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Feb. 15, 2021 - Minion Death Cult

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Everyone calm down. The Democrats didn't "cave." They're not hapless idiots.

This week we focus on the Democratic response to a failed senate impeachment trial, with delusional, gaslighting, and (genuinely) promising reactions Support the show for $3/month and get a bonus episode every week at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult music: Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened

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	The liberals are destroying California, and conservative humor gone awry... Conservative humor gone awry is going to fascistphonia today, so stay tuned.
	We're going to take a few pictures of the desert and how their policies are actually messing it up.
	It's not beautiful when you go across that border.
	Stay tuned guys, we'll show you exactly what it looks like when you're in the middle of the storm in the desert.
	Oh, they're in Barbados, California.
	Stay tuned.
	I'm Alexander Edward.
	And I'm Tony Boswell.
	We are Minion Death Cult.
	The world is ending.
	Mitch McConnell's lack of balls is responsible.
	We're documenting it.
	Hey, what's up everybody?
	It is President's Day.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's President's Day when you're listening to this, and as far as I'm concerned, it's President's Day when we're recording this, baby.
	It's been an awful four years for fans of the presidency.
	I asked my girlfriend if it was okay if instead of Valentine's Day this year, we did a two-day celebration of President's Day.
	And you know what?
	She nodded.
	Hell yeah.
	Her jaw was set in determination, I think, for being resolute in her respect for the office finally.
	And she just you know she got that like thousand yard stare, which I think you know like she was like seeing the flag I think when and And yeah, hell yeah, we had a we had a really good President's Day Volume one today.
	How was your that's awesome.
	How was your pre-president's day Tony?
	My pre-presidents day has been lovely.
	I did a lot of baking today and I baked a really special bread today that was actually delicious.
	It just made my house smell so good all day.
	I made this coffee, espresso, chocolate sourdough loaf.
	And my house still smells really good.
	I saw you put hearts on the bread, which there's a lot of love going around this year for President's Day.
	I feel like it's very warranted.
	That's why I did it.
	I finally love the President again.
	It feels good to put a heart on my bread.
	It felt nice to finally get an erection again.
	And you know I fucked with it.
	Yeah, hell yeah.
	You know I used it to have sex.
	I mean, it's been a long time since we could salute.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Since we could stand and salute.
	It wasn't half-masked for four years.
	For four years.
	Mine was just upside down.
	I'm down.
	Balls on top.
	Yeah, but uh, so if it's like for the last few years I've just been writing the word no on every single loaf of bread so it felt good to write a heart on it.
	Uh, I was watching, uh, that used to be called The Snail, when the, when the puppetry penis, the penis puppetry guys were doing it.
	It was called The Snail.
	Uh, under the Trump administration it had a far more serious title, which was, uh, Genitals in Distress.
	Yes.
	Finally we can flip those balls right side up, but just make sure they go back around the other way.
	You don't want testicular torsion by doing them again, over again, the same way.
	I don't have insurance.
	I can't get my balls all tangled.
	I hope everybody's having really, really hot sex today on President's Day when we're finally wet again.
	The nation is finally wet for this president.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to have some sex with myself later for the president.
	Now unfortunately, uh, and this has nothing to do with the president.
	This is out of his hand.
	This is out of his control.
	Uh, unfortunately the Senate did vote to acquit, uh, he who must not be named of all, of all charges, of the charge of, uh, you know, being a, being a, uh, piece of shit.
	Yeah, weren't they just trying to make him a victim of being too orange?
	Wasn't that the thing they were mad about?
	They were mad about a lot.
	He did so much stuff.
	He was orange.
	He was on Twitter a lot.
	He did that thing where he dishonored Gold Star recipients.
	Yes!
	Like, there was so much bad stuff that he did.
	He made that movie where he impersonated a 14 year old autistic girl.
	I think that might have been somebody else.
	I think he produced it though.
	I think he gets like a credit for inspiring it.
	That's funny.
	I was going to reference the Sia movie.
	I was going to make a joke about the Sia movie later.
	So just pretend like Tony didn't bring that up prematurely.
	But I mean... You didn't see that.
	You didn't see that.
	Biden is president, so a lot of things are happening prematurely tonight.
	Am I right, folks?
	You know what I mean?
	Hey, but that doesn't mean they can't happen again.
	That's true.
	Give me a few minutes.
	Give me a break here.
	Doesn't happen all the time.
	Yeah, so, you know, the thing that, like, you know, Democrats were really mad about, which is, you know, the January 6th riots, the thing that took precedent over a nationwide pandemic, one of the worst, you know, economic situations since the last worst economic situation.
	The thing that took precedent over all of that, the thing that we were supposed to all take very seriously as political viewers, as political observers, yeah, turns out it didn't fucking matter.
	Turns out nothing actually happened.
	Surprisingly, there were good Republicans, like Mitt Romney, that good Republican we all like.
	Did vote to say that Trump was bad, but unfortunately as we all know 57 does not beat 43.
	Nope.
	Which is interesting.
	Seeing the fallout from this in all my like liberal groups that I'm in on Facebook has been fascinating.
	There's been so many Not so many, but there have been, I would think, I'm guessing here, we'll go through them, about four strains of responses.
	And I'm a little drunk.
	I'm celebrating, you know, the first President's Day in four years, so you'll have to forgive me.
	Think about four different types of responses.
	And so this episode is just going to be about how the Democrats are responding to the Senate not convicting, and not finding Trump guilty of being impeached.
	You know, they were like, is he impeached?
	And he turns out he wasn't.
	They voted on it.
	And apparently a big reason for That result coming in today and yesterday was because, quote, people want to get home for Valentine's Day, which is what Senator Chris Coons told the impeachment managers, according to a senior House Democrat aide.
	In his defense, have you met his wife?
	I mean, I'm not going to tell her no, you know, not the boss.
	Yeah, you can't keep... I wasn't going to stay in and vote, but I had to run in by the boss.
	And the boss said I better be home for dinner.
	You can't keep her off of him, you know?
	And I got to stop by Kay Jeweler on the way home?
	Yeah.
	She had to have it.
	She had to have it, and we can't blame Chris for that.
	It's great.
	And they're not going to do anything until February 22nd.
	So like, you know, eight days.
	They have an eight day vacation, which is cool.
	I mean, I think they deserved it, you know, where they're going to finally do other stuff.
	Um, I think the first response I want to get into, uh, I have a post here.
	All these posts are, like, semi-viral.
	Um, I have a, uh, it's a photo that somebody, like, made themselves.
	I'm trying to see the credit here, maybe.
