I've Had It - Action Items for A**holes

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

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So are we supposed to start the podcast? Ready, one, two, three. Patriots, gay triads, they triots, black triots, brown triots. We love, love, love you. And triple trumpers can do what, pumps? For girls! Really love the addition of the double burr. Yeah, that's good.

That's good stuff. Pumps, what have you had it with? Okay, what I've had it with is when people leave messages on my voicemail. Like if you call you just hang up, I see you called, I'll call you back. We don't have to have a message. Right. So I have a couple girlfriends that are like, hey, call me, I need to talk to you. Well, I'm immediately panicked.

Like, what's happening? Why do you need to talk to me? So they immediately go up to the urgent spot first phone call. And then it's like, oh, I was just going to see what you're doing if you wanted to be to work out. And I'm just like, you can't do that. People that act like it's an emergency when it's not an emergency or on the the flip side, people that are like, oh my God, I have juicy something I need to tell you and then

don't tell you and then you can't get a hold of them. So I just, I hate urgency in a voicemail when it's really not urgent. Because if it's urgent, just say it's urgent. I completely agree with this. I think that that's a problem. I really don't like voicemails at all anymore now that we have a missed call and you can see the list of people. whose call you need to return. But I do love to fuck with people and just leave people messages like, Jennifer, call me immediately. And it's absolutely nothing. And I've been doing it for years. You know, my friend Brad, Brad and I for years have left each other messages. Call me immediately. Click. And so I do like just to kind of gaslight people for fun. And then they call you all panicked.

And I know that's kind of psychopathic and psychotic. But sometimes I just kind of like to be crazy like that. Well, here's the thing. I probably have gotten those messages from you. And I'm probably like a lap dog just like, call back immediate. Like, can't wait. I would find you under a rock. You would dig through concrete to find me. I would, with my fingernails. I've done it to you a lot. But you do. You call back really enthusiastically. Like, what is it? What's going on? I was like, oh, nothing. I just missed you. I need to talk to you. You're like, oh, good. You're so sweet. Oh, good. Let's burn. Okay. This is so funny. I was watching. this TV show and it was a police thing and they were talking about how the incident happened at like five in the morning and they're like, you know, it's easy to track calls this early in the morning because they're just not going back and forth. And I was like, can you imagine back in the day when we were on the phone at 445 every morning like clockwork? They would have thought we were criminal masterminds. And really we were just smoking and hating our lives and our husband. We would wake up, listener to.

have like an hour of bonding time before our children woke up. Yeah. And so we would get up at like 4.45, 5 and whoever is at first would be like, do you want to burn? Because we both used to smoke cigarettes, like a lot of Gen Xers. And we would got it. My mouth water is just thinking about it now. And I hate, hate, hate cigarettes now. But just it was like such this anticipatory moment that I knew the coffee was brewing and I could kind of smell it and then have like this Pavlovian reaction thinking about lighten up that girt and then drinking coffee. And here's the only thing I miss about smoking. I don't miss the actual sensation of smoking at all. Past people on the streets all the time in New York with SIGs and I'm like, I've turned into that person. I miss the camaraderie. I feel like

you bond more with people while slowly killing yourself. I think that that bond supersedes non-carcinogenic conversations. I think we were closer and better friends to each other when we were assisting each other in homicide. I completely agree. And I feel like I've bonded with people I would never normally meet outside in the smoking section. Totally.

Back in the day, when I first started practicing law in 1995, you could smoke in the courthage. So there were a couple judges that smoked. And I would just go sit. in there and we would smoke cigarettes between cases. And I met all kinds of people I would have never met like outside smoking at the courthouse, inside smoking at the courthouse all the time. Yeah, I agree. I met so many cool people. And when you would go to parties and the parties were kind of stuffy, every, all the cool people would go outside and smoke cigs. Always the cool people

