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April 29, 2022 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 29th of April 2022.
	I am joined by Harry.
	Hello there!
	It's my first day.
	This is my work experience.
	Carl's been very nice letting me join here.
	My older brother Harry couldn't make it in today, so I'm filling in.
	Have you done the right thing, Michael?
	Because the chat's still with everything's offline.
	This is starting well.
	This is going great.
	Okay, well, everyone in the chat is like, yeah, well, that's not working.
	It's not working on my end either, but I guess we'll just move forward and do what we can until then.
	We'll fix it in post.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about owning the libs of Never Felt So Good, also Biden's Ministry of Truth is coming, and also This Week in Stupid, because I felt like going back.
	Yeah, a little blast from the past, a nostalgia trip.
	Yeah, and I suppose the first thing we should mention is the Gold Tier Zoom call, which is that we will be doing after the podcast, so that's at 3.30, so finish the podcast, do the clips, and then we'll do that, and in which we're just going to hang out, take questions, have fun, usual thing.
	If you're a Gold Tier, you should be used to it.
	If you're not, well, that's what we do, is we just have a chat every once a month, which is always nice.
	Anyway, without further ado, we shall get into only the libs.
	All right.
	Owning the libs has never felt this good, and owning the libs, of course, being Elon literally owning the libs, as in he bought their platform and now owns them, like his master.
	Anyway, so I thought I'd mention first, we'll do a little bit of showing, of course, which is the first one here being the book club.
	So this is Mark Sidwell's The Long March Through the Institutions, which I did with Carl, which is a nice book club and also gives us an example of how you will see some of those people who have done those long marches through, for example, the tech institutions and taken them over.
	Twitter being a perfect example of that, of course.
	But I thought we'd just go through what the owner of the libs has been up to, because I just think it's glorious and funny and never ends.
	But we go to the next one, we can see, firstly, Brianna Wu, who you may remember from the past as well, who is very salty and still crying about all of this, because she's decided to come out and say,"'I never talked about it before, but in the aftermath of Gamergate, I worked extensively with Twitter Trust and Safety to improve Twitter's policies.' No.
	No, I remember you doing this, so you have talked about it before, or at least it was publicly known before, so that's not private.
	But also, she worked with Twitter's trust and safety team.
	I remember when the trust and safety team got launched, and everyone laughed at it, because it was obviously just going to be used for left-wing censorship, and now we have direct evidence.
	I wasn't really paying attention during Gamergate.
	I was too busy playing guitar every day.
	So, what was Brianna Wu's involvement in Gamergate?
	I believe she's the one who totally didn't sleep with five guys that reviewed her crappy game, Depression Quest.
	Well, no, no, that's Zoe Quinn.
	Oh, that's Zoe Quinn, sorry.
	I know enough about Gamergate to know about Zoe Quinn.
	Miss them all up, because they all come off the same, don't they?
	I mean, they're all a bunch of screeching feminists.
	Weird hair grifters.
	So, yeah, they all end up being the same.
	I can't remember exactly what Brianna Wu did now, because it's also a long time ago.
	She's probably just screeching along with all of the others.
	But I remember her going with Anita Sarkeesian and giving her evidence to the EU, sorry, the UN, about the fact that it's so new, it's so horrible being a whammon.
	And I was like, right, okay.
	Which is why you get a platform and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	That's why you got to speak to the UN. Yeah.
	But anyway, obvious nonsense.
	But there we have direct evidence of leftist influence over the trust and safety team.
	If we move forward, we can see a version of what we imagine Elon Musk holding a press conference going to be like.
	So we have in a press conference, Elon Musk was quoted as saying, quote, Twitter is now a hunting ground for trans LGBTQA plus women and minorities.
	When asked to elaborate by a trans journalist, he began salivating and said, run.
	Or at least this is what I imagine Brianna Wu thinks Elon Musk is like, because, well, this has been their response.
	It would be some pretty great meme magic, wouldn't it?
	But no, of course, this is not reality.
	Instead, what has he been up to where he's been having fun?
	So if we go to the next one, we can see some of that fun.
	Here's him saying, next I'll be buying Coca-Cola and put the cocaine back in.
	I don't think Coke took this very well.
	I'm talking about, like, please don't do that.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see him mentioning there was a fake tweet here saying, now I'm going to buy McDonald's and fix all the ice cream machines.
	And Elon responds, listen, I can't do miracles, okay?
	Can't be done.
	Although apparently, I remember Johnny Harris looked into why the ice cream machines were always broke.
	They're not really.
	It's the company that provides the ice cream machines.
	It's just fleecing McDonald's.
	Like, owners?
	Franchise owners?
	But the corporate side doesn't really care, because they're not losing anything out of it.
	So then the relationship goes on, they have these crappy machines that don't work.
	There's no reason for it.
	It's just because we use them.
	This just sounds like a bad business deal.
	McDonald's, sort yourselves out, lads.
	Come on.
	Go and look up the McDonald's ice cream machines if you want to find out the root of all that, which is just McDonald's are screwing everyone over.
	But Elon Musk can't even fix that mess.
	If we go to the next one, we also have the fact that he has some anti-agenda memes here.
	So, of course, you may remember Tim Paul talking to Miss Lawyer.
	I don't remember her name.
	I think it's Vijaya.
	Vagina.
	So vagina over there was saying that we don't have any bias in our corporation whatsoever.
	And Timple would be like, well, okay, well, misgendering.
	That's a policy in which you have bias.
	She was like, well, I'd have to see a context of that.
	And he says, okay, here's the context of an example.
	And he says, well, I don't know.
	I'd have to take it into consideration.
	And I don't think we have a bias.
	And it just went round in circles.
	Yeah, I watched it.
	It was...
	Entertaining three hours, but also very frustrating.
	Three hours.
	Certainly was.
	But it's amazing to see that the new owner, of course, recognizes this incident and also was watching, presumably at the time, and is now openly just saying, Miss Vagina, we're coming for you.
	We're going to get you out of the office because you were a terrible individual and one of the worst actors within Twitter.
	If we continue, we can also see the fact that Elon also posted more memes about the left going insane.
	I mean, I kind of love it.
	Like, all of these little memes here?
	These are the sorts of memes that normal people, not normies, just normal people, have been posting for years now, so it's good to see that he is on just the side of sanity.
	Like, back to the Sarkeesian days.
	I know, right?
	All those kind of memes.
	It's just like, hey, did you notice how the left seemed to be running off a cliff, and everyone who used to be on the left is now on the right somehow?
	It is very interesting that there is a contingence of people who have been responding to this particular meme by going, ah, but don't you understand that the right's been going more and more right as well?
	It's like, no, they're not.
	Most of the establishment right has just continuously been going, well, if you're going left, might as well.
	I'll keep up pace, guys, don't worry.
	Control the speed limit.
	Demonstrably so in policy as well.
	Although one of those people that is very upset about this is Jeff Bezos, or at least his outlet, decided to fact-check the meme.
	Oh!
	Oh, this must be what I was talking about then.
	What are you doing with your life when you're fact-checking a meme?
	Because, well, the meme embarrasses you, presumably, so you're like, well, quickly, you need to shut that down.
	And they try and shut it down in their article here.
	What Elon Musk's polarisation graph gets wrong?
	Graph.
	I love how it's a graphite.
	It's a crappy meme that he posted on the toilet.
	I don't think anybody's, like, done any empirical research into the meme.
	It's just the general feeling that people have.
	Jeff Bezos was very upset and did some empirical research into the meme.
	We wanted to get to the bottom of this meme.
	Jeff Bezos provides the ultimate actually.
	Yes, literally.
	Because the next one, we can see the ultimate actually here.
	And they provide this graph, or at least this is the evidence they use to say that, no, no, no, the Republicans have actually gone more right.
	Democrats haven't moved at all.
	Nothing's happened.
	I don't believe this in the slightest.
	It's an obvious bull.
	If we go to the next one, we can see, of course, I imagine most writers would respond with the graph that Tim Pool loves to share, just showing that the left has spread out and become more left in general, whereas the right has become slightly more right, but not really considerably over time.
	This is, I believe, I think this was Pew as well, but it's mentioned in the economist.
	Be careful.
	Careful, Tim.
	Those look awfully close to bell curves right there.
	You don't want to get cancelled.
	But that's the thing, it's just like, okay, you can provide your graphs, but just the reality on the ground, we all know as well.
	Like, we can all look at the policy changes, and you can verifiably notice those things.
	Such if we go to the next link, Vox.com, a far-right outlet, presumably.
	Because they throw the left under the bus in this article that we read the other day.
	But it's the point in here, they say, as recently as 2006, 64 House Democrats and 26 in the Senate voted for the Secure Fence Act, which built some 700 miles of fence, basically a wall by another name, along the 2,000 mile southern border.
	That included then-Senator Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Chuck Schumer.
	I thought Hillary was campaigning against this kind of action back in 2016.
	It's ridiculous, isn't it?
	It's demonstrably the case that the Dems have changed.
	They used to believe in borders, and now believe in open borders.
	They even believed in one point in the 90s in balancing the budget, if you can believe that one.
	I know, right?
	And they were actually successful at it, shockingly enough.
	Like, we have...
	Tangible policies you can point to where the left has shifted massively.
	You cannot do this with the right in the same respect.
	I covered somebody who, back in the day in the 1990s, was fired by the Clinton administration by recommending, hey, why don't we teach kids how to masturbate in school?
	Clinton was like, get out!
	Yes!
	Even Clinton, back in the day, was like, get out!
	Now Biden's like, oh...
	Let him tell them about my hairy legs.
	My next VP. Oh, God.
	Creepy weirdos.
	We go to the next one.
	We also have the news, of course, of Trump Social, and Elon decided to...
	Well, I don't know what this is.
	If it's a dunk or a flirt, I don't even know.
	He decided to say it should be called Trumpet instead.
	Kind of jokingly, but then a lot of people just made memes redoing it as a trumpet image, and quite frankly, I kind of like the name.
	I'll be frank, because this is, of course, Donald Trump's social media that he set up to obviously get away from Twitter, because it was run by, well, demons.
	And Elon Musk has now taken it over, so don't know how that relationship's turning out.
	I do wonder, they should probably just meet up and have drinks.
	Probably smooth things over.
	Because as Trump says, he's one of our geniuses.
	Honestly, I don't think that Elon and Trump would probably disagree on that much.
	I can't imagine either.
	If we go to the next one, we can also see the fact that the Saudi Arabians have now joined the chat.
	Saudi Arabian Burger King decided to put out this meme.
