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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #976

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seeders.
	Today is Monday, the 12th of August, and this is episode 976.
	Coming up to that 1000th, aren't we?
	Exactly.
	And I have Josh with me.
	Oh, hello.
	You made your presence felt before you were introduced.
	Sorry.
	I was insolent, wasn't I?
	I'll get back to my box.
	We're going to discuss how the leftists really are shameless, the value of memes in politics, and tampons in boys' bathrooms.
	Now, before we start, we have an announcement to make.
	We're on TikTok.
	You can see here we have this link.
	Our TikTok page.
	So if you want really short videos of us talking about things, illuminating people with our supreme understanding about current affairs, definitely give that a watch.
	This is sort of where we put stuff that we think is particularly good and short and snappy.
	But yes, we're trying to get the zoomers.
	Yes, I understand that some people might not like TikTok.
	I don't have TikTok.
	But if you do, it's there.
	Right.
	So before we begin with the segment, do you have an announcement to make?
	Or not now?
	No.
	No?
	Okay.
	Right.
	We were warned.
	We were absolutely warned by Peter Hitchens, who basically said that Stalmer is not a moderate politician.
	He is basically a member of the far left.
	Now, I don't agree with everything that Peter Hitchens has said, but we should give credit where it's due.
	He was correct on that one, and we need to say it.
	And we see that basically Stahmer failed the pragmatist test.
	I think that he had several opportunities to play the classic, typical politician card of a person who arbitrates between rival communities, and he didn't.
	He could have just gone, well I understand your concerns and I'm doing the best I can with you know the limitations that we have and things like that.
	He could have done that and you know the same thing the Tories do.
	The Conservative Party clearly did containment a lot better than Labour do because Keir Starmer is sort of approaching it in earnest rather than lying to the population consistently and Turns out that actually the Tory lying did help to keep some sort of semblance of balance.
	Exactly.
	There are ideologues.
	And I saw Yvette Cooper just went out and said, after the segment was ready, that the people have lost Respect for the police.
	You don't say this.
	You just don't say this as a politician.
	These people are ideologues, and they have a very ideological way of viewing things, and their state is claiming to be an anti-racist, anti-fascist state, but as you will see, things are not as they seem.
	Our own law of world projection never misses.
	Now, a lot of the leftists celebrated humanity this We can't.
	We have here an article from BBC News.
	Anti-racism protest is celebration of humanity.
	We have some children here that hold some signs saying boo to fascism.
	For some reasons they have black and Red cats there.
	I don't see what's catty about fascism.
	Black and red are the colors of anarcho-communism, aren't they?
	Or is it?
	I can't remember.
	I don't care about communists.
	Love humans.
	Hate racism.
	Okay, they're kids.
	I'm gonna live kids out of it.
	Yeah, obviously it's their parents doing it, it's not them.
	But also, the people that turn out to these sort of placards, if you had the sort of they live glasses that tell you the real message, it is like, accept the destruction of your country, accept that rape and murder are now parts of your culture, even though they were to a far, far lesser extent than before.
	It's just, accept our tyranny is the message that if you put those glasses on, it should read.
	Yeah, and also celebrate it, because the number one concern of the state, and I think we need to say that this has been the case for a long time, even before Labour, the impression people get from the police is that they're much more worried about not being called racist, than enforcing the law in some cases.
	Well, it's because the police system now has been set up to be expressly political.
	You've got all of these political positions overseeing the work of the police, and they're now hiring people with degrees that have been through universities, and we all know how that works out for people.
	As you can guess, we have a very one-sided presentation of things.
	From the BBC we have here, organizers of anti-racism protests have called it a celebration of humanity.
	And we have here organizer Neil Shaler said he hoped it would dampen down the spirit of fear and show people that they are supported.
	We have here Shahida Rahman said she was now thinking twice before going anywhere.
	That's a funny use of phrase, isn't it?
	sages and backgrounds gathered with placards urging hope, not hate.
	And, you know, all these stuff.
	Now that's a funny use of phrase, isn't it?
	Yes.
	Almost like that group.
	And Miss Roman said that as a Muslim woman, she had been fearful to go out alone.
	Well, if you were to do that in a Muslim country, you would probably be a lot more fearful.
	Although that's what's been imposed on the British people.
	You know, we used to have a much, much lower crime rate than we do now, and that is because of people from cultures like hers coming over here and causing problems that we didn't have before.
	But you see all these people who hold the placards, stand up to racism and stand up to fascism, that they never define, by the way, that's the key issue to have here.
	They have a weird way of celebrating humanity.
	Here we have this video that everyone has watched by now, of the Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who is talking about um how people should he is basically directly inciting people to violence and he's talking about uh something about throats and you see people they're just cheering and you're you're about cutting throats of people right yes he has actually been arrested but it was more for inciting disorder not inciting murder disorder you
	You know, if you cut someone's throat, that's just a bit of disorder, mate.
	Yeah.
	You know, when Lee Rigby had his head cut off, it was just a bit of public disorder.
	It wasn't, you know, an act of terrorism, an act of political violence, an act of religious violence.
	No, no, it's just disorder.
	Exactly.
	And what is interesting is that you see all of them that they put always wear upon the sensitive face, or they constantly try to show how friends of humanity they are, they were clapping.
	And we have the worst excuse of all time.
	Amnesty UK breaks silence after activist clapped Labour councillor's cutthroat threat.
	The woman in question did not hear.
	Well, that is damning in all of itself, isn't it?
	Because of course, if you're not even listening to the thing and you're just clapping because you're expected to clap at certain points, Yeah.
	You're completely captured by the crowd.
	You have no autonomy, no agency of your own.
	You're just a drone.
	But it's empowering, isn't it?
	Just clapping without knowing.
	You're supposed to go boo now.
	You're supposed to go hooray.
	It's empowering.
	If you're in a crowd chanting about something.
	I think you're right the first time.
	Your head's in a cloud.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so just make what you want of that excuse.
	We have other people here from the Stand Up To Racism March who randomly stopped at a pub where football fans had gathered to watch a match.
	They were called racists and fascists, but what evidence did they have?
	Just looks like they prejudged a group of white working-class lads.
	Yeah, because I mean, obviously, if you're going to Weatherspoons or a pub and you just like football, Is it football?
	I'm not going to be told off for saying it.
	No, football.
	Yeah, that's correct.
	OK.
	Don't call it soccer, otherwise we'll have to kick you out.
	OK, OK.
	Yeah, and obviously they just thought that it was immediately fascist and racist.
	Football is fascist and racist for them.
	And they went out and they made this demonstration.
	Now, we had several other demonstrations from the stand up to racism and squash fascism crowd.
	They went to Trafalgar Square.
	And up and down the country, thousands have marched today to stop the far-right.
	Again, very few people have actually went out and said what they think the far-right is.
	And if they say far-right is fascism, they still haven't said how they understand fascism, because the very idea of how to understand fascism is a is a very intense scholarly debate that lasts for decades.
	It's not something that people who are vastly uninitiated can just talk about.
	Here we also have Josh Firm who is talking about this.
	I like that guy, he talks a lot of sense.
	What does he say there?
	What does he think about this?
	Well, I can't speak for him, but what's written on the post is stand up to racism is fueling political violence by branding these protesters anti-fascists.
	We fought actual fascists in World War Two.
	And now, by equating today's right wing with them, sending a clear message, violence against the right wing is justified.
	And that's pretty much it.
	They're trying to conflate things.
	And I was actually arguing with people under this post because I was lowering myself to their level by engaging with them.
	And they were saying, well, you know, they're persecuting people.
	They're persecuting minorities.
	That is fascism.
	And that is what fascism is.
	And I pointed out that a third of all Jewish people in Italy joined the Italian fascist party.
	And, you know, actually perhaps you need to look at the difference between National Socialism and Fascism, because they're two separate things really.
	I think that's a bit terminological, because people just say, you know, Italian Fascism is one kind of Fascism, but I think that's the terminological bit.
	The issue though that you're raising, and I think that you're absolutely correct, is that these people are functioning to a great extent like the Amnesty UK International.
	Volunteer.
	They don't listen what people are saying around them, but they are clapping.
	They're supposed to go boo now.
	So I think that a lot of these people, they just don't do due diligence.
	They just don't do homework.
	They're not defining.
	They don't think critically.
	They perhaps just parrot what they're told to believe and they feel like is perhaps correct without doing any research into it.
	Exactly, absolutely, and that's no surprise, but what we have is we have a woke intelligentsia that is essentially telling people you're supposed to hate these people now, you're supposed to love these other people now, and that changes every time there is a new trend that they become infatuated with.
	And here we have yet another post by You're by Josh Firm.
	Don't know who that guy is.
	He's here in the studio with us.
	And do you want to tell us what you think here?
	Well, that person who I don't know says, it's telling that socialists and communists from other European countries are flocking to England to swell the ranks of a protest against a party with no direct ties to the riots.
	The whole thing seems inorganic.
