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April 11, 2022 - Minion Death Cult

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"I said, I'm the only boyfriend till you’re 25 years old. Shake hands." w/Brett Payne

This week we celebrate the Amazon union victory and cover some of the more bewildering responses to it Also, two Republicans publically display how normal they can be with their families Listen to Street Fight Radio wherever you get podcasts Support Minion Death Cult for only $3.11/mo at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult to get a bonus episode every week.

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	Alright, I'm Alexander Edward.
	And I'm Tony Boswell.
	And we're Minion Death Cult.
	The world is ending.
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	We're documenting it.
	What's up everybody?
	Thank you for tuning in, as always.
	We have a wonderful guest here.
	Back for the first time in a while, I think, is Brett Payne from Street Fight Radio.
	How you doing, Brett?
	Doing great.
	Thanks for having me.
	Always happy to hang.
	Back on the main feed.
	Back on the main feed.
	There is an excellent episode of Last Responders featuring Brad that came out too long ago.
	It's really good.
	Yeah, I love digging into Facebook comments.
	Don't get to do it as much as I should.
	Brian was really good at digging into that stuff.
	I lack the skills, so I come to Minion Death Cult every week to hear how the conversation's going on Facebook.
	We're here for you.
	You just outsource that labor to us, folks.
	Makes it a lot easier, a lot less sad.
	You soften the blow of a lot of that shit too.
	You help to make it light-hearted.
	I wanted to start off this episode talking about the Amazon unionization effort that happened in Staten Island.
	Wonderful.
	You love to fucking see it more than almost anything we've seen in the last few years.
	I wanted to read a little bit from this New York Times article, but mostly get to the response to the unionization effort, which is of course fascinating and bizarre and Bewildering at times.
	But reading here, for anybody who's unaware, yeah, the Staten Island Amazon warehouse successfully voted to unionize.
	And I'm reading here from this article in the New York Times, how two best friends beat Amazon.
	The company's crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.
	In the first dark days of the pandemic, as an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls planned a small, panicked walkout over safety conditions at the retailer's only fulfillment center in New York City, the company quietly mobilized.
	Amazon formed a reaction team involving 10 departments, including its Global Intelligence Program, a security group staffed by many military veterans.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	They outsmarted our military?
	No way!
	You know we talk about like you know Alexa being in everyone's house and everything like that and it's like it's not even really to do some nefarious government shit it's just to like make sure they can organize against their workers better.
	That's what they're using all the info for.
	Yeah, if you have an Alexa in your house and you say things like union, or slave, or plantation, or restroom, that's a red flag for Amazon right there.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They'd be listening a little more closely to you.
	Yeah, you're noted.
	You're flagged.
	I love that, yeah, it's, oh, Pinkertons.
	No, we don't have Pinkertons.
	We have military-trained in-house security to prevent the need for ever having Pinkertons.
	Yeah!
	Wild!
	The company named an incident commander and relied on a protest response playbook and labor activity playbook to ward off business disruptions according to newly released court documents.
	And you open up that playbook and it's just like a strip of black zip ties, right?
	Yeah!
	The people executing this stuff, the security for hire, these are awful people.
	Wow, how did that backfire?
	Holy shit.
	were more executives including 11 vice presidents who were alerted about the protest than workers who attended it amazon's chief counsel describing mr smalls as quote not smart or articulate in an email mistakenly sent to more than 1 000 people recommended making him the face of efforts to organize workers wow how did that backfire holy shit i love that it's funny
	you can even though it's not in this article you can tell that like democratic strategists and democratic consulting firms like had their fingerprints all over this oh Oh, well, we'll simply make our biggest threat, we'll pick our biggest threat, make him the face of it.
	How could this possibly backfire?
	Oh, wait, what happened last election?
	It's, this is, this is, and it's so funny too, it's like they're so not aware.
	Like, hey, you know what we should do?
	We should just pick someone who we don't think is, but actually is extremely cool.
	Like, that anybody who just looks at him is like, fuck, that dude's cool.
	Like, I don't care where you come from.
	Yeah, just like Donald Trump.
	Yeah, exactly, just like Donald Trump.
	Like, you might, you might think he doesn't look the way you look or belongs in your golf club, but you gotta think that your kids think he's cool.
	Like, why would you pick him to be the person that you want to be?
	I see what they're going for, but it just shows how stupid they are.
	Yeah, I mean, he is dangerous in that he exudes everything people want to pay attention to.
	Very convincing person to be heading this up.
	I love that whoever sent that was like, oh, yeah, this guy, clearly not very smart and articulate.
	Reply all.
	Let me just send this to 1,000 people.
	Oh, oh, Christian Smalls.
	Oh, you mean that guy who's not all there, up there, and then you just walk into a door mid-sentence.
	It makes you wonder how he describes him off email.
	Oh, right.
	Right.
	The company fired Mr. Smalls saying he had violated quarantine rules by attending the walkout.
	Actually, it's less safe for you to be in outdoor spaces right now.
	You should remain confined in a close warehouse environment.
	That's actually the safest place for our workers.
	In dismissing and smearing him, the company relied on the hardball tactics that had driven its dominance of the market.
	But on Friday, he won the first successful unionization effort at any Amazon warehouse in the United States.
	One of the most significant labor victories in a generation.
	The company's response to his tiny initial protest may haunt it for years to come.
	Wow, wow.
	Yeah, it sounds about right.
	It does sound like Jay Carney was involved in the former Obama spokesperson, you know, the legacy of the Obama administration.
	Oh, something, something, a strategic misstep that will haunt it for years to come?
	Yeah, it sounds about right.
	Yeah, I've seen this before.
	Uh, yeah, and then it just goes into, like, the details of how they did it, which it did take them 11 fucking months to do it.
	Um, uh, just really cool stuff.
	You know, they brought food to the workers.
	They gave free weed to the workers.
	Uh, they did a bunch of shit on TikTok.
	They were able to raise $120,000 on GoFundMe, which is how they funded all this stuff.
	They hung around at a bus stop, I guess, also, that was people used to get to work.
	So they were able to bend the ear of like anybody of you know fellow people you know about the situation?
	Yeah a lot of hard work and it's wonderful that it actually worked a lot of you know a lot of times it doesn't work that doesn't mean you shouldn't try it but it's nice to see it work.
	And real quickly, I want to add to that.
	I do see a lot of people getting really excited and posting things like, you know, if it's not union, quit your job.
	Like, fuck that.
	If they're not working union, then don't fuck them.
	And don't forget that this is one victory out of a lot of Amazon fulfillment warehouses.
	It took a lot of hard work.
	This does not always work.
	It's really fucking hard.
	It doesn't mean don't try.
	It just means there's a right way to do it and it's not as easy as saying fuck it.
	A matter of fact, it's about saying fuck it to everything else and really focusing on that.
	So like, let's not, let's, like, people have been posting away about how, and because this fucking rules, um, but it's not like this was easy.
	This was, shit was hard.
	Like, these motherfuckers got arrested regularly for this.
	Like, this, this was gnarly.
	It's not just, uh, that easy.
	But yeah, get about it, but it's not just a Molotov cocktail situation here.
	I love them bringing free food to the workers and Amazon being like, you don't need a union.
	We're all family here.
	Oh, what?
	Somebody's trying to feed you?
	No, that's our job.
	Arrest them.
	Yeah, we do that.
	That's only when you make money, you earn the sandwiches.
	They can't just make them for you.
	They walked out over safety and then they fired him over safety.
	What they called safety.
	Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
	It's amazing.
	It's awesome that it was just a very small, like, wildcat type situation.
	I mean, I feel like, I hope, because how much other labor stuff is happening right now, this is just the beginning of it.
	I mean, five to ten years, maybe we will be in a better situation, but this changes so much.
	Yeah, and it's very interesting that they did it without the help of an existing union.
	Like, you know, the Teamsters, my union, has said that they're going to dedicate resources towards organizing Amazon workplaces, which is wonderful.
	You know, one of the largest unions in the country.
	But they did it even without the Teamsters.
	You know, they did it without Without the help and without the coffers of an established union.
	So I do hope that, uh... I hope that established unions are still reaching out to help them when it comes to, like, the actual bargaining part of it.
