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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 14th of March 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the Great Rainbow Coalitions on either side of the war.
	Jussie Smollett didn't kill himself.
	Looking forward to that.
	And also hashtag D-Trans Awareness Day, in which we have some lovely stories of people actually realising they were lied to.
	Demonstrably.
	Let's start off with the new stuff on the website.
	The first thing here, being a new book club that I did with Beau here, Lawrence writes The Looming Tower.
	So this was Al-Qaeda's road to 9-11, as he says there.
	Which, if you're wondering, doesn't really focus on 9-11 that much.
	Because it's the end part.
	It's just like, oh, then 9-11 happened, the end.
	But why they did it.
	Yeah, so it's really, I found it most useful for understanding Al-Qaeda's ideology and where they came from.
	I even had a disagreement with Beau at one point where he was saying about the fact that he read it and everyone came off as mad, especially Bin Laden.
	I was like...
	I don't know.
	Brother makes a good point.
	From Bo's paradigm, yeah, this is mad.
	But from their paradigm, this is totally logical.
	Yeah, I would say, if you were a Muslim.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	If you were a jihadi, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, if you wanted to live according to the Prophet, well, there's those arguments.
	Yeah.
	So go give that a check out, especially if you're a premium member.
	If you're not, please do subscribe to get access.
	If we go to the next one, we can see a new article here.
	This is from, I don't know how you say his name.
	The...
	Kodrin Stavri.
	There we are.
	So, progressives love being on the right side of history, but the wrong side of a famine.
	So, as you can see there.
	That's a good title.
	It's always true as well.
	Yeah.
	So, go and check that out.
	That's free.
	If we go to the next one, we also have the stuff that went up over the weekend.
	So, the contemplations, of course.
	This one being how government controls your behaviour between John and Josh.
	And...
	Yeah, this is about nudge theories and basically the government setting incentives to engineer society.
	The nudge unit and whatnot.
	They literally call it nudge.
	Yeah, it's very interesting.
	Orwellian.
	If you go to the next one, we can see the Epoch series as well.
	So this is Napoleon's early life.
	That's right.
	Me and Beau are beginning...
	It's going to be probably about six episodes on Napoleon Bonaparte, the controversial Corsican general.
	It's really good, though.
	It's really, really interesting.
	I feel as an Englishman, we should have something more horrible to say about him every time we say his name.
	Why?
	Like the curse, Napoleon or something.
	Just...
	Well, we won.
	Yeah, I suppose.
	That's what you reserve for someone who defeats you.
	The midget who lost.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Okay.
	Well, without further ado, let's get to the Rainbow Car Lessons.
	So the war is still going on, and again, I can only look into this as much as I can, not being an expert on the subject, but we did a series, or at least a little segment, where we went over the Azov Battalion, and the neo-Nazis among them, and the sort of acceptance of that, because there's a war, therefore we need people, and that was the argument made by the Ukrainian government.
	And I feel like we definitely should go over, especially the Russian side as well, because there are also some very interesting memes, and there are also some other memes on the Ukrainian side, which I thought would be funny to go over, so.
	I did get people complaining, well, you're not covering the Russian Nazis.
	I was like, okay, well, we'll do that too.
	Well, I can do that as well.
	There are a few.
	But we'll start off with people who aren't Nazis, but are something else rather funny.
	So this is next opening up here.
	Propaganda TV channeled Zetster showed the mercenaries that Putin wants to send to Ukraine, and it's a bunch of guys...
	From Syria, with Bashar al-Assad flags, Syrian posters, you can see the sign there as well, all screaming about, Allah, Bashar!
	It's amazing, but getting payback, I guess.
	Well, Syria being the last Russian ally in the Middle East, right?
	Definitely.
	That the Americans haven't knocked off yet.
	Someone who's definitely loyal to Moscow would be the Syrians, so apparently they have sent a whole bunch of guys.
	You might be wondering how many guys.
	If you go to the next link here, we can see a report on this, saying that Putin-backed plans to allow volunteers, including from abroad, to fight in Ukraine earlier Friday, and Defence Minister Sergei Shushkin said more than 16,000 mostly Middle Eastern volunteers had appealed to join the military action.
	That is an enormous number.
	Funny thing about this is that Kiev had already said they'd receive volunteers.
	Can you guess the number they said they received?
	No idea.
	16,000?
	Really?
	And then Putin just says, by the way, we've got 16,000.
	Hmm.
	It's really strange.
	Part of me is just thinking that they just said the number the Ukrainians had, just to look bigger.
	But that's not bigger, but why?
	I think they ended up saying, oh, maybe 23,000.
	It's just like, okay, this seems a concocted number, but whatever.
	Maybe it's the case.
	I mean, 16,000 is an absolutely enormous number, so I doubt it.
	It's not a small number of guys, but I imagine the Syrians will be happy to send over volunteer forces.
	Sure.
	I'm sure they will, yeah.
	If we go to the next one, of course, there are the Chechens as well.
	The Chechens who have accepted the Federation's rule over Chechnya.
	There are many who have not, and we'll get to those later.
	But there's them, Kadyrov's men.
	If we go to the next one, we'll start to get into the Nazis.
	I mean, take a guess.
	The ideological position of these guys.
	So this is Russian National Unity here.
	They've got a flag.
	They certainly do.
	And their involvement is strange.
	It's hard to tell.
	Again, not an expert on the subject, but they seem to be around.
	In 2014, Russian National Unity members joined pro-Russia forces in Ukraine during the war in Donbass, and then presumably are still around and or volunteering for operations.
	So...
	There you are.
	There's some Russian Nazis, if you didn't find any.
	But there are more.
	If we go to the next one, we can see the Sparta Battalion.
	Guess where these guys stand as well.
	And in case you're not knowing, we can go to the next one, in which we have a report on this.
	Apparently they are neo-Nazis.
	As you see, a Russian neo-Nazi warlord who was leading them apparently has been killed in the fighting, taking part in the invasion.
	Okay.
	So, more Nazis there.
	And then it gets weird.
	It's Nazi on Nazi violence, yeah.
	Next one, we can see the African Central Republic.
	Their army was pledging allegiance to Putin, saying we support Russia and we'll come and fight if needs be.
	Isn't this because the Russians are sort of securing their diamond mines or something?
	It's more complex.
	So, go to the next group.
	This will start to explain it.
	The Wagner Group.
	I've only been able to read into this as much as I can from the sources I can find, but this is an insane story, and quite an interesting one.
	So you might wonder how they get that link to the Central African Republic.
	Well, so the Wagner Group is a military company, or PMC. But not really, because those aren't legal in Russia.
	Right.
	So it's run by the state, but not.
	It's obviously a joke, in that sense.
	The serving mercenary, or at least the mercenary who used to work for them, said many veterans of the secretive Wagner organization were contracted on a private telegram group a few weeks before the start of the war.
	They were invited to, quote,"...a picnic in Ukraine." Imagine getting banned from a mercenary group!
	How bad do you have to be that you're banned from working with other mercenaries, but these guys will take you on?
	Or without an external passport to apply.
	The message also included that, quote, those from the Russian-occupied areas of Luhansk and Onetsk, Republics, and Crimea are cordially invited.
	You are hereby invited to the war.
	Didn't Zelensky do something similar?
	Empty the jails, conscript the prisoners.
	Yeah, but you could say that you're conscripting prisoners and that's a state conscripting them, right?
	Sure.
	This is where it gets weird because they're a mercenary company conscripting whomever and wherever, but they also can't be a mercenary company because that's illegal to do in Russia.
	Right, okay.
	So obviously it's under the carpet.
	Restrictions on the place of birth, except for Georgia, were also removed.
	So there are also Ukrainians presumably fighting on their side, but Georgians, big no.
	Not allowed.
	So if we go to the next link, there's an Economist article going through them.
	What is the Wagner Group?
	Russia's mercenary organisation.
	And the details on here are immense.
	According to a report in the Times on February 28th, more than 400 mercenaries belonging to Russia's Wagner Group have been sent to Kiev to assassinate Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine's president.
	American officials say they have seen some indication of Wagner's involvement in the war.
	Those reports have not been confirmed, but Wagner's presence would not be a surprise.
	So, this is in the initial outbreak.
	They've already been there before.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Then they've also sent a bunch of guys on their own to go and assassinate the president, apparently.
	Are we assuming that these guys have many ethnically Russian but Ukrainian citizens?
	It's hard to tell.
	Secretive organization.
	Mostly seems to be Russian, but there was evidence that they've had Ukrainians with them in the past.
	But when we say Ukrainians, we mean Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
	Oh, sorry.
	I understand what you mean now.
	Yeah.
	So Ukrainian citizens who are ethnic Russians.
	Yes.
	Probably a lot.
	Yeah.
	Or at least those who have seen combat.
	For years, Ukraine has accused the private military organization, which appears to have close ties to the Kremlin, of fighting in Lohetsk and Donansk, the disputed parts of eastern Ukraine.
	The mercenaries, who have also repeatedly fought in both northern and sub-Saharan Africa, have been accused of torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings.
	Not a surprise.
	But that's where we get the fact that this seems to be one of the worst mercenary groups.
	Well, yeah, secret Nazi mercenary group.
	Accused of war crimes and terrible things.
	Yeah, well, big surprise.
	Yeah, but rape and murder?
	Yeah, I'd expect that.
	But I can see how you have maybe mercenaries that have got higher standards than rape and murder and torture.
	Oh, yeah.
	Then, you know, these guys will take you.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	It was founded by Dmitry Utkin, a former Russian soldier adorned with Nazi tattoos.
	Of course it was.
	It was reportedly named after Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Wagner.
	So, yeah, this is where the Nazi stuff comes in.
	In December 2016, Mr.
	Utkin was photographed alongside Vladimir Putin, Russia's president.
	Wagner is thought to be funded by...
	A businessman who is also alleged to run the internet research agency's Russia's troll farm.
	Right.
	You remember from Active Measures?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
	Same guy.
	They were active in Syria and Libya, and more recently have been seen in the Central African Republic and Mali.
	So both sides have got like secret Nazi, well not even secret in the Ukrainian side, but like Nazi groups just operating during this war?
	Yes.
	Right, okay.
	So that's the weird thing, because the Ukrainians have got state Nazis, like, you know, you guys are working the national government, right?
	This isn't, of course, to say Ukraine's a Nazi government.
	No, no, no, no, but they have a Nazi regiment.
	Yes.
	Instead of the Russians, it's just an unofficial Nazi regiment.
	On the Russian side, it seems to be that the military are funding this group, who they totally don't work with, because that would be illegal, but sure as heck do.
