They transmogrified what was just a statue into a symbol of fire.
TODAY: Congratulations to the UAW as they force major concessions from auto manufacturers, including a historic raise from Ford and a re-opened plant in Illinois. Also: we look at Robert Card, the Maine mass shooter, as his social media tells a story of a man obsessed with theoretical trans mass shooters and other right wing conspiracies. We also look at how conservative corners of the internet are responding to the fact that the shooter’s documented violent ideation did not prevent him from having a weapon. Finally: the left has gone too far--they melted the statue of Robert E Lee that they already pulled down. We’re awash in waves of cope as the right wing insists that by striking this statue down, you’ve made losers on the internet more powerful than you could possible imagine.
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Whisper it into your partner's ear as he or she or they are sleeping next to you.
Yeah, or climaxing.
Just throw that off.
Maybe associate this show with that feeling.
Just out of curiosity, just for people who may not know, how do you know when your partner's climaxing?
How does that happen?
We usually do a countdown and there's a bell that you ring.
Like a cow bell?
You just time it for when you're getting tired.
Yeah, basically.
Basically, yeah.
You need that because usually they have a very straight face when I'm making love to them.
I'm very, like, almost bored.
So the bell ringing helps me know that it's working.
Yeah, women do like to keep their emotions close to their chest.
I have found.
Like a steel trap.
Kudos to them for being able to keep their composure under such obvious ecstasy.
At least when I'm involved.
I had a really funny thing happen to me recently that felt kind of nice.
I was leaving someone's house the next morning and their neighbor looks at me and goes, you must be Tony.
And I was like, oh shit, oh wow, okay, yep, that's my name.
They just heard the name, I guess.
Oh, it wasn't.
No, I wasn't being talked about.
They just overheard the name.
I've kind of been living off that high since then.
It felt very nice.
It felt very flattered.
It was good.
I'll never tell them that that happened.
Maybe their neighbor might, but I'll never tell them that that happened because I don't think they want to know that their neighbors can hear them.
No, that would ruin the fun for everybody.
I thought you were going to say because there were flyers posted around the neighborhood, you got recognized.
Yeah, this guy will steal your tabby shoes.
Don't let this guy in your house.
He will steal your tabby shoes.
I mean, what size shoe do you wear?
Exactly, yeah, 14.
I think they're probably should be a little more worried about the catalytic converters.
That's what I use for shoes.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Totally.
That's what you meant by that, yeah.
We got a couple heavy topics on the show today.
I think we found a way to talk about them.
It'll be fairly fun.
But I did want to start off with an even, I don't know, happier subject, which is just the ongoing stand up strike by the UAW, United Auto Workers.
This is something we haven't really been covering because it takes, I don't know, a lot of effort to cover these sort of labor actions and union actions.
And, you know, I have a full time job in my own union to participate in, so I haven't been able to, like, Follow it as closely as I would like to, and we aren't going to spend a lot of time on it this segment.
I do want to do a deep dive into this stand-up strike tactic that the UAW is currently employing.
Fairly unprecedented, I believe, the decision by one of the largest unions in the country to do selective strikes at various opportunistic locations.
Seems to be paying off extremely well and is... a wild tactic.
Like, I want to talk to organizers about this, but...
It seems to eliminate a lot of the downsides of striking while still being effective.
Yeah, it's really cool.
It's really cool to see, like, strategy behind it.
Well, it's a new strategy.
And it's a new strategy.
So, yeah, the most recent news here, and I believe I saw this because of Works the work stoppage podcast Retweeted this which is a good podcast friends of the show you should check them out if you're interested in labor organizing and labor news
Stellantis which is an auto manufacturer that I have never heard of But apparently fairly important as they at least one plant was employing 1,300 workers Before they decided to lay them off.
This is belt.
This is Belvedere, Illinois and they cited Economic concerns when they laid off the workers, but a few people I think correctly Inferred this as a method to discipline labor Because they just what's called they they did what's called idling the plant meaning like temporarily shutting it down
Uh, laying off the workers, but not, like, completely selling the property and moving out of town.
Um, and now, because of these negotiations, uh, Stellantis offers to restart Belvedere Assembly Plant and UAW offer.
Restarting the Belvedere Assembly Plant is part of Stellantis' latest offer to the United Auto Workers Union according to a Friday report by Bloomberg.
The automaker has reportedly offered to restart the plant and build a battery factory for future electric vehicles.
Fortune also reported.
Battery factory sounds like a band, right?
Battery factory would be like a cool power violence band if you mean it in like assault and battery.
Kind of way?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But it wouldn't be like the energy thing.
It'd be like the violence of battery.
Absolutely.
Dude, this is going to be a sidebar that nobody is going to care about.
Maybe something for Death Chat 500 we can subject those sick puppies to it.
Do you remember Cherim?
Did you ever listen to Cherim?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm aware of Cherim.
I went back and listened to them.
Listened to their one album, like In the Land of the Dead or whatever it's called.
It's got the monkey getting injected with a needle in its eyeball on the cover of it.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yeah.
Cherum is a hardline vegan straight edge band from Salt Lake City.
If you're not familiar with the hardline movement, they're like Straight-edge vegan domestic terrorists, and I don't mean that in necessarily a bad way.
I mean the straight-edge part, that's corny, but uh, they're like, they like firebombed fucking fur factories and stuff like that.
Not, I'm not saying the individual members of Cherum did that, but like...
Punks.
Hardcore punks in the hardline, vegan, straight edge community did stuff like that.
So there's clips.
It's almost like listening to Rage Against the Machine or something.
There's clips of news reports about terrorist activities throughout.
So very cool.
The music was surprisingly... I was like, oh, this isn't as dumb and beat down as I thought it would be.
But then there's a rap song, which is what I remembered.
Hell yeah.
I do remember that.
That's what I remembered them for.
That was like the first Cherum song I heard was the rap song and I was like, this is awful.
When I was like 16, I was like, this is awful.
So I think maybe we should listen to that on Death Chat 500.
As more and more of my friends are selling out and not being vegan anymore, the more like annoying I'm going to be about being vegan.
And so I've been more excited about revisiting all those bands.
It's good.
It's weird.
It's like, um, it's like back when tough guy bands weren't afraid of being melodic.
So there's like, there's like anguished, melodic, borderline emo stuff in there.
Uh, pretty cool.
I genuinely liked a lot of it, but anyway.
If two more people stop being vegan, I'm going to become a straight edge just to compensate for it.
So please, please don't do that to me.
Please don't do that to me.
There goes the show.
What will people listen to if not for your bong rips?
You know what's funny?
I'm smoking joints today, so we're getting him used to it.
We're easing him into it.
Is that so, Tony?
What did you say you were smoking here?
I was smoking a... Yeah.
Yeah.