	You know, the maintenance of a union.
	Like, that's gonna be hard as well.
	You know, you have the yes vote, but what you turn that into, you know, what you...
	You know, what you actually are able to manifest with that cohesion is a second step, you know, that I'm very eager to see play out.
	Yeah.
	You need an organization.
	Yeah.
	So the responses to this, I mean, if you're in like, you know, a mostly liberal space or even a, you know, a mainstream, mainstream media type space, it's pretty positive.
	You know, the reacts are up there, but the, man,
	The disparity between the comments and the reacts, you know, it's some of the greatest political divides in our times, because like on CBS News, you know, the article about this on CBS News on Facebook, a lot of positive reacts, but then there's that third highest react, the third most popular react, the laugh react, you know, and you're like, okay, all right, let's see what these jokers, let's see what's so funny.
	Patrick Murray, whose avatar, it looks like somebody wrote on a wall in human feces, drill baby drill.
	Okay.
	Patrick Murray.
	That's for sure like doo-doo marker font.
	That's what that is.
	Patrick says, seen it before, two people hired, same day, same job.
	Company requirements was to make 200 parts per day to keep employed.
	Is this a math test?
	Do I need to get a piece of scrap paper and start putting?
	Is this an SAT question?
	Well, you should write this down because this is a bit of hardscrabble wisdom.
	Okay, I'm ready.
	Either commit it to memory, if you can't do that, write it down.
	I would suggest copying this screenshot into your notes.
	And if you're going to write it down, write it nicely on a nice piece of paper because you're going to want to keep this around.
	One did two, so these two people hired the same day at the same job.
	It doesn't matter what job it was, doesn't matter what company it was.
	Company requirements was to make 200 parts per day to keep employed.
	You know, well, we make parts here.
	You have to make 200 parts.
	One did 200 parts per day in six hours and talked to other for two hours and the other worked the entire eight hours and made 230 parts.
	Well, we all know there, like, well fuck that guy.
	Like, that person sucks.
	The 230 part person.
	Not necessarily.
	I think the 200 parts per day person is just doing it right.
	I think they're following the methods.
	They're creating the necessary output to stay employed.
	Yeah, I would say when I worked in the warehouse, I was a 200 parts in six hours and talked the rest of the time.
	As long as I knew my numbers could be averaged out to their requirements, I was done working.
	Oh yeah, I was a solid 195 hour, but that's just me.
	You were just right under there.
	There's like, Tony, we can get you up.
	If you just change your attitude a little bit, I think we can get you to 200.
	You know, I'm working on it, bud.
	Hey, you look great today, though.
	You look fucking great today.
	Did you get some cookies?
	I brought cookies.
	Did you get the cookies?
	You don't want to fire me over five parts.
	That's nothing.
	Come on.
	Yeah.
	You don't want to do the paperwork for that?
	Hire another person?
	They're gonna hate you.
	It's gonna be so awful.
	You don't want that.
	One reported for work every day exactly on time just enough to not be written up and the other one came in every shift 15 minutes early.
	I don't like, what are you fucking, if the company wasn't writing them up then that's on the company.
	Yeah.
	He, this guy's like, he's just an ass hair away from being written up every single day.
	He's, we can't punish him.
	He gets here at 7 59 59.
	The other one came in every shift 15 minutes early.
	The first one stood next to the time clock waiting for it to hit 5 o'clock to clock out.
	And the other one cleaned his work zone and talked to the person taking over his machine and always clocked out about 5.15.
	So what?
	Good for him.
	He can do that.
	Oh, see, we just learned a whole lot here.
	515?
	That's crazy.
	That's like an hour and a half a week.
	This fool's a hustler.
	I respect the game right here.
	15 minutes every day?
	That shit adds up.
	Yeah, good for him.
	It couldn't be me.
	That's overtime, no time.
	I'm out.
	ASAP.
	Yeah, the person trying to take over the machine is like, God dammit, I do not want to hear about your day at work.
	I don't care.
	Oh, it's acting up.
	That belt is squealing.
	I'll tell you what, hollering like a cat in heat.
	Yeah.
	It's like, listen, I haven't, like when I'm working, I like to, I like to forget that I'm doing that.
	I like to not think about working while I'm doing it because it helps me not blow my fucking brains out.
	Yeah.
	You are making me think about work before I've even started doing it.
	Also, spay and neuter your pets, you know?
	Also, those people also, like, he's getting overtime by bullshitting.
	He's 15 minutes early, 15 minutes late.
	That's 30 minutes a day of overtime.
	This person is soaking up.
	Just moseying around being like, I'm first in, last out.
	Everyday.
	Here's the thing.
	I think he's showing up 15 minutes early and either just getting there early because it's the right thing to do in case there's a traffic jam or something like that.
	Or, more likely, he's, like, working off the clock.
	When it says 15 minutes early, I think that literally means, like, oh, he's working before his start time.
	Yeah.
	Which is a huge no-no if you're in the Union, for good reason.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	You get injured off the clock?
	Oh, you're fucked, buddy.
	You're so fucked.
	At the end of probation, each receives a 3% raise because the Indian, which I think he means union, said they both made the minimum requirements.
	The one who went over his requirements seen this and said, why am I working harder than the other guy, but still only got the same pay increase?
	You guys were making the same amount to begin with!
	He got smartened up.
	The guy got figured out like what the deal actually was.
	Over the next year the guy making 230 parts started making only 200 and changed what time he clocked in and out and spent two hours a day walking around talking to other people.
	The following year the company closed the doors because production was down by 30 parts.
	If only they had those, oh fucking the business owner is like I've gone over I've gone over the numbers five times just like you know shirt unbuttoned three buttons sweating like he hasn't been able to actually wash his clothes because he can't afford it because all his money is going to pay the workers you know that's how these small business owners they do it and uh he man if we only had 30 more parts We're losing 30 parts a week!
	Where's it going?
	Where's it going?
	In the water cooler.
	It's draining faster than ever.
	People are drinking and driving me out of this place.
	Also, they don't mention about how this person's quality of life probably has gone up.
	They're probably a little less stressed.
	Like that little pain in their back is not quite there anymore.
	And they're still meeting their quota.
	Yeah, that's the funniest part.
	It's like, this company sounds like an idiot.
	Your company sounds stupid as fuck.
	If you're telling me that the quota is 200 parts per day, and I'm doing 200 parts a day, and then you're like, oh, sorry, we gotta shut down because we couldn't hit production.
	It's like, what the fuck were we doing the whole time?
	Aren't you management?
	What is your fucking job?
	It's a bad business model.
	Hire more people.
	This is a family where your passive-aggressive appearance, when we say 200, we expected 230.
	We were banking 230, you ruined it, now we can't go to Hilton Head this summer.
	You fucked everything up.
	I also like how generous he was with these two examples, because usually in these stories, it's like one's a super overachiever, and the other one's like too busy smoking gums, jerking off in the bathroom.
	Cutting out the manager, but he can't get fired.
	Yeah.
	Did this company use Indeed.com for their hiring?
	I just need to know.
	I mean, if you wanted, like, a union horror story, I could tell you one where, yeah, a shop steward swung on a manager, got fired, and then got his job back because he was friends with, like, the leadership in the union.
	Hell yeah!
	Which I'm still not upset about!
	No!
	And, like, that manager wasn't even that bad, but you know what?
	He's better than the alternative.
	He's better than HR.
	I gotta pick a side here.
	I'm going with the winning team.
	Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
	I don't even care why he did it.
	I'm just happy he got his job back.
	Yeah.
	So that's one example.
	Well, what if a nameless company closed their doors because all of the employees were meeting the quota?
	Huh?
	Then would you like evens?
	If that doesn't dissuade you, let's listen to Laura.
	Laura Edwards.
	No relation.
	By the way, folks, my last name is Edward.
	It's just one Edward.
	It's not Edwards.
	For people.
	Get it right.
	This is the sequel to Ed.
	And any new people that spell it wrong, you just attack them immediately.
	Yeah, we don't want your listenership actually.
	Gatekeep.
	Gatekeep like crazy.
	No thank you is actually how we're gonna put that.
	Okay, Laura Edwards said, Can't stand unions.
	I worked a union job once and it was awful.