	Uh, Getty Image House of Representatives.
	Okay, so, I don't know.
	I don't think this is a Getty Image.
	It's like a, it's like a collage somebody made.
	It's a collection of Getty Images.
	Okay, yeah, that's probably what it is.
	It's a collage of the house impeachment managers.
	So it's all the representatives who were managing the impeachment.
	And you got some guys, you know, you got a guy over here on the top, the bottom left.
	And you got a guy over here on the top right, you know.
	And there's a guy in the middle bottom.
	I think maybe Ted Lieu is up above that guy.
	There's a girl over here and a girl over here.
	So you get the idea.
	The caption reads, thank you.
	You were brilliant the last two days.
	Thank you.
	Just... You were magnificent.
	You were brilliant.
	Stunning.
	Stunning.
	They're gonna make a movie out of this.
	It's gonna be the movie where it's just... One of those, like, you know, courtroom dramas where it's just that.
	Yeah, it's gonna be... Aaron Sorkin's gonna write and direct, and it's gonna fuckin' blow, like, the Central Park 5 movie out of the water, or the... Yeah!
	Whatever he does next.
	Um...
	So this response is like, hey, nothing's wrong, we did the impeachment well, we did it good, and we should all be proud of what happened.
	Robert says, their performance and professionalism is reassuring for level-headed Americans who value truth, fairness, and goodness.
	They may very well have rekindled the hopes of many here and around the world that the country is back in reliable hands, hearts, and minds.
	I pray that it continues to be so.
	Are you sure you're not just reading the comments from a morning talk show where they finally got rid of a problematic host and replaced him with a patriot or something?
	That's what this sounds like.
	What did we miss?
	Because I'm pretty sure we're going over nothing happening, right?
	No, I think people in South Korea watched this impeachment hearing with bated breath and they were like, wow, the house managers are conducting themselves with such professionalism.
	I'm poised.
	Wow.
	Finally have rekindled my hopes in global democracy.
	I don't know, like, I don't know who these people think the rest of the world, let alone America, is.
	Like, was anybody...
	Was anybody watching this, like, people were, people maybe watched, like, the summary, you know, the, like, five minute clip on their local news station that, that rounded up, hey, nothing happened.
	Oh, cool.
	I'm so, my, the spirit of America is rekindled.
	Thank you.
	Look, yeah, it was, it was kind of vindicating, because the whole time this is happening, I'm over here thinking, like, I don't, I'm not going to pay attention to this.
	Thinking that they're gonna like impeach him, but it just doesn't mean anything, you know?
	Yeah.
	So then when it came through and like nothing happened at all...
	That was pretty mind-blowing.
	I was like, oh my god, this is even worse than we imagined.
	What a waste of time and money and resources and just everything.
	Well, the House impeached him.
	He was impeached.
	Never let anybody tell you that Trump was not impeached twice.
	That's what's important here.
	Now, the Senate did not agree with the impeachment, okay?
	So we gotta acknowledge that.
	Yeah, and as we'll learn later, we always knew that was going to happen.
	We always knew that.
	We saw it coming a mile away.
	Karen says, a case very well prepared.
	Such professionalism and performance on the part of the house managers.
	How could anyone ignore the overwhelming evidence to come to an acquittal?
	How could they not be, how could the Republicans not be swayed by facts and logic?
	I simply do not understand anything.
	This is the first time we've seen this.
	They have to go back to normal now, right?
	They can't play their games anymore.
	There's a new boss in charge.
	How are they able to do this?
	I don't know.
	I don't know how they couldn't simply agree to reality.
	It's crazy to me.
	And then May Meyer says, so well prepared, so well spoken.
	I think that's the name of like a... What is it?
	Nevermind, forget that.
	Sorry.
	Oh, that's the name of a Darkest Hour album, I think.
	That makes sense.
	So well prepared, so well spoken.
	Yeah.
	There is no substitute for intelligence.
	I don't know.
	How about, like, doing something successfully?
	That could be a substitute for intel.
	Like, if you're dumb as hell, but you, like, successfully impeach the president, I'd be like, okay, that's cool.
	I remember, like, being told- I would take that over being, like, a smarty-pants who gets nothing done.
	I remember being told, like, in school, like, hey, listen, you sounded really smart.
	Those are some great words you used, but it just wasn't- had nothing to do with anything, and you're still wrong.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's what they think, like, they think the people who are smart and can pass an objective test, like, why aren't they succeeding?
	Why aren't they succeeding at politics?
	And it's like, well, there's probably a couple reasons.
	Maybe, you know, maybe they don't want to take that specific test.
	Maybe that's not the test they're actually taking, even though they're telling you that they're taking that test.
	Or maybe it's just, um, that's not how the world actually works, you know?
	Yeah, it's a bit of both, though.
	The test was, how do we make these people think that we're smart while doing nothing?
	Well, you did it.
	You nailed it.
	Yeah, not even how do we make these people think we're smart, how do we, like, distract them with our smarts and get no material changes or benefits whatsoever?
	And I love that, yeah, there's no substitute for intelligence.
	I just love how intelligent our completely ineffectual loser political representatives are.
	Uh, we've been, we've been, we've been like, had that pounded into us though, you know?
	It's like, you know, you know who was right.
	And that's all that really matters.
	We all know, it's the principle.
	It's the principle.
	I love my political representative who gets swirly'd every day.
	Yeah.
	But they do it, you know... With style.
	They do it with grace.
	Yeah, they do it with style and grace.
	And they never want to sink to the level of not getting swirly-ed.
	They're never going to take the low road of, you know, not having their... I don't know, what's another prank people do?
	Like getting an egg smashed in their face.
	Yeah.
	They're never going to take the easy way out of not getting a whipped cream pie to the head, you know?
	Like, they're going to give them the satisfaction of the wedgie, but they are going to preemptively cut the underwear.
	Because they're not stupid, but they're going to, you know, going to go along with it.
	Yeah, it turns out actually all the senators had stock investments in glasses tape.
	So, look who's really coming out on top, alright?
	Um, and yeah, so well prepared, so well spoken.
	There's no substitute for intelligence.
	And this is just, I mean, you know, we've already been talking about it, we've already been riffing on it, but yeah, that's, that's like the Democrat mindset.
	You have to be, like, satisfied with the level of intelligence or grace with your representatives because there's literally nothing else to fucking satisfy you.
	And here's an article, I'm not going to read this article, but just the headline is a perfect illustration.
	The Borowitz Report.
	Are you familiar with the Borowitz Report, Tony?
	Um, no.
