Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 634: Hauling Out the Trash

Episode Date: June 20, 2022

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episode 634 of Cognitive Dissonance. And the fucking January 6th hearings, man, they are heating up. They're going like crazy, dude. They're going about as well as inflation. I will say, you know, what's nuts to me is I thought there would just be like one week. And so later on tonight, this is Thursday night, we're going to be doing a live stream. And we had originally planned to watch pretty much all of the first one this week, the first pairing that happened on Monday morning. And both of us watched it. And I had added it down, you know, sort of part of it because there's some of it that's just like repetitive and

some of it is just procedural. And so I added it all out and I got down to about an hour and 40 minutes. Then today out of nowhere, I fucking didn't realize this. They're going to, I didn't either. They're going to have a new one. And so they had one today at one that I also edited down.

So that one's edited down, but we're not going to watch both of them in full. We're going to, we're going to presume that you watched most of the previous one that happened on Monday. And then we're going to watch that. That's going to be 25 minutes or so. And then we're going to watch the other one

live streaming it tonight. So we're live streaming it. I know that people who are listening to this, this is happening in the past. So we live streamed it on Thursday. If you're missing this, go catch it. We watched the whole thing as much as we could. And we talked about it.

And I want to say, because I know that the January 6th House Select Committee members are probably listening to this show right now. Sure, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Can you guys move this shit to goddamn prime time? Some of us are working. I know, I know.

And- I don't know. What do you mean one o'clock on a Thursday? The fucking importance of this, it needs to be primed. It really does. Like I'm goofing, but this, it needs to be practiced. It really does. Like I'm goofing, but like... It needs to be.

It's not untrue that unless you're really dedicated to this news gathering process, that burying it in the middle of the fucking day or 10 in the morning on a weekday, it dramatically limits the exposure that that testimony is going to have to people who should listen to it. And people who should listen to it is everybody.

We should know if we almost lost our republic. You're absolutely right. And the people, there's going to be people who are, it's just going to get lost in the shuffle of the day. Yeah. And then it's going to get lost in the shuffle of the evening. And then they're not going to go back to it the next day. And then, you know, because they're going to be picking the

kids up or they're going to be doing some events. They're going to be busy. You've got your fucking life or whatever. You work all day. You don't have time to watch it. Like you can't, let me have a job. We just can't listen.

Even like it's, I can't spend two hours listening to something on almost any day. I got real lucky on Monday that I had a break in my day that didn't require to be a, be on the phone. Right. But most of my whole day is in meetings or on the phone. So I can't like multitask.

I know some people can play stuff in the background while they work, but a lot of other people just can't do that. I also work during the day. And so I have standing meetings most of the time at one o'clock. And so I don't, I can't even, I can't even do it. And so,

so we are going to watch a lot of it tonight. You can go back in our YouTube page and you can listen to it and watch it. And if you're a patron, you're going to get it all on your patron feed. As audio. As audio. So we download that audio

and we give that to patrons. So you'll have it. But go back and listen to it. I think that these hearings are important to hear and they are absolutely damning. And there's multiple Republicans on these hearings. I mean, there's a lot. And the Republicans right now,

that's who they're interviewing because those are the ones who did the bad stuff. Yeah, this isn't... What's exciting and interesting is that there is, at least to my mind, there's a lot less of this political grandstanding. It really feels like it. It's more just like, here's some questions. I'm going to let the evidence speak for itself.

Here's a video of some other guy talking. It's not the select committee members giving long expositionary speeches and slapping the table and we're claiming my time they're not grilling people normally when somebody comes in front of the committee what happens is there'll be a person in front of the committee and one side will normally

just fucking berate them and just grandstand and the other side will ask questions and grandstand and that's what normally happens and it depends on who's being who's on them and just grandstand. And the other side will ask questions and grandstand. Yep. And that's what normally happens. And it depends on who's being, who's on what side. But yeah, that's what, that's the normal give and take, at least for the last 15 years or something. As far as I can remember being politically interested.

That's always been. Yeah. So it's like, why would I watch that shit? You know what I mean? Like, I don't need to watch that shit. This is very different. This is different. I know

everybody's exhausted of Trump. I fucking get it. But also, Trump is going to run in 24. He said he is. So that's not just like me. He said he is. He's raised enormous amounts of money. Now, whether he's raised that money in those packs just to have that money because he can, or whether

he's going to use it for political, actual legitimate political or illegitimate political purposes, I don't know. But we have to still care because we almost lost our republic. That's like a literal, actual thing that happened. We almost stopped being a democracy and almost became an autocratic regime. If we had woken up a little different January 7th, we may have woken up having lost our fucking democracy. We made a big goddamn deal over Watergate. Watergate was a big goddamn deal, so much so that everything became a something something gate.

It became a shorthand for scandal. This is so much more vast of a scandal. Absolutely, absolutely. We've never seen anything like this in terms of political corruption in 150 years. I don't want to go back further. Maybe the fucking Teapot Dome scandal was a bigger fucking deal. I don't know.

But this is it. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. And it's important to pay attention to. And that's why we're spending so much time on it. That's why Tom's getting here super early to try to make sure that we can do these things. So go check it out.

If you haven't had an opportunity, go check it out on YouTube. If you're a patron, you can listen to it, like we said. What's your flag say? Come and take it. Come and take it. Do you have a weapon? No.

No? Why not? Did they take it? Sorry, bro. This story comes from The Daily Beast. Can I ask you a question about The Daily Beast, C-Swan? Sure. I feel stupid asking this question. Wasn't The Daily Beast Glenn Beck's home for a long time?

No, that's The Blaze. The Blaze! That's a different place. Son of a bitch, you're right. No, it's not. For some reason, I had it in my head that The Daily Beast was Glenn Beck's old home. And I'm like, how did this happen that I'm pulling all these stories from the day? It's just because I was wrong.

Yeah. Okay. Which is a fine answer. I'm happy to be wrong. But I was fucking convinced, man. All right. This is from the Daily Beast, which is not the Blaze. No.

Hasn't been. We're coming for you. Man-given tour of Capitol Complex by GOP representative showed up during riot the next day. I want to read the sub headline. Footage shows a man outside the Capitol ahead of the riot on January 6th after investigators said he had been taking pictures inside the complex during a tour. You guys, he's taking pictures of stairways, entrances, exits, security protocol, and clearance points.

It's fucking recon, man. This dude was doing straight up recon. I mean, what is insane to me is when we talked about this stuff before, they just about screamed it from the rooftops what they were going to do. They just about screamed it from the rooftops. And I going to do. Yep. They just about screamed it from the rooftops. And I don't think that it's just necessarily because they're stupid because this shows a level of

planning and intelligence that you would need if you were planning on doing something really grave at the Capitol. Sure. Yeah, absolutely. And this is the Capitol complex that he's in. I don't know necessarily that it's the actual building because there's a... Oh, that's right. At the end of this, they mention

that the security place, the security people at the Capitol have released a thing that said that this guy, this Loudermilk, who was supposedly the one who gave this thing was not in the building that day. They didn't see him in the building or whatever. That's what they released.

