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	Hello and welcome to the Podcast of the Low Seaters, episode 883 for Monday the 1st of April, 2024.
	I'm your host Connor, joined by Dan and Carl.
	Hello.
	Hi chaps.
	We'll be discussing how we tried to warn Reform UK, but you just didn't listen, what Transgender Day of Visibility actually means, and Donald Trump's true social being valued at $7 billion.
	Without further ado, no announcements, may as well get into today's stories.
	Alright, well, Reform UK, we did try to warn you a little while ago.
	For those who don't remember, Beau got deselected as a candidate because Hope Not Hate did a hit job on him, accusing him of supporting mass re-migration of everyone that's settled here since 1997, when all he did instead was endorse reform policy, saying that all the illegals must be sent back.
	After having interviewed pretty much every head of Reform UK except Nigel Farage himself.
	Well, we did say it wouldn't stop there.
	Turns out, it didn't.
	Daily Mail have decided to do the bidding of the terrified Conservative Party by doing a dossier of Reform UK's supposed most controversial candidates, the ones that are still left and haven't offended Hope Not Hate yet.
	Anyway, I thought we'd go through this list just because it's mildly amusing, but also, if you allow your enemies to dictate Who can and can't be within an alternative to the establishment political party, you begin to assimilate the establishment and become the same bland flavour over time.
	And at this point, I don't know who the hell to vote for in a general election because I don't think reform represents me either now.
	So that's no fun.
	So in this article, Mail on Sunday calls this an investigation.
	Basically they just looked at the Twitter accounts and that of the Modern journalism, I suppose.
	Some of the candidates selected to stand at the next general election for Reform UK.
	They've been revealed as the potential MPs that include a convicted animal abuser and a fortune teller who sold spells for £200 on OnlyFans.
	Can I just pick up on that headline for us before we go any further?
	People who support Tommy Robinson, why not?
	Nice chap.
	A Covid conspiracy theorist, which, you know, what even is that now?
	Given that everything they've said is right.
	And then an animal abuser, and they just lumped the three of them together.
	Well, the animal abuser... Don't forget Hitler!
	Well, actually, the animal abuser one is probably the most out of context because he kicked a dog that was trying to attack his kid.
	So it's a proper smear job.
	Proper smear job article.
	Right, okay.
	It's unreal.
	Man, I don't understand the Daily Mail.
	They're such a bipolar publication.
	They're boomer con.
	Oh, it's just whatever gets clicks.
	Yeah, it really must be, because some days they're promoting Lizzo, other days they're like, woke madness has gone too far, and then other days they're like this.
	So I know people that work at the print department, or work for the print department, and they said they were actively ashamed of the website team.
	Yeah.
	And even in the office, they call that there the sidebar of shame because it's borderline softcore pornography.
	Well, not that.
	Take it away.
	If you scroll down, there's some influencer with, I mean, look, Kanye West's wife, and there's some more of it, and there's some things promoting plastic surgery.
	So yes, it's pathetic clickbait.
	But in this particular instance, they're clearly doing the job of the terrified Tory party who are about to lose all their seats because they go and reach the Tory party Poor comment.
	So, there you go.
	So, here's this fellow.
	This is the fellow in question about dog.
	Now, this is Gary Sutherland, who's the candidate for Exmouth and Exeter East.
	Sutherland was found guilty in June last year of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog by kicking it in a Dorset country lane and was banned from owning a dog for two years and told to pay £1,964 in compensation.
	This was shortly before he started running.
	Wow, this guy really hates dogs for some reason.
	Yeah, it turns out, so Richard later clarifies on Twitter and a reformed spokesperson, that he was doing it to save his kid because the dog was set on his kid.
	So why did he get fined for this?
	But also, why is this worthy of note in a, like, this is not a particular political agreement.
	A hero reform candidate saves his son from vicious dog is an alternative way of framing this.
	But why was he punished for it?
	No details included.
	There we go.
	But then he got, even after all of that, he then got booted out of reform.
	No, he's still in.
	Oh, he's still in?
	He's still in.
	They've only deselected one of these candidates so far.
	Right, so kicking a dog, fine by Richard Tice.
	Yep.
	Endorsing reform policy, not fine by Richard Tice.
	Quite.
	We're going to see a pattern.
	Yeah.
	Here's the next one, right?
	This is Amelia Randall.
	Yep.
	Obviously trustworthy individual.
	Okay.
	So she's running for Herne Bayon Sandwich and she sold spells for £200 on Facebook in 2019 and offered mystic psychic readings for £14.99 on a now-deleted OnlyFans page.
	Now, of note, she wasn't posting pornographic material on OnlyFans.
	Okay, so... I mean, yeah, because with this...
	Bad luck for those people and only fans who aren't doing things that are pornographic, because everyone thinks you are.
	Yeah, there are other websites, so it might have been a wiser business decision to set up shop elsewhere, but... Is that the going rate for a spell?
	£200?
	I wouldn't know.
	I'm from the group of people that burn witches at the stake in history, I'm probably not the best person to ask for marketing.
	I mean, I would sell spells for £200 a pop.
	I mean, all I'm saying is, guaranteed efficacy.
	So, so, so crystal ladies.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So how is this like, okay.
	Don't get me wrong.
	She's an eccentric.
	Yes.
	That's a nice way of putting it.
	She's an eccentric, but obviously her heart's in the right place.
	She's not obviously an evil person.
	She's not hurting anyone.
	She's a bit woo woo weird.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But she's, you know, there are, there are women out there who want woo woo weird.
	to make themselves feel better.
	That's fine.
	This is just something that, you know, women do.
	It's tarot readers and stuff like that.
	I had a friend a while ago who I was working at a different place and she was like, oh, I went to a fortune teller and she read my palm and she told me about it and I was like, you don't really think she can see the future, do you?
	That's how Rory pulls girls at Bristol.
	He's told me that before.
	I don't doubt, but she actually got quite offended and I was like, you don't really think.
	She was like, I actually quite like tarot.
	I'm not saying you can't like it.
	I'll cover it with you another time, but it's interesting.
	I'm just saying the gypsy woman who was hanging around in Slough didn't know the future.
	That's all I'm staking, my reputation.
	I think part of it is, we discussed this in our Simone de Beauvoir conversation before, When the internal processes of a body is quite mysterious to women, things happen unexpectedly.
	The whole world seems comprised of mysterious process, so therefore spiritual phenomena are interesting to them, whereas men can just dismiss it out of hand of, it doesn't jive with my connective, like, linear experience.
	But it's not, like, bad.
	No.
	It's like, oh my god, we're gonna get a hip piece because this candidate does woo-woo.
	It's like, The next one was one that got her in trouble.
	This is Yvette Maxwell-Darkis for Swindon North.
	And she said that Tommy Robinson has very good things to say and that I actually quite like him.
	He stands up and says things that most people think.
	Now apparently, I have heard that on other instances she is a sort of bit of a normie boomer con.
	Sure.
	That's not to slate her.
	But this was her gravest sin.
	She has been thrown out.
	Oh.
	She's been quietly deselected.
	Right, actually.
	Okay.
	Yeah, because if you go to her page, there.
	Right, okay.
	So Swindon has now no representation.
	Interesting, I'll apply.
	If I was going to stand anywhere, it'd have to be in Swindon North.
	I know it fairly well.
	Well, I would just invite Richard Tice to come down and maybe see Swindon sometime, because if Bo is a representative of what people think of Swindon South, and this woman's a representative of what people think of Swindon North, then things are pretty bad in Swindon for mass immigration.
	So if you spent time here, you might understand why people feel this way.
	In the sort of outer band of Swindon North, it's the kind of asylees from Swindon Santa.
	Like, there are lots of people there who are just like, well, you know, things are changing.
	But anyway, I like Swindon North.
	I just think it's funny that it's starting to look like the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach had a higher survivability than being a reform candidate.
	Well, you're speaking as a casualty yourself, Yeah, I got booted as well.
	Yeah, all you did say is Raikou should not have rolled out Don't Look Back in Anger as a bunch of kids who were blown up at a pop concert.
	Yeah.
	Despite Richard Tyson saying he wants to dismantle the Home Office, he goes, well, you can't say that.
	We need a centrally managed sponsor.
	I'm not pro-bombing kids, so therefore... Yeah, quite.
	You wouldn't get a place in the Obama administration.
	So someone else, this is maybe slightly more off the wall, but she didn't get booted out for it.
	JK Rowling's been deselected.
	Lee Harris.
	So she was a candidate for Kenilworth and Southam in Warwickshire, right?
	This is this particular woman.
	And she used to be a Tory councillor.
	And then she was kicked out of the Tory party, was suspended and found not guilty.
	In 2019, for Twitter posts, where she said that the anti-Semitism row within the Labour Party was an Israeli conspiracy.
	She said it was spot on, that the whole anti-Semitism thing is a false flag, probably masterminded by Mossad and the CIA.
	No comment.
	Yeah, no comment.
	Well, yeah, I don't think Claudia Webb is a Mossad agent, because I don't think she's that smart.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Let's put it that way.
	I don't think Diane Abbott is a Mossad agent.
	I do happen to think their barrier to entry is a bit higher than Diane Abbott.
	Yeah, I think they're a little bit too thick to be a CIA asset.
	The reason she didn't get deselected is because she's Jewish.
	So, he said that, was found not guilty, because she's Jewish.
	That's okay for reform.
	It's not what you say, it's not what you think, it's what you are that is the ultimate arbiter.
	Yes, because reform is a member of the far right, don't you know?
	Right, good, good, okay.
	Then there's a fellow named Richard Brown, right?
	So Richard said that, and this may have to be bleeped for YouTube, so sorry editors, Richard shared the false claim, this is according to Daily Mail, that doctors refused to treat Boris Johnson on the basis that he didn't actually have COVID, and claimed the pandemic was an illusion that had been planned by the government since 2016.
	So, a bit more possible than some of the other Covid stuff that ended up being proven right.
	But yet again, that's fine, but reform party policy, not fine.
	And I like his shirt as well.
	It does look like a sweet shop bag.
	I used to have a shirt like that, but blue.
	I maintain my criticism.
	He also called your best mate Jess Phillips a bitch in 2022.
	Oh, I like this guy already.
	Yeah.
	I'd have voted for him.
	Then there's Mark Hoth.
	He's representing Sutton Coldfield for reform, and he said that there was no pandemic.