	And then they are Nazis, and also they work all over the world, wherever Russia can't be officially seen to be, and are now taking part in the invasion for the Russians.
	I'll tell you what, just from the perspective of the ideology of Nazism, surely it's quite difficult to be a Russian Nazi?
	Yeah.
	Aryan purity?
	What are you talking about?
	But also you can kind of understand the Ukrainians, or at least some Ukrainians becoming Nazis, because of the Soviet Union and all the oppression and German invasion and all that.
	Being a Russian...
	Yeah.
	The argument gets a lot thinner, doesn't it?
	It really does.
	So, last guy here.
	Russia is engaging in a proxy war with plausible deniability, Miss McLeod says.
	Using mercenaries instead of its own troops allows Russia to downplay its casualties.
	It also removes a layer of accountability.
	Unlike soldiers, mercenaries are very hard to identify.
	It is, quote, almost impossible to hold them to account.
	This is not just in Ukraine, but elsewhere.
	They're doing whatever.
	Why do you think the US used PMCs?
	Obviously.
	But there's usually a much smoother and some kind of process of, let's say, justice there.
	So, I mean, most PMCs were engaging in, like, oh, we'll take supplies from here to here, and they'll be messed up things, and don't get me wrong.
	But just, like, so shadowy neo-Nazis that don't even work with the government.
	Oh, yeah, I would say these are probably the worst of all sides.
	It's definitely on a different level.
	There is also a number of journalists who keep investigating them jumping off their balconies to their deaths.
	I can only speculate as to why that might be.
	So yeah, anyone who writes about Wagner all of a sudden gets very suicidal, jumps off a balcony to their death, and everyone believes that.
	If we go to the next image, we can see the leader himself, as you can see there with his Nazi tattoos, and pictured there with Vladimir Putin.
	Apparently this was a meeting in which he was being given a medal for courage, not endorsed by this state.
	Obviously a joke.
	I mean, he looks just exactly as I would expect, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	If we go to the next one, there's also a very funny aspect to this.
	There's a crossover with the Serbians.
	Oh, yeah.
	Republika Srpska's coming back, boys.
	So this is a Serb who liberated ancient Palmyra.
	Davo Slavijs, a 36-year-old Serbian from Dobla, a former member of Special Operations Unit JSO. People may remember them as Arkans Tigers.
	People are familiar with this.
	If we go to the next one, just an image of these guys.
	Literally holding a tiger.
	Yeah, for people listening.
	Arkhan at the front there, holding up a baby tiger by its neck.
	And all the rest of them behind them with...
	Tanks.
	Balaclavas.
	Like the good guys.
	Arkhan was eventually meant to be tried for war crimes and then died.
	Looked a lot like the IRA. Yes.
	I just...
	Yeah, so, yeah.
	The guys who used to work in there, apparently upon Wagner.
	Yeah.
	If you're guessing the next one, we can also see Wagner's Ten Commandments, which are very funny.
	If you can scroll down on this, we can read some of them.
	So there's a complete list of the commandments.
	Number one, protect the interests of Russia always and everywhere.
	Number two, the honour of the Russian soldier is above all.
	Number three, fight not for money, but out of principle.
	There is only one principle.
	Victory.
	Just win.
	Just get good, bro.
	I don't know if you want to go through the rest of these or not, because they get quite Islamic.
	Do not surrender to the enemies alive, but if you are captured, die.
	But take as many enemies as possible with you.
	Honor your fallen comrades.
	Do not dishonor their blessed memory.
	Sooner or later, you will meet with them.
	We are destined for death in battle and not a weak old man in a bed.
	Be humble and do not boast of your craft.
	Keep this a secret.
	Never loot.
	In war and on business trips, prohibition.
	And then keep your token.
	So...
	That sounds like the sort of thing the companions of Mohammed would have said.
	Don't drink.
	Take everyone down fighting.
	Never surrender to the unbelievers.
	Kill them all.
	You can certainly see that there.
	If you go to the next link, we can see Wagner's Wikipedia page.
	I'm using this for the list of conflicts they've been involved with.
	They say they're allies of the Russian armed forces, Russian separative forces, Syrians.
	The Army of the Guardians for the Islamic Revolution...
	Is that Iran?
	Yes.
	Right.
	So, I'm sure they'll be sending a brigade soon.
	Yep.
	The Central African Armed Forces.
	That's why they're pledging their allegiance.
	Libyan National Guard, Mozambique Defence Armed Forces, and the Malian Armed Forces.
	I really feel like I'm looking at politics from like 300 years ago.
	It's weird, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	But also the coalition's weird.
	Yeah.
	Like, they've got the Iranians, the Africans, Mali, weird Syrians turning up.
	This is Putin's forces, that's his coalition.
	Chechen, Sadaka, you know, like...
	Some guys screaming, Hail Hitler, in the background.
	Okay.
	Just what is happening?
	That's the Russian front line.
	Okay.
	And if we go to the Ukrainian front lines, of course we've mentioned some of this in the past, but I want to go over it again, because it gets weird.
	What is this?
	This is an article called The Future of Chechens and ISIS. Right.
	So a bunch of Chechens joined ISIS, ISIS failed, they had to go back, and they were like, yeah, so...
	Where do we go now?
	Yeah, what now?
	So these are Chechens who do not accept subjugation by the Federation.
	The Russians.
	They want an independent Chechnya.
	A lot of them were inspired by Islamism as well.
	They won an Islamic State.
	So they went and joined ISIS, of course.
	Funny thing, there were Chechens in Syria sent by the Russians who ended up fighting them.
	So again, in Syria, you had Chechens versus Chechens.
	Everyone around being like, look at these guys.
	So there's that.
	But they also have now run out of things to do.
	So if we go to the next one, of course, the Chechens from there are now turning up in Ukraine.
	Many of them who didn't fight in Syria, but also many of them who did.
	Some of them fought ISIS as well.
	So there's them.
	And this is where another allegation is coming in.
	It's an allegation.
	So let's go to the next line.
	Because this is a Turkish outlet that has made this allegation.
	That hundreds of al-Qaeda militants arrive in Ukraine from Syria.
	I love that this is what's happening in Ukraine with Russia.
	It's a totally different paradigm, and nobody's particularly aligned with it, and so now they have to choose a new side.
	So, okay, well, I guess I'm for Ukraine, so I don't like the Russians.
	Okay, so are the American Special Forces, who were shooting you and your buddies, like, two years ago.
	Now what?
	Yeah, but also, like, we're with Ukraine and we've got Azov and Al-Qaeda behind us going, that's right, brother.
	So, they're saying here the United States has trained 450 Al-Qaeda militants who have now arrived.
	It's not the first time we've been behind the Taliban and whatnot, is it?
	That's the point.
	So the militants are from Hayat Tehir Al-Sham, an armed group, a rebrand of Jabhat Al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda.
	They arrived in Ukraine on the 8th of March, ready to fight against the Russian army, according to Shputnik.
	I don't know why I'm picturing the Spider-Man meme where everyone's just pointing at you.
	You're the bad guys.
	It's funny.
	But it's an allegation from the Russians and a lot of people have brushed it off because it's an allegation from the Russians.
	But we do know the Chechens who were fighting with ISIS are there.
	So I wouldn't be surprised on that basis.
	No, I wouldn't be surprised by any of this at this point.
	But also, Jabal al-Nusra, we have evidence of us helping them in the past.
	So if we go to the next link, you can see the operation in which the CIA, under Obama, directly funded and trained them.
	And that was one of the main criticisms of this plan here.
	Go and read in your own time.
	Still classified.
	If we go to the next one, they also have their greatest ally, Israel.
	Right?
	Okay!
	So during the Civil War, the Israelis provided medical support in the means that if al-Nusra were injured, they could cross over the border to Israel and the Israelis would treat them and then send them back over to fight.
	Man, if Israelis end up fighting alongside al-Qaeda and Nazis in the cause of Ukraine, that is just peak clown world.
	That is what they've already done with the Nazis.
	The al-Qaeda one is about to be proven, in my view.
	So, that's that.
	If you go to the next link, there are of course a lot of Westerners who are turning up.
	This one is the Canadians who have turned up volunteering.
	If you go to the next one, there are 60 British who have turned up as well.
	There's one guy here who is a son of an MP. They just turned up and said, we're fighting for liberal democracy.
	What are you guys fighting for?
	Not that.
	The son of the MP, he says that he was just in Iraq serving, fighting ISIS, and then went home, said goodbye to his wife and children, and has then gone to Ukraine.
	And I really, really want this story to come out, that I want to see him meeting al-Qaeda.
	In Ukraine, I'm being like, no more brother wars.
	I don't know.
	We'll see there.
	As you see, they say there are 20,000 to 16,000 volunteers.
	So, there's that.
	If you go to the next one, there are also 70 Japanese that have turned up, screaming Banzai, wearing traditional uniform.
	We're here for our, what, German allies?
	The old alliance?
	What is this?
	Well, they could be fighting on either side, really, if they wanted to do that.
	Well, yeah, but...
	I mean, Japan and Russia fight wars, so...
	That's true.
	Not too keen on the Ruskies.
	If we go to the next one, there is, of course, also the Nazis, as we have said before, on the Ukrainian side.
	We've been over this, so I won't dwell on it.
	However, if we go to the next one, there is an image I did see, which is, again, of the children.
	Like, so this is someone's son, apparently.
	I also can't get over...
	You see on the side, they're writing in, like, runic script?
	Is it, like, Nordic?
	A Slavic pagan script.
	Oh, is it?
	Right.
	Probably, yeah.
	Okay.
	Strange.
	But whatever, Nazis or Nazis.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see that we have the strong independent Nazi moment again.
	So this was...
	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Lady has Ezra rights here.
	So Catherine McKenna was smearing Canadian truckers as Nazis.
	They weren't, of course.
	No.
	However, she is now promoting International Women's Day.
	With an actual Nazi, yeah.
	And if you can scroll down, do you want to get those up?
	It's International Women's Day.
	Is that a little white patch on the girl on the right-hand side?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's a black sun.
	That's a black sun.
	A neo-Nazi symbol, again.
	This also happened to NATO previously.
	If we go to the next one, just to mention.
	Sorry, they're literally going to be tweeting out ISIS members giving the finger in a minute.
	Like, you know, NATO stands with our brave troops in Ukraine.
	That's an ISIS model.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, you've already got the Chechens.
	Our Qaeda are only just joining.
	That's the claim.
	So, either way, you have got Islamists around.
	And if you go to the next one, we, of course, have the pride flag troops.
