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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Cedars for the 20th of December 2021.
	I am joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the Build Back Better crew all getting busted, the sport for Boris Johnson absolutely evaporating, and also J.K. Rowling and the Feminine Penis, which presumably will be her next book as well.
	I mean, to be honest, she doesn't write a book about it.
	I mean, why not?
	Make some money.
	No, no, she did write a book about a rapey trans person.
	Oh, she did?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, I remember we covered it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So this is not new for her, but more is continuing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, she's just not letting this go, and they're getting quite annoyed about it.
	I'm looking forward to the movie, actually.
	Anyway, things to mention first on the website.
	The first thing here being the contemplations that went up over the weekend.
	So this is altruism and selfishness.
	So what are the deal with that?
	So go and check that out.
	I believe that's Josh, and I can't remember who else did it with him.
	If you can scroll back up, John.
	Beau did that with him.
	So go and check that out.
	Next thing to mention is the Epochs, so Vlad the Impaler.
	So this is the life of Vlad the Impaler.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm kind of annoyed that I wasn't here to do it.
	So I was ill last week, and I've still got a bit of a sniffle, but I'm alright.
	And I really wanted to do Vlad the Impaler with Bo, and unfortunately I couldn't.
	And so I had to miss out.
	I can't remember which Russian emperor or empress it was, but the one who asked for all the townsfolks for a bird and then set them all on fire and sent the birds back to the town and set fire to the town.
	Oh, yeah, that's not a unique ploy.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, Harold Haldrada did something similar in Sicily, I believe, as well.
	Yeah, it's quite cunning, really.
	What was Haldrada doing in Sicily?
	He was a famous international mercenary and adventurer before he tried to conquer England.
	Oh, right.
	Okay, that's before.
	I thought afterwards you'd definitely give up and retire.
	Well, he was dead.
	But we'll definitely do a life of Harold Hardrada at some point.
	Okay, next thing to mention is an article on the website.
	So this is Scrooge McDuck did nothing wrong.
	So this is a republish from Hugo here, which now has an audio track for people to go back and listen to in case you didn't read it or don't like reading.
	Well, this is a fantastic article, though, because I'm so sick of leftists going, oh, well, when you get to 999 million, you should just have all your money taken off.
	That's not how wealth works.
	You don't understand how wealth works.
	It's not just a pile of money.
	Idiots.
	Yes.
	And then the last thing to mention is a new article here, Britain's aversion to self-defence from Harry here.
	So he's written about self-defence and why we have some weird aversion to it.
	I remember there was a guy we met in Poland who was big on trying to get us to rejuvenate our culture of self-defence.
	And I then realised, oh crap, yeah, we don't have one, do we?
	No.
	It's embarrassing.
	Anyway, also again, audio track for Silver and Gold Tears.
	But without further ado, let's get into Build Back Better.
	Yeah.
	So Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda has been ground to a halt by a Democratic senator.
	Shockingly based.
	I know you wouldn't have expected it, would you?
	But let's have a talk about Biden's...
	And the Build Back Better framework, because this appears to just be an attempt to create a command economy in the United States, and it's going horribly, horribly wrong, and everyone can see that it's going horribly, horribly wrong.
	So this was just posted in October on their website, because obviously they were trying to Gin up support for this, and so this framework will be the guide of drafting legislative language.
	When enacted, this framework will set the United States on course to meet its climate goals, create millions of good-paying jobs, and enable more Americans to join and remain in the labour force, and grow our economy from the bottom up and the middle out.
	No, that's growing the economy from the top down.
	As if the economy is gifted to the country by the government.
	Like a fascist would say, basically.
	But they want to, you know, put massive investments in things.
	We'll just go to the Wikipedia article to just get the details of it.
	So this has had many different iterations, and it began in May with like a $6 trillion budget proposal.
	Six trillion dollars.
	Joe Biden's like, yeah, I'm the most legitimate president in all of human history.
	Therefore, massive changes.
	Here's six trillion.
	It's like, no.
	And everyone was like, no.
	And so that had to be just rescinded and taken down.
	And in June, Joe Manchin, who is the architect of the destruction of the Build Back Better bill, was like, no, I'm open to a two trillion dollar bill.
	Two trillion?
	That's just, oh, okay, we're being reasonable now.
	Like, Joe Biden is actually following the sort of Trumpian negotiating tactics.
	Right, I want 100 billion, 100 trillion, and I'll accept two trillion, you know?
	Okay, that's fair, you know?
	But Trump's position is like, well, if you ask something ridiculous and then you get about a third of that, then you're a third up and you didn't have anything to start with.
	It's like, yeah, okay, good negotiating tactic, still ridiculous, but anyway.
	So this just kept going through various iterations that were of the realm of about $4 trillion.
	And so the original Build Back Better Act was $3.5 trillion.
	Again, the amount of money that we're talking about here, it just beggars belief.
	Like...
	You wouldn't ever deal with these figures in any other way.
	But anyway, so this was revised down to 2.2 trillion, right?
	And this is broken up into 555 billion for clean energy and climate change provisions.
	A quarter of it, climate change provisions.
	$400 billion for childcare and preschools, $200 billion for child tax and earned income tax credits, $150 billion for home care, $150 billion for housing, $130 billion for Affordable Care Act credits, $90 billion for equity and other investments.
	I'm sure that won't be a massive waste of money, other than the rest of this isn't going to be a massive waste of money.
	$40 billion for higher education and workforce, $35 billion to expand Medicare for hearing services, things like this.
	And it's like, right, so this is just basically ridiculous.
	The whole thing is just basically absurd.
	And...
	People are generally not in favour of it.
	There have been lots of polling done on this, and about half of the country is just dead set against this.
	And this, I think, ties in with Joe Biden's falling approval rating, because this is obviously not the first massive amount of money that he's just tried to pump into the American economy, and everyone can see that this isn't going very well.
	Biden is not a very popular president.
	In fact, he's about as popular as Donald Trump was.
	Well, I mean, you wouldn't know it.
	No, not...
	Well, no, exactly.
	And it's obviously the media that is trying to...
	that was desperately damaging Trump's popularity and desperately trying to improve Biden's popularity.
	But the thing is, the talking heads just can't figure out why Biden is as unpopular as Trump.
	This is a great article.
	Well, if you can go to the next one.
	That was...
	Talking about a Washington Post columnist and CNN host called Fareed Zakaria, who had written an article called The Puzzle of Joe Biden's Unpopularity.
	Why is Joe Biden as unpopular as Trump?
	We did everything we could to destroy Trump.
	We've done everything we can to prop up Biden, and yet they're exactly the same.
	How has this happened?
	Apparently it's because he's the president during complicated times, Callum.
	I mean, again, another example of them being like, yeah, let's cope.
	Let's try and defend Biden.
	Oh, yes.
	Complicated times.
	He described Biden as a genial, likable person and noted that some of his policies were popular amongst Americans, even with some Republican support, but also claimed the country was doing reasonably well economically.
	Yeah.
	I told you I follow the Democrats on Facebook and whatnot.
	They're just endlessly posting about, yeah, look at the job growth we made.
	I was like, wait, you destroyed all the jobs of the lockdown and then I brought them back.
	Yes.
	Good job.
	And so despite record inflation, nationwide supply challenges and labor shortages are a real problem.
	It's like, yeah, but who brought those in?
	They didn't happen under Trump.
	They're all government interference.
	They are all government interference through ideological concerns about climate change.
	This is why there's a massive bottleneck in California right now.
	And so people probably, understandably, view these things as Biden's fault because they are Biden's fault.
	And New York Post has got a great article here just talking about some of the problems, right?
	So, like, this is the spin they are trying to put on this soaring inflation is incredible, right?
	The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that earlier this month, wages are increasing.
	They aren't rising fast enough because inflation is outpacing them.
	So your wages went up.
	Isn't that good?
	No, because the things I buy went up three times more.
	Great.
	Thanks, Biden.
	The currency is worth a hell of a lot less, so that paper you give me that's just increased is worthless.
	Yes.
	Biden's helping out the middle class is actually stealing money from them.
	The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index jumped 6.2%, erasing wage gains and reflecting the highest bumps in 1990 in the cost of goods and services.
	Well done, Biden.
	That's a new record.
	Real average hourly earnings decreased 1.2% from October 2020 to October 2021.
	So Biden's command economy is actually demonstrably stealing money from the average worker.
	Well, that's what inflation is.
	Yes.
	It's your salary being depreciated.
	Yes.
	And salaries have not risen in line with the inflation to the point where we actually know the amount that has been stolen from American workers by Biden.
	Because of climate change.
	Earlier this month, the president basically admitted this, saying, well, that's what happens if there's nothing to buy and you've got no money to compete, and you've got more money to compete for getting goods.
	It creates a real problem.
	And this is because of his COVID stimulus bill giving everyone just $1,400.
	And it's like, right, so you just gave a bunch of people money.
	And now there's nothing for them to buy, and no one's money is worth what it was worth anyway?
	You didn't have to do any of this.
	You didn't have to do anything.
	You could have just inherited the economy that Trump had given you, which we'll talk about in a minute, because looking back on it, it's like night and day.
	It's staggering how different it is.
	But anyway, 70% of Americans...
	I mean, not to say that Trump didn't burn money as well, but...
	Oh, sure, but, like, there's a difference.
	Like...
	Trump was running a low-tax, low-regulation economy.
	And that's really good for business.
	So wealth can be created.
	But Biden's doing the complete opposite.
	Biden is actively liquidating the wealth of the United States.
	And everyone can see it.
	There was an NBC News poll that was released recently, well, October, that was conducted among adults in the US. And seven in ten respondents were like, well, this country's heading in the wrong direction.
	It's like, yeah, but you don't know how much worse it's going to get.
	Like, broken down by party, this was 93% of Republicans, unsurprisingly, 70% of independents, and 48% of Biden supporters.
	So even half of Biden's own constituency is like, yeah, this isn't going well.
	Like, this is a train crash.
	I don't know why we're doing this, but do I support Biden still?
	You know, maybe you should become an independent.
	Only 22% said the country was heading the right direction.
	I'd really like to meet those people.
	Who thinks Biden is doing a good job at this point, right?
	It breaks my heart watching this happen to the United States, because even Trump's opponents under his economy had to admit that his economy, as MSNBC put it, was roaring from the next one.
	You couldn't describe it any other way.
	In May 2019, going back to two years now, The Labor Department had added, you know, a quarter of a million jobs, and hourly wages grew by two-tenths of a percent in April alone.
	So in one month, in real terms, wages were actively growing.
	The unemployment rate was the lowest it had been since December 1969, and of course the stocks were up, everything was going great.
	And they have to admit that this is due to tax cuts and deregulation.
	So let the economy, like, people do their work, and they make money.
	Don't interfere.
	They create the wealth.
	Yeah, you don't need to get engaged in a command economy.
	But what you can do is make sure there's, I don't know, widespread fuel access or something, which would be really useful.
