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April 14, 2022 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 14th of April 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about Elon Musk threatening to buy all of Twitter.
	All belongs to me now.
	Also, the TERFs have definitively won, it seems, at least in Turf Island, in which we live.
	Right.
	And the United States looks like South Africa, which is not so jolly a segment to end on, but, well, it's reality, so take a look at the United States for that one.
	Anyway, suppose we ought to begin with the breaking of breaking news.
	Yeah, so, breaking news, Elon Musk has just offered to buy Twitter, and we're going to go through what has happened since he initially bought his stocks, the effect on the Twitter employees themselves, which has been glorious, and then talk about, again, this most breaking news is literally like 20 minutes before the podcast.
	That this was announced, so there's not that much to talk about on it, but I'll go through the details.
	But before we do, it might be worth trying to understand the game that Elon Musk is playing.
	A lot of people have been comparing this to Game of Thrones, and that's true.
	And Game of Thrones is basically based on The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.
	And you can check out our book club of that at lotuses.com.
	It's one of our premium series, and I go through The Prince with Beau, talking about exactly why this was such an impactful book.
	Because it is the origin point of political science, and it will help you understand the game that Elon Musk is playing.
	But anyway, let's get into it.
	So, Elon Musk, when he purchased his 9.2%, I think it was, share of the Twitter stocks, Basically, the experts, the professors who deal with this sort of thing on a daily basis were saying, well, look, this is clearly part of an activist drive.
	And it's not like Elon Musk had made any secret of that at all.
	Free speech sucks on Twitter, doesn't it?
	Yeah, maybe I should do some of that.
	Yeah, maybe you should, Elon.
	Yeah, how about me being the biggest shareholder?
	Well, that's a start.
	Brandeis University finance professor Anna Shabina told NPR that she predicts Musk could potentially turn into an activist investor.
	Yeah, brilliant prediction.
	Putting pressure on the management until he gets his agenda done.
	She said that activist investors also install people who share their point of view on the board and in more aggressive cases even attempt to replace the company's CEO. How aggressive do we think that Elon Musk is planning to be?
	Well, we actually know that he's planning to be really aggressive.
	See, I prepared this segment this morning not knowing that Elon Musk was going to just ante up and try and buy the entire thing.
	So it's very convenient timing, frankly.
	Don't know how he knew I was doing that.
	Anyway, so this is not...
	She's not the only person who said this either.
	Don Blisson of Gordon Haskett Research Advisors told CNBC that the flip side to this is that Twitter must deal with a wildcard investor that already owns 9% of the company and has the resources to buy the remaining 91%.
	Again, this all seems to have aged very well, to be honest, doesn't it?
	Just sitting there with a massive pile of gold, just being like, yeah, so, all in.
	But I like the way they view this, right?
	So another analyst says, this is clearly going to be an unfriendly situation.
	Instead of...
	I mean, we might describe it as a hostile takeover, right?
	Instead of Musk in the boardroom, in the corner, just saying yay or nay, agreeing on board candidates, I think it's going to go to the point in the coming days that we'll see him going to hostile, more active moves.
	How others have described those?
	If it's unfriendly, it's hostile.
	Well, what's he doing?
	He's arguing for free speech.
	And this kind of environment, it can't be accepted.
	That's not what he means by hostile.
	What he means is essentially forced.
	Sure.
	I mean, that's not what this offer to buy is either.
	They can refuse the offer.
	But then Elon could just sit there and buy up shares until he's 51% of the company and then just make them do what he wants.
	But we'll talk about that in a minute.
	For every day Donald Trump is not online, I shall buy a percent.
	Possibly, yeah.
	I mean, he's totally capable of doing that.
	But anyway, so moving on.
	Fox News posted an article by someone who writes for Revolver News called Darren Beatty.
	I think that's exactly how Elon Musk is looking at this.
	And that's how I would look at this.
	And I think that's how Twitter themselves are looking at this.
	I mean, it's so true, though.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	They can see that they're illegitimate and corrupt.
	The fact that they control the public square for all mainstream politicians, let's say, because you can see them all on there with their verified checkmarks.
	And then they all circle-jerk and only interact with each other, which is why you end up with, like, conservative MPs, running about, I don't want to say that a trans woman isn't a woman.
	Yeah, I know.
	Because, well, people might disagree.
	Who?
	Twitter people.
	The Twittering classes.
	Yeah.
	But this corrupt group of people that manage the whole thing see themselves as corrupt.
	But I think he's got a good summary of what's going on here, right?
	He says he's stepping into a war zone in a way that you might not even be able to imagine at this point.
	As you point out, the entire regime depends upon holding a total monopoly over Elon rightly calls the global public square, which is Twitter.
	Anyone who threatens that steps into territory that is not a normal financial realm.
	Twitter is not a normal company.
	The question of who controls Twitter is far more consequential than, say, who controls Home Depot, even though Home Depot is a vastly larger company.
	So he needs to be prepared.
	And I agree with him that the question of who controls the global public square is more than the relatively meagre 30 billion that Twitter is priced at.
	So, the question is, is Elon offering enough to get them past the pleasure of having control of that and saying, well, I mean, it is an extra 10 billion profit.
	Maybe we will check that out and, you know, not our problem then.
	Who knows?
	But anyway, so on April, the 7th of April, the Twitter employees were deeply shook by this when Elon released his filing saying, well, yeah, I'm buying a large chunk of your company, in fact.
	The Twitter employees refused to talk to Reuters without anonymity.
	So we don't know who they are, but they're random Twitter employees, apparently.
	And so they spoke to Reuters and they were concerned about his ability to influence the company's policies on abusive users and harmful content.
	Come on!
	So they say that with Musk on the board, because this was before he refused the accepting of the board's offer to not buy more than 14.9% of the stocks in order to have one vote on the board, which would have totally put him in chains, they said his views on moderation could weaken the years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy public discourse and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish.
	Oh no!
	The employees also said, longer term, they said that Musk's involvement may change Twitter's corporate culture, which they say currently values inclusivity.
	Right, so it's an SJW corporate culture at Twitter, and Elon Musk might change that.
	Good.
	So, Elon Musk was like, well, why don't I just do an Ask Me Anything with the Twitter employees?
	And that'll go well.
	Apparently he said he'd try and calm them down by doing an Ask Me Anything style town hall, which Parag Agrawal was like, yeah, that's a great idea.
	This will calm them all down.
	This will bring them on side.
	One worker, though, suggested that Musk's values were contradictory to those of Twitter.
	Quote, we know that he has caused harm to workers, people at Twitter.
	Musk has harmed them.
	The trans community, women, and others with less power in the world.
	Elon Musk is a brute.
	He's able to harm you with his smile.
	With his tweets.
	How are we going to reconcile this decision with our values?
	Does innovation trump humanity?
	What I love about that question, though, is that it demonstrates that, yes, Elon Musk is going to improve Twitter.
	He's going to innovate.
	He's going to do things they refuse to do for ideological reasons.
	And, yeah, so they're worried.
	They're deeply shook that this is going to change things, because it would have changed things, at least in some way.
	But Elon Musk, of course, did not accept the position on the Twitter board of directors, and so he cancelled it.
	Well, because there was obviously a ploy.
	I mean, just don't hammer it down.
	So he brought 9%, and then Twitter were like, hey, you can come on the board, but you'll only be able to own 14% maximum.
	And you'll be outvoted 11 to 1.
	So he was like, well, that's clearly a trap.
	Yes.
	New.
	Yes.
	Uh, and so, but this, this has, um, put the talent, put the Twitter employees into a bit of a tizzy because it kind of looks like he's gaslighting them a bit because they were like, okay, well, at least we're going to be able to talk to them.
	Maybe make our case.
	So it's like, no, no, now you're going to get nothing.
	Right.
	And so as the New York post reports, Twitter is a total S show on the inside at this point.
	I am absolutely loving every second of this.
	As they report, Elon Musk's looming battle with Twitter board is a source of major anxiety for company employees.
	There are a bunch of SJWs who are literally quaking in their boots in Twitter at the moment.
	His surprise rejection of the Twitter board seat emerged ahead of the scheduled day of rest for company employees.
	So the uncertainty left Twitter workers feeling super stressed, quote-unquote, about the future, with employees reportedly working together to help each other get through the week.
	Anyway, the report cited interviews with Twitter employees who asked not to be identified while discussing the company's inner workings.
	Several employees told the outlet that Twitter's internal environment was an S-show after Musk's dealing with the board fell through.
	One Twitter employee gripped that Musk was likely just getting started with pushing for change at the company, a development the worker described as unfortunate, according to Bloomberg.
	This is great.
	Again, though, because as you pointed out, he's going to innovate the place, he's going to make the place better, he's going to make it more free, and all of them accept that, which makes them de facto reasoning that they are the corrupt, retarding force within the entire company.
	Yes.
	They have managed to capture Twitter as an institution and turn it into a platform.
	An ideological weapon.
	Yeah, exactly.
	A weapon for social justice.
	And Elon Musk has the power to buy his way in and change all of that.
	And they are absolutely quaking in their boots.
	They know the controlling power that Twitter has on the public discourse.
	They know that if Elon Musk actually opens this up to other ideological perspectives, then they are going to lose.
	They're not going to win in the marketplace of ideas.
	So you've got people like Robert Reich, who's just, oh, this is such a big self-report.
	I love this.
	Elon Musk's vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense.
	Robert Reich is a neoliberal shill professor who always shills for everything left-wing, even though he claims not to be a socialist.
	But I love the little tagline down there, right?
	And they changed this.
	Sorry, John, you should have kept the archive.
	I got the archive for a reason.
	Because they changed this, right?
	They say, Musk faces no limit on how much Twitter stock he can buy.
	He'll buy as much as he needs to gain control.
	That wasn't the original tagline.
	The original tagline was, Musk has long advocated a libertarian vision of an uncontrolled internet.
	That's also the dream of every dictator, strongman, and demagogue.
	CCP, love a free and uncontrolled internet.
	Yeah, Xi Jinping's uncontrolled internet.
	Kim Jong-un's uncontrolled internet.
	Hello, base department?
	What are you talking about?
	Do you know what internet they have in North Korea?
	Very limited, I imagine.
	Literally zero.
	They have an intranet, which is an internal circuit that only they can access with predetermined sites.
	Yeah, the libertarian fantasy.
	Yes, like, this guy is just so delusional at this point to say that they...
	But what this is is a big self-report, right?
	It's not that Elon Musk allowing everyone to use Twitter freely is what dictators want.
	He's got the dictatorial position where he doesn't allow people to engage in the libertarian vision of an uncontrolled internet.
	It's a controlled internet that he's trying to protect, and he knows it.
	And so he goes to this, we'll skip over it, because it's really Not that interesting.
	Although, actually, there are a few bits, so I will go for them.
