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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #627

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	music Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotuses for...
	I don't know, it's a Friday.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello there!
	Another professional opening, as always.
	And today we're going to be talking, so let's get into it.
	Right then.
	Well, how bad could you butcher the intro?
	That's the new challenge I've set myself now.
	I'm so glad.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about Tennessee being the future.
	I'm going to continue my theme of the right wing dashing to the future and being the force of modernisation.
	So, here it is.
	Alright.
	So, Rwanda was never supposed to work.
	And without drag queens, how will we live?
	It really is the end of days.
	Anyway, let's enjoy something first, which is, after this, you and Rory are going to be screaming at each other about Zoomers.
	Well, it is the only way that Zoomers communicate, loudly and screechily.
	You know that thing about TikTok, loud equals funny?
	Yes.
	That's TikTok comedy.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's late millennial humour.
	Don't you dare try and turn up the volume of my earpiece.
	Just to prove it.
	So before we start, I turned it up to mess with you, and then I was like, I'll leave that.
	I was like, I'll just put it down.
	No, it's all right.
	It's all right.
	All right.
	So anyway, we're gonna address the Zoomer question.
	This was Rory's idea.
	I just want to put that out straight away that if this goes horribly wrong and is a terrible live stream, that it's Rory's fault.
	Not to do with me, but if it goes great, it's all my work.
	All right, well, let's begin with Tennessee.
	So, Tennessee is the future, it turns out, which I was not expecting.
	I don't think most people were expecting that, but it turned out that way in the end.
	If you don't know what I'm talking about, well, there's been a storming of the Capitol and some results therein, which is the Dems have been kicked out of the chamber.
	Oh really?
	Yeah.
	It's really good!
	So January 6th part... Which one would this be?
	2?
	3?
	I think this is like the 5th Storming of the Capitol since January 6th.
	Alright, okay, cool.
	Those have all been by leftists, so they've been allowed.
	This is the one where the Republicans have gone, hang on a minute, I thought this was meant to be 9-11.
	I did see January 6th.
	The other week.
	That was funny.
	We'll start just by mentioning, this is an article on Losers about the Capitol building takeover timeline.
	So if you want to go and check out something, you can go check it out on Losers.com, which I think is the best summation of everything.
	Josh and Hugo did that.
	And it's also the day that democracy died, or something.
	I don't know.
	And you can't say it either way, so does it matter?
	No, not really.
	If Callum can't pronounce it, does it really exist?
	I think the whole world's doomed.
	It just popped out of existence.
	Moving on to the next link here, we can see, indeed it is, Tennessee!
	The expulsion from Tennessee is a glimpse of the future, and Posto being like, let's hope!
	And, uh, me too.
	Me too, here's to hoping.
	And in case you don't know what happened, so there was a storming of the Capitol, as is tradition in American politics.
	We go to the next, uh, link.
	It's one of the great democratic processes.
	Yeah, so these are some leftists who stormed in on the procedures in the state capital here.
	They're having votes and stuff and you can see there are two gentlemen there.
	Wait, who are the people storming in this video?
	So there was a load of kids along with some lawmakers and the lawmakers decided to organize the whole thing and do the storming.
	As you can see, the two gentlemen at the podium there with the lady next to them, those three individuals are the ones who organized the actual storming with the kids as their vanguard because I can't do it with three people.
	I mean, who else are you going to use for human shields, right?
	Yeah, which, you know, good strategy in regards to human shields, but politics, not so much.
	Because it turned out that the mostly peaceful protests went down as mostly peaceful protests usually do.
	You can go to the next video and we can see that, which is the police being like, could you please be orderly, for the love of Christ?
	And instead, this just devolves into the... Long no.
	Yeah, basically.
	They're just fighting with the police, for ages.
	And you can go and see that all in your own time.
	It's ridiculous.
	But yeah, the next one here, in which we can see there was... It's over a shooting, of course.
	It's so funny watching people of that age try to be dignified because, I'm sorry, look at yourself.
	Look, you have got an exploded mushroom on your head.
	I'm not taking you seriously.
	Like this 30-year-old police officer there with the coolest, you know, really cool hat there.
	He's going to destroy you.
	These kids being like, I'm tough.
	He's like, no, you're going to jail.
	I will wave my broccoli at you.
	Yeah, so they're trying to stop the Republicans going in and voting because there was a shooting.
	We won't say which one, as David Hogg alludes to.
	Students in Tennessee protested at the Capitol to demand stronger gun regulations after six people, including three children, were murdered in a convent school in Nashville.
	By guns.
	And David Hogg, as ever, is the most impartial reporter on such things.
	Yeah, but they were all killed by guns, those six victims.
	I hate it when guns do that.
	Can't believe guns do this.
	When they just float at me.
	You know what we should do?
	Ban all guns, because they're the ones doing this.
	Mhm.
	Yeah, that's literally David Hogg's line.
	He's got one line.
	He's been around for how long?
	And I think it's basically just an AI program at this point.
	David Hogg, I don't believe, really exists.
	I hope so.
	But the other response from people I've seen is, well, look at all those Republicans.
	Look at all them whiteys.
	That's the real problem here.
	That's right.
	It's only the whites maintaining law.
	Oh, wait, no, that's not the message we want to be sending here.
	No, instead it is the whiteys who are trying to kill kids with their guns.
	Oh.
	Which, um, okay.
	I mean, I'm pretty sure I debunked that in a segment a few weeks ago, but okay.
	Yeah, almost as if this is all based on sand.
	Um, good luck with that.
	So they're saying here about the fact that they've just expelled two black Democrats from the chamber for, um, something.
	I think I saw some of the clips from this.
	Yeah, but this is them going into vote on the matter.
	They charged the three people who organized the storming with knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the chamber.
	Which, I mean, yep.
	I don't want to spoil anything.
	Is this one of the Democrats, the black guy who just starts yelling in a guy's face for no reason?
	No, no, that's in Washington.
	Oh, all right.
	Okay, there's a different Democrat somewhere.
	So if you go to the next link here.
	So the whole thing is that you've got these guys who've done this, and of course on a regular day, I wouldn't give a crap.
	Like some guys turn up, do some shouting, disrupt procedures, and then it gets thrown out because the police turn up and go, all right, move on.
	That's American politics, it's been American politics for a long time.
	That's just politics.
	Sure, but in the American context, like, is this an acceptable thing?
	And it was, right up until January 6th, in which it was declared Holocaust 2, and at which point it was 9-11, Pearl Harbor all rolled into one, times a billion.
	Yeah, and then, well, you can't let that carry on anymore, can you?
	Because if it is 9-11 too... Sorry, Democrats just screaming like, this is just like if it were 12 million guys... It's just ridiculous, their response to January 6th.
	And in which case, the Republicans, at least in Tennessee, have turned around and gone... Okay then.
	Yeah, storming the Capitol.
	Basically hardcore terrorism.
	It's the only one who organises that while kicking out of the chamber.
	And they didn't care kindly for that, because they were like, what do you mean the rules apply to us?
	No, they don't.
	This is actually the complaint.
	It's like, how dare you do this to us?
	We're allowed to do this to you.
	And well, good on the representatives of Tennessee.
	The individuals who took part, the ones who organized the storming here, are not the nicest of chaps.
	I mean, there's one here.
	He refers to one of the Republicans as brownface.
	He's the least racist Democrat I've been able to find.
	So I'll play that and enjoy his argument as to why he's not messed up.
	In those 53 years in America, I have never encountered a racial slur.
	I'm really not aware that any of that applies to me.
	I live a good life.
	Yet, you, on tape, call me a brown face.
	Yes, sir, it's on tape.
	And I said that you put a brown face on white supremacy.
	Oh, that's alright then, fair enough.
	So he's found Larry Elder too.
	Yeah, so the guy there, he was talking about the fact, oh no, I'm just calling you a brownface for white supremacy.
	No, you're calling him a, what is it?
	Uncle Tom?
	Yeah, there we are.
	That's all you're doing.
	Would this be an Uncle Kumar?
	Well, I suppose Uncle Kumar over there.
	He's from Springfield as well, which is kind of funny.
	But the non-white member of the Republicans there is the wrong kind because he's a race traitor.
	So he's one of the guys who organized the storming.
	So yeah, great guy, I'm sure.
	Fantastic.
	The other guy, he turned up to give his defense as to why he did this.
	And his argument was, I thought this was America.
	I thought this was America!
	Which I would have agreed with!
	I'd have been like, yeah, whatever, you know, American politics is wild.
	No one died.
	Who gives a crap?
	But January 6th happened, so no, this isn't America.
	This is, uh, Pearl Harbor.
	So let's play his argument of, um, trust me, I thought this was America.
	In a country that was built on a protest.
	In a country that was built on a protest!
	You who celebrate July 4th, 1776, pop fireworks and eat hot dogs.
	You say to protest is wrong because you spoke out of turn, because you spoke up for people who are marginalized.
	Is he trying to be like Martin Luther X or something?
	Oh, he really is.
	He looks like he's trying to be a combo of the two of them.
	It's quite funny.
	We'll get to how ridiculous his acting is in a bit.
	The other one also is putting on a really weird accent all of a sudden.
	Like, when he was speaking in his defense at the hearing or whatever, he was there being like, in Tennessee!
	We need to understand.
	In July 4th!
	Yeah, he doesn't usually talk like that.
	Has he got a Bible hidden in his pocket?
	Is he gonna start waving that around, smacking it on the podium?
	It's because the cameras are there.
	They've all decided to put on fake accents for some reason.
	It's like, alright.
	I mean, this is like... It's weird.
	This is a secondary school drama performance right here.
	It certainly is.
	You know, fair play.
	The theatre kid's in charge, why not?
	I love James Lindsay who's just like, you know, a communist who's always trying to use your values against you.
	I thought this was America!
	I thought we could protest!
	I mean, that's always what they do.
	What you do is you- 76 was a- I mean, it was a war, but okay.
	When you're outside of power, you go, what about your values, though?
	And then the people in power are stupid enough to go, yeah, you're right, we've got values, here you go, have some power.
	And then they go, pfft, they were only your values.
	Yeah, I do kind of find it funny, just on a side note, the whole argument of, I thought this was America, whenever you get caught.
	Because I mean, if you want to bring up 1776, it's like, well look, you know, that's how we founded this place, so I should be allowed to do that.
	If I ever got caught robbing a bank in America, that's what I would do.
	What you would be technically arguing for is the right to commit terrorism against the federal government, which of course the Republicans do.
	They claim that right.
	You know, if the 9-11 guys hadn't blown up, that's the argument they would have used.
