This week we take a look at the way the right wing feels about gassing refugees: pretty good! Either the crisis is real and good, or fake and bad (because it's fake.) Also, Ammon Bundy comes out in favor of refugees and migrant workers, probably not for any ulterior motives, and his "anti-government" fanbase immediately turns on him. Finally, Marc Lamont Hill speaks out in support of Palestinians at the UN, and is fired by CNN, thanks to right wing internet chuds. Orange County DSA is going to Tijuana to support the refugee caravan directly: https://www.gofundme.com/support-the-migrant-caravan-w-oc-dsa
I mean, yeah, that's like time-honored tradition of stealing time from your boss.
Jerking off at work.
That's what I'm jerking off to, is the thought that I'm... I'm getting paid for this!
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I...
The liberals are destroying California, and conservative humor gone awry is going to fascist-fornia 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.
Stay tuned, guys.
We'll show you exactly what it looks like when we're going to destroy the desert.
All their environmental stuff.
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We're documenting it.
And before we get into the show today, we do have some sad news.
Over the weekend, George H.W.
Bush did pass away, and this is sad, of course, not because of the death of a war criminal, notorious homophobe killer of gay people.
No, it's because that Jeb, exclamation point, is now an orphan, exclamation point.
Sweet, sweet Jeb.
So alone.
No one to take care of him.
Jeb Bush, like, waiting in a line, saying, uh, please sir, can I have some more?
But it's tax incentives to build a cell phone factory in Wisconsin.
Jeb's just sitting there, pacing back and forth, waiting for his acceptance letter to, uh, to Hogwarts, waiting for that owl to show up on his doorstep.
Hoping things are gonna get better.
The good news is that Danny Glover did say he would adopt Jeb once the Rangers win the pennant.
Oh yeah, that would be the Rangers, absolutely.
So our hearts go out to giant, 6'3", hoodie-wearing orphan, Jeb Bush.
Yeah.
Let's get into the show proper.
Absolutely.
So in this first segment, we're going to take a look at the way the right wing feels about gassing refugees.
Not just refugees, but children.
And God, wouldn't you know it, they think it's great.
Yeah, they're into it.
They think it's really cool and funny or fake.
It's either good and real or it's fake and bad because it's fake and not real.
Exactly.
Let's do the fake stuff first.
I mean, we didn't, you know, as usual, what we try to do on this show is we try to get more of the galaxy brain takes or the takes that sort of reveal the thought process of the right wing around a given story.
And that sort of precludes the more vitriolic and What's the word I'm looking for?
Just, like, boringly racist?
Yeah.
Or boringly, uh, violent?
Like, lazily hateful.
Yeah, and there's just, you know, we're a very violent country.
We're obsessed with, uh, violence and militarism.
And so you get sort of bored at seeing, you know, no, gas the invaders.
Yeah.
No, I don't care if they're children.
Kill them anyway.
Like, it's like, okay.
We've seen this before, guys.
Back to the back to the writers, the writers room.
Let's run this back.
Yeah.
Um, so instead of like finding those comments of which there are thousands and you can find them in any comment section on CNN, on a CNN post or a Washington Post post, uh, of like laugh reacts, you know, to, to children in pain and stuff like that.
Uh, we're just going to deal with, um, comments that are sort of enlightening or Fascinating.
And like I said, the first subset of these comments Oh, sorry, no, I have a comment from a liberal who's really sad at George H.W.
Bush dying.
Because, let me just read it here, I loved that they, meaning George H.W.
Bush, I loved that they let puppies be born in the White House.
They were really classy.
I can't wait to have classy in the White House again.
Remember how fucking classy it was when they had the puppy doula come in and like help coach the puppy through the White House berth?
So lame.
I remember when just like a fucking litter of pups dumped out into the Lincoln room, how classy that was.
Remember how nepotism is not real, yet the puppy that was born that day in the White House was back in the White House being owned by his son, who was then President George W. Bush.
Yeah, people talk about, like, the Bush dynasty, but they don't talk about that dog dynasty a lot.
That dog dynasty was, well, because if we're going to talk about dog dynasties, we're only talking about one dog.
Which dog?
The bounty hunter.
I love this set of politics because it's not even like Pitbull dog politics.
It's puppy being born politics.
It's just I like puppies politics.
Those are my politics.
That's the only reason they like the Obamas because they had a great dog.
Great dog in that White House.
Yeah, and that's why we didn't like Bill.
Because he had that fucking cat.
That fucking cat.
Which we hate on this show.
No cats allowed.
We hate cats.
Yeah.
That's not true.
Alright, so first comment about the use of chemical warfare on refugees seeking asylum in this country.
First comment comes from Chantiel.
Chantiel Fisto, I believe that's the name of a Star Wars character, says... A merchant?
Some like galaxy merchant?
Yeah, merchant or like a bounty hunter, you know, one of the interstellar bounty hunters.
Chantiel Fisto says, photoshoot.
And posts a photo of, uh... I think this is the same woman whose photograph went viral.
Pulling her two kids away from tear gas.
Can you see?
I don't think so.
I think that unfortunately there were so many women who were pulling their kids from tear gas that we see a lot of images that look similar that are different people pulling different kids from the tear gas because it was happening so much.
That's fair.
It's just it's a woman sort of off in the distance.
This isn't the close-up photograph that we've seen.
She's like off in the distance sort of running and in the foreground of this picture almost like silhouetted at the bottom of this photograph in the foreground These photos are all staged!
It's so gross.
is a videographer who's videotaping what's happening.
And yeah, Chantille Fisto captions this post, this comment with photo shoot.
- Yeah. - And then Till Falcone replies, these photos are all staged. - It's so gross.
It's like they were catching a photo shoot and the person by the camera is going like, now act terrified for me.
Now please run for your life.
Okay, now I want you to scream in agony.
Can you scream in agony?
Yeah, I want you to start coughing, but don't actually inhale the tear gas because it is really bad for you, but just pretend like you inhaled the tear gas that's surrounding you, clearly visible.
Yeah, there's just two things about this real quick that I love.
Photoshoot.
That's the only comment too.
Just one word.
The idea that because somebody is shooting a photo that it is a A photo shoot, a staged magazine spread.
Because it's a photo shoot.
This just, it reminds me so much, especially with Till Falcone's reply, these photos are all staged.
This reminds me so much of an amazingly common response anytime there's a protest, anytime there's a Black Lives Matter protest, immigrants' rights protest.
The refrain from the right wing is, This protest was staged!
Well if you look closely on the back of the man holding the camera, in the shirt it says Soros Productions.
But I just like the idea that Because you saw, like, the only valid protest is one where everybody spontaneously, anybody in a given area spontaneously decides to protest.
Like, yes, of course your protest was staged.
That's how you organize a protest.
You know what I mean?
No, actually, every time I have a protest, I give an exclusive to one photographer.
Only one person can cover my protest.
It's a very real protest that way.
Sure.
It's insane.
I could tell this was fake.
At the bottom of this photograph you can clearly see the silhouette of two robots and a human.
And they're clearly watching a B-movie from the 70s occur about immigrants fleeing from the federal government and making fun of it.
If you go to this spot, the footprints on the dirt there, they don't match the actual shoe that's in the Smithsonian that this kid's wearing.
It's a moon landing joke.
Sure, you didn't get my mystery science theater joke.
No, sorry.
I got yours though.
The Patriarchy, which is just a great account on Facebook, posted this revealing post.
Why we call them the Lungenpresse or quote lying press.
They are so steeped in deception, they simply couldn't tell the truth, even if they wanted to.
And then before we dissect that caption, let's just look at what they posted.
They posted two images, one of which is like a compilation of all the headlines.
It's like a collage of all the headlines about this story, all of which included the probably Pulitzer, soon-to-be-Pulitzer-nominated photograph of this woman pulling her kids to safety while being tear-gassed by the American government, by American Border Patrol agents.