	North Durham's Andrew Husband shared multiple posts suggesting that the COVID vaccine was the greatest crime against humanity.
	Hello, YouTube.
	You didn't hear that one.
	Edward Oakenfield... We're definitely going to have to bleep a bunch of this.
	Yeah, which beat random lines.
	He's running for Derbyshire Dales and has branded the asylum seekers disabled scroungers, who should go back to wherever they came from.
	Oh, they're not disabled.
	They're just really skinny and sort of sickly looking.
	Well, I don't know.
	I think they're just grifters.
	There's chances.
	They're not disabled.
	Scum, just get rid of them!
	Again, this is reform policy.
	It's Conservative policy to keep paying these people, and yet the Daily Mail doesn't ask.
	Everything on your list so far is everything you would hear between any normal bunch of people down the pub.
	This is exactly the point.
	If you're going to get a representative sample of the British public, you're going to get quote-unquote far-right conspiracy theorists.
	But none of these opinions are palatable within the Westminster bubble of the Dinner Party circuit, which is why they're being highlighted by the Tory party, and then also when they're highlighted by Hope Not Hate, reform takes action for some blooming reason.
	Yeah.
	One fellow, yeah, Okunful, said something a bit contentious, but he hasn't been deselected as far as I know.
	He said, importing loads of Sub-Saharan Africans plus Muslims that interbreed create gene pool decline.
	Bit worse than what Beau said.
	Ed Dutton subscriber.
	Yeah, quite, yeah, yeah.
	Speaking of which, there is a Brokeronomics of Ed Dutton up on the site at the moment, which is very good, so check that out.
	It's very amusing, yes.
	Point being, Bo didn't say that, and yet Bo was slung out with Richard confirming that he had OK'd it himself.
	So... I was like, I like Reforms Manifesto.
	Richard's like, no you don't.
	Okay, sorry.
	Apologise.
	Speaking of some of the other candidates that he's already kicked out, they list them in here, so these are the hope not hate hitters.
	This is Ginny Heathcote Ball, and she was kicked out for the Rutland and Stamford seat after she said that Femi Oluwole, you know, the anti-Brexit... Oh, I know who Femi is.
	Yeah, yeah, I can't stand him.
	He should be deported.
	No comment.
	British radio presenter Niall Arthanayake, who is of Sri Lankan heritage, should emigrate to his black-only country.
	Yeah, but wasn't he the prat who said that he despises being around white people?
	Yeah, so the framing of this article is really disingenuous.
	It's the Daily Mail.
	She also called Angela Rayner a slut.
	Didn't Angela Rayner talk about opening her legs to distract Boris Johnson?
	This was Ginger Growlergate.
	Yeah.
	From the sight or the smell?
	I don't know.
	Doesn't she sit behind the bench thing?
	No, no, no.
	If he's standing at the dispatch box, you can see the right...
	Oh, okay.
	So it could be either then.
	And so it's not like, you know, there's an unwarranted criticism.
	Yeah.
	Also, this is really dodgy by the Daily Mail.
	I think this is actually, like, bordering on defamatory framing.
	In 2022, she used the hashtag acid attacked after calling for a purge of the scum in the Labour Party.
	She's referring to Claudia Webb.
	Yeah, that...
	Yeah, that's really...
	That's really...
	That's horrendous Daily Mail, actually.
	Like, bottom-of-the-barrel journalism there, but...
	Didn't Claudia Webb ring someone up and say, I'm going to acid attack you if you get in my husband?
	Yes.
	Yeah, so...
	Who does that even occur to on...
	I've never said to somebody, I'm going to asset attack you because you don't have 40 IQ.
	Again, Claudia Webb, probably not the average Moss Addy.
	Not without a 1 in the front, anyway.
	No.
	She also described herself as a far-right hooligan and proud of it.
	The fact that Daily Mail have included her in this and there means that they know that this is not a declaration that you're part of the 1930s German party.
	Like, come on, really?
	Even Richard Tice has said, oh, I'm far-right by this standard.
	There was also a Yorkshireman called Roger Hoe who was ditched for Beverley and Holderness after he praised Tommy Robinson and shared links to what they call COVID misinformation.
	Yeah.
	And then of course they mentioned Bo.
	There was also a guy in February who was deselected for Henley and Tame over quote inappropriate social media posts.
	Now I don't know if anyone saw Richard Tyson's GB News bit on this.
	One of the posts was the guy brushing the pride flag down the drain when it hits July.
	And then he compared LGBT activists to Adolf Hitler, which obviously nobody has done post-war comparing the political opponents to Hitler whatsoever.
	Nobody's done Godwin's law.
	Basically, all of this here, there are inconsistent standards being applied to who can join reform and who can't.
	I think this is totally arbitrary, and it means there is a stifling environment where if you're going to pick actual representative people for the British public, you don't know what you can and can't say, and so you would stand up with a bunch of Westminster lovies by the time that the cull has been conducted.
	I just want to make it clear that all of these people would be more than welcome to join my political party if I were to start one.
	Might be quite fun.
	So the reason that this article exists is this.
	This is Jonathan Gullis, who's just been appointed the Deputy Party Chairman.
	I've spoken to Gullis before, off air.
	Says very different things.
	I bet he does.
	Very different.
	And actually, Richard Tice picked up on that, funnily enough.
	So Gullis was quoted in this article, and Tice tweeted out, I think this was yesterday, with a special Easter message to Tory MP Jonathan Gullis, given the multiple bits of embarrassing personal information we have on you, I suggest you pipe down on your attacks against me.
	I wouldn't be surprised if someone gets the Electoral Commission to look into this for total bogus reasons, but I can support the fact that Gullis says one thing and then immediately does another.
	It seems like a strange way of exposing yourself here to TICE.
	Who cares what Darlan Gullis says?
	Does his own wife care?
	TICE takes things personally.
	Yeah I can tell.
	Why would you expose yourself like this and overreach a bit?
	Over Jonathan Gullis?
	Yeah.
	He's a nobody.
	Who I'd never heard of.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He's such a nobody, you've never even heard of him.
	Gullis is a member of the Newcons, but he's probably the most wet and useless one because he also mealy-mouthedly defends the government, also criticising them.
	He's the one that went on TalkTV a little while ago and said that we're going to kick all the asylum seekers out of the, the, the rapey migrants out of the hotels, and then They said, OK, where are you going to put them?
	Nietzsche said, we're going to kick them out of the hotels.
	And they went, OK, but where are they going to go?
	Country of origin.
	We're going to ignore that bit.
	We're just going to kick them out of the hotels.
	So they're just going to be roaming your town milling about, as per usual.
	They're going to kick you out of your house instead, aren't they?
	Well, thanks.
	Well, his seat's going to go soon.
	These people are just responding to incentives.
	And the incentives is that the Tory party have established, and now reform have established, is that you must not have any opinions if you're going to be a political candidate.
	Yeah, quite.
	You can't actually substantively represent your own constituents.
	You've just got to talk the line that keeps you respected and is in the party circle.
	Essentially, you have to be forbidden from social media.
	Yeah, your job is to have no opinions, turn up and vote when they tell you to.
	Or post leftism on social media, I suppose.
	Quite.
	So what Gullis said in this article, he said, Reform says its candidates have been vetted, and given that all of this information is in the public domain, we can only assume that this cast of characters passed Mr. Tyson's muster.
	We're clearly not just talking about fewer on eggs here.
	If you're promoting candidates banned from looking after dogs, how can you honestly say they're capable of looking after the interests of their constituents?
	Never mind all the sex scandals in the Tory party.
	And the thing is, okay, Jonathan, yeah, your party, all your candidates are vetted.
	Yeah, how are you doing in the polls?
	At 90 points ahead of Reform?
	What's that, less than 100 seats?
	Oh wow, that sounds terrible.
	Zero seats.
	Zero seats.
	Yep.
	So, Tice responded to this and defended some of his candidates.
	He notes about Jackie being Jewish and being cleared of anti-Semitism.
	What's wrong with earning money legally as a fortune teller?
	Is it not good enough for the Westminster snobs?
	Shockingly, he's found the one thing he won't tolerate.
	You leave my woo-woo woman alone.
	Yeah.
	The only person he didn't defend in here was, of course, the woman he quietly deselected.
	The woman who had probably the most right-wing opinions there?
	Yeah, she seemed pretty good.
	Yeah, and again, she didn't come out and full-throatly say, I'd like Tommy Robinson to lead Reform UK.
	She just said, oh yeah, he says some sensible things sometimes.
	The most tepid possible defense.
	You would think even Tommy Robinson's worst critics could concede that.
	Yeah.
	He's like, hey guys, I think these grooming gangs are a bit of a problem.
	Yeah, I think he's made some imprudent decisions before, and I think associating with Andrew Tate is probably not the best thing for brand reputability, but clearly opposing a grooming gang should just not be a far-right position.
	Like, yeah, I don't want young white girls to get raped.
	Shock!
	Well, just any girls.
	Just any of them.
	Because, I mean, the Sikhs have been victimised by it as well.
	I don't even need to be particular about this.
	I just think the grooming gangs themselves are bad.
	Yeah, sure.
	I'm against rape.
	Apparently a far-right position that only Tommy Robinson can endorse.
	There you go.
	Against rape in all cases, not just in some cases.
	I'm far-right.
	So the interesting thing is, though, if they start weeding out all of the far-right people and they start gaining ground, Reform UK, because the Tory party is so wet, then we're not going to be particularly represented.
	And I say this because this is just how they're making reform look strong by default, because the Tory party then come out and whine to the Telegraph.
	saying that Richard Tice is a threatening bully and this is a Tory party chairman.
	So they're two chairmen and they're crying about Richard Tice.
	How feminized are we as a society when any man attacks another man as being a bully?
	You didn't have like Alexander or Caesar saying that, you know, these people are bullying me.
	Pompeii was like, Caesar's bullying me!
	Yes, he's just...
	How wrong-housed are we as a culture?
	But that is even a thing.
	I just want to let The Telegraph know, look, I'm not going to vote for Richard Dice.
	It doesn't matter how strongly you advertise him to me, I'm not going to do it.
	This is the effect of institutional schooling, where any time that you have a conflict with someone, you're meant to run and tell the teacher and whine.
	And actually, if you retaliate or stand up for yourself, you're just as bad as the perpetrator.
	This is exactly that mindset.