	Well, I mean, you know, two of those claims weren't for the federal government, so that was...
	Plus all the innocent people involved.
	The point being that the Republicans will lay down, it's like, yes, we have these guns so that we can uprise against the federal government, take down their agents and overthrow the government and institute democracy again in case of a tyrant.
	Their reasoning is coherent.
	You can talk about that, about how viable it is, whatever.
	But the point is, it's there.
	With the Democrats, you can't sit there and be like, I thought this was America.
	Don't I have the right to overthrow the country when you tried to put everyone in... Well, I think you did put everyone in jail.
	For the storming of the Capitol in Washington.
	Well, they did.
	I think the, um... Stallman!
	QAnon shaman got let out of prison, but he's been put back on house arrest or something, so... Why was he ever in prison at all?
	Exactly.
	I mean, the most they had them on was some very trumped-up trespassing charges.
	Someone should really check this guy's tweets, see what he said about January 6th.
	I didn't have time, but I just love the idea.
	He's like, what I thought was America!
	Really?
	Like, yeah, the Republicans make that argument.
	You really cannot, after your response to everything else.
	Obama decided to butt in on this.
	Obumna, over here, turned up to say that this nation was built on peaceful protest.
	It wasn't.
	It was built on war against the British.
	Terrorism, mate.
	I just love the idea of, like, 1776, you've got the newspaper men just going, fiery, but mostly peaceful.
	Okay, like, I don't understand how Americans... Well, okay, American Democrats butcher their own history because they don't know any... That's actually not unexpected, I don't want to talk about.
	So, no elected official should lose their job for simply raising their voice.
	Well, it wasn't.
	You disrupted the procedures, stormed in, with all your goons there, to overthrow the vote, so...
	I mean, that's the thing, like, you can make the argument this is normal, and in which case, why should anyone be in jail for January 6th, or you can make the argument that everyone needs to be in prison, in which case, actually, these guys got off light, to say the least.
	I love how he ends it off with, especially if they're doing it on behalf of our children.
	As if no other political activism is ever for your kids.
	No, I can't think of any recent movements on behalf of children recently.
	No, but also, as if anyone gets into politics so that the benefits will only apply to them and not to their kids.
	It's like, you know, I stand for liberty and justice, the right to bear arms, but only for my generation.
	Gen Z, screw those guys.
	Ban it.
	You kind of just described boomer cons.
	I don't know, man.
	I don't think people would get into politics.
	Screw my kids, though.
	But we're going to the next one because we'll see the deets.
	So the deets are that the House voted 72 to 25 along party lines to expel Mr. Jones.
	So Mr. Jones is, I believe, the one with the afro.
	And then they tried to remove the lady.
	The lady over here.
	The vote was 65 to 30.
	Which was not two-thirds, so she didn't get kicked out.
	So there was a whole five people who didn't vote, instead they changed sides for some reason.
	And okay, so it's still over one majority trying to get rid of her, it's just that it didn't reach the two-thirds majority.
	And for the last one, Mr. Pearson, he was reaching the two-thirds majority, so they got rid of him.
	So who are all of these people in context?
	So the two black guys got voted out, and the white woman stayed.
	Alright, and this is basically like Jim Crow South again.
	Yes.
	I assume is where NBC will be taking this.
	You can see NBC there, they write, Jones and Pearson are black, Johnson is white.
	They just write that as a standalone line, because they're just like, come on.
	Racism.
	My weak heart just gave out.
	Time for complaining about racism again.
	Is it?
	Sorry, I mean, if you're claiming that the people who didn't vote to expel the white lady are racist, then that's five people.
	Well, don't you know, if it happens to white people, it's accountability.
	If it happens to black people, it's racism.
	Well, it's five Republican people, but then it's also 25 Democrats in the House who didn't vote to expel their own person, including her.
	So that makes her a racist for not expelling herself.
	Don't make any sense, but whatever.
	The Congressional Black Caucus has something to say, though.
	Oh, all right, okay.
	Because that's where this is going, it's racism.
	This move not only is racism...
	I could have guessed where that was going.
	It's also anti-democratic.
	It's morally bankrupt and out of step with the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe we need common sense gun control to save lives.
	I really feel like I could just type in to chatGPT, please predict the next six months of American politics and word for word it would just like straight out there.
	This has all gone through an algorithm.
	We live in the matrix.
	But let's get back to Mr. Afro, because Mr. Afro is comical.
	I've seen a lot of people, like leftist accounts, being like, this is actually a win for us, because these two guys are now going to become faces of the movement.
	They're going to go on to be, like, amazing frontrunners.
	Then we're going to run everyone like AOC or something, right?
	Like, front-facing.
	AOC has only ever been, uh... Net positive for the time being.
	Yeah.
	But this guy, he's comical.
	You see this chap here, he's just like, I'm glad he's gone.
	I have no time for race baiting.
	And he really wants to be MLK.
	We'll play this.
	And Yeehaw, is he trying to put on quite the accent?
	Let's play it.
	Yes, I tell you, it was a sad day on Saturday.
	All hope seemed to be lost.
	Representatives were thrown out of the statehouse.
	Democracy seemed to be at its end.
	Seemed like the NRA and gun lobbyists might win.
	But oh, that was good news for us!
	I don't know how long this Saturday in the state of Tennessee might last, but oh, we have good news, folks!
	We've got good news that Sunday always comes!
	Resurrection is a promise and it is a prophecy.
	It's a prophecy that came out of the cotton fields.
	It's a prophecy that came out of the lynching tree.
	It's a prophecy that still lives in each and every one of us in order to make the state of Tennessee the place that it ought to be.
	And so I've still got hope because I know we are still here and we will never quit.
	Amazing.
	That woman next to him the whole time has a look on her face like, she's got a look on her face like, you being serious right now, boy?
	Oh no, he's coming!
	That's not his normal voice, in case you're wondering.
	That guy knows what he's doing.
	You see that smile crop up on his face.
	Whatever you want to say about the guy, if you go back to MLK He doesn't look like when he's giving speeches.
	He doesn't look like he's a bit of a cheeky chappy.
	He's just prodding a little fun like that guy did.
	He's genuinely got a bit of gravitas behind him.
	That was just a joke.
	It's so fake as well.
	It's just like, I'm from Birmingham, Alabama.
	No, shut up.
	Why are you doing a fake accent?
	Why are you acting like this is the Civil Rights 2?
	Because you broke the rules and got kicked out for it.
	Because everything since the 1960s has been Civil Rights 2.
	Oh god, I can't get over it.
	As I mentioned, the other guy who got kicked out, he also decided to put on a big ol' fake accent.
	Oh, beautiful.
	The audio was just absolutely horrible to listen to, though.
	So whoever was controlling the audio for the house there, he just got massively peaked all the time, so I'm not going to play it, but like I say, he was sadly going, We're under attack!
	What am I listening to?
	Is everyone meeting beforehand and just being like, what kind of stupid accents can we put on?
	That's what they went with.
	I hope that is what they're doing.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's never been more clear when someone's Wraith Grifting when they're putting on a fake MLK accent that hard.
	So there you have that.
	That was pretty easy.
	Yeehaw.
	We'll go to the next one, though, because a lot of people posted this in response.
	Uh, it's, it's, it's, um, uh, whatever.
	Let's move on.
	Was that Penguin Hotel?
	Is that what it was?
	Habbo Hotel, yeah.
	Habbo Hotel.
	People were all posting that to him because he was like, why are you doing a fake accent?
	What's wrong with you?
	Like, this is ridiculous.
	It's for the cameras, why else?
	Uh, but the leftist response have apparently brought it somehow.
	I don't know if people noticed that he was putting on a fake accent from left-wing accounts.
	Oh, they don't care.
	They know he's putting on a fake accent, but they're like, close enough?
	Good enough for me?
	Come to his character?
	No!
	The fruition with which he breaks the law!
	Whatever.
	So this guy here is just like, don't tell me the systemic racism doesn't exist in America.
	It's being led by the GOP, blah blah blah, because they expelled two black men, or as the white woman got off.
	The white woman came out and said, oh yeah, it's because of the color of our skin.
	We've got the details.
	That's actually how this kind of rhetoric makes me feel now, just getting a bit sleepy.
	There are 100 people in the chamber who can vote.
	65 of them voted to kick the white woman out as well.
	It's just five of them flipped.
	So I guess, I don't know, get those five people and give them their clan hoods for not kicking out a white woman.
	She voted to keep herself in, so give her a clan hood for being on the wrong side of history.
	There we are.
	There's also MSNBC who went with, they just hate black people, damn it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, I don't think they do.
	We're almost going with the typical narratives.
	Yeah, this is just transparent.
	What happened in Tennessee today is codified erosion of our democratic process.
	This is white Republicans, including the non-white ones who are still white somehow, trying to make an example of a black man who got out of place.
	I mean, look at that guy in the bottom left on the little screen right there.
	He's black, but he's Afro.
	Pure white!
	I bet he's on the side of the racist.
	From the head up.
	From the scalp of it.
	I'm so tired of this.
	But we'll go to the TikTok because TikTok was so mad.
	This person here.
	They removed two black men but not the white woman.
	This obese lady decided to come out with a start there.
	Would this woman be a sink?
	I don't know.
	But she decided to phrase all of this because it happened after a shooting.
	In Tennessee.
	And everybody knows that political posturing around shootings is never acceptable.
	She doesn't explain what a shooting was.
	She doesn't explain why the shooting's of interest.
	Just another shootin', just a regular everyday shootin' in America.
	Just a cowboy guy from Springfield, Simpsons, just came out and shot, started shootin' into the air, as he did.
	It was the ranger with the big iron on his hip, in Tennessee over the weekend, which got all these school students to come out.
	He's been playing Fallout again.
	Big iron!
	Alright, whatever.
	But Fox, what did Fox go with?
	Fox went with the very funny headline of, um, Representative Calls Vote Assault on Democracy.
	All right, that's pretty funny, I'll give you that.
	Interesting.
	Voting will kill this place, I tell you.
	But the Daily Wire is very proud, and this is why it's the future, at least according to some people.
	You have Matt Walsh here who said, can't say enough about the Republican legislators in Tennessee today who have had the courage and wherewithal to hold Democrats accountable for a change and force them to abide by the same rules as everyone else.
	Extremely rare that Republicans display this kind of toughness.
	The Democrats led a mob into the Capitol building and tried to use the floor of the House as a staging ground for political demonstration.
	They never imagined Republicans would actually use the constitutional authority to expel them, but they did!
	Awesome stuff.
	Yeah.
