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The liberals are destroying California and conservative humor gone awry.
Conservative humor gone awry is going to fascist-phonia today.
So stay tuned.
We're going to take a few pictures of the desert and how their policies are actually messing it up.
It's not beautiful when you go across that border.
Stay tuned guys, we'll show you exactly what you're doing We'll show you exactly what it looks like when you're at I'm going to go, just going to get you All there in Martin Luther King Stay tuned Alright, I'm Alexander Edward And I'm Tony Boswell.
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The world is ending.
Gender.
In space.
Is responsible.
And we're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
Thank you for tuning in.
Tony and I are currently having a wonderful time on the East Coast with all our friends.
Definitely not spending the night in any sort of holding cell.
No, no, not even.
No, just with good friends and not getting in any sort of trouble.
We're just doing really Normal activities.
Probably like on the ferry going to the Statue of Liberty maybe.
We're probably actually right now as you're hearing this we might be visiting Ground Zero eating pizza.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if I give a shit about New York pizza.
I haven't heard really good things about it.
Well, you say we're going to be doing normal things, Tony, but there's a new normal.
I don't know if you're aware of this.
I've heard whisperings of this new normal, and I don't think I like it.
Yeah, when you say new normal, what do you mean?
Doing BDSM to heal childhood trauma?
Because that's what I've been seeing.
Not heal, just confront.
No, yeah.
We're on vacation, so here's an episode about it.
Did you see this guy who... I think he literally started crying on his Twitch stream because he had to pick a gender for his character in a new video game?
No, no, I have not.
You mentioned him.
I don't know...
Because it all depends on... I can't wait to see this guy.
And also what game it is.
And just like how hard... I'm waiting for this.
I'm excited.
It's called Starfield.
It's a new video game.
I think it's one of a series perhaps.
I don't know anything about it, but I did see like a limited edition Xbox release of it.
And it looks so cool.
Just like the Xbox itself.
It all looks very cool.
I'm like, I don't know what this is, but I think I like it.
Yeah, I bet they didn't have anything written on the box about picking a gender, getting pronouns, did they?
See, no, if I had known that, I didn't see one pronoun on the box.
That's why I liked it.
All right, this is courtesy of Michael in the Minion Death Commandos Facebook group.
He shared this in here.
Yeah, it's this guy's Twitch stream or YouTube stream or something and he's playing Starfield.
I just want to say something to you, Bethesda.
I just want to say a little something.
There is nothing I love more... I'm taking my headphones off, fuck that.
Bethesda, there is nothing I love more than to sit down, comfy chair, turn on the PC, fire up a brand new RPG, lose myself, think, oh my god, just think... I mean, that's all of us.
Yeah.
Really.
Whom's among us, yeah.
Fire up a brand new, just out of the box RPG.
...of this world, just think of all the planets I can visit, all the immersive things that I can get involved with, all the fights, all the relationships, all the people I meet, all the places I go.
I'm so excited to go there, and you know, I love nothing more than, with all of that laid out in front of me, I love nothing more than to be dragged out at every fucking conceivable opportunity so you can fucking current day us!
Sorry, did you want to get immersed in our world?
Yeah, well, guess what?
FUCKING PRONOUNS!
FUCKING GENDER AMBIGUITY!
What?
Cause he says fucking pronouns, fucking gender ambiguity.
Is he saying that like, like, uh, the only options are, are ambiguous pronouns?
Cause that'd be, that would be interesting.
Uh, no, I think he's mad.
It makes him gender ambiguous, like looking at that stuff.
Yeah.
He's like, my idea of gender is disappearing, like a Marty McFly photograph, because I played the wrong video game.
He said, like, he's like, I like to be immersed in this game, but you pull me out of it back into current day-ism?
Which is, like, so funny.
So he's saying, like, I'm aware that this is what's happening in the world around me.
I just don't want to be reminded of it.
Yeah, yeah, gender's now a thing.
In 2023.
It's a hot new thing.
It's the current thing.
Everyone's talking about it.
Yeah, it's September's thing, I guess.
For this, you know, cycle of current thing.
Uh, yeah, he says they current-day us!
They fuckin' current-day me, goddammit!
Which is funny because I think this game takes place in the future?
Right, and it reminded him of the present.
In the future- So are we sure he's not like a- In the future we won't have gender, Tony.