	Pathetic.
	No testicles.
	But Holden wrote on Twitter, what a threatening bully Richard Tice is exposing himself to be.
	Silly man.
	He's not nearly that impressive.
	No, no, clearly not that strong if he thinks that someone's tepid defence of Tommy Robinson is worthy of being kicked out the party.
	But they're a bit late though, Richard, because the most forthright thing Richard has done was this the other day.
	He's read out Douglas Murray's article about hope not hate.
	I agree.
	Why do you let them select your candidates then?
	Now can we scroll down on this slightly because I think I'm probably the top.
	Richard Price is anti hope not hate even though that They have a complete veto over any of his candidates.
	So why do you allow them to bully you into deselecting good reform candidates?
	That's going to be pretty much all of the responses.
	All the friends of the show are just piling in.
	But look, I can say this.
	So I've got normie family members who occasionally watch my stuff by virtue of knowing me, but they're not really politically plugged in.
	And as soon as I said, yeah, they allowed a communist research group to say who shouldn't, shouldn't be in the party.
	But my dad was just like, all right, well, I can't vote for them then, can I?
	But this isn't just online internet people with anime avatars that are going after you, Richard.
	This is normal people who are going, well, I thought you were slightly different.
	I thought, especially with backing Lee Anderson, you don't mind a little bit of coarse language or pub talk.
	The kind of people that are not necessarily as refined for Westminster tastes, but do actually care about their local area.
	And then you throw them under the bus.
	I mean, Lee Anderson did say that London was controlled by Sadiq Khan, who's controlled by jihadists or Islamists.
	So, I mean, you know, how's that substantively different to anything Tommy Robinson has said?
	Yeah.
	And the Anderson didn't at the time even provide receipts.
	I mean, I did retroactively, but yeah, I'm not saying it's a big risk.
	Yeah.
	I'm saying, oh, I'm saying it's right.
	Yeah.
	What I'm saying is, you know, this is a, this is a position you've really stood on Richard.
	So why back down?
	Yes.
	I'm just still annoyed by the weaseliness of this because he's, he's, he's obviously, there was a big backlash when Bo went.
	And a lot of people were saying, why are you letting Hope Not Hate lead you around by the nose?
	So they went into a planning meeting and they said, OK, how can we show that we're not being led around on a little lead, a little gimp lead by Hope Not Hate?
	And they eventually decided to put this tweet out.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I totally agree with Douglas Murray's take on it.
	And if Richard Tice totally agrees with Douglas Murray's take on it, why don't you just block them and tell them to F themselves?
	I will go out on a limb here, and I will say, I actually spoke to Richard after Bo was slung out, and Richard has not unfollowed me, he didn't give any coarse words to me, just as he has not given any coarse words to Douglas Murray for coming out against Hope Not Hate, and I think it's probably because he sees us as politically useful.
	He sees Bo as disposable, some of these candidates as disposable, but if someone else has a comparable enough platform to himself, then he doesn't want to burn bridges with them.
	Why have I got like twice as many followers as he's got?
	You don't go on GB News.
	That's it.
	cannibalize the whole party.
	And now you've got the Daily Mail doing the Tory party's bidding, putting pressure on you because you're nipping at their heels in the polls.
	And again, they did literally hire a communist as the head of research.
	So I don't think it was particularly wise to cave to communists in the first place, and now you're sort of reaping the whirlwind, having sowed the seeds of your own destruction there.
	So yeah, pretty disappointed that I don't have any substantive representation at the next election.
	Guess we'll see who Reform ends up putting up at the next one.
	Wow.
	On that note, Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
	Now, it's not on April 1st.
	It was actually yesterday, but of course we don't broadcast on Sunday.
	But you know who we don't talk enough about?
	It's transgender people.
	Especially on Easter.
	I was really chuffed about that one.
	It is in fact on the 31st of March every year.
	So actually that it landed on Easter was coincidental.
	Yeah.
	So of course the date will change it.
	So it won't be on Easter for another, I think it's 10 years.
	Uh, but in 10 years time, we'll be back here again.
	And you know, that'll be probably there's one every year is there.
	There is one every year, it's the 31st of March.
	But what I think you should remember is this is the holiest day of the Progressive Calendar.
	This is essentially very much likened to when Jesus' return came about for Christians, the Resurrection.
	Is it holier than Pride Month?
	Well, Pride Month isn't an individual day.
	So it's a general experience of holiness.
	What about Transgender Day Remembrance?
	Because that's when they honour their martyrs, isn't it?
	Well, that's... I'm not a Christian, I don't know.
	Do we have a day for St.
	Floyd?
	Yeah, well, of course St.
	Floyd has a day.
	I'm not progressive either.
	I don't have their calendar memorized anyway.
	But the point being, this is the most holy day of the progressive calendar.
	And so, as you can see, it's a venerable tradition going back all the way to 2009.
	I have underpants that are older than Transgender Day of Remembrance, but, uh, visibility, sorry.
	Um, and I love the way it says it's founded.
	It was created by, it's like, what the hell does that mean?
	It was just kind of declared.
	So it's declared in 2009.
	And then as you can see, nothing happened six years.
	Uh, but then in 2015, a bunch of Tumblr activists noticed it.
	And they started posting about it on social media.
	And then in 2021, Joe Biden declared it as March 31st as Transgender Day of Visibility, stating, I call upon all Americans to join in the fight for full equality for all transgender people.
	Now, transgender people are remarkably visible.
	So this clearly isn't about just physical visibility, I'm guessing.
	They definitely, um, Stand out?
	Yes.
	Should we say?
	Um, and you're right.
	It's not about physical visibility.
	Um, would you like to meet the founder of Trans Day?
	Yes, we would.
	Do we have to?
	Yes.
	It's this person.
	Oh, Danny DeVito's Penguin.
	Rachel Crocker.
	Rachel Crandall Crocker.
	Exactly who I expected, actually.
	It's precisely what I thought the person who founded this would look like.
	Yeah, for our audio listeners, it is actually stunning and brave, is absolutely what it is.
	Yeah, with Roz's glasses from Monsters, Inc.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Do you think Rachel shaves first and then puts on the lipstick all the other way around?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I would, I would obviously shave first because yeah, you don't want to scuff it.
	But, um, but anyway, this, uh, as I said, is a timeless progressive tradition, uh, that one CNN reporter, remember he was, uh, just a wee boy.
	And every March 31st would be transgender day of visibility.
	I mean, he was 20 when it was first founded.
	So I'm not sure how true that story is, but, uh, again, Average ancient tradition.
	But loads of the big names are coming out in support of it, such as the ACLU of Alaska.
	The ACLU would have had all the 10 people it represents there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, no.
	Literally, actually.
	So they're very stunning and brave, as you might imagine.
	And so it is very much a Joe Biden thing, this Transgender Day of Visibility.
	I mean, if you go back to the timeline Wikipedia got us, You know, it's just social media.
	Nobody's posting on Twitter and Tumblr.
	And then six years after that, boom, Joe Biden's like, you know what?
	It is that thing.
	Good point.
	This is the current thing.
	I have been radicalized by my phone.
	And so we have arrived at this point where now Joe Biden is posting it's Transgender Day of Visibility.
	Today on Transgender Day of Visibility, this most holy of days.
	I have a simple message to all trans Americans.
	I see you, which is A bit weird.
	Surprising for Biden.
	Maybe he'll locate his glasses finally.
	Joe Biden's just staring at you.
	Just looking at you.
	You'd think his sense of smell was much better than his sense of vision, wouldn't you?
	I mean, he didn't post this, obviously.
	Obviously.
	He's been Jean-Pierre or whatever runs his Twitter account, so... You are made in the image of God.
	You're worthy of respect and dignity.
	It would be so funny if you meet God and it turns out he's a tranny.
	Oh, no, I can't say that!
	Sorry, editors, snip that bit out.
	Right, so there's 10 minutes and 30 minutes.
	So the doctrine here, as celebrated on Easter Sunday, purely coincidentally, not at all with glee, is that you are made in the image of God but somehow he buggered it up along the way and transplanted- Put you in the wrong body.
	God makes mistakes, but also you're made in the image.
	But at least we have arrived at the point where we, you know, consensus agreement, this is a religious cult.
	Oh yeah, Satan also recognizes God exists.
	Sure.
	Satan's also, you know, the divine principle is still in play.
	It's not all pure materialism.
	They at least believe that there is something divine going on.
	It's just the interpretation of which religion.
	And this is Joe Biden's one.
	But as you see, there's a slight play towards the Christians.
	It's like, well, I mean, are they not also God's children?
	It's like, yeah, I'm sure you're such a devout believer, but you know, you've got no problem banning religious themes on the White House Easter egg annual event for military families.
	So why would you, what are you having an Easter event for if there's no religious theme that undergirds it?
	Well, chocolate does tempt children to the White House.
	To be fair, at this point, especially, I don't know what it's like in the U.S., but in the U.K., you'd be hard-pushed to find an Easter egg that's commercially sold that has any sort of religious iconography on it.
	Have you seen the Ramadan figures that, uh, kick Apple out?
	Yeah.
	But, um, but no, that's, that, that is true.
	I mean, it's not like our Easter eggs have crosses on them.
	No.
	But they're not forbidden from having crosses on.
	No.
	Unlike at Joe Biden's event where he's like, you know, Christianity.
	And how do they enforce that?
	Do they have secret service searching your bag for secret crosses or something?
	Well, they have put them all on the list.
	You know, the FBI put the rosary on a watch list as an extremist symbol last year.
	Obviously, people that visit Ramaswami are like, hang on a second, this is an attack on Christianity.
	It's like, well, yes and no.
	It's an attack on white people, actually.
	But they just view Christianity as a white religion, because most Americans are Christians and also white.
	They wouldn't attack Christianity if it was... If it was only the Jamaicans that did it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They wouldn't attack Christianity.
	But because it's you, that's why they're doing it.
	But yeah, no, anyway, let's carry on because Biden really is committed to this.
	Here's Joe Biden's personal account, again, probably run by the diversity hire, where he says a different message on the same day on the same subject.
	On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know.
	Today, we show millions of transgender and non-binary Americans that we see them.
	They belong and they should be treated with dignity and respect.
	Yeah, like when they're stealing women's clothes.
	That's brave, man.
	That's really brave.
	And, uh, not that particular dress, but there was this, uh, the reason this, this, um, Sam Brinton.