	This one in the Redditors.
	LAUGHTER The Redditors are coming over to fight for trans rights.
	Yeah, let's click on the first one here.
	So this is an individual saying that he's arrived in Lviv from Portland.
	Of course it's from Portland.
	You can guess how this went.
	If you guess the next one, people just dug into his history and checked out what else he got up to.
	So the next image there, John, is him saying, Today I had a vasectomy because of climate change.
	I know I'm fighting alongside jihadis and Nazis.
	Because Putin's bad.
	Okay, yeah.
	I don't want more children, so I had a vasectomy.
	I want to save the world.
	Hashtag climate change.
	Free Ukraine.
	Let's go to the next one, because the Redditors have also become mega cringe in everyone's eyes, if for another other reason than this one.
	Apparently some guy posted his location on his private Facebook page to show everyone he was safe, who knew him.
	And then some Redditor took the image and put it on Reddit for the upvotes.
	And then got the place he was hiding, which apparently was some school, bombed, killing everyone.
	Brilliant.
	Reddit moment.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	Why are you getting involved in this, you idiots?
	Not to mention the other stories which you have sent me.
	There have been a lot of these Reddit stories where, like, oh, we're being shelled in Lviv, and it's like, well, what did you think was going to happen?
	Well, we thought our air superiority would save us.
	You don't have that here.
	America's not there.
	No, you get to feel what the rough side of the war is like.
	You're the Taliban this time around.
	You've got to be the gorillas.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If we go to the next one, I also decided to just make some flags out of the two sides, just because this is getting wacko.
	It certainly is.
	If we can click on the flag, so we'll go with the first one.
	So this is the Kiev alliance of memes.
	ISIS. If there's any more groups that turn up, let me know and I'll have them for the choke.
	If nothing else.
	NATO, the Islamist Chechens.
	If we go to the right side, we can see Moscow's alliance, or at least Moscow's coalition on this matter.
	It's just a coalition of weird.
	This central piece there being Wagner as well.
	But anyway, I think we've done our due diligence at least, which is showing that there are a bunch of wackos on both sides and this is turning into something strange.
	Yeah, I mean, just to be clear, we haven't supported either side in this, and I don't think we're going to start now.
	I do think the longer it goes on, the more meme-worthy it's going to get.
	What else can you do with it?
	I don't know, maybe the MLP division will turn up or something.
	Yeah, I mean, the only thing that's missing is armed furries.
	Well, if you're in America.
	If you're on Reddit.
	Anyway.
	So let's talk about Jussie Smollett.
	I wasn't going to talk about this, but everyone seems to be missing a trick with this story.
	And so I thought I'd go through and give us a bit of a history and why this is actually more interesting and important than people are giving it credit for.
	It's not just that Jussie Smollett is an egocentric social justice narcissist.
	There's actually much more to this.
	So you may remember, of course, this random article I pulled up about the events in 2019, in January, where he was like, oh, I was brutally attacked by two white men wearing ski masks who put a noose around my neck and said, this is Maga Country.
	In Jamaican accents or Nigerian accents, weirdly enough.
	And he ran back because he was just getting subway at 2am for no reason.
	And he ran back, called the police, and apparently when they found him, he still had the noose around his neck, which was very convincing.
	I'm going to go to the next one so you can see the picture of it.
	Scroll down.
	Yep, there you go.
	Jussie in a noose in the middle of the night.
	Oh no, this is the secret footage, isn't it, right?
	Yes, but they actually have footage.
	For some reason, it didn't take the noose off his neck that they apparently put on.
	And so this was very exciting to a bunch of Democrat politicians because they started tweeting out, oh my god.
	This is a modern-day lynching, as Cory Booker called it.
	I mean, literally, attempted modern-day lynching.
	Kamala Harris also called this, quote, this was an attempted modern-day lynching.
	As you can see, they are crafting a narrative with this.
	They really would like this to be an attempted modern-day lynching.
	And Joe Biden, of course, as well, not the president at the time, but the president now, What happened today to Jussie Smollett must never be tolerated in this country.
	We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbour.
	That homophobia, racism has no place in our streets or on our hearts.
	We are with you, Jussie.
	He was in Chicago.
	I like how it has a new meaning now that Jussie's been found guilty.
	It's just like, this stuff has no place in our society.
	It certainly doesn't, Jussie.
	No.
	But the point is, if they think that anyone in their right mind was going to believe that Chicago was MAGA country...
	And there's just random MAGA chuds patrolling the streets looking for black men to lynch.
	In Nigerian accents.
	In Chicago, this is just the most obviously fake narrative of all the fake narratives.
	This was never something anyone was going to believe.
	And so, come February 2019, criminal charges were approved by the Cook County prosecutor against Jussie Smollett himself for filing a false police report and for disorderly conduct.
	Detectives were going to look into this.
	They were going to start.
	Pressing charges against him because he was obviously lying and he had obviously orchestrated himself.
	But for some reason, the very next month, these charges were dropped.
	We'll go to the next one.
	On Tuesday, March 26th, the Illinois State Attorney's Office dropped the charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett relating to the assault that he reported to the Chicago police.
	Why?
	Well, let's ask who State Attorney Kim Foxx is.
	Because that seems to be important.
	If you go to the next one, you see a Wikipedia page.
	If you go down to the sort of controversial section, on February the 19th, 2019, she had announced that she had recused herself from the Smollett hoax investigation.
	He had all considered it.
	Her recusal was, quote, due to her familiarity with potential witnesses in the case.
	Hmm.
	So she's buddies with Smollett and other people involved in the case.
	So she's like, oh, I recuse myself.
	But critics called her method of recusal insufficient, saying that because her office retained authority over the case, she maintained influence over how it was handled.
	And as you can see, if you go back to the next one, just on the next one, it was the Illinois State Attorney's Office.
	That's her.
	So her office did it, but she's like, oh, I'm not involved.
	Sure you're not.
	Do I believe that?
	Do you believe that?
	I don't believe that.
	And so, this started going up the chain.
	As you can see with this one, there were calls to probe the Obama links.
	It's like, what?
	Links to Obama?
	Oh yeah!
	This goes higher and higher.
	Texts exchanged between Kim Foxx and an ex-Michelle Obama aide, Tina Chen, were facing scrutiny.
	But Smollett's record was wiped clean and his case was sealed.
	The Chicago Police Union said that Fox's conduct was highly suspicious and wanted a federal investigation into the case.
	Very interesting, isn't it?
	So it looks like strings got pulled higher and higher up the ladder until essentially it was all wiped away.
	But the thing is, then more came out about the case and it turned out, oh, we found out more about the Nigerian brothers he had paid.
	And it got even worse, in fact.
	Let me go to the next one.
	You see, he'd been partying with them, paying them for drugs, paid for everything.
	He paid for the noose, the bleach they threw over him.
	He is the one who organized.
	And they even did a dry run, like the test, before they went live.
	This was so obviously a false hate hoax crime.
	Hoax hate crime that this couldn't really be ignored, right?
	And we learned later on afterwards that he'd been partying with them, like literally out at nightclubs and stuff with them.
	It's like...
	You are just lazy.
	Just lazy and incompetent, right?
	Why would you do any of this?
	Well, that's the point.
	And so if we...
	Why would you do this, right?
	And so we get to now, basically.
	In February 2020...
	No, sorry, I forget February 2020.
	Are these the white guys here?
	Yes, there's Jussie and his two attackers who lynched him.
	Attempted lynching.
	This is because he was black.
	Yeah, but anyway, in February 2020, Jussie was charged again with an alleged hoax attack because you can't really just let this go.
	This is international news.
	This involves some of the most important people in the area connected to the Obama administration.
	This isn't just going to go away, or at least it shouldn't just go away, even though they tried to make it.
	So in February 2020, Smollett was indicted by a special prosecutor on six counts of accusing him of lying to Chicago police, which he obviously did, almost a year after similar charges against him were dropped.
	He faced six counts of disorderly conduct with a special prosecutor called Dan Webb, who had been put in charge of it.
	Chicago police held a dramatic news conference accusing Smollett of a hoax.
	Police said he faked his attack because he was unhappy with his salary and wanted to drum up publicity to help his career.
	On Tuesday, news emerged that Webb had indicted Smollett and he was due in court.
	And a judge had appointed Webb as a former U.S. attorney, as a special prosecutor to look into why the original charges were dropped.
	Because this made...
	the media narrative was that Smollett had done nothing wrong, this was back in 2020, and you may remember this, that he said, oh Smollett is a victim of a hate crime, oh look at all these terrible people saying he's lying, they're all racists, that's what this is about, they're all homophobic racists in fact.
	And this made the Chicago police look really bad.
	The police were like, he's lying.
	We've got the video footage.
	We've got all of the evidence.
	He's lying.
	He's obviously lied.
	We've got all of his texts.
	We've got the money he paid to these Nigerian Americans.
	He's lying.
	And it's like, yeah, but you're a racist.
	It's like, okay.
	So they pressed for the charges.
	But we found the two racists in the case.
	Exactly.
	And so this, at the time, was something that Fox should have had to explain but didn't.
	Go to the next one.
	This is a really interesting article.
	Again, from 2020 this was.
	Webb's summary was damning and devastating yes.
	It accused Fox's office of, quote,"...substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures and of making false and or misleading statements to the public." In overseeing the strange high-profile case of a Hollywood celebrity who allegedly faked a hate crime attack against himself in 2019.
	But rather than a long-overdue apology or explanation, Fox responded defensively yet again, denying any misconduct and concluding her 237-word news release with the declaration that she will have no further statements on this matter until she receives his final written report.
	Can this be allowed to stand?
	Can it be allowed to stand that the state attorney, members of the Obama administration, people close to it, and like a kind of royalty, a sort of Chicago royalty, can be allowed to just lie like this so brazenly?
	That's the question.
	And so we come to last week when Smollett was convicted.
	As CNN reports, he was sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of felony probation, and ordered to pay restitution of more than $120,000 and a $25,000 fine for making false reports to the police that he was a victim of a hate crime.
	The judge said, sorry, after the judge announced his sentence, he lowered his face mask and said, Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this.
	Why are you still lying?
	Why are you still lying?
	Right?
	But then he turned and said, and I am not suicidal.
	And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.
	You must all know that.
	And so that's something that a lot of people have been making a lot of jokes about.
	It's like, Jesse, it's only 150 days in jail.
	No one thinks you're going to kill yourself.
	But that's not what he's saying.
	But anyway, so just before he's taken into custody, he raised his fist in the air doing the Black Power salute and said he was innocent.
