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July 2, 2018 - Minion Death Cult
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55 - Socialism Sukcs :)

This week we cover the Supreme Court's Janus ruling and Anthony Kennedy's subsequent retirement. [Anime Butterfly Meme] The butterfly is labeled "the destruction of public sector unions." Anime boy labeled "Fox News": "Is this a win for government workers?" We also cover Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's DSA victory in New York, and how for some reason the coporate media isn't cool with that. Subscribe at Patreon.com/miniondeathcult for a bonus episode every week.

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The liberals are destroying California, and conservative humor gone awry... conservative humor gone awry is going to fascistphonia today.
So stay tuned, we're going to take a few pictures of the desert and how their policies are actually messing it up.
It's not beautiful when you go across that border.
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Follow their environmental steps.
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You look like a sex dad.
Are you saying dad in a bad way, like fam?
No, I'm true sex dad.
Oh, tight.
You're a sexual father.
I felt pretty, uh, paternally sexual.
Uh, if it's fam, it's fam.
I'm not gonna, uh, like, you know what I mean?
You're never looking like a fam, homie.
Tight.
That's all I gotta say.
I'm Alexander Edward.
I am Sunday Matt.
And I am Tony Boswell.
We are Minion Death Cult.
Warren!
The world is ending.
Uh, unions are responsible.
We're documenting their demise today.
And hoping it actually doesn't happen.
Yeah, we're talking, A, about the recent Supreme Court decisions, most specifically the Janus decision that is, quote, a win for government workers and all Americans.
And this is of course the decision that strips public sector unions of the right to collect dues from people who opt out of the union but still benefit from their organizational efforts.
And this was immediately followed by Anthony Kennedy's resignation, or at least intention to resign.
So we're going to be talking about that as well.
And then finally, we're going to be talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez again, this time in detail, and the disparate reactions in both the corporate media and our normal Facebook spheres about an avowed socialist Winning a Democratic primary in a very important district.
Pretty scary.
Important because the district is just important because of who previously occupied it, so it's very interesting.
Her win there, it's hopeful.
If the power, like, if she doesn't have some power when she gets elected, because that's going to happen.
At least it's, you know, symbolic of, like, a socialist getting a fucking seat anywhere.
That is amazing to me.
I mean, one congressperson could really never have that much power, you know, aside from, I guess, being, like, you know, part of specific committees.
Or blocking shit, you know?
But again, it's just one congressperson.
However, it bodes well for the Democratic Party at large, or it bodes well for the left, and a possible insurgence.
And that's really the positive note, is that the platform that she ran on is immensely popular.
She may be a Democrat, but she's socialist all the way.
Yeah.
And thank God for that.
So, let's get started on this, uh... Actually, you know what?
This is a terrible idea.
I don't want to talk about either one of those things.
I just want to talk about LeBron James!
Oh, shit!
Step back.
LeBron James!
I like him.
Where's he going?
He just signed with the New York Knickerbockers for two million dollars for six seasons.
He's going to the Knicks?
Yeah, dude.
Crazy stuff.
Oh, God.
He didn't go to the Lakers.
I'm gonna die now.
God.
What?
When did that get announced?
He signed with the Lakers for 152 million dollars for four years.
Shut the fuck up!
I don't care.
Fuck off, dude.
All lies.
I didn't know you cared about this.
I want LeBron to come to the Lakers.
He did, so you'd be stoked.
Why wouldn't I?
If I knew you cared about this, I would have planned this joke completely differently.
Alright, so Supreme Court.
Eyes on the prize here, folks.
So I'm just going to read, well, no, I kind of want to talk about it a little bit.
So, um, this was a decision that was basically decided by Anthony Kennedy, who, uh, is considered or who, you know, for the past, for his tenure was considered to be like the swing vote on the Supreme Court.
Um, This decision is a huge blow to public sector unions specifically, but also just unions in general.
Basically, you've heard of right-to-work states.
That's essentially what this is on a national level for all public employees.
30% of the public workforce, I believe... You alright?
Sweet boy.
A little sweet guy.
You okay, dude?
Take a drink there, yeah.
Alright, so 30% of the public workforce is unionized and...
This is going to severely handicap unions and their efforts both to affect policy changes, to protect their workers.
This is...
A huge ruling.
It's a very wide scope of this ruling because not only did it determine that employees have a right not to pay union dues, it also determined that these employees have to opt in to paying union dues as opposed to just being able to opt out.
So, as we know with things like Voter registration, voting, automatic.
When something just happens, it's much easier.
And then you can choose to opt out of it later.
So basically, it's a bad sign.
It's a bad sign for private sector unions as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the very next session they heard some sort of private sector case that does the same thing.
The bright note, I would argue, Is that all these teacher strikes we had, West Virginia, Oklahoma, etc.
Those are right-to-work states.
Those are right-to-work states.
Those strikes were, I think, illegal.
They weren't sanctioned even by the Union itself.
Those were wild... Some of them, at least, were wildcat strikes.
It was pretty national.
It went really big.
Real big.
Yeah, but they still weren't, like, endorsed by the Union.
Right.
Protected by the law.
That was very...
Yeah, a wildcat strike means that it's not organized by the union.
It's something that's just at the member's discretion to just do.
And I think it was propelled by Facebook.
I think it was like a Facebook group of teachers who decided this.
So anyway, they still won gains.
Maybe, you know, not as much as they should have.
Definitely not as much as they should have.
But they still won gains and...
It just kind of goes to show you, like, it doesn't matter if something's illegal, if there's enough popular support for it, if you use leverage in the right ways.
The courts are just, you know, it's just a court.
It's not actual people on the ground.
The fact that that organization was illegal is...
Disgusting so like that kind you should always organize don't ever not organize like especially if it's illegal do it Handle it and you'll change it because you did it.
Thank you teachers So from Fox News, I have an article here that says, Supreme Court's Janus decision is a win for government workers and all Americans.
Now, Janus, this is Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee who was suing to opt out of what are called, like, fair share fees, which are like, again, basically, I don't think they're full dues.
I think they're only like partial dues that you pay to a union even if you pretend to opt out of the union because of course the union negotiates contracts for the entire workforce and not just for the people who you know pay them dues.
Which I don't know what you think, Alex, but I think that automatic dues is cool.
I like that.
Which part?
What do you like about it?
I just like the fact that some people have to pay for a union regardless if they're in it or not.
So you're talking about for non-union?
Yeah, of course.
They benefit from the union's work.
They benefit from those wages.
They benefit from those benefits.
They benefit from the weekend.
All that stuff.
And I just think it's sick that money is siphoned from...
Non-union bootlickers, like, right into the union.
This guy is the ultimate scab.
Mark Janus is the ultimate scab.
Not only did he opt out of the union, he fucking sued the union and screwed over the entire public sector.
Fuck you, Janus.
This guy is, like, super scab.
Hey, Janus.
