maternity benefits.
	Both things are still a pipe dream in our society.
	Tell me more about it.
	Hang on, that's true, but the rate of women eating their own children out of starvation is much lower in the United States.
	As the Wall Street Journal editorial board noted, Miss Amarova thinks asset prices, pay scales, capital and credit should be dictated by the government.
	In two papers, she has advocated expanding the Federal Reserve's mandate to include price levels of systematically important financial assets as well as worker wages.
	So, literally she wants the government to tell everyone how much they get paid.
	Brilliant.
	As they like to say in the modern university, from each according to her ability to each according to her needs.
	There's Lenin's dictum there.
	That's nice.
	She also wants to create a public interest council of highly paid academics, quote highly paid, she said that, who would wield subpoena power over regulatory agencies including the Fed.
	Federal Reserve.
	Like, do you want a group of managerial elites who are being paid a huge amount to have complete control of the state and therefore all over all society?
	It's just commissars.
	Exactly.
	I certainly don't.
	That sounds awful.
	Why would this lunatic even want any of these things?
	Well, if we look at her Wikipedia bio, it turns out she was born and raised in the Soviet Union.
	I'm joking.
	She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship and moved to the United States in 1991, where she decided to try and recreate the Soviet Union.
	Right, so she moved because the Soviet Empire collapsed, not because she defected, either.
	No, she's not a defector.
	She's disappointed that the USSR collapsed.
	And, you know, you can say what you want about it, but at least they don't have James Paygap, Callum, even though they don't.
	Everyone ate their own children together.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's very progressive.
	But anyway, so what else is in there?
	Well, you've got the term birthing people.
	No, in fact, you can go to the next one.
	They don't have the term birthing people.
	That's not included.
	It's now birthing individuals.
	Because there's not even people now.
	Being offensive to people?
	We didn't include insects, I assume?
	The lizards among us?
	Dogs and cats?
	I don't know.
	Like, this individual that's given birth?
	Anyway, so moving on, just very quickly, just to include some more batty stuff that the Biden administration has done to prove that they're clearly legitimate and loved by the people in general.
	Biden's educational secretary has recently been asked a few questions that were very interesting.
	Who's the person who owns your kids?
	And who's the primary stakeholder?
	In your children and their education?
	See what I mean?
	I hate the language.
	It's the worst thing in the world.
	Well, it's corporate language.
	It's a deeply corporate language.
	Okay, so we're going to have to use this dehumanizing corporate language.
	At least I am the primary stakeholder in my kid's education.
	I'm like, no, not according to this guy.
	He was like, well, you're important, but...
	And he just dodges the question.
	They are important, but...
	He is the primary stakeholder in your child.
	Yes.
	In your child and your child's education.
	They think that the government owns your children.
	And they think the government owns you.
	And they want to be able to set your wages.
	They want to be able to literally just tax you as much as they want and then piss your money away on any ideological project that they have.
	Funding grinder.
	Yeah, funding grinder.
	And it's wild.
	And contemporaneously to all of this, this picture just went around.
	In fact, follow me on Getter as well, by the way.
	But this picture just went around.
	And this is amazing, right?
	So Biden got his third booster shot to the COVID vaccine.
	And it's just embarrassing.
	Look at it.
	Fake White House.
	Fake stage.
	Fake windows.
	Fake.
	I'm sure the booster shot was real, though.
	I'm sure it wasn't saline or anything.
	You know, totally real.
	But, you know, totally real.
	He's getting the jab.
	And then, of course, police facts were like, well, hang on a second.
	Hang on a second.
	This isn't fake news.
	Okay, it may have been a fake set, but it wasn't for the booster.
	They'd used this fake set before.
	So don't you worry.
	They say our research uncovered no evidence that the White House intended to mislead anyone by using the windows and white columns background.
	Well, sorry, why would they be doing it if it's not to mislead people, right?
