Chapo Trap House - Episode 254 - Best of the Midwest: Columbus & Chicago feat. Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby (10/15/18)
Episode Date: October 16, 2018In the first part of this double shot of recent Midwest live shows, we're joined by Street Fight's Brett and Bryan at The Columbus Athenaeum for a dive into Charlie Kirk's extremely shitty new book "C...ampus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters" Then, from Chicago's House of Blues we introduce an unforgettable new character into the Chapo pantheon of Op-ed shitheads. Tickets still available for Madison and Minneapolis!!!! http://chapotraphouse.com/tour/
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Hey, we're talking Chappo. It's Matt and Will coming to you from Madison, Wisconsin.
That's right.
We are full of cheese curds and brandy old fashions, and we will be performing tomorrow,
Tuesday night, the 15th at the Barrymore Theater. There are tickets still available,
but I'm here to talk to you now about these two segments that you're about to hear on this sort of
a best of the Midwest tour compilation. Now, I know if there are two segments from live shows,
but you know, bear with me here. Let me tell you on the first act, live in Columbus, Ohio
at the Athenian Theater, which is literally a giant haunted spooky masonic temple.
It's true.
Not not lying. Not making it up. We did. We've we're now Freemasons.
Yep.
That's a cane, two will came fam. I'm not supposed to say it, but I'm just going to let it out there
to will came for 10% off at Quizno, say, quote, two will came and do the secret handshake.
Of course.
So live on stage with Brett and Brian. Come on, Chappo and street fight together.
You know, you're in trouble. You got, you got to listen to that. If you're still not sold,
we spent our acts talking, breaking down Charlie Kirk's incredibly hilarious direct mail pamphlet.
I mean, book about his war against the SJWs on college campuses across America.
Would you believe there's some incredibly funny stuff in there?
Okay. Could you believe it, folks? Okay. Not sold yet.
In the second part, you will hear us from just last night from the live on stage at the Chicago's
House of Blues, a stage that we were assured by the stagehands was once shared by Steven Segal
and his band. Yes.
Songs from the Crystal Cavern.
Get the punani.
Now, this is very important. If you're a Chappo fan, again, I know it's a live show,
but you will not want to miss the introduction of a brand new character into the Chappo verse.
Yeah.
This is this guy.
I mean, you know, I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to tell you who it is or what it is,
but you are not going to want to miss the induction of a, let's say, local media columnist
from the greater Chicago area into the Chappo pantheon.
It's hard to believe that we will not be referring to him again in the future because,
holy mackerel, he is just a goldmine of content.
Yeah. Get in on the ground floor now, again, from just the other night live from Chicago's
House of Blues, the place where Dan Ackroyd invented blues music in 1982.
So, without further ado, I will just remind you again that we have a show tomorrow night
in Madison, Wisconsin at the Barrymore Theater Tuesday the 16th, and there are still tickets
available for our early show in Minneapolis on Thursday the 18th.
So, if you are in the Great Lakes or Wisconsin area, we hope to see you soon.
Penny for the delay.
Here we are live on stage with Breton Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.
Okay, so for the second act of our show here tonight, we're going to take a dive into a
recently released book. This is a book that's about, it's about war.
It's about the ideological war that is tearing this country apart.
And this battle is being waged on college campuses.
That's right, subs versus dubs.
You guys, you guys know about this, you know, Ohio State is right here.
You know, nobody say OH, no, stop that.
So, yeah, like the, you know, one of these big battlefields just down the road here,
got to keep fighting, and the general leading this important battle
is a boy with dolphin-style teeth named Charlie Kirk.
Let's look it up.
Okay, first, this is the cover of the book.
It was just released this week.
First of all, I just want to note his hand.
He's Andre. He's very white Andre here.
He's like, in the face, he's white ordeal.
In the hands, he's white Andre.
He's doing the reverse steepling with his hands on the cover.
Yeah, Don Jr. was supposed to come there to put his hands in vertically so they could jack off.
We just never made it.
That's so sad that he put the, that's his big claim to fame down there.
The forward to this book was written by Don Jr. Oh, yeah.
So, just a few facts about Charlie Kirk.
Before we, this is just like a few facts about him to frame this discussion.
So just keep in mind as you, as you hear me read the words that he wrote.
Every chapter of this book is basically like a written in the style of a direct male item
to old people that just eat gruel all day.
So this is, this is the first one here.
Here we go.
This is from a political profile of Charlie Kirk.
His skull is entirely covered with gum.
Do you think those are both Livestrong bracelets?
I would love to stand behind Charlie Kirk in a bathroom mirror and just floss him.
I want to measure his gum so bad.
Like I just want to take a ruler and put them up to those top gums and see how big they are.
Maybe do a poll.
He's a natural dipper.
Yeah.
He's very lucky.
I love the human style posture.
He's adopted for the cover of this book.
So yeah, this is from a political profile in Charlie Kirk.
And I just want to read this one quick thing.
The issue is tied to Turning Point USA's founding Kirk told me and has said in public
several times that in high school he received a congressional appointment to the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, but lost that slot to a different candidate.
A person he told me was of a different ethnicity and gender.
He believes the other candidate may have been admitted because of affirmative action.
West Point officials have said they do consider race and admissions,
but only for candidates who also fully meet their admissions criteria.
So Charlie is saying I definitely would have served in the military as an officer, of course,
but an affirmative action and candidate stole that slot away from me.
And what I love about that is like, Charlie, you still could have enlisted in the military.
Yeah.
No, he had to be a West Point graduate officer.
No, he went to apply for the Army and they said, sorry, we're full.
We just gave your spot to a disabled Latina.
The next one is from Ashley Feinberg in Huffington Post.
Headline, Turning Point USA keeps accidentally hiring racists.
Whoops.
Why do these homosexuals keep sucking my dick?
I mean, you know, you could criticize them, but that's the only way to fight affirmative action.
Uh, the group's former national field director, Crystal Clanton
got down with a K2, right?
No.
I'm sure that was her nickname.
Crystal Clanton, who once texted a fellow Turning Point employee.
This is all caps, by the way.
I hate black people.
Damn girl, I just want to know where do you want to go for lunch?
That's a, that's conservative Romeo dialing.
Hey, you up?
I hate black people.
All caps, I hate black people.
Like, fuck them all.
I hate blacks.
End of story.
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.
The next Turning Point employee, I swear to God, this is her real name,
Shaley Grumman.
No.
What the fuck?
Come on, I'm an Amber Frost, and even I'm calling bullshit on that.
The next tweet of hers is, I am always making racist comments, LOL.
Yeah, that's just a bot.
Yeah, fix that.
Next tweet from Shiley.
If you're a race other than white, I promise to make racist jokes towards you.
That's the Shaley promise.
That's a bad deal.
I have no thank you, ma'am.
So, Ashley got on my card.
So Ashley got an internal memo from Turning Points USA that was circulated to all staff.
It's brightened the red at the top internal memo to all staff regarding social media policy.
As always, Turning Point USA is constantly evolving to better protect the organization
and our staff.
To ensure that our staff is adequately supported, TPUSA is providing a new, all new and former
staff with complimentary social media background checks that will begin to be conducted over
the next month.
If you have anything in your social media past or present that could potentially damage
your credibility or the credibility of the organization, please contact your manager,
myself, or if necessary, human resources at HR at TPUSA.com.
What does it say that the conservatives at least give you a warning shot
and the Libs will just go right after you?
Well, the thing is they're searching to make sure you have tweeted the N-word.
Well, I mean, you say like, why are they giving you a warning?
It's because this grassroots political organization has a fucking HR department.
By the way, none of you, I don't want to give you the, anyone here in the audience tonight,
the impression that you should email HR at TPUSA.com.
Again, that's HR at TPUSA.com.
Your dear HR, my balls stink.
Okay, so let's dive into Charlie's book.
Campus battlefield, how conservatives can win the battle on campuses and why we fight.
All right, how do you, how much do you want to bet that he got this thing written by Fiverr?
He was just like, one, it's someone to write a paragraph and he did it like 500 times.
I mentioned that the forward to this book was written by Don Jr.
And I just want to read just a little bit from Don Jr.
He says, during the summer of 2016, I met Charlie Kirk.
He was 22 years old at the time, and I will admit, I had my reservations.
We already had enough political novices working on our campaign.
And the last thing I wanted was another young kid who had no idea what he was doing.
But the more time I spent with Charlie Kirk and the more I learned about Turning Point USA,
the more I realized there was something unique that we were missing.
This is a fucking penthouse letter. I had reservations about our new hire.
But then we spent a lot of time together at the office late at night.
And I realized he was fucking hot.
We had an awesome three way with TP field director clandest clump.
Here's my favorite line though.
The more I realized that there was something unique that we were missing.
Our core team soon adopted Charlie.
They filled out the papers and everything.
Charlie Kirk is now...
Oh, that explains why he wears diapers all the time.
He's cosplaying as an adopted infant.
