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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1095

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters episode 1095. I'm your host Harry, joined today by Josh and Beardybo.
	That's a new name for you now, isn't it?
	That is Beardybo.
	And today we're going to be talking about the left-wing reactions to Master...
	Deportations.
	Leftist journalists turning out to be a deep state psyop.
	God, I can't talk.
	It's alright, get out of your system.
	Get all of the fumbles out of the way before the YouTube clips of recording and then we'll be alright.
	Left-wing journalism has just been a deep state psyop the entire time.
	Big surprise.
	And you're going to be telling us about the golden age of women's sports that we live in right now.
	Do we have any other announcements to make, Samson, before we forge on?
	There is Common Sense Crusade at 3 o'clock, so tune in for that if you are subscribed to the website, and if you're not subscribed to the website, you're not coming to my birthday party this year.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So, obviously Trump's going ahead with mass deportations, and although it's in its sort of infancy at the minute, I think we'd all like to see it ramp up significantly, because the scale of the problem is much larger than the government has capacity for at the minute, it seems.
	And I wanted to talk about some of the reactions to the little deportations that have happened so far.
	And, spoiler alert, they're doing the worst possible thing they could be doing.
	And it's hilarious, and I want to point it out, say where they're going wrong, and how actually they're strengthening the case for mass deportations, not weakening it, in quite a significant way.
	And it's going to be a bit of fun, but also there's a lot of political significance here, because of course lots of other countries are looking at mass deportations as well, and if we see the reaction to them, and if the reaction reinforces the incentive to do the deportations, well that makes it all the more appealing, doesn't it?
	So...
	I have a little video to play, if you can get that up, Samson.
	And I'm sure lots of people have already seen this one.
	This is, of course, the Bordazar, speaking of that Haitian man.
	Is the video here?
	I put the video in the media folder, Samson.
	If you don't have it, it's not the end of the world.
	But basically, what I wanted to show was his zeal in sending people back, because there's this guy.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	Right.
	Take it away, Samson.
	I won't describe it anymore.
	I'm not going back to Haiti.
	You feel me?
	Yo, Biden, forever, bro.
	Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro.
	You see that video.
	I'm curious.
	What do you think?
	Well, he's wrong.
	He's going back to Haiti.
	I like that.
	Simple as.
	I like that attitude.
	It's just like, yep, he's going back to Haiti.
	It doesn't matter.
	He just looks so North FC to me.
	And this sort of attitude has made people feel like they've got their backs up against the wall, which is great, because that's why you need them.
	And the response was this.
	So there was a day without immigrants.
	There were protests against Trump's mass deportations, and basically cities across the United States on Monday, and businesses closed their doors for a day without immigrants to protest the mass deportations.
	And now, just to check up on...
	The United States.
	Sorry, I love this.
	These protests with all of their Mexican flags.
	We're so proud of Mexico.
	We love Mexico so much.
	Why aren't you there?
	So, I was thinking, let's check up on the US because, of course, a day without immigrants, you know, something terrible is going to have to have happened.
	So, if I scroll over on Google Earth using this very infallible method to check on the United States being okay, it's still there.
	It's still here.
	You're saying the sun did come up?
	It did.
	If you're an American watching this, I imagine you're probably not a ghost and you're not all dead.
	That's great news.
	And yeah, obviously nothing bad happened.
	And in fact, the fact that nothing notable happened on Monday is pretty significant.
	If America is still standing, America is still stable, it means actually your day without immigration did nothing and that it doesn't matter.
	Talking about...
	Immigrant labour, is that what they're talking about?
	It's essentially like a one-day immigration labour strike.
	Yes.
	That's what they're talking about.
	Sort of that.
	Although I imagine there were lefty businesses that shut down anyway, that didn't have illegals.
	Many toilets went unclean that day.
	Lawns went unmowed.
	So, let's take a look at what I'm going to label some of the dumbest people on earth, because their efforts to prevent themselves getting deported are doing the complete opposite of what they want them to.
	And here's a business here.
	This video is of a Pennsylvania business.
	And he's speaking in Spanish.
	And he says, we have no choice but to close this place because all the people who worked here, some are scared.
	There's no one to come to work.
	Others have already been taken by immigration.
	And what you did was you filmed a video where you can clearly see outside where you are, what business you're working for.
	And what you've done there, effectively, is dox yourself as a place that has illegal migration.
	It's not a sob story.
	The entire staff, by the sounds of it, as well.
	So what they've done is they've shared a video, basically, of, here's where I work, come get us.
	In a means of trying to say, look at how terrible it is, we can't run this horrible, you know, slop food production.
	Well, it's a bold move, Cotton.
	Let's see how it pays off.
	I know.
	So, like, I can just see that video.
	Tom Homan himself is coordinating it right now.
	Triangulating exactly where this place is.
	Again, why should we care?
	You relied entirely on illegal immigration to staff your business.
	That's a stupid way to run a business.
	I think also the fact he's saying it in Spanish as well is funny because you're not exactly showing that you've integrated into the United States if you're recording your video.
	And this is Pennsylvania as well.
	It's not even a southern state.
	That's what I was going to say.
	We're talking about Southern California.
	No, it's Pennsylvania, is it?
	Okay.
	So, say you were to try and ingratiate yourself with the American people and you want to prove that you're just as American as they are.
	What would the first thing be that you would do?
	Probably not this, which is burning a US flag shouting Viva Mexico in protest of being deported.
	To my mind, this just makes normal people want to deport you.
	Even if they didn't vote Trump, I think that maybe burning the US flag and directly saying that you hate the country that they live in would be a bit of an alarm bell to most people.
	They can just move back.
	They don't even have to be deported.
	If you hate America that much and love Mexico that much, you can just move back home.
	I mean, that's where most of your money will be going as well, isn't it?
	Protests also went out on the streets and as you can see there is an American flag on the ground and lots of Mexican flags here.
	This isn't going to help you ingratiate yourself with the American people if you burn their flag and then wave your own flag.
	It makes you look like invaders.
	Which you are.
	Fifth columnist.
	Exactly.
	Well, of course they are, yeah.
	I mean, if you're doing this sort of thing, obviously there are some people that look pretty white as well, so white leftists.
	There you go.
	They're spraying what looks like gasoline on the flag.
	You're not winning any sympathy here.
	All this is also going to set fire to his flag doing that.
	You're not going to win any sympathy.
	It's just going to get you deported.
	Also, you can see all of their faces.
	You can see the people doing this.
	And what they have done is they have publicly showed that they are against the United States, waving Mexico flags.
	And what can be done is that you can ID those people from this video and you can deport them if there is the political will to do it and the ability and the manpower.
	And obviously it's early days, but a lot of this stuff is getting a lot of attention.
	And so it's all out there.
	There's also this.
	They're just going up to, I think this is a car park or a parking lot, as you might call it, and there's a person just sat in a car and they're going up to their car and just taunting them and getting on their nerves.
	It's not going to win any sympathy, is it?
	Is there any backstory to that?
	Just an entirely random person?
	I think they might have a MAGA hat on.
	I saw them with a red cap on and then they took it off.
	And, yeah.
	It's not gonna win anyone over, is it?
	Surrounding their car, waving flags.
	Yeah, I'm sure that woman's really regretting her voting choices now.
	Yeah, it's not gonna help.
	And there were organised protests as well.
	Look at that creature.
	Before I've actually started the video.
	Which one?
	The one with a weird face makeup.
	This is not a good look.
	You know, these are supposedly normal people.
	You've got what looks like a weird goth clown.
	It's the centerpiece to your protest.
	Also, I'd like to point out that skateboarder's holding his skateboard wrong because the grip tape's going to rub into his clothes, which is, you know, a basic Grom move, which no one's going to get except skateboarders.
	We've got some skater elitism right now.
	I spent a lot of my teenage years skateboarding, all right?
	What a surprise.
	No one would actually be able to get that, to be honest.
	But yeah, this sort of thing, right?
	No one is going to be convinced by this.
	A bunch of Mexican people with Mexican flags and weirdos coming out to defend them.
	And there were lots of other protests as well.
	This was, I think it was either a highway or a main road or I don't know how they're classified in the US. But just people driving by, they're harassing the cars and they're trying to block the roads and they're throwing stuff at them.
	And you can see what they've basically got here is a weird Mexican...
	I want to say standoff, but it's more of an ambush, really.
	And all it is is a sort of gauntlet for are you willing to drive through and have Mexicans throw stuff at your car?
	And if they're throwing stuff at your car, is that assault at that point?
	I think it's certainly damage to property.
	It's a crime.
	But what the driver should have done is just waited five or ten minutes and they'd all go for their afternoon nap and then you'd be able to drive through.
	Perfectly fine.
	Oh, I want to protest, but I'm so sleepy.
	Ah, siesta.
	I'm so tired.
	Yeah, someone had a cyber truck there.
	We know that that's impervious, isn't it?
	Have you seen people shooting it with like a 9mm or something and it just bounces off almost?
	I don't know why they were loitering around.
	They should have gone straight through.
	Not that the protest is just the road, by the way.
	Just to be clear, don't arrest me.
	They also are asking for death because what they were doing was walking out into moving incoming traffic.
	Smooth moves.
	Clever.
	Doctors and engineers.
	Right, let's have a look, shall we?
	Again, for your sanity's sake.
	Here they are just walking out into the road and waving them down.
	Like a crazy person.
	That old taunt, why don't you go play with traffic?
	And they're like, good idea!
	Yeah, I'm going to then.
