Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

Feb. 14, 2022 - Minion Death Cult

01:48:39

Dad, meet my new boyfriend Mohammed

This week Left Flank Vets join us to talk racist dads, the Biden administration denying they were ever going to reduce harm for crack cocaine users, and a Louisiana senate candidate burns a confederate flag to some very confusing responses. Support the show for $3.11/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week as well as instant access to hundred of previous bonus episodes

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	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 people go to the desert.
	Oh, they're in Barbados, stay tuned.
	I'm Alexander Edward.
	And I'm Tony Boswell.
	And we are Minion Death Cult.
	The world is ending.
	Free drug paraphernalia is responsible?
	We are documenting it, though.
	That was a question, but it's a matter of course that we're documenting it.
	Let's just go ahead and introduce our guests right away because we got a packed episode.
	We got Dick, Marcus, and Erica from Left Flank Vets.
	How you folks doing?
	What's up, boys?
	What's up?
	Hello.
	Extremely excited guests of Contingency here.
	Wow.
	We've already been having fun.
	We've already been having fun.
	We're ready to go now.
	The prep for this.
	I'm scared.
	I'm scared that you're going to pull up my family members or something from their Facebook page.
	Oh, can we do that?
	That was my backup plan for if we ran out of content was I was just going to log into my personal Facebook and scroll down.
	I was actually going to say, actually, Erica, this is an intervention.
	We lied.
	It's not a podcast recording.
	We all love you very much, and we care about you, and you have a problem.
	I'm not gonna stop drinking.
	It's not what you think it is, we just really need you to block your aunt.
	Your aunt is just, you need to block her for your own good.
	Yeah, well you need to, instead of blocking her out, you need to block her in.
	You know?
	Give her an ultimatum.
	Uh, so we were on, Tony and I were on the Left Flank Vets Twitch stream, uh, when was that?
	Last Wednesday, I believe, uh, made our Twitch debut.
	Uh, we were, we were curious about this, this budding platform we've been hearing so much about, uh, twitch.television, and they invited us on to show us, you know, show us around and, uh, I think there were probably some listeners of ours in the chat.
	I couldn't see the chat, but I'm just assuming it was overrun with people screaming TOILET in all caps into the chat.
	So thank you if that was you.
	I appreciate it.
	Oh yeah, there were people in the chat before you guys jumped in even that were like, I made a Twitch account.
	Because I heard Mini Death Count was going to be on tonight.
	It's in the name.
	It's in the name.
	So yeah, don't be too shocked when this stuff happens.
	And also, for the record, that was Alexander's Twitch debut.
	As many know, I have been on Twitch at least twice.
	Oh yeah?
	Kind of a vet.
	I just didn't want to do that.
	I didn't want to play that card.
	Are you allowed to say the name of the show that you went on anymore?
	Uh, no, I went on Anifada and that was cool.
	Oh, okay, that one's good.
	And then I went on another show where, like, for some reason they just haven't changed the thumbnail of the show.
	I don't know why they haven't changed the thumbnail of that show, even though that guy is a ghost now.
	Oh, it's fun.
	So thank you, folks.
	Thank you to Left Flank Vets for joining us today.
	Apparently you had no friends parties to go to, this being, of course, the day before Valentine's Day.
	No romantic partners you could have shared this evening with.
	It's one of us.
	One of us.
	Thank you for joining.
	We actually agreed to this before we had realized.
	Not because of Valentine's Day.
	Not because of Valentine's Day at all.
	We're professionals, right?
	We're professionals.
	We don't back out of deals.
	They're liars.
	Part of the left flank agreement when we started this was that we were going to cut out all other people out of our lives.
	We're just friends with each other.
	We don't talk to other humans.
	We stay at the computer all day.
	That's the deal.
	Well, it's nice.
	I was like, Erica, I mean, I don't know about you, but I have an ultimate, like, I can't do this because we have children and little kids.
	Oh, you know what?
	Guess what?
	I can't.
	Why?
	My kid's just shitting and pissing everywhere.
	And that's not what happens.
	She's much older than that.
	But it's an ultimate excuse to just not be able to do things.
	That can happen at any age, Tony.
	Anytime.
	Anytime.
	Yeah.
	I actually think I was like ablest of you to assume that there's an age limit to pissing and shitting yourself.
	As someone who has Crohn's disease, I feel erased.
	See, Tony, you got a kid, but she's got a kid and Crohn's disease.
	So, checkmate.
	I want you to know that I see your shit and piss.
	I do see it.
	Do you hear it, though?
	I don't hear it.
	I do smell it.
	But mostly I see it.
	I want you to know that I see it and I acknowledge it.
	You guys aren't Twitch streamers if you don't understand.
	You're on a four or five hour marathon of streaming.
	You can't just get up and leave the chat, okay?
	So those depends that come in handy, alright?
	They have to.
	I'm actually litter box trained at this point.
	What makes a gamer chair is the hole in it.
	Yes, it's a toilet.
	That's what the Gaber Change is actually all about.
	So we have a, you know, we have a pretty jam-packed show today.
	Everybody, I hope, has the dock open in front of them.
	What you're not seeing in that dock, though, is our first post, our first topic, because I wanted it to be a surprise for everybody.
	This is from Peter Hicks.
	Peter Hicks writes on Facebook, A man was telling his buddy over coffee, quote, You won't believe what happened to me last night.
	My daughter walked into the living room and said, Dad, do not pay off my college tuition loan.
	Cancel my allowance.
	Throw away all my clothes and take my iPhone and laptop.
	In addition, please take all of my jewelry to the Salvation Army.
	I don't think his live-ass daughter would pick the Salvation Army.
	No.
	She'd probably do like some, you know, some socialist mutual aid group or something to send her jewelry to.
	She would so she could apologize for being white.
	Then, sell my car, take my front door key away from me, and lock me out of your house.
	Then, disown me and never talk to me again.
	And don't forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to anyone you choose.
	Holy smokes, replied the friend.
	She actually said that?
	The father replied, Well, she didn't actually put it quite like that.
	I'm paraphrasing a little.
	What she actually said was, Dad, meet my new boyfriend, Muhammad.
	We're going to work together on Biden's 2024 election campaign.
	Wow.
	Do you think that's real?
	Do you think that there's a daughter out there who's really working on the 2024 election campaign?
	If anybody's working on the 2024 election campaign, I think I might have the same response.
	I don't think you went far enough, if I'm going to be totally honest with you here.
	That did not go where I thought it was going to go.
	That was a turn of events there.
	I'm actually a little upset because at first I was like, wow, that is fucking racist and really messed up.
	And then you dropped the Biden campaign.
	I was like, well... It's got something for everybody in there.
	I think that's the spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
	Islamophobia?
	Actually, no.
	I'm not an Islamophobe.
	You are an Islamophobe for thinking that.
	Actually, it's because of the Joe Brandon campaign that I was mad.
	Mohammed just happens to be his name.
	It's inclusive and representative.
	This is like a new edition in like...
	Fantasizing about women I care about or women in my family being assaulted so that I can then avenge their assault.
	But it's like fantasizing about having a daughter who's doing miscegenation so that you get to disown her.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Don't we all do that?
	It's more of a heart and minds thing, yeah.
	That's the goal, that's parenting.
	Like, this isn't new.
	This is something, like, that was why I had a child.
	Instead I had a little piece of shit boy, and so I can't even fantasize about my daughter doing weird stuff.
	And what's funny is, like, whoever wrote this was, like, they have stand-up comedian in their bio or something somewhere.
	There is no daughter.
	His wife left 10 years ago.
	He sits alone in his den and writes Facebook posts like that, and that's the only source of dopamine he has access to.
	Because like that, there is no 2024 campaign.
	There's no way there's someone volunteering to work for that.
	But there is probably some brown guy named Marcus who's like, her dad keeps calling me Muhammad, and he won't stop.
	I actually enjoy it.
	You know, I'm pretty sure whenever he goes out, you know, on the last straw to attack, he's going to be looking for Muhammad.
	It's cool.
	Yeah, it's cool.
	Yeah.
	He's been, he's been misleading people.
	No one's going to come for me.
	That's not me.
	That's fine.
	You know, and like most used name, you know, I'm not hurting anybody.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sometimes he just calls you Mahmood because he knows the difference, but he just like says them interchangeably for fun to piss you off.
	Just so you know he knows.
	I like to think this guy actually does have a daughter.
	And he's just got friends who like start noticing that they never see her anymore.
	Yeah.
	That, like, his adult daughter hasn't been around or he hasn't talked about her in, like, months, you know?
	And last time, oh, it was because she got taken by Algerian human traffickers.
	That's why she wasn't here this weekend.
	Logically.
	Oh, this weekend.
	Oh, well, wouldn't you know it?
	I kicked her ass to the curb in the most epic way possible.
	You want to hear all, like, All 15 minutes of this bit before I get to the obvious punchline.
	Imagine sitting here and listening to this guy itemize everything he like, you know, make it may itemize every made up thing he paid for.
	Oh, well, I put her sparkly barrettes in the trash can.
	There's all this jewelry, so much jewelry, and I'm gonna, yeah, get out of here.
	No one has a box full of jewelry their dad gave them, like they're just gonna, that's, you're stupid.
	Yeah, um, so, I'm surprised I haven't heard that joke before.
	It seems like a much older joke.
	The only response to this that I thought was good, I think you guys might have it on your screen there, is from Bill McGee, who says, Damn straight, Skippy.
	And his profile picture.
	That was in response to that?
	Yeah.
	He was stoked on that.
	It's kind of odd.
	I think it's odd who he's calling Skippy.
	Because Skippy's usually, if you're familiar with Facebook terminology, it's usually like a diminutive term, right?
	You're calling someone Cupcake, Buttercup, Skippy.
	Spanky is a fun one.
	The libs like calling Trump Spanky a lot.
	Hard to say.
	Maybe he's talking to Muhammad.
	Maybe that's who he's calling Skippy.
	But he looks like Wilford Brimley in his profile picture, kneeling in a creek holding a fish.
	Which I thought was a good photo to include.
	That's a nice fish though.
	I will say, I'm not even a fishing guy anymore, but that's a good fish.
	That's a fish we're posing with.
	Such not a fishing guy, that's the first part of the doc, and I was like, Is that like a dead fish or something?
	Did this guy just like bring a dead fish to the creek and take a knee?
	What?
	You know, I wasn't sure what was going on here and in full context now... That is actually the only time it's okay to take a knee is when you're posing with a fish in a creek outside.