Maybe he's just like a gender anarchist.
Maybe he believes in a place where we can get past the point of that.
It's not about getting your pronouns or being subjected to one or two boxes, but you can just be whatever you want in the most free way.
And that's why he's upset.
He wants to get through what we're experiencing now, past it.
Yeah, I think you might be onto something.
What if he's like, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME PICK MY FUCKING GENDER AT THE BEGINNING?!
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM IN THIS WORLD YET!
IT'S CALLED BUILDING A FUCKING CHARACTER, GOD DAMMIT!
YOU DRAG ME BACK DOWN!
Why can't I just exist?
I don't know these things yet.
I haven't felt what it's like to exist in this particular gravitational pull.
Who knows how I'm going to feel?
How do I know how this society expresses gender?
Huh?
What if he's even like, what- I don't know if it's gonna be like now where I could be a woman so I could just do whatever I want.
Or if it's gonna be like, you know, the past where, you know, I could be a man and- cause I'm also about strategy in this game.
I gotta think about strategy.
Oh, this video keeps going.
Should we- do we need to keep watching it?
Please.
Okay.
FUCKING CURRENT DAY CALIFORNIAN SHIT!
CAUSE THAT'S ALL WE FUCKING- THIS CALIFORNIA SHIT!
THIS GENDER!
I hate that so much.
Experiencing what's going on in California right now, the way that trans identity is so under attack right now in California, especially amongst the kid, I hate that the moniker of California is still what people are saying is this progressive bastion.
It makes me even more upset.
Yeah, sure.
Bunch of awful people in California organizing to do awful things.
to do awful things.
Yeah, this California commie bullshit!
Shit.
I think it's literally... I think it's literally he just had to select a pronoun at the beginning.
Yeah.
Probably.
Because he's not ever disputing that.
People are like... You're upset about pronouns.
There's a wall that symbolizes a bigger thing or something like that would be his... He screamed fucking pronouns at the beginning of this video.
I'm guessing this has to do with, like, the dialogue you're going to be entering throughout the game?
Wait, hold on.
Hold on, Tony.
Are RPGs known for dialogue?
Really?
I mean... No, I'm all about... I skip through it.
I just... I don't read that shit at all.
I have no idea.
So fucking funny.
Yeah, like, doesn't... Haven't video games let you pick your gender for a long time?
For a real long time.
It was like you had the three, though.
You had the three.
It was like, you know, male, female, or like, do not declare, or, you know, something like that.
Well, I mean, but also the characters modeled after a, you know, a specific... Absolutely, yeah.
You know, whatever.
Yeah, I don't know.
Very interesting.
Like, the blood is just boiling.
It's just gone too far now.
These guys have heard about gender too far, and it's upset him.
It's upset him and his toys he has back here.
His Transformers toys.
At least he doesn't have any of the soy Funko Pops, though.
That does look like a weird NPC action figure that's sitting on the shelf.
Yeah.
It has like a white no-face.
It's got an egg-shaped head just like our man behind the mic.
Yeah.
Also, I love, again, I love the choice of words of current and deus.
So like you are saying that you know that you are wrong.
In the current day, what they're asking is a reasonable thing and, you know, perhaps necessary.
But in this game, you don't want to acknowledge that.
And this game is reminding you that in current day, you're wrong.
I guess.
I mean, they know that the media disagrees with.
They know that, like, people disagree with them.
That's part of their aggrievement for it.
But I think the criticism of it being a current day thing means it's like a passing fad.
And then, and that we're all paying attention to and agitated by that, you know, just like our globalist elites want us to be.
Okay, I want to see, does he actually cry?
No, I don't, I don't know.
I think he gets like emotional though, but it goes from like being mad to like emotional.
I want to see that, if that's possible.
Okay, let me skip ahead.
Okay, he's still yelling and that screech.
Uh, okay.
Yelling more.
Off the gape yelling.
Oh, he might be crying.
I think he might be, like, getting, like, mad.
That thing where, like, when a young person gets so mad they cry.
Yeah, he's crying.
He's crying.
And you just can't help shovel your dog shit, fucking crap, ideology into everything!
Every single solitary fucking thing!
I saw so many responses that were like, this man is speaking truth.
Watch, this is the most powerful thing I've ever seen anyone say.