	And that is the funny thing, is that for decades, conservatives and republicans could have just done anything to prevent all of the nonsense that goes on, to the point where when they just go, actually no, get out, people are shocked and surprised now.
	If you go to the next link here, just the last one, because this is Kentucky as well, you know, the queer shaman.
	I remember that.
	Queue shaman over there.
	So, but there's the point.
	It's okay.
	Weird political things are the way Americans have done politics for ages.
	But since January 6th, if you want to play this game, it is terrorism.
	It is, you know, July Death Day.
	It's literally Hiroshima, Nagasaki, but in Washington.
	Then okay, fine.
	And in which case anyone who organizes that gets kicked out.
	This is the exact same as Tulsa.
	Yeah.
	Birmingham.
	Have we got any more horrible things?
	Selma.
	The sack of Baghdad.
	That's what this is.
	The burning of Alexandria.
	This is worse than if Uday Hussain had shown up.
	This is Harambe.
	Don't infer his name, Callum!
	Yeah, okay, if you want to play that game, we'll play that game, but you're gonna lose.
	Because you retards keep doing this, and in which case, okay, fine, we'll just enforce the rules.
	And every Republican legislature should enforce the rules, because you can't keep sitting there and being like, oh, imagine if the shoe was on the other foot.
	No.
	Get the shoe.
	Give them the slipper.
	In legislative terms, if you break the rules, the rules will apply to you and you'll be removed from the legislature.
	And yeah, there we go.
	And that's why I think it's the future of at least American politics.
	Either you stop your tomfoolery or get out of the legislature.
	All right.
	Move to Rwanda.
	Are we moving to Rwanda?
	Are we being thrown out of the country?
	What have you done, Callum?
	He's our commander.
	Have you been taking any boat trips recently?
	I don't know, we were actually looking at going to Rwanda for a trip, but... Were we?
	Yeah, yeah, because we found out where they're keeping them, so we were going to go down and like... Oh, okay, we were going to, what, point and laugh at them?
	No, we were going to break in and steal their beds because they look comfy.
	We weren't gonna break in, you know, pretend to be asylum seekers?
	No, I'm just sick of paying rent, so I'm gonna go.
	Alright, okay, anyway.
	So, Rwanda was never supposed to work, this has become exceedingly clear, although, you know, if you'd looked at the legislation around this time last year when it was all announced, it was pretty obvious that it was always just something for headlines, but at the very least there was a period of, what was it, like two or three days when it was first announced and the boats stopped.
	for just a few days.
	It was bliss.
	And it was bliss.
	Until the migrants were like, hang on a minute, nothing's happening.
	Even if they do send me Rwanda, they're just going to see if I'm legit.
	Which the British government doesn't have the capability to do, because we keep getting approved when we're in the UK.
	Yeah, we'll probably just get accepted anyway, so who cares?
	99% acceptance rate, no matter how much of a piss-take you are, yeah, it's still worth the risk.
	Yeah, the likelihood is anyway that you're never gonna get to Rwanda, let's be perfectly honest.
	You'll be put in a hotel, and now possibly in a boat, in a lovely seaside town, you know, you'll be able to... To the barge!
	You'll be able to go down to the arcade and the beach and have a fish and chips, terrorise the locals, etc, etc.
	And that's just what's going to happen.
	This is kind of expanding on something that I was talking about on Tuesday with Dan, but for our YouTube viewers, you won't have been able to see that.
	So I thought I'd go over some of the same information, go over what's been expanding, and just let you know how much of a big clown joke this whole thing is.
	Thank you very much, Tories.
	Before that, we've got the latest symposium from Stelios, where him and Rory Rare guest appearance by Rory, talking about Nietzsche and the birth of tragedy, and Nietzsche, as you can see, is a man whose moustache I will eventually, possibly, maybe be able to emulate.
	It might take a few years, but I'll get there, goddammit.
	It's a lifetime of work.
	That really is a lifetime of work, but goddammit, is it not worth it?
	No.
	The majesty of that thing.
	Oh, the amount of hairs that just keep going in your mouth.
	The absolute walrus on that man's face.
	Do you remember Adam and Jamie?
	Was it Jamie from Mythbusters?
	That he had the walrus moustache?
	You know, he got nothing on Nietzsche.
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	Anyway, so...
	The biggest development recently was that, along with Rwanda, which will maybe never happen, ever, because it was supposed to happen last June, and got immediately grounded by the European Court of Human Rights, and then the Tories went, oh no, what are we gonna do?
	And done very little ever since then, that's kind of their...
	That's their signature move at this point, you know, like... What if we say we're going to do something, but we make sure we break European law, which for some reason we're still applying to?
	And somehow Labour just haven't given up yet.
	It's amazing how this just doesn't work.
	So the migrants will be set to be moved out of hotels into disused ferries and military bases.
	I believe you and Carl on Monday were talking about this and how some of the disused military bases were in places like Bexhill, was it?
	Yeah.
	And the locals just showed up and said no.
	A bunch of angry farmers showed up with torches and pitchforks.
	There was a bunch of mums who were like, so you're gonna house 500 rapist-age men next to my house?
	Is that the category now?
	Rapist-age men?
	Yeah, I'm gonna start using that instead.
	That's a very broad category, so I like it because that's appropriate as well.
	It is broad.
	And it's honest.
	We should start just rephrasing everything in the bluntest terms possible.
	But that is why she's concerned.
	She's not concerned that they're going to spend too much money.
	We've got 500 rapists moving into Bexhill.
	Rapist aged men.
	Rapist aged men.
	I don't want to be slanderous.
	You're right, you're right.
	I don't want to get in trouble with the asylum seekers.
	But yeah, the problem with this is, one, it's nonsense because it's not actually fixing the problem.
	The problem is that we don't want them in this country in the first place, not that we want them on the coast of this country.
	You know, we don't want to... I know we say we want some kind of border protection, we don't want to man the border, the coast, with migrants to protect us from the future migrants, like we build a wall of human shield out of the migrants just on the coastline.
	Actually, that would be quite entertaining.
	No, that wouldn't do it, so...
	No, they wouldn't do it, but could you imagine them all forming a giant human pyramid or something along the coastline?
	No.
	No, neither can I. Dammit, let me have my fun!
	Where are you going with that?
	I just think it'd be funny, it's an amusing image in my head, okay?
	Somebody can mock that up on Photoshop for me.
	Yeah, it's not solving the problem, you're taking the problem, that being the migrants being here in the first place.
	Sorry, I say migrants, I mean the economic hobos.
	Is that the term that you came up with?
	So close enough, yeah.
	Yeah, economic hobos.
	You're taking the economic hobos... Beggars.
	Yeah, beggars, and you're taking them out of the cities and out of the metropolitan towns, where they're causing enough trouble, but the metropolitan cities and towns are kind of not the most amazing places to be in in the first place, and you're putting them on the coastline and in lovely little countryside towns, which for the most part are kind of safe from this for now, so you're just ruining those towns as well.
	The only place in Britain that's still worth kind of going on holiday for a weekend And they'll completely ruin the one thing they've got left.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	And this has already been assaulted by legal battles over it because, you know, when you're trying to do this, everybody knows it's not going to work and the actual towns that you're trying to move them to, because the only one that we're aware of where they are going to situate it so far is a town in South Dorset.
	And the town in South Dorset and their MP have gone, "We weren't consulted on this, we never agreed to this, we're a tourist town, this is going to ruin tourism, no, no we don't want this." And then there's the fact- Also, why do I send you money to keep the borders secure?
	Yes!
	It was a Mr Drax, the MP for South Dorset, said that a barge, which is currently in the Middle East, I believe?
	It's in like Saudi Arabia or something like that?
	I forget.
	Might be in Sudan.
	Sorry, what?
	I assumed it was disused in Britain.
	We're buying it from the Middle East?
	It's either that or Sicily or somewhere.
	It's somewhere.
	For people who don't know, okay, the big debate thing is like, we're gonna build a barge, and then we're gonna put them all on the barge, and then that'll solve the problem forever.
	Somehow.
	That'll dissuade them.
	Now, instead of staying in a nice hotel, they'll have a nice barge with a sea view.
	Yeah.
	I mean, maybe that'll save transport, you know, when they get to the coast off the boats, they just get straight back onto a bigger boat?
	Saving on petrol, grubbit.
	Yeah so it's actually being held out of the country right now and will have to be moved over to here and the vessel is 93 meters long and can accommodate up to 506 people and will reportedly cost more than £20,000 a day.
	Now I did the maths on this on Tuesday and found that given my calculations we've got The figures that I could find were from September last year, so they're probably very out of date.
	We've had thousands more people show up since then, so it will be a few thousand more.
	But on the figures that I came up with, so you'd need about 73 of these barges, you know.
	Let's say, low ball estimate, £20,000 a day, because they say more than, but I'll say £20,000 a day.
	That would still cost about half a billion pounds a year.
	To house all these people.
	Is that just the yearly inflow?
	Yeah.
	So there's an extra half a billion per year every year from now on.
	Yes.
	But that's better than the two billion.
	And also we have to deal with hordes of barges.
	Just lining the coast.
	The entire south coast is just covered in your barge.
	Yep.
	Because the other thing as well, just send them all to Brighton.
	Just house them all in Brighton.
	Just let that be it.
	Build a wall around Brighton.
	Yeah, build a wall around Brighton.
	There you go.
	But then there's other problems.
	But Mr Drax, he said that the barge was being dumped on our door without consultation by the Home Office.
	And he said, every option's being looked at, including legal action.
	We want to get this consigned to the dustbin before anything's signed.
	He also raised concerns about the practicality of keeping hundreds of asylum seekers in a very, very restricted area, placing extra pressure on the port's very small police force.
	He said, they will be allowed out on a bus every so often, but in effect will be incarcerated for quite a lot of the time.
	I mean, they are criminals, so this is understandable and correct.
	We'd use a prison then.
	Yes, but that would be against human rights.
	Human rights is imprisoning them on a barge.
	I have human rights not to be charged with crime.
	Yes.
	That is the actual argument that these lefty human rights lawyers will make as well.
	I actually... Because how long has this gone on now?
	It must have been about four or five years since it started becoming a problem with little boats, right?
	Because it used to be on the lorries.
	And this isn't even counting the problems that come with just legal migration that happens every year.
	This is just the little boats.
	This is just people because I've spoken to them.
	I've mentioned the reason I call them beggars is because they are.
	Well, you go and meet them in Serbia and you're perfectly safe while you're leaving.
	Money.
	Oh.
	Are you going to start a job?
	Start a family there or anything?
	No, I just want benefits.
	Yeah.