	I didn't want to ever work a union job, but decided I would try it once.
	Give it a shot.
	Never again.
	Like experimenting in college.
	I tried a union, it was awful.
	Also, you can just go give it a shot.
	Let me go try on a union.
	It's real easy.
	You don't have to do anything to get in or out.
	Just give it a shot one day.
	I like that she came into it.
	She was like, I took a vow to never work unions, but I'll try it.
	It's like, well, you don't sound like maybe a necessarily unbiased source.
	Never again, she says.
	So like, up there with the Holocaust is working a union job.
	Never again.
	Don't let other people do it either.
	That's the most important thing.
	The job was part-time.
	The job was a part-time job, but dues were still taken out.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You got raises.
	Talk about the dues.
	You got raises based on how many hours you worked, not how hard you worked.
	It always made me so mad when I would watch everyone else standing around, working slowly or talking, while I busted my backside to do a good job.
	I was raised to do a good job, no matter what.
	They couldn't fire anyone because the employees would complain to the union.
	In past jobs, I was always proud of myself for getting a raise, knowing I earned it.
	When I found out the raise I got at the union job was because I had been on the clock for so many hours, not as a recognition for a job well done, I cried.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	Wait, instead of a raise, could I get a little plaque to put in my office that says I have best attendance for the first quarter of this year?
	Please?
	I just want the recognition.
	That's what I'm here for.
	You cleaned the shit out of that table today, Laura.
	I'm amazed with how well you do.
	That's all I want to hear.
	Everyone hated Laura, again.
	Everyone hated Laura.
	They're like, Laura, chill.
	Chill.
	Just take it down a little bit.
	You're going to bring yourself out.
	Hey, this isn't about... It's about not getting carpal tunnel.
	And you're going to get carpal tunnel this way, Laura.
	You need to calm down.
	We're not saving lives, Laura.
	We're not saving lives here at Denny's.
	And if we were saving lives, should we rush that?
	Should we really rush that?
	I like what kind of psychopath is like, when I found when I got my first check, I was so happy because I thought it was because the company really valued my labor and really like wanted me to know me specifically to know that I had done a good job and they approved of my work.
	When I found out that it was just based on some sort of contract that I had entered into whereby I would be paid a certain amount per hour of work.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I thought this was more than just a transactional relationship.
	This is disgusting.
	I'm more than just a body that you can rent for a good time to get your job done.
	Uh, yeah, and just her saying, oh, I worked a union job and it was awful.
	Like, what jobs have you had that were good?
	Like, what is wrong with you?
	I used to work at an ice cream shop, actually, and they let me have all the samples I wanted.
	Yeah, but only if I was the bestest employee there.
	And I was.
	And I sang my heart out every single time I got a tip.
	People said I was the best singer.
	People said I was an angel.
	All the time.
	Uh, okay, moving on.
	Aaron Scruffay.
	I'm just including this so this is really fascinating to watch this like reaction happen in right-wing spaces right to watch the reaction to a successful unionization effort at Amazon right and I go through these comments looking for stuff like this specifically not to like tip the scales or whatever I never pretend that like
	Each individual comment I read is like indicative of the overall consensus of, you know, unless it is, but I'm always looking for a bit of interesting, you know, like these people being forced to like reckon with certain ideas.
	I look for stuff like that.
	I want to see how they approach these ideas.
	And yeah, Aaron Scruffy here, Says unions suck 100% agree, but also agree Bozo.
	So that's Bezos.
	Bozo deserves this for how he treats his employees.
	You can still be super rich and successful without being a virtual slave driver.
	I love it.
	So like, I hate unions 100%.
	Unions fucking suck.
	I also hate Jeff Bezos because he's on the opposite side of the culture war.
	He owns fucking Washington Post.
	If it were a different rich billionaire guy, I'd be licking his nutsweat.
	But since it's this guy, I fucking hate him.
	And hey, if he's treating his employees like crap, then he definitely deserves the misery a union is going to bring on the company.
	Because he treats his employees like crap.
	Like it's not going, it's not like presented as, oh, this will help the employees.
	This will help these workers, you know, make a better living or get treated better or whatever.
	It's just treated as, oh, well, this is a fitting punishment.
	It's a fitting ironic punishment for Jeff Bezos.
	Yeah.
	And kind of, uh, he makes rich people look bad.
	This is why we can't, this is why people want to socialism because look what happens when you give a guy all the money.
	He makes people piss in bottles.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's just crony capitalism.
	When you make your employees piss in bottles and you monitor their every footstep, that's called crony capitalism.
	But also it's just like you know yeah you shouldn't treat uh people you shouldn't treat your employees that way um but also i don't want you being told to change that you should just do it out of the goodness of your heart yeah could it's like it's like when when i'm like hey say sorry say sorry like oh i'm sorry well it's empty i don't want i don't want i don't want that raise or i don't want that raise or better working conditions if you don't really mean it
	If we had a truly free market, Amazon would have been bankrupt based on how they treat their workers because everybody would have said, wow, that's awful.
	We're never going to shop there again.
	Or, you know, the employees would all quit, right?
	And go, you know, work at one of the numerous other opportunities I'm sure they have, you know, to make money.
	But because of the government, the government propped up Amazon and made them survive.
	It's unfortunate.
	You can do undercover work, Alexander.
	I think you're ready.
	Jason says, so true, but Bozo brought this on himself.
	I wonder if Jason learned Bozo from Aaron or if that's his moniker now.
	That's how you make quick friends, you know, just adopt their slang.
	Tell you also how you sell someone a car.
	Also, maybe you're not sure that's who he's talking about.
	You're talking about the right person, so you don't really want to fuck it up.
	That bastard Bozo had a TV show that took over the whole Midwest.
	He had fucking video game franchises.
	He was a slave driver.
	Yeah, Bozo brought this on himself, but he won't learn.
	He's made his money.
	He will walk away and let those unions drive it into the ground.
	So once again, it's not that unions are good.
	It's that unions are bad and no one deserves it more than Jeff Bezos.
	Yeah, this is like doing conservative mathematics.
	Like there's just formulas for everything.
	And one of their big formulas is like rich people will get mad and just not want to make money anymore.
	Like, they'll just walk away.
	Like, the government will drive them out if we take money or if they have to answer for any of their actions or pay people more, provide insurance, any of the number of things.
	Yeah, I mean, well, that's what all these people would do, and they'll tell you about it.
	We'll get to that part.
	They're ready.
	And then Aaron Yao also says, if Amazon goes down this way, even if they remain with the union, this will result in more brick and mortar stores being built and some coming back.
	This will have positive impacts for the public.
	Human interaction tanked because of Bozo, and this is honestly good for people in ways they don't see.
	They don't even understand it.
	So he's saying that, hey, so Amazon's awful, unions are awful, but one good thing that may come out of this is the unions will kill Amazon so thoroughly that malls will be forced to come back, to reemerge as the dominant method of buying products.
	This is the best his imagination has cooked up.
	It's like, everyone's gonna be like, I no longer need Amazon.
	I'm gonna go to the store and talk to people now.
	I'm gonna go and say hey to my local cable seller, you know?
	Next time I need a weird cable, I'm gonna go down to the store to the Cablesmith.
	Finally, when that grand piano store reopens, somebody will have to listen to me again.
	I had a really funny internet reality thing happen with my mom.
	My mom was like, you know they still do that thing where they ride the horse around the neighborhood and you can take pictures with it?
	I was like, oh yeah, I'm sure it never stops.
	She's like, I just don't see it anymore.
	She's like, I don't see it posted anymore.
	I'm like, mom, did you see it posted on Facebook when I was a kid?
	And she was like, oh.
	I was like, yeah, they're just going around still.
	They never stop.
	You just now saw it on Facebook for the first time.
	It never stopped happening.
	And she's like, oh, oh yeah.
	I forgot about real world versus the internet.
	Well, I think the mall is dying, if not dead already.
	And we miss it.
	We loved it so much.
	It was such a good place to go when you couldn't drive.
	Didn't have air conditioning.
	It was a great place to drop your kids off if you didn't want to see them.
	As long as they had money, they were allowed to be there.
	Then you didn't have to be around your kids.
	This was another sentiment that was commonly expressed.
