This week Eric and Mike talk about Trump stumbling his way through Japan and then talking about how he got an MRI which sounds pretty bad but our media's not going to cover it. Also Trump's ruling out running for a third term but maybe he won't rule that out later, who knows?! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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| The Adventures in Hell World podcast talks in depth about QAnon. | |
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| Hello, everybody. | |
| I'm Mike Rand, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hell World. | |
| This week, I am joined only by Eric the Deep State Operative. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's two white men with facial hair. | |
| That makes it a true podcast. | |
| This is how the world is supposed to be. | |
| We're going to spend the next 45 minutes talking about how Graham Platiner is the choice main needs for Senate because that's what you do when you're a white guy liberal with a podcast. | |
| You just talk about how you love the Nazi dude because that's awesome. | |
| It's just a great thing. | |
| So, yeah. | |
| Welcome, Eric, to this magical two-man pod that we have this week. | |
| Yes, and thank you for bailing me out of jail after I ordered nachos with Chihuahua cheese instead of American cheese. | |
| Oh, gee, that unlocked in my fucking brain. | |
| The guy that was in jail for like a month for a meme in Tennessee, he like posted a meme about Trump and some sheriff in Tennessee like threw him in jail. | |
| And then they did a giant run around for as long as they possibly could to keep him in jail. | |
| And then eventually, lawyers were like, no, you can't fucking do this. | |
| This is bullshit. | |
| This is America. | |
| God damn it. | |
| And they finally let the guy out. | |
| So all you Matt Teleb Teleb and Glenn Greenwald and all you other, Elon Musk and all you free speech absolutionists out there didn't see you banging the tables screaming and yelling about this. | |
| Didn't see any of you going, oh, this is an incredible injustice. | |
| Nope. | |
| Weird. | |
| Weird how when it's someone criticizing Trump and they get thrown in jail illegally, you're all radio silent. | |
| None of you have a fucking thing to say about that. | |
| So strange. | |
| So absolutely strange. | |
| Reminds me of this random post that came on yesterday where this guy was showing some protesters outside of a library, which I guess is a polling place. | |
| Which I don't know. | |
| There were some people saying, is this legal to protest at us outside of a polling place? | |
| I'm like, is there even an election going on? | |
| But the one thing that really upset the guy was one guy was holding up his sign that said 8645 or 8647, whatever the hell number he is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| 4-7, 8647. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, like, cause the one guy who was crying about Comey. | |
| Comey, yeah, making that post. | |
| And then they showed that he had posted the exact same thing about Biden, but it's okay because in that case, he meant 86 isn't fired, not as in this new meaning that just came up this year where 86 means kill. | |
| I mean, I can see like maybe if it said deep six 47, okay, maybe that sounds like a threat. | |
| Yeah, that might be in the ballpark of a threat. | |
| So yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But like, you know, like when I say I'm going to, I'm totally going to 86 this meatball sub. | |
| I'm not going to stab it with a knife. | |
| I'm going to eat it. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, boy. | |
| And then it always takes me back to this really old one where Bill O'Reilly, for old fucks like us who know who Bill O'Reilly is, he was going on, he was crying about people, you know, complaining about George O.B. Bush saying that if you don't want the prisoner to succeed, then that means you hate America. | |
| And then fast forward a few years to a Russian boss saying that he hopes Obama fails. | |
| And you get your crickets from Bill O'Reilly about that. | |
| Oh, yeah, of course. | |
| So I found it. | |
| So this guy posted a meme of Trump and it says we have to get over it, Donald Trump on the Perry High School mass shooting one day after. | |
| And basically the guy posted that and the sheriff like threw this guy in jail saying that he was threatening a mass shooting at a high school. | |
| And finally, these reporters said, hey, you know, this is bullshit, right? | |
| And the sheriff was like, it might be, but it might not be. | |
| So I threw him in jail anyways. | |
| Better safe than sorry. | |
| That's how this works. | |
| And yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Probable cause comes down to a gut feeling. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Larry Bushart was the guy who posted the meme, got himself thrown in jail. | |
| And Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems is the guy who threw him in jail for a month for, again, a meme. | |
| The reporter said to him, in your heart, do you think Larry Bushart was threatening to shoot up Perry County High School? | |
| In my heart, he replied, I think Larry Bushart knew what he was doing when we made contact with him or when law enforcement made contact with him. | |
| And I believe he knew what he was doing. | |
| And in my heart, he violated the law set forth by our legislature. | |
| And yeah. | |
| Meanwhile, there's a non-zero chance that this sheriff has a rap on his pickup truck of Biden tied up in the bed. | |
| Oh, yeah, of course, of course. | |
| Then Weems tried to throw somebody else under the bus by saying the arrest was also approved by District Attorney Hans Schrundelman's office, and they signed off on it, as did a judicial commissioner. | |
| Schrudelman did not return News Channel 5's call seeking comments. | |
| They can't answer the phone and shred papers at the same time. | |
| Right, exactly, exactly. | |
| And so this guy, even though Bushart got released from prison, he's still being charged. | |
| He's still, this is still a case pending against him. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| So all they did was let him go free. | |
| They let him go free. | |
| He's still under indictment for terroristic threats or whatever nonsense they're saying. | |
| For again, just a meme of Trump saying we have to get over the shooting, which is absolute to claim this is a threat of mass violence is obvious bullshit. | |
| They know they're lying. | |
| They know they're doing this just because this guy said something mean about Trump. | |
| So we're going to throw you in jail because welcome to America, motherfucker. | |
| That's how our country works now. | |
| I know, I mean, this makes sandwich throwing guys seem like plausible by comparison. | |
| At least that guy actually physically did something. | |
| Right. | |
| That guy actually like lost. | |
| Yeah, I actually got lobbed a sandwich at someone. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So that was really fun. | |
| Oh, what's really funny is like me and Eric, we did our pregame, like our pre-show production meeting. | |
| And our mindset was we really have so little to talk about this week. | |
| Like as we the moment we hit the record button, all these subjects like flooded into my brain immediately. | |
| That's what happens. | |
| Yep. | |
| So that's that's why I was like, let's go on ahead, even though it's just us two dudes. | |
| It's just not us two dum-dums, and we barely have a thought between our two tiny brains. | |
| Let's just hit the record button anyways and see what happens. | |
| We should call this episode Sausage Fest. | |
| Yep. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| We so we had more news on the exciting illegal Trump third term going on where Steve Bannon and his crew was talking about how there is the plan ready for the illegal third term and they think they can pull it off. | |