were outside smoking. Okay. I have a great grievance. Okay. I've had it with group think PR phrases like excellence redefined. Innovation reimagined. Yes, I hear that all the time. Okay, here's the deal. You don't get to redefine excellence. It just gets to be excellence. And then you just leave it the fuck alone. You don't, this is made up shit that people sit around these tables. These are the same groups of people that update the photo album on iPhones. I'm certain of it. There's a link between these two groups of people. Make it harder, stupid. Yeah. And it's just like, okay, so our product is excellent. And somebody's like, I know, but it's better than excellent. It's like the original excellence. And they're like, I know, it's excellence redefined. And everybody,

it's just like instantaneous, group think orgasm. And then they all trot this shit out. Here's some more. Redefining what's possible. No, you're not. It's either possible or impossible. Nobody's redefining it. Yeah. I hate all that. Okay. What about the customer service ones? Here's one. Putting customers at the heart of everything we do. which we all know is a lie. It's a total lie. We don't just meet expectations. We exceed them.

That's also a lie. Here's some buzzword stuff. Leveraging cutting edge forward thinking paradigms. Ecosystem driven value creation. Holistic end-to-end transformation. I have fucking had it from top to bottom. Put a sock in it. Put a fucking sock in this.

shit, we're not stupid. It's patronizing. It's an insult. Here's some more. Here's some regarding like green energy stuff. Building a greener tomorrow today. That one just goes all through me. What about this? Net zero full heart. Net zero full heart. I've had it. Here's some tech stuff. This is hilarious. AI powered. Human I'm incented. I just fucking hate that all day long. I've had it. I've had it with this.

I, when we started the podcast listener, Pumps and I would get onto these calls with certain people at certain points in certain times. And they were these type of meetings. And our assessment after such meetings were that anybody who uses these types of phrases, you consider it a red flag. For example, a business that we set down with to do business with said, we're really not a business. We're a family. And I immediately knew, okay, these people are toxic as fuck. I mean, nobody calls work a family. You just don't.

It's work. And then you have your family. And your family has its own set of problems. But anybody who's trying to reimagine family while we're at work is full of shit. And it is a red flag and it is a toxic work environment. and you need to tuck and roll ASAP. Well, yeah, and most families are pretty fucking toxic. And all you read about online is people trying to, you know, go to therapy to redo their family.

So I don't think that's a huge endorsement for this. Whenever I hear these phrases, though, I immediately picture like what you were talking about, a table where everybody is just like, you know, masturbating each other. They're just fucking jerking off and they're so excited. And it's just like, shut up. Shut up. And the people that fall for this, I'm just like, ugh.

I want to be in those meetings and just be like, you remember the Muppets, the cranky Muppets that were always bitching? I would like to go be at one of the meetings and they're like, excellence. Reimagining it. That's stupid and I feel dumber for having heard it next. It's either excellent or it's not. Shut the fuck up. Nobody's going to buy this shit.

Nobody's going to buy it because of the name. But I think they would cry. I think the people that come up with this stuff, if you say you don't like what they came up with, I think these are the at-work criers. You know what I'm talking about. The people that just cry, the dropout. And I'm a listener, if some of you were super sensitive, I'm sorry. I only cry like annually.

Pumps is worse than me. She cries maybe once every five years. But you know what? Welcome to I've had it. I'm Jennifer. I'm Angie, the HBIC, B for Beaver. We are grievance, rebranded as optimism in America's Talk TVI podcast. We're redefined.

We're optimistic grievances. We're inspiring, optimism, inspirational grievances. All right. I have an announcement. You know, lately we've trotted out Kylie a lot on the podcast. We've trotted out Ryan on the podcast. but we have left the true star producer. Yep.

The person who has won employee of the week, employee of the month, employee of the year, really our best employee, far better than Ryan and Kylie combined. And of course, I'm talking about Seth, and I would like to welcome Seth to produce this episode of I've had it, Seth. The boy is back. Oh, yeah, baby. I heard the people were clamoring for me. They were clamoring.

