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So before we get into just everything that's happening, I mean, so much stuff is happening.
It just keeps happening.
I hate it.
So much stuff is happening.
It never stops.
It's perpetual.
I feel like maybe we would ground ourselves a little bit and follow up with one Officer Dion Joseph.
Oh, Sir Dion.
The guy who tried to shame the officer, the Facebook cop, who tried to shame Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire for scaremongering about the killer robots that San Francisco did indeed authorize police to use.
Like, the day after we recorded that episode.
Uh, yeah.
San Francisco said, go ahead.
Yeah, please do.
Thanks.
Thanks, by the way.
To this California state law for forcing the cops to tell us that they were gonna use the killer robots on us So now at least we know we're still gonna approve the killer robots, but at least it's nice to know Wasn't there like an addendum though where it's um the the method of like lethal force is through explosive They're gonna be using explosives that they only they said they would only be using explosives to kill people for the time being
Are we allowed to use explosives as humans?
That seems pretty not okay.
Yeah, well no, it's not okay because it might endanger an officer's life if the officer is the one to use an explosive on a citizen.
That's why you need the robot.
We should authorize the use of hand grenades, because I think the trade-off of friendly fire they would incur is worth it for us.
Yeah, it's more of like a mutually assured destruction situation.
Yeah, no, Officer Deon Joseph, when the Daily Wire reported on the crazy libtards, what, in San Francisco, using killer robots?
Officer Deon Joseph was like, stop, Ben.
Ben, you're gaslighting us.
You're gaslighting us into believing that cops do not deserve killer robots to protect themselves.
Um, well it turns out somebody else on Twitter, oh, so, and then I made fun of him.
And then he made fun of my hard hat in the construction worker profile picture I had.
He was like, oh, nice hard hat, idiot.
You look so cool with your little light.
Everyone feels safe around you with your little, what do you call your light?
Dashing.
Your dashing light.
Uh, another thing that he said to me that I, that I forgot to mention on the show was he, he clapped back at me with a meme, uh, impact font, you know it is, of a guy who like, this guy looks pretty stupid in this meme, I'll be honest with you.
It doesn't look like a flattering depiction of whoever you're sending this meme to.
Uh, it's a guy, uh, scrunching up his own, putting a finger to his nose like a piggy, you know, like scrunching up his own nose.
No, he's picking his nose.
He's got his finger up his nose so hard that it's scrunching his nose up.
It almost looks painful.
He's like picking his nose so hard.
Yeah, he's manipulating his nose through the nostril.
Through the nostril, there you go.
Top text, ooh, I got to say a mean thing to a cop!
Bottom text, I'm cool now!
He kind of got me, because I admit, I was picking my nose.
It was a pretty intense job I was doing.
Plus, I did think I was cool.
I love that he made this.
I think he made this for this interaction.
Do they just have this on their saved favorites?
They just have this ready to go for when people say mean things to them?
Yeah, this is in his favorites, this is in his meme arsenal.
It's so good.
I bet he's got another one that's like a guy in panties.
And it's like, look at me, I think police brutality is a problem.
He has the one where it's the guy being held against the washing machine by his girlfriend, and it says, like, this is how guys who are mean to cops like to be kissed.
It's the Bernie bro in his footie pajamas, and he's like, hmm, I think I'll be disrespectful to law enforcement today.
I hope he's listening.
I want him to get these.
I want him to actually use all these.
I want to see him in the wild.
Uh, yeah, so people, after we did that episode, people were like, wait, Officer Dion Joseph is the guy who wrote an open letter to LeBron James on Facebook that like a bunch of national news outlets picked up, including the LA Times picked up his fucking Facebook post about how LeBron James is racist.
Oh, I think, uh, it's that same incident where Trump called LeBron James racist.
Uh, for saying that the cop was wrong to shoot that girl who was, like, in a knife fight with the other girl?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
And that's- that's what Officer Dion Joseph was responding to because LeBron James said, like, posted the photo of the cop and was like, you're next!
Uh, but...
So he wrote an open letter to LeBron James, but he's also just like a really active posting cop.
And I gotta shout out Sasha for sending this to me on Instagram.
Sasha said, which is true.
God, I can't believe you got into it with Officer Dion Joseph.
LOL.
The advocacy groups in LA have had to sue over his insane blog posts and shit.
Total POS tries to dress himself up as the hero of Skid Row, which is true.
He sells books that are like Diary of a Skid Row Cop.
Thank you.
Wow, that's so awful.
And he bills himself as like an expert on homeless people.
Like, apparently news shows will have him on as their homelessness expert.
The worst person to have on as your homelessness expert is this guy in particular.
This is the worst person for that.
Yeah, I'm reading from a website called Courthouse News, and this is about the relationship between advocate groups and the LAPD.
Los Angeles Community Action Network and its member Deborah Burton sued the city, the LAPD, the Downtown Industrial Business Improvement District, the Central City East Association and its executive director, and the LAPD lieutenant in charge of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row.
The Community Action Network advocates for Skid Row's minorities and homeless people.
It frequently protests the city's Safe Cities Initiative.
It calls the initiative a front for officers to harass, interrogate, and issue citations to people who live on Skid Row.
Officers use, quote, quality of life laws that are, quote, generally ignored in other parts of the city to target the homeless, the group claims.
Officers harass the homeless because the value of real estate on Skid Row has risen dramatically, according to the 39-page complaint, and developers see the homeless as a roadblock to gentrifying the area.
This is where we're at in American society.
It's not even like, oh, your poor little old neighbor lady, like, she's getting evicted from her home because real estate developers want to, like, mow it down and build new houses.
It's like, no, the people who are already homeless are going to be further displaced and erased because of the, because of real estate concerns.
It's, and it's like fucking gnarly.
I mean, we just saw a story today of, and what was, I'm happy it was written this way because it did kind of like humanize the people, the on house neighbors that you have.
It said, um, it said, you know, uh, so-and-so returning home from work and his home was a tent, a tent that they were bulldozing with a bulldozer.
Like, with a tent that is tarps and a shopping cart and a few other things that are pieced together to make some sort of shelter, they're bulldozing it, and this guy was literally coming back from work to this.
Like, this is what's happening, and yeah, it's just to make room for developers, and it's rampant, and it's disgusting.
There's a little red Stephen King book back when he was writing as his alter ego, whatever.
What was his name?
Richard Branson.
Chris Gentry?
Richard Branson.
Oh no.
Was that really?
Chris, Chris, no, it was something.
Richard something.
Richard Bachman.
Called Road Work.
And it's a fun read if you're worried about people getting displaced by, you know, imminent domain or private concerns.
It's about a man going crazy and doing something about that.
Pretty fun book, but let me read more from this article real quick.
The relationship between the community organizers and police is contentious.
Among other things, the group claims officer Dion Joseph falsely accused the group in an LAPD blog post of selling knives and beer to homeless people.
And giving them- and giving them pornography!
Oh my god, that's even worse.