What's your first name?
Hugh?
Uh, or whatever.
Okay.
All right.
It took me a minute there.
Or, uh, or something.
Oh, okay.
You could have stopped about 30 seconds ago.
It would have been great.
I like a, or, or whatever.
No, I appreciate a good whatever.
This is the kind of motherfucker that's like, oh no, I'm going to, I'll stay late, but let me clock out first.
Oh, fuck him.
I don't want to, you know, I don't want to waste the company's money.
But truly he's like sucking it dry.
Like, you know, whatever.
This is the guy who asks you when you come in to work, Hey, are you late?
Yep, yep.
Like your coworker, Tony?
The little newbie?
Bootlicker in training?
You're like, nah, motherfucker, I just clocked in.
And now I'm on clock.
What do you gotta say about it?
Did you park in the, uh, secretary's parking space?
No, I literally got that.
Did you park in the hybrid vehicles parking space?
Yeah, dog.
It's Saturday, and that's the only spot with shade.
No one's here, so... You're like, actually, I'm the fucking original hybrid.
Sweet boy.
And then he says, everything's about race with you.
You're like, yeah, actually.
I've been meaning to take a picture of it, like, you know, and submit it to, you know, late capitalism or something, some late capitalism account.
But, you know, when I deliver Walmart, like every day, I drive by a, I don't know, you know, a whole aisle of parking spaces that say clean air vehicle on it.
And it's just nothing but like trucks and 96 Camrys.
Taking up multiple spaces.
That's their form of protest, dude.
Don't knock it.
I just love the idea that we're gonna save the environment by writing the word clean air vehicle on the ground instead of actually, like, mass producing them.
Or putting a goddamn sticker on your car and then you can ride in a carpool lane.
That's good.
That's...
It's fun, like you can ride in a carpool lane, but still.
That's an actual tangible incentive.
Sure, trickle down, you know.
We'll trickle down.
It's like going out to a field and leaving a sign that says windmill on it.
Yeah, in its 5-4 ruling Wednesday in Janus versus the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the Supreme Court overturned decades-old precedent that allowed government unions to require public employees to pay union fees or risk being fired.
Which I felt like was a compromise already because the ruling should have been pay union fees or risk being beaten to death.
Right.
Agreed.
In front of the building.
Hell yeah.
Sounds good.
The key plaintiff, like I said, was Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee who pays about $550 annually to the powerful public sector union known as AFSCME.
While not a member of the union, he is required under state law to hand over a weekly portion of his paycheck, which he says is a violation of his constitutional rights.
So fucking ten bucks.
Ten bucks a week.
To get healthcare, other benefits.
It's $45 a month.
It's $45 a month.
Sounds incredible.
That's a steal.
It's cool because he's old as fuck and going to retire tomorrow.
You know what I mean?
He's got his pension already.
He's had decades of benefits.
It's cool.
Who cares?
Never mind.
He's been putting this in a 401k the entire time.
That's what he's actually doing.
You know what I was going to say when you said never mind.
I work for health and family services and I'm forced to pay money to a union that then supports political causes that I don't agree with, Janus told Fox News.
I just don't agree with, like, the politics of getting me, uh, healthcare.
It's, like, too political for me.
Yeah, it's like, oh, man, like, I have to, like, think about politics and, like, oh, shit.
It sucks.
Like, the Koch brothers, who I identify with politically, have told me that, like, raising wages is bad, so, like, why would I ever, uh, want to contribute to giving me more money?
Well, I mean, everybody knows that studies have shown that hard work and dedication actually aid to a prolonged life.
It makes you hearty.
So if you just do that, you don't need all those other things.
Yeah, I was reading something that was like the exact opposite.
I don't read things.
I know about character.
You hear stuff, sometimes.
Yeah, so, uh, dude sued the fucking union to get out of paying $500 a year.
Fuck off, dude.
Like, you can't even get a Disney pass for that.
No.
People who, like, who sue to not pay union dues, you obviously don't give a shit about other people.
Well yeah, absolutely not.
Opting out of the union in the first place shows you don't give a shit.
Declare hatred of anybody but yourself.
It's almost a hatred of yourself.
Yeah, kind of.
You're so wanting to own the Democrats that you're going to opt out of a program that has granted you raises and family leave and shit like that.
This old fuck was like, a union?
I heard Trump say unions are bad.
Time to sue them because I didn't know that I was paying for it, basically is what it seems like.
We got it all wrong, just his union didn't do anything and the union was like, you know, bowing to the company and just really screwing over the people they weren't representing.
The company, you mean the federal government?
Yeah, he was just like, this union's not doing their job.
This union sucks.
What am I paying them for?
I don't have any rights.
Might as well just take them all down.
Yeah.
So, Taco Lover from the Fox News comments section.
With a picture of a taco as his avatar.
Of a wack looking taco.
Like it's the all American hard shell.
Dude, it's the- Green lettuce.
Hold on guys.
Don't talk shit on these tacos.
Like I like a good gringo taco.
I appreciate it.
Uh, scary to see the four liberal justices voting the party line rather than in consideration of the Constitution of the United States.
The justices are supposed to be apolitical, but when the minority acts politically, as they have in these last two crushing decisions against leftist ideology, it makes you glad President Trump was able to appoint Neil Gorsuch to the court.
Uh, fuck.
The apolitical judge, Neil Gorsuch.
The people who literally, like, rule whether your politics is constitutional or not are somehow not political.
Yeah, what?
This was an argument I saw, um...
All throughout the comments section, in almost every comment section, was, uh, I can't believe that they decided this 4 vs. 5 when it should have been 9 vs. 0.
That just shows you how liberal and crazy these judges- as if there's- they're not like an odd number of justices for a reason.
Yeah.
Right.
This has been thought out.
And also, like, there's liberal judges.
There's one liberal judge.
One.
And she's... Which one?
RBG.
Well, Kagan is liberal.
Okay.
Okay.
There's, I mean, yeah, there's four of them right now that are considered liberal.
The whole plan is abhorrent anyway.
The fact that our justice, or our country relies upon Nine people?
It's fucking terrible.
The system's terrible.
It's bad.
That's- I mean, if you get cool judges in there, I mean, which is kind of an oxymoron, but if you, you know- Right.
Had somebody with, you know, actual leftist ideology, uh, it wouldn't be at this bad.
Yeah, I mean, gut the entire, uh, system that we rely on, uh, of their politicians and put left-leaning politicians in, it would be great.
It would function well.
But, it's not happening.
Hot take from Sunday Matt.
Smash the system.
Oh, Sunday Matt.
Oh, uh, coming up real hot.
Uh, Mary Yarborough says...
Just like we don't want to be forced into Obamacare, we don't want forced union dues.
Where have you been, Mary, the last two years or whatever?
Obamacare?
Still talking about it?
So old now.
Get over it.
I just love that Obamacare thing.
