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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 8th of September 2022.
	I'm joined today by Leo.
	Hello!
	And we're going to be talking about diversity as the right strength, sinister lefty nonces, and Florida Man just keeps winning, which is going to be a weird joy as well.
	Otherwise, I'm looking forward to figuring out what the sinister lefty nonces are up to this time.
	They're always busy.
	Busy noncing.
	Otherwise, we shall get into diversity being the right strength first.
	So diversity is our strength on the right wing, at least I'm told now, because of our new lovely cabinet that's very diverse.
	And this rhetoric has weirded me out to no end, seeing people who were obsessively talking about the fact that we don't want diversity quotas, that's what the left does, now cheering on that we have diversity quotas, at least the Conservative Party in the UK has done that and got the results they wanted, which is weird to say the least.
	But just to mention first, just to mention here that if you want to find out the ideological roots of this stuff, you can always go and check out our premium podcast on the origin of intersectionality.
	It's Kimberly Crenshaw there, critical race theorist in chief, and the lady who coined the term intersectionality, of course, in her essay there.
	So go and check that out.
	But just to get into what the hell I'm talking about.
	If we go to the first one here, you can see the Telegraph headline which came out.
	LizTrust forms the most diverse cabinet in history with no white males in top jobs.
	And the previous cabinet was the most diverse cabinet in history before then.
	So it's getting more and more, you know, just a few years it's sort of leapt over a lot of hurdles that you think would take decades to clear.
	Yeah, at the cabinet before that, Theresa Mays had the least number of privately educated ministers of all time.
	So it's just like, why is this even a story anymore, frankly?
	I mean, like, you kind of get it when it's Obama, right?
	Like, the first black president or something.
	But I mean, like, the second black president, do you care?
	Third?
	Fourth?
	I mean, at what point do you just go, okay, whatever?
	One of the good things about the Tory...
	Cameron put in quotas to get more women and I think more ethnic minority representation in the cabinet and in the government.
	But now, it's pretty obvious that the Tories are really doing things more on merit than...
	They're not waving a flag about it.
	I wish they weren't.
	But they're not.
	It's the left who then look like racists because they're coming out and being like, there's somebody, Ian McWhirter, this Scottish nationalist guy, came out and described them as coconuts.
	Yes.
	Yeah, and nobody in the Tories was being like, oh, look at our incredibly diverse Colors of Benetton panel.
	Some of them were, though.
	Yeah, I mean, obviously you're going to brag.
	You're going to brag a bit that the Tories have delivered.
	Even though the Tories aren't supposed to be the progressive party, they've delivered.
	They also brag about being progressives.
	They've delivered the third.
	Yeah, but Labour are supposed to be the true progressives.
	Look at that.
	Keir Starmer, you couldn't get any whiter or man-er.
	But it's a weird thing to do, isn't it?
	Because you wouldn't imagine the Labour Party coming out and being like, well, we're the true Conservatives here.
	You know, Mr Conservative Party, we're doing better than even you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It wouldn't happen.
	Not since Tony Blair.
	I suppose so.
	I don't know when he did that, except maybe on his rhetoric on crime, perhaps.
	But anyway, so the story here, she appointed her key ally, I'm going to butcher the names, Kwasi Kwarteng, who has Ghanaian heritage to the Treasury, James Cleverley, whose mother is from Sierra Leone, was made Foreign Secretary, and Suella Braverman, whose parents are of Indian origin, became Home Secretary, that being the toppest jobs, including her, of course, as Prime Minister, also not being a white man, which this is cause of celebration, apparently, which is...
	Weird.
	I did see Douglas Murray talking about this, very funnily, where he mentioned, like, because there's this rhetoric that because you're more diverse, you bring a new perspective to whatever you're doing.
	And it's like, is the dude really going to bring, like, Ghanaian economics to the treasury?
	I don't think he is.
	I think he's probably going to bring Western economics.
	Like, his education is more important.
	Yeah, and he's educated at the same kind of places as everybody else.
	I think Kwesi Kwarting went to Cambridge or Oxford, as far as I can remember then, was a columnist for The Telegraph.
	So, yeah, I mean, he's not a grime rapper.
	Yeah.
	Next one here.
	I get it.
	You know, I kind of get it.
	This is Sophie here of a follow.
	I'm not having to go.
	It's just, you know, the Jeremy Corbyn tweets are funny, as you can see, just being like, you know, only Labour can be trusted to unlock the talent of black, Asian, and minority ethnic people, as if you literally own them, and you've got the key.
	We've got the key to the change.
	Right, okay.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Slaver.
	And, yeah, it's funny, but if we go to the next one here, you have, of course, the leftist response to all of this diversity and inclusion, as the right is, you know, cheering about, or at least some of them are.
	And you have Nadia Wittem here, an Islamic leftist, who decided to come out with, a black kid in poverty won't be inspired that it's a black chancellor letting him go hungry, blah-de-blah-de-blah.
	He might be.
	I mean...
	You might be like, you know what, my parents are useless, but maybe I can grow up and be successful like this Chancellor.
	Maybe there aren't those barriers in the way for me.
	Maybe I could become gay on and just like, yeah, maybe.
	So Nadia was wrong on that point.
	But then she blathers on about the fact that basically they're the wrong kind of ethnics.
	That's her complaint, which is, you may have an ethnic minority background, They're still successful, which is bad.
	You're not a socialist, so we don't like you.
	And that's all it ever comes down to.
	They don't care about whether or not you have brown skin.
	They care about whether or not you're a red.
	And that's all they've ever got.
	This is why I think it's quite clever of the Tories...
	And like, man, I totally, I think, Kemi Badenoch, Kwasi Kwarteng, Suala Braverman, these are people, Priti Patel, these are people of some, you know, some great conservative ideals.
	And I think it's clever that conservatives to put, you know, people with ethnic minority heritage or global majority, whatever the correct term is.
	Yitma Gama, I think is correct.
	Yeah.
	I'm not even joking.
	BIPOC or BAME or whatever you're supposed to say.
	It's UK minority ethnic global heritage minority.
	Oh my god.
	We're going to run out of ink.
	This is what's going to bring down Western civilization.
	We'll run out of ink to use all these terms.
	But if you put somebody like Priti Patel in that position, she could do things that a white man would be condemned as appallingly racist.
	But that's a weird situation to find yourself.
	Because if you're the Conservatives, who's actually the one who's going to be screeching you're a racist?
	It's going to be the Labour Party.
	Socialists.
	Leftists.
	Who don't support you.
	White men.
	But that's the thing.
	If you're a white man and you became Home Secretary and gave the policy of going to send them to Rwanda, boys.
	Yeah.
	I don't really think you should actually care about the left-wing screeching that this is racism.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I think the people on the left screaming racism has lost all its bite and all its meaning.
	It's been completely devalued through overuse.
	It's been completely diluted.
	And there's also just the point of, you know, the left do not care about diversity anyway, never have.
	It's just obvious, chilling.
	Because they've got Nadia here, but then you also have Alistair Campbell, who's like, yeah, what about the fact that they're Ethan-educated?
	And you can make these arguments all day and go in circles, but the fundamental point is they do not care about diversity.
	Never have.
	I mean, it is just a racket that they use as a stick to hit the right.
	Just, you're not diverse, you're not diverse.
	And the Conservatives, for some reason, took their attack seriously.
	I mean, you can say that, but also, I think it gives the Conservatives power that they wouldn't otherwise have.
	You know, papers over an angle of attack that the left would have for the Tories if they were just all straight white men.
	And also, I get the feeling with the Tories, it's done mostly on merit, rather than with the left, it always seems to be this obsequious, you know, fake, box-ticking exercise.
	It is true that the ethnic minorities in the Conservatives versus the ethnic minorities in Labour, there is a stark difference.
	I remember seeing Kemi actually laughing about this, basically being like, yeah, you guys are the special bus version of us.
	One of the great things about Kemi Bader always puts the right shoes on the right feet.
	Incredible.
	It's the little things that matter.
	But it's also not like the left ever cared about racism, as you mentioned.
	If we go to the next one here, we have a chap who, very serious, Ian here, responding to the diversity by going, a coconut cabinet.
	Right, okay, thanks.
	He deleted this one.
	Yeah.
	He deleted it.
	Did you see the apology you put in its place?
	Oh, no, I didn't.
	So he said, you know, I was just trying to make the point that, you know, Scotland's cabinet is hideously white.
	It's like, oh, so now you're being racist against white people.
	There it is, hideously white.
	It makes the Scottish government look hideously white.
	Oh, so now white is hideous.
	But that's the thing.
	He won't delete that.
	Yeah, he won't delete that.
	And also, man, people are saying, oh, but he's not being racist.
	He's just saying he's very white.
	Would you say hideously black?
	No, of course you wouldn't.
	Because you'd be fired.
	You'd never work again.
	You'd be in jail.
	The Labour Party is hideously black.
	I mean, that headline right there.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	If anyone ever said that in public life sincerely, it's done.
	Yeah, so it's obvious.
	People talk about systemic racism.
	It's pretty obvious where the racism is.
	And what's permitted as well.
	And what's permitted.
	Because you could say that there is racism against people with brown skin, of course, but it is instantly deleted, backtracked and erased.
	And recognised widely across society as a terrible thing.
	But if you say something against white people, you get your own BBC TV series.
	You certainly do.
	If you go to the next one here, there's also just the point, he did also mention this elsewhere, as the quote is, suddenly it's the Scottish government who looks hideously white.
	So again, didn't delete that.
	Not unhappy about that.
	Keeps that one up.
	But also, if we go to the next one, we have...
	And also, Scotland's 96% white.
	I mean, despite the SNP's...
	The justice minutes are white.
	Despite the SNP's best efforts to try and import everybody from anywhere where people have terrible attitudes to women and homosexuals...
	You know, the good places.
	It's still 96% white.
	So obviously, it's going to be mostly white.
	I do love that because we keep getting stories.
	I don't know how popular they get in Scotland, but occasionally a headline will blow up because it's refugees sent from England to Scotland return because it's too cold.
	Nobody's crossing the channel to try and get to Motherwell.
	They want to go to London or...
	But we can see some other Conservatives who had a go at this, and this is Theresa May, a certain nobody, just a former PM, who'd obviously had another jab, just being like, hey, why is it that we've got all the women PMs and you've got no one?
	Not even a Labour leader.
