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May 28, 2018 - Minion Death Cult

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45 - MS-13 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter

This week we talk to writer and twitter provocateur Rob Rousseau about his extremely funny tweet and the extremely funny response from Fox News, The Daily Wire, and the conservative commentariat at large Plus: Real America scores a touchdown as Trump makes the football man stand for the America song

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	Sarah Sanders, defending the President's use of the word animals when discussing MS-13 members, but one person who seems to have no problem with the gang is Ryder Rob Rousseau, who says he'd rather his daughter, which he does not actually have, date an MS-13 member rather than a Republican.
	Joining us right now is someone who's all too familiar with the gangs, especially MS-13, Nassau County Long Island Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.
	Commissioner, when you saw that article, what did you think?
	You want the best for your children, not the worst.
	MS-13's motto?
	Kill.
	Rape.
	Control.
	That's what you want dating your daughter?
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	Yeah!
	The world is ending.
	Twitter's responsible this time.
	Usually it's Facebook.
	Facebook took the day off.
	Twitter picked up the slack.
	We got an amazing show for you folks.
	We have a great guest here.
	Today we are talking about sort of a mishmash of things that kind of coincide with each other.
	The first topic we're talking about is I'm doing very well.
	about the animals in MS-13, but this obviously broadly concerns the US immigration policies in general.
	And for that segment, we have a special guest, Rob Russo, how you doing, buddy? - I'm doing very well.
	How about you guys? - Oh, we're doing great, man.
	Lovely to have you here.
	Yeah, thank you so much.
	Just a quick note up top, Rob's audio is a bit shaky in the beginning, but stabilizes throughout the episode.
	Rob Russo caused a bit of a stir on Twitter when he explained that he would rather have his daughter date a member of MS-13 instead of a Republican.
	No lies detected.
	I told my grandpa we were doing this show tonight and I told him your tweet and he laughed out loud.
	Oh, good.
	So you got at least one of the greatest generation on your side.
	That's good.
	Your grandpa seems cool.
	Oh, he's very cool.
	I told my grandma and she politely asked me to leave her house.
	Yeah, so we'll be talking about that in the first half of the show.
	The second half of the show is going to be all about Trump again.
	God, we can't get away from this guy.
	Specifically, Trump's win, his big time win at the NFL, and forcing the players to stand up for the values found in that one song that we all love.
	You know, America's theme song.
	Which you have to love it.
	Love it or leave it.
	Like, you can't just leave the song.
	You have to leave, like, the country that it's about.
	Yeah.
	It's actually as much a part of the NFL as concussions, you know?
	It's that important to it.
	And, like, no, I'm just kidding.
	It, like, came about in, like, what?
	Like, 2002 or 2003 or some shit like that?
	I think a lot of these people would argue that it's as important as concussions.
	Yeah, sure.
	They only think it's an important thing because the black guy's protesting it.
	They didn't really care about it all that much before that.
	No, it's a big deal now, though.
	It's very important now.
	We're all winning because of it.
	Can you hear us all okay, Rob?
	Yeah, I hear you fine.
	Great.
	Okay, we're doing a weird, like, jerry-rigged, which is a slur against the Germans.
	Jerry-rigged, but I'm okay with that.
	We're doing a setup here.
	We got a mic in the center of the room, then that's what you're hearing us from.
	So as long as it's good, then we're good.
	Yeah, no, it's fine.
	Okay, so, working from this first topic here, you know, Trump came out and, you know, he's like, "Oh, MS-13.
	It's MS-13 that's, like, stealing your jobs and your women.
	And, like, that's why you don't have a girlfriend.
	It's because MS-13 is taking them all.
	And people were like, yeah, yeah, totally.
	And he was like, plus they're animals.
	And, like, everybody was like, yeah.
	And then the liberal media was like, you're calling all immigrants animals.
	And that's not good.
	Only, only MS-13 are the animals.
	And, uh, so Trump naturally, like, feeling his way through the American zeitgeist, which he is very good at.
	It's probably, like, one of his biggest talents.
	Um, just doubled down on calling them animals.
	And when I say doubled down, I mean he, like, I don't know what the word for, uh, ten-timing down on the animals comment is, but he did that with a official release from the White House It's insane.
	It's an official Facebook post.
	It's an official White House Facebook post that says, the caption here, so like the place where you type in the text, says, Too many innocent Americans have fallen victim to the unthinkable violence of MS-13's animals.
	What you need to know.
	Then there's a link to this press release type thing, and the thumbnail for the link says, What you need to know about violent animals of MS-13.
	What the fuck, dude?
	Dude, seeing this fucking threw me through a loop, like, this is one of the first, like, you know, visual cues from the White House that I've seen that's like, very blatant, racist, just fucked, like, Yes, in a sea of overtly racist stuff, this, like, is an island.
	This still stands out.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I kind of thought once they were rid of Bannon, Steve Bannon, that they would maybe tone down some of this stuff, but nope, no toning down.
	I'm pretty convinced that Steve Bannon is still, like, a ghostwriter.
	You know, he's still, like, we're gonna have a Bannon diss track coming out soon.
	Yeah, and Stephen is still in there too, and he's like a Ben and kind of a Wambi.
	He's like a Storm and Breitbart message board guy.
	Yeah, that guy's a dead-eyed sociopath if you've ever seen him.
	Oh yeah, for sure.
	Well, I think Bannon didn't leave because he was too racist.
	Bannon got kicked out because he was too self-promoting.
	Yeah.
	It's nothing to do about ideology, it's just he was talking too big about himself.
	Yeah.
	So the caption like in the link the the like preview from this same link from this same White House post says what you need to know about the violent animals of MS-13 and then in the description of this same link it says the violent animals of MS-13 have committed heinous violent attacks in communities across America.
	And if you go to this press release, it literally, it's like a ten paragraph press release, and there are ten instances of the word animal in this press release.
	Oh man.
	It's just crazy because I definitely saw how their demographic responded to the word animal and they were like, oh, that got them fired up.
	Let's not step away from it.
	Let's double, triple, ten times down that shit and just run with it and really just replace MS-13 and eventually just replace immigrant with the word animal.
	We're going to replace ICE agents with like animal control.
	Well, I mean, that's exactly the point, is that people were trying to make, is that, yes, like, you know, they're talking about people coming into the country, and he immediately goes off this tangent about the animal MS-13, and then whenever it's mad, there's kind of a conservative backlash to the backlash, where it says, well, he was only, he wasn't talking about other immigrants, just these violent gang members.
	But yes, he was.
	To his supporters, I mean, And the people that are really plugged into this right-wing media ecosystem, they get the message from that, that the people coming into America illegally, and the people that are targeted by the deportation machine, are violent gang members and criminals, and they're not average, everyday people, and parents and kids and stuff like that.
	And that's why that kind of message is so damaging, and that's why people were calling about it, and that's why I did my Twitter, which got me in a lot of trouble.
	Yeah, there's like two tracks to this conversation.
	The one track is like what you're talking about, the material reality on the ground.
	You know, Trump can get up here and talk about MS-13 and how violent they are, which of course, you know, that gang is violent.
	But...
	On the ground level with ICE, that's not who they're deporting, you know, maybe once in a while, but no, they're going after just men, women, normal men, women, and children.
	They're, you know, separating children from their families.
	They're keeping children locked up in pens, literally, like fucking babies, basically.
	By now, the thousands almost?
	Yeah.
	It's like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of kids.
	On military bases, right?
	Yeah.
	Camps.
	Yeah, concentration camps.
	Yeah, it's absolutely concentration camps for children that are being run by the U.S.
	government right now.
	that's that's not hyperbole at all right at all and like they're okay so obviously the trump administration uh the united excuse me the united states is not nazis but the last time i saw or in history like the only time i can think of a like a comparison to something like comparing a type of people to uh anything less than human was like i mean the rat uh thing hitler in world war ii yeah
	And like, and now there's concentration camps.
	Are you fucking kidding me?
	And that's the other track, is his language when he talks about animals.
	It's not a separate thing, but it's a different thing to be aware of as well.
	Because yeah, it's a tactic for dehumanizing a people, a population.
	No matter how terrible some people are, they're still people.
	The message to take away from this is that people do terrible shit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and it's ironic to me that all these stories about the abuse that's happening at The Ordering have come out this week, like, after this whole tweet, because, you know, people have been guilty of me saying, oh, do you know the terrible things this gang, MS-13, does?
	And they do this, and they do that, and, you know, as you said, of course it is a violent gang, they are responsible for some terrible crimes, but there's absolutely nothing that anyone, that MS-13 has ever done, or could do, That even comes anywhere near the sort of industrial-level cruelty that the U.S.
	government is inflicting right now on people trying to cross the border illegally.
	There's no comparison whatsoever.
	And that's not even getting into the airways that conservative and Republican policies hurt and kill people on a daily basis.