It's like, I haven't heard that in a minute, so I appreciate it.
Oh really?
I see it all the fucking time.
They can't shut the fuck up about Obama and Hillary.
Gotta do more homework on these boards here.
No, I mean, this is... I guess Mary might have a point.
It's similar in that healthcare is good, and unions are good, and just some people don't like them.
Don't want either.
I could just pray and exercise and I'll be fine.
I don't need healthcare.
I mean, my work gives it to me, but I don't need it.
I think when you're of a mindset where you like things are shared, like, uh, no problem with paying money for that, you know?
Like, I think... What do you mean when things are shared?
Like, you know, pay for Medicare for all.
You're saying, you're not talking about Mary, you're talking about us.
Sure, well I'm talking about Mary Connett, like she's like, just like we don't want to be forced to pay Obamacare.
Your take here is that he should have just paid his dues?
Mary?
No, the guy, the...anus.
Oh yeah, Hugh Janus should definitely have paid his dues.
Anybody should.
Help your fucking neighbor.
Help them.
That's all there is to it.
Help them.
Hot take.
JustMe123 says, uh, Amen to this ruling.
Teachers may actually have to start paying for healthcare like the rest of us.
Might even have to sell their beach houses to afford it.
Oh my god.
What?
I think they had a conversation with a professor at some nice school.
Some tenured-ass motherfucker.
Yeah, now they think that's what teachers live like.
What I think is that JustMe123 had a conversation with a millennial substitute who was talking about their new Beach House records.
He was like, you got more than one?
Oh yeah, no, I got a few.
I paid $75 for these three Beach House records.
What the fuck is bedroom pop?
She has- This is like five- five bedroom pop.
Apparently one of the houses is covered in velvet.
They're gaudy.
Seriously though, we've had a teacher on this podcast.
Like, give me a fucking break.
Yeah, why would a rich person ever do this podcast, if that was your point?
Yeah, for sure.
But like, Charlene... I mean, I have teachers in my family and they don't have beach houses.
Yeah, with them too, yeah.
None of my teachers had beach houses.
No, so again this headline, Supreme Court's Janus decision is a win for government workers and all Americans.
And so funneling this through or viewing this through JustMe123's comment, I take the win for all Americans to be pure schadenfreude.
Like that's the win, is that you get to look at these people who had a stable job, maybe a house, maybe their partner didn't have to work, and now they're finally brought down to our level.
Yeah, it's completely spectator.
It's a spectator sport.
Teachers may actually have to start paying for healthcare like the rest of us.
This is the same argument that, like, Paramedics have against a $15 minimum wage.
Like, no, we should all make less.
Yeah.
That's the argument.
Exactly.
That's something so stupid that they don't realize the problem is not that they have to pay for health care.
It's that that person doesn't.
And that's so fucked.
That's so fucked.
They shouldn't say, oh man, that sucks.
I was hoping that maybe the unions could, you know, do a good job and maybe one day I can be part of one.
And then maybe I can have representation.
That should be the comment, but it's the opposite.
It's just, I think we've talked about it on this show before, but it's just, I think that this is just an effect of like a totally broken government that does only serve the 1% or the top, you know, 50% of this country I think that this is just an effect of like a totally broken government that does only serve the 1% or the top, you know, 50% of this country that like regular Americans or, or
I wouldn't say, but...
Because the government does not help us anymore, the only thing you can hope for is that they hurt somebody you don't like.
That's all you can hope for.
Which I gotta say, if the listener has followed my transition from the beginning of this podcast to now, I am completely As far left as you can go, push me over in a corner and I'll be there.
I'm completely miserable for it.
No, I'm fine.
I'm happy as... I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life, to be honest.
Excellent.
I'm black market.
I'm making fucking wax shatter.
I'm happy to hear that.
All black market.
Making fucking beautiful weed.
But wouldn't it be sick, though, if you had, like, representation?
What I was gonna say- Wouldn't it be cool if you had an eyewash station?
I do.
I have one.
We do actually- You got one?
You got one?
No, I have a badass- Okay, well- Sink.
I have a badass sink.
Yeah, I have a cool three-way sink.
What are you gonna say?
Your eyewash station is just holding a spoon under the faucet.
Yeah.
No, I have one of those dishwashing sprayers that I can splash my eye out with.
That's fine.
I just stick my head into the stainless steel industrial washing machine.
I'm fine with that.
I'm okay with that.
What I was going to say is, I'm black market now.
You said that five times.
Okay, anarchist.
People should fucking help each other, man.
You also said that.
Well, that's what this is about.
What's Tony gonna say?
Wouldn't it be sick though if you could do your job you have now that I think is a good job and is doing a positive thing in the world providing us with medicine?
I agree.
Wouldn't it be cool if you can call OSHA because you don't have an iWatch station?
And not be worried about losing your job and ruining someone else's income as well.
In a perfect society, in an ideal society, you'd have representation.
Like when you got those homeless people loitering in the parking lot, wouldn't it be cool if you could call the cops on them, but you can't because everything's blackmarked.
It'd be really cool if we could call some people that were like, We're like, hey, I see some homeless people here.
We need to put them away in this housing that we have provided.
With a fridge full of food and clean clothing and a shower.
Alright, I guess that would be okay.
Hello 911?
There's a homeless person in front of my office and I was wondering if maybe you could provide them with resources.
Hello 9-1-1, emergency here.
I've noticed this person doesn't have a place to live.
I'm gonna make that a call to arms for all of our death cult.
Please call 9-1-1 on the homeless people and make sure they get fucking housing.
Yeah, satire.
Do not do that.
I'm gonna try it and let you guys know how it goes.
Okay, deplorable 0-0-1 because deplorable 9-9-9 was taken.
That's my favorite comment.
Says, Roses are red, violets are blue, CNN sucks.
Happy face.
Classic typo.
It's S-U-K-C-S.
If they had spelled sucks right, it might have been funny that it didn't rhyme.
I think it's intentionally not rhyming, but the not rhyming combined with an obvious typo that's been left up there for four days, it's just good.
It's real good.
I love a four-day typo.
My favorite kind of fermentation process.
That's what we're fighting for with unions, is a four-day typo.
We need to leave a good four day period for comments to cure properly and turn into hilarious irony.
No, no, in the final draft, when they went to sign it, they accidentally put four-day weekend on accident.
And now they signed it, and now we get a fucking four-day weekend, and it's sick.
Yeah, it's tight.
I don't think this person knows that that meme exists.
That that idea of meme, where you take an article and then you turn it into the poem.
You take the caption and turn it into the poem.
I don't think they know that exists.
Are they just really bad at it?
I think it was supposed to be an ironic joke, but it became actually ironic.
I think what you were saying was giving them too much credit, Tony.
Like, this guy, it's definitely a dude.
Always a guy, with this sentiment.
He got hit in the head.
Hey, what are you laughing about, dude?
Um... Nothing funny, that's for sure.