| Wait, is this the plan, the plan, or just a plan, the plan? | |
| It's a plan, but he, I think he called it the plan for that reason. | |
| But they're going to release the plan when the time is right for us all to see exactly how they plan on Operation Illegal Third Term. | |
| And then after all these months of the Trump 2028 hats and Trump just being a piece of shit and talking about how he's totally going to do all this, someone got a hold of him on Air Force One and his reaction was, they think I could do the vice president thing, but I think that's too cute. | |
| And then later on, when he was asked about it, he said, I can't do it. | |
| He flat out stated, yeah, I can't run for a third term. | |
| It'd be great if I could, but I can't. | |
| I'm sure like Steve Bannon hit the roof when he saw Trump say that because like Bannon's like, you motherfucker, this whole thing is about me promoting you doing this and we're going to do it anyways. | |
| I mean, he just loves undercutting his own supporters. | |
| There's nothing he enjoys more. | |
| There's nothing he enjoys more. | |
| The greatest thing in the world. | |
| It is, it's literally what happens for them every single goddamn time where something happens and they're like, Trump didn't mean that. | |
| And then two days later, he's like, no, I meant it. | |
| I totally meant that. | |
| 100% the worst possible context you could put that in. | |
| That's what I wanted. | |
| Everyone who said that was not the case is wrong and lying. | |
| Fuck them. | |
| I'm Donald Trump and I will, I will always crush you no matter what, no matter what you do, no matter how much of a syncopant you are for me, I will destroy you anyways because I'm just that kind of guy. | |
| I know it's kind of like it's one of those things where it seems like this would be like him reminding saying, you know, look, I'm the top dog. | |
| I can, I can cut you off at any second, except that I don't, I think it's just, he's such a blundering, blithering fool that he doesn't even realize what he's doing. | |
| Yeah, I mean, that's really a lot of it. | |
| I mean, it's really a lot of it that he's a toddler with a gun. | |
| Right. | |
| He's so far gone at this point that he really doesn't understand how much damage he's doing to how many to all these different people. | |
| I mean, Lord knows life is so great and all that. | |
| And I wouldn't want to miss a second of it, but I would love to just time skip to the day after the midterms or the week after the midterms because you know Pritzker and Newsom are going to run to the nearest microphone, declare they're running for president. | |
| Kamala might do that also. | |
| And we'll see about it. | |
| She already dropped a hint, I think, that she's thinking about it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And but the thing is, is like, I feel like Pritzker and Newsom have to like get the banners up immediately and let everybody know they're fucking doing it. | |
| I feel like, I feel like Kamala can do like the slow burn where she's like, I'm weighing my options. | |
| I'm thinking about it. | |
| I'm pondering. | |
| Yeah, she has the ability to do that because the media is going to hang on to her every word. | |
| If she says there is a 0.0% chance I'm running, they'll still be like, Could this be a hint that she's running? | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | |
| I mean, it's basically unless you give the full Sherman, which is one of my favorite political terms, the Sherman, the Sherman-esque statement, which, uh, for those of you kids who don't know what the Sherman is, uh, William Tecumseh. | |
| It sounds like a sex move, but it's not. | |
| It's not. | |
| No, the Sherman is from William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general who is Ulysses S. Grant's bro. | |
| Uh, Grant ran for president and was president. | |
| And folks were looking at Sherman and they were like, Bro, what do you think about politics? | |
| And his re and his answer was, if nominated, I will not run. | |
| If elected, I will not serve. | |
| So that is as hard a no as you can get. | |
| So that's what every journalist wants out of a no from a politician. | |
| They want the absolute, I will not do this. | |
| It will not happen. | |
| Oh, even then, even then, it's iffy because look at all the people who are still begging Michelle Obama to run in 24, even though she gave a good three or four Shermans response. | |
| Yeah, well, the one thing that's really funny is I think the ultimate, the ultimate ruiner of the Sherman was Marco Rubio. | |
| Because back when Florida was a purple state, he was the Republican senator there, and he had made it abundantly clear that he was only, he was like, I am only doing two terms. | |
| I am out the door after my second term. | |
| And then it was like the Republicans looked at him and were like, Marco, we literally have nobody on the bench. | |
| The Democrats will win this seat if you don't run for a third term. | |
| You need to do this for us, bro. | |
| You fucking need to do this. | |
| And then Smash Cut to, I'm running for a third term from spineless Marco Rubio. | |
| And everyone said, bro, for like three years, you said you weren't going to do this. | |
| And he pointed to the sniper that was in the tower above him with the Republican flag flying over the sniper's head. | |
| He's like, my family, dude, my family. | |
| I got to do this. | |
| I've got to do it. | |
| So it was just one of those spots where even the Sherman wasn't good enough to stop the party from browbeating him in the running, anyways. | |
| So, but yeah, I think that she can string it along a little, whereas Pritzker and Newsom and maybe Bashir and maybe Shapiro, I think like those, those kind of guys have to hit the ground running. | |
| They have to be like, I'm going to beat the Republicans. | |
| I'm going to be your fucking president. | |
| We're going to get this country back in sheep and blah, blah, blah. | |
| And while all that's happening on the Democrat side, the Republicans are just going to be sort of looking at Trump saying, do we have permission to do this? | |
| Is this okay with you, Donnie? | |
| Can I declare for the presidency? | |
| Because I know that is going to be so that's going to be so, and that's another thing. | |
| Another reason why Newsom and uh Pritzer got a gotta hit the ground running because basically they, the two of them, they got to strike with irons hot. | |
| They're still, they got, you know, they got some juice going right now, but but the like two days after the midterms, people are going to be like, JB, who? | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And that's the, and that's the other thing is that them declaring they're going for it, them declaring they're going to run for president, it then puts the onus on Vance, where everyone's going to turn to him and be like, JD, you're the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, seeing as you're the vice president. | |
| Where are those Vance 2028 posters? | |
| Where's your big speech on the steps of some important building in Iowa, Ohio? | |
| I mean, why are you out in front of the new Cleveland Browns Stadium in Ohio talking about how you're going to be the one to carry MAGA forward to a new generation? | |
| What are you doing? | |
| He tugs his collar and steam pours out. | |
| Right. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And yeah. | |
| And then he jumps, he jumps down a manhole cover cartoonishly, and there's like a JD Vance puff of silhouette smoke hovering above it before it descends with him. | |
| Because that's the thing. | |
| And because there's basically two things that can happen, I think, which is one, Trump makes it weird about the third term, even though eventually someone's going to grab him and be like, Donnie, Donnie, we're doing it. | |
| We're doing the illegal third term. | |
| And he'll, and at that point, his brain will be so tapioca. | |
| He'll be like, okay, third term sounds good with me. | |