We recommended him a barbershop, a tailor.
You might say we groomed him.
Our core team soon adopted Charlie to travel the country with us,
to plan events, hit college campuses.
He's talking about them like they're active shooters or something.
And barn store in the country.
It was a ragtag army of, listen to these names, Gentry Beach, Tommy Hicks, and Charlie Kirk.
Gentry Beach?
Yes, Gentry Beach.
Are you fucking kidding me?
That is the name of a man with one nostril and an uncle mom.
Bujwa Patterson was busy? What the fuck?
This is my...
Our team of all the dukes of hazards enemies.
Listen to the way he ends this forward.
Please enjoy this book, share it with your friends,
support Turning Point USA, and get involved.
The fight is only beginning,
and we need your help to save the greatest country ever to exist.
We cannot do this alone for making America great again, Donald Trump Jr.
I mean, this is just telling you that the audience for this book about fighting on college campuses,
like the median age is like 85 years old.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's just scaring grandpa into giving you money,
because if the kid goes to college, they're going to come out without a gender.
And they're terrified of that.
It's like a big car wash, and they just scrape your gender off.
But he's the perfect, you know, spokesperson for them,
because he's like a 24-year-old with the politics of Monty Burns' mom.
He's the most disgusting of all these young, really cynical, you know,
safe space people who just get by on outrage,
because somebody like a Caitlin Bennett or, you know, these dipshits, these women grime.
They're basically Instagram thoughts for politics.
Yes.
You know, they wear a gun to the commencement,
or they like fucking fire an anti-personnel rocket and a fucking Quran or something.
They go through the work of pissing people off.
Like, you know, they like go in a bikini in a pool,
and they just like deep throat 500 straws to trigger the libs.
Like they're going through the work as much as any of those Instagram grinders do.
This guy literally just skipped up to his dad while wearing crushed velvet cool-ots
and holding a giant lollipop and said,
Papa, I would ever so much like to trigger the libs.
Would you please tell your rich friends to give me some money
so that I may have ever so much fun?
Brian, you told me that you saw a TPUSA on campus.
I was walking through the oval not too long ago,
and there was a guy just sitting there that said,
freedom of speech includes hate speech, change my mind.
Well, I didn't have to do anything,
because there were already like 50 college students just screaming at them.
It was, it really was.
It was like three people that looked to be about 17 years old.
And like, like with rich parents, probably, I would guess.
I don't know, they just, it was not a cool grout.
They love that.
They love, like Steve Grotted, they love that now.
They put out the thing and they say an inflammatory thing,
and then they say, change my mind,
because all they want is footage of triggered college kids crying at them
about how awful it was.
And I just don't understand the urge.
Like, in a, when it's phrased that way, like, change my mind.
Who the fuck are you?
You know, it's like, if you have a side,
so I was like, ah, racism isn't a big deal to change my mind.
It's like, I'm sorry, do you have the end racism button
under that fucking table?
And I have to convince you to press it?
You're just some fucking asshole.
I don't give a fuck what you think.
Okay.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Refresh my memory about this.
Didn't Don Jr.
Can I have to have Charlie Kirk meet Donald Trump?
And afterwards, Donald Trump got pissed
and was like, this guy sucks.
You fucking suck, Don.
Yeah, yeah, because Charlie-
You're demoted to Baron.
Yeah, because-
I hate your fancy little friend.
Never bring your fancy little friend.
Never around again.
Because Charlie Kirk was like,
Mr. President, isn't it true that your supporters
are routinely beat up, booked,
pantsed, and stuffed to the toilet
just for supporting your policies?
And Donald Trump, like,
he can't think that he's unpopular anywhere,
and he's like, no, everyone loves me.
Yeah, that was really funny.
The math club, the chess club.
They tried to get him to admit
that it was hard to be a Trump fan on campuses,
but he's like, no, everyone loves me everywhere.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
Cheerleaders are breaking out in spontaneous songs
about the apprentice show.
Wonderful.
At the risk of leaning too heavily
on Simpson's comparisons,
this is Don Jr.'s millhouse.
Yes.
Yes.
Can you imagine how many millhouses
Don Jr. has brought to meet his dad over the years?
I'm not mad.
He's so mad.
It's millhouse's millhouse.
This guy is-
The most awful concept possible.
No, it's Ralph's millhouse.
Millhouse, Ralph's millhouse.
Charlie Kirk is such a tough sell,
because even as someone that rides an electric bicycle
is my main form of transportation,
I want to roll coal all over that fucking powder blue jacket.
All right.
I want to get into-
I fucking hate, it's such a nerd.
I want to get into Charlie's actual writing here.
All right, this is from the introduction.
You may have seen this clip shared,
but it's worth reading.
This is the introductory paragraph of this book.
This is when you establish your relationship
with the reader, your credibility and your will-
Why you should be listened to.
He begins.
Who could have imagined that I would need police protection
to talk about freedom on a university campus?
I never thought this would happen to me.
Anyone who saw you ever-
A university of all places whose very essence
is the freedom to pursue knowledge and wisdom
no matter where it takes us.
No, it's about reproducing the class.
Go on.
Yet here I was needing eight private security agents
and 30 police officers to secure my safety
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
so I could deliver another of my smashing socialism lectures.
Here he goes.
Smashing.
Here he goes.
So he's off the powers.
He comes out with a fucking watermelon
that says socialism on it,
and he hits it with a fucking hammer.
Here he goes.
As I climbed onto the stage,
the wild screaming got louder and louder.
Charlie Kirk is a jerk.
Carly Kirk.
Carly Kirk is a jerk.
How do you have a carer for that one?
Holy shit.
Here we go here.
Nice alliteration that-
But I've been called worse.
That's rhyming.
That's not alliteration.
That's fucking rhyming.
This whole book, he talks about how universities
have lost their way and they used to educate kids
in like the classical canon and grammar.
And on the very first paragraph,
he badly botches what alliteration is.
Driving back to Chicago,
I reflected on the event and was struck again
by how intellectually curious
the University of Illinois students were.
They really wanted to learn and see another point of view.
There was something good happening on American campuses
that the media was ignoring.
It was a spark that would grow into a bonfire.
He talks about all those lectures that he goes to.
At each, I was met with resistance from far left radicals,
but I saw firsthand thousands and thousands
of students curious to learn more about America,
free enterprise, and the Constitution.
No chance it's in the thousands.
Not even 1,000.
No, not even one of them.
Three digits max.
A lot of people probably went up to him
and are like, why do you stand that way?
Why does your mouth look like that?
Why do you always look like sort of pained?
And he's like, oh, they want to learn about enterprise.
Sir, are you okay?
Do you need me to call someone?
A lot of students are too drunk to go to a fucking history class
and they need to sober up for a minute first
and talk to Charlie Kirk, okay?
It's a real thing.
Thousands of students went up to me and said,
where are your parents?
Are you lost, little boy?
Chapter one is called, your job is...
Gum reduction clinic is down there.
That's a thing.
Chapter one is called...
Just push it back.
You just push it back.
You reduce the gums, it's real.
I feel like I'm more better at insulting people's appearances
and you should do the more political stuff.
No, it's fine.
His gums are hella big.
I'm a sassy bitch.
Chapter one is called, your job is to shut up and listen.
No, I have a podcast.
I really like...
This is really hot.
Charlie the Dom.
Awesome.
It begins...
I love to get my back walls blown up by Charlie Kirk.
Very cool.
It begins...
How can you say that America is a good place?
The student was incred...
This is one of Charlie's many very real encounters
that he's had all over at universities all over America.
Hey Charlie, I like 9-11.
How can you say...
How can you say that America is a good place?
The student was incredulous that I could make
such a bold and to her dishonest assertion.
The very idea violated everything she had learned
from her college professors
and now she was challenging me
in one of my very frequent college lectures
that I give about liberty, the free market,
and conservative values.
She wasn't ranting.
She wasn't being nasty.
It was just that it was so outside her experience
that she couldn't believe that anyone
would actually defend America.
And it was a great question.
It went to the heart of what Turning Point USA
is all about and deserved an answer.
Here's the answer.
Bring it.
If America is so bad, why do so many people want in?
Millions are so anxious to come to America
that they're literally climbing over fences,
swimming rivers, and figuratively...
Away from the countries that America is bombing.
Yeah, I would say, I mean, most colleges teach
the Islamic State curriculum,
which teaches that you don't want to come to America.
The thing is, it's a great flag.
It's a very sexy flag.
So Charlie's answer is, people love America so much
that they're literally climbing over fences,
swimming rivers, and figuratively busting down doors.
Wait, what river?
Okay, who knows?
Rio Grande.
Rio Grande, okay.
I mean, this is a trope that comes up again and again
whenever Charlie wants to talk about how good America is,
in that he'll reference something that's happening now,
like people trying to get into this country,
that he's actively trying to stop.
I don't know.
His dad probably makes drones that shoot missiles
at people trying to climb over the fence
that he's currently building.
