Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 370: Who Checks The Balances

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

This week we catch up on news at the global scale, as well as try to answer why exactly so many people cheered on the public execution of a health insurance CEO. Finally we take a quick look at Trump'...s (current) nominee(s) for Secretary of Defense. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Have you ever have you guys ever seen that Werner Herzog movie? The one about Antarctica, I don't even remember the name of it now I've just no I've only saw his nose for I too with Klaus Kinski and the grizzly man and The ill-fated one that was part of the ill-fated one that was shot in Peru or somewhere that took them like five years to finish. Fiskiraldo? Yeah, Fiskiraldo also with Klaus Kinski. Yeah. Wait, Herzog did a documentary on the Grizzly Man? Is that the Grizzly Man,
Starting point is 00:00:41 the ill-fated, infamous Grizzly Man who got mauled by a grizzly bear. That's the one He'll fade it seems like hurts augs had something to do with the documenting bill fadedness there's a scene in the documentary about Antarctica where a penguin gets depressed and Leaves its colony and like journeys to the interior of the Antarctic Which is like a desolate wasteland. There's like nothing there for a penguin. Like it's basically certain death. So did it consciously go to die because of loneliness? Cause that sounds, I feel you Mr. Penguin, you know?
Starting point is 00:01:18 We don't know. But where I'm going with this is that- We don't know. Where I'm going with this is like, you know how you have... Somebody should ask him. You know how you have eyebrow mites? You ever heard about that? No, man. That sounds awful. That ever hurt?
Starting point is 00:01:38 No, I've never heard of eyebrow mites, man. Every human has mites in their eyebrows. Oh, bro, don't tell me this man I gotta shave them shit off like when I was a junior high school They tried to I tried to do a little little Marion kind of cut, you know, it's not it's not your eyebrows It's your eyelashes actually now that I think about it. So you can't shave your Shits are in there. You can't get it plucked out. I was just wondering if an eyebrow an eyelash might ever had the same Affliction and wound up like journeying to the interior of the human like it winds up in your belly button
Starting point is 00:02:16 With hydrochloric acid a Single solitary eyebrow might just like decides to leave the colony and gets depressed gets depressed who decides to leave the colony Ends up as a pew mine or something Yeah, that's that's what I was thinking of because I was thinking of more comparatively and have to be a similar kind of environment Or maybe like one of your ass hairs like one of the ass hairs like right next to your booty hole You know what I mean? He didn't know like you know you can predict blinking with some degree of certainty, right? But what he could not predict was the amount of times
Starting point is 00:02:48 that his host would scratch his shit. Scratch his gooch? He scratches gooch, yeah. Yeah, dude. I'm just saying, yeah, you could have an eyebrow mite down in the gooch. It's what if they are migratory? Now he's a gooch. And it's like. What if they are migratory? Now he's a gooch, mate.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Yeah, are they migratory? I have lost it on, we don't know. A team working around the clock to get to the bottom of why that lonely ping did what he did. The work becomes more depressing as it goes along because clearly there are no answers He stumbles onto the set of John Carpenter's the thing Throwing like grotesqueries, and he's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa my
Starting point is 00:03:44 He's standing outside the cabin Speaking about speaking of movies that that really lay out the depravity of the human condition and everything I Mean, I know we briefly mentioned it on a recent episode how like JD Vance's favorite movie is boys in the hood But did you see his other favorite movies? We got a list yeah, there's a whole list obviously gangs of New York is on there because like he you know That's that's pretty obvious it like it's like he grafted the politics of gangs of New York onto his politics. He's like he's like a pseudo intellectual It's like I'm really hard on myself about being a pseudo intellectual But like he is a much bigger pseudo intellectual and he went to Yale. So, you know Go ahead Tom. No, no, I didn't know I was gonna say this this seems kind of like what Obama
Starting point is 00:04:42 Releases his year-end best movies or best songs or whatever and the song could be It could have you know radical possibly even revolutionary themes or content But it seems to be grafted onto his particular brand of liberalism, you know We're seeing intellectualism. I guess kiss of death ended up on Obama's playlist I like how like once a year somebody will rebuke their inclusion on that playlist uh-huh who did that most recently I? Forget think it was like Ethel Cain or something yeah Hmm it was like Giorgio Moroder How came to the marauder like weird yeah
Starting point is 00:05:27 Get to my name off your list Home of sales Russian Um JD Vance's other favorite movies and TV shows garden state That doesn't surprise me at all that is a fascist movie That's well. It's also just like if you look at a guy like JD a fascist movie. That's, well, it's also just like, if you look at a guy like JD, you're like, yeah, it's a Garden State guy. That is true.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Watching the slow matriculation of the Zach Braff, it's hard to relate to kids now, like Jen's ears. If you're under the age of 25, but you know how like, there's always types and For Millennials like a certain type was Zach Braff and it's really funny to see The Zach Braff type become a died-in-the-wool fascist now by Yeah, you know JD has watched every episode of scrubs without question every single episode dutifully
Starting point is 00:06:28 100% He also likes Emily in Paris. He says that's his favorite TV show So he says it's a masterpiece Okay, is there any is there any is there any? Fantastical works like any science fiction horror fantasy pulp fiction It's just like There's just nothing there. That's basic shit. It's basic. He's a basic bitch. He's a basic bitch Give me something JD. Give me something. I need to know if JD prefers Terminator 2
Starting point is 00:07:03 Aliens the thing Robocop 3 I need to know in that prefers Terminator 2, Aliens, The Thing, Robocop 3. I need to know. In that hierarchy of like 80s, 90s, action horror flicks, I need to know. I want him to hit me over the head with the Monkeys movie head or something crazy like that. You know what I mean? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Like, all right, JD. His favorite movie is Eraserhead. Yeah, yeah, something like that, yeah. Tetsuo the Iron Man. Some fuck shit. Yeah. Then I'm like,. Tetsuo the Iron Man. Some fuck shit. Yeah. Then I'm like, all right, you're cooking with gas here, brother.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Yeah, what you got for me? If it was me, I would be like Jims in the Giant Peach. With the animated wood and the Disney wood from a couple, with the 3D Disney wood from the 90s? Oh, that's the one I was thinking of, I think. I think they, didn did they animate it before that or maybe a bug is probably that. I thought there was only one.
Starting point is 00:07:50 That movie freaked me out, man. I didn't like that movie that much. From the 90s, yeah. It was done up like Nightmare Before Christmas, but. Like Tim Burton in. Said it was on the giant peach. What'd you say, Tom? Did Tim Burton direct James and the Giant Peach?