See, this is why we work.
This is why we work.
So, because you, you know, it's beautiful.
I'm sorry.
I'm having a moment right now.
That was really nice.
Thank you for that.
I just knew you had my back.
I just sometimes forget how hard you have my back.
Absolutely.
Um, when, when it's just like the Russian army, if, if the man beside you falls and drops his bong, you pick it up and start ripping.
You pick it up and you rip it, yeah, absolutely.
Thank you for that.
Sorry, so yeah, so back to the autoworkers, eh?
They start crying, so gotta move on.
According to this former organizer, associate professor of sociology at McGill University, who's an author on labor and class named Barry Eidlin, points out that this is unprecedented.
A union getting the company to reopen a closed factory through negotiations.
Again, I'm admittedly a bit Ignorant on on this particular labor history, but that's that's like sick.
That's like taking a Managerial role almost yeah That sounds about right, too.
I can't, I can't think of, because usually the case is like it was never shut down in the first place or they shut it down afterwards, you know?
So like to reopen, yeah, I've never heard of anything like that.
That's really cool.
Well, the trope is that union workers get American factories shut down by the labor cost.
Labor costs are too high or whatever.
So it's an interesting inversion of that to see them use their labor muscle to reopen A plant.
Also, you know, when the company says, oh, we're shutting this this down because of economic concerns or whatever.
And then after some tough negotiating, they're like, oh, never mind.
That kind of reveals the game a little bit, I think, kind of proves that it was because when you're When you're negotiating as a union with management, you don't want to do something that's going to actually hurt the company.
No.
You are mostly just forcing the company to admit that paying its workers more will not hurt the company.
Not just admit that, but, you know, enact those wage increases.
And also, I mean, we got to say Ford They just agreed to a tentative agreement with Ford that raised their wages, like, higher than they've been raised in the last 22 years.
By which I mean, like, a cumulative raise that's higher than those 22 years of raises.
Yeah.
Which is really something.
I mean, the definition of historic, you know?
And that Ford was one of the most recent stand-up strikes that Sean Fain was in negotiations with Ford and gave them an ultimatum, come back with an offer that's, you know, more reasonable.
And they said no.
And Sean Fain said, well, you just lost the Ford plant.
And they walked out and they struck that Ford plant.
And this is what it resulted in.
Awesome.
Yeah, it resulted in a tentative agreement.
You love to see it.
So I do want to kind of go through more of these chain of events and look at them more closely.
I think maybe we'll do that next week.
But shout out to the United Auto Workers.
Solidarity from the Teamsters.
And you love to see it.
It's good stuff.
Yeah, hell yeah.
With him.
That rules.
Um, you know, more of this.
I'm happy we're seeing more of this.
I'm gonna go get a job so I can strike.
Hell yeah.
It's like, it's like that, uh, that Apu line where he finally gets citizenship and he's like, okay, now which way to the welfare office?
He's like, I'm joking.
It's like that.
Finally get a job.
All right.
Now which way to the picket line?
Yeah.
Now, can I stop this now?
Thank you.
Okay, so moving on.
Lost in the shuffle last week, I think, was a mass shooting in Maine.
An apparently fairly rare Mass shooting in Maine that was kind of memory hold pretty quickly for a couple reasons.
I think the big reason is it paled in comparison to the mass murder that's currently happening in Gaza as we speak.
The thousands of people being killed and Starved of water and electricity and medicine.
So it's understandable that a shooting that killed 22 people, especially in America, kind of gets pushed by the wayside.
It was also that wild thing where it was a day where I happened to be like... I think I was playing golf with Nick and when I'm playing golf I'm not really watching... I'm not watching my phone, you know?
Right, you're just in there for the love of the game.
You're just concentrating on your birdie or your eagle, you know?
Those are all fan videos you see.
I don't take those videos.
I would never take those videos.
The ones I post are people send them to me because they take them of me.
But like, I was off my phone for a chunk of that day.
And it all happened so fast that by the time I was on my phone again, it was already like... Even though they hadn't even caught him yet, it was already kind of like... Not being talked about.
It was really fast.
I saw the only thing I saw about the mass shooting was somebody say, wow, another mass shooting and it's already off the news.
And I was like, I didn't see it on the news in the first place.
And then the other thing I saw was, oh, the mass shooters Twitter has already been scrubbed by Twitter, specifically because it contained very incriminating right with the right wing politics of the shooter who was specifically because it contained very incriminating right with the right wing politics of the shooter who was a fan of Tucker Carlson, a fan of Donald Trump, obviously a fan of even Donald Trump's cringe children
He was retweeting about how great Elon Musk has been for the platform, and it's so good.
Again, it's like...
It's like these people, these right-wingers, who actually do get, um, I don't know what the correct word is.
I want to be very careful with my words.
But, uh, get radicalized enough to go physically do something about it, and who are then instantly discredited by their... Yeah.
...comrades.
Oh, oh, cool Fed, cool Fed post.
Wow, where'd you get that Pepe patch on your backpack?
You get it from Etsy?
Huh?
Yeah, it makes you wonder.
That's going to be in the manifesto and it's not going to work anymore.
They're going to be like, I'm not a plant.
I mean this shit.
I'm really about it.
I've been memeing for a long time.
Check my records.
I got hella memes out there.
And then the response is going to be like, that's exactly what a plant would say.
Yeah, I'm not a poser.
I'm not a poser.
Yeah, I think he protests a little too much.
Sounds like I need to appeal my account one more time and use this guy as an example.
Hey, you let this guy's account rock for pretty long.
Just delete the one I posted and let me have it back, please.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's a good one.
I tried the right-wing appeal thing that Stefan on Blog Party was talking about.
He's like, if you say you were being attacked for your right-wing views, they usually give it back.
I tried it, but I think I tried it too many times before.
So the mass shooter's name is Robert Card.
He is former military, former shooting instructor, former husband, I think.
Twice divorced, I believe I read.
Reading here from CNN, investigators say they believe the gun Card used in the massacre was legally bought just days before he was hospitalized and ordered into undergoing a psychiatric evaluation in mid-July, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
Card, who first enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2002, was reported by Army Reserve officials for behaving erratically, meaning he said he was hearing voices.
But they reported that he was belligerent and possibly intoxicated.
And the state police transported him to a nearby hospital for suspected intoxication.
He was released the next day.
The Army gave Card a command referral to seek treatment after a federal law enforcement source told Army personnel that Card had been hearing voices and had thoughts about hurting other soldiers.
But yeah, I suppose that, what, they gave him a command?
What is this?
A command referral?
So it basically does nothing, apparently?
Without being required by a court to receive mental health treatment, card's name likely would not be flagged during a firearms purchase.
Wow, just another great reason for the military branch of our government to have their own judicial system.
It's cool.