10 feet away, if not closer to a canister that's releasing tear gas?
Yeah, so it's a collage of the Facebook headlines or Twitter headlines, you know, from CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC News, who all for some reason used this incredibly striking image.
I can't imagine why they would have wanted to use this incredible photograph for their thumbnail.
Uh, and then the caption for this...
This specific compilation, collage, says, the media, which is definitely not the enemy of the people, sure does seem to be one united front.
Insane.
It's like, well, I mean, it's like other fake things.
Like, why do they use that one photo of Jacky-o holding his scalp?
You know?
Why is it the one photo that gets used?
It must be a conspiracy.
I couldn't see possibly any natural reason for them to want to use that photo.
Yeah, no way.
Why are so many news agencies covering this story of 4,000 refugees seeking asylum in America?
What's really funny too is that they're upset about everybody using this one photo while being upset about too many cameras being on the premises.
Well, that's the thing is that there should be plenty of photos available for thumbnails, you know?
Exactly.
And yeah, you're talking about too many cameras.
The other photograph they posted with this post is like some conspiracy theory, gobbledygook nonsense that's like the wider shot of the same photograph.
It's like highlighting.
It's got literal Charlie Day scribbles on it.
No, it's the iPhone editor where you have to write with your finger and a paintbrush.
Yeah, sure.
I'm just saying it's like manic conspiracy theory.
Yeah, yeah.
Nonsense scribbled over the top of this photograph of, oh, this person's standing.
This person's running.
This person doesn't know what to do.
God, they're just so disorganized.
They tried to fool us with this staged event, and they can't even get their own shit together.
This is what they're talking about when they say organized chaos.
I've never heard that phrase.
Oh yeah, this is manufactured chaos.
And yet we saw right through it.
This is like a, um, to them this was a flash mob.
That's all this is.
I mean, that's like...
They probably do see flash mobs like, you know, on CBS or whatever and think, wow, it's amazing that all those people like just in their hearts knew it was time to dance.
That's like, that's the only genuine form of like self-expression or political, political theater is just spontaneously getting the will to synchronize swim on ground.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why humanity is going to be okay.
And that's why these people can't come over here and ruin that.
Just no coordination.
But if they were coordinated, they'd be some sort of weird hive mind.
Some sort of weird alien hive mind.
So basically, I want to examine the thought process behind this because it is all this conspiracy theory which is widespread enough to have a Snopes article debunking it.
It's literally just rooted in the fact that you can see camera people in the shot.
Yeah.
Like, wow, this is just a live set that everybody is filming simultaneously.
Yeah.
It's not like this is a huge thing that's worth covering so everyone's going to come out of the woodwork to cover it.
It's like, no, this is clearly staged.
It couldn't have been that dangerous.
No way.
There were camera people there.
Yeah, people don't put themselves in harm's way.
Yeah.
There was no World War II.
How could you get those photographs back?
If this was real, they would have been using those telescoping lenses like they use in sports.
It's just like seeing another camera in the shot really takes me out of the whole production.
It really takes me out of the whole tragedy.
It's hard for me to suspend my disbelief.
It's like seeing a boom in the shot.
It's like having a PA walk behind Christian Bale.
This is clearly fake.
It's clearly fake.
And it's like, but I would be willing to like, you know, just go with it.
But God, they just can't get their shit together.
It's like that moment in, um, when you're really into it in Independence Day, when, uh, he's freaking out and he knocks over the trash can and the trash can is labeled art department because the people on set forgot to take that trash can away.
Yeah, it's like when you shoot canisters of tear gas at refugees and then the canister says property of U.S.
government and you're like, I knew it!
They were in on it the whole time.
Exposed.
Exposed.
That's what you were referencing, giving an exclusive.
When you seek asylum in a country, giving an exclusive to one news agency.
Yeah, this is why we should have, like, just one news agency in general.
This is why we should have one state-run news agency, so that there's no confusion about this.
You have one camera on the scene, all the camera people are coordinated, nobody's stepping on anybody else's toes or anybody else's lines, you know, there's no kids bumping into each other, running the wrong way, you know, oops!
Uh, yeah.
Just organize it a little better, is all I'm saying.
Do you wanna read this one?
Oh, yeah.
Uh... Oh, fuck.
I forgot how amazing this comment is for a second.
You gotta get through his name first, if you can.
Oh man, Keith McCluggage?
It's like Keith McCluggage?
McCluggage?
Yeah.
Keith Big Mac Dog.
Keith Mac Diggy.
Keith McSamsonite.
Samson Simpson.
He's keeping it real.
Respectfully.
By the way, his profile picture is Julian Assange's face turning into the anonymous mask.
It's like half and half.
It's pretty perfect.
So you know you can take this guy serious.
Exactly.
This guy's keeping it real.
Like, we might be woke, but are we really awake?
Are we really aware like this guy is?
It says, respectfully, you need to look deeper into this to understand what's going on.
So this is a response to a segment, a later segment that we won't spoil right now, but somebody was saying, hey, refugees are people and like we should process their applications and obey the law, you know?
But this guy's saying, no, no, no.
You need to look deeper into this to understand what's really going on.
This is a deep state false flag operation.
All of the evidence is available by open sources.
God damn.
So it's not even a secret.
We can find this out.
This is obviously a deep, a deep state operation.
Yeah.
You go to opensecrets.com to find out who's funding the migrant caravan.
Cause you know, I saw, uh, I saw one of them have a cell phone.
Yeah.
And how do you get a cell phone if you're, you know, a migrant?
How do you get a cell phone, which costs like 10 bucks a month, and split that among, I don't know, 100 people?
How do you do that?
And by a cell phone, we do mean like a flip phone.
Not like an iPhone X. Yeah, but they were still playing Snake on it.
Oh, that's true.
You don't have time for games if you're trying to flee for your life.
How do you charge that?
Absolutely.
Ding ding ding.
- Bryson Myers responds by saying, "Who needs a deep state false flag when our country has been hard at work destabilizing every single country in Latin America since the Cold War?" - Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. - Absolutely.
Want to stop massive migrant influxes?
Stop waging wars in other countries in other countries and toppling governments.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
This is absolutely true.
That guy that died earlier we referenced, he's a big cause for a lot of this that we're experiencing right now.
Yeah, he didn't just make Jeb Bush an orphan.
He made a lot of other people orphans.
Yeah, like countless people are orphans.
You know, but to stop drugs from coming in.
So yeah, great point.
And then Ricky Douglas responses to that.
Ricky Douglas, what a cute name.
Bronson Myers.
Oh, did you see his profile picture?
Is this a Q?
It's a Q. It's a goddamn Q. It's a Q, baby.
So that means, a Q is as good as a verified stamp.
A Q is like almost an IQ.
Yeah.
You don't even need the I anymore.
No.
Because you've become Q.
Uh, Ricky Douglas says, Bronson Myers, them days are over.
Sorry, I just thought of a great Facebook page that's I comma Q. I, Q. Yeah.
Yep.
Ricky Douglas says, Bronson Myers, them days are over.
We aren't waging war anymore.
Just the last four puppets that presidents have.
So it was just the last four presidents.
Just those four, those four that I can remember.
Just the last four.
Those four that I, the only four presidents that I can name.
But guess what?
Trump isn't playing.
And he's right.
Trump has not at all intervened in, you know, any overseas things, you know, like Puerto Rico.
Just not get involved.
Just steps away.
Stay out of that mess.
Yeah.
They're basically a foreign country.
Also, you know, when a new president takes office, the foreign countries who have been destabilized go, hey, guys, let's leave them alone.
It's not their fault anymore.
The guy that was fucking with us is out of office.
We gotta let this new guy give him a shot.
Yeah, there's a new American president now.
a new day has dawned, we're good now. - We're good, we're good.
Everything's gonna be alright.