	Although you think they've got ADAs, aren't they?
	They do.
	Did he get a seat in the end or not?
	I think he's running in Sheffield, but he's definitely a woman.
	I mean, she's definitely a woman.
	Oh my god, could you...
	He should...
	She.
	Eddie should run for leader.
	That would be hilarious.
	Why did he keep the name Eddie if he's...
	Whatever.
	But I did like...
	There was a joke from Liz being like, why can't they even get a leader outside of North London?
	Okay, yeah, you know, funny.
	But the Labour Party have always had a leftist as leader.
	That's really the important thing here.
	Yeah.
	You can have as straight and white a man as your leader, but if I don't have any ideological representation, why would I be interested?
	It's like Keir Starmer's a straight white man.
	Are you joining the Labour Party and campaigning for them any time soon, Leo?
	No.
	Weird that.
	It's almost like there is something more to it than that.
	But the Conservative Party does actually struggle with trying to get ideological representation.
	And the reasoning for this seems to be, as I was alluding to and you mentioned, they did actually somewhat abandon it.
	Because if we go to the next one here, we can see Darren Grimes.
	And he was mentioning here, you know, isn't it great how we have it on merit?
	It's interesting that people are gloating about the fact there's no white males, and that's a conversation to be had about the fact that, obviously, you're racist against white men.
	But it's the fact that they're on merit.
	However, this doesn't seem to be true, because if you go to the next one here, we have Elizabeth Trust herself being a diversity hire from David Cameron.
	Yeah.
	Unironically.
	I mean, this is the article for people in question.
	You might want to go check it out.
	If you go to the next link, we actually have the article.
	Yeah, around about 20 years ago, both parties did this.
	So there's Blair's Babes, and then Cameron did the same thing.
	But, I mean, it was really to make the party more electable.
	And also, I think ethnic minority people don't feel as afraid of expressing what they really think a lot of the time.
	Well, they don't have the same worries, do they?
	Yeah, and also, man, I think Priti Patel and Suela Braverman, so they were both, as I understand it, they were both Ugandan, East Asian, so their parents or their grandparents were refugees when Idi Amin took over.
	From Africa.
	Yeah, from Africa.
	So, yeah, I mean, they've...
	That wave, I think there was 35,000 Ugandan East Asians came to the UK and really, you know, overall just made a massive contribution to the UK and became like model citizens.
	Some of them.
	I don't know as to what percentage were those ones, but I know that the Pakistani community has had struggles with poverty that have led to other problems.
	Oh yeah, but that's not the same community.
	Not the people running from Africans, yeah.
	Going away from the Amin.
	But if you go to the article itself here, we have just David Cameron listing.
	Yeah, okay, I literally brought in diversity credits.
	Yeah.
	I'm not messing around.
	I did not do this organically.
	I mean, direct quote.
	We would draw up a priority list of which half would be female and a large proportion would be from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
	Associations in winnable seats would have to choose from the A list, as we called it.
	And they would be encouraged to select candidates through open primaries, in quotations, that were open to non-party members.
	Many on the right found this hard to swallow.
	Funny.
	It's almost like the right wingers didn't want to do left wing things.
	Yeah.
	Confusing that.
	Conservatives have an aversion to positive discrimination.
	No, they have a complete ideological opposition to it.
	Not aversion.
	We believe in people rising to the top through their own merit.
	Yeah.
	Which is not what happened.
	As he says, the trouble was this just wasn't happening organically, so artificially it was done instead.
	Which is that we just promoted people because they were a woman or brown.
	And as you say, I mean, Tony Blair did this as well.
	Yeah.
	But that doesn't mean it's good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but I mean, I think it's sort of, you know, they're obviously systemic barriers.
	I hate to sound awoke.
	Oh, man!
	You always make me sound woke, but there's...
	Well, you keep saying it, don't you?
	There were barriers.
	There were barriers in place to people.
	Well, then you eliminate whatever those barriers are, specifically.
	Yeah, but it takes decades to eliminate.
	A lot of it's what schools you go to.
	Look how many people in the cabinet went to Eton, for example.
	I'd say class is a bigger barrier than gender or ethnicity now.
	Well, it's obvious that gender and ethnicity aren't a barrier.
	I mean, when none of the top jobs are white men, they're all people from an ethnic minority or a woman background.
	Yeah.
	Then what barrier?
	Yeah.
	Like, there just isn't one.
	So, I mean, class, you can make that argument.
	As said, I mean, I think it's 64% private schools now.
	Yeah.
	Rather than, I think Theresa May got down to 40 or something.
	But either way, it's just obvious that this is not something where you can sit there and celebrate, oh my god, look how the merit system has succeeded.
	No, this was an artificial system, specifically for Elizabeth Truss.
	Are you saying the government over the last 12 years hasn't been the most high-functioning, flawless government with amazing policies?
	They have done rather leftist things, yeah.
	I mean, this one being one of them.
	It's just like, you didn't need to do this.
	No one asked you to do this.
	You just did it yourself.
	Because you were like, well, you know...
	Like, get criticised by Labour.
	But then all the people I feel ideologically aligned with in the government, the proper Conservatives, a lot of them, like Priti Patel, Suela Braverman, Kemi Bhadano, a lot of them are ethnic minority.
	And women, as well.
	Yeah.
	It'll be interesting to see what achievements they make.
	I was kind of annoyed that Kemi's got, what is it, like, transport, trade or something?
	Yeah.
	It's just like...
	Why are you not in culture?
	You could actually destroy them on culture.
	But if you go to the next one, you see David Lammy's response to all of this is transparent.
	He actually sees through all of it.
	David Lammy said in response to the cabinet having no white men, it's not a partisan issue at all.
	It goes to the heart of the country we want to be.
	Which is...
	None of you.
	David Lammy genuinely is a racial nationalist.
	So...
	I genuinely believe he wants a minoritarian society where we literally prioritize minorities.
	Yeah.
	And if you think I'm...
	Well, isn't that what we've got?
	Yes.
	I mean, have you seen any adverts in the last couple of years?
	Such as the next one.
	I mean, I know you've seen this, maybe.
	Just there you have it.
	Oh, yeah, I've seen this.
	The new NHS movement within the NHS, if you could scroll down, John, just because the quote is the hilarious thing.
	See Me First campaign with the colour swatch.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this would be less worrying if it wasn't, like, healthcare.
	It's like, we're only going to keep people on this colour chart alive.
	White people, the morgue is over there.
	If you could just save us some time by going and lying in it.
	Healthcare only applies to these colours for now.
	We don't have the resources.
	Can you imagine if they did this, but it was, like, white people?
	It just doesn't happen.
	I mean, there's your systemic racism.
	I do love how in the United States this has happened as well.
	We read about it in one of our book clubs.
	I think it was Boston Hospitals, the heart surgery ward, dealing with people having heart attacks.
	Prioritising.
	Yeah, they prioritise people with brown skin and let the white ones die.
	Yeah, to offset some sort of racial injustice that happened 400 years ago.
	It's like, okay, right, we're literally killing white people, aren't we?
	Healthcare.
	But if we go to the next one here, we can see Trevor Phillips, who also came in here and mentioned something really funny, which is he says, not as he predicted, last December, but it's difficult to ignore history being made, when all of the top five jobs in the government are filled by women or a person of colour.
	And then more.
	It matters.
	Potential next PMs can put paid to prejudice.
	I'm like, what prejudice?
	But Obama made a good point when he was elected.
	He said it removes the excuse.
	You know, nobody can be like, oh, I can't do that, you know.
	Is it because I was black?
	Bro, no.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That is a fair point.
	You can maybe say it if you're white now.
	He said in his article long ago, in, what is this, like December last year, really funny, like, he just writes, ironically, if I'm right, there is a dispiriting corollary.
	For any of those souls who think that another woman or person of colour in number 10 would herald the end of the world as we know it, there is only one route back to the 1920 suburban world of the Williams family.
	They need a party that which, when represented with four women, one of them from an ethnic minority background and a man, does what it has done once again and picks the man.
	That'll be the Labour Party.
	Which, yeah, there you are.
	But this logic makes no sense.
	Again, as if the sex and gender of the person is the primary characteristic.
	But with the Labour Party, even when they pick a woman, it's Eddie Izzard.
	Yes.
	Although Carl has been joking about this, because there's kinds of representation, of course.
	He's reading a book on it, I imagine.
	But you have, you know, ideological representation matters most in politics.
	And then the argument from these people being like, oh yeah, but then there's physical representation.
	Right.
	Is he a white man?
	And if you're not getting ideological representation from the Conservatives or Labour, I mean, if you're a white man, at least you've got Keir Starmer, who is a white man.
	Yeah.
	So he's threatening to join the Labour Party over there, which I'm going to have to disavow.
	But anyway, we've got the next one here.
	It's also just, this is what worries me about this stupid rhetoric of like, oh my god, isn't this great?
	Because of course, if you can't actually oppose diversity quotas as a right-winger within the right-wing party, Well, then why do I trust you to propose anything?
	The left does.
	And this is just endless examples of things that were promised to be gotten rid of and didn't.
	Here you have the Telegraph writing that NHS hiring more diversity managers than 77 grand, despite the war on wokery.
	Yeah, and these...
	I mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the whole equality...
	Equality, diversity and inclusion movement, which is taking a grip over HR. And if you look at the amount being spent on it, the amount that HR departments are sucking in, they're sucking in a bigger, bigger, it's going up exponentially.
	It's like the number of children transitioning.
	And so, you know, the cost is becoming unsustainable.
	And also, they don't actually increase productivity or increase profits.
	It's an unproductive role.
	What it does is it They say, like, oh, long term it's going to increase productivity because you're going to have more diversity and diversity is strength.
	There's been no studies done on whether diversity actually is strength.
	There's a lot of societies like Japan that are very ethnically homogenous and are quite, you know, successful.
	So, you know, it's a mantra rather than science.
	What?
	And what they do is they get involved in any sort of hiring or any business decision, and they make it all about diversity and inclusion.
	And that means that you're not hiring, you're not making that business decision based on what is the most profitable or the most effective.
	You're looking at your badge, you know, the colour swatch from earlier.
	I mean, literally, that's what these people are for, the NHS diversity managers.
	Yeah.
	Who do you think did that campaign?
	Yeah.
	It's like, it's these guys.
	In case you're wondering, this 17 jobs just found on that day that they had a look.
