Politics has destroyed Websters Dictionary, they cannot be trusted
This week we follow up on the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe V. Wade with Clarence Thomas trying to figure out why no one respoects his institution anymore. Also, Sam Raimi knocks it out of the park with Boyfriend's Rights film Dr. Strange and the Methods of Mayhem Finally: a troubled man threatens to kill the dictionary for doing woke gender definitions Check out our new stickers here: http://miniondeathcult.com 100% of the proceeds from the abortion bumper sticker and 50% of our total Patreon earnings this month will be going to abortion access funds in the thirteen states with abortion bans ready to be signed into law. Donate to those funds here: List of abortion funds or sign up for $3.11/mo at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult to get a bonus episode every week and a chance to win one of the sumptuous raffle prizes we mentioned on the show. Music: Rid of Me - 23 Hugh Masekela - Riot Danny Elfman - March of the Dead Weird Al - Word Crimes
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Alright, I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
The sickos at Merriam-Webster's are responsible.
We're documenting it.
What's up everybody?
Not a lot of good news lately.
I just want to say right off the top of the show, we were trying to mitigate those feelings of despair by contributing to the people who are going to be most impacted by the likely upcoming overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, which are, of course, you know, the deep red states that have just been inching closer towards full abortion bans, even while Roe was part of our legal system.
So we are going to be donating 50% of the Patreon at the end of this month, beginning of next month, to the networks that cover the abortion aid networks that cover the 13 states which have essentially trigger laws on the books ready to be enacted the second that they are legal to do so.
We encourage you to donate what you can as well on your own.
People have been compiling lists of these abortion networks.
That's what we're working off of.
I will include a link to that information in the show notes.
But yes, another way you can help support those networks is by signing up for the Patreon this month.
Everybody who is signed up at the end of, by, you know, when it, the pay period is at the beginning of next month, right?
So you sign up during this month and then your card gets charged at the, like on the 1st of June, which coincidentally is when the Supreme Court, the official Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade is going to come out.
We also are announcing we have three new stickers in our web store at MinionDeathCult.com.
The first of which is a pro-abortion sticker that we made up that says, choose life, stay out of my uterus.
And it's got a picture of a knife on it.
And it's hard as fuck.
It rules.
We have another sticker that says, these are bumper stickers.
These are in the bumper sticker format.
Yes.
Perfect for the rear end of your vehicle.
The other one says, work harder.
Dozens of capitalists depend on you.
Very good, very good.
The third one we have is a color version of the blind skateboards ripoff that Tony designed that we sent out as a little thank you card in sticker packs.
Tony has done a color version of that which will be available in the web store as well.
I don't think I mentioned it, all the proceeds for the pro-abortion sticker will be going to those same abortion fund networks.
But yeah, those are going to be really cool.
They look awesome.
And again, like, all the money from the pro-abortion, the Choose Life Seatimate, it's so sick.
Go to that.
Do it.
Do it.
It's a sick sticker.
It's a sick cause.
Do it.
Please buy the sticker.
We want to see this taken care of.
Uh, so of course if you sign up for the Patreon, what that does is that gets you a bonus episode every single week in addition to the free one that you're listening to right now.
You also get instant access to, yeah, a couple hundred previous bonus episodes that are just as timeless as you can imagine and... But we're trying to raise money for, uh, for this cause and so we are offering Raffle prizes for everybody who is signed up at the end of this month.
Everybody who successfully goes through the pay period will have an opportunity to win one of these pretty insane raffle prizes.
Amazing prizes.
So, one prize, first prize, is a sticker pack, you know, full of all the available stickers that we have right now, you know, including the brand new ones that we just talked about, as well as our Simpsons bootleg stickers, as well as the original Simpsons bootleg stickers that inspired our bootleg stickers.
Yes, they're so sick.
I forgot that they were real.
That's such a cool sticker pack combo.
The OGs, the new ones, the whole pack.
You're gonna get like 10 stickers and all of them are gonna be sick, but three of them are gonna be like 90s Simpsons bootleg stickers that were in a vending machine.
And again, that includes the Work Harder one and the Seattle My Uterus one.
And the Blind Ripoff one.
Yeah.
Six-ticker pack.
We have a poster from when we toured with Street Fight Radio that will be signed by both me and Tony.
The reason we have this extra poster is because it's my girlfriend's, and the first time we ever talked was when I sold her this poster.
So that's the poster you'll be getting signed by Tony and myself.
We have an official White House gift shop coin commemorating when Donald Trump met Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
It seems like another lifetime ago.
That seems like another lifetime ago.
When they printed this coin that hadn't even happened yet.
Nope.
And this is to, like, honor the peace talks that they did.
And I love that they actually have Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
Printed on this coin.
I also have, of course, the Certificate of Authenticity that comes with the coin.
Next prize we're offering in the raffle is two minion death koozies.
Beautiful.
That were crocheted, I think is the term.
I think so.
By a friend of the show, previous guest, Lee.
These are little koozies that look like minions.
They're amazing.
That Tony and I have both drank whiskey out of.
Yes, our essence is on the koozie.
In the koozie.
Two of those will be going to a Patreon supporter.
Okay, let me do a speedrun of this, Tony.
Alright, we have a signed copy of My Antifa Lover.
Amazing.
The book I read for the show.
Amazing.
Signed copy of Pigman.
The anti-Muslim superhero who dresses like a pig.
A real one.
A real actual ass comic.
And it's funny because it's like I've spent a lot of money on bad shit for this show, including this comic.
Now we did donate to Care to offset purchasing this comic from this bastard.
But also it's a signed copy of Pigman signed by the author Botch Faustin.
But it will have our signatures on it, which I think tips the scales in our favor.