	The problem is, of course, that my calculations, imperfect as they were to begin with, are going to be vastly out of date seeing as since then we get about a thousand people in a single day sometimes crossing over on these little boats.
	That's two barges per day.
	Two barges, two extra barges per day that have to be sourced from the Middle East or Sicily or the US or somewhere and then transported.
	All that will cost taxpayer money as well.
	So I think they've already been debating the barge.
	For like two weeks.
	It's gonna be another, like, six months before it finally happens.
	It's already ridiculous.
	And that's one days of immigra- no, half a day's immigration!
	Half a day immigration.
	Well, this was in September- sorry, October.
	So this was in October.
	So we get, you know, ebbs and flows of the little barge people.
	The sea people.
	Yeah, the sea people of the little sea people.
	I mean, just in this one month, which was October 2022, we had 6,395.
	So how many barges would that be?
	That would be like 13 barges.
	12, yeah, 13.
	12, 13 barges.
	How many barges would that be?
	That would be like 13 barges.
	12, yeah, 13. 12, 13 barges.
	And government figures...
	In just a single month.
	The whole thing's stupid.
	Like, the whole red flag of like, oh, we'll build a barge.
	That'll solve it.
	Shut up!
	It's headlines.
	That's all it is.
	It's the Tories going, charge criminals for crimes!
	How can we get some extra percentage points for the polls for the next month so that we can convince ourselves we're doing a good job?
	And the government figures collated by the BBC showed that 39,430 people had crossed on small boats so far just in 2022 up to the end of October, compared with 28,461 who arrived in 2021.
	And of course we've just continually had this.
	The other day there was figures that 430 People had come across, and this was an incredible tweet that you sent me, where the framing was just, mwah, it was perfect.
	BBC News used by government to spread disinformation about Braverman illegal bill.
	The Hugh Edwards wrongly describes 300, sorry, 430 English channel navigators.
	English Channel navigators.
	Ah, I doffed my hat to you, sir.
	They were just charting uncharted waters.
	You know, the channel may be small, but there's a lot that we've not yet to see down there.
	There'll be beasts out there!
	We need to know what unbound treasures might be found.
	I mean, do you know how big the English Channel is?
	And how few people ever cross it?
	It's at least this big.
	I need to know what's in there.
	I can't know how much is in that.
	I mean, how could you conceptualise such a thing?
	It was wrongly described as... They're no longer sending scientists and engineers, they're sending navigators.
	That's right.
	We'll take the US mainland back, boyos.
	What's the heading, Mr. Sakawi?
	Pirates of the Channel!
	Good God.
	I don't know what to do.
	I don't know what to do.
	We've got the English Channel Navigators.
	They were wrongly attributed as migrants.
	Whereas Home Office figures show that 60-80% of them are in fact legal asylum seekers seeking refuge.
	I don't know who this person is, this Jack White is not the same man from the White Stripes, a band that you have probably never heard of.
	Lib Dem symbol, Glory to Ukraine, FBP, Rejoin, I Love Euro, NAFO, oh god.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Thankfully, this person only has, like, 21 likes on this, but they've got 7,000 followers!
	Key him.
	What?
	Transfer, transfer, transfer.
	Oh, Jesus Christ.
	I thought we were just making fun of some rando, but this person's got 7,000 followers.
	Fair.
	I do love the idea that actually is like Pirates of the Caribbean in the channel.
	I hope it is!
	That would be beautiful, but we've got some more words on what's going on, which is that the Asylum Seekers themselves, these beggars themselves, these fearless pirates, the privateers of the New Model Army...
	Our country's doomed.
	They've said that they would rather be homeless than live on a barge.
	And I agree.
	I agree.
	You can be homeless in the country you came from.
	If it's that horrible, just stay.
	Go through the South Park thing and start driving around Calais being like, you know, in Germany, super cool to the homeless.
	In Berlin, they love the homeless.
	So this article's brilliant, it says that a man in an orange top is the stealth-styled leader of the group of asylum seekers we've arranged to meet.
	He just got out.
	They feel angry every day, he said, waving his arms.
	Oh, really?
	God, it's terrible.
	The anger is for multiple reasons.
	He hadn't got his gibs that month.
	No.
	It's about the months and years they've spent waiting for their claims to be processed.
	Complaints about the standard of hotels and the food that they're given.
	And in particular, now about being moved by the Home Office.
	Honestly, if these people get NHS food, NHS quality food is too good for them.
	And I've seen NHS food.
	Yep.
	They've been moved from two hotels in East London where there were standoffs with the Home Office over some asylum seekers' refusals to leave the capital.
	They say they didn't want to come into the new accommodation because it's an hour and a half away and they had settled in London.
	The asylum seekers, who had no right to be here in the first place, and broke into this country... None of these people are seeking asylum from anything.
	Nope, but they had settled in London Actively fought against the police when they came to be moved somewhere else.
	Yes, this is what I want in our lovely, peaceful coastal towns dotted around the country.
	These people, yes, okay.
	The man in the orange top... No, they are right, though.
	They all should be in London.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	If they have to be settled anywhere, just... I don't want to go to London again.
	Every house in Westminster should have at least three.
	I support that.
	As a policy position, I would vote for that.
	The man in the orange top is called... It's the House of Laws.
	Just pack him in.
	You live here now.
	Bye-bye.
	He's called Saddam and is from Sudan.
	Saddam from Sudan.
	Saddam from Sudan.
	Okay, okay.
	He just got out of his bunker.
	I ask him what he will do if he is asked to move again.
	No, I can't move, he said.
	I will make protest.
	All the people here, I invite them to make protest in front of the hotel.
	I ask another asylum seeker called Imad.
	Also, sorry, Imad.
	I really mad about this.
	Also from Sudan.
	No war in Sudan, in case you're wondering.
	There isn't South Sudan.
	Not North Sudan.
	No, okay.
	Not Egypt.
	Interesting how that happens.
	Just north of it.
	Well, I mean, you don't want to go to Libya if you're an asylum seeker, because you wouldn't want to walk into a war, would you?
	That'd be pretty weird.
	So you'd have to go through Israel, and then you'd have to walk into another war in Syria.
	Or maybe take a quick stop at Gaza, give a wave to that.
	So you get a boat from Egypt, then to Turkey, then to Greece, then to Macedonia, then to Serbia, then... I think this makes sense to me.
	I don't know what the problem is.
	These people are just looking for a better life, Calum.
	I feel like money.
	But I asked Imad what he will do if the government decides he has to go on a barge.
	He said, Imad.
	He said, I don't want to go, Imad, Imad!
	I would go homeless!
	And by going homeless, iMad means he'll disappear from the asylum system, living outside of society.
	Great, so we get a street rat.
	Wait, we get some guy who's just gonna be... I don't know, begging?
	Working at a chippy, maybe?
	He's gonna end up working at a hairdresser's.
	Well, he's gonna be off the system.
	He's gonna be giving hairdressers... Yeah, iMad is the guy that I want, you know, giving me a close-cut shave.
	No.
	So that's what the asylum seekers have to say about it, and speaking of Rwanda as well, which is that asylum seekers themselves have won permission to challenge the UK's Rwanda policy in this next article.
	I talked about this on Tuesday as well.
	Would you like to know the reason why, Callum?
	It's too nice?
	Maybe.
	No, no, no.
	It's too mean.
	It's too mean because in 2018, during violent protests, 12 refugees were shot in Rwanda.
	Were they?
	Which means that the European Court of Human Rights, lefty lawyers, all these sorts of people have to go, hold up, hold up, hold up.
	We're basically sending them to Auschwitz.
	If violent protesters get shot in Rwanda, we're basically giving them to the mid-century Germans.
	So, we might have to hold off on this whole Rwanda plan.
	Not that we think it was going to happen in the first place.
	Do you remember when the foreigners used to hate the West?
	And now it's the natives who hate the West.
	I hate my leaders.
	I hate my leaders, I hate the judiciary, I hate everything.
	And that's fun, so prepare to have all manner of legal blocks put in front of this and the government will just sit there and decide and go, well, I can't believe that this is happening.
	I guess we'll just have to wait for the neutral institutions to sort all of this out.
	No.
	No, that's not what's going to happen.
	And even if the plan does go ahead, people are only just realizing this recently.
	And this has been in the plans from the start.
	But in the next one, Suella Braverman was questioned recently on the BBC about the fact that... Hold up!
	I just read through this document that we signed with the Rwandans.
	Go to the next link, please, John.
	It was this one.
	I just read this document we signed, and it says here, in big words, further down, that we also have to take Rwandans in.
	Any reason for that?
	I thought this was supposed to be solving the migration thing and the asylum seekers.
	And so the brave woman just goes, ah, well, we'll still be taking some.
	Well, she ignores it and goes, we'll be sending some over there.
	And she's like, no, but it definitely says we'll be taking Rwandans.
	What kind of Rwandans?
	Refugees.
	More border guards?
	Refugees!
	Whatever that means.
	Whatever a Rwandan refugees is.
	So maybe Tutsis?
	This is how ridiculous this is.
	So we're sending refugees to a country that's safe, but at the same time have to take refugees from that safe country.
	Yes, and this was sold to us as the solution to all of our illegal immigration problems when most people voted for Brexit, because all of this stems from the whole Brexit thing in the first place, because of legal immigration.
	I mean, it would actually be very simple to just have a competent border patrol border guard around the coast preventing the illegal immigration while sorting out legal immigration by just going okay we've got a tops cap of i don't know a hundred thousand a year even that's too many but still it would be a major improvement over what we've got right now we're currently on five hundred thousand yes we just don't we just don't do any of that and you may be thinking after hearing all of this
	None of this sounds like it was supposed to work in the first place.
	Some of this sounds like it was just a distraction.
	Maybe this was just meant to grab... It was absolutely meant to just grab headlines, because then, the other day, this came out.
	Number 10, the government, the people that you and I voted for... Well, we didn't really, did we?
	Nobody voted for Sunak, nobody voted for Truss.
	People voted for Boris, who came in and went, best I can do is shut down the country.
	Thanks.
	But not the borders.
	No, the pubs get closed and the borders not.
	Yes, what were you about to say?
	Well, it's the funny thing about Boris, looking back on it, I think it was Matthew Goodwin who put it really well, which is the British public took a punt on Boris on immigration.
	It was like, could you do this?
	And then, as you say, best I could do is shut down the pubs but keep the borders open.
	Yeah, everybody saw Boris waving around the British flag and they went, I suppose that's the best we've got.
	And now we just have a bunch of illegitimate rulers nobody voted for.
	Yes, democracy in action, folks.
