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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #635

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters episode 635 on today, the 19th of April 2023.
	I'm your host Harry joined today by Carl.
	Hello.
	And we're going to be talking about what an odd thing to say I believe that's about what's going on in Florida at the moment.
	Yep.
	The SNP crumbling and also the climate ninjas and I think let's get straight into the news shall we?
	Yeah, so one thing I like about Ron DeSantis is that he is a competent governor who is actually doing the things that his constituents elected him to do.
	And this is kicking back a lot of very interesting responses from left-wing activists.
	Because Ron DeSantis is like, look, maybe we shouldn't sexualize children.
	And there are a lot of people screeching About why that's bad.
	I've seen a number of people going, right, we've got to get out of Florida.
	If these are the new rules, then we're going to be right in the crossfires.
	Yeah, it's pretty weird, that, actually.
	Just summarising it all is, what an odd thing to say.
	What an odd bit of information to offer up unprompted.
	What a strange self-report.
	But before we go on, if you want to support us, go over to Loadsies.com, sign up for a free offer every month, and go and watch an example of how there hasn't been effective governance in protecting children, which has been the...
	Eternal crime of the grooming gangs.
	I did a basically two hour timeline going through just what was publicly known and when to explain that because at the moment they're trying to push back and say oh well there's no particular problem with the grooming gangs it's nothing to do with the Pakistani community you're all just a bunch of racists and all white people are pedophiles and it's like okay but actually if we look at what we knew when we knew it
	And there are lots of Pakistani community leaders saying basically what the far right have been saying on this issue, so it's worth going through and refreshing our memories at the very least, I think.
	But there are also a bunch of reports that are in there that I didn't have time to go through on that, that I'm going to go through on separate podcasts because I think it's important to do.
	Anyway, let's begin with February 2023.
	where DeSantis decided... well, this wasn't actually DeSantis, it was with his encouragement, but Florida's Board of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine both passed rules that will ban gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as surgical procedures for new patients under 18.
	Sounds pretty reasonable to me, pretty sensible.
	So you can't mutilate children?
	Because they have a mental illness?
	This is very sensible in particular in Florida where that woman, Sid Gallagher, had been operating for decades, for a number of years.
	I'm not familiar with that.
	Oh, she was a surgeon who advertised her services for under 18 year olds to be able to go and get double mastectomies and all these sorts of- Oh, is this the teats woman?
	Yes, she's the one who recently came out saying that there is such a thing as eunuch gender and you can come to me so that you can become the eunuch that you've always wanted to be.
	There's 4,000 years of history of eunuchs and I would say that very few of them were voluntary but, you know, she was there like they were just expressing themselves, their inner selves.
	Well, not on Ron DeSantis' watch.
	On the 8th of March, Florida also defined drag queen storytime and drag shows in general as dangerous for the public health and safety of kids.
	Because they are.
	You don't need to parade yourself around, gyrating and naked in front of children.
	And the question is, why do you want an audience of children for that?
	Well, that's the interesting thing.
	If we look over in England, Connor recently did the segment on that naked education television program, and he did that debate with, I think the name was Liam Hailwood.
	He recently appeared on talk television, naked, in the interview, as was perfectly appropriate for them, talk television.
	Our guys, I suppose, are just letting him show up naked.
	And he said that, doing that, I felt really liberated.
	Did you feel really liberated?
	So that's what sex education in the UK is for now apparently, the liberation of those providing it.
	Yeah, so House Bill 1423, has been sponsored by the Republican Party there, is titled the Protection of Children Bill, and as written the bill states that adult performances that a child may be able to see constitute an immediate and serious danger to public health, safety or welfare.
	I agree.
	Any show, exhibition, or presentation in front of a live audience which, in whole or part, depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, specific sexual activities as defined by state statute, will be Made legal.
	Performances that present lewd conduct, lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts, when it predominantly appears to be a prurient, shameful or morbid interest, or is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community of this state, as a whole, with respect to what is suitable material or conduct for the age of the child present.
	For this, they'll get a $5,000 fine for the first violation and $10,000 for each violation afterwards.
	Good.
	Who could object to this?
	Apart from the weird pervs who want to gyrate naked in front of children.
	I guess the weird pervs who wanted to gyrate naked in front of children had some harsh words to say about this.
	Yeah, well, sucks for them because it was put into effect.
	And then on the 17th of March, transitioning children was banned.
	So, Florida's Board of Medicine... Wait, did I report this twice?
	I think I did.
	Don't worry about me.
	So, at the end of March, or middle of March, this was fully stopped.
	The only people who can continue it are children who are already receiving gender-affirming treatment.
	So, no new cases can be started.
	So, for anyone under the age of 18.
	So that's good.
	And then, moving forward to the 12th of April, Florida lawmakers are like, hey, why don't we institute the death penalty for those people who rape children?
	Great.
	It wasn't already the case?
	No, no.
	Most of the time, where the death penalty is used, most of the time it's for capital crimes.
	So, when you've murdered someone.
	Right, so... I'm happy to allow this expansion.
	Yeah, I think this is worth it.
	I'm not from Florida, but go for it, Florida.
	This is a sensible centrist policy.
	It totally is.
	Hang nonces, sorry.
	Totally agree, right?
	So, as they say, if an individual rapes an 11-year-old, 10-year-old, 2-year-old or a 5-year-old, they should be subject to the death penalty, says one of the lawmakers when the Rules Committee approved the bill.
	Totally agree.
	The UN seething right now?
	Yeah.
	After that recent report they released?
	Anyone who commits sexual battery on a child under 12 gets the death penalty.
	And this passed, which is great, and we'll come back to this post in a minute.
	This passed unanimously, because why wouldn't it?
	It's a pretty depressing sign of the decline of civilisation that this is something that wasn't already in place everywhere in the West.
	Well, we don't have the death penalty at all.
	Exactly.
	Which is why you should go watch, I think, on the Grooming Games, because that's how they ended up flourishing.
	But you'll notice 4,000 quote tweets on that.
	All positive?
	All positive?
	It depends on the position you have, actually.
	Oh, okay, alright.
	DeSantis also wants to change the ruling for the death penalty to instead, if you get to the next one, make it unanimous that the person gets the death penalty, to make it a two-thirds vote, so 8-4 on the jury, which actually I'm mildly
	Unsure of because usually I read a book about a study about the bloody code and the reason that actually wasn't Like people imagine it to be is because the jurors could Return a partial verdict and so they would just be punished in some other way rather than the death penalty.
	So having a unanimous requirement actually is a way of mediating the system I mean, a unanimous requirement seems a decent enough way of safeguarding it.
	Yeah.
	So I can't say I actually agree with this, but it's, you know, what can you do?
	And I talked about this in my article about the Sensible Centre, in fact, how the death penalty was abolished in Britain in 1965, I think it was.
	And, uh, it was done by the Labour government against the general wishes of the public, and we should bring it back.
	Of course.
	I remember- Because- Sorry, go on.
	I think I found an old Guardian article talking about the last people to be executed in the UK, the last two people to be hanged, and it was trying to portray them in a very sympathetic light.
	I think I shared it with you- They were nonsense, weren't they?
	Um, they weren't nonsense, but they were child murderers.
	Oh, sorry, yeah.
	So the Guardian was there with its bleeding heart going, think of the poor child murderers.
	Yeah, no, these people murdered children and they were hanged.
	How awful.
	No, think of the suffering that they'll experience burning in hell.
	Yeah, no.
	Anyway, so there are a lot of left-wing activists who are weirdly concerned about this.
	Here's someone giving us a summary.
	DeSantis-backed stricter death penalty bill could prompt the Supreme Court to review, listen up, Bill SB42 would allow Florida to seek the death penalty for anyone that commits battery of a sexual nature against children.
	Which, okay, whatever.
	But listen.
	This is insidious.
	Please pay attention.
	There aren't that many states that give the death penalty for offenses that are not murder.
	And this bill allows only 8 of the 12 jurors to decide that the defendant should get the death penalty for that to be carried out.
	And on the surface of the bill, it looks like, eh, who's going to get mad about this?
	You know, a person over 18 who commits a essay over a child under the age of 12.
	But reading through the bill, my ears perked up.
	See, it defines essay of a child as any harm to their sexual organs.
	And it just made me think.
	If you were to write a bill that opened the doorway for capital punishment for non-homicide cases, and you were to target it at child abusers, not many people are going to object to it.
	And if you do object, you look like you're defending child abusers.
	But this is also coming from a state that has called trans people groomers and child abusers.
	That has said that gender-affirming care is harm to a child's reproductive organs.
	It is.
	And so I don't think it's that far of a stretch to say that this bill, which is designed to look like it's going after specifically child abusers, could be used to give capital punishment to parents whose children are receiving gender affirming care.
	This is the same state that yesterday agreed to interfere in custody orders if the child is at risk of being exposed to gender affirming care.
	This is the same state that yesterday a representative called trans people demons and imps and actually rebuked Satan on the state floor.
	And the reason that this bill is insidious is that it's really hard to stand against it without looking like you are defending, you know, child abuse.
	She's almost on the cusp of being like, hang on a second, is mutilating a child's genitals a form of child abuse?
	There's a big question mark over her head as she's thinking, am I defending child abuses right now?
	Yes, you actually are.
	I mean, it's now become illegal for you to actually mutilate a child's genitals, or do mastectomies, the secondary sex characteristic, in the state of Florida, for anyone under 18.
	So that's good.
	Fantastic.
	And if you are a child abuser who does do damage to a child's sexual organs, you can be put on death row.
	I endorse this.
	But then we got a bunch of mask off moments.
	Really, really odd.
	So in response to that leading report, so the death penalty against those who commit sexual crimes against children, Ashley Lynch says, I'm not going to beat around the bush.
	This is Ron DeSantis going for Putin.
	This is solely so they can start executing LGBT people.
	If you're queer and in Florida, get out while you still can.
	Self report.
	That's a very interesting statement.
	This is spreading some pretty harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ community, if you ask me.
	Which I do not agree with at all!
	I wouldn't just say that gay people are the sort of people who are going to get killed for committing sexual crimes against children in Florida.
	Ashley Lynch, on the other hand, when she sees that, she's like, what, you can't be a pedo in Florida?
	Quick, gays, get out!
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	There are a lot of responses like this, this person.
	So cool, I'm trans and I can't even visit my family anymore, not that I'd want to, because I'll get arrested and killed for it.
	What, because you committed sexual crimes against children, did you?
	I'm pretty sure they're not saying that if you are trans and enter the state of Florida, you will be immediately killed.
	Well no, that's not what the bills would do at all.
	No, that's certainly not anything that I've got from this.
