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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Logitechers for Monday.
	I'm joined by Dan.
	Hello, and happy Pride Month all!
	So today we're going to be talking about Anglo Pride, the debt ceiling, and German Pride.
	Which is spooky and scary, I know.
	Yeah, the last one sounds scary, to be fair.
	To be fair, it kind of is, but I'm tepidly being like, okay, this is allowed.
	Last couple of times it didn't work out well.
	Third time's the charm.
	Anyway, we should mention something first, being the Julius Evola revolt against the modern world book club will be at 3.30 UK time on Wednesday, my dudes.
	So if you'd like to come and see that live, come and join at 3.30 UK time, Wednesday.
	Otherwise, we shall begin.
	Anglo pride worldwide.
	It's finally happened.
	It's that time of the year again, in which no one shuts up because I'm gay, except none of this has anything to do with homosexuals anymore.
	I think we've pretty well established that.
	Yeah, I think gay men are about to get booted from it on the basis that they're just too normie now.
	Well they already were booted, along with the lesbians.
	Right.
	Because it was the new standard that to be a gay man you must like vaginas, and to be a lesbian you must love sucking cock.
	Yes.
	That was kind of the whole point in becoming gay and lesbian.
	And the bisexuals are never really committing enough in the first place anyway.
	Yeah, so that was what happened to the pride movement.
	I saw Andrew Doyle today being like, do you remember when the pride flag used to mean something?
	And yeah, I mean, he's right that it used to mean, you know, toleration and that's not.
	But we're going to go through all the news in relation to pride because something brilliant's happened, which is all of the capitalist companies that used to put up that have all chickened out this year.
	Oh.
	They've all gone to hell with this.
	I'm not getting involved.
	Oh, right, okay.
	Good.
	So, we'll promote something on LotusCaesars.com real quick, being Aldrous Huxley's Brave New World book club.
	We did, which was very good fun, and also is a hellscape in pure luxury, which, yeah, very similar to what we live in.
	But, let's start off.
	So, this just about sums up this time of year, of course.
	As you can see, this is average London street.
	Pride never stops.
	I mean, it sounds like a threat, but... The worst of the seven deadly sins.
	Yeah.
	And, well, he's not exactly wrong, either.
	This is the person who put this up in his Converse shoe shop.
	Okay.
	Because N Wokeness managed to put together a list of all the days that belong to Pride, of course.
	Holy days in the calendar.
	145 calendar days.
	For the alphabet.
	Right.
	So, World War I and World War II gets one day.
	Yes.
	For a combined 75 million deaths.
	Yes.
	And don't you know there's a transgenocide or something?
	And if you're a man who wants to wear a dress, you get 175 days.
	I mean, bro, they are the most oppressed people on Earth.
	If we go forward, we can see how oppressed they are.
	Far worse than the 75 million people who got slaughtered.
	If we go to the next link, we can see.
	Just, you know, that's how oppressed they are.
	You can see on the left there, I think that's somewhere in America.
	I forget.
	And on the right, London.
	Really?
	That's London?
	You've not been to Regent Street?
	That's London.
	Not for a while.
	God, that's got strong Star Wars theme, isn't it?
	Should we make it bigger, just for folks who haven't seen it?
	I think the one on the right is probably the most imperial looking.
	Oh my God.
	I don't know why they haven't taken that down yet, because everyone's just been making fun of it endlessly, but whatever.
	That's what happens when you're the most oppressed people on planet Earth for all time.
	And that circle.
	Twin Tower Memorial?
	You mean the one on the left?
	No, I think it's in San Francisco or something, I can't remember.
	And that circle means something, doesn't it?
	Is that the circle that means AIDS or something?
	No, that's the black part.
	That stands for people who are dead from AIDS.
	But the circle, that stands for intersex people.
	I see, okay.
	Yeah, I don't know why they added that.
	I mean, people always assume the black and brown stripes are for black and brown people.
	If you go and look it up, no, the black stripe, the brown stripe is for brown people.
	And the black stripe is people who died with AIDS.
	Ooh, that's a bit close, isn't it?
	I'm still never really going to get over that that's ironically what it's for.
	Are the maps on there yet?
	The maps?
	Yeah, they'll be there soon.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Pedos.
	So, we'll get to that in a minute because, as I mentioned, they are the most oppressed people on Earth.
	And I believe this.
	Sincerely.
	Because... Right.
	Reasons?
	Okay.
	I mean, there aren't any.
	And in fact, this has gotten so ridiculous even on Reddit.com.
	People are making fun of the alphabets.
	For example, this Holocaust survivor is being told that there's a transgenocide in Florida being carried out.
	So, of course, everyone's like, shut up.
	Shut up!
	It's one of those genocides where the numbers basically double every couple of years.
	There is nobody dying, but... Yeah.
	Trust me, bro.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	But, we'll get to the next thing, because I made a thread just documenting, I think, probably the most interesting aspect of Pride every year, which is the propaganda aspect.
	Now, Joseph Goebbels, bit Godwin's Law I know, but known as the master of propaganda of the modern era, using the radio to propagandise the masses.
	Obviously there's been a lot more creative ways of getting your messaging out there, regardless of the message, and I think Pride probably is the best time of year in the Anglosphere to see just the number of ways you can essentially advertise ideology, I mean, it really is just endless, and things you wouldn't think to shove an advert on.
	I mean, it's kind of funny, when I went to... If you go to Moscow, you go on the metro, there's no adverts.
	Oh, okay, that's nice.
	You go down the escalators, nothing.
	On platforms, nothing.
	Yeah.
	There's maps of the tube line you're on, that's it.
	It's beautiful.
	I love it.
	And then you come back to the west and there's adverts everywhere and it annoys you.
	But pride is when we go all out and figure out just how many surfaces we can shove something on.
	So you see here, these are the trains we shall begin with.
	Because why not?
	Cover literally the insides and outsides of every part of the train.
	And it's the right shape as well.
	Many a meme.
	If we scroll down, we can see more of these as it goes on.
	And if you have any, do send me them.
	We have the police, of course, who have shoved it on their lapels, their cars, their hats, and also on their unicorns that they keep on the car.
	I bet you the police are self-aware enough not to go and park one of those outside a mosque.
	We should hold a Pride event next week outside a mosque.
	Yes.
	God, what would happen?
	Just call for a police, come and join us.
	I know you love... Anyway.
	Bring your rainbow car with you.
	So, I mean, political stuff aside, it's just what I'm looking at right now is the number of places you can stick your messaging, because it really is endless and things you'd never think of.
	Go to the next scroll down on that, we can see some more.
	Of course, the endless crosswalks, which have, you know, the revealed public preferences.
	And I love the videos where they try and get a horse to walk over those things and they just freak out.
	The horses are like, no, I won't take the gay steps.
	Takes the big steps instead.
	We've got the next one, speaking of walking, there's also escalators and stairways and everything.
	See there, the London Metro.
	Unlike the Moscow Metro, just saying.
	Differences in the world.
	There's also the sits you can take.
	You want to sit on a park bench?
	I don't think so.
	It's messaging time.
	It's time for messages.
	They really are quite keen to push this stuff.
	It really is just everywhere in the West, and I just mean in the sense of every possible place you can put it.
	In fact, the church has got in on this, of course.
	Shove it in your church collar, shove it on the church pew.
	Well, the church is an interesting analogy in relation to the US, because in the US, of course, they've got this separation of state and church.
	So basically that just left them wide open to another ideology being able to be pushed by the state.
	And basically what this is, is it's just a religion in all but name that now has full state backing.
	I mean if you can click on the top right image of those four on the church one.
	I mean that problem is the one that is just weirdest to me.
	What we're describing here is we've got some like pane glass windows with god knows what on it.
	I don't know what I'm looking at there.
	And at the bottom it just has like carved in stone diversity, healing, glory, wholeness, inclusion.
	So, years ago I actually read the Bible, and it is not about diversity and inclusion.
	In fact, it gives a whole list of people that you need to genocide.
	For various crimes against God.
	Yeah, he's like, oh, there's a whole bunch of tribes.
	They don't exist anymore because it was successful, but like the Hittites and a whole bunch of other ones, yeah, just kill them all.
	Have you ever seen the punishments for the Ten Commandments?
	No.
	So the commandments, there's some people who believe they're in order of severity, of course, the first one being the worst.
	You know, you shall not take other gods before me.
	Right, okay.
	Do you want to know what the punishment is for that?
	Uh, death?
	Genocide.
	Whole villages, um, women and children and animals need to be killed.
	I don't know what the animals have done.
	This is for a first offence, is it?
	Yeah.
	I was listening to Ricky Gervais' podcast where he went through all this.
	It's just like, the first four are all genocide.
	Um, and then it's just death.
	And then excessive fines for stealing and so forth.
	Anyway.
	Should we go back to the list and move on?
	Because that's enough God talk and the church.
	So we have here, um, the weapon manufacturer socks.
	Which, of course.
	Don't you want to get your Bond socks?
	Raytheon Pride socks.
	Yes.
	Killer robot socks.
	For Pride.
	There's also light, of course.
	Serves the god-emperor of rainbows.
	We have here London again, just being London.
	I mean, we make fun of the United States, but no one seems to do it cringier than London.
	But that's not even England.
	Anyway, for people listening, I want to describe the last one specifically, which is at one point they decided to change the traffic lights to have transgender symbols in them because There was no reason given, ever.
	I don't think anyone figured that one out.
	We'll just end the last one here.
	I'm just struck by the one on the left there, which is a whole building wrapped around in the pride flag, with the soldiers lined up, ready to salute it.
	And basically, you've got to remember with all of this stuff, it's basically about how people come, And, you know, if you want to come in an unusual way in your own house, fine.
	You know, do whatever you want.
	I don't particularly care.
	You know those glasses, the movie where you put them on and you see the real message?
	It's just the word come.
	Yes, yes.
	That's what Pride is all about.
	You can come in an unorthodox way.
	And as long as you're doing it in your own home with somebody who's of legal age, I don't care.
	I mean, I would be.
	Come however you want.
	But why do I need to have come advertising on absolutely everything?
	To be honest, I think that might be the best protest of all time.
	People started graffiti-ing on them, just the words come.
	Well, that's what it is, isn't it?
	It's just...
	That's the TV screen as well, if you want to open that up.
	I forget the name of the, it's a very famous place, I can never remember the damn name of the place.
	You know it's the big TV screen, with all the adverts on, the Coca-Cola adverts and whatnot, in the centre of London, who I'm not talking about.
