Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 358: Skynet October Surprise

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

Covering a vast spectrum of items this week: AI in NaNoWriMo (blech), Israel's contributions to humanity, Kamala's new economic platform, and Iran's supposed disinformation campaign against Trump Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Are you guys devastated by the news that NaNoWriMo is accepting AI? That gives me yet another reason to not do that shit. NaNoWriMo? You're not a fan of NaNoWriMo? I guess I've never been a fan because as a a writer as a fiction writer as one who's always one to write a novel I don't know. It just kind of is wrapped up in ideas of productivity Okay, I am sitting on my ass a lot of the time so and I should be writing but you know Like this push to productivity that uh that is like is this even good like I mean if I sat and wrote it those thousand

Words a day that like that, you know, I mean, I feel like I do that when I tweet actually so well, it's Okay, first of all the phrase nano. Rhymo is one of the worst most satanic things I've ever heard I won't be honest with that. Look it up real quick. So I didn't sound stupid It's the national what's the deal? National November writing national novel writing month or some shit. What what is yeah? like you supposed to write it now like I think the idea is that like you're supposed to push yourself to write a Novel in a month. I think it started out as like a Facebook page meme

Probably like that. I fucking love science page that became like a big deal and now it's like its own institution with like a You know, they have like their own 501 c3 and um oh shit so you're not supposed to fap you're not supposed to shave and you're supposed to write a novel in November exactly and that's supposed to drink but now they're saying you can submit AI like they're saying they're not turning away AI written novels so if you can you know feed in the correct inputs into a chat GPT and it spits out a novel you can submit that for NaNoWriMo. How like where is AI in terms of that kind of stuff versus like, I've seen the art it produces and I gotta say, not great.

But what is the written word relationship to AI right now? It's even worse, I'd say. Yeah, I mean, not only is it like, these AI systems for journalism, which is bad enough, right? But it's like fiction too, I think there's another one called, like another AI writing program for fiction

called pseudo something like that. But like that's kind of what I'm saying is like, it's like about productivity, you know, it's not about like, and content, you know what I mean? It's just about like how fast can you crank this thing out instead of being like, cause I mean, you know, not anyone? Right? It's just about like how fast can you crank this thing out instead of being like cuz I mean You know anyone could not anyone but if I sat right it like I said wrote a thousand words a day It wouldn't be good. But I mean, I guess it would be mine at least, you know

This is even worse because Terrence did you see in their defense of it? They said that it's actually ableist and classes to prevent people from using AI right? than classes to prevent people from using AI, right? Dude, I hope, I really hope I don't die during NaNoWriMo. It's like, dearly beloved, we're gathered here today. Did they say that at the beginning of weddings? I thought, did they also say that at the beginning of funerals, or is that just weddings? Did they just say dearly beloved?

I think it's like salutations, like a general greeting. Okay, dearly beloved. We're gathered here today to celebrate the life of Terrence ray. It's nano Rymoh and Hopefully you've all got your novels Here's the Here's the eulogy also written with a We actually it to eulogize this one man who's passed away, we've actually cut down an entire forest, which cooked the planet, which at least a tribute to like at least maybe you know, anywhere from 100,000 to a billion deaths.

This is the mindset that's ruining our letters and arguably the Dallas Cowboys. It's just the push to you know, I mean I'm not breaking any new ground saying this but it's just the push to generate like drive content and thus profits, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's a slot machine man. Rather than art for art's sake. You know how like in World War one they like put a pause on fighting to celebrate Christmas? I think Ukraine and Russia should put a pause on the war to celebrate NaNoWriMo I'm just gonna keep saying that because it is single-handedly the worst

Combination of words I have ever heard I can just imagine the kind of person who loves to say that gleefully. They're probably for some reason in my mind They're wearing a bow tie. I don't know why but it's somebody who just annoys the shit out of me He would have put you in the face. So Samantha Power probably does NaNoWriMo That's how she wrote that's how they all write their new books man all these all these These are apparatus of Empire, you know I heard somebody referred to the Lexington neighborhood of North limestone is Noly

Uh-huh, and I was like Noly What's that? No, it's always like North limestone. It's like and in my mind I'm like well one I hate that anyway But to does it require that much more effort just to say North limestone All right, like like in New York you have not just SoHo or NoHo, north and south of Houston Street, but I guess you have Tribeca, which is triangle below Canal Street. Which I didn't even-

That makes some sense though. Yeah, that makes some sense. Yeah, that does. Yeah, and those are, I feel like those are like, those have lasted long enough as like abbreviations, nicknames where it's, where you don't even know what it actually means, you know? If you're not from there. I like the labor-based, you know, neighborhood nicknames where it's fine where you don't even know what it actually means, you know if you're not from there I like the labor-based

You know neighborhood nicknames like the meatpacking district like you just you just call it what used to go on there totally That's kind of fun. I'm into that. I mean a lesson was like something like I mean The no fapping neighborhood or Or like slavery gardens and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Within reason. Actually, Lexington has several of those places. I remember I was trying to work on a short story. I wanted it to be about a black suburb because I live in one.

And I was just kind of Googling names of suburbs and I was like like do I want to be on the nose and call it like plantation something like there's no way that there are places that exist that have a tradition in the name because they were plantations and yes they are. They do. I'll tell you the darkest the darkest is like so there's been this fight to rename this area called Cheapside for years because Cheapside named so because it's where you bought it was a discount slave market Jesus and then they had upper street, which is where you got I guess like the premium, you know, it's like the dollar slave spot versus like The Trader Joe's slave spot, I guess and the weird part is is like I kind of had a prim like before I even knew that

I kind of had a premonition and had something to do with that and it was confirmed by local story So man, um It's bad enough that I'm being forced to accept AI against my will like I don't have any desire AI against my will like I don't have any desire to Engage with it or wanted around me at all. It's bad enough, but it's even worse that like you're now being Skulded for not wanting it on the basis that you are classist ableist

Whatever. Yeah, like dude It's it's really it adds insult to injury that like, you can't just reject something out of pocket. You also have to be a bad person for rejecting it. Right. And you know what else too is that you're always gonna have, I don't know who there is in like, you know, the, I don't even call it the black community. These are like, these are like, you know, like people involved in industry and kind of people

that are like, that are pushing this like this bullshit, you know what I mean? But I'm sure that if you don't already have like, you always need avatars and representatives of marginalized communities, right? To prove and to say that actually, you know, these technologies are more liberating, right? Or they give opportunities, you know what I mean? Whether it's crypto, or whether's just I mean, you know AI right? They are art quote This shit always happens with people like like if you work in an industry and you're just like listen, this is fucked Just like anybody else. I'm here to get a payday. Whatever. Whatever Like I understand that to it like to a point like, you know

I don't think you should work for Raytheon under any circumstances, but like, you know, if you're working, you know, some place that uses partially hydrogenated oils that cause cancer, like, okay, that's just the cost of doing business in America or whatever, you know what I mean? Like me and Terrence used to work for a biological consulting firm, Ketchum Bats, and I remember this, like, woman that worked for this company, Williams,

which was like, there was a plastics company and like us having to sit in on a lecture that she gave about why plastics are actually good. You know what I mean? Like everybody's against plastics, but like if they considered that without plastics, you wouldn't have this, this, this, and this. And then I juxtaposed that with the news that we all have microplastics taking up real estate in our balls. And I think about like, yeah, I'm glad that plastics are used to make artificial hips, but what about the fact that I'm like,

fucking nuttin' a fucking American Express black card you know, every time, yeah. Right, right, right. And also too, it's just like, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but I've been seeing this, I don't know if this is related, but this push just like, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but I've been seeing this, I don't know if this is related, but this push towards extractive resources within America. You know what I mean?