	Yeah, I know his name, but I don't know how to refer to them in the third person.
	But the reason they got caught is because there was one African-American fashion designer who designed not that dress, but a particular dress that was red and black.
	She had only made one of it and he turned up wearing it in public after stealing her luggage.
	You, I know you've done it because there was one of those made and it was mine because I made it.
	Um, the woman did get her clothes back in the end as well.
	And he got arrested.
	I'm not sure.
	Oh yeah.
	You just, yeah.
	I mean, I'm not sure I'd wear it either, but like.
	No, I'd, I'd, I'd burn the dress.
	Yeah.
	But the point is it's pretty brave to steal someone's clothes and then wear them out in public.
	To be fair, I don't have the cojones to walk down the street in a dress.
	So Joe Biden is right.
	It is joy, strength, and courage.
	Bravest people he knew.
	Um, anyway, so then we've got the White House.
	My goodness, have we not visibilized these people enough?
	Transgender people are part of the fabric of our nation.
	On Transgender Day of Visibility, our administration honors the extraordinary courage of transgender Americans and reaffirms our commitment to forming a more perfect union where all people are treated equally.
	That's interesting.
	That's interesting because it turns out it's unless they're Hispanic, In which the Biden administration will not recognize that they are transgender and they are visible.
	They literally won't see them.
	They'll celebrate Caesar Chavez day on the Spanish language account, but not mention trans day of visibility.
	Ah!
	It's only the white people.
	So there's a Spanish version of the Twitter feed.
	Yes.
	And it just doesn't mention the alphabet people.
	They don't get their day in Spanish.
	Ah.
	It's binary for the Spanish people.
	Well, yes, that's a bit like, again, it's a bit like the Holy Month, the Pride Month, is all the corporations, they change their logos to rainbow flags.
	Apart from the Arabic ones.
	Yes.
	Yeah, really weird, isn't it?
	So uh yeah no we more perfect union we're all treated equally unless you're hispanic and then you're below uh below recognition for the Biden administration but anyway let's carry on because Kamala Harris obviously trans rights are human rights What's a trans right then?
	How is it substantively different to anything else?
	But she says, on Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate transgender and non-binary Americans.
	Their courage has given countless others strength, holding up America.
	But no one should have to be brave by themselves.
	We see you.
	We stand with you.
	We won't stop fighting for you.
	OK, so we're fighting for transgender people.
	That's 1% optimistically of the American population.
	And I'm sure Kamala Harris won't stop fighting until that's 100% of the population.
	We can't talk about the growing proportion of each generation.
	We can't break down that percentage by age demographic.
	That would suggest awful things.
	Let's just assume that it's a consistent slice through all demographics.
	That implies that there are 330 million, 360 million Americans, I'm sure.
	That implies there are more American transgenders than there are Celtic people in the British Isles.
	If it's 1%, there'll be 33 million.
	I want that as a mod for Total War.
	Oh no, sorry.
	It'd be 3.3 million.
	So there's more transgenders than Welsh in America.
	Like, isn't that just, isn't that just like, it's a bit much, isn't it?
	A bunch of Scottish lads in their kilts with their battle axes.
	And then the other side with their wobbling things that they, you know.
	There are more transgenders in America than there are Irish in Ireland.
	But just saying, I'm not sure it is actually 1%.
	I'm just saying.
	But anyway, Kamala Harris is going to fight until that's far more than 1%.
	So let's go to the Democrats.
	Oh yeah, Trans Rights Human Rights.
	I was worried.
	I was seeing every other account do this, but I was thinking, well, are the Democrats going to do it?
	Are they not going to do it?
	They're really not holding back, are they?
	Do you know who took the longest to do this?
	It was Nancy Pelosi.
	She had tweeted about Easter, Cesar Chavez, And then trans rights.
	Well, it's because it's really hard to type when your fingers are shaking because you're drunk at 9am.
	Quite possibly.
	But anyway, the Democrats say trans rights are human rights.
	On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honour the courage and resilience of transgender and non-binary Americans and celebrate their many contributions to our country.
	I mean, it's not easy to be a trans person.
	Unless all of the power structures are behind you.
	Here's the education secretary who says, quote, we need you.
	He said that parents should not be the primary stakeholders in the children's education.
	Yep.
	And he needs trans people.
	I mean, he says in this little monologue, we need you.
	The message from the Biden administration after the Covenant high school shooting in Tennessee committed by a trans person was that transgender Americans are the backbone of our nation.
	Yeah.
	I've got a really venomous taste in my mouth looking at all of this.
	Yeah, I mean, they did say there were seven victims of that shooting.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, they did that bloody thing with seven fingers, didn't they?
	Yeah.
	And it's like, no, I'm not really on board with that.
	But anyway, I think that we really have to side with Secretary Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, who seems to want trans-imperialism.
	Transgender people deserve to live authentically safely and with dignity.
	We will continue to fight for a world in which trans people can live safely and openly as themselves.
	He confused G-A-E with G-A-Y, clearly.
	Yeah.
	But that seems to imply that he's giving himself a mandate.
	If there's a country over there that doesn't agree, well, you're getting the George Bush treatment.
	And he is literally the guy that is basically responsible for raining bombs down on foreign nations if they don't do what they're supposed to do.
	Yes, we're going to fight for a world in which trans people can do whatever.
	And that means the Iranians are in trouble.
	Didn't Uganda get sanctioned for not being trans something?
	They tried to criminalize same-sex rape, and then the UN said you're trying to criminalize homosexuality, which was a very weird self-report, and then the US decided to try and sanction them.
	Because, I mean, how much longer is it going to be before the US is just openly bombing countries because they're not trans enough?
	Well, not a lot, according to Anthony Blinken.
	They won't be able to bomb Iran, though, because Iran is a really high trans... Yeah, so John Bolton will be really upset by this new policy change, actually.
	Fair point.
	I mean, Syria is probably in trouble.
	Russia.
	Well, I mean, there are, there are a few people that are going to get imperialized for not being trans enough.
	Um, but what I found really interesting was who didn't come out and show that they were committed to this new religion that is going to transform the world.
	Literally.
	Uh, Barack Obama only posted about Easter on Easter Sunday.
	Huh?
	Strange.
	Actually kind of wholesome.
	Why would he disrespect his wife like this?
	Well, no kids doing egg and spoon.
	And speaking of his wife, uh, she didn't post anything in this.
	She just retweeted him.
	Huh?
	And it was like, right.
	Okay.
	That's interesting.
	The Obamas are well, she doesn't want to draw attention.
	Does she?
	I mean, no, no, no, no.
	This hideous slander, like, you know, Obama just likes muscle mommies.
	Okay.
	It's fine.
	There's, there's, there's nothing wrong with that.
	We've got absolutely no proof.
	of the disgusting rumors.
	But this is normal and wholesome, actually.
	And this is what you would expect a normal politician to post.
	Whereas Joe Biden's like, yeah, so every single person who thinks that they're the opposite gender.
	He's even got white children in the video.
	Yeah, I know.
	This is a totally normal.
	It's like from 2008 or something.
	Yeah.
	This video.
	This is pre-post-racial America vibes.
	Yeah.
	And it's just totally normal.
	And that's really interesting, isn't it?
	Joe Biden and his whole cabal are like, yeah, we're going to bomb the entire world to make sure that you can do whatever you want to do.
	Wear a lovely frock.
	Yeah.
	And Barack Obama's just being normal.
	And so you can't help but think, you must think of Joe Biden as a total dead weight on his political career.
	Let's come over to the UK.
	Who, of course, could it have been?
	The Labour Party.
	They're like, oh my God, something's happening in America.
	We have to tweet about this.
	Fascinating.
	Thank you, Labour Party.
	Just to be clear, the Labour Party hasn't changed.
	They haven't changed.
	They're still going to promote all of this nonsense.
	They're still an insane, woke, progressive party.
	They're just not as woke as the Conservatives.
	Well, they're the other, you know, woke, progressive party.
	Yeah.
	You know what's interesting?
	The Conservatives did not post anything about this.
	Which, I mean, you can imagine, there must have been a hell of an argument behind the scenes in the Conservative Party.
	There were going to be a lot of angry WhatsApps from MPs and group chats.
	Yeah.
	Miriam Cates and Nick Fletcher were probably kicking up a storm.
	The heart of the Conservative Party is like, guys, can we just post about transgenders?
	And the brain of the Conservative Party is like, just don't, just don't, just don't.
	We're already below 20%.
	Come on, just don't.
	Just shut up.
	Anyway, they left it to the Mayor of London, who posted this flag.
	Are you familiar with this flag?
	Oh, yeah!
	Isn't that the Asexual Pride?
	No.
	Is it not?
	The Bisexual Pride.
	Oh, right.
	Well, it's the Bisexual Transgender Racial Gay Pride flag.
	So they've got another arrow coming in from the other side.
	Yeah.
	More on two fronts now.
	Yeah, I mean, I think the gays are probably not going to be able to win this.
	Well, they're in a pincer movement from the start, so... In fact, which one is the gays?
	They're the middle ones.
	That's the middle flag.
	And so you've got the trans and the blacks and the browns on one side, and you've got the bi's and the blacks and the browns on the other side, and they are conquering the gays.
	Which is a weird symbology, but... Well, they are, aren't they?
	The symbology's actually quite accurate, though, because gay people think bisexual people are really greedy and so shouldn't be part of the LGBT whatever acronym.
	And you've got loads of the LGBs that don't like the T's.
	So this is actually representative of a war within the... coalition.
	But anyway, as good progressives, we of course support all of these things.
	You know who's a bad progressive?
	Elon Musk.
	Who decided to apparently remove all instances of pronouns from Twitter.
	Of all the days to do it.
	Is it really?
	Be gone!
	I do quite like Elon.
	He's good.
	Yeah, he does seem to be on the right side of things, doesn't he?
	But yeah, anyway, so happy Transgender Day of Visibility.
	I hope you all felt very seen.
	Oh good, right.
	Let me do the clicky thing.
	So let's have a chat about Truth Social, Trump's social media company.
	Have you guys used it?
	I do have an account on it, but I can't remember my password.
	I've never posted anything, I've just used it to look at his posts.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I mean, I haven't signed up myself yet, but anyway, the company is now floated on the Stock Exchange, so you can buy shares in In the Trump Media and Technology Group under the ticker code DJT.