	Something Circus or Park.
	Yeah, Piccadilly Circus, I didn't recognise it.
	We'll move forward though, because there's that.
	I don't know if we scroll down just real quick, just to show off one more thing actually, which is if your store is crumbling and closed down, just put a fag on it.
	Don't worry.
	I mean, it reminds me, as I've said before, in Brazil, where they started covering up the poverty by just painting the houses various colours, and then it just looks nicer because it wasn't all grey.
	It's like you've not fixed anything.
	I like the Babylon Bee take on it, which is, you know, people in brown countries put the pride flag over their hut to make sure that the US don't bomb it.
	Definitely true.
	But if we go to the next link, because there is one person I at least have some, I'm going to say respectful in the way that they did Pride, which is Opera GX, which just tweeted out two black men kissing as their logo.
	Burgers.
	No, because in the comments, you can see here, this is the real Pride Month logo, as they say.
	But in the comments, they were just like, I don't care about corporate capitals, I don't care about selling merch, I just like gay sex.
	I was like, okay.
	Well, at least they're honest.
	I appreciate that there are gay black men, but the gay community, the black community as a whole is really hostile to this idea.
	Yeah, sure, but I think this gets more to your point, which is like, this is actually what you're celebrating.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Kind of weird to put as your logo, which I would have thought, just in general anyway, but okay.
	I mean, put the words come as your logo if you want.
	We'll move forward because the MOD decided to jump in to the debate.
	Of course, Sweden, this piece of crap out.
	People have seen this before.
	I think Xbox used it as their logo once.
	And now the MOD is, the Ministry of Defence.
	What even is that?
	The UK.
	This is the new Ministry of Defence flag.
	Come on, join the army.
	Die for our country.
	I wouldn't want to be looking at that after some mushrooms, would you?
	Can you see the Bulgarian flag in there?
	Top right.
	Anyway, moving on, because that's obviously just a mess.
	It's not the only new attempt.
	We've got the next one here.
	People have been shoving their corporate logos in it, as you can see.
	I think this is the library.
	Decided to put a little swirly thing, which is their logo, so there's that.
	And then there's pride in surgery, of course, as well.
	There's a surgery that, you know, does that kind of surgery.
	I don't know if they do it to kids, but cutting off healthy breasts, that's their pride, as Posey Parker says.
	Bit weird.
	Pride itself has made a statement in London.
	We can go and check them out.
	They're obsessed with kids this year.
	Publicly.
	Which is... strange.
	They decided to tweet out, Pride isn't about straight kids turning into queer kids.
	Pride is about not turning queer kids into dead kids.
	Well, yeah, but it obviously is, isn't it?
	Because... I don't think there are any queer kids.
	During the pandemic, because basically what was happening is the amount of trans kids was going up and up and up on a curve like that.
	And then we had lockdowns where teachers didn't have access to kids and the amount of trans kids actually started going back down again.
	And then the teachers got hold of them and it started going back up again.
	So obviously it is grooming.
	I mean, I don't agree there are queer kids.
	Why are you talking about kids?
	Yeah, when kids aren't even sexualised one way or the other, are they?
	The hell's the matter with you?
	Well, I think it's a correct response.
	We go to the British Library, because the British Library actually had the best thing about Pride to put up.
	They decided to argue, gay men are women because fish.
	Okay, talk me through the steps.
	Right, so here we are.
	This is the post.
	They deleted this after they realised that maybe gay men aren't women because fish.
	You think I'm joking, that is literally the complexity of their argument.
	They tweet out about this fish you've never heard of, who is a really weird mechanism for reproduction.
	Right.
	And that's to do with pride, because... fish.
	I suspect it isn't spattering over another chapfish's back or something, though, is it?
	Well if you scroll down they have some more crap where they've just written about this fish's life and just nothing.
	Just no real reasoning other than this is for pride month.
	Here's our pride logo of course with the transsexual colours on it.
	This feels to me like somebody had a whole interesting series of tweets lined up about some fascinating discovery involving a fish and they were just about to hit publish when their supervisor came over and said you can't publish that because it's got no pride stuff in it.
	So they're like oh shit how can I how can I make it about pride and they just half-arsed it.
	I mean, you ever seen Rockbusters?
	So Carl Pilkington used to do this thing where he'd give you a clue.
	It's a crap game.
	Anyway, there was a Christmas edition and everyone was wondering if he was going to make it Christmassy and he hadn't.
	So at the end, he just added, so he'd do the clue for the quiz and then just add at the end, by the way, have a good Christmas.
	Just, you know, like shaking some bells or something to be like, yeah, we're taking part.
	Can't be bothered.
	If you get the end here, we have the responsible party, which is they tag a whole bunch of people and say, you know, thank you for these people who helped us learn this on Pride and blah, blah, blah, because, you know, fish equals queerness.
	or something it just doesn't make any sense celebrate nature and all its queerness because fish um these people all have she they or she them or they them pronouns so they're all got multiple personality disorder is what i presume from uh someone who would use that well it's a certain type that goes into librarianism in the first place isn't it i mean Yeah, just, you know.
	I know I'm kind of edgy on it, but what the heck?
	I mean, this is the kind of madness that people will do if you give them mad ideology and just let them run with it.
	They will turn to you and be like, yeah, men are women because fish.
	There's a reason they delete it.
	Well, moving on, we go to our NHS, of course, who decided- Oh yeah, obviously they're going to get in on it.
	Because, you know, they're cash-strapped.
	The diversity budget isn't cash-strapped, but the rest of it is.
	Presume.
	Well, they're always whining about how they haven't got any money.
	Well they decided to, you can see here, this is King's College, who decided to paint their place.
	And I bet that cost like at least 40 grand to get that done.
	The individual who's responsible for this flag as well, the one in the pure white in the centre there, who's cutting the ribbon, that person is the one who supposedly, quote, invented the new flag with the intersex symbol.
	Presumably that's under copyright.
	Is it possible to zoom in on the face?
	Because... Oh, we'll get to it in a minute.
	We'll get to the next one, actually.
	I think where you can see the individual's Twitter account.
	Yep, yep.
	So this person is getting all the promotion out of it, their flag being used everywhere.
	For some reason the old one wasn't good enough, they've changed it now because reasons.
	I mean it's kind of funny actually, I mean intersex at least is a thing you can point to and be like, you know, it's a biological reality, it's not something that happens in the mind.
	It's something that happens in DNA.
	Incredibly rare though.
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	I mean it's unlikely that in your daughter's school there's going to be like 12 intersex people.
	I'm not arguing that this should be normalised, you know, this is what we all must learn about or something.
	I do find it funny that the trans part of it has been moved out a little bit for this, which at least, you know, makes at least more sense than the other stuff.
	Moving on though, we'll go to the next one because it turns out this person is also responsible for the trains, as I mentioned earlier.
	Right.
	Great.
	Also London, if you go to the next one, and is now on the Bank of London's honours list.
	Negative, and it's shocking to me, so I think that's a really important day.
	I do not want to listen to whatever noise is coming out of her.
	But we'll go to the next one here because then we can see the Bank of London's honours list.
	Let's put this person on there.
	This is how oppressed you are when you're backed by banks.
	Yes.
	So the full backing of the state, the military, and the central bank.
	And corporations.
	But that's airstrip one.
	We're done with that.
	Let's move on.
	Let's go international, because Pride, of course, is all over the world.
	Just a quick stop to the Philippines, who decided to put this up in the police office.
	So this is a district office, or the transportation.
	They have Priority Lane there.
	Senior citizens, pregnant women, persons with disability, LGBTQ.
	Wait, so all you need to say is... Because the B, I mean, that's easy, isn't it?
	I mean, you could just say, you know, a bit of a reach around once and you can get in a priority lane.
	I too have joined the Masons, so I know that.
	Then you're in there.
	Quote, it is worth noting that priority lanes exist to help people with physical and or mental difficulty in processing transactions.
	We wish to make it clear, seller local.
	To the local gay rights group, being LGBTQ is in no way impairs a person's physical capability to take part in social governmental functions.
	Right.
	Which is why you get priority.
	Okay, whatever.
	There was a joke I could make here.
	The funniest slip.
	There we are.
	We'll move back to the Anglo world because we'll go here.
	This is a gender-affirming elementary school.
	The co-executive director using he here.
	Elementary school, so that goes up to about six or seven.
	Oh dear.
	I mean, your point about it, I mean, groomer safe at the bottom there, I don't think so.
	But we'll go to the United States, because the United States is, um, ground zero.
	At least in the elitist circles for this stuff.
	We have the Department of Agriculture who decided to join in.
	I don't know why.
	I don't know why they're turning the food gay.
	I thought the frogs were enough, but never mind.
	We have, uh, U.S.
	Energy is also now gay.
	There we are.
	All of it.
	It's all gay.
	Well, like you say, he's not even gay anymore.
	They've been pushed out.
	And actually, the trans will get pushed out.
	Within 20 years, the trans will be marginalised as well.
	Ah, no way.
	No, it'll be furries and, you know, the kid stuff.
	The furry map alliance.
	Yes.
	One day.
	No.
	Hopefully not.
	But we've got the next one.
	We have the US Education Department, who decided to also come out and be like, yeah, that's horrible.
	I was like, okay.
	This one's not a joke.
	Just, American education is gay.
	Cool.
	And then, That's the extent of it, really.
	You have some government departments, the occasional cringe posting, and in the corporate world...
	Shut it down, boys.
	Not this year.
	Because, you know... Because normally they're going for that stuff pretty big.
	Yeah, every year.
	Their Western outlets change their flags, the Eastern outlets and the Middle East don't.
	It's always a thing.
	Strange.
	But this year, we can see here, this is Major League Baseball, who decided to do a Pride logo for all of a day.
	And then went, take it down.
	No more of that.
	Interesting.
	The US Navy also decided to run away.
	You can see here they... No, I mean, if anyone's going to put one of these up, it should be the Navy.
	Yeah.
	In the Navy.
	Transarkids at sea.
	No, anyway.
	But they decided to change their logos and their backing and then for a whole, I think about two hours before they put it back.
	Just to say that we did.
	Hmm.
	There was also an event in Florida that decided to cancel its LGBTQ event because literally zero human beings brought tickets.
	Check out the next link here.
	Interesting.
	Seems like the culture's changing.
	Um, another company in question decided to skip it.
	Can you guess who?
	Oh, yep.
	Yeah, Bud Light were like... And I bet all the other beer companies decided to skip it as well.
