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As always, we have so much content to get to in this episode.
I'm just gonna dive right in.
I wanted to start this episode off reading some reviews on iTunes.
It's been a while.
This podcast, Minion Death Cult, we've got a lot of them and I just have been neglecting reading them on the show, so I apologize for that.
We're not going to be able to get to all of them today, but thank you so much to people who have, you know, taken the time to rate and review the show there.
Go ahead and give some recognition out here.
CDJHFY says wow one star the left is nuts does it his dude realize how ignorant his shows are by title alone?
You sound like you would had worked for Hitler if you lived in Germany back then.
This is what happens when you're brainwashed.
It's funny because I'm still not entirely clear Like, where they're coming from.
Do they listen and hate it, or do they not listen and hate it?
It would be extremely unclear where they were coming from if they didn't say, the left is nuts, does it, his, dude, yeah.
It's interesting that he says, you know, the left is nuts, and then also indicates that the titles of these episodes are insane and ignorant.
Yep.
It's like, yeah, that's you, dude.
That's you.
Thank you.
Like, if we didn't have better shit to talk about, the name of this episode would be, The Left Is Nuts, Does It His Dude Realize How Ignorant His Shows Are?
Yeah.
Um, and...
I tried to get this comment removed.
I tried to get this review removed.
I said it referenced Hitler.
I said it was offensive and it referenced Hitler.
So we're still working on that.
We're still seeing if that can happen.
I have gotten a negative review removed because it said this is worse than 9-11 or something, which is funny but also very offensive and does not belong in the iTunes marketplace whatsoever.
Had it been a five-star review, we probably would have let it ride.
Wouldn't have touched it.
Okay, so, yeah.
Get the bad one out of the way.
Wow, one star.
I don't understand anything that's going on, which is indicated by my opinion about this show.
Next one though, however, is pretty good.
Uh, Black Mansion says, What is this?
Question marks?
One star.
This is bad.
You spent a lot of time writing songs with weird names and bad language.
Uh, this review was left shortly after we did the episode on cop rap.
With Forensic?
Yes.
Awesome.
And I'm wondering if that's what this person's talking about, because I think I did some ironic cop rapping in that episode, and we probably used some foul language as well.
A little bit, a little bit.
I think it might just be like a deep cut dig at like maybe they're like, oh, I've heard this guy write some music.
Well, they all have bad titles and bad language.
Also, your podcast is one star.
Yeah, this is somebody from the Inland Empire who's seen Shuteye and Life Tyrant and The Ashes play several shows.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Thank you very much, Black Mansion.
I appreciate it.
Hildo says, Dear Tony and Alex, 5 stars, will you please marry me inside the post office?
Heart, heart, heart.
Yes.
The answer to that is yes.
Absolutely.
Once they are sanctioned to go ahead and do weddings, yeah, let's run it.
Yeah, I mean, you can do weddings.
It doesn't have to be in a church, Tony.
I know you grew up, like, pretty religious, but... Yeah, but I want all postmasters to be ordained.
Like, be part of the thing.
I want to be married by a postmaster.
Um, last review here.
I don't know, what is this name?
Are those three supposed to be E's?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's good.
I mean, is it S's?
No, I don't think they're S's.
No, yeah.
Lecremitan?
I don't know.
Says, time for a civil war.
Five stars.
Is your brain good?
Listen to this to fix that.
Your brain will be bad.
You love to listen to it.
Thank you so much.
Unpronounceable name.
Really appreciate that.
Yeah, if you want to go ahead and leave us a five-star rating on iTunes in your little podcast app, that would be extremely helpful.
You just scroll down to the very bottom, you click on our feed, you know, like you already have it subscribed, I'm sure, in your podcast.
Podcast app.
Scroll down to the very bottom where it says ratings and reviews.
Click leave a review and click five stars.
That's all you got to do.
Or if you're feeling extra generous, you can type something out.
It doesn't have to be funny.
It can be mean as long as you leave five stars.
You can call us like libtards or cucks or whatever.
Just give us a good rating.
We appreciate it.
One time someone left us a 5 star review that actually hurt my feelings a great deal even though I didn't really care because we got 5 stars and all they said was, you know, Tony asked me to leave this here and that worked.
There were words.
There was 5 stars.
It was cool.
I'll take that.
Put some words, click some stars.
For a long time I was saying, all you have to do is write.
It's good.
The show is good.
And a few people have done that, so we appreciate it.
Getting into the show proper here, I just wanted to do a bit of follow-up for our discussion About Kyle Rittenhouse's right-wing vigilante violence in Milwaukee.
His legal team has released a statement about, you know, what their case is going to be, basically.
What their defense is going to be.
And it's all pretty bog-standard, like, self-defense, stand your ground, And also with a dash of conservative victimhood in there.
I think it starts off with like, on Sunday morning or whatever the day after the shootings were, on Sunday morning, Kyle Rittenhouse awoke to find himself at the center of a national controversy.
Yeah.
Which is just such an amazing phrase.
I love the way that they've phrased it.
They phrased it like it's a fucking Kafka novel.
They phrased it like Kyle Rittenhouse awoke in his bed one morning to find his right arm had been transformed into an AR-15.
He didn't know how he got here, but he's here now.
He remember blacking out for a while.
He woke 15 miles away from his house pacing in front of a stranger's auto dealership.
So that's funny, but then the paragraph that like really I don't know we're kind of just it was just kind of surreal like it's like a new level of Conservative meme or trolling or just dipshit comment The paragraph goes Kyle got up and continued down the street in the direction of police with his hands in the air He attempted to contact multiple police officers, but they were more concerned with the wounded attackers
The police did not take Kyle into custody at that time, but instead they indicated he should keep moving.
He fully cooperated both then and later that night when he turned himself in to the police in his hometown of Illinois, or his hometown Antioch in Illinois, which is again a different state than where he was defending his community from.
Yeah, you fled the seat of the crime and went home across state lines after.
So yeah, cooperating real hard.
I just love the way that this is phrased, though.
It's like, this kid frickin' loves police.
He loves cops so much.
He wanted to get arrested by the cops.
He tried.
He tried.
He said, uh, please take me, you know, uh, take, take me into custody.
But the cops were too concerned with the, the communists and BLM and Antifa.
They were, they were too concerned with helping the wounded attackers of our, of our, our beloved boy, Kyle Rittenhouse.
And it's, it's literally like that.
Oh, I couldn't even get, I couldn't get arrested in this town.
Like everybody just hates me.
It's a new level of, like, conservative victimhood that's, like... The cops ignored me.