	It's one million pounds in annual salaries.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	And if you go to the next one, we have the RAF, of course.
	So this is more of the government saying they're unashamed of its diversity targets.
	These diversity targets saying that they're just not going to recruit white men.
	Yeah, this was mad.
	This was mad.
	The RAF said...
	They doubled down.
	And the head of recruitment, I believe, stood down because she was so appalled by this directive from the diversity and inclusion.
	But the institution?
	Unashamed.
	Yeah.
	They said, oh, we need to have 30% women, or is it 20% ethnic minorities and 30% or 40% women?
	And it's like, why?
	Because otherwise the helicopters will stop working.
	Why can't we just have the best person flying the plane?
	Surely when it's something that's really important, like brain surgery or flying a fighter jet or something like that.
	Fair enough if you're hiring a council, you're just pushing bits of paper around, getting in people's way.
	It doesn't matter who you hire because it's a pointless job.
	But if it's something that...
	Fair enough, the best pilot might be a one-legged Ghanaian dwarf lesbian.
	It might be.
	I don't think it will.
	Hire her.
	But, you know, if it's a white guy, just hire the white guy who's the best, you know?
	Plus, he wants a woman pilot.
	Anyway, go to the next one here because we have just more of this.
	As you have, the BBC, another British institution that the Conservatives said they would sort out and they just haven't, is the new Head of Diversity and Inclusion.
	The old woman's getting paid £260,000.
	What?
	So this one, I'm sure, is on substantially more.
	And if we go to the next one here, this is just what I expect the Conservative Party to become.
	This is some advert on some Facebook group where they're advertising weird lifestyles, to say the least.
	We're going to play it.
	It's the creepiest, groomeriest thing, but also I just imagine it being the next conservative party.
	Public broadcast.
	Let's play.
	These Polyamorous parents let their children choose their gender.
	And for their oldest child, Hazel, that's neither male nor female.
	Please tell us how and why you decided to come out as non-binary.
	Because the pronouns she and he did not fit, nonbinary was what I turned to.
	Though I do choose to act and look more feminine.
	Can I go down now?
	Of course.
	And two and a half year old Sparrow has yet to make a choice about their gender.
	Sparrow, do you want a banana?
	They're anti-gender, but we're using they-them pronouns.
	Sure, they have anatomy, we understand it, but, like, that's not indicative of their identity.
	It's something that Sparrow's gonna have to figure out and then tell us before we can handle anyone else.
	Particularly because it's, you know, something that our parents didn't, and they got it wrong.
	Oh, but there you have it.
	That wasn't a conservative political broadcast, please.
	Why wouldn't it be?
	That's my point, which is that if you're willing to accept leftist nonsense on, oh, well, we need diversity quotas because, you know, we need to defeat the left on diversity.
	It's like, okay, well, now you've done all that.
	You've destroyed your own ideology.
	Good job.
	But at least you've got brown women.
	I think it was just that it was a temporary thing.
	David Cameron, David Cameron, who, by the way, David Cameron doesn't represent modern Tories because he's a real like sort of leftist, you know, socialist rubbish Tory.
	So I think he just did it as a one-time quick fix to boost diversity in the Tory party.
	I wish I could believe that, but I genuinely think that this ideological problem is something that the mainstream Tories can't even oppose successfully and are continuing to some extent.
	And the cheering about it is something that's kind of gross to me.
	I'm slightly more optimistic.
	I think people like Kemi Badenow, she can oppose it better as...
	Yes, because she doesn't cheer it on.
	As a person of colour.
	Yeah.
	I think it helps.
	I remember she actually gave a speech about this in front of Diane Abbott, of all people.
	Diane was there talking about how we need diversity quotes and was like, yeah, we do for you.
	And Kemi was literally responding like that.
	She stood up and gave a speech and went, yeah, I didn't have diversity quotes for me.
	I had to be all the lawyers and doctors and stuff.
	I just won my place.
	And she sort of gives like side eyes.
	Diane just like...
	Pathetic.
	That's cheating.
	Basically, yes.
	You're cheating.
	You got there by meritocracy.
	That's bad.
	There you have it.
	It's just, I don't like this rhetoric of diversity as a strike coming from the right.
	And I do wonder, if you can't stand up on that principle, what will you stand up on?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Let's move to the left.
	Okay.
	Yeah, let's move on.
	So I just want to ask why the left are transitioning children so much.
	I mean, there's been an explosion.
	There's been an explosion in transitioning children.
	I mean, depending on what statistic you look at, the increase is up to thousands of percent in some places.
	You know, with the Tavistock Centre.
	I mean, the Tavistock Centre had to shut down.
	It's a gender clinic in London, the main one in the UK, and it was hailed as a victory for people who didn't want children to be mutilated through surgery in the form of gender transitioning.
	But really, it was because they couldn't deal with the volume of children being dragged down there by their liberal parents to be transitioned.
	I don't understand.
	I can't work out.
	I'm trying to work out why So many left-wing parents are doing it.
	And I think it's because, you know, people used to show off to their neighbours with a luxury car in the drive, but now materialism is seen as gauche and also, you know, lefty liberals can't afford luxury cars because they've got rubbish jobs because, sadly, capitalism is still a meritocracy at some point.
	So they've got to show off their luxury beliefs.
	So, you know, these are beliefs that you can only have if you've got enough time to sit around thinking about it, reading the right books, reading the right newspapers.
	So now it's, you know, oh, look, my child is trans.
	And it's the ultimate, you know, dinner party, one-upmanship.
	It's like, oh, my child's bisexual.
	Oh, well, my child's trans.
	It's like slam.
	This actually happened with my mother once.
	No way!
	Are you the trans child?
	No, she had a group of female friends and she came into my room one day and I went, are you gay?
	I went, no, why?
	And she said, could you be?
	I was like, what?
	And she said, well, you know, we were talking with the girls and one of them mentioned that her son was gay and it was, you know, oh, and then the other one had a transgender daughter.
	How long did you try it for?
	I didn't.
	I just went, mum, I'm not pretending so you can have a higher status.
	It's That's not a thing.
	I love that you've rebelled against your mum.
	By being straight.
	But it was the point that this other woman actually had a higher status in the friendship group because they had a transgender child.
	That's the thing.
	It's a special thing.
	Oh my god, you're so open-minded and enlightened and progressive and broad-minded.
	How wonderful.
	It's so special.
	So if you look at Hollywood celebrities, pretty much every Hollywood celebrity...
	I think she did actually give birth to her trans daughter!
	Not just trans, but a furry!
	Sorry!
	So this is, I mean, come on.
	Surely we've got to draw the line somewhere.
	And surely furry is where we draw the line.
	You know what I mean?
	You can identify as a different gender, not as a hamster or a fluffy dragon.
	I just think we need to set some boundaries.
	So...
	I love how you're like, this has gone too far now.
	This has gone too far.
	And I just, man, like this constant affirmation of whatever the child wants.
	It's like, no, you're a parent.
	You're there to set boundaries.
	You know what I mean?
	And the more I see, and also you're getting more non-binary and trans parents.
	As you saw in the video that you showed, you've got like those people, you've got the women with short hair and the bella and the frock and stuff.
	And then the kids who totally chose what's happening to them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know what I mean?
	They're obviously getting forced on.
	If we go on to the next one, so the world's youngest transgender model, Noella, wait till you see her parents.
	So if we scroll down, you can see there's a picture of her with her parents there.
	So she's got transgender parents, and it's like, oh, I wonder where she got the idea for transitioning.
	You know what I mean?
	And then you go to a slum in Kampala...
	And there's fewer transgender children.
	It's these luxury belief elite people.
	You know, funny, you don't meet any Belarusian transgender children.
	It's just not a thing.
	No, no.
	I went to Belarus.
	I didn't see any.
	No transgender child drag shows?
	No, none of that.
	None of that.
	Only an American thing, huh?
	Yeah.
	Although their society was kind of screwed in other ways.
	The constant state surveillance.
	And also the women.
	The women are really like...
	So I was out there...
	But the society's screwed because of the women.
	I don't want to sound like you, but yeah!
	Basically, the women...
	So talking to the girls I was working with out there, they're all like, oh, what's it like?
	You're on the UK date?
	And I'm like, yeah, I'd go...
	They were like, if you go for a meal, do you pay for it?
	I'm like, no, we go halves or we take turns or whatever.
	And she's like, oh, no, that's ridiculous.
	But I'm like, but you earn more money than the men because the women in Belarus, the women go to university to get educated and the men do manual labor, which means that now you've got a generation of women who are earning more because they're doing the smart jobs and men are earning less.
	And the women still expect the men to pay for everything.
	And I don't know.
	I just thought that was messed up.
	And I was like, listen, you can't just be a feminist when it suits you.
	Like, put your hand in your pocket, take your fella to McDonald's.
	But anyway, getting back to this, you know, you can see there's an obvious influence from parents in the video you showed in this example.
	And then we've got explicit evidence in this video.
	We'll just watch this.
	Nine-year-old Kieran Claussen collects crystals.
	She dabbles in face paint and she loves sports.
	What do you play?
	I did play volleyball, soccer and...
	I want to play basketball.
	To Kieran, who's transgender, it's not about wrapping up victories.
	I don't want to win any trophies for it though.
	I feel like that's the most unfair way to compete because it's not about winning.
	What's it about?
	Having fun with your friends for it though.
	I feel like that's the most unfair way to compete because it's not about winning.
	I mean, it's so sinister.
	They're obviously getting coached.
	They're getting indoctrinated.
	It's just so sinister.
	I feel like I'm watching the Babylon Bee, but it's real.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And it's happening because they're not ashamed of it.
	They're not hiding it.
	It's like they're just openly indoctrinating kids.
	But it's not just parents that are putting the ideas in kids' heads.
	Schools, media, institutions and hospitals are all systemically woke and pushing these ideas on kids.
	Most school teachers...
	Libs of TikTok, pretty much their whole thing is school teachers pushing this stuff on kids.
	But this is a plastic surgeon at a gender clinic who says...
	This is creepy.
	Yeah, isn't it just?
	And so the name of the Instagram account is Top Surgery.
	So this is somebody who operates on teenagers, kids who want to transition.
	And for people listening, it's a picture of a guy with a Santa hat on, a mask of course, holding two buckets labelled breast tissue, smiling.
	In a medical clinic.
	Hashtag female, hashtag pride.
