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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #525
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*intro music* Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 525 on the 15th, 16th I should say, of November.
I'm your host Harry, joined today by Leo.
Hello!
And today we're going to be covering Trump's announcement that he's going to be running for president in 2024.
We're going to be looking at the SNP turning Scotland into a banana republic, or turning...
It's already happened, really, hasn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
And it's more of a turnip republic, because we don't have bananas in Scotland.
Not until climate change kicks in.
The haggis republic?
No, haggis isn't a vegetable.
It's mashed up sheep's lung and stuff.
But yeah, we're a banana republic, but with terrible weather.
So we don't even get, you know, at least if you're in Uganda.
You don't get the Bahamas, you know?
Yeah, at least if you're in Uganda, you get a suntan.
I suppose so.
Wise words.
And also, finally, about how Canada is going full Black Mirror.
Before we get into the news, though, we've got some announcements.
First of all, we do have a premium live hangout happening today at 3.30, where Carl is going to be talking about Generation X versus Generation Z.
That's just going to be him on his own, just rambling and chatting about it, because he is part of Generation X, a disgusting generation if I've ever seen one.
And tomorrow we've also got another premium hangout live at about 3.30, talking about Biden's AI Bill of Rights.
So that will all be very, very interesting.
And as well, just for anybody who's interested, Connor and I have a video coming out today at 5 Comics Corner Part 2, talking about The Killing Joke and Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum.
So check that out when it's out.
Without any further ado, let's get into the news.
So, Trump's back.
Trump has made his glorious return and announced that he will, in fact, be running for president in 2024, something I'm sure we were all expecting to happen, but it's still very welcome news nonetheless.
Is it?
I mean, not if you want Republicans to win.
It's going to tear apart the Republican Party.
It might tear apart the Republican Party.
He's going to damage the chances of Ron DeSantis.
Will it?
Yeah, yeah, because he's already come up with a nickname for Ron DeSantis.
He calls him Ron DeSanctimonious.
I do disagree.
Which doesn't make any sense because he's not sanctimonious.
He's the opposite.
I was speaking about this earlier on this week.
I don't like Trump buying into the divisiveness, but still, Trump is one of the only people who's really anti-establishment, who's going to put himself for the front-runner of the Republican Party, so I still support that aspect of him being the only one who is willing and able to really go against the media and really go against a lot of narratives.
I disagree with the anti-establishment thing.
I think it's something that he's spun.
This guy's a billionaire.
This guy's like a long-term donor.
Sorry, I shouldn't derail your segment.
No, no, no.
It's an interesting discussion.
Just because he was part of the establishment, you could say, doesn't mean that it's not telling that the entire establishment comes out against him whenever he does anything.
And you can say he's part of the establishment, but the man has had a raid at Mar-a-Lago.
The man has been through two impeachments.
The man has had his name dragged through the mug.
People...
People who are part of the establishment often come across...
Look at the Ceausescus.
They were executed.
And they were part of the establishment.
Yeah, but the Ceausescus were bad guys.
Look, man, I love Trump for all his flaws.
There's nobody funnier than Donald Trump.
There's nobody I love hearing his voice more.
From a pure entertainment perspective, I think he's amazing.
But I don't think he's lost it.
I mean, the midterms showed he's lost his power.
Certainly some of the people that he was backing were not great.
Dr.
Oz, for instance, was an incredibly milquetoast, I've repeated it before, basically a mid-2000s Democrat candidate going against John Fetterman, who, despite the fact that he can't talk, that seems to be a benefit nowadays for Democrat politicians.
If you can't talk, great, all the better to just repeat the slogans.
Hasn't hurt Biden too much, being unable to talk or function as a human being.
Yeah, it keeps the people pulling the actual strings, you know.
It makes their job easier, I suppose.
But yes, Donald Trump has decided that he's going to throw his hat into the race after there was some doubt over whether he would, given the Republicans rather disappointing results in the midterms.
They were expecting a red wave.
Instead, it seemed to be more of a red fizzle.
People like Ron DeSantis did get massive, massive gains from the midterms.
But other places were not as good.
Before we go any further though, I'd like to draw your attention to a recent premium video that came out with Connor and Josh talking about the politics of the film Nightcrawler.
And this is particularly important right now because it's actually quite a decent example of how the news media manipulates events that happen to try and sell you a particular narrative.
And that is something that is going to be happening soon.
For the next two years, now that he's announced that he's going to be running in 2024.
And it's just a reminder that most of everyone working in the media, barring our upstanding selves, of course, is a psychopathic gremlin like Lou in Nightcrawler who's lying to you.
So, check that out if you'd like some more in-depth analysis of that particular film.
It's very, very good stuff.
But...
Anyway, so Donald Trump last night, as was supposed...
Well, on the 14th, as was supposed to happen, as he said he would, made a full speech, a full announcement that he was going to be running for the President of the United States again in 2024.
And there was a certain understatedness to this that I found watching through the whole thing, which was that Trump...
Did not come out entirely with the bluster.
There was plenty of the Trumpisms, there was plenty of the terribly sad, it's going to be terrific, all that sort of stuff.
But he wasn't coming out shouting, he wasn't coming out all guns blazing or anything.
Because he knows, if he's up against Biden, all he needs to really do is show that he can form a coherent sentence.
And if he can do it once, multiple times in a row, just to really slam dunk on Biden, really.
What's his track record of winning elections against Biden?
It's not great, but it doesn't help when you've got...
Is it 1-0?
It is 1-0 at the moment, but it doesn't help when you've got the entirety of the news media establishment against you and a sizable faction of your own party who are trying to maintain the establishment line still...
Working against you as well.
I mean, we had the Lincoln Project who were supposedly patriotic Republicans.
Well, it might do.
They are looking to try and drain the swamp.
But he did manage to beat the odds back in 2016 when everybody was still telling him that there was no chance he was going to be able to run against someone like Hillary.
So he's got a track record of going against the odds before as well.
He's won one election.
He has won one election.
So has Biden.
So, we'll see.
Well, Biden's been part of victory as his vice president.
Okay.
Yeah, but that was Barack Obama winning the election there.
Yeah, but Trump has won...
And also, we do have, at this point, two years of...
Well, almost two years of Biden's presidency, which has not been looking great.
And in fact, most of what he did...
During this speech was talk about how great things were comparatively under him, talk about how bad things are under Biden.
We've seen Biden's approval ratings.
They're not great.
The midterms did not turn out a great result for the Republicans, but they also didn't turn out a great result for the Democrats.
Even if it wasn't as good for the Republicans as it could have been, the Democrats still made losses on that.
They're no longer in control of the House of Representatives, for instance.
Alright, but moving on.
So he was talking about a lot of things throughout this, like around 20 minutes in, he's mentioning focus on climate change rather than the threat of nuclear war, which the Democrats are eager to be pushing.
He wants America first, prioritising American business and fair trade markets.
Yada, yada, yada.
He's talking about a lot of things that American people want to hear.
They want to hear that their jobs are being put first rather than offshoring a lot of business.
They want to hear that energy concerns are going to be addressed.
They want to basically hear that they're going to repeal two years of democratic incompetence.
And he ended the whole thing off with rather a good moment, one of the only moments where he really sort of got a bit more heated and got the whole crowd behind him.
This was a good way to end off the speech, I thought.
America's golden age is just ahead and together we will make America powerful again.
We will make America wealthy again.
We will make America strong again.
We will make America proud again.
We will make America safe again.
We will make America glorious again.
And we will make America great again.
Thank you very much.
God bless you all.
Thank you.
So he made that speech at Mar-a-Lago.
So he's obviously got the crowd stacked in his favour there.
But it is still good to see the inspiration that he can give to people.
We want the country to be great again.
We want it to be glorious again.
All those good things, which Biden has certainly not excelled at.
Even though he likes to fudge numbers and say, I've increased more jobs than ever.
despite the fact that they were coming off of the pandemic, which loads of people lost their jobs in.
It's really easy to make up those sorts of figures when you're coming out of a pandemic and an economic disaster and then immediately push the country into potentially another economic disaster.
Trump made a lot of policy announcements for what he would be doing as well there, saying that, for one, the most, potentially the most controversial one for a lot of people would be that he just explicitly called that if he was going to be made president again, he would call for the execution of drug dealers, saying, going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, get caught selling drugs, going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, get caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts because it's the I don't even know if the American public is ready for it, and he referred to Xi Jinping's China as a good example of this working.
This is the establishment candidate.
Wanting to give police loads of power to execute people.
As opposed to giving the police loads of power to not do anything and hand out aids for taking drugs in cities like San Francisco and other places.
As a libertarian, I prefer to make my own choices.
Well, I'm a bit mixed on that whole idea as well, just because I don't know how effective it would be given that the war on drugs, which I'm not too clued up on, but as far as I'm aware, the popular opinion seems that the war on drugs has been a massive waste of money and hasn't really shown any successes.
So there are some things, you know, I'm not always into everything that Trump is doing.
I just prefer him to the candidates and the democratic establishment that we've got now.
He's a lot more fun.
Oh, certainly he's a lot more fun.
And like I say, it is refreshing to hear someone who seems to understand what language they're speaking.
