First, we thank Shaun King for freeing the Hamas hostages but worry about what his tireless pursuit of justice is doing to his mental health THEN: they’re calling it the best propaganda ever—Israel and the IDF condemn Greta Thunberg as a terrorist for having her stuffed octopus plushie beside her in a photograph Finally, an Ohio restaurant is forced to close its doors after it displayed an anti-abortion sign out front and half the staff walked out. Music: Boys II Men - Motownphilly Sign up at http://patreon.com for weekly bonus episodes and livestreams
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I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Anti-Semitic plushies are responsible.
And we're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
Hope you had a good weekend.
This episode, I'm... Oh, so you wanted to do something, huh?
I don't know when you wanted to do it.
You know what?
I thought about it and it's not even funny.
It's not even funny.
It's fine.
It's not going to work.
It's only funny to me.
It's just not going to be good.
What's the joke?
So I just got word from Fulton County Prison that they have freed YSL and And as I said last week, Thugga and his family have been supporters of mine and protested police violence in America alongside us.
I'm also thankful to the rest of YSL and the whole gang for helping negotiate this.
Dozens of us worked frantically behind the scenes to make this possible.
I spoke with Thug's family this afternoon and they are anxiously awaiting more updates.
So Thug is free.
I did that.
Yeah.
Wow.
I did that.
If people wanted to support justice, where can they give you money, Tony?
Oh yeah, straight, you can use Cash App, Venmo, whatever, Zelle, whatever you need to do.
You can mail me, you can put cash in an envelope.
That'll find, it'll find its way to you.
That also works, yeah.
Can you explain what you're referencing for people who may not be as online or invested?
Apparently Hamas had a hostage that was released, and Sean King took credit for being part of the negotiations, saying verbatim what I said, except for it was the teenager, Natalie.
Who was he talking to?
How did he take credit?
I don't know.
Apparently the Qatari government.
Apparently he went to the Qatari government, is what he said.
Wow, we finally got one million retweets, so we will free the hostages.
And the family was like, we don't know who that guy is.
We don't, we didn't know about him until right now.
We've never heard of this guy.
Wow.
So they must really like him.
He seems like 100% good, good guy.
And what's funny is the post is still up.
Like it's still up right now.
Uh, yeah, that's, that's cool.
I, I, you said something about Sean King beforehand.
Uh, I thought you were just gonna be referencing the post that I think his, his partner made where it's him at their house.
Like he's like broodingly looking out the window and he's like, how am I going to solve this thing?
How am I going to solve Israel and Palestine?
And there's like a long text underneath where she or he, I don't know who his partner is, is like, you know, people don't understand the weight that it takes, the weight that it puts on you when you have to post about these things every day.
And when people expect you to do a post every minute you're not posting is agony.
But Sometimes you need to make sure the post is really good, so you stand by your big window and look at it.
I love it because the whole thing is, it's not what am I going to do to contribute to this or help out with this, it's how am I going to post out of this?
What is the ultimate post that's gonna fix this?
Right, but it's also... It's so funny.
It's also about his, like, psychological state of how hard it can be to post.
And it's like... It's true!
Oh, you had a hard time posting this week because of the news?
That's cool.
I podcasted.
I podcasted the news.
Alright?
Yeah, you can't put these words in a post.
There's too many words.
Oh, I have to post through the pain.
Fuck you.
We podcast through the pain three times a week, baby.
You can hear our pain.
You can hear our pain in our voices.
Cool.
Well, thank you so much for your work, Tony and Sean and everybody out there doing that kind of work.
We love you folks.
Um, I did want, you know, this we've had, we've had a couple rough weeks.
Um, I, I wanted this episode to be just a little more, a little more fun, a little, a little more zany, a little more like non-denominational MDC stuff.
Uh, but, but we did have to start off with.
I don't know.
We do have to talk about Israel and their assault on Gaza, but again, in what I hope will be a
A more light-hearted way to cover this, and of course I'm referring to the IDF and Israel and their backers' newest argument against Greta Thunberg, who posted a sign that said, you know, she was holding a sign that said, Stand with Gaza.
Let me pull it up here.
Some viewers noticed there was also an octopus plushie in the shot.
It's on her friend's knee, who's like behind her, but it's obviously situated so that it looks like it's kind of over her shoulder, almost, you know, like in the frame with Greta.
So you like see Greta's face.
And then it's so funny because this is like supposed to be this anti-Semitic thing.
And the octopus has been circled Uh, and it's just got a grumpy face on it when you see the octopus.
Do you know what that is?
Do you know about those plushies?
They're super cute.
What's there to know?
It's a fucking stuffed animal.
Like, you sound like the Zionist.
Oh, do you know about the plushie?
Do you know the significance of the plushie?
Yeah, no, they're really cool.
Like, they're really good.
You can turn it inside out and it will, like, have a sad face or a happy face and, like, some people who might have a hard time communicating use those to, like, you know.
If it's, here, I'm grumpy right now.
Sorry.
I'm in a good mood, you know.
Adorable.
It's, like, a really, like, good, wholesome thing.
Yeah, uh, for people who don't know, Greta has Asperger's or, uh, you know, she's on the autism spectrum, uh, and she has referred to the octopus that they're, that the IDF is calling her a terrorist for having this little octopus stuffed animal, uh, in her photo.
She, she's, yeah, she said, no, this is like a, A comfort thing for my autism.
It's just like my buddy that I hang out with and take photos of.
Like, looking at this photo, it's like fairly obvious to somebody who's not completely brain damaged that she wanted it to look like her octopus was standing with Gaza.
She wanted to make it look like her buddy was mad on behalf of Palestinians.
She's like, I'm mad at you, Israel.
Like, We're both bummed.
Look at our faces.
Like, the octopus, her friend, isn't supposed to represent a vile, anti-semitic caricature?
Like, the thing that she carries around with her all day?
Oh, this is actually, uh, this is disgusting, repulsive, and degenerate to me.
That's why I sleep with it on my face.
Yeah.
This, like, the Brain Olympics that happens there was so funny.
When I saw it, because, you know, they compared it to that drawing, you know?
And when I first glanced at it, I was like, oh shit, she drew that?