	And the caption says, for all you good boys, Dr.
	McEvigny is not bringing gifts, he's taking them away.
	Like a jokey sort of thing about doing a mastectomy.
	So they do mastectomies on females to transition them to boys.
	Then they do hysterectomies.
	I know medical practitioners have a sick sense of humour, but this is just gross.
	This is not medically necessary, this is just...
	And also, it's clearly aimed at children.
	It's Santa, it's like, for all you good boys.
	You know what I mean?
	You wouldn't say that to a 40-year-old.
	You'd say that to a child.
	It's very sinister.
	The gender clinics phrase this stuff in a way that appeals to kids.
	The language being used, it's the language of somebody appealing to children.
	And vulnerable youths are being fast-tracked down irreversible medical pathways.
	This is what was happening at the Tavistock Gender Clinic in London that got shut down.
	And there's a lawsuit pending with over 1,000 families of damaged children demanding compensation because the children have...
	It's turned out that transitioning, you know, young teenage boys and girls doesn't always...
	Was it a bad idea?
	It turns out it's something...
	I mean, obviously for some, you know, I think for quite a few, gender dysphoria is present in like, you know, round about 0.6 of the population.
	So for some, it's going to be something that helps them.
	Tiny, tiny minority.
	Minority.
	And for a lot of them, it's going to be something that turns out to be a radical, huge mistake.
	And it's life-changing.
	Obviously, mastectomies, hysterectomies, anything removing the penis, that's...
	It doesn't grow back.
	There's a lot of issues there.
	And yeah, why are left-wing parents so desperate to transition their kids?
	I think it's because wokeism is like a new religion.
	So it fills the hole left by the departure of traditional religions such as Christianity and Islam from the lives of so many educated modern people.
	They still want stuff to believe in.
	They still want to judge people.
	It's got all the bad things a religion has.
	It's got sin, guilt, public shaming, the promise of a utopia if everybody follows the rules.
	It's got a righteous certainty that empowers and enables any vengeful behaviour, but it's got none of the good things such as redemption, humility or forgiveness.
	And you've got to demonstrate piety, not by pilgrimage or self-flagellation, but by virtue signalling.
	You can do this by listing your pronouns in email signatures, which is an empty gesture.
	Everybody knows what your pronouns are, Brian.
	Or you can post a black square on Instagram for Black Lives Matter or attend a climate change march and make sure you post the photos on Instagram.
	Or waving the correctly updated pride flag.
	But the ultimate virtue signal is to be trans or have a trans child.
	So, you know, woke parents transitioning their children.
	It's insanity.
	It's like, you know, Islam, certain cultures perform female genital mutilation.
	So does this religion.
	Wokeism performs this.
	And it's happening in schools as well.
	So this is a school teacher saying you should use they, them pronouns for toys.
	And if we actually turn the noise up on this...
	You can use non-binary language with your kids.
	For example, if you're playing with some toys with them, you could assign one of their toys to be non-binary.
	So instead of always referring to their dolls or their animal toys as he or she, you can use they-them pronouns.
	When you're telling a story to your kids, you can have a character that's non-binary.
	So instead of saying she, you can have they or them.
	This introduces your kids to the idea that it's not just she, her, or he, him, and it's just a really easy way to get them used to the idea of they, them pronouns.
	It's a really easy way to indoctrinate them.
	She's basically admitting, you know, this is a way to introduce these ideas.
	And it's libs of TikTok.
	If you haven't seen libs of TikTok, I mean, check them out before they're permanently banned.
	But they just repost videos from school teachers and people like that who are constantly talking about indoctrinating kids.
	And it's also in school questionnaires If we move on to the next one.
	So these are questions.
	Scotland's got a very woke government funded by English taxes.
	But this is stuff they're sort of breaking down, they're normalising sex.
	So they had this asking school kids, I think primary school kids, if they've had anal sex.
	If we scroll down, you can see some of the questions.
	Funnily enough, no.
	I haven't had vaginal or anal intercourse in the past year.
	It's like, can we not just learn some maths?
	Do I have to tell you about...
	Why are you teaching kids about anal sex?
	Insane.
	Babylon Bee stuff.
	Yeah, the next one is the birds and the Babylon bees.
	The next slide is...
	So this is a questionnaire that was sent to Merkinch Primary School in Scotland.
	And it's all about trans.
	It's all about having two moms or two dads at home.
	Have you ever laughed at or been unkind to someone because they were gay or transgender?
	Do you identify as gay or transgender?
	It's introducing all these ideas.
	And obviously, nobody should be bullied because they're gay.
	Nobody should be bullied because they're trans.
	Are you a transgender four-year-old?
	Putting this stuff in front of kids and making them think about it is, you know, introducing the ideas to them and it's the first stage of the sort of indoctrination.
	Yeah, I mean, it's not even about the thing itself.
	It's the question of why on earth does whoever wrote this want to give this to kids?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like, you look creepy.
	Why can't it just be like, you know, because then you know the results from this will be, they'll be like, oh my god, there's been a surge in transphobic bullying in primary schools.
	It's like, I don't really think there has.
	It's like you're just putting these questionnaires in front of them.
	School books as well.
	The next slide.
	If we just play the last 10 seconds of this.
	So they've got all these ideas.
	What does it even mean to be a girl or a boy?
	Do we have to be one or the other?
	Can we both at the same time?
	Or neither?
	Putting all these ideas in kids' heads.
	It's like...
	I kind of agree.
	What does it mean to be a girl or a boy?
	Essentially, it doesn't have that much meaning.
	You can be David Bowie, you can be Hulk Hogan if you're a boy, you can be, I'm trying to think of a big butch lesbian for a girl, or you can be a dainty, that kind of girl.
	You're still a girl.
	You're still a girl.
	It doesn't really mean anything.
	It's not like if a boy likes pink, it's like, oh my god, we've got to schedule the surgery.
	It's like, come on!
	Just let people be who they are.
	Stop trying to make everything about this identitarian sort of putting people in boxes.
	I thought the left was about getting away from all that and treating people as individuals, but obviously not.
	This is another school book which is all teaching them about trans and non-binary.
	There's another, this next one, So if we scroll down, this is about a trans or non-binary person.
	They're talking about tasting their vagina slime.
	And I don't know, man, just keep this stuff away.
	I think I'll get my kids the Beano instead.
	You know, can't kids just enjoy themselves instead of having all this weird sex stuff forced on them?
	It's just mental.
	The next one, if any teacher, the next one shows, if any teacher actually goes against this sort of cult-like behaviour, then they get in trouble.
	This teacher refused to use non-binary pronouns and because of that he was put on leave or suspended and he broke the suspension and now he's in jail.
	So, you know, being essentially jailed, sent to Gulag for refusing to be compelled to use pretty nonsensical pronouns.
	So why are they doing this?
	Well, I think it's partly because of money, if we look at the next chart.
	So this shows the increase, and this is happening in all Western countries.
	I was talking earlier about the increase, the explosion in transgenderism.
	This is like Bitcoin, the Goodyear's.
	Look at this.
	From 2004, it's gone from barely any in Canada to well over 1,000.
	And this stops at 2016.
	It's continued to rise at the same exponential rate since then.
	And each transition, that's a lot of dollars.
	It's a lot of money for all the consultations and all the hormones and puberty blockers and of course the surgery.
	So they're making big money from this and they want it to keep going.
	The next slide shows the explosion of gender clinics in America.
	There were two in 2007.
	Someone should make a map of this just with Afghanistan for comparison.
	How many are there in Afghanistan?
	Zero.
	Well, ironically, Iran, which is Islamic theocracy, they are one of the world leaders in transitioning kids because homosexuality is illegal in Iran.
	So they say, if you're gay...
	If you're a woman, though, the whole time...
	No gay, bro.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	They're like, oh, we transition you, then it's heterosexual.
	So you've got a choice.
	We can either throw you off a building or transition you.
	And pretty much the same choice you get if you've got a Labour voting parent in the UK. But yeah, you can see the insane explosion in paediatric gender clinics.
	It's like Laser Quest in the 90s.
	Hopefully it's going to die away the same as LaserQuest.
	And so the American sex reassignment surgery market size was valued at $1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand annually around 11%, just over 11%.
	And that's a compound increase every year.
	So it's going to go up.
	Until the old trends?
	A lot.
	Until we're going to have to start to maintain this growth rate of transitioning surgery, we're going to have to transition several times a year from one to the other.
	That is the only way it's going to be feasible.
	But yeah, it's insane.
	And it's happening to very young children.
	So the mean age of transgender people that are submitted with gender dysphoria...
	It's six years.
	Six years.
	So, you know, there's people taking four-year-olds along and saying, my four-year-old is transgender.
	Or can't you make my four-year-old transgender?
	I want to look good at a dinner party.
	And also, I think there's something more sinister going on.
	There's a visible effort by the left to sort of blur the boundaries with regards to sex with children.
	So we've got, you know, here we've got...
	operated for four years on twitter it had 290 000 followers uh twitter refused to take the account down uh because it didn't breach the the twitter uh guidelines but twitter took libs of tick tock down you know they suspended them last week for reporting on child gender transitions um the next one um i've actually i've missed i've missed a video There's a video of a liberal teacher that has...
	Oh, no, it's this one.
	Yeah, this one.
	So this is a liberal teacher telling the kids not to judge pedophiles.
	Stop this!
	Diego.
	We're not going to call them that.
	We're going to call them masks.
	Minor attracted persons.
	So don't judge people just because they want to have sex with a five-year-old.
	What the fuck?
	Yeah, don't judge people just because they want to have sex with a five-year-old.
	And we're not going to call them pedophiles.
	We're going to call them minor attracted persons.
	Do you remember all that stupid rhetoric from back in the day?
	Like, don't judge people.
	I was like...
	No, yeah, judging is good.
	Yeah, can we have a bit more?
	I mean, we're judging...
	At the moment, we judge people for the most minor infraction.
	If somebody says something, you know, in the least bit, you know, homophobic or racist, that's career over, you know?
	I mean, even if you express an opinion that's pretty understandable about, you know, about whatever, immigration or thinking, you know, the whole COVID lockdown stuff is a nonsense or Black Lives Matter isn't the most perfect organisation, you know, that can be your career destroyed if you work in the arts.
	Uh, but, uh, but for some reason, you know, we're not allowed to judge pedophiles.
	I mean, what?
	For some reason.