And one of the arguments, I saw this ad a lot. I don't know what organization it is or what lobbying group it is, whatever, but I saw this ad often during, well, I heard it. I didn't watch the DNC, but in the next room while my mom is watching, I'm listening to the shit. And a lot of what they talk about is like kind of like like self-reliance, you know, not just for Americans but for communities underrepresented under-deserved communities, you know, so it's just like somebody just kind of some you know, just

Using this the language of social justice, right? Essentially, right to uh, yeah to turn a buck man I like that if taking that and a step further and just the straight communities the underserved community The underserving Damn the straights are underserved not doing enough serving. I'm not doing enough serving man Yeah, the AI thing Maybe that'll be a kind of like good grounding for some of the stuff I wanted to talk about today first on my list of things I wanted to talk about today was this hilarious tweet

I saw going around Israel has given the world the flash drive cherry tomatoes drip irrigation Waze pill cam water gin or cam solar edge soda stream rewalk bright way curametric sight savers onco One Teva wicks fiber mobile eye firewall seven of those things sound like bands seven of those things sound like bands, bro What the fuck is solar edge? What is that? I can say confidently just this is just my own consumption I am BDS approved. I don't need any of those things cherry tomatoes. I'm good with regular to be good Yeah, I can go elsewhere, you know and I forgive me for thinking that Israel fucking didn't

You know innovate the concept of the Tommy-toe. The fuck outta here. Also, you said the Matrix? No, Hillbillies were doing that in the 1600s. It, did you say the Matrix, Terrence? Cure Metrix. I don't know what the fuck that is. Oh, okay, nobody knows what that is.

None of these things are real. None of, no, Onco- Onco- Onco-One? What is Onco-One? What is that, a missile, a type of missile or some shit like that? A nuclear warhead? What is this? Listen, have we killed millions of people? Sure. Okay? But, uh,

you know, consider what we have given the world. The WayZap. Genuinely, the only good thing Israel has given the world, and I mean literally the only good thing, is historians writing about how bad Israel

Like Elon, Papé and like, you know, Gershwin, Shapiro and stuff like that. That's it That's their only contribution to the world is good critique on how bad they are God dude, so what what precipitated this is this is this because I mean, I mean, I know why it's just it's just Now that we're coming up on a year, right? On of October 7th, you know, and it's just this genocide just seeing like, you know the way that Israelis in order to present themselves as anything other than genocidal psychopaths, you know? Yeah.

It's like, well, look what we've done. Look what Israeli culture has produced. And a lot of it will be food, and Arabs or Palestinians in the comments would be like, you stole that from us. On that note, please, someone sent me this. I wanna give credit where it's due. Someone sent me this article. I'm glad where it's due someone sent me this article

I'm glad I didn't close my DMS because this was this was a good one Someone sent me this article from NPR. This is Titus Gene 69. Thank you Titus Gene 69 Send me this article from NPR Israeli boy who broke an ancient jar learns how to how the museum is piecing it back together This is from Haifa Israel as her four-year-old son perused the Israeli Museum's ancient artifacts and a Geller looked away for just a moment Then a crash sounded a rare 3,500 year old jar was broken on the ground and her son stood over it a guest

It was just a distraction of a second said Geller in the next thing I know it's a very big boom behind me The Bronze Age jar that her son Ariel Geller broke last week has been on display at the Hect Museum in Haifa for 35 years She was one of the only containers of its size and from that period still complete when it was discovered It was likely used to hold wine or oil dates back to between 2200 and 1500 BC What could be considered every parents worst nightmare became a learning experience Friday as the Geller family returned to the museum Ariel gifted the museum a clay vase of his own and was met with forgiving staff and curators. All right, we don't want that shit and was met with forgiving staff and curators. Alright kid, we don't want that shit.

We don't want your fucking Play-Doh face, man. That's all lumpy and shit. So it goes on to say, the curator wanted to use the restoration as an educational opportunity and to make sure the Gellers felt welcome to return. It goes, the article, this is in, like I said, NPR, the article goes out of its way to explain like this is in a community that's like being under threat from Hezbollah missiles the whole point of this article the only reason it exists is

Basically to just show that like look they can maintain humanity and kindness even under Also, too I just would it would be really funny if that vase actually had origins in like, you know, like Palestine as it was, you know what I'm saying? So it wasn't even stuff that like, it wasn't even stuff that like, you know, to me that you could like, well, I guess that region, the history of that region is like, it's, it's not as black and white and cut and dry, right? But I mean, it just also just reminds me of just like, you know, destroying museums and

universities in Palestine, you know, in Gaza, right? Right. You know, that holds so much cultural history, you know what I mean? And just kind of like, just, you know, it's not like anybody was here to begin with, you know. Well, that's a thing, like it's interesting, we touched on this on the Patreon episode this past week.

We were talking about how like, the whole concept of a two-state solution as like the baseline for like what a liberal believes and how bizarre that is because like Even at like the height of like liberals ascendance in the 20th century they still believed in like integration in America of You know various races and how like in the case of Israel that's become like segregation is the is the like, you know baseline liberal stance on this and Like it's interesting though that it really gets it like it really gets it that the fact that this is a colonial

Thing like at heart like this is a colonial issue because like the issue here is literally land That is why there is this whole thing like a segregated two-state solution like it's It I don't know just kind of like gets at the whole Reality of the situation that like there was an indigenous population there And that's why they can't have an integrated one state. You know what I'm saying? Like that's why like well We're even seeing it right now. Just I mean we talked about on the patreon But just um the West Bank right the invasion of the West Bank, you know, you know I mean like this this this expansionist, you know

Mentality this project that we continue to fund, you know Yeah, I want I wonder what would have what they would have done if a Palestinian kid would have broke that face Oh, I know. It's exactly what I was thinking while I was reading it as well Probably wouldn't even been allowed in the museum in the first place, but even if you know, yeah or if like a Wayward missile or something from Hezbollah like hit this museum like we would be hearing about how like they're just like the Nazis They destroy ancient artifacts. This is worse than the burning of the library at Alexandria.

But like, we can humanize it because it's like a kid and you know what I mean? Like, oh, he was just being clumsy and like, you know, we're all nice here. Just have to break up the obvious point that this kindness towards children when you are currently Maskering children is just a level of just unreality and just audacity that is I don't know is beyond me there's a currently a polio outbreak in Gaza and There was a brief cessation of You know fire a brief ceasefire so that they could like vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip, which that's a whole other issue like I

mean Yeah, I don't know but like I saw a story on The New York Times this morning that Israel bombed a marketplace where a bunch of people had sheltered during this vaccine drive so I mean like if this is um, I don't know Just like the routine brutality and inhumanity of it is Just say those the two podcast fuckers that was going around those guys have like 200 listens They were doing like ASMR for genocide they were like I Would if I could press the button and kill five million people

I would do it. It's like it's still Press the button it's like it's so sick it is weird like you know how like the Nazis use specific like forms of media to like Basically try to like naturalize what the things that they were doing like linear reef install and stuff It's like it's even if it's even more bizarre now because it's like yeah, you have podcas're doing like linear reef install and stuff. It's like it's even It's even more bizarre now because it's like yeah, you have podcasters doing like the ASMR thing for genocide Yeah, I mean and also just you know the the amount of tick tocks right that we've seen you know Like usually where I want you know

If you watch it want to watch a tick tock video something about a cat a funny pet like I don't know someone going around Asking people silly questions and getting their Genuine responses not mocking genocide, right? Yeah, I mean it is good though that at least NATO once peace did you did y'all see that they they had the brat meme Oh now does it instead of brat it said peace? had the brat meme. Oh now does it. Instead of brat it said peace.