Like, you're totally allowed to have knives and beer in pornography for the record.
But I just love this idea of, you know, they're giving them knives and beer.
Like, they just literally hand them a brown paper bag.
Inside the brown paper bag is a knife and a 40.
And also, there's some pornography in there too.
Like, that's the kit that's being handed out?
Yeah, it's got hand warmers and pornography.
Yeah.
I'm going to do that now.
Yeah, totally normal man.
Police prevented the group... Oh yeah, Joseph accused the group of, quote, pimping poverty for funding, and, quote, poisoning the community.
Pimping poverty for funding?
Wow, I can't imagine anything worse than that, except maybe criminalizing poverty altogether!
Throwing people in fucking prison!
Also for funding!
Yeah, for funding, because they're poor.
Wow, that sounds awful.
Police prevented the group from videotaping officers on Skid Row and have threatened protesters with arrest for lawful protesting, the complaint states.
Burton, 62, who is African American, says she was arrested and charged with crimes she did not commit as an effort to punish her for speaking out.
Burton claims she was falsely accused of assaulting a business leader during a 2011 protest of an event called the Skid Row Walk when she blew an air horn in protest.
Burton says that Defendant Estella Lopez, Executive Director of the Central City East Association, claimed that the air horn had damaged her hearing.
So she got charged with this community organizer activist got charged with assault for blowing an air horn.
Defendant Police Lieutenant Shannon Paulson did not mention in a report about the incident that Lopez had suffered from ear problems for 30 years.
Well, I'm sure the air horn didn't help then.
That's true.
Burton said a jury return.
I mean, if she'd suffered from ear problems for years, it seems like the air horn shouldn't have been that loud to her.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Calm down.
Maybe you should always be wearing earplugs, huh?
That's just common sense.
Anyway, uh, Burton says a jury returned a not guilty verdict on all the counts against her.
Yeah, cool.
Good.
I mean, Jesus Christ though.
Yeah.
I think that counts as harassment.
Um, this other, so we haven't also have a, uh, actual blog post from Dion Joseph.
It's called these old boots.
And this is from his website.
Dion joseph.org by the way.
These old police boots.
January 18th, 2019.
Had to retire these old boots.
Man, if they could talk, they'd say, STOP RESISTING!
They'd say, THWACK!
THWACK!
If they could talk, I'd be fucked, actually.
The body camera turns off, but these boots stay on.
The skulls they have seen.
If they could talk, they'd have gotten a rough ride years ago.
Yeah, a long time ago.
Man, if they could talk, they would speak of a time years ago when they could protect citizens from the worst of our society.
Man, wow, these poor boots.
Their hands are tied.
Yeah.
I love it when the police stand up strong and speak truth to power.
how shelters that you probably like individually tried to prevent from being built yeah to running after those who caused fear and harm they would speak of helping me stand even if i was alone to speak truth to power i love it when the police stand up strong and speak truth to power somebody has to do it i like how literal that is though the the The support they provided throughout the ankle was second to none.
I mean, somebody's got to arrest these homelessness advocates.
I mean, Jesus Christ.
somebody's gonna arrest these homelessness advocates i mean jesus christ yeah come on they would speak of helping me stand even if i was alone to speak the truth about you literally have like three billion dollars behind every effort you do man you're an lapd police officer or you were at least these boots would tell stories of the flights of stairs
i ran down from a roof to catch a drug dealer hiding under the guise of homelessness and Hey, see, look, this is my move, right?
What I do is, what I do is, I just act homeless, right?
But I've been actually selling mad drugs the entire time.
I'm like, I'm the biggest plug out.
I just live on the street to trick everybody.
You know that thing that happens all the time?
Yeah, I mean, and think, when you don't have to pay rent, that's all profit.
All that money you're bringing in.
Exactly.
No, the overhead, the overhead, it's gone now.
I mean both literally and figuratively.
I don't have a shelter right now.
Yeah, but I also don't have I don't it's all profit now, baby Yeah, what do you keep I just I just keep the drugs in my pocket Yeah that we have cargo pockets though Yeah, we call it's decentralized.
I've we've just said we've decentralized the drug game Like like how bad could this this drug dealer have been right?
Yeah Uh, yeah, so that's the tone of this article.
No need to read more of this article!
These criminals hiding under the guise of extreme poverty and malnourishment.
That's amazing.
Like I bet you when he first saw, not to get ahead of everyone else, but when he saw like the first season of like the Donda line when it was all dingy, he's like, I fucking told you.
I fucking told you.
Look at those dingy clothes.
I told you they've been acting homeless the whole time.
They've been rich the entire time.
All these drug dealers.
I fucking knew it.
- Yep.
Okay.
Moving on.
From one completely sensible and grounded man to another.
Kanye West.
Lots of news happening with Kanye West and it's good that we only record this twice a week because it allows us to develop a backlog of Kanye West news that we can then report on.
It all started, I think, this latest event with Kanye, it all started when he went to dinner with Trump and he brought along a little friend named Nicolas Fuentes.
Who is of course a white supremacist neo-nazi creep who apparently eats his own boogers on stream, tells his followers it's gay to have sex with women, and I think even had a falling out with a co-producer because that co-producer came Once or twice?
And Nick found evidence of it?
So just like a real sick little freak man.
Yeah, like literally advocating for purge-style raids on black neighborhoods from the police.
Like literally advocating for that.
Routinely.
Yeah, he streams about the Holocaust, about how Jews, if Jews don't watch out, they're gonna get it.
So, kind of obvious why he would find common ground with the things that Kanye has been saying lately.
Such as, yeah, Jews better watch out.
I'm going Defcon 3 on the Jewish population.
I think the best person to fill us in or to I don't know.
Address our feelings about the dinner itself.
I have some audio.
I know the truth.
So this is why they are calling him a white supremacist again.
Because Kanye West, Kanye West.
By the way, this was the smallest hat he could find.
The hat looks giant on him, but it's the smallest hat you can find.
It's his hat.
It's the hat that he always wears.
It's the big one, yeah.
I tried to root for Kanye, but Kanye West is crazy.
This man is deranged, okay?
Seriously.
And President Trump needs to stay away from Kanye West.
You stay away?
You're gonna get yourself into trouble.
You stay away from that boy, he's trouble.
Yeah, yeah.
Some dude named Nick Fuentes to dinner.
Kanye West wanted to see Trump.
And Trump, being the nice guy that he is, he let Kanye come see him.
And Kanye brought some dude named Nick Fuentes, who I never knew.
I never knew this guy, never heard of him, and neither has President Trump.
But evidently, he's supposed to be some white supremacist guy.
Okay?
He supposedly said some really, really bad things.
I saw some of his videos, and yeah, it ain't good.
I love that, like, because all these people are, like, bastards.
Everybody involved in this story is a huge piece of shit.
Everyone sucks, yeah.
Including the person talking right now.
Absolutely.
Not me.
I paused the video of the piece of shit.
Right now you're hearing a nice man talk.