But there's pictures of him clearly in the campus and there's pictures of this guy clearly taking photos of shit you would never take photos of. There's no way. You're just like, I'm on a tour. I take photos of literally everything. Nobody does that. Nobody's taking a picture of the fucking stairwell

in a basement. Nobody does that. But I also feel like they didn't care because they thought that their guy was going to be in power when they succeeded. So it wouldn't matter the next day anyway. And so I think a lot of the stuff that we're attributing to stupidity or just like bum-fuckedness is actually just brazenness. Dude, it's hubris, man. Yeah, you're right.

I think it is. And I think what we're winding up with is we're seeing that their plan was ultimately foiled by people within their own party like Pence and other people who would not give on that day. But they 100% expected them to or other people to fold and nobody did. And then they're just now we're stuck with... Then they're stuck essentially with all this evidence that's let out into the world that now everybody can see. Man, it's amazing how much people will let their desire for something to be true cloud the reality of whether things are true. And I know it's just like a human tendency. It's nothing earth shattering. But you look at this and it's like there was never any real hope there was never a legal hope yeah there was never a constitutional method there was never a numerical or statistical opportunity

for trump to win this election by january 6th by fucking january like all that shit had played out like all of the legitimate scant hopes. I mean, this was like, this is after the four seasons total landscaping. This is after the fucking drunk lady in Michigan like slurred her way through the word affidavit six times. Yeah. And then, and this is after, this is after Sidney Powell.

Yeah, this is after the Kraken. This is after they released the Kraken. This is after like Rudy Giuliani's fucking head started leaking motor oil or whatever. Like the fucking fifth element or whatever. Yes, exactly. He's like the villain of the fifth element. He's like the villain of the fifth element.

He's just pouring fucking motor oil down his face. You want to walk up with one of those clear little hats and put it on whatever fucking Gary Oldman's wearing in that movie when he's supposed to be Hitler when he's playing Hitler in the movie. Yes. Yeah. Real quick,

whoever did the costume and set design for Fifth Element had the fucking best time. Oh, yeah. Because they were just like, if you give me money and I'm spending it on the silliest shit I can find. It's the best, dude. I love that movie with all of my heart.

The best part is... Sill my heart. The best part is the silliest movie. The best part is that opera. Oh my God. Yes. It's so good. It's so good. I just read a funny piece of trivia

about that the other day that they wrote that to be unsingable. Did you read the same thing? And then the person came in and sang almost all of it. Sang like 75% of it. Almost all of it.

And they were like, holy shit. And they only had to alter it a tiny bit to make it so that they could sing the whole thing. How unreal is that? It's like, yeah, I'm going to write an unsingable thing. She's like, you haven't heard the pipes on this bitch. Unbelievable.

And it really is. It's such a visually pleasing movie. It's such a visually pleasing movie. It's stupid as shit, but it's so much fun to watch. The story makes no sense. It's very, very good. It's eye candy. It's exactly what it's made for. It's perfect. Yeah. But anyway,

Rudy Giuliani had already leaked a black substance from his head that was unidentifiable. So, by January, just remember the timeline because it's crazy to imagine that by January, you still had people who are,

I want to say, I was going to say it's serious people, but I don't know how serious they are so much as they are. They are this self-interested. They are this self-motivated. They're this deluded by what they want to be true that by January,

after all the absurdity, just the circus level bonkers bullshit, the illogical nonsense of it all. The SNL skits that this produced. And they're still... They couldn't even mock them. That's how crazy it was. It was even hard to mock. It was so silly. What do you do

after four seasons total landscape? How do you satirize that? What do you do? How do you satirize that? I don't even know. It was amazing. It was so amazing. And you're absolutely right. This is after all that stuff. All of it. After all of it.

So, their fucking psychological need for this to be true was so massively demanding on them that they're still like, yeah, right. You're right. And that is the part that that genuinely just like from like a 30,000 foot level,

I'm fucking floored by it. Yeah. I'm floored by it. Cause at some point you got to be like, man, I lost. I know, but like,

and sometimes I lose. That's how politics works. The thing I, the thing that really kept pushing it though, was that Trump never once wavered on that narrative. And he's one of the most important people in their mind. So when the person who they think, one, they attributed to him a level of knowledge that he just didn't have. So they automatically presume.

And I think everybody in the world presumes that the United States president has a level of understanding of what's happening in the world deeper than most other people and understand secret things that are happening. How much of that did Trump shatter? Yeah, all of it. So much. Literally all of it. I don't think he knew anything that was going on. I don't think he knew anything about the world I didn't know you didn't know. No, not at all.

In fact, I thought, I think if he would have died and they went all the way down to me, like the people in this cabin and they're like Cecil's the next one. Cecil come up. I would have run the country 100% better than him. 100% easily. He was an absolute buffoon. He actively fucked things up. He was an active fuck up and he was a narcissist and he was shitty

and even when he made mistakes he doubled down on those mistakes because he didn't want to be wrong. He drew that little nipple on the hurricane. Hey, man, look, he wants to blow up hurricane and he wants to buy Greenland. And there's so many fucking crazy things. I go on for half an hour telling you all the nutty shit that guy wanted to do. But he's a guy who you think understood stuff. And so when he spoke to his crowd, they all made the presumption

that he did have some sort of secret knowledge, that when he was saying, Mike Pence can do this stuff, he really did think about it ahead of time and really did ask the top people to figure this out. And so is it 100% their fault that they listened to the guy who's like one of the most powerful people in the world.

I don't, I mean, I blame, of course I blame them for their shitty actions. And of course I blame people for being terribly misguided and voting for him, right? I blame all those people for doing that. But I also don't know if it's their fault that they listened to the guy who was in charge. Yeah. I mean, that's an excellent point. You do think, because if I'm in Congress, I have to presume, and maybe I'm wrong, but this is, and it's entirely possible I'm wrong as I'm saying this, but I have always presumed

that there was some kind of difference. So I'm a regular Joe, I'm a civilian, And there are things about the world I don't know. And then I get sworn into Congress. And certain things about the world become newly available to me that I get to know that you, the regular guy, don't get to know. And I guess it would be reasonable then

to assume that the president would have access to an even greater level. So I hear you. But if I'm like a congressperson, at some point, I've got to have some understanding of the law. I've got to at least say... I think the congresspeople

knew that he was wrong. But those are the guys that I'm kind of more talking about. The guys who are... The writers and stuff, I get that. I'm much more sympathetic to that. But what I'm saying is, the people in Congress who are aiding and abetting, who are continuing

to sell the narrative, they had to think. I cannot imagine that they were as gullible as the general public. Right. What I think they were was, like you said, doubled down so hard because there's just nothing they can do yeah

they painted themselves into a corner they couldn't get out of you got your you got your you got the tail of the tiger at this point yeah this is the guy that brings in the money to your your campaign fund this is the guy that if you bring you might win your election in your close run pennsylvania or close run georgia or close run Georgia or close run Florida, if he shows up and speaks for you, that could be the thing that flips it. Right. So,

right. So you've got to, in some ways, suck it up and be like, well, if he says it, then I guess I got to go with it. And it's very,

it really feels like very mafioso. It does. Well, that's the thing is it has to, I totally agree. It's like, because they're doing all this stuff on January 5th and 6th, right?

They're doing all this stuff to make the impossible. What they have to know is structurally impossible. Yeah. Yeah. So, but they're doing all this stuff to try to make the impossible possible in order to like, please their dad,

you know, like they're trying to get their fucking approval of their fucking withholding father right right right fucking weirdos now you all even rent motorhomes camping trailers and boats perfect for nazis honey after you finish painting let's go catch some big ones thanks you this story comes from vanity fair this is a bigger deal than i think it got pressed for That was a big one. Thanks, you. Let it all at U-Haul. This story comes from Vanity Fair. This is a bigger deal than I think it got pressed for. Yeah.