	Who knows what that reason might be?
	Yeah.
	And here's, um, uh, the artwork of John Podestas.
	This is a leading Democrat and advisor to the Clinton, to Hillary Clinton, uh, and Joe Biden.
	And this is the artwork that he's got in his house, hanging on his walls.
	I mean, this is all sort of bondage stuff of naked kids.
	Uh, and if this is what What's hanging on his walls?
	And this is a montage of different artworks.
	What's in his hard drive?
	You know what I mean?
	That's terrifying.
	So yeah, I think this whole thing is dangerous.
	We're seeing...
	you know, all right, you know, obviously a lot of people will be transgender, but it's a relatively tiny proportion of society.
	And this huge explosion and this huge percentage increase in the number of transgender people, you know, shows that it's a social mania, it's a contagion.
	It's pretty much replaced, you know, anorexia and self-harming amongst teenage girls as a way of sort of, you know, avoiding puberty and avoiding being sexualized by society.
	So, you know, I don't think using extreme surgery with life-changing effects such as sterilization and osteoporosis and all the rest of it, I don't think that's the perfect solution to it.
	And I think we should be wary of the motives of the people pushing this.
	And I think in 10 years' time, not even 10 years' time, I think right now...
	Right now, you can already see it with the Tavistock getting shut down and with that massive lawsuit.
	So this isn't broken in America yet.
	These child gender clinics, it hasn't come out as the huge thing yet.
	But I think in a couple of years' time, it's going to be a huge scandal.
	Those lawsuits are going to be good.
	Yeah.
	Well, except we're going to pay for it, man.
	And the worst thing is, in this country, we pay.
	We pay for them to transition.
	We pay for all the consultations, all the hormones, all the surgery and stuff.
	And then we pay to get sued.
	And then we pay to get sued!
	It's a beautiful system.
	I don't know what could go wrong.
	Anyway, I suppose with that, we shall move to Florida Man.
	Just wanted to talk about how Florida Man is just kind of smelling of roses, which I know might seem a bit like sycophantic or something, but genuinely, I think he's just incredibly done well.
	And I wanted to just note how if you had the political balls to stand up and say, yeah, funnily enough, I'm not going to lock down the state, then you actually look good within a year and incredibly good.
	And we'll just start this off by mentioning there's a premium video, of course, on Lociers.com, being the interview Carl Dupin with Sebastian Gorka, who is the fellow who's been advising Donald Trump along with others, which I'm not going to get into the whole Trump-DeSantis thing.
	That's a whole other time.
	Instead, I just want to take a look at Ron DeSantis' run for governor and his campaigning, because the messages he's giving across remind me of just how messed up we did in the last couple of years, at least our leaders did.
	Because if you go to the next one here, here's just the polling.
	This is just the latest polling.
	If you scroll down so you can actually get his polling up, in which he's got against his other candidate.
	Previously, he won by 0.4%.
	Right.
	So even the small lead here is like, you know, leaps and bounds over what it was when he first ran.
	So unbelievably popular.
	So that's interesting to see.
	And the reasons why are not hard to see when you actually check out his campaign.
	Because we're going to play the next clip, which is just a political ad that his family put out.
	I don't know, it's a political ad, so I kind of cringe a little bit, and there's obviously just his side of the story.
	But the things that I mention in here actually make me feel really sad about what the rest of us did in the West with regards to locking down the whole country, especially.
	I mean, it's like watching a parallel universe in which we actually had some strong leaders.
	Let's play this one.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Ron DeSantis.
	Today we deliver for the people of Florida yet again.
	We saved our jobs.
	And kept us going.
	They tried to shut us down, but you saved our business.
	You had our backs.
	And honored our service.
	You led by facts, not fear.
	And you let us decide.
	You let me go to school.
	You gave me a voice.
	You put us first.
	And didn't let them keep us apart.
	You let us learn.
	You let us compete.
	All of us.
	You protected our right to worship together in person.
	And you raised our pay.
	You protected our waters and kept Florida beautiful.
	When they attacked you, you didn't pay.
	You stood strong for Florida.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you Governor DeSantis.
	I mean, there you have it.
	And I know it's a political ad, but at the same time, just the things being listed, you're like, ah, crap.
	Yeah.
	We messed up.
	The basic, what you expect from a government.
	That's the very basic stuff.
	You didn't shut down my business.
	I'll thank you for that.
	You didn't ban me from going to church.
	You're a hero.
	Yeah, the West really did kind of fall for a year there.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And now we're reaping the effects.
	I mean, there's a story we covered in GB News last night of suicide rate shooting up in young women.
	And it's because of lockdown.
	Yeah.
	Because the isolation, the lockdown, all to save some fat and old people from coronavirus.
	And that's the other thing as well.
	You can go and see your family.
	You can keep you apart like here and let the old just die alone.
	No, not doing that.
	And everything else.
	And like I said, it is like watching a parallel universe.
	I mean, if it wasn't for places like this that didn't do what everyone else did and instead were just like, no, we're not going to be retarded and just carry on as normal, we wouldn't know as well how badly we messed up.
	And that's why I think it is important to just play.
	I know it's a political ad and therefore it's what it is, but it's just the importance of playing it because you realize...
	Oh crap, we didn't have to do any of that.
	Yeah, and they didn't even have an increase in infections or mortality compared to places that locked down really harshly, like California.
	And if they did, it's just like, well, what's worth it here?
	Is it actually worth destroying everything that's worth living for so you can live?
	Yeah.
	In a world that's not worth living for.
	And every day we get a new thing coming out.
	There's an unintended negative consequence of lockdown.
	So, you know, kids are behind with their learning.
	The children, toddlers are behind on their speech recognition because of the masks.
	In the UK, we've lost like 13 years of progress.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And obviously we've got this hyperinflation and we've got, you know, the economic devastation.
	And, you know, I think even stuff like, you know, Putin's warmongering is based on, you know, we looked at the West and he's like, they look weak.
	But it's all unnecessary, and just looking at DeSantis' campaign.
	I mean, I know he's just in his own circle right now, but for the rest of the world, we really should pay attention and see what we destroyed.
	Because if you go to the next one here, you can also see him just campaigning.
	He's really reaping the benefits of this as well, politically.
	Because you can see on the left there, this is just someone noticing the fact that...
	Before, you had the media being like, hey, how dare you do all of this?
	If you can give it a click, please, John.
	You have them talking about masks, being like, oh my god.
	At a head start, masks remain on despite CDC guidance.
	Like, you must do it to the kiddos.
	And if you go to the next image there, you have the New York Times admitting, hmm, the pandemic erased two years, sorry, two decades of progress in math and reading.
	The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for nine-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable.
	Yeah, imagine if you just didn't do any of that.
	That would be good.
	And if you go to the next one here, you can see just the worst details.
	As someone notes, they bury it in paragraph 13 here.
	If you give that a click, please.
	Then you can see the fact that they say, maths can make it more challenging for some children to develop early speech and reading skills, which are learned, in part, by observing the mouth movements.
	Again, I feel like...
	You come back to the West and you read, like, do we know what a girl is?
	Is it the fact that you learn how to speak from watching people's mouths?
	It's the most basic things.
	And whilst masks worn properly do offer virus protection, thanks to YouTube changing their guidelines, we can actually hit down on that one now, young children tend not to be severely affected by the coronavirus, even when unvaccinated.
	The death rates are near zero.
	It's terrible that we sacrifice children on the altar of our good intentions, you know, to save...
	Not even good intentions.
	To save, like, to save, what, people are going to die pretty soon anyway.
	Like, very few people that died from coronavirus, like, didn't have something, didn't have underlying...
	Health conditions.
	Or in the very old bracket.
	Of the kids who died, that's closer to zero than one million, let's say.
	And that's probably globally as well.
	And then what have you sacrificed in return?
	Well, two decades of work in literacy and maths.
	And that's just in that thing.
	You've also got all the other...
	You've got obesity, childhood abuse, and obesity for everybody.
	Everything.
	I'm just imagining, like, Florida parents, just in the next, you know, whatever conversation they have with someone in another state, just like, oh, man, you guys didn't lock down, that's bad.
	It's like, yeah, my kids can read.
	Yours can't.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And that was always the thing that liberals would say about, you know, being like, oh, these dumb rednecks or whatever.
	It's like, well, actually, no, the rednecks...
	They're actually more educated.
	Yes, the rednecks are reading Plato.
	Yeah.
	And, yeah, your ones can't read.
	The criticisms of DeSantis as well are just hilarious.
	Whilst this campaign is going on with this context, of course, there's someone here coming out and saying, Ron DeSantis is wasting money on Florida election fraud police.
	How dare he do this?
	And it's like, hmm, yeah, I wonder.
	Meanwhile, shall we check out the competition?
	So we'll go to California.
	You remember this?
	Join us in California.
	Gavin Newsom's running a re-election ad in Florida.
	He was trying to do dab on DeSantis, saying that, I urge you all living in Florida to join the fight or join us in California, where we are still believing in freedom.
	Right, okay, the freedom to groom kids, but that's a whole other conversation.
	Meanwhile, how has California's experiment gone?
	Well, next link, please.
	Voluntary blackouts.
	Good job.
	I mean, it is almost comical, the levels of disparity.
	It's like, our kids can read, and they can read by electricity.
	Your kids, learning to read still by candlelight.
	You've actually gone back.
	They're phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles by 2030, I believe.
	But because of the blackouts, nobody can charge.
	Couldn't Never mind a Ford.
	Nobody can charge their electric car.
	And even if you can, electricity is so expensive it's actually cheaper to get a diesel generator and run that to charge your car.
	If we go to the next one here, we can also see him just tweeting out, please stop using electricity.
	Just Gavin Newsom here in California.
	We actually can't run anything.
	Not even the lights.
	Don't mind the trains running on time.
	If we go to the next one here as well, we also just have a lot of people having fun at California's expense.
	I did enjoy this.
	It's just some ABC7 headline here.
	Los Angeles can be entirely powered by renewable energy in 25 years.
	Study shows.
	Next year.
	Well, the power just went out here at ABC7. Yes, Mr.
	Brown.
	It's not going well, is it?
	Oh, boy.
	Because we also have the other criticisms that Ron is a fascist.
	Don't you know?
	Don't you know he's doing fascist things?
	We have some verified checkmark saying he's refusing to go to a debate because he's a fascist.