I love how he's like, Oh, this Nick Fuentes is no good.
He's supposedly a white supremacist.
He supposedly said some, some not nice things.
Uh, I also, I heard the things and they were bad.
Like you, this is just, it's muscle memory for these people.
To like never turn on a fellow right winger?
Even when they go all out and say things like the holocaust was funny?
Even when they say these things you have to play like dumb you have to couch all of you all of your statements and he does it just naturally he just says so he supposedly said some bad things and then I also heard the bad things And it's been funny having to watch all these people use their muscle memory.
Because like the thing about this Kanye tour right now is he doesn't know dog whistles.
He doesn't understand how dog whistles work.
And it's just really funny watching everybody kind of like you said muscle memory kind of like trip over themselves.
And like this, like he said, he, he went from saying allegedly, allegedly, you know, supposedly said these things.
I also heard those things.
Like, yeah, you don't know what to do anymore.
You're just stuck in your, your, your, you know, your muscle memory cycle.
Well, Kanye by saying all the stuff that he's been saying is like forcing the right wing to either come out and vociferously deny or denounce what Kanye has said or just keep trying to pretend
that what he said was okay because what oh what he actually meant was something else and we'll get into that it's because but again like i've said i think on the last three episodes it's getting harder and harder to rationalize how crazy the world is to rationalize how extreme things are getting and the explanations are seeming more and more stupid and so even the stupidest people have to be like
Well supposedly he's a white supremacist and also he is a white supremacist because I heard him say that.
No one's actually saying that Nick Fuentes or Kanye West are white supremacists.
We're not saying that anymore.
They're saying they're Nazis.
But because they haven't, they're so used to like saying white supremacist and said, you know, like they understand there is a correlation between the two and they haven't like figured that out yet.
They were, they do mean the same thing kind of, but I mean not exactly obviously, but um, no one is, no one's saying the words white supremacist.
We're saying Nazi, but you can't say that he had dinner with a Nazi.
He can't say it.
Yeah.
Because the public's not saying white supremacists anymore.
I mean, they are.
It's all kind of the same thing, I think.
But yeah, he doesn't want to use the word Nazi.
That's for sure.
Because once again, it's like with the killer robots and defund the police and all of that.
It's like, oh shit, maybe the people who have been talking about this shit for the last five, ten years had a point because Donald Trump had dinner with a Nazi.
Can't admit that.
I'm gonna tell you right now, President Trump would never hang with somebody like that.
Kanye West disrespected President Trump by bringing a guest that was not invited.
So disrespectful.
I also don't think you can just like sneak a guest on Trump, which I think that's kind of funny.
If you're Kanye West, you probably can.
I mean, yeah, maybe, but I don't know.
I feel like it's kind of hard to do.
Somebody fucked up by letting him in the door, that's for sure.
But yeah, I don't think you can just do that.
I think there's rules around that, even if you're Kanye West.
Okay, so there was a lot of hemming and hawing in the right wing about whether or not Trump had dinner with a Nazi and whether whose fault it was if he did.
A few people came out to condemn Trump having dinner with a Nazi.
A few people condemned the idea of having dinner with a Nazi without mentioning Trump.
Specifically, after this, Kanye and Nick Fuentes went on Tim Pool's podcast.
Mm-hmm.
And this is a guy, like, so annoying.
This guy, um... It's like nothing he does is good.
It's just all fucking ass.
Like, the mall punk band he has is completely shitty.
It's like, how do you turn, like, mall emo into butt rock?
I don't know, but he did it.
He did it.
He did that part.
Well, he really did achieve that.
So everybody at this, not everybody, a lot of people on the right wing were still saying, Oh no, Kanye is a genius.
And he's just trying to, uh, you don't give him a chance.
You gotta, you gotta invite him onto your show and let him talk about the Holocaust and Hitler some more.
And so that's what Tim pool did, uh, in, in our next clip.
If we can't, you're not going to take my pain away, right?
The Jewish people say, it's the Holocaust, this happened, and you can't say anything about it.
We can't take their pain away.
No one's going to denounce the fact that they tried to lock me up.
that's what because every time i'm just holding stride and it's like i didn't i thought i was more malcolm x but i find out i'm more mlk because as i'm getting like that is it's so funny to like to think that way because usually when someone's saying you know i'm more mlk than i am malcolm you're saying that you're like for a peaceful movement.
Yeah.
For a more, like, for, you know, for a more, like, uh, uh, almost approachable movement.
But, um, like, less radical.
But, dawg, if you think that you're, that you're going less radical right now, if you think you're, like, calming down, that's wild.
I, I hate, I hate that he even brings up, like, um, you know, black people at all in this conversation because nothing he's saying is coming from a black space.
Like, there's plenty of anti-Semitism within the black space, but the stuff he's saying is not that.
This is straight-up old-school Nazism.
Yeah, well, like he was doing when he talks about how slavery was a choice, or what else did he say?
Didn't he say Irish were slaves?
Oh, he said he was Jewish.
He said he was Jewish so he gets to talk about Jews.
This is like classic boomer Facebook stuff.
That's that's where all this stuff is coming from.
It's coming from a guy who's like very detached from politics.
Discovering politics for the first time because Adidas canceled their contract with him.
Discovering oppression, I wouldn't say for the first time, but maybe discovering it anew once he's established this new life for himself.
Like now this is his this is his oppression.
And I love, yeah, talking about, oh, I thought I was Malcolm X. Turns out I'm more of an MLK.
Like, talking about this shit like you did a BuzzFeed quiz, you know, which black leader am I?
And then also, yeah, I thought I was more Malcolm X, but then I realized how I am oppositionally, I'm opposed to the Jewish Mafia, which famously Malcolm X never had an experience in that.
I thought I was Malcolm X, but turns out this Nation of Islam thing seems pretty cool.
That's so funny.
Yeah, MLK famously a part of that.
Well, that's the whole thing.
Throughout this entire thing, every once in a while, through all of his tirades, he always takes a little Jesus break where he has to put in there like, But Jesus, you know, I'm following Jesus.
This is the way that Jesus did it.
And he does a Jesus break.
And I think that's the MLK thing, maybe.
Is he's like, maybe is that he found he found because, you know, MLK famously being a pastor, you know, it's like, oh, this is a I'm more MLK because of Jesus.
I think that is definitely a factor.
Well, he'll explain right now.
I just wanted to pause on that statement because it's so good.
Turns out I'm actually more like MLK.
I thought, I thought I was, I thought I was like Malcolm X, but... Survey says...
down every day by the press getting hosed down every day by the press more malcolm x but i find out i'm more mlk because as i'm getting hosed down every day by the press and financially i'm just standing there and when when i found he's he's doing financial non-violent resistance to the fire hose that the media is spraying on him wow amazing
like i love that he's like you know when they're sticking the dogs on me and by that i mean like seizing my accounts you know it's like i'm just i'm just standing there i'm more like mlk wow yeah i guess he is in the sense he's like he's not leaving he's definitely doing some sort of like sit-in he's definitely not not fucking going anywhere listen listen to this uh
- That they tried to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm and I almost shed a tear, almost.