	If you commit sexual battery against a child, Mr. Snowfelf, I mean, are you likely to get arrested for that?
	And then executed for it?
	And there are lots of these.
	Sorry, I'm just reading the rest of that.
	Of course nothing will happen to government officials, they'll just get a slap on the wrist.
	I mean, nothing will happen to them as long as they don't, you know, assault children, I suppose.
	I'd really like to hear from the pea-brained ass lickers that the transgender genocide is not real because as of today it is effing happening.
	Okay, so have they started rounding up the trans community in Florida?
	Have we got pogroms going yet?
	But the point is, if we can't mutilate a child's genitals, that's a transgender genocide.
	Again, another mask-off moment right there.
	Well that's one of them, but are you aware of some of the figures to do with the actual murders that they say are related to the transgender genocide?
	Uh, I've seen some.
	Yes, because if you, like the Human Rights Commission or whatever they're called, the human rights organization, the big trans, pro-trans organization that looks into all of these, they provided a handy list of all of the ones that happened in 2021.
	It's very easy to just google the names that they provide, and nine times out of ten it will be a black trans prostitute who got murdered by one of her clients.
	And this is apparently the same as the government rounding them up and putting them all into camps.
	Right.
	Slightly different issue, I feel, but yes.
	I know, but I'm just pointing out that's what they're referring to.
	The thing I find fascinating about this is just, if you can't commit sexual crimes against children, you're gonna get arrested and killed.
	And there are a lot of these.
	If you can click on the next one, if you just bring this up, you can see a big mash of these people from the quote tweets, where they're just basically saying the same thing.
	Right, okay, so Florida's gonna start murdering queer people.
	Don't rape children.
	I don't think that that's actually what anyone was thinking.
	King.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This one was deleted, but we've got an archive of it.
	"If you're queer in Florida, I seriously emphatically suggest you get the F out of there as soon as you can.
	They're totally going to use this to murder queer people for existing in public in response to giving the death penalty to those who commit sexual crimes against children." Right.
	I think there are two ways that you can take this.
	One is the idea that, yes, they're basically saying all queer people are going to molest children, therefore get out of there.
	There is the other way of looking at this.
	Certainly Hugo the Pink's can.
	Yes, Hugo, anyone with a furry anime avatar is suspect, as far as I'm concerned.
	Florida right now but there is the other aspect the other way that you can look at this which is that leftists being leftists know that if they were to pass a law that said something in plain language that they would then twist it as much as possible purely for the sake of punishing their political enemies so they see somebody putting a law like this through which is put in pretty plain language and they think oh god they're going to do the exact same that we do which is just punish our political enemies
	I mean, a lot of people just responded to this being like, well, what an odd thing to say.
	He's going to the next one, like this meme I saw going around a lot, just like, huh.
	Transgenders upset when Florida decides to harshly punish pedophiles.
	It's just, cause I mean, that was my response.
	It's just like.
	But here's the logic, right?
	We can go to Bitch Pudding here.
	1.
	Make dragging the presence of children a sex crime.
	I think it is, yeah.
	It's the right thing to do.
	2.
	Make sex crimes against children a capital offence.
	Yeah, that's also good.
	3.
	Make it easier to secure the death penalty in capital cases.
	Everyone understands where this is leading, right?
	The genocide of LGBT- Could you just not be a weird perv in front of children?
	Like, that is an option, right?
	Like, not all gay people or LGBT people feel the need to gyrate around naked and rub their nipples in front of children.
	That's just not a requirement, is it?
	You're allowed, as a gay person, to not be a perv in front of children.
	Right?
	And if these people want to do drag in the presence of children, which is disgusting, and shouldn't be happening in the first place, they don't necessarily have to be forcing legislators to give them the right to do so in Florida.
	You can do so in California, it's despicable over there, but still.
	Yeah, the Californians will let anything go.
	But this meant that Equality Florida, which is a gay rights activist organisation in Florida, had to put out this.
	Breaking.
	Today we took the extraordinary step of issuing a travel warning.
	A warning of risks posed to health, safety and freedom for those considering long or short term travel or relocation in the state.
	Is that right?
	I don't know how I'm supposed to interpret that.
	As them saying, look gays, if you move to Florida, you're going to get killed for noncing.
	I'm just going to say there's been some pretty suspect things that happen in and around all of these kinds of equality movements, or organisations, I should say.
	The constituents they represent are not representative of those actions, but the organisations themselves always seem to be pretty sus.
	I'm not going to lie.
	They do.
	But yeah, and so, finally, this is just a full-on LGBT genocide.
	As this commentator says, as much as I don't want to put this on your timeline, it's very important that you're aware of this.
	We are careening towards a genocide of LGBT people if you think they would stop at the T you are fooling yourself.
	All they're doing is bringing in the death penalty for people who nonce children.
	That's right.
	It is right to do that.
	What are you saying about your own constituency if that's LGBT genocide?
	Anyway.
	What an odd thing to say.
	Yeah.
	What a very, very odd thing to say.
	Anyway, let's move on, shall we, to discuss how the SNP is crumbling.
	The SNP is not doing particularly well right now, and Scotland in general is not doing great, but the SNP in particular are having a pretty harsh time of it.
	And I can only really say that it's their own fault when you start to look into some of the details of what's going on.
	For anyone who doesn't know who the SNP are, it's the Scottish National Party, quote-unquote.
	I think they're looking to change it to the Scottish Independence Party now because they're like... How are they?
	I've heard that, I don't know entirely how true that is, but I wouldn't be surprised because I have seen a few people complaining a Scottish Nationalist Party.
	Ooh, that sounds a bit mid-century German, doesn't it?
	Well, I saw Nicola Sturgeon doing an interview a few years ago, where she's like, well, I wouldn't have called it the Nationalist Party.
	Because I don't actually care about Scottish people.
	Well, she's an internationalist, she's a communist.
	And so, it's just one of those things where it's like, it's wearing the nationalist skin suit, but it's full-on revolutionary communism underneath it.
	So it's like, okay, great, I'm glad they're losing.
	Oh, trust me, we'll get to the communism, because they are just going all in with the communism by the end of this segment.
	But first, we've got some more new content on the website.
	Conor did an interview with Mary Harrington, who describes herself as a reactionary feminist off the back of her book, what was it, Feminism Against Progress, or something like that?
	Yeah, I haven't watched the interview yet, right, but Conor has been, like, Telling me basically everything I say, she's coming out with as well.
	But she's arrived at this position from the feminist position.
	So like the traditional position and the feminist position are harmonizing.
	It's very interesting how this has happened, but yeah, if you're interested in checking that out, you can find it on the website.
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	Anyway, moving on.
	So, Colin Beattie is the, well, yes, still currently is the Treasurer of the SNP, and he has been arrested.
	Really?
	Yes, he has been arrested due to an investigation by the police into the party's finances, which has been going on since 2021.
	Right.
	And there's been quite a lot of information coming out about this recently.
	Wasn't this why Nicola Sturgeon was arrested as well?
	I believe it was her husband.
	Oh, I'm sorry, her husband.
	It was her husband that was arrested, but she did apparently one day just get home to find some police officers rooting through her knicker drawer just in case that she'd left some suspicious documents in there, perhaps.
	600k or something they were looking for.
	Yeah, 600k or thereabouts seems to be the figure that a lot of people are concerned about.
	So this article from the BBC is talking about it.
	So the arrest was made in connection with the investigation into funding and finances from the SNP.
	SNP chief executive Peter Morrell, who is the husband of Nicholas Sturgeon, was also arrested recently.
	After officers spent two days searching through their Glaswegian home and the party's headquarters in Edinburgh, a luxury motorhome had been seized by officers from outside of a property in Dunfermline.
	Scottish names always trip me up a little bit.
	And the vehicle had been parked outside of the home of Mr Murrell's 92-year-old mother since January 2021.
	Right.
	Interesting why a 90-year-old would have to have a luxury motorhome.
	They're not particularly mobile people, as far as I'm aware, but I'm sure it was all legally signed out in her name, so I'm sure that's all fine.
	They did also start digging in the garden for some reason.
	I don't know what they found.
	Literally a buried chest of loot.
	Yes.
	Perhaps they were looking for a swag bag.
	Scottish doubloons.
	Just a nice round sack with a dollar sign on it.
	The SNP is actually the pirate party now.
	Don't make me like them.
	Mr. Murrell was later released without charge but he is pending further investigation and this is all just part of this.
	They're presumably taking all of these people in and questioning them and Mr. Beattie might not be having a great time of it and we can know he's a very trustworthy, very honest individual because he is a former international banker.
	The sorts of people that I would want to trust my finances with.
	The Sunday Times had reported that he... Well they always seem to have loads of money.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Where it came from, who knows?
	But he had told the party's ruling National Executive Committee that the SNP was struggling to balance its books due to a drop in membership numbers and donors.
	The formal investigation began in July 2021 after receiving complaints about how donations were used.
	And this is where that 600,000 figure is coming into it.
	So the SNP raised a total of 666,000, kind of Satanic number.
	Kind of sus, straight away.
	£953.
	Through a referendum-based related appeals, between 2017 and 2020, the party had pledged to spend these funds on the independence campaign, but... That's not that much, actually.
	Yeah, I was surprised as well.
	I was expecting a party like the SNP, given that they are the national party of Scotland, which has... And they're also the largest party in Scotland.
	Yeah, pretty much all of the seats.
	I would expect them to have more than that.
	from their donors as well.
	You would expect there to be some high-profile Scottish donors going, yeah, we want the independents, here's a million pounds.
	But no, that's apparently the money that they had.
	But they started to ask questions when accounts showed that it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019 and total Ness assets of about £272,000.
	So there seems to be a big discrepancy of, say, around £300,000 of where money could have gone...
	They have been saying since then, oh we just spent it all.
	We just spent it all on party funding and advertising and campaign slogans and such like that.
	But people were going, well, That's a lot of money that seems to have vanished.
	Where are the receipts then?
	Yes.
	And then on this Sunday just passed, something very damning came out which was Nicola Sturgeon in a leaked video for a meeting of the ruling body in 2021 over video call, where she was playing down fears about the party finances.
	She was saying, we've never been stronger financially, we've got all of this money, We're looking great.
	Please stop asking questions.
	That was the main thrust of the video, was please stop asking questions.
	If you start asking questions, this will cause us some big trouble, so shut up and keep your mouth shut.
	And then also the party... Very transparent and democratic.
	Very much so.
	The party's auditors, Johnson Carmichael, also quit in September and Mr Youssef, Humza Youssef, the new First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SMP, said that he only found out about it after he won the leadership contest six months later.