Or he'll reference something in America's past
that conservatives of that era
were forthrightly against 1,000%,
and he probably still is too.
So he goes, if America is so bad,
why is it the most generous country in the world?
The first to show up with food, water,
and other life-saving aid for those whose lives
have been devastated by natural disasters?
Literally not true. Boy, I can't think of any recent news event
where America hasn't done that.
Why are we the first country that steps up
and solves the overpopulation problem in all other countries?
Actually, one of the things I always loved about Cuba
is that they always sent more doctors than America,
which is such a big dick buying your girl a drink move.
I just, I like the, like, Charlie's thing
that all her professors tell her how bad America is all the time.
Like, no matter what professor you have,
no matter what subject they're,
Because they're no right-wing professors.
Right, every professor is the Marine Todd professor.
You go into geometry and they're like,
I want to prove that God isn't real and that America is bad.
Cool.
If America is so bad,
why do we give away billions in foreign aid
to struggling countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia?
I added the last part.
I added the last part.
He didn't actually say that.
Why are we the biggest supporters of the United Nations
despite its hostility to our values?
No, we're not.
Calm down, calm down.
I'm not going to say anything.
He's destroying this poor girl.
If America is so bad,
why does it lead the world in creativity, inventiveness,
and discovery?
I mean, first of all,
the Russian dash cams have produced more culture
than America in the last 20 years.
Well, here's the thing about that.
It's like, it's facts over feelings once again.
Like, he's shredding her with facts.
You know, she's like, America's not good.
And he's like, I will have you look at this chart of gumption
per capita for citizens.
God damn it, you got us.
We don't even lead the world in esports.
We lead the world in Marvel movies.
Like, we have a whole slate there
to show you how great this place is.
Trying to have us own a chunk of that, though, right?
The only reason there is a North American esports scene
is a Canadian, you're right.
But yeah, no, it's just like this entire paragraph is like,
oh yeah, could you listen to Hopson in Germany?
Very cool, Charlie.
My favorite thing is, and a lot of people fight this out,
it's like, we give so much to charity.
Well, first of all, as a percentage, no.
Like, one of the lowest numbers of foreign aid,
middle of the road in terms of charity.
It's like, well, OK, so it's a raw number.
It's a lot of money.
Sure, because we are the grotesque, all-consuming ogre
at the center of the world economy.
It's like, if some fucking fat asshole, like,
shuffled off to a Dunkin' Donuts to drink off his hangover,
and there's a homeless guy there asking for money,
and like, a quarter that's been stuck to his stomach by sweat
falls off into his fucking cup.
Yeah, but when you imagine Charlie Kirk skipping around
to Imagine Dragons, how can you think that America
is not the greatest country in the world?
No, I mean, have you seen Charlie Kirk's, like, normie tweets?
There is one, I swear to God, it's, for some reason,
whenever Ryan Lewis and Macklemore's thrift shop comes on,
I slam my pedal till I'm going 80.
Like, I mean, yeah, I mean, if you had that guy's brain,
you'd be like, this is the most creative society ever.
He was enthralled with his teddy rugs
spent until he was 15 years old.
His last argument for why America is so good.
If America is so bad, why has it survived
for more than two centuries as the world's most successful?
Do you know how many countries have survived longer than 200 years?
China has been around for over a thousand.
It's, yeah, that's, that's, that's not,
that's padding out the stats there.
Yeah, America is that, like, Instagram girl being like 23,
I feel so old.
Here's another, here's another example from the first chapter.
He goes, an undergraduate, this is a very, again,
very real thing that happened.
An undergraduate student took, took her up on it
and brought along an audio recorder.
Here's how their conversation went,
transcribed from the recording,
when he asked why he couldn't,
in a course taught at a Catholic university,
discuss something that the church itself teaches,
in this case, why homosexuality is evil.
Teacher, okay, there are some opinions
that are not appropriate and that are harmful,
such as racist opinions, sexist opinions,
and quite honestly, do you know
if anyone in this class is homosexual?
Student, no, I don't, teacher.
And don't you think that that would be offensive to them
if you were to raise your hand and challenge this?
Student, if I choose to challenge this,
it's my right as an American citizen.
Teacher, okay, well actually you don't have a right
in this class as, especially as an ethics professor,
to make homophobic comments, racist statements,
sexist comments, student.
Homophobic comments, they're not.
I'm not saying that gays,
that one guy can't like another girl
or something like that,
or one guy can't like another guy.
Oh, I think I get, I think I know what he's doing.
He's doing a thing where it's like,
well, gay people are allowed to get married,
they can get married to somebody of the opposite sex.
Oh, they love that one.
They love that argument.
Oh, it's like a riddle.
How does this gay man get married if he's gay?
Oh, to a woman?
Yeah, that very real dialogue goes along.
The doctor is a woman.
I know that riddle.
I have a feeling that the Catholic
would really like to teach Greek style,
if you know what I mean.
I love this argumentation style
because ultimately they have no sense
of themselves as disgusting
because it's like the most perfect,
you're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.
And they've never considered that possibility
in their lives.
That dialogue goes on like that for a while,
but there's one other thing
that I'd like to point out about this book.
He, like in the section breaks,
he lards out like the page length and word count
by just publishing his tweets.
And in the middle of chapter one,
in a section break, he has this.
The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it.
This is attributed to, at Charlie Kirk 11,
quoting George Orwell.
That's Orwell didn't even say that.
That's a fucking incorrectly attributed Orwell quote.
No, but that's literally an office joke.
It's like Michael Scott being like,
that's myself, quoting Wayne Gretzky.
If this, if 1984 continues this way,
we will end up on an animal farm.
Charlie Kirk, quoting George Orwell.
He got it off of one of those Facebook pages
that's like, I love you and I love my life.
It was like just a meme that said,
she contributed that quote to George Orwell.
Yeah, he had to publish that in the book.
He had to take the minion off of it.
This is another one of his tweets
that he's published in his book.
At Miami College, founded by Cubans exiled under communism,
officials shut down the pro capitalism club.
That club sounds cool.
You don't have to say pro capitalism.
You can just say capitalism.
Why add the pro?
Why waste of time?
I don't know.
We're talking about a guy who probably spent
his entire book advance on photoshopping
the minions out of the memes.
This is from the chapter about how it's not safe
to be a conservative on campus.
Samantha Lizardo generally feared retaliation
for her views.
For too many conservative students,
that fear remains unspoken.
In that regard, their safety indeed feels threatened.
As our field rep put it, the biggest thing
that conservative students fear isn't losing friends
and not being invited to social outings.
Yeah, nothing to fear there.
Although that does matter, but the biggest thing is grades.
They worry that their grades will suffer
and about everything else that comes with a bad mark.
Do I speak up with my viewpoint?
If I speak up in class to disagree with the teacher,
will my grades suffer?
There is no oppression like that of the apple polisher.
While most intimidation on campus
is of the psychological and emotional kinds,
instances of hostile environments
that's physical or illegal are not unknown.
Charlie, I'm going to break it to you here.
The biggest threat is just not having friends.
That seems to be the uniting bond
among all college Republicans.
No, they're all failing all of their classes.
They're failing all of their classes
because of their right-wing viewpoint.
I got to say, I went to basically a glorified community college
and I made terrible grades and I'm doing great.
Sometimes you just take your lumps.
Remember that woman on Twitter,
this was a college student who said,
my professor failed me because I wrote this essay
that said America's good and then posted the essay.
It was one of the biggest pile of dog shit you ever read.
It was so literate.
It's like they should rescind your acceptance
if you write something like that.
I really like this one.
This is an example of campus PC gone out of control.
Oh, no.
Here's the second example.
It also involves the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
A professor of media and cinema studies,
Jay Rosenstein,
took his campaign
as a popular and revered school mascot,
Chief Alinawek,
into a public bathroom
where he got himself arrested for video recording people inside.
What?
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
What are conservatives facing now?
They were taking pictures of my duties.
Chuck Berry was a revolutionary.
I think we skipped a lot of steps to get to this point.
Here's the story.
Offensive mascot and he's just videotaping the stalls.
Here's the story.
Rosenstein has made a career
of ridding the world of any memory of the chief
who was retired in 2007
in the face of criticism of it being offensive.
It wasn't exactly that.
Most students and alumni relished the sight
of the respected chief
who wore a feathered headdress
and beaded buckskin
as he danced at athletic and other events.
I love the chief.
Thank you, chief,
for making the sunrise today.
I'm respecting the chief
who's doing the traditional Native American dance
of raising a foam finger while whoop there it is, please.
I'm showing him
his culture's respect
by shooting at his feet
to make him do a fancy jig.
He goes, not at all
he's the equivalent of an Indian's degrading
chief wahoo logo.
Chief Alina Wick symbolized strength,
courage, and determination.
Every megachud in Ohio just called him a cuck.
For saying there was something wrong with chief wahoo.
So the chief never disappeared from campus
and his passionate fans,
unofficially dressed in the chief's regalia,
regularly appeared at school events.