	So he says, Musk says he wants to free the internet, but what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now.
	Okay?
	When it's often impossible to discover who's making the decisions about how algorithms are designed, well, we'd know.
	It'd be Elon Musk.
	Yeah, like, we have no idea at this point.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's BlackRock at this point, and the other, like, international conglomerate companies that own, like, you know, 8% or whatever share of Twitter.
	Like, this is not good people, and it's totally opaque, as you say.
	At least we'd have a person that we could hold accountable on that.
	But yeah, who is filling social media with lies?
	Who is poisoning our minds with pseudoscience and propaganda?
	Dude, just define woman for me, alright?
	Who's deciding which versions of events go viral and which stay under wraps?
	Make no mistake, this is not about freedom, it's about power.
	Big self-report.
	Who's controlling what goes viral?
	You!
	Yeah, exactly.
	There is a horde of individuals who are banned from all of these platforms to the point that, well, you can't even mention some of their names without getting hit up by a bot.
	And some of them have been reduced for simply saying that the government is locally corrupt.
	I mean, Voice of Wales being the best one for that.
	Yeah, our local government sucks.
	And then instantly just deplatformed from everything.
	And so he is absolutely on suicide watch.
	He is crying into his pillow.
	He is deeply, deeply upset.
	And so anyway, let's get to then today's breaking news after Elon Musk has...
	Basically, what I love about this is if you Twitter as an institution, Elon Musk has just come up and starts shaking the whole thing, and everyone inside is now crying and mewling.
	Well, they think they're all so powerful.
	They control everything, and then this big rich man just came along and went, hmm, I have money.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You work with money.
	So he's shaking, and they're all crying like the whole thing's about to fall apart.
	And it's like, well, okay, good.
	And so, just before the podcast, he tweets out, I made an offer.
	And he is linked to the filing of him offering this money.
	But the Daily Mail is reported on it, so we'll use theirs just to make it easy for ourselves.
	I also love, because have you ever seen Elon talk about his money?
	Yeah, I mean, probably.
	There's the fact of, like, he'll say about, like, the interviewer asked him, how does it feel to now be the world's richest man?
	He was like...
	I earned some stock, it went up, and then I was really rich.
	So nothing had changed for him.
	So then when he cashed it in and got his money, I imagine him just sat there one day on this huge pile of cash that he'd got out of nowhere in his own mind, and just been like, hmm, if there was some way I could fix things in this world.
	I have tons of cash!
	Anyways, the Daily Mail report.
	Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion.
	That makes it $54 a share, which is apparently...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	54.20?
	Oh, 4.20.
	Good point.
	Good point, Elon.
	54.20, which is 38% above the closing price of Twitter stock on April 1st.
	And so that's great.
	I mean, that's a huge amount up.
	That's a third extra of what Twitter's worth at about $30 billion.
	So, I mean, he is offering them a significant profit on this investment.
	What do you reckon they're going to do?
	I don't know, because of course this is power that they want to keep themselves, but we know that socialists are prostitutes.
	Yes.
	I mean, every single time one of them gets offered a huge amount of cash, they seem to take it.
	Yes.
	I mean, the Black Lives Matter people, Hassan Piker, AOC's crew, Bernie Sanders, I mean, every single American leftist just takes the money.
	But I mean...
	I don't know.
	I think they're going to say no.
	I think everyone might do, because this is so powerful.
	This is not an embarrassment for them.
	This is the loss of control.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is ceding the reins of the direction in which public discourse goes.
	And it's not just control of a few individuals, because remember, I imagine Americans don't think about this much, but every parliament in Europe, pretty much, all of the politicians sit on Twitter.com and get their worldviews from those places.
	No matter how conservative they apparently are.
	And therefore, not only do you have control over the American political sphere, but all of the Western parliaments you have de facto control ideologically.
	Yep.
	It's mad, isn't it?
	But Elon Musk had, in the filing, said this.
	I invested in Twitter and I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.
	And I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
	However, since making my investment, I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this social imperative in its current form.
	Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
	So at the moment, it's a publicly traded company.
	He wants to buy it all and make it a private company that he personally owns.
	Okay.
	I mean, that would be great.
	As a result, I'm offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter, and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced.
	My offer is my best and final offer, and if not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.
	Twitter has an extraordinary potential.
	I will unlock it.
	Musk added that this offer was not a threat.
	I find that really amusing.
	If you have to say that this isn't a threat, it's a threat.
	But he says, no, it's simply not a good investment without the changes that need to be made.
	This is a threat.
	It's not a threat, it's a knife.
	Exactly.
	This is Elon playing the prince here.
	And he says these changes won't happen without taking the company private.
	So let's go.
	Right, so...
	There's an interesting bit here that's, if this is not accepted, this is the only offer and apparently he's not prepared to negotiate on it, I would be surprised if he's not prepared to negotiate on it.
	I'd be surprised if the Twitter board aren't like, okay, well more and then maybe, or something like that.
	I bet he would negotiate on it.
	I bet he'd double it.
	I bet he would, yeah.
	But he says, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.
	Now, I'm no expert, but this looks to me like there's two potential options here.
	So one, he dumps all of his Twitter stock, right?
	That's 2.9 billion or something in stock, which is going to crash their share price.
	Not to mention all the other memers who have jumped on board.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that's going to crash their share price.
	And therefore, Twitter shares are going to plummet in value, causing the company to lose even more money.
	The people who are invested in Twitter, who are all the multinational investment corporations, I mean, how much is control of this platform worth before the lack of it is costing us money?
	Who knows?
	The second option is that Elon reconsiders his position as a shareholder, as in being merely one out of multiple shareholders, and he's just like, well, I'll just buy more until I control 51% of your company, and I'll force you to do what I want.
	Because that's also well within Elon Musk's power.
	Like, he could do either one.
	And so, like, they must be...
	No wonder all the Twitter employees are sweating bullets right now.
	Like, I don't think there is any way for him to lose, except the offering of him on the board, where he was capped at 14.
	Yeah, that seems to have been the only way that they could have actually corralled him, because there's nothing stopping him from buying 51% of the company, of the shares, and, I mean, what are their options?
	Like, Elon's basically got them in this big bear trap, and it's like, okay, well...
	Do what you like.
	I suppose for them to buy all the shares before he can?
	Yeah, well, are they prepared to?
	BlackRock and all of these other investment companies, prepared to pour more money in to try and match Elon's share buying to make Twitter one of the most expensive companies on Earth or something?
	I don't know.
	And even then, if Elon is the sort of man who doesn't care about money, which, honestly, he kind of looks that way, but he's actually not that bothered about money?
	This doesn't seem to be a driving motivation for him.
	That's what I said about when you see him talk about how he got his hoard of cash.
	He's just like, it was there all of a sudden.
	He doesn't think about it at all, which is why I did a calculation before we started as well.
	I put it for the average American, what would this cost in proportion to his wealth?
	And it's the equivalent of the average American spending $14,000.
	So he could spend this two or three times over and not really notice.
	It's a bit expensive, but you know, it's a hobby.
	If you're invested in it.
	It's a new car.
	Basically, are these investment firms prepared to burn money to keep up with a man who literally doesn't seem to care about burning money and is also the richest man who's ever lived?
	He literally has more than you.
	But maybe not more than all of them put together.
	So all of them together may be able to outbid him and, again, just burn their money on Twitter for the sake of controlling Twitter.
	Whereas Elon Musk will do it probably just to ruin it.
	Let them do it and then sell the shares and then it crashes and they've lost even more money.
	Exactly.
	This is just a really high stake game for them that Elon Musk is playing that he doesn't look like he can actually lose at.
	So the question is, how badly do they want to take the L on this?
	And if they're sensible, they'll take the L making a profit, right?
	They can walk away with $10 billion, make a profit, maybe get more out of him, you know, maybe negotiate upwards, because I'm sure he's probably not as, you know, hard-line on that as he sounds, as his statement sounds.
	But, like, how big an L are they going to take is what this looks like.
	And so I find this absolutely fascinating.
	I'm absolutely loving the way this is going.
	And Twitter have accepted or at least recognized they have the proposal.
	So if you can go to not the Financial Times on the next one, John, the last one.
	So Twitter has responded to the offer to buy their entire company.
	Twitter Inc.
	confirmed it has received an unsolicited non-binding proposal from Elon Musk to acquire all of the company's outstanding common stock for $54.20 per share in cash.
	Again, the fact that you can do this in cash.
	The Twitter board of directors will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all of the Twitter stockholders.
	That sounds like a sweating bullets answer.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Can he ruin us?
	Can he cost us billions and billions of dollars, pull out, make money maybe, and then laugh in our faces?
	Not even feel it.
	Yeah, even if he loses everything.
	So what?
	He's still the richest man in the world.
	Like, god damn, what a horrible position to be in for the Twitter board of directors and shareholders.
	I mean, there's no one who deserves it more as well.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	You absolute censorious tyrants deserve someone like Elon Musk.
	Absolutely rude.
	So yeah, I'm absolutely here for this.
	We have no further information at this time.
	I can't imagine.
	I knew it wouldn't be long until Elon Musk did something as well.
	I knew it wouldn't be long.
	He's the kind of guy who knows what he's trying to do here.
	Like I said, go check out our Book Club on the Prince because he knows what he's doing.
	And I guess we'll leave that there.
	Well, moving on, we shall go to some more good news.
	Which is, the TERFs have won, or at least in my view that seems to have been what they've got here on Turf Island.
	Excellent.
	You may remember, and I'm going to start this off because we have some news on this, with a premium video that we did, the Loudoun County School Board cover-up.
	Ah yes, that's where the transgender student raped two girls in two different bathrooms, and the school itself covered it up, and then people got struck on YouTube for talking about it, so we had to do a premium video on it to make sure that we didn't get struck as well.
	Hmm.
	Because, you know, this ideology has nothing wrong with it, which is why it has to be censored whenever it fails.
	Yeah.
	In the example of, well, rape.
	We'll go to the next one because we have news on this.
	In the example of, well, women's rights.
	Small things, like, you know, rape being illegal.
	Minor issues in politics used to be solved in the West.
	And then we, I don't know, we had this debate because intersectionality.
	Well, some news on that, just to get forth on this, which is Loudoun officials could face criminal charges for rape cover-up.
	Well, that would be the correct thing to do.
	Absolutely.
	There's a response from the scoreboard, which they say they intend to cooperate with the lawful requests of the special grand jury charged with investigating them for the cover-up.
	Good.
	Which, good.
	Good news on that.
	So that's the United States for you.
	But getting back to Turf Island for a minute, because you may remember that Turfs have been fighting in this country for, as they put it, women's rights to be respected, for their sex to be respected, and their specific rights as they have them in law respected.