And then I was like, wait, no, that's not, that's not what happened at all.
There's no way.
Yeah, the drawing in question, let me, it's funny because yeah, in this, so they're, they're comparing it to like an old antisemitic political cartoon that shows a Jewish person as an octopus stretching its tentacles across the entire globe you know the anti-semitic conspiracy theory which yeah sure I'm like I'm sure that was a thing at one point I only remember the octopus from like standard anti-standard oil cartoons
Yeah, I remember that one being a thing, too.
That makes sense.
Like, the octopus was just influence.
Like, anyone you wanted to show having influence or, like, expanding its own borders or something like that, you would use the octopus.
But the octopus cartoon that they're all sharing It also happens to be a baby blue octopus.
Yeah.
Like her plushie.
So let me pull up the article here.
Greta Thunberg deletes pro-Palestinian post featuring anti-Semitic trope claims she was, quote, completely unaware.
Let me see if...
They don't use any of the examples of the cartoon in here.
Would I get demonetized from YouTube if I showed the same cartoon that everybody is posting at Greta Thunberg?
Well, I don't know.
I think you might get demonetized for posting the octopus that Greta Thunberg had in her picture, so you may as well run it, you know?
I'm not worried about monetization.
I just don't want it to get taken down for misinformation.
Jews are not octopuses.
It's a vile caricature.
They would actually have a very hard time getting in and out of a jar, being as if they have skeletons.
When everybody was calling this anti-semitic, I thought, oh, the octopus, that must represent Hamas or the Palestinian resistance, but in a good way.
Like, they're able to, you know, they're crafty, they're resourceful, they're, you know, long-living, and they can squeeze wherever their head can fit, wherever their beak can fit into, Palestinians can squeeze into that area, and that's, like, definitely something that I think they should take advantage of.
Also, they can teach us so much, and, like, a lot of Palestinians I know are pretty sexy.
So, in that way, they're also like an octopus.
It would be like an octopus.
So, did you watch The Octopus Teacher?
No.
Okay.
I don't know.
I don't want to ruin what's happened in my head.
Yeah, I don't want them to reboot the octopus teacher and kill my version my childhood version of the octopus teacher where the teacher fucks the Oct- wait no the octopus is the teacher Yeah, I'm just under the impression that somebody has sex with an octopus in that Documentary.
Same.
Yeah And I think if you know that going into that that means you're trying to watch someone have sex with an octopus Yeah, and you don't want to you don't want any of that Yeah, yeah, totally Yeah, it was pretty wild to see like a bunch of liberals and, you know, Zionists sharing a bunch of anti-Semitic cartoons.
They're like, no, see, look, this is what we look like.
What are you doing?
Stop doing that!
Don't copy and paste Nazi cartoons to prove a point.
We don't even do that on this show.
Sometimes we accidentally stumble into very deep graphic stuff.
No, I'm not going to share The Happy Merchant.
Yeah, and the thing about anti-semitism is it's so prolific and it's been going on for so long that if you really wanted to search for it, you can find an anti-semitic cartoon of anything you're trying to like.
I have a pigeon on my hat right now, the hat I'm wearing.
Someone could for sure find some anti-semitic cartoon involving a pigeon.
You're totally right.
It's like Rule 34.
If you can imagine it about being bad about Jews, it exists on the internet.
It exists, yeah.
This is the internet we're talking about.
It's nothing but pornography and anti-Semitism.
We understand.
And they don't even need AI.
They've just already been hand-drawn.
No, I don't think her little blue octopus is an anti-Semitic trope.
I'm sorry.
Octopuses are cool.
The Nazis can't have that one.
It was also very strange to see Ukrainian posters.
People who have been defending Azov Battalion.
We're like, oh no, those soldiers, they're just wearing the death's head because they listened to Death in June.
They're a big... Yeah, that's it.
They're big neofolk fans, actually.
Oh, what?
It's military related?
I never even heard of that.
What military did you say?
The Nazis?
What?
God, I can't even like music anymore?
Like, part of punk rock is patches.
Let's be real, you know?
Yeah.
But yeah, like this guy on Twitter said, what does the Kraken next to you on the couch mean?
At Greta Thunberg.
The Kraken was and is a well-known sign of the hashtag Nazis for the anti-Semitic term, quote, international finance Judaism.
I think isn't that just from Captain America?
The word Kraken?
No, like that imagery, the... what do they call them?
Oh, no, that's... it's called something... I can't remember the name of that organization.
There's some, like, comic book evil squad that uses an octopus.
Yeah.
And, like, calling that little tiny, like, adorable little octopus, like, that kraken next to you...
Um, I think a lot of, I think there's like James Bond evil organizations that use the octopus, like that one shadowy organization he's, uh, he's fighting with, I think has an octopus as its representation.
Yeah.
It's meant to show like influence and power or whatever, but that's like done in a positive way, I guess.
But I like him calling it a Kraken.
The Kraken what?
Like not even knowing the name of the thing you're talking.
Like we, I have a raw, there's a rum we can drink in America called Kraken.
I think it's owned by like a baseball player or a actor or something.
Uh, there's, there's a fucking hockey team in Seattle called the Kraken.
Like this is not, I don't, you can't just like pick an animal.
And be like that.
Now, if you're drawing a rat, I guess.
If you're drawing, like, a Jewish person as a rat, sure.
Okay.
But rats get a bad rep.
You should be able to, like... You should... A rat... You know what?
Is there an animal that you can't... Like, represent?
No.
No, it's impossible.
There's no animal that's been taken away.
Every animal can be used in a bigoted way.
It's a pretty... Yeah.
...impressive thing that we figured out how to do as humans.
Also, isn't like, not to well actually this guy, but isn't the kraken a squid?
No, the kra- I think a kraken is famously a squid.
A large squid, not a large octopus.
I think a kraken is just a mythological creature.
It's like- Yeah, but I think it's a squid though.
It's a sea monster.
It's been depicted in several different ways.
I think you're right, maybe more often it's a squid, but you see it as like, um, as like a kelp-like sea monster too.
I don't know if you've seen, like a leaf, like a leafy kind of creature.
I've seen that kraken represented.
Yeah, I haven't seen that one.