	You'd think that would be big news that our party doesn't have an auditor anymore but...
	Sure.
	Managed to evade him for six months.
	Yep.
	And the SNP has failed to find another auditor, is facing a race against time to file its accounts by the Electoral Commission deadline in July.
	And this all came out.
	Colin Beattie was arrested on the same day, yesterday, that Humza Yousaf was set to come out and give his first policy speech.
	His first major policy speech.
	What instead happened, he did go out and give his speech.
	First policy speech, squeeze the Scots for money.
	Good luck.
	Yes, actually.
	Yes, pretty much that.
	One of his first things that he said, he came out and he said, we're going to have the most progressive tax policy in all of the UK.
	We're going to ramp up tax for all of the people in Scotland who are above a certain bracket.
	Amazing, as if they're not just going to flee to England.
	Exactly.
	But one of the first things that happened before he managed to make the speech was reporters came up to him and asked, are you a criminal organisation?
	Are you sure you're not some form of mob organisation?
	And he said, no.
	To the best of my knowledge, we are not a criminal organisation.
	As far as I can say right now, probably not.
	But I listened to the speech, I would have played some clips from it, it was dull.
	It was dull, it was boring, he said we need equality, it's all about building a greener, fairer future, all the talking points... It's just democrat, communist talking points.
	Yeah we're gonna, more progressive tax, we're gonna fight anti-poverty, we need net zero, they're gonna introduce a new human rights bill in Scotland which will make it a more inviting place to immigrants and this- That's not a bad idea.
	Along with some of the other stuff- I'm in favour of that, Scotland being more inviting to immigrants.
	Well that's the thing, along with some of the other stuff that is going to be happening in Scotland in the next few years, I'm quietly hopeful- I'm quietly hopeful that this might fix some of England's problems, but I'll get further into that as we go on.
	Things we love, but we've still got to bail them out when they eff it up.
	We're still going to pay for this.
	Yeah, that is the problem.
	If I remember correctly, Callum's told me this before, isn't Scotland a net tax drain on the English people?
	Yes.
	Brilliant.
	Brilliant, that's just what I want to be.
	...paying for all sorts that goes up in Scotland.
	They don't pay for their healthcare stuff.
	Like, when you go to a pharmacy, you have to pay for your thing.
	They don't.
	Oh yeah, he was bragging about, in the Scottish Parliament, he was bragging about how they don't have to pay prescriptions or anything like that.
	Yeah, and that's paid for by the English, so enjoy that.
	Oh, thanks.
	Well, I mean, he was saying about all of these new things... Immigrant man's like, yeah, more immigrants to come in to get free prescriptions that the English can pay for.
	That makes sense as to why he was bragging about all of this in the Scottish Parliament in that case, because I listened to a lot of it and he was just saying, we give this, and we give this, we just give Gibbs constantly, and I just thought to myself, how can they afford all of this stuff?
	They can't.
	Yes, evidently.
	Which is why I vote for Scottish independence.
	As do I. And interestingly, among all of this controversy, Nicola Sturgeon... I'm pro Scottish independence, I'm vindictiveness.
	Nicola Sturgeon decided to gain some independence of her own, and decided that this was the perfect opportunity to learn to drive.
	Oh, good for her.
	So instead of attending Holyrood, and instead of attending to all of the controversies around the party, she decided to skip all of that, and take some driving lessons instead.
	Very interesting approach.
	Well, I mean, she's not the party leader anymore, not her problem.
	I suppose so, but some of the controversy seems to be surrounding her time as party leader, but, you know, look at how happy she looks.
	But also, you'd think, okay, my legacy here as one of the dominant figures of this party for, like, what was she, like, ten years or something, party leader?
	She's been party leader for ages, hasn't she?
	Since Alexander Salmon left, so I think that was, what, mid-2010?
	So seven to ten years, somewhere like that.
	So she was a dominant figure in the SNP, and you would think she would be concerned about, like, passing this along and the continuation of her legacy and the party itself, because basically, it looks like she's ran it into the ground and then just handed it off and now it's going to just collapse.
	Well yeah, everybody did.
	The whole reason that she left in the first place, she said she was the same as Jacinda Ardern and some of the others.
	Oh, I've just been so stressed, I need to make time for my own life finally.
	I can pass the book, I mean pass the baton over to the next line.
	Except what actually happened was that she wanted to push the gender reform bill that would have made it very easy for people of a stupidly young age to change their gender on all the government certificates very easily.
	Everyone in Scotland went, I hate that.
	She also was struggling very hard to Find whether Isla Bryan, or whatever the person's name was, the Scottish rapist, was a man or a woman.
	Yeah, a male rapist was going to be put in a woman's prison, and the Conservatives had to step in and be like, you can't put a man, a rapist man, in this woman's prison.
	And Nicola Sturgeon uminard about it a little bit.
	Yeah, and then she gave a speech in which she defined the three genders, which are male, female and rapist.
	It was incredible.
	Oh yeah, I remember that.
	Genuinely incredible.
	Gender ideology is just melting politics wherever it goes.
	I've given you all of the service I can, Scotland, goodbye.
	I need to take some driving lessons.
	I've screwed this up, you're on your own!
	And in this article they also point out that Humza Yousaf, being a genius, thought, how am I going to fix this?
	His nickname in Scotland is Humza Useless.
	Well, he's got time.
	He's got time, he might prove himself.
	I see all of the Scottish, like, nationalist Twitter, the pro-nationalist Twitter accounts.
	It's consistent, just hums are useless under every post he makes.
	Still got time to prove himself.
	We don't know.
	We don't know what might happen.
	For instance, he thought, how am I going to fix this?
	I know, I'll go with the most popular policy proposal that anybody has ever had, constantly, which is... More rapists in women's prisons?
	More tax?
	Oh brilliant.
	More tax.
	He unveiled plans to double council tax for second homes in Scotland in a speech to trade union leaders.
	This is going to be very popular.
	I'm doubling council tax.
	Vote for me.
	Why would I do that?
	Yep.
	Honestly.
	But there are other problems in Scotland as well and that's what the second half of this segment will be focusing on because one of the SNP things that they want to talk about is this thing called a minimum income guarantee.
	Oh yeah.
	And as soon as this starts to hit the headlines, I start to see BBC News articles in lockstep like this.
	Thousands more Scots living in very deep poverty from their charity section, where they point out that the number of people in Scotland living in very deep poverty has gone up by about 50% in 25 years, suggested by new research.
	Which, to me, sounds like a damning indictment.
	Of progressivism?
	Of progressivism, yes.
	The more progressive Scotland has become, the poorer Scottish people have become themselves.
	Amazing.
	Let's carry on.
	So, anti-poverty charity, and this is important, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that 150,000 more were living at this level, but the overall number of people below the poverty line had improved.
	So what's happened is essentially that people who were weren't too bad have got better, and those who were already bad have just got worse.
	And they say, well, we need to fix this.
	So they say that 460,000 people in Scotland were living in very deep poverty in 2017 to 2020, up from 310,000 between 1994 and 1997.
	So once again, there you see the numbers there in terms of the dates.
	The more progressive it's got over those years, since the late 90s, when everything in England went wrong, everything in Britain went wrong, it's just got worse for those people who were even poorer.
	So, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in response to this, called on the UK government... the UK government, not the Scottish government... We don't want to call on the SNP today, do we?
	Yep, the UK government, to adopt a guarantee to ensure universal credit provides enough to cover the cost of essentials, and it also wants the Scottish government to accelerate efforts to create a minimum income guarantee.
	Interestingly, they point out here, Associate Director for Scotland, Chris Burt, said the story of poverty in Scotland over the past 20 years is a bleak contradiction that both the UK and Scottish governments need to wake up to.
	Chris Burt is important here.
	Right.
	I haven't looked into this in any way, but is this that there are a bunch of people who have been trapped on benefits and they're getting more poor because they've been on benefits for so long?
	I would imagine so.
	They don't go into much detail about how these people have got poorer and poorer, but I would imagine it's something like that.
	And if you're wondering what the minimum income guarantee is, it's UBI.
	If you've ever heard about anything like a universal basic income scheme or guarantee, it is exactly that.
	If we go to the next one, it will be £25,000 a year, guaranteed.
	That's more than the average wage!
	Yes.
	Yes, it is.
	In fact, they point out that it's more than the average wage.
	What?!
	A bunch of smack addicts in Scotland are getting £25,000 a year?
	For doing nothing.
	And I'm paying for it?
	Yes.
	Well, it's because... You may call them smack addicts.
	We call them people of low dignity.
	We call them scot... Sorry, Dan.
	No, they're people of low dignity.
	And what happens is the poorer you are, the less dignified you are.
	And we need to give them £25,000 a year so we can make them more dignified.
	That's the price of dignity, is it?
	Yes, yes it is.
	£25,000.
	Also a few grams on the street corner, I assume.
	So they say billions of pounds will be handed to the jobless and lower earners to ensure that everyone has a dignified, dignified quality of life.
	What I can imagine is after this is implemented, we'll be able to go to Glasgow and we'll see people in top hats, chains, Pocket watches, monocles, wandering the streets.
	Gold-trimmed kilts.
	Yes, exactly that.
	Discussing the latest play they saw at the theatre that night.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the only thing that I can imagine.
	I mean, that is their dream as well.
	That's literally the dream in their head.
	That they will have these posh Scots wandering around all of a sudden.
	But it won't be.
	It'll just be the heroin market will skyrocket.
	Absolutely it will.
	So supporters of the proposal, dubbed Communism Light, It is, yeah.
	Well, it's not light.
	When we get into the actual documents that they've written about it, it's basically Communism Max.
	Really?
	They've maxed the Communism.
	They say it would help fight poverty and tackle health inequalities.
	Just that way?
	Yep, and they are clear that it should be funded by massively raising taxes on medium and high earners, because that's never scared anyone off.
	They don't understand anything, do they?
	The funny thing is, one of the Scottish Conservatives brought this up in Humza Yousaf's first speech, and he just turned around and went, yeah, well, Liz trusts mini-budget, I win.
	That was his argument.
	Well, Liz trusts his I'd-like-to-cut-tax mini-budget.
	Yes.
	And Humza Yousaf's like, yeah, well... He said, that collapsed markets.
	Ignore the fact that the markets are controlled by people who don't want taxes cut.
	And so Holmes used to say, right, so if I do the opposite of that, which is massively raise taxes on medium and high earners, then everyone's a winner?
	More taxes equals more GDP.
	This is the obvious solution.
	Karl, what don't you understand about economics?
	Yeah, a lot, apparently.
	You've been listening to Dan, haven't you?
	I have, actually, yeah.
	And you should listen to Dan as well.