	And the judge...
	What is that?
	I support lynching?
	No, no, no, he supports Black Lives Matter.
	Yeah, yeah, but his whole thing is like, I've been lynched, I'm standing in support with...
	It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
	Fellow people who have been lynched?
	He's trying to make himself a victim, obviously.
	But the judge, James Lynn, said, there's a side to you that has this arrogance, this selfishness and narcissism that's just disgraceful.
	You're not a victim of a racial hate crime, you're not a victim of a homophobic hate crime, You're just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that's shameful.
	That's true.
	And so the joke that essentially right-wing political spheres have been making is this next one, which is just an old joke.
	Jesse Smollett's attacker finally jailed.
	And it is funny, but it's really missing the trick here, because the entire structure of a corrupt and racial Democrat operation in Chicago has been revealed, and the Republicans should be going after all of it.
	You know, it's really quite disgraceful.
	And this is probably one of the reasons, in fact, Beau pointed this out basically in 2021 before he actually went to jail in this article.
	This is the real story, that a bunch of black racists are using the cover of social justice to repeatedly break the law.
	Everyone's joking about how Jussie's saying he won't commit suicide, but that's not what he's saying when he says, I'm not going to kill myself in jail.
	He's afraid he's going to be Epstein for embarrassing or exposing this corrupt network, because we can see exactly who is part of it, because all of these people are deeply connected.
	Kamala Harris's family has ties to Jussie Smollett.
	Joe Biden has ties to Obama and the Obama administration, the aides and whatnot, and to Kim Foxx.
	And so you've got this very deep web of people coming out of Chicago that's a racial corruption network.
	And they're using social justice to cover for this.
	And Jussie Smollett just blew it.
	He just exposed the whole thing.
	Anyone who was on his side directly, immediately, everyone who's saying the opposite, this wasn't a lynching, is a racist...
	Well, that's not true.
	And suddenly they glow.
	Oh, you guys are all part of the conspiracy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so he's worried that he's going to get Epstein'd in jail.
	And it's probably not an unreasonable worry, because he is a deep embarrassment to them.
	You know, he messed this up so concretely, it's just cringe, frankly.
	And it's, you know, it's something that's dangerous for their careers as well.
	I mean, Kim Fox, after this, has just come out and said, oh, what happened to Jussie Smollett as an injustice?
	Look at the next one.
	She wrote an opinion piece in the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday saying the damaging, costly and disingenuous criminal prosecution of Justice Smollett came to an end.
	There's video evidence.
	We've got the witnesses.
	We've got the guys who did it.
	We've got the paper trail.
	We were paid, mate.
	Of the money.
	We're black also.
	The guys going to the hardware store with his money buying those exact things.
	It's so unbelievably exposed.
	And yet the chief, the district attorney, is sat there going, Smollett was indicted, tried and convicted by kangaroo prosecution in a matter of months.
	Kangaroo prosecution is jumping up and down.
	Sorry, you tried to cover it up.
	You, using your office, tried to shut it down, but the police were so humiliated by what you'd done to them that they had to keep pressing the issue.
	This is so obviously black and white a lie that they have to keep pressing the issue.
	The evidence is all on their side, and yet she's still lying about this?
	Isn't that amazing?
	It makes me think if there are any other examples where they've gotten away with it.
	Well, they're going to be loads.
	Because surely they thought, yeah, they were going to get away with it like they had before, presumably.
	And this time round, they hadn't.
	Yeah, because Jussie Smollett was incompetent and narcissistic about it, basically, and assumed that they could just lie their way out of it.
	But anyway, so he obviously then goes on to play the victim.
	Oh, this is because I'm black!
	Really, it's because you're black, is it, Jussie?
	I mean, kind of.
	I mean, you did do this because you were black.
	No way a person could have done this.
	That's true.
	That's a great point, actually.
	Sources with directing knowledge and in constant touch with the Empire actor have told TMZ that Jussie fully expected to get jail time.
	He told his defence team before sentencing he felt he would be treated more harshly than other defendants convicted of a non-violent crime because of the colour of his skin.
	He thinks it's more evidence of the systemic racism in the judicial system.
	Sorry, white hoax hate crimes are not as seriously treated as black hoax hate crimes?
	I can't name one.
	A single one.
	I mean, real hate crimes against white people aren't prosecuted.
	But during all this, Smollett committed perjury dozens of times.
	He just kept lying and lying alike.
	Each one of those is like a five-year jail sentence.
	If you lie under oath, that's like five years in jail, right?
	Not for Jussie Smollett.
	He's being treated more leniently, not just because of his skin colour, but because who he is connected to.
	And so the fact that he has this support is, in a way, all down to his race.
	At least publicly.
	But really it's about his relationships to other people and who he is.
	And so we've talked about this.
	This strange commitment to the sort of hyper-reality of wokeness, as Thomas pointed out in his critical base theory.
	Like, this whole thing is about layering a narrative onto reality.
	And both Kim Fox and Jussie Smollett, and I mean, the other tweets haven't been taken down, but no one else involved in this strange conspiracy, you know, People are tweeting about this or making more public statements about it because why would you?
	You're just going to make yourself look even worse.
	But of course no one's taking down their old tweets talking about it because they were wrong.
	But the hyperreality is the narrative that is overlaid on reality and Jussie Smollett is refusing to let go of the narrative, even though the repeated and demonstrable concrete reality and experience of living in this reality is showing everyone that that hyperreality is not real.
	It's not true.
	And yet he's trying, again, to lie his way through it.
	And the thing is, right, as the police said, well, this is all about the ratings of his show.
	He wants more money.
	Well, it didn't work.
	If all of this was to try and save his career, well, that backfired.
	So in 2018, the ratings were about a third of what they had been when they started?
	No, because I remember, if he had gotten away with this, even if the ratings had fallen, he would always be known as that actor who was a victim of a hate crime and therefore more valuable in the progressive stack, surely.
	So then when he applied for jobs, he would have been on the higher list.
	Maybe, maybe.
	But the point is, the ratings before this happened were going down.
	This was not going well.
	That's why I'm thinking it's a get-up.
	It might be.
	Who knows?
	But that's not what the police say, so I don't know.
	But afterwards, it had gone down even further.
	Because the idea being, oh, well, Empire, you know, because it's like Empire star Jesse Smiley.
	So the idea is it raises the profile of the show, right?
	And so everyone's now talking about Empire.
	Even if it's only tangentially with Justice Mollet.
	Well, if you go to the next one, like even directly afterwards, this started hitting season lows.
	And so, you know, like don't get me wrong, it's still 4 million viewers.
	That's still a lot.
	But like it had like 15 million viewers.
	So, you know, But it didn't work.
	And so that, I think, is the important part about the Jussie Smollett case that no one else I've seen talk about this has mentioned.
	A deeply corrupt organisation has been revealed in Chicago, and Smollett probably does have legitimate concern about being Epstein in prison.
	I wonder if...
	Did either of the Clintons say anything about this?
	Not the Clintons, to my knowledge.
	I couldn't find anything.
	Okay.
	Because that would be interesting.
	He's connected to the Obamas.
	Because, honestly, it's a racial network.
	Kim Foxx is black.
	The Ada's black.
	Obamas are, of course, black.
	It's a racial network.
	Let's move to the D-Trans Awareness Day.
	Hashtag D-Trans Awareness Day went up on Twitter.com over the weekend.
	I bet that went down like a lead balloon.
	Of course it did.
	We'll start off with some of the hoes who are mad, specifically commie hoes who are mad.
	So you can start off here with a hammer and sickle account, of course.
	Nice trans flag and hammer and sickle in the bio.
	So this was trending.
	This sucks.
	Where's this energy for trans awareness week?
	You can't give an F about detransitioners unless you also care about trans people.
	If you only care about detransitioners and their stories, y'all don't care about trans people or detransitioners.
	So how dare you point this out?
	In effect, is what they're saying there.
	We cover trans stuff quite a lot.
	I just don't care about the opinions of a commie.
	Commie opinions are also trash.
	You don't care about this?
	Shut up, commie.
	There was also attempts to try and shut this down, lads, from other hoes.
	I'm amazed that Twitter allowed this trend, to be honest.
	I am too.
	So this is the typical thing that I saw.
	I didn't see any major accounts doing this, but it was lots and lots of little accounts, let's say.
	So as you see here, someone else saying, remember, out of all the detransitioners, only 5% realized it wasn't for them.
	There are still 95% who detransition, mostly because of transphobia!
	How do you know?
	And they have a big old list there.
	This is data from 2015.
	Yeah, can we have a look at this?
	And as they say, realise there was not for them 5% and then other reasons.
	I assume the financial reasons are also transphobia.
	They have pressure there, they say, about the whole thing.
	I don't know what pressure means, of course, because it could be someone saying, are you sure?
	Is that pressure?
	Maybe.
	Why be?
	I mean, it's transphobia, so...
	Not accepting it on face value.
	If you go to the next one, you can see the report itself.
	The data in here is from 2015.
	As you can see, 2015 US Transgender Survey, so probably before 2014 or something.
	And in here they say 8% of respondents reported having detransitioned at some point.
	So that was the data then.
	And the reason I asked you before we did this when we were doing the research, when can you think actually this all kind of took off?
	Not the debate about what is a woman, but that we openly saw in schools...
	Different groups and ideological actors purposely trying to transition kids.
	It's certainly come to the forefront in the sort of public debate in the last couple of years.
	If you go back five or six years, this wasn't something people talked about.
	I'm not saying it didn't happen.
	I couldn't find any data that close to this time period, so that's what I'm also keeping in mind going forward on this.
	But we'll go to the story.
	So we start off with a story here.
	someone saying Hi, I'm Elaine.
	I'm 24.
	I started transitioning when I was 18 to better fit in with the weirdo gamer anime fans I found myself hanging out with.
	I detransitioned a year ago and now I'm happier than ever.
	Man, the animated trans pipeline is real.
	Yes.
	It's absolutely real.
	The gamer one I'm not so sure about, but the enemy one definitely seems to be the case.
	And of course, someone who has got out of that.
	So again, it was pressure from...
	What would you call that?
	A peer group.
	Yeah.
	The peer group pressured her through saying, oh, maybe you're trans.
	Wasn't.
	By the evidence that they then had to detransition.
	But that happened to them.
	Great.
	We move forward to the next one.
	This one I was saying.
	I let the internet convince me that gender dysphoria equals trans.
	It turns out gender dysphoria can also be a symptom of not fitting into society's ideals for femininity and compounded by hating yourself.
	I am gender non-conforming, not trans.