	Elon Musk, I love Burger King.
	Dave Smith, you should buy Whopper.
	How much is it?
	As well.
	So, of course, this has become an international meme in response, which I kind of love.
	I'm not going to lie.
	I do enjoy all this.
	Also, if we go to the next one, though...
	We have some insider news from Andy Ngo as well here.
	He published an article and the most interesting bit in here, it's about all of them whining on the inside because Andy decided to, when the takeover was taking place, he went and got their internal messages and then just published them.
	He was like, look at them all crying.
	Isn't this funny?
	And everyone was like, yeah, it is Andy.
	Good work.
	Good job, Andy.
	And then more internal messages have been leaked, this time to Andy, and it's them whining about Andy this time, which, as you can see, sometimes I think it can't be as bad as I'm imagining it'll be.
	Then I see something like this, and I'm all, nope, it'll be even worse.
	How is this no-effer verified as well?
	Jesus Christ, I mean, obvious paths and hacks working within the company, as if that wasn't obvious enough, but good job, Andy.
	Meme them until they cry, and then make memes of them crying.
	So they were crying here, and Andy just didn't care, of course.
	They apparently had a conversation about trying to censor Andy, and then realised he hadn't broken any rules, so they couldn't even do anything there.
	How can we not censor this investigative journalist?
	That's the kind of conversations that go on there.
	So you won't be surprised.
	If we go to the next one, we can see more insider whining.
	And again, beautiful.
	So I thought we'd enjoy.
	We'll click on the first image there if you can.
	Please, Michael, we can load this up.
	And we have some guy responding to Elon Musk making a reasonable point.
	And of course, he responds about the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
	That's not what happened.
	Twitter had a policy about hacked documents.
	We applied this policy equally.
	The merits of that policy are debatable, but it wasn't targeted censorship.
	Who believes them?
	That's obvious rubbish.
	Yeah, I mean, number one, it wasn't hacked.
	Like, the dude literally left his laptop at a guy's repair shop, and he was like, okay, we'll load that up.
	Yeah, this has got a lot of messed up stuff on it.
	I love the idea that hacking is going from there to there.
	Like, you've hacked the system by opening the laptop.
	I mean, to boomers, perhaps this is their idea of it.
	I mean, we've all seen 90s hacking movies.
	But this is a guy who works at Twitter.
	I mean, if you go to the next image there, and we can see himself engineer at Twitter, he, they, don't know what...
	And he's got a mullet.
	What is he they?
	Either you're a man or you're saying you're not a man or a woman, right?
	Well, the non-binary thing.
	I think it.
	It's fine.
	He's going for the inanimate object look.
	Fine.
	Alright, okay.
	Fair play.
	We go to the next one.
	What did he do in response to this being found out that he responded and tried to cover up the...
	He's gone.
	He deleted his account.
	Yeah.
	Because, well, guess what?
	If you openly try and lie about things, people can call you out on it.
	And if you do it to your new boss, I don't think he's going to be best too pleased.
	Well, now there's going to be an entire section of the US government administering people like this.
	Although I don't think they'd be going against people like Connor, somehow.
	Giving Connor bonuses.
	If we go to the next one, we're going to see him and a lot of others are also leaving Twitter, and as you can see from the Independent, Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk deal are largely organic.
	Weird headline.
	I think the point is that they're trying to say all these people leaving Twitter are just doing it of their own accord, and it's like, good, yes, these are the people that we hate.
	This is the contention between those two interpretations of all these people leaving.
	It certainly is true.
	That a lot of accounts are disappearing, and a lot of people on the left are losing followers, and a lot of accounts are appearing, and a lot of people are gaining followers on the right.
	And the question is whether or not this is because Twitter's code has been changed, burnt, for the new boss, so they don't find the originals.
	I wouldn't be surprised if that has something to do with it.
	Maybe, but there's no evidence so far of it, whereas there is evidence, of course, of a massive user behavior shift, which is loads of leftists going, I'm leaving, I'm going to Canada.
	But we're back in a I'll never come back!
	Going back to Tumblr.
	Good riddance.
	Stay there.
	There was a guy who followed around the Prime Minister once with a guitar, singing F off back to Eton.
	And I've just got that, but F off back to Tumblr.
	In my head.
	Anyway, if you scroll down on this, there's a quote from Twitter who say, While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy, which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely be the result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation.
	Says Twitter.
	Talking about the fact that they're going to look into the fluctuations.
	If we go to the next one as well, apparently the number of people who've turned up is huge.
	As you can see with Tim Paul mentioning here.
	Up 100k since Tuesday, but not Monday.
	For some reason, no one came back to Twitter the day Elon brought it.
	No, they waited until the next day.
	All of them did, he says here.
	Giving the idea that maybe it's to do with suppression rather than the change in user behaviour.
	Um, the thing is, though, like, we all made our videos, like, all of the non-progressives talked about this on Tuesday.
	Like, our video in which we first talked about the fact that, okay, well, this has changed instantly, was on Tuesday as well, so I'm reckoning that, nah, I think it really is just user behaviour still, until the evidence is presented, in which case, of course, you know, go to the evidence.
	I think people see someone like Elon say, oh, I've bought Twitter, and they go, okay, Twitter's gonna be a place that's going to be hospitable to me now.
	Yeah.
	Not that I don't understand the suspicion of these people.
	I mean, they literally lied to Tim Paul's face in front of him.
	I mean, vagina over there.
	It was like, oh yeah, we just banned people for saying the wrong words.
	But don't worry, we take context into account.
	Her name is also, full name I think is Vajaya Gab.
	So if you go with the vagina, it sounds almost like what Trump tried to get cancelled for.
	Well, keep that in mind.
	We go to the next one as well.
	Apparently Daily Users has increased 229 million.
	That's a lot of daily users.
	You know what?
	This sounds an awful lot like this was an excellent business move for Twitter.
	Yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	That's the increase to that number there, I should say, with an increase of 14 million turning up there, which is great.
	Yeah.
	And also all the leftists leaving apparently not even making a dent in the new numbers.
	So that's interesting.
	If we go to the next one as well, we can also see there is Elon Musk talking about the, well, problems Twitter faces.
	He says, This I'm a little bit worried about, because he did say previously his idea of free speech, and how he envisions the platform, is one that applies to the law.
	That's it.
	Yeah, I mean, the law, as set out on paper, can be quite malleable, sadly, and I preferred his previous statement of free speech absolutism.
	Yeah, but he has the constraints of the law, so that's fine.
	Obviously.
	His interpretation of saying, I will apply U.S. law in...
	That's it.
	That would obviously include the far right and the far left being able to spout their nonsense, because that's free speech, protect on the Second Amendment.
	And the fact that he mentions here that they're going to be upset makes me worried.
	And if we go to the next one, of course, Gab are also worried about this.
	They're giving a Robert Conquest law on this.
	Any organization, not explicitly right-wing, sooner or later becomes left-wing.
	The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
	I mean, that is the truth.
	Elon is stepping into a viper's den here because it is currently, if not controlled, because he's in charge now, it's certainly staffed by people who despise him and hate him.
	I'm just a little bit worried that he may say, okay, no, we won't do this, we won't do that, and then it will slowly snowball again.
	So that's my slight worry.
	I haven't seen much evidence of that other than that.
	Tweet there, which makes me kind of sus.
	However, he may just be saying violent actors.
	Yes, at the very least, Elon has a backbone, which is more than can be said for Dorsey.
	Yeah, that's 100% true.
	And he doesn't have to worry about board of directors no more.
	No, he really doesn't.
	All those savings to be made.
	If we go to the next one, we also have Gab, who are saying they've been unverified on Twitter.
	I don't know what this is about, but...
	Strange.
	But this, I don't think, can be blamed on Elon in the slightest.
	I've seen some people trying to do that.
	Because, as mentioned, he hasn't really formalized the deal even at this point.
	So all of the changes we are seeing is, again, the old regime trying to do their last bits, which is...
	Panicking damage control.
	Yeah, covering up some of their censorship, because their censorship usually is about direct censorship.
	So, people not being verified even though they know who they are, and they know they are who they are.
	Or just saying that this account cannot be able to spread this message, or just ban people outright, because they have no shame.
	I don't even think they think much about shadowbatting these days, they just ban instead.
	So, I think this is again the actions of the dying regime there.
	If we move forward, we can also see the fact that the media is going mad.
	We have Bloomberg here going with, Elon Musk's Twitter is a scary space for many black users.
	It's a spooky, scary platform.
	We've taken consensus from all of the black users, and they say, oh, I'm spooked and scared right now.
	I spoke to the King of the Blacks, and he was very spooked.
	Peter Griffin was terrified.
	Sean King had many bad things to say.
	White Father Christmas.
	Anyway, the author writes, Hey, it's Kelsey Butler, a Blueberg equity reporter.
	I was like, okay, right, so...
	No, equality reporter.
	Equality reporter.
	Please be patient, she has autism is what I'm hearing there, though.
	Yes.
	Let me give you a sense of what it's like to be a black woman on Twitter.
	One day, I opened my DMs to a one-word message saying, Niger.
	The person...
	Okay!
	Do you know what you can do?
	You can just go, oh, okay, and just close it.
	You can block them.
	That person didn't mean the West African country, but a racial slur gave it away.
	So, there's also the obvious point of just, like, why does someone do that?
	To get a rise out of you, as well.
	You'll notice how we don't have this for other racers who have racial slurs against them that we care about.
	The funny thing is, like you say, they do it to get a rise out of them, Job succeeded.
	I mean, you got an entire article.
	I mean, you got an article out of them, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's amazing.
	Anyway, so there's that.
	And then she continues, Firstly, don't care what the leftists say, so don't even trust them.
	But also, now listed for Pakistanis, I'd love to see the results of how much of that is...
	If you want to know what a joke Amnesty International is, just think that they are wasting time and money tracking down all tweets about black women and seeing if they're nasty or not.
	They also refused to count back Count Dankula by the time.
	I don't know if you remember that.
	He was like, hey, human rights organization.
	Maybe I shouldn't go to prison for a joke?
	And they were like...
	It was a joke.
	Yeah, that was a pretty spicy joke though, Count.
	Screw Amnesty International.
	Musk has said he'd prioritise free speech to be very reluctant to delete things and tread lightly with permanent bans.
	Timeouts, I think, are better, he said.
	The obvious human solution to, well, content moderation.
	People like, weird name, author of So You Want to Talk About Race have already deactivated their accounts.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	What are we going to do?
