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Another very fun, very labor-centric episode for everybody today.
So much union stuff in the news.
Really an exciting time to be, I don't know, paying attention to politics.
Back when I started getting into politics, when I, you know, started like, I don't know.
By getting into politics, I mean like watching MSNBC, joining Twitter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That sort of thing.
It was far more- Catching feelings with Rachel Maddow?
Yeah, Rachel Maddow and Ed.
Ed, what's his name?
Man, who's the union guy from MSNBC?
I feel bad now, I don't remember his name.
I know, I need to remember, look up his name right too, I'm gonna, because I need to.
Yeah, that guy had like the bad, he was just like a big white guy who used to yell at like right-wing politicians or Democrats who weren't supportive enough of unions.
One of the most exciting moments on MSNBC was when Lawrence O'Donnell challenged Taggart Romney to a fight on the air.
He got out from behind his desk and walked toward the camera and suddenly developed a Boston accent that he had never had before.
I forgot about that!
That was such a good one!
I have to tell this story every year or two years because I don't want to forget it because it's such a funny moment.
He's like, hey, tag it!
Obama wasn't calling you old man a liar.
I was.
He's like crouching down to look into the camera.
It's so fucking funny.
Okay, Taggart.
Let's have a little talk.
Just you and me.
You.
When I hear you talk about taking a swing and taking punches, why do I get the feeling that you've never actually taken a punch?
Or thrown a punch?
I didn't have that luxury in the part of Boston that I grew up in.
You're mad at President Obama for calling your father a liar?
Well, let's get something straight.
He didn't call your father a liar.
I did.
The President just said that what your father said isn't true.
I've been saying all year that your father is a liar.
I've repeatedly said that your father lies and is trying to lie his way into the White House.
So, you want to take a swing at someone for calling your old man a liar?
Take a swing at me.
Come on.
Come on.
And don't worry.
There won't be any secret service involved.
Just us.
And I'll make it easy for you.
I'll come to you.
Anytime.
Anywhere.
Go ahead, tag it.
Take your best shot.
He's doing a full, like, this is the street version of him.
He's getting in your face, getting in your grill.
And he's not scared.
It wasn't Obama.
I was.
He also made fun of Taggart's name, which is pretty, kind of a good one.
It's like your old man who didn't have the sense not to name you tag it.
I don't know.
Paying attention to politics always felt like a, like a pretty spectator sport, you know?
And it wore and it got tired.
It wore off.
Uh, now seeing like, I don't know.
Unions and workers actually change politics in real time.
Uh, very exciting.
And yeah, the latest, uh, latest instance of that is, uh, Brandon Johnson becoming the Chicago mayor against pretty, pretty tough odds.
Um, Brandon, Brandon Johnson being, yeah, the, uh, I believe the former president of the Chicago teachers union.
The reporting about this has been pretty funny.
I mean, yeah, because like the it's people people hate unions and they really hate the teachers union.
The people that we cover, at least there's like a special vitriol for the teachers union.
So he is kind of like this.
boogeyman you know figure uh like he's gonna for now that he now they got someone from the teachers union office they're gonna really be shoving down like crt down our kids throats they hate the teachers union uh because it's probably one of the most prominent unions you know other than like i guess the police union like i'm trying to think of which unions get i mean you know the auto workers get talked about you know in passing
but uh i think like starbucks workers unions and teachers unions are the are the most like buzzy uh popular or at least well-known unions right now and And it's because of how powerful they are.
It's because you see their asses in action.
Uh, pretty regularly.
And yeah, this piece of reporting on, uh, Brandon Johnson's win.
This is from the Chicago Tribune.
Uh, Johnson's campaign was successful in defining the opposition.
Vallis, a centrist and policy wonk at heart, was not just reluctant, but personally unwilling and unable to return that fire.
Which is pretty funny because, yeah, Vallis, they describe him here as a centrist and policy wonk at heart, but by what they mean is, by that, what they mean is somebody who really likes gutting public schools.
Oh, wow, yeah, I mean, that's a really, what a generous way to put that.
He's a policy moron.
He just likes, you know, he likes to look at numbers and figures and move the austerity slider up and down and see what happens to schools.
You know, oh, what if we closed 11 public schools this time instead of just 6?
Maybe that would help.
Yeah.
And they pitch it that way because, like, no, this guy is not about, like, emotions or opinions.
He's about policy and, like, what gets things done.
It's like saying they're goal-oriented, you know?
You should see this look he gets in his eyes when he talks about policy.
They go completely dead.
Yeah.
He's like a... Listen, do you read Dune?
Have you ever read Dune?
He's like a mentak.
Just a human computer.
Just no emotion whatsoever.
When he's talking about... It doesn't bleak.
Yeah.
When he's talking about where public school students aren't going to be getting their meals this year.
Yeah.
We also wonder...
We also wonder whether some VALIS supporters wrongly thought their vote on a day with lousy weather would not be needed for their preferred candidate to win.
They'd be wrong about that.
So yeah, maybe it was the weather.
Maybe that's like what?
Because the reporting leading up to this was like...
Uh, all about how bad crime is in Chicago.
And Paul Vallis, who's a staunch supporter of the police union, said he was going to hire, you know, what, like thousands of more cops, was endorsed by the police union, which we'll get into.
Those are some fun characters.
And basically accused Brandon Johnson of like, yeah, he totally wants to defund and decimate the police force just because he wants to invest in actual crime prevention strategies like housing, other services, jobs, essentially things that have been proven to actually reduce crime as opposed to just pouring money into a police union leader's gullet.
I mean, I don't care, you know, what your opinion is.
I'm a facts person.
I'm a numbers person.
And you show me one criminal.
You show me one criminal who never went to school.
You show me a criminal who never went to school.
Because I think that every single one of them went to school and, you know, they should have been taught not to be criminals.
And so how can we trust someone who was part of the teachers union to start telling people not to crime?
Like, come on.
It's obvious where this all starts.
Totally.
That's why we need to privatize schools.
So that these schools are able to pick and choose which kids they teach.
They're allowed to select their own students.
That way we don't get any criminals learning how to be smarter criminals.
Yeah, I mean like that way if they just can't go to school then we can't waste the money on them.
We'll just save that money for the money that we're gonna, you know, pay to keep someone in prison instead.
Yeah, give that money to some cops.
More in the Chicago Tribune.
This was my favorite part though.
We already had concerns about the growing scope of influence and radicalism of the Chicago Teachers Union before their preferred candidate landed in the runoff.
And we also felt there were better progressive candidates who did not have the backing of so powerful a union and who had done a better job at actually answering some of the harder questions.
I love that.
Their beef with him is that he's too powerful.
He's too effective.
He might actually get something done.
Well, you gotta be powerful if you're gonna influence the radical extremist group known as the Chicago Teachers Union.
They call them radical and extreme because they went on strike for like COVID safety measures.
Yeah, because they definitely saved students lives.
Yeah, students and teachers lives.
Yeah, I don't know.
And this isn't to say like Brandon Johnson is going to deliver on everything he said he was going to do or like I'm endorsing him personally.
This is for the people of Chicago to work out from a I don't know, from the distant view though, it seems cool because it's not just like, I don't know, they're worried about how powerful this elected leader might be, right?
It reminds me of like Obama getting rid of his massive grassroots organizing organism.