	Uh, so it's some guy, I think his name is, uh, Dorcas Borowitz, who, or like, maybe it's Melvin Borowitz, or, uh, you know, uh, Dinkus Borowitz, who writes, like, satire for the, uh, New Yorker.
	And this is the satire headline.
	Madison, so James Madison, I think, right?
	That's the guy?
	Sounds right.
	James Madison fears he made Constitution's impeachment clause too hard for idiots to grasp!
	Uh-huh.
	That's... but like...
	Did they not grasp it?
	Yeah, they were too freaking stupid.
	The Republicans were too fucking dumb to impeach Trump.
	Maybe, oh man, maybe I'm too dumb too.
	Maybe that's part of the problem.
	I think, I know, I think you would impeach Trump if you were, if you were, I think you would be smart enough to impeach Trump if you were in the Senate.
	I'd give him a five-knuckle impeachment.
	You feel me?
	Yeah, dude.
	Trump would feel you, too.
	On his scalp.
	When you noogie him.
	Hey, can we say we want to sock him on air now that he's not president?
	Can we say we want to sock Donald Trump now?
	Can that be on recorded?
	I think you could say you can want to do stuff to the president.
	As long as you don't say you're going to do stuff.
	That's the loophole.
	I'm gonna sock Donald Trump in the face.
	Yeah, you can say like, man, I want to blank the president so bad with my blank.
	You can say that and it's fine.
	You just don't say you're going to.
	I'm gonna punch him in the face.
	I'm gonna do it.
	If I'm ever ten feet within him, I'm gonna punch him in the face.
	The Secret Service is gonna show up to your house with those kickboxing headgear cushions.
	And they're just gonna say, hey, don't, don't.
	We have probable cause to believe you're gonna be punching the ex-president of the United States.
	They played back the recording?
	Yeah.
	You said, you said you're gonna do it.
	You can't, you can't, you can't do that.
	I forgot this one wasn't behind the paywall so I did, so I said blank instead a couple times.
	I just like this headline because...
	I don't know, as stupid as it seems on the surface, I think it reveals a lot about what maybe more cognizant people in the Democratic Party are doing.
	Of course, the headline is, yeah, oh, Republicans are just too stupid to know what's right or wrong, right?
	And this, of course, is like obfuscating, you know, belying the reality that, like, why would they ever vote to impeach, like, their own guy?
	No, like, it's not like they have a personal loyalty to Trump, but they definitely need his base.
	They definitely need, like, the people who, uh, idolat- I- what is it?
	Idolize?
	I- idolize Donald Trump.
	Yeah, idolize, idealize.
	Uh, to- to be on their side.
	So they're- of course they're not gonna fucking impeach- vote to impeach him.
	Um, and it's just like, This is how power works.
	This is what you do if you actually have an investment in maintaining powers.
	You don't do something idiotic like vote to impeach your own most popular figure on some sort of principle or some sort of greater ideal or whatever.
	And it's like, I don't know, maybe if Your Democratic base realized that that's how you actually retain power or wield power, you would be in more trouble because you couldn't keep doing these Pyrrhic victories, these moral victories where you lose the Senate or you lose whatever you were trying to do, like impeachment, but keep the moral high ground.
	You couldn't keep convincing your base that that's how politics work if you acknowledge that it's actually something a little more substantial than that.
	Not only that, but there's this element, too, that I don't think a lot of people have talked about, where it's also setting a precedent, you know?
	If we impeach Trump for this, a lot of the things that he did that he was being held accountable for are things that a lot of presidents do, they just might not do it in the manner in which he did it, where it's loud and we all know about it.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, well you're not wrong.
	I think that that's a different conversation.
	You're still not wrong, but that is the legal ramifications of what Trump has done.
	That is like, you know, the supposed legal investigation into him interfering with elections in Georgia that's going on right now.
	That is the FBI, the Southern District of New York, the investigation into his legal wrongdoings in that state.
	That is what cannot be allowed to happen.
	Like, he cannot be allowed to be sent to prison.
	Like, as much as the Democrats actually hate him, as much as the Democrats are over-promising with what they can get, yeah, this system cannot sustain a president actually convicted of a crime.
	Because, like you said, just what he's doing is mostly normal presidentship.
	He just got over his skis when it came to thinking he could, like, Talk his way into keeping the presidency or whatever.
	Yeah.
	And so impeachment, that wouldn't set any precedent that hasn't already been set.
	True.
	I don't believe.
	You're right, because it is this weird like label they get to put on to where like, I don't know, I guess only his wife can run for president in 10 years?
	Well, he could run for president in four years or whatever.
	If, I mean, I guess if he's successfully impeached, then yeah, he couldn't, but again, that wasn't going to happen.
	Um, and they're only impeaching him for like inciting violence or whatever.
	Like it's not an actual legal thing.
	It's just a political, you know, uh, what's, what's the word?
	Like procedural vote, essentially.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Um, But yeah, it's nice for Democratic leadership or Democratic elites to be like, oh, you know what?
	You're all smarter than the Republicans for seeing that Donald Trump was bad.
	And they're just big ol' idiots.
	And isn't it great to be part of the party of the college educated as opposed to the party of Q?
	Isn't that a perk you get from being a Democrat?
	Because you're not going to get any other perks.
	You're not going to get any actual benefits from being a Democrat other than knowing how smart you are.
	That's the only reason why I'm not a Democrat is because I didn't do any colleging.
	They wouldn't let me in.
	Yeah, I almost got my Democratic registration.
	I had like a quarter and a half left.
	Oh man, you're almost a licensed Democrat.
	So in these liberal groups, I wanted to explore one in particular.
	And that is the it's a Facebook group called Biden plus Harris equals the perfect combination, comma, to restore America, hyphen, legally.
	So, the thing about these Facebook group names is they show you that you can call it whatever you like.
	There's really no limits here.
	And they always do this thing where they feel like they can't use entire sentences.
	It's a title of a group, Tony.
	They have to jazz it up somehow, but they still end up saying a lot of words.
	It's weird.
	It's like a poem format that I don't understand.
	Are you disagreeing that Biden plus Harris equals the perfect combination comma to restore America dash legally?
	Is it the plus symbol or the word plus?
	It's the plus symbol and it's the equal symbol.
	Oh yeah, this is poetry, yeah.
	Uh, this is a fascinating group.
	The cover photo is... Like, you know that, like, folk art you see on the side of the road where people, like, stack stones?
	Yeah, those awful things?
	No, they're fine.
	I got no problem with them.
	No, they're bad.
	People do them anywhere they want and people think they're trail markers and get people lost all the time.