But they have tried to impeach him twice.
He keeps coming back.
Fox News reported on this and also reported a lot saying about some of the more controversial aspects of his ended presidency, the end of his first term, including talking about things like...
The claims of the rigged election and such.
That's Trump's words, not mine.
I'm not going to make any comment on something like that.
But this article does include a lot of positives about what America had under Trump, talking about the economy was strong under Trump's presidency, an increase in middle-class family income, lowest unemployment rate in half a century, and unprecedented job growth.
Stock market hitting record highs.
Trump worked to cut red tape and reduce regulations for American businesses and workers.
All of these positive things.
And controlling immigration.
Controlling immigration is a huge thing.
And it's interesting that some of the things that the Democrats really criticized when Trump was in power, such as building the border wall and really clamping down on illegal immigration, they've just quietly continued with.
Because it turns out they're actually really good ideas.
And now that illegal immigration has surged, they're really having to implement Trump's policies the way he wanted them.
And you can see with things like energy sovereignty.
So he warned Germany that a reliance on Russian gas was dangerous.
He mentions that in the speech he was talking about.
I think it was like 75% of all of Germany's gas was coming from Russia.
He said, you know, I warned them back in the day.
I said, this is going to really screw you over when it comes down the line.
They openly laughed at him.
Yeah, I remember reading about that at the time.
They were just like, oh, you're crazy, Trump.
Nothing's ever going to happen.
Geopolitics is always known for its stability, Trump.
Yeah, yeah.
Deals with dictators never go wrong.
Yeah, but, you know, there's, once again, plenty to criticise Trump over.
For one, I would say you could criticise his response to the COVID pandemic, going along with locking people down and allowing all the stimulus checks and all that sort of stuff.
But...
Here are the policies that he put forward, some of the other ones, that Conor, my colleague, my good colleague, happily put out on his own Twitter, along with some suggestions for other policies that he could put forward.
So these were the ones.
Reinstate and backplay all unemployed by Biden's vaccine mandates.
Potentially that would be a good one.
Election reform, same-day paper ballots only, voter ID and signature verification.
So this would be there to tackle potentially, once again, YouTube, potential corruption within the election process.
And even beyond that, I don't know if you've seen in the midterms, there was once again problems with the Maricopa County voting machines.
The way they were collecting the ballots, there were lots of people having to be turned away.
Coincidentally, coincidentally, YouTube, I saw many videos of people at these election stations saying, well, you can vote Democrat, but for whatever reason, the machines aren't accepting Republican votes right now.
Yeah.
Very convenient.
And you can see, I mean, I'm not saying there's any voter fraud or anything like that in American elections, but in Russia, they use electronic voting terminals to blatantly, obviously, falsify votes.
It's much easier than, you know, if you've got a bit of paper with a mark on it, it's harder to feed that through a system that miscounts it.
He also said strictly that they needed to have it so that the counts were done by the end of the election day.
None of this.
We're still waiting back on the results two weeks from now.
We're still looking down the back of the couch.
Yeah, we've lost a few votes here and there.
Oh, look, we found a big bag of them.
Oh, they're all Democrat.
What a surprise.
Once again, this is just coincidental.
I'm just using that as a hypothetical example.
But even if you want to say that, yeah, it's just completely coincidental, these machines seem to be prone to malfunctions.
They seem to be prone to a lot of errors that slow down the process and make it more confusing and do give rise to a lot more suspicion on the voting process.
So even just to get rid of all of those allegations, it would be a better idea.
He also put forward the idea of congressional term limits, ban on congressmen and their families using insider knowledge to trade stocks, Pelosi, for instance, which could be very beneficial to try and reduce the ability of career politicians to manipulate their positions to benefit themselves and themselves only.
Return of protectionist trade policies against China.
Death penalty for drug dealers, as I mentioned.
China.
Yeah, and Conor had some other suggestions for Team Trump, which was, number one, ban TikTok, which would actually go pretty well hand in hand with the protectionist against China.
And they're talking about doing that, I think, even under the Democrats, they're talking about doing that.
Because it is created by the Chinese Communist Party to sow degeneracy and poison the nation's youth, the West's youth.
Yeah, and you just need to look at the West and how many of the youth are getting all of these ideas off of TikTok to see that.
And if you look at TikTok in China, it's all like algebra and family values.
It's a completely different platform.
Oh, if only we had Chinese TikTok.
Okay.
And he also suggests no federal grants or contracts for companies using ESG scores.
This would, of course, cut the knees off of the World Economic Forum and BlackRock being able to enforce wokeism to companies.
Great idea.
He suggested tax breaks for US citizens having children, and I... Amended this, and he did tweet out my amendment, which was married US citizens having children, because otherwise you might just be encouraging single motherhood and people having as many children as possible to just get the benefits of it rather than actually have a family, rather than raise the children because you want to raise a good family.
So that could be a good adaptation there.
Mass incarceration of BLM rioters.
Well, I mean...
They have still got a lot of people from Jan 6 incarcerated under trespassing charges, so applying those rules fairly there.
Instead of having a two-tier justice system.
Yeah.
Indict the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden.
That explains itself.
This is where we're getting into some of the libertarian elements of Conor's thinking right here.
Abolish the Federal Reserve and Department of Education.
Well, I mean, they're both just captured institutions, really.
The Federal Reserve was never a good idea.
Dismiss the officer who killed Ashley Babbitt on January 6th and a condolence payment to her family.
I mean, that makes sense.
And then mass pardons for Jan 6th.
This is just Conor's wishful thinking here.
And reparations from China for the Wuhan lab leak, which, once again, is just up in the air.
But it's hard for the average working voter to not see the appeal of Trump.
And this was something that came out the other day when Dave Chappelle appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Did you see this clip?
Yeah, yeah.
This fantastic clip.
Dave Chappelle, of all people, put forward the genius reason why it is that people love Trump so much.
And just play the clip.
And I'm watching the news now, they're declaring the end of the Trump era.
Now, okay, I can see how in New York you might believe this is the end of his era.
I'm just being honest with you, I live in Ohio amongst the poor whites.
A lot of you don't understand why Trump was so popular, but I get it, because I hear it every day.
He's very loved.
And the reason he's loved is because people in Ohio have never seen somebody like him.
He's what I call an honest liar.
I'm not joking right now.
He's an honest liar.
That first debate, that first debate, I've never seen anything like it.
I've never seen a white male billionaire screaming at the top of his lungs.
This whole system is rigged, he said.
And across the stage was a white woman, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, sitting over there looking at him like, no, it's not.
I said, now, wait a minute, bro.
It's what he said.
And the moderator said, well, Mr.
Trump, If, in fact, the system is rigged, as you suggest, what would be your evidence?
Remember what he said, bro?
He said, I know the system is rigged because I use it.
I said, God damn!
And then he pulled out an Illuminati membership card and chopped a round of cocaine up and got it right into the table.
No one ever heard someone say something that true.
And then Hillary Clinton shot and punched me into taxes.
He said, this man doesn't pay his taxes.
He shot right back.
that makes me smart.
And then he said, if you want me to pay my taxes, then change the tax code.
But I know you won't, because your friends and your donors enjoy the same tax breaks that I do.
And with that, my friends, a star was born.
No one had ever seen anything like that.
No one had ever seen somebody come from inside of that house, outside, and tell all the commoners, we are doing everything that you think we are doing inside of that house.
They just went right back in the house and started playing the game again.
I love Dave Chappelle's comedy, but that's probably the best and most succinct explanation of why Trump was so popular in the first place that I have ever seen.
And the fact that it happened on Saturday Night Live, can you imagine the producers screeching behind the scenes?
Loads of writers walked out.
They refused to take part in that episode, which is why it was one of the funniest episodes.
That makes sense.
I mean, Dave Chappelle's been very controversial on a number of topics recently, and something as woke as Saturday Night Live must have been furious.
But speaking of the furious media, immediately everybody starts to come out and hit out against it.
Joe Biden felt the need to just tweet out...
His social media manager, intern, felt the need to tweet out Donald Trump failed America with this lovely little propaganda video saying that he basically attacked democratic policies which were definitely going to work.
Affordable Health Care Act, I assume, was about as effective as the Inflation Reduction Act at doing what it was...
Stated to try and do.
So, you know, you can just ignore that sort of thing.
Jen Psaki chimed in because Donald Trump is still under investigation from the Mar-a-Lago stuff for his potential mishandling of public records after he left the office.
And Jen Psaki, in a tweet, felt the need to come out and say, John, if you don't mind moving to the next one, please.
Thank you.
For anyone who needs to hear this, Trump announced he's running for president, does not have a legal impact on investigations.
No one at the Department of Justice watched that speech And ripped up all the work they've been pursuing.
Nobody expected them to, Jen.
We know that for the next two years, the smear machine is going to go into absolute overdrive.
So if anything, I'm sure the Department of Justice has decided to kick it up a notch in their investigation to try and find anything and everything.
And it's not a good look for the Democrats to be raiding his home and to be pursuing, you know, such an obvious two-tier system where anything, anything that anybody on the right does is scrutinised and jumped on and pushed.
They try and push it, like, get them on anything.