	They've stopped one person.
	Very, very lucky that these people stopped in time.
	It looked like the grounds for carjacking for a sec.
	They put stuff over their faces and got in the road, but there we go.
	Imagine actually stopping for them and now you've got to wait for all of this.
	If that ever happens to you, you just inch forward and they will get out of the way.
	People won't let themselves be run over nearly always.
	So you just inch forward until you get through them and drive away.
	So this is obviously California.
	Why is that man on stilts?
	Why not?
	I mean, I suppose Mexicans aren't very tall.
	The Mexican circus has arrived and that's really going to win people over.
	That Mexican car just in the road.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	He's got a Sonic backpack on as well.
	I don't know who this is convincing, because this is the opposite of what they should be doing.
	They're parading around like a victorious army.
	Yeah.
	And that doesn't make people sympathetic to you.
	And what happened was...
	Also, if you're doing this kind of behaviour, it's kind of a signal to the people who are deporting you that...
	It's necessary.
	Well, it's necessary and also that if you want to get these people out of the country, well, you're winning if they're doing this kind of thing, right?
	Well, it's being disrespectful, isn't it?
	It's just proving that you've got a just cause here.
	And the riot police did turn up and they blocked the road, which, you know, credit to them, I suppose.
	And there was quite a significant police response to it and I think they shut it down eventually.
	That's cool.
	They did come out in force then.
	So it's like San Bernardino and Pasadena.
	So this is Southern California.
	Yes.
	Exactly where you'd expect this sort of thing to happen.
	But yes, hopefully Tom Holland has been watching these videos and is just going, you're going home, you're going home, you're going home.
	Scanning through, making notes on faces with Terminator vision.
	Yeah, and there were lots of protests elsewhere as well.
	Here is Atlanta, Georgia.
	Mexicans apparently didn't get the memo that maybe waving a US flag, if you're going to do sort of political rhetorical tricks, might be a good idea.
	Just like, no, no, they're deporting them, they're American, they're waving American flags.
	They didn't even bother to do that sleight of hand.
	they're just openly nationalistic for mexico which is great because they'll be going back there soon and uh i love that you can see a lot of these flags with all of the folds still in them so they're brand new they've just gone out to buy them the fact that i see lots of actual handwritten signs as well in this and not you know the stock uh obviously they don't have stand up to racism in the u.s but those kinds of ngo banners as well
	this probably is somewhat organic which again shows that the u.s government is actually touching a nerve here yeah also i think that From the perspective of an illegal immigrant or a Mexican, you might think, okay, well, I like making more money than in Mexico, and therefore it's enough of a reason for them to go out on the streets.
	And so it's a believable protest, isn't it?
	It's not like some of the more astroturfed ones we get in the UK, where everyone has the same sign.
	One for USAID on Monday.
	That's true, yeah.
	Thousands have come out for this one specific government department.
	No, not my favourite government department, if you have a favourite government department, other than maybe the Department of Defence, which, you know, I can kind of respect.
	Georgia is interesting, though, because it shows how much I know, I suppose, but I wouldn't have thought, if you'd asked me a minute ago, that there would be a massive, particularly large Mexican community in Georgia.
	You know, I would have thought California, all the obvious places along the border, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, or whatever.
	They need the burritos and toilets cleaned.
	Yeah, like Pennsylvania.
	I wonder if Wyoming's got much of a Mexican community.
	Montana surely can't have it.
	Well, everywhere needs cleaners, right?
	And another one is Glendale in Arizona.
	Here we go.
	Got some fireworks and more Mexican flags.
	Yeah, you're showing those Trump supporters by dancing around.
	What a cultural contribution they're making, right?
	I know, they're really making you sympathetic.
	You know, in the middle of an intersection with fireworks, waving their flags around like lunatics.
	To be fair, acting like a dickhead and setting off fireworks is kind of like an American thing, isn't it?
	I'd give them a bit more credit than that.
	It's more of like a...
	Well, they wave American flags while they're doing it.
	Well, that's fine.
	It's America.
	I'm not saying it's not fine.
	You're saying they're almost...
	They're so close to integration.
	I see what you're saying.
	So, Houston, Texas here.
	They at least had the decency to go on a bridge rather than block the road.
	I wouldn't necessarily want to be one of the cars driving underneath.
	Who knows what's going to happen.
	I can't see what that flag is trailing on the back of the truck, but if it's a Trump flag, I respect that.
	I'd like to think it was.
	But funny how Texas, they all step out of the road.
	And interesting, what about Texas?
	Might make it so that they're not actually interfering directly in people's lives.
	Hmm.
	Southern hospitality.
	It must be.
	What do you mean?
	The Texas authorities don't mess about?
	I think if they get in the way, they might get shot, is all I was thinking really.
	There's nothing much to it.
	And yes, there are also these businesses closing, and here's Al Jazeera talking about it, which I thought was funny.
	They're closing in protest against Trump's immigration policies, as Al Jazeera puts it, which isn't really true.
	It's protesting against, I'm illegal, I want to make money off the backs of the American people, and so we're closing businesses.
	And there's a very sad-looking Hispanic lady there putting a sign up saying, we're closing on Monday, Feb 3, in solidarity with our immigrant community.
	Well, seeing as we know the kind of trends that happen within immigrant communities and immigrant businesses, I would assume a lot of the only people who would be going to these immigrant businesses are other immigrants anyway.
	Probably, yes.
	So, I mean, it's not really affecting anybody who...
	Didn't already vote for this.
	Also, it's not like there are lots of alternatives open for that one day.
	It's not going to do anything.
	It was just silly, and all it did was make them look bad.
	But here's a little thing of a coffee shop closing.
	Where am I going to get coffee?
	We're closed to unite in support of immigrants, just generally.
	Notice how they don't mention illegal immigrants or undocumented peoples or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
	Invaders is another word, I suppose.
	They're not going to say that, of course.
	Marauders.
	Yes.
	Raiders.
	Parasites.
	Deliberately making no distinction between violent, re-offending illegal immigrants and just immigrants.
	As if there's no...
	You know, those Scandinavians in North America, they're a plague there, aren't they?
	And yes, here's another one.
	A Houston restaurant closed for a day without immigrants, but it had no tangible effect.
	I didn't see, you know, any media outlet trying to say, oh, it's had a devastating impact closing without immigrants.
	They've not even tried to sell that because it didn't do anything.
	And in fact, I think some people might well be aware that...
	Their demonstration has just gone to show that America can exist without them.
	It carried on.
	The economy didn't collapse.
	It didn't.
	That's strange, isn't it?
	I thought loads of economists have been telling me that it would collapse.
	It's funny that, isn't it?
	It's almost like those economists are wrong.
	And a bit of foreshadowing for your segment, Harry.
	It could be that those economists are paid off by the US government.
	And I found this cartoon quite funny.
	Someone's posting on social media.
	Join us to protest Trump's deportation.
	And there they are at the protest.
	And they're suggesting that maybe Tom Homan himself is organising them just to make his job easier because then he can see all of the people that are actually turning up.
	Which, you know, they're not the smartest people.
	They've just made themselves visible.
	And this was hilarious.
	This is exactly what I would do were I in America right now.
	I'm just going to play it.
	I'm not going to give you an explanation.
	That's got to become like the anthem, isn't it?
	Vanilla Rice, love it.
	The thing about strikes is I think a lot of people...
	Particularly maybe younger people, people who aren't that familiar with history, don't seem to understand is that if it's genuinely a standoff, a battle of wills between your employer or the state, then you strike until you get what you want.
	If you look at, for example, the coal miners in the 80s in Britain, or you look at the Great Strike in the 20s in Britain, no, you strike for weeks and weeks and months.
	Well, the coal miners held the country to ransom.
	They're basically like, you won't have any power unless you give us what you want.
	What we want, sorry.
	The whole concept of striking for one day is nonsense.
	It's absolute nonsense.
	Or if you say ahead of time, we're going to strike like our rail unions often do here.
	We go, like, two months from now, we're going to strike on this day, or the teachers' union.
	We're going to strike for one or two days, and we're going to let you know when it is.
	That's nonsense.
	You're not...
	That's not real.
	That is just pure performative, childish nothing.
	But...
	I don't know.
	That's what this is.
	It is just performative, isn't it?
	So...
	One thing I can suggest to people that might be upset about immigration is, you know, if you've got family in the US, this is what we always hear is, but you can't take people away from their families.
	Well, this is Canada.
	This is a lady who's, you know, chained herself to a Pakistani man, and they're moving back to Pakistan.
	Good luck to the lady.
	She's being able to survive.
	Oh, they're both climate activists as well.
	Oh yeah, I'm not sorry about it.
	No.
	Why hasn't she got her head covered?
	I know, yes.
	She's very modest.
	I know.
	How dare she?
	She's going to have a bit of a culture shock, isn't she?
	All of that diversity, she's going to be so enriched.
	I hope she likes the climate in Pakistan.
	Yeah.
	And the people.
	Except accommodating, yeah.
	Yes, these people I think are to do with Extinction Rebellion or something or other, so...
	Good that they're leaving, basically.
	What you're doing is you're deporting a foreigner and you're also getting a leftist thrown in for free.
	Which sounds great.
	It's a great package deal, yeah.
	They made a fuss about this, but this is like free advertising.
	In Britain, if I got to deport illegal immigrants and legal dependents, and then also I get the leftists going as well, well, you know, it's like you get something for free, isn't it?
	It's great.
	Yes, they are going ahead and getting deported as well.
	And they're both going together.