Oh, white privilege?
You mean the privilege to get ignored by your heroes, the police?
Yeah.
To be invisible?
Like, I just, you know, shot multiple people, and you still don't see me?
That's not privilege.
That's torment.
Dude, he's literally, like, uh...
He's literally like what's-his-face trying to get Jodie Foster's attention.
He's fucking Mark David Chapman or whoever that was trying to get Jodie Foster's attention by shooting a senator, but he was trying to get the cops' attention by shooting BLM protesters and still they wouldn't give it to him.
It's funny because like we tell that exact same story and don't change too many words and it says an entirely different message where it's like he shot these people then he walked right towards the police and the police were didn't care about him at all they told him move on and that's like such bullshit and they're like he's just listening he's only listening you know he wanted to like he was just doing you know he was doing his duty by listening to the cops
Yeah so I don't know that's just like an interesting piece of the argument and it's like I don't know I've said this online at least don't get your hopes up for this kid to go to jail or like get prosecuted at all like don't I mean what's what is the reason that we are protesting right now what is the reason that we're in the streets because motherfuckers like this never see justice
So I just, I wouldn't, I wouldn't go like, you know, not going to, or savvier than to do that.
But I see a lot of like libs in the Joe Rogan group who are like, yeah, your, your buddy Kyle, you love so much.
He's going to be picking up the soap in prison.
And it's like, okay, you know, uh, cool, uh, rape joke.
Uh, but also like, no, he's not like, don't, don't, uh, don't argue that point.
Don't, don't like make that your argument.
Cause it's not going to happen.
Conservatives will just respond with a picture of George Zimmerman signing a bag of Skittles and getting paid for it.
That's what's going to happen.
We still live in America.
Don't get it twisted.
The worst thing that's going to happen to Kyle Rittenhouse is he's not allowed to join the police force so he has to sign Crocs and sell them on eBay for a living.
Yeah, so he like gets a show, like an NRA show with Turning Point USA.
So the episode today, turning to like, I guess less depressing than vigilante murder.
It's turning to something less depressing.
We have a story that probably a lot of people are familiar with, which was Obama, President Barack Obama, stepping in and solving the NBA strike.
Solving the sort of impromptu strike for racial justice, Justice for Jacob Blake by the NBA.
Solving the problem by telling the players to shut up and dribble.
Ugh.
Ugh.
I don't, like, it sucks so bad.
Because this was a big deal.
This could have been a big deal.
Even though it was the most performative version of it because there was no ticket sales, it's still a huge fucking deal.
And it just got shit on.
Yeah, as the left, we kind of have to take what we can get.
I don't know what they could have accomplished with a strike.
Like, the conversation, as I can tell from this article that we're about to get into, seems to be about, like, pressuring the owners to, like, donate more money or something like that, which is just pretty lib.
Yeah, I don't know what the end goal was really for the NBA.
I mean, you can't, when you're striking, it's really...
You can't really strike for something other than justice in your specific workplace.
Yeah.
Like, you're striking against the powers that be in your workplace.
You have pressure over your boss.
You don't have pressure over the, you know, over the cops in Wisconsin by striking.
So then your pressure over the boss becomes, oh, you should donate money to a non-profit.
And it's like, your boss is like a millionaire piece of shit.
He's probably already doing that and writing it off in his taxes.
Like, it's not... Yeah.
Anyway, the point that I'm trying to make is that the action was good because it was like they realized that striking is an option, basically.
That's why the action was good.
And a bunch of people would be able to have the conversation that we're having now about striking being an option.
Sorry, go ahead with what you're saying.
No, I'm saying, like, that's exactly it.
It was kind of a cool demo of, like, this is an option.
And then also, sports does have this weird thing, though, where there is, they do, like, contribute to, like, the morale of a metropolitan city, right?
Especially when it comes to, like, you know, the working class and, um, and even, like, even the cops.
So, like, there is an element of their, like, listen, we will not dunk until you, like, stop.
And that might actually might maybe make the cops be like, I really want to see you dunk.
Right, yeah, I guess, yeah, the Milwaukee Bucks have that sort of leverage over their own community, perhaps.
I was just, I guess, a little blinkered by the fact that it's LeBron in this thumbnail, and it's like, you know, he's Lakers now, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, you know, there's enough problems with the LAPD that he could probably exert some pressure over, but it's like, That's kind of too, I don't know, too big of a conversation for what's going on.
This is like a step above putting a phrase on the back of your jersey, which I'm really happy with.
I'm happy that it's a step beyond that or a step beyond like wearing a specific t-shirt or whatever.
Let me read this tweet.
Shams, Charania tweeted out, LeBron James led a small group of players who sought advice of Barack Obama on Wednesday and the former president offered them guidance to continue playing with a plan of action.
So it's cool.
It's, it's cool when you, um, stop doing the action to, in order to have a plan of action.
I've always found, you know, I don't know, call me an intellectual or call me a forward-thinking person, but I always like a plan, you know?
I think a plan of action is almost often better than action itself.
Well, you didn't hear about the plan that he proposed?
What Brock said we should do is, much like how when you and I shoot a paper ball into a basket, we say Kobe or LeBron, he thinks that maybe basketball players should yell the name of fallen people as they shoot the ball or dunk.
So when you dunk, you dunk and you're like, Flanagan Steel!
Dunk it.
And then when you fade away, you're all George Floyd!
And then, that's gonna be... That's how we're gonna change things.
That is, I mean, I was making fun of Elizabeth Warren with the plans thing, but what you just did is like an even more incisive dunk, so to speak, on Elizabeth Warren's plan to say trans women's names in the Rose Garden as using the power of her presidency.
Well, the thing about plants, though, is if you, like, whisper it into the plant, it takes on the energy.
And the ghosts of those trans women will, like, will haunt the Rose Garden from then on.
Jesus Christ, dude.
This is so fucked up.
So fucking stupid.
Like, these people are so powerful and waste so much goddamn energy on the dumbest stuff.
Obama, like, what is Obama's fucking deal, dude?
Like, like...
Does he know that he's like a capitalist stooge?
Is he aware of that?
Yeah, he's like a dude bro.
You know what I mean?
He's one of those people that's like, you gotta work harder than when you get paid for.
You gotta work for how much you want to make, not how much you do make.
You know, you gotta, you can't, you can't not, you can't be a basketball player and not play basketball.
Like, I think that he's... Have you thought about writing names on the shoes?
On the, on the sides of the shoes you can write names.
You draw pictures on your shoes.
Yeah, like we used, we used to do it.
The streets of Honolulu.