	And it's kind of got off to a quite a good start actually.
	So look, here's the quote on Yahoo Finance.
	Local man can't stop winning.
	yes well i mean quite spectacularly actually because market cap um seven billion dollars so is that the overall valuation yeah that well that's um i suppose the most recent shares have been traded at a level that if it was all shares were sold at that level would get you would get you seven billion so whether you could actually realize that is a different is a different thing i'm not saying it's not hypothetical yeah but i mean it's
	i mean that number is pretty bloody impressive because I mean if here's New York Times They're also about $7 billion.
	So they are, to put it rather mildly, not terribly impressed that this has been going on.
	Well, proportionate to their operations costs as well.
	I imagine True Social costs a hell of a lot less to run than the NYT does.
	Yeah, that's probably true.
	Well, I mean, we can have a look at that.
	So let's just click into the financials here.
	Um, I will say that as much as I enjoy the sheer win of this, and it is quite a big win, and I'll go into some of the reasons why that's quite a big win, it is a little bit toppy, this valuation.
	There's a little bit up there.
	Um, so total, um, revenues, um, at the, I'm presuming this is the point of filing, 4.6, uh, million.
	Uh, yeah, yes.
	Million.
	Um, and, um, where have we got?
	Let's, let's, let's try and find a profit line, shall we?
	Let's go with, let's go with EBIT.
	I don't make any profit.
	Well, no, it's a minus 1.5.
	I mean, how does it make any money?
	Is it advertised on it or what?
	Uh, presumably.
	Well, who the hell?
	Yeah, a little bit of that.
	So anyway, I can exclusively reveal that, um, the Lotus Eaters is actually more profitable than the 7 billion pound company.
	I don't know if, if that means that we justify a, Looking at that total expenses of 19 million.
	Yes, it is a little bit high and they've got about 2% user base of Twitter.
	So is the valuation not anticipatory of the idea that he would use this as a press release platform exclusively, were he to win the election?
	Well, yes.
	But, I mean, I think there's potentially more that he could do on this as well.
	I just wanted to say, though, that, you know, I love the fact that it's doing well, and I love the fact that it's a total win, and I think there is some value in buying this, mainly for the keks, but as a slight warning to sort of people looking, this is certainly not a traditional sort of level investment.
	So, in its filing, I noted that there was a quote that stood out.
	It says, at its juncture in its development, Truth Social believes that adhering to traditional key performance indicators such as signups, average revenue per user, ad impression pricing, or active user accounts, including monthly and active daily users, could potentially divert focus from strategic evaluation. could potentially divert focus from strategic evaluation.
	So it's not really sort of disclosing a lot of stuff as to sort of what's going on there.
	Now, the result of that is that this has swiftly become one of the most shorted stocks in America.
	Right.
	By quite a lot.
	In fact, it's almost impossible to short at this point because so much of the stock that was available has been, that is available to lend out, has already been shorted.
	So explain shorting to me because I'm not a financial guy.
	To put it like this, I personally don't short stocks for the same reason that I don't have a pet chimp.
	Because both of them will rip your face off if you get it wrong.
	Slightly colourful analogy.
	But think of it like this, if you buy a stock and it goes to zero, you know, the worst case scenario, you lose 100% of your money.
	If you short a stock, your losses are unlimited.
	Because it can just keep going up.
	So if you go longer stocks, if you buy a stock, the worst thing that you're worried about is that stock going to zero, right?
	And in that case, you lose all of your money.
	You lose a hundred percent of your money, right?
	But if you're shorting a stock, what you're doing is you're going to somebody who has the stock.
	You're saying, okay, lend me your stock.
	And I'll pay you a fee.
	Right.
	For holding onto your stock.
	Right?
	Right.
	And then, once you've got it, you sell them.
	And the idea being, is that you could then buy those shares back later on, because you think they're gonna fall, so you can buy them back cheaper, pocket the difference, and give those shares back.
	But if the stock goes up, then you've put yourself out of pocket.
	Well, exactly.
	And that's the thing.
	So if the stock starts to go up, then you then have to because you you've got an obligation you have to buy those shares but to give them to the people that you borrowed them from there's a legal obligation there to pay them back and if they go to you know whatever level they're going to go to you could end up and it could be a lot worse than a hundred percent of your money yes because it could go up three times four times understood Yeah.
	Terrible idea.
	Yes, it can absolutely eat you alive.
	Hedge funds like doing it.
	I mean, I don't actually personally mind shorting stocks, stocks that are heavily shorted.
	So, for example, I bought Tesla at about $12 a share, and that was heavily shorted, and I sort of doubled down on it when it was very heavily shorted.
	And I'm quite into MicroStrategies at the moment, which is another firm which is heavily shorted.
	And I quite like them because when majority opinion is so far against it, then if the majority is wrong, the upside is fantastic.
	So I don't mind buying into companies that are heavily shorted, but I would never do the shorting myself because it can tear your arm off.
	A good example of that Would be, um, a blast from the past.
	Here we go.
	So, so Melvin Capital.
	Do you guys remember the GameStop thing?
	I do.
	Yeah.
	So that was, um, you know, GameStop, as we know, a retailer of video games and basically the, the, um, Wall Street honchos decided that this thing was, was never going to be a viable business.
	And so what they did is they then borrowed a vast amount of stock and, um, Uh, shorted it, uh, sold it off.
	And then the, um, the, the, the Redditors, um, came swinging into action, noticed this and basically just kept on buying the stock.
	So it kept going up.
	So the people who shorted it.
	Yes.
	And they get, and they got seriously into trouble because they had to, they had to buy back the stock when that loan agreement was up.
	Right.
	No matter what it was.
	Right.
	So that makes it worse, because not only are these bastards buying the shares and not selling them, you then have to start buying shares.
	So your own purchase to cover your position then drives those shares even higher.
	I can only imagine what the GameStop CEO's day was like that day.
	I don't know, the internet's just...
	Yeah, for some reason.
	Let's just plug it in because it was completely mental.
	Where was it?
	Oh, actually, Jack, can you stick GME in there?
	Yeah, hit that.
	So, let's stick this on the 5-year.
	You might notice a bit of a spike.
	So, basically, these guys were shorting the stock here when it was about $1.
	Um, and that proper spike, that would have been when they had to start buying them back.
	So, um... So it goes from, what was it, $496 million to $5 billion?
	Yes.
	Jesus!
	That's the sort of thing that can happen.
	And so Melvin Capital, I mean, they were one of the bigwigs, so one of the sort of major institutions.
	Not quite up there with BlackRock, but I mean, they're an institutional pension fund manager as opposed to a hedge fund like these guys.
	Anyway, they just torpedoed their fund doing this.
	Yes, which isn't fun.
	I mean, I did actually buy a little bit of GameStop myself, but I didn't do it because I was expecting to make money, and I didn't.
	I just did it because I thought it was funny.
	Yeah, I lost about $300, but I lost some as well, just because it was funny.
	Yeah, it was funny, and that's the thing.
	Some of the people did obviously make fantastic returns out of that, those who got in early.
	But most of the people who got in in the end, they were just doing it to stick one in the eye of the sneering financial elites.
	In fact, there's a funny quote from the Redditors who were sort of, we can stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent.
	Which I quite enjoyed.
	Now, there's a similar sort of logic with Truth Social, I'm thinking.
	With DJT, Truth Social, I don't think it is worth 7 billion, but people are basically saying that we can stay patriotic longer than you can persecute this man.
	That's kind of what they're doing, because, you know, if enough people go and buy this stock, given how heavily shorted it is, I'm not giving financial advice, I'm not saying to people to go out and do this, to be very clear, and I am saying that if you do do it, you could probably lose money,
	But if it amuses you to take a bit of money that you could do without, you're going to hurt a hell of a lot of financial sneering elite who also happen to hate Donald Trump.
	Which is potentially setting this up to be another sort of GameStop type situation.
	I covered this last week because essentially this has saved Donald Trump's financial position.
	Yes.
	Because he's being screwed by the new Attorney General.
	Yeah.
	And this is going to bail him out of that.
	And so I saw various commentators, financial commentators, saying that what this is essentially is a measure of Donald Trump's popularity.
	Yeah.
	And you are right.
	How patriotic are you is essentially what's being measured by the price of the stock.
	I was going to say as well, you can tell that this is the case because the platform is less used by organic users because if they're not reporting analytics and user signups and all that, it's because that's not the purpose of the platform.
	The purpose of the platform is like an imperial decree dissemination metric.
	And so if they're only there for Trump's imperial decrees, then buying in, they don't care about the functionality of the site.
	They literally want to read what Trump says and then get off of it.
	So they don't mind buying in and not even using it because they're just there to support Trump.
	Well, and it's also it's just a way to participate, isn't it?
	Because, you know, you can vote every four years, but that's really about as much as you can do.
	I mean, I suppose you could become a local organizer or something that you take up an awful lot of time.
	But there's not really many ways that you can sort of get actively involved in the meantime.
	So this is this is a sort of mechanism that you can sort of, you know, get stuck into it.
	On the point of can he pay his legal bills with it?
	The slight issue there is that yes, he does own about 60% of the stock, but he's tied in for six months.
	Yeah, I covered this.
	He's not going to get the money in time, basically, so he'd need to get someone to give him a loan.
	Yeah, so I mean potentially the board can free him up to sell some shares beforehand.
	Normally there was a lock-in on that, but given that the board is made up of his loyalists and people like his son, it's not impossible they could clear him to free some stock.
	And they could also free him to borrow against it as well.
	So there probably is a way that he can get out of it.
	My concern about there not being an awful lot of value in there, that is actually also something that he could inject more value into it.
	Because at the moment this is just Truth Social, so it is literally just, as you said, his sort of pronouncements.
	What he could do is he could put the brand licensing of the Trump brand into it to inject more value.
	And that is something that I would like to see him do, because then all the royalties from the Trump businesses go into it, and whatever the Trump brand becomes, especially if he gets in for a second term, or perhaps even more powerfully if he gets robbed, for a second time, you can see that brand being worth a lot more.
	And that's a way of potentially injecting value into this.
	In fact, it's not wildly dissimilar to, um, um, an old concept that I heard a lot about when I first joined finance, which was the Bowie bond.
	I don't know if you ever heard of that.
	So the Bowie bond was, um, Bowie, um, created this bond and he put his back catalog into it.