Starting point is 00:08:04 Think he did, yeah. I think he did. No did not got him dude. He produced it some guy named Henry Selig Directed it never heard of this guy does Tim Burton have some sort of interest in Pixar's that he like a Isn't his isn't his company because Disney didn't do night before Christmas did they yeah? What if JD's what if JD's shit? What if JD's favorite movie was Trash Humpers? Yeah Sounds like a ripoff of Trainspotters. It sounds like it should be in the same kind of genre realm It's a fucked up movie here, and don't don't watch it. It's
Starting point is 00:08:43 It's not not a fun time No Sorry, it's not a fun time Yeah Well, let's go ahead and get into it today. It's very interesting week It's the first time we've recorded together the three of us in a few weeks. I think We're recording this on December 5th Yeah, we're recording this on December 5th
Starting point is 00:09:06 2024 For the time being for the time being The It's kind of a weird global week for global global politics Weird wait for globalism weird week for globalism France's government has collapsed because they had a vote of no confidence in their prime minister.
Starting point is 00:09:34 The ISIS is back on the move in Syria. Playing the hits. Playing the hits. Yeah. That's a weird deal because I think I just read an article in the New York Times this morning about how Israel had been trying to drive a wedge between Iran and Syria basically by bombing Syria, which actually just wind up
Starting point is 00:10:00 creating a power vacuum into which ISIS could step. Therefore, once again, cementing and solidifying the alliance between Iran So just backfire completely yeah, I mean they just can't help but kill Everyone like it's right right. I don't know it's I mean it's like that It's like that map that you always bring up of an Iahu's Reimagined Middle East you know where Gaza's territory has expanded even into Lebanon, you know, or I guess formerly, you know They've retaken that territory, I guess 100% I mean there's this article in the New York Times from a few days ago Israel builds bases in Central Gaza assign
Starting point is 00:10:41 It may be there to stay maybe in central Gaza assign it maybe there to stay. Maybe. So they're really doing the, I mean, I don't know, I don't wanna bring up any poor analogies, but truly with the expansionist mentality in terms of just like kind of the war on terror, you know, and just setting up bases across Afghanistan, you know. Pretty much.
Starting point is 00:10:59 As The Times also saying that all the apologia they've been doing for a year and a half was, eh, okay, Yeah, you got us You would think I mean you would think that like after losing after Three months of saying that the polls were neck-and-neck between Kamala and Trump They would be eating a little bit of humble pie now, but no I mean they would be eating a little bit of humble pie now. But no, I mean there's. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:11:25 I mean for anyone too who is saying that it would be worse under Trump, you know, and I'm not even gonna entertain that argument because it's pretty bad right now. You know, doesn't seem like they're working tirelessly towards a ceasefire as we've been told. Well the thing is is we're still, we're in Trump two right now, we're gonna get Trump 30.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Let's not forget that. True, that's a good point. They fucked around and they just wound up giving us 12 years of Trump instead of eight. Right, right. I would contend that it would've been, we would've been better off if Biden would've lost in 2020 because we'd be done with Trump now
Starting point is 00:12:03 and we could actually look forward to something so the Democrats through this one guy's hubris actually gave us 12 years of Trump instead of eight so I I think genuinely like I don't know I just cannot wait for him to for Biden to be out of office like I I think he is maybe one of the worst human beings who have ever lived like single-handedly comprehensively vain Vainglorious petty psychopathic racist like every bad human quality
Starting point is 00:12:42 he's not even charming or funny like the thing is just like with Trump like Trump is a psycho and Is probably gonna kill us all but at least he'll be making us laugh on the way But like Biden you don't even get that with Biden. It's just no you don't get friendly of funcular energy You just you know, you don't get any of that You know I think I think all of that Terrence all those qualities or can be kind of summed up in him walking out of that bookshop with the Hundred Years War on Palestine, and just knowing how much death that he has personally
Starting point is 00:13:13 sought over and wrought. In Gaza, it's just, I mean, it's just, I'm pretty sure, like I said, that said on Twitter, somebody probably, some sympathetic and well-intentioned employee probably handed him that book and he has no intention of reading it. Or maybe it is a publicity stunt, but I really don't believe that his frayed neurons
Starting point is 00:13:31 are capable of retaining any information or even recognizing that this could be a publicity stunt and why would you do it? He's about to fucking be out of office. But yeah, I think that kind of callous disrespect. You're right, Terrence. With Biden, you get everything you hate about being around old people and nothing about what you love
Starting point is 00:13:49 about being around them. You know? He, I said it on the Patreon this past week, but I genuinely think Anthony Blinken put that book in his hand as another way to just basically dab on us. That's been their MO for a year now every single decision they have made since October 7th of last year really honestly going back to 2022 I think has been them overtly just dabbing on us and just
Starting point is 00:14:21 basically saying fuck you and daring us to say anything about it. I just think that's their MO like it's for some reason Fucking psycho I mean you can say the whole Democratic Party really I mean Kamala's campaign was dabbing on Arabs and Muslims in the you know Dab it on dabbing on all the people. Yeah all the you know People that that you know they they needed to win, try to, like, instill some confidence in, you know what I mean? This thing. While also just, like, lying to all the rest of us.
Starting point is 00:14:55 You see this story about, like, all the internal polling said that Kamala was never close to Trump. Yeah. But, like, the story that got leaked out, you know, was that, oh, they're neck and neck, they're neck and neck, you know. Well, remember, you know what, that's actually a good point,
Starting point is 00:15:14 because remember we were talking about polling, right? And what's the purpose of polling, and how legitimate is it? You know, we come to find out that their own internal polling actually said she didn't stand a chance, you know. Right. Which tracks with chance, you know, right Which tracks with how they were behaving?
Starting point is 00:15:32 Right because like they were kind of in this death drive if you think about that in that camp And I don't really want to talk about it much more Okay, but it's just something I want to point out since it's just we've kind of stumbled onto it Is that like with the Obama scolding, you know and Clinton out there scolding and all that kind of right? That's not like winner behavior. That's desperation behavior. I mean it's projection. It's essentially projection is what they were doing. No, winner behavior where you go out there
Starting point is 00:15:54 and you would like, okay, you know, and we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this, and it's all gonna be great. You actually make promises as if you imagine that you're going to win, right? As if these are guaranteed wins, but if you don't even believe you're going to win, of course you're going to shit on and throw certain constituencies under the bus and dab on them, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:16:15 Or what it was is they knew they were going to lose because all the internal polling said so and they just wanted to get their licks in on all the the reprobates that dare vote against them, you know This is anyway, there is an article in Politico Point of pride Dems rebel in California House wins despite nationwide losses Democrats clawed back lost territory with better candidates and more cash including a nearly five-fold spending increase from the party's leading super PAC there's a basically the story here is that they won like three seats in California and they're using it as a well as they say here a consolation prize a point of pride just you know to basically shore up their hurt.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Um, didn't the official democratic account on Twitter post something like that? Like it was really convoluted where it was like, this is the first time in an election where this party has laws where we were able to hold on to like, it was really convoluted kind of like Kamala's like, you have to be like, you know, from the Island of Guam and have lived in this neighborhood for like 12 years before you can get Like you know all these qualifiers attached to like what they're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well also in this they also mention this Buzzword that the Democratic Party operatives are running with at this point as Demonstrated I think most publicly on that pod save America episode where they interviewed
Starting point is 00:17:47 David Ploiff interview the losers to find out They could they could do a self autopsy and then dare to give Recommendations on how Democrats should win you what you want to hear from these fucking losers, okay? but the the phrase they kept bringing up on that episode was Political headwinds like the political headwinds are just not in the favor of the Democrats and they use it in this article They say we knew from the onset how important those seats would be once in California and so did Republicans said Dan Gottlieb spokesperson for the DNC and Ultimately, we had a better formula to win these races and defy the political headwinds blowing the GOP's way and
Starting point is 00:18:28 Now these dysfunctional Republicans will have to manage bubble. Anyways, that's their narrative their narrative I mean, this is a hack tried to point we can move on after this don't have to ever bring it up again, but They are doing no self-examination. The problem is with the headwinds. Right, right. But this is, you know, I know, I know we don't want to get hinge upon this, but it reminds me of that quote man from one of Biden's foreign policy guys. Um, it's been stuck in my head, but I cannot remember who said it where the guy talks about those other guys down the hall in the room, you know, the fact that we are not, we are not, we don't,
Starting point is 00:19:04 we don't have any, we don't have any, um, any power know? The fact that we are not, we are not, we don't have any power over the decisions that we make or over things that actually happen. I mean, again, it's as if politics are kind of dematerialized and floating in the aether, and there's nothing that they could possibly do because, like, obviously it's the political headwinds, you know? It's the headwinds that are wrong.