	The backdrop had already been used in one official event five days before Biden had received his booster shot.
	Oh, so that's okay.
	We've used this fake set before.
	We're not lying to you.
	Don't worry.
	And when you can't trust lying, say, yeah, we do this all the time.
	Don't worry about it.
	So, yeah, the absolute state of the Biden administration.
	Looking forward to the hyperinflation.
	I wonder how many more trillions they're going to have to print until hyperinflation hits.
	Got a guess?
	Should we put a number on it?
	In the chat, put a number on it.
	Tell me, how many trillions more do you think they're going to have to print before the US goes into rampant hyperinflation and the economy's completely liquidated?
	Let's go to video comments.
	In the 41st millennium, where universe is engulfed by the Eternal War, one long-forgotten chapter of Dark Angels called, Avenging Father, has begun its crusade once more.
	United under chapter master Curlus Benjaminus they delve deep into the enemy territory.
	Their opposition?
	One of the most hedonistic and nihilistic warbands that worships Slaanesh, the Screechers.
	Well known for their noise marines, crazed cultist and unique gender of each member of their ranks.
	Battle will be legendary and the victor remains to be seen.
	Okay, send me this, John.
	Like, put this in the shared document, and I'm putting this out on my social media platform.
	This is amazing.
	You start painting your own chapter of Marines.
	I am.
	Dallas Marines.
	They are.
	I can also defend, what was it, the second day of a live event, I mentioned that I considered bread like Salernishi.
	Yes.
	Like I was saying to you beforehand, in my mind, like, bread or eating bread is a pleasurable activity, not Nergalite or whatever.
	Well, I mean, it straddles that line, I'd say.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Today we had a supposed psychologist talk about microaggressions, prejudice, structural discrimination, racism, all of it for two hours.
	Fine.
	Okay, so the thing that I think you want to do there is start looking really excited.
	When you start going, oh, this is structural racism.
	This is deep prejudice.
	Go, really?
	Okay, yeah, yeah.
	I'm into that.
	Go on.
	Yeah, brilliant.
	Like, so you can get the whole class cheering for it by the end of it.
	Like, see what they do, you know?
	Men are more than women.
	Yeah!
	Woo, team men!
	Orcs, orcs, orcs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Just start cheering, you know, especially if it's a diverse class that you have.
	You know, the more people you can get to, the merrier.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Lad, I apologise for not knowing your name.
	I'm terrible with names, my apologies.
	So, sorry for not knowing it, but I will say this.
	Uh, welcome to the f***ing internet.
	Uh, I mention in one video comment, hey, a kid, an 11-year-old kid, is watching Loteas.
	Next video comment, people having a dildo fight.
	Welcome to the f***ing internet, kid, and, uh, next time, watch Loteas after you've done your homework.
	The Loteas will be very proud of you.
	See, that's at least a response.
	Oh, damn the internet!
	And, you know, try not to swear next time, Harry.
	Honestly.
	We have to beat that out.
	But no, that's responsible.
	Yeah.
	Do your homework, obviously.
	Yeah.
	It's also better to get it done than you can just forget about the crap.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You don't want to get in trouble.
	May as well live up to your obligations.
	Life's just easier that way.
	I suppose you could argue that the only objective truths could be, like, mathematical truths.
	Only women have cervixes.
	And by cervix, I mean vagina.
	I mean, does that an objective truth go?
	Well, as far as I'm concerned, it is.
	I hear there's a lot of discussion on this topic for some reason.
	The Labour Party's still debating it.
	But it's not an analytical truth.
	It's a contingent truth.
	You have to check reality to see it.
	But I mean, you could say, well, definitionally, that could be the case.
	Well, maybe it could be, you know.
	But anyway, let's not get lost in the weeds.
	Let's carry on.
	Right.
	Callum, this is the inside of a British car.
	Now you may ask, if it's a British car, why is the driver on the left side?
