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And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are Minion Death Cult.
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So, big news.
Big, long-awaited news.
We finally shipped some t-shirts.
The pre-orders are out.
They're out there.
They're finding their way across this great country to little commandos everywhere.
Yeah, actually sprawled across the country, going as far as Florida.
Oh shit, well good thing they already paid for it.
So, we pre-ordered these shirts a long time ago.
Gosh, it seems like about six months ago.
Roughly six to eight, something like that.
We pre-ordered these shirts.
We set them up for pre-order, but now they're available.
So, visit MinionDeathCult.com to see this shirt that Tony, myself, and our buddy Twinkie worked very hard on and are very proud of.
Just like all great things, you cannot rush art, and this is very wearable art.
Yeah, one of the less prestigious parts of doing art is actually removing the art from your trunk and giving it to the people that bought it.
But hey, that happens, you know, and sometimes it takes a few months for that.
So, if you haven't seen this shirt, take a look at it because it is beautiful.
The front breast logo is a original black metal font done by our buddy Twinkie.
You can follow him on Instagram at instagram.com slash altar of twink.
Like altar, like a pagan altar sacrifice.
Dude does brilliantly horrible, sketchy, spooky, scary black metal art, crust punk art.
And he did the Minion Death Cult font for us on the breast and then on the back is sort of a pastiche of one of our favorite characters visually that we've never actually covered on the show and never will because I forgot his name.
His name is Lost to the Sands of Time, but he's basically this tactical boomer who runs a meme page.
A Facebook Boomer Maga meme page with like 53,000 followers on it.
You know, he's like done that Boomer Maga Facebook page thing where you get so big that you can just start generating your own fake news on a website.
Yeah.
And boy is he something to behold.
He's all tacticaled out.
He's got two sidearms, one being a handgun, the other being a flip phone.
He's got a huge set of keys on a carabiner, which are, I think, in a power move, dangling right in front of his junk.
He did the middle belt loop, which is an odd choice.
It's the type of keychain that only a janitor has.
Yeah.
A janitor and a tactical boomer.
And it's like, with that many keys, like, just dangling in front of your crotch, you would think, like, oh, this is going to be distracting from my natural bulge.
Well, no, it's certainly not.
He's also wearing a 3 Percenters shirt, which Tony was able to recognize by one of his co-workers.
I'm just really excited to wear this shirt to work because one of my co-workers has that tattooed on his calf.
And I just know that people are going to see my shirt and then see his calf and see my shirt.
Like, what's going on here?
What's something?
And then I hope somebody else, because I'm never going to ask him about it, hopefully somebody else asks him about it.
And it's just a good, I just, I'm looking forward to that.
Do you think he's going to look at the guy on your shirt and think he's a poser for only having a t-shirt with the logo on it?
Oh, I hope so.
That'd be really cool.
That's also gonna be weird when he sees the shirt.
I didn't even think about it when he sees the shirt.
That's gonna be a good time.
And it's one of those logos, like, it's not a racist logo, but racists love that logo.
It's not a racist logo.
It's just a logo that defends racists with firearms.
There you go.
You should, like, sneak up on your coworker when he's not looking and tattoo a circle with an X through it over his logo.
Ooh, yeah.
That would be funny, like, when he finally, like, gets home and he, like, you know, glances at it in the mirror.
He's like, what's it?
What happened?
Wait, I'm totally pro this.
I'm not anti this.
This is totally allowed here.
What's going on here?
Wait a second.
So MinionDeathCult.com to see these shirts.
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So, this week's episode, a few different topics here.
The first one, we want to talk about the Michael Cohen hearing.
Did you watch any of this hearing, Tony?
I caught pieces, bits and pieces.
The important stuff, you know, the important stuff that wasn't really about the hearing at all, but yes.
Well, it was about the hearing itself and not what the hearing was about.
Yeah, I mean, like, it was funny.
You know, the Michael Cohen testimony was funny.
It was funny, like, watching Republicans get upset about it.
It was also kind of funny, just like, You know, they have a point when they say Michael Cohen is like a convicted liar.
Like he got convicted for lying to Congress and to somehow treat his testimony or to treat these admissions as like an honorable act by, you know, which is what some liberals in the media are doing, is pretty fucking hilarious.
Yeah, it's pretty great.
I did love seeing people talk.
I heard people really talking about, yeah, they're just really being rough on him.
They're really just, they're just really giving it to him.
And it's like, are you feeling bad for this man right now?
What's happening?
You know?
Well, I mean, sure.
It's bad.
Sure.
It's bad to like bribe and blackmail and facilitate in, um, Institutional racism, institutional cronyism, that sort of thing.
But it's really quite good to then say you did those things.
Exactly.
That's very good.
Like you can do as much bad stuff as you want, you just say you did it and then like you're a hero now.
It's true, you know, just keep it real.
Hey, hey, better ask for forgiveness than permission.
Yeah, yeah, he was definitely bossing like an adult there.
Yeah.
I feel like the only, you know, I didn't watch the whole thing of course, because I'm like not an insane person, but the only thing I saw of any value was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's four minutes that she used to get like specific names and sort of follow a specific thread of tax fraud and tax evasion and sort of get more leads from his testimony.
I thought that that was uh extremely impressive especially for a you know somebody who hasn't been doing that for any length of time.
Yeah it was it was awesome too because um I mean she has this whole People are really hard on her.
They don't give her any benefit of the doubt whatsoever.
They're always ready to critique her and she handled it.
She just was composed and chill and did it well.
It was awesome because What are you going to say about it?
You couldn't make fun of it, you know?
It was good.
I was really pleased with that.
Yeah, but the most interesting or the funniest part of the testimony was when Senator Mark Meadows
Used as a witness or used as like a background prop, uh, one of Trump's former employees and current official in the housing and urban development, uh, for the federal government, uh, to prove that Trump wasn't racist because she's black.
Well, I mean, you can't really argue with exhibit B. Exhibit B word.
That's exactly what she was.
She was a piece of evidence.
It may as well have been a picture of her.
It may as well have been a picture of them shaking hands and them saying, see, look, he even touches them.
I mean, she was that meme of, like, Trump standing next to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, you know, from the 80s or whatever.
That's exactly what she was.
Yeah.
And, like, I really like this argument because it's not even the... I can't be racist.
I have a black friend.
It's... I can't be racist.
I had a black employee.
Yeah.
I fucking hired a black person.
I paid him and everything.
When what you're saying is, uh, this person wouldn't have been around you if you didn't pay them.
Like you literally had to pay them to associate with you.
