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Oct. 11, 2021 - Minion Death Cult

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Change my flag, I'll change your ass

This week we cover the inane NYT piece "Redesigning America's Flag" and the unhinged conservative response. Also, a girl boss CEO teaches her fellow workers how to be humble and accept less Preorder the Bart Against Bosses shirt and stickers at http://miniondeathcult.com Get a bonus episode every week, access to all previous bonus episodes, and 25% off all merch for only $3.11/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult

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	So we have a fun story I can't remember if this was shared into the group or not um it was a guy on Facebook just a guy complaining he said if you change change the flag I'll change your ass.
	Something like that.
	I don't remember.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	You change my flag, I'll eat your ass.
	Change the flag, I'll change your ass into it'll have a third cheek on it because I'll kick it so hard.
	It'll pop another cheek out.
	Change your life and you're dead.
	I was like, and it was a screenshot of like, he was watching Fox News and Fox News was like, are they queering the American flag?
	Or whatever they're saying on there.
	And I was like, is this a real story?
	Can I actually find an article about this?
	Yeah, and it turns out it all stems from a New York Times article, opinion piece.
	It's really neither of those.
	It is essentially a slideshow.
	And it's pretty obnoxious because, I don't know, Tony, you said it was behind the paywall for you.
	There was no paywall for me.
	Typical.
	Yeah.
	I mean, yeah, that's America for you, you know?
	Well, it's because of my Italian heritage.
	It's called, you know, reparations.
	Yeah, especially from the New York Times, the way they've smeared your people.
	It's just a slideshow, so it's obnoxious that it's like, oh, here's the New York Times article you get to read.
	Not about, you know, police brutality, if they ever even cover that, but it's, no, it's about the cool new designs for the American flag that we might have, possibly.
	So, opinion.
	Redesigning America's flag.
	Six new takes on old glory.
	I loved it.
	I love the hot take industry finally coming for the American flag.
	Let's see these hot takes.
	This essay, which is, as far as I could tell, it was not an essay.
	This essay is part of, quote, snap out of it, America, a series exploring bold ideas to revitalize and renew the American experiment.
	The cover animation is by 2x4.
	What a waste of time.
	Bold new ways to revitalize and renew the American experiment.
	What if we did a different color on that thing?
	Wouldn't that be bold and experimental?
	Wouldn't that revitalize the country?
	I think it'd really change things up.
	I mean, we gotta do something, Tony.
	Why can't it just be a different flag?
	I can't be offended by it if it doesn't exist, so we do need a new flag, you know?
	I can't burn it if it's not there.
	And so, I'm gonna go through some of these designs.
	Half of them I'm just gonna read from the New York Times, Pete, which is like, it's a slideshow that when you try to scroll down to read the quote essay, it just slides to the left, if that makes any sense.
	It's really annoying.
	I was like, is my computer broken?
	Am I doing this wrong?
	Is there more to see than just these six images?
	Nope.
	Okay.
	The American flag is a potent piece of national iconography, but its design shifted frequently until the early 1900s.
	What if it were redesigned today?
	I think it might go a little something like, you know, wind chimes.
	Yeah.
	We asked artists and graphic designers to try.
	The flags they came up with reflect a mix of approaches.
	This essay is a land of contrasts.
	Some are functional designs.
	Others, artistic renderings.
	Some represent America as it could be.
	Others, how the artist sees the country now.
	So there were like, you know, some that were whatever.
	What was the first one?
	I don't know.
	The one you liked.
	I don't think I saw the order.
	I don't think I saw the order in correct order, but I did like some.
	You liked the blurry one.
	The out of focus one, yeah.
	Why'd you like it?
	Just from an artist's point of view, just from like an art point of view, I think it's the most well executed thing here.
	It's just the American... Because these are not flags.
	These are not flags at all.
	These are just like...
	These are art renditions.
	These are not flags.
	You cannot fly these on a post.
	You can't construct these out of material and fly them on a post.
	They won't translate that way.
	These are just like illustrations or whatever.
	Yeah, it's like a fun art project for a freshman or sophomore year high school student.
	What would you do?
	If you could design a new American flag, what would you do?
	You would make a flame flag?
	Like a flag that is fire?
	That's what I would do.
	That would be cool.
	You could do one where all the stars are instead 2 CS's.
	Ooh, that'd be hard.
	Or pentagrams.
	Or both.
	That would be cool.
	Yeah, if I were in high school, it would be like the stripes would be pink and black.
	And then the stars would each be like a skull and crossbones.
	We're talking freshman art here.
	That's what it would have been for me, probably.
	At that point in time, this is just after 9-11, so I was still a Patriot, you know?
	I probably would have done 69 stripes and 420 stars, but the same colors.
	That's something everybody can enjoy.
	Whether you're a stoner, or a sex fiend, or a Patriot.
	And the 420 stars just represents what light pollution has done to us, because now we can only see 50 because of the lights.
	Uh, now if I were to redesign the American flag, uh, it would be still the American flag, but standing in front of it would be a topless woman.
	Uh, and she's holding the Bible open in front of her.
	So it like tastefully covers her nipples, but you can still see the under boob.
	Uh, and she's pointing a revolver at the viewer.
	Hell yeah.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	Now, the real question is, you said this is full frontal nudity.
	It's just from the waist.
	You know, you're working with like a 3x5 or 3x6 sort of template.
	I like that more.
	Kind of like it starts from the navel up.
	So the gun's really the focus.
	I like that.
	That sounds tight.
	I'm into that.
	And she's got a C-section scar.
	And she's ethnically ambiguous?
	I hope.
	Totally, dude.
	Okay.
	Cool.
	Cool.
	This one...
	Is by Hank Willis Thomas.
	And it's so stupid.
	It's just a collage of all the other flags.
	But some of them aren't even flags.
	Some of them don't count.
	I mean, I guess they are flags that you do see on trucks and in front of houses.
	So I guess that's true.
	They're personality flags.
	So there is a Blue Lives Matter, a Trump one, and a military American flag one.