	Yeah, if you'll allow me to quote you here for a second, You said, people are melting down over this joke, which I guess was the point, but in all seriousness, your elected representatives pose a far greater threat to you and your family's security than an El Salvadorian prison gang you'll never once in your boring life have to interact with.
	That's great, it's spot on, you know, it's not exactly the point you were just talking about, which is that, like, You know, the mass inhumanity on an industrial scale of imperialist or nationalist states isn't comparable to a street gang, but also it's not comparable to the way it affects you personally.
	Um people also don't like um the like people don't understand the fact that like MS13 is a um a black market activities like you know organization that deals in black market activities because
	Poverty and disenfranchisement and like I mean, that's why gangs form like because they're they can't operate and they don't have the they don't have the sort of you know, people of color don't necessarily have the The pathways to into you know America and successful whatever American dream shit So, I mean I I look at this kind of shit like that just because it's like they are people.
	Yeah Yeah, they need to make their way somehow not saying it's good.
	But you know Yeah, and no, no, no gangs like this would exist without U.S.
	immigration policy and U.S.
	drug policy also.
	They create the market for these gangs to survive and thrive.
	Right.
	And the best part is at least they have like the decency to, you know, tattoo 13's giant on their face, whereas like cops just, you know, wear badges and uniforms that are pressed.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	Can't even put it on them.
	Yeah, I'd much rather get shot by someone with sweet-ass tattoos than a douchebag in a polo shirt.
	I wish that cops would be forced to wear, like, a black band over their badge.
	Like, what would cause them to do that?
	I wish that would happen.
	I don't know, who knows?
	So they would identify themselves.
	Fuck.
	So I have a couple questions to ask you just about the popularity you received about your tweet.
	Have the Tide Pods wrecked your brain, dude?
	What are you thinking?
	Yeah.
	I just moved on from the pods.
	I'm just mainlining it right from the bottle now.
	I'm all the way in on this.
	It's way cheaper to get a bottle of it than like... Yeah, you get the no-name stuff.
	It's a steal!
	Remind me to send you my recipe for homemade Tide Pods.
	You basically get like a jug of Tide and you use dental dams and you can seal those off to make your own little bespoke, you know, artisanal Tide Pods.
	I'm gonna sell them on Etsy.
	Yeah, I do.
	I'll send you some.
	Okay.
	So just like a general question here, what's it like having these hordes of chuds descend upon you?
	Right, well, this is not my first experience with right-wing online rage mobs.
	I had another incident a couple months ago when I told conservative commentator Joe Walsh that the AR and AR-15 stands for Assault Rifle.
	I love it, it's so effective.
	And because I had heard that it just kind of these You know, these pedantic gun nuts just go mental when you mess up stuff like that and when you say things like that.
	So I dealt with a huge online rave mob then, a couple months ago.
	Can I, um, I'm not, I'm not trying to, uh, tell you what to write or anything, but if I can make a suggestion and like, you know, maybe seed something, uh, start insisting that America is a democracy, not a constitutional republic.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because that is like...
	No, they fucking hate it.
	Like, any comment section on a right-wing post where America is referred to a democracy, even if it's a pro-right-wing statement, like, oh, the left is threatening our democracy, the top comment will be, uh, excuse me, democracy?
	We live in a constitutional republic, thank God.
	And there'll be four more comments under that that are all top comments.
	Lame.
	So just a suggestion.
	Yeah, no, but just to answer your question, Like I said, it's not my first experience dealing with these giant moms.
	It doesn't really bother me.
	I don't like these people, so if they don't hate me, I generally see that as a sign that I'm doing something right.
	I find it extremely funny, for the most part, most of the thousands of comments.
	This one, because of the media attention it got, was more intense than the last one and attracted even more crazies that were Getting a little bit more explicit with the sort of death threats and veiled references to, like, murdering me and stuff, and that was a little disconcerting, but... I saw one of your... I saw your tweet about somebody DM'd you informing you what it takes exactly to kill someone by suffocation.
	Or choking.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like, a really graphic description of, like, what happens to the human body when it, like, asphyxiates and stuff.
	Just purely psychotic shit.
	Which is, it's ironic also because it's just like, I compared Republicans to a violent criminal gang and they're like, I'm gonna threaten to murder you now, I'm so mad!
	No, that's the appropriate response.
	Yeah, they don't really see the contradiction in that, but you know.
	You should point out their hypocrisy and then they'll come to realize the error of their ways.
	Yeah, well this thing is, as I'm being murdered I'm just gonna be like, I win the argument by your own logic!
	It's funny, it's funny, because I tweeted out, I was like, uh, yo, fuck MS-13, and then a couple of them responded to me, and they were like, hey man, that's not cool.
	And that was the extent of it, so yeah, I was pretty scared myself, I know what you're going through.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, but you know, overall it's fine, it's like, it brought in many, many people too that didn't know what I'm doing, that thought the joke was funny, and that followed me too, so.
	You know, I would do it again, it's fine.
	I'm not really, you know, these people don't really worry me much.
	Is there any backlash from any, like, media types or, like, in the professional circles?
	You know, because you're a freelance writer, so has there been any backlash in that arena?
	Not really.
	I mean, from conservative media, yeah, but I don't think I have any prospects in getting hired there.
	I didn't play Wire or fucking The Blade or anywhere, so I don't think that's come back to haunt me too much.
	Other media people seem to think it was funny.
	The Fox News piece that they put out on me on their website, it's like a France writer who made a comment about a S13 member stating his daughter turns out to be a troll.
	It's just so objectively hilarious.
	It's so funny.
	It's great.
	Thank you for your service, by the way.
	It's Memorial Day today, so I just wanted to say thank you.
	Yeah, thanks for your service.
	We salute you.
	Thanks, Troop.
	Final question.
	We talked about the media frenzy around this, all these batshit responses you got.
	Are you ready to relive it all with us tonight?
	Yeah, yeah, sure.
	Let's go.
	This went so viral on Facebook and everything, and I didn't even get to look at all the different places that it spread to and comments and stuff like that.
	Like it got shared by a prison planet, Paul Joseph Watson, basically.
	- Oh shit. - It had like thousands and thousands of shares from that.
	So it's just like, I didn't even bother trying to look at all the different comments.
	And my notifications on Twitter are locked down pretty tight.
	So I avoided most of it. - I am so sorry.
	Cause I was like, literally our job is to comb his post about you and we did, and I blew it. - Yeah, we missed prison Paul.
	I mean, I saw that one.
	That was the main one I saw.
	Again, he was just like, as you read this tweet, remember that MS-13 sells women into sex traffic and stuff like that.
	And it's just like, well, ICE is doing the exact same fucking thing on a much greater scale, so... I think that's... I think the premise of my joke is still sound, Prison Paul.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, so this is from, we got some comments here from that Fox News article that you're talking about, specifically from, you know, the Fox News article identifying you as a troll in the headline, but also another post from Fox News Insider that was a video clip of your appearance on Fox & Friends, your tweet appearance on Fox & Friends.
	Which is, man, so fucking cool, dude.
	That's still so surreal to me that that happened.
	Like, I think about that every now and then and I'm just like, Jesus Christ.
	It's literally Brian Kilmeade asking a cop what he thinks about your tweet.
	But it's so funny because he says, like, Uh, he says that he would rather his daughter, who he does not really have, date F. It goes on, but then it's like, they continue talking about it as if it's the legitimate thing that I said, and not a joke.
	It's like, it's just, it's unbelievably stupid, that whole segment.
	It's incredibly bizarre.
	He gives out the tweet, and then he asks himself, so what do you think about this article?
	He refers to your tweet as an entire article about dating MS-13 instead of a Republican.
	Well, that was the longest article Kilmeade had read in quite some time, so it felt... He had to take a break midway through to have a snack or whatever, and finished it off afterwards.
	Before I forget, I also want to give you the blessing to let the world know that you want my daughter to date an MS-13 member instead of a Republican, because I'm okay with that.
	I'll co-sign that with you.
	I'm not going to put that out there because she'd probably fight me.
	Only because she's a crip.
	That has nothing to do with Republicans.
	Well, no, that's the thing.
	I mean, I have kids.
	I have sons, but I don't have a daughter.
	Maybe if I did, I would have thought twice about making that joke, because it would have been a little bit more like, uh, it would have taken on a kind of a weirder element that maybe I wouldn't have been as comfortable with.
	Now, you would have.
	It would have been cool.
	You would have... From the father of a daughter, I was really mad that you beat me to it.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, honestly, this whole fake daughter thing is, I think, what cited this crazy mob Because it tapped into this weird, like, psycho-sexual Oedipal complex.
	Weird thing with a race-based fear that, like, brown and black people are coming to steal away their wives and daughters and stuff like that.
	Absolutely.
	I think that's what kind of tapped into that anger and what caused people to react so strongly to it.
	So, first comment on the Fox News website is from a commenter named Cody, who says, This Ignoramus is nuts!
