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Um, let's get started with the show because again, we have just such a important, just such an important story to start off with, which is that, um, American dad went woke.
Tony, did you hear about this?
No, because you said American dad when we started this episode and I was like, American dad is still a thing that's on.
Yeah.
Uh, it's, it's actually illegal to cancel a cartoons, uh, sitcom now.
And then I looked it up and it's been on for 18 fucking seasons?
Insane.
Is the Cleveland Show still running?
What's going on with the Cleveland Show?
Oh, I bet, no fucking way that's running.
No way.
They actually got a black actor to play Cleveland now.
That's the last thing I remember hearing about it.
Guess how many seasons the Cleveland Show is around for?
14?
It's actually reasonable.
Four.
Four seasons.
What?
Four seasons.
That can't be right.
Compared to 18.
Oh, I guess I'm thinking of just the Cleveland character in Family Guy, which is still running.
Maybe Cleveland, the character, is played by a black actor now.
Oh wait, those are new Family Guys happening still too?
I think so, Tony.
Oh man.
Wow.
Wow.
See, I should have just never stopped watching these things and I'd probably be okay.
I probably wouldn't be worried about anything else I'm worried about.
Well, you might because American Dad just had a contest for Roger.
If you're not familiar with the show, Roger is the alien who lives with the American Dad family.
He like saved the Stan, I think is the dad.
The dad is like a CIA agent or an FBI agent, some sort of three letter
Agent and uh the alien I think saved his life and so now the alien lives with him and is part of the family um always dressing in flamboyant costumes um making sexual advances to I think every anyone and everything a very theatrical fellow loves loves to wear uh fancy get-ups and and uh women's clothing um well turns out they're gonna make
Roger Drag, Tony.
Oh, my God.
Amazing.
So there was some sort of contest that was like, what is Roger's next character going to be?
And it was like, oh, he could be this crossing guard or he could be this goth girl or he could be this wine mom.
And one of the options was an actual drag performer.
Like he was going to be playing a drag character who had their own identity, who also did a podcast about Like, blowjobs and breakfast, I think, was the topic.
So an actual drag queen, Roger was going to be, not just a drag queen, but an actual drag queen.
Yeah, Roger wasn't going to just be doing drag, he was going to be playing a drag queen.
If that makes sense.
I think so.
I think I get it.
I think I understand what's happening here.
I think maybe that's why everybody's brains shorted out on this, because we're all extremely mad that American Dad went woke now, making Roger a drag queen.
Thank you to John from the Facebook group for sharing this into the group.
Very funny stuff.
Roger is famously a lovable degenerate.
Famously a lovable, slutty, hot mess, right?
Yeah, I think that's what I kind of remember from it.
That's his deal.
He's a bit overboard, but charming.
Yeah, a lot of people didn't like this.
We have here...
Cy who says, they realize Roger is making fun of them, right?
In no way was it praising them or supporting them.
Uh, and this is, I guess, because like people were like, Roger is, is always in drag.
Roger dresses in drag in every episode.
I don't know why you would be mad about Roger challenging gender roles or like making a spectacle of cross-dressing.
That's in fact, his entire character.
What's really funny about this, too, is the other... I'm looking at the characters that they could have chose from.
Like you said, it was literally, like, a goth girl, a crossing guard.
Most of those characters are, like, femme-presenting characters.
It's just the drag queen happens to be a drag queen.
So, like you said, no matter what would have happened, Roger would have been in drag, and we've seen Roger in drag a million times.
Yeah, but I don't have to know that that's what drag is, Tony.
If you just dress him up like a girl and have him do funny stuff, funny, flamboyant, theatrical stuff while dressed up as a girl, I can just think, oh that's funny, I like this sense of humor.
This sense of humor is actually right up my lane.
But when you call it drag, when you say he is being a drag queen, well now I'm offended.
Now you've crossed a line.
Yeah, yeah, that's not... Is this character going to read to kids next?
Because it's like you're forcing me to confront my own sense of humor, which is strikingly similar to that of the drag community.
If you're watching American Dad and laughing at the Roger character.
That's... I love this too.
It's like, no, no, I like Roger.
Roger would never... Roger's definitely making fun of him.
Roger's not into this at all.
Like, don't say this about Roger.
This is not fair.
Roger can't even defend himself here.
Yeah.
Matthew replies, Roger isn't making fun of them.
He uses aspects of drag culture to accentuate comedy.
Drag isn't the joke.
Cy replies, oh yes it is.
It's funny as all hell.
Even when I was a little kid I knew they were making fun of drags.
So drag queens are making fun of drag queens?
Yeah.
That's why it's so funny!
I mean, yeah, that's what sucks.
Yeah, it is funny.
There's usually a pretty large comical element to drag performances.
And they know that, but they can't even enjoy that.
Like, why can't they just embrace that?
Yeah, it is funny.
It is dumb.
Often times the boobs are like giant balls inside of his shirt and that's like pretty comical sometimes.
Like, embrace that.
You think it's funny already, you're just mad because you read some article that said that they're trying to groom kids.
Here I got a compromise that everybody can enjoy okay it's like yeah you see somebody dressed up as a like a flamboyant character cross-dressing big wig you know big crazy stuffed dress or whatever You think that's funny?
That's fine.
Just like many people feel like, you know, minstrel show.
That's also funny.
You know, a big flamboyant character.
And it's like, we're not making fun of women or of... No, I'm just kidding.
Don't want to go down that road because I'm sure that, like, there's plenty of rad femmes who feel like drag is a hate crime against women.
Oh, there absolutely is.
And yeah, that's that's for real a thing.
And they probably are thinking like, what?
OK, if if they can do drag, then I can do blackface.
Drag is the blackface for women.
Yeah, women is the minstrel show of the world.
We know this.
We all know this.
Yeah, even when I was a little kid, I was bigoted as hell.
I was really, really heteronormative as a kid.
I was really incensed by this tweaking of a culture that I was definitely already enmeshed in and internalized at the age of five or six.
Yeah, I mean, that's Montel's fault, you know?
All the daytime talk shows.
Like, what if somebody's watching, like, Madea's... What are the Madea movies?
Madea's Spooktacular Halloween Special or whatever, and they're like, oh, that's so true, drag performers are fucking stupid.
I love this movie.
That's why it's so funny.
Yeah, that's why it's so funny.
That's why you watch The Klumps and the Nanny Professors, just for those scenes.
It's so funny when they do that.
Like, imagine watching a drag performance and laughing your ass off, but then not thinking that the drag performer is trying to make you laugh.
They're like, no, this is ironic actually.
This is like a Tim and Eric bit.
You should be laughing at how bad of a person I am.
And you're like having a moment where you're looking around and you're like, see, everyone's laughing at it.
And then you realize that other people are giving the queens money.
They're tipping the queens.
Like, why are you paying them if we're laughing at them, right?