	Yeah, it turns out a lot of companies skipped it this year.
	Right.
	Here's the next link.
	Someone has compiled a list.
	This is World Statistics.
	Apple?
	Skipped it.
	Microsoft?
	No.
	Saudi Aramco?
	I mean, that's pretty usual.
	Google?
	Nah.
	Amazon?
	Not interested.
	Nvidia?
	No.
	Meta?
	No.
	Tesla?
	No.
	Visa?
	No.
	ExxonMobil?
	Not interested.
	Chevron?
	Nestle?
	Procter & Gamble?
	Coca-Cola?
	No thank you.
	Strange.
	You have to go a long way down that list until you get to Merck.
	I mean, you've got Bank of America, Pfizer.
	Yeah.
	Oh, Pfizer, fair enough.
	AstraZeneca didn't.
	I sense a change.
	I sense a change in the culture, especially the corporate culture, realizing this doesn't work.
	I mean, it made you look bad at the best of times, anyway.
	But these days when you're... Because they used to think it was costless, didn't they?
	Because they used to think, well, if we don't do it, we might get in trouble.
	And if we do do it, there's like no cost to doing it.
	So everyone just did it.
	Everyone assuming it was something to do with accepting gays or whatever?
	Yeah.
	But that's long since gone.
	That paradigm is long dead.
	Well, that battle was one in the, what, like the 80s or something?
	Yeah, but the paradigm of, well, do you put the pride flag in your thing for pride month is no longer about homosexuality as we've been over.
	It's about, do you believe that a man can become a woman or should we do this to kids, etc.
	That's the topic of discussion, which is why gays and lesbians have been kicked out of pride parades all over the Anglo world, which is hilarious because they don't agree that they're attracted to the other sex.
	That's kind of the thing.
	Yeah, I mean, if there's a genocide of anybody, it's... It's gays.
	Well, it's definitely lesbians.
	Yeah.
	Because you used to be able to just be a lesbian.
	Not anymore.
	Yeah, but now it's like you have to, okay, well you're gonna have to start having some hormones now.
	Funny thing though, this has got quite a lot of people in the left quite worried.
	Yeah, I'm quite happy too.
	Go to the next link, we can see someone here, got 20,000 like-a-roonies, being very worried as they write here.
	As much as I hate rainbow capitalism, it's honestly a scary reminder of the times ahead that companies don't find us profitable enough to do their usual pandering BS anymore.
	Yeah, you were never profitable.
	Because, as we've been over, gay people and straight people both use YouTube.
	They both use Spotify.
	They both drink Coca-Cola.
	You know what symbols represents them?
	Symbol of the company, for the product.
	Not some weird rainbow stuff.
	And if you also decide that, well, to pander to the gay community you also have to engage in, well, telling gays they're no longer gay.
	You're going to destroy your entire community.
	There were strands of self-realisation going through this.
	This is interesting.
	It's almost there.
	But anyway, they're not the funniest ones.
	Xbox.
	Xbox decided to hit it out of the park.
	I think they win this year's Pride.
	Because they did this.
	where xbox had their weird schizophrenic pride logo for a day and then went get rid of that and decided then to change it for the rest of pride with an xbox logo that's on fire representing presumably hell for some reason so they have got the maps on there Maybe they realised and were like, uh... Finally.
	Who knows?
	But I think, yeah, Xbox, you win.
	You get my award for funniest company during Pride.
	Well done, Xbox.
	That is big bants.
	But otherwise, Angler Pride, so far, not very eventful.
	Except for the fact that that not being very eventful is a good thing.
	All the companies are bailing.
	Now, we will join us for the last segment in a minute, where we'll go through German Pride, who are doing something quite a bit more funny.
	But otherwise, see you then.
	Right, let's talk about the US debt ceiling.
	Now this is a subject that I did actually cover in some detail on the website in my Brokeronomics series.
	So let's have a look at this.
	I did a whole segment on the debt ceiling and I went into quite a bit of detail into the topic and actually let's see how I finished off the last few seconds of that before we get into this.
	Right, so that was a good quick one on the debt ceiling.
	Keep an eye on it when you see it in the news.
	When there's something significant to say on it, I'll do a quick update either on Broken Omics or on the podcast and then I'll reference it here.
	But just know, there are deeper layers to this.
	The US has defaulted four times already.
	Shutdowns have happened 22 times.
	It's happened before.
	The GOP are actually holding a lot of cards this time, so they could force some semblance of sanity to US government spending, although I expect them to fold because they always do.
	And don't take your eye off the bigger picture, which is the geopolitical drivers that are pushing a lot of this around in the background.
	So, I covered the... I'm going to go into a whole load of detail, including the geopolitics, which I won't be able to get into in a sort of surface-level analysis like this.
	I'll talk about the history of, you know, the debt defaults and the previous shutdowns and all that kind of thing.
	And I also talked about the 2011 debt debate shutdown, back in 2011.
	And basically I explained why the GOP had a lot more cards in their hand this time.
	So that video was filmed about a week before it went out.
	It went out last Tuesday, and by Thursday the GOP had cucked on it.
	So yeah, it's not looking impressive.
	Now, if you want to see why I think this is a bit of a problem, let's go to this chart.
	So this shows you US national debt over the years.
	Now as you can see, Perfectly healthy.
	Yes, it's not looking that good.
	I mean, it is sort of spiralling rather quickly out of control.
	So, I mean, to pick a random point, let's say, I don't know, 1971, US debt was about $380 billion.
	Back then.
	And it is now 31 trillion.
	So, and you've got to ask... Have we given that much to Ukraine yet?
	What has the US got for all of that extra money?
	Because, you know, actually things weren't that bad in the 70s.
	You know, we've got an image here of, you know, a childhood of the 70s.
	And I don't know about you, Callum, but that all looks pretty good to me.
	You could have a bike.
	Yes.
	Kids there with their choppers.
	Those kids are 10 or 12 or 17 and a half, depending on which one you're picking there.
	They're going to grow up to basically buy a three-bedroom house when they turn 21.
	They've got a bright future ahead of them.
	And basically, since that time, since 1970, the US has been racking up debt at a rate of 1.6 billion a day.
	Right.
	And, you know, where has all that money gone?
	Because it's certainly not gone on infrastructure.
	You know, I've been to the US.
	I was just decidedly unimpressed.
	I mean, here in the UK, our infrastructure is... I mean, it's okay.
	Roads are alright.
	Bridges are alright.
	And you go to Germany or something... The big advantage we've got is debts.
	Yeah.
	And you go to Germany or something, and it's like you've gone to the future.
	And then you go to Japan, and it's like you've gone to the future future.
	And then you go to America, and everything is falling apart.
	So I don't really understand where this money has gone, except I do.
	It's basically gone on lots of lots of wars.
	And also some social programs to basically buy votes, which basically involves funneling as much corn syrup as possible down the throats of certain demographics until they need to be winched out of their apartment window.
	So that's where all this money's gone, wars and buying votes.
	And I could give you a whole load of more charts, and I've done a whole load of these sort of presentations on You know, financial situations before.
	Nobody really remembers the pertinent points.
	Unless, I find, I boil it back down to an individual.
	So let's take the US and imagine that they're a person, right?
	Let's put this in perspective.
	So this person, they have $680 in the bank.
	Okay?
	And they have credit card debt of a quarter of a million.
	Yeah.
	And they have to pay £7,000 every year just to service the interest on their credit card.
	Minimum payments.
	That's not bad for that debt.
	Well, they've got a low rate.
	That rate is going up quite significantly now because it was all basically zero interest rates for a long time and now it's creeping up and all this is being refinanced.
	So that's going to go up a lot.
	Now, the good news is that this person, we shrunk the US down to the size of India, this person has an income of about £36,000 a year.
	$36,000 a year, right?
	Okay.
	Um, but he's spending $47,000 a year.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And, um, it's worse than that because this person has agreed to take on future debt of one and a half million.
	But they're legally obligated to take on, so that would be things like Medicare and military spending and social security.
	So, you know, and this person's only earning 36 grand a year, so you can see the absolute state that the American economy has got itself into.
	I mean, it's so bad now that the US economy, its debt is the same size as the economy.
	And the amount of money that it's spending on just servicing its debt is about 2%.
	And GDP growth is about 2%.
	So basically, all GDP growth is going to service the debt.
	So if you're thinking, oh, it's OK, this will get better.
	No, it won't.
	It's impossible.
	It's impossible.
	There is nothing left to grow out of this.
	If you're American and listening, you need to get these sort of establishment boomer swamp creatures out before you're basically sort of crushed under the weight of this.
	So anyway, so in that Brokenomics episode, I go into a great deal of detail about 2011.
	Now, that was the last big blow-up about the debt ceiling.
	The reason why that was a bit different, and the Republicans were said to have surrendered back then, is because basically, as we know, it's undisputed now, but the media is a whole bunch of Democrat partisans.
	And the Republicans, they apparently couldn't get their message across, and they were going to be blamed for everything, and so they ended up caving on it.
	And that's not the situation that we've got now, because there was alt-media back in 2011, but it was kind of nascent, it wasn't really there.
	Now, this time round, you've got a really unpopular president, who can't walk or talk without basically doing himself an injury.
	He messed up lockdowns.
	He did mandates.
	He did a humiliating retreat from Afghanistan.
	He picked a fight with Russia and it's looked like he's on the verge of losing that.
	He destroyed the US's and the dollar's reputation around the world, especially with key allies like Saudi Arabia.
	There was a widespread understanding amongst voters that US debt is completely out of control.
	So to put this in perspective, from a CNN poll they found that 80% of Republicans wanted US federal spending to drop.
	80% of Republicans, right?
	Two-thirds of independents want it to drop.
	And even 50% of Democrats want spending to drop.
	So, this was the perfect time to have this fight.
	You know, you couldn't ask for a better opportunity to try and get this down.
	And they surrendered.
	They just gave it up.
	So, let's have a look at how bad this deal is.
	Because, you know, this...
	The headlines that you might have been seeing on the mainstream media talk about, okay, they've done a deal for another 18 months, and it's going to extend the debt ceiling by another $4 trillion, is what they say.
	So, you know, straight off the bat, let's take a look at that.
	So you know before I said that the US debt was going up by about $1.6 billion a day?
	Right, well now it's going up by $7 billion a day.
	Just on the basis of that, which is not good.
	But actually it's worse than that, because they didn't just raise the debt ceiling, what they did is they suspended it.
	Yes.
	What, forever?