| Or the other thing that will happen, which is, which I think is being really kind of interesting because in all the giant primaries that we've had, the former president has generally been like, look, I'm not going to endorse anyone. | |
| Not going to put my thumb on the scale to start. | |
| But if Trump just comes out and says, yeah, Vance is my guy, you go at him, you go at me, motherfucker. | |
| Does that clear the field? | |
| Does nobody does Vance get the Teflon Dawn treatment and no one fucks with him because Trump just declared him the heir apparent, which would be really interesting. | |
| Because I don't know if Trump has that in him to be that selfless, actually. | |
| No, that's the thing. | |
| I mean, well, this is all academic because I will personally be amazed if Trump is still around to do any of this stuff. | |
| Yeah, Trump being up. | |
| I know I say this every week, but my God, how is this man still alive? | |
| He eats Big Macs three times a day. | |
| Yeah, he is, he's in rough. | |
| I mean, we'll move into this now just because I, again, this is one of the things I remembered after this. | |
| So if you didn't follow Trump's swing around Asia, and I mean, who isn't riveted by seeing our CNO president stumble his way through these foreign adventures? | |
| He hung out with the prime minister of Japan, a lady whose name I don't know off the top of my head because she literally just got the job because the ruling party in Japan decided they were like, you know what? | |
| Our current prime minister sucks. | |
| We need someone else running the show. | |
| And she got the job. | |
| So congrobulations to her. | |
| Icy character. | |
| So he's doing the research that I failed at. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But I'm going to give it a shot. | |
| The first name is Sanaia Takaichi. | |
| Takeichi sounds in the ballpark. | |
| I'm more confident about the last name than the first name. | |
| Unless this is written Japanese style and that's her first name. | |
| But probably not. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But yeah, Takaichi, she is the prime minister of Japan, just got the gig. | |
| And Trump goes over there. | |
| And the video that's circulating around right now is about like 47 seconds long. | |
| And it's her leading Trump around the room by the arm because Trump is just wandering and drifting around and doesn't really know where he's going or what he's doing. | |
| And I got to wonder, did he sleep through the briefing or did they not even bother giving her a briefing? | |
| Because they knew he'd spend the whole time on his on his uh iPhone. | |
| Yeah, putting out putting out true social posts. | |
| Right. | |
| So yeah, basically, he's getting like led around by the arm by the Japanese prime minister and the clip's like about 47 seconds long. | |
| And then the official White House like rapid response team, which I love. | |
| I love the fact that they act like being the president is still a campaign and you need to have like a rapid response team to like fire off missives. | |
| And the rapid response team basically yelled at the people posting the clip and saying, post the full clip. | |
| So they posted the two minute and 30 second video of Trump being let around by the arm by the Japanese prime minister. | |
| And it's literally everyone said in response to it, they're like, this context does not make it better. | |
| This is just a longer, bad clip of the president not knowing where he is and being dragged around the room by the prime minister of Japan. | |
| It is bad. | |
| Everything about this is bad. | |
| And so it's just, oh, it's just this continuous thing with him. | |
| And while he was talking to the press about everything, he did mention that he got an MRI, which that I've been hearing a lot about, the MRI, which is really bad because as everyone has been talking about this, and I love the spin. | |
| I love all these people saying, ah, you know, he gets the gold-plated health care. | |
| So the MRI is just part of what you do for an elite VIP like him. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's an amenity. | |
| Yeah, it's just an amenity. | |
| Yeah, you just, when you're the best, you get a complimentary massage. | |
| You get the full, the full-size bar of soap instead of the tiny one at your hotel. | |
| And you get a complimentary MRI. | |
| And it's so ridiculous because MRIs are not preventative. | |
| An MRI is not an x-ray of your chest to see if you've got lung cancer or a colonoscopy to see if you've got bowel cancer. | |
| An MRI is there is a problem with you, and we need to image that problem to try to see how to fix it. | |
| And the fact that Trump has said, oh, yeah, I got an MRI and then did not immediately state, I've got a bum shoulder or my knee is bothering me. | |
| The fact that he just said, I got an MRI and let it hang there in the air has led all of us Trump dementia truthers to think, yeah, that was an MRI of his brain. | |
| They're seeing the status of the dementia. | |
| They're seeing how his brain is slowly rotting away. | |
| And there really isn't anything they're doing to try to dissuade us from this belief because our boy is not in good shape as the previous video I talked about indicates. | |
| And we have one other little bit of evidence about all that that I'll talk about in a second. | |
| After you do any further commentary about any of this nonsense, Eric? | |
| I'm just thinking about what we do know. | |
| So there's a swollen ankles thing. | |
| I heard he's had two physicals this year so far. | |
| Yeah, he had his routine physical the second time. | |
| And that was the best part about it was that they were like, oh, yeah, this is his yearly physical. | |
| And then literally everyone was said, he got one. | |
| He got one in April or whatever. | |
| How could this be his second? | |
| This is not his first physical. | |
| How's he doing two? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And then he's bragging about the about the cognitive test again. | |
| Yes. | |
| Which every time I forget about that, he has to bring it up again. | |
| It's like, hey, they were so confident that I don't have dementia that they gave me a dementia test to find out. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
| And again, the defending of this, the defending of the dementia test that I get from people online, it's so delusional. | |
| These people like, oh, yeah, people get dementia tests all the time. | |
| No, they don't. | |
| They absolutely do not get dementia tests all the time. | |
| The A number one reason why you get a dementia test is that you've had a stroke and now they are checking your cognitive well-being after your stroke. | |
| And no one brings this up. | |
| No one talks about this. | |
| No one talks about the fact that he's had the face droop, which is bad, is really bad. | |
| And again, the fact that he is, he's, he's what, he's pushing 80, right? | |
| He's 79, 79 is 79 and uh and eats like he's a teenager. | |
| Right. | |
| It's just, it's crazy. | |
| I mean, it's like the he would have to be trying to be less healthy, like actively saying, I'm going to destroy my body. | |
| Like, you know, supersize me. | |
| Oh, he, he's, and then, and then hiding the fact that you're an alcoholic and that's what's actually killing you and not the Big Macs. | |
| Did you know that about Morgan Spurlock in that movie? | |
| I, the one thing I did know was that he didn't disclose at the time that not only was he eating McDonald's every day, but he also stopped working out. | |
| And that's one of the reasons why his health declined so quickly. | |
| Oh, the other reason why his health was declining so quickly is because he was an alcoholic. | |
| Yeah, that I did not know about. | |
| Oh, it's really, it's really great because if you go back and watch the movie, there's this one scene in the movie where this doctor is looking at him and they're like, Morgan, your liver is really fucked up. | |
