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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 24th of November 2022.
	I'm joined by Connor.
	Hello there.
	And today we're going to be talking about the narrative, what the elites say at their conferences, and equality feels like oppression, at least for some.
	Well, we'll start off just mentioning something on the website, so if you want to set up the merch store, so do go and check that out on the website.
	Otherwise, we shall begin with the narrative.
	So the narrative has fallen apart, and this is not a new occurrence.
	This happens every couple of months when the Dems decide that they're going to jump on something, make a huge amount of assumptions, usually about some guy in America who's decided that terrorism is the way forward, and then it turns out there's a fact that's inconvenient that gets revealed, and then it all falls apart and we all have to run away.
	Have we found our new Jussie Smollett?
	Yeah, well, it's usually something to do with that, isn't it?
	It's usually BLM, where it's just like, oh, yeah, no, he had a knife, or, oh, no, he was shooting the cops beforehand, or something like that.
	Instead, this time around, well, it's by Colorado Springs, isn't it?
	We'll start off just by mentioning first the premium podcast debate might as well be dead that me and Carl did in response to Kelvin's discussions with some NPCs.
	Because the thing is, if you just operate as an NPC, you don't end up with the facts, and in which case, you end up looking like a moron to anyone who's looked at the situation a bit more than just, oh, I read it on the news and then I moved on.
	Right, yeah.
	So you listen to CNN, and then we're like, yeah, that's enough.
	They'll get back to me if something changes.
	They also do all have about the same charisma as the Oblivion characters who have their re-recorded dialogue voice lines within their actual voice lines.
	Tell you the things I don't want to hear.
	I still can't get over that.
	Anyway, do go and check that out on the podcast.
	I had to archive this, just to be sure, because this is Vox, who reported at the time, shooting at Colorado LGBT club kills five, injured 25.
	And you think, okay, that's a bit weird.
	Vox doesn't usually do breaking news.
	Of course, it's not about the news, is it?
	It's about, well, here's our chance to push a narrative.
	And they did.
	You might think also just another day in Chicago, but then again, it's an LGBT club, so we have to do politics, don't we?
	Authorities are investigating the attack as a potential hate crime.
	Though the shooter's motive is not yet known, so why bother if you're Vox?
	You don't do breaking news, so a bit weird.
	The attack at the Club Q in Colorado Spring coincides with the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric, legislation and harassment and violence in the United States.
	And the hyperlink they have there for that is an article talking about, quote, Republicans and militant groups portray LGBTQ people as groomers targeting children, among other baseless smears.
	Right, but we have it on video of you dragging children into strip clubs.
	The thing, the obvious narrative setting is, yeah, Republicans think that we shouldn't be able to talk to children about blowjobs at the age of four.
	Yep.
	They did this.
	Yeah.
	That's them.
	Yeah.
	This is the real thing.
	You don't think for a minute maybe you shouldn't be talking to children about blowjobs as well as not killing people, but...
	No, no, no, no.
	We have to ignore all of that.
	This is why we need to talk to children about blowjobs at the age of four.
	I just...
	Okay, sure.
	Otherwise we'll have violence on our hands.
	LGBTQ rights, Fox rights, are on the line of the current political climate.
	Republicans have stepped up the anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric in the recent years, particularly against trans people.
	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation earlier this year preventing teachers in public schools from discussing gender identity or sexuality with students from kindergarten through to third grade.
	Beyond that, you can do what you want, but beyond third grade, that's fine.
	Kindergarten to third grade, I can't believe he did this.
	Quote, or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards, the law reads.
	So you can't give children sex advice without consulting their parents at all, and you can't give it to children that are preschool age.
	Kids in third grade, just don't talk about sex.
	Yep.
	If you could do that.
	And Vox brings that up in this article about the shooting, because...
	What?
	I mean, it's just narrative setting.
	It's obvious what it is.
	Which is, if you don't allow us to talk to your kindergartens about sex, then we have violence.
	Yeah, see?
	How dare you conflate all LGBTQ plus community people with grooming and sexualizing children.
	Also, in a shooting against an LGBTQ plus community club, we're going to mention grooming and sexualizing children.
	It's obvious as well that, no, being gay doesn't make you a groomer.
	Those are two different things.
	Hence why Gays Against Groomers exists.
	Lost on such people.
	We'll go to the news, because there is some good news in a horrible incident like this.
	We have two lads who apparently took down the shooter, and it's a bit weird, because this also got politicized by the people there, because they couldn't just let things fly.
	If you scroll down, we can see the graphics that were put up to be like, yes, look, drag queen power.
	The Colorado shooter was taken down by a retired military veteran and a drag queen who stomped on him with her heels.
	Oh.
	Yeah, the thing is, if the individual here had the strength of a woman, I don't know.
	No.
	Let's not be silly about this.
	You can see Lauren Southern making the point, though.
	It's just like, yeah, if there were women, they'd need a gun.
	That's just true.
	You can vote about it, but that's the reason why...
	I spoke to a guy recently who was mentioning his wife feels perfectly safe in the United States, even with all the violent crime that we don't have here.
	She came to the UK, she just feels constantly unsafe because she doesn't have a gun.
	He's like, if you leave the home and some guy breaks in, what am I to do?
	And he's like, well...
	Yeah, and if you pepper spray your assailant, you're the one slapped off in calves.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we go to the next one.
	This is a piece of news that was brought up by Tim Pool and got him a lot of hate, which is he posted a screenshot.
	How could a screenshot of Club Q's own Facebook post get him hate?
	Well, because he noted that the day before the shooting took place, they have a post celebrating that they're having an all-ages drag brunch.
	Come on down and visit.
	And then, yeah, that happened.
	Thing is, I looked up the Facebook page, so I wanted to see how often was this, and Club Q, from what I could find searching, only did this two other times, and it only started this September.
	This is in between a load of posts about how they're becoming a monkeypox vaccine centre as well, which is weird.
	Just a very current thing factory.
	The interesting thing is what I can see there...
	But they start in September.
	It's just the point of like, well, you didn't do this, so then the Gays Against Groomers stuff kicks up, and then someone like you is like, you know what, we're going to have all-ages brunches, which...
	Yeah, that's a terrible idea.
	So is killing people, for clarity.
	Yeah.
	The interesting thing as well is they say we're celebrating Transgender Day of Remembrance with the all-ages brunch drag show.
	I don't happen to remember Armistice Day being celebrated by cabaret.
	So there is such a thing as dignity.
	If you're genuinely talking about so many transgender people who have lost their lives to hate crimes and or the high suicide rate, which is obviously brought on by the fact that they can't get surgery, why not do a more dignified celebration?
	But no, instead we're going to expose children to cross-dressing strippers.
	Pure ideology.
	Yeah.
	That's all it ends up being.
	We have Tim Paul who got in even more trouble because not only did he do this, he decided to tweet this out, which is, uh, we shouldn't tolerate pedophiles grooming kits and, uh, Club Q had a grooming event.
	How do we prevent the violence and stop grooming?
	Good on you, baby, man.
	He's gotten in a huge amount of trouble because, what is he saying here?
	He's saying, well, look, these things are open to pedophiles exploiting them.
	If you're gonna have an all-ages drag brunch, it's not a good idea.
	No.
	Regardless of the shooting that's taken place, also don't do that.
	Two things can be true at once.
	Don't kill people who are innocent and don't groom kids.
	Seems like a pretty normal thing for a political activist to say as their goals.
	Of course it wasn't.
	Everyone had a meltdown.
	Particularly the Young Turks had an extremely big meltdown.
	Particularly Cenk, who decided to start screeching about how Tim Pool's beanie is where he has to wear it to keep all the pedophilia in.
	What?
	It's Cenk Uygur going on.
	Did he actually say that?
	Of course!
	Yeah, he did.
	He did this because it's Cenk.
	He can't talk like a normal person.
	He has to reduce himself to a 12-year-old on Xbox.
	Yeah, the man who said, I would legalize bestiality were I god, is accusing other people of being sexual degenerates.
	Okay, you big sweaty screaming lump.
	But it's not about sexual degeneracy.
	He's just like, I hate you saying these things.
	You're a pedo.
	Yeah.
	Okay, right.
	That's the only text for you.
	Anyway, you have Tim responding there, which was pretty funny, actually.
	He just goes, amazing, lol.
	It's weird because I'm not a Catholic, Conservative, or Republican.
	Like, they can't understand that independents also oppose them.
	Anyone who isn't in the cult is a Republican.
	Chink, I love you, buddy.
	Which is a very polite way of dealing with it, to say the least.
	There's also one reporter who, well, had seen the Facebook post about the All Ages brunch, so asked a question of the police.
	And people got mad at that.
	During the press conference in Colorado Springs, a reporter asked if any minors were at the event that was attacked.
	Seems like a fair question.
	Yeah.
	And we should all know who was spreading that anti-LGBT hate rhetoric, and what news organization she works for.
	30,000 like-a-roonies on that one.
	Right.
	Don't you know we have a narrative?
	Because I know, there was a post about how all ages were there, so were there any kids there?
	I mean, kind of relevant to the story, a bunch of kids were killed as well.
	No, no, no, no.
	Don't even ask the question.
	You're asking the question is anti-LGBT hate rhetoric.
	LGBTQ plus spaces are safe spaces for children.
	Also, how dare you ask if children were in our LGBTQ plus space?
	There's the narrative, and that's all we've got.
	And anything inconvenient to that, or even just, you know, maybe there's some more complexity here.
	Can't be asked.
	And that's the point about the cult that I think Tim is correct about.
	We go to the next one here.
	We then have the immediate response at the time, which is, as you have, President Biden saying that, well, no motive of this attack is yet clear, so shut up.
	We know that gun violence has a particular impact on the LGBTQI plus communities across our nation.
	Yes, because I remember the Second Amendment clause that says, guns unless you're gay.
	Well, no, unless our precious gays have been killed, in which case, just F having borders and laws and S. I just hate this after every attack in the United States.
	Whether it's political or not, it's just a bunch of people got killed by a gun.
	You know, one guy shot them, alright, we'll ban the guns.
	Another day in Chicago, don't worry about it.
	Yeah, why didn't the Club of Armed Security?
	I don't know, but it's not their fault.
	No, no, I'm just merely saying you shouldn't have to, but it's still a smart idea.
	So it just betrays the idea that the gun violence narrative is nonsense, because if the club was armed, clearly because of all these evil MAGA Republicans lurking around every corner willing to shoot you up, it could have been useful.
	Well, the army veteran did take him down there.
	I'm all in favour of all of them having the guns all the time as well.
	I'm very pro being armed.
	I'm pro self-defence.
	I know it's an evil fence-sitting position.
	We'll go to the AOC, who has something to say.
	Of course she does.
	After Trump elevated anti-immigrant rhetoric, blah, blah, blah, blah, some attack happened.
	After anti-Asian hate saying COVID came from China, blah, blah, blah, attack happened.
	And now anti-LGBT campaign, Colorado Springs, connect the dots, GOP.