Yeah, exactly.
exactly it's an interesting dinner from time to time but that's just because i didn't let her go home um so rashida talib um another really uh impressive freshman congresswoman um called him out on it called
Called Mark Meadows out on doing the I Have a Black Friend bit in Congress.
Which is cool.
It's kind of funny that we still have to point things out like that.
That's been a cliche for a long time.
I've fucked plenty of black chicks.
It's been a joke for a while, but still...
Diamond and Silk are speaking, you know, speaking at Congress and things like that.
So you still have to kind of point out this tokenism.
Yeah, and she said it was racist.
She said doing that was racist and she almost went as far as calling Mark Meadows a racist himself.
Which really, really got his feathers ruffled.
The only thing that's worse than having racism impact you is being called a racist.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's the n-word for white people.
It was so crazy.
Their interaction was just...
Like I said it started off amazing it got so weird and it was such a beautiful portrait of America because it started with this guy doing this racist action and tokenism and it ended with the people of color in in the hearing like trying to make him like apologizing for making him feel uncomfortable yeah not so much apologizing but like trying to make him feel comfortable with them calling out his racist action
Yeah, you're talking about the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings, who was, you know, sort of moderating this hearing and, yeah, really bending over backwards to make sure that Ms.
Tlaib did not, in fact, call him a racist.
Yeah because they didn't want him to be offended and it was it was wild it was so wild to watch and the whole thing was like no no no you're not saying that you're a racist you're saying what you're doing is racist which is exactly what she said she's like no what you're doing is racist and she had to clarify it like like four times
and it was so bizarre to watch and it was like that really was the power of white men right there like that moment was so much that the the power of white men just wait hold on i you you know you can't say that about me right so offended so as he trotted out this person like an object You know, but he was the one that was offended.
And at one point he says, Cummings says, I can, I can, I know you and you're my friend.
I can see that you're pained by this.
It's like, so fucking what?
Like, why is he pained by this?
And at one point he goes, listen, you know nothing.
Nothing is more important to me.
And he doesn't even finish it.
He doesn't even finish saying like, He doesn't even finish saying, you know, then race relations or, you know, my relationship with the black community.
He doesn't even say that.
He just says, nothing is more important to me.
I'm like, yo dawg, like, bullshit.
Yeah, he couldn't even figure out how to, like, what he was gonna say.
He couldn't even figure out what was more important than everything.
Because the only thing that's more important to him than that was actually just, you know, finding Obama's real birth certificate.
Yeah, right after he got so offended at being called racist, and how dare you, I have, you know, mixed grandchildren or whatever, video surfaced from the dark old age of, what, 2012?
2011?
It was, I think, leading up to the 2012 election, where he said, we're gonna send Obama back to Kenya or wherever.
Or wherever.
And take it from me.
Having a black nephew, niece, or grandchild does not make you not a racist.
Trust your boy.
Yeah I just think it's funny like you know we've been we've been critiquing colorblindness as a response or as a as a tactic in the war on racism, as not enough for a while, like colorblindness isn't enough.
And I feel like all Mark Meadows was doing was acknowledging Obama's race, which was Africa, was Kenyan. - Was, yeah.
Yeah, it is.
And he was in those, those, it's funny 'cause he was running and those are the tea party conferences he was at.
And like in my mind just being there in the first place is bad enough.
Um yeah but and he was not holding back and what's great the only people in those clips that are worse than him are the people he was running against who were trying to go even harder against it.
It was wild.
Let's not forget, a lot gets lost in how fucking stupid and racist and vulgar Trump is, but Trump's rise to political stardom was based on birtherism.
He was the loudest proponent of sending Obama back to Kenya or wherever, and now he's president.
Maybe that's why Mark Meadows doesn't feel like he was ever racist, because, hey, if Trump got elected saying that stuff, he must be doing something right.
Well, actually, yeah, if you think about it, that's totally his logic, because he's out here saying that Trump's not a racist, and I've only done what this person I'm saying is not a racist has done, so therefore I am not a racist.
Yeah, that's good math there.
Yeah, you just gotta find somebody who's done as ugly shit as you have, and then defend them for a year, and then when it comes out that you did that stuff, be like, no, no, no, see, I was okay with it the whole time.
Yeah, it was cool.
So, go ahead.
I'm sure the internet loved her saying this.
Oh yeah, you're segwaying into our segment.
Is that what you're doing?
Kind of.
Yeah, so how did the internet, Facebook specifically, respond to Rashida Tlaib accusing Mark Meadows of being racist?
Well, by being very fucking racist.
By literally saying, I am racist.
Ah, fuck you.
It's like no longer coded.
It's like, listen, we don't do this token... He's not actually racist because he uses tokenism.
I'm the real deal.
Yeah, fuck you, Rashida!
We're out here!
We exist!
Don't erase us!
Uh, Lorna Hughes says, these are all direct quotes.
Lorna Hughes says, at this point, I am going to be racist.
Give me the Republicans in power any day over these pieces of trash.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm only racist because, uh, these people are trash.
This same person is going to use an argument later on that are black Republicans.
Yeah, exactly.
This person thinks that because they're in a private group, a podcast won't read their comment on air.
Well, you're wrong.
Silly fool.
Michael Tucker says about Rashida, She's a racist.
And racist is capitalized?
She's a racist.
That's how they think.
She needs to go back to the desert where she came from.
Takes one to know one, apparently.
I know how this racist thinks because I too am a racist.
No, I think they're not acknowledging that they themselves are racist.
This is like the word, this is going to sound like, like liberal, this is going to sound like liberal hysteria, or this is going to sound like stereotyping or something.
But like the word thug is pretty much, you know, a culturally acceptable form of the N word.
Right.
Yeah, basically.
Racist is becoming that new term.
It's just, it's the insult that's levied at any black person they don't like.
Yep.
Like, we've gone from black people are the real racists to these racists need to go back where they came from.
Like there's no division there anymore.
They just are the race of racists.
But it's wild because it's almost like they understand that there's something morally wrong with being racist.
Well, and that's an argument I've made on this show a lot, is that we've done a good job of successfully branding the idea of racism as bad and an anathema to culture, but nobody just acknowledges what racism actually is.
Nobody can agree on what racism actually is, or nobody believes black people when they tell them what racism is.
Exactly.
It's my all-time favorite argument with the cousin I had.
The one that almost led to a fight was me just saying, hey man, that's racism.
And he's like, no, that's not racism.
All I'm saying is all black people think they're special.
See the all black people part?
That's the racism.
Even if you're saying a good thing.
It's called exceptionalism.
It's called black people exceptionalism.
They all think they're smart.
It's called narcissism.
It's not called racism.
I like to picture like an alternate universe where, you know, my cousin's just trying to tell me about black girl magic.
