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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eases for today, Monday the 21st of November.
	I am joined by Carl and we're going to be discussing the great unbanning, Twitter story currently going on, how they're indoctrinating the boomers and also Qatar's gay pride.
	Are we allowed to say that for fear of causing offence?
	Well, we're not connected to FIFA, so it's not our problem.
	If you'd like to send us money for us to host the World Cup in the Lotus Eater studio, we do have a PO box below.
	On that note, let's jump straight into the news, shall we?
	Yeah, so I thought we'd talk about the great unbanning that's currently happening on Twitter because it's very interesting.
	But before we do, I thought I'd go through a series of events leading up to this great unbanning because the nature of Twitter is changing under Elon's dictatorship.
	And I think it's just worth exploring a bit.
	But before we go on, if you want to support us, go up to lowseasons.com and sign up and go and watch this talk I did about Generation X versus Generation Z. And I think it's relevant because Elon Musk is Generation X. Now, Generation X was a...
	Ironic generation.
	It seems that you've got the boomers who are sort of a culturally powerful generation, the millennials who are a culturally powerful generation, and then in between them you've got Gen X and Gen Z, who are essentially dealing with the excesses of these generations, and so being trapped in the kind of moral straitjacket that these generations create, you ended up being...
	Kind of just trollish, should I say?
	And so Elon Musk's operation of Twitter actually represents this a lot.
	You see him just posting memes constantly, which is fantastic.
	In fact, you know, let's begin with one of his memes, Ligma Johnson, who apparently were brought back to it.
	If you want to scroll down, you can see that...
	I don't know whether the two who were trolling the journos, calling themselves Ligman and Johnson, were actually connected to Elon anyway, but he brought them to the...
	I think they were just internet comedians.
	Yeah, I think they were, yeah.
	He just enjoyed the jokes and indulged in it.
	And so he was like, yeah, welcoming back Ligman and Johnson.
	And this fooled...
	Scroll up again, sorry.
	Was it CNBC, was it?
	The Hill TV. Yeah, the Hill TV, yeah.
	This fooled their very in-touch commentators, who didn't think that Ligma and Johnson would be happy to be brought back.
	I bet they were thrilled, what are you talking about?
	Like, when does a joke ever go this far?
	Like, in front of hundreds of millions of people.
	But she did this segment with utter sincerity as well.
	And it reminds me of, did you see Taylor Lorenz tweeting, replying to the story, saying, can anyone get me the contact details?
	Yes, of Ligeru and Johnson.
	Yeah, and so Elon was, of course, tweeting about this.
	And this is the sort of...
	This is the sort of meme that...
	someone like a Generation Xer like myself would like.
	You know, this is, it's funny.
	It's, it pokes fun at the right people and it's not really offensive, you know, but it's kind of crass in a way, you know, in a very downplayed way.
	And it's just funny, right?
	And so it's interesting watching what happens when someone from Generation X gets control of a platform from like the millennials who have been ultra moralizing and ultra hardliners And we also, look, we can actually have a bit more faith in humanity because that's actually one of the core characteristics of Generation X is that all of the things that we believed were based on a presupposition of goodwill among men, right?
	It's genuinely a strange thing to think about.
	But, like, actually, we thought quite well of our fellow man, you know, unlike the millennials who really don't.
	And so it's nice that this can be the tone of the platform, right?
	So anyway, going back to his hard ultimatum, he gave this on Friday, and apparently hundreds of Twitter employees took up his offer to leave with severance pay, although no one knows exactly how many.
	So this probably puts Twitter's employee base now at about 3,000 from the 7,500 that it was, possibly a bit lower, and the platform still seems to be working.
	I wonder if it's because of exactly who Elon Musk decided to fire en masse.
	Well, that's the point.
	He's obviously come in like the hatchet man and been like, right, everyone is not worthwhile.
	Gone, gone, gone, gone.
	Everyone who is staying, you've got to affirmatively commit to staying and working really hard.
	So what kind of person does that appeal to?
	Well, it appeals to the kind of person who feels themselves validated through merit.
	Which is the raison d'etre of a young man.
	Yeah, a 20-year-old autistic engineer.
	Yes, that's exactly right.
	Which keeps the world running.
	Yes.
	All of the other people who fall outside of these groups tend not to feel validated by marriage.
	They have something else.
	As in the pampered female HR execs.
	Exactly.
	Do we know if the Californian legislature is looking into Elon Musk yet?
	Because I know that they have to have a certain amount of...
	Diversity and HR execs on their board and in their company.
	Has he come afoul of that yet?
	Well, I mean, he got rid of the board.
	Yes.
	So there is no board.
	As far as I'm aware, no.
	But we've, you know, had some rumors and murmurs from the Biden regime.
	The FTC. But nothing official as I'm aware.
	But I might be wrong, of course.
	But anyway, so this has left them with a skeleton crew.
	And, I mean, even the designers leading up Musk's Blue Verified project are out.
	Lead web engineer.
	All of these people.
	It's going to be, as I say, a very different company.
	Which is good, actually, because if you think about the way that Twitter was being run, it was hyper-inefficient, in massive debt, losing money, and a control piece for the progressive hegemonic narrative.
	So it's good that it's going to be a different company, because this is actually quite the sea change in Western politics, actually.
	My only concern, as we will get onto later, I'm very sure, is that, I believe it's one of Conquest's laws, in that if you don't set up an explicitly right-wing institution, it will inevitably be captured by the left.
	So Elon needs to be...
	I've always been quite sceptical of Elon's principles...
	Whether or not he is stalwartly committed to free speech as an abstract ideal still remains to be seen.
	And so that can be used as a crowbar for these kinds of people to get back in.
	We will get onto that shortly, actually.
	So anyway, they're very mad over at the Huffington Post and on Twitter generally.
	This is basically just a collection of apocalyptic reaction GIFs posted on Twitter, which still seems to be functional, which tells you everything you need to know.
	But anyway, this weekend, Twitter in San Francisco closed their offices because, of course, this...
	Is a worry for Elon because you don't want some disgruntled employee being like, well, I'm going to go in and screw with things and ruin everything for you.
	But yeah, so this was something that upset them.
	The London offices were closed as well.
	So this is something that just happened across the board, it seems.
	And then you got angry leftists just posting, like, again, Posting their fury on Twitter, being like, no, we had everything like this.
	Everything was brilliant.
	It ran like clockwork.
	It's like, no, you delusional lunatic.
	It was massively in debt, hemorrhaging money, right?
	This had to happen.
	And another point as well, sorry, back from the Guardian article, in fact.
	Was the Twitter's former head of security, Peter Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint warning of poor infrastructure standards at Twitter even before Musk's takeover.
	Okay.
	Right.
	So they have time to create break rooms with wine on tap, but the actual code and things going on behind the scenes are in complete disarray.
	Alleging more than 50% of Twitter's 500,000 data center servers are running software that is out of date and known to have security problems.
	Right.
	That doesn't shock me.
	No.
	But the angry leftists are like, no, no, everything was fine.
	Everything was fine.
	No, you had serious problems.
	And you actually needed someone like Elon to come along.
	In fact, rather when he did, because at the end of the day, you wouldn't have been bailed out forever.
	Something was going to fail.
	But then you got this.
	And I don't know whether you can see someone broadcasting on San Francisco Twitter's building.
	Elon Musk, parasite, petulant pimple, blah, blah, blah.
	All these, you know, apartheid, profiteer...
	Yeah, like, dictator's arse-kisser?
	Is that okay?
	This is all a sign of profound impotence.
	Lawless oligarch.
	Can you please project that onto Nancy Pelosi's house just down the street?
	Yeah, I mean, of all...
	Cruel hoarder.
	Yeah.
	Space Karen.
	Come on.
	You cannot accuse Elon Musk of being a Karen.
	No.
	Well, slightly maybe, actually.
	But the point is, this is very pathetic and a sign of profound impotence on the part of those people who have been fired.
	So go and cry about it.
	Mark Burrows is a former Twitter worker.
	He was the platform curator, and he wrote this article in The Independent.
	I think this is really interesting, right?
	He said, Oh!
	So, the mouth of Sauron says, the idea of the tower collapsing is unbearable to me.
	Yes, but think about all of those people who have had permanent bans and can't do those things.
	To him it's unthinkable until it's happening to him.
	You know, when it's happening to you, it's fine.
	In fact, it's probably desirable.
	Oh, there's a Harry Potter comparison in there, of course.
	Of course there is.
	But the point is, he's thinking of himself as having the Lifetime ban, and he's like, oh my god.
	Well, there we go.
	It's extremely telling, isn't it?
	And they point out in this, it's extremely telling that the possible demise of Twitter is literally playing out on Twitter.
	Our job was to make sure it continued to be a force for good, to preserve an unbiased and honest conversation.
	It's like, you delusional tyrants are getting a taste of your own medicine.
	That's what it is, and you can't stand it.
	Personally, I love it.
	And so, Lauren Chen tweeted out this picture, these two pictures, and I think this is, again, a thousand words each, right?
	Can you get the first one, John?
	You can see, this is what it was like before Elon took over.
	It's like, right, middle-class white women.
	And their wife's boyfriends.
	Yeah, and their beta orbiters who are enabling them.
	Yep.
	If we go to the next one...
	That's right, autists.
	Yeah.
	The autistic nerds are back in charge.
	Brilliant.
	This is really funny as well, because the first photo and the second photo, Lauren replied to me and Harry seeing Wakanda Forever, and it's like, what they think Wakanda Forever screenings look like versus what they actually look like.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Like, this is just perfect.
	This is...
	These...
	Look at this.
	20-something men...
	All the Asians they banned from Harvard.
	Exactly, yeah.
	These are the kind of people, the tech nerds are back in charge, is what we're saying, right?
	The lefty Karens have been cleared out.
	Good job, Elon.
	And so the hysteria is just like, look, is Elon deliberately trying to destroy Twitter?
	As Forbes asks in this next one.
	And it's like, well, if he was, do we knight him?
	Do we create a statue?
	What do we do for saving the West?
	You know, if you get to the next one, again, people like whining about it.
	Was it a good social media platform?
	No.
	No, it wasn't.
	And then you get, again, the lefty Karens complaining, oh my god, did he spend $44 billion to destroy an app?
	And it's like, who does this?
	I don't know, a legend?
	I don't know, how much, how much, how many, how much complimentary, how much complimentary language do I have to lay on Elon?
	To use Heath Ledger idiom, it's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
	Exactly!
	Exactly!
	Sorry, Karen.
	I realise you don't get it, but it is about sending message.
	So anyway, in response to all this, you had like, oh, well, the advertisers are going to pull out CBS News.
	They're going to suspend their Twitter posting in the light of the uncertainty of it.
	And have you ever watched, what's that Tom Cruise film where he's like, you know, who's coming with me?