	So what I'm talking about there is a protest outside of a letterbox that is registered as belonging to the Reform Party.
	It's not their headquarters as they believed.
	They were protesting a letterbox, which, you know, sounds awfully like the protest they're counter-protesting, actually.
	But yeah, loads of socialists and communists from other European countries flew in to attend this protest, which, to be fair, was not attended particularly widely, considering it's in London as well.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So I think, basically, that the anti-racist, anti-fascist state in rhetoric is actually a very, how should I say it, narcissistic, racist, and authoritarian state.
	It has a lot more similarities with fascism than its supporters think or would like to believe.
	And we're gonna talk about these three things, narcissism, racism, and authoritarianism.
	I have here this tweet by Narendra Kaur, who says, these men are telling you that your freedom of speech is under threat.
	Yeah, they're correct.
	But the only thing under threat is the persistence to retain superiority over black and brown people.
	Now, this is, I would say, a stunningly narcissistic thing to say.
	Because narcissists make it all about themselves.
	You can't talk about a society where there are infinite ways of things going badly.
	There are sort of infinite threats.
	And just saying, no, the only threat is just white supremacy.
	That you incorrectly ascribe to certain people.
	This is just remotely, this isn't even remotely correct.
	And I think that this is just absolutely narcissistic.
	And you constantly see the people from this side, they make it all about themselves.
	They think that the only threat To be fair, a lot of politics these days is just signalling that you epitomise the values of your group the most.
	And that's very narcissistic.
	Well, to be fair, a lot of politics these days is just signaling that you epitomize the values of your group the most.
	That's basically what politics is as a sort of social function.
	And by saying they're targeting me, you're making yourself synonymous with the politics and therefore the values that you're trying to push forwards.
	And it's ultimately serving a sort of social hierarchy in a sense within the group that you value ascent within that hierarchy.
	So there is an element of self-servingness to this.
	Yes.
	I think though that when it come when it is so Ridiculous.
	And it is so out of touch with what is going on, it's particularly repulsive.
	Well, it's out of touch because they're approaching these problems from within their paradigm, rather than looking at the evidence and working upwards.
	Exactly.
	And I think, I couldn't put it better than Ali Smith, who says, if we could bring the national conversation back to those three murder little girls, the real and only victims in all this mess, that would be great.
	Identity politics poisons everything.
	I think that this echoes the sentiments of everyone.
	Well, certainly left-wing identity politics anyway.
	Yeah.
	And you see that basically the entire leftist apparatus has created a narrative that presents victims as their friends.
	Victimhood for leftists means they're friends.
	It doesn't mean anything else.
	And you see them, for instance, here we have a tweet from leftism.
	Who digged something really interesting from the past.
	He said, in May, Juliette K.M.
	worked for DHS under Obama administration, wrote about how Trump has some sort of assassination fantasy and is using it to make violence by his supporters far more likely.
	About that.
	And there is the article there, Trump's assassination fantasy has a darker purpose.
	The ex-president's stories of his own victimization make violence by his supporters far more likely.
	I find this repulsive, repugnant, and this is just projection because they are not talking about, they're just not going to assume responsibility.
	for the Trump is, you know, a German moustache man from mid 20th century.
	They didn't say that he was an enemy of America, the American people and democracy itself, did they?
	They definitely didn't say that part repeatedly over a long period of time.
	Yeah, but we are told that the state is an anti-racist state and we are not particularly I'm not particularly confident that they know what they are.
	So the question is that when there may have been a racism in the neighborhood, who are you going to call, Josh?
	Ibram X. Kendi.
	Exactly.
	So Ibram X. Kendi has famously said, it's my job to diagnose racism.
	It's my job to provide Treatments.
	Let's see some of his other best hits here.
	We have Ibram X. Kendi failing yet another time to define racism.
	We've all watched the video.
	It's so funny.
	It never gets old.
	I was about to play it but I found a second one and it's just hilarious.
	Let's just listen to him define racism.
	...is really understanding the way racism operates.
	And so I actually define racism as a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas.
	He doesn't change his smoking on battery, does he?
	This individual, as someone who is expressing a racist...
	Yeah, I'm illuminated now.
	Where was he during the Enlightenment?
	policy with their actions or even inaction.
	What scholarship?
	Yeah, I'm illuminated now.
	Where was he during the Enlightenment?
	Things would have progressed so fast by now.
	Here I have just some tweets to show you what he's saying.
	The opposite of racist isn't not racist.
	It is anti-racist.
	What's the difference?
	One endorses either the idea of a racial... yada yada yada.
	One thing is that you know that he has never taken a logic class.
	He is a professor in university and he has never... and he hasn't learned yet that not in logic stands for negation.
	And we have also the other infamous quote here.
	Let me find it.
	They're just, they're so wordy as well.
	Yeah, I mean, he has many things to say.
	Let me find it here because I have it.
	I have it here.
	It's keeping us on the edge of our seats here, Stelios.
	Yes, the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.
	The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
	The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
	So basically, essentially, he's advocating for a two-tier system.
	Which is a racist system, but he wants to call it an anti-racist.
	It's basically anti-ethnic European, isn't it?
	Exactly, yeah.
	It's anti-white in this case.
	But what it does is something that communists were doing, where they just stuck an anti-clause in front of everything that they accused others of doing, and they thought that they were automatically exempt from all responsibility.
	And one example is with imperialism.
	Any kind of aggression from communist states was always anti-imperialism.
	I'm anti-poor people, so if you criticise me, you're criticising people's poverty and suffering.
	Exactly.
	So basically, anti-racism is anti-white racism, basically.
	And it's also anti-capitalism.
	Here we have two of my least favorite people.
	Again, Ibram X. Kendi and Owen Jones.
	They're talking about how capitalism cannot be separated from racism.
	So the anti-racist state is an anti-capitalist state, apart from an anti-white, anti-Western state.
	And we have here one Jeroen Joya who writes, Samira Ali, the national organizer of stand-up to racism said, we are drawing a line in the sand.
	There will be no more fascists on the street.
	Anti-racists are the majority.
	And she says, There aren't any fascists to begin with and it's, you know, a line in the sand is also an interesting terminology because I'm sure they're used to that.
	But anyway, sorry, do carry on.
	And she does say the anti-racists are the fascists.
	They terrorize ordinary British people.
	And we had the unthinkable.
	We had Hamza Yusuf accusing someone else of racism.
	Former First Minister of Scotland, known for going white at everything.
	Yeah, it's a two-tier system.
	That's the philosophy behind the two-tier system.
	He went up to Scotland and was annoyed at how many white people there were.
	I mean, next I'm going to go to Pakistan, his ethnic homeland, and be like, why are all these Pakistanis here?
	To be fair, it was better when it was British, but still.
	Right, so Hamza Yusuf says here, Elon Musk is a dangerous race baiter who must be held to account for his actions.
	I can't think what it is that upsets him so much about a brown, Muslim, progressive politician, but his billions won't stop me calling out his support for the far right.
	And we have a very funny response.
	He said, he's obviously super, Elon Musk says, he's obviously super racist against white people.
	I dare that scumbag to sue me.
	Go ahead, make my day.
	Make my day chump.
	And he has the other bit here, where he says, legal discovery will show that however big a racist he's been in public communication, he's vastly worse in private communications.
	And I have to say this, that the things I've heard in universities make every person's skin crawl.
	Really?
	You can always assume that what they say behind closed doors and when they're not in public is much, much, much worse than what they say in public.
	I can believe it, to be honest.
	The horror.
	The horror.
	Right.
	And final bit, because the segment is reaching, is coming close to its end, the authoritarianism bit.
	So what is going on is that Keir Starmer is considering forcing social media companies to remove or suppress legal but harmful content.
	And that's the source from an article by Telegraph that we could click the link and show you.
	But the thing is that what is interesting here is that what is going on is that Keir Starmer is essentially echoing the considerations of a lot of people behind hate speech laws.
	And that's what we should definitely say because this is a direct assault in citizenship and civil society.
	Big states, people who want to expand the power of the states, they are afraid of civil society.
	They're using wokeness to demonize it, to divide it, to say that it is irreparably bad and it needs the woke karate to tell us how to talk to each other and to stop talking.
	without their permission.
	And it's interesting to see here, legal but harmful content should be removed.
	That essentially says that there is no rule of law.
	Because traditionally speaking, what is in accordance to law, what doesn't violate the law, is permitted, from a legal perspective.
	Not a moral perspective, but from a legal perspective.
	But when they say that, even if something is in accordance with the law, it could be prosecuted, because it is harmful, things are really bad.
	Well yeah, it's just tyranny, isn't it?
	They're pushing You know, the opposing side of their politics as much as humanly possible, perhaps even to provoke a reaction to justify further crackdowns for all we know.
	Exactly.
	And what we should say is that a lot of the leftists are basically making it about incitement to violence.
	When they're talking about harm.
	Now, I'm against incitement to violence.