	Nearly half of the accounts that sent direct misogynistic abuse to high-profile women like Kamala Harris and Elizo went on to re-offend, according to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate.
	Of the comments, 49% targeted women of colour and 41% included the word...
	Well, the B word.
	Which also...
	I'm reminded of the fact that apparently half of all abuse that women get online is from other women.
	Well, is that a surprise?
	49% of those went on to re-offend, and I'm thinking, hmm, I feel like the women are going on to re-offend.
	Yeah, I do like the use of the word re-offend here, because it is just, well, that's language you use for criminals.
	Yeah.
	You're treating them as criminals, just for being mean online.
	Called Amber Heard a B-word.
	Deserved.
	I think I'll live.
	Yeah.
	She then goes on to say, black and other marginalized users deserve much better online.
	No, you don't.
	You deserve exactly the same as everyone else.
	You would have thought.
	But no, we are an aristocracy.
	Or at least that's how they have been treated.
	That's what I love about this article.
	They're like, well now, this is a horrible place for marginalized groups.
	Marginalized being the protected characteristics.
	And they are very protected, as you see in British law, never mind the fact in just the way that these companies operate, which is that you can openly say kill all white men.
	That's fine.
	And that was a hashtag a few years ago.
	It was.
	It was completely fine with Twitter.
	It was a crime in the UK. The police actually investigated the lady, but then immediately dropped it, because, of course.
	Whereas if you did the opposite, you'd be getting a prison sentence, frankly.
	It goes on.
	Academic researchers have called African-American users...
	Hashtag Black Twitter, some of the most influential on the app, using hashtag Black Lives Matter and hashtag I Can't Breathe as rallying cries against police violence and hashtag Black Girl Magic, and hashtag Black Boy Joy as a forum for celebration.
	What on earth is Black Boy Joy?
	I don't know if I want to know, actually.
	But anyway, there's this saying, well, okay, well, the black users of Twitter, the black American users, have been the most influential and the most important users, and therefore should be treated specially, presumably.
	And, well, how did that all work out?
	What did you guys achieve?
	Oh, that's all you achieved.
	You achieved these three, getting lots of money and lots of mansions.
	That's what your movements did.
	Good job.
	Really helped out the black community.
	Just keeping it in mind.
	Also, just the idea that what is the app doing for us, she seems to mention.
	It's like, giving your platform.
	Nothing else.
	You deserve nothing else.
	If we go to the next one, we're going to see the fact that apparently loads of leftists are presenting death threats to Elon Musk.
	Because, you know, movement of peace on the march, once again.
	And if we go to the next one as well, there's also them whining about the fact that some people have been blocked by him.
	They're like, well, what about free speech?
	Hang on.
	You know what the blog button is, right?
	You can still post on the platform.
	You're not banned from the platform.
	You're not Carl Benjamin.
	You're not Alex Jones.
	You know, so on and so forth.
	You can do what you want, but this dude doesn't have to listen to you.
	But if I can't send death threats directly to Elon, then he's a hypocrite!
	Complete hypocrite.
	Also, the left complaining about hypocrisy.
	I love it, because they are appealing to free speech.
	Why?
	Because they held this as a value?
	Of course not.
	Absolutely not.
	They're saying, this is a value you guys hold, so please grant it to us.
	I was like...
	No!
	I mean, this is just clear that they don't understand what the value even means.
	Yeah, I also know that Carl made the point.
	This is obviously just reply-guying.
	I don't know if you know what that is.
	Yeah, I know, reply-guying.
	There'll be an account that's got loads of followers, and these guys will always reply in there, trying to dunk on the big account.
	Because they know it gets them better reach than they would just posting into the ether.
	So that's what they're mad about.
	The journos won't be able to try and get artificial boosts there.
	So, too bad.
	Go to hell.
	Although this isn't the worst take I've seen of, like, what about my free speech here?
	We go to the next one, we have Chunky Boy, who decided to go with, um...
	Our right-wingers really unaware of the irony of saying that they are champions of free speech and then celebrating a law called Don't Say Gay, the law they cheer on the most, is literally the most against free speech...
	I really wept for these, sorry, there are no more words left to conquer.
	And I love the idea that he's like, if I can't talk to a three-year-old about sex, I'm not a free man, says Cenk Uygur, Young Turks.
	I mean, if the people going against the bill are watching the Young Turks, I'm not surprised that they all show such a consistent level of retardation.
	Yeah, but also my concept of free speech is if I can't talk about my horse fetish three-year-old, says Chenk, then I'm not a free man.
	I mean, have you seen that clip of him trying to go like, well, you know, if I was in charge, I would legalize bestiality.
	That's what I'm referencing.
	Yep.
	So anyway, there's the salt that is flowing endlessly from the fact that the Libs have been finally owned.
	Completely.
	And they are owned by King Elon himself.
	On paper.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Alright, but before I do, I just want to point out, thank you, someone posted, someone sent me, there was a screenshot from the chat, from Harry's beard, just asking the question, where am I? You're gone.
	You're gone forever.
	Sorry to break it to you.
	Anyway.
	Right.
	Following swiftly on from that last segment, it will tie in quite nicely because Biden's Ministry of Truth is incoming.
	Because Elon owns Twitter now, which means that the US government will not have as tight a grip over that institution as they once did.
	It means, well, I guess we're just going to have to do what we always do and regulate it.
	And regulate we will.
	Before we go any further...
	I will just chill out for obvious reasons.
	The book club that you and Carl did last year on 1984, because the government's body, which is going to be, I think it's called the disinformation governing body, or something, a board, is very, very similar to the Ministry of Truth found within Ingsoc in 1984.
	Going to get our own mini-truth.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, and this is something to be concerned about across the whole world, to be perfectly honest, because being a US-based organisation, despite the fact that if you're in England, like us, we won't directly be governed by the disinformation board, if you're on Twitter, they are.
	They will be.
	I imagine they'll also be influencing every other social media organisation in the United States, which most of the free ones are, obviously.
	Yeah, so it will still be affecting everybody on a day-to-day basis.
	But let's go into what's actually going on.
	So I've got this up here.
	So the Disinformation Governance Board is being set up by Biden, which RT have put as US unveils plans to ramp up censorship.
	This is why we should always check out RT, because they just put things nice and bluntly in these situations.
	U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is expanding the Department of Homeland Securities, because we all trust those guys, purview to include fighting speech that the government deems to be disinformation.
	Plans for the new initiative were revealed on Wednesday when DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas said in a congressional hearing that his department has created a disinformation governance board.
	The new body will be headed by a woman called Nina Jankovic, So, someone who obviously has an illustrious and successful career in achieving her goals.
	Bringing democracy to Russia?
	Good job.
	Done well so far.
	And aren't you looking forward to even more government control in your day-to-day life?
	Cats out of the bag, Jankiewicz said in a Twitter post.
	Here's what I've been up to the past two months and why I've been a bit quiet on here.
	So they're saying that this has been going on.
	We've been planning this for two months.
	This is something that's just been...
	We were already thinking about doing.
	It's just a complete coincidence that we've just announced that it's going to happen immediately after Elon Musk removes the level of control we have over Twitter.
	What do you want to bet for the last most of those two months?
	It's been in pre-production, you know, the meetings where nothing gets done, and then the last few days they realise, oh crap, we need to do something now.
	Well, what do you reckon that it was like?
	We hear rumblings that Elon might be thinking about buying Twitter.
	Hmm, we best get something prepared just in case.
	Carrying on, although Mallorca's unveiled the new entity in response to a question about disinformation being used to sway elections, interesting, the new board will reportedly focus on countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.
	And I'm sure we can trust the US government to keep it entirely, perfectly focused on those minute issues, and they will not overstep their boundaries at all.
	No, of course they will.
	They will use this to try and control anything online that they deem to be disinformation, which is, of course, down to whoever is in charge of who gets to say what is disinformation, which will just be what they don't want you to hear, or things that they don't like.
	But also, I don't even think they should be granted license to determine any of these things.
	No, of course not.
	I mean, even the idea that, okay, we're just focusing on national security over regular migration.
	No, you're not.
	The hell with you.
	You're not allowed to be in these kinds of realms.
	Like, misinformation is entirely the realm of the public to engage in if they wish to.
	That's not the government's role at all in the United States.
	Even if you're saying, oh no, it's for security.
	No, go to hell.
	Yeah, I mean, for a long time, the US government has been slowly and sneakily trying to basically just repeal the entirety of the Constitution.
	Because as much as I would love to say, oh, the Constitution's a brilliant document, in practice, it's just slowed them down a little bit in expanding all of their powers.
	They can still do this.
	But that's better than what we got.
	It's better than what we got, but they still got here eventually anyway.
	They've got their own Ministry of Truth coming up, so I don't know how useful the things turned out to be overall.
	At least they've still got guns.
	Founding Father's solution to tyranny.
	I don't think we can say it, but it's in the Constitution.
	Wink. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who was questioned about the Twitter deal by reporters on Monday, said Biden had long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms and will urge Congress to take steps to help combat online misinformation.
	Last December, Jankovic called Elon Musk an online abuser and said that the best antidote to such behavior is to deny them influence and notoriety.
	She has also defended regulation of speech, saying the free speech versus censorship framing is a false dichotomy.
	So she really sounds like she's the right person for the job of determining what is and isn't disinformation.
	It's whatever I dislike people saying.
	Do you remember that net neutrality guy?
	Like, I'm not going to get into the debate about net neutrality, but remember he gave a speech where he was like, no, no, no, think of it.
	It's not going to be the fast lane and the slow lane.
	It'll be the fast lane and the super fast lane.
	It's not between free speech and censorship.
	It's between free speech and super free speech.
	Yeah, yeah.
	See, we just want to take super free speech back to just normal free speech.
	You guys have had a little bit too much free speech recently.
	We just need to rein you in a little bit.
	But obviously this is going to be used as a tool to silence political dissenters on whatever platform that they may pop up on, which is not good news.
	But let's also just take a look.
	I saw this clip.
	Because Tucker Carlson had a segment on it, as you can imagine.
	He went over it quite in good detail.
	I'd recommend checking it out.
	But he played this clip of this Nina Jankovic from, I can assume, her TikTok.
	Let's just take a look and it'll speak for itself, okay?
	Information laundering is really quite ferocious It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so Disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious It's how you hide a little hide a lie It's how you hide a little hide a lie It's how you hide a little hide a lie When Rudy Giuliani shared that intel from Ukraine Or when TikTok influencers say Covid can cause pain They're laundering disinfo and we really should take note And not support their lies with our wallet,
	voice or vote Yes.
