 Let's go to the safe place. What is your evidence? Who is it? Hi to all my viewers, at least. Hi to Lance's viewers and David's and everyone else's viewers. Yes, hello to everyone else, his viewers. I'm just making sure that everything is working. Yeah, I mean, I think I'm live, but I don't know. I'm just guessing and hoping it works. Oh, they have like four of us are live right now. Yeah, maybe. We're good. Like a boomer. I'm just like Googling my Twitch stream. And I'm checking to make sure that it's working. Yeah, that's what I'm doing too. I'm at least. I can't see nobody's chat. I wish I could see somebody's chat. You could open someone's video and then just like mute the audio. I'm about to. I literally that's to create minds think alike. I was going to Lance's right now. Let me go do that. Let me go to Lance's. They nice to meet air. I like that. Nice. So nice. Like y'all are the goodest little bunch of people. They are nice. I'm not going to lie guys. I'm I'm like watching the game awards right beside you all. Let me know. I want to see what new games you're going to be announced today. So one like best actor, right? It was a very hard. Yeah. Christopher judge for Kratos got award. He won. Fucking amazing game. Good. He won. Yeah. Hell yeah. His speech was like 20 minutes long. I'm going to be the nice comments. Oh, I like this. I'm a Leo. I love. Listen, I am a sucker for flattery. Oh, I'm a I'm a flattery loving bitch. Like, Does anyone not like flattery though? I love flattery too. People like to pretend like they're so above it. I'm like, stop it. Okay. This is a real rough. I do pretend I'm above it, but I like it. Same. Same. Say nice stuff to me. I'll be all I'll be the nicest bitch. Love that. Oh, so I think we should maybe just, um, I guess since we're going to try this out, chat this out to all the chats. Um, at least in my chat, I'm going to post this a little Google form link. We're going to try this time to allow questions so that we can kind of look at questions that you guys might have because sometimes we might miss things in the chat. Um, so I'm going to post the link in my chat. Everyone's who's live. I assume you guys are going to post in your chats as well. The right link. I gave another link. Don't post the other one. Um, and then you guys can ask questions and then we'll try and talk about it as well too. So we can see what you guys want us to talk about as well. Yeah, I love that. I love being able to like have the audience influence what we discuss because it's easy. Like I'm the type of person where I go on tangents really easily. So if there's no like borders up or any type of like, I don't know, something to steer me in the right direction, I can go, I can land anywhere. So I like that. And I will send this to my chat. Yeah. I'm a monologue loving bitch. Absolutely. Oh, with that though. Oh, no, I know. Oh, no, I live for a good monologue. I love it. Like, that's my everything. Let me get a rat going. I think I posted that in all my chats. I'm sorry. I'm so slow with this. Whatever. No, thank you for making this. I appreciate that. I'll try and update it for every single week. So there's going to be a new form for every week. So this one's for episode two. Hey, Matt. Oh, there's. Hello. I forgot that it starts at 830 and not nine. Come on. How convenient. Okay. I'm also I'm also very, very distracted by the Twitter files part two that are currently being. I saw you on Twitter. Just dropped just now. Yeah. You ready for the big reveal? Okay. Twitter. Twitter shadow bands. Did you know that? What? And ready for this, one of the big points that that Barry Weiss is making is that Libs of Tik Tok was doxxed in a photo of her house in one tweet was posted doxxed in a photo of her tweet was posted in November 20 on November 21st, 2022. And Twitter did nothing. The tweet is still up. Elon Musk owns the company while this is what's going on. He's the one responsible. And she's trying to she's trying to place it out of place on the timeline to make it seem like like she she was talking about things that happened before Elon Musk. Then she dropped the Libs of Tik Tok example. And then all of a sudden right after she dropped that example, she's back in 2021 before Musk owned the platform. She's trying to like like needle it in there. So the idiots who are reading this and there are many idiots going crazy over this. Don't don't realize it's placed on the timeline. Where's the shame? Like these people are like the amount of garbage and shit they have put out like Barry White started her career trying to get Palestinian professors fired. Right. It was not like what her like she was in college complaining about about Palestinian rights only to then go on and talk about cancel culture her entire life. Like it's there. They're all such frauds that it amazes me that they continue to have the status and the access to an audience that they do when over and over again they have shown themselves to be full of shit. But we have to be here explaining it every single time. It's ridiculous. People have no standards. So I guess it's not going to be the first topic. Do we have an official intro? Do we say anything like a welcome to the leftist mafia? How much did I miss? What are you guys talking about before I interrupt? Nothing. That was pretty much the first topic that's been explored, I think. Yeah, that's it. We're literally jumping in. And we're just going over with the chat that we now have this little Google form so that the chat can ask us questions and we can see kind of what they want us to talk about, which I'm peeking through and I see what they want us to talk about good stuff tonight, by the way. So if you want, I mean, welcome everyone to the leftist mafia. We're all here. And I think that's it. Let's do this. Yeah. And I just want to say thank you all so much. I saw nothing but positivity on all of our channels because I'm, for some reason, I've become that person while I look at the comments again. And there was so much positivity. You all said such wonderful and encouraging things. And I'm glad that you all are having as much fun watching as we are here because I feel like this is just kind of a hangout session and event session. And they're very therapeutic. And yeah, it seems like it's the same for everyone else watching. So I'm very thankful. Yeah, it's fun. Absolutely. Yeah. So where should we begin? Should we talk about Twitter a little bit or do we want to start jumping into like a variety of topics? What's everyone feeling tonight? I'll be honest. If we're going to crack the egg with what Matt's talking about, it's probably easiest to just rip that Band-Aid off and get it out of the way. And then we don't ever have to say the words Matt Taibe again. Probably never. Excuse you. Maybe Harry's wife today. No, I know. But we got to do some backtracking, right? We got to tell the story. There's a whole legend to be told here. I already did a whole hour and a half on Matt Taibe's. Sorry. They're moving from Taibe to Barry Weiss is doing this now. Is Taibe off the case or what's going on here? So Elon tapped specific people, right? And I think Elon was trying to find that sweet spot between someone who has basically like still a shred of credibility as in like this person just can't be discounted. Even though they're an opinion journalist, we just can't throw this right out. That crossed with, are they like going to be soft enough that when I straight up say, you have to do whatever I say, they will. Because Matt Taibe had to agree to conditions before he was allowed to release the Twitter files on Twitter, which would benefit one person, which is Elon Musk, right? I think the whole thing is just dangling keys. That's how I see it. It's one person, Elon Musk, who has been fucking flailing publicly on the 44 billion dollar divorce app that he has bought. It's a nightmare of his own design. And he's holding up this pair of keys to be like, look, it's not as bad as you think. Check this out. Look, I got secrets. I'm revealing them. And then that's where Matt Taibe comes in. Believe it or not, I missed this Twitter files thing. Like, the more, the more I listen, the more I'm like, mmm. My ass might have missed this. Does somebody want to give like a Matt? Do you want to give like a basic? Sure, sure, sure. Let's do this. So Elon Musk claims he has, now that he own Twitter, there's all this interesting stuff that he's uncovering in, because you know, he has access to everyone's private emails in Twitter, like all of the former employees and all everyone. He has their Slack messages, everything. Which, you know, if you work for Twitter, what a great thing to know that they're going to all be public. I wonder if there's some sort of law against, you know, privacy and stuff like that. Why would you be telling us something that wouldn't out of Elon Musk as the public that you all do these fucking business? Right, also on top of that, none of the individuals who are either former or current Twitter employees who are going to be uncovered in these, none of them are individually, I'm not a lawyer, you are. So you could probably let me know if I'm right here. But none of the current or former employees would be legally held responsible for what they did for their work, for their employer. So if there's any sort of legal ramification here, it would be against someone to sue Twitter. And who would they sue? Elon Musk, because he's the current owner of Twitter. He, by all buying Twitter, he also becomes responsible for everything it previously did as well. Yeah. Yeah, no. Yeah, he's opening himself up to lawsuits, but he's no stranger to that. The man is a fool. So now Twitter files. So now what are the Twitter files and who's putting, give me the T. Okay, so the first Twitter files dropped Friday night and it came from Matt Taibbi, who has had a long downfall over the past couple of years from serious journalists to releasing stuff that Elon Musk personally sent to him. Yeah, transphobia as well, defending Matt Walsh. Yeah, just all around piece of shit. So the Twitter files part one was supposed to ostensibly show that Twitter colluded with the Democratic Party and the government to hurt users' first amendment rights, which is laughable in and of itself. Elon Musk even tweeted out, as Matt Taibbi was dropping these Twitter files, that Elon Musk even said, I've never seen a clearer violation of the first amendment, which again, there's no violation of the first amendment. A private company can choose to have policies and they can make those policies however they'd like. It's their platform. They can choose what sort of content they want on there or not. So the first thing is Matt Taibbi starts tweeting multiple tweets in this tweet thread that's basically just gibberish. Bullshit meant to try to like, I don't know if he was trying to build up suspense or he needed to really actually explain why this was a big deal because as you'll see what he actually shows is not a big deal at all. But it's like, you learn in Journalism 101 that the first thing you do when you have a story, a breaking story to report, the first thing you do in that very first paragraph, the paragraph is you tell people exactly what you're breaking. You tell people straight up in as few sentences as possible. Here's the news. This is what you should know. This is what we're uncovering. It takes him like eight tweets to get to and he only decides to get to it after eight tweets because he admits, okay, everyone's complaining. Everyone's complaining, it's taking me too long. So then we get to the actual stuff and the first thing he shows us is a few screenshots from the Joe Biden campaign. This was the campaign before November 2020. The election hasn't happened yet and it shows, it actually is emailed from a few Twitter employees where they say the Joe Biden campaign sent them a few tweets. They include the links to the tweets and they want us to look at this for possible takedown. Twitter apparently looks at this and these tweets and decides to take them down. Matt Taibbi does not show us what these tweets are. He just says, look, the Joe Biden campaign asked Twitter to take stuff down and they did it. Well, people like me and other reporters who actually decide to do actual journalism, we looked up these tweets and obviously these tweets were taken down from Twitter, but guess what? The internet archive saved like five out of the seven of them. And if you look at what these five tweets that were archived are, they're nudes and naked photos of Hunter Biden from the stolen laptop. So Twitter took down these tweets because they're non-consensual nudes. The right wing is complaining that Hunter Biden's hog wasn't allowed to be posted on Twitter. It was supposed to be the October surprise. You should add that. That's why they were so mad. The Trump campaign at the time thought the release of all of these was going to destroy the world and now they're screaming that the election was stolen in addition to everything else because they couldn't release this. But it was released. It came out in the fucking, what is it? The New York Post. It was 50 million times, by the way. Everyone saw this article. It's not like it was hidden. Here's the thing next though in this. I just want to drop all this stuff really quick so we have the whole thing. The next thing is Matt Taibbi then says, here's proof that Twitter colluded with the Democrats because Twitter itself is biased. Now you'd assume there'd be some sort of internal documents showing Twitter is extremely biased to the Democrats. No. What Matt Taibbi offers up as proof is a screenshot of the website OpenSecrets that anyone can access that shows, lo and behold, no big shock. Again, everyone knows this because you could look it up yourself, publicly online. The majority of people employed by Twitter donate to Democratic candidates and campaigns over Republican candidates and campaigns. That's all he offers up as evidence. Nothing internally, nothing that Elon must send him because again, there's nothing there. And then thirdly, and the last before we could start discussing this, is he then, the next part of this and what's supposed to be the biggest of the reveals is internal discussion between Twitter employees about the removal of that New York Post link. And the internal discussion, which is supposed to show great bias and everything, never shows the Biden campaign or the Democratic Party get involved at all. There's no proof they ever messaged Twitter at all that was shown to us about the New York Post link at all. It was just those nude photos being posted directly to Twitter. Second of all, the discussions being that were shared were debates within Twitter between high-level Twitter employees who were saying, this is wrong, we shouldn't be doing this. And some saying, we need to be cautious. It's not clear what's going on. So it shows that there actually was heated discussion to try to figure out what to do. And then by the end of that same night that they blocked the link from being shared, they reverse it and decide the link can be shared. There's nothing here at all that we didn't know about or be proved something we didn't know. Wow. More than the stupidity for me, it's really just like the inconsistency in logic. We have to pick a lane. Either we're going to pretend, either we're purporting to equate Twitter to the government, which is what they do because their inability to understand that your rights are only applied as to the government is baffling. But either they're going to say, Twitter has that same kind of impact which is an argument, whatever, as the government. Or they make their argument like Twitter's not a real place. Twitter isn't reflected. It's just leftist bubble. It's this yadda yadda yadda. Pick one. Pick fucking one. But they're fucking inconsistent, right? That's the one. But two, this, like I say, the right always has us on the upside down. But it's like, bro, Twitter, yeah, a lot of people on Twitter is more of a more liberal platform. We're going to see more of that. And that's just because, statistically speaking, people that are far more educated around Twitter by comparison to like Instagram and other apps. That's just the truth. Usually when you're more educated, you come around to not having asked and asked beliefs. That's usually how that goes, right? So big shulker. You're educated folk running Twitter. Oh, liberals. Big surprise. So it's just like, they're never, they're never even making any argument. And it's just like, also, Elon Musk has to find something to fucking do. Like this whole, like, it's not this deep. And I'm, I'm, I'm a bit, I'm a bit, you feel seriously about Twitter. Like I, I get, I get feeling strongly about Twitter affairs. Like, but my guy, it is not this fucking serious. Like nobody to it, like Twitter gate, Twitter files for real. We, we out here doing what now we're releasing money. You digging through the company personnel's business. Not to mention, like, there's no journalism here. Elon Musk has the files and gave them to Taibi. It's not like this is like some, some long, like, you know, year long investigation. Like he gave you the files. You're just like dumping them out in accordance to what he says because he said, like he, he says that the White House also requested tweets get taken down and doesn't go into that. Has he gone into that? Like, has he mentioned what those are yet? Because that's the actual government recommending that these get removed off social media. The Biden campaign is, he's a private citizen. That's a private campaign. That's not the government doing that. So the actual story, if there is a story, is what was the Trump administration telling Twitter to take down. But they don't go like, imagine it was a Democratic presidency that did that. What would Taibi and, and must be saying right now? Like it's so stupid. No journalism of any kind. Like no kind of even just like, not a fuck journalism. Just like, let's talk civilians, spidey senses. Like, I remember once like one of my clients, like, you know, giving me what the alibi was and then like immediately sending me like a compressive file of a fuck ton of screenshots and supporting those. May you, may you have compiled this? Was it, might there be an agenda here? This is a little, I'm just like, Elon Musk. Obviously the man is literally giving you a file of, of you be trusted. This is complete. This is, this is accurate. No agenda here of any kind. Like it's laughable. Yeah. Well, Taibi is a spin doctor. So he gave it to Taibi because he knew that he would spin it in the way that Elon wants. But my favorite thing about this entire story is that Elon Musk is essentially admitting to everyone that he literally believes it's a first amendment violation. If Twitter removes pictures of Hunter Biden's nine inch penis, who, who thinks like this? That's insane to me. But it's also hilarious at the same time. Like it's not like nothing has come of this. Hilarity has come with this as well. And Matt, when you were describing like the introduction of Taibi's thread, it reminds me of when I'd read these like policy 101 essays and they had to reach a certain like word requirement. They start off with this huge long diatribe since the dawn of time. Man has tried to find a way to govern themselves. But this is like what he did with Twitter. He's like communication, Twitter. It's been the public square. And like he wouldn't get to the point. It was insufferable. And you could see that reflected in some of the articles as well where the headline would be like, um, Twitter files flops as Taibi's long diatribe or whatever. It's just the whole thing is hilarious. It's a joke. And anyone like Taibi and Weiss who participated in it, you think that they would be delegitimized. But this gives them more credibility than ever since they're dropping this and the right is eating it up. Even if some right-wingers are admitting that it's a flop like on Fox News. David did a great video about this. How they're kind of just admitting, yeah, this wasn't necessarily the smoking gun that we were hoping for, which is telling when they admit that because they never admit things like that. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. This is really funny. Barry Weiss tweeted out a screenshot of Twitter's back end that shows that, you know, Libs of TikTok had some, you know, things like addendums, like labels put on her account so that it, you know, certain tweets and things like that didn't trend. You know, that's what they're supposed to, we're supposed to, but we're supposed to believe that's a big deal, right? Shut down. That is like an account that is directly targeting Drake events and all that kind of shit. Well, wait for this. So she tweets a screenshot of this back end and it's supposed to prove that Twitter was biased against Libs of TikTok. They should be. But it says at the top, there's a giant warning at the top of this back end for Twitter employees to see that says, do not take action on this user without consulting and in the name of some special high up Twitter executive group. So literally, Libs of TikTok got special treatment from Twitter. Oh my God. That's right. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. Okay. Okay. Well, so the opposite of what these people believe. I mean, they've been screaming that for so long. It's the exact opposite. Wow. Okay. That's that's gonna be a cycle. That actually is a bomb. That's huge. That is a bomb. Twitter. A study. I think over a year ago now, two years ago, and it found this is an independent study in a peer review journal. Actually, the peer review journal is called PNAS, which I found funny because I was talking with Hunter Biden at the time. But it showcases that Twitter algorithm benefits the right. It props up right-wing politicians, props up right-wing news sources. My guess is for the same reason the algorithm and in other cases and other websites does is it often favors extremist content, people that are more extreme that tend to get, you know, more likes that kind of thing. So that's their own external study. Showcase this. How many times have you logged on to Twitter and you see some random conservative, you've never seen in your life, all of a sudden in your timeline recommended to you. Oh, yeah. Every single day I get these jackass. Way more now. Way more now. I've never had anyone on the left in my timeline. It's so it's it we see it every day. We see it in the data for them to try and claim otherwise. It's just the same the same gaslighting bullshit that they have done on every single, every single issue. But it's I guess it's honestly a reflection of everything else they do in their reality and their privilege, right? Like it's the whole thing with the culture wars, which is really nothing. Their biggest plight is other people having a plight and wanting to do something about it. This is really a reflection of that because it think about the life that you must be living when the only perceived slight or problem, the worst you're being treated is by the Twitter is by Twitter management in your mind. Like that's the work. That's the worst anybody's fucking treating you like right across the day. Right. Like fear radically you think Twitter not fucking with your tweets like everybody else. Like that's it. That's a big right. Like I'm like, wow. Like how how sweet life must be. That's so true. Also, I just want to point out that the entire thread is Barry wise showing the documents via taking a photo of her computer screen. She doesn't know how to take a screenshot. What? Every single one. Take a look. It's a whole thread. I believe it. Barry wise rage quit the New York Times and she's at the same very wise. And I'm thinking of the one who's like cancel culture will come for us all and it's going to come for me eventually. So I quit like that. That's who we're talking about. Yes. Okay. The next person door has more technical knowledge than Barry wise does. I know even Jimmy Dorg got the full screen shot. No, the next person who Elon is going to give this to is definitely going to be Glenn Greenwald for sure. But Glenn Greenwald is even less tech savvy. I was watching one of his videos and he literally was trying to play a clip and he just held his entire laptop up to the camera and press play. No fucking joke. Like that's exactly what he did. That's adorable. Okay. That's adorable. Come on. Don't take that away from him. Let him keep thinking that's fucking cool. No one tell him. All right. Shame on anybody who spread said that's not cool. Let him let his viewers watch it that way. And he like he was holding it like that for the entire video. It was like three minutes or something. I can't remember. But hilarious shit. I'm not very tech savvy. I'm a boomer. But even I know that that's not necessarily the best way to share a video with your audience where you're like here's my laptop. That's really funny. Okay. Before the story goes away because he hasn't said anything about I thought you were saving the best part but I'm going to I'm going to jump on this one. If you don't know before the second Twitter files was released there was a Twitter supplemental that came out. I forgot all about that. This one is fucking hilarious. This one's really really funny. The Twitter supplemental reveals and this is the big bombshell. There was a person working at Twitter a legal counsel who once worked for the FBI. Now before you're all like wait what that legal counsel called Jim Baker who once worked for the FBI apparently Elon Musk claims he has no idea who he was. He just found out this Sunday who he was and immediately when he found out that this person who worked for the FBI actually had to oversee the first Twitter files. He fired him. It was like no one told him and there was a canary in the coal mine. This is terrible. Turns out he's lying through his teeth. He knew exactly who he was because he responded to Mike Serenovic's like big tweet about it who explained exactly who the person was. So the second Twitter files is more embarrassing than the first. It's just Elon Musk lying that he didn't know who one of his legal counsels was who was doing his job which is to look over files as a legal counsel before the release of the public. It's like it's even more ridiculous. I'm enjoying this honestly. It's not a flop. After all it's a dub. This is it's like this is so funny. It's so bad. But the problem is people are going to eat this up like they're absolutely going to eat this up and think that something's here. But you know what? I mean it's already it's sort of the tying down like they're taking so long to do this. I mean. I mean those those early tie betweets got like massive engagement on Friday night and now it's already like they're barely able to to pull off what they did. But Matt you went deep into this. What did you think that implied. I was like this is one of two things. Either you Elon Musk who just bought the company just completely befuddled like Mr. Magoo falling through your fucking way there didn't know who was working for you as one of your top legal counsels was like oh surprise oh I had no idea this person was Jim Baker who worked the FBI. That's the best case scenario. And anything else is like you are just a foolish clown and you have fucked this up so bad along the way. You know. Right. I mean I mean how do you not know is the guy being that he put his he put his name in the title of the document title document like he sent the guy's name is Jim Baker and he sent him a document that was titled something like Baker e-mails or something like that. Oh we have to also point out that in that Twitter thread Taibi doxxed two people. He revealed the personal email address of Ro Khanna his actual non congressional email is his Gmail I believe and also the old Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as well. How do you do this if you're a journalist? How do you do this? Thank you answer your own question. Yeah you're not a real Joe if you're a journalist. Good point. I'm just looking at these right now. She's already done. That was it. That was the big reveal the Twitter Barry Weiss is big reveal today from the Twitter files. Twitter shadow bands something we've always known. Photos of the back end of Twitter showing the different labels that they put out which actually we got screenshots of that back in July 2020 when you guys remember that teen hacker that got into the back end of Twitter and started tweeting from all these different big users accounts. Do you remember that? So those labels got leaked then and I found a vice piece that literally runs down all the labels that we saw that day and then the same labels that Barry Weiss is apparently breaking today. I guess the news would be the big reveal there was something. We now know that Twitter gave Flips of Tiktok a special categorization that wouldn't let her be moderated on unless a high council of Twitter and Twitter executives ruled on it. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That account literally is a terror account that just terrorizes people and they're getting special treatment while the right is claiming that the left is getting special treatment. It's just up is down left is right. They just they create a whole different reality and people go along with it. It's so frustrating. Imagine not believing like in like white privilege and like any like like benefits from like enslavement and all kind of like like whole big systemic shit but believe in deep in your heart like Twitter is Twitter is blood in the fucking gang. Twitter has got a material disadvantage. Yeah. Yeah. It's time for a pivot. Yes. Got one. All right. I got it. I've got the responses open so I'm kind of filtering through and looking at stuff. Please. So all right. Here's one question that's coming from Comrade Tyler who says what is with the selective patriotism of conservatives. I'm a vet myself and I'm absolutely disgusted with the discourse around Griner which someone else points out which is Tyler says thoughts on Brittany Griner's release and the right wing's reaction to it. Do we have any thoughts about this? Yeah. You had a good video. I want you to go. Oh yeah. Okay. They're fucking racist. They are. They're like that. Thank you. Thank you. Plain and simple. End scene. Roll credits. Yeah. That's it. I like it. I just want it. No, it's not it's not. I'm a vet myself and I'm absolutely disgusted with this that's fin. And we're done. That's not just everybody. You're experiencing honestly it's a beautiful example of intersection of bigotry, right? Because on both sides like you see you see arm from the side of black people, fellow black people complaining and that's because like that are adopting the bullshit and eating up these talking points that were literally crafted at the top of the fucking morning. Because homophobia because not attracted to and so they ultimately don't give a fuck because they were never having these conversations. When when Trump was getting ASAP Rocky out, we weren't having these conversations. There was no deep dive into what the fuck needed to happen to get him out. No one was talking about ASAP was being held accountable because he was fighting or whatever. No one was talking. None of this shit. So at the end of the day is disingenuous. And that's what this being motivated over there. And then from the side of your usual racist, who good old fashioned and all the bigotry associated with also homophobia on that side. And then it blended together to create a pot of talking shit, a bunch of talking shit into the general like disingenuous arguments that have been raised. Let me just get them out of here real quick. Arms dealer, arms dealer, arms dealer. Now I know y'all don't read. I know y'all don't read, but y'all don't watch no fall either. Like nothing y'all don't know. Like this right here, America. That's the arms dealer. Let's just y'all talk about that. Number one, baby. Number one. No one comes close. So like, you notice that y'all don't know any other fucking arm dealers. Y'all don't know no arms dealers name. That's not a usual thing. We've never been having conversations about arms dealers because they they're left to do their business without a fucking problem. Okay. That talking point was crafted for y'all this morning. Arms dealer. Also, additionally, this whole furthermore than the next arguments of this is not an equivalence. This is not an equivalent trade. Okay. Like straw man was like dog whistling to the highest form. This whole this whole discussion of worth and then conveniently throwing out this white man that y'all were not championing yesterday. This whole time this Britney grinding stuff has been happening. Y'all were not championing this man. That name was thrown out today. All of a sudden now y'all found a white man to argue, oh, he should be free. His worth is more important than this black woman. Get the fuck out of here. And then all the other arguments about, oh, all these other people that deserve to be freed and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, you're absolutely correct. Yeah, there are 2 million people incarcerated in this country alone. There are all kinds of people, political prisoners everywhere. There are people in Russia being imprisoned that should be freed that doesn't change the fact that this woman should be free too. There's nothing. There's no world we ever live in where we go. Oh, that person got justice. That's a fucking problem because look at all these other people that didn't get justice to nobody. That's a bullshit, stupid argument and y'all would never accept that level of bigotry if it was coming and any other capacity. If we were talking about like think about how silly it is and to enter the overall argument, they've been making like, oh, the only reason she's getting this is because, you know, she's a WNBA player. Okay, she is not getting this because she's a WNBA player and y'all fucking know that. As a matter of fact, she's only in this position because she's a WNBA player. That's the only reason she was in Russia playing in the first goddamn place. So let's keep it real. The reason this is happening is because, yeah, people galvanized her friends, her family, her loved ones, her team, people. This became a political issue galvanized around it because she's a political prisoner. Yeah, you're right. That's literally how shit goes. How many think about the very few victims of police brutality you've heard of in comparison to the over a thousand people killed by police every year? Think about how many you hear about. Think about how many get any justice and your responses never went George Floyd when the officers were convicted in George Floyd. You didn't go, but they didn't fucking convict anybody in. This shouldn't happen. It doesn't make sense. And you know it. So you're really just tapping into bigotry. It's disingenuous. It's foolishness. This is a good thing. Thank God the woman is coming home because otherwise we would exist in a world where we know it's a tragedy, you know, we know it's fucked up. And nine years later, she would still be there serving time. So this is a good thing. If there was a hostage situation, like any hostage situation and like all of a sudden they're like they're releasing one of the hostages in what world would people be like, Oh, wait, no, no, no, no. Not that one. Hold on. Wait, wait, who else was available? What else do we have in the back? Well, can we check? Can I just go through the character selection screen and then see what I can pick? Yeah, we kind of missed out on I don't know. This feels like a loss for the country. You know, this one hurts. This one cuts deep. God damn right. It's not like the US has a, you know, a Russian locked up on marijuana. You know what I mean? Like there's no equivalent there. So like if they're going to have a prisoner exchange, which is the only way to get these people out, it's going to be someone who's a little high profile regardless of who it is. So it's to complain. It's just it's people grasping at straws. And unfortunately, I think you're right. People get sucked into these arguments and they think they're being noble when in reality they're just being tricked. And I saw a lot of them in my comments as well, which kind of surprised me because my audience, you know, normally isn't this stupid, but there are some comments that are just were completely disconnected. And it's unfortunate. But the only, I don't know if this is like the only criticism that makes any, I don't agree with it, but I get where people are coming from is that it legitimizes Russia kidnapping people because then they can try and get, you know, more of their people out, I guess is the idea. But they're going to kidnap people anyways. Like they're taking people, locking them up and regardless, they're doing it now, even before these, you know, exchange or before this exchange happened. So to claim that this one exchange now means that Russia is going to lock up more people or going to, you know, trap more Americans is, I think, just empty. If you're going to look at a picture, if we're going to look at a picture, we have to look at a full picture. This idea would ever want to paint like at the end of the day, the reason why they're able to engage in this barter system is because this is what the fuck they do. Both of these countries lock people up as political prisoners. America, we know locks Americans up as political prisoners. All right. So this whole idea like, oh, Russia just out here doing wild fuck shit. And this is the first opportunity the US has ever gotten to make a position known. And now, oh, no, oh, now Russia is enabled. This been how they do business. Okay, we just are not normally in the fucking discussion. We are only privy to this particular conversation, this particular trade, because this was a social, it was a social movement, you know what I mean? That push pushed it to being, you know what I mean? At the forefront and something that's being done. And Biden is responding to, you know, a perceived something that would get goodwill. That's that's what's happening here. But this whole idea I'm like, they already do this. They already does this, baby. Like this is like the whole legitimate. And I also want people to like, we have to be careful not to become we can't be so in the clouds, so in theory and so in our idealistic world that we let real fuck shit happen. At the end of the day, that's a real human being, right? Like this real one person is in fucking jail and would be exposed to what 10 years in a Russian prison and every fucking traumatic horrible thing that comes along with that her family, her loved ones, those people, every ball, those people are real people that would experience that there is no reason to be so theoretically in the clouds, you know what I mean? About hypotheticals and stuff that you just say, ah, it's not fucking worth it. Like, oh, this is a bad thing. Why are we engaged? We're engaged in Russian. And in this case, because this is a real human being. Like this is, that's what it is. And I need people to like acknowledge that. Yeah, they're just basically admitting that they don't care. That's the thing. Like when you see these comparisons between like the white marine and the black gay woman, I mean, the subtext is that her life is less valuable than this black marine. And they're trying to say everything without saying that. Like they're screwing around it. But we know exactly what they mean by it. It's all about devaluing her and trying to make it seem as if, you know, she doesn't care. And one thing is that people are trying to make it seem as if she's guilty because she brought the cannabis oil. She went to Russia multiple times. Russia just randomly chose to take her into custody because they are trying to fuck with the United States, barter back and forth. So, you know, relations have deteriorated. So it was just before the invasion, actually. So I think it was like, there was definitely some, you know, reason there for them. Yeah, she's just upon. So to, you know, try to ascribe guilt to her. It's just again, like she's getting demonized because she's a black gay woman. It's that simple. It's such a dangerous, the underlying rationale is so dangerous to adopt. Because what you're saying is you're all the people that go, Oh, well, she she's being held accountable, or she's not wrongfully incarcerated, or so, oh, you know, she's guilty of it or whatever. What you're saying is that a government for government imposes law, no matter how unjust that law is or how disproportionate the sentence is, that is fine. That is permissible. That underlying fucking rationale is why you're living in a country for the mass incarceration that mass that massively incarcerated your people in the bondage. That'd be a fucking ridiculous answer. And you would know. And this is what I don't like when I hate to see black and people of color fall into like white supremacist talking point framings that hurt us in other contexts. Because if we were talking about a black person being wrongfully, you know, if we were talking about, we wouldn't care. Let me put it to you this way. We wouldn't give a fuck of Cleave Prouder had stolen the backpack. It would change nothing. We would know that was wrongful that he was incarcerated at right because we would know it was wrongful. Everything that he was views regardless, we would never have that argument. But you make it in these contexts, because what it really boils down to is this is other to you. You are not feeling the same level of solidarity we would feel with a black person because this is a black a woman. And that's really what the T is because we would never accept this framing otherwise. And this framing is overall dangerous and harmful to us. And it's scary when you allow yourself to be tricked into to aligning with the white supremacist today. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, we're gonna be arguing the same shit as the white supremacist because they're gonna use and flip all of that back on you and say, look, you know what I mean, the same the same logic that you you refuse to acknowledge the bigotry in it today. Because today the bigotry is directed towards this gay woman, right? But on another day when it's directed towards us, you'll have a problem with that. So that's my biggest issue with it. Yeah, yeah, that beautifully put one thing that I've just got to point out to throw in some rage bait is Tommy Lorenz tweet probably pissed me off the most because she said something to the effect of Oh, well, now that you know, you're back, is she still gonna kneel, you know, during the national anthem if you're gonna respect our country? I can't handle these people. I hate these people so much. You haven't suffered enough. Yeah. Look at what this country did to you. Are you still gonna disrespect the flag? I can't take it. Like, I honestly, I can't handle these people. Oh, my God, I wish they would fucking like wipe like, oh my this goddamn flag like, right? Honestly, this is why it's important to is important to dole out ass whoop into people as a child. No, it really is because no, you have to go through life like you might get fucked up. Like you have to be aware that that's kind of the consequence. Like, I talk a lot of shit because I got hands like if you wanted, like if you wanted to get it, like they cannot you would not go around talking about people bowling crazy like this or whatever. If you just if you knew there might be some repercussions, it's absurd. Like sometimes the way these people just go out of their way to be dickheads is absurd, just absurd. You could just shut the fuck up like you could. You know what I mean? You could not be tapped in like this and you have to be a fucking hater to be glued into this level to something that you like don't support. You don't care about the women's real. What are you talking about? Like you have to find something to be negative. The flag. Is she gonna kneel? I don't know. Maybe not, bro. She's been like, I if prior to some bullshit right to being taken as a political prisoner and leverages a political prisoner, I thought America moved unjustly towards black people. And then I am put in a position where realize this is also a direct mirror of exactly how in fact America does in fact treat black people. And I've been a political prisoner again, talked about like a dirty dog called everything but a child of God by all these races, all these bigots for months. Perhaps I might not kneel for the flag. I hope that the first thing that she does when she gets back is burns the flag just so they can get pissed off. That would be amazing if she just like stepped on it and spit on it and burned it just to be like, fuck you. Like that's where I'm at mentally. From the top of my lungs like I would y'all would hand me reverberate off the walls laughing and carrying on if she did such a thing. They would lose their fucking mind son, lose their goddamn minds. They really give it up too crazy about the flag, son. I'm like, it's not, it's not this deep. Y'all, y'all have to stop. The guy that was released over the summer, actually an exchange. He, sorry, I'm here myself on Echo. It's messed up. Yeah, I'm hearing it too. Echoing all of a sudden. The guy that was released over the summer on exchange. When he came back, he criticized Joe Biden immediately for not doing more to release more people. So I'm just imagine like, imagine if Britney Granner does that, like they would flip out, but there was barely any peep. Actually, no, you know who covered it? Fox news. Fox news covered it to, to criticize Joe Biden, but like, but there was barely any coverage on this. But like it's, he's right. Like there's a lot more I imagine. I mean, again, I don't know. I'm not in the room, but I can imagine this guy is privy to more information. He apparently said he can't talk about, you know, what he knows, but there's more that Biden should be doing that he knows about it. Biden can do to release more people and Biden simply at this point isn't, isn't doing it. Yeah. But yeah, that's basically, but that's a danger in like treating teaching people that their government is doing them a favor, which is what America does, right? America like convinces people in it, asking their government to deliver on needs to give them anything is a welfare state is you, you know, that it's a very like, you should be grateful for the government doing anything for you. And in actuality, it's like, no, you give power to the government so that they serve your needs. And that's basically an ultimate reflection on this idea that like, rather than it be, be considered the government's responsibility to take to save civilians that have been taken as political prisoners or wrongfully incarcerated, rather than you look at that as the government's doing what they are supposed to do, you look at it as the government doing them a favor. So you should be forever grateful and indebted, especially if it's your black ass, because you don't deserve nothing is basically the argument and that's how they're going to move. So she said, I am, I would bet my good money, she's going to come out and be incredibly like expressed grateful gratitudeness and then just don't say nothing. You know what I mean? For a while, she does give a very grateful statement or whatever. She's not gonna say nothing because a black person knows exactly, you don't have the, you don't have the, the, you're not given the, the freedom. You're not given the freedom to be critical like that. The way that white guy could have done that and we don't hear about that. There's no way she can do that. It ain't gonna happen. Yeah. Yeah, great point. On the subject of like right wingers raging, I just have to at least, I'd be remiss to not mention Vicki Hartzler again, the lady who cried, encouraging all of her Republican colleagues to vote against the Respect for Marriage Act. Like something like that normally would piss me off, but I genuinely enjoyed watching that and I've watched the video now like 10 times and I feel like it's really fueling me today. It's just, these people are so petty. So they're such losers that you, you almost feel sorry for them, but I don't. But it's just, I have to, I have to point that out because that was really, if you haven't seen it folks, go watch the video. We've all probably done videos on it by now. Vicki Hartzler. Yeah, I put one up too. She was crying, trying to get everyone to vote against the Respect for Marriage Act and they did it anyway. So she's going to be crying herself to sleep and I am just happy thinking about her crying about it. Do you know why it's enjoyable? It's because she's losing. True. Like if she was crying and winning, I think we would be pissed about it. Yeah. But because she's losing, the public perception, of course, on gay marriages is well in support of it. Of course, they're losing now in terms of legislation and have been for a while. So this is, yeah, they just keep losing on this. And actually, so I covered the story. Her nephew is gay and he is now part of the lawsuit that is trying to, I think it's Reverse Title IX that is about colleges that can essentially discriminate against people that are gay, like Catholic colleges. So she has, this guy's entire family, including his aunt, have been this way their entire lives. And only recently have his parents accepted him, but still won't accept that he's like that. They'll accept that he's gay, but they won't. They love him despite him, despite his sexuality. So this guy, like he's currently living this and to have an aunt, like to have someone so close to you and you still do not get it. Like I don't understand how these people still operate. I've had that. I don't know how you go through life. This brainwash, this hateful. It's crazy to me. Yeah, I've had that same conversation from cousins and aunties. It's like, well, you know, I accept you, love the sinner, but not the sin, where it's like, oh, well, thank you so much. I guess I'll go fuck myself. That's so kind. Like you should be gracious for their support. Yeah, how open minded of you. I mean, I just, yeah, like all of that, like I get that because my family's very fucked up too. Like not my immediate family, but like aunts and uncles and stuff are very fucked up. And I'm somebody who's like very petty and I hold grudges. So like my auntie who I was very close to all she had to do, which like she called me filth or something. That was what she said on Facebook. She said, you're filth. And I'm like, fuck you, auntie. And I haven't spoken to her since. Because I'm sorry. Like you, when you're younger, the power is not on your side, right? So like when I first came out, I was really worried that I'd get kicked out. You know, I was economically dependent on my parents and whatnot. But as you get older, that power dynamic flips and you eventually get all the power to where you're the one who can reject them for them trying to reject you. And that's something that I try to tell like younger trends and gay kids because it's not always going to be bad. Like the whole, it gets better campaign. It really is true because eventually you're going to be in a position to where you can tell all these family members to go fuck themselves. And it's going to feel very good. So like the pain that you're feeling currently is temporary. You will be in a better position later on. And everything that they're doing is going to come back to bite them in the ass. Like that lady, Vicki Hartzler, who was crying about this, like she's going to die miserable and alone. And everybody's going to remember her for the bigot that she is. So I think that's a great point that David made that like the reason why it's so satisfying is because we are winning. Like if I saw that clip in 2010, I would be raging about it for weeks. But like it put a smile on my face today because to see bigots lose, it just, it is heartwarming. Honestly, I mean, they're still like, they're trying to, they know that they've lost on marriage equality, which is why they're focusing on trans kids and other issues and the whole groomer bullshit. But the way that we like gave them the death blow so quickly and like ramped up support, support for marriage equality really, that is huge. I mean, like to think back in the early nineties, Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law. And that was the compromise that Democrats overwhelmingly supported because it was either they banned marriage equality at the federal level, or we get a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality, which is what the Republicans were pushing. So to see that we went from that in the nineties to now in the 20s, just completely repealing it and repudiating that, it does feel really good. And that's why these bigots are crying. So I love it. It was enough to give me hope for the day. I'll be back to being doomer tomorrow. But seeing the crying, it was her tears were very delicious and it fueled me. Well, I will say there's a couple questions, not really related to the topic, but Mike, people are asking about your sweater. Oh, really? About the sweater? That's cozy. Yeah, I bought it like a couple of weeks ago because I've been wearing the same like winter sweater for like 10 years. So I bought it. It was like 20 bucks. I got it out of Kroger. Yeah. Well, thank you, folks. I usually am not the one who gets commended for my fashion. So I really appreciate that. A couple questions in the in the forums, but back into something darker, talking about just kind of what's happening with the LGBTQ community in general. Here's kind of a question that may be more hypothetical, not so much a topic per se, but there's obviously a lot around it. So this question comes from Chef Dean and they ask, what is the acceptable level of death for the right? Is there a number? How many should die from COVID, abortion bans, capitalism, limited welfare or socioeconomic problems? How many people need to die from police brutality, imprisonment, unlimited going ownership and war? All of them. And they're fine with all of the deaths. And I'll tell you why, because each and every one of those topics that you listed, they exist purely based on an underlying rationale of hate for a particular group, every single one. Like whether it be women, whether it be black people, whether it be gay people, whether it be other, the underlying rationale that fosters the particular issue, they couch it around is just a hatred of that particular thing. The reason why they don't care, they're not motivated when they see videos of black people being killed. And the first thing they do is go and vilify that black person. It's because that is the result that they are comfortable with seeing. They know that all libs of TikTok is a hate account. They see what it's been being, what it galvanizes. They literally see hate crimes happening at LGBT clubs. They see this. They know that death is the result of these things. That is the point. That is literally, quite literally the point. The problem is, is, you know, we live in a society that does not want to acknowledge, cannot face the truth or the magnitude of having what is ultimately one of two major parties literally be couched and based in bigotry, based in fascism. But that is the transparent truth. The answer to this, how many deaths that will make that, that's, that's the point. They are comfortable, not just comfortable, but happy. That is ultimately the goal. That is why you spew hate. Have you ever seen any, any, any hate crime committed as a result of these views and they walk it back? Do they say, Oh, no, I didn't realize that this would lead to this. I apologize. That's, that's not what they say. That's not the energy you get from them. So that's my answer. There's no amount of deaths that will make them change anything because that is the ultimate desire. Yeah. And just to add to that, it's important that we acknowledge this because for me, I spent a large portion of my life thinking that all we needed to do was educate these people, give them facts. Like when it comes to the issue of trans healthcare, it's like, okay, if we explain to them that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary because it saves lives, then that's all it's going to take once they learn that they'll wake up. But as we can see, they don't care. They know what they do with the club cue shooting immediately. They're essentially saying fuck around and find out. I mean, that's what Tim Poole tweeted out. Oh, they had a grooming event. So they basically deserved it. So you have to acknowledge where they're at and what they want because it allows you to respond accordingly. These are people who are literally pro-death and we can't treat them as good faith actors who just need to change their hearts and open up their minds. That's not possible. They're pro-death and we have to resist in any way that we can and fight back against it. Word. Well, and I guess maybe to add to that a little bit on a personal level, I talked about this a little bit with my chat last week. But I live in Colorado and I actually have friends in Colorado Springs, including some of my acquaintances were one of the bartenders at Club Q. And I was actually supposed to be there that night too, which is a little ominous. I was down in the Springs visiting a couple of friends because long story short, they said there was a tiki bar downtown that opened up and they're like, we got to go to this tiki bar. So I was like, okay, yeah, we'll go. We were supposed to go there. And we ended up stopping to go get Waffle House because one of the friends were hungry. And so we're like, oh, yeah, yeah. So we were texting the bartender Daniel, for those of you who are familiar with the names. We said, hey, we're going to probably be there around like 1130 or so. We just wanted to stop and get Waffle House. Little did we know we had essentially missed the shooting by 30 minutes. The reality is right. So I unfortunately have a personal perspective to this. And Colorado Springs, for anyone who knows about Colorado in general, is like the little red dot in an otherwise blue state. And it is really, really red in El Paso County, essentially, which is where Colorado Springs is. And it is terrifying. In what happened the days, weeks, even going on right now, like the amount of open hate that's just around in Colorado Springs is insane. And to them, this is normal and this is totally okay. So when a focus on the family, which is also located in the Springs was defaced, I wanted to go down and see it. Just because I was like, hey, I can actually go see this in person. That was like a big issue and stuff. And there's all these big trucks that do the co-rolling thing, that they run around town with their don't tread on me flags everywhere. And you see the Joe Biden did that stickers on the gas pumps. It is a trip to be in Colorado Springs. It's literally going to another dimension and seeing another level of hate just being normalized every day. And sure, people are nice to me, but I'm a white woman. And I've seen that with my other friends who are