I saw this a handful of places, but I'll tell you, this should be a huge deal. U-Haul full of white supremacists preparing to disrupt Pride event arrested in Idaho. The reason I think this got less press attention than it did is because it was in idaho and i'm i am joking a little but only a little yeah idaho is such a small potatoes country state not country they're a little fry oh man i don't want to waffle about it. This is a great mashup. There is a fucking picture. They had a fucking U-Haul truck full of fucking

white supremacist armed assholes from not Idaho. That's one of the most important parts of the story. Not from Idaho. These people are from all over the country that rented a fucking U-Haul and filled it with themselves and guns and shit.

Yeah. And they were headed over to the fucking Pride rally. Yeah. And then they were going to start some trouble. Right. Well, they weren't showing up to march in lockstep. They weren't going to check their Grindr profile.

I bet some of them did. I bet some of them did on the way. I bet some Grindr profile. I bet some of them did. I bet some of them did on the way. But here's the thing. This sort of thing happens when you use language around the LGBT community that dehumanizes them enough for people to think that they're a

target that needs to be damaged and eliminated. And this sort of language is not new. This sort of thing has been going on for decades. It has had a resurgence in the last five years in a very disgusting, vitriolic way. It started at the end of Obama's presidency with trans people and trans rights and how awful people were about trans people and trans rights at the end of his presidency. And then it rolled itself right in at the very beginning of Trump's presidency. I don't know exactly how much Trump did this, but I genuinely know that Trump

otherizes all kinds of people. People take this as a cue. Yep. You're exactly right. The new sort of order of the day, and this is what we should expect to have happen, right? We should not expect anything different. This is the most predictable possible outcome. When you have

an entire infrastructure, power infrastructure, feeding an idea that people within the LGBTQgbtq community are grooming children for sexual predation and that is their language and that is their narrative and it's all over the place it is absolutely fucking ubiquitous now from the right it's been this is pizza gate right and and what it does to some, and the part of this that's so morally reprehensible is that if you

believe this narrative and it's a false, garbage, fucked up narrative that relies on prejudice, right? And this narrative is not new. The idea that they're pedophiles, that gay people are pedophiles is not new. Been floated forever. Been floated forever. But the sort of reselling, the repackaging

and reselling of this story, if you believed it, if I believed that there was a pedophile in the basement next door, I would be morally obligated to kick that door down or to interfere or to intervene. Sure. Right?

The problem with this narrative is that it's hateful and untrue and bigoted, but also that it preys on the morals of people who want to do the right thing, which is to protect children in the face of a horrible sexual abuse. We should be kicking in the doors of churches, right? Because that's where it's happening. Yeah, right. Yeah. You know, there was another scandal.

I didn't even put in the show notes. There was another scandal in the German Catholic Church that popped this week. Sure. But it was so repetitive, Cecil, that most of those never make it to the show notes. I mean, you could replace, you replace the place name and a couple of priest names and it's the same

story. It's literally the same story. The default assumption should be if the Catholic church isn't around, they're probably diddling some raping. There's probably diddling somebody, right? A hundred percent. But you're,

I think you're right. And I think that the, that the dehumanization of the LGBTQ community, really what it does is it allows people to stop thinking about them as people. Yes. And so not only do they have the moral obligation to do something because they're being prepped to do something because they think that there's some sort of action that needs to be taken.

They're also going to use more force because they think those people aren't people. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's the same. Every nation that is at war with another nation does this in order to create the possibility for their soldiers to take action, right? create the possibility for their soldiers to take action. Right. So we,

we have a difficult time teaching people to kill other people that are just like us, that we love and see as equals. We have a much easier time teaching a generation to kill people who can be identified with some racial slur. Sure. You know, and we did it with Germans in world war two.

You do it with the Japanese in world war two. We've done it with the Koreans, the Vietnamese, we've done it with the Iraqis. You know, and we did it with Germans in World War II. You do it with the Japanese in World War II. We've done it with the Koreans, the Vietnamese. We've done it with the Iraqis. We've, the list of slurs and dehumanizing language is essential to weaponize the minds of young people. It has to be done. You can't create any kind of soldier, whether that soldier is an institutional soldier, like an army personnel, or whether it's a Christian nationalist that you're trying to weaponize. Yeah. It's a way,

it's a tool of weaponization. Yeah. Uh, I want to mention too, uh, that afterwards I read another story and now this isn't in this one. At least I don't think it is. This is a real short article in Vanity Fair.

But in the one I read, they talked about the police department getting death threats afterwards. For arresting these people? Yeah, and I want to point out that this very much like the January 6th and whatever, any other time that people on the right are arrested and people on the right are prosecuted. Blue lives don't matter anymore. Yeah, absolutely, man. And that's the thing I think we've got to pay attention to is that they 100% do not... Don't let them fool you. That's not a law and order party. They don't care about that stuff.

What they care about is getting their way. That's all they care about. They don't care about justice. They don't care about anything. They care about getting their way. That's all they care about. They don't care about justice. They don't care about anything. They care about getting their way. And if you fucking get in their way and make it so they don't get their way and they don't get to watch somebody get their ass kicked and fucking

curb stomped by a bunch of fucking rednecks on steroids, then they're going to send you death threats. I mean, who sends death threats to the police? Are you stupid? What crazier fucking... That's like sending a death threat to the Secret Service directly. death threats to the police? Are you stupid? What crazier fucking... That's like sending a death threat to the Secret Service directly. Are you stupid? What? What is happening

in your life, man? Like, if you're going to kill somebody... I've never understood death threats anyway. Yeah, I know. If you're going to kill somebody, why do you want them to be more on guard? Yeah, it's 100%. It's just a threat. I know. You're just terrorizing somebody. But I don't think the cops are terrorized by that? It's 100%. It's just a threat. I know you're just terrorizing somebody.

But I don't think the cops are terrorized by that. It's like, if I'm a cop and I open up my mail today and it's like, some people hate you. It's like, yeah, I kind of assume that. These guys are like law and order as long as the law is protecting their interests. Exactly. That's exactly. When the law is a tool to protect their interests,

then they're absolutely... Because those are their soldiers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. They're shock troops than they're absolutely... Because those are their soldiers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. They're shock troops, and they're happy. They are... Man, they were giddy as fuck when they were rolling

bicycles over black people's heads during the BLM. 100%, man. They were giddy as fuck when that was happening. But the moment anything... I mean, listen to how they talk to the people when you watch the January 6 tapes. Oh, I mean, listen to how they talk to the people when you watch the January 6th tapes. Oh, I know. Listen to how they talk

to the police there. Of course, they don't fucking respect. They never respected a man they were just beating was fucking the enemy of my enemy. Yep. Yeah. Where's the respect for authority

that is like part and parcel of that worldview? It's bullshit. It fucking fades into nothing. Bullshit. Yep. And I don't believe that the right has a real respect for authority either.