	I don't know Sanders first sorry if you go to AOC first because I put them in a wrong order very well and then we have Sanders just saying let's be clear it's terrible but it's because of anti-LGBT rhetoric right yep you've all got None of you know the facts.
	None of you are doing anything.
	You're just ambulance chasers.
	That's all you people are.
	Every goddamn time.
	It happened once to Dave Rubin.
	I remember it happening to him, and he was quite embarrassed about it, and it was rightfully so.
	He assumed, I believe it was an attack in Canada, and he believed it was a Muslim attack, and it turned out to be some incel who had taken his car and run down people.
	I think that's a reasonable assumption, given the fact that there were no incel Paris attacks up until that point, and also it was a truck-o-piece-style attack.
	It's like, okay, I can understand the reasoning, but you don't jump on something like this when you don't know the facts.
	It's just smart.
	And, you know, if you're slightly engaging in politics as an activist, it's forgivable, but if you're AOC, Bernie Sanders, Biden, other Democratic operatives such as this dude, it's just like, stop.
	just stop for five minutes and uh no they can't can they this guy comes up with wow just one day after the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting Herschel Walker is now running an anti-LGBT community ad opposing the equality act so yeah isn't that the one about him talking to the swimmer who had to compete with Leah Thomas I don't know what the specific advertisement is.
	I think it is.
	They just have to conflate the two, don't they?
	No.
	So if you have a problem with us talking to your four-year-olds about sex, what type of sex, what positions, different activities you can have.
	I mean, we've seen the books that have been leaked, the people wanting the schools.
	This isn't debatable.
	If we can't do that, then, well, we're just going to have gay people being killed left, right, and center, aren't we?
	Yeah.
	No.
	No, we really didn't have this.
	Not a thing you have to have.
	It's not you have to have both of those things or something.
	Anyway, someone else sort of come out and...
	Well, it turns out it was Republicans who did this.
	22-year-old Colorado Springs mass shooter.
	The grandson of a GOP Californian state assemblyman.
	There we are.
	So, must be Republicans.
	Right.
	So, we're literally doing the your grandfather was a landowner therefore to prison with you for the rest of your life.
	It's more, we can now play the game of, the Republicans killed all these people.
	Yeah, but I do love, again, I love the assumption that somehow there's a genealogical transmission of values along your bloodline.
	Well, I mean, it is true that political values usually stay within the family, but it is ridiculous to be like, well, you're his grandson, therefore you're a Nazi.
	Yeah, but this goes out on Thanksgiving, and how many years have we had how to talk to your racist Trump-supporting uncle at Thanksgiving articles or Christmas dinners coming out?
	So clearly even the Dems know, factually, that the new generation does not transmit the values of their predecessors and they want to get rid of it.
	But, of course, if you can make a convenient hatchet job on it, you can just ignore that fact.
	Then we have the media.
	The media decided to come out and play the game because they couldn't shut up after Colorado Springs attacks.
	LGBTQ people are furious at the rhetoric, targeting them, talking about how they don't like being called groomers.
	Except most gay people don't have this problem.
	It is really a very Californian, let's say, activity that gets criticized.
	It is not something that happens outside of these purviews.
	And then the big bad came.
	The troll news.
	We've got the next one here.
	You see, they is non-binary.
	The shooter.
	Yeah.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	Quite the spanner in the works.
	The narrative!
	And this is the thing.
	The dude may be trolling.
	I'm not an idiot.
	I know.
	He may just be trolling.
	But the thing is, it doesn't matter if you're a leftist, because you have to believe the person's truth, even when it's nonsense, such as a...
	Woman with a beard, as we've covered many a time.
	So I suppose, if for no other reason than terms of service on various social medias, we actually have to take this crap seriously, which is they are non-binary and did this attack, in which case, what happens to the narrative?
	Well, we have an artist's interpretation of what might be happening at Democratic headquarters, so I suppose we'll play the clip and enjoy that.
	Oh no!
	No!
	No!
	Can we get a choral button for every time we want to get the boss's attention?
	It's very much, oh no, what do we do?
	In case you think I'm exaggerating, we have footage from CNN of exactly this happening, and in real time too, which is...
	It's a beauty, technology.
	The fact that it allows you to see your political opponents' world crumble before their eyes 24-7, but let's play it and enjoy.
	So, attorneys for the accused shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, say in new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non-binary.
	In a footnote to a motion asserting legal privileges, the public defenders say, quote, Anderson Aldrich is non-binary.
	They use they-them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal filings, will be addressed as Mix Aldrich.
	So, in other words, not Mr.
	or Ms.
	Joining me now, CNN political commentator Errol Lewis.
	Also back with me, Al Franken and Joe Walsh.
	I don't know what to say about that.
	I mean, that's not anything that we had heard from his background.
	You know, people have been looking into his background.
	And I don't know if anybody here, are you guys lawyers?
	I mean, you know, I don't know if, I don't know what to say about that.
	I mean, that's what he's now saying.
	It sounds like they're trying to prepare a defense against a hate crimes charge.
	That's the least of his problems, legally speaking, but it looks like they're trying to build some kind of sympathy or at least confusion on the question of whether or not this was purely motivated by hate.
	I mean, that is what it sounds like.
	We'll wait to see.
	How dare Errol Lewis deny this man's authentic gender expression?
	Man.
	You can see the pain on the host's face as she reads it out.
	It's like, crap.
	Arthur's interpretation was entirely on point.
	And they don't believe they.
	That they is they.
	And I can't stand for that.
	I personally just...
	It's horrible.
	The transphobia you'll find on CNN these days.
	Or non-binary phobia.
	Who even cares?
	Anyway, there's more of that, because then they had a person who says they're a trans woman on, who insists that...
	That's Tom Harwood in a wig.
	This trans woman says that they believe that the non-binary person is a man, and I don't know why they believe this either, but they say they can tell by looking.
	I'm not joking.
	This horrific incident took place live on CNN. Let's play.
	I think that's complete ludicrous.
	I believe they're just saying that because they want to have the easy way out on this.
	That's really, really offending, especially being a transgender woman myself, that a male, which it was obvious with the mugshot, that's a man.
	That's not a non-binary person because In no way, shape, or form could they appear as a woman the next day.
	It's really offensive to even hear that, that they're playing that role.
	And if they're non-binary, why would you go after the club where you feel safe at?
	Why would you do that to a community where you are welcomed in if you are non-binary?
	Well, such bigotry like that, that puts normative gender standards on their genuine expression, that's why they didn't feel safe, of course.
	I can tell it to men.
	I can't believe it.
	I can't believe it.
	When anyone says that to that dude there, they're going to be in trouble.
	Because the thing is, how can you tell?
	Let's look at this.
	Let's look at this image.
	How can you tell?
	I don't want to apply the Crocodile Dundee test.
	We can't know.
	We literally can't know.
	Remember?
	This is how we have to live our lives.
	Except that when something inconvenient happens, such as someone says they're non-binary when they're not.
	Sorry, no, they are.
	Indeed.
	We have to suddenly throw everything in the window.
	We know what a woman and a man are again.
	Amazing.
	Amazing indeed.
	Speaking of throwing things at the window, did you see the recent New York Gay Club that had a brick thrown through its window?
	Yeah.
	By a gay man.
	Yeah.
	Oh no.
	Yeah, it happens more often than you think as well.
	There's quite a few of those.
	So her idea that it actually couldn't be a non-binary person who would do such a thing, it's not even true.
	Let's just go look that up in your own time.
	Otherwise, we'll go for the pronoun wars, because of course this stupid didn't have to end, did it?
	More of it.
	Pink news.
	Colorado Springs police identify mass shooting victims using their proper names and pronouns.
	The question on my mind is though, will they honour the shooter?
	I'm not being just facetious for no point here, because the thing is, if you are going to believe, we can't tell the difference.
	If you're going to buy into gender ideology in which you can't tell the difference and you need to use the pronouns and they have to be correct, and if you don't, that's some kind of violent act, in which case, yeah, you also have to do it for the shooter.
	Presumably this is the game the shooter was playing with his demand here, but they have really thrown a wrench into the works here.
	Otherwise you're just perpetuating internalised homophobia which clearly led them to conduct this terrible attack.
	It must be society's fault.
	So, words from the police here.
	Kelly Loving, Kelling's pronouns are she, her.
	Daniel Aston, Daniel's pronouns are he, him.
	Derek Rump, Derek's pronouns are he, him.
	Rump.
	Vakes says.
	Vakes says.
	But it goes on with this.
	It's just, like, I get that it might be an emotional circumstance, but what are you doing?
	Since 2013, they write in here in Pink News, the report found that 70% of those killed were initially misgendered by the media and all the police.
	But what about the shooters?
	Yeah.
	This is the thing.
	A horrible incident.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I'm very horrible for the people who are actually in that area and know the people.
	Yeah, now I feel bad for laughing at the last name.
	But it's just ridiculous, the circumstances.
	We must follow gender ideology until it's inconvenient.
	And then you have to reckon with that dichotomy in your head.
	And they go on.
	The Colorado Police Department spokesman, Pamela Castro, said the decision to include the pronouns was very simple.
	For us, there was not a lot of discussion about how we were going to identify the victims, because we all agreed from the beginning that we would use their names and pronouns.
	Yep, of course it's one making that decision, but it's also just, why not the shooter then?
	Come on, you're going to have to do it.
	If you want to live this life, you've got to live it fully.
	It's a shame that it takes tragedies of this magnitude to highlight the fissures and fraction points in their ideology, because we shouldn't have had to have people die to point out how ridiculous what you purport to believe is.
	Well, it was always ridiculous.
	It's just, it's revealing that when it actually comes to something like this, I don't believe they will carry out their own ideology, because they know this is a farce, this is all just pick and choose religion here.
	Point number one as well, just pronouns are irrelevant.
	Yep.
	Especially to the dead, for Christ's sake.
	But do you remember during what was COVID, there was a BBC article, I'm scared about being buried with the wrong gender?
	Yes.
	I'm scared about being buried.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Point number two, also just falsehoods don't make for better police work, nor do they make for better record keeping.
	Keep it in mind.
	Anyway.
	But it's the same reason why we don't honour the pronouns of a shooter or someone who raped female inmates in the UK. This is just because, what are you doing with your life?
	Like, actually live in reality instead of Fantasyland.
	But it doesn't have to end there, of course.
	It gets even worse.
	Because MSNBC decided to come out, and even after this detail was emerged, I saw on Ben Shapiro's show, they decided that the lips of TikTok was actually responsible.
	Yeah, let's play that.
	Let me guess.
	Stochastic terrorism.
	Cindy, explain that when you hear that, your reaction to it, and then kind of walk us through how rhetoric online, rhetoric from politicians can ultimately trickle down into real life and seeing examples of what happened over the weekend.
	Yeah, the response is heartbreaking.
	I mean, it's a group of marginalized, vulnerable people who are disproportionately The victims of these sort of hate crimes who are just simply saying, please stop.
	Please stop making money and gaining political power on our backs and on violence against us.
	There is a pipeline.
	It starts from some smaller accounts online, like libs of TikTok, it moves to the right-wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson, or it ends up out of a right-wing politician's mouth.
