Free school lunches. This is the socialism the Amerikan Republic wanted (preview)
This week we do pop punk voice for a bit and listen to a Billy Joe Armstrong meltdown before diving into the very bad discourse around yet another school shooting Also, a young wealthy couple sets a prime example of Bad Landlords when they buy up an entire Welsh village and raise rents by 60% and we attempt to avoid commentary that might get us kicked off podcast marketplaces Finally, we review the good news out of Minnesota: sanctuary for abortions, sanctuary for trans healthcare, and free school lunches for every kid, and laugh at the bizarre right wing responses Sign up for bonus content at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult Support the show for $5/month and get a weekly bonus episode of Minion Death Cult as well as our brand new weekly live show: DEATH CHAT 500 (also available in podcast form). That's TWO bonus episodes a week delivered straight to your podcast app or browser Also get access to our entire back catalogue including BUTT FEST 2000 with Bryan Quinby; live-reads of My Antifa Lover, Rodham, and Ladies First: A MAGA Hat Romance; movie episodes like Believe, To Die For, and Loqueesha; and hundreds more.
So a concerned guy from Australia, I liked this response, says, as despicable as this is, a lot of people recognized how despicable raising rents on people who have handicaps, who are on disability, who are pensioners, who are old folks, raising their rents 60 percent.
A lot of people didn't like so much.
And a concerned guy says, as despicable as this is, the occupants are tenants.
So these aren't their houses.
I never thought about it that way.
That's so that's actually that is actually true that it's not that the renters don't own.
Like, how do you understand that it's despicable?
But then, like, isn't understanding the second half is how you know the first half is true of this comment?
I don't I don't.
What part does he think is despicable?
Well, he say, no, it's despicable, but see, they're doing it for money, though.
Oh, so you have to understand you have to understand where they're coming from.
They get money out of this.
True.
Also, they don't have to be tenants.
No one no one told you you have to be a tenant.
Yeah, you could have.
I'm not even telling you to buy a village.
I'm just telling you to buy a house.
A lot of people were like, I guess you should have thought of that before you started renting, huh?
Why didn't you?
Why didn't you?
If this were me, if I were a 75 year old disabled person on $200 of monthly income, I would simply buy my own house.
Yeah, easily I would save.
I bet I bet I bet you're not going to see any more avocado toast in this neighborhood.
Uh, Man United Mick says, that's a pretty decent price.
So what they raised rents to, that's a pretty decent price.
It's crazy how you just walked past that slur.
You just let that slur just come on out and you didn't even, sorry, Man United M word.
Thank you.
Uh, Yeah, I don't think I can say that one.
I apologize.
No, I have some Irish.
I have some Irish in me.
I think everyone does, right?
Yeah.
I have the percentage that allows you to say the slur.
Good, good.
Okay, cool, cool.
That's a pretty decent price if you ask me.
If anything, it feels like the people are jealous of their success and what they do with their money shouldn't be the other's business.
You are oh you own my home, and you're raising my rent by 60% none of my business Uh, sorry, you're just mad because you're, like, taking more of your income?
Jealous much?
Yeah!
Yeah, I'm jealous of the person who, like, fits into a role in society that can do that, I guess.
I'm not necessarily jealous.
I don't want to be that person.
I'm just jealous of them being alive, or them being around, you know?
Yeah, that would be nice.
It would be nice to have that option.
You just listen, you can't afford to live in a home.
Okay.
You're sounds like jealousy to me.
Like people say this, though, this is this is a common argument.
Anytime you argue about like liquidating the assets of the rich or whatever, they're like, you're just jealous.
And it's like, yeah, I guess people some people are jealous that they have like a steady income or they have, you know, food to put on their tables.
I think that's a, maybe a normal thing to, to covet if you're starving or if you're poor or if you're struggling.
Nice.
It sounds really nice.
But I mean, really though, like jealousy is not cute on anybody.
So.
You know, just get it together.
I'd love for a landlord to tell me to stop pocket watching right after I put $1,000 into their pocket.
Yeah.
Yeah, for real.
For real.
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