I did not need affirmative action to create a pancake company
Sorry for the late episode everyone. Alexander had a minor injury and some union duties to carry out, but we're back Today we catch up with UPS-Teamster negotiations, including the elimination of the 22.4 job category, and MLK Day as a paid holiday. Will UPS agree to a fair contract in time to avert a strike? We also address a baffling concern about Teamsters President Sean O’Brien turning his back on working people by not wearing blue jeans, potential scabs who want to remain friendly with coworkers after crossing a picket line, and one man’s bizarre arguments against a paid day off Also: The supreme court has ended affirmative action, but we hear a reassuring response from a black orphan who didnt need the program to start his patriotic pancake company Finally: NYC Mayor Eric Adams compares an elderly, holocaust-surviving tennants' rights organizer to a plantation slave owner for daring to ask him about unaffordable rent increases. We find the two people outside of Adam's administration that this deflection worked on. Buy ABORT THE COURT and STAY OUT OF MY UTERUS stickers at http://miniondeathcult.com Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for 20% off merch and two bonus episodes every week. Music: Final Fight - Three Years Ago Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero Makaya McCraven - Voila
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And I'm Tony Boswell.
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Uh, plantation-owning tenant organizers are responsible.
We're documenting it.
Like, think about it.
What better person, uh, to become a tenant organizer than a plantation owner?
Like, they would have so many people at their disposal to organize.
Yeah, yeah.
And then, you know, they're good at organizing already, so.
What's up, everybody?
It's your episode of Minion Death Cult for the week.
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We're going to offer, again, the Abort the Court bumper sticker.
Yeah.
It's up for sale right now on the website.
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Everything after cost will get donated to a charity of our choosing.
We're open to suggestions as well, but obviously just in light of recent Supreme Court rulings, fuck them, you know?
Abort the court.
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Oh, yeah.
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These are bumper stickers They're full-size bumper stickers that look that you are legible on a car and we need that You know you put it right to put on your car.
You can put on anybody else's car, too You put them right on the bumper Yeah Everybody can look at it.
Yeah.
I don't want to see these on windows, folks.
These are for bumpers.
It's kind of tacky.
Bumpers only.
Plus trying to get all that goop off of it.
Forget about it.
Let me try to peel it off, you know?
No, thank you.
So on with the show, I wanted to give everybody a Teamsters UPS Negotiations update.
Things are looking a little better.
A little more rosy than last time we checked in, which saw the Teamsters walk out of negotiations with UPS over what they considered an insulting economic proposal.
Excuse me.
And it was.
We went over it.
Yeah.
According to everything I saw, it looked pretty bad.
They have said that UPS returned to the table and made significant movement on the last offer.
And so Teamsters have said, well, fine, we'll give you another five days because, sorry, originally they said you have until July 1st to give us your best and final offer so we can present it to the members so that we can vote on it.
Because those kinds of things take time.
And so, but UPS came back on July 1st, according to Teamsters leadership, having made significant movement on their proposal.
They said it's still not enough, but apparently we did Get rid of 22.4 drivers.
The combo driving position no longer exists.
That's huge.
And according to what I read in the press release from the Teamsters, it sounds like every 22.4 driver has to be made a real package car driver, a full package car driver.
They're going to go that direction.
That's awesome.
Yeah, which is very interesting.
I mean, it makes sense if you had, you know, I don't know, the amount of abuse that we've seen this job position enable, it makes sense that they would need the staffing anyway.
Oh, we also secured Martin Luther King Jr.' 's junior day off.
Is it his birthday?
Oh, sick!
I don't think it's his birthday, it's just his day.
I don't know why it's that day, I should know, but I don't.
That's awesome, that's great.
And for everyone too, right?
Not just the black people?
You get it off as well?
For everyone, yeah.
You know, that's the great thing about a union, you know?
That's what's great about a union.
You gotta give it to them, you know?
And I do really like the language they're using, saying things like there's been movement, and they're definitely not even expressing being satisfied.
They're still not like, oh cool, we don't have to talk about strike anymore.
They're like, they're still, they're, they're working on it.
And we're, we're, we're still, I love that.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And they, they say, yeah, UPS came back to the table because of how like threatening we are.
Yeah.
They're bragging about it.
It worked.
It was awesome.
Um, I saw some guy tried to argue how stupid it was to get another paid holiday, like supposedly a driver.
Um, He'd rather have, you know, another dollar added to his pension or something like that, right?
And it's like, okay, well, there's a real, like, there is a trade-off you make with economic benefits, you know, but he was saying that equals $2,000 in the long run, whereas a paid day off is only, you know, whatever you make, you know, 300, 400 bucks or something like that.
Um, and he's also- How long does that run?
It doesn't even make sense.
And, I don't know, first of all, you're- he like made up a deal in his head over the pension that he was criticizing Teamsters for not taking, which was funny.
Yeah.
Just like starting off an argument.
Just making up numbers.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I was like, I don't know, man.
A lot of drivers want to have the day off.
You know, we work a lot of hours and it's nice to make a decent wage to where you could afford to take a day off.
You know, skip overtime for one day or something like that.
You know, that just tells me something about you.
That just tells me that you don't appreciate the intangibles of being a UPS driver.
Some days it's not about, it's not about the currency you're getting.
It's about, you know, the life lessons and the grit that you're accumulating while you're on the clock.
Dude, yeah, he was acting like a hustler.
He was acting like he was being a hustler or something.
He's like, sorry, you wanted to be a school teacher, stay home six months of the year, but nah, give me that paper, baby.
And I was like, what are you fucking talking about, man?
Like, how much money do you owe?
Like, how bad are your bills and your debts right now?
Because that's the only way that this means you're not a sick freak.
I do like that there's probably somebody else in the conference that has the opposite mentality, if I'm almost, but the same.
Where he's like, no, this is great.