I haven't seen that kraken.
Anyway, um... The IDF itself came out and said, this is a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israel Defense Forces.
Last name is Shalakar.
Says, whoever identifies with Greta Thunberg in any way in the future, in my view, is a terror supporter.
Like, so if you ever, if you ever are worried about climate change at all, um, and you identify with, with her and you like in any, cause he said in any way, you're now a terrorist sympathizer.
Yeah.
If you have like, kind of puts Tesla owners in a weird place.
Yeah.
If you have like one of those like squish mellows, but it's got, uh, too many extra feet on it.
Yeah.
You're probably a terrorist.
Yeah.
Yeah, let me let me read I can't there's probably nothing where it's just funny for the New York Post to like Pretend everybody has to pretend like this is a well-known Widely used anti-semitic trope just the octopus on its own not like stretching its tentacles across a territory or whatever us
Greta Thunberg was accused by Israeli officials of being a terror supporter Friday after posting pro-Palestinian messages initially featuring a toy octopus, unknown anti-Semitic trope.
Yeah, New York Post is definitely up on like hate, hate images and hate speech.
They definitely study that stuff.
This is actually a good thing that the Israeli defense people decided to do this because I think it really does speak to their credibility.
I know.
It's like if they are under the terror that they claim to be under, they don't got time to be looking at Greta Thunberg's post.
You know what I mean?
This speaks volumes to me.
Yeah, I don't know.
You're being asked if like If you're an American citizen or an Israeli citizen, you're being asked constantly to just accept some of the worst propaganda I've ever seen.
Yeah.
The last week has been just like, a rocket hit a building.
Why would it do that?
Why would a rocket ever hit a church?
We're investigating.
Yeah, yeah.
Why do they keep bombing their own hospitals?
What is happening?
It's like, okay, let's see, Israel, I'm just checking the scoreboard up here.
Oh, 38 hospitals bombed in the last 10 years.
No, I don't even know how many, but they love doing it.
They love hitting hospitals.
They have, I think it's more people more widely know the propaganda that Hamas supposedly or reportedly houses rockets inside hospitals than know that Israel blows up hospitals.
Yeah.
Like I believe now the propaganda for that, the defensive propaganda of why we blow up hospitals.
Oh, because Hamas was there.
Um, now that's more popular than what it's, or that's more well known than what it's even reacting to, which is that Israel's blowing up hospitals.
Yeah, Israeli Defense just reported that they did not bomb the hospital.
What in fact happened was a real slapstick comedy moment in the stacking of the storage of the missiles they already had in the hospital.
It was merely someone tripping and knocking over, domino style, the missiles that Hamas was storing in there, causing the explosion and the terror.
So that was not us.
It was quite a funny incident, actually, if you think about it.
Yeah, it's just like the, you've already admitted to blowing up hospitals.
Like I'm not, if, if, if, if your enemy's hospital blows up, I'm not going to be like, well, let's, let's wait, you know?
I mean, sure.
We should find out who, what really happened to the hospital, which is still being investigated.
And actually the United States has opposed an international investigation into who actually blew up the hospital because it's come out that the recordings that Israel released of
Supposed to Hamas agents talking to each other about how they're the ones who blew up the hospital was investigated by Channel 4 News in Britain and fucking debunked because it's like it's basically a it was basically constructed in a digital audio workstation like the one I use Oh no.
The one I used to do this podcast, like it was claimed to have been intercepted by IDF, but there's, it's like, it's like stereo.
There's like two channels on it.
Yeah.
And then also the investigations of the trajectory of the rocket and like the way it blasted indicate that it was coming from the Israeli side of the conflict.
Yeah, debunking the claim that it came from the Hamas site, but anyway.
And there's also been reporting that it was very much one of the American provided missiles, which they all are.
Oh, I haven't seen that.
Yeah, the reporting has been that that's the way it looks to be.
It's another reason why America doesn't want to necessarily investigate that.
Well, that was Hamas's line.
They were like, oh, we have the warhead or we have the material to prove that it's Israeli in origin, but you know, not going to be able to see that.
But anyway, like, I'm not interested in really arguing whether or not Israel like blew up this particular hospital because their hospital blowers up like blower uppers.
That's just, that's what they do, man.
I don't need to argue with you about this one fucking hospital.
Okay, back to this New York Post article.
With them was a toy octopus, a symbol often used in anti-Jewish propaganda since being used in a Nazi-era cartoon.
Often?
Yeah.
The Time, quote, Person of the Year honoree later deleted the photo, replacing it with an almost identical one just without the offensive symbol about which she protested innocence.
Quote, it has come to my knowledge that the stuffed animal shown in my earlier post can be interpreted as a symbol for antisemitism, which I was completely unaware of, she said.
Instead, the eco-warrior, who was previously discussed being on the autism spectrum, claimed that the toy in the picture is a tool often used by autistic people as a way to communicate feelings.
Just like you said, Tony.
Yeah.
We are, of course, against any type of discrimination and condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms and shapes.
There you go.
This is non-negotiable.
That's why I deleted the last post.
Well, I'm sure that's going to satisfy everybody.
Yeah.
That sucks.
Because that's what they're going to be like.
They're going to be like, oh, then why did she delete it?
It's so easy.
It's easy, you know.
Because she's a coward.
She can't stand by her convictions of being an anti-Semite, Tony.
This bump this is just like so because it's such a cute little stuffy you know just a cute little plushy so it makes you think of like if they did make like cute anti-semitic things that'd be so weird like who's making that who's making like like you know uh kawaii death skulls oh i should not even said those words and put them out there in the universe No, um, I'm, yeah, I'm fine.
I'm positive.
There's like much, much like the market for body pillows.
There's like a market for an effigy pillow that you can burn or like do graffiti on and you buy it on the same weeb website as your, you know, 10, 10 year old, 10 year old girlfriend waifu pillow.
Yeah.
Uh, just a few responses here.
This was like a number one response here.
This is from the New York Post comment section.
Sal B NYC says she expects us to accept she is an quote expert on green and climate issues, but unaware about this question mark period.
You've had your apostrophe R E. You've had your 15 minutes.
Go back home and stay there.
