 So, last week we talked about how artist Oliver Anthony, who went viral for his song Richmond North of Richmond, found himself in a little bit of hot water with some of his right-wing fans because he dared to say that diversity is good during a Fox News interview. I'm not joking about this. But it gets a little bit worse for conservatives who thought that he was one of them because they played a clip of his song at the GOP debate and he responded to that. And what he said, I'm assuming, did not make a lot of Republicans happy. I've had a lot of people reach out to me and I've tried to be polite to everybody and I've talked to hundreds of people the last two weeks. But it seems like certain people want to just ride the attention of this song to maybe make their own selves relevant. And that's aggravating as hell. The other thing that I find aggravating is, well, you know, like it was funny seeing my song and it was funny seeing it at the presidential debate because it's like, I wrote that song about those people, you know? So for them to have to sit there and listen to that, that cracks me up. But it was funny kind of seeing the response to it. Like, that song has nothing to do with Joe Biden, you know? It's a lot bigger than Joe Biden. That song is written about the people on that stage and a lot more too, not just them, but definitely them. So apparently his song wasn't necessarily the right wing anthem that conservatives hoped it would be. But with that being said, I don't think that they're wrong to assume that he was one of them because if you listen to the lyrics of his song, I mean, it is very heavily right when coded. And on top of that, he literally complains about people on welfare being fat and lazy. I mean, this is supposedly a working class anthem, but people on welfare are part of the working class. They're on welfare because they're not making enough to pay the bills, even though they have jobs. So to me, it's bizarre that he thinks Republicans were, I guess, wrong to assume that he was on their team. But Democrats started to kind of celebrate this after he repudiated the GOP. But he had a message for them too, because on Twitter, he wrote, I don't support either side politically, not the left, not the right. I'm about supporting people and restoring local communities. Now go breathe some fresh air and relax, please. I'm not worth obsessing over. I promise. Go spend time with your loved ones. Now that's something that I actually agree with Oliver Anthony about, even though I could acknowledge that he's talented and has a good voice. I fucking hate the song. I don't like country music. So you're never going to win me over, regardless of what the lyrics are. But he just, I don't know. How do I put this in a very nice way so I don't sound like a condescending prick? He kind of reminds me of my brother-in-law, right? My brother-in-law is somebody who will share right wing memes on Facebook, but then get defensive claiming, no, I don't support either side, right? But then when you grill him, it's like, oh, no, he doesn't support either side, not because he feels politically homeless and he has broader critiques of the system itself and how both parties are, you know, doing neoliberal policies that affect the working class. He doesn't support both parties because he can't discern the differences between Democrats and Republicans. And let me be clear when I say what he means by that. He doesn't know the difference between Democrats and Republicans because he doesn't follow politics. And that's what he kind of strikes me as, right? Not this disillusioned voter who voted for politicians in both parties, you know, was maybe an Obama to Trump voter and feels betrayed every time he votes. So he's checking out just somebody who doesn't pay attention, but, you know, wanted to make a song about politics and he can acknowledge that working sucks and he's being exploited. So that's kind of why his politics, I think, seems so incoherent. And I think that Jordan Ull had the best response to this because he basically has the politics of pit bull. And Jordan shared this quote, which says, when it comes to politics and politicians, I call it politics. That right there in that shell is fucking all over Anthony. And another thing that I want to point out is this meme by Trap Queen Enthusiast, who said that Oliver Anthony is doing the meme. I'm neither left nor right. And then whenever somebody says that, it turns out that they are a right winger. And there's countless examples of this. Tim Pohl, Dave Rubin did it for a while. Jimmy Doris currently doing it where he's pretending that he's on the left, but in actuality, he really is just a Republican at this point, a pretty standard Republican. And so maybe that's the case. But ultimately, I think that, you know, Oliver Anthony, his politics is a lot less coherent than that. And this is why I think that it's really important for all of us to try to ground ourselves in political theory, right? Because if you kind of just have these thoughts that are sporadic and you have different feelings, but you don't know how to articulate them or why things are happening or you don't have the context to put it in to understand why all these things are happening, then your politics just kind of manifests itself in that way, where you're ideologically incoherent and you know that rich people are bad, but you also hear the talking points about how poor people on Wolf are bad too. So, you know, I don't think that anyone can really claim Oliver Anthony, nor should they, because I don't think that his politics is coherent enough to apply to the current situation, aside from just, you know, the working class element where it's like, man, I work and my dollar is worthless. I feel like that's common sense. Everybody can see the effects of this late stage capitalist economy on their wallets, right? Millennials who are burdened with student loan debt can see how bad it is. They can't purchase homes or cars. So, we all can see that, right? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the situation economically in this country is bad. But you've got to go deeper than that. If you actually want there to be real meaning, but I mean, in some ways, you could argue that maybe he really is the true working class hero, because he kind of represents the normie who just kind of floats around in the middle, right? Sometimes they'll vote Republican in elections, other times they'll vote for Democrats, but they'll maintain that they hate both parties, but they have pretty reactionary views, but ultimately they get fucked over by Republicans when they vote against them. I don't really know, but I do find this funny. And I think that any Republican, especially the individuals like Scott Adams, were claiming, what if this is everything? I find it so funny that now they have to eat shit. And again, it's not like they were wrong to think that Oliver Anthony was one of them, but just to see them take this L here and be so disappointed this quickly by someone, I don't know why, maybe I've just become a lot more cynical, but it's funny to watch them get mad about shit like this. But for him to straight up repudiate the GOP and say I wrote that song for them, that's got to hurt for Republicans, right? So any grifter on the right who was praising this individual and saying that, oh, this is the true working class, now they kind of look a little bit silly because he's telling you straight up. He doesn't support either side politically, so you could use him however you want, but he doesn't agree with it. And that's probably because he doesn't understand it. But either way, I find this funny, so I had to talk about it. And balls, vagina. And balls, vagina. Ass, come, ass, come, ass, come, vagina. She stroked my face with the vagina. She stroked my penis and balls.