	Do you remember that at one point under Trump's presidency, they were paying you to take fuel away?
	Yeah, I mean, to be fair, that was because of also the nonsense with COVID, like the entire jolt of the economy there.
	No, I don't think it was.
	Apparently, it's due to oversupply of crude.
	Sure, there was a huge oversupply.
	I'm pretty sure it went negative during COVID, like when the lockdowns came in and no one was using cars anymore.
	Well, is it?
	What's the date?
	Can you scroll down a bit so we can see the exact date on this one?
	I just remember looking at it and being like, hmm, should I invest?
	Down a bit.
	Up a bit.
	Alright, so was the US in lockdown in April 2020?
	Not, I can't remember according to my mind, but I think we were.
	We may be.
	But this, they say, is because basically there was a massive influx of oil because basically Trump was just doing everything he could to make America energy independent, which meant Using their own native resources.
	And this became such a problem that he basically had to bail out the oil industry because they were like, we're going to collapse if you keep doing this.
	And it's like, sorry.
	It goes lower.
	Every dollar you lose, Saudi Arabia loses 10.
	Well, that's basically what was happening, yeah.
	And so this allowed Trump to create a massive reserve of oil as well, which, of course, you would use in times of emergency.
	And so Biden's like, hey, I can create that emergency.
	That's a great idea.
	If we get to the next one, you can see that Biden has, this was released last month, but you see Biden has doubled the price of gasoline supply.
	So this has gone up to $3.4 a gallon, more than double their price a year ago, according to the American Automobile Association.
	And so now Biden has to release those 50 million barrels of reserved oil that Trump put there for the crisis that Biden has created.
	It's like, why did you do this?
	You didn't have to do this.
	The best part is he has to actually thank Trump.
	Yes.
	If it wasn't for him, he wouldn't have that much lying around.
	That's right.
	And this is just one product or good that has gone up massively in price, obviously.
	You can just look across the board and see a wild increase in the price.
	Like the Daily Wire were going on about timber prices.
	Why would timber prices be going up well?
	Because of Biden, obviously.
	But anyway, so you get the reason for this is, of course, that Biden just actively restricted America's oil supply.
	Why did Biden halt federal oil and gas sales?
	Great question.
	Why do you do it?
	Do you want to know why?
	Climate change?
	That's right.
	It's climate change.
	President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation's vast public lands and waters in his first days in office, citing worries about climate change.
	How much did the climate change, Joe?
	Did this fix the change of the climate?
	Climate confirmed solve?
	We did it, boys.
	Climate is no more.
	I don't know.
	Like, what did you accomplish here, you old lunatic?
	But now his administration has to figure out what to do with the crushing of this sector of the economy.
	Well, it turned out you had to release Trump's emergency oil supplies.
	That was the solution.
	But anyway, so this leasing ban was meant to only be temporary, but as I understand it, it's still going on.
	But the burning of oil and coal and gas from government-owned lands and waters is a top source of US emissions, accounting for 24% of the nation's greenhouse gases.
	Didn't you know?
	Also ruined the economy, Joe.
	Also robbed poor people of food, Joe.
	I mean, I never really get this complaint that's like, this makes up this much of the emissions.
	Well, yeah, like, things are going to cost emissions.
	Yes.
	Part of the cost.
	Yeah.
	Why are you shocked by that?
	Climate change.
	And they're just like, no, this is a huge deal, we have to deal with it.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, returning to this Build Back Better thing, I just wanted to go through that because it wasn't always like this, and it doesn't have to be like this.
	Joe Biden has done this to you because he's an incompetent old coot.
	Anyway, so he comes back to his Build Back Better Act, and it's Joe Manchin, a Democrat senator from West Virginia, who decided, no, I literally can't vote.
	He says, I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.
	I've tried everything humanly possible.
	I can't get there.
	So he's just sat there in his room by himself, holding the sides of his head, going, this is just madness.
	This is just madness.
	It's like, yes, yes, it is.
	But the economists say before he pulled the plug, a new series of worries began to dog him.
	To keep the headline cost down but avoid making hard choices about which programs to cut, Democrats have made liberal use of sunset clauses in which funding for ambitious new initiatives such as universal preschool and childcare subsidies would expire in only six years.
	Mr.
	Manchin feared that these would inevitably turn into permanent programs because there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.
	How are you liking your two weeks to save the NHS? Oh, well, that curve is not flattened, actually, at the moment.
	We're currently in a...
	Like, aren't we getting the most COVID cases?
	Yeah, but not hospitalisations or deaths.
	Well, who cares about that?
	But anyway, so this is the reason why he couldn't do it.
	And, of course, Jen Psaki is not happy with any of this.
	She said, well, there's a breach of his commitments to the President and Senator's colleagues.
	It's like...
	Yeah, but, I mean, he does have a commitment to the American people.
	Well, his constituents, first and foremost.
	You would think.
	And liquidating the purchasing power of their currency, possibly not good.
	But, of course, she then went on to say, well, he's going to have to explain to families why he did not lower the costs of their insulin and childcare and why he did not help more children out of poverty, Callum.
	Because so many children have been helped out of poverty right now.
	Doing the opposite.
	He's making the money in their pockets worth something instead of worth nothing.
	It's also like Jen Psaki saying, like, do you vote for me?
	No.
	Okay, never mind.
	Moving on.
	Yeah, but the point is, she's lying.
	Yeah.
	She's actively lying.
	And this is what the Biden administration is doing quite some time.
	But anyway, just to finish on this one, Goldman Sachs is like, well, the growth is going to be lower.
	It's like, yeah, but the inflation will also be lower.
	You know, that's good for the poor people who aren't that worried about the growth, but are worried about the inflation.
	Not that that matters to these people, but you can see where the concerns lie, can't you?
	This isn't about the working people of America.
	This is about the top-down ideological agenda that Joe Biden has been imposing on the country and how it's ruining this country.
	And it's just so palpable.
	It's all in your face.
	It is demonstrable.
	It is out there.
	It is...
	Clear for everyone to see.
	And thankfully at least 70% of Americans can see that.
	Anyway, there we go.
	I hate watching it.
	Mentioning another Build Back Better buddy.
	So let's go to Boris Johnson, who support is absolutely evaporating.
	So this was, I believe, an election that was taking place, I think it was Thursday or something, on Friday night we got the news, but I thought we'd wait the weekend to see what else came out.
	Because again, Dominic Cummings just sat there with his little hard drive full of images and going send, send, send.
	Anyway, so this is North Shropshire.
	This is a constituency that had a by-election after all the S came out about him having parties, 1 through 10, or whatever else it was.
	And if we can scroll down, if you can get the results for this most coming election, in which we have the Lib Dems taking the seat.
	And as you can see from that graph there, I mean, big shook.
	I mean, you can see from this graph there that that was a very deeply conservative area for quite some time.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, Lib Dems coming out of nowhere.
	No one really votes Lib Dem anymore, but whatever.
	They got 47% of the vote.
	Just, they're doing a nothing burger.
	Boris Johnson is caught having 10 parties during Christmas.
	Well, the Lib Dems have committed themselves against lockdowns.
	Yeah, but you can also see, of course, as you mentioned, they're the only ones in that group that did come out and vote against the vaccine passports.
	And the Conservatives losing 30%.
	I mean, 30%.
	That's massive.
	Unbelievable.
	And then Labour also losing 12% of the vote.
	I mean, the fact that they essentially basically both went to the Liberal Democrats gives you a firm indication about public support for vaccine passports.
	And if you wanted to make it any more firm, you're thinking, ah, well maybe they're all Remainers and they remember the EU and Lib Dems are the party of the EU. 60% leave seat.
	60% leave.
	And yet it was managed to be taken by the Liberal Democrats, the EU nationalists of the country.
	Losing 30% support in one election.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's not small at all.
	That's massive.
	Anyway, and as Helen Dale would say...
	They had 60-plus percent support before, and they lost half their support over these vaccine passports.
	Yeah.
	Is this Build Back Better agenda really worth it, Boris?
	And the obvious hypocrisy of them being like, yes, we'll do more lockdowns.
	It's like, you're not even following them, so go to hell.
	Anyway...
	We move on.
	If we go to the next one here, it's just the news that apparently this seat has been conservative for 200 years as well.
	Blimey.
	So this is the blue wall taking a hit now, if you could put it that way.
	Wow, you get what you deserve.
	Yeah, and if we go to the next one, we have Aaron Banks, the guy who financed UKIP, and I believe it was Vote Leave, I can't quite remember, but he was financing the Leave campaign, of course, and even he's surprised, and he's like, well, okay, well, they've invented vaccine passports, though, so...
	To be fair, though, can we take a moment to be genuinely shocked that the Liberal Democrats did something liberal?
	Yeah.
	I'm shocked.
	I mean, I've spoken before.
	Tim Farron is the only one who responded to us when Count Dankula's case was up and was positive and like, yeah, a guy shouldn't go to jail for a joke.
	And the rest of the Lib Dems were like, well, this is hate speech.
	Let me tell you about it.
	I know.
	They're a woke party.
	I can't believe they're not in favour of it.
	Anyway, but also there's the compilation of, well, where are the Tories going?
	Where is that 31% that has evaporated from Conservative support?
	Are they all voting Lib Dem?
	Well, maybe not, because we had this new data out of just, well, where are Boris Johnson's supporters?
	And if you could scroll down to show this graph, please, we can see that the Conservatives, majoritally, are just dropping out.
	Completely dropping out of politics.
	Just not interested.
	I mean, you can see a small percentage going to Labour, there's a significant percentage there going to Reform UK, and then a sliver going to the Lib Dems there.
	It's Boris's boys just being like, nah, dude had everything going for him, has not done the reforms needed, and therefore, go to hell.
	I'm leaving.
	And can't blame him.
	Can't blame him at all.
	Anyway, his party have noticed this, so if we go to the next one, we have the PM. One more strike and you're out, says the MPs to him.
	I don't really know what else they're waiting for.
	Yeah, what more do you need?
	Like, one more strike.
	What strike?
	Like, he's already been caught breaking his own rules.
	Half of the country hate him because of it.
	There's also the fact that he's not done any of the conservative reforms that were needed.
	He got Brexit done, though.
	Yeah, we're kind of past that.
	Yeah.
	We've sort of moved on from that.
	You can't just sit on that forever.
	There have been things that happened in the past couple of years that have made Brexit not really very important in British politics.
	Yeah.
	If we go to the next one, there's all these parties, and they're not going away because, of course, Dominic Cummings just keeps releasing images because he's having an interesting night.
	So this is one in which we spoke about it was the Tory aid to Tory HQ or partying whilst we were in lockdown.
	Yeah.
	And the Met Police decide to say that they were going to investigate it, but then just, nah, just not gonna.
	Didn't they say something about not investigating retrospective crimes?
	Yeah, and in this one they're just like, well, there's not enough evidence, but we might do in the future.
	And it's like, what do you mean there's not enough evidence?