	I think that's a big ol' sockeye salmon.
	It is, yeah.
	My favorite part about the fish is that, like, he's just pulled it out of the water, so, like, water's coming off it, but it looks like the fish is, like, pissing or cumming.
	It's in the spawning season.
	It's ready to spawn right now.
	I was only able to take a quick glance at the picture because the amount of testosterone oozing from that screenshot just made it so I can't look at it and focus and talk at the same time.
	If you look like a guy that is kneeling in a creek, holding a fish that looks like it's coming on you, my DMs are open.
	You need to look like Wilford Brimley though.
	That's the catch.
	You know why he has to kneel for this picture, right?
	Because if he did the traditional standing holding the fish, the fish would have looked real small next to his junk.
	I was going to say he had to kneel because of diabetes.
	He's actually not kneeling is actually what's happening here.
	He's succumbing to the lack of sugar in his bloodstream.
	Our main story for this episode is something we did talk about on Left Flank Vets, a news item that had just dropped and had taken the internet by storm.
	We talked about it, we joked about it.
	I'll probably reference at least one of the responses.
	I think you found, Dick, in the replies because that was one of my favorites.
	Reading here, so this is from the Washington Free Beacon, which is a shitty website filled with bad news who have posted on Facebook.
	They start the post with the cigarette emoji.
	That's strong.
	That's a strong start.
	Okay.
	You read that correctly, colon, and it's like, with the name of your page, I haven't read anything yet.
	The Biden admin will fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts to advance, quote, racial equity.
	The 30 million dollar program will provide users with smoking kits slash supplies to smoke quote any illicit substance.
	Looks like any illicit substance back on the menu boys!
	A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services told the Free Beacon.
	Link in bio.
	This post, it doesn't contain the link because it knows Facebook will immediately flag it as, like, fake news and spam or whatever, but it does include some nice infographics.
	By infographics, I just mean, like, professional memes, you know?
	And it's somebody, yeah, smoking?
	I guess this is supposed to be a crack pipe.
	It looks just like a weed pipe.
	It looks like a bowl that he's smoking.
	So it's actually not a crack pipe.
	Yeah.
	That was the first thing that I noticed.
	That is a tobacco pipe.
	It's either for tobacco or weed, but crack... I wouldn't know what a crack pipe looks like or anything.
	Well, I like that it started off with a cigarette emoji, so also not crack, and finishes with a weed pipe.
	Yeah, so it's a guy smoking a weed pipe and then in huge capital letters it says, BIDEN ADMIN FUNDS CRACK PIPE DISTRIBUTION!
	Let's read from this article here.
	The Biden administration is set to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance, quote, racial equity.
	The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts.
	Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for, quote, smoking kits slash supplies.
	A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and quote, any illicit substance.
	So...
	When this was published uh it of course went incredibly viral this is like something the right wing has been like dreaming and fantasizing about that the the that Brandon with his crackhead son would start passing out free crack pipes to to black people to make them vote democrat or whatever like this is like a fever this is like a right-wing fever dream everybody reported on it everybody from
	What's that guy's name?
	Steven Crowder had a big article about it.
	Everyone to your local news affiliate reported on this.
	And the only sourcing here is the Washington Free Beacon.
	And if you look into this story, there's an email exchange where an HHS spokesperson says, yes, some of the funds could be used for smoking kits.
	Now, smoking kits can be all sorts of things.
	They're called smoking kits or use kits, right?
	It can provide alcohol swabs to clean off an injection site.
	It can provide tips for your applications to promote hygiene.
	That sort of thing.
	Syringes too, even.
	It could include syringes, right?
	Yep.
	He never actually explicitly said that we are going to be giving crack pipes out.
	That's like a thing that would happen at a local level because this grant is for like local services and You would have to go on a case-by-case basis to find out who's getting this grant money, what that specific outreach program is going to be using the grant money for, uh, like, namely, the itemized, you know, uh, an itemized, uh, description of what they're passing out, essentially.
	Um, yeah, go ahead.
	It's, like, totally malicious, because, I mean, at no point in this are you, they're, they're gonna be doing the worst interpretation possible, right?
	That's just what you do.
	Yeah.
	Um, but it's funny because these are the same people who, like, you know that your fear of the government distributing, you know, distributing free crack pipes to get people hooked on crack to get them to keep voting, you know, Democrat, is the same, like, government that had a hell of a time sending out one test kit.
	Like, you know that's the same country, the same people, right?
	Yeah.
	And also, they're going to get so caught up, if that's what you really think it is, they're going to get so caught up in the details that it's never going to go out, because it's going to have to be labeled.
	Like, no, this is the opposite, because you buy a weed pipe, right?
	And it says tobacco pipe.
	But these are going to be the opposite.
	This is going to be absolutely no tobacco, just illicit drugs.
	This is just for illicit drugs, and that's it.
	There's nothing else you can do.
	Do not try to smoke something legal out of this.
	No spice?
	No spice in this pipe?
	The one thing that was specified by this spokesperson was that all grant money would be funding programs, local programs, that abided by local laws.
	Local, state, or county measures.
	In very few counties, in very few states, is it legal to pass out free syringes or pass out free smoking aids like a crack pipe, right?
	You would know if, like, if you were one of these people, you would know if that was happening, because you would be living in, like, Seattle.
	You would be living in Portland, which are, like, some of the few areas that allow this.
	And we should say before we get in, like, any farther, this would be a good thing.
	Yes.
	Right?
	This is actual harm reduction.
	It actually helps slow the spread of disease, slow the, slow, you know, prevent injuries.
	What I said on Left Flank Vets was, this would be a good thing, so it probably won't happen.
	Yes.
	Absolutely not.
	It's also like you said, you know, they're not using words like harm reduction and like it sucks that now actual harm reduction organizations are having to put out little things like explaining like they have to make little cute flyers that say crack pipes or harm reduction because now we have to explain that because it's already been so weaponized and like made to look so gross that they're having to fight back against it and it sucks.
	Sorry, your favorite president passed out a bunch of crack to a bunch of cities and now they need something to smoke it with.
	That's what happened.
	Honestly though, it's like if Beto O'Rourke could just get on the table and be as excited about handing out crack pipes and needles as he was about taking AR-15s, we would be in a better place, you know?
	Like just saying, fuck yeah, we're handing out crack pipes, we're gonna give one to your mom!
	He does swear now.
	It's just so...
	Silly that, like, and it is, like, the perfect story for, like, everything that, like, Republicans or, like, everyone on the right has been, like, salivating thinking about, like, this idea of, like, see?
	They want everyone smoking crack when, like, even they know it's not true.
	They know.
	But it's sensationalism.
	But it's like they continuously are like, look what Biden's doing.
	He wants everyone to he's trying to give black people crack.
	And it's like, wait until I tell you about Ronald Reagan.
	Yeah.
	Your hero that you have, like, on all of your calendars and shit and you jack off to?
	Like, wait till I tell you what he did.
	It is a funny time to, like, acknowledge systemic racism.
	You know?
	Because that's why that verbiage is in there.
	Right, so the program... Now it exists.
	Now systemic racism is real.
	The program is, like...
	Supposed to be implement like this 30 million dollar program is supposed to be implemented You know across the board but Organizations that can prove they provide resources to marginalized groups will get, quote, priority.
	Yeah.
	Whatever that means, right?
	It's not a lot of money to begin with, so... No.
	It's nothing.
	Yeah, $30 million in grants, it can go out of the federal government, like that's...
	That's gone in a minute.
	That's what they're tying the quote racial equity quote that's how they're tying it to crack and it's just again it's this it's this like right-wing fantasy of like they're the real racists.
	I put the phrase racial equity that I saw in like an ironic Ben Shapiro meme next to the crack pipe program that I made up myself to prove that Biden is the real racist.
	And it's like, well, Biden is a real racist, sure, but, like, you're the one, like, doing your mind palace over here to create this whirlwind of insanity.
	Well, they just ignore, like, actual, like, systemic racism, because that's not real, which, like, Biden has been an architect of, like, especially from, like, the time he's been in office.
	Like, they can't admit that.
	Instead, it has to be this, like, crack pipe program that they've made up.
	Like nevermind like ignoring all the fucking years and years of research and advocacy for said research that shows people fucking smoke and inject drugs no matter what you do or what laws you make they're going to do it and the best thing you can do is give them safe ways to do it and every fucking other industrialized, for lack of a better term, nation in the world
	provides people with this kind of shit and a safe place to do the damn drugs they're already going to do because it also helps you can build a relationship with a person who might not want to be doing those drugs anymore and maybe can hook them up with other resources, but they know you got the hookup for the free pipe or the clean syringe.
	Then they're going to go there instead of like fucking running a lighter over the same syringe fucking 12 times.
	I don't know.
	I like the idea of like being able to go online and like sign up for the USPS to bring the four free crack pipes to your house.
	Yeah.
	Unironically, yes.
	That should be a fuckin' thing that will never happen.
	And when they do that, it's like, if someone's never smoked crack before, they're just like, you know, I really wasn't planning on it.
	I have a 9-to-5 I go to.
	I have all these things.
	I wasn't planning on smoking crack.
	But I think today I want to start just because Joe Bi- Thank you, Joe Biden.
	That's what I think happens.
	That's how drug uses work.
	I didn't have, uh, five dollars to spend on the glass encased rose at the gas station, but now that somebody handed me one for free, god, god damn, I think I might try this out.
	Like, what else am I supposed to do today?
	They're like, they're like not even five dollars, they're like a dollar.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But you know, you guys, this is the problem with, with, with people like you guys is, uh, you know, get mad, get mad all you want, but, um, I never, no one, no one's ever OD'd on a slur.
	You know?
	So think about that for a minute.
	Think about who you're mad at.
	Dick, you were right about how this could be an end to establishing a relationship.
	I mean, a lot of these organizations that were gonna get money probably already do have relationships with their community, their user population.
	But yeah, it's like...
	Something like this could show that, hey, the government actually, like, is trying to help you, and maybe you wouldn't be so suspicious when they offer you a place, you know, to stay, right?
	Like, that's, um, I have friends in social work, and that's one of the hardest parts is, like, getting chronically homeless or chronically addicted people to even, like, trust a facility or trust a housing program, you know, because they've they've been fucked over by the system so many times and of course that's like the right-wing idea is like no we want government to be bad so that we can drown it in the bathtub or whatever so of course this like flies with in the face of their project
	yeah i mean it reminds me of um i think this is in seattle where they had a uh kind of like a crisis response unit um for like non-violent, you know, issues going on in the community.