I don't want to see that on eBay either.
I know you got to make rent.
Ask us for help for rent before you sell that on eBay, okay?
We have a signed copy of the Right Wing Prepper magazine with a dude shooting the Mossberg shockwave at a skateboarder a la Kyle Rittenhouse.
The shockwave!
I forgot about the shockwave!
We have a signed copy of the Skill Set magazine we talked about, featuring the blue-collar badasses and the advice column where the guy giving the advice starts ranting about women lying about Me Too in the workplace.
Two more, we have fairly big Minion plush toys, two of them.
They're like about 10 inches tall.
That's a quality plushie.
This is, for those that don't know, this is probably a good $12 to $15 size plushie.
Yeah, that will be signed and probably, you know, drawn on as well by Tony and myself.
The reason I have these is because there was a manager of a theater I used to deliver to who had a crush on me.
Yeah, yeah.
And she knew about the Minion thing, and so she gave me these two out of the claw machine game.
I was like, oh, cool.
Thanks.
Hey, it's totally for you, which is like the best type of gift.
Finally, the last prize, the last raffle prize we have to offer for people subscribe to the Patreon to support abortion funds.
That person will get to pick a movie or TV show for us to do an episode on.
Yeah, we will do a full blown review episode.
We will watch the movie.
We will give our good, honest takes.
And yeah, I think that'd be really fun.
Yeah, we promise to take it really deadly seriously.
Extremely seriously.
Whatever movie or TV show you pick.
I think some would say serious as a heart attack, huh?
I see the headlights striking I push my titties up I form the love in the side The girl's dancing The moment I wait
She's like that I hear the engine We discussed Roe v. Wade, the leak, the Supreme Court leak, on the Patreon episode last week.
So I don't want to rehash a lot of what we said.
Mostly what it was is we covered the bizarre response from the right wing to what is very obviously good news for them, like a huge victory for them.
And not celebrated it.
It's really bizarre.
That they seem to be, yeah, having a hard time digesting.
And, you know, we kind of toss our theories out there in that episode.
I saw another thing that I'll just say really quickly today that was in the same vein, which was one of the guys in the Joe Rogan group was like, Um, you know, somebody posted about, oh, you're worried about pro-abortion.
You're worried about anti-abortion.
I'm over here worried about, uh, I don't know, an upcoming food crisis or something.
We are not the same, right?
And somebody else replied and they were like, well, at least the right wing knows that this is just a distraction.
What?
That the Supreme Court is just a distraction.
And this is like what we were talking about on the Patreon episode last week.
But it's so funny to be like, at least the right wing who has been actively working towards this moment.
For 70 years.
At least they know it's a distraction.
And it's like, I think you got it exactly wrong, buddy.
A, this isn't a distraction, this is actual politics, which we rarely get to cover, you know, on the show, frankly.
Second of all, if anybody had a reason to distract from this ruling, it would be the right wing.
Yeah.
Because the only thing that's really held this country together is the idea of social liberties, you know, that do help the fiscal conservatism go down easier.
Right?
This country is like...
A marriage of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism, you know, like, oh, well, you know, if we make gestures at human rights or if we do actually expand human rights, then maybe like they won't string us up because we're impoverishing so many people.
Exactly.
Yeah.
You know, rainbow capitalism.
Yeah, so it's just funny to have your head scrambled so much by the internet and so much by whatever conspiracy theories and whatever like right-wing media you're consuming where you're like, yeah sure the Supreme Court is about to issue like a historic ruling But, what are they really trying to pull off?
What's actually happening?
It must be something huge if they're willing to sacrifice this.
I wonder if, like, old school Republicans, like, are my grandma, is my grandma like, oh, these new heads don't even know.
You know, these new heads don't even, you wasn't there!
You wasn't even there!
You guys weren't having little awful pictures of diced up other animals and calling them human fetuses standing in line?
You weren't doing that in 98.
He wasn't there in 98.
He wasn't there in 98.
He was outside.
One thing I did want to cover just to touch again on this issue was Clarence Thomas came out and issued a statement.
So I'm reading here, this is from... Happy he broke his silence on this really important thing.
Yeah.
And when we say really important thing, we don't mean the impending rollback of reproductive rights.
We mean the fact that somebody told everybody it was going to happen.
The leak, the most important part of this story, clearly.
Well, I mean, who doesn't hate spoilers?
Okay, so in his response, Clarence Thomas decried what he described as an erosion of respect for the high court and made an apparent reference to protests that erupted after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade with major implications for access to abortion.
He said that as a society, quote, we are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like.
Whoa!
And like, so things happen all the time.
Policies that get passed all the time that we really don't care about that do affect us, but it's so contextual that we don't understand that it's some weird tax break they gave to some island, whatever.
But this is a very direct thing.
This is something that's, this is not like a, hey, you just got to deal with it.
It's just part of politics.
This is not that.
This is a huge thing.
And it, um, yeah, to just hear it like, hey, listen, bud.
Uh, it's tough on the streets, okay?
Like it or not, like it or not, uh, you just gotta deal with the outcome.
It's gonna suck.
It's funny that, like, the consequence here that he's worried about is just for the well-being of the institution.
Yes.
Right?
And it's like, that kind of belies the whole supposed American or democratic project, which is that the institutions are supposed to serve the people and protect the people.
And it's like, oh, well, you did something that actively harms a bunch of people, and now you're just worried about Harming the institutions.
You're worried about, like, the response.
You're more worried about the health of the institution than the function of the, you know, the supposed function of the institution.
The Clarence Thomas's of the world, though, believe that they have to protect the institution because the institution serves us by protecting us from ourselves.
Yeah.
You know?
Like, all your... Hey, have you thought that maybe they might grow up to cure cancer?