	The US, as a superpower, is nothing but a joke.
	When you've got people like this in charge.
	That's the person now in charge of what is true.
	Yes.
	You're in safe hands.
	We are in the midst of civilizational collapse, folks.
	And it's all because of these kinds of people.
	Rudy Giuliani taking that intel from Ukraine.
	I mean, is she referring to the Hunter Biden laptop story there?
	I wonder, as well.
	Well, I wonder.
	Well, let's find out a little bit more about this Djankovic lady, because she said quite a few things that made me question her ability to do this job in an objective fashion.
	So here's a recent thing that she put out there.
	Last week I told NPR I should have to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized community, which are already shouldering disproportionate amounts of this abuse.
	So she's a leftist.
	Okay, we can't have free speech.
	Why?
	Because black people might be called a word.
	That's not a good enough reason to censor the entire planet, you lunatic.
	The hell's the matter with you?
	I mean, black people have been able to say some pretty nasty things about white people for a long time on Twitter, so we can't have the opposite happening.
	Also in real life.
	And guess what?
	That's fine.
	We live.
	No one dies.
	You need to realise, Karen, we only censor because we care.
	That's basically the logic going on here.
	And there was some other stuff that Jack Posobiec put out there, these screenshots.
	So here she is in her announcement.
	Here's my official portrait to grab your attention if you want to click on that image for me, Michael.
	Thank you.
	And if we skip over to the next one, here's what she was saying around the time of the...
	Of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
	She was live tweeting when I think they were having some kind of debate on it, so back on the laptop from hell, apparently, Biden notes 50 former NATSEC officials and five former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op.
	Trump says Russia, Russia, Russia.
	It was all Russian disinformation, and now she's in charge of what determining what disinformation is.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's like they're just pissing in your face.
	I mean, they're just joking at you at this point.
	I mean, that's the thing with the Biden ad, but I said yesterday, it's like they want you to hate them or something.
	I think if that's what they're going for, they've done a fantastic job.
	And there's more of this as well.
	If we go to the next one, we've just got...
	A round table of tweets that she's done about this, which make it very difficult to believe when she denies that she tried to suppress this story in the first place.
	Just click on a few of these so we can see them.
	Reeling in info about the Russian hack, I got your back.
	This week's Whistikipedia is a Trump-Russia primer.
	So she's a Trump-Russia...
	She's a Russia hatter.
	Let's move along.
	Five questions every voter should ask about Trump's bizarre relationship with Russia.
	Foreign policy matters.
	All this sort of stuff.
	Obviously partisan hackery.
	And then if we move along, she had an excuse for when she was talking about the Hunter Biden laptop.
	For those who believe this tweet is a key to all my views, it's simply a direct quote from both candidates during the final presidential debate.
	If you look at my timeline, you'll see I was live tweeting that evening.
	Do you buy this?
	No.
	No.
	Were you live-tweeting every other word that was given or every other site?
	I don't believe that.
	Also, one of the important things to note is what information you may leave out when you're quoting these people.
	And the information that she included in that tweet seems very lopsided in Biden's direction.
	Yes.
	What did Trump say in response?
	Russia, Russia, Russia.
	That's all.
	This is a fair interpretation and representation of what was going on in that discussion, I'm sure.
	And I'm sure we can trust you to look at everything in a fair and objective way moving forward.
	But also, this is very interesting as well.
	Isn't this disinformation, potentially?
	So this is her from March 4th, 2020, when even Fauci was still saying masks were questionable.
	Now hope the rest of the ad tech industry stops placing ads for masks and worse, straight-up disinfo on articles and info about coronavirus.
	Interesting how only a month or two later this would have been disinformation, implying that masks don't work, Jankovic.
	Don't do that.
	That's very bad.
	How dare you?
	That is very bad, because masks obviously work.
	Carrying on.
	So, the New York Post also wrote an article about this, and it has some more information.
	So it says, Nina Jankovic, who is a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center.
	We've got our own experts on disinformation in here.
	Oh, gosh.
	It's like when Biden said he's an expert in voter.
	Blank.
	Yes.
	She is repeatedly cast out on the Post reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop.
	The Russian misinformation expert had told the Associated Press just a week earlier that there was doubt that the laptop even belonged to Hunter, and there were multiple red flags that emails uncovered from the device were legit.
	We should view it as a Trump campaign product.
	Jankovic also tweeted a link to a news article on October 2020 that she said cast yet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post's Hunter Biden story, not to mention that the emails don't need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign.
	Voters deserve that context, not a fairy tale about a laptop repair shop.
	So she's a beacon of truth and honesty.
	Someone we can all rally around at this time in this age of misinformation and disinformation to be the shining beacon of truth.
	She's the disinformation in chief.
	Yes.
	Literally.
	A partisan hacker who also just engages in disinformation whenever you think it makes it look good.
	And all of this is to say as well that if it was anybody else in charge, I still wouldn't want this being a thing.
	I don't want a disinformation governance board.
	I don't think you should entrust that sort of power on anybody.
	I don't think being able to objectively tell what is and isn't disinformation is a skill that any human can possess.
	I also don't, but I also think it would be really funny to have Alex Jones and Alex Jones alone in charge of what's true.
	Actually, I take it all back.
	Alex Jones is the only man who can determine it objectively.
	He is wired into the Matrix, after all.
	He's got all the documents.
	Yeah, he knows.
	He's got his friends in high places.
	And then Jen Psaki was also in a recent press conference talking about this and was questioned by a reporter.
	And let's just hear what Psaki, and therefore the Biden administration as a whole, has to say about this.
	She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a Trump campaign product, seeming to discredit its validity or validity of reporting surrounding that.
	How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to this position and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be Well, I don't have any comments on the laptop, but what I can tell you is that it sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities.
	I'm not sure who opposes that effort.
	The Constitution.
	The Founding Fathers.
	I don't know.
	Name a couple?
	The ideology that your country was founded on, you absolute bint.
	What is going on?
	I mean, seriously.
	Just dodges the question, gives pithy political response.
	I don't know who's opposed to the Ministry of Truth.
	No idea.
	Yeah.
	Jesus Christ.
	And this has, of course, inspired a lot of commentary from sane liberals and conservatives across America.
	Crowder here pointing out the government board is creating misinformation.
	Who else did something like that?
	Oh, yeah, the Nazis.
	There's some data showing some interesting things going on post Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
	Elon himself actually responded to this tweet, just putting, discomforting.
	Yes, it is.
	I'm glad that Elon, as ever, with his finger on the pulse, is aware of what is going on here.
	And there's, somebody else pointed out, the storied history of ministries of truth.
	So Adolf Hitler had one.
	Joseph Goebbels had one.
	Joseph Stalin had one.
	Probably the same one, to be honest.
	Yeah, that's true, that's true.
	But Joe Biden has one now.
	So I suppose just don't trust leaders called Joseph.
	It's what I'm getting here.
	Hitler was just an aberration here.
	It's Joe if you move the letters around.
	I don't know.
	Sleepy Joe.
	Take some letters away and add some more, you end up with Joe Biden.
	And we do have people within the American political system also trying to combat this as well.
	For instance, Josh Hawley has written this strongly worded letter.
	Saying, please don't do this?
	Well, I mean, good.
	I mean, it's better than nothing, but still, I don't know what help this can do.
	I think we just really need to absolutely demolish the Democrats.
	I think the Democrats are digging their own grave currently.
	Hopefully, people will recognize that this is just the next step in them trying to blow their own heads off, but I think we really just need to bury the Democratic Party altogether in the midterms.
	I mean, it is the role for him to send these letters, so I don't think we should discourage him for any of that.
	No, of course not.
	This is a perfect thing.
	I mean, this is like the groomers, again.
	This is a perfect moment in which you can put it in the centre and just make people stare at it and be like, yeah, they're literally demanding a ministry of truth, and she says, I don't know who opposes that.
	They just show everyone the constitution again for a minute.
	Once again, they'll probably be like, oh what, you think children are being groomed in schools?
	Disinformation.
	Banned.
	Get off the internet.
	You're no longer allowed to talk.
	We've sent the thought police over to sew your mouth shut.
	In the name of national security.
	Get bent.
	Yeah.
	Go screw yourself.
	And then there's also some people pointing out that with Joe Biden in office, well, the disinformation board's going to have its hands full just with him alone, because Biden recently said, I think what we're seeing is an enormous growth in the country when the US economy actually shrunk by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022.
	So...
	I mean, hopefully, if nothing else, in terms of the managerial elites, there's the idea, why don't we just get them all to tie themselves up in knots managing each other?
	And you've got plenty of work to go through here, not that I think they'll do anything, because what Joe Biden says is good, because it is on our side.
	And once again, are we just going to trust any of these people when there's nonsense, partisan BS like this being put out there?
	Look at this graph.
	I mean, just like Chad Kroger said in that classic song photograph, look at this graph right now, okay?
	Like, Republican Party backslides towards authoritarianism.
	Level of party commitment to democracy.
	Dem have nice high straight line, very consistent.
	Oh no, the GOP took quite a dive.
	In between the...
	The y-axis is highest and at the bottom lowest.
	Not only what that means.
	It's not even zero to one in some arbitrary algorithm.
	It's just low.
	We've just decided.
	We've just decided.
	They wanted to close the borders.
	Oh, what, like the bloody Dems in the early 2000s?
	Oh, graph go down again.
	Oh, graph go down.
	So, just to show how easy it is to do this, here's a graph that we prepared earlier that Michael put in.
	Which I think communicates a similar message, which is the y-axis says better happy, the x-axis says worse sad, and here you can see the Dems, apart from a little dip recently, have been pretty consistent on it.
	The Dems were always better happy, and then they got a little bit worse sad, and then they've gone back to better happy.
	Yeah, I think the little bit worse sad was when Hillary lost, and they went, oh, I'm very, very sad now.
	Very sad, very sad.
	Whereas the Republicans have been on a very bad downward spiral.
	They've been on a depressive spiral here.
	If you're a Republican, you're going the worst sad every day.
	Yes.
	And this, therefore, proves that you should vote Democrat.
	Well, I'm sold.
	I'm signing up.
	That's the logic that we're dealing with here.
	Go to joebiden.com and sign up as Democrat today.
	I think there might actually be an anti-farsight redirection.
	Oh no, it's for sale.
	For 280 bucks.
	Ooh.
	Oh wait, no, I spot Biden wrong, that'd be weird.