	And it's a really dangerous cycle.
	Right, so stop making money and political capital off of these dead bodies.
	Also, here's an entire news report about these dead people and how it fits into my larger political narrative.
	Go to hell.
	Yeah, it's pretty comical, but you'll notice that there's actually a point missing to her train of thought.
	Remember?
	She's like, yeah, well look, Libs of TikTok reports something and then shooting her.
	It was like, what comes before Libs of TikTok?
	The thing is, Libs of TikTok...
	Isn't just a random name.
	It's because she goes on TikTok and looks up the libs.
	The libs' actions on there.
	Amazingly, two things could be true at once, but this is actually impossible for these people, apparently.
	Which is the, yeah, crime bad.
	And also, trying to indoctrinate four-year-olds or tell them about how to do proper blowjobs is weird.
	And something's wrong with you, and you shouldn't do that.
	And maybe you should keep sexualization away from children.
	And also, don't murder.
	Big announcements, I'm sure.
	But you can't have both of those.
	Apparently you have to have both.
	You have to have the first and also, that's the only way to keep gay people safe.
	Again, as if gay people are the same thing as those on lips of TikTok, which is a reason there's accounts denouncing it constantly.
	Anyway, horrible circumstance, and the situation itself is not something I really wanted to get into.
	But I just couldn't get over the reporting of, here's my narrative, and then it fell apart in front of them, and then just the absolute cope.
	Like, no, no, no, no, we can still keep this together, folks.
	It's just sick.
	Oh dear.
	I suppose we'll go from one negative to the next, shall we?
	So, unlike Callum, we who...
	Torture you, of course, with the Labour Party conference live streams every year.
	Many of us don't protest the time or sanity or patience to watch the long speeches given by the global elite at their self-congratulatory conferences.
	But today we're going to look through some of the clips, some of the policies coming out of it, and also looking at some of the upcoming meetings, which haven't happened yet, to see how they're going to remiserate us in our techno-futurist hellscape that we're all going to be inhabiting.
	It's going to be great fun.
	Is this the World Government Forum?
	The G20, the B20, the World Government Forum, and a forum hosted by the New York Times that has FTX, BlackRock, Zelensky...
	And all other sorts of unsavory characters at it.
	It's going to be good fun.
	Speaking of fictional totalitarian dictatorships where multiculturalism still doesn't work, go over to the website and subscribe and watch Harry and I suffer through Black Panther Wakanda forever so that you guys didn't have to.
	The condensed version of this hour-long thing is it was horrible.
	It was rubbish.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	And the underwater Mexicans break into Wakanda because you have to bang the bongos in order to open the wall, but they just swim beneath it.
	It's a terribly racist film.
	I've never watched these, so every time someone describes them to me, I think they're just being racist.
	I don't understand.
	Yeah, the palace has actual corrugated iron shacks built into the side of it, and the techno-futurist African utopia has dirt roads.
	That's brilliant.
	Truly, truly an apocal piece of art.
	So let's go to the first one, shall we?
	This is the B20 summit, and this was one of the first panels after the keynote speech.
	And the Indonesian health minister, Budi Gennady Sadikin, I don't think I've got that right, but you're evil, so I don't really care.
	I clipped this, just we're going to have to play for it because he decided to propose right from the bat, limiting the movement of people for the next pandemic using mandatory digital health certification that he was going to propose at the next WHO meeting in Geneva.
	So they're just saying it straight out in front of cameras.
	Let's play.
	So now we also identify these issues and we realize, hey, health ministers, when we have another pandemic, we understand that to stop the spreading of the virus, we have to limit, not stop, the movement of the people.
	People that carry emergency medical countermeasures, emergency goods like energy and food, they still have to move around.
	The pilot.
	The ship's crew.
	Those are the people that need to be moved around.
	So let's have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, then you can move around.
	So for the next pandemic, instead of stopping the movement of the people 100%, which clogged the economy globally, you know, you can still provide some movement of the people.
	Indonesia has achieved, G20 country has agreed to have this digital certificate using WHO standard and we will submit into the next The World Health Assembly in Geneva as the revision to international health regulation.
	So hopefully for the next pandemic, we can still see some movement of the people, some movement of the goods and movement of the economy.
	So he said the G20 have already signed on to this and he's now going to make it global mandatory health law for all the countries signing up to the WHO health treaty.
	The only reason that didn't get passed before is because a bunch of the African countries said no thanks.
	You know what's weird though?
	If this gets implemented, it'll only be implemented in places like China, the United States, and Europe.
	The rest of the world just won't bother.
	No, they won't check it because of the enforcement costs being too high.
	It's like Turkey, for example.
	The only reason Turkey reopened, and they were one of the first countries to say we're not going to have any vaccine requirements or limitations on movement...
	It's because the entire country was collapsing because the tourist industry turned around and said, Erdogan, you're ruining our livelihoods.
	We hate you.
	What the hell?
	And Erdogan went, well, let's not annoy the entire driver of my economy and my country.
	Let's just not have these restrictive policies anymore.
	Well, just people don't care.
	If you go to a third world country and just interact with them, they ask for a document.
	You say, I don't have it.
	They usually just go, I don't care.
	Yep.
	It's not worth my time, so...
	Yep.
	So, if we can see with the White House's Bali Leaders Declaration that was published just after the B20 happened, point 23 on here says, We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods under the framework of the IHR 2005 to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognising digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.
	We support continued international dialogue and collaboration on the establishment of trusted global digital health networks as part of the efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics that should capitalize and build on the successes of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates.
	First of all, when we read that Biden AI Bill of Rights thing, that was as poorly punctuated.
	So whichever diversity hire is doing the press briefings over at the White House.
	Learn to spellcheck, please, so I don't have to run out of breath every time I read one of these stupid policies.
	But, of course, we know...
	I mean, I don't know what the YouTube policy is on talking about transmission of COVID with vaccines, but...
	I think it can't...
	Can't.
	Yeah, can't.
	Something like that, I don't know.
	Yeah, we just can't discuss it.
	Either way, I'm sure this policy will definitely work.
	Whatever the White House say is just the science.
	Yes.
	There we are.
	Exactly.
	Brilliant.
	Glad we live in such a free and open bastion of democracy globally.
	Scotland have also implemented this as a Digital ID Scotland press release.
	They're going to roll this out in 2023.
	And if we just go to this next one here, there was a Q&A session about it, a clip you can watch in your own time, where the gentleman in question, who was being asked about this by members of the public, turned around and said to a question saying, will a Digital ID be linked with a digital wallet?
	He said, yes, absolutely.
	And he talks about the need for inclusivity.
	And then as this clip plays here, it will go on to, in a second, an infographic.
	And you can see there...
	The verification infographic has a woman with glasses in a hijab, very representative of Scotland, and that's when he was talking about inclusivity, the need for inclusivity in digital surveillance.
	That's all that word means to them.
	It just means, how about more...
	Minoritarian worship.
	Global southern people?
	Yes.
	Because if you actually wanted...
	Yuchma Gamers.
	If you wanted to use the word inclusive, you would be like, well, okay, we're going to tie your digital wallet to your digital identity.
	It'll be human right or something.
	We can't deprive you of it?
	Yes.
	That's not going to happen.
	Of course they're going to deprive you of it as soon as you say the wrong thing.
	So, yeah, it's got nothing to do with the actual word inclusive.
	It's, as you said in the last segment, just the reaffirmation of the narrative.
	Then there was also, speaking of digital wealth and digital IDs, they were talking about the carbon credit budget restrictions.
	So Mark Carney, the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance in the B20, said in his keynote speech that global carbon markets needed to increase 15-fold and that legislators must focus on, quote, compliance.
	Now, a lot of these things are very heavily veiled.
	They've got a lot of press releases on the B20 website where there's hundreds of pages of pre-prepared policy documents, and it's the kind of thing I'm going to have to need to sit down and go through in a hangout of some kind and look at the full policies to break it down.
	But I'm so glad we have Stanley Johnson, because instead he just comes out and says it in a really sound, biteable clip.
	So let's play his appearance on Nano Okoye's show last week, shall we, to see what we've got in store for us.
	So we've got the carbon budget and we know we've got to get there.
	So it actually means that countries need to divvy up this carbon budget between them.
	And then they need to divvy up the sectors.
	And then they need to have the measures which deal sector by sector with getting the...
	And if that means actually some of us are told, well, you can't go on a plane, that's fine.
	That's part of the national plan.
	It's part of the national plan to stop you flying, because you've exceeded your carbon budget, comrade.
	So thank you very much for at least admitting what Boris Johnson meant by taking action on cash, back when he said coal, cars, cash and trees, at COP26. I have also spoken about this before in a YouTube segment, because I went to the University of Sussex, just freshly after they kicked out Kathleen Stock, to have a debate with the former head of the Green Party, Shara Ali.
	And he said there, you need a little app on your phone, you'll have a person, carbon...
	Budget allowance.
	And if you go over that, you can't buy new carbon credits, and that just means you'll have to budget better in future.
	And I said, oh, if you exceed it, will there be any penalties?
	And he went, well, no, no, no, but we do want to stop people from doing it.
	And I had to get him really hard nailed down on, well, yeah, we'll have to do some fines.
	And if you don't want to pay the fines, you'll have to go to prison.
	So it's just authoritarianism.
	No surprise there then, is it?
	Back to the White House, shall we?
	So, let's look at the rest of the priorities that they had at their meeting.
	Point 32, we welcome continued exploration of CBDCs, so Central Bank Digital Currencies, which there's a link in the description to a segment we've done before.
	On that.
	And point 40.
	We reaffirm our commitment to support the full inclusion of migrants, ensuring full respect for their human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of their migration status.
	So that translates to break into the country and you get all of the benefits that are accrued to law-abiding working people.
	We're going to legalise crime.
	Yeah.
	Breaking into a place without permission is a crime.
	Yes.
	So just abolish crime.
	We've legalised, well, essentially national burglary.
	Still breaking into the elite's house is a crime.
	Yes.
	But...
	Why?
	Why?
	What's the difference?
	Sitting and squatting in Holiday Inn is a human right, Callum.
	It was the whole thing about, like, the illegals should be able to break into the country and not come to Martha's Vineyard.
	That's when it becomes a problem.
	Do you remember when Laura Loomer helped a bunch of illegals scale the walled compound of Nancy Pelosi's house and was immediately arrested for it?
	No, I didn't, but that's...
	Yeah, that happens.
	That's illegal.
	Yes, exactly.
	I, too, disagree with a bunch of illegals breaking into a country.
	That's why I'm against Namor and the Tolokans in Wakanda forever.
	And then there's point 42 as well, which says, We will demonstrate leadership and take collective actions to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and accelerate the achievement of the SDGs by 2030.
	So that means that a unanimous cross-country timeline of condensing net zero by 2050, now down to 2030.
	So you remember the Labour Party position where they said we want a British-owned energy company, entirely renewable, and to get into net zero by 2030?
	That's become all G20 countries' doctrine now, including from Rishi Sunak.
	Just you get to announce it, I suppose.