	Okay, well I'm not gonna count on some rocks to be my trail markers.
	They're like a bad thing.
	Sounds like a Republican, something a Republican would do.
	I kick him over when I see him.
	Alright.
	Okay, I'm gonna move on.
	I don't have time to get bogged down in your weird artistic elitism.
	Oh, if they didn't go to the Laguna Beach School of Fine Arts, then they can't do art on the side of the road or whatever you're saying over here.
	I make sure that it was only stacked by a cis white male before I kick it over.
	After that... This stack is giving off real settler vibes to me.
	Another caveat is I can also, like, kick over Dreadlocked White Female.
	Those are the two kickovers you can do.
	Okay well I think you might kick over this cover photo for this Facebook group.
	It is, the cover photo is like a rock in the center as like the fulcrum or is like the base and then a long horizontal rock that's like balancing on top of that middle middle point rock and then two other stones like one on each side So it's in perfect balance.
	And then atop the left stone is a cutout photo of Joe Biden.
	And then atop the right stone is a cutout photo of Kamala Harris.
	And she's doing the pose that's like, that's me!
	Like the shrug.
	Oh yeah, we know that one.
	Like, we're like this all the time!
	Kind of pose.
	Which I don't think is a pose I've seen her do before.
	I'd like to see that pose more.
	It might make her more relatable to me.
	If you ask her about her sneakers, she does it automatically.
	And then the center says Biden and Harris balance of power Which I'm happy they put a picture there and not just putting up like a like a dark rock and a light rock Well, she's pretty she looks pretty her skin tone is pretty light in this photo whatever lighting they used really highlights a Highlights her.
	I like the balance of power thing like between Joseph and Kamala.
	Hey, they're gonna be equals in this whole thing.
	And that's why we voted for him.
	That's how the presidency and vice presidency works.
	It's a balance of power.
	The responses to the failed Senate impeachment were fascinating.
	Bjorn Svendsen, who's I think an American, definitely, says, We always knew that it was unlikely the co-conspirators in the GQP would convict.
	Those are all capitals.
	GQP.
	I had to look at my keyboard real quick just to make sure.
	I was like, what?
	It's not a typo.
	Nope.
	I like it.
	It's a pun.
	It's saying the G-O-P is the party of Q, so now it's the Grand Q Party.
	They're not saying that they're like dapper people, like GQ, the GQ Party?
	No, they're not saying they're GQP, like a cute anime character or whatever.
	Like mayonnaise.
	It's GQP.
	Our jobs, our jobs is to make sure every American moving forward know that the GQP stands for fascism against democracy.
	And I think it's cool, so like this is the argument that like, you know, some people were saying that no, the impeachment was never about actually impeaching Donald Trump.
	It's not what it was about.
	It was about demonstrating to the American people that Donald Trump was bad.
	And now, if you're like we are, in February of 2021, living in a period where Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden, who's currently president, it seems like a weird expenditure of effort to do an impeachment trial to show that an American public who did not vote for Donald Trump, that Donald Trump was bad.
	Yes.
	Yeah, they kind of got it.
	They kind of got it.
	Seems like that might be a little redundant.
	I love this opportunity though, just to like, the opportunity to focus on this thing because people, people were mad.
	People do like, people do like to be signaled certain ways.
	But it was like, oh, no one actually cares about doing this over the countless things we need to take care of first.
	I mean, the people that Or in the media, the journalist class, or the hyper-online Twitter class, like, they probably did say, oh, we need action against Donald Trump, meaning we need, you know, a three-day trial, or however long this shit lasted, just harping on the fact that Trump is bad.
	We all know he's bad, but we need to put it in the record, in the official record that he's bad.
	And that makes a big difference to me as somebody who writes about Trump, or as somebody who is a media consumer.
	That's like, that's the most tangible thing that a democratic administration could give me.
	Is the, is like a Senate, you know, in the Hall of Records, Trump, Trump is bad.
	And we have a, you know, we have like a, we were introducing his tweets into the Hall of Records or whatever.
	Yeah.
	We needed asterisks in the history books.
	I mean, exactly.
	And I don't think many other people care about that.
	I don't think that that's what... Like, a lot of people did vote for Biden to get Trump out of office or whatever.
	He's already out of office.
	Yeah, that part's done.
	Doing a fake impeachment doesn't get him any more out of office.
	It, like, maybe owns him a little bit, but not really when he gets acquitted.
	No.
	You know?
	No.
	Another response to this was that Oh, it's not that the Republicans are too stupid to know what impeachment means.
	It's not that Republicans are too dumb to know what treason is.
	It's actually that they don't have enough balls to actually act on the fact that Trump did treason.
	And so a meme that I saw going around a lot was like, you know, oh, uh, Mitch McConnell doesn't have balls.
	He doesn't have the balls to vote for impeachment.
	And, uh, this meme, top text, it says, silicone testicles.
	And then in the middle it's a photo of what I'm charitably assuming are silicone testicles.
	They look like clear eggs with like maybe a little mesh strip at the bottom and a little tube that connects to your whatever... I feel like we're supposed to know the name for fake testicles.
	For prosthetic testicles.
	There's like a name for that.
	I feel like we would have known as teenagers we would have known the word.
	Maybe.
	Did you talk about him a lot when you were a kid?
	I don't know.
	I think it was the popularity of Lance Armstrong.
	There was a point in time where we knew the term for a prosthetic testicle.
	I know the term for a third nipple, which is a nubbin.
	I don't know if doctors agree with that.
	That's what it's called.
	Isn't that a little nubbin?
	It's called a nubbin.
	I like that.
	I don't think that's what the, I don't know, testicles like something funny.
	Well, it's not, yeah, I don't, I mean, it's not funny.
	It's science, dude.
	That's true.
	But wait, actually hold that laugh in check because it's about to get funny.
	Okay.
	Silicone testicles.
	And then you got like clear eggs down here.
	Uh, bottom text, a scientific breakthrough for Republican senators.
	Yes.
	Yes, finally.
	They're too pussy.
	They can finally get balls!
	Yeah, they have pussy, and you gotta take the silicone testicle and shove them in the pussy, and then they'll impeach Donald Trump.
	Joke's on you.
	If you put silicone balls into your pussy, you're just gonna get a stronger pussy.
	You're just gonna do exercises with them and get a stronger pussy.
	Oh, what's that company we both like, Ben?
	Oh yeah, Ben Wah.
	Benoit Balls.
	Yeah, that's my favorite song.
	Totally, yeah, I know what song you're talking about.
	Yeah, again, you were a teenager at one point in time, too.