	Is this person's response to detransitioning?
	This person seems to be perfectly feminine.
	Yeah, don't know what the hell they're talking about, being non-conforming.
	Society's idea for femininity?
	Well, you seem to be upholding them.
	Yeah, that's what I would have thought, but okay.
	There's no way I would have said you're not a woman.
	That's their response there.
	If we go to the next one, we have someone who says, my name is Grace and I detransitioned.
	On the left, me shortly after top surgery 2017.
	Oh no.
	That's the bit that really bothers me.
	It's like, okay, look, you can say, you know, you can dress in a certain way, you can act in a certain way, you can say, you know, these are my pronouns, but when you start having surgery and permanently removing parts of your body...
	If you're not sure, don't do it.
	100%.
	It's awful.
	This was the darkest time in my life.
	On the right, me recently, life goes on, life gets better.
	So they again had to detransition because, well, they were led to a place that was false and then had to try and fix it.
	But life gets better.
	Again, I bet, groomed by the internet.
	Yeah, but also the fact that, you know, when you transitioned, it was a horrible time for them.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, something to keep in mind.
	If you go to the next one, there's a big long story here from someone who says, I began detransitioning in October 2019 by ceasing my testosterone injections and returning to my birth name, Sinead.
	The most common question I get from those new to the discussion is, quote, Why did you transition in the first place?
	Like other trans people, I transitioned because I was suffering from gender dysphoria.
	We're told people with this dysphoria are treated with transition, right?
	Yeah.
	But unlike other trans people, transition didn't help.
	This is one of the changes that especially happened, as I know Josh said, in American psychology.
	But in Britain, psychology still deems that this is a thing to be treated, not a lifestyle choice.
	So this is the debate of, someone has the dysphoria, what do you do?
	Okay, well the Americans have got to the point, well, especially the progressives in the UK as well, have decided, well just start cutting.
	Start the surgeries.
	I just don't understand why they're not encouraged to try and identify with their sex rather than trying to transition them into the opposite.
	That would be conversion therapy.
	You'd be trying to stop them to do what they want.
	Surely conversion is from female to male rather than female to more female.
	Makes no sense.
	But trying to talk to someone is conversion therapy.
	We're going to give you hormones.
	What, estrogen?
	No, testosterone.
	Why?
	They're giving someone drugs, especially children drugs.
	Yeah.
	But if giving a woman testosterone makes her more manly, then surely giving a woman estrogen makes her more womanly?
	Therefore would help?
	Yeah, therefore no surgery needed.
	Therefore she can actually be like, oh yeah, no, I am a woman.
	I just, you know, had low estrogen or something.
	I don't know.
	It just seems that there's no discussion in that area of thought, you know?
	I don't know anything about it.
	The second most common question is, why did you detransition?
	I detransitioned because I was experienced extreme transition regret, realizing that my desire to become a man stemmed from a variety of factors that ultimately led me to want to become someone else.
	Not my authentic self, but someone and something else entirely to me.
	So, didn't want to become a man, but just not me.
	Don't want to be Schneed.
	My transition was fuelled by self-hatred, not self-acceptance.
	I didn't want to be Sinead because I hated Sinead.
	Sinead was a woman, and I wanted to be no part in that anymore.
	I became Sean, a man, and I'd felt better, or so I hoped.
	I never thought I'd ever accept myself, but I do.
	And I've never been happier to anyone struggling with transition regret.
	You are absolutely not alone.
	Recovery is possible.
	My DMs are always open to anyone who needs a rock to lean on, as my rocks once did for me.
	So again, I mean, there's a little community being formed here as well.
	Which is interesting to see, because this hasn't really been a thing.
	Well, it's heresy.
	Well, there's also more and more people experiencing the same consequences.
	But it's heresy to the orthodox social justice narrative.
	Absolutely.
	I bet these people get an awful lot of harassment online by leftists.
	J.K. Rowling took note, another heretic, because someone said that this was you just being stupid and she was just like, you're a moron.
	No.
	Like, there are people being misled.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, what, J.K. Rowling tweeted out about detransitioning.
	Yeah.
	So of course that made it even bigger.
	And then we get to the other ones.
	The other ones that I've noticed all have a little more thinking into it.
	No, it says Ukraine flag.
	Yeah.
	God.
	Let's not have that conversation right now.
	Like absolute NPCs to a hegemonic narrative.
	For the next one, we can see some more of these where the diagnosis gets a bit more clear.
	Hi, I'm Ali and I started taking testosterone at 18 because I was tired of not fitting in with other girls.
	So I thought I'd make a better man instead.
	An autism diagnosis later and it all makes sense now.
	They had autism.
	Well, yeah, I can tell.
	And they were corralled by their peers.
	Yeah.
	Not entirely sure who, in this case.
	But if we go to the next link, we can see some people.
	Attractive young lady.
	Who cares if you don't fit in with other girls?
	Women hate each other.
	Don't worry about that.
	Women are women.
	Oh, look, an attractive woman?
	Yeah, you're not going to get many frats from other women.
	If we go to the next one, we can see some of this.
	So, I mean, this is a report that we've mentioned previously.
	A school has 17 children changing gender, as Twitcher says, vulnerable pupils are being tricked into believing that they are the wrong sex.
	I can totally believe it.
	Yeah.
	of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic according to a teacher there who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being tricked earlier this year the mail on sunday revealed that a third of all youngsters referred to the nhs over gender identity were children who showed quote moderate to severe autistic traits yeah so it's a lot of autistic kids who don't fit in because they're autistic or They're being groomed by activists for social justice.
	Who instead give them that diagnosis.
	Yes.
	Because they want to further a political cause, not help the children.
	Yes.
	In the slightest.
	If we go to the next one, we can see some other examples.
	I don't know if that's her specific case, but it's just something we've also seen where people say, oh, you must be trans, you're autistic.
	But this is someone else here saying, when I was 15, lonely and hated my body, I got sucked into gender ideology online.
	And I imagine that's so easy for teenage girls as well.
	I remember being a teenage boy.
	Do you think that much about your body?
	Do you remember the images of the schools?
	Like, lips of TikTok, when she tweets images of the schools, and in the school they have 15 different flags, all representing different things, gender ideology.
	Sure, but I can see why young women are more vulnerable to this.
	Because, like, you know, it's a sad fact of life, I guess, that, you know, men are visual and women therefore have to be concerned about the way they look.
	Whereas men, we don't have that problem so much.
	I don't care.
	Exactly.
	We've got to be competent and successful in various other things.
	But the point is, you can see how this is drawing in young women, because if they're, you know, as a teenage girl, I imagine they've got many more body issues than teenage boys have.
	Self-hatred.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And especially with the Instagram generation now, where they're just looking at these unbelievable pictures, and they're like, I can't live up to that.
	It's like, no, you can't.
	I know exactly how you feel, because I paint my Warhammer miniatures.
	Okay.
	No, honestly, I follow a bunch of Warhammer Minich paintings.
	I'm like, I can't do that.
	I know exactly how you feel, ladies.
	But I can totally see how this would be something that affects young women more.
	Definitely, and I'm not discounting any of that.
	But what I'm thinking as well is she's saying she was sucked in by gender ideology.
	And this has always been like, oh, Tumblr, online weirdos, that sort of exists, and people stumble into it by accident.
	But now when it's in the school system, especially with the American schools, as we have shown many a time, where the teachers are actively and openly engaging in gender ideological indoctrination of their kids, not their kids, sorry, the kids they're meant to be looking after, they're meant to have due gusty over them.
	I mean, it really is horrific when you can see a direct example of gender ideology sucking someone into this.
	She says, Again, just perfectly attractive young women as well.
	If there were young women who were not feminine in any way, you can understand how this would be very easy to think, well, actually, maybe I'm a man, but they're perfectly feminine women.
	She also says this is not rare as well.
	I believe it.
	Perfectly common.
	The truth is that there has been an extreme rise in adolescents, especially girls, believing they are transgender.
	UK NHS referral data shows a 4,000% increase in paediatric gender service referrals.
	Not a typo.
	So-called gender dysphoria, which was once a very rare diagnosis that described mostly prepubescent boys and adult men, is now most commonly diagnosed in teenage girls.
	Because of the change in technology, perhaps, as you say.
	Official figures show the number of children referred for gender treatment, including hormone injections, has risen from 97 in 2010 to 2,519 in 2018.
	Totally natural.
	Nothing to do with an activist movement that's online and predating on children who are using social media.
	Or in your school, actively trying to transition your kids for social justice.
	Yeah.
	As you say.
	From 97 to 2,519.
	That's mad.
	Within 10 years.
	Like, 8 years, even.
	But by far the steepest rise has come amongst girls, up from 40 to 1,806.
	Girls are rarely diagnosed with autism as well, aren't they?
	That's something that people tend to assume only boys have.
	Because I imagine female autism diagnoses have a different set of characteristics or something.
	It's probably just easier to see when boys are being autistic.
	Certainly fun.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see a report on this back in the day.
	We're probably all a bit autistic, frankly.
	Why do you think I work here?
	Trans groups under fire for huge rise in referrals of children.
	Activists and vloggers are in the spotlight as one school says 40 pupils do not identify as their birth gender.
	40 in one school.
	Again, Brighton.
	It's just so unbelievable.
	This is natural.
	For foreigners who don't know, Brighton is our Portland in a sense that is the most progressive place in the country.
	It's the only place with a Green Party MP. Literally mad people run this place.
	A further 36 are gender fluid.
	Of course they are!
	Why not?
	Of course.
	So we've now got 76 kids in one school.
	And I imagine hundreds call themselves bisexual.
	Yeah.
	Or not identifying with their birth gender, quote, all the time.
	Just sometimes.
	On a Thursday.
	Yeah.
	That's a gender.
	That's not someone in which you should not be encouraging.
	That's terrible.
	No.
	If you go to the next one, there are more stories from the Detransition Awareness Day.
	So this person says, wouldn't exist if trans healthcare was evidence-based and safe...
	Oh, that's Keira Bell.
	We've covered Keira before, yeah.
	Who had to go through all this and then the High Court to try and get this out.
	I can't imagine getting this to be evidence-based and safe at any point.
	No.
	If transgenderism slash gender identity wasn't a social contagion, and if fear around gender nonconformity wasn't so ingrained in society, which...
	Yeah, I mean, good luck.
	I mean, we really are down the rabbit hole in this case.
	Yeah.
	Because the next one, there's more from her, I believe, which says, I want people to know that detransition rarely means reversal to us.
	The hormones, definitely surgery, are irreversible, and it will vary in severity depending on how far one has gone.