A paid day off for me is a day where I get paid to stay home and work on my dropshipping company.
Yeah.
I can sell so many supplements on that day.
It's a great day to sell supplements.
So yeah, they're back in negotiations.
They have until July 5th now to reach a tentative agreement or to, I don't know, offer their best and final offer.
So that's just in a couple of days as of this recording.
Yeah, eager to see how far UPS will go without us striking.
Yeah.
Well, it's just cool because you have that in their back pocket.
You've already agreed to do that.
So, like, they're like, no, we can always do that.
That's always an option.
So, like, work with us here.
Yeah.
Because, again, if people are wondering what we're after, we're after a big raise for part timers who are who make up 60 percent of UPS's workforce.
They're like all the inside buildings, all the warehouses are staffed with part time employees like that's who's handling, you know, a huge chunk.
I mean, every package, literally every package, but each one of those employees also handles thousands of packages a day.
You know, so very vital to the operation and very undervalued by the company getting paid like barely over minimum wage in a lot of places.
So yeah, we're fighting for a big raise for part-timers, you know, and then a raise for drivers who helped earn them a billion, you know, billions in profit, record profits during the pandemic, all while working 12-hour days for years, like it was Christmas time for two years for us.
For two years straight.
We earned the company a lot of money, and we want some of that money.
We think that that's fair.
And into harassment, that was a big one.
The elimination of the 22-4 job was one of the biggest ones, and we apparently got that, so that's great.
Yeah, again, that's the split position, right?
That's the part-time driver, part-time loader, that's kind of like a way for them to just save money and abuse people's schedules.
Yeah, it's a cheaper driver.
They pay them like 75% of what a regular package car driver makes, and they ended up abusing the supposed part-time Driving system by just having them drive full-time and essentially be a real package car driver, but but paid less cheaper Yeah, yeah, so that you know that costs them a lot of money to eliminate that position because now they're gonna have to Pay all those 22 for drivers like real drivers.
Hell.
Yeah awesome.
It's exciting yeah, and you said they're also trying to streamline the Streamline your raises so instead of taking four years or what instead of taking nine years it takes four years, right?
It's yeah the wage progression to reach that top rate is four years right now It used to be six months.
It used to be 30 days It's it's four years now before UPS has to pay you an actual full-time wage and yeah, we're They said that they're trying, they said it as a response to a question, so I don't know how high on the urgency this is for all their negotiating points, but they said they were trying to get it down to two years instead of four, which would be amazing.
That makes UPS a viable career then, like something that you can do for a career, not something to hold you over to your next thing, like that's the important moves they make, that's the stuff that's gonna help the working class out.
Yeah, I mean it's gonna make, you know, driving even less precarious than it already is.
It's already a good career.
It's already a good job.
But they just put all these little fucking little humps in front of you to get there.
And we were just trying to take away some of the little fucking, you know, skate stoppers they bolted to the rail in front of you.
But I saw, dude, I saw the funniest response.
Somebody posted, in one of my Teamsters groups, somebody posted, like, the little press conference that Sean O'Brien and the Teamsters gave, like, yesterday.
And this dude said, all dressed up and doing nothing, because Sean O'Brien's wearing, like, a suit, because he's in Washington, D.C., negotiating.
All dressed up and doing nothing.
Put on some work boots and blue jeans.
Get out in the dirt and off the pavement.
Joker.
And then he put the Joker card emoji.
It's a cool emoji.
I didn't know that we had that one.
Yeah, it's a good one.
I might, I might, I might get that in the rotation.
Like, didn't he, didn't he, like, come from work, though?
Didn't he?
Yeah.
Yeah, he was, like, he's a work, he's a working class person, right?
He, like, he came from that, right?
He was a UPSer.
He worked, he worked for UPS.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's, like, get out of here, dude.
Like, he's doing so much.
He's actually doing so much.
Can I just say how, like, this is one of the most dog-brained things I've ever seen.
Put on some work boots and blue jeans like a real worker Yeah, like I love how brain-dead some people are where they're just like no that like You need to wear this stuff the stuff that means the work.
Otherwise, what are you doing?
Oh, you're negotiating for a raise for three hundred and forty thousand working people well, why am I Why am I paying my dudes if you're not going to have on some nice boots?
Like some nice, good, you know, heirloom quality, made in the USA work boots.
I want to see those.
How is UPS going to take you seriously?
How are they going to think you're a working person if you're not wearing a cowboy hat?
Yeah, I don't even see dirt under your fingernails.
I bet your hands don't look like this when you're eating lunch.
And it's the greasy hands eating the sandwich.
You know, this guy, this guy over here doesn't look like, doesn't look like he's watched one episode of Yellowstone.
Nothing.
He expects to represent, like, what do you, just, I don't know.
Mind, mind clear.
Mind just smooth.
A slick glass plate.
Like a plate glass window.
And it's funny because I guess you've never heard him speak then because he has that kind of voice.
He has the working class accent.
Well, absolutely.
That's a really good point, Tony.
You definitely take him seriously when he's saying something.
What are you basing this off of?
He doesn't even have a beard.
This guy doesn't even have a fucking beard.
Which means he has no beard oils.
I know, if you don't have a beard, you don't have beard oils.
This guy probably doesn't wash with Sasquatch soap.
Yeah, no, I opted out of the union.
Why pay for the union dues when I can just watch every Mike Rowe video for free on YouTube?
Tells me I don't need to pay somebody else to represent me.
I got me and my buddy Mike.
No, that's why I do pay.
I pay for Discovery Plus.
So I get all the Mike Rowe stuff.
Give me all the Mike Rose stuff.
Have you seen the Jason Momoa Shark Week commercial?
Uh, maybe?
Yeah, it's as obnoxious as you're thinking.
It's Jason Momoa advertising Shark Week.
And he's orchestrating jumping sharks like an orchestra.
And being epic.
And it makes me want to scream.