	Well, because this picture is actually this picture, but flipped, which makes the British car look like it's configured like an American car.
	Hopefully that clears up your confusion from yesterday.
	I did wonder why you were having trouble with that.
	I didn't think it was flipped, but if it was, it still doesn't answer the question of him being black.
	Okay, it might be flipped, but why is he black?
	Well, he wasn't black, he was white.
	Unless the flipping also fixes the skin pigment?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway.
	Apparently it's a Japanese car as well.
	He meant a British configured car.
	I think there's a Japanese drive on the left as well, actually.
	Based Islanders?
	Yeah.
	Combinates.
	Solidarity forever.
	A few weeks ago, after C.S. Cooper shared his books, and a bunch of people went and bought them, and he made a video comment where he was very happy about that.
	And that's kind of like how I'm feeling right now, after all these people coming and subscribing and viewing my videos.
	It's just a great feeling.
	Somehow I have more subscribers than views, and that's just fine, too.
	That's amazing.
	I hope everyone who watched these videos enjoyed them.
	Sorry about that one guy calling you a bot.
	Hopefully I can just keep posting content that people enjoy and not get fired from my job by angry leftists online.
	I saw his YouTube short as well.
	The boxes he's making, there's these slits that come out of the wall.
	And he put the box on top, and then you've got a shelf, I presume, is what he was trying to show.
	The thing in my mind is, I assume you have to screw that in or something afterwards so it stays stable, because otherwise I don't really get it.
	It's going to fall off shortly.
	There might be some sort of arcane physics wizardry involved.
	Maybe.
	You're the physician here.
	You should know.
	Sure, but from where I was looking, it should be able to fall off and then hurt some kid because they grab it.
	Right.
	This is what I hear when I watch the movie.
	I hear you.
	Yeah, I mean, as the deputy leader of the Labour Party said, was it our...
	I'm Volk, I'm Reich, I'm Führer.
	No, our shared values of collectivismus, Gemeinschaft und Kommunarden.
	So basically the same, yeah.
	Yes.
	Fair comparison.
	I mean, they're literally talking in terms of we need a collectivist economy is one thing I heard.
	We have collectivist values.
	We need a planned economy.
	That was another one.
	Christ.
	You must have seen it in the compilation.
	I probably, I just can't That was the plan for the Green New Deal that they voted for, and it's now part of a party doctrine as well.
	Just come out and admit you're Nazis.
	Just do it, you know?
	It was the guy last year, he literally went, what is it?
	Comrades, we have nothing to lose but our chains!
	And then did a salute.
	Which you're not going to do very well, is it?
	Was very quick to be like, oh crap, I just put it into a fist, and it was like, the damage is done, my fat friend.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I've got that screenshot forever.
	Labour conference, Nazi salute.
	Very much appreciate the very many redubs of that as well that people did, which showed his true colours.
	I wonder what the people in the audience are thinking.
	It's like, right, he's doing a Nazi salute.
	That's going to look bad.
	We were in the pub the other day, because it was Hugo's last day, so we were singing him off.
	And I was watching the news, because BBC News is on there, and the coverage of Labour's conference was literally just like, Starmer gave a boring speech, and I'm like...
	Does nobody watch this?
	I mean, how many staff do you have?
	But no, nobody watches this.
	And I'm just some guy sat there with a laptop in the live stream.
	And I was like, look, literally any one of your interns could have done this.
	And they're getting paid by a taxpayer, so there's not even running out of them.
	But literally no one's watching it.
	No one.
	It's unbelievable, because they just do it on stream.
	And you can see it.
	Anyway, sorry.
	It infuriates me to no end.
	Other corporate...
	No, not other corporate, because we're not corporate.
	But the other outlets of Britain don't do that, because there is endless content there, endless exposure of what they're really about, and everyone just ignores it.
	I can't...
	Well, to be fair, your compilation's been doing very well.
	Yeah, I'm happy about that.
	Great views.