This was another huge response was because the headline says she was unaware of the anti-semitic message or whatever.
Yeah, that's kind of my take on Greta overall is that she's pretty unaware, right?
But also, I'm mad at her for not being aware of that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Well, she should know.
Does she not understand what the carbon output of being anti-semitic is?
Right.
You know, everyone should know about that.
It costs zero offsets to not be anti-submitted.
There is some sort of like reverse... I don't like the joke, never mind.
Okay.
I bailed on it.
All right, no, that's all right.
I'm sure it was for the best.
I'm glad when you make an executive decision like that.
Yeah, thank you.
What the fuck does green energy have to do with knowing all the antisemitic tropes?
Knowing all the antisemitic tropes, you're either ADF...
Or, sorry, you're ADL... Or you're a Nazi!
Like, that's the... That's how you know all the anti... Or you're a weirdo like me and Tony, basically.
Yeah.
Yeah, unfortunately.
That is the case.
Because, yeah, we shouldn't know... You shouldn't know all of them.
That is weird.
If you know them all, there's a reason you know them all.
Because this one's pretty fucking niche.
Like, I haven't seen anybody in Ukraine with one of these plushies, so I'm thinking it's not that big of a deal.
What they're saying, fundamentally, is just not true.
Okay, if somebody drew a cartoon and it had, like, B.B.
Netanyahu's name on an octopus, you could be like, oh, that's tapping into anti-semitic shit, like, maybe you didn't mean anything by it, but this is actually, like, referencing a lot of ugly stuff.
There is no anti-semitic trope of having an octopus as a friend, you fucking assholes.
You know what I mean?
Like, I fucking hate these fucking people, the shit they expect us to believe, and the shit that they all suddenly know.
Oh, I knew.
I knew the Octopus Beanie Baby was a fucking Jew-hating Nazi.
That's why I never- I don't care.
I don't care how cute it is.
You know they released that Beanie Baby the same week as the Princess Diana Beanie Baby?
Just to take sales off?
Because that's what they do?
You know?
It's pretty fucked up.
Was she the queen of the Jews as well?
She was the people's princess, so I'm assuming that includes the Jews, but particularly, did she represent a hopeful voice for the Jewish community?
In my mind, yeah.
I think so.
Yeah, she was like the black sheep in that German family, so... Interesting.
It's curious.
Yeah.
No, we totally you.
How could you not know this, Greta?
We all know this.
Ilya.
OK, we're getting into some good stuff here, folks.
Ilya Kuryakin says if she is so worried about climate change, she should not be protesting the people who control the weather.
Hell yeah.
We need to parse this.
So you're mad at Greta Thunberg for what, exactly?
If your whole thing is climate change, you might want to be cool to the people who control the weather.
You might want to keep that close to your chest, because that's going to That's gonna backfire, babe.
They're just gonna go ahead and control the weather on your ass.
This is so fucking great.
It almost reads like a lib doing a parody of a Marjorie Taylor green Jewish space laser conspiracy.
Yeah.
You're going to make them speed run the apocalypse just to own you.
Yeah, amazing.
Listen, none of us like him, but we gotta be polite, alright?
I don't want any little thunderclouds clapping down on me.
Come on now, be smart.
You hear someone being anti-semitic and you're like, oh, you like the heat?
Is that what you're, is that your deal?
You like sweating?
Cause that's what you're gonna get, bud.
You think it's hot now?
You think it's hot now?
You wait until the Jews find out you don't like them.
They're going to change the weather on your ass.
Maybe she's like, why are you attacking, why are you attacking the Jews?
They work so hard to try and give us, you know, nice weather.
And then, and then the, you know, when we do, we do need rain.
So you have to, you know, nobody likes an overcast day, but it's for a reason.
And I'm glad somebody's up there making these decisions for us.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thanks for, thanks for the rain.
It doesn't make you think about Seattle, though.
What's going on?
What's going on up there?
Yeah.
Gotta check it out.
Why do you get so much rain?
What's that about?
Bulldog Daddy says, Stay in your lane, Greta.
World War III will end the world quicker than any climate catastrophe.
I like that attitude.
Hey, don't worry about the climate change thing.
We're about to just kill each other anyways.
But he says, stay in your lane.
How... You're worried about World War 3, which is good.
That's, I mean, a good start.
And your answer is to, like, just let Israel commit genocide?
Because we don't want World War 3.
We just need... Don't stick up for the Palestinians.
Don't advocate for their humanity or whatever, because that could lead to World War 3.
Yeah.
It would just be quicker and safer for everybody to just let Israel do their thing.
Stay in your lane, boo.
This is another beautiful thing about appropriation.
People are just so bad at it.
You're not even good at using the phrases.
He's using it correctly.
He I mean, he's using it correctly.
He means like you're unqualified to talk about.
To talk about international relations, you're so unqualified that you're going to you are going to start World War three by posting your your plushie.
Yeah, you're actually like throwing gas on the flame.
Last one here.
Demented Joe's dirty diaper.
Oh, why?
Oh, Demented Joe's dirty... I thought it, for some reason, it took me a second to realize it was Joe Biden's dirty diaper.
Obviously, it's Demented Joe's Dirty Diaper.
Yeah.
Demented Joe's Dirty Diaper says, would I do her for a million bucks?
No.
What?
Of course, of course, of course that's what he said.
But he, but did you hear his answer?
I did.
I did.
I'm glad, I'm glad I know that.
Not even for a million bucks, Tony.
And I'm sure it's like the age gap and stuff like that is why he's saying that.
He just thinks it's inappropriate.
That's why he's saying no, right?
Because he thinks it's inappropriate to even ask this question?
I love guys like this.
They fucking see a woman out of nowhere and they're like, you think I'm gonna fuck her?
No, I didn't think that, dude!
I didn't think you were ever gonna be in the same country as her, even.
Like, obviously you are the one thinking about fucking- what are you talking- you asshole!
Uh, yeah, I mean, it really, like, these people cannot see Greta Thunberg without, like, mistakenly still calling her a child, but also talking about having sex with her.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, what he's saying is he's actually put up with a lot of anti-Semitism for some pussy before.