And it's like, no, no, we're still laughing with them.
It's okay.
Yeah, here in the same vein, Clayton said, someone please tell me... Sorry, someone please tell them it's meant to be a freaking comedy, not a life choice.
It's an alien, for God's sakes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, you're saying in the wrong tone, I think, Clayton.
But yes.
It is not a big deal.
You guys know this, he's not a real drag performer.
He's a freaking alien, okay?
And it's like, that's how the Family Guy writers view drag queens.
They view them as extraterrestrials.
Do we even know about like alien gender?
Well, that's the thing.
He's like genderless.
He's non-binary.
I mean, I think they refer to him as male, but there's like episodes where he actually addresses the fact that He, uh, he's... I don't even know if he's, like, intersex.
I don't know if he has genitalia.
It's kind of just, like, round and smooth down there from what I've seen.
But I believe he is genderless.
Yeah, I think so too.
I think that makes sense.
So yeah, it's like, what are you getting mad at here?
They should fucking, like, tell everybody that Roger is they-them.
Yeah, it might help.
It might get somebody to kill themselves.
That's why I want them to do it.
Oh yeah, it'll just blow their mind?
Or would it make it to where Roger becomes a slur?
Tyler responds to somebody else, like, trying to reason with him.
Says, yeah, he is an alien, which is why it's funny, because he isn't really a traditional man or woman, because again, he isn't human.
Get it?
Do you understand?
We're saying what you're saying.
Wouldn't it be funny?
I mean, I guess that is part of it, is that he's an alien that doesn't really look human, and so him wearing human clothing, you know, Like cosplaying as a human in general is is I guess kind of funny.
It's like E.T.
Like when they put that curly wig on E.T.
Like that's funny, right?
That's probably where the entire that scene right there is exactly where Roger came from.
Um.
Yeah, that's I guess that's that's part of it, but it's not like.
The performance is why it's funny.
Performing as a campy, over-the-top character is why it's funny.
It's not only funny because... Can you imagine if something wasn't human and we put human clothes on it?
I like Roger because, like you said, I like it when he sexually harasses the female characters.
That's the way I like it.
And when Roger's dressed as like a girl as well, it kind of like disarms that.
And I don't, I don't like that.
Dude, this guy, Gordon, Gordon says, I do watch the show every day.
I do.
You're talking to one of the foremost American dad experts in the country.
I'm a moderator on several American dad boards, actually.
I do watch the show.
Every day.
He's not a drag icon.
He's an alien that has to wear disguises, male and female, so he isn't discovered.
He's an actor.
Those are his roles.
Pay attention.
Stop being a puppet.
Your strings are showing.
No way.
No way.
This guy's not serious.
He's like, you don't understand.
This is bigger than that.
He's a master of disguise.
He's not dressing up.
He's disappearing.
It's a calculated art.
Yeah, it's a technical performance.
It's not a fucking sideshow for you to laugh at.
Yeah.
He's an actor.
Those are his...
Bro.
Like, okay.
You start off okay with he's an alien that has to wear disguises, male and female, so he isn't discovered.
And then you go until he's a thespian?
Now I just don't want to talk to you about the cartoon anymore, actually.
Well, yeah, only because apparently you don't take it seriously enough.
You can't hang with this.
He's an actor.
This is very serious.
Man, this is like, this is the worst aspect of fandoms, is when they try to tell the creators, you know, what the show should be, or what their creations are.
Excuse me, I think the 18th season writer's room of American Dad knows a little bit more about Roger than you do, Gordon.
Yeah.
Call it a hunch.
Those are his rules.
Pay attention.
Stop being a puppet.
Your strings are showing.
Man.
Wow.
Yeah.
Big, big, uh, big brothers over here making you, making you call Roger a drag icon.
That's the agenda that the globalists are doing here.
Yeah.
You, oh, I'm so, I'm so happy that Roger's a drag icon.
Me, sitting back, box of popcorn, enjoying the show.
Mm-hmm.
Suckers.
Bunch of suckers.
Okay.
That's, that's, that's it for American drag.
I think we have to call it.
I hate how well that worked for me right now.
Yeah.
Moving on here.
What are we talking about next?
Man, there's a couple banger stories here.
Okay, so did you hear about the couple that was assaulted outside of a liquor store in Canada because the assaulters thought they had purchased Bud Light?
No way.
This is real?
Yeah.
The only thing that's worse than like Americans who do shit like this is Canadians who are trying to be American by doing stuff like this.
like this couple assaulted outside liquor store over suspected Bud Light purchase.
This is from Newsweek.
And I love how like just every everybody's a cop now, you know, every everybody's what either wants to be a cop or has like cop mentality.
And now they're acting, you know, even if they're just becoming eerily similar to cops, they just suspected Bud Light purchase.
They didn't even don't even know if they actually purchased Bud Light.
Their Newsweek is using the exonerative tense for random vigilante anti trans violence.
I know before you know it like companies are gonna be just change you can't even have a blue can anymore.
I was trying to have a Pepsi and I got assaulted because they thought I was some sort of trans ally.
Did you see that, I can't remember what city it was in, but they shot a fucking 17, the cops shot like I think a 17 year old and the headline was, uh, police shoot 17 year old who was exhibiting traits of holding a gun or who was exhibiting traits of being armed.
Wow.
What does that even mean?
Well, they had several pockets.
Yeah.
And who knows what could have been in those pockets.
You're standing.
Thumbs.
Thumbs on both hands.
Yeah, he had the typical bulge in the front from an appendix carry.
From a concealed appendix carry.
We know it well.
Is that a weapon or are you just happy to see me?
I'm just happy to see you.
I just got a big ol' hug.
I'm so sorry.
Drop the anaconda now!
I can't.
Why is it getting bigger?
It's a weird fear response.
I'm sorry.
I can't stop this.
Yeah, it's that scene from Edward Scissorhands.
They're approaching him and he's got his dick in his hands and he's trying to fucking throw it to the ground and he can't.
Sorry!
Oh boy.
Humor, that's how you get through these things, folks.
Yeah, no, that's what it's going to be.
Couple assaulted because they had the traits of purchasing Bud Light.
They were holding a receipt in their hands.
So the reason I found out about this story.
The reason I found out about this story was because Tim Pool tweeted it out.
Tim Pool tweeted out the fucking headline.
Couple assaulted outside liquor store over suspected Bud Light purchase.
And captioned it, Bud Light has become so toxic people are getting attacked.
Wow.
I mean... This tracks for me.
This logic makes total sense.
It is funny, like, yeah, putting this on Bud Light.
This is Bud Light's fault.
Um, yeah, well, I mean, okay, so the way I see it is Bud Light waged asymmetrical warfare against its customers by sending a can to Dylan Mulvaney.
And, like, how is the powerless consumer supposed to respond, Tony?
Like, what else are they supposed to do?
Like, can you really blame them for lashing out irrationally?