But I still walked in stride. - How is this not a joke?
Like, and I don't mean a joke like, like he's doing this tongue in cheek.
I mean, like, how is this not an absurd skit, an absurd bit when, oh, when, when they, when they said that I had bipolar disorder, that was like a dog bite.
That's like a German shepherd biting my arm.
Yeah.
It seems so like.
It's obscene.
This is a wild stance to take.
It's outrageous.
It seems outrageous, but it's happening.
I think they've been extremely unfair to you.
Okay, so that's Tim Pool talking.
I'm gonna rewind it a little bit here.
This is the host of the show, by the way, who has a crossed samurai sword and, like, powder musket hanging on his back wall.
Fucking awful, man.
What a stupid ass.
So sick.
So sick.
They've been extremely unfair to you.
Who is they, though?
I think they've been extremely unfair to you.
Who is they, though?
Kanye says, who is they, though?
We can't say who they is, can we?
We can't say who they is, can we?
I don't use the word as the way I guess you guys use it.
It is them, though, isn't it?
I don't use that anti-semitic Nazi dog whistle the same way you guys do, I guess.
Thanks for coming on the show, by the way.
Thanks for coming on my show where I just said you should run for president and you would make a great leader of men.
And then that second, like that third nasally voice that bumps in there that says, it is them though, right?
That's Nick Fuentes.
Yeah.
Let's, let's listen.
I'm talking about- It is them though, isn't it?
I mean, because when you think about it, consider it.
In 2018- What do you mean it's not?
What do I mean, like- And then Kanye pushes back on Tim Pool.
He says, what do you mean it's not them?
It's not the Jews.
And then Tim Pool starts to explain himself.
Uh, okay.
So how about- Are you leaving?
Are you pretty depressed?
He's gone.
And Kanye walks out of the interview because Tim Pool dared to say, I don't think it's the juice.
And he's like, yeah, if you're not going to say it, I'm not going to sit here.
And you know, it's funny that the thing that The thing that bothers me the most about that clip actually, I mean not actually the most, but you know something that really bothers me about that clip is that you hear the snickering in the background.
You hear the people like laughing in the very end.
Yeah.
And it's like, oh man, they're like, they think this is all a joke.
Like they think this is funny.
Well, it's good ratings for them.
You know, we're talking about them.
Yeah.
Because, I mean, I never thought... We have not talked about Kanye much at all.
We've kind of, a long time ago, kind of drew a line in the sand and talked about how he fucking... He sucks.
He's been irredeemable for us for a long time.
So it's funny to see this happen even worse now, and people are finally like, oh shit, this is all...
This is all real.
But like I said, but these guys who do agree with him, but they don't say it out loud, they get to like snicker in the background.
Yeah, totally.
I mean, it's a fun game.
It's a fun game that you get to play.
You get to make the libs super mad and you get to like signal to your right wing audience that, hey, the goyim knows.
The goyim know.
Yeah.
So right after this interview happened uh some guys started selling a shirt it was yay versus they 2024 and uh Tim Poole retweeted it so still after after they came out and said no when we say they we we mean jews this guy is like such a worm he's just like just like anything to make a buck because that's his whole
His whole schtick is being like the reasonable centrist liberal and like everybody left me behind and it's just you're having you have nazis on your show to like compliment them and shit man you're like you have no soul it's so it's uh And what's funny though is that, you know, he does this and then he does, he gets to do, people are still having him on stuff.
He goes, you know, he goes on to be on Alex Jones and he goes on to be on other things.
And it's like, okay, so they saw him walk out of the room when, when Tim Pool won't also say Jews.
So you're like kind of saying, come on down.
I'll say it with you, bud.
Yeah.
Uh, so yeah, this brings us to Kanye's appearance on Alex Jones, which.
There's just too much to get into.
You've probably read about it where he said, I love Hitler and I love Nazis.
Alex Jones himself had to be like, well, I don't think all Jews are bad.
I don't think a whole group of Jews are bad.
I like some Jews, folks.
There's some Jews I can stand.
Literally had to defend Jews on his program, which keep an eye out for that.
I'm eager to see what kind of backlash Alex Jones is gonna get for saying that on his own show.
Another thing that Kanye said was, quote, every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.
What a statement.
And we'll get into more of that later, but that's this is the kind of stuff that he was saying and
The best thing though I think is this video of Kanye calling out Benjamin Netanyahu and he had this amazing idea for a bit where he brought a fish tank net like a fish scooper net and a bottle of yoo-hoo to be a stand-in for Net and Yahoo.
Get it?
Do you get it?
And I'm going to play the audio from, I think, like the second or third time he brings out the net.
I know some people call him Bebe.
I know some people call him Yahoo.
But we're going to call him Netton.
What you want, Netton?
Hey, yay, right after this, I'm going to say you're crazy.
I'm going to take your family away from you.
We ain't done with you yet.
You cannot cause free thought.
We have to control the history books.
We have to control.
Thanks.
And we have to go and kill people.
Oh my God.
So yeah, you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become Jeff Dunham.
To become a, like, if you thought maybe the cultural, social, racial commentary by Jeff Dunham was a bit too vague, a bit too highbrow, this is your guy.
He brings out a net for Net and Yahoo and says, we own the banks!
We made your wife divorce you!
The fucking Elmo-ass voice he does is so fucking funny.
There was once a part in time where he was the coolest person on the planet.
You couldn't get any cooler than this individual.
Like he did some wack shit that still looked tight and now he's literally doing that voice and like puppeteering Annette.
It's so wild to see.
It's so wild to see.
And it's like you can't even really compare him to Jeff Dunham because I forgot to mention he's wearing a mask.
He's wearing like a pullover like balaclava with no eye holes or maybe it's a zip-up hood.
I don't know what it is.
But you can't even see if his mouth is moving or not.
So it kind of defeats the whole purpose of doing a ventriloquist act.
Really not right to compare him to Jeff Dunham in general.
I love when he brings out the net because he sounds like Oprah when he does it.
I know some people call him BB.
Some people call him Yahoo.
But we're gonna call him Net-In!
We're gonna call him Net-In!
You can like imagine his hands in the air like doing the Oprah thing with your flashcards in her hand waving them around.
Net-In!
Yahoo!
Him like walking up to the stage all bashfully.
I want everybody to look under their chairs!
You get a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!
You get a copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!
Like, did he practice this?
Did he, like, this is a, this is, it's, it's wild.
It's fucking wild.
Um, yeah.
So anybody who's trying to say, Oh no, when he says the Jews, he means like the specific Jewish people who happened to like be an executive at this bank or the specific Jewish guy who was like his personal trainer or whatever.
He just means those Jews.
He literally says Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to make him look crazy so that they can take his kids away.
Listen to this again.
What you want, man?
Hey, right after this, I'm going to say you're crazy and take your family away from you.