They knew. They were like, you know, Kylie and Seth, they're fine and all. But there's got to be more brains behind this podcast than for sure, Jennifer and Pops. And for sure, Ryan and Kylie. So I thought, we got to let the cat out of the bag. We've got to bring in the big daddy. The big guns. Usually when people mention Seth Fish, they mention excellence, reimagined, transmogrifying progress, stuff like that. I would like for you, actually I'll make Kylie do this, to come up with five uh, uh, mottos for our podcast that are in that corporate speak. I'll get Kylie on that. Seth, you have any grievances? Anything bugging you lately? Uh, yeah. This one might catch me some heat. Let's hear it.

I have had it with Seattle Supersonics fans thinking they're the only people to ever get their team relocated. I think at this point, they're whining so much. Kansas City should start claiming the Kings. Unfortunately, they're the Kings and nobody wants to claim them, but I think they should start making a stink because it's been 20 years. Yeah. And I think it's time to get over it. I agree with you on this. Here's what I have to say to the people of Seattle. You have mountains. You have an ocean. You have killer well. elves that jump out of the water and they're like, hi, look at us. You know, we're, we're in Puget Sound. And you have normal politicians that aren't trans-obsessed, whack jobs, and you

don't have school superintendents that are wanting to put the Bibles in the classroom. We need this in Oklahoma. We need that. I'm glad you all brought this up because I've got it. For one thing. Okay. So you know, like a couple weeks ago, I really stepped in it online. So I did the whole Erica Kirk impersonation, right, which I couldn't help myself. I knew it was bad. I knew I probably shouldn't have done it, but I couldn't help myself. We did not prep pumps for it. She absolutely pissed her pants.

After we finished recording, she had to go shower because she got TT all over. So that in and of itself is worth it. At the same time, these gals that have this fantastic sports gal, sports girls gossip podcast that asked me to come on. I have no business talking about. sports, right? I'm a political podcaster. So they asked me to come on and I just start ripping about Doris Burke, which I stand by Doris Burke is unfairly an SGA hater. But I did get a DM from somebody who works with Dorisberg or has worked with Dorisberg, a very respected person in NBA circles

who said, love your podcasts, love your political views. I don't. think it was fair to link Doris to MAGA. And I responded to this person and I said, you're 100% correct. That I shouldn't have linked Doris to MAGA style propaganda. I don't know what Doris's politics are, but Doris is a female and a male-dominated profession in covers a sport that is predominantly African-American. I doubt, this is my opinion. I doubt Doris is maggot. But I will say this to Doris. As women, we can disagree about your, what I perceive to be your propaganda towards the thunder and towards SGA. And I shouldn't have branded you as MAGA. That's on me because I have a tendency, everything I dislike, I label as MAGA. And that is a problem for me.

Pumps does the same thing. We're out and about. She's like, oh my God, that guy looks like Don Jr. She feels like she, it's like at the forefront of our mind all the time. And so Doris, here's the deal, Doris Burke. I appreciate the job you do. I appreciate that you are a woman in a man's world. I appreciate that you have a different opinion than me. I say that as women, we can talk smack about sports back and forth the same way that men do. And I can say that you're a propagandist. I apologize. apologize for calling you a MAGA propagandist because that is a horrible insult. But I stand by that you are a SGA hater and an SGA propagandist and a thunder hater. And I'll die on the hill.

But I do apologize for comparing you with MAGA because that was not right. The fall march and stuff does come out of cross-door slips a lot. But I will say this. Every sports podcast I listen to, they talk about how, like, rabid and in saying Thunder fans are and I'm like guilty. Like any time you criticize the Thunder SGA, we're all just like, but again, that's all you have. I would say that we're definitely passionate,

but like in terms of we definitely defend the team, when it comes to being a Thunder fan online in online spaces, your 50th in education, you live in a fastest hellscape. Yeah, we know. We know that has nothing to do with our team, though, in the argument we're making. And that's what just kind of, that's why we feel beat down by all this stuff. We have a Republican supermajority for decades.

We can't have one thing. Mm-hmm. All right. You want to read some reviews? Yeah. Read them, Seth. Okay. They're all good.