I love, we're becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes.
My children do not become addicted to popular policies.
Just because you got something you wanted one time... Are we getting what we want?
Has that been happening?
Are we too used to getting what we want?
There's going to be a lot of things that we're not going to want that this country is going to do, Tony.
And I think that he's just preparing us for that.
You know, I know a lot of people are saying, like, this isn't fair.
And you know, I have to tell you, life's not fair.
Yeah.
Life's not fair, bud.
What he says, though, is true.
Women do be addicted to wanting particular outcomes.
More from this, quote, we can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want.
The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that, he added.
What event?
Is he talking about like the very, you know, not violent, very chill, good, like protests?
Is that what he's talking about?
Yeah, he's talking about, well, he's probably talking about the leak itself.
Oh, yeah.
And the protests.
Yeah.
We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you the outcomes that you want.
Why not?
Yeah, that's actually, you're totally supposed to be that.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says I can't give you a noogie until you vote nay.
Yeah, I think that we, uh, Swirlies for Senators is a campaign I'm starting.
Speaking at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, a gathering of lawyers and judges, Thomas referred several times to the unfortunate events of the past week, bemoaning declining respect for institutions and the rule of law.
Quote, it bodes ill for a free society, he said.
It can't be that institutions, quote, give you only the only outcome you want.
Yeah.
And it's like, um, maybe you guys should try giving people the outcomes they want and you won't get bullied.
Maybe you should try that.
And also, it's like, nothing's happening to you.
You're fine.
You're not really getting bullied.
People are just saying things to you online.
Maybe you get yelled at in public?
Maybe?
Probably not.
Thomas also expressed concern about a quote different attitude of the young towards respect for institutions and the law, suggesting this is on the decline relative to past generations.
And it's like fucking finally.
Yeah, I'm sorry, your institution, the Supreme Court, is like illegitimate.
It's fundamentally illegitimate, not just because like O McConnell held up a seat and wouldn't let Obama pick No, it's illegitimate because it's fucking nine psychos who get to decide everything for everybody.
Yeah.
And sure, okay, you might say, you know, oh, there's good Supreme Court justices on there who did, you know, vote no for overturning Roe v. Wade or whatever.
Okay, what good are they?
Fuck them.
Also, they very quietly voted no.
They've not said shit.
They should be losing their minds right now.
I mean they they said uh you know it would undermine it would like spell I think it was who was it Sotomayor maybe who said that it would like yeah totally fuck up the Supreme Court forever because nobody's gonna see it as legitimate anymore which guess what that's what's happening that's what's happening that's why Clarence Thomas is is so worried that's why he has to issue this response is because Yeah, he knows he's full of shit.
They all know that they're political actors despite the supposed nature of the Supreme Court being apolitical.
Dude's wife is one of the people who was trying to get Trump, trying to keep him in office despite the election.
You can't hold people accountable for their partners, right?
Just because he likes a girl boss, you sound real bad right now.
Yeah, blaming the actions of a white woman on a black man.
Yeah, totally.
And his whole thing, dude, you're doing a Rodney Dangerfield monologue.
You're not even really saying anything.
There's just no respect.
But what does that mean?
What does that even mean to you?
We're not genuflecting?
I don't know.
What does respect mean to you?
And he's going to just be like, it's the principle that matters.
No, dog, it's not the principle.
It's that you're changing people's lives.
Yeah.
Well, we have our principles, you have your principles, and we don't like your principles.
They're fundamentally at odds with your principles.
Who gives a shit about what you think, man?
And just the last thing I'll read in terms of this is a comment from the Washington Post about Clarence Thomas' remarks, about these specific remarks.
Sparky86, this is one of the top comments, this is like the second comment.
Sparky says, this court is not worth respecting.
It is fundamentally illegitimate.
Thomas and his acolytes are just angry that people are finally realizing it and pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.
Ding, ding, ding.
The Biden administration, states, and ordinary people must start simply ignoring this illegitimate court.
They should throw its rulings in the trash where they belong.
And this is like, this is the Washington Post.
This is like a liberal center.
This is, you know, not a radical space at all.
And this is what this ruling, this upcoming ruling, is sowing.
It is revealing to a lot of people who Kept putting faith in the institutions despite them, you know, failing to hold Orange Man accountable throughout his whole term, despite failing to, you know, keep corporations in check, keep war profiteers in check.
They're finally like, okay, yeah, I guess the more radical factions are right.
This prescription of the Biden administration, they should throw its rulings in the trash.
Biden's not going to do that.
Well, that's what sucks.
All that stuff is so hyperbolic.
It doesn't mean... Yeah, this isn't legitimate, but we can say it all we want.
Their rulings are – we might hate them, but their rulings are legitimate.
Their rulings will affect, you know, law.
So, you know, yeah, we do hate it, and it is bullshit, but they do affect things.
So, you know, they are legitimate.
Yeah, you can't just ignore them, like Sparky was saying, but you can fight back against them yourself, you know, not on an individual level, but at a mass level that doesn't involve hoping that Joe Biden will expand the Supreme Court.
Yeah, fucking right.
He's not going to do that.
Yeah, no way.
Did you see the video that just came out of him speaking in Ohio?
No.
I should have had it pulled up.
Whoa.
Whoa.
That sounds like a wild statement.
No, no, I used to eat lunch with segregationists all the time.
It's so funny.
Yeah.
Uh, well, we used to have segregation, uh, between blacks and the whites, but at least red and blue could come together.
Yeah, yeah.
It's very corny in that respect, in the respect of like, you know, oh it's Rebloodigans and Democrips.
We're just at war with each other.
I also like how he really stuck like a real, real segregationist.