	I don't think that that's a good thing that things should be permitted.
	But the thing here is that the devil is in the details.
	And the details here come with a specific notion of harm.
	Traditionally, harm was understood as physical harm.
	But now, the notion of harm from a legal perspective is increasingly more subjectivized.
	Because people are talking now about mental harm.
	That's why they're talking about speech and facts.
	That are harmful.
	I'm going to put my psychologist cap on here and say that you're in control of how you interpret the world, so you have the choice to, you know, be offended or be upset by something.
	It's up to you.
	Also, it's not the same as physical harm, psychological harm.
	They're not necessarily comparable as various things.
	You know, they're obviously different and it's stupid to conflate them.
	Yes, and also we should always remember that there is tremendous, huge danger in outsourcing the power to the government, or at least just recognizing and being content without criticizing governments that are constantly trying to arbitrarily define what is harmful, what is psychologically harmful, and just crack down on it.
	Well yeah, we're clients to our own state now, aren't we?
	Yeah.
	And we have here someone, Dan Hodges, who says, we have to be clear what people are now demanding.
	Not the right to free speech, but the right to lie.
	The right to spread malicious information that could impede an ongoing murder investigation.
	The right to incite people to violence and they should just admit it.
	No, that's absolutely, absolutely narcissistic.
	That's trying to completely project upon the entire population The actions and sentiments of a few.
	And this isn't remotely acceptable and this also ignores the criticisms that come from considerations about increasingly centralized governments and the power they can exert on people.
	And the last thing I want to say is that One of the things that governments should do in order to show that they care for the people that they represent, is to show that they're focusing not just on the obligations of the citizens, but also on their own obligations.
	So there was a post from GOV.UK that said, think before you post.
	This applies many more times to politicians.
	So when politicians don't think before they Should we go to the second segment?
	and they have the audacity to just focus only on the responsibility of the citizens, they are essentially showing that they're after arbitrary authority.
	They want absolute power.
	They don't think they're accountable, and they want to destroy any block to their power.
	Hear, hear.
	Should we go to the second segment?
	Yeah, we've got a few Rumble chats to read out.
	Okay.
	We have from Caleb Knight, ah, the old lefty curse of Yapanomics, too much text, too little substance.
	Yes.
	Well, they just say stuff, and there's zero substance behind it.
	EC was here, all communists are bastards.
	Yes.
	Windpill seeker, who pays for these pre-printed signs?
	Who profits?
	Who pays for installing tampon dispensers in the men's bathrooms of public buildings?
	Who profits?
	Who gets kickbacks?
	Who do they donate to?
	Labor and DNC, question mark.
	We'll talk about tampons in a bit.
	I have a little bit of preparation for my segment, so please humour me.
	This is definitely going to make Lotus Itters history.
	What's going on?
	What's going on?
	Is this a... Did you go back to the 12th century?
	That's right.
	You there, Greek, what is best in life?
	To meme your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their activists.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	So what I'm going to be talking about today is memeing your enemies because that is one of the few things that is left that we're allowed to do in Britain.
	But I'm going to talk about the importance of it more generally in politics.
	I'm not going to keep it Britain specific because it's a principle of politics that is very important.
	So here we have an article saying British woman arrested for sharing malicious and inaccurate information on social media.
	So it's It's pretty obvious here that they're trying to control the population, aren't they?
	It's pretty flagrant, it's pretty obvious they're just trying to crush dissent.
	This isn't legitimate, this wouldn't exist in a society that was actually governed by the will of the people to appeal to that populist nonsense.
	Yes, this is an extraordinary measure and it takes extraordinary memes to fight it.
	So I wanted to talk briefly about the power of memes because not only is making someone laugh at someone else, that's a very powerful way to dismantle them without people even having to understand the point you're making.
	If you can make people laugh at other people, You've done a great thing there for your own cause and that's part of the reason why comedy is so safeguarded because comedians understand the power of a laugh, right?
	Yeah.
	And so right-wing comedians are gatekept out because if they poke fun at the left then all of a sudden they lose their power, don't they?
	They lose the spell they have of It's similar to how in the Bible, if you name a demon, it actually recoils in pain.
	Yeah, like Valak.
	So if you tease a leftist...
	You know, they recoil in pain because they don't have thick skin.
	They can't take it.
	And I think that if you're proposing interfering in other people's lives, but you can't take a mild bit of criticism, then you shouldn't be in that position in the first place.
	And the second thing is as well, with censorship as it is online, particularly in European countries, you've got to be a bit creative with how you push your political messaging.
	And therefore, memes offer a very good way of getting around these sorts of things.
	And I'm going to go over Some things that if you said them perhaps publicly you might get in some trouble but in the format of a meme of comedy all of a sudden it's more acceptable and we should be using this because not only does it point out the left are weak and pathetic, which they are, we've got the easiest opponents ever, you know, they're freaks.
	They're genuinely freaked.
	Just look at them.
	I tweeted out the other day a left-wing protest and I said, spot the normal person.
	You can't because it's a coalition of the bullied and therefore we need to get to our rightful place of bullying them in return.
	Bring back some order to the chaos, as Peterson might say.
	Let's have a look at some of my examples.
	Here we have Elon Musk.
	I don't know why this one's first.
	That was meant to be third but here it is anyway.
	This is one of the main ones.
	I thought this was interesting because of course the implication here is that the Met officer or the police officer in the middle is about to be screwed over by the Islamist gentleman stood around him because this is a meme that already exists.
	It's kind of a gross meme.
	Connor didn't even want us to show it.
	But here it is.
	I think I should do a segment with Connor.
	I will target him now.
	But the meme at the top, if you don't understand it, is a pornographic clip.
	It's an image from that.
	That is the context of it.
	I didn't even understand it at first.
	I had to look at Know Your Meme.
	But there we go.
	Elon Musk, the world's richest man, tweeting out criticism via memes of the police.
	And it's done in a very powerful way, isn't it?
	Because this appeals to the sort of inner, innate need to mock weakness that we have.
	People may ideologically trick themselves out of thinking that weakness is bad, but by teasing it, it strikes true, doesn't it?
	Yeah, you show how ridiculous it is.
	And we have a saying in Greece that says that one picture is worth a thousand words.
	We've got that too.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Basically, that's more of a theme.
	I think it requires a lot of skill.
	Because you really need to show the substance of an issue.
	Well, I think that comedy is the ultimate test of social skills because you've got to not only read one person, you've got to read a room and make them laugh as well.
	So it's got to be something novel.
	So you've got to be really in touch with the world around you.
	So here's another one.
	This is, of course, Tommy Robinson and the colour swash chart, figuring out whether someone is mentally ill or a terrorist.
	And this is, of course, Commentary on the news that whenever a minority commits something, it's mental health.
	If it's a white person, they're a terrorist or they're a danger to a democracy or they're given agency, which is hilarious to me that they're just like, oh, this brown guy, he didn't know what he was doing.
	He just did an accidental act of terrorism.
	It was just a mistake.
	He's good, really.
	Oh, there's that again.
	So, yeah, it seems like... You really want to show this meme?
	Well, I didn't put that in there.
	Thank you, Samson.
	So here's another one.
	This is the dog meme.
	So, we will conquer the world.
	The sun will never set on our glorious empire.
	And I think that's Colour Sergeant Bourne up there.
	You can't post that.
	But then when Muslims post the same thing, the police respond, Salaam Alaikum, when it's in the name of Sharia.
	And it's just showing that if you're a British patriot, The police will prevent you from voicing your own patriotism.
	If you're an Islamist, they'll help you.
	Yeah.
	And the evidence from the past few weeks is sort of incontrovertible.
	Yeah, it's indisputable, isn't it?
	We know that this is going on.
	This is the police response.
	They explicitly say in their guidelines that they treat different communities differently.
	And so this is communicating that message.
	Without a wall of text, anyone can understand this.
	You know, even a moron.
	So here is a meme that our very own Pete, this was Pete from Behind the Scenes who people love in the chat on the website, he made this one himself.
	Well done Pete, we all salute you, make sure to salute him in the chat for creating this.
	This is of course talking about the Don't Look Back in Anger campaign that was particularly wheeled out when there was the Manchester Arena bombing and of course we know that the government actually has A gaslighting campaign where they try and get the relatives to read out these cue card statements just like diversity is our strength.
	And there are memes of that as well going around but I've showed one of those recently so I wouldn't do it again.
	And here is one from our very own, well, formerly our own Callum.
	Hope you're doing well Callum, if you see this.
	So he's sharing this in response to the Guardian.
	Far-right unchristian says Archbishop of Canterbury as he condemns riots and Callum responds rather than bringing up the point he just shows an article of him hosting an Islamist for tea and cake which if he's saying they're unchristian well hang on a minute Hardline Islamist for tea and cake.
	Is that not a bit more un-Christian than standing up for one's country?
	Just saying.
	I mean, obviously the writing is bad, but...