Five stars. Oh, that's much nicer than what Kylie does for us when she produces the episodes. Thank you, Seth. That's what I'm here for. This one is from Steph's GraphX. Love the podcast. My husband listens during his commute as well. It's refreshing to hear people be real and not tiptoe around shit.

California Silicon Valley Pure Bread here. I'm too lazy to look for the number to call in. Since the fat Cheeto took office, I have rescheduled so much. I have no more juice in me. So here's my minute to bitch bomb. I have had it with people like my mom who bury their head in the sand, regarding politics. But then have the balls to vote.

That's bullshit. Don't tell me, I don't pay much attention to the news. I choose to enjoy my life. Then go and vote for a person or policy. You have no clue the impact your vote can make on groups of people. That is a great grievance. That's a great one. I don't pay attention.

It's not my thing. Well, then don't vote or educate yourself. But, I mean, that is a huge swath. Americans, I think. Here's what I'm calling out. I think, Seth, get your ass back up here. I think, I think these people, at least the people that I have known, act like they're not interested in politics because they know I am and they know that their opinion is inferior and morally depraved from mine. And they're too embarrassed to admit it. So they act like, oh, I'm just not into politics. I don't want to talk about politics. And then they rate.

and they color in that little circle for kinks thoroughly because they know, and those are the worst people among us. The people who are in the cult that have been totally indoctrinated, I have a slight bit of empathy for the people who know better that won't admit it publicly or change what they would say privately to certain people. And then they have a whole different persona in certain social circles. That to me is the most insidious. Yeah, the ones that know, but they fake like they don't know. I agree with that. You know what?

Just that whole thing reminded me of. Remember, like, early on in Doge, they did a poll of Americans, and like 4% of Americans had never heard the name Elon Musk. Wouldn't that be? How great would that be? I get so jealous of that. Yeah. I feel like throughout my entire life, the people who I've always heard, like, oh, I don't pay attention to politics. I don't stoop to that level. Like, I'm above politics are always the people that

eventually slip up and say something to me. Like, well, I think black people should just quit complaining so much that I'm like, oh, so you want to puppet these talking points from racist Fox News, but you don't pay attention to news much. So it does kind of seem like, I think you're paying attention to news, but you know that your views are reprehensible and you just don't want to air them out. You nailed it. That's exactly what I think. Pumps and I go back and forth on this stuff, but we know a person who's super racist and the person thinks she's not racist. But I told Pumps, this person is racist because she edits what she says about black people depending on who she's around. And that editing is an admission. When you edit and you know, I can't say this in front of these people, then that is an admission in your psyche that you know that it is racist.

If the person is just inward everywhere all the time, like, well, I'm not a racist, but these inward hard hours, no matter where they are, you could, I mean, obviously, that's clearly racist. But I think that people, the way they edit what they share and when they share it is an admission. Okay, what's next, Seth? Okay, another five-star review. Holy shitballs. This one's from Marinka. Holy shitballs, what a total delight it's been to find this podcast. It is now my primary coping mechanism for making it through the current reign of the Cheeto.

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complaints about bad bunnies performance in the Super Bowl. And now this impact post, racist wrote the FCC to complain about bad bunny's Super Bowl performance. Okay, the first complaint is we want the maximum fine imposed for the filth that was spewed on national television during family watch time. Is that not great? The filth. The filth.

Well, Kate, I thought the complaint was, you couldn't understand it. So how do you know if it's filthy or not? It was just utter filth because that guy was Puerto Rican. All right, the next one. I watched the Super Bowl halftime show with my grandkids. Now, all they do is run around saying stuff and I don't know what it means. As you can imagine, the horror of a MAGA person having grandchildren that might say something in Spanish. All right.