	Oh, you're too young.
	I've seen quite a few films, but I can't remember the line.
	John, what's that?
	The Tom Cruise film where he's like, who's coming with me?
	And he's in the office.
	And no one goes with him.
	Oh, goddammit.
	I should have looked this up.
	It's not Jerry Maguire, isn't it?
	Yeah, I think it might be Jerry Maguire, actually.
	Yeah.
	And it turned out it was nobody.
	So they then, like, the next day were like, yeah, okay, actually, we're back on Twitter.
	Don't know why we did that.
	Sorry, everyone.
	They say, after pausing much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming activity on Twitter.
	You can go to the next one, John.
	Just, you know, just like, tail between the legs and Elon Musk just laughing at them at the bottom.
	I could be wrong.
	Weren't CBS News the outlet that played, didn't vet footage of what they thought was a Syrian airstrike and it turned out to be fireworks going off in someone's garden?
	So the idea of them saying that there are security concerns about fake news is utterly laughable.
	Well, to be fair, they didn't say fake news.
	They just said security concerns.
	So, who knows?
	But anyway, so let's go to Joel Roth, who was the previous head of trust and safety until he resigned.
	He says this.
	In appointing himself Chief Twit, Mr.
	Musk has made clear at the end of the day he'll be the one calling the shots.
	It was for this reason that I chose to leave the company.
	A Twitter whose policies are defined by edict has little need for a trust and safety function dedicated to its principal development.
	Great.
	Prepare for the arbitrary edicts of Emperor Elon, is what Yoel Roth is telling us.
	And yeah, it seems that that's the case.
	Because, of course, Elon posted, so what should Twitter do next?
	Which is quite amusing, these outsourcing ideas.
	And someone said, bring back Alex Jones, to which Elon just flatly replied, no.
	Like, right.
	That's very interesting.
	This caused a lot of consternation, and I don't blame people for being concerned about it, because of course Elon Musk has described himself as a free speech absolutist, and I actually think his policy of freedom of speech but not freedom of reach is actually a really good one.
	Really?
	Yeah, no, I do.
	Because what this means, it's fine to say, look, if you use extremely offensive swear words or something like this, then we're not going to put them into the algorithm to be served randomly to people.
	But why wouldn't you just have an adult or explicit language filter that you can turn on or off subjectively rather than leading up to the edicts of whoever it was?
	I think you should have that as well, to be honest.
	You should have the ability to customise your own experience, obviously.
	But think about it from his perspective.
	You've got a bunch of advertisers, and they're like, look, we don't want our stuff being next to the N-word or whatever.
	And so he's like, right, and I want to create a platform on which everyone can feel as if they're not going to be bombarded with very offensive language.
	Fair enough.
	And so you've got an algorithm that has to serve recommendations and things like this.
	And he said he was going to do it per tweet as well, not per account.
	So this seems like a fair compromise to me.
	It seems like, as we said last time we were on...
	It's not the position of a free speech absolutist.
	No, he could circumvent it with a subscription model if he didn't roll it out really badly.
	And, as I'm sure we're going to come on to with the Trump poll, he can easily turn around and say, my viewer base, even filtering out bots as well, are asking for this back so you can actually serve to a viewer base.
	So he doesn't even have to say to the advertisers, I'll lump it because of my principles.
	He can say, the people you're catering to actually want this kind of platform.
	We'll get to that.
	But the point is, it is probably roughly 50-50 on that.
	You know, there is a large section of people who don't want that, and he does have to accept that they are a part of his user base as well, right?
	And so having a kind of compromised position and saying, look, certain explicit language just isn't going to be recommended in the feed.
	You can go and find it.
	You can follow people who want it.
	You know, you'll be able to share it, doubtless, and things like this.
	Fine, right?
	But just having Twitter's algorithms also, you know, being inserted into them and then boosting to other people, we're not going to do that because of various reasons of propriety.
	Fine.
	I remain sceptical as to the standards by which this is going to be suppressed.
	But in principle, that is not a bad idea.
	And it allows offensive people to still tweet offensive things to people who want to see offensive things.
	So it's not a bad solution.
	Maybe it'll be implemented incorrectly and it won't work.
	Who knows?
	Can't tell until it's done.
	But in theory, I think that's actually quite a good perspective.
	And so Alex Jones responded to him not coming back with this.
	It's just a quick summary, actually.
	Let's play the clip.
	So that's my exclusive response to Elon Musk saying no to bring back Alex Jones.
	My answer is that's fine, Elon.
	Just follow through on your promise to bring back some semblance of freedom to Twitter.
	Let's see if we can actually get that done.
	That's quite a mature response, really.
	And in the rest of the clip, he's just like, look, I've got Gab, Getter, Social, you know, other platforms.
	I'm going to use those.
	I'm going to build my own website.
	So, okay, fine.
	That's actually a really mature response.
	So Sam Harris, Tweeted out, okay, and this is, again, one of those, like, Sam Harris is a very strange character to me, because sometimes he has great takes, and he asks very good questions, and other times he has preposterous takes that I just can't imagine he personally agrees with.
	I have yet to see a Sam Harris take I like.
	Well, this line of questioning is quite good, right?
	So he says, Sam, Elon, is it time to let Alex Jones back on Twitter?
	If not, why not?
	Good question.
	Why not?
	And so Elon Musk replies cryptically with, Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven.
	Right.
	So this is obviously a quote from the Bible.
	Yes.
	Well, the extensive quote is that you would sooner tie a millstone around your neck and throw yourself into the ocean than attempt to enter the kingdom of heaven when you've corrupted little children.
	Right.
	So this is, you can see where Elon is going.
	Yes.
	And so Kim Dotcom, who is someone I didn't really know very much about until the COVID pandemic actually, where he, I thought he distinguished himself quite well recently.
	Right.
	He said, Alex effed up with Sandy Hook, but he admitted that and apologised.
	He also got a lot of conspiracy theories, right?
	If serial liars like Biden and Trump are allowed on Twitter, then Alex Jones should be allowed too.
	Please consider in the interest of real free speech.
	Now, also, I mean, it's not like Alex Jones hasn't been punished enough for his conspiracy theories with Sandy Hook.
	Yes.
	Now, obviously, you know, I don't agree with Alex Jones and Sandy Hook at all.
	I don't know anything about Sandy Hook, but I'm sure he's talking nonsense.
	Yeah, well, kids died.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And even he says that now, hence why he's apologised.
	But as I understand it, his position wasn't The kids died and they deserve to die.
	It was that nobody died and this was a lie, right?
	Yeah, he was repeating one of the claims of one of his audience and got swept up and carried away with that.
	Again, you can say it's reprehensible.
	He's also said, yeah, it's reprehensible and I've apologized on multiple instances.
	But this is also why we have civil lawsuits to sue him over.
	Yeah.
	Do you know how much it's been up to at the moment?
	Isn't it 1.43 billion or something?
	3 trillion.
	Oh, 3 trillion.
	3 trillion.
	I know, yeah, yeah.
	It's an impossible number to pay.
	Right, okay.
	So, I mean, I would have thought that means that Alex has been punished enough with...
	I mean, that's probably...
	30 times the GDP of France?
	Something like that?
	Something ridiculous like that?
	Yeah, it's absurd, right?
	And so, anyway, Elon responds to Kim Dotcom saying, look, my firstborn child died in my arms.
	I felt his last heartbeat.
	I have no mercy for anyone who'd used the deaths of children for gain or politics or fame.
	Now, I can completely understand.
	You know, my wife's had three miscarriages.
	I can completely understand.
	Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, no, it's, you know...
	It happens.
	But I can completely understand why he has an emotional position on this.
	And I'm not saying it's wrong for him to have an emotional position.
	But the problem is that, as Nuance Bro points out, by that logic, you'd have to ban virtually every member of Congress and the media when they stand on the graves of dead children to garner support for their political agendas or raise money for their campaigns.
	Every time we hear about a school shooting, Elon is now morally committed to deplatforming all of those Democrats.
	Every pro-abortion candidate cannot use Twitter.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And so...
	The Planned Parenthood has a Twitter account.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, you know...
	The Ayatollah of Iran has a Twitter account.
	I was about to say, like, the mass murdering regime of Ayatollah has a Twitter account.
	OJ Simpson has a Twitter account.
	Yeah.
	Like, it's actually...
	It's a very inconsistent policy, and it seems to be punitively targeting Alex Jones.
	The question I think Elon has to answer is, is it his job to bring retribution to Alex Jones for...
	And I have to say, I think this is slightly a mischaracterization, because...
	Again, to be charitable for Alex, he didn't think anyone had died, and he has walked that position back.
	Also, if you're going to use a biblical quote, and believe me, I'm one of the more fire and fury Christians who would...
	We'd love to, yeah.
	Yeah, well, as soon as you see people perish in the fires of Gehenna, then get a lot of redemption.
	But the concept of forgiveness is based on whether or not you would admit fault and work to pay penance, and Jones seems to have done that with his deeds and actions.
	And also, Alex Jones is a father as well.
	I do genuinely empathize with Elon Musk's position, because honestly, losing a child really is the worst thing.
	So I totally understand, but I do agree, in fact, that I think Alex Jones deserves his Twitter account back, because if you remember his deplatforming, he was deplatformed arbitrarily from everywhere because of personal dislike, and it was Jack Dorsey who had to come out and say, well, he hasn't Done anything against the Twitter terms of service.
	And so we're not going to ban him.
	And then a week later, they banned him because the pressure became too much.
	And so it wasn't just his deplatforming.
	If his deplatforming was somehow just, maybe you could accept it.
	But it wasn't.
	And so that's the problem.
	Anyway, let's actually get to the unbannings then.
	So the first one that really surprised me was Andrew Tate's.
	Like, you literally came off my feet the other day.
	Andrew Tate's been unban for Twitter.
	What?
	I'm sure he prayed to my law for it.
	But good for him.
	Again, I don't think he'd actually done anything wrong.
	Andrew Tate was at the centre of a moral panic that was going on among the progressives where they're like, oh my god, he's corrupting the youth.
	Andrew Tate is the modern Socrates.
	His misogyny is going to make all men hate women.
	Quick, deplatform him from everywhere.
	I don't need Andrew Tate's help with that.
	Yeah, look, I'm not that fuss about defending him, I'm going to be honest.
	No, of course not, but like, you know, good, he didn't break the rules.
	Yeah, he didn't break the rules.
	And so he should be back.
	Jordan Peterson was back.
	Actually, I think Andrew Tate came back before Jordan Peterson as well.
	Weirdly.
	What a strange...
	Just going down Piers Morgan's guest list.
	This is, honestly, a good, funny post from Peterson there.
	The next one is Kanye West.
	I mean, what do you say to that?