But yeah, shout out Discovery Channel, shout out Working Class.
I think Jason Momoa is pretty working class.
It might sound cringe to you, Tony Jason Momoa, Jason Momoa directing acrobatic shark, epic sharks or whatever.
But really, that's what driving a Chevy feels like.
So I can see why you're unmoved by it.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
That's my fault.
That's my fault.
I wouldn't know.
My little, my little like baby German car.
Yeah.
Um, trader car.
This was a funny thing too that I saw.
People are saying we will throw thing.
This is posted anonymously in the UPS group.
People are saying we will throw things at co-workers who cross line.
I find this difficult.
Dot dot.
When strike is over, we expect to work next to these people again and resume friendships.
Dot dot dot.
Someone threw something at me.
We're done.
Plus, I think it's immature.
Also grow up.
Also grow up.
But no, I mean, is that necessarily true?
Like, I don't know if there, I don't know if there is a, is there a guarantee where if you're a scab, you're going to have like the same spot when you come back?
So it depends on what state you're in.
I think if you're in a non right to work state, You're out of the union.
Like, if you scab, you're out of the union.
Yeah.
And in a right to work state, well, that doesn't mean you can't work for UPS anymore.
You just become a parasite.
Like, you know, a good chunk of those workers over there.
You can't go to work if your best friends aren't there.
What's that?
You can't go to work if your best friends aren't there.
I only go to work to see all my bros.
Right.
I love this.
How are we going to be friends if you throw something at me for scabbing, huh?
Yeah.
It's like, oh, I guess I didn't think about that.
That's a good point.
And that is the perspective he's coming from, too.
He's saying, if you threw something at me, not if I threw something at you and I would expect you to turn it over, but I do like, oh, see, I just grew up.
But is that the largest looming threat for a scab is that they're going to get like a tomato thrown at them?
Yeah, well, that's not the worst threat, but that's one of them.
I mean, that's what he's treating it like.
Public ridicule.
Yeah, well, I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know how hard people are going to go.
Would never advocate for doing anything illegal on this podcast.
No.
But yeah, I love how innocent this person, I think this person's like young and innocent.
Where they're like, how are you going to feel if once the strike is over, you have to come work next to me after throwing something?
Isn't that going to make you sad?
That means they've never had beef with a co-worker.
Sure.
Yeah.
But yeah, so let me explain it to you.
If you cross the line, that's already the beef.
Like if you cross, like, I think they're throwing something at you because you're no longer their friend.
Yeah, they literally started it.
You started it if you cross the line.
That's like the rule.
That's like the playground rule.
Like, hey, cross this line, something's going to happen.
I drew a line in the fucking sand.
I fucking dare you.
And if they do it, then you reserve every right to pop off.
And that's literally what's happening in a strike.
Oh, you thought I was Obama?
You thought I wouldn't carpet bomb Syria?
Think again, motherfucker.
Here's a fucking brick through your back window.
That's right.
That's right.
This response to this post.
People got bills to pay.
Get between me and my money.
Dot dot dot dot dot.
I go to work for a check.
Not to make friends.
I mean, again, that's why you've known about this for quite some time and they've like told you like, hey, you're gonna have to pivot a little bit.
You know, maybe get some canned veggies for, you might, but also, we're putting you in a position to where hopefully you can do this comfortably.
So please do this comfortably.
Right.
You're gonna get like a couple hundred, at least, I think, like even if you're part-time, you're gonna get a couple hundred bucks in strike pay a week.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you're full-time, I think you get like 400 bucks or so.
That's not nothing.
That should help, you know?
Yeah.
You can talk to your creditors, explain to them, and they'll want to look good on the side of UPS workers, maybe not foreclose on you in the middle of a strike or whatever.
But also, I liked Yakko's response here, who says, by you crossing the line, you're jeopardizing my paycheck.
You're getting in between everybody else's paycheck.
Yep.
The future paycheck.
So even if you're like, well, I'm going to do me and I don't give a shit.
It's like, well, it's fine.
You don't have to give a shit, but we're all going to be pissed at you for this same reason.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, like David says, another one that thinks they're the only ones that have bills to pay.
Hmm.
Weird stuff, brother.
Note to self.
We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed.
Should have been saving in advance, don't you think?
And dude replies, yeah, because everyone's bills and life situations are the same.
Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
Tell me you're narrow-minded without telling me you're narrow-minded.
Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
Ignorance is bliss, brother.
Yeah, oh God, yeah.
It's just like, you fucking idiot.
It's like, so yeah, tell me that you could use a few more dollars an hour without telling me you could use a few more dollars an hour.
Right.
And that's what you're doing right now.
Tell me how you got the check right now that you're so desperate to keep.
You're desperate to keep it.
You need to be, you need to like side with the union.
That's who's going to ensure that you keep getting that check.
You know?
If you like it now, you're going to love what we're going to get for you later, hopefully.
You know, that's the plan here.
But I love the, uh, I love the sign off with brother.
It's like brother, brother.
I don't, it doesn't sound like it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Like how... Like you're talking about stabbing us all in the back by crossing the picket line, brother.
Yeah, yeah.
It does seem a little more condescending here.
Because they're almost like taking it a step further.
Hey, brother.
You understand why I have to do you wrong, right?
Because we're brothers.
You get it, right?
You feel me?
Yeah.
Anyway, that's the update for UPS Teamsters.
I hope, you know, some good stuff in there.
I hope we get more of it.
Amen, brother.
Okay, so we kind of referenced it at the top of the show, but, uh, you know, the Supreme Court, uh, just ruled against affirmative action.
Um, mm-hmm.
You know, kind of a fucked up run for the Supreme Court here, but I would say there's a positive note.
Like, don't worry about it.
It's not as bad as you think.
Because I know of a former foster kid who created a successful pancake company called Cousin T's because of hard work and not because of affirmative action.