not white women or white men hang around or do something. And you can definitely see there's a difference. And there's times where I have to kind of not like step in from my friends, but essentially be there and be like, hold on there with me. Like you need to stop this. Like what the fuck is this about? And it's a weird, weird city. If anyone in any of the chats has been around Colorado Springs, I'm pretty sure everyone knows exactly this. Just, I don't know what to call this mentality, but this hateful mentality and to see it play out as if it's its own unique town is really quite horrific to be honest with you. I've never felt something like that. Wow. Are all your friends okay after everything that happened? Well, obviously I have some friends that obviously had friends in there. So no, people are not okay. I've kind of been spending my time comforting those friends. You know, obviously we can't change what happened, but to then find out essentially, I saw from a TikTok, I shared it on Twitter that now there's something from one of the school districts in the Springs too that are now talking about segregating one of the school districts because a parent asked a question or something like that and emailed a, I don't know, one of the administrators or something like, I don't know what is going on in Colorado Springs, but they're not okay, whatever is going on. And it's weird that I can drive an hour and 20 minutes essentially south and go to this weird land where everybody just hates you for the freedom to be yourself. It is the strangest thing in the entire world. That's fucked. Did you hear the new revelation, Blair, that apparently the shooter was running like a neo-Nazi forum website that may be connected to yet another neo-Nazi forum website and the FBI is currently investigating that? Like NBC just reported on that. And I was like, well, I was like, the layers just keep going deeper and deeper. Like so many people on the right tried to convince everyone that like, Hey, by the way, apparently this person is non-binary and I believe this is someone who is in the LGBTQ plus. So this wasn't a hate crime, blah, blah, blah. And then meanwhile, it's like, well, the neighbor says that they use the F-slur all the time. And the dad was basically relieved that, you know, not the fact that they had murdered five people, but that they weren't gay. That's pretty telling. And like all these things are adding up. And then during the like the initial court proceedings, the lawyer was using he, him pronouns exclusively. So even if they do want to say that they were non-binary, they're not respecting it openly in the courtroom. And then that new one just came out. Apparently they were running a fucking far right neo-Nazi website. It's like, I don't know how many things you need to stack before. Like does someone have to have like a swastika tattooed on their forehead and hold up like, I hate gay people. And then some people on the right might be like, Oh, okay, okay. Well, all right, fair enough. Fair enough. This was far right radicalization, you know, we saw with Kanye, right? Like they wouldn't, they would not acknowledge that he was clearly anti similar. That he was, he was a hateful person. He was a Nazi until he said that he was a Nazi. Like they would not, they would not take him down until he said it himself. And he said he loves Hitler. They would not. So like that's the, this is what we talked about. I think last week a bit, like they will, they will run on plausible deniability as long as possible until it is like said out, like as clearly as Kanye said it, they will defend anybody until they say it as clearly as he did. And you see it every time. Like these people are obviously, obvious bigots, obvious hateful people, and they keep defending, they keep pretending, but they know, they have, of course they know, they're just full of shame. Yeah. But that's the problem with constantly framing the conversations as though like, we need their agreement. Like we always act like we need people to confess to shit. That's why it's always this conversation about what's in people's hearts. Because even after Kanye said all that shit, people are still trying to say he's not, he's mean as ours. Like you know what I mean? This whole, this whole idea, and that's, and because that's the rationale it allows him to get away with everything. Like how many people do you know identifies a racist? So like, I am a racist. I am a bigot. I am a hemiphobe. That's not how that goes, right? And that allows him to constantly evade that, you know, that accountability and culpability. And that's something I always recognize that a lot about America because you know, I was raised in the Bahamas and Bahamians are not like that. Bahamians will wear being fucked up. Like, like my daddy, I'm like, oh, my daddy is a real misogynist. We don't gotta, we don't gotta, we don't gotta run around. It's all back on the house. I'm like, ooh, daddy, that's homophobia. That is a homophobia. And my daddy is not, that was trying to argue me down. In fact, you know what I mean? They just, they just rally around their bigotry and try to sell you on it. Like no, no good bigotry, but they acknowledge it as that, you know? So I'm like, that's a lot of what America does. This is game a constant cat and mouse because if you can never get them to confess and you're, and you're, and you're objective in your mind is to get them to confess, you never actually have to address anything or any of the problems substantively. Well, and that's the problem is we still try to approach this from a logical humanistic perspective. And the reality is sometimes the intent doesn't fucking matter anymore. It just doesn't matter. I don't care if you think that Kanye maybe didn't mean it or whatever. He still said it. He put that out there and he's garnered that attention. He's done it. The conversation's over. You spit it in. Exactly. Your impact is what matters. Like when you have a platform and you have power, whether you're a politician, someone in the media, what you do with your votes as a politician, what you do, what you say in public, how you use your platform, that's what matters. You can't go around and say, Oh, well, I personally, I believe that I believe differently or I was doing this to keep my seat as a politician. I don't actually believe that. You can't do like who doesn't matter what you personally or what you pretend you personally how you feel or even if you felt that way, what matters is how you actually used your power when you have it. And if you use your power to do bad things, then you're a bad person. End of story. The problem is that's the, you know, I was going to say this earlier when we were we were discussing the Republican crying about about the law. I doesn't even shock me. I don't even find even the inconsistency is not striking to me that she would have a gay nephew and be moving like this. Because what I've recognized from being behind the curtains, like I have been, I've lived in Florida, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York, I went to boarding school in West Virginia. I know all of the Republicans, all the MAGA people, I'm going to law school. I know all the prosecutors. I know all the politicians. I know the diss. I know the media people. And what I have noticed is they will live an entirely different life that is completely inconsistent with the politics that they espouse on shows or wherever have you or what they advocate for. Because what they, and this is a word, this is the white, the white boys that used to say bigoted shit to me in law school and act like we're having, you know, a nice old conversation. They would call it an intellectual exercise. And that always struck me because that is what it is for them. They are they are garnering in, you know, theory teams they've picked, but they don't live. They are very divorced from this is a reality. The real life implications, they are usually so privileged out of it, so class out of it, so economically, you know, disassociated whether they don't give a flying fuck how what they advocate affects the whole because it doesn't impact them at all. So from her perspective, I would not be shocked if she isn't even, if she doesn't even treat him bad. You know what I mean? Her nephew, if like, because this is her nephew, it's for the rest of you guys, you know what I mean? Like that's the energy that they have. And I know that I like I listen the amount of like, like gay men that I know personally, like personally, that will be up here as espousing anti LGBT Republican shit straight out, out in the public in there. And I'm just like, look at them. And you know why? Because it doesn't affect them. They don't ever know the shit. That's always something I realized when you talk about when you start talking about what it is, like, they'll everyone's having these conversations about the working class, about the middle class of this, but none of these fucking people having the conversations are a part of those in actuality. The minute you start talking numbers with the working class is really making your real estate. You know what I mean? They are actually trying to pull up any kind of like plight or any anecdotal shit. They've got nothing to offer. So that's really that's really what it is. They just they're divorced from it. It's just they're on teams like, oh, yeah, that's my my team. My team, my team needs this. But my nephew, he good. He's straight like this. You know, that's so true. You know that that's how she rationalizes it. My nephew isn't like these loud gays that just flaunt their sexual orientation. I've had people say that to me. Like I think I'm 50-50. I think sometimes that passes straight and most of the time I don't. But like when I worked and my sexual audience would come up in front of like a customer or something, they'd be like, oh, I didn't know you were gay. You're not like these other gays that flaunt it. And I'm like, what does that even mean? First of all, like, I don't know what that means. You're one of the good gays. Yeah. It's like, thank you. I mean, I don't know how I'm supposed to react to that. You restrict your gay. You pull the gay in. You have common decency. That's how I've been. They have tried to token black me many a times in my life. So I'm very accustomed to it. I actually, I had a white friend. I went to prom in my senior year at high school with a white boy in boarding school West Virginia. That was the only black girl in my class. There were nobody. You had to be the white. So like just we put that out there before anybody starts no propaganda. But anyhow, I remember his family freaked out. They're like, oh, you need to come home at once. Seek wise counsel. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like I'm telling you, they made me drive up, take my auntie and my uncle and drive up to bumfuck Ohio to hear about how the Bible says that we are the cursed people I have and yes, dead to my face. Yeah. But I remember when they came to the conclusion when they were like, oh, she's black, but at least she's not African American. And they're like, oh, oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Trust me. That's light. Shit. You don't know the kind of shit. Listen, I'm telling you, when I say I've been behind the veil at West Virginia, I tell you, Ohio, I was right. I've heard some shit to my face and I'm like, appalled. So and they don't think there's anything wrong with what they're saying. That's what makes it so crazy. They are complimenting you. You're the chosen Yeah. They're like, oh, they're just making Negro. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you're at a technical advantage with your Negro status, but as far as Negroes go, you're not so bad. I'm like, wow. That's crazy. Meanwhile, I'm the worst. I'm not the worst of the worst. Like all the, all the things that they like generally don't like, I like what they have to say when they say, I'm like, hmm, me, the loudest, most opinionated Negro you ever did meet, very much so on the black, black, black, black agenda. I'm like, sitting there like, you gonna figure me out in about a millisecond? God, people are really fucked up. Yes. That's my conclusion. Yeah. All right. Well, okay. Here's a topic for more fucked up shit. How about the attempted far right coup that happened in Germany yesterday? Hmm. Has anyone been reading up on that at all? I actually did not see. I mean, I saw it, right? I have. I have. I have this. This is a great combination of those things. Well, here's the thing. There's a lot of let's just say they want to return to the glory of the Weimar Republic kind of online radicalized slash right wing militias that you find the similar to what you find in Canada here. We call it the Knights of Odin or you call it we'll see the one diagonal on group and other stuff in America. You guys call it what three percenters, proud boys, blue, blue boys, you know, take your pick, all that kind of stuff. It's one of those orgs that got to the point where they actually were on the verge of committing inactive violence. They had about 25 individuals armed and ready to overthrow the government. It's a mix of two things. One, it's clown shoes. You can laugh at the fasc kind of thing because it's very larpy. Like a lot of them were wearing full on like Kaiser helmets in their photos and stuff like that. And they're like, you know, one of them is literally a descendant of a prince. That's what also makes it kind of funny. One of them is like literal, like a descendant of royalty and he wants to return to like the royal incestuous bloodline to be the proper like dictators of Germany. So that part is all kind of funny and silly. The scarier thing is that like this kind of stuff is happening globally and while it is kind of fun to laugh at it, it's also like a serious problem that seems to keep happening like, you know, between all like the US has always like, did you see Robert Evans today? It was tweeting out there was multiple power outages in Florida, like multiple ones as well as across the United States from what looks to be like malicious shooting power plants and stuff. Like it's happening. That's such a dramatic increase based on what used to happen in the past that it's something that we should probably study, look at, or at least be a little worried about. So that's why I kind of always go back and forth. Part of me is like, it's kind of funny that they were super larpy and there's that comedy side of it, but it's also like, you know, it is a potential danger. The more times people do this. Sorry, Pre-Vimar. Yeah, you're right. Pre-Vimar Republic, like the Bismarck days. Yeah, Nazi's bad. I do. I do. I do love when I've seen this before when you point out that they're, you know, it's Nazis. These guys, I don't know if it's the same exact ones here, but usually the people who espouse this go, you're so dumb. That was World War Two. I'm talking about World War One. Have you seen that? I see it all the time. The Kaiser. Who is the Kaiser again? Okay, sorry. Can I quickly say this? If no one else knows this, have you seen the double down or sorry, I would say the 180 reverse that Stephen Crowder and everyone on the right is doing right now to try and distance themselves and they have to actually do segments that says Hitler bad, Nazis bad, like they have banners. They have paid graphic artists to design graphics that say Hitler bad that appear animated on their screens. That's so far gone they are. Did you see the response? His audience was pushing back. If you know, if you see the audience, they cultivated and they're shocked by it. Yeah, thank you. Like, yeah. Crowder's own audience was like, whoa, bro, bro, Hitler bad. Wait, what are we doing? I don't know about that. Yeah, like, yeah, I don't agree. Come on, spicy takes. Yeah, I have a video coming out about this tomorrow where basically both Marjorie Taylor Green and Stephen Crowder are facing blowback from their audiences because now Marjorie Green, since there's a lot of pressure, she had to unequivocally denounce Nick Fuentes after months, you know, she legitimized him and whatnot. Hold on, Mike, do you know why? It's because they wouldn't give her an audience with yay. That's why. Oh, really? Yeah, she felt betrayed by them. So she straight up started dialing Milo and dialing Nick Fuentes and was like, yo, I hear you're with yay. Like, can I please meet him? I want to do some stuff, blah, blah. And they were like, nah. And then shortly thereafter, when she did this whole release where she was like, I denounce Nick Fuentes, he's a neo Nazi. How does no one know this? You know, all that kind of shit is like, how did you not know this? Would you collaborate with him multiple times and give like speaking events with him? He's always been a neo Nazi. This is not a secret. Like, what the fuck? But now all the groipers and then Nick Fuentes people have turned on her and Nick Fuentes is instructing all of his minions to call her large Marge and heckle her now. And this is like, this is the bed that you've made. These are the people who you aligned with. So no more shocked Pikachu faces when they say, actually, I don't know about that when you literally have to say Hitler bat like Steven Crowder tweeted the picture of himself and he's like, I'm sure this is a message that we can all agree with. And if you look at his audience, they don't really agree with that. They thought that you were one of them. Like if you are shocked that, or I should say this way, like, if you realize that Nazis don't think that you're one of them, then you should probably reevaluate what you're doing because you're attracting these people. And if you can't even say Hitler bat without getting pushed back, you fucked up, you've cultivated a Nazi audience. And I like that they're realizing this as if that wasn't obvious from the beginning. She is a Nazi. What are we talking about, bro? Like a neo-nazi denouncing a neo-nazi. She's a Nazi. She's a fucking Nazi. Like, again, we're making it. It's that thing again where we're acting like we need people to confess. She's a fucking Nazi. That's true. Okay. Okay. But in this case, we have an actual example of someone who learned that the Holocaust was bad by going to a Holocaust. And that's pretty bad. She gave a press conference outside of the Holocaust. We see him to be like, y'all, I just learned the Holocaust was bad. I was like, yeah, that's what it took. All right. Great work, fucking gold star, A plus. Well done. You passed the assignment. She learned about it for the first time in her fifties. And how are these people in Congress? I mean, it's America, but still, how? Wait. Again, I don't be, I don't be tapped. I, you know, I don't know how I'm like, I'm on y'all's side of Twitter and somehow I'd be missing it. She did what? What about, what about Holocaust? What about Marjorie? What did I miss? Okay. So she was in a lot of hot water because she's deeply, deeply, oh, sir. Hold on. Okay. Hold on. I got this. I'll take over for Lance unless his mic. I'll take over. Oh, wait, your mic. Oh, okay. He muted himself. Okay. So essentially, like a year or two ago, Marjorie Taylor-Green was spouting off all this shit, just, oh my God, Nazis, XYZ, the Holocaust isn't real, blah, blah, blah. And then the Holocaust Museum invites her, I believe the one in Washington, DC, I think, invites her to go there and, and have a private tour essentially and go through everything. She goes through it, has a press conference outside afterwards where she goes, Oh my God, I just realized that the Holocaust had bad things that happened in it. Like it was, it was that bad. She couldn't figure it out. And she said like the same thing multiple times. I