	Real quick one, but I thought it was so good, too good not to bring up on the show.
	On Fox 5 comment section, Brian David says, Next week's news today, Amazon is moving their New York warehouse operation to Texas.
	And then Bud Dahl, and this is a thing you see on the internet a lot, like somebody will make a joke and the commenter will be like, it wasn't far enough.
	Your joke wasn't exaggerated enough.
	Let me punch it up for you a little bit.
	Let me punch it up a little bit.
	Bud Dahl says, or overseas.
	And you can tell this person's paying attention to history because they saw all the other jobs go overseas and they're like Amazon, and that was of course because of the unions, Amazon's just gonna do this same thing with their distribution warehouses dummy?
	First they're gonna move them out of state to Texas, right?
	You know, the New York Distribution Center is gonna relocate to Texas.
	That makes sense.
	And then they'll just go overseas.
	It's such a it's such a bizarre like so deep in there because it's like so this is what they always they're so like Conquered they're so weak that they're just like you can't ask for anything from Jeff, but he's a billionaire He does whatever he wants you silly asses are gonna lose your jobs But it's like he's taking advantage of Americans and like I mean Where's the patriotism in like saying like everybody that has a job should fucking suffer?
	Anybody that stands up for themselves to have regular working hours.
	It just it's so all over the map and It's capitalism over even patriotism, which I would not want as a virtue.
	And I'm not saying that you would either, Brett.
	But at least with patriotism, you could say, oh, well, at least my neighbor is being helped out.
	But no, we need to help out these five guys at the top.
	That's who needs it.
	Well, the whole thing is, like, if you don't want to listen to the billionaire, then become the billionaire.
	And the whole time that, you know, they've been, like, this whole 11 months, they've actually been making a tunnel, like a vacuum tunnel, from Texas to New York.
	So, like, you're just a fucking idiot.
	Like, don't forget that.
	Like, he is Dr. Evil.
	I think we need to send a few CIA agents down that tunnel and take care of who's on the other side.
	Hell yeah.
	Hell yeah.
	Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro can go down there and shake things up.
	Go get some answers.
	Go make some people disappear.
	So I think this is the last thing on unions I want to talk about.
	Just fascinating.
	Sometimes you see a comment and you're like, you know, oh okay this is stupid and you kind of poke them a little bit and then they just give you a wealth.
	You know, they just give you so much in return for it.
	This guy who, I think he's like 70 years old, maybe 65 or something, I don't know, he's an old guy.
	His name is Z-Big Sterna, right?
	And his comment is, if I was Bezos, ding ding ding, I would simply close Amazon in New York.
	He, nor anyone else, needs that kind of nightmare.
	Yeah, and if I had one piece of advice for a large distribution direct-to-consumer company, it would be move out of New York.
	Do not service New York.
	It's not worth the trouble.
	I mean, there's the most people compacted in one place.
	It's not worth the trouble of selling them shit for profit.
	Just a headache, if you ask me.
	And so, yeah, my response to this is like, and we've seen it before, so it's not new, but it's just like, Fantasizing about being Jeff Bezos, not so that you can like, I don't know, chill on a yacht and fucking fly to Las Vegas with your smoking hot wife or whatever.
	No, fantasizing about being Jeff Bezos just so that you can have the thrill of firing a warehouse full of workers.
	Right?
	It's a sick fantasy.
	It's really messed up stuff and it's like, If you're fantasizing about being like Captain America, at least that guy's got superpowers.
	Yeah.
	At least he's like, I don't know, fighting for a cause or something.
	You're right.
	No, this feels like fetishizing the calmness with which you would do it.
	With like, you're just like so addicted to like, fuck, I would just take a few thousand people and throw their fucking jobs right out the window.
	And I wouldn't even think twice about it.
	I'd go wash my hands in the bathroom, freshen up, and go on with the rest of my day.
	It'd be like ashing a cigarette.
	Not a big deal.
	And it's one of my big city cigars!
	Like, the likelihood of you being Jeff Bezos is the same likelihood of you being Captain America.
	It's like the same fantasy, essentially.
	But yeah, your fantasy is about downsizing.
	Strategic corporate downsizing.
	Cool, man.
	This is like an accessible, realistic, living in the real world version of the Thanos snap.
	Boom.
	All these jobs and lives are ruined.
	Perfect balance.
	Dano's had a good point.
	So I said that to him.
	I said, hey buddy, you're a real weirdo.
	And he was like, hey, corporations have to do adult things to survive, pal.
	Grow up, please.
	I think he's talking about sometimes you have to kill a man in cold blood.
	Sometimes you do have to snuff life out with your bare hands.
	And if you're not ready for that, then fuck off.
	Sometimes you have to, like, not just kill a man, but his whole family.
	I have to do the adult thing and ruin your life.
	Kids care about each other.
	Kids cooperate.
	Adults don't have any time for that shit.
	Sometimes the most efficient way to kill a family is to feed them their poisoned corpse.
	You know?
	You gotta be real sick about it.
	What's that movie where the guy, oh yeah, it's Scrooged.
	I gotta do adult shit like firing a guy and timing to see how long it takes him to get to the curb.
	We're doing adult shit here.
	Scrooged is a very good Christmas movie for anybody who hasn't seen it.
	Have you seen it, Brett?
	Yeah, I'm on the Minion Death Cult blacklist of Santa guy.
	So you've seen all the Christmas movies?
	Yeah, I know them.
	It's just you and Mick Foley and that's it.
	That's the list.
	That's the list of good Santa guys.
	And you know that, that's okay.
	I accept that, that's fine.
	I'll leave it alone.
	The only other good Santa is notoriously known as Bad Santa.
	Yeah, good point.
	Alright, I'll accept it.
	You're appealing to me about what corporations have to do to survive.
	You're appealing to me about what corporations have to do to survive.
	Yeah.
	Thanks, but no thanks.
	Why is that an appeal to me?
	Why do I care about a corporation surviving?
	Especially when it comes at the cost of people surviving, right?
	And why do I feel like the guy that's the richest man ever probably could not take as much money from the business?
	Probably could scale back just a skosh and afford unions everywhere he's at.
	No, that's the whole thing.
	It's like, it's like, you know, your rich friends are the cheapest ones, and how do you think they got there?
	Yeah, by firing your friends and family.
	And then, so I said, yeah, like, why do I care about a survival of a corporation?
	Like, you're not, this isn't an effective line of argument.
	And he said, uh, without corporations, folks will not have jobs and starve to death, loose their homes, babies will starve to death, etc.
	What?
	Like what?
	Like you just did?
	Like you just did in your fantasy?
	Yeah.
	And I said, yeah, well, okay.
	So yeah, if that's true, right?
	If, if, uh, if we get rid of corporate, if, if, you know, we have to appease corporations or else everybody's going to starve and die, it sounds like we should be using something even stronger than unions to deal with these corporations.
	Like, I don't know, something I can't say on a podcast.
	Right, if that's the alternative, appeasing corporations to, like, fully cement their status as, like,
	Immiserators, you know people who are only going to pay you like the bare minimum for you to survive With with food stamps in addition to what they pay you or whatever Or else they'll pull out their their generous wage that they give you and leave you and your baby to starve Like it sounds like they just shouldn't exist period.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you could lose your home And when he says lose your home or loose your home, he means like not be able to pay rent.
	Because you definitely don't have a home if you work for one of these companies.
	You don't have a house, you know.
	Yeah, which are much harder to take by the way.
	It's much harder to take someone's home than it is to take their rental house.
	And he said to this, he said, move to a country without, quote, corporations then.
	You'll be digging for grubs just to feed yourself.
	Oh, wow.
	Cool, right on it.
	Sick.
	These corporations just do so much.
	I'm tired of the slander.
	Nobody sticks up for them, you know, what they do for us.
	It's disgusting.
	This guy's never seen a little movie called Lion King.
	Yeah, the grubs looked good.
	It was a beautiful life.
	The grubs looked good in there.
	This is, like, fuckin' Bob Cratchit mindset, where you, like, thank Scrooge at, you know, your Christmas dinner for providing the wage that purchased the meager turkey on your table.
	Yeah.
	Like— The corporation—making food and then destroying it, even though there's—and then letting people starve.