	Oh, how romantic.
	It looks like the realisation of what's happening is kicking in on her face.
	Like, wait, really?
	They're going back to Pakistan.
	The look on her face.
	That's what I mean, yeah.
	It's like, oh, I've actually got to do this now?
	So one thing that I, you know, I've made light of a lot of it.
	One thing I do want to...
	Draw attention to is particularly on social media.
	Loads of leftists have been talking about getting winter boots, which is basically a code to organise and potentially arm themselves against ice.
	So there are weirdos like this.
	You can tell by the fact her face is a pincushion that she's...
	A leftist.
	And she's talking about where you can find winter boots and where to meet.
	And also, you know, there's another person here, interesting beard, talking about this.
	And yeah, I'm not going to play it because it's five minutes long.
	But you get the gist that they're basically using coded language to suggest that they're going to do something violent.
	Which I hope the American state has note of because it is significant and these people are unhinged and it's just a sort of note of safety at the end, I suppose.
	that do be careful if you are a legitimate American citizen, because I imagine that although it's been mostly peaceful in the actual sense and a bit silly and self-destructive on the part of many of the illegals and the Mexicans, there are going to be people that because I imagine that although it's been mostly peaceful in the actual sense and a bit silly and self-destructive on the
	And so I suppose pay attention to this and what people are saying in your local area while this is going on, because people are sort of telegraphing what they're doing.
	And hopefully the authorities pick up on this stuff and people are aware that they're using codes to basically suggest being violent towards people.
	So that's their dog whistle.
	I hadn't heard of that until just now.
	Winter boots.
	That's their thing.
	I don't know how far that took off, or whether there are other ones, because I didn't have the time to, you know, dig around on TikTok.
	I know that Reddit is full of people saying that we need to go and commit violence in response to all of this, but most of Reddit probably doesn't have the grip strength to keep hold of a gun after the initial shot.
	That's true.
	I don't think they pose much of a threat, but you are right that there will be some who will be planning violence in response to this.
	And so my sort of parting message is...
	Illegal migration protesters, carry on doing what you're doing.
	You're doing a great job making mass deportations look good.
	And if you're an American citizen, just stay safe.
	And all the best from the other side of the Atlantic.
	We've got quite a few rumble rants.
	Do you want to read through them?
	Sure.
	Iced333.
	Hommen reminds me of the crocodile hunter, but for illegals.
	If we can have...
	That style show where Tom Homan personally goes out in shorts and wrestles them to the ground.
	Crikey, this is a big illegal.
	That whispering into me, you're alright mate, you're alright.
	While he's hog tying them.
	He does sort of remind me of a Fallout super mutant in the best possible way.
	yeah he does actually Pat Lusaka says I'm happy for our American cousins but speaking selfishly with Labour reversing the border bill and even the EU cracking down on migrants I fear the invaders will be coming here instead not if they're Mexicans typically because they Well, he means from the EU, as in they're cracking down.
	But also, the word is going out.
	I've seen lots of foreigners on the internet saying, actually, Britain's not very good anymore.
	Because they've run it into the ground, obviously.
	So it's not really worth coming here.
	You can't even extract resources from here anymore.
	There are none to extract, because we're all poor and broke, and it's terrible.
	That's a Random Name says, Watching these clips, I now understand why Harry Weasley drives a flying car, and yes, Dean Thomas was obviously made to sit in the back.
	That's another Harry Potter reference.
	At least it's not about you this time, Harry.
	I think it was.
	Oh.
	Dragon Lady Chris says, funny how these protests didn't happen when Obama was deporting millions of illegals.
	Yeah, they're not even to Obama's rates yet, either.
	I imagine that Obama was trying to be a bit more quiet about them, whereas Trump wants to go with the shock and awe of it.
	Lord of Nothing says, I'm an American and in April I will be in Chichester as the best man for a wedding.
	Any advice for an American coming to Soviet Britain?
	Just leave your guns at home.
	Wear a stab vest wherever you get.
	No, I'm joking.
	You'll be fine.
	Especially Chichester.
	Chichester's nice.
	Yeah.
	I think.
	My only advice is try your best to be polite to people.
	We have a very different culture over here and there's a very distinct etiquette in being in a pub as well if you end up in one of those, which is always good, by the way.
	And the price on things in shops is the final price you have to pay at the tool.
	Pax isn't added.
	That's a little bit condescending there, isn't it?
	I'm sure they're aware of that.
	That one guy on Point says, My mum told me a woman called the school she works at asking if ICE was coming for her kids.
	The next day she took her kids out of school and said she was driving back to Mexico.
	Self-deportation.
	You love to see it, don't you?
	Sigil Stone says, remember a few years ago when Pakistan had record flooding and so many spiders moved into the trees it looked like Shelob took over the country?
	Anyway, I'm sure that woman will love Pakistan.
	I covered that, actually.
	I remember doing an Indian accent before that segment.
	We actually started the podcast and Callum nearly wet himself.
	So I was saying, glory be to God, Pakistan is flooded.
	Or something along those lines.
	Yeah, alright, so, moving on.
	As we all know, there's been a lot of news, I think Josh reported on it on Monday, Donald Trump has announced that there will be a 90-day pause to all US aid, save for one or two exceptions, and a lot of information has been coming out about where US aid was going globally, and how much...
	The US deep state, because USAID was heavily tied into the CIA as well, absolutely hates you, the American taxpaying citizen, and how eager they are to waste your money.
	So for just a reminder of the kinds of things...
	Can this mouse work?
	There we go.
	Of the kinds of things that was being spent using your taxpayer money.
	$15 million for condoms to the Taliban.
	Almost half a million dollars to promote atheism in Nepal.
	Through the State Department.
	Why does the US government hate Buddhism?
	What is in America's global interests that Nepal is atheist?
	Unless, of course, it's just a program run by insane race communists.
	All those Buddhist extremists sat up in mountains minding their own business.
	How dare they?
	Yeah, 20 grand for a drag show in Ecuador.
	Almost 50 grand for a transgender opera in Colombia.
	32 grand for a trans-centred comic book in Peru.
	So it seems that this was mainly being...
	What's this?
	3,300,000 for being gay in the Caribbean.
	So this is like alphabet people colonialism, basically.
	It really is.
	It seems to have been a...
	Primary goal of the US State Department, the CIA, and USAID to promote insane leftist causes globally.
	I can only assume to...
	Destabilize the cultures of these countries for some nefarious purpose.
	The way a lot of these things work is that they create all these organizations in a host country and then they use it as a bargaining chip.
	Basically, you give us what we want or we cause instability in your country.
	So sometimes it can get to the point where they cause street riots from these set-up organizations.
	Yeah, AstroTurf protests.
	And then all of a sudden the protests just evaporate when the US gets what it wants.
	It's very interesting.
	I mean, the US has used these kinds of global development of democracy goals to hold countries for ransom for decades at this point.
	To be clear, the US government.
	I'm not making the US people complicit in this.
	We're well aware...
	That none of you watching this voted for $14 million worth of cash vouchers to be given to migrants at the southern border.
	We know that's nothing.
	Not even leftist Democrats have voted specifically for that through these programs.
	It does read like something from Brewster's Millions, where it's just trying to spend as much money as possible on as little as possible.
	I don't know if you've ever seen that film.
	I haven't.
	I've shown my age a bit there.
	He has to burn through $30 million in 30 days and have nothing to show for it at the end.
	So he has to give $1.5 million for job opportunities for gays in Serbia.
	Yep, that's in Brewster's millions.
	He could burn through that just funding the NHS for a minute.
	There you go.
	A couple of minutes at least.
	Come on.
	Maybe not even that.
	Well, maybe not even that.
	But since this came out on Monday and since we reported on it, a lot more has come out.
	So, for instance, Carolyn Levitt just was speaking about how also found in all of the USAID funding, there was $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.
	Wait, what?
	How is that even in the interests of the US whatsoever?
	Even any political faction?
	Maybe, maybe, on behalf of Israel to attract Palestinian tourists to Egypt, at which point they don't get let back in.
	They shut the door to the pyramid and they're just stuck there.
	With all the mummies.
	Oh no!
	So how do you promote...
	In Egypt, of all places.
	I don't really need the promotion.
	$20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
	$20 million is a vast sum of money.
	We're used to, aren't we, the idea of we hear the word millions get thrown around or billions get thrown around.
	But the real, real reality is that $20 million is a vast sum of money.
	Absolutely crazy.
	If you saw $20 million in cash, it would be a huge volume.
	I feel like someone needs to give me a visual demonstration and that would best work by showing it in my bank vault.
	It'd be like that bit in Breaking Bad where they open up the garage and it's all full of money and I think that was only like 70 million dollars or something and it almost filled an entire storage unit.
	Does Iraq want Sesame Street?
	What's Sesame Street if I recall from Kaltu?
	It was very, very specifically tied to New York often, wasn't it?
	It was a very American thing.
	It was a New York thing.
	Well, that's why they need all of that money so they can develop it for a foreign culture.
	Would it be set in Baghdad?
	Sesame Street, but set in Baghdad with Arabic-speaking puppets?
	Actually, I don't care.
	All the female puppets will be in the niqab.
	No, there won't be female puppets, no.
	That would be haram.
	And also four and a half million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan, of all places.
	So again, the question becomes, how does this benefit, not the American state, because the American state loves to cause all sorts of discord across the world, but the American people themselves, how does this benefit them as a nation to take their money and just do this with it?
	It doesn't.
	Obviously, it doesn't.