We'd write, uh, corn on the side of the shoes, little backwards R, or like, uh, you know, uh, Limp Bizkit.
He's got a little Z, a little lightning bolt Z. A little K-I-T.
You do a little alien and then write alien workshop around the alien head.
But see, real heads knew, you just drew the alien and you wrote workshop underneath it.
You just knew the alien was for the workshop.
Photosynthesis is an incredible, incredible tape.
We could do the same thing for victims of Victims of police violence.
Like, maybe we can get a sticker campaign going.
We get those holographic stickers out of the machine, and each alien's head has the mugshot that the cops used to smear a victim of police violence.
You know, you get the holographic one, so you can get two memorials and one sticker.
If you're looking from the left, you get Tamir Rice.
Looking from the right, you know, you can get multiple victims in one sticker.
Two for one.
It's just, I think he's, like, he knows he's a moderate.
I think he's, like, proud of the fact that he's a moderate.
He thinks that that, like, means something.
That means he has integrity or that means he's, like, reasonable.
It works across the aisle.
Yeah, well that's that's I think another thing on top of it I think he's coming from a position of being a moderate and then he works across the aisle to a farther right like with a farther right partner, but like I think he already is a reasonable like he's bragged about how his shit would be like A moderate Republican policy, you know, in the 80s or whatever.
And it's just, like, tragic.
It's just tragic how beloved he is by a lot of people.
A, by virtue of, you know, his background and what he meant culturally to a lot of people, and by virtue of, like, his rhetoric on the campaign trail, which was completely different.
And it ensnared a lot of, you know, progressives.
It enamored him to a lot of progressives, and then because of the nature of the political system, like, it's pretty easy to make the case, oh, well, we had Republicans.
What was I supposed to do?
You know, and it's like, well, you didn't have Republicans the whole time, and you had really shitty Democrats, uh, who... I don't know, weren't that much farther to the right than you are right now.
Anyway, I'm just saying, like, it's very funny for him to be like, no, we just go back to work, guys, and we figure it out later.
Sucks.
And it's just, I mean, I couldn't help but instantly think of the children's book written about Hillary Clinton, I think in 2016.
I think it was like the run-up to the 2016 election, where it shows Hillary Clinton, how she defied the odds by overcoming... She broke through the, you know, glass ceiling for women.
She broke into a man's world despite the efforts of people like Jackie Robinson and Albert Einstein trying to hold her back.
Which is one of the illustrations on that page.
It's like, it was a man's world until Hillary came along.
And it's like, it shows a long line of men that include like Jackie Robinson and I think Albert Einstein.
Just like, you know, I don't know, the first black man to ever play professional baseball and also a Jew who fled Nazi Germany.
Yeah, yeah.
That's who Hillary defied.
But anyway, it reminded me of the page where it's like, when her fellow students were mad and ready to strike, who showed up and calmed things down and made sure that cooler heads would prevail?
It was Hillary.
It was Hillary.
Listen, when things got really crazy and people were about to exert their leverage as workers, who showed up and made sure that couldn't happen?
A Democrat.
It's not like they're going in there.
One of the most popular Democrats in the country.
It's not like, it's not like they're going in there being like, hey, do we have like the support of like, you know, maybe another union?
Do we have like resources?
Are we going about it?
They're not doing that.
They're just saying, hey, let's not rile things up.
Yeah.
Let's not rile, they're not helping.
They're just, they're only, they're not helping the people who are looking to strike.
That's for damn sure.
Well, it's all about, it's all about optics.
Like for the, for, I mean, that's the excuse they use at least.
Like, the most charitable way of discussing what Obama and Hillary Clinton... You need to get off the laptop, Gizzy.
Thank you.
The most charitable way of, like, describing their acts is that they're worried about looking too radical.
Like, that's the most charitable... Oh, you're gonna alienate suburban moderates or whatever.
In reality, they're just capitalists, I believe.
Yeah, no question there.
That's their propaganda within the party, is that they're being cool heads, and they're worried about how this looks.
I posted about this on the Instagram, and I don't think they're a listener, I just think that they follow us on Instagram.
They were like, oh yeah, why don't we just burn it all down, that'll solve everything.
And it's like, it's so depressing that just the idea of a strike is considered burning everything.
Exerting the one, like, pressure.
I mean, you could literally also, as workers, burn your workplace down.
Yeah, that's option B. That's also an option.
But that's not what we're talking about here.
Just asserting any little bit of power is considered unseemly or too extreme, you know?
Let me read from this article here.
After walking out of Wednesday's players meeting in support of sitting out NBA games, LeBron James led a small group of players who turned to perhaps America's biggest basketball fan for advice.
Former President Barack Obama spoke to James, National Basketball Players Association President Chris Paul, and a small group of players late Wednesday evening By the way, listener, I subscribed to The Athletic in order to read this article and also get comments from this article.
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Advising them to play and utilize the opportunity to contextualize action they want in order to play.
This is really cool how we're like Workers, you know, I don't know me.
I don't have a fucking college degree Tony I don't think you have a college degree as far as I know A lot of people don't have college degrees including a lot of NBA players And and we're like looking at this sentence and we're like hey The NBA players wanted to strike to pressure their boss into doing something good That's a simple enough thing to understand Yeah.
But however, when you think about it, the better thing to do is to play and utilize the opportunity to contextualize action we want in order to play.
And it's like, I don't know, that's, yeah, that sounds confusing enough to be smart.
That sounds confusing enough to be strategic.
No, I think what they're talking about is like every game is an opportunity to like show the police how to like run a post.
You know, or like what you can talk about is what you observed in the game and what you didn't observe in the game.
Like one thing the police can learn from watching basketball games is at no point in any basketball games in the NBA do you just like gun down an innocent black person.
See, so just like that's how you're demonstrating how to be, you know, what you want from them.
I think this is going to have the adverse effect.
I think cops are just watching the NBA with like giant black dudes running constantly and they just like can't shoot them.
And it's like, it's, it's like, uh, wait, it's like edging for them.
It's sending the wrong message.
You know, them, those like, those jersey shorts, they're a little thin, you know, and like every once in a while they might see what they think is like a weapon.
So like they get really nervous watching basketball.
I just, I think it's like they get all this pent up energy from watching these dudes, you know, be physical and probably the best thing you could do is just stop playing.
No, but anyway, jokes aside.
This this advice is fucking dog shit.
This advice is like incredibly patronizing and just completely maddening.
Play and utilize the opportunity to contextualize action.
What the fuck does this mean?
You're adding like seven different words on top of the word action to totally remove any sort of efficacy that it could possibly have that actual action would have.