Yo that's the brat meme with the lime green like black text on it. I don't even know where that came from man. I felt like I woke up one day and I just started seeing it around and it felt like people were getting like the zombie fungus from Last of Us or some shit you know. And I was just standing unscathed.

I don't get it. It's interesting. It's kind of interesting. Have you all noticed how like the Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris campaign doesn't use the coconut thing anymore? Right? I don't even know if they ever did,

but like nobody says coconut-pilled anymore. Like nobody says you just fell out of a coconut tree. I've seen people try to say that it's a racial term. It means like, all right, how can I put it? My mom says, people will say Oreo, but my mom says roast breadfruit, dark on the outside, white on the inside, if people know what a breadfruit is. So it means people were trying to say that,

okay, this is actually a racial term for a member of the black community who's a sellout basically, you know. So I don't know if they caught wind of that and stopped doing it or if it was because they didn't want what was just seemed like a kind of, not even a gaffe, she was just kind of being silly. If they didn't want it turned against them, you know?

So I don't know, in both respects, I guess. I don't know if she was being silly as much as I think she was, you know, right? I don't know in both in both respects I guess I don't know if she was being silly as much as I think she was you know, zooted on Benzodasm Okay, that's a that's a form of silliness. Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry Maybe peak silliness And it's just been a weird week the Stock market is like crashing globally due to various like tech stocks You got NATO doing brat piece memes

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its formation, do you think that they were like, one day we're gonna be so bad? I mean, this is just, this is like, was it Anthony Blinken singing that song? What song is it, man? Oh, it was like, Smoke on the Water or some shit? Or was it like an old blues song or something?

I forget, but it's just, I need to start, I need to have a folder called Adam Curtis folder, where I just like, drop things into, because just NATO doing the brat thing is just like some end of history shit. Like in 30 years, if we're still here, they're gonna be like, yeah, this is what was happening during the genocide. Oh my God.

Yeah, it's that Anthony Blinken played smoke on the water all right, maybe he's like hoochie coochie man or something I Think it was like something like that. I'm pretty sure he was like a Delta blue song I feel a smoke my water be fans. It's like the easiest song to play like so one thing that everybody can play on Finally something to match his skill level Finally something to match his skill level Yeah dude he's fucking shredding he like had it behind his head and he was like noodling like fucking playing it with his teeth and yeah dude he was doing the

Hendrix thing he like lit it on fire and he was like trying to like summon the fire out of it just knows two chords but he's like really amped up to showmanship yeah that would be way more respectable Just knows two chords, but he's like really amped up to showmanship Yeah, that would be way more respectable than just like his mid-tier level of just like knowing a few riffs and like solos Man There was also a shooting this week at a school in is it in Georgia? Yeah in Georgia. Yeah, and um

God, I forget I forget Broward County I forget where was actually the shooter was in North Georgia Once again known to law enforcement for up to a year before the shooting Yeah, I Don't know man. It's it's on the topic of Kamala Harris She finally unveiled her economic Plan this week like her economic policy or platform. I want to know I just want to know alright You know I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be an asshole

But for people who consider themselves wonks or anything like who's waiting for Kamala Harris to release an economic who consider themselves wonks or anything, like who's waiting for Kamala Harris to release an economic plan? I'm just saying, yo. Like are people all like, are they waiting with bated breath? Because I remember people keep saying, she hasn't released any policy platforms yet.

She has, and like, okay, not that it doesn't matter, but what do you expect her to say? Right, that was the whole thing, like the whole time. It's like, yeah, she doesn't have anything on her website about her policies, and it's like, what? I mean, does it really? Has it ever met yeah the site people like she hasn't even given an interview yet. She hasn't even given an interview yet

Well, she did and she slurred her speech She kind of is who we thought she was I Mean at this point the DNC is just give me before that but it's just told me everything I need to know so you know I was not waiting with bated breath What's that you were not with everyone was not waiting with bated breath because the DNC, you know It did everything it needed to do, you know And then perhaps the darkest one is the people waiting for her to condemn genocide. Well, right, but you'll be waiting You'll be waiting a while. Let me tell you she she did an interview with

Along with Tim waltz on like CNN or something And there was some article in Politico that I read a few days ago I kind of like remember it sort of like I must have read it in a dream Because it was so it was like this is what Kamala Harris is doing It's like an age-old sitcom trope of like it's like a buddy comedy it was basically trying to make the case that like her and Tim waltz are like geniuses because they've like created this like like a Like lethal weapon like Danny Glover Mel Gibson. Yeah

It's like it's like the uncool white character in the cool black character like a fine common ground. Yes, you know, yeah It's exactly what they were trying to say well in the article I actually I should have just pulled it up for the show But like it listed like several different like sitcom tropes that like they were like This is the ninth dimensional chess Kamala Harris is playing she's doing she's doing sitcom level genius campaigning So so what was so for Obama invited was that in the reverse then? Like yes, that was the inverse of it. Yeah first of it. I guess yeah

Well, yeah that ticket was almost too slick right cuz like Biden was You know, I guess noted for his charisma or whatever which diminishing returns these days, but Yeah Yeah Yeah, that was like more like Miami vice I guess yeah, if you want to use a curse if you would use the curse Yeah, I'm trying to pull this up But he's a curse for that. Do you like that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to pull this up. Okay, this is one trope that they used. The blended found family. It may have started with the Brady Bunch. There's Full House. Dude, this is insane. Just like, they're like trying to take these TV shows

and like basically like reverse engineer Like why this campaign is so resonant with us, and it's not even really resonant like it's not I mean I I guess what I'm saying is like Democrats should really be embarrassed that the polls aren't more of a blowout right now the fact That this is still a race is insane He's giving up right now the fact that this is still a race is insane Yeah, I wasn't even trying He's giving up right now to completely the guys selling trading cards on TV info Marshall's during a presidential campaign Did you see that they're not even like they completely pulled out of like six or seven seven different like media markets?

Like they're not spending at all on like TV spots, radio spots, billboards. So they're not gonna be like Cartoon Network anymore or some shit? Dude, if Trump lays down and he still wins, I mean we, the Democrats may yet still be dead, okay? Like, if the theory holds that like, if they're up by 15, they're really up by 2 in the polls, you know what I mean? Then Trump could be mail on this end and still be very much in this race. I mean, especially after like, I don't know, I guess the DNC did all the things they went

into aesthetically, you know? And you still don't come out on top. Yeah, I don't know. I wonder, like, I don't know, do you think there's gonna be some October surprise, like they kill JD Vance or something, you know, and then like put in like, I don't know, Scott Stafford Creed as the VP and then they just sure you're something. Yeah, put an hog in there. I'm just gonna say. Yeah. Terrence, what is her... I mean, I am curious now. What is her economic platform?