	He actually never agreed to go to this debate, I found out.
	Hmm.
	You know how that works?
	You know when you get invited to a dinner party and you don't go?
	That's you chickening out because you're a fascist?
	Because you're a fascist.
	It's almost like, you know, I just didn't get the invite, so I don't care.
	Sorry.
	Who would you rather have as the next Republican presidential candidate, him or Trump?
	I don't, it's not my job.
	I don't really care.
	Yeah, but if you had a preference.
	If I had a preference, I mean, I think Donald Trump is the one who's entitled to it, but if he doesn't want to run, then yeah, it's going to be Ron DeSantis.
	I don't feel like Ron running against Trump would do much good, because it's definitely Trump's party at this point, for sure.
	But if we go to the next one here, we can see the fact that, also, who's a fascist here?
	I mean, we haven't had a place to include this over the last few segments for another couple of weeks, but I just have to somewhere.
	This is a leaked report from the Attorney General talking to Facebook in the Biden administration, arranging for weekly and monthly calls to discuss what to censor on Facebook.
	I mean, entirely illegal, entirely unconstitutional.
	Yeah.
	The United States government shall make no law.
	Sorry, it's Congress shall make no law, abridging the freedom of speech.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The Attorney General can literally call up Facebook and say, yeah, shut it down.
	And also we hear a lot about fascism.
	So, you know, DeSantis, Trump get called fascist.
	People on the right get called fascist.
	Fascism is when business gets co-opted into government, into an autocratic government.
	And this is business, Facebook, being co-opted into the Democrat Party.
	Yeah, I mean, there's absolutely no statements being here about what will happen, but everyone knows what will happen.
	The Dems in Congress constantly threaten Facebook with nationalisation, and in response, Facebook tows their line, because, well, they're actually scared.
	Whereas the Republicans will say, oh, well, you know, we'll have a word.
	Ooh, censor any more of us.
	We'll call you in for another hearing.
	Yeah, okay, bud.
	See you next time.
	Like, I don't care.
	Sorry, but it's just pathetic.
	If you go to the next one here, we also have the fact that there's this really funny leak in which the Attorney General, or the Biden administration, wanted a Fauci parody account deleted.
	Hi there, is there any way we can get this pulled down?
	It's actually not one of ours.
	It's like, yeah, it's a parody account.
	The White House here, riding up the Facebook, being like, take it down!
	And they responded with, yep, on it.
	No way!
	There you go.
	They actually deleted this.
	And this is what's happening to libs of TikTok, it's what's happening to the Babylon Bees, still down from Twitter, which is satire.
	It's not a mistake by someone who works at Cognizant, who's taken the contract for content moderation.
	It's the fucking White House that writes to Facebook and gets stuff deleted.
	And we have the leaks to show it.
	Just mad.
	Anyway, there's also just the fact that recently, Ron DeSantis and his team, of course, have been campaigning, well, for quite a while now, on critical race theory, and rightly demonizing it in the public mind for all Americans.
	And they're actually, I think, them and their movement have done the good work of making sure this is rightly shown as it is, which is evil in the American mind.
	And they've actually won a victory here from the Anti-Defamation League, This is a weird power play, and you'll see where I'm going.
	Anti-Defamation League launches review of its own educational content after Fox News Digital investigation here.
	So Fox News Digital did an investigation into the ADL, which originally founded more than 100 years ago to combat anti-Semitism, However, their stuff now includes critical race theory documents and far-left ideas in their education wing.
	In a statement to Fox News Digital, the ADL spokesman stated that they don't teach critical race theory, but admitted that some of their curriculum materials have been misaligned with their values.
	The ADL left an organization, backing down, and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, sorry, sorry, we'll get rid of this.
	Interesting.
	Quote, We are far from perfect, and clearly there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with the ADL's values and strategy.
	We intend to address this issue immediately and openly.
	We are moving to launch a thorough review of our education content.
	We will review the findings and implement a process to update them appropriately and expeditionally.
	We will get this right.
	That is something you usually get from some right-wing organization or a neutral company that has been caught in the headlights of some left-wing mod.
	So this is a positive sign, surely, that such a left-wing organization is recognizing the toxicity of critical race theory.
	It is evil and we can't win this fight.
	We're abandoning Kimberley Crencher and all her friends because, oh boy, this looks bad.
	I mean, I don't think I've seen this in a long time.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I thought we'd just enjoy it.
	The reach of the ADL's education wing is also very expansive.
	Fox News, right?
	According to the ADL's website in 2021, more than 64,000 educators participated in its anti-bias training.
	k-12 students were reached through its educational tools and programming again a huge weapon for the left which is why these materials were in there and now the right has rightly been able to expose how demonic this stuff is and therefore demonized it rightly and the adl is now backing out of being well critical race theorists its education glossary terms which the adl said it used in its anti-bias program addressed intersectionality a term coined by critical race theorist kiblai crenshaw
	Intersectionality holds that a person who is on various oppressed categories, for example, who could be gay and a person of color, can be marginalized by multiple systems simultaneously.
	They just go on to describe intersectionality.
	I like how they say marginalised.
	All you need to do is turn on the TV or look at any political party or look at anything in society to see it's totally flipped.
	There are no white men in any high office in the UK. But they are the marginalised.
	We're going to talk about marginalisation.
	Mapping the f***ing margins.
	I've mapped them in the top of government.
	Anyway, they also say having young people reflect on the Women's March as well as other examples of social activism throughout the years using an intersectional approach the ADL had in their materials.
	The article discussed the flip side of white privilege is structural racism.
	You know, very stock things, which I would have expected them at any other time and place to turn around and gone, yeah, whatever.
	Or said, yeah, no, of course we teach this stuff.
	This is important.
	This is the most important thing we teach.
	They go on to say that they were showing the MTV's documentary White People to Students.
	The ADL's lesson plan called for power and privilege exercises, in which they would teach kids about their white privilege.
	Yeah, this just sounds like any FTSE 100 company on their corporate training day.
	Exactly.
	Like, this is so normy at this point, frankly.
	The ADL included an article by Peggy McIntosh called White Privilege, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
	Again, like a stock, basic thing for these circles.
	The lesson plan included indicated that white women are justly seen as oppressive.
	Yep, this is stock rhetoric for them.
	They are if you're paying for dinner.
	And also they enjoy unearned skin privilege that needs to be dealt with, as well as continuing to lament white students in schools saying that they are the oppressors and they have participants in damaged culture and are unfairly advantaged.
	And all of this is horrific, don't get me wrong.
	But we've gone over a million times and every, you know, as you say, FTSE 500 company...
	This is baked in to the HR departments of any corporation or organisation in the UK. So HR departments, equality, diversity and inclusion, that's what those roles, those high paid roles, you know, 77 grand a year in the NHS or over a hundred, 260 grand a year in the BBC, they're there to enforce that ideological stuff.
	But this being exposed by Fox to the American public caused a left-wing organization like the ADL. I mean, an organization that has not been quiet about its agenda and trying to demonize people.
	And instead, their response was, okay, we'll purge it.
	We won't have that in there.
	Yeah.
	That's an incredible win.
	That's an incredible moment in Fox.
	That feels like progress.
	Yes.
	Maybe we can retire now.
	Like, if...
	I'd love for every FTSE 500 company to take exactly the same stance.
	It'll be interesting to see as these things go.
	If in future you get those leaks, like Coca-Cola wants you to be less white, remember when that happened?
	And Coke silently got rid of it but didn't disavow it.
	I would like to see in future if Coke actually comes out and says, we're not involved with that, we purged all that, there was no mistake, please buy our product.
	Yeah.
	Instead.
	That's what I'd love to see.
	And if this continues, it would be good.
	They also go on to say they were, of course, also treating gender ideology.
	You should use they, them pronouns and blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Again, just basic stuff, but I'll skip over it because of time.
	And we'll just end this off on one other funny note, which is that Wokery is hitting levels of, I would never predict.
	So this is a chap here, Terrence, who decided he would start selling his own pancake mix.
	So he put it on Facebook.
	If you can click on the left image there.
	And of course, Terrence, selling his product, put his face on his product.
	Facebook labeled his product as racist.
	Because it had his own fucking face on it.
	If you go to the right here, we have the product.
	He's got his doggo there.
	Good boy.
	Selling Cousin Teeth pancake mix.
	And then if you go to the most right one, is Facebook restricting his account for 90 days.
	Because this is racism, Terrence.
	How dare you try to sell your face?
	Don't you know your place?
	Wait till Mark Zuckerberg finds out about Ainsley Harriot.
	Oh, God.
	Was it just like those Chinese products?
	You know, the little...
	I can't remember what they're called.
	Is it Bing Chilling or something?
	John, do you know?
	You know the little, like, sauces and whatnot?
	It's got the little Asian guy on it?
	People don't know what I'm talking about.
	But anyway, it's just...
	You remember all of those were erased as well?
	Like, Uncle Ben had to go.
	Like, Auntie...
	I can't remember.
	The sauce, like, the black lady was on.
	Got deleted.
	The Indian got deleted from the bottom.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's progress, apparently.
	Removing representation.
	Whereas Quaker Oats...
	White man represent.
	Unlike Terrence, who is literally unable to represent himself on his own product.
	It's good to see that the culture is changing, at least.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	I can't take any more pictures.
	I was at an outdoor festival.
	It was tartar sauce on top.
	And yes, the fish was overcooked.
	But it tasted good.
	And it's good to take a moment to just enjoy the small good things tonight.
	It's so easy to get black pill right now.
	But we'll get through it, guys.
	I promise you, we'll get through it.
	That looked tasty.
	That was savoury, with potatoes on top.
	It did not look tasty.
	It did look...
	She had this fish and chips in Denmark, and it was just the fish looked so overcooked.
	And then she...
	There were no chips, there was just this, like, pile of what looked like mashed potato.
	And we were just like, what the hell is that?
	Apparently it's tartar sauce, as she said.
	But, uh...
	No, get a plane, come to England and we'll show you some fish and chips.
	I feel sad for you.
	I'll show you a deep fried pizza.
	Don't go to Scotland.
	Just give good advice in life.
	I've only ever had a deep fried Mars bar once.
	I don't understand.
	Man, deep-fried Mars bars are actually delicious.
	Disgusting.
	So Mars bars are delicious.
	How do you make something more delicious?
	You deep-fry it.
	Yeah, shove loads of oil all over it.