	He has to be a Canadian Democrat!
	Is that true?
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	The Liberal Party, who are in power now, are basically the Canadian Democrats.
	And, sadly, I did vote for them in the last election, even though I'm kind of regretting it now, so I guess that's technically correct.
	It's kind of shrewd.
	Yeah, no, the Democrats are so, like, powerful and efficient that they control the Canadian government as well as the American government.
	Yeah, I was going to say, don't say that about that party.
	Like, you guys are way cooler than the Democrats.
	Not really.
	They actually won.
	They actually won, so.
	Yeah, I guess that helps.
	That's also taps into something that another kind of hypocritical thing about all these people is they're like, I can't believe you would say something like that.
	Like any of these people let their kids go with Democrats.
	They despise the Democrats.
	They spend all day, every day talking about how much they hate the Democrats.
	Their whole political ideology is based on owning the libs and doing everything Democrats do.
	None of these people would have their kids date Democrats.
	They would absolutely not let their kids do that.
	What do they do when their daughters bring home black Republican boyfriends?
	Probably hide in the den, terrified that they're going to be murdered by Crips.
	Blast Sean Hennedy at the shattering volume and just make everyone in their whole lives completely miserable, just ranting and raving about it for years.
	Years.
	That's actually Kanye's plan.
	He's really just... He just wants to be a talking point for all the young black men who are both Republicans, and... I mean, the dating of a white girl's daughter doesn't really... That obviously goes without saying.
	But it's a conversation point now between white dads and black Republican boyfriends.
	So thanks for that, yay.
	Spike Fleet, wasting no time, says, he, meaning you, Rob, he'd deserve his daughter getting raped or murdered along with himself and the rest of his family.
	Yeah, and that's a normal thing to say to someone who compared you to a gang of violent criminals.
	It would be shocking to you if I actually totaled up the number of vivid, descriptive, violent rape fantasies that these psychos send me about my fake daughter.
	It's crazy.
	And it's just like, again, you're not proving to me that you're actually, like, nice and good.
	And, you know... No, it's all throughout these comments section, like, I... there were, like, hundreds for every comment I get that's graphic or violent, there were hundreds more that were just more boring, but still graphic and violent.
	Yeah, you're like right in there with Jesse Farrar of Kickstarter Sucks, dude.
	You're like stirring the Twitter pot, man.
	Oh yeah.
	Thanks for being that martyr and taking all these death threats and shit.
	Oh, and then, so that comment from Spike Fleet got 42 likes, and Melissa Huntington replied to Spike Fleet, yes, but his daughter doesn't.
	And that comment got 6 likes.
	I'm sure they were probably like, she deserves it too.
	Shut up, Melissa.
	Trump15280 says on FoxNews.com, does anyone really believe this guy has a daughter?
	Looks a little light in the loafers to me.
	Not too many straight men have a cat.
	You hear that, Alex?
	That was, I think, one of the funniest things about that Fox News article.
	The front page of FoxNews.com, it's a big picture of me and my cat, Momo, which is just so hilarious.
	And then, as some people pointed out too, they referred to me as a flamboyant writer article, which I didn't really realize at the time.
	It was kind of like signaling to their audience, like, oh, flamboyant.
	He's alone with his hat, the flamboyant writer.
	And it's like, I see what you're doing, Fox News.
	You fuckers.
	Yeah, no, not too many straight men have a cat.
	That's why I have two cats and they're male and female so I can make them fuck each other to prove how straight I am.
	Yeah.
	Only down with heterosexual cat sex.
	Matt and his girlfriend have one cat that makes him super gay.
	I mean, I have a boy dog and a boy cat and so that's like weird.
	Yeah, you and your girlfriend are real gay.
	Yeah, we're gay for each other.
	We have sex ass to ass.
	Cool.
	Yeah.
	That's cool.
	Nice.
	Jacob5 says, ah, changing the story when you're proven to be a liar.
	The liberal specialty.
	Which I think this is referring to the fact that you don't actually have a daughter.
	Yeah.
	And so like you retroactively didn't have a daughter once you got proved to be joking.
	Yeah, but I openly said that, like, shortly after making the initial tweet.
	I think that's one of the weirdest things about this whole, like, ordeal, is that, like, so many of these people just, like, don't seem to understand what a joke is, or, like, what the very concept of humor is.
	Like, it's, like, they take everything that I say, like, 100% literally, even when, like, openly saying that I'm I'm not being serious.
	I saw a couple people in the comment section trying to explain the joke.
	Even right-leaning people who were trying to explain the joke to other people.
	They were like, don't pay attention.
	He's trolling.
	He's trying to make you mad.
	And they were like, well, it's not funny.
	I don't get it.
	It was funny.
	Oh, boomers.
	BillBuck50 says, and this is an interesting comment to me, uh, I have a friend who is married to a Salvadorian.
	She is a great wife.
	They have a beautiful home, two businesses, two cars.
	They left everything three years ago because of the dangerous MS-13s.
	Salvadorians are beautiful, kind people.
	They suffered a terrible civil war which led to MS-13s.
	No one knows the answer.
	The country being destroyed by the gang MS-13.
	They are everywhere in the USA.
	Wake up, America.
	If they are not in your town, they will be.
	They must be stopped.
	This is... Sorry, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, it's just like, it's weird, like, the turn that this takes halfway through or towards the end.
	It's like, I have this beautiful friend who's a Salvadorian.
	She came here fleeing violence in her country, seeking asylum in the U.S.
	Therefore, we need to stop taking refugees.
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, this is the result of watching Fox News or conservative media 24 hours a day.
	Wake up, America.
	If they're not in your town, they will be.
	They must be stopped.
	It's like, this is the thing that I was kind of trying to push back on with this comment.
	You know, it's not that MS-13 is a violent gang.
	As I said before, I'm sure they are.
	The fact is they're not imminent threat to like 99.9% of the people that are hearing these messages.
	There's not an MS-13-ber waiting out by your car to shiv you when you're gonna go to work in the morning, wherever the fuck you are, in Omaha or whatever.
	It's that thing with like our lizard tribal brains that can only really understand the existence of 200 people at a time?
	Like, you know, dating back to when we were in tribes and we had a community of about 200 people.
	That's all we evolved to comprehend.
	And so when you talk about, oh my God, there's 10,000 of these people in the country, they're going to kill me the second I step out my door when, you know, because 10,000 is like hard for the human mind to separate from what?
	10 million?
	Yeah.
	How many people are in this, in this state alone, you know, millions and millions.
	So I think that's what it's derived from, but it's also, you know, racism.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty, for sure.
	Yeah.
	Tekun613 says, this is just a fun comment here, as a young boy I watched the movie It's a Wonderful Life and had an epiphany that shaped my life.
	I never wanted to be that guy standing on a precipice believing that my life served no purpose.
	As a result, I have lived a life of good deeds and proud accomplishments.
	When I read of someone like this, someone who seems to believe that engaging in a sadistic pleasure is a noble achievement to be proud of, meaning you Rob, my primary emotion is pity.
	Pity for a wasted life.
	And then OneAngryCat replies, Great post!
	And then TikkenOP replies to her or them, It's a true story.
	For better or for worse, I owe my life to Frank Capra.
	What?
	I forgot to Google who Frank Capra is.
	He's a character in It's a Wonderful Life, who shaped this man's wonderful life.
	That must be the hardest thing for you, is to be pitied by the likes of this person.
	Like, this person who wrote this whack paragraph, this lame ass paragraph, and then monitored it, you know, like a hawk, to respond to any response.
	Like, this person pities you, so you really must suck.
	Yeah, well, to be honest, like, When it comes to these Fox News people, the feeling is 100% mutual.
	Like, I do kind of feel bad for these people, particularly like the old grandmas and stuff, and older people.
	And I really feel like Fox News has committed kind of a perpetrated great crime against the American people.
	It's explicitly created to indoctrinate people into this conservative media bubble.
	And to stop the type of progress at any point they can.
	And a lot of people have been sucked into it.
	And of course, people have to take responsibility for the media that they put into their, you know, that they bring into their homes.
	But honestly, I feel bad for a lot of these people that their brain is completely broken by being immersed in conservative media 24-7 for like generations now.
	People that are like getting up in the morning and going to work and listening to Rush Limbaugh in the car.
	and listening to whatever the fuck conservative media throughout the day, home, blasting Fox News and all the shit all day and all night.
	And there's horror stories out there of people whose parents become these paranoid, racist freaks.
	And that people don't even have relationships with them anymore because their brains have been completely poisoned and broken by conservative media.
	- Absolutely. - So yeah, that's it.
	You're right, that it is kind of like a blow to read these people, that definitely the feeling's mutual for these people.
	I feel bad for a lot of them, even if I don't particularly like them or lost in.
	And it's the only alternative to this, like, right-wing media is fucking CNN or MSNBC, who objectively do suck.
	Like, you know, there's criticisms levied against CNN by the right-wing media that are 100% accurate.