	Yeah, you should actually.
	I hate this, it's just like, look, so you're not a complete jobless bum and smack addict, you know, lounging around on the streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh, well then, that means I need to tax you, because you worked hard, you earned something, and you don't deserve that.
	That smack addict deserves that.
	I hate it.
	And don't you agree?
	No!
	Does the smack addict not deserve an equal dignity of life?
	No.
	No, they don't, of course.
	Get a job!
	Yeah, critics have pointed out the obvious, that this would completely remove the incentive to work and plunge Scotland's economy into stagnation.
	Because, once again, if you can just sit around and say, I've got some kind of disability, and given the fact that they're trying to make it more equitable, more equal, all this nonsense, you probably won't even have to prove it, I'm against equity.
	I'm for people who work hard at keeping what they get, and people who don't work getting nothing.
	I'm for equality among equals.
	And equals are something hard to come by.
	I actually quite like that, frankly.
	Equality among equals.
	Well, I've been reading Aristotle, and that's basically his point there.
	Yeah, yeah, that is good, yeah.
	But, what's the incentive to work?
	Why would you have to do anything?
	If I can just sit around- What's the incentive to live in Scotland?
	Well, you get 25 grand for free.
	Yeah, but if not, if you're a medium or high earning, if you've got a job, you may as well leave.
	Exactly.
	And the experts and academics and politicians on the panel, because they've got a steering group with a panel, suggest the minimum income guarantee should be set between the relative poverty line of about 18,700 a year and the minimum income standard set at 25,500 per year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
	And once again, I pointed out that these guys are important.
	Would you like to know who's on the expert board of the steering What's that guy you just mentioned?
	It's Chris Burt, yes.
	One of the people who's in charge of setting all of the figures and doing all of the research is also on the government panel for deciding whether they implement this or not and how they'll implement it.
	Interesting how this works.
	This is just democracy in action, folks.
	For example, someone who earns £20,000 could receive up to £5,500 extra in minimum income guarantee top-up payments to reach the threshold.
	So if you're already working, What would be the benefit of doing anything to improve yourself by your own efforts if the government's just gonna top up your income anyway?
	Yeah, why would I work for 20 grand a year when I could just not work and get 25 grand a year?
	Because you're bored?
	Maybe?
	I feel like working this weekend.
	I'll put a few hours in and the government will top me up.
	I'll stave off the boredom with drugs.
	And there you go, those who do not work will also be entitled to full amount in benefits.
	A final report will be produced... Honestly, can't take it.
	And I buy the steering group in 2024.
	In 2018, the Institute for Public Policy Research claimed that the state-funded citizens' income in Scotland would cost £20 billion a year.
	The Fraser of Allander Institute estimates the proposal would need an extra £38 billion in additional funding.
	I doubt the entire Scottish economy is worth £38 billion!
	Probably isn't.
	And then I decided to take a look further into this and actually look at the proposals that have been put forward on the Scottish Government's website.
	And this is the interim report.
	And honestly, for one, all interim reports, all government reports, are all padded with the same repeated few paragraphs over and over again.
	Put as boring as possible so that it disincentivizes you from actually reading it, because they don't want you to see what's in there.
	But there is some interesting things in here.
	For instance, in the introduction, the person writing this just states outright, For me, throughout the first year, one of the key questions that's come up time and time again has not been about the technical aspects of how a minimum income guarantee could look, i.e.
	how it would work, Instead, whether explicitly or in the background, the same question has been ever present.
	How can we move to deliver, more quickly, big positive change in Scotland?
	Which just says to me, it's not how will it work, it's this is a really nice sounding idea, isn't it?
	I'm totally in favour of Scottish independence at this point.
	I don't want to fund this.
	I don't want them near me.
	I don't want the Scottish government near me.
	The Scottish people are lovely that I've met.
	But, like, I don't want to fund this.
	Me neither.
	They say, our task is to move a minimum income guarantee from an idea to a reality.
	To do that, an increasing number of us must believe that change is possible.
	And those of us that want to see change happen, must work hard to make it a reality.
	Optimism is necessary, even if it is not sufficient for making progress.
	So if I just believe hard enough... This is mad Soviet Union nonsense.
	It really is.
	If the Scottish Parliament all sit around and just believe hard enough, money will magically appear in their pockets.
	From the English taxpayer.
	So it's openly utopian.
	And then in the next one, I found this.
	So you go, okay, how's it going to work?
	What will this look like?
	Is there any practical consideration in this document explaining it?
	And this is the closest I could find which was the minimum income guarantee level will be achieved through paid work for most household but this will not be the case for everyone and for some groups this will be more challenging due to structural inequalities in participation and barriers within the labor market.
	To realize a minimum income guarantee Reform to the world of work is required to increase minimum levels of pay and achieve equal pay for women and marginalized groups, address the undervaluation of low and unpaid care work, reduce barriers and participation gaps, broaden pay rates, guaranteed hours, worked and career progression, and to ensure work is equitable, flexible, and accessible to all.
	This will mean greater numbers of people reach a minimum income guarantee level without the need for blah-de-blah-de-blah, so communism.
	There's literally what they've just laid out for me.
	There is complete and total, top-down domination of the economy.
	Well, it's a command economy.
	Yeah.
	That's what they want.
	We need to reform the world of work.
	Okay, so just complete state-controlled economy, then.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Fair play.
	Thank you for the admission.
	And furthermore, later on in the document, they go through all of the religious rituals and incitements where they just say, a minimum income guarantee must recognise systematic racism and be designed to be anti-racist.
	Engage.
	With black and communities of colour in organisations advocating for bloody black people.
	What communities of colour in Scotland?
	Humza Yousaf's extended family, perhaps?
	Literally the entirety of the Pakistani community in Scotland is Humza Yousaf.
	Perhaps Humza Yousaf's grandmother needs a luxury motorhome stationed outside of her house?
	I just... It's actually amazing to see people who are so captured by ideology in charge.
	It really is.
	These people are incredibly incompetent.
	It's not just that.
	Look, it's so inevitable that, okay, if you can get 25 grand a year for not working, you know, you're getting over two grand a month to do nothing, then that incentivizes a massive number of people to do nothing.
	But also it's going to incentivize people to move to Scotland and become a burden on this system.
	But it's also going to incentivize the people who would be earning more than that to just leave.
	And this is where?
	This is going to leave you with an ever-growing debt as you try and pay for this until eventually people are like, we're not going to lend you any money.
	And this whole thing collapses.
	But then you're left with a bunch of people who are innovated in themselves.
	They haven't been getting any work skills.
	They haven't been getting any life skills.
	They've been drinking, smoking, taking drugs, and they've been sitting around, not exercising, eating Freybentos pies, you know, like, oh, you know, Freybentos haggis, whatever it is.
	Let's not get the Freybentos question back up.
	Personally, really unhealthy, really unfit to do anything.
	And so they're in a hole they can't get out of, and it's going to be absolute anarchy when that finally happens.
	And that's the inevitable conclusion of what they're doing here.
	And for some reason, the Scottish people have voted for these to be in charge.
	Yes, and this is where I like to look at the positive side.
	Okay, there is a silver lining to this, and it could in fact be... The total collapse of Scotland.
	Perhaps.
	It could be the saving grace for England.
	Longchance wins in the long game.
	Right.
	I am a complete supporter of Scottish independence on this basis alone.
	Right.
	They're going to include a new human rights bill that will make it easier for immigrants to move there.
	They're going to be more and more progressive and fair and equity-minded towards immigrants and black and communities of colours, etc, etc.
	You are going to be implementing a system next year, possibly a few years after, that will mean that you don't even have to work to get an immediate £25,500.
	I might move to Scotland.
	Yep, yep, exactly.
	I'll take the £25,000.
	So, they're gonna be giving out gibs like there's no tomorrow, right?
	This, to me, is a complete win.
	Scotland goes independent, implements all of this, every migrant living in the UK moves north to Scotland, and I, I am more than happy to volunteer to be the first person to lay down the bricks for the new Hadrian wall so you can keep all of us evil English out.
	I mean, think of the house prices in England, it's going to shrink.
	It's going to be brilliant.
	Young people will be able to afford houses again.
	Scotland, Humsley gets to be with his home people.
	He gets to create new Pakistan in the north of Britain.
	We get to have England back.
	Pakistan isn't run like this!
	Well, exactly, they're not run anywhere near as efficiently as this, are they?
	No, no, no.
	Like, Pakistan is not nearly this insane.
	Sorry, Pakistan's got lots of problems, but this is not one of them.
	That's all true, but let's not shout them down, Karl.
	Let's let them do it, and we can have England back, OK?
	I suppose.
	Scottish independence, I'm completely— Scotland is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
	100% in support of.
	Dank, if you do want to move down, you know, we'll accept you if you ask really honestly.
	Keep saying, man, just start the Braveheart Party.
	That's all you need to do.
	Start the Braveheart Party.
	Be intrinsically libertarian.
	And the Scots would definitely vote for it because of the name Braveheart.
	That's true.
	You should do it.
	Honestly, you should do it.
	Just on every ballot, vote for so-and-so of the Braveheart Party.
	I'd vote for it.
	Just call everyone William in the party.
	Yeah, lots of Mr. Wallaces.
	Anyway, let's go on to talk about Climate Ninjas.
	Sounds edgy and cool, doesn't it?
	It won't be, though.
	No, it won't be.
	Of course it's not going to be.
	It's something incredibly cringe.
	Just like Josh trying to persuade me that UFOs are real.
	I don't believe it.
	Don't believe it.
	This is the second contemplations Josh forced me to sit down and go through and do with him, talking about could UFOs be real.
	And I'm totally a sceptic.
	I don't believe.
	So this is a great thumbnail.
	I don't know how you can't believe.
	We've got photographic evidence.
	It's an amazing thumbnail.
	Right there in the thumbnail, Karl.
	What do you call that?
	But Josh, initially he took me through a bunch of reports, and now he's taking me through a bunch of the video footage, as if that proves anything.
	If I can't get Callum to believe, in Bigfoot, through all the video footage, I show him of Bigfoot, and every day I'll send him a new Bigfoot film, right?
	Every single day?
	Every single day.
	Are you griping him?
	With Bigfoot, yeah.
	But every day he's just like, no, it's a man in a suit, and it's like, really, what's the Bigfoot suit industry like in America, right?
	If I can't get him to believe that with video evidence, then Josh cannot get me to believe in aliens with video evidence.
	So you're refusing to believe in aliens out of spite for Callum?
	Kind of.
	I'm just on the I-don't-want-to-believe train.
	There are other reasons that I go through in the podcast.
	I prefer to think humans are special throughout all of the universe.