	And then he sort of, uh, you could then buy a, a bond linked to that that would pay out based on the revenues that came from that.
	Oh, right.
	And if the bond defaulted, you would then get that back catalogue.
	And if it didn't, he would then get it back again.
	So it's basically an updated version of that.
	There's lots of things that he could do to try and inject a little bit more value into this, which I think would be very positive.
	So if that is something that he wanted to do, I think it would be a good way of addressing one of his potential flaws.
	So I see one of the, you know, I don't have many criticisms of Trump, but one of the ones that I do have is that he did not punish his enemies and reward his friends quite enough as he should have done in the first term.
	You know, there are people like, you know, General Flynn and others were probably left a little bit too far out of it.
	Roger Stone, Steve Bannon.
	The January 6th protests.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah.
	Lots of people.
	Yeah.
	And the thing is, all the left ever does, all they ever do is reward their friends.
	You can think of DEI as basically being a priestly caste that they created to transfer money to and punish their enemies.
	All they have done is sort of gone after him relentlessly.
	So I think it'd be great to see them... I mean, first of all, he shouldn't have to be paying this bloody legal bill in the first place.
	It's completely absurd that he's having to do that, but there was a way he could potentially inject a lot more value into it.
	So like I say, on pure financial metrics, I could probably see a valuation for this thing around sort of two to four hundred million.
	That said, because the float on it is fairly small, there's not many shares trading, and because there are people who want to be patriotic and support this, there's no particular reason why it couldn't get one of those GameStop spikes and go a lot higher.
	So be careful if you are thinking about getting into it.
	Understand that you could lose a lot of money, but it could also hurt a lot of anti-Biden people in the process.
	So if you're up for that, there is that option.
	And finally, I'll just close out with this.
	What this is really kind of saying is people want an alternative.
	People are fed up with the corporate media, they're fed up with that top-down sort of sneering approach.
	People are saying, we want alternatives, we want something which is outside of that structure.
	So for £5 a month, you can support the Lotus Eaters, which is very reasonable, less than the price of a beer if you're in London, and put your money where your mouth is and help alternative media as we bring this fight to our enemies.
	Consider that.
	Fantastic.
	Yes.
	On to the video comments then.
	Back in the f- fifties, my uncle was a street racer.
	Every week, he'd take everyone's money at the local drags.
	Then the cops would show up, break up the party, and he'd run them out to the county line.
	These days, if you do a donut in a parking lot at four in the morning, the cops subpoena the security footage, show up at your door, and bust your ass.
	Don't ask me how I know.
	Now, I'm not endorsing street racing.
	Much.
	But what I am saying is there's perhaps a certain threshold of mischief.
	It's not only good, but necessary for a well-rounded youth.
	Today's youth are raised in a walled garden of totalizing safety, and no one's making the argument that they're either happy or well-adjusted.
	Perhaps as somebody said, for Hoonigan nationalism.
	Yeah, for all the faults of the Grease film, it really does depict how the person-in-the-own-motor-car resurrects the chivalric spirit in, like, 1950s teenagers.
	Yeah, I'm not a car guy, but I'm totally in favour of this.
	On to the next one.
	Karl, I wanted to talk to you on Friday about your recent Andrew Gold interview.
	I wanted to say that I think Andrew was trying to be charitable when it came to defending certain woke liberal ideologies where no defence could really be applied.
	I'll send him more video comments to try and explain what I mean.
	Yeah, I think he was definitely trying to steel man their position.
	I'm just really good at dismantling it.
	I watched it.
	He seems to be sticking to what he thought the BBC once had, which was impartiality.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he was generally a really good interviewer and I thought it was a good conversation.
	On to the next one.
	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy reminds us of the peculiar economic landscape when it was written in the 1930s and 40s, where huge monopolies dominated the industrial landscape, particularly metal companies dealing with aluminium and steel.
	Schumpeter could not have foreseen the change from metal to plastic and then on to electronics post-war, but recognized that the most efficient companies would be the largest with the greatest control over flow of capital.
	In this respect, he posits, companies tend to monopoly, and monopolies have the most socialist amenable practices.
	Innovation breaks up monopolies, I suppose.
	Touches on your pet hate of plastics as well.
	Oh yeah, I'm gonna make a big thing out of it.
	I did an article a while ago, so you know the BP oil spill?
	It was cleaned up by a bunch of bacteria that eat plastics in the ocean, so why aren't we deploying that?
	Anyway, on to the next one!
	Hello and Happy Easter!
	I feel I owe Callum a little apology.
	I hadn't listened to Thursday or Friday's show before the Goal Tier Zoom call, and the first thing I brought up during my turn was a subject that you said you were tired of hearing about.
	So, my apologies, I didn't realize I was trolling you at the time.
	Anyway, it's known in the exercise community that an exercise named after an Eastern European country is guaranteed to leave you sore the next day.
	The one I'm doing in this video is called the Bulgarian Split Squat.
	Cheers.
	Yeah, I hate those.
	They're horrendous.
	I do not like doing them.
	I don't have any context for what you said to Callum but we'll pass along a video comment to him.
	On to the last one!
	Both of my parents' families are from Little Asia.
	From my mother's side, my earlier ancestor was from the coastline of Little Asia.
	There, he stole a woman from the passers-by and fled here to this tiny village in the mountain heart of Greece.
	Later, the family travelled north, where my village lies, somewhere beyond these mountains.
	So did I get that right?
	His grandfather stole a woman and went to a village in Greece?
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Fair enough.
	Chad.
	Well, in English it's called Asia Minor, which was just heavily colonized by Greeks.
	So it's probably a Greek woman that stole.
	Okay.
	I suppose that's better.
	Stole might not be the best English word.
	Right.
	Repatriated.
	Maybe.
	Anyway, The Shadow Band donates $20 for a Super Chat.
	Thank you very much.
	And says, have a good week, lads.
	We will attempt to, though the country is falling apart.
	George Happ.
	If I'm to guess, Farage will wait until reform fails at the next election and throw Tice under the bus.
	He has a pattern of stabbing people in the back.
	Not that Tice doesn't deserve it.
	He condemns hope, not hate, but removed bow.
	He's two-faced.
	What I've heard is that I've heard this from a few people now, is that Farage is waiting to be made either ambassador to the UK for the Trump administration or ambassador to America for whichever government comes in.
	I don't know why he isn't trying to become prime minister.
	Like, you're never going to have a better time.
	Presumably because being an ambassador is less work and more money?
	Yeah, but come on.
	As if he doesn't want to be prime minister.
	Maybe he doesn't.
	I mean, I'm not sure I would because unless you break the system that goes into it, there's not really much you can do.
	Also, Farage is a businessman and a boomer, and so if something goes wrong, He currently can up sticks and move elsewhere.
	He has repeatedly said that he doesn't know if he wants to step into politics yet, and the reason is tomorrow he could go over to American Star, talk radio show and get 10 times the amount he's working for GB News.
	Especially if GB News only goes to YouTube like Talk TV does soon.
	So I suppose he wants a financially sensible get out clause?
	Can you imagine being Prime Minister though?
	Unless you had like 400 MPs behind you that were proper based.
	If you could be Prime Minister with our audience as the MPs, that would be fantastic.
	But can you imagine doing it at the head of the Tory party or UK currently?
	No, no, no.
	I'm sure that Farage could get Like, you know, 400 loyalists.
	Like, I'm sure that he could get people who are genuinely on board with his agenda and will do what he wants them to do.
	I'm sure he'd be able to.
	Well, as Conor has covered, I mean, most of the sensible people have been booted out at this point.
	You're only left with, you know, dog kickers and... Yeah, but I don't think Farage would be more radical than his own party.
	Well, I do have some news on that.
	As honorary president, he did put forward a couple of candidates and they were vetoed by Isabel Oakeshott.
	Oh.
	Oh yeah, Tice's wife.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But they're not married.
	Oh, sorry, partner.
	They both were married.
	Does she actually have a position in the company?
	No.
	Well, maybe.
	I don't think she has a formal position as part of Reform UK.
	But she's his partner.
	I could be corrected on this.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	Alastair, Richard Tice is Reform's biggest weakness.
	Any man who bumps up... Oh, well, well, there we go.
	I'm not going to read that one out, I should have read that out before I decided to.
	Hang on, just a quick thing.
	Alistair is 100% right.
	Any man involved with Isabel Ochoa is immediately politically hobbled.
	Every time I see him on TV I start wondering where his spine went.
	I mean, he's not wrong at all.
	But the thing is, I totally agree with the first part.
	Tice is reform's biggest weakness.
	So I posted about this on Twitter the other day, and I had a bunch of people going, oh look at that, Tice has led reform to 13% of the polls.
	I'm like, yeah, only 13% of the polls!
	In spite of, in spite of.
	TICE is holding reform back?
	It should be well over 20%.
	If Westminster politics were a video game and you set it to whatever comes below easy mode, it would basically give you this scenario where Labour is run by somebody who has no personality whatsoever, the Tories are just openly betraying people in massive amounts.
	You cannot get a more easy mode than this Yeah, all of the Tory high command have got a knife in the back and they're just standing there talking to you with a knife in their own back.
	It's like, what the hell's going on?
	Like, stabbing them doesn't even work now.
	You know, like six, wasn't it six advisors defected from the Conservatives to Labour?
	Yes.
	I mean, you'd think they'd be like, there you go, folks, let's talk about that.
	That seems important.
	Now you can see the uni party truly coming into being.
	He has.
	He tweeted out, you can see they're con-socialists, but that's not hard enough.
	That's very sort of 80s, 90s talking.
	It's microwave Thatcherism.
	It's very lukewarm.
	And it's like, hey, no one's West Socialism, Richard.
	We're talking about the fact that it's the global nexus of the sole party that intends to rule the country forever.
	Why would Labour want a bunch of failed advisors?
	Oh, with the advisors of the Tory party?
	Oh, yeah, the party that's cratering in the polls?
	Yeah, I'm not hiring you.
	Why the hell would I hire you?
	Just on job performance alone?
	Can you imagine if reform had somebody of the political skill of somebody like Tony Blair running it?
	I mean, it would...
	Or Nigel Farage!
	You know, say what you like about Nigel Farage, he's a great politician, he knows how to campaign, he knows how to get the job done, he's done it, come on!
	Even just the face of it, he would have lots more defectors from the Tory camp trust in him than Tice who's taking selfies in Ukraine.
