 So not too long ago, the outrage mob even came for Mr. Potato Head. Can you imagine that? Now, according to liberals, potatoes are supposed to be gender neutral. I'm sorry, but I like my vegetables to have genders. Maybe that's just me. But I think that a toy where you can, like, take off the eyes and insert it where the ears are supposed to be, talking about that, like, focusing a lot of time and energy on that issue, that's really important. That matters. But not as much, apparently, as Dr. Seuss. Because Dr. Seuss has now been canceled. So are you seeing the theme here? First, Mr. Potato Head was canceled, and then Dr. Seuss was also canceled. And conservatives lost it over Dr. Seuss. Like, this was the straw that broke the camel's back because they absolutely love Dr. Seuss. Case in point. Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam. I am. I do not like green eggs and ham. Would you like them here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them. Sam, I am. Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? Look, man, I stopped reading Dr. Seuss personally by, like, second grade max. So if that's all that you prefer to read in your fifties, you know, if that's all that your tiny little pea brain can handle, I'm not going to judge you. But I mean, I think you should try to at least graduate to more complicated readings, try goosebumps perhaps if we haven't canceled goosebumps by now too. But basically, this is what the right has focused on throughout the entire week. And it has been non-stop. All that we've been hearing about from conservatives is Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. And basically, the argument from Fox News, at least in a nutshell, can be summarized by this clip. Dana, I do not like the treatment of Dr. Seuss. I don't like it in a house with a mouse. I don't like it with a box with a fox. I don't like it here or there. Bill Hammer, I don't like this anywhere. So basically, cancel culture is now going after Dr. Seuss and Dr. Seuss is being treated very poorly. That's essentially what most of Fox News is arguing. However, Tucker Carlson tends to disagree with his colleagues on Fox News and he's taking like a weird 4D chess approach to this and he's like going at this from a really interesting and surprising angle. Now, conservatives will be tempted to chalk up the attacks on Dr. Seuss to the usual cancel culture gone mad. Look how hysterical and stupid the professional left is. They're even calling Dr. Seuss racist. And you've seen people say that on social media today. But it's totally missing the point. Canceling Dr. Seuss isn't stupid. It's intentional. They're banning Dr. Seuss not because he was a racist but precisely because he wasn't. Wow, I am so pleased to see Tucker Carlson concerned about racism. He is someone who I certainly didn't think would care about racism but you heard it here, folks. Tucker Carlson cares about racism and the argument that he's making is that this isn't just like an ordinary cancel culture has gone too far issue. Like he is alleging that Dr. Seuss was banned. And even a United States Senator, one of probably many, I haven't checked all of their Twitter feeds, has tweeted about this. Marco Rubio says now six Dr. Seuss books are canceled too. When history looks back at this time it will be held up as an example of a depraved socio-political purge driven by hysteria and lunacy. Now, it's interesting that they're alleging that Dr. Seuss has been canceled. Tucker Carlson even claims that Dr. Seuss has been banned because according to what I'm seeing, sales for Dr. Seuss since they started talking about how he's been canceled have been through the roof. And if you go to Amazon Books Best Seller List you will see Can the Hat, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Horton Here's a Who, Dr. Seuss, Jordan Peterson, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss. And then when you go to the next page you see even more Dr. Seuss. So for an author whose books are supposedly canceled and even banned it seems like, you know, it's gonna be okay. They're gonna survive this. However, that did not stop Fox News from absolutely going to bat for Dr. Seuss all week. Let's talk about Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss. That was not a comprehensive list, by the way. There's more. There's more, believe it or not. And it reminds me of this. Their ultimate end is either North Korea or Venezuela. Just look at Venezuela. What country is this? Venezuela? They're going to be the left of Venezuela. Venezuela. Venezuela. Venezuela. Venezuela. It's like conservatives are a hive mind and they're all controlled by one brain. Like it's extremely creepy. So what is the actual story here? Was Dr. Seuss canceled? Was Dr. Seuss banned? No. Not exactly. Dr. Seuss, they themselves decided, like not the doctor, but the company that runs Dr. Seuss and sells his books, distributes his books, they decided on their own volition to not sell six books. Books that aren't really popular. Like I haven't even heard of this one. I remember seeing this one as a kid. I don't know if I read it, but like these aren't the classics like Cat in the Hat, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, whatever the fuck. Like these aren't the classics. Like these are more obscure books and this is what happened. NBC News explains, just witnessed the contrived hysteria about the fabricated cancellation of Dr. Seuss. The beloved children's books author, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the very profitable company which controls the estate of the late Theodore Seuss Geisel. The man behind the pen name has decided on its own free will to stop publishing a half dozen of his books because the company told the Associated Press they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong, deploying stereotypes about black and asian people in a manner that Seuss' own estate thinks is offensive and inappropriate. The Fox outrage machine revved itself to hide dudgeon over how this