	I just think aliens be a lot of work.
	Oh, okay, you just can't be bothered with it.
	Yeah, I just can't really be bothered.
	I've got enough on my plate.
	I don't need an alien invasion.
	I mean, I've already got a wife.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The kids are taking up enough time.
	Kids are in school.
	Yeah, I've got to think about a lot of stuff.
	I don't want an alien invasion.
	That's an incredibly Anglo mindset, and I respect it.
	Yeah, half of British people wouldn't go to the moon or to Mars, because there's just nothing there, can't be bothered, seems a lot of work.
	Yeah.
	And it's all based English.
	Anyway, that was actually a good podcast, even though I'm a deep sceptic about UFOs.
	It's probably a sign-up.
	Anyway, what is the BBC?
	Can you scroll down and just show this picture?
	What?
	Feel embarrassed just looking at them yet?
	I'm sure I've seen this in a horror film.
	The Climate Ninjas Fighting Climate Change Denial on Twitter.
	I'm sorry, I... Right, when you said climate ninjas, I imagine the same kind of cringe as, like, a Reddit weeb who thinks he's a samurai and, you know, the fedora with a sword.
	This is worse, somehow.
	Yes.
	I love that they've got these little paper masks to hide their identities.
	Imagine.
	I wonder who it could be.
	So this is an article by the BBC climate disinformation specialist, Marco Silvia.
	Imagine having the title of being a disinformation specialist.
	What do you do?
	I specialize in disinformation about the climate.
	Thank you very much.
	Anyway, let's go through, I thought we'd go through this, this is just so embarrassing.
	Secretive internet vigilantes have made it their mission to fight climate change denial on Twitter.
	But as a vicious information war rages online, do they risk becoming the very trolls they claim to be targeting?
	Sorry, I just assumed these people are FBI agents.
	No, scroll up again, sorry John.
	Go back to the picture.
	Look at the grey hair.
	These people are old.
	A couple of old boomers.
	These are boomers who just missed the 60s.
	Just missed the summer of love in the 1960s.
	Didn't get to take LSD and watch Jimi Hendrix.
	This is Maria and Arthur, who live in a small coastal town in Spain.
	So they have benefited from the system that is screwing your generation at the moment and they've checked out with their pensions and now they're sat on a lovely Spanish villa overlooking the Mediterranean on Twitter because they think they're saving the world by reporting people's tweets.
	They got theirs.
	I don't get mine.
	Nope.
	Thank you.
	Climate change means you don't get yours.
	Thank you, boomers.
	If the climate changes, think of their holiday resort.
	You are the most respectable of generations.
	It might not be so tolerable.
	If only I had pulled up my bootstraps.
	Perhaps.
	Perhaps I'd be in a different position right now.
	They asked me not to reveal their names or their exact whereabouts, because as if people give a damn who these people are, right?
	Why is the BBC writing an article on this, right?
	Over the years they have made countless enemies on the internet, and they believe stepping out of the shadows could prove dangerous.
	These people have never been near any danger in their entire lives.
	The most coddled generation.
	That's why they think they can just wear a paper mask.
	And do an interview with the BBC.
	Imagine if the BBC were like, you know, Harry, we'd like to interview you.
	You'd be like, no, because you're going to do whatever you can to hurt me.
	And the BBC is evil.
	They're an evil organisation.
	But not these pro-climate troll boomers on Twitter.
	I'm sorry, if you have got everyone in government constantly going on about your talking points, if you've got the BBC writing up articles about how brave you are, you are not a freedom fighter, you are not a dissident.
	Exactly!
	That's exactly the point.
	Oh my god!
	It gets better, yeah.
	As it says there, Maria says she's spent thousands of hours reporting tweets from climate deniers.
	You could have gone to the beach, Maria.
	You live in Spain.
	You could have gone for a nice, you've got your boomer pension, you could go to a nice cafe.
	Go for a swim in the med.
	It's people like this.
	I've been to Spain so many times and there are so many gorgeous communities there and lovely little seaside towns and such.
	These are the people who make Spain worse through their presence.
	They also make Twitter worse through their presence.
	Yes, they make everything worse.
	Maria says, for you to be able to do your work and not be scared of the consequences, you really have to fly under the radar.
	Just as if she's some sort of revolutionary terrorist.
	And the powers that be are going to come down on her, therefore she can't tell the BBC her exact location.
	These people fear the power of a single 4chan autist.
	To discover their exact names, their locations, their pension funds, like that!
	If 4chan wanted to, I'm sure they could identify where these people are from the pictures we've got so far.
	But, in 2019, she helped set up Team Ninja Troll Hunters, a group of 25 people from around the world who came together to fight climate change denial on Twitter.
	Heroic.
	Thank God someone's doing something about it.
	But, I mean, 25 people, that's a small Discord server?
	Like, this is people on the internet?
	There's a very small discourse here.
	Exactly, why is this getting a BBC article?
	And I bet the memes are terrible.
	But I love this.
	For me, it was a necessity to show that many things that are being tweeted are wrong.
	It's literally the XKCD comic.
	How empty is your life?
	Exactly.
	Go to the next one, Joe.
	It's literally the old comic.
	You come into bed, I can't, someone's wrong on the internet.
	And the BBC are like, God, you're heroic.
	I need to write an article about you saying how you're a ninja, a climate ninja on Twitter.
	I bet she couldn't even name three soy jacks.
	No, but like some of her fellow vigilantes, she has a background in science which came in handy when looking through complex research.
	So, right, so we've got some ex-retiree professor who probably voted Liberal Democrat, voted Remain.
	It's like a template of people who have been brainwashed into this one thing.
	And so now she's just like, no, people are tweeting wrong things, I have to do my part to save the planet.
	Come on, you're doing nothing.
	You're doing absolutely nothing, right?
	So, uh, but with her snoopy t-shirt, and Maria does not strike me as a ninja, and neither does her softly spoken partner, Arthur, whom she recruited into the group.
	We fought many battles together, and we also had a lot of fun.
	You've fought battles?
	I argue people with Twitter.
	I'm the world's greatest warrior, if that's the case.
	This is such a reminder.
	I was complaining about it earlier during breakfast.
	Just about the boomers, the hippie boomers who went to Woodstock, took drugs and had sex in a field and thought they made a difference.
	Oh, I fought the power.
	No, you didn't.
	I've been a professor at Brighton University for 35 years and then I retired to Spain and now I'm fighting battles on Twitter.
	Come on.
	This is what happens when you move too far for your grandkids to visit.
	Yeah.
	But they obviously spent their time fact-checking false or misleading claims they found on Twitter.
	So it's bored boomers who are trying to uphold the order that has brought us to the position we're in now, right?
	The ninjas spotted claims going viral and responded to them with links to factual information, academic papers or scientific reports, which I'm sure are all completely correct, right?
	But after a couple of months, you realise you don't make an impact, because for most of these people, facts are irrelevant.
	It's like, lol, you've just been wasting your time then.
	So it's the crazy old lady wearing the paper mask for the BBC interview.
	But I love it, it's like, oh yeah, we spent thousands of hours doing this, but then it turned out that was a complete waste of time!
	Then they kept sending me this image of a man saying yes with a chattish jawline and a beard.
	Yeah, a man with the biggest jaw I've ever seen.
	So it was time to come up with new tactics.
	The ninjas began keeping tabs on prominent Twitter accounts which disputed the basic science of climate change.
	Whenever those users tweeted something which broke the platform's rules, they would report them.
	But that must suck now that Elon Musk is in charge.
	Well, I don't know.
	I've seen some people still get taken off of Twitter, but I don't know how widespread it is.
	Well, as the BBC tell us, climate change denial is not forbidden on Twitter.
	Then what are you doing?
	I'm going to report this climate misinformation.
	Yeah, but that's okay.
	He's allowed to say that.
	Yeah, but that's really annoying.
	I'm wasting my time.
	I've only got like 20 years of retirement here.
	So, they started going after threats, harassment or hate speech.
	Until November last year, posting misleading claims like COVID-19 could also lead to tweets being removed or accounts being suspended.
	At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether they get suspended because of COVID-19 misinformation or Nazi symbols, Maria tells me.
	When they're gone, they're gone.
	They're not really gone, they're just not on Twitter.
	But even then, that's literally, this is what you think is important.
	Don't you have grandchildren?
	Which I think, they obviously don't have grandchildren.
	Or if they do, they don't want to associate with them, because why would you want to go and visit these if they were your grandparents?
	I'd love to go and play on the beach and make a sandcastle, but I've got climate ninja work to do.
	Again, this reminds me of something else I saw on Twitter the other day, which is, we're both big fans of Ash Sarkar.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, she's a bastion of... Mask-off moments, yeah.
	Yeah, mask-off moments.
	She's winning, lads.
	Yeah, she is.
	She was quote-tweeting someone the other day who had used a particular slur to describe her, denoting to her background.
	Shall we say, after she posted some absolute socialist nonsense on Twitter.
	And she just decided to publicly humiliate this man by quote-tweeting him and threatening to sue him or get legal action under the Communications Act for gross offence unless he gave her a public apology.
	And I just think to myself, so one random guy who had no likes on the tweet You decide it's your personal mission to ruin his day because he said a naughty no-no word that you don't like.
	What a pathetic individual.
	That is pathetic, and it's exactly as pathetic as these climate changes.
	Yeah, it reminds me of this.
	It just infuriates me.
	Nothing better to do with her time.
	Because, of course, Ash Sarkar is childless.
	Like these people might be.
	Yeah, that's going to be my go-to insult for women I don't like.
	You're childless.
	No.
	Empty egg carton.
	I do think that these people probably don't have grandchildren.
	That's the problem.
	So, anyway.
	Thousands of slow hours of painstaking work paid off.
	Paid off?
	You've gained nothing!
	Literally nothing, as we'll get to in a minute.
	They claim that as a result of their action, about 600 Twitter accounts promoting climate change denial were suspended. 600.
	Humanity saved.
	Climate change averted.
	Their villa isn't going to sink into the sea now.
	The sun cooled down a few degrees after that one.
	One of those accounts was Mike's.
	He was an Australian engineer with more than 23,000 followers on Twitter, many of whom believe in conspiracy theories, many of whom are correct on things.
	In April, everything they believe has ended up coming true, right?
	In April last year, his account was permanently suspended from Twitter after posting an unfounded claim about COVID vaccines.
	I'd like Mike to be unsuspended, please.
	If he hasn't already been.
	We'll get to that.
	The Ninjas share a set of rules laid out in a document called The Resistor's Guide to Effective Troll Hunting.
	You're such a nerd.
	Should we have a look at this?
	You're such a nerd.