I mean, strengthening the middle class, I guess. That's what she keeps saying. Well, there was an article in the New York Times at the end of last week and it said, Donors Quiet Harris to drop tax on ultra wealthy. And the whole article was that she's getting a lot of pressure from donors in Wall Street and Silicon Valley to drop some of Biden's more aggressive stances.

Biden really will go down as like an Andrew Johnson type character. Like truly like a guy who really did have a kind of more sort of like populist economic policy, but just was like racist till the very end. Just like, it's really wild, right? Like it's, because I don't know. I know people say that he's because, you know, I don't know. I know people say that he's like, you know, the best president on labor and all

this stuff. And I don't, I guess it just goes to show you how low the bar really is, but, um, they were trying to push Harris to drop a lot of his stances on taxing the rich and, um, supporting unions and all this. And at the time that article was written that was last week The Biden the the Kamala Harris campaign was still saying No We still stand with Joe like we're still standing with Joe stances. Well, they are no longer standing with just This is we can't do it anymore Joe no from behind a bulletproof glass in

New Hampshire she unveiled her economic platform Harris tells right away to start quite a way to start and start and start a article about a Presidential candidate I that was my own editorial just because the photo on it No, the photo of it is just her standing behind a bulletproof glass, which is like It's kind of like why have we never done that before you know what I mean like right? Why are we just now getting around to the bull? Why don't we just actually put them within a force field actually? We had assassinated or attempted assassination. It seems like they would put that in a while

Harris this is the headline. Harris tells the business community, I'm friendlier than Biden. The vice president who campaigned on Wednesday in New Hampshire has pitched new tax plans that represent a break from President Biden and that are meant to reassure business owners. So I'll just read here.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday stepped up her efforts to win over the business community, rolling out her plan for an expanded tax break for startups and announcing that she would tax investment income less aggressively than President Biden had proposed. The new tax positions represent the most policy distance she has put between herself and Mr. Biden. Biden had proposed taxing capital gains at 39.6%

for Americans who make more than a million dollars a year. Ms. Harris said on Wednesday that she would tax investment income for those Americans at a rate of 28%, a reversal from her earlier support for the tax increases. If you earn a million dollars or more, the tax rate on your long-term capital gains will be 28% under my plan.

Because we know when the government encourages investment investment it leads to broad-based economic growth and it creates jobs Which makes our economy stronger. You should trust nobody that talks like that because economic growth Who are you talking to like she's specifically talking to these people, you know, you know, I mean, I mean, I don't know man They well, this is good. The reason why That's actually a good point the reason why she was speaking in New Hampshire Which has the highest percentage of small business owners in the country actually and also at one dipshit we profiled last week. Oh carp Carp. Yeah carp lives out. So she's probably like yeah signaling to carp that guy by the way was back in the news this week because he said we need to

suspend the First Amendment to squash protests campus protests against Israel So you need to put a we need to put a memorial or whatever on the on the First Amendment So we get jackbooted thugs out there to beat the shit out of her nano. Rhymo. We're gonna postpone the First Amendment Okay, yeah for now right whatever you would whatever whatever fantasies you have you can write whatever you would just don't publish For nano Rhymo, we're suspending the costo For nano Rhymo you can actually submit your manifesto

You can actually submit your manifesto Manifesto that's mine. Y'all motherfuckers got nano. It really is. I love that like, you know, when it comes down to cracking down the sin on campuses, like the thing that, you know, all these people pretend to hold sacred is just like, yeah, we need to just kind of put a lid on that for a second until we get this under control. Yeah. That guy is so loathsome, by the way. Like I know, yeah, we, I think we talked about him on the Patreon two weeks ago, but like the more I see him and the more, he looks exactly like Taika Waititi by the way. They are identical.

But he is so loathsome, man. One of the worst and You know one of these like pro Harris. He's a big Harris supporter And like I don't know it's been kind of like buried in the media but like for a few months or like a few weeks ago Harris was saying that like they were trying to repair the Democratic Party's relationship with Silicon Valley and like with crypto people that they thought had been like they thought those relationships had been, you know, aggravated

during the Biden years. You know, you know what that just reminds me of just like an encapsulation of vision of I don't know. It's not you know, it's just symbolic Biden staring at that quantum computer with his mind just blowed. You know, I mean, like not even understanding what it is, you know? And now Kamala like is the younger,

the younger candidate, like truly. And also just as one who again seems even more, I mean, given this article friendlier to business, yeah, you know, it's a reversal. Kamala is hugging the quantum computer, you know? She's hugging it, yeah. She's embracing it, yeah. In addition to her policy shift,

Ms. Harris tiptoed away from the language Mr. Biden had used during his re-election campaign, arguing that she was running not only to block former President Trump from returning to office, but to usher in an agenda that would excite her voters. When we say fight, it is a fight for something, not against something. That's what we're talking about when we talk about a new way forward. This is for something. Miss Harris spoke to a crowd of about 3,000 people from behind bulletproof glass at an outdoor rally at a brewery in New Hampshire's seacoast region. The okay, this is the part that made me laugh. The banner hanging over the stage read, Opportunity Economy, a phrase the vice president has used to describe her vision

for policies intended to support the middle class. Rolls off the tongue, opportunity economy. I can barely even see it. It's like practical idealism from the West Wing, right? Also, I wanna say, it's like in Jurassic Park where that character says clever girl about the Raptor that uses the door handle. It's like, the criticism of Dems has always been that

they're just about, it's about voting against something. You know what I mean? Like the way they, we've talked about on the show, the way they fear Manga, right? The way they sort of center your fears of the Republicans. You have no other option. Now I guess like they're realizing like, no, actually we have to make people want to vote

for something, not just against Donald Trump they're learning Opportunity economy it also it's like very much. It's very reminiscent of like all of the like just transition like NGO complex shit opportunity economy it's it's it's not even inspiring really I mean is it that way is that nobody got opportunity in this economy regardless of who is you know what I'm saying regardless of who's fucking president dog this is the latest way that they're putting lipstick on the pig that is their

American economy could just best be described as a vapor economy. Mm-hmm. It's really the only reason we like We do what we do because it's immaterial. That's all you have an American It's all you can do, you know Also the whole point. I mean first of all it it is really literally just trickle down By a different name right it's like we're everything. We're just gonna like soak the rich Just like let them not pay any taxes, and it'll like expand outwards to everybody else will trickle that they're no They're no longer using trickle down because that would indicate a direction that like somebody has power over you. Now everything is like rhizomatic, man. It's horizontal.

It's horizontal. It's like it's going to expand outward. Like the economy is just this expansive, vast landscape, you know, just actually just strung with bones actually. Like a desert landscape. When you spray something in a room and air particles spread across the... It's like, it's like Turbinator, I think it was a Turbinator 1 or 2, where it's just like a landscape of just humid boats.