I don't either. I don't buy that. I don't buy it. I don't buy it and I think they're all fucking liars. I just think they're happy to watch somebody get beat up that they don't like. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter who they are. If they don't like you and they watch you get your ass kicked, they're happy

about it. They're fucking happy about it. You're not wrong at all. Go to Reddit sometime and go to the fight subreddits or the ones where people are acting out and read the comments. Reddit is such a shitty misogynist place, right? It's fucking so misogynist

and so grotesque. Go to the ones, especially right it's fucking so misogynist and so grotesque go to the go to the ones especially if it's a fight between like a boy and a girl and just read the comments and they're so grotesque and misogynist all the time and it's and and the thing is is like like i recognize you shouldn't be hitting people right let's share right right. But like a girl smack a guy and then a guy will like literally knock her fucking out, like cold. Yeah, and they love it. And there's just like 50 comments that are- Yeah, Reddit loves that.

Reddit loves that. Reddit loves that. 50, 100 comments where someone who literally could do no damage to you- Yep, yep. Gets fucking, gets put on fucking life support. Yep. Because you, I mean mean you you move you move

the tiny bit of your energy into that punch and you could probably kill her yeah and they're and they're like equal rights equal lives do i yeah i've read the same stupid shit and it's like and these guys there's no proportionality or context there's gross and they love to watch people get hurt that they that want, probably, or they don't like. They resent for something. They love it. That's a place that breeds it. There's a lot of places that breed it. Don't send me your mail like

Reddit's a good place. Yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of subreddits that are a good place. I'm not fighting about that. I'm just saying in general, in those fights, if they come across my all feed and if I click on any of the comments and i've stopped clicking on them because it's just like they're horrible it's are disgusting they're horrible i've literally came across this just a few weeks ago and you'll just like the

thing is is like you'll see a title you won't know what it is you'll click the thing and you'll see somebody got pop and you'll be like oh that was a girl getting her fucking face broken yeah and you're like oh nasty and so you move on but the title can't clue you in sometimes and so you're just stuck watching a video you didn't want to watch you know yeah well you're like, oh, nasty. And so you move on, but the title can't clue you in sometimes. And so you're just stuck watching a video you didn't want to watch, you know? Yeah, you're absolutely right. The comments reveal exactly what those folks are looking for.

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So I got to go. OK, Adam and Eve.com. He's Coco Glory. Thank you. Guys, is it just me or is the devil really hot? He's like an angel, like a fallen angel. The story comes from the Salem News, which I, Cecil, I love the little witch up in the corner of the Salem. It's, I just love it so much.

It's adorable. I'm going to put this on the screen so people can see it if they're watching. I'm going to actually zoom into this. I just love this. Look at this little witch. Look at that little witch. If you're not watching, basically, it's actually like a little bit of a logo on the left side of

the T for the Salem News, if you're not watching. And it's a little witch flying basically in front of the moon on her broom. And it's outstanding. I love it. I love everything about it. I want to work for the Salem News

because I want the t-shirts. Yeah, of course. They need to be wiped out. Satanic temple arson suspect told police. I think you got to read some of this, Tom. Because like what he's saying. Yeah, I'll just read. This is a short enough article.

I'll read it. A Chelsea man took a bus from downtown Boston to Salem on Friday night and then followed GPS walking directions to the Satanic Temple on Bridge Street

with one thing in mind. They're devil worshipers. Daniel Damian Lucy, 42, told Salem police detective Wesley Regan, like, I mean, your mother sucks cocks in hell.

Yeah, thank you. Can we have more references, though? That's a different movie. We've got Damien. We've got Regan. We've got... Yeah, okay. That's The Exorcist, right? You're right.

I'm thinking of it. What's the Damien one? That's the Omen. Damien is the Omen. The Omen. Yeah, yeah. So we've already got... He's the little kid with the bowl haircut?

Yeah, he's the kid with the bowl haircut. I had that same haircut as a kid. Did you? 100%. That was a 70s thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm a child of... I'm a little older than you? A hundred percent. That was a seventies thing. Oh yeah. And I'm a child of, I'm a little older than you.

So I, I was, I was, I was a little kid in the seventies and they cut my, I have pictures of me with that like fucking a hundred percent. My mom be like, I mean, she didn't use a bowl,

but she would like, she goes straight across straight bangs, baby. It was straight bangs. Yeah. Straight across. I got to get a picture and put it on a live stream sometime. I'm hilarious. Like easy. Hilarious. This is the best straight bangs. Yeah. Straight across. I got to get a picture and put it on a live stream sometime. I'm hilarious looking.

Easy. Hilarious looking. This is the best shit ever. Yeah, but that was a fucking popular haircut back then. Dude, there was some fucking unfortunate child pictures of hair. Their devil worshippers said this guy. When Reagan asked what that meant to him,

Lucy responded, it means they need to be wiped out. Lucy then said, it's a hate crime. Police don't disagree with that assessment, charging Lucy with a civil rights violation. That's so great. I love that he's just like, yeah, it's a hate crime.

Yeah, I committed a hate crime. Oh, I meant them. I meant them. No. I meant them. Oh, fuck. Oh, shit. Fuck.

Double jeopardy. Fuck. No. Double indemnity. What do I have to say to wipe that off the books? Interview Mulligan. Take C-Bax.

What do you have to say? It's amazing. They're like, no, yeah, you're right. It's a hate crime. Idiots. Idiots. Fucking idiot.

Now, Lucy, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, is being held without bail, pending a hearing in Salem District Court next Tuesday to determine whether

his release poses a danger to anyone. Police say inside the 64 Bridge Street building were two Texas women staying in a room the organization rents out as a bed and breakfast and the manager. What? You could go to the Satanist Temple and you could spend the night in a bed and breakfast in the Satanist place? Why have I not done that? I don't have any idea why we're not. In Salem?

We've got to do that. What now? How is that not a thing I know to know about? Jesus. I got to get it for Halloween. It was just after 10 p.m. and Lucy wearing a God t-shirt. Guys, the video.

He's just got a t-shirt that says God on it. Which one? That's it. But Cecil, does that mean he's God? Like, is it a declaration? Is that like a graven image then or whatever? Where you're just like, I'm declaring I'm God. It's his name in vain.

I just wear it around. Which is so weird. Was captured on a doorbell security camera dumping what investigators determined to be a lighter fluid. It said Yeezy on the back. He dropped some lighter fluid on God on the carpet said, Yeezy on the back. He dropped some lighter fluid on the porch of the building, dropped his backpack on it,

and then setting the fire. He told police he didn't know there were people inside, but if they were devil worshippers, he wouldn't lose sleep over it. Oh, what a fucking treasure this guy is. Inside the backpack

was a Bible, a copy of the Constitution, two quarts of lighter fluid, and some sticks. What now? A copy of the Constitution. He's burning the Bible and the Constitution. Yeah. That's.

I don't. I don't feel like this gentleman. I don't think that this guy has everything going on. His fire is a little half-baked. Then, I love this too. As officers arrived to the scene, they spotted Lucy standing in a crowd of onlookers. That's amazing.

About 100 feet away from the fire. Something the police say is common for arsonists. He's like walking away quickly afterwards. He's like, was he whistling? Yeah. You're still wearing your God shirt. You were on a ring doorbell, you stupid asshole. idiot what the fuck here's the thing so this guy this guy is this is a hate crime this is a group of people one this is a group of people who don't know what satanists are anyway

right like they don't know what the fuck's happening they don't understand what's going on they think these are people who are like literal satanists and again this is this very much is what we were talking about before. We're talking about the LGBT community. You know, when you dehumanize somebody and you call people evil, it gives people license to hurt them in ways they would never consider doing to anybody else.