Yeah, exactly.
You don't understand, man.
No, see, they have this thing called... And they are special, though.
That's the thing, is that they are special.
There's this thing called black girl magic, and it means where they can manipulate the language into saying that everything else is racist.
It's this sort of spell they've put us under to enable affirmative action in the workplace.
Yeah, the whole argument was basically like, no, no, the definition, like the true definition, right or wrong, whatever you feel about it, is lumping a group of people together by their race.
That's called race.
No, man, no.
And, you know, he's like, you know, of course it was my fault because I was black.
So, of course, I didn't understand why they get all offended just because it's a black thing.
I'm picturing like a right wing meme that says black girl magic, but it's just got some racist, like witch doctor on it.
It's like, yeah exactly, it says like blackout magic but it's actually referring to like um the occult drinking blood.
Yeah.
You know.
Patricia Riley Parham says about Rashida Tlaib, she is one butthurt angry wannabe intellectual clueless idiot in her soul just not enough bleach to clean certain genes.
Fuck.
That last sentence is so gnarly.
Yeah, and of course, genes is the G, genes.
Yeah, genetic.
Yeah.
Is she actually saying, like, drink bleach?
She's just saying, like, her genes aren't white enough.
They aren't sparkling and clean enough.
Yep.
Linda Andrade says, I'm not joking again.
I was never racist, but I am now!
With fucking six exclamation points.
Colored people have taken it too far.
Six exclamation points.
I didn't shout that one because I live in an apartment now.
Yeah, and you don't want your neighbors thinking that you're a racist.
Can't believe a one of them anymore!
I like how she put a one of them.
Not a single one is worth my beliefs.
Yeah.
Black people made me racist.
Obama made me racist.
Rashida Tlaib made me racist.
I didn't want to do it.
I didn't want to do racism.
But my hands were tied.
You forced my hand.
The power of language, man.
When when Rashida Tlaib says you know as a person of color it's endearing and respectful and like good and you know but then when she says colored people it's like oh oh don't uh-uh that's bad you don't say that Yeah, and you also can't... You're gross.
You can't say that, and then immediately... You can't say that, like, following the phrase, I am racist now.
Like, what are you even doing bothering to spell out colored?
Why are you even wasting your time?
Yeah, you may as well hit him with a big ol' those people.
And then, oh, maybe we have an explanation of this comment, because her profile pic on Facebook is her in like a leopard print top, you know, she's like 55 years old, at a bar or something, and she's pointing up at the ceiling as if to say, like, I am endowed with inalienable rights to conquer the West.
You know, she's pointing up at God, and the frame she has says, Warning!
Mouth operates faster than brain.
Man, and uh, uh, the fingers operate even faster than that.
And then there's a, there's an old frame under this frame that says Made in America, which I feel like is just redundant at this point.
Yeah.
You don't need both frames.
Um, And then this warning mouth operates faster than brain frame is from a page called Auntie Acid, which is like the modern Facebook boomer equivalent of that like crotchety old Hallmark lady.
Oh man, she was great.
I wonder if she aged well.
She's probably crazy problematic now.
Yeah, that Hallmark deal went south once she started dropping those people into greeting cards.
I think I remember reading one, like, something about being grumpy, can't sleep, neighborhood's gone to hell.
Something about dirty kneelers walking through her yard.
Yeah.
Mark Wallen says, she's a person of color, referring to Rashida Tlaib.
I'm confused, shrugging emoji.
Can someone explain to me what nationality, race, gender, LOL this turd is?
And then Greg Haslob replies, Pakistani!
Um, and then Mark Wallen replies, so is Pakistani a color?
What the fuck is she stating about herself?
Yuck.
This joke is like, I'm an idiot.
Please explain.
This joke sucks, dude.
Yeah, I don't, I don't get it.
Um, is this, is this like, is this an I don't see color joke?
Oh yeah, totally.
Because Rashida Tlaib is obviously a woman of color.
No, no, this is a... This is a does not understand that... Well, first of all, he's like, what color?
I love all people.
Black people, white people.
And then you go, yellow people, purple people.
Yep.
And not realizing that's inherently wrong too.
You're going literal here.
And then you also don't understand that a person of color goes beyond black people.
Yeah.
This person doesn't understand anything and they're trying to play stupid for this joke but it really just makes him look worse than they thought.
And the person replying to them also doesn't understand anything as Rashida Tlaib is not Pakistani.
She's Palestinian.
I know those are easily confused to people who view everyone over there as subhuman.
He probably just got confused because you know how like There's like a, you know, there's different states have the same city name.
Okay.
That's all, that's all.
There's also like a Palestine in Pakistan, right?
Yeah, yeah, there's a Palestine in Pakistan.
Yeah, exactly.
See, the thing is, Gary's just really smart.
Now a couple, like, just silly takes that I like.
Karen Phillips says, She is the enemy, where is the FBI?
And Deanna Weeks replies, They are one of them.
And then Karen Phillips again replies, God help us!
The way that sentence is constructed is crazy.
It's just so funny, like, Yipes!
Oh no!
I like how the same people who are typing this don't think the FBI can read this also.
Well, they're hoping they do until they realize that the FBI is one of them.
Oh, true, true, true.
Who's gonna stand up for us now?
I love that, like...
I don't know just yeah the FBI are one of them oh no oh my god I had no idea well actually maybe like Deanna's right maybe Deanna's talking about like no man like they're all they're all like the feds are all the government you know Like, it used to be you had to go to, like, conspiracy.alt.net to find, you know, crazy people with wild ideas.
Yeah.
But now it's just in every comment section somebody will reply to you with, like,
You know, oh no it's the FBI who's also doing ritual child sacrifices and like they're not talking about you know uh ice or anything like that uh they're referring to like some modern the the basement of some modern art museum um and then just yeah this person just got a reply in her comments that were like no the FBI they're also um you know they're also involved in like Whatever they think they're involved in.
She's like, oh no!
Fuck!
Like, honestly, I don't believe anything unless that information is coming from a Nokia phone that I got out of a Manila envelope from an on-address package.
That's the only time I believe these things, you know?
LVDTANOKI says... I think it's pronounced down tanooki?
No.
Says, if you do not know the definition of this word, Takaya, I suggest you learn it.
Jennifer Ritchie replies, don't leave us hanging.
No, leave Hillary hanging.
Carol Van Sickle replies, Agree.
The Muslims use it all the time and Dems do as well.
And then LV finally drops, let's the shoe drop.
Takiyah in the Quran gives Muslims the right to lie to the infidels slash enemies at all costs.
And this is a meme that's been going around for years.