	Because no one's got the time or the patience to sit there through literally hours of bureaucratic ramblings to get to the juicy parts.
	I'm sorry, but they are there at the conference.
	They've got their little tents set up for their interviews.
	I mean, they're not paying attention.
	They're going to be on their phones.
	They've got billions and billions of pounds.
	And I'm sat here with a laptop and I can do better than them.
	Coverage on Labour Conference.
	God.
	Sorry, I'm mad.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Good evening, gentlemen.
	I've been wondering about the question of how best to twist the knife when asking a critical race theorist to define blackness since they never want to.
	I think it's optimal if we ask someone very high up on the list and someone who is very black because why would they not know?
	They're the most qualified individual.
	Thoughts?
	Yeah, so it's something that I'm very interested in getting them to be pinned down on as well.
	The person you want to aim for is Kimberley Crenshaw, right?
	She's like the leading light of critical race theory at this point.
	There are a few others, but she's probably the most high profile, I'd say.
	And yeah, you want her to define blackness, but specifically not in relation to whiteness.
	Define it on its essential characteristics.
	Because one of the things they'll say is, well, blackness is an absence of whiteness.
	That doesn't mean anything.
	You know, like, define what it is on its own terms, right?
	Or, and if they do, like, commit to the absence of whiteness, so you can say, right, so is hard work whiteness?
	Because that's what the Smithsonian put in their little thing, is being timely whiteness?
	You know, is, you know, Christianity whiteness?
	You know, you can sit there and, like, start getting to commit to that Smithsonian sheet, the chart they made, where it's like, you know, Blackness is the absence of politeness?
	Yes.
	Blackness is the absence of hard work?
	Yes.
	Kimberly Crenshaw's, like, style of sweat.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Getting the music playing in the background.
	Blackness is the absence of speaking correctly, you know?
	Like, it starts making the blackness rather awful, and it makes you wonder why she's defending it, if that's what she thinks of it.
	But again, I would love to hear her definition.
	Do see if you can get her pinned down, and if you do, make sure you're recording it.
	Well, she could do the opposite.
	She could define it as like, oh no, it's collectivism, community, public work.
	Please!
	I'd love for her to define it as communism.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	Edward Woodstock here.
	I figured I'd give this a go, as it's very much in vogue.
	Beau, the Numidian general I was telling you about is Masanissa, featuring in Libby's Abbe Kondita Libri.
	So, before I go, Dark Angels suck.
	Black Templars are better, and you can't have one of these on a keto diet now, can you?
	Well, no they don't.
	No they don't, and no I can't.
	So, you know, you got me.
	What world are you living in?
	There's a lot of people who don't appreciate my swearing.
	Carl, mostly, actually.
	Swearing is a sign of bad morals.
	That is very based.
	Again, see?
	You see the bigotry I have to put up with?
	Yes.
	Is your blackness being suppressed?
	Hey, Carl.
	You should set up a swear jar.
	And then when it's full, you can pay for a Lotus Eater's keto-friendly picnic, all paid by Callum.
	I would love to call it the Keto Jizzier, but I think legally I might not be allowed to do that.
	Yeah, I will resist the forces of Keto Islam.
	All I'm saying is...
	Not paying the tax, she's going to put me to death instead.
	All I'm saying is the only way you're getting into heaven...
	I'm not going to heaven.
	I can't imagine anything worse.
	There's no sandwiches.
	There's no wife to make the sandwiches either.
	72 virgins, though.
	Why would you want 72 sandwiches?
	72 sandwiches.
	What?
	I can't have 72 sandwiches.
	Damn it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm just saying the theology isn't worked out, okay?
	You're like, yes, when I get to heaven I can have a sandwich.
	Wait, no, I can't.
	It's keto heaven.
	Crap.
	I'll work out the theology.
	I love how even in heaven you've got to be on your diet.
	What's the point in that?
	God, I went to paradise.