	Yeah, the government gave three million pounds in taxpayer money to groups campaigning against the Rwanda Migrant Plan in the first place.
	So you stole money from me and then gave it to people to campaign against?
	Yes.
	You know, I'm not rabidly in the taxationist theft camp, but when my money is taken from me and then things like this are used with it, yes, taxation is definitely theft in this case.
	In April last year, Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council wrote a damning letter to the government accusing the Rwanda asylum scheme of undermining the principles of the Refugee Convention, calling on the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to scrap the whole policy.
	P.S.
	Thanks for all that money.
	Yeah, I know, right?
	He said, we've joined 150 plus organisations in calling on the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to scrap their unthinkably cruel plans to ship people off to one of the safest countries in Africa.
	Sorry, people seeking refuge to Rwanda.
	Instead, they must create humane and effective solutions to protect refugees, like giving them money.
	New data from the Think Tank the Taxpayers' Alliance, however, reveals nine of these organisations took thousands of pounds worth of grants from the same government they described as unthinkably cruel.
	It's not just thousands.
	The Refugee Council there.
	Yes, the Refugee Council was awarded over £1,596,275.
	20 pence.
	Sorry, £1,000.
	Sorry, £1,596,275 in the 2021-2022 financial year.
	Now, I forget if I was doing this segment with you.
	No, I think it was me and Josh.
	We covered the Swindon council tax swindling that was going on and I looked into it and found that there were local asylum charities for asylum seekers being housed around Swindon and, you know, we were granted Kindly, by the Swindon Council, £66,000 for maintaining beautiful areas around the town, which there were, I don't know.
	They stole our money and spent some of it on that, okay, cool.
	Yeah, okay, and it was about £50,000 they gave to the local asylum charities.
	So this is just that on a much grander scale.
	But there were the other ones as well.
	Eight other charities also received the funding, despite vocal opposition to the government, which was the Medale Trust, awarded £677,000.
	Pickwell Foundation, £384,000.
	Disability Rights UK, £140,000.
	Advice NI, Northern Ireland, awarded £98,000.
	Race Equality Foundation, £92,000.
	Asylum Welcome, £59,000.
	That was probably just granted to them by Swindon Council.
	Helen Bamber Foundation awarded £6,000.
	Citizens of the World Choir awarded a measly £1,500.
	a measly £1,500.
	In total, the government gave £3,055,997 in taxpayer cash to its own critics.
	Our government hates us.
	Our government hates us, despises us, and before anybody starts, before anybody says anything about the two words that I know is racing to some people's minds, this is not free speech.
	This is giving money to your enemies.
	This is the behavior of people who do not believe in the things that they are talking about.
	Just because, you know, they're just standing there.
	Someone's mugging them.
	Well, the weirdest thing in the world, though, to astroturf your own opposition.
	I know.
	I know.
	But perhaps they're not even opposition.
	Perhaps they're all on the same side and we're the opposition.
	That's what it comes across as here.
	Responding to the revelations, a government source told the Daily Express, we're all for robust criticism and helping these organisations with funding for their operations.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	We just hope they base their criticism on facts rather than speculation.
	It's on the money, mate.
	Something which they haven't always been concerned about.
	So, I'm being mugged right now, and I'm going to hand over this knife to my mugger and say, you best behave yourself.
	You best not keep mugging me with this knife.
	I won't.
	And then he takes it and then he stabs me.
	Give me the wallet.
	How could I ever have predicted this?
	I had your word, sir.
	Good God.
	Good God.
	It's disgusting.
	Responding to the data, John O'Connell, chief executive of the Taxpayer Alliance, told the Daily Express, saying all of the things, yeah, we're being screwed over.
	money propping up controversial campaigns and causes, bureaucrats are giving handouts to activist groups, empowering certain viewpoints and distorting bloody bloody, saying all the things, yeah we're being screwed over.
	We're being scammed.
	We're absolutely being scammed.
	They're not going to stop giving this money.
	And people have pointed out, you know, you've got organizations like the National Lottery Trust who just give out millions of pounds to these kinds of subversive organizations every single year.
	This is pathetic.
	These people do not have our backs.
	They are not on our side.
	We are the enemy to them.
	And they pretend they play this big game with the headlines like they care about us.
	They do not.
	This was never supposed to happen.
	Rwanda was never supposed to work.
	Oh, but the barge, though.
	Oh, the barge!
	Now I've got money riding on that one.
	Without drag queens, what would life be?
	No more kissing in the yellow booth.
	No, we're not going to have the chow main line.
	But anyway, this is an article from Vice of some people who have now lost their jobs.
	Their livelihood's been ruined by the evil right wing, because the right wing have passed a law saying you can't do sexual dances in front of children.
	This is just like Auschwitz.
	Every single time.
	Yeah, basically.
	So, we'll start off just with Frank DiColla's The Tragedy of Liberation because these people have also been befell tragedy from their lives because they've been told they can't dance in front of kids no more with their tits out.
	I believe this was one of Mussolini's most notorious policies as well.
	Worst thing Mussolini did, in fact.
	I think this is the only thing people are annoyed about that he did.
	He went to Ethiopia specifically to impress drag queens.
	But this is real.
	I thought we'd do this, just cheer ourselves up.
	It's Friday.
	Let's try and have some fun.
	This image is not cheering me up, Callum.
	So far, you're failing.
	Do we need to ramp it up?
	I will make you smile.
	Somehow.
	The news here.
	At the end of last year, Nashville-based drag queen, Perplexity, started hearing murmurs about the proposed bill in Tennessee, Garden of Tennessee, that would ban drag queen performances across the state.
	At the time, she didn't think the bill would pass.
	Because why would you?
	Republicans don't do anything.
	Quote, I hoped that it would be one of those horror stories that they were trying to scare us with, Perplexity told Vice News.
	Never in the current year would something like this really happen to us.
	I will say, with all the joking, I am glad that some state legislatures seem to actually be doing things.
	It's nice to see.
	And congratulations and well done for those of you living in those states that do actually do things.
	And if we go to the next link here, the thing I want to remind people, she's like, I don't know why this would happen to us, us innocent drag queens.
	I don't know why we're in the spotlight.
	It's still not making me smile.
	Yeah, you may have seen this.
	So this was mentioned on Bill Maher.
	A lot of people didn't know what the lady was referring to.
	This is a child getting a lap dance from a drag queen who is not sexualizing children, that's where.
	I am not allowed to say my thoughts on this matter, honestly.
	North Carolina there.
	YouTube would not be happy, Mr. Mohan.
	Back to the article.
	I know you're listening.
	Because for some reason, People in Tennessee saw that and went, yeah, let's pass the bill.
	This shouldn't be legal.
	What do you think?
	But then it did last month.
	Tennessee became the first state to effectively ban drag shows.
	The bill, signed into law by Governor Bill Lee, criminalizes, quote, adult cabaret performances that take place in public or in venues where minors could view them.
	That's not banning drag queens.
	That's not banning drag queen performances.
	No, that's just saying don't be a perv.
	Don't do it in public.
	You weirdo.
	What would you do in public anyway?
	And don't put on a strip dance in a drag performance in a venue that's got kids.
	What are you, a homophobe?
	This isn't asking a lot, I would have thought.
	You're basically genociding trans children.
	So, yeah, that's the news, which is good news, obviously.
	So, you know, smile, you bastard.
	But then the fact that...
	This man's, the governor's name is making me smile because he's literally Governor Billy.
	Billy.
	I just noticed that.
	But also, this is what's destroying these people's livelihood.
	Adult cabaret performances included topless dancers, strippers, and male or female impersonators.
	We'll get back to that phrase.
	Impersonators.
	That's interesting phrasing.
	Although the law has been temporarily blocked by a state judge already, already GOP politicians in more than a dozen US states, including Arizona, Kentucky and Oklahoma, are also doing the same thing.
	Because they were like, hang on a minute, I don't know why that's legal.
	Oh yeah, we must have missed that one.
	Nope.
	Strip shows for kids.
	I thought that was a crime, Billy.
	No, Governor Billy says it's not.
	He's just there like, we never really had to worry about this until a few years ago.
	For some reason, something happened.
	Perplexity and her co-workers were horrified.
	Panic really set in and I was like, wow, do we really have a job anymore?
	It just reminds me of those moments, like, wow, what are you, Hitler?
	Wow, do we really have a job here anymore?
	I mean, you only have to worry about that if your only audience was children.
	Yeah, I mean, perplexity, if you're listening.
	If your job was entirely made up of dancing sexually in front of kids, yeah, you don't have a job anymore.
	Good.
	I'm on the side of, yeah, that's a good thing.
	If it isn't, then yeah, you still have a job.
	If you were doing this for adults in an adult setting, a private venue, as many drag queens before, I remember when this blew up, the whole drag queen thing never was a thing.
	And then some, because it was a niche thing in culture.
	And then some drag queens came out at the time, then they were debating about, should this be allowed in front of kids?
	Being like, no, I do these performances, I do them for adults, that's the purpose of them.
	Why would you do this in front of kids?
	Why would you want to do this in front of kids?
	But no, this lady over here is like, wow, my life's ruined.
	Do we even have a safe space here anymore?
	She said.
	Because if I can't dance in front of kids, my life is over.
	But Banksy works in Nashville's Big Drag Bus.
	A party bus, where people can watch drag queens perform as they travel through the capital.
	Equipped with LED lights, blaring music, even with everything going on, they want to keep working.
	That sounds horribly annoying.
	Sounds like a real pain in the ass.
	But good news, you just tint the windows.
	There you are.
	I know it's hard, but there you are.
	It's now a private setting in which there are no kiddos.
	Or stop being such degenerates.
	Yeah, I mean, or you could just get a job, but whatever.
	So Vice News spoke with six drag queens about the rise of drag bands, the motivations behind them, and what it's like to live in Tennessee today as the state becomes increasingly hostile to LGBTQ people.
	Nah, it's TQ plus people, that's all it is.
	Though Republicans have framed drag queens as a threat, for some reason, such as the previous example we've shown, but for some reason, who knows, and falsely equated their work with paedophilia or grooming, I don't think it was Republicans who did that.
	I think some of the performers did that.
	With the performances.
	The drag queens believe that the bands aren't about children at all.
	They're part of a broader GOP and often evangelical attack on LGBTQ people.
	Essentially, those who are trans and gender non-conforming.
	TQ.
	They actually just did it for me there.
	There is no mention of homosexuals.
	There is no mention of bisexuals.
	Why would there be?
	It's got nothing to do with these people.
	I've heard all of this so many times before.
	But I just love how they actually do come out and say now.