Like, do you blame Palestinians for fighting back against Israel with like whatever artillery they might have?
Oh, yes.
Oh, wow.
Uh, didn't use a guided missiles there.
And it's like, listen, I, you know, it's this, we live in, we live in there.
People are shaped by their material environment.
Okay.
But yeah, but it's like, yes, they do do exactly that.
They literally do say, you know, like, terrorists throwing rocks in response to, you know, terrorists throwing rocks at people trying to defend their own land, and they're talking about Israel.
They, like, love Israel.
So yeah, it is the same thing.
Except for, again, maybe we can convince them that the Israeli flag is somehow a Bud Light flag.
I mean, I don't know if you really need to push a lot of these people too hard to get them to denounce Israel and more and and a lot more, in fact.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But yeah, I don't if your campaign if you had been campaigning about how evil Bud Light is, how they're like grooming children.
It's like the number one issue of our time.
Um, I don't know if I would highlight the story where a freak on your side, not only assaulted people, uh, but did it like incorrectly?
Yeah, it was wrong.
What does that mean?
I mean, I guess we'll get in the story, but does that mean that at some point the people who were attacking had to like, say out loud, this is about Bud Light.
Yeah, well, I mean, I think the choice of words the attackers used really gave it away.
A couple was reportedly assaulted outside of a liquor store after being confronted by a group of men over their suspected purchase of Bud Light beer, police suspect.
The incident took place on Saturday night in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, a suburb located just north of Toronto in Canada.
York Regional Police said in an official statement that a couple was accosted by a group of three men after leaving a liquor store located on Jane Street, allegedly targeting the 26-year-old male victim's supposed purchase of Bud Light and using various homophobic insults.
When one of the men approached the male victim, the female victim, 27 tried to step between them and keep the situation from escalating, at which point the suspect physically assaulted her.
The two other men then got involved and the group began attacking both victims.
So, uh, when people read this story, I mean, they, people on the right read this story, uh, the number one response is, oh, who got assaulted?
Jussie Smollett?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
This isn't real.
This is a lie.
It's funny to me that they saw a man and a woman leaving a store and they're so upset that they're like, they might have bought Bud Light homophobic slurs.
How did you jump there?
You got there somehow.
Were they drunk?
Did they say if they were drunk?
I think they could have been.
I don't think they have too much information other than a photo of one of the suspects and then a license plate.
They also got the license plate of the car.
So I don't know how they haven't found these guys yet.
Maybe they have.
I just haven't seen any updated reporting on it.
The two other men then got... Oh, but what I was going to say was...
The response obviously from people like Tim Poole is, oh well, this is what happens when you just rile people up enough by sending a TikTok influencer a special can that nobody else would fucking know about if you hadn't been complaining about it for four months.
This is just what happens.
This is a natural outgrowth of it.
Another common response is Oh, the female with the male had to step in to protect him?
Yeah, he sounds like a Bud Light drinker.
Yeah.
So just doing the same homophobic stereotyping that the attackers were also doing, who then proceeded to assault the woman anyway, of course.
Anyway, yeah, regardless, yeah.
I mean, the thing is, they might not have been buying Bud Light, but were they being actively anti-Bud Light?
Because just not being pro-Bud Light's not enough.
You have to be actively anti-Bud Light.
Yeah.
Well, here's another thing.
They weren't buying Bud Light, so what if the attackers were just irrationally angry over another beer that had been made the center of a culture war that we hadn't heard of, maybe, I guess.
When one of the men approached the group of attackers fled the scene after a bystander intervened.
The woman was brought to a nearby hospital for treatment of her injuries while her partner sustained only minor injuries and did not require medical attention.
They've posted a photo of one of the attackers and yeah there's bystanders in the background and I guess one of them intervened but it looks like a lot of them were filming the altercation.
The guy has like a shaved head and a fucking chin strap face tattoo.
And he's also wearing, at least his top half, he's wearing a track, an Adidas track jacket.
This Canadian dude is doing American culture while doing a hooligan cosplay too.
This guy's identity is just not good.
It's not doing great.
They are football hooligans because one of the other guys was wearing a different kit.
He was wearing a different...
Team's jacket or something like that.
But yeah, because he's wearing a track suit, like some of the lib responses were like, I bet he's Russian.
Yeah, probably a Russian.
Yeah, but so about the bystanders, people were like, you know, oh, look at all them bystanders just standing around and like not reading where one of them actually did.
Intervene.
But you got responses like this one from Rebecca who says, no one is going to intervene after what happened to Daniel Perry.
Oh my god.
What did happen to him?
He got arrested.
You know?
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
The way things are looking, that's probably all that's going to happen to him.
Like, I mean, fuck off.
There's so many degrees between what you're talking about and what happened there.
I hate that shit.
Yeah, also, um... Oh, sorry, Daniel Penny.
Yeah, sorry, I knew who you meant.
We knew who you meant.
The guy that Daniel Penny killed hadn't assaulted anybody.
Hadn't actually touched or assaulted anybody, so... Bit of a different situation, I would say.
Have you seen the videos that have surfaced that are apparently right before it happened?
No.
He's so chill.
It's not a big deal at all.
He's like not wilding at all.
Like at all.
Is he saying what he was reported to have been saying?
What is he saying in the video?
He's saying something about how he wants food.
He's just saying he's upset about wanting food.
I think he's saying specific restaurants he might want.
But it's not... Who can't relate to that?
As a fucking American, as a burger American, how can you not relate to somebody wanting to go to a restaurant?
Yeah, it's just wild because it's super unthreatening.
It's not even unnerving in the sense of when, you know, if you're around somebody who might be like talking to themselves, might just be unnerving in general.
It's not even anything.
It's just, it's nothing.
And it's, I don't know how...
That we're calling this like, oh, Good Samaritan needed to stop this from happening.
It's so scary.
It's sickening, dude.
Um, did in the clip you saw, did he say anything about wanting to go to jail or like not caring about going to jail?
No, no.
But I think it was like, it was, I guess it was a little bit before it.
Um, because you don't see, you don't see, uh, you don't see the altercation happen.
Yeah, the discourse around Jordan Neely was his name, I believe.
The discourse around his killing is so nauseating because so many conservatives are just telling themselves that he had already assaulted somebody.
The way they're framing this is Daniel Penny was defending against an assault.
Daniel Penny was responding to an assault, which would be a totally different story.
You know, killing somebody still wouldn't be warranted, I don't think, but... No, they have to tell themselves that in order to justify their own bloodlust, you know?
Yeah.
And it's...
You really, like, you really have to stop yourself from just replying to every asinine tweet you see with, like, he didn't touch anybody, he wasn't assaulting anybody, because it's not probably going to do that much good for these people.
No.
You know?
So this was on, I saw this reply on Newsweek.
The Newsweek replies were fucking bad, dude.
For this article, the replies here, top reply, was it Jesse Smollett?