Let's I mean I really kind of want to like in order to discuss this I really kind of want to figure out what the fuck this sentence means.
Yeah.
Advising them to play.
So we know.
Okay.
So they're going to play and utilize the opportunity.
So assuming like playing would be an opportunity, they're going to use the opportunity presented by playing to contextualize action I don't know what that part means.
Contextualize action they want.
Okay, so, uh, to contextualize the results they want, I guess?
How does playing contextualize that?
I don't know.
But then this last piece is a kicker.
Is the fucking kicker.
Utilize the opportunity to contextualize action they want in order to play.
The thing that they're already doing.
Yep.
This is the only thing they asked to not do anymore.
Hey, what we need to do is we need to continue serving customers in order to contextualize the demands that we need in order to continue serving customers.
What?
What?
What the fuck does that mean?
Aren't you, didn't you go to fucking Harvard or something?
Obama?
Like, I went to fucking Cal State San Bernardino and I know that this sentence is dog shit.
It's a dumb sentence.
It means completely nothing.
Especially in the context of fucking basketball.
Like, that's the whole thing.
What are you suggesting here, my man?
What the fuck are you asking me to do?
Throughout this article, it gets down to, like, oh, they're going to form a committee.
And it's, like, fucking great.
Cool.
Awesome.
Liberal bureaucracy to the rescue again.
Sick.
We know how effective that is.
The last paragraph I'll read here.
We're going to give more t-shirts to black kids.
Like, that's all we're going to do.
We're gonna invent a new hand signal to combat the OK sign.
And we're gonna flash that during games.
Um, this last paragraph, Clippers Doc Rivers delivered an impassioned speech to players and I generally like Doc Rivers.
Like, I mean, I don't know his politics or whatever, but I know, uh, Doc Rivers delivered an impassioned speech to players, encouraging them to take more ownership toward the voting process.
Rivers expressed that he believes only 20% of players are registered voters and that number must be in the eighties.
Sources said.
Those sources said Rivers expressed that black males must make a more concerted effort to go vote and make an impact.
Um, so, uh, how many, how many basketball players are there?
There's what, like maybe 500 at the most?
Yeah, something like that.
So, okay, so yeah, let's get 80% of 500 is 400, 400 more votes.
Hell yeah.
We're gonna rock the vote.
Let's get 80% of 500 is 400 more votes.
Hell yeah.
We're going to rock the vote.
Dunk the vote.
We're making change, baby.
Windmill dunk the vote.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Don't even show up.
Don't even show up.
The NBA has got this one.
The NBA has got this one.
I mean, that's like one of the most like depressing things.
Like when I see, you know, when I see anybody, but especially like, you know, a black man.
Millionaire basketball coaches, you mean?
Guys, we got to vote.
It's because we're not voting.
Yeah.
This is because we're not vo- if we just vote.
If we just vote.
Guys, if Hillary was there, the cops would not have killed any more people.
Yeah.
Listen, motherfuckers.
Hey, reality check, biatches.
If you didn't vote, I don't want to hear any complaints about unarmed black men getting gunned down by the police.
You forfeited that right.
Hey, why don't you show up and do the work next time?
Hold on, I'm going to call a technical foul.
It sounds like you're talking about police brutality, but you didn't vote last year.
Yeah, and it's like I said 400 votes, but that's 400 votes like across 50 states.
Yep.
Yeah.
Incredible.
Okay.
The delusion.
If you want to be more mad at liberals, I've got a couple comments here for you.
Let's get it.
These are comments from the athletic comment section, which I'm almost bummed I canceled my subscription because I love, I love a new source of comments, you know, but it's like, I don't, I don't know how, how much the athletic is going to get into like libshit or chud politics.
Well, it's an election year, so, and there's not a lot of sports.
That's true.
James M. Okay, so one of the top comments was like, fuck Obama, he didn't legalize weed.
Yeah, yeah, run it.
And it was like, cool, but you know, of course there were like a hundred replies while actuallying him.
And James M. says, actually, the president can make policy decisions to not focus on certain laws, but he or she Very, very woke of you.
He or she does not have the power needed.
Good job.
Even though we're talking about Barack Obama.
This is just how you know you're dealing with like an enlightened liberal here.
Yeah.
He or she does not have the power needed to decriminalize anything.
Laws can only be changed through congressional passage and signed by the president.
And if you're like, most people probably already know why this person's dumb, but I'm going to keep going here.
I know our current president thinks he's king and can do whatever he wants, but that's not how a republic works.
That's not how a republic works, my friend, because we're in a republic.
We live in a constitutional republic!
Obama cannot simply outlaw marijuana or legalize it.
Longtime listeners of the show will know that that was a frequent comment we used to get before.
Yes.
Before the right was as just like openly fascist like kill Black Lives Matter or whatever it used to be.
We live in a constitutional republic.
It's the way that they got around the idea that their policies were deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans and their president was elected with a minority of the popular vote.
Uh, suddenly they cared very much about minority rights.
Uh, and it, the rallying cry became, we do not live in a democracy.
Democracy is actually bigoted because you get the tyranny of the majority.
And it's like that idea is never really fully fleshed out because it's like in a democracy you get the tyranny of majority of the majority whereas in the Constitutional Republic you get the enlightened tyranny of the minority.
Of the minority.
But it's just very funny I think this is you know it's fitting that we haven't heard it in a while Until we hear it from a liberal.
We hear this now being used as a liberal argument as to why a president shouldn't be able to decriminalize a good thing to decriminalize.
It's a liberal gotcha.
It's like a liberal adopting conservative talking points in order to own Trump.
It's what we've been fucking talking about for three years now.
Almost four years.
Yeah.
But going back, actually the president can make policy decisions.
Blah blah blah.
This is dog shit.
Marijuana is a federally scheduled drug.
It's a federally scheduled narcotic.
The president can decriminalize it at a federal level instantly.
Whenever they want.
Like, everybody knows that.
Your stoner friend fucking knows that.
Like, I don't know how you're gonna well actually somebody and not know that.
Anyway, uh, this next comment, also in that thread about marijuana.
And why Obama was right to not actually decriminalize it.
Uno L says he's like making fun of the guy who said, you know, to decriminalize marijuana would actually be a good thing.
Um Nick he says you're right it usually goes like arresting officer quote he's not listening to me exclamation point dot dot dot dot and he smells like dot dot dot end quote officer sniffs quote i think he smells like marijuana partner officer gasps Marijuana!
Well, what are you waiting for?
Quick, pull out your gun and shoot him in the back exactly seven times!