	And so how do you defend against that?
	Yeah, no, I mean, that's one of the reasons Trump is as popular as it is because, like, you know, it's 10 lies mixed with one absolute thing that's absolutely true.
	And when he attacks CNN and attacks these, like, really rotten liberal institutions, he's absolutely correct a lot of the time.
	Maybe not for the reason that he's saying, but, like, you see, CNN's invincible.
	It's terrible.
	But yeah, at the same time, it's crazy that people think that, like, CNN, you know, people on the right think CNN is some kind of communist indoctrination station.
	When I watch it here from Canada, CNN seems incredibly right-wing to me.
	Right.
	So that's created a really fucked up system in America where all you have is center-right media or far-right crazy fascist media.
	That's not really a productive environment for people to sort of like learn about what's going on in the world and develop a political sort of analysis on that.
	I was going to say, so, um, you know, I might not like the stats and things, but I do love my country.
	So part of me wanted to tell you to mind your own goddamn business.
	Um, but then I, I am curious, like what is, cause when I, I often like, um, I'll stream hockey games and it's a Canadian feed and everything does feel different up there, like media wise.
	Um, how was it, how was it reaching you?
	How was it affecting you?
	Do you have a balance up there that, that we're not getting?
	Yeah.
	I mean, We have more laws in place that prevent right-wing media from taking hold.
	And also, people aren't as interested in it.
	They tried to launch a right-wing media station a couple years ago, Sun News, and it just failed.
	No one ever watched it.
	It was just completely propped up by corporate money.
	And there is right-wing media.
	There's rebel media has gained some popularity run by this absolute piss-guzzling piece of shit, Ezra Levant, just a disgusting right-wing demagogue here.
	And they have some influence.
	They've got some influence with the Conservative Party in Canada, and probably may have run a bit over the government.
	So it's not like it's not here, but it's not as pervasive.
	And I think it's still like a minority of people that are really in the sway of this stuff, Whereas in America, there's just huge swaths of the country where that's all the media that they take in.
	That's terrifying to me.
	Yeah, Rebel Media, they have Gavin McInnes now, I think?
	Yeah, he's there, yeah.
	They had Faith Goldie for a while, until they had to let her go because she was on a Nazi podcast.
	Whoa.
	Yeah, we watched, we covered one video for the show that was a woman in front of a burning, like a fake fireplace, bitching about how the national anthem was gender neutral now.
	So that was a, that was a fun Canadian episode.
	I also want to say, we will continue not to take you seriously until either A, you guys win the Santa Cup again, or B, the Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series.
	Until then we won't take Canada serious, so just deal with that.
	That's how petty we have to get.
	I'm more of a Raptors guy and their playoff exit this year was so depressing to me.
	I have not watched any basketball since it was over and I'm like seriously questioning whether I can continue to like follow it to the extent that I have in the past.
	It was so good and depressing.
	It was so brutal that I think it's what fired up Drake for that comeback.
	Okay, that's enough for Canada for me.
	I'm done with my Canada references.
	Sorry about that.
	I had to do it.
	Drake.
	No problem.
	No problem.
	Alright, let's move on to this next slide, which is from an article on, this is the Daily Caller, or the Daily Wire, rather.
	This is Ben Shapiro's publication.
	Good boy, Ben Shapiro.
	Love that little guy.
	Friend of the show.
	Again, that's a slanderous comment calling me a liberal that I don't appreciate and I hope they will be hearing from my lawyers.
	I'd rather my daughter date a member of MS-13 than a Republican.
	And this is by Amanda Prestiajia-Koma.
	Again, that's a slanderous comment, calling me a liberal, that I don't appreciate.
	And I hope they will be hearing from my lawyers.
	They will be hearing from my lawyers if I retract it.
	The one quote I have from this article, this is basically all the same thing, but the one quote that I have is, a freelance writer's purposefully incendiary tweet about his daughter, parentheses, which he does not actually have, was made in reaction to President Trump calling MS-13 members animals. was made in reaction to President Trump calling MS-13 members That's like they're so mad about a daughter you don't have.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Um, and I, this is like, this whole article is hilarious to me because it's just, it's just like Ben Shapiro via this writer Amanda, like, proving what good boys and girls they are at the Daily Wire because they would never let their children date an MS-13 member.
	- No, we're good Christian people.
	It's like the most boring take ever.
	Yeah, it sucks.
	Don't worry though, I have started a GoFundMe.
	We are going to raise enough money for you to be able to adopt a daughter.
	So you will no longer be a liar.
	Thank you.
	Nice.
	I got you.
	Sire Williamson in this comment section says, So he would prefer his fictional daughter got raped at 13, then lobby for a smaller government.
	Whoa, what the fuck, dude?
	That's hard.
	Yeah.
	Well, again, again, I heard a lot of this kind of thing, too.
	I like a lot of comments like this.
	It was there was a write up in Twitchy about it.
	And it's like, oh, just because Republicans want a smaller government, Well, but that's not all you favor.
	It's absolute bullshit.
	First of all, they don't even favor a smaller government.
	They favor expanding the government in the most evil, terrible ways, and contracting it in any way that it comes to helping people going about their daily lives.
	Yeah, literally ICE is a jack-booted agency run by the state that comes and rips people from their homes, and this is an example of small government.
	Yeah.
	No, that's the guy that's used.
	It's small government, but it's like they want their government to be privatized, and they want it to be... It's just oligarchy.
	It's just money.
	It's all money.
	We would need a smaller government if we had less people here, and in order to get less people here, we need to continue to gun them down and not let them in.
	Well, this is it, and I went through this with all these gun guys, too, right?
	And like, this is why they want to keep their guns, in case the jackbooted thugs ever start coming to their doors with their guns.
	And it's like, the jackbooted thugs are already there.
	Like, immigrants and black people are living in the paranoid reality that you've conjured up in your fucking crazy conservative fever dreams, and you don't care.
	You like it.
	So this idea that you're gonna fight back against the government when they come for you is absolute horseshit, because these exact people are there now, ripping families apart, gunning down Americans in the street, and you don't fucking care.
	You think it's great.
	No, as long as they're the right color.
	Hey, I'm not a puppet.
	You're a puppet.
	John R. says, what is it about progressives that they brag about their imaginary children?
	That famous thing that all progressives do.
	We all know the stories about the many cases where it's happened.
	He'll cite his examples, don't worry.
	This guy has an imaginary daughter.
	Barack Obama told us that his imaginary son looked like Trayvon Martin.
	Maybe it's because their real offspring were aborted.
	Wow.
	Oh.
	If you weren't aborting your kids, you could brag about them in real life.
	You dummies.
	But isn't that why you only do have sons?
	Yeah.
	You just need to make sure the name gets carried on?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sounds all selfish.
	Smart move.
	Just in case it's not abundantly clear, even if I did have a non-fictional daughter, she would not be dating a Republican under any circumstances.
	It was a joke that launched all this stuff, but there's more than a kernel of truth to that.
	Really, you know, I wouldn't want her, if my fictional daughter, I wouldn't want her to date any violent gang of criminals, whether it's MS-13, Republicans, Nazis, white supremacists.
	You know, there's a lot of overlap in the last three.
	But, you know, any of these violent criminals I wouldn't want her to go with.
	I'm sure you'd give your daughter right over to Antifa, though.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big time.
	You got to be careful, though, because you can't be too overbearing with that stuff.
	Because if you knew the amount of Girls that have dated me just to bring me home to their fathers to piss them off.
	Um, the number's too high.
	There's too many, too many, too many spite dates I've been on.
	So you know what I'm saying?
	They might just date a Republican just to really, you know, stick it to ya.
	Yeah.
	We got here David Gautsky.
	Okay.
	No way to tell what this man is suffering from.
	Or eating on a daily basis.
	Says, this liberal is a bad father by all accounts.
	This is basically like to serve a child a death sentence.
	In other words, this person is sending his daughter to virtually get executed.
	Hmm.
	And I just picked this comment because he's talking about like your virtual daughter getting virtual executed.
	Yeah, dude.
	Yeah, I'm going to set her up with Russell Crowe from the 1995 sci-fi action thriller Virtuosity.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	I was going to say, you could commission someone to make you a virtual daughter, like that Michaela.
	You know who Michaela is?
	She's like an Instagram model, she's a digital singer.
	So that could happen, I'm sure.
	That's so going to be a thing moving forward in the next years and decades, isn't it?
	Like fake people that become celebrities and stuff.
	That's absolutely going to be a thing.
	It's already happening.
	That's who he's talking about.
	Yeah, I didn't know about this either.
	She's got like 5 million followers on Instagram or some shit.
	It's pretty crazy.
	Oh my gosh.
	You should just say that she is your daughter, and that she is in fact... Can I get raped by MS-13?
	Nope, just date one.
	Okay.
	Oh, you mean you're not sending her to get executed?
	And like all that stuff?