God.
Word says, she learned a valuable lesson that day.
Men are 10 times stronger than women.
She should have called the cops instead of trying to get physical with two men.
Feminism didn't serve this woman well.
Now she has hospital bills.
Good job.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, just to think that at any point she thought to herself, like, oh, I have I have been enabled to think that I can take on all three of them.
It's like, no, that's not what happened at all.
She was put in that position because of freaks like you who would do something like this to a woman.
Like this response is why feminism is important.
This response right here is exactly what it is.
Like this response is why like women are afraid of men.
Like you're doing it right now.
Yeah.
I mean, anyone, this same person has most likely argued that if a woman was sexually assaulted, it's because she didn't fight back hard enough.
Yep.
You know, uh, just the, the lowest, the lowest worms word more like worm.
Yeah, he says so the female stepped in to save the man that dude is definitely a Bud Light customer again Just making yeah the same homophobic jokes that like and it's cool because you can as a conservative You can just either call this story fake say oh, it's Jussie Smollett again Or you can say oh Bud Light did this by making us so crazy.
This is what you get Bud Light for making us so crazy Or you can say, oh no, it was good.
We actually like that they got assaulted for buying Bud Light.
We like that there's a stigma around it now.
Yeah, we're grateful for that.
It's it's They think that They give these companies so much power That's what's so funny about it.
They give these things, these brands, these little entities so much power that they really think, like, we have to actively fight against this.
We have to go do, like, Bud Light bashings.
We have to do that.
It's to protect our future families.
They can't fight on principles because, like, The principle that a corporation shouldn't be dictating anything about our society is antithetical to their belief that money, that might makes right and money is power.
And these sorts of things grant you the ability to, you know, affect the world around you.
They can't argue against that.
So they have to pick these random little Instances of that overall function of what a corporation does, or what capitalism does.
And it makes them crazy!
It's like a whack-a-mole game for them, where instead of just unplugging the game, they think they're winning by pounding one every time it pops up.
God, yeah.
This one was so good.
This comment says, Canada is where your white supremacists live, like Justin Castro.
So... Yeah, who's Justin Castro?
Justin Castro is the Prime Minister of Canada.
Oh, really?
Yeah, well, if he took his father's name, Fidel, if he took Fidel's name... Oh, oh!
If you weren't hiding his identity.
I was like, what?
That is not, that is not the Prime Minister of Canada's name.
What are you talking about?
Like the white supremacist, like the son of Castro.
This comment is, so this comment gets more insane, but Canada is where your white supremacists live like Justin Castro.
So it's a joke like, Oh yeah, these people were white supremacists.
I'm so sure.
And it's like, you want to talk about who the real white supremacists are.
It's the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, AKA Justin Castro.
This comment was made by proud white Christian nationalist.
What?!
I don't know, man!
Like...
This is, this is, it's such a good example of what I'm talking about when it comes to both, like, simultaneously reveling in this violence against, you know, a Bud Light drinker, and also calling it fake, and also saying that the company you don't like is specifically the cause of it.
You have a white nationalist fucking username, and you're trying to pretend like there's no white nationalists in Canada, and, except for your political enemy, who's the real white nationalist, Never mind my screen name indicating that I am a white nationalist and think they're cool.
Yeah, because they are, it's like the article saying that they are, that they were probably like white supremacists.
This isn't even a reply to, no, the article didn't say anything like that.
This isn't a reply to any other comment.
This is just a, what I'm assuming is a riff on the idea that every attack on the street, the media tries to tell you was a white nationalist who did it.
Even if it's a black dude with the darkest skin you've ever seen.
Oh, well, the media will say that's internalized racism or whatever and try to gaslight you into thinking that white nationalists exist and like violence against gay people or whatever.
Never mind my screen name that you can see.
Yeah, and I like how the Christian part really does say, oh, we're more than just racist.
I'm not, I'm not just a racist, but I'm also on traditional values.
Uh, so no gay shit for me either.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's just like the mass shooting that we just had with that Hispanic dude who had the fucking SS bolts tattooed on his arm and a swastika tattooed on his chest.
And they're like, Oh yeah, sure.
Right.
A white, uh, a Mexican white nationalist, a Mexican Nazi.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll believe it when I see it.
And you're like, we're showing it to you.
It's right here.
You can see it.
They're like, yeah, nice try.
And then somebody replies with, actually, I'm a Mexican white nationalist.
And you go, Oh, sick.
That's based as fuck.
Come over here with us.
We love you.
Yeah.
It's a very, it's a very common thing.
People were just, they're not trying to hear it.
They're not trying to hear it.
Cause like, yeah, that's what they, they don't understand what.
Well, it's a game to them.
I think it's really a game to them.
They're all winking at each other.
actually is because they still take it so literally too.
Well, it's a game to them.
I think it's really a game to them.
They're all winking at each other.
They all know what kind of policies they actually like, but for, you know, I don't know, for sport, for pretense, They're all pretending that the that the media is absurd.
And again, the media is often very absurd.
So it's not a hard game to to play, but they also they'll know like it's it's just like throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
And it's going to stick with, you know, certain things are going to stick with people who have similar ideas and interests with you.
So it's all it's all good.
It's all fun.
Um, this though, while, while, uh, looking up this story, I'll just, this is the last thing I wanted to read about this story.
Um, you know who else covered this assault?
Hmm.
A website called Not The Bee.
Oh, okay.
I was curious if it was the B, but I'm happy to know that it's not the B. So I've seen this account on Twitter, not the B, and it's the Babylon B logo crossed out, circle with a cross around the Babylon B. And it's supposed to, it's again, like how Babylon B just is trying to be the onion.
There are, I think, unofficial Facebook groups and social media feeds that are not The Onion.
There's subreddits that are not The Onion, where you share an absurd news story that seems like it would be in The Onion, but it's not The Onion.
That's what not the bee is.
It's the right-wing version of that.
Yeah.
It's like, this is so wild.
It should be the bee, but it's not the bee.
It's real life.
Yeah, this one would totally be telling on yourself, right?
It would, because like...
I saw somebody reply to Tim Pool, they were like, I almost thought this was a Babylon Bee article for a minute.
And it's like, yeah, it could be a Babylon Bee article because it A, it's not a joke and B, it makes you look stupid if you were to write this article in like trying to make a point about your political enemies or like reinforce your own political ideology because it makes you look really bad.
Yeah.
It's Tim Pool posting the story and thinking he can make it seem like he's not at least partially responsible for this.
Okay, so not to be posted.
This is the headline.
You wouldn't understand this amazing headline if you were in a coma for the last month.
And this is posted by Harambe.
Fuck.
Which itself is kind of, that's kind of a joke too, that the author's name is Harambe.
Everybody remember that guy?
That's crazy.
Why is it still around?
Why is it still, why are people still reference, I fucking hate that.
Uh, wow.