| And the way the doctor is saying it is, there's no way McDonald's can be doing this damage to you exclusively. | |
| Something else has to be going on that you're not telling me about it. | |
| And Morgan's just looking at the doctor being like, no, man, totally the McG's. | |
| That's what's happening. | |
| And then Smash Cut 2, like 20 years later, Morgan was like, oh, yeah, by the way, I was completely, I was an aggressive alcoholic that whole time. | |
| Just waking up and just putting a bottle of jack down my throat. | |
| So yeah, the liver destruction thing in Super Size Me was entirely my alcoholism. | |
| It's like, oh, wow. | |
| Awesome. | |
| Your entire movie was a lie. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So yeah. | |
| Oh, that was what I just remembered was Trump posted and then deleted South Carolina on Truth Social Media yesterday. | |
| Oh, I heard about a deleted book post, but I didn't know any details. | |
| Okay, so literally Trump at 9.43, whatever time zone he was in, posted on Truth Social the word South, and then he got the C A and R of Carolina done. | |
| And then after he did that, he went E R and then four D's. | |
| So he just did South Care R D and then just posted, just put that right up on social media. | |
| And then someone got this, this will covify the hell out of him. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And then someone got the, someone got the grandpa and he deleted it. | |
| But it was there. | |
| A lot of people had screenshots of it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So yeah, somebody woke up Dan Scavino and said, hey, get on Trump's Truth Social and start deleting. | |
| Yeah, pull that down. | |
| Pull that down from us. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| So I found it. | |
| I found the rapid response thing. | |
| So someone posted a 20-second clip of Trump being led by the arm by the Japanese prime minister. | |
| I think that's the one that I saw where like he's supposed to bow in front of the flags of America and Japan and just keeps on walking and the prime minister's like, uh, uh, dude. | |
| And then she finally just is like, ah, fucking, and bows herself. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And so let me the and the immediate replies are worse than the full video. | |
| And then these snowflakes spend four years deceptively clipping and editing Biden with 10 to 30 second clips. | |
| But when you show a very fair and accurate representation of their cult leader in action, they cry like babies. | |
| The full video is even worse. | |
| Thanks for sharing. | |
| Next, can you publicly share the results of Trump's MRI and the doctor's explanation for why he needed to undergo an MRI just months after his actual checkup? | |
| How did the full video help at all? | |
| Wow, that's actually worse. | |
| Good thing she was there to make sure he didn't get lost. | |
| You know, goddamn well, if that was Biden, you'd be screaming dementia. | |
| Just all of it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, again, these are mostly all liberal blue check marks, but it's just really funny that it's really funny that the rapid response page hasn't curated their followers to make sure that it's a sycophantic echo chamber. | |
| It's really an actual official account. | |
| Yes. | |
| Rapid Response 47 has a gray check mark and a White House logo next to that. | |
| And it says official White House Rapid Response Account supporting POTUS, America First Agenda, and holding the fake news accountable. | |
| MAGA. | |
| So yeah, they are. | |
| And they got 1.2 million followers. | |
| So it's if they if they only need they only need half a million more then. | |
| Right. | |
| Take it to 1.7. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, trust me. | |
| My brain is broken. | |
| I understand your dog whistles. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But yeah. | |
| So this is this is where we are with this guy. | |
| And as you said, and I really think it's very interesting that we're dealing with a president who is very obviously unwell and everyone just wants access and everyone just wants to like write their book about what's going on behind the scenes about this guy. | |
| So no one's actually digging into this. | |
| And I've said this a million times and I'll say it a million more. | |
| You cannot hate the press enough. | |
| They are so not doing their job. | |
| This is not what the press is about. | |
| The press is about finding out hidden information. | |
| It's about giving the American people the truth and understand letting us know what's going on. | |
| And all of these assholes are just stenographers for Republicans, just trying to get their contract with some big media entity so they can crush Democrats and get paid six or seven figures for it. | |
| They can sell their books. | |
| I mean, Alex Thompson and those assholes with their Biden dementia book that bombed. | |
| God, they thought they were going straight to the top of that shit, baby. | |
| Oh, they got to be so angry they didn't manage to sell that pile of horse manure. | |
| And people keep asking, you know, where's Jake Tamper and all this stuff? | |
| And Trump like, oh, don't worry. | |
| He's taking very careful notes and he'll have a stunning executive two months after he's out of office. | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| If Trump dropped dead before his body was cold, there'd be six books out about how they knew he had dementia and all these other health problems. | |
| And they didn't care. | |
| They just wanted to keep grinding there. | |
| They just wanted to keep, they just wanted to get him in office because Biden and Kamala, they wouldn't let them into the Oval Office and insult them every day. | |
| And that's all they want. | |
| They just want the negative abuse campaign from these Republicans. | |
| They just want attention. | |
| That's all they want is attention. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's great. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That sigh was a powerful and correct sigh. | |
| And I mean, we're about a year away from the midterms right now. | |
| And so we're like one year away from the first magic checkpoint of all this fun, this first domino to fall in this ever, this never-ending cascade of bullshit. | |
| And I just remembered because you mentioned it before about the vice president thing. | |
| And then we didn't really explain that. | |
| So there was this theory, there's this idea floating around that Vance could run for president and then Trump runs as his running mate. | |
| And then like on January 21st, Vance steps down and now Trump is president again. | |
| And this is somehow legal. | |
| So I saw someone else made a response to that where they put up a poster saying Newsome Obama 28. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I mean, that's the thing is if I ever wanted to start my liberal AI generated t-shirt store, I would start printing up the Obama 28 hats and shirts. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The Obama 28 hat and t-shirts with the slogan, not so funny, is it? | |
| He's like, hey, hey, Republicans, if you're going to pull this shit with Trump, we're going to do our break glass and break glass in case of emergency candidate. | |
| We're going to drag the big dog out. | |
| We're going to be like, yo, Barack, you got to do this for us. | |
| Yeah, I keep seeing people saying that, but I mean, I can't imagine he would actually do it. | |
| And he's probably got too much integrity to pretend he's going to do it just to make people panic. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I mean, that's hilarious. | |
| Oh, I want him to do it as a troll. | |
| I mean, I would want it. | |
| Again, I would want him to do it entirely with no actual indication of wanting to do it. | |
| It would literally just be a sort of, hey, if Trump, if Trump tries this shit, yes, I will go at him. | |