	We have an image of them partying, we're in lockdowns, we're going place.
	I mean, you literally have guards on the gates of 10 Downing Street.
	For people to go in, you must have known who they are.
	Well, no, this was a Tory HQ. Oh, right.
	There's obviously that one as well.
	I'm sure there were no guards there.
	The other nine.
	Anyway, but if we go to the next one, we have a question to the former party as well.
	Boris Johnson joined Downing Street officials for party number 10.
	At number 10, during the first COVID lockdown, it happened in May 15 last year, when people from different households were restricted and only one-to-one meetings outdoors were allowed.
	Keep this in mind, because there's now been images of it, and we will come back to the image.
	So if we go to the next one, we also have him getting heckled by just random people, just being like, Oi, Boris, when's the party happening?
	Have I got an invite?
	Random people shouting at him, because that's who he is now.
	Yep.
	The party man.
	And also, you remember they said that one more strike and you're out?
	After all of that, and that failure, he went on a train to somewhere, as you can see.
	Oh, yeah.
	Instantly spotted Massless on the train.
	Yep.
	For five seconds.
	I just don't care about the rules.
	I've not been wearing a mask in shops and stuff.
	No.
	I mean, we don't care as right-wingers.
	Just do whatever you want.
	Your freedom.
	But the man who is going to hang by a thread on his legitimacy of locking down the country can't even wear a mask on a train.
	They don't care.
	If he was just like, yeah, no, you're right, that's tyrannical.
	You don't have to do it.
	None of this would be a problem at all.
	We also have some good news as well.
	Weirdly, if Boris adopted the Liberal Democrat position.
	Yes.
	We need more Lib Dems than the Tories.
	Anyway, here we go to the next one.
	We also have some good news, I find at least, which is more tapes.
	Apparently there is more tapes of Allegra Stranton also referring to the Prime Minister's mistress and also the fact that she's dabbing on the public and being like, yes, get locked down.
	Screw you.
	So we'll look forward to that coming out.
	None of this had to happen.
	No, but there's also some ministerial infighting, and I love infighting, because it's funny.
	I'm just enjoying watching the Build Back Better buddies all collapsing on their own terms.
	Yeah.
	It's glorious.
	Do you remember Nadine Doris, though?
	Yeah.
	Where she was...
	Fairly based.
	And we all had high hopes, and even Labour.
	There was a speech from Dawn Butler, and she was literally scared, and saying, like, he's put Nadine Doris in charge of culture.
	We're going to lose the culture war, folks.
	Like, we need to fight on that front.
	No, complete waste of time, apparently, because she's not done much since...
	But here we are, in which he is just backing Boris Johnson no matter what.
	So this is a leaked WhatsApp chat of MPs.
	Apparently there's like 100 Conservative MPs.
	Yeah, and it's in a group called Clean Global Brexit.
	So, you know, pretty normal MP chat where they're just throwing stuff at each other about whatever's going on.
	Well, it's nice to see, look, you can see Marcus Fish there saying, you know, this is talking about how Lord Frost walked out of Boris's cabinet.
	Are you going to cover that?
	We will get to that in a minute.
	And so you can see Marcus Fish going, Frost is a hero and 100% right on this.
	The whole point of Brexit is radical supply-side reform, moving away from EU model, yet ministers are happy to just give hard-won power, put in their hands to officials who will do the same thing, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, yes, I'm glad he gets it.
	Moving away from the sort of EU command model.
	I tell you about it.
	When you meet them in person, they're far more normal people.
	Oh, good.
	I mean, it's nice that they at least say this to each other.
	You know, there's some understanding.
	Hang on.
	We should be doing conservative things, not European things, right?
	Yeah.
	It's when they're in front of the cameras and whatnot.
	They know the whole party machine is watching.
	Yeah.
	So it's not just the pressure of the public or whatever.
	They've also got everyone else with their knives around them.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	I want more WhatsApp leaks.
	Yeah.
	Yes, they're actually quite insightful.
	Anyway, this one particularly, because if we go to the next image on there, please, John, not the next link, which is Nadine Doris deciding to defend Boris Johnson.
	As you can see, she says, the hero is the Prime Minister who delivered Brexit.
	Bit of loyalty to the person who won an 83 majority and delivered Brexit wouldn't go amiss.
	Just stock NPC rhetoric of Boris didn't do nothing.
	And then immediately, Steve Baker removed Nadine Doris.
	I love this.
	I love that you missed that.
	I'm aware of someone who said today that regicide is in the DNA of the Conservative Party, but a bit of loyalty wouldn't go amiss.
	Steve Baker removed Nadine Dodds.
	There's a bit of regicide for you right there.
	Get lost.
	I didn't think Baker had it in him, frankly.
	I know you've been upset with him for a bit.
	I have, but I'm very impressed.
	Well done, Steve.
	Yeah, he seems to be leading the rebellion of people who want conservative things.
	That's the first sort of virtual beheading.
	Yeah, and I love Steve's response there, as you can see.
	Steve removes Nellie Doris and then just types, enough is enough.
	Good.
	And then Andrew Bridgen times in with, about time, thanks Steve.
	That's how they talk to each other.
	Not having any more of this party loyalty nonsense, you're doing the wrong thing.
	Yeah, you need to do the right thing.
	And if you don't do the right things, well then the party loses that as well.
	So, you know, it's also bad for the party to just be some idiot who defends someone no matter what.
	Oh, it's horrific being apparatchik.
	Yeah.
	Which is what Dean Doris was doing there.
	But that works in the Soviet Union or the CCP. That doesn't work in a democracy.
	Because people can see you.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, you end up losing to the Lib Dems.
	Yeah, so if we can see here, Steve Baker also had one more leak out of here, in which he says the majority was won for many reasons.
	Among them, two were critical.
	The deal he voted for was rejected, and then there was the election, and someone, ahem, but not him, persuaded Farage not to run against the incumbents.
	You may remember Farage stood down in all of the seats that were going to bring those tears back.
	And I think Steve's taking credit for that there, which, if he did, is interesting and should be noted in the history books, let's say.
	Anyway...
	So moving on, if you're wondering if Nadine Doris is some kind of fake leak or something, no, no, it's real.
	And also Nadine really is that dumb.
	I don't know what happened to her.
	I don't know why she turned into an NPC, but whatever.
	And you can see here just another one of her tweets recently that she is just being dumb.
	Sorry, you can see here, the Conservative Party's sustained poll lead under Boris Johnson has and still remain phenomenal.
	What?
	Not anymore?
	It hasn't been there for weeks.
	What are you talking about?
	You just lost the by-election by 30%.
	But you were seven points behind Labour.
	You lost 30% in a local election.
	Not 10, not 5.
	Even in general polling, though, you're seven points behind the man who's like, yeah, Boris Johnson's doing a good job, but he's not going far enough.
	And you're somehow behind that.
	Actual NPC. Okay, yeah.
	It's so bizarre.
	It's just silly.
	There's no graphite on the roof, Nadine.
	Okay, we get it.
	Who's making you say this?
	You didn't see the poll numbers go down because it's not there!
	Yeah, exactly!
	They are, Nadine.
	Anyway, so if we go to the next one, someone else decided to leak another screenshot of the thing, which I thought was really funny.
	Oh, yeah.
	So if we can get this image up so we can get it bigger here, which is the first one being also after Andrew Bridgen was like, thanks, Steve.
	Steve responded with this emoji?
	But the thing is, it really looks like Steve as well.
	It does.
	So we go to the next image.
	You can see just, yeah.
	It's the same dude.
	It's like they based him off the emoji, which of course sparked quite a lot of memes, which I quite enjoyed.
	So we'd showcase them.
	Let's go to the next one here so we can see some of the memes.
	You can't defeat me.
	I know, but he can.
	Steve.
	Emojis.
	Anyway...
	Let's go to the next one.
	Yeah, enough is enough.
	That's great.
	Enough is enough.
	And I think that's about as far as we can go with that statement about going to prison, so we'll leave it there.
	And then I also decided to join in because I thought it was funny, which is the remove kebab meme.
	That's so good.
	Steve Baker removes Nadine Doris.
	Anyway.
	Physically remove Nadine.
	Oh, yeah.
	So there's also some...
	I didn't think he had it in him, really, because he seems like such a mild-mannered guy.
	He seemed totally, you know, just accepting that the conservative nature of the Conservative Party had gone.
	I mean, he described it as a socialist party now.
	I thought he was just going to be like, oh, and just be trampled into the dirt, forgotten in the times of history, in the sense of history.
	But no, apparently he's turned into a revolutionary.
	Well, no, he's a smart political actor.
	I mean, regardless of what you think of him doing at this point or that point.
	I mean, we've criticised him for joining the Tories for Communism group, which was a dumb move, but whatever.
	I don't think he's interacting with them anymore.
	But it was more the point of, well, you know, he builds his little coalitions like any smart politician would and is striking where it needs to be done.
	Firstly, with the need.
	Let's go to the next one, which is just someone saying they've been thinking about Steve Baker's emoji for solid eight hours.
	LAUGHTER Okay.
	Baker fandom.
	And then Steve Baker responding with, sorry.
	Just doesn't care.
	Not backing down.
	Not that you even could if you wanted to.
	I like this.
	Apologing for the emoji, but not apologing for the regicide.
	No.
	Regicide was needed.
	Anyway.
	All of this, looking bad for Boris, and I thought we'd put this in with, of course, apparently he's considering putting us in a lockdown after Christmas.
	Oh.
	Because he doesn't want to pay the furlough for the bank holidays, presumably.
	So after Christmas, we may be putting a lockdown.
	Final strike, Boris.
	Yep.
	So you see here, Savage Javid has not ruled out plans for a two-week circuit breaker.
	Two-week circuit breaker.
	Ah, like the previous ones that worked.
	Yes.
	Like, no circuit breaker lockdowns work.
	Lockdowns didn't work.
	What are you doing?
	A lot of people also work up to date to the press.
	Also, in going, oh, it's anti-vaxxers.
	Is it?
	90% of the country is vaccinated.
	I know.
	Like, what do you want?
	And that's 12 plus.
	Yeah.
	I mean, never mind, like, you know, 18 plus, or even risk period plus.
	More than half of the deaths from COVID are from vaccinated people.
	Yeah.
	Like, this is just the statistics we have.
	But also, as you noted, a lot of people woke up to the press this morning, and you might have seen every single newspaper in this country was covered with NHS propaganda.
	Government propaganda.
	There's a reason for that, because the central government decided to pay for it.
	They were the ones saying that every single newspaper in this country will take our advertisements, and also every single newspaper in this country is pro-our policies of lockdown.
	And also becoming financially dependent on us.
	Hmm.
	Who could have seen this coming?
	I mean, do you remember there were, like, BuzzFeed adverts popping up on social media?
	I do.
	I don't know why they're giving them money.
	Yeah, and the, like, conservative-funded, government-funded BuzzFeed adverts.
	Yes, the conservative government here funds BuzzFeed.