	It's deep state global agendas that they want to promote across the place, like you say, as a bargaining chip.
	Also, just because of the fact that American deep state does seem to be somewhat wedded to this kind of insane ideology and promoting it globally.
	Because, of course, as we know, the empires love to spread belief systems across.
	The world, especially when America is going for a kind of global domination there.
	But in support of this sort of stuff, you do need a propaganda arm.
	And what works better for propaganda than bought and paid for media, both domestic and international?
	So one of the more interesting things that came out about this was that the BBC's media action charity was receiving £2.6 million from USAID. And this was...
	Interesting because it's not the BBC itself, it's their media action charity which works to train international journalists to be able to spread democracy and free thought across the world.
	They actually made a statement about it saying that a free press is essential to freedom and democracy.
	Very ironic coming from an arm of the BBC. Yeah, they're not free.
	They're state-owned.
	Yeah, and 75% of countries around the world do not have a free press.
	BBC Media Action supports local media around the world to deliver trusted information to people most in need.
	Because what this really means is we want to make sure that we can train up insane lefty communist journalists to subvert their home nations.
	Yeah, it reads like a sort of insurgency, doesn't it?
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	It's an international fifth column.
	Set up and manned by insane communist journalists in every country that they go to.
	That's what they want to make sure that there is so that you can spread discord.
	And happily, it turns out USAID was about 8% of their income from 2023 to 2024. So that's actually a huge bit of their budget.
	8%.
	If you have to make up an 8% hole in your budget, you're going to have to cut a lot of stuff.
	But they want to make sure that you know that we're only an international charity.
	We're completely separate from BBC News.
	We're wholly reliant on our donors.
	No, I hope you get shut down.
	I hope you get shut down.
	I don't think the BBC or the West in general should be involved in this kind of subversive action internationally unless it actually serves our interests across the globe, which...
	These kinds of things typically don't.
	I'm going to need to hear Mariana Springs' take on this.
	I can't trust you as fake news.
	Right, of course, of course.
	Or I can't trust action media.
	I need specifically her take on it in order to know what's real on this.
	We'll let you know.
	If every single journalist left the country overnight, I would wake up tomorrow to a better country.
	Absolutely.
	So the whole argument is nonsense.
	Oh, it absolutely is.
	And one of the interesting things that came out about the domestic side of this as well is that Carolyn Levitt announced that Doge is cutting all funding to Politico and other media outlets.
	Now, people like Benny Johnson are saying explicitly that it's funded by USAID. It's not quite that simple, but we'll go into it in a moment.
	Basically to say, though, that from all of the government itself, Politico was receiving about $8.2 million.
	Last year.
	Not a small amount of money for a media company, is it?
	No, and as soon as this became clear to everybody, coincidentally, at the exact same time, all of a sudden, nobody got paid at Politico.
	What a coincidence.
	Interesting coincidence.
	Now, they say that it's due to some kind of glitch on the payroll side.
	But it is interesting that this immediately happened, and it's especially interesting that Politico was getting money from the government when they'd also been promoting things like the Hunter Biden story being Russian disinformation, because Politico are a leftist rag.
	Now, of course...
	It may be a bit premature to be able to say that this is going to take them down, because according to this graph that he shows here, it seems that their money only really came in from the government, the $8.2 million in the past year or so.
	So they probably have other ways of actually funding themselves.
	It's just funny, if it does turn out that they really had been so short-sighted that they got...
	Eight million dollars from the government and said, fantastic, we can just use that to pay all of our staff now.
	We don't need to worry about any, you know, contingencies.
	That would be quite funny.
	I think that what probably is going on is that they're telling their staff that they can't pay them because they're going for a period of creative accounting to account for the shortfall.
	And basically that's something that they can push into the distance ever so slightly and it gives them more time to sort of make up the losses.
	Yeah, but this also raises the question, okay, Politico is getting $8 million from the US government to spread terrible leftist reporting.
	What other news organizations are also receiving money?
	And the website, this is on usaspending.gov.
	You can try and track some of this, so please feel free to take a look yourself.
	But I find it interesting that other...
	News sites have immediately gone into damage control with this, like this Axios article talking about how...
	Well, actually, if you look into it, it's not just USAID. USAID only gave about $24,000 of the $8.2 million that they were giving to Politico.
	The rest of the money seems to have come from the rest of the government, and likely the cost...
	Of premium subscriptions, such as Politico Pro.
	That's a lot of subscriptions.
	No, it is.
	And I found there's better and more information found in this Daily Mail article here saying that Politico actually received about $44,000 from USAID last year.
	Still, even if it's only $44,000, why should a US international aid program be giving money to domestic news sites anyway?
	very interesting, but was given millions more from other federal agencies, according to public records.
	Most notably, the Department of Health and Human Services had $1.37 million in obligations.
	The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy were also among the top spenders.
	It's understood that most of the agency's spending is on Politico's B2B service, Politico Pro, which offers "non-partisan, real-time intelligence personalized to their area of policy focus," according to the platform.
	Subscriptions to this can cost around...
	What does that mean, exactly?
	I assume real-time intelligence personalized to their area of policy focus, it just gives them news that's related to their job.
	Okay, okay.
	Okay?
	Subscriptions to this can cost around $10,000 per year.
	Oh.
	Okay, sounds legit.
	So the government would have had to make up that shell out for more than 800 accounts, according to this article.
	So that's all very interesting.
	So the US government was paying for subscriptions to Politico to ensure that its own staff members were getting non-partisan...
	Information from Politico, who are absolutely a non-partisan organization, and you can tell that because they released lots of agit slop talking about things like Gamergate from a totally non-partisan, non-leftist perspective, and they had lots and lots and lots of articles that were being funded, we know now, at least to the tune of about $8 million as of last year, but we don't know anymore, about...
	Every single time something's talking about MAGA, they bring up Gamergate, Gamergate this, Pizzagate, Gamergate, and everything to do with right-wing reporting, they need you to know that yes, it all still ties back to Gamergate, because Politico are a non-partisan, non-biased organization that do not have a deep leftist bias.
	In their bones, alright?
	Alright, we've got that clear, right?
	And the US government agencies just needed to make sure they were getting their information from this particular news site, okay?
	There's a lot of mentions of Gamergate for things that don't even seem in any way related, either.
	Yeah, inauguration day, Trump takes office, 2017. For some reason, we're just going to talk about Gamergate in there.
	Okay, alright, that's...
	Brianna Wu as well, which is funny.
	Yeah, from...
	Oh god, it was from Brianna Wu.
	Okay, but...
	Politico themselves, unlike the BBC, I've looked on their website, so far they do not have a statement about what has come up, but there was this article which spoke about how terrible it was that USAID is being gutted the way that it is, how we need to take this pause off and we need to carry on because it's all in the benefit of the US international image.
	Now there is something to worry about here because they do report that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now the acting director of U.S. aid and the administration is reportedly trying to fold the agency into the State Department.
	More on that in a moment.
	But they also say things like Andrew Natsios Which is a very interesting surname.
	Gotta make sure to pronounce that one correctly, don't you?
	Yeah.
	Who ran USAID under President George W. Bush and is a lifelong conservative Republican, calls such moves illegal and outrageous.
	What Musk and Rubio are doing is criminal, they can't abolish an aid program without a vote of Congress.
	Moreover, he says, they missed the point that USAID is critical to winning the competition with China.
	And reflects long-standing Republican priorities.
	That's just the go-to talking point now if you ever want to justify anything that's against the interests of the American people.
	Well, don't you want to beat China?
	You need those H-1B visas or else you're not going to be able to beat China.
	Don't you need to be giving money so that people in Guatemala can get sex changes?
	If you don't do it, then China's going to do it and China's going to win!
	And also, the US has already beaten China in many different metrics.
	They're already in the position of dominance.
	What they should be doing is just focusing on growing and being better, not, let's try and beat this country that has a massively lower GDP per capita than us.
	Listen, Josh, buddy, I think you're missing the point that if you don't spend $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq, then China might do the same thing, which means that they win!
	I'm very curious to see what that show's like, to be fair.
	I mean, well, it's probably not going to happen now, is it?
	I did a bit of content a few months ago, and I think it was now, on the podcast with Dan, talking about The Great Wurlitzer, and I've written an article on a similar topic before.
	I don't know if any of you are aware of that, but yeah, the way that, going back decades, as you already referenced, mentioned, well, there's a great book called...
	I also did a Brokernomics with Dan.
	Confessions of an Economic Hitman, yeah.
	I did a Brokernomics with Dan on that, where going back for decades, that's the plan, that's the strategy.
	The cara is the massive loans.
	You have to take out massive loans, essentially, with America or the World Bank in order to build infrastructure.
	And if you don't, ultimately they'll send in...
	CIA kill teams, and then ultimately aircraft carriers and the Marines.
	In other words, you've just got to do as you're told, ultimately.
	And this is just a new way of doing that.
	Become a vassal of the United States in various ways, or of the State Department, or of Langley, or whatever it is.
	If you don't do what we say, we're going to send in the Sesame Street show to turn your children gay.
	There's more than one way to skin a cat, and it's evolved.
	Over the years to the point where now that USAID or the Department for International Development is actually some sort of cutout for the intelligence services or for interests in the State Department, whatever it is.
	We don't really get to know what their agenda is or really who they are particularly.
	But yeah, it's all just smoke and mirrors for some sort of agenda that we don't really know properly.
	Other than it's subversive and degenerate.
	Yeah, and it doesn't seem to be in the interests of the United States, certainly not the individual taxpayers.