And this is one of those, this is one of those things. If you keep, you know, granted the Satanists kind of demonize themselves in some ways, but, but you know, in some ways the Satanists are like demonize themselves in some ways. But in some ways, the Satanists are like, if you spent five minutes,

we didn't even do this when we first started the show and we say this all the time. We didn't even know. We thought the Satanists were like really like satanic panic Satanists. We didn't know. We had no idea when we first started the show.

And then people sent us messages and we were just like, oh, and we looked into it. We're like, holy shit. This is a, it's a great organization. It it's a funny organization it's a satire organization and they do stuff that is not only helpful to the community they do great stuff around the community but then they also create things to make it so that they can they can fight all these laws that are infringing on everybody else's religious freedom and so they do great work it's just that

people don't bother to pay attention. So they all have this satanic panic idea of what satanists are. And imagine being that fucking lazy about your research, but still willing to set a fire. But still willing to hurt somebody, right? You're still willing to set a fucking building on fire and you don't even know for sure if there's people in it.

Yeah, no, that's gross. But you're just like, I was going to Google it. And he like literally says it's a hate crime. Yes, it's a fucking hate crime. Yeah, 100, that's gross. But you're just like, I was going to Google it. And he like literally says hate crime. Yes, it's a fucking hate crime. Throw the fucking book at this guy. Throw him away. Arson. You try to kill people. I mean, you literally try. I don't care if like you didn't know.

Like what the fuck? That's not a fucking, that's not a way to get out of this stupid. I don't understand how this is not and maybe it will be, but it seems like this would be attempted murder. Yeah. And I know he wasn't trying to kill people, but he wasn't trying not to kill people

with the deadly, deadly fire he set. Is attempted manslaughter a thing? I don't know. I don't know, man, but I know I can't just start shooting a gun around and being like, well, I wasn't looking to see if there was anyone in the way. I wasn't aiming specifically.

I didn't think it'd go through a window. That's stupid but i just know how these things were solid you know it's free will it's like god why is there evil it's free will my hands are clean it's free will we need evil to appreciate the good which is bullshit i think i would totally appreciate a world where nothing shitty ever happened. I'd be fine with that. This is fucking disgusting. This is another one you got to read, Tom, because this guy is just so gross. This is from Salon.com.

And guys, I will say, I never use Salon as a source, but I used it this time because there's quotes in here. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on the Uvalde Massacre. God has a plan. This is just so fucking appalling.

And this is the Attorney General in Texas. So this is the guy. This is the highest legal officer. That's the Attorney General. Yeah. In fucking Texas. After this fucking massacre of children. And here's what he says

when he's being interviewed about an interview with right-wing radio host, Trey Graham. Paxton acknowledged that it is difficult to give comfort to families who lost their kids.

Quote, if I lost one of my children, I'd be pretty devastated, especially in a way. Pretty devastated. I'd be. Not completely, but pretty devastated. Pretty. You know what? I'd be a little m especially in a way. Pretty devastated. I'd be. Not completely, but pretty devastated. You know what?

I'd be a little miffed. My heart would go on. Near or far. Especially in a way that is so senseless and seemingly has no purpose. I think, I would just have to say, if I had the opportunity to talk to the people, I'd have to say, look, there's always a plan.

I believe God always has a plan. I read the second half in a second. But if your God has a plan that involves the senseless, painful murder of a 10 year old kid, at the very least, reconsider the benevolence of your God. Yeah, right? At the very least. At the very least. At the very least. If you said,

Tom, I have a plan. I said, great, what's your plan? And you're like, well, my plan is I'm going to kill one of your kids. But I think, I think you'll come out of it a little stronger one

why do my kids have to suffer in order for me to grow that's insane this sort of like excuse for blood sacrifice is just baked into Christian religion right

it's like well these terrible things happen because we process everything through the lens of how it affects us right and so this god has a plan stuff is meaningless gibberish for the people who survived to say okay well here's how i grew as a result of the horrible thing that happened to you yeah right well i. Well, I wouldn't like, I wouldn't want terrible things to happen to you in order for me to grow. I would be an inexcusable cost. Yeah. It feels like a religion was created so that people wouldn't have,

would have less survivors guilt. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It was like something like that. Like, like the, it's a gross,

it's a gross way to think. And it, you're right. The very least you want to do but jesus if that's your god we're just like no man i totally killed your kid yeah right eggs on your face you know don't you feel stupid for loving him in the beginning it's just like war it's like and i got a website about him now too yeah but it's it's it's it's a disgusting and this is not like here's the thing man regular jamoke can say this all... And this is not... Here's the thing, man.

Regular Jamoke can say this all they want. This is the fucking Attorney General of Texas, man. This isn't a small guy. This is a guy who uses his office as a way to promote his shitty blood god religion. Yep, absolutely. And then the worst part about this is that he's hand-washing away

and hand-waving away all the real reforms that need to be done so more kids don't die. Dude, that is exactly it. That's what he's doing. If God has a plan, then this tragedy is not a tragedy. This tragedy is an inevitability. Yes. And so why should we stand in the face of theocratic inevitability? Exactly.

Like it's not, that's not what you do. If you're, you're not going to, are you to spit in the face of God? Are you to say God has no plan? Why are we going to fix a problem that is really just God working in his mysterious way? Get this is a way for you to do nothing and be all out of ideas.

Well, it's a way for you to do nothing. Still look righteous and still look like you care. Yeah, man. And it's all of it's bullshit. And it's all bullshit. You don't fucking care. You don't care. You don't care if you're not going to do anything about it. I genuinely feel like that. I feel like if you're not going to do anything about it, if you're going to, if you're going to have an office like this and you're going to try to actively hand wave this away as nothing, and we shouldn't do anything about it, you're not a good person. You're genuinely a bad person. You're genuinely a bad person. I wish only the worst things for you.

Yeah. I think you're a terrible human being because every day there's a reality in the United States that every day your kid could go to school and I don't care what school it is, they can get murdered at school. They can get, not just them, them and 20 of their friends can get murdered pretty fucking easily. And it can happen at the drop of a hat and it can happen anywhere in the United States.

Yep. Because there's no real laws to stop it pretty much anywhere. No, not at all. And anytime there is one, immediately there's a Supreme Court case

to knock it down. Immediately there's, you know, there's all these people that come in and want to protest and, you know, they had an anti-gun protest in, there's all these people that come in and want to protest. And they had an anti-gun protest in a couple places.

And these people go in and do open carry exactly the exact same time to go push into that crowd with their guns to show. With the NRA, the NRA conference, those people were getting attacked outside and pushed into with people with guns or people who were promoting guns.

So it can happen anywhere. It can happen literally anywhere in the country because there's nothing to prevent it from happening. And we are absolutely unwilling to do anything meaningful about this. We're doing these enhanced background checks now. A law is pending, right? And it may actually go

through. Or we'll do some enhanced background checks. Or we'll have some mental health counseling or we'll make sure that like some people have a harder time retaining guns through red flag laws. Those things aren't nothing. Those things are worth doing, but they are certainly not as good as saying,

hey man, some types of guns just create more damage. They're literally designed actually to create more damage. Yeah. That's why, you know, there's a reason that the military doesn't walk around with a hunting rifle with fucking three shots in the magazine. Right. Yeah. Look at the guns that the people who are going to kill people with those guns use. So look at the guns cops choose.