	That'll make it better.
	It's like a tempura batter.
	It's very light.
	It's very delicate.
	It's genuinely, genuinely deep-fried Mars bars.
	Or maybe it's just the one I had.
	It's delicious.
	And paired with vanilla ice cream, I didn't have it, but I can imagine that would just be amazing.
	But it's great because the Mars bar melts.
	You've got the crispy carapace of the tempura batter around it, providing the crunch.
	You've got the perfect combination of textures and flavours.
	Maybe it's just the place in Whitstable I went, but it's just...
	A Whitstable?
	Man, you can't get deep-fried Mars bars in Whitstable.
	That's not a Scottish town.
	Sorry, the process is different?
	What's the complexity?
	Yeah, it's like champagne.
	Champagne's got to be from the Champagne region of France.
	It's the same with deep-fried Mars bars.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'll come to Glasgow or something and get some heroin and deep-fried Mars bars.
	Right, yeah.
	To be fair, I did have the Wetherspoons.
	I think it was Glasgow I went to.
	We got haggis pizza on the Wetherspoons menu.
	Such a classy guy.
	Well, we didn't have much time.
	But it was actually really good, I have to admit.
	And Deep Red Haggis.
	That's Wetherspoon's quality, so...
	Yeah.
	And if you don't like it, you've always got the heroin to forget about it.
	Let's go to the next video comment.
	fight.
	Mmm.
	That's a very good point, but I don't know the law specifically, but I think a telescopic baton is actually meant to be worse, like if you are a civilian having it in public.
	I know it's illegal, but I know it's...
	Oh, really?
	So yeah, that's the thing I was worried about.
	So John's telling me that the normal baton apparently is legal to have, the telescopic one is definitely illegal.
	Right.
	It's because you can hide it.
	Right, yeah.
	Pull it out.
	So you are also correct, as you mentioned here, the Pitholu massacre being an example of, well, let's just do some crowd control by killing them.
	Yeah.
	Also you can look at faraway ships through a telescopic baton.
	No, you can't.
	Let's go to the next one.
	In light of their bringing back fracking to England, I was always wondering how it is that whenever they want to build a new power plant or something, there's always some endangered fungus or whatever that needs to be protected.
	But whenever they're clearing out millions of trees for their wind turbines, there's somehow never any endangered animals that they have to account for.
	I always wondered if there's something there.
	Man, that's a great point.
	Because they do clear a lot of, you know, the forestry that they clear, it's not all just, you know, sort of farmed, you know, densely farmed pine.
	It's just this ancient forestry that'll never, it'll never grow back the way it is.
	So, yeah.
	That's horrific.
	I know in the UK we mostly do it offshore, so it means you're not, I don't know what's under the sea there, hopefully nothing.
	And we do it in the moors in Scotland as well, but I quite like them when I'm hiking, seeing all the big windmills.
	And it's good to get some use out of Scotland.
	As long as it's actually efficient.
	I mean, that's the main thing.
	I do remember the funniest image I've ever seen.
	I don't know if I've ever told you about it.
	But, of course, when it snows, the snow will collect on those big siphons.
	Whatever they call them.
	And someone's got to get rid of that snow.
	But of course it's huge.
	And you can't just climb up with a little thing and go all the way down.
	You're going to fall off and die.
	So what you do is you fill up a helicopter.
	Fly the helicopter up.
	Then get close.
	And then a guy with a gasoline powered flamethrower.
	What the heck?
	Are you serious?
	No, I'm not joking.
	Flamethrowers the snow.
	To get the snow to melt.
	Really?
	And then you can run the wind turbine again for green energy.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'll load up a picture for you.
	Are you sure this wasn't on Family Guy or something or South Park?
	No, it's a genuine, hilarious situation you have to do against a wind turbine.
	Because I remember speaking to some people who did that for a job as well.
	They were just like, it's even worse than you think.
	There's all kinds of nonsense that has to take place to deal with them.
	Anyway, let's go to the next video and comment while I find this.
	The problem with student loans is who owns them.
	The loans are owned by the federal government as a revenue source.
	As a bonus, previous Democratic administrations made it impossible to discharge them in bankruptcy based on theories of fraud which sound plausible but with no evidence to back them up.
	The massive subsidies from these loans of course go to fund the college administrations, who in their turn have been playing games with people, like cancelling classes before there are enough credit hours, making it very hard to graduate, trapping the student, and racking up ever more debt.
	You could not build a more perfect system for the quiet mass creation of debt slaves if you tried.
	This is a great point about the student loans and the subsidies.
	Because, you know, Biden pardoned, I think it's $10,000 from each student.
	And obviously this is just going to be the students that are in debt.
	If anybody worked through their college years, like a sensible person would, or paid down their debt, then they don't get anything.
	So it's just bailing out the profligate and the feckless.
	Terrible industry.
	But it'll also just mean that any subsidies...
	It's like with energy subsidies.
	It's just going to push up the amount of money that goes to the university's charge.
	Because they're still going to take in the same number of people, so they're just going to charge more because the market isn't expanding.
	Also, man, the market shouldn't expand.
	It's a nonsense.
	They should...
	I don't think...
	I think we're good to go.
	This was actually sort of UKIP policy.
	When they ran for the last campaign, they were saying that if you're going to do anything STEM, no tuition.
	Like, STEM pays for it.
	If you do anything else, your tuition goes up.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah, why not subsidize the, you know, people who want to do idiotic sociology degrees or arts degrees to pay for...
	Pay for luxury.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's how everything else works.
	Yeah, because the other thing about university, like, you get stand-up comedy degrees now, but it's like, it's one of those things you can't, you can't sort of teach...
	I did a stupid Mickey Mouse arts degree.
	I did film and media.
	And I learnt more in the two weeks when I left and worked on a radio station than I did over the whole course.
	Because you're not learning anything that's got any sort of...
	You're being taught by people who aren't good enough to do it.
	And you're there to sit in a class, read a book, do all that sort of stuff, rather than actually do it and learn it.
	I just want to show you.
	So I found this whilst I was just Googling away.
	This is a guy in a helicopter de-icing the thing.
	I swear to God I had seen the flamethrower one.
	I don't know why I can't find it.
	I think it was at the academic agent conference.
	There was a guy there who, his job, he was actually hired to try and make green technology work.
	And he was mostly working on, what was it?
	You know, waves.
	Like trying to make energy from waves.
	Right.
	They built this ridiculous thing and it just was never going to make any money or electricity.
	And they told them before they built it.
	Yeah.
	And they still got funded.
	Right.
	Got loads of money.
	And they made a profit out of doing this research.
	He was just like, yeah, the whole thing was a waste of time.
	He was just talking about the nonsense that does go on in the green industry because of government interference, which is they subsidize things that don't make sense.
	And this was just one of the funniest things he showed us.
	I swear he did show me one that was a flamethrower, but I don't know why I can't find it.
	There you have it.
	That's how you de-iced them anyway.
	That's hilarious.
	It's huge though.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you don't build anywhere that there's snow, it might be better.
	But, you know, UK. Yeah.
	Let's go to the next video comment.
	One quick correction that I did notice that you guys should probably be aware about is that the president actually doesn't have the power to declare war.
	That is actually up to Congress to declare war.
	So, basically, every war since World War II has not been congressionally Declared and is such as basically not a legal war in pretty much every case.
	So there's a little nugget of knowledge for you.
	Yeah, it's a really weird quirk of American politics.
	Yeah.
	It's just like, all of our wars are actually illegal, like, unironically.
	Right.
	Because no one in Congress voted on this.
	Right, right.
	Because the world has deemed to have changed, whether or not it has as a political debate.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I said the President basically do what he wants, and the Congress will back him up in cases of war, but it's not legal.
	Yeah.
	And no one enforces the law.
	Yeah, it's funny that I can't think of a war that somebody's declared that's actually ended up being good for that person.
	Iraq wasn't good for Britain, it wasn't good for Tony Blair, it wasn't good for George Bush.
	You mean an aggressor?
	Yeah, like the Russian war isn't good for Putin.
	I can't think of a war that's turned out to be a good idea.
	I know people will be thinking of World War II, but Hitler didn't work out well for Hitler.
	Hitler declared war on Poland.
	I mean, technically we sent them an ultimatum, but that doesn't make much sense.
	Also, the Americans never declared war on Germany.
	Did you know that?
	Hitler declared war on America.
	Oh, really?
	Because Pearl Harbor happened.
	So, of course, that's Japan declaring war on America.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then Hitler, in solidarity with the Japanese, declared war on America.
	Right, right.
	He didn't actually need to.
	The Americans probably would have ended up declaring war anyway, but he did it first.
	And it didn't work out too well for the residents of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
	No.
	North Korea, they lost their war.
	Yeah.
	They declared on South Korea.
	I'm sure there's one.
	People will know.
	They'll be screaming in the cars.
	I think if you go back to the Middle Ages, there's wars that, you know, they won and they got all the gold.
	Yeah, we won the Hundred Years War, technically.
	The guy didn't live long enough to see through the treaty.
	America won the Civil War.
	Did they declare that war or did the Confederates declare that war?
	I think the Confederates kind of started that one, surely.
	Whoever won would have been America.
	Yeah.
	Someone put it in the comments.
	I'm sure there's loads.
	I can't think of any off the top of my head.
	But, yeah.
	Apart from Falklands.
	Falklands War.
	No, the Argentinians declared that one.
	Oh, did they?
	Yeah, they invaded us.
	Oh, of course!
	Yeah, of course!
	They lost that one.
	Yeah.
	First World War?
	Who declared that?
	No, the Austrians declared first, so they lost.
	Because there's not many happy victors.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Huh.
	No, no one's got anything in the comments either.
	Right.
	I'm going to bumble about that one.
	Let's get in the written comments on the site, I suppose.
	That's annoying me now.
	Yeah.
	Afghanistan?
	We lost that.
	Yeah.
	Oh, bigly.
	Yeah.
	Russia lost the Afghanistan war as well when they tried it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think you'd have to go back to, like, sort of Napoleonic times.
	Well, every colonial war we won.
	Oh, yeah, colonial war, yeah.
	Very easy, though.
	That's kind of cheating.
	It's like, oh, wow.
	Your spears don't seem to be able to beat our machine guns.
	Yeah.
	So, to the written comments on the site, so on, diversity is our strength.
	Ross Diggle says the first black councillor in Islington for three years, yeah.