You're like, wow, this is like a fucked up thing to make light of.
Like, it's kind of really fucked up to talk about Jacob Blake's attempted murder at the hands of an officer.
Like, to own this guy you disagree with.
And then he goes on, come on, man, which is very funny.
He's not saying that ironically.
He's saying come on, man, like Joe Biden, genuinely.
Come on, man.
On the stats, decriminalizing marijuana will theoretically chill out incarceration rates, but that's about it.
That's a pretty cool thing.
Listen, all I'm saying is unless people are going to be locked up.
But that's it.
That's all.
If you're comfortable with a Pyrrhic victory, like, I don't know, not arresting so many people, then I guess go for it.
Yeah, if that's what you're looking for, I mean, sure, if you want to settle for that.
Fucking cool.
Have fun.
And then he goes on.
This dude steps and, like, shows his ass throughout this entire thing, so, uh, hold on to your butts.
Obama did something pretty interesting in his term.
He wanted to end the use of federally contracted private prisons.
Pretty deep cut Obama made there to stem the problem.
And A, it was like reversed as soon as Trump got in.
B, what he wrote was not effective.
Private federal prisons amounts to about 15% of federal prisoners.
Which, according to You Know Elle, is a pretty deep cut Obama made to stem the problem.
15%.
Whereas decriminalizing marijuana... I wonder how many people are in federal prison for marijuana-related convictions.
I wonder if it's more than 15%.
Probably.
Marijuana-related?
Yeah, probably.
Like, let's even just say people who were arrested because the officer said they smelled marijuana, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, just pinned on him.
That hypothetical conversation thing, this whole comment's wild.
Rural Americans rely on those corrections jobs, which are usually decent paying, but basically racist gulags.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't know about rural Americans relying on them specifically.
I think there's probably more prisons in cities, but...
The big R word here is rural which basically the Trump's base which is basically Trump's base so this action was actually reversed by the Trump administration and we still have for-profit prisons operating for the federal government today and it's like no no Trump's base is like Trump has a base in rural areas but they're not like working class people predominantly they're not like How many fucking prison guards are there?
We know at least there's prison guards voting for Kamala Harris.
It's not Trump's base isn't fucking prison guards.
Trump's base are the people who have stocks in private prisons.
Yes, exactly.
Trump's base is either people who are invested in private prisons or they're people who just like the fact that we're locking people up.
Yeah, yeah.
They don't have to work in a fucking private prison.
They're getting paid like the streets being cleaned up.
And it's funny that this person is like, oh, those special interest groups, like people who work in prisons, private prisons, like those are the people who are profiting off of the existence of private prisons.
And this is not to excuse anybody who works as a prison guard, because fuck you too.
But that's not, like, the driving force behind the existence of private prisons.
No, it's not.
I like the argument.
They're like, you know, these are jobs.
These prisons are jobs.
Like, you think public prisons don't pay their employees well?
Those guys also get a check.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um...
Note that shutting off the faucet for for-profit prisons also pisses off a very specific set of special interest groups pertaining to the prison industrial complex, including GEO and AFSCME.
Yeah, no shit.
Yeah.
On the other hand, decriminalizing marijuana was opposed by a ton of special interest groups, including Big Pharma, and they list pharmaceutical companies, Big Booze, and then they list beer companies, because I guess they're trying to sound intelligent.
States versus federal interest groups, and of course our friends at the Prison Industrial Complex, again, and a few others.
He made a reasoned, rational choice that didn't involve inflaming basically the entire corporate structure around medical treatment and legal recreational drugs from campaigning and carpet bombing the chances of every progressive running for an issue that was moving the needle with a relatively small subset of voters.
He does that and the special interest money moves out of the Democratic Party's pocket into the opposition's.
Wow.
So, according to this comment, Obama just didn't want to anger the special interest groups in private, you know, uh, big pharma, private prison contracting.
Just, like, two of the biggest, like, sources of evil on the planet today.
Like, throw in, like, fossil fuels and you've got, like, the biggest monsters of our time.
Yeah.
The prison industrial complex, medical corporations, and fossil fuels.
I don't know if you, like, I guess military contractors.
It's like weapons manufacturers.
It's like the only other one that's as bad as all of those.
He didn't want to make them mad.
He didn't want to do anything good to make them mad because then, what, they would donate to his opponents and, I don't know, sweep in a midterm election that was historically bad for the Democrats?
Which happened anyway?
Yeah, and like, I don't know, this whole, the time this person put in this comment, It's just so much.
This is what liberals are doing.
What I see liberals exerting the most effort for is to tell the left why we can't have better things.
Yeah, exactly.
I've never seen a lib write this many paragraphs about why policing as an institution sucks.
Oh yeah, no way.
Well, because the libs, they don't want to make things better.
They just don't want things to get worse.
I think that's what this whole comment is.
Well, I mean, it could be worse.
There's a reason why this all happened.
And it's so bad.
They're so used to defeat.
I mean, we all are.
They're so used to defeat, they're like operating on the back foot perpetually.
And it's like, that should tell you that you're doing something wrong.
You know?
And this sentence right here, for an issue that was moving the needle with a relatively small subset of voters.
What is the public opinion, thank you, of legalizing marijuana?
Is it at like 99% at this point?
It's insane, yeah.
Everyone's fine with it now.
For the most part, yeah, the only people who are holding it back are these big interest groups.
There are people who voted for Trump because they thought he was going to legalize marijuana.
It is a galvanizing issue among non-voters and people who just don't know anything about politics.
Which I could see him just doing like last second if he falls behind the polls too much.
Just like, just do it.
Just do it.
That's what I said.
Like I can see fucking Donald Trump legalizing or you know decriminalizing, de-scheduling marijuana just to own both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It would be huge.
That would be the best thing about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden being the Democratic nominee.
That would be the single best thing about those two being the nominee, is if Trump descheduled marijuana to own them.
That would be incredible.
I'm kind of rooting for that.
I want that.
So yeah, not going to blame Obama for not decriminalizing weed.
The harms of doing so were pretty dire in a hotly contested Congress for something that... Again, he fucking lost!
Democrats lost historically!
They fucking... they've been losing.
Not only did Obama lose Congress, he lost fucking state legislatures.
Historically!
Like, everything, every excuse that they're making for why Obama couldn't do this or couldn't do that, like, was realized, is our current reality.
It's like fucking Trump saying, oh, you know, look at, look at, uh, the shortage of, uh, you know, mass, don't you like socialism?
In America, it's that thing.