Starting point is 00:19:24 It's the headwinds that are wrong. You know you know on the top of a farmhouse of some shit you gotta forget what it's called the weather pain yeah like the little rooster or some shit like that yeah it's just a rooster was not in our favor can you imagine can you imagine doing everything wrong over the last goddamn what 20 years almost, since Obama kinda came on the scene, like almost 20 years, I'll say 15 to 20. And then like, you just like,
Starting point is 00:19:53 step on rakes every step of the way, you go trot out the daughter of a, you know, fucking Dick Cheney to campaign with the people who Dick Cheney was directly with the people who Dick Cheney was directly responsible for the murder of. Okay. And then you have the audacity to say in your post-mortem, it's immaterial. Well, you know, just one of those things, you know, like the wind or you know, vibes. Well, and this is maybe topical to like what has been a Very interesting story that's unfolded over the last 24 hours, but yesterday the CEO of United Health Care was just
Starting point is 00:20:40 The headwinds were not in his favor But the headwinds were not in his favor. By the motherfucker who rode away on the penny farming by the way. You know what I'm saying? Dog. UnitedHealthcare's Facebook page had to delete their post because they had 20,000 like smiley face, like thumbs up, like laughing emojis on that post. Like about like, oh we're so sad about this I'm looking at the headwinds and people are pretty fucking pissed about like for-profit health insurance Maybe you could've harnessed that I don't know Yeah, yeah, it's like it's really it's like really funny to think about that
Starting point is 00:21:19 I saw Brendan Gallagher tweeted like maybe somebody should do a think piece about like you know how tweeted like maybe somebody should do a think piece about like you know how ever thought with all these like healthcare CEOs about why everybody in America wants to see them die right it seems what do they think about that it seems like a it seems pretty undeniable that large sections of the population were cheering on the public assassination by a guy who peddled away on a bike dude I'm sorry man that is the thing about this story that gets me right cause I was talking to Josh Olson that was DMing Josh Olson he made a good point he was like well I guess in New York that's how you would have to do it right which is good point man right nobody owns a car there
Starting point is 00:22:11 all the hitmen take public transit yeah take public transit but it's just like again man just i mean we could get into it but um you know people were talking about was this a lover's quarrel was this a uh corporate rival but apparently on the bullet casings what were the three words that were found? Was it deny, defense, or defend, or straight? No, not that one. Depose? Defend or straight? Yeah. Throw people out of windows. No, yeah, it was like deny, depose, defend,
Starting point is 00:22:36 or something like that, yeah. I mean, my first instinct when all this popped off, I was like, okay, he got his comeuppance, but it was probably a jilted mistress, or this thing or the other thing, something personal, beef. Nah, if the casings thing is correct, it's probably just because somebody took vigilante justice
Starting point is 00:22:57 into their own hands. I really hate to throw cold water on that, but I think, personally, that it was once again an example of them dabbing on us. I think that they- You think so? Yeah, I think that like this guy was like, I feel like it was a mob hit. I don't feel like you just, I mean, unless granted even hitmen have to have insurance.
Starting point is 00:23:21 So yeah, I guess you could have had a hitman who like got a fucking hundred thousand dollar health bill I guess you do pose a good point too because it's like you know maybe maybe whoever wanted this guy dead called the same person that doctrine Louisville tried to call you know I mean it's like if you're like, you know Seemingly had no experience in being a hit man. Like this was your first day on the job, you know, I Don't think you have like also the craftsmanship to inscribe these like very cryptic like but topical words into shell casing Yeah, it may seem to, it may be to throw, you know, investigations off and
Starting point is 00:24:08 speculation so that it actually kind of is not focused on or centered around anybody who could be. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Who could have done it, you know? Exactly, like I feel like it was probably some inside thing. The only reason I say that is because how the fuck would the hitman know he was going to be at that
Starting point is 00:24:22 place at that time with no security. And did he have a silencer or something like that? He had a silencer. He had a silencer I mean he had a suppressor and like with one of the with one of those You can't fire off in quick succession because it has to cycle through and so you could see him manually You know reloading the chamber like manually chambering it and just the the the common you know, just resolution it would take to do something like that and Yeah, like I mean and also to seven o'clock in the morning man. You got a rising ground mindset, dude
Starting point is 00:24:56 You are working you are on time for work. You just clocked it That doesn't seem to be somebody that's motivated by a crime of passion this guy seemed like he was on his cues and peas You know what I mean? He's the kid stop watching social Yeah, I mean, but yeah It was it probably was some inside job like his fucking shareholders were like because I can't think the guy was about to testify And some fucking insider trading case. Oh, you're exactly right. Yeah, that's what it was. It wasn't.