That's what I'm going to say. Oh, they might be, you know, learning Spanish bilingual. Oh, my gosh. That would be terrible. Okay, another one. Surely somebody at the FCC knows some Spanish and or watched the rap kid from Puerto Rico who referenced gay male sex during the halftime show, which might have some kids watching. Are obscene words and references to homosexual sex just dandy on prime TV? now as long as they are in Spanish and thus aimed at illegal aliens and at legal immigrants fluent

in Spanish. So here's the thing. I watched the bad bunny thing. Same. I don't know that I got any sort of like overtly gay thing from it. And I wouldn't care if I did because I'm not a homophobe. But it's interesting how MAGA people see gay everywhere they look. Yeah. They see gay in Spanish without speaking Spanish. That's how much they see it. Okay, the next one. The obscenity and indecency demonstrated during the Super Bowl halftime show was inexcusable and irresponsible. Children were watching that musical performance and my daughter has taken high school Spanish and I was appalled at the lyrics, not to mention as a Christian family, the blatant homosexuality and quote, family program was inexcusable.

If this had been an English or a white performer, it never would have been allowed. This is blatant racism towards white Christians. Here's the thing. That person is full of rage and there's like 70 million people like that that really believe Christianity is under attack. There's a war on Christmas. You're in doctor, you know, they're kids shitting at school in little. boxes that you're being indoctrinated to be trans. I mean, these people are so mad and so ignorant at the same time. It's just, it's so stunning that grown adults would sit down at a computer

and say this out loud. Take the time to get out their computer and find the FCC, you know, complaint customer service website and say, I mean, they're full of rage and hate. If I have to hear one more time that white Christians are under attack, I don't know what I'll do. My head may explode. To me, this is, I have a different take on this. I think this is just a complete advertisement, how fragile they are and how insecure they are in their religion. If you're that triggered by a Super Bowl performance and it triggers you to question your Christian values, that they feel so threatened by something that you literally have autonomy, you can just click off. You just go, off. You could have gone to the Eric Kirk halftime performance. You had so many options, right, and that they're

that fragile in their fate. To me, this is an indictment on white Christians because they appear to be such pussies. I mean, like you're that insecure in your faith that the bad bunny concert is an affront to your Christianity, but the president of the United States killing 160 Iranian schoolgirls, that doesn't bother you. Elon Musk's best friend who said on Twitter he thought Trump was a pedophile basically said that because he wouldn't release the Epstein files, has canceled all this USAID that's going to lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Jesus is your homeboy, but you're mad at Bad Benny and not these like homicidal freak shows. It's just to me it is a complete indictment on white Christians.

I hope they keep writing that shit because all it proves to the world is that your religion creates a structure for you to be a fragile pussy. All right, the next one is someone just translated Bad Bunny's lyrics on Instagram and it was over the top in decent, disgusting, and not appropriate for family television.

There are enough Spanish-speaking children and people in general in this country for this to have been deemed unacceptable for broadcast TV. The network and the NFL needs to be held accountable. It's just unbelievable. I mean, can you, I just, I cannot imagine in a world, like getting myself so revved up and be so offended.

And then it's in Spanish. I mean, like, this takes me back to when we were talking about the Super Bowl and the Erica Kirk thing. I kind of forgotten about that. It was such a, such a loser. But these people, they're just pathetic. Like, they're too pathetic for me to even so subtle. They're just fragile. They're so soft.

I mean, you're that soft. And the foundation of your religion is that shaky that you, it makes you question your whole existential experience with this faith that you'll die on the hill for. Bad Bunny's performance threatens your Christianity. And that was just so hateful. There's enough Spanish-speaking children in this country. Like they just show their racism. And the fact that they're triggered by somebody speaking Spanish is such an American thing. You know, when you get to Europe, all the countries are so small.

So you can travel from like in a day. You could go from like Italy to Austria to France and you could hear three different languages. Nobody thinks anything of it. They all speak five or six different languages and it's seen as an asset. It's seen as something that is an asset. In civilized America, we're like, oh, that's great. You speak a couple of languages. The person who wrote this doesn't understand that she doesn't speak English because she

think she speaks American. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. You know, these people think they speak American. They're not English. Yeah. They don't even understand at some point they were foreign. All right. The next one, explicit language and nasty, inappropriate twerking. Hope you all know that people do know more than one language for Bad Bunny to get up there a single about women and his penis. and other sexual innuendo in Spanish is absolutely disgusting. NFL should be ashamed of themselves. This is just, here's the thing. This just shows me in real time, not that I had any question about it,