don't know exactly what she said, but it was COVID related where she was claiming that like wearing masks, the house floor mask mandate was comparable to the gold star that Hitler made the Jewish people wear. And she, like she said that. And then she doubled down and then tripled down. And even after she apologized, after she went to the Holocaust Museum, she said it again. And like she won't stop. Because she'd be fucking lying, bro. No, she's just like, again, maybe lying. She fucking, you, if you don't know about shit, you literally don't comment on shit. Like I don't talk about foreign affairs because I'm not a foreign affairs, no one asked bitch. I don't have nothing to say. I don't deny the events. I don't affirm the events. I don't have shit to say about how shit goes when you don't know anything about anything. The Bahamas, right, is a constitutionally Christian nation. There are no Jewish, no, no Jewish payments. They know Jewish people in the bombers. The only time I've ever heard Jewish people even discuss that all my entire life growing up in the bombers was in the Old Testament and religion class. This religion is class. Everybody gonna take it constitution Christian. I don't know people. My first day in America, I moved to Boca Raton, right? Lots of Boca software, lots and lots of Jewish people at the time. So nothing, but no, nothing about them. First day of class, there was like a Jewish holiday coming up and my teacher was like, Oh, is anybody in the class Jewish? Denise is going to be observing that holiday. And I remember when he said that my instant reaction, like I chuckled like Jewish people, like, like, like fairies, like things that didn't exist. Like, and immediately the whole class was like, pop, pop, pop. I was like, Oh, Jewish people exist. And that was the end. No, no more, no, like Bible full of like bullshit to say, no conspiracies, no denouncements, no, no, no theories, because that's what it's like when you don't know some shit. She knows exactly what she's going to say. She made an executive decision is gonna piss them the fuck off. I'm gonna deny the whole shit. She knows that's a fucking problem. She knows exactly what she's talking about. That's why she goes with denial. She's fucking with your life. She's fucking. I don't know. I got to disagree. Like a shit ton of people, shit ton of people talk about things they don't know anything about. Like it happens all the fucking time. Taylor Green is so goddamn stupid. It doesn't surprise me at all that she wouldn't know it. That doesn't mean that this absolves her all of a sudden that she's all of a good person. It just means that I think she's dumb. Like I don't think she, I don't think she did know. I'll never take that from her. She's dumb. I never take that woman's truth away from it. As far as just the baseline, it's not like she became like, it's not like, oh, the issue was that she was not a Holocaust savant or a Jewish savant. And then she, a lot of information had to be corrected. It's just a base level. Like I'ma denounce this. I'ma say it didn't happen. You don't really got to, you don't have to go. You don't have to have a personal tour. Like you don't have, that doesn't have to happen to know like, actually, actually, this probably happened, right? Like she would have come across the information before enough and for enough to know, to say it doesn't exist, you have to come across the information that it does exist. The bitch had to know that meant she had to. That's fair. That's fair. I also, I also got to add she was one of the people who said that we should have statues of Hitler because we don't have statues of Hitler. How won't we learn about history? And that's like, that's weird, you know, like how many statues would you need in your town to be able to teach you everything? Would the whole town just be statues? So by the time you get to school, you're like, Oh, I've learned about which things are bad. And do we talk about the Jewish space lasers basically being responsible for the California wild, no, no, being responsible for California wildfires. Yeah, don't forget it. He thought the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers. This is QAnon. Well, she's a QAnon her. So obviously QAnon level anti-Semitism, like conspiracy theories, like, you know, the highest order. My thing about what always to me is like, at the end of the day, like as I believe as dumb as they are, to me is obviously strategy and planning and things that go into this, right? Because it's not a coincidence. Like in Germany, you can't be in a Holocaust denier is a problem, right? And the same way they don't allow for statues and monuments and things like that celebrating. So it's not, it's not to me a coincidence, the specific things they choose. Like we said, we already know they have a politics of plausible deniability. So it's not a coincidence to me. They choose the exact fucking fundamental things that have already been singled out as a historical problem and doing and what is the worst level of not acceptable for people that know about this lived historical reality. They choose to go do that and be like, I don't know, but conveniently, specifically though, I'm going to deny the event. I know they made that a law and I would like some statues like my take. Alright, so here's more of a question, not necessarily around a topic, but more, I guess, maybe of our opinions. So Andy says, I'm from the Midwest and I often come across people who aren't into politics at all, but they still have opinions about the left that are obvious white wing propaganda. How do I address that without being too harsh? One question. What do we think? I get this a lot from my own family. They know that I have like a political podcast and I talk about it all the time. And so I get like their uneducated political opinions and you can tell it's all telephone politics where they'll hear somebody who saw something through a Facebook meme and that's, see, I never know how to actually address this. I'll usually shoot it down, but try to be polite so I don't, because if they're not really informed, I don't want to be aggressive because I want them to be receptive to what I'm saying. So usually I say, um, that doesn't sound right. And then I'll move on to like something else. But I don't think that that's the correct way. I think that there's got to be a way to like open the door to a broader conversation. But like, how do you have that when you're trying to walk that fine line by getting them interested, but also telling them that they're wrong, you know, because that's kind of like a turnoff to politics. Oley, you want to go? I also have strong opinions on this topic. You want to go for, it's up to you. Go, go nuts, go nuts. All right. I think you, you, you frame it never as an indictment and you start it as from a certain level of your own, like you yourself came from that same position as them. And you go into it with the understanding that there is nothing that you are going to say that you can say that will make this person like completely drop their worldview in this one conversation. Like you have to approach everything. Like you're just here to impart nuggets of information as you can. And this will be a process. And hopefully eventually people move along and not get yourself to invest in the conversation. But I know for me, like when I approach abolition, when I do things and interviews, I tend to start from when I talk to my family, whenever I have friends with, from the place of letting, you know, this sounded wild to me at first too. I didn't know this. I was educated in this way. So I had perceived it that way. It immediately takes people off to the defensive. Like you, you're not, you know, lording yourself. Cause that's really what makes people defensive is, is thinking, you think I'm wrong. You think you're smarter than me. You think, you know, so the minute you, you, you kind of, you know, disarm it, like actually no, and it becomes a kind of a information gathering process, you know what I mean? They feel like they're in a discussion and not really a debate. Like that to me is what makes a lot of like leeway in the long run. Great point. The thing that I hear the most often and that usually pisses me off in terms of like, this is not real is I hear a lot of right wingers drop either in my emails or my chats and stuff say, why does the left hate white people? And I honestly, I feel like liberals broke a whole bunch of conservative brains, maybe like five or six years ago. I don't know when white fragility came out. Whenever that book came out and it was doing the rounds and it was on like Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Fallon, I'm white. What? I think like right wingers saw that shit and they're like, Oh God, and that's where a lot of this weird ass, they've taken all the way. What did Jimmy Fallon do? I missed this. Like when that book was going to, it was doing the rounds. It was on late night TV fucking Jimmy Kimmel did it too. He's like, what? I chew him whites. Like all of them, like, Oh my God, I'm now acknowledging this for the first time. Anyways, it was clown chew shit. I think that really affects a lot of people. It couldn't be further from the truth. There's no such thing as leftist, hating white people. That's just weird straw man where it's just like a critical race theory teaches you that like white babies are racist and time is racist and white people are inherently racist. All that shit is nonsense. What I keep telling you is like, it has nothing to do with that. What we're trying to do is when I want to talk about these topics, I reduce it to very simple concepts. You've heard like, you know, that woke CRT is coming after you Marxist theory, neo Marxist postmodern neo Marxism, blah, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff. All I think that I'm trying to advocate for, if you reduce it to a simple thing is freedom. Like you like freedom in your day. Well, where do you spend eight hours of your day every day in your workplace? Do you have freedom in your workplace? You don't because you have a tyrannical system where a boss controls everything. I want to expand that. I want to give you more like voting power democracy in your workplace where you spend eight hours a day. Hey, did you know that coincides with a lot of other things economically? This intersects with things that don't even really exist in the real world. Racial theory. But you know what? Races aren't real. We made them up. Human beings made them up, but they intersect because of capitalism, the history of slavery, all this kind of stuff. As the shit all interconnects, you can finally start to realize that, hey, we can liberate everyone if we start to expand. Like go from there. Don't start on the other end in their playing field where everything is fucked up and they're like, so you hate white people. No, actually I'm advocating for a lot of poor ass white people. You know who hates white people? Tucker Carlson. He says and talks like a white supremacist, but he only likes rich white people. He hates poor white people. They all do. Doesn't matter who they are. Every single one of them hates poor white people. The whole system is rigged that way. They'll advocate for it. They'll talk about it. They'll be like, oh, yes, we have to talk about replacing that. And he can be a white supremacist. He can hold up white supremacy. But at the end of the day, there's still a lot of fucked up shit that affect white people. And I always get that thrown at me. They're always like, the left hates the white people, all that shit. I'm like, no, that's not true. I think what you're picking up on is exactly why I think it's a mistake for the left to play our advocacy towards the emotions of white people. Like the way that we do it, I think this is a major limitation I've written about this is, oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna appeal to your sympathy. Like this idea that this current world, even how we frame white privilege, right? This current world, the argument we essentially make is white privilege allows you to benefit. You are benefited by the society that we live in. But I want you out of the goodness of your heart, out of alliance to me. I want you to advocate to a world that is against your maybe better interests, but will be more equitable. And the reality of who people really are is there's a limit to which people, to how much people will ever be for your team, if it doesn't serve, if they believe it doesn't serve them, which is why it's a better, I think, approach to frame things from if we actually had an actual conversation around class solidarity and what is a lived reality in economics and things like that, we could actually show people know the argument should be this current world is not good for any of fucking us. That's why I always say like when people say they respond, but like, oh, police kill white people too. Like, yeah, that's actually a good point. This is actually not a racial problem. This is not a black problem. This is a collective problem with policing. And so we should be having conversations and framing it from that way in this class solidarity way, like, oh, actually, no, no, no, no, no, this current world, it's not that you were inherently you're being privileged by white privilege. No, actually, poor white people, this white identity that has been crafted, which is a craft is actually harming you a lot. Actually, you are not doing well. This is not working for you. And that's actually where your actual issue lies. And if you align with us, we could advocate for things that are actually in your better in your best interest. Because I think about that very often when I see a lot of a lot of the white people, a lot of the bigots that be so very angry at the things you advocate for, I'm like, you're better served than me, sweetie. I'm doing better than you. You know what I mean? Class wise and like things like this, like, these things would better serve your interests, but you're so galvanized around what you've been fed as a white identity politic, you can't see that. So I think you're picking up on something excellent and how we should frame from that class solidarity. You know, you know, the first thing that's ever in real time in my experience, like, actually flipped 180, like a Republican's view on this is he was like, I'm always told about this white privilege shit. He's like, I've been poor my entire life. I don't feel any kind of privilege. And I was like, I agreed. So you can be oppressed if you're white person by poverty by class that they don't ever mention that part. The way they shouldn't frame it is that like you have a special superpower because you're white. The way they should frame it is that if you and your friends are on shrooms, if the cops come knocking, if you're the white person in the group, you should go talk to the police and you should be the one that gets everyone off kind of thing as you should understand from that perspective, not that you should walk around every day like you have a superpower, not that you should feel that you were born into privilege just by virtue of being white, right? And I think that's usually why it's taught incorrectly, at least in my experience. Yeah. I think you all gave great answers. I mean, I got nothing to add there. In terms of like, I agree with completely with, I mean, all of you, but Olami on how you are, you put yourself in that person's shoes and you try to see from their perspective to then, you know, talk about these topics. I think that's the best, like in terms of one-on-one conversations, I think that's the best way to approach it. In terms of speaking to like an audience on YouTube, obviously it's a little different depending on who your audience is, who the video's for. Like when I cover a video, like say a clip from the view, for example, when Megan McCain was on, she would say something stupid. I would realize that a lot of viewers that don't typically watch political videos may come across that because they watch clips of the view or something. So I would, you know, angle the commentary towards that because the whole purpose for me anyways is to bring new people into the conversation and be able to educate those people and want them to continue learning. So it's all about the audience who you're talking to and that, I think, helps to define the framing around those discussions. Blair. Yeah. You're the organizer, Blair. I'm trying to sift through comments. There's some of the stuff that there's just like a lot of kind of like shortened phrases in there that I'm essentially just researching and really quickly clarifying what it is. I'll go with this easy one. So this comes from NorCal aggressive progressive who says, Will slash can slash please, the leftist mafia be the answer to the daily wire. We need to start punching versus blocking. I'll take this one. I don't exist on the outside and I don't even know what the fuck the daily wire is like back to your whole thing with Candace Owens and they got everybody on that crap. Come on, the eyes are sore on. Let me tell you, talking to y'all these last two episodes is really showing me that like the freedom and being black. I was in that. I'm just simply do not know enough people that give a fuck about it. I'm like, I'd be so slow to finding out who these people are like bench. I'm honestly never even heard Ben Shapiro's voice. Don't look it up. Only map binder can do it. I don't know if I can do the bench. I don't know. That's a voice. I wanted to say this is actually winding me. I just tell you all this because I thought this was a larry. Well, I didn't think it was a larry, but y'all are going to laugh. I mostly see nothing but positive commentary from this or whatever, but there are always going to be a couple of people that tell me to shut my black ass up and come to them loud. Anyway, one of those comments on YouTube when I had like eight likes was like, she is just like the fucking female Ben Shapiro. I was like, what? Wait, you gotta someone who is running the stream that can play play the Ben Shapiro clip really quick. Can you go ahead and do it? Which Ben Shapiro clip? Just any. Just grab any. Just him talking. That's all we need to hear. Do the the Megan Thee Stallion review that you did. Oh, okay. Okay. Ben Shapiro. It's a it's a good one. No, I did dragon for this. I've seen the text. You've seen that. Okay. No, but I want to hear it. No, I never heard it. I only seen the text. Your world is going to change forever for the worst. I can't believe we're getting to witness this. I can't see it. How will this work? Can y'all hear it? I can't hear it. Y'all can hear it. I can't hear it. But we could see your reaction to it. Yeah, that's good. Okay. Let me let me you do it. Because this is your first foray into Ben Shapiro. I got this. Ben Shapiro. Put the volume all the way up and put your phone right next to your mic. Yeah, there you go. Oh, that's better. Yeah. Okay. Get him to actually like. Oh, Lord. Okay. So over the last week or so, there's been a lot of attention paid to use that video. It's called. And it seems to me that there's a segment that we've been remiss in ignoring for a long time now on the show. We should do it much more regularly. It's called deconstructing the culture. So it's time once again to deconstruct the cultural antique, an important piece of popular culture. And we, and we break it down for its important aspect in American life. So let's deconstruct a little bit of culture. So there's this video that went out. It is by a person named Cardi B. Who has a rather checkered past. I mean, she she's talked on video about how she's to drug men and steal their money after, after bringing