	It's so curious that the far right can only be in the West, it never exists in other places for some reason.
	I know, it's weird that isn't it?
	And also you get this, so one of the police commissioners threatened to extradite and jail US citizens over online posts and I saw lots of paintings from the American Revolution being shared online which was great, I really enjoyed them, didn't take it personally don't worry.
	And I respect that.
	Meme them.
	Humiliate them.
	Make them grovel and suffer.
	They deserve mockery.
	They are beyond contempt.
	They don't deserve anything less.
	So here we go.
	This is a screen from Game of Thrones with my favourite character in the whole show.
	Literally every single American today is threatened by the UK government for posting a meme.
	And it says F the King, which is one of the great moments in the show as well.
	And I mean, fair play to them.
	They did have a revolution to be independent of the Crown and now the Commissioner via the Crown Prosecution Service is trying to extradite them for posts on the internet.
	I don't think that that is something they should be doing.
	Also, Stone Toss made this.
	Of course Stone Toss do a great job of showing these sorts of things in a similar sort of way to memes, although they're comics obviously.
	Sire, the kingdom is being invaded.
	And the king looks startled.
	Arrest this man for hate speech, which is exactly what's happening in Britain at the minute.
	You may have a whole army of invaders right outside your castle, and you may have people inside the castle saying, well, they haven't fired the shaw yet.
	Terrible, wasn't it?
	So here's a post that I've shown already, but here's Harry pointing out that all the newspapers basically say the same thing.
	Here's the mirror standing together.
	Same picture, same title, same picture, same title, same picture, same title.
	And let's have a look at the Daily Mail, which is purportedly the way in which the right wing has been radicalized.
	Lots of leftists say the Daily Mail is the thing that radicalizes the right.
	It's just the media, you know, they don't think for themselves.
	They've just been, they're just puppets.
	Night anti-hate marches face down the thugs.
	That's the far right newspaper right there or trotting out the far leftist line.
	Yeah and they have testosterone reignited my libido after menopause but then I discover I was happier celibate.
	What an obvious revival of traditionalism the Daily Mail is.
	But obviously the media presentation of things is ridiculous and worthy of satire as well, and so there are things like this.
	White-winged supremacists swan attacks foreign students.
	I don't even know if this is a real article, I don't know.
	But people are sharing it and using it to mock the media anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it's true or not, the message is the important thing.
	That's the point with memes, right?
	This is why they're trying to crack down on misinformation, because it has some power to shift narratives, to mock things, to make things uncool.
	And that is how you change people's minds, ultimately.
	Most people who aren't that politically engaged can still laugh at someone saying dumb stuff, right?
	And things being presented in a silly way.
	That's easy enough.
	So here is one that I showed again before.
	This is made by Russian Garbage Human.
	I forgot to attribute you last time, but I've done it again.
	And you were very happy about me showing this on the podcast.
	Now I've done it twice.
	It's like English buses.
	MI5 uncovers white supremacist plot to just sit back and enjoy the collapse.
	This is of course in reference to the fact that for these protests that were scheduled last Wednesday, no one turned up because they weren't actually real, they were a hoax.
	And there's also this.
	These crowds at the Kamala's Rally are insane.
	I believe this is from The Phantom Menace.
	From Tatooine.
	And this can be interpreted in multiple ways.
	This is sort of esoteric.
	I like to interpret it as, you know, there are a bunch of aliens on a planet that's known for illegal activity in the Star Wars universe.
	So a bunch of illegal aliens, they're supporting Kamala.
	That's how I interpreted it.
	For some reason, maybe your interpretation is better, but I thought of Jojo Binks And it seems to me that a lot of people in Kamala Harris's rallies, they are No, they do have some of the mannerisms of Jar Jar Binks.
	I like Jar Jar Binks.
	This is the most extreme thing I'm going to say today.
	I found Jar Jar Binks funny in The Phantom Menace.
	Crucify me if you want, but don't take the films too seriously.
	They're a bit light hearted.
	I like the prequels.
	That's the whole idea.
	I like the prequels.
	I'm going to come out and proud.
	I like the Star Wars prequels.
	Don't judge me.
	I didn't like the last ones though.
	Oh, goodness no.
	The sequels are awful.
	But anyway, another thing I like doing and like seeing is people screenshotting the news and just sharing it.
	And the fact that they've screenshotted it highlights and calls people's attention to things.
	You can make it up.
	This sort of thing The media cannot crack down on you for this.
	This is sort of foolproof.
	If the crackdown of information gets to the point where everything is censored, you'll go to jail for stuff, just screenshotting media approved articles and showing them to people for how ridiculous they are.
	They can't ever crack down on that.
	This is like the foolproof last resort.
	But it is great.
	Obviously the CNN's mostly peaceful protests are funny.
	But the fact that the BBC in the recent protests, protests mostly peaceful, are we at a turning point?
	Interesting that they say we as well, like they're standing with the leftists when they had the protests that none of the opposition turned up to.
	And then here we go, mostly peaceful rallies, how the mood changed.
	They're literally doing the meme, the CNN thing, they've got clip, they're doing it right there, right now in front of our very faces.
	And there's also this as well.
	Secret service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally.
	Just sharing that on its own.
	We know Trump had an attempted assassination.
	Just sharing this without any commentary speaks for itself.
	You don't need commentary.
	These are just so ridiculous.
	That is the age we live in and they've unintentionally created an environment where we can still be dissidents even if we're just sharing what the media Spoon feeds us.
	They can't fight that.
	They'll never win.
	Here we go.
	Another one.
	CNN headlines with just Trump's face.
	Trump warns stocks will disintegrate if he loses, but stocks are climbing as Biden pulls ahead.
	Trump warns the markets will crash if he loses.
	Investors just laugh.
	And then global stock markets plunge with Trump smiling at the very end.
	I mean, you can be a complete moron and get the point of this meme, right?
	It's saying that the media was lying about what Trump was saying and Trump was right.
	That's it.
	It's easily done.
	There doesn't need to be a wall of text.
	Just the headlines and Trump smiling.
	This is laconic.
	It works.
	If you say things with fewer words, it is always better.
	I was being careful not to be too wordy there.
	I also like this one.
	So USA Today, this is a bit of a dodgy screenshot.
	You can just share this.
	Maine, the best thing about it, lowest violent crime rate.
	The worst thing about it is it's the least diverse.
	What does that say, if you share it in isolation?
	Well, let me tell you.
	Perhaps diversity is not our strength, unless you're a violent criminal gang, you know?
	You like crime.
	Who wants safety when they can have diversity?
	Exactly, yeah.
	It's almost like these two things are at odds.
	But anyway, here's another one that you can just share without any context.
	Man survived lightning strike only to suffocate to death when villagers insisted on treating his injuries by covering him cow dung in India.
	The point of sharing this is obviously to point out cultural differences, because, you know, I'm no doctor, and correct me if I'm wrong, but if you get struck by lightning in the West, you tend not to get smothered in cow dung.
	Well, maybe that's changing, you know, we've got a lot of foreign doctors these days, so, you know, they're bringing their expertise, you know, they're outstanding in their field, aren't they?
	And their cows!
	They should bring their cows!
	You threw off my joke.
	I was going to say they're outstanding in the field, saying they're good doctors, and then I was going to say collecting cow dung, but ah, never mind.
	My dad joke was foiled.
	Well done.
	And here we go.
	South African townships squalored and neglected despite 25 years of black rule.
	What is this saying, Reuters?
	What are you trying to say?
	This reminds me from Dusk Till Dawn, the movie, where behind the bar they had just full of trash.
	Sharing this in isolation, the implications pretty obvious, isn't it?
	So there are also things like, I don't know what's going on with the links, but that wasn't meant to be there.
	So here we go, a bunch of diverse faces, British to be a minority and then a British WW2 soldier, what was it all for?
	Just trying to appeal to people saying, well you fought to keep your country independent and then you've lost by proxy basically.
	You've lost by importing lots of people from the third world, in a nutshell.
	And there's also this, this meme, particularly good.
	Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a tag.
	What about side by side with a friend?
	And this is of course reference to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland joining hands to protest immigration and realising that actually The British Isles are far closer together culturally than the people they've imported to tyrannise us.
	So another one I've enjoyed is the AI edits of Keir Starmer's face.
	Here he is, this is Keir Jong-un.
	There he is, looking a bit strange to be honest, a bit haunting.
	This guy has got loads of these.
	He's been doing it.
	Editing his face into all sorts of stuff as well as other things.
	So yes, well done.
	And also, we have this from Turning Point.
	Big Keir is watching you.
	I think that this sort of thing works very well.
	Referring to 1984.
	People read this in school.
	People know the reference.
	Just on the Kyuhyun Moon thing.
	I watched the video.
	I sent it to Harry, but he didn't laugh.
	I think I sent it to you.
	They said that there is an announcement to be made by BBC News.
	They showed the North Korean anchorwoman.
	It's like a Freudian slip of news presenting.
	So there are some questionable memes.