	There is no going back.
	Some continue with regret.
	Some find a new path.
	It's such an awful thing to do to people so young.
	Children.
	Defenseless children.
	I can't imagine.
	You turn up with your progressive ideology and encourage them to destroy their bodies.
	17 years old.
	I mean, I knew nothing.
	I had no plans for the future.
	Some perverted witch who has been online and radicalised themselves into extremism turns up and starts trying to snatch up defenseless children for their ideology.
	Yeah.
	It really is sick, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next ones.
	We have Kenzie, who says she transitioned in 2017.
	My mum put some deeply homophobic and misogynistic ideas of what a woman should be into my head.
	I transitioned to escape my fate of what I thought I had to be as a woman.
	So, radicalised by her feminist mother?
	If you go to the next one, you might wonder about the homophobic aspect as well, which is a long-standing thing.
	You can see this article here.
	Well, hang on, no, sorry.
	Maybe a traditional mother and she being a feminist was like, well, that's homophobic and misogynistic, therefore I have to stop being a woman?
	She doesn't provide many details.
	But the point is, there's ideology in play here.
	This is not about, like, you know, people being...
	This is not about health.
	No, or normality.
	Anyway, carry on.
	Another example.
	If we go to the next one, we can see someone saying it feels like conversion therapy for gay kids.
	Say, clinicians.
	Ex-NHS staff fear that homophobia is driving a surge in transgender young people.
	You may also remember this is very much Iran's position on transitioning.
	Yes.
	For people who don't know, if you are caught...
	You're not gay, you're a woman.
	Even if you're a rape victim in Iran, let's say you're a man and you are raped, or you're a boy, because of course it's Iran, and you end up in front of a court, and the court says to you, well, you've been homosexual, that carries the death penalty, because it's an Islamic country.
	Yeah.
	You have an opt-out in Iran.
	What if you were a woman the whole time?
	So the option is death or transition?
	Okay, yeah.
	And in the West, we have apparently deeply homophobic parents who have decided, my son or daughter, they're not gay.
	Come on, that would be disgusting.
	They're just a woman.
	They're just a man.
	Do we?
	Apparently that is the claim from the clinicians inside Tavistock.
	They had homophobic parents coming to them, saying that my son isn't gay, he's just a woman.
	He's just transgender.
	I'd rather my son be gay than become a woman.
	I know.
	Weird, weird parents.
	Being gay isn't going to kill him.
	If we go to the next one as well, the next link, you have in here, of course, a report that just came out that adds as well, the Tavistock Clinic faces a complete overhaul after a review found that its gender identity services are, quote, not a safe or viable long-term option for children.
	Right.
	You are evil.
	I mean, the most evil people in society.
	Taxpayer funded.
	Yeah.
	The heroes in the NHS. Under the Conservative government.
	I want to burn NHS flags at this point.
	If you go to the next one, we can see...
	It's probably illegal.
	And you know, also had something to say on this, which is because he is, of course, a gay man as well.
	He is concerned, especially with the homophobic aspect of all this, which is where all the gays are going.
	I've spoken to a bunch of people who were saying that they were told because they were effeminate men, oh, you must be trans.
	And they were like, no, I'm just gay.
	It's fine, you know.
	Exactly what Andy says.
	Yeah.
	I was raised at a time when the culture and adults didn't introduce ideas that those interests indicate gender.
	I'm thankful I was free to grow into a man with varied hobbies and who happens to be gay.
	Solidarity with D-Transition Awareness Day.
	Absolutely.
	Now, I'm going to end this off with another Transitioner, who I just wanted to mention as well.
	So this person here saying thank you for all the support for boosting our signal on D-Transition Awareness Day.
	Again, a heretical statement.
	Yeah, it is.
	And a heretical space as well.
	Of course, Twitter.com being a leftist zone.
	Absolutely.
	You get banned for misgendering people on Twitter.
	As you can see with these people, especially this one here, they're also sick of the alphabet people because they don't count themselves in it.
	They might be gay, they might be transitioning, they might not be, whatever.
	But they're not part of the progressive cult.
	Are they politically that thing?
	Exactly.
	That's the question.
	Because we go to the next one, we have some idiot just being like, oh, with LGB Alliance saying here about the don't say gay bill and people calling it don't say gay.
	And it's just like, it's not that at all.
	I imagine LGB Alliance were actually pointing that out.
	And then him being like, it's insane that our journalists have become so corrupt that they can't even report facts anymore.
	They don't say gay is being misrepresented by the left.
	This is why it was a mistake not to have named the bill something quite aggressive.
	Stop perverting children.
	Get the witches out of the schools.
	I don't know what to say because that's exactly what they're wondering.
	Anti-groomer bill.
	That would have been a good idea.
	It would.
	Yeah, because that's what's happened.
	And with a lot of these, as a couple of them mentioned, they were in school, some groomer turned up and has done this to them, and then they've had to get themselves out of it after being, well, defenceless children who were taken advantage of by knowing adults.
	Not just knowing adults either.
	Adults in a position of authority as well.
	They're teachers or specialists or whatever.
	But the point is they're operating under the authority of the school that the children are naturally inclined to obey because that's the point of the school.
	And so, yeah, again, they should have named it something better than just something.
	Well, it's the anti-groomer bill.
	We're just going to start naming it.
	Yeah, the anti-groomer bill.
	The anti-groomer bill is going after exactly this situation and why this story popped up, which is the detransitioning.
	We've always warned.
	I mean, you've always warned, especially.
	You know, in 20 years, we're going to have a million stories about detransitioning.
	Oh, it's going to be horrific.
	We're already getting there.
	We're already getting people piling up saying, yeah, I was in school and I was lied to.
	This is the thin edge of the wedge, though.
	And now we have the anti-groomer bill, which should be hoping to do its job in Florida, but nowhere else.
	The rest of us are still living in this hell.
	And, well, something should be done about it immediately, which is probably copy and paste the anti-groomer bill to every legislative body in the world.
	Anyway, that's that.
	Let's go to the written comments.
	Sorry, video comments.
	There is nothing more based than home renovation and home construction shows on TV. One, promoting family values, as often these companies are family-oriented, or they work with their spouse, or work with their kids, or a combination.
	Two, they're taking old things and restoring them and making them look better.
	And, as a result, making their community better.
	By three, providing jobs for people as they help and restore these things.
	And four, seeing the rewards of their hard work.
	As often, they'll flip these things and sell them for a profit.
	Home decoration shows.
	Didn't know they were so based.
	Also, five, they promote masculine values.
	Building, constructing, being manly.
	Yeah, absolutely true.
	Let's get the next one.
	It's a lovely holiday in Greece I had.
	Far, far away from divisive politics and international conflicts.
	Anyway, I'd better check the news to see what I missed while I was away.
	No, maybe I should have got a plaque which read Welcome to the British Isles in Russian instead of ancient Greek.
	For people listening, he missed the war.
	He came back to find it.
	Went on holiday, comes back, insane propaganda, war.
	I remember Michael said the other day he had a similar thing, where he went on holiday and then came back and the London riots had happened.
	Oh yeah.
	So he just like walked in and everything's on fire and he's like, oh, okay.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Complaining of paying expensive lawyers to get his daughters off charges, including one of DUI. Hughley, yes that's how he insists it's pronounced, whines about mistreatment of blacks.
	My father worked all hours installing and servicing milking machines, but it never occurred to me or my sister to break the law.
	Hughley says kids need fathers, but he's barely there for his.
	He says black women need to be faithful, but says that's not natural for men.
	Every conclusion he reaches that's correct, and yes there are some, he immediately undermines with some stupid statement.
	Hughley is right.
	Someone does need to shut up.
	I kind of like that idea.
	It's like Armand White, the video game reviewer.
	Everything good is bad, everything bad is good.
	Everything is incorrect with his reviews, and then someone is just like, yeah, here's a base take, but when it's for men, it's the opposite.
	The 733-pound Denny Stones, named after legendary Scottish strongman Donald Denny, have been a strength challenge accomplished by few men in the last century.
	On March 5th of this year at the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio, the 140-pound Chloe Brennan of the UK became the fifth woman to lift these things.
	This was amazing to see.
	crowd cheers Awesome.
	Yeah, that's very impressive.
	So the time this comment plays, it should be Monday.
	Roughly 2pm UK time and I am currently on a plane to start my new life in England after 7 years here in Berlin.
	Quite nervous.
	And I know what you're thinking.
	Monkey man?
	You're really going to go live with the English?
	That's gross.
	And I can understand your point of view.
	But I think I'll be okay.
	Anyway, wish me luck.
	Godspeed, Lotus Ears.
	And I'll see you all at the pub.
	Oh, good luck.
	Where are you going?
	How is the English worse than living with the German?
	Well, I mean, the English.
	Where are you moving?
	Tottenham.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	I guess we'll find out.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	The English in big quotes.
	This biolab controversy says a lot more about how little people know of the world around them and what it takes to keep it going than it does the government.
	A level 3 biolab is something you can find by walking into any state college in the U.S., or any place that has a lot of farming.
	Fortunately, that's not something that matters here.
	It's not like Ukraine's known for farming.
	Wait...
	They're absolutely known for farming.
	When it could be someone doing it on purpose, like in 2001 in America, or an accidental situation.
	Again, I did say I'm not an expert in these situations, but it did happen in the United States.
	The idea it couldn't happen in Ukraine and then escalate the whole conflict, I don't find something not to be worried about.
	And the thing is, well, like, assigning it directly, oh, it's the Russians, it's the Ukrainians.
	Well, I mean, in America, it's just one random professor who had an idea.
	A U.S. Army microbiologist who was just like, eh, I need more funding.
	It's one lunatic who's operating in his own merits, you know.
	So, we don't know.
	Yeah, but it does take one guy, apparently.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It doesn't require the government to do something.
	No.
	So my friend from Russia has been telling me that she's really getting tired of stories about Russians eating Ukrainian babies, getting more traction than real stories.
	So I told her, let me know if you've got a message and I'll put it in front of at least a few people.
	Here she is.
	Hello, I'm Julia, Axis from Russia, and I'm so sorry for what is happening in Ukraine, and I am afraid for my friend there.
	But please, do not consider Russian blood.
	We all want peace.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, very heartfelt.
	No one's blaming the Russian people at all.
	No.
	It's not like we think you've voted for Putin or something.
	It says that, but also it's just like, how much influence can you ever have in these situations?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's usually the elites.
	But I tell you, I'm absolutely tired of the propaganda, though, right?
	I saw pro-Ukrainian propaganda.