Not like these fake-ass segregationists now where they're not even segregating people, and actually.
It's just such an amazing statement because he's worried about the same thing that Clarence Thomas is worried about.
He's worried about respect for the Democratic Party declining among the Republican Party.
We saw principles.
It's just like, man, that's really not something to brag about.
We used to still be able to be friends with people who wanted separate standards of living for black and white people codified into law.
Yeah, yeah.
It's you know in in the current moment we're in where the right is radicalizing farther and farther away from those that like handshake between social liberalism and fiscal conservatism they're just getting they're willing to totally get rid of the uh social liberalism and go you know uh just whole hog mask off about these issues you know they're trying to ban Yeah.
contraceptives, the morning after pill.
They're trying to ban obtaining abortion pills from the Internet, which is going to be really hard to do.
You can't you can't really do that.
You know, you just unless they raid your house or something like that.
All hail the black market, you know.
And then the Democratic response to that, the leader of the Democratic Party's response to that is, man, can't we just be friends, though?
Like, you can still do all that stuff, but can't we be friends about it?
You know, you know, you know, I used to invite to the cookout, is what he's saying.
You know, I used to like the cookout.
Segregationists.
Other white men.
They let me, because I was another white man, but still.
We were able to, you know, you know, we'd eat ribs sometimes.
You know, which is cool.
I used to go to this place in Washington, D.C.
It was a barbecue place, and it was owned by a black guy.
We used to go there all the time.
Now, we weren't allowed to sit with other blacks, but yeah, it was cool.
Oh, no, wait.
I'm thinking of House of Cards.
That's what I was thinking of.
That's what I was thinking of.
The president saying that he used to hang out with racists.
Isn't that wild?
He's like, no, no, I used to eat lunch with segregationists all the time.
Yeah, and that was a good thing, Tony.
Yeah, it was good.
It was nice.
Rub elbows with him.
Yeah, so obviously Biden's not going to do it for us.
No.
He's not going to be the one.
He sounds like he's passing away into the afterlife when he speaks publicly.
I rarely watch him speak publicly, but man, I was watching him give remarks in Ohio where he said this shit, and it was just like, you sound like you're in the land of Nod, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's... I don't even... Does he have an earpiece in, even?
Like, they need... He's always struggling.
He's always struggling.
He's never coherent.
It's really... He's making it easy for him.
Yeah, so I don't know that's that's about it for following up on this awful shit We got to support each other.
We got to figure out a way to do this without the institutions We got to figure out a way to guarantee fucking rights for everybody that Does not depend on the Democratic Party to have 75 seats in the Senate while we're talking about illegitimate institutions.
I mean the fucking Senate for one thing.
I think a lot of people are realizing it's like, oh yeah the Senate that's like heavily weighted in favor of people who want to ban abortion.
Yeah.
Yeah let's use that institution to fix it.
To codify abortion rights.
Yeah.
All we got is each other.
At the end of the day, all we got is each other.
These people don't got us.
They don't want to have us.
all we got with each other so you know we got to just stick stick tight uh on a lighter note
uh over the weekend i did uh see a wonderful movie uh A movie called Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness directed by Sam Raimi.
A lot of people are like, Ooh, The Thor Love and Thunder.
It's directed by that one guy.
I can't wait.
And I'm like, you guys, man, you're sleeping on the actual director.
Directing an actually, what turned out to be a pretty fun Marvel movie.
You know, a lot of people have They're hot takes about it or whatever and you know it wasn't violent enough or it wasn't gross enough.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Or it wasn't Sam Raimi enough or whatever.
Sure yeah it's a Marvel movie.
I think you know Marvel movies I'm probably in the minority of left podcasters in the sense that I think Marvel movies are generally pretty fun trash to watch.
Oh yeah.
I enjoy them, most of them, to varying degrees.
I did like the first Doctor Strange a lot.
I saw it very drunk in a 3D movie theater by myself.
Had a blast.
I just barely saw it.
I just barely watched it like a few months ago and I loved it.
I liked it a lot.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's kind of like the inception of Marvel movies.
But with even... It's like inception on LSD.
Trippy mang.
Yeah.
I will say, though, if you if you at all, you know, want to watch Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, I kind of would suggest seeing it pretty soon.
It's not like a rush out to theaters type movie, except for the fact that there are a lot of very funny, shocking moments in it that you don't want spoiled for you.
OK, OK, good to know.
Also, like I said, no spoilers, but I will say that this is that Doctor Strange 2 is the boyfriend's rights movie that we have been waiting for.
Oh, OK.
I mean, one day, one day I'll be a boyfriend and one day I'll get some rights.
And so I might want to see this ahead of time.
Yeah, you want to stock up on those.
That's exciting, that's exciting.
When the moment arises.
So, if I have one movie pass right now, and I have two multiverse movies to see, which multiverse movie am I seeing?
Well, I would see Everything Everywhere All at Once, because it's probably not going to be in theaters much longer.
Yeah, okay.
But, if you've already seen that, yeah, go see Doctor Strange, because it is a movie about a boyfriend who is wronged by his girlfriend.
She, she calls him controlling and narcissistic.
And, you know, he has to do things his way.
And then by like, out of, out of the machine comes a brand new female character to tell the audience and Dr. Strange's ex-girlfriend that in fact he was right the whole time.
Oh hell yeah.
He's actually the best version of Dr. Strange.
No this is as good as it gets.
This is as good as it gets.
And he's actually allowed To go to a strip club because he can be trusted.
He can be trusted in that environment.
He's allowed to dabble in dark magic because he can be trusted to handle it.
Oh, okay.
So he doesn't have like the Steve Harvey problem.
He's, he's beyond, he's better than that.
He's better than Steve Harvey.
Good for him.
