Subscribe at Patreon.com/miniondeathcult to hear every episode This week, Liberals and Liberal publications like USA Today and The Washington Post clutch their pearls at leftist activism while the president of the United States repeatedly calls a sitting congresswoman a stupid man. A conservative facebook page argues that if conservatives want to win this civil war, they must be willing to do the unthinkable--protest outside of Maxine Waters' house. Finally, the libs celebrate victory as alcohol prices (abroad) go up due to Trump tariffs, and Bikers For Trump disavows Harley Davidson, previously the most honest, down-to-earth motorcycle manufacturer around.
So the article, I just have a couple polls, a couple paragraphs from this article.
Representative Maxine Waters, so this is kind of what we're talking about today.
We're talking a lot about Maxine Waters today.
Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat from California, praised the quote, no peace, no sleep protests and called for stepping up the confrontations.
Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.
And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, which is what you call those, she told a throng of cheering supporters, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them.
And you tell them they're not welcome anymore.
Anywhere.
And I mentioned harassing Trump officials at a gas station before I saw this tweet, so I just want to make sure that I wasn't taking cues from the Democratic leadership at all.
I have a timestamp on the... Yeah, I don't know, they might have been happening simultaneously.
He conveniently cut that out of this comment, so, you know.
And then USA Today adds at the end of this, this kind of incitement is just a shot away from bloodshed.
Not really, it's just like...
It's a good comment.
I like this comment.
It's fine.
It's respectable.
I agree with it.
I think it's funny this sentence though.
This kind of incitement is just a shot away from bloodshed.
Literally everything is just a shot away from bloodshed.
All it takes is a shot.
If you add a gunshot to, like, anything, there's, like, bloodshed?
Well, you're spraying, you know, you had not have control of the automatic machine gun or whatever, and, like, you almost hit the person, but you're just really close, so you're just a shot away.
Okay, so even in, like, a gunfight, you could still just be a shot away.
Even in gunfights, it's still a shot.
Okay, I feel you.
Yeah.
I do feel like the thing about Maxine Waters, about her comment that was a little irresponsible, is maybe a bit of a disclaimer.
Like, yes, we should harass these people, but maybe don't do it if you're by yourself at a gas station.
She says, like, get a crowd, cause a scene.
There's a little more organizing to be done here.
Yeah.
Like, maybe get a couple people with you, have a little bit of backup.
At least one person.
If you got time.
I mean, if not, just throw some trash at them on your own.
I don't care.
Do whatever you can in the moment.
This disclaimer really only goes out to the people of color because we can't just yell at people for no reason.
We have to have backup and we have to have witnesses to show that when I yell at them, we're not actually waving a handgun at them.
That is actually just a phone.
Yeah, if you're POC, please just have a white couple people with you to take the brunt of it.
If you're black and you see Sarah Sanders at the gas station and you hand her some paper towels and say, why don't you clean up your mess, you're going to get shot by the cops.
You will.
You're just going to get shot.
Yeah, please.
Two or three white people.
I love that sick burn, though.
That's awesome.
And if you're a white person at a gas station and you see this going down, feel free to be human shield.
Yes.
Always.
That is the first and best thing you can do.
That's what real allies do.
And that's not that sarcastic.
So literally, the piece of Maxine Waters' statement that everybody is picking up on is the part where she says, you push back on them.
You create a crowd and you push back on them.
Like, a phrase that's used figuratively all the time.
Every day.
Like, push back on somebody is never used literally.
That's a phrase that is never used to literally mean push somebody.
She's not saying engage in shoving match.
Unless the first part of that sentence is, if you get pushed, You push back.
Even in that sense, I think you're still talking figurative.
But no, that's the violence you would do to somebody.
You would assassinate a Trump administration official by pushing them too hard.
Yeah, you'd assassinate their character.
No, you're assassinating your own character.
And that's what we're talking about tonight.
It is beneficial to maintain a healthy division between the public and private.
Simply having First Amendment rights to hector and insult public figures online or in public doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Well, don't worry, because the Supreme Court is going to take that right away from you either way, so you won't have to worry about it anymore.
They're gonna make it, like, legal to drive your truck into somebody who's walking too close to a Trump administration official.
Yeah, we're going down a bad route, aren't we?
Like, a real dismal, like, scary route.
Yeah, I mean, we'll talk about it on Monday, but Roe v. Wade might get overturned.
That is, if that happens, holy fucking Christ.
It's exactly whose fault it is.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
A return to decorum would be a useful step toward restoring the notion of a personal sphere and promoting a more rational tone in our policy debates.
Come on, Democrats, try raising the bar.
Hey, why is it?
Why is it Democrats job to raise the bar?
Yeah, like this is I mean, that's literally been like the Democrats platform Since Obama was elected.
Yeah.
Let's be the reasonable party.