Yep.
Damn right.
Damn right.
He didn't wait for someone to say, oh we need more black foster children to make pancake mix.
He saw that there was an opening.
He saw that we got rid of Aunt Jemima.
He saw the erasure so he decided to go ahead and lift himself up by his buttermilk bootstraps.
When Fox News brought on Terrence K. Williams to react to the Asian New York Times reporter who had tweets about white men, did they do it just because he was black?
No, they didn't because he was incredibly funny.
He's an incredibly talented young man.
And that's why he immediately went to Ching Chong jokes against her on Fox News.
The New York Times under fire this week, hiring a new member of their editorial board who is an admitted anti-Trumper and also posts some extremely racist stuff like this.
You ready?
Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?
Here with Reaction, comedian and social commentator Terrence K. Williams.
Terrence, I don't even have any words for that.
Take it away.
That is a nasty woman.
So, of course, the nasty New York Times would hire her.
But would they hire Roseanne?
No.
And I don't know if this lady is Chinese, Japanese, or crazy niece.
Something is wrong with this woman.
And I can't believe they would hire her.
They a bunch of hypocrites.
Well, they defended the hiring, and they basically said this.
She was being harassed, they claimed, by racist people on Twitter.
And she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of their harassers.
So they're saying, oh yeah, some people said some racist stuff to her.
So then she said racist stuff back to imitate them.
Does that even make any sense?
Oh my, that don't make no sense.
I don't know.
No, no, no, no.
There's something wrong with them fortune cookies that Ling Ling is eating.
I mean, that kind of bravery is rare.
To speak so many of his... You know what the T for Cousin T stands for?
I mean, that kind of bravery is rare.
To speak so many of his, you know, you know, you know what the you know, the T for Cousin T stands for.
It also stands for truth.
For bringing those type of real raw, rugged jokes that he's, you know, not afraid.
Not afraid to be canceled.
Thank you, Cousin T for the truth.
Let's watch a little bit of this video from Terrence K. Williams.
I'm black and I don't need affirmative action to succeed.
What's going on?
Everybody come on in.
Come on in.
I'm waiting for some folks to come on in.
You can't play a victim your whole life.
You cannot have a victim mentality!
Do their job!
You need to have what it takes to get into that school!
This video is eight minutes long.
I think we're getting to the part that I wanted.
He's like hunched over in front of the camera like the phone is resting on his kitchen island or maybe a dinner table or something and he's like bent in half talking into it for eight minutes.
I mean, he's already, it's already so low, and I like that he has to, I think this is a smart move.
I think this is a smart, this makes him look more imposing.
You know, it's almost like what the giantesses do, and the giant fetish stuff, where they put that angle down.
We all know that, yeah.
Is Cousin T gonna step on us?
Yeah, man, he does, he does look like a great fairy here.
You need to meet the qualifications.
It has nothing to do with race.
This is America.
We can all do it without the government, okay?
I am living proof.
You see that right there?
You see those?
He's pointing to his pancakes.
Behind him.
See that back there behind me?
Those are my pancakes.
That's me, baby.
How do you think that just happened?
Do you think this shit was an accident?
No.
No.
I did it.
This is grinding.
It's determination.
It's manifestation.
I gotta get a screenshot of this.
This is not representation, I'll tell you that much.
Don't be a victim.
Listen, I was a foster child.
And as a foster child, I would never play the victim.
As a foster child, I would never use my, uh... What do you call it?
You know, my struggles to get ahead.
I would never... Yeah, I would never capitalize on that.
I did not need affirmative action to create a pancake company!
I mean...
If that exists, I should look into that.
Was there opportunities?
Could I have become another token pancake guy?
Or is the pancake game just now awash with black foster children?
I don't know.
There's probably an opening in the strudel, Tony.
There's like one strudel that people know about.
Yeah, what's going on with the, uh, the, what are those waffles?
The little, the stroopwafels?
The what?
What's the black stroopwafel game looking like right now?
The ones you put on top of your coffee and they warm up from the steam?
What?
A little, little waffle, little stroopwafels, the little thin wafer waffles?
Mmm, I don't know about that sense.
They go so hard.
Okay, whatever.
What about egg bites?
My girlfriend loves egg bites.
Can you make some black egg bites?
Some black, some vegan black egg bites.
There you go.
Yeah.
Well, you're gonna lose, like, like, you're not gonna have TK Dubs Market with that kind of attitude, but... True.
I love it.
You don't need, you don't need affirmative action.
You make pancakes!
Listen, I just wanted people who look like me to know that they can make pancakes.
I also like the idea that the foster home that you went to, not just the foster, sorry, the foster house, because remember it was from the foster house to the White House.
Yep, from the foster house to the White House, yeah, yeah.
Like the foster house that you went to didn't get any government funding?
Are you fucking kidding me?
Yeah, no.
Not just that.
They literally did.
That's why they put you to work, remember?
Well, that was just like adoptive parents who also definitely got government money.
They probably, I think they got like probably a grand a month for his ass.
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
Cause like they, they, they are the ones who put him to work were the ones who actually adopted him.
Yeah.
They had a big family.
They had a big adopted family.
Um, yeah.
Okay.
Uh, more, more of this video.
Okay.
I didn't need... I didn't need Affirmative Action.
The government did not help me create those pancakes.
Do you think Terrence went to college?
Like, do you think he ever needed Affirmative Act to use it?
I think Terrence got a PPP loan.
Who is even employed by Terrence?
Like, Terrence... Okay, maybe on paper Terrence owns this company.
This pancake company.
Have you been to the website lately?
Yeah, it has to be like a drop shipping thing, like he's reboxing another pancake mix, you know?
No, they just developed a shitty generic pancake mix for him.
This, like, international food company.
And they do that for anybody.
We can go in there with the right price and we can have a cake mix the next day, right?
You can do that if you have two million followers on Twitter.