An exercise of free speech
and freedom of association.
That's not what that is.
Capparellis are not an exercise of free speech.
They're also enthusiastic students
who seem to love Al Jolson.
And so, when Rosenstein spied the chief
and an Alinae,
yes, the school and the state
still are allowed to keep their honorifics
of the Native Americans of Illinois.
He tracked the offender
who he thought might be a school employee
to the washroom
to, as he put it,
catch the chief putting on his costume
to document all the ways
the university employees might be involved
in helping.
Except that taking pictures of someone in a bathroom
is illegal and a felony.
Which I learned the hard way.
A little known fact.
It's a hard way to prove a point.
I have to say this is one of those stories
with no protagonist.
I'm not really on anyone's side in this story.
Let me be honest.
Chapter 3.
This is my favorite title of any of the chapters in the book.
Chapter 3 is called
The Magisterial Classroom Lectern.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, you pussy.
It really is the white Andre.
In this chapter,
he lists examples of all the
insane, outrageous things
that leftist college professors
are telling their students.
Here's an example.
Dr. Dana Cloud, a professor of communication
and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University
and a member of the International Socialist Organization,
blames America for 9-11.
Writing a new pledge of allegiance,
she pledged allegiance to the people
of Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan
and to their struggles to survive
and resist slavery to corporate greed,
brutal wars against their families,
and the economic and environmental ruin
brought by global capitalism.
Oh yeah.
That's a good pledge.
That's a real good pledge.
I take my daughter to kindergarten
and they say the pledge and talk about God
and pledge and all of that
and I just don't even know what to do with it.
I wish I had a symbiote once again.
I get the sentiment.
It's just not as catchy, you know.
William Penn, a teacher
in the creative writing program
at Syracuse University,
was recorded complaining in one of his classes
about dead white Republicans
who raped his country.
You notice Charlie doesn't mention
what country this guy is from,
but I bet it would line up pretty well
with Pennsylvania.
To be fair, it's...
Dr. Todd Couch.
Dr. Todd Couch, a sociology professor
at Coker College in South...
No, that's not real.
Todd Couch?
I think we've made up.
Wait, didn't the brown
straight for him at one point
be the cornerback?
I've heard Dan Quinn
address Dr. Todd Couch
in the bathroom before, like...
Dr. Professor...
Dr. Professor Todd Couch, listen up.
He's a sociology professor
who said that racial oppression
was central to the founding father's philosophy.
What?
Can you believe they're teaching college students this?
Can you believe they're teaching college students this?
Can you believe they're teaching college students this?
Dr. Chris Hamilton,
a professor at Washburn University,
accused conservatives, such as Ron Paul
and Ted Cruz, of working to strip
people of the civil rights.
What?
He wrote in his class curriculum
about neo-confederacy movements
that are part of a big-money,
ultra-right powers, Koch Industries,
and co-founders of the John Birch Society
that is part of a broad,
wide-ranging society.
That's absurd.
He disagrees.
This is ridiculous, says Charlie Kirk,
while literally, like, stuffing bags of cash
back into a fucking closet.
Yeah.
No, that's insane.
It says, man with zero talents
who's paid $175,000 a year
to behave this way.
Columbia University
School of Social Work lecturer
defended socialism by blaming capitalism
and the genocide of Native Americans.
Okay, question, though.
Which two world wars?
He agreed
with the mistaken assertion
that the Reverend Martin Luther King
was a socialist before it was cool.
Just because he literally said
I'm a socialist.
Don't these guys know anything about irony?
Yeah, but he's a hipster.
I'm okay with who supported QAnon.
Don't ask me to explain.
What I love about this
is these things are so clearly pitched
to the, as we were saying,
the old people who fund him
just telling these horrible stories
about what's going on on college campuses.
There was one professor at a college
who said that it was okay
for Jamaican home health care workers
to steal the change off your mantelpiece.
But then he's also, like,
bringing up shit like Columbia.
And Columbia is, like,
still the biggest funnel
for CIA recruitment in the country.
So, like, I don't know why
you guys are pretty evenly matched, at least.
One sicko professor
at Harvard University encouraged
his students to cut
phone lines to prevent your
grandchildren from calling you
to invite you to Thanksgiving.
Professor Craig Homo
of sociology at Penn State
said that
old people have no right to learn
how to upload photos on Facebook.
Okay, so, like, this whole chat
there's just a long list of, like,
outrageous things that college professors
have said about conservatives or their politics.
Here's my favorite
fucking one.
I get countless messages from students
who say professors are lowering their grades
and penalizing them for being conservative.
That's why.
As an aside,
I posted that
on Twitter, liberal journalist Jesse
Farrar
Yeah!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on.
Did he just call Jesse Farrar a journalist?
Yes, yeah.
Dude, yeah, Jesse was in the movie The Post.
He spilled a hoagie into the printing press.
Jesse
Farrar
journalist.
Liberal journalist.
Just in, it's actually six guys when I'm in there.
Many are saying that Jesse Farrar
is the new Bob Woodward.
I'm saying it.
Liberal journalist Jesse Farrar,
an occasional contributor to Dead Spin
and Vice Sports, tweeted that professors
should quote,
hold conservative students' heads underwater
until they stop breathing.
And they put it on the front page of The New York Times.
Huge, huge fuck you to Charlie
for not plugging the go-off kings
and your Kickstarter sucks.
Fuck you, Charlie.
Those are his latest projects.
Get it right.
This is what he says,
I'd hold their heads underwater until they stop breathing.
I responded,
I'm sure he is joking,
but imagine if conservatives
made a joke like that against liberals.
Imagine.
Farrar wrote back,
I am not joking.
I'm so jealous of Jesse right now.
Jesse is the king.
He's the king.
He's the king.
Most naturally funny person
I'm on, easily.
You got a polliter for that tweet.
Ask a liberal
why conservatives aren't demanding
their own safe spaces.
Earlier in the book you said it was unsafe for conservatives.
By definition,
you want safe spaces for conservatives.
And you'll be told
that conservatives aren't a
historically marginalized group
as if marginalized conservatives
now is perfectly okay.
It should be mandatory.
Well, I mean, conservatives
were the first slaves.
So this is funny.
Chapter 7 begins
the name of chapter 7
is 6th and the stones may break my bones.
But then he goes,
but words will never hurt me.
He goes,
but words will never hurt me.
Oh, but they will if you're attending
any number of American universities today.
Words have become sticks and stones.
Actually worse,
they can hurt your sensitivities, wreck yourself.
And he goes on to be like,
this is a kind of trigger warning chapter.
But I just want to note that
he begins chapter 6,
the chapter that immediately preceded this one
by saying,
for liberals, the entire college campus
is a safe space.
They can call conservatives anything they want
without criticism, without penalty, without rebuke,
official or otherwise.
Fascist, bigot, homophobe, racist,
birther, misogynist, wingnut.
Oh, and let's not forget deplorable.
So he just began that chapter by asking
for universities to officially sanction students
who call him
deplorable.
And then he's beginning 7 by being like,
what are you doing in the women's lounge at 2 o'clock in the morning?
Thanks to the American
psychologist for elaborating on the list.
He says, for example,
it's a microaggression to say
you speak good English
or ask an Asian American to teach them
words and they teach you words in their native
language.
Give the developer rapport first.
All I did was follow her into the bathroom
and ask for some vocabulary lessons.
Here's some more banished expressions
from college campuses.
Those people
and I don't like
short hair on girls.
What?
Here's another...
They really banned that.
Yeah, you can no longer say
you don't like short hair on girls. Fair enough.
Which, by the way, is a huge weird obsession
of the old way. Yeah, they hate it.
Yeah, it's gender
criminality. Here's another example
that Charlie uses about
how speech codes
and just everyone's incredible
hypersensitivity has gone too far
on college campuses.
What this brings to mind is
the famous 1993 case
of a white University of Pennsylvania
freshman, Eden Jacobowitz,
who got busted for calling
four black women students
water buffalo.
He's saying this, yeah.
This is the example of how people's sensitivities
have gone too far.
He got busted
for calling four black women students
water buffalo.
He had leaned out his dormitory window
and yelled at the women outside
because they were making a ruckus
that was interrupting his studying.
Shut up, you water buffalo.
If you're looking for a party, there's a zoo
a mile from here.
Jesus Christ.
Wait a minute, we're supposed to be on his side?
Yeah, this is...
I'm reading that book here and it's like, yeah, of course.
Yes, you do.
I'm trying to study in here.
Just yelling at a group of black women
that they're water buffaloes and belong in a zoo.
Okay.
Jacobowitz denied that his comment had anything
to do with race.
This is amazing.
He said it roughly translated
from the Hebrew word for foolish person.
Oh my...
Oh my God.
That is the first Hebrew version of
the current person.
Holy shit.
Come on, that's not the first.
The ones who said it before just said it.
Imagine an hour on Google
trying to figure out a good reason
to have called somebody a water buffalo.