	Those are personalities, not flags.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Well, what do you think the American flag is, if not somebody's personality?
	just not American flag is if not somebody's personality but it's like that's like an official flag yeah well I mean this is a this is a mood board essentially We're trying to get to officiality.
	Then some of them, I don't know what, do you know what some of them are?
	Yeah, you want me to go, there's the... Yeah, okay, let me list, let me list them.
	Please, yeah.
	Okay, these... Oh, okay, yeah, there, I see it now.
	These are all the flags that were used to make this compilation flag by Hank Willis Thomas.
	It's Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is just like the Afro National flag.
	It's like the African National, I guess, I don't know the... Yeah, that's a good... But it's...
	Uh, you know, a field of black stars on a green square and then red and black stripes.
	That's a hard flag.
	I like that flag a lot.
	It's a good looking flag.
	Um, they're calling it the Lift Every Voice and Sing flag, which is the Black National Anthem.
	That's a weird thing to call it though.
	I think it's called like the African American flag.
	I think that, that's like what I've always called it.
	Uh then we have the Black Lives Matter flag which is the yellow with you all you can see is ATT from from matter at the bottom because it's like it's like if you took all the flags in one spot and then did slices of each flag in that area.
	So you can only see bits and pieces of each flag, but it is in the same, like, what do you call it?
	Territory on the square that it would be.
	So you can see the ATT from the Black Lives Matter flag because it comes through at the bottom center right there.
	Don't Tread on Me, so you can see the snake head and the coiled body and more yellow.
	Again, has a name.
	Gadsden flag, yeah.
	In God We Trust.
	Which one is that?
	I don't know.
	That must be the normal American flag.
	Because the normal American flag is still here.
	Oh yeah, that makes sense.
	And then we have the thin blue line flag, which is just black with a blue line in the center.
	Under God, our Vindicator, which is what he's calling the Confederate flag.
	That's what it is, right?
	Because I was like, okay, the Confederate flag is here.
	You can see little slices of it.
	But it doesn't say, you know, uh, oh, the, the, whatever it is, the Mississippi battalion, whatever, you know, these, uh, these history buffs like to call it.
	Um, I looked up under God, our vindicator, and that's the Confederate States of America motto.
	Wow.
	I did not know that.
	And then you have keep America great, AKA the Trump 2024 flag.
	And then, what's the final one?
	Progress Pride.
	So, the trans and pride flag.
	The one that includes the sort of gender arrows coming from the left side.
	Cool, man.
	Wow.
	What if I just combined all the flags into a new flag?
	That's art.
	That's a great idea.
	Not only is it uniting, it's also art.
	This is kind of that thing that is a good representation of the problems we have with America and like discourse is that this person was like, let's reimagine the flag.
	And they went to like artists and graphic designers instead of going to like a flag designer, which is a thing.
	And I remember listening to an episode of Radio Lab years ago about flags, and how flag design is good and bad, and what makes a good flag, and they were talking to flag designers, and how it's a totally different thing, and none of these would function as a flag.
	This is such a stupid exercise.
	We have this problem, let's ask the wrong people.
	This is such a thing that we see all the time.
	Well, it's funny, because the New York Times is like...
	We need to explore bold ideas to revitalize the American experiment.
	So we're going to have a new flag designed and you're like, okay, that's already extremely stupid.
	And we're going to get like artists to do their quirky takes on it.
	It's like, okay, so you're not even taking your stupid hypothesis seriously.
	And also, I mean, they're trying to do this whole thing where they're representing the American cloth, right?
	But I don't think they asked a A conservative artist.
	I'm being pretty presumptuous here.
	I thought that this would be the conservative guy, but he's a black guy who does, like, black art, and I don't know why he included the tr- I think it's just, oh, this is who we are as a nation.
	It's everything, yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Something, but I don't think, I don't, nothing came across that would have, um, there was nothing that went that direction.
	I put, I put everything together so nobody will like it.
	That's essentially what it is.
	Which is America!
	And so you sent me the article that you could get through because you couldn't get through the paywall for the New York Times.
	You sent me an article from a website called like Outkick.
	Outkick baby.
	And it's like it's like a gambling website.
	It's like a gambling like men's culture type website.
	Uh, never heard of it, but they did a rundown.
	They had some hot takes on this New York Times article.
	And yeah, under the sort of collage flag that we just talked about, OutKick says, the left is going to bring us together by dividing us.
	A wizard-like plan.
	What does that own?
	Wizards are smart.
	And they're effective.
	You're a whiz kid.
	You're good at your thing.
	So you're being sarcastic.
	Oh, this plan was wizard-like.
	Not.
	Not.
	It's about as real as a wizard.
	It's about Harry Potter coming and saving America.
	That's about how this is going to happen.
	I love it when outlets try to coin their own phrases.
	A wizard-like plan.
	Yeah, if you do a word search in this website, you're going to find a few things in outkick.com that say, a wizard-like plan.
	If you search Google for the phrase, a wizard-like plan, just outkick.com will show up and then it'll say, it looks like your search isn't generating very many results, which is trying to change your search into something that resembles human speech.
	Yeah.
	Uh the other one is just a faded like white flag with white stars and it's kind of like a gradient like a gray whatever type gradient.
	There's an album cover that looked like this.
	I can't remember what it was but there's like an album cover from like the 90s by like Like Marilyn Manson or something?
	I think there's a... Just white stars on a white background.
	It reminds me of like, there's some like mall core band that has a album cover like this.
	Somebody like wrapped his face in the American flag, but it's all like whitewashed and shit.
	I can't remember what it is though.
	Thank goodness.
	This one looks kind of cool.
	Again, terrible flag.
	It'd be an awful flag.
	It would be a white flag, which already has a meaning.
	Yeah, it says...
	The colors of our flag are intended to stand for unity.
	So this is from the New York Times article.
	This is from the artist who designed the white stars on a white background flag.
	Knock him.
	The colors of our flag are intended to stand for unity, valor, and justice.
	The gray monochrome flag represents America's surrendering to its fall from power and loss of the ideals it once stood for.