	There's enough food that's being made, and we destroy it because the corporations would be mad if it got away for free, so we have to just keep selling it.
	But if you make them mad, yeah, they won't make it, they won't make the food at all.
	How are we gonna make food if we don't have a guy to, like, click buttons around on the computer?
	Look, look, someone's gotta say it.
	Someone's gotta say it, okay?
	Have you guys thought about maybe just working harder at that job with no other mobility?
	Have you thought about just doing that and maybe just starting your own Amazon?
	Well, if you're not in a union, then you might get a fat raise based on your work ethic.
	Oh, that's true.
	I don't want that.
	I don't want that.
	Is there a country without corporations?
	I don't think so.
	Isn't that kind of what global capitalism is?
	Maybe certain companies aren't allowed to be in certain countries, but I'm pretty sure every country has a corporation, probably.
	There's probably countries that don't have corporations because, like, the country is a corporation.
	But, like, not in, like, a cool way like we want it to be.
	Like Monaco.
	Yeah, like that Bitcoin country.
	It's just, like, no one's allowed to have anything.
	Just that.
	Like, Cuba probably doesn't have corporations, but they still, what, trade with China and Russia, I imagine?
	Yeah.
	Which are, you know, have corporations themselves.
	Also, their cars still run, so.
	Like, those cars are still running, so whatever.
	So it's just fascinating to me, because this is a right-wing space.
	This is in the Breitbart comments section.
	It's fascinating to me that we've reached a point where the right wing is so radicalized against the idea of worker organization or workers demanding better.
	That they will argue that it's impossible to get food without the help of a corporation.
	We literally need these corporations to feed us.
	I'm on the right wing, right?
	Yeah, I need it.
	I can't grow my own.
	I can't do anything like that.
	I can't hunt or do anything like that.
	I need the corporations for it.
	And we need to appease Jeff Bezos so that he doesn't remove our ability to eat.
	Wow.
	It's just fascinating.
	How can we get products if we didn't have a team that redesigned the logo every two years to make the smile like one degree happier?
	You know, to show that we're in a different era of Amazon.
	What can we do without all this advertisement?
	We should be firing entire warehouses full of workers just to make Jeff Bezos happy so he doesn't remove our ability to eat food.
	And then he was like, uh, you got a lot of great ideas.
	Let me know when you're, uh, you're older than 17 and move out of your mom's basement.
	Yeah.
	Hell yeah.
	And I said, listen, buddy, I'm 34 and I live in my own basement.
	Yep, you're goddamn right.
	Also, like, your profile picture, you're like wearing a hard hat and you are, you look plenty grown.
	Yeah, I'm the construction guy who is really mad at the Minnie Mouse wardrobe change.
	That's who my avatar is on this profile.
	It's so good.
	Yeah, he was something.
	You don't look 17, you don't look like, you look like someone who Z-Big is supposed to look at and say, that's a hard working individual right there.
	Yeah, thank you Tony, I appreciate that.
	Okay, that's all.
	I mean, the unionization efforts that have been going around, even that they're like in non-traditional spaces like Starbucks or like Amazon, that's even fucking better.
	That rocks.
	More retail unions, please.
	That's like what we do in this country now.
	Is we, you know, we still manufacture to a very, you know, comparably small degree than what we used to.
	We are mainly distribution.
	We are mainly service workers now in this country.
	If you're not an office worker, you're a service worker of some kind.
	That's the frontier for unionism, you know?
	So absolutely crucial.
	I love to see it.
	Yeah, it's dope.
	Moving on, I want to thank Jake and the Facebook group for pointing out these two completely normal Republicans that we're going to be talking about.
	I did see this elsewhere in my feed, but it's nice when somebody just compiles a good little hit clip of what's going on.
	This guy, Clay Clark, he's doing a Awaken America Rally.
	He is a motivational business pastor.
	How do you hear that and not hear evil?
	That sounds so evil.
	I hear the word prosperity and I'm like, wow, that can mean all kinds of great things.
	That's true.
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, the way to move on God's earth is with some green.
	Big facts.
	So this guy, Clay Clark, he's doing the Reawaken America Tour, which is featuring Mike Lindell.
	It's featuring Eric Trump.
	It's featuring former General Mike Flynn.
	Wow.
	A number of very successful people, let's just say.
	This is like the up in smoke tour for awful people.
	Yeah, this is a big deal.
	They're just going to arenas and talking?
	Yeah yeah they're well they're they're uh it's it's like focus on the family values tour is what I think it is yeah yeah they're they're renting out you know like uh spaces where they can uh just it's basically it's very christian I haven't watched a lot of it but it's mainly focused on uh on christianity and like the right-wing culture war in general
	A good example of that is this when Clay Clark said, I'm an alpha toxic male to the next level.
	Right?
	To an audience of attendees who brags that he never takes a day off work even when his father died.
	I do not call in sick.
	I do not call in gay.
	I do not call in gender confused.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, I hope your dad is dead already and doesn't hear this.
	Unless you don't like your dad, that's fine.
	I think if my dad died, we'd probably still record that night.
	I don't know their relationship.
	But yeah, it's pretty fucking brutal.
	Pretty fucking brutal, my guy.
	I'm uh, I know, so now the kids at school, they're allowed to poop in litter boxes and they're allowed to call in gay.
	We're going to hell in a handbasket.
	I would just, I wouldn't, I mean I would definitely call in, but also like, I don't know, I would just be like 20 minutes late to school every day.
	Oh sorry, I was gay.
	I was gender confused.
	I was wanting to put on a dress, but was like, I don't know.
	I need to spend all day thinking about it instead of coming to work.
	You don't feel good?
	Worse.
	I feel fabulous.
	Something's awakening inside of me right now.
	I cannot tamp this down.
	Are you feeling okay?
	I'm kind of just feeling myself right now.
	I'm kind of just feeling myself, so I'm going to need to do that for a minute.
	Thank you.
	There's so much about this.
	It's such a, such a brief statement, but it's, yeah, it's so amazing.
	Brett, like, oh, I'm an alpha toxic male to the next level.
	I literally don't care that my own father died.
	This reminds me, somebody once told me this story about this guy.
	They knew that this is alpha toxic male to me.
	He's, he loves cigars and he had like written off everyone in his family.
	He told his son, he hated him.
	He did all this awful stuff.
	And he got this like growth on his tongue and he refused to go to the doctor and he kept smoking cigars and it got to the point where it like clogged up his whole throat to like he could barely breathe and they were like that was cancer and you're gonna die very soon and then he did.
	You know what?
	His son went to work that day.
	His son's dad went to work that day.
	His son was happy to work on that day and not give a fuck that his goddamn dad died.
	I like how even the cancer was trying to stop him smoking cigars.
	I know!
	Just like clog up the throat if you can.
	Just stop it from coming in.
	Yeah, so no, and it's funny because it's like
	A lot of what these guys pretend toxic masculinity is they're like oh you mean having a job that's toxic masculinity or you mean standing up for what's right yeah I guess I'm toxic then you know that's what they say it is and you're like well no I think you're being like disingenuous I think you're kind of saying something in bad faith but he's literally like no I forced myself to go to work when my only father died like yeah that's That is kind of toxic.
	Like not even for not even for the rest of the world that's like just toxic for you.
	Yeah that's like you probably should take a second let's take a step back just to maybe think about like mortality in general.
	Also are we just gonna like are we just trying to change the word the word toxic it's funny they're just embracing that.
	It's funny they're not saying like I'm an alpha male and that's not toxic.
	They're saying no no I'm alpha and I'm toxic.
	I'm fucked up in the head.
	If Britney can do it, I can do it.
	Well, because they want toxic to not be a valid criticism.
	They want to defang that as an insult.
	So they're saying, oh yeah, it's toxic to pay your bills on time, I guess.
	I go to work to avoid my family.
	That's one reason I go to fucking work.
	That is toxic though, you know?
	And it's also funny to be like, oh yeah, I'm an alpha male, I went to work, even though a member of my family was lost forever, and I'm heartbroken over it, I still went to work.
	And it's like, well you realize, okay, what he does for work is he does a podcast.
	So it's like, okay, maybe this isn't a one-to-one analogy I can use for driving a truck, you know, or for delivering boxes to people.
