Hey! It's a recording of us live on the West Coast! Support the show and get the full episode at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult A county executive rules that a Maryland police department isn't allowed to accept a wooden Blue Lives Matter flag from a grateful child. Derangement ensues.
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| So today we're talking about a very specific flag. | |
| Okay, this is a story we have here. | |
| It's close to our hearts. | |
| It's similar to what we cover on the show. | |
| And this is Maryland Police Station banned from displaying thin blue line flag. | |
| Look at these wet blue eyes over these blue lives. | |
| He's so sad. | |
| He's gonna break right now. | |
| This is a sad boy right here. | |
| This sad boy is like one dab rig away from starting a twinkly emo band. | |
| Real sad boy hours. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's funny, you can't see it, but his lapel pins just say sheriff. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because he wasn't going to let you know that anyways. | |
| It's funny, and it's so good for the topic because, of course, the thin blue line flag is a flag that just says, hey, we're cops, right? | |
| And then his lapels pin also says, hey, I'm a cop. | |
| It's like when your mom writes left and right on your socks in the morning, you know? | |
| I'm going to read here from this story. | |
| A father and son gave a handcrafted wooden American flag with a thin blue line to Maryland police officers last month. | |
| Police cannot publicly display the National First Responders Day gift. | |
| Montgomery County Executive Mark Elrick has ruled saying the flag is divisive. | |
| First of all, I love that phrase. | |
| Hot take. | |
| Hot take. | |
| I love that phrase, National First Responders Day gift. | |
| Yeah, did you guys get the new Hallmark line for National First Responders gifts? | |
| I got the day off for it. | |
| Did we all attend our National First Responders Day gift exchange this year? | |
| Seeking responders? | |
| However, siding with supporters who say the flag symbolizes law enforcement's separation of order from chaos, Governor Larry Hogan slammed the county's display ban. | |
| We are proud to hang these thin blue line flags in government house to honor our brave law enforcement officers, Hogan tweeted on Sunday. | |
| A local elected official prohibiting police from displaying a flag given to them by a grateful child is disgraceful. | |
| It is a disgrace. | |
| This kid just wanted to decorate Government House. | |
| What's Government House? | |
| Government House is like their version of the Governor's Mansion. | |
| It just sounds like a frat where everybody gets away with sexual assault. | |
| That's exactly what it is. | |
| Yeah, no, I like that they're pinning this on the kid, right? | |
| This is like an eight-year-old kid and his dad who happens to be a woodworker. | |
| Has like a nice shop in the garage, you know? | |
| They're like, this poor kid, he was so just grateful for the police. | |
| You know, he loved the police. | |
| And County Executive Mark Elric came up and slapped him in the mouth, said, get that respect out of your mouth. | |
| You are not allowed to like the police that much. | |
| We all know that you have to smack the children to raise the adrenochrome levels. | |
| Um, so, I don't know, we gotta talk in general, I think, about, like, the thin blue line flag and how much it sucks. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| How stupid it is. | |
| It's just a flag that says, ah, that's me. | |
| That flag, that's what I do. | |
| Yeah, it's like a live, laugh, love sign for cops. | |
| It is. | |
| It is, except it's just cop, cop, cop. | |
| It'd be like if Lance Armstrong showed up to work wearing five Livestrong bracelets on each arm. | |
| No, no, that's what Lance Armstrong did. | |
| He fucked them heavy. | |
| But I mean, no Livestrong bracelets anymore. | |
| Oh yeah, that's right. | |
| That didn't end too well. | |
| He got fucked up, huh? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Livestrong is cancelled. | |
| No more Living Strong. | |
| Okay, so all we have to do is we catch a cop in a lie. | |
| We catch a cop breaking the rules and then they're done. | |
| So we just need like one 60 minute expose on cop doping and they're done. | |
| Police abolished. | |
| Right. | |
| So the argument here is that the thin blue lion flag is racist, which of course it is. | |
| Yeah, we know this. | |
| This is a fact. | |
| But, uh, we, you know, we have somebody to explain how it's not racist, right? | |
| Okay. | |
| So since the term thin, this is just a random comment or I didn't write down their name. | |
| The comment's just funny. | |
| Since the term thin blue line has been around for at least a century, having first referred... You see where this is going, right? | |
| Having first referred to the U.S. | |
| Army, parentheses, blue uniform, and traces back to a British Army, thin red line, see red codes, this is radical centrism. | |
| That's insane, yeah. | |
| And then adopted in the 50s or 60s to refer to police forces, it can hardly be accused of being racist in any way! | |
| The 50s and 60s! | |
| Come on! | |
| That's not me punching up that joke. | |
| That's verbatim. | |
| That's how that guy said it. | |
| It can't be racist in any way! | |
| No, I mean like, Obama didn't invent racism until 2014. | |
| That's really what these people think. | |
| It's not a joke. | |
| They really think, like Obama said, Trayvon Martin could have been my son and a Manchurian sleeper cell of racism erupted into the nation's brain. | |
| They were unplugged from the matrix and they knew about racism then. | |
| It was fucking on from then on. | |
| Yeah, so people have some thoughtful criticisms of this no blue line, thin blue line policy. | |
| Milkman76 in the Fox News comments section says, As a Marylander, all I have to say is if the Democrats ever take over the presidency again, we're going to have a civil war 1,000 times worse than the last one. | |
| That's all he's trying to say. |