Or if you have a certain amount of Facebook hits, right?
Yeah.
I don't think he has a single employee.
I think he's paid for his service to the product.
He gets a check every month.
Maybe he has an agent that counts as an employee or something like that.
It's so weird.
But uh... Look at all the pancakes he has, dude.
He's got... All the flavors.
Apple cinnamon, blueberry gourmet.
He's got the Patriot Pancake.
I kind of want to order the Patriot Pancake.
I don't think I'll ever make them.
The picture of your pancake might be, what is it?
Is it multiple berries?
Is it like a blueberry and like a strawberry, you know?
Red, white, and blue.
And then like the pancake itself is white.
The boxes, that's like the most important part.
Oh yeah, blueberry, strawberry it looks like.
People are posting pictures of their pancakes.
Rod F is posed for a selfie with two of his patriotic pancake boxes.
That's so wild.
Rod looks like a pretty, I don't know, sunburned regular dude.
Looks like he sees a lot of the sun.
Hair's a little fun.
There's like children in here.
Others, yeah, there's families.
They're making waffles.
A lot of people are making waffles.
Apparently you can use Cousin T's pancake mix and make some pretty good waffles it looks like.
A lot of parents making their children pose for these pancakes.
Mark M. Mark M. Looks to be, what, 60 years old, dyeing his hair brown, holding a box of Cousin T's.
Wasn't sure about this when I bought two boxes, but I'm sure, please, after making some, these are good pancakes.
Yeah, you paid $20 for a box of pancakes.
Oh, man.
People were just posting their meats?
I ate this meat with it.
This is a meat I had with a pancake.
Somebody posted a giant roast beef sub sandwich and said these are amazing pancakes This is like a sex photo This is like... They tried to make the roast beef look like pussy.
That's why he has this photo.
Yeah, it's like an open roast beef sandwich.
It is like the joke you're thinking it is.
Oh, they have chocolate on chocolate?
Dude, they have so many pancakes, man.
So many flavors.
He's really coming up.
Good for him.
Yeah, look, buckwheat, gourmet, or they're all gourmet, I guess.
Buckwheat, chocolate, chip, birthday cake.
Birthday cake, that's gotta be awful.
That's crazy.
I love it so much.
He's going on this anti-affirmative action rant to talk about how hard he worked to give a headshot to an international food company so they could mock up a fake Chef hat for the cover.
Stick it on him.
Like, it's insane that people are buying this.
You know, I, of course, have some responses here, but the number one response was like, so impressive, young man.
Well done.
You did it.
You're such a hard worker, Terrence.
Yeah, you did it.
You used your business school savvy that you went to business school without any type of help.
I don't think people know what affirmative action is.
I don't think they understand how necessary it is.
They just have this idea where it's literally like, oh no, the reason why the white kid I know didn't go to Harvard is because a black kid did.
They think it's just that simple.
Yeah.
I feel like the existence of Affirmative Action is nothing compared to what the effects they feel it had.
I also heard that white women benefited from Affirmative Action more than anyone.
Yeah.
It's going to be funny when we see just how fast we're going to see the turnaround.
Watch the admissions next year, you know?
This is your time, White Kings.
This is your time to do this.
I would have gone back to college again if it weren't for Affirmative Action.
Yeah, now's your time.
I couldn't get into Cal State San Bernardino without Affirmative Action.
Now I am going to go to college because now people are going to finally know that it's because I deserve it, not because it's a handout.
Alright.
Alright.
Let me see if there's any... I think this... I don't know if we need to watch any more of this video from TKdubs.
They didn't help me create Cousin T's Pancakes.
The government did not do that.
I did that.
I did that, that's me.
And I didn't need someone to... I didn't need someone to make me feel like a victim.
And I didn't need someone to tell me, oh Terrence, you need the government in order to succeed.
And you need affirmative action in order to create a company.
No, I didn't.
I just needed to just do it.
It's great advice.
It needed to just do it.
That's the best advice ever.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you're listening, listen, if you're listening and you are, you know, in a spot in your life, you know, just, just start it.
Just start a pancake business.
Just start a pancake business.
You know, I, I think that, I think that's what you needed.
Like, just, just fuck, just do it.
Don't reach out for the government for help either.
Just do it.
Okay.
Um.
Yeah, I mean, some would say being a vocal black Trump supporter on social media and then getting invited to the White House might be its own form of affirmative action for the Republican Party or the right wing.
Yeah.
Well, he would never fall victim to tokenism because that's what affirmative action condones.
That's affirmative action.
He earned his way there.
It has nothing to do with any type of tokenism or anything like that.
And if anything, it was about him being a foster child, not about him being black.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Oh, right.
Didn't Trump?
He wanted Trump to adopt him.
I wonder if Trump ever got back to him on that.
Heather McNee says, I hate pancakes, but I'm buying some of yours because you speak truth and I support that.
American flag emoji, fist punching emoji, American flag emoji, fist emoji, American flag emoji, fist emoji, emoji, American flag emoji.
That's funny, because if you call yourself American, but you don't like pancakes, I'll help you pack.
I'll help you pack.
You can get out of here.
Do you think she's fist bumping Terrence K. Williams?
I think that's what that is.
But she's doing the white fist, but she's doing the I got your back, brother.
She's dabbing him up.
This is what the elites fear the most, is me fist bumping you over your successful pancake company that cannot be canceled.
I mean, did she know she could make waffles with the pancake mix?
See, now I might actually get some.
I love waffles.
Yeah.
Waffles are great.
This one, uh, fairly heartbreaking.
Uh, Diane Youngblood Bailey says, that is so right.
I am 70 year old and still work.
So what's that?
Like you have to work hard all your days until you die.
Until you die in debt.
Do you think that maybe she could have been retired by now if it wasn't for Affirmative Action?
Is there a bit of that maybe?
Yeah, possibly.