Let's internally debate ourselves to death before we even try to exert power over Republicans.
And most likely side with some centrist to right.
Well, you're already playing the centrist, and then you're meeting with the far right.
It's fucking horrible.
Anyway, this idea of a return to decorum is surely going to result in successful policy wins.
Maybe they do mean, like, challenge them to a duel.
Yeah, if we start, um, setting a place setting for ourselves and our partner every night, you know, make sure the fork and plate are lined up properly.
Forks.
Yes, uh, okay.
Decorum, we have multiple forks.
Okay, right.
We'll end up, uh, making sure Roe v. Wade stays, you know?
I-I think this language that she uses here is, uh... That James uses?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That James uses is absolutely fucking terrible.
It's just like...
Well, I don't ever talk about politics this way.
Do you?
Nobody ever talks about politics.
What the fuck?
That's, it's like, so this sentence right here is what really, uh...
I don't know, what really triggers me is it is beneficial to maintain a healthy division between the public and the private.
You know who can do that?
Extremely privileged people whose personal lives are not affected in the least by politics.
Yeah.
You know who's affected by politics is fucking everybody else.
Everybody who has to live with these decisions.
Try telling a woman who can't control her own body to separate the public from the private.
Try telling a gay man who's not allowed to eat at a restaurant because he's not welcome there at many restaurants that there's a difference between the public and the private.
yeah it's it's this absurd uh Totally removed from reality take that really rubs me the wrong way.
They really do mean like, the private, they do mean in your own bedroom.
That's it.
Just your own bedroom.
Just in your sheets.
That's it.
That's the only thing that's private.
Yeah.
This is like a very libertarian take.
Yeah.
This is a very like, don't bother me and I won't bother you except when I'm drafting legislation to make you my slave.
Well, yeah, exactly.
Oh my god.
Well, it does bother people when you're gay around them.
It's really weird.
Yeah, when gays are around me, when the gays are around me, I'm like, damn, I might be a gay too.
Like, they're making me feel all kinds of ways, so I get really hot and bothered and like, you know.
Can't eat.
Can't eat, can't sleep, can't really do a whole lot.
Jerk off.
Yeah, so that's like the main take from the, you know, I'm gonna go through a couple other, we're gonna go through a couple other takes here, but that's the main argument is that The way Democrats win is by being nice.
By being nice to their opponents.
You know why we have the Supreme Court that we have right now is because fucking Harry Reid didn't go through with a nuclear option, so-called nuclear option, and bypass the filibuster in order to put a Supreme Court justice on the bench.
Because he felt that it would upset the decorum of the Senate.
Upset the decorum of the prestigious house where they fucking voted to invade Iraq.
Where they, where, you know, I think it was, I can't remember if it was the Senate or the Congress, where somebody fucking threw a snowball on the floor to disprove global warming.
Like, any idea of decorum or, it's just, It's the status quo's way of preventing you from making change.
Yeah, or arguing.
Like, oh wait, hold up.
We have our entire reputation and, and, um, like, like, uh, the way we're viewed by everybody, we have that to maintain.
And like, so it's just so stupid.
They don't ever do anything.
They never do shit.
And then like, uh, the, the, Like you said, decorum has been gone for at least... I don't know.
It's the entire time we've been aware of politics.
It's never been decorous.
Fuck no!
Politics has never been about, like, uh...
Like, maybe here and there, but it's always been about winning.
That's what politics has always been about, and that's what it is about.
Well, what's funny is we didn't take any fucking notes from 2016 where the slogan was, you know, they go low, we go high.
That shit did not pan out.
That shit did not work out.
Why do we still think it's gonna work now?
There's a lot of things that didn't pan out, but I mean literally the most successful campaign in 2016 was the one where Trump crushed his Republican primary opponents by just openly mocking them on a debate stage.
And then doing the same thing to Hillary Clinton.
Yeah.
Like, I'm not saying you have to mock these people on the same racist, sexist, homophobic terms, but it's like you're playing a very stupid game that nobody else is playing if you try to maintain civility in politics.
This is from a... where was this article from?
It was from the Huffington Post and it was...
Sort of a anthology of liberal tears about these protests against Trump administration officials.
And this particular instance that I'm about to read from is from a CNN panel about Sarah Huckabee Sanders getting kicked out of the Red Hen.
This is beyond overreach.
A.B.
Stoddard, who is the editor of Real Clear Politics, A.B.
Stoddard said during this CNN panel about Maxine Waters' comments, it is so outrageous that she is trying to motivate voters on her side to be as divisive as President Trump.
I just find it really unbelievable that this is the kind of thing they're trying to stoke this mob mentality on the left.
It's the exact thing that will drive turnout on the other side.
And it's like this this fear of the other side in electoral politics is exactly why we're in the situation we're in.
This sort of like Couching every statement in a poll-tested way so that it appeals to the largest number of people doesn't work, and it makes you look like a meek jackass.