	The guy in the TAC gear?
	The social worker in the full tactical gear you mean?
	Step in the right direction.
	You know, because they can't arrest people.
	They can only, you know, hey, would you like to call an ambulance?
	Would you like to be connected to some other services?
	You know, can we get you a ride somewhere?
	Like those are the types of things that they can do.
	The most use, right, or at least the most reaction to them coming into any type of situation was whatever citizen telling them to fuck off.
	Yeah.
	And then they did.
	You know, but there wasn't another issue that came of it, right?
	Like, when they told him to fuck off, oh, okay, maybe this person just, you know, moved on, you know, maybe, like, calmed down from whatever was going on.
	At the end of the day, though, someone from the community said, hey, can we help you?
	The number one response is, get the fuck out of my face.
	And that's okay.
	You expect that.
	With the track record, why would they trust anybody from the government?
	And when it comes to housing, most programs are temporary housing.
	And so in a lot of cases it'll say, I'm going to take, land, or destroy 90% of your belongings Dictate which ones you can keep.
	Give you some type of housing where you need to follow rules that you didn't agree to.
	And if you make it the six months to a year, then you're going to be pushed out.
	And these things, it doesn't build trust whatsoever.
	Because it's not even the government it's any it's any program that's like they're gonna be means tested you're gonna have to like pass drug tests to get your housing and then you're gonna also have to wash cars and like you know it's that it's that's everybody who's coming to them so they just know you know you know that when you're in that spot You kind of have to, like, start with... free crack pipe?
	That's actually the... that's the best way.
	Like, that's the best way, because you're not... you're not going in there.
	Because everyone who's going in there is telling them, like, hey, how are you?
	Um, you know, I care about you.
	Um, but also... Yeah, prove it.
	Give me a free crack pipe.
	Can you do some lord for me?
	Can you take a little bit of lord for me?
	Or can you, like, stop doing a drug for me?
	Or, you know, can you sign up for the... It's always conditional.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, starting with free crack pipe is really the only answer.
	Well, like... But it's...
	When Ani was doing social work, you know, when she was in, like, public housing, that was the best way to, like, immediately have a calm conversation with somebody was to be like, want a cigarette?
	Want to smoke?
	And then, like, that's instant, like, she didn't even smoke.
	And it's like, that's instantly, like, a way in to, like, talking to somebody, you know?
	Anyone who's ever been to a bar knows that.
	Yeah.
	Let's, uh, let's read more of the, a little more of this article, because it gets into some fairly interesting territory.
	This is still from the Washington Free Beacon.
	Sergeant Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police, so the police union.
	Fucking suck my dick.
	said government resources are better spent on preventing drug abuse rather than making it safer.
	Quote, if we look at more of a preventative campaign as opposed to an enabling campaign, I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances.
	Dependable on these substances.
	There you go.
	You know what?
	I know that we laugh, but actually based.
	So what this guy is saying is like free housing, like universal housing, getting people off the streets, universal basic income, you know, health care, a not for profit health care system.
	So people don't get addicted to prescription drugs to begin with, which is one of the the law.
	Largest ways people get funneled into addiction in the United States.
	Uh, no, based.
	And you guys are fucked up for laughing at that.
	That's definitely what he meant.
	Yeah.
	Nothing else.
	There's no way, there's no way he meant like, uh, you know, every, every like on-arm person I gunned down never uses crack again.
	Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.
	That's 100% success rate.
	When he talks about, like, hey, let's funnel this into more preventative care, by which I mean, like, giving us all anti-personnel devices, because, you know, a smoldering corpse can't pick up a crack pipe.
	True.
	That's so good.
	I love the fucking cop concern trolling about like, let's get to the root of crime.
	You know, let's get to the root of crime.
	Let's have more D.A.R.E.
	programs.
	Which means give us more money to put people in prison.
	That's what that means.
	It's so funny to have some hotdog-necked fucking idiot named Clyde Boatwright just be like, let's keep doing what we're doing.
	It's going great.
	Yeah, Sergeant Boatwright, it's going fucking great already, what we've been doing.
	You just like cracking the skulls and fucking overloading, fucking throwing bodies on top of bodies in the morgue and in the prison.
	It's working fantastic, man.
	Yeah, let's keep doing that.
	You're right.
	Let's not try anything different that's proven to work elsewhere.
	No, let's make sure people who are dependable on these substances are punished effectively.
	Great job, man.
	Well, see, those communities where these types of programs work, you know, over and over again, Those societies are homogeneous, okay?
	Oh God.
	It doesn't work in a melting pot like America.
	Oh God.
	Marcus, I think you're a homogeneous dude.
	Oh my god, you've been owned by Marcus!
	I can't tell if he's been owned or flirted with.
	Yeah, a little from Callum A, a little from Alex.
	You know what I like, I appreciate it.
	You can't see it, podcast listener, but Alex seductively swirled and drank his glass right after he said that to Marcus.
	No mistakes, no accidents, no accidents here.
	You know what sucks about what Mark has just said though is like that that it's funny that they're like they led with like the racial equity thing and stuff but then they couldn't even find a picture of a black guy smoking a crack pipe.
	They found a white guy smoking a tobacco pipe for their little infographic.
	I think that they started with like a black guy smoking a crack pipe and like it got to the final thing of editing and they're like what?
	Relax.
	They were like, no, no, no.
	Relax.
	Dog whistle.
	Dog whistle.
	In the public domain.
	So I drew one.
	I drew it.
	Here you go.
	Here's a photo, a picture I drew of a black guy smoking crack.
	Can we use this?
	Yeah.
	You just had this laying around.
	I draw this pretty often, actually.
	That's why it's so good.
	I desperately wish they would have used Hunter Biden.
	Maybe it's just the plight of the white crack smoker needs to be brought out, right?
	It's the white crack smoker erasure that keeps me up at night.
	I will say this man's hands are fucked.
	These nails are disgusting.
	I will give him that.
	Why do you hate the working class?
	This might be a tobacco pipe.
	I hate the nail biters is what I hate.
	Yeah.
	They look chewed as fuck.
	These are some gross nubs.
	These are some gross nubs.
	No that's what I that's like I read the racial equity thing and instead of being like oh he's doing racism like I get to laugh at the racism whatever instead of that yeah I'm no I'm actually upset because the money's not gonna go to white crackheads yeah I'm mad about that part oh whoa cool I guess well I guess white crackheads don't need pipes you just smoke it out of our fist You know what would have been awesome?
	I know you haven't covered this yet, Alex.
	I don't know if you're going to, but like the Biden's administration's response to this was like, uh, actually, uh, we don't know if it's going to be spent on crack pipes.
	Uh, so, uh, this is mis- they called it misinformation.
	Yeah.
	Which is so fucked up because- That's just liberal for fake news.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	They're saying the Russians are telling you this is fake, actually.
	Well, it's okay.
	To be fair, like, This is pretty fake news.
	Biden straight up said, no, we're not doing that.
	Fuck crack users, they're not getting pipes.
	Because A, we don't actually care about addicts, so we're totally willing to throw them under the bus if it comes to an optics nightmare or whatever.
	He made it fake news.
	Yeah yeah well but also like the quote from the HHS representative never said there would be pipes right this is like a quote that's made up whole cloth because the author was like oh hmm I looked up the definition of smoking kit and Webster's Dictionary defines smoking kit as may contain a crack pipe so I'm gonna fabricate a quote but not use the guy's actual name
	That's what's funny is it keeps saying HHS spokesman it doesn't have the guy's name because there's an email exchange that's now available so you can see how this like article came to light or whatever but they knew better than to actually like cite the guy's name because that would Be like slander or whatever.
	So you it's the main point is is like, yeah, Democrats don't want this.
	They don't actually care about poor people.
	They don't actually care about addicts or whatever.
	And they just like the same thing that titillates the right wing.
	They're like, oh, we're going to deny this.
	Make sure it, you know, doesn't happen or whatever.
	And we're still going to lose in the midterms.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Instead of being like, one thing they could have fucking learned from like the Trump years or something was like, fuck it, double down.
	You're like, you know what?
	We are doing this and it's actually a good thing.
	Fuck you.
	I'm going to put Hunter is going to come out here and defend this program.
	That would be so sick.
	That would have been sick, right?
	It would have been awesome.
	I want to see him do like a commercial where he like kind of cries in the camera and talks about how like His life would have been better if they would if someone have just given him a crack pipe No, I want him fucking like going into communities with free crack pipes Yeah, and then like I don't know like Skrillex or some shit.
	I don't know what What the crackheads are listening to these days?
	but you know you just You know, like, let's make it, you know, just like, yeah, like, use, and then the wraparound services come around, you know, first the concert starts, and then the social workers come out, and then, like, you see the construction for the housing community start going up, like, it needs to be a whole thing.
	Yeah, what if Hunter was like, what's his name, like, Ronnie from The Wire?
	Like the, uh, remember the, the long haired, like white dude who hangs out outside, like the, uh, the, the, on the corners and he like helps bubbles get clean and shit on the wall.
	Like what if Hunter Biden was that guy?
	He was like, man, you ain't ready to get clean.
	Yeah.
	You ain't hit bottom.
	You know, if I had to pick like someone to go in and like be the face of this, just find like the least.
	Yeah.
	to hate the person dolly pardon that's who i'd have go out there with hunter biden yeah joe biden if you're listening today hire me i can help uh i can help you through this program uh last line last line in this article uh then let's get to responses because the responses are fantastic uh President Biden, this is the last line in the article, President Biden's son Hunter is a longtime user of crack cocaine.
	Yep, yep.
	So just trying to hammer it home in case like, in case there's like one or two right-wing readers of the Free Beacon who forgot that, who didn't click on this story explicitly because of that fact.
	There you go.
	I like that it implies that he's still using crack cocaine, too.
	He is, right now.
	He's smoking crack at home.
	Sources say that he's actually designed his own signature pipe, and that's the one they're going to buy, and that's actually the fucked up part about this.
	This is actually some sort of insider trading type stuff.
	It's not that they're going to be crack pipes, they're going to be Hunter Biden crack pipes.
	That's how stuff gets done in this country though.
	Eliminating earmarks was a mistake.
	fucked up about it.
	Only because they're nice pipes, but they're expensive.
	I don't want them spending our money that way.
	That's how stuff gets done in this country, though.
	Eliminating earmarks was a mistake.
	People need to wet their beaks.