	So this one got on my nerves.
	This was Wall Street Silver, one of the potential slop accounts, with a British person saying, I don't feel safe in my own neighborhood, and an American saying, you literally voted for this, portraying us as soy and them as chad.
	But actually, As Beau points out, we never voted for this actually.
	We voted against it every opportunity and it's forced on us anyway.
	And, you know, bad memes do get replied to.
	There's Carl saying, not true I'm afraid, we always voted against it, we just aren't a democracy.
	Tim Davies saying the same thing, Calvin Robinson saying the same thing, Canadian Patriots saying the same thing, everyone's saying the same thing, but no, This is what you should get for posting these bad memes.
	Crucifixion, anything less, and your soy.
	That is my message.
	But there are also some questionable memes, which I cannot avow, but I'm going to show them anyway.
	Because of course, these things, you might find them quite funny, but they're probably regarded as over the line.
	And so I'm not going to laugh.
	I'm going to do my best.
	But these are the sorts of things that are pretty close to the line and could get you in trouble in the future, but you're not allowed to laugh, Stelios.
	You're not allowed.
	Keir Starmer will get you.
	So here we have an epitomization of the Black Lives Matter riots.
	A guy cycling a bike.
	He puts a stick in his own spokes.
	Damn white people.
	He says, help me white people.
	And then he says, hey, that's my bike.
	Good poker face.
	And then when blacks start looting but you own a bookstore, this is of course in reference to all of the looting in the Black Lives Matter protests and they targeted very specific shops and there was a case of a town where, this is a factually correct thing, the bookshop didn't get looted and also there was a case in what we would call a supermarket in Britain but like a
	a food store and they looted everything except the Father's Day cards, but make of that what you will.
	So why is everything in the store locked except for the sunscreen?
	So there's, these are obviously, this is obviously a commentary on the crime rate in America.
	This is talking about the epidemic of shoplifting and the obvious inference here being, well, you don't need me to tell you that.
	And here's another one, this one I think you'll like in particular.
	I think you can laugh at this one, this one's allowed.
	Padge my son, and he's talking to his son about using a toilet versus using the street, and it's a comment on the fact that no matter what Western utilities people are provided, sanitation, sometimes culture just trumps The introduction of Western technology.
	And I live in Swindon.
	There are lots of Indians here.
	And funnily enough, by all the Indian food shops, there's a lot more mess than elsewhere.
	So there's some truth to this one.
	And the final thing... Just look at the hand!
	I know, yes.
	He'll be preparing food with that later.
	Anyway, it is worth mentioning as well.
	Freddie was born there.
	That's right.
	He's travelled all the way from India.
	He's an asylum seeker.
	But anyway, it's worth mentioning.
	Yes, please.
	Stay safe in the Great Meme War.
	Please don't be too edgy because it'll get you in trouble, but have fun.
	Life is worth living.
	Memeing your enemies is a just cause.
	I want to see more of it.
	I want to see all the best stuff out there.
	I think mocking people and also working within censorship to not give up on your political principles, just saying, well, I'm going to be censored.
	I'm not going to say anything, is giving up.
	And I think that there is always a way to push your message, even if it's being censored.
	We have several comments on the chat.
	They've disappeared on my screen.
	Have you got them over there?
	Oh, there we go.
	Samson has magicked them back.
	That's a random name.
	Says, what line separates humans from animals?
	The Mediterranean.
	I have to disavow that one, even though I've heard it before.
	I heard that behind the camera there.
	Caleb Knight says, Stelios, there are only six Star Wars movies.
	Hand wave.
	I like that answer.
	Comment.
	The Last Russian.
	I had to look the meme up on Know Your Meme.
	Sure you did, Josh.
	Frozen rage.
	Sure you did.
	Press exit out.
	I had to say that in the segment because it's going out.
	All right.
	I didn't.
	I didn't.
	All right.
	I knew what it was.
	The Last Russian.
	Didn't expect to see Josh's helmet this early in the day.
	Connor didn't want us to show this meme.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Tom Bolo, only by removing Monty Python style comedy from all TV has blasphemy laws become reality in the UK.
	Yes.
	Caleb Knight says, I am wrong.
	I stated that comedy is a shortcut to understanding.
	Am I wrong in stating that comedy is a shortcut to understanding?
	No, of course not.
	I just can't read.
	Like how animated you became.
	Daveyverse says, for Josh, if he wears the helmet throughout the video comments.
	All right.
	Well, I will wear the helmet throughout the video comments then.
	Just for you.
	As you gave ten dollars.
	OK.
	Take us away, Stelios.
	So we have a problem with this, Samson.
	Would you like my box?
	Thank you.
	We were in a tight ship here.
	Sorry, that's an unintentional hot fuzz reference there, wasn't it?
	Right.
	We need to talk about tampons.
	We are living in an inclusive era and inclusive times, and tampons are excluded from boys' bathrooms, and they need to find a way in.
	They have to.
	Otherwise, the world is going to end.
	Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's running mate, is here.
	Earning the Tampon Tim nickname by signing a bill about requiring schools to stock period products in boys' bathrooms.
	The bill's language states that the products must be available to all menstruating students in grades 4 through 12.
	So, as you know, now the major preoccupation of Tim Walz was with Bringing tampons in boys' bathrooms.
	That's a stunning CV that this man has.
	To be fair, the Democrat Party has always had a sort of precedent for being concerned about what goes on in the boys' bathrooms.
	It's interesting, isn't it?
	Yes, and they really live up to this tradition here.
	So We have here, Governor Tim Walz made tampons free in Minnesota schools, here's why it's drawing tramps' ire.
	And they're essentially saying that this is all about period poverty.
	That students who are missing classes due to having period shouldn't have to miss them, and that the way to solve this problem is to put tampons in boys' bathrooms.
	Well, we all know that they're not going to be used responsibly.
	If my school days are anything to go by, they're going to be, you know, soaked in the sink and launched at people.
	There'll probably be some stuck to the ceiling, they'll be stuck up people's noses, maybe other areas as well.
	They're going to be used to just be annoying, is what will happen.
	So I mean, I commend them to for fueling school tomfoolery but other than that it's absolutely insane.
	Who would think this just just imagine you know you have Tim Walz walking in his team with his advisors in the room with the team of his advisors and say we need to talk to the male population we need to we need to bring them tampons.
	We need your votes.
	Do you know what they are?
	You know the sort of long ones?
	They're very good if you get a bloody nose to poke in the nose hole and coagulate the blood to stop the bleeding.
	They can be used for that.
	So if it's in a sort of school with lots of fighting, lots of fistfights, there could be some justification for it.
	Just giving ideas, trying to make the best of a bad situation, obviously I don't approve of it.
	Right, so we have Trump here just thinking that this is Unacceptable.
	He ordered tampons to be put into boys' bathrooms.
	Do we have any children here?
	Please close your ears.
	He ordered tampons in boys' bathrooms, okay?
	I like how he sounded like the teacher from South Park there at the end as well.
	Yeah.
	It's just funny when you see, you know, the Democrats who try to constantly say that the others are out of touch with society and that the Republicans don't care about the man on the street.
	They're going to be like, Kamala, what are we going to do to win this election?
	I know what we need to do.
	What everyone's concerned about.
	We need to put tampons in men's bathrooms.
	Yes, exactly.
	You know, are you poor?
	Here's some tampons.
	That's going to solve the issue.
	So we need to remind everyone that Tim Walz is calling everyone weird and creepy, who isn't supporting him.
	He's the one thinking about boys bathrooms.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	So he started all this, you know, weird thing, which shows basically lack of argument.
	When you start just name calling without giving any argument, you know that you've just lost it.
	You've nothing to say.
	I think Tim Walz is weird and creepy.
	I've lost the argument now.
	Damn.
	I mean, you see, even the mannerisms.
	Let's see... You know it, you feel it.
	These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell.
	That's what you see.
	I just think it's just totally forced.
	I mean, you'll tell me he's a politician.
	Whatever.
	Here we have some funny memes.
	We have some Tim Paks here, 28 regular, and we have the face here.
	That's going to sell them.
	Democrats will lap that up.
	I'm surprised.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	And you know, you can quote me on this.
	You can clip this.
	If Democrats don't start campaigning by coming out with their own Tim Walz brand tampons, you know, and sanitary towels, whatever you want to call them, they're going to have little faces of him on them or something like that and it's going to be very cringe, it's going to be very strange and I can almost guarantee it will happen.
	I think by now that they're trying to live up to their reputation, and he has completely appropriated tampon Tim, I've heard.
	That they're trying to say, no, that's not weird.
	You're weird for thinking that tampons shouldn't be in men's bathrooms.
	We have another meme here.
	Failure of EP nominee tampon Tim voted to put tampons in the boys' restroom.
	Yeah, Tim Walls, Kamala Harris, VP, pick.
	So, you know, now everyone's calling him Tampon Tim.