	They don't even try and play the game of like, oh yeah, gay kids, transsexuals.
	No, I think you might have noticed, the word homosexual, the actual LGB part has been completely dropped from the dialogue from such people as they say, just trans and gender non-conforming.
	I was like, oh, interesting.
	Also the point of it's all the evangelicals.
	Why would atheists be on board if it was all a Christian thing?
	Beyond the drag ban, the state has pushed aggressively to introduce even more anti-LGBTQ legislation.
	Last month, the state banned gender-affirming care for youth, while the ban would also allow teachers to misgender trans students.
	Just, what, let's not be honest to them.
	Sorry, so, that is the maddest framing I've ever heard.
	So reality is, you've got a student, they say they're the other gender, they're obviously not, the teacher's like, no, Billy, you're a boy.
	What's wrong with you?
	Straight to jail.
	So the American government criminalized that and instead enforced compulsory speech codes that you had to say the lie, and so the government is like, in Tennessee, maybe we should get rid of speech codes?
	They're compulsory because that's all alien as hell.
	And these people frame that as they make it legal to misgender trans students on purpose.
	I just like the idea that the Tennessee state office was just like rifling around some drawers and like, guys, look at this!
	It's this constitution!
	There's this bit here about free speech at the beginning.
	Congress shall make no law.
	This is not about children, says the Drag Queen.
	This is about pushing the LGBT community back to the closet.
	Except I'm not going to mention any LGBs, because they're not part of the conversation.
	If it were about children, they say, they would focus on other issues that are ongoing.
	Like foster care and gun control.
	What's wrong with you?
	Like, of all people, that's your response, because you live in Tennessee, you know what's going on.
	I mean, people can worry about more than one thing at once, and somebody... These people are seeing, like, drag queens grinding up against children, and they go, how could guns do this?
	Several drag queens also warned that their bans and myths surrounding them could threaten their livelihoods and their lives.
	Because, um... Yeah, no, if your revenue model was based on stripping in front of kids, yeah, this does threaten your livelihood.
	There's also a ban on, I don't know... Maybe these people are just surprised that there turned out to be so much money in it.
	It's illegal to make CP, for example.
	There's a ban on that.
	For now.
	But, I don't know, I think that's pretty good.
	No, I think it's a very good thing as well, but you know California's gonna be like, we've introduced some progressive new legislation.
	The Californians turn up and they're like, you're keeping livelihoods for hard-working queer folk down.
	No, no, no, no, no!
	Don't you care about queer children?
	That's wrong.
	Morally.
	That's why I don't care if you're losing a buck or two from being able to strip with kids.
	The language in the Tennessee drag ban is vague, which leads queens to worry about what enforcers will look like.
	I don't do any stripping in my shows or any sexual simulation on stage, so technically the bill doesn't affect me at all, says Veronica Electronica.
	Congratulations then, it literally doesn't apply to you.
	What are you moaning about?
	I don't know why you're upset.
	They say, so if I'm performing it to a song, do I need to adjust my padding or make the gesture or move my hips or my body in a certain way?
	Is someone that wants to look at it a sexual way, can they prosecute me for that?
	I was like, okay, but, okay, right.
	By that, that sounds like there's an admission that there is some kind of dancing involved in the show that could be taken as being sexual, and given the way that these people try to obscure everything they do... Just don't do it in front of kids.
	Yeah, maybe... Not that hard.
	Maybe you're dancing in a cross-dressing outfit which is...
	Let's be honest, inherently sexual in itself.
	Kind of the point.
	Yeah, that why else would you be doing it, um, is probably sexual.
	But I just, like, you're not in front of kids.
	Like, if you're having to sit there and be like, does my job make me look like a nonce?
	You're probably doing it wrong.
	Probably get another job.
	Really weird, mate.
	I've seen people on the left pointing to things like, what is it, Mrs. Doubtfire?
	You know, the Robin Williams film?
	And go like, you've been entertained by drag your whole life.
	It's like, yeah, but he's not doing, like, a weird striptease.
	Nor is it even slightly the same.
	And it's not sexual, he's just dressed as, like, a grandma.
	The outfit isn't grandma with, like, big circles showing off her cleavage.
	Or, like, nipple tassels.
	Only.
	Like, I've seen them try to compare it, like Americans have learnt about Panto, the occasional one.
	Oh yeah.
	We'll turn around and be like, oh yeah, isn't this just like this Panto thing in Great Britain?
	No.
	And there's all the British people underneath are just like, no mate, this is nothing in common with what's going on in the United States.
	So there's that.
	Tennessee, are they right?
	Oh, I've lost my place.
	Tennessee also already has indecency laws that prohibit public nudity and sexual activity.
	So I don't really understand what's different.
	I mean, actually, this person's right.
	Yeah, you should have already been charged under these laws.
	It's almost like there was some kind of skirting of those laws.
	If we go to the next link, we can see, I don't know, things like this, where you've got kids handing over $1 bills to a drag queen who's...
	Totally not stripping.
	We'll go to the next one.
	Very strange.
	There's another one of these.
	Well, the same thing is happening with all these kids being taught to hand over $1 bills to a grown man.
	And then there's the next one, which don't show.
	Don't show.
	Please don't show me.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	I'm serious.
	Because uh this is the one which we we showed before i think got taken down because um it's it's the one where the drag queen has uh ass out tits out and uh also has a child by their hand as they walk around shoving money into their underwear so yeah yeah i've seen that one before maybe this is the reason why you guys are getting targeted maybe it's not the evil republicans maybe it's the you know really really suspicious people who do this Let's get back to the whining, though, because they go on and on about how, oh my god, why can't I do this in front of kids?
	So I'm going to skip that, because I think we've got the point.
	Several drag queens have also pointed out that Bill's language, namely, male or female impersonators, could also be used to target trans people.
	Moving on.
	Already, states across the United States have introduced nearly 500 anti-trans bills for this year's legislative session alone, and they run a gourmet of prohibiting trans people from using bathrooms that correspond to their gender, trans healthcare, and why can't I?
	Mutilate children.
	Damn, Republicans keeping a brother down!
	I mean, people act like it's so shocking.
	Oh, this is the ultimate attack on trans rights.
	They've got 500 anti-trans bills.
	They are trying to genocide us.
	No, the only reason these have only just been introduced is because this was never a problem before.
	This just never happened before.
	I'm probably going to skip most of what I've written just because I'm already bored myself.
	It'd be like if they went, oh my god, can you believe they're putting all of these anti-pedophilia laws in?
	And it's just like, well, if these things were never a problem before, why would you introduce the laws?
	I'm bored of the denialism.
	It's so stock standard.
	If you want to just give it a scroll, Jon, just a show as usual.
	Someone spent a good old lump of time writing all this crap out for some reason.
	More words about how I'm being hurt.
	Why you can't dance in front of kids with your tits out?
	Can you imagine, like, you're in the Bible.
	Just imagine for a moment, you're in the Bible, okay?
	And it's the day before Cain and Abel happens.
	You know, no one's ever been murdered before.
	And then, the day after Cain and Abel happens, you go, where have all these anti-murder laws come from, eh?
	This is just trying to genocide normal, average, everyday people.
	Can you believe this?
	Took my jab.
	I was just an average everyday murderer and now look at what I've got to put up with.
	Although they do say in here, I've noticed this pop up, some proper people have as well, they blamed the shooting, they're talking about the shooting in Nashville, as opposed to guns on trans people, despite the fact that 98% of mass shooters are cis men, which is just, I'm really getting, as you may have noticed the other day, you go to the next meme, you're getting a lot of work out of this meme, It keeps being true though.
	Oh yeah, it's a fun meme.
	I posted this underneath some woman who was just like, see, rapists can be white men too.
	And it was just like, love.
	Rotherham.
	It just keeps happening.
	It's just like per capita.
	I don't know what that means.
	But we'll go back to the whining real quick, in which they say, I want to talk about protecting kids.
	Well, my question is, what about the queer kids?
	What about the trans kids?
	These kids are at far more risk of suicide, mental health, and blah, blah, blah.
	No mention of homosexual or bisexual kids.
	And I just really want to hammer this home.
	These people were already...
	At risk of suicide, mental and physical health issues, etc, etc, etc.
	That's what makes them so vulnerable to rhetoric, and makes them so vulnerable to ideology that tells them, the only reason you feel bad is because you're actually in the wrong body.
	Here, put this dress on, you'll feel better.
	And then they do, and they go, I guess this is me now, but I still want to effing kill myself.
	But I find it great because, as I mentioned earlier, again, a number two example here, where they mention, oh, LGBTQ, but then when asked, well, what groups, they just say, queer kids and trans kids.
	I mean, neither of those exist.
	But it's TNQ+, again.
	You may have noticed, like, the LGB movement was backing up away from all of this.
	Like, you've got Gays Against Groomers, or LGB Alliance, etc.
	A lot of them are like, oh guys, this is a bit far.
	They've been like, what the f- What has this got?
	I'm not a lesbian unless I suck penis.
	What the hell are these people doing here?
	So they've all backed off.
	But at the same time, I have to have noticed the TQ Plus groups have also just backed off in their own group as well here.
	As you can see from this individual, he's just like, you know, that group's under attack and there are no concerns for someone who's being bullied for being gay or something in high school.
	That's not even something that pops in these people's minds as a concern within their community.
	Instead, it's just about how do we trans kids.
	That's the only thing in which they're like, well, that's the frontier in which I'm interested.
	Well, they need the vanguard.
	The people promoting these movements aren't going to have children of their own.
	So they need to take somebody else's children and turn them into their political minions.
	But we'll end it off with what the real priority is, because the Times has it.
	This isn't Scotland.
	which um a podcast describing how a three-year-old american boy is allowed by his mother to live out his childhood as a girl has been promoted in scottish for scottish teachers as part of the being transgender educational resources That has to be an American boy.
	Because I knew everything about the world when I was three years old.
	I just love, um, you're a Scottish teacher.
	They come to you and be like, well this American three-year-old says they're a girl so you've got to start teaching the Scottish kids.
	No.
	I wanted to be a Transformer when I was three.
	No, well he's got really rock-solid logic.
	Alright, okay, alright.
	The episode ends with Mac saying, if a girl can be a senator, or an astronaut, or a plumber, if a girl can wear pants and have short hair, if a girl can have a penis, what is a girl anyway?
	That's a good jump.
	Well, if women can be in work anymore, then you might as well have a cock.
	To be fair, you know, he had me for the first half.
	If a woman can be an astronaut or a plumber, I'm just thinking you're right, those aren't very feminine things to do.