	I think a better way to define this would actually be the intersectionals have been fighting to abolish women's rights.
	Sure.
	They absolutely have.
	Yeah.
	I mean, they've been fighting to abolish women.
	Absolutely, which naturally means abolishing all of the rights.
	So, like, the TERFs have been fighting a defensive rearguard action on this, desperately trying to hold on to what they have.
	And everywhere else in the Anglosphere, they seem to have had a really tough time or been losing.
	Yeah, the Terps are losing everywhere else.
	Whereas on our island, as the intersectionals have noticed, Jesus Christ, have they been taking a hit?
	They're not doing well.
	And we can see it just in, let's say, mainstream politics for a minute here, just for the point.
	So we have the first one here, this link being Boris Johnson, coming out and saying a while back that just biology determines sex.
	Get a hell.
	Stunning and brave.
	Took him far too long to get to this position.
	The controversial take.
	Yeah, but you expect this to be the conservative response if you were actually a thinking human being, instead of, I don't know, a leftist.
	But then we move to the next one, which is that we have the campaign here, and this is where I think the mainstream politics got really shafted, because the Labour Party were having this debate, and oh god, it was not pretty.
	They were expelling their own members, their own MPs were getting in fights.
	Well, this is by Maya Forstater, who's one of the people at the very heart of this debate.
	Yeah, the Labour leader himself was trying to dodge it every moment of every day.
	No, no, no.
	Keir Starmer had an amazing take on this.
	Keir Starmer was like, of course trans women are women...
	Oh, no, sorry.
	Of course women are biological females, but of course trans women are women.
	It's like, that doesn't make any sense.
	No, just endlessly saying whatever he can and hopes that nobody notices that he's not said anything.
	Yes.
	Or just, well, made a tin of himself.
	He knows what the reality is here, but he also knows that half of his party are Corbynites who believe that people with penises can also be women.
	He did.
	Up until this campaign got launched.
	As you see, Maya Forstada.
	So this is the lady who lost her job for saying that women are women and then had to go to court and win that argument.
	And she did.
	And then she started this campaign, as you can see here, Can Women Have a Penis?
	National newspaper, the biggest one.
	And this is a campaign, Respect My Sex If You Want My Ex.
	But look at the framing of this.
	Can a woman have a penis?
	Three brave activists launched most significant female movements since the suffragettes.
	This is how clownish clown world has become.
	But it's also not false.
	It's also good moves as well.
	It certainly is the biggest significant female movement, because in the world of feminism and female rights, they have everything they want, right?
	And then the intersectionals come along.
	And take it from them.
	Yeah, women shouldn't exist, actually.
	Women don't exist, actually.
	And then they've come back with this campaign, and if you scroll down you can see some of the pictures from there, just so you can demonstrate it.
	And they were saying that, well, women, we need to unionise, because otherwise we won't exist, and therefore don't vote left-wing, because they're the ones who are not able to settle this position.
	The charge being that the trans rights movement is a men's rights movement.
	Yeah, and this is the newest update.
	If we go to the next link here, you can see the Labour leader, immediately after learning, or presumably taking notice of this union of women, decided, ah, crap.
	Biology as basis for sex is common sense, says Keir Starmer.
	Right, so Keir Starmer is definitively changing his prior position.
	Only about a month ago, he stated this.
	If that, probably only a couple of weeks.
	100% as well.
	It's just like, right, no, Tuss, we can't lose the woman vote.
	Exactly.
	Or we are dead in the water.
	Which tells you everything about democracy, doesn't it?
	During a visit to Glasgow this morning, Starmer was asked if he agrees with Duffield's view that, quote, of course women cannot have a penis.
	Again, I'd like you to say, clown world, that we have to ask these questions.
	He replied, I think for 99.9% of women, biology matters, and of course, that is what defines them.
	Oh, right, so you looked at the numbers and you're like, wait, these trans activists only make up like 0.1% of the population.
	But they're all over Twitter.
	They're all in my social media mentions.
	I also love who's like, yeah, for 99.9% of women that matters, but for trans women...
	They're clearly somewhere else.
	He says, Nobly is quarrelling with any of that, and I think Rosie...
	What do you mean they're not quarrelling?
	Oh my god, Keith!
	That's what you spent the last year dodging bullets about.
	Yeah, are you out to lunch?
	Like, where have you been?
	This is the very crux of the argument.
	And I think Rosie and I would say exactly the same thing on this.
	He's completely come down on the tufts and said, right, you guys are right, I stand with you, 100%.
	Okay, I want to see what the Insectionals have to say to him after this.
	There is a small minority of people who are born with a gender that they struggle with and they don't identify with.
	They often go through a quite traumatic time.
	I think we should respect and support them in that, as in their struggle with their gender identity.
	Their problem and they need to struggle with that.
	Wonderful for them.
	We don't abolish women because there are some people with a mental disorder.
	That isn't to suggest that 99.9% of women, biology isn't a determining factor.
	Of course it is.
	It's common sense.
	And I don't quarrel with that.
	You did quarrel with that, but I'm glad that you finally accepted reality here.
	But I don't want to leave out of account the smaller group of people who really do struggle with their gender identity, as in, like, again, that's their problem, and they have their problems, but that has nothing to do with women.
	I am completely on the woman position here, which is that women exist.
	And if you're like, I don't want to leave that out of the account.
	It's like, well, okay, but you are going to leave them out of the category of woman.
	By definition.
	Yes.
	Because they're not biologically women.
	That's how this works.
	That's how your own statement works.
	I tell you what, in 20 years' time, we're going to look back at this and be like, I can't believe this was what we had to debate.
	Yeah, but it seems to be in, let's say, mainstream politics for the UK. Over.
	I mean, if the leader of the Labour Party is just being like, the leader of the big left-wing party, I mean, the right-wing party has sorted themselves out on this, finally.
	But even the left-wing party is just like, no, no, no, we're not doing this.
	Because if we lose the women's vote, the entire system is dead.
	But look at the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, traditional Scottish name, says that he shares Starmer's views and insisted you cannot argue with biology.
	So what we want now is for the SNP to go full in sexual, because the SNP is the most woke bloody party ever.
	Watch the SNP totally lose Scotland over the definition of what a woman is.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I can enjoy their 0.1%.
	He said, biology is clear.
	I didn't really talk about hard-fought sex-based rights that women over generations have fought for, and we still have got a long way to go in terms of achieving that.
	I don't know what.
	What do you need?
	I think it's his stock feminist rhetoric here, which is just that it's never enough.
	But then, where does it end?
	Because apparently, where it went was into the intersectionalism, and then into that there are no women, actually.
	But then this statement goes into intersectionalism itself.
	They've run into a problem there.
	If you continue on your feminist drive, you will end up in the same place you tried to escape.
	But we have also got to accept that transphobia exists and that transphobia is real.
	Okay, but why do I have to care about it?
	Don't.
	Nope, nope.
	It's just not my problem, not something I'm particularly interested in discussing.
	I think this attempt by some people, a minority, who try to pick community against community, is not the answer to this.
	Intersectional's PCF owed.
	This minority were pissing community against community.
	Yeah, I agree.
	They're toxic, aren't they?
	We need to shut them down.
	Yeah.
	Base?
	Weird.
	So how do we protect and build on these sex-based rights, but also how do we address transphobia that really exists in our community?
	So again, kind of stock rhetoric in there.
	I don't think I have to care about transphobia.
	No.
	It affects the 0.1%.
	I mean, it's a crime in this country on multiple fronts, even to the point of handing someone a carrier bag in a transphobic manner.
	So that's not it.
	It's a hate crime incident, it could be reported as.
	Oh, right, okay, yeah.
	So it seems that the problem's dealt with.
	Nothing.
	I mean, it's overkill, if anything.
	I love how they end this article, though.
	Stonewall, the LGBT rights group, and the Scottish Trans Alliance have been contacted for comment.
	Well, they're probably...
	I'm not going to say it.
	Yeah, this was a few days ago, so nothing.
	Someone go and check on them is basically what I would say.
	Go give them a knock.
	See if there's a response.
	Try and smell under the door.
	If we go to the next one, because of course, this is where the campaign gets in here real.
	And the UK is a bit more divided than most other Anglosphere nations, except maybe Canada in this regard.
	But you can see the multiple parties there.
	But here's a vote by age and gender.
	As you can see here, men, Labour, 31%, whereas women, 35%.
	Whereas women, 18-24%, Labour, 65%.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this is the thing.
	15% Conservatives.
	Oof.
	Women, as a group, don't know why, but they lean left for strange reasons.
	I can theorise, but I won't.
	Without getting banned.
	So, if they lose the female vote because the women's union comes to power, then yes, the entire left, in any mainstream sense, would be dead in the water for all politics.
	But I think that it's more likely that the 25 to 64 demographics are the ones who are going to flip conservative on this issue.
	I imagine the 18 to 24 actually think trans women or women if you present that.
	For how long?
	Until they get put in prison with Charlene.
	Yes, until they find themselves in the changing rooms with Joyce.
	Yeah, but not good for the left.
	But if we go to the next one, we can also see that this gets worse, of course, under educated grounds.
	Educated being a fairy.
	Strong word.
	As you can see, for GCSE level, 25% labour, 43% labour for left-wing party here, for the degree or above.
	So the most indoctrinated.
	And if we go to the next one, we can see this in the United States as well.
	And this is where I think the rest of the Anglosphere should be looking to us, looking specifically to the idea of a women's union against the left.
	Maybe.
	And thinking like, right, here's the point to shove your little chisel in and start hammering, because either they will die, or intersectionism will die.
	Yeah, I mean, the great thing about it is, at least on this subject, you can say it's biologically determinist.
	And this blows out the social construct of this narrative.
	You ain't gonna lose.
	I love this, though.
	I mean, even with all the problems that Biden has brought to the United States, just look at this.
	Men, college, massive lean to Republicans.
	Men, no degree, massive lean to Republicans over all this.
	Women, no degree, slight.
	Women, college...
	They leant towards Dems to overthrow all this nonsense of all the Bidenisms and all the failures in the state of the United States.
	8.5% inflation.
	It's worth it.
	College-educated women were like, yeah, no, this is great.
	This is fine.
	But the essence of this is that conservatives can also support, which is why you see the Daily Wire guys, us.
	People are like, look, we can have a disagreement on what feminism is and women's rights are, or whatever it is going forward, but at least in the fundamental crux of the thing, women are based in biology.
	Nothing you can do about it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The social construct of this narrative, gone.
	But if you want to have a direct threat to mainstream political parties in the Anglosphere, this seems to be a fantastic route to go down.
	I'm really hoping that in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, they all do the same thing.
	Declare themselves to be the party of women's rights, basically.
	Anyway, I thought we'd also end this off with some insight into why Disney has been so obsessed with grooming recently.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's because of Rumble Peters, is it?
