Oh, sorry, ladies and gentlemen. I was just reading this brand new edition of Islander. But in the meantime, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eater's episode 1,109. My, how time flies. It's the 26th of February 2025. I'm your host Connor, joined by Carl and by Josh. And today we're going to be discussing America's pervert, occupied government, why Europe's going mad, and Japan's record-breaking migration, something very close and painful to my heart.

Before we do begin, it's a Wednesday, so at 3 o'clock, if you are a member of Lotus Seater's premium subscription, and you should, because we've got lots of good content behind the paywall.

I'll be doing Thomson talks, where I'll be discussingC, CPAC, the banality of British values, and, uh, interesting

announcement. So, you go over there and catch that live. But, unless there's anything else,

gents, we'll get into today's stories. So Doge is currently conducting a financial revolution

in the US, trying to cut government waste and

attempt to balance the US's bloated budget, but predominantly undo the diversity, equity and

inclusion, infiltration in all of America's institutions. And I would humbly suggest that if they

look over to the intelligence departments, they might have missed a few eligible candidates for sacking as recent leaks by Chris Rufo over a city journal have pointed out.

Before we get into America's pervert occupied government, go over and consume something nourishing.

Issue number three of Islander is out. It includes excellent essays from Carl, myself. I'm in this one. Rory has a fantastic short story at the back. It's been lovingly edited, beautifully illustrated. And this time we've printed them in advance to avoid issues of the distributor that I know lots of people had last time. It wasn't I fault. Everything's in decline at the moment.

So you should get your copy and regular email updates. It's up there for 1499 over at shop.loatseers.com.

Please do enjoy. Now, what I'm referring to in terms of must revolution is he sent an email to

pretty much every federal employee in the government of absolute

millions of them. The email which I've read from friends that work in the state department reads,

what did you do last week? Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what

you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information,

links or attachments. Deadline is Monday

at 1159 EST. He sent the exact same email to like former CEO and employees at Twitter as

well before firing about 80% of the staff and for the most part Twitter works quite lightly now.

A bit of a bot problem but they should get on that. A third of employees, according to Politico, have already complied and responded.

Now, Musk obviously doesn't have the power himself to fire loads of federal employees,

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