	Well, until 1st of January 2025.
	So the US government now basically has an all-you-can-eat buffet until then.
	They can rack up whatever level of debt they want.
	So they could take it to, you know, they could take it to 40 trillion if they wanted.
	Yes.
	I didn't realise they did that.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So, I mean, this is a complete and total unconditional surrender.
	And it's worse than that, because if you think about that date, the 1st of January, that's when they're going to have the next debate.
	So it's a bit of a live thing at the moment, but if you put the next rise in January, that's basically a Congress lame-duck session.
	So it's after the election, but before the new Congress take their seats.
	So that is the minimum possible amount of voter pressure that Congress ever get is in these lame duck sessions before the new Congress takes and the election is already out the way.
	So at that point, they're obviously going to raise this by significantly higher than they've even done now.
	Right, so it's basically a complete web of lies on this.
	If you think that this debt ceiling was generous, you know, you wait till you see the next one.
	Now, the point I have to make on this is In the UK, we kind of have a two-party system, and the way it kind of works here is we've got the blue team who pretend that they're in favour of low immigration, and the red team who say they're in favour of higher immigration, but as we all know, they actually both want immigration as high as possible, right?
	And in the US, the dynamic is slightly more that you've got a two-party system, and one party says that they want spending to go ever higher, and the other party say that they want spending to go lower, but Don't believe them, because spending always goes up significantly.
	And there's a sort of broader point here, is that there was a time in Western democracy where if you didn't like what your government was doing, you could vote them out.
	Whereas now, you need to get rid of the entire apparatus of government in order to change the system.
	I can't think of a single Western country where it's...
	Yeah.
	You actually feel like you could vote for the other party and things would instantly change.
	Yeah.
	Instead both major parties are always in lockstep with each other.
	So they talk a good game but they always do exactly what they were going to do anyway.
	And you can see examples of this because occasionally you get a situation in the US system where one party basically controls everything.
	So Trump had this for a little bit at the beginning and Biden had this at the beginning.
	And that's really difficult for them because suddenly they've got no excuses not to do all the things that they've talked about.
	And they have to find a way of not doing all of those things, and they talk it out, and then eventually there's another election comes along and it gets them off the hook.
	But I mean, the worst nightmare for a US politician is to be in a situation where they actually control all the levers of power, because then they've got no more excuses as to why they can't do this sort of uniparty stuff anymore.
	So anyway, so this deal that basically sort of gave the government unlimited debt for the next 18 months, that's gone through now.
	So it went through the Senate where one-third of Republican senators voted for it and two-thirds of Democrat senators voted for it.
	So it was Kevin McCarthy, who's a Republican, it was his deal and yet twice as many Democrats voted for it as Republicans.
	Now let's take a look at how disgustingly happy This uniparty, odious little toad Kevin McCarthy is with this deal that has given the federal government unlimited debt.
	Let's have a look.
	This is fabulous.
	This is one of the best nights I've ever been here.
	I thought it would be hard.
	I thought it'd be almost impossible just to get to 218.
	Now I found there's a whole new day here.
	We've woken them up.
	Maybe they listened to our speeches.
	I don't know.
	We can't keep doing the same thing to solve the problem.
	We have to think differently.
	And we can't do it with just one party.
	We are all in this together.
	Look at that.
	That's a weird response.
	That is so uniparty.
	You know, he's overjoyed to find that the spending levels is going up.
	He's uniparty through and through.
	So look, if you're an American who's watching this, I know this hasn't been a particularly fun segment, but I had to follow up on it because, I mean, this is important, because this debt problem is going to crowd out basically everything else.
	I've talked about it's going to crowd out the rest of the economy.
	It's going to force the hand of the government.
	It's going to make them behave in ever more rational things.
	You know, this is the reason why you're not getting any sort of economic growth pass through to you.
	You know, part of the reason why everybody feels like it wasn't enough oxygen anymore when it comes to their own personal finances is because government is crowding out everything.
	So if you're an American who actually pays taxes, thanks to that wormy, devious little swamp creature that I just put up on screen, by 2025, when this current deal expires, you will owe on behalf of your government $300,000.
	That's your share of the debt that has been accumulated.
	$300,000 if you were a US taxpayer, right?
	So, if you're an American...
	Or if you just care about Western decline in general, like this video, send it to your fellow taxpayers so they can see how royally screwed they're getting, and if you want to know more, go onto the website, sign up, watch Brokernomics on lotuseaters.com where we get into this stuff properly.
	It's only £5 per month, which is significantly less than what your government is spending on your behalf.
	With that, we'll try and move something that'll cheer us up.
	Something light.
	I think genuinely is cheering us up.
	Good.
	Anyway, German Pride.
	Not something the rest of the world is that comfortable with.
	It never works out well, does it?
	I don't know, just that phrase alone makes me think, eh, where's this going?
	But it's Pride Month, and in the Anglosphere, the usual things happening of, you know, stupid companies and governments.
	But, you know, as we went through, there's been a bit of a rebellion of the companies not doing it anymore.
	But, the Germans have, you know, done what they've usually done and over-engineered a solution to never having to deal with Pride Month ever again.
	I do genuinely... Well, I have to be careful.
	I do admire, on some level, the Germans' ability to take everything to its logical conclusion, no matter where it leads.
	Yeah, I've always been a commandant.
	Anyway, so, we'll go through this, starting off with Prodigy.com being Steve Sternheld's Neither Left Nor Right, which goes back to the origins of fascism, which, funnily enough, aren't actually German.
	They're French.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Just people never seem to figure that out.
	I mean, every bad idea basically comes from France, doesn't it?
	Yeah, as the Germans are like, hmm, what if we go to a million?
	But this time around, they managed to do something good.
	So far, I'm quite impressed.
	And as you can see here, Lars is going to be in German, of course.
	It's Sturzmornat.
	It's German Pride Month.
	What does that mean then?
	I don't speak Nazi.
	It's a joke, of course.
	German followers.
	But it's Pride Month.
	And for them, what they've decided to do is instead of having anyone post any rainbows or anything, it's German Pride Month.
	So it's time to be proud of being German.
	Right.
	So underneath everything, they're not posting rainbows, they're posting the German flag, or variants of it, until the message is learnt.
	Damn it!
	So I do like that, but does it have to be Germany that does it?
	Well, they came up with the idea, so they're the ones doing it.
	I believe it's the Alternative for Germany party, AFD, who decided to come up with this.
	They're very good guys, so we'll see where it went.
	If you go to the next one here, we can see German Pride, Deutschlandweit.
	It goes across, as you can see, the Alps.
	And, I don't know, no swamp Germans in there, but a lot of memes being made.
	And as you can see in the accounts, what they do is they take their profile pictures and in the background put a little German flag.
	Because, of course, the German flag is not like the US or the British.
	It's just a series of stripes.
	Yes.
	Three of them.
	Which is basically what the pride flag is originally as well.
	In which case, what if we add a few more, as you can see in that design, and just scream German pride instead of your pride, which is cringe and no one cares or believes.
	So, yeah.
	I mean, German pride, Germany-wide, I think is okay.
	I think outside of Germany, that's... Yeah, when it starts going into Poland and stuff.
	Anyway, but we've got the Babylon Bee, because the Babylon Bee got a bit worried, as you can see from their representation of where this is based and where it's not based.
	Because there are various versions of the flag being used, of course.
	And as they write, Germans are flooding social media with pictures of German flags to troll Pride Month.
	And I'm laughing, but also a bit concerned.
	Which is, I don't know, understandable.
	People who speak English.
	Are Zoom and Germans based, then?
	Zuma Germans.
	Because I know Millennial Germans aren't, because I spent a bit of time in Germany.
	I'm sorry for my conduct during Zavor.
	Yeah, seriously, when I went to Germany, when I was a young man in my 20s, they were genuinely like that.
	They kept on apologising for the Nazis, like, it's fine, you know, you weren't even born.
	Bro, like, none of us were born, let's just bounce at this point.
	Yes.
	Like, we remember the lessons, but no.
	Like, the bants we have between ourselves is the same bants we have about each other's food.
	And they're also ridiculously sort of eco-mentalist, which has sort of tripped them up.
	But I'm just wondering if the Zoomers are better than the German Zoomers.
	I don't know.
	I'm not too in touch with German political culture, but I did notice that the AfD did have a very nice youth wing, and also seemed to make a hell of a lot of sense.
	And the Green Party seems to be dying, which is good.
	But to be honest, it's way better than being worried about being based or anything.
	It's sort of this instead.
	Which is, you've got the loner, oh, I'm for pride and progressivism, sat in the corner doing nothing whilst the people having fun over there are just, you know, chanting Deutschland, Deutschland, do you burp?
	No, no, no, no.
	But we can see, this is the profile picture thing, which is that, you know, a whole bunch of people.
	So I do this.
	I was going to sit here and show you a whole bunch of them, but there were just too damn many.
	I don't know how big of a thing this is having an impact in German social media.
	But on Twitter, at least, it seems to be huge.
	And it was number one trending.
	In German language, Twitter?
	It is.
	As well?
	This is making me like the Germans.
	I'm excited.
	For sure.
	I mean, good breakfasts and also this.
	Apart from the fact that they don't know what bacon is.
	I don't know, I really like their dinners as well.
	Honestly, I'm really missing German food.
	Yeah, a bit too much cabbage in the dinners.
	Oh, not the cabbage, I was thinking just potatoes and meat.
	Because I know people mock England for like, oh, it's very basic, and it's like, no, but we have high quality meat and high quality vegetables, so it works.
	And the Germans do too, I feel, but anyway.
	Going to the next one because as I mentioned it's number one trending in the German language you have uh you know pride month there one hour ago and just now at number three which um there's a whole bunch of you know what that means who knows uh where are the jews i don't know Fill it in a few different times just to kind of get a real deep color.
	It's one thing we do.
	But basically, what was happening in the German side of social media over the weekend was this, which if we go to the next one, and we play this clip, I suppose.
	Let's enjoy.
	Fill it in a few different times just to kind of get it a real deep color.
	And then kind of go in here at the water.
	Because indeed, Pride Month is international Pride Month is international nationalism as well.
	We're all invited, boys.
	Normally, I'm completely confused by the memes that you showed me, but that one, that's quite good.
	I think it's pretty clear.
	And, as I mentioned, the AFD approves and seems to be doing well as well.
	Yes.
	If we scroll down this, this is... Did they get Bandjet?
	No, not quite.
	But this is polling in Germany, and as you can see it's over the last three years.