| But the only problem with that is that you might get too much, like it gets too much momentum going. | |
| And the Supreme Court hides under their desk and just lets Trump run. | |
| So now the field is clear for Obama. | |
| And then Trump drops dead. | |
| And now Obama's like, no, no. | |
| And everyone's like, Brock, shut up. | |
| You're up 15. | |
| And you're going to win Texas for us. | |
| You've got to do this now, bro. | |
| And Obama's like, fuck, no. | |
| It takes up smoking again. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Well, yeah, when you brought up the whole fact that like Trump's like so disastrously unhealthy, I just, that immediately popped into my head. | |
| Like suddenly, the next time the press goes into the Oval Office, Trump is just chain smoking. | |
| He's just like putting one down, sparking one up. | |
| He's just, he's like, oh, what are you doing? | |
| And he's like, look, man, I really don't want to run in 2028. | |
| I really don't want to do this. | |
| I'm too old. | |
| I'm putting myself in the dirt. | |
| Ben and can't stop me after he finishes like his fifth cigarette of the press conference. | |
| They're like, you're a triple baconator, sir. | |
| He just gets just chowing down on it. | |
| And it's like, oh, my God. | |
| The man really is just going to kill himself in front of us. | |
| This is weird. | |
| I don't even know what to say. | |
| Like, everyone gets really, it gets real awkward for everybody. | |
| It's like the president smoking and eating self to death to defy attempt at a legal third term. | |
| He's like, Putin can't stop me. | |
| He can't stop me from smoking and eating. | |
| It's my only way out. | |
| The only way out is through. | |
| Yeah, the only way out is through. | |
| Immediately, like, immediately gets a phone call. | |
| It's Vlad on speakerphone being like, I release the P-tape immediately. | |
| Do not stop smoking now. | |
| Trump's like, I don't care. | |
| Release it. | |
| I'm done. | |
| I'm done with all your shit. | |
| I'm unchained. | |
| I'm sending Ukraine 50 billion in aid. | |
| How do you like those apples, Vlad? | |
| i'm a free man oh oh i love that when uh trump was talking about he had a phone call with putin and he and he said and he asked putin if if uh putin was okay with him sending tomahawk missiles to ukraine and putin's like no not really yeah he was gonna say this right exactly yes please arm my enemies the people that i invaded yes i want it to be a fair fight right i i i i want to have | |
| my have my army destroyed and then i will be removed in a coup by the oligarchs who are not happy about all of this yeah it sounds great it's | |
| like literally like i mean i used i said this during his first term and now it's just on overdrive it's just his mouth opens up words tumble forth and even he doesn't know what's gonna hit what's gonna come out nope he starts a sentence with no clue how it's gonna end nope he has the moment he starts talking he has no idea how he's gonna land that plane like what was that thing when he was when he was uh talking to the troops in japan and he's like he's like i don't like good-looking people uh this is something i've kept a | |
| secret for a long time but i don't like good-looking people blah blah blah supreme court yeah exactly that's like what yep just the his his his brain is dribbling into his shoes and nobody seems to care nope nope and that's the that is the thing that just drove me up a wall in in 2024 was just | |
| watching his rallies it was just i'm just sitting there saying to myself if this guy literally ran for office this year and this was the candidate everyone would laugh him off the stage he'd be this like unbelievable joke but the fact that he was president four years ago and is now this like political force inside our country nobody can say boo the emperor is truly wearing the newest of clothes and | |
| no one can say anything about it and it's just it's just so wild that that's where we're at that no like half of our political spectrum will not talk about this and if the other half brings it up the immediate response is you defended biden you you no you had a dementia guy too shut up and | |
| even if that was true biden dropped out of the race you were the guys that were pushing the dementia guy for four more years so like oh god it's just so ridiculous that this is where we're at that the obvious failing mental health of the current president is just an issue we can't talk about it's just something no one's allowed to say boo about because that'd be rude that'd be rude you'd be rude how dare you | |
| but if joe biden flubbed the word dementia 25th amendment immediately what are you doing kamala take the presidency away from this man right now it's all over it's all over I mean, yeah, it's just really nuts. | |
| It's just nuts that that's where we're at. | |
| So speaking of other awesome, great things that the president's currently doing, how are things in Chicago going? | |
| Oh, they're just beautiful. | |
| I can't say enough good things about the old windy city here. | |
| I remember actually I was talking to some coworkers and one of them is looking on the is looking at his neighborhood app and he says He says, oh, it's there's there's icy conditions. | |
| And I'm like, well, it's Chicago. | |
| You never, you know, you never know what the weather's going to be like one day or the next. | |
| And then he informed me, no, that's code for, you know, icy ice. | |
| And I'm like, oh, I see. | |
| Yeah, so people are talking in code so that they don't get, you know, disappeared and unpersoned in the middle of the night. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That should tell you how great things are going over here. | |
| I was mentioning yesterday, I saw this report about ICE jumping this guy in a Menards parking lot in Cicero, smashing out his windows, dragging him out and everything. | |
| And I'm like, I've shot at that Menards. | |
| Like, I may have parked in that spot where it happened. | |
| And then I was mentioning that some coworkers are like, oh, did you hear about the, did you hear about the one in Marrose Park? | |
| The manager refused to let him in. | |
| I'm like, that's, so it's multiple Menards apparently are being raided by ICE. | |
| And then I was getting ready for this. | |
| I was looking up areas. | |
| I had said this online before, and I think I said it on the podcast too, that they're not going to be going. | |
| ICE keeps talking about the worst of the worst, but they're not going to be going to Englewood. | |
| They're not going to be going to Garfield Park or any of these really bad neighborhoods in Chicago. | |
| I said they're going to be going to like Humboldt Park. | |
| They're going to be, you know, they're going to be going to Little Village. | |
| They'll be going to these places that are majority, minority, and just, you know, snatching people up on the way to work or taking their kids to school or whatever. | |
| And then so this article I just looked up from CBS, they do, they mention frequent targets of ICE is Little Village, one of the places I mentioned, very, very large Mexican population there. | |
| Cicero, also very big. | |
| Latin. | |
| I'm going to say Latinx because I'm not sure exactly what the makeup is. | |
| Although I do know one person with a Latin last name who lives in Cicero, who's probably safe for a while. | |
| And his name is Nick Fuentes. | |
| Well, that's good. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Pilsen, also. | |
| I believe that's in the south side. | |
| I can't remember off the top of my head, but West Chicago Gage Parks. | |
| So all these, the article starts off with them talking about how they talked to the director of the Broadview ICE Processing Center, and he's talking about how they got people of all shapes, sizes, colors, skin tones, and everything. | |
| But I can't help but notice that all these neighborhoods that they're targeting are very heavy Latinx neighborhoods. | |