	Oh, come on.
	Anyway, and on that bombshell, yeah, the Ministry of Truth is coming for you, they're coming for all of us, and they want to stop you from being able to say rational and sane things, because you're not towing the party leftist line.
	So, oppose it at all costs.
	I went to JoeBiden.com.
	It's just a big block of text.
	Someone let Joe on the typewriter again.
	I'd love for someone to just hack that.
	I'd just upload our graph there.
	Not saying that you should, but...
	No, you should instead make loads of memes about more graphs about how Republicans were sad.
	Yes, very sad.
	Nothing that could prevent this.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Uh...
	So I thought I'd do a segment called This Week in Stupid, because I didn't know what to do for the third one.
	This is a completely original idea.
	Yeah, no one's had this one before.
	But I was just looking and thinking, well, there's a lot of stupid things that happened this week, and I should probably make a segment out of these.
	What should I call it?
	I don't know.
	And so I decided to steal an oldie, but a goldie.
	So let's call it that, because I don't know what else to do.
	Well, we'll start off with a shill, in case you're missing Carl.
	Of course, we have a video here.
	There's a premium video, The Secrets of Russo, on LonelySeas.com, if you want to go over and subscribe to get access to him talking about...
	That's fantastic.
	Fantastic thumbnail.
	It certainly is.
	The little wizard man thing is.
	So you can go and check that out.
	But otherwise, we shall get into these stupid, because there is quite a lot.
	So we may start off with this rant you may remember.
	Remember this, Harry, episode?
	I covered this, yes.
	Look how I am with my mustache.
	So this was the lady on G4 who decided to rant to her own audience and say, hey, you're all sexist, and if you don't like it, don't watch the show.
	I think it was literally because people in the chat had been criticizing her for getting details wrong in a review.
	She's like, the only reason that men would criticize me is because they hate women.
	It's not because you're incompetent.
	Right, okay.
	So it was even kind of all nonsense.
	And once again, amusingly, immediately after this, they brought in some Twitch thought in a hot tub to be like, see?
	We still connect with Dakids.
	So, what happened to the response in which he told everyone, don't watch this show?
	Go to the next one.
	We can see the viewing figures.
	Uh, yeah.
	Not going well.
	G4 sees massive loss of viewers in Wreath a Month, following Frosk's infamous rant.
	What a good idea to tell everyone to not buy your product.
	What a great product.
	It's in the comic book industry, though.
	I forget what the name is.
	The writer of one of the comics was like, listen, if you don't like my politics, don't buy my comic.
	And everyone did.
	I remember Xbox.
	Just don't buy the Xbox One, then.
	Okay.
	Alright, fair play.
	Great consumer advice.
	So the topic of the G4 Frusk Fallout was revisited on April 26th with independent video games journalist Bren Glasgow, this article writes.
	Ostensibly, out of curiosity, sought to check in on the network's overall health.
	I'm sure he did.
	Quote, Meanwhile, said Glasgow on Twitter, G4 TV doesn't seem to be doing very well.
	X-Play is averaging around 16,000 views.
	So, hmm.
	Who'd have thought that one?
	Yeah, not going well.
	Prior to Frosk's declaration that male viewers who didn't appreciate being a blanket attacked, if you don't like it, don't watch it, videos came on the core of G4's channel, pulled in anywhere between 15,000 and 75,000 views, and now everything's stuck at 16,000 max.
	Yeah, that went well.
	And if we go to the next one, we actually just have the Social Blade, of course.
	It's a bit messed up if you scroll down for the graphs, please, Michael, because there's some month a while ago, the site that deleted, what is that, 60 million views?
	For some reason?
	I don't know.
	House cleaning, maybe?
	I don't know what that's about, but it kind of makes the graph look a bit silly, but...
	Maybe in preparations they were like, I don't know, deleting compilations of nip slips that they'd uploaded in the mid-2000s or something.
	Yeah, but we can look back to January and then today and see how it went.
	So in January they had 1.2 million views, minus 2,000 subscribers, because people are already like, hmm, I don't like being shouted at and being told I'm the problem for being a man, so bye.
	Unsubscribed.
	Yeah.
	And then in March, minus 300,000 views.
	Don't know how they managed that one.
	So, again, losing more and more.
	Are they deleting more videos?
	Presumably.
	Did they delete the Frosk rant video?
	That still seems to be there.
	Oh, okay.
	They're happy to keep that up.
	But again, minus 1,000 subs for that month as well, and minus 2,000 for the month previously.
	Also, and I imagine this month is going fantastic for them.
	But that's some nice justice.
	I thought it was a nice little story to go back on and have a look at.
	A little white pill there.
	Yeah, but we move forward with the stupid, because if we go to the next one, we now have the best story I've ever read.
	University midwife students taught to care for men giving birth through their penis.
	Now, I've heard of passing kidney stones.
	This is just ridiculous.
	It's not a kidney stone, it's a baby.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah.
	A British university is teaching its midwifery students how to care for males giving birth.
	Now...
	I read this and thought...
	Males giving birth.
	It must be.
	Surely it must be the fact that it's a biological woman who is telling you she's a man and therefore, well, obviously they're still a woman so they got pregnant and then that's what's going on, right?
	Yeah.
	Maybe they had surgery and they got a...
	This must be it.
	Apparently not.
	Apparently they honestly seem to think that men can get pregnant, like biological men.
	We'll get into it.
	Feminist news site Redux revealed teaching materials from Edinburgh Napier University, which state the person giving birth may still have external male genitalia after transitioning.
	So this is trans people then?
	But then they don't actually specify, and you'll see in a bit, like, it's all kinds of mad.
	Wait, wait, wait, so they're...
	No, they may still have external male genitalia after transitioning.
	So this is men transitioning to women, and are they getting a uteroplasty as part of that surgery?
	How have they gotten pregnant?
	Yeah, what on earth?
	The skills workbook on catheterization informs students the person giving birth may be a male, and therefore you have to put a catheter up the schlong to have a look at the baby in the uterus that isn't there.
	I don't get it.
	You're not going to find a child.
	It's not happening.
	All we could find was a bladder up this darn thing.
	Yeah, looking at kidney stones going on.
	Wait a second, we've gone through the wrong way.
	Wait, it is stored in the balls afterwards.
	I've done it, guys!
	The workbook also adds a trans person who has transitioned from female to male could give birth for a specially constructed penis.
	I have no idea what that means.
	You mean a specially constructed penis which is presumably overlaid over your vagina!
	No, we've made it.
	You know how you go bowling with your kids, and you've got the kids thing, right?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	So they don't have to throw the ball.
	So they just roll it down.
	It's like that, except you just weave it up to the lady.
	And it's a specially constructed penis they can give birth out of.
	It's a little tunnel they have to crawl through.
	I'm trying to figure out.
	Okay, all right, all right.
	God knows.
	Elaine Miller, a fellow of the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy, expressed dismay at the contents of the workbook.
	I'm glad that somebody has.
	She just reads her and starts weeping uncontrollably.
	When he gives birth through his penis.
	Why am I paying nine grand?
	I quit, guys.
	I quit.
	She told the website, it's not possible for a male to get pregnant.
	Oh, really?
	This is revolutionary knowledge!
	A female with a gender difference can become pregnant, but will not have male genitalia.
	An Edinburgh Napier University spokesman said it aims to be inclusive for people in the LGBTQ+ communities and will update teacher manuals where required.
	Required for what?
	I mean, you are required to literally print anti-scientific nonsense that a biological man can get pregnant.
	Is that what you're saying?
	It's awful as well, because as far as I was aware, Edinburgh University is one of the most prestigious medical universities.
	Is Napier University different to Edinburgh University?
	I imagine it's a part of it, but it's just the fact that...
	Because Edinburgh is known as one of the best medical universities in Europe.
	But also Scotland is the worst part of the United Kingdom.
	This is also true.
	So it's just that no matter how professional your institution, no matter how professional, you know, you could be taking physics.
	It doesn't matter.
	They'll scheme in there somehow and destroy it.
	This comes after a feminist PhD student lost her legal case against a university after claiming she suffered harassment and bullying from trans rights activists.
	Raquel Sanchez, 32, sued the University of Bristol, alleging it failed to protect her from the activists who targeted her over her involvement in a campaign group...
	Women's Place UK. Shouldn't be bullied, and also I'm on the side of the...
	But if you're going to call your turf organisation anything, Women's Place...
	We need to stay in our Women's Place, guys.
	There needs to be a place for women in society, and they need to stay in it, and that's going to be...
	Anywhere she chooses.
	It's going to be adjacent to the kitchen.
	The chat has their own views on what that is.
	She brought a claim against the university for damages in contract, negligence, and under the Equality Act after the way it handled her complaints, but apparently the judge just didn't care because, well, screw you, you're a TERF. If we go to the next one, because the GB News article here, I don't know why they didn't include this, but they mention it's from Redux, and I went and found Redux, and as you can see here, they have the physical documents.
	Oh, okay.
	GB News just didn't mention the language, because the language is what makes us crazy, and why I'm so confused, and why I genuinely think that they think biological men, like you and me, Harry, can get pregnant and give birth.
	Let's not keep inspiring the fanfic, okay?
	They say in here, direct quote from the workbook.
	It is important to note that while most times the birthing person will have female genitalia, most times.
	Most times.
	Birthing person.
	Birthing person, nice anti-human phrasing.
	You may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia.
	The only way that this could make remote sense, and even then, this is just a far-flung nonsense in the first place, is if it's female to male back to female, like a detransitioner.
	Yeah, the old documentary is, oh, it's a man having a baby from Channel 4, and actually, no, it's obviously a woman.
	Yeah.
	Who's got a beard.
	Like, it's a woman having a beard.
	Whereas, this is...
	Midwifery students are literally being taught that a biological man can get pregnant and will give birth through his penis.
	Like Kif, in Futurama, your gonads will be wrenched asunder.
	I promise, stupid.
	You found stupid, that's for sure.
	And once again, just the framing of it, is this pregnant or birthing person?
	It's written like a document that you would see from an alien.
	Yeah, it's mad.
	I hate it.
	But anyway, this isn't the only stupid.
	Of course, there is lots and lots of stupid to be had.
	If we go to the next one, we have Libs of TikTok, of course, collecting the stupid like a stupid merchant, just shoving it all in, being like, well, that's for later.
	They're hoarding all the stupid for herself, damn it.
	Yeah, here's another stupid in regards to birthing people.
	And this is an individual who went for a gynecology appointment and was very upset because the person doing the gynecology said that they were a woman.