Yeah.
Okay.
I want, I want to see that.
And you know, what's good to know is that in another universe, I have seen it and I have both liked it and hated it.
I wasn't even in it once.
It's like, picture if a character spontaneously erupted into existence out of another universe to tell your girlfriend, oh no, he was just getting that girl's number because she sells jewelry that he was going to buy for you.
She would be like, who the fuck is you?
Who the fuck is you?
And why the fuck do you know who he is?
Why do you know who my boyfriend is?
Why do you have his number?
I mean, you'd have to get past the initial questioning.
Are you sharing your location?
Is that how you got here so fast?
Why does she have your location?
I feel like the proof would be irrefutable to the girlfriend.
At least it was in the movie I saw, Tony.
Oh, okay.
Cool, cool, cool, cool.
Yeah.
That's tight.
That's good.
Yeah, Rachel McAdams.
Eat crow.
Eat your heart out, alright?
I'm glad that she was humbled that way.
About time.
She's been too powerful for too long.
Yeah, it was pretty funny like watching a packed Marvel crowd try to react to Sam Raimi's sense of humor and kind of like not understanding it.
Not really knowing if it was supposed to be funny or not?
That's fun.
It's not just a Marvel movie, it's a Doctor Strange movie, which is a little bit more weird.
It's not just blow em ups, smash em ups, it's more than that.
It's definitely more intellectual and cerebral.
I don't know, not everybody's going to get it.
If you've listened to Tool or if you've met the Machine Elves, you'll get it.
You'll know what's going on.
Are you familiar with Sega Geometry?
Should I take my shirt off so that my Sega Geometry tattoo can be exposed to the movie as I'm watching it?
Um, I don't think the shirt actually interferes with the alchemy.
See?
Good job.
That was a trick question.
I'm happy you got that.
If you did it right, I think the tattoo burns through the shirt.
It does.
You can feel the movie, really.
Okay, so yeah.
That's my review of Doctor Strange 2.
A movie that responded to the shots across the bow at boyfriends that was Midsommar.
Oh, good!
We finally have a boyfriend rights movie response to that.
That trash.
That utter trash.
Are you saying Doctor Strange boyfriend, Midsommar girlfriend?
Is that what you're saying?
That's what I'm saying.
Okay, alright, alright.
You heard it here first, folks.
Well, Ani did go with me to see Doctor Strange 2.
Did she walk out?
No, because that's the power of Doctor Strange 2.
She had to admit that I was right at the end of the movie for making her go see Doctor Strange 2.
Dang.
Dang.
That's awesome.
That's worth the prize of admission.
Yeah.
Okay, we got one more thing to talk about that...
Wow, just tickled pink at this story.
Alright, I can't find who shared this in the Facebook group, so my bad.
But I loved this story.
It's a good one.
It's great.
Yeah, feel free to claim credit in the Facebook group and I will shout you out.
The headline reads, Orange County man arrested for allegedly making threats towards Miriam Webster over gender definitions.
Okay, I'm gonna read the Fox News article because I think it gets more into the nitty-gritty of what this guy actually said and did.
The headline on Fox News is, You never really want to laugh at this stuff, but... You never really want to laugh at this stuff, but...
I mean, trying to kill the dictionary because it has modern definitions of gender...
It's pretty funny.
It's pretty grand.
Like, I think that this person thinks that Merriam-Webster is like a person whose hand you can shake.
Yeah, they don't even know that it was two people.
But you better get more ammo, there's two of them.
But yeah, you better double up there.
Yeah, and just to get so mad that they're just like... Yeah, yelling at nothing.
Threatening to kill nothing.
Well, I mean, it's words, Tony.
He's mad about the words.
He's got to respond in kind with other words.
Other words, yeah.
Very true.
The Justice Department charged a California man... Oh yeah, and it's an Orange County guy.
It's a fucking serf Nazi.
Charged a California man of hurling threats of violence against the Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster, Inc.
While he allegedly accused the dictionary of promoting, quote, lies and anti-science propaganda regarding its gender definition entries for the words, quote, woman and girl.
This is like when Bart calls Santa's little helper's female dog a bitch.
And he's like, it's in the dictionary.
And Marge is like, I'm going to have to write a letter.
Yeah.
I don't think care of that.
It's like, again, but the thing is you, you do have to take it seriously because you know, these motherfuckers would be like, yeah, you got to change that at all.
It's like, we're going to like, you know, we are going to take, we're going to, something is going to get hurt.
Yeah.
Cause this is their, this is like their most favorite, resource are like the dictionary or a science textbook.
You can't say much more fact than the dictionary.
Right, this is like somebody who does their homework or does their online arguments by, yeah, quoting the dictionary.
Yeah, exactly.
So if they're not taking away your weapon on your favorite thing to yell on the internet about, then you're pretty screwed.
This has been, I mean, you know, we talked about the right-wing infiltration of the Supreme Court, you know, via the Heritage Foundation.
via a lot of you know evangelical uh groups and you know steadily eroding at that right well the leftists have been doing the same thing in the dictionary They've been putting people in universities to get their degrees in words and definitions.
And then they go to work for Merriam-Webster and they slowly, subtly, yeah, change, like you said, Tony, change their weapon of choice.
The etymology community has really just been torn apart by leftists over the past few decades.
It's been a slow play.
It's been a slow, slow play, but it's working, apparently.
I mean, look at it.
Jeremy David Hanson, 34, so our age, of Rossmoor, California, was charged in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts by criminal complaint with one count of interstate communication of threats to commit violence.
He was arrested and made an initial federal court appearance in the Central District of California on Wednesday.
Court minutes show magistrate Judge John Early ordered Hansen to be released into the custody of his mother, with whom he was already living.