Organizing whatever group, uh, when he got elected.
It's, I don't know.
It's like a, it's like a red flag.
Um, it just, it reminds me of a Chicago thing.
It's, it's like a Chicago thing for these people to be like, well, sure.
You know, you could have the support of a community, community and then the workers and everything.
But once you get elected, like you're going to have to make some tough decisions that are definitely not going to be in their favor, uh, 90% of the time.
Yeah, that's the expectation.
The expectation is like, oh, you know, he's going to have, he's going to lose this.
Like you said, he's going to have to hurt feelings of the people that got him there, which is like not true.
They might actually get what they want, Tony.
The people who helped him get into office, they might actually get what they want.
And that would be bad because they're members of the people who, uh, members of the group of people who never get somebody in that actually wants what they want.
Well, I don't even know what they want, but I'll ask you this much.
Who's going to pay for it?
Yeah.
You know, it doesn't matter what the want is, but definitely who's going to pay for it is the question I'm asking.
Yeah.
Not the criminals, if any of this reporting is to be believed.
New York Times had another wonderful article.
Now we're going back to before Brandon Johnson's win, before the election was held.
It's kind of nice to go back in time, like, I don't know, like, would we bother covering this story if the union guy lost?
Like, I don't think so.
That wouldn't be as much fun.
I don't think so.
The reactions wouldn't be as great, as tasty, obviously.
So this is from the New York Times.
This is from a few days before the election.
I think this is maybe April 1st, somewhere around there.
Chicago's mayoral race pits the teachers union against the police union.
In a city known for its unions, two loom over the Paul Vallis-Brandon Johnson race, and no labor leader is as significant as the incendiary president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Oh yeah, baby.
This is a guy.
We'll get to him in just a second.
Reading from this article by Jonathan Weisman, both unions offer considerable muscle, which could prove vital if turnout remains around the 36% who came out for the first round of voting on February 28th.
The Teachers Union has put $1.2 million behind Mr. Johnson, with a further $1 million coming from the National and Illinois Federations of Teachers.
Armies of door knockers and phone bankers are pitching in while the police union presses its members to volunteer for the final Vallis sprint.
Right there is pretty funny.
So.
It would appear that like, oh, well, Brandon Johnson's getting millions from the unions, while Paul Vallis isn't getting any money from anybody.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Because if you look at like the 1.2 million, 1 million, I think like a total of 4 million came from various teachers and service unions.
And you see that number a lot in the reporting around this story that Brandon Johnson received $4.4 million from teachers unions.
Well, that's more than any single donor that supported Paul Vallis.
And it's like, yeah, because it's all wealthy individuals giving $500,000 of their own money.
Whereas a union, particularly unions in a densely populated area like Chicago, I don't know how many specific members, probably hundreds of thousands of members of those unions.
Yeah, that's who's donating the money.
That's like, That's where the money's coming from.
So it's pretty disingenuous to compare a group of hundreds of thousands of supporters as, you know, well, that's not fair.
They got more money.
They got more people on their side.
It's also this foolish moral signaling where they're saying it took millions of dollars to support Brandon Johnson, but there were volunteers doing it.
They just had volunteers doing it for the police union.
Right.
Okay, but it does take some sort of influence to get people to do something, so what was that influence?
Hey, it's a good point.
Well, they're an army, Tony.
It was an army of door knockers and phone bankers.
I love that language.
So yeah.
Fuck yeah, we'll take it.
While the police union pressed its members to volunteer.
And it's like, God, can you believe these people who are already serving and protecting the community, giving so much back, are also asked to volunteer?
And you know, I bet a couple of them even did it.
I bet those crazy bastards, they did it.
And it's just, it's impressive because they already work so much.
They already put so much overtime in.
At least when you look at their pay stubs, they put so much overtime in and they work so hard and it's just, it speaks volumes that they take their, you know, precious time off to do that.
It's crazy how we constantly recognize how much overtime the police do and how much money they get and then we also talk about how crime keeps going up.
And we don't ever take a second to think about that.
Okay, but no, still reading from the New York Times, but no other union in the nation's third largest city carries the same liabilities either.
An 11-day teacher strike near the beginning of the 2019 school year pitted the Educators Union against City Hall and many parents And many parents also were on their side, I feel like should be should be mentioned.
But the New York Times doesn't do that.
Then schools shut again last year with teachers unions with the teachers union again at loggerheads with the city, this time over coronavirus policies as parents prepared to send their children back to in-person instruction.
Feel like that's a pretty good thing to have a dispute about?
Yeah.
I don't know.
People don't go on strike willy-nilly.
It might seem like that to somebody who doesn't have a union job.
It seems like that in this country, I guess.
Look at France if you think the teachers' unions strike too much.
Yeah, they make it seem as if it's like a frivolous act that they're, like, abusing.
They're, like, using their power too much.
And it's like, no, you just put their backs against the wall really, you know, a couple times really close together.
Well, and it's been constant.
It's been constant since, like, neoliberal austerity was, you know, foisted on this country, you know, back in the 70s or whatever.
Everybody's been dealing with the same thing.
It's just, you know, only a few Jobs, only a few occupations allow you to push back with a strike.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But specifically the teachers union, they're making it seem like a teachers unions does it a lot, but it's like, no, they've had to do it a lot lately.
You motherfuckers like, but yeah, it's never a frivolous act.
It's like it's a sacrifice.
Still, there is nothing quite like Chicago's relationship with the Fraternal Order of Police, especially with its president, John Catanzaro, who expressed sympathies for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, called Muslims savages who, quote, all deserve a bullet, and retired from the police force in 2021 rather than face potential disciplinary actions.
He punctuated his retirement papers with a handwritten note, quote, finally, let's go, Brandon, a stand in phrase for a more vote for more vulgar insult against President Biden.
I feel like I remember when that happened.
I don't know if I remember this.
I don't know if I remember this guy.
No, we talked about the Seattle, the Washington police.
That's so funny.
It's not that we covered that.
It's just that this has happened more than once across the country where like that they've done basically the same thing.
This guy is, this guy is cool.
This, you know, just, I'm just kidding.
But this, this guy is insane.
I can't wait for history to cover shit like this.
A Chicago police officer, a high-ranking Chicago police officer, retired in a way that was frowned down upon, and their letter they signed off with said, let's go Brandon.
Yeah, and then he became the head of the police union.
And then he became the head of the police union.
This is where you get Batman.
This is how Batman happens.
Um, yeah, uh, he called Muslim savages who all deserve a bullet.
Um, Chicago police is like literally extraditing people to black sites.
If I remember correctly, like they were, they were an arm in the war on terror for the U S government.
So not surprising his language here.
Um, When they talk about the fraternal order of police, they're talking about me, which is hilarious, Mr. Kadanzara said in an interview, conceding, if I got paid a dollar every time I was called racist, I'd be an independently wealthy man.
Oh, so he's just investing in his future is all?
Like, I get it.
I get it.
This is like smart.
I think that is how police make their money.
I think like you get a dollar every time you do something racist and that equates to your $80,000 a year salary.
Just real quick, I just looked this up and the Muslim population in Chicago makes up for about 11-18% of the population in Chicago.
Oh damn.
So it's not even like they, it's just, he was, this is, they have a large Muslim population and this is how he's, this is how he's going.