	That's how the money flows out to communities.
	I did hear that there is a Cracked Hunter line of pipe that's supposed to be affordable.
	So.
	Eventually, eventually.
	Yeah, he's teaming up with Kmart to do a crack pipe that's more affordable for everybody.
	Dave Chappelle came out against the affordable crack pipes though.
	He said Pyrex, I will take my 65 million elsewhere if you do it.
	Uh so I saw this guy this guy was uh spamming his own memes into uh local news comments.
	Hell yeah.
	He's just like me though.
	His uh his name his page is called Trumpy McTrumpface.
	Hell yeah.
	And if you're looking at that it's like okay is this like Is this like a half-brained Lib page, or is this a half-brained pro-Trump page?
	And it's the latter, but it is called Trumpy McTrumpface.
	And he shared a meme that's that, you know, two panels, top and bottom, and it's the school bus driving onto the train tracks.
	I don't know who thinks that this meme is going to go any differently, right?
	Like, because the bottom panel is the school bus gets hit by the train, and it's like, well, you shouldn't have driven on the train tracks with the fucking tr- I can see the train in the first panel, you know?
	But, uh, the school bus, you know, there's text overlaid on the school bus that says, help addicts get the dignity they deserve?
	And the bottom panel is "The train fucking hitting that school bus!
	Aw, you thought!" You know?
	Uh, and the train says, "Hand out free crack pipes." Now, what if the bus and the train are the same thing?
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, it's even- This is actually a perfect meme.
	It's just missing a lot of elements.
	Handing out free crack pipes can be the train.
	Trains are great things.
	Buses are great things.
	What they're not showing is the safety equipment that failed around the track and around the road.
	That is the issue.
	That's policing and that's capitalism.
	That's just outside of the frame of the meme.
	Yeah, the train is policing.
	Right?
	Like the train should have a giant badge on it.
	That would be accurate.
	The train should be handing out free crack pipes and that should be a good thing and it should not run people over.
	So like, hit buses.
	So yeah, this should be a good thing.
	But instead, now this is an accurate meme.
	It's funny because, so this is from like a right-wing source, right?
	Because you could like, if you gave an extremely charitable, you know, it doesn't even have to be that charitable because the language, help addicts get the dignity they deserve.
	And what this right-wing person means is, yeah, throwing them into a holding cell.
	That's that's what they mean by help addicts get the dignity they deserve but if this were from a left perspective you could turn this into like a like two memes and the first way it could be the trolley problem meme and it's like oh you know let's uh uh What do you call it?
	De-stigmatize or essentially legalize all illicit substances and bring these people off the streets and out of the shadows or whatever.
	And then it's like, no, we're just gonna pretend to give out free crack pipes for a second until we get called on it and then change our minds completely or like nix that idea whatsoever.
	This guy, Trumpy McTrumpface, I love him so much.
	We're gonna cover him on the Patreon episode this week, but he's pretty active on his Facebook page, and you guys won't be able to see this, but I just wanted to play one of his videos for you guys.
	This is Trumpy McTrumpface.
	They never take into consideration all the false news, all the false information spread by, I don't know, the CDC?
	Do we need to go through all of the BS that we've heard?
	I went live just to see if I could go live.
	I just got information that I'm being banned for another three days.
	It'll probably be soon before this whole account is gone!
	Why?
	Or whatever else, you know?
	There's only one-sided discussion.
	And if you bring any sort of information, whether it be way right-wing or whatever else.
	Or whatever else, you know?
	Really quick, while you have his Facebook page up, can you do me a favor and go into his About section and tell me his relationship status?
	Goddamnit, Erika.
	Tomorrow is Valentine's Day.
	I'm sorry, the time is a-tickin'.
	And obviously he's hilarious, so... Sorry.
	Erika, you have simmed for two of the chuds so far that we've covered.
	My favorite theory from when we were on your show, Left Flank Veterans, was that giving out free crack pipes on the taxpayer's dollar makes every red-blooded American an accessory to a crime.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	So good.
	That's great.
	That's true.
	That's a great conspiracy theory.
	I love that.
	I love that so much.
	This is how they were going to get us.
	Oh, they knew.
	They knew that they would be.
	Yeah, you're gonna get pulled over by your local PD and thrown it thrown in cuffs for paying your taxes You know and it's like I I pay my taxes, you know I don't get a thank-you card from the IRS and I but I fund all these welfare queens or whatever and sure enough instead of arresting them They're gonna finally that's like yeah, I that is like the taxpayer the capital T taxpayer Orgasm.
	Climax.
	That's like when they, like, come so hard they die, is when they finally get arrested for paying their taxes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I knew it!
	I knew it!
	I wish they would just, like, all stop collectively paying their taxes, because they don't want to be accessory to the crime.
	That would be interesting.
	Yeah, oh no, I'm a conscientious objector to taxes.
	I checked the no thanks box.
	The war crimes were one thing, and I encourage those.
	Those are fine.
	The crack pipes is where I draw the line.
	The hypothetical crack pipes.
	Another thing- War crimes- Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
	I was gonna say, war crimes are international law, Erica.
	That doesn't count.
	It doesn't apply to America.
	Of course.
	How silly of me.
	Local drug paraphernalia crimes are more important, okay?
	That's enforceable.
	And the secret courts have already decided that every American will be thrown into a Guantanamo Bay for being an accessory to these horrific paraphernalia crimes.
	That's what's happening.
	So good.
	Yeah, it's such a good idea.
	It's always hard to figure out the line of like 100% comply with authority and I have the freedom to do whatever I want.
	I like one of those.
	When, no, it's very simple.
	It's very simple.
	If any authority acts upon you and you're a chud in any way that you seem, that you deem unfit or unpatriotic, that's communism.
	If authority acts upon your enemies on the left wing, Whether that be like little shit libs fucking holding a sign or like actual like people like fighting for racial equality or something.
	Doesn't matter.
	That is cool and good and they deserve it and they should have fucking listened to the authorities when they told them to do what they said.
	Yeah, that government that I hate, well, they told a black woman that she was allowed to vote, so she voted, but turns out the government was wrong, so they put the black woman in prison for six years, which I think is good.
	I think it's good that the government punished a citizen for being wrong, for the government making a mistake.
	I love that as a right-wing, you know, top-down sort of hierarchy guy.
	I think that's cool.
	I saw actually this video of like the Freedom, Freedom Convoy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The Fash Convoy.
	That's what I was thinking of too.
	In Canada.
	And that's where it's like they're like arguing, trying to get this guy to move his car.
	And like, it's unsafe.
	You know, it's your car is here and it's in an unsafe location this dude's like, well, You're now telling me to do something?
	Yeah.
	You know?
	Hell yeah.
	Obviously, there's an issue, right?
	Like, how do the people parked in the middle of the street blocking everyone else and then telling, no, this one car is the issue.
	Like, how do you decide?
	Can I live?
	I love also, I love the theory that, yeah, the government's trying to get everybody addicted to crack so they can, like, more easily control them, or so they will be beholden to the Democrat Party, or whatever, and it's like, yeah, you know what a huge voting block is?
	You know, huge, like, contingent voters?
	And they definitely like all organize and make sure to get to the polls together.
	Our crack users, people who are addicted to crack and other illicit substances.
	Famous for voting in huge numbers.
	No, it's true.
	I mean, I don't know if you're watching the Super Bowl like I am.
	I'm streaming it.
	I'm watching it right now.
	It seems like every other commercial is catering to crack users.
	I feel like every other commercial is like, they have inner crack using relationships, which I think is like, I don't need to put it in my face.
	It's disgusting, you know?
	One time I counted.
	I've never been more excited to get my crack pipe in the mail.
	I saw one commercial out of ten that had a non-crack user in it.
	It was crazy.
	And what's crazy is if you were a real fan of football, fake fan, you would know that it's the halftime show right now.
	And Snoop Dogg is on right now, and he smokes weed.
	And that's essentially crack, if you think about it, in my mind.
	And so if you realize this is all just a messaging campaign, preparing us.
	For all of us becoming addicted to crack.
	So congratulations everyone, we've made it.
	Actually, all listeners know that I am a real football fan, and I only watch college football, which is why I'm not watching this.
	Because I only watch college football, because I'm a real fan.
	Yeah, you only want to see the... No, I don't actually believe that.
	I just knew that's kind of how you felt.
	You only want to see the unpaid athletes.
	I only want to see the unpaid athletes.
	I like it when they're sadder.
	I like it when they're struggling.
	I like when I can tell That they're having a hard time paying their cell phone bill right now.
	I think that it makes it... I'm really worried.
	I'm actually worried about the impact of the crack pipes to the NCAA.
	Because if their moms are just getting free crack pipes, why are they going to show up to play for free?
	It's uh it's really it's sad times we live in right now and all that's getting me through this story is just looking at that man with his fish.
	This next sort of theory about things is uh is like my second or third uh favorite theory when it comes to this this news item and this is Brian L Wright who suggests it just because his son Hunter is addicted to drugs so start this to cover up the Biden family.
	Yeah, this is what's gonna do it.
	You have to get everyone crack-piped so no one notices Hunter.
	That's how that works.
	There's two ways I think he could mean this, and it's like, get everybody addicted to crack so that Hunter doesn't look so bad in comparison, right?
	And that's a big project, but I think, hey, we got a pretty big government, right?
	They could probably do it.
	Well, they could be trying to kill everyone to look like his other son.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's a good point!
	The other one is, just like, flood the streets with crack pipes so no intrepid journalist could possibly find a crack pipe with Hunter Biden's fingerprints on it.
	That's smart.
	That's real smart.
	It's been in front of us the entire time, and we've been ignoring it.
	I see this as, this is like the peeing your pants is the coolest, actually, of doing crack, right?
	Is it not?
	Yeah if Hunter Biden's like if smoking crack is the coolest consider me Miles Davis you know and like everyone else has to get has to like oh I guess I will smoke crack because the government's giving it for free and I want to be cool like Hunter.
	I just think the story overall was just uh it was it was opioid erasure um as someone from the Rust Belt um It's not having the representation that we want.
	Because what's funny is like, and the reason why they're focusing specifically on the crack pipe, we all are not going to be surprised, it's racism.
	Yeah.
	Because when people think crack, they think black people, right?
	They're ignoring that there's entirely, like, insanely more people that do heroin.
	Heroin and painkillers.
	Like, the same people that are in the comment section have to take, like, fucking, like, five Percocet to go to sleep and not beat the shit out of their wife first.