	Do you remember that?
	At a late party conference, this black kid got up and he went, I'm so proud to be here representing my constituency as the first black councillor in Islington in three years.
	They run their elections every four years.
	Right.
	So someone had just stepped down.
	Right, right.
	They had loads of black councillors.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And that's Jeremy Corbyn's constituency as well, who's obviously white.
	Yeah.
	Freewill2112 says the hard left are never going to give any kudos to any Tory.
	Only Marxists have a right to exist in their playbook.
	Yep.
	Marxists tend to be white.
	But then he's just this, oh yeah, you're not white enough.
	That's what you think.
	You're a fucking Marxist.
	You literally starve people to death for fun.
	Henry Ashman says the argument that the diversity shuts down the left's line of attack doesn't hold much water for me.
	It still gives the power to the left, the Tories aren't seeking approval from their voter base, they're seeking approval from the opposition parties.
	It also devalues any meritocratic gains in their actions, because making the point about diversity comes across as if it was a factor in their decision making, whether it was or not.
	The best way to do it is to stop talking about it and making it a thing, instead being a reality.
	Yeah, no, that's a fair point, but I think the Tories make it much less of a thing, you know, than they're not sort of leading front and centre about it.
	And like talking to other right-wing people, it's not like we're like, oh yeah, no, I support Kemi Badenot because she's black and a woman.
	It's like, man, we just love her ideas.
	People like Kemi are obviously not in that camp.
	They're in the, like, I'm here because I did the best thing.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	As mentioned with, like, dunking on Diane Abbott.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I've got to show you that clip, it's gone.
	Yeah, oh my god, like, Diane Abbott.
	Diane Abbott leaves.
	Like, halfway through the talk, she's like, oh, I've got to go, I've got to catch a bus.
	It just leaves.
	It's like, okay.
	Leaves through the wrong door, ends up in the cupboard.
	I think that does happen as well.
	It's the other side of the stage, Diane.
	Sorry.
	Richie Saunders says, sadly, the cons are little more than old new labor.
	In other words, useless.
	It's a fair point for the last 12 years.
	But the exciting thing about Liz Truss is that she's the first actually conservative leader in a long time, probably since you and Duncan Smith.
	And her ideas about taxation, low tax, small government.
	I mean, these are traditional Thatcherite, Reaganite, conservative ideas.
	But she's the first person in a long time who actually wants that.
	Cameron was very much big government, Boris, big government.
	So this is great.
	Theresa May was an ultimate technocrat.
	I'm not saying I'm uninterested to see what she does.
	It's just after 12 years, as you rightly say, like I'm...
	I'm not trusting anything.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, absolutely.
	There was actually a meme that I've seen floating in conservative members' circles where you've had 12 years has become a thing.
	Yeah.
	So whenever NMP comes to them and says, oh, we need to fundraise to fight the Wokery or something, it's like, you had 12 years.
	Yeah.
	Hell, man.
	Yeah.
	But...
	So, moving over.
	So, Ross Diggle says, I think Edwina Izzard is running as an illiberal Democrat, actually.
	Well, there you have it.
	He must be back in the Labour Party at this point.
	The Liberals are dead.
	I thought he was running for Labour, but maybe not.
	Who knows?
	It's going to replace Horseface.
	In Sheffield, apparently.
	Which is, I think that's where Kinky Boots and stuff was set, so maybe it's a good place for him to...
	For her.
	God, it's so hard to use the right gen or something.
	Especially as a trans woman yourself, Leo.
	It's very embarrassing.
	Robert Longshore says, Positive discrimination and anti-racist are simply discrimination and racist repackaged using twisted language to make them appear more plausible to normal people.
	John Price says, Liz Truss set up to fail?
	Question mark?
	We'll see, I guess.
	Kevin Fox says: "So as a Newtonian, well-educated, successful Yukmogimur person, should not be in his post as Chancellor.
	What?
	Should we give the job to Ahmed, who has lived on welfare payments since he got kicked out of school for being 26, not 16?" Which is a very funny point.
	It's like, yeah, he's privately educated.
	He's like, yeah, but he's a Yukamagugur.
	What's the problem?
	Yukamagugur.
	Moving on to the Why the Left Transitioning Kids comments.
	Leo Robillard, great name, says trans kids are the new purse puppy.
	So yeah, something to show off to your friends, some posh little thing.
	Pooping in your handbag.
	Sorry, there's just this one earlier referencing what you said, which is funny.
	And Leo, don't you dare get rid of the easiest job I've ever created.
	I'm trying to get a job as a diversity manager.
	It can't be that hard since there seems to be no qualifications.
	Well, good luck, Bald Eagle.
	Sorry.
	Robert Miller says, that bastard holding those buckets of breast tissue has to be one of the most evil things I've ever had the displeasure to see.
	Completely agree.
	It's sinister.
	And he was actually chastised because obviously being a...
	I mean, he must have forgotten that he's actually a surgeon, a physician, tied to oaths and ways of working.
	So it's not the way to...
	He got in trouble for that, for his way of marketing the clinic.
	Henry Ashman says, if the US transitioning industry was a country, it would come 185th out of 217 countries by GDP. It's worth more than Belize, the Seychelles, Granada and many others.
	That shows the scale of this industry.
	It's not a cottage industry anymore.
	It's not like a few well-meaning surgeons in porter cabins.
	This is a big industry and they need meat for the grinder.
	By 2050, it'll be bigger than Hong Kong.
	Yeah, it's insane.
	Especially as Chinese autocracy will have probably crushed Hong Kong's capitalist ways by then.
	Baron Von Warhawk says, History will not look favourably on the trans movement.
	I have no doubt that future generations will view it the same way we view lobotomy.
	Just like World War I had a broken generation, in 20 years we'll be hearing about the children's sacrifice on the altar of their parents' ego.
	These parents who chop up and pump their children full of drugs truly are scum.
	Yeah, I mean, obviously I've got maximum respect for transgender people, especially the ones beating women at weightlifting.
	I just think it takes real chutzpah to get out there in spandex and just so brazenly take medals off those birds.
	But yeah, totally agree, man.
	This part of it, this part of the trans stuff, this isn't biological males making sport more interesting.
	This is actually bad.
	Mutilating children, it might be controversial to say, but I think mutilating children is quite a bad thing.
	Not as cool as misogyny.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Misogyny is fun, but surgery on children, we should tread carefully.
	What else do we have?
	Robert Longshaw says, I've made this point before.
	Why would you give a four-year-old child the instructions to build IKEA furniture if you don't want them to build it?
	Why tell them about sex at all?
	That's a great point.
	Why would you tell them about it and put the idea in their minds?
	Questionnaires like, have you had anal sex this year?
	They're going to be like, well, what, should I be having it?
	You know what I mean?
	Jeez, where's the local grooming gang?
	Anyway...
	Ewan Baker says, I think they're transitioning their kids so much because they literally have nothing to talk about and are so uninteresting that they have to do it.
	The tattoos and piercings don't work anymore.
	Fair point.
	Everybody's looking at trying to become a talking point.
	Adrian Bradley says, read the Tavistock closure.
	The replacement clinics are supposed to be looking at this problem holistically, so addressing the underlying causes of dysphoria rather than just acting as a transitioning conveyor belt.
	That's good.
	Remains to be seen if that's how they operate in practice, but hopefully will lead to more people being treated by psychologists, psychiatrists for their depression, etc., rather than puberty blockers and transition surgeries.
	They have to be vigilant so they don't end up as copies of Tavistock.
	This is important because they're trying to ban conversion therapy.
	And conversion therapy, as we traditionally understand it, is somebody trying to psychologically convince someone that they're not gay.
	Whereas when it's applied to transitioning people, conversion therapy is seen as convincing them not to have surgery.
	So, in one, it's illegal to change the mind.
	In the other one, it's illegal to not change the body.
	It's so strange.
	They're very different things.
	And obviously, people should be open to psychological avenues for gender dysphoria.
	Because it's a feeling.
	It's also the least harmful way of dealing with it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	As far as we know, it doesn't sterilise you.
	It's also the least profitable.
	Talking therapies don't sterilise you.
	We should probably move on after this one.
	A paedophile was confronted in Liverpool last week.
	This is from Carl Gardiner.
	It was either the father of the child he was trying to meet up that turned up or one of those predator-hunter groups.
	Either way, the paedophile decided to stick a knife into his own throat.
	The police tried to use this incident as the excuse to bring stricter laws against paedophile hunters.
	Personally, I see this as a complete win.
	Yeah, what's wrong with that?
	The problem's solving itself, and the police are like, we can't have this.
	And I saw a video of a trans paedophile in America who the police let go because the paedophile hunter had misgendered them.
	So misgendering is seen as a higher crime.
	It is.
	It is according to the police.
	I love that grooming gang joke.
	Sounds like something Ricky Gervais would come up with.
	Anyway, sorry.
	On the floor on a man, so Robert Longshaw says, Ron may be the only fascist in recorded history that leaves you alone to get on with your life.
	Great point.
	Viva fascismo, eh?
	That's what it is.
	They say, Screwtape says how long until they change the definition of fascism to protect the regime?
	Leave me alone, bro.
	I don't know about that one.
	Carl Gardner says, these power outs in Cali must be a real headache to all the Bitcoin miners.
	Then again, Californians tend to have other types of miners to mine about.
	Anyway, goddammit.
	If you want a Bitcoin mine, though, I don't know why you'd be in California.
	I've thought about this.
	You go to Iceland, because then you don't have to pay for calling.
	You just have the air come in.
	Or you go to Siberia or something, where the cost of energy is zero.
	Yeah, and you've also got the cool.
	So, anyway.
	California seems like the worst possible place to do Bitcoin.
	It's constantly hot, and the electricity doesn't exist.
	Yeah.
	Just honourable mention, RhysMC says, FU Leo LaserQuest is great.
	Can't argue with that.
	What's LaserQuest?
	You'd love it.
	You'd run around with a little laser gun.
	Laser tag.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, right.
	Didn't know the name.
	Anyway, we're out of time on that note, so if you want to go to the LaserQuest, go and enjoy it.
	Otherwise, go to lozies.com, of course.
	Where would they find you?
	On my YouTube channel, Leo Kearse.
	I'm on Twitter and all that as well, but yeah, on YouTube, Leo Kearse.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.
	Thank you, and goodbye.

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