I can't wait to hear from Dat Boy or Filoso Raptor.
See what their opinion columns are like.
I guess, yeah, now I do understand the headline.
That doesn't make it any more absurd.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Even knowing what it's referencing does not make it any less wild.
You're right.
I don't know, I guess before I would have just assumed maybe they were just like hardcore Coors fans.
Yeah, or like Bud Heavies and like Bud Light that's not got any flavor and you're like stomping somebody.
It's just like drinking water and you're kicking them in the stomach.
You can't use light beer for recovery because it doesn't have enough carbs.
You need more carbs for recovery.
That's why I drink beers after I lift.
Okay.
We're at, this is the first sentence.
We're at the point where Bud Light is so taboo that you'll get jumped for buying it.
Dot, dot, dot.
In Canada!
Oh yeah, so making the same joke.
Aren't we unhinged?
Aren't we out of our minds?
Isn't this funny?
Like, so are they even trying to say like, this clearly can't be what the article says it is because it's in Canada?
No, I think they're saying that, like, that's how bad Bud Light is, that it's making, you know, typically polite Canadians, even there, even they've had enough.
Oh yeah, for sure though.
And then it quotes the article, and then he writes, I'm not saying you should go around harassing people, but you have to admit, what do you think when you see a picture like this now?
And there's a photo of a Nationals game where a guy is double fisting Bud Light tall cans and he's like caught the baseball in the crook of his arm, caught like a foul ball or a home run in the crook of his arm or he like blocked it.
I think he's just getting hit with the ball.
Yeah.
So I'm not saying you should go around harassing people, but you have to admit, what do you think when you see a picture like this now?
Uh, the man in that photo is Jeff Adams, the legend who deflected a ball in 2019 without dropping his beers.
Back then, I would have thought nothing of the beer brand.
But if you see a dude carrying two Bud Lights in a stadium these days, you only have one thought.
Parentheses, y'all are gonna post this in the comments, so I'm just gonna put it here.
And it's a gif of Ken... What is this actor's name?
Ken... I don't know, from Community.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Saying, GAAAY!
Yeah.
What's this guy's name?
Uh, I don't remember his name.
He's the guy who... He's actually a doctor!
He's from Hangover, and he's actually a doctor, but he's a funny actor now.
Ken Yang.
Or Ken Zhang.
Yeah, saying, saying gay.
Uh, yeah.
So if you saw this guy, what would you think now?
Oh, slur.
That's what that's, you know, and like gay isn't a slur, but like, that's just because they don't want to actually have evidence of them using the slur.
But it's like, yeah, your reaction to seeing this guy carrying Bud Light is the reaction that happened in the incident.
And it's what you're laughing at.
I bet that other beer's for your boyfriend!
Uh, so yeah, that's illegal.
Assault is no bueno.
And those dudes should go to jail.
But the best detail?
It wasn't even Bud Light!
Yeah!
The best detail is that people are completely unhinged because they're thinking what you're thinking.
And they've lost their damn minds and it wasn't even what they thought they were.
How are you guys missing this?
How do you still think this is Bud Light's fault?
I don't think they're missing it.
They're just trying really hard to make it not look like that, and it's really ineffective.
Yeah.
They did three sobbing emojis.
I guess they didn't do crying laughing because that's maybe too boomer for them.
I don't know.
But imagine being Bud Light right now.
Not only have you alienated everyone in polite society, but the low-life thugs are repulsed by you too.
Oh, so they're thinking it's so bad that even I'm agreeing with these thugs?
That even the thugs are on our side.
That's amazing.
That's wild.
So we could really do some work on bridging the racial divide if we let them know that, hey, just so you know, black people are also homophobic.
You guys can get together over this.
I mean, they're exploring Islam for that very reason, Tony.
Yep.
I've seen many conservatives cite the fact that immigrant populations are more socially conservative and should be therefore embraced, should be therefore embraced by the Republican Party.
I've seen them, I've seen black conservative influencers try to use like the black community's Christianity or like Some elements of the black community's social conservatism as like evidence that they can be won over to their side.
Now, if only their side weren't so racist as to totally preclude that from happening.
Did you guys know that the person who is most in danger of being murdered in America right now isn't black trans women?
Did you know that?
Just think about that detail alone.
I mean, come on.
Yeah, they don't.
Yeah, that's.
They don't normally go with black trans women, but they do go with black people are the victims of of inner city violence more than anybody.
And therefore, you know, they should vote Republican or whatever.
So I was like, oh, this website has a comment section.
Sick.
I can't wait to look at the replies, at the comments under here.
Oh, but you have to log in in order to see the comments.
Okay.
I'll, I'll, I'll sign up.
I'll log in.
Oh, you have to give a fucking PayPal or credit card to do your free trial.
Uh, because otherwise it's nine.
I mean, not otherwise, but after that it's $9 a month.
To subscribe.
So more expensive than Twitter.
And again, you get all the fucking articles already.
You just have to like, yeah, sign in if you want to post, which is the most important part of any website.
So I understand it.
But so I was like, OK, I'll do the free trial.
I'll give them my PayPal, whatever.
I'll cancel it just so I can look at these comments.
I did that.
And then it didn't work.
And it said, Oh, something's wrong with your payment method.
And I said, Hmm.
Okay.
I tried it again.
It didn't work again.
So then I was like, fuck it.
I'll give him my credit card number.
I'll give him a credit card number and I'll just have to remember to cancel.
So I did that and it still didn't work.
And I was just like, all right.
Thank, thank you, God.
Thank, thank you for like tying my hands here.
I can't, I thank you for ending my self destructive ways.
Thank you for saying that, because as you said that, I was like, let me go ahead and end this free subscription that I did have running.
And I miss it by a day.
I miss it by one day.
Um, yeah, just, I love, yeah, it's, I'm absolutely shocked that a Babylon, oh, so this, I don't know if I said this, this is the Babylon Bee though.
This is owned by the Babylon Bee.
So it's not like some spinoff.
It's just a sister site to the Babylon Bee.
It's curated within it.
I am not surprised that a website run by the Babylon Bee cannot even take payment information without giving me an error message.
Not surprised.
Real missed opportunity over there.
Yeah.
You could, you could have had somebody, uh, subscribe to a free trial and possibly forgetting and then giving you $9 one time.
Final story here.
Um, all, Okay, there's more social media news I'm seeing here from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, I am excited to welcome Linda Iaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter.
At Linda Yak, we'll focus primarily on business operations while I focus on product design and new technology.
Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.
And I'm just looking at Linda here.
Oh, she was the executive chair of the World Economic Forum.
Yep.
No, no, no.
Elon, no, no, stop.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Oh man, amazing.
This is like the best fucking thing that could have happened.
Not only was she the Executive Chair of the World Economic Forum, the Chairman of the WEF's Task Force on Future of Work, and sits on the WEF's Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governor's Steering Committee, So never mind about the work one.