	And you may have noticed that the AFD are now... Which line of the AFD?
	So we're not showing the full graph.
	We can scroll it to the right because you're not quite... the whole thing isn't on screen, John.
	I don't know if we can have that happen.
	Aspect ratio trouble.
	Oh, there we go.
	But you need to get all the way to the right.
	There we are.
	They're now neck and neck with the Socialist Party, who have always been either in government or second biggest party.
	So the AFD have gone from struggling post, let's say, 2016, with the woes Europe has gone through, and now they've skyrocketed since July to now the second or third biggest party in Germany, right next to the Conservative CDU.
	German nationalism is rising.
	Good.
	And I'm very excited, because I really like the AFD.
	Yes.
	Like, they're very good boys, and all of the slurs and smears they've had over the years, of like, don't you know the Nazis?
	They're not.
	Not in the slightest.
	Yeah, well, that annoys me, you see, because, you know, people are saying that, you know, National Socialism screwed up Germany, you know, last time, but it was the Socialism bit, because it's the Socialism that always kills people.
	Because you can have the socialism bit without the nationalism bit in like, I don't know, Cambodia, or France, or China, and they still go around killing people.
	So the problem with National Socialism was not the nationalism bit, which they always try and tell you was, it was the socialism bit.
	I agree.
	If you have the nationalism bit, you'll be fine.
	As long as you keep the socialism out of it.
	Socialism always ends up in genocide, whereas nationalism typically ends up in closed borders, which I don't know, Germany kind of needs.
	I don't know if you noticed, but Mama Merkel didn't leave it in the best of spaces after leaving.
	But we're going to the next one, because everyone else in German politics is just crying, and rightly so, because, you know, you've got the communists and leftists, and the Greens who are just communists, so waste of time.
	And then you've got the free Democrats over there who are just political prostitutes.
	I mean, just cry harder.
	I like that they instinctively reach for Will Smith as an example of internationally recognised cuckoory.
	Yeah, I mean, really, as the face of being a cuck.
	Speaking of cucks, we'll go to Queer Magazine, or at least Queer Germany, who decided to put out this article.
	The AFD are engaging in culture war.
	What are they doing?
	They're saying Pride Month is for Germany, not for queers.
	Imagine that.
	Very sad, very sad.
	Maybe scroll down on this, because they have some posts in here.
	One from the AFD, which is the first one you're going to get to in the text there, in which the AFD are just like, huh, good idea.
	Maybe it is Pride Month.
	Deutsche Pride Month!
	Which, I mean, optically it's just brilliant.
	I just absolutely love it.
	The biggest party in Germany, well, second biggest, is sitting there just being like, yeah, German pride.
	I'm sat here getting German envy now, because why can't we have a party like this?
	Exactly!
	I mean, this is what's so beautiful.
	I mean, the AFD are genuinely sincere and competent and good guys by the looks of it, so I'm really excited that they're also willing to sit there and be like, yeah, no, let's engage in good things instead of being gay communists like our conservatives for some goddamn reason.
	So if we scroll down on this list more, we can see the left, who decided to put out a post whining about it.
	They're like, oh, they're trying to get rid of the gays.
	We're like, nope.
	No, no one cares about that.
	You don't care about that.
	Which is why you've been saying gay people need to start, you know, having sex with vaginas.
	Otherwise you're transphobic.
	You don't care about the gays.
	You never did.
	You're literally just using them as a ploy to try and gain political power by bashing people with the label homophobic if they didn't agree to whatever you said, which is usually just more socialism.
	If you don't like socialism, you're homophobic.
	So instead, um, no one seems to be listening to the leftists, because as noted, the AFDs keep getting higher and higher, and you can see the AFDs messaging, essentially through here, which is like, yeah, LGB, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, uh, TQ+, no, no, no, no, leave.
	I'm pretty sure the AFDs message would resonate with about 60% of the population.
	The only reason it's 18% is because you've got so many people who get all of their news and mainstream media, Who have been told that they're a bunch of Nazis, and they've never actually stopped and listened to anything they say.
	People who vote CDU.
	I mean, like, people who are old don't really listen.
	It's like, oh, things are happening.
	I want stability.
	How to describe the average CDU voter?
	I mean, people with very low neuroplasticity is essentially it.
	Careerists.
	Yes.
	Crypto leftists.
	Mama Merkel types.
	I mean, like, these people Eh, not going to lead Germany to a bright future, whereas the AFD, I think, might.
	Anyway, moving on though, because as I was saying, very specific.
	You can see in the German press as well, they also have the SPD and the AFD fighting over this, which is pretty funny.
	I mean, I just love how the people competing for second place in German politics are finding out whether or not Pride Month is about trans kids or German pride.
	I mean, I'm sorry, but their dialectic about what Pride Month means I think is going a bit further than ours, and I kind of prefer it.
	When you put it about like that, about what the nature of the political discourse is, it makes you realise that we really are in the ashes of civilisation at this point.
	But at least one side is offering something that's useful, which is, you know, maybe we should have some pride in our country.
	We don't really have a holiday for it, except like once a year maybe, there's one day in your calendar, you say something.
	I don't know in Germany, but over here we've got St.
	George's Day, but the establishment do everything they can to crush it.
	In which case, there's this whole month that's just sitting there in the public consciousness That seems to have lost its relevance, and no one's doing anything with it.
	And I quite like that, actually, because the whole thing with the sort of leftist agenda is it sort of worms its way in and co-ops stuff.
	So, actually, yeah, why can't we do that with Pride Month?
	Let's be having it, boys!
	Because it does say Pride Month, doesn't it?
	It doesn't say Cumming Month, which is like my thing in the previous segment.
	It's not got Cummies written everywhere, it's got Germany written everywhere.
	Which is much better.
	Well done, Germany.
	I want to join in.
	So we'll go to the next one here because there's some other stuff out of this.
	You can see, you know, just woke Twitter versus Pride Month Twitter.
	We're just having too much fun.
	There's also the German company.
	So this is what to do, how to join in and how to make this campaign, which is Siemens, for example, over here.
	Not Siemens.
	No, different segment now.
	No.
	They decided to put up, as you can see there, their pride flag with the trans colours and the black and brown stripes for dead people with AIDS.
	God, and then they've written some German words so, you know, who cares, but you don't need to read German to know what that says.
	It's just like, oh, we agree with the current thing.
	Yes.
	Oh, do you?
	That's very, very un-German of you.
	Anyway, but if you scroll down to the responses, you may have noticed that basically everyone in the German responses, I joined in with the German flag, but if you just keep scrolling, just keep scrolling, you can see there's a whole bunch of Germans calling them weird names.
	And then they just started re-photoshopping it with the Siemens flag with the German flag, or just posting Pride Month with the German flag, etc, etc.
	They're just like, you can't change the sex.
	A little British biologist there.
	But that's the rebellion, which is you take any company that's talking about pride and you go, ah, thank you, thank you, Pride Month to you too!
	And then you post your national flag or a photoshopped copy of their company logo until they get the damn message.
	You have got to start doing this.
	Speaking of which, we've got McDonald's, because McDonald's Deutschland were the only McDonald's to engage in this for some reason.
	And if we scroll down on them as well, they just have loads of German accounts being like, Deutschland, Deutschland, Huber, Breitmonth.
	There you are.
	And the question really is, are you sure you want pride?
	Are you absolutely sure that you want pride, my friends?
	Yes.
	Because, I mean, it's not staying with you.
	Instead, it's going to nationalism.
	If you go to the next link here, just pride everywhere.
	Join us!
	Anyway, so this is also probably the natural progression of Pride Month in the end, so I think the Germans have again taken it to the absolute as they usually do, but I mean... They did it right this time.
	Yeah, they haven't cocked up all of Europe, so instead they're approving it.
	This is just some animation in which you have the original pride flag, who gets eaten by the trans pride flag, who gets eaten by the next pride flag, and So on and so forth, as people cannibalise each other, and then as they stand aloft thinking they're in power, Deutschland comes out of nowhere too.
	If you're listening to this, you ought to go and watch that one.
	That is quite good.
	You are missing out.
	I'll retweet that one if I can find it.
	If we go to the next one, we can see there's actually a video as well where someone's put together just German Pride stuff, I suppose.
	And they've used Rammstein's Deutschland music.
	Ooh, I like Rammstein as well.
	Breakfast, nightclubs, Rammstein, and now Pride Month.
	Those are the four things I like from Germany.
	I always go to Germany for Pride Month.
	Why do you ask?
	I go for the nationalism.
	But yeah, they just have a whole bunch of stuff here.
	Obviously not too clued up on all the cultural references, but you know.
	Actually, where is Rammstein?
	Is he... because everyone else in media, in sort of entertainment, is woke.
	Is he woke or is he alright?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, their stuff is strange, I suppose, because they're actually nuanced, at least in the Deutschland video they did.
	If people haven't watched it, it's a song called Deutschland.
	They did a really good job, I think, of summarising Germany.
	The only weird thing on there, obviously, is the person who personifies Germany in the music video is a black woman.
	For no given reason?
	Right.
	And so when people try and rationalize that, they're just like, okay, obviously you didn't want to be called Nazis because German nationalism is always just called Nazis.
	So you just made a black woman Germany in the video.
	It's the socialism!
	It's not the nationalism!
	Anyway, Pride Month.
	We'll go to the goal, because there is a goal in this as well.
	This is the goal.
	When Pride Month comes around and all German companies are not putting up rainbows, but instead the German flag in their logos.
	That's when we've won, boys.
	That's the end of Pride Month.
	We're not just doing this for no reason.
	It's not just doing this because, oh, it's a bit of fun.
	We have a goal in mind, and the goal is you will celebrate Pride with us, company.
	Brand.
	And this is what you're going to do.
	So.
	Every three months or so, in the UK, for example, we get this.
	You know, someone tweets something about Hovis breads having a flag on it.
	You never see this?
	Every couple of months?
	I mean, that's the sort of thing that I probably wouldn't even notice.
	I make my own bread, but even if I walked past it, I think I'd not notice that.
	I'm not sponsored by Hovis, but I would say that Hovis bread is probably the standard bread for the British.
	But every three months you get some crap like this, for example.
	If you don't believe me, take a look.
	So this is a guy tweeting, as a customer I do not want flags on my groceries.
	Because somebody's put a British flag on a pack of strawberries.
	To be fair, I think he's got a point.
	I'm not wild about the flag myself.
	I think that an image of a red coat bayonetting a Zulu would serve just as well.