	I mean, in my Facebook feed, for some reason, for the last week, a BBC article talking about, I don't know, pronouns or something has been popping up as sponsored content.
	It's like, why is the BBC doing this?
	It's unreal.
	Yep.
	Well, that's because they're run by leftists, but to have central government directly just give it to leftists is something else.
	Anyway, but we'll go to the next one because, of course, the data here also does not support lockdowns, as I mentioned.
	So if you scroll down on this, we can just see the hospitalizations, of course, the important thing.
	And nope, no change.
	No real change.
	Just a flat line.
	So how many is that in hospital in total?
	What, 8,000 people?
	I don't know cumulatively, but either way, it's not anywhere near any kind of peak.
	It's not really going up as an exponential.
	Well, normally they've got the number of people in hospital that day.
	If you can go back up, John.
	I don't know if they have it there.
	Yeah, patients in hospital, 7,600.
	Right here.
	We've got 110,000 beds.
	Yeah, but 7,000 people.
	But that's the point.
	It's like, you know, this is not overwhelming the NHS. As mentioned earlier, you did say there was a huge spike in cases, and that is true.
	There has been a huge spike in people testing positive, but there's also a huge spike in people doing tests.
	Kind of expected.
	And I think we can determine the causative nature of this correlation.
	Yeah, and also they're not going into hospital, so don't know what to say.
	Not really signs for huge disaster, but whatever.
	But there is also just some reasons for this.
	So if we go to the next one, we have Boris Johnson also ignoring the situation yet again.
	You may have remembered that I mentioned another party.
	Well, Dominic Cummings decided to hit send on his emails once more and send this one out.
	So Boris Johnson has been pictured with wine and cheese alongside his wife and up to 17 staff at Downing Street's garden while the UK was in lockdown, but Downing Street say they were working.
	If we can get the image up just to show people, you can see the little wine and cheese on the table.
	Dominic there on the left as well.
	And then Johnson and his mistress slash wife there working very hard, I'm sure, and everyone else hanging about.
	Funny thing, Dominic Raab went on TV this morning to try and defend this.
	He was like, well, it's a work meeting, you know, working very hard, it's in between hours.
	John's making a great point here.
	His wife doesn't hold any office, so how is she involved in a work meeting?
	No, but it is her house, so you could argue.
	But that's what Dominic Raab was arguing.
	But then Dominic Cummings came out this morning and just made a statement and said, no, we were done with work, we were all just having cheese.
	I know I was right there!
	Yeah, I'm in the photo!
	We already have a central witness who has just demolished any kind of defence.
	But I love that he waited until all the ministers went on TV to defend Boris again, like apparatchiks.
	And he just comes out and goes, no.
	He really is a very cunning political operator, isn't he?
	Yeah, he's an incredibly smart guy.
	So anyway, we go on to the next one, which is someone saying here that the person in the middle there, with his hands up, the chap who is having wine and cheese there, is Martin Reynolds, Boris's Principal Private Secretary, who is also investigating whether or not they broke the rules.
	With regards to parties.
	Oh, well, if he's investigating it, I'm sure that they'll have come back and found themselves have done nothing wrong.
	Yes.
	Boris's private secretary, who was engaged in Christmas parties when he wasn't allowed, is investigating whether or not Boris Johnson did anything wrong with the Christmas parties.
	Unbelievable.
	I can't wait for the results!
	Unbelievable.
	Anyway, we mentioned about the data all being kind of wrong as well.
	You found this, and I thought, well, it's a hell of a find.
	And you can see the MPs are picking up on it as well.
	Oh.
	So if we can scroll down on this, you can see some of the people who do the modelling talking to other people on twitter.com.
	And someone says here, decision makers don't have to decide if nothing happens.
	And if you can scroll down, John, we generally model what we are asked to model.
	There is a dialogue in which policy teams discuss with the modelers what they need to inform their policy.
	So he's talking to spectator journalist Fraser Nelson here.
	And Graham is a part of the SAGE modeling team.
	So he's part of the advisory group.
	That's full of communists.
	That's telling the government what they need to do by specifically creating models that will guide the policy rather than creating models based on what they think is a likely outcome.
	Which would explain why all of the models so far have been so dramatically wrong.
	As you can see there, Graham's saying, we generally model what we are asked to model.
	So the politicians come to you and say, model this.
	Thanks for the model.
	Bye-bye.
	I'm leaving.
	So they're deliberately trying to get false information or false predictions that will...
	Unrealistic predictions.
	Yes, but that means false.
	Well, not necessarily.
	I mean, it could be, you know, if all of these things took place, then it would be this.
	But it's not going to all take place.
	It's a huge amount of assumptions that aren't true.
	Yes, it's false.
	Well, no, it's based off theoretical things, whereas the reality...
	False theoretical things!
	That's not falsehoods.
	Of course they're falsehoods.
	That's inaccuracies.
	Deliberate inaccuracies are falsehoods, I think.
	I think those are two different things.
	I don't know.
	Anyway.
	They're given a job to do, and if they're doing it with the information as provided theoretical, that's not...
	If you are, like, Neil Ferguson recently came out and was like, oh, we're going to have 5,000 deaths a day.
	That would be false.
	I mean, he did say that.
	But that would be the thing.
	Based on his models.
	These models.
	If he's saying this is what's going to happen in reality, well, then he's not right if he's basing on assumptions.
	Well, I guess if you create models of some sort of alternative reality scenario.
	Sure, but I used to make models for predicting things and then there's the reality version.
	I don't like calling them false because there's theoretical reality and reality reality.
	Anyway, semantic distinction.
	Moving on.
	So he's mentioning that, but you see as he's arguing with a guy who makes the graphs of the spectator, showing how they're wrong.
	If we go to the next one, I believe this is the spectator thing here, at least should be, in which we can see one of the examples.
	So here's the model version that they make with the assumptions they are given to make, and then go, well, there you are.
	That's if all these assumptions are true.
	And obviously they're not.
	I mean, I learned today that Neil Ferguson is a physicist, not a doctor.
	Yeah.
	So he has got no idea how any of these models could connect to reality.
	Well, presumably he's there for the mathematical part, and that's about it.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	Exactly.
	But the wildly pessimistic models, as you can see here, they're predicting thousands dead a day, and it just didn't happen.
	But that's the thing.
	That's why I'm saying it's not false.
	It's like, yes, if all of these assumptions are true, then thousands are dead.
	But in reality, of course, none of those assumptions are true, in which case you end up with the reality line.
	Those assumptions aren't true, but this isn't false.
	It's that they aren't reality.
	If you have a mathematical system and say, input x, and you're going to get output y.
	But why can't I call that false?
	I just don't think it's right, because he's not trying to create a version of reality as described.
	What's the point of modelling then?
	As pointed out, that the politicians are coming in and saying, make fear.
	And he makes the fear for them.
	Out of false data!
	Well, it's not false data, it's assumptions.
	There's no data there.
	Yeah, but the assumptions are based on what we have.
	But anyway, it doesn't matter.
	Let's carry on.
	I'm going to keep calling it false.
	Anyway, so you can see the graph there that they are told to produce, and then they produce it as is their job, apparently.
	And then they're sat there with the reality data being obviously different, because the assumptions are not the case.
	But the point is they're deliberately misleading us.
	That is true.
	The politicians are going to say, right, we need to create a model that's going to look terrible in order to make the public do what we want.
	Yes.
	That's why I'm saying, you know, you've got them making the thing, and being like, well, I've done my job, and then the politicians are misusing it there.
	I mean, literally lies, down lies, and statistics.
	Anyway, so that's the graphs, as mentioned, and also the data, as mentioned.
	We also mentioned, you mentioned there was one other civil servant who's also had to resign.
	What did he do?
	He was also investigating the rule breach and also had to resign because he was part of the party as well.
	So that's two now.
	Oh.
	So that's two at that party.
	Good.
	Investigating Boris and now had to resign because obviously corruption.
	And upon corruption, upon corruption.
	And then there's also the other resignations.
	As mentioned, if we go to the last one, we just have the Brexit secretary leaving because he can see where the wind is blowing.
	That isn't stupid.
	Although, as you can see there, there were quite a lot of protests outside Parliament.
	There were, weren't there?
	Hmm.
	There was a certain somebody there whose speech we can't really talk about too much, but we can say that it happened.
	And it's the brother of Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Corbyn.
	Who got arrested for this speech.
	Yes, so Piers Corbyn has been arrested.
	You might wonder what for.
	I did see someone commented, look, I don't like Jeremy Corbyn either, but it shouldn't be illegal to be his brother.
	Can we not talk about why he's been arrested?
	We can.
	And as you can see there, he urged a crowd of people to burn down the offices of MPs and kill MPs who voted for the vaccine passports.
	And he has been arrested for such, which is the case.
	And that's where he'll be spending Christmas.
	But as you can see, the situation on the ground is getting more radical, but it's getting more radical in response to the consistent corruption we're seeing out of politics.
	I mean, I watched the video and it's really weird watching a mild-mannered old man saying, well, we should do all of these terrible things.
	It's kind of striking, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, but yeah, that's all the news on that.
	No comment on that, so...
	Anyway, just...
	Piers Corbyn, arch-radical.
	We need to burn down MPs' constituency officers, do we, Piers?
	What a thing to say.
	Have we considered killing these MPs?
	Not yet, Piers.
	Oh, boy.
	I can't say it without laughing, because he's just such a, like...
	Just a mild-mannered person.
	Calm dude, but just...
	Right, okay.
	It's not your grandma coming out and being like, maybe we should build camps or something like that.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's like, okay.
	Anyway, let's talk about J.K. Rowling and the feminine penis that she has been...
	Going on about, quite significantly, but in her defence it's because it's constantly talked about by the trans lobby, I guess we'll call it.
	But anyway, so recently the Times published this article, The Absurdity of Police Logging Rapists as Women.
	Now, this is police in Scotland, because Scotland is a horrifically woke hellhole.
	Police have been criticised for saying they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman if the attacker identifies as female.
	Why wouldn't you?
	Why would you not, if you were a male rapist, just identify as female?
	You avoid going to male prison that way.
	And Police Scotland said they would log these rapes as being carried out by a woman if the accused person insists, even if they have not legally changed their gender.
	So, literally, you've got Baz who gets arrested and he's like, yeah, I'm a woman now.
	I guess we'll record that.
	The former Scottish Justice Secretary asked Police Scotland how it would deal with recording rapes after these new laws take effect, and Gary Ritchie, the assistant chief constable, set out scenarios where a rapist could be recorded as a woman.
	They included where a person born male obtains full gender recognition certificate and then commits a rape, and where a person who is born male but identifies as a female and does not have the certificate commits a rape.
	So literally, you just have to say it.
	That's it.
	That's the barrier to entry now.
	And so, an Alba Party MP for East Lothian, having defected from the SNP, said, As a lawyer of 20 years and Justice Secretary for almost eight, I've seen some legal absurdities, but this tops it all and is dangerous.