Starting point is 00:25:26 He had gotten a message. It's kind of like a Mickey Stines thing. It's a little Letra County reference for you. All these guys are just like, they're JD Vanses. They are not cut out for this life. They're not cut out for this shit. And so they get in these positions where they have way too much responsibility and power
Starting point is 00:25:43 and then wind up sort of shooting themselves in the feet You know for or shooting getting shot It's like the Boeing whistleblower thing like yeah Probably getting ready to testify and that they were all getting a little squeamish that he was gonna roll on him or something Yeah, you're right. There's no once again, but but but at the same time you can't Even if that's the case, which I do think it probably is you at the same time It's still undeniable that Massive amounts of people all over the fucking United States were like hell. Yeah, brother
Starting point is 00:26:19 I mean, I saw I saw people try to I saw Specifically liberals, but I guess this is across the political spectrum. If anyone who has any place, has any stock in this for-profit system, especially with regards to healthcare, I saw a lot of people trying to do the, well, you shouldn't be making jokes right now. Yeah. When they did the same thing with Trump, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:26:41 But you're right, man. This is energy that you could have harnessed. I don't mean to relitigate Bernie, but Medicare for All, I think, was such a salient issue and it resonated with so many people because if you have healthcare, if you don't have healthcare, if you live in this country and you get sick, right? Or even if you have a job. I mean, it's just the fact that the healthcare industry is like a middle man, right? that actually prevents you from getting health care while Stuffing the pockets right of those health care industries and CEOs So you could have harnessed that energy because I mean it's it's kind of like just talking even my mom about it You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:27:14 Well, she just kind of shrugged her shoulders, you know Which is the mildest thing she could have said but a lot of people were actually gleeful. They were very fucking happy The the concept of health insurance is basically like mafia type shit I mean right it's just like a middleman that you have to pay So that they can make sure that you get your services But even then they want white they wind up making your entire health. We're gonna say something Tom Oh, it's a it. It's just you're right It's just a hundred percent of racket. Yeah, which which probably is
Starting point is 00:27:51 Lends itself to the theory that this is some slight sort of like inside hit or something It's like this whole fucking thing is mobbed up But like we've given it the and furthermore here's something. I also wanted to talk about I We've given it the and furthermore. Here's something. I also wanted to talk about I Need to look into this further, but what the fuck is up with every single democratic? politician and leader Releasing like press statements about this guy like why why do you got stocks the United Health Association like that? Maybe they worried that they might be next I clue to Tim Waltz Walt the Minnesota business community is poorer for the loss of like
Starting point is 00:28:29 For the loss of a guy whose express job was to make sure that people died Yeah, exactly they were denied health care You know what I mean as there been a guy that's played himself more than Tim waltz in like such a short period of time Oh, man More in that more on that soon. I should have a piece coming out in the nation about him, sort of, sort of about him, yeah. He has definitely played himself.
Starting point is 00:28:53 I mean, him and Bernie, I mean truly, like it's like, you have to like look at the, just the, how bottom of the barrel leadership is on the left that you had a massive social movement that was aimed at criticizing the Democratic Party and everything they stood for and harnessing the real anger of people and then only for it to just be shepherded and folded back right into the same fucking like that's awful leadership and the thing is is the the Brian Tom was that guy's name Brian Thompson the CEO's yeah like Obamacare
Starting point is 00:29:33 basically ensured that that guy would be even richer like that's the whole thing like you know we can hate the CEOs and we should they should be drug out in the streets and whatever but like the Democratic Party Basically ensured that they will be billionaires for the next thousand not only that they made it There's central piece of legislation that they're hanging their hat on as the generational piece that they passed and in is probably You're exactly right in that single fucking piece of legislation has You're exactly right in that single fucking piece of legislation has Just basic just by virtue of the fact that they can't break out of any that they're basically hemmed in in this like very cynical
Starting point is 00:30:15 Reactionary position that they don't want to challenge that or do any kind of Medicare for all because it would then Invalidate that legacy they have now allowed themselves to become essentially blackpilled on every other fucking thing. And I think it goes a long way to explaining why they have been so, I know we've pointed this out many times over the last few months, but it's why they don't have any flexibility anymore.
Starting point is 00:30:42 Like they cannot, like they seem to just be like resigned to this kind of fatalism in every sense. Like the fact that they even got Biden out, we all thought like, oh, maybe they have finally, the fever has broken, they're not fatalists anymore, whatever, but then it just became, you know, blatantly obvious as the election wore on, like no, they're still deep in the throat.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Kamala wouldn't even divorce herself that much from Biden, going as far to say that what she would do different is have a Republican in her cabinet. And also too, I want to point out that they're not only ideologically wedded to these sorts of piecemeal or neoliberal programs, but I think financially as well. I don't know, I just keep thinking about Nancy Pelosi having stocks in all these health companies during the pandemic that people were calling her out for. Just that they're actually financially, fiscally wedded to these institutions, whether it's through campaign donations or I just mentioned stocks. I think part of releasing these statements is, I mean, I'm not really saying that they're worried
Starting point is 00:31:45 that they're gonna be hit next, you know, but it is to justify just the existence, the continued existence of the system because it protects their own position, right? 100%, it protects them materially, like financially as you were saying, it protects them ideologically, because that is the singular,
Starting point is 00:32:02 that is the, dude, that's the thing that they are hanging their entire legacy on in the early 21st century. This one single legislative program. Dog. There's this fucking... There's this book that I had to read for this thing I was writing for the nation that's gonna come out. I've mentioned it before, because the title is hilarious, called Dying of Whiteness. Me rubbing my hands like Birdman. gonna come out I've mentioned it before because the title is hilarious called dying of whiteness
Starting point is 00:32:39 that's like DJ Khaled album suffering from success where he's just like has all his rings on and he's just got his hand in his pocket suffering from success the the entire premise of that book is that white people in the south are racist because they won't sign up for Obamacare and then the interview he interviews some racist white people to like support the evidence but it's like dude I don't really think yes okay are there races white cat not hit a racist white person your thumb on the scale a little bit there. There's a lot of racist white people. Exactly, Tom. There's a lot of racist white people in the South. However, you're also talking about a legislative program that was a massive billion dollar
Starting point is 00:33:14 handout to the health insurance industry. And you can't blame people for being skeptical of that. Just give them free fucking healthcare and then decide. You've just described it. It's really just the simple problem with the Democrats. It's like people are just skeptical of what they're about and then they just chide people for being skeptical about basically just enriching themselves through fancy plus with these stocks and these healthcare companies and stuff. They just get mad at you because you won't let them be corrupt. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Hey, you know, I have to say too, man. I just think that if you actually offered people like a universal like, you know, program, you know, where you didn't have a middleman of the insurance companies, you didn't have co-pays, you didn't have any of that bullshit, you know, deductibles. I mean, I'm not saying that people would become less racist, right? You know, but I do think that just relieving these economic pressures and stresses and anxieties that people face
Starting point is 00:34:11 They don't have the energy or maybe they'll even want to go out there and go to other people, right? And be hateful and actually join, you know, right like like actually reactionary movements, right? That is a great point because one of the central Basis of opposition to public education in this country going back to reconstruction public education in this country started during Reconstruction it started with the freed slaves That the reason why it has been under attack Specifically in the last 40 years is because it's one of the last institutions that actually knits us together into some sort of like multiracial community effort. If you can just like start breaking it apart and fragmenting it off into these like privately
Starting point is 00:34:53 held segments where people have to pay to get it, then yeah, you can make it, yeah, school for white people or whatever, segregation again. But like it's one of the last institutions where we have a sense of community in a Common project and you're exactly right. It's the same thing with universal health care It would actually knit us together in a way, but instead the central Legislative platform of the most progressive President since fucking JFK or LBJ or whatever was a neoliberal handout
Starting point is 00:35:30 to this health insurance industry that wound up causing more divisions among us than it did uniting us. And so if that's the case, you can't fucking go to the South and be like, see they're racist because they don't fucking want Obamacare. It's like, no, it's like, it's like, it's yes, they're racist. Not all of them are racist, but a lot of them are. But that's not the reason. You know what it is? It's almost like, I don't know if this makes sense.