	Oh, but I love that it's actually where the reasoning comes from.
	It's just like, women are allowed the workforce, then what really is a woman?
	Basically...
	This is the narrator in this story, talking as well, who's bringing up penises.
	What is a girl anyway?
	Who gets to decide if you're a boy or a girl?
	And then the three-year-old responds, me, to that question.
	Why are you talking to your three-year-old about penis, for one?
	Yeah, but Mac describes the conversation she had with friends who have older transgender daughters.
	Weird.
	Circles.
	They are starting their hormone treatments to stave off their dreaded male puberty.
	Like mine, their daughters would rather die than turn into men.
	Yeah, okay, I mean, it's just...
	I'm sorry to keep bringing it up.
	I don't even like doing segments about transgenderism because it's all so, um, meh-head.
	But it just doesn't end.
	Alright, Joker.
	And, uh, you get this stuff of, I'd rather my children be dead than not trans.
	It's just like, okay.
	Maybe child services need to come and have a word.
	Yeah, CPS.
	This mother and her friends are all insane and are abusing their children by the sounds of it.
	Every single one of their children has recently come out as transgender, all one after the other.
	Is there something to be concerned about here?
	Anyway, another good day for Tennessee, which they just went.
	So that's good news.
	And the movement, I think, has now fully divorced itself from the LGB, because when we go into interviews with such people, it's like, well, what's the issue in your community?
	This LGBTQ plus community you keep talking about.
	The LGB part never even gets a mention.
	It's not even part of the conversation anymore.
	In which case, that's good news.
	I suppose, from a leftist perspective, they've already won, so to speak.
	They can get what they want, they can occupy any position they want without prejudice, they can, you know, have surrogate children, etc, etc, etc.
	So there's very little to continue pushing for most people nowadays.
	But even you could make like, oh no, we should still be concerned there might be bullying in school because the kid's gay and the other kids might be one of them or something.
	Yeah, toughen them up.
	No, but it's like, you could be like, concerned about that, and therefore we should have some kind of monitoring.
	Because it might not even be happening, in which case, you know, whatever.
	It's still easier if you're in these positions, and if you're in these managerial positions, there's more to expand.
	There's more places to expand and give your buddies new jobs.
	That's not my point.
	My point is that you can see that the groups involved anymore have no even basic concerns for the LGB part of the world.
	It doesn't even come up.
	They barely really have any connection to each other.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Hello, listeners.
	I'm Jan from Czechia, also known as Storyteller.
	I'm a longtime listener, recently upgraded to Gold tier.
	Currently, I'm working on a creative writing platform that I hope to share with you soon.
	I hope to not just provide an alternative to publishing platforms and other tools that are out there, but eventually to go beyond the basics.
	It's going to take a while, but I think that in creating new spaces, we need to become more than just alternatives if we really want people to migrate.
	Yeah, nice one.
	Yeah, I completely understand and respect that.
	Good luck to you.
	Good to meet you.
	Yeah, thank you for subscribing to Gold.
	So I was browsing Facebook and I stumbled upon this picture of Nadia Nadim, who based on the description, she's a highly overachieving Afghan refugee to Denmark.
	And fair enough, she seems like indeed quite the role model.
	But in the comment section, there were people saying stuff like, if she went to the UK instead of going to Denmark, they wouldn't have let her in.
	Basically painting the UK as a very heartless and racist country that doesn't accept any immigrants.
	It's very unlike what I'm learning from the Lotus Eaters show, eh?
	Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it?
	You occasionally get it from Europeans, like, oh my god.
	Especially Germans.
	But that's just because the Germans are actually mental and let in the whole world.
	Oh, yeah.
	Why is everyone else doing this?
	Because we're not mental, mate.
	Well, that's the funny thing as well.
	Why do you think the Saudis don't?
	Because they know who's there.
	I mean, that woman, yeah, you can put her up as some kind of role model immigrant, but that's all she is.
	She's the exception.
	She's the exceptional immigrant who comes in and does amazing things and is actually law-abiding and talented and does all the... This is not average This is not Imad from Sudan.
	This is not one of the people on the boats coming over.
	Even in Swindon I looked through some of the local newspapers that we had here and even they had a basically idealistic immigrant article on one of the articles where it's talking about this immigrant who came over.
	He was a really talented man from Iraq or something who was like a wedding planner but he was also an electrical engineer He got screwed over by a business partner so got stuck in England and needed to claim asylum and then he came over to Swindon and we've, we the charity, have looked after him and now he's working as an electrical engineer providing value to his local communities.
	This is not just average immigrant man.
	This is a poster boy which is why you're using him on the poster.
	Yes, this is not what most people will experience.
	What was funny, I like to keep up with some news in Afghanistan and you mentioned that she was a female Afghan football player.
	So I think it was Harat's football team, the female football team, was evacuated from Kabul during the collapse.
	They just moved them up and then got them out.
	And there's a list of names, of course, because you've got to bring the girls, you've got to bring their families, media, because they might be targeted is the argument.
	And so someone actually went back to Harat since, and they found the guy in charge of the team.
	And he was like, do you recognize any of these names?
	It was like, not a single one.
	Brilliant.
	Not a single one of the people were actually on the team.
	And then, of course, all the family were just like, just guys.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right, let's go to the next one.
	Hi, everyone.
	Welcome, British Man, our fellow Gold Star reviewer, giving us the details on the secrets of the Australian existence.
	I mean, I still thought their currency was cigarettes and postage stamps.
	Probably going to be returning to that pretty soon, actually.
	The great thing about making fun of Australians is that most of them are in chain gangs, I think, which makes it easy to stay out of their reach, and they can't really respond to you in the comments section because the manacles on their hands get in the way of the keyboard.
	Aussies in the comments seething right now.
	Nah, they're just like that, fair enough.
	The vexatious allegations against former President Trump are a litmus for this, and, now that the Democrats have crossed that rubicon, the Republicans can open up with legal barrages of their own.
	Tit for tat.
	However, answering one woefully woke woman, typical of a BBC 2019 audience, Sumption said that law is intended to be created and followed, but also to be disobeyed and tested in the courts.
	Not everyone can afford to do this, but it is the main means to establish just law.
	Common law, not civil law.
	I feel like it was a second part or something, but... Yeah, it sounded interesting.
	Thank you.
	Alright, today we're doing some roadside botany, so we've got a few things right here.
	We've got the invasive problem in California of a lot of these wild oats, you can see.
	So we've got those.
	We've got wild invasive mustards.
	And then we've got these non-invasive visicas, which is this little diminutive one.
	And then we've got our native, which is the lupine.
	And lupines grow all over the world, and I think they're beautiful wherever they grow.
	Alright.
	Yeah, they all look very nice.
	I really did think you were gonna say, right, today we're gonna do some roadside bombs, and then we're gonna cut some, like, Iraqi footage or something.
	I didn't know that there was a plant called mustards.
	I thought that was just a condiment.
	Alright.
	But, uh, interesting.
	I was actually watching a documentary about the uprising in Iraq, what was it, 2003 to 2006 or whatever.
	There's just some guy detailing, like, from a military perspective, like, how good were the rebels and the reasons it happened.
	And once you take a step back, you know, you're not involved in the conflict, you just look at the tactics they went through, the reasoning why they did it, and the fact that they fired all the military guys.
	It's really in-depth.
	I'll explain it as well as he does.
	But he just, like, lists, like, the value compared to what the Americans have to spend for, like, anti-IED equipment, and then you just start handing the IEDs from trees, so that all the armour's at the bottom, to save you from the bomb going off, and then you just hang it from a tree, just blasts in, kills everyone.
	Oh, brilliant.
	Yeah, IED's 30 bucks, you spend 100 grand on your IED-proof truck, and then I just put it in a tree.
	I just got it in a tree, bro.
	Oh, God.
	And it's just like, yeah, man, this was, uh...
	This is bad.
	Bit of a waste of time and money.
	It just goes into the level of incompetence, like everyone at the Pentagon who is dealing with the decisions, the reasoning as to why they did the decisions, and it just makes no sense.
	Even at the time you look at it, it's just like, you're gonna fire everyone in the army and let them take their guns home with them.
	That's smart.
	Good luck.
	But, whatever.
	Let's go to the written comments.
	So on Tennessee, Spardroon Rapier over here says, how do these people achieve any political success?
	The lack of rhetorical skills in modern politics is everywhere nowadays.
	Amply demonstrating his point, Callum.
	Thank you.
	I do love the idea that he really did just turn up and be like, what's my strategy for staying in?
	I will do a bad MLK impression.
	I am MLK.
	Well, for one, I think these people don't need rhetorical skills.
	They need a veil that makes them appear like something that you remember from the 1960s.
	Tracing the lineage of all these civil rights movements back to the 1960s is always a useful thing to do, because you can basically... It's the same way that anything bad happens, you know.
	Russia engages in territorial dispute with Ukraine on border territories.
	Everybody goes, oh, it's Hitler!
	and uh any any civil rights you go back to it's like this is just like trying to repeal Jim Crow laws yada yada yada so they do that and then there's also just the fact of these people know that there is massive institutional power behind everything that they do they know that they can get away with any old rubbish so why not just do a stupid MLK but that was not sincere the guy was laughing and giggling and he had a big smile on his face while he's doing it everybody behind him was obviously trying not to crack a smile while he's doing it it's it's it's
	You're meant to rub it in your face.
	You are right, though.
	I think James Lindsay died ages ago, but the average comprehension of history is slavery, holocaust, civil rights.
	That's three cornerstones of any political argument, but there's a reason for that, obviously, is that that's what anyone's taught in schools.
	Yeah, and there's a reason they're only taught those three things in school is because those are the go-to reference points for any modern goings-on.
	When you meet people who at school studied, like, Soviet Russia or Tsarist Russia or something, you know, obscure than those three things.
	Like, they always seem to be way more, in just my personal opinion, just seem way more educated than... Because I had that so many times.
	I did the Holocaust at least six times in secondary school.
	Because we did it in religious class, then we did it in ethics class, then we did it in history class, and then we'd study it for some, like, English segment where we'd look at diaries or something.
	We didn't even look at diaries.
	We got, um... What was it we got in English?
	We got Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
	So we didn't even get actual... You got the movie date.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We didn't even get actual diaries from these people.
	We didn't read the diary of Anne Frank or something.
	We got historical fiction.
	When I did, I think it was year 11, we did the entire civil rights movement.
	We looked at all the legal cases and stuff as well, and everyone in the classroom was just like, we're English.
	Yep.
	What does this got to do with us?
	It literally was like, Weird laws about segregation, I don't really understand.