	It's just like being back at home.
	That's what I consider to be paradise, thank you very much.
	Carrying on.
	And I figured I'd tell you guys because I'm a loser and don't have a lot of friends and I can't really be excited with other people, but I got promoted!
	And I paid off my car.
	Like, adult things to be excited about.
	You're wondering why America seems to have so many more ghost stories than, like, Britain does, per se?
	And I was, like, thinking maybe it's because, you know, a whole bunch of different, like, religions and, like, even, like, pagans and different stuff probably came to America to avoid the persecution, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And so maybe that's why there tends to be more ghost stories, because of a mixture of different, like, cultures.
	Oh, no, we've got loads of ghost stories.
	They're just all nonsense.
	None of us take them seriously, so they're not really handed down as much as they probably should be.
	Yeah, I mean, I just enjoy hearing them.
	I watch loads of Bigfoot stuff, UFO stuff, conspiracy stuff.
	I love all that stuff, but it's all just nonsense.
	Congratulations on the promotion.
	And being an adult and paying off your car and things like this.
	These are like concrete life achievements that you can put under your belt.
	When the communist is like, I still haven't got the revolution yet.
	You're like, yeah, but I got my promotion and I paid off my car.
	So I'm going on holiday.
	You know, like real achievements.
	Things that matter.
	Tangible achievements.
	Well done.
	And if a bread tube are in town and they're complaining and complaining, you're like, oh, that's too bad.
	I'm going to drive away now.
	I got a job to go to.
	I think the other thing on the ghost part, I might be remembering this wrong, but I think QI did something on this where it was like a quarter of Americans reportedly believe in ghosts being real, whereas for Britons it's like 5% or something like that.
	I believe that as well.
	No, no, that confirms a lot of my biases, I believe that.
	Radio.
	Which is how it works!
	Talk about ghosts.
	Hey guys, it's been a while, I'm going up and down the Norwegian coast as I usually do, and today is a wonderful day because I'm getting the pay rates!
	Hooray!
	So, I'm also wondering, you're finally going to make a merch store, so if you're interested in a few designs, then feel free to hit me up.
	I can make something for you if you're interested.
	And also, since we're not going to start calling people after what they do, what's that going to make me?
	Is it going to be that Norwegian guy?
	That boat guy?
	That chef guy?
	Or maybe that drawing or artsy guy?
	That's up to you.
	And, oh, yeah, before I forget, remember, Sultans of Chatelay today, after Lotus Eaters.
	Gotta chill a little bit, you know.
	Double shit.
	Have a nice day.
	That's all fine.
	Go subscribe to Sultans of Chatelay.
	Yeah, that's a good question.
	What are we going to do for merch?
	What are we going to call him?
	I was just thinking about what to call him.
	I'd probably go with the chef guy, personally, because there's going to be another Norwegian-er, and then there's going to be a fight.
	Also, it's pretty iconic now.
	You're on the boat, giving us the videos.
	Chefing.
	Yeah, chefing, yeah.
	No, that's cool, man.
	And again, I love the fact, oh, I've got a pay rise.
	I've got a pay rise.
	Great.
	This is brilliant.
	Callum's not getting a pay rise.
	Moving on.
	Step one, prep your non-frozen burger.
	Step two, olive oil, salt and pepper.
	Step three, preheat your grill.
	You're going to need these things to sizzle when they hit the grill.
	Let the meat sit.
	Here we have the cutaway on a brioche bun with some onions and ketchup.
	And the final step, Uh, who's been good.
	Unless you get a waggy tail now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But that does look delicious, don't get me wrong.
	I'm sure Joan very much enjoyed it.
	Hmm.
	Just got in my mind, I used to do this thing, uh, because you want cheap burgers, right?
	And Iceland, they do like this beef steaks, and they're covered in spices and stuff, and already, and they sell them for like two quid, because no one ever buys them.