	Yeah, that's so... because that means they would have him.
	Like, if they had it, then they would have him by all purposes, right?
	It's just a complete misunderstanding of what politics are.
	Republicans know that it was the right thing to do to impeach Donald Trump.
	They were just too cowardly.
	It's like, no, they want like, they want abortion to be illegal.
	They want like millionaires and billionaires to have to pay zero tax.
	It has nothing to do with, it actually probably takes a lot of quote balls to say, no, yeah, Donald Trump didn't fucking told his followers to kill Mike Pence.
	And we're, we're going to be cool with that because it still gets like our side, some sort of, you know, leverage.
	Yeah.
	Like that's more courageous than doing a grandstanding impeachment that's not going to go anywhere.
	It is, absolutely.
	I don't know.
	And it's also silicone testicles.
	Would those give you the moxie you need to impeach Donald Trump?
	It seems like they would still be more symbolic.
	You gotta have something to grab and gesture at the person you're talking to.
	Grab yourself.
	You gotta grab your nuts.
	You gotta let them know Gotta have something to grip onto.
	What's the part of the balls that gives you the moxie?
	Is it the sperm or is it just the shape of them?
	It's really just like a shape thing.
	What's the word I'm looking for?
	Magic geometry?
	It's like magic geometry?
	Sacred geometry?
	Sacred geometry, yeah.
	Yeah, totally.
	There's like Pythagorean theorems down there and shit.
	There's symmetry in the sack, you know?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	That's why you gotta charge your balls in the moon.
	If only Republicans were more sacked up, if only.
	In a perfect world, Republicans would have huge balls.
	It's like Nancy Pelosi said, we need a Republican party that has massive dick and balls.
	Yeah, we need someone that has to walk around like a cowboy, you know what I'm saying?
	We would love it.
	All bowlegged.
	As Democrats, we would love if Republicans had a big dick and balls.
	Back in my day, that ACDC song was about Republicans.
	Yeah.
	This was a very funny post. - It's a good one.
	It's a, I think a one-off meme that I saw.
	It's got like a gradient background.
	It's not worth explaining the colorful background.
	It's like pink to blue in this background.
	And it says, did you hear ol' Mitch?
	And then there's a photo of Mitch McConnell that's been photoshopped to be red.
	Like his face is red and he's got horns coming out of each side of his head.
	Said, "Did you hear ol' Mitch?
	He summed up the House's case beautifully, fully agreeing with them, but voted to acquit." So basically, he did say Donald Trump incited violence, but also I'm gonna vote to acquit him of that.
	So, "He summed up the House's case beautifully, fully agreeing with him, but voted to acquit." And he played them!
	He would not accept the impeachment documents until Trump was out of office.
	Once out, he said it was unconstitutional to convict someone no longer in office.
	Winky face, tongue out.
	Now he is suggesting the Biden administration prosecute Trump criminally.
	What a good thing to use to campaign against Democrats in 2022.
	Trying to jail Trump.
	Surely there is some entity that can prosecute Trump and not involve Joe.
	And the last line is, just don't get played again.
	So what this meme is trying to say is that it's a trap.
	Do not prosecute Trump criminally.
	Not because our judicial system is totally hollow and would never convict a fucking president of doing anything illegal whatsoever and would actually, like, destabilize the entire system if it was, you know, successfully prosecuted.
	No, it's because They'll run against you trying to do something bad to Trump.
	Don't fall into their trap of trying to beat them.
	That's just what they want.
	You could convict Trump of doing something criminal because he's such a huge criminal.
	But if you do, then Republicans are going to win the next election because there'll be such a big backlash from you trying to beat them.
	Yeah.
	It's... it's... Mitch McConnell is the devil master 3D chessman.
	Let's go.
	And if I just want to rewind here to this meme about how Republicans are the ones who need balls.
	It's Republicans who need balls in order to convict Trump but also we can't prosecute Trump because if we do the Republicans might get mad at us and then they'll win in 2022 if we if we do anything against Trump.
	But Republicans are the ones who need balls, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, and so what, we can't make them mad now for the next four years?
	Yeah, dude!
	You don't want to wake that sleeping giant, that silent majority we've seen him boast about?
	Who knows what will happen if they actually get upset?
	Who knows the potential?
	Another big strategy for the Democrats in the wake of a failed impeachment, in the wake of this acquittal, summed up here by the Twitter account Harry Potter Resists, who says, fun fact, FUN FACT!
	If Trump is acquitted, Democrats will move to take a vote under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to bar Trump from future office.
	That vote, unlike a vote at trial, would only require a majority vote.
	And Democrats control the Senate with 51 votes.
	Hashtag Trump Impeachment Trial.
	I love that we have so many amazing people out there who are fully barred past lawyers who understand law and governmental law at that level type stuff and they are willing to come to Facebook and break it down for us.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	Yeah, I was going to say, I'm so grateful that we have this many people who spend their free time, unpaid, willing to explain to us how the Democrats aren't actually full of shit and totally ineffectual.
	It's so good because for a second there I thought the Democrats were utter failures and completely hollow husks of a political party, but it turns out there's so many reasons why they failed.
	That's just what you think is happening.
	Now they only need a 51 vote majority to prevent Trump from running again in 2024 which we were kind of told was the entire reason for doing this impeachment thing because if he was impeached then he couldn't run again because Most people were like, what's the point of impeachment?
	Like, it's not a criminal case.
	He's not gonna face any criminal repercussions.
	And they were like, no, it's worth doing because it prevents him from running again.
	Well, that failed.
	But now we find out there's a way that they can prevent him from running again with a simple 51 vote majority.
	And in fact, I think Chuck Schumer, it was reported, said, hey, we might do this thing that we said we needed to do, the democracy hinged upon.
	And it's amazing because watching this go over in these liberal Facebook groups, Lisa Russo says, if this was the case, what was the trial for?
	That's a really good question.
	Robert G. Stork says, then why did they waste their time twice with something they knew would fail?
	Diana Yarnall Smith says, I'm finding Democrats are all talk.
	They won't do a thing and Trump is going to be even worse than before.
	God help us.
	Sharon Ashurst says, I'm getting tired of this.
	We don't want any more talk from Democrats.
	Just get it done.
	This was an overwhelming response.
	It was just like, how long are you, media influencer, democratic operative, going to tell me to trust the plan?
	Well, you got to.