That's the, that's the economy. That's the opportunity economy, you know. Before the cyborg crushes it. Listen, and what better opportunity than when you hit rock bottom, you know? Exactly. That's what really breeds innovation. That's what we're gonna be doing in like eight years We're just gonna be living in this bombed out fucking wasteland and then they're just gonna say folks listen The only way is that no there's no way to go but up. You know they're gonna be throwing soy link green to you off the back of a truck

They're gonna be throwing soy link green to you off the back of a truck Get my soy link green rations today so I can go fucking Push fucking bones around on top of this mountain working at a bizarre company one two three four is some shit, you know Alright, it's our company town here Yeah, my plan will make the tax code more fair while prioritizing investment and innovation. The AEI supports it. Well, they said it's a good talking point, but startup businesses, they only account for a portion of economic activity. So I don't anticipate this having much impact on the economy overall, but it's a good thing.

Well, you said the AEI supports it? Like the AI super computer? American Enterprise. But it's a good thing well you said the AI supports it like Does support it yes we are we are good Skynet Skynet eight eight thousand delegates support Come on did for well like eight billion delegates Oz the great and terrible for Walt Harris Rita repulse who are right now. wait no what was the Power Rangers?

Oh, um, basically disembodied authority figures for Waltz Harris. Disembodied authority figures for Harris. Oh my god. Oh My god, oh my legends of the My god, dude This is like I want to juxtapose this with an eye with an article from the Financial Times today, workers share of worldwide wealth falls further. Workers share of the spoils of economic output has not recovered from a sharp drop

after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data that points to worsening economic inequalities as the rollout of generative AI gathers pace. So, yeah, estimates by the International Labor Organization published yesterday show that the share of global GDP earned by employees and the self-employed fell from 52.9% in 2019 to 52.3% in 2022 and remained flat in the following two years. So yeah, no, I mean, like we're...

And didn't, and didn't, I mean, I don't know if this is relevant but you know didn't multinational corporations like make more money than they had ever in the past 30 years during Something like that. Yeah, I think it Bezos is making like nine million dollars a day or some shit in like April 2020 or something you remember that like yeah, man in like April 2020 or something. You remember that? Like. Yeah man, it's just insane dude. When people are dropping like flies dude.

So was I, but that's because I was buying all the hand sanitizer from every dollar general from here to Texas. Flipping it. And flipping it. Yeah. Tom became like the golden age of making money, honestly. Hell yeah.

Forget selling CDs out the back of your truck, sell them toilet paper brother. Mm-hmm Technological change is a prime Suspect for this trend a recent study by the Center for economic policy research said that more That recent advances in AI might be more capital black bias than past forms of technological process progress It certainly seems to us that technology is playing a role. Blah, blah, blah. Anyways, you get the idea.

So it's good, it's good. It's good that Harris is pushing the two things that are driving even more wealth away from workers' hands, one of which is not taxing the rich, and the other is pushing for even more AI Saturation in our daily lives and Automation and everything you know how and like what insane money just cutting that tax rate by 10% They like Biden's didn't go far enough

You know what I mean, but 10% when you're talking millions of bears dollars a lot of fucking cash And what and instead of like that going to like worthwhile shit, you know, hospitals, schools, roads, whatever, it's gonna go to like some dumbass thing like with the vowels taken out, and it's gonna help us do something that is not that hard to begin with, but just gonna make it like 10% easier,

and everybody else start doing it. Also too, that the, the author of that article characterizing it, characterizing her economic policies as the biggest shift away from Biden should be incredibly depressing to you, right? Because it's not even shifting away from her position on, on Gaza, right? You know, it's, it's actually her moving farther to the right Yeah on this issue, right? Which is which is incredibly troublesome if you're you know, if you if you think it about punching one in for coconuts, you know Mm-hmm Be careful

Yeah, but be careful music slurs right now That listen does the rightful candidate need to step back up in that case? Yes Now you see slurs that listen does the rightful candidate need to step back up in that case Yes, that's the October surprise not the Joe's dead, but that Joe's very much alive He's been like he's been like just like he's been recovering it like a vat You know right he's been like Vegeta in Dragon Ball She's been charging up for three months Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z. She's been charging up for three months and then he fucking Super Saiyan Joe just comes back on October says no goddamn it. I won the primary step down I stand down you get on the debate stage with like a mane of just gold in electric

Beautifully clothed rival trumps such too, you know? Just the rival trumps, such volume, you know? Yeah dude, he arrives like Gandalf, the fucking door is open at the back of the Coliseum and he's on a horse. The crowd, the audience is just awash in golden light. It's almost blinding. Like hold up, who's that? Is that Joe? Yeah. My god, it's Joe Biden's music.

You gotta use your hands to shield your eyes. Like what the heck? Oh man. It's the October surprise no one saw coming. Not even death. Not even death. Death was like, we almost had him almost had him He slipped through my fingers

Then he says you should hit me with the cancer gun This week I've been feeling very much like but Trump will win but like and I just say that against all my like Intuitions and and suspicions like but it just it just feels fitting like the the story like it just feels a little too neat that like Biden would drop out Kamala would step in and then they would just ride to victory like it just feels like the world we live in it's just like much more complicated than that it is it is and more much more unpredictable than that, right? right, but again, I'm not trying to make any predictions or anything I just

Because that ultimately doesn't change anything. It's this bit. This has been one of the crazy things about this like Election is like if you go back and you listen to an episode of ours from like three or four months ago Like we were saying like oh, it's weird It doesn't even feel like it's an election year in it and it once again feels like it's not even an election year still. Like it's still, it did, it did for a minute, maybe, you know, when Kamala came in, cause it's like, Oh, this is a race, but now it just feels like it feels, um, what's the word for it? It feels like almost deterministic or fatalistic, you know, regardless of the

outcome, you know, that little, yeah yeah that little window from Trump getting shot to Biden's debate performance to You know Harrison Waltz rising, but now it's just back to like feeling like well Whatever it's so much didn't feel like an election that because I keep seeing Conservatives they keep like doing like the day counter, like, oh, this happened how many weeks ago about Trump getting shot. And it so much doesn't, like, as if anybody cares. I said this on Twitter, listen, people are going to remember that the acolyte

that Star Wars Disney Plus show got canceled before, like, longer than they'll remember that this happened. That's just the kind of news cycle that we live in. You know what I mean? But yeah, it doesn't even like, even an assassination didn't make it feel like an election, you know? An election year, you know? A near assassination, I should say.

Yeah, it's very strange. And I'm not even really seeing a whole lot of yard signs and bumper stickers, you know, like compared to like a different election year. I didn't see them before with Biden, and I'm not seeing them now that it's Harrison Woltz. Yeah, I've seen like a different election year like I didn't see them before with Biden and I didn't I'm not seeing them now There's Harrison Waltz. Yeah, I've seen like a few I saw one the other day that was really cursed It was like cat lovers for Harris walls I'm especially opposed to it

But it's like yeah, like I really haven't seen a whole lot else I Saw one in the yard that also has a handwritten sign It says Slava Ukraine on it Just a piece of white poster board stapled in the yard with Slava Ukraine written in black sharpie on it Is at least laminated against like the elements? Maybe because it's still standing out all warped and like fucking... The words form something else. Some indecisive alien language.

Putin, Putin by the way, this week said he's for Harris. So, he said because... He's coconut-pilled? He's coconut-pilled. He said it's because of her infectious laugh. So... He does seem like a guy who would say that in a very sinister way while he twiddles his you know His thumbs are that's what the news made it sound like they were like he was being sarcastic he heck he can do sarcasm

Did y'all see that story that there that the feds are now trying to tie that? Tim pool and all those people to some sort of Russian misinformation thing. Benny Johnson and those guys like at Russian Today. Benny Johnson. Yeah. So were they the real Russian bots, not the left? They were, I think they were, yeah.