	Not China, though.
	No.
	Oh, amazing.
	Yeah, shockingly sad.
	If you want to read up on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, I believe Hugo's covered it before for the site, but if we scroll down, there's just these nebulous things like the abolition of poverty, no hunger, good health and wellbeing.
	We did that last year, really.
	Didn't you hear?
	It's over.
	What?
	No more poverty or hunger.
	Oh, wonderful.
	We spent the $9 billion or whatever leftists keep saying it is.
	We're done.
	Oh, yeah.
	Brilliant.
	I assume we just stole all that from India from how many hundreds of years ago, did we?
	Yeah.
	I just hate these things.
	What if we make poverty illegal?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that's solved it.
	Yeah, the abolition of inequity, sustainable cities and communities, that's your 15-minute cities for you, climate action, all of these are basically nebulous, grand social causes that justify their complete takeover of every facet of your life.
	And, of course, they're not going to ever be achieved, but in pursuit of achieving them, it just allows them to justify the accruing of endless amounts of wealth and power at your expense.
	They painted all 17 of those on a wall in Kabul.
	The Taliban immediately just whitewashed it.
	It's not there anymore.
	What a terrible hate crime.
	Cannot endorse, of course.
	This is how they're going to do it.
	The World Economic Forum are actually an official partner of the B20 and G20, because of course they are.
	And this is their new economic model, which we'll be exploring at some point on the site in a premium podcast in the future.
	But this is the donut.
	If we can scroll down, John, there's a graph here.
	There's a big circular graph.
	This was invented by an Oxford University economist called Kate Raworth to directly oppose the Kuznets curve model.
	And the Kuznets curve model is...
	Like the IQ bell curve, and the idea is as a country increases its wealth, both emissions and inequality increases, and you reach the apex of economic development, and inequality and emissions start to decrease.
	And that actually tracks pretty well over time.
	That's why they say, if there really is climate change, then what's going to happen is we'll innovate our way out of it, rather than standing at the shoreline and forget to put wellies on and just drown.
	Instead, they said, we want a perfectly circular, sustainable, cyclical, equitable economy.
	And so that hole in the middle there, for our audio listeners, is the shortfall of things we're falling short on, like social inequities and waste.
	Outside that, there's a ceiling of things that we can't control, like the ocean changing, air pollution, climate change.
	And what they want to do is, they want to make all of the 17 goals achieved, close that hole in the middle, turn the donut into a fixed pie, which they can then divvy up.
	So we're going to be in a perfectly socialist, equitable utopia, forever and ever.
	Isn't it exciting?
	Whenever someone presents me a graph I can't read, I think they're trying to pull all over my eyes.
	Yeah, it's Governance by LinkedIn Infographics, and I just hate it.
	So we're going to explore this more in depth in the future, but just for now, know that they're trying to control every facet of your life, and they're openly saying it in front of cameras.
	Isn't that a chaos symbol?
	Yeah, it is.
	Actually, that's pretty accurate.
	Speaking of demonic gods and chaos worshippers, Ming the Merciless made an entrance on day two.
	Klaus Schwab gave a keynote speech.
	It was mainly waffle, but towards the end he does say he is proud of the World Economic Forum being at the forefront of the development of new technologies, such as how you can use the metaverse in order to create deeper and much more extensive and comprehensive global dialogues.
	He says in this clip we need a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world.
	So let's listen to our completely unelected despotic leader tell us how he's going to run our lives.
	First, of course, if you look at all the challenges, we can speak about the multi-crisis, an economic, political, social, and ecological, an institutional crisis.
	But actually, What we have to confront is a deep, systemic and structural restructuring of our world.
	And this will take some time.
	And the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process.
	Politically, the driving forces for this political transformation Of course, is the transition into a multipolar world which has a tendency to make our world much more fragmented.
	And for these reasons, events like this one, the G20, and so on, are the very important connectors to avoid A too great segmentation, I would say, blockization instead of globalization of our world.
	So he's obviously referring there when he says about a multipolar world to the end of the American neoliberal hegemony.
	And I think considering how often we turn around and say, Yankees don't understand anything, Not most of our American viewers, of course, but the people that just don't travel outside the country.
	American leftists are Yankees.
	Exactly.
	We'd be quite happy with an end to that having cultural dominance over us and sort of retreat into Englishness.
	Unfortunately, that's not what he means.
	That's not one of the polls that's about to come about.
	No.
	It's Chinese.
	No.
	Currently, we have BRICS and the failing West, and he's hoping with globalisation that we just all adopt the Chinese model.
	As we can go scroll down here, John, this was part of their predictions for the world in 2030.
	So, remember that 2030 deadline they've accelerated towards?
	Well, number three, prediction number three is, US dominance is over with a handful of global powers.
	Nation-states will have staged a comeback, writes Robert McGarr, research director at the Agrappi Institute.
	Instead of a single force, a handful of countries, the US, Russia, China, Germany, India and Japan, chief among them, Show semi-imperial tendencies.
	However, at the same time, the role of the state is threatened by trends, including the rise of cities and the spread of online identities.
	So that's why they're identifying these as threat measures to their globalised world, and so they want to enfold all of these aspects, their 15-minute cities, their AI algorithmically controlled digital universes, and the global governance summits, into the narrative.
	And that's how they stop this multipolar world.
	They create a unilateral, culturally universal, bland world.
	It's perfectly sustainable and equitable.
	Wonderful.
	So, obviously, as you alluded to, China are going to be leading the nose on this.
	Klaas Schwab said as much in this article here from the Post Millennial.
	There's a clip of it as well that's circulating online where he says, On the G20, the interview began, You were there meeting some of the leaders as well, Professor Schwab.
	What do you make of the result?
	It seems quite positive with all the voices included.
	And Schwab said, I think it's positive.
	The base has been formed.
	We have to go one step further.
	We have a strategic mood.
	We have to construct the world of tomorrow.
	He said he wants a systemic transformation of the world, adding that we have to define how the world should look like which we want to come out of this transformation period.
	I respect China's achievements over the past 40 years.
	He said China is a role model for many countries.
	We should be very careful in imposing systems, he concluded, but the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for a number of countries.
	So this is no shock then that Rishi Sunak at the G20 removed China from the security list.
	And at COP27, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed on the 14th of November to resume cooperation on climate change and other issues.
	So they're all just holding hands and shaking hands with China.
	Under the guidership of Klaus Schwab.
	Great.
	Let's hear him talk about how that government is going to co-opt corporations for his own ethical end, shall we?
	Now just two last points.
	Public-private cooperation.
	Today, some people would say Until two years ago, until the crisis hit, it was business who was in the lead.
	And now with the crisis, with COVID, it's government who is in the lead.
	No.
	It should be government and business.
	Government and business have to cooperate in order to become a fast fish, because In our world of today, it's not anymore so much the big fish who eats the small fish, but it is the fast fish who eats the slow fish.
	And in order to be a fast fish and a big fish, hopefully, like Indonesia, you have to have two co-pilots, business and governments.
	My last point relates to trust.
	If business is really a force for good, which it has to be, business has to practicize stakeholder capitalism.
	That's a concept I wrote a book about over 50 years ago, and I devoted my life to the promotion of stakeholder responsibility.
	Business should not only serve shareholders, but has to serve the people and to take care of our planet.
	Only in such a way business will earn the trust which it needs to be an innovative force to make our society a better society.
	That's actually the definition of fascism, which is that the businesses will only be allowed to operate if they take into account the stakeholders, the government, and work with them and can be trusted.
	Yeah, that's where the term corporation comes from, your organs of the state.
	So for those who aren't aware, of course, Calum just gave a perfectly succinct version, but stakeholder capitalism, how they sell it to you, is modelled off of they appoint experts in fields like Corporate governance, working with government, social action like racial and gender equity, and environmentalism to tell you how to run your company.
	And if you hit these activist criteria, you're graded on your ESG scores, Environment, Social and Government scores, you get subsidised by their hedge fund partners like BlackRock, Vanguard and Stinkstra.
	You get given a party loyalty score.
	Yeah, it's basically like an insurance mechanism against Get Woke Go Broke because you've got no one else to buy from as a consumer.
	So if you decide to on social media with your digital ID linked to your digital wallet, if you post the wrong thing, then the corporation you're forced to buy from grades you with a lower ESG score as a consumer and deactivates your ability to buy from them.
	So it's a complete totalitarian takeover of the economy.
	Gentleman gains power, thinks fascism is a good idea again.
	But that's interesting, though.
	Fascism is actually a good way of conceptualising it because fascism talks a lot about the grand historical forces moving into play and coming up like an apotheosis.
	When he spoke there about the fast fish and the dual pilots, he's talking basically about pilot fish.
	And pilot fish are the little fish that swim behind in the wake of the big fish to not get eaten, and they eat the scraps.
	So he's basically conceptualising it as this inevitable collapse, this...
	Climate crisis, economic crisis, mass starvation, depopulation, whatever is going to happen, is going to be inevitable.
	So we may as well steward ourselves as the comfy elite class in the wake of that and eat the scraps afterwards.
	And if you're prey, well, you were just a useless eater, weren't you?
	He then also gave a speech at APEC, which we won't play a clip of, and it's in Thailand, and he said, Now in order to be a winner, you must embrace the fourth industrial revolution.
	This revolution is different from three previous ones.
	It's particularly also the fact that the winner takes it all.
	Who are the winners?
	The people they appoint as stakeholders.
	As you said, government-approved officials.
	His advisor also agrees.
	Yuval Novo Harari, the guy that wrote Sapiens and whatnot.
	He gave the speech at the 2020 World Economic Forum.
	And he said, It's quite interesting how he said, Schwab before, that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is unlike the other three.
	I think it's going to be closer to the Bolshevik Revolution, which results in a vanguard class taking hold of the economy and a bunch of people dying.
	And of course, the vanguard class are their appointed stakeholders.
	And he said, if we allow the emergence of such total surveillance regimes, I don't think the rich and powerful in places like Davos will be safe.
	Just ask Jeff Bezos.
	Sounds like a threat.
	In Stalin's USSR, the state monitored members of the communist elite more than anyone else.
	The same will be true of future total surveillance regimes.
	The higher you are in the hierarchy, the more closely you will be watched.
	So how do you circumvent that?
	Well, just appoint yourself the chief of the hierarchy.
	And if you think it's just a conspiracy theory to say they're a bunch of socialists, well, they had this article from 2016 saying, does capitalism need Marxism to survive the fourth industrial revolution?
	On the World Economic Forum website, and the final paragraph is, the cross-pollination of ideas between capitalism and Marxism is worthy of serious discourse.
	A future characterized by mass unemployment, gross inequality, and unrest demands it.
	So they want to take over the economy to be ethical.
	And what's their definition of ethics?
	Communism.
	Lovely.
	Brilliant.
	So there's also APEC, where we just talked about Schwab.
	Emmanuel Macron said we need a single global order.
	But I'm sure just a New World Order is a conspiracy theory, as we've been reliably informed by YouTube, because when, if you scroll down, John, Joe Biden said there must be a New World Order, and YouTube fact-checked him with a Wikipedia page saying the New World Order is a conspiracy theory which hypothesizes a secretly emerging totalitarian world government.