	It doesn't also seem like it would hit with conservatives who are very much like, my daddy did me wrong, but I love him forever.
	He was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but I'll cry at his funeral.
	I will say that that's the one reason why I haven't told you that my dad died and not come into work is because we do do a podcast.
	Every other job my dad's totally died.
	He's died so many times.
	You could milk that motherfucker for a week.
	I love that.
	I do not call in gay.
	So, you're saying that, like, gay people don't, like, can't work, right?
	Like, I called in because I'm gay.
	Like, I can't do the work because I'm gay.
	And it's like, again, with the toxic, the alpha male comment, which means going to work.
	Right, that's what it means to be a man in this country, is going to work.
	Right?
	And it's like, I tweeted this out a few days ago, but it's like, there is nobody who understands the sociological nature of gender better than conservatives.
	Better than reactionary conservatives, because my whole life, I've heard, oh, you're a girl if you don't know how to change a tire.
	Oh, you're a girl if your hair is long.
	Oh, you're a girl if you like wear a shirt that's a certain color.
	And all of the sudden all these motherfuckers are pretending to be biologists, which again is not, that's not the field of study we're talking about with gender anyway, right?
	Right.
	But, they're suddenly like hard sex determinists because Because it's a new culture war they can grift off of, or get grist from.
	And it's right here, I'm an alpha male because I went to work.
	What do you think the majority of women in this country do?
	I mean, hopefully, if we get our shit together, they're going to work from home.
	They're going to work from home.
	Because I want people to have more flexible schedules.
	Also, the maternity leave is bullshit around here.
	We really need to take care of that.
	Countries get whole years off for that shit.
	I don't know.
	Hopefully they won't go to work when our dads die.
	That is some trad shit we can believe in.
	Yeah, I don't know how you're like, oh, I'm a boss.
	I fucking clock in even when I've experienced a loss in my family.
	No, it sounds- it doesn't sound like you're a boss, it sounds like you're- Sounds like you have zero agency.
	Yeah, it sounds like you're a worker and beholden to your boss.
	Yeah.
	But yeah, I don't call in gender confused, alright?
	I'm a real guy.
	I'm a real man.
	Yeah, this guy, Clay Clark, he's got a... What's his podcast fucking called?
	I can't remember.
	I was looking at it earlier.
	It's pretty boring.
	It's like... That high and tight he's rocking is like... He's straight rockin' a nice little box top high and tight.
	This guy is traditional values.
	He just looks like a Christian Brock Lesnar type.
	His podcast is called Inspire Daily.
	It's some motivational business stuff.
	One of his big topics he focuses on is the Great Reset, which we've talked about on this show before.
	It's kind of like a real thing that does suck, but it's just, once again, called capitalism.
	Yeah.
	It's called the stage of capitalism that we're in, where wealth is continuing to accumulate at the top, and the people at the top are trying to figure out ways that they can keep the margin of profit increasing, which of course it can't do forever, but they're trying to find ways to keep that
	keep that going and one of the ways is you know like buying up all real estate in every city in every state across the nation so that nobody will ever actually own a house nobody and then do that same thing to your car you're just going to be renting everything right and so they see this and they're like fucking communism right uh and So it's just funny to me to be like, fear mongering, right?
	He's got this post here, who is steering the great reset?
	And it's like, you know, a bunch of Jews are doing it.
	It's so funny to me to be fear mongering about like, The Great Reset and how these people who are at the top are going to dictate even more of what you do with your life and have even more power over you.
	Also, if your mom dies, you should still go into work.
	You should still show up.
	Well, the thing is, you should do that, but like I said, we shouldn't have a union telling you that.
	You should do it out of the goodness of your own heart because you're raised that way, not because your boss wants you to do it.
	Yeah, and we're working really hard to make money for people above us because it's useful, but the wrong people are steering this thing that I totally believe is a good system.
	Yeah, that I'm holding up.
	Yes.
	That's Clay Clark.
	Hope to hear more from this guy.
	No, I mean, he's holding his chin in his hands on his profile picture, so I'm intrigued.
	The thumbnail for their podcast was horrifying.
	It's him and another guy, and they both look incredibly weird.
	Moving on, last guy I wanted to talk about.
	Last totally normal guy that we should talk about is Andrew Giuliani.
	Son of probably the most normal mayor we've ever had in this country.
	Rudy Giuliani.
	American hero.
	And, you know, there's been a lot of reporting on stuff that Andrew Giuliani said, you know, about his infant daughter's genitals.
	And in my opinion, and Theresa Hamilton's opinion, it's been blown way out of proportion.
	You know, you've seen the Daily Beast articles about it.
	You've seen the Yahoo News articles about it.
	You've seen the Business Insider articles about, oh, how triggered they all are, Andrew Giuliani.
	Well, I want to read something from the other side here.
	So this is Teresa Hamilton writing for bizpackreview.com.
	Libs triggered after Andrew Giuliani says he looked under the hood to declare baby daughter a woman.
	So weird.
	This is normally it takes say that normally it takes 13 years for that to happen.
	Yeah.
	Can we just do a pinata with like pink or blue confetti?
	I don't want to have you stand in front of the room and look under a blanket and tell me what's down there.
	A lot of liberals were trying to get assault charges on Will Smith on behalf of Chris Rock.
	Yeah.
	They were like, can I file a restraining order on Andrew Giuliani on behalf of his baby daughter?
	Am I allowed to do that?
	I'll co-sign it.
	Yeah, I think we can do that.
	I think we can get enough signatures to make that what happens.
	Concerned Citizens Arrest or something?
	At least he's not legally allowed to look under the hood anymore.
	Can we get that?
	So many things.
	Saying it that way, and if that's the thing you're trying to do, if you're just trying to say, listen, I know that my daughter's a daughter because she's a girl daughter that's a girl, then you just say, the doctor told me so, and that's what you go with.
	But you made it real weird.
	It's super weird.
	He's basically saying, a daddy always knows.
	A daddy can tell.
	Hell yeah, that's a woman.
	That's a woman.
	That's a woman right there.
	Me holding my infant daughter for the first time and saying, wow, hey, she takes after her mother.
	And the doctor's like, huh?
	And you're like, look at that.
	Look at what she's packing.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I figured you're going to dress it in all pink and put flowers and bows and shit all over it.
	It doesn't seem, we would have got the message.
	I feel like you care about it enough.
	We would have got the message.
	Also, this dude's never changed a fucking diaper.
	There's no way.
	There's no way he changed a diaper.
	As a matter of fact, they were like, hey, can you please change the diaper?
	I got my hands, please change the diaper.
	And he said, no way.
	I'm not trying to look in there.
	I'm not trying to see that.
	I don't want to see that stuff.
	That's crazy.
	Like, there's no way this guy changed a diaper.
	This is like probably stating the obvious right but like all these anti-trans laws and all these uh you know anti-gay you know don't discuss gay topics or whatever because it's grooming if if if you if the topic of homosexuality you know once again like a totally normal thing that Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex itself, right?
	Comes up, well, you're grooming children.
	You're not allowed to mention, you know, a gay person or mention that you're gay around my child because that's grooming.
	It's my job.
	It's my job to groom my child by, yeah, checking out her genitals and making large declarations about what kind of person she is based on what I see when I look, look at her under her diapers.
	I think that I saw a tweet.
	The best thing ever was, uh, you know, you guys say that the gay agenda is like grooming the kids, but then ask six year olds if they have a girlfriend.
	Yeah.
	Six year old boys, if they have a girlfriend, It's like the realest shit.
	The way that adults gender kids is so... That's weird.
	That's a weird thing that they do, and they do it right away.
	It's bananas, and it happens all the time.
	The heteronormativity that we push all the time is so wild.
	Let me read this story, okay?
	New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani.
	So he's running for New York governor on the Republican ticket, which, you know, you may not get covered by the news otherwise, unless you talk about your baby daughter's genitals.
	That is a surefire way to get some press as a New York Republican gubernatorial candidate.
	He caused a major meltdown on the left after making transgender comments during a speech to the Long Island Loud majority on Sunday proclaiming that his four-month-old daughter was born a woman and is going to remain one.
	It's so hard to laugh at that.
	It's so shitty.
	It's easy to laugh because you're not his daughter.