	Apparently, if the US was making sure to spend $8 million to make sure that loads of its staff in the Department of the Interior can make sure that they get all of their news from Politico, I guess it starts to make a bit of sense how it is that the people staffing those departments have the views that they do, right?
	It feels like it's a cycle.
	It's like an Ouroboros, the snake eating itself.
	I mentioned the idea of a Wurlitzer.
	That goes back to Frank Wisner, a very early CIA operative.
	A Wurlitzer is just a very old-fashioned word for a jukebox, basically.
	But the way that the intelligence services play the tune through the media, through so-called legit mainstream media, corporate mainstream media, they get them to play the tune.
	And the rest of the world just have to dance to it.
	Well, the modern day, the 2024-2025 equivalent of that is something like Politico and its funding and its obvious bent.
	And, well, now, it looks like hopefully under Trump they're starting to, on some level, claw that back.
	Reverse the tide on some level.
	Co-opting Rubio to do it.
	Although, he's changed his tune in recent times, hasn't he?
	Is that not what you're about to say?
	Yeah, I'm a little bit worried seeing that he's in charge of USAID now and they're apparently trying to wrap it back around into the State Department, which is that he's flip-flopped on this a lot and has said in the past, many, many times over, how important the foreign aid was.
	In 2022, he tried to argue to Biden to increase the budget for USAID. In 2022?
	Yeah, very recently.
	So it seems very opportunist now that he's suddenly taken the opposite tact, and he has said that once the pause is done, they are going to continue with foreign aid initiatives, but quote-unquote, only if they actually benefit US and international interests.
	But again, I don't trust that Rubio or the State Department are really going to take that much of a different tact with this, because from a...
	From the perspective of carrot and stick, as you've mentioned, well, yeah, maybe you could make the argument that this is in the US state's global interests and the goals that they're going for, that being complete total domination and hegemony.
	So, I would say don't necessarily declare victory yet, because we'll see what happens after this pause is done and see how people like Rubio take this.
	I know that...
	Musk and others want to completely gut this, but he's not the only one who makes those decisions.
	I mean, there is the whole world of soft power, right?
	And for anyone who might not know, or anyone of our British audience, the State Department is the American equivalent of the Foreign Office, or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, you know, to do with all things foreign affairs related.
	So some people might not know that.
	It's not obvious from the word, is it?
	The State Department?
	Anyway...
	It's making America stage number one.
	It's like going back decades ago, going after the war, World War II, like the Marshall Plan, for example, where they were genuinely trying to sort of stabilise the world that had been ruined by World War II in all sorts of ways.
	And we're now, decades and decades later, 80 years later or whatever it is, it's now been just completely subverted and perverted where they're trying to set up Sesame Street in Iraq.
	It's a million miles away from the Marshall Plan, where, you know, just giving completely impoverished Greek people some donkeys so they can live.
	Stelios is very grateful. - Um, We'll see what the State Department does.
	But I would say that the State Department is one of the cabals in the world, which I just absolutely don't trust.
	Like the CCP, like the Communist Party, like the FSB, the GRU. There's quite a few cabals in the world where I don't trust them.
	I don't trust them.
	You shouldn't trust any government.
	And if you're an American citizen, I think it's perfectly fair not to trust them either because the State Department is very eager to send your children off to war for no reason.
	Well, they do seem to be responsible for...
	Because so many things come under the purview of the State Department.
	So many things.
	Giant, giant budgets all over the place.
	They were run by Janet Yellen for a while.
	Yellen was at the Treasury.
	Treasury, sorry, yeah.
	Got that mixed up.
	Janet the felon Yellen.
	I wrote an article called that.
	Which you can read.
	Money printer as well, wouldn't you?
	Yeah, running the deficit into skyrocket numbers.
	But yeah, we'll see.
	Rubio does seem to have changed his tune then recently.
	I guess he knows the way the wind's blowing.
	His master is Trump.
	And if that's what the Donald wants, then I guess he's got to do it.
	Again, I think I'm eager for things to improve, but...
	I want to be not so hasty before we declare absolute and total victory with these sorts of things, because basically putting it in the hands of a neocon is not necessarily my idea of victory.
	But going back to the journalistic side of this as well, as I mentioned, a lot of this is promoted not just by setting up Sesame Street in Iraq, but US international aims are also set up through journalism.
	Internationally as well as domestic.
	And there's a lot coming out about the kind of international journalism that's going to be hit by the US aid freeze.
	Now according to...
	Oh, go on.
	I was just going to say, don't threaten us with a good time.
	Yeah.
	So according to Reporters Without Borders, globalist organization, the aid freeze appears to have put a hold on $268 million that was earmarked to fund independent media and the free flow of information.
	Nice.
	Unbiased information.
	Oh, I don't remember our USAID funding.
	We've not got any of that.
	So we're an independent media organisation.
	Where was the USAID's, you know, line to us exactly?
	Yeah, did we get any?
	Did New Culture Forum get any?
	Did anyone on the right anywhere get any?
	It always seems to be very...
	Heavily biased towards left-wing organizations, doesn't it?
	But it says, Reporters Without Borders notes the full impact of the freeze is hard to measure, since many recipients are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks.
	Newslet outlets that have been exiled from Iran and Belarus did tell the organization, under the cover of anonymity, that the freeze has forced them to take drastic measures just to survive, while Data Cameron...
	Cameroon, sorry.
	An investigative site said that it had to suspend projects linked to journalist safety in upcoming elections in the country.
	I would assume they mean Iran there.
	Reporters Without Borders also noted the harsh effect on journalism in Ukraine where, and this is the real figure, 90% of news organizations in Ukraine rely on US aid funding.
	Some very heavily.
	Writing last week, Older Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kiev Independent, which has received US aid grants in the past, claimed that the freeze has caused harm to independent Ukrainian journalism on par with the COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of Russia's war, and could soon surpass both in severity, if not reversed.
	So the entirety, almost the entirety, of Ukrainian journalism is a State Department op.
	Put down your pen and get in the trenches.
	That's what I say.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	USAID's website has also been offline since Saturday, but a surviving post under the agency's profile on Medium from around a year ago is telling of its approach towards funding journalism overseas.
	The article states that supporting independent media has been part of USAID's democracy and governance assistance efforts since the 1980s.
	And that the US government is now the largest public donor to independent media development globally, above a graphic featuring a quote from President Biden describing press freedom as the bedrock of democracy and an outlet of...
	So basically they've been using it to fund journalistic propaganda for colour revolutions.
	And then just calling it independent.
	Yeah.
	That's very interesting.
	So the word, they've completely subverted the word independent then.
	It's not independent because it's funded by the US government.
	So by definition, it can't be.
	And for a little bit more information, there was this interesting substack.
	I don't have access to the full thing because it's paid, but all the information that's available for free here is still very telling.
	This is from Lee Fang's substack.
	USAID funded the Zinc Network, an anti-disinformation group that's targeted Max Blumenthal, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Representative Andy Briggs.
	It funded a pesticide industry public relations effort known as V... The foreign nexus of USAID provides a convenient
	loophole.
	American grants and contracts flow through third-party intermediaries to a network of foreign recipients who can push to silence American journalists and politicians.
	In Ukraine, USAID, through its contract at Internews, supports a network of social media-focused news outlets including New Voice of Ukraine, Vox Ukraine, Detector Media, and the Institute of Mass Information.
	These news outlets have produced a series of videos and reports targeting economist Jeffrey Sachs, commentator Tucker Carlson, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Professor John Mearsheimer as figures within a controlled network of Russian propaganda.
	Vox Ukraine also is an official, well, I would assume was at this point, an official fact-checking partner for Meta.
	...and helped the social media giant censor so-called misinformation and disinformation.
	Detector Media similarly produces English language disinformation reports widely circulated through the Western media.
	despite branding as independent outlets these organizations are heavily reliant on usaid they provide special grants to detector media to undermine kremlin information operations and bolster international support for solidarity with ukraine in 2021 detector media received 35 percent of its nearly one million dollar budget from usaid contractor internews would i be able to point out I don't think anyone's pointed out quite yet.
	That the sheer extent and scale of these networks, I've seen diagrams of them, and they are massive.
	And the fact that the Democrats could not only do this using the US government, but then also keep it mostly a secret.
	Is quite telling, and I think that people shouldn't necessarily underestimate that ability yet, because they've not been completely defanged until they've been starved of resources for a long time.
	Yeah, Musk actually had to go into the USAID office department and basically do some pretty sneaky moves to even be able to get access to a lot of the information they've been able to get for the reports that Catherine Leavitt has been doing on this.
	It seems to me that they go after individual...
	Journalists and economists and things you mentioned there go after like food journalists, like the way they went after Roreg Nationalists, for example.
	So it's like the Ministry of Truth.
	It is like USAID, some sort of funding, some sort of global Ministry of Truth type thing.
	And if that doesn't work, they'll...
	Pass your dossier over to the Ministry of Love and then you're in real trouble.
	This is Orwellian stuff.
	It really is.
	Well, you control the flow of information by funding the journalists and if you have journalists that you don't like, you control the information that's spread around them.
	And just call it misinformation, disinformation, the fight against misinformation or disinformation, when in fact that's exactly the thing that you're peddling.
	Yeah.
	And Mike Benz also pointed this one out, which was that...
	He's good on this stuff, right?
	He is very good on this stuff.
	It was when it came to Rudy Giuliani's reports on Rudy Giuliani that led to Donald Trump's impeachment.
	It was done by OCCRP's reporting.