	And I agree, it's a conspiracy theory.
	It's not a secret.
	I'm just saying it on camera at every single one of their conferences.
	And then there was, of course, the World Government Summit.
	Because it's a secretly emerging totalitarian world government would not have a world government summit.
	And if you scroll down to the video title on this, John, please, it says, are we ready for a new world order?
	And they get the same fact check about the new world order not existing.
	Right.
	So we're just being gaslit.
	Lovely.
	Great.
	So we go on to the last one.
	Just before we go on to the next conference that's happening, I do like that Wright said Fred took the mick out of Klaus Schwab and Justin Trudeau and Rishi Sunak there wearing traditional Indonesian shirts because they said it looks like Queer as Folk will be back on TV very soon.
	Someone else said that they build back Better Street Boys.
	And I had Indonesian bots in my Instagram mentions for weeks because Maya Tusi insulted the entire nation.
	Of Indonesia by saying, what are these stupid shirts?
	And relentlessly they went after every single photo.
	He was tagged in to the point where he issued an apology to get them to stop.
	So clearly they're very secure about their silly outfit.
	If we can just go to the next one.
	This is what's happening soon.
	Just to finish on this.
	The Dealbook Summit.
	Sam Bankman-Fried, FDX is on there.
	This is after the scandal, by the way.
	So this is the New York Times running this.
	Mayor Eric Adams of New York City.
	Bruce Wayne himself.
	Ben Affleck.
	If we can just keep going down, John.
	We've got Larry Fink, BlackRock, who also helped won the World Economic Forum.
	CEO of TikTok.
	President of Amazon.
	Van Jones.
	We literally have the propagandists in the meeting.
	Yep.
	Benjamin Netanyahu, of course.
	Choose Love Movement.
	Mike Pence, funnily enough, we can scroll down.
	Janet Yellen, Department of Treasury.
	So, the woman who's setting the global corporate tax rate and says she's a Keynesian to her fingertips.
	We're in a different party.
	We're fighting each other, I swear.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If we can go down again, Zelensky.
	Definitely above board.
	And Zuckerberg.
	Remember when Klaus Schwab says he wants the metaverse to create global conversations?
	So there's just all these people circling around the FTX head after the scandal has already broken.
	If we can just keep going, John, there's...
	Oh, next page then.
	That's it.
	And there's another guest list as well on the next tab.
	That's alright.
	Brilliant.
	If we just scroll down to that.
	Adam Newman, founder of WeWork, who wants rent-only office spaces and homes.
	And he's currently developing, and there's a segment linked in the description of what I did.
	He's developing Ethereum as central bank digital currency infrastructure.
	So he's actually working with governments to do that.
	Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.
	Meghan Markle.
	LeBron James.
	Bill Gates.
	Gwyneth Paltrow.
	Hillary Clinton.
	Sondar Pachal, the Google CEO.
	Matthew McConaughey, who's pushing for gun control.
	Dara Kowalski, whatever his name is, CEO of Uber.
	He wants rent overdriving.
	Yep.
	Elon Musk.
	Come on, Elon.
	Really?
	You're going into this and legitimizing this, mate?
	Al Gore.
	Let's talk about climate change.
	To be honest, I feel like he's going to turn up and we're going to hate him.
	Oh yeah, hopefully.
	Hopefully there's some good clips to come out when we do a part two.
	But this is the point.
	If they want to tell you a New World Order is a conspiracy theory, if they want to say that you're a conspiracy theory to saying they're a bunch of technological socialists, they're on camera admitting it.
	So feel free to share this video with people that don't believe you, that discredit you, and just say, and here's the party they're having next week, after known fraudsters are willing to turn up.
	They're just gloating about the fact that they want to take your privacy and property away.
	All we can do is just mass non-comply, I guess.
	Well, that will move to the oppression.
	There's a great phrase that equality feels like oppression to those who have always been privileged.
	And it's a great leftist phrase that's been used to talk about how rightists are disgusting.
	And I was like, yeah.
	Thing is, that phrase can be applied accurately as well.
	Uno reverse card.
	It certainly can.
	And we're going to apply it to those who have had immense privilege, such as those who have been ruling all of Silicon Valley for the last, what is it, 10, 15 years now with an iron boot.
	Calum attacks the entire nation of India.
	Well, we'll start off just with a mention of the Premium Book Club, Frank to call us the tragedy of liberation that I did with Carl, because the thing is, yeah, when you have a bunch of ideological socialists in charge, they are incredibly good at oppression.
	Like, it's actually scary good how good they are, and it's always in the name of liberation and trust and safety, etc., etc., But the thing is, no imperialist of the past could ever do the kind of evil that the Communist Party of China was able to do in the same time period.
	It's not physically possible.
	And you'll see this with, well, the new socialist way of doing things at Twitter that was now gone.
	Well, still, I've just been mentioning an article from...
	I can't remember what the outlet is.
	Who cares?
	It's just someone listing all the people who are back on Twitter.
	And they go with the headline there, they're almost exclusively right-wing figures.
	Funny that, innit?
	Really?
	I had no idea.
	Almost as if the whole thing wasn't ideological.
	Stick that had been used against the right.
	They start off with Donald Trump.
	He was banned for saying, be peaceful at the Capitol.
	Terrible.
	Battle on Bee, they were banned for telling jokes that were anti-progressive.
	Yeah, well, they did say that the woman of the year was not a woman, and that's deeply transphobic.
	Yeah, so jokes, not allowed, because they're the wrong kind of jokes.
	Jordan Peterson, he was also banned for refusing to deny reality.
	That's that.
	Kathy Griffin, banned for impersonating Elon Musk, and they write there, she's the only one who's not a right-wing media figure.
	And she's also the only one that actually issued a death threat by cutting off Donald Trump's head.
	You could see it that way, but it's more about the fact of, like, you have individuals who are consistently banned for things they shouldn't be, and I don't think Kathy Grumman should have been banned for the head thing either, but it's just...
	Okay, but the rules don't apply equally.
	They never did.
	Now she actually just goes, I'm going to break the rules.
	Look, I've been oppressed.
	And it's like, no, you're back now.
	You can't even whine.
	It's actually quite a funny response.
	We've got Andrew Tate.
	They say here Tate was banned on Twitter back in 2017 when he said rape victims bear some responsibility in response to the E2 movement.
	Thing is, I've actually seen the clips of him explaining this.
	Yeah.
	It's a misquote, in case you're wondering.
	Yes, I did assume so.
	I'm not a big fan of Tate, but that seems like nonsense.
	No, I've spoken about him as well.
	But he's mentioning, like, if you have a bunch of money, you shouldn't walk down the street with all the money in your hands and then, like, be upset when you get robbed.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, it's bad and it shouldn't happen to you.
	This is exactly what we said in the first segment.
	We think that women should be armed so that if an attempted rapist tries to take advantage of them, they can shoot him.
	There's that, but his point was more that you shouldn't go somewhere where...
	Yes, dress conservatively.
	Go to a party with a bunch of pigs who are all drinking alcohol and taking drugs.
	That's not a good idea, and it shouldn't happen to you, still.
	And the guy should all be killed or castrated, but still, that was his point.
	Be aware because you can't stop evil in the world, you can only protect yourself against it.
	That's Louise Perry's position, it's very sensible.
	Any kind of nuance that's rightist can't be allowed.
	Any leftist nuances allowed.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene, she was already still on Twitter because of her official account.
	It was a congressman.
	It wasn't banned.
	But her personal account was banned.
	Right.
	That's just dumb.
	That's just dumb on every level.
	You're banned, but not really.
	That was also because of Rachel.
	Definitely Rachel Levine.
	We have Project Veritas.
	They were banned for anti-establishment journalism.
	James Lindsay, banned for opposing gender theory.
	Sargon of Akkad, who was banned for opposing the alt-right, which...
	Huh, okay.
	I still can't get over that one.
	In case you're wondering.
	They lie about why he was banned in there, actually.
	Yeah, they don't know, because they're idiots.
	Yeah, and also he said he actually wouldn't rape Jess Phillips.
	No, none of those tweets were a problem.
	It was the fact that he said the alt-right were essentially inferior, and that's what got him banned.
	James Lindsay.
	Baselessly called individuals in the LGBT community groomers.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, of course.
	We also have Megan Murphy, who was banned for journalism.
	There you have it.
	And then everyone at Twitter has been fired for some time.
	I think some of them are back now, but you remember that happened.
	The only thing that changed was that the site started deleting nonce content, which, keep that in mind.
	And the reason why is just alluded to by Elon, as he walks around Saddam Hussein's palace showing off The Bath is Parthia's old t-shirts.
	That's a really good comparison.
	I'm sure they're just childish Gambino fans.
	I really love it.
	I mean, this is the reason a lot of people, I think, were captivated by the fall of Kabul or the fall of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and whatnot.
	It's because when you see...
	It's not just a shift in the leader.
	The whole ideological structure is destroyed and replaced overnight.
	And those kind of transitions are very rare.
	They're more rare than you think, looking at transitions in countries.
	And this is also one type of that.
	It's just on a smaller scale.
	Maybe not given the money involved.
	But you see here, he turns up and finds all his Stay Woke t-shirts lying around.
	He's just like, huh.
	He should go to that New York Times conference soon and have a cannon and just fire the t-shirts out against the crowd.
	That would be a good thing to do.
	Anyway, but this is the thing I really wanted to focus on because there's, you know, the things that have happened.
	But I wanted to focus on the depression of the left.
	And lads...
	Time to enjoy yourselves.
	We'll start off with Vox.
	You decided to treat me, have you, Callum?
	Yeah.
	The weird sorrow of losing Twitter, grieving a loss, when the loss is the hellbird sight you weren't even supposed to love.
	Well, thank you for the admission that you were tacitly owning it behind closed doors.
	This is the thing.
	I'm just going to go through.
	There are a bunch of articles of just people...
	But they can't say why they're crying, because they know it would be a mask off.
	So they have to try and pretend.
	The reason they're really crying is because of, I don't know, hate?
	Or the site's dying?
	Have you noticed the site dying?
	A couple of tweets don't show up, so there's some infrastructural problems, but I can put up with that for a little while.
	Seems like the user base is bigger than ever.
	That sounds like a dying site to me.
	Anyway, at the time of publish, they write, Twitter has yet to splutter to a stop, and it's not a given that it will shut down.
	Probably won't.
	That's why.
	You guys weren't actually the thing that made Twitter fun.
	You were the poison that was killing it.
	Ideologically, you were just getting rid of everyone who was interesting.
	Bring back Milo.
	Still, the changes made by the new owner, Elon Musk, both structural, like firing thousands of employees, and cultural, like breaking the verification system, reinstating banned users, and reinstating former President Donald Trump, as if he's not a banned user.
	He's something else.
	Which he is.
	Political prisoner.
	Yeah, they literally admit that the president should be beyond expulsion, because as a matter of historical record, his tweets should be accessible.
	They say those have contributed to the feeling that something has fundamentally changed.