Never mind
that water buffalo wasn't
forbidden in the school's speech code
and no one could figure out
why water buffalo was supposed to be racist.
Yeah, I think someone
probably could have figured that out, Charlie.
I love how he's doing like airbud
with racism.
There's nothing in the rule book
that says I can't tell him to go to the zoo.
But I mean like
removing that element from an entirely
you just screamed out
your window at strangers.
Like that should be enough, right?
He was studying.
He was trying to read the Turner Diaries.
He was trying to see if it was possible.
He was trying to see if it's actually possible
to get a $6 million.
Okay.
Come on, that's too far.
Jesus.
All right, here's a chapter
called The Illiberal Arts and Sciences.
Oh, good.
This is just a list of
stupid classes that you can take
including like
race, gender, culture
and the U.S. national identity.
That doesn't sound like that ridiculous of a class.
There are much stupider ones than that.
Yeah, so much stupider.
Not literally Beyonce classes, but you know.
That is due to capitalist decadence.
One class
at Georgia State is called Kanye
versus everyone, which is ironic
because Charlie Kirk has done
180 on Kanye and now considers him to be like the hero.
Yeah, actually every class should be
about Kanye.
Kanye and Charlie Kirk versus everyone.
I'm including this one, the sociology
of Miley Cyrus, race,
class, gender and media from
my alma mater Skidmore
and demystifying the hipster from Tufts.
But this last one is telling
finally the University of California
San Francisco offers an online
course called abortion
quality care and public health
implications.
That sounds like a pretty
adequate college class.
That's the least weird.
There are a lot of bullshit underwater
basket weaving classes. That part is true.
It just sounds like, oh, you're going
into advanced nursing.
No, he thinks it's like those correspondence classes
where you learn how to become a locksmith
or in the mail.
Learn how to do abortions at home.
You got to draw that turtle
and mail it back in.
You got to abort the turtle.
So the name of this class
is abortion quality care
and public health implications.
Among its features
are weekly lectures that will incorporate
stories of women who seek
abortion in order to better portray
abortion significance and rationale.
Noticeably absent
are women who suffered from an abortion
as if there were no bad side effects.
Also absent, the deadly
impact of abortion on voiceless
unborn babies.
Yeah, they don't have a lot to say
about it.
How come a fetus has never spoken
to our class?
They keep bringing up intersectionality
but they are not talking to fetus.
They dig through the trash can
to find one.
They want someone
to have a segment talking to fetus
so they bring out a fucking Ouija board.
I love the thing about how come they
don't talk about the bad side effects.
It's like smoking billboards.
Like, oh, just come have one.
There's literally nothing.
I don't feel bad in any way. Everyone should get one.
The reason for that
class is so that nurses
will do a better job
at administering them.
I love the idea that Charlie spent a whole paragraph
outlying university classes
about Fortnite
and one class that just called Chillin'.
But he literally
wants a class called
The Silent Scream, The Unborn Holocaust,
and
why abortion causes breast cancer.
Centering fetus voices.
I said
Chapter 3 was called The Magisterial Classroom
Lectern. I lied.
That's not my favorite chapter title.
It's Chapter 13, which is just called
Black Victimization Bunko.
What?
It's Bunko.
It's what? It's Holcomb.
It's Bunko. It's Slim Flam.
He's 100 years old.
I'm talking about this fraud.
It's a 100 years old.
It's a loan of a larky. It's all bunk, I tell you.
I wonder who this
book is aimed for.
Baldraw.
Grandpa, it's Balderdash.
It's Holcomb. It's all Holcomb.
This is what he says about
the roots of the left's totalitarianism.
He's describing
true collectivists, however, go further.
They're not just for public control
of utilities and schools,
but also for public control of any
everything. They adopt the reasoning
of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
and their admirers. They insist
that the people should own
the means of production.
Yeah.
Sounds pretty reasonable.
Actually, it's
the workers, but
close enough.
Actually, it should be my dad.
And
if I want to produce some
large projectile from between my teeth,
I need your toothbrush.
So he goes,
it's a system based on
the belief that people cannot be trusted
to care for themselves, that
they're not smart enough to secure housing,
food, and other essentials. No, they're just
not rich enough. It's not
that they're not smart enough. Yeah, all that
shit is like taken. I mean, it's like,
alright, I'm going to be a hunter-gatherer. Yeah, good luck.
Before the fucking cops
here's Charlie's
ultimate own of the idea
of collective ownership of the means
of production. It is an extremely
dark philosophy
and one that is at war with itself.
Consider. I mean, again,
these are the ideas he thinks aren't being
civilly discussed and taught
at universities and being angrily
censored and shouted down.
Consider.
If people can't be trusted to care for themselves,
then what about a government
that is run by
people?
What the hell? I never thought of it that way.
Not once.
I just love this fantasy of the university
that teaches Marxism
and not neoliberal
Foucaultian bullshit.
Wait a minute, though.
Doesn't it also work the other way?
If you can trust people to run themselves,
then you can trust the government made out of
those people who you can trust to run.
It's like a mega trot.
It works either way. You can trust them either way then.
Well, Charlie says
if people left to their own
resources, left to their own
resources, they don't have any fucking resources.
Charlie's dad has everything.
Charlie's asshole dad has
a giant pile of resources.
The rest of us are just
on the outskirts of their armed compound
and we'd like
some fucking resources.
If people left to their own
resources, I think he's thinking of the phrase
left to their own devices. Yes.
Have no sense of the common good
or despise their neighbors,
then how do they suddenly become enlightened
when they go to work for the government?
Okay,
but
if you hate your neighbor and
there's nothing to guarantee you're gonna like your neighbor,
your neighbor's probably an asshole.
That is why we need socialism
because your neighbor is an asshole
but shouldn't starve.
This is the last thing I'm gonna do
from Charlie here. Oh, thank God.
Which is, thank you.
This is, oh my
God, it's just like the auditory
version of a hangover.
It's fucking
wretched. It's just so boring.
I don't know, man. After listening to that,
I have this hankering to ask my doctor about
Cialis for daily use
and also look into maybe
investing in some gold coins.
It's just like anyone
who's like an adult, who isn't
in school anymore, who cares a smile at you about college.
And anyway, it's just like
who gives a fuck, man?
But this is just, it's so
dull.
300 pages of arguments
people got into.
Half of which didn't happen.
Yeah, he's just making shit up. All I know is that Charlie
is getting my next reverse mortgage check.
It's definitely giving me the courage to yell
at the water buffalo outside my room
when I'm doing my studies on 4chan.
I just want to, this last one, just keep in mind
that Charlie and Turning Point USA
is absolutely an
astroturf front for the poke poke industries
and probably a shitload of other really evil people.
Keep this in mind,
especially in regards to this week's UN
climate change report that says, you know,
got another 20 years maybe.
Yeah. Listen to what Charlie said.
Even the hard sciences are not
as good as the UN.
Need evidence of human cause global warming?
Government funded studies will provide it.
Private sector studies
that cast doubt on the link between civilization
and warming will be
mocked as anti-science,
merely because they don't have the
impromptu of United Nations
funded bureaucrats and researchers.
Yeah.
Unlike those respectable men at Exxon.
Yes.
I love how powerful he thinks
that United Nations is.
Like the fucking, the deliberating body
that only exists as a wave to get like
Saudis out of parking tickets in New York
and like...
The United Nations is a free stucious movie.
Yeah. The United Nations exists for that
and to like
give non-binding condemnations
of genocides. That's it.
It's just a bunch of fucking weak
Dutchman standing around a room
going, oh, I wish you wouldn't do that.
I agree. I agree.
The United Nations is an international
forgiving stepdad.
I agree with you, Felix.
And I agree with you that it is time
for the United Nations to deploy troops
to Syria to take out the Assad regime.
That's what I've been saying.
This book is DMT
for dying reactionary boomers.
Yeah.
Their last thought will be
I'm mad at
safe spaces on college campuses
and then eternity.
And
I think that is where we all
are all going later tonight to DMT
and eternity. Columbus, Ohio
you guys have been awesome tonight. Thank you
so much.
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So
a big thing we do on the show of course
is the reading series
where we highlight the work of
pundits,
opinion artists and writers
who have been called up to the majors.
These are people with a national
platform on that like
Washington Post or New York Times
Op-Ed Real Estate. You're Thomas Friedman's
Megan McCartle.