If you don't do this, I'm going to say you're crazy and take your family away from you.
Oh no!
Oh no!
What if Benjamin Netanyahu said that Kanye West was crazy?
Whoa!
We'd be like, well, we have to believe Benjamin Netanyahu.
I mean, there's, I don't, there's no other evidence, but if Netanyahu says it, You know what this is?
This is the Nazi Wunderschosen.
This has more of a Wunderschosen vibe, but just a bad message.
Yeah, I mean, he literally probably just found out who Benjamin Netanyahu was.
He's like, oh wait, there's a guy?
There's an actual Jewish leader?
Oh, hell yeah.
This is my guy now.
This is the guy I'm gonna do.
This is it.
He's blaming on one guy?
Tony, have you ever heard, I might have brought it up on the show before, but have you ever heard the phrase that socialism, or that anti-semitism is the socialism of fools?
No, no.
I can't remember who said it, so apologies to that guy, but it's a phrase I like.
It's a phrase that just sums it up beautifully for me, because every one of these anti-semitic motherfuckers, or at least like 99% of them, are also anti-communist.
In fact, they think that Jews created communism.
They think that Jews are responsible for communism.
It's one reason people get, like, shepherded towards anti-semitism, is because they're already indoctrinated into anti-communism.
And you know what?
Guess who was some of the most anti-communist people in the world?
They were Nazis.
So, because you're anti-communist, because you're anti-socialist, What else do you have to describe the powerful people who have control over your life?
You can't talk about it in terms of class, because you've already said, oh, well, that's Jewish evil.
If you talk about class structures or class relationships, well, that's Marxism and that's evil.
So how do you do it?
Oh, there's specific guys that are bad, that have bad blood, and they're conspiring against the rest of us.
And it's like, what about all the other guys that aren't Jewish, who are also billionaires, who also leech off the entire public?
And it's like, oh, well, they're dogs of the Jews.
They're also being controlled by the Jews.
And it's like, wait, you mean the company that you're really mad at, Adidas, that was like started by Nazis and is like, you know, is a German company that was like started by people in the Nazi party.
Like they're also doing this.
They're also with, they're the dogs of the Jews too.
You sure about that, bud?
You positive?
But yeah, you can convince your... It's a self-fulfilling thing too, like we said, because once you start yelling these things out in public like this, yeah, people are going to want to distance themselves from you.
That's so funny.
It's like, oh man, the conspiracy theorists were right.
They all told me I was crazy.
But it turns out everybody hates my guts, just like I suspected.
Everybody thinks I'm insufferable to be around.
I was trying to tell you people that I was insufferable to be around.
Nobody believed me.
They thought it was a conspiracy theory.
I did warn everybody.
I did warn everybody.
And you know, he kind of did.
We just didn't realize how blatant he was being.
He was like, no, no, I'm a, I'm a black skinhead.
That's the name of the song.
I'm not being ironic.
I'm not, I'm saying, I'm saying the racist kind of skinhead, but I'm a black one.
It's, I'm saying that that's what's actually happening.
Yeah, and so like, a Steven Crowder quote, and Steven Crowder, another right-wing anti-communist YouTube personality, right-wing personality, he said, Kanye's not wrong about everything.
Look, is there a conversation to be had about people with, I think he said like secular people with Jewish last names exploiting people in the performance arts?
Yeah.
And so this is like, I mean, not really that veiled of an attempt.
It's an attempt, but it's not that veiled at pretending that Kanye has a real point.
Underneath all the supposed antisemitism, there are actual, like, individual Jewish people who are exploiting Kanye.
And it's like, how are they doing that?
Are they doing that with their money?
Are they doing that with the hierarchical system that we have in place?
Or are they doing it with Jewish mysticism?
Right?
Yeah.
But anyway, if you took this same argument...
And said, oh, people there.
I mean, it's true.
There are people with Jewish last names exploiting people in the performing arts.
This is literally what liberals do with white men.
This is like, this is like the answer to a capitalist liberals problem is, oh, there's too many white men as CEOs.
If only we could have CEOs that were women or people of color, then it would be good.
Then it wouldn't be exploitative anymore.
And it's like, I'm pretty sure a lot of people on the right wing would feel that that's just an illogical argument.
That argument makes no sense.
The system is there regardless of who fills the role, etc.
But when it comes to Jewish people, suddenly, oh no, there's a point.
When it's a Jewish guy, it's bad.
And that's what's so frustrating because yeah, there's a huge history of especially black musicians and black artists and black, you know, for lack of a better word, you know, influencers, people who influence the culture, um, being taken advantage of corporate people who are white.
Like that's a, that's a, that's a well-documented American historical thing.
And it's like, Like you said, how come they, but they can't say because they would just say, Oh, I guess if I was a CEO, I just wouldn't be a racist one.
Um, because I'm a, I'm a good white guy.
Not like the, you know, not like the secular people with Jewish last names.
And it's like, no, you, you're so close, but you're just being racist about it.
Yeah, it's just identity politics for the right wing.
That's all that anti-semitism is.
That's all that this, like, conspiracy... Like, I mean, they talk about, like, the globalists and shit.
Like, you're talking about global capitalism.
You're not talking about Jews.
You're talking about global capitalism.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It makes me laugh, like, anytime somebody expects this to be, like, a serious argument that, whoa, you look at these people who have influence or whatever and it's like, yeah, why do they have influence?
It's because they have a shit ton of money.
Money, yeah, exactly.
Not like my Jewish friends who are fucking broke as shit.
You know?
Like, what do you think my friends are doing?
Yeah I love that too because it's like oh yeah you know they control the banks I'm like you know America prints the money right like America's not you know there's there's never there's never been a Jewish president they they definitely made sure that didn't happen last time you know it's like that that's get out of here get the fuck out of here like Yeah, they're just using the wrong words, and they're directing their hate, and it's like, fuck off, man.
There's real people to be mad at here.
There's actual people to be upset with, and you got it all twisted up because of your bigotry.
Well, because they want to be the ones on top, and anytime there's a Jewish guy who's there instead of them, or like...
They just see it as an easy, I mean this is like the oldest trick in the book, but it's just an easy scapegoat to avoid indicting the whole system.
Oh no, it's these individual bad actors in the system who are, yeah, Jewish merchants.
Isn't this a funny picture?
Yeah, spread this picture around.
That's the source of your problems.
It's not the fact that you have a medical bill that you'll never be able to pay off.
So, I just want to briefly get into responses to this.
I mean, we've talked a lot about just the general responses to Kanye's antics.
A lot of people are using the fact that Kanye West was wearing a mask to cast doubt on whether it was even Kanye.
It probably wasn't even Kanye under there.
Like Sharla Belcher says, was it him though?
Why is he all covered?
Something's weird's going on.
Praying hands.
Praying for discernment.
She's praying for discernment.
I would love for you to be right here, but Kanye has a history of wearing masks and also has some mannerisms and things that you just can't mimic.
You just can't mimic.