Oh yeah.
Wow.
Huge asshole.
Okay.
His, his history is great.
So this is according to the Chicago Tribune again.
Kadenzaro was one of the most frequently disciplined officers of the department before becoming union president.
In August 2008, then-Superintendent Jody Weiss sought Catanzaro's firing on allegations that he did not follow orders to complete a psychological exam, according to police board records.
But in February 2009, the board cleared Catanzaro in a 5-3 decision.
I mean, yeah, think about it.
You want the head of your union to be the guy who needed them the most.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
They were constantly having to step in for him.
That's how he became so familiar with everybody.
And if he's the standard now, they're stoked.
They can do whatever the fuck they want.
Psychological exam?
Talk to my union, bud.
I know I killed several people, but just talk to my union, bud.
Cop unions are so crazy to me because So yeah, I've been a Teamster for 16 years and I've seen dudes who were just like too annoying to get their job back.
I've heard of guys that just were like too much of a fucking pain in the ass for the union to keep protecting.
You know, like, I've heard of that happening.
That it was just like, nah, we didn't get your job back the fourth time.
Or the third time, because we wanted to do a deal for this other guy who's, like, not a fuck-up like you or whatever.
But I never hear about that with cops.
Like, you would think that they would have gotten super fucking annoyed at this guy.
But I don't know.
I mean, maybe that's the strength of the police union and maybe that's like a good, I don't know, just an exhibition of their power that like, no, we don't care that this guy's an active liability for us just on principle.
Never give in.
Well, no, he's like he's like Beverly Hills cop, except for like a huge racist.
You know, he's like, always just a pain in the captain's ass, but he's probably, you know, charming to all the rest of the bigots.
The rest of the bigots, he is Axel Foley to the Nazis.
Um, okay.
In August of 2000, oh, I already read this.
Three years later, then-Superintendent Gary McCarthy tried to fire him for working a side job as a security guard for a restaurant when he was supposed to be on medical leave for a back injury.
What?
That's interesting.
The police board found him guilty in that case of several police department violations, board shows.
But instead of firing him, the board voted 7-2 to suspend Catanzara for 20 days.
So, that's good for him.
Yeah, as I'm saying, the union did that.
So that's why they love him.
That's why they put him in there.
Well, it's also the, it's also the board, you know, whoever's in, in, I don't know how that works in Chicago, but the board is definitely on his side, but just the police board, whoever's, I guess it would be police, probably former cops.
I feel like a kidnapping happened in order to get him in there.
I feel like somebody got, you know, something like that probably happened.
There's a, there's a training day movie to be made about him becoming the head of the union.
I just love that that's how the police union works.
It's like, okay, well we need, you know, we're, it's time for new leadership.
Who is the most racist among us?
Who has the most complaints?
This guy's got 35 complaints on his record.
Oh shit.
Cool.
Welcome, Mr. President.
Who are people grateful that we're not?
Who are people excited to not see?
And then finally, yeah, Mr. Catanzaro is not lying low.
He predicted that 800 to 1,000 Chicago police officers would leave the force if Mr. Johnson wins, adding to hundreds of vacancies already awaiting the next mayor.
Quote, if this guy gets in, we're going to see an exodus like we've never seen before, he said, predicting, quote, blood in the streets.
Yeah, who do you think is going to be drawing the blood?
It's definitely going to be those cops that just quit.
I don't know.
Most of those guys probably don't live in Chicago and probably never want to go to Chicago unless they get drunk enough to do a hate crime.
Well, yeah, but they've also been taxing everybody on every corner for so long that that's like half of their income.
Fair point.
There'll be blood in the streets.
Isn't there already blood in the streets?
Isn't that what you guys are always saying?
Yeah.
Anyway, it's not really much of a threat now.
It's kind of like Boy Who Cried Wolf stuff.
Listen, we've given you more money every year and there's still more blood in the streets.
That's kind of crazy.
What's happening?
We need to put a finger in that hole.
We need to stop it.
Listen, I said the same thing with slightly different wording to my supervisor and she tried to fire me.
Uh, okay.
No, I love this.
Like, we just spent paragraphs about how, how, uh, powerful and sadistic the teachers union was, uh, because they went on strike for COVID safety measures.
And, uh, the, the head of the police union is saying, Oh, uh, about a thousand of us are going to quit.
Because we didn't win an election.
Because our favorite guy didn't win.
We're just going to quit.
And there's going to be literal blood in the streets.
Those kids earlier just missed a couple days of school.
If I could campaign and my campaign would be like, listen y'all, if I win, a bunch of cops are going to quit.
I think that's a W. I think that can be your campaign.
I have the Facebook post from the Chicago Police.
I forgot about this.
Okay, this is from March 28th.
Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge, number 7.
Posted on Facebook.
And this is THE police union in question.
There are approximately 2,900 officers who have 20 years of service or are 50 years old.
Many of those officers are only sticking around with the hope this department can be turned around.
If we do not get Paul Vallis elected, there will be a major exodus from that group who will not work for a bigger anti-police mayor than the current one, being Lori Lightfoot.
That will absolutely translate to more crime, violence, and blood on the streets of this great city because there will be so few police.
We are already down nearly 2,000 officers.
We cannot sustain a mass exodus of manpower.
Our pension fund cannot handle that exodus either long term.
We have seven days to save the city.
VOTE!
Police officers in Chicago, if you are in line to vote, stay in line!
Do not stand down!
Can you imagine a cop standing in line to vote?
Like, there's no way.
There's no fucking way they stand in line.
They probably, like, push old people down on the way in.
No, they probably, like, go in plain clothes, but are obviously concealed carrying, and they walk up and down the line of voters.
Yep.
Yep, that's exactly what they do.
And just casually inspecting each one from head to toe.
And in case people were wondering, the new...
This is the worst nightmare because he's not only like the leader of a teacher's union, but he is a black man.
He is a black man in Chicago who's like not who's like not trapping, you know?
So like that's their that is literally their worst nightmare.
I have a YouTube video from Kat and Zara.
This is from after the election.
Yes.
April 7th, 2023.
I know many, if not most, of our members are pretty concerned about the platform that Mayor-elect Johnson put forth during this campaign and what that means for their employment.
I don't know what to make of it.
We'll see what the rubber...
What that means for their employment.
Uh, aren't you supposed to quit?
Yeah.
I think we all know what it means, right?
I mean, if you're, if you were just blowing steam.
You use one in your mouth.
The things he was pushing actually, uh, become priorities and on his agenda to get done, or they kind of become more realistic about getting the business of the city done.
And especially when it comes to public safety, but that dialogue will be strictly, uh, you know, Dependent upon Mayor-Elect Johnson.
As far as I'm concerned, there is a blank slate.
We are starting from zero, just like we were with Mayor Lightfoot when we took over three years ago.
She was the one who decided she couldn't handle criticism in that job, which is pretty ironic because that's pretty much all that job is filled with.
So I hope we have a little different dynamic here going forward and that Mayor-Elect Johnson has a little thicker skin and some common sense about getting Thicker skin?
Aren't you supposed to be quitting?
Aren't you supposed to be crying your eyes out and fucking quitting, you big ass baby?
I love that though.
She decided that she couldn't take criticism.
It's like, isn't that, I mean, I don't, that sounds like y'all.