	It is physically impossible and is about dogma overriding common sense.
	Women prisoners are being harmed by this and vital crime statistics are rendered useless.
	I mean, is he wrong?
	No.
	Why are all these women suddenly getting a bit rapey?
	The number of female rapists has skyrocketed in recent years.
	Yes.
	Who's done this?
	The SNP. Yeah.
	So the plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act were shelved by the SNP last parliamentary term because of internal divisions and concerns about women's rights.
	Define woman, SNP. But the SNP and Greens Power Sharing at Holyrood has committed them to completing the process.
	And so they're committed to something that is rending their party in two.
	The definition of woman is currently destroying Scottish politics and the SNP's grip on Scotland.
	But also the criminal justice system.
	And the criminal justice system.
	And the very notion of statistics.
	Dude, it's just on college campuses.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's just the definition of woman.
	It's just destroying Scottish politics and society.
	Isn't this wild, right?
	And so, J.K. Rowling has been following this very, very closely, and she happens to have a very large megaphone because she's J.K. Rowling, and tweets out this.
	You can imagine this went down well.
	I mean, I like the shout out there.
	That used to be part of our merch.
	Oh, did it?
	You know, the merch John desired where it was like, you know, it's like the Orwell, freedom is slavery, except, of course, trans women are women, which, yeah, neat.
	Yeah, I don't think she was actually referencing us, but anyway, the replies to this were something entertaining.
	This first one by Stephanie, just...
	Again, all verified checkmarks.
	Seriously?
	And just randomly quoting Orwell, like all those people who never opened any of his books?
	She's not randomly quoting Orwell, you brainlet.
	Like, it's relevant to the point.
	Specifically, like, you are being forced to believe that the antonym is the thing.
	War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
	The person with a penis is a woman.
	I hate this...
	It's not random.
	This, like, stupid critique people use a lot of the time.
	Like, you've referenced a while, I bet you haven't read the book.
	And it's like, you're talking to J.K. Rowling.
	Yeah.
	I think of all people who may have opened a book in her time, J.K. Rowling's probably up there.
	But again, you don't have to actually have read 1984 to know the point of it.
	I mean, it's so endemic in the culture now that this is an obvious reference because you are trying to make people believe things that aren't true.
	But anyway, moving on.
	Next one.
	Daniel decides to chip in.
	Love is peace.
	Freedom is acceptance.
	Understanding is strength.
	Trans women are not a danger to society.
	J.K. Rowling loves to fuel hate towards a whole group of innocent, beautiful people.
	Innocent, beautiful people.
	Whole group.
	Every single one of them.
	Sorry, hang on, hang on.
	The words she used were the penist individual who raped you as a woman.
	Yep.
	Beautiful, innocent people.
	Yep.
	But that penist individual is a trans person, and therefore they're beautiful and innocent.
	Rapists are beautiful, innocent people.
	According to Daniel.
	Do they not know how they look?
	I mean, evidently, with that profile picture, but you know what I mean.
	It's wild.
	22,000 likes.
	This is not, like, a rare opinion on Twitter for some reason.
	Won't you think of the poor oppressed rapists?
	Yeah, I mean, should we take a look at one of these poor oppressed rapists?
	Group of people.
	Do we want them in the Equality Act?
	Like, you can't discriminate against men, women, gay straight rapists, non-rapists.
	Yeah, they're a protected care screener.
	Like Chloe Thompson, in fact.
	Yeah.
	Do you remember this article?
	Yeah.
	Teesside woman accused of exposing penis and masturbating in public.
	Woman.
	Exposing her penis.
	Not anything absurd about this.
	A woman accused of indecent exposure and masturbating in public and using the sex toy in a public place will stand trial.
	Chloe Thompson is charged with committing a public nuisance by indecently exposing her penis to other members of the public.
	This is still up.
	That's what I find amazing.
	They still haven't corrected this.
	But trans women are not a dangerous society.
	When one masturbates out of a window, that's progressive.
	But this is the thing.
	This is just the assumption that they're angels.
	Yeah.
	Innocent, beautiful person is Chloe Thompson, according to Daniel.
	Rather than people.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, yeah, so this carried on.
	Vice magazine were quite furious about it.
	J.K. Rowling just won't stop attacking trans people online.
	Did she?
	Well, she punched him in the face.
	I mean, where was the attack?
	Some of the death threats.
	You know, all she's saying is, look, I'm not going to believe that women have penises.
	Well, specifically rapists as well.
	Well, yeah.
	But they say J.K. Rowling is apparently still fixated on portraying transgender women as predators.
	What?
	That's not what I took from it, but okay.
	What?
	Hang on, no, no, no.
	She was saying that there are rapists.
	Rapists are predators.
	You're like, didn't you know that all trans people are predators?
	You're saying, yeah, exactly.
	This is literally like them saying, well, orcs represent black people, you know.
	Rapists represent trannies, you know.
	No one else said that.
	Yeah, no, that's what they've brought to us.
	Vice News is like, did you know all the trannies are rapists?
	No?
	But what I find really interesting about this is the responses from Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness, who tweeted,"...the biggest threats of violence against women have always been cisgender men, not trans women, unless JK's constant transphobic, cherry-picked vitriol convinces you otherwise, but as trans women are assaulted, deprived of work, killed and raped, JK is safe in her mansion." I mean, sure, there's just about numbers alone, surely.
	There are a tiny number of trans women.
	But the question is about our representation of reality, not who is vulnerable to danger, what we are being forced to say and believe.
	And if a woman can pull out her penis and masturbate in public, then maybe we need to think about this.
	But anyway, J.K. Rowling is being roundly deplatformed from everything, frankly.
	They just can't stand her.
	They're going to get rid of her in every way, shape, or form.
	Even the real-life Quidditch game is changing its name to get away from J.K. Rowling.
	I don't know how common this is outside of the Anglosphere, but if you go to universities as well, you can always find Quidditch clubs.
	It's cringe.
	Yeah, it's a bit cringe.
	There was one at my uni.
	You just kind of watch them walking around, and you're just like...
	Grab.
	No, no.
	That's exactly right.
	But we're going to get into just how cringe Quidditch is, right?
	So the real-life sport of Quidditch, inspired by Rowling's Harry Potter book, will change its name because of her anti-trans positions.
	This, can we scroll down a bit?
	There's a picture of them, right?
	In the film, or in the book, I imagine as well, you click on Story Continues, I think it's got pictures.
	I know it doesn't.
	But basically, these people hold brooms and run around.
	Yeah, because flying isn't real.
	No.
	So it's just a bunch of guys and gals walking around with brooms in between their legs.
	It's really weird.
	It's really cringe.
	Yeah.
	It's just so childlike, and it's like, okay.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to stop them doing it or something, but like...
	It's sport, I guess.
	It's embarrassing.
	Something to do.
	But anyway, they said they've begun selecting a new name.
	I can't wait to see what the new name is.
	It used to be Quidditch, but now we're what?
	Well, it's Quidditch she-her?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But yeah, it's because they want to distance themselves from her.
	Amazing that they think, hey, we're the sad LARPers who play Quidditch on the weekends.
	We really want to distance ourselves from you.
	It's like...
	Okay, freak, you know, God.
	I don't know if J.P. Rowling has an opinion on the University Quidditch teams.
	I imagine she thinks they're deeply embarrassing.
	Yeah.
	Because I would if I were.
	But anyway, you know, the thing is, though, they wrote that the sport has developed a reputation for being one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity.
	It includes a gender maximum rule, which requires teams not to have more than four players of the same gender on the field at the same time.
	What?!
	Because if it was all men, they'd dominate.
	I guess so.
	But they say, the group said they believed it was imperative to live up to this reputation.
	Well, so now they've got a reputation to protect.
	Right?
	In all aspects of their operation.
	The Quidditch team?
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	God, the good name of the Quidditch team.
	And a name change would be a step in that direction.
	I believe that Quidditch is at a turning point.
	We can continue the status quo and stay relatively small, or we can make big moves and really propel this sport into its next phase, says the executive director, Mary Kimball.
	Chad's having a go at trying to rename it.
	Someone's gone with Queerditch.
	Maybe the new one.
	I'm not saying no.
	There's another one there, but I can't read that one.
	But yeah, apparently the real-life version involves running around while mounted on broomsticks, but not flying on them.
	So not real Quidditch.
	And finally, J.K. Rowling wasn't invited to the 20-year Harry Potter reunion because she's a bigot.
	Yeah.
	I also saw her name got deleted.
	I think you talked about this last time.
	I actually got and watched the clip where it's like the intro, JK Rowling invites you, and now it's Warders Brothers invites you.
	Not even part of the project anymore.
	It's awful, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Like, because...
	Doesn't she still own all the rights?
	Of course she does, yeah.
	Because she could just be like...
	Get effed.
	Have you not seen in progressive circles them trying to essentially move beyond Harry Potter at this point?
	I've seen the campaign, oh no, actually the writing was terrible.
	Oh, actually it was always regressive and problematic and it's like, yeah, you used to love this.
	Who are you convincing?
	You guys used to go to protest so much with Harry Potter references that the meme, read another book, came into existence.
	Exactly.
	You framed everything through Harry Potter and now you're like, oh, but she's a bigot.
	It's like, oh god, too bad.
	But anyway, yeah, she was...
	Rowling hadn't said why she's not invited, but everyone knows why she's not invited.
	It's because she's horribly, horribly problematic.
	She dares to say that rapists are rapists.
	Trans rapists are rapists.
	Can we accept that?
	No?
	I mean, I think that even they would agree that a trans rapist is a rapist, but the question is, is the person with the penis a man or a woman?
	I'm not even sure they accept that they're a rapist.
	Because, of course, remember, women can't rape anyone.
	So what happens now?
	I don't know.
	We'll go to the Scottish Parliament to find out.
	But again, this whole question is just ripping Scotland apart.
	It's actually destroying their politics.
	But they don't know what to do about it.
	Good.
	It's just ridiculous.
	I mean, I always wanted an end to politics anyway, and this is all dirt.
	Just abolish the definition of women.
	But anyway, that's all I've got on that one.
	This is just wild.
	Everyone is insane.
	Let's go to video comments.
	We had a segment about a 35-year-old woman who was regretting her decisions in life and can't seem to find a partner and The only thing I could think of is how come Callum isn't sliding into her DMs?
	Because Callum, my man, that 35-year-old cougar, she'll teach you a thing or two.
	She'll make a man out of you before you even know it.
	I mean, come on, man.
	Come on, guys!
	You've got a point, Callum.
	I'm going to slide on that one.
	I mean, you'd also have to go to Australia and go to the COVID camps for two weeks.
	Good reason not to, Callum.
	Moving on.
	Callum, you joked about the annual COVID tests because you swallow some of the viral particles and it takes a little bit longer to get through your digestive tract than it does to come out your nose.