| And then the school that I work at is, I don't know the exact percentage, but it's over 80% Latinx. | |
| And we had informal and formal meetings about what to do if you're out in the community and ICE approaches you about one of the students. | |
| So that's the world we're living in, that we're getting official training on what to do if the federales come towards you. | |
| Magical. | |
| Truly lovely that we have to be like, this is what you do if these masked ICE scum come towards you while you're just trying to live your life. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And there was a story that I read about this man in Franklin Park. | |
| I'm saying his name off the top of my head, but I think I remember correctly, Silverio Viegas Gonzalez. | |
| He apparently was shot by ICE, and there's all this confusion of like they say that he tried to take off driving and dragged a nice officer on the road and he shot him in self-defense. | |
| And he's got a record as long as your arm. | |
| And then stuff's coming out saying that that story is fabricated. | |
| But like the place where he was shot is on my path home from work. | |
| So I see this memorial that they set up for him every day, which if you're not in an area that has a lot of Hispanic people, that's something they normally do. | |
| If somebody dies violently, like in a car from a, from getting hit by a drunk driver or whatever, they will put a memorial on the roadside where it happened. | |
| And usually they're gone in like a week or two. | |
| But this one, it's been a month and it's still there. | |
| And I've been seeing posters in the area with a picture of him. | |
| And it says in Spanish, assassinated by ICE. | |
| It's great. | |
| Just absolutely. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| And I'm just worried that he's not going to be the only one that this happens to. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Wasn't there an incident recently where cops shot into the car of a person and then the police report ignored that and hid the fact that the cops shot into the car. | |
| And only when that person went to the press and was like, here, here's the bullet-ridden seat of my car that the cops filled with the bullets that they shot into my car. | |
| Where people were like, oh, wow, the ICE actually did this shit. | |
| Just yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I know it's just, it's crazy out there. | |
| And then like I saw a recruitment ad for ICE and they're talking about, you know, you know, defend your country against the worst of the worst. | |
| And I'm like, they're grabbing itinerant workers out of Home Depot lots and grandmothers taking their, you know, taking their grandkids to school and stuff. | |
| It's, you know, these people, I'm not saying that they, I'm not saying that these people are absolutely 100% innocent, but they're definitely not what Christy Noam is claiming they are. | |
| These are non-violent criminals. | |
| According to this, according to this article, the same CBS article that I'm looking at, roughly 20, I'm going to estimate 22% of the people don't have a criminal conviction, you know, let alone an arrest warrant. | |
| And like, I saw this interview, I think it was today that she had where somebody asked her, you know, what percentage, what, what percentage of the people you've arrested don't have a criminal record. | |
| And she's like, I don't know. | |
| I'm pretty sure that's your job to know, lady. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And considering the stuff you've said about who you're targeting, the answer should be 100% of them have criminal records. | |
| Right. | |
| I, I mean, I kind of want, I kind of want to run as a fake presidential candidate just to do speeches online that I think are like really obviously easy to write speeches that Democrats should listen to. | |
| And then I can get a job working for some tier three guy running for the presidency. | |
| I can be the speech writer for like the Mayor Pete of 2028. | |
| It's going to be great. | |
| I'll have like a great two-month story before we get 1% of the vote in South Carolina and drop out. | |
| But I think that they're really like someone, Gavin, Pritzker, Kamala, anyone, anyone who's listening to my The Power of My Voice, which is exactly zero of you, but you give a speech about border security and about how you're going to take it seriously and you're going to do hard work to make sure the border is shut down. | |
| And then you talk about how your policy is going to deport gangsters, not grandmothers, how you're going to get rid of convicts, not caregivers. | |
| Have easy catchphrases ready to go that flow and bring that into your speech and like do these things because America has moved really hard right on immigration. | |
| We have decided as a country that we hate immigrants, but not the immigrant that bags our groceries or does any good. | |
| They're one of the good ones. | |
| We don't want to get rid of the good ones, but every other immigrant that's not in my line of sight is a bad one and I want them deported. | |
| So you have to meet the electorate where they are, which in 2028 will be in a breadline hoping for squirrel meat. | |
| But even then, you're still going to have to make a case to try to actually not have the immigration issue be seen as a disaster because the Republicans have spent like the last decade telling us that dudes with trash bags full of fentanyl are just going across the border and border patrols watching them going, President Biden, can I please stop the man with the two trash bags full of fentanyl? | |
| And Biden's like, don't you dare, sonny. | |
| This is the dream. | |
| More fentanyl for Americans. | |
| And it's like, no, Mr. Biden, no. | |
| He's like, you're fired for even complaining about it. | |
| Back up your bags, kid. | |
| I don't know why Joe Biden's a 1940s gangster, but that's just the way it works in our world. | |
| So leave me alone. | |
| Well, at least you need to make him sound like Al Capone. | |
| That just drives me up the wall. | |
| Listen to yes. | |
| See? | |
| The unbelievably generic Capone. | |
| You just reminded me for one of my birthday parties, a friend had one of those how to host the murder games, and we decided to do it. | |
| And it was a 20s gangster-themed one. | |
| And so they had this tape that they have you play, which is a narrator explaining stuff. | |
| And she's got, and she's got this joysey accent. | |
| And she's supposed to be from Chicago because thanks to Al Capone, who I will remind you was from the Bronx, everyone thinks that Chicago gangsters sounded like they were from the Bronx. | |
| It just drives me baddie. | |
| I can believe that. | |
| I can believe that. | |
| I can see how that'd be really annoying. | |
| Yeah. | |
| He's like, at least make him sound like the Blues Brothers. | |
| You know, they're at least a Chicago accent going on there. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Ronnie Mission from GED. | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, yeah, exactly. | |
| That was, I was right there because that's the line. | |
| That's the line. | |
| And I think of that movie a lot because just all the stuff going on. | |
| And I just remember them saying, I hate Illinois Nazis. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But yeah, that was so that, yeah, that was my five-minute rant about the state of affairs in Chicago. | |
| Yeah, when we get Haley on, we'll have to like do Arizona watch and then we'll do Chicago watch. | |
| And since I live, I live in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, we will not do Massachusetts watch because nothing's going on around here. | |
| It's just great. | |
| It's just, yep, nestled in the very beating heart of liberalism. | |
| That's where I am. | |
| I don't have to worry about any of this shit. | |
| And I'm too far away from Boston to deal with any of the ice bullshit going on in Boston. | |
| So I know. | |