	No, just one of the Disney family here.
	So Disney Air comes out publicly as transgender and condemns the LGBTQ bills, the anti-groomer bills.
	Wasn't happy about this.
	Charlie Cora, a high school science teacher...
	Of course she is.
	Of course that's...
	Okay.
	Yeah, of course that's why.
	Regrets not having done more to advocate against Florida's bills.
	She said that even though they go through a lot of support and privilege in the Disney family...
	No kidding!
	Just a slight.
	Just a lot.
	Their journey has been difficult.
	I had very few openly gay role models...
	Oh, shut up!
	As she offers a quarter of a million dollars to any, well, leftist group who wants to proclaim that trans women are women.
	I mean, maybe their journey is difficult, right?
	Because I think there's a fairly good chance that if they weren't born into that particular family and were born to a normal family, they wouldn't be in this position where they're questioning their gender and things like that.
	Maybe.
	But Cora here gives us examples of why it's been so tough.
	Oh, God.
	Not because of the money or anything like that.
	Well, no, I don't think it's the money.
	I think it's the ideology.
	No, it's because she's had very few openly gay role models.
	That's why it's been tough.
	Her life has been hell.
	And I certainly didn't have any trans or non-binary role models.
	I didn't see myself reflected in anyone.
	And that made me feel like there was something wrong with me.
	Then do your own thing.
	Yeah.
	That's what's made your life living hell.
	You're a member of the Disney family.
	Just commission something.
	Well, yeah, there is that.
	But also, I mean, that's literally a public declaration that I'm a sheep and I need to be led.
	If I don't see literally myself, skin tone, high colour, hair colour, personality and genetics on the screen...
	Then I can't do anything.
	No.
	Just that.
	You know what I mean?
	Literal sheep.
	And also, I thought I'd end this off with the fact that the women's union is definitely needed, because it doesn't seem that a day goes by where the institutions of our countries don't suddenly realise what everyone in the pub realised when asked, well, what if men could become women?
	Well, how about men who want to become women who are police officers, and then want to search female suspects?
	Come on, that'll never happen.
	We say in the pub.
	I mean, you're not a transphobe, are you?
	No, here we go.
	Telegraph.
	Transgender police officers who were born male are permitted to strip-search female suspects.
	I can hear the women voting Conservative right now.
	It's like, not on my watch.
	Women are an afterthought in the new guidance, claims former officers, who say it will deal a devastating blow to trust in the police.
	No kidding!
	No joke!
	Having men strip-search women.
	I mean, you don't think that's going to attract the wrong kind of person, do you?
	Ever.
	The guidance adds, quote, if the refusal is based on discriminatory views, as in, I'm a woman, I don't want to be searched by a man.
	Why?
	Because they're a man.
	Well, that's discriminatory.
	You're a bigot.
	What happens to her?
	Considerations should be given for the incident to be recorded as a non-crime hate incident, unless the circumstances amount to recordable crime.
	You're getting a note, but you may be going to jail over this.
	If you're a woman in the UK and you don't want to be strip searched by a man who is really wanting to do it for some reason, he's just lived for the day he can do this, and you're like, I don't want that to happen.
	Well, number one, it's going on your permanent record.
	This is insane.
	They claim they are trying to be inclusive...
	But this isn't inclusive of women, and it doesn't respect their sex.
	Nope.
	Not in the slightest.
	Women don't exist.
	That's the intersectional position.
	She asked, it tells you everything you need to know about what chief officers are thinking at the moment, and where their priorities lie.
	Sadly, it's not with women.
	Yes.
	The South Wales police, was it?
	Are being run by social justice warriors.
	Unbelievably.
	Yeah, but it's not just the South West police.
	As you can see, the guidance came from the, what is it, the College of Policing or whatever.
	Oh, did it?
	In which case, it's the police for the entire country who have been having this put into their heads for years, going to pride parades for years.
	They're only going to stay on college campuses.
	Yes.
	Shut up.
	We'll never get men script-surfing women.
	Yeah, I'm so right about the dangers of this ideology.
	Yeah.
	I thought we'd also end this off with some other good news, of course, which is that there was actually one circumstance with the Welsh police where we have some justice.
	Do you remember this?
	There was a woman, a TERF, who decided to put up a sticker that says women are killed by men in domestic violence.
	Domestic violence, bad.
	So the police were like, we're not having that.
	Shut her down.
	Why?
	Because the police were being investigated for domestic violence mistreatment.
	Oh, really?
	And also believed that this was transphobic.
	Well, I mean...
	They would think that.
	Because the women were being killed by men, and the men included trans women.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	And therefore they had to charge her.
	Apparently she is having no further action taken against her, which is good.
	Well, I mean, I guess.
	Small mercies.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, that's how I see it, which is that the TERFs, I said they would win.
	I told you.
	You did.
	You did.
	I wasn't convinced.
	It seems definitely, at least in mainstream parties, they absolutely have.
	I mean, just the fact, though.
	Like, if they are able to unionize, to threaten all left-wing parties in the West with, well, irrelevancy, until they accept women are women again.
	I mean, it is telling that the feminist women have that much power over a entire political system, but it's good that it's there for this aspect.
	I don't want to hear any complaints about being a patriarchy anymore.
	No.
	It's being able to flip KS Farmore on Switch because he knows he's dead without you.
	And, well, it's great to see.
	I hope more of it happens.
	However, of course, in the Corpo world, more of this will continue for some time until it finally dies down.
	I thought we'd end that off with Intersectional War.
	Okay.
	As you can see, Lockheed Martin here.
	Oh, yeah, brilliant.
	Wonderful weapons manufacturer have issued their rainbow socks.
	This is intersectional.
	Transracial rainbow socks.
	Black and brown segregated stripes to represent the black and brown kids we're going to kill this week.
	And apparently they seem to have sold out of these because this is an archive link.
	Because even if they realised how terrible this looks, all they sold out.
	I think they probably took it down.
	I don't think so.
	I reckon they wanted to sell them.
	And they just took it down because they probably ran out in the office.
	So anyway, that will continue within the...
	The meme becomes real.
	Private world.
	But in the political world, I think definitely the Tufts have won.
	Yeah.
	Dead.
	Anyway, let's move on to now some bad news, after all that good news.
	Which is the United States is kind of looking like South Africa, more and more.
	I don't really know what to call this segment, but I found all this different stuff that I've just been popping up about just like, God, that's awful.
	Oh God, that's awful.
	And it all seems to come from the management of the United States, specifically in Biden's administration, of course.
	And we can see it just pulling the place apart and just looking like, well, a mix of South African apartheid and lawlessness.
	So we'll start off here with just an article from Hugo a while back saying national divorce, what if the US breaks apart?
	Because of course, again, this is not...
	Universal.
	This has been on the cards for a while.
	The bifurcation of American politics into two distinct, incompatible camps has made this something that is necessary to think about.
	This definitely comes from, well, the blue areas of the country only, or at least the kind of stuff that would break a country apart.
	If we go to the next link, we can see some of this.
	You may remember a while back, we should report on this.
	White farmers sue Biden administration alleging racial discrimination in stimulus packages.
	I remember that.
	So Biden issued a stimulus package, spending billions and billions of dollars for farmers because of, well, the knockdowns that he instituted.
	And he made it so that if you were an ethnic minority, you would be at the front of the queue because, I don't know, black people most affected by the lockdown?
	I don't know.
	It didn't seem to give a reasoning.
	How many black farmers are there?
	Apparently 5%.
	Well, there we go.
	But the funny thing was, is there wasn't actually enough funding to eventually get to any white farmers.
	So we gave them 5% of the required funding.
	Well, it was also Hispanic and whatnot as well, of course.
	But it meant that by the time it got to any white farmers, all the money would be gone on purpose.
	Right.
	So that none of the money would go to the whites.
	So he could use it as essentially a way to issue reparations.
	That does strike me as the sort of thing Joe Biden would do.
	Yeah, and try to ruin white farmers because we don't need white farmers anymore.
	Because the next one, we can see that this got worse, and he was surprised that this was illegal.
	Federal court being like, listen, racist.
	That's a crime?
	You can't do that, Joe.
	Also, stop sniffing kids whilst you're at it.
	Yet another federal court tells Biden that he can't exclude white people from his relief programs.
	What the hell is wrong with this man?
	It's the second time.
	I think this got all the way to the Supreme Court, and even they were like, what the f- Why did you try to do this?
	You were never going to win!
	I love that he still thinks...
	I mean, he's probably old enough to remember slavery, so he probably still hasn't updated his moral compass.
	Yeah, also just imagine doing this in reverse as well.
	Here's a relief program, only for white farmers, because they've struggled the most through COVID, we swear.
	Wouldn't happen, of course.
	If you go to the next one, we can see the left-wing...
	I mean, it'd be insane!
	I love the left-wing view of that, though, because that's the mainstream-like view of just, well, clearly it's illegal.
	What did The Guardian go with?
	Black US farmers dismayed as white farmers' lawsuit halts relief payments.
	How could you do this to black farmers?
	How could you, white farmers?
	Should you not blame Joe Biden?
	Why don't you just accept that you are inferior and don't deserve the money for the lockdowns?
	Because, well, you are white.
	You deserve this.
	I just can't get over how The Guardian runs with the headlines like this sometimes.
	Yeah, it's awful.
	How could they do this to us?
	I love the way the framing is the white farmers are the ones who've done this to the black farmers.
	Yeah, it wasn't even them.
	It was the court.
	But it's not even that.
	It's Joe Biden being like, well, look, we're trying not to give money to white people.
	If you're going to give money away to farmers, you've got to do it without racial favoritism.
	And it's a lot to ask.
	I know you're a Democrat and that's an alien concept to you.
	Yeah.
	There's this quote from this guy here who says, Promises to black farmers are always put on hold.
	What promise?
	What?
	Of racial discrimination in your favour?
	I mean, I assume that's been a promise made to you.
	I was promised racial privilege and have not been given this racial privilege.
	Around the country, there are other lawsuits against debt relief to black and minority farmers with claims of discrimination against white farmers.
	So it's not just this.
	There's more, of course.
	Farming while black, according to Rodney Bradshaw...
	Farming while black, yeah, okay, yeah.
	Farming while black never gets easier, he says...
	I'm sorry.
	You were given racial privilege in the system of relief and you were like, we deserve that.
	And then when it was like, no, no, this has got to be equal.
	That's illegal.
	Damn, never gets easier.
	I have been hard done by, says Rodney.
	The worst day of his life.
	I'm sorry this happened to you, Rodney.
	He can no longer be a racial aristocrat.
	He is descendant of black settlers with more than a hundred year legacy in farming in Kansas.
	But that legacy is as threatened as ever today, he says, because of racism that has been allowed to run rampant.