Starting point is 00:35:57 I'm working this out of my head. It's almost like they're reclaiming or adopting the welfare queen kind of thing, you know what I mean? Or they're allowing it to proliferate, right? Because one, their messaging fucking sucks, even when they do something fucking positive, right? But again, also too, I mean, just universal programs, you know? I think people would be less likely, right? Especially with messaging, right? I think people would be less likely to...
Starting point is 00:36:20 And I could be wrong about that, you know? You could still be racist as hell, but at the same time, I think if you have those necessities, you're not gonna go out there and politically, you're not politically activated to maybe do something. You might have these latent biases, but they don't wanna harness that energy. Obamacare is essentially for the sports fans in attendance, is Bobby Bonilla Day for healthcare CEOs. Bobby Bonilla Day is is this is Bobby Bonilla was a baseball player that signed the best contract in the history of the sport
Starting point is 00:36:51 When he was nearing the the end of his career The New York Mets really couldn't handle his contract is bloated contracts So what they said to him was this is like we'll give you a million dollars a year Basically for the rest of your life on this I think it's July 1st or something like that Yeah, and like basically if you just like retire, you know and like get us off the hook for this I'm probably botching some details that just because I can't recall it. I mean, it's something to that. Yeah that effect and Basically what Obamacare says is this is This is our new deal, okay?
Starting point is 00:37:27 This is the signature piece of legislation of our generation. This is what's gonna submit our coalition for generations to come. And what it is is Bobby Bonilla Day for Brian Thompson. Really and truly. You know what I mean? That's what this is.
Starting point is 00:37:41 And they want us, and really and truly, when they're like scolding people by Obamacare, they want us to celebrate that. Yeah. That's what they really want us to do. You know why? Because those guys pat all these people's fucking pockets. 100%.
Starting point is 00:37:56 You're exactly right, Tom. And the fact that people don't get on board with that, it instills them with a sense of cynicism, anti-sociality. That's genuinely why they have become so brain dead, so almost robotic, you know what I'm saying? They don't even understand what drives people to vote anymore, what causes them to engage in political, the political arena, the political struggle at all anymore. Like they genuinely don't understand anger and rage anymore.
Starting point is 00:38:37 It's predicated on this naive hyper individualism, right? Yeah. This benevolent almost hyper individualism where it's like, well, the same way, I know I always use this example of conspicuous consumerism, but the same way that you would go to the store but choose between 12 different brands of shampoo, well, you have choice, right? We've introduced choice into the healthcare market,
Starting point is 00:38:56 but it's not really a fucking, you have no fucking choice. You have a mistaken choice for freedom, though. Right, right. Yeah, it is very American. It's see when you go to a Cuban grocery store You see only like one kind of like cheesy puff and then like, you know Ben Shapiro and Matt whatever the fuck his name is but see this is the downfall of Society this is like, you know, you only got the hot Cheetos here the Andy caps You need to have the Andy caps. You got the Andy caps. You just got the hot Cheetos here the Andy caps you need to have the Andy caps You got the caps you just got the state run Andy caps
Starting point is 00:39:29 Andreas caps Dude it's such a fucking joke. It's like if you I really like wonder like if you I Just don't even I don't know how they can't understand Like just the horror stories. I saw all day yesterday and today That we of all all three of us have experienced personally in our families Just how hard it just how how much fucking medical debt I have and like When you talk about like you talk about like these things about like, you know People have to rent more people can't buy homes anymore blah blah blah
Starting point is 00:40:15 It's like yes, the cost of debt is really high right now for a home ownership for asset acquisition but a big problem is because we all just have a ton of fucking medical debt and our credit scores are fucking shit as a result. And you want to talk about like actually making a program so people can buy into your piece of shit settler nation, right? Like talking about home ownership, for you know buying into the social citizen compact like that's just a one way to do that would just be like wiping all medical debt and Making it easier to buy a home right but like they don't At this point like if you were to go to like Amy Klobuchar or even Tim waltz judging by that fucking tweet
Starting point is 00:41:04 He made like if you were to go to him and or andbuchar or even Tim Waltz, judging by that fucking tweet he made, like if you were to go to him and- and- or- and then just be like, Yeah, no, like I, uh, had a life-threatening disease. I had a life-threatening medical issue and I went to the hospital and- and the insurance wouldn't cover it unless XYZ and I wound up getting a bad stint and then I had to keep going back in and then they wouldn't pay for this just the fucking horror stories man. It's a nightmare man. Yeah just a nightmare. Also too there's someone with medical debt I mean that when I think about it that I am going to die of natural causes right unless I win like the lottery before I'm able to pay that off. And I don't think people understand that,
Starting point is 00:41:46 you know, not any viewers or maybe not us here for sure, but I don't think people understand that that engenders a sense of futurelessness and hopelessness, you know? Like being saddled with that kind of debt that really just, I mean, your mental, your physical health is one thing, but it just really takes a toll on your mental health.
Starting point is 00:42:00 Your future's mortgaged off to them. Exactly, exactly. Right? Yeah. Yeah, we need to do that show We need to read that book about discounting the future because that's essentially that's essentially the driving engine of healthcare in this country education this country everything that was like you know sort of You know all these sort of carnival games. We got roped to and into during the sort of Fordist model era We got rope to and into during the sort of Fordist model era. Yeah
Starting point is 00:42:30 For foreclosing on the future as a way to realize value in the present I mean, it's and actually having this like I don't even get into because I'm not a I don't know much about Foucault But I just think of biopolitics, you know and using how bodies are used right and in this case bodies are used to like mortgage Out the future, you know what I mean? Where now, like, it's like, well, you know, thinking about either retirement or either how I'm going to set myself up when I get older, right? So that when I get, you know, less healthy, that I can be able to go to the doctor, right? And that's a terrifying prospect, right? Yeah. For a young person, calculus for a young, relatively young person like myself to make, you know, decades down the line because of the system that we fucking live under. It's frank.
Starting point is 00:43:07 Well, it's also the choices that people have to make too, you know what I mean? It's like the things that you were supposed to do, start a family, buy a home, all that stuff are just not in reach and so you have to reorient yourself to. I've basically resigned myself to being, here's my plan for the future. I'm going to be one of those old guys that paints houses and roofs and listens to the Bellamy brothers on the You know Cash economy is what you're saying. I don't need I don't need a partner. I don't need a girlfriend rock and roll is my mistress be a
Starting point is 00:43:41 Fisher a fisherman on your days off Yeah You'd be a fisherman on your days off. Yeah. Yeah. The only cheeky fun I have all day is smoking a little joint. You know what I mean? See, I used to joke that I'm stocking up for retirement Air Jordans, you know what I mean? But those things are not going to matter at some point. And also, they'll get too old and crumbled for anyone to wear.