Fat Mike Moore, 159... Hey, we got him, dude!
...says, the Democrats want a protesters union.
Yeah, let me see.
You know what?
Take I fucking love.
I protest against NoFX, their whack-ass punk band, and Fat Mike... You're lame, dude.
Oh, okay, you think this is like... Fat Mike from NOFX, yeah.
You think this is a NOFX, like, Michael Moore mashup?
No, I think this is Fat Mike from NOFX commenting.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I like the idea of a protester's union a lot.
I do too, actually.
Excuse me, comrade, was that bandana made in America?
Is that a union-made bandana?
That's actually awesome, what you're saying.
Uh, we're gonna need like three more guys to hold this banner.
Yep.
At least three more on top of the three we already have.
Sounds great what you're saying.
I need to take a break from that, I need to take a break from that sign.
I need to go get some water, sit down for a minute.
Dude, I know you guys are being funny, but like, this sounds great!
Yeah.
Wonderful.
Uh, you got some pepper spray in your eyes, you're gonna need to visit the eyewash station on every, the corner of every street.
We have, we have this OSHA certified eyewash station right here for you to blast your eyes out.
So let's talk about, uh, Kennedy's retirement.
Uh, this is, you know, Justice Anthony Kennedy, uh, pretty much, you know, whom we've been alluding to this whole episode.
What's up, Matt?
The liberal bastion of society.
The exact ideal concept of, of balance in politics.
Just kidding.
Fuck this guy.
Uh, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired and, uh, there's a couple of things I want to talk about briefly, but, uh, The first of which is, like, the lamentation of his retiring.
Like you're alluding to, Matt, this sort of, oh, all hope is lost now that our swing vote is gone.
Yes, Justice Kennedy decided cases like Obergefell v. Hodges, which was gay marriage, and he also supported rulings that upheld and defended Roe v. Wade back in the 90s, but he also decided this Janus decision we've been talking about all night.
Exactly.
Dude, what a great transition.
What a great setup you did on this episode.
He also sided with pro-life crisis centers in California in a case that determined that these pregnancy crisis or crisis pregnancy centers like didn't have to post signage alerting their customers that they weren't actually licensed or they didn't have a license that they didn't have a licensed medical professional on staff or they weren't actually Planned Parenthood or abortion centers.
Well, they're explicitly not abortion centers.
But they goad people with the fact that they're like a pregnancy place.
Like, we'll help you and we'll give you help.
Yeah.
And they try to pray for you and convince you to get an abortion.
Or not get an abortion.
Yeah, they don't, yeah.
You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, we all do.
It's fucking disgusting.
Uh, he also upheld the recent Muslim travel ban.
So, that's in effect, thanks to Anthony Kennedy.
Cool, you fuckin' legend.
Uh, and, of course, probably, you know, his most... politically relevant, politically, uh...
What's the word I'm looking for?
Consequential decision.
Citizens United.
Yeah.
He loved Citizens United.
There's an Intercept article about his statements in his decision that go something like, I don't feel that Companies being able to give exorbitant amounts of money to political candidates, will it all erode the public's trust in government?
That's like one of the number one problems people have across party lines is that there's money in politics and that we live in a country that's controlled by corporations.
So that being said, I'm so sad that he's not a judge anymore.
It's real sad.
It's really cool that gay people can get married.
That is great.
It's cool that he upheld Roe v. Wade.
His replacement probably won't.
That remains to be seen.
But he's not totally cool with abortion rights as we saw with this Crisis Pregnancy Center decision.
So we need to stop aiming so low as people on the left.
Like, we can celebrate these victories, we can celebrate, you know, the gay marriage ruling, but that's not enough.
It's not enough even for gay people who work and have jobs or who can get pregnant, you know?
And we also shouldn't, like, reap the passing of this judge, like...
It's not the end.
Like, you need to get out there and, like, do something.
Get on your feet and handle biz, protest, or whatever.
But, like, this is not the end.
Like, don't reap this passing.
Like, this is nothing.
This is the beginning.
I think we just established that this is the beginning.
Him leaving is not- no one's celebrating that because we're talking about exactly how the replacement's going to be worse.
No, what I'm saying, well that sucks, but what I'm saying is like- Protesting isn't gonna, isn't gonna prevent another guy getting on the Supreme Court.
What I'm saying is like, people like, that are like, lamenting this guy not being a judge anymore, need to wake the fuck up and stop being so, uh, I don't know.
weak or whatever and like realize that this is not anything like this problem like the problems we have in this society have been occurring for a long time yeah it's it's a symptom of a larger problem right sure exactly that's yeah that's what i'm trying to get it uh the other thing i wanted to talk about is like i saw people in several areas of facebook and the internet speculating that somehow uh trump got to anthony kennedy Got him to retire.
Because Anthony Kennedy's retirement at this time means that Trump will be nominating his successor before the midterms.
And before Democrats have a chance to take back the Senate and block this nomination.
So... I just want to say that, like... You don't need some sort of conspiracy to explain why Anthony Kennedy stepped down at this moment.
A. He's old.
He's very old.
B, he doesn't give a fuck about you.
He does not care about you at all.
He's clearly for capitalism.
He's clearly for...
Religious oppression.
You don't need some sort of like covert conspiracy involving Russia or Trump to explain why a wealthy old white man stepped down.
You don't need extra money to explain why a justice who left his seat or why a justice left his seat when that justice is going to do Give speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars, or write a book for a million dollars.
He's already got a payday coming just by retiring.
Thank you for articulating what I was trying to earlier.
Yeah, but now he also gets to stay at whatever Trump resort he wants for free.
Okay.
That's, yeah.
That'd push anyone over the edge, I think.
Let's see some idiot's takes on this.
How about that, huh?
So, uh, Happy Hayride, which is a Facebook account that I haven't quite figured out yet.
What the fuck?
I'm still learning about Happy Hayride.
But they posted a meme.
It's Obama looking thoughtful and then the text says this is the one Hillary wanted to nominate to the SCOTUS if she became the president.
Thank the voters and God it's not going to happen.
Talking about Obama?
Yep.
Yeah, this was like a hyper-liberal, hyper-pundit take that, oh, wouldn't it be amazing if Hillary nominated Obama to the Supreme Court?
Could you imagine Obama's response to being nominated?
I feel like he would laugh out loud.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean, he's like, no, I'm trying to make Netflix shows.
What the fuck?
I'm not trying to deal with these people anymore.
Fuck that.
He's like, I'm trying to actually change the world through TV, which is not wrong.
I'm trying to chill and get that money.
Yeah.
I don't have to make a difference anymore.
Which he will do a lot more through a TV show on Netflix than he could ever do.
Wait, what are you saying?
Oh, he's got his new Netflix show.
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
I just think that his new show will impact more people than, you know.
I disagree with that.
That's some bougie-ass shit, dude.