So since that's not a factor here, he's gonna go ahead and he can give it to you straight.
Well, this is too much for him.
Even him, maybe.
Yeah.
What if he was like, would I do her for a million bucks?
No way.
No.
I don't need the money anyway, because I got a couple Jewish banker friends and their loyalty is more important to me.
Okay, let's move on.
People just- I just hate how people love to ruin, like, good, pure things, like the adorable, plushy, emotion octopus.
It's absurd.
I mean, I don't- Like, I am glad that the IDF is like, if you stand with Greta and her octopus friend, you're a terrorist.
Like, please do more of this posting, IDF.
It's really good.
I just realize there's gonna be, like, a lot of, like, libs who are gonna go into a panic because they own that octopus.
Interesting, yeah.
Who sells that?
Look up the brand and see what the reviews are saying right now.
Yeah, yeah.
I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden in the shade.
He'd let us in, knows where we've been, in his octopus's garden in the shade.
I'd ask my friends to come and see.
So shout out to Stanley Hubris, who sent this story to us on Twitter, Facebook.
Fantastic story.
It's just got so, so much stuff that I love in it.
This is the story I'm reading here from WLOX.com, which is assumingly a Cincinnati or an Ohio affiliate of Fox.
Restaurant workers quit over owner's abortion amendment sign.
And that, to be more specific, the owner had an anti-abortion sign out front of his restaurant and the staff quit.
The staff quit and he posted to Facebook The name of the restaurant is Copper Blue and their Facebook page is Copper Blue Eat, Drink, Repeat.
He posted a meme that's like it looks kind of like a chalkboard with like little filigree on the side.
But then he added like full color images, cut out images of Jesus holding like the sacred heart and Mary holding the sacred heart on the other side of the Copper Blue Kitchen and Bar logo.
I'm going to be honest, those are the goats.
It's a pretty cool image.
Jesus and Mary are the goats.
Honestly, this image of Mary is really sick.
I would get this tattooed.
She's got her one hand up on top, one hand on bottom, and then the sacred burning heart is floating between it.
It's pretty sick.
She looks like a magician.
I got her carrying a punk-ass baby.
That's how I got her tattooed on me.
Um... But then the meme in, like, the chalkboard font... Let me pull it up here.
Says, we will temp- be temporarily closed for a few days beginning October 19th, 2023.
We have chosen to NOT support Ohio Issue 1, which has left us with some staffing issues.
Uh, this is fucking fantastic.
Let me read Stanley.
Stanley says, Hey fellas, this restaurant outside of Cincinnati had to shut down after all the staff walked out due to the owner posting anti-issue one signage.
Issue one is to stop an all-encompassing abortion ban.
Uh, it, it, it, yeah, it does more than that.
It enshrines abortion rights into their constitution.
It adds reproductive rights into Ohio's state constitution.
And that's coming up on November 7th, so if you live in Ohio or around the area, let your friends know.
Vote yes on Ohio Issue 1.
Ohio Issue 1, the number one issue.
That's right.
And it's funny because...
Republicans had an issue won on a special ballot in August that was intended to limit the ability of the public to amend their own constitution so that they couldn't pass an abortion amendment to their constitution.
That's wild.
They actually were like, no, it's we need fewer people to have say in this constitution, I believe, like hearkening back to the forefathers intentions.
So it's unfortunate that that didn't pass.
And and yeah, they're actually going to vote on the issue of abortion.
Let me pull up the article and the sign is The sign is great because it said, the sign in front of the store says... Vote No on Issue 1.
Save Parents' Rights.
And what they mean is that... Your daughter can go get an abortion without your permission?
Oh, I was like, what?
That's wild.
Uh, and then other people, like this guy, who we'll get into in a second, changed Clermont, posted this meme, uh, it says, Issue 1 replaces parents with predators.
And then it's got- Doctors?
Does he mean doctors?
Uh, and then it's got a photo of a little girl being, like, put in a headlock and a- and a hand over her mouth and she's, like, staring into the camera like, help me, please vote no on issue one!
No!
That's- that's so- that's so wild that they're, like, what they're- they're saying is, like, what if your little girl could get pregnant and they- and y- you know, she can go get an abortion, you can't make her keep it.
What a wild thing to say, because now they're talking about that little girl.
Yeah.
Why would that thought even go through your mind?
It's anti-abortion, specifically around, yeah, like minors being able to access abortion without parental consent.
The ploy that the right wing, that the anti-abortion people take is that, oh, Well, if she was raped, if this underage girl was raped, that's like a sex crime, you know, a statutory rape at the very least.
And abortion erases the evidence.
See, but the thing also is what you forget, though, is that sometimes a sex crime is a miracle.
Yeah.
That's what they say.
It's a miracle.
Yeah.
You know?
Well, it's a miracle and it's also like I've watched a lot of crime procedurals.
And we need that baby.
We need that baby to come to maturation so that we can do a DNA test on it and find out who this sick fuck is.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I'll tell you, and this is like, this is, you know, a little, little trigger warning, but this is what they used to tell me in Catholic, little Catholic schools and, like, teen groups.
This is, this was the line for that, okay?
It is a miracle because when you're being assaulted, violently assaulted, your body automatically wants to reject whatever's happening.
So if you do get pregnant, that is God circumventing your body's rejection of it.
Yeah, it's an executive decision.
So it is a miracle.
Like, that is fucking crazy.
That is fucking crazy.
No, listen, if God didn't want you to have it, your body would do what it does when it's experiencing something traumatic and it toxifies itself, but it didn't do it.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not... God did.
God did.
I'm not an expert on, uh, sexual assault or anything like that.
It doesn't seem to be that complicated.
It's not like, um, it's not like, wow, look at your circulatory system.
Look at the complex.
God must've had a hand in this.
Or like, look at the vibrant ecosystem.
They all depend on each other or whatever.
How could that have just evolved out of, out of nothing?
Um, I don't look at, A rape happening and I'm like just for all these pieces to fit Perfectly into this situation.
It must have been a divine like no that one thing happened because of a monstrous act man You think you think that you think that your ancestors ancestors ancestors didn't survive?
To get to this point for you to have to live with this trauma in a more severe fashion for the rest of your life Wow God did Let me read from this article here.