	The American dream is being washed away.
	Oh, maybe this person's a conservative.
	Yeah, so who knows what that's supposed to mean.
	The old flag was good, and America's not good anymore, so we need a bad flag to represent how we're bad now.
	I don't know.
	Their fall from power.
	And then Outkick.com comments on this flag.
	They say, Weird.
	The left told me before that white is a bad color.
	Now they want a white American flag.
	That has been my gripe with white people.
	It's never been, like, you know, white supremacy.
	It's been the color.
	I've been really upset about the color.
	Yeah, and conservatives hear you loud and clear.
	We get it.
	White.
	Bad.
	I just like a room to pop, you know?
	And yeah, I think, Tony, you're right that this artist is conservative and it's possible it could be like a centrist, like, oh, America, uh, Was already great until Trump came along.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Type take, we're surrendering our values because now we're getting hoodwinked by Russia or something.
	Hard to tell.
	It's definitely more conservative than like the left position.
	But yeah, now, oh, the left told me before that white is the bad, that's the bad color.
	This kind of sent me on a A little journey mentally.
	I'm imagining like a conservative movie about a dystopia.
	And it's about a small community who tattoos their babies into blackface from the moment they're born.
	And one, it's to hide the bad color, which is white.
	And two, so they won't get into heaven.
	Because they'll be inked.
	It's called It Takes a Village.
	And Adrian Brody is still in this one.
	He's still playing a mentally challenged guy, except his mental challenge is indicated by him doing his Rasta character from SNL.
	Man, like the only thing worse than hearing it is watching it and seeing his weird like arm movements and like head shakes.
	That was, that was brutal.
	That was so brutal.
	That's how they are though.
	But yeah, I'd watch that movie.
	I would watch that movie.
	It sounds good.
	And then a stranger shows up that isn't tattooed and he's all, he's like, oh, he's got the bad color, man.
	But he doesn't know any better, because he grew up in the forest.
	What's funny, too, is this artist says this is not white.
	It's actually grayscale.
	Yeah.
	And so it's like, I mean, once I read that, I realized, oh, my white joke.
	But even though he's saying, I guess he's saying it's a surrender also, but either way, you know, it's a bad color.
	And yeah, he is saying it's a bad color.
	That's what the artist is also saying.
	He's saying it's like a bad, weak color.
	There's one of the flags, I don't think it was in the Outkick article, but it was in the slideshow.
	It's a gif.
	Oh, what?
	It's an animated GIF.
	The flag in its current state is a static representation of the country today.
	I transformed the flag into an interactive, moving, digital flag that mirrors our overall sentiment through the lens of the Declaration of Independence.
	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	These values would be determined by relevant, collected data, and would transform over a given period.
	The radiating shapes suggest the country's growth or decline within these parameters.
	Wow.
	It's gonna be like live feedback?
	Yeah, it's gonna be like the terror alert from the George Bush era, but it's like the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness meter.
	And it's like, oh, the blue square's gotten bigger.
	That means we're down on liberty.
	The liberty ticker's down.
	I feel like a boomer right now, because I'm like, the whole point of the flag is when you picture a flag, you don't picture a static flag.
	You picture a flag moving in the wind.
	You know, but I guess kids these days haven't even seen.
	But we should have a material now that works like a holographic card.
	You know, so when it does move, it does change images.
	We should have that by now.
	Uh, if I designed a fla- I take back my other design.
	If I designed a flag now, uh, it would be a JPEG.
	And it would be of like a gorilla wearing a funny hat maybe drinking a cocktail or something and I would sell a proof of ownership blockchain for three trillion dollars to Jeff Bezos and then he could actually own A non-fungible token that is the American flag.
	And we just settle it once and for all.
	That's smart.
	We all know who's in charge.
	We all know who owns this joint.
	And I might as well make three trillion off of, you know, making it official.
	Hey, I don't ever want to like, you know, because you do such an amazing job producing this show, but can you actually go back and cut that part out?
	So, you know, we can make a gajillion dollars.
	We have eight hours to get it up onto the marketplace.
	No problem.
	Before this episode drops.
	No problem, I can get right on that.
	The other really obnoxious flag that's on here is by three different people and it's kind of stunning that it took three people to come up with this flag.
	The American flag was once a unifying symbol.
	Its red, white, and blue belonged to everybody.
	But now, red and blue are tribal signals, and the flag seems to represent two factions forced to share a piece of fa- yeah, the Demi-bloods and Republicrips.
	By running a single purple bar across the middle, this flag reminds us all of the constant potential and possibility inherent in America when red and blue come together as one.
	And the flag, the quote flag, looks like a fucking beach towel.
	It just looks like a, you know, 70s beach towel.
	White, with three blue stripes, one purple stripe, and three red stripes.
	I love that.
	That sounds perfect.
	I don't, listen, I don't care if you're- We have to be careful though.
	I don't care if your flag is white, blue, red, or purple.
	We're all Americans.
	You gotta be careful with the purple though, because these people might be Q. Because this might be a Prince homage.
	This might be a tribute to Prince.
	So you gotta be careful with the purple these days.
	They might be trying to get one over on us.
	And then finally, the last thing from OutKick.
	The OutKick article was pretty good.
	It says, Before we go, I want to show you something offensive.
	Dividing, political, and even archaic.
	And I just want to, you know, trigger warning to all of our listeners here.
	He posted a photo of the American flag.
	He posted a photo of the American flag billowing in the wind in, like, the least flattering billow I've ever seen a flag.
	I've never seen a flag flying that looked so bad in this.
	This is not a flattering picture.
	You gotta know your angles.
	Yeah, come on.
	This is the dead suck one you found?
	You couldn't just find Google Image harder?
	And then he ends the article with, These New York Times writers are sick.
	These people are sick.
	That's also a trademark they have.
	Whatever they're talking about, last line is, These blank are sick.
	That's every single one.
	These quote-unquote people are sick.
	Did you see this guy's name?
	His name is Bobby Barack.
	What a good name.
	He covers media, politics, and sports on OutKick, in case you were wondering.