Nobody who are fighting us right now is going to watch anything by Obama and be changed in any way.
Okay, true.
But, you know, libs will watch it and be like, eh, cool.
Libs will watch it and say, yes, why can't our president speak clearly?
Right!
And why can't he tweet less?
That's a good point, Obama.
All right, okay, you guys are right.
Peter- I don't know what I'm talking about.
Oh, I like this, uh, thank the voters and God.
It's not gonna happen.
I like that.
Oh, yeah.
Like, you know, you believe in God, then like all things happen through Him.
Truly.
Our male God.
Truly.
But I like that they threw the voters in there, too.
Like, you might still want to, like, check that box.
I know God's in control, but... They're voting, you know, they have the hand of God on their hand as they check that box.
So, it's like, kind of, you know, one hand wipes the other's ass, or something?
That's a good, interesting turn there.
I just saw a hand with a butt.
What's funny about this is, it is simple, because God is like democracy.
One vote equals one prayer.
So because the votes won this way, God had to make it so.
Yeah, but God had to wait a few of those votes via the electoral college system to even things out.
Charles Manson meme.
One like equals one prayer.
Will you let this man in your home?
And the answer is, I will let Charles Manson in my home.
The answer is race war, yes please.
But he wanted to help the black people that couldn't fend for themselves in the race war.
He was pro-black in a racist ass way.
Another hot take from Sunday, Matt.
Another hot take we're not going to go into.
Pete Briggs, uh, did you have something else?
I really just need to say Charles Manson, uh, you know, civil rights activist.
Go ahead, now you can move on.
Not as bad as his killers.
I love all those protest songs he wrote.
All I'm saying, they are great, that's a great record.
Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Okay, you opened it up, that is a great record.
Nope, Pete Briggs.
And also, he didn't kill anybody, Tex killed people.
Not Charles, Tex.
Okay, let's go on.
Pete Briggs says about the Supreme Court in general and just, you know, what we should do with that prestigious institution.
No more Froot Loops or queers!
Huh?
Like you really need a like a 6 to 3 ratio between like the Froot Loops and like the normal ones.
Yeah.
Like, what the fuck?
Dude, he's fucked.
This is really corny-ass hatred.
Yeah, bad.
Huntington Beach-ass motherfucker.
You need to chill out.
Warren Cross says about Obama, Yeah, the guy who disbarred.
What?
And John Smith replies, all them lefties are disbarred.
Oh, cool.
I love this, like, weird, like, circle of thought.
Like, like, yeah, disbarred.
Let's, let's latch onto this term and make sense of it.
Doesn't make sense in the circle at all.
That was, like, Trump's number one campaign promise is we're gonna disbar all the lefties.
We're gonna disbar Obama.
Yeah, they're all disbarred.
Hey, excuse me, I just disbarred.
So there's a meme going around that Obama was disbarred from his legal practice.
When he, like, voluntarily gave up his ability to practice laws to enter politics.
Right.
But this is just, like, a meme that probably evolved from something like, do you know he didn't even have his law license?
I didn't know this was a thing.
Oh, he was disbarred for, like, upholding Sharia law or something.
I'm really glad I didn't know this was a thing.
He was never actually barred because he did his vow on a Quran.
Oh, that's a good loophole.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's why all, like, swearing-ins should be done on TV so we can make sure.
Remember when Trump was like, show me your bar.
Why don't you show anyone your bar?
No, but swear on the TV because you can always change the channel.
Wait, like you're swearing on the TV?
Like you're using the TV as a Bible?
Is that what you're saying?
But what happens when you swear on the TV and CNN is on?
What happens when you swear on the TV and then the FCC finds you?
You can always go, you can always like say, hey, uh, it was the TV.
Uh, it's completely open to anything, like any view.
And like, it's not what you thought it was, but it's this way.
So it's perfect.
Yeah.
They'd be cool with that thing.
Uh, yeah.
All them lefties are disbarred.
I I'd say all these lefties are fully barred.
Which is where they get drunk during the Trump presidency.
Oh, okay.
Drown their sorrows.
Yeah, pretty much.
Like, disbarred?
That means, like, off their rocker?
Yeah.
I guess that's what he's saying.
I guess, yeah.
They're disbarred.
They're disbarred like on your cell phone.
These lefties have no service.
No service.
No service.
These lefties are walking around saying, can you hear me now?
Yeah, I don't.
And America says, NO!
You're breaking up!
We're broke up.
Rick Holter says, This was known by both sides, and I am not sure if a lot of people realized this.
This is how important this election was.
Hillary would have nominated gun-hating, abortion-loving judges into, and if Trummo did not win, we were in big trouble with our rights, Don.
Oh, that's pretty neat.
Which goes back to our conversations about why teachers are so important.
Holy shit.
Don.
So, I mean, they have, Rick has a point in that this was a consequential election, specifically because of the chance to nominate two Supreme Court Justices, maybe three, if RBG dies soon.
Akka would, but she doesn't.
This is why evangelical Christians were behind Trump.
This is the exact reason.
I've seen a lot of comments that were like in right-wing spaces that were like, I didn't like Trump, but I'm glad I voted for him.
Now, I don't like, I don't like his demeanor or I don't like his, his, uh, his crassness, but hell, got my money's worth.
That's why we're at like 49% approval on his ass.
I don't think we're at 49.
No, we're high up.
I think we're at like 44 or something.
Check it again.
Let's see.
I just like how this guy acts like it's breaking news that, you know, they would have assigned, she probably would have put somebody in that agrees with her.
She probably would have put someone that has similar ideals to her.
Like it's a fucking big secret.
Some freaking lady.
I don't know if I've already said it on the show, but I've said it in other areas.
But it's like, the reason we have Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court is because Harry Reid refused to do the nuclear option in the Senate in order to confirm a justice with a majority of the Senate.
We did, we just talked about how soft these people are.
Did we talk about that in the last episode?
It's an important, specific thing relevant to this topic, and the second the Republicans are in there, they use the nuclear option to pass Neil Gorsuch's confirmation at 54 votes.
That's the problem.
We don't have a real left that are fucking soft.
It's not even a left-right dynamic at that point.
It's a political-optical dynamic at that point.
Merrick Garland wasn't a left-leaning justice.
He was a pretty moderate justice for everything I've read about him.
It's just the actual, you know, will to enact your policies that was missing from that equation.
Yeah, all the left cares about is aesthetic.
That's it.
Yeah, they're like wearing Arizona iced tea all over print hoodies and shit.
Seriously though, like they don't care about anything but an image.
It's so true.
Okay, so yeah, let's move on to our discussion of Alexandria Cortez and her victory in New York City.
Yes!
And I keep saying New York City even though I don't think it's New York City.
New York State.
New York State.
10108.
It's like somewhere in Queens, I believe.
Anyway, like I said before, corporate media did not handle this well.
It's once again the like aloof response or the just clueless response that most of the media had towards Bernie Sanders.