Keeps everything sealed away.
So, obviously mental health playing a role in this.
However, I mean, Your mental health really cannot be made better by surrounding yourself with this kind of shit with Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr.
and Dinesh D'Souza and a bunch of these other weird like ethno-nationalist race hysterics that have been elevated by the Twitter platform.
So this is Ari Drennan on Twitter, who is a Media Matters person, but I saw this reported in multiple areas, was able to get screenshots of what this guy's Twitter account looked like.
She says, just another totally random mass shooting by a guy whose Twitter looks like this.
And it's, yeah, you look at his likes, and it's Tucker Carlson tweeting out the trans movement, it turns out, is the mirror image of Christianity, and therefore it's a natural enemy.
People who believe they're God can't stand to be reminded that they're not.
And it's a screenshot of Tucker, or it's an embedded video, but we're only seeing a screenshot of it here, of Tucker Carlson's program where he has the trans pride flag with crossed assault rifles in front of it.
And it says, guns, parentheses, for some.
And I haven't seen this segment, but I'm going to assume it means that the left only wants guns for trans people or something.
But when he says guns for some, he's talking about his own beliefs.
He's talking about his own idea, like whether he means it or not.
He's talking about the new right wing gun rights platform, which is the Second Amendment is absolute except for trans people.
Yeah, exactly.
It's funny too because the idea that a bunch of... I guess they think that all libs are trans too, so that's probably part of it.
Sure.
But the whole idea that there's some bill out there that's like, anybody who presents at the gender they were assigned at birth, any cis people can't get guns, it's such a funny idea.
It's like, who's...
Who's doing that?
Who's the trans politician who's putting that policy forward and it's getting passed up to the point where it's getting voted on and enacted on?
What a fever dream.
What the left is gonna do is they're gonna make state-mandated genital inspections when you go to buy a gun to make sure that you're trans.
Yeah, yeah.
That's obviously something the left wants to do.
It's what the left is obsessed with is people's genitals.
That's just how down I am, is I'm willing to give up my guns so that all my trans homies can have guns, and only they can have guns.
But I also trust that, you know, I would be able to like, they'd take some people out for us too, so it's cool.
You know, I don't know what Tucker's gonna do.
I don't think Tucker's got any homies.
I don't think Tucker's got shooters.
Oh, bad choice of words.
I meant, like, trans shooters.
He clearly has got shooters.
Right.
That's a good point.
Plus, like, Swanson Dinners, they probably have some sort of paramilitary group that, you know, they can call at a moment's notice.
If you send in enough barcodes, they send you a plate carrier.
Yeah, also among Robert Card mass shooter, main mass shooters likes are, yeah, Donald Trump Jr., who says, given the incredible rise of trans slash non-binary mass shooters in the last few years, dot dot dot, by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population.
Nonsense.
Just gobbledygook words.
There's been one confirmed trans mass shooter that we that we know of.
Maybe if there's two or three.
Okay, so so so what?
So this guy was like we got to take it back?
It doesn't exactly it's it's so funny that they can't they can't go a Breath without saying something, you know saying something about trans shooter and trans shooters and you get like every wannabe cis mass shooter Salivating over this and be like absolutely I Maybe, rather than talking about guns, we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender-affirming bullshit on our kids.
You never stopped talking about it.
That's all you talk about.
Then, yeah, Dinesh D'Souza says ban assault weapons.
Well, cars kill more people than guns do, but we blame the drivers.
We don't blame large or fast cars.
I mean, we actually have been blaming cars for a few of them lately.
It's like it's a it's a literal I mean, it's it's like a little pedantic but uh like the history of this country's regulations against The automobile industry have absolutely saved lives and have absolutely governed the size and speed of vehicles.
Now, obviously, like, we let these manufacturers get away with a little too much in terms of, like, the size of the fucking vehicles and obviously the lobbying they do against mass transit and all of that, but...
Yeah, that's something we should absolutely do.
We should absolutely not allow Ford or Chevy to manufacture the next generation of toddler smashers.
Also, yeah, check out last week's episode where we cover San Francisco banning the autonomous vehicles that are, you know, driving themselves.
So it's quite literally happening like that.
It is the cars now, too.
Yeah.
I mean, Tesla is one of those cars as well.
Yeah, more likes, just again, like obsessed with trans issues.
Likes about, from Dinesh D'Souza, about trans sports.
Likes for boomer memes about how Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son.
Likes for Jordan B. Peterson's tweets.
Likes for Jim Jordan's tweets.
Jeez.
And it's very funny, like, I loved the response to this on this specific post on Twitter, because you get people like TheRightWingLiberal, who's verified, or, you know, paid for a blue check, but, like, doesn't know that your Twitter handle can have spaces in it.
So it just says... Oh yeah, that's my favorite.
TheRightWingLiberal, all one word.
Yeah, Ari posted this, you know, group of screenshots and the right-wing liberal responded, Well, is that what they think?
That's what they're accusing her of doing right now?
Yeah, so Ari is trans, I believe, and so she gets like millions of freaks in her mentions every time she tweets.
Makes sense, yeah.
God bless her.
So I think that's what they mean.
Oh, how can I make this mass shooting about me because you're pointing out that he's like anti-trans or something?
And it's like he made Her about him.
He made trans people his entire existence.
You, the right wing liberal, definitely make trans people...
Your entire fucking existence.
Like, just leave it alone.
Go the fuck away.
We won't have any problems, man.
What are you talking about?
These are the people who, like, continuously post, like, hate comments on trans people's, uh, you know, post.
And then are like, why is my feed full of this?
Yeah.
Why is there nothing but- Why is there nothing but hot trans people on my feed?
And once you comment on something like that's going to be your feed.
Yeah.
And it's all you do.
She's showing screenshots of a guy's Twitter.
So it's not her Twitter, buddy.
It's a guy's Twitter obsessed with trans.
And not only that, not only was this guy obsessed with trans people, he's sharing and liking posts by a bunch of other extremely powerful, wealthy, connected people who are also obsessed Yes.
Who are also making their identity about being opposed to trans people.
So I just, it's, it's fascinating the way they interpret these, these, like the chain of events is like cause and effect is not, does not, I don't know.
Situate itself.
It doesn't organize it.
The world doesn't organize itself in that way in these people's minds.
Like, our age has been trying to exist and you will not keep our name out of your mouth.
And then another thing I liked was this guy was in the replies.
Uh, just again.
Identifying himself around being anti-trans.
He's got an anti-trans cover photo.
And then his bio, which is the most interesting part to me.
What's happening here?
His bio says just a doctor.
Fuck the BBC.
Fuck the police.
Fuck the alphabet people.
Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck Hamas!
Fuck quote insert current thing.