	The Resistor's Guide... Resistor?
	Resistor's to what?
	You are the power structure.
	You're a professor.
	You're a scientist.
	You are embedded in the thing.
	You are living out on your pension, and you call yourself the resistance?
	Oh, come on, have some self-awareness.
	And the thing is, right, this is only like four pages long, and it's really boring.
	Of course it is!
	No, I thought it'd be kind of interesting, right?
	There's nothing interesting in it.
	As you can see there, the three main components of a troll-hunting group are secrecy, which is nobody outside your small group is aware of those activities ever, focus, keep reporting the biggest accounts, and organisation, the tracking of trolls reported so you make sure they don't create new accounts.
	You'll be working within Twitter's own guidelines, the Terms of Service, where you need to utilise Terms of Service, read the Terms of Service so that you can report accurately.
	How sad!
	You've got the Terms of Service on your side, of the biggest social media organisation in the world, and you think, that's right, I'm on the... I'm on the resistance!
	Yeah, I'm the resistance!
	I'm on the dark side!
	I'm the rebel faction against the Empire!
	Exactly, it's so embarrassing.
	But also, doesn't it just feel like hall monitors?
	It does.
	Really cringe, boomer hall monitors.
	I'm going to report you to the principal.
	I'm having cigarette piss off.
	This is cry-bullying.
	Yes it is, yeah.
	Anyway, going back to the article.
	Maria always insists that she played by the rules and that she knew where the line was.
	I bet she did play by the rules because she's really boring.
	Arthur, however, he was a maverick.
	Oh, he was a bad boy, was he?
	Yes.
	Arthur's methods led him to getting temporarily suspended from Twitter for a couple of times.
	So, Arthur was harassing people on the internet, and got himself suspended.
	Oh my god.
	When I engaged climate deniers, I noticed some of them got agitated.
	And when I continued to do it, until the point where they showed harassing behaviour against me, which is not allowed, then you can get rid of them.
	Okay.
	In the process, I got suspended a few times, because I was obviously harassing them too.
	So I annoyed somebody enough that they lashed out because of how horribly annoying I am, and then I ran straight to the teacher to tell them off!
	And the BBC interviewer says, I suggest to Arthur that his behaviour may not be so dissimilar to that of an online troll.
	And he says, well that's partially true, yes.
	It's like, yeah, that's why you got suspended.
	Except he was probably nowhere near as funny.
	Definitely making the world a better place though.
	And this is definitely going to be making Twitter a better place.
	If I'm just an insufferable arsehole on Twitter for enough times... Greta Thunberg is going to be awarding this man the key to Sweden soon.
	I point out to him that by provoking his target since crossing a line, he could be causing real world harm.
	And Arthur says, I can't see any real world damage, which is worse than what they're doing.
	When they're trying to convince people climate change is a myth, they're inflicting damage upon all of us.
	These people have done zero damage.
	Like there's no damage done from a tweet, no matter how much misinformation is in the Yeah, that's the thing.
	Despite how much misinformation they care about, sorry, the people spreading the misinformation are nobody in any position to change anything about how the climate crisis is being handled.
	Nope.
	But Arthur did get himself suspended a bunch of times, so that's good.
	I imagine he's ban evading at the moment.
	It's nice to be able to say that, judgementally, because I'm not ban evading.
	There you go.
	For the first time in five years.
	Shoes on your foot now.
	Exactly!
	Suck it, Arthur.
	But the Ninja's efforts have been somewhat hampered by Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.
	Because Elon Musk thinks that people should be able to say what they think.
	Last November, the billionaire announced the platform would reinstate thousands of previously suspended accounts.
	Mike's account was among them.
	Another victory for the conspiracy theorists.
	That was a slap in the face, Maria said.
	If Twitter decided that these people should be suspended, there was a good reason for it.
	Yeah, but Twitter has decided they should be unsuspended.
	There's a good reason for it, Maria.
	This is the problem with the boomer, like, scientist mindset.
	It's like, well, there's the holy institution that made a decision, and now it's made a different decision, and I've got to commit to that.
	But if Twitter decided they should be suspended, and there was a good reason for it, and they're unsuspended, well, then you've got to accept it.
	You have no choice?
	I think the boomer mindset isn't even just that.
	I think it's just, I know better.
	In every circumstance, I know better, because I'm older than you.
	That's what she's saying, but she's also peening into the authority of the institution there.
	It's like, yeah, but if the institution reverses its decision, you just have to deal with that, Murray.
	And you have to accept the authority of that institution.
	And what if the institution that gave her her degree decided, sorry, that was bunk science we were teaching, you will take that back now.
	And so, uh, Maria and Arthur rage quit Twitter.
	They've now left Twitter, but other members of the group have stayed there.
	Their online battle continues.
	So they're fruitlessly reporting tweets.
	Twitter did not respond with a request for comment.
	Yes, the BBC contacted Twitter over this.
	Apparently they didn't respond to requests for comment, but I think that we already know that Elon Musk rigged it so that the contact's email responds with a poo emoji.
	So actually we know that the BBC's lying here, and that they did get a response, because it's automated, and it called them a piece of Eat S. Eat S, BBC.
	And then Elon Musk had the interview with the BBC where he told them to eat S straight to their face.
	But what I love about this is they just rage quit Twitter.
	Well, if we can't report people for climate change denial, I'm leaving this platform.
	It's like, maybe you should.
	But the BBC journo says, I've spoken to several of the group's current members and they described a recent uptick in climate misinformation circling on Twitter.
	For Arthur, this just proves how relevant the ninjas continue to be.
	If just a fraction of regular people would do what we did, we would all be much louder than the deniers together.
	Wow, that's fascinating.
	We are surrounded by pathetic and unimpressive people.
	Grandpa, go and enjoy your retirement, right?
	Your days of saving the world are over.
	Please, Arthur.
	Look how you screwed it up!
	Arthur, I'm begging you, please take the medication that your doctor is prescribing you.
	No, no, Arthur, just go and have a beer in a sunny garden, you know, watch some TV, learn some Spanish.
	Have a good time!
	Anyway, this got reported around quite a lot, actually.
	I found a bunch of, like, you know, like, rag, SJW things.
	But this is all very recent.
	Look at the troll hunters.
	If you go to the next results, you know, all the heroic troll hunters.
	It's like, really, and the BBC did it as well.
	Like, why?
	Like, the BBC and leftist rags are all basically the same at this point.
	Because the BBC, these leftist rags that you pointed to, obviously part of the resistance.
	No, no, no, this isn't, unfortunately.
	This is coincidental, this was on April 1st.
	But yeah, so this was reported around in a bunch of places.
	And it's like, why?
	25 losers on Twitter who've now quit Twitter because Elon took over and destroyed their little activism project.
	Who can't get over that there are people who disagree with them.
	Now they have to spend their weekends actually talking to each other.
	The horror.
	So yeah, bad luck climate ninjas.
	Alright, with that let's go to the video comments.
	So there's this tactic that the left tends to use and whenever they're in an argument they tend to over exaggerate their response or shrive away from their initial argument into something that is totally unrelevant.
	A great example would be talking about how there's only two genders.
	They might actually bring up the fact that there's multiple genders with their own shite reasons but they will also bring up fascism in the 1930s and saying how you not agreeing to the fact that there are multiple genders is akin to fascism.
	Well it's called moving the goalposts.
	It's also called being an idiot.
	Yeah.
	I was totally distracted by the video.
	Why is a guy with a leopard head and butterfly wings fighting a panda?
	I think that was either Tekken or Soul Calibur.
	Probably Tekken because Soul Calibur has a lot more ridiculously sized breasts.
	Soul Calibur was pretty good, as I recall.
	But yeah, that was just distracting.
	But no, to answer your question, they just like doing that because it's very sneaky debate tactics, it's shifting the goalposts.
	It's just being bad faith.
	Don't imagine that you're interacting with these people in any kind of good faith.
	You're not there to exchange ideas with them, at least certainly that's not how they think of it.
	They're there to berate you into agreeing with them.
	And they're trying to render you as the bad person in the conversation.
	That's why they do it.
	Yes.
	I just wanted to address the observation that Bud Light supposedly donates to conservatives.
	One has to wonder, which conservatives are they donating to?
	Because I remember when I heard about that Sam Bankman guy donating to conservatives and it turned out it was all rhinos like Romney and McConnell.
	And the point is that none of the conservatives that actually want to get things done get money from these corporations.
	A lot of Republicans are just out-of-work liberals.
	Look at Tim Scott.
	He tried to run as a Democrat, but the positions were all filled, so he ran as a Republican instead because they wanted a diverse candidate.
	Yeah, that's no surprise.
	It is the Uniparty.
	Didn't Conor say something about, uh, Ansher Bush or whatever they're called?
	Annhouser Bush, I think it was.
	Annhouser Bush.
	Donating to DeSantis.
	Because he did rebuke them.
	I'll cover it on the podcast tomorrow, actually.
	Because he did rebuke them for it, so, you know, good for DeSantis.
	I mean, to be fair, if they're going to give me money, I will take the money, but then if they give me demands with the money, I'll say, no, I'll just take the money, thank you, goodbye.
	But then you won't get the money again, and that's their complaint.
	Yeah, but, I mean, I'll take the money now.
	If I refuse it now, I'm not going to get the money ever, but I'll take the money now, and then I won't have to worry.
	Anyway, because I'm not going to do it in the future anyway.
	But no, is the Uniparty... I've been listening to some stuff recently which has been describing...
	I've been using the terminology of professional wrestling to describe politics and it just makes so much sense because the whole idea of kayfabe, you are of kayfabe.
	Kayfabe is the practice within the professional wrestling of basically putting up the front that it's all real.
	Oh, right.
	Pretending that it's all real.
	The people who you're seeing fighting in the ring actually hate each other, despite the fact that in reality they're behind the scenes, they're sharing a beer with one another, talking about, okay, how we can do the next match, who's going to win the next match, etc, etc.
	That's politics.
	Politics is all kayfabe.
	And they pointed out that somebody like Ron Paul, who came out and explained No, everything is fake, everything that you see, all of these people, they all go to the same dinners, they all have the same ideas, they just put up the impression that it's all real, basically to entertain an audience, because politics is a spectator sport, essentially.
	Who could have imagined?
	Yeah, Ron Paul gets thrown out of it and cancelled by his own party because the Republicans just undermined everything that he did, purely because of the fact that he was pointing out the grift.
	Alright, shall we go on to the written comments?
	Yeah, do you want to read them?
	Yeah, so, Edward Shillman says, where would male circumcision stand under this new Florida law?
	Personally, I would hope that it would be banned as well.