I don't think we've talked about it on this show, but yeah, there's, you know, any anytime somebody gets a Muslim person gets elected to Congress, this meme floats around.
And it's based on the idea that supposedly, I've never read the Quran, but supposedly there's You know, one of the tenets of the Islamic faith is that Muslims are allowed to lie in order to further a jihad or, you know, in order to mislead the infidels.
For the greater good.
For the greater good.
And I just, I love this idea that like, oh no, if they're Muslims, that means they can lie to us.
Like they have the ability to?
That means they don't have to tell the truth like everybody else.
I've tried to lie.
I can't.
But my Muslim friend does it all the time.
Yeah, I do that Jim Carrey thing where my mouth moves elastically, and then I tell the judge I have a boner.
Why won't you stand up?
*laughs* I don't get it.
Why won't he stand?
Even with a boner, you have to stand.
Oh man, where's that?
Jesse, where's that meme at?
I heard the reason he won't stand for the pledge is because he's got a boner.
Listen, in my day when we were in high school we still stood for the flag and we just held a book in front of us.
But not the good book.
And then Ed Lorette makes a post in Trump Train about Michael Cohen.
He shares a link from a well-respected news site called NewsPunch.com Uh, that says, Gambino Mob Heir says Michael Cohen will get, quote, whacked in prison.
Not only will he be a fish when he goes to prison, he'll also sleep with them.
He will then sleep with them.
Um, yeah.
And this has like over a hundred like, laugh, love responses.
And I just, I, I found this.
This mindset particularly interesting because you know the QAnon conspiracy theory is pretty much Totally overlapped with any sort of Trump fan base.
Like whatever base Trump has believes the exact same things as the QAnon conspiracy.
That there's a sort of behind-the-scenes deep state that is working to undermine Trump and Trump has to operate in secret.
He has to build the wall in secret.
He has to indict other politicians in secret.
And that's why he hasn't locked Hillary Clinton up yet, is because she's already been locked up.
Or that's why John McCain is dead, is because Trump killed him.
That's just part and parcel with the Republican Party at this point.
So I find it really interesting that A sort of constituency that wholeheartedly believes that people have been murdered for trying to speak out against Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation.
You know, they're always telling you to look up these people who are the supposed victims of the Clinton dynasty.
Andrew Breitbart, etc.
Are openly celebrating the idea of Somebody testifying against a politician and then getting killed for it.
Yeah, because the thing is, though, is that, you know, shooters are fine.
You can have shooters, but you got to, like, talk about it.
Secret shooters are the problem.
See, the Clintons have secret shooters and, like, that's not cool.
You got to, like, your shooters got to be out in public.
Yeah, it's just, I mean, it's just once again, like, you know, this whole podcast is sort of a monument to the lack of any substantive principle or any, any sort of, uh, stable ideology around democratic ideals or Holding people in power accountable?
Like, it's not about that at all.
The QAnon stuff is not about that.
It's not about finding the truth.
It's not about making sure democracy is served or anything like that.
It's literally just about The other side has been thwarting our side and it's good that we're doing the same thing.
It's good that we're holding secret military tribunals that aren't available to the public as long as it's happening to the other side.
Exactly, yeah.
We're just using the weapons that are available for war.
Yeah, it's just a love of authoritarianism.
It's a sort of vague form of fascism that will cry about justice or the principles of democracy until they're in power.
It will cry about a small government or lower taxes or whatever until they're actually in power and it's very clear that they didn't actually care about any of those things.
Well, I mean, people, we've seen this happen before.
I mean, look at things like Guantanamo Bay.
I know everyday regular people saying things like, yeah, that's fine.
They were doing it.
What they did was way worse.
We're just torturing those that torture.
Like it's okay.
And how we, you know, so easily just, that's just, hey, they made those weapons available.
Now we're using them too.
And it's so, they don't even know, they're not even really aware of it sometimes though.
That's the funny thing.
They're not really aware of it.
And I mean, you know, I'm not talking about torture or like secret military tribunals.
I'm talking more about like the exercise of power in general.
It's kind of one thing that they have right.
Like they are, Aware of or at least openly admitting that when you have power, the goal is to get your way.
Like when you have power, the goal is to sort of exert your will on the political system and shape it in a way that, you know, benefits you or appears to benefit you.
And that's one thing that a lot of people don't understand about politics.
They treat it as if it is sort of a Contest or a, you know, a sport where, no, the whole point of it is the art of the game or the whole point of it is like how you play.
You have to play clean or you have to follow the rules or else healthcare for all won't mean anything.
You know that follow the rules thing?
That's exactly, yeah, that's exactly what's funny about that whole conversation.
That kind of comes around to where this originated, you know?
Her saying that, her pointing that out, they got upset too because that was like against the rules.
Like, she wasn't supposed to talk about that, right?
Well, they were trying... But it's like... They were trying to use that.
It had to be said.
They were trying to use that supposed principle of following the rules against the other side, and the other side, the liberals in this case, fell for it, you know?
Yeah.
And like, that's the whole thing too, is that the only reason... It sucks that she had to say it.
To be honest, like, there should have been some white man who would have said the same thing.
Who would have taken the heat for that?
That's what the allies are supposed to be doing, right?
Right.
That's what's supposed to be happening.
But because she's already in this position, she's like, fuck it.
They already hate me because I called them a motherfucker.
They already hate me.
So I may as well at least do what's right and not worry about the decorum and the rules.
Totally.
And like Rashida Tlaib could do everything by the book and maintain decorum and follow all these arbitrary, you know, performative gestures in Congress.
And they wouldn't like her anymore for doing that.
Yeah, exactly.
They would still, you know, plaster her face next to a picture of the burning Twin Towers like they did with Omar in a heartbeat, you know?
Yeah, and that's... It's gonna be interesting to see because that's the whole thing.
These rules, these unwritten rules.
It's going to be interesting to see how those go because it's kind of cool seeing people like her break them.
Because actually him bringing that woman out in the first place was really strange.
No one's ever done that.
They never like had a person example.
And that scenario, that was new.
And so it's really weird seeing this stuff happen right now, in real time.
Yeah.
Let's move on to the next topic, which is Kamala Harris tweeting out that no one should have to work more than one job.
Which is, of course, like a disgusting, horrible thing for her to say.
I can't believe she said that, and I can't believe she thought no one would react negatively to the idea that a person should only have to work one job to survive.
The Daily Wire, this is a Daily Wire article, Kamala Harris says no one should have to work more than one job.
Hardworking Americans respond.
And before we get into the article, I just want to highlight one hardworking American's response to her tweet.
That is Steve Bean, who responds in all caps, EXECUTE!