	You can actually have positive anal swabs when you have negative nasal tests, so it's one way to pump up the numbers of positive tests and that's one of the reasons they developed it.
	They've actually developed an anal testing swab.
	Do you remember?
	No.
	This was like early news, wasn't it?
	The pandemic, which China came out and was like, yeah, we can stuff stuff up our citizens' anus.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	And it just looked like an obvious way of humiliating people.
	Yeah, and everyone was like, the Chinese have got to be joking.
	They're not known for their humour.
	The Chinese government not known for telling many jokes.
	I know they've committed genocide, but they wouldn't go that far.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, thanks for that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Question for those of you in the video comments.
	If you don't mind me just...
	Taking up some of your time.
	I'm trying to compare the strengths and weaknesses for martial arts of a Warhammer to a Kanabo.
	And a Kanabo is this thing, insert picture here.
	It's basically the Japanese version of a blunt force trauma weapon to go through armor.
	They don't sell them, so I'm having to make my own.
	Does anyone have any tips for making my own Kanabo?
	And there's no actual confirmed length, so they can be long or short.
	So, Michael did warn me about this one.
	I need to say that apparently the only way you can own that in the UK is if you're a member of a martial arts club and you have liability insurance to use it.
	Right, okay.
	Apart from that, I have no input, of course, because I have no idea what the hell it is.
	So, sorry about that.
	I've never made one.
	So I recently got back from my first semester at college and I've come to realize something about everyone at college.
	And the reason why everyone goes so far to the left at college is because they don't have time to actually look at the news.
	Because personally, I downgraded my subscription for the Lotus Teachers from gold to bronze because I didn't have time to pay for it or time to watch the show all the time.
	But that's why I go so far to the left is because their teachers are the ones who are telling me, hey, this is what's going on and that's their only source of news.
	I can believe it.
	I mean, yeah.
	I think you're hitting on it, though, which is that it's a lack of interaction with reality.
	It's living in the world of theory rather than the world of practice.
	If you're, like, 20 years old and you've just gone to university, do you want to read the news?
	No, you want to go out and get drunk, play video games and games, you know?
	Sure.
	Go pick up women.
	Like, you're not reading the news...
	Yeah.
	I didn't when I was at university.
	That's true, but it's not fundamentally the news.
	You could learn it through other ways is what I want to get at.
	It's the lack of interaction with reality.
	Sure, sure.
	And then the constant indoctrination by particular teachers who do read the news.
	That can also take place, yeah.
	Clearly.
	With high-profile trials turning attention to matters legal, some Lotus Eaters might enjoy the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey.
	Quoting Wordsworth, Rumpole has notably worthy attitudes to tolerance and forgiveness, sadly missing from today's clinical dramas.
	Oh, there is something you'll have to be very careful of in America, Nick.
	What's that?
	The hygiene.
	Oh, it can be most awfully dangerous.
	The purity.
	The grim determination not to adulterate anything.
	Alright, neat.
	I'm looking that up right now.
	I've really started getting into, like, older TV series, weirdly enough.
	Yeah.
	Like, I think I told you a while back, I got really into Hello, Hello.
	I just started watching every episode of it, because it was amazing.
	Yeah.
	And, like, it's kind of crass, because, like, every episode's the same ten jokes.
	Have you ever watched The Good Life?
	No, I don't think I have.
	Felicity Kendall's basically the perfect wife.
	The Good Life.
	You'll love it.
	It's really good.
	You should.
	It's one of the few of my dad's sitcoms that I watched that I actually enjoyed.
	Alrighty, I'll look it up.
	Let's go to the next one.
	For your sins of super-spreading the Omicron variant, say 15 Hail Fauci's and 3 Floyd's prayers.
	The science loves you and forgives you, and I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Fauci, the Floyd, and the Pfizer vaccine.
	I mean, that is exactly what's happening at this point.
	Have you looked into Fauci and the AIDS epidemic?
	No.
	Because I've seen headlines and things like that going around where basically he was claiming that AIDS could be spread through the air and he did something.
	I need to look into it properly, but this is not the first time he's been a weird liar about things.
	I mean, that position, whatever he is, is like National Health Advisor or whatever it is, definitely seems to be more of a political office than a scientifically based office.
	Yes.
	But that's because all these things eventually are.
	Yeah.
	I was wondering who that was then, because I was wondering if the Coyote's impressions had come back.
	yeah people listening a bit of Australia What the hell is that?
	Obviously some kind of poisonous indigenous Australian animal.
	Some kind of radioactive goat or something.
	Alrighty.
	Thanks, C.S. Cooper.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So this is a response video to a response video by C.S. Cooper.
	About our current PM. The guy compared us to sheep.
	And despite saying what he has said, I still don't trust the guy due to his mishandling of the government in general.
	As for Don Paritas, our current state leader, yeah, he's pretty based.
	I did lose a little respect for him when he postponed the end of lockdowns in New South Wales, but it could be worse.
	It could be Dan Andrews.
	I don't know who any of these names are.
	Well, Australian politicians.
	Didn't you not see the guy comparing them to sheep?
	Yeah, I did see that.
	It was awful.
	Yeah, but I find it weird because I feel like we're watching a mirror version of The Lotus Ears based in Australia with these response videos.
	We're just being told about these politicians.
	Australia's mad.
	Oh man, have you been watching Claire Lehman's response to all of this?
	Who's that?
	She's the founder of Quillette and she's gone completely like neoliberal on it.
	It's like, there's no problem in Australia.
	Everyone's fine with being locked down.
	Everything's cool.
	Is she just retarded?
	Go look at her Twitter feed.
	Claire Lehman.
	I have no idea why she's doing this.
	Again, like with Biden, like with Boris, you don't have to do this.
	You don't have to say or do anything, but for some reason they're committed to it's okay to be tyrannized.
	I did see people start, I mentioned it last time, New York has started getting tyrannical again, and there were people being thrown out of an Applebee's for not having their COVID pass.
	I'm sure you can get the discount or something.
	I'll see what I can do, but no promises.
	Anyway, but the police were throwing them in the paddy wagon, and I saw loads of people responding underneath being like, man, New York's gone full Australia.
	So Australia is now a term meaning tyranny.
	I mean, that's what they were doing.
	Yeah.
	I saw this video of this woman.
	She's been confined to a hut.
	And they're like, yeah, so you're not allowed to come off this unless you're getting, like, washing or something.
	And it's like, so I can't go over to the fence and talk to someone.
	It's like, no.
	So you're not allowed.
	All in public health.
	This is not yellow fever.
	There's not a 50% chance of death.
	No, but, you know, what are you going to do?
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey, hi, hello.
	It is me, your favorite crazy stonks guy.
	I'm not going to show GME today.
	If you've looked into it, you've looked into it.
	If you're in, you're in.
	If you're not, that's fine.
	That's not the point today.
	I haven't posted here for a while and I'm actually a bit behind on the podcast.
	I've been essentially working two full-time jobs for the last several weeks, writing engineering software by day and plotting the demise of corrupt oligarchy by, well, also by day, but a different part of the day.
	I've fallen in with a group of smart, motivated individuals who I think have the best shot of striking a decisive blow more than buy and hold already has.
	I'm trying to radicalize the ones who are like, aww jeez, once I get my tendies I'm just gonna go sit on my yacht, but also de-radicalize the ones who are like, guillotines now!
	I sense a decent spread of political opinion, but definitely a general awakeness to the corruption of government and the elites.
	It's a good place to start.
	I'd appreciate some advice on doing this more effectively.
	Send them the Project Veritas leaks about CNN and their pedo problem.
	I don't know whether it'll help, but I think that should be spread around a bit more, to be honest.
	CNN publicly traded?
	Yeah, it's bound to be.
	Stock?
	I don't know.
	I do love the idea because we did see it when we covered Wall Street Bets and the forums essentially are like 4chan except in their in their demeanor obviously but they're all just kind of sensible people who also just don't like corruption and therefore happy to throw themselves into something into a meat grinder to try and hurt it which I mean there's something abnical to that like they all seem like decent guys fundamentally So charity stream information.
	We will be raising money for Papyrus, which are a national suicide prevention charity.
	There's the schedule for what we're doing.
	Starts in, if you guys are on schedule like normal, should be 22 hours.
	So it's an hour before tomorrow's stream.
	And let's get it out of the way.
	Yeah, this is my Twitch.
	It's good for separation of the politics and the gaming.
	To which point, don't bring your politics here.
	Twitch.tv slash Denziel Jones.
	Let's raise some money for charity.
	Wholesome.
	What is that?
	Is that a VTuber or is that Gary's mod?
	I can't even tell.
	I'm hoping it's Gary's mod.
	Okay, let's go to the next one.
	Okay.
	Kill a kami for mommy.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	Disavow the term and also disavow the idea of killing Akami, of course, as he says.
	But good meme otherwise.
	I love Liberty Prime.
	Best character in fiction.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joe with another legend from New Jersey.
	This one is the Bigfoot of New Jersey.
	From the Paranormalist, an article from 2009.
	Yes, Carl Benjamin, we do have a Bigfoot in New Jersey.
	It is sometimes known as the Big Red Eye.
	And you can read about some of the earlier sightings at Weird New Jersey.
	The sightings go back to 1977.
	But so far, no one has a photograph or any video evidence whatsoever.
	I think it's just the Jersey Devil.
	I'm with him on this.
	No, no, no.
	It's obviously Bigfoot.
	No.
	But anyway, how's your argument?
	Because your argument's based on the fact that, you know, big open space in Northern America, Canada, and there are...
	It is.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But then, to say New Jersey...
	What about it?
	Well, they're two different places in terms of density, aren't they?
	Nowhere in America is populated like Europe.
	Sure, but I can't imagine New Jersey is so underpopulated that they wouldn't find the Big Ape Man.
	They have.
	You see people saying, well look, I saw a big ape man.
	Bring me the corpse.
	Anyway, until then, it's a Jersey Devil, as he says.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So, if I got my timing right, today is Monday, and the new health orders from the province of British Columbia are in effect, making it so that...
	To have any kind of gathering of any size, you need to have a VAX passport.
	So once again, they've made it illegal to visit your loved ones this Christmas.
	Well, screw that.
	The government does not have the authority to tell me whether or not I can see my loved ones for Christmas.
	We're going to have a fantastic Christmas this year.
	They're good, aren't you?
	Godspeed.
	Yeah, same culture is developing here.
	I saw Netherlands and Ireland apparently locked on for Christmas.
	Really?
	If there's any subscribers from there, let us know what's going on there.
	Because, I mean, at least we've got the advantage that our Prime Minister, who's trying to lock us down, is in the middle of a scandal about the fact that...
	He's universally hated.
	Yeah, but also in the middle of a scandal about him never applying those rules to himself.
	So, I mean, even the normiest of normies are just like...
	Basically, thank God we've got Dublin Cummings.
	That's all this is hinging on.
	If Dominic Cummings wasn't currently ruining the Conservatives, then we'd probably be under lockdowns.