	Yeah, we got taught about MLK in RE, even though... He's a religious figure, is he?
	Yeah, well, I mean, they always try and paint him as one, even though if you actually go back and look at his interviews, it's like, oh, he's there going, yes, I completely believe in taking religion out of schools, even though that's not what the constitution religious freedom thing was for in the first place.
	He was very in favor of forcibly using federal law to remove religious religion from the schools even though the federal constitution was supposed to prevent that so it's very confusing he was and if you go back and read some of his old essays from his university test he wasn't the most devout christian and then if you think about what he did with his extracurricular activities outside he was not particularly devout i'll just say that Not many rapists are.
	Oh god.
	Hey, he only aided and abetted, alright?
	I can't slander the dead under English law, so say whatever you want.
	Oh yeah, that's true.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, something that these lawmakers and protesters forget is that the American colonists attempted peaceful diplomatic solutions before they went to protest and war.
	Yeah, they did.
	But I mean, the ultimate thing of the American Revolution is we try it all.
	If it doesn't work, we're justified in rising up.
	Which is why you have guns.
	It's the purpose.
	It's the argument for the Republicans, which is correct.
	Shaker Silva says, well, their theatrics have done something right.
	It's distracted enough from those actual issues around the shooting to bring it to racial grievance.
	Oh God, you're right.
	The real story from the Nashville trans shooter is that the Republicans are racist.
	It always wraps back around.
	Every single time.
	Don't you worry, we'll find a way to make this about race somehow.
	You know those games people have where you have like a spinner?
	Republicans racist because shooting.
	I know that.
	I was thinking more just, you know, in South Park when the economy collapses and they go to the Federal Reserve.
	Just chop the head off the chicken and see where it lands.
	Well, we found it.
	Brown von Vorhock says, this nation was founded on... I don't know what I'm doing.
	God, that would sound even weirder in German.
	This nation was founded on the right to rebel!
	No, this nation was founded on peaceful protests so we can storm the capitol building but at the same time the founding fathers were racist evil slave owners and this nation was founded on institutional racism and should be destroyed.
	Leftist nitwits.
	That would be an amazing argument.
	Yep.
	This nation was founded on racism, so I should be... It's my conscience!
	I mean, to be fair, Barathon Warhawk, you are right, that is the level of argumentation that we've got here, because these people simultaneously, when you look at them making historical arguments...
	You alright there?
	They've opened Pandora's box, I've just realised.
	It's just like some guy gets caught screaming the N-word.
	I thought this was America!
	This nation was founded on institutional racism and slavery!
	Yep.
	Well, they go back and they say, oh, the history is way more, you know, the Doctor Who stupid argument of like, oh, they've whitewashed history.
	This country was always multi-racial, multi-cultural.
	This country was always built by diversity, while also at the same time being founded entirely on white supremacy.
	Amazing.
	Makes perfect sense.
	Bleach Demon says, fun bit of history, many of the founders of Texas came from Tennessee.
	Interesting.
	He also says, in Callum's black reverent voice... Go on.
	I ain't gonna do it.
	Oh lord!
	In Tennessee, that scoundrel Jim Eagle... I ain't reading the whole thing, it's going on too long.
	Master Joe Biden warned of a scum.
	Master Joe Biden warned of...
	They're gonna put us in chains.
	Why, brothers and sisters?
	Because we cannot have simple insurrection for our democracy.
	Telling us to leave because of our actions is the greatest crime against humanity.
	Lordy me, I have the white vapors.
	Alright, whatever.
	Yep, thank you for that, Peach Demon.
	I thought that was worth the money.
	Angel Brain for Rwanda says, Sorry I worked my ass off to pay for my flat in Scotland which has no heating, no double glazing, security is provided by a door chain, and my council tax has just gone up yet again.
	Can I take his place on that barge?
	No.
	Diversity is building, rebuilding Britain in a more beautiful, diverse, and cultural way.
	So you're just gonna have to accept your lack of heating and security.
	No, but like, why can't I have a room in the Best Western?
	Please just give me the place and the barge.
	As long as I'm more secure, I will accept incarceration over what we've got right now.
	I should just tell that to the Premier Inn and just be like, let me in.
	Well, you're giving out free rooms.
	Give me one.
	This is Gibbs.
	Give me that for free.
	Hold up picture of Karl Marx.
	Gibbs for free.
	No, hold up a picture of Rishi Sunak.
	Yeah, true.
	Look, he's giving it away.
	Why not have one?
	It makes me genuinely furious that these chances just wander on in and expect a standard of life that I don't get wrecking my joints ten hours a day, five days a week.
	I work with black South Africans and Nigerians.
	They're not asking for a handout, they work alongside me.
	Quit your whinging or get back on the door you floated in on.
	Not bad.
	Yeah, Paul Vorbeck says the Rwandans are going to send England all their Hutu war criminals.
	Maybe that's what it's gonna... So they're going to send the entire population.
	Maybe the guy in charge is a Hutu war criminal, actually.
	I mean, it would make sense.
	Let me just check.
	Anon Imi says, I have a solution that will cost zero pounds in housing economic mercenaries.
	It's called securing the border and turning them back.
	That might work, but have you considered how racist it would be?
	Kevin Fox says there is an answer to the migrants issue that will clear out the hotels and save a fortune.
	Put them all on buses, take them to the defence supply depot, kit them out with uniforms and equipment, put them on planes and fly them to Ukraine.
	Then we'll be supplying much needed manpower to empty churches and arrest priests instead of billions in military equipment.
	They are all fighting-age men after all.
	He's a Tootsie dictator instead.
	I constantly get them mixed up.
	Was it the Hootsies killing the Tootoos?
	Or, wait... It was the Hootoos killing the Tootsies.
	The Tootsie liars had to go.
	Okay, but there's a Tootsie in charge?
	Yeah, the Tootsies won the war.
	So then they got rid of the Hootoos, who were killing all the Tootsies.
	And the Tootsies are now in charge.
	And the Tootsie is now a dictator.
	He's been president for 23 years.
	As long as the people love him, right?
	They will.
	They make sure they love him.
	Shaker Silva says, perhaps they're all on the same side and we're the opposition.
	You got it, Harry.
	Labour and the Tories are two sides of the same neoliberal authoritarian coin.
	One side merely pretends to be leftist and the other pretends to be conservative to see who gets the reins.
	They're all just globalist chills.
	No, now we're all united as Britons against the Indians and Pakistanis in the UK.
	That's the thing we've got here.
	I think it's the Indian-Britain alliance at the moment.
	I suppose so, yeah.
	Spadroom and Rapiers, again, says, waiting for their claims to be processed, claim denied, wait over, bugger off.
	If only.
	If only.
	Andrew Narog, build a wall and make the French pay for it.
	Yeah, if only.
	Henry Ashman, navigators, sounds like something out of Dune, although they admittedly were cracked out space people because humanity destroyed all of the machines when the AI rose up.
	Maybe the Albanian drug lords are just extreme preppers right now.
	Perhaps Josh will need to get in touch with them.
	Terry Warton says, Hi, guys.
	I also am a cracked out prepper.
	you Terry Wharton says, I think the Rwandan deal says that we give them workers and they give us their lame dogs.
	Maybe.
	Lame dogs?
	I don't know.
	Lame ducks is generally, like, somebody who's useless.
	Alright.
	Well, I don't know.
	I think the Hooters are pretty useful.
	So, um... DukeGod.
	On the drag queens.
	BrownvonVorhoek says, This is about you pushing us black in the closet.
	WeirdoDragQueen says that.
	Well, as soon as you left the closet, you started dressing in weird satanic costumes and performing sexual dances in front of children, so I think you probably should get back in.
	Yeah, I mean, that's... Some of them.
	Who deserves to go back in the closet is going to be a funny argument.
	And the funny thing is, I know there'll be quite a few gays on our side as well.
	Oh, yeah.
	Pointing fingers.
	Like my point was, I mean, the whole LGB...
	After interacting more and more with the dissident right who all tend to be very lovely people, lots of them are really gay.
	A lot of them are gay.
	No, that's what I mean.
	They're not just gay, they're really gay.
	But they're also, you know, well-mannered, so who cares?
	Well, they're obviously not pro-degeneracy, which is kind of their problem with the degeneracy.
	Exactly.
	The TQ Plus guys are like, but that's our whole shtick.
	And it's like, well, I don't think you're being oppressed for that enough.
	So RadchikWasRight says, I've heard the Mrs. Doubtfire argument before and it's nonsensical.
	The premise of the film is comedic because for lack of a better phrase, there's a version of expectations.
	It's literally based on the idea that what if a man in drag was wholesome instead of a sexual deviant?
	laughs That's such a real good point, I've never heard of it!
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's the exemption to prove the rule, and if the rule wasn't true, the exemption wouldn't be funny.
	If drag wasn't sexual, then Mrs. Doubtfire is a story about a man struggling with his alcoholism and irresponsible behavior that destroys his family, hitting rock bottom, and then trying to sneak back into his family's life under false pretenses as a sober critique of divorce, support systems, and codependency, and not a classic comedy.
	Well, that just dragged all the fun out of it, didn't it?
	No pun intended.
	That's quite a bad comedy, isn't it?
	Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog.
	Yeah.
	It's not that fun.
	The frog's dead.
	Amra Wads, when legislators decide to ban Nonsri and a bunch of trans drag LGBTQ activists shout, This is a personal attack.
	That's less suspicious and more outright admission.
	They want to touch kids.
	Let's come out with it.
	Sophie says, you also go to wonder how much of these drag queens earned on libraries and school groups hiring.
	It may be a lot more money than one afternoon at a nightclub.
	And this would explain a lot of the outrage.
	As someone who has made just normal kid performances, yeah, schools, libraries and government grants are the thing that make this sort of thing viable.
	Profit is there.
	That's a very good point, I never actually thought that.
	Because, I mean, the dildo bought Labour Monkey.
	Do you remember that?
	Don't remind me.
	He wasn't getting paid for that performance.
	Sophie has also pointed out that even her sister's LGBTQ cafe that she runs doesn't actually sell most of the LGBTQ literature that they have.
	They just sell, like, badges.
	Yeah, yeah, they just sell armbands and badges and, you know, coffee that you'd sell at a cafe.
	Although, Sophie, you need to remind her it's not natural.
	Does that say anything now?
	Anyway, on that note, we're out of time, so if you'd like more from us, come back in an hour.
	Yeah, come back in an hour where you'll get to see Rory and I passing our way through the Zoomer question, asking, are they entirely worthless or is there something worth salvaging here?
	Go make yourself a toastie.

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