	Like, that's what I mean.
	It's like, oh, I'm only taking, you know, these are different somehow.
	That's why they focus on them.
	That's why it's ridiculous that people are Like, so up in arms about it.
	And that's where Saki, when she was asked about this in the White House press briefing, she straight up switched it.
	You know, because they bring up the crack pipes and she was like, well, this is actually a response to the opioid epidemic, right?
	And saying, no, don't think black people, think white people when you talk about problems and dealing with addiction and everything like that.
	And so that's the thing.
	If this happens, it will be done so in a way that completely negates any other addiction other than the opioid issue from the past few decades.
	And yeah, completely ignore the history of the, like, government and all those things.
	If it does happen at all, in which case, you know, like you said, like the fact that it has come to this point and this type of fervor and all that type of shit, they're going to just completely X this shit out of whatever, you know, and not even try and touch it.
	Because that's one thing that the Biden administration and Democrats in general care about is not what's real, but what are the headlines that Republicans are able to I mean, the opioid crisis is for them easy to overlook because the only paraphernalia you really need to take pills is clean water, and that's not the government's forte.
	They're not going to provide clean water to every American.
	That's hard to do.
	Crack pipes we can do.
	As an expert in being around a whole bunch of people on way too many painkillers here in good old Indiana, Um, the other thing you need is health insurance.
	That's why it's ignored, and that's why so many of the exact same type of person got addicted to opioids in the 2010s-ish, was literally going to the doctor getting painkillers, but they're not going to address that.
	That's never going to be mentioned in a reasonable way, because They take so much money in from them.
	And so it's ignoring everything on every side.
	And they're just trying to throw something at it.
	They won't go through with it.
	No one will actually have their material conditions addressed.
	But the right will pretend like everyone just got crack pipes in the mail.
	And so we lose.
	No one wins.
	And again, Democrats roll over.
	And this is what happens over and over and over again.
	Yeah that's the thing is that the narrative will be Biden gave crack pipes to every single town and city in America and look what happened people are still really poor and suffering and not you know and are still like contracting preventable diseases and everything therefore that was a policy failure Uh, so yeah, let's, uh, again, like, start bussing them into the desert, or whatever.
	Like, that's... Well, if you, if you just think about it, masks are actually just the first stage of crack pipes.
	Yeah, the final variant is called crack.
	Yeah.
	Um...
	Okay, just a couple more comments and then we need to move on to the next topic, but I loved this one from Nicole who said, as a child that was subjected to the D.A.R.E.
	program in public schools, I can assure you government-funded drug programs are not effective.
	That's such a bummer.
	I remember the D.A.R.E.
	assembly.
	I also remember doing drugs.
	So, this is totally a waste.
	She's absolutely right, though.
	It's proven that, like, D.A.R.E.
	My question, though, is, like, was their D.A.R.E.
	program, like, supposed to hand out, like, some rolling papers that they didn't get to her?
	We tried abstinence only, and I still got pregnant.
	Why are we trying to do comprehensive sex ed?
	We all know that this is just a- Yeah, why are you trying to hand out condoms?
	What the fuck is wrong with you?
	I, uh, I don't know how old everyone is here.
	I'm assuming you guys are in your mid-40s, early-50s, maybe.
	I don't know.
	Me, I'm only 19.
	Mid-50s, early-60s, yeah.
	But, did you guys take the D.A.R.E.
	pledge?
	No, I took pledges to Christ.
	Do you guys have that?
	Several times.
	Oh, well, me too.
	I took a chastity pledge, which I haven't broken.
	I took a pledge to the flag and allegiance to it every day.
	I took the pledge with the D.A.R.E.
	program.
	The first time I did a line at Coke, I was wearing a D.A.R.E.
	t-shirt.
	And so she's right.
	She is right.
	Well, the D.A.R.E.
	program handed out the Coke.
	You had a successful D.A.R.E.
	program.
	I was actually five.
	I was five years old.
	I took notes during D.A.R.E.
	because they were telling me about drugs that I thought I might want to try.
	Exactly.
	It was like a menu.
	Like they were handing it to me and they're like, here are all the drugs.
	You don't even know about kids.
	Like this, this one, this drug will make you make you hear colors.
	And I'm like, that sounds awesome.
	I just love like, what does she think in her mind?
	Like, okay, so I went to, I, uh, you know, I took the D.A.R.E.
	pledge.
	I went through the D.A.R.E.
	program and I still did drugs.
	It had the opposite effect on me.
	Does she think like giving out this government program, giving out crack pipes?
	Well, that's going to get people to stop using crack.
	Make up your mind, government.
	You can't do anything right here.
	Learn the lesson from yourself.
	People do fucking drugs.
	That's what's so funny.
	This program that tried to stop me from doing drugs didn't work at all.
	Therefore, I'm very skeptical of the program that facilitates clean drug usage.
	That is the thing is like at no point in school were you ever taught like drugs are not the problem it's it's the impact that being high or needing to be high on the rest of your life is the problem like plenty of people I I know like social crack users Who are doing much better in their lives than I am.
	And they use crack regularly.
	It's not the drug that's the problem.
	It's everything that comes along with it.
	You're never taught that.
	You're just taught like it's bad.
	Do you remember those commercials from the early 2000's where they would show someone laying flat on a couch?
	Because they did drugs and they were like, don't be like this person.
	The day that I saw that bitch deflated on the couch, I knew I needed to figure out what the fuck she was doing because I wanted to do it.
	So I had to do the exact opposite.
	My favorite anti-drug commercial was the one where, uh, that person's dog tries to shame them.
	They're like, I don't like you when you're high.
	And it's like, you're a dog.
	You love me when I'm high.
	I will take you back to the fucking pound.
	Get out of here.
	Scat!
	You're not yourself.
	You don't smell like you.
	You're not yourself when you're high.
	You're not yourself when you're high.
	You're actually cooler.
	I don't know if I know if it's clear, but... No, I always knew that I could do drugs because, like, the guy I just watched tear a phone book in half once did drugs, so... If I can do drugs and then tear a phone book in half later on in life, we're gonna be fine.
	Do I have to be hooked on meth for ten years, then get the yo-yo skills?
	Is that how it works?
	That's, yeah, I mean, so as Erica had pointed out, you know, I'm, I'm 128 years old.
	Okay.
	So when I was in my youth, you know, jazz was really cooking up, you know, and they're trying to say drugs are bad.
	A lot of marijuana.
	But all my favorite jazz musicians were smoking weed and they were absolutely crushing it up on stage.
	And so it didn't make sense.
	Those two things of like, you're just going to melt into it.
	No, you're going to fucking rip some tasty licks.
	That's what's going to happen.
	You're not going to melt into the couch.
	You're going to sit in the pocket for like 12 minutes.
	It's going to be great.
	Yeah, you're going to fucking grab a guitar and face melt.
	That's what you're going to do.
	You're one of the few generations that remembers the good old days of not just like, like mid weed, brick weed, but you had like mid heroin.
	You had like, you had like mellow, you had like mellow stuff.
	Yeah.
	So that's, you know, those are the good old days.
	Today that shit's all mixed with fent and shit.
	It's way too strong.
	It's way too strong now.
	It's way too strong what they got nowadays.
	Before we get to the last response, it's just, this is like a microcosm of what we were talking about before about like Skepticism of the government in general, like, how that is a right-wing project, right?
	It's a right-wing project to, like, make the government a boogeyman, right?
	I mean, since Ronald Reagan, since before that, um...
	This person is like, the government tried to keep me from smoking weed, therefore I don't trust the government anymore, even when they're now like, taking a different approach.
	Right?
	This is like the perfect example of why it's great to spend, yeah, 10, 20, 30, 40 years propagandizing against the idea of the government.
	Because it doesn't matter that the government changed tax, you know, and we're being charitable to the Biden administration right now and saying they're actually taking a harm reduction approach, which, you know, they're throwing a drop in the bucket towards it.
	Right.
	But this person is like, oh, no, I don't I don't believe the government's going to be good at helping people have clean pipes or whatever.
	Yeah.
	That's actually a famous right wing meme, too, is like, The scariest thing you can hear is someone coming to your door saying, hello, I'm here from the government, I'm here to help you.
	Yeah, that's a Ronald Reagan quote.
	Yes, and that's what they're going for.
	Kevin Sorbo, which, you know, watching Hercules, the legendary journey, you know, it's never going to be the same.
	But, uh, no, this fucking asshole says, hey, if vaccines are free and they're supposed to be lifesaving, why isn't insulin free?
	Why isn't all, you know, and it's like, yes, motherfucker.
	And this is the problem, though, when you, you know, have a for profit health care system that leads to all of these other ills.
	People build in a mistrust, you know, and even like Obama, the ACA, like it's like a reiteration of this.
	You can't call something affordable when the prices have increased every single year that it's been implemented.
	Well that thing about the Kevin Sorbo quote is like yeah it's it's pernicious because it like and then it's the next comment I want to read all of it but it is like why are you giving out free crack pipes when you could be given out free insulin or cancer treatment or this that and the other right and it's like The Kevin Sorbo quote is great because it's, yeah, why are the vaccines free and insulin isn't, right?
	Or cancer treatment isn't.
	And it's because, like, the reason that quote exists, the reason that line of thought exists is because, yeah, we're totally, like, Void of any sort of material analysis or a critique of a coherent critique of capitalism, right?
	Because the answer to his question is very simple.
	The answer is more people are going to get and die of coronavirus Then are going to die of diabetes, then are going to die of cancer, right?
	And the economic system that we have incentivizes even for-profit companies to provide a free vaccine so that their employees can continue coming to work.
	Creating, making, and serving the people who actually, you know, have the money to allow the vaccine to be distributed, right?
	And if you have no understanding of capitalism or like the material conditions that create these relationships, that create these incentives for people, Then you just have a conspiracy theory.
	You just have, why is this thing free and this thing isn't free?
	Oh, well, I know I don't like Big Pharma, so when they give me something for free, it's because they're trying to, like, call the white population.
	That's the best answer I have, because I have absolutely no idea about, like, the relationship of production.
	I think that we just need to make things like diabetes and heart disease contagious, so that way, they might actually do, because then we won't be able to go to work, you know, because we're worried about catching it when we're at work.
	If we make all diseases contagious, then they'll have to do vaccines and shit and give us healthcare for them, right?
	I'm sure Fauci's working on that right now.
	Gain of function!
	It sucks because they are contagious, but they're just spread through economics.
	Right, exactly.