People don't really care about about what's going to happen to workers.
They just care about culture and what TV shows are going to be made to watch and what food items are going to be made to consume.
So welcome aboard, Linda.
Thanks.
Thanks for joining the team at Twitter.
This this how much do you know much about her cuz like she's just the worst She's gonna make nobody happy dude.
She's the worst possible person.
That's making her like the best possible person, right?
The photos of her that everybody has access to are her literally wearing a pussy hat.
Yeah, literally wearing a pussy hat, literally seated in front of a backdrop that says World Economic Forum a million times, like the the logo that they've photoshopped onto every politician they don't like or every whatever actor they don't like.
Not only that, she also has She also, like, made ads for people to get vaccinated.
She did PSAs telling people to get vaccinated, demanding that people wear a mask, and also, like, championing social justice awareness.
So I have a video of her from when she worked at NBC or Comcast slash NBC.
And let's let's just listen to a little bit of this video.
Comcast set up a fund to the value of $100 million to fight social justice and equality.
Hell yeah.
And obviously- We love those words here at Twitter.
I'm a Twitter Blue subscriber and there's nothing I love more than equality and social justice.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's their favorite things.
But it really made a very public statement that we're going to put our money where our mouth is.
We're not going anywhere.
And it inspired action across every corner of our company, because what it also did was made the leadership of our company accountable.
We have this $100 million.
What are you doing?
What's the update?
This is kind of aside from it, but I love, I love the jargon, the corporate jargon she's using.
Well, we are going to be held accountable.
That's like, okay, everything you're saying is fake.
Like you're not going to be held accountable.
What are you fucking talking about?
Like you're, you get to spend the money, however you want to spend it and whether or not it actually achieves any results, you'll just be applauded for having said that you spent the money on social justice or whatever.
Easy, you would think easy to see through Corporate social justice stuff right how it's all a big fucking front how it's all a big like marketing scam essentially But no, that's that's the real stuff The real stuff is a comcast is is trying to make you live in a 15-minute city or something like that Yeah, yeah, exactly Yeah, so Where is it here?
Some people were trying to cope.
So the overwhelming response to this was huge meltdowns and replies to Trump.
Some people, I just want to get this out of the way while I'm remembering it.
Some people were trying to cope by saying, well, actually she's a Trump supporter and a Trump appointee.
And she also follows like Dan Bongino or Mike Cernovich.
She follows libs of TikTok.
So actually she's based, she's a based conservative.
She's a Trump supporter and a Trump appointee.
She was like on Trump's sports medicine activity czar or something like that.
You're forgetting that her career has been focused on attracting advertisers and that requires being liked by all types of people.
She needs to be all things to all people in her role.
It's like, no, it's okay guys.
She's a phony.
She doesn't believe anything she says.
Yeah.
No, no, this is real.
Don't worry about it.
It's okay.
She's just doing her job.
So like getting to the heart of the matter, which, which is accurate that all these corporate types don't actually care about justice or diversity or inclusion, or maybe they do care about them, but also those are like nebulous esoteric terms that don't actually have to translate into any material Change or benefits for people, as we've discussed many times on the show.
But saying no, that's good, actually.
It's good that all these are just platitudes, completely hollow and meaningless gestures, virtue signaling, essentially.
Well, I mean, yeah, it does show me that she's at least knows, um, she's at least going to prioritize the success of the business over her like personal wantings, which would be a new tide for Twitter right now.
A new what?
For Twitter?
Tide.
A new tide.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I also just like with everybody melting down about the world economic forum, you know, infiltrating Twitter or whatever, I, I realized how funny it is that Elon Musk is trying to transform Twitter into the everything app into X, which is the everything app.
Oh, you know, it's just like one app for the whole world.
We're going to have one one world app and everybody's going to have to be here if they want to process transactions or if they want to send a message to somebody.
It's all going to be done in one place on my app.
Yeah, we're gonna turn Twitter into that.
Yeah, he's the most like You know, pizza everyday type, candidate type.
What do you mean?
Class president ass motherfucker.
Nobody's asking for Twitter to be the everything app.
Nobody's asking for that.
We actually, people are saying stop.
Just leave it alone.
Just leave it alone.
Let it rock.
Don't do anything else with it.
No, we're going to make it into X. Go make X somewhere else.
It's just because that's the only way to justify paying $44 billion for it.
Yeah.
You have to say, oh, we're actually going to be, uh, doing micro transactions on the app.
It's going to be the new PayPal, which again, already exists and has like a foothold, you know, an extremely strong foot.
PayPal owns Venmo now.
I didn't, I didn't know that, but I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
I was so mad.
I don't use Venmo very often, but, uh, When, um, I was sending Ani money for all this fucking expensive cat food she had to buy for me on, on her day off.
And, um, it was like, we're checking your, your transactions because we don't approve of illegal activity.
And I'm like, it's money for fucking cat food.
I sent it to her every, every month.
You fucking assholes.
Yeah.
And I got an email that was like, your transactions under review.
And then at the bottom, it was like Venmo is owned by PayPal Inc.
And I was like, Then what's the point?
Why, what?
I just know that one day, like, cause, you know, PayPal, PayPal's a little, a little son of a gun.
And like, they'll like to keep a little bit of money from me.
Sometimes they have like a little bit of money just like on hold right now that I just can't have for some reason.
That's great.
I love it.
Um, I just know that I'm going to be like trying to buy someone a birthday drink on Venmo and I'm going to send it and they're just going to take it.
They can be like, no, we're going to hold it over here until, We're gonna decide if this is your money or not.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's cool.
I love how everything is just an AI.
Everything is just governed by algorithms.
Like how, again, our YouTube account gets taken down because we make fun of vaccine skeptics.
Yeah.
And it flags us for vaccine misinformation.
And we have to, like, scream at a computer that we are actually making fun of those people.
Yes, and we are pro-vaccination.
Yeah.
We are a pro-science podcast.
We're boosted as fuck, alright?
Um, so yeah, some of the just read rapid fire responses here and it's good.
It's, it's also so good.
The verification system again, like Twitter verified how it puts all of these people right at the top.
So when Elon Musk tweets this, that this is, uh, the new CEO, the top 300 replies are all from blue checks who are like, uh, what?
Yep.
Zeeshan Khan says, I had joked earlier that AOC was the new CEO of Twitter.
Unfortunately, I would have preferred her over Linda.
At least we could have had Twitter space's screaming matches with AOC.
If this is true, then Elon Musk has pulled off the biggest psyops in modern history.
This is the biggest sign up in modern history right here.
Also, do you think that if AOC was the CEO of Twitter, then she would do Twitter space debates with you?
And that's the reason she's not doing it now?
Um, I, who, I love, this was the biggest psyops in history.
He just pulled the world.
Oh yeah.
Laughing Gnome says this would be the rug pull of the year.
It's like, yeah.