	I mean, if there is someone to set up the...
	Because we keep talking about it.
	There needs to be some kind of unified party on the right that can do this sort of thing.
	It's got to be him.
	I mean, he's got to be the strategist for whatever it is.
	He's just too knowledgeable and knows all the weaknesses.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm just wondering, have any of you in this weekend seen the CNN meltdown Kamala Harris had when a guy tried to make a joke about, hey, is Joe Biden the president of America?
	It was really funny because she just...
	It cut deep into her for some reason.
	Almost as if she knows it's not legit.
	But that would be a conspiracy theory now, wouldn't it?
	I haven't actually seen it.
	I heard about it.
	But apparently it was literally just a playful joke and she took it really, really seriously apparently.
	But I haven't seen it so I can't really comment.
	Yeah.
	I look forward to our thoughts.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Greetings from Australia.
	My subscription is about to lapse and we are but poor mature age students expecting our thirst.
	So I have one final thought to send your way.
	Consider a sort of reverse folly problem that I think is quite central to modern discord and politics.
	Knowing the outcome wouldn't change no matter what is decided, choosing between deliberated action or deliberated inaction, consider two cases.
	Would you act, and should we act?
	Thanks very much.
	Bye!
	I couldn't really hear that very well.
	No, I couldn't hear a thing because of your music, sorry.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I apologize.
	I really couldn't get what you were putting through there.
	I feel bad as well because he said his description's running out.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So I feel guilty about it.
	Anyway, let's get the written comments on the site.
	Hammurabi says, I literally had to spend the same on gas as an entire year's subscription to here, but sure, tell me how much spare money I supposedly have.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's insane, isn't it?
	Okay, that is actually a good point.
	The power structures around Joe Biden that use Biden as a sort of puppet, you know, to slowly but surely get the message out of their particular agenda, but we don't have a better name for them other than Joe Biden.
	But I mean, technically it's in his name.
	He can take responsibility for it.
	Paul says, build back better failure.
	Sometimes Joe's incompetence works to the favour of the nation.
	Well, honestly, it's purely because of Joe Manchin, who's just like, but this is ridiculous, isn't it?
	It's like, yeah.
	Paul says, imagine how popular Trump would be if the media were simply neutral and did their jobs as journalists instead of being propagandists for the DNC. Well, the thing is, well, I think that part of Joe Biden's unpopularity is the comparison with Trump.
	Only a couple of years ago, people were like, but I had loads of money.
	Everything was going great.
	Why am I now suffering?
	And so it's not just within living memory.
	It's within very recent living memory that things were so much better.
	And it's obviously that Biden has done this.
	I mean, the masks on the kids is a very simple one.
	Like, I've seen a lot of, I don't know, I don't want to call them memes, like, kind of propaganda, but not in a disparaging way about different ideas.
	And, like, one of them is people showing off that, you know, here's them at their parties, here's your kid from a master school, separated from all his friends.
	I was like, well, who's done that?
	Yeah.
	And it didn't have to be this way.
	It's not Florida man, is it?
	No.
	M1Ping says, having moved to West Virginia early in the year, it's the first time in my life my state and federal representatives are doing base things.
	The state repealed sales tax on guns and ammo over the summer and our mansion is sticking it to the Build Back Better buddies.
	Yeah, I know.
	Honestly, if I was going to move to America, it would be Florida at this point just to have a governor who's just like, you know, get bent.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, but again, I don't even think this is about the public being fickle, though.
	I mean, Joe Biden is actively ruining the United States on purpose.
	And Joe Biden and the people around him.
	And for ideological reasons.
	For climate change and fairness and all of these other buzzwords they use.
	And it's just like, okay, you didn't have to do this.
	You didn't have to ruin everything.
	You actually inherited a really advantageous situation and then did everything you can to just turn it on its head so it's crap for everyone?
	It's like, no, I don't think it's about the fickle public.
	I think this is what you've done to yourselves Omar says tell the same lie often enough and you'll start to believe it yourself the journalists have drunk so long and hard from their own Kool-Aid they actually believe their own BS I think what we're seeing in real time the same effects as a communist regime where nobody is at fault for the problems that definitely don't exist and certainly wouldn't be getting worse even if they did at this point anyone who would point out that the emperor has no clothes has already been exiled from the MSM sphere of influence
	look at the way Glenn Greenwald's being treated these days.
	Do you ever follow him and...
	Yeah, I do enjoy his little spats as well, where he points out that the billionaire leftists are like, how did you end up being a billionaire and you're still there complaining about billionaires?
	Yeah.
	Do you think that these people who are deeply invested in the system are going to overthrow the system?
	Hasan Pike is like, yeah, I need to get rid of this mansion.
	But also you can see, as you mentioned, Glenn Greenwald kind of being on the outside.
	Like, he's trying to get bookings on Fox News.
	He had to leave The Intercept, which he founded it.
	Yeah, but it's just...
	He really is an outsider, and you can tell it, compared to the people he's fighting with.
	Yeah, and that's why I find him to be a lot more authentic than the insider journals.
	M1 Ping says, I've heard relatives and news stories blaming some of the current shortages on 2008 and Bush somehow.
	Imagine that being the problem.
	Oh, this was George Bush!
	What?
	Anyway, assume we hear the chip shortage is due to the politics of the Hoover administration and the shipping container backlog was caused by James K. Polk.
	Student Fish says that release of oil was 2.5 days worth of oil.
	It was propaganda, opportunity, nothing else.
	Oh yeah, I should have pointed that out, actually.
	That's not a lot of oil, either.
	So now they've gone through the reserves already.
	Is that okay?
	The whole strategic reserves or just what they gave out?
	Well, just what they gave out, 50 million barrels, but that's, like, not very long, as Student of History points out.
	And, again, didn't have to be this way.
	If you hadn't been cancelling pipelines and restricting oil sales and things like this, wouldn't have happened.
	Pirate Skeleton says, if anyone complains to the Republicans that the Republicans are keeping insulin prices up by not supporting Biden's bill, please remind them that one of the things that Biden cancelled on his first days in power was Trump's price freeze on insulin.
	Yeah.
	Good point.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	I don't remember that, but there we go.
	But again, the idea that it's like, oh well, if you're not voting for the liquidation of the money, then you're making poor kids even poorer.
	But you are doing that.
	You are genuinely doing that.
	I just can't stand, especially when they start turning it around and being like, no, no, no, the currency isn't becoming worthless because we're printing loads of it.
	It's because the prices are going up.
	It's like...
	Why would the prices be going up?
	It's because the paper is worth less and less.
	Yeah.
	Stephen says, I'd like to see Liz Truss take PM and Kemi Bade Nock as Home Secretary and Steve Baker as the Justice Minister.
	What people would you put in a base cabinet?
	That's about it, though.
	Yeah.
	What's the problem?
	I don't know who else I trust, but...
	I mean, it's not really my job.
	They're not going to happen, so I don't really worry about it too much.
	No, but, like, there are a remarkable deficit of really based Conservatives.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm sure there'll be various MPs and no other MPs are alright.
	I mean, you get to know them in private rather than in public as well.
	It's just nice that Kemi can be public and just be like, get lost, losers.
	Yeah.
	Riss says, what do you guys think is worse?
	Being like Biden and constantly being massively disliked from the start, or being like Boris and going from thought of as mostly positive at the start to massively disliked now?
	Personally, I'd rather be Boris, as I believe that if he U-turned back to being based and stayed on course, most would forgive him, but Biden will always be a demented old fool.
	Let's go, Brandon.
	Yeah, I agree.
	The thing is, though, I've seen pictures of Boris coming out recently where he looks even more broken than before.
	It's like, okay...
	You deserve this.
	Don't know what you think you're doing.
	And there is something much worse about the fall from grace, I think.
	If you start as being generally quite disliked and that doesn't change, then you get used to it.
	But Boris has had the highest highs and now he's in the lowest lows.
	But the only reason he's low is because of his own doing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He came in not just on to get Brexit done, but with a duty to back up everything else people went out and campaigned him for.
	So everything in the manifesto, making the country conservative again, all the rest of it.
	And it is his own failure not to do those things, and therefore he deserves all the scorn he's got.
	And all he would have to do is turn around and, as you say, be based.
	But he's still got time.
	What is it?
	Another three years, something like that?
	Yeah.
	actually did something that was useful instead of tyrannizing us and allowing Sajid Javid's bald head to be the determining factor as to whether we're going to go into lockdown again or not vaccine passports and all this what the hell does he think he's doing people wouldn't be talking about leadership change no if you just did good things yeah I don't know why that's a revolutionary idea, but, you know, be a good leader, therefore people like you as leader.
	I mean, why are you committed to Joe Biden?
	Why that?
	You know, I just don't get it.
	Like, why do this?
	What have they got on you, Boris?
	Anyway, the Minicus Monicus says, Biden and Boris are widely disliked and their approval ratings are in the gutter.
	You remember when people were like, oh, Boris is like Britain's Trump.
	If only.
	If bloody only.
	Meanwhile...
	He could have been.
	Yeah, he could have been, but instead he decided to go...
	And honestly, I do think it's against his own nature as well that he's gone.
	I don't think he's naturally inclined towards this stuff.
	No.
	There was a...
	I mentioned it before, but there's a great lead from Dominic Cummings where he says it's like two months after he got elected.
	So what is that, like February or something?
	And he sent a message to Dominic just saying, bored of this.
	Don't really like being Prime Minister.
	It's quite a lot.
	I'd like to go back to writing books about Churchill.
	What do you think?
	And Dominic just takes back, I think most people want the Prime Minister to be the Prime Minister.
	Simple as.
	He just doesn't understand that he's got that duty and isn't carrying it out.
	Why not just be like, okay...
	But I'm going to do conservative things.
	There are a load of basic bitch things that he could do that would be very popular with people and would at least put him on the map and give him something to do with his day, and he would be able to at least, at the end of the day, go, right, a lot of screeching lefties are really angry at me, but I feel like I've done the right thing.
	Yeah.
	I want to do that.
	I mean, take DeSantis' woke act that was passing, right?
	Just call it the defense of, I don't know, employee rights or something.
	And then, oh, your boss can't indoctrinate you into these things.
	Critical race theory is one of those things.
	Diversity industry defunded.
	Yes.
	You're done.
	I mean, there are so many simple things that he could do that he doesn't do.
	But anyway, meanwhile our new German government is segregating the country, planning vax mandates, pushing nonsensical green and lefty policy, and advertising their weird globalist EU super-state project.
	And the average German not only doesn't care, but rather seems to support it.
	I have to ask, as a German myself, are Germans stupid, naive, evil, indoctrinated, or all of the above?
	If you want to have Theodore Kaufman's view on all that, you can go check it out.
	The thing, the Germans are just really conformist.
	That's what it is.
	The Germans like to conform.
	That was my general impression of Germans when I lived in Germany for eight years, is they just really are happy to be told what to do.
	I find it really weird.
	It's like a Japanese saying.