What he meant was execute Operation One Job.
I love, he's saying, I want that.
This is the most milquetoast tweet ever.
No person should have to work more than one full-time job to put food on the table or pay the bills, period.
And Steve Bean is like, KILL HER!
Yeah, all she did was define the concept of a living wage.
Yeah, she defined the concept of like, you know, the weekend.
Yeah, exactly.
And Steve Bean wants her shot for treason.
Daily Wire says, Harris' concern for the financial well-being of others is touching, since she had no trouble employing a bunch of unpaid interns, as the Sacramento Bee reported in July 2017.
God, heartbreaking.
The worst person you know just made a good point.
Yeah.
It's not often that I agree with Ben Shapiro, and of course he's only doing this in an opportunistic, bad-faith way.
But yes, of course Kamala Harris has done awful things to working people like throw them in prison, use their prison labor.
She's, you know, using unpaid interns is absolutely fucked up. - I'm fucked up.
It's gross and I can't believe it's still legal.
And it's sad that it's not only legal but it's something people want.
And then, um, there's another tweet from her highlighted in this article.
in in 99 of counties in america someone making the minimum wage working full-time can't afford a one-bedroom apartment that is outrageous i've just introduced the rent relief act so that americans who spend over 30 on their income on rent can get a portion of that money back cool We have a handy table.
You can go to it.
KamalaHarris.gov slash 30% rent relief, where you can check to see if your income after tax incentives is applicable to this program.
But as Jeffrey Dorfman pointed out in Forbes, the Rent Relief Act would only enrich landlords and take money from taxpayers.
Absa-fucking-lutely.
That's all it's doing.
Ben Shapiro making a strong argument for rent control here.
Very interesting.
It's wild, because, I mean, yeah, if that were to happen, all that would really happen is they would, like, jack rent up.
And then, like, when you say, hey, man, I can't afford that, they would send you a link.
Yeah, they would send you a link at a forum to fill out.
But they really wouldn't even do that.
They would just give it to the person that's actually going to find the link on their own.
Yeah, it's just absurd.
The liberal response to soaring rent prices is, we're going to issue a tax incentive for you to get some of the money that you already spent back, maybe.
Yeah.
It's just absurd.
Not give you, you know, opportunity, but like, it's the same thing.
It's like, we're gonna give you forgiveness.
But like, you know, 35% forgiveness.
Yeah.
35% forgiveness.
Yeah.
Or whatever.
So actual responses to this tweet that were in the Daily Wire articles.
So thank you so much, Ben, for curating these responses for us.
Ryan Petty says, why not?
Why shouldn't a person have to work more than one full-time job to put food on the table?
I've held two jobs more than once as I was paying bills and going to school or when I was starting new companies.
Yep.
So I love this because it really seems like he's counting going to school as a job.
Yep, I think so.
I was paying bills and going to school.
How many other times do you think Ryan will allow that going to school should be considered a job, a full-time job?
Only to like...
Other, like, white guys who are gonna start businesses.
Yeah.
Yeah, otherwise it's just, like, liberal leftist daycare.
Only to other people that aren't paying to go to school, but are in fact, you know, getting it paid for, or somehow getting some sort of, like... Now listen, if you stay in school, you can stay on the insurance and we'll pay your phone bill too.
Yeah, you're not allowed to take over my company's son until you get a bachelor's degree.
Until you start school again from the third grade.
It's true.
No hard-working American like Billy Madison should have to work two jobs, which I count elementary school there, too.
I mean, in his defense, Ryan Petty's family, they do own a paste factory, and Ryan had never actually tasted paste before.
So he had to go back and taste paste for the first time.
I thought you were saying pace as in paste picante.
Nope, paste like mislipping.
And I was gonna be like, you're telling me this guy's a New York City liberal?
Dude, that reference is... try that one out with different circles.
You'll see how it's interesting.
George Bray responds, I'm 67, have two jobs now, and am damn proud of it.
You won't win anything running on this platform, madam.
Work ethic is the backbone of this country.
I'm 67 and I work two jobs and I fucking love it.
I dare you to give me enough money to live on one job.
I fucking dare you.
Man, that sucks.
Like, George, you're 67.
You should be like, you know, working one job and working on not working anymore.
Like, isn't that the goal?
Just like mad at the idea that she's saying some people shouldn't have to work two jobs.
Like, if you don't want to.
Well, if I have to, everyone should.
Yeah.
She took our second gerb!
I'm waiting for someone to be like, I have three jobs, but I never work a day in my life.
Because if you find something you love doing, you'll never work again.
And I found three jobs I love.
And also I don't get paid, so it doesn't legally qualify as work.
But I get discounts though.
I can buy whatever I want at the company store.
Rich Baker says... Amazing, amazing tweet.
At one point, I was working one full-time job, one part-time job, doing temp work when I could, and selling plasma twice a week while finishing my degree.
That work ethic, never being able to sit still, got me promoted in one year at my first quote real job, and I've never looked back.
Bro.
Wait, hold on.
I had to sell plasma twice a week and do three jobs and this is good.
This is a good thing that everyone should aspire to.
Also introduces the concept of, uh, that we all know of real jobs.
You know, like, like I joke about how I'm, this is my first real job.
My current job is my first real job.
Yeah, because before this, you were playing professional football.
Yeah.
And you were a professor at a college.
But now, finally, you're making money for someone else.
Well, after the cut to the space program, I had to find something.
Because being an astronaut wasn't going to be an option anymore.
Trump has actually expanded the space program.
I don't know if you heard that.
He's making the galaxy great again.
Yeah, but I started smoking weed after that, so I don't think they'll, like, let me in.
God, you were just already in outer space.
Why do you need to be an astronaut?
Going off that kooky green stuff.
Still my favorite photo of all time is the astronaut with the big bag of weed.
I don't know if I've seen that.
Yeah, it's real too.
But actually, I don't know if it looks really real, but I just realized... Okay, never mind.
I was like, can you smoke a blunt in space?
I don't think you can.
But also, NASA has to have some cool way to smoke weed.
No, you can hit a blunt in space.
It just pulls you forward.
That's how you get around?
Yeah.
Yeah, I love this.
That work ethic, never being able to sit still, got me promoted in one year at my first real job.
So like, that's, if you want to get promoted in a company, you have to do the hard work like selling plasma.
Yeah.
That's how he got promoted.
He got promoted by donating bone marrow.
Also like, what fucked up job was like, hey, hold on, you're working other jobs, right?
You're like, you have more than one of these?
Yeah, man, that's good work I think.
How about we promote you?
If you're under 25 and working for Peter Thiel, he's definitely made sure you're donating blood.