	Yeah, Joe Biden's racism against white people.
	Yeah, he argues that this is because the United States was found to have been handing out loans in the past in a racist manner against black people, as in, like, we weren't giving loans to black people because of racist reasons, right?
	So now...
	What, 100 years ago?
	What, 1965, he says.
	Oh, right.
	But the solution to that, in his view, is to do the exact same to white people in this round, and that would make black farming perfect.
	That's reparations for you.
	That's what we need to do.
	It's ridiculous.
	If we get to the next one, we can also see other places in the United States.
	It's beginning to look more and more like South Africa.
	This one being in San Francisco, as you can see here.
	San Francisco Walgreens is under lock and key.
	There's practically nothing you can buy without having to call an associate to unlock something.
	I've never seen a country that lives this way.
	Now, I happen to notice that I can see something that's not behind lock and key in the bottom right-hand corner.
	Yeah, I didn't notice that until now.
	Do you know what that is, Callum?
	Sunscreen.
	That is sunscreen.
	Yeah.
	Moving on!
	You can see everything else in the store is under lock and creed.
	The sunscreen, not so much.
	We'll move to the next link because you can see this space of just open theft.
	I mean, this is in the same Walgreens here.
	As you can see in the Newark Post saying thieves now mock the rule of law in progressive cities like San Francisco.
	Amazing.
	They just come in, steal.
	And this is because California decided not to make it a crime if you stole something like $970.
	I've got the direct quote.
	In 2014, a statewide law reclassified non-violent thefts as misdemeanours for stolen goods worth less than $950.
	There we go.
	You just let go.
	See ya.
	$950, wow, that's not a crime, really.
	That's how much you can steal.
	That's amazing.
	Per trip, as well.
	This is reparations to the black community, in California's mind.
	Presumably.
	Incentivizing to steal.
	This is awful.
	The videos are mad.
	I mean, the video given in here is one that went particularly viral, in which a guy just walks in in broad daylight, just stacks it up, gets on his bike, just drives away.
	Presumably came back the next day to stack up again.
	Yeah, why not?
	Until everything was on the lock and click except the sunscreen.
	Everyone goes towards greatest opportunity and least risk.
	Thieves flock to San Francisco, unconcerned by what amounts to the vague threat of citation, should they actually be detained, which is unlikely.
	Really?
	As police make arrests in less than 3% of reported thefts, and these cases rarely even get prosecuted.
	Yeah, and you know why?
	They view it as black people being systematically oppressed, and therefore, stealing is them punching up, essentially, against oppression.
	This is the argument you hear every time, which is that black people are disproportionate of those being oppressed by the police by being arrested for committing crime.
	That's oppression.
	In which case, we shall legalize the crime, and then we'll have justice, which is meaning that we have to legalize theft up to $950.
	But it's awful, because they're just incentivizing black people to become criminals.
	Well, everyone.
	I mean, I'm surprised the white people aren't doing it anymore.
	Well, sure, but like...
	I'm not going to say they should be, but any rational person would be.
	I think that what they're doing is actually just trying to turn the black people into essentially thieves.
	Well, as an underclass, they can rule over.
	I mean, you see it eternally in Democrat-run, well, hive cities, in which they treat the minority population as essentially surfs.
	Because, I mean, this isn't going to affect, like, you know, Nancy Pelosi or the government of California.
	What's his name?
	The American psycho guy.
	Gavin Newsom.
	This isn't going to affect them.
	You know, it's not going to affect any of the state senators or anything like that.
	It's not going to affect, you know, the Silicon Valley CEO billionaires.
	It's not going to affect any of those people.
	It's going to be the regular people who live in California that are suffering under Yeah.
	And returning to more South African news, if we go to the next one, we can see in Britain first, just the point here that inflation in Britain has now soared to 7%.
	It's expected to go even higher.
	This is not the 8.5% in the Americans game.
	Go to the next one.
	We have it going up there, of course, to, oh, there should be a different link in there, but it's 8.5% for the United States, which is fantastic.
	If we go to the next link, we can see Biden's response to all this, which I still can't get over.
	Oh, Vladimir Putin did this.
	Yeah, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world.
	Okay.
	70% of the increase in prices in March came from the Putin price hike.
	So again...
	Sorry, go on.
	We're talking about inflation.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	The fact that the money is worth less.
	It can buy less.
	There's only one place that happens.
	Federal Reserve.
	Okay, so let's not bother debunking what Biden has said, right?
	Because everyone knows...
	Why is he lying?
	Yeah, exactly.
	We're at the Solzhenitsyn point.
	It's like...
	They're lying.
	We know they're lying.
	They know we know they're lying and they're still lying.
	I mean, it's interesting this particular lie because we've thought about it before with Nancy Pelosi just openly saying that government spending lowers inflation.
	Why are they lying?
	But with this particular tweet and this series of tweets, you can see in the first paragraph, Putin price hike.
	Second paragraph, Putin price hike.
	In the third one, Putin's price hike.
	You just keep saying it.
	I'm sure they call it something like neuro-linguistic programming.
	They just say it often enough.
	Exactly.
	Then it gets into people's heads and they, oh, it's the Putin price hike.
	They're essentially trying to pin this thought in people's heads by repeatedly saying this thing.
	And they know they're doing it.
	And we know they're doing it.
	And yet they're still doing it.
	So why?
	Why are they never held to account over any of this?
	Presumably they just think we're all stupid enough.
	Yeah, they do.
	I mean, I don't know what else the possible reason could be.
	Yeah.
	But not, though.
	Like, this is bleedingly obvious that you're insane.
	If we go to the next one, there's just a meme I saw at Mikhail Svetov showing around as well because the Russians also find this really funny.
	Let's print a bagillion dollars.
	Inflation runs at 10%.
	Effing Vladimir Putin did this.
	I mean, it is unbelievably transparent.
	But the thing is, go back a couple of months, because this, of course, happened way before Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
	Go back a few months.
	When it was like 6%, they were like, oh, inflation's transitory.
	Then it was like 7%.
	They were like, oh...
	Don't worry about it.
	Yeah, no, what was the other thing?
	They had like a bunch of excuses.
	Then it's good for you.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, yeah, and it's a good thing.
	And then it's, oh, this is Vladimir Putin's doing it.
	It's like, look, we know that it's not.
	Yeah, and we even have the receipts, because I went back and found those articles for exactly this point.
	Go to the next one.
	We have Wall Street Journal here being like, when it comes to inflation, I'm still on team transitory.
	It reached 6% at this point or something like that.
	He was like, it's just transitory, trust me.
	If we go to Vox, in which we have a guy being like...
	No, no, no, he's right.
	The 6% was transitory.
	Just transiting the wrong direction.
	Trust me, it ain't gonna say it's 6%, bro.
	Transited to 8%.
	Yeah.
	We'll go to the next one.
	We have Vox who would just, don't worry about it, bro.
	That was the headline.
	Oh, these fears are overblown.
	Just don't worry about it.
	It's gonna get way worse than this.
	Yeah.
	What I love, though, is the guy who actually wrote this article this morning published another one.
	It's just been like, Well, I was wrong.
	Did he?
	Some decency from Dylan here.
	If we go to the next one, we can see him if you scroll down.
	It's just like, yeah, I was big wrong.
	Massively wrong.
	Okay, but the thing is, Dylan, why did you publish that in the first place?
	Because it's not like it's unknown, the effect of mass printing money on inflation.
	It's not like there haven't been loads of real world examples of this happening.
	It's not a mystery.
	It's not as if literally everybody else knew it and were making memes about money printer go burr because it was ridiculous.
	The general public knows what happens when you piss money up the wall.
	Yeah.
	I mean, do you remember all the memes everyone was sharing?
	Oh, yeah.
	Because everybody knew what was going to happen, and yet we still had them going, don't worry about it.
	Yeah, and it's so embarrassing that, I mean, it's to your credit that you're like, well, I was wrong.
	But then you must be like, okay, but how was I wrong?
	Why did you bother?
	Yeah.
	Why would you ever believe something no one asked for?
	You thought you could get away with the lie.
	That's what it was.
	Yeah.
	If we go to the next one, we can see how obvious this meme was.
	An example was with JREG, because I just like JREG. I just remember, let's see, April 1st, 2020, the print money meme just going viral constantly.
	Oh, yeah.
	And, yeah, it was utterly predictable.
	Yeah.
	But then we'll end this off with probably the most, well, South African aspect.
	Oh, yeah.
	The Biden administration.
	This is all very South African so far as well.
	Yeah, if we go to the next one, we can see Princeton boasts new class is 68% of colour after waiving SAT score requirements.
	No more.
	Just...
	No more requirements for going to Princeton, at least in SATs, and they're very proud that...
	It is diverse.
	Yeah, they're not sure that they've got the most qualified students, but they are sure they've got the most brown students, and that's really what university is about, is being brown and existing.
	But they boast about this.
	That's the thing.
	They're proud of what they've done here.
	We have not only lowered the standard, we have abolished the standard.
	And look how diverse it is.
	Well, they've changed the standard to being brown, which tells you what's the purpose of the university.
	Previously, you would say the purpose of the university is to get good education so then you can improve the world with your immense big brain and your IQ and all that.
	No, instead, that's why we have a requirement for SAT scores, right?
	So we want the big brain people who can make bigger brain.
	But now we want the brownest people so we can make them even browner.
	I don't know, tanning salons at the uni.
	It's so they can make the ruling class even browner.
	That's what they're trying to do.
	This is a funnel, and Tony Blair's got schools in this country, literally decade-old schools that do exactly the same thing, that are funding kids into Oxford and Cambridge for exactly the same reasons.
	They're trying to make the ruling class more diverse.
	They don't want to make the ruling class more competent, more intelligent.
	Those are not the requirements.
	And in fact, we know that that's going to be the opposite effect of what's happening.
	By definition of getting rid of requirements for the positions and instead replacing it with being brown.
	Yes.
	But the funny thing to keep in mind as well, that a 90s, 90s SJW, and they were as old back then, you can go back and watch some staffers about this, which is, they're all in their 40s now.
	Yeah.
	You must remember.
	Yes.
	And down.
	Yes.
	They own the universities.
	Yes.
	They're the deans.
	Well, the Generation Xers are between like 60 and 40.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's ridiculous.
	Or 42.
	I'm like the youngest end of Generation X. Yeah.
	If we go to this link here, you can see a news story which came out of the University of Buffalo, which just gives you an example of how, like, rotten, well, and sort of pointless American universities seem to be.
	Student feared for her life after being chased by woke mob targeting Alan West.
	Oh, that's sane.
	She put on an event where she invited a man, a black man, to come and give a speech.
	What a racist.
	And the man had to say, what did he have to say?
	America isn't racist.
	And I'm going to tell you why.
	Uncle Tom.