	There were a lot of good comments on this, but I'll just read one from Alan Searson.
	It says, now I might even get me an American flag Speedo.
	These vile, soulless slime.
	Now this thing I love so much, I'm going to put my nuts on it.
	I mean, drastic times call for drastic.
	I never thought, Tony, I never thought these freaks would go as far as to ask artists to think of a kooky, - That's the flag for the country.
	Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think they would do an elementary school arts and crafts project with the American flag.
	So yeah, I'm gonna do what I swore I would never do before, which is the Will Ferrell post-911 sketch from SNL.
	Yep.
	I will wear a fucking Speedo.
	Pause.
	It's just, I mean, it's, you know, it is the Team America-fication of the right wing, where it's just, like, adopting
	the ironic patriotism or the parody of your side of the culture war or whatever as like epic like oh look it's george washington riding a uh bald eagle dropping bombs on the middle east fuck yeah you know or whatever um it's that it's i'm going to do the will ferrell dancing around the office in an american flag speedo saying how much i love america but not as like
	I don't know, to be epic or whatever?
	It's to, like, fight degeneracy?
	Or to, uh, to actually stand your ground or something?
	Well, the thing is, you know, I was at a public pool not too long ago.
	And there was, you know, someone who was kind of doing that whole thing where they were just kind of being like, I got my beers on my and I got my my my epic little American flag short, short shorts that couldn't even touch my short, short pink shorts.
	But it was like this like confrontational thing to them.
	They like wanted, you know, they were like, yeah, I'm doing it.
	What?
	And it is, it's like confrontational to them.
	Like, I'm going to put my little bulge out there to let them know what I stand for.
	I think it's like a lot of these guys don't feel comfortable in their body unless it's like to own the libs.
	Mm-hmm.
	You know, like...
	They can't just wear a Speedo or they can't just wear, you know, booty shorts or whatever.
	It has to be, quote, ironic but embracing the ridiculous irony of, you know, the patriotism.
	And you want to pull them aside, you know, like, hey, listen, you can actually have this same comfort and like a better design, even more comfort, because they use better materials to do like a solid color or, you know, not like a joke one from the Spencer's, but to get an actual nice speed.
	You might really enjoy, it might change your life.
	Might even be made in the country that you're displaying.
	Yeah.
	NewsNation, and I don't know what this website was, but they covered this topic too, Commentary Associate Editor Noah Rothman wrote on Twitter that the designs were, quote, entirely unnecessary, while Jake Beckett, a veteran former NFL player and Arkansas Senate primary candidate, told NewsNation's The Don Lon Report on Thursday that he thinks the designs are too politically motivated I hate it when the American flag gets political.
	It's the worst.
	Let me just be free, okay?
	Don't make it political.
	Let me just be free.
	Don't bring politics into the flag.
	Don't bring politics into this America.
	Quote, I wore that flag on my shoulder when I deployed to Iraq.
	Nobody asked you to do that.
	You didn't have to do that.
	The 101st Airborne Division when I served in the U.S.
	Army, and I think it's ridiculous to even consider changing it, Paquette said.
	He added, The Democrat Party have been pushing for a fundamental transformation of this country for many years, and we've seen evidence of that.
	We're seeing evidence of that in attempts to change our flag.
	We're seeing that in trying to create a new national anthem they're playing before certain sporting events.
	But if Democrats are telling us they want to fundamentally change the U.S., we should believe them, and we should fight back against it.
	Nowhere in this New York Times opinion article, it says opinion very big on top of the letterhead, does it say we're actually proposing these.
	It just says, it kind of says like, what if someone saw it, and what if a senator saw it and they really wanted to do it?
	This could happen.
	This could possibly happen, but no one's actually pushing for it.
	There's no change.org petition for this.
	They didn't even pick a winner.
	Respawning this way is so stupid.
	Giving it any credence at all is so funny.
	He's running for Senate, so that's why he's quote, taking it seriously.
	You know, it helps.
	It helps for the campaign.
	But right here, I think this is pretty illuminating.
	The Democrat Party have been pushing for a fundamental transformation of this country for many years.
	Have they?
	I don't know.
	I wish.
	That'd be cool.
	And we're seeing evidence of that.
	What's the evidence of this fundamental transformation of the country that we're seeing?
	An op-ed about the colors on the flag.
	Even if this were being put forward by the Democratic Party, I wouldn't necessarily call that a fundamental transformation.
	The Democrats are playing a different song before football games.
	Can you imagine a more fundamental transformation of this country?
	Hey, what song is that, too?
	What is the song?
	It's Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani.
	Because Gwen Stefani, we know, represents the rich, vast array of cultures in this country.
	Yeah, Stefani is the synthesis of American diaspora.
	That's a good pull.
	That's a good one.
	It's Gwen Stefani in like Harajuku kitty ears and a bindi on her forehead and like street wear and she's wearing like a woven belt with a car seat buckle to represent punk Americans on it too.
	And there's still cargo pants.
	I'm so grateful we didn't have the camera phones we have today because there would be video of me helping a friend do like a Gwen Stefani song at like an assembly in high school.
	That's something that happened for sure.
	But yeah, that's so good.
	And then on top of it, what's even funnier is like as As obviously not fundamental or not material, changing the flag would be?
	You still couldn't imagine that possibly happening?
	No.
	There's no, even if the Democrats want, more likely if the Democrats actually wanted it, it would be even less likely to happen.
	It's like, it's like one of the arguments people use for not making Puerto Rico a real state.
	People are like, we can't redo the flag.
	Since we can't redo the flag, we can't give them the support we give.
	We also can't help them out because we can't do another star.
	Yeah, changing the flag would be harder than adding Puerto Rico.
	Yeah.
	So in some of the articles about the flag change, that totally might happen probably, There was this tweet that was embedded, you know, it's a conservative backlash against the New York Times or whatever.
	One of these tweets was from somebody named Rebecca Mansour, who's apparently the editor-in-chief at Breitbart.
	Whoa.