	It was literally, some of the Russians put my mother in a freezer or something like that.
	No, no, no.
	And then when it brought out, they pushed her over and she shattered.
	It's like, no, she didn't.
	The Russians are now Mr.
	Freeze from Batman.
	Just come on.
	Come on.
	You know, Pixar didn't happen, obviously.
	And it didn't happen, so you're not going to get pics.
	It was nonsense.
	It was just nonsense.
	It was just like, come on.
	I was expecting more along the lines of, like, every school in eastern Ukraine has been bombed at this point.
	It's more convincing.
	I thought it would be more convincing than Mr.
	Freeze.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It was like, what is the...
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	I mean, some of this...
	I mean, of course, a lot of it's the case because it's war.
	But then, you know, war is war.
	But then it's very much reminiscent of...
	What did I say?
	It was the last hospital in Aleppo or the last hospital in Damascus.
	Mm-hmm.
	There were about 50 of those last hospitals that got bombed throughout the war.
	Same with the Kuwaiti babies have incubators and stuff like that.
	There is propaganda.
	It's just propaganda.
	But that's not to say that the suffering is not real or things do not happen.
	They do.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I've been going on a bit of a nostalgia trip for the last couple hours, and I think you guys need to do something.
	Make playlists for certain running themes.
	The Lord Miles stuff, the Trucker's stuff, the January 6th stuff.
	Make playlists of it on the YouTube channel, then make pages on the website with all of the videos on there.
	Makes it really easy for rewatches and just, you know, trips down memory lane.
	We'll have a think about it.
	Maybe, yeah.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from NewJersey.com comes the story of the Naughty Pine Pub.
	Listed as one of the top ten haunted pubs in New Jersey, Naughty Pine is located in Wharton, and the ghost is of a skinny man who hangs around near the dark boards.
	Customers have reported feeling strange feelings, hearing weird thumpings and noises in the basement.
	I think he just wants one last pint.
	I love that because it implies there are dozens and dozens of these pubs.
	We've got to narrow it down to the top ten of them.
	But also, the haunting is a guy who wants a pint.
	I bet every single haunted pub is the same story.
	I can see his...
	I feel his pain.
	Some guy denied of alcohol poisoning and he's still wandering around going, oh, give us a drink.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey guys, so I'm originally from Kern County.
	It produces about 70% of the state's oil and more than 90% of its gas, and it's number 7 on oil producing counties in the United States.
	And so a lot of our economy is tied to the oil industry.
	So when you look at the top 10 secured billings, which means just the land itself, 15% of that is paid by oil companies basically.
	That doesn't even include their business taxes, which are astronomical on top of it.
	Hmm.
	Good to know.
	Good lord.
	And that is good money.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Well Carl, when you take a week off and the video comments build a backlog, three in one episode is kinda what you get.
	But anyway, I did end up making two of these.
	I have no idea how much abuse they can take.
	I'll have a better idea after this weekend at the event I'm going to be bringing them to.
	But I'd be very happy to make more for you and your son, just to...
	Let me know the best way to get in contact because I'll have some specific questions we may have to go back and forth on just for exactly what you want and where I need to send it.
	But yeah, just let me know.
	Okay, just email contact at lotusseaters.com and I'd love to hear from you because I really would like...
	Daniel would be thrilled.
	He'd be absolutely thrilled.
	Because honestly, I can't seem to find him anywhere else.
	I don't blame you.
	I know exactly what you mean.
	I was very annoyed as a kid when you asked to go buy swords and they would just break.
	Yeah.
	A good wooden sword that's not too heavy.
	That's what he needs.
	If this transgender thing turns out to be a blessing in disguise, it will turn off straight men from porn, obviously.
	And when there's no money left, so will the women.
	Why would it turn straight men from porn?
	Not sure.
	But it would be good if it did.
	Okay.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	Dave says, explains to me how Callum can say General Russian's name, but can't pronounce Christolm.
	Callum, KGB agent confirmed.
	True.
	Baron von Warhawk says, you would have thought that the war between Russia and Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias would become one of the most diverse and inclusive events in the world.
	Truly, diversity is our strength.
	I mean, it's literally the strength of the armed forces in Russia and Ukraine.
	Kalein says, that's the thing with nationalist movements, they're nationalists.
	They only care about the nation they're in, even if the people they're fighting have the exact same views, and the exact same ethnicity, and the exact same histories.
	Lee says, Russian communists and Nazis team up to fight Ukrainian communists and Nazis.
	It seems that you can get these ideologically obsessed groups to fight for your country on either side.
	Easily influenced, perhaps?
	Or do they have ulterior motives?
	No, I think the power of ideology is so great that you can get people to literally, like, go over from Reddit.
	You know, it's like, I'm going to go fight.
	It's like, why?
	Because I'm trans and I'm fighting for trans rights.
	What, in Ukraine?
	They care?
	What are you talking about?
	The BBC were down at, I think it was Lviv train station, interviewing people, and there were a lot of Irishmen who had never held a gun, which, I don't know if they were all IRA, I'm just lying.
	But why?
	I only had the bombs.
	Going to fight for liberal democracy in Ukraine, alongside Al-Qaeda and the Nazis.
	Free Will says, if he's calling for...
	To be honest, this does sound like a good conference.
	I'd like to be a fly on the wall, I guess.
	Yeah, I'd like to exchange memes between the conference guys.
	I'd like it to be like the Labour Party conference where they have a stage and the representatives get up on stage and I want it to livestream so we can all see how it goes.
	IRA, Al-Qaeda, Azov, Wagner.
	Chechens, yeah.
	Free Will says, if he is calling for volunteers, it does show that the Russians are having problems taking and keeping ground.
	Russian military doctrine is based on air power and massed artillery.
	During the Syrian campaign, that was their main contribution, and Iran's allies from the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon provided many ground troops.
	Unlike the Soviet Union, the current Russian army does not have a lot of quality infantry, and Ukraine is huge.
	Part of it in the north is in the Pripyat marshes, where during World War II, huge numbers of Soviet partisans harassed German supply lines.
	The same might apply today.
	A prolonged guerrilla war could wear down the Russian army, so Putin might need extra ground forces to hold this vast country.
	Entirely possible.
	Maybe.
	The funniest thing I did see about the war was the other day, LaserPig released another video, and apparently the Russians couldn't use encrypted frequencies to talk to each other.
	Right.
	So like, all of the comms, if you knew the radio frequency, not only could you listen in, you could join in.
	Right.
	So a lot of Ukrainians have been taking out their walkie-talkies, joining in, and then just screeching down the mic of them.
	Or just leaving it next to me.
	Or just turning on the radio and just putting it next to the radio and leaving.
	Yeah, I had them playing the Ukrainian national anthem and stuff like that.
	Yeah, so all these Russians just sat in their chairs in the tank just being like, I want to kill myself.
	I like this socks.
	SH Silver says, US-backed extremists fighting Russian-backed extremists.
	Two global powers using the regime change game plan with Ukraine as their playground.
	I feel awful for the Ukrainian civilians who have been part of the grand chessboard for the last decade.
	Yeah, I mean, it's not good, is it?
	But what can they do?
	Where can they go?
	What options do they have?
	Doesn't seem like they've got many.
	Alex says, I would recommend Carl read an article by Putin titled On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.
	It's a really interesting read and provides us with an opportunity to understand the Russian perspective on Ukraine.
	What I found most intriguing about the article is fundamentally how much thick language Putin uses.
	Really, we'd like to hear your perspective on the article.
	Okay, I'll take it.
	He's left a link.
	But yeah, Putin is clearly a conservative.
	In some ways.
	He doesn't seem very ideological.
	Not hugely, but I know some people who just keep saying he has no ideology and I'm just like, there's no way he has no ideology.
	Sure, but his ideology seems to be Russian nationalism.
	Yeah, Russian nationalism.
	Matthew says, hopefully we can assist the passage of any Syrian refugees in the UK who want to join their brave comrades and fight alongside them in Russia.
	We can spare them from their jobs in the UK as doctors and engineers.
	We're all fighting age.
	Have you seen the thing where the UK government's like, oh, we're giving you £350 a month to take a Syrian...
	Ukrainian refugee.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I really wish I understood property.
	Yeah.
	Better buy a house.
	Get yourself a wife.
	You just buy loads of properties and they just open them up and be like, yeah, all the women take them in and then just go room to room just checking in on you.
	It's only women that are allowed to come.
	You're going to get paid by the government.
	And you finally get a wife.
	I don't think this is a bad deal for homeowners.
	Although it's $350.
	I don't know what that pays for, though.
	Does that just pay you for the rent if you're a homeowner?
	Or does that pay for anything for them?
	I assume it's meant to cover all the costs.
	No, because I'm assuming they would get $350 for the rent, and then they would get sent some money as well by the state for food and whatnot.
	I assume they can claim benefits or something, because who can't claim benefits?
	Free dental.
	I don't know what the reference of how much we're actually paying per person is going up to.
	Chad Kuala says, seriously, what's the deal with all these Slavic neo-Nazis?
	Did they not read about how the original Nazis classified Slavs as subhuman, or did they just ignore that fact?
	Yeah, it seems to not be about ideological consistency.
	Baron from Warhawk again, seems like Reddit has forgotten the first rule of war, loose lips sink ships.
	Let's post my mate's address.
	Idiots.
	Well, he wasn't even a mate.
	Well, he was friends on Facebook or whatever, right?
	I don't know if he even was.
	Because all I know is that the Redditor just took the image and was like, oh, look, he's in a school.
	And then it just got bombed.
	It was just like, you're actually a moron.
	Yes.
	It's both so.
	People who use Reddit are actually morons. - Yes.
	George says, No, I think the lack of jail time, the fact that it's so small, is because of his connections.
	But yeah, again, he's just a huge embarrassment to what was supposed to be a subversive power structure that's just been revealed.
	Lord Nerevar, Carl, could I humbly ask you to repeat your impression of the fine Nigerian men who boldly declare this is Maga Country on that fateful night?
	There you go.
	Sweden says, I love this Sweden.
	I honestly believe that what happened to Jussie was a false flag designed to associate Trump as a racist and bolster the Democrats' support.
	It's quite interesting they chose an actor.
	Yeah, I mean, on the surface, that's the obvious line, because it's a vulnerable fault line.
	We can create a narrative that some MAGA cap-wearing Nigerians attack Jussie Smollett because they're racist, and this is something that our side will believe.
	It implicates the other side as being racist.
	It further foments the race war that the Democrats have been fighting for the last decade.
	200 years.
	But I don't know whether that was the goal in and of itself.