	Well, that's opinion, man.
	Right.
	That's up to interpretation.
	Right, right.
	You're gonna upload her into Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, and have her date an MS-13.
	Ricardo Sosa says, I have mixed feelings about that.
	The daughter, if real, it's a big if, the daughter, if real, could be right now saying, ew, why don't you date get raped by MS-13?
	And I love the tone that this takes, it's like, aw, dad, you're gross, why don't you?
	Why don't you take the family picture?
	Dad, don't tell me not to get raped by gang members.
	God, you're so old!
	It's really weird.
	Just that classic dinner table argument that we're all familiar with.
	I see he's got the old hammer and sickle with the crossed out avatar too, Ricardo.
	No commies allowed in his comments.
	It's ironic because commie is short for comment.
	Yeah, so there you go.
	I'm sure he wouldn't let his daughter date a communist, so... Maybe a little bit of a hypocritical comment there, Ricardo.
	Absolutely.
	No principles whatsoever.
	DeusVault76 says... Oh, this should be good.
	Yeah, I hate to resort to insults, but given how insulting his tweets are, I see no other option than to use this apt phrase from the world of dank memes.
	You're a freaking idiot.
	What the fuck, dude?
	What is that?
	What meme is that from?
	It's that dank one that was going around.
	Oh, man.
	Okay.
	I hope this is like a pissed off, like, conservative, like, 12 year old.
	I can't, listen, you're lucky I can't say it because my mom does monitor my Facebook.
	She just wants to make sure I'm on the right side of things.
	And if she saw me using profanity with you, I'd probably get in trouble.
	But, um, yeah, you're a real freaking idiot.
	And what is, what is, does Voltigan, is that, is it a Nazi thing?
	Is it a sovereign citizen thing?
	What is that again?
	It's like a Christian warrior thing.
	I can't remember exactly what it stands for.
	It's like God Rules or something like that.
	You know, Deus being God in Latin.
	But it's like something specifically related to like the Crusades.
	So it's got that like fascist Christian right-wing ethnic cleansing tint to it.
	Doesn't it mean God Rules Snowflakes Drool?
	Yep.
	NF Stern says, People with this kind of mindset are very generous with other people's resources.
	When it actually is their turn to pony up, you observe the meanest, skin-flintiest, miserliness behavior you can imagine.
	So yeah, when he says resources here, he's referring to daughters.
	And when he says, when it is actually their turn to pony up, he means offering your daughter to a Republican.
	So when it's your turn, you know, you're probably a communist.
	You're all about, you know, spreading the wealth around.
	But when it comes to spreading your resources, your offspring around, this old hypocrite refuses.
	This is someone who's mad because we're not down to support incels in that fashion?
	Absolutely.
	Donate your daughters.
	These people need to take a look at my last tax statement and just see the absolute insanely low amount of money that I make on a yearly basis.
	Okay, we'll go ahead and leak that out to Fox News for you.
	Yeah, of course.
	Just for the record, most Americans don't believe that Canadians pay taxes, so good luck with that.
	That's all fake to them.
	Fake news.
	Do you want to read this last one, Tony?
	You said this was your favorite.
	Oh yeah, this one's crazy.
	From Timoth555550.
	It's because Timoth5549 was taken.
	I just want to put this out there on the phone.
	I took personal exception to this because it's not so much the actions that, as a vegan, I can't get behind this.
	Man, just another Jim Carrey wannabe liberal Canadian buffoon.
	You know, this is what you're going for, right?
	You're going for a real Jim Carrey thing?
	Didn't you talk this tweet out of your butt?
	Who cares if a pig farmer makes him into sausage and serves him to his neighbors?
	Wow, cannibalism out of left field.
	You should be fed to your neighbors.
	I don't have a lot to respond to that one.
	I just don't know where this guy's coming from.
	These people are so fucking weird to me.
	I just don't get it.
	I've been a part of many online mobs dunking on people and it's fun, right?
	But I feel like the mobs that I'm part of aren't like You know, talking about grinding people into sausage and stuff.
	It's like sending Charlie Kirk pictures of diapers and stuff.
	It's funny.
	These people are just weird.
	I feel like it's directly related to the divergent ideologies, because on the left, we're generally about collectivism and communism and having a relationship with the people around you, whereas all these weirdos Or totally, like, striated from society.
	Self-segregated from society.
	So they all come up with the weird, most bizarre, non-contextual insults or slams and they're all doing it at the same target, but none of them are connected.
	I do wish that I could, like, hack into one of these cameras just to see the look of satisfaction that Timoth had when he wrote that.
	Because you know this is, like, not a first draft.
	This is well thought out.
	Timoth really thought he was sticking to you.
	I just want to see that look on their face when they press enter.
	Well, that's a Travis Ducey invention, so copyright to Travis Ducey if that ever happens.
	Oh man, yeah, I want that.
	It's a webcam that you can pay on any given commentator that turns on right when they're leaving a comment.
	So you can see either the look of derangement or the look of joy after they finish such an amazing comment.
	It's just like facial recognition along with keystrokes to know exactly what's happening.
	I just want to say my one beef, pun not intended, with this comment is that if a pig farmer's grinding you up and serving you out, how's that going to trigger the Muslims?
	It's not gonna be pork they're eating, it's gonna be you!
	Well, they would feed him to the pigs and then use that meat for the sausage.
	Okay, we figured it out.
	Okay.
	Amazing batch of responses.
	Thank you so much for wading through this cesspool with us.
	I can't even begin to imagine how many of these comments that were spread across all the different social networks and stuff.
	It's just crazy to me to think about, because it went really viral on Facebook.
	There was big conservative Instagram pages posting it and stuff.
	Psychopaths trying to talk to him on Instagram.
	Twitter, it was just all over the place.
	It was wild.
	Instagram's not for talking, it's for picking.
	Yeah, man.
	What are they doing?
	I don't know.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Just to continue my nationalism and American pride, I was wondering, did any of the West End gang get upset with you about this tweet because you weren't bigging them up for your daughter?
	West End gang is the first gang that comes up when I google Montreal gang, so I'm assuming they're the big guns up there.
	Um, well, here we have the Hells Angels, like the biker gang.
	Oh, tight.
	No, you do not.
	No, you don't know who you're talking to.
	You're talking to some boys in San Bernardino.
	You have the Hells Angels.
	You're welcome for that.
	That sucks.
	Well, yeah, we got the biker gangs up here, but I didn't hear from any of them.
	I don't think they mind it all that much.
	Yeah, they don't give a shit.
	They suck pretty bad, too.
	Dude, they're like not into your daughter.
	That's kind of messed up.
	Yeah, get it together, guys.
	My fake daughter's great.
	All right, let's move on to the second half of this episode.
	I'm going to go ahead and hand it off to Tony Boswell here.
	So as a lot of you guys know, the NFL recently passed a rule to go ahead and stand up for the country and not allow people to kneel anymore.
	Teams will be fined.
	The option is either you stand and you show some goddamn respect for the Stars and Stripes, or you wait in the locker room and you will be fined.
	So one of the articles written on it was by a person named Jeremy Hunt, who apparently is a veteran, a 20-year veteran, and he wrote an article basically like it's this really lame-ass apologist article.
	Slash, like, it's this really fucking whack trying to be centrist and understanding, but just missing the point completely.
	Like, listen, as a black veteran, I know exactly how these guys feel.
	But then just fucking up.
	Yeah, um a Couple snips from that well go ahead and read the name of the title.
	Oh, yeah, sorry Yeah, the name of the headline is hey NFL.
	I'm an active-duty officer and you know Anthony was leaving me out leaving me with lots of questions and And those questions are, um, what are you doing later tonight?
	Hey, I love the title of this article because it's like, hey NFL, I got some real issues with your new policy, and then the article is just, actually it's good.
	Yeah, it's like, can we still get snacks during the anthem?
	Is that allowed?
	Will we be fined if not?
	But yeah, a couple of the excerpts from it, pretty good ones.
	It reads, uh, Forcing players to participate in displays of patriotism against their will is wrong.
	I'm really marble mouth with this one.
	Forcing players to participate in displays of patriotism against their will is wrong.
	Putting reasonable parameters on protests is not.
	If you're on the job and drawing a paycheck, as an employer has a reasonable expectation that you'll be working during these assigned hours.
	So, like, standing for the anthem is part of your job description.
	It is, you are clocked on, you better not be on your phone, you better be standing.
	That's the only argument I ever hear from any of these fucking cracker dudes like mad at Kaepernick.
	You know, they're on the clock and they need to do as they're told, and it's just like, whoa, you hear the fucking, like, dog whistle of racism you're putting on right?
	I'm sorry Matt, nice try, but did you forget that Jeremy Hunt is in fact black?
	Yeah, well he, you know, whatever.
	Army guy too.
	This is proof that this is not about race at all.
	This is that classic phrase, that classic business tyrant phrase, if you got time to lean, you got time to stand for the anthem.