	She tweeted out, she shared the article, so I guess, you know, thanks Rebecca for the clicks.
	She shares the article On Twitter and writes, congratulations to the at New York Times for writing the stupidest op-ed, parentheses, if writing is the right word for this, of all time, parentheses, and this is quite a feat considering the vast landscape of stupidity coming from the New York Times opinion page.
	Bravo, you've outdone yourselves.
	I don't think writing is the right word for this, seeing as how, again, it's a slideshow with visual descriptions from the artists.
	But I like that.
	It's like a project.
	What would you call this?
	A presentation.
	A fun challenge.
	That's a good own, though.
	Oh, if you could even call this writing.
	You know, your writing is so bad, you couldn't even call it writing.
	And it's like, well, it technically was pictures, Rebecca.
	This is, again, the problem with media and discourse.
	We give things like op-eds too much power.
	This doesn't matter.
	Why do you care about this, Rebecca?
	This is an op-ed.
	This is not a real thing.
	This is just a really formal tweet.
	I also like, and this is quite a feat considering the vast landscape of stupidity, the landscape of stupid writing that you're doing.
	Uh-huh.
	That's, she's just showing him how to do good writing.
	Bravo.
	Not good writing like we do over at Breitbart.
	Not the good stuff like we do at Breitbart.
	Yeah, like comparing op-eds to landscapes.
	Entire landscapes of stupidity.
	Blue Herons replies, HOW IS THERE NOT MORE COMMENTS ON THIS SINCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON?
	TWITTER, WHAT ARE YOU RESTRICTING?
	THE NOTION OF A NEW FLAG IS AN ABSOLUTE SHAME TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT AND THOUSANDS HAVE DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY!
	DEMS ARE DESTROYING THE USA!
	WAKE UP!
	Wow, I love this.
	We need to write more op-eds.
	We need to get him more fired up.
	Yeah.
	Um... Yeah, well, I think that's one of the good arguments for changing the flag, is that it is an insult to the troops.
	Yeah.
	We need to separate ourselves from the troops these days.
	I think they need... The way they bounced from Afghanistan was a real bad look.
	We gotta kind of distance ourselves from them now.
	Um... Lucien, hmm, replies, Whoever is behind this idea of changing our flag with a different one is demon possessed.
	There's a spiritual war, brothers, that is manifesting in our physical world.
	Pray to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
	There's a war going on outside no flag is safe from!
	These colors don't run and you cannot hide!
	Is this like a new metal song or is this like a hardcore song?
	I don't know.
	It might be a song by Mobb Deep.
	Ooh.
	Okay.
	That's true.
	It's called Survival of the Fittest.
	I didn't consider that.
	I just watched that video and it's sad to see that Prodigy's a white supremacist.
	I didn't know he was, but he was wearing a Carhartt beanie.
	He was wearing a Carhartt beanie, yeah.
	I'm pretty fucked up.
	I didn't know that I was supporting... Sucks that he's a Republican racist.
	Supporting a Republican by listening to that shit.
	Uh, shook ones, man.
	You know?
	Yeah, that's me now!
	From seeing the white supremacy, I'm the shook one.
	What's funny though is, you know, calling the flag like a spiritual and religious That's like a straight up sin.
	In all the forms of Christianity, that's like a sin.
	You can't do that.
	That's like a false idol.
	Well his fucking name is Lucian.
	I'm sorry, he's like overcompensating.
	He knows he's demonic, he knows he's evil, he knows he's like probably the Antichrist with a name like Lucian.
	That's why he's doing this.
	Because you know who knows the gospel best?
	Satan himself.
	That's right.
	So on Fox News, the Fox News article about this was just like, oh, the New York Times getting dunked on on Twitter for this article.
	It had 4,000 comments in this comment section.
	The top comment was from Term Limits, who says, when we censor our history by disguising our scars, We'd be little.
	The scars remind us that the past is real.
	It's the American flag.
	America doesn't cower behind political correctness.
	It defiantly and courageously moves forward with its history as a reminder of where we have been.
	Cool.
	Okay.
	You know what?
	Take down this article.
	It's such a funny mixed metaphor because you're saying, no, we have to keep the American flag as a reminder of our scars because we don't want to censor the nastier aspects of our history so that we can learn from it.
	So you're saying like the American flag itself is a nasty part of our history?
	Yeah.
	And you have to keep it so you can learn not to do the American flag again?
	Also, don't worry, people are gonna keep it.
	People still are flying Confederate flags, and the ones with the 13 stars, they're gonna keep it.
	It's not gonna go anywhere.
	They're not gonna topple all the monuments that have it on it.
	And again, it's like, oh, we don't run away from the negative aspects of our history.
	Also, if you teach my children about racism, I will kill you.
	I will hunch you down.
	Yeah, I will not have that.
	And I don't care what color you are.
	Because I'm not racist, so I'll do it no matter where you come from.
	MarkTA690 says, how about redesigning it, so the American flag, how about redesigning it with 46 stars by getting rid of California, New York, Washington, and Oregon?
	Cool, peace dog!
	This has 315 upvotes.
	What do you think the reply is going to be, Tony?
	From everything you've learned from this show, what do you think the comment section is going to come back with?
	How we're all like a country and a nation, or how we all seem to get rid of other states.
	Are they going to add states to the list?
	None-ya-damn-business replies, you missed a few, smiley face.
	Maine, New Jersey, Minnesota, Hawaii, Maryland, Illinois, and D.C.
	Yeah, I know D.C.
	isn't a star on the flag, but I just don't want us to forget them when issuing evictions.
	Smiley face.
	Wow.
	Because that's what happens when you, like, get rid of a state, you also evict everybody?
	That's... I mean, yeah, I think he just means, like, metaphorically evicting them from the country or whatever.
	I don't even know what those states did.
	I didn't know those states were particularly liberal.
	Yeah, Hawaii is.
	New Jersey is.
	Minnesota has that one lady there that we don't like.
	Maine, Maine's got Stephen King and that guy is a pill on Twitter, frankly.
	A real, a real pill.
	Illinois, that's got that one city we don't like in it.