	That's very hurtful for them.
	Let's play.
	I had a gynecologist appointment today to get an Explanon implant in my arm, which is birth control, by the way.
	And my gynecologist is usually pretty respectful.
	I've only had two appointments, but she's respected me as a trans person.
	Well, today...
	As I was checking out for my appointment, I was standing right there in front of her, and she starts talking to the woman, the nurse that's checking me out, and she misgendered me right in front of me.
	I didn't say anything, because it was 10 o'clock in the morning.
	That's early for me, and it just didn't seem worth it.
	Maybe I'll confront her in my next appointment in six months, if I remember.
	That's amazing.
	The funny thing, if she was a real man, she would have confronted her right there, but she's not.
	You had some masculine qualities there, but also just, I might come back to my next gynecology appointment and insist, no, I'm a man.
	The most masculine thing.
	You know, I loved it when I was a teenager, me and the boys going for our gynecology appointments.
	But I just love her.
	It's obviously insane, but then the fact that she's like, I'm going to come back, and as I say, yes, I'm here for my gonadier appointment.
	Also, I'm a man, and you better say so.
	Yeah.
	What a masculine vagina I have.
	Yes!
	If you're a man, you don't get gonadier.
	Go home.
	We don't want you here.
	You can't have the appointment.
	We've got other people to see.
	I feel, honestly, I feel bad for the gynecologists nowadays, because one, they've got nutters like this walking in going, I'm a man, and then they've got men walking in with penises going, I would like my gynecology appointment, and it's ma'am, thank you very much.
	I also love it, it's just like, I'm a man, that's why I need my birth control shoved into my arm.
	Okay, yeah, I'll just, right.
	So many men I know have the implant, it's just a common thing, messes with the hormones, they get terrible PMS. We go to the next one.
	We can also see a teacher bragging about the fact that she managed to dunk on a preschooler about the fact of whether or not men can have nail polish.
	For these kinds of people, I suppose preschoolers are about as good as it's going to get for them.
	That's the height of their existence.
	Did you know I BTFO'd a preschooler with facts and logic?
	That's where they're at.
	I currently work at a preschool and I have just the story from today.
	One of the little girls was asking a little boy, why do you wear fingernail polish?
	And I responded, boys can wear fingernail polish.
	It's not just a girl thing.
	Anybody can wear it.
	And I could tell she was confused because she wanted to say, but, but, but, but, but.
	I love taking every opportunity to break down the Stereotype and empower all genders.
	Not just boys and girls, but they and them, non-binary, all of the above.
	I also love empowering the genders that live in my head and tell me voices.
	I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if she hears voices.
	I also wouldn't be surprised if those voices are preschoolers.
	Yeah, being like, this, leave us alone.
	I mean, the left gets all of their ideas from children.
	No, but the preschooler in this circumstance was actually the one being like, shut up, woman?
	Yeah, based preschooler.
	Stop talking nonsense.
	And also, to be fair, men have been wearing nail polish for a long time, you know?
	It's just that back when I was in school, we called those men gay.
	That's what you did.
	You called them emo gay boys.
	And it was very hurtful.
	And that was right.
	That was how things were supposed to be.
	Well, yeah, I mean, this is the whole point of having genders.
	Like, you can't have girl and boy if you don't have a distinction between girl and boy, which is...
	She's arguing she's protecting the war.
	It doesn't even make sense in that framework as well.
	But that's the people teaching your kids.
	I love how she's acting like she's dunking on the child, though.
	Like the child was left going, but, but, but, but, but.
	Yeah, look how it destroyed that preschooler.
	Yeah.
	Uploaded this to YouTube.
	Ben Shapiro, eat your heart out.
	What a freak.
	I know.
	We'll move forward because of course Groom is going to groom as well.
	In this case we have Discovery Plus who have decided they're going to carry on with grooming.
	Go to the next one here.
	We can see there.
	Discovery Plus just announced a new show called Generation Drag.
	They want your kids.
	Which follows fine teen drag queens to document their drag journey to find their identities.
	Yeah.
	I don't even have to say anything about this.
	We all know what it is.
	I love how the fact, though, that lips of TikTok are pointing out these subsequent three things.
	She's the problem.
	The problem is you pointing it out, not it taking place.
	Fantastic logic.
	And don't forget the last one here for the United States.
	We have the New York Times, who went with something else that is incredibly fucking stupid.
	The end of the all-white, all-male cockpit.
	Airlines are struggling to find enough pilots to diversify a profession that has been very resistant to change.
	We desperately want to get rid of all of these men in the cockpits, but there's no black women to replace them with!
	About 95% of airline pilots in the US today are male.
	Nearly as many are white.
	Not a problem.
	If you don't care about race, if you don't care about sex, it wouldn't be a problem.
	Right.
	The one question I want to know about anybody who's flying a plane that I'm in is, can they fly a plane?
	I'm not there going, well, I don't know, how white are they?
	How male are they?
	I got on this fight in Kuala Lumpur and he wasn't white.
	I'm not taking on this plane.
	I know.
	They don't have planes in the rest of the world, do they?
	No one can fly.
	What do you mean this Nigerian pilot is black?
	I'm outraged!
	Obviously insane.
	I joined again.
	It's just this continued attack.
	Just anti-white, anti-male rhetoric here, as you can see.
	As air travel became more popular in the 1970s and 80s, airline advertisements almost exclusively depicted pilots as white men.
	Almost like they were depicting the pilots who applied.
	I was going to say, the thing is, they've just given the statistics that show, well, that's overwhelmingly accurate.
	Yeah.
	So, it's almost like, you know, it's a representative reality.
	Where's the problem?
	It's almost like all those Indians who are very good at IT. It's not because of all the Indian role models they were shown before IT came along.
	That wouldn't make any sense.
	Obviously not.
	Idiots.
	Anyway, with the exemptions in publications, they say, directed at black consumers.
	So, they also just beat their own argument by saying, yes, there were black role models in the 70s and 80s as well, which...
	Okay?
	I hate this logic.
	It's like, if I were to go like, you know, I was a really big Jimi Hendrix fan, but I just couldn't see myself as a guitarist until I saw Eric Clapton, because, you know, he shares a skin colour as me.
	Or just saying, like, I really wanted to go into finance, but then I saw a Jewish banker, and I went wanting to finance, because he's a Jew, and I'm not.
	No, that doesn't make sense.
	I can think of a few people who think like that.
	Yeah, maybe the alt-right, but it's just the fact of, like, because someone else doing the thing you want to do isn't you, and it has to be 100% you for this logic to work, You're not going to go into it?
	They didn't just flick up a mirror of me already doing it.
	Yeah, I wasn't starring in this movie, therefore I decided not to become an actor.
	I mean, it's just dumbass logic.
	Anyway, but they also defeat their own dumbass logic by saying that there were advertisements made up black consumers as well.
	So, moot point of retardation.
	They also say there's no role models, no pilots, and then they go on to say, but the reason for racial inequality among pilots, the entire reason, that is most commonly cited by experts and instructors, is perhaps the most apparent.
	What could it be?
	A lack of role models and exposure has played a central role in keeping many women and people of colour out of the field.
	Yes, of course.
	I'm going to just take a little nap for this next section, because I've just heard all this before.
	I'm just tired of it all.
	It's so ridiculous.
	But I love how we were laughing about it earlier, because it's just like, when a black woman sees pilots who are black women, she instantly just becomes a pilot.
	She gives up on her dreams of being an accountant and goes, no, pilot, pilotry is for me.
	And then the reverse, obviously, also has to be true, if this logic is true, which is that when a black man sees a black woman pilot, he goes, well, I can't be a pilot.
	It's impossible, look.
	I'm going to have to transition first.
	It can't be done.
	Meanwhile, in Blighty, though, I thought I'd end this off with some good news.
	So, some nice news here, which is, if we go to the next one, we have the Labour Party, who are campaigning.
	Give me a minute, trust me, I'll figure out why this is good news.
	Okay, alright.
	The Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party say, are soft on drugs and soft on crime.
	Yeah, they only smoke weed.
	They don't do the hard stuff like us.
	They have an image here saying the Lib Dems want to legalise drugs and soften punishments and get rid of Britain's nuclear weapons.
	Come back to that.
	These are obviously, you know, reasonable objections for anyone who is sensible on such matters, which is that maybe we shouldn't get rid of the nukes.
	As for legalising all drugs, maybe no.
	As for decriminalising some, of course there's not going to be out there.
	There would be arguments for it.
	And the person responding to this is some Labourite who just goes with, this is so effing shameful for the Labour Party.
	Whoever sanctioned this should be utterly ashamed.
	People are dying from drug misuse in record numbers, and we have the threat of nuclear war, and this is their response not in my name?
	I stared at this for some good time.
	I couldn't understand what the hell their objections are.
	It was like he was frozen in place, honestly.
	He did.
	We're being threatened with nuclear war, so quickly, get rid of our nukes.
	If we show them we're not a threat, they won't attack us!
	10 IQ. No higher.
	That is my bet.
	But the thing is, you can interpret this advertisement very differently, and in a very good way.
	We'll go to the next one.
	Just highlight the important parts, because remember, soft on drugs.
	Okay, well, the first bit, legalizing drugs.
	And then they say soft on crime.
	And then they just randomly mention nuclear weapons.
	So, presumably, to be hard on crime, we need nuclear weapons.
	Well, where's there a lot of crime?
	You're going to use them, wherever the crime is, to get rid of the crime.
	So I'm taking this as the Labour Party's manifesto promise to nuke Birmingham.
	And finally, someone's taken the steps we were all waiting for.
	Yeah, if you scroll down on this, Michael, as well, I already bet you all the responses are just like, well, about time.
	Better start voting.
	Would we really notice?
	Fantastic.
	The best response I saw was someone saying, well, better use two, just to be sure.
	And those left over might get cool mutations, and then they'll be super criminals.
	So there we have it.
	There's the Labour Party's manifesto promise to bomb, well, nuke Birmingham, and London, and...
	Manchester.
	Bristol.
	This isn't looking too bad.
	All of the major metropolitan cities, in fact...
	Yeah, all the heavily Labour areas as well, which is pretty based, and also...
	That's right, we cause crime, so you're going to have to let us sacrifice us.
	It's the heroic sacrifice.
	But also, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, I imagine is pretty upset about the Labour Party's manifesto promised to nuke her constituency.
	LAUGHTER No, she's the one who signed off on it first.
	She was like, I'm sick of this place.
	End my suffering.