Okay, it's by Simone Jameson and Gray News staff.
Milford, Ohio.
Workers at an Ohio restaurant said they quit after the owner posted a sign outside the business encouraging people to vote against ballot initiative that would protect abortion access in the state.
One longtime employee at Copper Blue in Milford said at least half a dozen workers quit, forcing the restaurant to temporarily close.
I can't, like, this is fucking phenomenal.
This is incredibly sick.
This is, it's a worker act.
People are like getting it in their system.
People are getting the idea of a worker action just in the backs of their heads.
Like this is, there's no union at this restaurant.
Like these workers probably have no intention of forming a union.
I mean, if they did, that could be one way they organized this walkout is because they were already organizing the workplace.
But I doubt it just because it's a hard thing to do.
It's not very common.
They just have the idea of like, no, we can we can hit this guy where it hurts.
Yeah.
And we can remove our labor.
It's they're doing they're they're like doing a strike, essentially.
You know, it's like it's it's and it's not just doing a strike, but it's like Realizing your place in capitalism.
Like, oh, this guy needs our labor.
We don't have to give him our labor.
Yeah.
You know, we were choosing to withhold our labor and he can fucking find out, you know?
What I do think is cool is they might not be necessarily union-type organized, but they are communicating enough to know that doing something like making a statement like that about an issue like abortion will go over well with your peers.
They communicated enough for that to be there.
And they communicated enough to where everyone did it.
Like that's, so that's cool.
It just takes, you know, a little bit of communication goes a long way, apparently.
There is, um...
There is like one statement in here that kind of annoyed me.
It's still good, but maybe we'll get to the quote eventually, but it was like two of the workers declined to take a stance for or against the amendment.
They were just against the idea of politicizing the restaurant.
Mm-hmm, but then the one female worker says like well if that's you know, that's a woman's choice That's nobody's business.
Like it shouldn't be political or it's not political or what and it's like you just you're taught you're saying politics Like I'm so I'm sorry that it is politics, but you're you're describing politics.
But anyway still And did the right thing Also, maybe like the couple people that did they did say nothing maybe they're in a more precarious place you know well they still oh the people who didn't walk out or whatever yeah yeah you know i'm not i'm not gonna fault them necessarily um in this case ohio issue one if it passes would add an amendment to the ohio constitution to give women in the state the right to an abortion quote
i'm distraught honestly said a said former employee jessica lambert i hate that this is how we have to end things because it's a discussion that should have never been brought up to begin with lambert said she worked at copper blue for a year and a half before she quit her position as assistant general manager on thursday she is quite Quote, women deserve rights.
That's the simple answer, Lambert said.
Restaurant owner Brian Arlinghouse forwarded a message to WXIX that he shared with the employees.
Quote, I want to begin by saying thank you all for all that you have done for me at Copper Blue, the statement read.
I know each of you works very hard.
Furthermore, I do not find fault in you for taking a stance.
With regard to issue one, I believe the issue to be much more than simply political.
This battle isn't about politics.
If it were, I doubt you would have such strong feelings about it.
What do you call it, then?
Well, because politics... Tony, politics means bullshit.
That's what politics in America means.
It just means bullshit and, like, pussy stuff that I don't have time for.
This is more important than that.
People's rights are on the line.
True.
By people, I mean fetuses.
Politics, that's that gay shit.
But, like, people's rights, that's why I own guns.
Uh...
He also, it's, I don't know if, it's not in this article, I have one more article with a couple juicy quotes in it, but he says something like, well, this isn't just politics, it's a fight between good and evil.
It's like, so he's basically like saying that everybody who quit was evil.
Yep.
Okay, Will Prescott said he worked on and off at Copper Blue for 10 years.
He said the sign was against what he believes works for a business.
The previous owners taught me two things when I started in the customer service industry, Prescott said.
That was, quote, no religion and no politics and you'll get through the day just fine.
I'm disappointed because we tried to have a conversation with the owner, Brian, about it.
We tried to talk to him about how we felt about it.
He didn't hear us.
He didn't want to say anything to us.
And then I love this piece of the article right here.
Several customers said the owner had a right to put the sign up and they didn't think it was right for the workers to quit.
Yeah, of course, the customers who support, who probably support the sign are like, hey, I like that sign.
You shouldn't be able to, I shouldn't be able to not get my food because you don't like that sign.
Yeah, you shouldn't be able to.
What about me?
You shouldn't be able to quit and stop funding this guy's livelihood.
You know if they abort babies, that's less customers for this restaurant.
Look what you're doing.
You're not even thinking about that.
This is such a beautiful microcosm of American politics.
It's the most sacrosanct right for your owner to put up a shitty sign that says something incredibly stupid and is the opposite of your politics, and you should never be allowed to quit your job.
No, you have to deal with that.
That's the, listen, it's just, it's just your job.
Okay.
Don't bring, don't bring that stuff into work with you.
You know what I mean?
It's so funny to put this kind of a sign out front of your store.
Like what, what's the matter?
The margins weren't slim enough running your restaurant, bro.
What are you fucking doing?
Yeah.
Idiot.
And you know, there's somebody in that group that quit that like, it's like, I don't give a fuck about abortion, but this is a bad business move, man.
You're, you're fucking with my pockets.
This is from, yeah, ABC9 in Cincinnati.
Quote, at the end of the day, I'm here to do my job.
Milford restaurant workers quit over vote no on issue one sign.
A now viral Facebook post from Copper Blue, deleted by the way, a now viral Facebook post from Copper Blue claimed the restaurant was forced to close when workers quit over the owner's abortion beliefs.
Yeah, the Ohio Issue 1 is also known as the Reproductive Bill of Rights.
It's pretty fucking cool.
It's good stuff.
I mean, it's like kind of a heartwarming story all around.
I really hope they can work to pass that thing.
Yeah, here it is.
I told the staff that I didn't fault them for taking a stance, Arlinghouse said.
That's their prerogative, but I let them know that I think it's a battle between good and evil.
Listen, I understand you're mad, but this is bigger than us.
Have you seen the movie Constantine?
You know who the villain was in that movie?
An androgynous, bleach-blonde, waif-looking creature.