Cops arm themselves with. Look at the guns cops choose. Cops arm themselves with. Look at the guns that the military chooses to arm themselves with. There's not a lot of these that I can think of where somebody had a bolt action. Right. I mean, don't get me wrong. I think if you were really good with a bolt action,

you could probably kill several people. You certainly could. But I don't think you could kill as many people as that guy who was two fisting pistols down at Virginia Tech. No, man. With those extended magazines? Yeah, man. With those extended magazines? Yeah, man. Absolutely not.

And he had clips on him that he could easily, quickly change. You have these other people who have extended magazines or even just regular-length magazines on assault weapons that are so easy to clip and change. I mean, this is... And they require no training to use. No training whatsoever. No training. It'll take you an afternoon to get good shooting.

An afternoon. At best. At best. Yeah. I mean, we've seen a couple of instances in the past like three weeks or whatever where these folks did not own these guns. A week before the shooting, they buy these guns. So there's no proficiency issues here. That's nonsense.

But like this attorney general has the authority to your point. He has so much power. And instead he goes on to say, life is short no matter what it is. Holy shit. What a thing to say about dead 10 year olds. Life is short. Life is short.

Motherfucker, you got to live past 10. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You didn't die. You didn't get fucking shot with a 223 round. Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. And certainly we're not going to make sense of,

you know, a young child being shot and killed way before their life expectancy. So this is Louie Gohmert. Later on in the article, Louie Gohmert says, and he's a Texan. He says, this is during a hearing. He says that the answer is more prayer. Well, look, maybe if we heard more prayers from leaders of this country,

instead of taking God's name in vain, we wouldn't have the mass killings like we did have that we didn't have before this was eliminated from school. End quote. That is the stupidest fucking human being on the planet. There's nothing. There's literally, he's just saying,

I mean, he might as well just stand on the stage and you've seen that Family Guy skit where the guy's like, where the girl's like 9-11 and people just cheer. Yeah.

That's essentially what he's saying. None of it, it's literally unverifiable gibberish what he just said. Yeah. But it doesn't matter because he hit every single buzz point

that he needed to hit. Yep. That's it. Like, oh, yeah, prayer in schools, God, God's name, big prayers, prayers. Yeah. That's it. It's oh, yeah, prayer in schools, God's name, big prayers, prayers. Yeah.

That's it. It's for fucking Louie Gohmert. He's one of the dumbest motherfuckers that's ever been allowed to speak in Congress. It's embarrassing, and it's awful, and it's... Every time I think somebody else from another country

is going to watch our news and watch Louie Gohmert speak and watch this guy speak and all this. I cringe. Are you a little ashamed? I'm absolutely ashamed of our country every time one of these happens.

Because every time somebody is just like, somebody will go to a page that I read and they'll say, why do you let this keep happening? And the answer is there's literally nothing

that can stop it at this point. It's over. There's nothing you can do to stop it. There's nothing in the Supreme Court that's going point. It's over. There's nothing you can do to stop it. There's nothing in the Supreme Court that's going to overturn the Second Amendment. There's not enough will anywhere to change that amendment. There's certainly not enough

will. Yet you could remove it, right? That's a possibility. Sure. There are mechanisms that make it possible. There are mechanisms to get rid of it. But it's not politically even close. But there's no way. You would need to get 70, I want to say 70 people or something, plus all the states would have to too.

Like two thirds of the states, I think have to ratify it or whatever. Plus two thirds of the Senate and the House. Never. It would have to be two thirds Democratic states and there's not. It's because most of them are just country. They're just, they're open field.

The Democrats are not even fully united behind an assault rifle ban. Absolutely. Much less than all the guns bans. None of these things are going to happen. Never going to happen. I know there are people that are worried. We have people email us. There are people that are

worried. Oh, what if my guns get taken? Literally, no. That'll never happen. No gun has ever been stripped from anyone's hands. Never going to happen. Not going to happen. It's never going to happen. The safest thing you fucking own is your five. gun has ever been stripped from anyone's hands. Never. Don't. Not going to happen. It's never going to happen. Your guns are the safest thing you fucking own is your they'll take, you could, I'll tell you what

you'll lose your fucking health insurance before you lose your guns. You'll lose food security. 100%. You'll lose housing. You'll lose you will lose everything in this fucking country before you lose your guns. Absolutely. You are by far the dumbest,

most pathetic piece of maggot-eating shit that has ever slid from a human being's hairy ass. This is just gross. I can't believe this. Yeah, this is disgusting. This story is from ABC News. Fox Sports doesn't show Jeopardy champ Amy Schneider throughout the first pitch.

Instead of carrying her toss during Saturday's Dodgers Giants telecast, NASCAR driver Kurt Busch was shown in a pregame ceremony from Thursday. Yeah. And that's because this is a trans person. It's a trans person. And so they decided to, they literally cut away. Everybody else would show it, but they cut away.

Yep. So that they wouldn't have to show it. They show it all the time. They show the first pitch all the time. They didn't show it this time because they don't want to. They just don't even want to show it on TV. They don't want to show a person exists on television.

That's it. Are you that fucking fragile, man? I know. Holy shit. Yep. We talked about this last week, and it was part of the reason I wanted to include this story.

Fox does not report news. They shape a narrative. And, you know, it can be argued that all editorializing, even editorializing by omission, which is what this technically is, performs that same function. But Fox does this to such a degree. And it is a degree that nobody else even comes close to. You're right. It's not even remotely close to literally erase a woman from existence. Yeah.

Because that person doesn't fit a profile of acceptability for their audience. Yeah. And they don't fit the profile of acceptability for the audience because Fox has shaped that unacceptability. Fox has sold them that unacceptability and they continue to do it. It's, this is not reflecting reality. This is changing reality. And it's,

it's a, it's a different task. And Fox has been at this task since W was in charge. Yeah, for sure. know another thing too is i think that they're afraid that if they show trans people just existing that they'll be too relatable so if they just pull them off right because here's a trans woman throwing out the first pitch enjoying a day outside in baseball amer America's past, America's past time.

Someone sees that and thinks, Oh, that's just like, Oh, that's just like a normal person. Right. Okay. Well,

I guess, I guess I didn't have anything that I needed to be guarded about. I didn't have to be afraid. Right. Right. You were making me afraid Fox news for so long. I don't have to be afraid. That's just like,

that's just a person who threw a fucking ball. Like, it's not like a demon with horns and fucking wings and a you know breathing fire if you make them relatable you make people relatable you make a human being relatable then they're suddenly that's a bad thing and they i think also they don't want to show amy specifically because she was a a multi-term champion on Jeopardy, right? So to the same point, here's somebody who's wildly successful. Right, right. And flies it.

Because what they've spun for their audience is that anybody who doesn't fit this really narrow type of person, that they are disordered in some way. That they are psychologically and emotionally non-functional, that they're damaged goods. So they can't show successful people. They cannot because they've spent too much time selling everybody a different thing.