	But if you just remold them into a patty, you can just make hamburgers out of them, and they're all spiced, and it's great.
	Hmm.
	You know, cheap ideas for, uh, burgers if you're in England.
	Hmm.
	When we see the propensity of today's left to want to segregate people by race and gender, to prohibit unvaxxed from living a normal life, to cleanse the military and medical sector of so-called dissidents, to publicly humiliate those who speak up, the all-around censorship and the never-ending use of the violence, at what point do we just start to say, okay, Nazi?
	Asking for a friend.
	Now, yesterday was also the best time, and tomorrow, if not now, is definitely as good a time as any.
	I'm getting distracted by the food, frankly.
	But yeah, no, just feel free to just treat them like they're mental patients, because I do.
	I kind of dislike the idea of calling them Nazis because I don't think it's enough.
	To call someone a Nazi, I think they have to be racial socialists.
	They are!
	That exists on the wokeism aspect, sure.
	So if they're doing that, absolutely.
	But if they're not, then...
	Honestly, where I am in the critical race theory, I'm on section 5 of 7 now, by the way.
	They've got seven sections.
	I'm on section 5, making the notes through it.
	And I've got this one by John Calmore.
	And it's amazing.
	Because he's giving his theoretical definition of what critical race theory actually encompasses.
	So when someone says, oh yeah, what is it?
	You can just give their definition.
	I'll present all this and write articles and stuff about it in a bit.
	But one of it is just like, well, it's race-conscious collective action.
	It's like, okay, Nazi.
	Thank you for just saying it.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, Callum says, when I was growing up and going through school, I never used social media, and so I was out of the loop of many things.
	Now, years later, I'm more than glad I didn't use social media and tried to keep an arm's length from it.
	Yes.
	Student of History says, we currently live in the rat utopia.
	It's no surprise that people are just starting to take notice of their body image or status, seeing men or women who've had over an extra decade of work going, and, well, I'm crap.
	And this helps create the rat utopia's two classes, the ones constantly grooming and the ones that are essentially a bunch of kumas and doomas.
	That's correct.
	Welcome to the world where they either end up as self-absorbed narcissist or devolve into kumarism.
	Also, based Callum quote, I don't care, you're not my girlfriend.
	They also don't have one, though, so...
	Still trying to find that girlfriend alive, but not gonna happen.
	Hmm.
	Lars says, No wonder Chinese kids want to be astronauts.
	They want to get off this planet and the oppressive communist regime.
	Yeah, and it's not like they can go to the West, is it?
	Trying to escape communism.
	Where are we going, America?
	Eww.
	Alexander says, I think it's very interesting that you mentioned addiction.
	Think about all the lawsuits against fast food companies in the early 2000s and how they started saying as part of a balanced diet and showed a skateboarding zoo creature eating a sugar burger.
	And the fast food giant says...
	See, we are healthy.
	The fact that social media is saying that you can moderate your time spent is the same.
	Instead of the skateboarding zoo beast, you now have rainbow flags and inclusion, so the social media claim we do care.
	Yeah, I mean, I do think that at some point...
	I was thinking about this.
	It's entirely possible that at some point they'll essentially be forced to build into their apps a kind of shutdown timer.
	You've been on this social media app for two hours today.
	You can't use it for another 24 hours or something like that.
	It's entirely possible that'll be the future because of the addictive nature of these social media apps.
	Don't like it.
	I am not saying I like it either.
	I'm just saying this is something that's, I think, possible that can happen.
	But the point is, it is a form of drug, and we weren't really aware of it when all this came around.
	There's a reason everyone took to it so quickly.
	Ooh, this feels great.
	Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
	David says, Yeah, it's true.
	I mean, I... It feels like it's a curse, right?
	And, you know, somebody makes his living on social media, I guess.
	We don't consider YouTube social media because that's advantageous to us.
	No, it also just really isn't.
	I know that's right with the community features and the shorts.
	It's not the same.