They said they were going to quit because Brandon Johnson was, I don't know, going to invest money in public schooling or invest money in social services.
Who doesn't have thick skin?
Yeah.
And it's funny because I bet he's like still going to give, you know, millions of dollars to the police.
Like that's going to happen.
That's why I can't like defend him too hard because he's still going to be like the executive of a major city, which means he is going to be like working with real estate developers and working with cops.
Yeah.
Like they didn't like Lightfoot and she was a demon.
So like.
The bar is low.
Done not only for the citizens of this city, but also for the members of this lodge.
The citizens.
Yeah, the future pools of blood.
That's who we're doing it for.
Yeah, yeah.
The New York Times comment section was great.
They do not like the Teachers Union in the New York Times comment section.
John here said, what nonsense?
The Fraternal Order of Police hasn't given Vallis a dime.
The Teachers Union, on the other hand, has given $4 million to Johnson, eight times the amount of Vallis's largest contributor.
Corruption.
This isn't a police... yeah.
We all know a union is a single contributor.
And it's funny because not only is he counting a single union as a single contributor, he's counting all the unions which have different members, which are different organizations, as a single donator.
As a single donor.
The teacher's union has given four million.
No, that's like the total of various unions adding up.
This isn't a police versus teachers union fight.
It's a competition between a man who wants to fight crime and a man who sold out to a couple unions.
Paul Vallis, a literal superhero, versus Brandon Johnson, a demon doing the devil's bidding.
Yeah.
Who sold out to the same union he was part of?
Can you think?
Something's up there.
Something's suspect there to me.
Then Peggy's mom, Mill, right below him in the New York Times comment section said, I hope that the voters who aren't members of either of these two unions come out to vote in large numbers so that hopefully City Hall gets the message that they are not beholden to unions.
That is one thing I worry about leadership too much is that they might think that they're too beholden to workers and working people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have been noticing it leaning in that direction.
It's scary.
Scary is the only word I could think of.
Yeah, you do know that that's the majority of people.
It's probably a pretty small percentage that belong to either one of those unions.
Most of the votes did come from outside those unions, and he won.
Tough on the streets.
Right.
Most most voters actually preferred Brandon Johnson's method of combating crime, which was, yeah, investing in jobs, investing in social housing, resources, things like that, that have been, again, proven to reduce and prevent crime.
Because crime is like a concern for these communities, but they just don't think adding more cops is going to help because it hasn't helped.
Yeah, exactly.
It hasn't helped.
Like, we all know where they over-police and under-police and do all that stuff.
I mean, you can't under-police.
It's Chicago.
It's, like, well-documented.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, some really, really insane comments under the reporting that Newsweek did on this, because Newsweek did a story that was like, Brandon Johnson's win is the worst thing that could happen to Chicago's police unions.
Coach Beef, This is in the Newsweek comment section says, Chicago will become one of many literal Hunger Games kill zones for homeless, poor, fatherless, uneducated, lawless, addicted victims of Democrat ghetto vote slavery policies.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, shit.
It was funny because I was like.
I was going to be like, OK.
You can tell he cares.
He's not getting racist yet.
Oh, never mind.
He's getting he's honing in.
He's honing in.
There it is.
All right.
He's like using Democrat ghetto vote slavery policies.
He's like using, he's like a bat using echolocation to find the most racist way to proceed with the sentence.
Yeah, yeah.
Homeless.
It's like the... Poor.
Oh, that got a hit.
Fatherless.
Here we go.
Uneducated, lawless, addicted victims of democrat ghetto vote slavery politics.
Oh man.
What a sentence.
He was just doing like, he was just doing the, uh, the, the Siri like autofill is pressing the next word that pops up.
Um, yeah, we know you're so concerned about a kill zone for the homeless and poor and fatherless and uneducated and then it just gets like worse and worse and you're just lumped, like, I mean, it's like this comment right here, uh, from no, you don't just apropos of nothing who says animal lives matter.
Ooh.
Ooh.
This is how like racist this comment section was.
I hate that they're trying to be like, have you thought about the black people that might die?
Like that's... Fuck off.
You fucking pieces of shit.
I hate you.
I, like... That sucks.
Yeah.
They revel in it!
Like, Chicago isn't even as bad as they love to think about Chicago being.
Like, the vision, the fantasy they have playing in their head is worse than the actual Chicago, right?
As many problems Chicago might have as any big city has.
It's nowhere near the fantasy that they fucking tug their spud to every night.
Yeah, like, it is bad, but they, like you said, they make it worse, and that's what's impressive, is they can still manage to make it worse, and they're making it seem like, you know, like I said, the word animal is just so awful, because it's just, this insinuation's like, listen, if we don't help them, they're just gonna do what they do, which is, you know, just, we gotta protect them from themselves.
It's, fuck off.
And it's also like textbook dehumanizing language.
It allows, you know, it allows the animals to be put down.
Yeah.
And that's, you know, you can tell that you can tell that's what they're aiming for here.
Blue cities function as vote theft factories in most states that would elect Republicans if the steel, which is capitalized, if the steel weren't in place by fraudulent mail-in votes, donation mules, and address change double vote schemes.
Meanwhile, millions die prematurely due to wokeness and welfare state hopelessness ruining their minds.
They were taken too soon.
They were exposed to the wokeness.
The wokeness took their lives.
My husband, he was only 65.
He accidentally ate that orgiastic gay Kellogg cereal that has all the different members of the bestiality community on there fucking each other for wokeness.
He ate that cereal and he died the very next day.
Died right away.
Man.
What does this mean?
Millions die prematurely due to wokeness.
Is, does he mean COVID?
Does he mean vaccine?
Like the getting the vaccine is woke?
Oh, I'll give it that.
I'll give it that.
Yeah.
That sounds like.
What is die prematurely?
Like it's either that or like poor health's like poor, I don't know.
Like not taking care of themselves, but that doesn't seem like a woke thing.
No, I think he thinks, like, wokeness, like, kills.
But how?
I want to know specifics, man.
You already, like, were very specific about the people you were waiting to see die.
All the people that died in the riot fires.
All the innocent people that died in the fires that were started by Molotov cocktails.
Yeah, the BLM kill zones.
Not only that, but, like, the blood sacrifices at, like, the Drag Queen brunches.
And the story times.
The blood sacrifices.
Those are premature deaths.
Aborted baby angel fetuses.
Oh, that's probably more exactly what it is.
Those are the premature deaths.
Yeah.
Dude, we need to start a victims to wokeness memorial.
Yeah.
And it'll just have like everybody who died of heart disease on it.
But then it will genuinely have like Steve Jobs.
Who like thought he just needed to like eat healthier to save the planet, but killed himself.
Everybody from Anarchapoco as well.
Yeah.
Even those that are still alive.
Yeah, they're just too woke.
Blue Horizons.
Newsweek said the liberals vote in someone light on crime police quit crime soars and then a candidate stronger on punishment for crime gets in it is a cycle In a way, you're kind of right because anytime like a quote tough on police Mayor gets elected the police openly revolt and like actively and start encouraging crime And they also they'll they'll do things like post photos of the mayor's daughter
Yep.
Yep.