When they push you to the edge, you know?
When you've been pushed one too many times.
And that's like, this is the response.
This is the Richmond north of Richmond for Twitch streamers.
Yeah, for gamers.
I don't know, this guy is a gamer.
He seems to be in touch with games.
Isn't there a stereotype of what a game developer looks like that would lead you to maybe think that they might give these options in the development of the game?
Am I making that up?
Elaborate.
Aren't there a lot of purple haired people making video games?
Yeah, and they hate those video games.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, that's true.
That's true.
It's like, I don't know, what are you expecting from a new video game?
I don't know.
Well, they're trying to make it go broke.
As hard as possible.
And this is just the newest round of complaining about wokeness in video games in an effort to Bud Light them.
Or whatever.
Alright, I don't think we need to watch anymore of this guy.
You're so mad about this.
I want to know, did he stop playing the game?
Did he go on to give like a... Okay, now that's over.
So the gameplay is just amazing.
The interface, gorgeous.
Every single moment was just stunning.
Did he go on to give the game praise?
The Quartering quote tweeted the video.
Oh, it's, uh, Hassan.
Hassan tweeted about the video, and then the Quartering quote tweeted said, You are not overreacting, Mr. Angry!
Stay the course.
You're not gonna fuckin' rage yourself into an early grave.
If you're yelling online, stay online.
Do it.
We need you.
Yeah.
Do not, absolutely do not believe people when they tell you you might have overreacted about this.
Yeah.
It's the slippery slope it represents.
Yeah.
Slippery slope.
Finish that phrase.
It's a fallacy, brother.
It's the slippery slope it represents.
Cultists screaming, quote, it's no big deal.
Also think it's, quote, no big deal.
Healthy young women mutilate their bodies for, quote, affirmation, end quote.
It always comes down to, like, they're just mad that there might be less boobs.
That's the only thing they're, like, mad about.
Like, that's really what they're worried about.
It's like, no, not boobs!
Like, that's, it's, it's, they just say it so clearly.
Yeah, I thought, listen, I thought we were supposed to save the ta-tas.
That's what I'm doing.
Don't they know that we're also getting other new boobs?
Mmm.
Don't they know that's part of it?
That's true, that is true.
There's some pretty cool new boobs these days.
Yeah, first it's about pronouns, then it's about healthy young women getting breast reduction surgery.
Getting top surgery.
Like, to phrase it that way is like so... I mean, it's obviously, they don't do it because it sounds effective, but it's like, yeah, it is no big deal.
Calm down.
Like, if somebody else getting some sort of, you know, body modification, no matter what direction it's going, no matter what it is at all, is a big deal to you, that's a you thing.
Yeah, I mean, physical enhancement is a, what, trillion dollar industry?
Surgical, physical enhancement?
Yeah.
You can only get your cisgender more, like, more affirmed, you know?
So you can only become, like, bustier.
That's the only option.
Uh, some amazing responses to this RuneWordGaming says, right period fucking period on period.
The passion and wrath made my day.
It's the wrath for me.
Imagine seeing that guy, you're like on the train and that guy's looking at his phone with headphones in and he says it out loud.
Right fucking on.
Punches his thigh with each word.
Yes.
Right fucking on.
You said it, brother.
It voiced so many of my internal thoughts from the last couple of years where I thought I was just being hypersensitive to this shit.
Nice to know I'm not alone.
You're not.
I mean, you've been on the same internet where you got these ideas from, so you know you're not alone.
He thought he was on his own personal journey.
Figuring this out.
I guess they all kind of do, yeah.
That's fair.
Dan Vask, who's verified, replies, as my friend at Drunk3PO says, welcome to the rebellion.
And then Drunk3PO replies, hell yeah.
But it's JD3PO, and he looks like a rapper, maybe?
Oh, I think for sure he's a rapper.
Is that like a parental- it's like a- oh, no, it says join the rebellion over- oh my god, this was a reference to the song, I bet.
Join the Rebellion.
So that's why he's saying, as my friend- I don't- I think that guy has a song.
Huh.
Huh.
Because he says, as my friend Drunk3PO says, welcome to the rebellion, and JD3PO, which I don't know.
He could have just made a meme that says welcome to the rebellion and made his friends put it over their avatars.
But it's censoring his mouth.