The thing when people are like, oh man, I could have gone to college if not for Affirmative Action, they mean like their pet college.
They mean like their favorite fancy boy college.
They couldn't go there.
They could go to almost literally any other college though, I would assume.
If you're able to apply and make the list, except for one black guy for Harvard, I think you're probably doing okay.
Yeah, and you probably should have had more extracurriculars, you know?
Um... Yeah, you are so right, Terrence.
I will work until death.
That's the mentality.
We need to get it through our heads, frankly.
Yeah.
Um... This was on Twitter... GypsyJew?
Version 2.0?
Mm-hmm and Jew is cheekily spelled j-o-o Like the way Eric Cartman would spell it maybe probably And I don't really you know, I don't think she can say that first word let alone make it part of her name Yeah, I'm skeptical of it myself and the whole thing call me n-word Jew I Yeah.
She replies to Terrence's video.
I would never have known you are black if you hadn't told me Like You're you're still looking at him You're still watching a video of him.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe she uses... Did he say the words, like, I'm black in it at any point?
Yeah, at the beginning of the video, he gets really offended because of liberals who accuse him of being stupid for, you know, unable to succeed without affirmative action.
He pretends to take it personally.
What was I gonna say, uh... Damn, don't remember.
Anyway, uh... Yeah, Gypsy Jew, I would never have known you were black if you hadn't told, like... She just means, like, you're one of the good ones, right?
Oh, absolutely.
It's funny, though, because this kind of does, like, prove his...
It just goes to his whole thing, you know?
It's like, do you not realize that she is saying, oh, racism does exist.
My racist beliefs would have led me to believe that you're not black, but now that I know you are, now that you told me, I know.
But that doesn't register to him, you know?
But these are like, I don't know, because he probably makes that kind of joke.
That kind of like, you know, tired joke where he's like, he's probably like, people call me Diet Black because I don't do stereotypical things.
I guess, but the thing is, is like, he, his accent, I mean, he's got like a southern accent, question mark, like.
Yeah.
I don't, I don't know how you would be shocked that he was a black man by, by listening to this either.
Anyway.
That's very true.
Yeah, even just listening, you're right.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, I went to Gypsy Jew's profile and she's Jewish.
She's like in the Israeli Air Force or was in the Israeli Air Force.
She's like, wow, Terrence, you don't sound black.
You don't sound like an American black at all.
So she's hot is what you're saying?
Uh, I don't know.
She's hot and vegan?
That's what I know about them is Israeli Air Force is full of hot vegans.
And they're all bisexual, free to be queer in the military?
Yeah.
Yeah um so that's that's it that's you know you know you know discouraging court ruling but hey you could make some pancakes if you really wanted to.
Yeah that's so it is wild this is happening I mean it is like you know 2023 and something like these these rollbacks are so We took some of them for granted, you know?
Well, the thing was is they were always just like half-measures anyway.
Yeah, exactly.
They were always just liberal band-aids over a really bad fucking problem, and affirmative action is a band-aid over a couple different problems.
Like, how expensive college is in general, and how racist legacy admissions practice is, You know, just just by virtue, like somebody donates a wing to your college so their kid can go there.
You know, all that stuff is symptomatic of these much larger issues.
And all we were able to really muster, you know, since the abolition of slavery and I guess since Jim Crow are like these these sort of small half measures like the like the Voting Rights Act, which, you know, definitely didn't go far enough.
That's you know, that's been gutted.
Uh, so it makes you think that something much stronger is necessary.
Oh, absolutely.
No, it absolutely is.
But it's just like you said, it going away, it makes you think like, oh shit.
So what, you know, I didn't, I didn't think that was going to go away.
I thought we were just going to be able to work on making it stronger, let alone getting it back, you know?
But, uh, yeah, it's just, it's, and it's happening right, right in front of us, uh, under, under a democratic president.
You know, who, who saved the world and made everything better because he's not Donald Trump.
But it's just all, yeah, it's just, it's just so funny to like, these, it's all, it's just this liberal stuff.
It's just these, these libs not doing anything cool.
It's really astounding that he's the best the Democratic Party has to offer.
Like, it shows their unwillingness.
It shows, like, that they are not political creatures who want to meet the moment.
The moment's bad.
The moment, like, requires very drastic choices on behalf of people who want to alleviate and prevent mass suffering and death and They don't even want to say the words.
Democrats don't even want to campaign on that, let alone sell people out after campaigning on it.
They're still campaigning on a sensible middle way forward that Republicans can agree to.
They're like, no, we're going to pass a law to where they're going to bring back the lady M&Ms.
Right.
The Lady M&Ms are now going to be on quarters, actually.
They're going to be on the next coin.
We're going to make sure Donald Trump's jail cell is really nasty.
It's going to be really yucky.
The plumbing isn't even going to work, like many prisons.
He's not going to get the medication that he needs.
We're gonna make sure that there is now a section in every library called Her Story.
There you go.
It's pretty good.
We are the children of the last generation.
Last generation.
We are the ones they left behind.
And I wonder when we are ever going to change.
Living under the fear.
Do nothing else we need.
We don't need another hero.
We don't need to know the way home.
All we want is life beyond.
The thunder down.
Last thing.
Did you.
I mean.
I kind of ruined it by revealing our next topic to you before we started recording.
Your reaction was so good.
Um, but yeah, I said to Tony, before we started recording, I said, Oh Tony, did you see, uh, Eric Adams, mayor of New York, yell at the tenants?
Did Tenant's Rights Advocate, who was criticizing him over rent hikes, call her a slave owner in front of everybody because she was raising her voice to talk to him without a microphone?
Yeah, and I was like, oh yeah, that's the move.
Talk that shit.
That's the move.
That's the route.
It's a good route you can take if you can take it, you know?
And yeah, but not this time.
And then it came out that she's a Holocaust survivor?