	So all the black students, or at least the BLM students I should call them, were like, well we're not having this.
	Get him, he's a race traitor.
	We're not having a black man on campus.
	Same thing.
	Got their burning torches.
	She was chased by an angry mob last week after inviting a black former Texas GOP chair, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West, to speak on campus about overcoming racism.
	Purcell said protesters derailed the Thursday night event titled America is not racist, why American values are exceptional during the Q&A segment with West.
	She said the protesters made up of black and white students started screaming no peace and banging on the walls.
	I believe there is going to be no peace with Marcuse's radical students here.
	No, but just like a black man's on campus.
	No peace!
	We must end this!
	Okay?
	He's saying this country isn't awful.
	Let's make it awful so we can't deny it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, we'll prove it in.
	Again, the most competent people we're accepting at American universities.
	They're literally just crapping everywhere.
	Look how crappy we've made this.
	Well, yeah, okay, you proved me wrong.
	Yeah, certainly not that.
	Purcell said West was escorted out by police and protesters started hunting her down as she tried to leave.
	She said that that's when she had to run into a male bathroom and had to call 911.
	Quote, I don't think they were going to do anything remotely peaceful.
	It's an understatement.
	Normally when you're being chased by an angry mob, they're not looking for peace.
	Screaming, no peace.
	I mean, we laugh, but this is not funny at all.
	No, this is horrific.
	This is awful.
	They were a very angry mob, and they were clearly saying that they were trying to chase me down, and they wanted to capture me, Purcell said.
	I don't think they liked Colonel West's message, that he did experience racism, but he overcame that, and he decided not to become a victim, and that America gave him the opportunity that many other countries don't, she said.
	The racism was on an individual basis, not a systemic basis, is what he's saying.
	Yeah, and if we go to the next one, we can see some of these, I don't know, terrorists?
	Yeah, terrorists.
	Actual terrorists.
	So in this clip here, the Young Americans for Freedom, who set up the event, have put up, they're screaming at everyone, I'm black and I'm proud, at the black man who gave a speech.
	About being a successful black man.
	Yeah, they're screeching at him.
	What I love as well is you can notice every single one of them has their phone out recording.
	So telling.
	Like, they're all doing this.
	So they can post to social media.
	All of them.
	If we get to the next one, we can see the organizer who had to run away and her being chased.
	Like, as you can see, just this horde of students start screeching about how she deserves it.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	We're saying how women deserve it now, huh?
	Well, for what they've done.
	And as you can see, they chase after her and then she has to run to the men's bathroom and have to be protected until she gets the police to her as well.
	Yeah, it's pretty South African.
	Yeah, fantastic.
	Again, just to completely ruin everything about our country.
	Just utterly evil.
	Whoever has created this culture on this campus will never be held to account, but should be.
	And as I remember I said earlier, SJWs are on their 40s.
	So of course they run the uni as well.
	Yeah, of course.
	Because the next one we can see the university issued a statement condemning the protesters or the terrorists.
	Yeah, the terrorists.
	Of course not.
	These events do not define who we are as a university.
	Oh, they do.
	They absolutely do.
	Saying that, no, no, the speech by Alan West doesn't define who we are.
	Oh.
	We're defined by something else.
	Yeah, mob violence.
	Presumably the mob violence.
	Nor do they define who we aspire to be.
	Again, you aspire to be the terrorist of this situation, said Barbara Ricotta, the University of Buffalo's Dean of Students.
	Quote, We're threats.
	The student who brought in the army general or whatever was trying to express herself.
	So she can't.
	So you're not.
	The colonel himself was trying to express himself.
	Sure, but he's not a student.
	He's not part of the university community.
	Nor is the student who organised it.
	Nor are any of the students who went there to hear or debate.
	They're not part of the community either.
	The community presumably only includes these petty terrorists here.
	So, be heard and live their lives in a welcoming and safe environment, she continues, that values diversity and inclusion.
	Right, so the environment can only be safe and welcoming if it values diversity and inclusion.
	And if it doesn't, then it's a hostile environment and must be overthrown with a mob.
	So the mob, screaming no peace, that's the safe environment.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You're safe in the mob.
	The civilised talk and discussion...
	That's a hostile environment in which someone cannot live or exist without, I don't know, being in hell.
	So they denounce the event, not the terrorists.
	And if it goes to the Student Association, who are even more insane, like, off the walls insane.
	Here's their Instagram.
	We first like to acknowledge and commend the students on campus for utilising their resources and protesting for what they believe in.
	So, terrorising the organisers and screaming no peace.
	We commend the students for terrorising this black man.
	Salutes in the chat for...
	No.
	Not on our watch.
	Maybe on your guys.
	Well, literally, for the University of Buffalo.
	Yeah, we commend terrorizing black men, University of Buffalo.
	Okay.
	Students of colour on this campus should never have to feel unsafe or threatened by other groups on campus.
	What threats?
	Against students of colour, not the black people, like the black man here.
	He's not a student.
	I guess also the other black students who support the Young Americans for Freedom and not also black students because they're not really black.
	The threat...
	They give examples.
	The examples they give are that there were random comments on random message boards that were...
	Definitely not false flags.
	No, and clearly not a joke about how they didn't agree with the people trying to terrorise the event.
	I'm not going to go through them because they're literally that obscure and pathetic.
	It's literally just a random message board had a comment on it, and they're very mad.
	It's obviously just an excuse to act in this disgusting way.
	So the Student Association...
	Listen, sorry, freedom of speech does not mean to invalidate, villainize, and make a mockery of black identities.
	That's actually exactly what freedom of speech includes.
	Yeah, and what else could it?
	Yeah.
	To make fun of white identities, Jewish people don't mean anything.
	That's the whole point in the freedom to speak.
	And at the end of the day, if people are invalidating, villainizing, and making a mockery of your identity, maybe there's something wrong with your identity.
	They're going to say that they do not endorse the comments, nor did they pay Alan West, because they don't want to be associated with that notorious white man.
	We will work with the university administration to create a safe space for students of colour and help oppose racism and bigotry across our campus by terrorising anyone who disagrees with us.
	They also give a list of resources, including the Office of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, of course.
	Yeah, the cathedral of this religion.
	They then end off by saying, please understand that due process considerations, because we have to follow due process, So you can't just dob someone's name into the party and expect them to be executed.
	Can't happen.
	And if we go to the last link here, there's an individual who was part of the mob, presumably, and they give their account of it.
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is fascinating.
	And this is the real mindset of, well, South African-controlled America, as you can see there.
	They complain that the speech minimizes the reality of black and brown students.
	Black and brown are capitalized.
	Don't care.
	But also, it's interesting how they've now said that you've got the brown race.
	Yeah, the brown nation.
	Which includes literally everyone except Northern Europeans.
	Italians, welcome to the brown nation.
	Spaniards, kudos.
	White is never capitalized, of course.
	Indians, South Americans.
	She says, yes, the Speaker was a black man, but the platform was funded and backed by a majority white organization.
	So he may have been black.
	So he was the troll of the white man.
	He was a white lover.
	He's controlled by international whitery.
	And therefore, we must shut him down.
	He's a supporter of the whites.
	Even though he's a black man who's gone through racism.
	I mean, he literally, in part of the speech, mentions that he came from the same neighborhood as Martin Luther King Jr.
	and had to experience some of the same things.
	We're way past MLK Jr., mate.
	This is full-on racial concept.
	This is pure critical race theory.
	It literally is.
	If something is a majority white organization, even if it were to be an organization that was founded by a black person, constructed by a black person, and then operates as a pro-black organization, which I'm not saying it is, but if it was, that would still be a white organization because everything they do is circumscribed by their own white racial consciousness.
	They are part of the international white conspiracy to...
	Yeah, well, it's not even a conspiracy.
	What they'll say is, well, you can't help it because you're white, and I can't help it because I'm black, and that's why they want segregation.
	Well, you get the same argument from the anti-Semites.
	International Jewry, you can't help it because you're Jewish.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's exactly the same rationale.
	Exactly the same rationale.
	She ends it off with here.
	There were only about several black students in the room.
	When those aforementioned black students who were black women, may I add, of course.
	Prove it.
	Define women.
	Yes.
	Asked Mr.
	West questions and made valid counter-arguments.
	Oh, I'm sure they did.
	Lieutenant Colonel West spoke over them constantly.
	I'm sure they weren't interrupting him.
	Of course.
	As they were disrespected, we watched uncomfortably as our white peers laughed.
	So you said something really stupid, he replied, the audience laughed, and then you were like, right, that's it, we need a mob.
	But I think that's the most revealing part of this block of text that this leftist has written, and with the previous examples, which is they see themselves as some kind of, like, priest class because they are black and brown, because they're part of the brown race.
	You've disrespected the aristocratic class of the blacks and the browns.
	I attended this meeting and they laughed at me.
	How could they do this?
	They need to be killed.
	Peasants, yes.
	It needs to be shut down, literally.
	That's what you guys did in response to being mocked for being stupid.
	Yes.
	But anyway, that is the state of the United States, which is increasingly looking like a Tim Pot South African country.
	I mean, racial discrimination directly from the central government in the grounds of just giving away money to black people and refusing it to white people.
	Your universities, again, being infested with just racial ideological debates endlessly and continued segregation.
	Black supremacist ideology.
	Economy going down the pan.
	Oh yeah, mega inflation.
	I mean, it is mad, but it is the reality of what it looks like.
	Anyway, I suppose we should move to the video comments.
	I guess so.
	This video comment is for Carl because of how he said he has five cats at his house because his wife just keeps bringing them home.
	I know that feel exactly.
	My girlfriend does the exact same thing.
	We have worked our way up to eight cats, two rabbits, two birds, a bunch of fish, a gerbil.
	Eight cats, one dog now.
	I used to have two, but now just one dog.
	And as a word of advice, it doesn't stop.
	You've got to put a lid on it at some point, or it probably will just keep going.
	Or maybe that's just me, but good luck, man.
	No, no, you're absolutely right.
	My wife has tried to do this with other animals as well.
	We have a hamster as well as the cats, but I've very firmly put my foot down at this point.
	You have dogs.
	Yeah, that was another thing.
	But we had to re-home them because we just didn't have time to walk them.
	But the people who we re-home them with have Instagrams for the dogs, so we can see pictures and the dogs look like they're living their best lives.
	So that's good.
	Do you ever go visit the dogs?
	No, no, no.
	Available?
	I was just wondering.
	Yeah, I don't know what it is for some people.
	There's just, like, more animals and more animals.
	Oh, no.
	It's insufferable.
	Go to the next one.
	So I remember Carl saying that he read all the Terry Pratchett books, and I was wondering if he'd read The Last Hero, which is kind of easy to miss because it kind of looks like one of those informational booklets, but it's actually like an illustrated novella that kind of concludes a lot of the character arcs of a lot of the characters and kind of sneaks past a lot of people.