Starting point is 00:44:00 So maybe like, you know, American spirits. Maybe I'll just buy tons and tons of cartons you know so people can smoke across the post apocalyptic wasteland you know they're just so old they'll just crumble as soon as you get them out of that but people are still willing to buy them though yeah cause you can't grow tobacco anymore that's a great job in the post apocalyptic wasteland yeah selling lucies yeah selling lucies crumbled lucies
Starting point is 00:44:24 I've got gently used you Lucy's over here one bricks dollar a piece I'm just I just I am perpetually stunned at the Democrats inability to understand why this how dire the situation is I mean just I don't know I don't want to like you know harp on it too much but like if we were to sit down and like seriously get into this we could talk for three or four hours about each of our own individual like just nightmarish horror stories
Starting point is 00:45:03 with not only the health Industry which is completely captured by profit at this point But also just the the bureaucracy of trying to sign up for this fucking piece of shit in the first place the fact that I have a $400 fucking premium with like an eight thousand dollar deductible what kind of a fucking plan is that I? Know I I signing up for that makes me feel like I have been conned it makes me feel like I'm a piece of shit like I feel Genuinely bad about myself for even doing that brother. I'm gonna have to like strap you into my car and roll it over a hill It's gonna serve two functions one. It's gonna get me out of my car note two
Starting point is 00:45:41 It's gonna get you close to meeting your deductible So they start paying for shit And even then dude, it's right your bill is seven thousand nine ninety nine almost made it Should have broke one more leg Two years ago. I did meet my deductible which is insane my deductible was a little lower that year It was like five thousand dollars and somehow I fucking hit it and so I got a colonoscopy right like my first like Routine screening like post 35 years old or whatever and I still had to pay eight hundred dollars For that like even after I'd hit my deductible. They didn't even cover the whole fucking thing. It's just It's just like what is the point here?
Starting point is 00:46:24 What is what is the point here? What is the point here? What it is is what it is is that it's not to heal the body is to make a profit It's that make and even even if that makes people sick You know and so in that yeah in that light like how can you blame anybody for publicly cheering on? suffering of Somebody who benefits from that and whose entire job is to make people suffer more. I mean, you know what, I will say, you know, because I don't even talk about this, but I will say it's very heartening to see that many people get upset. Oh, I felt, I genuinely, it was like that Lord of the Rings meme, like, oh, class struggles back on the menu, boys, or whatever. You know what I mean? It's like CEOs are back on the menu and granted. I'm not trying to get too far ahead of myself
Starting point is 00:47:09 I really do still think that I don't it would be lovely if we lived in a world where like yeah people Not only took justice into their own hands But were like savvy and professional enough to do it and not get caught or whatever and then rode away on penny fart things I have to say But I just don't know if we live in that world but Yeah, I mean we live in the kind of world where you know And I mean it was heartening as it is we leave we live in a world where snitches like this one motherfucker who logged like every city bike
Starting point is 00:47:38 live in a world where sadly not all snitches get snitched We do not this guy was logging the hours of city bikes to find out which city bike, like where this guy had gone. Don't do shit like that. It's like when you see somebody shoplift. No you didn't. You didn't see anything, man. That was so absurd. Just fucking... Yeah, I think somebody had said, oh yes, this guy's also stalked numerous women as work place Why would you be scraping city bike data in the first place? And it also somebody brought up to that I've got my poster but somebody brought up that he was using his real name on
Starting point is 00:48:16 social media to Start and find the guy who's clearly a very well skilled assassin who just killed a man any yeah He took his last name off after people started pointing that out Dude just I What are we doing? Don't don't do the cops work for them. What what the they don't do their job already don't do that What the fuck? They don't do their job already.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Don't do their job for me. They don't. Also, I logged on to New York Times this morning and it's like, police are using state of the art drone technology, surveillance, blah, blah, blah, and it's just like, why do you guys care? Do we really care?
Starting point is 00:48:55 Can't we just fucking let this one go? Can't we just be like, all right? Also, I just have to say that how much money the NYPD has been given, you know, it is like the largest police Department in the country you know what I mean it what I mean on some list ranking list of firepower and manpower That they have they could be like parallel and some fucking like I don't even Michael Nizha has an army But you know what I'm saying, and they they can't find this guy yet When we just have drone cops in the future and all these dumb bastards have like all these fucking dumb brutes of like you know fucking
Starting point is 00:49:28 Innovated themselves out of a job, and they're all like want to join the class struggle in what's got to remember Who they were and what they did what they stood for? So guys for that at large right he's still at large as of right now as of December 5th 1158 a.m. Well not all heroes wear capes some ride bicycles um Well, we're almost at an hour. I did just want to read this article real fast A few other things or just one other thing I wanted to mention that happened this week was that South Korea Did you guys follow that at all like the president or the? Yeah, I tried to crawl in calling like a military coup against the Parliament and it failed
Starting point is 00:50:15 I looked at it for a quick second and thought I said marital law, so I don't know Like I was dyslexic but I was like wait. How do you spell martial law? But another development this week is Trump is still trying to fill his cabinet. There is now talk that he might ditch Peter Hegseth and go for Ron DeSantis as the Secretary of Defense. Saint Timonius leading the military. Saint Timonius, yeah. I like how Trump's calculus and all this is like guy that was in the military once. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:51:01 Like if that's the litmus test we'll get my buddy Bobby who was discharged from the Navy for blowing up a lifeguard stand in North Carolina. He truly can lead the pack, you know? Or like Dr. Oz, you know, because he's a quote, doctor, even though he's a quack, you know what I mean? It's just all of these like very tenuous associations. As again, as I was saying, as if you were an elderly person watching daytime TV and just made these, you know, Dr. Phil's a real doctor he's a brain surgeon I'm sure why not
Starting point is 00:51:28 you know right it's just the first guy he thinks of from TV who has like has like a modicum of experience in the thing you know right Dr. Oz so he's the Surgeon General or whatever he is I don't know you know the st. Timonius oh yeah he was in the military once he'll do he can I don't know You know The st. Timonius. Oh, yeah, he was in the military once he'll do he can yeah He'll be the head of the Defense Department sounds good Yeah, they should make dr. Phil Secretary of Defense every time I still think they should name the huge nominate judge Judy to the Supreme Court that Joe Brown folks I still think they should night and he's nominate judge Judy to the Supreme Court that
Starting point is 00:52:07 Brown folks Well Brown if this holds if he does wind up going with Pete Hegseth I Just wanted to read this Op-ed in the New York Times real fast from Carlos, Lizada I read Pete Pete Hegseth's books his opinions about the Pentagon are chilling pretty chilling folks So I'll just read here I can never decide whether embattered or beleaguered is the preferred adjective to describe a cabinet secretary pick whose confirmation chances appear to be Vanishing but with Trump reportedly shopping around for backup candidates to run the Pentagon and his new admin
Starting point is 00:52:44 Let's just say that Pete Hegseth His original choice for defense secretary is officially embattled as well as beleaguered. I really don't like the way to start it I feel like I feel like you should just choose a word just choose the word About why you chose the word you chose that's what a draft is for motherfuckers That's what a draft is for, motherfucker. What the fuck are you talking about? Sorry, that shit annoyed the fuck out of me. The irony of this situation is that Hegseth, a former Fox News host and combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan with two bronze stars, and here's his problem, multiple allegations