It's like over his mouth like a parental advisory and he's looking like over sunglasses.
So that leads me to believe this is like a white rapper.
Okay, well, I don't have anything queued up for anybody with JD3PO, so... Yeah, sorry.
Apologies.
I doubt your SEO works, so we can't even find you, so... You should have probably linked your video there.
Then finally, we have a...
Political cartoon from that weird guy on Instagram.
The really insane, insanely detailed drawings of kids' terrified faces.
Like he loves drawing the most frightened children you've ever seen.
Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin could go like three years on just this guy's cartoons alone.
Just like the beads of- like licking the beads of sweat off of his drawings.
Brows.
Uh... The graphics, to say the least, you know?
So he made a cartoon about this.
Props to that guy's at generating solar levels of heat after calling out space California this weekend.
And it's a four panel cartoon and it goes, I am sick of current day world.
I'm leaving.
And a guy gets into like, A rocket ship, and he's leaving somebody with rainbow hair, among others, in this crowd.
He's sailing through the universe.
He lands, and there's two giant aliens that look all freaky.
They have, you know, long lips and multiple eyes and, you know, weird heads.
They say, Greetings, traveler, and what are your pronouns?
And then the astronaut gets triggered again, like the last...
The image is him, his eyes bulging, his brow furrowed in anger.
He has a vein bulging in his forehead.
Like, it's so good.
Like, what?
This is such a half-baked cartoon.
What do you mean you're tired of current day you're leaving?
Are you doing time travel or are you doing space travel?
That's a good point, Tony.
Because I think you do space travel, which is not time travel.
Imagine you look at two big aliens and they're like, hey, how do we refer to you?
Yeah, and you and you lose your mind.
You're like not again!
No!
What's funny is what this really reads as is like, yeah, dude, even the big monster aliens are considerate.
It makes even more sense if they're aliens!
What kind of fuckin' genders do you think they have?
What kind of genders do you have that they have no idea about, right?
Yeah.
Of course they're gonna ask you, hey, how should we refra- What do you like to be called?
And then you fuckin' start shooting at them until you realize they just meant your name.
Excuse me, tell me about that thang and do it be squirtin'.
Exactly.
That's what aliens ask.
Vital information.
Uh, yeah.
So good job, everybody.
Good job.
Everybody involved with this not embarrassing story at all.
Okay, so, uh...
Hey, you didn't think gender was a big deal, Tony?
In our last segment, making fun of the idea that It represents some sort of hazard if you focus too heavily on gender.
Reading here from the New York Post, gender reveal party ends in tragedy as plane crashes in front of oblivious guests.
Oh my god.
Uh, and there's insane video of the pl- I mean this is- it's fucked up because the- the pilot is the guy who died.
Uh, his pl- his plane drops the pink dust and then his- he's like trying to pull up and his wings just break.
The timing is...
is mind going.
Now, hold on real quick.
Cause everybody's, everybody's screaming about the gender, which is female.
They're not screaming.
They don't know that the plane crashed over their shoulder.
Yeah.
Like to those who are listening, don't worry.
We didn't just make you listen to someone reacting to death, which is kind of what it might sound like.
No, that was the, that was the excitement from the pink smoke of, of the plane just dropped.
Yeah, they have no idea this is happening, even though we watch, we watch the wings fold like a book and lose control.
And like, also, I also think for you, for those listening, um, you talking about how trivial, you know, the, the joke of how trivial gender is, while I'm watching this looping in the background was just so, so beautiful.
And like, I almost, I almost couldn't, couldn't take it.
Yeah, sometimes the world is so beautiful, it's hard to take it.
Yeah, so just one more in a string of deadly gender reveal incidents.
I'll read the story here.
A gender reveal in Mexico turned deadly when a stump plane involved in the celebration crashed in front of oblivious party goers.
The plane's left wing seems to give way as the pilot, who is later identified as Luis Angel, Yeah.
Pulls the small plane upwards, sending the aircraft spiraling out of control.
Meanwhile, on the ground, attendees seem totally unaware of the terrifying ordeal unfolding in the sky.
This is definitely the most harrowing, at least, video of a gender reveal gone wrong so far, right?
Yeah.
Also, I mean, I got to give credit to the filmer.
Because they not only managed to get the catastrophe happening, but then also went back to the... to the couple celebrating.