	You got to trust the plan because see what you don't understand is it's not about the impeachment or even a criminal thing because what we're going to do is we're going to make the gestures because that's what the principle is about but the goal is actually not to not allow him to run again but to allow him to run again and Joe Biden would be so popular by that time that we will embarrass him and we'll get him where he really counts is his pride because he doesn't care about going to jail or or you know like getting impeached he cares about his pride so we're going to actually let him run again.
	And we're going to beat his fucking ass.
	I mean, what I think we should do is I think we should help him run again.
	I think we should make sure that he's the Republican nominee.
	And because he's definitely going to be the weakest one, like we learned in 2016, he's going to be the one that we want to go against as Democrats.
	We should help him get there.
	We should only talk about Trump.
	We should only elevate his presence and elevate his messages because people are gonna be so disgusted by him that they're never gonna vote Republican again!
	And what we have this time, we have on our side, is that you know what?
	Trump has already lost to Biden.
	Biden has proven he can do it.
	And once we get those $1,400 checks, there's no way he's gonna lose.
	Well, it's $2,000 checks, Tony.
	$200 checks?
	There's no way he's going to lose.
	Well, it's $2,000 checks, Tony.
	Watch your mouth.
	It's $600 money orders.
	Yes, it's $1400 plus the $600 we already got.
	It's $1,400 plus the $600 we already got.
	It's $2000.
	It's $2,000.
	Dang.
	Mark Collier says about voting to prevent him from running again. - Mm-hmm.
	Mark Collier says, not a great idea.
	He deserves it the most, but expect it to be used the other way and for much less reason.
	Trump lost soundly and likely would again.
	So don't do the thing that you've been promising us is the only reason it was worth voting for you in the first place because it might be used against you.
	You know, hey, like I would vote against Trump, but I think it might anger some Republicans and then they would vote against Democrats and be this whole thing.
	Be this whole crazy thing that I don't want to escalate.
	You know, I don't want to, I don't want to make it go nuclear with a voting against a Republican option.
	Yeah, and I like the whole idea of, like, Trump lost soundly.
	Like, listen, he lost, and that was cool.
	There was no problems.
	We had zero problems after he lost.
	I know this whole impeachment's about the problems we had, but we didn't have any problems.
	Well, Kathy responds, you're on the same wavelength with Kathy, because she responds, the insurrection occurred because he lost.
	We can't let him run again.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And people forget, it wasn't because Biden won, it was because he lost.
	Yeah.
	And I just think, yeah, you can't let him run again because then he'll lose and then it would anger his base.
	So we need to vote to strip him of the ability to run again.
	And then the base will be like, Oh, I guess that's okay.
	He didn't actually run again.
	We're not mad anymore.
	I don't know.
	It's an embarrassing way to analyze politics.
	Bill Palmer, who's kind of like, he's not like an A-list lib celebrity, but he's up there.
	He's pretty far up there.
	I don't have his credits.
	I don't have his bylines.
	He probably writes for like Washington Post occasionally or CNN or MSNBC, but he's got his own Facebook group.
	And the Facebook group is Biden and Kamala for president, Donald Trump for prison and it's got like several thousand members and he's the only one who ever posts in it and he just shares his own website articles into the group and they all get you know thousands of reactions or whatever.
	And I have an article here in the wake of this failure to impeach Trump.
	This article is titled, Everyone Calm Down.
	Chill the fuck out!
	Everybody fucking chill!
	But before I read that, I want to just read several of his other posts.
	Okay, so it's everyone calm down.
	Everyone calm down.
	And the caption is the same as the headline.
	Very low effort posting, but they still get hundreds if not thousands of reactions.
	Everyone calm down is one of the headlines.
	So every phrase I say is going to be a different post and a different headline.
	Everyone calm down.
	We will win in the end.
	We got just what we needed out of the impeachment trial.
	If Lindsey Graham and Laura Trump want to screw this up for the GOP, let them.
	Try again, Mitch McConnell.
	Yes.
	This just got so ugly for the Republicans.
	This is a big win for us.
	Mitch McConnell just threw Donald Trump under the bus.
	There's a theme here.
	What does Lindsey Graham think he's doing?
	The Republican Party is about to break in two.
	So, uh, as you can tell, this is like Extreme Cope from somebody whose entire brand is built on, like, the Democrats.
	Just connected to the Democrats.
	Anti-Trump.
	But I want to read from this article, Everyone Calm Down.
	And it's... Every time you say it, it's so good.
	It is the thumbnail, the headline image is Donald Trump with MS Paint gradient jail cell bars in front of him.
	Awesome.
	So just everyone calm down.
	He didn't get impeached, but here he is behind bar.
	Look at this image I made.
	He's in prison, right?
	And it's like, well, this photo was taken on like the White House lawn or whatever, you know, but yeah.
	And this has 35,000 shares.
	Okay.
	And the font is like point 24 font, you know, so everybody can read it.
	Everybody can see it.
	It's pretty intense.
	It's inclusive.
	Everyone calm down.
	While we don't know why witnesses weren't called, we know that the Democrats didn't quote cave.
	They're not hapless idiots.
	They're savvy fighters and they must have had a damn good reason for this.
	Stop blindly attacking them and let this play out.
	What's another phrase for let this play out?
	Just off the top of your head.
	After covering politics in the Trump era, what's another phrase for let this play out?
	Just the plan?
	Oh, yeah!
	Yeah, trust the plan.
	Stop blindly attacking Democrats.
	Trust the plan.
	Trust the plan.
	For instance, the Washington D.C.
	Attorney General let it be known last night that he's looking to criminally charge Trump for the insurrection.
	I'm so relieved to know that the Washington D.C.
	Attorney General is looking to criminally charge Donald Trump.
	That's so sick.
	When I heard that, I was like, fuck yeah, dude.
	He's got this.
	I love it when I hear the looking to criminally charge thing.
	I love that.
	But just so you know, this person has looked to charge multiple presidents.
	And that's good.
	Are you saying that's bad?
	No, I'm saying this is experience.
	This is a good thing.
	We can trust that this will in fact be looked into.
	He's looking to criminally charge Trump for the insurrection.
	That's infinitely more important than an impeachment.
	Perhaps he asked the Democrats not to screw up his prosecution by calling his witnesses.
	Huh?
	He didn't want the Democrats to step on his toes.
	He's got something in the works.
	Do they think that they can only do one?
	Like once you impeach someone you can't criminally charge them with something else?
	Well if you call the witness, the same witness, you're gonna bungle the whole thing.
	That's true.
	How is he supposed to have a surprise witness that we all heard from already, Tony?
	That's true.
	You know, they can just shuffle the order in which they're brought up?
	No!
	That doesn't count.
	I won't be surprised.
	I need to be surprised.