	Or maybe a .48 gunner sinking a French frigate.
	I mean, either of those would suffice instead of a flag.
	The point is, national aesthetics.
	Yes.
	If you're going to sell me something, especially if you're going to, you know, be like, oh, this is British such and such, national aesthetics need to be there.
	And that's the point in which we know we live in a better country.
	And being in a lot of countries, things like that do make you appreciate the place.
	They make it more wholesome.
	They make the place nicer.
	And like, whenever I travel and I see other cultures being proud of their own nation, It doesn't offend me in the slightest.
	It's like, this is why I've come here to see this, otherwise I would have just stayed at home, wouldn't I?
	Love it, love it, love it.
	Yes, and especially for immigrants as well, because if you immigrate to a country, presumably you like it.
	I mean, maybe you're just coming for the benefits, but in which case, well, screw you then.
	But if you're moving because you genuinely like the country, you're not going to be offended by that either.
	I mean, it depends who you're inviting, obviously, as you mentioned.
	Yes.
	Mama Merkel's boys, really improving Germany.
	Anyway, international support to the International Brigades of Pride Month.
	As you can see here, they've already started recruiting voluntarily this time.
	As you can see here, you can see this is the Americans, for example, have started doing this.
	This is just a random lady that I decided to use to demonstrate.
	The Dutch have also gotten in on this.
	You can see here we have Eva.
	She's lovely, she is.
	Do you see also there is an imperial version for all the imperialistic nations of Europe?
	It's a shame being Dutch that her flag looks like it could be from the pride flag anyway, because you kind of have to look twice.
	That's kind of the comic genius, because of course for the Europeans all their flags are kind of just stripes, and that works if we want to use it, but as you can see there is an imperial version as well, because the imperial flag has now been replaced with the imperial flags of our nations.
	Do we have an imperial one?
	Uh, I don't think, yeah, we'll get to that in a minute.
	We'll explain why.
	The Albanians also have their own version because, um, okay, I mean, I don't think they need help with their pride.
	You can't meet an Albanian without them talking about Albanian flags or flying Albanian flags.
	It's like the least nationalistic Turk turns up in his car covered in Turkish flags.
	Anyway, speaking of which, let's go to the next one.
	I'm in.
	There we are.
	There's the British flag that you can add on to put in your profile, because I like fun.
	So let's do it.
	Yep, I'm doing that.
	And international nationalism will bring us victory, boys.
	And I think every month, until we start seeing every company on Pride Month using national flags of the country they're actually associated with, instead of, you know, rainbows, I think we could improve society.
	I think this would make society better if this happened instead of what is currently happening.
	This is suburb.
	Why not do it?
	This is subversion.
	This is subversing the subverted.
	So we got the last one here the pride generator.
	So I don't know if you I suppose you can click on that link so people can have a look as that person's pointing out there which is you put in your profile does the thing for you and there's a flag selection which they've done Um, and you can also get an imperial flag of each country.
	Now they haven't quite made an English one yet, or a British one, so that just hasn't got rounded yet.
	Although I'm sure they're working hard on it.
	The, uh, S-posters of Germany.
	Yes.
	Work day and night.
	Finish work and go home.
	Do a VARC.
	Anyway.
	But that's German Pride, which...
	Okay.
	Okay, lads.
	You did the big think, and you did a good think.
	Let's see where it goes, because so far, I'm impressed.
	And the idea of what does victory look like in this regard, of having all the companies start using national flags instead of the rainbow one, that would be a better society to live in.
	Yeah, let's try and push for it.
	Why not?
	Love it.
	Good to hear your comments.
	I don't know when, I don't know how, but something's starting right now.
	When will they learn?
	As I'm concerned, Disney can burn.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Very beautifully done.
	I think we did a segment on Little Mermaid the other day, in which Carl mentioned the budget was 350 million.
	They ended up getting 362 or something.
	And so, I believe he thought that they'd made a very small profit off it.
	Turns out they didn't include the advertising costs, that money, so they needed to make over 500 million.
	So yeah, they have lost a lot.
	And it's kind of ironic because in Nordic cultures, the mermaid is, you know, what we think it is.
	But in African culture, the mermaid is basically like a demon creature.
	You kind of kill it on sight.
	I thought it was in European culture as well, because it's the siren call.
	Could be.
	It depends which version of the mermaid, I suppose, you're dealing with, like the nightmarish one or the cute sea hammer?
	Yes.
	You ever seen, do you watch ER?
	No.
	Alright, so he does, like, movie reviews.
	And he recently, like, I think yesterday, released his version of the Mermaid movie.
	Right.
	Very good.
	I'll send it to you.
	What's his channel called?
	Uh, E colon R. Right.
	Highly recommended.
	I'll check it out.
	The only other thing, um, I did mention that, that I'm going to mention, which is kind of funny.
	I hadn't thought about it before, but obviously it makes perfect sense.
	So in the remake of The Mermaid, they've got this like harem of mermaids, and of course they decided that each one would be a different race for no given reason.
	So you've got like a Chinese looking one, you've got a African looking one, you've got an African American one where they're not really black.
	If it's your harem, why wouldn't you do that?
	Well it's not really a harem, it's meant to be like Poseidon's daughters, right?
	That's a bit Joseph Ritzel isn't it?
	But the point being that you've got one, like, they've not even got just, here's a black mermaid.
	They've then got a light-skinned black mermaid, and then one white mermaid, and so forth.
	And he pointed out, no, this is obviously to sell toys.
	And it just hadn't crossed my head, which is, if you are a global company...
	And you're selling toys in literally every nation on Earth, and therefore to every race on Earth, why not insert forcefully racial diversity into every aspect you can because it increases toy sales?
	I can see that pitch being made at Disney, and that's probably the reason they did it in the Mermaid one at least.
	Yes, and just make sure you remove all the black characters when you put the poster up in China.
	Yeah, or you'd sell ten million dollars worth and then wonder why you bought it.
	I do wonder if that is going to be the death of the race swap.
	Just the Chinese market will end up killing it.
	Anyway, sorry.
	Should we do some comments then?
	Yes.
	Right.
	Mr. Award says...
	I think we all know that woke normies are up.
	Nobody cared when they were doing this thing in private.
	Most people except when they came out.
	Even the desecration of marriage didn't do it.
	The destruction of the family, entertainment, institutions, culture, none of it roused the general population.
	Then they went for the kids and people started to notice.
	These people better make amends or disappear before people shove them back into the closet with a vengeance.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I think Peter Foss belonged in the closet.
	I think everyone can get on that.
	Or somewhat blew it.
	Mr Duck says, God, this episode is great.
	Yes, good point.
	I have to run to a work meeting.
	I agree, I am also fantastic.
	But I'll be picking this up later.
	Keep up the good work, White Pill.
	Yes, very good.
	I just made me laugh.
	I endorse this message.
	Well, it's true.
	I mean, you know, I admire the man's honesty.
	Yeah, so Dan from Lotus Cedar says, great job, loved the segment.
	Matt P says, glory, holiness, lmao.
	S Gill says, Callum, the pride and mosque thing was almost done by the far right in Sweden.
	Someone tried to organize a pride march through a Muslim majority neighborhood.
	The left called it racist and provocative.
	Couldn't explain why, though.
	JC, the MOD...
	It just reminds me, Islam is right about women.
	Yes, that was superb.
	Silence.
	They still tried to find somebody to arrest, but they couldn't give a reason why.
	JC says, the MOD must be trolling with that mess, trying to see how far they can push it.
	I don't know, Matt.
	I mean, we've seen the links in the RAF.
	The military in this country, all branches, is just utterly cursed.
	Oh, we did a segment the other day, didn't we, on useless white men?
	Yeah, that was the RAF speech.
	Oh, for fuck's sake.
	Shakespeare or useless white male pilots?
	Yes.
	Best part?
	Because like, you know, obviously Battle of Britain, you know.
	I'm sick of useless white SAS men.
	Worst.
	Most most unuseful people on earth.
	The SAS.
	Anyway.
	ShakerSilver says Microsoft does own Diablo, which just released, so the Fire logo just makes sense there, but the timing is terribly unfortunate.
	Indeed.
	LeFrenchDet says trans people are the most oppressed group in the world because they're oppressed by reality itself.
	I was rather hoping he was going to pick LeFrenchGerman.
	Well, he went for debt.
	Fair enough.
	Someone online says, in America we had huge fuel shortages and skyrocketing inflation in the 70s because of government interference.
	Yeah.
	Well, I covered that on Brokeronomics.
	I think loads of these comments are in the wrong place.
	So, there's that.
	Oh, yep.
	Anyway, we'll just go through them, I suppose.
	The letter M is for me, myself, and not I. It says, I bet the red light and the trans lights are just a male symbol.
	But they were a homogenous symbol that didn't look male or female, I think.
	I'm not that familiar with the flag, to be honest.
	No, the lights.
	Remember the traffic lights you get in the centre of London that have transgender symbols?
	Yep.
	Yes.
	Big Ed!
	All right.
	I, for one, am glad that all the Dylan stuff has finally killed the momentum of Pride.
	We just need to keep the pressure on them to ensure they neither backslide later this month, nor go back to their old ways next year.
	Yeah, I think the German solution to the Pride... The German solution, I think, can help us ensure that no backsliding takes place.
	Yeah, you have to be very careful with talking about Germans and solutions, don't you?
	Justin B says... I just love making jokes about journalists because it just descends into... Let's talk about Zivor.
	Even if you're trying very carefully not to.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that Monty Python sketch will never get old.
	Which one was that?
	The one where they're like, don't talk about the war!
	Constantly trying not to bring up the Nazis.
	That was Forty Towers, wasn't it?
	Oh yeah, Forty Towers, sorry.
	The Monty Python one that was funny about the war is that they come in in a big fuss because the Germans aren't taking the war seriously anymore.
	What?
	Did I miss that one?
	What happens?
	Yeah, they're just not taking the war seriously, and they don't know what to do about it.
	They're just messing around.
	I'm gonna enjoy that after this.
	But where was I going with all that?
	Oh yeah, the seriousness.
	So the fact that, I don't know about you, but even when I'm around Germans, I do constantly have that voice in the back of my head that's like, bring up support, bring up support, it's funny, do it, do it.
	And then the reasoning part of your head is like, no!
	Yeah, I mean... He's 18, he didn't surf!
	I was quite mean to the Germans on a podcast recently, because basically I made the argument that AI should take over the running of Germany.
	And my logic was that the German government is so bad that it won't hurt.