	Salaam.
	That's some good trolling.
	That is some good trolling.
	Perhaps you're sincere.
	You never know.
	Well, he did reliably inform us that black people are Jewish.
	But that is just funny.
	But anyway, yeah, so Kanye West is back.
	Project Veritas is back.
	This will be a very interesting one as well, because when you said earlier about you don't want any Twitter employees to get in and mess with the code, this allows them to do investigative journalism about Twitter on Twitter, which catches Elon's attention.
	Yes.
	And so the big question is, when's Sargon getting his account back?
	Because I'm still bloody suspended.
	Come on, all I was doing was to suck some Nazis, Elon.
	I promise not to do it again?
	I mean, if every viewer did tweet at him...
	Yeah, just saying, you know, you could ask.
	Anyway, the real question, of course, is the glorious golden god emperor going to be back?
	And so Elon put out a tweak.
	So this was a big thing.
	And this went for a long time.
	As you can see, it's got 15 million votes on it.
	Apparently over 100 million people saw the poll.
	And...
	Well, it was about 68%, 32% for a long time.
	And then there's a big batch of...
	Yes.
	I'm suggesting that perhaps this got shed around in activist circles.
	Yes.
	Definitely no funny business was going on.
	But in the end, the former president just...
	Nipped it at the post.
	And so, Elon posts, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, which, if you can go to the next one, you can see the people have spoken, Trump will be reinstated.
	Vox Populi, Vox Dei is Latin for voice of the people is the voice of God, which is...
	Quite a clever way of actually going about this from Elon's position.
	Because, of course, restoring Donald Trump is a massively controversial move, and this essentially offloads his responsibility for doing it onto the people of Twitter, rather than being an executive decision of his own.
	Quite a good way of getting around it.
	It's a fair and free election, isn't it?
	Exactly.
	It's a free and fair election.
	You can't question democracy.
	Appealing to their principles rather than his own executive principle.
	But anyway, and we previously know that Elon thought that the banning of Trump was wrong, because it was obviously wrong.
	I mean, you can scroll down Donald Trump's TwitFeed and see that...
	You can scroll down...
	You can see him saying, look, you know, stop...
	Go down a little bit on January the 8th and January the 6th.
	Like, him saying, no, don't do this.
	You know, go home.
	You know, we actually now see the record of Donald Trump not inciting January the 6th.
	But as you can see, he hasn't posted anything.
	No, I have got him on alert.
	Yeah, I bet.
	But I don't think it's going to happen.
	And he's previously said he wouldn't come back.
	Yeah.
	But everyone knows it's extremely tempting, right?
	Elon knows it's extremely tempting.
	This is genuine brilliance.
	He found this somewhere and reposted it, so it's not his own tweet.
	But man, you know.
	You know that everyone's kind of like, come on.
	I watched an interview with Elon about Donald Trump a while ago from some journal, and he was just like, yeah, Trump is extremely good at Twitter.
	And he was extremely good at Twitter.
	If my Catholicism was a photo, you found it.
	And I think a lot of people do want to come back.
	But of course, he's torn between, well, if I go back, then effectively I'd destroy Truth Social, and I've put a lot of money into Truth Social.
	However, not being on Twitter has definitely harmed his relevance, and if you're going to be running for 2024, you're probably going to want as much energy as you can get, and of course you'd get that via Twitter.
	The best idea is for him to possibly do a timed exclusivity of his posts, first on Truth Social and then an hour later on Twitter.
	That's quite a good point.
	Which was quite a good thought.
	Anyway, so there have been just some funny responses.
	Again, like not a huge fan of Andrew Tate, but this is just quite amusing.
	You know, I'm going to fly to the failed state of California, walk into Twitter HQ and tell Elon Musk he's a legend.
	Because in many ways he kind of is.
	Elon, tell him to shut down his OnlyFans brothel.
	But speaking of things that have been banned though, this is good.
	The most popular hashtag used to sell child sexual abuse material in Twitter is almost completely cleaned out.
	Why wasn't that the case six months ago?
	So, it's actually quite important as well.
	When Tumblr banned all their sexual content and all of the maps came over, Jeremy Hambly, quartering, did the Lord's work in saying, okay, here are all these accounts, mass ban them.
	And I found a few myself.
	And I noticed at the time, when you went to ban them, there was no distinct option for child sexual exploitation on Twitter.
	Really?
	That, if you scroll down, John, there's a photo here where that has now been added under Elon's rule.
	Excellent.
	There was a specific part.
	Yeah.
	Sensitive or disturbing content, non-consensual nudity, but if you flick over to the next one, child's exploitation is an option.
	Weird how Twitter was permissive of this before.
	Well, there were multiple people that said, I found a video of me when I was a child being abused.
	It's been reposted by my abuser on Twitter.
	Can you take this down?
	It got mandatory review, and it said this does not violate our community guidelines.
	Right there.
	It does now, though.
	So, honestly, I'm pleased with what Elon has done with Twitter, and I think it will improve things and the public discourse, because, again, it's much better to have a Gen Xer in charge than a bunch of Millennials in charge.
	They're going to be more permissive.
	Just waiting for my account, Elon.
	Anyway, leave it there.
	I can't wait for your first tweet.
	Michael Malice emailed me going, oh, you're back.
	And it's like, no, it was some parody account.
	It's like, no, that's not me.
	Alright then.
	So, Carl, I'm pretty sure you don't watch mainstream TV, do you?
	No.
	No, because we don't want to suffer the IQ drop that's inevitable with waiting for every 15 minutes a bunch of adverts that aren't very representative of us and the scripts being god-awful.
	But many members of the public who don't tune into our podcasts or adjacent networks who aren't politically clued in, like you and me, passively consume the slop that's presented to them on the easily accessible first few-digit channels available on Freeview.
	So it helps check in from time to time on how the boomers are receiving their worldview to understand why they're going to vote Labour in defiance of common sense.
	Here's our Coronation Street calling us racists.
	And it seems to be almost directly us, either intentionally or inadvertently.
	So we've reached doomcock levels of representation.
	Yes, yes.
	Coronation Street is our she-hulk.
	So we've actually covered this topic before.
	I covered it with Dominic Frisbee a couple of months ago.
	Please watch the first part.
	It's quite relevant, actually, because the character that's mentioned in this is the person whose clip got us a community guideline strike from YouTube.
	And this won't happen this time.
	But that character at the time was presenting vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories.
	And so we played the clip to obviously talk about how it's a conspiracy theory, and we got hit down for conspiracy theories.
	Thank you, YouTube, for that.
	If you'd like to go to our website and sign up, you can see how the far right character that they're presenting with this.
	Next one, please, John.
	Is actually not far right.
	Far left.
	Yes, shockingly so, because Nazism and fascism are far left doctrines, as you covered in Giovanni Gentili's Origins and Doctrines of Fascism.
	Well, just to be clear, they're revolutionary socialist doctrines.
	Yes.
	No question of it.
	I will say, from this as well, you mentioned they talk about the state as I would talk about God.
	Oi, I'm not a Platonist.
	Well, okay.
	As a, you know, a Catholic might, you know, just...
	Well, St.
	Thomas Aquinas actually translated Aristotle, so I think there's an interesting rabbit hole there.
	Yes, there is, but we won't.
	But the point is, it is the deification of the state.
	Yes.
	There's no question of it.
	In many respects.
	And we, funnily enough, don't do that.
	So, no correlation there, thank you very much.
	We're limited government constitutionalists.
	Yeah, I don't go around thinking about race all the time because it's not that interesting a topic.
	I just don't have a revolutionary plan for the socialist future either.
	But the Coronation Street scriptwriters do, unfortunately.
	So let's get into this.
	The Manchester News outlines exactly what this plotline is.
	So this is Max here.
	He's an autistic kid who gets groomed into an online extremist rabbit hole of white nationalists.
	An eco-warrior.
	Yeah, they frame it in a very interesting way.
	So I think the reason they frame it with the eco-warrior angle is because they're thinking of the Christchurch shooter, who called himself an eco-fascist.
	Oh, right, yeah.
	Yes.
	Though I do love the admission that eco-socialist groups are actually really racist, because I think that's a great angle to hit just a boil with.
	They're impeding the progress of black businesses by sitting in the middle of the motorway.
	I suppose they are.
	That would be a good angle to hit.
	So they basically put the concerns of sensible Brits concerning immigration or cultural decay or so-called wokery, which is identity socialism, into the mouth of a violent extremist that beats up migrant children in the street.
	What?
	Yeah.
	So Coronation Street is set to explore a new grooming storyline, this time involving teen Max Turner.
	Oh, that's the grooming storyline, is it?
	Interesting how they appropriate it.
	Yeah.
	Just you wait.
	The last time the ITV soap tackled the issue, Bethany Platt, played by Lucy Fallon, was groomed for sex.
	Back in 2017, a vulnerable Bethany, then 16, was at the centre of a harrowing exploitation storyline, which saw the teenager fall deeper into the clutches of her much older boyfriend.
	Would you like to guess the boyfriend's name of a grooming storyline in Manchester?
	I already know it's not going to be Mohammed.
	Nathan Curtis.
	The harrowing plot aired around the same time as millions were gripped by BBC's dramatisation of the Rochdale grooming scandal for a girls.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	Okay, it's exactly what I'd expect.
	How utterly contemptible.
	You know what, the grooming gang scandal in Rochdale?
	That's an English problem.
	Yeah.
	Not an overwhelming representation of...
	Why would Englishmen do this?
	...Pakistani Muslim men who said in the dockets in between shouting, Alaw Akbar, we did this because they were white whores.
	That's despicable.
	If you speak to any of the victims, they'll tell you there's a racial aspect to this.
	Yes.
	But never mind.
	Yeah, never mind.
	We'll check in on that storyline from a couple of years ago, shall we?
	If it goes to this article, please, John, on the next one.
	Basically, despite the huge age gap, Bethany lost her virginity to Nathan, and shortly afterwards he was seen talking about preparing her for a group of his sick friends.
	At a party held in his flat, Bethany was introduced to a room full of strange men.
	I'm not, sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but it's just such a caricature.
	Like, you know, what was Nathan doing?
	He was going to the mosque or something.
	Like, sorry, what?
	No.
	This is just such an awful thing.
	Yeah.
	Well, they recently did an EastEnders, completely unrelated, I don't have anything on it here, but we covered it in the last one with Dominic.
	A character who went to prison for murdering his sister, converted to Islam in there, became really peaceful, and then dated a girl whose brother and dad were far-right extremists who wanted to bomb a mosque and radicalise the moderates.
	Right, okay, yeah.
	Yeah, that's amazing.
	What an amazing...
	Absolutely happens, of course.
	At a party held in this flat, Bethany was introduced to a room full of strange men and befriended Mel, who viewers knew or was aware of Nathan's intentions.