We didn't miss anything in this.
According to a local news outlet, authorities found the pilot lying in the wreckage of the plane after a concerned party-goer called for help Saturday.
So, like... Yeah, if more people had known that it had crashed, maybe they would have gotten to him sooner?
I don't know, man.
Wouldn't it make, like, a wild noise?
Yeah.
But, like, they're screaming?
They were that pumped, though?
Because they were very pumped that it's a girl.
In 2020, a celebration sparked a deadly wildfire in California that raged across 10,000 acres of land.
Another couple came under fire when their quote, oh baby sign sent torrents of pink smoke and confetti into the air as several sparklers nearly ignited the surrounding trees.
An Australian family set their car ablaze in 2019 thanks to special tires designed to blow blue smoke to announce their baby's gender.
The gender announcement tragedies.
There's there's way more than this.
I remember at least several more.
I know there was a couple where like they ended in like assaults because they didn't like the gender that was revealed.
So I don't think they can include those in the tally.
Sure.
The gender announcement tragedies led mommy blogger Jenner, Jenna Karvanidis.
Karvanidis?
Widely credited with quote, inventing these types of celebrations to apologize for sparking the movement.
I like that choice of words there as well.
Who cares what gender the baby is?
Carvinitis wrote in a viral 2019 Facebook post.
That's kind of funny.
I kind of feel bad for her.
I do kind of feel bad for her.
Because even she went out saying, who cares what they look like.
She had this one idea that was kind of cute, and then people just took way too far.
I'm sure her idea was like, oh, you just dye a white cake, you know, pink or blue.
Right.
Put frosting on it.
Yeah.
And that's it.
But then people were like, no, we got to go crazy.
That video is so wild.
Like I said, you can watch the plane, you can watch the wing just fold and it's like, oh, that's not gonna be good.
And then it pans right back to the couple.
Pretty gnarly.
Yeah, there's like one video of a guy getting set on fire, I think, from a gender reveal that I've seen.
Oh, for sure.
Getting like launched into the air.
Yeah, okay.
You wanna know what's really behind gender reveals, Tony?
Yes.
Okay.
David Wagner's got the answer from the New York Post comment section.
Narcissistic behavior displayed play Jen Zombie and Jen Marshmallow is astounding.
So it's supposed to be by Jen Zombie and Jen Marshmallow.
The two nicknames I have not heard before, but I love them.
And we know exactly what it is right away.
I mean, part of it by like positive elimination because we knew that Zombie was for sure Z and then we just were able to carry the logic.
I don't know if I would have got Gender Marshmallow on its own.
Sure.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I like zombie better than marshmallow.
I'm kind of jealous.
Oh, zombie's so good.
Gen Z that they get to be generation zombie.
He goes on, no one cares what your child's gender is.
No one cares or no cares that you are pregnant outside of your family.
Uh, I would just, I would like to ask any, any person who's been pregnant out there.
If anybody else cares about their pregnancy, if anybody else has any opinion about their pregnancy or just, I don't know the general, I'd like to ask the general public, Hey, do people care about gender?
Do other people care about your gender?
Yeah, exactly.
Also, I just like the idea that he just sees pregnant women and is probably anti them even.
Sure.
He's like, no one cares, put your belly away.
No one wants to see that, alright?
Okay, we get it, you're pregnant, no one cares except for your family.
It sucks because he's expressing, like, that's a good position to have.
I don't care.
Yeah.
That's a great position.
But you're only expressing it in the context of another, you know, stupid thing.
Gender reveals.
Excuse me.
I know, you know, I've got family members who've done them for sure.
So I can't go too hard on them, but just pretty silly stuff, I think.
And what was I going to say here?
I forgot.
Also, like, there's a whole crowd of, like, not to be completely, you know, just against this guy, but there was a whole crowd of people who cared so much they missed a plane crashing.
That's a good point, too.
And they're probably all family, too, or, like, close to, or consider themselves family, you know, extended family, so, like, your argument doesn't, is not helping.
The argument just makes you seem lonely, David.
Well, it's just, it's correct.
The argument that gender reveals are dumb because nobody should care is correct, but, you know, just use that argument in any, you know, other context.
Moe1946 replies, and no one wants to see pictures ever!