Starting point is 00:53:17 of sexual and managerial misconduct, is in fact aligned with the once and future president in one critical respect He's more concerned about domestic enemies than foreign ones and he is willing to break the rules to defeat them Even the rules his potential job requires him to uphold Throughout his latest presidential campaign Trump repeatedly warned Americans about the enemy within Sometimes he was specific talking about plant Pelosi Adam Schiff Radical left lunatics blah blah blah Hexeth invokes the same concept in his recent book the war on warriors. He is eager to wage war against the enemy within Believes that the battle has already been joined and that his side is losing America today have can't do trust with these motherfuckers dad dude and maybe for us to at this point
Starting point is 00:54:06 I should have left about that's true at this point. I would I'd probably welcome it. You know fuck it depends America today is in a cold civil war Hexeth asserts our soul is under attack by a confederacy of radicals He writes while his generation was fighting wars abroad, we allowed America's domestic enemies at home to gobble up cultural, political, and spiritual territory. That's where we fucked up. Hold on, hold on. So these radicals at home do not include white supremacist terrorists
Starting point is 00:54:36 going back to like post Vietnam era, you know what I'm saying? When they were trying to shoot people they thought were coming off of boats and shit like that, or policing the border, or the numerous white supremacist gangs and shit like that or police in the border or the numerous White supremacist gangs and shit in in the south. You know, I mean now it's the papal fix and tail lots and new What I found interesting about this article Was kind of the same thing that I found Interesting about Kamala's statement about how she was gonna make the military the most lethal fighting force in the world which is that um that is just I mean we can get mad at her for saying that but that is
Starting point is 00:55:15 also just what a military does a military is a lethal fighting force it asserts a pure imperial dominance over other people and makes them subject to violence and and This is the thing about this guy this Hexeth guy He writes forget DEI the acronym should be DEI or IED It will kill our military worse than any IED ever could You know, I like I look kind of like that a little bit cuz that's like it a really perverse way cuz that's like Matriot was like Kamala's for they that you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:55:49 Like it's just like this very like this very funny like kind of twist on like, you know What they consider as woke culture, you know what I mean? I would argue Inclusivity would only grow the ranks though. Well, this is what I'm getting at both the ranks though. Well this is what I'm getting at. Both okay, let me just, yeah, this is what I'll just keep writing here. In particular he calls out politicians blah blah blah, the unholy
Starting point is 00:56:12 alliance of political ideologues and Pentagon pussies has left our warriors without real defences. Oh my god. Pentagon pussies? Pentagon pussies. The worst type of person in the world is that does that kind of alliter the world is that does that like kind of? illiterate of shit like that like
Starting point is 00:56:29 pedigal pussies um so he talks about like how woke is Killing the army This kind of reminds me of the kash patel guy have don't know much about him like Trump's I've stepy I guy he said That on day one he was going to shut down FBI headquarters and turn it into a museum for the deep state Which is one of those things that's like I actually support that 100% Although I do have to say that this guy I think is I think he's Indian I'm not sure But you but yeah, but it's just like what the fuck I like I mean, I know these people think they're one of the good ones, you know, but it's just it's just
Starting point is 00:57:08 Amusing to me in a way that um, you know if their so-called political ideology actually came to fruition, right completely I mean, you know what? I mean, it'd be like the day of the rope brother. You're not making it either man So, uh, right. No, no if you want to place your bets with these people who hate you fundamentally Yeah, the Okay, Trump is and so this is also what he said I would fire our military leaders you can't have a woke military Trump said in June you need people that want to win they want to win wars that's what their purpose is to win wars not to be woke. They need to be asleep motherfucker they need to be sleepwalking. Did you happen to show that quote to the guy you were on the connector flight with it said Donald Trump's gonna bring about
Starting point is 00:57:49 War world peace I should have done Like I just you know, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that Well, I think the thing is this is kind of what I'm getting at and by the way What Tom is referencing is on the patreon if you'd like to go listen to that I had a very interesting conversation with a liberal Trump supporter over the holiday but I think the thing is is like the the military's purpose is to murder, right? So it's already, by definition, not woke. If we're defining woke as a... I mean, at this point, it has been so diluted and watered down,
Starting point is 00:58:35 but if you could just broadly define it as a kind of stand-in for any kind of multicultural, you know, multicultural inclusive project, by definition the military cannot be that, even though like this country has a weird relationship with that kind of stuff, because like the military has always been like the first institution in which, you know, you have integration, right?
Starting point is 00:59:02 And you have like gender, racial and gendered integration and and and these other things like And so as a result like it it kind of is like a public education system in the sense that it hints at a larger like universal Totality a kind of like community if you will But it is a contradiction because it is the military right like that kills people Aaron I think you're muted but it is a contradiction because it is the military, right? Like it kills people. Aaron, I think you're muted. Oh, my bad. I was saying too, you know what it seems like too
Starting point is 00:59:32 is that joining the military is sort of like one of those many steps of becoming not just white, but an American, which I guess you could use those things interchangeably, you know what I mean? Like you fight for your country, you've proved your worth as an American, that you're willing to defend the homeland, and you've divorced any sort of sully, like, pun intended,
Starting point is 00:59:51 you know, influences, right? Right. That are part of your upbringing or who you are as a person. But no, we can have like a rainbow brigade, you know? It's like the feel of color, female of color drone fighter or drone pilot or something. Yeah. It's like both candidates seem to cup for feel of color a female of color drone fighter or drone pilot or something Yeah
Starting point is 01:00:05 It's like both candidates seem to be both parties seem to be unaware of like what the milk I mean they're fully aware Obviously, they're playing dumb But weirdly enough, I think if you like look at the numbers I think the military is like one of the few institutions in American public life that like consistently pulls high Like really high like people support the military like we're congress right obviously I think the favorability ranking Healthcare CEO is up bro But but the military people seem to I don't know if it's like a hundred percent
Starting point is 01:00:41 It's probably you know, you know what you make me think of a guy who can't read charts and make correlations So he thinks that that means that the military should go kill healthcare CEOs and politicians Because they're more well-liked Good old-fashioned coup Well That could be the thing here I mean this is why I support Pete Hegs at that defense secretary I mean this is why I support Pete Hegseth at the defense secretary
Starting point is 01:01:10 because actually trying to implement this stuff would like completely destroy the Pentagon probably in a million different ways and That probably would initiate some sort of like mass uprising or a coup Finally get that coup we've been talking about the hoonta I'm just identifying it as a place, a site of vulnerability perhaps. I don't, I really don't want DeSantis as defense secretary. I think Pete Hegseth as defense secretary would be fucking A+. What if he gets the band? Drain the swap buddy. What if he just brings mad dog mad?