	And D.C., yeah, not a state.
	We should make D.C.
	a state just so we can kick them out of the union.
	That'd be nice.
	I'll have that started on just to take it off, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, this is the classic comment section trope of... Oh, you want to get rid of four states?
	What about eight states, huh?
	Try harder.
	And then Wodger replies, Hey, don't discard all of us.
	We are just prisoners here in Oregon due to the quote, vote by fraud system.
	The demon crats have perfected here on the West coast.
	And so that's, uh, it's a parody of the vote by mail system, uh, vote by fraud.
	And that's made so you can't move?
	Uh, yeah, that's, I, yeah.
	Don't really understand.
	I wish so badly that everyone who hated California would leave California, and then all my homies who want to come to California could come.
	Yeah.
	That'd be the sickest.
	Still many patriots here in hiding waiting for the BIG PURGE!
	What do you think that means?
	I think it means Civil War time, baby.
	Civil War, but like Civil War just on a state level.
	Yeah, just to know how... Because, yeah, this is... Wait, this is Oregon?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oregon's not... Oregon just has Portland.
	I mean, Oregon's still pretty fucking gnarly.
	Extremely gnarly.
	I wouldn't drive through Oregon in a car I couldn't rely on.
	Yeah, we're just, still many patriots here waiting for the chance to kill everyone else.
	Password123 says, we don't need to change the flag, we need to change at least half the population.
	What does change mean, my friend?
	I think it means change them to dead.
	Yeah, I think change probably means similar to purge.
	I mean, exterminate.
	No, no, it's just gonna send them to, like, conservative conversion camp.
	It's different.
	Gonna change their minds.
	I like that, uh, password123 acknowledges that it's at least half the population.
	Yeah, right?
	That is totally against your worldview.
	Yeah.
	It's a stunning bit of self-awareness that you don't usually get.
	Usually it's silent majority this and we need to finally take a stand.
	We're sick of getting pushed around by the minority of people, by the minority of libtards or whatever.
	This person's like, no, we're going to need to do a genocide on at least half the population if we want to win this thing.
	He goes on to say, and we're not even talking about the other quarter of the population who just doesn't know about my opinions, they just don't even know that people feel this way, who probably won't be stoked when they hear about it.
	Hellbent says, quote, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
	That was all in bold.
	He fucked up.
	He fucked up.
	He should have just said, I pledge allegiance to the flag and then everyone else would have finished it for him and it would have been epic.
	We had that.
	We had that in an episode like two years ago.
	Do you remember that?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's the coolest thing ever.
	We should try to go start it right now on that article.
	Yeah, it's like the even more racist version of when you type the letter N, and then wait for the person underneath you to type I. And they push it, and it goes, and it works.
	Every time.
	And then, so Hellbent, after pledging allegiance to the flag, Hellbent says, it's perfect, and if you don't get goosebumps when you salute the American flag and say those words dot dot, then get the F out of this country!
	American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji, American Flag Emoji.
	Like, we can't even just be happy with it.
	We gotta get a little bit torqued when we do it.
	We can't, like... If you don't get goosebumps when you do that... What the fuck's wrong with you, man?
	Calm down.
	Calm down, my guy.
	In high school, I was looking at everybody's skin when we did the pledge, and I realized who my enemies were then.
	Yep, I knew it.
	I knew it.
	The smooth skins.
	The old smooth skins.
	He's going into Matrix mode, and he's like in that, uh...
	What is it, the second or third Matrix where the guy makes the orgasm cake and gives it to the woman.
	He's like examining their lips and he's like, ooh, a fullness of the lips from a quickness of breath during the pledge.
	Ooh, this person is a patriot.
	It was on that day that I was grateful for my eczema because it appeared that I had goosebumps, but I was just ashy.
	He was none the wiser.
	Save my life.
	Save my life.
	Isn't it so simple how just a string of letters, when hung together in a certain order, can evoke such a strong physical response?
	I pledge allegiance to the flag!
	So weird.
	Okay, this is a second-to-last comment on this.
	M3DucatiMan Says.
	That's gonna... That's not a thing.
	It's gonna be important.
	Not to be a car guy.
	Not to be a car guy.
	But there's no such thing as an M3 Bugatti.
	No.
	You heard me incorrectly.
	M3 Ducati.
	Ducati.
	There's no such thing as an M3 Ducati either.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	This is the Ducati... I don't know about that at all.
	I made that up.
	This is a Ducati man.
	So... I'm gonna trust him.
	Like a centaur motorcycle?
	Just wait, Tony.
	M3DucatiMan says, I FULLY SUPPORT A FLAG REDESIGN!
	I would like to have a motorcycle on it.
	It's just a child.
	This is a little kid.
	Just like a little ass kid?
	Can we put a car on it?
	Can we put cars on it?
	Cars and flames?
	I mean that shit's gay.
	I want a skateboard on it.
	You're a little child baby.
	You want a motorcycle.
	I want Flame Boy.
	Flame Boy battling Wet Willy.
	That is the new flag.
	Yes, it's Flame Boy battling with the Ying Yang in the middle.
	That is the new... I'll salute that flag.
	Hell yeah.
	Oh man.
	And it costs $60.
	But it's worth it.
	Well, plus tax, it rounds up to $69.
	Okay.
	I would like to have a motorcycle on it, because I identify as a motorcycle, and the rest of the country should cater to me.
	My pronouns are motorcycle and biker, and if you don't call me those, you get fired.
	I hate you.
	I hate you so much.
	You are a child.
	You are a little baby child.
	You thought he was being childish, but actually he was being epic and bass and red pilled by saying he likes motorcycles a lot.
	Your dog, your username is M3DucatiMan.
	You are identifying as a Ducati man in your username.
	Yeah, it's happening.
	You are your own joke.
	You think you're making some point, but it's like... I mean, yeah, I'm gonna call you Ducati Man.
	That's how I'm gonna refer to you.
	I'll respect your wishes and call you by your chosen name.
	M3 Ducati Man.
	I'm not gonna call you anything else besides that.