It's, it's, it's liberals saying, you know, oh, don't you like what happens when you go too far left?
It's like Obama didn't do anything and we still got the same fucking result.
Did nothing.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, let's move on to the next topic.
Uh, what are we at on time here?
Oh, we're doing all right.
Okay, so a very interesting video came across my feed.
It is a TikTok of two female military officers doing the WAP dance.
No, I'm not talking about the Italian dance sweeping the nation.
The fist pump?
Talking about the W.A.P.
People are mad about this.
They're dancing sexy in their fatigues or whatever.
They nailed it too.
Oh yeah?
They fucking crushed it.
Yeah, they did a great job.
It's alright.
It's funny in the still, when you screenshot the tweet, it looks like they're doing push-ups.
It looks like they're doing the IPT.
Talk about WAP.
What is this?
War Crimes Ass Pussy, I think.
Cause it's soldiers.
Agent Orange in the kitchen, that's some war crime ass pussy.
Drone striking some civilians, that's some war crime ass pussy.
And they're just like, they're twerking.
Oh, you hate, you hate my spoof on it, but you like these, these troops doing it.
Um, I just like the song.
When I was doing research for this topic, I found possibly an even worse spoof than mine.
A million times worse.
It's the mom version of WAP, which is instead of wet-ass pussy, it's feisty toddler.
Feisty toddler.
Yeah.
Too many toys in this house, too many toys in this house.
In this house, too many toys.
I said, I don't get no sleep.
Seven days a week.
Feisty toddler.
Make that social life weak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm dealing with a feisty toddler.
Bring a bucket and a mop for this feisty toddler.
Give him everything I got for this feisty toddler.
Clean it up, baby, made a mess.
Am I stressed?
The answer's yes.
Put this pasta right on his plate.
He throws it back right in my face.
I never stop.
I want to rest.
He's 16 months, but he's still on the breast.
That's what I was saying.
I was saying she shouldn't have said feisty toddler, because it's like, whop, she should have said wham.
Like, wham for the noise, the baby crying, being feisty, is way better than feisty toddler.
But it's gotta be three words though.
It's a wet ass pussy.
But they don't say wet ass pussy in the song, they say for the whap.
Well that's, isn't that the, that's the censored version.
Yeah, but she's doing a spoof.
She's doing a spoof.
If the spoof, if the song is for the WAP, then I think that the spoof should have been for the wah.
And that's a feisty toddler.
Not feisty toddler.
Feisty Tyler is a stretch.
It's funny because she actually had bars.
At some points she had bars.
The only thing I hated about that spoof really was the I'm assuming husband dad.
That character was the worst.
Yeah, he was bad.
He was real bad.
You're being really generous to the white girls today, Tony.
I like it.
You said the, the, these army girls, they got it.
You said the, the feisty toddler mom, she got it.
She was, um, she was on beat for sure.
Uh, well, I was being, I was being pretty sarcastic about the bars, but I mean, it was, it wasn't like bad for a spoof about the feisty toddler was the worst part about it.
She, I mean, we're replacing the word pussy with toddler, which is just like, has my third eye throbbing.
That's what happens when you see someone give birth, man.
It's all you see anymore.
You see toddlers when you look at it.
It's dad life, bro.
So, people were really mad about this, about the army women dancing to Wet Ass Pussy.
Jesse Lee Peterson, somebody I don't know if we've ever talked about on this show before.
No.
Just like, possibly the most insane person to have, like, to be operating at the level that he's operating at.
Like, above, like, you know, his whole shtick is he's a black dude who's like, thank God for white men.
Like that's that's his shtick is being like as as extreme to that level as he can but if you hear him talk it's just like very clear that he has somebody like for each step of the process to get like the mic running to get like the video running to get it public like he doesn't know how to do any of that
You just listen to him talk and you're like, I'm amazed he like knows where the microphone is, like what direction to like point his mouth.
He tweeted out this video, he quote tweeted this video and he said, he said, uh, women have no business serving in the military.
That's my impression of Jesse Lee Peter.
Being half asleep, trying to stay awake long enough to finish a sentence.
This observation too.
That was the first thing I said to you when you sent me this video.
I saw the comment right away.
I was like, man, people really just hate women, huh?
It's just like, yeah.
It's so fucking gross.
Because they're doing this, they can't even serve.
I can't even take it seriously.
Jesse Lee Peterson is such a fucking joke.
If he tried to join the military, you would have a heart attack after doing one push-up.
But yeah, he says women have no business serving in the military because they danced to a song.
Michael Weatherly replies on Twitter.
That gets them sexually harassed or attacked, then they cry because they were sexually harassed or attacked.
And it's like, what do you want, women?
Like, why are you telling me to sexually harass you or attack you and then getting mad when I sexually harass or attack you?
Well he has to find some excuse they had to make a video they made because they're wearing uniforms so they can't dress in a way that they're like asking for it so clearly doing this doing this TikTok is what he you know he found his window Mm-hmm.
So fucking gross.
Like, people suck so bad.
Well, dudes suck so bad.
This guy's avatar is the Republican elephant with a Trump hairdo on top of it.
He's like, yeah, like, why do women keep doing stuff that makes me attack them?
Yeah.
I think we should, uh, we shouldn't have them in the military.
They shouldn't be allowed to vote because apparently they keep voting for me to sexually assault them.
I think that's wrong.
I think it's wrong for women to do things that make me sexually assault them.
Guess, I don't know, guess I'm a SJW.
I'm saying if women were forced to walk around while balancing a phone book on their head, then they probably wouldn't get in so much trouble.
Kitten Paws BB says, other women in the military need to shame these women.
This is a disgrace to the women who have put up with being sexually harassed.
Who aren't taken serious because of this perceived notion that that's all women are good for.
Setting back the progress women have made.
Shame.
It says 266 likes on Twitter.
KittenPawsBB does not deserve that name.
Like, that's a great name.
And you're an awful person.
Kittenpaws are perfect little things.
Little beans.
And you're gonna use that name to say these awful things?
Like, no.
I don't like it.
I just love, like, you're not allowed to dance because then, like, men will think that all you're good for is dancing.
In the court of law, if, you know, someone accuses you of, you know, assaulting a woman, you can simply just bring up the fact that other women dance.
Mm-hmm.
You know there's women in the world that dance, right?
Cool.
Case dismissed.
Like, all those other women who were sexually harassed, they were, like, perfect.
They didn't ever do sex.
They never did dancing.
They never, like...
I don't know, did those like cartoon eye flutter bashful looks at men?
You know the kinds that'll like make men sexually assault them?
Yeah.