It's it's funny because this is like what happened like this is what I feel like happened a lot with the last presidential election is people were like listen if you like put Bernie in there just they're gonna put they're gonna put somebody even worse than Trump in after him so you better like settle for you better settle for somebody else because that's it you're playing yourself you know you're you're not thinking long game here I think who whatever Republican comes after Donald Trump's gonna be nice it's gonna be how could You know, it's gonna be more reasonable, that's for sure.
Talk to me, sweetheart.
People forget that most crime is a profession.
Recidivism is about 71%.
When someone has been convicted of two crimes, the chance of them committing more is close to 100%.
100%.
The only way to control them is to keep them in jail.
I don't know about this statistic here, recidivism is about 71%.
That can't be right.
I don't think that is right.
Even if it were, wouldn't that be the most damning statistic to the current system that could exist?
Exactly.
Oh, well, when people commit crimes, we send them to prison and nothing gets better.
In fact, 71% of the time, it gets worse.
It gets worse, yeah.
The answer to this is to imprison everyone for life for every crime.
Yeah, the problem isn't the damage we do when we lock them up, it's that we let them out.
That's the problem.
God, that's so fucking like... It's called blowback.
Yeah.
Because it's funny, like you said, this is the most damning thing.
It's so true, like, it is...
Going to prison for any amount of time can ruin your life.
It can ruin your whole life just because of that stigmatism that comes along with it, let alone the damage that's done when you're in there, the trauma that you incur when you're locked up.
That is the problem, bro.
Don't you see that whatever they're doing, it doesn't work?
And also, you've never known anyone that's gotten arrested or that's been locked up?
You don't know anybody who you can empathize with?
Not one person?
Yeah, well, they were in the 29%.
Oh, true, true, true.
They were one of the good ones.
But still, he would still want them still locked up just in case.
Because he would say, yeah, they haven't done it yet.
Yeah, so I feel like out of, you know, the options, more money for police, more money for prisons versus something else versus, for the love of God, trying something else for once.
I'll take the latter, and I'm glad that Brandon Johnson won this race.
Again, you know, remains to be seen what he's able to accomplish or what he's willing to accomplish, but I don't know.
It's fun.
It's a change of pace, and I'm eager to hear more about it.
I'm eager to see more.
I don't know much about him, to be honest, but I do have the mentality that if it does make the cops mad, I'm good with it.
I can probably work with that.
Yeah, and I hear that he's in a union, I hear that he's a union leader, I get my signal from my leadership, I get my little radio signal, my heels click together, and I support Brandon.
I say, "Let's go, Brandon." "Let's go, Brandon." Brandon."
So for our next story, Southwoke Airlines.
Have you heard of this company?
Have you heard of this airline, Tony?
Do they have good deals to go to, like, San Francisco?
Well, what they're doing is they're bringing San Francisco's baggage to Texas non-stop.
Oh my god, oh my god.
So, Southwoke Airlines is a ad campaign?
Question mark?
They're basically memeing against Southwest Airlines.
And, uh, this is what they're coming up with.
A billboard appearing in Dallas-Fort Worth area for April Fool's Day that, uh, mocked woke airlines with images of their CEOs in drag and, like, colorful outfits.
Uh huh.
You seeing this here, Tony?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The group calling itself Shut Up and Fly demanded that airlines pay more attention to landing signals instead of virtue signals.
Am I right?
Am I right?
I've been saying they're crashing too many planes and it's because it's because of the wokeness.
I don't know if I've heard of airlines being woke.
Again, vaccine mandates were the one thing that I think could be considered woke.
Maybe they have that diversity, equity, inclusion language, like don't harass people of a different background or gender than you, and these people are upset about it.
It's the videos of people getting kicked out for not putting a mask on.
That's what it is.
It's those videos.
It's the videos of... It's them and it's like... I just want to shake your hand!
I just want to shake your hand!
Remember that guy?
It's those things.
They're like, they won't even let him shake hands.
They won't even let him shake hands on airplanes anymore.
So disrespectful, you know.
So this was framed to me.
I found this in the one of the Trump message boards.
This was framed as Southwest Southwest employees are fighting back against their woke leadership.
Twisted crying, laughing emoji and a link to South woke dot com.
Uh, which is a parody website of a woke airplane company, airplane company, a woke airline.
So like on the homepage, a message from our CEO here at South woke, we're fully committed to D E I E S G L G B T Q L G T B Q plus BLM and every other woke acronym you can think of.
And then they have a, Graphic of a woman with purple hair who's scowling and she has like a traditional sort of indigenous tattoo on the middle of her lip going down to her chin and she's wearing hoop earrings, but the hoops have like big chunky.
Yeah, you know old-fashioned.
I mean, I'm guessing this is also like a form of indigenous Uh, either impersonating indigenous jewelry or what, but yeah, that's what she's wearing.
And then it says, uh, Southwoke, an airline that's inclusive of everyone except you.
Yep.
And then there's like a rainbow graphic on the plane and it says, uh, so woke, we're willing to go broke.
Here's the one with all of them.
Dressed up in drag.
Here's one of in like a pup mask.
Southwark Airlines.
We helped Texas become a second California.
You're like laughing your ass off and also extremely frightened right now.
Yeah.
And the guy like it's someone wearing like a pup mask, like a leather pup mask.
It's so funny.
Is this Jerry Brown on the left?
It's like they're photoshopped on it says Southwoke Airlines.
We bring woke values to Texas.
So maybe this is like who is the CEO are the CEOs of Southwest?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I want to see a close-up of one of these guys.
Here we go.
A message from our CEO, Bob Jordan.
CEO Southwoke Airlines.
He slash him slash Two Spirit.
And they gave him Liberty Spikes.
They gave him blue casualties Liberty Spikes.
Yeah, they're so good.
They're so good.
What's funny is like, so it's Photoshop, but he has like this smile on his face that is not being faked.
And it's just like full tooth like I don't know, it's a really funny smile.
That part's not Photoshop, but it fits the rest of the look they're going for.
He looks like Matthew Lillard in SLC Punk.
Like, that's what they think woke people look like.
Yeah.
Man, I hope this ends with him finding out that, you know, like, paying money to dye your hair blue is not actually punk rock at all.
Yeah, but he's already got the suit on for the end of the movie.
True, but he's even more punk because it's a skirt.
It's like a skirt suit.
Yeah, they photoshopped his head at a different angle from the body that's also photoshopped.
They twisted his head and put it at an angle so it looks like he's looking off to the side and tilting his head.
I don't know, very silly, but I love it.
They kind of nailed it.
Here at Southwoke, okay, so this is like really funny stuff.
Here at Southwoke, we're fully committed to DEI, ESG, LGBTQ+, BLM, BIPOC, allyship, hashtag me too, and every other trendy woke acronym or hashtag you can think of.
In fact, we're so committed that we want to import these same values from other woke meccas like San Francisco and Portland to right here, deep in the heart of Texas, the stolen lands of the Caddo, Wichita, and Comanche people.
I don't know, that's probably true.
The New York Times said it best, even though Southwoke is headquartered here in Texas, we have become California's quote, unofficial airline.
In fact, our airline is so popular with California's woke political class that state legislatures are totally dependent on Southwoke functioning.
We have our North Star, Gavin Newsom, the great governor of California, to thank for that.
And now we promise to bring those woke values to all Texans.
So here's our commitment to Texas.