Who could have thought that the world's richest man would side with the WEF?
Who would have thought that a billionaire, a right-wing billionaire would have something in common with the elites?
This is so weird.
This is the biggest misdirect in the history of human events.
Yeah, I didn't see it coming at all.
I mean, I was joking about AOC, but I didn't think another woman.
I didn't think about that being an option.
Yeah, Tim Pool says, damn, dot, dot, dot.
Waterboxer says, what dirt do they have on Elon?
I mean, I mean, the World Economic Forum probably has like Some dirt on Elon, but they also are probably helping him do it, too, or something like that.
So I think this is a I think she's just taking a sick ass job.
Well, okay, so here are my two initial thoughts on what dirt do they have on Elon.
Again, a right-wing billionaire from South Africa with his own, like, space company that's essentially outside of American jurisdiction.
What could he possibly be doing that's unsavory?
I can't imagine.
Also, whatever dirt they would have on Elon, would you believe it?
Yeah.
Like if they showed you photographic evidence of Elon doing something god awful, would you care?
Yeah, because we've shown you so many Teslas on fire and you don't give a shit about that.
You're still like, this is our fucking guy.
This is our genius guy.
Yeah.
Um, again, like just a weird way to think about this extremely weird way to think about this.
It's like, isn't, Isn't the fucking, like, rule number one, follow the money?
Like, isn't that... You know, I mean, good lord, people.
Well, you only follow the money unless the money's a distraction.
Oh, that's true.
They want us to be looking at Elon's monetary incentives to bring over a Competent corporate CEO.
Uh, people were like, Oh, but the shadow bannings back on the menu boys.
We're all good.
We're all going to get executed in the streets.
Like we were under Jack Dorsey.
Remember that?
Yep.
Uh, Elon Musk replies, that will not be the case.
There will be no shadow banning, which it's like cat turd.
And every Memaw with a blue check already thinks they're still being shadow banned.
So I'm not going to, I don't know how you're going to convince them otherwise.
But he says, that will not be the case.
Carl Benjamin, who's one of these right-wing podcaster freaks, says, bro, of all the people on earth to choose, why the executive chair of the WEF?
This is like appointing the mouth of Sauron and explaining to the hobbits that the Shire is in safe hands.
You fucking nerd.
I love that.
We're hobbits.
We're basically hobbits.
That's amazing.
I love that.
This is like appointing Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty to oversee the humane treatment of inferior creatures.
Which he does not, right?
He, like, is mean to teachers?
Yeah, I think he's a bad man.
Yeah, I think he's a bad guy.
And also, I love how they talk to him in that way.
Bro!
No, see, we're on the same page because we're both verified, so I can talk to you that way.
I can talk to you in a familiar sense.
This is like making Neville Longbottom the transmogrification teacher.
Also, because he's not good at it, right?
Yeah.
Not good.
Okay.
Okay.
This is like appointing Pickle Rick to be head of the serious discussion committee.
you How are you supposed to participate in that committee without laughing?
This is like having Jupiter babysit his son.
There you go.
That's, that's not really soy enough.
That's, that's still, that's like pretty Greek and based, I think.
Yeah.
I thought that was actually, yeah, it was actually kind of cool.
Sorry about, sorry about that.
I couldn't turn it off.
Is Jupiter a Greek god?
I don't remember.
I think Roman.
That's none of my business.
Roman sounds more likely.
Yeah.
CavemanInASuit replies, imagine if you will Gandalf using one of Sauron's main lieutenants to defect and then fight Sauron.
Kind of like Trump using CNN for his own purposes.
Could turn out to be a genius move.
I was thinking about how Trump is kind of like Gandalf.
I don't know how we got there.
Imagine if you will. - Imagine if you will, none of this mattering whatsoever because you live entirely in a world of your own creation where you're either going to decide to be happy or decide to be extremely mad.
You guys tend towards the latter regardless of who is the CEO of Twitter.
I do not think you are ever going to see an actual difference in a product, but definitely a quality of life.
Your quality of life is going to go down.
I don't know.
No.
Okay, here's what happens.
I think they'll still continue to pay Twitter $8 a month, but they'll think they're doing it in defiance of Twitter's current CEO.
They'll work backwards into saying, no, we're going to stay and be the resistance.
Yeah, she wants us to cancel our subscriptions.
She wants to get rid of us, but we're not going to do that.
Hey, you know what?
I got eight dollars a month, baby.
Yeah.
Hey, if you're in line to pay for Twitter blue verification, stay in line.
Stay in line, yeah.
That's why I grind hard.
I grind hard so I have eight extra dollars a month.
Dude, other people were like, Yeah, well, it's common to bring in an inside enemy to test, like, the fortification of your businesses to see if, you know, you have the proper alarm bells going off when somebody tries to, you know, infiltrate your hardware or whatever.
And it's like, yeah, that's because I think you hire that person to do it.
Like you don't actually hire somebody who's antagonistic towards your organization.
No.
You hire someone who has the ability to be that, but is not that.
Snazzy Trinkets, verified, says Twitter needs to be balanced, not too far right or left.
While I do not like his choice, I will respect it.
I'm not totally surprised, honestly.
He picked a diverse group to release Twitter files, so that was an indication to me where he was going with Twitter.
And yeah, Twitter needs to be balanced, not too far right, you know, with Elon, or not too far left, with a woman.
It needs to have both.
I forgot about Twitter Files.
That was even a thing.
Yeah.
Well, because Matt Taibbi, an avowed liberal, one of the most liberal liberals we know of, Elon picked him to release the Twitter Files.
So.
So.
That's proof right there.
Word can cross the aisle.
This one made me laugh so fucking hard.
Ian Miles Chong.
Tweeted out, you don't have to trust Elon Musk, but you can trust that he isn't a moron who'd throw away $44 billion on a failing company only to force it to fail some more.
That would be really dumb.
If he wanted to censor you, he could do it without hiring someone to do it for him.
I mean, I don't think he actually could.
I think that part's the thing that's really not true.
I don't think he has any idea how to get even closer doing that.
Um, but he would definitely have to hire someone to do that for you.
But yeah, I just like that.
Listen, I know that he's already ran into the dirt like pretty hard.
I know that it's like, The value has plummeted, but there's no way he's going to continue doing that.
Why would that happen?
It's it's so fucking funny.
You don't have to trust Elon Musk, but you can trust that he isn't a moron who'd throw away $44 billion on a failing company only to force it to fail.
So it's like, listen, OK, yes, he would pay $44 billion for a company that hadn't turned a profit.
But would he do it again?
Would he continue to do it?
I don't think so.
I think so.
I think so.
Well, OK, so I mean, if we're if we're going to discuss this topic, you know, in a real way, which is very boring to do, so we won't do it for very long.
But it's like, yeah, he's desperate for advertisers to come back, because I think the most normal ad I saw I've seen in like the last two months was an ad for reusable Nescafe coffee pods.