They never did any of that and yet still they were sexually harassed.
Therefore, I think the women who are doing something and do deserve to be sexually harassed should stop doing it.
Like it's like how in your own mind you're like, oh these women were doing nothing and they were sexually harassed.
Therefore, it's actions that cause sexual harassment, but it's not their actions.
It was actually men got confused and thought that they were the women who were doing the bad actions.
So that justified their... it's like nonsense, man.
It's such bullshit.
Like you said, to have 266 fucking likes on that is like a shame.
Daniel Savage, who's at, is the last Savage, and I think there's a number one at the end.
It's cut off in this screenshot, but I think it's the last Savage number one.
Well, that's cool, because he killed the original last Savage, now he's the actual last Savage one.
I have known multiple unmarried women who joined a military service, then deliberately got pregnant to be put on light duty while maintaining their pay and benefits.
Some did it multiple times.
And I just want to say, uh, ladies rock.
Yeah.
Chicks rock.
Don't get it.
This is literally the best thing you could possibly do in the military.
Yeah.
If you're in the US military, uh, getting pregnant and being put on light duty is like literally the most honorable thing you could do with your time.
I'm not exaggerating.
That's not a joke.
I'm not exaggerating.
That's the best thing.
Like other than going AWOL and being no longer part of the military, the best thing you could do is to get knocked up and, uh, you know, leech benefits from the military while doing nothing.
Yeah, get that insurance.
Like, run it.
That's the best thing you can do.
Is this a grift that we don't know about in maybe different areas of the country?
Where like young women would be like, oh no, no, no, I'm just going to join, because all I want to do is be a mom.
So I'm going to join the military.
I'm going to go ahead and get pregnant.
And then I'm just going to fucking chill.
Um, and then I'm gonna get on light duty, and then once that baby comes out, I'm gonna work on having another baby, and I'll be on light duty again because I signed a four-year motherfucking contract, and I'm about to get paid and have a couple kids.
This is like a new welfare queen stereotype that I haven't heard before.
Yeah.
The like military welfare queen.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm not surprised it exists.
I guess I should have anticipated that.
You know, apparently a lot of men hate the fact that there's women in the military.
Should have anticipated this.
Yeah, absolutely.
Sure seen it coming.
You notice how they're always getting their nails did with digital camo print.
Actually, I never see that one.
I can never see that one.
They got the brand new satellite phone.
Yep, yep.
That new new.
Even though they can't afford to have their own kid apparently.
I saw one driving a straight Humvee.
Couldn't believe it.
Daniel Savage's avatar is, like, amazing.
His avatar on Twitter is amazing.
It's... What's... This aesthetic is, like, low-key pretty cool.
No, it's super cool.
But the content of it is, like, amazing.
It's...
It looks like a like a Boy Scout t-shirt from the 50s or 60s like that's kind of the essay.
It's big block letters with like you know kind of an arcing tint to the top and then a flat you know line at the bottom.
Guns in Moses.
Hell yeah.
That's what it says.
So guns like arcs at the top, N is in the middle, and then Moses is at the bottom.
Guns and Moses.
And then behind the N in the center are crossed Uzis.
Mm-hmm.
And then to the left of the crossed guns is a menorah, to the top is the Ten Commandments, and then to the right is like some other little miniature seal that I can't really... I can't make that one out.
I can't really read, yeah.
But the aesthetic looks like...
It looks like a Boston hardcore shirt from 1995 or something.
Absolutely.
It's so good.
The colors are great.
The red and black is great.
The Uzis look like a sharp, harsh, black and white tattoo from Poland.
Totally.
It's like an amazing shirt, but it's like, I'm a fucking Zionist carrying Uzis.
Bro, can you imagine if Moses had had Uzi's?
How many more armies of idolaters could he have murdered?
Man, it would have been nuts.
Like, I would have just been cruising through that Red Sea just shooting at the walls of water.
That's how you'd fish.
Just getting them.
But it's also, you know, a pun for Guns N' Roses.
Which makes it really bad.
No, that's worse.
That's way, way worse.
It's like, take me down to the Paradise City where Palestinians aren't allowed and the girls are pretty.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that is that's that's not that's not home No, I don't like that.
I wouldn't normally be equating Judaism with Zionism, but this dude is a Zionist.
Yeah, that's the whole thing.
It's one of those things, you see it and you want it to be cool.
I would love it if it was just a Jewish gun club.
That would be fucking sick.
But it's definitely a Zionist thing.
I would still frown upon the name.
I would still want to disassociate myself with the...
The, I don't know, structural, systemic evil that is Guns N' Roses.
I would hope that this is like a shirt for an organization but not the name of the organization.
You know?
This is like a fun shirt that they just made.
A couple more comments here on this topic.
Mike Sergent says, we allowed their liberation, allowed them rights, and this is the best they do.
Dot dot dot dot dot dot dot.
Okay.
And when I was looking at this comment, I was like, you know, subliminal messaging, like his last name is Sergeant and his avatar on Facebook looks like a military SEAL, you know?
So I was like, okay, this is like an army guy, you know, Sergeant and he's got the SEAL or whatever.
Then I went to his profile and uh- Incredible.
His avatar is actually, it's a seal, and it's I guess a military seal, technically.
The seal is Brotherhood of Steel, which the internet has taught me is a Fallout 4 group.
It is a fictional faction within the video game Fallout 4, and his bio on Facebook reads, Aesthetic, Retro 8-Bit, DMT Fueled, Weeb Life Chose Me, and then Dimension Hopping Trans Am Rides, which is epic as shit.
Man.
Imagine thinking that, like, Your thing is being aesthetic and having your profile pic be the Brotherhood of Steel logo.
It's bad.
It's so bad.
Video games are bad in general.
I think it should be illegal.
But this one is especially bad.
And I want to go back.
Now knowing what I know, I want to read this comment again.
We allowed their liberation.
Allowed them rights, and this is the best they do.
Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
Okay, yeah, I felt it this time.
Wow.
Well, you know what?
Maybe women do need to step it up.
That's, that's like, because that's the thing about this comment is I kind of forgot what we were talking about because of this comment.
I'm like, wait, is this also a Zionist?
Like, who's this person?
Oh, shit, he's talking about women being in the military at all.
I allowed you to break off our relationship.
I allowed you to go your own way, and this is the best you can do?
I don't get that voice, but I like it.
It's like an epic guy doing the anonymous mask voice.
It's like a Joker voice.
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I wasn't sure if it was specifically video game voice.
That's why I was... I'm kind of channeling, like, Mr. Smith and, like, various other, like, cringe voices I've heard online.