| And it's nice that Haley and me are going to be able to race for the bottom. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Let's see. | |
| Let's see whose neighborhood sucks more. | |
| Yeah, great. | |
| Yeah, that was an hour. | |
| I remember seeing this video of ICE nabbing this guy. | |
| And they mentioned that this is happening in Old Irving Park. | |
| And it's Old Irving Park is the neighborhood that I grew up in. | |
| That was my old stomping grounds. | |
| And I can tell you, it wasn't like the pristine jewel of the city, but it was not a gangrad and cess hole either. | |
| It was not the kind of place where, you know, you're thinking ICE is banging down doors and busting up meth labs and everything. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It was a totally blue-colored Northwest Side neighborhood, you know. | |
| And like, I couldn't, I, I couldn't get a good look of where exactly it was, but I'm like, for all I know, it was happening like two blocks from the house I grew up in. | |
| Oh, God, that's, that's crazy. | |
| That's absolutely wild. | |
| It is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So all that fun stuff. | |
| And I, I, I think we'll put a bow on this week's episode of more exciting, fun stuff. | |
| And that is our impending war with Venezuela, which is just great. | |
| Just lovely that my favorite part about this is the fact that we're not even getting any press about it. | |
| Usually, I mean, when we were getting ready to invade Iraq and even when Russia was getting to invade Ukraine, we just had like breathless reporting and commentary on everything. | |
| Meanwhile, Trump is just sending gobs of our military to South America. | |
| We're just killing random fishermen for no fucking reason. | |
| And I want to make this abundantly clear that even the administration themselves is admitting we are killing people for no fucking reason. | |
| That is our government's official party line on what they are doing. | |
| It's yeah, we're just droning boats because we feel like it. | |
| It gets our dicks hard. | |
| We just like killing people for no reason. | |
| This was Demrep Sarah Jacobs after today's briefing from Pentagon officials on boat strikes via Anna Gracer CNN. | |
| They said they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessels to do the strikes. | |
| Jacobs said, adding that in part why the administration could not actually hold or try to hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden. | |
| So if you survive the drone strike, we probably don't have enough evidence to charge you with a crime. | |
| But if you don't, you're dead and we've killed you and we don't care and we're going to keep doing that. | |
| It's like a witch trial. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| If you live, you're a witch. | |
| If you die, you're a human. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We throw you into the lake. | |
| If you sink, you were a human and therefore we apologize for having accidentally murdered you. | |
| If you float, you were a witch and then we will drag you out of the pond and hang you. | |
| So either way, you're dead. | |
| It's just a question of if you go to heaven or hell afterwards because that's what matters. | |
| Actual living is irrelevant. | |
| And the best part about this is, is I actually bitched about this online and someone and I said something, I said something to the effect of President Harris wouldn't do this. | |
| And someone replied to me and said, you can't be sure about that. | |
| And I was just like, God damn it, you fucking people. | |
| How are you this poisoned? | |
| How are your brains so fucking rotted out of your heads? | |
| Palestine, genocide. | |
| Israel's doing that. | |
| Yeah, we're giving them shit. | |
| But the Israelis are doing this. | |
| Biden ended the fucking drone war. | |
| There were so few drone strikes under Biden, and he got no credit for that. | |
| Nobody, all the people that pissed and moaned about Obama using drones suddenly got super quiet when Trump became ultimate drone guy, and then even somehow even more quiet when Biden became the anti-drone president. | |
| It's just this bullshit moral purity nonsense where the Democrat has to be as bad as the Republican. | |
| When, spoiler alert, they're not. | |
| They're fucking not. | |
| It's just, it's just really aggravating that. | |
| And yeah, and as we pointed out last week, that's one of the things that's so aggravating about this whole Grand Platinar thing is that now they can both sides it. | |
| Right. | |
| Oh, I just love watching all these pieces of shit. | |
| Ryan Grimm had a post where he said, a skull and bones tattoo. | |
| Ryan, Ryan, Todd and Koff, why aren't you calling it what it really is? | |
| Why are you continuing to like slide past the actual tattoo and just, oh, a controversial tattoo. | |
| How is it controversial? | |
| What's the controversy? | |
| What's the tell me what's wrong with it? | |
| It's that meme of the duck where the duck says, states' rights to do what? | |
| States' rights to do what, motherfucker? | |
| Yeah. | |
| So it's just, it's ridiculous that we just have so many people that currently have their hand on the hot stove. | |
| Their skin is melting. | |
| And they're just saying, ah, my hand would be burning just as much if Kamala was president. | |
| It's like, no, it wouldn't. | |
| No, it wouldn't. | |
| Your hand would be nice and cool. | |
| This would not be happening if you could have just elected the lady with the annoying laugh, but you couldn't do it. | |
| You just couldn't do it. | |
| In your mind's eyes, heart, soul's gut. | |
| You just couldn't fill in that oval for that evil bitch. | |
| And now we're here. | |
| And now we're here. | |
| Great. | |
| Just great. | |
| But Mike, you're blaming the voters. | |
| Yeah, I am. | |
| I am blaming the voters. | |
| I blame the media more than I blame the voters, but everyone, we all share some level of culpability in this stuff. | |
| We all did this. | |
| We all did this to ourselves. | |
| I know I didn't push that rock up the hill as hard as I could have. | |
| I could have put in more work, but I don't know that I could have changed anything. | |
| And I think that's what the really frustrating part about elections is: that they show you how insignificant you are in the grand scheme of the world. | |
| Like Taylor Swift was like, yo, vote for Kamala. | |
| The biggest celebrity in America couldn't move the scales for anybody. | |
| And that's the thing is that everyone just has to, everyone's just a little drop in the pond, and the pond just fills up with all those drops. | |
| And then one side of the pond is a little bit bigger than the other. | |
| And that's the side that wins the fight. | |
| And it's really annoying. | |
| But at the end of the day, this is where we are. | |
| We've made this decision and it's a bad one. | |
| It's a bad one. | |
| And when I'm in jail for a week because I said mean things about Trump and the freedom of speech is dead in America, that'll suck. | |
| But yeah, that's life. | |
| I mean, it's just, it's just very aggravating that this is where we are. | |
| And again, we have a, we have a delightful, juicy year before the real fun happens that we can all really enjoy. | |
| Unless the breaking news of the magic Big Mac hits. | |
| And then, boy, howdy, will that be the ultimate record scratch moment where it's like President Trump rushed to the hospital and it's like, oh no, oh no. | |
| If you think all the shit they did about tone policing people's thoughts after Charlie Kirk died, boy howdy, had you better be ready to publicly mourn the fallen god emperor or you're going to be out of a job faster than you can snap your fingers. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Rend them clothes, gnash them teeth. | |
| Oh, oh, oh, yeah. | |
| Wander your town hall in a sackcloth with ashes on your forehead. | |