them back as, as what a quasi prostitute, something like that. And then she became a rapper. And there's another rapper whose name is Megan, the stallion. I assume this is her given in their last name is stallion. I don't know why. I know he fucking liar. Wait till he reads the lyrics for you. You should have a YouTube channel. You just react to Ben Shapiro videos. I'm telling you, you would make a lot of money. Yes. I would watch all those videos by Cardi B and Megan, these stallions empowering anthem WAP is so important. It's very important guys. I think he has a crush on Megan, the stallion. Cardi B and Megan these stallions. He talks like he's fed up like, like two times speed, right? That's the thing. He's one, two, five. I mean, I'm reading these lyrics. It's arcane art that we should all and then there's apparently it's, um, yeah. So this is all great. And then there's some this apparently the tackiest mansion that has ever been. Now he hating on the mansion. There's them lying there with a bunch of saying, you know, kind of typical music video kind of stuff, but it's very empowering. It's really, really empowering. So let me hear him say all right, get to the lyrics. You've got to get to the lyrics. Okay. So look, I said certified freak seven days a week. Make that pull out game week. Yeah, you up in with some wet ass P word. P word is email, trying to tell you. Or this wet ass P word. I mean, everything you got for this. I'm going to get to relive this. Be it up and word, but you charge extra large and extra hard. Put this P word right in your face. He doesn't have to do this. He doesn't have to do this. And it gets significantly, it's significantly more bolder. But he's going to read it to us. Ask for a call while you ride that D word. You really ain't never going to F him for a thing. He already made his mind up before he came and now get your boots and your coat for this wet ass P word. Hey, my tuition just to kiss me on this wet ass. Right. So this is deep guys. This is what this is what the feminist movement was. Fuck yeah. This mind ain't never had no pussy in his life. We have more lore after you watch this. I gotta hear what he's saying about it. So how she could diagnose the vaginal condition that apparently these women are suffering from. He's got his wife involved. I've heard of this. Ask P word was a description of the P word or whether one of the clinical symptoms here was also diarrhea. Get in a mob. So this suggests that there's an awful lot of Why would he tell us there's a white pussy dry untov. How did you miss this entire comment like everything? This was huge for like weeks. We're going to have a weekly O.A. reacts to Ben Shapiro segment. Yeah, that's a great segment actually. Matt, I know you're fucking lying. You know what? First of all, I'm gonna sit through and find the comment again that said I was him and that person I'm going to run to space in Times Square and you could come fucking beat my ass come fight me like that's so like just if you hate me say that like that's okay but you don't have to at least they didn't call you a dollar store. Matt Walsh O.A. that's what they called me. Ro female monster. What is what is like what is what is like 10 No, honey, I can assure you it's supposed to be dry. Okay. You should be worded out if I were to get wet. That's not what I know. I mean, I personally enjoy him going like, all right, listeners, I'm about to get really vulgar here. I'm sorry. Excuse me. P word, D word, A word. Okay. How many Dave Rubin clips are out there that O.A. hasn't seen that we can have you know that name sounds vaguely familiar. Oh, my God. There's no Dave Rubin clip that outdoes that. Like I feel like that's true. No, no, no, no, the wet ass P waiter. Like that one is one like that's its own thing. It's got remixes. There's a whole bunch of songs. Honestly, some of them, they're pretty good. They timed it up well. Like holding slaps. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, I don't know Dave. I don't know any of these people. I'm I'm I'm jealous of you. I know. Mentally, you're so much healthier than us. Yeah. Mentally, you must be so just well off compared to the rest of us. I literally like I truly, you know, when I say to you, I do not consume anything like beyond what's going to annoy me because I'm a hot tempered person. It's like I remember my friend. He's a lawyer to when we were talking about how we deal with motions. And I was like, I got like a reply to prosecutor applied to my motion and I'm like the court reached out to me like, oh, do you need time to reply to them? Like, no, I said what the fuck I said, I'm not going to read this bullshit. I'm not going to consume this. I'm not doing shit and reply to what the fuck I said. My friend was like, you don't reply. And I'm like, I don't even I don't even be reading them. I'm like, no, I'm like, oh, no place for me. I look like a no, I'm talking shit. I'm not playing that. The fuck is this? Like, no better hero for me. But it's like it's an awesome running gig. So he does all these like college campus debates. And like recently he was doing a college campus debate. And in the middle of it, some like dude who's respond to him didn't even answer what he was talking about. He's like, well, you know, you can't even pleasure your wife's pussy. What's up? And like immediately I was like, oh, God damn, that's cold blooded. Like it's an actual meme now. Yeah. I haven't memorized it's you sound like a bozo, bro, and you get no pussy and you can't even and you can't even make your wife wet. So what's good, bro? Just so good. Thank you. Thank you. I was I was not close. Oh man, that was so I haven't memorized that clip lives in my head rent free. Oh, all the time. That is great. I do love that. Yeah, there's this whole world out there that is so dark and evil that you are lucky to not know about like you probably haven't heard many mega raps. I shared one on our Twitter group. There's Tom McDonald. That's like a whole rabbit hole that we shouldn't go down right now. But there's so much out there. And watching it will literally destroy your brain. I know nothing about any of that. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I was out of the internet. Yeah, I watched like Rory and Miles podcast. That's what I do. I like chilling over here kicking it. Blair. Yes, I got one. All right. Sorry for the pivot because we're going from something really funny to something pretty serious as per usual, I guess. So we talked about this earlier in our group Twitter chat. So Lance, I'm putting you on the spot. Let's talk about the four indigenous women that have been slain by an alleged serial killer in Canada. There's nothing fun about this story. You know what? I should I should just segue this story back when Oly and me and Mike were talking about just like the value of human worth because that this this really plays into that. If anyone watching or listening right now doesn't know and I think this is just an opportunity to talk about this. Canada has a crisis and that crisis is murdered and missing indigenous women to the tune of like thousands and thousands of women. So many like sex workers who are indigenous have died on the highway in Canada. It's known as the highway of tears and serial killers just have a field day with this shit. And most recently, four indigenous women were just charged. Sorry. One white supremacist serial killer was charged with murdering four indigenous women. One of the four women has not been identified. So luckily they had a naming ceremony and she's known as Buffalo woman. But for the other three they have been identified. The person's being charged with it. But here's the fucked up part about the story. There is a basic like I want to say area behind where the killer was murdering them near them. There's like it's like a dump, almost like a garbage dump. They think the bodies are buried there and the families want them to excavate the bodies and the police have said no because it would be too difficult, which to reframe this. And again, I'm not trying to do this whole like you just always think about what things would be like of the reverse. But if there was a story in Canada where four women who were white were murdered by serial killer and their remains had still not been found, but they were believed to be in a burial site somewhere nearby. You can bet those remains would be searched for or people would go look for them. But at this point in this country, the police have straight up said nah to the point now where the daughters of the victims have come out and said they're going to do it themselves manually. So they've given they've given press conferences. They're like we're going to grab shovels. We're going to get in there and we're going to look for the remains, which is fucked. Like it's just it's ultimately fucked. And it's like it's the same story over and over. It's so bad in this country. There's an actual inquiry and that inquiry had like hundreds. I think like 215 calls to action where it's like straight up. These are the things to do to end this fucked up process, but very few of them have followed. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Stories like that. It really makes you see how horrible things are. Like this kind of reminds me of the Gabby Petito case where a lot of people of color were bringing up how, you know, why are there no, why is there no urgency for these other cases of missing women of color? But this one about one white woman, which is still obviously very sad. You know, that one blows up. And yeah, it kind of it's one of those instances where white people get to see what people of color have been saying for a very long time that there's this bias and whatnot. But yeah, that's that's a really sickening story. Yeah, it's happening right now. It's one of those things where not a lot of people know about it either too. You know, it's like it's making news in Canada, but it's not getting out there, so to speak. Well, and to add to what the actual, you know, people involved with their voices are saying Cambria Harris, who's the daughter of Morgan Harris, was one of the victims. She spoke with reporters in Ottawa this week, and she said, I should not have come here and be so mad and beg and beg so that you will find and bring our loved ones home. My mother didn't pass away with a home. So let's pay her the respect that she deserves by finally giving her one that's not a resting place at the Prairie Green landfill. So their bodies are theoretically just chucked in a landfill somewhere. And just how dehumanizing and demoralizing is that? Like honestly, think about it, that an Indigenous woman's body is not worth recovering from a fucking dump. Because what, they just don't want to spend the resources. Again, like what I see my chat saying, and what we've been saying, if those women were white, this wouldn't have happened. Their bodies would have already been taken out and memorialized. Let's be totally real. It would be international news. If there was four white women in Canada that got murdered by a serial killer for whatever reason, and the bodies and remains were not being excavated, but they knew where they should be, that would be international news. Like, and fucking America would be an uproar. There would be so many conservative Americans like, what about the fucking bones? Take them up, give them peace, you know. And it's just yet another case in Canada where no one gives a fuck. Because it's like, yeah, well. Racism. It is. Yeah. All right. So I know we're getting towards the end of kind of the two hours of this. So let me try and pose maybe less of a specific topic question. Again, something a little bit more open-ended, but obviously still going to need some of our brain cells to click together to answer it. Oh, that was fast. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I want to keep going. I have fun with all of you. I mean, we could go for a little bit. I just know the East Coast folks is getting late. So I want to be really good for fun. All right. So this one person did not put a name down. So from this particular person's question, they say people are stuck in cycles of homelessness and or deep drug dependence. How do you deconstruct the bad faith arguments for forced assistance or getting people off the street who are dangerous to the community? Sorry, to the community. Admittedly, some are, but much less so than people want to claim. What are short-term solutions when legitimate structural solutions are not in place? Thoughts from smarter people than I? I definitely have to answer this, but I'm going to let somebody else talk because I hadn't realized how long I'm going to let somebody else talk. I've got a lot of talk time. Well, why not? If you got something to say, say it. Oh, you're muted. David. I need David to talk, David. Affirmatively, in my several... I don't know if you know David, but the streets love you and they feel like you don't be talking enough. And I refuse to take some talk time from David. You got this, David and Matt. What am I talking about? Honestly, I don't know if there are easy short-term solutions. I feel like if there were, then we would be doing them, right? The answer, isn't the answer just housing? I feel like that's the answer, is housing. Yes. No, it is. So to argue for short-term feels like just a way to get around what the reality needs to be. And if we're not focused on housing, then we're getting sidetracked, is kind of my feeling on this. I had this argument, this whole topic came up on one of the election night streams I was on, obviously not the one where I joined you, the one before that, where I was on the conservative stream over on Odyssey. Sean... Lance, you're familiar with this guy. Sean Fitzpatrick or Fitzgerald or something like that. He... The issue came up and he's arguing like, obviously something's wrong when there's so many homeless people on the... Well, he didn't say that actually. He kept talking about how much blight there was out there. And I was like, what are you talking about? Be a little bit specific. I mean, I knew what he meant, but I wanted him to say it. And he's like, just the urban decay and blight. And I'm like, say it. Say who you're talking about please. And he finally was like, homeless people. And I'm like, all right, what do you think we should do about it? And he was like, arrest them. And he was like, I was like, okay, we arrest them. They go to prison. They go to jail. They spend however long there or whatever, they get released. Where do they go? Back on the street. What do we do then? Arrest them. Okay. So you want them just being constantly arrested, put back out there, this never-ending cycle, which doesn't solve anything. And he was like, well, what do you think we should do? And I was like, housing is an obvious choice. And he's like, no, no, no, no. So the solution from conservatives is just literally just keep arresting people. And then they go back out on the street and arrest them some more. That's not an answer because it doesn't solve anything. Literally, we have to provide people with housing. It is that simple. And obviously, from there, if certain individuals need mental health, that's something that should be provided as well. If people are violent or a threat to others and themselves, then you can go through the law system to have them, even if they don't want to go, they need help. But otherwise, you can't force people to go if they're not posing a threat to anybody at all just because they're a blight, because they're sitting outside. No, you can't force people to do that. At the end of the day, this goes back to the original point we made earlier about them just actually all of these, these hatreds or these issues that they come up really just boil down to a fundamental hatred and vilification of the people, of the group. That's what it really is about because they understand what it means to address root causes. In any other circumstances, if their family has a drug problem, they do not want their family arrested or forcibly restrained or these kinds of things to happen. They would want them to get rehab. They would want them to get conditions. They would want these kinds of things to happen. And they recognize that in these scenarios. They intentionally frame it as though they love whenever it comes to maintaining a carceral world or continuing to abuse people, we love to paint as though there's no other option. And you have to do it like that because there's no other way to justify what is obviously inhumane. But the reality is it's not a magical thing. There's not something that's out of out of their control. They can put money into communities and the under-resourced communities, homelessness, mental health. The reality is most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That's one. And to most people have some kind of mental health issue and like depression and serious mental issues, serious mental health issues and things that are exacerbated are by poverty and the inability to treat them and get help and get resources. There's a reason why you don't see those same level of the manifestation of our mental health issues on the streets in a rich community versus if you see it somewhere poor. It's not because those people are any more predisposed to mental illness. It's not because they themselves are more of a problem or need to be policed or handled by the state in that way. It's because they don't have the resources. So it's that simple. The same way whenever we talk about what is policing as an institution and all the problem, their responses is always they understand pumping money into helping something get better or some kind of root cause when it comes to let's get the police more money to training. Let's give them more of this, more of this. So if you think, oh, you don't want to see homeless people or you think these people who you've deemed other poor people, homeless people are a problem or what have you, why wouldn't it be? Why is it out of the realm of possibilities to give them money for their issues? And the same way we throw money at every other problem. Everything else America wants to do. We have no problem throwing money at it. But somehow we ask like we need some other magical solution like what else could we do other than incarcerate these people or forcibly, you know, restrain them and yet we could have given them the fucking money in the first place to get the mental health issues and the mental health resources that they need and want and often still do, but do not want to do it at a threat of criminal prosecution when they are still homeless on the street and battling those things. So and by the way, that that saves money. Like we shouldn't have to make this argument, but it but if you care about this argument, if you care about money, if that's what you're concerned about, it saves money to house them. And then they're not relying on on the system. They're not relying on the emergency room that in the law. There's been multiple like tons of studies done on this. It's both the most moral thing to do the most practical thing to do and economically the smartest thing to do. And for some reason, I mean, for many reasons, I guess, but there's just there isn't that will to do it with people that are actually in power who could implement it. And it's it's disgusting. They think that you can essentially criminalize homelessness into oblivion or then oh snap them out of existence. Like that's the way that they talk about homeless people is as if that's the solution, just get them out of my sight out of sight out of mind. But the more cost efficient solution is to just do what's the most moral. As David said, you house