He was also ordered to submit to a mental health evaluation, wear a local monitoring bracelet, make no threatening communications, and to have no access to any device that can access the internet.
Okay, so before we get into the next paragraph, which is kind of a doozy, a lot of Fox News commentators only read this far.
That's really sad.
They read the headline and then they read, 34 year old man lives with his mother.
Yep.
They put the obvious two and two together because that's another one of their favorite things is just math.
You know, why don't they learn the arithmetic and the definitions in school?
That's like what they should be teaching.
They put two and two together and we're like this guy lives with his mom.
Obviously a liberal.
Obviously a liberal.
Obviously a millennial.
Probably a podcaster.
And because he got mad at the dictionary, which is our favorite resource for proving libtards wrong, he is obviously a libtard.
Because he was mad at our, you know, bible of logic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So a lot of people are just like, oh yeah, figures, libtards love violence.
This all makes sense.
What dummies would do this?
Okay, let me read the next paragraph.
The Boston Herald reported that Hansen's mother told the court that her son is autistic, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression, is prone to, quote, verbal hyperbole, and his medications had recently been changed.
So yeah, tough situation for that mother, probably.
Federal prosecutors accused Hanson of allegedly targeting the Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, Inc.
and other institutions with threats to commit anti-LGBTQ violence.
Do you know how and where the threats were done?
Yes, there's apparently a comment section on the Merriam-Webster's website.
Oh, oh, okay.
And there's also like a contact us field.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, let me get through here.
Okay, so According to U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, a user later identified by authorities as Hanson wrote comments, quote, demonstrating bias against specific gender identities submitted through the dictionary website's Contact Us page and in the comments section on Merriam-Webster's webpages that corresponded to the word entries for girl and woman.
Quote, it is absolutely sickening that Merriam-Webster now tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda.
Hansen, using the handle Anonymous, allegedly commented on October 2nd, 2021 on the dictionary's website definition of female.
Quote, there is no such thing as gender identity.
The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.
Oh, oh, oh my, my guy.
Chill.
I will say, um, maybe we don't need to have comment sections on everything.
Like, I don't think you need to have a comment section.
Uh, you need to create discourse over the definition of words.
I like how Yahoo News got rid of their comment section out of concern for decorum or whatever, but the Merriam-Webster Dictionary comment section's still up.
It's probably ripe.
It's probably ripe with some good stuff.
But yeah, you can't just say that because you're talking about someone there, you know?
The criminal complaint, says Hansen, also posted a threat via the website's Contact Us page.
Your headquarters should be shot up and bombed.
It is sickening that you have caved to the cultural Marxist anti-science tyranny agenda and altered the definition of, quote, female as part of the left's efforts to corrupt and degrade the English language and deny reality, Hansen allegedly wrote.
Quote, you evil Marxists should all be killed.
It would be poetic justice to have someone storm your offices and shoot up the place, leaving none of you commies alive.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Like, the thing is, it's funny, when you see these things, you're like, oh, maybe they were being, like, a dramatic, you know?
I mean, this is dramatic.
It's pretty dramatic, you know?
There is no misinterpreting, like, and leaving none of these comments.
Like, that's, yeah, you're saying, you're saying a lot.
You're saying a lot.
Yeah, you're saying the thing.
You're saying, like, pretty close to illegal stuff.
It's funny because You know, he apparently, he's autistic, he apparently has issues, obviously.
I would say that his issues are probably side-by-side with the fact that he has autism.
Like, autism doesn't make you this kind of person.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Uh, he seems to be a, I mean, this is, we're just getting a snapshot of him, but from this writing, he seems to be a high functioning autistic person.
I'm just going to, you know, which doesn't, which isn't to say that he is a high functioning all the time.
Right.
But whether or not he is autistic.
He is picking up every single thing that the right wing has been saying for, you know, as long as we've been doing the show, right?
Cultural Marxism, anti-science.
Yep, all those words, all the words, yeah.
Commies should be shot.
You can go online, you can go on Facebook and find a t-shirt that says, kill a commie for mommy.
Hey, what does Meir and Webster define cultural Marxism as?
Oh, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory started back in the fuckin' 1940s Germany?
It probably does have that definition.
Uh, yeah, so, um, hate-filled threats and intimidations have no place in our society.
U.S.
Attorney Rachel S. Rollins said in a statement released Friday, quote, we believe Hansen said a multitude of anonymous threatening and despicable messages related to the LGBTQ community that were intended to evoke fear and division.
You know, I'm pretty much for free speech just in general, right?
You gotta kind of take something like this seriously.
Yeah, you do.
You know what I mean?
When somebody says this shit, you gotta be like, all right, how many guns does this guy have?
Yeah, yeah, you do.
You do.
Because, like, that's the thing.
Not that, like, I trust, sorry, but not that, like, I trust the DOJ to be the ones to investigate it or anything like that.
I'm just talking more in an abstract sense of it that, yeah, this is like a, these are worrisome messages to be sending.
Yeah, and like, you know, I'm not just saying, you know, look into it, but also like, yeah, you know, uh, maybe offer this person some help.
You know, that's the, cause we always, every time those, those, those things happen, those tragedies do happen.
There's always a post.
There's always a bunch of posts.
There's always the conversation.
I'm like, why didn't anybody say anything?
Why didn't anybody do anything?
Well, so that's why you do gotta do things and uh yeah so it's it's it's a bummer but that's yeah that's what has to happen um but yeah like you can't be it's the thing it's like okay you make one comment here that's one thing you make another comment another place and you find other avenues of communicating and you continue to go about it that's a whole different thing you really gotta take that seriously
And it's also like, if you're not really canny enough to cloak your threats in imprecise language or, you know, innuendo, then you're also maybe the type of person who would actually be crazy enough to do it.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah, and again, that craziness that I'm talking about is unrelated to his actual neurodivergence.