	We have here an MSNBC host who is particularly angered with people being angry with Tampon Tim.
	Let's listen to how they're talking about it and the rage they feel, how offended they are by it.
	Things he has done that is getting him criticism.
	The Trump campaign is attacking Governor Walz as, quote, tampon Tim, which drives me crazy.
	That's the point, idiot.
	It is making fun of something very serious and very caring that he that he has done for for Minnesota students.
	Talk about this.
	Well, first and foremost, Tim Walz is a dad.
	And that is big dad energy, making sure that folks who need access to hygiene products have them.
	We don't charge people to use toilet paper right at their schools.
	This is a necessity for people, and I think it just shows the kindness and the goodness in him.
	And I also think folks are telling on themselves, right?
	When they don't see why this is a necessity.
	You're telling me you've never had to use a wad of toilet paper and like try to figure it out or that you haven't had resources to pay for tampons or for pads.
	You know this is a real issue and it just shows how disconnected they are from the lives of real people across the country.
	I think it's a huge victory and he should wear that moniker proudly.
	Well, the obvious thing here as well is that what they're doing is tampon communism, right?
	They're talking about some people can't afford tampons.
	They're not that expensive.
	Most places don't tax them.
	You know, they're just bits of cotton.
	I mean, I'm not sure if you're clued in on your American history, but cotton's pretty cheap in America these days.
	You know, there's not much labour involved.
	And so there's not really much reason for them to Be difficult to get.
	You don't need tampon communism where you've got to tax people and then redistribute the wealth so everyone has access to tampons because you just reduce the cost of living, don't tax people and they can buy them if they need them and they'll be cheaper because there are less tax, there's more money available in the economy, generating more growth.
	There you go, solved it.
	I think though maybe they're trying to infiltrate the family because just calling this big dad energy.
	It's just ridiculous.
	Big dumb energy.
	Just imagine, you know, you have a son going to school and your son tells you, Dad, I don't want to go to school.
	Don't worry, son, I'll give you a tampon.
	It's like a magic amulet.
	It's going to give you luck or something.
	Or just imagine, you know, you want to share a moment with your son to celebrate and you have a good whiskey.
	And instead of saying, you know, Here's a Lagavulin 16 son, let's drink it to celebrate the sale of your school child.
	Yeah.
	Let's say, yeah, I mean, it's OK after after a particular age, not not fourth grade.
	I grew up with half of my family being Scottish, so, you know, having Scotch whisky at a young age is pretty... I mean, people need to develop a taste for it.
	That's what good parenting is about.
	Well, I had it rubbed on my gums when I was teething as a baby.
	Yeah, just imagine if a dad didn't do this and say, here, son, some tampons.
	Let's celebrate.
	Have your tampons.
	As if that's not an insult to people's masculinity.
	And also, when you go to the university, imagine having your dad saying, well, dad, am I going to make it?
	Am I going to find friends there?
	Am I going to be good at uni?
	Son, you're going to have a tampon.
	And it's going to protect you.
	Everything's going to be just fine.
	I find this just ridiculous.
	And the audacity of people who push forward these policies, calling everyone else weird and creepy, is just stunning.
	Just honestly, that's the issue.
	That's a problem of the world throughout history.
	People who have power, they just say any nonsense they want, and few people are calling them out.
	I mean, obviously now we are calling them out and a lot of people are calling them out, but the society they're trying to create is a society where people Aren't, don't have the right to call them out because it's hate speech.
	That's the society they're trying to bring.
	And I think that basically, you know, we can laugh about it.
	We can always say, you know, Tampon Tim, you know, this is ridiculous.
	And it is ridiculous.
	It is meme worthy.
	People need to make memes.
	But there is a very real threat to the family there.
	And a very interesting, let's say, covert attempt to distort parental rights.
	And I'll substantiate my point in a bit.
	Now we have here a link that says, what to know about Governor Tim Walz's controversial tampon bill.
	Tampons, pads, and other menstrual products must be stocked free of charge in Minnesota's public schools.
	So obviously they're not just interested in poverty, but that's what they're mostly saying.
	Some of them are really out in the open about what this is about.
	It says, some of the most progressive laws in Minnesota's history have passed in the last two years during the period where Democrats held a trifecta in the state government.
	That would be right, yeah.
	is one that requires public schools in Minnesota to stock menstrual products in all girls and boys' bathrooms at no charge to students.
	The bill went into effect January 1st.
	I think that this is January 1st of this year, but it was signed much in advance. - They want this for all of America.
	- Yes, and they say the products, which include pads and tampons, must be available in restrooms regularly used by students in grades four to 12, The state will supply the funding for the tampons with two dollars times the adjusted pupil units of the school district for the school year.
	And here you see the mastermind behind it, Representative Sandra Feist, who said, Faust.
	Faust, yeah.
	A Democrat from New Brighton who pioneered the measure saying in January what the associate cost of the measure would be a wise investment because it would keep students from missing school due to period poverty.
	I like how they're from New Brighton.
	It's sort of the name holds them.
	Brighton of course being the gay capital of Britain and New Brighton's clearly not too different.
	Yeah.
	So, they're saying there, basically, that a Republican-backed amendment to add the word female to the bill failed in the committee.
	Not all students who menstruate are female, Feast said, persuading committee members to vote no on the amendment.
	And obviously, Feast said, some schools have gender-neutral bathrooms, and she acknowledged that female students use menstruation Shun products more often but said it is still important to have them in all bathrooms.
	So obviously we know what this is all about.
	And here we have her talking about it.
	I would encourage the committee to vote no on this amendment for a few reasons.
	Practical, financial, social, emotional.
	First, there are a lot of schools that are moving towards gender neutral bathrooms.
	And if we add female, we might become obsolete very quickly.
	Second, not all students who menstruate are female.
	We need to make sure that all students have access to these products.
	So essentially, if you think that The word female should be added into the bill, as a lot of Republicans did.
	You're going to be obsolete.
	Because, according to her, not all students who menstruate are female.
	California legislators unanimously supported tampons in boys' restrooms in 2021 law.
	It appears that this is a pattern.
	It appears that this is a pattern, and Tim Walz wasn't the first one to do it.
	He's not even the first to be insane.
	Yeah, and we have here mentions of a bill called Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on October the 8th, 2021.
	And that was, I think, there was another assembly bill.
	367 that adds more into the mix about free menstrual products and their distribution into the bathrooms.
	So, this is a pattern in blue states.
	There are a lot of people who are pushing for this and they are essentially trying to campaign for making the state having an extra word over what goes on in families by By essentially attacking the notion of parental rights.
	We're trying to say that the traditional family and traditional relationships that develop within traditional family are essentially bad.
	They're irreparably harmful, psychologically harmful, bad for emotions of people.
	Therefore, the state has to intervene.
	And we have Even people who are saying extra stuff about where they're getting at with it.
	We have here Tim Walzer's Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who went viral a few months ago for saying, "When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them, while wearing a shirt with a knife on it that says 'Protect trans kids.'" So what is really interesting here is what we were talking in the previous segments about psychological harm.
	Everyone understands the notion of physical harm, and everyone understands that incitement to violence, aka incitement to physical harm, is wrong and should be persecuted.
	But what is happening in legislation is a subjectivization of all terms there.
	Everything is becoming more subjective.
	Everything is becoming more Let's say arbitrary, because the more subjective things get, the more arbitrary they get, and the more likely they are to be taken advantage of by people who want to yield absolute arbitrary authority.
	And essentially what they're saying here is if you're disagreeing with A hunt with just anything, any element of your child's self-conception, you're a bad parent.
	And if you're a bad parent, the state has to intervene.
	That's the agenda.
	Here we have House Passes Bill to Establish Minnesota as a Trans Refuge State.
	That is gonna have even more things, even more aspects into it.
	Again, the same people are gonna say, people who are Disagreeing with just a tiny element of their children's self-conception, bad parents, and they are victimized and they are basically refugees and they need to have, they are facing a humanitarian crisis and they need to be treated as hostages in their own homes and they need to be taken from their own homes.
	It's ridiculous, isn't it?
	Yes, and there are several considerations and concerns about who is backing Tim Walz, and a lot of people are saying it's basically teachers' unions.
	And you will see in a bit why this is important, but a lot of people are saying that he is an anti-parent candidate.
	He's an antiparent candidate because he is pushing forward an agenda that is problematizing traditional normal family relationships.
	That's why they're calling him an antiparent candidate.
	So a lot of concerns have been raised and people are talking here about him essentially getting a lot of funding from from teachers unions.
	We can show you the clip here.
	I'll find it.
	It's from 226.
	Well, you can play it.
	We have the links on our website.
	If you want, you can check this interview.
	We have the journalists who are talking about it.
	But we need to bear something in mind to Not miss the bigger picture.
	And here we have a really good tweet by Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost, who is talking about the stages of denial or the stages of rhetoric when it comes to this agenda in schools, where they're saying, first of all, they're denying it.
	They're saying it's not in schools.