	I won't do it.
	I'm gonna continue to call you M3 Ducati Man.
	I actually might call you Ducati Little Boy.
	Oh, shit.
	Your face.
	Well, I identify as- Yeah, also, man is in your name.
	Like, man is in your name.
	I identify as an American flag.
	So, you gotta put the American flag on the American flag or else you're racist against my gender, which is the American flag.
	Dang.
	Just being oppressed, Beth, because you're an American flag.
	I hate M.D.
	Ducati, man, so much.
	BB35, last comment, says, Stars and stripes were draped over my father's and grandfather's casket.
	So one casket for both of them, I guess.
	There is no other and never will be for those who served this country.
	I mean, my grandpa's still alive, but I guess he just built different.
	We, BB35, we're going to dig up your father and grandfather and throw, get rid of that old stuffy old American flag.
	Yep.
	And wrap them in the blurry American flag.
	Wrap them in the blurry one.
	Yeah.
	And their souls will be condemned to hell for all eternity.
	Yeah, it's gonna be awful.
	They're gonna be in heaven, and once they put the new out-of-focus flag on it, they'll be warped painfully.
	It'll be the first time they will feel pain since post-death.
	Yeah.
	As they get sucked down to hell.
	They're gonna get sucked down the, like, gore tunnel from the Spawn movie into hell.
	Oh, man.
	I need to rewatch the Spawn movie.
	It's pretty sick.
	I just started it.
	I need to get a new TV before I do though, you know?
	Yeah, you really want to see the fucking black and white PC game level graphic design on Satan.
	Satan being a big giant werewolf guy.
	I just wanted to do John Leguizamo's neck enough a service, you know?
	Uh, what's his name?
	Fucking Rocks, though.
	He's so good.
	I can't remember his name, but, uh... Michael Jai White.
	Yeah.
	He's so fucking cool.
	Um... Yeah, sorry, yeah.
	We're gonna change the flag, and then all- every soldier who died with the American flag, uh, they'll be...
	Like, posthumously converted to satanists and sent to hell.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, that's exactly what's going to happen.
	And it's going to be immediate and painful, like we said.
	Yeah, OK.
	So yeah, we're definitely going to do that.
	We're not going to do anything else as a country, but we are going to change the colors on the flag.
	Let's read this one story before we go.
	This was sent to the group by Jake Kissinger.
	So thank you, Jake.
	This is an article in Business Insider Ugh.
	Oh, I hate it so much.
	Gross.
	Like, you sent me that?
	Asking for a raise is quote, cringe worthy.
	Oh, oh, I hate it so much.
	Like you sent me that.
	I, I thought it was like a reductress, uh, You know.
	Parody.
	Article.
	That would have been funny, you know, making fun of a CL saying that.
	But it was fucking real.
	And it had her girl boss ass pictures on there.
	And I hate it so much with everything in me.
	It's pretty cringe.
	Ladies, if your man doesn't have a box spring Uh, if he doesn't wash his ass or if he asks for a raise, what are you doing with him?
	What are you doing?
	Next.
	Thank you, next.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I'm sick of these man children thinking everything should be handed to them, like higher wages.
	Yuck.
	Have some self-respect asking for a raise.
	Gross.
	Okay, so...
	The former CEO of PepsiCo never asked for a raise while at the company's helm. - Hmm.
	Indra Nooyi, Pepsi's chief executive between 2006 and 2018, said in a recent interview she did not ask the company's board of directors for a raise while CEO.
	So you're thinking like, Is this, this is like, was she underpaid for being a female CEO?
	Yeah.
	And didn't feel like she could ask for a raise?
	Nooyi said she even refused a raise from the board offered her because she felt uncomfortable taking one during the financial crisis.
	I've never, ever, ever asked for a raise, Nooyi told the New York Times.
	I find it cringeworthy.
	I cannot imagine working for somebody and saying my pay is not enough.
	Pepsi has saved like millions of dollars by promoting her over other people because she's like the cheapest raid, but like, outperforms everybody also.
	Like, she's the reason, like, she could be making so much more money, but because she does that...
	You know, she just doesn't have, I don't have a use for another like 1.5 million.
	I just, ugh, gross.
	Just wait.
	When asked whether Nu-Yi's refusal to ask for a raise was gendered, Nu-Yi said, it's just me.
	The executive explained that because she did not grow up with much money, she and her husband did not upgrade their house while she served as CEO.
	The Times noted that New Yee received more than $31 million in compensation during her last full year at Pepsi.
	Whoa.
	Whoa.
	And they haven't upgraded their house?
	And she didn't even ask for a raise.
	That means they got $30 million in like a regular ass house?
	Can she drop a pin?
	Maybe she can drop a pin.
	Can you imagine working for $31 million a year and not asking for a raise?
	I would want to, but I wouldn't because that's just tacky.
	It's cringeworthy.
	I'm honestly kind of surprised that she wasn't fired for refusing a raise.
	That's like, that's like a red flag for that.
	Yeah.
	Like the whole grind, like this article is so funny because it's got this weird like grind set, you know, win, success.
	Oh, got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and don't ask for a raise.
	You got to know your worth and don't work for a company that doesn't know your worth.
	You got to, you got to find, you know, your, your place or whatever.
	That's all, that's all like, Bullshit dumbasses tell themselves.
	It's not something that actually functions for the people at the top of the food chain.
	It's like when you're, you know, I don't know, when you're hanging out with your friends and you don't do the same drugs that they're doing.
	They're like, what's going on here?
	The only reason why she said no was really because it was a certain time of year where it would have fucked her taxes up.
	And she's like, nope, I can't buy another company overseas in the meantime to cover this.
	It's not really worth it for me.
	Because at no point does she go on to say anything like, you know what, that raise?
	How about we redistribute that to our employees?
	How about we create a program?
	How about we do something cool with that money?
	She doesn't do that at all.
	She just says like, no, I don't want to be gauche.
	And I love, because she did not grow up with much money, she and her husband did not upgrade their house while she served his seat.