	Yes, it's fixed.
	Saddam Hussein and his sons are gone.
	There is a new dictator in charge.
	It's a billionaire libertarian king, so it's not as bad as Saddam.
	So, I'll deal with it.
	observing that Twitter, quote, wasn't just a hell site, it was a hell home, they write.
	Which is a weird thing to describe your rule.
	Yeah.
	When our ideology was in charge of this thing, it was still hell.
	But it was a home.
	But it was our hell.
	Isn't a personalised hell meant to be way worse?
	Okay.
	And yet, if any internet space deserves our sincere respect, it's Twitter.
	Does it bollocks?
	Which has functioned more like a real public square than any other social media platform.
	Yes, for two months.
	Yeah, but also, if there's any website that deserves our respect, it's Twitter.
	13% of Twitter is porn.
	I don't really have a problem with that.
	It's not exactly beyond reproach, is it?
	It's not this highfalutin, dignified square of where you're having really intellectual conversations.
	It's compressed, meanness sniping, and then women posting their own fans.
	It's not just about high political conversations.
	It's not what a public square is.
	It's loads of everything.
	And that's the thing.
	Actually, if any platform does deserve a respect...
	Irritating.
	It's 4chan, actually, when you think about it.
	It's like, yeah, that thing's a hellhole, but at the same time, like, huh.
	Yeah, really, the US laws are the only things that apply there.
	If you wanted an absolute public square, you've got it there.
	Twitter is probably one of the furthest away.
	Misgendering is still a crime on Twitter.
	Has he not fixed that yet?
	No, that's still policy.
	I don't know if it's being enforced because all the people who are enforcing it are fired, but it's there anyway.
	But also the idea that they go on to say it's like a real public square.
	I mean, up until now, it's been more like Chop Chop Square.
	In Saudi?
	Do you know about Chop Chop Square?
	No, I don't.
	So in Riyadh, there's a square.
	It's called Chop Chop Square.
	Want to have a crack?
	Is that where they do all the executions?
	Yeah, it's where they execute people.
	Well, the Saudis aren't wrong about everything.
	For being anti-regime.
	And what's happened to anyone who was anti-regime on Twitter?
	Well, they went to Chop Chalk Square, didn't they?
	Not anymore.
	This is the platform that gave birth to the hashtags, and with all its infinite and often unsprising users, it has aided the rise of countless social mutants, from the Arab Spring...
	Resistance, to hashtag Black Lives Matter, to hashtag Me Too.
	Not all of them have been good.
	See Gamergate...
	Get over it!
	I'm so sick!
	I've gone through multiple articles reading about it, every single one of them mentions Gamergate, and no one involved in Gamergate on the right side of that even gives a crap about it anymore.
	Did the people on the right side of it even use the hashtag Gamergate, or was it just all the feminists crying about hashtag Gamergate?
	It was a way to unionize, but it's just like, Jesus Christ, you really are never going to get over that, are you?
	Anyway, that's also why it's difficult to know what to replace it with, and if it's even possible.
	The thing is, what's changed?
	None of you were getting banned for being left-wing.
	That's not what's happening.
	Even, what's her name earlier?
	Kathy Stupid over there.
	She got banned for impersonating Elon after he said, don't do that, I'll ban you.
	And then she went on her dead mum's account.
	And then got her account back anyway.
	This is not the reign of terror that we suffered under on the right for the last ten years.
	It's not the case.
	In fact, most right-wingers, a lot of them are still banned.
	Yeah, the block button works.
	Also, there's people like Romlin Tomlinson, who has just forgotten his login.
	No relation, by the way.
	He can't actually issue an appeal.
	Right.
	So he's just like, for God's sake!
	There's that.
	So Twitter's public square holds less and less appeal in an era where harassment has grown.
	People don't know what harassment is.
	But moderation hasn't always grown alongside it.
	Really?
	I mean, the stars have got pretty big.
	And so users have also increasingly retreated to semi-private spaces like Discord and Telegram and private group chats and WeChat.
	Those siloed spaces make it harder to find friends across platforms and interests.
	This is a fear, like, we all discovered this.
	Yeah.
	Like, we all made plan Bs.
	Like, even the people who weren't banned, because when it was coming, at some point, and, well, there are a myriad of different right-wing spaces you can go for such a thing.
	It's actually one of the beauties of the right-wing movement, especially if you map it.
	I can't remember the website, they map, like, the big bubbles of YouTube channels.
	And you notice the right one was loads of tiny bubbles.
	It's not big ones, but the left was just big bubbles.
	Hugely decentralized network.
	Yeah.
	And it only comes about when the threat of being deleted entirely is commonplace.
	If it wasn't commonplace, the right would look exactly like the left in that respect.
	Just some huge, big bubbles.
	And it's not.
	No.
	Because of the, well, environment that organism has had to grow up in.
	Anyway, they go on to whine that "Without Twitter's transparency and searchability, it'll be harder to stumble across people who share a cross-section of your passions, or a deep dive into your highly specific interests.
	The thing about Moth's gutting of Twitter is that if it really collapses, whole communities will be uprooted and displaced.
	Who knew?
	Like who?
	Subcultures like fandoms, kink communities, sex workers, educators, and queer and trans spaces heavily rely on freedom of pseudo-amonymity on Twitter.
	So I've been very sceptical about Musk.
	You're winning me over.
	The thing is, that's not untrue.
	It's like, yeah, those environments do, like, sex environments will rely on pseudo-anonymity.
	Yeah, because it's shameful.
	Well, it's part of their circle.
	You might not even want to display your face for other reasons, such as living in Iran.
	But the thing is, you also have the fact that they didn't mention any critics of the regime.
	No.
	Pseudo-amonymity, the first thing I think of the reason you need that is for critics of the regime as the right winger.
	Not even as the right winger, just in other repressive regimes, for example.
	Sure, I just have the B1, and it's just like, that's the first thing.
	Not the kink communities.
	No.
	I generally think of the people who are going to suffer because of your censorship.
	And you didn't even mention them.
	Well, they can just make friends with the police, because obviously every time you wear a little dog costume, you get a selfie with them at a pride parade.
	So they're not going to be short of allies.
	They finish it off with, so yes, there is a reason to mourn.
	The reality is that it is a hard time, even if Twitter doesn't collapse.
	There's not.
	So, that's the thing.
	And that's not the only coat piece.
	He's like, it's going to collapse, rise.
	Any second now?
	Any second.
	Trump's going to be impeached as well.
	Any second.
	Every goddamn time.
	We'll go to the next one here.
	We have the Independent.
	Rest in peace, Twitter.
	2006 to 2022, dead at the hands of Elon Musk.
	It's still there.
	And growing.
	It didn't used to grow.
	I think we're like five years now it's not growing.
	Hmm.
	Like, if you were in a foreign country where Twitter wasn't even slightly a thing, people wouldn't join it because there was no point.
	It's like, this isn't going to explode in my country.
	I'm on VK or, you know, whatever else.
	Anyway, they run here, at its worst, Twitter was the enemy of the people.
	It was not an accident that former President Donald J. Trump took over Twitter.
	Yes, being enemy of the people is when you're popular.
	He took over Twitter because he used it in a new and novel way, and he was the president of the most prominent country in the world, so of course everyone wanted to follow him.
	And any time he put a tweet out, it's like throwing chum to sharks with journalists classed.
	You morons made your career off of it.
	He was popular on Twitter, that's why he was the enemy of the people.
	Err, okay.
	But now, as Elon Musk takes the helm for real this time, and starts off with a series of firings...
	You've gotta stop saying it.
	It's too good to be true.
	Anyway, it's time to say our goodbyes to the social media platform that once was.
	Why?
	Nothing bad has happened to you.
	You've just lost your power, and you know it.
	It's not as if our better angels ever really overcame the truly despicable parts of the Twitterverse.
	We just didn't purge enough people, guys.
	One day.
	One day we'll have killed everyone right in the village.
	If you don't know what I'm talking about, go and check out that premium forecast I was talking about.
	There was a quote.
	This is in the Chinese archives, so you can't even deny it.
	I think it was Deng Xiaoping mentioned that he was part of a killing team at the time of Mao's era.
	And all the villagers came to him one day and said, we've got to kill these guys.
	They're all landlords, reactionaries.
	Once we kill them, we'll be fine.
	Alright, for sure.
	Killed them all.
	And then they came back the next day and said, well, all their family members were scared they're going to take revenge and kill us, so we've got to kill them too.
	So they killed all of them.
	And then the family members of the family members had to die, and they killed them.
	And it was about four lists down until the people who remained in the village fled for fear of being killed by revenge.
	And then there were no villagers.
	There is no end to purging.
	No.
	It really isn't.
	Elon Musk, of course, is a right-wing radical himself.
	Uh, no.
	No, he's not exactly the most present of fathers, so he's hardly a hardline Catholic conservative.
	Sure, I don't think he meets your definition for sure, but I don't even think he's a right-winger.
	I just see him as actually moderate.
	He's just a shit-posting libertarian.
	Back to Tim Paul.
	He's not a member of the cult, therefore he's a right-winger.
	Okay.
	Quote, I did it to help humanity, said Musk in a tweet on Thursday of his Twitter acquisition.
	It is important to the future of civilization to have a virtual town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence.
	Notice the fact that Jack Dorsey said almost the exact same thing but never did it.
	Just because Musk is actually doing it, now they're crapping their pants.
	Now he's a...
	He's a reactionary now.
	I guess Musk didn't seem to understand the correlation between language and violence, Fright the Independent.
	As if anyone takes this seriously.
	The necessary link between what people say and what they do.
	Yes indeed.
	I say things and people die.
	Yeah, now post that black square or I'll hit you.
	I guess he doesn't understand that if some kinds of language and beliefs are reined in, violence will not stem from them.
	It's like, okay, you're actually a lunatic who doesn't understand anything about free speech debates, do you?
	You've never taken part in one.
	If your conclusion about this is, don't you know people say things and people die because of those things?
	Therefore ban all the sayings.
	Ban all the speech and then we will never have actions.
	Yeah.
	Eternal whack-a-mole.
	There's another one here.
	If we go to the next one, we have the Washington Post going, millions await the platform's collapse.
	Keep waiting, folks.
	Yep.
	Raheem, who is a site reliability engineer, who left Twitter in 2019, says the fact that Twitter continues to work is a testament to the thousands of engineer years spent building that reliability.
	Does it?
	Really?
	Would loads of people signing up to Twitter really destroy Twitter?
	I think that's sort of what it was built for, people signing up.
	He just called the HR departments, basically.
	I love it though.
	It's like, you're firing a bunch of engineers and now the site's going to bust.
	It's like, it hasn't.
	Because all that's happened is people have signed up.
	I thought that was what it was built to do.
	Take sign-ups.
	No, okay, right.
	This is actually some really complex job.
	Like, I did bare-bones coding in my physics degree, but even I know that if you sell the system and it works, it will keep working.
	I don't really understand how people signing up would break Twitter.
	It's primary directive one here.