Man, I found out, sort of on that note, I found out the other day that I went to college, I played in a band briefly. I filled in on drums for like two or three shows with this guy whose brother is Jeremy boring the guy that does that Jeremy's razors like the daily wire like one just like an absolutely Reprehensible and his brother also sucked really fucking bad They're the boring brothers that these are these motherfuckers names boring boring. Yeah. Oh man couldn't pick the better couldn't pick the better name

Yeah Just we're at the government name or they like Elon fanboys that like you know Elon's companies called the boring company now this I mean they've had that name since the mid 2000 so before Elon was a Household name I don't know didn't expect to have a one degree of separation removed from fucking daily wire Ben Shapiro It's fucking All right, there's only one other thing I wanted to cover today and Just like as we're kind of like trying to like

get a read on like what this election is and what it's about, like it's clearly, it is very clear that like they are, it's one of the most insane like pivots I think I've seen, but they've simultaneously, they're pivoting to the right on economic issues. They're staying pretty mum and quiet about both Israel Gaza and a lot of cultural issues. They're making lip service to the left.

These are these rural issues like heartland cultural signifiers virtue signaling through Tim Walz. Heartland Cultural signifiers virtue signaling through Tim waltz It's like a very strange maneuver, right it's like They're trying to like do sort of several different contradictory things and appease to several different It's like at surface level it's aesthetically like You know, I don't want't use over overuse the phrase but just like the the celebration of diversity and identity that you saw there you know as well as with waltz and the economic kind of rural issues that appeal to the left supposedly but then at its core at center it's about moving

further to the right well yeah I mean it should be obvious at this point that like this whole like heartland thing like this whole Like enlisting walls to be like the anti JD and also though to be like what did she say in that thing? Like we're not looking backwards. We're looking for it or we're no we're for something. We're not against something Like a lot of the left and the right, everybody, every political constituency in America loves to use rural as some sort of like signifier for like authenticity and like values and um. Even, even, can I even say environmentalism

because I saw a crazy insane tweet from this fucking moron who said something like, well, people in the rural area, they actually are more environmentally conscious than people in the cities. As if motherfuckers were like, I've seen my neighbor dumping pesticides into a lake. You know what I'm talking about?

What the fuck are you? But it's these very simplistic, facile sort of delineations between rural and urban that just, I mean, you might as well be doing like cultural phrenology or some shit like that, regional phrenology at that point. Rural people do care about the environment. The problem is that we also care about being able to like burn forever carbons in our backyard

and dump nuclear waste with a half-life of 6,000 years into our lakes and streams. So, yeah, it's just competing ideologies are warring forever, you know, our heart. Yeah, and also it's, I think that like it's a general, I think I was trying to, this isn't even what I was gonna talk about next, but it is a kind of interesting like side tangent. The general process of enclosure

has kind of still been going on. Like enclosure wasn't just a process of kicking people out of the commons and privatizing land and then proletarianizing people. It was also like a geographical, had a geographical objective of driving people into the cities. The word bourgeois comes from the word burger. A burger is a town dweller. Like capitalism is the mode of production for towns, for cities. Like that is...

Explains psychogeography to an American. It's a burger basically think of a burger and a hot dog you are here and so I'd like as a result like I think that like capitalism by its very nature and logic has to have an urbanizing it has to have an urbanizing logic and process to it and that includes gradually moving everybody out of the provinces And it's like even taken an even more acute Form now that like environmental Catastrophe has started becoming more catastrophe has started becoming more common and floods and tornadoes and everything else. But I think that for that reason,

I think that's why everybody looks to rural areas as like the genesis, like the locus of where all good values come from, whether they're like liberal, conservative, whatever, they're just like kind of some pastoral mecca almost. That's our past, that's where we were still good and uncorrupted by capitalism and everything All right. I don't know. It's weird weird deal. Well, I'm that same bay and when I was in California a couple weeks ago this guy that was driving me was telling me that in California they have a an

order for cities to that in California they have an order for cities to continue to receive state funding. They have to continue to grow. Oh yeah. So the city of San Luis Obispo has sort of fought against that for a while. So there's 50,000 people there in the Central Coast. That's where I was at.

And he was telling me about how things have changed in the last couple of years. And he was like, and St. Louis to continue to receive state funding. And so like, SLO has been in violation of that for like 20 something years. You know, they still get the funds or whatever, but like they've been trying to, you know, kind of slow footing it a little bit. While every other city is just like, it's insane to me. It's like at a certain point, like what are you trying to do? Like what's the purpose of that?

Like is there like a critical threshold where that's not going to be tenable anymore? Like what's going on at some point man? They're just gonna have the cities on the coast connect into one mega into one big mega city Like William Gibson sprawl trilogy, you know where the whole coast is just one big ass city, dude I mean Genuinely, like when we talk about like the homeless crisis like a big part of it is literally people just being pushed out of rural areas And into urban areas With no support network

No jobs, you know, no material uh safety net to catch them and You know, I mean it's I mean, I don't know That's yeah again, that's a whole other tangent but like tim wz allows us to feel warm and fuzzy about those better parts of the past when New Deal liberalism still reigned supreme in the provinces, and when you could still piece together maybe some sort of farmer-labor-politic or whatever. And it's just not... the material base is not there anymore. It's a chimera, it's a phantom.

Well, but also too, it's like, I don't understand why like, uh, you know, cutting that tax by 10% is like moving in the direction of New Deal liberalism anyway. Right. You know what I mean? It's all symbolic, you know, there's nothing in any sort of plan they floated to suggest that we're going back to New Deal liberalism. And that's the thing, that is really what's so kind of like insulting about it. It's like they're saying like, look we got Tim Walz on the ticket, he's basically like Bernie, right?

Like that means we at least listen to progressives. But they're very obviously moving right on every single issue. It's like not even a question about it. They're literally obviously, and it might work. I don't know. I mean, but they're literally going after the You know white-collar suburb People right, you know and they're good. I'm just gonna say that like quote from Schumer after the 2016 election like for every blue-collar Pittsburgh worker we lose we pick up two white-collar people in the suburbs like that's their Literal strategy again, and I think it might actually work this time You know that's pretty that's a pretty lukewarm take we've said it multiple times, but like I don't know

Well anyways there's only one other thing I wanted to cover and that was Which which you know which I think that like kind of makes this election very interesting and this was this is a article in the New York Times That kind of already goes ahead and tells you like what the media is going to be reporting after the election Regardless of who wins or loses. It's kind of interesting. It's like if an article appeared in, which may have, I don't know, I'm sure that there probably was an article like this in September, August of 2016,

saying that Russia has emerged as the top disinformation threat, and we are now going to blame them as soon as the election is over. Well, this article is the same thing, but the headline of this is Iran emerges as a top disinformation threat in the US presidential race. I just have to say, this whole misinformation,

disinformation in American elections, not only are you just inherently being misinformed, that's just the entire point to make these elections run I mean if anyone knew everything, you know that they could know about how this shit works They would probably so disgusted. They would never want to vote. Uh-huh But but but I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess that's my point It's like there's no bigger America is its own is its own propaganda factory, right when it comes to elections, right? No other country could have any outside more influence than this country itself