	So you basically, you test run AI on Germany, and the outcome will be either the good outcome for AI, which is it solves all their problems, or the bad version of AI, in which case they try and take over the world.
	But that's basically just what Germany does anyway.
	So you wouldn't notice any difference.
	You might as well test bed it there.
	And I had loads of Germans, it seemed to go viral in Germany, and I had loads of Germans coming on it and saying, yeah, fair enough.
	I'm not being hateful of anything.
	I genuinely do like German breakfasts.
	And Pride Month.
	Actually, we're doing the wrong segment, aren't we?
	Oh, sorry.
	I've got a couple more, but... Peter?
	Pie-ter?
	I think it is Peter, but the foreign version.
	Pie-ter!
	Dutchman says... That street with infinite pride flags is very much like Nazi Germany.
	Swastikas flags images.
	Yeah, they very much is.
	Brandon Tom says... Do you want Al-Qaeda?
	Because that's how you get Al-Qaeda.
	I do have a guilty pleasure.
	You know I listen to a lot of weird music.
	Mostly propaganda.
	Yes, actually we were talking about that when you went out for lunch.
	Because you left your headphones on.
	Yeah, so my playlist right now, I usually have a bit of a taste for something and get into that.
	So Pride Month.
	I did this last year and now, subconsciously.
	Arab music.
	Overwhelmingly.
	All the whistles and the clapping.
	Yeah, I've got playlists full of Ba'athist stuff at the moment I've been listening to.
	Amazingly, I don't know how these are on YouTube, but there's a load of Palestinian ones as well, but the thing about them is they're really anti-Semitic.
	Like, there's one song I'm listening to, and I'm like, oh, this is pretty banging, let's go listen to the lyrics, and I go and check the lyrics.
	It's just about, yeah, killing the Israelis, um, in much worse language.
	And YouTube is absolutely fine about it.
	Yeah.
	I mean, on any normal video, you make some, you know, risque reference to an early life check on Wikipedia, and somebody's trying to de-platform you, but the Palestinians can just, whatever, really.
	And so, war music that's pro-Russian war right now, it's a pro-Russian side.
	And there was a bunch of those.
	They're all deleted now?
	They used to be up about a month ago.
	Now they're all gone.
	All, single one of them.
	I can't find them.
	Mostly the Wagner stuff.
	So, they've all been deleted.
	Presumably the grainy ones are still up there.
	I can't find the ones I'm looking for anymore.
	So, that's happened.
	But, you know, if you want to praise Palestine, Allah Akbar!
	Yeah, this is more true than you think.
	So the original one, I believe, is not copyrighted.
	They're just rainbow.
	Yeah.
	The one with the chevron, I believe, is.
	And then the new one with the intersex one, that obviously is copyrighted as well.
	presumably from making a bunch of money in a couple of weeks.
	Yeah, this is more true than you think.
	So the original one, I believe, is not copyrighted.
	They're just rainbow.
	Yeah.
	The one with the chevron, I believe it is.
	And then the new one with the intersex one, that obviously is copyrighted as well.
	So that person's getting paid royalties.
	Ah, that's interesting.
	Because the new new pride flags, I'll go out and buy one of those.
	I'd happily part with my money for one of those.
	What, the Deutsche Pride?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	I want one.
	We're going to make a British version.
	All right, Joan of Arc says, you can't genocide traits that aren't genetic.
	And LGBT is 100% non-genetic.
	Yes.
	Did they ever find the gay gene?
	I never really got to the bottom of that.
	Is there a gay gene?
	Uh, I don't know.
	Oh, alright.
	Well, moving on.
	Just thought you'd know.
	Just for no reason.
	No, never looked into it.
	I've got chatGBT open, I could ask it.
	Actually, no, it's going to give you a... It's going to give you a paused answer, isn't it?
	Word diarrhoea out of it.
	Richard's...
	something says pride is no longer about gayness it's about subversion like all leftist marxist pedo causes uh ban this s no one wants it's just like immigration in all right i don't think i need to read the rest of that i think everyone got your point but we can't read the last line move on to the debt ceiling yeah go on then uh so mr silver says no administration or congress wants to take the blame for government defaulting on its debt they will endlessly kick the can down the road for the next admin to take the blame like perhaps a second incoming trump administration Well, that's the thing.
	They wouldn't have defaulted because the US is still collecting four trillion every year in revenues and it's just spending six.
	So even if you basically just cut away the deficit, it can cover all the mandatory spending and the debt stuff and have a bit left over for, you know, pushing, you know, bumming in Pakistan or whatever it is that they feel important to do.
	You just wouldn't be able to do quite as much of the bloat.
	So, I mean, it wouldn't even lead to a default, but they put that out there to make you think that they sort of have to do it, and they don't.
	So the GOP could have just stuck to their guns.
	Miss Rat says, this imbalance between debt, GDP growth and inflation makes me wonder if there's another Great Depression around the corner.
	Well, possibly we're in it.
	However, instead of private citizens spending money they don't have hand over fist, the government spends money they don't have.
	Makes me want to buy a couple of thousand dollars worth of gold or silver.
	Tell you something interesting.
	Probably should.
	I was out walking yesterday and I see the state agents around here.
	They've got a whole bunch of new signs.
	Zero deposit mortgages?
	I'd never heard of that.
	I don't know if you had ever.
	Yeah, now that was a big thing back in the early 2000s.
	Yeah, how did that go?
	Blew up massively.
	Yeah, so I saw that and thought, that doesn't make sense.
	So you have to have been renting for 12 months.
	So I went in and asked the lady, I just want to make some chat.
	People do this?
	She's like, yeah, loads of people come in and do this and blah blah blah.
	I'm like, so how does this work?
	Because this can't be financially viable.
	Not interested in the slightest.
	I started asking about the housing market, just some questions, not interested in answering any of those questions.
	All she wanted was my contact details.
	She was insistent, we'll get you one in a jiffy, no problem whatsoever.
	I'll get someone to call you tomorrow.
	I was like, oh, that's really worrying.
	Yes.
	Like you're not even slightly hiding the fact that this is just you trying to make money.
	I doubt the person behind the counter understands this on any level.
	I don't know, she seems to, but it's just the thing of like the, here's a terrible deal, no one thinks about the long term consequences, just sell, sell, sell now.
	Yes.
	And if they're offering that... Well that's like the early 2000s, in fact in the early 2000s you even got to the point where it was minus 5% deposit.
	Where they would... What?
	Yes.
	What?
	They would basically... The bank would buy the house for you and then give you 5% of the value on top so you could go out and buy furniture.
	Put in it.
	So you started out 105% in debt.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, then 2008 happened and they thought, well, no, probably better stop doing this and we'll bust now, so...
	Yeah, so I don't know about that, but... But yeah, no, in answer to Ms Rath's point, yes, gold and silver are probably not the worst idea you could have.
	Mr Powers says, apparently there's been a decrease in M2 for several months, so that's the total amount of money sloshing around, and this would lead to an actual deflation.
	Would that still make a bit of difference?
	Yeah, I mean, there are massive... I mean, I'll go into this more in Broeconomics, but there are massive deflationary trends, and these deflationary trends are getting stronger.
	If you want to get more on that, go to the...
	The Jeff Booth episode, which I did.
	So there are different views in finance about the ultimate effect of where that goes, deflation versus inflation, and my thinking is that no matter how much deflation there is, they can basically just print more, because printing is easy.
	The French debt says Trump loved 0% interest rates, but they were just traps.
	I mean, presumably he means traps as in the traditional meaning.
	Government borrowed more money, spent it, and when the time for refinancing interest rates are no longer as good.
	I mean, yeah, there's a thing.
	It's like Trump just spent all the money he could, anyway.
	So it's like it doesn't make any difference if you vote for the other party.
	They're all just gonna increase spending as much as they can.
	Oh, this is a good one.
	Arthur Nock, I think.
	I must be getting that wrong.
	60% of our federal government budget in the US is Social Security and Medicare.
	A failing system, we're dead before I get to that age.
	But our politicians are too cowardly to rip the band-aid off.
	If we did that, and controlled the debt ceiling, we'd be able to stop this now.
	The debt is larger than the economy.
	Proof of cowardice is they pushed any debt talk after the 2024 election.
	Yeah, that's the thing, I mean... Yeah, it's basically all insurance programs is what's blowing up the West, because... And again, I'll go into this more in Brokenomics, but the short version is, the boomers were a very large generation in a very small world.
	And they thought, OK, well, let's just be generous to the old people above us, because there's not many of them, so it doesn't matter.
	And then the boomers themselves got old, and they got all these entitlements, and it can't possibly work.
	It was a system designed for a small number of old people, and now there's loads of them.
	Oh, and also, I think one in five boomers is a millionaire.
	Yeah.
	So they just, they just don't need it.
	That's something I found out the other day.
	So healthcare costs, NHS.
	Yes.
	Obviously the older they are, the more it costs.
	And everyone says, you know, fair enough.
	I mean, then you'll be taking care of the older.
	No, no, you won't.
	Well, so if you're, if to take care of someone who's 85, it's the same amount of money as taking care of eight people who are 40.
	Hmm.
	Yes.
	On average?
	Yes.
	So do you save one 85-year-old or eight people in their 40s?
	It sort of fundamentally doesn't work because loads of other government debt, they try and inflate it away by just saying, OK, well, we lent all this money out and then we inflate it away and then we don't have to pay it back.
	But the problem with Medicare and the NHS is it isn't a dollar or pound amount that they've promised.
	What they've promised is, we will keep you alive forever.
	Even when you're 89?
	Yes.
	And as medical technology advances and the drugs get more expensive and all the rest of it, that basically becomes completely unviable because you cannot inflate it away because the promise is in medical goods and services, it's not in dollars or pounds that you can just inflate away.
	So we're just heading towards a massive crash of all of this stuff.
	I mean, it's a really uncomfortable conversation, because no one wants to have it, and especially it gets poisoned by the fact, you know, if you're younger, obviously it looks like you're trying to kill old people or something.
	Yes.
	And it's like, when you're old, you'll want it.
	Yeah, of course everyone would want it.
	Yes.
	But, you know, everyone... Oh, but no, I want it for my parents.
	No, but like, everyone wants to live forever and be rich and all the rest of it.
	Yes.
	But it really is that thing of...
	Okay, how much can we actually afford without destroying the whole society?
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	I mean, in sort of Viking cultures, you know, you got to whatever was considered old, which was presumably like 55 or something back then, and you would just sort of wander off into the woods and not come back, so that you wouldn't be a burden.