	Then they're saying it is in schools, but it is rare and it's not impactful.
	Now they're going, they're emboldened with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, and they're saying it is in schools and it is a good thing.
	And I want us to play this because she is directly tying education to social justice.
	And I really want to hear what you think about from an educational perspective here.
	Indoctrination.
	I said it before she even said it.
	Yeah.
	But that was what it was, right?
	like me growing up I always knew I wanted to be a teacher because I saw education for what it really was indoctrination the greatest instrument of social justice in this country I said it before she even said it but that was what it was right what do you think of this?
	well she's obviously deeply politically partisan and is willing to use her position as a teacher to try and warp the minds of young children who she should have the best interests of but instead it's is pushing her own political agenda.
	Exactly.
	So a lot of educators who are pushing the woke narrative, actually all educators who are pushing the woke narrative, don't want children to learn how to think, they want to tell them what to think.
	Why?
	In order to have them as activists in the future, or at least as passive bystanders who just don't voice opposition.
	And I think that essentially why they do this is because, first of all, they want to attack the family because the family is the prime social unit.
	Everyone knows this since ancient times.
	The family is the prime social unit.
	So they want to attack the family in order to control society.
	Well, they want the government to be your surrogate family, don't they?
	They want the government to adopt the role that the family unit would have adopted, and this is going on across all of the Western world.
	They're undermining the family unit, they're undermining the ability to Support a family on a single wage and all sorts of different things that is simply an attempt to extract resources from us and destroy our culture.
	Exactly, and it's not a coincidence that we have parentalistic governments.
	We have people who are ruling Western countries like paternalists or maternalists, call them what you want, like helicopter parents because they seem to allow The people's choice when it is in accordance to their agenda, but when it is not, they're saying that's hate speech.
	That's hate speech.
	That's exactly what, you know, they don't see themselves as representatives of the people, they see themselves as parents of the new human being.
	And I think that essentially they're trying to get education, the family and education, because education is, after the family, the main way in which people are being acculturated and are essentially entering society.
	That's why they are attacking the family, they're attacking education, in order to create brainless activists.
	And I really agree here with Christopher Rufo, who says It's just a tampon.
	It's just a boy in the girl's locker room.
	It's just using someone's pronouns.
	How does it affect you?
	Why do you even care?
	This is how people speak when they want to shame you into denying your own moral sense.
	Don't let them get away with it.
	I think much more is at stake here.
	It is citizenship itself that is at stake.
	Leftists want to create A huge government that yields absolute power that they can use arbitrarily.
	They want to destroy the family and destroy education and make it create brainless activists.
	I believe you've got a bunch of comments.
	Yep.
	Rumble ones.
	Let's see now.
	Okay, so we have Peel Seeker.
	That program cost Oregon 2.8 million.
	That means the 1.4 million that was wasted could have been spent on things girls and or boys actually need.
	Those dispenser and tampon contracts will be overbilled too.
	But they don't care about solving problems.
	They care about virtue signaling.
	It's just a political calculation, isn't it?
	Also, the government always offers out inflated contracts.
	The person doing it is probably a friend of someone involved and that's why they've paid them off.
	That's a random name.
	Remember the vid of those... I don't... Yeah.
	I think it's a euphemism, Stelios.
	Yeah?
	Saying they're coming for our kids.
	When these people tell you who they are, believe them.
	When kids, however, tell you who they are, laugh and tell them to go to their room.
	The euphemism was a picture of a cigarette.
	Make of that what you will.
	Again, that's a random name.
	Don't you love how the people who complain the most about giving platforms to meanies are the same people using the platforms to say the most out-of-pocket ash.
	S-H.
	You understand?
	Imaginable.
	The devil lives through them.
	I think we should read the green one and then call it a day, because there's a lot of... Yeah.
	OPHUK, I need some advice here.
	The tampon dispenser in the boys' room is out of man ponds.
	What other stuff can I show about that?
	Yeah, OK.
	Pots and wool buds.
	Yeah, that's very vulgar.
	OK, right.
	Shall we go to the videos?
	It's more a matter of, you know, I don't want to be a bad sport, but if we read these things out, they'll be on the internet forever.
	I don't think Stelios wants to read about shoving things in places where things should not be shoved.
	And that'd be on the internet forever.
	What was that, sorry?
	Yes, yes.
	The people want it.
	Vox Populi Josh.
	Okay.
	It really hurts.
	It's really heavy and it's got a rivet that pokes into the top of my head.
	Yeah, how are they fighting in those things?
	Well, they wear a coif.
	Yeah.
	Can you actually hear me?
	Does it muffle it?
	It sounds like Lord Humongous from Mad Max.
	It's like, I'm gravely disappointed.
	Once again, you make me unleash my dogs of war.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Should we go to the video comments, please?
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 20.
	In the 1990s, Swindon expanded northward, incorporating the hamlet of Haydon along with the Green Meadow Estate and Robbourne Chaney under the already existing yet previously smaller parish of Haydon Wick, while the villages of Broadblundston and Lower Blundston, and the hamlet of Broadbush, were formed into the parish of Blundston St Andrew.
	The construction of 10,000 new houses saw the new communities of Torhill, Abbeymeads and St Andrew's Ridge created.
	In 1996, an absolute legend was born at Princess Margaret Hospital, and on the 1st of April 1997, the borough of Thamesland was rightfully renamed as the borough of Swindon.
	There we go.
	Congratulations on your birth.
	Congratulations.
	Let's go to... Is that Ruth Ade?
	It looks like it.
	Yeah.
	In order to reset your nervous system back into rest and digest to turn off your adrenals, try engaging in some perspective shifting where we just lift our legs Are you trying to get us to do yoga?
	It sounds like it.
	the lower hips.
	It could be laying down with your legs up the wall.
	It could be calisthenics.
	It could be heavy yoga, handstands, bed sets.
	It will make you feel and look younger.
	It will rest your heart.
	And it might just feel completely different when you get back up and see the world again.
	Are you trying to get us to do yoga?
	It sounds like it.
	I was thinking about crusading.
	Nice.
	OK, let's go to the next one.
	Reading a book, I came across a word that I found interesting.
	Everyone knows complacent as showing smug or uncritical satisfaction, but it seems fewer people have been exposed to the word complacent, which expresses a willingness to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest.
	I'd argue that politicians and activists are the former and so-called experts are the latter.
	What I find truly troubling is the media trading one against the other to describe a fictional consensus.
	Hmm.
	That's very interesting because I think that's right.
	But there are politicians who are trying to please both sides and politicians who try to just please one side.
	I think there are ideologues.
	Yeah.
	I don't know to what extent we can talk about it.
	Yeah.
	No, I agree.
	I feel so much more sort of powerful way.
	Empowered now.
	Yeah.
	I just need a sword.
	- Right, let's go to the next one. - In these trying days, it's important to remember the famous words of Ronald Reagan.
	And although he directed this at Americans, it is also appropriate for Englishmen.
	If freedom dies here, there's nowhere else to run.
	Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
	We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
	It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
	Or one day, we will spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it was once like in our nation, where men were free.
	I think that's a very wise quote.
	And I for one want to reclaim the Holy Land all of a sudden.
	No, I think basically that's a brilliant quote and a lot of people don't stress the eternal vigilance aspect of classical liberalism.
	They just think it's just, you know, just making money, which it is not just that.
	Right.
	UK's fucked up and there's no one coming over to save me.
	Elon Musk is trying to beef with Kyistan, that's crazy.
	I saw this doing the rounds on social media.
	That was brilliant.
	Yeah, well, this helmet is really uncomfortable.
	I saw this during the rounds on social media.
	That was brilliant.
	Yeah, well, this helmet is really uncomfortable.
	You can take it off.
	I need a coif.
	I can't wear it.
	Make yourself comfortable.
	I've got a rivet digging into my skull.
	Make yourself comfortable again, Josh.
	I mean, at the moment, it's just everywhere in culture.
	It's just in memes and songs.
	No one can deny it.
	We've got some breaking news, do we?
	From Leicester Square.
	Look at the screen.
	Girl 11 and woman 34 stabbed in central London.
	Oh bloody hell.
	Looks like protests are back on the menu boys.
	This is just very sad.
	I'm sure people will talk about it.
	People will find out and talk about it tomorrow but it's in Leicester Square.
	London's Leicester Square, 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old, yeah, have been stabbed, yeah.
	But to cheer people up a little bit on that sad news, I do want a shrubbery.
	That is true.
	Anyway, we have some more video comments, don't we?
	The legacy of the life of Susan Wojcicki will always stay with me.
	She spread so much misinformation and disinformation.
	She suppressed so much truth and so much discussion seeking truth.
	And it is her fault that we are where we are in many ways.
	I blame her for the death of millions during COVID.
	It is her fault directly.
	And I will never forgive her.
	No, I'm not going to lie.
	When I saw that she died, I wasn't upset at all.
	In fact, I laughed.