Graham Allen.
I don't know if we've ever done a specific Graham Allen video on this show, but he's like, you know, one of those video record myself screaming into the phone at a car.
Guys, he's like, you know, shaved head, going bald.
He kind of looks like Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy, just not blue or with a mohawk.
Yeah, oh yeah, that's, that's, yep.
Totally.
He says, I worked two jobs as a senior in high school.
It's called real life!
Learn it!
I love, what a fucking own.
Why don't you learn real life?
Didn't you also just say, like, were you saying you haven't done this since high school?
Yeah, no.
He's not currently in a position where he has to work two jobs.
Something totally in line with what Kamala Harris is suggesting.
And yeah, somehow she's still a traitor to the country.
And I like how a lot of people don't say what their jobs are.
You know?
You're literally like a Hollywood blogger.
Shut the fuck up with your real job bullshit.
Yeah, and I don't think that the two jobs are anything crazy.
You probably worked a day or two at the movie theater and then also helped at your uncle's auto shop or did drywall on the weekends.
Oh, well this thing about working two jobs as a senior in high school is fucking hilarious.
When did you work two jobs while going full-time to school?
Yeah, that's gnarly.
I mean, I'm sure someone's done it, you know?
But those are not... you're barely working.
Listen, I screamed into my cell phone three hours after school every day.
It's called real life!
Maybe like baseball was his like... other job.
What else was I gonna say here?
There was something else I wanted to say.
Yeah, the whole like...
The whole idea of professional bloggers, professional vloggers, which I think takes even less work than blogging, condescending to people about work ethic and getting a real job or whatever is like one of the most, I don't know, just like Ultimately insulting things you can ever think of.
It's very much in line with Mike Rowe, professional Ford model, telling people they need to go to trade school.
But what's worse about Graham Allen, he's like, I do have work ethic and the proof is in my lats.
You think you get this fucking body with no work ethic?
By the way, listen to that Citations Needed episode on Mike Rowe.
It's great.
Featuring Brian Quimby.
Oh, that sounds good.
A few more responses to Kamala Harris before we go to the final topic.
Amy Russell Price says about Kamala Harris saying no one should have to work two jobs.
Amy Russell says, Yeah, and no one should have to lose their dad at age 12.
And no one should have to lose a mother, a child, or a home.
No one should lose a soldier who's fighting for our nation and freedoms.
There's a lot of things that make life hard for humans.
It's part of our existence.
Working two jobs isn't high up on the list, Kami-poo.
Get a grip.
What's so great about this is I think this is some sort of like um this is definitely like a but what about the vets?
Yeah this is this is not as brave as our troops but it's literally not as dead as our troops!
And it's like Amy you do know like the answer to that is like less war right?
Like that's a totally different conversation and the answer is less war.
Also Amy's argument is like Yeah, things are hard all over.
Soldiers are dying.
Men and women are losing their children.
And we don't try to change any of that stuff.
Why would we bother to change the labor participation in this country?
Why would we try to make it easier on workers?
Yeah, honestly, you know, if they want one job, they could just have one job and just become a soldier.
No bull.
Until they come home and have to get two jobs.
Nobull replies, at one point I had three jobs.
Slept in the parking lot of night shift job because time slash gas to go home.
Libs hate work and success.
Snowflakes want to be paid to sit in mommy's basement.
You know what, man?
You know what, Nobull?
Fuck you, man.
Like, listen.
I'm as lib as you get, alright?
And I used to all sleep in my car before I used to open at Starbucks.
That's because I would, like, go from the party and then just go, like, take a nap.
Well, you also had to do all that, like, those extra hours teaching your white employees how to make eye contact with black people?
Oh no, that was like way before that.
That was like way before that.
That was like when, you know, they would follow people around the merch section in Starbucks.
It's like, okay, listen Bradley.
When you're talking to a black person, when you're talking to me, like you can call me dude, but just don't put my in front of it.
Yeah.
I think this is also like before my dude.
Listen, you can say brother, but just say it brother.
Don't say brother.
Yeah, don't, don't try to, don't try to do it.
No, this is, this is just, this is actually like peak Chappelle.
So, you know, the way you connect with a black person is by asking them what, and huh, and yeah, over and over again.
That's also the way you connect with a band on stage in 2005.
Yep.
If I have learned anything about the hardcore scene.
The thing is, doesn't everybody hate that person?
Now they do, but everybody used to be that person.
Oh man.
You could, you literally could not go to any hardcore show between like 2003 and 2007.
For sure.
Without hearing, Okay!
From the audience.
Yeah.
Oh man, that was rough.
And like, I was the cornball as I got to, but I could never do that kind of thing.
That needs to make a... I never, I just knew that the band did not want to interact with me.
There's like no way.
Well, you force your interaction on the band, whether they want to or not.
Uh, yeah, dawg, when I'm fuckin' stage diving off their face.
Uh, that needs to be brought back.
Like, we're rejuvenating, you know, Borat and Austin Powers, ironically.
We definitely need to, uh... We definitely need to bring back Rick James, ironically.
Ooh.
That biopic never happened, huh?
Nope.
Uh, yeah, and I just love the idea.
At one point, I had three jobs and slept in my car!
Y-you fuckin' snowflakes think that's bad.
Like this, like- Yeah, no, that sucked.
That's- I f- I feel genuinely bad for you.
That's awful.
You shouldn't have to do that.
Yeah, and it's not like he's saying, best time of my life.
No, he's saying it's bad, and it's good that it was bad.
Yeah, yeah, it made him appreciate his one job he has now.
And it's like, is it, can it really, like you said, you made a comment when we were talking about this episode, you said something like, well that's just grit.
Yeah, that's all it is.
That's called grit.
But I contend that it's not really that gritty, it's not really that, I don't know, onerous if you loved it so much.
You loved it so much you can't really claim it as like, you know, something that shaped you or something that taught you a lesson.
You were just loving it the whole time.
The whole time you were getting four hours of sleep in your car.
Why is this some sort of like proof of your credentials?
You wanted to do that shit apparently.
Well see the difference between like these people and the people that Kamala Harris is talking about is like you know when they were enjoying their suffering they had a safe word that was like their you know some sort of privilege I'm sure.
Yeah their safe word was warden.
Phobiaist says, Will Kamala Harris make it illegal to have more than one job or work more than 40 hours a week?
Sounds like working your way out of the plantation is forbidden.
Just give them the chance, man.
Just let them free themselves.
We all know hard work makes you a millionaire.
Hard work allows you to afford a two-story home on a single income.
So yeah.
And what's the plantation?
The plantation is just the, quote, ghetto, right?