them. That's it. That's the only other solution. And that's why like people can talk about mutual aid and whatnot. They can talk about helping out where you can. But the major solution, the easiest solution is housing. That's that's literally it. Like it sounds really overly simple, but it's it is that's the solution. And and that's how it all ties together, right? Initially, like we said, there's the government is invested in making you feel like is the government do governments are doing you a favor. The government does not have to do for you. And if you believe that underlying rationale when it comes to situations, when it comes to let's help homeless people, let's give people the resources is the reason why people get so much vitriol about it. Because in their mind, they really think the government is doing a fucking favor rather than just doing its duties where it is supposed to. The only reason you have a government is there to help and serve you and to keep you out of these kinds of problems. But because we have been trained and educated like that, because again, larger conversation about capitalism, you know, I mean, keeping us working X, Y, Z, you have to believe I do I help I'm responsible solely for myself and the government is only here to help you in rare, rare, rare circumstances and anybody who might need them for anything like I don't know most of the fucking country that lives check to check. Oh, welfare problem. Well, so I'm giving those checks to like corporations and stuff though. I was gonna say in terms of how the I guess the right I guess sees homelessness saying that like the short term solution is like they're just criminalizing it away. I actually think that's part of the long term goal because and I know only I mean you've looked into this too. One of my researchers that worked for my channel her master thesis and everything in the background was about the prison slave system. So I was really grateful to have her as an invaluable research to my work as well. And when you look at companies like Unicorn and stuff like that and the deals that they've made with the government and stuff like that incarceration is invaluable because of the essentially free financial labor that comes out of it from weaponizing prisoners as modern day slaves. And it disproportionately affects black and Latino communities because that was essentially the counteracting balance to when slavery was abolished that was essentially put in place by these southern states. This is kind of a huge thing. Homeless. Oh yeah. It's it's this is essentially just a reworking of that and homelessness in particular homeless folks who are not white essentially are disproportionately affected essentially by those who are going to be targeted by police to go to jail and stuff like that and essentially throw them back into this legal slavery system. And it's really fucked. I think to a degree because capitalism you need someone to be underpaid in order for companies to turn profit because no one wants to pay workers fairly. So how do they fix that well with prison labor. And how do you get prisoners by making laws that are unsustainable and what's one of the ways to do that criminalized homelessness instead of solving the real problem. I think this is a huge issue. Yep. My last learn out. Yes. I see you in your bag. That's my that's what I said. Oh yeah. You spit it but but David Dole we don't do that in Canada so we can do a weird high five from bottom to top. Oh wait. Yes. We absolutely. Oh yeah. We do it disproportionately to indigenous people. So we got that. Yeah. There's a great. So I listened to an episode of Canada land. It's a Canadian podcast and they did one on food banks and how Canada is unique in the sense and how we treat food. We don't have food stamps here and we're the only country in the G7 that doesn't have food stamps or any version of food stamps. And we use food. We almost celebrate food banks and they made the comparison to the U.S. like you don't see Joe Biden or anybody going to food banks and being like and you know at the holidays and celebrating food. Whereas our politicians do that as if it's like as if you're not in power and should be doing something else to feed like providing food. Yeah. Like provide exactly providing food doing something that to ensure people are able to live proper lives don't have to rely on food banks and actually so food banks only came in in the 80s and was brought in as a temporary measure and eventually became normalized to the point where now we rely on them and our culture celebrates food banks and giving food away to the point where you you're in a grocery store now. You say like Walmart does this. You buy food at Walmart and then at the checkout they have like a basket to put your food in the food that you just bought. So Walmart is both making the profit and at the same time taking the food that you bought for them so that they can say hey we gave this food to the homeless. Like it's the system is so messed up and we just accepted and it takes like people to point out how ridiculous it is for people to wake up and realize that this entire system is completely absurd and to have politicians especially celebrating it as opposed to using their power to do something about it. I mean it's so backwards. Wow. Yeah. My family when my dad was disabled he had his own business and right when it was really like starting to pick up he got disabled so my family was on food stamps and that just wasn't enough so we had to do food stamps and food banks towards the end of the month when you kind of like run low on resources and whatnot and you know your food stamp card isn't secured but yeah food stamps alone just like with my own experience is not sustainable. When you use that with food stamps then you can essentially get by and also clothing banks as well is really important for my childhood but yeah that's I did not know that Canada didn't have food stamps. That's interesting. That's sad but interesting. Next question. I was going to say do y'all want another question or do you want to wrap things up? How are the East Coast folks doing on time? Good question. How are y'all feeling? We could do another question. I could do another one or two. All right cool. Okay there's a lot about Ben Shapiro now. Non-Ben Shapiro and it's relevant. This is going to be about the railroad strikes. The question comes from Belly Bean and they asked was the squad correct with their votes on the railroad strike? No. They worked with the unions to like so initially I thought it was dumb like everybody else but then I was reading from labor reporters not just like you know random people people like Jonah Furman who is a great labor reporter. He said that the reason they voted that way is because unions worked like told them basically to the ideal was they wanted to put up this amendment to add sick days to the Senate and to do that it has to pass in the house so the ideal was for them to vote for it. Now you could argue but then why didn't Rashida Tlaib vote with it and I think she was I mean I think in terms of strategy she was correct not to vote with it but apparently the other members that that's why they voted that way. It isn't to say it was a good strategy or defensive it just to explain why they voted that way. Yeah. Have you seen have you seen the Shama Suwan versus Ryan Grimm debate on this? No. Because it got pretty down to the core edit. They knew going into this a lot of the people like not that you're totally right everything you just said is 100% correct it's what they were asking the squad to do but this was a DOA and they should have recognized it as such. There was no way that this was not going to die into Senate and it's one of those things like so what are the two options? A you don't vote for it and you hope that enough of you have a strong enough contingent to shut it down period because that's what you'd have to do so it doesn't even go to the Senate or you do it that way knowing full well that it'll die into Senate but at least you tried to add that five-day tack on is the other problem but it's weird because it's one of those things like a union like anything else is fallible it's human and the leaders of a union could be wanting or saying things that are not directly in the interest of all the workers at which point it's up to the people within the union to be able to say we have to change our management because the union heads are not in our interest but there's a lot of people within the union who are very upset about what happened because they thought they should have just not voted for it at all so and from a political standpoint it's a nightmare no matter what if you're a progressive if you're a squad member it's lose lose in both directions it's either I do what I think is best in opposition to what the union bosses are asking for because I know it's DOA so I say I'm not voting for this in the house so it never makes it to the Senate at which case a lot of people will be mad because they're like whoa you went against what the union asked for and in the other direction they do what they did and everyone is still like well what the fuck but it just died and they got nothing and now it's it's over like wouldn't you know yeah there's no winning in this situation honestly but yeah I think that there is a real difference between doing what the union bosses want and doing what the union workers want because union bosses aren't infallible like they're good like listening to them isn't necessarily bad but in this instance it was very clear that a majority of the workers did not want this deal so if I were in congress I would have rejected it because again as you said lines like the whole thing was DOA like we all knew that this was going to fail anyway so to just cast that vote in solidarity with workers I think that that would have been a really good symbolic victory that being said though I think that it's not necessarily like a cancelable offense of the squad I think that the problem is that the squad just isn't very politically savvy and democratic party leadership usually runs roughshod over them and that's that's really the core issue they need to get more savvy and strategic but you know it's again like it was lose lose lose all around because it was gonna die it's just a shitty situation and since we're talking about this I just want to add that Biden does have the authority to sign an executive order where he guarantees a sick leave by simply saying we're not going to contract with any company that doesn't offer at least seven paid sick days um Obama did this before Biden can do that and then I mean these rail companies they have federal contracts that's how you effectively do it like that but he's not doing it and the real test comes from the pressure like can we exert enough pressure can the squad exert enough pressure on Biden to get him to do that and that is where I think that anyone who's disappointed that's where you kind of encourage them to move pressure towards Biden I know that there's a lot of labor activity that is moving towards that currently but that really is where the pressure needs to be because that's how you accomplish this now yes he failed the workers the squad it's a little bit ambiguous as to whether or not what they did was correct I wouldn't have voted in the way that they did but if they can get Biden to sign that executive order it's a win of war it doesn't matter yeah yeah I agree I think there's a weird section of the internet that's obsessed with the fact that like AOC hasn't unlocked communism yet she hasn't pressed the medicare for all Biden you know yeah I was I was like what the fuck come on like it's uh it's fine to criticize you know strategy and that kind of thing but you have to understand like people have to understand how congress works they don't have the numbers like it's yes I think there's fair criticisms around like how they should be using their platforms to power who they should be should be speaking you know power or truth to and you know maybe openly criticizing leadership a little more and that kind of thing but there's limitations on what they can accomplish right and people and a lot of it I think is manufactured because there's obviously a lot of incentive to try and um and uh capture a right wing audience by using clicks the left and pretend you're on the left like it's so fucking stupid AOC did this again she failed again it's just we know oh god oh god get us facts yeah let me wrap this up with a last question there was another one that I saw about AOC um and they were asking I am so sorry I cannot find their question exactly but they were asking um us to discuss about AOC being involved in an ethics investigation oh see we don't have the details to my understanding yet but here's why I'm gonna remain skeptical until we get more details getting a congressional ethics investigation like you can fart and there can be an investigation of you so let me just give you one example Marjorie Taylor Greene so she had Marie Newman she was um across from her they had uh opposite offices so Marie Newman she has a trans daughter she put up a trans flag um Marjorie Greene responded by throwing up a poster that was anti-trans saying they're trust the science there's only two genders yada yada so one of the gay staffers there who's a staffer from a democratic congressman he vandalized that sign by putting a sticker on it um because he didn't like seeing you know the hate speech every single day when he walked by that man is now being investigated by the uh for an ethics violation because Marjorie Taylor Greene claims that she felt unsafe because she didn't know if this person who vandalized that sign is going to be riding in the elevator next to her she wanted additional security so it's really easy to spark an investigation and that's not to say that you know AOC is innocent I mean I'm I think she probably is it's probably a bullshit investigation but we just don't know yet so don't just think because there's an investigation that that means she did something guilty they're always trying to find ways to burn members of the squad um Ilhan Omar has been subjected to this I believe as well um although I could be misremembering that but just wait until there's more details because odds are this is some manufactured bullshit from the right but if it's not and she actually did something legitimately uh unethical I will condemn her for this you know it's not like I'm gonna be a cheerleader 100% of the time just we've got to be nuanced the articles I read uh say there was a complaint filed against her from some conservative organization for accepting the ticket to the Met Gala yeah that's what there you have it that's what it seems like this is all about yeah I mean it's not gonna be whatever it is it's not gonna be something that unravels her career it's gonna be even if she like forgot to like file how much the ticket was worth or exactly how much was worth whatever they need to do it's gonna be some like don't you do this next time sort of slap on the wrist thing if if even that if that's what this is yeah they're trying to find something so that's why always when you hear it come from the right and you see a bunch of right wingers like excited about something nine times out of ten it's based off of some bullshit so always take it with a grain of salt that's my advice yeah layer before you wrap things up can we do a uh cancellation slash uncancellation as anyone thought of those did you bring those to the table who's being cancelled this week oh I hadn't thought about this the cancelled party have to be someone who would like be this like be a surprise like someone not typically cancelled or it could be whatever you think could be anything could be petty you can be as petty as you want I mean small ass beef and you're just like I'm canceling fuck him he didn't say he liked me I think the cancellation this week has got to be um if there was any question about his career being completely in the garbage now Matt Taibbi is done he's done okay over second yeah yeah I approved this motion does anyone know what happened with him so he was he was on like the Michael Brooks show like I don't know three like four years ago I was and they were I think they were like they were going to talk about Elon Musk too on that show like I saw a tweet about that and so to go from that to what he is now is so freaking crazy I know the answer to that question Matt Taibbi was friend of the majority report he was in studio when I was there numerous times just shooting the shit knocking on right-wingers and billionaires and all sorts of and then there is that clip of him you know knocking on uh Elon Musk with Michael Brooks um what happened to him is uh well first of all the crack started to come in 2017 or 2018 whenever that old book of his about his time working for that yeah that russian website that you exile yes um they were things wrote in written in there him and mark aims um they say it's satire um and uh people the actual also said it was satire in the book by the way just so just so we're clear because there there is discussion of like sex with a 15 year old as well as a whole bunch of fucked up shit but they said in the book this is satire just and i just want to be transparent about and women women in russia who are working with them at the time have come out when that when that whole when those allegations were being made they came out and said what you're reading in the book did not actually happen to us we had good interactions with working under mark aims and and matt ibe so take that for what you will you know there's but those allegations that were leveled at him during the me too thing was the beginning that you could see him starting to turn a little bit it's the same thing like when um you know you said there's a few people like all of a sudden uh the resistance libs with glenn greenwald start to get under their skin and all of a sudden uh that era turned some people who i guess were never that staunch in their belief staunchly felt their beliefs they were easier to turn around you know um and so that sort of was the beginning of matt ibe i don't know what turned him completely um but that was our estimate about that apparently that's the moment where you can actually you know that simpson's moment with ralph where it's like look this is the exact moment you can see where his heart breaks it's like currently that mprm for you is that moment for matt ibe where like they asked him and it's like they kept pressing him until he eventually started apologizing he was like i'm very very sorry it was satire i didn't mean to put that in the book i'm ashamed of it deeply ashamed and from that moment forward you can like track it where it's like he became more and more reactionary um a little transphobic uh i don't know the questions i don't know uh trans women in women's prisons uh our purity blockers actually general mutilation i don't know like it just started going from there i mean also once you start doing that and you see the money coming in that's it you're you're you're done like you're you're gonna be in there like if if the money didn't matter to you you wouldn't have done it to begin with but once it starts pouring in there's no coming back from it like matt ibe and glenn greenwald as long as the being a right-wing reactionary brings them a substack cash this is where they're gonna go um this i would love to see if there is a turnaround at some point if like many years down the line this is no longer a monetizable thing are they gonna still be who they are they're gonna turn around and jump around again well you know at least at least greenwald at least greenwald though this was always sort