Whereas anybody on the left, you know, or Antifa or whatever, or Black Lives Matter rioters or whatever.
They're able to go out and destroy cities and do whatever they want.
Hillary Clinton can mishandle anything.
Any information that she wants with no pushback.
Hunter Biden laptop scandal, that just completely gets suppressed.
And I think when people talk about elections being stolen, they mean that rather than actual falsified votes.
The Hunter Biden laptop scandal could have really tipped the election.
Yeah, and then we got the nonce defenders at the Lincoln Project out in force saying, tonight as you watch an orange-smeared circus clown gear up to take another stab at ending our democracy, remember this, when the Republican Party had a choice between Trump or America, they chose Trump over and over and over again.
I don't...
I don't know what that means other than they want to destroy our democracy and I don't think anybody takes that phrase seriously anymore.
Occupy Democrats decided to say that Liz Cheney saying that he won't be present again means that I guess we just won.
Democrats win.
Liz Cheney said that she shouldn't like Donald Trump.
Oh great, break out the champagne boys!
Dances on Donald Trump's political grave.
It must have accidentally been some kind of resurrection dance because he's back in full force.
NPR immediately went into propaganda shill mode and the New York Times exploded.
They absolutely exploded because in the same morning they came out with not one, not two, not three.
Move to the next link for me please, John.
Not four, not five, but six.
Six articles!
All in the same morning about how Trump is evil, how Trump is going to try and destroy America.
We don't need to let Trump play the underdog.
Trump is finally finished.
Yada, yada, yada, yada.
This is what we expect.
But as Leo mentioned, we know that there's going to be massive pushback, not just from all of this, but because of the fact that they just admitted...
Immediately after the 2020 election, after Biden was signed in, the secret history of the shadow campaign saved the 2020 election.
There are dark, dark forces at work right now that are going to make sure that whatever America wants, it doesn't get.
Yeah.
And also, I mean, like, people talk about elections being bought.
It used to be people on the left who complained about, you know, so the Republicans were in the pocket of big business and stuff.
Now it's completely flipped, and the Democrats vastly outspend Republicans on elections.
Well, I'm sure the left back then were probably right that a lot of Republicans were in the pocket of big business.
The problem was, for them, not that that happened in the first place, just that it wasn't them getting all of the money...
That's the problem.
I'll apply your principles to you, but then when it comes to me, mate, everything's on the table.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
And one of the interesting things that came out recently that was covered yesterday on the podcast with Dan and Callum was the corruption with the FTX. Did you hear about this?
That was ridiculous.
And it's mad that it collapsed basically the day after.
The election.
I know.
And then, you know, the timing couldn't be more perfect, but they're funneling funds back to the Democrat party.
Yeah, so just a very quick cliff notes to end this segment off.
You should really go and check this out, because Dan did a very good job explaining all of this.
But basically what was happening, FTX is just another crypto coin run by this man on the left here, a Sam Bankman.
Who was running the whole thing.
He's a massive Dem donor.
So what was happening was the Democrats were taking taxpayer money, sending it off to Ukraine in the form of all of these donations.
They've got billions of dollars at a time.
And then Ukraine was taking some of that money and investing by buying some of FTT, the crypto coin that FTX was selling.
And then, of course, the profits made from all of that were going straight back to Sam Bankman, who was then giving all of that money back to the Dems.
So it's a ridiculous Ponzi scheme going on.
And we're talking huge amounts of money.
Huge amounts of money.
And also, as soon as all of this started to come out, as soon as FTX started to collapse, all of a sudden, the customer funds, the public funds that were being used to buy all of these coins, suddenly started to get drained by unknown people through some backdoor that had been implemented in the whole system.
So a massive corruption scandal, all on behalf of the Democrats.
Remember...
Donald Trump gets impeached over one phone call with Zelensky.
The Democrats then used Zelensky and this guy to funnel taxpayer money back around to fund their own campaigns.
Not a peep.
Not an absolute peep.
So, as controversial as he is, as much as there might be some pushback against it, Trump coming back is very interesting, and we'll see where it goes, because at the very least, what you can say is he cares about America, and he wants it to succeed.
I mean, that's one way of looking at it.
I think he's a fun guy, but I think he cares about Donald Trump.
Well, yes, but Donald Trump cares about America is the thing that he cares about.
He likes that image, so if it means that by promoting that image, if it means he has to make America successful, then goddammit, he's going to do it!
Brilliant.
So moving on to the SNP... No.
Yes.
John?
All right, here we go.
No, that's my segment.
Here we go.
Oh, here we go.
Right, brilliant.
So, yeah, basically, a conundrum of the SNP. The SNP are the party that controls Scotland.
They've been in power for 14 years.
Basically, it was devolution set up under Tony Blair, the last Labour administration, and they...
Devolution was supposed to devolve parliaments to Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
They devolved parliaments where the voting system was set up so that you wouldn't have one party in control.
That didn't work out.
One party is in control.
Devolution was designed to have governments that focus on this nitty-gritty day-to-day running stuff.
It was supposed to be the more local and independent governance.
Yeah, yeah.
And it hasn't worked out like that.
Instead, we've got the SNP who have one message.
They want independence from the UK for Scotland.
They want Scotland to somehow, you know, up and leave from the UK. There's going to be a hard border.
So they can rejoin the EU. If they can rejoin the EU, then we'll have a different currency in Scotland.
There'll be a hard border.
It's an absolute nonsense.
Given that 66% of Scotland's economy, exports and everything, are done with the rest of the UK, it would be disastrous.
I mean, people talk about Brexit being bad for the economy or whatever.
I don't think it's been that bad, but Scotland leaving the UK would just be...
And it's not like Scotland's got an incredibly good economy to start off with.
You know what I mean?
We're not...
We're not like...
We don't have London.
Glasgow is a prosperous trade centre, OK? Yeah.
So a conundrum of the S&P's rule is that they get so much UK taxpayers' money.
So Westminster gives them £41 billion a year, goes to the Scottish government to pay for all this stuff.
And, you know...
That's a big heroin bill right there.
Well, yeah, I mean, that's one of the things that...
I mean, if we were going to do a trade deal with other countries after leaving the UK, the first one would probably be with Afghanistan to bring those heroin costs down.
But the amount spent per head on the population in Scotland absolutely dwarfs the amount spent per head in the rest of the UK. So for every £100 spent on somebody in England, £126 is spent on somebody in Scotland.
So it's 26% higher per head Well, Scotland used to be notorious for among the UK Pumping out philosophers and intellectuals like Adam Smith was Scottish.
Leo Kearse.
Yeah, Leo Kearse.
A lot of the American industrialists from the 19th century who had Scottish roots and heritage.
Scotland used to be great.
Yeah, Adam Smith, you know, so many great thinkers, broadcasters, Andrew Neil, people at that.
And yeah, not anymore.
Now it's become this parochial, inward-looking country.
But what's happening to all this money?
We spoke about the Democrats laundering taxpayers' money so it goes back to them in the form of donations.
Is it happening in Scotland?
It wouldn't be out of character for the SNP. We've had various SNP ministers involved in fraud.
Natalie McGarry, who's an SNP minister, was jailed for embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups.
And this is part of a culture across the SNP. So the party was also accused of raising £600,000 from supporters who believed their donations would be spent on a new independence campaign and that money was allegedly spent elsewhere by the party with Police Scotland launching an investigation last summer.
I mean, that's small potatoes compared to the fraud alleged in a BBC documentary.
So there's a £97 million contract for ferries awarded to Jim McCall, who's a close pal of the SNPs.
It's since ballooned into £150 million of taxpayers' money and rising.
And it's five years past the deadline and there's still no ferries.
This was just for two ferries.
Jesus Christ.
And they've spent £150 million.
It's five years past the deadline.
I'm assuming whoever organised this has got a spot lined up for I'm a Celebrity, similar to Matt Hancock.
Oh man, whoever organised this, there's allegations of slush funds and all the rest of it, and dodgy dealings and documents going missing.
But interestingly, Nicholas Sturgeon...
She was so embarrassed by the fact that these ferries haven't been built.
She posed in front of the...
If we scroll down and look at the picture, she posed in front of these ferries.
If you look at those windows in that ferry, if you scroll up a little bit, those windows, they're not actually glass.
Those windows have been painted on.
I was thinking either they're blacked out or what's...
They've painted the windows!
Is the rest of it made of cardboard as well?
What's going on?
This ferry doesn't float and its windows are painted on.
I mean, like...
What on earth?
This would make Kim Jong-un blush.
I mean, why not just make it paper-mashing, put it on a green screen?
Moving on, there are rumours of businesses receiving government grants and then donating to the SNP, either directly or through staff and directors.
So the stand comedy clubs, which I'm banned from...
We're one of...
You're a very naughty boy, Leo.
It's because I criticised the SMP. The stand actually came out and said they blacklisted me because I'm not funny enough.
It's like, man, you saw the roasted Count Dankula?
Yeah, it was a good set.
Am I funny enough?
I mean, man, well, maybe you need to...
If you need to calibrate it, go to the stand.
Go to the stand.
See that abysmal garbage they put on.
All these women.
All these women with those, you know, pointy corner glasses.