Well, I think the plantation is the only people she could possibly be talking about are black people, so... It's also just like somehow you've correlated with working only one job to being a slave, and working three jobs makes you not a slave.
Which I would think maybe the opposite of that is true.
Maybe the opposite of that is more accurate.
In a way, yeah, in a way.
Nutty Cat Lady says, Minimum wage jobs are like canoes.
Interesting.
Let's see where she goes with this.
Canoes were never meant to cross an ocean, and minimum wage jobs were never meant to support a family.
Um, what?
I like this because she's comparing, like, surviving and just basic human necessities to the impossible act of crossing an entire ocean.
But what's funny is if you rephrase it, she makes a great point.
Yeah, exactly.
Minimum wage jobs are like canoes.
You expect us to cross the ocean on canoes?
You know, that's a great point, but apparently we're missing something here.
Yeah, it's a great point that just trying to fucking survive and, you know, provide for your family is like crossing an ocean.
Which is, you know, metaphorically, uh, an impossible task.
Yeah.
Which, even with the right equipment, is probably pretty grueling.
Listen, minimum wage jobs are like Skecher's shoes.
And supporting a family is like climbing Mount Everest.
Sketchers were never meant to climb Mount Everest.
You just wait, man.
You might be wrong there.
Sketchers, you know, they got slip proof.
They got work shoes.
They got it all.
You really work out your buns as you're cresting the peak.
Could God create a minimum weight so low that he himself could not raise a family of four on it?
That's an interesting question.
Yeah, think about that one.
I think so, because God can do anything.
Mart QBD says, I thought this was the country of self-determinations.
Being poor sucks.
It is supposed to suck.
That motivates people.
If being poor was comfortable, everybody would want to be poor.
So yeah, being poor is good because it's bad.
This is great logic here.
Not to, you know, break down the... well, I guess it's only the second wall in this scenario.
But guys, I'm actually not poor.
I've been faking it the whole time.
I have a huge stash of money I just don't... I just don't even access and I just live the way I live because it's good.
You know, it makes me... I'm learning from this.
And like, if being poor is supposedly this motivating factor and It's only by choice or it only takes the choice to not be poor.
Then why are there so many poor people?
Why are people still poor?
If, if like you said, it sucks so that it motivates more people to get out of poverty.
Why aren't they out of poverty?
Yeah.
Cause like, I know that my, you know, grandparents are worked pretty hard, you know, but I didn't really, Do enough to get my parents out of it.
Well, I think just being poor wasn't bad enough for them.
No, my grandparents were rich and they made my parents poor to teach them.
They were like, listen, rather than send you to college, we're going to send you to poor.
You're going to be better for it.
Instead of college, we're sending you to Hard Knocks University.
Yeah.
Let's move on to the final topic of the night, which was this amazing last-minute addition to the show.
Just one thread that I found in Trump Train came across my feed.
Boys, it's something.
Okay, so a little background.
You may or may not be familiar with, like, the Colorado jogger who was attacked by a mountain lion and killed it.
Like, killed it in a fight, basically, by suffocating it.
And, you know, this was sort of, like, Paraded around as like, you know, this dude is a fucking real man.
And that's how you alpha.
Chuck Norris got nothing on this guy.
And then I guess because it was like still enough of a story that news outlets could get some more clicks off of it, a second round of reporting came out.
And I'm going to read the headline here.
Mountain Lion, this is from Fox News, Mountain Lion Colorado runner killed was a young kitten, officials say.
Aw, he killed a little kitten?
Which is, like, one of the most incredible pieces of clickbait headlines I've ever seen.
Yeah.
And if you read the initial stories, they all say that the mountain lion was less than a year old, that it was a young mountain lion, etc, etc.
Otherwise, this guy would have literally never been able to kill it.
Like he would have just been dead.
Yeah.
He would have just died.
Yeah.
If this was a full grown or even young quote young adult mountain lion.
And uh...
But of course you're supposed to feel a certain way by the word killed a kitten in this headline.
And so Bruce, Bruce G felt a certain way when he shared this article to Trump Train.
He captions his post with, Great job, millennial warrior!
Now, step on that snail.
Show dat bastard who is boss!
What the fuck is that like that like spelling?
I feel like he's channeling his inner Conor McGregor.
That's exactly what that is, huh?
I don't know, Dat Bastard?
Yeah, I think that Dat Bastard is like an ode to Conor McGregor.
I'm almost positive.
I think he's just trying to sound like a cool guy in general.
It could be Conor McGregor.
The coolest guy.
And so he's saying, like, you're a millennial warrior who could only kill a kitten.
Which is just amazing.
Um, and I feel like we should go ahead.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah.
I feel like we should say that this mountain lion kitten still weighed about 40 to 50 pounds at its time of death.
Like after it had been scavenged, uh, after they'd found like the body totally, you know, uh, stripped of parts, it's still weighed like 25 pounds.
Um, and.
It was, I think, an orphaned cub.
They determined that it was orphaned and it was, like, desperate, and that's the reason it attacked this jogger.
And for anybody who doesn't really understand that, like, if you've ever, like, fucked with a puppy, like, you know, when puppies are just playing hard?
Like, a puppy can, like, fuck you up.
I mean, a cat, even more so a cat.
A cat can, like, fuck you up.
Like, that's what I'm saying, like... My cats fuck me up all the time.
They weigh nine pounds and they fuck me up.
Can't you imagine if like Tony walked in the door and Tony weighed 50 fucking pounds and just wanted to fuck you up?
Yeah.
You're gonna get pretty messed up.
I'd probably be doing a lot less like grabbing him by the belly and shaking him when he's on his back.
Yeah, for sure.
He'd be doing that to you a little bit.
Yeah, Ronald Novak replies in this comment thread.
Do not tell me.
No.
Do not tell me.
Let me guess.
He is a demon rat.
Where is this coming from?
I love that.
I love the suspense generated by that comment too.
Sort of expert wind-up and delivery.
And it's funny because I was having the same like response, you know, because as a vegan, I was like, oh man, I really hope this isn't a Democrat doing this thing, committing this atrocity.
I just, and then in my face.
Like what, like Democrats, notorious puppy haters?
Yeah.
Also like in the story, was he like, yeah, you know, like I was jogging like liberals do and uh, Does he admit to being a Democrat?
No, but the next comment, Tampa Deplorable, says, $200 he was high as a kite.
It's called a runner's high, Tampa.
The whole comments section was calling him a stoner and just like casually referring to him as a stoner or like a pothead.
And I was like, where is this coming from?
Like it was like, oh yeah, of course this stoner guy did this or what.
And I was like, where's this coming from?
And then I realized, oh, it's Colorado.