I talked to a body language expert and they said that's for sure yay.
He gave his Twitter over to Alex Jones and to Nick Fuentes while they were recording this interview.
Like, he was there, folks.
I'm sorry.
And then, yeah, people are like, oh, he's going to get disappeared.
He's going to get disappeared because he's, what, telling the truth?
And if, I mean, if you want to talk about conspiracy theories, uh, I've got a good one.
Isn't it convenient that, uh, the biggest superstar in the world went on Alex Jones and said, I like Hitler a lot on the same day that Democrats voted to, uh, voted against rail workers broke, preemptively broke a national labor strike.
But all we could talk about is Kanye.
Hmm.
Wow.
I wish more people felt that way.
Because that's true.
No, it's because Kanye's telling the important stuff.
Like, oh no, Hitler's good because he invented a microphone.
Just like the dumbest fucking people, man.
You really think Hitler invented a microphone?
Maybe like a microphone?
I don't know.
He's talking about Neumann microphones who were not invented by Hitler.
They were just like a German microphone company.
So stupid.
But like you said though, I mean, it worked on me.
I haven't posted much about the railroad strike, but I have posted about Kanye.
So that's, you know, it's working.
Yeah.
I see.
You gotta split your posts up more equitably.
That's how you do politics better.
I just feel bad because I don't have a real job, so I just feel real bad, like, posting about that.
Yeah, you've been on a labor strike for years now.
For a minute.
And then, yes, Sandy says they are trying to cancel him.
Next thing you know, we are going to hear that he has succumbed to his own self-infliction, parentheses.
You guys know what I mean.
I think you're allowed to write suicide on Facebook.
Maybe, you know, not for long, though, probably, if Mark Zuckerberg has his way.
But I love this idea—oh, yep, they're probably gonna kill—we're gonna hear, oh, Kanye committed suicide, and it's like, what the heck?
I've never seen Kanye exhibit any sort of self-destructive behaviors before in public for years at a time.
That's impossible!
Yeah, and it sucks because she's probably right.
We probably will hear about that, but it will just be true.
It will be real because I don't see this panning out many different ways.
Again, it's going to be a self-fulfilling thing to where people are going to be like, I fucking told you.
I told you.
He Epstein'd himself.
He did it.
And then Allison here says, do you people actually believe it's him?
You cannot see any part of his body and he sounds different.
People just believe what they are told to believe.
Use your brain that God gave you!
I use my brain that God gave me to disbelieve everything that people tell me.
When Kanye tells me, hey, I was on Alex Jones today, you gotta use your brain and disbelieve that, because people have hidden interests in these things.
What's his motivation for telling me that he went on Alex Jones to say that he likes Hitler?
Yeah, what's the reason behind that?
You gotta play 3D chess, people.
We've been telling you that for years, 3D chess.
This was my favorite version of this though.
James says, does not sound like him and his build seems smaller.
The jacket this individual is wearing is not once seen worn in public by him either.
Even a simple Google search on his clothing will show you.
Like the man is like he does not he doesn't either he does doesn't wear a fit twice or he wears it every day for six months there's no in between and this is actually the most like Kanye I've heard him sound in a while because I think he has stopped he has stopped trying to like Cause he was trying to like, um, do a whitewashing of his voice for a while.
And I think he realized that that's not working.
So now he's just being real racist with just his regular voice.
And, um, this is the most like Kanye.
I've heard him sound in a long time, sonically, not like not content wise.
I love this argument so much.
Listen, I did a Google search for Kanye t-shirts, Kanye's wardrobe, and this one, it didn't even, not even a Google search.
And I also like, Oh, you should use Google.
That platform that we all believe is unbiased and will give us the search results we're looking for.
Also, if you do look up that jacket, if you do look up that jacket, that jacket is like $7,000.
It's a Vitamins jacket.
It's like a $7,000 jacket.
I think that would kind of help solidify that, yeah, it probably is him.
I love it.
Even a simple Google search on his clothing will reveal that he's never worn this in public once.
That's weird.
This is another common response.
William says, it's funny how people get disturbed or offended on what someone says about an issue, but doesn't question why is he saying that and on who is he telling that to or what is the issue and doesn't question why he is saying that and do your research on that issue.
Question everything and challenged what you believe.
And it's, I would love to ask somebody like this more questions, just not under pressure, nothing, just like in casual conversation, like to see if they like actually think anything.
No, that's, that's a good, that's a good train of thought there.
Cause yeah, he's actually saying, he's saying why he's saying these things and what are we supposed to research?
Like are we supposed to research Netanyahu?
Like, Is Netanyahu Jewish?
Oh, shit.
Oh, whoa.
Hold on.
Hold the phone.
Google says that's true.
That's weird.
That's weird.
Holy.
He's on to something here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Google won't be able to find that jacket though.
No, no, no.
So fun.
Not on Kanye at least.
Hey do your own research about the things that he was saying and you know people they don't like the things that he's saying but do you have to think of why he's saying the things he's saying and if he's really saying the things he's saying it's like you don't there's just like it's like the DVD menu bouncing around in your skull that's like what your brain is What's funny too is they're kind of saying- You're like refusing to press play on your thoughts.
And so it's just the screensaver boinking and maybe occasionally hitting a corner, which is pretty cool.
Pretty sweet.
What's funny is he's saying there's nothing here.
There's like nothing to pay attention to here.
So that's why you really got to pay attention to it hard to also ignore it.
Totally.
That's so much energy.
I hate it.
The last thing I'll say is people were trying to defend him by saying, no, he's saying that the Nazis, they did good things for society in addition to the genocide.
And it's like, you can't deny that.
Just look at how many of them came over to our weapons department in the U.S.
Look at how many of them were part of our three-letter agencies.
Um, like this comment from Pepper who says, your whole society runs on Nazis ingenuity, hun.
It's like, yeah, we know.
It's so funny to see the right wing be like, oh, actually, have you ever heard of Operation Paperclip?
Yeah, we have!
It's that thing you guys did!
We know!
We know!
This probably has a lot to do with why there was an even gnarlier racist upheaval years later in America right after they were instilled in there.
It's almost like they were influencing some of the way things were going.
It's weird.
From missiles to medical procedures to government letter agencies.
And it's like, oh sorry, Kanye, he's just saying the Nazis did good things like the CIA and the FBI and the ATF and other of those things.
Three-letter government agencies that the most based among us really appreciate.
Just like nonsense, man.
The fucking plate of spaghetti these people have to serve up as a coherent ideology is astounding to me.
Oh, you think you're so great?
You think they haven't done any good things?
What's this picture of you back in December of 2004?
You're drinking a Fanta?
Huh?
You know where Fanta came from, right?
It's delicious, isn't it?
Fuck man, I guess I do.
I guess I have to hand it to him.
Think about that for a second.
So, once again, stuff just keeps happening.
so once again stuff just keeps happening i mean honestly the democratic president and a democratic congress voting to force rail workers into accepting a contract that they've
they voted no on and also banning them from striking it It really feels like we're living through history.