Different thing entirely, but let's get to responses to this because they were so good.
Like you said, I just want to remind the people that you said this earlier, they stopped reading before they even knew what happened.
They just heard, person threatens Wow.
The dictionary, gotta be a lib.
Personalism, home with mom, thread the dictionary, gotta be a lib.
Gotta keep that in mind, because they do not know what we know now.
Yeah.
IQ 168 plus says, I didn't know autistics were verbal.
Wow.
Listen, my IQ 168 plus.
Like, I'm actually being a little conservative with my estimate here.
I've, I just didn't know, you know, I've taught myself all kinds of things.
I just never taught myself about autism, okay?
Sorry.
Sorry, I missed that one.
I actually don't know anything about this particular subject.
Maybe we should learn something.
Maybe we should be so humble.
Maybe we should talk about what we've learned.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, on every side of the culture war, if you're online at all, you should know that Autistic people can be verbal and are, a lot of times, very verbal.
Yeah.
And the thing is, also, I know for sure that you have called people, you know, autistic and autistic-adjacent words, who are talking to you on the internet.
You've done that.
I know you've done that.
Like a million times, IQ168+.
You fucking piece of shit.
It's pretty good.
Joseph Guidry says, when words can have their meaning altered by choice, how can anyone threaten anyone?
That's a good point.
Woah, that's true.
Sorry, what if he changed the definition of bombed?
Sorry, the definition of hunted down and shot has been changed to give lollipops to.
Well, I got a question for you, smart guy.
Define to be alive.
Really define that for me.
What is to be alive?
Because he's saying he doesn't want anyone to be alive, but define that for me.
Uh, how can anyone threaten anyone when words have their meaning altered by choice?
Space, space, space.
You said you were going to punch me.
Period.
Space, space, space.
Oh, I defined the word punch to mean reward.
Period.
Space, space, space.
Given the new idea of making up words for pronouns.
Dot, dot, dot, dot.
Glatt-Meeki-Powdell.
No.
Period.
Space, space, space.
Is that a threat?
I thought they maybe were throwing some Latin out there or something, but then everybody has to know they just made up words.
Imagine typing that out and you know that wasn't one take.
Yeah, it's edited.
It says edited right here.
Oh, I hate it.
And also, yeah, there are communities out there where getting punched is a reward, but it still means the same thing.
Yeah.
Uh, I love this.
So getting so mad at the dictionary that you're writing literal gibberish.
You're coming up with like baby talk, goo goo ga ga shit.
Words don't mean anything.
Why are you doing this?
Words don't mean anything.
He came up with the phrase for, I'm going to shoot the dictionary in gibberish just to see if, uh, the, you know, the trend would hold.
We're actually like losers and we don't know that's actually an amalgamation of like several fantasy languages.
Yeah, it's Klingon, a little Elvish in there.
KennyT488, which is weird.
in there.
Kenny T 488, which is weird.
It looks like it's Kenny 1488 kind of says kind of, yeah.
Autistic suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and depression is prone to quote, verbal hyperbole dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
That describes every single American liberal and they're not held accountable for their crimes.
Dang.
Dunked on him.
Double dunked.
Windmill dunked on him.
Like, that, again.
Same team, dawg.
That was the calls from inside the house, my guy.
Like, you fucked up.
Oh, I think it is all of you who are autistic.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I mean, it is a spectrum, so... Yeah, sure.
It's a good chance.
I'll look into that, actually.
Maybe I'll get some tools that will help me.
And again, like you said, you did not realize that this is your champion.
Well a lot of people are trying to like defend him or pretend that every liberal is also you know this uh threat like violent and threatening whatever a lot of people are like oh I guess it's okay to burn down uh cities as long as long as you don't send a hateful email to a dictionary for being wrong about gender Yeah, because, you know, Molotov cocktails don't have IP addresses.
So, yeah, you can't do that.
Dudlow Douglas says, okay, so which government justice service is going to charge Webster with lying to the public?
Oh, false advertising.
Is this the Better Business Bureau?
Who do we go to for this?
I don't know.
Maybe this is like a hate crime.
I don't know.
I love the dictionary is lying.
The dictionary is making stuff up now.
Hayden 380 says, several years ago I purchased an older version of a dictionary and an encyclopedia as it was becoming apparent that the left was altering the definition of certain words.
Now I can look up and see the real meaning of anything I am curious about within the privacy of my own home once again.
I got some dead stock encyclopedia from about 1962 and I really prefer the science there.
There's a whole chapter on skulls.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Yeah, right here it says you can ingest all the lead you like.
It's yum.
It's tasty.
I actually found some coupons from 1982 where I can go get a gallon of milk from anywhere I want.
Anywhere I want for five cents.
I bring them to the store and they better give me my milk for five cents.
Oh, it's really good for learning about countries that haven't existed in the last 30 years, I found in the dictionary.
I like these maps more.
These are cool maps.
I got one that isn't even... Puerto Rico's not even on the map.
Which is... I like that more.
Yeah.
ConserveChristian122 says, another example of someone being prosecuted for stating FACTS.
It's been happening all the time.
Here's just another example.
My long list of examples.
The fact that, yeah, you should be hunted like a dog through the parking lot of the Merriam-Webster's headquarters in Massachusetts.
Oh my god, yeah, that's just stating some facts.
That's all I'm saying.
Just more more libtard counter domestic terrorism triggered by facts and logic.