I loved that because, I don't know, if you're not familiar with the right-wing trope, it's like, oh, all the lefties or normies are protesting the current thing that the media told them to protest.
Like, oh, they're watching the war in Ukraine.
That means the media slotted in a new current thing.
For them to obsess with, and it's a way of, like, critiquing your enemies as mindless robots who only react to, quote, the current thing.
And people have already pointed out, well, by current thing, if you mean the news, then yeah, people tend to get information and then react to that information.
That's, again, just how most people's minds work.
And sure, you can have, like, overarching principles or overarching goals.
That doesn't interfere with your ability to apply them to new situations as they unfold.
And I know we do this all the time, but it's just funny that they're like, you know, you're distracted by the current thing.
And it's like you're it's not like we're not putting that in our bio.
Like, you're constantly, it's in your bio now.
It's, I've never, it's just like, thank you for doing this, because it reveals, like, yes, the current thing, meme, was always your opposition to the current, your, like, oppositionally defiant, your oppositional defiant disorder manifesting for the day's news.
Please, please educate me and please tell me something about the scooter and his name, display name.
Is there something going on with scooters that I don't know about yet?
I don't know what the scooter emoji means.
He might just be a radical scooter-er or something.
But, uh, could be something more nefarious.
I don't know.
He's like, listen, like, I don't care about your gender.
Everyone's shins hurt the same, alright?
I wanted to get into Fox News replies, Fox News thoughts about this mass shooting event.
Because we're going to be getting a little more into the politics of gun regulations and mental health regulations.
And it was kind of fascinating to see these conversations take place even in the Fox News comment section.
There are quite a few people who were like, why was he allowed to have a gun?
He was like flagged for mental health and it's like...
Maybe you should look at what your politicians say about red flag laws.
Maybe you should- Maybe because you guys voted against exactly that happening a lot.
Maybe you should look at your comments from, I don't know, two months ago or something and you can see why.
Now, I don't necessarily want to, like, debate red flag laws, because I do think a government could use a red flag law nefariously to, you know... Absolutely.
...whatever.
Knock down the door of a left-wing activist, for instance, you know?
Yeah.
All they do is they make black liberation a symptom of psychosis.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
So, somebody was like, why didn't the cops take this guy's gun?
You know, why was this guy still allowed to have a gun?
Biden's puddin' pants says, as a cop, why would you?
Like, why would you take this guy's gun?
You are already stretched too thin to handle the crime.
And you know, in Maine.
Yeah, totally, dude.
And you know the DAs will just release them back into the streets after you arrest them.
That's true.
A lot of cities in Maine have radical leftist DAs.
Yeah, the DA is notorious for giving back the things that were confiscated to the people they were taken from.
It's a thing they do all the time.
Cops are just being used as virtue signaling from the left to say, quote, see, we are enforcing the law.
What?
See, we are enforcing the law.
Meanwhile, they are slowly tearing down the laws and justice system behind the scenes.
So he's saying, like, leftist mayors will give police billions of dollars and, you know, never prosecute a murderous cop or anything like that.
But behind the scenes, They're really taking it down, which is fine, whatever.
I understand that that's the conspiracy theory that we're not prosecuting people hard enough or we're letting criminals back out on the streets.
That's been a fucking meme since, what, the 70s, 60s?
Yeah.
Yeah, fine.
I do like, as a cop, why would you?
Why would you, yeah.
You're already stretched too thin.
And it's like, I love the idea that the cops didn't take this guy's gun because they were too overworked.
And not because they identified with anybody of this political persuasion and would be extremely reluctant to take the weapon of anybody who's not like accused of uh you know dealing drugs or something like that.
He probably has a post that says like you know don't don't worry my my brother's in arms like when it goes down I'm on your team type post you know?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, some of you are pretty cool.
Don't go to the police department tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
And then OhThatGuy replies.
So this is like the same kind of conversation that's happening in the same kind of thread.
OhThatGuy says, Democrats don't want to take guns quietly one individual at a time.
They want to take all guns so the world can see how they saved civilization.
Then the Dems can really take over the country for the elite.
Oh fuck, the Dems haven't already taken over the country for the elite?
I thought they had.
It gets worse?
Yeah.
It gets worse than this?
I- I- I was- Shit.
Fuck.
Man, I- I- I- There's very few things I hate more than the right-wing talking about the elite.
It's so common now, it sucks so bad, I fucking hate it.
And it's something that they've been doing a while, it just used to be anti-Semitism.
It used to be anti-Jewish conspiracy theories about, well, Jews are the bad capitalists, or Jews are the ones who are making everything bad.
It's not the system itself.
But yeah, now, like, You know, the pseudo-populist rhetoric being pushed by billionaire Peter Thiel and his chosen candidates, and also people like Trump or whatever, has put the word elite in all these people's mouths.
It's so... I fucking hate it so bad.
You do not actually hate the elites.
You think, like, what, 99% of them got there by merit?
You fucking moron.
Yeah.
But yeah, I saw something that was like, uh... Why does a rabbi own Pornhub?
I saw this viral post on Twitter, and I don't know if that's true.
I'm not repeating that as if that's true, but they had a picture of the rabbi standing in front of a Pornhub sign.
And it's just so funny to me, like... Oh no, a rich... If this is true... Oh no, a rich guy used his money to become more rich.
For something that could be considered immoral.
Something that could be considered, like, harmful to society.
Whoa, that's so crazy.
I wonder if anybody's been talking about anything like this before.
Ever.
Ever.
Is this brand new?
I'm just getting the news of this.
And I'm not saying we need to unite with these antisemites or whatever, but you should try to pull them away from antisemitism and towards a more coherent worldview.
A more, frankly, Marxist worldview that demystifies all this fucking stupid, occult, racism, magical Jewish bullshit.
It sucks because like we've said it so many times but it's like they're so they're almost there like they almost almost get it you know but they got to remove the racist phrases out of it and you should understand that it's like it's it's just like CEOs and stuff instead.
Well I think I mean I do think a lot of it is in bad faith I do think a lot of them are not do not genuinely think it's like only the Jews causing the problems they just totally just really don't like the Jews and they probably they understand like how Evocative and how persuasive anti-capitalist propaganda can be, but they're not anti-capitalists, so they just use it selectively against a race they don't like or whatever.
Exactly, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, anytime I see something like that that's trying to dabble in anti-elite-ism or whatever, I feel the need to break my cool and chime in and flip out on them a little bit.
But yeah, Democrats don't want to take guns quietly, one individual at a time.
They want to take all the- Okay.
So they don't want to take your guns.
Okay.
They don't want to take my guns.
They want to take all the guns.
Okay?
Isn't your gun part of all the guns?
What are you fu- Like, oh, well, if they took guns individually, then that would mobilize us.
We would know that the time was coming and we would have time to organize.
Get up out the lazy boy and do something.