	And if you go to the next one, what can you find here?
	USAID funding investigative reporting to the tune of $20 million going to OCCRP. What is the OCCRP? The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
	So they did investigative reporting.
	The irony of going after Giuliani, considering what he did to the mob, you know, the people reporting on organised crime, and then they're going after him, the guy who prosecuted organised criminals.
	He's America's mayor.
	How dare they go after Rudy?
	They target their international enemies through this, and it seems they also target their domestic enemies through this, and there are a whole bunch of bits of legislation that say you're not allowed to do this, so they go, fantastic.
	We use USAID and other dark money schemes to get the money to people who technically aren't the American government so they can do it for us.
	There you go.
	In my segment about the Wurlitzer, the great Wurlitzer, I mentioned Ben's a couple of times there.
	There's a good podcast he did on Joe Rogan, which I referenced a number of times.
	He's very good on this sort of thing.
	As you said, the scale, the giant...
	The scale of these networks, the amount of money flying around, is astronomical.
	Scary.
	It's pretty dark.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And if Trump and Elon can get a handle on it, that would be superb.
	That would be sort of a game changer, I think, globally, I would like to think.
	Don't give it to Rubio.
	Don't give it to the neocons.
	You don't want the neocon faction in the American government anymore.
	They keep getting you into wars for no reason.
	So don't give the...
	Don't give the money purse to this enormous pot of money for international influence to a neocon.
	Please don't.
	I was surprised when Trump picked Rubio for the State Department, of all places.
	I mean, if Rubio just does as he's told and he pushes through the policies Trump wants, then no problem.
	But I was surprised, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	It's like when he picked John Bolton at the UN first time round.
	It's like, really?
	Him?
	You going with that guy?
	Okay, alright.
	But we'll see.
	Well, we've got some Rumble rants I'll get through quickly, then we can do your segment.
	So Sigilstone, don't forget the quarter million dollars they gave to Anita Sarkeesian.
	We now have proof that Gamergate was funded by the US government.
	I've seen that screenshot going around, but I've not been able to find the source for the screenshot, so I didn't want to do that because it might be actual rubbish that's being spread out.
	She doesn't even like games, does she?
	That was the funny thing.
	She doesn't even like gaming.
	Yeah.
	It was a chore to have to learn about gaming for her.
	I'm pretty sure she just got other people to play the games for her and then explain what happened.
	J.M. Denton says, here is some real aid from the U.S. MBGA. Thank you very much.
	Scanlines, can we all take a moment to appreciate that Americans were paying the TV license?
	Haha, yeah, actually that's a good point.
	You were paying for it too, suckers.
	Technically no, but spiritually yes.
	Yes.
	Funding auntie to pump her propaganda into our eyeballs every day.
	Bally Saka, have you seen the rip-off Sesame Street that Hamas made?
	It features AK-47s, a fake Mickey Mouse who gets martyred by the IDF, and a giant rabbit that plans to eat all of the Jews, not making this up.
	I was about to say, surely this is a joke, that's not real.
	Track that down, Josh.
	Me?
	I want that on your search history, not mine.
	Sounds good, to be fair.
	I'd watch it.
	Why was Mickey Mouse...
	Mickey Mouse isn't even in Sesame Street, is he?
	Inshallah, Mickey will show.
	Oh, boy.
	I'm not going to say it because then it'll be cropped.
	Oh, God.
	Zara says, regarding the US government taking our money from the BBC, I'd like to know if there's any quality programming produced by said BBC that those Yanks can watch.
	Forgive the bluster, I feel we're entitled.
	The first two series of Life on Mars BBC programme, they were great.
	All of the nature documentaries are fantastic.
	It's easily the best thing they produce by a country mile.
	Wolf Hall, season one anyway, was very, very good a few years ago now.
	And yeah, anything with David Attenborough in it.
	We'll be top-notch.
	There's not a bit of eco stuff in there.
	The follow-up series to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, also very good.
	I enjoyed those, yeah.
	That's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.
	It's not complete trash from wall to wall, but it's 95% though.
	Top Gear.
	That's true.
	Before Clarkson and the lads left.
	And then at that point just switch over to the Grand Tour.
	Cranky Texan, how does someone who is late to the game get a good understanding of Gamergate without the leftist framing?
	There's loads of good videos on it on the anti-woke gamer YouTube channels, so you can probably find something there.
	Carl probably has an explanation of it himself somewhere.
	The TLDR is loads of left-wing journalists try to interfere in video games and make them all woke and...
	Gamers said, actually, we just want good games.
	And it radicalised a bunch of people against left-wing woke stuff in its infancy, I suppose.
	What was it, like 2014?
	Yeah, 2014, I think it was when it hit the big news.
	Let me game, bro.
	Like, having Lara Croft with big boobs is not acceptable anymore.
	No, because it's not acceptable.
	It's got to be an ugly black woman.
	That's a random name to think we're all here because of Gamergate.
	Also, no need to be in denial, Harry.
	You're clearly named after our favourite prince, and as he showed us, it's better to be a ginger than an anagram of one.
	I'm not named after Prince Harry because his name is actually Henry.
	Is your name not actually on your birth certificate?
	My name is Harry.
	That's all my name is.
	People think it's Harold, some have assumed it's Henry, it's just Harry.
	Not just the string, and we blame the right for not being organised.
	Well, yeah, I mean, you're standing up to the...
	Absolute monolith of the American deep state.
	It's pretty daunting.
	Anyway.
	Okay, so I thought I could address the problem in women's sports that we've been plagued with over the last few years.
	Can you scroll down on the document for me?
	So...
	We know that there's been sort of a scourge, hasn't there, of trans women, i.e.
	born biological males, claiming to be a trans woman, saying they're a woman now, and must be accepted and treated as such, then competing in sports against biological women, and nearly always owning them.
	And that's just simply unfair, isn't it?
	Simply crazy to me, to my mind.
	And of course the narrative is that to deny that in any way is just hateful to trans people.
	And so there's sort of just another part of the never-ending sort of political and culture wars is that debate.
	And Trump signed an executive order just the other day about that, but we'll get to that in a moment.
	So I thought I could just talk about it a bit because hopefully, like a lot of this stuff we've had to experience in the last 10, 15 odd years, hopefully I think that in the future historians will look back on the period and see it's just sort of a bit of madness, sort of a blip in the civilizational...
	Chart of nonsense.
	I hope that is the case.
	Because there's a difference between someone that's a true hermaphrodite or someone that has an intersex condition and a transvestite.
	Just a bloke that likes dressing up as a woman.
	They try and blur that distinction, don't they?
	Just call it all transgender or something.
	Back in the day, in some of the diagnostic manuals, there'd be gender dysphoria and transvestitism were viewed as...
	Very distinct things, but comparable and sometimes interrelated.
	I think it's just a massive distraction from much more important things like wars, the massive transfer of money and global demographic open border stuff.
	I think all the transgender, gender wars stuff is just a massive distraction.
	It's the circuses of the bread and circuses, isn't it?
	And anyone that's normal and reasonable will see it as the nonsense that it is.
	Take, for example, Eddie Izzard at some point claiming he's transgender.
	No, no, he's a transvestite.
	No, he's just a bloke that likes dressing up as a woman.
	I always thought he did it for his career, didn't he?
	That was just his stage show for a long time.
	As far as I understood it, it was that he just got dressed up on stage to do his comedy act.
	And then all of a sudden, at some point, it became, oh, actually, he's a woman now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	What?
	Business slowed down.
	Stopped finding the novelty interesting.
	I still just remember him as a weird disco bad guy from Mystery Men, if you haven't watched that.
	But there's...
	I think there genuinely are a very, very small number of people that have gender dysphoria.
	It really is a massive, massive part of their identity, personality in their life that they feel like they were born in the wrong body.
	Okay, gender dysphoria is a thing, right?
	Before we went woke, Back in the 20th century or something.
	There were still people suffering from gender dysphoria.
	There are lots of dysphoric conditions in which...
	Many different shades of grey of androgyny, right?
	Sure.
	Well, just to be clear about what you're saying so people don't misunderstand what you're trying to say here.
	You're not saying that the million genders are true.
	You're just saying that there are lots of different aspects of it.
	But you can have dysphoria about lots of things.
	There's a woman who...
	Identified as blind, and so she got her therapist to blind her with bleach.
	Yeah, that's crazy, isn't it, that story?
	A therapist went along with it as well.
	It's madness, yeah.
	There are people that identify as amputees, and there are all sorts of these weird conditions.
	Extremely rare, though, aren't they?
	They are, yes.
	And previously, before the ideological approach to this, gender dysphoria was rare as well.
	But there have been studies that have been somewhat buried, but they still exist, that show that there is actually...
	Comorbidities, which means that you have a condition that also co-occurs with another condition, with gender dysphoria, with other dysphoric conditions, which indicates that it is a true dysphoria and is not its own distinct thing or necessarily legitimate.
	It's just because you wouldn't say someone blinding themselves is legitimate, would you?
	And so it's very clear from a medical standpoint that this is a mental health condition.
	That's what I was going to get into, mental health conditions.
	So, not just gender dysphoria, but you can have all sorts of body dysphoria, can't you?
	I think anorexia is one, where no matter how skinny you get, you think you're still too fat.
	Or you can get it with bodybuilders.
	I was about to mention, yeah, they think they're too small.
	They're never buff enough.
	They're never big and heavy.
	I mean, at least that one's true.
	I must have that one.
	I see it with you as well.
	They've got it, no way.