	Half of the trust and safety policy team resigned, including a majority of those who work on spotting misinformation, spam, fake accounts, and impersonation, according to two employees familiar with the team.
	Right, so all of those people that were working with the Biden administration as exposed in The Intercept that were taking down Anthony Fauci parody accounts.
	So it's going to collapse any second now because of that.
	I don't know about you, I've not noticed any difference in spam.
	No.
	If anything, I think I've been unshadow banned, so that's quite nice.
	Yeah, it's just like, oh, you know, people can't ban you from information anymore.
	The whole thing's pointless.
	People are going to leave.
	It's like, nope.
	Keep sticking up.
	In the next one here, we have someone else going out telling us what the trust and safety team actually look like.
	Just so we can see it.
	Let's not listen, because it's painful.
	But this person here was a contract worker.
	It's really funny you said this person here and it cuts to the Labrador.
	This person says that they're really worried about Twitter's future because my hate is going up on Twitter.
	Yeah, no evidence.
	This is the thing.
	This is the person banning you?
	Yeah.
	Because hate.
	They didn't end up defining anything in this interview, so that's why I'm not playing it, because it's just a waste of time.
	It rubs the lotion on its Twitter, or it gets the ban again.
	Yeah, the mods really are what you think they are.
	At least people who work for Facebook are on contract from Cognizant, and we're actually, you know, like normal people.
	But the internals at Twitter are different people.
	We've got the checkmarks.
	There's also the fact that the checkmark now means nothing, which means the whole thing will collapse, says the Guardian.
	Oh no!
	This is what I mean by, we'll enjoy the Depression.
	Look at them all.
	Look at them all.
	It's going to collapse.
	Why?
	It's not leftist anymore.
	That won't make it collapse.
	You people are actually idiots.
	And I'm here for it.
	Several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now paying $8 a month for Twitter Blue.
	Who cares?
	Means nothing.
	Verified accounts are frequently seen as reliable and trustworthy.
	Right?
	The Guardian.
	Right.
	When?
	When in your goddamn life has a verified checkmark meant trustworthy to you?
	Yeah, we just looked at it like an idiot badge.
	Yeah.
	All the memes about the hand and all the rest of it.
	It's not for a reason.
	Anyway, here's the real reason people are leaving, of course.
	At least on the left, because there's the only people who are trying to leave.
	Go to Count Dankula.
	Here's an artist's rendition.
	There you are.
	You actually have to defend your ideas now, because you can't just ban the people who disagree with you anymore.
	Have you seen them all fleeing to Mastodon and then not realising that nobody can get banned on Mastodon because it's a federated system and they're complaining to the moderators and he's going, I'm just some dude in my basement.
	I haven't got the ability to shut down other people's servers.
	Why are you complaining at me?
	And there are loads of Nazis on there as well.
	Yeah.
	The left will feel right at home.
	Alright.
	We've got the last one here, which is just Elon mentioning.
	He wasn't Twitter meant to die or something.
	Maybe we've gone to heaven or hell and don't know it.
	But the point being, the billionaire libertarian king is now in charge instead of the Council of Leftist Commissars that was the Trust and Safety Board.
	And this is a point I'm going to pull back to that premium podcast for, because just think about that.
	So the place currently runs on a man's tolerance of who lives and dies.
	And every leftist theorist ever will tell you about how such a monarchy is just immediately going to become insanely tyrannical.
	Everyone's going to suffer as a result of it.
	And it's completely unconscionable.
	Whereas what we will do will be perfectly fine.
	And sure, Alex Jones is still banned because of Musk's personal tastes.
	And that is the libertarian king in action there.
	And you could say that's a bad thing.
	And you'd be accurate in describing that, I might believe.
	But the thing is, it's still amazingly less tyrannical than the Council of Trust and Safey.
	That's always the point.
	And we've gone through this in our Western Studies books, because you just have endless historian going, yeah, and then the Soviets killed another million people, then another million here and a million there.
	And then you compare it to, like, a hundred years of Russian imperial rule.
	The biggest atrocity will be, like, the king sent in the Cossacks and they killed a thousand people.
	A thousand men, women, and children were killed by the Cossacks because the Tsar told them to.
	Nothing.
	Literally.
	In the grand scheme of socialist control, nothing whatsoever.
	The tyranny, even from the tyrannical king of the Tsars, with your 40 years conscription, was a nothing burger.
	And the libertarian king in charge, again, can do basically no damage as compared to the old regime.
	A lot of deaths on the hands of human rights, apparently.
	Yeah, and it's just a digital rendition of that somewhat historic rule of power, which is that, yeah, the tyrannical libertarian king, or tyrannical, just evil king, can't actually do anywhere near as bad as socialists who think they're saving the world.
	They do.
	Give the video comments.
	Hello, Lothar Theater people.
	I wanted to show my upcoming Kickstarter campaign on a book of my dark fantasy novel series named Demon Worms.
	The state of art and literature is abysmal.
	I'm self-published.
	They are not the promoter of art anymore.
	They are now utterly infected with ideology.
	In such circumstances, the only hope of new artists is to go directly to the audience.
	You, support my project or any other new artist who only focus on their craft and nothing more.
	Thank you.
	Well, we actually have had quite a few subscribers send us their creator-owned stuff, and we really appreciate it.
	Jokes aside, really good art.
	I just made that joke because I quite like it, actually.
	It looks like the Warhammer Codex-level stuff.
	I just love...
	It's just whenever I watch Ben Shapiro show and I was like, bold and branch sheets.
	You've got to get bold and branch sheets.
	You've got to get a gun from this gun club.
	You've got to get coffee from Black Rifle Coffee.
	The West is falling.
	But first, here from Noble Gold...
	Do you go to sleep?
	Do you like sheets?
	Do you like curtains?
	I like Ben, but even though it's a meme, I do enjoy coming back.
	You like my stuff?
	Go check it out.
	I like how Matt Walsh is always reading and being held at gunpoint.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Since you guys are reviewing Black Panther forever, I was wondering if Connor and guys were aware of how the Marvel comics stole the town to put in their series.
	Completely shameless.
	They've been stealing a lot of ships from Space Battleship Yamato for some of their other series, and their Star Wars comics are just a procession of tracings from fan arts and them passing it off as their own work.
	Honestly, their comic department's really gone downhill, and I was wondering if you guys were inclined to do a deep dive on just how much they've been able to not create anything anymore.
	That actually does sound like something that's quite interesting in future.
	You obviously aren't a comic book nerd, because you like to save your money.
	There's a gentleman by the name of Greg Land, and he did mainly female-only series, and then went on the main series, like X-Men, Fantastic Four.
	And in order to get his women's facial expressions in fights really right, he decided to trace sports-illustrated models, actors, like...
	Ray Liotta and Ben Affleck, and porn stars.
	Just straight into the comic.
	Sold for kids.
	And he just was like, eh, I'll lightbox it, don't give a fuck.
	Lovely, the wonderful world of comics, ladies and gentlemen.
	On to the next one.
	Not really my topic, sorry.
	So the day of the Colorado shooting, I basically said, wait for them to reveal the shooter is actually a queer incel who used to go there.
	A couple days later, the news cycle completely refocused on a different event in a different state.
	Lo and behold, I go and look it up, and it's been announced that the shooter identifies as non-binary, uses they-them pronouns, and intends to go by Mix Altridge in the court.
	I don't know if they're really non-binary, or if this is just an attempt to escape hate crime charges, but either way, I'm not surprised.
	Did you see the big breasty Ontario teacher went skydiving?
	Yeah, I did.
	Did you see where the wig fell off?
	The hair is all like this, and the foundation...
	And the thing is, when you skydive, your skin gets rippled, it shows your cheekbones and all that.
	But then it's more that...
	Even besides all that, the foundation looks like...
	You must remember.
	You're 11?
	Yeah.
	Remember the women in year 11?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Smack it over the trowel.
	I don't know why, but the skydiving extenuated that.
	Well, I don't see why you'd need a parachute, because if he went down, face down, he'd just bounce, wouldn't he?
	Drop a bit of toast, butter side down.
	On to the next one.
	Small update since the last time I commented.
	Still looking for work, but I have a lot more minis on my Etsy shop now for anyone who might be interested in them.
	As you can see here, I'm even in the process of putting up some Democrat minis.
	Well, the casket is very representative of Democrat voters.
	We're allowed to say things on the website.
	I'm looking forward to that.
	I assume 3D printing.
	John was going to set up his 3D printer.
	I'm still waiting to make those ISIS Marines.
	We'll get around to them.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey Dee and little Joan, with a Happy Thanksgiving to you, Lotus Eaters.
	I know you guys don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK, but you're missing out.
	It's like the run-through for Christmas dinner here.
	And also, at some point, we sit around and we say what we're thankful for.
	I'm thankful for the car accident that put me in the hospital because after I woke up in the ambulance, I pretty much decided there and then not to go back to my horrible, soul-crushing 9-to-5 job and And just try to write.
	And for the most part, I've done that.
	I don't have any money, but I don't have any regrets.
	Yeah, Stephen King moment, but wholesome.
	Not weird.
	Good for you, Tony.
	I don't know about Stephen King.
	I love stories like that, though.
	Yeah.
	Really wholesome to hear.
	Yeah.
	It's not the same, but also, Joan's tongue needs something.
	Yeah.
	So, my missus keeps telling me we're getting a dog.
	I have at least somewhat compromised on fine, but we're not calling it princess.
	And I don't like, necessarily, the idea of dogs, just because picking up dog crap for the rest of my life doesn't sound all that wonderful, voluntarily, paying for it.
	But I will say, little Joan there was quite heartwarming.
	So...
	Stop trying to win me around.
	I'm being subverted by video commenters and my own girlfriend.
	So I'm not kind of like any new age medical believer, but I saw a story Richard Hammond told recently.
	You may have seen it, you may have not.
	But it's him telling about what happened after he crashed that car, you know, one rocket.
	I've heard about this, yeah.
	So he says he basically went out, junked up a morphine in the hospital, was in a coma.
	Things aren't looking great.
	They call up his wife.
	And she comes in.
	And he tells this story, because he was just high on morphine, fever dreaming or whatever, right?
	And he tells this dream, and he reenacts it, in which he walks up this area in the Lake District.
	He's been loads of times, and this was what he was dreaming of, as he was basically dying.
	And he keeps walking and walking and walking, going up the same path he's always got.
	And he gets this feeling that he's in trouble, like you're late home from being out at night.
	Like you're in real trouble, like you're going to get shouted at or something.
	And he gets up, and he eventually gets this tree that he always sits down at, and then he has this real feeling that he's really in trouble.
	He's going to get bollocking.
	And he thinks about going up and walking beyond the tree, the rest of the path, or going back, and he decides to go back.
	And his wife and the doctors tell the story, which is that when she turned up, and they said to her, well, he's going to die.
	We think he's gone.
	He's got a few moments.
	He's basically just buggered on this bed.
	And they're like, well, you say finally goodbyes.
	She says, can I shout at him?
	It's not going to do anything.
	He says, well, you can...
	No, she goes, no, can I really shout at him?
	I say, yeah, go for it.