Yeah you're Megan McCartle's
You're Barry Weiss's
Oh you guys know who's coming
You already know
You already know
You want it so bad don't you
But of course
that leaves
that leaves you know I don't want to
ignore there's a whole minor league
of local
unbelievably shitty
Op-Ed writers
that are honestly
I think deserve a
call up to the majors
when we were in Boston we dedicated
a whole segment
to Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacobi
we all know
we all we love Jeff Jacobi
we love him
his awful evil candy-filching son Caleb
Oh curses to Caleb
you're
a rude and willful child
so you guys
you guys here in Chicago
you already know where this is going
the Chicago Jeff Jacobi
Chicago Tribune columnist
John Cass
Literally no
familiarity with this person
so you get to watch me
experience this for the first time
you are in for a treat
Felix why don't you kick it off
how would you describe
John Cass
both physically and intellectually
John Cass is
a human tourist attraction
to Chicago he is
he as a suburban
who sort of trots out
this phony tough ethnic white
Chicagoan persona
is that
avatar for every other shit head
suburbanite
he wants common sense solution
for Chicago
let's make cops immortal
no cop has ever
done anything wrong
women need
a monitor that keeps them from leaving
their house
this type of thing
he may be
basically a golden dawn columnist
but there is a little fun
in Chicago slice of life in there
sometimes you get to read John's own
south side recipes
his beer can chicken
awesome John
that's so cool John
tell me more about your life you boring
shit head fascist
he's what Hannah Arendt was talking about
when she said the obesity of evil
Cass
no one opines for free
no I mean
Toby is one of my favorite guys
we've ever read on the show because
he has like he has a special
type of clumsiness
and anti-charisma just an oafs
perfect
clumsiness to the world
confidence yeah but
John Cass is there is a deep
evil to him
a deep boring evil to this terrible
man
but what I have
just seen this leering
in his old face
in A2
because he was given Mike
Royco's old spot
yes but what does he think of his son
has he ever written any columns
calling out his own children
I have not found any Cass columns
about his kids I'm looking at his face
right now on the Chicago Tribune
website and he basically looks like
a very red
sort of reddish brown
Easter Island head
or sort of one of those big like
Olmec statues
but
but Blue Lives Matter
he's the official Blue Lives
Magic columnist and
I don't know if in the course of your research
you ever like hurt like watched
a video of him but he did not
John Cass has
the voice it sounds like he's just
always doing an offensive
impression of a Native American
man
I'm going to read his
bio here from the Chicago Tribune
to sort of frame where we're going to go here
the son of a
Greek immigrant grocer
Cass was born June 23rd
1956 on Chicago's south side
and grew up there and in Oak Lawn
so yeah as Felix said he's really
milking this like white ethnic tough guy
thing and he says
he held a number of jobs
merchant marine, sailor
ditch digger, waiter
this is my favorite part he was a merchant
marine, a sailor, a ditch digger
and a waiter before becoming a film
student at Columbia College in Chicago
where he worked at the
student newspaper
so he had all of those jobs
ditch digger, merchant marine
and waiter in high school
and then he became a film student and like
you know college newspaper guy
in college yeah John
John Cass is one of those boomer liars
who's like when I was 13 years old
I was made the executioner
of my town
you know tell me about my white privilege
he obtained an internship
at the Daily Calimute in 1980
and ended up working there as a
reporter until he left for the Tribune
in 1983 he has won
honors including the Society of Professional
Journalists, Sigma Delta
Chi National Award for General
Column Writing, the Scripps Howard
Foundation's National Journalism
Award for Commentary and the Chicago
Headline Club's Lissigur
Award for Best Daily Newspaper
Colonists and the Chagagogo
Tribune's Beck Award for Writing
he lives in the western suburbs
with his wife and twin sons
fuck I didn't search John
Cass' twin sons for the column
to see what would happen
as soon as these are two large boys
who terrorize your find out
Stavros one and Stavros two
he writes
every year he writes
just a deeply scathing article
about how much they disappoint him
but then he just puts it under his pillow
he does not have Jeff Jacoby's
courage of raising his son
through the newspaper
but you know
I don't like to make wild accusations
but if I was a gambling man I would say
if John Cass had children they'd probably kill dogs
it's just like a guess
I mean it's an inkling I feel
all right I'm gonna kick off
John Cass' body of work
like just you know like I said
as an outsider coming to this
as a Cass Nia fight
I mean the first thing you realize about this guy
is that he loves cops
he loves cops
we love our cops and law enforcement
and uh
they're important
I love this crowd
I love this crowd
we love them
we love the crowd
we love it
I gotta say
I'm sorry just shout out to this guy in the front row
who just has like cue cards for us
one of us just says oh we love it
and he keeps holding it up
and I can't not say it
it's fun
yeah
we love it
we love the cue card
we love it
can we use that as a cue whenever we want
the audience to love something
oh yes
oh yes
we got it
we got a chapeau fuck you mean team in the front row
shout out the gang
shout out the twitch stream
okay
so this first
John Cass column is so good
because of the twist
that's like baked into it
so I'm just gonna begin with this one
a retired Chicago cop
says he's worried about anti-police sentiment
this is how
this is how it begins
the killing of
Fox
of a Fox Lake police lieutenant
had nothing to do with our
hashtag politics about which lives matter
Dan Galenowitz
whose body was found in a marshy
area near Fox Lake
was just a cop who had been doing his job
I think you guys
already know the twist
but I'm gonna just read it
and he was killed for it
left stripped of his gear
he was the 24th police officer
shot to death in the US so far this year
Galenowitz was no rookie
he had more than 30 years on the job
at wicker park
he's got four
sons who are going to have to go it alone
his mother-in-law Terry Reciter told the
Tribune on Tuesday
just hours after Galenowitz was killed
if you've been following the news
you know about the killing of full police officer
in suburban Chicago
national TV news was full of the manhunt
for the three suspects
images of police dogs on the ground
and helicopters in the air
and SWAT teams fanning out
I'm so pissed about this cop getting killed
I can't believe this cop who is 100%
murdered by another individual
I'm furious I demand justice
and he goes but now
when a police officer is killed
for one reason
it is sent against a larger context
of anger and seething politics
of police shootings and dead minorities
some unarmed when they are killed
and dead cops
shot down simply for wearing their uniforms
and while many follow these as tragedies
or as provocative commentaries on our politics
there is a group that is too often
forgotten or ignored
they're the people who don't make waves
they're not good at angry identity politics
they don't protest
yet they have deep and
elemental connections to all this too
they're police families
ok so you see where Cass is going with this one
check this out
this is a follow up to this story
I'm reading from
a local Chicago black newspaper
that says writing under the headline
police lives matter too
Chicago Tribune columnist
John Cass summed up the sentiment
in mass hysteria surrounding the supposed
September 1st murder of a policeman
in a bedroom community 50 miles
north of Chicago
he's talking about the killing of Glenowitz
we have since learned
that it was all a hoax
or as the chief investigator put it
a carefully saged suicide
by the man known as G.I. Joe
as he was about to be exposed as a thief
who had been stealing funds
intended to mentor young people
interested in becoming police officers
look I don't understand
I don't understand what you're talking about
yeah ok he killed himself
that's just because these black lives matter
harassers forced him to self harm
and that's not ok
he was known as G.I. Joe
and he was about to be exposed
for stealing funds intended to mentor
young people interested in becoming police
officers to pay his mortgage
a gym membership
travel and a pornographic
website
I need to know which one
I need to know who's still paying for porn
in 2018
he was subscribing to
Bing Patty Wagon
no no no no no
police are 100% brazzers guys
I believe that with my heart and soul
you know you say that Matt
a lot of these websites make you join
before you can even watch the little trailers
ok so that's like
that's your kickoff for John Cass
is uh
you know back the wrong pony there
yeah
it can happen to anyone
so I'm gonna just go through
this is like the John Cass page
on the Chicago Tribune website
and I'm just gonna like just go through a quick selection
of his most recent columns
starting with
the most recent one
Democrats shame Kanye West
to protect themselves
you know
makes sense
the next one the headline is
fleeing the anger of the leftist mob
finding comfort
in bacon buns
so
oh my god John Cass is one of those
writers where his
just his archive looks like things that
we did to make fun of him
so I actually had to look on this one
and this one begins
you may have noticed that I didn't write
my column for Thursday
a note in the paper
on page 2 said John Cass has
a day off but nobody really
believes that nobody
some speculated that I'd finally been
silenced by an angry political mob
of leftists or perhaps
by the powers that be
yeah they drove out to Schomburg and yeah
some speculate that the left
prevented my grandson from coming over
and telling me how to log on to hotmail
no column what happened
you're a mayoral candidate now said a chief
strategist of one Chicago mayoral candidate
who'd been conferring
drinking with a chief strategist of another candidate
we were thinking that as a mayoral
candidate you have to be careful
about what you say
no careful is not my way
I give not two figs
for careful
he's trying to do a little Elizabethan
turn of phrase there
careful I'm a lumbering idiot
wait is he
actually running for mayor
two figs I've never even heard that
firefly message board that's the most
bullshit baby ass thing I've ever heard
yeah it's like yeah
he's doing the suburban dad thing where
he thinks he's being like
he's being sly but he just sounds like a
fucking prospector
yeah it's like
his body was possessed by Oscar Wilde
while he was writing that sentence
okay you're right now for all the thugs
said the fucking hip hoppers who want
me to be gone I care not a witt
for your concerns
to you I say meh
ass hat's gonna ass hat
readers
worried that the fault was
with the mob of angry leftist
sorosians no one worried
and then in parentheses witting or
unwitting servants of the
Sith Lord George Soros
oh he's a nerd
he's a nerd he went from
firefly guy to Star Wars guy he's a nerd
it's yeah I
it is that is an
amazing character for fascist
suburbanite to also be
yeah a firefly guy
to be like an epic online
meh hubbiz boobiz
guy
in a recent column I dared
suggest that the cake is a lie
can I ass border wall
in a recent column I dared
suggest that since the hard left
is busy trashing the ideas that
bind our nation like the presumption
of innocence for the accused
I wonder who he's talking about there
what's that reference he says
they might as well burn the great books
that contain these ideas
immediately the left went stark
raving mad just don't let them
give you the Ned Stark treatment
said a friend
can you believe this fucking nerd
first of all
if you went on a ride along with Chicago
PD and you made the references they fucking
beat you to death with a flashlight