We promise to accommodate work shift changes for all Southwoke employees anytime they wish to participate in leftist political activism, such as the Women's March on Washington or Planned Parenthood events.
We promise to invest where it matters most, in DEI, ESG, yada yada initiatives, and to do so even when it hurts.
That may mean we have to delay investments in things like flight scheduling and hardware upgrades, but we believe signaling our Woke virtues is that important.
So we're getting close to like what the actual grievance is here.
Remember the massive flight delays and shutdowns that happened in airports because of the storm over the winter?
Yeah.
Well, that was exacerbated at Southwest Airlines because they run on extremely old operating software.
They have like an extremely old system of scheduling pilots in a way that none of those like terminals or systems or programs could communicate with each other in this crisis incident.
Also, they're severely understaffing pilots.
Like, they're expecting pilots to fly on more and more hours, they're stretching them way thin, they're fighting to get rid of the co-pilot altogether.
Jeez.
So, yeah, I guess that's what's been, uh, that's what they've been doing that's woke here.
Oh, no, no, no, sorry.
That's what led to these delays.
Uh, but I guess this website is trying to act like BLM did this.
BLM did that?
Prevented a for-profit company from reinvesting in its own, you know, infrastructure rather than payouts to the shareholders?
Yeah, it's because Patrice actually bought a private plane instead of flying with Southwest.
So all the revenue they would have got from her, they had to let some people go.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if she bought a private plane.
If there's anybody I want to be woke, it's my pilot.
Because it'd be bad to have a sleepy pilot.
Oh, that's a good point.
That may mean we have to delay investments in things like flight scheduling hardware upgrade.
Like how long have they needed this upgrade?
How long has the BLM movement been around?
Like, this is a bad attempt.
We promise to do this even if it risks the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights over important holidays such as Christmas or New Year's.
SouthWoke believes all Americans have to make sacrifices to protect Woke values.
Again, Woke values of enriching shareholders, increasing profits, lowering cost of operating.
And sometimes that includes our customers.
Let's think about like airlines and stuff like that is there is still somebody way up on the chain who is making so much money who is making millions and millions of dollars that if they weren't making that much money they probably could upgrade these things that are talking about but you can oh you oh you can't do that you always got to blame you got to blame the working person even if that working person is a pilot We believe it's not the most qualified employee that counts, it's the most historically marginalized.
That's why we have promised to lower our standards in the way we hire, train, discipline, and promote workers in order to benefit those employees that best represent, not the most qualified, but instead the incredible diversity rainbow.
So it's at this point I'm like, I don't know if this sounds like it was written by current Southwest employees.
I don't know if you want to go on record saying that the employees that work at this company aren't the best.
Hey, let's be honest.
We're not really the best.
Am I right, guys?
Well, it's also saying, like, we'll go in and lower our standards and hire some idiot minorities.
Some dumbass minorities.
Yeah, I'm sure there's already a ton of minorities working for Southwest.
Working as fucking baggage throwers or as attendants or whatever.
Like, they didn't fucking write this.
This is very obviously not an appeal from the workers.
It's a very funny fantasy.
We may recognize that implementing these changes won't be easy.
From time to time it may leave our passengers stranded and vomiting for hours.
And I was like, oh, okay, here's an actual link.
They actually linked to something that Wokeness did.
I go to the link.
It's a Guardian article.
Turbulence hit Southwest flight, leaves passengers stranded and vomiting.
Can you believe the fucking turbulence has gone woke, Tony?
Listen, back in my day, we didn't care how much our plane shook.
Alright?
We never were stranded and vomiting.
We never did that.
Great.
They're blaming the turbulence on wokeness.
It may lead to multiple flight cancellations, reroutings, and lost bags.
Okay, so that's like the scheduling stuff I was just talking about.
And occasionally, it may even lead to the cancellation of thousands of flights over the holidays.
Okay, again.
Yeah.
Like, I don't...
What is this really trying to do?
Because I was trying to get more information about how woke Southwest actually was, and I went to some flight blog, some airline travel blog who's an independent journalist who covers these airlines.
He was like, actually, Other airlines were doing way more woke shit.
Like, yeah, like other other airlines were like offering to what, like fly women leaving abortion bans, stuff like that.
You know, that might not be real, but stuff like that.
And it's it's like Southwest.
I think they had a vaccine mandate, maybe.
I think that was it.
Yeah, but I think it's just that Southwest, South Woke is just a play on words they did.
It's not, it's like, because this whole thing is just from a, this is an ad agency doing April Fool's joke, and like, they just chose that for the, you know, for the wordplay, I think.
I guess, I mean, they linked to all Southwest, it's a weird way to work backwards from it, but I guess, you know, alliteration is important.
Um, at Southwoke Airlines, the flight cancels you.
I do like crash.
I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah, you die.
You don't even crash, you just die on some other means on the plane.
Well, that would be funny if they were just making fun of plane crashes.
Yeah.
Flying with us, and then this one, flying with us is so woke, your penis will fall off on its own.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
That's what that means.
The first airline quote, quote, the first airline to fly on hot air.
Oh, okay.
Why did that take so long?
Wow, that took so long.
Because you're not 80 years old.
Are they doing hot air balloons?
But they're talking about blowing hot air up your ass, huh?
Oh, you thought they might be talking about Chinese balloon?
Yeah, I was thinking maybe they were talking about just zero emissions, you know, kind of thing.
That's what I thought they were saying, but no, they're talking.
I mean, in a way, yeah.
Yeah, I went to Southwest, and instead of engines, it had a windbag on each side.
Listen, they got that no-cigarette light on, and yet they're blowing smoke up my ass on site.
But that's probably because they're smoking the devil's lettuce, though.
Uh, I thought I was going to go on a plane flight.
Uh, not, not a, not a horse ride because of how high up you are on your horse.
Oh, that's a bad one.
I think it was good.
It's as good as flying on hot air.
It's true.
It's true.
We, and the last quote here, we offer first class business class and no class.
I respect it.
Man.
Which, you know what would be funny, is if, because this is Texas, I mean it wouldn't actually be funny, but it would be, I guess, ironic.
What if, like, The the I'm assuming male CEOs of this company who are photoshopped into these pictures like get arrested for like for doing drag.
Yeah, there's now like photo photographic evidence that they they did drag at some point.
Oh, this one's kind of funny.
Customer testimonials.
And it shows people on TikTok.
It just links to TikToks that are complaining about Southwest.
It's smart.
It's like the hashtag canceled flight or something.
They just linked that under customer testimonials.
And that's what populates.
That's pretty good.
Do you think we can just follow this bike back to maybe like Delta or just some other airline who's just trying to cash in on Texas being Texas?
Oh, you think like a competing airline did this?
Yeah.
Sure.
Doing this.
I'd like that.
That'd be funny.
Here's the About Us section.
Cancel culture.
We pride ourselves in contributing to the overall cancel culture by cancelling flights at the last minute.
There you go.
That's pretty good.
Did that one again.
That was a good one again.
It landed for me twice.
Luggage exchange at Southwark Airlines.
We believe in sharing your luggage with other passengers Giving us your suitcases like placing bets in a casino see like all of this I could like get behind if you want to make fun of Southwest for like canceling flights because they're they haven't invested in their infrastructure or If you want to make fun of Southwest for like losing thousands of bags every year or whatever.