	And apparently she was just effing at Jeff and is screaming out, you die, all this.
	And from his perspective, he looks at that and he's like, well, obviously I wasn't walking up the tree or anything like this.
	But he still goes there every so often now and sits at the tree and then goes back down.
	Everything about it is just heartwarming, even though it's a death experience.
	He also takes from it now that he believes that when he's dead, he's not scared of it, because he thinks he'll go to a very nice place.
	I'll send you the clip at some point.
	Yeah, please do, actually.
	Hell of a story from him.
	And I never know what to think about these things, because I'm not some new-age person who believes in any bollocks, but it's just...
	There's something inexplicable, and to say that you are certain to write it off I think is just conceit, but agnosticism is probably the most pummeled of positions.
	Yeah.
	But I don't know, maybe if your husband's dying, scream him, I guess.
	I don't know what else to say.
	I'll just get that one.
	I'm awake.
	Alright, well, we'll go to the written comments on the site.
	So, Hammurabi VI says, This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for all your quality content.
	Oh, bugger off.
	No, I appreciate the compliment.
	I'm joking.
	Even if it tends to be the blackest of pills.
	Well, Kellen brought you something wholesome for the last segment, some of the video comments, so...
	I feel like being a pirate whenever I bring the black pills, though.
	Why?
	I don't know why.
	Maybe Blackbeard.
	Oh, okay.
	Paul Noonbar says, what about the ongoing rhetoric that results in MAGA people being assassinated?
	Yeah, it doesn't matter.
	Yeah, but you're a threat to democracy.
	Colin P. says, and I will still...
	Waiting to hear exactly what rights rather than privileges they're fighting for.
	You've got to be waiting a long time, bud.
	Only the rest of us.
	X, Y, and Z says, Leftist, drag queen story hour equals good.
	Child beauty content, bad.
	Same people.
	Let's get rid of both.
	I don't know if you've seen this.
	I had a few...
	I saw Lauren Southern hat as well.
	People tagging you and being like, Oh, yeah, well, right-wingers say that this is bad, but you all agree with going to Hooters with your four-year-old or the child beauty contents.
	I'm like...
	No.
	We don't do either of those in England.
	No.
	So this is doubly weird.
	Yeah, I also don't agree with either of those at all.
	It's just like, even in the American context, I just look at them and think...
	Yeah.
	I mean, I know it's all mothers and their kids who do the beauty pageant.
	There's no men there, usually.
	No.
	It's just...
	Even then, it's like...
	Do you not find something better to do, darling?
	No, it's a product of a gynocentric society.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	It's just...
	Yeah, no right-winger actually seems to like that.
	Yes, and my advice to all criminals, become a woman.
	Well, ironically, that is good legal advice.
	Sol would give it.
	Can we talk about that now?
	No, we can't.
	I'm sorry to get my hopes up.
	Yes, we can, Sophie.
	If you want to start becoming a lawyer, advise all your clients to be women.
	They can dream it.
	America's in hospice care says, Funny all this guns being anti-gay because after the gay club shooting in Orlando, many gays went out and brought guns and stated the Second Amendment was for them, too, when asked by reporters.
	And, yeah, the Islamophobia aspect of all that all got dropped, didn't it?
	Yeah, I spoke to one of the EMTs first since seen, actually, at the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
	We used to play Destiny with him, and he never forgot it.
	I will say that.
	So, no shock.
	After something like that, arm up.
	Yeah, but it's also just a great thing from those two lads who took down the gunman as well.
	It's like the police aren't there.
	Do you want to be shot or own a gun?
	There's a funny saying in the SAS actually, like whenever one of theirs dies, they always check to see if a gun has been shot.
	Yes.
	And if they got a few rounds off, it's basically like, fair enough.
	We're not doing what he did.
	But if there's no shots fired, they get really mad about it.
	It's like, you cunt, you killed someone who, that's just one, but they like really get angry at the person who killed their mate.
	Yeah.
	And then they really treat them badly because they're just like, it wasn't even fair.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, sorry.
	It wasn't even a duel, basically.
	What the elites say at their conferences.
	Risto, reacting to the elites.
	Carl once said, screw the GDP. Yeah, I'm so sick of bar graph go up.
	Tom Harwood's not right about anything.
	Omar, I think it's from a C.S. Lewis quote, but the worst kind of tyrants are moral busybodies.
	Evil tyrants might get tired of fighting their conscience, but conscientious tormentors do so endlessly because it's for your own good.
	It's the tyranny of the midwit utopian imperialists.
	Harry and I will be covering Robert Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia for a book club.
	I think, week after next.
	So, if you're not familiar with that term, stay tuned to the site.
	Sophie, can this man sound any less like a comic book villain?
	It feels like I'm watching a comic book movie about the Nazis rising back up and is now covering their plot to open the gates to hell and resurrect Hitler.
	Why don't you say that?
	If you read the deep think I did for the website before I started working here, which is the WEF's ESG's Mark of the Beast...
	We found out that his dad made the flamethrowers for the SS. Klaus Schwab's dad actually manufactured Nazi war weapons.
	But I do think that Schwab is...
	He's a complete charisma vacuum, right?
	He's really fucking boring.
	So, it is funny how he's this arch-supervillain.
	I don't want to get too deep in the conspiratorial weeds, but it almost makes me distrust how authentic it is.
	Because why would you put yourself out there as an obvious villain?
	Yeah, it's actually Trump's controlled opposition to get him back in power.
	I don't even mean that.
	I mean, like, you know...
	That's just brilliant.
	Yeah, you know how Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, bad film, but is the outward-facing mob boss that takes down Batman, and he's obviously in front of the cameras all the time, and it's secretly Talia Oghul.
	It's almost like that.
	Would you not prefer to be the person in the shadows and have an obvious supervillain you can take down?
	Yeah.
	Don't know, maybe I'm just getting wrapped up in comic book plots.
	Will the Impaler.
	When you hear them talk about their plans of stakeholder fascism, it suddenly becomes very clear why the latest budget seems aimed at destroying small businesses and sole traders.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And exactly the same reason why we've got taxed you to death for the massive hole in the deficit.
	By the way, here's trillions for climate reparations to nuclear-armed Pakistan.
	It's trading in influence to stop a parallel economic bloc swallowing up other nations because they're actually producing things like gold, oil, minerals, whereas we're trading in ideological promises.
	So they want to unify the entire global economy and stop the two warring factions from emerging.
	But that's why he's pandying up to China, because China are winning, especially with the Belt and Road.
	140 countries now, I think it is.
	Nicholas, it has often been called...
	Start that again.
	Wow.
	It has often been that I have been called a conspiracy peddler for mentioning things said by groups like WHO and the WEF in conferences like the B20. Am I missing something, or has the meaning of conspiracy changed?
	I mean, they are not being clandestine about their aims or actions.
	That was quite an interesting one.
	When I went on Christo's breakfast show at Talk recently, he brought up the World Economic Forum voluntarily.
	And I was axed from Mike Graham's show for saying about the WEF and linking to a World Economic Forum segment that I'd done on Talk and saying we should have a chat about it because Mike Graham said it's conspiracy theory.
	And then off there, Christo just went, well, yeah, they're just saying it on their website.
	It's not conspiracy theory if they're just saying it.
	And so I think the needle really has moved.
	Quite a few people have been just like, oh, we can't call you conspiracy theorists because they've just written about it on the website for literally years.
	Are you saying, I've done a book 50 years ago on it.
	Right, okay.
	But it's a conspiracy theory.
	All right.
	Comments for your last segment?
	Sure.
	That is 100% true, and it's a failure of that quote.
	It's just I wanted to use their own quotes against them for a segment.
	So you got me there.
	The thing is, the way Elon Musk is running Twitter is equality done right.
	Everyone is in equal rules, not an equal stature.
	Leftists take note.
	Yeah, it's just they have a meritocratic system.
	Can you code?
	Send me your screenshots of your code.
	That's pretty good.
	Alright, you're in.
	It's proportionate and reciprocal treatment, not equal treatment.
	Because equal treatment commands you abolish your moral prejudices.
	Like, you're not going to treat a Lord of Buying Citizen the same as a thief, for example.
	No, yeah, I'm saying it's a meritocracy.
	No, I know you are.
	Yeah, I know.
	Definitely you are.
	I was just clarifying obviously his distinction.
	Brown von Vorhock says, Callum, for some context, the reason why leftists can't get over Gamergate is that it was the first time the woke movement actually got pushed back by rightists and what kicked off the culture war and they are never forgiven the right for the setback.
	That's totally true.
	How about going outside?
	I mean it.
	Go out.
	Talk to a person.
	See what is happening around you.
	Learn new stuff.
	See what those in your area have to teach you.
	Socialise.
	Make a local community.
	Maybe you should not be living your entire life on the intranet.
	Just a thought.
	That is something I said.
	So when Josh and I did our contemplations about...
	Dating relationships, pornography, things like that.
	There are quite a few people saying that you don't understand.
	You're rallying against this because I use either the manosphere or pornography to try and understand the modern dating landscape or to soothe the fact that I feel like I don't deserve or can't get a woman.
	And the response is always, you know, go form a community, go and prove yourself, go outside, take your chances.
	You're not going to meet someone on Tinder because, as you brilliantly once said, I don't want a whore, I want a wife.
	I've got the screenshots to prove it.
	Exactly, and I don't disagree with you, trust me.
	We went to the same uni, we know what they're like around Kent.
	However, I will say one thing as well, just off the top of my head.
	If there are some people in our audience that are genuinely struggling to make connections, you've got a whole list of people that are like-minded and community-based at your fingertips.
	We'll probably do live events at some point in the future, you might even run into them, but guys, it couldn't hurt to start talking to each other.
	Maybe give it a crack.
	Well, people do.
	I do love that there is actually a little community of S posters as well.
	Hey, if any of the Lotus Seaters get married, invite us to your wedding, I guess.
	That'd be fun.
	What are you chuckling about?
	What was it now?
	Just turn up and be like, right.
	Thank you for inviting me, my friend of the groom.
	Anyway, we're going to talk about Blackpill tonight.
	Open bar!
	Richard Garrett says, Gaint is valuable, not as an origin, but as a fixed point in time that both sides can kind of agree on.
	It was a moment when the social justice racket used it to seize power of the game journalism industry and was being displaced by video presenters and streamers, then used vitriol and maliciousness to balkanize the audience and purge dissents, but it mostly failed.
	Yeah, the funny thing about all of that as well is that I think it was probably the first time they really got exposed.
	Because, I mean, plenty of spaces have been infiltrated in this way, and Atheism Plus got its comeuppance.
	But it's...
	I don't know, maybe it's just my age, but it seems that most people I run into who are older as well recognize it as the first time on the internet that, yeah, everyone recognized the SGWs for what they were, and as a group, instead of, like, something's going on, I don't know what.
	No, no, no, it's these guys.
	Anyway, we are out of time, so if you'd like more from us, go to LotusEars.com, check out the premium stuff we mentioned.
	Yeah, cheers for the good show, man.
	Appreciate it.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow, 1 o'clock.

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