	Just get Tice out of the way!
	Omar, you think you hate journalists enough, but you don't.
	Opposition parties and pressites are... Oh, prestitutes, there we go.
	They're throwing stones in the most fragile of glass houses and the only thing broken is reform.
	Containment UK seems to be actively trying to remove all the sensible candidates and undermine any reasonable positions that they have.
	And it's extra frustrating because I gave them kudos as soon as they bat Lee Anderson because that was politically risky within the Westminster apparatus.
	But then anyone who doesn't have Lee Anderson's following or GB News show Get to the boot for tamer statements, it seems.
	Lord Nerevar.
	It's incredible how hard Tice would gnaw the creeping death of reform.
	He would just not hear of it or address it.
	His heritage buried so far in the sand, it's like he's trying to save money on an Australian holiday.
	It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
	It's, oh who am I kidding, it's hilarious to watch.
	Well, I think it's sad.
	Yeah, it's frustrating because we genuinely have no one to represent us.
	Like, I've been open on other TV stations and that, I'm just not voting at this point.
	Who do I vote for?
	I'm fully endorsing the zero seats for all parties position.
	Because there's just nobody.
	Yeah, I mean, I might spoil my ballot, I suppose.
	Well, so I had this conversation with my dad, and spoiled ballots get counted as, I do not consent, as a separate bracket.
	I think the optics are going to be a lot better if fewer people just don't show up at all, because then you've got a larger... Because when it comes to reporting the amount of people that voted, you say, oh, this is the amount of Tory votes, these are the amount of Labour votes, but the main takeaway is that X amount of million people didn't vote.
	They're not even going to include the, and 1,100 people spoiled their ballot in the conversation.
	I mean, if enough people were to spoil their ballot, that would be no good.
	But it's going to be more likely that more people stay home and just don't bother.
	That is fair.
	I'm probably just going to stay home.
	The unbreakable litany.
	The most annoying thing about reform is they keep being called far right.
	As someone with actually far right leanings, it's a great insult.
	Zero corporation tax.
	True executive monarchy with a military elective succession gold standard.
	This is the true far right.
	It's not going to happen.
	Yeah.
	But zero corporation tax, that's a good idea.
	That's not even that far right though.
	No, that's a totally free market.
	Yeah.
	That's just slightly more sensible than Ireland.
	Yeah.
	That's a good analogy.
	That's exactly it.
	If someone can AI up that, that would be perfect.
	And that's how it feels as well.
	He's never got any purchase.
	He's never got any grip on anything.
	He's just constantly buffeted around by the latest hit piece or the latest.
	If someone can AI up that, that would be perfect.
	Because that is, and that's how it feels as well.
	Yeah.
	Because Tice is like, he's never got any purchase, you know, he's never got any grip on anything.
	He's never, and it's just like, he's just constantly buffed around by the latest hit piece or the latest.
	And he, you know, comes out and like, oh, I support Ukraine.
	And it's like, what are you doing?
	That BBC episode was exactly that.
	Yeah.
	He was put on the back foot by Ash Sarkar on British Values and he came back down to, well, we appreciate our women and gays more.
	And it's like, well, that's, that's not the far right I wanted, was it Richard?
	Yeah, you're far right, ladies and gentlemen.
	We love our women and our gays.
	Lord Nerevar says, personal anecdote on Tranny Day, having seen the way in which Christianity has been specifically persecuted and having its holiest day of written by a celebration of degeneracy and mental illness, I think I may well actually be on my way to the Christian faith myself.
	While I'm not all the way there yet, I can't help but notice the colossal backfire Tranny Day has been.
	Enough people have had the same realization as me.
	Well, I mean, you're on the same track as Richard Dawkins, And Jordan Peterson, and Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, like, they're all slowly converting to Catholicism.
	I was saying this in the trigonometry interview I just did, it's like, there is a major wave of young people who have grown up since the sort of nihilistic 1990s that are looking for meaning, and they're either going towards gay race communism, or some of them are going towards, like, trad-cath revivalism, so, welcome aboard!
	Joe Schmo says, me playing the transgender Total War mod?
	Hey, where did 41% of my army go?
	Chris says- You haven't even engaged the troops yet!
	Can't win with that kind of attrition, right?
	Um, Rhys says, today's the day the government can force you to retract what you say online in Scotland.
	Currently traveling from the Highlands to Edinburgh to watch the comedy unleashed April the first show.
	Hope to see some of the podcast audience there.
	Wish us luck in our further tyrannical down spiral as sponsored by the SNP and the 27.4% of Scots who voted.
	Have we covered that on the pod?
	Yes, I did.
	Okay.
	But I'm sure we can cover it again.
	In the future when it starts actually persecuting people.
	I love the fact it's April the 1st.
	What are we going to do?
	Bring in the online harms bill in Scotland.
	No, it's the in-person harms bill as well.
	Oh, sorry.
	Oh, and there's a Canadian one as well where they can literally jail you for life if you say something the state doesn't like.
	Is it unlimited sentencing in that?
	I think so, yeah.
	Blimey, okay.
	Harry mentioned that, but I didn't know what the sentencing charges were.
	Sophie says, it really is the perfect symbol of our current society, where we are supposed to worship something that is bigger than ourselves by realizing we are flawed and need saving from ourselves.
	These people spend the day celebrating themselves and their own personal desires.
	It's just celebrating chopping the dick off.
	I tweeted this out, it's like, it's Easter Sunday and yet instead the Labour Party is celebrating, like, mutilating the mentally ill.
	So it's going to be a rough five years ahead.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
	The bravest people I know, says Biden, so brave in fact that if you're even the slightest bit adversarial with them, they'll kill themselves like a beast.
	We don't talk about fragility enough.
	Someone online says joy, strength, and courage.
	It sure takes courage to barge into women's spaces when women are smaller and weaker than them.
	To be honest with you, I would just be afraid of the social shaming.
	If anything else, I'd be like...
	I can't go to the women's bathroom.
	What are you doing?
	Yeah, but they are afraid of social shame, which is why they need to make the entire civilization valid.
	I guess.
	And so, yeah, I mean, courageous.
	But I mean, it's just so bad, isn't it?
	Because, I mean, I've got two daughters.
	And if, you know, you know, sometimes I've been a shopping center or something and wait outside.
	The women's lose while they go in.
	If some bloke in a dress tries to go in after them, I'm going to stop him.
	Yeah.
	And then what?
	Then what happens?
	Do I get arrested and carted away and my kids get taken off with social services?
	I mean, Yeah.
	Well my friend Caroline Farrow is arrested in her own home because she noted that a transgender activist who goes around suing everyone is a bloke.
	And she has autistic kids that she homeschooled and she was still arrested and taken out without dinner with any of them.
	Yeah.
	This happens all the time.
	Baron Von Warhawk said, trans can't go one day without needing constant attention and validation from others.
	It's like oxygen for them.
	If nobody is praising them, then they start thinking and reality starts to creep in.
	And that, that's another point.
	It's the dependent emotional dependency on a social consensus.
	It's like, look, if you're really that thing, it doesn't matter what other people say about you.
	You know, if you're really, um, you know, if you've really got brown hair, it doesn't matter if the entire world goes, Oh, you have blonde hair.
	It's like, okay, well.
	You're all blind or just liars or whatever.
	But if you're actually not really that thing, then social consensus is the only way that you can feel self-confident and happy in yourself.
	It's such a late-stage empire thing as well.
	It's just one of those, whatever those markers are.
	In fact, Ed mentioned them.
	I don't know if you know what they are, but they're seven markers of a late-stage empire or something.
	Gender confusion, debasing of the currency, sexual promiscuity, and there's a few other ones.
	Lower birth rates is one as well.
	So basically the position is, if you cut your dick off in a forest and no one's around to hear it, then did you really... Did you really become a woman?
	And the answer, according to Joe Biden, would be no.
	Baystate says, in all seriousness, when will we see the political party of the loadseaters?
	The liaking is all well and good, but if you're not willing to do anything about it, please don't make me do it.
	I'd be too tempted to turn the whole project into a joke.
	What people that keep telling us this don't understand is how the Electoral Commission works.
	So the Electoral Commission puts, one, they can just deny your application.
	This is why reformer are business and not registered political party, actually.
	How does that work, though?
	How is it that they can then put up candidates even though they're not a registered political party?
	I don't know what they're in terms of.
	I think they have restrictions on how they can campaign and how much money they can spend in each constituency.
	Oh, there are anyway?
	Yeah, but so that you have a greater amount of money you can spend in a constituency if you're a registered political party where I think it's only a few hundred quid.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	It's actually not that much.
	It's something like 18 grand or something like that.
	I can't remember exactly what it is.
	But even if you're a full political party, actually the amount you can spend is really small.
	Good luck getting elected in the current system.
	It's really not worth it ahead of this electoral cycle, honestly.
	Yeah.
	Maybe in five years' time.
	Yeah.
	At the moment, you're not going to vote your way to fixing it this year.
	So there's actually no point even standing, even if we're allowed to.
	Yeah, and it is an awful thankless task running for Parliament as well.
	It's just the amount of work you need to put in for nothing, basically.
	To watch some Labour diversity hire get parachuted in, because for some reason 40% of the constituency votes that way forever, no matter what happens, or the Tories, or whatever it is.
	And the quote right-wing press are attacking you rather than... Yeah, yeah, and the emails are like, look at these bigots.
	You're the most far-right paper in the country, apparently.
	I'll let you carry on from there.
	Omar Ward says, Tim Paul made this point.
	Buying DJT's stock increases Trump's wealth and indirectly funds his campaign without violating campaign laws.
	What's really interesting is that it's global.
	Anyone in the world can buy DJT.
	Yeah, anyone can get into it.
	Uh, Nord Werwer says, uh, Melvin Capital shutting down is what we like to call a pro-gamer move.
	It was indeed.
	Oh, did they actually shut down?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, they, they were, they're gone.
	Yeah.
	It was a massive hedge fund and it just blew up over this.
	Reddit is finally doing something good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's, I mean, that's why I like it because you know, the potential for this to, well, actually I'll, I'll read the next comment because.
	Just a quick thing about the Jackals and Morse groups shitting themselves after that.
	It's like, Oh my God.
	Oh, there was a lot of leaning that went on towards the end, so Robinhood weren't... I think, what did they do?