It would be funny if all the guy was doing was saying like this isn't what what women girls mean this isn't what women girls mean all day long for like and then they got in trouble that would be funny then you can say this then you can say you know your thing I don't agree with it obviously but you could say your thing then but no this guy was threatening to like take he made it very clear he wanted to take lives Scarface618 says, Oh, it's gonna be badass.
It's gonna be so badass.
It's really badass.
I mean, there's kind of a swagger devil may care sort of aspect to this comment.
The dictionary has a long history of being regarded as factual.
Politics has destroyed Webster's Dictionary.
They cannot be trusted.
They're making it seem like they've been fighting this fight for the corruption of Webster's.
It's been going on for so long.
We've been seeing how the politicians are... I remember when... Remember when... Isn't that what Hillary was running on?
Didn't Hillary want to, like, change definitions of words?
Like, I've never heard a politician talk about this.
This is not a politics thing.
Like, what are you doing?
Uh, no, I mean, I feel like in his, uh, it's not really a politics thing, but it is like a base thing.
It's like not a politician thing, but it's like the base of the Republican Party.
Uh, they're very concerned about the dictionary just and have been.
Um, you know, ever since like the dictionary started adding the caveat word, uh, slur to certain definitions, it's probably when that started.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
I was just looking at this page last year and it said ignorant under the definition.
Now it says something totally different.
Yeah, that's a totally different thing.
Listen, because I used to just, you know, call for everything.
I don't want to call people slurs.
So therefore, you know, they're wrong.
I am not.
The dictionary has a long history of being regarded as factual.
Yeah, so this is a guy who likes words, loves words, loves the definitions, definitely knows a lot of them, knows a lot of the definitions to a lot of words, and how to appropriately use them in a conversational manner.
Well yeah, I'm reading a comment they're doing in English so go yeah.
And what's funny is like there's a whole thing too about like a definition of like language and I think that part of the definition of language is how it does like evolve and change over the course of time to suit you know actual happenings.
Yeah to reflect society, to reflect the world that we're living in.
Mike Honcho Which is a reference to something, I can't remember.
It's a thing though, for sure.
What?
Says, "How exactly did his threats cross any line?" What?
Did you not...
Maybe they didn't read the threats?
This is a classic law school distinction between a threat and an assault.
In order for a mere threat to cross over into criminal conduct, the threat has to have an immediacy attached to it, and that is utterly lacking in this case.
He used the right words, like, quote, your office should be shot up.
He never said he was coming to do it.
Babe, babe, I said you're acting like a bitch.
I said you're acting like one.
You will notice there was no immediacy attached to that statement.
It's amazing.
You guys need to relax.
You guys need to relax.
Yeah.
He never said that he was coming to do it.
I appreciate that it is scary and he should get a visit from LEOs to make sure he isn't planning anything and it was just talk but charging him seems out of line here unless of course we are protecting trans people more than everyone else which is of course what this is all about.
That's what we're not talking about.
We do need to talk about how Webster's did fire all their cis people and replace them all with trans individuals.
That was a wild moment!
I don't even know how I feel about that.
That was pretty interesting.
And they did do that, so that is what he...
What are you saying?
That's not even what they're doing.
He would storm the fucking office at Merriam-Webster and say, which way to the gender department?
Who's in control of gender here?
And then everyone would stand up and they'd say, I am gender.
Yeah.
I am, I am gender.
Yeah.
And then he would crucify every last one of them.
Yeah.
Like, just they're not, they're not even protecting trans people here.
Like they're just protecting office workers.
Yeah.
If the DOJ cared about like protecting trans people from threats online, they, they wouldn't, they, they wouldn't, there would be, they, there's no, they don't have the bandwidth.
They don't have the bandwidth at all.
Imagine if anybody else had said this to anybody remotely on the right wing, right?
I mean, they're freaking out because people are protesting in front of Kavanaugh's house or whatever.
Like, imagine if one of them, you know, Breitbart or Daily Wire would do a whole segment on, you know, anybody who was like.
Yeah.
I mean, they have been doing they have been doing segments on people who have been tweeting some out of pocket stuff about the Supreme Court, which is fun.
Just, you know, use that innuendo.
Use that innuendo to keep yourself out of legal hot water.
Yeah, I mean, look what they did to Taylor and stuff like that.
They love to blow things out of proportion and then turn it on you and do to you what they say you're doing.
And it's bad.
Yeah, just a fun segment.
A fun segment about a bunch of people getting mad at the dictionary because it can't be used to fuel their pedantic arguments about what a woman is.
It's like, well, we told you to read the science textbook, right?
We said, hey, oh yeah, you're so confused about gender.
Why don't you open a fucking science textbook?
And then you open any science textbook that discusses gender in the last 20 years.
At least.
And it talks about how, yeah, gender is a socially occurring phenomenon.
Yeah.
It is different for every culture across time.
Yeah.
And they're like, okay, so I can't, I can't fucking say read a textbook anymore.
I'll say, I'll go even more rudimentary.
Read the fricking dictionary.
And then you go to click on it and it's like, what?
No.
Like you said, Tony, the call is coming from inside the house.
It's everywhere.
But they're going to be like, do you even listen to Stephen Cotter?
That's going to be the only thing they have left hopefully one day.
Is these pundits who are making stuff up.
They can't lean on anything.
That's good.
We want to get there.
You can't use the dictionary.
You can't use a science textbook.
What you do is you appeal.
Oh, yeah.
You want to know what the official stance about gender is.
Let me refer you to a doctor.
His name is Dr. Rand Paul.
Yep.
Yep.
No, he's not an actual doctor.
He's an optometrist.
And no, he's not even a certified optometrist.
He's actually only certified by the board that he himself created in order to certify himself.
But the man knows about gender.
That's true.
Well, because he can see it.
Because he can see.
It's an optometry joke.
That was.
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