We're gonna be fine.
um yeah i love that just like we aren't waging war anymore when like trump campaigned on telling the generals to take the gloves off yeah like trump is totally like I guess Trump isn't waging war in that he literally does not give a shit about what the military or the generals or the Pentagon is doing.
He's just letting them do it.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
Even when they're like, hey man, maybe chill a little bit.
They're only like maybe chill when he tries to tell Iraq to pay us back for the fucking invasion.
They're like, no, you literally can't.
No, that's illegal.
You can't extort Iraq.
For oil.
No, they're like only chill when it's a PR thing.
It's like when he originally wanted to send troops down to the border, he wanted to call it Operation Faithful Patriot.
And they were like, ooh, maybe that's not a good idea.
Maybe we should rewrite that one.
That's not a great idea because it sounds so much like Useful Idiot.
Yeah.
Right?
Absolutely, absolutely.
The second you told me Faithful Patriot was the original, I was like, oh, that's perfect.
Yeah.
That's perfect.
You'll believe anything, you fucking Patriot.
Stands for Silly Dummy.
Yeah, but now they just changed it to like Operation Border Check.
Like, oh cool.
That's real nice.
A border check is when you go up to your country and you flick it in the southern region.
It's a border check.
I thought it was like checking your tires.
Whenever I need to check my tires, I just shoot a tear gas canister at it and listen for the ping noise.
That's how I know it's good.
Yeah, Trump isn't playing.
No, Trump isn't playing.
He's the real deal.
Oh, he got rid of ICE?
That's what they like Trump for.
Yeah.
It's like Trump's strong military.
He's taking the gloves off the military.
He's refunding the military.
What do you, what the fuck do you think he's funding the military for?
Anyway, it's just weird.
Get your talking points about Trump straight.
Okay.
So, uh, the second brand of reaction that we're going to cover this week, the second brand of right-wing reaction, uh, to the gassing of refugees on the border.
And I want to, I want to stress the fact that it's, Of course it's terrible that there were children gassed, but it's terrible that any refugee was gassed.
Man, woman, or child.
I feel like the progressive lib take is, God, they were gassing children.
It's like, no, they were gassing human beings trying to seek asylum.
These are all extremely disadvantaged people trying to seek asylum in the country, and none of them should be gassed.
It should be horrific that any of them were gassed.
Well, I don't know about you, but my man eyes can take tear gas.
You know, I don't know if you know this.
Cause you don't cry.
Well, I never like, you know, joined the military per se, but I used to, you know, I've gone through some combat training.
And so, you know, me and, me and my boys, we would often go into a room, close all the windows and doors and set out the tear gas.
And whoever tapped out, we just called a pussy and beat up.
So like, man eyes can take it.
Are you sure that wasn't marijuana?
I don't remember.
This is probably tear gas.
I still don't remember.
Okay, so what is this page called?
Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, which is a clever acronym for U.S.
Marine Corps.
They're like a far-right, hyper-violent, national Facebook page with a Giant following.
Huge.
I think it's in the millions of people who follow this insane page.
And none of them are like following it ironically like we are.
They're not following it to keep tabs.
Yeah, so there's a meme that they posted that says, top text, if you think unintentionally tear gassing illegal kids is bad, Bottom text, wait till you hear what Bill Clinton did to American children.
And there is a picture of the, a photo in the center, of the aftermath of the Waco, Texas standoff with the Branch Davidians.
Uh, so, a lot going on here.
A lot going on.
A lot going on in this post.
Just like, they're really, this is almost like a study in efficient right-wing propaganda.
This first, like, phrase.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, if you think unintentionally tear-gassing illegal kids is bad.
It's amazing.
Unintentionally, for starters.
Mhm.
Let's start with that one.
Yeah.
Well, we didn't mean to tear gas the children.
They were just... friendly fire?
Mhm.
I don't know.
It was an accident.
I slipped and fell and fired the multiple cartridges over the wall.
Well what you were saying it was like unintentional because like kids are short and you like can't see them.
Yeah you can't see them.
You can't see them a lot of the time.
It's very dangerous.
Some of them were wearing fake mustaches.
I didn't know that they were actual children.
Yeah, we thought we were firing t-shirts at them.
Because some of them didn't have clothes.
So, uh, whoops.
Wait, hold on.
Although we know from that episode of The Simpsons that t-shirt cannons can also be very dangerous.
That's so weird that I just... I never watched The Simpsons, but that episode was on while I was at the gym the other day.
Watching, I was like, this is like brutally violent.
And now that I know it was a t-shirt cannon, it's hilarious.
Wait, you're talking about the episode, uh, Lost My Maude.
Is that what it's called?
I think so.
The one where Maude dies because she gets hit with a barrage of t-shirts.
Oh, no, maybe I'm thinking a totally different episode.
This might be... Someone comes in with a cannon of sorts and saves Homer from, like, being frozen under an ice rink?
And he's shooting people with things that are, like, setting them on fire immediately?
Okay, that's a much later episode, I don't know what episode that is.
It kills like a million people with what looks like a t-shirt cannon.
Okay.
Sorry, I just got excited that I knew a season reference one time.
Yeah, too bad it was a lame episode.
Damn it, God.
Lame episode.
Sorry, sorry.
That's alright.
Unintentionally, like no one believes that this was unintentional.
This is the wrong take.
This post only had like 2.5 thousand likes, which is pretty low for Uncle Sam's misguided children.
Also, illegal kids.
We're just leaning so... like, ever since... I don't know if this is true.
It seems like it.
But ever since the phrase undocumented started to take over in the public lexicon, I feel like other people have been leaning really hard into illegal.
Yeah.
It's like if you don't want your kids to get tear gas, you should have registered them.
You should have gotten your kid's license.
I mean yeah, a legal kid, like talking about them like they're contraband.
Like they haven't been smogged recently.
Well if they're smogged, that's how you know they can hold up to the tear gas.
Yeah.
God, I need a permit to get a gun, but these people don't need a permit to exist.
That's called government overreach.
Oh, I can't open carry, but they can just, you know, walk around with kids carrying kids?
They should have to wear yoga pants with a hidden pocket in it for those kids.
Like, listen, my gun might kill someone, but so might that kid.
My gun might kill somebody, but that kid might, like, cry in a restaurant?
Yep.
Equally bad?
Well, most kids grow up to be MS-13s.
be MS 13s no misguided Sam's 13s it And then, okay, so this is obviously a reference to Waco, Texas, like I said.
We should say who this meme is credited to.
There's like a little watermark on it that is at the gay who strayed.
Uh... Which I did not understand at first.
Uh-huh.
And then you elaborated.
Yeah, it's just, it's like a gay Republican.
It's like, I used to be on the Democratic plantation, never.
And now I'm a Republican, because I'm gay, but I still hate poor people and minorities.
By the way, there should be a different phrase for gay walk-away people other than Democratic Plantation.
like you should be like I ran away from the democratic runway I walked away from the democratic drag race Yeah, exactly.
What would it be?
I don't even know.
What's a non-offensive stereotype about gay people?
None of them are going to be non-offensive.
I don't want to give them any credit that they had.
They were never fierce.
Walk-away Republicans were never fierce.
That's true.
That's a good point.
Can you imagine how hard it would have been to be the walk-away gay on World AIDS Day?
It's World AIDS Day, so you're remembering everything that's happened.
You're remembering AIDS.
You're remembering how it was, for so long, thought to be just this thing that was clearing out the gay people.
It was a blessing, almost.
Yeah, I feel that's the way that H.W.
Bush thought about it.
But then you're also mourning the death of the man who was basically saying exactly that.
Because, you know, he's a Republican icon.
I mean, to be fair, like, Abraham Lincoln probably, uh... Oh no, isn't the speculation that Abraham Lincoln was gay?
Isn't that the Log Cabin Republican?
You know about the Log Cabin Republicans?
Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
But I didn't know about Abraham Lincoln being... Well, that's why they're called the Log Cabin Republicans.