	I think that was just nearly the mechanism.
	But I don't know.
	S.A. Silver says, I think you're giving too much credit to Juicy.
	This comes off more as a narcissist cry.
	He may have powerful people to cover up his embarrassing failure of a hoax, but I think they'd rather keep their distance and let him rot in his failure rather than interfere.
	Yeah, but that's the thing.
	It depends how...
	I mean, they're very committed.
	Kim Fox is still towing the line.
	It's mad.
	And this is starting to make other people around her go, well, hang on a second.
	Now her position starts being called into question.
	And if this carries on, I mean, he might, you know, Epstein himself.
	I'm waiting for Michelle Obama to just tweet out, like, justice for Jussie Smollier.
	I mean, she literally said it was a kangaroo prosecution.
	So, yeah, because you were covering it up.
	No, but for the Obamas to jump in again.
	Well, maybe.
	I mean, we don't know.
	I mean, an Obama aide did, so...
	Student of History says, three years is a maximum, five separate charges.
	He was found guilty on...
	Max was theoretically 15 years.
	Oh, yeah, that's another good point, yeah.
	He could have had on the...
	They didn't charge him to perjure or anything, which they should have done, but on the three separate charges, he could have got 15 years and got 150 days.
	It's like, nice to be you.
	Do you get them sequentially?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I believe they do stack.
	Danny says, Well, Chicago is the most corrupt city and the most corrupt state in all of American history.
	I believe that to be elected into political office, there's a criminal record as a necessity.
	Well, it might well be the case, frankly.
	I've been saying this for ages.
	Do we really believe that California, New York and maybe Chicago are really as Democrat as they say?
	Or is it just that they have a web of fixing going on?
	I would be more inclined to believe that it's being rigged, frankly.
	Well, that's the argument in the book over there that Gerard sent us.
	Oh, is it?
	It's just like, well, here's the six cities, here's how they've been run in the past, and here's how they were run last time.
	It's literally like gangster cities.
	Severian says, That's not a bad point, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Kevin says, It actually was not the bee falling for a bow.
	Well, they did actually fall for it.
	Because I saw that as well, and it was obviously a joke.
	But I love the Sam Hyde meme.
	Anything that happens, he's involved.
	Of course they are.
	Commies can't use a hoe to produce a bountiful harvest, so all they can do is shake and seethe.
	Good point.
	Sweden again.
	I've done some courses in psychology.
	Anti-schizophrenic drugs have been used on transsexuals.
	They very quickly lose their delusion.
	The reason that trans is promoted is that it earns the med industry around £150,000 to £200,000 per individual.
	It's not much of a sex hormone thing, actually.
	The majority of victims are autistic girls.
	Like you were saying on The Hangout, it's about directing a kid's attention.
	Autists hyperfocus on the topic is their prime target for the freaks who groom them.
	And I do believe that as well.
	Kids literally become whatever you direct their attention to.
	You can see that with some people who say they're trans as well, where it's not just something.
	It's like you say about the progressive types, where they know every different type of gender and they've got a flag for every different type of gender and all that stuff.
	I've never thought of it like that, but it's definitely autistic territory.
	Oh, I would say so.
	There was a guy my mother knew, lovely kid, but he had a huge collection of telegraph poles and all the different types and could tell you every single one, and it was like, right, that's mad.
	But now that I compare that to the flags, I'm like, wait, no, that's the same thing.
	I couldn't name all these stupid flags, why would anyone?
	But honestly, on the point of kids being hyper-focused and directing the kids' attention, I was saying to Callum, my son, last month, came top in the maths competition thing that they do.
	And I put it down, yeah, no, good for him.
	Salutes in the chat, guys.
	That was pretty good in top of his year.
	And I'm no good at maths, so it's nothing to do with his inheritance from me.
	But I put it down to the fact that he wanted to play Magic the Gathering and stuff.
	And so I made him calculate all of the figures and all the numbers that are involved.
	And now, that was about two years ago, I watch him do these calculations and I'm like, God damn, that's excellent.
	So being a nerd does have benefits.
	Charlie says...
	What are you going to do if he becomes a physicist or something?
	Well, I mean...
	Teach him that science is bad.
	Physics is fine.
	Okay.
	Social science is a problem.
	I agree with that.
	You know, physics is just mathematics, really.
	So, go and be autistic, my son.
	Go forth and autism away.
	My son, you have a choice.
	Cut off your penis and become a weird ideologue or do maths.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's your choice, son.
	Your son should sat there with a book.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Charlie says, regarding de-trans awareness day, LGBT leftists, re-trust the science, don't invalidate our lived experiences.
	De-trans says, science helped me realize that I'm not trans and I was brainwashed and lied to LGBT leftists.
	No, your science and lived experiences are invalid.
	And again with Charlie, so the trans rights say words are hurtful and trans people kill themselves all the time over it, yet they are perfectly happy to harass, bully and browbeat people that are de-trans listening to fall back into line regardless of the harm it does to that person and they call us hurtful and cruel.
	Yes.
	That's exactly it.
	The double standard is exactly that clear.
	Steve says, I don't know...
	Steve Stevens...
	I don't...
	To be fair, there was a footballer called Neville Neville, so...
	I'm not even joking.
	You never thought of changing it?
	I don't know.
	But anyway, I don't know much about this, but surely sex-aligned hormone therapy could be a possibility.
	Well, that's what I thought.
	You know, it just seems to make sense, doesn't it?
	It's like, oh, we're going to give you testosterone, so you become a man.
	Especially when they said about the very feminine boys.
	Yeah, give some testosterone then.
	That seems like a better solution than, here's a bunch of...
	Ah, what's the female one?
	Then snip.
	Yeah, estrogen and snip.
	Yeah, I mean, I just know what I was going to do.
	So shove this plastic under your chest as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Freeble again.
	The people pushing this evil ideology to these young people so they mutilate themselves need to be made to answer for their actions.
	Yes, but they never will, unfortunately.
	Robert says, the trans-trenders must be cast out of society.
	They're unhappy with themselves and think effing someone else up will make them feel better.
	Misery loves company.
	Yeah, I do wonder how much of this is not just being ideological.
	I mean, a lot of it is, obviously.
	But it's also, if...
	They can't be satisfied that it was a decision for themselves and themselves only.
	They have to confirm this by making everyone else do it.
	Which is why I'm saying go and have kids.
	LAUGHTER You have a gender ideology, but a different one.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I'll be writing about that another time.
	Chris says, I was told at a group dinner that trans men are men, but if I remember correctly, a man can't be a trans man.
	So A equals B, but B doesn't equal A. Well, that's interesting, isn't it?
	I've actually been thinking about this trans women are women thing.
	I think I'm going to write a direct video on this at some point, just because there's an interesting way of kind of short-circuiting this.
	I'm not going to spoil it now.
	But the thing is...
	When you do this, trans women are women, it becomes true to us, but not social justice warriors.
	It's a very interesting way of...
	I'll write the video.
	Interesting that what we used to call tomboys in the past, the girl who's climbing trees and playing in the mud, cool, now involves horrible atrocities and crimes against children.
	Yeah, I mean, when I was a kid, we always used to hang out with tomboys.
	Like, tomboys are cool.
	You know, they'd be your first kiss and feel of a boob.
	Now, we've got to chop off the boobs.
	No, don't.
	Why?
	What's wrong with you?
	It's true, though.
	Yes.
	Kevin says, I don't know much about the female-to-male transitions, but the male-to-female transitions I've always noticed they're from guys who aren't very manly.
	And for a period, they'll feel compelled to join the army and be supermanly to compensate for this.
	The end result is they're utterly miserable, and from there, they somehow conclude they'll be better off as women and start the transition process.
	They should be encouraged to do reflection and introspection.
	The very idea of what it is to be a man or masculine is a caricature of far too shallow even to call a stereotype.
	It's fair.
	Callum says, Yeah, I don't think there's going to be any accountability for any of these people.
	I don't think it'll be forgotten though.
	No, it'll be 20 years time.
	Yeah, like you've mentioned thalidomide or women used to electrocute gay people or whatever it is.
	Lobotomize people.
	It'll become seen as one of those periods in history where it's just like, is it what?
	Yes.
	They had these weird witches who turned on.
	And we will have like the, you know, the...
	Dr.
	John Money will be like that professional lobotomizer who went around America with his lobotomy mobile, lobotomizing literally 3,500 people.
	What did he do?
	He chopped up their brains?
	3,500 people.
	Oh, he was famous.
	What was the argument for this, though?
	This was the new wave of scientific technique, and it could cure various disorders.
	Yeah, I guess it can.
	It also turns you into a vegetable.
	So what, you'd have a kid who's really autistic and you'd just cut up his brain?
	Yeah, like behavioural problems and stuff like that.
	And yeah, and so it's just one of those things.
	And in his time, this guy was world famous, you know, totally well-renowned.
	Like all of the famous social justice people now, like Dr.
	John Money is going to age poorly, right?
	Like those sorts of people.
	And you are right.
	I think in like 20 or 30 years time, people are like, wow, they used to do that?
	It's like, yeah, they did.
	Because scientists are evil in every generation.
	Anyway, and whatever they're doing now in your time, well, in 30 years' time, that's going to be regarded bad, okay?
	Don't trust scientists.
	Charlie again says, Carl, young boys do have body issues, issues with body image, and as a result of social media.
	The phenomenon is called bigorexia, where young boys try to obtain the biggest muscles possible, leading to steroids as well.
	Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that no young boys ever have problems, but I do think it's probably something that affects more young girls than more boys.
	There seems to be a lot more out there.
	I don't know, they just seem to be more obsessed with it, as a gender.
	Zoranax, regarding the trans issue, seeing how more girls transition to male and disappear as a consequence, is it time to question what people think when they hear compassion for men?
	Imagine such involves coddling, and it says a lot about where the West is regarding treatment of people in our society.
	Indeed.
	Agent000 says, if you want to sleep with men, almost no one cares, and those few who do will not accept you more if you transition into a lady.
	I really do not get this.
	Yeah, I know.
	I mean, okay, I assume there are parents out there who are like, I don't want my son to be gay.
	So yeah, but be a woman...
	Is that better?
	At least he's not gay.
	Isn't he?
	This is the Islamic position.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I'm sorry, I still think of him as a male, so he's still gay, but now he just doesn't have a penis.
	No, no, that's our daughter.
	Daughter.
	Never married.
	And finally, Hello World says, This
	is so similar to how terrorists are groomed at low self-esteem and loss of identity.
	Well, on that depressing black pill, it's time to end the show.
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