	So yeah, people, when it gets to that level of tyranny, Whereby they think that they can control, and they take an active hand in controlling what you can and can't say.
	Also, they demonetized us to a significant degree.
	Ben, yeah, you're a scumbag.
	You don't deserve to be mourned.
	And I think that Susan Wojcicki will go down in history as one of the worst censors to ever have existed.
	Let's go to the next one.
	It's Brain.
	How do we take over the world?
	So, yeah, the Eastern, early Christianity stuff, I mean, you guys have covered a lot of Western civilization.
	According to China Uncensored, there's actually a lot of Indian culture that the military over there is trying to figure out.
	I've read Sun Tzu, I've read Von Clausewitz and a few other stuff, but just, can we try and find out, like, at least what they have?
	The Chinese.
	I have the impression it was India but I may be mistaken.
	I have the impression it was India, but I may be missing.
	I didn't hear well.
	Well, I don't know about the Indian military.
	I've not really looked into it because they're not necessarily a strategic threat and they hate our enemies.
	I kind of just let them be in that they don't like Pakistan, they don't like China, therefore, you know, they're alright with me.
	The only thing I've heard is that they have bought a lot of weapons from Russia and they were particularly displeased with their performance in the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war.
	That's the only thing I've heard about their military.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This is outrageous.
	Where are the armed men who come in to take the protesters away?
	Where are they?
	You shout like that, they put you in jail.
	Right away.
	No trial, no nothing.
	Also jail.
	Right to jail.
	Believe it or not, jail.
	Right to jail.
	Right away.
	No trial, no nothing.
	You right to jail.
	Jail.
	Jail.
	Journalists, we have a special jail for journalists.
	Competition with Venezuela.
	Hmm, well, at this moment in time Venezuela is at least a bit more, you know, optimistic about the future getting better, potentially.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey there Lotus Eaters.
	I apologize for the lack of video content.
	I've been very busy at late and I probably won't be doing any more videos for the next couple of months.
	This is primarily due to the fact that I recently joined the council And we are having a council election very soon here in Sydney.
	I do want to quickly add my two cents of the current crisis that's happening in the UK.
	I think this is both a good and bad thing in its own right.
	This might actually be the awakening that we need.
	No, I see where you're coming from there, and I also enjoyed the video of the cats.
	If you use cats wandering around, or dogs, or any pets really, any animals, I approve of that backdrop.
	And good luck with your endeavours.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Right, let's go to the comments.
	We have Coline Sloan.
	Always nice to see a Stone Toss comic on the thumbnail.
	Biggy Bigfoot, Josh and Stelios, the dream team.
	Thank you!
	JJHW, Ellie, meme review segments are gold.
	They are indeed.
	Right.
	Kevin Fox.
	And now we know why the hate speech and non-light speech bills use such nebulous language.
	It was so they could define everything as they see fit.
	Words like may and likely too means they can arrest anyone for anything.
	Well, yes.
	Subjectivity only serves the people who define the law.
	And the people who define the law are the people in power.
	And the people in power aren't going to be charitable to the people who want to take them out of power.
	Exactly.
	Sophie Liv.
	Oh, there are loads of fascists on the street.
	They just call themselves Antifa and have no idea what fascism actually is.
	Thank you very much, Sophie.
	I agree with you completely.
	Lord Nereva.
	It's nice that the popular zeitgeist is finally starting to include ideas like two-tier society and replacement, because we can see that when that happens, we get real pushback against the regime.
	I don't know about you guys, but I think we may just be back.
	Small question.
	Do we have five, six more minutes to take for some comments?
	Yeah, so we could please the people who wrote for us.
	JJHW.
	Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
	Benita Mussolini and Keir Starmer probably.
	I wrote that out to a leftist calling people fascists yesterday actually on Twitter.
	Then I realized that if I send this to them, it would just be a waste of time.
	It'd be like explaining the law of thermodynamics to a goldfish.
	They won't understand, will they?
	Last time I did a segment, I showed a Golden Razzie.
	That's a winner for Golden Razzie Awards.
	A tweet by Aaron Bastani, who's talking about the majesty of the state.
	It was really funny.
	Right.
	Josh Firm selling crack, cocaine in Manchester.
	Hey, don't criticize my side hustle.
	Politicians having people arrested for lying sounds like an actual Monty Python sketch.
	Eloise, when will you guys be doing a delve into philosophy, agency, morality, and decision making?
	I'd be super keen to watch that as I'm on heuristics kick.
	We've done something, How to Think Better, we've done two contemplations in the past.
	Yeah, well, I think we've covered these topics in a fair amount of detail before.
	I've done the contemplations on morality with Stelios, so I think we've just broke up the stuff into more individual categories.
	I've talked about decision-making quite a few times in fact, so a lot of the psychology things I've talked about there.
	But yeah, if you have any questions you can always ask them in the comments when I'm on the website.
	They don't necessarily always have to be directly related to the news we're talking about.
	If you have just interesting questions of a philosophical or psychological nature, And last comment from my segment, Alpha of the Betas, Starmer's the new Trudeau, except more evil and less gay.
	I don't know about that.
	I don't know about the second, yeah.
	Now it's yours.
	Lance Lewin says, fun fact, towards the end of his life, George Carlin, a left-leaning comedian as if...
	Surely we've all heard of George Carlin.
	Struggled to get gigs because he kept pointing out too much truth.
	I didn't actually know about the sort of end of his life.
	So that, I might need to look into that.
	El Sahim says, to commemorate Elon versus Youssef, could we get another play of Youssef falling off of his scooter?
	Samson, we've got the link in the comments.
	You know what needs to happen.
	Make it happen.
	Come on, Samson.
	Play it, play it, play it now!
	The audience, they want it.
	Quick!
	He's too busy posting in the chat.
	Oh, here we go.
	Lovely.
	You're a bit of a legend, Samson.
	Here we go.
	he's accelerating and we're mature people um - Warlord Wututai says a recent and excellent meme example was multiple women come forward with allegations of sexual abuse against whoever Trump chooses for his VP.
	I showed that on the podcast already so I tried to avoid repeating too many memes.
	I tried to pick topical ones that are going around because a lot of the other ones have been shown or retweeted or whatever.
	I wanted freshness, only the freshest memes for our dear audience.
	Omar Awad says, memes flow naturally when the truth is self-evident.
	Leftists have no common understanding between each other, let alone normal people.
	A wall of text is not only a failure to communicate, but a subconscious admission that you know it can't without extensive explanation.
	Sorry, I've got hiccups.
	The next one is gold.
	Geordie Swordsman, Master Sun said, meme your enemies until they cry, then make memes about them crying.
	That was in Sun Tzu, yes.
	Eloise says, you could almost argue memes are a lighter satirical way to induce self-reflection and growth.
	Things leftists may not want to do, ironic, as they want to grow other things like the state and debt in perpetuity.
	And also, they also want to grow appendages of the opposite sex.
	George Happ When there are not that many good news going around, a Lotus Eaters meme review is a good palate cleanser.
	That's what I was trying to do.
	I've covered lots of depressing stuff recently and I wanted to do something positive and it seemed like, with the crackdown, highlighting that there are ways of getting around it and that they can't get us all and there's always a way to resist tyranny, even if it's posting memes on the internet.
	Yeah, we need a break.
	It's still better than nothing, right?
	It's not political change, but then the people that say, you're not going to vote your way out of this, bro?
	It's like, oh, thanks, anonymous commenter on the internet.
	You mean, I'm not saying something that will get me arrested?
	Oh, great.
	Anyway, I'll read one more and then we'll go to yours.
	Lord Nereval says, man, if I was any good at Photoshop, I'd have about a billion followers on Twitter by now, probably for the best, because I'd also have been arrested long ago.
	Right.
	JJHW, but the boys need those tampons to plug the gansher wounds.
	Yeah, they've got them in Detroit.
	Nick Taylor, fancy encouraging mentally ill boys to stick tampons in their...
	Butts.
	You're allowed to say butts.
	Butts, okay.
	What a time to be alive.
	Arizona Desert Rat.
	There are so many organizations that provide pads and tampons for girls and women.
	The government doesn't need to butt its nose in.
	And Josh Firm selling crack cocaine on Manchester Road.
	Again!
	I work in an office with tampons in the men's bathroom.
	I make good use of them by dipping them in Tizer and lobbing them at the people I don't like.
	Tizer is like a fizzy drink, soda pop, you know, if you're American or whatever.
	I know that's going to start a civil war if I say that.
	And we have an honorable mention by Tech Heresy.
	The media has been non-stop about anti-racists, stand up to whatever.
	Every single article.
	It's almost as if they say it enough, they'll make their virtue signaling true.
	Sadly, they might.
	What can we say?
	Right.
	On that note, we have reached our end.
	We've run out of time.
	I really enjoyed this.
	I think your segment was a palate cleanser.
	Thank you very much for joining us and we'll be with you tomorrow at 1pm.
	See you tomorrow.

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