It makes you look like a fake, meek jackass.
And that's what people took away from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
That's what people took away from Al Gore's campaign.
This is like the Democrats' biggest optical problem.
We don't want that anymore.
Al Gore is a real good example.
We forget about just like being so soft on everything.
Yeah, and then like people after he lost the election, he's like, you're all going to die.
Like you're so afraid of.
Invigorating the other side that you don't invigorate your own side.
Exactly.
Like, it's Hillary Clinton going after the moderate Republican women in the suburbs who don't give a fuck about you.
Who actually don't give a shit about you.
Because they have their own interests that don't align with the rest of your base's interests.
And they know it.
Like, be honest.
Like, Ocasio, she got elected for being honest and telling it how, like, they wanted to hear it.
Well, and giving people something to vote for, saying, hey, we want to get you healthcare.
Hey, we want to get you a living wage.
So, Meghan McCain said in a tweet about Maxine Waters, This is absolutely insane and extremely dangerous.
My father-in-law works in the administration.
Does this mean when we go out to dinner we should be ambushed?
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, totally.
Don't ever again give me any of the quote, when they go low, we go high, lip service.
And again, yeah, we won't.
It's a bad slogan.
Yeah, it sucks.
That's your slogan.
Your slogan isn't Medicare for All.
Your slogan isn't Fair Wages for All.
Your slogan isn't Eat the Rich.
Your slogan is about how you're going to talk about your policies.
Can you imagine anything that resonates less with the voting public than that?
Than gambling rhetoric?
They go low, we go high.
It just seems like that.
It's just nonsense.
It's playing into the self-righteousness of the DC insider, people who are already engaged in politics because it's some kind of sport to them, because their identity is wrapped up into it.
All it is is like a self-aggrandizing slogan.
It doesn't motivate anybody who's not already part of your, you know, the inside rung of your politics.
Does it reference, like, the high road?
Is that what the reference?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think that's a Michelle Obama thing?
It is, yeah.
Nancy Pelosi tweeted, in the crucial months ahead.
This is amazing.
Yeah.
In the crucial months ahead, we must strive to make America beautiful again.
Okay.
That's our slogan.
Make America beautiful again.
Mabba.
What color hat would that be?
Purple?
It would be all the colors of the rainbow.
Yeah.
So, there's nothing that America should do again.
I can't think of anything that America should do again.
Thank you.
There's none of it, you know?
Because we already did it, man.
It would be like, it would be corny if we did it again.
The only thing we should do again is go to the moon.
That shit was sick.
The only thing we should do is not have America again.
Like, make America beautiful again.
This is your rallying cry.
Like, I can't, just how uninspiring is that?
A, like, what does beautiful mean?
What does that fucking mean to you, Nancy Pelosi?
I actually have a song about what America being beautiful means to me.
It goes like this.
Let me stand up real quick.
Thank you.
I couldn't even sing it.
I couldn't do the whole thing.
And I would probably try to do it like Ray Charles and just fucking blow it.
As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.
Yeah!
Conduct elections that way.
Make it easier for people to vote.
Like, stop with all that... Yeah, run elections that way.
But the shit outside of the elections?
Like, I don't... No, we get to fuck with these people.
They're literally fucking with people's lives.
We get to fuck with them.
Like, it's fine.
It's like an ins... It's just an insanely detached take.
Like, we need to achieve unity with, uh, this 63 million people who want my fucking head on a spike.
These people literally want to kill you and you're rallying cries, make America beautiful again.
The people who think that Nancy Pelosi is like the Antichrist aren't going to stop thinking that because a lesbian opened the door for them.
That's not what's going to happen.
These people can't be changed because we're nice.
It's a wild thought.
It's a MAGA chud.
You know, in a red hat, sitting in the office of his, like, small business like a fucking king, imagining what Nancy Pelosi sees as beautiful.
A little thought bubble comes above his head like in The Simpsons, and it's like, you know, multi-racial CEOs, like, dancing in a field together, and then he shudders.
And they're, like, throwing money everywhere, and dancing around, and bringing around the rosie.
You know Mabba?
Here's my satire.
It sounds like a real feminine way of saying MAGA.
It just reminds me of a mom or a baby.
It sounds like the way a white kid would say MAGA on the internet.
Oh no.
Uh, yeah.
So that's Nancy Pelosi's hot-ass take.
Hey, let's just all be our best selves.
Yeah.
You nabba.
And then Donald Trump has a response.
Oh, hell yeah he does.
Man of the hour.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the face of the Democrat Party.
She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement.
Boy, what a fucking sentence.
Be careful what you wish for, Max.
So, the President of the United States, uh, Literally calling Maxine Waters a man, pretending that she called for violence against Trump supporters, and calling her stupid, all in the same tweet.