I did not know that.
It's after Abraham Lincoln.
Is it just because he had such great style?
Is that because he dressed his ass off?
Yeah, it's because he was a mountain they wanted to scale.
I've actually seen that video, it's one of the earliest videos ever taken.
It's of Abraham Lincoln voguing, and he does one of the fiercest drops ever, just boom.
I've never seen anyone go like, he's so tall, so when he goes straight flat to back, it's amazing.
Yeah, he slaps his hat on the ground.
It's really great, yeah.
stovepipe more like stovetop hey some stovetop um no uh yeah no because he had like correspondence with like close friends and like and like he had like a uh i don't know a platonic relationship with mary todd supposedly i don't know he wrote like i love you dog um Yeah, no, the gay who strayed.
Wait till you hear what a Bill Clinton did to American children.
So this meme, we spent a lot of time on this, but this meme is highlighting the atrocity that was the American government intervening in a cult compound's right to have sex with 12 year olds.
That's what was going on at the David Koresh Waco compound.
He was quote marrying 12 year olds.
Girls as young as 12 years old and stockpiling ammo for a war.
And the federal government was like, you know, no, probably not so much because of the child warfare or the child welfare, probably more because of, you know, the threat, the threat to the federal government or whatever.
The point is that this motherfucker was literally one of the child traffickers, child abusers that QAnon, that these far-right freaks pretend to hate.
When they think they're Muslims, when they make up these stories about a Muslim compound, Indoctrinating you know ten-year-olds like Muhammad would or whatever or marrying twelve-year-olds or when they find a transient camp in the middle of the desert and are like oh there was definitely child sex going on here.
These are the same people who will lament the federal government stepping in on a Waco cult child bride compound and somehow compare that to the gassing of children by the federal government but in the wrong way?
Yeah.
It's so weird.
The enemy in this meme is the federal government, but the enemy in real life are the children that the government just gassed.
Exactly.
Like, do you think these are the same things?
Because I don't think you do think they're the same things.
No, it's like, well, if you think that's bad, why do you think that's bad, but you don't think this is bad?
But it's like, bro, we all thought that was bad.
We were all bummed on that whole situation.
Nobody's stoked Waco happened.
No, and even if there hadn't been the fire that killed people in Waco, the right wing would still be furious at the government overreach of them trying to tell a man how to live and who to marry.
So yeah, this isn't, this definitely isn't Uncle Sam's misguided children or the Gay Who Strayed admitting that gassing Mexican or South American, Latin American children is bad.
They don't think that's bad.
No.
So, what does the purpose of this mean?
It's this hypocrisy argument, it's like, oh, it's the same thing with Obama.
Oh, well Obama did it.
And you didn't think Obama doing it was bad.
So did you think Obama doing it was good?
Are we only allowed to think that one thing is bad at a time?
Well, it's basically a way to avoid addressing the actual topic.
It's the same thing with the free speech argument.
It's the same thing with the let's get a new face running for president.
You don't want to talk about the politics.
You don't want to talk about the reality, the material conditions of children seeking asylum, getting gassed.
So you try to make it about hypocrisy on the other side.
And they actually do go the extra mile of trying to address this specific situation by saying unintentionally tear gassing illegal kids.
So they're bad kids.
They're the bad kind of kids.
They're the illegal kids.
So even if we intentionally tear gassed them, it would still be good.
Because you know a negative and a negative is a positive.
But also it was unintentional probably.
Exactly.
So they're doing that little bit of work in that first part of the sentence.
And I also love that they do the same type of work, but in the opposite direction, where it's like, wait till you hear what Bill Clinton did to American children, as if Bill Clinton was like, wait, what room are the kids in?
Let me light the match there.
Yeah, or like, the whole purpose of the government intervening, or not the whole purpose, but I mean, one of the reasons for the government intervening was because there were reports of child sexual assault, you know.
Um, let's get into one comment from this, uh, Corey Ledet, or Leday, says, It's okay, because all them kids in Waco was white.
So yeah, it's like they're trying to say like, well, no one cares when it's white kids.
Yeah.
And you know, they kind of got a point.
I mean, you think about it, uh, school shootings.
Most times the kids that are dying, white kids.
And they still don't change anything.
So maybe Cory's on to something here.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, that's, you know, for every, you could like, for any time somebody talks about gun violence in Chicago or like black on black violence, you just be like, well, what about white on white violence?
What about white on white violence?
AKA every school shoot.
Yeah.
Cause like every single time there's, you know, Black-on-black violence it's like a one-to-one ratio whereas like when the shooting it's like it's a one person it's a mass shooting yeah it's a mass shooting yeah but yeah those and we should say just so we don't perpetuate a false narrative black-on-black crime or black-on-black violence
Doesn't exist in terms of it being an anomaly among any race.
Yeah.
Every single race is far more likely to kill members of that race because of how segregated our society is.
You just kill who you live by.
You kill who you live by.
Including your loved one, your wife, your kids.
Like that's far more common.
Most murders are by someone you know and love or loved at one point.
So I'm saying like Surround yourself with a diverse group of people that you can then murder and be the change you want to see in the world.
Exactly.
And also, it's okay because all them kids in Waco is white.
Their whiteness is literally the reason that Uncle Sam's Misguided Children cares about them.
Got any attention.
That's why they care about them.
That's why the ATF got pushed back.
That's why you're seeing this post, Cory.
Yes, and this was the event that spawned, you know, 200,000 subscriptions to Soldier of Fortune magazine.
Huge impact.
For our next topic, we're going to be talking about the Bundys and Ammon Bundy's response to this refugee crisis.
The only reason the Bundys weren't gunned down and all their cosplaying army buddies weren't gunned down by the federal government is A. because they were white, B. because they were armed, and C. because of Waco, Texas.
Exactly, they didn't want a second Waco on their hands.
That was like the statements by the, the interdepartmental statements by the ATF was like, we don't ever want another Waco.
We can't do that again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This dude owes us millions of dollars.
Yeah.
But we can't, and they're pointing rifles at the heads, sniper rifles at the heads of federal agents.
Yeah.
But we can't do anything because we're worried about another Waco.
Exactly.
Funny how that all goes out the window when, you know, it's like Standing Rock.
Oh, totally.
But, you know.
I mean, they weren't armed.
Dude, the sickest body armor is whiteness.
That's like the best bulletproof vest is whiteness.
And that's why Buffalo Bill didn't get as much respect as he deserved because he was trying to harvest that armor for ethnic minorities to use in the future.
Exactly.
He was a good ally.
Completely misunderstood individual.
We're going to synthesize this so everyone can wear it.
So Ammon Bundy, son of what's his name?
Cloven Bundy?
Cloven?
Cloven?
Cloven Huff Bundy.
Filthy person.
Do not eat him.
Do not.
He's not kosher at all.
Yeah, so people remember the Bundy Ranch standoff.
Dude was illegally grazing his Thousands of cattle on federal land refusing to pay grazing fees in Nevada because he's like a sovereign citizen.
For like a decade?
Yeah, for decades, I think.
Like, uh...
Just mooching millions of dollars off the fed.
And this is millions of dollars at a discounted rate.
Absolutely, yeah.
Like, the price that he was going to get from the federal government for feeding his source of income.
Like, grazing isn't just like, oh, it's a place for cows to kill time.
No, they go eat there.
That's buying food for your product, for your stock, you know.
Refused to pay for it.
And yeah, the ATF came down and he called all his militia buddies to come and get his back and they did and it worked.
And it's funny because we get mad about appropriation now.
I get really mad when I see a white person with dreadlocks, you know?
But this guy was like, hey listen, we've been here since the 50s, so we're basically Native Americans.
We don't follow American rules.
We follow the Native people's rules.
That's what they were saying.
They were saying, no, we are Native.
They're doing to us what we did, what my family literally did to Native Americans to get this land in the first place.
Exactly.