	In particular, one of his pals, a crooked policeman called Neil.
	So the police are involved.
	A white policeman is grooming girls.
	What was the name of the Pakistani policeman who was convicted for grooming?
	I can't remember his name offhand.
	It wasn't Neil.
	No, it wasn't Neil.
	It was a Pakistani name.
	Clive or Pete or another English name by any chance?
	No, no.
	No, didn't think so.
	He took a shine to the schoolgirl and was seen on numerous occasions asking Neil when she'll be ready.
	He later raped her as Nathan sat in the next room completely aware of what was happening and did nothing to stop it, even thanking her for looking after him.
	They have since had discussions that suggest the pair have other girls in nearby areas who have also been groomed.
	Right?
	Must be cousins or something.
	Just typical English behaviour, this.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Your average man Cunian.
	Things took an even more sinister turn when Bethany was then raped by three men and it was all arranged by Nathan.
	Three Englishmen, I assume.
	Yeah.
	E by Gunn.
	All of the grooming gang reports say exactly the same thing.
	Yeah, her storyline after that was then she went on to work as a stripper to reclaim her sexuality.
	So it was then perpetuating the message that you need to internalise your trauma and be a whore for the rest of your life.
	God, how awful.
	Yeah, this is harrowing evil propaganda.
	So let's go to the actual storyline with Max, shall we?
	I'd like to play you this clip from last Wednesday night.
	This was the end of the episode that I just happened to catch on TV because I walked into the living room.
	And I'm probably the closest connected to boomers of all of the office, other than when you try and set up a live stream audio, of course.
	And so I come into contact with this sort of stuff all the time.
	So this outraged me, it'll annoy you as well.
	Let's play.
	First one comes out, we get them.
	This is Griff, the anti-vaxxer.
	Definitely not dressed in Antifa garb.
	What do you want?
	I don't have money.
	What is he saying?
	Speak English, mate.
	Can anyone translate?
	Get back to Pakistan, mate.
	I'm not from Pakistan.
	Well, you don't belong here.
	E.T., go home.
	Right.
	So that's very representative of what goes on every day in Britain, isn't it?
	Never happens the other way.
	No.
	No, never happens at all with lots of gangs of men with machetes running around the streets of London.
	It's just your average...
	The real problem is far-right white nationalists beating up immigrants.
	That's the real problem.
	Now, if this happens on an individual scale, the individual instances of this, it's redundant to say, but of course, you shouldn't beat up random migrant children in the street.
	No.
	Shocking.
	We have to condemn this in this day and age.
	But it doesn't really, really happen, does it?
	Not all that often.
	No.
	I can't really remember hearing of an example of it.
	No.
	And we'll have to listen to Darian's sob story to see how representative of his life as an immigrant coming to the UK is.
	Because Darian is an asylum seeker from Iraq.
	Let's watch what happened to get to the UK. Very sad.
	After my father was killed fighting IS, my brother and I struggled to live.
	There was very little food and no opportunity for us to do anything to better ourselves.
	We want to improve our lives and to help others, so we had to leave our home.
	We walked to Turkey and stayed there for many months.
	We slept on the streets before we crossed over to Greece.
	The people there hated us.
	Sorry, are you okay?
	Am I okay?
	Are you okay?
	Sorry, Darien, carry on, if you want to.
	We moved through Europe wanting to get to the UK, where our uncle settled.
	And not too long ago, wherever we went, we were hated.
	We worked hard and eventually we had enough money to pay for places on a boat from France.
	The night we left...
	Sorry.
	No, no.
	No need to apologize.
	We got onto a boat, but there were...
	There were too many people.
	We were hardly afloat, and a man with a knife ordered some people out.
	Haydar, my brother, was one of the people who climb out.
	I wanted to go with him, but the man told me to sit down.
	Heather told me it would be okay, but I argued with the man.
	The man hit me and I banged my head.
	Later when I woke up, we were in the middle of the sea.
	A lady had looked after me and she told me all would be well.
	I'm here now.
	I cannot go home and I don't know where my uncle is.
	And I worry that I will be deported.
	I want to work hard and I want to send money back to my grandmother and find my uncle and my brother.
	I want to work hard.
	I want to live a good life in the UK. A place where I can be safe.
	Is it too much?
	No, no.
	No, at all.
	Right, so first of all, the acting's horrible.
	Well, I thought that was quite effective propaganda, actually.
	I can see many a boomer woman at home being persuaded by that.
	I agree with that.
	It's the interjections of affirmation saying, oh no, continue, oh, it's harrowing.
	That is to prime you to be incredibly empathetic, of course, but it's very exaggerated.
	Now, the story is very sad, if true.
	How representative...
	Do we think it is?
	We talk about representation a lot.
	Do we think it's accurate to the majority?
	No, not terribly.
	The Albanian men that mainly come over now?
	Or the Albanian women, for example, who, as you said, it's never the other way around, who slit the throat of a young girl on Mother's Day, age seven, in the park in Manchester, funnily enough.
	So just in Bolton, you know, just...
	But that's the point, isn't it?
	Coronation Street is presenting an entirely unvarnished narrative of good...
	Yeah.
	And pure and innocent and blameless migrants.
	Yes.
	Who've done nothing, even though that's not true.
	Oh, of course, they all come here just to immediately start work and not, you know, come in 2014 and spend now eight years here.
	They come here to get beaten up by the far right.
	Yeah, of course.
	And definitely not in the next one.
	Rape children in hotel housing asylum seekers.
	Or rape children in a swimming pool in the next one.
	Or rape them in the toilet or refugee centre.
	Yeah, remember that sexual emergency one.
	Yeah, they just keep going.
	Rape in another...
	Refugee Centre as well.
	It's just a long list.
	And so, of course, we wouldn't accuse Darian, this character here, of doing something as untoward.
	No, they found the one migrant who died.
	Yeah, if you have an unvetted immigration system of people pouring across the Channel for economic incentives, you're going to get people who take advantage of British compassion and violate children.
	So, in very much the same way that children shouldn't be beaten up in the street by the far right, children shouldn't be raped by people that shouldn't be here.
	I think that's a really radical centrist position, I'm sure.
	It's very controversial to say.
	Yeah.
	Unfortunately, speaking of controversial people, if we say that sort of thing, we are the equivalent of Griff here.
	Griff, the anti-vax racist.
	Let's listen to his rousing speech in a community centre.
	A disgusting eco-warrior.
	Well, unironically, yes.
	Let's play.
	I am truly grateful for everyone giving up the time.
	To be here today.
	And these are historic days.
	Future generations will look back and ask what we did to bring about change.
	To make our world a better place.
	To save our world.
	Our soil is being eroded.
	Our farmlands, our crops are on the way.
	We have 60 harvests left.
	Unless we do something...
	Our indigenous animals are also suffering an invasion.
	They are being overwhelmed.
	We have seen our red squirrel decimated by the invading grey.
	The signal crayfish spreading a plague to our white clawed crayfish.
	And yes, even the quagga mussel from East Europe clogging up our waterways and threatening our water supplies.
	They have to be stopped.
	The pattern throughout history is clear.
	Non-indigenous species arrive in this country, adapt to the new environment before overwhelming our native species, shattering our delicate ecosystem and putting our very lives at risk.
	No, I like the idea that they're admitting that all of the eco-warriors are just a Trojan horse.
	But I do want to point out, number one, he looks like an aged Andrew Tate, but I think his personality is probably based on Mark Collin.
	He looks like he's from Armenia.
	Yeah.
	He's a white nationalist.
	Does he qualify?
	No, no.
	Just like Hitler wasn't very Aryan, was he?
	Yeah, should we see the follow-up to where, obviously that's framed in the environmental narrative, but this sounds like something anyone who reasonably objects to mass migration or race socialism, for example, like the Germans perpetuated, would say, but they've put it in the mouth of a man we've already seen as the ringleader of those guys who beat up the refugee the night before.
	Let's play.
	And what is of greater concern is how we as a people are also suffering from outside forces.
	When was the last time you could pick up a phone and simply arrange an appointment with your GP, let alone be referred to hospital to receive treatment?
	Our beloved NHS is being swamped by health tourists.
	And it's not just our health service and healthcare system.
	It's the food on the shelves.
	It's the air that we breathe.
	Each and every day it is in shorter and shorter supply.
	The suit-wearing MPs at Westminster and the wannabes of local government advocate for the right of migrants to come to our shores.
	They're happy for them to use our vital NHS resources and cream off benefits.
	Money taken from hard-working taxpayers like us here in this room.
	They don't care how it affects us.
	They don't care about us.
	They're white, working classes.
	They're marginalised.
	People up here in the North, we're uncared for.
	We're unheard.
	We're derided for being badly educated.
	What taxes do you pay?
	Councillor Conner.
	Yeah, it's just, you were talking about hard-working taxpayers.
	What taxes do you pay?
	I would have thought someone, even as lowly as the tin pot office you hold, would be better versed in the correct etiquette when addressing a speaker at a meeting.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Sorry, do you expect me to give you and this the respect of making a point of order, do you?
	Oh, you see, this is the type of person I'm talking about.
	Okay?
	I stole roof insulation.
	I pay my taxes and my national insurance stamp.
	What taxes do you pay on your council wages for pushing a woke agenda?
	I don't get paid for my work as a councillor.
	Sorry, allowance.
	Allowance.
	How much is that allowance?
	An allowance you have just awarded yourself a 20% increase.
	Hang on a minute.
	I was asking you about your taxes.
	20%!
	20%!
	How many people here have had a 20% pay rise?
	People like you support migrants.
	Migrants?
	Do you mean people?
	And invite them into this country.
	Open up our borders and let them flood into our communities.
	You're a racist!
	Hurl insults at me if you want, Councillor Connor.
	But it won't stop me speaking up for the good people of this country and for fighting for what's right.
	Yes, great!
	Come on, let's get out of here.
	So...
	Hang on, hang on.
	Why did they make him make a series of really good points and then the person who's supposed to contradict him make really bad ones?
	They could have written anything.
	Yes, because...
	He could have been a jobless loser.
	Because they genuinely believe in what Maria says, of course.
	I'm going to call you a racist.
	So in order to poison the well, they have to put it in the mouth of a man who we just saw last night beating up a child.
	Sure.
	But nothing he said that was objectionable.
	No, that was all correct.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So when he says white working class as well, you can make the point...
	So Coronation Street saying, look, I'm not beating up enough migrant children?
	I mean, what are they saying?
	Yeah, inadvertently encouraging the far right.
	So when he says white working class, literally the BBC and multiple government agencies do exclude you if you're a straight white man.
	Yes, there are lots of health tourists.
	Yes, mass migration is unsustainable.
	Yes, northerners aren't taken seriously by the southerners.