	That's how that goes.
	He goes on to say, if I go to the grocery store, I expect the clerk to ring up my purchase, not to stage a demonstration with my ramen noodles.
	Dang, you better not.
	Just break your ramen noodles in half.
	Yeah, ruin that pack.
	This is for the black eyes that are getting shot.
	Break it in half.
	If I board a plane, I expect the pilot to fly, not to leave me sitting on the tarmac as she voices her political views.
	Really, really progressive move there.
	Lady pilot.
	Her political views.
	And in the same way, when millions of Americans tune into a football game, they expect to see, well, a football game.
	My favorite part of the football game is when players stand there doing nothing.
	That's the thing I love most about professional sports.
	It's crazy how when they started these protests, how they just stopped having the games after.
	That was a weird decision, I think.
	They just don't have them now.
	You can't watch them.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah.
	Standing is a really important part of the game because if a player is kneeling and not standing up, you can't see, um, like their stature and capabilities and, um, you know, you can't really size them up and see how much they're worth, how much you'd want to bid for, I mean, uh, how they're gonna play.
	Gotta line them up.
	Stand up straight.
	There is one more.
	He goes on to say, uh, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop, Oh my god.
	What is that user name again?
	Ice Sloan.
	Ice Sloan, first comment, says, if you had to add, as a black man, to your argument, your argument is now suspicious.
	The rule has nothing to do with being black.
	It has everything to do with economics, politicizing a sport, and employment behavior in the workplace.
	And you clock in, you do your goddamn job.
	This is like their grievance with every single business is that the employees weren't nice enough to me.
	They were on their phone.
	They didn't call me sir.
	They didn't treat me with the reverence I deserve as a fucking Burger King patron.
	And then just to cosign that, he goes on to say, If you worked at McDonald's and choose to make political statements to your customers, you'd be fired.
	Employers have the right to stipulate the actions while they're on payroll.
	What you do outside your workplace is up to you, except violating moral turpitude clauses in your contract.
	I wish this was true so that maybe some of my co-workers would shut the fuck up.
	Yeah, they need to shut the fuck up.
	No, he needs to not shut the fuck up.
	I wanna hear his shit forever, dude.
	And again, these are the exact same people that if ever a conservative dipshit anywhere in America has any consequences for their toxic, racist, disgusting beliefs, these people will get so up in arms about free speech and blah blah blah, but it's like, oh no, you know.
	Then as soon as, when it's something that they don't like, it's like, no, the employer has the right to say anything.
	But, you know, if a white McDonald's manager called their employees the N-word and then got fired, these people would all be going, this is a disgrace!
	Free speech is being censored!
	Absolutely, and it's crazy that the literal President of the United States weighed in to try and get citizens, not, you know, get people fired from their jobs over a political protest.
	Like, that's insane.
	And I feel like I need to reiterate every time we have this fucking NFL stand for the America song discussion.
	I have to point out, standing for the anthem is a political act.
	Yeah.
	It's a political act.
	Your employer should not be able to force you to perform a political act.
	Yeah, and they're only doing it because they have a fucking contract with the Department of Defense or whatever to like have this military worship shit before every game.
	It never used to be that way.
	No, of course not.
	And just the idea, the very idea on its face, you know, America, I'm sorry guys, sucks.
	Domestically, internationally, it's just a piece of shit country.
	There's many great people in there, but it's a piece of shit country.
	And the idea that anyone gets so up in arms about, like, oh, you have to stand to respect the flag, you've got to respect the national anthem, it's like, fuck off, man.
	It proves how little these people have to complain about otherwise.
	Right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, they really take it so personally.
	I mean, just like Greg Ronomy responded to her saying, I'm a 20-year military careerist.
	Careerist?
	I'm down for life.
	The grandstanding they misidentified as protests hit me as an in-your-face insult.
	Uh, I will stand next time, except for I will stand and I will, uh, only lift my two middle fingers and yell, fuck you, Greg, the entire time next time.
	He doesn't mean it.
	But he goes, I miss watching football with my grandson.
	He can't watch it anymore.
	I miss watching football with my grandson.
	This is a typo.
	He just said, he just means, I miss my grandson.
	Yeah.
	Don't bring him over anymore.
	Don't bring him over anymore.
	Yeah.
	Grandpappy won't stop saying the N-word when his kids mess up.
	What?
	That's what they are.
	I mean... It means ignorant.
	Look it up.
	Look it up in the dictionary.
	I'll call a white guy that too.
	I miss watching football with my grandson.
	If the clowns stop grabbing headlines and get back to doing what we pay them to do, I'll get back to watching.
	This guy signs every check to every NFL player.
	Yeah!
	Boy, those clowns in the NFL sure are a bunch of clowns.
	Well, that's and that's the weird like dichotomy that you end up getting into these arguments to where it's just like, you know, these guys should just be They should just be happy with making a million dollars and shut the fuck up.
	They don't realize how brave it is, on its surface, to jeopardize that for something that you believe in that's bigger than all that.
	In a way, it makes it way more valuable to have these guys that are doing very well in life and are public-facing people taking these chances with their careers.
	That's something to be proud of.
	But these people are awful.
	Yeah, all these fucking people, like, they forget the reason why there's kneeling in the first place.
	Like, we talked about that in the original.
	It's a respectful position.
	They just ignore it.
	A white vet asked me to do it, and he was like, cool, if that helps, I'll do it.
	Yeah.
	Anybody who knows the military or whatever, like, they would understand, like, oh, that's what he's doing, or whatever.
	But no, they just ignore it.
	Yeah, and if it was a movement for White football players to take a knee during the anthem, to show respect, to protest, to protest military homelessness or something.
	They would think that was just great.
	They had a protest of fallen soldiers, or no, police, policemen, Blue Lives Matter stuff.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, they would think that was just, that was just fine and dandy.
	Of course, of course.
	The real issue here, though, is that this isn't just about staining or recent police shootings or the military.
	It's more systemic than that, you know?
	This has been going on, this has been bred into this, you know?
	Taxing F-108 tells us.
	Big fan of the 90s hardcore band, what religion?
	Krishna.
	Big fan of the Krishna hardcore band, 108.
	108.
	That's fucked up, too, though.
	Taxing F-108.
	See, this is a big one, like I said, it's bred into you.
	All of your life, people around you have said anything bad that happens to you is never your fault.
	Someone or something from the past has caused bad things to happen.
	What could that be?
	I'm totally kind of with that sentence.
	As a result, you always blame others and practice groupthink.
	Quote, groupthink.
	How about just trusting yourself?
	Think for yourself, not, quote, parrot some group or union.
	I like how it got anti-union in the very title there.
	Written by a conservative algorithm, you know?
	He's literally saying, like, no, this isn't their fault, you know?
	They don't know how to take responsibility for their actions.
	I love the idea that he's saying, sarcastically, someone or something from the past has caused bad things to happen, when in all reality that's a literal statement about slavery, white supremacy.
	Who knows what those things could have been?
	You know, it's sad.
	The past is the past.
	Leave the past in the past.
	Oh, thanks, Kanye.
	Also, I mean, I would apologize for how we've definitely decided to gender this person, but I mean, at this point we just feel confident calling these people dudes because they more than likely are dudes.
	Guys.
	Wartface to respond, Think for yourself?
	If Americans started doing that, the liberals would fade out into existence quickly.
	If we would just start thinking for ourselves, we would understand that the truth is out there.
	Yeah, no, liberalism is a mental disorder.
	We all know that.
	And a mental disorder, as I understand it, is when the devil is telling you to do things and thinking for you.
	And so if you just stopped listening to the devil, you'd cure your mental illness and therefore no longer be liberal.
	We only do this show the way we do it because we're members of the Liberal Media Union and we are given scripts and it is controlled and we can't think for ourselves.
	It's not allowed.
	Everything that we think has been fed to us in audio tapes we listen to while we sleep.
	I don't want those Soros checks to dry up.
	I rely on that income.
	I've got to stay in the company line on this stuff.
	I don't want to mess around with that.
	You're for sure on Soros payroll, dude.
	For sure.
	Big time.
	I knew it.
	I actually double-dipped.
	I got Soros and Putin, actually.
	Both.
	Oh, shit.
	Nice.
	Yeah, I am double-dipping.
	It's pretty lucrative.
	Nice.
	So you're a Nazi, George Soros, and a communist.
	Putin.
	Yeah.
	Neat.
	Both of them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	My favorite, you know, I think we say galaxy brain take on this is from a Blue Star person by the name of Chernobyl-y?
	Yep.
	Chernobyl-y.
	B-Y-L-L-Y Chernobyl-y.
	Well, that's a combination of Chernobyl and Trilby, which is the correct name for a fedora.
	People don't know that, but that's actually what a fedora is called.
	No, it's a different hat.
	It's a different hat than a fedora.
	Is a Chernobyl-y like a steampunk fedora?