Yeah, it's pretty great.
It's great if you like bad stuff.
It's really good if you like bad stuff.
So this is Cliven Bundy, again a rancher who loves to flout federal law and mooch and exploit.
This is his son Ammon Bundy posting on Facebook, refugee talk brings a lot of hate maybe there's some sense in the middle and he posted a sort of
I don't know what you would call this, like an address to America video where he says, hey like refugees are cool and good and people and like we should all do the common sense thing and like exploit them as cheap labor.
Absolutely.
You know he doesn't come out and say this but this is of course
Why he has this opinion about refugees and or undocumented immigrants or migrant workers like the country Depend our country depends greatly on migrant workers documented or otherwise Especially states like California But And I will give him the benefit of the doubt that Working on a ranch
And hiring migrant labor does bring you into contact with migrant people.
And you do get to know them and see, oh hey, they're not like...
Frothing at the mouth rapist criminals.
They're just people who like need to work to survive.
So maybe there is some genuine compassion for these people that his family is likely also exploiting as labor.
Well, I think what he's really worried about is that, um, like his father said, um, see the problem with, quote, the Negro, is that they forgot... And that's, you're quoting him so you can say that.
Yeah, he's saying, he's saying... Because I would never...
Oh, yep.
He says... It's okay if it's a quote.
Cliven Basic said the problem with the Negro is that they forgot how to pick cotton.
So they started, you know, aborting their kids and going to prison.
And so Amon's really worried that migrant workers would forget how to work hard and then they'll start going crazy.
You're totally right.
Yep, that's all he wants to do.
You're totally right.
He just wants to give them a purpose.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, give them a reason to live.
Yeah.
Thank you, thank you.
Okay, so let's get the first take which is from John Thompson who says, Ammon Bundy is the voice of reason now?
Are we in the bad place?
Yeah.
It's a kind of a good question, John.
Yeah this is like a real cheap joke, um, like you've seen these refugees getting gassed at the border, um, you've seen fascists marching in the streets openly, uh, killing people, literally.
Actually.
Um, and you're like, Ammon Bundy, hero!
For saying, hey, refugees are human beings.
Yeah.
And also, there should have been many more indicators that we are in a bad place.
It's like the bar is just set so low for white dudes in cowboy hats.
The bar is set so low, it's almost like it's six feet underground.
And that's all you have to reach if you want to be a good person now.
Exactly, yeah.
Just fucking die, and now you're a good person.
Once you die, you're an angel.
Don't you know that?
Yeah.
Fuck off, John.
I mean, no, I mean, you're right, John.
Like, we are in a bad place.
But he's not, like, it should be real.
Anybody who knows anything about ranching or like millionaire, millionaire business owners, there's only one fucking reason they care about undocumented people or refugees.
Like this person is, he's, he's like advocating for migrants the same way that like, Oil companies advocate for fracking.
Yeah.
It's like, well, it's just in your best interest.
So yeah, duh.
Run it.
Okay, did you want to read this one?
Or no, am I reading this one?
I don't know if I have it up, this one I have up or not.
Christopher Long, I think I wanted to read this one.
Yeah, you do want to read this one, yeah.
Christopher Long says, to Ammon Bundy, Ammon Bundy is like, uh, the name of a really hack, gimmicky,
metal band that's uh al bundy playing like bro viking metal uh it's the aman bundy the the amana marth the out the the married with children amana marth cover band yes totally like yeah exactly yeah totally it's like uh did you sing about shoes it's it's diddly whatever that flanders band is the worst They're just thinking about shoes and big hair.
Winning that one touchdown.
Yeah.
Or winning that one game.
Yeah.
And hating sex with your wife.
Christopher Long says, I followed and supported you guys minute by minute.
Livestreamed the whole thing.
Yeah, he's talking about the Bundy Ranch standoff.
By the way, it wasn't the Bundy Ranch standoff.
It was the Wildlife Refuge standoff, where they literally did an armed takeover of a federal wildlife office.
As constitutionalists, we got your story out.
Now you crap on all of us?
Just shitting on us.
Just like poop all over us.
But I reposted about you!
I posted about you and you're gonna do me like this?
Just crapping on- when that memory comes up and Facebook's look back feature- what is that called?
Yeah, I think it's called Memories.
You're crapping on that.
Yeah.
Read your Bible again where God ordered watchmen on fortified city walls.
How heaven has walls, gates, and strict rules to enter.
So basically, heaven's America?
Yes.
We'll make heaven America.
So perfect.
Yeah, no, heaven is America.
Heaven is America.
And just like heaven, it's constantly being threatened to slip away from us at any moment.
Just have an impure thought about socialism and you're going to go to hell.
Remember the verse about St.
Paul waiting for you at the Golden Gate with tear gas canisters?
I mean, he's making a good point that heaven sucks.
Yeah, I think it was... God is definitely a fascist tyrant.
Yeah, I think it was Biggie that said it best, like, when I die, fuck, I don't want to go to hell.
I don't want to go to heaven with all the goody goodies.
You guys know the song.
It's a great song.
I'm not going to sing the whole thing because it's, you know, it's pretty misogynistic these days.
But that song was recorded in 1993 and that was okay then.
Hey, Biggie, you're canceled, buddy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't speak ill of the dead.
Yeah, because he's dead now, we can say that the awful human being Notorious B.I.G.
was actually very respectful.
Wait, hold on, hold on, calm down.
Hold on, calm down.
He was not an awful human being.
I'm just joking.
I just gotta speak up because I got lyrics of his tattooed on me, so I gotta be real here.
Our Constitution, the very thing you used in your standoff, is behind Trump.
Law, order, and freedom.
What?
What are you talking about?
Like, the whole point of, uh, pointing guns at the federal government is, like, not respecting the law?
Is, like, treating the law as, uh... What's, what's the word?
It's, um... It's this whole patriot movement, the three percenters, the, uh... It's, um...
Doesn't count.
It's not a real law.
Well, it's like they're using another law.
They're using the Constitution to circumvent the other laws.
Well, it says something about militias and guns, so I think we're good, right?
Yeah, if you read this phrase a certain way, it says that the federal government doesn't actually exist.
If you read this a certain way, it says I actually don't have to pay taxes.
Yeah, so this movement is definitely not about law and order.
This movement is about let's get so many guns that we don't have to obey the law.
Yeah and it's funny because I mean they're right like according to constitutionalists so whereas they just get a bunch of guns to circumvent the law, Trump just stockpiled a bunch of power and money and became the president and that's how he circumvented the law and is still trying to like tap dance around it.
Totally.
I mean, that's why they like him, because he just fucking does what he wants.
He literally doesn't give a shit.
I just love this... YOLO.
I just love this, uh, you only law once.
Law, order, and freedom.
I love that phrase.
Law, order, and freedom.
All at once?
Yeah, no, all at once.
How?
Don't you know that law and order is synonymous with freedom?
Yeah.
Nothing makes me feel free like being told what I can and can't do.
Yeah, um, you lost many who loved you.
What you're doing to Lavoie's memory is despicable.
Fuck.
So if you're like, what's that word that Alex just said?
Uh, it's Lavoie, and that's the first name of that, the one guy who died because of the Bundy Ranch standoff.
Lavoie Fulcombe.
Damn, that's a hell of a name.
That's that dude's name, yeah.
And I remember it.
Say his name, you know.
I don't want to throw, like, stereotypes around, but I feel like Lavoie Fulcombe can tell you exactly how a squirrel tastes.
And especially because the V wasn't capitalized.
Is it with a V?
Lavoie.
Lavoie, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
I thought you were saying Fulcombe was spelled with a V. Lavoie Fulcombe.
That's kind of tight.
Maybe he, like, actually...
He's a boarder.
Yeah, no, he actually ran their small record label subsidiary into the ground.
Well, if he's the reason that Pepper got any credence, then yeah, good riddance.