Yeah.
So they think like he's a, he's a stoner because weed is legal.
Well, no, no.
Weed's not legal.
You're not legally required to smoke weed.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I don't think you can be a stoner if you don't, like, also participate in the culture.
You know, like, is it also legally mandated that you never clean out your bong?
That's true.
That's true.
That's the difference, isn't it, huh?
I don't know.
John Nunez, or Nunes, there's no N-ya.
John Nunes says, fucking tree hugger guy was probably trying to pet the fucking cute kitten, idiot.
And that was, no, I don't think there's a comma there.
I think he was saying cute kitten idiot.
And that's, uh, that was, you know, this stoner probably just wanted to play with the kitty.
Like that was the comment all throughout.
Or like also like, Oh, now it's coming out that this was a kitten.
Something about this story doesn't add up.
Like just conspiracies everywhere.
Like the government was hiding the fact that this was a kitten because they didn't want bad press for the park service.
I want to hear the take where it's like, they didn't want like, a kitten should never mess with this alpha.
Yeah, a kitten should know better.
I mean that's what the original, I went back to the original Fox News article and that's what it was.
It was like, This guy probably scared the cat while he was jogging because it heard his brass balls clanking through the forest.
Well, I mean, judging by this guy's sweet beard.
And yeah, we can see a picture of this guy's face in the thumbnail and he's fucked up.
He got like, he's got like 30 stitches.
If you get pawed one time by a fucking kitten mountain lion, you're going to get jacked up.
The story is kind of crazy too.
Like I was originally like, reluctant to read the story because the little snippets of his quotes sounded very dude bro about how stoked he was that he killed a mountain lion but if you read like his full statements he was clearly just like kind of out of his mind with you know uh what do you call it uh Not endorphins, but the other thing.
Adrenaline.
Adrenaline at this encounter.
Yeah, he was just happy to be alive.
Yeah, which is understandable.
But he kind of goes into how, like, the lion, the mountain lion, like, bit his wrist and was, like, slashing at his face with its claws, and he tried to throw it off of his arm, and that ended up sending them both down a hill.
and then he was able to like put his body weight on on the cat so that it couldn't slash him with its back legs and then he was able to slowly bring one of his legs up and put it on the cat's neck to suffocate it she's yeah um So, John Nunes, yes, this fucking tree hugger guy was probably trying to pet the fucking cute kitten, idiot.
And then, Kessler McCoy replies, I would have shot your ass if I would have seen it ripping your face off, and then gave it some cat treats from a distance, because you're a bitch.
I'm- pfft.
That's like, what?
What the fuck?
Is Kessler talking to Jon or to the guy who killed the kitty?
I think he's talking to the guy who killed the kitty.
He's chiming in.
He's piggybacking off Jon's comment to also talk shit on the original Jogger.
I would have totally murdered you, not saved you, because I could have also shot the cat if I can shoot you.
Fucking killing a mountain lion with your bare hands, you fucking pussy.
I would have just pulled out my gun, idiot.
And killed you, for being such a dumbass.
Yep, yep.
Ron Mo says, here kitty kitty, maybe mommy didn't wipe his pee pee dry.
Well, I mean, we all do know you, like, can't go jogging if there's pee on your pants because it attracts mountain lions.
Like, this is again them... This isn't a reply to the tree hugger comment, but this is again, like... Just assuming that the guy wanted to pet the kitten, and this guy is such a libtard, snowflake, millennial freak that he wanted to touch its pee-pee as well.
Like, that's what this is saying.
Oh, oh, wait, hold on.
The guy who killed the kitten was saying that to the cat?
That's what Ron Moe is, yeah.
There's no quotes around it, but that's what Ron Moe is saying.
What the hell?
Like, this guy is a 30-year-old millennial who has to have his mommy wipe his peepee dry, so obviously he was projecting that onto the mountain lion.
Because you know how, like, I don't know, this person, I mean, does this person not know how, like, cat peepees work?
Do you know how cat peepees work?
You don't have to wipe them.
I know that much.
Self-wiping.
I know their sheath.
Well, they have these barbs on the end of them that actually collect the urine, and like, with your foreskin, you have to pull the barbs forward in order to clean them properly.
Oh, true, true.
Okay, yeah.
So maybe the cat didn't need help.
Cindy Donde Perez says, the cat attacked him.
He has every right to defend himself.
What?
If the cat had killed him, you would criticize him that he couldn't defend himself.
Come on, people.
Very valid point.
And then, um, when you get into this language of defend himself, you're boarding, you're bordering precariously on the edge of stand your ground.
So, like, I'm very, very shocked that I only saw one comment, um, comparing this animal to, like, Trayvon Martin.
Yeah.
David Reed replies to Cindy, same thing going on in the Middle East.
Okay, here we go.
Sorry, huh?
What's going on in the Middle East there, David?
They train the kids to shoot Americans, and people screech about soldiers killing kids over there.
They are forced to because of the adults.
So I love that, like, this guy is saying, yes, our soldiers killed kids, and it was good.
They had to.
Like, no one's even talking about, like, killing kids anywhere, and this whole thing.
Well, I guess we are talking about killing kittens.
If you empathize with this guy, you must also empathize with the soldiers.
Yeah, I mean, like, no.
He had to kill a kitten, and that was good.
I don't know, I think it's bad that he was, like, stealing valor from our soldiers by killing a juvenile creature.
I think that there's a lot of... I think that he thinks he can, you know, speak at the RNC because of this, and that's wrong.
And that's wrong, no.
Who is your commanding jodder?
Kitty killing is not going to cut it, my friend.
And then Hugo Stiglitz, final comment, says, "The kitten was still young enough to be aborted by Democrat standards." Oh, God.
Yeah, I mean, if the Democrats had their way, they would just be aborting all the kittens.
So, he's just...don't knock him.
I love these two comments, because they're just shoehorning in really awful conservative talking points to this otherwise unrelated subject of a jogger encountering a mountain lion.
Yeah, not relevant at all.
Not relevant at all, but they somehow found a way to, like, insert their favorite right-wing talking point, you know?
Like, yeah, this pussy killed that kitten just like politicians kill Bibles in public schools.
Yeah, it's, uh, what's next?
First the kittens, what's next?
You know, this guy has a right to kill a kitten, but if I wanted to shoot that kitten, then I would have been a bad guy.
Bet he tried to perform a sex change operation on this male mountain lion and that's why he got mauled.
Like what?
Yeah what are you talking about?
Alright, totally deranged.
I love it when these sort of like random news stories just become like the oddest political fodder.
Well, because everything is about these things.
Everything is about these things.
Full committal.
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