	Wow, how honorable of you that you took $31 million a year and didn't spend it on that particular thing.
	Also, what was the house they were in?
	She was making some pretty good money probably a couple years before she was making 31 million.
	She probably has a sick-ass house.
	She's not living in squalor and just being humble.
	Listen to what they did instead of upgrading their house.
	Nuyi said she bought the land and properties near her house, so no- Oh my god!
	So no one would build quote, a gigantic mansion and allowed neighbors to walk around the empty space.
	Oh, they're the best.
	That's so cool.
	Nevermind.
	You know what?
	Can we actually scrap this?
	Seems like a good person.
	I provided park space for my neighboring neighbors.
	It's like, but you know, there's signs everywhere that's like, don't pick fruit.
	Don't pick the fruit.
	Yeah.
	No, no fucking way.
	Is it like a cool place to go and hang out?
	Can we find out though?
	Let's go, let's go smoke weed there.
	Let's go smoke weed in her park.
	It's, it's, it's probably acres.
	The land and properties.
	So there's other properties that she, she didn't upgrade her house.
	And then it's empty.
	She just bought properties up in the surrounding area.
	Because she didn't want anyone else to build a quote gigantic mansion Listen, I know it's it's weird as the king that I own all the land here I'm doing it for you because I don't want anybody to build a gigantic mansion that would look They would look cringe.
	It would be cringeworthy if someone were to build a giant McMansion, right?
	We all hate those.
	So that's why I bought all the land.
	That's why I own all the land in this area.
	She's like, she's like brown.
	So she's over here being like, no, no, this is, you guys say land back.
	I actually am about it.
	I, I will, I, I purchased the land.
	So there will be no white man buying this land, building a giant mansion, but it will.
	Well, representation matters, Tony.
	It matters because a little brown girl who has to live half a mile away from wherever this is, she'll see who owns that land and think, wow, that's almost like me having a place to live.
	Wendy, I can buy the property around the property I already own.
	Uh, it allows neighbors to walk.
	Wow, you get to walk around.
	Thank you!
	Oh my gosh, she's the best!
	On average, women in business ask for raises and promotion more than men, according to research from McKinsey and Lean In.
	But when women negotiate, their bosses view them as, quote, intimidating, quote, too aggressive, or, quote, bossy.
	In 2018, Harvard Business Review published a report that found women ask for raises as much as men, but men are more, quote, successful with their requests, with a success rate of 15% for women and 20% for men.
	That's the end of this article.
	I think it's great that this person is encouraging women to ask for less raises.
	Don't ask for a raise, because that's cringe, actually.
	The solution really was, like, don't ask for a raise.
	You're probably not gonna get it.
	You're a woman.
	Like, don't ask for it.
	You're gonna look silly.
	Only 15% of women who ask for it get it.
	Yeah, well, you're not likely to get one as a man, either.
	I mean, 20% is, you know, there's a discrepancy there, obviously.
	But, yeah, it's... Don't make it awkward.
	Yeah, don't make it weird.
	Don't ask for a raise, because, you know...
	You should just go somewhere else.
	And that's honestly a very popular talking point.
	Is like, God, I couldn't imagine working for someone who only wanted to pay me the minimum wage or whatever.
	Have some self-respect and quit your job.
	Have some self-respect and let that boss exploit somebody else, a lesser person's labor.
	That is the truth, though.
	If you are going to ask for a raise, go ahead and send an email, and we will counter-offer what you're getting now, and you can get a job with us.
	It's not a real job, but we will provide a counter-offer email you can provide to your boss to ask for a raise.
	That's a good service, yeah.
	When you do ask for your raise, do have another job in the waiting that is going to pay you more money.
	I only have one comment from this because pretty overwhelmingly people were laughing at this woman for how humble she was not to ask for a raise after making only $31 million a year.
	Adam Sullivan for example says, patting yourself on the back for not asking for a raise when you make $31 million a year is quote cringeworthy.
	But Alyssa Browning replies, I don't see where she was, quote, patting herself on the back.
	It seems like the reporter asked her a question and she answered it honestly.
	As you can see from the comments on this thread, it seems that no matter how she'd have answered the question, about one half the readers would have decided they hate her for it.
	I guess that makes the article good clickbait.
	Yeah, no, that's a good reaction to have.
	No matter what the person who makes 31 million dollars a year says, at least half the people should hate them.
	At least.
	At least, minimum.
	We need to bump those numbers up.
	Yeah, those are kid numbers.
	We need to get that, jack those up a little bit.
	Oh, and why did you even say that?
	Like, what is your, what is your, are you worried that one day you're gonna, like, You know what it's like?
	It's like fucking Dave Chappelle.
	He will not shut the fuck up about saying no to that money.
	He can just do whatever the fuck he wants now because he said no to money one time and talks about it all the time.
	They like love to talk about it.
	I'm not impressed by that anymore.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think what it is in this case, the most charitable interpretation you could say is She's trying to say that it's cringe for a CEO to ask for more money, especially in the face of the market crash or whatever, which that's not quite the way I would describe a CEO asking for a raise.
	I wouldn't describe it as cringeworthy.
	I would describe it as like, you know, criminal and immoral.
	Yeah.
	But still, you're not any better.
	You're not any better than the CEO who asked for a raise.
	You're actually almost worse because you're trying to convince us that you're one of us or something like that.
	And that's like way off.
	Get the fuck out of here.
	I'm mad that you didn't say yes to the raise and give me whatever you were going to get.
	Because that was like an option.
	But Tony, I... I am gonna start like emailing millionaires and asking just for a couple hundred thousand dollars.
	I'm gonna email Jay-Z tonight.
	But Tony, what if I bought up all the land in the surrounding area?
	It would be like, it would be like our land.
	You know, you could walk on it.
	Yeah.
	You'd let me walk on it?
	You could walk on it.
	Y'all don't stop.
	Just don't ever stop.
	I said you could walk around.
	I didn't say you could hang out.
	Yeah, you said you could come through.
	I didn't say you could loiter.
	Don't worry, my robots will let you know when you've been there too long.
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