Subscribe at Patreon.com/miniondeathcult to hear every weekly premium episode Roseanne returns to television pretending to be a woke, blue-collar Trump voter, while her sister Jackie is a hysterical, emotional Hillary supporter. It's as fun as it sounds. Also: Laura Ingraham gets put on vacation by high schooler David Hogg, and the internet is pretty upset about it.
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| They get into an argument and Jackie's like, how could you vote for him? | |
| How could you vote for him? | |
| First of all, I think Roseanne says you voted for the worst person in the world, implying Hillary Clinton. | |
| Who Roseanne really does think is the worst person in the world, in real life. | |
| You voted for the worst person in the world and Jackie's like, how could you vote for him? | |
| And Roseanne's explanation for voting for Trump, for being pro-Trump, is he talked about jobs. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's literally the only mention of any Trump policy, any Trump stance, any reason for voting for Trump. | |
| They don't mention either Trump's name or Hillary's name at all in the show. | |
| Oh, is that true? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Not one bit. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, she says him or her, but she also says, but she says like, make America great again. | |
| That does get said. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Um, but there is no, which is interesting. | |
| I don't know. | |
| It's just like a funny, like, like fictional thing. | |
| I don't know. | |
| They said Jill Stein's name. | |
| Yeah, they did say Jill Stein. | |
| So the reason they said Jill Stein's name is very important is because in the show, Roseanne bullied Jackie so hard about voting for Hillary Clinton that Jackie actually voted for Jill Stein. | |
| Out of like shame or out of like being gaslit by the character Roseanne which is wild. | |
| Like even on the show the liberal is so spineless that she couldn't even vote for Hillary Clinton. | |
| Like this is absolutely a... It's correct. | |
| It's a pro-Trump show on the very, like, most basic level. | |
| Sure. | |
| But, I mean, that commentary about, like, a liberal being so fucking spineless that they don't know who to vote for. | |
| I agree with that one. | |
| I mean, millions of them voted for Hillary. | |
| Right, and I did too. | |
| But, like, yeah, maybe that's a made-up instance. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm kind of drunk, so whatever. | |
| I don't think liberals had any problem voting for Hillary Clinton. | |
| Yeah, I voted for Hillary. | |
| I mean, lesser of two evils. | |
| Come on, man. | |
| Well, I don't even consider myself a liberal, but I did vote for Hillary Clinton. | |
| Anyway, so... We all voted for Hillary. | |
| She's either that meme with Prince where he's like, girl, I guess I'm with her, or I guess I'm with her, and his eyes are kind of rolled. | |
| It's funny. | |
| That's good. | |
| I'm with her. | |
| So, but my whole thing about what I'm trying to say about he talked about jobs. | |
| Right. | |
| Okay, so this is a pro-Trump show in like this the thinnest of ways and that thin way is | |
| Roseanne pretending to be a blue-collar person who voted for Trump and this is like continuing the great myth of the forgotten white working class who needed somebody to speak for them and Trump was their voice and that's why Trump won when there's a lot of other reasons that Trump won and if you look at who voted for whom Poor people voted for Hillary Clinton. | |
| If you want to actually divide it in that way, poor people voted for Hillary Clinton, white people voted for Trump. | |
| It's like double thought propaganda type shit. | |
| She voted for Trump because she's a millionaire and she can benefit from tax breaks. | |
| Exactly. | |
| She's infusing fake nonsense into her TV show and people are like, yeah. | |
| And it's just very... Twist that mic so you're back on it. | |
| on it. - Yeah. - So it's, and everything else in the show, so there's, there's the, I'm not sure what the proper term for the alternative gender expression of the grandson, Like, I'm not sure if it's even called cross-dressing anymore. | |
| He's a boy wearing girl's clothes. | |
| That's basically what he's doing. | |
| Uh, he's young. | |
| He's too young. | |
| He's not like, uh... Like seven? | |
| Like nine. | |
| Yeah, he's nine. | |
| He's not gay. | |
| Uh, but... Too young to understand sex. | |
| That is dealt with and they ended up accepting him. | |
| Dan has a real problem with it, Roseanne has a real problem with it, but in the end they accept him. | |
| So cross-dressing is okay. | |
| They have a conversation about female bodily autonomy. | |
| And whether or not the oldest daughter can be a surrogate mother. | |
| So far it's a big theme of both episodes. | |
| And they're against it completely. | |
| Well, no. | |
| They agree that it's her body and it's her choice. | |
| They don't like the idea. | |
| But they're not going to disown her for doing it. | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| Roseanne has a big long screed about a woman's body is her choice. | |
| Abortion rights. | |
| This is a clear allusion to abortion rights. | |
| Right. | |
| Totally. | |
| They think Darlene's gay. | |
| Because the actress in real life is gay. | |
| Right. | |
| But she's not gay in the show. | |
| They think she's gay and they're cool with it. | |
| So they're okay with gay marriage. | |
| They're okay with abortion. | |
| They're okay with feminism. | |
| Roseanne is a feminist on the show. | |
| Are they okay with gay marriage? | |
| Because they didn't say anything about gay marriage. | |
| Roseanne in real life is okay with gay marriage. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| What is the canon of this show specifically? | |
| No, I'm just kidding. | |
| This, it's... | |
| It's trying to reframe the Trump policies in like a... Digestible way. | |
| In a what? | |
| Digestible way. | |
| Palatable. | |
| I wouldn't even say palatable. | |
| It's like rewriting them altogether. | |
| Right, it's propaganda. | |
| It's like rewriting Trump's policies and the reasons people voted for Trump. | |
| It was jobs. | |
| Jobs. | |
| Just jobs. | |
| Yeah, so it's just this wealthy woman who used to be a progressive person in favor of unions who doesn't have to worry about women's rights anymore and doesn't have to worry about gay rights and doesn't have to worry about minorities rights because all of her friends are wealthy and able to like Avoid any sort of complications for those sorts of things. | |
| And so she's just shoehorning herself into this blue-collar lifestyle and saying, jobs! | |
| It's jobs, dummy! | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, it sucks. | |
| A lot. | |
| Well, it's just funny because it's like, is this even a conservative family? | |
| Right. |