I had the misfortune of turning on a mainstream comedy programme the other day, and it was...
It was like attending a eulogy.
Honestly.
It's like, oh, you're supposed to clap at the end.
Like, oh, yes, I agree with this opinion.
Oh, how very good.
What a good opinion.
It's like, how about telling a joke?
You know what I mean?
But anyway, I'm getting away from the point.
They stand.
So they run the main comedy clubs in Scotland.
They're owned by the SNP. Oh.
So, Tommy Shepard, who's an SNP member of Parliament, founded them, still owns them.
And that means, you might have noticed that no comedians in Scotland, apart from me and a, you know, there's...
In fact, I think I'm the only stand-up who really criticises the SNP. All the comedians give the SNP an easy ride.
Even though they're such a nefarious, corrupt, failing regime, they give them an easy ride.
Because if they criticise them, that's the stand gone.
And also probably spots on Scottish TV gone.
You know what I mean?
That's why I had to move to England, the land of the free, for my career.
But yeah, the stand are one of only three arts groups and venues in Scotland to receive the maximum COVID relief grant of £250,000 out of 203 applicants.
I mean, surely it's just a coincidence that they're owned by the SNP and that the government award Free and fair elections, my friend.
And even successful businesses receive grants.
So Brewdog, which is a shining success story in Scottish business, received over a million pounds from the Scottish government.
I mean, why do they need it if they're so successful?
They're not struggling.
I mean, is it a coincidence that many of these businesses support the SNP, donate to them and help with their political campaigning?
I drink Brewdog, so I'm annoyed that they're...
Being supported by the SNP. Bloody hell.
Man, you've got to start drinking some pro-union lager.
Or Tenant.
At least drink Tenant's.
That's the classic.
What base stales are there?
I think Tenant's is pretty base.
Because BrewDog, we're the sort of independent updogs and stuff.
And they try to tweet it.
Punk IPA. That's right, we're punk rock.
Oh yeah, punk trademarked.
You know what I mean?
Like, come on.
That's not punk.
Unless you're like, you know...
Dying age 27.
You're not punk.
But yeah, here's Brewdog hosting an SNP event, supporting the SNP. And Brewdog, actually, don't just support the SNP. They go out to bat against the SNP's political opponents.
So the next tab shows...
They've got a beer.
They launched a beer to protest against the UK Parliament.
Yeah.
So yeah, maybe that's why they're getting all this.
Hello, my name is Unelected Boris.
He was elected though.
What?
He was totally elected.
In fact, he was a lot more elected than Rishi Sunak.
People actually voted for a Boris-led Tory government.
He was far more elected than May, Sunak, everyone.
And the SNP are happy to take money from the enemies of the UK. My enemy is my friend.
This attitude goes back to the formation of the Scottish National Party.
The former leader, Arthur Donaldson, actually allied himself with Hitler and planned on conducting attacks within Britain to help Hitler win the war.
So the SNP have always been subversives then?
Yeah, yeah.
You could say they're anti-establishment.
Oh, yeah.
But yeah, I mean, this is the roots of the Scottish National Party.
You know, people talk about nationalism in England as a bad thing.
So the British National Party, everybody's like, oh my god, that's all gaminy racist and all the rest of it.
But for some reason, the SNP, the exact same thing as the Scottish National Party...
Everybody's like, these are brave freedom fighters for independence.
That's the point though, isn't it?
It's like left-wing soy nationalism as opposed to strong right-wing based nationalism.
they're really just two cheeks of the same bum.
'Cause man, the SNP, even though they sort of dress themselves up with all this woke stuff, they're incredibly anti-immigration when it comes to English people.
There's SNP supporters at the border during COVID screaming at English cars to go home, waving banners and stuff.
Can you imagine if somebody did that at Dover? - What would I expect from savages?
LAUGHTER Listen, we used to run this country.
That's true.
Not anymore.
No, man, I worked in government, I worked in consulting, stuff in the policing, and man, it was mad the amount of Scottish people who, you know, government used to be full of Scots, and now, because the SNP's parochial, it's sort of pulled everyone, it's very inward-looking, and people don't leave Scotland as much.
But yeah, the...
The former leader of the SNP wanted Hitler to defeat the British and then wanted himself to be installed as the leader of a Scottish puppet Nazi government.
This is all documented stuff.
It's crazy, but it's documented.
More recently, Alex Salomon, another former leader, He had a long-running show on Russia Today, which earned his company at least £330,000.
Russia Today obviously is the state media of Russia, so he pushes messages approved by the Kremlin.
So he's obviously taking money to weaken the West, weaken Britain.
That's Russia's aim in that.
But, I mean, this is the sort of large-scale malfeasance.
It draws comparisons with Banana Republics, but it's the lower-level stuff that shows how grubby and corrupt the whole organisation is.
So they funnel public cash into projects that line the pockets of the same politicians organising them.
So Angus Robertson, he's the Scottish Culture Secretary, and he's also an author.
So he wrote this book on Vienna, and he was given top billing at a literary event that was given £30,000 by Creative Scotland.
So that's a government body under his control.
So, essentially, I mean, that's a government body that's under his control funding a literary event that then gives him top billing.
I mean, imagine using your influence and power as a government minister to play at being a literary giant.
You know what I mean?
That's just insane.
That's like if my dad ran live at the Apollo and I made him...
Put me on.
Which I would do, obviously.
But I'm not pretending to be a nice person.
But, I mean, this goes deeper.
So under the direction of the SNP Creative Scotland dish out grants to artists of tens of millions of pounds, and the bulk of its funding, so £63 million, comes from the Scottish government.
So there's a clear incentive for Creative Scotland to fund artists who promote the SNP's agenda, whether that's, you know, independence, Gaelic speaking, hating on, you know, the...
Hating the English.
Hating the English or Westminster's government.
Loving Humza Yusuf for some reason.
Yeah.
White.
White.
Oh man, there's a clip.
Humza Yusuf.
He stood up in the Scottish Parliament and he listed all the people in Scottish business and politics that are white and he's like...
White.
White.
It's like Scotland's 96% white.
Would you go to Uganda and be like, oh my God, look at all these black politicians.
This is terrible.
It's like Scotland, I'm sorry, it's not that attractive a destination.
If you get into the country at Dover, you're not like, oh man, I can't wait till I get to Motherwell.
Here we go, Inverness, here we come.
Yeah, there we go.
But, yeah, the S&P also spent millions of taxpayers' pounds on adverts on STV, which is the Scottish equivalent of ITV. And in the Scottish media, this includes £2.5 million just on Facebook ads, millions more on TV and print media advertising.
So they've got a clear influence over the Fourth Estate.
So, you know...
The media are supposed to hold the government to account and expose the wrongdoings, but there's an obvious incentive for them not to because of the threat of having all this advertising revenue shut down.
And you can see STV have done very little to investigate the SNP. They give them a very easy ride.
And a lot of the good investigations have come from either national newspapers, such as the Daily Mail, or from the BBC. So BBC Scotland have done some good work exposing...
So it's not just about money.
Also, the SNP's legislation they try and bring through shows that they don't care about democracy and freedom of speech.
Their desire for control comes right down to the personal level.
So they've repeatedly tried and sometimes succeeded to force through legislation that gives government the power to detain or punish citizens over their speech and their opinions, and even tried to make children the responsibility of the state rather than parents.
So they had this Named Persons Act.
It got repealed.
It didn't go through.
It got blocked.
But it basically meant that there'd be a named person.
Every child in Scotland would have a named person in the government who'd be responsible for them.
Not the parents.
Okay, that is very dystopian.
I wasn't aware of that.
That's really weird.
And it would also give the government the power to spy on parents to make sure they're doing a good job.
Well, it was definitely heirs of the Soviet era where you'd have the children dobbing their own families in and then getting awarded for that by the government.
Yeah, totally, totally.
So, you know, it was described as a snooper's chart.
And given the government the power to break up families, I mean, I think, you know, in almost all cases, parents are the best advocates for their own children, not, you know, some state after acting.
Faceless bureaucrat.
Exactly, or somebody with an agenda.
You know, perhaps you've got parents who are anti-SMP, campaign against the SNP. Oh, can't have that.
So then the government could go in and really mess with their family and screw them up, break up the family, take the children off them.
So that's an obvious abusive power that could be handed to them.
That luckily got scrapped.
But the hate crime bill didn't get scrapped.
It was successfully passed into law.
It creates a new offence of stirring up hatred.
So it criminalises speech that is considered insulting.
So, and it's all based on perception.
It's very, you know, vaguely worded.
So, yeah, if I consider you, if I perceive you to be stirring up hatred, doesn't have to be against me, against somebody else, I can be like, well, this is, and I can report you.
So it's obviously, you know, mainly just used by...
It's a nice big grey area so that you can just pull whatever you want.
If I remember correctly as well, this went even further because you could be convicted over something said over the dinner table.
Yep.
Under British law and in Western liberal democracies, your own home is your private bastion.
So under this law, say you crack a joke over the dinner table, your child goes into school, tells it to someone else, a teacher overhears, your child can be dragged in for interrogation.
You can be prosecuted for that thing that you've said over the dinner table.
It's very, very, very sinister.