So they can't do this. Otherwise, it's going to create this cognitive dissonance that they don't want to have to wrestle with or have their audience wrestle with because it doesn't sell ads the way they need to sell ads for fucking Ram trucks or whatever garbage. They went to something else to try to avoid it. But yeah, they even got called out by another station to basically say, no, this person threw the first pitch. It was not the person who they went to go show the first pitch. They rewrote. If you watch the Fox thing, you would think somebody else threw that pitch. It was not the person who they went to go shell throw the first pitch. If you watch the Fox thing,

you would think somebody else threw that pitch. You would think you watched somebody else do that action. This is kind of like deepfake-y in some way. Yeah, it is. Because it's not like they just cut to commercial. They spliced in a different person

throwing a pitch. What is that? Oh, it's the hospital. The hospital? Yeah, Tuesday. They burned cripples, they turned me ill. Drag on the state.

Man, this story comes to New York Times. This is un-fucking-believable, actually. Officer who displayed Nazi insignia will receive $1.5 million to resign. So this guy,

Derek cameras, L he puts a, he is the investigations assistant chief at this, at this, uh, I would say law firm and not law firm. He's a cop at the fucking cop station or fucking whatever, you know?

So he put straight up SS Nazi insignia above his fucking name. He did it. It's not like somebody did this as a prank and he didn't take it down. He did this himself after in his own words, in his own defense, after watching the show, the man in the high castle, which is a show about what if the Nazis

and Japan won World War II. Yeah, yeah. So it explicitly is about Nazism, not German heritage, not anything else. This is a guy too, who for years has been joking about being a Nazi, has been jokingly throwing up the nazi salute you know joking about his grandparent his granddad falling off a patrol and and that's how he died in the holocaust right

just terrible it's just not funny like it's not funny you're like okay well that's not funny and it's not funny because what you're saying is i'm a hateful shitty person yep and so you can't make a joke that's funny about that. And so he's not funny and this isn't funny. He put the stuff on there. And then the worst part about this is these fucking, these cops are so dug in. They're so dug

in that they literally couldn't bring this to trial. They had said as much. They're like, we're lucky to get out with this. They had to pay him. They had to pay a million and a half dollars down from 3 million. He tried to get three. Yeah. Cause they were lucky.

They felt lucky. So because they put the, they suspended him on paid administrative leave. Yeah. So they gave him a paid vacation while they investigated this. Then they said some bullshit. And I don't even go article. Didn't go into,

it didn't make any sense to me. Basically said like, because they suspended him already, they couldn't fire him. Double jeopardy. Because it was like double jeopardy. And I'm just like, that doesn't make any fucking sense. You suspend somebody to investigate, then the investigation, it doesn't make

any sense. I understand it, but whatever. So this guy gets a payday. He gets a million and a half dollar payday to quit his job. I'll quit my job for a million and a half dollars tomorrow. Jesus. Tomorrow. And I don't even have to. I won't even put hateful, mean-spirited, bigoted, racist

shit on my fucking door. I'll keep everything in my desk. Oh, I know, man. I've always said, if I win the lottery, I'm not even coming back for my family photos. I don't give a fuck. I don't care. I can reprint it. I'll reprint it. I'm good. I wouldn't even call in. I would not even call to quit. I'd make them hunt me

down. They have to hire a private investigator. I would just... I just wouldn't... I'd fucking ghost that shit. No way. Yeah. I'd just literally send them a peace sign in the mail. That's it.

Fuck you. But this is one of those things, though, that you see, you know, it also has a stench of cops protecting cops in this. Oh, fuck yeah. You know, because it's like, oh, well, who's going to hire the lawyers? Well, a bunch of cops are going to hire the lawyers to protect themselves against the cop that they're firing. Yeah, the union. And so you're like, okay, well, yeah, chances are they're probably going to get favorably

treated, you know? I mean, yeah, you're down from $3 million, but you're down from $ yeah chances are they're probably going to get favorably treated you know i mean yeah you're down from three million but you're down from three million a million and a half i don't mean fucking a like like yeah it's an it's a lot of money but to get a million and a half dollars to not work at your job anymore man if this happened to not a cop yeah they'd be just fired they'd be you would be out on your ass in a second it's so funny because you're absolutely right it doesn't matter what your job is and that's why I was joking about my job if at my job

I said one time I said some hateful bigoted Nazi shit I'd be out on my ass and there's not a million dollar fucking severance pay right no there wouldn't be like there's not even a fucking dollar paycheck they're just like you're fired the end i paid you up until the second exactly now we're done and i'll never see you again yeah there wouldn't be like a write-up

or a paid vacation before i got my million dollars or fucking a hand job or whatever else they gave this fucking nazi this fucking actual nazi Yes, he's a fucking 100% Nazi. And good, the guy got fired, but it sucks that we have this system in place that essentially protects police officers whether they're coming or going. And it sucks too that here's a guy who telegraphed this for years

ahead of time with no consequences. Yes, nothing. Because of that fucking blue line bullshit. Yeah, and nobody cares. Nobody cares up until this point. And then finally somebody sees it who cares. And then it's like, Oh, well, I guess he's just going to have to retire a little early.

Right. Yeah. I'm going to have to retire with a million and a half dollars. Why did you want to go in? We're storming the Capitol. It's a revolution. This story comes from CNN politics, nine page plan to occupy congressional buildings on January 6, 2021,

released in court filing. And there's part of this that I wanted to read. The plan envisioned using covert sleepers to set up fake appointments in federal buildings and then having people rush the building. We have the ability to target specific senators' offices. The plan also included handing out flyers to demand a new election on January 20th and to warn prominent Republicans, including then-Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Mitch McConnell, that quote, we are people.

We the people are watching you, end quote. It's literally a shakedown. It's a threat campaign. This is a coup. It just failed. It's more planned than I thought it a coup. Yeah. It just failed. Yeah. They were trying... It's more planned than I thought it was.

So much. Yeah, man. I would agree with you there. When I watched it the first day, I came home. I came home. I went out that day and I came home. I was on break. So I was on break from work.

It was... I was out and I came back. And as I walked in, my wife was crying crying because, you know, you're watching essentially a coup. Yeah. Right. And I was like, calm down. It's okay.

I'm like, we'll be fine. I'm like, don't worry about it. I'm like, it's going to be fine. And I didn't really know what was going on. Right. You know, just wanted to calm her down, you know, and see what happened. And then I watched a little bit of it and I'm like, and once I, when I came in, they sort of already started pushing them out.

Okay. Yeah. Right. Outside. And so I was like, I was like, ah, I started pushing them out. Okay. Yeah. Right. Outside. And so I was like, I was like, ah, I was like, I don't, I don't think anything's going to happen. I think, I think, you know, I think right now we're okay. And then once the story started coming out and they started showing video of these people

walking around, staying in between the lines. Yeah. I thought it was comical at first. It felt like a joke. Yeah. Right. So you watch it and it feels like a joke. And so for the longest time,

I felt like it was kind of a joke. It was like the dog that finally caught the tail of the bumper on a car. Right, yeah. And stuck. It didn't know what to do. It doesn't know what to do. It's like, oh, I didn't think this would work.

And now they're stuck. And that's what I kind of felt like. They barge in and then they thought, well, I didn't think this would work. I think a lot stuck. And that's what I kind of felt like they barge in. And then they thought, well, I didn't think this would work. I think a lot of people felt that way for a few days. I don't think that that's the wrong thing to think about for the bulk of the people. I think that they were actually very happy to let all those people be bumbling and goofy. Because if they would have been in place to do all this stuff and been a little more coordinated, they could have done some real serious damage and some real problems.