	It's like, the one peg out of line is the one that gets hit with the hammer.
	It's like, horrible saying.
	Yeah.
	You should be the same as everyone else.
	Don't want to get hit with a hammer, do you?
	Baron Von Warhawk says, Boris the Unready has brought this upon himself.
	The only reason people voted for the Tories is they weren't Labour.
	Then he acted like a Labour PM and supported them at every turn.
	I mean, that's a great point as well.
	The fact that to get this vaccine passport nonsense through, he required the support of the Labour Party.
	His own party wasn't even supportive enough.
	It's like, come on.
	You are now a Labour PM, you know?
	So there's no reason to vote for him now.
	All he had to do, all he had to do because one of the most popular PM in English history was saying no to Labour and yet he's too ballless.
	Yeah.
	I mean, who are you going to vote for next time?
	It's got to be like Reclaim, right?
	I guess I'll see when the sheet comes around, because we've got a few years left.
	Callum says, the way politics is here in Scotland, never mind the UK, it's really a matter of apathy.
	Got really nothing but the global commies and different colours really disheartening.
	Yeah, but at least they're destroying themselves, because they can't find women.
	Anthony says, got Brexit done?
	No, Brexit hasn't happened.
	We're still giving the EU money and following the direction.
	Are we still giving money?
	Well, the EU. Yeah.
	I think during the transitionary period we're doing something, but I don't know the details, so I'm not going to.
	It's funny, we send troops to Poland's border to defend the EU from Russian aggression, but no defence of our own borders from hordes of Third Worlders.
	Brexit was meant to make Britain great again, not build back better.
	Good points.
	We are giving money to France for not doing anything.
	Wolf says, this blaming the unvaccinated is ridiculous.
	I, unvaccinated, got a positive PCR test today and get to spend Christmas in isolation, but did I get it from my unvaccinated partner?
	No, I got it from a vaccinated colleague who also tested positive today.
	Yeah, well, this weird myth that the vaccines prevent the spread of coronavirus is just not true.
	But, amazingly, Boris, Joe, and Fauci, I believe, have all said at one time that it is, and it's like, it's just not.
	Yeah, it's just scientific untruth.
	Ignacio says, I would call a model prediction false if the data or lack thereof is maliciously interpreted to make a model intending to change the public's perspective or state of mind in a certain way, and I believe Cuth models were made with malicious intent.
	Yeah, but if they're ordered with malicious intent, it's just the question of, like, who's the bad guy here?
	Because if you're a guy with a calculator, and you're told to type in 2 plus 2, and it comes out as 4, and then you go, well, there you go.
	I'm not saying the calculator is evil.
	You're saying it's false, like the data is false.
	The model is false.
	Well, that's the point.
	But the calculator, essentially the model, as you can see, has done its job.
	No, the calculator is the machine that creates the model, but the model itself is not the calculator.
	Right.
	Well, that's why I'm getting it.
	The scientist who is told, make this model, and then makes the model, and then gives it to the politician, and the politician goes out and says, this is going to be reality in five days.
	Yeah, they're both evil.
	Yeah.
	I think the man going out and saying that's evil.
	The guy making the model is just doing what he's made to do.
	No.
	No.
	I was just paid to lie to everyone and create lies.
	Yeah.
	It's not a lie.
	It's just a version of events.
	A version of events that he knows isn't true.
	Yeah, and if, like Neil Ferguson, he goes out and says this is definitely true, well then he's in the wrong.
	I think he's in the wrong for being complicit with this agenda.
	I think that's a weird way of defining it.
	Why?
	If you're a civil servant and you're told to make...
	It's Nuremberg Trials levels of defining things.
	No, because...
	Yeah, it is.
	No.
	I was just pressing the chamber button.
	You're not pressing a chamber button.
	You're being told to make a model.
	Yeah, you are.
	So?
	What do you mean so?
	In the same way it's like, could you make this spreadsheet for the NHS, therefore you're responsible for the lockdowns?
	That doesn't follow.
	No, that's not what I said.
	Well, that's what you're arguing.
	Because what you've done is you've just reduced this to a spreadsheet for the NHS. No, they know they're creating a model that doesn't represent reality, and they're just doing it because they're being told to do it, but that means they're complicit in deliberately misleading the public, and they know they're complicit in this.
	Well, you have Graeme coming out there and saying that's what takes place.
	I mean, is Graeme a bad guy for pointing out that?
	Yes.
	He's a bad guy for doing it.
	But he's the one leaking that this is what's taking place.
	He wasn't leaking it.
	He was just answering questions.
	Well, it is a leak by government standards.
	Well, maybe.
	But, like, it wasn't like a leak.
	He was just, this is just our policy.
	It's like, okay, but that policy is wrong.
	Yeah.
	You doing that is wrong.
	You're being complicit with these deliberate lies that are ruining the country.
	I mean, I would agree that more people from SAGE should come out and make that blisteringly clear.
	It's like, here's our model.
	Also, the model's based on these assumptions that aren't real in reality.
	Okay, well, I've got a comment from Bart here who's going to tell us we're both idiots, right?
	I felt my IQ plummeting as I absorbed your take on modelling.
	Quote, We model what we are asked to model.
	It does not imply any particular outcome.
	The entire section on that was based on conspiratorial thinking.
	You have zero evidence that any politician said, model something that causes 57% fear in the anti-vax community.
	I don't know.
	I think that's what it does say.
	I mean, I'm happy to have conspiratorial thinking on this one.
	I think the politicians are asking for models that have massively overstated the case of COVID in order to enact an agenda.
	Well, the way I imagine this conversation going is the health minister or his undersecretary coming in and saying to the team, right, if we do nothing, no masks, whatever, tell us what the machine says will happen.
	And then the machine says this, sir, here's the report, goes back, the health secretary goes, wow, the end of the world.
	And it's like, well, yeah, but it's based on assumptions that aren't real like all models, regardless of what model you're using.
	Well, I don't think you can say all models are based on assumptions that aren't real.
	And if that was the case, why would we use modelling at all?
	There's a margin of error, that's my point.
	Yeah, sure.
	But this margin of error is just so outside of the bounds of reason.
	And deliberately so.
	This is what Fraser Nelson basically drilled it down with them.
	Saying, look, you're deliberately creating models that have worst case scenario and not modelling anything else.
	Sure, but if they're asked to make worst case scenario and they go, well, there you are, Governor.
	That's what you asked for.
	Sure, but the problem is when you know the person is only asking you for worst case scenario in order to use that to essentially mislead the public into agreeing with something that isn't going to happen...
	I mean, we both agree that any scientist or modeler who is involved in that process and has seen that all play out should come out and do the big leak and tell everyone, well, this is how it happened.
	This is why you were all locked down in May and so on.
	Sure.
	But the point is, though, like, in fact, long talks from the niche.
	He's got a comment here who will help.
	It might be easy to conceptualize as a worst case scenario and a best case scenario.
	If you've ever played Plague Inc., the only difference between easy and hard mode are the variables in the infection model leading towards worst case and best case scenario, i.e.
	easy mode assumes doctors don't wash their hands, hard mode assumes they get regular medical checkups.
	Yeah, but there isn't a best-case scenario model.
	That's the problem.
	There is.
	You could see two there.
	There was the one that was going over the top, the one that was like this, and then the reality was under the best-case scenario.
	So even then, the best-case scenario is a misrepresentation.
	Well, it was fairly close in the best-case scenario.
	Was it?
	But that was with the assumptions that everyone's wearing masks and stuff, and it's like, well...
	But if models are dishonest because politicians are telling modelers to make least charitable assumptions, like people getting to wash their hands, yeah, but that's being done on purpose.
	They know they're doing this.
	They're not idiots.
	They're deliberately deceitful.
	That's my opinion.
	Sophie says, you know when it comes to trans women in women's prisons, why don't we just say that yes, they can go to a female prison and we seem to cut off their wiener fast?
	I don't...
	well...
	That's a very Iranian of you.
	It is, yeah.
	I mean, I'm not opposed, actually.
	It's a win-win, isn't it?
	We must assume the trans person wants their wiener cut off, and I fully support having a rapist getting their wiener cut off.
	Yeah.
	I mean, Ben Shapiro's position on rapists is death or castration.
	I mean, it's not entirely inhumane.
	That's a surprisingly base position from Ben Shapiro.
	Oh, he's sold it forever.
	Has he?
	Yeah.
	But the other thought came to mind, like, we had the solution which we were meant to be doing, which is building trans prisoners.
	I believe they were instituted as units within prisons.
	Yeah.
	But you need the prisons themselves, really.
	Yeah.
	But...
	You want to be transferred?
	No wiener.
	You want to stay in the men's one?
	Keep the wiener.
	That's not going to work because the intersectionals will leap in and say, well, hang on a second.
	You're assuming that a penis is necessarily a male body part and needs to be removed in order to complete the transition, whereas a lot of trans women don't feel that's the case.
	And therefore, there is no biological connection between penis and malehood and non-penis-owning and womanhood.
	The correct response should be, and we heard it on immigration but not yet on prisons, is, well, I'm the conservative minister for prisons.
	Go F yourself.
	I'm doing what I want.
	Get elected if you want to change things.
	I agree, but we're working within intersectional logic here.
	Anyway, Chet says, if trans activists are correct and transgenderism is not a disorder, then why are people being medicated and having surgery for it?
	More importantly, why are children being medicated and having surgery for something I can only assume based on their logic is for cosmetic purposes and Or something if it's not a medical disorder.
	We as a society should be asking what is causing this and how can we help those most affected instead of caving to the cult and propping this up as normal.
	Well, that's true.
	Student of History says, I'm just saying you don't punish a child by leaving them in a candy shop.
	Karen White.
	Karen White, exactly.
	James says, male rapists now have a blueprint for committing rape.
	Obtain gender recognition certificate, commit rape, and then go to prison to continue their crimes.
	I guess one day we'll talk about the Scottish female rape culture.
	We will, but the thing is, you don't actually need the gender recognition certificate.
	Nor do you need to have it done before or anything of the sort.
	You just do the rape and then lie.
	And say, I'm a woman.
	Charlie says, funny thing about the Scottish law is that it destroys the feminist narratives of rape culture, and all men are rapists.
	Now if they use it again, we can point to Scotland with all the female rapists, and if they disagree, then they're transphobic.
	That's actually pretty good.
	Riz says, like the festive background you've used for the thumbnail.
	Oh, you got one fan there, John.
	Chet says, I appreciate the Christmas rendition of the theme.
	Oh, there we go.
	And, oh, well, lots of people saying they like the Christmas rendition, but I think we're out of time.
	Glad you liked it.
	I hope you like the decorations, too.
	Me and John just went down on, like, Friday shopping and just brought a load of crap and just put it up somewhere.
	Make it look good.
	Anyway, also, Americans apparently don't have crackers.
	What?
	Americans don't have crackers?
	Apparently not, which gets stuffed.
	That's sad.
	Anyway.
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