And when it was...
I actually ran for election against the architect of this bill, Hamza Youssef, who's now the health secretary.
And at the time I said, look, this could make comedy illegal.
This could have a really damaging effect on the arts.
Because when we go up on stage, we're always offended.
The whole point of...
Most comedy is offensive to someone.
There's got to be a butt of the joke, right?
Yeah, there's a butt of the joke.
We can't all be just making jokes about ourselves.
Sometimes we want to talk about what's happening in society.
And I was branded ridiculous, but the Pleasant cited hate speech legislation is a reason they had to de-platform.
they had to cancel Jerry Sadowitz because of the stuff he says on stage.
So it's already happening.
It's having this stultifying effect on the arts.
And I don't think we'll get comedians like Jerry Sadowitz coming up again.
And Jerry Sadowitz, he also got in trouble for getting his penis out on stage.
And for some reason, when Jordan Gray does the exact same thing on Channel 4...
Oh, the trans one.
Yeah, it's lauded as, oh, this is so brave and progressive.
How come it's not brave and progressive when Jerry Sadowitz gets his knob out?
Is it because he didn't have a pair of tits to go with it?
It's because he didn't say he was trans before he did.
Yeah, there you go.
So I am trans and I'm going to get mine.
No!
But yeah, and also there's the gender ideology.
So the Scottish government, they're seeing a lot of pushback against this from within their own party.
But they really want to bring through self-ID, which means anybody can just identify as a woman and then you get access to not just changing rooms and women-only spaces and gyms and things like that, but things like Rape Crisis Centre.
In fact, I think the Rape Crisis Centre, Shouldn't laugh, but there's a rape crisis centre in Scotland that's actually run by a biological male who says he's a woman.
So if you're a woman who wants refuge, which is generally what refuges are for, and you go there...
You're great about this man.
You do kind of want a woman there.
You kind of want a woman there.
And female prisons, anybody can get access to female prisons.
A man can get access to female prisons in Scotland just by saying, under these rules, just by saying, I'm a woman.
And we've seen there was, I can't remember the name, but there was a bloke who committed all these terrible sex offences.
Came to trial.
He's like, I'm a woman.
Get sent to a woman's prison so he can continue his convictions.
And also, there's another incentive for male sex offenders to transition and change their, you know, identify as a woman, because it erases your name.
So all of a sudden, you're known as Susan instead of Fred.
So if anybody Googles your name, your previous crimes don't come up.
That's true.
So, yeah, I mean, it's terrible, terrible ideology.
And anybody who speaks out against it gets the full power of the police thrown at them.
So Marion Miller is a gender-critical feminist.
She tweeted a picture of a suffragette ribbon.
So, you know, a symbol of feminism.
And she was...
Somebody perceived this to be transphobic, and they said, you know, it looks like a noose, so, you know, this is a weapon.
So the police just...
I spoke to a journalist who actually went along to her hearing and she was flanked when she came out of the court.
She's flanked by all these police officers, just the biggest, burliest police officers.
This is just a middle-aged woman with two kids who's worried about women's rights being eroded.
She tweeted a picture of a suffragette ribbon.
Man, that's not a crime.
That's not transphobic.
I mean, it was finally thrown out of court.
But just the whole process she had to go through traumatised her children, traumatised her.
And it shows, it was a signal from the SNP that, like, we can, you know, we don't care about winning the case.
We can intimidate you.
We can have you arrested.
We can have you hauled before the judge.
We can terrify your children.
And just two days ago, somebody was thrown out of the Scottish Parliament for wearing a suffragette-coloured scarf.
So, I saw this and I saw a lot of people making the joke of, oh, I guess men do get to determine what women can wear.
After all, congrats!
Patriarchy's back on, boys!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought the patriarchy would be more fun than this.
I know, right?
I didn't know I had to get a dress and go through surgery for the patriarchy to be reinstalled.
Come on!
So, yeah.
But the whole apparatus of government is being centralised and brought under SMP control.
So, Police Scotland.
Scotland used to have different police forces all across Scotland.
Instead of that, they've been centralised and brought into Police Scotland, which, obviously, when you centralise something, it makes it much easier to control.
You don't have all these heads of the Hydra.
You've just got one person you need to influence, and also their office is right next to yours.
So that's straight out from the authoritarian playbook.
Also, the Lord Advocate in Scotland is the head of the Scots State Prosecution Service.
So the equivalent of the head of the CPS, Keir Starmer's old job when he ignored Savile and grooming gangs.
So the equivalent in Scotland of that is also a minister of the Scottish government and acts as its chief legal advisor.
So if anybody brings a case, if there's a criminal case brought against the Scottish government, it's being brought by a government minister and the government's legal advisor.
I mean, that's an obvious conflict of interest right there.
I'm going to be honest, this is genius politics if you do want to just be in complete control of everything.
They've manoeuvred their way into just complete dominance.
So, you know...
You've got to respect that at least.
I kind of do.
I mean, I'll just rattle through some of their failures as well.
So drugs, we've got three and a half times higher drug deaths in Scotland.
And it's not because Scottish people are lightweights.
We can really take a big hit of smack, but we're still dying a lot.
You're getting them George Floyd doses, are you?
Yeah.
A lot of it is down to S&P policy.
So they've got this minimum alcohol unit pricing.
So alcohol has to be a minimum of 50 pence a unit.
So previously if people wanted to get blotto, which you do in Scotland because it's horrible and grey, you can't go outside, so you want to just drink.
But previously you get cheap cider.
Now you can't get cheap cider because there's minimum alcohol unit pricing.
So it's led to surges in...
In Bookfast.
Illegal drugs, because all of a sudden they become more economically viable, and also surges in Buckfast, which despite its reputation of being a chav drink, is actually pretty expensive.
And the trouble with Buckfast, man, it was banned where I grew up, because it's full of caffeine.
I've had some interesting times on Buckfast.
Yeah, chipped a tooth on Buckfast.
Yeah, I mean, that's the minimum injury you're going to get on Buckfast.
The trouble with Buckfast is it's full of sugar, caffeine, taurine.
It's like a mad energy drink, but it's also got loads of booze.
And it's made by monks in Devon.
And it's made by monks in Devon.
For some reason, God is sending this syrup to us.
God himself is punishing the Scots.
He's seen what we're doing and he's decided to punish us.
I mean, I don't know.
I'd rather have a plague of frogs, to be honest.
But yeah, Buckfast, it means it's got so much caffeine and stuff in it that you'll be absolutely hammered drunk.
But the caffeine will be keeping you up and you'll still be running around getting in trouble.
Um...
Education policy we mentioned before.
So maths and science are at record lows.
And also the education policy.
I mean, every aspect of government policy in Scotland is used to advance the SNP's agenda.
So, for example, the SNP fund...
Higher education, university education for Scottish students, but only if they stay and study in Scotland.
And some people say, oh, this is so kind and noble that they're, you know, altruistic that they're paying Scottish students to study.
It's like, why don't they pay them to study in England then?
You know, especially seeing as that's where the money's coming from.
Like, why don't they spend that money in England?
The reason is they want to keep a generation of Scottish young people in Scotland instead of travelling down England and mixing with English people and seeing that, you know...
Some of yous are alright, you know what I mean?
Yeah, some of us.
They're trying to stop that sort of intermingling across the UK and create this sort of parochial, inward-looking generation stuff.
We only want to mix with the Browns, thank you very much, is what the SNP is saying.
Yeah, pretty much essentially.
They want high immigration, but not English immigration, you know what I mean?
So yes, it's a bribe to Scottish youth and it creates that sort of inward looking state.
Also, parts of Scotland have got the lowest life expectancy in the UK.
And we've absolutely failed on environmental policy, despite Sturgeon always flying to COP27 to take loads of selfies with Justin Trudeau or whoever.
Also, Scotland's got loads of sex offenders.
So there's Derek Mackay.
He was one of Sturgeon's closest allies in the SNP.
He was caught sending 270 unwanted text messages to a 16-year-old boy, calling him cute and saying, these messages are just between us.
It's just our little secret.
Just like a cartoon pedophile from the 70s.
Did he also have an ice cream van that you rocked up in?
Yeah, well, that's what I miss.
I miss paedophiles who put some effort in.
At least you got some ice cream out of it.
Or you got to look at some puppies.
I mean, there was something there.
Because, you know, the old days, the 80s were pretty dismal to be a kid.
So, you know, all right.
You got nonced, but you got some sweets.
So the good with the bad.
But now they don't even do that.
It's all, you know, text messages and stuff.
But yeah, he was also the finance minister who signed through that terrible ferry deal.
Also Alex Salmond again, so his own QC, he was up, he was hauled before the courts on sex pestery charges.
He got off of them.
Not that he didn't go off.
I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
His own QC described him as a sex pest and an objectionable bully.
Salman himself said what he did wasn't assault, it was sleepy cuddles.
Which is somehow worse.
Did you give him that line?
Sleepy cuddles.
All the people he was accused of assaulting were people he worked very closely with.
But if you look at him, he's not built for a long chase.
He's built for grabbing people who come near him.