I mean her platform is obviously very similar to Bernie Sanders platform which really is just like actual demands of the supposed democratic platform.
It's just like, it's God- Okay, excuse me.
It's, it's, it's rights.
It's human rights is what she was campaigning on.
Like, her campaign, her whole platform is just things that everybody fucking needs.
And, I mean, you can call it socialist, you can call it fucking whatever you want.
It's just, she, she, her platform's perfect.
Flawless.
So.
Yeah, so the media doesn't know how to handle that.
They can't take a good thing.
They are totally befuddled by actual left policies.
In the scheme of things, with a global view, pun intended, democratic socialism isn't that far left.
It's generally considered to be, like, center left.
Yeah, it's like a hang a left.
Like a little left.
You know?
Hang a little left.
It's, you know, at the far left you have Communism, somewhere in the middle you have Socialism, and then you have Democratic Socialism, like, to the left of Capitalism.
Just to the left of the center.
Just barely.
Takes from Nancy Pelosi, CNN, where's the other one?
From The Hill.
These are all pretty amazing pieces written about how Alexandria spells the doom of the Democratic Party.
There might be an ulterior motive here.
I love it.
Aside from the fact that these are all, like, corporate media outlets, there's an obvious ulterior motive there, but with the authors themselves.
Let's see if you can spot it.
Okay, so this is from The Hill, and the headline is, Democrats Can Kiss Swing Voters Goodbye With Progressive Ballot.
Oh my god.
And it's interesting here that this author is, like, decrying this platform it's criticizing her platform but also not calling it socialist in the headline just calling it progressive because i mean that's a lot of what it is yeah just be considered uh very progressive uh democrat stuff if that stuff happened it would be considered progress amongst society
There we go.
So he should have used the word regressive ballot if he wanted to criticize.
Goddamn right!
Because this is the lower, lowercase p, lower, little p progressive.
It's not the progressive party, it's the idea of progress.
I have progressive auto insurance.
It's capital P. Okay, yeah, so.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Capitalism.
And stuff.
Okay.
So, uh, this writer goes on to say, Let us be clear that Ocasio-Cortez is an unvarnished leftist.
Think of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, just younger and un-grizzled.
What the fuck?
True.
Yeah, I guess, yeah.
Socialism is her badge of honor.
When she claims that Hamas is simply a Palestinian analog to the Ferguson protests, take her conviction as a given.
You can also place a good bet that come 2020, Ocasio-Cortez will be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.
Cool.
How amazing would that be?
That'd be incredible.
That'd be so hard.
And that shit's not gonna happen.
No, absolutely not.
That's not gonna happen.
Who knows, though?
If it does, then maybe I have a little pray, prayer, little hope, or whatever, but...
Probably not going to happen.
That's not how the left is going to take back the Democratic Party.
No.
They're going to force back with some fucking ultra-weak-ass, soft-ass shit.
Yeah, called, what, Joe Kennedy?
Probably, yeah.
You actually think so?
I mean, he already gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union address this year.
Wow.
Or, yeah, this year.
That really sucks.
Yeah, I mean, it's expected.
I mean, we don't have any hope in the... We just don't, ever.
When would we?
Ocasio-Cortez calls for single-payer healthcare Abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, also known as ICE.
Abolish ICE.
It's kind of amazing how many people are saying that prominently in the public sphere.
It's really taken hold as a policy position.
Keep saying it.
And free college for all.
Forget about the underlying arithmetic and how to pay for all of it, which either requires sky-high taxation or flat-out sorcery.
And it doesn't require sky high taxation.
It just requires like, you know, maybe the first 80 floors.
Yeah, exactly.
Of this skyscraper.
No, it actually requires the full metal alchemist to transform basic elements into gold to pay for everything.
Rather, this is a cultural manifesto, a cry for open borders, and a demand for one ginormous, nausea-inducing free lunch.
Oh, wow.
God.
You know how, like, free lunch makes people sick?
Yep, yep.
Yeah, remember when someone was like, oh, um, I got my free lunch today and I feel sick now?
No.
I remember when I got free lunch as a kid and I felt...
Like, oh, this is cool.
I don't have to pay for this.
Like, that's amazing.
As a child, like a seven-year-old child.
Yeah, I think a lot of people might agree with you that, like, lunch is good.
And free lunch is even better.
Nixon Trails.
So this is a paragraph about Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo's leftward challenger for the New York gubernatorial race.
Is she a relative of the guy?
Uh, no.
She's the star of Sex and... one of the stars of Sex and the City.
Oh.
Okay.
Um... Yeah.
Nixon trails Andrew Cuomo by more than 30 points in New York, and the primary is less than three months away.
Yes, some saw their younger selves in Miranda Hobbes.
Oh.
Then they grew up.
Miranda Hobbes is like 35 in that show?
Yeah, like... The fuck?
But I mean, like, women are perpetual children.
We've learned that from doing this show, so... Like, it's like, she's like an archetype, sure.
You know, like, uh, you know, a 35-year-old, like, sex pot or whatever.
She sexes?
She do a sex thing?
I don't know, you're the one talking.
But, like, what the fuck, like, this, it's not someone, it's not someone they, people don't, like, imagine themselves as her, like, this guy's bullshit.
I kinda wanna push back and say that, like, a defining characteristic of people in this country were picking which Sex and the City character you identified with.
Hey, that's a great pushback, and you're right.
Which, for the record, you're a total Miranda, so.
Well, you're a, um, you're a Jessica.
Okay, so back to this.
Back to this.
Yeah.
Some saw their younger selves in Miranda Hobbes, then they grew up.
Going back in time, it was fun to be hip, watch your folks hate on Richard Nixon, hang out at the saloon on Broadway, or all of the above.
Remember how cool it was to dislike the guy who got indicted while in office?
Yeah.
Hey, don't you remember Hangout?
Isn't it cool to dislike the guy who was only, like, uh, what do you call it, um, set free from prison because his vice president pardoned him?
Not only that, but how cool is it when your parents are the ones doing that?
Watching your parents, you know, dislike him?
That's why we have the right-wing society we live in, is people's parents made fun of Nixon.
They're like, okay, I'm just gonna go the other direction with this.
How cool was it when we were hanging out at the saloon on Broadway?
Remember that?
I don't know what that's a reference to, but it's capitalized.
Come on, 1977, we were there, hanging out.
What is it?
Nothing.
This is insane, what they're saying.
It's capitalized, so it's definitely something.
I mean, it's some bullshit.
It's probably, it's probably, like, the fucking, um, whatever that coffee shop in Friends was.
Like, the Daily Grind or whatever.
That's the Central Perk, bro.
Central Perk.
It's probably that for Sex and the City.
That is what this is.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
But to burn Wall Street down to the ground is a whole other story.
Who does not secretly want to be related to a hedge fund god or bond trader?
What the?
Oh my god.
Let's- let us face it.