	But, you know, Twitter especially is just awful.
	Long Talks on the Neat says, Yeah, I mean, the only unique thing about Narcissus is that it was his own reflection.
	But you could be enchanted by beauty.
	It wouldn't surprise me at all.
	Castrophic Regression Threshold says, Morning, gents.
	I'm with Callum on the social media issue.
	I grew up when this was starting out, and to this day I've never understood the scrolling through Facebook sort of thing.
	As for the bullying, I think the rise of zero-tolerance policies have done more harm than good for bullying.
	Back in the day, if you bully someone, there was always a risk of getting your teeth knocked in.
	Now all you can do is run to the teacher and hope they will care enough to attempt to do something that will likely have a short-term effect at best, assuming it doesn't actively make it worse.
	Maybe we need to start teaching our kids to solve their own problems again.
	Yeah, but the problem is on social media you can't do that.
	I would question as well that chap, because I imagine we have a similar background on this, which is that our experience of social media growing up was likely one in which we didn't have all these restrictions, and quite frankly, the correct way to have a discussion with someone was to just abuse them, almost.
	It was all banter, and you call each other whatever, and everything under the sun.
	And it was Wild West kind of sense of you could do that thing.
	That's what male environments were always like.
	But it fostered an atmosphere towards the platform itself of not taking it seriously.
	Yes.
	And still don't.
	I imagine he might agree.
	But now that that's all...
	You can't say the F word, you can't say the R word, you can't say N word, you can't say anything.
	You don't find people complaining about being bullied on 4chan?
	No, it's weird.
	Because they know what they're going in for, right?
	And nobody knows who you are as well.
	There's that as well, but it's also just like, there is something to the platform the way it's built, and if you could build one in which you don't have to take the platform seriously, I reckon that's probably marginally the aspect of bullying to some degree.
	Yeah, but now you can't say things that are, like, so offensive that they're a caricature of real interaction.
	Because that's what you're talking about.
	You can't even call someone a pig on Facebook.
	Exactly.
	You know, whereas you're saying, you know, say something that's so explosively over the top, you can't get offended by that because that's ridiculous.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	Exactly, it's just funny, right?
	And I miss that sort of environment as well, you know.
	What did you just say to me?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Just back in like 2015, 2016, YouTube was the same, you know, and now it's all changed.
	And it's like, right, okay, well, that was that fun over.
	Anyway, Larkerga says, unrealistic body standards is the toxic femininity equivalent to the supposed toxic masculinity.
	Boys think the only way to prove manhood is by demonstrating their ability to enact violence.
	Girls think the only way to prove womanhood is by having the appearance of a sexy magazine model.
	In reality, the average man is no more looking to marry a Kardashian than the average woman is looking for a partner resembling Hulk Hogan.
	Good point.
	Rob says, something important to understand when looking at the deaths per capita, Florida and Arizona are retirement states in the United States.
	That's a good point.
	Florida is the number six for the median age out of the 56 US states and territories.
	So the one with the oldest population has more deaths in Florida.
	It makes sense.
	California is one of the youngest populations at 45th and New York is 22nd.
	Yeah, so the fact that New York is doing worse than Florida.
	Yeah.
	So we're not comparing apple to apple.
	It needs to be 65 plus for each state per million.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what that data is.
	I mean, we could probably find it, actually.
	We could probably calculate it, but that just makes New York look even worse.
	Alpha of the Betas says, Ron DeSantis is tyrannizing Floridians with their own inalienable human rights.
	The bastard.
	Yeah, I know.
	I can't believe they thought putting that on an attack advert was a good idea.
	I won't tyrannize you.
	Oh no!
	Run!
	Hide!
	Janalis says, when's this Florida Man comedy film coming out and where can I see it?
	Jay says, social media has created a sort of cultural shorthand.
	As the saying goes, a little knowledge is dangerous.
	I first got dialed up when I was 11.