	Yeah, we knew it was one in five.
	We knew who it was going to be.
	We knew it was going to be one of them.
	No one's shocked here.
	Have you ever seen a few good men, Tony?
	Not to me.
	Yeah, I didn't think so.
	I didn't think so.
	It's clear.
	Very clear by how you... Duh.
	Duh.
	I haven't seen it either, I don't know.
	Is that the one with the truth?
	Yeah, it's Tom Hanks and Anthony Hopkins.
	They're in there and they're yelling at each other.
	Susan Sarandon, she's the stenographer.
	And Maggie Gyllenhaal is in there too.
	I I'm saying like the only celebrities I can remember.
	It's just like that movie kind of fucked up for me because I knew from that moment on that there's no bother, don't even bother looking into the truth because I can't handle it.
	No one can handle it.
	Yeah, that's what Anthony Hopkins says in the movie.
	Anthony A. That's my guy.
	That's my guy.
	Yeah.
	He's my guy too.
	He's all of our guys.
	He's America's guy.
	He's America's guy.
	Anthony Hopkins is America's guy.
	Fantastic movie.
	Great.
	Great.
	A plus film.
	Um, yeah, listen, they were going to prosecute Trump.
	They were going to do the impeachment to Trump, but then probably, I'm just guessing here, there had to be a good reason they did it.
	And I think it's because there was already a super secret, uh, trial unfolding behind the scenes against Trump.
	And that attorney general was like, Hey, we're totally going to convict this guy.
	Don't queer the deal.
	Yeah.
	And the Senate Democrats were like, okay, fine, I guess we'll take a vacation even though we hate to do that.
	Even though we hate to go home.
	It pains me.
	I guess we'll do it just to serve the actual prosecution of Donald Trump.
	That's probably what was happening.
	I mean, would you want to go home to your wife for eight days?
	Oh boy.
	Eight whole days straight of just wife?
	Wife and kids?
	Wife and kids?
	As a Democrat, I love to fuck.
	I'm a very sexual person.
	Yeah, but I mean there's like hours between fucking.
	Hours of nagging.
	Maybe the way you do it.
	It's also possible that one or more of the witnesses changed their story and therefore it would have backfired.
	I love how shitty this article is.
	This article's like, I don't know, there was probably like magic.
	That's why they didn't impeach.
	Yeah.
	Probably a genie said he would grant their wishes if they didn't impeach.
	Look, we didn't impeach him, but we did in fact cast a spell.
	And the spell would be voided if we were to impeach him.
	Priorities.
	They were going to impeach, but then the Washington D.C.
	Attorney General says, I will sell you these magic beans in exchange for not impeaching Donald Trump.
	And we're all laughing.
	We're all laughing that they didn't impeach, but they're gonna plant the magic beans and then it's gonna grow like a jail cell for Donald Trump or something.
	It's gonna sprout stalks up that are... The magic bean is actually gonna be like that bamboo torture that grows through him.
	Oh shit, dude.
	Yeah.
	Well then we'll have to respect him as a prisoner of war.
	That's true.
	Yeah, don't want that to backfire on us.
	We gotta have him crash a couple planes first.
	There are all kinds of plausible explanations for what just happened, like maybe...
	Maybe he was made of candy and you couldn't impeach him or else it wouldn't work.
	We're supposed to just impeach him.
	We can't kill him.
	He'll melt if we impeach him.
	Quote, Democrats stupidly caved is not one of them because these Democrats are not stupid or cavers.
	Not one.
	Not one caver.
	We really, really, really need to learn to avoid jumping straight into the, quote, all hope is lost, end quote, end quote, Democrats just stupidly caved routines.
	Neither of those things ever ends up being true.
	When we fatalistically yell that stuff... Oh my god, this is so bad.
	When we fatalistically yell that stuff, we are the ones, parenthesis, unwittingly causing harm.
	We deserve answers as to what happened today, but we'll get them soon enough.
	I warned you from day one not to let the media suck you into the fictional notion that the impeachment trial was crucial and that he's, quote, getting away with it all if he's not convicted in it.
	I love that.
	Like, how are you threading this needle of the Democrats, uh, did an impeachment that was a waste of time.
	And also they have a bigger plan at hand.
	How, how are you like, yeah, this is such a hard cope, such a hard cope.
	I also like how this is all, this tone is written under the, again, written under the article called, everyone, everyone, hey chill, chill guys.
	Hey, chill vibes, chill vibes only.
	Everyone calm down.
	Hey, everybody calm down.
	We are the ones causing harm!
	It's us.
	This has always been about criminally prosecuting Trump and putting him in prison.
	Period.
	Nothing else.
	Stuff like this impeachment trial is just child's play.
	It's not even a real trial.
	I'd much rather see these witnesses used at Trump's criminal trial.
	Can't waste them.
	The defense of this failed impeachment is that, oh, it was just a show trial.
	Oh, it was just a joke.
	The whole thing was a joke that we've invested all our emotional and political, like, well-being into.
	Oh, it was just a joke the whole time.
	What are you, stupid?
	It's a double reverse psych, actually.
	Of course this didn't mean anything.
	What, you really thought it meant something?
	Uh, maybe you should read a little Andy Borowitz to find out why you're fucking stupid.
	Why are you fucking stupid by Andy Borlase?
	It's good.
	It's just like, it's just a photo of a screenshot from that Sia movie.
	And it's like, this is you.
	This is you, this is how you look right now.
	And the joke is that you're acting.
	That's actually where you really get it mixed up.
	I didn't really think you were stupid.
	You're just acting stupid like that child we told.
	Yeah, you're doing fine.
	Keep mocking this situation.
	Right now, Mitch McConnell is just telling Donald Trump that he'll protect him from anybody thinking that he's making fun of them.
	And now the movie's gonna come out through the criminal trial and there's gonna be no protecting that little kid.
	Yeah.
	I feel bad for that kid.
	I feel so bad for that kid.
	Yeah.
	It sucks really bad.
	It's so much worse, it's so much worse than I thought it was.
	Like, this looks like, it looks like Mad TV 1996 making fun of someone doing this.
	It's like...
	I hesitate to say it.
	It's like worse than what Mad TV would do.
	It's like... Yeah!
	It's worse than like the Simple Jack joke about, you know... Yeah!
	Uh, going full blank.
	Yeah!
	Going full slur.
	Like, it's worse than that.
	It's... It's... It's... It's... How come no... How come everyone let it happen?
	So many people let that happen.
	I think it's like nominated for Golden Globes and shit.
	Oh...
	That's going to be an interesting little landmark, historical landmark, I think.