but how this white Christian nationalism and racism are inseparable. You cannot peel them apart because in my mind, they think their religion says we're white, We're better. We're Christians. We're better. Everybody needs to conform with us. I mean, it's just a glaring red sign about how for me just, and I didn't understand this growing up. I didn't understand the connection, but it's like you cannot take away white supremacy and racism from the white Christian nationalist movement. They're they are together. And if you're MAGA, that's who you're for, whether you think you are or not. You see, this has always been like this to me, the way they only want everything to be all white. They only want everything to be the exact same that they're used to.

And this is why when I went to college, I hung out exclusively with game in because I wanted something different. I couldn't stand this. Everybody believes the same way. Everybody has the same opinion. Everybody's the same color. Everybody likes the same shit. it like that white suburban upbringing and lack of culture and diversity in it. Thank God I had a critical thinking mother.

But I couldn't get away from the Bible study gals quick enough. I craved like deeper conversations. And then as an adult, I always just shunned off groups of homogenous people like this because everybody is the exact same fucking person. Rinse and repeat. well I'm a Republican and you know I vote according to my husband's wallet you know he's fiscally conservative I mean I don't mind a gay person here or there but you know we have to vote for our taxes and he's really good with you know our our budget and I submit to my husband you can rent some repeat and go on every fucking block

and it's just the same shit in the Bible Belt and I would be mad too if I saw a bad bunny and I thought are you fucking kidding me my whole life I could have seen cool shit like this So I think that I think they're mad because options are kid rock and I mean that is horrible. I mean that kid rock is what when you've seen these other maga musicians. They're fucking. Lee Greenwood. Awful. I mean, just atrocious. Could you imagine some of those country singers that sing that crazy shit about their trucks and their beers and the flag and, you know, all that crazy shit they sing.

And then you find out like all these people are like, you know, hyper, like sexualized and they're dancing and liberated and speaking a different language and you start to kind of like shake to it. And they don't give a fuck. Like it's just total free expression. So I kind of understand this outrage because I think it's jealousy. Yeah. But I also think they, I mean, just having grown up in it, just your values should be imposed on everybody else. And if you think it, everybody else should think it. And it's like a narcissism entitlement, like to a clinical degree.

Here's the thing, though. Here's the thing. These people are so fucking stupid. They're watching football, which is dominated by African American people. Do you know what I mean? It's just like, but it's the dissonance. There's so much dissidents. You know that.

I mean, you just. But here's the thing. They know. They know if they were. were to meet, if these people that are this racist, emailing the FCC, if they were to meet the football players that they love the most that were playing in the football, they're probably saying racist shit. If it would have been a rapper when it was Kendrick Lamar, the same fucking meltdown happened, you know, about Kendrick Lamar because he's black. They will not say that

racist shit to their favorite basketball players and to their favorite football players because they fucking know they're racist. And I just, I want, I think that white people, that engage in all of this should be reduced to watching all white sports. And I think that brings us to croquet. If there's a black croquet player, I think, but I do not think these people should be allowed to watch sports. I don't. Well, and the thing is, is if you look across the Bible Belt, the number one sport is football. And I listen to a podcaster that talks about all these, you know, excellence of black athletes in the Southeastern Conference, which is the Bible Belt, the racism still exists. Don't go, don't go to those schools to play. Can you imagine the meltdown

that would happen in these, like, let's say Alabama. It's what it's going to take. It's what it's going to take. It's going to take a lot of guests because we have continued to allow this racism to exist. We've allowed people in the South to put up statues of slave owners that were rapists and oppressors. And then when people want to tear those statues down, they have a stage five meltdown. And it's going to take a boycott of the African American community, but they're going to have to have white allies to really make a difference in this. And and white allies need to call out the fucking racist in their lives. I mean, it's just, it is inexcusable, inexcusable for people that live and enjoy a multicultural,

multi-faith society, which is the coolest thing about the United States of America. It's inexcusable to use entertainment from minority groups to entertain you and then also be a racist at the same time. and I think those fuckers need to be called out. Which brings me to our next story, following the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, we are witnessing the mass disenfranchising of black Americans across the country, and it should outrage every American with a conscience. David Gate wrote a powerful substack piece about how we got here and how this country has still not reckoned with our history of racism.