Frankly, I'm offended at the characterization of Shia Islam as a misinformation campaign You know, it's just me having respect for my brothers in Abraham, you know You're you're right Aaron it's like You're right, Aaron. It's like the extent to which I see people get like the fever dream election brain every four years, and this is something that I've struggled with since I was a teenager, it's like just goes to show you the extent to which we are genuinely, I hate to use the word, but brainwashed is probably the best. I mean granted it's probably goes even deeper than that like I I think me and Tom we were talking about this the other day, but like

The Democrats position basically being that if you Don't support us. You're supporting Trump is like like the Trump people don't tell their supporters that or any I'm sorry they don't tell America that. But like I think that that is a hallmark of like cult behavior right like the Democrats are visibly and obviously a cult and I think that's why like it's just judging from the comments We were receiving and granted. I've not even read any of our feedback in weeks I have no idea what people are saying about us really how they're feeling

It's best that way I learned is best that way I have completely I don't give a fuck what any of you think I I don't want to know it's because everybody it's like I said none of my business what y'all none of my business none of my business but I will say in an election year everybody has a motherfucking opinion everybody we talked about it on the phone the other day man when I called you you know I was just like what the fuck is going on yeah you're right everyone has everyone has to have a take right and their take has

to be the end-all be-all yes you're right. Everyone has everyone has to have a take right and their take has to be the end Oh be all yes democracy is in peril if you don't have the right take If any of you know what the fuck is going on, you don't know what's going on motherfucker. I don't either. Yeah exactly It's it's a bizarre thing. Like we are a extremely the Democrats are a cult the Republicans are freaks weirdos Everybody is pretty much brainwashed. I mean genuinely. This is a side tangent

I said it wasn't going to talk about black reconstruction anymore, but like genuinely like the extent to which reconstruction has been completely erased from American history is construction has been completely erased from American history is Astonishing I mean this was Du Bois's entire project right like trying to reincorporate it back into American theory and praxis and everything but like that is really insane to me that would be like if in France

There was a multi-decade long project like Psyop to get people to completely forget about the revolution right like in 1792 whatever. Right we don't even have a reconstruction day. Yes exactly. If you want to just talk about like the salience of a political, cultural, historical, moment, movement, whatever you know what I mean and giving it a holiday even if you just want to placate certain people right? We don't even have a reconstruction day dog. Well. It's worse. It's worse than that though. We celebrate the fucking Confederates

It's not even that that's been like Banished to the dustbin of history It's that like more than that we like in many places like lift up the fucking losers and fucking degenerates, you know Yeah, I mean I would even go so far as to say that like neoliberalism is a kind of like neoconfederacy weirdly enough it's like it's like an alliance between like Liberals who try to mystify like race and gender and everything like race and gender and everything,

between them and people who think that a state should not exist because that would imply we would have to provide education for everybody. Like before slavery ended, you know like what the state was in the South? Like there was not common education or common roads or anything like that. Like there, like, reconstruction was a revolution in the sense that it created the modern industrial state,

both north and south, and basically, and it kind of pivoted around education, because the slaves were like, well, we want education, and we want it integrated. We want to be able to learn with poor whites and we think that the the community should pay for that You know from taxes and stuff like that and the you know Displaced planters were like fuck. No, we've never done that before. We're not gonna start doing that now anyways

the way that played out in Eastern Kentucky is interesting because it's like The segregation was still going on. The poor whites were getting taught by like Baptist ministers and all this stuff while the black kids were learning from people that went to, you know, the the HBC use and, you know, it's like you had the black kids in Harlem that were like learning Latin and fucking physics and all this stuff, getting a great education. The amount of like PhDs and like higher degrees that came out of like these poor pockets of black life in the mountains

versus what was happening with the white kids who thought they were doing a disservice to the black kids by segregating the schools. And actually the white kids were falling further behind and the black kids were excelling at a higher level. You know what, that makes me think maybe we should bring back segregation. No, I'm kidding. I live right right you know what that makes me think maybe we should bring back said great. Okay

Sky that says yes on segregation Yes on Kamala Harris and yes on segregation But yeah, no, I mean America is deeply you're that I know it's a side tangent But it's a great point Aaron like I think America is maybe singularly More like brainwashed than any other Western quote-unquote democracy like again the fact that we have completely Managed to convince everyone that reconstruction not only didn't happen, but like wasn't a Revolutionary and content which it definitely was

But but no like going back to this article Iran emergence is a top of this information threatened US presidential race the reason this article Stuck out to me is because it's completely nonsensical with a flurry of hacks and fake websites Iran has intensified its efforts to discredit American democracy and Possibly tip the race against former President Donald Trump But like that I would think that the New York Times would think that's a good thing right like if we're getting help from Iran Like we'll take it wherever we can get it man Yeah, five years ago. They would just shut up if they really believed this, they would just sat on this one, you know? Yeah.

And they reported it like a year later or something like that. So it starts out, I'm not gonna go through the whole article, but it starts out listing these websites. None of these websites are what they appear to be. Instead, they are part of what American officials and tech company analysts say is,

okay, tech company analyst. Yeah. Carp. Yeah, tech company analyst, yeah. Carp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, carp. Start a real job. Say is an intensifying campaign by Iran to sway this year's American presidential election. Iran has long carried out clandestine information operations

against its adversaries, especially Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the US, but until now, most of its activities were conducted under the shadow of similar campaigns by Russia and China. Its latest propaganda and disinformation efforts have grown more brazen, more varied, and more ambitious. Iran's efforts appear intended to undermine former President Trump's campaign to return to the White House, according to officials and companies, but they have also targeted President Biden and VP Kamala Harris, suggesting a wider goal of sowing internal discord and discrediting the democratic system in the US more broadly in the eyes of the world.

So I mean, I don't know. I don't think I don't think the US prestige throughout the world could get any lower than it is right now. What are you talking about? Everyone hates us right it doesn't like it just doesn't make any sense like why would they be trying to undermine both Harris and Trump like they had a pretty good deal under Obama right like and then Trump came in and fucking destroyed the whole thing killed Soleimani all this other stuff like it makes sense that they would be kind of going more towards the Democrats because they seem to get usually better deals But not under Biden. They've been heavily sanctioned

But you but you see but you see Terrence our enemies, right? They don't actually have any rationale to what they do Yeah, they're just literally just like just fucking like flailing. You just know it. You know what I'm saying? It's so evil. They're so evil They just want to sow discord for discord's sake because they hate America so much Because nothing that happens here ever affects them including who the fuck is elected president Yeah, the new people are really incensed at the new ayatollah, Reverend Jeremiah I Did that be dope he just reappears after all these years

Burning behind him It's like man that guy's had a glow up like I'm he landed on his feet. I'm glad to see Narrowly loses reelection in Iran goes to Venezuela He's just shopping around Get a hook up to Dennis Robin to be Kim Jong Un. Yeah, no, I mean, you're right, Aaron. It's this concept, it's this image of them as like just, they're joker-fied, they just wanna watch the world burn.

Like they're nihilists and they wanna sow discord. And it's also, it's, it's also like, it goes, it, I would assume that earlier thing about Putin, like do you think Putin really supports Harris and Walser, do you think that like, I always assumed he was more kind of like leaning towards Trump. Right.