	They're going to present the award to that girl and talk slow to her when they're presenting it to her.
	It's going to be awful.
	I like that the movie is just full of strobing lights and a lot of stimuli.
	I think that's great.
	Just mad triggers, just nothing but the triggers, nothing but the hits.
	Today is a great opportunity to look around at the political pundits yelling, quote, Democrats stupidly caved, and realize you don't ever have to listen to those people again.
	You don't ever have to listen to those specific pundits again.
	They either can't think above a fifth grade level, parentheses, see a movie, or they're just pandering to you.
	Let's get out of the trap of spending years working hard to elect smart and savvy and fearless Democrats, only to decide they're cowardly idiots the minute they do something that doesn't make immediate sense to us from the outside.
	I love this.
	What should we do then?
	Do they give us option B?
	No, option B, there is no option B. You have to, you have to, like, never lose faith in the Democratic leadership.
	If you are losing faith in the Democratic leadership, that makes me severely question your mental acuity.
	That's, yeah, yeah.
	And like, you aren't, you aren't stupid, are you?
	You're not a Republican, are you?
	Don't you realize the Democratic Party is the reason you're even allowed to question this?
	This is like you raising your hand in class and them coming over to you and hitting you in the face with a newspaper and saying, what was your question?
	And then you open your mouth again and they hit you again in the face.
	Say, what was your question?
	And they do that as many times as it takes for your stupid ass to stop asking questions.
	I mean, that sounds like a cool thing that you do in a classroom, for one, where you've had a nice discussion with the person who's going to hit you in the face in the newspaper.
	And, you know, I think that'd be kind of cool, actually.
	Yeah.
	If you want to explore that more.
	That sounds kind of tight.
	Yeah, Bill Palmer hit up Tony.
	He's into it.
	That's how we hand those, and it's just, let's get out of the traps of spending years working hard to elect smart and savvy, fearless Democrats.
	The Democrats that we're talking about is Democratic leadership like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who have been in office for decades now.
	For a long time.
	I really hope nobody that we would even have a chance of knowing has spent any effort in trying to get elected because those are just their seats for like the last 30 years.
	So yeah, the term gaslighting gets thrown around a lot, but I think this article might be an example of that.
	Just a little bit, yeah.
	Hey, you don't want the GOP to get elected, right?
	You don't want them to get re-elected because then if they get re-elected we might not be able to impeach Trump.
	That is true.
	We need that.
	Long play.
	Okay, I think that's it for this episode.
	It was one topic, but I think it's kind of fascinating.
	I think a lot of Democrats are seeing the cup and ball trick, the three-card Monty being played in front of them.
	They're like, hey, like, we keep being told that impeachment is the most important thing, and getting Donald Trump out of office is the most important thing, and then you, like, can't even do the impeachment that you spent so much time doing?
	Like, I have maybe a question, and then the Democratic operatives are like, you sound like a Republican.
	Yeah, don't do that.
	Don't trust the plan.
	I don't know.
	I mean, this is once again like all social media, you know, I don't... I think radicalization can happen on social media.
	I think if this show has shown anything, it's that radicalization can happen on social media.
	That doesn't necessarily, like, correlate or result in real-world action.
	But I think it's a step.
	I think it's a step in the disillusionment of these people who genuinely want things from their political party.
	And they keep being told that, no, you can't have things.
	You need to just, like, appreciate the level of intelligence that goes into not having the things.
	Yeah, at least no one's calling you a flyover redneck.
	At least you are better than them.
	And I think that we do need to work on things like messaging to get the appeal across for the social media radicalization.
	Which is, I think we should run with that whole, you know, like, hey, just let it happen.
	I think we should run with the trust the plan.
	And I think maybe we need to pivot a little bit and rebrand.
	And I'm proposing, how about the Democrats run with trust the plan B?
	I think that's a... Hey, listen.
	Sleep on it.
	Think about it in the morning.
	Trust Plan B. Trust the Plan B.
	I think there's a lot of disaffected liberals out there who are genuinely more left than the party leadership, whatever that means, whatever nebulous.
	They are more anti-capitalist, they are more pro-economic democracy than the Democratic leadership, and I think this is a good fulcrum point for
	Whatever political observers already exist, like, it's obvious that we need to get people more engaged in politics, period, that there's so many people who have completely tuned out of politics, you know, because of what we're talking about today, just like a lack of results, you know, tangible results from, quote, politics.
	But there are also are people who are like political consumers who are knee-deep in this discourse.
	I mean, there's fucking tens of thousands, if not millions, of people who are avid, like liberals, you know, normal-ass people who are voraciously hanging on, you know, MSNBC, CNN, like the fucking Bill Palmer Facebook group, like like the fucking Bill Palmer Facebook group, like that aren't, you know, elites, that aren't, you know, part of the PMC or whatever, because there's nothing else.
	Like this is like they...
	They intuitively know that politics are a big deal, but they're stuck in this passive waiting for the Democrats to do something, and I think it's an opportunity for actual leftist material politics to seep in.
	I hope so.
	I hope so.
	I think so.
	People kind of forget about the days of old politic where it was like a soap opera that was very boring and it was basically court TV and it was big words that people didn't know what was going on.
	It was inside baseball politics and no one really understood it.
	And you can't, we can't go back to these gestures because now I think that we need to do something tangible.
	I think it's not about that anymore.
	This, this like this daytime TV courtroom drama, um, you know, politic, hopefully it won't entertain us anymore and we're gonna need something tangible.
	I think that the biggest thing that could come out of this is like the shine wearing off of the democratic label for Democrats.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Because one of the biggest problems when it comes to getting tangible results, getting material benefits, is like the cultural divide between, quote, Republican, quote, Democrat.
	I'm a Democrat, therefore, I think Republicans are stupid.
	Or I'm a Democrat, therefore, like I care about manners and upholding, you know, the norms and this, that, and the other.
	And the more I see Democrats that are like, This is stupid.
	This isn't getting us anywhere, you know, appealing to the Democratic label and willing to do politics that aren't, like, beholden to, quote, the Democratic label.
	I think that's only a good thing.
	And I think, like me, when I talk to my co-workers, I mean, obviously I'm not a Democrat, but even if I were a Democrat, that's not the way to talk to your fucking co-workers about politics.
	It's not by saying, oh, this Democratic politician, that Democratic politician, this is the Democratic platform.
	Like, that's like an instant turnoff for half the population is attaching, you know, a party label to what you're actually talking about.
	Yeah.
	Like, politically engaged people, I think, realize that the party is poison.
	I think that's good.
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