	Yeah, that's a really great question.
	I think male circumcision is a disgusting and dangerous practice.
	Yeah, especially given some of the other things that I've learnt about some of the traditional practices of it recently, which I won't mention.
	But it's just not necessary.
	Americans have got this weird, like, cope about it.
	It's like, you don't need to do this.
	Most people don't do this.
	I was very disturbed when I found out that, like, the vast majority of Americans just automatically get circumcised.
	70%?
	You know, I would think, as disgusting as it is, I always thought it was just a purely Jewish practice, because that's how it is over here.
	Muslims also do it.
	Oh, Muslims as well.
	Fair play, but it's gross, it's unnecessary, you don't need to do it, and then I just find out that most Americans just get it automatically.
	Who set that law?
	Who set that rule?
	I don't know, I should look into it at some point.
	It's very strange.
	When did this come into being?
	Yeah.
	But there's so many copes.
	You see American doctors are like, oh, well, it's for hygiene reasons.
	It's like, dude, everyone else just washes.
	No, it isn't.
	It's just a lie.
	Obviously it isn't.
	It's so obviously a cope.
	And it's like, this is weird that you're coping about this as well.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, anyway.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So America's in hospice care says, we've been mocking and laughing at Equality Florida's travel warning.
	Their warning isn't what they think it is.
	It's really an affirmation that what they're doing in Florida to stop harm and corruption of children in our state.
	But wait, we're not done in Florida.
	We conservatives have power and we're wielding it to stop leftist madness, deviancy and degeneracy.
	If only conservatives in more states and at the national level would do what we're doing in Florida, America would be a better place.
	Socially true.
	This is why I hate the civil war between DeSantis and Trump.
	Because look, I support both of them.
	And DeSantis is being very effective.
	He's constantly just chewing away at leftist sacred cows.
	And he's got them essentially framing themselves as nonces at this point.
	And it's just like... It's pretty useful for everybody.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, no, no, we're going to execute nonces.
	And the left are like, oh god, this is anti-queer!
	Okay.
	Did you see that Trump came out with his second round of NFTs the other day?
	Yeah, I mean, I understand that Trump needs to raise money.
	There's better ways than that.
	I'm sure there are.
	There's much less embarrassing ways than that.
	Sure, but it feels like that's quite an online perspective, actually.
	Like, I think that a lot of people- Are NFTs not in the first place a very online thing?
	Yeah, but like, normies are probably thinking, uh, this is just a way I can help Trump.
	Perhaps.
	Perhaps.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, don't know if you mentioned this already, but the UN, as in the flipping United Nations, has declared that children can consent to sex with adults.
	Gallows, gibbets, guillotines.
	Yeah, um, Stelios and I covered a bit of that on Monday.
	I don't know if Connor's planning on covering any more of it, but that UN document is pretty disgusting.
	It's leftist, my sir.
	It's not the left.
	Oh, of course it is.
	It's the fact that it leaves it so, I mean, obviously the fact that it basically makes it legal to have sex with children as long as you can prove that they consented?
	Well, a core aspect of the leftist mindset is the idea that any rational being is as capable of making judgments as any other.
	And this is why they think that they can consent to sex change operations.
	It's like, well, if you're 25 and you say, right, doctor, chop my bits off, then why can't a child do that?
	Because they can both articulate the same expression.
	It's like, well, there's a key component of wisdom is time.
	And so it's not just being a rational actor, it is also being a wise actor, that is what is being legislated against when it comes to age of consent laws, and this is something the left just don't really believe in.
	Maybe.
	I prefer to take a different approach, which is I think that they're just evil.
	And everything is post-hoc.
	Uh, maybe, but... Everything they do, as far as I can tell... I'm not saying they're not evil.
	Is a post-hoc rationalisation of their own evil tendencies.
	Possibly.
	These people are, by nature, freaks who, in any traditional society, would have either been outcasts Or died before they had the opportunity to ruin the rest of society.
	And so, because they recognise that, they have to malform the rest of society around their disgusting, unnecessary desires.
	And then they just come up with stupid reasons for why it's logical and practical to do so.
	Tell me how you really feel about it.
	There's definitely going to be a constituency of the left who are like that.
	There are true believers.
	More intellectual ones.
	They start with a particular set of premises that lead them to that sort of thing.
	See, I don't think it's the intellectual ones.
	I think it's the intellectual ones who know that they're evil and come up with all of this as an explanation.
	And it's the midwits who follow along with it, who aren't in the chairs of power, so to speak, who are the true believers.
	Maybe, but we see lots of midwits in the chairs of power.
	That's also true, but that's when you get to the problem of, as some would describe it, the lack of the circulation of elites.
	You get it so that instead of actually circulating into new people who are actually competent at what they do, you get people who are put in place purely for their loyalty, so they will be the true believers.
	I think a lot of these people have a genuine conviction That a lot of people that we would call paedophiles are being wrongfully criminalised.
	I think they genuinely believe it.
	Maybe, but also... I'm not saying they're right, obviously.
	Also, I think a lot of them are just nonces.
	I don't like them.
	Simple as.
	I'm going to take the North FC position.
	Well, I think both of those things are true.
	Well, I'm glad.
	There's no contradiction there.
	They are nonces.
	I don't like them.
	Anyway, Vault Boy says, imagine if the reaction to the Florida woodchipper bill... I like that, I like that framing of it.
	They should have called it that!
	Calm down, they should have called it that.
	We'll get DeSantis on the phone right now, give him some more ideas.
	Was that this is an attack on the Catholic Church.
	Exactly, that's perfect.
	I should have mentioned that.
	That's exactly, exactly, I should have said that.
	We need to ask Connor his feelings on this bill.
	Connor's in favour of it!
	Of course he is!
	Of course he is, because any actual Catholic who wasn't a nonce priest is going to go, well obviously that's the sensible thing to do.
	As he says, it would sound like the biggest self-report on earth, so why are trans people stepping on the rake?
	Because they can't help themselves.
	These are not well-adjusted people.
	They're banning and executing people for molesting children.
	It's like, oh my god.
	I also just think that they take every opportunity possible to signal their own victimhood, even if it's detrimental to them.
	It's the constant genocide thing.
	That's why they always want to use that word, so that people just immediately think, Nazis!
	Genocide, that's a word I associate with Nazis!
	You can't genocide trans people either, because they're an unethnic group.
	So you literally can't genocide them.
	And they're not even really any defined group in the first place, because trans people take into account trans women, trans men, people who are part way through transition, people who are just gender non-conforming, all of the nonsense terms that don't actually mean anything.
	It takes in all of those people.
	So how, if you were going to ram them, how would you even?
	Because not that you would want to.
	It's not going to happen.
	All it is is just don't molest children.
	And I'm sure most gay people are like, yeah, obviously.
	I certainly hope so.
	Yeah.
	But the LGBT lobby, like, God, they're going to kill you all.
	It's like, nooo!
	My non-serino's, nooo!
	Trans activists!
	Just why?!
	Baron Von Warhawk says, the only logical critique I've heard of Florida's death and plenty of paedophilia is that paedos may end up killing the children after they're done with them to get rid of witnesses.
	However, the counterpoint of that is maybe most paedos will think twice if they know what they're re- That they are risking lethal injections.
	Now, I have heard that critique before and that seems to originate from severely autistic anarchists who don't want anything in laws, really, that promote death sentence or anything.
	For instance, I think Milton Friedman's son, David Friedman, who is an anarchist, I think he's the one who might have put that argument forward first.
	And as far as I'm concerned, those Arguments constructed from purely logical premises that are only ever tested in the abstract, which are basically just a thought experiment, have no empirical basis behind them whatsoever, other than it sounds like it makes sense in my head.
	It might happen, but I think the more likely reaction will be that most pedos will just not nonce anymore if they think I might get killed for getting caught for this.
	Because, you know what, if you kill a child, you don't just have a nonced child on your hands, you have parents going, where did my child go?
	Which is also going to lead to police coming after you in the end anyway.
	Yeah.
	And I hate the sort of consequentialist nature of it as well.
	It's like, well, the ends justify the means on this one.
	No, you're saying that we should leave nonces unhanged.
	No, I don't agree.
	Of course we should hang nonces.
	Well, exactly.
	A priori, in the abstract, nonces should be hanged.
	I don't care what the consequences are, we just should be hanging those nonces.
	And if there's less nonces, that will logically, if we're going to go through logical consequences, mean less noncing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	More children will be saved from noncing.
	Omar Awad says, Button 1.
	LGBT plus aren't nonces.
	Button 2.
	Death penalty for noncing is targeting LGBT plus.
	Not knowing which button to push, leftists are sweating like nonces facing the death penalty.
	Very true, Omar.
	Baron von Warhoek again.
	It's such a self-report though, isn't it?
	It's like, what are you doing?
	They can't help themselves.
	Barron once again says, uh, so this bill can open the door for sending doctors who perform sex change surgery to the gallows.
	I was okay with this bill before, but now I'm REALLY for this bill!
	I know, this is like, oh no, this is gonna, this is gonna get, uh, people who mutilate children's genitals executed.
	Good.
	Oh well.
	Good.
	Okay.
	What are you doing?
	Did you, why are you chopping off a kid's I accept this idea.
	Ewan Baker, the murder of someone's dignity should be put down.
	I don't know what that means.
	I kind of get where you're getting at, but it was a very strangely phrased sentence.
	Drew Doohan, again, my only caveat to expanding the death penalty to nonces is to give them only six months on death row after any and all appeals are quickly considered or tried, an exclusive express lane if you will.
	To be fair, From whatever I've heard arguments against the American death penalty, it's always that they're on death row for so long that it ends up costing the taxpayer so much because there's always- That's the only objection.
	There's all these appeals and there's these systems where they can end up getting off and it costs everybody so much money.
	And the problem with that is, well okay, if the person's admitted to whatever they've done, and we have incontributable evidence that they've done it, Why have them on this death row for so long in the first place and let them appeal it in the first place?
	Justice should be... I mean, they can appeal it, because there might be more evidence that is exculpatory or something like that, right?
	Yeah, but I'm talking that there will be some cases where it's beyond any doubt whatsoever.
	The person will have got up and admitted it.
	Well, it's not... An admission isn't actually a very good standard, because there are mental people who admit to loads of stuff they didn't do just to get attention.
	Yeah, but if we can... Except they're in sound mind.
	Sure, but even then there are people in sound mind who will do that just to get attention, right?
	So what you need is a standard of evidence where it's infallible standard of evidence.
	So if you've got a video camera, you've got DNA evidence, you've got lots of witnesses, Then you know it has to have been that person and couldn't have been anyone else.
	Yeah, that's fair.