	Hence why the red wall flipped for Boris thinking that he was going to be a Brexiteer.
	Unfortunately, he wasn't.
	So, the idea that these aren't concerns of real people, so they just have to be dismissed out of hand as, you're secretly a Nazi if you believe these things.
	I'll call you a racist, oh God.
	Yeah, and this is the funny thing about, I just wanted to interject here, I'm not taking lectures on who is secretly a Nazi from the people who accepted, in the Grievance Studies hoax, a retranslated passage of Mein Kampf, That switched out Jews for men into a leading feminist journal.
	I'm just not taking lectures from you when you don't understand the consequences of your ideology.
	This was James Lindsay, wasn't it?
	It was.
	Peter Bagoes and Helen Plunker was James Lindsay.
	James Lindsay, who has been restated on Twitter.
	Brilliant.
	Love to get his take on these clips.
	So I just thought we'd go to the next one, shall we?
	That previous clip, the guy was not saying anything inaccurate at all.
	No, but they obviously have to put it in the mouth of an objectionable human being to dismiss your concerns out of hand.
	Unbelievable.
	Conflation fallacy.
	So, he gets challenged on these issues, of course, by Roy.
	So if we play this next clip, John.
	The Environmental Agency are quite prepared for this, having learned lessons in the war with the zebra mussel, the Quaker's predecessor.
	That's right, Roy.
	I know, yes.
	Listen, Mr.
	Koofer.
	Cropper!
	As in you've come a cropper, someone who's fallen on their face.
	That wasn't my point.
	As well as attacking East Europe, you also are blaming Asians for a great many of your grievances.
	Now, Asia is the largest continent.
	It is also the most populated continent.
	Quite what your problem is with all the people of that continent.
	It's difficult to say, but we do have Asia to thank for all the technology around us.
	Your camera, the phone in your pocket.
	Yes, the Chinese slaves forced to build it.
	I don't need to go on.
	No, you don't.
	But if I turn to the NHS... No, mate.
	You made your point.
	Let him finish!
	Approximately one in seven of that workforce comes from outside the UK. I mean, far from being a burden, the health service would collapse if it wasn't for that approximately 13 to 15% of the people who come from overseas.
	I mean, surely we should be offering them our thanks.
	And that figure rises to 30% when it comes to doctors.
	I'm with Keir Starber.
	We shouldn't keep poaching foreign talent overseas for our NHS. I've made this point for years.
	It's neocolonial.
	But who, Roy, who is demanding all of these doctors from the NHS? Who are they serving?
	Yeah, especially considering maternity wards.
	Well, 52% of women over 30 who are British-born don't have any kids, so who's...
	And I'm fine for people to have all the kids they like.
	We've just got to start telling the truth about how much money mass migration costs us, as Roy endorses in the following clip.
	But also, why do we need so many foreign doctors?
	Well, if we didn't have so many foreign people here, like 15% of the country is foreign-born, then yeah, we're going to need like 15% more doctors.
	Yeah.
	But numbers are racist, Carl.
	Yeah, of course.
	Sorry.
	Let me go beat up a migrant child.
	And apparently, if you raise concerns to the police about infringing freedom of speech, you're also a racist.
	This is what really annoyed me.
	Let's play this, shall we, John?
	It was informative and entertaining.
	Oh, yes, apologies for intervening, but one should never underestimate the importance of facts.
	Come on, Roy.
	What?
	I don't want to be on this guy's side, but...
	It's that weirdo's fault.
	Well, Roy's not a weirdo.
	He's alright.
	He's decent.
	He's been brainwashed by the mainstream media.
	Griff Reynolds.
	Start filming.
	Okay.
	Officer.
	Would you mind coming down to the station, having a quick word?
	In regards what?
	I'd prefer it if we spoke down at the station.
	Max, are you filming me?
	He's got a right.
	I am always happy to help the police with their inquiries, officer.
	But if this is about the public meeting we've just had, it needs to go on record.
	I was just exercising my right to free speech.
	This is a police state.
	I'm being arrested for speaking.
	Nobody's being arrested.
	Arrested for telling the truth?
	Nobody is being arrested and it's got nothing to do with any meeting.
	It's in regards to an assault.
	You're joking.
	No.
	And I think it'd be a good idea if you came along as well.
	We're being set up.
	We've got nothing to hide.
	Come on.
	Someone's been mouthing off.
	So, interesting bit of context there.
	You know the police officer who, um, walked up and spoke to them?
	Do you remember the girl I said about that was groomed?
	He was the boyfriend of said girl.
	So, they've lumped that storyline, which eradicated...
	Oh, so the far right are grooming girls now.
	Well, actually, one of the reasons Max is being groomed is because they've given him a girlfriend as part of the group.
	Oh, right.
	Yes.
	Also, that's obvious whale poisoning because that almost exact same thing happened to me, but for actually a speech issue.
	And the exact same thing happened to Harry Miller and Lawrence Fox and countless other people, like the gentleman who called police officers a...
	End of piece of male anatomy and was pepper sprayed in the face in his own front garden.
	So this is happening pretty frequently across the country.
	But if you complain about it, if you film it like I did, if you lodge a police complaint about the number of officers who were filming me and getting ready to tackle me to the ground if I said another word that they had overheard and misinterpreted, then you're a secret Nazi.
	Screw you.
	Go to hell.
	No, no thank you.
	Don't you dare conflate me with that.
	Okay.
	So, turns out though, if you complain about it, you shouldn't have a livelihood.
	So, a couple quick ones.
	This is the immediate aftermath in the cafe, in Roy's cafe.
	Bear in mind as well, Roy is famous as a character for marrying a trans woman.
	Oh.
	So they decided to make him the paragon of virtue.
	Let's go.
	I mean, how is he even allowed to use the community centre?
	It's privately owned.
	Yeah, well, can't they ban him?
	Well, that would prevent free speech.
	Free speech or not if he came in here starting.
	I'd ban him.
	Let him speak.
	And the more he sees that people don't want to hear what he has to say, the better.
	He shouldn't be made welcome.
	Yeah, you don't see him holding meetings in Speeddale, do you?
	Well, do you know what?
	Maybe we need to be more like Speeddale then and make the community centre somewhere that Griff wouldn't want to hold his meetings.
	How?
	So, remember?
	Remember?
	She's a counsellor.
	Yeah.
	So she's saying, I want to take over a private business and make sure that it de-platforms him.
	And it's priming the boomer audience for, oh, we'll have freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
	It's not freedom from consequences.
	Remember, we can apply whatever consequences we like to your speech.
	Yeah.
	So then what ends up happening is all the video footage they take, they edit it to make Roy look bad.
	They make it look like he's Joe Biden babbling with dementia and that he's unfairly prosecuted by the police for speech.
	They cut it up and put it online as misinformation.
	So then the clip gets showed to Roy and David, Max's stepdad.
	If we play the second to last clip here, please.
	It's not me speaking up for the good people of this country and for fighting for what's right.
	Learned lessons in the war with the Zebra Muscle.
	Excuse me?
	I'm sure I don't need to go on.
	No, we don't.
	Do you mind coming down to the station?
	Oh, that was just exercising my right to free speech.
	Arrested for telling the truth?
	This is a police state.
	We've got nothing to hide.
	It's a disgrace.
	They've edited the video and you come across like you...
	Like...
	like I've lost my mind.
	I know exactly what you said and you were spot on.
	The group of dangerous racists had inbound an environmental agenda.
	Meanwhile, Max is just trying to defend them.
	Well, he's young.
	He's impressionable.
	That griff was spouting all sorts of rubbish, drawing comparisons between migrants and invasive species.
	Disgusting.
	And Max thinks they just have no laugh.
	Far from it, I'm afraid.
	You need to keep your belief well away from that.
	Yeah, I've tried, believe me, I have, but it's like he's their own little personal Steven Spielberg now.
	I mean, I can't just sit back and hope he sees the light, can I? He needs protecting.
	They seem extremely hateful and, I dare say, dangerous.
	I'm going to have to do something, are I? Before Griff gets his claws any deeper.
	So we have to do something about people who are critiquing migration and complaining about free speech.
	How are they not worried that this is going to radicalise people in favour of Griff?
	Especially if you've only seen that episode out of context, the one last night where he beats up the migrant child.
	Yeah.
	Or if you're just seeing these clips randomly online.
	So this is the culmination of the story thus far, because it's not until tonight.
	David goes to confront Griff, and this gentleman here is Spider, and he's an undercover police officer infiltrating the group, of course, and monitoring them.
	So he's with Prevent, could be spending his time on Islamic extremists, but, oh, well, I suppose the far right are just blowing up children's pop concerts left and right.
	So let's look at this confrontation and see where the narrative goes, shall we?
	I can guess who's been pouring poison into your ear.
	Well, they're not wrong, though, are they?
	I'm gonna be straight with you, David, eh?
	I'm an intelligent bloke.
	Right.
	Now, you're Roy Croppers of this world.
	They might know their long, fancy words, but they don't know what they're going on about.
	It's not just Roy Cropper, though.
	It's everyone.
	And we all know what you really are, so...
	What's that?
	What, a violent racist who's either attacking young teenagers or grooming them to make them just like yourself?
	I mean...
	I knew you had a good imagination.
	Well, I didn't take you for a sheep, David.
	I'm not.
	Far from it.
	Okay, so stop listening to these woke, you know, self-righteous snowflakes.
	Who should I listen to, then?
	You?
	And your racist lies?
	David!
	Hey, no.
	Okay.
	Come listen to me talk.
	Have a pint with me.
	Watch Max's film.
	Don't judge before you know.
	Listen first.
	I've heard.
	And I've seen enough.
	Okay?
	So, it's hard very much, but I'll pass.
	Max.
	Come on.
	We're going.
	You might be.
	Max.
	No, no.
	It's fine by me.
	Max can stay as long as he likes.
	No.
	Peter?
	Romeo and Juliet?
	Now, in the context of the show, he's also been a really bad absent father at times.
	He's been involved in all sorts of trouble with some illicit characters who he probably shouldn't have brought into his home.
	But he is progressive, so, you know.
	Yeah, well, also, just the language they put in Griff's mouth as being, oh, snowflake, woke agenda, obviously written by a boomer who has a low-resolution view of Twitter, but...
	Yeah, we're right to complain about wokeness when, as Ash Sarkar says, it's socialism as long race, class, gender and sexuality lines.
	Like, I don't want to be put at gunpoint and have all my hard earnings reappropriated to people who have never suffered just because I'm a white man.
	But if you say that, you're a vicious, violent racist who likes beating up children.
	I'm just not interested in any kind of socialism.
	No.
	Go away, leave me alone.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't think, funnily enough, that German race socialism, which this character is secretly espousing, is as patriotic either.