And yeah, more recently the SNP are trying to abolish juries in rape trials, which if you know the details of the Alex Salmond case that we can't talk about, the SNP really tried to stitch him up, but we can't mention anything that goes wrong or will be sued for contempt of court and jailed for contempt of court as has happened with some people.
But it's worth going on the internet and searching and finding out what really happened because it's a real House of Cards thing.
It's crazy.
But now they want to abolish jury trials and rape cases, so just a judge decides.
The judge is obviously more at risk of being under S&P control.
But yeah, devolution is meant to create parliaments that focus on local issues, using local knowledge to deliver better services.
But in Scotland, it's created a satellite state that the battles against Westminster, you know, bleeds Westminster dry for money through the Barnet formula.
They get all that extra billion, 41 billion pounds, you know, way more than is sort of, than is fair if you look at the balance across Britain.
And they just bang a drum for this single issue, independence.
So we give them £41 billion, is that yearly again?
Yeah, and it goes up every year.
So that they can propagandise that the English are the worst things that ever happened to the human race.
Exactly, and they spend a lot of that money trying to destroy the United Kingdom.
So I really don't understand why it's out.
If this was any other...
If this was a council, it'd be brought into special measures.
I think with the SNP, we need to open the books, have a look at where all this money is going, and really clean the house in Scotland, because it's turning into a banana republic, but with terrible weather.
All right, then.
Well, in more good news...
Canada has gone full black mirror.
Now, I have covered this previously, but it seems to have come back up into the news, and I thought it would be relevant to remind everybody of what is going on in Canada currently with their MAID program.
Are you aware of the MAID program in Canada?
MAID is an abbreviation of Medical Assistance in Dying.
It is a voluntary euthanasia program that they have going, and it is...
Open to abuse is being abused, and come March of next year is about to be open to far, far more abuse than even we've seen so far.
Before I go further, we have a very interesting interview that Josh conducted the other day with a man called James Esses.
Who was a teacher who was cancelled for his opposition of transitioning kids.
I have not watched this interview, but it seems very, very interesting.
And there is a lot of bad stuff going on in current culture in the West regarding children, both in terms of trying to transition them, in trying to make it easier and easier to abort them when they're closer and closer to term, and all these sorts of things, and that's what I'll be covering today.
So go check that out if you want to check out a very interesting interview.
So, I mentioned this article earlier on this year, talking about, from The Spectator, why is Canada euthanising the poor?
They chose to frame this from the perspective of, it seems to be affecting mainly people from very low incomes, because it's quite difficult for them to be able to afford healthcare costs, and a lot of people say, what do you mean?
Canada's got a socialised healthcare system.
It doesn't cost the people any...
That's not how it works.
It's not how it actually works.
Sad to say.
I'll get into this because this article does have some very good information.
It's good to remember.
So it was back in 2015 when the Supreme Court of Canada had decided to reverse 22 years of jurisprudence by striking down the country's ban on assisted suicide as unconstitutional.
So they decided it isn't unconstitutional.
We can legalise it.
The very next year, their parliament enacted legislation allowing euthanasia, but only for those who suffer from a terminal illness whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable.
So, you can see how it could be abused, but in its initial phase, there were a certain level of safeguards available so that people weren't forced into it, or so that people weren't...
Hold your breath.
Really long.
Yeah.
There you go.
Not that I'm encouraging people to do anything like that anyway.
Just mainly the government beginning to help people kill themselves is a very slippery slope, as this article talks about.
It creates a sort of environment where people might feel coerced or might feel...
Oh, we'll get into examples of that, trust me.
So, they introduced, I think it was in 2020 or 2021, Bill C-7, a sweeping euthanasia law which repealed the reasonably foreseeable requirement and the requirement that the condition should be terminal.
So this opened it up for abuse where people who were just in physical pain or suffering from physical diseases and other such things that they could potentially live with were able to just get euthanized instead.
For instance, an abuse that they list in here, A man with a neurodegenerative disease testified to Parliament that nurses and a medical ethicist, and ethicists I've found in doing this job and looking up the sorts of things that ethicists often talk about, are the least ethical people in the entire world because their entire job is basically them finding ways to formulate excuses for are the least ethical people in the entire world because their entire So don't trust ethicists.
So they, at a hospital, try to coerce him into killing himself by threatening to bankrupt him with extra costs or by kicking him out of the hospital and by withholding water from him for 20 days.
So this is just abject abuse.
This is very obvious abuse.
Not just bankrupting, not just kicking him out of the hospital like SpongeBob SquarePants or something.
Literally just not giving him any water.
Starving him out, dehydrating the man so he's not in his right mind, and going, you sure you don't want to kill yourself?
You sure you don't want to get euthanised?
It's appalling.
And then even before Bill C-7 entered into force, the country's parliamentary budget officer, because...
Remember, governments only ever do things for altruistic reasons.
A government would never take monetary costs into account.
It's only evil businesses that do such a thing.
But the government's parliamentary budget officer published a report about the cost savings that this would create.
Whereas the original MAID regime saved only $86.9 million per year, a net cost reduction, in the sterile words of the report, Bill C-7 would create an additional net saving of $62 million per year.
So that's over $100 million saved by the Canadian taxpayer, by the benevolent Canadian government.
All you need to do, you get tax cut, I get to kill you.
Ha!
There you go.
Fair trade, right?
Canada, I looked into it, doesn't even have the death penalty because they banned it back in 1998 for compassionate and humanitarian reasons, so evidently what they decided to do was reinstate it on a voluntary basis.
That's what it looks like here.
If you're wondering why it expanded past those initial restrictions of terminal illness and when you're about to basically up coming to death as a way to try and give people a more dignified way out, say if you've got a wasting degenerative disease, I found this article talking about a maid litigant who said that their disability didn't make her vulnerable to pressure to end her life.
Now, this woman is called Nicole Gladue, and she was a 75-year-old Quebecker who uses a wheelchair due to post polio syndrome.
She needs to wear clothes that are different from her cushions.
Really hard to tell where she ends and the cushion begins.
No, she's blending in.
She's like a chameleon.
Camouflage, yeah.
Yeah, there you go.
Sneaky Canadian.
If you could invade a branch of Laura Ashley, that's the camouflage the SAS give you.
Sneaky French Canadian right there.
She still lives independently in a 14th floor condo with a beautiful view and cherishes her autonomy, according to this article.
Probably got left.
Including the right to seek medical help to end her suffering when she decides it has become intolerable.
She is one of two Quebecers who successfully challenged the constitutionality of the federal law stipulation of medical assistance in dying, only being provided to those whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable.
As a result of the court ruling in her case, Trudeau's government introduced Bill C-7 to expand access.
So...
You know, what I think has happened here is given that the government of Canada was already talking about all the costs that they were going to save through this, they found someone who was going to say all the right arguments, they found some people who were going to make the case for them to expand it, and then just...
Did what they were going to do anyway.
Obviously they wanted to expand this because they're talking about how much money it's going to save them by expanding this thing.
So they just found a convenient story to put in the newspapers so that everybody would have some kind of sympathetic face to put to this.
Because you can say this one woman and the other person both say that they want...
Greater access to it.
And they're not worried about being pressured or forced into it.
And they don't see any reason why it would happen to anybody else.
But the fact of the matter is, reality has come back to bite hard.
Because now...
It's going even further.
In March of 2023, it's set to expand further and extend eligibility to those with mental illnesses.
Because when you think about the sort of person who is in their right mind to know the ramifications of a decision, like killing yourself, the mentally ill are who I immediately think of.
I think it goes even further than this.
I remember a stipulation being reported about where it would be also applying to mature minors.
Which is even more concerning because a mentally ill, mature minor, with mature, I'm sure, being a very vague term on purpose, making the decision to kill themselves, is something that I remember a few years ago, maybe 10-15 years ago, most people in the West were trying to avoid because there was a state of the massive spate of self-harming, there's an increase in mental illnesses like depression and anxiety among younger people nowadays, so opening this up is ripe for abuse.
And obviously, if you're young, like a child or a teenager, the depression that you feel is often resolved.
It's transitory.
It's because you've got hormones going through your body and you don't understand the changes that you're going through.
All of a sudden you're expected to have a lot more responsibility and independence, whereas before you were entirely reliant on your parents.
You go through the rebellious phase, you end up falling out with your parents, all this sort of stuff.
Massively impactful on teenagers' mental health.
So then just opening up the ability for them to just go, you know what?
I'm done.
I'm out of here.
Especially because I know people, I have known people, who tried to do that sort of thing when they were a teenager.
And it was only ever a cry for help.
None of them actually wanted to die.
They wanted to have some sympathy and attention brought to whatever suffering they were going through at the time.
Whereas now, if it's going to be administered by the government, if there's one thing governments aren't incompetent at, it's killing people.
It's the one thing they are good at, consistently.
And killing.
Yeah, there you go.
So, all of a sudden, that cry for help is going to just turn into you actually dying.
Fantastic.
So, somebody went on Tucker Carlson to talk about this.
Someone from Canada went on to Tucker Carlson and talked about this, and he said that right now, before coming in, he researched a group of physicians in Quebec that wanted to kill newborn infants, and he said that this is what's coming next, because I do see this as just another step in the massive...
in the...