It's good.
I like it.
The point is, I don't think, uh, Mike Sargent has allowed anything... has allowed women to do anything besides, like, uh, what he has his Sims characters do in his video games.
So I guess maybe he meant aesthetic in the most literal way.
Like my life is only visual, like through, through like my avatars and such.
It's just, and this is like a pedantic, like maybe care Lord point to make, but I love this because it's like, you can't really do anything with this knowledge, but like Mike Sargent, who's probably like charitably 20 years old, Um, is taking credit for allowing female liberation, is taking credit for, uh, you know, women's rights, civil rights, et cetera.
But if you talk about like systemic slavery or like historical racism, what do you think, uh, Mike Sargent's going to say about his own whiteness?
Yep.
Yep.
Nothing to do with that one.
Yeah.
Leave that in the past.
Get over it.
And to be fair, it's true.
Both things are true.
You had nothing to do with women's liberation, just like you had nothing to do with slavery.
But the results are still here.
The fallout, so to speak, no pun intended, is still here.
Okay?
Right, Mike?
Yes.
Finally, last comment is from Ken Francis who replies to the video of military gals twerking.
Ken Francis says, stunning and brave!
Hell yeah I can.
Which is like the epitome of what that meme is to me.
Again, we're getting into like old shit.
We're getting into like, you know, 2016 memes here.
But of course, Stunning and Brave being like a South Park episode about how Caitlyn Jenner is a piece of shit and isn't human because she's also rich or something like that?
Or isn't like a woman because she's rich?
Something like that?
Yeah.
The meme is basically that oh by being trans you're you're performing for society and you're trying to get like social credit for being trans or for being a social justice warrior or whatever that's the meme and it's like
Obviously very stupid because whatever social credit Caitlyn Jenner gets for being trans is nothing compared to the social credit she gets for being extremely wealthy and it's nothing compared to like the harassment and lack of justice that The overwhelming majority of trans people get?
Yeah.
You know?
But I feel like applying it here sort of... I don't know.
It's illuminating.
It reveals something.
Stunning and just women dancing.
Ken Francis sees women dancing.
He's like, wow, you think you're so fucking brave.
You think you're so revolutionary for dancing on TikTok.
Well, fuck you, you're not!
It's like, they're just dancing.
It's a 13 second clip.
They're just having fun on the internet.
They're just being themselves.
And it's like, yeah, they're soldiers.
So I don't have like, I'm not going to stand for them or anything.
I would argue that it's a million times more wholesome than every single video that the men record at all together when they're in their uniforms.
Every single one.
It's less offensive than every single thing they've ever recorded, I guarantee you.
But like this is the extent of their politics they see a woman dancing to the most popular song in the world right now and they're like oh she's doing she thinks she's doing subversive left-wing politics well actually it's just a joke it's all a comedy and I'm here laughing at it maybe I'll shoot a couple of them wouldn't that be funny like that's
That's the extent of their politics is they think just like dancing to WAP is, is liberalism or like, you know, or is communism basically, which they think is liberalism.
You know?
I don't know.
I think it's, it's very like, I like that he used stunning and brave here.
Yeah, like you said, it's so old that it's come back in a whole new way now.
And it's even way more petty.
Well, it's just like right-wingers using memes that they don't understand.
Again, not that the meme is good, period, but you're just using it in the wrong way in general, or at least using it to a heightened degree of wrongness than it was before.
It's like when we posted that video of Kyle Rittenhouse pointing a fucking toy gun at the camera and going, and his sister uploaded it and said, this is Kyle pretending to be a cop.
Isn't this funny?
It's funny.
It was hilarious.
And I posted that on, you know, Instagram and Twitter and like got inundated with right-wing responses on the, on the Instagram.
And they're like, what do you think this proves?
Wow, what do you... cope harder.
And it's like, this isn't... A, like, this isn't a cope.
This is just me saying, isn't this a fucking wild video?
Like, given we know what we know?
Yeah, isn't this wild?
This is nuts, right?
This is wild.
Like, this doesn't prove that he is crazy because he's a kid in this video, but it's like, it's tragically ironic, and then it's also like...
Kind of indicative of the family values that was surrounding him at the time, where his sister's like, isn't this funny?
Hey, he's pretending to be a cop and gunning down a suspect.
But the response was like, oh yeah, cope.
Cope harder.
It's like, this isn't me coping.
Like I'm not coping for this.
This is bringing me no solace.
Yeah.
And, and, and also like, Why wouldn't I want to cope from a guy who killed two protesters and maimed another one?
It's a really fucked up situation.
Why wouldn't you need some sort of salve after that?
I guess if you're telling yourself that everybody the right wing murders is a pedophile, inhuman communist, then you can just celebrate it all.
Which is exactly what they do and are doing.
Yeah, it's so.
Anyway, I don't know.
I don't know what else there is to say about this, but I think that's the episode.
So thank you so much for listening.
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We did talk about the Kyle Rittenhouse thing a little bit last week, but we also dived into the insanity that was one of the RN speakers and just like, What a wormhole that is.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Yeah, what a wormhole Abby Johnson is.
just like her pro-life shit her racist shit her husband's like soy face in favor of conservative politics stuff they're like liberal affect when they talk about why their black son is like bigger and badder than their white sons and therefore he's got to be targeted by cops it's right that he's targeted by cops therefore cops should target him more yeah uh yeah
weird stuff that's a good episode uh i think all those patreon episodes are pretty good uh patreon.com slash meeting death cult three dollars a month um and i think oh oh i wanted to uh real quick uh the john brown fun club sent me a t-shirt that is uh extremely cool and i just wanted to plug it on the show real quick
It's got John Brown spreading his arms, doing the T-pose.
One hand is a rifle, the other hand I think is the Bible.
And the top says, he fought and died that all may live free.
Hallelujah, John Brown lives.
That is sick.
Extremely cool.
You should buy one at johnbrownfunclub.etsy.com.
The link will be in the show notes.
Thanks for that.
That fuckin' rules.
Alright, thanks for listening, folks.
Bye.
Thanks, y'all.
Peace.
I woke up and found no one beside me.
No hair to hold on to, and no lips to guide me.
What a hot world to face in the light of an angry sun.
Ain't it hard to get on if you ain't got that someone?
And it seems that my days are numbered Down to a precious few People, I know that my days are numbered 'Cause I can't get it back together without you
I see the heaven moonlight Syrup dripping down my window Blowing like a river through the tears that I have cried.
I gotta find myself a reason to go on living.
But you can't bring life into something that's already died.