So they don't want to do that.
I've heard the Democrats are actually working with the gun demon from Chainsaw Man, who does have the power to control all the guns.
Whoa.
And so I think they're going to actually use the gun demon to just, it's going to be like, what do they call it?
It's going to be like the, what do they call it when they all get called to heaven?
Rapture.
It's going to be like the rapture, but for your guns.
Your guns are just going to disappear.
Well, that's cool.
Using the gun demon for good?
Yeah, yeah.
Who'da thunk?
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Don M55 says Maine is consistently listed as the number one or two safest states.
It is also a constitutional carry state.
I'm surprised that there was no one in any of those locations that could have neutralized the threat.
And I do want to say I meant to say this before there are reports of like Some of the victims sacrificing themselves running at the shooter in public places to try and disarm him and Obviously like unfathomably heroic acts from from those people What else can you can you really do in that situation?
Um, but I love like Yeah, Maine is a constitutional carry state and yeah, they're not I don't know guns don't prevent shootings man I don't know what to I don't know what to tell you like I'm I'm I'm not anti-firearm.
I'm I am for learning how to properly and safely use a firearm and and keeping it safely in your house, but I'm not like Under the impression that it's a crime stopper or a violence stopper.
Like even as a gun rights advocate, you'd have to be pretty naive to think that more guns equals safety and not just more opportunity for crazy people to do crazy things.
Now, unfortunately, I think we're past the point of return when it comes to fucking the proliferation of guns in this country and just how militaristic we are As a society like all of that is yeah is plays way more into what what is happening right now But yeah, it's just like here's your evidence man You said the evidence yourself.
This has 800 up votes Maine is listed as the number one or two safest states.
It is also a constitutional carry state I'm surprised that there was no one who did that.
It's like yeah, because what you're talking about is a fantasy man.
It doesn't like it It does happen, but it's not the norm, and it's not anywhere near at the level to actually mitigate the mass death that some crazy person can cause with an assault rifle.
Yeah, like to stop it requires an insane amount of luck, but to perpetuate it just takes a little bit of planning.
Yeah, absolutely.
That math is not good.
This is kind of what I was getting at.
This will be the last I have to say really on this subject.
But Bart L says, I'm 66 and can remember when a quote mass shooting was an extremely rare occurrence.
Back then it was far easier to buy a gun and ammunition.
Hmm.
During hunting seasons, we all carried guns in our cars and trucks and parked them in the lots at schools, work, hospital, parks.
Yeah, people still do that, dog.
I don't know.
Yeah.
People still leave their guns in their car.
People still have their guns on them and fire them while they're driving.
And it's, uh, they don't, they don't even get prosecuted for it, man.
God, that's my favorite video in the world.
The guy that shoots the gun through his own windshield.
Yeah.
Incredible.
The guy who's like, Shooting but cringing the whole time.
The whole time.
He's like wincing.
He's scaring the shit out of himself.
But exhilarated the whole time.
It's such a fucking funny video.
It's terrifying.
Also, dude, these shootings are not being carried out with .22s or shotguns.
Right.
You know, like that's what you kept in your fucking truck.
That's what you kept under the bench of your truck, you know, was a shotgun.
For hunting.
That's not what's happening here.
Yeah, or like a bolt action rifle or something, you know?
Yeah.
Like, uh...
It's not just, okay, guns are harder now because you have a permit or whatever.
You have to have a permit or they do a background check.
It's harder in that sense that it takes, like you have to click a couple things on a form.
You have to watch a YouTube video about gun safety.
Like that's all you have to do to get a gun, right?
In this country.
In a lot of places in this country, most places in this country.
So that's the impediments that you're talking about.
Now, also, look at how many guns are available on the market compared to back then.
Look at how many guns individuals own compared to back then.
Like, did you and your friends have a fucking arsenal back at home for hunting?
No, you probably had a few guns at most.
And it was a thing too where it was like nobody had automatic rifles.
Like, you knew one guy that had an AK-47.
You know, that was like your uncle's friend.
They weren't, like, common.
Well, they're not common here.
Full auto is not common.
Most assault rifles are semi-auto.
I don't even know.
I'm saying that you had to shoot one bullet at a time at one point in time.
You still do.
I'm saying either way.
It's like you can still fire much faster now.
That stuff didn't exist back then.
Well the guns are more efficient.
They're built for doing things like this now as opposed to just hunting.
And yeah, there are mods that you can get to simulate full auto action on your rifle.
And one of those is the bump stock that Donald Trump banned during his presidency, which is which is really funny.
But yeah, I just, it's like, wow, guns used to be such a bigger part of society.
No, they fucking didn't.
No.
Guns are never more of a part of society than right now.
Than right now.
It's peak.
It's just, our culture is subsumed with fucking guns and weapons of war and militarism and the valorizing of
power and strength above all like all of that stuff trickles down and has effects and I mean I that's where I that's where I would kind of put the lay the blame here and like you said we are past like the point where it's there is going to be no like there is no gun buyback there is no it the the idea that people could get rid of the guns is it's not possible it's just not it's just not possible Like, straight up.
Abandon that dream.
It's now time to work within what we have.
I mean, unfortunately, I think that's right.
If we implement all the gun safety measures we can, I 100% I agree with closing background check loopholes and going after straw purchasers and stuff like that, but in terms of the individual's right to carry a firearm, I think that's going to be pretty important going forward.
Yeah, absolutely.
But again, it's up to the individual.
If you don't feel comfortable around firearms, don't do it.
Don't get one.
But it's not a bad skill to know.
Absolutely.
Heavy, depressing stuff, Tony.
They killed the Robert E. Lee statue from the Unite the Right rally.
They murdered it?
I mean, they already assassinated Robert E. Lee's character.
Why not also assassinate his statue?
They took the life from the statue?
It's beautiful.
They're melting down the statue and they're going to turn it into some sort of public art as per Washington Post here.
I don't have any No, it's gonna be so bad.
It's gonna be fucking brutal.
It's never good.
It's never fucking good.
But hey, it's still way cooler than that.
Um...
It's cool that they melted it down.
They melted it down and they made video of them melting it down and so now the right wing is like making the molten face of Robert E. Lee their avatars.
They're like... Awesome.
I am the statue that's getting heated to a thousand degrees.
This is me.
This is me.
I am the molten lava that is Robert E. Lee.
The remains of Robert E. Lee's statue.
Like...
This is some incredible cope here because they all seem to think that melting the statue is a magical deed that will ensure victory for the right wing.
Oh, like this is like, uh, they're like releasing like the holcrux or something like that, like destroying a holcrux here.
Horcrux.
Uh, somebody called it like, where's, where is it?
Um, Quidnom says this might just be the biggest hermetic alchemical self-owned in recorded history.