In the road that we're going down, where human life is just completely devalued, the idea of it having any sanctity or anything special about humanity being completely destroyed, and all of a sudden that's when you're going to start to see people talk about, well, if we're killing depressed teenagers, then my baby didn't come out exactly how I wanted it to, let's just kill it, try it again some other time.
That's what I think this is all leading to.
We've seen them, I don't know if it's in Canada, but certainly in some American states, they've tried to bring through legislation that would allow, it doesn't criminalise the neglect of a baby after it's born.
So you can basically allow, because obviously a baby requires human assistance to survive.
Just let it starve to death.
Yeah, it's horrible.
It's absolutely awful.
This sort of mature minor, you know, when they use terminology like this, what they're saying is children have this sort of competence to make these decisions about their life.
And so they're saying, and it's the same with the transgender stuff, they're saying, oh, children are qualified to make these decisions.
And what the inference there is, if the child is competent to make decisions about this, what about giving consent to other stuff?
Yeah, they're We're opening up the floodgates, really.
It's basically, yeah, it's a nonce wedge.
Absolutely it is.
And it's just keeping on going.
I did find this article on Substack from a page on there called Common Sense, which has a great article talking all about this, using an example of somebody's story, and also giving a lot of figures in here.
A woman called Margaret Marcilla, they say in this article, called Joshua Tepper, who was a doctor who had planned to kill her son.
She had known for a while that her 23-year-old son, Keanu Vafayan, Canadian names, I've no idea, was depressed.
He was diabetic and lost vision in one eye, didn't have a job or a girlfriend or much of a future.
So she and her daughter basically...
Checked out his emails because they were worried about the guy.
They hacked in.
And they found out that he had applied for MAID and been approved for it as well.
And his death was scheduled for September 22nd.
They only found out on September 7th.
So that's just over two weeks to figure out what you're going to do.
Guy in his early 20s, his life isn't going the way that he wanted it to.
His life, he's not got a girlfriend or anything like that.
Well, might as well just kill myself then.
And the government's like, we can help with that.
Yeah, but he's got a treatable condition.
Yeah, there are ways to find ways to improve this man's life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And to get him to turn it around and so that he's a productive member of society who has meaning and is able to be fulfilled in his life.
Obviously, losing his vision in one eye isn't great.
I don't know how you're going to be able to solve that.
But still, plenty of people...
It's not the end of the world.
If he stops Masterbeaten now, you can save the other eye.
Yeah.
But it talks a bit about his background.
His dad and his mum had gotten divorced when he was still a kid.
On his 16th birthday, she'd given him a BMW. When he was 17, he had a bad car accident.
He wasn't up to college and he smoked a ton of weed.
So a lot of this is kind of...
You can kind of see how this could apply to a lot of people.
bad relationship with the parents, broken family home, mum who's trying her hardest or dad who's trying his hardest, depending on the circumstances, to maintain a relationship, feeling no prospects, and then also you smoke a load of weed, which is going to make your mental health far worse if you're already in a vulnerable situation.
I mean, that stuff can cause schizophrenia if you've got bad enough mental health to start off with.
This is a recipe for disaster.
And the Canadian government is standing aside, going, should we help with any of the other stuff?
Nah, but we can help him kill himself, though.
Brilliant.
And they're like, we're going to save the taxpayer money.
I know.
It's not like Canada's a poor country.
No, it's not.
It shouldn't be, at least.
But they want to save that money, don't they?
Money-grubbing Canadians.
I wish our government wanted to save money this much.
I know, right?
And then they talk about some of the figures regarding MAID since it's been introduced.
So in 2017, which is the first full year in which MAID had been administered by provincial governments, 2,838 people had opted for assisted suicide, and this was during the period where it was much more restrictive and had safeguards against it.
By 2021, when they'd opened it up, that figure had jumped to 10,064, accounting for more than 3% of all deaths in Canada that year.
From what I'm aware, depending on which province you're talking about in Canada, one in six deaths in those provinces is due to the maid service.
So it's taking down a lot of people.
There have been a total of 31,664 maid deaths, and a large majority of those people were 65 to 80 when they died.
In 2017, only 34 maid deaths were in the 18 to 45-year-old category.
In 2018, that figure rose to at least 49.
In 2019, 103.
2020, 118.
2021, 139.
So this is very slowly ramping up.
But the second you open the floodgates to people with mental illnesses being able to do this sort of thing, bam!
It's going to be ridiculous.
Yeah, because something like a third of the population gets treated for a depression or mental illness at some point.
Can you imagine them opening...
Well, actually, I think there is a more restrictive assisted suicide program in California.
In California, everyone goes to therapy.
Can you imagine going to your therapist and being like, oh, I'm really depressed, and they've been like...
Well, we've been here for like three months now and you've shown no progression.
Well, here you go, Mike.
Get in the booth!
Yeah, get in the suicide booth.
Go on.
You've got two choices.
You can either get in that suicide booth or you can transition.
We're the government and we're here to help.
And it's very strange because there is a community starting to grow.
Around this whole thing.
So the Made Curious, they list here, were lonely and scared.
They'd coalesced into a growing online community, sort of like a suicide cult, mostly on Twitter and Facebook.
And through the spread of death cafes, there were more than 1,300 death cafes in Canada and 14,000 worldwide.
And they give an example of some of the sorts of people who go through with this.
So Les Landry, a 65-year-old, said that he was in the middle of filing out his MAID application.
He was from Medicine Hat, Alberta, in the middle of nowhere, several hours southeast of Calgary, and a little north of the Montana line.
He received $1,238 every month for the government, but he was always short on cash.
And he said, in his own words, there's a tipping point where you can't afford to live.
MAID is the new social safety net.
So that's how it just goes in Canada.
I'm not a huge fan of the welfare state, but I would still rather we try, bad as some of the outcomes may be for people, we actually try to help people than just go, alright, kill yourself then.
My view on the welfare state is I want to stop it.
I don't want to replace it with bullets.
I know, right?
But there's much more to this article, so you can check that out because it's in the description below.
If you're on YouTube, go to the website, check out this podcast, and you can find it below and read it because there's some very interesting information in there, and you can learn the rest of the story regarding the mother and her son, what happened there.
And there is lots of questions going on how can Canada safeguard those who are marginalised as MAID expands.
And here's another example of a story of malpractice within Canadian healthcare.
A man called Jeff Preston, hospitalised from pneumonia a few years ago, nurse asked if he wanted to be resuscitated if his heart or breathing stopped.
She said to him, because he's got muscular dystrophy, the nurse described in graphic detail the undue suffering he would experience during resuscitation and if he survived.
Now they say here that she wasn't actively forcing anything on him, but it did say the nurse didn't coerce him or tell him what to do, but also didn't provide balanced information about how the care team would address his suffering if he wanted to be resuscitated, and the message was clear.
Maybe sometimes it's best to just go.
So that's a form of pressure that's being put on people where you're lying by omission to put pressure.
And there's other people trying to expand it even further.
For instance, this ridiculous website, davidhealy.org, talking about Made in Canada wanting to open it up to people with enduring sexual dysfunctions.
So if you consistently suffer from, like, ED or something, or if you have some discomfort down there, shall we say, this guy just wants you to be able to kill yourself, you know?
Sorry, can't get it up.
What's the point?
I mean, I guess the one positive out of this is what I've noticed on Twitter is all the sort of lefties, all the blue hairs that scream and call you a Nazi and all the rest of it, they're all the ones that are constantly depressed.
Yeah.
So maybe...
You're going with the social Darwinist.
I don't want to be a eugenicist.
Canadian left takes itself out.
Is that what we're saying here?
This is the left just committing a massive Harry Currie.
Well, okay, maybe there is a bright side that you can spin on this.
I also found this, a website called Sanctioned Suicides, which is a forum where people looking for this can discuss it.
And some of the discussions they have here tell you the state of mind that these people are in.
And they are not really in the sort of state of mind to be able to be making these decisions.
For one, one person's trying to put forward a petition...
Expanding it even further, saying, have you written in support of this expansion?
Somebody said about the expansion going on in March next year, I'm so excited for this, we should have a choice.
Also, people won't take unnecessary risks as much, or go through unnecessary pain.
All in all, it's to end the pain, and some of us have suffered for far too long.
I've suffered since I was eight with anxiety and depression.
To be free of pain.
Ah, how exciting.
So once again, we see another example of somebody who physically is in perfect health, who suffers from some mental problems, and I assume they're in perfect health.
I mean, they're posting on a forum like this, so I don't know.
But mentally, they do have some problems.
Yeah, yeah.
That could be solved through proper treatment, therapeutic sessions, or anything like that.
Or just by not being a pussy?
Yeah, yeah.
Have you tried manning up?
I mean, that might not help, but...
I think it would help.
I'm offering my services as a therapist.
All right, all right.
Okay, so if you're interested in that, check out, get in contact with Leo Curse.
But somebody who's just gone like, well, you know, I can't get any better, they've just decided, so I might as well die.
Yeah.
Alright.
And then somebody else put, Another thing to point out here is that the Canadian laws currently are saying that this is only for citizens of Canada.