Okay, that's weird.
That's just a weird phrase in general.
Let us face it.
Let them talk for all of us.
Well, I'm talking about the not contracting those two words.
No, yeah, that's weird.
Let us face it.
The big short was mesmerizing.
Wow.
You know, the hit big short.
Yeah, I watched the smartest guys in the room and came away with a real affinity for Enron.
That was my takeaway.
Yeah, as most people's was when they see these beautiful films that we see in Hollywood.
Who does not secretly want to be related to a hedge fund god or a bond trader?
Yeah, that got me.
Like... Me, I don't.
Like, your fantasy is that you're related to a rich person?
Yeah.
Like that's... That's like how little this author thinks of the American public is that in our wildest dreams all we could imagine is being related to someone wealthy?
Don't you wish that your cousin had like a guest pass to the private lake?
It's like, what, do, like, like, people want to beg their relatives for money?
Like, what the fuck are they talking about?
You just get to party with them.
You get to do coke, like, once every six months.
Oh.
No, man, you don't know, like, your cousins are, your cousins are your first friends.
So, uh, so they're just gonna give it to you anyways.
Nah, you guys aren't my cousins, but you are my first friends, so I don't, that's wrong.
You hear that, all of Matt's friends from the past?
We're his first friends.
Yeah, fuck y'all.
You were fake ones.
No, no new friend.
Um, yeah, I don't know, this is hilarious.
So this was written by somebody named Lloyd Green, and we have a little bio down here at the bottom.
Lloyd Green was the opposition research counsel to the George H.W.
Bush campaign starting in 1988 and later served in the U.S.
Department of Justice.
He is now the managing member of research and analytics firm Ospreylytics.
Which I thought was like some kind of like old person study of science.
Why?
Osprey sounds like old people to me.
Well, Osprey is an animal, but yeah, it does look like osteoporosis.
That's all.
Yeah, no, so, uh, The Hill, like I said, uh, is a, you know, quote, centrist, capitalist publication.
But also, this is a warning to the Democrats, uh, don't go too far left from a fucking lifetime Republican operative.
This whole article, Red, is... Every take kind of starts at an accessible point, you know?
Starts with, like, these normal thoughts, and then it just gets crazy.
It jumps from, hey, how about we do some healthcare, and how about we get rid of ICE, to burn Wall Street!
I mean, I'm with burning Wall Street, but- I guarantee you that is like, gets a 55% popularity rating.
They love it, yeah.
At least.
Like actually burning the buildings down.
You could do that with 55%.
Based on like, fire alone, you know?
Because it's fire, it's cool.
Last time Wall Street got burned down, people got real bummed.
They still talk about it.
Oh, you're talking about people like fire in general.
Oh, okay.
What were you referencing?
When the actual building is blown down.
When did that happen?
9-11.
Oh, yeah.
That wasn't like all of it, though.
Yeah, they built that bull statue to memorialize 9-11.
The Merrill Lynch statue is the memorial.
And then the little girl standing there is like Al-Qaeda?
Defiant in the face of U.S.
imperialism.
No, it's all Iraq and Iran.
It's not just Al-Qaeda.
It's actual countries against us.
We have to take them away.
Yeah, so InfoWars had a response to this.
InfoWars had an amazing response to this.
Alex Jones went hard.
Went hard for this one.
We're not going to play the actual video.
Can you explain to the listener who Alex Jones is?
Just kidding.
Just the caption alone is pretty great.
The caption on this video where Alex Jones fucking growls about Alexandria, uh, Ocasio-Cortez, uh, the caption says, Admitted Communist.
First of all, no.
Admitted, just like instantly wrong.
Instantly wrong.
Two words in.
Admitted communist wins New York primary, putting America on the path to complete corporate control.
Love it.
This is galaxy brain shit.
Yeah.
Exactly.
This is massive, universal, interdimensional brain shit.
You know how those communists love corporate structures and corporate America and corporate everything.
People's minds are going to be so blown when, like, a few more socialists get into power and they actually push legislation to, like, I don't know, take all of George Soros' money away.
But they're gonna be running as Democrats, so they'll never know.
That's a wolf in sheep's clothing, if you know what I'm saying.
Well, okay, what I'm saying is that the perception of Democrats is that they're funded by, like, left-wing billionaires.
Yeah, no, I totally get that.
So then it would be a surprise to them to see actual leftist policies in action.
It'd be great.
Gut George Soros.
And Bezos.
No, this is just like...
Soros and Bezos.
It's like, uh, like, like Pathos and Lagos, Soros and Bezos.
This is like, uh, this is just another installment of, uh, this thing.
No, it's that thing.
This is another installment of racism.
No, it's black people doing that.
Yeah.
Uh, Democrats, they're the KKK.
Yep.
Oh no.
Communism?
No, that's capitalism.
Yeah, I remember that.
And it's bad in this instance.
Yeah.
InfoWars is where every day is opposite day.
Yeah.
It's so crazy.
It's funny.
It's worth a follow, I think.
Just to laugh.
Go ahead and click on that follow button.
Smash that follow.
Yeah, we got that.
Smash that five star.
Hit that like.
We got the MDC bump for InfoWars right here.
Okay, so another page that commented on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a page called A Libertarian Future.
And this goes surprising.
This links an article from CNN that says Democrats are in danger of going too far left for 2018.
If Dems embrace Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive platform, it could cost them the midterms, writes Joe Cunningham.
Once again, Joe Cunningham, a right-wing person.
Yeah, a gnarly right-wing commentator.
I think just the background of it was good.
Just who wrote it and what else he's done is wild.
What else has he done?
He, uh... God, he writes for, um... What's the name of that?
Oh, Red State.
Thank you, Red State.
Joe Cunningham is an editor at the conservative news and opinion site Red State.
Awesome.
And a contributor to TheHayride.com.
Not to be confused with Happy Hayride.
Uh, yeah.
See, there you go.
That's all I was talking about.
What about sexyhairride.com?
This is, again, something the Democrats can do on their own, so they don't really need Joe Cunningham to do it for them, but this is the constant refrain of public protest, direct action, but what will Republicans think?
What will these people who fucking hate you already who are never gonna vote for you who Didn't vote for you in the face of fucking Trump, right?
Trump was up there and they still didn't vote for you You think people out with signs people out there yelling at government officials whom normally the right-wing hates?
Anyway, I think that's gonna Turn any like centrist heads those suburban women that you didn't get the first time Yeah.
I'm probably saying the obvious, but this is clearly discouragement propaganda.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That's what this is.
What's funny, too, is that I can say with a good amount of confidence that there were people who voted for Trump that also voted for her.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
That's weird.
It's the same thing.
When Bernie was no longer an option, there were people who decided to vote for Trump.
There are people who did that.
That is a whole demographic.
I saw, oh it was weird, when we went to that Redlands City Council meeting, there was a car parked that had a Bernie Sanders sticker and a Benghazi sticker.