This is it.
This is the one.
There's been some pretty major ones before, but I think this is definitely the biggest one in modern history.
No doubt about it.
Yeah, I love just like, wow, they really didn't know the alchemical forces they were messing with when they What transmogrified the essence of the statue into living energy, or whatever the fuck they're talking about.
It's so funny.
They don't even know what they've released.
This is gonna be hilarious if you ask me.
Yeah, so like our friend the Raw Egg Nationalist, who I think was also the guy who was like, people selling food in a market is the sign of a civilization dying.
How could we let this happen?
He says he quote tweeted a bit like a fan cam someone made of the dying Robert E Lee statue With like with Wagner playing over it.
They just like awesome.
They were like where's who's the most fascist guy we can find okay?
Yeah, but when I saw it.
I was so confused I was so confused by what I was watching it looks like they're all crying about the mask from the mask and They're like, no don't melt it, I could put it on and maybe lead an army of losers to get our asses whipped once again.
Can my dog try it on?
The dog is a cartoonish little prankster named Robert E. Lee.
Yeah, little goober.
Raw Egg Nationalists shared this fan cam video and said, I've not seen a more powerful video on here in a long time.
Remember that greatness cannot be destroyed only Transmuted because greatness is a fire and fire is energy and energy is eternal and that makes sense to me All those words he was right because yes fire is energy obviously and energy is eternal again obvious thermodynamics folks look it up Um, but I love, I love, greatness, uh, greatness cannot be destroyed because greatness is a fire.
You're like, totally.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
That tracks.
I, I'm still, you know, listen, I know, I know it might be hopeless, but I'm still holding out that one day, one day we can figure out the technology to put out fires.
I hope that I can't cause these, you know, we live in fire country and you know, I, it's terrifying knowing that we can do nothing about these fires.
Uh, Bill Smith, who's at is Trump underscore a underscore, right?
Okay.
So Trump, uh, right.
Trump, Trump, Trump's alright.
Trump alright replies, they awoke the old gods here.
Buckle up.
Bro, America's not that old.
American slavery is like a very specific point in time.
Not too long ago.
In terms of gods, these are like brand new gods.
These are like fresh out the box gods.
Yeah, um...
And again, the old gods of what?
Like, losers who parasocially attached themselves to a guy who died hundreds of years ago and... Yes, yes.
...obviously fought for the wrong side in that battle?
Um... Like, your ancestors don't give a fuck about Robert E. Lee.
If that's what you're trying to evoke, you know?
Like, they don't give a... You think the Vikings you pretend to be related to care about Robert E. Lee?
Uh, so many people were like, they wished to defeat it.
Now they have immortalized it.
It's like, that is the best way to immortalize a statue, is by getting rid of it.
Yeah, not just like maintaining it.
It was already a statue.
That's, that's like, the metaphor, the analogy for immortality is being erected as a statue, and they fucking smelted him.
Sorry, he got fucked up, man.
That's how you know people don't really care about art.
Like, David is still a statue.
Uh-huh.
Like that shit should be... I mean, I guess you gotta set the stone on fire somehow or something.
But it should at least be turning to powder if we really cared about it.
Fake fans.
Got it.
Why would you want to destroy it if you cared?
Oh, to immortalize it.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, to immortalize it Yeah, totally Um Cause now we can just Now all we can do is look at it Now they have immortalized it Because I saw a weird weeb fascist incel post a video that probably didn't even make it to TikTok.
This is gonna be on the internet forever.
Well, it's my profile picture now, so yeah.
Immortalized.
And nothing ever is going to happen again in the future that I'm going to lash onto and make my identity and turn it into my profile picture.
So, this is immortality.
This isn't Star Wars, man.
If you melt down a statue, it's gone.
Yeah.
There's not a Jedi.
Yeah, I mean the metal, like I said, the metal from it will exist.
Um, and hopefully they're going to make cool things, but they're not going to make cool things with it.
I need to pay attention and see what they do with it, because it's not going to be cool.
Also, wasn't the whole argument that melting down the statue erased history?
Got rid of history?
Now you're saying, oh no, actually it's good that they did this because of the alchemy.
Maybe we should lean into this.
Maybe we should be like, yeah, you're absolutely right.
Let's melt them all down.
Yeah, totally.
Um, a lot of people were like, Saying that.
Like, the more, like, normie... ...MAGA people were, like... ...those who... ...those who would not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Yeah.
And it's like, look at who's above you in these replies.
Look at who's below you in these replies.
They all want to repeat it.
They all- You're a team dog.
They all want to repeat the Confederacy.
That's why they like Robert E. Lee.
Uh, and, it's, it's, it's, like, getting rid of the statue seems only to have emboldened their convictions, not necessarily, like, their movement.
Um.
I would say the Unite the Right rally, probably one of the worst moments for the right-wing movement in modern history.
That, January 6th, and Donald Trump himself being elected, in terms of public perception, and even some of the material responses to it, not great for your movement.
The Unite the Right Charlottesville rally, Was fuckin' awful.
Like, Donald Trump had to come out and denounce it.
Yeah, it was bad.
Not a good look for y'all.
Uh, so... I don't, like, this whole thing has been kind of a clusterfuck for you.
Like, I think...
I don't know.
I think like, yeah, a normie position would be like, well, you shouldn't tear down statues because we should learn from it.
But if you have a conversation with a normal person for longer than a second, they would be like, well, I guess you can learn stuff from history books too.
You don't necessarily need the statue, you know, celebrating them or whatever.
But not a lot of people are like of the lost cause political movement anymore.
I think that's kind of Gone by the wayside.
Maybe with this statue melting, the Daughters of the Confederacy can get another $20,000 in donations this year or something like that.
There's an emboldened right-wing movement, to be sure.
I'm not saying that they don't represent a threat or they're not a powerful group of people.
I mean, these internet posters are not a powerful group of people, but the elites they claim to despise, who are 99% in lockstep with their right-wing ideology, are.
And that's, of course, who the real threat is for the vast majority of us.
There was a guy in the replies to this Washington Post tweet that was so fucking funny.
This guy's name is Thad, and his ad is Giga Thad.
And he says, Giga Chad is a meme, if you're not familiar with.
He's like an actual Eastern European fitness model, who I believe is communist, who I believe is from like a communist state and communist heritage, which is very funny because, yeah, the right wing has like co-opted this guy to mean like he's the cool one.
He's the based guy.
And it's because, yeah, he has like a 12 pack and like an insane, wild chin and like a jaw shaped like a shovel, you know?
Yeah.
Now, I wonder if he is doing... If his name really is Thad, or if he's doing the Lisp joke about Chad?
I don't think so, because you don't Lisp Chad as Thad, I don't think.
No, I don't know, maybe not, probably not, yeah.