I know a lot of stuff has happened in the last few years, but people remember when Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers, broke that strike.
This is a Democratic president, quote, the most pro-labor president ever.
Voting to break a strike or telling Congress to vote to break a strike When I saw this like It's like one of the first times I've wanted to tweet anything where I was like shit I don't even know if my union could prevent me from getting fired if I tweeted this Because, like, I don't think the Union could protect me from threatening to run the President of the United States over in my package car.
I don't think I could get away with that.
We're not going to go over the history of the rail negotiations.
You should check out Citations Needed.
They just did an excellent interview with The Real News' Maximilian Alvarez and his partner in that.
I can't remember her name.
But good stuff.
Very good stuff.
Essentially what happened was The union leaders negotiated with the railroad companies a contract that still did not grant them any sick days, let alone all the other stuff that they need.
And the members voted no.
A majority of the members of the rank and file, the workers, voted no on this contract that the leadership was trying to force through.
The union leadership was trying to force through.
And because of that, Congress has the authorization to quote, settle this dispute by voting to impose that contract on the workers.
Now, I'm not sure if, well, it seems like they could have created any contract they wanted and passed that.
So it seems like they could have passed something that wasn't in favor of the railroad companies if they'd wanted to.
Of course, they didn't want to do that.
Yeah.
So this is very similar to what happened with my union, the Teamsters, about four years ago.
We had a contract that the rank-and-file membership did not like.
You know, the union negotiating team goes in with the company, comes back with a contract.
We voted no on this contract.
But because less than half of the membership voted, there was a clause in the Teamsters Constitution that said leadership could overrule the vote of the rank-and-file and force through the contract anyway.
And that's what they did.
And that is exactly what Biden and the Congressional Democrats have done.
I'm going to read this tweet from Biden.
As a proud pro-labor president, I'm reluctant to override the ratification procedures and views of those who voted against the agreement.
But, in this case, where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions, I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal.
No one should have to choose between their job and their health, or the health of their children.
You're making them do that.
Yeah, then what the fuck are you doing then?
This is your fault.
You're allowing this to happen.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You're pushing for it to happen.
You're not just allowing it to happen.
You are begging Congress to make it happen.
It's like one of the best arguments for how powerful labor could be is the quote most labor friendly democratic president having to finally break kayfabe stop pretending to be on the side of labor to force in a contract that the bosses want.
Yeah.
That's how dangerous a labor strike, especially a rail carrier strike, would be to the capitalist class.
That the fucking left-wing president has to say, nope, get back to work, no sick days, your bosses get everything they want, you get shit.
And we saw this with the NBA.
Remember, you know, Obama came out of retirement just to stop that.
Yeah, exactly.
And that was the NBA.
That wasn't even the rail workers.
These are rail workers.
This is the American infrastructure.
This is the supply chain that, you know, is already the excuse for everything going poorly in America.
Like, this is it.
So, yeah, this shows exactly, like you said, exactly both how powerful labor is and also how much overreach the government has.
Yeah, well when they're controlled, when they're like aligned with the capitalist class, they can use that power for this sort of thing.
To force people back, to chain these people to the fucking trains.
So this statement right here, I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office and I will continue to do so.
Okay, this is not how workers get paid leave.
Workers don't get paid leave by petitioning the president, who again, intervened on behalf of the companies.
The way you get paid leave is you fucking strike.
Yeah.
That's how you do it, because that's where your leverage is.
And so Biden's saying, oh, well, we should have paid leave for workers, but we shouldn't do it in the only way that will actually result in paid leave for workers.
That would be crazy.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
It's that same argument that people were making for Instagram, or sorry, Instagram, Instacart delivery drivers.
How they were like, listen, I think Instacart delivery drivers deserve a fair wage, they deserve respect, but I also deserve to get my stuff.
I also should get my stuff.
And it's like, You don't get the one thing without the other.
You don't get your stuff right when you want it on your terms unless you offer people enough money to facilitate that happening.
It's the same thing.
Listen, workers deserve paid sick leave, but we shouldn't do anything to actually get that.
And what I really hate about it too is, like you said, they have the power to put people to work.
They also have the power to force the employers to do the right thing.
They also have that power.
Yeah.
Theoretically.
Theoretically, yeah.
But they're not doing it.
Well, the thing is, is like...
This is this is a class fight this is a class fight between the owners and the workers and even like asking congress to intervene on behalf of quote the workers is a lie Because the way that the workers would fight this war would be the most effective way to do it, which would be to strike.
You only have Congress intervene to help the bosses.
That's the only reason.
Because guess what?
There's way more fucking workers than there are bosses.
Oh, we need to add Congress to this mix to even out the playing field for, again, the bosses.
You know, this is a labor dispute and Congress getting in the middle of it at all is like a non-starter.
It proves what they want is for the workers to not strike because that's what was going to happen.
I had some crazy responses on Twitter and I'm not going to read this guy's name.
This guy is supposedly a union guy.
He replied to me.
He says, the timing of the strike put Biden in a corner because it also put everything in a corner.
Saving the entire economy from significant hurdles is always the right call.
And I like strikes and I love sick leave for all.
Incredible stuff.
This guy is supposedly a union member.
And he wasn't like, Being an asshole, it's just, so I don't, I don't, I'm not too mad at him, but this is like an insane argument to me.
Um, the timing of the strike put Biden in a corner.
No, the strike put bosses in a corner.
Biden decided to stand over there in that corner with the bosses.
Yeah, he made that choice.
He's, he, he chose his team very, very blatantly.
A strike puts everybody in a corner.
Even people who aren't involved at all.
You as a consumer, you are put in a corner.
Do not cross a picket line.
You need to stand in the corner of the workers.
It puts everybody in a corner, but the good thing is you get to decide which corner you're standing in.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's the whole point.
That's the entire reason why we do strikes, is to put people in a corner.
The strike is to cause discomfort.
You know, that's the point.
The point is to cause discomfort and to cost people money.
That's the point.
Is to show your worth as a worker.
Like, look at where you're at without us.
That's the whole point.
So, like, to say that is, like, just the observation.
On that Citations Needed episode, they played clips from media, how they were covering the potential strike, and it's so infuriating.
People were saying, well, like, what about Christmas?
Are you really willing to strike and prevent Christmas from happening?
And it's like, oh damn, that's right.
I wonder who made Christmas happen every other year before this.
Do we have a way of finding that out?
Is there a way of seeing who does Christmas every fucking year while having to work sick?
While having to miss their children growing up?
Do we have any info on that?
Can you pull that up, Jamie?
Who's doing that?
Yeah, yeah.
We need to do a jingle all the way, but it's really the story of the supply chain getting that doll to that store on time.
Yeah, it's a bunch of scabs passing it around to each other.
Yeah, cool.
Remember that movie where that guy hired a bunch of homeless people to be scabs, but he didn't pay them, he just let them live in the warehouse?
No, what is that?