	Oh no, I touched a poor and now my house is worth less.
	I'm gonna slip into poverty.
	Dave Chappelle quote again?
	Okay, let's move on to our next topic here, which is, this is an article from the Daily Wire.
	Senate candidate burns confederate flag in new political ad.
	I thought this one would be actually good to talk about during Black History Month.
	Unlike the fake, oh, Biden gives out crack to black people during Black History Month.
	He's the racist.
	This one's actually good.
	This is a good story that we're going to sort of look through the lens of Daily Wire at, okay?
	Louisiana Democratic candidate for U.S.
	Senate Gary Chambers released a new political ad on Wednesday that shows him burning a Confederate flag and condemning, quote, restrictive voting laws.
	The video, called, quote, Scars and Bars, Portrays Chambers in a camouflage jacket as he hangs a Confederate flag on a clothesline and sets it on fire with a lighter while reciting a portion of the Declaration of Independence.
	Quote, the attacks against black people are right to vote and participate in this democracy are methodical, Chambers said in the video.
	Quote, our system isn't broken.
	It's designed to do exactly what it's doing, which is producing measurable inequality, he added.
	1 in 13 black Americans are deprived of the right to vote.
	1 in 9 black Americans do not have health insurance.
	1 in 3 black children live in poverty, the ad stated.
	I love that the ad stated.
	Like not like, oh these are facts that he's deriving from these various sources.
	Me as like a news outlet, I'm just going to conveniently not corroborate the factual data of the person I'm like slandering.
	How as a news organization do you expect us to figure that out?
	Well, the best way to do it is just imply that they're dupious claims, I guess.
	Yeah, totally.
	By just calling it an ad.
	Not even saying, quoting him, but saying the ad stated.
	Because you can't trust an ad.
	It's so good, it's the exact opposite of the previous article we just had.
	Which was a news outlet fabricating a quote that didn't actually exist in order to prove their made-up point.
	This is a news agency directly quoting somebody in order to discredit the factual evidence that that person is relaying.
	It's amazing.
	It's great.
	It's great.
	You have to kind of admire it, frankly.
	It's just like, yeah, they're doing it.
	They're really going for it.
	It's working, too.
	Okay, quote, it's time to burn what remains of the Confederacy down, Chambers said near the end of the video.
	Yeah, I would say it's about, yeah, 150 years coming.
	Or 200 years, however long.
	Yeah, Sherman should have kept going.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	It's like one of the greatest tragedies in American history is that there wasn't a total war waged on these motherfuckers.
	I, admittedly, I don't participate much with electoral politics anymore.
	I also live in Indiana where it's just like fucking oh my god it's so bad here with electoral.
	I like his ads.
	Whoever the fuck is doing his ads are doing a great job.
	They're doing a great job.
	The editing is great.
	The framing is great.
	He was, like, quoting the Declaration.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, he did the things that, like, people, a lot of people that, like, vote are gonna be into.
	Liberals are gonna eat that up, that ad, and I think that it's a right call doing that anyway because it helps get attention from, like, things like the Daily Wire.
	Um, like, it's free press.
	I mean, it's a huge thing.
	It's the reason, it's one of the reasons why AOC will not lose an election.
	No matter how much, it's because, like, With elections and it's the same thing with like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	She has so much shit written and covered about her.
	Everyone knows her.
	Everyone hears her name.
	It's the same idea.
	He gets a lot of fundraising off of these videos because like liberals especially northern liberals with lots of money who like really hate the confederacy.
	You know what I mean?
	They're like oh fuck yeah and like they'll give money which helps him with his ground game.
	I think it's a good idea overall.
	I don't know much about his district or if he'll be able to win or like, because I think he ran before.
	I think he ran in 2020.
	I believe this is a federal Senate.
	He's running against Rand Paul.
	He's Rand Paul's opponent.
	No, he's running against a Kennedy.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, Joe Kennedy.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	My bad.
	My bad.
	And anyone that is upset by that ad probably wouldn't vote for him anyway, merely off the fact he's black.
	You know what I mean?
	So I think it's a good idea.
	I don't know if we actually came out and said it, but right here in this article, the video is not the first controversial message from Chambers.
	Last month, this same Senate candidate released an ad that featured him smoking marijuana.
	Chambers was featured in the commercial that showed him sitting in an open field and lighting up, taking multiple puffs, taking in multiple puffs, as he spoke in his video entitled 37 Seconds.
	And it's titled that because it's like, Every 37 seconds, somebody is arrested for a marijuana charge.
	Quote, I hope this ad works not only to destigmatize the use of marijuana, but it also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug and forgive those who are arrested due to the outdated ideology, Chambers wrote in a statement alongside the video.
	So this is what you're talking about, Erica, is that this guy is like Really utilizing the platform that he has, and it's like, a Democrat in Louisiana, probably not going to get elected, so why bother running?
	Well, this is why you would run for a Democratic office in Louisiana, to give people a genuine alternative.
	A genuine alternative to, you know, and I don't know his other policies, I don't, like you Erica, I don't pay a lot of attention to...
	I looked into some of it with him because I was curious when I saw like the weed smoking one.
	He says he's an entrepreneur, which is a red flag for me.
	He is still a capitalist.
	But other than that... Let's get closer to social democrat.
	This is good.
	This is good for the US Senate.
	This is good stuff.
	And Louisiana.
	Yeah.
	And like the Senate is extremely...
	conservative, especially compared to the House, pretty consistently. - Compared to the overall US population. - Yeah, like seriously.
	And so the fact he's running in Louisiana as a black man, and he's running on these policies I mean like he has to do things like that.
	You can't go in there with like... It's not even like he has to.
	It's like good on him for using that platform to do something good.
	Like to do something that's like, you know, I guess shocking to like smoke weed in a campaign video or whatever.
	But it's like...
	That's good.
	That is like a Democrat who takes the lesson from the Trump era of politics, which is own what you believe in.
	If you believe in harm reduction, fucking own it.
	If you believe in weed legalization, own it.
	If you believe in an end to Jim Crow era, fucking burn a confederate flag and you're, you know, you're participating in electoral politics already, which is kind of like nerd shit.
	You might as well do something like a little outrageous with it.
	Do something fucking cool and one so as the resident like nerd shit guy which you know i'll out myself like as a former congressional staffer so like i left for a reason right but now at the end of the day um yeah at second rates and like honestly like i'm a big fan of that in in in in for people who are actually like you know steeped in leftism or whatever
	um i believe you know in the united states since most americans any americans that are steeped in any type of politics are Are going to electoral politics for any type of hope that something will change their material conditions.
	So on that note, I think there's a reason for leftists to get involved.
	I think that growing, or at least going forward, it needs to be more on contingent shit.
	And I do think that it's not requiring, hey, this person states they're a socialist.
	I think it's very easy.
	for people to influence these type of campaigns because they are very much a blank slate.
	I don't, you know, Gary Chambers actually became very famous just early, went viral.
	Hey, Connie, you know, and he's talking about how the- Oh, that was him?
	Yeah, the local reps weren't paying attention.
	They weren't paying attention during the meeting.
	Yep.
	Yeah, during the meeting.
	And that's literally all it has to take.
	Well and that's yeah and that's where though it's like you could see that this man cares about his community.
	Yes.
	But and then and as someone as someone who has talked to multiple you know probably about at least a dozen like progressive and or left candidates not you know people there there's a lot that can be pushed there and like I'm not saying hey go uh donate all your money and all that type of stuff Actually, you engage a little bit of your time into some of these campaigns, voice your opinion.
	It's not just saying, I'm not worried about workers' wages, I'm worried about workers getting decision-making power within their companies.
	You know, I'm not so worried about this type of, or even just legalizing cannabis.
	Like, what's your stance on everything?
	What's your stance on dismantling the war on drugs and this prison industrial complex?
	You know, they are able to listen because they are trying to catch fire.
	And so that's the only way it was like, if you're in Louisiana right now, there's probably not a better chance, you know, for Gary, other than Gary Chambers, to just break up the establishment, you know.
	And so it's not even just saying, oh hey, you vote anybody in, it's going to be the end.
	But there are some things, there are some tactics that can be utilized to start breaking up the stranglehold.
	The other reason I like candidates like coming out doing outrageous things like this you know on the like centrist left tip or whatever is because it provides outrageous responses from the right wing.
	So when it's like yeah precious content when it's when it's something like this that is yeah a black dude running for senate burns a confederate flag in his campaign video When it's a segment like this for the show, sometimes it gets hard to pick which reaction to lead off with.
	Right.
	So I just kind of had to like, you know, pick one at random because here Dennis Lovingood says, FRUIT CAKE!
	Yep.
	Bring it back.
	Bring it back.
	I don't know if he means like, oh, he's gay.
	He's a gay guy for burning the American flag.
	Or I think he just means like... Only gay people burn Confederate flags.
	Yeah.
	No, he would say like, no, I'm not being homophobic.
	It's not about a gay thing.
	He might be a gay thing.
	I don't know about all that.
	But I'm saying he's a little off.
	He's a little weird.
	He's a little weird.
	Fruitcake used to mean like yeah somebody who's who's kooky or whatever but if you're familiar with California which is the land of fruits and nuts.
	You know what I mean?
	It's a famous right-wing phrase.
	I mean the fruits there that's doing the the homophobic work you know the nuts is doing the uh what ableism or uh That's, that's doing that, the crazy pants stuff.
	I want to point out that Tony's wearing a cave homo shirt in California right now.
	It's true.
	While you're pointing this out, the land of fruit and nuts.
	And like the real, the unsung, the unsung hero is the buttholes.
	All of the buttholes.
	What?
	Those are the unsung heroes.
	What if Dennis is actually responding to the, uh, weed smoking.
	Yeah.
	And just offering up a delicious treat to eat after.
	Or, like a vape, a vape, a vape flavor.
	He was making a grocery store click list and accidentally typed that into his Facebook.
	I think that you guys are looking at through a bigoted lens.
	You guys, Dennis Lovingood could be like, he could be an ally.
	Maybe he's like, yes, fruitcake!
	Like, you don't know!
	Okay, this is why I'm gonna shatter your worldview here, Erica.
	No.
	Because I'm giving Dennis Lovingood the credit, the benefit of the doubt.
	This seems like a learned man.
	This seems like a man who pays attention to spelling and grammar.
	Somebody who knows that the actual edible item, the dish, the fruitcake, is one word.
	Here in this comment, he's saying, Fruit!
	Space!
	Cake!
	He means something very deliberate.