	Moderate.
	I love your racist lies.
	Well, what did he say that was a lie?
	Or even racist?
	Yeah, outwardly.
	You actually had to put the storyline in and precede the ground that he was beating up kids.
	Otherwise...
	We wouldn't have any leg to stand on to actually critique him.
	Like he says, the media and banks are controlled by a secret cabal, and they're saying, oh, it's an anti-Semitic trope.
	I don't happen to remember Klaus Schwab being Jewish when they literally say, we control the financial sector.
	Yeah, we penetrate cabinets.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's just an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to say that they want to terraform the economy because they hate you towards wokeness and environmental issues, I'm sure.
	So after this, of course, there's a bunch of Ofcom complaints.
	I made one myself.
	To be fair, this is probably not going to go anywhere because Ofcom's an apparatus of the regime.
	However, they're forced to address it in the press if you do do it.
	So if you do feel like doing that, here's the webpage for that.
	You've seen the clips now, so you are actually informed.
	You're an informed viewer.
	You're entitled to make a complaint.
	Exactly, and they have to contend with it.
	And even if they don't, it just shows more proof that it's adherent to the narrative.
	Now...
	I just wanted to say this, because I spoke about this in GB News with Mark Dolan on Friday, and Charlie Lawson, who's a former Coronation Street actor, who's a very nice fella, and he said something very interesting.
	He said, the writers don't have a choice.
	If a command comes from on high, they have to follow it.
	Yeah.
	So who's on high?
	Well...
	Let's have a look, shall we?
	First of all, it's the BAFTAs.
	So they've got this thing called Albert, and it's pushing sustainability into content and the production booths.
	So behind the scenes, changes are being made to weave sustainability requirements into the commissioning process, with many of the media brands making those considerations mandatory for editorial and production itself.
	Karis Taylor, director of Albert, said,"...we're excited to see the progress being made across the industry and all genres, but that the industry needs to go further and faster still." We're good to go.
	In the last year since the pledge was signed, Albert has worked closely with commissioning teams to embed sustainability at the very beginning of the production process, providing bespoke editorial training to over a thousand people since 2021, and launching a new editorial engagement tool freely available to help those working in TV and film to help consider new ways to bring climate storytelling into their programs.
	So is this why he's an eco-fascist rather than just being a regular fascist?
	Yes, and it's also why during COP26 all the soaps crossed over and shared characters.
	Right.
	Go to the next one.
	They all went into each other's programmes to talk about climate change in the various areas of the UK. Right.
	So the narrative is homogenising because of the regulatory bodies who are controlling these programmes.
	And I just suppose it's a coincidence, of course, that they all had to reopen during COVID when everything else was shut to make sure you get your daily dose of indoctrination.
	Let's see the kind of people they support.
	Nazi Pelosi visited the Coronation Street cobbles.
	Embarrassing.
	Yeah, but I don't think President Trump's going to get an invite to the Rovers' return any time soon.
	And funnily enough, the girl on the far left there, ironic her placement, her recent storyline was about a goth hate crime.
	So she and her boyfriend were attacked by a gang of all-white chavvy youths who filmed the hate crime, killed him and beat up her and gave her PTSD. Wasn't there a case of a goth girl being stamped to death?
	Yeah, I'm sure there was.
	I do remember something like that.
	I don't think it was by Chavs.
	No.
	Well, even if it was, should we look up the proportionate to population hate crime statistics?
	Like, for example, who attacks gay people in the middle of the street?
	Oh, no, we can't do that.
	That would be Islamophobic, of course.
	And the last one is just something that I've noticed from Paul Joseph Watson's coverage on this a little while ago.
	He's raised this.
	The Health and Safety Executive, which is a government branch, have been telling Coronation Street how to represent certain issues in their storyline.
	So they did a carbon monoxide poisoning storyline.
	And The government GAF Safety Register wrote their script.
	Right.
	So it's an open propaganda arm of the government.
	Sure, but I mean, I guess in something like this you could be like, well, the GAF Safety Register has some sort of expertise.
	Of course, yeah.
	So you could go consult.
	But what's stopping them consulting?
	Coming to us.
	Or...
	I wouldn't be shocked if someone with familiarity at the home office...
	Well, Griff's rhetoric was surprisingly slick, actually.
	So someone must be aware of one.
	Yeah, there must be some decentralized pressure group that's pushing for online safety, for example, that is talking to Prevent, saying, oh, here's a list of far-right extremists, like the Intellectual Dark Web Network.
	Here's exactly what they say, and I'll draft up a script for you.
	So the strange authenticity of the language coming out of this character's mouth has to be I'm besmirched with the obvious fact that we already know that he's beating up migrant children in the street in masks.
	And so if you know that that is what they're trying to do, if they're trying to push you towards censorship, if they're trying to radicalise your relatives against your fair criticisms, against wokeness and immigration, then show them this video, tell them to switch off, don't give them the ratings, and insulate the boomers from being propagandised.
	Isn't it interesting, though, how at no point are they capable of actually refuting Griff's rhetoric?
	Yeah, my dad did sit there and watch it and said, well, he's right about the NHS. Yeah.
	I mean, he makes a series of actually good points, and then all she can do is say, you're a racist!
	It's like, well, look, I'm still telling the truth.
	And he was telling the truth, and they're like, oh, you're lying.
	Yeah, the truth makes you a Nazi.
	Anyway.
	I ran a bit, didn't I? Okay, so let's talk about Qatar's gay pride, because, I mean, obviously FIFA and the Football World Championships are taking place in Qatar.
	I'm not interested in any way in football, but I am interested in the politics surrounding it because it's kind of embarrassing that all we have is we can be patriots as long as it's gay pride and foreigners evil.
	And also we talk about civil rights and human rights abuses all the time, but only in the framework of the rights of gay people and never once mention Islam.
	Yeah.
	Well, it does come up a little bit, actually.
	So anyway, before we go on, go and sign up to Lizzy's.com, go watch this Hangout.
	Is Tony Blair based?
	Because Tony Blair is pretty much the reason why our national dialectic is advancing gay rights and against nationalism.
	So, okay, thanks, Tony.
	Is he based?
	The answer is, of course, no.
	That's why we have a parallel flag flying everywhere.
	Yes, exactly.
	And he can see how far this has all gone.
	It's gone a lot further than he thought he was going to go.
	He was really looking for our values, you see.
	And what have our values become?
	Well, it's literally just become gay rights.
	Anyway, let's begin with a couple of silly things like beer being banned in Qatar.
	Yeah, fine.
	What did you expect?
	I mean, it's in the stadium itself, not outside of the stadium, so you can still get drunk and go watch the matches.
	So don't worry about that.
	But, you know...
	That happens in lots of stadiums, because of football hooliganism.
	Like, England's ever been famous for that.
	Anyway, moving on, right.
	So, Ian Hislop on Have I Got Needs For You was criticising Gary Neville.
	Yes.
	Because he's like, oh, how could you?
	How could you take Qatar's money?
	He's like, well, I'm going to go over there and challenge them in person.
	Sure you will.
	Yeah.
	And their money.
	But this is the argument, because Qatar is evil, because it's Islamic.
	Right.
	Agreed.
	I mean, I didn't say it.
	That's Ian Hislob's argument.
	And all of the woke progressives who are criticising people like David Beckham, who has become Qatar's football ambassador.
	As Fox Sports points out, he's one of the faces of the FIFA World Cup, working as an ambassador for the Arab nation, and one of the many ways is trying to use this tournament as a vehicle to rebrand the country.
	It doesn't make me laugh that he once described himself as a feminist, so I presume that David Beckham now holds the position that Islam was always right about women.
	Yeah, well, I mean, it's not just that either.
	Qatar is something like 12% Qatari, with 86 or 88% foreign workers.
	And we say, I'm not even joking.
	Really?
	So it's some sort of dictatorial ethno-supremacist minority who hold all the oil money?
	Yes.
	Lording over an underclass.
	That's...
	Essentially a slave class.
	Wow.
	Yeah, of foreign workers.
	Right.
	So, not exactly a great place.
	So, there are lots of legitimate criticisms that people are making, like, what about workers' rights?
	What about the treatment of women?
	What about the treatment of the gays?
	Yeah, it's an incredibly...
	Repressive place.
	It's an incredibly traditionally Islamic place.
	Yes.
	Right?
	That's what it is.
	And, I mean, you know, you want to go and hold the World Cup there, that's fine, but expect...
	What they are like.
	They're not progressives.
	They're not Western progressives.
	Shock and surprise.
	But the weird thing is why Beckham is doing this, right?
	He's worth $748 million and he's getting paid $264 million over 10 years to be the face of Qatari tourism.
	So why is he doing this?
	Maybe it's the naivety of the golden goalposts theory of where they think they'll export material prosperity by putting the...
	No, no, no.
	It's not material prosperity.
	The Qataris have got lots of material prosperity because of oil wealth, right?
	What it is is moral righteousness.
	This is a crusade.
	That's why.
	And they get paid handsomely for it.
	So anyway, one of the points in here is, yeah, is bolstering the brand worth doing the damage he's doing to his own brand, right?
	Because he is.
	And this got kicked up by a comedian called Joe Lysett, Joe Lysett, who put up this video, and the website Benders Like Beckham, because apparently David Beckham's a gay icon, despite not being gay.
	But he was like, look, you either proclaim your fealty to the gay community and give up your Qatari paymasters, You know, the quarter of a billion that you're being paid.
	Or I'm going to shred ten grand of my own money.
	Which isn't really much of a threat, is it?
	No.
	Why does David Beckham care if you shred 10 grand of your own money?
	I mean, he doesn't.
	No.
	There's no leverage held over him, though.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There's no leverage whatsoever.
	Apart from the lack of the mandate from the gay community will be rescinded.
	It's like, okay.
	So Beckham was like, well, look, I'm not going to do that, actually.
	The Guardian reported that he was going to be a progressive in Qatar, which is...
	Very interesting.
	The issue of workers and LGBTQ rights proceeds to be a theme in the build-up to the World Cup, along with questions of how much Qatar has changed after being awarded the tournament in 2010.
	remember in 2010 the world wasn't so progressive there wasn't the current thing it wasn't the only moral legitimacy the west had is to enable homosexuality around the world like there were other things the west was proud of at that point now 12 years later Qatar's like what the hell are you talking about you knew what we were we haven't changed You've changed.
	Yeah, we bought our way into this not expecting that you'd have your moral values entirely subverted from within.
	And now entirely dictated by Twitter.
	Because in 2010, social media was not the thing that it is now.
	And so no one would have seen this coming.
	And so everyone's just like, what the hell?
	So Beckham has been criticised by LGBT plus groups, including the Three Lions Pride group, which is embarrassing how captured Twitter is, football is by Twitter.