	It's a fedora that prevents radiation poisoning.
	Right, it's a hard fedora.
	It's yellow and has reflectors on it.
	Remember when people used to watch sports to get away from news and politics?
	I mean, yeah, I do.
	I remember when I used to watch sports and not deal with the, you know, the anthem and saluting some veteran that happened to be in the building.
	Oh, but whose fault is it?
	I think it's the Breast Cancer Awareness Ladies infiltrating the NFL.
	Yes!
	That's why Super Bowl TV ads are lame and the halftime show is always Beyoncé.
	Bay-non-say.
	Bane Yonce?
	It's a typo, there we go.
	No, it's a stupid one, but like, okay, the Breast Cancer Awareness Ladies, okay, is that like the Susan B. Komen Foundation?
	Yeah.
	Which, they suck, because they like, they don't really do anything for breast cancer research at all, except for, you know, like pay their employees, which is cool, I guess, but like, This is hilarious.
	There's like a bunch of, a bunch of tampon wielding ladies coming into the NFL now.
	They wear the pink gloves during February or whatever.
	It's even worse than that.
	It's that the NFL has made so much money off of supposedly trying to help with breast cancer when all they've really been doing is selling pink merch and just stacking cash.
	Yes.
	It has nothing to do like, yeah, if maybe if the breast cancer ladies were actually in the NFL, they might've actually made some progress there, but they're just stacking cash on small pink jerseys.
	Wait, is it like the breast cancer ladies?
	Are they the ones responsible for how players, instead of Gatorade, now they dunk soy milk all over their coaches?
	That's what it's about.
	Yeah, there we go.
	You know, I don't even have boobs and I'm gonna get one of those pink jerseys because they're just so sick.
	We are.
	Chernobylie says, It wasn't that long ago you didn't have to think about politics at all when you watched sports.
	For centuries, it wasn't allowed in the Olympics.
	The Olympics were created to set politics aside.
	I haven't done any research, and I'm just going to say that's 100% false.
	Yeah, I can't even think of a time that, you know, politics has played a major role in the Olympics.
	Like, not, you know, Nazi Germany?
	Or when those dudes raised their fists on the fuckin' podiums and then got, like, what, fined and blacklisted from sports and were only apologized to posthumously?
	Or the many Olympic bombings?
	You're just super wild.
	There's nothing more nationalist than the Olympics.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	Oh yeah.
	I can't wait to watch skateboarding this next one.
	It's going to be amazing.
	They're really putting skateboarding in the... Oh yeah, it's a whole thing.
	That will get covered at some point, I'm sure.
	Yeah, we'll cover it.
	Because drug tests are involved.
	Not cool.
	They are us.
	Seems like a pretty, you know, woke person, as in, you know, someone who understands humanity.
	I don't know, man.
	Did we become complacent with all the progress made in civil rights in the 60s?
	Do you think?
	Or was just a higher-risk gamble to bite the hand that feeds when you're still starving?
	So this is, yeah, like, are we just good with what happened?
	Or, you know, whatever.
	But just to, you know, I bet you Chernobyl is going to go ahead and see the light here with his comments.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah, well, the thing is, none of these comments have addressed the basic Like, uh, issue at hand, which is that police are murdering black people across the country with total immunity.
	So, like, clearly you didn't make that much progress or else they wouldn't be fucking doing this.
	They've said why they're doing it.
	We've all seen the videos of it happening.
	Uh, I mean, the idea that that's not something that people should be, like, raising awareness over and talking about is just utterly absurd.
	These people have such a victimization complex.
	If anything remotely close to what black people have to go through, just going about their daily lives, happened to any of these people, we would never hear the end of it.
	So that's why it's funny to me that they've just completely avoided ever mentioning that issue that started this whole protest in the first place.
	Well, because I think a lot of it is that, you know, anybody can accidentally shoot someone to death, but what's really gonna change something is when, uh, maybe when the cops kill a man with their bare hands, uh, slowly for selling loose cigarettes?
	Ooh, no, uh, man.
	Maybe that would, uh, shine a light on something?
	No, I got a video to show you from a couple years ago.
	Aw, man, is it gonna bum me out?
	Yeah, it might bum you out.
	Aw, shit.
	It's, it's, when this happens to somebody who's not black, Like when it happens to a white person, the response isn't, oh shit, we're all in this together.
	Oh shit, this could happen to anyone.
	It's how come they're not talking about this one?
	Yeah.
	When you're like reading about it on a news site that has been reporting on it.
	I would like to see the stats on this too, but often when those cops end up getting prosecuted for these things, oddly enough, it's weird.
	There's literally been cops that have been prosecuted for firing back at a white person and killing them.
	That's the deal.
	We're over here getting shot for answering the phone in our backyards.
	Um, so Chernobyl just said, still, like I said, galaxy brain.
	Civil rights didn't make progress during the 1960s.
	Civil rights were established in the 1860s.
	With civil war amendments.
	Yep.
	Totally dude.
	Owned.
	Democrats are the only party with major issues with civil rights.
	Fuck.
	Straight on, dude.
	Democrats have been fighting civil rights the whole time.
	They're the KKK.
	They're all that.
	They're the real slave owners.
	I just became a right-wing reactionary just from reading that.
	It blew my mind with the logic.
	I'm now going to recant all my previous statements.
	The there's a great bit of reporting done by the podcast on the media from two weeks ago and from Another podcast.
	I can't remember which one it is.
	I think it might be citations needed either way That's a great podcast to listen to but also on the media is a very good podcast.
	It's a media criticism podcast a professional outlet And they just reported about, I think a couple people have written books on it and are releasing them and that's why they were covering this specifically, but about the discrepancy in people who used the amendment that gave rights of citizenship to black people
	Also has been used to give rights to corporations and that specific amendment has been used thousands of times more to defend corporations in courts than it has been for black people.
	And it's that's it's like the topic is called like the secret civil rights war of corporate America or something like that and the idea that that's all we needed back then.
	Yeah, it's an incredible take.
	Citizens United too, man.
	I mean, it's like what paved the way for that to happen, I'm sure.
	No, I'm talking about cases from the 1860s forward.
	We're using that amendment to argue for personhood of corporations.
	Even back then?
	Oh, like industrialization and shit?
	Well, just for property rights and stuff like that of corporations as opposed to freed slaves.
	Yeah, this shit's always served.
	These laws don't serve who the guy is intended to serve or whatever.
	There were literally bills that got pretty far along and almost happened where there were railflow programs for poor whites in the South that instead of paying them a stipend, they would make it so they would pay less money and stipend them paying
	a black person slave wages so they would aid in like the slave purchase they would aid like they would that that was one of the programs and that those those are civil rights in the 1860s so this this next comma I love because Nothing like a good old fashioned bootlicking.
	It's just my favorite.
	Bootlicking mixed with like the I am very smart take.
	Look at how eloquent my writing is.
	Nothing worse.
	I love this because I recently found out that the most effective writing, especially on things like web publications, any type of anything, actually the best writing is at a 7th grade reading level.
	Everything Hemingway wrote was at a 7th grade reading level.
	Okay.
	So it's the most effective way.
	And these people do not get that memo.
	They are just trying to sound so smart.
	From the Charles Dickens School of Writing.
	So, Christopher Smith, 716.
	It's Christoper Smith.
	Oh, Christoper Smith.
	What the hell?
	A typo in their own username, which is, man, such a miraculous feat.
	Can you imagine messing up your username?
	Fuck it, whatever, cool.
	At my last job, the merch one, my email was misspelled, my name was misspelled, so every one of my emails had my name poorly spelled on it.
	They spelled Marty wrong?
	Yeah, dude.
	They spelled it Matty, dude.
	He says...
	To Army Officer Jeremy C. Hunt, first off, thank you for serving.
	Since I do not know your exact officer rank, I will address you as sir, and I say your article was, quote, mostly well thought out and written.
	However, I ask you this.
	This is all one sentence by the way, it's only been commas so far.
	I however ask you this.
	As I too am a proud Army veteran and patriot.
	That's where the period is.
	That makes no goddamn sense.
	Anyways.
	You stated, I see you kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem as disrespectful to our country and especially disrespectful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in our military.
	To which I reply, I wholeheartedly agree.
	Next to you state, God.
	Next you state, I acknowledge that protests have an important place in American history.
	As a black man, I am well aware that without civil rights protests, our country would be looking quite different today.
	I stand on the shoulders of civil rights activists and abolitionists protesting slavery a century earlier.
	So, like, this person's obviously... they're with the shits, you know?
	Like, they get it.
	If it wasn't for protests, we wouldn't be here.
	Well, that's the author of the Fox News article still they're quoting.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Saying that, you know?
	So, again, I concur.
	Next you state, If the new NFL policy requires, quote, all players to stand on the field, quote, all players to stand, unquote, on the field for the anthem, I would oppose it.
	There's so many quotes, it's so wild.