	Or you're not somebody with a fucking parent like this.
	At least I'm grateful to not have had a parent like this.
	Yeah.
	Quote, I have changed the diapers, Giuliani proclaimed, according to- Alright, was you wrong, Tony?
	Tony, you were wrong.
	People are fucking doing the fist roll to this.
	Hell yeah, hell yeah.
	The Arsenio Hall fucking foot stamping.
	Baby powder all day.
	According to the Daily Beast, who was evidently horrified by his remarks, Quote, I have looked under the hood.
	She's a woman all woman, baby She's a woman.
	I'm going to be the last guy in a long time that looks under the hood right there But guess what what she was born a woman and she's gonna stay a woman.
	It's that simple This is a reason for jail.
	It's jail time.
	Sorry, guy.
	Just chain him to a bed for a while.
	Why don't you get in trouble for saying this stuff?
	How can you not get in trouble for being like this?
	Treat him like he's a minority in the Ukraine you don't like, and the president just gave you a bunch of guns.
	Like, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	It's also this thing.
	It's like, man, you had a thing, and you were trying to make a statement that would have been wrong but would have been fine, and then you made it weirder and weirder and weirder.
	Like, you could have just said, like, oh, you could have been an awful person and just said, oh, she's a girl because I changed her diapers, and, like, left it alone.
	Yeah that's a perfectly grandmother comment.
	It gets even weirder.
	He manages to make it even fucking weirder.
	But I love, yeah, she was born a woman and she's gonna stay a woman.
	So weird.
	So weird.
	You know what?
	I believe in biology.
	I believe in science.
	Also, my four-month-old daughter is a woman.
	Yeah.
	Alright?
	Nothing's ever gonna change that.
	He got this weird monologue on his head.
	It's like he's doing a set or something and trying to tag the joke.
	Like, oh yeah.
	Oh yeah, baby.
	That's a woman.
	You know what I mean, don't ya?
	Labia.
	Mons pubis.
	Trust me, I know.
	Also, hood's a weird choice of words.
	I mean, you're also doing this thing where you're making your kid a car.
	Oh.
	Maybe he meant the clitoral hood, Tony.
	Maybe you're not giving him enough credit.
	Either way, it's real bad.
	Either way, it's bad.
	Okay, he goes on.
	She made a promise to me on the first day, right?
	My wife was sleeping, and I'm holding my daughter in my arms.
	And I get emotional thinking about it.
	But she made a promise with me.
	She shook my hand.
	And I said, I'm the only boyfriend till you're 25 years old.
	Shake hands.
	Shook my hand, the candidate told those in attendance at the rally outside the Belmore train station in Long Island.
	And yeah, I'm like... Tackle.
	Tackle him.
	Just somebody just run Secret Service, tackle him.
	So, yeah.
	Uh, yeah, so, I mean, yeah, they don't want you teaching their children about consent.
	How old was she when he did this?
	She, a non-verbal, uh, maybe first day.
	Seems like first day.
	I think it was like, yeah, right, right, yeah.
	Handshake?
	We had a handshake agreement.
	That's so fucked up.
	That's called consent.
	Alright?
	That's so fucked up because kids, like, babies have no choice but to grab your finger.
	It's like an instinctual thing.
	And he just ran with that.
	He's like, you shook on it.
	She knew what she was doing, Tony.
	All women do.
	She even had spit on it.
	She even spit on it, so it was a spit shake.
	That's binding.
	25 years of chastity.
	She pledged it.
	Day one.
	She's definitely my daughter.
	And again, man, like, not to state the obvious, but like, He is doing the weird subtext of like the promise ring Christian taking my daughter to the dance because no other boy is gonna do it.
	He's saying the quiet part loud.
	You're not supposed to say, oh my daughter can't date because I'm her boyfriend.
	Yeah, you're not supposed to say that part.
	She's my girlfriend.
	You're not supposed to actually say that part.
	That's the part that everybody's supposed to glean and get super creeped out about but never actually vocalize because it's too creepy.
	It's real creepy.
	Yeah, you're not supposed to say you're her boyfriend, man.
	That's weird.
	Like there's other and it's funny because it's like I mean this is maybe again like trite to say but it's like you know oh there's plenty of other reasons girls you know women people don't have boyfriends yeah you know what I mean maybe they just don't want to date it's like no I'm her boyfriend and that's why she can't have other boyfriends because otherwise otherwise you know what they do Also, what do these guys think daddy issues are?
	something that guys like this they they push these these things okay what do they think daddy issues are yeah it looks a lot like this because this is what this is fucked up like let's hope yeah let's hope she doesn't remember any of this and never learns how to read yeah it's like oh you mean the moment that you mean the moment like you switch and started being really mean to your daughter the moment you found a letter between her and some other kid in seventh grade
	Like the moment you decided that she was like uh you you hated her and twisted there you think is that was that what it is?
	Like be a little more self-aware guy.
	The left descended like a wake of vultures.
	That's beautiful writing.
	Just like a wake of vultures.
	Dining on a carcass.
	Criticizing the conservative politician for a rather innocuous comment that many agree with.
	Is that good?
	Many do agree.
	I agree.
	I agree that Andrew Giuliani is his daughter's boyfriend.
	I agree.
	Every daughter is born with a promise ring for her father.
	That's such a bummer.
	I also love they descended like a wake of vultures dining on a carcass when he wasn't even dead.
	He was actually thriving.
	He was doing really well.
	He was succeeding actually.
	Fully alive, full of vim and vigor.
	Just an interesting metaphor.
	Surfing Vultures, though, does sound super dope.
	The whole shoreline is just full of them.
	It's also just a sick surf rock band, for sure.
	Surfing Vultures?
	They called him a pervert and a pedophile over the simple declaration that his daughter is female.
	No, they called him that because he's doing bits about his daughter's bits.
	He's having weird thoughts.
	This is weird thought.
	It's even worse what he's thinking.
	This is what he says publicly.
	What he's thinking is worse.
	Well I think maybe he's taking, he might be just taking a cue from recent Grammy winner Louis C.K.
	and learning that talking about your child daughter's pussy is a real winning bit you can do for audiences.
	Actually winning.
	Look it up.
	Look it up.
	He has stand up multiple jokes about his underage daughter's vaginas that seemed kind of funny at the time.
	Now, not so much.
	I'll be honest.
	I'll be honest.
	They got a chuckle out of me, but now I'm like, oh.
	Well, like, even the most generous interpretation of this stuff, um, he at least views her as, like, property.
	As, like, an item that needs to be, like, treated as such that belongs to... Sexual property, specifically.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Like, you can go do whatever you want as long as it's not with boys and penises.
	Again, let's hear from somebody who may disagree with the slobbering left, the left that is violently ripping their hair out over these comments that many would agree with.
	Kirk Doherty, he's basically got Dotter in the name here, what a better authority to speak on this, says, now that's a father, lol, love it, dot dot.
	And then Michelle says to Kirk, have you referred to your infant daughter as a woman and said that she shook your hand and agreed that you were only going to be her boyfriend for the next 25 years?
	And then Don, Don says, don't be an ignorant fool online because you missed a few bugs as a kid.
	Don't know what that means.
	Kirk is right.
	You'd have to be a father to understand.
	Just, just daddy things here.
	All right.
	Well, I think we've got like two, two, two dads here, two, two daughter dads here, and I'm going to say no.
	Well go ahead and say nope.
	Yeah, that's not my concern.
	I still don't know why you think that.
	I think that's weird.
	I do not understand.
	Yeah, I wouldn't even like ask you guys as an ironic bit if you did the same thing to your own daughters that he did to his because it's too fucked up.
	It's so fucked up.
	It's so bizarre.
	It's so bizarre.
	Uh, then Kirk, yeah, replies also.
	You must not be a father because you just don't get it, do you?
	Dot dot.
	Sounds like you would rather the child had been aborted.
	Dot dot.
	Questions?
	Just so terrified of women's sexuality.
	Just completely blown away by it.
	Just already, they have a kid and now it's 25 years of just thinking about how they're going to do something with a guy.
	Well, you know what?
	Michelle sounds like the kind of person whose dad didn't ask to be her boyfriend.
	And it fucking shows.