	So there we go, that's just an infallible standard of evidence.
	And sure, that's going to reduce the number of people who would qualify for the death penalty, but it's also going to guarantee that those people who get the death penalty deserve it.
	That's fair.
	That's fair.
	I've been thinking about this a lot.
	No, I can tell.
	Karl's always going on about the death penalty in the United States.
	Yeah, because we need to bring it back.
	Especially whenever anyone mentions raises for some reason.
	Only joking.
	Raises?
	No, it was a joke.
	I don't even get it.
	It was a joke.
	Sophie Liv says death penalty... Oh, for my beard?
	No, raises, as in money.
	I'm joking.
	Oh, raises!
	I was joking.
	Right, oh yeah.
	Sorry, I thought you said razors.
	Oh, okay.
	I was just like, what?
	Fair play.
	Sophie Liv says, death penalty against adults who commits genital mutilation against minors.
	Sign me up.
	Absolutely.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, regarding the mask slipping, is this really a surprise?
	This is just confirming our suspensions from the monkey box stories of how kids were mysteriously catching it.
	Before the news, of course, dropped the story.
	No, no, they didn't drop the story, because on Monday I covered the New York Times article.
	Oh, did you cover it?
	Yeah, yeah, I covered it briefly.
	How gays saved us from monkeypox.
	Yeah, how gays saved us from monkeypox.
	By not being degenerates.
	And the funny thing was the article basically spoke about how gays spread the news to other gays not to keep having weird sex orgies on the weekend for a few months until they all got vaccinated against it.
	Really?
	What's weird?
	And I was asking Stelios, where do we come into this picture?
	Well, that's what I was going to say.
	Like, weirdly, I never felt that I was in any danger of catching monkeypox.
	No, but even in that article, they mention, oh, it only gets transmitted through very close contact, which is why it was being passed through sex, etc.
	And then they also mention, oh, by the way, a few kids caught it, and you go... You still haven't learned to leave that part out, have you?
	There was a dog in France, I think.
	Oh, God.
	Well, I suppose white women could have possibly caught it.
	No, it was men.
	Two gay men.
	And a dog.
	Beautiful.
	Anyway, onto the SNP articles.
	Henry Ashman says, why work if you earn less than 25k, but also why work if you earn more?
	To fund this nonsense, you would end up getting taxed into the ground to fund the slackers, who would end up with the same take-home as you.
	Scotland can get the UBI if England get the vote in the independence referendum.
	Ooh!
	Ooh, I would love that.
	Imagine if Scotland didn't vote for independence, but got overvoted by English people.
	In England, there's about 60% in the polls who want Scotland to be independent.
	Just go away.
	That's the English attitude.
	Please go away.
	We're sick of paying for it.
	And to avoid the Brexit nonsense, the choice is to say, is to stay or immediate hard exit from the Union with all military and crown assets being retained by Britain.
	Not a bad idea.
	As we've seen with Old India and Old Pakistan, giving both New India and New Pakistan nukes won't end well.
	Yep.
	That's a good point.
	Henry Ashman, if the SNP want to rebrand, maybe the Scottish Independent Movement Party, or SIMP for short.
	Or they could keep the branding and just call themselves a Scottish nonce party.
	Alfred of the Betas says, Colin Beatty, white, arresting officer, white, defending attorney, white, prosecuting attorney, white.
	I like the accent there.
	Thank you.
	I've been practicing.
	Yeah.
	That speech will forever haunt Yusuf, and rightfully so.
	It's an awful speech.
	It really is.
	Can you imagine if I moved to Pakistan and was saying, you know, the prosecutor's attorney, Pakistani.
	But why, obviously, duh, why wouldn't he be?
	Scotland is also, I think, 96% white.
	It's managed to retain much more of its ethnic makeup than England has since mass immigration because nobody wants to go there.
	Which is exactly why I'm happy for them to make it so much more easy to go there and get gibs.
	We're going to be paying for it either way.
	Not if they get independence and then we rebuild a big beautiful Hadrian's Wall.
	Build a ditch as well.
	Make Scotland an island of its own.
	There you go.
	See, it's all coming together, right?
	Just a sort of mile-wide canal.
	And the people coming over here, they're already used to a boat, so an extra little boat journey to get over to Scotland won't be any big deal.
	Ross Diggle says, also think about the pay rise jump needed once somebody reaches 25k.
	You are going to need at least 5k extra just to retain people.
	Inflation will be ridiculous.
	That's another great point.
	Like, okay, so let's say that, you know, everything's 25k, fine.
	Now you probably can't get served in McDonald's.
	You want to go to McDonald's, what are you going to spend it on?
	There's no one there to serve you a burger.
	And also, every burger is 50 times more expensive because of inflation.
	There are just so many holes that you can poke in this proposal.
	It's so stupid!
	It's so dumb.
	Wolf Grillington.
	I quite like that name.
	The tax rate in the UK is already nuts.
	The rich, 150 plus K income a year, already have half their income swiped.
	How do you think they can take any more?
	They can't.
	Alfred the Beta's 25K guaranteed to smack addicts equals a Scottish epidemic of overdoses.
	Hashtag based.
	I don't want the Scots to overdose out of existence, actually.
	Neither do I. I actually quite like Scottish people.
	Yeah, me too.
	I just hate the parties they fucking vote for.
	Yeah, that's true.
	But that's because they've got the Scottish nation in the name and they go...
	I'll vote for that one!
	Free will 2112.
	How could Scotland become independent and tax its middle classes to the bone and pay £25,000 to all the poorest when their taxable population is only about 2.8 million people?
	They can't.
	They can't, yep.
	They will have to rely on handouts from either the UK or the EU if they left the UK and was able to join the EU again.
	Without external subsidies, these economic policies are the fantasies of the economically illiterate, and it would also cause a mass exodus of the heavily taxed.
	This is all true.
	This is all obvious.
	Yeah.
	But once again, in the paper, they said, well, we've not thought about the practical implications.
	We just think about how nice it sounds.
	How quickly can we get this?
	Yeah, doesn't it sound great?
	It's like, yeah, it does.
	It sounds wonderful.
	Free money!
	I'll read one more.
	So, someone online says, you need a big beautiful wall to cut Scotland off while it goes full commie.
	Yep.
	And xyzee says, one of the best ways to save the NHS is to emphasise and action the national part.
	You need to be either a citizen or legal resident.
	Anyone else, buy insurance or get out.
	That might help.
	Climate ninjas.
	So, comments for this.
	Freewill2112.
	So, they are not climate ninjas, they are really the Stasi reporting people to the authorities.
	Enrich- Snitching to the power structure.
	Eric Honaker would have been proud of them.
	Yep.
	Lord Nerevar.
	If those clowns are ninjas, then I'm a brain surgeon.
	Why is mental illness so damned common these days?
	Well, let's be fair, they are old, they might have dementia.
	Well, they've just got nothing better to do.
	Because they're boomers and they don't realise what social media properly is, they think this is saving the world.
	Yeah, once again, they missed out on Woodstock.
	That's all these people care about.
	I missed out on my opportunity to go take drugs and have sex in a field.
	I best start reporting people on Twitter.
	Henry Ashman, this ninja nonsense is just a great way to spot who is a middle class working from home wastrel and who isn't.
	The working class North FC Anglo has better things to do than spend hours worrying about internet nonsense.
	Kids need to put into bed and the King's head has the Champions League on it.
	No free time to waste on Twitter.
	I bet there's a great correlation between the 2020 self-appointed lockdown Stasi and these ninjas.
	These people would have been obviously in favour of lockdowns.
	Yeah, of course they would.
	These would have been the people looking out their windows, phoning up the police for anybody they saw walking out for over an hour.
	Came back an hour and ten minutes after he left his house.
	Quick, get him!
	Baron Von Warhawk.
	So all the environmental ninjas do is get into fits on the internet, on Twitter, and that's it.
	That is without a doubt the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
	They don't plant a tree.
	They don't clean up a river.
	They don't even volunteer to pick up litter.
	But they still want to feel like they're saving the planet.
	These guys are pathetic.
	And the BBC wrote them a Puff article.
	Yep.
	If you ever want to know which way power is flowing.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Amazing, isn't it?
	Omar Awad, the climate equivalent of that old meme of a feminist shoveling S over the wall.
	My gosh, I can't believe they have the audacity to shovel it back.
	I'm being personally attacked for no reason.
	Mm-hmm.
	George Happ, not really sure why they are hiding the identities of the climate ninjas reading their statements.
	They don't really have any.
	They are climate NPC busybodies and nothing more.
	Absolutely agree there.
	And one honorable mention as well.
	ArizonaDesertRat asks, So Carl believes in Bigfoot, but not UFOs.
	What?
	Sorry, why is that ridiculous?
	Well, I think the idea is if you believe in one ridiculous thing, every other ridiculous thing has to get packaged in with it.
	It's like a package deal.
	Bigfoot is not a ridiculous thing, right?
	There are, what, six great ape species all running around the face of the Earth.
	I'm like, yeah, there might be another great ape species.
	Are they running around the forests of the US, though?
	They're running around every other forest on Earth.
	The English forests?
	Not the English forests.
	But like, you've got, you know, orangutans in Borneo, you've got gorillas and chimps in the Congo and various places like that.
	It's not like some physically impossible thing that there could be another great ape in the vast wilderness of the North American continent.
	It's not crazy at all, right?
	No, no, that idea's not crazy.
	Nor the idea that some guy could buy one of the many costumes online and wander about.
	I'm sure there are plenty.
	So that's not crazy, right?
	And I'm not saying there is definitely a Bigfoot.
	I'm saying it's very likely.
	No, I'm not.
	But, like, oh, but now, aliens.
	Oh, right, OK.
	So we've got, like, we know that there are great apes.
	I mean, there already are great apes wandering around in North America.
	They're called humans, right?
	So there's one species at least.
	A second species?
	Oh, I don't know about that.
	But aliens, you've got to create this entire, you know, foreign civilization of life that emerged from somewhere else.
	It's got to have everything needed to create science and technology and then travel all the way across the universe Just a, like, anal probe?
	Billy Joe?
	On his farm?
	That's- that's- that's not ridiculous.
	Sounds reasonable to me.
	Exactly.
	No, I don't- I don't even- Bigfoot is way more likely.
	No, Billy Joe on the farm has got much more to worry about with anal probes than just aliens coming for him.
	He's got Bigfoot wandering around.
	He's gotta be careful.
	Well, now he's got drag queens wandering around as well.
	Anyway, I think that's all we've got time for.
	So, thank you very much for watching.
	We'll be back again tomorrow at one o'clock.
	Until then, I hope you have a good day.

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