private company has decided to conduct its business bemoaning the Seussian scalp talking, the GOP's cultural war ambulance chasers quickly followed suit. First they outlawed Dr. Seuss, mind you Theodore Geisel died in 1991 and it's his own estate taking this action and now they want to tell us what to say House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a mendacious non sequitur while debating proposed election law reforms. So the entire Republican party, one of two major parties in the United States along with all of their propaganda outlets, has chosen to make this the hill that they want to die on. This as the go to example to prove that cancel culture has gone too far when in actuality like this wasn't spawned by outrage like Dr. Seuss' estate said let's pull these books. You know what we call that? That's the free market bitch. That's the free market because they didn't believe that in modern society these books would be popular or maybe they'd be controversial. So they themselves made a business decision. That's the free market. They weren't canceled. They pulled their own books. This is their decision. So you know if I look back to some of the videos that I unlisted where I did interviews with idiots like H. A. Goodman apparently unbeknownst to me that wasn't me just like unlisting videos that I think were problematic that I put out that is me getting canceled. It may be me getting canceled by myself but it's me getting canceled. So apparently I am also a victim of cancel culture. I would like the benefits now please. I should see exponential growth in my views in Patreon members. Like this really like like are we seeing what's happening here. I mean I think we all see what's happening here right. Getting canceled is extremely lucrative. Not only do you make the case that the left is bad but simultaneously you can lead to an explosion of sales in whatever product you're trying to hawk. It's absolutely pretty brilliant. Like this is one of the best ideas that the right has come up with and we've seen this like implemented at the grift level for people like you know Dave Rubin where they will say hey this video was deleted because YouTube says it's problematic. I'm being censored and then they'll post like pictures of themselves with like tape over their mouths. I don't know if Dave Rubin said this in particular or did this in particular. I mean no he's done it but there's a lot of conservatives that'll like literally photoshop tape over their mouth like if they have a video that was like deleted from YouTube or demonetized. Like you've got to understand like like do we not see what's happening. This is very clearly a grift. Like this is them trying to profit off of cancel culture because not only does it make them money and get you know clicks for them but this absolutely makes the left look bad because you know who supports cancel culture. Nobody likes cancel culture. I remember like when I was a kid back then we wouldn't call it cancel culture but I was really into the Power Rangers and I remember there was like multiple news stories about how violent the Power Rangers was and my mom was really worried that maybe this show was too violent and I was pissed. Like I was ready to like freak out if they took away my Power Rangers. So it's like this isn't necessarily a new phenomenon but in 2021 America where you have a republican party who's completely out of ideas and has no real way to improve people's lives but they desperately want you to think that they're populist and they represent normal Americans. This is what they have to like do to appeal to working Americans. They have nothing economically to offer to people. So they try to like pretend as if they're on your side by getting you to side with them on these sorts of like culture war bullshit issues that don't actually matter at all. I mean each week we go to dumber and dumber things like it was Mr. Potato Head then the Muppets they've banned the Muppets. Now Dr. Seuss next week I don't know what it's going to be. Is it going to be like Barbie or something who knows. Like there's always going to be something that is completely insignificant and irrelevant. Has no meaningful impact on like political discourse or politics or policy but yeah this is what the party the republican party one of two major parties in the richest country in the world is choosing to focus on. This is one of the many reasons why we are so fucked because this is the sort of shit that one of two major parties is choosing to focus on. It's not like Democrats are good they're they're terrible as well but I mean like this is this is clown shit like this right here like focusing on Dr. Seuss because Dr. Seuss took away their own books from sales like you're not condemning the outrage mob you are the outrage mob you're the one who's outraged at the actions of a private company like don't pretend as if you're against outrage and that your counter counterculture you are the motherfuckers who are the SJWs you are as hypersensitive as you claim SJWs are you're just anti SJWs you're the anti social justice warriors and you know you're using cancel culture to try to you know score political points and it may work in the short time but I promise you like how much you are focusing on this it's going to get old fast like I don't know what people are going to get tired of quicker like cancel culture itself like things getting canceled for being offensive or people complaining about cancel culture non-fucking stop I know that all of it is irritating a shit to me and I would like it to stop but this is what the GOP is going to focus on like their entire CPAC conference was titled America Uncancelled so we know that exactly what exactly they're going to be focusing on this isn't going to go away anytime soon and they're going to be seeking out any and all issues that help make their point about cancel culture and it's going to get more ridiculous as their desperation grows trust me on this recovery mode my brain ideas recovery mode my brain ideas