Starting point is 01:01:55 That guy's still kicking around somewhere well, he'll probably what I think he'll probably wind up doing is he'll wind up bringing back Like mid-level like Like you know sergeants and corporals and stuff and trying to like, you know guys who like oversaw their own private league Massacres in Afghanistan and Iraq but have no and they're so like traumatized by their experiences that they can't like Petraeus never saw fucking combat right Petraeus is one of those guys that like You know worked his way up into the military during like the years of peace basically in like the 80s and 90s peace for America I'm using that in quotations he maybe maybe he didn't know I don't know I guess my point is though is this like he's gonna wind up putting like your racist uncle in like a
Starting point is 01:02:40 high position of power because he like was in the first Kuwaiti war, you know what I'm saying? And like was one of those people that like mowed people down on like the highway of death or whatever. This is not my uncle, cause I'm black, this shit don't happen to me. But this is like having the uncle, this is like having the uncle who just after Thanksgiving,
Starting point is 01:03:00 maybe after a couple of like whiskies or whatever, he just starts to say, you know, we should do this in this country The most deranged shit. I'm sure people have had that experience that that you would ever think of that Actually, I'd be interested to know because this piece started out that He would be breaking some of the rules that he set out to follow or enforce. I guess right Yeah, so what is the oversight of? Who who's the overseas who oversees America's imperial imperialist project right you know great question Aaron
Starting point is 01:03:31 I think that's the question on everyone's mind like who watches the watchman right like who is actually at the wheel here? You know who is in the other room right? That other room down the hall exactly When Montesquieu came up with our system of checks and balances that he have a check and a balance to the check and the balances You know what I mean who checks the balances of the checks? Man well, I'm not trying to be completely glib I mean this guy says that the radical left are traitors because we support a ceasefire So we're probably getting the wall
Starting point is 01:04:09 There's no doubt about it, but But I just I don't know I mean maybe I need to like check do some some of my own like Intellectual moral inventory, but I do kind of get a sick perverse pleasure out of seeing like liberals Clutch their pearls over the potential demise of the Pentagon it's like this is kind of like brother it even it even extends out I don't think I'm sharing too much government it even extends to my sister right who works in government and she was talking about Trump saying that he went to drain to swamp and I think it's that FBI guy I don't know who it is but saying like move all of those people out of Washington
Starting point is 01:04:46 Yeah, and let them go elsewhere and my sister was like look I like I'm worried to keep her job You know what I mean? I want her to be financially secure But I did think it was a little funny that she was a little bit kind of freaking out like what am I where? Where would I not freaking out cuz she was assessing it realistically. Yeah, it's not possible, but just the prospect You know, I was like, yeah said it's gonna drain the swamp brother, so our sister rather See what happens you know It'll be the I hope he like break. I just hope he just brings back the old cast
Starting point is 01:05:16 Well, he didn't really even fill out his cabinet like I think he had like Rick Perry is the Department of Energy head He had mad dog madness. That's about all I remember and I Want him to put like the original cast of mash in at the Pentagon? He's like he's like yeah, they're in the army, right? He needs to put in all the 80s 90s action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger Yeah, for Kabbalah, but just well Carl Weathers is dead rest in peace But just like bring some of these people back, you know, yeah, you're right like pull them back the cast of platoon Rambo he's gonna make he's gonna make Sylvester Stallone do be the Secretary of Defense, but as Rambo. Yeah, they ain't character
Starting point is 01:06:07 Four years four years sly four years you were so tough in that movie he's bringing our POWs home folks MIA POW MIA they're coming if you really think about it Trump is essentially that like he is essentially like a guy that lives the gimmick of like, you know, Biff Tamlin type, you know, billionaire oligarch guy. Like I could see him just putting in a whole like sort of Potemkin Village-esque cabinet of like people that played, you know, a doctor on TV, you know what I mean? Which is honestly not too far from what dr. Oz is right, I mean also too i'm just wondering about
Starting point is 01:06:50 like um How much daylight there really is between like both sides because what if he was to nominate someone who was a never trump republican? Or maybe a liberal democrat But like making kevin costner like give him some position to be America's dad or uncle Like could you would you really deny that if you were Kevin Costner if you hated this guy Probably like no it'd be a great honor to do so the same way that um that Mika Brzezinski and Morning Joe Are trying to appease to Trump now right acquiesce to basically because it's like what liberals have been saying the reality is that he's one So we have to accept this reality and see in what ways we can quote
Starting point is 01:07:25 Work with him, you know, yeah, I Mean it's no surprise right the entire campaign they spent Talking about how much they love Republicans and how much we need a strong Republican Party and how Trump stymied their strong enforcement immigration enforcement bill and it's like It's it was like the most obvious conclusion you could see coming from a mile away it's like yeah as soon as Trump won they were gonna be like well if you can't beat him join him brother nothing brother we were for the past year we were told that this man was gonna end democracy and now it's
Starting point is 01:08:02 like oh what ways could Democrats work with tree you know what I'm saying so it's like okay it's like oh in what ways could Democrats work with tree you know what I'm saying so it's like okay it's like just nice to set it on shit yeah everything you've been preaching for last eight years been horseshit yeah I got I got a text message a few days after the election and it was like for my buddy of mine who is like a little more on the you know left liberal whatever I mean but he was just like. He was like I will never fall for this again He's like this is he was just like I'm sorry you were right like this Democracy is not like over blah blah blah like they just use that shit to scare us and like he's like and it's like
Starting point is 01:08:37 It's true man it it makes you feel bad. It's like they've really They really ran with that for months and completely convinced a lot of people that it was true and people were even having fucking mental breakdowns as I've documented my mom. I've mentioned this before before mom update cuz I use my as I say moms a barometer, you know and She still has not turned up when I was there in Virginia with her my sister She has not turned on the TV since the election, which to me, and she also said you're right, which to me, I've never really pressed her about that
Starting point is 01:09:09 because she doesn't really want to talk about it, but it seems that she felt disappointed or misled. This seems to be more about, maybe for her, less about the Democratic loss, right? And that this was their election to win and more so about the media itself, you know? Maybe she feels disillusioned about that. That's why she doesn't want to turn on the TV. But yeah, people have been traumatized by this and hopefully, you know, in some way we could channel that same energy with, you know, thousands, tens of
Starting point is 01:09:37 thousands of people cheering on the assassination, the public assassination. Then we could share, steer and channel that energy into him, you know. Turning people away from Democrats. 100%. If that guy never gets caught, I will be completely convinced it was some sort of inside. Oh brother, he's not gonna,
Starting point is 01:09:58 I doubt he's gonna get caught, man. I seriously doubt it. I mean, just the way he, the professionalism when I watched the video, I felt like I was watching something out of John wick You know yeah 100% Damn I'm congested the heat the heating
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