	And it shows with the disrespect we're seeing for dads in here.
	Yep.
	Sounds like you would rather the child had been aborted.
	Yeah!
	Someone else's kid?
	Hey, I mean, you know what?
	Sometimes people gotta do adult stuff, you know?
	Like getting abortions, you know, to survive.
	That's what some people gotta do.
	Sorry, toughen up, buttercup.
	Would you rather the kid be dead, then, than a father that is interested in her body parts?
	That's honestly a tough question.
	That is the choice between a wage or not.
	Having to dole out a wage or not.
	It's the same mentality.
	Finally, this was a comment on the Biz Pack Review website, which we have, I believe, read from on the show before.
	But Moe Jack, and I think this is a great summation of this topic, I really don't understand why it's so important for the liberal LGBT plus contingent of society to promote proclaiming what an individual's gender is for them before they reach the age of maturity and decide to make that decision for themselves.
	I want all people to stop using children to promote their personal goals.
	Let children be children and grow and learn for themselves to make their own decisions.
	One of the best experiences I have had in my life is when I discovered that girls were something so much better than, quote, soft boys.
	THREE EXCLAMATION POINTS!
	Okay.
	Kind of all over the place here.
	I do love, we need to get these liberal LGBT plus people to stop assigning a gender as soon as these kids are born.
	Just like let them be kids, you know?
	Why do you have to gender them?
	It's a good question.
	Maybe ask your boy.
	Maybe ask your boy.
	Where are they at in this war?
	Where are they hanging out online?
	Do they think that the LGBT community is the one pushing that?
	They've been successfully propagandized into thinking that your public school teacher is choosing a gender for your child.
	And like they're saying is that anything besides what they're assigned at birth is is like when you decide it but like again that's just for that one little record thing right then and there it doesn't really you know besides that you're just keeping track of the kids so you don't mix them up but like They don't even get that part.
	Like once you are looking under the hood and talking about it behind a podium, that's when you're deciding someone's gender.
	Like you said, just read your own comment back slowly.
	Just read it back slowly.
	Maybe trick them and like copy and paste it with a different, you know, just with your username and they'll be like, no fuck you, you don't understand.
	Because they're saying it.
	I read this and I was just flabbergasted.
	Imagine being so successfully brainwashed into thinking that LGBTQ contingent, by which he means anybody who is thoughtful about gender or about that sort of expression in general, Thinking that we're the ones who are gendering kids, right?
	Yeah, that's...
	Just being such a, I don't know, such a goldfish about how the way your own society operates, you know?
	Yeah.
	This last line though, really, is this a typo?
	What are they saying with the last one when they say, one of the best experiences I have had in my life is when I discovered that girls were something much better than, quote, soft boys.
	Exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark.
	What the fuck does that mean?
	He's talking about gender essentialism.
	That there is a concrete difference between girls and boys and that is what got him hard.
	It wasn't the fact that she was a soft boy, that she was a boy presenting as a girl.
	There was some sort of fundamental Like, difference between the gender.
	She was so much more than just a soft boy.
	She was, uh, whatever.
	She had tits.
	Like, I don't, you know, I don't know what he means by that.
	I thought, I thought, I thought he, I thought he was like, at first I was like, pretty into soft boys.
	And then I discovered that I actually kind of like girls more than soft boys, but it started as soft boys.
	Turns out I like girls more.
	Whoa, girls can listen to The Cure too?
	Shit, this is a game changer.
	It's crazy.
	I also thought maybe it was like, hey, why be a soft boy?
	Just be a girl.
	I thought that's maybe where it comes from.
	I did too.
	What are you saying here?
	I didn't know how to make the joke, but I was thinking the same thing.
	Sometimes you hook up with a guy and it's like, whatever, they're soft or whatever, but if you meet a girl, you can get a lot more out of that.
	Someone who lives as a girl.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, I had the same experience when I figured out that cats were so much better than just soft boys wearing ears.
	Sometimes there's a new Disney movie about a kid that makes a deal with their father on the first day they were born that they always have to wear makeup and high heels.
	Finally, wow.
	Get back to the wholesome shit, Disney.
	Yeah.
	Finally.
	Wow.
	And they like.
	So get back to the wholesome shit.
	Make a movie like get back to the wholesome shit, Disney.
	And it all comes crumbling down when they buy a vending machine costume mustache.
	And they really like how it makes them feel.
	We need a Disney princess whose dad has looked under the hood.
	Well, we're just waiting for that.
	It's in the next Cars when they have a kid.
	It's in that one.
	Okay.
	I mean, I just would never let somebody say that around me.
	I've been kicked out of parties for certain stuff.
	Saying you looked under the hood of my daughter, I would be like, get him out now.
	This is despicable.
	Well, I think, you know, I mean, we'll have to see how he does in the gubernatorial race, because this could be the next governor of New York, and oh boy, might have to reckon with these comments.
	Might have to delete this episode.
	I can remember a bunch of conservatives pulling their brand new babies up for him to do gender affirmations.
	Instead of kissing the babies, he's just saying, it's a boy, alright!
	He's like, he looks up, pulls up the head and goes, pause.
	It's a boy.
	It's a boy, but pause.
	Just photos of him holding the baby up to his face, but like that upper torso is out of frame, you know?
	Okay, that's the episode.
	Brett, hey, thanks so much for being here, man.
	Everybody probably knows about Street Fight Radio as hopefully a listener, but why don't you fill those people in who are, you know, unlucky enough to not be aware?
	Yeah, we've been around for a while, like 11 years now, out of Columbus, Ohio.
	Did a tour with the Minion Death Cult guys and hope to do that eventually, soon.
	Hopefully, I think by the end of the year, I hope to get the touring machine back up and running again.
	We'll see.
	But right now on Patreon, I am doing the Hito Brett series.
	Scary stuff.
	Yeah, definitely crazy to talk about.
	Don't want anybody to hear it, but it's still fun.
	It's worth it.
	The Street Fight Patreon miniseries are well worth it.
	They're so fucking fun.
	I, of course, co-hosted One with Brian, ButtFest 2000, all about the decades of butt rock, kind of trying to define what butt rock is and what its main emulators or what its main exemplars are.
	Tony has been on those miniseries.
	Tony was recently on the Apology, the I'm Sorry miniseries.
	I'm Sorry is great, yeah.
	Famous celebrity apologies and Tony was on the episode about the singer from As I Lay Dying apologizing for trying to have his wife murdered.
	Yeah.
	So highly recommended, highly recommended Patreon.
	What's, what's the link to the Patreon?
	Just patreon.com slash treefightradio.
	Yeah, those links will be in the show notes, in the show information.
	And you can also support this show, Minion Death Cult, at patreon.com slash MinionDeathCult.
	$3.11 a month gets you a bonus episode every week, right?
	So that's four episodes for $3.11.
	for $3.11.
	A staggering, a staggering deal.
	The content, if I do say so myself, has been great.
	We got stuff that we're working on in the very near future that I'm very excited about for the Patreon, but I mean the MAGA Hat Romance alone, that reading series that we did on that was wonderful.
	Some of the funnest I've ever, most fun I've ever had on an episode.
	Tony Boswell's side project, side podcast, Last Responders, that I think was mentioned earlier on the show, is a show covering the woke first responders television programs 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lone Star, the latter of which, the main character, I always forget this guy's name, what's his name?
	Are you talking about Lone Star?
	The metrosexual guy, yeah.
	Oh, uh, Kevin Strand.
	Yeah, but the actor, Rob Lowe.
	Oh, Rob Lowe.
	Nobody knows Captain Strength.
	Yeah, who are you talking to?
	It's different.
	Yeah, Rob Lowe.
	I say metrosexual, and I also mean like date rapist.
	Statutory rapist bragged about making a sex tape with a 16-year-old, but now he's a woke 9-11 firefighting veteran assembling a crew of multi-ethnic, multi-identity firefighters to respond to insane body horror accidents in Austin, Texas.
	And it never lets down.
	It keeps on going.
	It's amazing.
	Every episode is better than the last.
	Yeah.
	That's at the $5 tier and you get that show as well as all the bonus Minion Death Cult shows.
	So, that's it.
	Thanks for listening, folks.
	Bye-bye.
	Peace.

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