	I'm actually more on board with his post-blunt treats.
	I mean, I'm not a fruitcake guy, but I'm very much into fruit and or cake.
	Sure.
	And so... As the oppressed bisexual of Left Link Veterans... Welcome to Minion Death Cult, Erica.
	I will let everyone here know that you can sleep tight tonight knowing that Dennis is not being homophobic.
	He just likes fruitcake.
	So don't worry everyone.
	I think Dennis is being homophobic and that's like fun.
	He's like adding some spice into the mix.
	I think that it's heritage, not hate.
	So, sorry.
	Get over it.
	Can I point out, too, that Dennis definitely fucks.
	His last name is Loving Good.
	You know he's gonna fuck you.
	And he wears hats.
	He's advertising it.
	And he wears full-brimmed hats.
	So, Curtis Callahan says, So, again, you have to like, I feel like sometimes I get caught up in the show and I'm like, oh, Curtis Callahan's responding to Dennis Lovingood because I said the comment after that, but it's like, no.
	Okay, we have to reframe this.
	Curtis Callahan is responding to the, the, the Bernan Senator, you know, uh, Chambers here.
	Curtis Callahan says, Why?
	It's better than BLM or rainbow flags, comma, burn one, comma, burn them all.
	What do you think he thinks the BLM flag is?
	Oh, he knows.
	It probably is just a flag that says Black Lives Matter on it, right?
	Yeah.
	He's not thinking anything further than that.
	He thinks it's like one of the, it's like the weed flag you buy at Windjammer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Or just like a fist, the black power fist or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I like this.
	Let's burn all the flags.
	No nationalism.
	Nothing.
	All one people.
	Personally, I'm going to be a hater for a second.
	I don't like the pride flag.
	I never have.
	The rainbow, it's because there's just too many colors.
	It's too bright.
	It's overbearing.
	I think that we need to turn it beige.
	That's just me.
	I'll take it up at the next LGBTQIA+.
	A bisexual would say this about the LGBT flag.
	Just make it all beige, Erika.
	I'm proposing more of a gradient of flesh tones with an occasional freckle.
	We have the technology to print this pretty easily.
	It can be woven.
	As a bisexual white woman, I just want the flag to be more annoying.
	To be really representative of all of us.
	I think the LGBT flag should just be the, instead of the colors, it'll just be that picture of all the titties that Adidas posted on Twitter the other day.
	So I just realized this Dick because you have the Palestinian flag behind you right now.
	I was gonna say I like the new LGBTQIA plus whatever flag that has like the triangle coming from the left right and it's like it includes like skin gradients or whatever.
	I think that that's like more aesthetically Like pleasing than just a rainbow flag or whatever.
	Agreed.
	I think it's like it looks cooler, it looks better, but then also is it referencing the Palestinian flag?
	Is that like where they were inspired from?
	Because we have a neighbor who has the queer flag and a Palestinian flag and they're like, you know, the neighbors we exchanged Christmas cards with and shit.
	I wonder if that's like explicitly a reference to the Palestinian flag.
	I never thought about that before.
	It might be.
	I mean, I think it's like, I think it's in other flags too though.
	So it might not just be the Palestinian.
	I think it's like a common flag thing to do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's like a symbol that like, yeah, it helps break it up.
	Like you said, it's just kind of boring to just have like bars, right?
	You got like stars and bars for the United States flag.
	OG classic flag.
	There is like a phenomenon that like there's just going to be no more good flags because we've been so confined by the concepts and ideas of flags that we're just probably not going to do any more good flags and now it only seeks to obligate symbolism at this point with newer flags.
	Yeah.
	These are the things that keep me up at night.
	Curtis looks great.
	So sometimes we get flack on the show.
	Not flack, but we'll talk about somebody's profile picture and we'll be fascinated by it.
	It's a great profile picture.
	And then I'll post it and people will be like, This is better than I could have possibly imagined listening to you guys talk about it, right?
	And it's like, at some point it feels like that's like a cut against our podcasting, like how, but it's like, I think it's impossible.
	Like how do you convey through an auditory medium what Curtis Callahan looks like?
	I can do a good job.
	He's hot.
	End of story.
	Erika, stop.
	We gotta end this pandemic for you.
	We gotta- this pandemic has to end for you.
	I think- I don't know if you- Dude, I don't know if you know what- This is an attack on mothers everywhere.
	I don't know if you know what bisexual means, Erika.
	I think you might think it means something different.
	Fucking annoying.
	She thinks it means horny.
	Do you think it means you like hot guys and ugly guys?
	Is that what you think it means?
	I- I only like ugly men that are mean to me and every woman.
	So that's it.
	Alright, alright.
	That makes sense.
	Sorry, Curtis Callahan.
	He looks like, you know, 75 or so.
	The photograph he's chosen for his profile picture is him in an armchair, chin tucked into his chest, and I will say that it looks like he would be drooling out of the side of his mouth if he didn't have a cigar soaking up the saliva.
	Yeah, that has dyed his white mustache yellowish in the perfect way.
	My favorite element of this picture, besides the name badges, is the way the light shines through the back of the arch of the hair that doesn't connect the comb over.
	It's beautiful.
	It's beautiful.
	He's an angel.
	It's a halo.
	I think you guys are missing the most important part of this picture.
	Do you guys see on what would be his right side, it's to the left of us, that is a Chevrolet pin.
	That is a Chevrolet brand pin.
	Is it?
	It is.
	The wings with the wheel there, that's a Chevy.
	Yeah.
	I was actually kind of happy.
	It's nice cultured.
	I couldn't tell or read any of the badges because I was like 100% sure it was just gonna be fat shit.
	Now I think this guy's like a mechanic.
	We're gonna send him a friend request on Facebook.
	But it also reminds me of just Dr. Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog.
	Oh shit, you're right.
	Yeah, Robotnik vibes, you're right.
	Yeah, if he had like the squiggly hair coming out the sides as opposed to just the comb over, he'd be good.
	Yeah, which there's a little bit of stuff that could just be hair coming out of his ears.
	But it does seem to flare out a little bit, you know?
	I don't know if he just came from a trim.
	I like the classic grandma's afghan thrown over the back of the armchair that he's sitting in as well.
	Ethel's been making them for years, ever since she retired from the local bank.
	Like a thing that objectively makes the armchair worse, like more itchy and uncomfortable, but every grandma fucking just throws it over there like, oh, this is in case you get cold.
	And I'm like, I'd rather die than put this over my head.
	Uh, so I'll post this guy's photo on our Twitter, uh, in the Facebook group, Minion Death Commandos, maybe on the Instagram too if I remember to do that.
	Uh, worth seeing for sure.
	Um, he also, I was looking at his profile, his name is Curtis with two S's.
	Curtis Callahan, and there was like somebody commenting on the photo that I have right here, his profile picture, that was like, hello Curtis, my name is Ethel!
	You know, or whatever, and he was like, it's Curtis!
	With two S's.
	Oh.
	That was a lively exchange between them.
	Okay, moving on.
	Do you think he's leaning on the SS thing?
	Is that what's happening?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	Maybe he owns the name Curtis, he forgot the apostrophe.
	Like whatever he's got on his collars, he's got little gold things.
	That's scary.
	That says SS.
	He's got two S's.
	We could do a whole ep on just this picture.
	Nazis drove Fords though.
	We gotta move on to golfer 33890 from the Daily Wire comments section, who also has an important take here on, uh, yeah, the, uh, the Vernon, the Confederate flag Vernon Senate candidate, right?
	Uh, golfer 33890 says, what about the tens of millions of Caucasian people who were denied the right to vote in the last presidential election when Biden and the Democrats nullified their votes?
	You gotta get these numbers under control.
	Tens of millions is the number you're gonna pick here?
	Just say what about the Caucasian people.
	Don't throw a number in there.
	That's what they mean.
	They're always talking about the silent majority.
	They mean the tens of millions of CAUCASIAN VOTERS who had their ballots thrown in the trash can.
	There's probably a reason I don't know this stuff.
	That's fucked.
	I think it's true.
	I think this is right, though.
	We're talking about disenfranchising black voters just because they committed a felony when they were 16 and can't vote for life or whatever.
	What about everybody who voted for Trump and then their votes were shredded live on Twitter?
	I saw it happen.
	I will say, Illinois didn't have a recount like Arizona did, so I don't think we know for a fact of anything, actually.
	To me it's hilarious that they're like, the voters that couldn't vote, and it's like in Louisiana.
	Louisiana, yeah.
	That went overwhelmingly to Trump.
	Are you saying that... It could have went harder.
	It could have went harder.
	I think maybe he means the aborted babies that would have voted for Trump.
	That's honestly what it's all about.
	That's really what it's all about.
	At the end of the day, it's those abortive babies.
	I mean, if you remember, though, just remember that it wouldn't have mattered if Trump won.
	He still would have said, so many votes were stolen for me.
	I should have won by a much larger margin.
	He did that in 2016.
	He's the first guy to win a presidential election and then say he was cheated.
	Well, because he didn't win the Electoral College, which he rightfully recognized.
	No, the popular vote.
	He did win the Electoral College.
	You wouldn't know that if you were a policy expert like me.
	I know there's a difference between the two.
	I was still a liberal in 2016.
	That was the worst day of my life when Trump won.
	I was still super lib-pilled every now and then, and no one else do this.
	If you do this, I'll find you.
	I'll go back into my internet history and I'll see what I was posting before then.
	Rachel Maddow.
	And it was unironically, I was just like sharing videos of like, fucking Elizabeth Warren.
	I'm just like, yes, get his ass Queen.
	And then like when Trump got elected in 2016, that was the worst day of my life.
	And I would have never thought that I would be here in 2022.
	Just like Well, so it's like, it's like, yeah, what I was podcasting in 2016, I was doing a different podcast, but we did end up talking about the 2016 election.
	And yeah, my take on it was like, the only good thing about Trump getting elected is that Hillary Clinton lost.
	Like, that's like, really, like, it's not great that Trump won that election, you know?
	Why do you hate women?
	No, I just hate successful women.
	I'd like to see them taken down a peg.
	It's not that he hates women, it's that he prefers ugly men who are mean to him.
	I actually do hate women, and so I was hoping to find an ally in this conversation.
	But I did share one of my, this is more lib.
	Are you ready for this, Erica?
	This is more lib than sharing an Elizabeth Warren post.
	I came up in Facebook memories, something from like 10 years ago, I think, and it was just a post from me.
	just it was just a text post and it said Neil deGrasse Tyson is the fucking man Alex I need you you Your Black History Month assignment is to post that from Minion Death Cult.