Yeah. I it's, I felt the same way when I, cause I watched, I watched the like, you know, guy carrying the podium, you know,

and I, I watched like guys like snapping pictures. I didn't see the video until the times investigation, maybe a week or two later where it showed the people pushing and screaming and fighting and spraying each other with mace. Yeah, yeah. Like that kind of violence that was real and was there and was really the danger is the essential.

I didn't see that stuff. Like I saw initially just like the goofy shit. The comic stuff. And I was like, God, these guys are fucking incompetent even. They're even incompetent insurrectionists. But they were only barely incompetent, man. Because there was some real planning.

And there was some real organizational talent involved. And they had plans, man. They had real actionable plans to subvert the will of the American people, destroy our democracy, and take over this country, and install an autocratic regime unelected by the people they had planned on the more stuff comes out like we're watching these hearings they're talking about the

guns that were nearby they're talking about yeah you know they planted guns nearby stash houses stash hotels just like man they were gonna go get guns somewhere and then they're like they're talking about these things they're talking about these things. We talked about the first story we opened up with, with Loudermilk giving them a tour around, and they're taking photos of this place. There was more to this than they've let out since the beginning. And they kept this under wraps for all this time,

so that now this stuff is starting to come out. And you're like, holy shit, that was like a real danger. And jokers like us who didn't know anything. Yeah. Right. And we, I mean, I felt like it was a joke for a long time and I,

and I'm, I was wrong. Like there was a genuine push for this to be a real coup surrounded and insulated by a bunch of yokels who had no idea what was going on. And that's the thing. It's like we're, and I actually think this mimics a lot of what we're seeing socially where there are real serious people with real serious plans that cloak themselves in

trolls. Yeah. Whether those trolls are physical trolls, like in the case of January 6th, a lot of fucking, just like you said, like just fucking complete numbskulls with no planning. And they're just, but like there's a core, there's a rotten core at the center of a lot of this sort of like trolling that is organized. Yeah. is organized and that is absolutely specific and purpose-driven and has goals, terroristic political goals in mind. I think you see it with the incel movement.

I think you see it with the Q movement. I think you see it with this January 6th stop the steal bullshit. I think you see it time and time again, where if you can cloak your, the trajectory of your planning with enough of the sort of massive ball of trolling bullshit, it's, it's deflecting. It's like a fucking invisibility shield of stupidity. Yeah.

Yeah. I think, I think you're right. I think there's a, and, and, and it makes it harder. It just makes it harder to find those people.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's makes it harder to put your finger on. This is a bad actor. Right. Yeah. Cause it's, and that's why I want to return to this, even though it was just a couple of weeks ago.

That's why we can't let trolls get away with it ever. Ever. Right. I don't give a, you're a fucking Kekistan idiot. I don't give a fuck. You, where are you at? You're at the unite the right rally. You're a fucking Kekistan idiot. I don't give a fuck. Where are you at? You're at the Unite the Right rally? You're the same

as everybody else. Exactly the same. You're making a video about hunting other human beings. I don't care if you say it's just a joke. Literally,

those words mean nothing. Yeah. They mean nothing. The idea that we can joke our way out of responsibility... Your responsibility....is nonsense. Yeah. And it is absolutely clouding our

ability to see that the rotten core of this is Proud Boys and fucking white supremacists and Christian nationalists. They are animating and funding and organizing all of this, whether it's the fucking trucker convoy shit. And I don't care how many fucking memes and dog coins or whatever fucking nonsense you wrap around this stuff. This is real. So get rid of the idea that somebody's just joking. Never again is somebody just joking about hateful, evil, violent shit. That's gone. We have to discard that forever and put the people in jail. Like, put them in fucking prison for that joke

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We got a message from Chris. And Chris says that it is National Bourbon Day. Yeah. It was earlier in the week. Evidently, National Bourbon Day is the same as Flag Day. Yeah. That's amazing. That's awesome. All American. God, it's a wonderful holiday. We got. Yeah. That's amazing. That's awesome.

All American. God, it's a wonderful holiday. We got a message. It's a win all the way around. We got a message from South Africa, Tom. How cool is this? Bridget, it's just a greetings. She likes the show, and I like a South African listener.

I think that's cool. I just think that's cool. Yeah, I just think it's cool, too. Right. It's always interesting to see where people listen to. You know, I'm always, I'm always sort of interested when people are like,

yeah, I live in the UK or I live in Scotland or I live in, I guess it's the same place, but still, you know, I live in,

I live in, people who live in the Scandinavian countries will have people who like, we've got people from Japan. Yeah. And so it's like, it's always interesting

to hear from the faraway places, Australia, I still remember the first international listener email we got. Yeah. Very like. Yeah, me too.

15 years ago. Me too. Absolutely. And it's still exciting when we get these from all over the world. And when we travel to those places and we get a chance to meet, you know, 50, 60,

70 people that listen to the show. And it's awesome. Yeah. Tom, we got a message from David in Kentucky about beardology. It says as a holder of David in Kentucky about beardology. It says, as a holder of a doctorate in advanced beardology. Where'd you get it from? That is dubious.

Did you get it from Upstairs Medical College? Upstairs Beard College. Upstairs Barber College. I wanted to weigh in on episode 631. Beard growth is a normative style process, but mustache design is a very complex discipline. As research demonstrates, only about 0.057% of the population is able to grow a mustache that doesn't look like you shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a school. That is the truest thing. Single mustache, you could go back in time and it's different. The styles were different styles were different and it's like the 70s,

a mustache was a hundred percent, just a single mustache. But you're just sporting a mustache now? But now, no. No. If you're Tom Selleck, fine. Yeah. That's like it.

There's like 15 people, like fucking Sam Elliott. Yeah, right. The rest of it, no. Yes. If you look like you- Sam Elliott looks crazy without a mustache. Crazy.

I know. I remember seeing him without a mustache. Justified. Crazy without a mustache. Yes. I know. I remember seeing him without a mustache. Justified. Crazy without a mustache. Yes. Because his fucking, his giant, his upper lip is like the size of your fist. That's the thing. It's like if you've got an enormous upper lip.

You've got an upper lip that can handle it. And you cover that thing with like a big old stash. It works. Yeah, you've got a dinner plate of an upper lip. Yeah. And you put a fucking broom on that thing. It looks good. It's in charge.

But if you've got like a little tiny lip. Oh. And you put a looks like it's in charge. But if you got like a little tiny lip and you put a little tiny pencil mustache in there. Or like if you've got a fucking mustache that doesn't grow to cover the whole lip, then you look like a crazy person. You look like a crazy person. Yeah. We got a message and this is from Nick and Nick says

when Tom said to use dark maga, you had to play a black deck. I was assuming you were talking about this guy and it's a new magic card, Tom, and the magic card is called Maga Traitor to Mortals. I had no idea.

I would 100% play a Maga deck. That would be hilarious. That's hilarious. Just a fucking Shaman deck. So this week on our live stream for, it's a couple hour live stream, right?

It's like, it's like, it's got almost three hours. It's gotta be almost three hours long. We listened to and watched the January 6th hearings. We watched an abridged version of the one that was on Monday. And we watched almost the whole thing of the one that was on today. That was on Thursday. And so check those out, go to one that was on, uh, today that was on

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