	But Beckham has said that Qatar and its ambassadors were changing lives for the better.
	This is lovely, right?
	Listen to this.
	Every one of the great players I was lucky enough to play with started in exactly the same way, in the back garden, a park or the street outside their home, with just a ball and an imagination they dared let to run wild.
	Almost two decades ago, a small group of football lovers from Qatar had an equally fantastic dream that they could bring the greatest football show on earth to their home country and to the Middle East for the first time.
	And now here we are.
	Because when dreams are harnessed and mixed with dedication and hard work, they are no longer dreams.
	They become reality.
	That's right.
	Those 10-year-old Qatari boys making gold posts out of the skulls of migrant workers.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sorry, but I love the corporate BS progressive speak.
	It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
	Qatar is the new progressive place.
	And so this is him.
	That was his words, apparently.
	Right.
	Obviously not his words.
	No.
	David Beckham, like...
	I'm quite so eloquent.
	Yeah, I like David Beckham, but that's not how he speaks.
	But anyway, so Joe Lycett was like, well, I'm going to shred my 10 grand then.
	And apparently put it into a woodchipper, which was dumb.
	I mean, I suppose, you know, you're going to be a man of your word.
	Although, is it true that he...
	Yeah, no, he recently, an hour ago, just as we went live, came out and did a video and saying, of course I wouldn't be so irresponsible as to shred my own money because of all the bad press.
	He had also pre-taped it, so he was willing to put it out, had shock volume, but he's unavailable.
	Maybe Twitter's having problems.
	Maybe Twitter doesn't need their stuff.
	He'd filmed it at the same time this reveal as actually shredding it, so he'd always intended to say, well, obviously I wasn't so responsible.
	So this is just a big PR campaign for his ailing comedy career.
	And he also knew that David Beckham wasn't going to do it.
	Yeah.
	So it's just a big virtue signal.
	Yes.
	But anyway, so that was a dumb virtue signal because that's literally the only moral standing that they have.
	He also shredded a copy of a 2002 gay magazine that had David Beckham on the front cover.
	Didn't shred the Quran, though, did he?
	No.
	Which is why Qatar holds these opinions.
	Very brave.
	Much progressive.
	Anyway, Germany really won up the English team, right?
	We sent a plane that had rainbow written on it with a very small pride flag.
	Apparently it's on the guy's foot in this.
	Isn't this the meme of the Middle Eastern bombing run with the BLM fist and the rainbow flag painted on it?
	Yeah, except this is how we were sending the England team there.
	And Germany were like...
	That's nothing.
	You're like a little baby.
	Look at this.
	Diversity wins!
	With all of the new Germans plastered across theirs.
	And I'm like, okay, hang on a second.
	Qatar's a very diverse place.
	Yeah.
	It's got slaves of every race and nationality.
	Like, and it's ruled over by a 100% diverse Arab ethnocaste.
	Is the L in LGBTQ stand for Luftwaffe now or something?
	But, like, diversity, that wasn't the question.
	Yes.
	The question was women's rights, homosexual rights, or workers' rights.
	Now you're going too far, Carl.
	But not diversity of race, but this is what this tells you.
	This is, oh, everything's been homogenized into the mononarrative.
	If I say diversity, you know I mean LGBTQ. That's the thing.
	It's all been, like, the progressive mononarrative is being stamped on everything.
	As if the Qatari's a white nationalist.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	Diversity wins.
	Qatari's white!
	Yeah, exactly!
	This is so stupid, right?
	But you can see that the airline themselves, they put out a statement saying that Lufthansa, which is the name of the airline, is a byword for openness, tolerance, diversity, and bringing people together, and that the company welcomed everyone on board regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, nationality, identity, or sexual orientation.
	They look remarkably white, all the men that are coming down the stairs there.
	Sure.
	But the point is, the term diversity, it doesn't mean now multiple races.
	Now it means literally everything progressive.
	And it's probably meant that for a while.
	And so FIFA president Gianni Infantio was forced to come out and give like an hour-long ramble.
	I watched this when I was doing the dishes the other night because I was just like, what the hell is going on here, right?
	Right.
	Today I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker.
	That's somehow you doing the dishes rather than your wife is far less emasculating than whatever the hell he's just doing.
	No, no, it's just the one job I agree to in the entire house.
	Oh, so you don't trust her to do it?
	No, no, no.
	She particularly hates doing the dishes and I actually don't care.
	So I'm fine with that compromise, right?
	So it's...
	But this was remarkable, right?
	So it's...
	The whole thing, there was nothing really clippable out of it, otherwise I would have got some clips.
	But this whole thing was remarkable because it was just, he was essentially like morally rebuking them from a progressive perspective, implying that they were racist for critiquing the Qatari's record on human rights or women's rights or gay rights or whatever, right?
	He's basically claiming that Europeans are equally as racist and intolerant as the Qatari's.
	So what are you talking about?
	He was an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and he was treated exactly like a Qatari migrant worker.
	Didn't he say he was beaten up at school for being ginger, and so it's exactly like the people that have been thrown in the foundations of the Qatar Stadium, like they're building a Soviet canal?
	Basically the same, yes.
	And so he essentially came down to, look, we can't make them better if we don't bring them into the club.
	It's like, that's remarkable.
	That's remarkable.
	And so if we can't improve Qatar's morality with grandstanding, then we have to go over there and incorporate them into the West, where he believes essentially they will be slowly subverted out of Islam.
	So colonize Qatar.
	And into the Western moral framework.
	And the Western moral framework doesn't prize virtue or excellence.
	Inclusivity, that's all it prizes.
	And eventually, we will subvert the Qataris through our superior Western morals.
	Isn't this just John Stuart Mill's imperialism for tolerance?
	Yes.
	Right.
	That's exactly what this is.
	Hence, another reason to hate utilitarianism.
	But this is the only moral framework that the West has now.
	You can't say they do such a thing.
	You can't say the Qataris are bad because they are being evil to people.
	You can't say that they're bad because they're exploiting foreign labour.
	No.
	Because we do that.
	Yeah, like colonialists.
	No, no, no.
	We can't criticise them on anything that might approach a perspective of virtue.
	No, no.
	It just has to be utilitarian progressivism.
	That's the only moral standard that we have left.
	Anyway, so moving on.
	FIFA were like, look, don't wear the one-love-arm plans.
	Because, you know, again, not wearing an England flag.
	No.
	Wearing the pride flag.
	It's like, great.
	Okay, and they were like, no!
	The football association was like, no!
	Everyone's going to wear these pride armbands.
	Right.
	I mean, it's, you know, no real difference to having a swastika, in my opinion.
	No.
	It's just another political armband, which is kind of cringe.
	But they're like, no, this is what we stand for, damn it!
	Gays!
	Gays everywhere!
	Gays all around the world!
	That's all we stand for!
	So we kneel for blacks and stand for gays?
	Yes.
	Thanks for the update.
	We'll get to the kneeling in a minute, right?
	So, yeah, Harry Kane was adamant that he would wear the armband in the first game against Iran.
	Right.
	Stunning, brave.
	I'm sure the Iranians know that he's wearing the armband.
	That's it.
	Call off all the gay executions.
	If you wore an England flag, that would also be incorporated into it.
	Like, the flag of England actually has moral significance.
	Not killing gay people is part of that, because rights...
	Okay, never mind.
	Let's move on, right?
	Right.
	England and Wales will defy the edict, with Kane and Bale set to wear the armbands that feature the rainbow slogan after they agreed to do so for the tournament with other major European nations, in a bid to highlight issues surrounding the tournament in Qatar.
	We respect FIFA's request, but we are committed to wearing our one-love armbands in this World Cup, said one football association source.
	And therefore, it's like, no, we're going to be woke.
	Screw you.
	Okay, fair enough.
	FIFA were like, if you do this, you will not be playing in the tournament.
	They're like, well, I mean, okay, I'm not going to wear the armband then.
	I mean, Christ, you know, I'm going to stand on these morals until it costs me something.
	And then, you know, if you go to the next one, the Football Association with six others confirmed it will not ask its captain to wear the anti-discriminatory armband in Qatar after FIFA made it clear they risked being immediately booked from their games for wearing unapproved equipment.
	And they're like, yeah, well, we were prepared to pay fines for breaching kit regulations, but we cannot put our players in a situation where they might even be booked or forced to leave the field of play.
	It's like, okay, so that bent the knee really quick, didn't it?
	You know, FIFA will like that you get banned.
	Oh, fine.
	We're very frustrated by the FIFA decision, which we believe is unprecedented.
	We wrote FIFA in September informing them of our wish to wear the One Love armband to actively support inclusion in football and had no response.
	Our players and coaches are disappointed.
	They are strong supporters of inclusion and will show support in other ways.
	So we wanted to wear it for religious reasons, and the Qataris didn't want us to wear it for religious reasons.
	Well, if they're supporting inclusion in football, can they support including me in their payroll?
	Because I'm shit at football, but I quite like to be included in how much money you're getting.
	No, but we're looking at the conflict of two religions here.
	Right.
	And so, right, okay, well, we need to be passive-aggressive about this.
	So, instead of the BBC hosting the Qatari football introductory ceremony, no, they instead got...
	Gary Lineker, giving us a woke lecture.
	Well, I'm glad they got an authentic black man to...
	Yeah, I forgot about that.
	Gary Lineker's racial ambiguity, apparently.
	Many people were racist to him.
	It's like, Gary...
	No, they weren't, mate.
	You know, you at best look like you've got a suntan.
	Yeah, you look like white Rishi Sunak.
	Yeah, sorry, just no.
	But anyway, in its opening ceremony, there was lots of diversity and inclusion.
	It was designed to cater to a Western audience, but they were like, no, viewers watching on BBC One tuned in for a discussion between presenters, Gary Lineker and Alex Scott, which was criticism leveled at Qatar.
	Right.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, there's lots of reasons to criticize Qatar.
	But, like, do we have to be Gary Lineker, the sports ball commentator?
	Like, the insufferably woke guy?
	And if you go to the next one, Gary Lineker opened the BBC's coverage of the Qatar World Cup to criticize the host country's record on human rights and the treatment of migrant workers as to the build-up of the...
	towards the build-up of the first match of the tournament.
	It was dominated by discussion of off-field concerns.
	It's like, yes, thank you, Mr.
	Football Pundit.
	Right.
	But you didn't forego your salary for it, did you?
	No, of course not.
	And he did this in Qatar as well.
	Oh, right.
	He's in Qatar while he does this.
	Concerned about climate change, of course.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is the most controversial World Cup in history because the Qataris are Islamic.
	And we're not.
	We're communist.
	Morgan Freeman was at the opening ceremony.
	He was a part of it.
	But you wouldn't have known because you couldn't see the opening ceremony because Gary Lineker was too busy browbeating you by human rights.