I think his name is just Thad, which is unfortunate.
It's such a bad name because it's so close to one of the best names, Tad.
Uh, but off, off by a letter.
Just, just so close.
Uh, okay.
Thad says, literally my ancestor.
We carry the Lee name as a first slash middle in my family.
Cool, so you erect a statue of him.
I don't give a fuck about your grandpa, man.
Like, why do I need, why, why would I ever want a statue of your slaver grandpa?
Yeah, go for it.
Put it up in your fucking yard.
I don't care.
Like, do that.
Also, I love literally my ancestor.
It is like the white guy looking at a fucking picture, an AI generated image of a viking.
That's literally me.
Yeah, actually.
Literally.
You know, good for you.
While I didn't need a directly insulting gesture to- Oh my god, dude, shut the fuck up.
While I didn't need a directly insulting gesture to tell me that my kind is hated and many seek our extinction, parentheses, the implicit cues were strong enough.
I appreciate this image making it absolutely clear.
By your kind, you do mean Confederate soldiers.
Just the descendants of Robert E. Lee.
Yes, we do want to get rid of Confederate soldiers.
That is, if that's what you're claiming, that's exactly what we mean, yes.
Well, like, no, if you can be descended from Confederate soldiers and be a totally good person, all you have to do is not post shit like this.
Not post obvious, racist, hyperventilating, replacement theory nonsense.
Well, they melted down the statue, that means they're coming after whites.
Yep, it's over.
They made it clear as day.
It's right-wing Zionists and Zionists in general conflating Israel with Jews that these racists do with their fucking slaver statues.
They're like...
Hey, just because, you know, we need to not teach white kids that they're bad for being white, just because they might have descended from slaves.
From slavers.
From slavers, sorry.
Also, I like the slavers.
Also, I identify with the people who were the slavers.
It's like, the whole thing is when you say my literal ancestor, you're supposed to follow it up with like, and why am I still taking the heat from that?
I don't even know that guy.
Exactly.
That's how you're supposed to follow it up.
It was my great great uncle, not me.
They can't pick between white men built this country, I built this country, and I had nothing to do with slavery.
There's gotta be one.
And it's obviously the latter.
It's obviously the latter.
But you probably don't have much else going for you in your life, so you're like, wow, did you know that I'm actually Robert E. Lee's fourth generation grandson or whatever?
He goes on, for those using this as a chance to try to dunk on me or quote my people.
Why are you putting my people in quotes?
You're the one who started talking about your people, bro.
I and my 56 first cousins are pretty across the board prosperous with families carrying on our line.
Well-bred Anglos don't need permission to thrive.
It's just kind of our nature.
I don't think this is true, Thad.
You're posting on Twitter under the name Gigathad.
Like, with this crazy avatar.
You're not well.
I don't think, I think, I think your great great uncle or whatever would be so bummed.
Um.
Additionally, I'll have you know, I graduated top of my class in the Navy SEALs.
This is copypasta, right?
Shut up.
Shut up.
I graduated top of my class.
Oh, cool, cool.
You did good in school?
In the Navy SEALs.
I think this is copypasta.
I don't want to- I think you got kicked out of the Navy SEALs for posting like this.
I don't want to fall for copypasta.
I'm far too based to not recognize a meme when I see it.
Let me just type in here.
Yeah, Navy SEALs copy pasta.
Yep.
I'm trained in guerrilla warfare, and I'm the top sniper.
Yadda yadda yadda.
Okay.
So, cool meme, dude.
You're still pathetic.
Like, you posted the sniper shit, you posted the cringe, I'll have you know you're disrespecting a soldier thing.
You're already fucking cringe posting about being an honorable member of the white race.
That's more embarrassing than actually being a fucking Navy sniper or something, dude.
Like, you're not fooling anyone with that.
Responding to this, who would, who do you think would respond to an obvious white nationalist lamenting the loss of his people and his culture on Twitter?
Who do you think, who do you think would respond to that, Tony?
Um, probably not the exact, probably not like the exact same people.
Um... The owner of the website, Elon Musk... Oh yeah, there it is, there it is!
Yeah, the exact same people, there you go!
Replied to this and said, they absolutely want your extinction.
What?
Like... You can't...
Elon, you went too far with this one.
You can't, like, play innocent.
This isn't, like, quote-tweeting a black crime video and doing a thinky face.
This is a little, like, more than this.
This is a guy saying they melted down the Robert E. Lee statue because they want white people's extinction, and Elon is saying, yes, they absolutely want your extinction.
So, Elon is, like, Openly a great replacement.
Ethno-nationalist.
Yes.
Guy.
But the best thing about this is the way he phrases it is yes he's saying they as you know the same they that he's talking about absolutely want your extinction so he's still saying we're also not quite on the same team Like, yeah, they do want you gone.
They don't necessarily want me gone, because I'm like, I'm a billionaire.
I don't know if you knew this.
I don't really want.
So yes, they do want your extinction, because he should have said our.
This is how they talk to each other.
This is how influencers on the right wing will, they pitch stuff for the reader.
So it's like you, you are in danger.
Of course, they mean like all white people, because they're assuming everybody Reading or watching that as white, you know, um, does he mean your extinct, like the line of Robert E. Lee?
Like, I don't, I don't think that's what he means.
No, no, he, no, I'm saying he, he just means, he means like American white people, American white men, Western white men.
Cause, cause I mean, whether he wants to be or not, he's not quite a Western white man.
Um, and then Thad says, it's almost like you're from a place with lessons to teach us.
Oh, oh, is he talking about South Africa and Apartheid?
Yeah, of course he is.
I mean, the thing is, he's not wrong.
I do think that America could use the same type of, like, confrontation that happened in Apartheid about Africa.
And also, you know, I think that a lot of people should, who are alive today, should be held accountable for the crimes they committed against Black America.
So yeah, you're right, Thad.
But I don't think for the same reasons you're saying that.
I think you're saying it for different reasons.
Yeah, he's like, "We have a lot to learn about the place you're from, such as the efficacy of tire fire necklaces." Yeah.
More responses to Elon Musk's operam dare says, "Literally melting down history." We are bound to repeat it.
Yeah, because you guys are all threatening to repeat it.
You guys want it repeated.
I don't like... There's not a lot of mystification here.
And then Oparum Dare replies to his own tweet, since there is much more demand for angry white supremacists than supply, they're trying to close that gap with such actions.
You're replying to an angry white supremacist who owns this website who says they absolutely want white people's extinction.
Yeah, what?
Like, the top comments are angry white nationalists that you're replying to.
I genuinely don't know if this is just because of how stupid they are or if they're playing a game.
I mean, the blue check really leaves it up to question.
I do think it's possible a lot of these people do not understand who they're talking to.
Also, are you like a hoarder?