you know what and then I'd have to be blue lives matter
because you know what they were right
first of all to give him the Ned Stark
treatment you would need the biggest sword
ever made
that is one wide neck
I swear to god
remember
remember how this column began it was the
bacon buns it was the bacon buns
I swear to god this column goes on
there's a star wars reference
a game of thrones reference
he references the tv show
the great Chicago fire
he references different
I swear to god he lists just different
kinds of tomatoes
he talks about the rain
just utterly rambling
talks about his podcast that he does
with Jeff Carlin
it sucks yeah
and then it's just
utterly random in baffling and then he gets
to the very end and just starts talking about
the delicious bacon buns
at the Racine Bakery that he likes
so much no but this is
really interesting to me because we've discovered
a new kind of
right winger it's the reactionary
oatmeal fan
oatmeal fan
but also like guy who's
writing this because his kids won't call
him back
I no longer am speculating
that um
John Cass's sons are dog murders
it just sounds like they don't talk to him
because it's just all
the like last couple years
of cast comms are just meandering
bullshit and it's just all
the things that he would mumble to you over
offense but no one is
talking to you no one is talking to him
let me tell you about an epic
rebel who defied
the police and the government
regulations I'm talking about fucking
Tesla
he was epic for the
win
so he just gets to the end of it and just said
I talk just again talking to some
random person at the bakery and he goes
he was ruthless he was ruthless
but civil but there were a few
bacon buns left maybe five
no thanks I just ate he said
rain running off his face
wait are those bacon
buns from Racine
I'll take him I handed the bag
to him with a smile a civil
smile what the fuck
did he get punked for his bacon buns
what is that
he got mean mugged and he gave up
his bacon buns
something bacon buns
that treat that I've never heard of
dude you're so lucky that 50
police officers aren't here with me
or else these buns would be mine
so he mentioned a previous column
in that one when he was going through
a you know a Proustian reverie
about fucking hot dogs or the last
meal he ate
he's talking about his column before that
was by the way about hot dogs
we all roasted Felix
earlier on this tour so he saw me eat a
hot dog with two full tomato
slices on it
disgusting
he's your man
he is one of you
you should be ashamed of yourselves
this is the most shameful nationalism
I have ever witnessed
no dude this
this entire city this is Yugoslavia
those were the only vegetables
those were the only vegetables
Felix got on this entire tour
not true
my mom had carrot sticks
so Cas references
the column that
the leftist put him inside
the telephone box
that's big on the inside or whatever the fuck
he's into
so that column was headlined
burning books like to kill a mockingbird
is the honest next step
for the anti-cavenaw left
yeah
alright let's do it fellas
John Cas
my new column
when derpina's accuse epic sirs of things
they have to provide evidence
I really do love
a massive concern for the rights
of the accused from a guy who probably did a
fucking fundraiser to buy John Berge
a fucking boat after he got out of prison
angry leftists
have been comparing me to boo Radley
a badge all where with honor
and this next one is really good
I mean this is like again
just like as an
early initiate in the mysteries of John Cas
first thing I notice he loves the police
second thing I notice
the second thing I notice
he really loves
and deeply identifies with Brett Kavanaugh
for some
weird
quite put my finger on it
but he's very very sensitive
about Brett Kavanaugh being accused
of things
no how dare you
my man laughing because he know
yes yes
this is the next column I swear to god
when the Brett Kavanaugh
circus ends we won't
forget your sins Matt Damon
okay okay
I don't know what Matt Damon
said but I feel like we will
we'll forget pretty quickly
why your neck so thick Matt Damon
what the fuck
my name is John Cas and I think Goodwill
hunting is a true story
what's your move angry left
he's much different than fucking Kavanaugh
he is a sloppy
perverted Greek
orthodox drunk
future historians
probably won't devote entire volumes
to Hollywood actor Matt Damon
I hope not
for his
we fucked up somewhere along the line
if that happens
if there's an Oxford history of the United States
in the 21st century somehow
if we survive as a species
and there's like a chapter on Matt Damon
we took a wrong turn
unless the Kennedys ascend again
that's not going to happen
I think like everyone
one of the most repulsive things
about John Cas is like how witty
he thinks he is
and just like every column
kind of opens with something like this
like I don't believe
that pussy house will be on the
runways in Paris
like the same like shitty
tone but then like three paragraphs
later he's like just
beat red and crying about a cop
being dishonored
he goes
so future historians probably won't devote
entire volumes to Hollywood actor
Matt Damon for his part
in the grotesque savaging
of Judge Brett Kavanaugh
I don't even remember Matt Damon
saying anything
Matt Damon portrayed Brett Kavanaugh
on SNL's opening
who watches SNL
literally all of these people
all of us here for SNL
every single person who watches SNL
has a fucking column somewhere
every
just a closed circuit TV
for people with local op-ed columns
yeah
I also watch it
sadly I can't not
I'm compelled
you're like 50 years old so of course you do
Matt I swear to God
it would be healthier for you if you watch twitch with me
I swear to fucking God
dude you'll be happier
that's the divide
that's the millennial divide
you'll watch twitch
look there's something just very reassuring
about knowing that no matter what happens in a week
the gold gang at SNL
is gonna show up and just like reenact it
with memes
it's nice
I love reading an exact transcript of the news
but they make the epic face
sadly
Damon will most likely just be a footnote
some jester
and motley participating in the American
political circus
settle down buddy
forsooth
the blaggards and louts
who mock judge cabinol
you're not allowed to be a homophobe
yet also try to be camp
I'm sorry you don't get to do both
they're called I'm John Cass
and they're calling me Mr. Two Races
for the renaissance fair but I do the language anyway
hey
sir
Mr. Damon I'm gonna say it
you're a name
it means ignorant person
so I love the anger at Matt Damon
but then I love
as Felix is alluding to
he's usually mad about the cops
being disrespected
or Brett Kavanaugh being disrespected
but then he'll just
out of nowhere have a column called
the evil creator of
candy corn versus social media bullies
what
not gonna
not gonna go further there
not gonna explain that not reading replies
if you don't explain it I'm gonna have an aneurysm
no you're gonna stay awake all night
thinking about that
that's the killing word
like John Cass did the fucking killing word
he's just pouring melange
all over his hot dogs
there's one more just like totally
random one
no punishment too severe
for the Oak Park Peach Thief
wait a minute
no punishment
too severe
no punishment too severe
like drawing and cornering
I will hear the weeping
of their children and the lamentations
of his woman
stings to an anthill
so I love when I
I'm looking forward to when he fucking has a stroke
or gets Alzheimer's
as I was writing columns like
no punishment too severe for the Hamburger
I'm
I'm officer Joey Przboziak of the
Chicago Police Department
beloved columnist John Cass today
was unfortunately collateral damage
after he called our ATV
to take on a man
stealing pies cooling on a windowsill
we have nonetheless
permanently ascertained the crook
so
in between columns in which he bemoans
you know
pinheaded hashtag politics
and tribalism
that in identity politics
he will have one column
just absolutely just
stoking full on race war
about Molly Tibbets it says
you want to talk about separating families
let's talk about Molly Tibbets
and then I swear to God
the next column is called the hunt for the perfect
peach lands downstate
it's a Calhoun County
it really
just
it's amazing like
every fifth cast column
it's Turner Diaries
it's just bull fucking
police should have the right
they hear a low baseline they should be able to
empty fire into the car
and then the next one is like
how come no one goes on picnics anymore
you're forgetting though that article about the perfect
beach also has a paragraph
saying that the peach tree should have a
permanently stationed police officer
with shoot to kill orders for anyone
who tries to take one of them
yeah he
he's like I mean he loves Game of Thrones
this is like if hot pie was a fascist
you know
alright so the last one I want to do
that I want to give a full
like a full dissection of
is I think one that struck me as the most
indicative of like his soul
it's called
what not to get dad for father's day
a father
as if Stavros one and Stavros two are even
reading his columns at this point
hey dad they're in the rumpest room
smashing fluorescent lights with a hammer
hey dad hey dad
hey dad are you still writing those gay ass letters
we got you v-bucks for fortnite have fun
so
it begins
a father doesn't need
that extra piece of homemade blueberry
pie with fancy vanilla ice cream
on father's day
my wife will tell you that
you're right honey
other things a father
doesn't really need include
thick cut bacon
says the doctor
that bottle of 18 year old single malt scotch
doctor pasta
tailor
those delicious au gratin potatoes
doctor and tailor
or the jalapeno garlic olives
for a martini wife
and there are some
he's just listing food and shit he likes to eat
and there are some things
you should never ever give
your father on father's day
a.k.a. patriarch's day
has anyone ever called father's
day that
is that an official
i'm gonna be honest
i have friends who have called it that
really? yeah
they're not my funnest friends
but they're there when i have problems
he goes on
like tickets to some movie like the book club
really
do you hate your father that much
that you'd have
that you'd have him watch a Jane Fonda
and Diane Keaton movie
i'd rather
pour a jar full
of baby black widow
spiders into my ears
i don't think that's true
that's just what he thinks the Chicago police should be allowed to do
to someone in interrogation
i honestly don't think he's telling the truth there
i think he'd rather watch the movie
realistically
if he was offered the choice he'd pick the film
John come on
yeah, Diane Keaton one of the best actors
of her generation
John you can get a hot dog at the theater
you know he wrote those
with that side of performative outrage
it's some anodyne thing like that
you know he wrote a fucking article in the 90s called
the case against Barney
yeah, this is like
early 2000s internet
where it's like oh great
this is just a bunch of fail hole
filled with AIDS
it's sort of
lyrical
Chicago PD should be allowed to murder Justin Beaver
on site
he goes and please
let's stop with those
how to grill steak for father's day stories
the ones that explain in detail
the difference between bone-in
rib eye and sirloin
you think a man with his salt doesn't already know
the difference between thick rib eye
and sirloin
he knows
who's he mad at, i don't even understand
all the father needs for grilling steak
on patriarch's day
are coals, a grill
salt and pepper and an instant read thermometer
take the steak off the grill
at 122 degrees and let it rest
then please just shut up about it
okay
and let me watch my constant video loop
of the My Lay Massacre
this sounds like
this sounds like Chris Benoit's
suicide note
just let me make a goddamn
steak
meat isn't religion, dammit
so forget those old John Cass
columns about the way to grill meat
i'm a life form too
and i've evolved
who needs red meat anyway
beans are fine
did he have a heart attack?