	The funny thing is, right, his entire segment in this opening performance was to promote what they call, quote, the staggeringly and unintentionally ironic message that everyone was welcoming Qatar.
	As in they were like, no, we're inclusive.
	Freeman's contributions saw him called across the stage by a Qatari YouTuber called Ganim Al Mufta, asking, am I welcome?
	Al Mufta, who has a rare spinal condition, responded, we sent out the call because everyone is welcome.
	This is an invitation to the entire world.
	They then seem to address some criticism leveled at Qatar since it was granted the rights in 2010 by suggesting other nations should be accepting of the Qatari way of doing things.
	So they're using our own standards against us, saying, you're not being inclusive of Qatar.
	Yes.
	This is very much the sort of Black Panther, we don't do that here.
	Yeah.
	Instead of seeing another way, we dismissed it and we demanded to see our own way.
	And now the world seems even more distant and divided, Freeman said.
	How can so many languages and cultures come together if only one way is accepted?
	Great point.
	Great point.
	It's literally homosexual imperialism promoted by the West.
	You Qataris have to do exactly as we do on gays.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	I don't support what Qatar does with gays.
	But I also recognize that I've got nothing to do with Qatar.
	Yeah, I also don't want to pay to transform their moral values, thank you very much.
	And if you're like, okay, we're going to host a football tournament in the country, I'm like, well, okay, but you know what their rules are.
	You know, it's not very pleasant.
	Yeah, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
	Exactly.
	I would have been like, well, don't allow them to host it.
	Don't host it in the Middle East if you don't want them to be Middle Eastern.
	Anyway, they decided, though, that they can take the knee.
	Right.
	The last noble act of defiance that the English have is taking the knee in support of George Floyd.
	What this has to do with Qatar.
	Well, number one, two years ago.
	Number two, if you believe that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, despite the amount of fentanyl in the system, then justice has been served.
	Number three, again, kneeling for George Floyd.
	Seems rude.
	Yeah.
	At least you kneeled for nine minutes less than was on the video, I suppose.
	They've carried out this anti-racism gesture several times, of course.
	And Gareth Southgate was like, it's what we stand for as a team, and have done for a long period of time.
	Not winning.
	But you're not standing.
	Yeah, and you're kneeling.
	But also, what has Black Lives Matter got to do with Qatar?
	Fantastic point.
	Defund the Sharia police?
	Yeah, what are you talking about?
	What have they got to do with George Floyd?
	Or anti-racism?
	Are we going to call Qatar racist now?
	They're 100% diverse.
	What are you talking about?
	Stop being racist.
	Haha, good.
	Pick up your pickaxe and get it to work.
	They say this, we feel this is the biggest, and we think it's a strong statement that will go around the world for young people, in particular, to see that inclusivity is very important.
	And there we go, again, the mononarrative of current thingism.
	Yes.
	Like, everything, oh, well, we can just put diversity on the thing, and the Qataris will be like, oh, no, diversity.
	Ah!
	We'll just bend the knee for George Floyd.
	The Qataris, like, curses.
	They've got us again.
	Like, you dumbasses!
	Like, they don't see this as a mononarrative.
	They don't understand what that means.
	But they're not taking the knee for the Bangladeshi sweatshop workers, though, who made the England kit.
	Of course not.
	For 21p an hour, 160 quid per kit.
	Was it in Claudia Webb's constituency, by any chance?
	Not this time.
	60 hours a week in Dhaka.
	Or near Dhaka, sorry.
	In the sweatshops.
	That's where Nike's making their England kit.
	FIFA have given them a 12-year contract worth £400 million for the sweatshop labour.
	But, you know, we've got to bend the knee for George Floyd in Qatar.
	What nonsense.
	The incoherent nonsense this is.
	And the real question is, well, hang on a second, look, is it safe for a gay person to go to Qatar and watch the football?
	You know, you can sit there virtue signaling all the time, but should gay fans go?
	And the Foreign Office is like, no.
	In its general advice, the Foreign Office says that people should be mindful while the country is making some allowances for World Cup visitors.
	Qatar is a conservative country.
	Yes, that's right.
	Qatar is just your average conservative country.
	That's a very misleading statement, isn't it?
	Qatar is an Islamic country.
	That's what it is.
	And they should be aware of its laws and customs.
	So what laws and customs should LGBTQ people know about?
	Well...
	Quite a few, actually.
	For a start, same-sex sexual activity is illegal under the Penal Code, which faces at least a jail sentence of up to seven years for sodomy and sexual incourse.
	Is Milo their policy advisor?
	No, but while Katara's denied has ever happened, under Sharia law, it's technically possible for them to be put to death.
	So, Conservative, Sharia law.
	Conservative, Sharia law.
	Islamic, Sharia law.
	That's the connection.
	But of course, no one brings that up.
	They just call the Qataris bad people.
	And we'll just leave it at that.
	Video comments then, I suppose.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Lotus Eater White Pill.
	I'm going to recommend this movie, A Christmas Story Christmas.
	It's a sequel to a classic known as A Christmas Story.
	If you haven't seen it, you should.
	They're both on HBO Max right now and the sequel is only on HBO Max and it stars the cast from the original movie that was back in the 80s.
	Now all the actors are adults.
	They're playing an adult version It does sound wholesome.
	Do you have a favorite Christmas film by any chance?
	Die hard.
	Batman Returns.
	Is that all of them, John?
	Okay.
	Do you want to take it away?
	Jamie says, Hi Carl, I've watched the channel for over eight years, and just want to thank you.
	Curious what you'd think would be the best way to get into English politics, like what groups to join.
	I'm 22 and from the north of England, so it's a bit hard to see what I can even try to do.
	If you want to influence actual politics, reform is selecting candidates at the moment.
	I was going to suggest reform, because we need to start breaking the Conservatives, frankly.
	Yeah, but at the moment, you aren't going to be able to break the Westminster bubble.
	So if you want a full-fledged political career to get experience, you are going to have to move to London.
	Yes.
	Or near it, at least.
	But being a local candidate for reform and campaigning in your local area, using any personal connections that you have, is a good start.
	And just spreading the word, basically.
	Conservatives are dead.
	Nobody versus conservatives anymore.
	It's all reform now.
	End of story.
	Anyway, Callum says, Twitter polling, far safer than real elections.
	Unironically true.
	Ignacio says, I feel like Musk is dealing with everything by going with his gut feeling of what will benefit him and the company, even if it's not immediately apparent.
	This is why I think he's fumbling and making mistakes, and he's not really going for a hyper-planned takeover.
	I think that's self-evident.
	Um...
	Omar says, my hope is that Elon's success shows how much bloat is hampering companies for massive cost, but no additional benefit.
	If you can gut a company and not even affect the day-to-day running of it, DIE is in some real trouble once people figure out how much more money they could be making, they don't have to pay their tithe to the woke.
	Well, interestingly, we did have that where you had to refresh the Twitter page.
	So, you know, maybe he has a couple too many engineers.
	There are some cracks showing, but generally it seems to be working.
	Bald Eagle says, Well, Musk's response to Jones coming back to Twitter has firmly cemented my choice not to go back to Twitter.
	If Musk is going to restore free speech and not unban people that he personally disagreed with, then he's no better than Kamal he just got rid of.
	We just had one group of morally superior people to just one person that he is a morally superior person.
	Musk won't apply this standard to Democrats because he'll get Twitter yeeted off the App Store and Play Store.
	The more things change, the more they stay the same.
	Well, I think that's a bit too strong a stance, but you aren't wrong in principle.
	But it is, in reality, I think, going to be better than when it was run by the left.
	But also, if you're in the UK and you don't have really arbitrary hate speech laws, policing what you can say online, what are you afraid of other than just losing a Twitter account?
	If you're saying something a tiny bit edgy and you have a First Amendment protection if you're in the US, for example, why would you be bothered about being banned unless you need it for outreach or something like that?
	Well, again, it is the global town square.
	It's where the discourse happens.
	I agree, it shouldn't be banned.
	But at this stage, it's like you can still operate on there.
	Yeah, there are lots of other places.
	As Sage Silver says, while some righteous celebrities are getting unbanned, the important reporting, actually dangerous to the regime for Veritas and Jones, is still banned.
	No legitimate TOS violation.
	No, Veritas is back.
	Yep.
	Which is good.
	Jones, however, is of course not.
	But it is interesting how now it's about the dictatorial whims of Elon.
	And so now we're returning to like court politics.
	Yep.
	You know, it's very interesting.
	Anyway, Michael says, everyone who went to Epstein's Island and abused kids are still on Twitter.
	Yep.
	George says, Um...
	I think he'll have to if he's on the campaign trail at some point, but it will be very reluctantly.
	But I think he should just take up my idea and do a late post, because then it forces all the journalists to go on Truth Social and report on it.
	Or get it late, yeah.
	Yeah, because if you get it late, there goes the traction for your outlet.
	Time gate it.
	Yeah, I mean, I saw some people talking about it, like, well, you know, maybe Trump should essentially offer to sell Truth Social to Elon Musk.
	As part of the federated system might be an interesting idea.
	Maybe.
	We'll just sell it and, you know, Musk can just deactivate it basically.
	And then Trump doesn't lose.
	Because, I mean, it probably costs, what, like 10 million pounds or dollars to create?
	You know, it can't have been that much to create true social, you know?
	And so, like, Twitter has got 6 billion in liquid cash just in their coffers at the moment.
	It probably isn't that much for it to just buy it, shut it down, shove those people back over Twitter.
	Trump then can legitimately say, see, I'm a great businessman.
	I lost nothing.
	And I'm back on my account and everything.
	That would be a way of sort of reuniting the streams, as it were.
	That would be smart.
	But of course, does Elon want that?
	But I mean, Trump, a huge draw for the platform.
	Yep.
	There's no question.
	So it probably would make business sense.
	Anyway, Taffy says, our British soaps and their indoctrination of oldenormies.
	I call them boomer grimmers.
	Also, Twitter is great right now, but on my third soccer count this month, bots be taking down certain words.
	Hmm.
	Wuhan Wetmarket says, I actually agree with that.
	Yeah, I don't disagree with that either.
	But the people who are on Twitter have committed far more egregious offences than Alex Jones has apologised.
	So his prudence is allowing him to slip on the standard.
	But then it becomes a question of, okay, well, actually we now need to kind of persuade Elon that, look, we understand your moral outrage, because I genuinely do.
	And Alex Jones was genuinely wrong.
	But forgiveness, you know, reconciliation and free speech are more important than his personal view.
	I mean, you can block Alex Jones.
	You don't have to hear from him.
	Yeah, agreed.
	I think we're out of time.
	Yep.
	Well, thank you very much for watching.
	We'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
	This has been me and Carl.

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