I'm down with that Why do you have to pretend it was they was they were being gay.
That's why they lost your bags.
Why do you have to do that fucking freak shit?
They're like, listen, we think that we take a poly approach to our luggage.
You know, we like to share luggage.
You know, your luggage can have more than one partner, you know.
It doesn't have to go home with you.
Don't make it weird.
You don't have to make it weird.
It's really none of your business where your luggage goes, actually.
That's between your luggage and that person.
We like to tout our accessibility modifications that we've done to our airlines.
One of our newest installations to help accessibility, we've introduced a new chair that you get to sit in while you watch somebody else take your luggage from the luggage revolving thing.
Yeah, it's kind of like the front row that has more leg room.
But yeah, you get to just watch.
You can't do anything about it.
And actually, they're going to make fun of you while you sit there too, which costs a little extra, but it's worth it.
Learning never stops.
Our diverse staff loves to school our passengers about issues, making you feel unworthy of our wokeness.
We offer a range of edifying comments from quote, wow, you really need a shower, to quote, if you disagree, parachutes are in the back.
I love why you really need a shower.
Was the author told that?
Yeah.
Was the author called stinky by a flight attendant?
Yeah, they're like, listen, listen, you might need a shower.
And he's like, okay, woke mob.
Well, this is just another digital lynching.
Sir, this is real life.
We're not on the internet.
You need to shower.
Oh, sorry.
Is this too much masculinity for you?
Is my musk too much masculinity for you?
I'm getting wet garbage?
Is that masculine?
What kind of animal is that that you own?
It's not a cat.
It has rough hair, whatever that is.
I feel like it has rough hair and was wet.
Whatever was rubbing on you.
Yeah, it was a boar.
They're really fucking cute, man.
You're trying to castrate my smell?
You know, that's pretty fucked up.
Yeah.
Ma'am, it's called beef breath.
You'd know that if you weren't sucking on celery sticks every night.
Yeah.
In-flight entertainment.
Oh, wait.
Our flight attendants also make it a point to ignore your requests for water or food, just to let you find out what the slaves felt like on their way to America.
out what the slaves felt like on their way to America.
Oh.
Can you hear that?
Can you hear that?
Barely.
What is it?
Oh, it's like really loud for me.
They're just revving an engine like right outside my window.
Fucking woke assholes.
Yeah.
That is just so you know what the slaves feel like.
So what's funny about that too is they're doing this thing where even in writing this, you are acknowledging that that did happen.
Oh, sure.
You do know that, right?
You are like acknowledging.
Yeah, of course we know it happened.
The slavery was pretty fucked up.
We know it happened despite the Democrats trying to cover up their crimes of doing it.
Yeah.
Just so you know what the slaves felt like on your way to America.
You lost me, dude.
I'm like, yeah, it might suck to fly on this budget airline.
Like what they're known for, having cheap flights.
Sorry they didn't offer you free food.
Your flight was $50 cheaper than the next one.
But yeah, no, this is like literal slavery to me when I don't get a little packet of pretzels.
Yeah, getting the middle seat and when the person in front of me reclines, that's basically like being taken into slavery.
That's being like stacked three on top of each other in the decks of a slaving ship.
May as well.
I really gotta know if the people behind this actually were harmed by Southwest or if they're just...
Wasting money on this.
Like, you know, if this is like a true believer thing, it's very fucking funny to put this much work in.
And, uh, I, I almost like applaud it.
Like this is like, if you were actually wronged by Southwest, like if they lost your luggage or if like you said, Tony, somebody leaned back too far and your throat was parched or whatever.
Um, and so you made a whole Babylon B style humor website about the airline.
That's kind of impressive.
Yeah.
It probably is like a collective of people who have shown up in various TikToks looking ridiculous.
They all found each other.
They all found each other in the algorithm and they reached out to each other.
They're like, you know, we can't stand for this.
They're clearly trying to... Oh, the CEO is the guy who was rapping Eminem in the airport.
But is that real?
No, no, but you've seen, have you seen that one?
Yeah.
No, no.
The guy's like getting kicked out of the airport.
And he's like, I'm not afraid.
Oh, he like breaks his phone right now.
Remember he like, he like smashes his own phone, like into the ground.
It's the greatest act of protest an American can do.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a good call.
Again, if you're getting arrested, maybe smash your phone.
Sure, yeah.
If you can't turn off face ID in time.
A bunch of wronged customers probably got together and decided that making one of the board of directors look like RuPaul was the best way to have their demands answered.
One of them looks like Pat Benatar, so you know those changes are going to get implemented.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Got a frickin' Fraggle from Fraggle Rock here.
You think the airline is gonna withstand this kind of criticism?
Some of the responses to this... These are from that blog that I was talking about.
That, like, airline blog.
This one is, at least.
Most Texans, especially Fort Worth area, hate wokeness.
I love that.
Yeah, I go around... I frickin' hate wokeness.
Yeah.
You better get that out of my face.
This is a PR ploy to get Texans to side with the Pilots Union when they ask for half a million dollars a year for 20 hours a week to fly a machine that flies itself.
What's worse for Southwest than mad pilots?
Mad Texans, who are probably neighbors, friends, and schoolmates of many of the executives and families at Southwest Airlines.
Not any different than a union claiming quote racial discrimination by United Airlines targeting people in Chicago since United execs live in Chicago which is a shithole city but the population is brainwashed so thinks everything is racist and therefore supports DEI.
Pretty smart move by the union if you ask me.
Wow.
They're like tapped in on what's going on here.
They've been following this.
This is definitely what happened.
This is a stab across, a shot across the bow of negotiation.
Like, imagine if the Teamsters Union, like, funded a website that made Carol Tomei into a furry or something.
Yeah.
The president of UPS.
Oh, she was doing wokeness.
That's why she hired all those PVDs in December.
I mean it's such a funny these people are like these people are such like they're so funny man they think everybody is as weird and fucked up and like bigoted and hateful as they are they think this stuff is like a brilliant move to put up put up a billboard of a CEO in drag that same thing that you think is like demons molesting or you know grooming children
And you're just like reveling in your own shit.
You're just like all, you're just like consumed with all of these, uh, conspiracy theories and these like anti-gay theories and anti-trans theories.
Everybody else is like, huh?
It kind of sucks.
It's like, I remember there was a time when like conservative men used to be able to dress up like women and they would do a little, they would have a little fun joke and they'd put balloons in their shirts, you know, maybe basketballs in their shirts.
Can, can they even do that anymore?
Can, Can conservatives do the basketballs in the shirts joke anymore and make a high-pitched voice and like...
Can they do that anymore?
Or are they, you know, they just, they can't even participate in that anymore.
Sad.
I bet if we, I bet if we found a photo of them doing that, we could get some real change in this country.
If we went back to the eighties and found a photograph of a right-wing politician wearing a wig and balloons under his bosom, um, I bet we could, you know, do some real good in this country.
They're all Polaroids, so they're going to be pretty faded.
Yeah, this is the pilots doing this as a negotiating tactic.
Fucking brilliant people.
Das Wright says, I get that we've got to laugh sometimes in the face of adversity.
Still, I'm finding stuff... Oh no, this is from a different story.
No, yeah, maybe this, this is it.
I can't, I can't remember.