	I was watching, there's this guy on Joe Rogan.
	There's this nomadic tribe in Africa he went and hung out with.
	And what they do is when someone gets, I think it's like 40 or something, that's considered old, they just kill them.
	Like the tribe gets together and kill them.
	And they're not even upset about it.
	They're not like, oh God, I just killed my grandma.
	They're just a happy move on because they understand that's how life works.
	Because if someone's getting too slow, they can't keep up.
	Well, they're having a good life.
	All right, they're dead.
	Move on.
	Mad, obviously.
	Speaking as a 40 year old, I don't like that.
	Yeah, being killed by your family.
	Not really anyone's idea of heaven.
	It's just weird how the conversations about death in the West, we've got to the point where... Especially my family, because they were all women.
	They would botch it.
	What?
	Well, you know how women just can't stab things?
	Women are terrible at killing.
	Yes.
	No, but they're not.
	I mean, they're just famous for being bad at it.
	So, I mean, I would just end up getting stabbed about 50 times and then getting fucked off and do it myself.
	I don't like that, yeah.
	Understandable.
	Right.
	German pride.
	Oh, no, hang on.
	There's one more.
	The French debt.
	US people love to make jokes about French surrender, but have they looked at GOP?
	Yeah, actually, fair point.
	Yeah, fair point.
	Oh god.
	Imagine you're stumbling along, you can't really keep up with the tribe, but then you see you've only got women in your family.
	You say, oh, just give me the knife.
	God.
	Yes.
	So on German Pride, Henry Ashman says, National Pride, you say?
	Time to start blasting Royal Britannia at the top of the volume every single day.
	Yeah.
	Omar Avad says the magic of memes is being able to communicate an entire plethora of ideas across language barriers with a simple image.
	I don't speak German, but I understand every single point they are making without a single spoken word.
	They are crushing every single lefty argument with a flag.
	Immigration, LGB, national pride, all rolled into one base.
	I will say it must have been terrible before because I mean I've had it even when we went to Afghanistan and the Taliban are showing you their memes and you you all laugh because they're hilarious and you all understand each other and there's a weird instant bond you get and it's like when you go to Germany or you go to wherever else and you go there and you meet people who are ideologically similar to you right?
	Yes.
	You go and meet right-wingers in another country.
	Instant bonding super easy right?
	Yeah.
	Same thing but just because we have memes Yes.
	And living in a world without that would be awful.
	So, before the internet, the hell with that.
	Oh, I remember a time before memes.
	It was a bleak time.
	What did you bond over?
	Do you have a foreign land?
	Well, you basically just ended up bonding with people that you went to school with.
	Because you didn't really know anyone else.
	Grim.
	RGL says, how do we get better parties?
	Get rid of First Past the Post.
	It's not a panacea.
	It's a good idea for the UK, I think.
	Yeah, I mean, maybe it's part of it, but there's other countries that don't have First Past the Post and they still...
	They still get the uniparty crap as well.
	You know, in France, they've got Le Pen.
	In Spain, they've got Vox.
	In Italy, they've got Madame Mussolini over there.
	In Germany, they've got the FD.
	I mean, they've got more successors than we do.
	Not using fastpats the most.
	Yes.
	I mean, quite why Le Pen hasn't won yet.
	I can't quite figure out.
	Shaker Silva says, oh, there's plenty of prouds to be German, like being the steward of a failing EU and also Russia's gas bitch.
	Hell of a world.
	The letter M is for me, but not for I. Says, this German Pride thing they have done is genuinely the best thing I have seen all year.
	I thought it was pretty good too.
	Yes.
	General Hai Ping says, Rammstein have a whole video about German Pride.
	It's a glorious mockery of everything Pride related.
	Worth a watch.
	Oh, a new one?
	Oh, is that German, so hang on, is that German, so is that the new German Pride or the old German Pride?
	I've only ever seen Deutschland, which is the music video.
	Yes.
	George Happ says the Pride Month idea is brilliant.
	National pride is a positive influence that directly contrasts the pride of being a general.
	That's also a great point.
	Also, people finally recognize that the alphabet flag is that of a conquering nation.
	The more we think about this, the more I like the idea.
	Shoker Silver says Callum, post 9-11, saw everything slapped with an American flag.
	It was not a better country for it when that pride was abused for near-liberal chauvinist wars and intentionally suspending rights for the sake of the country.
	Well, I agree with that.
	I'm not talking about giving the government some kind of causes benefit, I think.
	But I mean, America just does that all the time anyway.
	Yeah, you could argue.
	It's not like they all get together and think, oh, this year we're just not going to do any wars.
	I just think of it, I mean, I don't think every, so let's say we succeed and every Pride Month is National Pride Month.
	I'm not worried that that will be abused into turning into every year a new war or something like that.
	I'm not saying that nationalism can't be abused.
	The people who want to do wars will do it anyway.
	I fully understand the point and take it on board, but... I think having a Pride Month every year where we celebrate national pride, I don't think that would do more harm than good, compared to what we currently have.
	That's my pitch, really.
	Ewan Baker.
	Bet they are fine with the EU flag on their stuff that comes over the pond?
	Yeah?
	Yeah, okay.
	You're talking about those people who moan about British flags.
	If they see something from LD with the EU on it, they're like, oh, so it's... Yes.
	It's from Europe!
	Lib Dems.
	Anyway, Thomas Howell says to Reform UK, see that?
	That's what the AFD are doing.
	That's what you should be doing, you utter spoons.
	Yeah, well, you know, we can all learn from each other, so.
	Yeah, Reform, I mean, aspects to like, but they kind of pull their punches so much.
	I don't know.
	I mean, they're not doing anything wrong in the sense of... No, they're on the right track.
	I've never seen them say anything wrong or anything like that.
	It's just campaigning marketing is not the levels of competence that others have, which... I'm quite pro them, but... Yeah, I mean, the campaigning marketing... Lessons to be potentially learned here and there from the AFD, so I'll take the point on that one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, we all need to be learning from each other, really, in that regard, and stuff for reform to learn, which, you know, it's not really criticism, it's just how we make it better.
	Thomas Howell says, I don't know, just read that, Le French Net says, unless the AFD wants to leave the EU, the Euro and NATO will not achieve anything, no matter how good those boys are.
	They have had to, they did initially, I believe, want to do leaving the EU, was their platform a few years ago.
	Is that not on the platform anymore?
	The reasoning got taken out is because of the German population.
	Because of course it's a German Empire and they're quite happy with that.
	So, it's a sacrifice in terms of the perspective of getting votes.
	But when you go and speak to them, they're like, yeah, but we're not for expanding this.
	We're not for making this stronger.
	Because this is clearly, you know, a new German Empire, which we don't really want.
	Yes.
	Like, we want to rule Germany, not all of Europe.
	We've kind of grown out of that.
	But, I mean, it started off as the German Empire.
	But then it got stuffed full of debt and it kind of made sense.
	I mean, in 2008 there was actually talk of Germany leaving the EU because it was so stuffed full of debt it was time to walk away from it.
	I mean, basically push all that debt out there and then just leave.
	Leave on Greece.
	Kill Greece and leave.
	But now, I mean, the whole EU is underpinned by the German economy, basically.
	And the German economy was underpinned by cheap Russian gas.
	And that's just gone?
	So now they've got an industrialised nation that can't afford to turn the machines on?
	Ah, you know, the EU's got so many other big economies that could bail them out, such as... Yeah.
	Yeah, good luck boys.
	Joe Shamo says, I ask you, do you want Total Brawl?
	No, no, no!
	Yeah, no, I'm not reading that, because I don't know where that goes.
	It's really how you tell who knows the history and who doesn't when you see stuff like that.
	Good joke nevertheless, though.
	You miss run.
	Apparently I sound like a Canadian when I do the German accent.
	That's actually a good point.
	I can speak not a good amount of German, but enough to have a couple of conversations when we go to Germany.
	I used to years ago, but it sort of atrophied.
	I haven't used it in a long time.
	I spoke to someone about it and they said I sound like an SS camp officer when I'm speaking German, though.
	Which is probably because I learn a lot from Wargames.
	Right.
	So you're playing Company of Heroes and you pick up everything they're saying.
	Everything I learn is from Sniper Elite kind of thing.
	That's sort of... Right.
	Bad idea, it turns out.
	That was from an Austrian guy though.
	You know what was really funny?
	He served in the... Because you get conscripted still in the Austrian military, if you're Austrian.
	Oh, okay.
	So he went and served in, I think it was a mountaineering brigade he did.
	And he told us that they still are allowed to sing some songs that the German army isn't.
	So like, you know the Panzerleid song?
	Do you know Panzerleid or not?
	No.
	Okay, so people look up Panzer and then Leid, L-E-I-D, at the end of the word Panzer.
	Not light as in L-I-T-E.
	No, I think it's L-I-E, whatever, just look up Panzerleid, it'll come up.
	Okay.
	And there's a very famous song of them like stamping their feet and singing it that's been in a few German movies, the legendary.
	So apparently what they would do is they would all just gather around and sing Panzerleid.
	In their German uniforms, in the military.
	Actually, I think if you want people who still sing a lot of the old German songs, you kind of want the Ukrainians, don't you?
	No, no.
	Not that kind.
	But no, it's not a Nazi song either.
	It's just the German military went so far in their spurging that they've even banned songs that have nothing to do with Nazism, like Panzerleid.
	But because the Germans have banned it and the Austrians haven't, it's seen as edgy, but it's not.
	But it's just a good song.
	I'm sorry.
	There's actually... Go on YouTube, type in Panzerleid Japanese Orchestra.
	Because I think that's probably the best rendition of it.
	And of course, so L-I-E-D at the end of that.
	Yep.
	And then Japanese Orchestra.
	Because for some reason, the Japanese are the ones who did it best.
	Which, you know, all the comments are just like, ah, good to see the alliance still there.
	So you're sufficiently familiar with this that you know the best version of it?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, there we go.
	It's this one.
	I also love how the Japanese are just pigging for World War II.
	Because they're just like, oh yeah, German style.
	It's high quality.
	Do you recognise that?
	I don't know if it's... I just don't care.
	Do you recognise that, Matt?
	No?
	Yeah, he's ringing a bell somewhere.
	Anyway, keep it running as we do the outro.
	Why not?
	Happy Pride Month, everyone!
	Yes!
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	I'm sure they're doing something funny.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow.
	Enjoy Pride Month.

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