Okay, but Torch deserved to be on that label.
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, I love it.
What you're doing to Lavoie's memory is despicable.
I think what the federal agents did to his memory was even worse when they shot him in the head.
Yep.
That probably really damaged his memory.
His memory.
He probably forgot everything he ever knew.
He definitely couldn't recall, for sure.
Oh, man.
Alright.
Becky Hudson says, Hashtag Bundy.
Hashtag... This has got to be fucking up the algorithm because now it's like Married with Children and Hashtag Bundy.
Hashtag No Peg says, The point is that there is an agenda to divide this nation and Ammon is clueless that he just willingly assisted the very enemy he stood up against.
So, run it back.
The enemy that Cliven and Ammon and, I don't know, Saren stood up against, the federal government.
Yeah.
Who is, in Becky's mind, the protagonist in the saga where they shoot canisters of tear gas at refugees.
This is not a hard line of reasoning to follow for Amon.
It's like, yeah, the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
So if your enemy is the federal government, then yeah, bring everyone who wants to tear them apart.
Like the immigrants.
Those are your friends now.
Right, who don't even want to tear apart the federal government.
Not even a little bit.
Who just want, like, a place to work, a place to be exploited.
They're like, actually, if you can keep that whole thing intact and actually, you know, follow the rules and actually give us, you know, help, that'd be great.
Yeah, but in this weird mindset where people are simultaneously pro-Trump and anti-government, it's so weird.
The migrants, the refugees, They are the enemy of the country, let's just say.
They're the enemy of the country.
They're trying to destabilize the country, which is only good now because the one guy we liked got to be president.
It's the only reason the federal government is good now.
It's just like... I don't know how to describe it.
One good guy that we like took over, so now the whole thing is good.
Now the whole thing is good.
But it's also this weird like... I mean, it's not that weird because we talk about it all the time, but...
This conspiracy theory where Trump is the leader of the federal government.
He's in charge of the federal government.
But somehow there's these federal agencies that are operating totally out of his control.
And he can't control the Bureau of Land Management.
Or he can't control the FBI.
The federal government is bad when it's not Trump and good when it is Trump.
And whatever is bad, it's because Trump isn't controlling it.
Whatever is good is because Trump is controlling it.
That's it's pretty simplistic worldview.
I don't know why we're making it so complicated.
Well, it's kind of a lot of people feel that way about, I don't know, like God?
You know, like, all the good things that happen to you are because of God, but all the bad things are not.
Because of free will.
Yeah, exactly.
Speaking of the devil... As we are all painfully aware, the devil is very creative and uses our good intent against us and is humanity's weakness.
It's, you know, I think what happened to Amon is just like Jesus was strolling through the desert, Amon was... I'm saying Amon.
I'm really leaning into that.
Do it.
As strolling through the desert and the devil came to him and quoted verses because the devil knows the Bible like no one else.
The devil knows the Word of God.
You can be very convinced by the devil and that's what happened here.
Yeah, when you feel a moment of weakness where you're compassionate for another human being who happens to be from a different country or have a different skin color... That's the goddamn devil.
That's the devil!
That's the devil telling you to submit to Sharia law or whatever.
Yeah, exactly.
That's how you know you're in the bad place.
See, well, I don't know if you're new to this, but the Bible originally says, like, you know, clothe and feed the fair-skinned.
But, you know, the globalists removed that from the text.
I love this, is humanity's weakness.
If there's one weakness humanity has, it is our compassion and our ability to band together for the greater good.
It's really our greatest weakness.
I just had a nightmare where like somebody stumbled upon this YouTube video and like quotes me and uses that and they're like, see I told you, the globalists removed the text about the fair skin from the Bible.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I've always said that we should have like... Because that's what happened.
I've always said, but I've never wanted to do it, that we should have some sort of modulation over our voice whenever we're quoting somebody or being ironic because we've said a lot of problematic stuff on this show.
They're just going to dice up and use against us.
But hey, from the mouths of babes.
I don't know what that means.
Gary Rosenberg.
We need to get through this.
We're already at about an hour.
Gary Rosenberg says, I don't want to live in a religious Christian or other religion country.
So, Ammon Bundy cites his, like, Mormon belief.
We don't need to get into that.
His Mormon belief has, like, compassion, you know, for the refugee.
So, Gary Rosenberg is replying, well, I don't want to live in a religious Christian or any other religion country.
People can do as they please.
Government should not care about religion and just enforce the laws that people's representatives decide to put into action.
This is why religion is so dangerous in governing.
Absolutely.
I do not agree with his stance here at all.
Amon's stance.
In the name of religion, nothing in government.
In the name of the Constitution and the laws we pass, yes.
This is the problem with religious rule.
So, stop right here.
So, Em and Bunny literally just advocating for a semblance of compassion for desperate people seeking asylum.
This is the problem with theocracy.
Is the threat of caring about the unwashed masses or whatever.
The one time we were like, hey, let's get rid of religion from government.
It's when religion is calling for compassion.
Literally the only good thing about religion.
I don't think Gary said anything like... Gary did not copy and paste this to a post about, you know, gay marriage cakes.
Like, not even close.
Just now that the one time religion's like, hey, be good to people around you.
He's like, nope, cut it.
Like the racism, the xenophobia, the crusading, the forced conversion.
Great.
Good stuff.
Loving thy neighbor?
Eh.
Eh.
Let's leave that to the representatives.
What about all those Americas without religion?
He doesn't speak for them.
I'm sorry, this is a miss, IMO.
I am not on his train today.
Still on that Trump train though, baby.
Yep, yep.
I'm on multiple trains at one time.
Last comment.
You wanna read this one?
Do you want me to read it?
it can you read it yeah the the it's from gen gene yeah gen gen gen ed gen um have been supportive of bundy and other situations but he is wrong on this if they came to his ranch to take away uh to take over he would as have you seen strongly resisted so if the refugees came to take over his ranch he would of course what refugees do he would have buck shots he would have pulled the strap
so this is of course just like um them totally mixing their own metaphor uh wherein bundy's resistance was of course toward the federal is toward the federal government uh and the refugees uh Theoretical resistance also toward the federal government but somehow the refugees are the federal government coming to take over Bundy's land.
How strong does your brain have to be to ignore the contradictions in this analogy?
HGH strong.
He goes on to say, heart, referring to Bundy saying, we need to give them a little bit of heart.
Yeah, we need to have heart or whatever.
Saying heart is all the aid we already send to these countries.
We're already doing enough.
We don't need to give them heart.
We already sent them aid.
We already installed perfect leaders in their countries.
What more do they want?
We already put a piece of scotch tape over the giant hole that we put in the dam of their countries.
We don't need anything else.
Yeah.
It's fucking so lame.
Alright, so, quick plug, if you want to help out these refugees, the Orange County DSA is arranging for several members to go down there, provide direct support to the refugee caravan, and the link for the GoFundMe To support that effort will be in the show notes.
This is extremely important.
Most of us cannot go down to Tijuana right now.
So we personally will be supporting this campaign and we strongly recommend that you do as well.
This is a way to get direct support to these folks down there.
So the link will be in the show notes.
And shout out to Orange County DSA for doing that.
This is real, this is actionable, this is how we do it.
Let's make moves.
Okay, final topic of the night.
I'm just going to read this headline from New York Mag, which is short for magazine.
It's not a clip, it's a magazine.
CNN fired Mark Lamont Hill to comfort conservative snowflakes.
Fuck.
New York Mag.
What it is.
Mark Lamont Hill was a contributor to CNN.
He spoke at the UN in support of Palestine, in support of Palestinians, and in support of BDS, and in support of direct action to Support the people of Palestine.
Can you explain BDS real fast?
So BDS is a campaign.
It's short for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions towards Israel.
Boycotting products made in Israel.
Divestment of like your college or your company.
Might have money invested in the state of Israel.
Might have money invested in companies based in Israel.