Jesus, she's like the one demographic you can't pull that card off.
She's been a tenants organizer since the 70s.
It's the 70s.
Here's the video.
You'd like barely hear her.
She's in a gymnasium from like half the room away talking to, you know, talking to Eric Adams, who's on the stage up front.
And she's like talking that shit.
She's like being stern, but she's not being like unreasonable.
and amber that you supported those rent increases in nassau they have a zero percent rent increase why in new york city where the real estate is controlling you mr mayor why are we having she said real estate is controlling you mr mayor uh and And I think that struck a nerve with him.
Yeah.
But she's talking about the board that determines rent for rent controlled or it's not called rent controlled.
I can't remember what it's called specifically, but it's like rent easement or something like that.
They just voted to raise rents again, even in those supposedly like rent controlled areas.
And I've read that Like historic rent increases under Eric Adams who himself is apparently a landlord That's like how's that that should not be legal.
That's insane That's insane.
He's that's like that's demon shit.
He like tried to excuse it and he was like well I'm not raising rents on any of my tenants.
I have four I have four different properties.
I'm not raising rents anywhere on them Yeah, probably already like astronomical anyways, yeah Let's hear the response, though, from Eric.
OK, first, if you're going to ask a question, don't point at me and don't be disrespectful to me.
I'm the mayor of this city and treat me with the respect that I deserve to be treated.
I'm speaking.
Wow.
Like this is like listening to Sean O'Brien.
This is like listening was speaking truth to power.
Finally, we get it.
Just not afraid, not afraid to go after these this country's sacred cows like old old activist women.
It's funny because like she was being stern or whatever, but she still said like Mr. Mayor She could have been all like like you fucking piece of shit.
Yeah, but instead she was like you Mr. Mayor like that's she was you also you are the mayor like that's part of the gig actually is you're actually the guy that we do get to yell at you're uh She's she's an she's an old lady like that's how they talk man I don't know what to tell you like she wasn't yeah, she wasn't even yours like she wasn't even close to pissed and Do you think this guy's even seen Seinfeld?
I bet he has, because it's got that New York magic that he loves.
Loves that New York sauce.
Yeah, yeah.
He keeps going.
They're applauding him?
Yeah.
Don't stand in front like you treated someone that's on the plantation.
They're applauding him?
Yeah.
I mean, it's all his people.
Ew.
Ew.
Someone that's on the plantation that you own.
Give me the respect I deserve and engage.
When I heard that, my jaw dropped.
No way.
You can't do this.
You can't do this to an old, a nice old lady, man.
You can't call her a slave.
You're the, you're the mayor of New York City.
Yeah.
You're also in the same breath saying like, I'm the mayor of New York City.
Give me the respect I deserve.
Also like, you know, don't talk to me like I'm on a plantation where it's like, Like I said, don't get me wrong, that's a car that's very, very playable very often, because it probably does happen pretty often.
This is not that time.
This is not that time at all.
Like, she's literally out here saying, like, hey, these places we live, these places that give us shelter and warmth and comfort, these places where, you know, where we house ourselves, they're becoming untenable for us.
We can't afford it anymore, and you're letting it happen.
We're going to be on the streets because of you and you're like, don't talk to me that way.
Oh, you think you're entitled to property?
You think you're entitled to live somewhere?
Wow.
Colonizer mindset.
Slave owner mindset.
It's astounding to be like.
You're talking to me like a plantation owner.
Also, I'm a literal landlord and also my actions determine how much you have to pay to stay alive.
How much you have to pay somebody else for the right to sleep under a roof.
You're definitely the plantation owner in this situation.
And you don't talk to me like a plantation owner.
You don't even know what it's like to own a plantation, let alone help run an organization of modern day slave catchers.
You don't know what that's like.
Maybe he's trying to take take it back like maybe this is like the liberal version of You know the black Republicans leave the Democratic plantation He's telling her like you need to leave the tenant plantation.
It's in your mind Like having to pay rent.
That's all a state of mind.
You should leave the plantation and join the side that's profiting off of the plantation Everything about this is so fucking baby too because she didn't even have a microphone.
No.
At most she was like projecting.
She was making it so you could hear her.
Like she was not irate.
She was not disrespectful.
She was stern and to the point but like you're such a fucking baby and to use that flex to use that card right now you've like really Save that card, my guy.
You fucked up, man.
Save that card.
That's what I'm saying.
She got to him.
She got to him by rightfully calling out how close he is to New York real estate interests.
He is a New York real estate interest.
That cut him a little deep.
And so he went nuclear on her ass.
She went nuclear on her ass.
And yeah, it turns out she was, she was a, she's a Holocaust survivor, man. - Yeah, yeah, like literally not her people.
It's fine like let me let me find Like the one demographic that you just can't doesn't doesn't you don't get survivor like you don't you don't get that at all my guy come on Yeah, where is it?
Do I have that's embarrassing I?
Have it they really don't want us.
They really don't want us to be able to live anywhere like it's in I It's wild.
It's not their problem, Tony.
They're just going to suck up as much money as they can until it stops for whatever reason.
Whether that's too many people have died and can't afford their properties anymore.
Okay, well then they'll stop making money.
Yeah.
I'm going to eventually have to squat a house and make it a home.
That's the only way we're going to get property, some of us.
We're just going to have to, like, strong arm some people out of their homes.
Out of their rental properties that no one's in.
New York City woman, 84, whom Eric Adams compared to slave owner, is tenant advocate who fled Nazis.
The woman whom Mayor Eric Adams compared to a plantation owner during a fiery town hall exchange on Wednesday is a decades-long tenants advocate who's lived in New York City since she and her parents left Europe fleeing from the Nazis.
During a town hall at the Gregorio Luperon High School for Science, yadda yadda yadda, the Rent Guidelines Board voted to allow landlords to hike rent on rent stabilized.
That's what it's called.
How's that for liberalism?