	I know, right?
	I put mine on other people as well.
	Dorian Yates, tiny.
	I saw Rich Parner talk about that once.
	The late Rich Parner.
	Yeah, there's this idea that you get addicted to it.
	No matter how swole you get, it's never enough.
	And until you look like a real freakazoid, like Rich Parner did at his biggest.
	And it's still not enough.
	I mentioned Dorian Yates.
	He was one of the few who didn't seem to have that.
	He was enormous.
	He was huge.
	But I've seen loads of interviews where he's been asked.
	I mean, how does it feel just being a normal guy now when you were that massive?
	He's like, I just did it for a job.
	I just saw it as work.
	I didn't really care all that much.
	Which is a really, it's a proper brummy attitude to it, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So I say all this to sort of set up that there are extremely rare cases, really, of sort of grey areas.
	So a few years ago, there was the case of this South African athlete.
	Caster Semenya.
	Caster Semenya.
	Yeah.
	Who is a woman.
	She was competing between 2009 and 2016, 17. So just a few years before everything went crazy.
	And just men were allowed to compete alongside women.
	And she, her test was really, really high.
	Her testosterone was super high.
	There's some other pictures.
	I've just put a few images.
	Sex verification test.
	That'd be kind of an insult.
	Yeah, it's very insulting.
	And she is just a woman.
	Do you want me to go over to the pictures?
	Yeah, yeah, go over to the pictures.
	Yeah, go on, Josh.
	So, I mean, I don't want to be unfair, but she's quite a masculine looking woman.
	She's obviously got higher tests for a woman.
	But there you go.
	No more so than Big Mike.
	There was a, there was sort of, they made her sort of take tests and things.
	And I believe that she was just completely shown to just be a woman with high tests.
	That's all it was.
	So she's just like genetically lucky.
	Being an athlete, if that's your thing, if that's how you make your living, by being an extremely competitive athlete, then okay, good for you, I suppose, at the end of the day.
	But I've mentioned all that to say that that's something different, isn't it, to just a bloke who suddenly claims to be a woman and then enters women's events and wins everything.
	But that's the narrative, isn't it, that they try and blur all of that.
	Try and blur it all and say you're hateful if you're not up for that, if you're not okay with it.
	But the thing is...
	If you've got any questions about that, you're a hate monger.
	Intersex people still have the intended sex gametes.
	So you can measure biologically what sex they are and it will be consistent.
	It's not going to change.
	And it's just that there has been a sort of...
	Reproductive malfunction in their creation.
	And they'll still have a particular set of chromosomes, right?
	I was going to mention chromosomes, yeah.
	That's what I meant to say.
	I don't know why I said gametes.
	It will boil down to that in the end, right?
	So, okay, just run through a quick few, if you go to sort of the next few things.
	Oh, there's Leah Thomas there.
	I think it was Will Thomas is his real name.
	So, someone who's not competitive in the male world of swimming.
	And this is just a complete condemnation of where we are right now, and hopefully where we're not going to be for very much longer.
	Just this image, and look.
	I mean, it's just pathetic, isn't it?
	Because without being too harsh to women, and I don't consider myself a misogynist, I hope no one takes it that way.
	We love you women.
	But...
	But, it's not competitive nearly always between men and women, physically.
	Physically.
	It's not fair.
	It's not competitive.
	That's why we have sex-segregated sports, is that it gives them an opportunity to be competitive.
	There are weight classes in fighting, for example, for a reason.
	I was just going to say, Hollywood can release as many Charlize Theron films as they want, where she's beating the guys up.
	It's not going to work that way in real life.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's lots of examples.
	YouTube's full of them of when women try and compete with men and it's just not...
	It's not close, really.
	Oh, there's Charlie Kirk.
	You had a Charlie Kirk quote.
	Yes, I have.
	I happen to...
	Doing well on this podcast.
	What the hell is that?
	What the hell?
	I don't know.
	Scroll up is the...
	David Lynch impression.
	Where he mentions Leah Thomas' real name and...
	Yeah, it's about humiliating women, it comes down to.
	He mentions Richard Levine.
	Yeah.
	Not Rachel Levine.
	Again, just to make the point that these are basically transvestites is what it is.
	They're not actual transgender.
	Right?
	You reckon?
	Well, I mean, I don't believe in being transgender in the first place.
	Or really being transvestite.
	So, I don't know what you mean.
	It's just a sexual fetish.
	You reckon?
	Well, I'm asking.
	Oh, right, I see.
	In the case of Richard Levine.
	For Levine, generally speaking, the studies that I've seen have shown that when it's an older man, yeah, it tends to be autogynophilia.
	When it's younger men, sometimes they're just gay and think they'll have more success with men if they look like a woman.
	But with older men, yeah, it tends to be that they've got a porn addiction.
	And they've just decided, oh, I really like the idea of myself as a woman.
	They get off to it.
	There's also, unfortunately, a sort of status element to it in the modern day, whereby it gives people a reason to talk about them.
	And for some people, they've never had that before.
	Or an opportunity for sports success.
	It's just vanity.
	Right, yeah.
	I mean, again, Kirk mentions there the autogynophilic fetish and enjoys humiliating women, yeah.
	So, again, the argument from the leftoids is the exact opposite, isn't it?
	Don't worry about whether it's fair to women and girls or humiliating to them.
	You're just hateful if you've got any problem with someone like Will Thomas dominating a swimming event.
	The argument from leftists is basically contingent on the belief in souls, like a weird spiritual mysticism, where it's they...
	They have the soul of a woman.
	They have the brain of a woman, even though that's not true.
	That's never true.
	I don't know any single example where that's been true.
	There's no aspect of their biology that indicates anything other than...
	Male.
	Yeah.
	Going down to the cellular level.
	All the chromosomes in Will Thomas' body.
	It's basically that God made them woman, but he accidentally, when he was hitting the character creator, his finger slipped and chose man instead.
	And that's what happened.
	But the soul is still female.
	So you've got to align the body and the soul spiritually.
	It's just the doctor in the hospital when they were born said he's a male.
	That was where everything went wrong.
	Mind-body duelists, then, is what they are.
	Exactly.
	So let's go to a few more of the links.
	Oh, if you remember the dude at the Olympics, the Olympic boxing?
	I didn't even realise that it was meant to be a woman.
	It's Emane Khalif, right?
	Yeah.
	That was a case of a chromosomal thing, wasn't it?
	What was it?
	I think so, yeah.
	It was like...
	Watch a little bit of that video without any sound.
	Sorry, Josh, go ahead.
	I think that it was more of a biological thing than they've opted for surgery or something like that.
	Well, if you watch...
	Well, you've already missed it.
	You've already missed it.
	They had one exchange and the woman's like, I'm out.
	I'm out.
	That was it.
	That was the whole fight.
	That was the whole fight.
	Because he's throwing hands like a dude.
	So...
	And again, not to dunk on women, but it's like the strength, the power in your bones, in your tendons, and the muscles, everything about...
	30% stronger in the upper body.
	And that's where...
	Which is massive.
	Which is a massive difference.
	You guys know about strength.
	You're a gym dude now.
	If you're like...
	Gym dude for a while.
	If you're like 1 or 2% stronger than someone else, that's the ballgame.
	It can be.
	So if you're like 30% more powerful than someone else, it's like a man versus a child.
	Well then if you're talking about sports as well, you're not just talking about the average where it's going to be 30% stronger.
	You're talking about the potentiality of men versus women and the potential for a man to become super strong.
	Like the upper limits of a man's strength potential is probably more than 30% higher than the upper limits of a woman's strength potential.
	Unless you're talking about...
	Freak edge case genetics.
	And it's speed, reflex, hand-eye coordination, all that sort of thing.
	I'm not saying there aren't a woman out there that's...
	Faster and stronger with better hand-eye coordination than some men.
	There will be.
	I'm just talking in general.
	An average man and an average woman.
	It also depends on the region of the world.
	Apparently, Western European women have stronger grip strength than some men you find in South Asia, on average.
	I can't believe that yet.
	A German shot-putter female is probably more powerful than your average Malaysian dude.
	Yeah, probably.
	I'd like to see Ian Miles Chong versus a German.
	Yeah, versus a competitive German shot putter, yeah.
	My money's on the German.
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	Okay, so you go to another link.
	What have I got next?
	Oh yeah, this fella.
	The Paralympics.
	You can't even be a disabled woman anymore.
	What's going on?
	There we go.
	Okay, dude.
	Yeah, alright.
	Oh!
	So this is where it's not about a woman with very high T or a man with very high estrogen or a true intersex condition or someone with what I would consider real clinical body dysphoria or anything.
	This is just someone that is trying to game the system.
	And I haven't got the words of how gross I think it is.
	I think everyone with a functioning brain has a very intuitive sense of how gross it is.
	I kind of despise people that cheat and lie.
	If you ever play a game of cards with me or a game of Monopoly, guaranteed I'm not going to be cheating.
	That's what you would say.
	Yeah, that's what a Monopoly cheater would say.
	Yeah, I'm lulling you into full sense of security when we play Monopoly one day.
	No, I just don't do it.
	Wasn't that my blue square, Bo?
	No, no, I had that earlier.
	Where'd you get boardwalk from, Bo?
	No, no, don't worry about it.
	That extra £500 kept just under the table by me.
	No, I'd never...
	I hate cheating.
	I hate it.
	You might have, when you was a kid...
	Cheated once or twice to win a game or something or other.
	It's so hollow.
	It's so hollow.