You've heard of like people campaigning to get their school to divest.
The funds from oil companies and stuff like that.
It's the same thing but with, you know, Israeli companies or the state of Israel.
A lot of our listeners or viewers might question our love of La Croix.
Of La Croix.
It's not so much that we love these delicious soda waters, it's that we will never own a SodaStream.
Absolutely not.
We won't do it.
SodaStreams... Natalie Portman herself could do a commercial for SodaStream.
And it would not matter.
Alex said that, I didn't say that.
But yes.
Natalie Forman herself could do a SodaStream commercial and we will not buy a SodaStream.
We will continue to drink LaCroix, specifically the Key Lime, which tastes different than lime.
If you have not tried the Key Lime LaCroix... You're fucking up.
Yeah, you're a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel.
Alright, so yeah, dude spoke at the UN, it was like Palestinians have a right to exist, they have a right to the land that they were forced off of.
He went past the BDS statement to say that BDS in and of itself is extremely controversial, which it shouldn't be.
It's a peaceful, non-violent way to pressure Israel into accepting a single-state solution.
The word is we're not really aiming for a two-state solution anymore.
It's just a joint, single-state solution that affords the same rights to Palestinians as it does Israel.
He would pass that and said that Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against the state of Israel and oh boy was he fired for saying that at the UN.
I want to read a little bit from this article just to Remind people of what the reality is for Palestinians.
This article was written by Eric Levitz.
And it starts, For over half a century, Palestinians in the West Bank have been living under an illegal military occupation, one that provides their Jewish neighbors with the franchise and basic civil rights while providing them with neither.
When he says illegal military occupation, he's of course referring to the occupation of the West Bank, which is illegal.
Under international law, which flouts the agreements that Israel came to with the surrounding states after the wars that took place when we decided that Israel now exists here.
In recent years, this de facto apartheid rule has been shading into the de jure variety.
In 2017, the Israeli parliament enacted a law that instructs its army to confiscate privately owned Palestinian land and transfer it to Israeli settlers.
As Michael Sfard observed in the New York Review of Books, this law is not only a naked sanction of land theft, it is also an unprecedented imposition of their parliamentary legislation on Palestinians who have no parliamentary representation.
For over a decade, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been living under an Israeli blockade that restricts their access to basic goods, their ability to fish for sardines... Tony is laughing at the other Tony.
Sorry.
Not at the plight of Palestinians.
Their ability to fish for sardines, their fishing industry's most important catch, and their capacity to export agricultural products.
So literally like denying them their...
They're like access to food and money, like their source of income.
Israel justifies this blockade in the name of security, as Gaza is currently ruled by the terrorist group Hamas.
That's a quote from this piece.
In reality, many of the blockade's most damaging provisions merely serve Israel's parochial economic interests.
It basically goes on to say that this blockade is lifted whenever Israel decides that it needs more of a certain good.
Whenever it's willing to buy more sardines or buy more palm fronds that it needs.
Oh, suddenly there's no security risk and suddenly we just want more of this stuff.
Yeah, it's fucking bad.
Meanwhile, a recent UN report found that Gaza could become unfit for humans by 2020 if the blockade continues apace.
A UN report found that Gaza could become unfit for humans by 2020 if the blockade continues apace.
Already only 10% of Palestinians in Gaza have access to adequate drinking water.
The blockade has depressed the productivity of Gaza's agricultural sector by 40% and most Gazans enjoy the benefits of electricity for only a couple hours each day.
So just awful conditions.
So fucked.
Like sub-poverty conditions.
And Mark Lamont Hill had the audacity to say that these people should be fighting for the right to live.
For their life.
Fighting for their life.
Yeah, and he was fired by CNN.
One of the main proponents of his firing was Seth Mandel, the executive editor of the Washington Examiner, which is a terrible publication that you shouldn't read.
who also happens to be a prominent critic of, quote, the Internet outrage machine and, quote, outrage mobs, quote, decided to declare that Hill's remarks were a literal endorsement of a second Holocaust, and thus Hill's point of view merited suppression, and thus Hill's point of view merited suppression, not critique.
And it just shows a couple tweets by Seth Mandel ginning up outrage and accusing Mark Lamont Hill of the nuclear annihilation of Israel, essentially. - Absolutely.
Harret's defense of Mark Lamont Hill's explicit call for a Jewish genocide is going to be... Bonkerooskies.
Bonkerooskies.
You know, whenever I think there's an existential threat on my people, I totally use the word bonkerooskies.
I think that's what we used to justify Hiroshima, right?
We were like, man, that Pearl Harbor was bonkerooskies.
You ever know, man, that holocaust sure was a total crap fest.
Fuck.
Yeah, so, uh, dude got fired.
Dude got super fired.
Um, and this is of course, uh, terrible that somebody's speaking out against an apartheid state and against and in support of a Extremely repressed people should be fired.
I mean, it's not that surprising that CNN would do this.
I mean, the company line in this country is pro-Israel at all costs, at all expenses.
And in case this is the first time you're listening to the show, We are not anti-Jew.
Not even a little bit?
No.
There is criticism of Israel that is not anti-Semitic.
There are plenty of Jewish groups who are very critical of Israel and its current occupation of Palestine.
I'm just glad we have a democratic house now that can push back against this sort of like anti-free speech hysteria and oh what's this oh try to pass a law that literally outlaws BDS.
That happened?
Yeah.
Soon after this firing happened?
Well, this was actually last year.
Oh, really?
Yeah, Chuck Schumer joined a bipartisan consensus in the Senate to attempt to outlaw speaking in favor of BDS.
Boycotting.
It's illegal to boycott Israel.
He wanted it.
Oh, man.
I don't think it actually passed.
No, no.
Goddammit, he tried.
But he put it up there.
Yeah.
That's so sick.
Let's get into reactions from this.
So some of the reactions were pretty obvious, but one of them was a little bit confusing, but don't worry, there was some cleanup in the responses.
So, Louie the Brush says, wonder why Allah hates Jews?
And I was thinking that he's blaming Muslims on this whole conflict, saying this must be Allah's fault.
Like, why does Allah hate the Jews?
And I thought this was like a sarcastic anti-semitic comment.
Like, wonder why Allah hates these Jews so much?
But we don't know.
It could go either way.
It's a real coin toss in the Fox News comments section between anti-Semitism and anti-Islamic sentiment.
When you see a blue star next to it, it might be either one.
Yeah.
But so just to bring a little-- because that's a pretty-- either direction Alex and I are talking about, that comet's a pretty wild comet either way.
So, uh, one Almighty, one catnip, one.
One Almighty, one catnip, one blue star.
Nailed it.
That's how I get drunk.
That's how I get fucked up.
You pray, eat some catnip, post on Fox.
I post alone.
With nobody else.
You know when I post alone, I prefer to be by myself.
With some catnip.
That's, oh man, do you think Post Malone is a pun for I Post Alone, that joke I just did?
Oh shit, did we just bust it wide open?
Yeah, I think so.
That explains the braids and the appropriation.
Whoa!
Yeah, George Thorogood, famous for having braids and a grill.
And really bad at playing guitar.
Just like Post Malone!
Yeah!
There it goes, blew it wide open.
So he's not going to stand for this.
He says he doesn't, referring to Allah.
He doesn't hate Jews.
Allah doesn't hate Jews.
He says he doesn't.
God, Allah, Yahweh, whatever, they're all the same.
All three Abrahamic religions worship the same spiritual entity.
That's why it's hilarious to see Christians.
Sorry, you said this guy's seen religious.
Oh yeah, this guy seems religious.
He knows what's up.
He's watched it more than once.
He's like, wait, they're not even talking about the Egyptian one.
This sounds very similar.
So, all three Abrahamic religions worship the same spiritual entity.
So it's just different languages translating differently.
That's why it's hilarious to see Christians make a huge circus show about Allah while Muslims talk about the filthy Christian infidels.