Using what is happening in Tennessee as an example, let's pop this up. As you can see here, it says Confederates weren't punished enough and now we're here. And I agree with this. The Confederates weren't punished enough. And the through line from that where we are right now is MAGA wasn't punished enough for that insurrection. And here we are because we constantly let privileged white people terrorize, terrorize this earth and terrorize minority groups. and terrorize anything they can get their hands on. And then we allow them to play victim.

All right, go to the next slide. Men who had literally taken up arms against the United States government in order to preserve slavery were reabsorbed into political life so gently that within a decade they were writing textbooks about themselves as tragic heroes. And the next slide? And because the United States possesses the unique ability to, to transform catastrophic moral failure into sentimental folklore, the Confederacy was not remembered as a treasonous oligarchy built on industrialized torture, but as a sort of misunderstood

regional identity. Wow. Pulaski, the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, is now in the same congressional district as Memphis. This is a historical obscenity. a city synonymous with black political power and cultural brilliance forcibly tethered to the cradle of America's most symbolic white supremacist terror movement. And this here, this photograph is just a few days ago. And this is state representative, Justin Pearson.

And he is fighting for his constituents. and he's being blocked from entering a committee room by the sergeant in arms as Republicans vote to eliminate the state's only black majority district. Any decent person that sees this, that knows about this, that goes along with this, that triple Trumps is not getting the ass of anybody they know that's white that allows this shit, that is the worst part of fucking. racism, the people that allow it to happen. This guy bravely is standing up to that fucking white KKK piece of shit fighting for his rights to vote. After so many people fucking died fighting for that right, groups of people that were raped, never paid reparations. Black people built this country. Fucking built it. It's their labor. And white people enjoy the generational wealth of their work. And I mean, this is, it's so epidemic in the Bible Belt, the racism. It is just

utterly disgusting to me. It disgust me to my core that people are okay and justify going to vote for a racist, fascist, piece of shit like Trump because they think they're getting a fucking tax break. It's such a moral failure. It's so disgusting to me. I agree. And also I think Tennessee Tennessee took all of their black representatives off committees in their state Congress. Tennessee Republicans immediately called a special session and passed a new map carving Memphis's majority black congressional district into three separate Republican-leaning districts. Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi are all following Tennessee's lead after being explicitly ordered by Trump, threatening the largest drop in black congressional representation.

since reconstruction. It's so sad how far backward we're going. But I do agree because we've just kind of swept it under the rug and we've played nice and we haven't like made strong callouts on a social level, government level, the whole line. It's just gotten worse and worse. And now the younger generation, I was just reading an article before we started this podcast. Hating women and minorities is the new, young Republican Party.

Not that I'm telling you anything you don't know, but it's just, it is everywhere. I mean, we're, wait, wait, wait, I want to make sure we don't get misinformation and disinformation out there. All of the polling that I have seen shows that there is N Gen Z. Republican Party only has 18% support. This is a myth that the younger generation is the most conservative there is. is that is a myth that is perpetrated by the right-wing media propaganda machine. 18% of young voters identify as Republican. The youth is rejecting this because the youth is a lot less racist

because we've had a lot more integration of races. They are not as homophobic. And this is something Republicans want you to believe when every poll shows there is a massive, massive drop-off from 8. to I believe it's 29. Only 18% are conservative. So that is a myth that is getting... 18% is white supremacist, I mean,

like it's been the Republican Party forever. Huh? That's always the Republican Party. Okay. I've had it. I have had it with people pretending America was founded as a religious nation. We fought a war to get rid of a king

claiming divine authority, then wrote a constitution with no mention of God, none. That was the point. And now we've got things like this, America praise event that was held last week on May 17th, where suddenly government is getting really comfortable mixing with religion again. No, that is just simply not how this works. The Freedom from Religion Foundation is out there fighting back, protecting the First Amendment because it protects you.