	If you don't, then you hate black people.
	It wasn't from Minion Death Cult, but I posted it.
	I owned that.
	I said, you know, it's a big part of growing up is owning your mistakes.
	Wait, aren't you the one who radicalized Tony too?
	So you got radicalized, then you radicalized Tony.
	Yeah.
	That's how it works.
	That's how it was.
	Tony was going to Pod Save America shows while we were doing, in the early days of being genital.
	That is phrased so maliciously.
	That is phrased so maliciously.
	Tony was dating a girl who bought him tickets to go see Padme America.
	But by that time, by the time it was already there, by the time that we were going, I was already, I was much past it.
	But by that time, by the time it was already there, by the time that we were going, I was already, I was much past it.
	I was much over it.
	And I was ready and it was, and I was, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I hated on, I hated on John, John Legend and the whole time he was up there and Chris Teagan the whole time she was up there.
	I hated, I hated all the people around me, but I did go.
	That was funny.
	I remember that moment when Matt and I were like, mmm.
	Yep.
	When Pod Damn America came up, organically.
	Yeah, go ahead, Eric.
	Can I tell you the two things I posted on Facebook ten years ago today?
	Please, yes, I would love to hear them.
	I love Facebook time hop memories.
	It's great.
	It's a form of self-harm for me to go back and read.
	How fucking dumb.
	I'm going to say this one time and one time only.
	Okay.
	Good thing we're working on it.
	Obama is a fucking idiot.
	He made all these promises four years ago and the only change is in our pockets.
	I was 17.
	Oh wow.
	I was 17 and then the next post... Just open racism.
	Amazing.
	A couple hours late.
	To be fair, I was upset about the Affordable Care Act because my family had just went into bankruptcy.
	So I will...
	I just didn't know who to be mad at.
	Yeah, no, that's fair.
	No, you were right to be mad at Obama, but you only had the frame of reference of that, like, Republican.
	We used to have Bob Hope.
	Well, I had, uh, I had, um, um, my parents, like, weren't really Republican.
	They were more, like, think Libertarian.
	But like, not pedophiles.
	But the only like, uh, lens of criticizing Obama was ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and whatever.
	I shared that meme so many times.
	So good.
	But then like a few hours later, I was like, never had a Valentine before.
	Oh my god.
	Do you guys ever just read your shit and just let a fucking stab your eye?
	I wish more people would read their Facebook posts on this show.
	That's what it's for.
	Honestly, like, Barack Obama's great when you've got some girl in here telling you that everything's fancy because of him.
	And just for the record, my politics were okay, I just did not know about the internet or podcasts.
	Alright.
	It wasn't that, okay?
	No, you were lib.
	You were filthy lib.
	What?
	Obama's speechwriter?
	Hell yeah!
	Yeah, yeah, totally.
	This guy has a whole lot to say.
	I can't wait to hear about it.
	Okay, last comment here.
	Udallrox8287 says about the Senate candidate Chambers burning the Confederate flag in his campaign video.
	He says, pure genius.
	Burn the very cultural flag of the South in the South.
	No better way to fire up the South to vote against you.
	I think it's more of an attempt to whitewash history of the Democratic Party.
	What?
	This is beautiful.
	It's beautiful because, like, when we first started the show was when the whole, oh, Democrats own slaves.
	That's when that meme was, like, at its tippy top, right?
	And it was Democrats were the Confederacy.
	They were actually the seditionists, traitors, slave owners.
	And it's like that argument only works in a very specific place.
	Like go to the South and tell them that the Confederacy was uh yeah liberals or whatever and see how it works out for you and you rarely see like somebody trying to reckon with that you know uh that what's what's the what's the word like that uh the contradiction the The contradiction, or that dissonance, that mental dissonance, right?
	This person, no.
	Just full bore in the same comment.
	Yeah, why don't you go ahead and burn the cultural heritage of the South, which loves this flag, and also I think they're doing it to hide the Democrat crimes of the Confederacy.
	Also, it's like, you are missing the whole point.
	If you think that the South is the way to where you can't burn this flag and still lose, and you will lose because of it, that is entirely expressing the problem.
	That kind of sums it up.
	You're saying exactly that.
	This symbol of racism, they really do love it.
	They love that thing.
	All those voters, when they vote against this guy, it is because they will have seen through his hypocrisy.
	They know that he's a Democrat trying to burn the vestige of the Democratic slave owners, and they'll be like, nuh-uh.
	Trying to erase history?
	Can't do that?
	No way.
	Nice try, sis.
	That's the whole reason they want the monuments up, is to preserve the Democratic history.
	No, exactly.
	Like, that's the argument that we've been covering, like, in our whole run of Minning Death Cult is, oh, they're Democrats are tearing down Confederate statues because they want to erase their history of slave owning, never mind, like, the vast majority of right-wing people who want those monuments up because they like the slave owners, right?
	And this is somebody who has attempted to put both of those thoughts in a single take.
	I like, I love it.
	I love it a lot.
	Hey, are you guys, real quick, are you guys sitting down?
	Because I have some information to share with you.
	Oh no.
	Could it lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
	Possibly.
	It probably should.
	But Abraham Lincoln, you know, the guy who freed the slaves.
	I love that guy so much!
	Republican.
	No!
	That's right.
	A lot of people don't know that, but yeah, so yeah, just do what you will with that information.
	Well, see, I think that demonstrates how, like, ideologically based the right wing is in this country.
	Like, it's actually based on values and beliefs.
	And that's why they're able to utterly despise a former Republican president for freeing the slaves.
	It's because they have, like, principles.
	Principles first, you know?
	That's the key.
	Thank you guys so much for coming on the show.
	This was a long one, but I think it was a banger.
	Left Flank Vets, tell us where to find your stuff, guys.
	Don't bother following our main LeftLinkVets account.
	Follow my personal Twitter account instead.
	That's EricaTheWhiteTrashSocialist at heroesneverdie69.
	The official LeftLink account hit 50k like before I did.
	She's mad.
	She's mad.
	I'm throwing up.
	If you... Listen.
	If you hate women, follow me.
	Me too.
	Wow.
	I didn't know we had a pick-me-ass bitch on this episode.
	I told you I was bisexual.
	Did that not cover those bases?
	No, you can find us, LeftLinkVets, on Twitter, on Twitch.
	We stream, we hang out.
	It's a lot of... During the day, you'll be able to see Marcus's smiling face as he's trying not to rip his hair out watching White House press briefings, and we're usually there in the evening.
	Sick.
	Well, thank you so much for coming on.
	I'm assuming you didn't have anything better to do today.
	Definitely not the Super Bowl.
	The what?
	You can support this show, Minion Death Cult, at patreon.com slash MinionDeathCult for $3.11 a month.
	It gets you a bonus episode every single week, including the whole month of December where we were on Patreon-only duties because I have a real job and so we only catered to the people who were paying us to do the show.
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	Ironically, I didn't even plan it this way, those episodes are so good.
	They're very fun, very deranged episodes, and you can get access to every single bonus episode we've ever done instantly at patreon.com slash MinionDeathCult.
	If you want to subscribe at $5 a month, you get access to the body positive, body horror podcast, Last Responders.
	Hosted by Tony Boswell himself where he talks about the woke first responders worship Fox TV show 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star.
	Yeah, please check that.
	It is a damn good time.
	Um, you know, hopefully if you play my cards right, you're gonna hear some of the voices you just heard today on that soon.
	So, yeah.
	Hell yeah.
	It's good stuff.
	Definitely type into that.
	Please, please, please.
	Hey, real quick.
	I have to... This happened while we were recording.
	I guess during the halftime show, they actually had Kendrick Lamar edit the anti-police line.
	I saw that.
	Oh.
	Wow.
	I just feel so goddamn vindicated right now.
	Like, fuck everybody.
	Like, it's so fucking stupid.
	It's so beautiful.
	Did anyone think he did that during the Grammys, too?
	Yeah.
	It's like the whole thing.
	She's like, oh man, everything sucks.
	We're sick.
	Have a great Black History Month, y'all.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Jesus Christ.
	I can't believe that's real life.
	I mean, obviously it's real life.
	I was hoping you were going to say Snoop Dogg had a nip slip or something.
	I was hoping that Snoop Dogg smoked a blunt on TV, but I don't think he even did that.
	That would have been cool.
	But yeah, so this show is entirely listener-funded.
	We appreciate your support.
	The way to do that is, again, patreon.com slash MinionDeathCult.
	Thanks again to Left Flank Vets for coming on this show.
	You can see our episode on their Twitch stream.
	It's twitch.tv slash leftflankvets, right?
	Absolutely right Alex, good job.
	We come in there I think at like the one hour mark or hour and a half or something like that.
	You should watch the whole thing for sure but if you want to see Tony and my cute faces that's when you join.
	Question, what number episode is this?
	I don't put numbers in front of the stream, but this is like 344 or something like that?
	Marcus, I'm sorry.
	I just need to make sure to tell people when they can start listening to this podcast.
	Marcus, we were on here before!
	What do you mean start?
	We were on the show before now!
	That was, again, a micro-ableism for people like me that cannot count over things.
	And so, relax.
	I mean, to be fair, we had Marcus and Dick on, like, what, a year ago or something like that?
	So start listening at that episode.
	Yes, fair.
	Also, think about how high your account would be if you came on a long time ago.
	See, we would have beat Erika and Followers a while after.
	Also, when we surpassed Erika and Followers, here's the thing.
	The day we surpassed Erika and Followers, I was working very hard on making a video edit to celebrate.
	I was referencing an old Drill tweet like where Drill was like clowning on someone for having more likes on his like in the replies for getting a ratio an old-school ratio and at the moment that I like posted this video being like hell yeah we beat Erica and followers Glenn Greenwald had a reply had a meltdown in our replies and was like how do you know Michael Tracy doesn't get any pussy There was so much going on that day, man.
	Big day.
	Beautiful.
	Wow.
	Totally stepped on all my work.
	It sucked.
	I mean, I don't know, that sounds like a, I don't know, it sounds like a come up.
	It sounds like a, oh, you lost out on like maybe a little viral moment, but you did have Gigi himself in there.
	I know.
	I just wanted to own Erica and then I got stepped on by Glenn Greenwald just being insane.
	Yeah, it's called gays looking out for each other.
	Alright, that's the episode.
	Thanks everybody for listening.
	Bye.

▲