Great, great comment.
Yeah, totally.
Wait, there's a little bit, there's more.
Can you, can we?
Oh yeah, let's click on Seymour.
Can we see what Seymour says?
Okay, so just expanding here.
Enhance.
Alright.
Enhance.
Meanwhile, the Jews are rubbing their hands and counting their shekels.
That took a really gnarly left turn.
Right turn.
Right turn.
It took a very gnarly right turn.
What the fuck?
It's like, listen, everyone's wrong here.
The Jews, the Muslims, they just, they just, you know, tick for tack, tomato, tomato.
Also, can I tell you about Zog?
Listen, we're all one people.
We're all the same.
We're all one people oppressed by Jews.
The Christians and Muslims, they're just fine.
It's the Jews.
This whole thing gets like, this comic gets more and more racist.
Yeah, you just expand, you click see more and it's just text art of the happy merchant caricature rubbing his hands under a crooked nose.
It just gets gnarlier and gnarlier.
It's like the Jews, which is already a... Just putting the in front of Jews makes it so gnarly.
And then rubbing their hands.
Wait, you can picture the cartoon.
And counting their, not even money, counting their shekels.
The whole thing is just so fucking gross.
I like that...
There's like clues.
If you go back, there's clues that this is coming because you have God, Allah, Yahweh, whatever.
They're all the same.
Like Yahweh gets the whatever.
Yahweh gets the whatever.
Also, that's why it's hilarious to see Christians make a huge circus show.
The show is redundant there.
We all know the circus is the show.
It's not Benihana's or something.
About Allah, while the Muslims talk about the filthy Christian infidels.
See, the Jews get left out in those warnings.
The Jews, in his mind, Even though they worship the same God are this like puppet master race of people who are controlling both the Christians and the Jews and making them fight each other.
So gnarly.
I just love this comment because when I discovered it, it was just like we saw it right now.
Kind of pedantic.
whatever comment about like no this kind of pedantic anyone sucks and then it had the show more and i opened it oh shit you really think someone sucks oh fuck okay all right you it's a strong comment it's a yeah it's really strong strong yeah uh you can go ahead and read this one i'll And this is from one of my, one of our favorite posters who will feature really briefly, really fast after this.
The name is Obama's Yellow, which I was like, I don't know, he's a few shades darker than yellow.
Um, but anyways, it says, blacks are mad because as timeless as the Bible is, Africans are never mentioned by God or Jesus.
So they hate the Jews.
Out of genetic jealousy.
Amazing comment.
What a... amazing comment.
Stupidest fucking comment I've ever heard on this show.
This person thinks that Africa is never mentioned in the Bible.
Like, a very huge portion of the Bible takes place in Africa, because Egypt is part of Africa.
But then you read the comment, oh, they'll get it.
Now that's why Moses wanted to get out so bad.
Yeah.
Moses just wanted to be seen.
Exodus was all about getting Africa out of the Bible.
Yep.
Exodus was all about clout.
I love that blacks are mad, I'm sorry, b-words are mad because as timeless as the Bible is, Africans are never mentioned by, I love timeless here.
As timeless as the Bible is, Africans are not like, as if Africans were like a future people that like, like time, like you're talking about geography here.
You mean like spaceless, as spaceless.
And, and not only that, but it's like, even if Even if Africa hadn't been mentioned in the Bible, or Africans hadn't been mentioned in the Bible, it's like your idea that this...
2000 plus year old document written about 2000 people written written about the very specific group of people doesn't include like the Swedish therefore they don't exist.
Yeah, they're not real.
Therefore like they're jealous.
I didn't hear anything about the Chinese in the Bible.
Yeah, they're not real.
They're not real, or like, they're mad at the Bible for not getting credit.
That's why they're so salty.
I also like the concept of the Bible being timeless, as if the second half of the Bible doesn't negate the first half of the Bible.
Like, that's kind of the whole point of it.
Totally.
Anyways, yeah.
Fucking Obama yellow.
It's a very, it's a very timeful document.
Obama's yellow is a timeless blue star boy.
That's all I know.
Cat Tony is in total ecstasy right now.
Yeah, very stoked, very stoked.
Okay, so Dietz is referring to Temple University.
This is where we get into how like lazy the racism is.
Yeah, because Temple University stood by Mark Lamont Hill.
I'm not sure his capacity... He's a professor there.
He's a professor at Temple University.
And they didn't fire him immediately, or they didn't fire him at all.
They actually supported him.
Some people supported him.
One board member in particular came out and said that he blackens the name of Temple University.
Interesting choice of words.
I don't think we've said, but Mark Lamont Hill is African-American, so that's why this racism is coming out.
Hence all the racism.
Yeah, that's why this comment about blacks are mad.
We should have addressed that.
But yeah, Mark Lamont Hill is only mad at the Bible because he didn't get a shout out.
Don't worry.
Thanks to racism, we all knew that Mark Lamont Hill was rose black the whole time.
Yeah.
So yeah, Deets, with lots of E, says, Bill Cosby's college, right?
As in like, yeah, Temple sucks.
They let Bill Cosby go there.
I think that they gave him an honorary degree, but then they revoked it.
But also, he didn't go there because he actually went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst?
Am I saying it right still?
Amherst?
Amherst?
Whatever.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
That's where Bill Cosby went.
Who gives a shit, yeah.
I know where he goes to school now.
The school of fucking prison and I hope he stays there forever.
I hope he keeps getting hit in the head with sandwiches.
That'd be great.
I hope he gets hit in the head with a sandwich and then falls down a flight of stairs.
I hope he stays upstairs so he can fall down something.
I think it's real funny that they hate Bill Cosby now.
Or this guy does?
Like you're supposed to stand by Bill Cosby because Bill Cosby was a like a quote victim of the Me Too movement and he was like one of the good black people because he advocated for pulling up your pants and not rapping.
So it's it's interesting that he's like just trying to short score cheap but to be fair like Bill Cosby had what?
35 honorary degrees?
Oh no, it was like 70.
It was like 70 plus honorary degrees.
So many, so many, uh, rescindments of degrees.
So many colleges have, oops!
Oopsie.
Obama's yellow again.
Obamajello, with maybe one of my favorite comments, says, Israel's holy, Africa is not.
By the way, at no point does it say that he's even descendant of Africans.
We only know he's black.
We don't know his roots.
True.
We don't know where he comes from.
I mean, we all come from Africa, but we don't know where he comes from.
And also, uh, Africa is one of the holy places, but whatever.
We won't get into that.
Israel is holy.
Africa is not.
So, March is salty.
Simple as that.
This other place is good and this place is bad.
Yep.
Um, last comment here.
Stillhere2211, whose name will become important, uh, once you hear this comment.
Stillhere says, Someone behind the scenes is toggling my comments to appear, quote, edited when I have changed nothing.
I don't like when that happens, and if I were Jewish, I would play my anti-Semite card!
Just convert.
It's worth it.
You get to play the card.
I fucking love this comment.
This comment is very many death call.
You know, we, we, uh, we wait around in the muck so much and there's so much muck to wait in that we don't have time to appreciate just like the total boomer and aptitude of the internet very often.
Um, but here it is toggling my comments to appear edited when I have changed nothing.
Uh, I will not stand for this aggression of accusing me of changing something when I will never change.
I won't do it ever.
Never change anything.
I will not be moved.
I will never self-crit.
I will never revise anything I have ever said.
I love this.
Yeah.
It's fucking perfect.
This comment was posted 25 seconds before you grabbed it, Tony, and it already has two likes.
Yep.
It was so fast.
So a lot of people experiencing this sort of brain-melting dementia of having your comments appear edited when in reality you will never have changed anything.
No way.
Not once, not never.
No addendums, no edits, just pure, raw, unadulterated truth.
Someone is toggling this podcast to appear scatterbrained and ill-prepared for, and I will not let this stand!
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