of who he was with ibe though this was a complete 180 in terms of like the stuff he was putting out and who he was going after like with glenn greenwald he just happened to align with the left on things like the nsa when you know glenn greenwald's career was made via the snowden vials and stuff but like we always knew that he was like one of these like right right leaning at the very least libertarian types tai ibe though he was a guy who was out there on the ground at zucati park with the wall the occupy wall street people he was someone you know like i said coming into the majority port offices knocking on all these right wingers sitting next to sam cedar like this was a guy who was portraying himself this way and his his turn is certainly the one more interesting than glenn greenwald yeah it's sad it's just so sad we uncancelling i was googling and everybody that i could see was cancelled i feel like i i stand by all those things everybody that crossed my mind i was like valid i got i got one last week okay so i got one i got one to uncancel now uh he's a free man now so he's in the clear uh victor bout the arms dealer uncancel that's beautiful i'm not sweet about that's too spicy yeah i won't acknowledge this after this who knows maybe maybe his maybe he's a changed man maybe he's gonna come out start a twitter account and he's gonna go in this house i believe black lives matter trends rights are human rights maybe he's a changed man we don't know at that moment i will tweet it wait for it well i feel like i i need like a list of like who's cancelled and then i can properly pick one out but like i who is cancelled yeah i'm not sure who i would uncancel cancellations to be like oh let me get rid of those but then i'm like those are fair too like i'm like but i was like he deserved that shit he should have shut the fuck up then i'm like oh christen so like is it like how black people we cancelled the shit out of christen michelle but then we've allowed connie and all kind of people to go into maga stuff and we'll win and all of them but i'm like that's what you get you shouldn't have been talking to shit i can't help you like i i don't i don't know who we can who we can who's like i can only think of people who i'm like evaded cancellation like you know what i mean like oh and then i'm like oh let me don't bring that back up before i say it and then somebody tweeted and now it gets a new spiciness and now i'm hated by like nicole richie's husband uncanceled i'm like uh y'all y'all got somebody no more people yeah i think i'm looking at my chat i don't know my chest ain't even fine but i was like i don't think even oh he was never cancelled he's never he thinks like just goes back and forth though he's he's like he's basically quantum physics he's in one of two states at all time he's always cancelled or uncanceled it's just like he flips back and forth you know that's his reality so i if i uncancel ethan kline by tomorrow he'll be cancelled again then uncanceled i think i don't even know ethan kline is this crazy keep it that way okay well they didn't cancel they didn't cancel him but they did get on his ass and i didn't i didn't think that was he's one of the white people i like can john malaney can i can i absolve john malaney of his sins oh for cheating on his wife is that we're talking about yeah yeah can i absolve him yes that's putting a cheat i don't even know why he was really like a story like i don't know that's what i'm saying for you free my guy but did he cheat when she was pregnant is that the story no no no no no so the the reason why he was cancelled is because the um anemarie tendler his first wife i guess um yeah she essentially he told her he didn't want kids like that was kind of a big thing and she i guess wanted kids or something but didn't because they were married he goes and cheats with this other actress that i forgot her name olivia mon is that it was she that one or is it a different one yeah her olivia mon and almost really gets pregnant and has a child yeah and it's essentially as like a woman it's kind of spitting right in her face being like oh well i wanted children but i sacrifice this for you and as women get older it becomes harder for you to safely conceive a child and so she can when you lay out the case like that it i don't feel i don't feel comfortable like the like the nfl knew all the horrific facts but already and had chosen meeting my co-host new but now that you've laid out the facts i get unconscious that i have a new new contender i actually i watched the video i'm nosy unlike tj holmes and old girl um y'all seeing that with good morning america the affair to scandal which we should oh yeah i was so hyped for that tea look i can't get nothing i watched the video though and fairness turns out they were both separated from their partners like they watched the whole i've been i'm deep in their business they still trifling for different reasons but technically they were both have been separated for months so they didn't technically have an affair well apparently tj be slanging dick all around good morning america so he's had some other affairs no good morning america scandal no i just heard that they were fired for fucking it was like you know a marital affair blah blah blah someone likes being they lost their jobs right just forget just having an affair they lost their jobs but they just took them out there all right the bone let me tell you what's that what happened what happened i didn't know these people but now i know all their business they started good morning america doing this around like 2013 2014 they have both been married to their respective partners for 12 years specifically um uh old girl the girl he cheated the blonde woman the the host um she was married to her husband who was uh i think he was in 90210 one of the white people shows he's an actor named andrew shoe she'd been married him for 12 years he separated in august tj and his wife separated about i think four months like four months before that they've been separated but tj was still like working things out with his wife um like she thought that they were going to get back together and figured out they were also she was unaware of this relationship um he has with old girl but apparently they started training for the marathon together and then right they started they started getting it cracking right so but apparently tj tj ben triflin so tj check tj out tj used to be cheating on her apparently three uh in like years ago he was cheating with his other woman that worked at good morning america who was friends with his co-host who he's now having the affair with and he was with that a lot of energy this man stamina i'm just gonna say he's him a white woman in the talk anyway so he was speaking with this woman for three years when they finally when they finally stops dealing with her this woman he gets the job um he gets the job offer at good morning america and the quote from old girl because she's like oh my god i almost fell out i was so we were so excited for this we've been trying to figure out for like five or six years how we could work together so anyway he gets into job and she starts sleeping with him now hello friend the other woman he'd been having the affair where it is upset so they got to have a falling out wife kind of was like but apparently they was going on double dates he they was taking they what is this 80s sitcom what is going on the tea is hot okay they were double dating they even they even had her daughter's um baby sitting tj's kids yes wow yes child yes so now and they you know should have hit the fan now and that's where i at but technically speaking and uncancellation like that i don't want to cancel i don't want to uncancel tj because i don't like these practices i don't i i don't like this whole i keep my they were separated from their spouses that's being left out everywhere they was are they trifling absolutely absolutely but it wasn't actually a fail all right didn't uh didn't joe scarborough and and mika like also do basically the exact same thing i'm like morning joe like their co-host they were i'm not i can't say they were cheating i don't know enough but they were both married and then they became unmarried and then they're now now they are married joe scarborough and and mika brzezinski from from morning joe on msnbc they're the two hosts there so they yeah it was like a big secret apparently for like a long time but but everyone like behind the scenes knew that they were together and then at some point it became public um but it's it seems weird that these two would lose their these new ones would lose their jobs over this i'm gonna tell you why i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you why i'm gonna tell you why because let me tell you the optics first of all it's far more interesting because tj's hot let's start there like all right and like also white ladies love love love a scenario where a mid-ass woman is with like a mid-ass white ladies with a fine-ass black man that's why they love first season of bridgerton it feels aspirational like they love they love that shit so they eat that up they love that what yes so the white woman is interested for it for like and the black woman like i know you're fucking lying i know you don't have your black woman at home lia did you see the message like the testimonial from his anniversary it left his wife because that's what y'all none of y'all seen that oh i'm so excited in the in the thing he's like he's like oh i mean like the message i'm not lying y'all is basically like woman you know let me find it i'm i'm sorry i know he was saying really i have to read it to y'all you have to i don't gotta get against the tea yeah this is a whole new world that i'm unfamiliar with now there's more to learn from everybody we love it i just feel like when it comes to personal life it shouldn't impact like unless you're like a bad like a terrible person but i feel in terms like relationships that shouldn't impact your job at work yeah unless it's somehow interfering i don't know maybe it's a distraction but it is involving work into the sex life stuff in fairness in fairness but they work together they're the same level right and it's consensual right it's consensual yeah but but they let it rock at first when they when they first heard but then i think they further learned that he in fact slangs dick amongst the workplace like it's not he isn't it while she may only be being dicked down by him he is in fact dig downing many a bitch like that is what is happening they are playing out the morning did she did she know that is this now news to her is what i want i i think it's news to the organization that he is he is out here divviano dick as he feels freely let me let me read they have an exclusive deal though is it like you can't sleep with other people but i can or was it like a polycule like what was the idea child i do not know but i know tj imagine imagine think you have an exclusive arrangement with somebody's husband a fool you must be but let me let me let me read the caption what he what he posted to his wife this is a man who wanted to be the fuck out this particular decade challenge is a little late but 10 years ago marily married me and despite my best efforts she remained married to me the past 10 years that's not hyperbole well i'm not being dramatic i gave her plenty of reasons excuses and opportunities to walk her fine ass out the door but instead with her with her built in with her built in black woman superpower she showed a grace and patience that's incomprehensible asking her for another 10 years would be asking too much another 10 months that may even be a stretch if she gave me another 10 weeks i should consider myself lucky if she puts up with me another 10 days i'd be grateful but if she would even spend another 10 minutes of her time for me today i should consider myself blessed this is marily homes and itj homes do solemnly swear that i was her decade challenge i don't want to cancel this yeah that is an act of romantic terrorism they have to send him to the fucking gulag so gay is a fucking demon i'm not voting for this straight up i'm not voting i go press it i want no part of this that mad i'm provoked when on the internet it said it's 10 years i have been begging this bitch to leave me oh my god he said his fucking stinking strong blood me that he went out and signed it to every white woman he could find being said i'm a defense attorney i believe that everybody's title to an overzealous and that man was not having an affair he separated from my tj i vote present i'm not part of this i want no part of this i wash my hands yeah i second that i'm not going to wait into this bullshit there's way more than i anticipated is he canceled do you can't uncancel him sure why not let's do it okay we got two Blair you would both have to vote in the negative to to stop this uncancellation so so Illuminati and David if you both vote no then then it's an uncanceled canceled if there is if if they if you both press it it passes yeah well in terms of his job that's maybe he i don't know if he's a distraction there maybe he shouldn't be there but in terms of just like a person if they were separated i don't know and they're these are consensual relationships i don't know that's true i don't think it's that bad i don't know that's why i said if it was if they were still in a relationship not separated or any of that i would say yeah that's that's not uncancellable behavior but i don't know i i think i'm gonna vote to uncancel fucking i am too let's do it you all persuaded me a less controversial one and matt and i actually talked about this like a month ago when i was on his show would be i can give you a first name ned from the try guys i think that is there more to that than i know because i thought that what he did was terrible care about i don't care about uncanceling him or not uh because i don't really care about him i think what we were talking about was like how weird of an issue it was like people were acting like you killed he's a scumbag for cheating on his wife no doubt about it but why did everyone act like he murdered somebody that's my 100% super weird what a surprise yeah like the other try guys came out like the other try guys came out and were like he's we don't longer know who this man is what has he done he fucked up their bag so okay so i didn't um so nosy thank you for finally waiting in my part of the internet so i think i've never heard of the try guys ned nothing but then i became a savant watch all the videos so this is this is what the t is so his entire brand was i love my wife i am a white guy my wife my wife my wife my wife yeah it would be like if you all found out i'd be at clans meetings now for fun like it's that level of like oh like if right now y'all found out my boyfriend was like the head of the my pdr be like my man's like real fly that's how that's like that was their friend so they were friends with her before they even knew oh they were friends with her okay that makes a little bit more yeah okay yeah exactly so that's their personal friend she appears in videos she works there too or whatever all girl they because he did this the girl he was uh having his affair with was this girl apparently she's part of the food baby something else they had this little girl named alex who was engaged with somebody or whatever they're they're carrying on this little affair all in open or on the place gallivanting like people don't know who they are pitches they had a fucking what i think a beaver concert my guy or like something extra like copy invisible and just just i see what's wrong mind you alex is fully fucking engaged so anyway once they do this big scandal whatever legal situation comedy central aid just had their look like they just got their big like food deal for some show they just finished taping the show they've been given like the prime time hour and all of that comedy central drops them from their best slot yeah immediately they lose that i got put to the to whatever a part of their legal stuff because she works there and whatever could like issues that cause hr legal stuff whatever they had to take him out of every fucking video and they had content like recorded like months and months and months in advance and like oh shit or whatever so they had to completely to just get rid of all these things spent a whole bunch of money taking them out of there to get rid of any merch that he's in buy them out of the company deal with whatever pending lawsuit and this comedy central shit he didn't cost them a fuck ton of money okay i did not know all of the the money stuff in the show that does put into different country but why does everyone else care yeah yeah i agree true my way there there's like for the same reason they feel about everything else there is a white woman whose feelings they believe is hurt at the center of this white lady was wrong that is what happened okay how dare you eat on this awesome white lady you came around here you told me you love this white woman you said my wife well that explains it then i guess this dude i i i am privy to a little bit of that because i saw a clip of him he was literally so since he he's a father right i don't know how many kids they have but because he loves his wife so much he literally put like this electro shock pad on his gooch to simulate giving birth and they did a whole episode on this and the other try guys were holding his arms and he's going ah and for that alone he should be cancelled so i do understand cancellations not new cancellations sorry we cannot uncancel him no we are unable to do it because he fucked a bag up like okay okay that's actually very fair yes this the money the internet needs to stop caring as much though they individually they can care yes no other people yeah but you know how they go like again it's the same thing with the John Mulaney thing oh why white ladies feelings were hurt so we are all very upset you know what i mean like that's really even though this is just like normal shit like they just get cheated on every day be but you know i understand i understand but it's a money situation to me that's why he's got to go he fucked up everybody's bag yeah he's a liability issue too when you have someone who owns a company sleeping with your employee that's a legal liability he opened them up to they're gonna have to pay out he opened them up to lawsuits and all kind of shit and all kind of stuff exactly exactly right like especially with whatever fall out who knows how she's gonna because she had a fiance she lost her fiance and all kind of stuff blah blah blah she could easily legally like he and it could be true he took advantage or this undue pressure yada yada yada you've opened them up to all kind of fucking liability and so yeah an imbalance of power between the two you can say that's two individuals a man and a woman but this is someone who was the owner and technically your boss sleeping with you behind your wife's back who is your friend and also your co-worker it's a very legally precarious situation in terms of working economics inside that business if they kept him what it would have told the remaining employees if there were any others who maybe he had slept with was that a lawsuit could potentially be viable at that point I think and I think that those people would have a case and exactly and they would that's a lay of me here but um from what I've read at least that's I think what the what the bigger issue is well everyone's dealing with the um the parasocial relationship point of oh my god blah blah blah blah blah there's a whole issue whoa what was that 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