Are we supposed to just keep everything ever?
That's a good point.
Yeah, everything has an amount... You're like my grandma when she didn't want to get rid of bedding from 50 years ago because that was, you know, that was my little girl's bed set.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, no, you gotta let it go.
You gotta let it go sometimes.
Yeah, oh, here it is.
Here's blue check stuff.
Okay, here's more evidence that what I was saying might be true.
Oparum Dare, yeah, said, melting down history.
We are bound to repeat it.
And Rando Calrissian says, or you could read a history book instead of getting all your historical knowledge from statues.
And then Oparum Dare replies, and you could watch adult videos instead of having sex.
Brain emoji.
Brain emoji!
Do you think visiting the Robert E. Lee statue is the same as being in the Civil War as opposed to reading about it?
So what is sex to you then?
Now you have a sex doll.
He's like, no, you have a sex doll.
I, yeah, I think he's like, well, yeah, I have the video of the statue, but that's not good enough.
I need to go there and feel what it was like a hundred years ago when they erected this statue to scare black people.
Yeah, exactly.
I need to feel, it's probably palpable the way the, you know, the community felt when it was being erected.
You could watch adult videos instead of, imagine thinking that The history book is the diluted version of the visceral experience of reading three words on a plaque for a statue.
Man, this is phenomenal blue check brain and then putting a brain emoji at the end of it.
This might be like the best blue check post I've ever seen.
It's also like the pornification of people's minds too.
Porn's gonna be like... Watching porn instead of having sex is often times watching Star Wars instead of a historical reenactment of the Civil War.
You know, it's like... Dude, they don't have like... Yeah, not everyone's gonna squirt on you and also they didn't use lightsabers.
You can't equivocate the two.
It's so stupid.
Why would I read about history when I could make love to it?
Fucking brilliant.
I love this shit.
Yeah, it's so good.
Yeah more like Fashwave fan art of the destroyed statue Mac Bluecheck says they will destroy your history then they will destroy you Mac who looks like a cosplayer of some kind like a red-haired Uh, sexy lady cosplayer who could be just totally AI.
I didn't click through to her profile Don't know if she's real person, but she is verified.
So that says something So she's actual but we don't know if she's real but she's actual yeah, then like it's it's a Image of like, you know, fast wave stuff.
So like, you know TV distortion color gradient over the image of You can barely tell what it is?
Like, you can, if you know, like maybe you- It looks like the Mars Volta cover.
Because the human mind is so adept at recognizing faces, I think you would see the face in this area of the image, but you would just assume it was a product of your mind looking for patterns, you know?
It doesn't look like the statue, just looks like a bunch of fucking junk.
Like, it looks like one of those, um, Photos it's meant to show what it looks like when you have a stroke And it says they will destroy your history, then they will destroy you Yeah, Robert E. Lee was like they're not after me.
They're after you But I'm just in the way Robert E. Lee's statue.
I'm the only thing preventing them from coming after you Again, it's only it's only so It's particular to this exact thing.
What do you think they did to the black people, to the Africans they brought over here?
What do you think they did to their history?
What, what, what, like, where do you think that, yes, that's exactly how that works.
They do erase your history to destroy you, but it's not through a statue.
It's not through a statue.
No, they already enslaved them.
That's part of the process of destroying the history.
Tearing down a statue, one statue is not destroying history, actually enslaving people.
And then like, then it's like, yeah, of course we don't give them history books.
Yeah, you know, yeah, first they melt down the statue, then they're gonna stop teaching white kids to read.
Yeah, Gallery says they transmogrified what was just a statue into a symbol of fire.
Rather than a show of strength, it's more like a summoning ritual, melting away old forms to allow that energy to be reformed and resurrected like the phoenix.
Kind of a self-own, to be honest.
Yeah.
So I love this TikTok Tumblr witch shit permeating the right wing.
Well, they're like, hmm, huge L?
I think not.
Actually, if you'll check, you'll check the spiritual realm.
If you'll go astral project with me for a second, you'll see how powerful we are there.
They're right.
I mean, honestly, the melting of the statue has created an entire ecosystem of memes.
It's being talked about right now on Leftist Podcast.
So therefore, yeah, it's worked.
It's worked.
Yeah.
We fell for it.
Yeah, I mean, laughter is a positive.
Even if you're laughing at that movement, it's still a positive action.
Laughter is an energy.
It's a fire.
You're feeding it.
Yeah.
Kind of a cell phone, to be honest.
I love that.
TBH.
Yeah, and then I think this is a good place to stop Wilford Bremley's diabetes says All of the incidents that are leading to the inevitable breaking point are captured in high-definition video for future generations to see Nothing will be left to speculation to be distorted by politically biased historians
And so what he's saying is like, well, when the reckoning comes, when the race war happens, when the white man has finally had enough and rises up, future historians won't be able to deny that that was because they were fucking crazy.
That they were massively brain damaged over a statue.
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be, the evidence is going to be pretty hard to deny once that time comes.
Yeah, that, whatever, your fascist, if it happens, your fascist uprising happens or whatever, and then the next hundred years are going to be you denying that there was ever a fascist uprising because it looks bad.
Because of how fucking bad it looks.
Oh yeah, I'm meant to believe a bunch of white people just lost their minds because of a Robert E. Lee statue.
Sure, sure.
Like, I mean, like you said, we talked about this all the time.
It is going to be interesting to see how history remembers this stuff.
It's too much stuff to remember.
I don't know how history is going to remember all of it.
I mean, when this is all said and done, you know, when we retire, I think it's really important that we do release the Patreon episodes just for, like, history.
Just so that, you know, so it is documented, you know?
Yeah, speaking of the Patreon, what a good way to support the show.
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Just had a very fun episode in which we talked about... We got to see all of... You may have seen the Voldemort Israel tweet, where...
Israel tweeted out an AI image of Voldemort reacting negatively to the Hamas attack, of cringing and crying about the Hamas attack.
A fairly bewildering thing to tweet out on its own.
I found the source of that AI image, which was accompanied by several others in which various Disney villains are crying about how bad Hamas is.
Yeah.
So if you want to see all those, yeah, Death Chat 500 from last week.
We also talked about evangelicals who caught angels on their Facebook live stream and are just thrilled and blessed by God to see these angels in the form of lights in the sky live in person.
And we watched that video and I won't spoil it for you.
We may have had a conversion happen on the show.
Yeah, it's close.
Also, just another incentive training, did they ever get that Bluetooth?
We don't know.
We never know if they got the Bluetooth, which this will make a lot more sense when you listen.
We also are watching Black Period, White Period, the race-swapping reality show from the mid-2000s where a white couple and their daughter wear blackface in order to At least for the white dad, prove that racism isn't that bad.
Yeah.
Very, very fun and fascinating watch.
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