Yeah, exactly.
On the same fucking car.
That's a Bernie bro.
Which was weird.
That's the mythical Bernie bro finally spotted in public.
What kind of car was it?
Old car.
Hey, gotta look for that old car.
Find that mythical Bernie bro.
There were a lot of positive comments about her victory.
There were a lot of... I read one comment that was like... How did it go?
It said something like, I'm a moderate or something.
Something to that effect, you know.
But hey, maybe it's going to take a little socialism.
Exactly, yeah.
Like, to get this country back on the right track.
That is the right sentiment.
That's the way to, you know, goad people into it.
And what you're saying, Tony, is there might be an overlap between, her state is heavily minority-majority, or her, sorry, her district, the district that she will Most likely win in November is heavily minority district But there probably still were some Trump voters there there might be an overlap there.
I don't know the the thing that made her candidacy Distinct was the same thing that made made Bernie Sanders candidates candidacy distinct is that she was offering people actual Policy decisions that would help them.
You know, she went around just talking, like, what do you need?
You know, her whole campaign was just like, you know, you need child care.
You need health care.
It was all love.
You need good paying jobs.
Like, it's not a lot of people who could, like, disagree with those things.
Right.
Those things are immensely popular.
It's just that we have this, you know, sort of firewall between us and our politicians that prevents them from being held accountable for not giving us those things.
So this Libertarian Future Facebook page posted this link and then they put the caption on here, surprising that this was published on CNN.
Because, you know, CNN stands for Communist News Network.
Libertarians, don't they pride themselves on being smart?
They should be.
Aren't they like Rick and Morty people?
They pride themselves on philosophy, Rick and Morty, smoking weed, and hating gay people.
they've read they've read everything they've read all like the philosophers they pride themselves on philosophy of Rick and Morty smoking weed and hating gay people probably well I mean supposedly like a libertarian is for gay rights and you know abortion access in theory I I haven't met any cool libertarians ever.
Oh, you'll never meet a cool one.
Um, yeah.
Anyway, it's just like, uh, A, this is written by a Republican, which CNN has plenty of.
Yeah.
Tons.
B. CNN is a fucking corporate media giant.
I don't know.
We've belabored this point enough.
They're going to publish what they want to.
Any kind of clickbait shit.
No.
A socialist's agenda is counterproductive to a corporate giant.
So of course they're going to smear her a bit.
Yeah, definitely.
And then one comment from this, from this post was from Jerry Wilson, who says, uh, the Dems are just placing a young face on themselves.
Yeah.
This gets worse.
All those Dems that are, that are there for abolishing ICE.
Hey, um, you know, Hillary, uh, she already did that.
Put a young face on herself.
So, uh, we don't need Ocasio.
Okay, so you had to do it, okay?
I like Hillary's attempt.
However, the leftist dudes can see the crazy eye.
She's got the crazy eyes.
Yeah, she's got that real cock eye.
She's got the crazy eyes, and this might actually get more people sent her.
We should be thanking the left for this opportunity.
Yeah, you know her crazy eyes?
Yeah, he's not- Real weird.
He's not referring to cockeye, he's referring to, like, intense eyes while she's speaking, which she definitely has, uh, and it's awesome.
Oh, it's so good.
It's intense as fuck.
Uh, it's also most likely due to, like, a lack of media training.
Or, like, scared of women or something?
I don't know, maybe this person's afraid of, uh, strong women.
Okay, yeah, their reaction to- I'm saying she really does, like, widen her eyes on camp.
Oh, oh yeah.
Yeah, so I'm saying that you have to, like, learn how to be on TV.
Like, you have to be trained how to, you know, not do the things we all do while we're talking normally.
I don't know.
What she does is great, and she definitely is commanding.
You know?
And it's great.
I mean, the dudes will see it.
The dudes will see this chick is crazy.
Which is not far off.
There are going to be guys out there that are going to be like, oh no man, she seems a little young.
She seems a little arrogant.
There's going to be dudes out there saying that.
Dudes who are claiming to be socialists in this area are going to be like, oh no dude, she's still like a chick, dude.
There's probably gonna be dudes that are like, uh, she just looks crazy, like, like this chick I dated.
Uh, scary.
Uh, women are crazy.
Yeah, which is ironic because we all love that movie My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
It's like a blockbuster.
Yeah, that's, that's canon.
So... Yeah.
Finally, um...
We have a take from Nancy Pelosi herself.
Oh, the goddess.
When asked by CBS News' Nancy Cordes if Democratic Socialism is quote, ascendant in the Democratic Party, Pelosi responded with a firm no.
No, they're not, Pelosi said.
It's ascendant in that district, perhaps.
But I don't accept any characterization of our party presented by the Republicans.
So let me reject that right now.
No, we're on the uprising.
We're organizing, we're helping each other, we love each other, and this is happening.
That's all I have to say about that.
Yeah.
I like this part where she's like, uh, but I don't accept any characterization of our party presented by Republicans.
So the idea that, uh, the Democratic Party actually like getting money out of politics or helping, uh, working class people or helping undocumented immigrants is a smear campaign by the right wing.
They want you to believe this stuff.
It's not true.
None of it.
It's all lies from the pit of hell.
Yeah, Scott Pruitt using that government money.
That's bullshit.
He's not doing it.
He's not buying pearl necklaces for his wife on a fucking government dime.
No, he is, though.
They're so afraid of the Republican label of socialism that they endured throughout the entire Obama presidency that they're going to fight against actual changes.
Like, you've already survived Eight years of being called socialists.
Probably longer.
The Democratic Party's probably been called socialists since the party's switched platform.
You know what I mean?
It's hilarious that they're so afraid of it that they're gonna call it a Republican conspiracy that there was this upswell of support from their base.
Their base wants this.
The Democratic Party's base wants all these things.
The Dems, the Libs, they want it?
What?
They want it?
The Democratic base, yes.
Well, I mean, what we've learned about grass roots is that grass roots are not a good idea because, you know, irrigation costs a lot and it's wasteful and we are in a drought and we cannot water our grass roots anymore.
Yeah, you should be careful.
We need a more, like, resilient- You need drought.
Drought-resistant.
Drought-resistant plants, yeah.
Plants, exactly.
I was gonna say, you just need, like, instead of a field of grass, grass roots, you need just two giant trees blocking out the sun, preventing that grass from growing.
Well, I'm gonna go out on a field and say, on a field, that I'm a drought-resistant plant.
I'm a plastic cactus, and I'll never die.
You can fucking try to do whatever you want to me, but I'll fight.
And so will Tony, and so will Alex.
Yeah, dude.
Plastic cacti are known for fighting.
That's what we are.
Fuck yeah, dude.
That'll be our new shirt.
Haven't you seen The Three Amigos?
Yeah, it was a long time ago.
Fighting and singing.
Pretty, uh... problematic movie, right?
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