Yeah, this is it.
Okay.
So I get that we've got, I get that we've got to laugh sometimes in the face of adversity.
Still, I'm finding stuff like this less and less funny given the serious damage the left is doing to our Republic.
I wish I could laugh with you guys about the, uh, the Liberty spikes on the CEO.
I really wish I could.
Yeah.
Donald Trump's getting indicted and you're laughing.
Man, back in my more innocent time, I could imagine a board member of Southwest Airlines in a sleeveless dress and have a hearty chuckle to myself.
But things are getting a little too real here.
But now there actually are CEOs that wear dresses, so it's too real.
It's not even a joke anymore.
It's just like there are some people who are gender nonconforming.
It's fucking crazy.
You think that's funny?
I don't find anything funny about this.
This is real life now.
Yeah.
So yeah, no, you're on the right track.
The indictment of Donald Trump is but the latest, and by no means the last, manifestation of our culture's debasement at the hands of the woke, the perverted, the ignorant, the deluded, the violent, and the parentheses, for now, gleefully godless.
Well, you know what that for now means?
There's going to be no choice at some point.
Yeah.
Every atheist becomes a believer after they die.
Yeah, there's no atheist in the foxhole, and guess what's gonna happen in Civil War time?
Foxholes, baby!
Heavy-duty jury, or heavy-duty Judy, replies, Ridicule them to no end.
They absolutely can't stand it.
Then Das Right replies, Ridiculing them doesn't stop them.
It only drives them to work harder at fulfilling their agenda.
See, they're having like the Jon Stewart conversation on their side.
They're having the like, I'm getting kind of sick of the Babylon Bee pretending like it's politics.
Yeah, that thing too.
They have this idea where they really think, like, don't egg them on.
Don't push them.
It's like that tweet about Hawaiian dog breeds on the Means TV feed.
People were like, don't shame people.
They're going to go to Hawaii twice now.
They're going to go to Hawaii way more.
Don't do that.
They're going to double down on it.
They're going to buy more dogs.
And it was like, that's really what they think.
They're like, no, you can't.
These people, you got to be more tactical with them because they're just going to do it to spite you.
Well, I feel like what's going on here is like...
They're recognizing that the only type of political power is political power.
It's not like being snarky on Twitter.
It's not like making your own website to own the losers.
Hey losers, I put a picture of you in a dress.
How about that?
And it's like, okay, well, I don't know, a Marxist head of a union just won mayor in Chicago, bro.
So have fun with your southwokeairlines.com.
Yeah, very cute, but the games are over.
Trump was just indicted and you're playing with paper dolls on the Internet.
Cool.
We'll see.
We'll see who comes out ahead.
Do you know how many people we could have armed with the amount of money you spent on this joke campaign?
Yeah.
Do you know how much more money we could have sent to Homeland Security instead of this?
This money could have gone to Ukraine and you're spending it on a joke?
I don't think they want it to go to Ukraine.
They'd rather it go to, like, automatic turrets at our border.
True, true, true.
Yeah.
And they're clearly fulfilling their agenda.
Just look at how much the alphabet soup of sexual perverts has accomplished in subverting societal norms over the last 30 years or so.
We can mock them only so much and for so long before somebody finally has to take up arms and fight them.
To date, the GOP has proven itself worthless as a warrior in this fight.
This is what a lot of them are saying right now, too, is that the GOP is too weak.
GOP would never indict anybody the way that Democrats are.
They're having the same conversations on the right about electoral politics that the left is having about electoral politics and They're not wrong in one sense that there are a lot of shell games being played, but they're being played with wokeness, right?
Like that, that is, that is the shell game.
It's, it's not the actual politics going on.
Um, but, uh, it's ironic to see them have this complaint with their leadership who is otherwise been extremely successful.
The fact that Trump was in office at all despite never winning the popular vote.
able to get the fact that Trump Trump was in office at all, despite never winning the popular vote.
Right.
Yeah.
That like, they're still not happy with that because there are certain aspects of society that can't change without an even more authoritarian right wing government.
Yes, they need to get more extreme.
There's visible gay people.
There's visible women.
There's visible minorities.
There's, you know, outspoken trans people, right?
But the thing is, yeah, when I see that stuff, when I see those things existing, you know, I think GOP, more like GO pussy, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Right, because you couldn't like get the gay ban going, right?
Yeah.
And so it drives them crazy.
I'm still hearing people say gay.
Because it's like fiscally, the right wing has been in the driver's seat of America for a very long time.
And these people still aren't happy because it's obviously not good for the majority of people to have that sort of economic policy.
But they can't even like, yeah, look at their TV anymore and not see an interracial couple.
And it's very funny to The way that they've construed companies like, oh, if you're for, uh, if you're for gay rights or if you're for trans rights or whatever, um, you're just saying the exact same thing as a corporation.
I thought you were, I thought you on the left were supposed to be independently minded, huh?
I thought you were supposed to be anti-corporate and yet you have the same exact beliefs as a corporation.
And it's like, of course, it's the exact opposite.
Of course, corporations only started signaling about gay rights after it was legal.
They only started signaling about all these things after they were already popular.
Like a corporation is never going to lead the way on a new political venture.
Yeah, I just saw some tweet and I wish I remember who it was from, but they were saying, um, you know, when we see these things, when we see these, these companies doing the virtual signaling, doing, you know, pride, pride cans, um, you know, like having, having, you know, trans spokesmen, spokespeople, uh, that they, they, they don't care.
They just see that.
There's money to be made, which also means that there's enough of us out there who do care and who do support these issues that there is money to be made.
So like, yeah, it is.
It took this long to get this many people to be outspoken about it to where they're like, OK, finally, we're not going to lose money on it.
We're actually going to make money on it.
So, you know, it's the popular thing.
That's why they're mimicking it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And just again, like the the right wing Even their argument for what's happening doesn't make sense because the idea is that corporations are just virtue signaling.
They don't really believe what they're saying, which is of course correct.
It's a corporation.
It doesn't believe anything.
It's job is to make profit.
Therefore, since they don't believe that and they're just virtue signaling, therefore they're going to change the country to be more gay and be more inclusive and be, have more minority.
Yada.
It's like, what, what's the argument here?
Like if they're just virtue signaling, how is it going to have any political effect?
Yeah.
Like how is it going to have any change material reality whatsoever?
Like the reality is already changed.
The reality is already here.
The corporations are just like reflecting it back.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that's the episode.
Thank you so much for joining.
Hey, Tony, you got a new thing going on, don't you?
Yeah, yeah.
I've been hitting the old Twitch.
Just been hopping on Twitch and doing little streams.
I've been watching food videos.
That's been what we've been doing lately.
It's been really fun.
We watched Maddie Matheson make adobo chicken.
Man, that was brutal.
It was an especially great episode to watch because of how I feel about Maddie Matheson.
My disliking of him, he really let it all shine on that episode, super fun.
And also you don't like adobo chicken very much so I bet you let it have it for being meat.
Yeah, I was like, that's mostly what I do.
It's mostly just me shaming people for not being vegan for an hour.
No, but it's like I've been doing food stuff with some music here and there some skateboarding content You know a little a little bit of a little bit of YouTube reactionaries.
It's kind of fun to talk about But it's yeah, it's twitch.tv slash word is bond.
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