	Oh boy, so that's the good news.
	We have one more piece of good news to end on, which is that, well, some new free speech in the UK, finally, at least in the realm of being hired.
	Pastor, who lost job over anti-gay tweets, is backed by tribunal as judge rules he was discriminated against for gay pride views.
	That's right.
	Christian views on gay pride are now protected under the law.
	Remember, the Equality Act has, what was it, belief as equal to race and sex.
	So you can make up anything, technically.
	I mean, I know we have an argument here for this, because it's actually not really anything extreme at all.
	But even if you decide to go with the Islamic interpretation of homosexuality, That would also be legally protected, at least according to the Equality Act.
	Well, I mean, I'd say they're probably much more consistent in protecting Islamic views on homosexuality than Christian views, so this is a step in the right direction.
	Offensive or shocking beliefs can be accepted in a democratic society, an employment judge said yesterday.
	As she ruled a pastor was discriminated against for his views about gay pride events.
	Keith Waters, 55, a minister at an evangelical church, claimed he was forced out of his caretaker job at a primary school following a single tweet.
	He wrote, quote, A reminder that Christians should not support or attend LGBTQ Pride Month events held in June.
	Well, it is a sin.
	I mean, yeah, that's...
	One of the seven sins.
	Highly uncontroversial.
	But obviously, he then goes on to write, they promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Christian faith and morals.
	They are especially harmful to children.
	And him allerting to here the obvious distinction that people like Douglas Murray make himself, being a gay man, he still makes the distinction because it's obviously true.
	Also, where is the lie?
	We have homosexuals and then there are the queers.
	And the queers...
	Oh, different.
	I wouldn't let your kids near him.
	The homosexuals are people who are gay, and that's part of them.
	Yeah, whatever.
	The queers, that's their life.
	That is their entire life, which is why they always end up being groomers as well.
	And I think time has gone on to prove how right he was about them being harmful to children.
	Well, the TikTok certainly has as well.
	The comments were condemned as homophobic and triggered a vicious backlash, including a campaign of harassment in which undertakers were sent to Mr.
	Waters' home to discuss his funeral.
	Wait, what?!
	The movement of tolerance and acceptance called up undertakers, sent them to his house with a letter saying you are to discuss the funeral of Mr.
	Waters with Mr.
	Waters.
	And that's pretty impressive scare tactics.
	Pretty sure that's illegal.
	Also illegal, yes.
	The Isle of El Primary School in Isle, Cambridgeshire, began an investigation but the married father of one resigned three weeks after the tweet, a day before he was due to face a disciplinary hearing, because he probably knew he wouldn't get a fair trial.
	Cambridge Employment Tribunal has now ruled that he was the victim of indirect discrimination on the grounds of his religion or belief.
	Judge Sarah King said a widely shared belief demands particular care before it can be condemned as not being worthy of respect in a democratic society.
	Which again, opens everything for Islam as well, which I think is really funny, because the Equality Act is such a broad-ranging document that absolutely can include such things.
	She added, That's it.
	That's all the complaint they got about his evil actions.
	One had claimed he had called for violence against people who support the Pride Festival.
	Don't remember that part.
	No evidence of that whatsoever.
	Some SJW just made it up.
	I mean, to be fair to these people, words can be violent, so purely not attending can be violence, even though silence is violence, although at the same time not speaking up in support is also violence.
	Anything that disagrees with me is violence.
	Basically, yes.
	But anything that agrees with me while taking the attention off of me is also violence.
	But the lovely news at the end of this is compensation will be determined at a later date for this as well.
	And Mr.
	Waters, if you're listening, don't be Christian about it.
	Go for the big bucks.
	They have to pay a price, and they don't care about paying a price in morals because they don't have any.
	They have to pay a price in pounds.
	Take as many pound-a-roonies as you can from them, and they'll never do it again.
	Go into the court hearings in your best stripy black-and-white shirt with a swag bag.
	LAUGHTER With a list of things you are going to buy and say, I'll make it half this list if we can do this quickly.
	Anyway, that's this week in stupid for you there, which is a bunch of things I found that were stupid this week.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So this video comment is for Harry, and it's going to be a bit of praise, and then a complaint, and then a bit more praise.
	A week or two ago, I asked when you guys were going to do a book club on Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier, and then within two weeks, you had released that exact book club.
	I was then kind of annoyed when I went and listened to it, and you guys skipped over the chapter I was most interested in, which was the detransitioning one.
	Of all the different chapters in the book, that was the one I wanted to hear your commentary on the most.
	But it's okay, because the reason you didn't cover it is because you're doing an entire video dedicated to just that, which is probably going to be even better.
	So thank you.
	Oh, well...
	It's like a Simpsons meme.
	I wanted you to cover the book.
	That's good.
	But you didn't cover the bit I wanted.
	That's bad.
	But then we covered it in a later podcast.
	That's good!
	Yeah, well, thank you very much.
	And thank you, the Windsorium, because I was trying to thank you for recommending it at the beginning of the Irreversible Damage podcast book club, but I honestly couldn't find the original comment and forgot who gave it.
	So thank you very much.
	This is a belated thank you.
	And I hope you enjoyed, well...
	As much as you can enjoy a premium podcast on detransitioning, I hope it was informative and covered what you wanted it to, because it was depressing to...
	It was very depressing to research.
	I feel like we should read a children's book or something for the next one, just to cheer us up.
	No, there's some pretty noncy children books out there right now.
	Should we just go through Johnny the Walrus?
	That'll make me happy if we go through Johnny the Walrus.
	There was a video comment there, I've forgotten his name now, who had a wonderful voice.
	And I joked about him doing voiceover work for children's books because it would be funny because he had a very deep voice.
	He actually did it.
	He did send me a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
	Oh, nice!
	I've still got that on my computer.
	I'm like, yeah, I'll keep that.
	Yeah, yeah, why don't we?
	Anyway, go to the next one.
	Yes, women use manipulation in conflict.
	Every girl who's ever been to a high school knows that.
	Just...
	Make your eyes a little bigger.
	Lower your head.
	Make your voice shake.
	Now you say it.
	I'm sorry.
	It really hurts.
	That I can't groom.
	Your kids have that sniffling.
	Women does that.
	Surprisingly enough, a lot of men with facial hair have seen doing this on TikTok a lot recently as well.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Just goes to show how masculine they are, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	These are real men.
	It's absolutely true, though, Sophie, and you can definitely see it with Amber Heard.
	Did you guys end up doing that for the weekend segments or not?
	Oh, no, we didn't end up covering much with the Amber Heard stuff, just because it's been that long and Josh didn't want to have to catch back up with everything, and neither did I, to be honest.
	I've just been enjoying the amusing compilation clips that have been coming out I think maybe we should just wait or do it on Monday and just go through the compilations.
	Just because they're good fun, if nothing else.
	Yeah, I might want to do that.
	Because they're amazing.
	I love...
	Did you see that?
	I think I showed you it.
	There's a GB News lady who I'm not a fan of.
	She had a feminist person come on and be like, yes, all the attacks on Amber Heard are unjust.
	And it's just like, Okay.
	Alright.
	The absolute state of this.
	Fingers in ears.
	La la la.
	She did nothing wrong.
	She's my queen.
	Yes, slay.
	Pupata girl.
	Yes.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I was scrolling through Facebook while listening to podcast number 381 and I came across this post at around the same time that Callum mentioned the idea that women should wear suits too.
	When I worked as a bartender at a nightclub, we all had to wear what I call a penguin suit, male or female, except the women who served the VIP tables as they were dressed in red dresses in order to accentuate their femininity and make the high-paying customers feel special.
	In my present job, we all wear the same uniform too.
	I've worked alongside men and women in every job I've ever had, and it's never been a problem.
	Then again, I'm a frontline worker, and feminists only care about claiming privileged positions, it seems.
	Yeah.
	It also just seemed to be...
	Because there's the evidence as well, isn't it?
	Which is your frontline position there, it was the same uniform because you needed people to be uniform and get on with the job, right?
	Whereas when you're dealing with the high-profile customers, you suddenly, because there's money involved, or at least the owner, recognize that men and women aren't the same.
	Just all of a sudden, just happen to come to him?
	Maybe this is the case?
	These rich men might want attractive women serving them, who stand out from the crowd in their nice red outfits.
	This is the weird dichotomy that we have in these sex relationships.
	I presume because of liberalism, we've all just taken the road that men and women are basically the same, and therefore all of these rules must be determined on those lines.
	And as Thomas and the commenter alluded to, well, that just ends up with everyone in the male suit.
	That is the end goal of that logic.
	Whereas if we go back, we take a step back a minute and say, okay, when women aren't the same, they can't be.
	Biologically, this is a thing, and that's obviously going to affect everything else.
	And then evaluate from there how to create a society that's actually reasonable to people.
	Then we can do good, but...
	And tell them we're not going to do it.
	I would say, if you're working behind the bar, if you have to have a uniform, apply it evenly.
	Because most bars that I've worked behind, it's just pretty casual wear, or you all just wear a t-shirt or something.
	Just generally because, I don't know, women have certain advantages that can help them to procure tips that men don't have at bars.
	There's a friend of mine in Florida who gets a ridiculous amount of tips.
	I bet she does.
	I bet she does.
	Anyway, anyway, moving on.
	Children must be taught simple truths.
	Adults can appreciate the nuance that truths can and do conflict, and certain lies must be tolerated.
	That's an interesting point.
	I love the localism there.
	I'm watching more Roger screwing in my spare time.
	I think the more you make things local, the more you can actually understand the world as well.
	I think he's right about that.
	Yeah, well, I mean, how could anybody understand anything on a truly global scale?
	I mean, that's one of the reasons that I've not really looked into Ukraine and Russia, to be perfectly honest, because it's such a wide context of geopolitics going on right now.
	It's like, I'd rather just be concerned about the stuff that's actively in my backyard right now.
	Yeah, but you can also lower the global things to be local, to understand them better.
	So the great example Scruton gives is immigration.
	People say, well, you know, how do you talk about these things?
	Why do you, Harry, have any right to say that we shouldn't import 100,000 people from Pakistan?
	And you say, well, okay, take that to a local place.
	Do you have the right to tell people that you can't come into your home?
	Yes.
	Do you have the right to move people out as soon as they start smashing things up?
	Or to say, I actually just don't want those kind of people coming in at all because I'm not sure we get along.
	Interestingly enough, in the ideas of a private law society and private property-oriented society that I've been reading recently, authors make the, I would say, correct...