I mean, there was that Trump quote, which is a banger, all-timer, where he's like, I said, don't do it, Vladimir, don't do it, and he did it. And like about the Vladimir, I said, I said don't do it Vladimir. Don't do it and he did it You pay a heavy price I don't think anyone is ever called Putin by his first name Vladimir I just I just gotta appreciate that from true Yeah, I don't know it's just the reason and you know, this is a really long article I'm not gonna read any more of it. But like the whole thing just gets into like interviewing like meta employees and

State Department employees the company run by the guy who ran the company that was I mean actually involved in misinformation on Facebook they asked for his advice That's with their advice get the fuck out of here. Yeah Yeah Clint Watts the director of Microsoft's threat analysis center warned it in a report last month that one Iranian operation has since March been preparing activities in the US that are even more extreme Extreme dude, they're extreme days extreme extreme dude there extreme days We're living in extreme days again, we are living in extreme days I want to know what extreme propaganda would be like what I mean

I don't know terms if you can see some of those examples of propaganda because I don't understand like Like what is it? What do they say that Trump is gonna take away women's right to choose? Or is it saying that, like, Kavala Harris is not Ashley Black? Like, what are they doing? It's more whimsical, dude. Iran's information efforts have mostly targeted Mr. Trump. One article on Neothinker, the liberal leaning site that Microsoft tied to Iran's efforts, described the former president Trump as a, quote, opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA chain shop and a raving mad

litigiosaur Impressive that I don't even know what to leave whatever that last litigiosaur I guess Yeah, a whole different level of disrespect when you can't even like decipher some of the words in it totally it really is you at a dog the thing is is they're wrong about that like Trump is like straight edge you know what I mean totally that Theo that Theo von in interview he was like and what does cocaine do to you yeah he has no idea like this man has been in rooms with more cocaine than anybody in history and yet has never Indulged himself. It's funny And I like I believe it like people I don't believe that no every time somebody said Trump was on

Amphetamines or coke at these debates that was he was hopped up on 100% Queenie Queens guy energy I mean in that podcast that you were just mentioning Terrence that he was on, just the fascination with which he was listening about drug use, you know what I mean? Hard drug use. He was just like, so how does that make you feel? Yeah, people actually feel like this? He's like, that's a different, different up. He didn't even know how to say up. He's like, oh, or hi. Yeah, he's like, it's different up. How to say up? He's like, oh, or hi. Yeah, he's like, it's different up. Iran's influence efforts recalled those by Russia, which hacked the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016

and conducted influence operations on social media. In the 2020 election, Iran obtained American voter registration data and used it to send intimidating fake emails to Democratic voters. So I don't know, once again, the re- An intimidating email to me is calling me a bedwetter or something. Okay, it's not intimidating, but you know what I'm saying? If you're trying to dissuade people from doing something,

I think the body can't pay them enough to do that sufficiently. Yeah, they've already, yes, they've made their ability in that realm abundantly clear. But yeah, no, I mean, I guess the larger larger point here is like you can already see the kind of like narrative being formed Coalescing that like whatever happens in November will be a result of Iran and we just like change this out every four years Like the big enemy in 2020 was China in 2016. It was Russia. It's gonna be Iran It's just gonna get keep doing that for eternity. I guess just fucking next year, it's gonna be like Michael Nizam in Ea

Yeah, look at them. They're laughing at us over there in Slovenia We need to raise the true Blajana We need to raise Luzhou Blajana Well, I mean is it this is it this like a John Bolton's a Triumvirate of tyranny is Russia China. I guess then it was North Korea and then Iran Yeah, and I guess I don't know man. I guess you can I guess Americans do have like memories of goldfish They just like forget that the big enemy the last election was you know Russia or China or whatever You know at least you could say about a Marvel movie You know they try to throw in a new villain in higher states every time you know we're just we're just recycling

You know this is like this is like Robert Downey Jr. Coming back to Dr. Doob after I killed his Iron Man or some shit Yeah, they kind of cooled on Mexico for a little bit because they need they need the Latino vote You know what I mean right something? I don't know why but that that'll cut they'll come back up Mexico's never too far away Who else Venezuela well? Oh, dude, they're obsessed with Venezuela right now like the amount of fucking New York Times articles about Venezuela and a fucking New York Times articles about Venezuela and M lo is about to do a reform of the judiciary in Mexico to make it to where judges are elected and the New York Times is Freaking the fuck out about that. They really don't like that. You can now like judges in Mexico

I mean even though you could do them in the United States You can like judges and sure well, isn't it? think I'm sure it's everyone. Oh, yeah sheriffs Yeah, no, we can like sheriffs, but yeah Judges are appointed usually yeah, I Mean it's damn Mexico Yep blame it on Mexico. It's a George straight song blame it on Mexico, but not in a racist way He's talking about like he went down to Mexico and like Drank too much and showed his ass

Clarify that those are the parentheses. He is a racist. Let's not get it wrong with this song is not race Messed up in Mexico living on refried dreams from five dreams All right. Well, that's that right. It probably about covers it this week, right? Yeah, I mean I feel like that's something else that happened that I don't remember I've never remember. Well, it was a busy week. There's a lot of stuff going on Well, there was the surgeon in Florida that took the guy's liver out when he was supposed to take the spleen out I was yes don't know how you make that mistake

I feel like I'm not a surgeon and even I would not make that mistake I feel like that's exactly the mistake I should make I would make which is why like I'm surprised that this guy's surgeon You know, I just I feel like a liver is pretty like Recognizable largest organ in the body right size of a football or like you would think like after he was solid he was taking oh shit this is the liver my bad right I don't know what splains that maybe under right I feel like I would mix the splint up with something like I wouldn't get it right the first time I would probably some shit. Yeah The spleen supposed to beat and sputter blood everywhere pull out the heart you see that like

Well, I'll put it back put it back Don't understand like why a general surgeon would be taken out of liver to begin with and then the other question is it's like How could you mistake the two as somebody that graduated from medical school? Maybe, maybe. Or somebody that attended I don't know a fourth grade anatomy class. Well Tom I think times are hard so I mean if you got to sell some organs you know. Yes Sexton you're not so good at your job some days. You're not so good at your job some days How did that I wonder how that conversation went down that were they like in the cafeteria later and then and when some and he was like someone was like talking about removing the spleen on a different patient and they were describing it and

They were like Luke, how did yours go? And he was like, oh, yeah, you know it You know, it's it was it's like what's his name on 40 year old virgin describing filling boobs He's like, you know, it's very big and it's like a bag of sand People are like, are you sure you remove this? Yeah, better yet better yet They're getting an argument with each other about what the spleen versus liver looks like until one of them pulls it up on their phone.

And then the guy's like, oh boy. He's like, you sure that's not like a, is that a human spleen, a liver? That's not like from a deer or a rabbit maybe? No, that's the human one. Oh man. All right. How do you play that in court if you're that guy's it's a freaky Friday situation

Me and my daughter at temporarily switch places. What's I think it's more like a dog ate my homework situation, you know Uh-huh. It was an honest to God mistake. I mean that guy will continue working It's not like he's gonna be out of a job like they'll just be like slap him on the wrist and like fine I find his hospital. I thought you talk about well the guy who lost his oh, no the guy guys dead. I'm talking Yeah, he'll be fine without the liver. He's not gonna keep working You kind of need the liver unfortunately All right gang thanks for listening to us if you would like to go support us in here more content go to the patreon the last few weekends we've had

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