	It's all about Cohen the Barbarian and his band of merry men trying to bring fire back to the gods and go out on their own terms, kind of like Terry Pratchett was at the end of his life.
	Very heartfelt story that kind of gives a last hurrah for all the main characters that we knew and loved.
	I haven't read that.
	I wasn't aware of it.
	But I have read the other one that was on the right.
	I haven't.
	Sorry.
	Oh, that's good stuff.
	Yeah, next one.
	On the subject of Terry Pratchett, what's Carl's take on them race-swapping Two Flower with Samwise Gamgee?
	Because on one hand, they have a stereotypically Asian tourist, or they have Samwise Gamgee as the stereotypically white tourist.
	Can't really win either way.
	I guess Samwise does play the part pretty well, at least.
	More importantly, when is the Lotus Eaters going to do a review of the BBC's The Watch that came out a few years ago, where they ambitiously transform Vimes from a recovering alcoholic to whatever the fuck on the left is supposed to be, some sort of crackhead or something?
	This is a confrontation that has to happen, Carl.
	I am refusing to watch any of the adaptations.
	I remember watching one, was very unimpressed with it, and I'm not really interested in watching the rest, to be honest.
	They're not going to do justice to Vimes' character.
	Sam Vimes is like a grizzled Londoner.
	They're not going to do justice.
	Not going to happen.
	I have nothing to say on that.
	don't worry the next one oh the soy jaggle No, I know, I know what you mean.
	Thanks for this, Callum, but please don't persecute him.
	Please put our Sardong back where he belongs.
	No, it's worse and weird.
	No.
	Go to the next one.
	Several Lotus Eaters have decried the apparently parlous state of free speech in the UK as compared to the US. The truth is that it's simply not possible to prevent free speech without either severing vocal cords or indoctrinating the populace with some form of newspeak.
	What is important is what Idi Amin once said.
	There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.
	Unfortunately, in Canada, Trudeau doesn't refer to freedom of speech, but freedom of expression, which is a poisonous alteration since he is already on record saying it has limits.
	Yeah, but I think it's fairly obvious when we say colloquially free speech, what we're saying is no punishments for speaking freely.
	Yeah, I mean, in normal language.
	I do love how honest it y'all mean, is there?
	That's part of the reason I always...
	You know I've got a bit of a session with weird foreign dictators.
	It's because they're so honest sometimes.
	Like, they're of course what they are, but then occasionally they'll just say something beautiful like that, where it's like...
	What do they stand to lose?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You vote them out.
	There's going to be no repercussions for them, so they can't afford to just be so blunt occasionally, and it's always funny, even though horrific.
	Let's go to the next one.
	When I stir my ugly mug, you can have a look at the garden today.
	Unfortunately, no wildlife out.
	Usually I've got rat-faced squirrels running everywhere and pigeons and big black things and all sorts.
	Yeah, quite nice property.
	The tourism board here reckons that this week, Songkran, New Year, they will receive one million inbound tourists.
	A bit difficult, that.
	Since pre-COVID, the best they managed was 528,000.
	This is what happens when you have a no-fail education system.
	Nobody learns basic mathematics.
	But, I mean, if they have all these restrictions, why would they be expecting so many more?
	I'm presuming someone just made up the number.
	I mean, what happens in China?
	What are you expecting?
	Well, I'm expecting a lot.
	What's going to happen?
	Well, it's not going to be the same.
	You see recently that happened with CNN+. Oh, yeah, I did see it failing, but what was the...
	The CNNs, the guys who did it, said to the investors, were promising 2 million sign-ups in the first year.
	Oh, yeah.
	And they launched, and after a couple months, they've only got 10,000.
	Really?
	Yeah, that's not going to work.
	I'm surprised they even got 10,000.
	I don't think the hell's giving money to CNN. I mean, it's hard enough to watch the thing.
	For free.
	Next one.
	So I just wanted to agree with a video comment from the other day.
	The Lotus Eaters is doing a really good job covering the Ukraine war.
	You're one of only two sources I trust on it.
	The other source being breaking points with Crystal and Sauger.
	Sauger's populist right, Crystal's populist left.
	They do a pretty good job at balancing what they cover.
	I think any free-thinking person will at least appreciate their show.
	And one last question.
	I know it's been on some people's minds.
	I think I've heard Carl mention it once or twice.
	Just how much longer do you guys think until the Eye of Sauron falls on theloteseeders.com?
	No idea, but hopefully we carry on flying under the radar.
	Can't be too much longer.
	I don't know.
	We're staying within the rules on everything.
	Well, it's also just the nature of the thing.
	It's one of the things I love about the difference between people who go on TV and people who do internet stuff.
	This goes for everyone.
	Which is, if you go on TV, you're talking to the general public, which is a broad swathe of every political opinion.
	So you're going to end up with a lot of people that hate you, just de facto.
	Whereas if you do stuff on the internet, the people who hate you aren't going to search for you.
	Yeah, it's all self-selected.
	Yeah.
	Go to the next one.
	"Bellows, Walmart, the gas, yeah, baseball, yeah, NFL, yeah, rock and roll, yeah, internet, slavery, yeah, Disney World, porno, value, we bond, fake Disney World, porno, value, we bond, fake tits, sushi, Taco Bell, rodeo, back, back and beyond, liberty, white flip, the Animo, yeah, That's brilliant.
	the Animo, yeah, That's brilliant.
	Where is that eagle going?
	It's living his best life, that's why.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Converting to 22 gauge steel is a slow process.
	Lots of sparks, though.
	And the result is worth it, just take a listen.
	And before prices rise even more I stock up on steel sheets.
	Seeing the rise of KUF tyranny in China, I really hope I don't have to get serious.
	Someone should really make a real bolt, huh?
	You ever seen the Drug Lord one?
	No.
	I think it was in Columbia.
	There was some drug raid.
	There's a gun they got out of it that's been homemade.
	It's just huge.
	It's a machine gun made to fire 50 cals that you could hold.
	It just looks ridiculous.
	No one could ever use it.
	But it really looks like an alt gun.
	But it's all rusted and crap.
	So it really looks like an alt gun.
	Yeah, but it's not operational.
	Someone needs to make that video using it.
	Even if you have to put it on a stand, it would be worth it.
	Alright, cool.
	Cool, let's get to the next one.
	Yeah, there's a video of a woman doing that, and legs go the wrong way on the way back, and you can never unsee it whenever you see someone using one of those now.
	Yeah, I don't want to see it.
	Just every time I see someone using it, I'm just like, it's going to happen.
	Horrible.
	Yeah.
	Hey, Dean Littlejohn with another Legend of the Pines, the Toms River Haunted House.
	This was a house rented by this New Jersey couple who were besieged by ghosts for the one week they lived there.
	They decided that they would sue their landlord to try to get their deposit back, and the entire thing went on the People's Court TV show where the judge ruled the couple had to pay the landlord three months' worth of rent The landlord had to spend one night in the house before he ever rented it again.
	I love the idea that it's British ghost redcoats.
	But was he besieged by the ghosts?
	We never know.
	We never heard from him again.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, just this idea of British redcoat ghosts and cannon ghosts.
	Don't know how it works.
	But all surrounding the house?
	Ghost cannons, yeah.
	Just every night, the homeowners are having to load up muskets and firepacks.
	Anyway, the next one.
	Hey, Carl.
	I just wanted to say thank you very much for the premium podcast you did here.
	I've been trying to say this for a while now to a lot of my friends who are in the sort of the right wing circles like us every time I do they try and call me a Luddite and say oh look how much mines and factories have evolved it's like yeah but there's a level there's a stage at which there's too much and I appreciate that I'm not the only one who's saying it so cheers No worries, man.
	I've got a second one of those coming at some point.
	It'll be in a couple of months or whatever.
	Every time I see something crazy and cyberpunk-ish go past my timeline, I just save it in a doc and we'll do another one because it's just mad how things are going.
	We'll regret it.
	I just enjoyed how the chat, like, there were a couple people in there being like, technophobe, what's wrong with Carl Boomer?
	And by the end of it, everyone was like, the goo!
	No!
	Hey, look, it's not my AI goo that's going to be taking over the world.
	You know, I just want to be on record saying, look, I was against the sentient armed goo, okay?
	That's right, I'm a conservative.
	Yeah.
	That's right, I am a conservative.
	I oppose putting goo in shame.
	Yeah.
	I oppose giving goo assault rifles.
	Anyway, Hammurabi says, look at me.
	Musk is the captain now.
	Robert Reich is the Tyrion Lannister of the Guardian.
	He drinks and knows things, but usually stupid things.
	Four foot ten of compacted stupidity.
	I forgot to mention that Robert Reich is probably the shortest man to have ever lived.
	Well, which is hilarious.
	Thank you, Al, for the basis of pointing that out.
	Catastrophic Regression Threshold says, let's be real, the children at Twitter are worried about Musk coming in because he knows that deep down they're too fragile and weak to work anywhere else because they've never had to learn how to handle the real world.
	That's not true.
	They can go work at YouTube.
	We're at Facebook.
	Google.
	Yeah, and they're all in San Francisco, so it's not like there won't be other options.
	But you are right.
	If Elon Musk comes in like Daddy Musk with a belt, and he's like, look, we're going to do things normally.
	No, Elon.
	Yeah, he cracks the belt, and they're all going to break and run away.
	Dan says, cannot wait to see Carl back on Twitter.
	Not to mention the Bad Orange Man.
	Yeah, it'd be nice, wouldn't it?
	It'd be nice.
	Just for the laugh, really.
	The Minicus Monicus says, I love how the people are always harping on about our democracy, inclusivity, everyone deserves a voice, and how hell-bent on excluding Elon because he might bring diversity of opinions into Twitter, and publicly so.
	Here's to hoping that this wakes a couple more people up from their nap.
	Yeah, I know.
	Tell me about it.
	Lee says, with Elon buying the Twitter, what's going to stop this particular pocket of left-wing activists from re-establishing themselves in the network of a new network, or God forbid, something far more damaging?
	They won't own the place.
	Yeah, they won't own Twitter.
	I mean, because the weakness you've always had with, say, Jack Dorsey or whatever, is he might not be as radical as people below him, but he can be eternally influenced.
	Yeah.
	But if it's Elon and you try and influence him...
	You're probably fine.
	You just laugh.
	Yeah.
	He's a strong man in that regard, it seems.
	Yeah.
	SillyMidon says, why are Twitter so afraid of an African-American man taking over the company?
	He's offering $54 a share, which is about $20 more than what it's worth in early March.
	So he'll do well out of people just selling above what it's worth.
	Marcus says, Elon's just memeing on everyone at this point.
	Godspeed, you glorious bastard.