i don't know
it sounds like he had a heart attack
i think his wife is like
john you're like
for some reason she doesn't want him to die
and
he's like time to skewer her
with my pen
i think he's really not skewering her
with anything else
no i don't know
are you saying that john cass doesn't
get goop
john cass probably
fucks every night
i'd love to think about it
john for the love of god
stop eating all that meat your life insurance
doesn't vest for another two years
think about john cass just
rolling his neck like a bullfrog
and just going to town on some clam
awesome
so i think he's doing
so i think he's doing irony here
and he's basically like sub
writing his wife
and his children
and he's subordering his meal
and he goes
who needs good american beef on father's day
or corn with
again about the skewering his wife thing
this is like clearly a whole thing
or corn with butter
or pie or anything really tasty
don't waste your time doting on fathers
their relics of our shameful past
soon to be replaced by
science and sex bots
wait what
who is buying
who is ordering right now so in 10 years
they can get the perfect dad
sex bot
is this all just for come town fans
yeah who would do
anything like that
there are thousands of women
in chicago who are like
you know
fucking his opinions are so
rancid they're so fascist
and racist but i just
love fucking john cass
if i could just get a john cass
sex robot it would solve all my problems
most people in this crowd
love fucking john cass we love to fuck him
we love it
they haven't perfected an algorithm that will first
lift up his gut
and while i'm at it can we please ask
editors for a moratorium
on hand wringing columns
and stories about demon fathers
i guess his twins have a column
in their college newspaper
that they pull right while holding hands
yeah you guys
stories about demon fathers
you know the kind
father was cold, distant
and terrible, father expected too much
father ran away
yes i know there are bad fathers
out there and some want to punish them
father had hundreds of birds
hundreds of birds
we in the media
love to deconstruct fathers day
with those bad father stories
the very word father
offends some people triggering them
perhaps because it's linked to another
word also fraught with peril
mother
i love it i fucking love it more than
anything when guys
like mockingly use the word triggered
who spend their entire days in their
basement just getting pissed and fucking
sharpening machete for the coming
like
reckoning like they're fucking tattooing
this column on his body like he's robert
deniro and cape fear and he's like
oh they're so fucking triggered
i'm so full they're so triggered
just furiously two fingering
hunt and pecking a manifesto
yeah he's
literally like putting a howitzer in his
backyard to prevent the knockout
game and he's like oh the loony
left is triggered again
what i love about this kind of writing
is the way it portrays the things he
thinks is like just common sense
that everyone believes so he's like
you know you know that another
word that sends everyone into
a weird panic mother
women hate it when i call them this
women get triggered when i go up
to them and say mother will you tie my shoes
oh what you don't
oh the patriarchy got you down
when i ask for women at the tribune
office to wipe me they respond
with hysterics
children get so
fucking triggered when their father their
innocent fathers shoot them in the back of the head
with BB guns during dinner
and say that's what people are doing to police
ultimately future humans
will find fathers only in museum
exhibits stuffed or made of
wax next to the neanderthal
man so please just allow
the few remaining herds of fathers
to die off in peace
i agree with that
he goes be my guest johnny
it's like that's the thing he's like oh
don't eat beat it's like dude eat all the meat you want
man oh don't need to
drink whatever you want to go for it
the march of progress may be uncomfortable
for a few but then again fathers
are experts at repressing bad
juju that's what we do
we're good at only three
things turning out lights while muttering
repression of anxiety
and napping everyone knows
this also
also firing
anti-material missiles
at pictures of d-ray
his editors took out
a line where he said we're good at suppressing bad juju
except for george soros
he was like that's a little too far john
why don't you take a bath in the italian
beef dip in the office
if your dad really needs
something for fathers day try cushioned
insoles but who the hell
would think of that nobody
not my rotand grotesque sons
i'll tell you that
the last thing he wants to see on fathers day
is a brand new car tied up with
a big bow in the driveway
are you insane do you want to give him
a heart attack he's just like
saying all the things that his family
won't do for he's mad that for
fathers day his fucking family
don't get him a brand new car with
a bow on it to thank him
for all his dadly wisdom
and grilling
dad here's a lexus
for telling me about that extra bone
when i was six
you fucking freak
the loony left is so triggered
that they fooled my family into hating me
somehow
another thing a dad
another thing a dad
doesn't need is a sumptuous
leather dad chair
if he doesn't have one all it means
he really didn't want to pay for one
just let the guy have his corner of the couch
and he'll be fine he'll fall asleep
in a few minutes anyway
then you can use him for a pillow that snores
a pillow you can jab with your elbow
or before it stumbles upstairs
mumbling incoherently about the lights
or the dog or what the hell
will i write tomorrow damn it
you can use him as a pillow
please use him as a pillow
this is
man
this is very dark
i'm uncomfortable
who is this man's poor wife
i love how in the article
that he wrote about himself
he's just an insane
jabbering maniac
this is very carl and colby
no but like carl
like loved colby
and held no resentment towards him
he wanted to spend time with him
john cas is just like
oh yeah you know you can just do what you need to do
to fathers treat them like a piece of shit
on your shoe
never watch world's wildest police
chases with them
never give them a big cupcake
with the cpd logo on them
never
just not even look at him
not ask him which police officers died today
and pray for them with him
what is it
the last thing you want to do for a dad
is show up to their van dyke victory party
what did his large sons
get him for fathers day
just a car that says on the cover
you're old and you open it inside
and says also you're gay
i think like the more
these are here i think john cas's sons
are secretly like awesome
like this year they probably
gave him like the peoples history
of the united states
they probably fucking rock
if he's acting like this they probably rock
there's gotta be one cas son
one big cas boy in the audience tonight
thank you for your dad
a come town premium subscription
for fathers day
i am sorry for what i said about you cas sons
you don't kill dogs you fucking rock
if you can somehow provoke your dad to have a rage stroke
you get a free t-shirt
they kill dogs but it's a canine police
dogs
practice
oh okay
okay little buddy if you want to get my cocaine
it's surrounded by chocolate
go ahead
closing out here
he says
there's only one thing a dad needs on fathers day anyway
if his family is healthy
and happy he doesn't need much
he doesn't want stuff
hi honey the wife says
hi dad the kids say
that's all a dad needs really
and maybe that second
piece of homemade blueberry pie
have a fucking
have a third piece
and a fourth piece
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with john cas and jeff carl and everybody
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john cas
someone needs to do a wellness check
on his family
literally every day
because eventually he's going to kill
chicago the house of blues
we are chopper trap house
thank you guys so much goodnight
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