	I can't imagine what it's like to be a child growing up now.
	No wonder so many of them are confused.
	Yeah, and the thing is, remember, Jay, like, when we were growing up, like, you know, I got the first dial-up when I was, like, 15, 16, you know, and it was, like, 28k modem, beep, boop, boop, you know, like, and nothing in school was about LGBT trans nonsense.
	Like, the definition of woman wasn't a contentious issue, and at no point were there people, politicians on TV, going, well, it's a transphobic thing, women have phobic things.
	And that debate didn't go on for two weeks.
	And it's still going on, right?
	That wasn't the case.
	Things were sensible back in the day, if you can believe it, before your time.
	Politics wasn't actually lunatic.
	Anyway, David says, hilarious DeSantis adverts.
	Who said the left can't do comedy?
	Good point.
	Okay, checkmate!
	Not only when they're roasting themselves by accident.
	Yeah.
	I honestly think it's maybe like the guy even more.
	It'll be an interesting five years from now when we're allowed to consider COVID as a cold, how these attacks will look in hindsight.
	Well, they already look ludicrous.
	The children are dying, are they?
	We literally have the government data at 0.0.
	Emon Ping says, Base Florida man won't use government authority to force my five-year-old into a hazmat suit to live out Zezer's days in isolation.
	What a tyrannical monster.
	Typical leftist, probably.
	Free Will says, The frenzied fanaticism of these lefties should be a warning sign as to how dangerous they really are.
	Yes.
	This political struggle dominates their psyches and their victory will be a dark day for humanity.
	The victory is almost here, I'm afraid.
	Our response should be to try and make the term communism as disliked as the term Nazism because they are murderous and insane as Hitler's cohorts.
	That's correct.
	Rob says, It is disgusting how complex laws are in the United States, and I think you can measure the corruption of a country by the complexity of the laws.
	Who was it that said something like this?
	It was like Adam Smith or something.
	Conquest said it with accountants.
	Yeah, no, just a state with an excessive number of laws is a tyrannical and corrupt state.
	I can't remember who said it.
	Someone in the chat let me know.
	But in the United States, I would like to see a constitutional amendment requiring all bills to be less than 500 words, including all amendments, required definitions.
	Yeah, one page.
	That's it.
	Tom says, was fortification as much effort as it would seem at first sight?
	To me it appears that it found a major flaw in the current state of the US presidential election.
	With regards to the good intentions motivating the electoral college system, Dems realise that fortification is only necessary in a few key cities and a few key states.
	Simple maths for me.
	Well, reading through the Time magazine article, it seemed like there was a lot of work that went in the back end of They were clearly pulling a lot of strings, and it was a lot of energy to put together, and then you've got, you know, to make sure everything on the ground is standing, then you've got the media to make sure they're all on the same page.
	So it does seem like there was a lot of effort that goes into it, and the Republicans clearly weren't prepared for that.
	You know, they were clearly caught off guard by all of this.
	So I think it was a lot of work, and I think with a bit of simple precaution on the Republicans' part, that can be prevented.
	So, you know, all hope is not lost yet.
	Long talks on the niche.
	Carla's thinking of the Laffer curve.
	Yes, I am.
	That's exactly it.
	The theoretical parabolic arc of total taxation revenue dependent on the rate of taxation.
	The curve implies that taxation of a certain rate, historically usually around 15-20%, actually returns less total revenue since higher taxes actually lowers total taxable activity.
	Correct.
	That's exactly what I was thinking of.
	And it's been demonstrated over and over and over, if I recall correctly.
	So, once again, Democrats not listening to sound economic advice.
	I'm trying to remember what the exact percentage was that was ideal for taking as much money as possible.
	Yeah, there was a particularly sweet spot that maximized revenue, wasn't there?
	I'm trying to remember if it was as high as 40, if I'm just moving around.
	No, it wasn't.
	Just Google it.
	It'll come up.
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