And then Kaydon Bennett had the most common response in this New York Post comment section, which is, I want someone to just not get what he's going for at all.
I'm like, why would they start calling Sally Tiffany?
or Sally on the bus and comes back Tiffany and Scotty.
Ha ha ha ha!
I want someone to just not get what he's going for at all.
I'm like, why would they start calling Sally Tiffany?
That's really weird.
Here's another example of that.
Billy Bob Brantley said, what's the point of gender reveal parties when they're just going to eventually be called them, she, he, non-binary, robot, furry, it, or whatever we call people nowadays?
And then before we respond to that, Papa Murph Dog replies, good one.
Dot, dot, dot.
I saw what you did there.
Which is, I think he replaced the he and she with funny words.
I think that's... Yeah.
Oh, I see what you're doing.
You threw some non-traditional ones in there.
I like that.
It's like the first pronoun joke he's seen.
Yeah.
This is clever.
Wow.
Okay, alright.
This might be more my humor.
This might be what I'm into.
Yeah, okay.
Also, yeah, Billy Bob.
Exactly, actually.
This was actually kind of a good comment.
Like, what's the point?
There were a lot of people that were just resigned to the idea that people got to choose their gender.
What does it fucking matter anymore?
That's fine.
I'm okay with that opinion.
That's a cool compromise.
Yeah, and again, that's fine.
That's kind of our argument against them.
Let's not put so much significance into them.
Calm down.
Uh, and then right here, mm, dot, dot, dot says, will they have another one when the kids 12 and her teachers want her to transition?
That would be so, so funny if I, I hope there is like a, like a Gen Z-er out there who like has a gender reveal party for their family as they're coming out.
You know?
I feel like I've seen that.
But they're like, it's a tie-dye cake!
This was the most common joke, though.
Like, no, you don't get to have a gender party, you worm.
You plebeian.
That's for the public school teacher and your child to decide together in a locked room.
A locked, soundproof room.
And yeah, so you saw that you saw that a lot but I liked Moe's response to well the kid have a 12 year old, you know when they're 12 gender reveal party Moe says no, they will have a binary reveal party.
Okay.
Hell yeah.
Sure.
Mo, speaking from experience.
Actually, no.
With my grandchild, what they did was they had a binary reveal party.
It was nice.
We had a good time.
I love them.
I don't think you can have a binary reveal party.
Like, you could have a binary male Reveal party.
Or a binary female reveal party.
You call it this because that leaves the air of mystery to what's being revealed.
Oh, it will be a gender.
Don't worry, alright?
Your ticket won't go to waste.
Yeah, you're gonna get an answer.
You're going to get an answer.
Okay.
Okay.
I liked this explanation of the gender reveal phenomenon from Joe G who says another way for millennials and Gen Z to squeeze money out of people without working for it.
Pathetic.
Wait.
What?
Are they?
Are these?
What are they saying?
Like, cause I. They're saying it's another goddamn party.
The ball and chain drags you off to.
You got to get them a fucking toaster for the gender.
The gender needs a new toaster.
Well, are they doing separate parties for a baby shower and a gender-relevant party?
Or is it just one?
It's got to be more than one.
If you're the type of person to do a gender... And you know, Joji's right.
This is bullshit.
We're having too many parties.
Making up these multiple genders is just a way for them to rake in the cash on gender.
Because again, they're going to have another one when they're 12.
Yeah, this is bullshit.
It's blatant cash grab.
It's obvious, they're just playing the system, you know?
This is like the parent version of your GoFundMe, but it's just your kids.
Just your kids like they're your go fund my gender a Gender reveal party having gifts like a Again, I haven't really been to one, but members of my family have had them, so I've seen photos of people I love doing this.
What would the gifts be?
Because you're revealing the gender at the party, so do you only buy non-binary gifts?
Do you only buy gender fluid, genderless?
Gifts, but then that seems to fly in the face of the whole point of the party, which is to celebrate gender, you know?
Yeah, so this must be the party before the party.
I think you're right, because maybe, I know people gamble a lot on it, which is cool.
That's neat.
But I don't know about, yeah, maybe gifts.
Maybe, you know, I think what you do is you just bring a gift for dad, right?
Because, like, you know, he's the one that decides that.
Oh, right!
Yeah, it's his sperm.
So, you just bring him, like, a cigar.