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Yeah. I know the black community. is just obviously knows exactly what's happening. But I don't think the white allies are building enough momentum to stand with them. And this is just unacceptable. Kylie, put that photo back up. That right there, that's the shit. So many people marched.

So many civil rights leaders marched to fight for equality. And I have to tell those of you that are listening on the coast or internationally, when people would say, oh, racism is over. I knew it wasn't. I knew it wasn't, because I knew that these little kids that went to these little white Christian schools with their little racist parents, I knew the N-word was acceptable. I knew nobody called anybody out. I knew nobody said, I'm sorry, you're a racist, and that's not okay with me. That there's a permission structure socially that is just given and allowed people to operate like this. And then they feel like they are targeted and their culture is targeted when you say, you know, I support

Colin Kaepernick that he took the need because his community is getting over-policed or I support Black Lives Matter. They think that somehow their whiteness is getting targeted. And I have to tell you, you guys from my on the ground observations in the Bible Belt, this shit is worse than you think in these white Christian cultures. It is the mega church white Christian private Christian private school shit. It is it. They are raising these kids to be little KKK haters. I call them hate academies. That's what I call all the little Christian schools in Oklahoma, little hate academies. Because homophobia and racism are on the curriculum. And misogyny. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. It's, it is an epidemic that has been highlighted. And I think it's kind of been in polite society where you just didn't talk about it. And now people are, I mean, they're like the Pete Hegseth stuff and his pastor and all of those things. Who was the guy? I can't webbing that's like, get out of our country. Even if you were born here. I mean, it is to me, it's louder than it has been my whole life. I'm not saying it's worse.

It's just louder. I just, I don't think we can impress on people enough that this notion where people say racism is over in America, it is not. It is alive and well and it has been. I remember a friend, an acquaintance who called Air Force One when Obama was president, Afro One, and I kicked her out of my house. I was like, get the fuck out of my house. And that was, you know, years ago. So it's just, I think that maybe they feel a little bit more emboldened. but a black person would tell you it's all the same shit.

It's always been there. It hasn't felt any different to them. But it's just, I really hope that we all remember that photograph and the pain that the black community is going through right now. There seems to be a tendency to poo-poo anti-black racism and everybody can fixate on anti-Semitism. And the situation is all of these things are linked. anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-black racism, transphobia, homophobia, homophobia, they're all linked. And you can't prioritize, well, this is the only bigotry we're working, you know, we care about. Fact of the matter, black people always get the shaft on everything, even in prioritizing anti-black

racism. Yeah. And, you know, it gets poo-poed. And I just think it's bullshit. And I think it's one of the main reasons that has led to so much fascism is that we've never reconciled that part of our past. No, I agree with you. You cannot divide it up.

All right. I think that's all we have. Seth, do you have anything to add? You grew up in rural America. Yeah. You grew up around some racist inward throwing kids. Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah. There was a rumor started in my school that I was secretly a Jew. so I kind of got I kind of got my own in a weird way the whitest person on planet earth somehow got thrown under the bus by these fuckers but is that because you weren't like

Republican racist were they trying to otherize you that and I think people just didn't like the way that I dressed I think like I didn't I just was more I wasn't the ideal like masculine redneck dude so I just kind of got some shit but it wasn't anything compared to

people who actually had to face that stuff but one of the things that you all mentioned was this kind of this feeling of jealousy you mentioned that they feel sort of a jealousy

and it reminds me of growing up Christian with secular music and things to that. I would get so jealous because secular music was so good. And we would just have to fight for the stuff that was sort of close to secular music and be like, it's really good too.

But I think this is the MAGA interpretation of that is yeah, coming out swinging and being like, well, this offends me because I tapped my foot. And that must mean that they're shit. They're putting the demon in this music to get me to dance around to this Hispanic man. This utter filth and twerking. I love it.

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