Open up your eyes, people!
Here's another quote from him.
I told the staff, if I thought this was good for women, I would support passing the amendment, but I don't think it's good for women.
Arlinghouse said, quote, as a Catholic, there's sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.
And one of them is the oppression of women and children.
Yeah, totally.
We know, we know how much Catholics uphold their women.
Yeah.
We know how respectful they are of their, the women in their lives and broadly speaking.
Yeah.
For some workers, though, the arguments for or against Issue 1 fell on deaf ears.
We don't care, Will Prescott says.
Prescott and Gabriel Melendez were two workers who refused to take a stand for or against the amendment.
The pair said they didn't want the sign out front, inviting the political conversations now flooding Arlinghouse's Facebook post to visit them at work.
Quote, this, the fact that the comments are so intense is exactly why we don't want it here, Prescott said.
Quote, I'm a woman, Melinda said, and if I choose to do something with my body, that's my choice.
That's for nobody else's opinion.
I don't need anybody else's anything for that.
I mean, you need this fucking amendment.
Yeah.
You should want to have this amendment, frankly.
But yeah, I'm here every single day and I hear stuff that I disagree with, but I keep it to myself because at the end of the day, I'm here to do my job.
Yeah, anybody working under a fucking manager, whether they're the owner or not, has definitely heard their share of, let's just say, plushy octopus talk.
Yeah, for sure.
Copper Blue said they were going to reopen over the weekend after he talked to many of the workers who walked out and they came back.
Yeah, allegedly they're reopening.
I don't know what they did to achieve that.
I did see people in the comments saying like, I live in Tennessee, but I will gladly drive to work a shift in your anti-abortion restaurant, sir.
I hope that's what's happening.
I hope that, I hope that they, uh, Forgiata Blow is doing like a restaurant makeover show for them.
That's what I want.
That's the future I want.
I'd watch that show.
I hope they got some American veterans to bus tables and wipe the floors of that place.
Yeah, you don't tip, you just salute.
I think that would make me respect it a lot.
If I knew the bathroom was cleaned by a hero, well that's good for business.
Yeah, I'd sprinkle a little on the floor so they don't get bored.
A little pee, I'd sprinkle a little pee on the floor is what I'm saying.
So they don't get bored.
The owner, Brian Arlinghouse, I went to his Facebook page.
Wonderful shares on his Facebook page, like that account Trad West, which is just like a baby fascist account, like post statues.
It's like, why can't we make these statues anymore?
Well, he shared a post where they Made a meme and it's a split screen, two panels, left, right, 19th century versus 20th century, but it's lamp posts.
And so it's like the lamp post from the 19th century is just objectively more beautiful because it's got like, cause it's like wrought iron or whatever.
It's, it's got, it's got, you know, decorations, but in the 21st century, what it's just a pole in a suburb.
See, you're not thinking about this correctly.
That old, that old lamp post, you know, that was creating jobs.
You know, they used to have to have like lamp lighters.
Someone had to go around and light those lamps every night.
And that was, that was a job, a proud job you can have.
You'd miss dinner, but you know, you were keeping the community afloat.
I think main, I don't know if they're lamenting the job loss.
Uh, I think They just... They... They... I... Okay, here's the text, because it's all impact fonts.
IMAGINE LIVING IN A SOCIETY WHERE EVEN STREET LIGHTS ARE BEAUTIFUL.
They're specific... Purely... And it's... It's... These are also photos taken at... During the daytime.
So it's not... They're not even lit or anything.
It's just like an empty lamp post.
That's funny.
There's like no glow.
No, there's no warm, beautiful glow of the street light.
But yeah, um...
Okay.
Okay.
Do you want, so we'll, we'll raise your taxes by 300% to make sure we have artisanal light fixtures every 10 feet in suburban neighborhoods.
Yeah, we got you.
This is the stupidest fucking thing.
Imagine living in it.
This is, this is why men aren't great anymore is because they don't have lampposts to inspire them to greatness.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean like when we had those lampposts, like violence was down.
Domestic violence was down.
Childhood mortality was down.
Childhood mortality was down.
Whatever's the good one?
Down.
Yeah, just down.
We good lampposts create strong men. - Good.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create ugly lampposts.
Lampposts.
We need a strong man to make a lamppost again, please.
But that means, folks, everybody complaining.
You know what that means, though, actually?
If we're living through hard times, that means it's going to create great men.
And I think you, the listener slash viewer of this meme, might just be one of those great men to come out of this particular, uh, particular, what is it?
The quadrant of the Kali Yuga?
That's going to be you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know who I think could probably handle the street light problem?
Veterans?
I think Mr. Elon Musk.
Oh.
What if we had street lamps that look like the truck?
Oh, yeah, that'd be cool, man.
Just like four flat panels.
What about that?
It would look like a fucking game marker in an open world Nintendo Switch game.
Yeah, it would just be like a tower, like a metal panel tower.
Be an obelisk, yeah.
And the light will only go straight up.
It won't let anything enter it at all.
But it is bulletproof, though.
But it is bulletproof.
You can't, you actually, they encourage you to shoot them because they're bulletproof.
Other memes he shared, not really a meme, a photo of Joe Biden with like a wrinkle on his neck and Brian Arlinghouse, again the owner of Copper Blue, is implying that it's a mask?
Yep.
He says, where is Scooby-Doo when you need him?
Hashtag Scooby-Doo.
Um, actually, Scooby never once ripped a mask off.
He probably means the whole gang.
Then you gotta say the whole gang.
Yeah, it's... It kinda looks like you're talking to a dog, man.
You know, he's got a point though.
I've never met, I've never seen an 80 year old with a neck wrinkle.
But what if I circle it?
I love how, yeah, I didn't notice any neck wrinkles on the elderly until I saw it circled.
And I'm like, whoa.
You mean to tell me the President of the United States is not using SPF on his face and neck?
You want me to believe that?
He shared another meme that says, train your boys to be men before our enemies train them to be women.
And it's like a boy working on his bike versus that one like boy drag drag queen performer dancer kid Mm-hmm.
Yeah, so I like I like that this one at least admits that like you have to train them to be a man They're you know Genitalia doesn't do do everything for you.