But it was Sponsored by an account that was called like Wolfsbane 2.
And it was just a photo.
Dropshipping.
It was like a photo of a wolf as the avatar, like not even a company logo or anything.
Um, yeah, of course he wants to bring advertisers back.
Uh, so of course he's going to hire somebody who has experience in advertising.
And guess what?
All of those people are going to be world economic forum, liberal capitalist, like freaks.
That's just how you make money in the corporate world.
So again, like people have said, he is just reverse engineering every decision that Twitter already made before he joined.
Which was, hey, maybe we should limit the outward white nationalist rhetoric.
Maybe we should not include What, kitten blender videos in like the autocomplete search function?
Did you see that?
No, that's awful.
There was like a period of two days where if you typed kitten into the search bar for Twitter, it would pop, suggest kitten in a blender, which apparently was like an actual video that was being hosted on Twitter.
There was, if you typed in dog, the autocomplete suggested dog and screwdriver video.
Oh my God.
It was just like a carousel of animal torture videos that were trending that were being looked for on Twitter, which I think is why now I'm receiving twice as much wholesome animal videos in my feed.
I think they, they tweaked the algorithm.
So I'm seeing now wholesome video, wholesome cat and dog and pet accounts that I've, that I've never seen before.
You know I will say what's crazy too is I've seen a whole lot like there's so much porn just being like fed to you now.
Like if you'd ever scroll through like if you ever scroll when you're watching any video it will like just go straight to porn like right away.
Like, way faster than ever before.
So you're talking, are you, like, if you're watching a video on Twitter, does it autoplay a totally different video?
Is that what you're talking about?
You can, like, scroll.
You can, like, yeah, if you're watching a video, you can, like, scroll to the next video.
It's like a TikTok feature.
It usually needs something similar to it.
So like, I forgot, but I was watching a golf thing and it was not anything relevant to that.
And the next thing was like, oh, scroll, boom, boom, like very hardcore porn.
I was like, oh, that's happening way faster than it used to.
Or at least it was highly relevant.
Yeah.
If I'm looking at a butt and I scroll, I see another butt, I'm not shocked.
It just, I think it knows you want to see a butt.
It knows your user habits.
But it should also know that the butts are where they belong.
When I want to see butts, I know where to go for the butts.
But yeah, it was really kind of shocking.
Yeah, it's a cool play.
It's a cool play.
It is like Facebook before Facebook cracked down and started moderating everything.
It's freewheeling now.
This is the last response I'll read because, I mean, seriously, just like go to Twitter right now.
It's fucking amazing that Elon Musk hired one of the eat ze bugs sickos to run his free speech platform.
While we're on the subject, it just came out that Twitter is selectively removing posts for... Shit, which country is it?
It's not Yemen.
Damn it.
Turkey?
No.
That's... I mean, neither one of those ones surprised me though.
Yeah, Turkey.
At the request of Erdogan, Twitter is specifically censoring specific tweets in Turkey.
People were like, so a government is asking you to take stuff off the internet that would be harmful to his re-election campaign, and you're doing it?
Whoa, that's kind of crazy.
Matt Iglesias tweeted that out.
And then Elon Musk responded, are you a fucking moron?
If I didn't do that, they were going to cancel all of Twitter's access in Turkey.
What would you have me do?
It's like, well, certainly not take a principled stand against government censorship.
And obviously, obviously not having any idea of like the history of Twitter in, you know, international politics.
Like having no idea about that, apparently, because like, yeah, that's not a that's yeah.
The line is you don't change.
You you you don't do that.
And people will find the means to find it.
Well, I think Matt Darkweb doesn't only exist here.
Yeah.
And in the ultimate irony, I think Matt Bender posted that.
The previous incarnation of Twitter resisted Erdogan's attempt to limit posts in Turkey and actually won in a Turkish court.
I'm not sure where they were.
I believe it was maybe a Turkish court where they won.
So just like not even worse than the previous Twitter was at censorship or over regulation.
Um, just man, really good.
And it's so funny to be like, Oh, what you do, what you want me to take Twitter down of, of, you know, entirely from Turkey.
Well, that's not good.
And it's like, yeah, it's not good for your company of Twitter.
Yeah.
And that's it.
You're talking, you're talking about the financial motivations that You know, motivate every company and you're pretending that you're special and don't have these motivations because you're supposed to be like self-financed, the world's richest man or whatever.
And yet you still are following the money.
You still are doing what's best for the bottom line, essentially.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The last one I wanted to read, the last response here is from Defender of Freedom.
Blue check.
It sure is looking like Elon was pressured by the World Economic Forum, WEF, to censor Twitter as soon as Tucker Carlson joined Twitter!
I guess when you are the second richest man on earth, comma, dot, dot, dot, you have to be a part of the club or you don't stay alive or rich.
I'm sad though, I really believed he understood that we are in a WAR against the WEF, WHO, UN, NATO, and the CCP, all the same people.
It's so true.
It's so real.
I thought maybe being that wealthy, he could stand against them, comma, dot dot dot.
I guess he just doesn't have any choice.
In case he reads this, parentheses, unlikely, comma, I'd happily pay much more for Twitter if that WEF woman wasn't the CEO.
If this is about money, comma, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, ask us!
We will happily help.
That's wild.
Like, look, if that's what you need, then we'll help you out.
I also like the thing, like, if it's because Tucker Carlson's there, rather than like, we're going to have Tucker Carlson, but they're going to edit him.
Yeah, well they had to put their foot down when such a free thinker and truth teller switched over to the platform.
I mean, that spelled the end of it.
God, there's so much good about this response.
Like, oh, if this is about money, we'll pay even more, Elon.
We'll pay you even more because you were willing to censor.
It just proves that you need even more money from us.
It's like, well, it actually proves how little money he's making from Twitter, from Twitter verification in the first place, which was supposed to be like, you know, this, this overwhelming, uh, what, like user ownership over the website or over the app, uh, which obviously wasn't going to pan out.
Um, yeah, we will pay you even, listen, I'm already abasing myself.
I would happily double it.
I'll do it again.
Happily.
Um, I'll get more than one account.
God damn, just the insanity on this.
This is like, this is when prophecy fails type shit.
Like no, please bring the apocalypse, I'll pray twice as hard.
Make it next Tuesday, please.
Do it, do it.
And then again.
I guess when you are the second richest man on Earth, you have to be a part of the club or you don't stay alive or rich.
You are part of the club by virtue of being the second richest man on Earth!
Yeah.
What part of this don't you fucking understand?
There are real motivations behind every- I'm sorry, I'm yelling.
There are real motivations behind everything Elon Musk does, and it's not to ensure that you, a 55-year-old memaw called Defender of Freedom, gets to have total access to Twitter, gets to do what she wants with Twitter.
Man.
Amazing.
Just missing it.
I said missing the forest for the trees.
Yeah.
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