| Wail, wail to God, begging the Lord to redeem our nation from the fallen god emperor. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| Just drop to your knees screaming, take me instead. | |
| Take me instead, Lauren. | |
| Take me instead. | |
| Oh, all of it. | |
| All of it. | |
| There's someone who follows me who has the screen name state-mandated Charlie Kirk worshiper. | |
| And I think that's like, that's going to be everybody when that happens. | |
| A state-mandated Donald Trump worshiper. | |
| That's going to be all of us. | |
| We will all have to salute our fallen orange god or face sharp rebuke for our crimes. | |
| Because, yeah, if you thought the policing of a public speech was bad now, it is going to get unbelievably spicy when that happens. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And it won't even matter how he dies. | |
| He could go peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family. | |
| His last words could be, God save America and protect all my children. | |
| And they'll be like, motherfucker, you were insufficiently loyal to him. | |
| Yes, yes. | |
| And they'll blame Massad for killing him. | |
| Right. | |
| Massad made the doctors diagnose him with stage four cancer that he had no chance of surviving and he peacefully passed away in hospice care. | |
| George Soros' absent with the Jewish space laser and gave him that tumor. | |
| Right, exactly, exactly. | |
| Oh my God, all of it. | |
| Oh, I mean, fucking people, people say that about Jack Ruby because he got cancer and died like about like a year or two after he kissed Oswald. | |
| And they were like, yeah, CIA hit him with the cancer raise to fucking put him down so he couldn't, he couldn't snitch on Chucky the typewriter and bring and give us the truth. | |
| Don't ask why they waited that long. | |
| Right, yeah, don't ask why. | |
| Don't ask why they let Ruby sit around for a year or so before dying. | |
| No, but I just, oh God, I love, I love conspiracy theories and every logical error. | |
| But yeah, so we have, we have all that to look forward to and so much more. | |
| I can't wait. | |
| I mean, the impending economic collapse from the AI bubble shatters, that's going to be great. | |
| Everything's great. | |
| Everything's good. | |
| Smooth sailing, nothing but blue skies in front of us. | |
| America is about to lose the World Series to Canada. | |
| Kanuka Stan is about to win the national pastime. | |
| They can't win the Stanley Cup. | |
| They can't win their game. | |
| But our game, our game, they can take the title from us. | |
| With one team in hockey, they've got like eight and they can't find a way to win the goddamn thing. | |
| But I got one team out of 30 in baseball and they're going to win the whole thing. | |
| They're going to win the whole shooting match. | |
| Did you see that fake post that was going around where Trump said that he would not invite either team, no matter which one won? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And then like people were like, typical libs, like buying into the Trump dementia syndrome. | |
| And it's like, you guys worship QAnon. | |
| You believe in every lie imaginable. | |
| I'm sorry some people got tricked by a fake news post. | |
| And everyone was laughing about Stephen King being one of those people. | |
| Like, you know, he's critical of Trump, so that means he has to be perfect 24-7. | |
| Right. | |
| And it's like, like, it's like Steve. | |
| Steve King's a weird old dude. | |
| Steve King's a weird old dude who did a ton of cocaine and wrote a child orgy in a book. | |
| So, I mean, really, we don't, I don't, I don't turn to Steve King for my political views and news. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| That's what I said. | |
| It's like, okay, yeah, a guy can write, can spin a yarn, but that doesn't make him a, you know, a political analyst. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, yeah. | |
| I mean, if I, I don't know. | |
| I mean, like I was saying, like, if I was, if I fell in love with J.B. Pritzker or somebody in the Democratic primary and then Shirley Manson was like, vote for AOC. | |
| I'd be like, thanks, Shirley. | |
| Still voting for Pritzker. | |
| Doesn't matter. | |
| My celebrity crush will not sway my political vote because I'm not an automaton. | |
| I'm not here to just do what my celebrity betters tell me to do. | |
| So yeah. | |
| I mean, and it works in other ways too. | |
| Because like I had all these MAGA coming at me saying, you know, well, what about what Biden said about how about how if you get the vaccine, then you won't get COVID? | |
| I'm like, well, maybe don't take your medical advice from politicians. | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| It's like, I didn't believe him when he said that. | |
| If you did, that's on you, dude. | |
| Right. | |
| He's trying to sell the fucking vaccine to you and he thinks he's right. | |
| But guess what? | |
| It's not his job. | |
| It's why it's like why I love my favorite anti-vax talking point is they're like the Supreme Court declared vaccines to be unavoidably unsafe. | |
| And it's like, yeah, that's a legal definition. | |
| It's not a medical definition. | |
| I don't go to the Supreme Court for my medical advice. | |
| And if you look up that lawsuit and you look up unavoidably unsafe, there's something that Republicans really love that's listed under that category. | |
| Guns. | |
| Guns are unavoidably unsafe. | |
| So yeah, like, don't talk to me about that shit. | |
| It's literally just a definition saying when you make this product, some of it is going to be bad and have negative consequences for people. | |
| And there's nothing we can do about it. | |
| We just have to accept that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And the medical and the medical community freely admits that. | |
| They're like, yes, all medicine comes with side effects. | |
| We wish it wasn't the case, but it is. | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| The benefits massively outweigh the risks. | |
| Right. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And yeah. | |
| And I'm just going to say, yes, if somebody you know got hurt by a vaccine, that sucks. | |
| And I'm sorry. | |
| That's terrible. | |
| I wish it didn't happen. | |
| But I mean, it's like the Supreme, like the Supreme Court said, it's unavoidable. | |
| Yes. | |
| It's just part. | |
| It's just part of the thing that we are going to have. | |
| There were three documented cases of people dying from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. | |
| So like if anyone's like, how many people did the vaccine kill? | |
| My answer is like, we got three documented. | |
| So what do you want me to do? | |
| And I'm sure, I'm sure a good number of millions of people got the J and J vaccine. | |
| So for only three to die from it documented is a win. | |
| That's pretty good. | |
| And then notice when that happened, they'd immediately recalled the Johnson Johnson vaccine and said, okay, let's figure out what would happen here. | |
| Right. | |
| That's the one that we pulled from the market. | |
| That's why we still have, that's why we still have Moderna and Pfizer. | |
| And we also have Novavax, which is like made by the military, I believe. | |
| So we have like, yeah, whatever. | |
| So yeah. | |
| Those grunts were the perfect end to the podcast. | |
| So let's get this over with. | |
| Boom, we did it. | |
| Only two of us, and we still managed to go over an hour with nothing to talk about except for things that I came up with off the top of my head. | |
| That's right. | |
| Taught 65 minutes. | |
| A tight 65, as they, as they say in the industry. | |
| Back in the day, L always said the dream was 90. | |
| So we're streamlining, L. We're streamlining. | |
| We're cutting things out. | |
| Yeah, there's only two of us, and we can only yell at each other for so long and agree with each other so much. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
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