It's it you actually have to like hit them more or something to turn them into a man and No, but the truth is, you need to train your boys to be men, but it's the Roman numeral two.
And you're teaching them the Motown Philly.
He also shared this meme that's like a sepia fake cowboy picture that somebody did, you know, did like in their free trial demo, like whatever photo app they downloaded specifically to get like an old timey photograph of me in a cowboy hat.
But there's text over it.
It says the world has forgotten about God and I have a feeling he's about to remind us who he is.
And again, it's just like a young woman with with braids in her hair and a cowboy costume.
Yeah, I mean, that's I'm saying.
I mean, if you don't understand that, then there's no hope for you.
But she's like, oh my, I'm just a simple cowpoke.
You know, I live life on the ranch and all that.
Oh no, my elbow, my elbow's swelling up.
I guess that means, you know what that means?
The great unveiling.
I just saw somebody who's pretty young, early 20s, found a picture of their parents doing the Knott's Berry Farm picture.
And they kind of didn't get that it was a Knott's Berry Farm picture.
And they were like, look how cool my mom and dad were.
Hell yeah.
They just did this.
This is how they dress.
Mavericks!
Yeah, it was like no, that's not very fun.
Sometimes there's just so much beauty in this world.
I can hardly breathe.
They don't dress like this anymore.
My mom days to dress like this.
They used to wear real clothes when men were men back when you know Back when my parents were younger, before they had me, you know, they actually were pretty fucking crazy.
They built this ride called Splash Mountain.
It had like water on it and then like little fake logs.
I think they were probably fake logs, you know.
But yeah, there's tons of photos of it here.
Yeah.
But it was cool though because it was more than just a ride.
They used to have music playing all the time.
They used to play really awesome songs that maybe didn't age so well.
But they had live music there all the time.
Yeah, I'm gonna tell my kids once they fucking destroy Splash Mountain to make it the Princess and the Frog Ride or whatever.
I'm gonna tell my kids that I'm the one who invented Splash Mountain, but then they took it away.
The woke took it away from me.
Yeah.
But, you know, whatever.
C'est la vie.
Dust in the wind.
Let me get to a couple comments on this.
Phil Schmidt Said on this comment section on the Copper Blue Facebook page.
Employees are unaware regarding the issues.
Right now abortion in Ohio is allowed up to 22 weeks and will remain so even if issue one fails.
Republicans in the state are going to try and ban abortion.
Yeah.
Every single session.
And yeah, that's what they did in August.
And they're going to keep trying to do it.
If you are pro-choice, even if you don't want the, even if you, if you are pro-choice, even you won't want what the proposed amendment will do, dot, dot, dot.
Abortion through nine months.
Children making reproductive choices of all sorts without parental involvement.
I like that, the way that that's phrased.
I want, I want to be there when my daughter's doing reproductive stuff.
I need to know about it.
I didn't even know about it.
Children making reproductive choices of all sorts without parental involvement and more dot dot dot study the wording dot dot dot unbelievably extreme.
Um, this is, this is probably a guy who like read a Republican mailer about this issue.
The Republican, and then the mailer said something like, well, they want to perform an abortion on your daughter and then perform an abortion on the aborted fetus.
That's what this law makes legal.
It's like a fear mark, but they're saying that, you know, insurance, they say it's cheaper if they just let you have the baby and then just drop it.
And that's going to be legal under this.
Yeah, totally.
That's the way I would do it.
They call it an unassisted catch.
It's fucked up, but it's way cheaper.
So, somebody found a Yelp review that this owner responded to.
Like from three months ago?
Any owners that is engaging in Yelp, you can't do that, man.
Just don't do that.
The review says, the food was okay, really nothing to write home about.
Mitovich, you'll write to Yelp about it, huh?
Really nothing to write home about.
I got the spicy burger and there was nothing spicy about it.
She got the mushroom and Swiss burger.
I didn't see one mushroom on it.
Can't say we, or can say we won't be back.
Food, 3 out of 5.
Service, 4 out of 5.
Atmosphere, 3 out of 5.
So it looks like service is pulling the most weight there, so this is an even bigger movie than we realize.
Yeah, totally.
I'm giving the atmosphere a 3 out of 5 for all the dismembered fetus limbs posted on the walls.
Pretty crazy stuff.
Why were we getting accosted walking in the door?
Like, we're not trying to get an abortion here.
I don't know why you got the guy in the sandwich board up front screaming at me, but yeah, three out of five.
Yeah, we're keeping this baby.
She's due in like three weeks.
We're excited.
I don't know why they yelled at us on the way in here.
We're here because she's having cravings and I hate this place, but she needs that spicy burger.
I was just trying to go to the local diner for an abortion.
And apparently they're against that here.
Not cool.
Um, okay.
I heard if you order a root beer float, it's an abortion.
Um, but yeah.
Copperblue parentheses owner replied, but hey, it was burger week.
At least you got it for $7.
Can't say we want you back.
P.S.
Don't forget to save your soul.
That's what really matters.
Not burgers.
So humble.
I love that.
Is he like inscribing a prayer on the inside of every bun of every burger?
And he's like, it's not about like how good it is.
It's about how many souls you save.
You know, if I made you a really good burger, that's kind of a sin.
That'd be prideful.
I couldn't do that.
You'd be gluttonous.
If I made you a really good burger, this is a burger to sustain you.
What the fuck is a spicy burger?
That's not a thing.
No one orders a spicy burger?
Yeah, I mean, jalapenos, a jalapeno burger, they might call that a spicy burger.
Then it's called, like, the Diablo burger.
And it has, like, yeah, battered jalapenos or some sort of crazy ghost pepper sauce.
But no one just calls it just spicy burger.
What if it had, like, buffalo sauce all over the burger?
Like, it was coated like it was a chicken patty?
Then that's called a Buffalo Burger.
A Buffalo Beef Burger.
When I'm naming the items in my restaurant, Tony, I should have you there.
Make sure I'm calling the right thing.
That would be called the Triple B Records Burger.
The Buffalo Beef Burger.
Don't worry, I got rap puns, too, for the burgers.
Hell yes.
Hell yeah.
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