You can't even say rent controlled.
Rent stabilized.
Yeah, he insists Adams insisted that he does not control the rent guidelines board, even though he approved that he approves their membership onto the board.
Just for a little timeline idea on how this stacking of plights works here, why Eric Adams doesn't quite do this to her, because his energy is correct in the sense that, yeah, that's a thing that you can probably feel the energy of sometimes, but when her family fled the Nazis, it would have been Probably the 20s, 30s, right?
What we know is modern-day civil riots wouldn't happen for another 30, 40 years in America.
But she wasn't part of that.
You don't get to do that.
She's the one demographic.
She's the one demographic you don't get to do it to here, bro.
She pulled out the reverse car, dude.
You rolled snake eyes, man.
Like the rare, the rare, you rolled, uh, what snake eyes, man.
Tough luck.
And like the, the, the, the, the tradition in rich history of, of Jewish advocacy for black civil rights in America that spawned directly from people who fled the Nazis and they, they, they, they identified and empathize with us.
Like, that's... wrong demo, dude.
Her statements right here are so good.
So, this is Dub Now.
That's her name.
Did I read her name?
Is that her?
Yeah, that was her.
She seems all sweet.
Like, I love her.
She's awesome.
Jeannie Dubnow.
Jeannie Dubnow.
Okay, she's an assistant professor of biology at Rutgers in New Jersey.
Told the Post Thursday that Adam's response to her was merely, quote, to avoid accountability for his policies.
Quote, he didn't have an answer, she said.
That was just a deflection, that's all, because he doesn't have any answers.
Quote, he's a landlord himself.
He said, oh, I don't raise rent on my own tenants.
Who cares about his own personal tenants?
He's raising the rents on thousands and thousands of people in New York City.
Yeah.
Dub now said Wednesday's meeting proved that Adams is quote, an enemy of all the rent stabilized tenants in New York City.
Quote, you know, Mayor Adams is a landlord stooge and the enemy of tenants in New York City.
She said he gets millions of dollars from real estate.
Fuck yeah, dude.
Yeah.
I love it when something like this happens to somebody who has been a tenant advocate for decades, who has a cool head, who has went up against mayors before, who's going to come back with fire like this every single time.
That rules.
Yeah, you can tell she's been doing it for decades because she predates a time when people actually talked to the mayor like this.
She represents an older, more militant form of activism, you know?
Hell yeah, that's how we're supposed to talk about our mayors.
breath for an apology from the former NYPD captain quote oh he's not going to apologize she said I mean you know the mayor he thinks he's the greatest and doesn't want to be criticized hell yeah that's how we're supposed to talk about our mirrors yeah so shout out dub now on Awesome.
Uh, I would say that the majority of the responses, uh, even in right wing spaces, especially in right wing spaces, uh, they took her side on it.
They took, they took her side just in the sense that they got to point to a black guy playing a race card.
Like they got to a point to like a universally, uh, a universally kind of bad usage of that.
Yeah.
That's what sucks.
That's one of the biggest things here is like, man, you really couldn't use this.
There was going to be a time one time where I was going to have to empathize with you and be like, yeah, that sucks.
They shouldn't talk to you that way.
And it would have been a good usage of it.
Like one day someone is going to call you boy.
And, like, you played it on this one.
You played it on the sweet old Jewish lady who's a professor and tenant advocate and obviously just seems like a good person.
That's who you played it on.
Yeah, but some of the liberal responses to this were fascinating.
August V. Oops.
This guy looks to be a white guy.
Says good-on-mayor, this isn't 1950s Alabama, it's New York City in 2023, and you don't cop an attitude like that with a prominent black man.
Ask your question respectfully, and you'll get a respectful answer.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
He needs to sit down and listen.
How about you sit down and listen instead of ask questions?
August V is a pervert, right?
Judging by this picture.
His banner image on Twitter is Joe Biden.
Uh, speaking from behind, you know, just like doing business being, you know, getting the nation's business done for all of us.
Yeah.
Uh, his bio says NYC.
Dad.
Jew.
Investor.
Former prosecutor.
Lifter.
Hashtag DRC.
Don't know what that means.
Anti-racist.
Hashtag Africa.
He slash him.
Hashtag Bitcoin.
I love Africa so much.
Hashtag Bitcoin.
I love anti-racist and to prove it, hashtag Africa.
Hashtag Africa.
That's it.
That's amazing.
That's, that's fucking like, that's amazing.
I, I, I, yeah, that's dude.
Come on.
Like you got, you got to see things.
You gotta understand that things are a little more complicated than that.
I love an anti-racist former prosecutor.
Do you think that's why he's a former prosecutor?
I hope so.
You'd become a good prosecutor?
I don't know if I would put that in my bio, if I were ashamed of being a prosecutor.
I don't know if I would have that as part of my identity.
He's also like this weird existence where, okay, like, you know, NYC, dad, you investor.
So his profile pic is like a professional picture.
Look, it's like a portrait style, like, artistic type beat.
Kind of semi-serious.
He's verified.
Yeah, it's like a quirky professional headshot.
Yeah, like, he's going for it.
This guy's living his best life.
That's how you climb up the social ladder.
You know, you gotta big up your mayor on Twitter and maybe when he sees you in real life... Or like this guy, Gene Injure.
Says, well handled, Mr. Mayor.
I'm just a stock trader these days, but appreciate the challenge there.
So we got an- Why are they talking about what they do?
What did I miss?
Well, I don't know, but it's, but it's helpful because I know that he's got the support of the anti-racist Bitcoin people and also just a stock trader, just stock traders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Listen, I'm not like a plant.
I would never own a plantation.
I'm just a stock trader.
Yeah.
Is that what he's saying?
Maybe he's not a landlord anymore.
Maybe he's given up the flashy, fast-paced lifestyle of being a landlord.
Of being a landlord.
Yeah.
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