	No, I think he's playing a specific game and he knows what he's doing.
	I'm just going to have to reload this thing.
	For some reason, it hasn't loaded up.
	Can we go to the TERFs?
	Yeah, yeah, go to the TERFs.
	Marcus Milville.
	Sorry, I keep butchering your name, but that's how it's going to be.
	Women vote left because the left deliberately singled them out for special treatment.
	However, now that the left is saying women don't exist, there is no more special treatment.
	It will probably take a good ten years before enough educators lean right enough to convince women that it's in their interest to vote right.
	Maybe.
	I do think it's definitely true and revealing that as soon as the Women's Union was being set up, the left-wing party shat itself and instantly corrected itself to a position in which they're actually electable.
	Keir Starmer just got whipped firmly into line there, didn't he?
	Yeah.
	Sorry, man.
	But it's the power that you've got there as well that is never spoken about.
	I mean, and you are right.
	It took literally a day.
	The very next day, he's like, okay, I bend the knee to our female overlords.
	100%.
	Screw that 0.1% of weird men who've got emotional issues.
	They're not my problem.
	Yeah, I pledge fealty to the matriarchy.
	We'll see what happens at the Labour Party conference, because I want to see him say that on stage.
	Oh god, it's going to be so good.
	It's going to be so good.
	I bet the whole thing will just flip.
	I assume there's going to be one this year that you can do another clip.
	Probably.
	I don't know whether you've seen it, but on the other channel, the clip shows of Callum going through them and clipping them out.
	You get a feel for how the whole party works and the factions want it.
	You can see them on the cameras.
	They're live streamed for some stupid reason.
	And you could see the intersectional lobby all clustered together in one section.
	But I think if the whole party just suddenly goes, now you're out, they're going to very quickly leave.
	M1Ping, I believe all the science except biology.
	LGBT activists, probably.
	LGBT activists.
	Alpha of the Betas, imposing the rainbow flag on a supposedly neutral secular police force is philosophically indistinguishable from imposing a swastika.
	It signals their adherence to the moral police for a quasi-religious political dogma.
	Correct.
	It's morally indefensible and philosophically indistinguishable.
	That's a really great way of framing it.
	As you say, woke Sharia.
	I remember one of my favourite lines is from your old videos about when you did Dankilo's story, and you were talking about the police as the Mutawin, and it just fits so perfectly.
	Well, that's what they are.
	You've got a hate incident for misgendering the man who's strip-searching you.
	Okay, where did that come from?
	The Quran?
	You are the police of vice and virtue.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We've gone.
	Free Will 2112 says, if women do not exist, then by extension, neither do men.
	So the patriarchy cannot exist either.
	Correct.
	I don't know.
	Did they ever accept that men didn't exist?
	Oh, yeah.
	I know they would say it, but it's like, they would always seem to accept that the patriarchy was still real on their form.
	No, no.
	The patriarchy is just the boogeyman they use, right?
	But the thing is, men never defended themselves on any of this.
	Men are never saying, oh, trans men can't be men.
	Men don't have any kind of sex activism in that way.
	We don't have to, because it's kind of obvious.
	Well, A, physically it doesn't pan out.
	I don't think men take it.
	But B, why would a female person want to be in the men's spaces?
	Like, do you really want to be changing in front of all the men when they, like...
	Wait a minute.
	You're a chick!
	Look at your boobs!
	You're going to have them all staring at you.
	You're not going to want to do that.
	So it just wasn't a problem.
	Freewill2112 says Starmer is too scared of what his party members think.
	Boris is not scared enough of what his think.
	That's true.
	Brandon Napier, I'll end this one off here.
	you might as well drop a stun grenade into the Labour Party meeting, and it would do less damage to their brains than telling them that women can't have penises.
	That's a very apt description.
	Yeah, that's absolutely true.
	Tysh Potato also says, I'll never understand people who need a character they can see themselves in completely to be able to engage with them.
	Some of my favourite characters are so diametrically different to me that I can see no situation where I would be them, but they're compelling nonetheless.
	They're compelling because of it.
	Yeah, but that's something we would call empathy.
	Then you can put yourselves in someone else's shoes and say, right, if I were this and I was in that circumstance and these things were happening to me, how would I react?
	How would I feel?
	And that's honestly what an interesting story is.
	I mean, if you have to go through, like, okay, I can only empathize with someone who looks and acts and is in the same situation as exactly like me.
	Well, that's your real life.
	Why are you even watching a fantasy?
	Like, what's exciting about this?
	It's exciting watching something crazy going on, rather than something totally mundane going on.
	Maybe it's just me.
	As you say, it's completely telling that the only person they could ever empathise with is themselves.
	Yeah, there's no empathy at all.
	Anyone who is like that is something psychotic.
	It seems like extreme narcissism as well.
	Anyway, the Minicus Monica says, So what the left is telling us is that boys will be boys perpetuates terrible gender stereotypes, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity, but blacks steal stuff, no need to prosecute them, does not perpetuate terrible racial stereotypes, white supremacy, and segregation.
	Got it?
	Makes sense.
	Nothing to see here.
	Exactly, that's what I was driving at.
	Exactly.
	If you make it so that it's basically legal for blacks to steal things, then they will get an even worse reputation about stealing things.
	And as you say, that doesn't perpetuate terrible racial stereotypes or white supremacy or segregation.
	So yeah, mad.
	Mr.
	Tucker says, inflation is 8.5%, but that means nothing to me compared to my food and fuel costs being increased by 50% compared to a year and a half ago.
	Great point.
	I mean, it's mad.
	You should see our energy bills over in the UK. But I mean, that's the thing as well.
	Is the inflation actually 8.5?
	Oh no, it's probably more.
	I mean, it's definitely going to be massaged by the Biden administration.
	But it's also just like all of your savings, just 10% of that's gone.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Oh yeah.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, thanks very much, Biden.
	Dave says, it's not about being racist to white people, it's about being racist to black people because they genuinely don't think black people are good enough to compete on their own.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	It's exactly right.
	The soft bigotry of low expectations should be the DNC motto.
	Yep.
	Drew says, I'm sorry, sir, you've stolen over the legal limit.
	I'm afraid I'll have to call the police.
	That's what the California is!
	Ugh.
	Oh, I thought this can of soup had a buy one, get one free deal.
	You've got a price check with the club, how much stuff is before you steal it.
	Yeah, I can steal this can of soup because it's buy one, get one free.
	Justin says, to be fair, Biden knowing that his farmer reparations being shut down may have been deliberate.
	He knows he'll get good press for announcing it, but when it fails, it either won't be covered or the news will be twisted into more good news for him or bad news for the Republicans to continue to divide.
	I don't think that Biden's got the cognitive ability to be that strategic.
	I think he genuinely thought he'd get away with it.
	Yeah, I thought it would be the right thing to do to give blacks money and not to whites.
	I think that's how he thinks.
	Student of history said, Fed courts, segregation is legal.
	Joe, come on fat, it was legal when I started in politics.
	I mean, that's the point, isn't it?
	He is literally so old, he's probably stuck in that mindset.
	Chris says, BLM is free therapy for self-loathing white people.
	Feeling down?
	Just go to a BLM rally as a white person.
	You instantly have power, and they will tell you.
	You notice your presence immediately and recognize your value, demanding you share it.
	For a mentally ill person, that kind of control is a pretty sweet deal.
	That's another aspect that we've not really properly explored, isn't it?
	You know, you want to be told that you're amazing?
	Go and talk to the Black Lives Matter folks as a white person.
	They think you run everything.
	I sent you an image a while back because I was on my phone and I got recommended an ad for an audiobook from Amazon that's How to Think Like a White Man.
	I was like, that's amazing.
	I read the blurb and I sent you a picture because it was just like, white people have so much power, white people control all of this, and I'm just like, man, they think we are gods.
	Yeah.
	Callum says, I'm definitely going to share this segment of the podcast with my South African friends and get their input about it.
	I know a little about apartheid, and I know a bit of what life's like there.
	But otherwise, I mean, London is not much different from Cape Town or any other city in South Africa.
	According to people from South Africa who talk about their lives there in contrast to their old ones.
	And one of my kids who's moved to Northern Ireland for work was astonished to see people and kids walking out in the streets at night.
	So yeah, the input on this will be interesting.
	Yeah, I look forward to hearing what you learn from them, basically.
	But I bet they're going to be like, yeah, all that stuff happens here.
	It's the ideological framework through which the administrators of the United States currently think through.
	And they think through exactly the same prism in which, well, the guys who made South Africa what it is thought.
	Kevin makes a great point here.
	Princeton is being very shrewd.
	Let underqualified students in.
	Let them take out massive student loans to pay Princeton for their education.
	Then wait for them to drop out because they can't read the textbook and pocket the money.
	Leaving these poor students with these huge sets.
	Or, I mean, even if they don't drop out.
	Just be a diploma mill.
	Just, here you go, here's your diploma.
	Who cares?
	I mean, they're just loan sharks at that point.
	Yeah, basically.
	That's basically it.
	Great point, Kevin.
	Sheep says, stunned that Biden's farm stimulus package didn't include two acres and a mule.
	It was 40 acres and a mule.
	That you would have expected.
	George says, regarding Twitter, Elon offers to buy Twitter, lefties re, the rest of us gleeful rubbing hand noises, villainous cackling and smirks from space.
	It's hard not to.
	It's hard not to watch them getting their comeuppance and enjoy watching them just absolutely rattled by the fact that Elon Musk is like, look, I just want inclusivity.
	Like, is it too much to ask?
	Yeah, and Free Will points this out.
	By inclusivity, they mean anyone who's not a conservative.
	That's exactly right.
	And Longshan, 1690.
	This is a great comment that we'll end on, right?
	Elon's letter reminds me of the terms sent to Baghdad by the Mongols, which effectively demanded the total surrender of their city or they would be destroyed ruthlessly and without mercy.
	Yes.
	I will dig you up the letter that I think is Hooghly Khan sent to the Caliph of Baghdad, basically being like, look, God has sent me as a punishment to you for being mean and vicious, and I'm going to destroy everything if you don't capitulate now.
	It's like, okay.
	I mean, big sweats.
	They didn't capitulate, and they did level the city.
	Baghdad didn't recover for hundreds of years.
	So, yeah, I will find that for you.
	It's a good letter.
	It's the most epic...
	The thing about the Mongols is they had this epic way of speaking.
	Like, very direct, and they could follow through with it.
	And so they sounded like, I mean, literally barbarian warlords.
	You ever seen the Mongol passes they would have for free travel?
	In the name of the Emperor or the Great Khan or whatever, you will let me pass because I'm his emissary and speaks in his name and you will be destroyed if you don't.
	Ridiculous.
	Anyway, on that note, it's time to end the show.
	If you'd like to see more from us, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

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