This is only for citizens of Canada, so it will prevent suicide tourism, but a lot of these sorts of people are saying that it needs to be expanded, so to just allow Canada to, say, become the suicide capital of the world.
Like people go to Amsterdam to take some mushrooms or whatever, they'll go to Canada to kill themselves.
After they've developed mental illness from smoking weed in Amsterdam.
Presumably.
There is a bit more but the only other thing I'll cover in regards to this then is you may be wondering what about people in the system who aren't huge into the idea of actually helping people to kill themselves.
Well, they've not got it great either.
I think it's the next article over, John.
Thank you.
So this one talks about a woman called Mary Jean Martin, a registered nurse who worked in middle management as a home care coordinator in Ontario, who lost her job because she refused to go along with this.
She was told that all healthcare workers would now be required to sign and take an oath of allegiance to observe and comply with the laws of Canada, including the new euthanasia and assisted suicide law.
Ontario's Liberal government, led by a woman called Kathleen Wynne, voted that doctors and nurses must participate in euthanasia and assisted suicide if a patient requests it.
That was Bill 84.
Alex Schadenberg, who's the director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said that it concerns him when people who oppose killing are filtered out of the medical profession.
Because this woman lost her job because she refused to sign it, because she said, I started to become a nurse to help people, not to kill people.
The Hippocratic Oath.
Yeah, and this Schadenberg man says, "The reason is simple.
If you're a doctor or a nurse and you say you disagree with euthanasia and will not practice it, then euthanasia advocates interpret this as you judging them because you believe there's something morally wrong with it.
They want there to be no moral opposition or anyone personally opposed to the practice.
They want euthanasia completely normalized.
So this is just terrifying.
That's like a gender ideologist at the Tavistock.
If anybody questioned it, if anybody was against it, then they were sacked and they were criticised of transphobia.
Exactly.
And there are laws like this across some of the states in the US. I don't think there's anything like this coming to the UK soon.
But then again, the West is completely incestuous and what happens across the pond inevitably ends up making its way over here as well.
So we can't let this get to the UK, Canada.
Please, next time, vote accordingly for people who aren't going to make it so easy for your entire population to kill yourselves.
And with that, let's move on to the video comments.
So, what if we were to achieve no party systems?
Like, every candidate ran on what they could bring to the table instead of just their party affiliations?
What are your thoughts on that?
Sorry Brittany, but this is unworkable.
Originally the UK Parliament was entirely independent, but larger issues arose and the Tory party was formed.
Eventually the only way to compete was another party, and so the Whigs were formed.
Just as hunter-gatherers stand no chance of out-competing agrarians, independence cannot bring organisation to bear, particularly for national topics.
The problem has always been corruption, and that is a different topic.
Yeah, I agree with you there, Alex.
That was the sorts of responses that I was going to bring there.
Corruption is definitely a different topic, though.
It's just very difficult to keep corruption out of parties the larger they get.
Yeah, and I think a little bit of corruption isn't too bad.
Because you want politics to be an attractive career for people.
like people like sajid javid took uh he took a 98 pay cut to become a politician and uh so yeah you you want you want people to be well i'm sure he officially took a 98 pay cut who knows what he was getting behind the scenes yeah but uh yes let's move on you want him to get some behind the scenes i was very baffled by how the twitter employees were acting towards elon when he took over the I mean, they don't understand that they're basically the Romans when the Goths took over the city.
The blue check situation kind of reminds me of the second Caddyshack movie where some eccentric billionaire buys the country club and the people that dislike him are like, well, what's the worst that could happen?
And they open up the door and he's turned the place into a theme park where people dressed as golf balls running around.
Nice.
Tony D and Little Joan with another Lotus Eater white pill from the Epoch Times comes the story of Kayak, a two-month-old puppy.
He was found in a box floating down a Texas river, and a man rescued him.
He was taken to an animal hospital where he was suffering from parvo, kind of a deadly disease for a puppy to have.
But after about a week, he recovered.
He was adopted by a family.
Now he gets belly rubs and treats.
The story was for Joan.
Well, thank you very much for that one.
I've been really appreciating the white pills that you've been putting out recently, Tony, because honestly, sometimes this job can get a bit much.
Yeah, it's always nice to see a dog having a good time.
A happy, saved puppy story.
Or a happy barrow, or a squirrel, or a gerbil.
That's such a weird thing, is that I've heard loads of stories, not one about them floating in the river, but you do hear stories about, oh, I found a box of puppies outside, just on the side of a road in a box, and it's like...
How could you do that?
If you're a human being, and I suppose you have to be to have the ability to put a load of puppies in a box and leave it at the side of the road, how do you do that?
I understand it's difficult if you've got a litter of puppies that you can't afford, but don't just leave them at the side of the road.
Come on, man.
You've got a phone.
Man, put it on Facebook Marketplace.
Who wants some puppies?
Everybody wants some puppies.
You don't even have to sell them to say free puppies coming out.
If you just want them gone, you'll get loads of people coming out.
Maybe it's people with social anxiety who don't want any eye contact and talking to people.
Well, too bad.
They should go to Canada and get that meme.
Alright, so let's look at the written comments.
So Ruth Day says, Trump cares about America like Musk cares about free speech.
Time will tell how much that is.
That may be true, but at the end of the day, if it results in better outcomes for everybody, then that's kind of what I care about there.
So, Baron Von Warhawk says, if Trump and the Republicans want to win ever again, they must get rid of mail-in voting.
And here's where I'm allowed to say this stuff, because we're not going on YouTube anymore.
It's clear that mail-in voting is too easy for Democrats to cheat, and if this process must die so that the Republic can live.
Well, once again, Trump has said explicitly that he'll be...
Getting rid of all of that stuff if he gets voted in again.
The question is, will they let him get voted in again?
Can there be some kind of incredible save-the-day moment where he manages to get in somehow?
I don't know.
Callum Dayton says...
Well...
New York Times went into overdrive.
Six articles already.
Bloody hell.
And CNN. I mean, the viewing figures and the readership for all these liberal publications slumped after Trump left office.
So yeah, you'd think they...
But on the other hand, they're all owned by billionaires like the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
So they're not too worried about circumstances.
Well, that's the other thing as well, is that if they want those numbers, what they have to do is keep doing the thing that they were doing a few years ago.
So even if they are thrilled that Trump is back, they can't publish articles saying, oh my god, we're so happy he's back.
If they want those numbers, they've got to do the Nazism on the rise in the US, KKK white supremacist Trump shows back up running for president.
They've got to do all that sort of stuff.
Yeah.
S.H. Silver says...
This is true and this is something I already saw earlier on this week when Trump came out against DeSantis for some reason and you saw a lot of people on the establishment rhino side of the Republican Party...
Coming out in support of Trump, even the bloody Lincoln project decided they wanted to push a DeSantis thing.
I think this was political maneuvering on their part to sow division within the party, because some people were trying to say, oh, this means that DeSantis is establishment.
Not necessarily, but I do agree with what you're saying there.
Do you want to...
Do some of the comments on yours?
Yeah, so Based Ape says, You drink Brewdog Harry?
Disgusting!
That's it!
I'm starting a brewery!
I'm calling it Based Ale!
I'd drink that!
I'd drink that, yeah!
Go for it!
Freewill2112 says, Well, the S&P are simply another group of WEF shills like so many politicians across the West now.
It's no wonder they're running Scotland into the dirt and their plan to join the EU will leave Scotland bereft of any influence whatsoever.
Reality check.
A country of 4 million does not tell Germany, a country of 80 million, how to conduct business.
Power is power.
Very good point.
Scotland used to have such an influence in the UK, which is a proper big country, but an independent Scotland would have none.
And finally, Kevin Fox says, when it was a wee lad, the Scottish education system was far above the levels in England and Wales.
No, because I was the only student to get an A grade in Welsh!
Ha!
Oh my goodness.
The Scottish system of education had trained me to study and learn, whereas in the Welsh school it was back to Potato Prince and Jack and Jill.
I'm amazed they managed to do any of the Potato Prince without eating the potato.
And just another comment here from Jill.
She says, go to Leo's Patreon.
If you go to Leo Cares' Patreon, just Google Leo Cares Patreon.
You can see loads of his videos for free.
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Very smooth.
You really slipped that in there.
Okay, moving on.
Captain Charlie the Beagle says, isn't Canada's euthanasia program just a disguised version of the Have You Tried Killing the Poor skit?
I don't think it's particularly well disguised, to be honest.
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Oh, God!
Now that's some Scottish level education right there.
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Paul Vorbeck says, what's the ethnic breakdown of the folk getting euthanised?
I've not seen anything like that, actually.
I'd be very interested to look into it.
Michael Magus says, mature minor sounds very nonce-ish.
Are we surprised?
It's the left.
Shaker Silver again says, our healthcare system has been overburdened for years and COVID made it even worse.
So our WEF stooge Prime Minister coming up with the euthanasia agenda as a solution is not surprising.
For the love of God, Pierre Polivier, Polivier, French name, needs to clean this up.
I think my Anglo roots are just rejecting...
If you had a Scottish education...
I know, perhaps.
If the Scots would have taught me to speak French properly.
Instead, I had literally a Spanish woman teaching me French in high school.
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