	It's a maze.
	So can I elaborate on what they're talking about real quick?
	Yeah, yeah, please.
	So the point that the author was trying to make, that it was good that the NFL didn't require all players to stand on the field because the NFL is allowing players to stay in the locker room out of sight.
	Yeah.
	So he was saying, oh that's a good thing, the author of this article, and I assume the commentator is going to agree with that.
	At this point I ask, why?
	To which you reply by your article... He asked why and then the guy continued writing the article.
	To which you reply by your article, patriotism should never be compulsory.
	So my question to you... This is so fucking smart.
	So my question to you is this.
	Should anyone who feels this way be given a free ride?
	Yeah, a free ride.
	Who's got a free ride?
	The NFL players, they got it easy.
	Yeah.
	They don't totally, you know, get sick and kill themselves later on because of the activity.
	Nope.
	That doesn't happen ever.
	Never heard of that.
	Should those who are born both in and outside of our country who have entirely different outlook or agenda to or of our rights of freedom and liberty be allowed to live or stay here?
	So if they're not from here, should we all stay here?
	Because communism socialism has raised ugly head and is attempting to destroy our way of life.
	Hell yeah!
	So like, this comment starts off by saying, I agree with you that the protest is good and it's a part of patriotic life to protest.
	However, should those protesters really not be evicted or deported from the country?
	Shouldn't we just get rid of them?
	It's pretty coated, very candy-coated.
	How do you accept the effectiveness or the gains won by the Civil Rights era, which wasn't through political means, it wasn't by calling your congressman, it was literally by protesting in the streets.
	How do you rectify that with the rest of this comment?
	By your logic, Martin Luther King should have been deported.
	So I got some bad news for us.
	TheyAreUs, our smart friend from previously, decided to tap in on this one.
	Says, Very well articulated, respectful, and open minded in your dissent.
	Fuck you, dude.
	Like, where did that come from?
	I thought we were on the same team, and now you're like, this guy's like, you know what?
	Maybe racism is cool, but maybe we should deport people who are not down for our country, no matter what color they are.
	Brown, darker brown, slightly lighter brown than the first brown.
	And then someone says, I thank you for your service as well, sir.
	Yeah, but how respectful could they be misspelling Christopher's name with Christopher?
	Yeah, look, they did it in the... The ARS was able to tag Christopher as Christopher in their comment.
	It's weird, right?
	They tagged the wrong guy.
	Do you guys experience that up here?
	The whole, like, thank you for your service phenomenon?
	Less so, because, like, we have less of a military.
	We have less, like...
	It's less part of our culture.
	We have it with the World War II veterans and stuff like that.
	But no, we don't have this idea of blanket, must-respect-all-troops sentiment.
	Maybe to a certain extent, but nowhere near to the same sort of religious levels that it is in America.
	The episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Thank You For Your Service episode, the opposite of that happened at work for me today, where there was a guy who came in, who somehow came up, I think he asked if we'd do a military discount.
	Besides that, he was super cool, a really nice guy, and I'm probably going to sell him a really nice bike.
	So he brought that up and the guy behind the counter, my favorite co-worker who you guys have heard about before, stood up, goes around the counter, shakes his hand, and is like, I just want to thank you for your service.
	And the guy's just trying to buy something and leave.
	I just want to thank you for your service.
	and the guy is so obvious he has nothing to do with it.
	My coworker still sits on the other side of the counter, tells him about his other friend who's a Marine.
	- Oh, cool.
	You guys should be friends. - Yeah, listen, I know exactly what you're going through.
	My friend's a Marine.
	Comes around the corner, still does not continue ringing the guy up, and goes on to tell the guy all kinds of stories about other military people he knows and how his dead dad who just died, how his funeral's gonna have a 21-gun salute, and hopefully he can get that one day too.
	And they still haven't had that fucking funeral yet?
	Nah man, that shit's happening this coming Friday.
	I hope by 21-gun salute, he means they're just gonna play that Green Day song.
	He would be stoked.
	He would be so confused but stoked.
	So this poor guy wants nothing to do with this, but then a small line of three different customers gathers to take turns thanking him before they leave.
	And this poor guy just wanted to leave.
	It was really funny.
	That's amazing.
	And he came over to say bye to me and just gave me a dap and that was it.
	He was like, see you later, man.
	Peace.
	And I was like, later, dude.
	And that was it.
	It smelled of wet boot real hard after that.
	Tommy, we're going to go through these last three comments pretty quickly.
	Tommy Letizia, this was the number one top comment on the Fox News Facebook post.
	Dude, 9.3 thousand likes.
	9.3 thousand likes.
	This is from the Fox News post about the change in NFL policy.
	Top comment says, Trump wins, add it to the list.
	Hashtag MAGA.
	Numbers on the board.
	Yeah, this is exactly it.
	That's the only thing motivating this.
	That's the only thing that these people are going to get out of a Trump administration is either... What's the word I'm looking for?
	Where you put yourself in somebody's shoes.
	Empathy?
	Not empathy, but racism done by somebody else that you can participate in.
	Vicarious?
	Vicarious racism.
	It's really that, you know, and it's like these people aren't going to make any, I mean, you know, a lot of the Trump supporters are wealthy individuals, but the few who aren't, it's all they're going to get out of it is just owning the libs or the blacks or the illegals.
	That's all they're going to get out of it.
	And that's just what's motivating this entire sentiment against the NFL.
	I'm gonna start a surrogate racism service, like a dog walking service except for you pay me to be racist and I'll make up a fake ethnic person for you and I'll be racist to them and you'll think I was really racist for you and then I'll donate all that money to the HCLU or someone cool.
	That's a great idea.
	Well, that's the thing with these guys, right?
	It's just like, you know, my kids' futures have been mortgaged so the fucking inbred Walmart heirs can get a new yacht that they'll never even use.
	But, you know, at the same time, that's happening.
	But also NFL players are now forced to stand for the national anthem.
	So it's really, it's an equal tradeoff between those two things.
	Sounds like winning to me.
	Yeah, MAGA.
	It's a pretty scary painting being painted right now in this country.
	Freaking me the fuck out.
	This next comment, Kim Rogers says, We already know how the NFL and players feel.
	Why would it make us feel better to know that they are being forced to respect our flag?
	Which I started reading this and I was like, yeah, absolutely.
	Like, the protest, you know that this is just hollow, forced patriotism, and you know where a lot of these players stand on the issue, so what the fuck is the point to this?
	But then she goes on to say, sorry, too little, too late for me.
	I am done with the NFL, and so are most of the people I know.
	So I took an interesting turn there.
	It speaks to how horribly the NFL has handled this whole thing from every step of the way, is that they've alienated absolutely everybody that they could possibly alienate.
	The conservatives hate them, the liberals and progressives are pissed off.
	No one likes them now.
	It's been really a spectacular example of someone just completely fucking up at every level.
	In a way, it's relatable in that sense.
	I'm Raiders for life, dude.
	You can't take me away from the NFL.
	What are you talking about?
	They took him away from you and put him in Vegas.
	Yeah, that's close to me, though.
	Closer than Oakland.
	Last comment, ending on a light note here.
	Pashley, Blue Star leader, says, we don't watch NFL.
	And the NFL isn't capitalized.
	It isn't an acronym.
	And then it says, parentheses, small letters for small people.
	Oh, that's cute.
	There we go.
	Which I've seen this, yeah, I've seen this own a couple times.
	I've seen this own used for CNN.
	Like, I refuse to capitalize CNN as a protest against their communist agenda.
	I think they should be forced to capitalize CNN.
	Should be forced to stand.
	By stand, I mean hit that shift key.
	Yeah, dude.
	I wish CNN was communist propaganda.
	That'd be awesome.
	It would be perfect.
	I do wish they would just, you know, see the size of Colin Kaepernick's afro and realize these are not small people at all.
	He's tall with that afro.
	I want a punk compilation, but like it's a, I don't know, zine compilation called Small Letters for Small People.
	That has to exist.
	Like a Fat Records compilation.
	That'd be tight, dude.
	Okay, well that's it for the episode.
	Thank you so much, Rob, for joining us for this.
	It was a lot of fun, man.
	Yeah, thanks for having me.
	It was a great time.
	I had a great time.
	Thanks, guys.
	Thank you.
	You can follow Rob Russo on Twitter.
	I'm sure you need the attention on Twitter.
	You want to go ahead and spell that Twitter handle for the people?
	Yeah, it's at R-O-B-R-O-U-S-S-E-A-U.
	Come along for my crazy journey and back me up when the Chuds get mad at me again, which they inevitably will over some other stupid thing.
	Hell yeah, dude.
	We got your back like Jansport, homie.
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	Yeah, thank you guys.
	Take care.
	Later dude.
	Yeah man, come back anytime.
	We'd love to have ya.
	Oh yeah.
	Sure.
	I'm there.
	Hell yeah.
	Alright, bye.
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