That sounds awful.
No, we watched it for the show.
We watched it for the show.
It was...
A Christmas wish or some shit like that.
It was like a local man saves Christmas by enslaving homeless people.
I forgot that that was like the main, yeah.
Yep, absolutely.
The movie is called Believe.
That is episode 155 of Minion Death Cult from Christmas 2019.
You'll have to scroll back two years to hear that amazing, insane, feel-good Christmas movie about homeless slavery.
Yeah, another thing, I like strikes, but not when they would be so effective like this.
Like you're just giving, giving away your, like, it would be an incredible show of power, labor power if this happened.
And if you want to avoid, listen, I don't want a strike to happen.
I want the workers to get what they want without having to strike.
But if this strike were to happen, it would be fucking incredible.
It would be one of the best demonstrations of worker power.
Literally in this century.
It would be the best demonstration of worker power in this century.
Absolutely.
It would be good for everybody in the end.
And if you were coming out preemptively against that idea, like, that's an incredibly suspect point of view.
Yeah, the Democrats, they're trying to say what their big game was, their big talking point gambit was going to be, okay, well, we will force
workers to accept this contract they don't want we will we will break the strike but we'll also offer an amendment that gives them half of the sick days they wanted and that'll give us an opportunity to vote yes on the sick days and dem and republicans they'll vote no on the sick days and then that way democrats will look good like we fought for the worker while imposing a contract From the bosses.
Yeah.
Do not let this fool you.
I'm sorry.
Do not fall for this that it was Republicans who prevented workers from getting sick days.
Democrats deliberately separated these two items so that they could just pass, forcing these people back to work, without worrying about the supply chain being disrupted, and then signal, literally signal their virtue to the working class by voting for sick days.
For seven whole sick days.
The amendment didn't pass?
What?
We've never heard of that as Democrats.
What?
That's so crazy.
What are you talking about?
The Democrats get everything done they say they're gonna get done.
And they like never take L's.
What are you talking about?
I think it wasn't even for that much.
It wasn't even, like you said, it was still for half of what they're asking for.
Like, it's just, it's so insulting.
And that's what makes it so upsetting that people are not, they're not furious.
People should be furious right now.
And like, cause it's so insulting.
It's just a slap in the face.
The day after this happened, I get like a Washington Post newsletter, like every day of like all the top stories.
There were like, Fuck off.
stories in that in that rundown nothing about this breaking the strike nothing about this whatsoever there were like two or three different pieces about the dinner gala that uh biden went to with emmanuel macron of france they were like why uh dinner galas put people a little out of their comfort zone and that's a good thing fuck off i hate it so much and you know i
i don't really pay attention to electoral politics that much uh and i don't really care that much about aoc about like what aoc or what ilhan omar or what even rashida talib are doing in congress because they're they're congress people so they're gonna do bad stuff that's kind of the way that's the way i look at it like they're they're u.s politicians so they're probably doing bad stuff so i don't really like
Flip my lid anytime AOC does anything cringe or whatever.
I just like I don't care that much This one I cared about because AOC and every member of the squad except Rashida Tlaib Voted to put these rail workers back to work without sick days Voted to break a strike like that's like the bare fucking minimum.
Mm-hmm you like All you had to do was just vote no or not vote at all.
That's all you had to do.
And you couldn't even do that.
Yeah.
And then her excuse was, was that, Oh, well we talked to these other union people and they told us it was a good idea to vote the contract in.
Okay.
I'm a team.
I'm a teamster.
We didn't talk to me.
You didn't ask me.
So there, there was saying that like, Oh, Oh, we had to do this because they should do it on their own.
No, she talked to other union members in New York in Teamsters 202, which, like, what, leadership there?
I mean, it was the leadership of the rail unions who tried to force this contract in the first place.
But she said that, no, it was a good way to try and get sick days for workers.
Which is like, obviously not.
Obviously this wasn't gonna pass.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, clearly.
Why don't they still know math?
I still don't know how math works.
I don't understand.
But yeah, this is like...
This is as close to as being mad at AOC that I will ever get.
Like, here's Senator Dick Durbin.
I'm disappointed that not enough of my R colleagues supported Bill to increase paid sick leave for rail workers.
But I'm relieved that we came together quickly to pass the labor agreement.
Again, the one that the workers voted down.
The one that you intervened on in a democratic process.
To prevent a rail strike, which would have devastated the economy and put millions out of work.
What if instead of devastating the economy and putting millions out of work, what it actually did was resulted in more sick days for the workers?
What if that happened from a strike?
Wouldn't that be crazy?
That'd be wild.
That'd be so wild.
You know the strike only lasts as long as you want it to, right?
You can actually just agree and do what they're asking you to do and the strike goes away.
But I mean... It's pretty simple.
Like other people have said...
The bosses know at this point that the media is carrying water for them, so if there were a strike, and if there were an upset of the supply chain, the media would focus on the workers.
The media would blame the strike instead of the awful working conditions for these rail workers.
Look up what these rail workers have to fucking go through.
It's awful.
This, um, yeah, this is how NPR was reporting on it.
Railway managers and stakeholders who feared the supply chain disruptions to items like gas and food are already celebrating.
Quote, we are extremely relieved that Congress took action to head off a strike that would have had serious consequences for America's farmers who are grappling with an increase in input costs and barge rates due to severe drought conditions on the Mississippi River.
Um, maybe it's also because of the monopoly on the railroads and the fact that they've been taking all that profit and instead of putting it towards hiring the people they need, updating the rail infrastructure, uh, they've just been giving it, paying themselves bonuses and doing stock buybacks, um, and charging whatever they want for these services.
And then I love railway managers and stakeholders who feared the supply chain disruptions to item like gas.
Yeah, that's definitely what they were afraid of.
They were afraid of, oh just, we don't want any Americans to be upset.
We just want nothing more than to give everybody exactly what they need, exactly at the time they need it.
Has nothing to do with us not wanting to pay benefits to our workers whatsoever.
Yeah, no, this is completely independent of that.
It's so disgusting.
Again, like, they're forgetting, if you care about the American people, then help the workers out.
That's the American people.
If the railroad workers get better, you know, get better work conditions, then hopefully everyone can get better work conditions.
And you're kind of shitting on that.
You're kind of stomping out the hope, because I think it's going to be any day now that, you know, it's going to be, there's going to be, Congress is going to interfere on, like, Starbucks, you know?
It's going to be that way.
Yeah, we gotta wrap it up.
I would just say anybody who says, you know, oh, we can't have the economy disrupted.
We can't have Christmas disrupted.
And it's like, who does that stuff?
The workers do that stuff.
It's not something that exists in the abstract and then mean old workers come around to disrupt it.
They're the ones doing it.
They're the ones doing it and in an increasingly abysmal Conditions.
And enough is enough.
This is the only way that they can change those conditions.
It's the only fucking way.
Because Congress sure isn't going to do it.
In fact, they do everything in their power to prevent it from happening.
Every time.
Yeah.
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