Or a coupon book that says, like, a Saturday with the fellas that he can give his wife and he gets out of the day for free.
You could bring him a guillotine that he can use to decapitate his wife for only producing female children.
That'd be smart.
That'd be smart, because those things are expensive.
And that's the only way you can kill them.
If you don't chop the head off, then they can't die.
Okay, um...
Heroes are my favorite ones though when it's like someone who has like six girls and they do another gender reveal party and they're like really mad to girl like they start one of them starts crying.
I saw one where like it was a girl and the mom didn't even like everyone knew it was a girl because the mom started crying and then all the other little girls started crying.
And I think the dad got like angry.
So you knew there was a 50% chance that this was going to be the thing and you invited people over?
It sounds insane.
What she just described to me sounds like I would be driven insane by watching that video.
It was insane, but it was also so funny.
The girls are young girls and they're being very dramatic so they're doing wailing cries and the mom is just like... It's just a mess.
Yeah, last response here.
Slowcalla Guy said, again, what is the purpose of a gender reveal event?
It will be at least a few years until a teacher determines the child's true gender.
Yeah, so that's kind of like where the right wing is at on public schools.
Anytime even gender comes up, they find a way to use it to attack a public school teacher.
Yeah.
They're essentially, and I mean, they've been doing this for a while now, but it's the groomer.
It's just like another part of the groomer strategy, which, yeah, they have been using against teachers either tacitly or explicitly.
But it may reassure people to know that recent polling has been done on how the general public feels about public school teachers.
This is from Navigator Research.
So, you know, I can't speak to the science of the polling.
So, you know, we may find out more about this polling firm later, but Navigator Research.
As children across the country begin the school year, the top priority for Americans is keeping them safe from gun violence, followed by quote, making sure they learn the things they need to know to be successful.
While half of Republicans say that shielding children from quote, woke ideas about race and gender in school is a top priority, less than a third of Americans say the same.
Only 28% of parents say that that's a priority, 24% of independents, 8% of Democrats.
That's still like a bummer high of a percentage, but it is much better than they would lead you to believe.
Yeah, most people like teachers and want teachers to have the things they need to succeed, to succeed their kid.
Like people have memories of bad teachers, but I feel like most people who went through a full, you know, whatever the full gamut of public school hat, like remember more teachers fondly than unfondly.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Cause I can only think of like three or four teachers that were real assholes to me.
And that's in the whole span of public schooling.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, totally.
Uh, yeah.
Even to the point where it's like, you know, see even ones I maybe had a hard time with, I don't, I don't look back at them with malice.
I think that they were, I think I was an annoying kid.
They were trying to groom you, Tony, to be less annoying.
Yeah, they were like they're trying to groom me to like listen and do my homework.
Stop talking so damn much during class.
Again, like another example of where former sources of authority in conservative and reactionary thought are now undermined and like Made into practically a joke?
Like remember, you know, the idea of you had to listen to your teacher because your teacher better swatch you because I'm gonna swatch you either way, you know?
Kind of thing.
Yeah, not anymore.
They don't think of teachers like that anymore.
I guess if, I think if maybe you made it legal for woke teachers to hit your kids, that could be a compromise.
Yeah, I think that's the way to go.
I think they would respect the teacher.
They lost respect for the teacher when they made it illegal to hit the kids.
I just figured it out.
We need to be able to hit kids for misgendering other kids.
Well, it's a whole list.
There's a whole list of things that they can get hit for, you know, and they don't have to get hit, but it will just make it legal and everybody's happy.
Yeah, just give them the option, yeah.
Another poll here, yeah, or this is like part of the same poll.
Over half of Americans, quote, parentheses, including parents and non-parents, view teachers unions favorably.
That includes Democrats, 74% favorably, 9% unfavorably.
74% favorably, 9% unfavorably.
Independence, 45% favorably, 23% unfave.
Not very conservative Republicans, 45% favorable, 34% unfavorable.
That wording is great and necessary.
Yeah, it's all based on how people self-identify or how people identify.
Yeah, look pretty pretty good.
Yeah parents net 37% 37 favorable 37 points net favorable 58% right here to 21 unfavorable Yeah, I mean, I think this like kind of it shut what do you call it like demonstrates the common sense of Assumption of how the general public feels about teachers.
I mean they've been Demonized a lot.