	They shut down trading for the day, didn't they?
	Yeah, they stopped you from buying it.
	Yeah.
	And, I mean, they never kind of exactly said what that was, but they probably got lent on by the Treasury Department because it was the potential to blow up even bigger than that.
	Screwtapes, lasers, DJT, short interest is high, but only around 11% afloat.
	The 2021 short interest on GME was 140% of float, not the same animal, but for the memes.
	Yeah, so there's a lot further that it could run.
	The float is actually fairly small, but yeah, potentially there's a lot further to run on it.
	When it gets to that point, which is why I'm kind of staying out of it, because it could lurch wildly in either direction.
	I've got no idea which way it's going to go.
	Full disclosure, I've sent $100.
	Oh, you bought some?
	Yeah, I bought $100 worth.
	I'll do that then.
	I mean, I have to, obviously.
	No, why not?
	Just for the keks.
	Yeah, it might go up.
	It might go up and make $120.
	Whoever it was, Omar says, yeah, anybody in the world can buy it, so yeah, why not?
	Omar Ward says, might be a good Brokeronomics topic to cover, how to buy stocks.
	Yeah, potentially.
	Yeah, look into that.
	Now, we've got a few minutes left, because I went and found the markers of a late-stage empire.
	Right, bloody chilling.
	Okay, number one, economic issues.
	Do we have that?
	A few, consistently, yes.
	Yep, that's all of what Broconomics is about.
	Number two, political corruption and instability.
	Well, I mean, elections are being stolen, so... Loads of politicians are sex pests.
	I mean, instability The Conservatives are about to lose the best majority they've had in, like, 50 years.
	Yeah, from an 80-seat majority to maybe 80 seats?
	Yeah.
	Like, literally.
	Yeah.
	Like, if that's not unstable.
	So a tick on the first two.
	Number three, social decay.
	The complete deterioration of the high streets, the inability for public transport to run, nobody even cares about the local area anymore.
	Yep.
	You know what's interesting?
	Just a quick aside here.
	I'm pretty sure that we can tie the high streets deteriorating directly to immigration as well.
	Right.
	Yes.
	Because if you go to Old Town in Swindon, me and my wife were driving through there yesterday and it's actually all the...
	There are no hollowed out shops.
	All the shops are still in place.
	Cause I was going to say online retailing, but you've just, you've just addressed that.
	Everyone would have thinks everyone, everyone thinks that, but actually, and I'm sure a lot of online retail, I'm sure online does take a lot of retail, but there are some things that people just want to buy in person, like clothes, right?
	You know, you don't want to order clothes on because you don't know whether they're going to fit properly or whatever.
	And so it's, I couldn't help but notice that where there hasn't been a huge amount of immigration, all of the local shops are still in place.
	And the thing is, these are the shops, like I met my wife in this area, right?
	when we were both a lot younger.
	And all of the shops are still the same shops from like 20 years ago, whatever it is.
	Whereas in the high street, all the shops from like 10, 15 years.
	There's a lot of churn, yeah.
	All gone.
	And I do think it's about literally just foot traffic.
	I think that's the issue.
	I can validate this a little bit in that Cambridge and Oxford have had quite a lot of their shops on their high street shut down, even though they've got a large population and they're very affluent.
	But all of the Asian supermarkets and the like are open.
	Yeah.
	All of the expensive student accommodations open because a large diaspora of Chinese students come there and they only shop in certain shops and socialize together.
	So loads of other places, the native English businesses are not getting the footfall, but the foreign places are staying afloat.
	And these businesses can stay alive when they actually have a community that actually wants to use them.
	So that wasn't the sort of decay I was primarily going for.
	It says, this decay is often marked by a decline in public morality, increased crime and a sense of disillusion and apathy amongst the population.
	Sure, we've got a lot of that.
	Yes.
	Oh, right.
	So public bombing parades.
	What about number four?
	What about number four, military overreach?
	Ukraine, you could argue the involvement in Israel-Palestine, actually the rendering of pretty much every Western nation as American vassal state by having their troops present.
	And what is it that won much to the Betsy?
	But the important part here is overreach, because we don't have the military infrastructure to actually support the Empire.
	I mean, Europe doesn't spend this 2% or whatever it is on GDP for NATO.
	And we have record poor recruitment.
	Exactly, record poor recruitment.
	The fact that we don't have any shells left, everything's been sent to Ukraine and sent to Israel and whatever, so there's no stocks left if a war were to break out.
	So yeah, this is definitely what overreach looks like.
	We've got these borders miles away that we can't really defend.
	Well, a great example of this is cars as part of the EULA scrappage scheme were being sent to Ukraine to bolster the numbers they were sending over.
	So a strong yes to the first four.
	Number five, cultural stagnation.
	There was often a turn... Would you like a reboot?
	I've got another reboot for you.
	Another sequel.
	We're gonna remake Wind of the Willows or something for a modern audience.
	Yeah, cultural stagnation.
	Yeah, we're gonna transmiss the toad.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Glorification of past and resistance to new ideas.
	Yeah, I mean every film these days is a remake.
	Well, we know all of them.
	I mean, I watched, what is it I watched last night, Roadhouse.
	I watched Dune, it was alright.
	Yeah.
	It's new.
	Roadhouse, I don't know if you're interested, is one of those films, I was, me and the wife were watching it and thinking, is it so bad that it becomes good?
	It's one of those sort of films.
	Dune actually was quite good, but that's an unusual.
	Yeah.
	You've tried to convince me on an overarching morality basis, but I'm never getting the two and a half hours of my life back.
	You haven't watched Dune 2?
	No.
	No, it's actually pretty good.
	It's not boring like the first one.
	The first one was boring, but the sequel is actually quite good.
	But the point is, it's a remake.
	It's just another thing.
	It's not new.
	It's just, oh, here's the thing that you like.
	The thing is, though, I don't mind if they remake things with good concepts that were done like shit.
	Like, the original Dune was rushed, because didn't David Lynch want to make it five hours and then cut it down to two?
	I don't know, it was hilarious.
	Ripping.
	I haven't seen the original David Lynch one, I just know from Harry.
	But when they're doing endless sequels to things that didn't need to be touched, like the original Matrix film, just because it's obsessed with the current thing, it's banal.
	Again, me and Harry literally run comics corner.
	I can't remember the last time I was excited to see a comic book related film in the cinema because it's just the same old bloody drivel.
	Yeah.
	Number six, external challenges.
	Are there any external challenges outside the West at the moment?
	I don't know.
	I think Russia may have just judo flipped our entire economies.
	Yes.
	I think all the external challenges are currently coming in via the channel.
	Well, there is that as well.
	I think the Chinese at some point might realize that it's actually not really worth their time to manufacture junk for us.
	They can manufacture junk for other people.
	Or themselves, or they can produce useful stuff for themselves.
	There is also that option.
	Yeah, I think we've got some external challenges on the horizon.
	Yeah, so we're six ticks in.
	I mean, Russia is basically at war with NATO at this point.
	Yeah, well, NATO decided to go with all Russia, certainly.
	They didn't need to, and they're lost.
	There's a kind of undisclosed war going on in Ukraine.
	Number seven, infrastructure decay.
	Would you like to hear me complain about the trains again?
	You've seen the potholes in the roads.
	Have you tried just driving anywhere?
	Every single bus service is delayed.
	The maintenance of public infrastructure, roads, buildings, public works, decline as state resources are diverted elsewhere.
	Yeah, it's transgender day visibility.
	And also that bridge that fell down, did you hear that they're going to need 10 years to... It didn't fall down, it was hit by... Well, yes.
	Yes, it fell down just after being hit by a boat.
	Yes.
	So I think a strong tick for infrastructure decay as well.
	Number eight, dependency on foreign entities.
	Well, as noted, China basically produces almost everything.
	But they depend on foreign labor.
	We're told constantly, the NHS would collapse if it wasn't for immigrants.
	Okay, well then we're dependent on those people sending us.
	Did you hear about the Lancet study?
	So I covered it on my show on Wednesday afternoons, you should watch that by the way.
	So Bill and the Gates Foundation funded a study that looked at birth rates from 1950 to projected 2100 and they found that 97% of countries around the world will suffer birth rate collapse and therefore all of them need migration from Sub-Saharan Africa.
	They explicitly just said it.
	And then they also said, but this might be good for climate change because we're going to have few people.
	I'm sure there'll be absolutely no problem importing infinity sub-Saharan Africans into a developed nation that they couldn't do themselves.
	So are African countries the 3% then?
	Yes.
	It's like Sierra Leone, Congo, and one more.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	So a strong tick for dependency on foreign entities.
	And it's not just the people.
	There was a US general who made the point that we're borrowing money from China so that China can make the weapons that we use to fight the war to hold back China.
	And look at the natural resources from Russia.
	Yeah, vast amounts.
	Yeah, Germany's totally dependent on us.
	Okay, what now?
	So are we.
	As soon as we sanction Russia, the London Metals Exchange shut down because it turns out we get all like... I can't remember what it is.
	One of our metals from them, the price skyrocketed 250% on a single day.
	So, that was bright of us to do.
	So we're eight for eight so far, there's one more.
	Go on.
	So let's see if we can say no to this one so that we haven't got a complete, you know, a full house of late-stage Empire collapse markers.
	Leadership crisis.
	Well no no, at least we definitely know that Keir Starmer will get in.
	Leadership often tends to become less effective often focusing on short-term gains, personal enrichment at the expense of long-term stability and prosperity.
	There may be a rapid turnover of Tory leaders.
	No, it doesn't say Tory leaders.
	There may be a rapid turnover of leaders and contentious power struggles within the elite.
	Yeah.
	I mean, look at the Trump-Biden.
	I mean, that's a contentious power struggle in which the Biden camp decided to just openly cheat and steal power from Trump.
	So the problem, fundamentally, is that leadership doesn't have any legitimacy.
	So yeah, there's a massive leadership crisis.
	We don't have any.
	Just like Rishi Sunak.
	Every single person in the UK that's currently governing hasn't been elected.
	Yeah.
	I mean, and just those people have.
	Justin Trudeau, massively unpopular in Canada at this point, but no legitimacy left in the leadership.
	Yeah.
	I'll go.
	Well, may you live in interesting times.
	Quite.
	I suppose on that note then, thanks very much for tuning in to the continued collapse of our civilizations.
	We'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.

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