	Not assumption, but conclusion.
	They take the correct conclusion that when the government basically imports these people, it's further theft from those private citizens who never asked for it, never wanted it.
	It's intruding on their property, their localities, and also purely because of the fact that a lot of these people are going to end up being recipients of benefits as well.
	They're just stealing my tax money.
	Yeah, but it's all these things.
	And it's very clear once you make it local.
	And if you want to end up for the societal thing, you can say, well, we're neighbours.
	We live in neighbourhoods.
	And suddenly we're just being told from some random guy on a hill that we have to accept a load of people who share nothing in common.
	And also have actively said they're not going to adopt any of our traditions, customs.
	It's like a local baron or warlord just rocking up to your house and knocking on the door.
	You open it and they just let 30 people that you've never met before into your house and they say, if you don't like it, you're racist.
	It's more like you host a party and some guy just invites 30 of his friends who are all from ISIS. You're just like...
	Cheers, man!
	I guess it's going to be the life of the party.
	No beers then, I guess.
	Well, I'm going to have to hide the pork.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Uh, there's no audio in this.
	I'm just gonna put on my tinfoil hat and say it's entirely possible the Biden campaign against himself is an attempt to incite insurrection when they rig the 2024 election.
	Lots of soothsayers predict that there's gonna be shenanigans going on around 2026, but...
	"You know, the only way to really find out is wait and see." Clears Clears Clears Clears Clears I mean, yeah, there is shenanigans going on right now with the Ministry of Truth being set up, So, honestly, from this point onwards, if they actually, once the thing's set up and fully in motion, I don't trust any election results coming from America.
	People listening, he was showing us a robot that was kind of creepy.
	I then put on screen the quote from Nikola Tesla about you're going to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
	I thought that was going in a direction which he was going to say, do you know what?
	Joe Biden's actually a robot and I can prove it.
	He's wearing Trump's skin underneath the skin of Biden.
	Something like that.
	Why do you think his skin looks so thin and stretched out?
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from Atlas Obscura comes the story of the Palace of Depression in Vineland, New Jersey, built in the Depression by George Danor.
	He was a Wall Street guy who lost all but seven dollars, he moved to Vineland, he bought a junkyard for seven bucks, built this crazy palace that became a famous roadside attraction.
	He said he did it to show people you could beat the depression.
	Quote, the only real depression is a depression of individual ingenuity.
	Yeah, I mean, kind of true.
	I mean, obviously there were more things going on.
	I don't think it's enough to just say, just pick you up by your streetstraps in the depression, but...
	It's certainly cool.
	I'm amazed there was no ghost, I'll be honest.
	I was half expecting the whole place to be haunted still.
	Come on, come on.
	There's always a ghost.
	Some say he's still there.
	Rattling pans or something, I don't know.
	Yep.
	Poking people on the shoulder.
	So if you'll indulge me for a second, I was going to attempt to get a CDL, a commercial driver's license, to be able to drive a bus for the high school that has currently a shortage on bus drivers.
	Well, according to the requirements that just came in February of this f***ing year, I cannot get a CDL unless I pay $4,000 to take a stupid-ass class.
	What the f**k?
	Aren't incentives a wonderful thing?
	Is that...
	I presume it's just to keep people out from being able to drive?
	And therefore...
	But surely the class...
	Should keep people out.
	Just on its own.
	If you don't pass the class, you don't get the license.
	It's like, I can't remember which state did it.
	They introduced a barber's license.
	So if you want to cut hair, you've got to get a license.
	How do we know you won't end up with some Sweeney Todd maniac?
	It's like $500.
	It's just like, this is clearly just to try and lower the amount of people who can cut hair.
	Yeah, but we're in a massive shortage of drivers.
	Ah, best restrict people's access.
	Make it even worse.
	I'm telling you, man.
	Actively trying to harm the place.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site.
	So, Lord Kevcroft says...
	No.
	Oh, go on.
	Who is that child and what has he done with Harry?
	I shaved.
	I shaved.
	I'm sorry to break all of your hearts, but I had to.
	Owning the Libs says, sorry, on Owning the Libs, Baron von Warhawk says, they recoil from the idea of free speech like Dracula recoils from garlic.
	They know their ideas are so insane that only censorship can protect them from the mockery they deserve.
	If they have been born in any other century, they would have been in straight decades by now.
	That's certainly true.
	Although if they've been born in any other century, they'd probably just be part of the Inquisition or the SS or Young Pioneers.
	We go along with it.
	Longshanks says, equality reporter, translation, professional useless person.
	Yes.
	Yep.
	Adrian Bradley.
	That real name resembled me an Adrian Brodeley reference.
	Biden's laptop, hacked and therefore censored.
	Trump's tax returns actually hacked and published far and wide.
	Hack materials policy, my ass.
	As usual, power is the only principle the radicals believe in.
	A la Vosch.
	BoldEagle1787 says, Oh, this collapse is so much more fun to watch.
	Yeah, I wonder where the users are as well.
	Because this is part of the worry.
	So if they were operating a bot farm or not, and maybe that explains some of the user changes.
	I don't know how difficult it is for a company like them to operate a huge bot farm of tens of thousands of users.
	I can imagine they can get it done, but I don't know why they'd have a huge incentive to do it when they could just ban you instead.
	Seems like an easier way to control people.
	Yeah.
	I guess we will find out as things go forward.
	I suppose if you want to try and maintain an appearance of fairness...
	The Biden video uplikes.
	Yep.
	It's completely organic, guys.
	I learned on M1Ping says the Democrats haven't moved at all.
	They've always been in favour of race politics and indoctrinating children.
	Fact checkers, probably.
	Eh, relatively true.
	Some of it.
	Fact check comes out, mostly true.
	Biden's Ministry of Truth Longshank says, depending on how much power this institution has, I will say that the prospect of someone being in the middle of legal proceedings for something the regime's decided was misinformation, when in the middle of said proceedings they admit it wasn't misinformation and was the truth all along would make this a very amusing tool of government in those cases, if nothing else.
	Fair.
	I don't see anything good coming from this in the slightest.
	Supreme Duck says Biden's Ministry of Truth is just their way to try and hold on to the lies people currently remember.
	This will fall apart like everything else they are doing eventually.
	Hopefully.
	Hopefully.
	Hopefully it doesn't even get to the point where it can exercise any power.
	But again, Biden's regime has managed to get away with a lot of pretty dodgy stuff so far.
	There is this idea on the right that Things will always fall back to that grand equilibrium in which the wings should be.
	I don't think that's true.
	It's obviously not.
	The best example would obviously be North Korea.
	Everyone keeps saying it's a failed state, and I keep looking at it going, yeah, but just celebrated its 80th anniversary.
	Went to failing.
	Yeah.
	It's beaten the Soviet Union now in longevity.
	So, no, I think that while I appreciate optimism and try and remain optimistic most of the time myself, I think misplaced optimism has...
	Probably been one of the defining reasons why the right has lost so much ground over the past few decades.
	Just going, well, the pendulum will swing back eventually.
	And you can say the pendulum is swinging back now because of people like Libs of TikTok, but that didn't happen naturally.
	It didn't just happen.
	We needed someone like Libs of TikTok to come out and unveil all of this nonsense for anybody to start paying attention.
	Otherwise, it would just be carrying on, and most people outside of parent-teacher association meetings wouldn't be any of the wiser.
	So, you've got to fight back against this stuff actively.
	Callum Dayton says, this is going to just be a rhetorical question.
	Who here can see graphite?
	Good question!
	Free Will says, they are pissing in our faces and here in the UK too.
	Don't vote for any of them here.
	Vote for Lawrence Fox's party.
	I'll agree with that one, yeah?
	Correct.
	And Omar Awad says, What are you talking about, my friend?
	I saw the graph, and democracy is going up from very bad to much good.
	No, no, no, no.
	Democracy was, for Democrats, was a straight line.
	Very good the whole time.
	GOP going, no, very bad.
	Democracy was bad, bad, and then Biden got elected, and democracy and you guys went good.
	Oh, yes.
	Just to mention, I think people are probably going to recognize that this has been happening for a little bit.
	I hate democracy now.
	I don't think it works.
	I hate it.
	You're fully blackpilled on it?
	I'm fully blackpilled on democracy.
	Anything else?
	Except, well, I would say, except dictatorship, but honestly, dictatorship only seems to come about because of democracy in the first place, so.
	It's kind of an apple before the cart, surely.
	What dictators weren't elected?
	Other than Mussolini.
	Well, you know, quite a lot.
	I mean, Kim Il-sung.
	Well, they all claim to be in the name of democracy.
	It seems to be a very, very easy byword for dictators to be able to go like, well, I'm just here for you guys.
	I'm just enacting the will of the people.
	There was a vote for Kim Il-sung.
	Oh, there you go!
	And he won.
	See?
	99%.
	Democracy works, guys.
	We swear.
	Democracy always works.
	No corruption whatsoever.
	I see people also saying Franco just took what he wanted.
	That's true.
	As well.
	Have you ever watched...
	Well, at war.
	Spanish film.
	Oh, no, I haven't.
	Alright, I'll send you that afterwards.
	Oh, nice.
	It's about how Franco came to power, and there's a wonderful bit, because you notice that Franco's basically a nobody, and there's that military junta of, like, 20-odd guys who all are generals, organizing the, you know, right-wing side of the Civil War, and then, eventually, Franco just manages to, like, cuck them all with good PR, and then he becomes the Generalissimo, and then purges them all and takes over.
	Yeah.
	Interesting story about how I'm at it.
	I'll check that out.
	You got more comments?
	No, no, go on to yours.
	Oh, sorry.
	We've still got time.
	In This Week in Stupid, feels weird to say, it's been 84 years.
	Says Longshanks.
	Luca Johnson, having a section called This Week in Stupid is the ultimate nostalgia bait and I love it.
	I thought people might like it.
	I didn't know what to call the damn thing.
	Michael Migos says, can't wait for the blind, deaf, dumb, trans black women airline pilots who are going to use seeing stones to figure out where the instruments are.
	No, they're going to use echolocation, Callum.
	Be smart.
	Inside the plane.
	Yes.
	Omar Awad says, I swear there are going to be facilities because they start administering male doses to females or sex-specific treatments to the wrong sex because of ideological truth over reality.
	I think in the Russian language you've got two words for truth as well.
	One of them means spiritually true and one means actually true.
	Oh, okay.
	Because of that kind of nonsense.
	But Russian speakers correct me for the differences.
	I guess we'll end on that, because we're out of time.
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