So this this might be going down.
I don't I don't know what previous polling has said So it's not necessarily something that we, you know, shouldn't be pushing back against or whatever, but it's just yeah It seems like this is how people feel about teachers.
I Yeah, again, it's still not what they're trying to lead us to believe.
They're trying to make us feel like every single parent wants to burn the books.
They just don't want to talk about it.
But this is clearly saying, like, no, it's not that we still support the teachers and, you know, the teachers union.
Yeah, I mean, I think like reactionary parents or like just, you know, adults within a public school district who go on behalf of their nephew, then don't you dare try to change my my nephew's gender.
Those people were organized and agitated kind of out of the blue for a lot of people.
Yeah.
For, like, left-wing or progressive or just, you know, centrist supporters of teachers.
There was an apparatus that was already disrupting school board meetings.
And people in those communities are only now able to respond.
Yeah, absolutely.
So those people in the beginning got all the media coverage, they got all the fucking attention, and they got results because they pushed their way into elections and got into positions of power because, yeah, the other side wasn't organized against it.
Yeah, because you're not going to the school board meetings if you think the school's going fine.
Right.
Yeah, so it's, you know, if and they kind of saw that that void was there and like, you know, we all know that they were they were fun, you know, agitated, often funded by outside sources.
So, yeah, that's what that's what's going to happen.
You know, yeah.
And like you said, we're just now catching up and hopefully finding some equilibrium.
Yeah, there's one video that I wanted to play that was also part of this thread from Navigator Research, and it's of the Republican debate.
And this is Tim Scott on stage.
And when Republicans like Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy suggested we, quote, break the backs of the teachers unions during last week's RNC debate, Independents in Wisconsin strongly disapproved of our live dial in our live dial group.
Yeah, that's fucked.
Break the backs.
I was like, does he say that?
And he does.
Let's listen.
Yeah, the lines just all tanked right when he started saying that.
Want to break the backs of the teacher's union.
It's really troubling.
These people want to run the country, and they have no idea even how the bureaucracy of a school works.
The results of the school are not happening because of the teacher's union.
That's not what's happening at all.
But, I don't know, that's what they're blaming.
The teacher's union is, you know, protecting the teacher's rights to assign your child a new gender.
And that's the teacher union's fault.
I guess you can't, I don't know, you can't blame your homies who are actually the problem?
Is that the thing?
Hmm.
Yeah, in crazy language, I'm going to break the backs of the teachers unions.
I feel like breaking the backs of the Republican Senator from South Carolina.
Is that something I can say?
And how do you propose doing that?
What does that look like to you?
You know, is it like- It sounds awful.
It sounds graphic and fucked up and like painful and uh, you know, I mean, he means like par- Well, I want your- What I want your teachers to be is paralyzed.
Yeah.
And they can be just paraplegia.
They can just be paraplegic, so I'm fine with that.
You can't stage a walkout if you can't walk.
This is definitely good messaging.
Good messaging for the general public.
Just like a clip of you talking about breaking Mrs. Christensen over your knee.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
That's, yeah, it's... Because that is the teachers' union.
It is the teachers.
Well, he says so.
It's like, he says backs.
Break the backs.
Break the backs of the teachers' unions.
That's... Sounds like he's talking about individual backs that he wants to break.
Yeah.
All of them.
He's gonna punish individuals.
Just all of them.
Every individual.
But it's also like, that's, I don't know, that's what the union's for, so that can't happen.
If you're gonna figuratively break their backs, like, the teacher's union exists so that, you know, maybe you can regulate class sizes and have a reasonable workload.
Like, that's why it exists, but, you know, I guess that's how, that's the way that he's, what he's actually talking about, you know, is by abusing those things.
Are you gonna like, I don't know, are you gonna pay him less?
Are you gonna threat him with violence?
Like, what are you doing here?
Well, he definitely wants to pay them less, and he wants them to be entirely replaced with a private model.
He wants the unions to become so weak that public schools wither on the vine and die, like they're already doing.
Yeah.
Yeah, he would just want all that shit transferred over to the private sector.
Anyway, I don't know.
Good... I don't know.
It's nice to have some good news.
It's nice to see that not everybody is an insane person or poisoned by our current reality.
Our current day.
Yeah, seeing that chart plummet once he said that was refreshing.