	How these people, like this chap, or Leah Thomas, how they can be happy with their win.
	How they can...
	I don't know how they...
	That doesn't make any sense to me.
	It's completely mad to me.
	But okay, I've been walked up a bit of time.
	So, what about this?
	Sprinter fights for trans rights at Paris 24. Do you want me to play this?
	No, don't worry about it.
	Okay, let's carry on.
	Oh, this is a doozy.
	What was this guy called?
	Sadie something or other.
	Is this motionless in white?
	What's going on?
	So you can see him on the left.
	You don't even need to watch it.
	The thumbnail says everything.
	There he is on the left.
	There's a non-competitive man.
	And then Transition says he's transgender and then he's winning everything.
	Setting records.
	Every single thing that comes up, I've just got that...
	You know the bit from Austin Powers, the first Austin Powers when there's the assassin at the beginning of the film.
	That's not a man, baby!
	That's not a woman!
	That's a man, baby!
	Yeah.
	You can just see in everything about them, it's unfair.
	Okay, go to another...
	There you go, same thing.
	Yeah, there's a boy that competed against girls in wrestling.
	Just won it.
	This all comes across like high-level bullying.
	So it's not just like one or two, because most people may have heard of Leah Thomas.
	People think it's like one or two cases.
	No, there's loads of it going on.
	Because it was allowed.
	Yeah, actually play this from 50 seconds in.
	It's just a small montage of women getting injured.
	Because a bloke is just a bit too powerful.
	Bam, she got injured.
	Yep, she was injured from that.
	Because the bloke was just way bigger and stronger.
	Just yanked her.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Ooh.
	Just completely unfair.
	But you're not allowed to...
	We weren't allowed to question it in any way because it makes you hateful.
	Smashed her in the face.
	I think that was a really bad injury.
	I mean, actually, hockey.
	When you get a hockey boy in the faces, that's no joke.
	Well, that would hurt, yeah.
	Look at their reactions.
	They're all like, oof.
	She's probably got her nose.
	Is that the one that did it?
	Probably lose her teeth.
	I don't know.
	But yeah, anyways.
	Enough seeing horrible things happening for women.
	Quick through the next few links.
	Oh yeah, this is funny.
	This is what I'm saying.
	So that's a woman.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	Juiced up, extremely, for a woman, extremely strong.
	Watch it, play it.
	And she arm wrestles just some average random bloke.
	Oh yeah, Jesse James West.
	Oh, this is not...
	There's loads of examples of this.
	I've seen some of this guy's videos.
	It's weird how manly women get when they start taking steroids.
	I mean, she's got big old arms.
	She's got big forearms.
	Yeah, decent forearms.
	Better forearms than I ever had by a long way.
	And he's just some sort of a normal dude.
	Yeah, he looks like he goes to the gym maybe three or four times.
	Yeah, it looks like he works out, but...
	He's nothing special.
	He's not a competitive arm wrestler.
	He's not a competitive arm wrestler, I don't believe.
	Anyway, there's lots of examples of this sort of thing.
	So anyway, let's carry on.
	Oh yeah, this is a female boxer.
	She's a multiple world champion under multiple different weights.
	And she spars with some kind of random dude.
	It's just, yeah.
	So anyway.
	The point is, is that allowing men to compete alongside women is just not okay to most people's minds.
	And then here we get the Donald.
	Play it.
	Let's watch this.
	All right.
	We'll end the segment with this.
	With the audio?
	Yeah, yeah.
	You want to do this?
	Watch what I do and then I'm going to get...
	Turn it up.
	We can't really hear it.
	Are you ready?
	What a nice picture this is, huh, Governor?
	You ready?
	We'll do a good job.
	Wait, let me press that.
	So he's signing an executive order banning...
	I want to make this a really good signature.
	...competing with women.
	He's good at optics with this stuff, isn't he?
	And I think it's genuinely heartwarming, because look at all those little girls.
	They've got hundreds of dreams and aspirations, right?
	And they were getting shattered by some men that would come and compete against them and ruin their chances of being a champion in their field.
	- Pretty good, huh?
	Okay, good.
	Now you're gonna go out and win those events, right?
	Nice to see you all.
	Great going everybody. - Thank you. - He did in my mind what was a righteous thing to do.
	I tweeted and said an old Willy Wonka quote, so shines a good deed in a weary world.
	So, I'm not even a woman who wants to compete in anything.
	But I found that heartwarming.
	Yeah.
	Allegedly.
	You've missed your time.
	But I think that was heartwarming.
	I think that was sort of obviously the sort of morally, ethically correct thing to do.
	To give these girls dreams back to them.
	So just one more thing that Donald's doing to sort of set the world right again on some level.
	That's good.
	We're running close to time, so should we give it an extra five minutes?
	There's no video comments today.
	So we've got a rumble rant for Bo's segment.
	From That's a Random Name saying, You honestly can't convince me our enemies aren't servants of chaos gods.
	Everything they do is evil, depraved, and degenerate.
	Every time I look at a pride parade, it's like watching the goblins in Moria.
	Yeah, Slaanesh is the one that they always attribute it to.
	Do you want to go through some of your written comments, Josh?
	Sure.
	Supreme General David Ferugia says, This reminds me of the time every woman in Iceland took the day off and productivity rose as a result.
	Is that true?
	I don't know.
	I hope that's true.
	I've not heard of that, but it's funny, even if it's not.
	Geordie Sortsman says, Breaking ice to hire 4chan capture the flag champions to track down video locations of people confessing to being full of illegals.
	That would be...
	I would do that.
	That's legitimately a good idea.
	If they can figure out where Shia LaBeouf puts his flag in some random room with a white background.
	Who they need is that Rainbolt guy who plays GeoGuessr.
	He can just look at the sky and he's just like, that's Mexico.
	I've seen that clip.
	He was actually guessing it correctly just at the sky.
	He was disappointed in himself for getting it right.
	He was like, oh, I spent too much time doing it.
	I think he deliberately tries not to get those guesses because people accuse him of cheating.
	But he's proved multiple times that he isn't cheating, but it just makes his life harder.
	Oh, I'm not reading that name.
	No.
	That's just horrible.
	Fuzzy Pirate says, if your business relies on cheap immigrant labour, then it's not a viable business and is essentially employing slave labour as the immigrants can't complain for fear you'll turn them in if they do complain.
	And that is a very good point.
	Yes.
	Also, it's just for cheap labour.
	Sadly, they've been able to get away with that for a long time because they have had the monopoly of violence, the government, on their side.
	Hopefully not so much anymore.
	Not in America.
	In Britain, yeah, they still do.
	Yes.
	Yes, there's another comment down here that points out that the BBC actually subsidizes The Guardian.
	Which is true.
	So yes, they absolutely do that.
	They need to have some kind of news outlet manufacturing consent for them.
	I like this comment.
	Thomas Howell says they crossed the Deliver Rubicon.
	Hey!
	Fuzzy Pirate as well.
	Harry, imagine how good the Lotus Eater's studio would be if you jumped onto the gravy train.
	Well, listen.
	How do you think we afforded these screens?
	Low wages.
	I was waiting for you to say something.
	George Happ, apparently, oh, that's regarding the Anita Sarkeesian thing.
	Again, I've not been able to verify it.
	If somebody can send a link verifying it, I'd be happy to look at it because, I mean, it would just make sense, wouldn't it?
	Lord Nerevar: "Funny how all the identical headlines whenever something happens has some serious coordination behind it.
	Real shocker.
	All these years Harry has finally broken to me that I've been receiving an American BBC, not something I'm proud of." Yeah, you've been funding it as well.
	Do you want to read through some of your comments?
	Okay.
	Warlord Wootootire says, the thing to remember about gender dysphoria is that it is a mental health condition and sufferers need professional help and psychological care, not surgical mutilation.
	Yeah, scroll down to a slightly shorter one for me.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, Isn't it funny that the people who shout for transgenders in sports often claim that there are no biological differences between men and women, yet you only hear about trans women breaking records and never trans men.
	Yeah, right, yeah.
	Curious, it's almost as if there is a difference between them.
	I wonder what it could be.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the best proof of that is, didn't the women's football champions play like a five-a-side game or something with a 15-year-old team and they got thrashed?
	Yeah.
	I mean, don't get me started about women's football or soccer to our American fans.
	I was going to do a segment ages ago, like a year, two ago, about how diabolically poor the standard of skill Probably a good idea.
	Yeah, right.
	But the reality is...
	You are lame.
	The reality is women's soccer, the best sides in women's soccer are not remotely competitive compared to men.
	Not remotely.
	Yeah, you get like one of the women.
	I think it was the US women's team that were, at the time, multiple world champions and things.
	They were one of the best women's sides in the world.
	And they played like an under-15 side.
	A competitive under-15 side, boys.
	And got whooped like 7-0, 8-0.
	I can't remember what it was.
	I think men and women have different strengths, don't they?
	And I don't think physical strength is perhaps one of them.
	Yeah, if they had nagging at the Olympics, my God.
	Speed and aggression as well.
	That's a big thing.
	Not just power, not just strength, but speed and aggression.
	I mean, again, the difference is summed up.
	Pretty normal guy works out every so often, a few times a week, versus obscene, roided-up woman who's looking more and more like a man due to the high testosterone.
	I thought it was a bloke.
	Yeah, I thought it was a transvestite as well.
	Look at the dude's face as well.
	He's just like, oh my god.
	He's like, do it, bro, do it!
	Yes!
	The boys dunking on the girls.
	But I think that's all we've got time for.
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